To think that this is disgusting and offensive?

[WoeIsMee]

I like little signs and words around the home. I have quite a few, made from nicely decorated wooden letters ('soak' in the living room, 'relax' in the guest bedroom, kids names on their windowsills etc).

I went to a friends house today. She has a new sign too.
It's wooden letters above her loo spelling out a vulgar term for urine. She thought it was hilarious. I not so.

Am I boring or is it offensive? What would you think?

I think it's amusing . Certainly pokes fun at these twee things everyone seems to be putting around their house in case they forget what a room is for.

You soak in the living room?

Wouldn't bother me, each to their own.

Piss?

couldn't bring myself to care enough to even post, except to ask why you have a sign saying "soak" in the living room?

Yes lottie, it spells 'piss'.

And no, I soak in the bathroom. I don't have one in the living room.

You 'Soak' in your living room?

Hmm. I don't really like those signs myself, but it could be seen as a bit insulting to you if she's acquired a new one simply to take the piss (as it were).

I'd have thought that was awesome :)

Offensive? It's her bathroom so why do you care?

I hate those twee little wooden signs, sorry.

I'd laugh at the one in your friend's house

Soak would be for by the bath?

Have my first ever

Maybe having 'soak' in the living room might be a hint to your nearest and dearest that he/she drinks too much? (soak as a noun rather than a verb)

Re-arrange the letters to spell out "sips" and put them in the glassware cupboard.

It's what Hyacinth Bucket would do.

So is it the vulgar term for urine that's upsetting you, or is it that it looks too similar to your signs?

I don't think that I'd be really bothered either way about her loo sign.

And.... what does 'soak' in the living room mean? I don't get it

That's hilarious! I think I'd get on well with your friend!

I think it's hilarious and that YABU. It's just a good old Anglo-Saxon onomatopoeic word. The fact it takes the mick* out of those twee signs makes it even better.

*In this context, "mick" is short for "micturate", meaning, well, "piss"...

I don't really like the word piss, but I would still think it's funny rather than disgusting or offensive or tacky.

It would amuse me. I've always hated letters all over the house, though (apart from DS2's wooden ones, which spell out all sorts of unlikely words, sometimes)

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I think whatever the word and wherever it is put, those signs are hideously naff, Sorry op but when I see those signs it just reminds me of when I was a home carer and had to leave little notes around the house for my dementia patients

It's not really to my taste but I think 'disgusting and offensive' is a bit of an over reaction.

X-posted re. soak, sorry.

Good idea Saucy

I see I'm not the only one.

I think it's awful, I sell the decorated letters on Facebook and I had never thought that someone would use them in this way. She didn't buy them from me though so I can't really say anything.

Think you've had a sense of humour bypass