to think loo paper is what it's called

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AIBU to think asking a 5 year old to say toilet tissue is a horrible genteelism?

It's loo paper, and you flush it down a loo.

Also, has anyone else noticed how dusty it is?

Friend of DP says that 'he is just going to drop the kids off at the pool'.

One boyfriend used to say the T word but has changed to the correct term of his own volition. People tend to settle to norms.

He was visited in the night by shadowy figures bearing thumb screws and a copy of Debrett's.

Bog roll!

My dad calls his trousers 'slacks'.
He is nearly 90, and wears them right up at nearly chest height, dear love him.
Loo roll all round in our house.

@EleanorLavish - my parents used to say "slacks" too & both always wore driving gloves - my DM had a pair of driving shoes & a "car coat" too - oh the nostalgia

So bizzare everyone here saying it’s called a ‘loo’ not a toilet and that toilet is common??? It’s a toilet - I mean that is the name of the actual apparatus. Are you telling me you’d go into a bathroom supplies shop and ask where they keep the ‘loos’?! Do you have a different name for a sink and for a bath too? Where did loo even come from?!!

In our house we wall it poo paper

It’s a toilet - I mean that is the name of the actual apparatus
so when you are going to cook your evening meal do you go to “the cooker”? Surely lots of things have different names? Eg penis, dick, todger, willy, ....

Toilet tissue sounds VERY Hyacinth Bouquet!

Ours say loo roll

Toilet / loo roll / paper, used fairly interchangeably.
If I was in public or someone’s house though I would say I was going to the ladies or the bathroom.
I also didn’t know until I was an adult that “downstairs cloakroom” was a euphemism for a downstairs loo (I thought it was literally a place to hang coats!)
In Spanish I would say ¿donde está el baño? (Random!)

@itwouldtakemuchmorethanthis yes I cook my food on a cooker (what do you say???)... I put my food in a fridge - short for refrigerator - I wash my clothes in a washing machine and I go to a toilet.... I know certain things have nicknames or multiple names but I was referring to the poster saying that using the correct word (toilet) is ‘common’ and that it’s a ‘loo’ not a toilet when it is clearly a toilet as advertised in shops etc.

The word “toilet” is non U ergo “toilet tissue” is also.

It is called a loo.

To me the cooker is the whole appliance, with a hob on top, and the oven underneath.
I might use any of the three words, depending on what exactly I was cooking.

I'd love to see the family trees of those people talking about what's U and non-U as though they're a dowager duchess circa 1935.

New-U
Eating bread

Having a job

Drinking at lunch

Pepto-Bismol

Champagne

Loving your parents

Buying newspapers

Eating sweets

Politeness

Xanax

Taking a centrist view

EasyJet

The North

Athens

Having a driver

Turning at a dinner party

Being faithful

Living in central London

Audiobooks

Having a much older best friend

Reading books

Gout

Astrology

SodaStreams

Yorkshire Tea

Fried eggs

Sweden

Knowing about plants

Nicknames

Perudo

Asking questions during a conversation

Saying no

Non–U
Dietary requirements

The word ‘posh’

Public displays of abstinence

Mouthwash

Most white wine

Being friends with your parents

Facebook

Elaborate gin and tonics

Talking about yourself

Tissues

Jacob Rees-Mogg

British Airways

The South-East

France (except Paris)

Wearing make-up outside London

Dips

Trophy spouses

Windsor

Tinder

Social climbing

iPads

Cryogenic freezing

Supplements

Soho Farmhouse

Air freshener

Cortados

Fruit in plastic

Knowing about yachts

Three-day weddings in Burma

According to the December issue of Tatler.

My old colleague who was American called it TP, we had no idea what she was sent asking for. Can I have some TP. Er, sorry I don’t think we have any. What do you need it for?

Also I asked her for a rubber, that was interesting. Can I have a rubber, it’s in the little pot. Cue her shocked face. We were both equally confused.

@hazelintheclouds it is not called a loo. It is called a toilet. If you are at the airport the signs say ‘toilets this way’ or I have missed all the signs at gatwick etc saying ‘loos this way’. If you go into b&q or any bathroom supplies shop they will sell you and give you a receipt for a toilet not a loo. Where does loo even come from?

I just find loo or bog pretty vulgar 🤢

For the derivation of “loo”, Google is your friend.

Americans say rest room, also.

No one knows the origins of the word loo.

I wonder if the Americans call it Restroom paper?

On a recent trip I asked where the toilet was? Thinking "loo" is British I'm sure but surely "toilet" is well known in the English speaking world but no I was met with much confusion.

Me: Excuse me, where the toilet?
Barista: ..... Do you mean the restroom?
Me: If that's got a toilet in it, yes

This is such an interesting thread!

As for the cooker I agree with the poster who said the cooker is the appliance. I have a cooker in my kitchen. I use it to cook food on the hob and place food in the oven.