to think loo paper is what it's called

[HepzibahHumbug]

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?

Maybe the Americans keep a chaise-longue in their rest rooms so that people can have a rest after a particularly tiring bowel evacuation.

I can’t work out what the criteria for U is from that list. He’ll will freeze over before my language is dictated by Gatwick airport though!

You don’t say “I’m going to the cooker/fridge/washing machine” though, you say “I’m going to the kitchen/laundry”. So perhaps that’s why Americans don’t like “toilet”. To me “toilet” is more ambiguous than loo because I think of it as washing/getting ready....sorry.

I think Americans don’t say toilet because it is too direct. It’s considered vulgar. That’s why they use euphemisms.

Loo roll here, although DH will occasionally say shit tickets to wind me up.

Intrigued as to what itwouldtakemuchmorethanthis calls her cooker.

We don't have a cooker, we have separate ovens and a hob, but when we had an all in one, it was a cooker.

I had to google U and non-U as the list posted by Hazel didn't seem to explain anything, as both lists seem to be a random mix of traits and interests that could apply or not apply to almost anyone.

Who will freeze over? 😁

So loo is more a word for bathroom rather than a word for toilet then?

Oh, cross posted.

But if you are looking for something that is in the kitchen, you would say that it is near the cooker, not just 'in the kitchen'.

If I was in public or someone’s house though I would say I was going to the ladies or the bathroom.
What, even if it were a downstairs loo with no bath in it? Related: I only worked out this year what Americans mean by "half bathroom", like estate agent listings with "2.5 bathrooms". Apparently they're not sawing their bathtubs in half.

Nb. I would 100% walk into B&Q and ask them where I can buy a new loo; and I don't care what the sign for the loos says at Gatwick Airport – it's an airport, not the arbiter of taste (that would be me ).

as both lists seem to be a random mix of traits and interests that could apply or not apply to almost anyone

Yep. That is rather the point!

Haze...

@Barbara ofSeville. I wouldn’t use the term cooker. I’d say the Aga, or stove in the summer.

I think Americans don’t say toilet because it is too direct. It’s considered vulgar. That’s why they use euphemisms.

But that's strange as every American I've met has been direct. I'd think us Brits would be the ones using Restroom.

Maybe the Americans keep a chaise-longue in their rest rooms so that people can have a rest after a particularly tiring bowel evacuation.

That did make me laugh

But us Aga less peasants, Cherry... We use the term cooker, because that’s what it is.

I wouldn’t use the term cooker. I’d say the Aga, or stove in the summer.

Well of course you would.

Why does it change from the Aga to the stove in the summer?
We have an Aga, we call it the cooker .

I think Cherry has multiple kitchens. God forbid anyone is caught making a cup of tea in the winter kitchen after March 21st. Social death.

What's a stove then?

Ah that makes sense TheGrey1houndSpeaks.
My IL’s have multiple kitchens (one of which is called ‘the summer kitchen’, and an Aga. I’m pretty sure they say toilet!

No, one kitchen. The Aga goes off in summer and we use the stove. We use a tap to make tea - no, in truth, we use a teapot to make tea.

Toilet roll, paper sometimes

Toilet roll in this house unless DH is trying to be funny then it’s arse wipes

I say hob and/or oven. Never cooker.

People have “multiple kitchens”? How very non U!

Slash rag, surely....

My IL’s do Hazeintheclouds. They live abroad and have their regular kitchen, a ‘summer kitchen’ and a guest kitchen.
They’re not upper class so I suppose it’s ok .