To think toilet sounds better than loo?

[Mabelthebore]

& dessert sounds nicer than pudding? I know some people look down on those who say toilet and dessert but I actually think they sound nicer. I think loo in particular is a horrible word.

How on earth did that come into the novel?

That confused me as a child and young adult. I thought, “so you’ve put up coat hooks in your hallway. Big deal”.

Working class. To me, toilet is just the standard word and loo is colloquial. Pudding or "afters". Only tend to use dessert if we're eating out.

Either a synonym for dessert, or a specific dish. Of course there are also savoury puddings (steak and kidney, black, white...). And then there's the odd American usage for some sort of blancmange or custard.

Parts of the wiki entry aren't very appetising.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding

Interesting, thank you!

Dessert is a fruit course so pudding is correct for something sweet

Toilet is too close to toiletting for me. Too on the nose!

I don’t really care about dessert v pudding.

The character is being held captive by a psycho who has set up a whole living environment for her in the cellar of his house. shudders She refers to the toilet as the 'place' in her diary.

In one part of the book she's allowed to walk around the garden (if my memory serves me correctly) and later records in her diary that 'it smelt of places'. 😄The character is upper-middle class but also particularly fastidious in herself.

Loo here, and pudding. Very occasionally 'dessert', if recalling the days when hotels had a 'dessert trolley ' (shades of Victoria Wood there: "Is it on the trolley?")

Never sweet and never, ever, ever 'afters'.

I love the trolley sketch! 😄

For us it’s toilet or bathroom, we do not say loo ever!

Lady Diana Cooper's diaries describe a visit to The Duke and Duchess of Windsor and reports that the 'placey' had a pink 'lulu'.
'Toilets' (plural) are what the paying visitors use if your house or garden is open to the public.
Loo and pudding are what come naturally to me, though I try not to sound too arsey.
Agree about patio, whoever said that.

You do you @Mabelthebore

'S what being an adult means.

Loo and pud here. No snobbery involved, it's just what I've always said.

Isn't it a sweet trolley rather than a dessert trolley?

Family in South Wales had a garden shed which had once been the privy - the remains of the three-holed seat was still there. (It was not called tŷ tri, and now I'm never going to look at tea tree oil in the same way, so thank you all for that thought pathway...)

My mother uses the word latrine because she was told that loo and toilet were ‘ common’

Curious, I was taught (by my grandfather who's family had worked in hospitality for a few generations and were very keen on 'properness') that dessert was cold and pudding was hot... I wonder if there's any basis to that..

Summer pudding is cold (and one of my favourite puddings)! And rice pudding is probably eaten cold as often as it is eaten hot.

The only person I know who ever referred to it as "sweet" was a pretentious aunt who fancied herself as posh, but really wasn't.

My very un-pretentious and un-posh mother in law used to say "sweet". The only time I have used it was when I had a part time job as a waitress in the 1970s/early 80s. I used to have to wheel round the "sweet trolley".

What is one meant to say?
”I’m passing stools?”

”Urinating?”

I’m picking up dog stools on this walk!

I remember camping with my then boyfriend when we were about 20 (over 40 years ago). In the tent next door was a family with two young children, one of whom announced "I need the loo" or something similar.

The parent answered "urine or faeces?".

I'm afraid we both got a fit of giggles and had to try very hard to control ourselves.

Toilet makes me think of ...... well, a toilet. I'm a loo person. Lavatory is far too genteel. Latrine sound too technical. I quite like khazi. I suppose we can all look down on bog or shithouse people.

As for pudding or dessert, an apple crumble would be a pudding, in my mind, but a dessert would be something fancier, like a Sachertorte.

🤣 I’m by afraid I think it might have all gone over my head - esp the “ smelt of places!”

😄😄

I had a row with my child's school who wouldn't let her go to the loo unless she's asked to go to the toilet as that was the proper way to ask. It is a hill I will die on!

That would seriously annoy me off if the school said that to my child! Urgh.

Pudding is the general term. Rice pudding, Christmas pudding, Suet pudding, Summer pudding etc are specific types of pudding. But Black pudding, White pudding, Yorkshire pudding are always savoury, and Suet pudding can be.

Ooh. I'm sure its been said but
....bit non u.