Just soooooo cruel!!

Quite like that PennyQ! I’m certainly happier once I’ve visited! ?

My grandmother on my mothers side was a real upper-crust lady...she always called it lavatory. Whereas my fathers parents quite low down the social scale always called it toilets. I settle for the middle of the road ‘loo’.

I drove up the M6 the other day and was concerned that roadworks were causing 'delays until March 2022'!

My brother from South Africa still refers to traffic lights as robots. He has lived in England for six years. I must ask him what he calls actual robots.
I remember feeling horrified the first time I saw a sign saying cats eyes removed,

Not a road sign, but whenever I see the sign 'This door is alarmed' I want to go over and reassure it!

I hate the word lavatory. I have images of old, black and white tiled, pull the chain, dirty, smelly, with that word. It's the toilet, loo, or in the bog to me.

I've always hoped to see a big yucca plant crossing the road,still living in hope.Better still Men at work?

Great thread kateykrunch

Apparently the upper classes do not use French sounding words, i.e. toilet, so they say lavatory which I think sounds course. I wonder if they have bidets? Perhaps they call them ‘bumwashers’.

I live in Yorkshire so when I see signs warning of a Blind Summit I always feel like correcting it to Blind Something.
Also with Hidden Dips I think of cunningly concealed ketchup etc

I always feel sad for disabled toilets and disabled parking spaces. Who disabled them? and why? ... and as for people being wheelchair bound, well, maybe they like a bit of bondage

There was a 'cats eyes removed' sign here to which and some clown had added '£5 a time'.

Jalima1108 What does non-U mean?

The ' men at work's sign always looks like an umbrella and reminds me of Singing in the Rain.

Non-U means not upper class as from Nancy Mitford's 1950's Noblesse Oblige,
It was funny at the time. Not to be taken too seriously.

I like the stickmen in peril signs.

Difficult to describe this - it's to do with the intonation. Traffic reports are sometimes about a 'shed load'. I picture a huge lorry full of sheds.

We passed a farm advertising ‘ free range sausages’ cue lovely pictures of chipolatas gambolling ( no not cards!) in the fields. ?

I had a friend who thought that a turf accountant was somebody who sold grass.

Cats buried up to their eye balls

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Jalima1108

I may cause a trans-Tasman riot here but spades and shovels are entirely different, even bloody ones.

And used for different purposes.

paddyann
Picture is for you.

Here's a picture I collected on a visit to the UK. Sorry it's a bit blurred.

OOmamOO I would have thought lavatory was also from the French - Laver =To wash, hence 'washroom' maybe!

Whilst on a honeymoon cruise we took part in a quiz. I wrote an answer in pencil but decided it was wrong.... so I called out "does anyone have a rubber".... The terminology I should have used was ERASER, our American friends were horrified!!!!

or"icing on road" not ice always icing..is it fondant or royal all nicely piped?

'Fanny bag' reminded me of a novel I once read, which had evidently not been carefully enough 'translated' from US to U.K. English.
'He patted her fanny as he went past,' was one little gem that escaped the net!