Just soooooo cruel!!

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.

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

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,

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

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’.

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

And what about the distances some Highland deer can jump? Deer crossing 500 yards.

In the Glasgow area a lot of children said they needed the bathroom, when they needed to wee. Probably to avoid the on going argument regarding whether to use the word "toilet" or "lavatory". In my family we said we were going to the toilet, lavatory was considered exceeding vulgar, whereas in other families it is apparently the other way round.

Our local minister had a lovely story of the American missionaries visiting his wife and him at an African mission.

The one visitor asked politely where the bathroom was.

The minister's wife failing to realise that the word was used euphemistically, answered, " We don't have one. We use the kitchen sink" Great embarrassment ensued before the young man was directed to the earth closet!

In China, public loos are called ‘Happy Rooms’

A few of these have made me smile. I’ve often imagined a large tree walking across the road ?. As for toilets. I remember in railway stations you looked for the ‘ladies room’. I have wondered about the American ‘restrooms’ as most toilets you really wouldn’t want to rest in! Maybe ‘feel better rooms’ as you certainly feel better once you’ve been! ?

Whenever my husband sees the sign 'Mud on road' he starts singing 'Tiger Feet'.

In South Africa traffic lights are called robots and being young and naive when I saw a sign that said “robots ahead” I expected to see robots, something like out of Lost in Space ? I was quite disappointed that I didn’t see any ? Took a while for the penny to drop! Roundabouts there are called traffic circles.

Hahahaha

When I worked I’m operating theatres some years ago as a scrub nurse, one of our surgeons referred to swabs as tampons and sellotape was durex, used to cause us endless merriment ?

I always imagine a disabled toilet on crutches

When I was young and daft I thought a 'sleeping policeman' was a long thin piece of road which had been painted to look like just that, you know, navy blue with brass buttons painted, pointy hat etc!

There is a Heavy Plant Crossing warning sign somewhere on the A34, I think, near to a Garden Centre.
I live in hope.

When we lived in the States for a short time many years ago, my eldest son, who was 5 at the time, asked a lady in a shop for a rubber.

I had to warn my American friend not to refer to her ' fanny bag' when she visited.

paddy I have always enjoyed ' large plant crossing'. I have always imagined a triffid.

paddyann



Some common sayings are pretty hysterical when you think about it!

paddyann

My favourite is Large Plant Crossing,I'm always disappointed when it doesn't cross in front of me....I live in hope .

We call a spade a spade here
Whereas the Australians call it a bloody shovel

We call a spade a spade here. Oh wait a mo, in America a spade is something else.
Cat's eyes are a wonderful invention. Percy Shaw from Halifax, Yorkshire was inspired by the reflective eyes of cats. (Thanks Wikipedia)

American friends of ours were agog at some local road signs warning of 'humps for 100 yards'.

I've never understood why Americans baulk at the term toilets. One is not going to rest or wash or bathe in the rooms they so-name.