So what do you call yours, Toilet, Loo, etc etc ( lighthearted post )

Toilet

'the closet', my father called it!

I have always hated the word lavatory. I think it's because, when I was growing up, we had smelly public toilets in our town, with a sign, Gent's lavatory. All sorts of unsavoury people hung about there, so it was eventually closed town.

I switch between loo and toilet.

Usually the loo or sometimes The Little Girls Room.

Me, and kids, loo, husband, lavatory, my mum, lav’.

The loo, don’t mind toilet, hate lavatory for same sort of reasons as Marydoll.

It always sounds dirty and smelly, and makes me think of Izal toilet paper.

Loo. I don’t like the word lavatory either. Toilet whenI was a child.

Loo. Bog. Big potty, for grandson.

Loo. Why is it also called the restroom?

Because you get to have a sit down?

Loo or toilet for me.
Lavatory casts me back to public toilets of childhood days. Wooden seats, floors often wet and smelly and izal paper soggy on the floor puddles.
Also the penny coin operated lock on the door. Holding the door open on the way out of the cubicle so the next person in the queue wouldn’t have to pay a penny, then being scolded by the attendant for doing so.

Here I am broken hearted,
paid a penny and only farted ?

Loo.
In someone else’s house I might ask where the bathroom is.
Hate it when it is called the bathroom eg in offices where there clearly is no bath.

My granny called it the Cludgie. It was down the tenement stairs and out the back.

In Canada we always call it the bathroom, even if there is no bath or shower. The toilet is the actual object.

In a public place such as stadium or restaurant you might ask for the restroom.

Loo, occasionally toilet. I like to ring the changes.

Like most people now, I say loo.When at senior school it was called the bog ( delicately reared grammar school girls )?
At home when a child it was the toilet.
Many servicemen fathers would say the heads.Common people ( according to older relatives) said lav?

I was just going to say 'the heads', lemongrove but you beat me to it!
The loo. Sometimes the lavatory
It was the bog at my school too (a naice girls'grammar school)

TrendyNannie6

Yes and thinking about it my uncle used to call it the khazi many moons ago

He sang a song there with no words and no tune while he sussed out -all- those moons? How many lazy Sundays did that take?

My father called it the throne room. He was certainly fond of sitting on his throne, with the paper. Often too long in a house with 6 of us and only one loo, or lavatory as we called it then. I hate that word - too many memories of a chilly separate loo with hard Bronco paper.
It’s always the loo now.

An old word up here in the NE is ‘netty’. It could simply be a version of necessary or from nettoyer, French for to cleanse.

If there was women present it was the bathroom.
If it was just men, it was the khazi or the bog.

My mother's guiding rule with etiquette was "what does our dear queen do?
In Buckingham Palace it is the lavatory. (apparently)

My sister always calls it "George" as in "I'm going to see George".

DDiL's Dad (long retired) used to say he was just going to visit the office.

DH calls it toilets (pl). I say loo or occasionally "the facilities".

On a visit to George Washington’s home, Mt. Vernon, we were amused to see the outside loos were called ‘the Necessaries’.

Pretty much loo all the time. Lavatory when I was young. I do remember the boys at junior school calling it "the bog" which seemed to produce snorts of laughter the same way "bottom" did for my children, when they were aged between about 3 and 5