Announcing lavatorial intent.

Well done , are you telling us because you need some help ?😁

Excuse me, folks, I'm just off to visit the little room.

No , just find it irritating as I have mentioned a few times within the thread.

Who cares? Does it bother you that much?? 🤣

What about Onslow in ‘Keeping up Appearances??’ 😂.

As an aside, something popped up on Facebook telling me that I could stay in a converted public toilet in Oxford, it’s now a hotel with 2 suites. It’s called The Netty ( which only NorthEasterners like me would understand!) But I don’t think it’s for me, anyone can wander down the steps and bang on the door, several reviews alluded to security concerns but it looks quirky and fun.

I say “going to the loo” or “ pay a visit” and I’m going to carry on with powdering my nose😄
My DH called loos with no locks “constipation loos”

Excusing myself at a meal with an old boyfriend, he replied “Of course, you’ve got to empty yourself”😨
Magenta8😂

I'm in the "just going to the loo" camp although sometimes I also do " excuse me a moment".
I also ask the OH to "pause the telly" because I don't want literally to lose the plot.
Both the OH and I have had bowel operations in the last 15 years and things can get a bit erratic in that department.
I also find the little boy going to the loo in front of the school advert excruciating.
I don't think that there is anything wrong with euphamism if that's the way you roll.
I always say to OH "how would you like it if I announced .... that I was going for a s***?

Always announce it, especially at work. Don't always say going to the loo, sometimes say just going for a wee. Can't see a problem, see all have to go

A bit more polite than saying I'm going for a sh*t, I guess

In restaurants, I often ask a waiter or other person where the loos are, as it is not always obvious. Surely asking for the loo is synonymous with saying why you want to visit it.

In a restaurant announcing you need the loo might be a bit off putting but in your own home where is probably only one loo, then if you're going to be in there a longer while than normal, I feel that it's only polite to ask if other members of the household if they need a wee before you occupy the bathroom for longer than ten minutes. My husband has always asked us if we need the the loo before he goes and that's all he says and we all know what it means... the bathroom will be out of bounds for about 20 minutes, especially after him having bowel cancer.

My mother always said she was “just going to see her aunt”.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard that anywhere else.
The heads is pretty common around here though, very much a boating community.

ViceVersa

Everyone does it - even the Queen! I have no problem with it at all - and we have no locks on our bathroom door either (took them off when the children were very little after our niece managed to lock herself in her own bathroom and the door had to be broken down). As for the farting, you really wouldn't want to live in our house - between me with my IBS/DD, husband who could win Olympic medals if it were a sport and the dog, you'd definitely be clutching those pearls!

Everyone does it
ViceVersa I remember some advice given to me by an older colleague when I was in my first job, that if anyone intimidated you, just look at them while they're talking and imagine them sitting on the lavatory. Everyone has to do it, they're no different, she said.

mabon2

I can't see anything wrong with that. I always say "I am going to the lavy" My Pa a mariner used to say he was "going to the heads" an old maritime saying.

Oh yes, the heads! ⚓

I find the tv advert where the boy has to get up in the middle of his class to go to the wc absolutely excruciating! Not only does he have to pick up a toilet roll and walk out of class with it, but when he gets out of class virtually the whole school is waiting out there chanting. I know it’s a normal bodily function but how does that ad make it less embarrassing for kids?

I can't see anything wrong with that. I always say "I am going to the lavy" My Pa a mariner used to say he was "going to the heads" an old maritime saying.

Everyone does it - even the Queen! I have no problem with it at all - and we have no locks on our bathroom door either (took them off when the children were very little after our niece managed to lock herself in her own bathroom and the door had to be broken down). As for the farting, you really wouldn't want to live in our house - between me with my IBS/DD, husband who could win Olympic medals if it were a sport and the dog, you'd definitely be clutching those pearls!

Allira

Well, it's not dignified in any culture 😁

It's not the most dignified of bodily functions is it!!

Excreting is undignified in our culture.
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I await with bated breath any information about cultures where excreting IS dignified.

Well, it's not dignified in any culture 😁

It's not the most dignified of bodily functions is it!!

Excreting is undignified in our culture. That is why we mostly prefer to excrete in private. Many if not most of us learn within the family circle that one locks the bathroom door.

Some of the replies here have been humorous. Lavatorial humour and euphemism is for hiding the fact that excretion is private , in our culture.

Other songs are available.

When there is a difficult lock or no lock you just sing "She'll be coming round the mountain when she comes." as loud as you can until you have finished. This has the added advantage of covering up any embarrassing noises you might make.

Crumbs I didn't realise it raised such a discussion! We all need access to a toilet of some description, it's part of us as human beings. If we have spilt something such as a drink or sticky food is that any different?

Astitchintime

We always say when we’re going to the loo as we don’t have a lock on the bathroom door (no intention of putting one on either) and if we’ve got company no one wants to catch someone else ‘mid stream’!

Eek! Why no lock? I feel sorry for any guests at your house, or is on purpose, to put them off?

I still remember the angst I felt on my French exchange at 14 - no lock on the bathroom door! The only thing that actually happened was Monsieur once walking in on me in just his baggy Y-Fronts, but it turned going to the loo into an anxious exercise every time.