Announcing lavatorial intent.

Ages ago, but I still remember a very ‘proper’* neighbour telling me that her dog had ‘gone to the toilet on the carpet’. 😂

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’!

Magenta8

My mother told me that when she was at school that if they needed the loo they used to raise their hand and say "Please may I leave the room." One day her friend told her in a shocked whisper "I saw a boy leave the room in the street."

😂😂😂

Just had an amusing memory come to mind..... during my husband's funeral service , at a hushed moment, my two year old granddaughter called out in a very high pitched voice.....*I need a wee*.

Seems like a non problem to me. Living alone I don't need to say anything, but when there is someone here I just say I'm going to the loo.

My mother told me that when she was at school that if they needed the loo they used to raise their hand and say "Please may I leave the room." One day her friend told her in a shocked whisper "I saw a boy leave the room in the street."

If you read my later posts you’ll see that this thread was really quite lighthearted.
In fact t far from being coy , I worked as an auxiliary nurse for 10 years so have seen and dealt with the whole range of bodily functions. Just don’t see why they need to be announced in social settings.

Hmmm 🤨 anyone announcing like a toddler (I NEED A POO) would be a problem for me.

Good grief we all do it. If someone says they need the loo I wouldn't give it a second thought... except if they get stuck in there, but that never happens.

I always say ''I'll be back in a minute.''

I don't mind when someone says they're off to the loo/toilet/bathroom, but I can't abide it when they very loudly announce ''I'M OFF FOR A WEE!'' Like they're expecting an Oscar for such a performance!

One woman I work with very loudly announces ''I NEED A POO!'' Then, when she gets back, she says ''You should have seen the size of it!'' And she'll say it during a break when we're eating!

That's why she's only a work colleague, not a friend!

I'm far from being a prude, and am quite open-minded, and don't object if someone says quietly ''I need a wee/pee'' but when they announce it proudly and loudly, it makes me cringe!

Mollygo

Do tell, Ashcombe.
I don’t know the ^other connotations^

Snorting coke.

Inhaling powdered cocaine through the nose. often done in the loo via a rolled up bank note.

When I was a schoolgirl we were taught to say "may I be excused?"?.
The result was 'to be excused' meant to go to the toilet. E.g.

" I had to be excused while I was out for a walk".

Euphemisms happen willy nilly.

It more rude to just get up and leave.
Everyone and every living being needs the Loo it's normal.

Casdon

I prefer people to say they are going to the bathroom/lavatory/toilet/loo or whatever they call it, to those who say ‘I’m just popping to the little boy’s/girl’s room’ - that is really cringy.

Across the pond its ’rest rooms’ which always amuses me.

BlueBelle

Ginny you say you don’t want to announce where you’re going, may I ask why? do you have a problem with people knowing you need a wee. if you were getting up to look at a bird outside the window or if you were a smoking and getting up to go out for a few drags or if it was at home and you were cooking and needed to go and check the food would you be equally silent about the reason or isit just the loo you are coy about

Quite agree.

By the way don’t get me started on fart jokes or deliberate farting ( what a horrible word). 🤨 I really might start clutching my pearls and having an attack of the vapours.

Bluebelle Why do they need to know ? I’m not coy , of course we all need to use the loo. Checking on food is something quite different. Maybe I don’t like someone putting the picture of them sitting on the loo into my head.😀 Even worse when they say going for a pee, a whizz, and what if they announce that they need a number 2, and this has happened. I really don’t know why I find it so unacceptable, I suppose we all have our little quirks.

What is wrong with 'Please excuse me for a moment'. ?

Ginny you say you don’t want to announce where you’re going, may I ask why? do you have a problem with people knowing you need a wee. if you were getting up to look at a bird outside the window or if you were a smoking and getting up to go out for a few drags or if it was at home and you were cooking and needed to go and check the food would you be equally silent about the reason or isit just the loo you are coy about

Mollygo

Do tell, Ashcombe.
I don’t know the ^other connotations^

Seriously?

Cocaine is a powder that users sniff up their noses. I don’t partake myself, but I would have thought that was obvious 😀

I’m awful - I say I am just going for a wee! Used to say ‘pee’ but I think that is a little coarse.

As I said , just excuse yourself . No need to go into detail
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Well just saying ‘I m just popping to the loo’ is hardly going into details I not saying ‘I ve got a bit of a pain and might fxxx in a minute so I m going to the loo’ that would be details
🤣🤣🤣

Just different ideas I guess

Ashcombe

Primrose53

Ladies used to say “just going to powder my nose.” 🤣

A few years ago, it was pointed out to me that this phrase can have other connotations.....!

I love the way every day is a school day on GN because, as you hint, the modern use of this phrase has a double meaning.

The phrase was most famously used in Quentin Tarantino's film Pulp Fiction, where Mia Wallace (Urma Thurman) says "I'll go to the bathroom to powder my nose", and Tarantino plays on the double meaning.....

I won't be using this phrase in future .......

I don't think we're coy now.
This isn't Victorian times.

We need to stop being coy about needing the toilet. Everyone does it and yet we still feel embarrassed about it.
Being someone with chronic bowel problems my life would be a lot easier if I didn't feel I have to keep my issues to myself