Posted: Jun 10, 2016 7:15 am
The_Piper wrote:Fallible wrote:I am unable to understand how either word actually describes a toilet. You don't go there to rest, and it doesn't have a bath in it.
Bathrooms in homes usually do have bath tubs or shower stalls. Restrooms at buildings other than homes usually don't, but if you call it a bathroom, usually no one gets pedantic about it, they know what you mean. You can call it a shitter too, and a slew of other slang words work, but that's usually among non-strangers. I'm not going to ask the secretary at a real estate officce where the hopper is, for instance. I could, but their face may turn red.
some people call it the toilet as well, but not me, because a. I'm civilized, and b. it's a room containing a toilet. I could just call it the sink and be on just as firm ground. Why not call it the windowfucking sill?
Toilet is the civilized word here. Possibly the only more civilized word is lavatory, but no one says that. Makes more sense to me to name the room after something that's actually in it, rather than something that's only sometimes in it, and after the thing that people usually want to use when they ask where it is. I would say most people here call it a loo, supposedly from the French exclamation (gardez l'eau) to get out of the way down below, because I'm chucking my shit and piss out into the street. Very civilized, I'm sure you agree.