What did you learn to say to describe going to the toilet (1) as a child (2) do you now say something different?

We went to the toilet to do "big business" and whenever someone uses that phrase it still gets a smirk from me. I was travelling with a group of Canadians recently (men in their 40's) and they saw repeated signs on fields for "no dumping" and you should have heard the sniggering howls of laughter at this.

Call me crazy, but I've always gone for...."I'm going to the toilet".

******* nuts, me!!! :unsure:

Stinkies and wee wee.

With my kids, poo and wee wee.

We went to the loo, or went to the loo 'for a while'. ;)

Mr FFA always makes his purpose clear by disappearing with a good read...

It's always been called a wee but when I was a kid, a No 2 was always called 'going properly'

When Em was little, it was a poo & a wee, now it's either for a wee or if not specified, we all know it's for a poo

I wonder if that's a 'Merseyside' expression - my grandmother always used to talk about 'going properly' !

Yep, I reckon that's Merseyside, Fee. My grandparents used to say it too.

I was an onomatopoeic infant defecator, assisting and describing the process in real time poetry in motion by use of the expression "Arrrrrrrs!" Well into my mid-single figures I believed that I, personally, was responsible for the vulgar term for bottom.

When we were kids it was "wee wee" and "big jobs" lol.

When my kids were little it had evolved into wee wee and poo!

Poo seems to be the polite version as opposed to going for a dump which men seem to say. I've also heard people say that were going for a Forrest! Rhyming slang of course - Forrest Gump.

I can't believe I've just sat and typed that load of useless information. Oh well, I've got to get to my 1,000th post somehow :bag:

...and three boxes :ohmy:

What is it with men and toilets that they have to take the paper in with them?

I use the word Loo. Abbie has just been toilet trained and she just gets up and runs when she needs. She says a word that resembles "toilet" and sometimes she says a word that resembles "potty"! It depends what she wants to use at that particular moment!

I used to work in an office with 5 guys and they were always nipping out for a "Richard the Third"! :ninja:

My God, this takes me right back. My mum used to asked me if i had been 'Big aa's' I don't know why it was always knowsn as 'big aa's' pronounced ahhs ahhs.

My husband goes as others do with the paper or his latest computer magazine and says nothing - no need.

My youngest always says he needs a pugh pugh barney magrew cuthbert dibble and grub :blush:

My MIL always says 'spend a penny', which my kids have always found funny. When my husband was a boy, for a poo, she used to say 'Have you been a dirty boy?' Explains a lot really.

When the children were young we use to use wee wee & poo poo. Now they are older miss ils and I just say we are going to the loo but the boys say the bog! We don't tend to say what we are going to do there!

My nan use to say I am just going to the lavatory, does any one use that term anymore?

It was wee, wee and Poo as a kid but now I go for a tiddle or to spend some 'quality time'! :bag:

We use the term loo and/or poo loo depending on where we are. Our house in Scotland has an outside loo and is known as the poo loo.

And as far as the waste products are concerned poo and wee are pretty standard in our house. Tiddles has a variety of words for differing softnesses of poos - like Mum I have had a diarohhea, or Mum it was like rock - and many more inbetween.

Actually this might be a good place to ask - why is it that mens wee always looks like a pint of beer?? Both my eldest and hubby's wee's always look fizzy!! I know this because they both regularly forget to flush the loo!! Anyone know?

Actually this might be a good place to ask - why is it that mens wee always looks like a pint of beer?? Both my eldest and hubby's wee's always look fizzy!! I know this because they both regularly forget to flush the loo!! Anyone know?

I guess because it's being fired from a greater height :bag:

What is it with men and toilets that they have to take the paper in with them?


It's usually the only quiet room in the house. :glare:

If drinking down the pub the first wee of the night shall be called 'Breaking the seal' because you can garuantee after that it's wee, wee, wee all the night long! :sad:

I often take a book in with me when at home... :blush:..and more often than not a notebook...a very inspirational place the loo! :cool2:

i always say i'm just going to the run to the bathroom............how polite!

Phrases i've used guys used are

pee/wazz/wizz - Wazz is v commen

dump/S.S.S (SHAVE, SH!T AND SHOWER!)

If drinking down the pub the first wee of the night shall be called 'Breaking the seal' because you can garuantee after that it's wee, wee, wee all the night long! :sad:



Don't you just hate that! :ranting:

I honestly can't remember what we used to say as children. I think we just went to the toilet and didn't discuss it, although I do remember my brother being in hospital and the nurse asking him if he'd done a number two and he got all upset because he didn't know what it was.

Diarrhoea was soggy poos though, and I know the dog used to do either big jobs or little jobs :cool:

All in all I think we were far too polite to discuss such things :bye:

(SHAVE, SH!T AND SHOWER!)

That reminded me of student flat share days - 5 girlies, one bathroom.

Big night out preparations were often limited to the Triple F (Face, Feet and Fanny).

wee and poo

Now I just say, I'm going to pee, an nothing at all about the other. But Mr G often tells me he's going for a "Number 2". Honestly - do I need to know!

Urk says he's going to lighten his load, which I always associated with something else, :bag: siphoning the python, pointing percy at the porcelain, but going for a whizz is the usual one.


sometimes when people ask me what SO is all about, and what we all talk about, it can be quite hard to explain!:kid:

I know what you mean TE. "Everything" just isn't enough, is it?

Actually I need a tiddle now!

:blush:

Don't you just hate it when you're just about to nod off and suddenly you think...do I need a pee? And that's it then...unless you get up and trot to the loo you lay awake thinking about whether to get up and go or not! :mad:

Don't you just hate it when you're just about to nod off and suddenly you think...do I need a pee? And that's it then...unless you get up and trot to the loo you lay awake thinking about whether to get up and go or not! :mad:

Yep that sucks! I always lay there and think about it for a while, even though I know it means I will go eventually so I might as well get it over with.

Still at least ts not like it was when I was pregnant which seemed like it was every ten minutes :blink:

S.S.S (SHAVE, SH!T AND SHOWER!)
This is what we say up here for our standard hangover routines :w00t:

I am gonna have a p!ss http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_2.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm22755GB)

Iam going for a sh!t... http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_12_6.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm22755GB) and when leaving the toilet and to anyone going in ..

You may wanna give five minuets ...

I am gonna have a p!ss http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_2_2.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm22755GB)

Iam going for a sh!t... http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_12_6.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm22755GB) and when leaving the toilet and to anyone going in ..

You may wanna give five minuets ...


Such class :laugh:

Such class :laugh:

you know it babe

Sometimes I say I am just going for a slash
which is short for eyelash
I dont know where eyelash comes in to it its just what we say

O yer and a Tom Tit ...or a Pony
as in pony and trap = crap


If someone else has gone for a pony,
we say he has gone to squeeze his head
You see you’re saying that he/she has **** for brains and when they squeeze there head sh!t comes out there arze

and I am going to the karzy
From going to sh!t on the head of the German chancellor Kaiser Wilhelm

From the time of the First World War

My dad and I have now adopted the phrase "I'm off to the toilet for a Forrest" to the disgust of my mum!

Think Forrest Gump and you'll understand

My dad and I have now adopted the phrase "I'm off to the toilet for a Forrest" to the disgust of my mum!

Think Forrest Gump and you'll understand

O yes I am going to use that one mate

O yes I am going to use that one mate
Sorry floopy.....

One more won't make much difference Peej :wink_kiss

I bet you use em all Cockers:

Tommy Tit
Vera Herd
Forrest Gump
Vindaloo
Pony and Trap


It's a wonder how Floops ever knows what you're on about! :glare:

there's usually no doubt as to when Cockney has been to the toilet :bag: :pooh:

there's usually no doubt as to when Cockney has been to the toilet :bag: :pooh:

Does he poot smelly ones before as well just as a form of advanced warning? :pooh:

Just have to use this pic again.... http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/Mzungo/SOMBA/poo.jpg

Marvellous!

The Floopy Family Photo!

http://www.gothamist.com/images/2003%20greenwich%20village%20fire%20fighters.jpg

A certain relative of mine :naughty: informs me that she has a "turtle head" sometimes when we're chatting on messenger.

It's so endearing that she feels she can share that information with me :ninja:

Maz is thinking mmmmmm now what embarassing information she has on Crit.

Maz is thinking mmmmmm now what embarassing information she has on Crit.

Crit takes cover and waits

Got you worried now I will save it till I am *****d in Pompey :naughty:

Iam going for a sh!t... http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/10/10_12_6.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZNxdm22755GB) and when leaving the toilet and to anyone going in ..

You may wanna give five minuets ...



This is a regular from my husband.

The thing about taking a book or the newspaper to the loo has me completely baffled. Either you need to go to the toilet, in which case you go, sit, do what you have to, flush, wash hands and leave or, you don't need to go so you don't.

If hubby takes a newspaper or magazine into the loo I want to pick it up with tongs and put it in the rubbish bin. Maybe I'm daft, but it just seems "unclean".

But then I'm weird with magazines in hospitals and doctors' surgeries. No way would I touch them. People lick their fingers and turn pages and cough and sneeze all over them. They're there because they are ill for goodness sake, and I don't want to get whatever they've got :sad: