On Jan 5, 7:15*am, Jeremy Double wrote:
On 31/12/2010 09:34, 1506 wrote:





On Dec 30, 7:56 pm, *wrote:
On 30/12/2010 11:13, 1506 wrote:

And how do you think the Bristol and Norwich passengers will feel
about travelling in rapid transit trains with no bathrooms, many
draughty doors, and limited seating?

Bathrooms?! How many trains have bathrooms that you can think of?

Full bathrooms? very few trains have them. As for Half bathrooms (a
commode and hand basin), a substantial number of trains have them. *I
did not know you were pedantic enough to require "realtor speak". *:-)

Most sleeping trains, AFIK, have three quarter bathrooms (A commode, a
shower, and a hand basin)

Thinking about it, Thameslink trains have half baths, so it is not
unreasonable to think Crossrail trains might.

A bathroom is a room with a bath... no ordinary members of the public
have access to trains fitted with baths in the UK.
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Jeremy Double {real address, include nospam}
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Clearly you did not read my post. See also:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-half-bathroom.htm

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:19:41 -0800 (PST), 1506
wrote:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-half-bathroom.htm

....applies only in the US and possibly Canada. Use that phrase in
the UK and people will just get confused.

If you prefer to use US terminology in a crosspost like this,
"restroom" will at least be understood internationally; in the UK a
"bathroom" always contains a bath, and indeed need not contain a WC.

Neil

--
Neil Williams, Milton Keynes, UK

On Jan 5, 7:39*am, Neil Williams wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:19:41 -0800 (PST), 1506
wrote:

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-half-bathroom.htm

...applies only in the US and possibly Canada. *Use that phrase in
the UK and people will just get confused.

If you prefer to use US terminology in a crosspost like this,
"restroom" will at least be understood internationally; in the UK a
"bathroom" always contains a bath, and indeed need not contain a WC.

Neil

One rarely has a problem asking the whereabouts of the bathroom in the
UK. And, had you refered to my link: John Lewis is hardly a North
American company.

1506 wrote:

One rarely has a problem asking the whereabouts of the bathroom in the
UK.

Indeed. You get the answer you need and then the person you asked spends
the rest of the day telling people about the odd conversation he had.

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(50 043 at Clapham Junction, 19 Jul 1981)

Chris Tolley (ukonline really) wrote

1506 wrote:

One rarely has a problem asking the whereabouts of the bathroom in
the
UK.

Indeed. You get the answer you need and then the person you asked
spends
the rest of the day telling people about the odd conversation he had.

Same if they ask for directions to "the subway".

That a term is understandable doesn't make it correct usage.

--
Mike D

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:59:44 -0800 (PST), 1506
wrote:
One rarely has a problem asking the whereabouts of the bathroom in
the
UK.

No, but that's because people have heard of the term and might expect
an American to use it in context.

And, had you refered to my link: John Lewis is hardly a North
American company.

Can't see a reference to them in the Wisegeek link.

Neil

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Neil Williams, Milton Keynes, UK

On Jan 5, 7:16*pm, Neil Williams wrote:
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:59:44 -0800 (PST), 1506
wrote:

One rarely has a problem asking the whereabouts of the bathroom in
the
UK.

No, but that's because people have heard of the term and might expect
an American to use it in context.

* And, had you refered to my link: John Lewis is hardly a North

American company.

Can't see a reference to them in the Wisegeek link.

Neil

After reading your post I looked again. The link has gone. It was
there earlier, honestly, :-)

On Jan 6, 9:13*am, 1506 wrote:

After reading your post I looked again. *The link has gone. *It was
there earlier, honestly, :-)

The site appears to include automatically generated advertisements, of
which John Lewis was probably one when you looked at it, but for some
reason not where I am. As I am in Switzerland at this particular
second and I don't believe they have a presence there, that's not
entirely surprising

John Lewis, of course, do sell items for bathrooms, but I think they
would largely be of the kind that actually contain baths.

Neil

On Jan 6, 10:10*am, Neil Williams wrote:
On Jan 6, 9:13*am, 1506 wrote:

After reading your post I looked again. *The link has gone. *It was
there earlier, honestly, :-)

The site appears to include automatically generated advertisements, of
which John Lewis was probably one when you looked at it, but for some
reason not where I am. *As I am in Switzerland at this particular
second and I don't believe they have a presence there, that's not
entirely surprising

John Lewis, of course, do sell items for bathrooms, but I think they
would largely be of the kind that actually contain baths.

Back in the 1960s one of my first jobs was in retail. I worked on
Regents St. We were told that customers would ask for the bathroom,
and how to direct them.

On Jan 5, 7:59*am, 1506 wrote:

On Jan 5, 7:39*am, Neil Williams wrote:

On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:19:41 -0800 (PST), 1506
wrote:

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-half-bathroom.htm

...applies only in the US and possibly Canada. *Use that phrase in
the UK and people will just get confused.

If you prefer to use US terminology in a crosspost like this,
"restroom" will at least be understood internationally; in the UK a
"bathroom" always contains a bath, and indeed need not contain a WC.

One rarely has a problem asking the whereabouts of the bathroom in the
UK. *And, had you refered to my link: John Lewis is hardly a North
American company.

Have you ever considered surrendering your British passport?!