On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:06:19 +0000, Philip 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.

Full bathrooms? Half bathrooms? What?

I realise that others like to complicate matters more than we do here in
Yorkshire, but let's be clear: It's a bloody toilet.

Phil.

But that word is a euphemism. Who was it who joked about bathing his brow with toilet water when the seat fell onto his head ?

Why not just say bog ?

wrote

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:06:19 +0000, Philip wrote:

I realise that others like to complicate matters more than we do
here in
Yorkshire, but let's be clear: It's a bloody toilet.

But that word is a euphemism. Who was it who joked about bathing his
brow with toilet water when the seat fell onto his head ?

Why not just say bog ?

/All/ of them are euphemisms, really, and in fact mostly concerned with
/wash/ like the US usage of bathroom as a euphemism that this
subsubthread stated with.

latrine, toilet, can, convenience, head, john, johnny, lavatory, loo,
privy, water closet

****house is perhaps the only term that isn't.

(also, basement, commode, donnicker, little boy's room, men's room,
rest room, washroom)

--
Mike D

"Why, it's a closet, where we store our water..."

-miles

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if possible, more objectionable than another.

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:

wrote

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:06:19 +0000, Philip wrote:

I realise that others like to complicate matters more than we do here
in Yorkshire, but let's be clear: It's a bloody toilet.

Yes, i've often heard that said about Yorkshire.

But that word is a euphemism. Who was it who joked about bathing his
brow with toilet water when the seat fell onto his head ?

Why not just say bog ?

/All/ of them are euphemisms, really, and in fact mostly concerned with
/wash/ like the US usage of bathroom as a euphemism that this
subsubthread stated with.

latrine, toilet, can, convenience, head, john, johnny, lavatory, loo,
privy, water closet

****house is perhaps the only term that isn't.

And that's slang. Is there really no proper word for it that isn't a
euphemism?

tom

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curry in a sack

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 23:31:21 +0000, Tom Anderson
wrote:

On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:

wrote

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:06:19 +0000, Philip wrote:

I realise that others like to complicate matters more than we do here
in Yorkshire, but let's be clear: It's a bloody toilet.

Yes, i've often heard that said about Yorkshire.

But that word is a euphemism. Who was it who joked about bathing his
brow with toilet water when the seat fell onto his head ?

Why not just say bog ?

/All/ of them are euphemisms, really, and in fact mostly concerned with
/wash/ like the US usage of bathroom as a euphemism that this
subsubthread stated with.

latrine, toilet, can, convenience, head, john, johnny, lavatory, loo,
privy, water closet

****house is perhaps the only term that isn't.

And that's slang.

No more than the others. The established names in the non-English
national languages of the UK all translate as "small house" which IMU
is not translated slang as the equivalents to "house" are not
restricted to describing habitations.

Is there really no proper word for it that isn't a euphemism?

"Sh1tter" isn't a euphemism but probably won't impress the
wife/boss/minister. Urinal is not euphemistic but does not answer the
entire question; I formally stake a copyright claim on the creation of
the "faectory". As for "privy", that is arguably not euphemistic (and
has well established formal use in previous times) as it derives from
the non-public nature of its use rather than from what takes place.

On Jan 6, 11:31*pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:

wrote

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:06:19 +0000, Philip wrote:

I realise that others like to complicate matters more than we do here
in Yorkshire, but let's be clear: It's a bloody toilet.

Yes, i've often heard that said about Yorkshire.

Careful: I have three children and four grandchildren in West
Yorkshire. Although, Mr. Dolbear does remind me of the rural
Yorkshireman. When out on a date he endevoured to impress the lady
with "Ah want thee to know, lass, Ah've been to Leeds"

On Jan 6, 11:31*pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011, Michael R N Dolbear wrote:

wrote

On Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:06:19 +0000, Philip wrote:

I realise that others like to complicate matters more than we do here
in Yorkshire, but let's be clear: It's a bloody toilet.

Yes, i've often heard that said about Yorkshire.

Careful: I have three children and four grandchildren in West
Yorkshire.

Although, Philip does remind me of the rural
Yorkshireman. When out on a date he endevoured to impress the lady
with "Ah want thee to know, lass, Ah've been to Leeds"

Tom Anderson wrote:

And that's slang. Is there really no proper word for it that isn't a
euphemism?

For a former house, I acquired two miniature enamelled BR Totems. The
upstairs one, in WR brown, said BATH, and the downstairs one, in SR
green, said WATERLOO. Two moves of house on, I've lost track of where
they are.

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