That's a scary thought.
Toilet used in the place of bathroom just sounds kind of...crass, I suppose, to us. And I know it's not in other places, so I'm not passing judgement - it's just one of those things.
Why is that kids crawling on a filthy bathroom floor anyway?Same for fitting rooms. I really like the stalls in the airports which are floor to almost ceiling, tight door/frame...also keeps your purse/ carryon safer. I wish all restrooms were like that.
as an American Iagree with those who do not like the gaps in the stall doors...ESPECIALLY the floor gaps..when the little angel next door feels like poking his head under while his mom takes care of business
(that is a JOKE BTW 
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Oh Elaine, from one modest Brit to another, you aint seen nothing til youve seen these toilets
Just a few hints ... dont let your knickers fall down to your ankles!!! .... unless of course you dont mind the whole of WDW seeing your bloomers
You will become VERY aware of the position of your feet!! I try to keep mine facing forward but with knees spread to keep my shorts above the bottom door gap!!
Yoo will find ingenious ways to wipe yourself without looking to the outside world as if youre wiping yourself
Kids DO poke their heads under the gaps. Be prepared at all times to stamp on little heads
Oh, and while you wait in line to use the toilet ...... keep your eyes on the floor down at your feet at all times, unless you actually WANT an eyeful
Or better still ............ Hold it in til you get back to the safety of your hotel room!!!!
I say toilet, though in the south it's more common to hear "commode." I think what people mean, though, is we usually don't say toilet for bathroom or restroom. It's fine to say toilet for the actual porcelain fixture.
(At my office, the usual expression is "run down the hall" because the toilet is located at the end of the hallway.)
I was the one who was told that it was rude, and that was in 1968 in the Deep South, so it isn't considered truly rude now -- it is more considered Too Much Information in terms of announcing that is where you are going.
Saying that you "need to use the restroom" is a bit like saying that you need to "spend a penny"; a polite little euphemism. In the US, women tend to prefer euphemisms that make it sound like we are visiting that room for some other purpose, such as powdering our noses or washing our hands.
The part that is considered somewhat impolite is making it EXACTLY clear what you are planning to do once you get there, and that is where mentioning the toilet comes in. As the poster I quoted mentioned, "toilet" here means the actual porcelain fixture, not the room that it is located in, so when you come out and say, "use the toilet" you are giving them a fairly specific mind picture. (Now if you said that you dropped your phone in the toilet, everyone in the room would be giving out advice about finding rice so that you could try to save it.)
Children tend not so much to say where they are going so much as they like to say what they need to do, because that gets an adult's attention more quickly, but they use little euphemisms as well, most notably saying that "I have to GO" with very strong emphasis on GO. If you hear a child say this in an anguished tone of voice, he isn't just bored, LOL. "Go potty" is one of those childhood euphemisms, as is "go tinkle", and both of them are sometimes used by adult women who are trying to make a coy little joke. It will always draw laughter from bystanders if a child goes so far as to use more graphic terms in an audible tone of voice, such as "Mom! -- I gotta PEE!"
Oh, and BTW, that other four-letter P word with an "ed" tacked on the end does not mean drunk here -- it means angry. If you use the related expression in terms of teasing someone, expect blank stares; the expression "taking the **** out of" someone is essentially unknown here. (I'm dancing around on this one because the word is on the DIS blocked list, I think. In any case I don't want to get points while I find out.)
How to wee and wipe in america...
I don't know why they're there, but they're not huge (at least not in my opinion). Some definitely are bigger than others, but they range from
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I say toilet, though in the south it's more common to hear "commode." I think what people mean, though, is we usually don't say toilet for bathroom or restroom. It's fine to say toilet for the actual porcelain fixture.
