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Thread ID: 149703 2021-04-02 21:31:00 Bathrooms - why don't they call them what they are: toilets? Roscoe (6288) PC World Chat
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1476028 2021-04-03 03:43:00 Last weekend we went out for a birthday dinner at a restaurant in New Lynn. The meal was lovely but one thing made me wonder. There was a door off to one side marked "Bathrooms". When I asked our daughter why they would have bathrooms in a restaurant she told me that is where the toilets are.
"So why don't they label them "toilets" then?" I asked. "Surely that makes more sense." She told me everybody knows what that means. But if that's what they mean, why don't they say so? That's the first place I have seen toilets marked as bathrooms. I would have thought that a bathroom is somewhere you would go for a wash, a shower or a bath, which is why I wondered why they would have bathrooms in a restaurant.

What I found out later after hearing her say, "Everybody knows what that means," is that everyone who watches Yank TV shows knows what that means is because the Yanks call toilets bathrooms. But we have no time for the rubbish on Yank TV shows and never watch them, so we don't know what that means.

So why do these people have to follow the Yanks? Why don't they call toilets what they are: toilets? Then people such as ourselves who don't watch rubbishy Yank TV, would know where the toilets are.:confused:

Here we go. Another anti US rant ..
paulw (1826)
1476029 2021-04-03 04:21:00 Here we go. Another anti US rant ..

Does that mean you watch and (God forbid!) you like Yank TV? Obviously you have no taste whatsoever. Poor chap.:crying
Roscoe (6288)
1476030 2021-04-03 04:25:00 Yes. Very good, BM. You couldn't go wrong there.:lol:

You might remember where it was taken? :)

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B.M. (505)
1476031 2021-04-03 09:56:00 www.merriam-webster.com KarameaDave (15222)
1476032 2021-04-03 21:10:00 Does that mean you watch and (God forbid!) you like Yank TV? Obviously you have no taste whatsoever. Poor chap.:crying

Yes Roscoe I do and so what.??? God forbid that you should ever watch TV at all.
paulw (1826)
1476033 2021-04-03 21:14:00 Yes Roscoe I do and so what.??? God forbid that you should ever watch TV at all.

Then, obviously, all your taste is up your backside. As I said before: Poor chap.:crying
Roscoe (6288)
1476034 2021-04-03 21:20:00 Does that mean you watch ....Yank TV?

They do make some good movies.
piroska (17583)
1476035 2021-04-03 22:29:00 www.merriam-webster.com

Good answer, so that's how it came about.
zqwerty (97)
1476036 2021-04-04 01:02:00 They do make some good movies.

Nowhere near as good as the Poms and the Kiwis.:)
Roscoe (6288)
1476037 2021-04-04 01:15:00 www.merriam-webster.com

Thanks very much for that, Dave. Very interesting. I learnt a lot.:thanks
Roscoe (6288)
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