(OT) WCs and other toilet issues

[Simon Biber]

No: HPFGUIDX 8560

I've never seen WC here in Australia. We say "going to the toilet" and it's
considered to be plenty polite enough. Better than "dunny" which is more
slangy. I have heard "loo" occasionally but it's in the more old-fashioned
crowd. "Skip to the loo," anyone?

Definately not "bathroom". You go to the bathroom to have a shower, but not
to "go to the toilet". <g>

Simon - who's seen a bidet but didn't have the courage to try it.


----- Original Message -----
Amanda wrote:
> On an only marginally related but humorous note, I am told by old
> classmates from my high school, Winston Churchill High School in San
> Antonio, that they got some interesting reactions to the "WC" on their
> class rings and baseball caps and such when they were in Europe. Who
> knew it stood for water closet? Who in Texas even knew what a water
> closet *was*?
>
> --Amanda, who's heard a bidet described, too, but never seen one....