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Toilet business.

fsome
Why the fuck i always see how americans always use a word "a bathroom" to point the toilet, a room where you releasing your needfuls? Like why can't you use a word "restroom" instead of "bathroom"? Honestly, i saw only ONCE when a guy use word a right word restroom instead instead of A BATHROOM. Do you guys even attempted to understand what this word mean, like what the fuck you bathing while being there and what you use to bath it? "A restroom" is like associated with finally freeing up the space, but a bathroom is sound so cringy. A bathroom is a place where you bathing in shower, not where you pissing and shitting.

22 comments

IntrepidEffective977•
If you, as a learner, are going around telling people how to speak their own language, you're going to have a very hard time learning and a very hard time getting along with anyone. Bathroom is also correct. Get over it.
TenorTwenty•
Wait until OP learns that other languages also have euphemisms….
ilPrezidente•
I’d work a lot more on your grammar before you try to dictate how Americans should speak their native language.
BingBongDingDong222•
In the US, a "toilet" is not the room, but the actual thing you urinate and defecate in. Asking in public for the "toilet" in the US is weird. Restroom and bathroom are the same thing. Why do we say "bathroom" for a public restroom? Why do you roll down your window or tape a video or whatever. We just do. Also, I'm assuming you're 11.
Zounds90•
It's a euphemism. You aren't resting there either so i don't know why you prefer that. Plenty of English speaking countries just use toilet.
pigup1983•
this guy is criticizing how we speak our own language and saying “releasing your needfuls” lol
hawthorne00•
You don't take a rest in a "restroom". It is just as much a euphemism as "bathroom". So is "toilet". You are fool.
PuzzleheadedLow4687•
"Bathroom" is a euphemism (it doesn't need to have a bath) "Restroom" is a euphemism (who goes there for a rest?!) "Lavatory" is a euphemism, that means roughly the same as "washroom", which again isn't really why anyone goes to that room "WC" means "water closet" and again that is a euphemism Even "toilet" is from a French word that originally meant something very different. Maybe it should be just called the Crapper?! (Which was originally a brand name...).
PTLacy•
Someone has never been in a bathroom that has a toilet in it ;) More importantly, restroom meaning room with a toilet in it is first attested in the 1930s. Bathroom as a euphemism for room with toilet dates to the 1920s Lavatory dates back to 1864 for the same function Toilet as a room with a lavatory in it, by 1819. as a filthy Brit, I'd never use restroom to mean a room with a toilet in it. I'd just say 'the bathroom' or 'the toilet' or 'the bog' or 'the smallest room' or 'I'm going to water the tiger'. Hope that helps!
agate_•
How much time do you spend resting in your “restroom”? Got a bed in there, good place to take a nap? English is historically *very* shy to talk about pissing and shitting, so we “excuse ourselves” to “use the facilities” or as you said “do the needful”. Even “toilet” is an old French word for a place to change clothes. When nobody wants to talk about it, every dialect comes up with a different euphemism for it.
VocabAdventures•
It’s a euphemism. Like “releasing your needfuls.” What’s a needful? Sometimes it’s nice to have a less explicit way to say things. This is one that developed in America by chance. Language isn’t designed from the top down, unless it’s synthetic— it evolves over time. Getting angry about these things is not going to help you learn to communicate with others.
RedTaxx•
Almost every bathroom has a toilet in it, which is why it’s used sometimes instead of “restroom”. Relax and accept it
Time_Factor•
If you live in house/apartment where the only toilets are inside bathrooms, you never really bother making a distinction here.
wvc6969•
are you ok?
linuxworks•
Why not just call it a lavatory? Or men’s room or ladies room?
ProfessorAdmirable98•
Bathroom does not have to be a place for bathing. It used to be, but toilets are usually in that bathing room as well, and that became the name of the toilet room too. Now, any room with a toilet can be referred to as a bathroom. If you prefer to call it a restroom, that’s ok, but it isn’t incorrect to say bathroom. It is just how the language works.
Thatchm0•
If I have a specific room where I can bath my hands in water, then it’s a bathroom. The access to water is what makes it a bath. It’s not called a showerroom, or a bubble bathroom. It’s just a bathroom, because it has a source of water meant to bath things in.
PullingLegs•
There’s nothing restful about taking a shit! Maybe we should call it one of the following? 1. Shitter 2. Pissoir 3. WC? 4. Loo 5. Bog 6. Latrine 7. Where Elvis died 8. The throne 9. Toilet 10. Squeeze and pray room
VerdiGris2•
Even toilet originates as a kind of euphemism, same for lavatory and latrine originating from the root "to wash". I don't know what your native language is but if you look into the etymology of whatever you call that room, I wouldn't be surprised if its origin is euphemistic rather than sharing a root word with any kind of body fluid.
evet•
There are vocabulary differences between dialects. For example, the phrase "releasing your needfuls" is bizarre and, yes, cringy to me. But I'm not going to go on a profanity-laced rant about it and insult the people who say it. Because I understand that not everyone speaks my dialect.
greenghost22•
Restroom is a place to rest?!
DM_ME_VACCINE_PICS•
Who hurt you? Yeah, it's a bit weird, but it's how EN in North America works - language is weird.