# "Pee" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 7, 2016, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442 "2016-01-07T21:15:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/21 "2016-01-07T22:56:39Z")
For all such activities, I stick with [I’m going to see a man about a horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_a_man_about_a_dog) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/22 "2016-01-07T23:08:41Z")
> [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](#): > > Does anyone else hate this word? I cannot stand to hear adults say “I have to pee” or some variation. It absolutely repulses me, especially when adult men say it. I think of this word as something a little kid would say. Adults saying this seems to have grown in popularity. Out of curiosity, what is your preferred terminology? ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/23 "2016-01-07T23:14:57Z")
Skip to the loo? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/24 "2016-01-07T23:17:56Z")
> [@Peremensoe](#): > > I’m glad you warn them before you let fly. > > But I thought ladies took a “powder.” “Powdered their nose”. Or “freshened up”. I think “take a powder” is to amscray, vanish, vamoose, see? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/25 "2016-01-07T23:23:59Z")
> [@gigi](#): > > “Powdered their nose”. When someone says that, I just assume that they mean snorting coke. It’s just one of many ways in which my alternative reality is more interesting than the regular one. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/26 "2016-01-07T23:58:39Z")
I don’t have a problem with the word pee, even used among adults. It’s the word I’ll use most often when it comes up. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/27 "2016-01-08T01:15:07Z")
> [@dracoi](#): > > I don’t have a problem with the word pee, even used among adults. It’s the word I’ll use most often when it comes up. If it comes up, you’re aiming wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/28 "2016-01-08T01:19:27Z")
> [@xizor](#): > > For all such activities, I stick with [I’m going to see a man about a horse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_a_man_about_a_dog) Per MST3K, I stick with “Gotta drain the Super Dragon”. ---
**Author:** ![R.P.McMurphy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7993a0/32.png) [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/29 "2016-01-08T02:12:22Z")
I just say, “I’ve got to download some vital information into the mainframe.” ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/30 "2016-01-08T02:12:51Z")
“Tap a kidney” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/31 "2016-01-08T02:17:41Z")
I ask my patients “any trouble passing your urine?” If I get a confused response from them, my next question is “any trouble peeing?” I have to default to that version about half the time. And everyone answers that version without problems. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/32 "2016-01-08T02:23:48Z")
I use “potty” all the time, and I have no kids whatsoever. I also use “toilet” and “micturate” pretty often. ---
**Author:** ![yawuntz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a5b964/32.png) [@yawuntz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yawuntz)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/33 "2016-01-08T02:49:48Z")
Hit the porcelain. I’m ok with it if anybody uses the “pee” word. “Poo” on the other hand, sounds like baby talk. Too euphemistic. [del]Pisses[/del] me right off. Urinates. ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/34 "2016-01-08T03:23:13Z")
I’m fine with “Pee.” “Tinkle” bugs me. Baby talk among adults bothers me for some reason. I don’t like it when adults talk about their “tummy” either. I use " go potty" with my dogs, but would never do so in referring to myself. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/35 "2016-01-08T03:37:11Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > [It made me famous for a couple of weeks](http://www.economist.com/node/10748383). Excellent! ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/36 "2016-01-08T04:10:14Z")
I have had a fondness for some while for “rental return”. And of course, “get caught up on some reading” or some slightly less wordy version for going to the reading room. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/37 "2016-01-08T04:31:27Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > I ask my patients “any trouble passing your urine?” > > If I get a confused response from them, my next question is “any trouble peeing?” > > I have to default to that version about half the time. And everyone answers that version without problems. We were taught to say “urinate” and “bowel movement” from as long as I can remember, and my father is a precise and relatively formal person. I was disappointed when the ER doc asked “any trouble peeing?” I can bet my father has never said “peeing” in his life. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/38 "2016-01-08T04:49:10Z")
Oh, bowel movement. This phrase is the absolute worst. And my mom uses it exclusively. When my daughter was younger (2-3 years old), and my mom would watch her, she would often say something like “Sally had no problem with her bowel movement today,” or “Sally had a bowel movement around 2 but it was a little loose.” Always said in hushed tones, no matter if we’re the only ones in the room. Seriously, mom? Just say “She pooped.” ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/39 "2016-01-08T04:58:01Z")
Hee. As a tiny person, I didn’t really get all the syllables and it was something like “bow mooment”. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 8, 2016, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pee/742442/40 "2016-01-08T11:16:21Z")
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