For all such activities, I stick with I’m going to see a man about a horse
Out of curiosity, what is your preferred terminology?
Skip to the loo?
“Powdered their nose”. Or “freshened up”.
I think “take a powder” is to amscray, vanish, vamoose, see?
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.
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.
Per MST3K, I stick with “Gotta drain the Super Dragon”.
I just say, “I’ve got to download some vital information into the mainframe.”
“Tap a kidney”
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.
I use “potty” all the time, and I have no kids whatsoever. I also use “toilet” and “micturate” pretty often.
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.
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.
Excellent!
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.
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:
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.”
Hee. As a tiny person, I didn’t really get all the syllables and it was something like “bow mooment”.
I once heard an elderly woman say “make water”, as if she were a chemist.