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General Category => The Deuce => Topic started by: illiniray on August 11, 2025, 08:25:47 AM

Title: Public Toilet Facilities
Post by: illiniray on August 11, 2025, 08:25:47 AM
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Title: Re: Public Toilet Facilities
Post by: bringbackself on August 11, 2025, 08:31:57 AM
I gotta see a man about a horse
Title: Re: Public Toilet Facilities
Post by: ThePAMan on August 11, 2025, 09:38:56 AM
I gotta see a man about a horse

I think that counts as "other."
Title: Re: Public Toilet Facilities
Post by: Hal9000 on August 11, 2025, 09:56:17 AM
Please allow me to settle this question.

The proper name for public toilets depends on the context and region:
Formal / International English: public restroom, public toilet, or simply toilet
British English: public conveniences, lavatory, WC (water closet)
American English: public restroom, bathroom (though “bathroom” is often used even without a bath)
Signage shorthand: WC, 🚻 symbol, or “Ladies / Gents”

If you mean the official, urban-planning term, municipalities often call them “public conveniences” or “public sanitation facilities.”

This should resolve this particular debate. The moderator should lock this thread.
Title: Re: Public Toilet Facilities
Post by: Reacher on August 11, 2025, 07:32:33 PM
Varying answers, but most often bathroom.

Sometimes I call it “The land patrolled by Judge Judy.”
Title: Re: Public Toilet Facilities
Post by: ThePAMan on August 11, 2025, 10:03:12 PM
Varying answers, but most often bathroom.

Sometimes I call it “The land patrolled by Judge Judy.”

HAL 9000 didn't have that one.
Title: Re: Public Toilet Facilities
Post by: murphstahoe on August 12, 2025, 11:10:14 AM
Please allow me to settle this question.

The proper name for public toilets depends on the context and region:
Formal / International English: public restroom, public toilet, or simply toilet
British English: public conveniences, lavatory, WC (water closet)
American English: public restroom, bathroom (though “bathroom” is often used even without a bath)
Signage shorthand: WC, 🚻 symbol, or “Ladies / Gents”

If you mean the official, urban-planning term, municipalities often call them “public conveniences” or “public sanitation facilities.”

This should resolve this particular debate. The moderator should lock this thread.

I call bullshit. Hal 9000 would say toilets are a "superfluous relic of the time of humans"