The term "powder room"

[Anonymous]

I certainly prefer to poop at home, but I'm not going to cut my night short and leave someone's house just because I have to. When you gotta go, you gotta go. Like now, as a matter of fact.

[Anonymous]

I say powder room because it is where I snort all of my cocaine.

[Anonymous]

Don't you shut down when you are not at home? Whenever I am away from home it takes a few days before my body decides, "Guess we're going to have to poop in a strange bathroom"....

That said, if you have an emergency - let's say something you ate didn't agree with you and you really have to use the toilet - a guest uses the toilet in the GUEST bathroom. That's why there's a toilet in there. This is also why our contractor advised us NOT to put it directly next to the dining room - because the rest of the dinner party does not want to have to listen to that.

And I know that even if someone used the toilet in our house, we'd all be too polite to speculate whether is was #1 or #2, right???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I say powder room because it is where I snort all of my cocaine.

LOL, this is exactly what I was thinking! Whenever one of our friends says they're going to go powder their nose, we are making a coke joke.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don't you shut down when you are not at home? Whenever I am away from home it takes a few days before my body decides, "Guess we're going to have to poop in a strange bathroom"....

That said, if you have an emergency - let's say something you ate didn't agree with you and you really have to use the toilet - a guest uses the toilet in the GUEST bathroom. That's why there's a toilet in there. This is also why our contractor advised us NOT to put it directly next to the dining room - because the rest of the dinner party does not want to have to listen to that.

And I know that even if someone used the toilet in our house, we'd all be too polite to speculate whether is was #1 or #2, right???

This is why I always sneak upstairs at friends' houses, just in case I have to fart.

[Anonymous]

I am so sending a link to this thread to Gene Weingarten.

You all are seriously fucked up. What did your mothers do to you that you can only poop in your own upstairs bathroom? And what are you teaching your kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You hold your poop? Seriously? This is fascinating and incredibly bizarre. Encopresis can lead to loss of function of your sphincter. In other words, being afraid of using another person's toilet now will result in your enjoyment of anal leakage when you are older.

No. I do not hold my poop. I am incredibly regular. I wAH and take it every day after my morning coffee. I am a once a day person. I can't fathom taking a poop at someone elses house. Period.

Well, maybe if you regularly pooped three times a day, you would get over this weird phobia you have about defecating at someone else's house!

Seriously -- a lot or people have a bowel movement more often than just once a day. Especially people who eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Fiber, you know??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wouldn't it be strange to ask to use the upstairs toilet if you had to poop? That would be WEIRD.

My DH does this in people's houses. He ignores hints that it bothers hosts when he invades their private rooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am so sending a link to this thread to Gene Weingarten.

You all are seriously fucked up. What did your mothers do to you that you can only poop in your own upstairs bathroom? And what are you teaching your kids?

In all fairness, I think it might be just one or two weird people.

[Anonymous]

I think of it as a genteel saying. Maybe something you might hear in the South?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who defecates in the first floor bathroom? Seriously, I don't do this at my own house and I would never take a dump in someone else's powder room. Gross.

My 5 year old son. That is his favorite bathroom to take a dump. We have 2 others but he prefers the "pOwder room". I deal with real estate in Georgetown and the 1/2 bath on first level is always referred to as the "powder room". It's not a suburban term.

My kids love to take their No. 2s in the "powder room" too. My son said, why would I want to poop in the same place I take a shower, when this room is only for pooping. Nice. I try to reserve that room for guests (a failed attempt to keep it cleaner than the other bathrooms), but I don't care what they do it there. It has a fan and a candle for a reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You hold your poop? Seriously? This is fascinating and incredibly bizarre. Encopresis can lead to loss of function of your sphincter. In other words, being afraid of using another person's toilet now will result in your enjoyment of anal leakage when you are older.

Oh no, it's the anal leakage poster. Hi, Doc under a rock! *wave*

I say powder room because it is where I snort all of my cocaine.

Love this! And I don't doubt you one bit.

[Anonymous]

so what is low class about the term "passed away"?

[Anonymous]

so what is low class about the term "passed away"?

I always associate this euphemism -- or worse, "he passed" -- with overtly religious people who seem to fear science and kind of deny reality. Who also tend not to be intellectuals.

You know Walter, he just passed on to the other side and he's sittin' up there now, playing the harmonica with Jesus and smiling down on us. I know he'll be rootin' for the Skins this Sunday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

so what is low class about the term "passed away"?

I always associate this euphemism -- or worse, "he passed" -- with overtly religious people who seem to fear science and kind of deny reality. Who also tend not to be intellectuals.

You know Walter, he just passed on to the other side and he's sittin' up there now, playing the harmonica with Jesus and smiling down on us. I know he'll be rootin' for the Skins this Sunday.

In an attempt to seem not overly religious I like to use phrases like, "kicked the bucket", "bought the farm" or "dead as a door nail".