So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[ChiTownScion]

"The Loo" is actually quite common in my town these days among a certain type of bourgie middle-aged women who want to sound more cosmopolitan than they really are. They are almost always accompanied by husbands in popped-collar polo shirts and new-looking Sperry Topsiders, who always ask where to find "the Head."

I always pretend to be baffled and then say "Oh, yeah, the can is downstairs."

When I'm in a nautical mood I announce, "I need to pump bilge.."

 

[EngProf]

When I'm in a nautical mood I announce, "I need to pump bilge.."

A slight variation on that idea was from a friend of my father who worked on river towboats:
"I need to pump out, I'm about to sink."

 

[GHT]

The ultimate:

If they had had these thirty-eight years ago, my grandmother would have wanted to be buried in one.

Wiki just spared me, or my face would have been as red as those socks. I had no idea what they meant, but I do now.
With regards to that coffin, there is a growing trend (I've seen it twice,) to have a wicker casket coffin and be buried in a woodland cemetery.
At the last funeral where I saw such a coffin, I did wonder if it was some sort of wish to go to the grave as eco-friendly as possible. I know that the woodland burials are mostly atheistic, but the wicker casket I couldn't fathom. The undertaker didn't know a good reason either but did suggest that it could be some sort of inverted snobbery, given that the deceased, or the family paying the funeral cost, were well within the means of being more elaborate.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I've told the kids I don't want to be buried. I want to be stuffed and mounted, in a pose like one of those Lenin statues, and they can stand me in the theatre lobby and use me for a coat rack.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

I've told the kids I don't want to be buried. I want to be stuffed and mounted, in a pose like one of those Lenin statues, and they can stand me in the theatre lobby and use me for a coat rack.

You should be careful what you ask for.

 

[LizzieMaine]

How's a guy supposed to sleep with that light shining in his face?

 

[LizzieMaine]

Meanwhile, once again it's proven true that if you live long enough everything you love will be sullied:

Mister Rogers Stars In TV Ad for Google Pixel 3

I'm thankful that I was away from the TV when this aired, because if I had seen it I'd have probably thrown my shoe thru the screen. Fred Rogers was a sworn enemy of the Boys From Marketing, and for those who run his company nowadays to allow something like this is a betrayal of everything he stood for, believed in, and taught. I don't "offend" easily, but for a company that is the modern epitome of the Boys to appropriate his image, and for the modern owners of that image to collaborate in such an act, is deeply, deeply offensive. As Betty Aberlin, his colleague for thirty years, said today on Twitter, "If he were alive, it would kill him."

 

[Fading Fast]

Meanwhile, once again it's proven true that if you live long enough everything you love will be sullied:

Mister Rogers Stars In TV Ad for Google Pixel 3

I'm thankful that I was away from the TV when this aired, because if I had seen it I'd have probably thrown my shoe thru the screen. Fred Rogers was a sworn enemy of the Boys From Marketing, and for those who run his company nowadays to allow something like this is a betrayal of everything he stood for, believed in, and taught. I don't "offend" easily, but for a company that is the modern epitome of the Boys to appropriate his image, and for the modern owners of that image to collaborate in such an act, is deeply, deeply offensive. As Betty Aberlin, his colleague for thirty years, said today on Twitter, "If he were alive, it would kill him."

That is so wrong. But an iron clad fact of life is - you lose control once you are dead. In a similar vein, most of the foundations and charities of the early 20th Century tycoons have become very liberal in their missions (not arguing if that is good or bad), but hard to believe those tycoons would approve of the direction their charities and foundations have taken. Wills get broken, mission statements get amended, anti-marketing principals get violated - you lose control once you are dead.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

I felt the same way when Mercedes used Janis Joplin's song "Mercedez Benz" in a commercial.

 

[LizzieMaine]

"The Scriptures declare 'My temple shall be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of thieves."

 

[Zombie_61]

I felt the same way when Mercedes used Janis Joplin's song "Mercedez Benz" in a commercial.

How about Gene Kelly, Cary Grant, and Groucho Marx selling Diet Coke with Paula Abdul in 1992?

Mr. Kelly was still alive when this commercial was produced and probably signed off on it, but we'll never know what Mr. Grant and Mr. Marx might have thought about the product. I'd bet the concept was presented to whomever is legally responsible for their legacies as "A way to keep their memories alive."

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Can't you speak The Queen's English Scotty? Only kidding, times I've heard the expression, "Come again," accompanied with a bemused smile when in a public place, like a restaurant, in The US that is. It's been said that we are two nations divided by language and to that end, I would never asked where the loo is. But I'm sure it doesn't take much to figure out that it means the toilet. Was your visit a planned vacation?

I once called it a water closet & the other persone looked at me like I had 3 heads.

Loo attendant ="Klofrau".

That's a hell of an insult.

There was a time, back in the 70's or 80's when we picked up on Doo-doo's. It seemed to be a sort of buzz word. A comment by some journalist brought a smile. Out walking, he trod in some offensive mess and said: "Sh*t! I just trod in some doo-doo's."

Around that time the actor, Noel Coward, made a non-sensible expression about going to the toilet. He would say: "I must telephone The Vatican." That spawned many a copycat expression from powdering your nose to turning your bike around.

Take a powder.

Wiki just spared me, or my face would have been as red as those socks. I had no idea what they meant, but I do now.
With regards to that coffin, there is a growing trend (I've seen it twice,) to have a wicker casket coffin and be buried in a woodland cemetery.
At the last funeral where I saw such a coffin, I did wonder if it was some sort of wish to go to the grave as eco-friendly as possible. I know that the woodland burials are mostly atheistic, but the wicker casket I couldn't fathom. The undertaker didn't know a good reason either but did suggest that it could be some sort of inverted snobbery, given that the deceased, or the family paying the funeral cost, were well within the means of being more elaborate.
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If I am not mistaken Dillinger was buried in a wicker casket. Then covered with concrete & scrap metal as to prevent grave robbing.

 

[LizzieMaine]

How about Gene Kelly, Cary Grant, and Groucho Marx selling Diet Coke with Paula Abdul in 1992?

Mr. Kelly was still alive when this commercial was produced and probably signed off on it, but we'll never know what Mr. Grant and Mr. Marx might have thought about the product. I'd bet the concept was presented to whomever is legally responsible for their legacies as "A way to keep their memories alive."

And don't forget Fred Astaire dancing with a vacuum cleaner ten years after he died. His widow pocketed a nice check for that.

Astaire strongly objected to the use of closeups and inserts in shooting his dances -- he believed that the full figure should always be shown. But who cares about artistic integrity when there's a buck on the table.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

"The Loo" is actually quite common in my town these days among a certain type of bourgie middle-aged women who want to sound more cosmopolitan than they really are. They are almost always accompanied by husbands in popped-collar polo shirts and new-looking Sperry Topsiders, who always ask where to find "the Head."

I always pretend to be baffled and then say "Oh, yeah, the can is downstairs."

The term "Loo" has its origins in medieval France when people were required to warn passersby before emptying out chamber pots into the street from upstairs windows by shouting "Gardez L'Eau" (Mind the water!). In England it became "Gardy Loo" and then just simply "Loo."

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Given the tribal nature of football, (soccer) nailing your colours to the mast seems to be a dead cert to get a bill for a new tailgate, at least in some areas of our country.

(Insert name of rival team) is a S***hole, I wanna go home!
I wanna go home, I wanna go home!
(rival team) is a S***hole, I wanna go home!

I can just imagine the joy of sharing a train with soccer fans going to an away game.

.

 

[LizzieMaine]

In the late '70s, when Fisk-Munson was at its peak, it was quite an experience to go to Fenway Park when the Yankees were in town. Things can be quite intense now, but there's nothing like the waves of hate -- to say nothing of illicit projectiles -- that used to radiate from the cheap seats in the days of the Zimmersox. I think there's probably a great many fortysomethings in New England whose first spoken phrase was "YANKEES SUCK"

 

[Trenchfriend]

That's a hell of an insult.

Yep, and that's why it's not more used in daily german life and on the other example, we teach the kids to call the cleaner "room carer" and never again "Putzfrau".

 

[Lean'n'mean]

The term "Loo" has its origins in medieval France when people were required to warn passersby before emptying out chamber pots into the street from upstairs windows by shouting "Gardez L'Eau" (Mind the water!). In England it became "Gardy Loo" and then just simply "Loo."

The exact origin of the word 'Loo' is unknown but a pun on 'Waterloo' for water closet is more likely.
The French artist Lautrec was rich & had two loos hence his first name.

 

[GHT]

The exact origin of the word 'Loo' is unknown but a pun on 'Waterloo' for water closet is more likely.
The French artist Lautrec was rich & had two loos hence his first name.

How long did it take to contrive that one? It sounds like one of those over the top corny gags that comes out of a Christmas Cracker.

 

[Lean'n'mean]

How long did it take to contrive that one? It sounds like one of those over the top corny gags that comes out of a Christmas Cracker.

You mean like;
What do you get if you cross Santa with a duck ?......A christmas quacker !

Why did Santa have 3 gardens ?......So he could Ho! Ho! Ho!

What did the beaver say to the christmas tree ?......" Nice gnawing you !

And in answer to your question.......I've no idea as it was handed down to me by my betters.