Lloyd rants - Know how prissy you sound!

I started this rant with a preamble about how how I do not disapprove of terms and phrases just because they are American. Indeed, there are aspects of American usage I rather like. I removed it to shorten the video, though.

I seldom swear. When I do, therefore, I hope that it carries more power and meaning. It would have been prissy of me to make this video and contort my words to avoid rudery, so I just said the words. They are not terribly strong.

[lancerd]

Sorry Lindy, but "toilet" is a euphemism too. Originally it referred to a clothes bag, but in the sense of a part of the house it first came to mean "dressing room", which is where the euphemism comes in as, like the bathroom, they often had a poo receptacle attached.

"Lavatory" is another one, meaning a place to wash from the Latin word "lavare", from which we also get "latrine" and "lavage".

"Privy" of course means a private place.

If you want a good, Anglo-Saxon, no nonsense, unbowdlerised word for it, then I would suggest "shit pit".

[Mothman]

the bathroom thing, most baths in American homes are in the same room as the shitter

[berbatov]

The word 'prissy' is sickeningly prissy.

[jackarundajiralhasari]

I love when he abruptly breaks out of the british accent and sounds like my next door neighbor for half a sentence and then slips back into british. It's fantastic.

[SirEldricIV]

As prissy as bathroom might sound, what sense does restroom give the English ear?

As a child, I somewhat understood that 'bath' rooms typically had toilets in them. But I was always puzzled by the presence of toilets in 'restrooms' in a store or restaurant.

[EckoExploresGaming]

To be fair in the US it is standard to have the toilet and the bath in the same room, and you'd be hard pressed to find any homes with them separate.

And I can't speak for everyone, but I certainly never use terms like "going to the bathroom" out of some effort to sound polite. I do it just because that's what I've always done since I was a child, and to start calling it anything else twenty one years later in life would just be a pointless effort.

[coryschmunsler]

So apparently when Americans want to sound prim and proper they use common British terms and when British want to sound "prissy" they use common American terms.

[youmaus]

(Limerick)

Lloyd has just thrown a fit that was hissy
About Yanks and their language so prissy
"If you want speech spectacular, then use the vernacular
 Then you won't come across like a sissy"

[raidkoast]

toilet or shitter.
Here in Sweden some call it "Skithuset" AKA "The Shit house"

[EtrielDevyt]

In our defense, the most influential English-speaking colonists were the literal Puritans. Its a bit of a tradition, kinda like systemic racism or eating too much meat.

[nicholoscaudillo]

Amazing how 300 years seperation can alter the common language

[whette_fahrtz]

Arse sounds terrible with the American "R" sound. I've tried to say arse and always end up sounding like a bit of an arse. 

[snookiewozo]

You're my favourite of all the Lindybeiges I know.

[Opus]

I think it should be noted that most Americans are not being purposefully prissy in saying bathroom, but because that is what they have always heard it as they would not think of calling it anything else. I mean, that is the main reason that sounds have meaning is that a group uses that sound to refer to that thing. My family says restroom, or toilet. Loo or privy would be idiotic to say as nobody else in my family says it. 

[badnewsBH]

There you go.  I've never seen a strict bathroom before, as described herein.  I shall henceforth refer to the intended destination as "the shitter".  Thanks.  :P

[Liethen]

Also arse > ass is part of a dialectical sound change. Related results are curse > cuss, burst > bust, horse > hoss, girl > gal, ect

[madichelp]

"If you want to sound rude, say ARSE and enjoy it!"
Words to live by.

[bobito]

What's even more hilarious is that "bathroom" is now itself considered vulgar and has been replaced by "restroom". A euphemism for a euphemism.

[GrimBrotherIV]

This is hilarious to me as an American. I've always thought bathroom was strange (even more strange is we call it the restroom) and I never really thought about "ass" being a euphemism like "darn."
Also your American accent cracks me up every time, keep it up!

[FullCreamFermer]

For your point on the word"bathroom", often the toilet will be in the same room as the bath. At least where I live in Australia, that is.