Bog standard phrases

WE LIFT LID ON WACKY TOILET TERMS

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★THE word “gents” has been given the can after an employment tribunal ruled it was “old fashioned” and “not inclusive”.

Bosses were told the abbreviation is not acceptable, as the Daily Star revealed yesterday

★Now potty-mouthed JAMES MOORE has investigated the history of other wild and wacky bathroom-related terms...

THUNDERBOX: A chamber pot was a portable loo kept under the bed. And this was a 19th Century word for a grand one disguised inside a wooden box. Terms for a chamber pot in the 1700s also included the bizarre “remedy critch” and “member mug”.

GARDYLOO: An old Scottish word shouted as a warning just before the contents of a chamber pot were thrown into the street, inset. In the 17th Century “Tom Turdman” was slang for a servant who emptied pots.