• silasmariner@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    My kids used a potty when they were potty training. A potty is a cunningly fashioned piece of plastic that children shit and piss into once they’re big enough not to use nappies, but too small for a toilet. Calling a toilet a potty is infantilising and weird.

    … Anyway that’s why I think I sounds off to use that word.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      My dad sometimes uses that word, and he’s in his sixties. But then again, he and my mom had six kids and had kids in potty training for a long cumulative amount of time. The word just stuck I guess.