IS IT JUST ME............ that I find the word "toilet" to be singularly prissy, only a tiny bit less prissy than the Americans love of the term "bathroom" which is totally absurd.
My preference is for the traditional English language word, "Lavatory", (acceptably shortened to "Lav"), and in slang I quite like "Bog".
What are your preferences in reference to the smallest room?
When I was a kid I needed the door locked and nobody to be in hearing range when I was crapping - peeing wasn't too much of an issue. As I've got older the problem has got less.
I think its a very basic animal thing to do with security. When you are peeing you can still run/fight - its a lot more difficult to have an insant response when you are in the middle of evacuating your bowels.
One woman I know is happy to carry on a conversation and crap with the door open. She doesn't actually have a sense of smell.
Different strokes for different folks.
there are two ways of entering a gents urinal. As has been mentioned you can go for the "is there room for a little one" approach, or - as I tend to do these days with my mates - "Ah, so this is where the big boys hang out" . Which I favour becasue it is at once complimentary and self- inclusive.
Now then, what about the AWFUL problem we chaps have when, having made love on a full bladder - which is a really bad move to start with - and if one hasn't had an orgasm to relieve one's erection - one then tries to pee. I can't even hit the bath, never mind the toilet bowl! The logical thing is to sit down and lean really far forward, but being rather well endowed this is seldome successful. In the worst scenario I've crouched - almost sitting - over the bowl and just aboiut had to grasp my ankles in order to get the right angle. The other options are: pee out of the window or out of the back or front door. Which is ok if one lives in a relatively secluded area, but not perhaps if you live in a town house.