Simon Hoggart

When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I don't want to read that in your magazine!' In which case I wouldn't use it. But if they didn't remember to say it, I'd nip off to the loo, write the story up, come back and change the subject.

British Journalist

Jerry Hall

People feel like they know you because they've read about you, and people who don't know me seem to have warm feelings about me. I seem to be popular with women. I go into the loo in restaurants, and they all say, 'Oh, I love you.' It's odd, but it's really nice, too.

American Model

Samuel West

I'm not very good at relaxing. Reading's the main thing. On the bus, on the tube, on the loo. Literally all the time. I mean, I don't think there's a moment of the day when I wouldn't be if I was left alone.

British Actor

Zoe Buckman

People will email me and text me if they've found an amazing loo. I'm like, 'How was the food?' They'll say, 'Fine, but you have to check out the loo.

Australian Athlete

Francois Nars

There was a time when you would dream about, say, movie stars. Now, you virtually follow them into their bathroom when they're going to the loo.

French Businessman

Aisling Bea

Please note when you watch a play, you can't pause it and go to the loo or shout into the kitchen for a tea. Learned that the hard way.

Irish Actress

Katie Hopkins

As much as I love a smart kid who can spell nicely, I love a giggling kid wrapped in loo roll pretending to be a mummy even more.

English Entertainer

Lolly Adefope

In a nightclub, the women's loos are not just the women's loos; they're where temporary female friendships are forged.

Lewis Capaldi

The fact you have to pay 50p to use the loo in some places is the root of the world's issues.

Scottish Musician

Mary Beard

My fantasy is going into a men's loo. And listening to what they say.

Remember 'loo' is British slang for toilet, less common in other English-speaking countries.

British Slang

'Loo' is informal and usually used among friends or in casual settings.

Informal Use

Saying you need the loo is a socially acceptable way to excuse yourself.

Conversation Break

The card game 'loo' was once popular; knowing this reflects an understanding of historical pastimes.

Historical Game

Understanding 'loo' as a card game can be useful when reading historical literature.

Cultural Reference

Don't confuse 'loo' with modern card games; it’s an outdated term rarely used today.

Not Modern

'To loo' is a nautical term that may come up when studying historical seafaring techniques.

Nautical Term

Remember, using 'loo' as a verb is archaic; you won't need it in everyday conversation.

Archaic Usage

 I always sleep with an iPhone by my bed, or a notebook because I never know when a sketch is going to occur to me. Not to mention bathroom breaks. If I wake up in the middle of the night, and this was one particular situation, is a sequence that actually unfolded one evening. I woke up at three in the morning, I went to the loo, sat down, and as I'm peeing I'm looking out the door,

Asher Jay: Art as a...

 This takes the water out of the restaurant, runs it through these stone beds -- this is going to be mint in there -- and I sort of water the garden with it. And I ultimately want to recycle that, put it back into the loos, maybe wash hands with it, I don't know. So, water is a very important aspect.

Arthur Potts Dawson: A...

 Every individual has a role to play. Every one of us impacts the world around us everyday, and you scientists know that you can't actually -- even if you stay in bed all day, you're breathing oxygen and giving out CO2, and probably going to the loo, and things like that --

What separates us from...

 one change of underwear -- everything I needed for nearly three months. What we're going to try and do today, in the 16 and a bit minutes I've got left, is to try and answer three questions. The first one is, why? The second one is, how do you go to the loo at minus 40?

Ben Saunders: Three...

 gonna be able to do that hello beautiful way look at how wonderful his eyes are getting they almost going more orange by the day they sort of lightining up but going orange orange orange an interesting Estonian tea at an almost loo mullah eye color and those of you

Safari Live - Day 32 PIPE...

 and loo from from the control tower is because the tentorium of the layers on onions and our groceries and even look at them carefully from the straps they got yes they're just like you know the layers especially when you peel the

Safari Live - Day 174 PIPE...

 later in his life as opposed to that early portrait we just saw and the temple of the inscriptions where ruse was excavating is really pakal's temple that is why it's near the palace and that's why it's really loo mning over

Palenque and the Ancient...

 I'm not kidding. Women are refusing to marry men without toilets. No loo, no "I do." Now, it's not just a funny headline -- it's innovative. It's an innovative marketing campaign. But more importantly,

Melinda French Gates:...

 marry men without toilets no loo no I do now it's not just a funny headline its innovative it's an innovative marketing campaign but more importantly it saves lives take a look at this this is a room

What nonprofits can...

 kering sound that they're doing they often sitting in the bush looking at the lipid yeah food sins are there but it sounds nothing like that loo perhaps yeah that was the lesser and sins I call

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