Midden=maiden doesn't sound right and I can't imagine anyone using it. Can't find anything from a search of the two.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 February 2017 00:50 (seven years ago) link
yeah but you are accepting xtinas recollection, attempt at recreation and transcribing of a word a scotch person, yes scotch, said to her a while back cmon
mordy i already explained to u the shithouse its clear that you would be deliberately trying to misunderstand were you to follow the tiresome path to the assumption of actual bricks of shit.
― Mother Teresa May I (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 February 2017 00:55 (seven years ago) link
Radge wee maiden? I dunno. The guy might just be calling her dirty (which was a listed usage of midden), like the song she did.
Don't know why some people are bothered by "scotch".
Shithouse still sounds like a terrible compliment.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:01 (seven years ago) link
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2458/how-did-the-phrase-built-like-a-brick-shithouse-get-to-be-a-compliment
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link
She's a brick shithouse,
She's midden, midden...
― pplains, Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:16 (seven years ago) link
Thanks Neanderthal.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 February 2017 01:22 (seven years ago) link
from the right angle she kinda does look like a shat house tho
also highly contextual but you dont tell a woman shes sexy, you do it with your look while saying hi or well well well and do the thing with yer eyes
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link
context dependent probs a better way to put it
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 2 February 2017 02:16 (seven years ago) link
please note the original question:
"what are the best ways to tell someone a particular person is sexy."
not what is the best way to tell someone that THEY are sexy
― Mordy, Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:14 (seven years ago) link
WTF I have never heard "built like a brick shithouse" used as a compliment to a woman!? Its always been a comment for a man who is really solid/cut.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:17 (seven years ago) link
srsly I've never heard that used for a woman, which is what i found weird about that article I posted
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:19 (seven years ago) link
I'd only heard it about women until recently.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:26 (seven years ago) link
I updated my list with a couple of entries from this list, a couple of which I've heard, disturbingly, in the last few days.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 February 2017 03:35 (seven years ago) link
Oh good lookin out mords
Rly dont get what the problem with sexy is then
seems p irreplaceable
Other options seem worse
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 2 February 2017 06:30 (seven years ago) link
you have got to, really got to, stop saying leader of the free world
^^^otm
Brick shithouse is an Australian term, but you'd never use it for a woman, unless you were trying to be incredibly insulting
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Thursday, 2 February 2017 07:46 (seven years ago) link
yeah its fellas only
― Mother Teresa May I (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 February 2017 08:14 (seven years ago) link
It's weird, I am built like a shit brick house
― Benylin Ascent (NickB), Thursday, 2 February 2017 08:32 (seven years ago) link
just to clarify, the house is made for shitting in and the bricks are made of brick
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 2 February 2017 09:19 (seven years ago) link
I'm not sure if its an Aussie thing exclusively? Given for eg the Placebo song.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:20 (seven years ago) link
I thought it was British tbh.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
Have outside toilets ever been a thing in Australia (or the US, for that matter)?
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
i think part of the problem is that you rarely see shithouses with unrealistically huge cartoon tits
― sheer presence, look and size (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:29 (seven years ago) link
gazza
― Mother Teresa May I (darraghmac), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:29 (seven years ago) link
More like Raoul Moat surely.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:31 (seven years ago) link
bushes are for #1trees for #2
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:32 (seven years ago) link
Have outside toilets ever been a thing in Australia
LOL hecks yes. Freestanding outside pit toilets (we used to have one at our beach house), and in older homes even now you might find a toilet tacked to the back of a house only accesible from outside.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:42 (seven years ago) link
Ah, just like the Mother Country.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:43 (seven years ago) link
Aye.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:45 (seven years ago) link
― sheer presence, look and size (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 February 2017 23:29
Or any human features.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 3 February 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link
i've heard "built like a brick shithouse" plenty of times irt a babe. i figured it was an elongated version of "built like a brickhouse"
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 3 February 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
I seen it all the time referring to large attractive women. Sometimes the guys would start by explaining "this doesn't sound like a compliment but it is".
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 3 February 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
have never heard it in anything like that context it simply is an incorrect usage tbh
― Mother Teresa May I (darraghmac), Friday, 3 February 2017 00:32 (seven years ago) link
Sometimes the guys would start by explaining "this doesn't sound like a compliment but it is".
that should tip them off that what they're about to say is not quite right xp
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link
Gents, the central emphasis is on the term "built", which often stood alone in past times to denote a statuesque figure, as in "this dame was really built". As often happens, this raised the implied question "how built is she?", a sequence of thought often exploited by Johnny Carson in his monologues.
The answer to this question was open to improvisation, but eventually "like a brick shithouse" became popular, not because of it called to mind the figure of a woman, but based upon an appreciation of its playfulness and profanity. One must admit that an outhouse (the politer term for use in mixed company) built of brick would certainly be, as a structural engineer might put it, over-built for its humble purpose. The fact that it directly plays against the idea of beauty or attractiveness is an example of oxymoronic wit.
I hope this exegesis upon the phrase proves helpful in understanding its origins and purpose.
btw, I heard this phrase often spoken when I was a young man in Oregon in the 1960s and 70s.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 3 February 2017 00:33 (seven years ago) link
"this might not sound like a compliment but you, young lady, are the approximate shape and robustness of an outdoor toilet"
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 00:34 (seven years ago) link
lol i can't imagine saying it to anyone's face as a pickup line. locker room talk, yeah
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 3 February 2017 00:35 (seven years ago) link
"do you flush here often?"
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 00:36 (seven years ago) link
built like a shit locker room
― Mother Teresa May I (darraghmac), Friday, 3 February 2017 00:37 (seven years ago) link
"you have the deportment of a substandard changing facility"
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 00:38 (seven years ago) link
Noticing truly annoying people who call the outdoor surface generally known as 'the ground', 'the floor'.
― jane burkini (suzy), Friday, 3 February 2017 00:43 (seven years ago) link
i refuse to believe that anyone has ever said the phrase "brick shithouse" irl
― marcos, Friday, 3 February 2017 02:24 (seven years ago) link
believe it! my dad, my dad's friends, etc ... i've even said it once or twice
slang descriptors are v freeing
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 02:33 (seven years ago) link
https://books.google.com.au/books/content?id=v8YuGCn9eIkC&pg=PA102&img=1&pgis=1&dq=shithouse&sig=ACfU3U3SAiPvo0ZQiMfcxEyCjouGx0VXLQ&edge=0
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 3 February 2017 02:38 (seven years ago) link
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yep my toilet sat on the front porch. rippin' grumpies as neighbors drove by wrinkling their nose
― Neanderthal, Friday, 3 February 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, what's up with this? It's like a metaphysical error.
― jmm, Friday, 3 February 2017 02:58 (seven years ago) link
I can assure you that outhouses were extremely common in the USA in rural areas even into the 20th century. So were chamber pots.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Friday, 3 February 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
dad still says things like "flat as a shit-carter's hat" and "ugly as a hatful of arseholes"
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 03:03 (seven years ago) link
our friends still had an outhouse in the mid 80's, it was creepy as fuck
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 03:04 (seven years ago) link
did you fall down the hole
― Neanderthal, Friday, 3 February 2017 03:08 (seven years ago) link
"flat as a shit-carter's hat"
hats are only worn by carters who are shit
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 03:21 (seven years ago) link