Words, usages, and phrases that annoy the shit out of you...

Midden=maiden doesn't sound right and I can't imagine anyone using it. Can't find anything from a search of the two.

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.

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.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2458/how-did-the-phrase-built-like-a-brick-shithouse-get-to-be-a-compliment

She's a brick shithouse,

She's midden, midden...

Thanks Neanderthal.

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

context dependent probs a better way to put it

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

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.

srsly I've never heard that used for a woman, which is what i found weird about that article I posted

I'd only heard it about women until recently.

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.

Oh good lookin out mords

Rly dont get what the problem with sexy is then

seems p irreplaceable

Other options seem worse

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

yeah its fellas only

It's weird, I am built like a shit brick house

just to clarify, the house is made for shitting in and the bricks are made of brick

I'm not sure if its an Aussie thing exclusively? Given for eg the Placebo song.

I thought it was British tbh.

Have outside toilets ever been a thing in Australia (or the US, for that matter)?

i think part of the problem is that you rarely see shithouses with unrealistically huge cartoon tits

gazza

More like Raoul Moat surely.

bushes are for #1
trees for #2

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.

Ah, just like the Mother Country.

Aye.

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

Or any human features.

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"

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".

have never heard it in anything like that context it simply is an incorrect usage tbh

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

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.

"this might not sound like a compliment but you, young lady, are the approximate shape and robustness of an outdoor toilet"

lol i can't imagine saying it to anyone's face as a pickup line. locker room talk, yeah

"do you flush here often?"

built like a shit locker room

"you have the deportment of a substandard changing facility"

Noticing truly annoying people who call the outdoor surface generally known as 'the ground', 'the floor'.

i refuse to believe that anyone has ever said the phrase "brick shithouse" irl

believe it! my dad, my dad's friends, etc ... i've even said it once or twice

slang descriptors are v freeing

https://books.google.com.au/books/content?id=v8YuGCn9eIkC&pg=PA102&img=1&pgis=1&dq=shithouse&sig=ACfU3U3SAiPvo0ZQiMfcxEyCjouGx0VXLQ&edge=0

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, February 2, 2017 6:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep my toilet sat on the front porch. rippin' grumpies as neighbors drove by wrinkling their nose

Noticing truly annoying people who call the outdoor surface generally known as 'the ground', 'the floor'.

Yeah, what's up with this? It's like a metaphysical error.

I can assure you that outhouses were extremely common in the USA in rural areas even into the 20th century. So were chamber pots.

dad still says things like "flat as a shit-carter's hat" and "ugly as a hatful of arseholes"

our friends still had an outhouse in the mid 80's, it was creepy as fuck

did you fall down the hole

"flat as a shit-carter's hat"

hats are only worn by carters who are shit