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
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
― Neanderthal, Friday, 3 February 2017 02:55 (seven years ago) link
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.
― 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
it's how you tell
i used to think it was shit cutter & had no idea wtf he was on about
learned from a friend that shit carter = night soil man who took away the poo before sewer systems.he had a flat hat & balanced the can of poo on his head
the more you know 💫
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 04:13 (seven years ago) link
sorry for derail
Shit Carter = the building in Poo Jack City iirc
― Neanderthal, Friday, 3 February 2017 04:15 (seven years ago) link
he had a flat hat & balanced the can of poo on his head
and i thought i was having a bad month
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 04:23 (seven years ago) link
it's good for identification though, if the shit carters are the ones with shit on their heads
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 04:24 (seven years ago) link
no thats why you have a HAT
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 04:30 (seven years ago) link
made of shit
― Neanderthal, Friday, 3 February 2017 04:31 (seven years ago) link
no that shit is carted PAY ATTENTION
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 04:32 (seven years ago) link
wait who carts it
― Neanderthal, Friday, 3 February 2017 04:35 (seven years ago) link
shit-----hat-----carter
got it
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 04:57 (seven years ago) link
if google image search is a reliable source:
shit-----hat-----helena bonham-carter
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 04:59 (seven years ago) link
...
no wonder everyone left ilx
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 05:01 (seven years ago) link
it's brought me back tbh
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 05:03 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 05:05 (seven years ago) link
anyway it's clearly beyonce
HAY MISS SHIT HAT CARTER
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 05:06 (seven years ago) link
puts Lemonade in a new context
― Neanderthal, Friday, 3 February 2017 05:09 (seven years ago) link
we got different shit hat results
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 05:28 (seven years ago) link
yr busted ass still using alta vista?
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 05:39 (seven years ago) link
yes i used the altavista version of google
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 3 February 2017 05:52 (seven years ago) link
I'm fairly certain it isn't Australian, most of the reference works that come up on a Google book search suggest American in origin & that the complimentary meaning, directed at a woman, is most common
which is not at all my experience here in uk - I have only ever heard my granny say a woman was "built like a brick shithoose" and that was meant to signify "would have beaten me in a fight"
― wins, Friday, 3 February 2017 07:59 (seven years ago) link
Aimless has the right of it: "built like a brick shithouse" simply means "very built." Built, that is, to the same degree that an extremely-built thing is built. What is more built than an extremely sturdy structure? Nothing. None builder. There is none more built. It also carries a message of reliability and substance and strength: She is mighty mighty.
It doesn't mean that she is rectangular or that you use her as a bathroom. Geez.
The song, I always believed, referenced the idiom but left out the "shit" for politeness and radio airplay, allowing the instrumental pause to stand in its place.
Plenty of idiomatic expressions don't make actual sense but they carry meaning in similar metaphorical ways, and are used as intensifiers even when nonsensical. Compare "___ as hell" or "___ as fuck."
Cold as hell and hot as hell make equal sense - not because the speaker knows or cares about the temperature of hell, but because ___ as hell means extremely ____. Lame as fuck, boring as fuck, etc.
― Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 February 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link
But it's still got "shit" in it, and a reference to a place where you shit. Just not a very nice sounding compliment. There must be other well built things that would be preferable.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 3 February 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
Unfortunately that's not how idioms work
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 3 February 2017 15:23 (seven years ago) link
what the shit is going on here
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 3 February 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
Built like a brick savings-and-loan building
― Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 February 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link
You remember what it was like, living in one of Mr. Potter's shithouses!
― stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 February 2017 20:48 (seven years ago) link
I watched that for the first time in my life two days ago
― kinder, Friday, 3 February 2017 22:49 (seven years ago) link
merry christmas shithouse
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 3 February 2017 22:53 (seven years ago) link
the logs, the fire, fill me with desire
― Neanderthal, Friday, 3 February 2017 22:57 (seven years ago) link
can I put in for "not to be that guy, but..."?
That needs to stop
― Wimmels, Sunday, 5 February 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
"Cheeto Jesus"
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 5 February 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
Just saw "trial balloon" for only the second time in recent memory and I'd already like to see it banished
― the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually (man alive), Monday, 6 February 2017 22:57 (seven years ago) link
fire a rocket at the trial balloon
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 00:17 (seven years ago) link
Shes built like a steakhouse but she handles like a bistro!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B54E30hIAAIQJG3.jpg
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 05:08 (seven years ago) link
"at a high rate of speed."
This phrase rates as one of the ones that uses a larger number of extra words - by which I mean, more words than it needs - to say the thing that it is trying to say.
It's for when "fast," "quickly," and "high-speed" are too concise.
It smacks of the artificial language of police reports, which has leaked into civilian use. "We observed an individual who was engaged in an altercation with another individual. We approached the gentleman, who initially eluded us. We pursued the gentleman on foot through an egress and into an alleyway, at a high rate of speed. We were later able to apprehend the individual." Etc.
― Oh the pacmanity (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
loool
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link
altercation is a hilarious word
― marcos, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
I hate the name of the animal species 'Kinkajou'.
― how's life, Tuesday, 7 February 2017 17:01 (seven years ago) link
Yeah but "Too Shy" was a jam, admit it.
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Tuesday, 7 February 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link