what is a "shit-eating grin"?

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i see this in print a lot and have no idea why someone eating shit would be grinning.

/our intrepid hero

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 15 December 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

eat shit

jhøshea, Saturday, 15 December 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

it has two uses:

when you've just got one over on someone you dislike, and you grin at them like "how ya like them apples, eat shit, lol"

also

when somebody else has got one over on you and you grin at them like "yeah, yeah i'll eat shit (figuratively). whatevs, hope you're enjoying this, you petty bastard."

pc user, Saturday, 15 December 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.forward-moving.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/applause.GIF

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 15 December 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I strongly advise against doing a Google image search if you've turned off your filters.

Alex in NYC, Saturday, 15 December 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

OBVS

pc user, Saturday, 15 December 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

2 girls 1 grin

Abbott, Saturday, 15 December 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

lol

Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 15 December 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

wasn't gonna go there

praise be to a boat

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 15 December 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

A rising tide floats all me

Abbott, Saturday, 15 December 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

i'll get to the bottom of this

tremendoid, Saturday, 15 December 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't Tom Cruise often get accused of sporting one of these?

dell, Saturday, 15 December 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/10/09/cruise_lead_narrowweb__300x426,0.jpg

dell, Saturday, 15 December 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

holy wow, that pic...

dell, Saturday, 15 December 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060830/060830_cruise_vmed_12p.widec.jpg

dell, Saturday, 15 December 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/celebsm/tomcruise/tom_cruise_2.jpg
definition #2

dell, Saturday, 15 December 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

A shit-eating grin is the self-satisfied smile someone has when they are taking pleasure in something unpleasant. There is a certain amount of implied vacuousness in it because the person wearing the shit-eating grin is too oblivious to realize they have just metaphorically eaten shit.

Tom Cruise is almost never seen without a shit-eating grin.

HI DERE, Saturday, 15 December 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

Don't people also use it to mean shit as in "bullshit"? That is, someone having a grin plastered across their face while they are completely lying to you...and maybe an added component is that the person knows that you know or at least suspect that they are lying to you (but they could give a fuck about that or are even deriving a perverse thrill from it..)

dell, Saturday, 15 December 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't it a false grin, ie, the kind of grin you have when you're being forced to eat shit and pretend you like it? For example, the kind of grin you see on the faces of people in an audience who were nominated for an award but didn't win it, as they applaud the actual winner.

moley, Saturday, 15 December 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Action shot:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/tomcruise.gif

Z S, Saturday, 15 December 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

lol and scary at the same time

dell, Saturday, 15 December 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

OK WAU

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 16 December 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

haha great thread

deej, Sunday, 16 December 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

Shit-Eating Grin
"shit-eating grin"

onimo, Sunday, 16 December 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

I liked their earlier albums better.

Cheery Littlebottom, Sunday, 16 December 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7801/reporterbirdshitvm5.gif

jesus mocha (☪), Thursday, 22 January 2009 15:58 (sixteen years ago)

BWAAAAHAHA

mose def (kenan), Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:02 (sixteen years ago)

"Live" it says. That's priceless like mastercard.

mose def (kenan), Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:03 (sixteen years ago)

snoball, Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

looooooooooool

ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:19 (sixteen years ago)

what do you think happens after? a) "them's the breaks!" chuckles, or b) prima donna hissy fit

ledge, Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:29 (sixteen years ago)

b all the way

ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:40 (sixteen years ago)

yeah throwing the mic down was already halfway to hissy

mose def (kenan), Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:41 (sixteen years ago)

"Oh god, I'll never be able to make out with a C-list model again! AAAAAA!"

mose def (kenan), Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:42 (sixteen years ago)

the best is how he gestures for the water

ice cr?m, Thursday, 22 January 2009 16:47 (sixteen years ago)

yeah like it's really not real or something

conrad, Thursday, 22 January 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

From today's profile of Ewan Mc Gregor in the Guardian:

Twenty years on, McGregor lives in LA, where I meet him at the photographer’s studio. He arrives and leaves on his motorbike, with minimal fuss. (A waiting fan, dressed in a Star Wars costume, is dismissed before McGregor spots him.) Though he is 45, he looks young and retains an up-for-it, let’s-enjoy-life, un-adult charm. His grin eats shit. Many stars bring an attitude. McGregor brings the fun.

Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Saturday, 14 January 2017 13:29 (eight years ago)

in 2017 societ LA photographer's studio, glass looking the through are you!

bernard snowy, Saturday, 14 January 2017 18:12 (eight years ago)

*squats on the floor & shits out a big dark pile of graveyard earth, in which one human ear and the corner of a grin can be seen*

bernard snowy, Saturday, 14 January 2017 18:14 (eight years ago)


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