BS: Enough already

Subject: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 05:46 PM

"Enough already?" "Enough allbloodyready??" What the hell does this mean? I keep seeing this. Now look here, yanks. I love you all. I defend American spelling and even some American English. But this is a stupid expression. Stop doing it. We were refining the immortal King's English while you were killing buffaloes and drinking sarsaparilla out of doity glasses, so knock it off. These things rub off in a most subversive way, you know. I'm already in trouble with Mrs Steve for my inability to refrain form saying "from the get go." So I say to you, give over. Enough already!




Shit, did I just say that...?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: gnu
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 05:55 PM

Don't start with me.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 06:03 PM

Jaysus, they're flooding into my head as I sit here. "My bad." How bloody silly is that! Still, do what you like. I could care less.



Shit...

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 06:09 PM

And what the hell is this "meh?" If you don't want to tell me on the forum you could always write me.



Aargh...

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 08:08 PM

And I'd just gotten back from the train station to Walmart, and picked up a shopping cart, when I got a call on my cellphone to say that my house had been burglarised! Jeez, when will normalcy return to my life! Well, I've gotten over it now. I'm good, going forward. And that's all there is to it. Period.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: michaelr
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 08:09 PM

Oh come on, Steve. It's all good.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 08:18 PM

All good? I have some alternate ideas. I'll give you the heads-up later. In the meantime, you do the math...

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: frogprince
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 08:22 PM

At this point in time, I would say you should just run it up the flag pole and it will all come out in the wash.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 08:45 PM

I'll take a rain-check on that...

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Mrrzy
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 08:48 PM

What's up with that?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 08:52 PM

Okey-dokey. Oh, yeah, in case you have a need to know: "meh" comes from New York Yiddish. Only a meshugener would think otherwise, capice?

So don't get a bee in your bonnet, dude. Us Americans (including the Canucks and the Irish) are doing y'all a favor by keeping the language fresh and alive. God only knows, the queen don't!


:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 09:11 PM

I mean like, whatever, ya know?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 09:14 PM

Yada, yada

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: michaelr
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 09:15 PM

Totally.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 09:38 PM

Taken from 'English is not Normal' (Google it!)
"English started out as, essentially, a kind of German. Old English is so unlike the modern version that it feels like a stretch to think of them as the same language at all. Hwæt, we gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon – does that really mean 'So, we Spear-Danes have heard of the tribe-kings' glory in days of yore'? Icelanders can still read similar stories written in the Old Norse ancestor of their language 1,000 years ago, and yet, to the untrained eye, Beowulf might as well be in Turkish.
"The first thing that got us from there to here was the fact that, when the Angles, Saxons and Jutes (and also Frisians) brought their language to England, the island was already inhabited by people who spoke very different tongues."

And you object to Americanese? sheesh. Enough, already. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 09:42 PM

Get over it, dude.

It's awesome.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Jeri
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 09:43 PM

You know what they told the dinosaurs: "adapt of die". It's a bit extreme, but, like, whatev.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Kampervan
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 09:58 PM

Sounds like we're past our expiration date Steve, but I agree with you.

What sounds cute when you hear it with a North American accent just sounds awful when it gets into everyday use over here.

Does it work both ways? Do any UK expressions ever become everyday usage in America?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Apr 16 - 10:45 PM

A North American accent is cute? That's nice to know.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:44 AM

is there a North American accent? The baaarrrst'n accent sounds very different to NuYork to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Kampervan
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 01:01 AM

Cute? Well maybe quirky, or interesting?

Accent? Well just one or dozens. It's only me that doesn't have an accent.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Jack Campin
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 05:35 AM

Do any UK expressions ever become everyday usage in America?

Only wankers ever use them.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: akenaton
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 05:55 AM

In my opinion most US posters use the language more properly and more civilly than their UK brethren.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 06:05 AM

Lighten up why don't you.


:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 06:07 AM

Ah Steve - missing you already...

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 06:27 AM

Y'all be sure and have a nice day now.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 06:31 AM

Jack's post put me in mind of this. It's an extract from a post on a harmonica forum from ten years ago which caused some hilarity among the Brits on the forum. The guy who posted it, an American chap, died a few years ago, sadly, and was one of the best blues harp players ever. His grasp of one of our more pejorative bits of terminology was slightly less secure, as you'll read:

   ....With the students that I have, I try to teach them to play with intentions. I consider a player (of any instrument) to be wanker/wanking when he/she plays notes without intent. Playing notes for the sake of playing notes is wanking in my book. If you don't know what to play then don't play, there is nothing wrong with space.

In my experience, harmonica players are amoung the worst at wanking. Just because you can make a bit of noise or even be able to play a few runs on an instrument doesn't make you a player of that instrument nor does it make you a musician....

...As far as the bass goes, I'm just a wanker with little concept of where to fit in the cool stuff I can play.

Everybody goes through a wanking period as they evolve into a real player. And as the player matures the wankiness goes away and intention begins to surface. There is also a point where an advanced players gets bored with playing intentfully and then turns back to the chaos that is wankerdom. I won't name the players I have in mind but it's during the wankiness that one tends to lose the audience. In music, it's the height of arrogance and egoism when once stands there and thinks the audience wants to hear waves of shit spewing through your instrument.

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 06:43 AM

"Ah Steve - missing you already..."

Huh? But I ain't goin' no place...so what gives?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 06:57 AM

Be cool Bro. This thread is awesome, you guys.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 06:58 AM

North American accents?
Oui, thousands, under many pale face moons, Senor.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: MMario
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:04 AM

"Do any UK expressions ever become everyday usage in America?"

- cannot think of any off hand, but do know that some expressions and word usages have REMAINED current and everyday usage in the US while falling out of use in the UK.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:12 AM

I have to say I find 'meh' useful. Not really I spoken English but for texts and so on it is such much more convenient to send "the cinema only had meh films" as I did earlier today. In "standard English" it would be much more verbose.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:20 AM

I find "shit" an acceptable alternative to "meh'. Try it, as in "the cinema only had shit films". :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:22 AM

"Meh?" I'm pissed as I don't even know how to pronounce the the darn thing. Back in the day I'd have emoted more about stuff, but these days I don't GIVE a damn. Sun's out so I'm going outside to chill and catch a few rays. Catch you later...

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:24 AM

"I have to say..."

You do have a choice! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:24 AM

That"s too extreme. The films aren't actually bad. Just.... meh

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Will Fly
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:26 AM

LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:28 AM

I *think* the 'i have to say' construct is a very English one. But our US colleagues can straighten me out

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:58 AM

Well, when they're telling you like it is, make sure you listen up.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 08:11 AM

Give 'er some.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Stu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 08:27 AM

Can I get an opinion?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 08:58 AM

Going forward you might get an opinion, but at this point in time we're on to other things and we could care less about your wanting an opinion.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 09:27 AM

Aw go on...give him one irregardless!

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: akenaton
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 09:29 AM

"Meh" is commonly used in Scotland, by our woolly four legged inhabitants. I have been reliably informed by some English tourists that it's a term of endearment!   :0(

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 10:10 AM

Get er done

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 10:13 AM

Meh = French Canadian veriation of m'eh

;)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 10:27 AM

We pronounce it much the same as the sheep. I think it's Ovine in origin and probably crossed over into American via somebody's Scot ancestor on a farm somewhere with a very unimpressed sheep.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: akenaton
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 10:32 AM

Enough Already!

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 10:48 AM

Kampervan asked, "Does it work both ways? Do any UK expressions ever become everyday usage in America?" For me the answer is yes. That's because I watch TV shows and read books set across the pond. Among them:
Across the pond.
Whose she when she's at home?
Brilliant!

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 11:43 AM

A Southernism one hears, i.e., "Steve started another thread, Bless his heart." It isn't a good thing.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Jeri
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 11:46 AM

I like "Bless his little cotton socks."

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: DMcG
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 11:55 AM

My mother's version was always "Bless his little cotton socks and tartan troosers". No idea why

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:06 PM

This here minds me of the many such Mudcat threads of yore.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Kampervan
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:31 PM

If Uk'icisms are making their way to the US in the same way as Americanisms are becoming established here then I don't mind it so much.

If it's a two-way street then that's fair dinkum.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:48 PM

We might just say "ah, bless!" When someone's being a big girl's blouse, Acme.

"Whose she when she's at home?"

Not quite right. There's no "h" in 'ome in that sentence!

(But we'll let you off the "whose." Heheh!)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:54 PM

As long as you let me off that capital W. Grr.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: gnu
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 12:58 PM

Forget about it.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 01:03 PM

How can I forget about it when I'm obsessing?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:27 PM

I need it asap.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:43 PM

Way cool

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 04:44 PM

Ya all talk funny

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 05:47 PM

Blow it out yo' ass, boy.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 05:59 PM

We love you to death.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 06:17 PM

You bet yo' ass.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: John P
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:05 PM

From the OP:
So I say to you, give over. Enough already!

Steve, you're complaining about "enough already" while saying "give over"? What the hell does that mean? Give over with the "give over"!

"Already" can get added to almost any other word to add impatient emphasis. "All right already", "Shut up already", "Let's go already", "Get your guitar already". I've always assumed it was a translation from Yiddish.

And what does it mean when you accuse someone of being a big girl's blouse???

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:34 PM

Great to see you again, John! :-)

A "big girl's blouse" is hard to paraphrase in any sensible way. It could mean a man who's not currently behaving as a man's man, if you know what I mean. If a mate of yours is being a bit of a big girl's blouse, you and your other mates will be giving each other knowing looks and wondering when the big girl's blouse in question is ever going to man up. It's a bloke who's fretting openly and fussily about pointless trivia with his mates, such as worrying aloud in the pub after six pints whether his wife's having an affair. Grown men have got better things to worry about, but the big girl's blouse doesn't realise it, and goes on and on about it, boring the arses off his mates. That sort of thing. Hope this helps.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:38 PM

Ya all crazier then a possum eaten sausage

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:39 PM

Git on it right quick

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:46 PM

Ditto

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:47 PM

Here a butt,
there a butt,
everywhere a
butt-butt.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: michaelr
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 07:59 PM

This thread needs fixed.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 08:15 PM

Are you saying you wanna butt outta here? Or are you gonna plead the fifth on that one?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 08:45 PM

Do tge math.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 08:46 PM

Why so upset?
It was only a typo.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Apr 16 - 09:49 PM

Oh, pull up your big girl panties and deal with it!

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Ed T
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 03:18 AM

What does it matter for you?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 06:08 AM

Get over yourself, you big wuss. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Kampervan
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 07:43 AM

Don't know what's with my pants this morning, they fit well enough yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: John P
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 08:54 AM

Deal.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Donuel
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:27 AM

No worries

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: akenaton
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 11:42 AM

I have a friend who has lived a long time in the US, she always says "I want to talk WITH you", rather than "I want to talk TO you" as we do in the UK......I like that :0)

Another phrase she uses is "you did too!", rather than "you did so!"

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 12:11 PM

Why don't Amurcans realise that 'fit' is present tense, and that the past tense is 'fitted'?

And don't y'all gimme the 'economy of letters' bullshine, when you add a completely unnecessary and pointless 'ten' to the end of 'got'!

😄😎

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 04 Apr 16 - 06:55 PM

Like dude what ya sayin

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 06:32 PM

No sweat, dude. Let's roll with it, y'all.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Janie
Date: 05 Apr 16 - 11:15 PM

Bless your little pea pickin' hearts. I'd dearly love to join in, but have to carry my neighbor to the store just now. Only problem is somebody parked cattywhomped in front of me and I can't get the car out of the parking space.

Not gonna get my panties in a wad about it. I'll just sit here and chill, listening to this dope Guy Clark CD while I follow this dope thread on my iPhone.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: BobL
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 04:25 AM

I understand the expression "big girl's blouse" to be a figure of speech, where a container stands for the contents...

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 05:00 AM

For it to be what you say, "big girl's blouse" would have to refer to two people at once if you think about it (don't think too hard, please😜). I think it might have referred to said garment flapping in the breeze on the washing line, just as a weak-willed and slightly fussy, effeminate chap might be said to be flapping.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 07:57 AM

I find "my bad" succinct and useful. But I hate "talk with" and "meet with" and "visit with". Illiterate and unnecessary. And "different than" rather than "different from".

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 01:13 PM

Man up, at the end of the day it's no biggie

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 05:44 PM

It's almost enough but not ready for drinking yet

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 06:07 PM

Suck it and see.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 08:26 PM

If ya drink it early, ya won't be able to see

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Airymouse
Date: 06 Apr 16 - 10:44 PM

A few miscellaneous thoughts:
"Well, bless his heart" means he's an idiot, but because I'm from the South, I'm too polite to tell you that. Of course, "Well, bless your heart" means you're an idiot.
I've already tried to defend "needs fixed" in another thread. We leave out "to be", which is understood. Are you unhappy with "The dog wants (to be) out? How about, The defendant is presumed (to be) innocent until he is proven (to be) guilty?
"Right quick" means very quick, just as "right reverend" means very reverend.
Some people over here do understand that "fitted" is the past tense of "fit":
Although a baseball may be hit, not hitted,
The past tense of fit is always fitted.
The sole exception worth a haricot
Is "Joshua fit de battle of Jericho".
Ogden Nash
I have to admit that we sometimes invent strong verbs, as if English didn't have enough irregularities* already. In the North, maybe just New England, they think the past tense of "dive" is "dove" and in the South we have sneaked in "snuck" as the past tense of "sneak."
*If you think I'm wandering off topic, just omit this word.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 06:40 AM

And don't start me off with the abominable "fora."

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 07 Apr 16 - 09:23 PM

I'm glad I returned to this thread in less than a fortnight. Pardon my grammar error in my previous post.
If home is 'ome, shouldn't Who's be Oo's?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 04:59 AM

Correct, especially if, like me, you agree that northern English is the true tongue.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Raggytash
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 05:47 AM

Has bin man bin Mam, doust mean dustman.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 07:01 AM

True, Raggy

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 10:28 AM

As one raised in Virginia USA and living in the UK more than a dozen years, I find quite a few idioms crossing the Atlantic in both directions among my facebook friends. Sometimes it strikes me as peculiar and I have to think hard about where the phrase originated. Then blessed dementia steps in, I get distracted from my musings, and move on.

I also sing Joshua "Fit" the Battle of Jerhico, when I can remember the lyrics and the tune together.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 10:31 AM

One nun dead!

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Raggytash
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 01:31 PM

Virginia Tam, Joshua did "fit" the battle of Jericho. Paul Robeson said so and that's good enough for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Joe_F
Date: 08 Apr 16 - 09:23 PM

I agree with John P. That use of "already" entered (American) English as an overliteral translation of "shoin".

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 06:24 AM

And while I'm grousing, what's with this "food to go?" I mean, where did that horror come from? Yanks again, was it? To go where? Or is it short for "you can buy it here but piss off and eat it somewhere else?"

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 09:07 PM

I'm trying to remember what you call that, Steve. Take away?

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 09 Apr 16 - 09:23 PM

Witch ya did ja...
Ya didn't bring ur truck witch ya did ja

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 05:06 AM

Another marvelous thread, Steve Shaw! Frikkin' awesome!

Regarding "food to go", about half the North American population has become so lazy and sedentary that they don't really want to ever go to the trouble of getting back out of their car once they have gotten into it. Hence, the prevalence of "drive-through" facilities everywhere. We now have drive-through restaurants, drive-through banks, drive-through drugstores, drive-through liquor stores, drive-through gun shops, drive-through just about anything at all. Some people almost never leave their car if they can manage it...but they are still required to get out to use a restroom now and then, and this suggests an untapped area that the drive-through industry would do well to take advantage of ASAP.

The drive-through urinal!

This would consist of a kiosk where you pull up, put a dollar coin in the slot, and a panel opens...out pops an extendable sort of vacuum-hose arrangement which you can pull inside the driver's window of your car. You then unzip, put your "junk" (to use the current popular term) into the funnel-like end of the hose, and relieve yourself. A sensor is triggered and a powerful suction makes sure that the inside of your car doesn't suffer any "spills", and PRESTO! Bob's your uncle. All done, zip back up and on your way!

There will also, of course, be a high tech form of sanitation applied by the machine to the hose immediately after use, employing various carcinogenic chemicals and ultra-violet light to ensure that your junk isn't compromised by anything harmful from anyone else's junk that was there before you....

Come to think of it, probably best to charge two or three dollars for this service. Dollars are worth less and less lately.

I think this would be hugely popular with the suburban man, the business man, the couch potato, the hostile cop, the drive-by shooters, and the hardcore drive-through addict. No need to WALK to the restroom anymore!!!

The only problem I can foresee is this. It just wouldn't work for females. And that could lead to objections on the basis of sexism.

It will obviously require a clever marketing campaign to popularize this idea and persuade North American men that it is incredibly cool and trendy and "ballsy" to use the drive-through urinal, while not arousing hostility among women's rights groups at the same time.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 05:23 AM

I thought it was "drive-thru" these days. Not as bad as it looks, as "thru" was the original spelling I believe.

A year or two back I heard about a portable gizmo called a "wizzer" designed to enable the ladies to pee standing up just like gentlemen do. What every handbag needs eh?The mind boggled...

You neglected to integrate into your system an effective means of avoiding the dreaded "trouser wibble" upon recaging the beast, and I suppose we just have manage without washing hands...

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 12:41 PM

They just use an empty Mcd cup, that way the can do both at the same time

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 01:05 PM

Damn, I got the name of the stand-up lady aid wrong. It's Whiz, not wizzer. That's the bog in a pub.

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: CupOfTea
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 03:29 PM

Yanno,

I've been talking in an idiosyncratic fashion for years, absorbing turns of phrase like a thirsty sponge. In the online community of 1990s chat rooms, I would use a typed equivalent of how I tended to say things. My dad got me started using non- standard usages to emphasize something: "that ain't kosher!" (Also noticeable from a very Roman Catholic man)

Snagging some non-local phrases is great fun for those who like to play with language. Where it seems to go wrong is catchphrases from the marginally literate, or torturing verbs into nouns, or vicey-versey. There are plenty of pop culture phrases that I don't want to hear in the US, and cringe at the thought of them being absorbed abroad. I'd like to ban all the corporate doublespeak from the universe. I think all of yez* are more literate than the average.

Joanne in Siberia on the Heights
* "yez" = you, plural in western Pennsylvania vernacular & friend from Dublin's usage

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: olddude
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 04:26 PM

Joanne, youins guys stay warm... As us Pittsburgh people would say

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 04:53 PM

"Damn, I got the name of the stand-up lady aid wrong. It's Whiz, not wizzer. That's the bog in a pub."

It's called a Shewee, Steve. Mrs. Fenswoman has one for when she's taken short while we're out tramping the hills and there are no bushes to squat amongst. She's used it two or three times, says it's **OK**, but there's apparently a need to be very careful to avoid leakages!

Subject: RE: BS: Enough already
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 10 Apr 16 - 05:50 PM

Yebbut it's no different with the ordinary knob, BWM. Reassure her. .