BS: Enough already

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. .