US POLITICS: AMERICANS, PLEASE WELCOME YOUR NEW PRESIDENT... SCOTT BROWN!

I'm assuming this dude isn't decrepit or crippled (given that he'd just had a workout) but is a disgusting savage of some sort.

wow gerard butler really lets himself go between movies huh

that's jennifer aniston, actually

i assumed she was there somewhere, but sideways to camera tbh

in what land DOESN'T good rhyme with cook??

everywhere

Did Rahm Emanuel have to sit down on the wet floor to prod him in the chest?

Why, why do I have to start my day with innuendo that leads my mind to images of Emanuel angrily prodding some guy's chest w/his dick???

sitting in the shower at home w/a hangover /= sitting in the shower in the frikkin gym

anyway:

Does anyone actually say that?? "I was showering yesterday.."

I am horrified.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, March 9, 2010 10:17 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

u r mr crazy. like, what about "shower up?" it's not common (though i guess it is ~common~) but ppl say "i've got to shower up before we leave" or something. i guess i'm normally in the practice of "taking showers" but have def used "shower" as a verb. england is making you bananas

and yeah i've sat in the shower before while super hungover -- but that's a bit different than a public shower

what kind of unspeakable savages takes his hangover shower anywhere other than at the public bath

well no one, just circling back to the original protagonist here

lol Tracer is talking about assonance

england is making you bananas

Which is a pity cause you should really have Central America or Africa do that for you.

circling behind a dude that's trying to take a crouching hangover shower is pretty shady behaviour imo

kind of cracking up at the idea of dude chilling in a barcalounger while in the shower

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh5oaxyMt0I

kind of cracking up at the idea of dude chilling in a barcalounger while in the shower

He'd better have a sippy cup if he doesn't want to get shampoo or hot water in his drink.

I went googling "recliner in the shower" looking for lols and was instead confronted with the 1-2 bummerz punch of the inexorable march of time mixed in with needing a chair with a built-in chamber pot. ;_; RIP dignity, why does age hate you so much

dignity thought it was really mr. big shit until age came along and put him on a recliner with a built-in chamber pot

http://ucanhealth.com/graph/m196.jpg

;_;

ha there was a thing in the Washington Post this morning about a 107 year old woman or something and i thought, NOT INTERESTED

(in living that long)

man that is not for seniors that is for every red blooded american

haha i think rap music has permanently changed my definition of rhyming to that of assonance

max, we're talking about the chair, not the attendant

Tracer I think I can help - "dignity, not" rhymes with "mobile upright chamber-pot"

i need a reclining attendant maybe

I hope their slogan is something like, 'For when you don't give a shit where you take a shit."

"poopy time, every time"

Where the hell is Garu G when we need him? This thread has definitely wandered into his areas of expertise.

WS

"would sit"?

would flange

"Would shit"?

i'm leaving that one open

I'd temporarily forgotten Garu G - now I'm going to have the words "gran's flange" stuck in my head :(

i'm leaving that one open

as in 'I'd leave that for a few mins if I were you'?

And right about now, Jim Lehrer gets up and tells the town hall that time is up and thanks them for their very, very interesting comments on the state of the GOP.

srsly guys, we should all meet up at a town hall and riff through it, we could be legends

esp. if we all show up in pret-a-poop recliners

wow guys good morning

Suddenly hearing 'Heroes' in my head w/imagery of ILX on their mobile shitterecliners zinging up a small storm.

hahahahaha

Only problem is that the fringe (haha) of the teabaggers present will open fire.

now I'm going to have the words "gran's flange" stuck in my head

Just be grateful it's not this^

wow guys good morning

http://anngoodmorningcurry.ytmnd.com/

Shitter policy

Upon further investigation, the "needs x-ed" construction isn't so much Midwestern as Mid-Atlantic, I guess; maybe having lived so close to Pittsburgh for so long, where it's really prevalent, got me thinking it's a rust belt deal. Here is a little Boston.com article on it, but if you search through resources for linguists for the phrase "needs washed" you'll find a lot of discussion.

CHARLIE BERTHOUD MOVED to Pittsburgh five years ago, but he and his family are still having a bit of trouble with the local lingo.

"The words to be are eliminated from phrases on a regular basis," he reports in an e-mail. "The sink needs fixed. The lawn needs cut. Just last week, we got a notice from our son's school, saying that the kids' homework 'needs reviewed' by parents."

For him, as for many Americans, there are two proper ways to phrase these needs: The sink either "needs to be fixed" or "needs fixing." Is this third option wrong, Berthoud wonders, or just a regional variation?

Or both, he might have added. Needs fixed is usually labeled a regionalism, most familiar in western Pennsylvania and parts of Ohio, in the Midland dialect area. The Oxford English Dictionary labels it Scottish, Irish, and northern English as well, and it has friends in Australia and New Zealand.

So whether it sounds wrong may depend on where you come from. Having spent my formative years near the Midland dialect border, I surely heard "it needs washed" and "they need cleaned." I don't think I ever used them, but they don't sound utterly bizarre.

Fascinating.

The first place I've lived in the USA where I've regularly encountered the "needs fixed"-type locution is Kansas. I am not a fan.

I've just heard it (and said it) for so long it sounds perfectly normal to me. Just yesterday, I told my wife, "Boy, your car needs washed."

Like 'needs must' it posits a syntactical meaning to 'need' that doesn't exist in my vocabulary but it is perfectly clear.