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

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

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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.

Here's a "Warshington" Post article about it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62786-2004Oct25.html

My childhood neighbor was from Indiana and said "needs warshed" all the time.

ugh "warshed"

Yep, my grandmother (from West Va.) says "warshed." And "oncet" instead of "once."

Oncet? Like a past participle of 'once'?

my father is a big warsh speaker (born and raised in Michigan)

That's it. In some places in the South, you'll hear both "oncet" and "twicet!"

It just occurred to me that getting 'wunts' out of something that looks like 'ohnss' is just plain odd.

Does that ever belled into anything else that ends in 'ce' or 'ts'?

belled? I mean bleed. Jeeze

Keeping the tone of modern politics high

hahaha

Does that ever belled into anything else that ends in 'ce' or 'ts'?

yes but all the words are dirty

I hate to break it to Charlie, but that closet pederast is more likely to have gotten the back wax.

We cannot get stupid fast enough in this country, eh?

Yep, my grandmother (from West Va.) says "warshed."

So did my grandma from New Jersey.

tons of old people do that shit -- cf pretty much every old (southern) football coach saying "Warshington"

yeah most people around where I grew up say "warshed" as well as the "needs _____" thing. I suppose it's grammatically incorrect but I usually don't even notice.

"I was showering yesterday.." I need a shower

this also = totally normal speech, to me. tracer I could say French has warped my brain too (sometimes w/r/t/ sentence structure, placement of adjectives especially) but this is a phrase I avoid altogether since one would say "prendre une douche"

Does he need to listen to Rahm Emanuel more? Or maybe less? Or rely on his cabinet more? Or reach out to Republicans more? Or maybe less? Brendan Nyhan has what you need to know about this entire genre of article: "If/when the economy picks up, Obama’s speeches will start 'connecting' and everyone will marvel at how effective the White House political team has become."

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2010/03/what-you-need-to-know-about-obamas-political-team.php

As a Washingtonian, "Warshington" sets me off into murderous rampages.

altogether since one would say "prendre une douche"

Yeah, I have never heard 'se doucher'.

prendre une douchebag

Douchez-vous!

As weird as learning 'douche' was French for shower was the idea that, transliterated, the French expression for douche was 'vaginal shower'!

couche-douche?

;_;