That’s shithouse mate
Recently I was at the cricket with a mate, an english mate let’s call him little ginger neil, and after someone had done something bad in the field, he smiled and said, that is a shit house.
It took me a few seconds to work out he was putting in a little aussie effort.
What he meant was “that’s shithouse” as in, that is a shit performance, but his correct English tongue could not get around the words in the proper slangy way.
His Brain was thinking of a shit house, and every time he tried to say shithouse, you could tell he was thinking too clearly.
I could see the way he was going through it, shit is an adjective, and house is a noun.
What he had trouble with is that when combined as shithouse, it is purely an adjective.
It took a good 4 minutes for this Cambridge educated guy to finally work out what the true meaning of shithouse was.
I felt we bonded afterwards though.
And yes, I have been reading a book about grammar, what is your point?
Literally an aussie in Cornwall: !
Cornwall has a town with an exclamation point in it.
Westward Ho!
I am not sure if the ! is there so it doesn’t sound like you are slagging off a actress going to hollywood or not.
Would Elaine Benes like to live in Westward Ho!, i would like to think so.
It was damp and chilly afternoon so I decided to put on my sweatshirt!
I pulled the lever on the machine, but the Clark bar didn’t come out!
Cornwall seems to be a place for stories about punctuation, and grammar.
That is England though.
Even on Holiday punctuation is everywhere.
I have only ever had one Australian friend so anal about punctuation that he would mention it at all, but over there, everyone is all over it.
It sickens me.
I make up my own punctuation, spelling and language, very rarely on purpose.
And regardless of the ! i would still yell out Westward HO and possibly i would point as well.
That is the sort of person i am.
Cornwall has alot of stupidly named places, but the other villages had the good grace to not put in a !.
My two favourite cornish places are scredda, and brown willy.
Scredda cause i like to say it.
And Brown Willy because of the anal sex jokes it allows, nay, encourages.
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