(May 9, 2013 at 2:17 pm)Faith No More Wrote:Same here. The only definition of "the shits" I have ever heard of refers to diarrhoea. Never ever heard it used in any other context. Ever.(May 9, 2013 at 2:00 pm)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Expand your focus from literal 'shit', and turn focus upon a figurative 'the shits'.
Another example of device like this: Taking the piss.
We don't focus upon the literal 'piss', but instead upon a figurative 'the piss' :)
Isn't English cool?
Well, that's my problem. I have no idea what the figurative meaning of "having the shits" is.
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  (May 3, 1974 at 7:26 am)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Same here. The only definition of "the shits" I have ever heard of refers to diarrhoea. Never ever heard it used in any other context. Ever. You lot must REALLY suck at reading new material, then  That's about all I've learned from this 
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
Perhaps the "new material" with figurative "the shits" in it just isn't worth reading...
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
Yeah.... I read a lot, including "new material" and I've still not come across it. Maybe I just don't read books written by 13 year old Americans or Aussies?
 (May 9, 2013 at 2:36 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Perhaps the "new material" with figurative "the shits" in it just isn't worth reading... I dunno, it's a fairly common Australian idiom: something gives you the shits, it pisses you off... actually, why does anger get so many turns of phrases connected with excreta? 
Thank you, Esquilax.
Forgive me if I'm ignorant of Australian idioms, seeing as I'm on the other side of the planet.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
 (May 9, 2013 at 7:35 am)Faith No More Wrote: I still want to know what you mean by "having the shits" with somebody.It means to be pissed off with someone. I'm pissed off with a bunch of my friends, who shit me! (May 9, 2013 at 11:29 am)whateverist Wrote: Best of luck but whatever you do, don't save yourselves for marriage. The time to find out if she spits or swallows is right now! Yeah, thanks for that... "advice".
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(May 9, 2013 at 2:36 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Perhaps the "new material" with figurative "the shits" in it just isn't worth reading... See... you've all managed it again. I took an example of a thing which you did, or do not, understand... and expanded that to suggest that (since it's really quite simple): maybe you struggle with reading new words, new phrases, new structure, and possibly new perspective... all of the elements of newness material might posses. All summed up into that. Bear witness: Aractus says it means he's pissed. Not drunk, though: he should be.  ... * Violet is reminded of why she doesn't even bother explaining shit these days. Yeah, she's not even going to go into that last set of beautiful intricacy. (May 9, 2013 at 2:57 pm)NoraBrimstone Wrote: Yeah.... I read a lot, including "new material" and I've still not come across it. Maybe I just don't read books written by 13 year old Americans or Aussies? Or, yknow... classical works, the works of other civilizations in their own languages, creative literature, maybe you've seen it? It's not about the what, you numbskull: it's about the method. I don't read a lot, and I hadn't seen it until aractus popped it up. Problem? 
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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