

He doesn't have his shit together means that his affairs are disordered, reflecting not bad luck or forces beyond his control, but his personal shortcomings. In the expression Get your shit together! the word shit can refer either to one's wits or composure or to one's things, gear, etc. Using "as" denotes a subtle change in the meaning of the expression however, the overall intent is basically the same. These three usages (with funny, hard, and stupid or another synonym of stupid) are heard most commonly in the United States. Shit can be used as a generic mass noun similar to stuff for instance, This show is funny (as) shit or This test is hard (as) shit, or That was stupid shit. The authors explained, "rhetorical studies has theorized 'shit' in terms of the communication of transformation, style, and textual relations," particularly in relation to claims of expertise to topics such as "anti-semitism" and "wine-tasting." They conclude that bullshit speech is one-sided discourse that is difficult to penetrate because it contains "ideological barriers to the expectation of mutuality," working to deflect critical responses.

One study published in 2017 argued that "shit studies" is a cross-disciplinary meta-field of rhetorical inquiry about human communication and reasoning. Piece of shit may also be used figuratively to describe a particularly loathsome individual, or an object that is of poor quality ("this car is a piece of shit", often abbreviated to "P.O.S."). Similar utterances might be damn!, wow! or yuck!. When uttered as an exclamation or interjection, shit may convey astonishment or a feeling of being favorably impressed or disgusted. For practical purposes, when actual defecation and excreta are spoken of, it is either through creative euphemism or with a vague and fairly rigid literalism. While it is common to speak of shit as existing in a pile, a load, a hunk, and other quantities and configurations, such expressions flourish most strongly in the figurative. An unspecified or collective occurrence of feces is generally shit or some shit a single deposit of feces is sometimes a shit or a piece of shit and to defecate is to shit or to take a shit. In the word's literal sense, it has a rather small range of common usages. Minced oath substitutes for the word shit in English include shoot, shucks, sugar, and the euphemistic backronym, Sugar, Honey, Ice(d) Tea. The word shit (also shite in British and Hiberno-English ) is considered profanity and is usually avoided in formal speech. 'skatos' hence 'scato-'), from Proto-Indo-European * sker-, which is likely unrelated. The word has several cognates in modern Germanic languages, such as German Scheiße, Dutch schijt, Swedish skit, Icelandic skítur, Norwegian skitt etc. The word may be further traced to Proto-Germanic * skit-, and ultimately to Proto-Indo-European * skheid- "cut, separate", the same root believed to have become the word shed. Still others have watched porn or swiped left or right on their dating apps."īut don't rush to conclusions if the man in your life is spending an unfathomable chunk of time on the toilet in all likelihood he probably just wants a few extra minutes of alone time.The word is likely derived from Old English, having the nouns scite (dung, attested only in place names) and scitte (diarrhoea) and the verb scītan (to defecate, attested only in bescītan, to cover with excrement) eventually it morphed into Middle English schītte (excrement), schyt (diarrhoea) and shiten (to defecate), and it is virtually certain that it was used in some form by preliterate Germanic tribes at the time of the Roman Empire. "Many people have corresponded with their side girlfriend or boyfriend while sitting on the can. "For some people, there may be reasons for concern that might be far more serious - especially if a phone accompanies them to the bathroom," Alpert said. Lengthy lavatorial sessions, moreover, can also be a harbinger of more sinister behavior. Doctors caution that sitting (and pushing) for too long on the toilet can cause a build up of pressure in the anus that eventually leads to hemorrhoids. These surveys also find that dads have more leisure time than moms do - perhaps they are squandering their leisure time in the toilet?)Īlpert added that "everyone deserves their privacy to go to the bathroom, and I think some people might be using it for a little more than that and to their advantage." However, sitting on the toilet for an extended period of time can have drawbacks. (Let's take a moment to note that fathers spend less time on childcare and household duties than mothers do, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
