I'm feeling a great deal of fremdschämen for the German people right now.

What is it with Germans and sh*t?

markfara: What is it with Germans and sh*t?

The engineering is much better than the rest of the world's shiat.

markie_farkie: Schitzkreig has a nice ring to it..

shiat-war? That's horrible.

TFA is the only sauce i see for this.

calling bullshiat.


/poop thread

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Ha! I'm not the only one who thought Hunter invented that word.

It's the least we could do for them after they gave us 'schadenfreude.'

Rauschen im Blätterwald?

To be fair, they needed it. What better word could describe the Euro crisis?

Poopenheim

Das boobies!

Makes total sense. My German coworkers adopted "before the sh*t hits the fan" last year after they heard and it and understood what it meant.
They were seriously fascinated and humored by the phrase.

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Ha! I'm not the only one who thought Hunter invented that word.

Are you shiatting me?

I nominate "craptacular" for next year.

even Freud spoke of a latent period.

der, die oder das?

imgod2u: It may mean something different over there though. Like a subcategory of porn.

shakes tiny fist

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"Shiat Blizzard"
"Winds of Shiat"
etc...

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shiaticane

Here's a whole list of Laheyisms.

fastfxr: Makes total sense. My German coworkers adopted "before the sh*t hits the fan" last year after they heard and it and understood what it meant.
They were seriously fascinated and humored by the phrase.

Why wouldn't they. The are both great phrases.

insert joke about European economy here

Colonel Scheisskopf unavailable for comment.

Then there's Scheißpeder. Of course, it's now part of the Santorum plex.

simplicimus: They could have just translated it. "ScheisseSturm".

My German office-mate says that "shiatstorm" works better than "Scheißesturm," which sounds too much like you're trying to curse the bad weather. Besides, Germans are big fans of anglicisms, they even invent fake ones, like "Handy" (cell phone) and "Beamer" (projector).

Glenford: Here's a whole list of Laheyisms.

You forget exactly how many of those there are until they're written down in list form.

/shiat-quakes randy, shiatquakes.

TheShavingofOccam123: This German fascination goes back ages. Baron Von Richtofen greeted some WWI English pilots taken prisoner with the following:

"You English and your sense of humour. During your brief stay I look forward to learning more of your wit, your punning and your amusing jokes about the breaking of the wind."

If you get lonely during the night I will be in the little chateau. there's no pressure....

mgary: "Beamer" (projector).

Put a Beamer in your Beemer so you can beam while you beem.

/dawg

Pert: TheShavingofOccam123: This German fascination goes back ages. Baron Von Richtofen greeted some WWI English pilots taken prisoner with the following:

"You English and your sense of humour. During your brief stay I look forward to learning more of your wit, your punning and your amusing jokes about the breaking of the wind."

If you get lonely during the night I will be in the little chateau. there's no pressure....

...where you will teach the little frauleins home economics.

The first five minutes of that ep are just about the funniest thing I've ever seen on TV. Cracks me up every time, no matter what.

simplicimus: They could have just translated it. "ScheisseSturm".

I prefer SturmSchiesser

Came for Jim Lahey, leaving satisfied..

Lionel Mandrake: simplicimus: They could have just translated it. "ScheisseSturm".

Beat me to it.

Now if we can just get English speakers to start calling each other pigdogs.

I was in Berlin about a week when I first heard someone say Swiene Hund. Always thought that was the oddest epithet ever

I think I learned this word from Donald Sutherland. I have always been grateful.

Be prepared for the ScheisseSturm, put on your Püpenschimmel.

The Germans like this word because it reminds them of when they bombed Pearl Harbor.

For a hilarious look at the Teutonic obsession with Scheiße, I suggest reading Life Is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Study of German National Character Through Folklore (new window). BTW, the title comes from a German proverb: Das Leben ist wie eine Hühnerleiter--kurz und beschissen (life is like a chicken coop ladder--short and shiatty).

I also remember reading that Luftwaffe pilots shot down over the English channel during the Blitz referred to that body of water as "shiat creek".

Alles ist ganz aufgefickt.

I have actually heard that term in conversation.