The stupefied bus driver kept ranting and raving at him. “You could have been stuffed, mate! Once the water splits it would have been the most shithouse moment in your life, and the last one! This beach is for crocs only![…]”

The story goes that when she applied for the job, they were fearful of hiring her because she was ‘much more shithouse than them’. I cannot imagine anyone being worse than those two but she did give it a good go.

You will be less amused when I ask you when you will take your turn cleaning out this shithouse.

It immediately caught my attention that the area was a total shithouse. Open C-ration cans, cardboard boxes, discarded socks and underwear, you name it, it was scattered all over the damn place.

2021, Harry Diamond, “Five times El Cholo’s Atleti sh*thoused their way to famous Champions League wins”, in The Football Faithful:

Shithouse

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