are these British sayings?

[lordsmurf]

I've lately heard two comments that means something totally different in the USA. Each time, it appears to be British that say them.

In the UK........

"shitting themselves" = it appears this means somebody is overly excited, either from just being scared or laughing, or some other similar social situations

"taking a piss" or "a piss take" = it appears this means somebody is mocking you or teasing you, often used to describe the activities of comedians doing parodies

In the USA........

"shitting themselves" = defecating in one's own pants, with feces in your clothes, or running down your leg

"taking a piss" = standing over the toilet or urinal and urinating

Can anybody verify this?

[guns1inger]

It's "taking the piss" or "taking the mickey"

Probably of british derivation, although both are very common in Australia as well.

[Cobra]

Taking the piss is when you mock someone else, or do something unbelievable that annoys someone else.

Shitting yourself - you're scared. Simple.

[bionickaren]

im british and...lol no coments lol

[AlecWest]

How about this. In the U.S., if I said I was "pissed," people would think I was angry. In Britain, if I said I was "pissed," people would think I was drunk. I believe this is true but am not certain. This comes from the Monty Python "Philosopher's Song" where the world's great philosophers are described as being heavy drinkers ... and the one lyric line, "Socrates himself was permanently pissed."

[VCDHunter]

Taking the piss is when you mock someone else, or do something unbelievable that annoys someone else.

Shitting yourself - you're scared. Simple.

Spot on.

"When I saw the bill, I shit myself !"

"When I saw the bill I asked the waiter if he was taking the piss !"

[guns1inger]

Over here Pissed = drunk, Pissed Off = angry

[adam]

Shitting oneself can obviously be taken literally in either country. But it's used as a euphamism commonly in both countries, and I don't see any difference in meaning. As already stated it means to be scared or extremely stressed, or really to just be in any kind of extreme emotional state. The derivation seems pretty obvious to me too. You are so affected by...whatever.... that you could lose bowel control.

Lordsmurf you've never heard this term used in the States? I hear it all the time including on tv.

[Conquest10]

I think here the phrase here is: nearly shit myself or I was shitting bricks.

[Mr. Dweezel]

How about this...

British slang
http://www.peevish.co.uk/slang/

But we have to give equal time to my side of the big pond... :P
http://southernsass.com/HillbillyDictionary.html

[Supreme2k]

I'll put in another vote towards shit yourself=scared.

There's also "taken/taking a shit" = broken/breaking down
"We can't use my car. It took a shit the other day."

[Doramius]

In the US Pissing the night away often means you've had so much alcohol to drink you're spending the rest of the night standing over a urinal. I know in UK, Ireland, AUS, etc. Pissing the night away means getting drunk.

I've also heard from AUS, "get stuffed" and "snogging".
I think "to snog" is like kissing of some level. WTF? If a girl asked me if I wanted to snog I'd either hope she was talking about sex or think she was a druggie.

[drjtech]

The American-British British-American Dictionary

-drj

[reboot]

"We can't use my car. It took a shit the other day."

Similar to a Canadian expression, not meant to be demeaning..."We can't use my car, it's gone south", or "It's going south".

[MackemX]

strangely enough, here's one that's just been posted that also has a double meaning as we don't really use in the UK for something cool

Nice.

This nike ad is pretty sick as well. Football Ping Pong

http://nikefootball.nike.com/nikefootball/index.jsp#,us;jogatv,7,0

[lordsmurf]

Lordsmurf you've never heard this term used in the States? I hear it all the time including on tv.

"Are you shitting me?" ..... YES! ....... (also: messing with me, ******* with me, screwing with me)

"Are you shitting yourself?" ...... NO! ...... (also: pooping your pants)

Takes on a whole new meaning when you're the recipient of the action you instigated.

[MackemX]

I guess I was one of the 'lately comments' regarding shit

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1503454#1503454

but don't people involuntarily piss and shit themselves when really scared? I know dogs that have been mistreated piss n crap when they think they are going to be beaten . Don't they make fun of this action from people in movies etc when they are scared?

did anyone see the pilot episode of Futurama when Bender shits a brick . That is so hilarious that I nearly pissed myself :P

I've often asked people after I knew they had been shocked, did you shit yourself?

another phrase in the UK is 'Did you shit the bed?' which means why are you so early though I don't know it's origins

[AlecWest]

but don't people involuntarily piss and shit themselves when really scared?

Not sure if it's true. But I've heard that when people were executed by hanging, they'd do both - sometimes before being hung, sometimes during the process. But, true or not, I think it's a widely held belief that people will sometimes piss themselves when they worry that their lives are in peril. In film, there were two examples I can remember this happening. Once was in "True Lies" when Tom Paxton's character thought that Schwarzenegger was going to push him off the edge of a high dam. Another was in "L.A. Confidential" when one of the suspects brought in for questioning thought he was facing a death penalty conviction. But, I'm unaware of any film depicting someone shitting themselves. It's probably one of those few remaining Hollywood taboos. Pissing oneself is bad enough. But if they showed someone shitting themselves, it probably wouldn't help theater snack sales much.

[MackemX]

http://www.thefilmpie.com/Reviews2003/zz-jackass.html

Jackass the Movie but he wasn't scared

· A guy is forced to go a long period of time without using the restroom and then shits himself (literally) in the car before showing everyone the mess he has made.

[AlecWest]

http://www.thefilmpie.com/Reviews2003/zz-jackass.html

Jackass the Movie but he wasn't scared

Wasn't he over a toilet, though? Not the same as shitting oneself in the pants, hehe. He also pissed ... but did it in the face of a sleeping (I hesitate to use the word) friend.

Edit - Oh, yeah, the car scene. I think I'm confusing Jackass with the CKY2K video.

[Doramius]

-No Holds Barred- didn't care for the movie, but when Hulk Hogan holds a little guy up in a threatening manner he asks, "What's that smell?"

The guy replys, "Dookie!"

even the dialog was lame, but it is a movie where a guy s**t himself, scared.

[MackemX]

http://www.thefilmpie.com/Reviews2003/zz-jackass.html

Jackass the Movie but he wasn't scared

Wasn't he over a toilet, though? Not the same as shitting oneself in the pants, hehe. He also pissed ... but did it in the face of a sleeping (I hesitate to use the word) friend.

I don't recall the Jackass movie but isn't that toilet one at the end of a Steve-O video where the guy pebble dashes the toilet

[AlecWest]

I don't recall the Jackass movie but isn't that toilet one at the end of a Steve-O video where the guy pebble dashes the toilet

I edited my original post on that ... but not fast enough. I was confusing Jackass with the CKY2K video.

[Jester700]

but don't people involuntarily piss and shit themselves when really scared? I know dogs that have been mistreated piss n crap when they think they are going to be beaten .

Yup. It depends on the person of course, but the body naturally tries to void poisons in fight-or-flight situations; if the bladder is full it can rupture more easily, and whether ruptured or punctured, toxic shock could kill you even if the trauma otherwise wouldn't. Same with "#2".

After death it's a different mechanism; when muscles go slack, they hold nothing back...

[MackemX]

but don't people involuntarily piss and shit themselves when really scared? I know dogs that have been mistreated piss n crap when they think they are going to be beaten .

Yup. It depends on the person of course, but the body naturally tries to void poisons in fight-or-flight situations; if the bladder is full it can rupture more easily, and whether ruptured or punctured, toxic shock could kill you even if the trauma otherwise wouldn't. Same with "#2".

After death it's a different mechanism; when muscles go slack, they hold nothing back...

I never knew that, good info 8)

[adam]

In the Longest Yard (the 2005 remake) there's a scene where one of the inmates clotheslines a guard and injures him. He says, "I do believe I made him shit himself" and then 4 guys after that basically say the same thing, "He shit himself," He made him shit himself," etc...

[Supreme2k]

I think that was an Adam Sandler-borrowed line from his other movie (Mr. Deeds?). He punches out an opera singer (guy) who say "I do believe I've shat myself."