[Ads-l] "Looking to showcase women who do shit!"

[Dan Goncharoff]

To do stuff? To get things done?

In other words, do means do, not doodoo.

DanG

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 1:24 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> "How many 72-year-old people did you see today, just doing shit? Old people
> don=E2=80=99t even use old people to do shit!"
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> Hi, everybody
> Can you please tell me what "to do shit" means in American English?
> My interpretation is "cazzeggiare," "fare cazzate."
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> The questioner is Italian. Clearly, his command of (written) English is
> super...alidocious. Yet, he's confused by a totally-transparent idiom.
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> Youneverknow.
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