Often used by ignorant lumberjacks suffering various degrees of hearing loss from using chainsaws on old growth timber.
2. There's no need to shout, old bean.
Often used by Oxford Dons or wearers of jacket sweaters with leather elbow patches (ironically) to gently inform the speaker their volume of speech is uncouthly excessive.
I'd like to glennbeck Glenn Beck.
I herd dat wit my bad ear!
I'D LIKE TO GLENNBECK ANN COULTER!
I herd dat wit my bad ear - and that bitch is old.
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.