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The husk of grain; chaff.
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If you'd seen what I'd seen in the restaurant my dad ran when I was growing up, the crap we had to put up with from drunks, the puke I had to clean out of the toilets on a Friday and Saturday night, you would know it is not just a religious issue with me.
She said David Cameron was a "guy who put a wind turbine on his house and now backs a moratorium on wind and a guy who was hugging a husky but now talks about 'cutting the green crap'".
So, in recent years, we've endured 60s, 70s and 80s revivals, punters encouraged to wear silly clothes, like silly music, and generally pretend that crap things were great, a dispiriting travesty of irony, meta-irony, disingenuousness and disingenuity.
As a shy teenager, clothes made me feel better about my crap body; a new shirt still gives me a lift for at least three wears.
And the better the weather, the more the crap.
I saw myself 20 years from now, driving to my son's university every evening to absent-mindedly jiggle his massive adult body to sleep while I begrudgingly watched crap films on Netflix.
At a tense meeting between staff, union and management after the announcement Newspoll's head researcher told staff the new methodology used by Galaxy was "crap methodology, telephone research is the best way to do it," sources who were at the meeting told Guardian Australia.
"If you're [a woman] performing in a comedy club, the audience will automatically assume that you're crap," says Stone. "You have to earn their trust, which makes it harder.
Given Tony Abbott has surrounded himself with advisers who deny the science of climate change (which he once described as "absolute crap" but now publicly claims to accept) I'm willing to believe the prime minister when he says he "can think of few things more damaging" than leaving coal in the ground.
But for Danish comic Sofie Hagen, that's not too different from the crap she has to put up with in daily life: from the Brits who correct her English to the men who expect her to be impressed by their self-proclaimed status as "chubby chasers".
He told the programme: "Step very carefully, I'm not putting up with any more crap about this".
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