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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a total crap" is not correct in standard written English
The correct expression would be "total crap" without the article "a." Example: "The movie was total crap; I wouldn't recommend it to anyone."
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Scaling is a total crap shoot, especially when larger platforms don't play nice, as with Meerkat.
It's a total crap shoot.
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It's sorta like a home theater in a box, only not total crap.
I immediately launched into a rambling monologue of total crap about the concept (that I was meant to have come up with, but hadn't) that would explain my paint thrown about on a canvas.
Comments on CFS-related blogs include outright dismissal ("don't fall for the sweeping conclusions"), attacks on Science for running the report and an accompanying news article ("total crap" and the "National Science Enquirer"), and continued high praise for Judy Mikovits, the main scientist behind the theory ("In Judy We Trust").
It's my way of looking for an explanation of why total crap is made, marketed and landing in my DVD player.
All of this lays a fertile groundwork for feeling like complete and total crap about the way we look, not to mention a woefully distorted view of who we are as individuals.
So it's a self-destructive gaffe like Gerald Ratner saying his products were "total crap" to attack the exporters who are supposed to make a success of it.
The remark was a reference to notorious comments by the jewellery chain owner in 1991 when he described one of his own products – a £4.95 sherry decanter and six glasses – as "total crap".
The company, which now intends to move more upmarket, said the crash from profits a year earlier of £112.1 million was largely caused by the impact of recession, but a particularly poor performance from its 250-strong Ratners chain resulted from "adverse publicity" following Gerald Ratner's infamous description of a decanter set sold by the group as "total crap".
One's mind immediately leaps to Gerald Ratner ("People say, 'How can you sell this for such a low price?' I say, 'Because it's total crap'") or to Johnny Rotten's comments when the Sex Pistols reunited for their Filthy Lucre tour ("We still hate each other with a vengeance. But we've found a common cause, and that's your money …").
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