(1) As one sports fan put it ruefully: "Nobody ever lost money underestimating the British public's appetite to buy shite."
(2) In the words of one Lib Dem Minister: "It will be shite."
(3) The latter is "a great place if you're under three or over 53; shite if you're anywhere in between," said Dan Kieran, deputy editor of the Idler, who launched the hunt for crapness last year on the magazine's website.
(4) "They don't come and stand in the crowd and go, 'Oh, thanks for the fucking 10-quid bag of shite, would you mind being in my film?'"
(5) The effect of short-term (6 months) administration of conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin) on content and composition of the aortic sterols in male shite Carneau pigeons while they were on a cholesterol-free grain diet was investigated.
(6) I'm thinking the one last time from ITV (over the cover of Hurt by Johnny Cash) was genuinely moving but looking at it now its shite .
(7) Allardyce, when told of his opposite number's comments, laughed and said: "I don't give a shite, to be honest."
(8) Bucks New University, in High Wycombe, concluded that an improved Facebook page carrying reviews of students' experiences was a must, with all the risks that came with that ("Shite", posted one unhappy alumnus).
(9) I said to him: "You know your early films were so good … would you say the ones that came directly after were a bag of shite?"
(10) "If you actually sit down and listen to them, there are some great moments, but there's a lot of shite, too."
(11) Even the bargain basement offering, described by one esteemed critic as 'shite food and less than half a bottle of mediocre wine', will set competitors back £244 each - far more than a meal for two at an exclusive restaurant.
(12) "Not content with spewing shite (as always), he's decided that Wesley Sneijder is called Wesley 'Sneijders'.
(13) Perhaps fragile and emotionally vulnerable students could be given an introductory series of lectures on how life can be utterly shite at times and a bit rough, too.
(14) Alternatively, don’t poison the fishing waters, abduct his great-grandparents into slavery, then turn up 400 years later on your gap year talking a lot of shite about fish.” We can’t put a price on the suffering wrought by colonialism.
(15) He can tell me that all he wants, I don’t give a shite.
(16) And in your heart you kind of know that although it sounds all right, it's actually just shite… The fear of having "had it, lost it", of knowing in your heart that it sounds just "all right", often seems to propel Danny Boyle's own career in its unpredictable and fast-forward course.
(17) And rather the fact-based miseries of these poor bastards than the fictional boohooisms of fellow "It were shite back then" costume grumbler The Village.
(18) The book includes a magnificently scathing 2001 resignation email to the NME , railing against sexism, “shite tunes” and pandering to the lowest common denominator – but she forgot to press “send”.
(19) Especially now with all the shite magazines – people wanna write about what fucking shoes you're wearing.