they proceed to excrete a brick
<nitpick>to excrete != to shit</nitpick>
Excretion is the process of eliminating waste products of metabolism and other non-useful materials such as urine. In strict biological terminology, undigested food expelled in the feces is not considered to be excretion, since it is not metabolic waste.
Shit is a perfectly good word. Use it well and use it often!
And no, that isn't a contradiction.
How?
What's not to like (other than a current lack of an official ubuntu theme)?
I have just the solution. Bring the official ubuntu theme around with you anywhere.
And how, pray tell, does one speak sign language?
It's easier than it sounds...
The flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation. -- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"