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Registering on the Shitckster Scale: A Field Guide to Bullshit, Batshit, Apeshit, and Every Other Kind of Human Nonsense
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Talk of the Tavern Publishing Group
Published: Sep 17 2026
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Not all shit is bullshit. Calling it all the same thing is scientifically lazy.
Human nonsense is everywhere: in meetings, family arguments, civic disasters, and the group chat somebody should have muted. Fortunately, Ada Dickey has founded the International Institute of Applied Shitcksterism. Unfortunately, its most qualified field researcher is an exhausted bull with a clipboard.
This illustrated, completely unofficial field guide sorts the mess into recognizable forms. Learn to distinguish bullshit from horseshit, dogshit from batshit, and a manageable outburst from apeshit with an expanding splatter radius. Discover why a shitshow is different from a shitstorm, why being up Shit Creek is a condition rather than a species, and why knowing your shit remains useful even when nobody gives a shit.
Along the way, the Shitckster Scale measures the damage, the aftershocks, and the cleanup required-from Jack Shit to an Industrial Fan Event. There are field reports, dubious certifications, escalating protective equipment, and a final examination that may become a practical emergency.
Salty, illustrated, and backed by exactly as much research as the joke requires, Registering on the Shitckster Scale gives you the language to classify the mess-even when you are standing in it.
When the shit hits the fan, somebody ought to record the reading.
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