"This shit's broke." Seriously, though, I'm with you on "It needs to be repaired." Then again, I went to school in the land of the yinzers, so "it needs repai

"This shit's broke." Seriously, though, I'm with you on "It needs to be repaired." Then again, I went to school in the land of the yinzers, so "it needs repaired" doesn't even sound all that off to me anymore even though I'd never use it myself. (I kind of mentally map it to "it needs repairing".) But I think of that as a dialect of English, with no bearing on "standard" English. For standard English, it has to be "it needs to be repaired", "it requires repair", "it needs repairing", or "excuse me, my good sir, but I do believe that this shit here is most definitely in need of repair".