Do these posts need painted?

[settleadebateforme]

Please settle a debate between DH and me. Do these posts need painted?

[Charmatt]

No

[autumnnightsaredrawingin]

I would say they could do with being painted if you had the money and time, but don’t need To be painted...

[whitesoxx]

No

[dudsville]

They don't appear to be chipped or worn so I'd say no.

[Rottencooking]

They need some verbs.

[Whynham]

Yes, bright pink.

[smallereveryday]

The only thing they are lacking is the verb to be

[SnowyAlpsandPeaks]

Yes they could do with a freshen up- which a power hose may do, or it may take the paint off🤔

[scissorlover]

Painting*, surely?

[justasking111]

Someone made a pigs ear of the bottom of them ditto the bottom of the wall.

[BruceAndNosh]

The only thing they are lacking is the verb to be

I'm guessing that the phrasing combined with the pebbledash means that the OP is from Northern Ireland.
But carry on making fun of people's idiomatic use of language

Wink.

[IncrediblySadToo]

They don’t look like they need painting on my screen?

Knock it off you lot. Nothing wrong with regional dialect

[Whackaguacamole]

They'd probably look better painted but it wouldnt be an urgent job.

Are you Scottish? I picked up skipping verbs when I lived there, didn't realise you'd be judged for it...

[123andBreathe]

No, but if they are being painted, they could do with the pebbledash being chipped off and smooth rendering instead!

We have a wall like that, and you can paint and and paint it until the cows come home, but it always looks grotty.

[BiscuitDrama]

They don’t need painted or to be painted... whatever.

[Memeface]

It is jarring to read sentences written like this.

[ShitAtScarbble]

They might or might not need TO BE painted.

[Eliza9919]

No. They might need painting though.

[PeachesNewName]

No. And I’m from NI and had no idea what verbs people were talking about it makes perfect sense to me! Had to go back and re-read.

[PeachesNewName]

‘need painting’ sounds much weirder to me!

[brodybear]

Looks like an 'if you want to' not a 'must do asap' situation to me. There is nothing wrong with the post but at the same time a lick of paint would freshen things up. If they were mine o wouldn't waste my time, energy or money on them.

[peachgreen]

No. And OP's sentence is perfectly grammatically correct in Scotland and Northern Ireland (and possibly elsewhere). It's called infinitival copula deletion and it's a regionalism.

[123andBreathe]

To be or not to be, that is the question - whether ‘‘tis nobler in the mind of the Mumsnetter to suffer “jarring, verb free sentences” .... And, by opposing, end them?

Or just answer the question that everyone knows the OP asked!

To paint or not to paint.

THAT is the question!

[settleadebateforme]

I'm Scottish, perfectly correct way to say it here.

Anyway, in case you were all waiting. I painted them as I had the paint out anyway

[HBStowe]

They’re a bit grubby but nothing urgent I wouldn’t say.