Ankle biter in Canada is someone who can't ice skate well
And Jeanie Aussies say "How you going"
Also when I say "What are you saying tonight" (what are you doing tonight) it confuses the hell out of people here.
Yeah, "ankle biter" in Australia is a child...
Another word that I confused people with over here is "stroppy"... I love the word stroppy... also, "doing your nana" and that's not as in Grandmother but doing your head in... n'est pas?
Glaciers melting in the dead of night and the superstars sucked into the supermassive.
Another word that I confused people with over here is "stroppy"... I love the word stroppy... also, "doing your nana" and that's not as in Grandmother but doing your head in... n'est pas?
I wrote that in a post the other day and then figured people would think I was saying something evil about me nan so I changed it to do my nut.
I remember back in '03 after seeing PJ in Perth.....I'd popped onto the old Synergy board and posted in a thread saying something about the fact I was SPEWIN about the Perth gig not being sold out.
Well.....did that thread go off track! Straight away it went to "OMG! an Aussie! (or as they would have said it - Ossie) what does SPEWIN mean? Speak some more Australian to us!" :eek: LMFAO!! I didn't know whether to feel dirty or like a freak :eek:?? Hahaha!
I post as I would speak and quite often forget that we have our own dictionary/language LOL!
I wrote that in a post the other day and then figured people would think I was saying something evil about me nan so I changed it to do my nut.
Yeah, it's really not something you can write, over here, they need to hear it cause it's "naah-naah" and not "nan-na"... if that makes any sense :S I spose we should write it 'nana cause it's more or less meant to be "banana". Wow, I feel like I'm being very confusing but I know the Aussies are gonna understand what I'm saying
Yay! Crack the shits and stacking it... love it! And along the lines of the word "crack"... "He was cracking onto you!" I got some very confused looks when I said that
The other thing that people get confused over here (not all, just some)...
- Saying Kiwis are from "Down Under", alot of people think that "Down Under" refers to both Australia and NZ... wrong! Just Australia.
- Calling Aussies "kiwis"!!!! I'm not kidding... I've been called a kiwi a few times by people who knew I was Australian and they weren't taking the piss... oh, there you go "taking the piss" is another fav
Also, using the word "reckon" over here people think you're a hick, so I don't tend to use it that much anymore... but every now and then it pops out of my mouth.
Anyway, please keep the expressions coming... I start to forget them and I want to get them back into my vernacular
Glaciers melting in the dead of night and the superstars sucked into the supermassive.
Also, using the word "reckon" over here people think you're a hick, so I don't tend to use it that much anymore... but every now and then it pops out of my mouth.
come down south and you'll fit right in
No need to be void, or save up on life...
You got to spend it all
Okay, so I'm in the T dot right now and my Canadian friend just reminded me of a couple:
- Bob's your uncle; and
- happy as Larry
I LOVE them, but confused my Canadian friends when I first used them. Also, a friend of ours amused her when she said: "bugger me for a bag of bananas". I love the word "bugger", but it's just not used over here (and it reminds me of that funny Toyota ad ). "Fuck me" isn't widely used either... it's creeping in, but not used all that much.
Also, more English is the word "roger" which people don't get over here... many Aussies and poms will laugh when they hear "Roger that"... it's right up there "rooting for your team" which I always laughed at when I first moved here
Glaciers melting in the dead of night and the superstars sucked into the supermassive.
Most of the ones the Aussies have been posting are used here.
Main thing I noticed living in the US is that they don't have quite the variety of expletives we do or use them quite as often or in as many different ways as we do. I think that probably says more about us though
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Oh I have seen the term cottaging used on the boards here which means something very different in the UK.
So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
Most of the ones the Aussies have been posting are used here.
Main thing I noticed living in the US is that they don't have quite the variety of expletives we do or use them quite as often or in as many different ways as we do. I think that probably says more about us though
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Oh I have seen the term cottaging used on the boards here which means something very different in the UK.
Very true. Alot of Aussie slang comes from the UK, which is why we understand each other (as much as we might try to pretend we don't ) And you're right about the variety... in the UK and Australia there are dozens of ways to say things and we use all of them... over here (generally) they have one of two expressions for something and if you throw something else in the mix, you get confused looks. I think it's a shame that there isn't a huge amount of slang over here (that I've noticed anyway). There is slang, but since we've all been exposed to so much American television and culture, we know the US slang too
I do notice, when I go home, just how much Australians swear and how crass we can tend to be. I don't mean it as a criticism (to Australians) but in Canada and the US people tend towards being more polite and not quite so vocal with the swearing (other than drunken idiots on the street), but I mean more in work situations, I quickly realised that I was swearing more than anyone and I tried to curb it :S
BTW, do tell about "cottaging", I can well imagine...
Glaciers melting in the dead of night and the superstars sucked into the supermassive.
SPEWIN ~ "Speak some more Australian to us!" LMFAO!! I didn't know whether to feel dirty or like a freak. Hahaha!
I post as I would speak and quite often forget that we have our own dictionary/language LOL!
That happens to me all the time! People get upset or totally confused and I try to explain and end up feeling like some kind of oddity, like I'm speaking Borg or something! Spewin hey?
Yeah, it's really not something you can write, over here, they need to hear it cause it's "naah-naah" and not "nan-na"... if that makes any sense :S I spose we should write it 'nana cause it's more or less meant to be "banana". Wow, I feel like I'm being very confusing but I know the Aussies are gonna understand what I'm saying
I completely understand what you're saying, but then sometimes I wonder if others aren't a few stubbies short!
Yay! Crack the shits and stacking it... love it! And along the lines of the word "crack"... "He was cracking onto you!" I got some very confused looks when I said that
ooh yes! Or sometimes I might say, "He tried to crack on to me and when I told him to bugger off, he got the shits up with me." I bet that does sound funny if you're not familiar.
Also, using the word "reckon" over here people think you're a hick, so I don't tend to use it that much anymore... but every now and then it pops out of my mouth.
I use reckon all the time, no clue that people think I'm a hick for it, but I don't mind on account my Nan says it all the time and she's adorable.
We have a little back and forth all the time,
Me: "I reckon I might come see you Saturday"
Nan: "Ah, you reckon do you love?"
Me: "Yeah, I reckon I just might"
Nan: "Well I reckon that'd be nice"
A family dog fought off a kangaroo that badly mauled a NSW farmer's wife at her Mudgee farm.
Rosemary Neal, 65, suffered facial lacerations, gouges to her back and legs and bruising when the 2m roo attacked. Son Daren said: "If it wasn't for the dog, she'd probably be dead. The kangaroo went crazy - it just laid into her with its feet and claws."
Kangaroo attacks on humans are rare and humans often come off worst.
That's for the folk that are terrified of our spiders and snakes! Them roos can be lethal. Who needs bears hey?
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It found 479,206 mentions of Vegemite - more than Coca-Cola, Nike and Starbucks.
The research identified Vegemite eaters by their style.
There was "the edger", who spreads Vegemite right to the crust
"the streaker", who only spreads it lightly and
"the redback", who lays tomatoes on Vegemite toast.
Well how bout that? I'm a redback and I didn't even know it!!!
What kinda Vegemite eater is everyone else?
Vegemite is the world's most recognisable brand, according to IBM research. The computer giant analysed 1.5 billion posts in 38 languages on social networking sites, blogs, message boards and online news.
It found 479,206 mentions of Vegemite - more than Coca-Cola, Nike and Starbucks.
ok a) that's cuz of men at work and secondly because of men of work the rest of the world is asking "WTF is vegemite?" :D
A family dog fought off a kangaroo that badly mauled a NSW farmer's wife at her Mudgee farm.
Rosemary Neal, 65, suffered facial lacerations, gouges to her back and legs and bruising when the 2m roo attacked. Son Daren said: "If it wasn't for the dog, she'd probably be dead. The kangaroo went crazy - it just laid into her with its feet and claws."
Kangaroo attacks on humans are rare and humans often come off worst.
That's for the folk that are terrified of our spiders and snakes! Them roos can be lethal. Who needs bears hey?
I want to see that on youtube, and I want to see it now!
Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
ok a) that's cuz of men at work and secondly because of men of work the rest of the world is asking "WTF is vegemite?"
I reckon it's just because the spambots have been following me and a few other true blue Aussies around. I rarely mention Coke, Nike or Starbucks but I'm thinking I've made quite a few posts that include Vegemite.
But yeah, just the other day someone in the US asked me about Vegemite sammiches because of that song and it did go something along the lines of WTF is Vegemite?
I want to see that on youtube, and I want to see it now!
I've actually seen a roo attack before. It's not pretty and they are SCARY!!!! They box with their front paws, scratching and hitting around the head usually and then they try to latch on so they can hold their victim as support while they jump up and deliver the more dangerous blows with their powerful back legs. And their claws are sharp! They could rip you open if they do decide to. The lady was very lucky that the dog was around I reckon.
I've often wondered if the best thing to do if one starts to attack is the same as for Goannas, which is to lie flat on the ground and protect your soft side.
I've actually seen a roo attack before. It's not pretty and they are SCARY!!!! They box with their front paws, scratching and hitting around the head usually and then they try to latch on so they can hold their victim as support while they jump up and deliver the more dangerous blows with their powerful back legs. And their claws are sharp! They could rip you open if they do decide to. The lady was very lucky that the dog was around I reckon.
I've often wondered if the best thing to do if one starts to attack is the same as for Goannas, which is to lie flat on the ground and protect your soft side.
I really meant I wanted to see the dog and the roo go at it. It'd be like When Animals Attack... EACH OTHER!!! And it'd be awesome.
Smokey Robinson constantly looks like he's trying to act natural after being accused of farting.
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And Jeanie Aussies say "How you going"
Also when I say "What are you saying tonight" (what are you doing tonight) it confuses the hell out of people here.
I'd be confused with the others.
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Yeah, "ankle biter" in Australia is a child...
Another word that I confused people with over here is "stroppy"... I love the word stroppy... also, "doing your nana" and that's not as in Grandmother but doing your head in... n'est pas?
I wrote that in a post the other day and then figured people would think I was saying something evil about me nan so I changed it to do my nut.
Stroppy is such a great word!!
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I remember back in '03 after seeing PJ in Perth.....I'd popped onto the old Synergy board and posted in a thread saying something about the fact I was SPEWIN about the Perth gig not being sold out.
Well.....did that thread go off track! Straight away it went to "OMG! an Aussie! (or as they would have said it - Ossie) what does SPEWIN mean? Speak some more Australian to us!" :eek: LMFAO!! I didn't know whether to feel dirty
I post as I would speak and quite often forget that we have our own dictionary/language LOL!
i got that once too with 'stacked'
i said i stacked it on some stairs.. and they were all 'what were you stacking on the stairs?'
:eek::D:eek:
I hope you at least had matching socks on
bahahaa!!
at times i can be kluzty.. this came on a few years after i quit playing soccer hmmm :eek:
hmmm and soccer - football
spose soccer doesn't exist in Europe
i HATE how some people refer to Aussie rugby as football - NO!
'Chucked a wobbley' or 'Spat the dummy' or 'Cracked the shits' = threw a tantrum.
BUWHAHAHAHAA this is my fave
how many times growing up did you do something naughty with friends and go 'oh noooo mum's gonna crack the shits at me'
My Mum STILL cracks the shits with me :rolleyes:
Yeah, it's really not something you can write, over here, they need to hear it cause it's "naah-naah" and not "nan-na"... if that makes any sense :S I spose we should write it 'nana cause it's more or less meant to be "banana". Wow, I feel like I'm being very confusing but I know the Aussies are gonna understand what I'm saying
Yay! Crack the shits and stacking it... love it! And along the lines of the word "crack"... "He was cracking onto you!" I got some very confused looks when I said that
The other thing that people get confused over here (not all, just some)...
- Saying Kiwis are from "Down Under", alot of people think that "Down Under" refers to both Australia and NZ... wrong! Just Australia.
- Calling Aussies "kiwis"!!!! I'm not kidding... I've been called a kiwi a few times by people who knew I was Australian and they weren't taking the piss... oh, there you go "taking the piss" is another fav
Also, using the word "reckon" over here people think you're a hick, so I don't tend to use it that much anymore... but every now and then it pops out of my mouth.
Anyway, please keep the expressions coming... I start to forget them and I want to get them back into my vernacular
come down south and you'll fit right in
You got to spend it all
- Bob's your uncle; and
- happy as Larry
I LOVE them, but confused my Canadian friends when I first used them. Also, a friend of ours amused her when she said: "bugger me for a bag of bananas". I love the word "bugger", but it's just not used over here (and it reminds me of that funny Toyota ad
Also, more English is the word "roger" which people don't get over here... many Aussies and poms will laugh when they hear "Roger that"... it's right up there "rooting for your team" which I always laughed at when I first moved here
I'd LOVE to! I so want to do a road trip through the south
Main thing I noticed living in the US is that they don't have quite the variety of expletives we do or use them quite as often or in as many different ways as we do. I think that probably says more about us though
Having trouble thinking of any more ...
Oh I have seen the term cottaging used on the boards here which means something very different in the UK.
Very true. Alot of Aussie slang comes from the UK, which is why we understand each other (as much as we might try to pretend we don't
I do notice, when I go home, just how much Australians swear and how crass we can tend to be. I don't mean it as a criticism (to Australians) but in Canada and the US people tend towards being more polite and not quite so vocal with the swearing (other than drunken idiots on the street), but I mean more in work situations, I quickly realised that I was swearing more than anyone and I tried to curb it :S
BTW, do tell about "cottaging", I can well imagine...
That happens to me all the time! People get upset or totally confused and I try to explain and end up feeling like some kind of oddity, like I'm speaking Borg or something! Spewin hey?
hehe!! Go Stel!!
I completely understand what you're saying, but then sometimes I wonder if others aren't a few stubbies short!
ooh yes! Or sometimes I might say, "He tried to crack on to me and when I told him to bugger off, he got the shits up with me." I bet that does sound funny if you're not familiar.
I use reckon all the time, no clue that people think I'm a hick for it, but I don't mind on account my Nan says it all the time and she's adorable.
We have a little back and forth all the time,
Me: "I reckon I might come see you Saturday"
Nan: "Ah, you reckon do you love?"
Me: "Yeah, I reckon I just might"
Nan: "Well I reckon that'd be nice"
Best we keep it up then, can't have you getting all 2 bob snob on us!
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Dog saves woman from roo
A family dog fought off a kangaroo that badly mauled a NSW farmer's wife at her Mudgee farm.
Rosemary Neal, 65, suffered facial lacerations, gouges to her back and legs and bruising when the 2m roo attacked. Son Daren said: "If it wasn't for the dog, she'd probably be dead. The kangaroo went crazy - it just laid into her with its feet and claws."
Kangaroo attacks on humans are rare and humans often come off worst.
That's for the folk that are terrified of our spiders and snakes! Them roos can be lethal. Who needs bears hey?
BRAND SPRUIKED
Yappy little Vegemites
Vegemite is the world's most recognisable brand, according to IBM research. The computer giant analysed 1.5 billion posts in 38 languages on social networking sites, blogs, message boards and online news.
It found 479,206 mentions of Vegemite - more than Coca-Cola, Nike and Starbucks.
The research identified Vegemite eaters by their style.
There was "the edger", who spreads Vegemite right to the crust
"the streaker", who only spreads it lightly and
"the redback", who lays tomatoes on Vegemite toast.
Well how bout that?
What kinda Vegemite eater is everyone else?
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ok a) that's cuz of men at work and secondly because of men of work the rest of the world is asking "WTF is vegemite?"
I reckon it's just because the spambots have been following me and a few other true blue Aussies around.
But yeah, just the other day someone in the US asked me about Vegemite sammiches because of that song and it did go something along the lines of WTF is Vegemite?
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I've actually seen a roo attack before. It's not pretty and they are SCARY!!!! They box with their front paws, scratching and hitting around the head usually and then they try to latch on so they can hold their victim as support while they jump up and deliver the more dangerous blows with their powerful back legs. And their claws are sharp! They could rip you open if they do decide to. The lady was very lucky that the dog was around I reckon.
I've often wondered if the best thing to do if one starts to attack is the same as for Goannas, which is to lie flat on the ground and protect your soft side.
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My favorite.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_NqulhmZWc
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Yup!! And poor Marty, such a cool character too, I was watching that morning and it was hysterical and scary at the same time. :eek:
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Excellent roo jokes:
Q: What happens if you cross a kangaroo with a flower?
A: You get a big, smelly 'roo!
Q: What happened when the artist set out to draw pictures of Australian mammals on bathroom fittings?
A: He did a 'roo in the toilet!
Q: What did the customs official find down the Australian animal smuggler's trousers?
A: There was 'roo in his pants!
Actually, I recall an interview with the bloke in the suit a few years later and luckily for him the suit protected him from this! :eek:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B66gFbN3sg
Yeah, I don't know if this is an Aussie saying or not, but DON'T GIVE UP YA DAY JOB!!!
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Hehe... I can't claim credit for those jokes - I'm just the messenger. But dadgurnit, they made me lol out loud.