Confusing cultural conundrums

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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    mert wrote:
    No, so maybe it was just the Explosion then.... Just with tea. but delish!!! :)

    Aaah! :) With tea is good! :) With hot Milo is better! :D
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  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    on the news tonight they talked of a footy player's dodgy knee.. lol :D (poor guy :o)

    dodgy - that British originally?
    wah
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    illegal pants wrote:
    on the news tonight they talked of a footy player's dodgy knee.. lol :D (poor guy :o)

    dodgy - that British originally?

    Don't know, but I think we've added it to the dictionary here. :D

    http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/txt/s1504978.htm
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  • Samule
    Samule Posts: 3,231
    Did anyone else read the title of this thread "Confusing Cultural Condoms"? i just scanned down and thought wah!

    When you guys meet and aussie, do they speak in the aussie "lingo" alot?
  • Samule
    Samule Posts: 3,231
    kristophed wrote:
    Also have noticed a lot of Aussies like to add O to their words.
    Johnathan = John-O
    Alright = Right-O
    It does become catchy

    Jeanie just posted a lot of what I just wrote
    You got it in one kristophed-O
    This thread is hilarious, all the arvo stuff, and other things, thats how i talk everyday, yet you guys find it wierd?
    After school it was always arvo tea time. :D
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Samule wrote:
    You got it in one kristophed-O
    This thread is hilarious, all the arvo stuff, and other things, thats how i talk everyday, yet you guys find it wierd?
    After school it was always arvo tea time. :D


    I get called weird all the time. :D It's my badge of honour! :)

    I just find myself having to clarify what I'm saying a lot of the time when I'm speaking to people overseas. It's part of the fun though I guess, of getting to know different cultures. :)
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  • chime
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    kristophed wrote:
    I thought Aussies called Americans seppos because they feel that they are always talking shit. Am I wrong?

    Nah as Jeanie said it's the cockney rhyming slang.

    Because we don't do the O thing in the UK we just call them septics.

    Adding to the rhyming slang:

    apples and pears
    all gone a bit pete tong
    me old china
    going out for a ruby
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Chime wrote:
    Nah as Jeanie said it's the cockney rhyming slang.

    Because we don't do the O thing in the UK we just call them septics.

    Adding to the rhyming slang:

    apples and pears = chairs
    all gone a bit pete tong
    me old china = me old china plate = mate
    going out for a ruby

    Ok chime, I've managed two, but what are the other two please? :D
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  • TinyFists
    TinyFists Posts: 142
    I don't think anyone has mentioned this one yet: thongs vs flip-flops.

    Thought of quite a bizarre expression in England: 'chuffed as little mint balls'! Do any other countries use this?!
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  • mert
    mert Posts: 167
    Jeanie wrote:
    Ok chime, I've managed two, but what are the other two please? :D

    Isn't "apples and pears" actually "up the stairs"? That's how my British sister-in-law explained it, anyway... They use several in the "English English" section of the third Austen Powers movie, with Michael Caine. :)
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    For Jeanie!

    apples and pears = stairs
    all gone a bit pete tong = all gone wrong (or for none rhyming slang it's all gone pear shaped)
    me old china = mate/friend
    going out for a ruby = ruby murray = going out for a curry

    More

    Trouble and strife = wife
    Barnet = barnet fair = hair
    Syrup = Syrup 'o figs = wigs
    Can you adam n' eve it = believe it
    Butchers = butchers hook = look (havin a butchers = to look at something)
    Whistle = whistle and flute = suit
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  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    Chime wrote:
    For Jeanie!

    apples and pears = stairs
    all gone a bit pete tong = all gone wrong (or for none rhyming slang it's all gone pear shaped)
    me old china = mate/friend
    going out for a ruby = ruby murray = going out for a curry
    I see I'm gonna have to learn a fair bit of lingo when I start working amongst the people there...
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    mert wrote:
    Isn't "apples and pears" actually "up the stairs"? That's how my British sister-in-law explained it, anyway... They use several in the "English English" section of the third Austen Powers movie, with Michael Caine. :)


    dunno. I guess either is fine. :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Chime wrote:
    For Jeanie!

    apples and pears = stairs
    all gone a bit pete tong = all gone wrong (or for none rhyming slang it's all gone pear shaped)
    me old china = mate/friend
    going out for a ruby = ruby murray = going out for a curry

    More

    Trouble and strife = wife
    Barnet = barnet fair = hair
    Syrup = Syrup 'o figs = wigs
    Can you adam n' eve it = believe it
    Butchers = butchers hook = look (havin a butchers = to look at something)
    Whistle = whistle and flute = suit


    OH! I love going out for a ruby! :) That's perfect! :)

    The others are way cool too! :cool:
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  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    Jeanie wrote:
    Don't know, but I think we've added it to the dictionary here. :D

    http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/txt/s1504978.htm

    HA too funny!!

    i was wondering.. are we the only ones that 'chuck a U-ee' ??? :D
    wah
  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    illegal pants wrote:
    HA too funny!!

    i was wondering.. are we the only ones that 'chuck a U-ee' ??? :D

    ... we pull a Uee :D
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  • Jeanie
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    illegal pants wrote:
    HA too funny!!

    i was wondering.. are we the only ones that 'chuck a U-ee' ??? :D

    :D hehe! Love it!

    Bit of circle work, a few donuts, some bush bashing. :D
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  • you are
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    Jeanie wrote:
    ha! :D That's classic!!

    Think I'll have to have another little talk with my postie, maybe it's changed again? I just know at Christmas time I had to remove the food items from all the parcels I was sending to the US and boy was I peeved.

    Tim Tam slam means you got Milo too right? :D

    I freakin' LOVE Milo! Why the hell don't they sell it in the U.S.....they have it at some places (VERY few) but it's hard to find! :eek: Everybody else in the world has it though!....but I'm not bitter or anything :(
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    you are wrote:
    I freakin' LOVE Milo! Why the hell don't they sell it in the U.S.....they have it at some places (VERY few) but it's hard to find! :eek: Everybody else in the world has it though!....but I'm not bitter or anything :(

    Can you order it online? :)

    I love eating Milo straight from the tin with a teaspoon. :)

    OR sprinkling it on my ice cream. :D
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  • you are
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    Jeanie wrote:
    Can you order it online? :)

    I love eating Milo straight from the tin with a teaspoon. :)

    OR sprinkling it on my ice cream. :D

    i don't know if i can, but i'm going to look into it. the only Milo i can find in my area is in a can (like a cola).....it tastes like Aluminum :eek:. no wonder it doesn't sell that well 'cause that's all we've got. i'd rather find the powder in the tin so i can make it hot or cold....or sprinkle on ice cream! :p
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