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  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    OMG, I friggin LOVE this thread! I've got this big stupid smile on my face... more rhyming slang...

    Barney Rubble (barney) - trouble

    I bought some Milo in Canada but it was from the Caribbean and it didn't taste as good... I'm sure you can find it somewhere :)

    There's another cultural conundrum...

    AluminIum becomes aluminum in NA

    I'm laughing everytime you guys write "weird", my friends over here all laugh at me when I say weird, cause I pronounce it "weyud" cause we don't have a hard "R"... they've ruined that word for me, it's now become one of those ongoing jokes :)

    Some much good stuff here guys, keep in coming :D


    BTW, thanks Kristophed for the whole "how's it goin", "how you going" thing, I've been away a while and you start to get confused and forget which one you used to use... ;)
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  • chime
    chime Posts: 7,839
    Tone wrote:
    Barney Rubble (barney) - trouble

    :D I'd completely forgotten barney was rhyming slang.

    It's a word I use often instead of arguing/an argument. "You don't want to go in there they're having a barney" :o:p
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  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    Chime wrote:
    :D I'd completely forgotten barney was rhyming slang.

    It's a word I use often instead of arguing/an argument. "You don't want to go in there they're having a barney" :o:p


    LOL, it's funny how it just bleeds into the language and you forget where it came from... and I love using the word "barney" for argument ;)
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  • ozsmalltowngirl
    ozsmalltowngirl Posts: 14,362
    Not sure if this one's been brought up....too tired to read the whole thread right now :o

    My kids crack up, or get shocked (depending on how it's used), when the word "fanny" is used on American TV shows.

    eg; "Yeah I just walked straight up to her and grabbed her on the fanny"

    Fanny:

    USA = bottom
    Australia = ummm....front bottom (females genitals)

    :eek: :D
  • pearljamjen
    pearljamjen Posts: 13,578
    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

    Haha when I lived in Ireland, my housemate asked if I wanted to have my tea now. I told her no thanks, I already drank some earlier. She explained that it could be used to mean dinner/evening meal. :o Who would've guessed? :confused:
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    you are wrote:
    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!

    Wait!! :confused:

    It's already made up? With milk? In a can? Like a coke can? :(

    That sounds gross!! :eek: I don't reckon I'd want that even if I was desperate for Milo. What about Milo bars? Do you have those?

    There's quite a few online shops that sell it I think and I'm sure they'd deliver in the US. You should check them babies out so you can sprinkle on your ice cream to your hearts content! :D
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  • elmer
    elmer Posts: 1,683
    why is aubergine called eggplant in america? they don't even resemble eggs...
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    TinyFists wrote:
    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?!

    Aaah! The old thongs v flip-flops debate! :D

    They're thongs. :p;)

    I've not ever heard anybody say that here but I LIKE IT!! :D

    I can't wait to say that to someone! :D
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    ozsmalltowngirl wrote:
    Not sure if this one's been brought up....too tired to read the whole thread right now

    My kids crack up, or get shocked (depending on how it's used), when the word "fanny" is used on American TV shows.

    eg; "Yeah I just walked straight up to her and grabbed her on the fanny"

    Fanny:

    USA = bottom
    Australia = ummm....front bottom (females genitals)

    Yeah, we mentioned it a couple of pages back but it's still a goodie! :D
    Chime wrote:
    ...... and well fanny pack ....
    Jeanie wrote:
    :D The first time I came across this was way back in High School when I was The Lion in a production of The Wiz. The script called for The Tinman to hit The Lion on the fanny with the axe!!!! :eek: The Director had to do quite a bit of fast talking to convince me!!! :D

    I believe I said, "If she (The Tinman) comes anywhere near me with that axe, there's gonna be trouble!" :D

    I'm not surprised the kids have trouble with it, I still do!!!
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    elmer wrote:
    why is aubergine called eggplant in america? they don't even resemble eggs...


    We call em eggplants here, have all my life. It wasn't till I got into my 20s that I noticed people start calling them aubergines.

    It's always been eggplant and zucchini here in my world. :)

    Oh but, peppers are called capsicum. :D
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  • Tone
    Tone Posts: 1,206
    Yeah, we call 'em eggplant and zucchini in Oz... not sure why the poms insist on using the French words (considering they don't like each other too much, lol :P)... oh, and peppers are most definitely capsicum :D

    Couple more:

    Entree becomes appetizer
    Main becomes entree
    Coriander becomes cilantro (bleurgh!)
    G-string becomes thong
    Thongs become flipflops (as already mentioned but I would NEVER say "thong" over here... not as bad as saying "fanny", but I just never would)
    Arse becomes ass

    ozsmalltowngirl wrote:
    My kids crack up

    Actually "crack up" is another, I believe... there are so many slang expressions we use that aren't used over here, some others are:

    heaps (as in "heaps good")
    as (adding it to the end of things "cool as")
    dag (this is one I still struggle to explain to people)
    drongo
    dead-beat
    ding-bat
    dip-shit (this may be used here, not sure)
    fuck-wit
    wanker
    yonks
    tosser (more English but I love it)
    twat (ditto)
    prat (ditto)
    bludger (eg. "doll bludger", not just the balls used in Quidditch ;))
    dobbed on (OMG, you're dobbed on!)
    dibber-dobber (carry on from above)
    Nigel/Nige/Nigel no mates

    I can't think of many right now cause, I regret to inform you that, I've stopped using alot of slang. I go home and hear words and go: "OMG, I haven't heard that in YONKS!." :D


    More rhyming slang for ya... Barry Crocker - shocker :D


    A couple of choice Aussie expressions I love to tell people are (and apologies if I offend anyone, I'm really not trying to):

    - Dry as a dead dingo's donga!
    - (I'm so hungry) I could eat the arse out of a low-flying duck!
    - She bangs like a dunny door in a gale!
    - Dry as a nun's nasty!
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Tone wrote:
    Coriander becomes cilantro (bleurgh!)

    Oh wow!! THANK YOU!!! I've been wondering what the hell cilantro is for AGES!!!! :D

    The others are way cool Tone. :) I love low flying duck! ;)

    Shut your cakehole ~ Shut your mouth

    Shut your gob ~ Shut your mouth

    bugle/snoz ~ nose

    bonza ~ excellent!

    duck's disease ~ to have short legs

    jam jars ~ thick lenses spectacles (eye glasses)

    snag ~ sausage or Sensitive New Age Guy :D

    ankle biter ~ toddler

    dishlicker ~ dog

    dunny ~ toilet

    built like a brick shithouse ~ a large person

    soupstrainer ~ moustache
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Just discovered another one this morning. :D

    Trams = trolley/streetcar

    trolley = shopping cart

    Didn't that make for a confusing conversation? :p:D
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  • Rock on
    Rock on Posts: 216
    Jeanie wrote:
    Trams = trolley/streetcar

    trolley = shopping cart

    Didn't that make for a confusing conversation? :p:D

    Yeah, get on the trolley an I'll take you shopping. :eek: :p:D
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Rock on wrote:
    Yeah, get on the trolley an I'll take you shopping.

    :D Well I accept that offer dear, regardless of which one you mean, on account I can't believe a bloke just said he'd take me shopping! :p;):D
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  • you are
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    Jeanie wrote:
    Wait!! :confused:

    It's already made up? With milk? In a can? Like a coke can? : (

    That sounds gross!! :eek: I don't reckon I'd want that even if I was desperate for Milo. What about Milo bars? Do you have those?

    There's quite a few online shops that sell it I think and I'm sure they'd deliver in the US. You should check them babies out so you can sprinkle on your ice cream to your hearts content! :D


    yeah, like a coke can....i was desperate and it was the first Milo anything i had seen in years! so i bought a few. and every single one of them tastes like aluminum! :eek:

    i'm seriously going to look for more online. i don't know why i didn't think of it before. :o
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  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    wait.. :eek: they're making milo in a can ready made? :eek:
    wah
  • ozsmalltowngirl
    ozsmalltowngirl Posts: 14,362
    illegal pants wrote:
    wait.. :eek: they're making milo in a can ready made? :eek:
    Yeah....I remember seeing it in Bali a few years ago....BLEK!
    Do they still sell it in those little box thingies....like juice boxes? I remember them being yummy.
  • illegal pants
    illegal pants Posts: 13,471
    ozsmalltowngirl wrote:
    Yeah....I remember seeing it in Bali a few years ago....BLEK!
    Do they still sell it in those little box thingies....like juice boxes? I remember them being yummy.

    gawd that sounds awful :eek:

    the boxes are ok!! like up'n'go ones (bleh!) ???

    milo.. i'm having some soon :o
    wah
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    you are wrote:
    yeah, like a coke can....i was desperate and it was the first Milo anything i had seen in years! so i bought a few. and every single one of them tastes like aluminum! :eek:

    i'm seriously going to look for more online. i don't know why i didn't think of it before. :o


    eeew!!! :eek: Sounds just gross. I can't even begin to imagine it really.

    I hope you find some online. :)
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