Confusing cultural conundrums

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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    smarchee wrote:
    I stand corrected. Wikipedia rules. Ringette is such a strange take on hockey, but I guess for girls, before they were allowed to play with men, it had all the skill of hockey with a little bit of a twist. Field hockey is cool, I like watching it if I get the chance, I think we have so much hockey here that it doesn't exist in too many places. It's mainly at the university level I believe, although I know our woman's field hockey team is going to kiss ass in China

    :D Now there's a cultural conundrum! In Oz, kiss ass means subservience, needing to grovel for a place, along those lines, whereas kick arse means you the boss, the winner, the one on top. :D

    So are you saying your women's field hockey team is gonna win ie kick arse, or lose, ie kiss ass? :D

    Anyway, thanks for mentioning the ringette, I didn't know anything about it.
    I don't mind "field" hockey or hockey as we call it but I've been a bit of a fan of ice hockey or hockey as you call it for quite some time. Think since I saw Rob Lowe in Youngblood. :D
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Fifthelement wrote:
    I discovered, that in England when one is in a crowded, loud pub and trying to get the attention of your university instructor by holding two fingers up, in a reverse peace sign, does NOT translate into "let's go for a smoke" . . . if your British, you know what I mean

    Also tab, snout, fag . . . how many ways can you say cigarette?

    :D Don't think you'd get a particularly positive response to that in Oz either! :D Especially in a crowded pub!! :eek: :D

    We call em smokes, gaffs, fags, ciggies, puffers, cancer sticks. There's other names but I can't think of them all now. :)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    you are wrote:
    :eek: i was just about to ask about this! we have Marmite at a grocery store here in the U.S. but i can't find Vegemite! i want to try them both. and how should i eat Marmite since that's my only choice?

    Always a good idea to start with a scraping just to get a taste and work your way up to more if you prefer. :)

    I like it on toast, particularly wholemeal toast with butter, love it on fresh white bread sandwiches and with cheese sometimes too and I love to put a little scraping of it on toast and pop a poached egg on top. Oh and it's nice on toast with tomato too. :) You can cook with it. I often add it to stews and casseroles, usually just a teaspoon to add flavor. :)
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  • rockpants
    rockpants BC Posts: 838
    I remember having to play field hockey in middle school, and it sucks. No backhanding the ball, the sticks are so short you have to bend over and break your back when stickhandling, plus I think you have to have both your hands together at the top of the stick when you shoot - like a baseball bat grip for a golf swing. Not sure if it's a rule or simply a technique, but either way, it sucks.
    It should be called Golfey. Furthermore, the required dress for females (which, in class, was not required, thank goodness) is a fucking skirt. The rules are much more like Football/Soccer rules, with corners and yellow cards and whatnot. So maybe it would be more applicable if it where Footkey? Hockerball? :P

    Meh.

    Real hockey is played on ice!
  • Rock on
    Rock on Posts: 216
    rockpants wrote:
    Real hockey is played on ice!

    Street hockey is played on the street.

    Slapping the balls around with no protection whatsoever, ouch! :eek:
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Rock on wrote:
    Street hockey is played on the street.

    Slapping the balls around with no protection whatsoever, ouch! :eek:
    pretty much like hurling then :)
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  • Rock on
    Rock on Posts: 216
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    pretty much like hurling then :)

    Pretty much except a regular hockey stick is used with either on foot or roller skates. :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_hockey
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Rock on wrote:
    Pretty much except a regular hockey stick is used with either on foot or roller skates. :)

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_hockey
    :D excellent.
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    The only way I'd play hurling is if they got me drunk, and stuck a bottle of Jamiesons with me every time I get knocked near senseless.
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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 11,175
    Jeanie wrote:
    Anybody experienced any others? :)
    my mum is now my mom
    my jumper is now my sweater
    fuel is now gas
    prawns are now shrimps
    the date is back to front
    and where i used to spell a word with an 's' in it, more than often i now i use a 'z'

    but, it's all good :)
  • Heineken Helen
    Heineken Helen Posts: 18,095
    Hinny wrote:
    The only way I'd play hurling is if they got me drunk, and stuck a bottle of Jamiesons with me every time I get knocked near senseless.
    that's the normal way to play it hinny :)
    The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
    Verona??? it's all surmountable
    Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
    Wembley? We all believe!
    Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
    Chicago 07? And love
    What a different life
    Had I not found this love with you
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Pj_Gurl wrote:
    my mum is now my mom
    my jumper is now my sweater
    fuel is now gas
    prawns are now shrimps
    the date is back to front
    and where i used to spell a word with an 's' in it, more than often i now i use a 'z'

    but, it's all good :)

    :D Oh yes love, it's all good EXCEPT PRAWNS will always be PRAWNS!!! :D

    See? Even in Washington State, they're PRAWNS!!! :p

    http://www.westport-islander.com/hmbbg.htm
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  • Rock on
    Rock on Posts: 216
    Jeanie wrote:
    :D Oh yes love, it's all good EXCEPT PRAWNS will always be PRAWNS!!! :D

    Prawns are of a distinct biological suborder of Decapoda, everyone knows that. :rolleyes: :p

    You see, shrimp do exist! :eek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Rock on wrote:
    Prawns are of a distinct biological suborder of Decapoda, everyone knows that. :p

    You see, shrimp do exist! :eek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp


    :D Oh I know they exist love. I have to make sure that the pizza guy doesn't put the creepy, weeny, crunchy little buggers on my pizza! :eek:

    Glad you posted that link though, I like this bit, which is the sole reason for me always drawing it to people's attention in the first place. :D

    Paul Hogan’s use of the phrase “I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you” in a television advertisement was intended to make what he was saying easier for his American audience to understand, and was thus a deliberate distortion of what an Australian would typically say.
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  • Rock on
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    Jeanie wrote:
    I have to make sure that the pizza guy doesn't put the creepy, weeny, crunchy little buggers on my pizza! :eek:

    Well yeah, if they forget to take the shells off, then it would be crunchy. Otherwise, there quite good. :)


    "The term “prawn” is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those that come 15 (or fewer) to the pound (also called “jumbo shrimp”).

    Australia and other Commonwealth countries follow this European/British use to an even greater extent, using the word “prawn” almost exclusively."

    Wish they get their facts right. :rolleyes: :p
  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Rock on wrote:
    Well yeah, if they forget to take the shells off, then it would be crunchy. Otherwise, there quite good. :)


    "The term “prawn” is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those that come 15 (or fewer) to the pound (also called “jumbo shrimp”).

    Australia and other Commonwealth countries follow this European/British use to an even greater extent, using the word “prawn” almost exclusively."

    Wish they get their facts right. :rolleyes: :p


    ha! :D No, here shrimp are teeny little things that look like fat maggots :eek: and they add absolutely nothing to pizza. Actually what we call shrimp here I simply cannot for the life of me work out why anybody would want to eat them in the first place. That's why whenever I hear people say shrimp I think of them ugly, teeny, pasty little maggot type things and ewwwwww!!!!

    http://oddsnsods.camio.co.uk/node/6
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  • you are
    you are Posts: 1,651
    Jeanie wrote:
    ha! :D No, here shrimp are teeny little things that look like fat maggots :eek: and they add absolutely nothing to pizza. Actually what we call shrimp here I simply cannot for the life of me work out why anybody would want to eat them in the first place. That's why whenever I hear people say shrimp I think of them ugly, teeny, pasty little maggot type things and ewwwwww!!!!

    http://oddsnsods.camio.co.uk/node/6

    oh, i see...according to this ^^ shrimp are what we call popcorn shrimp, 'cause it's so small, and prawns are what we would call jumbo shrimp. i'm gonna start saying prawns instead of shrimp and see how people react. a revolution has got to start somewhere right. i'm such a rebel! ;):D
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    you are wrote:
    oh, i see...according to this ^^ shrimp are what we call popcorn shrimp, 'cause it's so small, and prawns are what we would call jumbo shrimp. i'm gonna start saying prawns instead of shrimp and see how people react. a revolution has got to start somewhere right. i'm such a rebel! :D

    WOOOHOOO!!! :D Finally!!!! Someone that gets it! :D

    Vive la revolution!!! :p:D
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  • Hinny
    Hinny Posts: 1,610
    Heineken Helen wrote:
    that's the normal way to play it hinny :)
    Seriously? That's awesome. Jeez I love the Irish ways.
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  • mert
    mert Posts: 167
    Tad late, but I'm bored, and better late than never, eh? :) I always love topics like this...

    Hockey is hockey; it was created in Canada, so I think we should get to decide what it's called. ;) It is a game in English, but "un match" en francais... And it is the best sport going - a perfect combination of skill, grace, brutality and plain toughness.

    Other Canadianisms:
    - tuque is a wool hat that keeps your head warm;
    - we call coloured pencils "pencil crayons" because we have English and French on all of our packaging (so it reads "coloured pencils crayons de couleur"
    - two-four is a case of twenty-four beer

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