Younknow your culture sucks when even the hindu dotheads can rag on you...thats funny
The government plans these shootings by targeting kids from kindergarten that the government thinks they can control with drugs until the appropriate time--DerbyDude
Whatever. Tell the oompa loompa's hey for me. [/quote]. LtPPowell
its interesting some times, spent 3 weeks with AussieLad and every so often he and i would have to decide what each other were talking about....good example is when he asked me if i ate capsicum when he was fixing dinner one night...i guess i gave him an odd look and asked "what do you call capsicum?" turns out he was talking about bell peppers, i figured he was talking about peppers of some sort cause im a nerd and knew Capsicum is the genus that peppers, hot and bell, belong to.....but had no clue anyone in the english speaking world called a bell pepper anything but a pepper...
A serious student of the "Armchair Safari" always looking for Africa/Asia hunting books
1. A Skooby is a Schooner which is a 15oz beer. 2. A Pony or Pot is a 10oz beer (Old blokes drink them) (Baby boomers are not old blokes) 3. The Thunderbox and long Drop are outside dunnies, 4. A Drongo, F---Wit, turd burgler, wacker, ice hole, and a dozen more is a silly person or someone who handles the truth carelessly.
There is a great book on Aussie Slang put out in the 90's authoried by John Blackman. HAS a lot of stuff I never heard of and shows how territorial Aussieland is, particularly between Sydney and Melbun.
When truth is ignored, it does not change an untruth from remaining a lie.
its interesting some times, spent 3 weeks with AussieLad and every so often he and i would have to decide what each other were talking about...
Its funny to see that even today that so many Colonials struggle with the Queens English!
We ahitcanned the queen. Why would we want her English
The government plans these shootings by targeting kids from kindergarten that the government thinks they can control with drugs until the appropriate time--DerbyDude
Whatever. Tell the oompa loompa's hey for me. [/quote]. LtPPowell
My father-in-law was in Australia on leave during WWII. He and some other soldiers were at a movie house where "God Save the King" was played prior to the movie. When the GIs remained sitting, one of the locals informed them that they were hearing "God Save the King" and that they should stand up. One of the GIs suggested that the King be known in a Biblically carnal sense. Things got a bit out of hand at that point. I don't believe that the movie was ever seen.
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Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
Yeah, I remember as a kid in the 50s early 60's at the Saturday afternoon matinee before the movie started we used to hear "God Save the Queen" and be expected to stand. Not many of us did. This was in NZ and thankfully the ridiculous custom got knocked on the head long ago.
"The 257 Roberts, some people like to call it the “.257 Bob.” I think these people should be hung in trees where crows can peck at them." - David Petzal
Poofter Pillow biter shirt lifter And a dozen more.
Including the aforementioned "turd burgler".
"The 257 Roberts, some people like to call it the “.257 Bob.” I think these people should be hung in trees where crows can peck at them." - David Petzal
Herd a new Yankee word yesterday for the first time. The word "Chassis" in Orstrayleyanne is pronounced "Shazzy" My American linguists pronounced it "Chassie" as we both struggled a bit on that.
Another one is Aussie, Americans can't say it, they say "Osscie" when we all know it is the same as Ozzie Osbourne or Ozzy and and Harriet.
Interesting stuff!
When truth is ignored, it does not change an untruth from remaining a lie.
My father-in-law was in Australia on leave during WWII. He and some other soldiers were at a movie house where "God Save the King" was played prior to the movie. When the GIs remained sitting, one of the locals informed them that they were hearing "God Save the King" and that they should stand up. One of the GIs suggested that the King be known in a Biblically carnal sense. Things got a bit out of hand at that point. I don't believe that the movie was ever seen.
I doubt that the movie was important after that clash of cultures!
Herd a new Yankee word yesterday for the first time. The word "Chassis" in Orstrayleyanne is pronounced "Shazzy" My American linguists pronounced it "Chassie" as we both struggled a bit on that.
It is a French word, originally, and pronounced something like "shazzy" in most places, not just Australia.
My father-in-law was in Australia on leave during WWII. He and some other soldiers were at a movie house where "God Save the King" was played prior to the movie. When the GIs remained sitting, one of the locals informed them that they were hearing "God Save the King" and that they should stand up. One of the GIs suggested that the King be known in a Biblically carnal sense. Things got a bit out of hand at that point. I don't believe that the movie was ever seen.
I wonder how those GIs would have felt had an Australian, guest in your country, publicly refused to stand for the anthem, and then said something disparaging about your head of state? It would have been seen as bad manners, I suspect, and rightly.
FWIW though, it has been many decades since God Save the King, or God Save the Queen, has been our anthem.
There's a bit of regional variation in Australian too, though not as much as in the UK or US. Some slight variations in accent: the Adelaide pronunciation of words like dance, chance, and salt as "dahnce", "chahnce" and "sawlt" for example, or Melburnians pronunciation of "el" as "al" - "Walcome to Malbourne".
There are variations in vocabulary too. In Sydney you go swimming in "swimmers" or "cossies", while in Victoria you'd probably call them "togs", and in Perth "bathers", for example. The Macquarie Dictionary has a "Word Map" (https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/resources/word/map/) showing numerous examples.
its interesting some times, spent 3 weeks with AussieLad and every so often he and i would have to decide what each other were talking about...
Its funny to see that even today that so many Colonials struggle with the Queens English!
The three years I lived in Britain as a kid, I was the only family member that could translate it into American English... that took 6 months to learn... but I did good...
now we had a few Irish and Scottish folks in the neighborhood.. they took a little longer to be able to understand... and of course everyone over there, thought the American terms for things was "bloody daft.."
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