Country Discussion : Australia

[perth_blue]

in our work the ozzies used to call each other sh.t c..nts when they’d be arguing used to laugh me head off

Good c... = good bloke
Sh.. c...= bad bloke.

That's in the citizenship exam.

 

[Tommy Chong]

I have a mate who moved to Melbourne a while back.

His favorite expression to use now is: 'Bloody ripper mate!'

The next time I see him, and he even thinks about using that phrase in my presence:

Before he's even finished his sentence!

@cronullasharks do you partake in using the colourful colloquialisms that form part of your motherlands vernacular?

 

[Rita_Poon]

I have a mate who moved to Melbourne a while back.

His favorite expression to use now is: 'Bloody ripper mate!'

The next time I see him, and he even thinks about using that phrase in me presence:

Before he's even finished his sentence!

@cronullasharks do you partake in using the colourful colloquialisms that form part of your motherlands vernacular?

He introduced me to the word 'pingers', which is both hilarious and deplorable. Then 'bloody oath', already knew 'strewth'.
Organically discovered 'hoon'. It's a nonsense slang, but I much prefer em to mockneys/cockneys.

 

[cronullasharks]

I have a mate who moved to Melbourne a while back.

His favorite expression to use now is: 'Bloody ripper mate!'

The next time I see him, and he even thinks about using that phrase in my presence:

Before he's even finished his sentence!

@cronullasharks do you partake in using the colourful colloquialisms that form part of your motherlands vernacular?

Not really, most of those stupid shrimp on the barbie type sayings don't actually get said.

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

Not really, most of those stupid shrimp on the barbie type sayings don't actually get said.

The worst one I ever heard was from Hugh Jackman in Chappie, ‘you’re making me as cross as a frog in a sock’. Pretty sure nobody talks like that anywhere in ‘Straya!

 

[Bishop Thumpety-Thump]

I have a mate who moved to Melbourne a while back.

His favorite expression to use now is: 'Bloody ripper mate!'

The next time I see him, and he even thinks about using that phrase in my presence:

Before he's even finished his sentence!

@cronullasharks do you partake in using the colourful colloquialisms that form part of your motherlands vernacular?

I have a soft spot for the word foath, meaning yes I agree wholeheartedly. It’s a contraction of flaming/f*cking and oath.

 

[bicycleheader]

Music scene in Australia is awesome, heaps better than the UK imho. It's a shame that some of the greatest artists here are relatively unknown in the rest of the world. Powderfinger, John Butler, Missy Higgins, Tash Sultana, Ball Park Music, Tame Impala and Gang of Youths all spring to mind.

I did a gig opening for Ian Moss a few years ago (guitarist from Cold Chisel, one of Australia's best loved rock bands) and I asked him why they never broke the US or the UK in the mid 70s when they were at their commercial peak. He said that they were unlucky, they'd been constantly touring for ages and were all getting on each other's nerves, so when the opportunity came to go overseas they'd all fallen out with each other. This was around the time that Little River Band and AC/DC were making it big in the US.

Incidentally he told me that Cold Chisel's drummer, Steve Prestwich, was a blue. His family emigrated to Adelaide from Liverpool in the early 70s when he was a teenager. He sadly died from a brain tumour in his 50s.

Tame Impala headline festivals in Europe, they are pretty big like.

Never heard the others apart from recognising couple names

 

[Blue 1]

 

[Tommy Chong]

Not really, most of those stupid shrimp on the barbie type sayings don't actually get said.

So then can I assume that you don’t walk around with a huge Bowie knife attached to your belt and every time you see someone buttering a piece of toast or making a peanut butter sandwich with a butter knife, you whip it out and go: ‘You call that a knife mate?!’

 

[dublinbluenose]

Sunburned racists

 

[Rita_Poon]

Some of the greatest slang, the most brutal put downs, and anywhere that gave Cahill some world cups and the rest of the world, dame Eds, Clive James, and Germaine Greer is alright in my book. Campese, Warne, a fleet of swimmers, Cathy Freeman, Airbourne, the Minogues, Chopper, and Mick Dundee are all just cherries on a cake of joy.

 

[cronullasharks]

So then can I assume that you don’t walk around with a huge Bowie knife attached to your belt and every time you see someone buttering a piece of toast or making a peanut butter sandwich with a butter knife, you whip it out and go: ‘You call that a knife mate?!’

I've never bothered to watch crocodile dundee, always thought paul hogan was a tit.

 

[summerisle]

lol

 

[BNJ1878]

I'll forgive them for their whiney accents if just one of those aboriginal hating immigrants manages to get an Inland Taipan into Nigel Farages tent.

 

[perth_blue]

lol

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