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I have read this thread with Ozzie Man's voice in my head.
https://i.imgur.com/1qBoiAi.mp4
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It's false because it's nonsense mostly. Adelaide isn't even a real place, look it up. |
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Sep 23, 2021 14:32
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Mormon Nailer posted:It's false because it's nonsense mostly. Adelaide isn't even a real place, look it up. Adelaide? more like Radelaide! |
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Sep 23, 2021 15:23
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alright my fellow orbs - here's some more possible aussie idioms coming in hot and fresh from the arse end of the world! 1. she'll be apples 2. banana bender 3. not within cooee 4. crack a fat 5. dingo's breakfast 6. fremantle doctor 7. hooley dooley 8. jumbuck 9.hooroo 10. ridgy-didge 11. gungaflog 12. rip snorter and a bonus 13. pig's arse are any of these real? and if so what do they mean? |
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Sep 23, 2021 15:32
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rip snorter is not real because if it was it’d be rippa snortah
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Sep 23, 2021 15:38
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Stoner Sloth posted:alright my fellow orbs - here's some more possible aussie idioms coming in hot and fresh from the arse end of the world! Full disclosure: I'm a pommie and my bestie married an Aussie lass, so I have a headstart on 'strine vernacular (I'm sure I only know a small amount of it though) 1. It'll be fine 2. someone from QLD lol 3. a long way away 4. lol this one is  5. going hungry 6. not heard this before 7. or this one 8. One of AUs most prominent species, the humble sheep 9. another one I don't know 10. this phrase is ridgy-didge alright 11. this one is definitely not ridgy-didge 12. something very good or exceptional 13. is no 11 proper aussie slang? Pig's arse |
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Sep 23, 2021 16:24
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Stoner Sloth posted:alright my fellow orbs - here's some more possible aussie idioms coming in hot and fresh from the arse end of the world! last time I said all fake (wrongly), this time I'm saying all real 1. they'll get better (after "apple a day") 2. vegetarian diet 3. nowhere close 4. open a beer, especially a big one 5. dead 6. drug dealer 7. a very religious type 8. lively, active ("she's positively jumbuck this morning") 9. spooky ("that 'ouse is well hooroo mate") 10. okay, as in "roger dodger" 11. intoxicated (this is my default answer for most slang tbh) 12. a good/wild time 13. spectacular, wonderful
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Sep 23, 2021 16:44
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Stoner Sloth posted:
I swear I've seen this as a German insult for someone with a meaningless job or something like that |
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Sep 23, 2021 17:00
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nesamdoom posted:I swear I've seen this as a German insult for someone with a meaningless job or something like that drat, now you mention it I think there is one about someone who measures the bend on a banana British slang has "chocolate fireguard" and "ashtray on a motorbike" for similar useless things |
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Sep 23, 2021 17:10
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Hooroo is deffo real (ridgey didge?) but i forgie what it meansie |
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Sep 23, 2021 17:15
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NumptyScrub posted:drat, now you mention it I think there is one about someone who measures the bend on a banana we also have 'useless as tits on a bull/mule' |
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Sep 23, 2021 17:15
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nesamdoom posted:I swear I've seen this as a German insult for someone with a meaningless job or something like that I looked it up and it literally is "Bananenbieger" or "banana bender" Dein deutsch is besser als meins 
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Sep 23, 2021 17:31
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NumptyScrub posted:I looked it up and it literally is "Bananenbieger" or "banana bender" avatar: the last bananabender a show about being the only useless person in the entire world everyone else is very competent and treats them as a very interesting novelty
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Sep 24, 2021 00:17
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NumptyScrub posted:I looked it up and it literally is "Bananenbieger" or "banana bender" Ich lerne. Ich kenne klein Deutsch. It's just kinda funny to see the same thing used in English. A: I'd watch for this biosterous posted:avatar: the last bananabender |
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Sep 24, 2021 01:23
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alnilam posted:Hooroo is deffo real (ridgey didge?) but i forgie what it meansie my brain keeps completing it as "hooroo.com" . . . which actually appears to be an active website, interesting
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Sep 24, 2021 05:57
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Stoner Sloth posted:alright my fellow orbs - here's some more possible aussie idioms coming in hot and fresh from the arse end of the world! alright some good guesses here - and now for some answers! 1. it'll be alright, things will work out 2. a person from queensland (also lol at the additional meaning someone pointed out here, that is rad) because queensland grows a lot of bananas 3. far away or not even close - can be used for distance or metaphorically 'that isn't within cooee of being acceptable' 4. to get an erection 5. to wake up, have a yawn, take a piss and take a look around - no food involved 6. the fremantle doctor is a cooling sea breeze that hits the western australian city of Perth on summer afternoons coming in from the direction of Freemantle 7. aussie version of holy moly - an exclamation of surprise 8. a sheep - most famously from a song about stealing them called 'waltzing matilda' 9. goodbye 10. authentic, honest, genuine article 11. this one is fake, i made it up 12. brilliant, great or fantastic - 'that was a real rip snorter of a party the other week!' and our bonus number 13. no way, not a chance, i disagree, that's full of poo poo - 'give you five bucks for that lamp?' 'pig's arse you will! it's worth at least twenty!' the reason for the bonus there is that it was most famously used by ex-LNP politician and long time president of Carlton football club John Elliot who died the day i put up these idioms. he was heavily satirized back in the day by a show called 'rubbery figures' (a term meaning manipulated accounting especially by government) which used puppets to make fun of political leaders of the day. never agree with the guys politics but seemed appropriate to include thank you all for playing, stay tuned for more idioms soon! |
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Sep 24, 2021 08:59
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Stoner Sloth posted:okay got a few terms for today ill be honest even as an australian ive never heard on the wallaby so thanks! |
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Sep 24, 2021 10:06
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BALLS DILDO posted:ill be honest even as an australian ive never heard on the wallaby so thanks! no wuckers mate! yeah it's an old one - i think it's from the 19th century originally but i have seen it in newspapers in the last five-ten years, definitely not as common as it used to be tho also feel free to join in with your own possibly made up idioms and facts! |
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Sep 24, 2021 11:23
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I have attempted to explain a "bogan's BBQ" (I last heard that used a looooong time ago) to people before but they just kind of look at me funny because they don't actually believe anyone would use old tyres to cook roo and yet Western Australia vOv even people from WA don't fuckin get WA |
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Sep 24, 2021 12:51
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Stoner Sloth posted:a show called 'rubbery figures' |
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Sep 24, 2021 14:07
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Oh holy lol trust the Aussies to come up with the literal best name for a Spitting Image type show, that is a rip snorter of a title |
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Sep 24, 2021 15:14
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This absolutely rules. |
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Sep 24, 2021 15:35
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Stoner Sloth posted:alright some good guesses here - and now for some answers! hey I was vaguely right on a few! guess that makes me an honorary outback mouseketeer, as we strayans say.
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Sep 24, 2021 15:44
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I have one. What is the difference between a cockie in Australia and a cockie in NZ? Neither means acting arrogantly, which is also common to both places. Hint: User Displeased Moo Cow is considered a cockie in NZ. |
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Sep 26, 2021 04:36
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I'm laughing so hard I'm crying, Jesus |
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Sep 26, 2021 12:10
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alright friends, it's time for another edition of Australian idioms with Stoner Sloth! here's some more possible aussie idioms that you can decide if they're real or not and if so what they might mean!! 1. aerial ping-pong 2. dobbing 3. flash as a rat with a gold tooth 4. donkey vote 5. trackie daks 6. yakka 7. gnell 8. wowser 9. uey 10. stoush 11. dingo in the crib 12. spunk rat 13. chuck a sickie have fun guessing! |
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Sep 29, 2021 19:20
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1. fake. if it's real, it means swatting flies. 2. fake. if it's real, it means playing hooky. 3. real. ironically it means fake, pretentious 4. fake. if it's real, it means the opinions of anyone in the back seat of a car. 5. fake. if it's real, it means sneakers/running shoes. 6. fake, if it were real it would be "yakka dakka" or something like that. if it's real, it means yakitori/skewered food. 7. fake. if it's real, it's short for "good nelly" which is an exclamation like "good grief!" 8. fake! 9. fake!! 10. real. it's the australian way of saying "stash," hidden trove 11. fake. 12. fake! 13. real. it means to do a good one, to perform well.
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Sep 29, 2021 21:44
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Stoner Sloth posted:alright friends, it's time for another edition of Australian idioms with Stoner Sloth! 1. Real, radio interference / static noises 2. fake 3. real, implying something bad dressed up as something good, or as mark twain might put it, gilded poo poo 4. Real, i like manifisto's interp of someone irrelevant's opinion that won't be listened to 5. Real, running shoes 6. real, i just feel it in my bones that this one is real but have no guess what it is 7. Fake 8. This one isn't even strictly strayan! Means wow 9. Real, hey/oi/gday 10. Fake 11. Real, fox in the henhouse 12. Real, lively/energetic person who is rough around the edges 13. Real, puke |
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Sep 29, 2021 21:52
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A tradie might chuck a sickie in order to avoid a day of hard yakka. |
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Sep 29, 2021 23:35
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Stoner Sloth posted:alright friends, it's time for another edition of Australian idioms with Stoner Sloth! 1. football, but the Australian one not soccer or the one Lock runs 2. telling, snitching 3. never heard this one 4. writing numbers in order, but on an official electoral ballot (only relevant to ranked voting systems) 5. not heard this one 6. labour intensive work; being a brickie is hard yakka 7. not heard this one either 8. (UK) exclamation of surprise, if AU have a different meaning I am not privy to it 9. a U turn in the road. Pulling a u-ey can be illegal in many circumstances in AU 10. never heard this one 11. not heard this one 12. attractive person 13. take a sick day from work when technically not ill Barking Gecko posted:A tradie might chuck a sickie in order to avoid a day of hard yakka. Also this |
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Sep 30, 2021 01:54
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some interesting guesses, i'll keep it open a little longer in case anyone else wants to jump in! |
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Sep 30, 2021 03:58
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NumptyScrub posted:9. a U turn in the road. Pulling a u-ey can be illegal in many circumstances in AU If this is right then this one is also pretty common in the US. I've never seen it written though and might have misinterpreted it; when I saw "uey" i thought it was pronounced like you would pronounce "hue" in spanish |
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Sep 30, 2021 18:11
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time for some answers!Stoner Sloth posted:alright friends, it's time for another edition of Australian idioms with Stoner Sloth! 1. AFL or aussie rules football - based in large part on a game invented by the first nations people here called 'marngrook' by some of the groups that played it. this term is often used derisively or jokingly 2. snitching or ratting on someone 3. ostentatious, too flashily dressed for the occasion, well groomed but a bid dodgy NumptyScrub posted:4. writing numbers in order, but on an official electoral ballot (only relevant to ranked voting systems) this exactly - usually done by people who don't a give poo poo. australia has mandatory voting and you must be registered. if you fail to vote you'll be fined. our voting system works differently depending on the house - the lower house uses what's called preferential voting while the upper house uses proportional voting. both are ranked, instant run off type systems rather than first past the post 5. track suit pants - daks are pants in general, to be dakked is the same as to be pantsed and underwear is often called underdaks. trackie daks are the most common use of the term though. 6. work generally physical, hard yakka is the most commonly used form of the expression and is just particularly exhausting/difficult/tough physical work 7. fake gnews (made it up) 8. someone who is puritanical or prudish, a person who attempts to shame or censor people and the things they enjoy. a wowser might write letters to the editor about naked statues at the art gallery or complaining about declining moral standards in the young people of today 9. a u-turn - usually phrased something like 'nah mate, ya missed it and need to pull a uey up here' 10. an argument or fight or brawl, probably taken from the Scots 'stashie' or 'stushie' meaning a quarrel, uproar or commotion 11. like number seven this one is made up 12. an attractive and/or promiscuous person (sorry this one is kinda judgey but that's language for you) - these days more commonly used in the first sense. derived both from 'spunk' in the sense of bravery, chutzpah, plucky (which is also understood in australia in this sense albeit rarely used these days) and also in the sense of semen. 13. take a day's sick leave without medical reason, a very australian thing to do - though to be fair australians actually work very long hours compared to many countries and work a large amount of unpaid overtime because capitalism is a right cun... ...nyways folks that's all for this time? how did you do at home? this is stoner sloth and i'll be back next time for more australian idioms with stoner sloth!! |
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Sep 30, 2021 18:29
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lol some fun surprises in there How much aussie slang is adapted from indigenous languages? Some of them just don't seem rooted in english or indeed any indo-european language, like yakka |
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Sep 30, 2021 18:37
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alnilam posted:lol some fun surprises in there some - and well spotted on yakka which comes from the Yagara language of the brisbane region (queensland). it is derived from 'yaga' which meant work. much of it is white folk hearing words and mispronouncing them while incorporating them into the language, also often from pidgin dialects aboriginal languages are a complex thing - before white folk got here there were over three hundred different language groups of varying relation to each other, some of them very, very ancient indeed (like stemming back from before there were modern humans in europe) in all probability |
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Sep 30, 2021 18:42
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but probably a majority of it is taken from UK dialects of various sorts and rhyming slang is commonly understood and sometimes used too - you'd be hard pressed to find an aussie who doesn't get the term 'dog & bone' that someone mentioned in an ad earlier a lot of early australian slang and idioms were probably used for the same reasons to - partly to avoid having the coppers understand you while talking about criminal activities |
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Sep 30, 2021 18:47
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these are a lot of fun!
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Sep 30, 2021 18:59
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Manifisto posted:these are a lot of fun!
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Manifisto posted:these are a lot of fun! |
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