Aussie slang

[kreeden]

The only people south of me are in Tasmania, and we don't call them Mexicans...

So you are south of Melbourne ? One friend lives in Melbourne , the other in ... just a sec , I will have to look the name up . Canberra .

We call water-proof rubber boot, 'gumboots'. Condoms are sometimes referred to as rubbers here, but mostly it means erasers.

Yes , some call them gumboots here too . Rubbers may be an eastern term ???

I don't know if that was a typo on your part, but it's 'Poms'. And I reckon you're right about the rest.

Another typo . Yes . { I'm have to find an embarassed smilie ... }

 

[SoulTYPE]

Just rip the one from MSN messenger. SOme of the ones here are

 

[Bastet]

So you are south of Melbourne ? One friend lives in Melbourne , the other in ... just a sec , I will have to look the name up . Canberra .

No, I'm about 3 hours west of Melbourne...I just don't consider them to be 'south' of me.

 

[Bastet]

I was talking to mum today about our rhyming slang list, and she reminded me of this one:

Dead Horse - goes well with a meat pie

Another non-rhyming one was 'onky bats', which are shoes. Don't ask me why, they just are.

 

[SoulTYPE]

Isn't a meat pie dead roo, bastet?

 

[kreeden]

I don't think that Canberra was right . Sorry about that . MM lives in Canowindra .

 

[Bastet]

Isn't a meat pie dead roo, bastet?

Figuratively or literally? You just reminded me of a story (true):

My mum went to a business conference, got put up in a swank hotel, and one day at lunch, everyone was served kangaroo pie (maybe it was considered a delicacy? ). Well, what does mum do? She picks up her pie, makes 'kangaroo noises', cocks her head and says "What's that, Skip? Sonny's in trouble?". I'm sure the poor chef who'd slaved over those pies was crushed when most of them were sent back untouched... :biglaugh:

P.S. You'd probably have to be an Aussie to get that joke...'Skippy' was a tv show back when I was a kid, involving a kangaroo called Skippy who used to go around saving the day...I guess the Aussie version of Lassie.

 

[SoulTYPE]

LOL! Skippy, tha t was scary they tried to teach morals in that show.

 

[Isis-Astoroth]

'Apples and pears' is cockney slang...not australian...

 

[Bastet]

'Apples and pears' is cockney slang...not australian...

And Australia was settled with convicts from...where? Yes, that's where it came from originally. A lot of it is the same.

 

[Isis-Astoroth]

That comment seemed slightly patronising Bastet.

 

[Bastet]

Take it how you want, I was just pointing out that's where it came from. A lot of it was also picked up in the trenches by Aussie soldiers in the war. Since it became firmly entrenched in Australian language, it became 'Australian slang'. That doesn't negate the fact that it's 'Cockney slang'. The fact that it originated from 'Cockney slang' doesn't negate the fact that it is 'Australian slang'. Forgive me for trying to inject a little humour into the comment. I'll know better next time...or not.