I wear thongs as often as possible



Fair Dinkum basically means "really?"

i.e "Did you hear steve's wife slept with another bloke?"

"fuck... Fair Dinkum?"

From Bondi's description, "muffin top" is the extreme form of "love handles." And he is absolutely correct about living with an absence of mirrors (and the least bit of personal vanity to know what mirrors are for.

I am as vain as they come!

Muffin Top is not necessarily the "extreme" love handles, more just they way how men or womens fat resemble's a muffin top when it over hangs jeans/pants that are too tight or too low riding

Or a penis's helmet...?

haha I guess it would be apt for that as well

Word: Mate

Now I know this is not a uniquely Australian word but we Aussies use it in a very unique way. Basically "mate" means friend, companion etc but basically everyone in Australia is a "mate" whether they be your best friend or some guy you just abused in a bout of raod rage.

e.g 1: Hello mate, how are you today?
e.g 2: Where the fuck did you get your licence from mate? You're a fucking retard!

I just love how we use this word

haha, you've only missed 25 weeks.


anyway, we hardly ever use the word "mate" in Canada in that sense althugh I here British people use it all the time to. We don't really have one term to encompass all those situations like you do with mate. We use various terms like dude, man, brother, guy, douchebag.

25 weeks? Well thats the Australian way!

We use "dude" and "man" a little but that has been brought in by American culture. Brother is used sparingly mostly by Aussie's of pacific Island/New Zealand background. You will never hear an Aussie bloke say Guy or Douchebag... you can get punched for that shit here

Oh I never said you wouldn't get punched haha.

touche

Well at least YOU will have some Aussie lingo to use if you ever visit these shores, the other douchebag's in here couldn't give a fuck

Damn, and I was thinking they spoke english there

I have a Canadian slang for ya. Actually if you ever meet another "mate"from Saskatchewan and they are wearing a hooded sweatshirt, compliment them on there bunny hug. The rest of the universe calls it a hoodie or hooded sweatshirt but for some reason people from Saskatchewan call it a bunny hug, no idea why.

Sesceptibility to gayness... perhaps from something in the water there??

Even Aussies call them Hoodies and we have a different name for everything!

Thanks for the heads up, I am always open to useless bits of trivia

Yes mate we do. Its also quite common too call everyone boss especially if they ask you something then you answer with yes boss, or yes chief. If anyone has any polish phrases would be handy, theres lots of polish people live near me now and im sure they are talking about me, plotting or summin either that or they are stunned by awesomeness

Let them do so in the POLISH thread

Yeah, my buddy who is from Canada, moved to Poland to teach English 5 years ago. Anyway, he and his Polish girlfriend just moved to England and he says there seem to be just as many Polish people there as there were in Poland. If you need anything translated let me know.....in the polish thread of course

Where is that thread exactly?

Right Here

second best thread ever.

for the best thread ever, please click here

Idiots

that would explain why we all get along.

touche

New word of the week, not really Aussie, more pommy slang but anyway;

Toey: To be antsy, eager, champing at the bit, basically horny and want sex!

so toey could turn into goey ( gooey )

I kill me

do u aussies have a word for brutal attempt at humour?

I believe it's swingandamiss

I give up

Yeah its UncleBuck

Oh and UB, Goey in Australia is slang for Speed, as in the drug speed

What the FUCK???

o.O... I swear my grandma has that stuff.
Maybe I'm going nuts.
I think so...

or maybe my grandma is a hardcore criminal..

Call the Terror Hotline!!!

Maybe it's one of these, the poms eat it, we think it's shit...

Wait.. what are poms??

You need to read this thread from the first page! I swear I talk as normally as I can when i am on here because if I used as much slang as I do in reality none of you would know what the fuck im talking about. Every now and then I slip up.

A Pom/Pommy is a person from England

LOL I thought you meant the dog..
we have a pom.. she's all over my myspace haha.

Oh yeah those dogs, my wife wants a dog like that.

Sweet shades by the way

LOL that's not my dog.. that's a random one I found when I googled "Pomeranian." Ours is brown and weights about 4 pounds... I would never have owned one but she was at the store I worked at and got really sick and I had to take care of her... besides that we have two Australian Shepherd/Husky/Border Collie mixes. They're cute as heck.

Just like their human counterparts

I added pictures... the brown one is Hershey, the black one is Spirit.. and the red one is Cherry.

our silky x

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my english stafffy as a puppy

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our long hair chihuahua, ate a toad r.i.p.

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sorry about the pic quality

What on earth has happened to my Aussie thread?

well.. you said poms and it kinda took off from there.

I'll have to think of some more Aussie slang words you guys wont know about

ooo speaking of a Pom came into my work... and he had a wife and a little boy with him. and the little boy in a cute little english accent said to his mom, "Excuse me miss where is your husband?" and she laughs and goes, "Where is your wife?" I don't know... the accent made it... I was trying so hard not to laugh.

and the husband... he looked a wee bit like you mr. bondi. At least he reminded me of you.

He must have been a striking young man

I can do one hell of a good english accent too

I believe you can get it in Canada still. I think I may try it sometime just cuz.


What kind do you reccommend.

After our discussion about differences between New Zealand and Australia(there is a wiki page devoted to this in fact), I was watching the NZ all blacks thrashing of Canada and was listening to the NZ announcers and I can indeed notice a difference in accents. When they say 10 it sounds like teen. Their accent sounds kinda like how the Simpsons tried doing the Aussie accents, at lease in my opinion.

I love Australian accents... sexy as hell!!

I guarantee you'll hate it, probably like that clamato juice or whatever the fuck that stuff is you add to beer?

Go the Vegemite, middle jar!



Oh god the Simpsons take on our accent is the worst. As a rule most American's that try and do our accent end up sounding like Kiwi's. It is frustrating when I watch LOST. You have the actual Aussie Clare and then when they do flashbacks they sound nothing like Clare.

Oh and I saw bits and pieces of that game. The All Blacks are a dominating team! Have you guys qualified for the world cup?




I'll have to record my voice one day and post it

I dunno. There's almost no food I don't like.


They sure are!
I don't follow rugby too closely but watch it now and again. Canada's rugby program is getting pretty good in recent years. We're still not near the top of the heap in the international world but it's not like our soccer team vs the rest of the world. In rugby we can actually compete.
And Canada did qualify for the world cup in a thrashing of the US team.

Funny enough, there's actually a thread for just that purpose. This place has EVERYTHING. I wonder if there's a place in here where I can check out some boobs!