I'm Australian , So I'll let you all get a head start.

“Down the shore” for “to the beach”/“at the beach”.

i am ashamed of being Australian and pretend to be from a part of Europe with no known colloquialisms.

Happyman wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 8:41 am i am ashamed of being Australian and pretend to be from a part of Europe with no known colloquialisms.

Don’t be ashamed. We admire them worldwide. My girlfriend got out of the shower the other day and I made mention of her map of Tazzie. I suppose that makes my junk a map of Florida.

I always liked it when my grandmother said “I’ve got one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.”

I love Australian words, but it would be annoying if people the world over caught on to them and started doing it everytime they meet you. "Ayyy Strayyaa, wanna go for a bevvy??"

Ace TV! = Great!
Hearn = A jock
Gee = Psych = Taking the piss = Am just winding you up
No worries = Goodbye and have a lovely day/thank you
Westie = Hesher
Housing = Projects
Sick cunt = An exceptionally good person
Dog cunt = An exceptionally bad person
Quinten = An exceptionally abnormal person
Warb = An exceptionally abnormal person who lives on the streets.
Bottlo = Liquor store
Pollie = Politician
Arvo = Afternoon
Rellies = Relatives
Rellie bash = Social event with relatives
Dero = see “Warb”
Harry = Heroin
Pingas = Molly
Mull = Weed
Longy = a large bottle of beer
Durries = cigarettes
Rollies = hand rolled durries
Ya = “you”
No wuckers = no wucking furries = see “no worries”

Example: No wuckers ya sick cunts <— strong friendly compliment

Warmest regards from Sydney Australia

Dave N. wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 8:59 am

Happyman wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 8:41 am i am ashamed of being Australian and pretend to be from a part of Europe with no known colloquialisms.

Don’t be ashamed. We admire them worldwide. My girlfriend got out of the shower the other day and I made mention of her map of Tazzie. I suppose that makes my junk a map of Florida.

I always liked it when my grandmother said “I’ve got one foot in the grave and another on a banana peel.”

I was kind of half joking, but there are definitely levels to ones aussieness and I'm definitely on the lower side of the spectrum.

Being Australian has become muuuuuuuuuuuuuch trendier in the last ten years or so, and i think that the awareness of how we were once perceived did something to my character and speech. Even on this forum around 2005 i remember a group of Australians and Australia being treated with genuine disdain.

i also had a pretentious mother that thought she was Princess Dianna and Meryl Streep. Both of them at the same time.

I say "fucking cunt" and "cunt" excessively. i think this is a very Australian thing. Can't think of any colloquialisms i use, though.

I was working with some young Latina ladies awhile back when a particularly rude older Spanglish-speaking woman came to get a Covid test at our testing site. When she left, they kept calling her Yolanda. I asked why they kept calling her that, and they said “A Yolanda is a Mexican Karen.”

Ope = sort of a mix of "oh" and "oops" (midwestern USA)

Odd how that sort of word proliferates. Never really knew I even used it until I traveled away from home and someone asked me (paraphrased) "WTF is 'ope'?"

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Happyman wrote: Tue Jul 05, 2022 9:35 am I was kind of half joking, but there are definitely levels to ones aussieness and I'm definitely on the lower side of the spectrum.

As a Texan who comes from a long line of Texans, I can relate.