Pommy and aussie Translation thread (Page 2)

howdya pull up? = How are you feeling? (normally after a big night of drinking)

Mel, don't foget wanker. I confused many a yank with that one. I told one guy in a bar in NC that it meant he was a really good guy. Needless to say he called all his mates wankers for the rest of the night. I was amused at least.

What about
hoo roo = goodbye
cobber = mate / friend
ANZAC = group terminology for kiwis and aussies
Rugby = real football no padding (ok mel I you can include AFL in this one if you have to)
Aerial ping pong= AFL (just to piss ya off mel, althgh I am a fan as well)
Sheila = woman
Good sort = good looking sheila
Slap and tickle = well we all know what goes here
Schooy = Schooner (mid sized beeer glass 400ml)
Stubby = beer bottle
Slab/carton = box of 24 beers

Had to start educating the nrthern types.

Dunny door = commodore (type of car)

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Bogans apply here!!

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Hi Mel, yip can get Tim Tams over here, mmm yum! Also Sultana Pasties I don't think you guys have them over there.... Promite is definitely No.1 compared to Vegemite I reckon!

And by the way you americans.... biscuits are like chocolate biscuits/cookies - we don't call them cookies over here :-)  Your Biscuits are I think scones or something over here

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Hehe, wanker is such a common phrase over here, or the shortened version, eg "what a wank" means that person is such a wanker LOL. Yeah and scone is pronounced like gone..... do you have savory scones over there like cheese ones or bacon ones?


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Edited by Chris Tree 2005-10-05 4:58 AM

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What happened to the Lions this year??!!!  WCE and Swans in the Grand Finals, WTF?!

This whole thread makes me think about the movie European Vacation when Chevy Chase is in England and the clerk says something to him and he pulls out his translator and starts to translate till his son tells him he was speaking english.
I don't have a clue about what you guys are talking about but I really want to go to Australia and NZ some time in the near future.

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Whats strange over here recently is the use of the word Bollocks on TV, in prime time...Lost i think was one and cant remember the other but it was said in the right context ( by the hobbit dude in Lost). Seems like the writers were trying to get one over on the FCC....next comes Wanker or Tosser i bet!
BTW - i am an Expat and i approve this thread

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I have been accused of being a two-pot screamer.

Expat brit of course....!

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