paul30

that sounds bleedin rank dun't they know how to make yorkshire pud over there.

loz

It would be easier to find a cure for the common cold than make proper yorkshires here mate...........................I've tried every permutation but still can't get 'em right.

Loz x

paul30

1 egg to every 2 ounces of plain flour, milk (about equal measure to flour) pinch of salt and pepper (that recipe has never failed me yet)

sasbear

Mardy!

No one even knows what it means here - I tried to explain it and the nearest Oz translation is 'sukki lala' WTF - doesn't quite have the same ring to it - does it?

TiddlyPom

Aussie flour is more finely milled. Make sure you use an Aussie recipe!

paul30

I'll be over there in about 6 weeks so I'll have to get experimenting

TiddlyPom

My first one, using Delia's recipe, came out awful... it had a hard crust on the top like shoe leather. The underneath was ok though, but it was a bit of a surprise for me.

mooncat

Kecks = trousers
shithouse
puddled = confused
minging
bedding!!!!
duvet!!!
brew = tea/coffee



proper cup of tea (they all look at me strange in work when I have a brew with two tea bags)

it's getting a bit boring now having to repeat stuff but what really cracks me up (still) is being in the bedding section of Big W and chatting to a woman and she asked where we're from and we said Manchester and the look on her face was a pure kodak moment.

TrickyTree

When I slip into Nottingham slang I get many blank looks

Ayup = hello
Me sen = myself

I was also down Caloundra at the weekend and told the MIL that I wanted a sucker (ice lolly) which got a very vacant look.

Wol

Two words:

"Thank" and "you"

Rarely hear them spoken together.

Vim Fuego

'Field Goal'

Timber Floor Au

rank

codswallop

ace

minted

ruby murray

chinky

raj ( as in indian )

twatted

3 sheets to the wind

arseholed

manky

lob on

bog

and for god sake its MAROON with 2 o's not MARONE

quoll

You probably dont want to mention Gordon Bennett to the older Aussie generation. He was a soldier, not held in very high regard by those who remember the war because he was in charge at the fall of Singapore but managed to save himself leaving his troops to sample the delights of Changi POW camp and the Burma railway (my FIL, a very civilized man who spent the war in Changi, was less than polite when I used GB! as an expletive when newly arrived)

I always lead to confusion with flog - in UK to sell, in Aus to steal. I still say it the UK way though.
Other favourites:
Blower
Jobsworth
Gobsmacked (although that is entering the Aussie vocab)

themerlin

LOL Have you ever passed that chinese restaurant on the corner of Days and Grange road called the Ming Inn , makes be smile but the locals don't get it

koogar

James Gordon Bennett:-
In 1877, he left New York after an incident that ended his engagement to socialite Caroline May. According to various accounts, he arrived late and drunk to a party at the May family mansion, then urinated into a fireplace in full view of his hosts.

What a guy!!