What language differences are there?
#31
Re: What language differences are there?
Train them up young to grab the beers from the esky. The kids'll be true little bogans in no time.
#32
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The Milton mango is not a fruit and the Milton Mango tree not a tree.
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As it is in NSW - well 568 ml I think, but what's a couple of ml between friends?
Schooners are 425 ml in NSW - What have you been drinking out of a schooner Beoz? Some pubs serve Schmidis, which is a small Schooner - about 330 ml I think - enough for a bottle of European lager. Though of course they charge the same price as a schooner...
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Schooners are 425 ml in NSW - What have you been drinking out of a schooner Beoz? Some pubs serve Schmidis, which is a small Schooner - about 330 ml I think - enough for a bottle of European lager. Though of course they charge the same price as a schooner...
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#37
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My Cockney rhyming slang is totally stuffed now, as I've got it totally mixed up with the Aussie version.
Billy lids
Dead Horse
Mystery Bags
Lionel Rose
Barry Crocker
Septic Tank
Germaine Greer
Eau de Cologne
Reg Grundys
Oxford Scholar
Joe Blake
Drop Kick
Jimmy Britts
All dying out now though, Not heard any of my kids or their friends use it at all.
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Re: What language differences are there?
My Cockney rhyming slang is totally stuffed now, as I've got it totally mixed up with the Aussie version.
Billy lids
Dead Horse
Mystery Bags
Lionel Rose
Barry Crocker
Septic Tank
Germaine Greer
Eau de Cologne
Reg Grundys
Oxford Scholar
Joe Blake
Drop Kick
Jimmy Britts
All dying out now though, Not heard any of my kids or their friends use it at all.
Billy lids
Dead Horse
Mystery Bags
Lionel Rose
Barry Crocker
Septic Tank
Germaine Greer
Eau de Cologne
Reg Grundys
Oxford Scholar
Joe Blake
Drop Kick
Jimmy Britts
All dying out now though, Not heard any of my kids or their friends use it at all.
#39
Re: What language differences are there?
I think most of those must have been regional - perhaps just Sydney - and with a limited life. The only one on your list that I remember from when I lived in Oz is "Joe Blake", which in the Queensland bush was a snake. But that may have meant something different where you live(d). At a guess, your "Reg Grundys" meant "undies", but men's underpants in my day were "dungers". I don't even know who Reg Grundy was! We didn't use all that much rhyming slang, and much of it was freshly minted by comedians.
Reg Grundy was a famous TV producer ..... His most famous TV shows being Neighbours, Sale of the Century, and Blankety Blanks.... he did 100's of others though.
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Re: What language differences are there?
The whole lot are heard in Melbourne amongst people of my Vintage. Joe Blake, definitely snake in Melbourne as well.
Reg Grundy was a famous TV producer ..... His most famous TV shows being Neighbours, Sale of the Century, and Blankety Blanks.... he did 100's of others though.
Reg Grundy was a famous TV producer ..... His most famous TV shows being Neighbours, Sale of the Century, and Blankety Blanks.... he did 100's of others though.
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In the Queensland of my earlier days (I left when I was 23), we used very little rhyming slang, and what we did use was generally done self-consciously. A Jimmy Riddle was a pee, but again the use was self-conscious. We would say we had to see a man about a dog, but that too was a semi-joke euphemism. In the bush the language tended to be laconic - we rarely used an unnecessary syllable. Our all-purpose greeting was "G'day"; "g'day, mate" was scorned as poofy Southern gabbiness!
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I have that other thread in The Barbie that asks what happened to the slang of decades ago, and your thread here adds to my confusion. To think that only one of the terms on your list meant anything to me! My guess for Reg Grundys might be right, and I could probably guess what the Jimmy Britts are, but that's all. And I've never heard of either name.
In the Queensland of my earlier days (I left when I was 23), we used very little rhyming slang, and what we did use was generally done self-consciously. A Jimmy Riddle was a pee, but again the use was self-conscious. We would say we had to see a man about a dog, but that too was a semi-joke euphemism. In the bush the language tended to be laconic - we rarely used an unnecessary syllable. Our all-purpose greeting was "G'day"; "g'day, mate" was scorned as poofy Southern gabbiness!
In the Queensland of my earlier days (I left when I was 23), we used very little rhyming slang, and what we did use was generally done self-consciously. A Jimmy Riddle was a pee, but again the use was self-conscious. We would say we had to see a man about a dog, but that too was a semi-joke euphemism. In the bush the language tended to be laconic - we rarely used an unnecessary syllable. Our all-purpose greeting was "G'day"; "g'day, mate" was scorned as poofy Southern gabbiness!