Australian PCFers containment thread (1 Viewer)

[stocky]

Creating a thread for the growing number of PCF members from the land down under. Feel free to discuss all things Aussie like Vegemite and thongs.

@Phantom @CHP TD @xdan @B.C. @Mango @doakwolf anyone else??

 

[stocky]

I'll start. Vegemite is awesome. The Roos are the best team in the AFL.

 

[Phantom]

Righto mate. Vegemite is good, sparingly, on fresh white bread with butter, and on white toast with butter. Otherwise it is bloody awful and not many Australians are willing to admit that .

Queensland is the best state to live in, but we don't really want anyone from other states coming to live here. Brisbane is the best city in Queensland, but only the northside. The north-south rivalry of Brisbane is legendary, and has merit - southside sucks.

However, last night at 11PM, it was 29degrees Celsius, and without airconditioning - not cool.

 

[stocky]

Queensland doesn't even have daylight savings. Keep your backwards state but I will be there in July. Visiting my Mum in Cairns.

And don't knock Vegemite. We even use it to marinate roast beef.

 

[bergs]

I just wanted to mention that I'm glad we're containing the Australians because you limeys are nearly uncontrollable individually and a terror when bound together like so many sticks of wood.

 

[Ben]

As an edumacated U.S. American, I am familiar with the major Australian cities of Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, which I assume are more-or-less equivalent to their American or European counterparts.

So what the hell goes on on the rest of the continent? I have no idea, and actually want to know. It's a big place...

And what's the deal with Tasmania anyway? (Besides Tasmanian Devils... )

 

[stocky]

As an edumacated U.S. American, I am familiar with the major Australian cities of Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth, which I assume are more-or-less equivalent to their American or European counterparts.

So what the hell goes on on the rest of the continent? I have no idea, and actually want to know. It's a big place...

And what's the deal with Tasmania anyway? (Besides Tasmanian Devils... )

Think of Tasmania as Americas deep deep south deliverance style. Sorry @doakwolf

The rest is just an empty void. I was working in a mining camp in the middle of Australia. Food and booze was delivered by truck and took 3-4 days to arrive and if it rained the roads were closed and no food or booze for atleast a week.

 

[stocky]

This helps

 

[Señor Tony]

Outside of Brisbane, Queensland is a state trying to balance its major industries of agriculture, tourism and mining in the short term with the environment (necessary long term for two of the three industries) almost always paying the price.

 

[Jeff]

The dingo ate my baiy-bee!

 

[doakwolf]

LOL @stocky I'll pay that one.

Yes, we Tasmanians are deranged gunmen who breed within our families and are surrounded by crazy devils and deadly snakes. Not much else going on down here!

 

[CHP TD]

By Crikey that map of OZ made me laugh so loud..... Not cause it was a joke but because it is more fact than fiction. Fair Dinkum

2 weeks ago i saw a news article where a chopper saw a 7 metre greate white. peoples said you must be lying till they sent a 6 meter boat out to have a look and they said it was bigger than the boat!!!!

The Dani Minogue refrence was just too funny.

Now i have to put on me pluggers and cut a few circles in the paddock with me commie ute mate!

 

[doakwolf]

Please share that Vegemite roast beef recipe, stocky?! Very curious to try it. Don't be trolling, I'm gullible!

 

[ssanel54]

Do any Australians prefer Kathy Ireland over Elle Macpherson? One of the greatest rivalries of all time.

For the record, Im team Elle

 

[CHP TD]

did you see the guy who was filming his mates plugger blowout then foiled a holdup?

Pure Aussie gold right there.

 

[CHP TD]

Do any Australians prefer Kathy Ireland over Elle Macpherson? One of the greatest rivalries of all time.

For the record, Im team Elle

who is cathy ireland - Miranda Kerr Now were talking!

 

[slisk250]

Any of you guys know the current status of Malcolm Young? He has been one of my favorites since 1978 and I briefly met him after they played the old Compton Terrace @ Legend City just after Bon died. What a nice guy he was.

 

[stocky]

Please share that Vegemite roast beef recipe, stocky?! Very curious to try it. Don't be trolling, I'm gullible!

Wife uses Vegemite, crushed garlic and a little water mixed all together then slathers it all over the beef. Then just cook as normal. Makes the best gravy from the juice also.

It's what Vegemite was originally intended for. Basically a stock.

 

[Poker Zombie]

Nothing is correct. Only place I've ever been that the road on the GPS just stopped. We kept driving anyway. Should have known that once Google said "that's far enough" we had already gone too far - but we kept on driving. Eventually the road ended too. Luckily it was a rental car. If I didn't continually accelerate I would have been forever stuck in the ruts that were either left over from the rainy season of from shooting a Mad Max movie.

PS. Don't buy a used rental car in Australia. It may had suffered some damage.

 

[Phantom]

Do any Australians prefer Kathy Ireland over Elle Macpherson? One of the greatest rivalries of all time.

For the record, Im team Elle

Elle McPherson v Claudia Schiffer mate. I know who Kathy Ireland is, and was not aware of such rivalry . No one beats Elle for sheer effortless beauty and curves .

Nothing is correct. Only place I've ever been that the road on the GPS just stopped. We kept driving anyway. Should have known that once Google said "that's far enough" we had already gone too far - but we kept on driving. Eventually the road ended too. Luckily it was a rental car. If I didn't continually accelerate I would have been forever stuck in the ruts that were either left over from the rainy season of from shooting a Mad Max movie.

PS. Don't buy a used rental car in Australia. It may had suffered some damage.

Yeah, the Lord Humungus rules the wastelands .

The man-eating Koalas are also known as 'drop bears'.

 

[Phantom]

Some terms to help you all understand what we're saying.

Aussie : Australian (pronounced ‘ozzee’)
Bloke : man, guy
Bludger : layabout
Bogan : young, immature person
Bushranger : outlaw
Cobber : friend
Dill : an idiot
Drongo : a dope, stupid person
Hoon : hooligan
Jumped up : stuck up
Kiwi : person from New Zealand
Larrikin : a joker
Mate : buddy, friend
Mob : group of people
Mongrel : despicable person
Mug : gullible person
Piker : social misfit / drop out
Pom /pommy : an Englishman
Ratbag : mild insult
Raw prawn ( to come the): to be generally disagreeable
Sheila : a woman (pronounced 'sheelah') - "Crikey, check out that bloke's sheila!"
Shonky : dubious, underhanded
Sook : soft or inoffensive person (pronounced like book)
Stickybeak : nosy person
Stuffed, I feel : I'm tired
Swagman : tramp, hobo (once a jolly swagman ... - Waltzing Matilda)
Tall poppies : successful people
Tall poppy syndrome : the tendency to criticize successful people
Tickets ( to have on oneself): to have a high opinion of oneself
True blue : patriotic
Two pot screamer : person who gets drunk easily
Up oneself : have a high opinion of oneself
Useless as tits on a bull: Incompetent or unhelpful
Yobbo : ignorant person

 

[Phantom]

Some behaviour terms for when we do things.

Aussie salute : brushing away flies with the hand
Bail out : depart often angrily
Bail (somebody) up : to corner somebody physically
Barrack : to cheer on (@stocky says, he likes the Roos footy team. Stocky therefore 'barracks' for the Roos)
Big-note oneself : brag, boast
Blue : fight/argue
Burl : have a go
Captain Cook : look ("let's have a Captain Cook") (Rhyming slang - another issue people have with learning Aussie 'English')
Dob in : to inform on somebody
Dummy, spit the : get very upset at something
Earbashing : nagging
Face, off one's : drunk
Flat out : busy
Flick : to dump your partner
Flog : to sell / steal
Game : up for it (I'm game)
Get up somebody : to rebuke somebody
Gobful, give a : to abuse verbally
Lend of, to have a : to take advantage of someone
Lob in : drop in to see someone
Muster : round up sheep or cattle
Pash : passionate kiss
Perve : looking lustfully at the opposite sex
Pommy shower : using deodorant instead of taking a shower
Rack off : get lost!
Rock up : to turn up, arrive
Root : have sex
Rooted : tired
Ropeable : very angry (fit to be tied)
Rort : Cheating, defrauding
Shoot through : to leave
Sickie, chuck a : have a day off due to illness
Smoko, have a : take a break
Spewin : very angry
Squizz, have a : to look
Technicolor yawn : to be sick
Tee-up : to set up (an appointment)
Walkabout : wander off
Yakka : work (noun)

 

[Phantom]

Some phrases to get you by and blend in like one of the locals.

Ace! : Excellent! Very good!
Arvo : afternoon
Bloody : very
Bloody oath! : that's certainly true
Bodgy : poor quality
Bonzer : great, ripper
Buckley's (you've got): no chance
Bull dust : rubbish
Cactus : dead, broken
Cark it : to die, stop working
Come a gutser : a bad mistake or have an accident
Cooee, not within : figuratively a long way away
Crack a fat : get an erection
Cut snake (mad as a): very angry
Dead dingo's donger (as dry as a): very dry
Deadset : true / the truth
Dinkum / fair dinkum : true, real, genuine
Dinky-di : the real thing, genuine
Fair go : a chance / break
Grouse : great, terrific
Kangaroos loose in the top paddock : Intellectually inadequate
Mate's rate : cheaper than usual for a friend
No worries! : no problem / its okay
Piece of piss : easy task
Pig's arse! : I don't agree
Pozzy : position
Reckon! : for sure
Ripper : Great
She'll be right : it'll be okay
Sparrows fart : dawn
Strewth : exclamation
Stoked : very pleased
Stuffed, I'll be : expression of surprise (not to be confused with 'I'm stuffed', which means tired)
Too right : definitely
Turps, hit the : go on a drinking binge

 

[Phantom]

Righto then. Which of you drongos is game enough to have a burl and not come a gutsa sorting a sentence using Aussie slang!

 

[stocky]

Straya c*nt

 

[Phantom]

 

[tommythecat]

Fake or not..."I'm not here to fuck spiders" is now my go to phrase for that situation.

 

[bergs]

That dropbear situation is ridiculous.

 

[stocky]

That dropbear situation is ridiculous.

Ridiculously scary? yes it is.

 

[Phantom]

Scientists are still baffled as to how it happens. Some say natural selection, meaner society, rogue possums, and possibly the new plutonium treatment plant ...

From this ...

To this!