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Australians, I has a question
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These threads are the reason I love CD
...and why I'm now convince that every time I try not to offend someone I'm going to wind up doing it anyway.
Whenever I buy kiwi's, they're always from New Zealand, never from Australia.
Actually the kiwi in question which the New Zealanders are nicknamed from is actually the native bird rather than the fruit.
I always thought we believed Tasmanians had six fingers per hand, that and excessively colourful t-shirts.
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Well I was bored 
Wide awake ... and we call Queenslanders ... banana-benders.
Wide awake ... and we call Queenslanders ... banana-benders.
Western Australians are Sandgroppers, South Australians are Crow Eaters (the state flag has the piping shrike).
Dunno about people from New South Wales and Victoria (then again i'm a South Australian and we never say anything nice about Victorians and celebrate when we beat then at football
Lookie who's awake now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wide awake ... and we call Queenslanders ... banana-benders.
Western Australians are Sandgroppers, South Australians are Crow Eaters (the state flag has the piping shrike).
Dunno about people from New South Wales and Victoria (then again i'm a South Australian and we never say anything nice about Victorians and celebrate when we beat then at football
Victorians are Mudlarks because of the Yarra River (the river that floats upside down i.e. mud of top).
According to Australian slang dictionaries people from New South Wales are Cornstalks though I never heard the term used myself (and I have often heard Mudlark, Sandgroper, Banana Bender, Apple Eater or Apple Islander etc used)
Can we start slagging on Oklahomans now?
Dunno about people from New South Wales and Victoria (then again i'm a South Australian and we never say anything nice about Victorians and celebrate when we beat then at football
Victorians get called "Mexicans", as (a person from south of the Queensland or New South Wales border)
NSW folks get called Cockroaches.
No. Here is a list of slang for you, to learn more about this great country.
Rii
Rear Admiral
I have heard most of it.
One phrase they didn't have is "strike me pink" which is something my Dad used to say a lot.
And nor does the site mention three words that were common in Tasmania a generation ago and I very occasional still hear
Nointer - a troublesome child
Rum'in - a Strange person
Yaffler - loudmouthed obnoxious person
i still sometimes use the expression that someone "yafflled on and on" meaning they wouldn't shut up.
I believe that these words were once common in some countries of England but died out in the 19th century but lived on in Tasmania and I believe also in Newfoundland.
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My father in law used "dry as a fir shovel" to mean very thirsty.
Now to confuse the issue a little further. The following was a huge hit in the day (1980s), and is an affectionate take on Aussie slang, but also contains a lot of place names: Darwin, Hayman Island, Lord Howe Island, Mount Isa, Eucumbene, Thredbo and Perisher (ski resorts), the Nullabor Plain, Illawara region, Eureka Stockade (scene of miners' revolt), Riverina region, Mount Kosziusko (highest mountain in Oz), Noosa Heads, Adelaide, Hobart, Burnie (where they grow apples), billbong, Bass Strait (dividing Tasmainia from the rest of Oz), and so on. I think non Autralians will find some of it funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyp0yNIjWmY
I was young when it came out, so I laughed immoderately at the lines:
"Hey, where can Marsu pee, Al?
"She can go out back with the fellahs, she's probably seen a cockatoo". The film clip made it funnier.
Now to confuse the issue a little further. The following was a huge hit in the day (1980s), and is an affectionate take on Aussie slang, but also contains a lot of place names: Darwin, Hayman Island, Lord Howe Island, Mount Isa, Eucumbene, Thredbo and Perisher (ski resorts), the Nullabor Plain, Illawara region, Eureka Stockade (scene of miners' revolt), Riverina region, Mount Kosziusko (highest mountain in Oz), Noosa Heads, Adelaide, Hobart, Burnie (where they grow apples), billbong, Bass Strait (dividing Tasmainia from the rest of Oz), and so on. I think non Autralians will find some of it funny:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyp0yNIjWmY
I was young when it came out, so I laughed immoderately at the lines:
"Hey, where can Marsu pee, Al?
"She can go out back with the fellahs, she's probably seen a cockatoo". The film clip made it funnier.
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Just get someone else to do it? *Evil Idea*
Now you have confused new Zealanders with the Welsh.
Thespeckledkiwi
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Go for it! I'm going to slag on the Houstonians, Galvastians and anyone not from Austin or --...raised in Austin. *looks at CD*
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