Aussie Bush Etiquette
 I have translated so that there will be no confusion (I hope) In General: 1. Never take an open stubby (do you have stubbies, its a small bottle of beer) to a job interview. 2. Always identify people in your paddocks (fields to you guys) before shooting at them. 3. It's tacky to take an Esky (I think you call them the same thing) to church. 4. If you have to vacuum the bed, it's time to change the sheets. 5. Even if you're certain you're included in the will, it's rude to take your ute and trailer to the funeral. Eating Out: 1. When decanting wine from the box, tilt the paper cup and pour slowly so as not to bruise the wine. 2. If drinking directly from the bottle, hold it with only one hand. Entertaining at Home: 1. A centrepiece for the table should never be anything prepared by a taxidermist.. 2. Don't allow the dog to eat at the table, no matter how good his manners. (I dunno, I've met dogs who have better manners than some people I know) Personal Hygiene: 1. While ears need to be cleaned regularly, this should be done in private, using one's OWN ute keys. 2. Even if you live alone, deodorant isn't a waste of money. 3. Extensive use of deodorant can only delay bathing by a few days. 4. Dirt and grease under the fingernails is a no-no, it alters the taste of finger foods and if you are a woman it can draw attention away from your jewellery. Theatre/Cinema Etiquette: 1. Crying babies should be taken to the lobby and picked up after the movie ends. 2. Refrain from yelling abuse at characters on the screen. Tests have proven they can't hear you. Weddings: 1. Livestock is a poor choice for a wedding gift. 2. For the groom, at least, rent a tux. A tracksuit with a cummerbund and a clean football jumper can create a tacky appearance. 3. Though uncomfortable, say "yes" to socks and shoes for the occasion. Driving Etiquette: 1. Dim your headlights for approaching vehicles, even if your gun's loaded and the roo's in your rifle sight. 2. When entering a roundabout, the vehicle with the largest roo bar doesn't always have the right of way. (assume the other driver knows this rule at your peril) 3. Never tow another car using panty hose and duct tape. 4. When sending your wife down the road with a petrol can, it's impolite to ask her to bring back beer too. |
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| OH..MIM!!!! You are such a character!!! Much like your Tiggygerl!!!! Thanks for starting off this drab Monday with laughter!!! I think I am going to need it....ALL WEEK!!!!!  |
| Aw Mim, those are so funny. The driving etiquette is very, very similar to West Virginia with all our deer. We have Aussie cousins in Canberra, they are lovely. We have enjoyed the differences in our "English" sometimes too much. Will never forget when we took them to our son's football game to "root" for his team!!! (rooting is same as "shagging" I think) We still laugh about it!! |
ok, mim wth is an esky????  and thanks for this info cause i just learned wth a shrimp on the barby is.  |
Mim wrote: 1. Never take an open stubby [color=#FF0000](do you have stubbies, its a small bottle of beer) to a job interview. 4. When sending your wife down the road with a petrol can, it's impolite to ask her to bring back beer too. We have similar rules in Canada, except that, in the case of Rule 1, it is perfectly acceptable to bring an open stubby to a job interview as long as you have brought a few extra to share with the interviewer(s). In the case of Rule 4, it is perfectly acceptable to ask one's wife to bring back some beer as long as you have provided her with a suitable backpack to carry it in, and the cash to pay for it. Oh, and when you say petrol in your accent, it makes you sound all fancypants!!!! |
Quote: Oh, and when you say petrol in your accent, it makes you sound all fancypants!!!! I'm reminded of listening to Aussie bull riders (for you rodeo fans), I haven't a clue to what they say, but it sounds impressive. Of course if it was Ben Johnson, it would help if he also had all his teeth. Sounds like Aussie Bush Etiquette is equal to most bush etiquette here, granted not many Roo's here. |
| When I was still working one of the therapists that worked for the same company I did was from Australia, any excuse I could use to have to call him I did. Loved listening to him speak. |
| In college my mentor was from New Zealand, chem prof was an Aussie and a history prof was Brit. It was a fun semester. Missed a Scot, Irish and South African for a full meal deal. |
| How did this end up in Pictures? I've been looking all over for it!!! The ghost in the machine is back! An esky is an insulated carrier that you put ice in and then pile in all your perishables. Or if your an Aussie you forget the perishables, bring a bag of chips (you call them crisps) and pile in all your alcoholic beverages to keep them cool. You have to have your priorities right, its hot over here. Kim, how in the hell else do you pronounce petrol? Other than the correct way of course  PET- rull.And you NEVER send the Missus for beer with a backpack over here, it will get warm on the way back. An esky is de rigeur! Warm beer is for the Poms! No self respecting Aussie drinks warm beer, unless there's a power outage. |
| Could esky be short for eskimo? Here we used to call insulated coolers Igloos! It was the main brand for many years. |
SheepieBoss wrote: Could esky be short for eskimo? Here we used to call insulated coolers Igloos! It was the main brand for many years. YES!! sorry how dense of me. They started out life as eskimo coolers but that was before my time.  |
| I love seeing the different names for stuff from around the world. eskys = cooler ute = pick-up truck (can it also refer to an SUV?) petrol = gasoline, or more commonly, just plain 'ol gas I think a "roo bar" is the same thing as our brush bars or push bars. We also call chips, chips. I think the British call them crisps. I think they call some other kind of fried potato a chip (what comes with their fish). More like a french fry. And I'm not sure of the spelling, but you guys call station wagons "lorries". Did I get that right? |
CamVal1 wrote: I love seeing the different names for stuff from around the world. eskys = cooler ute = pick-up truck (can it also refer to an SUV?) petrol = gasoline, or more commonly, just plain 'ol gas I think a "roo bar" is the same thing as our brush bars or push bars. We also call chips, chips. I think the British call them crisps. I think they call some other kind of fried potato a chip (what comes with their fish). More like a french fry. And I'm not sure of the spelling, but you guys call station wagons "lorries". Did I get that right? A ute is a pick up truck, we are too lazy to say utility or heaven forbid utility vehicle so we just shorten it to ute. We call a SUV a four wheel drive or 4WD if we write it, not sure why we havent gotten around to shortening that one. yes a roo bar is a brush bar no we call a station wagon a station wagon. We dont use the word lorry we just have trucks. |
auntybren wrote: Will never forget when we took them to our son's football game to "root" for his team!!! (rooting is same as "shagging" I think) We still laugh about it!! oh dear!!!!!!! I would say I've never heard "shagging" used in reference to cheering on a team. How do I put this - instead of a quickie, a couple would have a "shag"!!  omg, thanks so much for that, I'm going to be giggiling about this for days. |
Guest wrote: and thanks for this info cause i just learned wth a shrimp on the barby is. Actually we call them "Prawns" here the shrimp word came about for the overseas tourists as they had no idea what a prawn was so all the tourist ads referred to them as "Shrimps"  On ya mate.  I laugh with some of our sayings especially when on the phone overseas it is definately a unique ocker lingo and I get HUH sometimes when talking to friends in another country, also we seem to roll our words into one without taking a breath and shorten words, I often get "Slow down Lisa" so we can understand you  Crikeys |
Duffie's mom wrote: auntybren wrote: Will never forget when we took them to our son's football game to "root" for his team!!! (rooting is same as "shagging" I think) We still laugh about it!! oh dear!!!!!!! I would say I've never heard "shagging" used in reference to cheering on a team. How do I put this - instead of a quickie, a couple would have a "shag"!! omg, thanks so much for that, I'm going to be giggiling about this for days. Yep they'd have a shag or a root, hence the hilarity when Aussie were taken to "root" for a team. Pissed is another one that causes confusion. One of my girlfriends from Uni days moved to the US for work and after a big weekend told her workmates that she was pissed on the weekend. They asked her what she was pissed about and she said nothing I just got pissed. They were puzzled and said yes but what were you pissed about. It took quite a while for them to figure out that her American colleagues thought she was angry (pissed) and to an Aussie pissed means drunk. We say we are "pissed off" if we're angry and just pissed if we're drunk. The other doozy I've heard was a 16 year old patient of mine who nearly came straight back home before her exchange student placement even started. Her exchange family came to pick her up at the airport and the Dad asked if she wanted to rest her fanny on a seat, or something to that effect. She was so upset she thought he was a sicko (do you use that word?) Luckily the Mom noticed and found out what was wrong. In Aus a fanny refers to intimate female anatomy not a butt. The poor girl was horrified that a strange man would ask her that. They kill themselves laughing about it now. As you can imagine we dont have fanny packs in Aus they are called bum bags.  |
Mim wrote: Duffie's mom wrote: auntybren wrote: Will never forget when we took them to our son's football game to "root" for his team!!! (rooting is same as "shagging" I think) We still laugh about it!! oh dear!!!!!!! I would say I've never heard "shagging" used in reference to cheering on a team. How do I put this - instead of a quickie, a couple would have a "shag"!! omg, thanks so much for that, I'm going to be giggiling about this for days. Yep they'd have a shag or a root, hence the hilarity when Aussie were taken to "root" for a team. Pissed is another one that causes confusion. One of my girlfriends from Uni days moved to the US for work and after a big weekend told her workmates that she was pissed on the weekend. They asked her what she was pissed about and she said nothing I just got pissed. They were puzzled and said yes but what were you pissed about. It took quite a while for them to figure out that her American colleagues thought she was angry (pissed) and to an Aussie pissed means drunk. We say we are "pissed off" if we're angry and just pissed if we're drunk. The other doozy I've heard was a 16 year old patient of mine who nearly came straight back home before her exchange student placement even started. Her exchange family came to pick her up at the airport and the Dad asked if she wanted to rest her fanny on a seat, or something to that effect. She was so upset she thought he was a sicko (do you use that word?) Luckily the Mom noticed and found out what was wrong. In Aus a fanny refers to intimate female anatomy not a butt. The poor girl was horrified that a strange man would ask her that. They kill themselves laughing about it now. As you can imagine we dont have fanny packs in Aus they are called bum bags. Good thing I learned this! Imagine shopping with an Aussie friend and telling her that her fanny looked great in those pants or something!! And how awkward for those whose first name is Fanny... |
| yikes, thanks mim. i coulda got in a whole lotta trouble if i ever visit. probably could anyway, but real good info. |
Mady wrote: Good thing I learned this! Imagine shopping with an Aussie friend and telling her that her fanny looked great in those pants or something!! And how awkward for those whose first name is Fanny...Bwahahahah! I DARE you! Come on over and we'll go shopping, you can announce out loud to the whole store that my fanny looks good in whatever I'm trying on. It'll be fantastic and the only condition is it has to be a busy Saturday shop not Monday at 9am when the shops are deserted. And I'm sure Lisa will be happy to come along as a witness, I might even let her use my video camera. |
Mim wrote: Mady wrote: Good thing I learned this! Imagine shopping with an Aussie friend and telling her that her fanny looked great in those pants or something!! And how awkward for those whose first name is Fanny...Bwahahahah! I DARE you! Come on over and we'll go shopping, you can announce out loud to the whole store that my fanny looks good in whatever I'm trying on. It'll be fantastic and the only condition is it has to be a busy Saturday shop not Monday at 9am when the shops are deserted. And I'm sure Lisa will be happy to come along as a witness, I might even let her use my video camera. Oh I will take your dare. A Canadian will NEVER submit to an Aussie taunt!!! Pints are on you if I do it! |
Mady wrote: Oh I will take your dare. A Canadian will NEVER submit to an Aussie taunt!!! Pints are on you if I do it! You're on! Except we dont do pints here. I'll shout you a pot or two though. PS NO ONE HAS THE FIRST NAME FANNY HERE!!!! I guess you can figure out why. |
| My favorite non-dog oriented thread on this forum of all time. |
| wow am i ever gonna have a sh*t eatin grin when i visit aunt fanny!!!!!!!!!! |
| And I bet there are no Fannie May candy stores down under either....... http://www.fanniemay.com/index.asp?refc ... ay%20Candy |
| Having lived in the UK for a bit I do recognize some similarities to Aussie slang. I am always pleased with myself when I can figure out Cockney rhyming slang though. Do you Aussies have anything like that as well? |
got sheep wrote: And I bet there are no Fannie May candy stores down under either....... http://www.fanniemay.com/index.asp?refc ... ay%20Candy Nope, never even heard of Fannie May candy.  |
wendy58 wrote: Having lived in the UK for a bit I do recognize some similarities to Aussie slang. I am always pleased with myself when I can figure out Cockney rhyming slang though. Do you Aussies have anything like that as well? ABSU-BL**DY LOOTLY!!!! To use an Aussieism.We have dead horse on our pies, then pay the Jack and Jill before hitting the frog and toad so that the trouble and strife wont be mad because we are late home. Before we go swimming we have a captain cook to make sure there are no Noah's arks about. And we all know that you shouldnt go swimming on your pat malone as its dangerous. |
| Jack & Jill=bill, frog&toad=road, trouble&strife=wife, captain cooks=look, Noah's ark=shark, Pat Malone=alone...but I need a translator for the dead horse on the pie. |
| All correct!! Dead Horse=tomato sauce. |
| I guess I would have to hear you say it. Thanks for a bit o fun Mim. |
| I probably should have mentioned that we like to eat meat pies with dead horse. |
| ...but we pronounce it tomato s-aw-se...doesn't sound like horse...or in American...ketchup! |
| oh sor-s, hor-s |
Mim wrote: I probably should have mentioned that we like to eat meat pies with dead horse. Actually it is "Dogs Eyes and dead horse" Captain cook - is a look Noahs Ark is a "Shark" just to interpret our lingo  Frog and toad - Road Pat Malone - On your own I'll act as interpreter for ya all. Mim I think they think we a some sort of unusual Foreigners with a strange language |
| Ah, but Cockney rhyming slang gets much harder when they drop half -- the rhyming half. THEN try to guess it! LOL (eg "bread and honey" = "money", then the "honey" is dropped leaving just "bread" = "money". Good luck with that!) |
I thought it was dough!!  |
| It might be! |
| ah! the colonies! and their take on English ooops I'll get my coat........................ |
| Yeah you off loaded all the thieves and murders over here. Luckily there were whole bunch of entrepreneurs mixed in. |
| Hmm, not sure what they sent over here to Canada. Poor bastards, I can't imagine leaving sunny old England and arriving in Canada back in the pre-central heating (well, pre-road, pre-home, pre-anything) days. |
Mady wrote: . Poor bastards, I can't imagine leaving sunny old England and arriving in Canada back in the pre-central heating (well, pre-road, pre-home, pre-anything) days. Sunny England "Hey are you drinking  " Anywonder the poms love Australia, Sunshine, great beaches and a warmer climate They sent our past here, now they come in droves to visit or stay and they drink warm beer !!! |
| I often wonder how the convicts coped here in summer. Tents or sheds, sweltering heat, no fridges, no cooling and all those layers of clothes that they had to wear. No deodorant ether. Ewwww |
| always amazed me how well things turned out. haven't met any aussies i didn't like, other than those madmax people. |
| My favourite place if I could move elsewhere - no not OZ (only been to Sydney & just south of it to visit the Rellies), not the US (although only been to a portion of it Carolinas/Georgia/Florida & California), but NZ, more or less have done the lot Now for the Aussie comments about the Kiwi's pronunciations and sayings |
Archies Slave wrote: Now for the Aussie comments about the Kiwi's pronunciations and sayings Fush N Chups And they call an Esky a "Chilly Bin" 1,2,3,4,5,(sex) 6, 7 Zink (Sink) Love NZ it is such a magnificent country I could live there too |
| I have a similiar story about being "pissed"...Years ago while on vacation in Florida we met up with some men from Austraila - nice looking ones too I might add! We hung out with them in the pool and started telling stories and one of mine was about a small fender bender car accident I recently had. The Aussie asked, Were you pissed? And my response was of course I was pissed...he asked, did you get arrested? And I said for what and he said, for being pissed...My friend and I looked at each other and I responded, why would I get arrested for driving pissed? It went back and forth like that until we finally realized he meant "drunk"! and I meant I was mad because I crashed the car!!!:lol: |
| That's so funny, amazing how one word means something else in another country to where one lives Amazing you did not get arrested for being pissed, here off to the slammer if you were pissed and driving |
Ashley wrote: I have a similiar story about being "pissed"...Years ago while on vacation in Florida we met up with some men from Austraila - nice looking ones too I might add! We hung out with them in the pool and started telling stories and one of mine was about a small fender bender car accident I recently had. The Aussie asked, Were you pissed? And my response was of course I was pissed...he asked, did you get arrested? And I said for what and he said, for being pissed...My friend and I looked at each other and I responded, why would I get arrested for driving pissed? It went back and forth like that until we finally realized he meant "drunk"! and I meant I was mad because I crashed the car!!!:lol: Hah, in Canada "pissed" has both those meanings. |
| silly canucks. all things considered, i prefer to hang with the happy pissed. |
| In English angry/annoyed = pissed off Drunk = pissed and a few others Slang words for getting drunk Trollied Muntered Klangered Steaming Lashed Gazumped Bladdered Bazeracked Kettled Mashed Hammered Wombled Blatted Mullered Get messy Willied Klangered http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/1060952.stm |
| Nope dont use any of those here. Just plastered rolling s--t faced smashed totalled And I must have been to rotten to remember any of the others. |
| does this lend to the motherland does more drinkin than any colonies? |
| We've had more time to practice Oh and the beer is better here  |
| Ah, not being a beer drinker I can tell you, beer isn't the only thing here in the US that might get you "pissed" My beverage of choice is wine.... |
| Wine is my beverage of choice too!! |
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