#australianisms

[polyshedron]

Keep seeing people use “smoko” wrong. It’s not a fun word for cigarette. It’s short for smoke break. It’s about the stopping doing

[vanillow]

You saying celestino looks like he would work at eb games just opened my third eye bc he DOES he so so DOES and I don't know how to feel about that 😭

I'm never going to be able to unsee it now 🤚😔

HAHAHAHA IM SO GLAD U SEE IT

he would rock that blue polo like he was born to wear it. he would fetch the pokémon cards from behind the counter with grace and skill 😌

[thorst]

In one of my most Australian moments of recent times, this morning I drove past a billboard for extraction 2 and exclaimed to myself "Ah, Chrisso!"

Yes, we are so dedicated to nicknaming that if someone mostly goes by a nickname (Chris), we will nickname-ify even that

Usually I think of him as Hemsy but apparently his Extraction vibe is one of a Chrisso

[oldcoyote]

was it you who had that australian slang post? i can't find it :(

yep, that was me! it’s over here

[ask-a-vetblr]

🐈 How does ‘mate’ work? You seem to use it when you want to get a point across... help this USA guy out Dr. F :)

Mate is the equivalent of going “Bud” for most of us in US+Canada. So “Yeah mate” is really similar to “Yeah bud” in tone and usage.-Mod @perijules

[allroundlostcause]

In a culture where appearing better than someone is about as bad as treating someone like they’re better than you, it’s a weird term, and the origins are murky. The prevailing theory is that it refers to early Aussie explorers in Antarctica, with the concept that some lackey might literally piss in your pocket so you can warm your fingers and continue working, the implication being that someone who is willing to piss in someone’s pocket is not as good as the person whose pockets are being pissed in. It really means, “This is not flattery”.

The other side is, because this is usually in the negative (”I don’t want to piss in your pocket”), the closely aligned “Don’t piss in my pocket and tell me it’s raining” is interesting because I think Aussies are actually harder on anyone caught in a lie than many other similar cultures. So it might be more like “I don’t want to tell you how amazing you are without clear evidence”.

This might be ENTIRELY apocryphal. But it’s a common Aussie term, and I’m not sorry. You can keep it.

@meredithcheats & @misshoodoolady

[allroundlostcause]

pbk: Okay

pbk: so

pbk: question

pbk: “I don’t wanna piss in your pocket”

pbk: … nope that has to be aussie.

K: aussie

pbk: “I don’t wanna blow smoke up your ass”

pbk: ?

K: yup

pbk: fUCK