[Capuchin]

Daft - silly.

[Allheart]

Yup as I thought. Now I feel armed with information... thank you :) hee, hee

[Capuchin]

Now for one of my favourites..

How would you react if I slapped your old April?

[Allheart]

You wouldn't make it to May :):):)

[valinors_sorrow]

Oh I love the term daft! And arse, so much better than butt!

And who knows the story about the hand signal of V of victory (palm turned in, not out like the Nixon-famous peace sign) being the UK eqivilency of flipping the bird? Didn't that have to do with the french cutting off the fingertips of the english archers when caught so that to hold those two whole fingers up now is a kind of bugger off signal? Am I getting that tidbit of quirky brit trivia right??

[Capuchin]

Hahahah

More rhyming slang!

April --> April in Paris --> Aristotle --> Bottle and Glass --> Arse.

It was featured in an episode of "only fools and horses"

[Capuchin]

Val!

That's actually a widely believed myth... nobody knows where the insulting V sign originates.

[valinors_sorrow]

Well it's a great myth then LOL

And I think the most used adjective is lovely, even the guys use it... everything is a lovely this or lovely that, just lovely! LOL

[Capuchin]

Actually one of the earliest depictions of it was by a French satirist... something he certainly would not have done if it was a sign of defiance against his country

[Skell]

When are we going to talk some aussie slang

That'll get you bastards confused as this dipstick!

[Curlyben]

Bring it on Skell boy ;)

[Capuchin]

Haha Val you are just lovely m'dear

Skell clear this up for me, do you guys ever call cans "tinnies"?

[valinors_sorrow]

I have to confess, an aussie accent can be a humdinger! I have sailing friends and they kept talking about sailboats as something that's sounding like aye-deens. So I am aye-deening this and aye-deening that to no end trying to figure it out!

Care to explain Skell? Or did this fall flat cos' this more about sailing than Australia?

[Skell]

Right now I'm as full as a boot (drunk) so anything I say can't be read as fair dinkum (real, genuine.

And you prefer arse than butt Val.

I got one for you. How about next time your husband is giving you a gobful tell him you'll give him a kick up the clacker instead of butt.

[valinors_sorrow]

:eek: :eek: :eek: LOL

[Skell]

Skell clear this up for me, do you guys ever call cans "tinnies"?

Only real bogans (person who takes little pride in his appearance, spends his days slacking and drinking beer) drink 'tinnies' down here.

I drink a Stubby (375mL of beer in a glass bottle).

Those type of people "stand out like a shag on a rock" (very obvious)

[Curlyben]

Like it skell
For Val
Ozzie - next time your husband is giving you a gobful tell him you'll give him a kick up the clacker instead of butt.
Brit - Next time your old man is gobbing off at you tell him you're going to kick him in the instead of his arse.

USA- Run and hide under the nearest rock ;)

[Skell]

Sailing is a sport for the filthy rich down here, and probably everywhere. No one here has cared about sailing since Bondy and the boys one the Americas Cup all those years ago.

No what I am talking about?

Curly Ben might like this little aussie saying we have. It is a shot at the poms but they know we love them!

When you are thirsty it is quite common to say "im as dry as a pommies towel". Pommies never shower you see. I don't need to explain anymore do I?

[valinors_sorrow]

Now wait just a minute there, we have a few more guts than that here!! LOL

[curlybenswife]

Ok this is just getting far to amusing anyone for a cup of char??