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valinors_sorrow · Dec 14, 2006, 04:47 PM

Well maybe I am showing the range of circles I travel in :o but in America a sailer is more like an ex-hippie who turned a relaxed version of Sierra Club member if Sierra Club members were pirates instead? :p

And aye-deens were the way the aussies referred to the 18 meter racing boats there--- very fast lovelies.

valinors_sorrow · Dec 14, 2006, 04:48 PM

Mrs Curly--What in tarnation is char? Eeew!

And yes you do SKELLY, what is a pommie, apart from being hygiene phobic?

Curlyben · Dec 14, 2006, 04:49 PM

Hey Skell one for you.
"Austrailia the land where men are men and sheep are nervous"

curlybenswife · Dec 14, 2006, 04:50 PM

Ill give you a clue milk and suger dear??

Curlyben · Dec 14, 2006, 04:51 PM

Well for the uncultured amongst us char comes from char lady, the person that brings the TEA around.
You know TEA that hot beverage made from stewed leaves, served with milk or lemon.

Pommie - Used as a disparaging term for a British person, especially a recent immigrant.
Ps it's the French that don't wash not the Brits ;)

valinors_sorrow · Dec 14, 2006, 04:55 PM

I love tea but I understand the UK is being taken over by coffee, is that true?

Geoffersonairplane · Dec 14, 2006, 04:55 PM

What about petrol as opposed to gasoline?

Sorry, has that one been covered, I was asleep.. :)

Curlyben · Dec 14, 2006, 04:57 PM

Come on Geoff wake up it's only midnight ;)

Skell · Dec 14, 2006, 04:59 PM

Originally Posted by Curlyben

Hey Skell one for you.
"Austrailia the land where men are men and sheep are nervous"

Ben, that is our Kiwi friends. ;)

We have enough sheilas to go around with out going down that path!

Haha

Capuchin · Dec 14, 2006, 05:01 PM

I thought it was the Welsh.

Skell · Dec 14, 2006, 05:02 PM

POM stands for Prisoner of Motherland.

Which being a convict settlement, the original australians were in fact prisoners of motherland (England)

It has just got to the point today where we call all our English friends a pommy!

It is actually a term of endearment.

And don't we have a lot poms here at the moment with the Ashes being on. Only Ben and geoff no what I'm on about now!

The welsh,

They are a different kettle of fish all together.

valinors_sorrow · Dec 14, 2006, 05:06 PM

I once had a friend (happened to be gay) who liked to talk in a fake british accent. He was good at it (or so I thought LOL) and so I began to mimic him. We were sitting at the Sun Café outside one day having lattes and chatting like this when a British tourist with the most propah Queen's accent stood up and bawled us out for making fun of her when we didn't even know she was there. At the very end of the tirade, the one line I can recall of her indignation was how we "weren't even doing it correctly!!" :eek:

(We never did it again either) :o

Skell · Dec 14, 2006, 05:09 PM

Hahaha very good Val.

I must admit, so many Americans think they can talk with a perfect Aussie accent. They are so far wrong it isn't funny. It borders on insulting.
LOL!!

valinors_sorrow · Dec 14, 2006, 05:12 PM

And why are the Welsh different fish? LOL

Skell · Dec 14, 2006, 05:13 PM

Different kettle of fish?

Just means they are a different lot. Or so the poms keep telling me!

valinors_sorrow · Dec 14, 2006, 05:15 PM

Well I do know that you can understand the English and you can understand the Irish but I swear the Scot we had in our office, it was a full week before I realised he was speaking english too!

Capuchin · Dec 14, 2006, 05:18 PM

Ahhh the scots, I have a good friend from glasgow and I phoned a florist to get some flowers delivered to her to cheer her up... and this florist I could not understand at all... she would keep garbling and laughing... so I would laugh too... seemed to work

Luckily my friend's accent isn't so bad... :)

Skell · Dec 14, 2006, 05:19 PM

Anyway,

I better shoot through (leave) and leave you bludgers (lazy person, layabout) to keep it up.

And just one to leave you with Val.

Next time you and your husband are enjoying each others company in an adult manner, once he is getting quite excited you can comment on his ability to "crack a fat" (get an erection).

Hooroo (goodbye)

Love the Scots. Now they are dry as a pommies towel with there sense of humour.

Had a cab ride in Glasgow once and didn't understand a word he said except for 'time to pay'!
LOL

What a "rip snorter" (great, fantastic - "it was a rip snorter of a party") of a thread!

valinors_sorrow · Dec 14, 2006, 05:23 PM

LOL Ta Skelly, I shall keep that phrase on the tip of my tongue! :p
Wooohooo LOL

Thomas1970 · Dec 14, 2006, 05:32 PM

Okay, I'll add a few to the list that haven't been mentioned. Correct me if I'm wrong. And please be kind. I'm only one quarter English and a full half Polish, mind you. The other quarter is Scotch-Irish :)

"Lolly" = Truck
"Tube" = Subway
"Flat" = Aparatment
"Shanty" = Beer and Lemonade (helps keep the kid quiet while your at the pub, and most notable for starting Ozzy Osbourne on his famous path of excess)
"Sod Off!" = F**k off! :eek: :D
"" = Testicles. Or "I really screwd that up!"
"Shag" = Engaging in sexual intercourse
"Randy" = Horny. Something no self-respecting Brit would ever consider naming his kid! Though it does lend itself to a great joke with gullible American tourists of such the moniker. :)