Please explain the lingo

Status
Not open for further replies.
Don't forget whilst fettling to use the birmingham screwdriver and you only need to move things a gnats chuff across!!

Always wondered why so many engineering terms were anatomically orientated?

Wonderful language the mother country has evolved over the years.
 
If your countries young inhabitants are anything like my countries young inhabitants then
all they seem to want to do is change things. The language WAS very British, then we added Slang and it became Australian
but now it seems our language is becomeing more and more Americanised. When I was young I used to put, pickles, chutney or tomatoe sauce
on my Meat pie, now it is ketchup. Biscuits were either sweet or savoury, now they're crackers or brownies. At school we had three Terms during the year
now we have Semesters. We used to chase Birds, Sorts or Shiellers now they're Chicks. I bought a Motor bike when I was very young, now I own a Motorcycle.
Bottle O... Liquor store.
Dual cab ute... Truck. TRUCK, A BLOODY TRUCK,? If you don't need a special Licence to drive it it aint a TRUCK.
If you played Australian rules football you either played in the Forward lines, the center or the Back lines, now it's DEEFENCE OR OFFENCE.
Buggered if I know, might slip down the pub and grab a carton (slab), check out the birds, and have a punt on the gee gees, by then it will be dinner time
so I'll grab a pastie with sauce, go home and sit in the sun for the arvo and drink piss till the missus comes home, then she'll want a blue about something
so I'll piss off down the rubberty again till stumps.
My neighbour is a nurse in Intensive care, Lots of Chinese nurses in there,... I mean where else would you put someone who doesn't understand the language
let alone read it properly, any way he offered to teach them a bit of Australian. At one stage he had three nurses telling every one to " get stuffed you bastard",
He told them that it means,.. Yes I would love to help, so when the Doctor asked for assistance................... get stuffed you bastard.
Unfknblevabl.
 
Ha Ha AC,
The best thing to be Americanised has to be the undies pulled up and the pants below the arse the young fellows wear.
Love watching them try and run,,,,,, I recon it's a sick joke that set this fasion.
 
Rich_j said:
Ton comes from money slang

Grand=£1000
Monkey=£500
Ton=£100
Pony=£25
Score=£20

Now that's what I was asking about. Thanks
 
Re: much previous post ... Update , "sick" now means cool or hip or happenin' or rockin' or the ultimate. English is the world's most adaptable language, and it appropriates indescriminately to culture or history. Have a cuppa.
 
AussieCombat said:
Dual cab ute... Truck. TRUCK, A BLOODY TRUCK,? If you don't need a special Licence to drive it it aint a TRUCK.
Amen, Brother.
GRM 450 said:
Ha Ha AC,
The best thing to be Americanised has to be the undies pulled up and the pants below the arse the young fellows wear.
Love watching them try and run,,,,,, I recon it's a sick joke that set this fasion.
Try hiring these fashion plates to do actual physical labor, basically a one handed person...the other holds up their pants as they move about.
 
jeffdavison said:
Stayed at a bed and breakfast once in Lester(tershire), the woman proprietor asked me "what time do you want me to knock you up in the morning sir?" That was the first time I heard the coloquelism and gave her a strange look and explained what I took it to mean, being an American and all. She blushed.

JD

rbt11548 said:
jeffdavison said:
Now you just have to be Knocked up in the morning to read this post.

:)

JD


I take it you mean he has to be "Wakened Up" in the morning, rather than being "Knocked Up", as meaning 'been made pregnant' ?
Back around the 1890s 1900s, the railway companys in Britain used to employ men, whose job it was to walk the streets near the Railway depots & awaken staff on very early shifts by knocking on their doors or windows, to ensure they got to work on time & thus made sure the trains ran on time. The title of their job was knocker upper.
I think that's maybe where the term originaly came from.
Terry
 
GRM 450 said:
Ha Ha AC,
The best thing to be Americanised has to be the undies pulled up and the pants below the arse the young fellows wear.
Love watching them try and run,,,,,, I recon it's a sick joke that set this fasion.

Pants? They are bloody trousers man!
Pants are the undies. :lol:
Knocked up is a pregnant girl.
 
You know how many times I've wanted to use the word "toss"?
I think it only has one meaning in Briton.
Like I tossed my peashooters in the pile.
I could be wrong. :oops:
 
Guido said:
You know how many times I've wanted to use the word "toss"?
I think it only has one meaning in Briton.
Like I tossed my peashooters in the pile.
I could be wrong. :oops:

Oh you are everso slightly wrong..... but as this is a forum open to all ages , I'll leave the explaination blank, except to say it could be classed as a form of entertainment in the male population from about 12 onward :shock:
 
rbt11548 said:
Guido said:
You know how many times I've wanted to use the word "toss"?
I think it only has one meaning in Briton.
Like I tossed my peashooters in the pile.
I could be wrong. :oops:

Oh you are everso slightly wrong..... but as this is a forum open to all ages , I'll leave the explaination blank, except to say it could be classed as a form of entertainment in the male population from about 12 onward :shock:


Reminds me of the time the Red Dwarf cast were asked the meaning of the word smeg by small American boy, ribs still hurt.
 
This thread is a hoot! Just came back from spending Aug in the UK. Traveled from London up to Carlsle chasing family history, drove around Scotland, headed off to Bath, Stonehenge, hung around London, Soho on a Saturday night... Figuring out the slang was part of the fun, thought I spoke English... Lifts, Lorries, Washing Up Fluid... Had a great time! Only came across one lady I couldn't understand, getting gas on the Isle of Skye, I asked about the weather forecast expecting the ' Rain and Sun' reply (which is quite accurate) I got this un-inteligible response, nodded and said thank you. I knew before coming that calling a Scot "English" was akin to calling a Canadian "American"

Thought I would see a bunch of Nortons, but only saw a fleeting glimpse of one. Saw AJS's, Vincents and had a nice chat with a chap with a nice 76 Trimph Trident at the Dalton Village Show. One thing that stood out was the great riding gear that everone wore, from scooter to Ducatti. None of the wifebeater, shorts and sandle nonsense we see here.

Great country, good beer, lovely lasses....
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top