ANZAC Bikkies

Therrin

MMMMMmmmm!!!! Nothin feels quite the same as warm apple pie!


Um, we'd say "cute as (insert word here which the 'cute as' is in relation to)"

Like, she's cute as all get out, cute as hell, ugly as F**K, Dumb as a box of rocks, etc etc... Just saying "ugly as" makes it sound like you've left something out =P It's okay though.

Devilwoman, you've really done a number on WT. Ima phone your hubby and snitch!

windthrown

Will not do you any good. She can cast a spell across the large pond, so she has her hubby completely mind controlled. She has him working in the coal mines there see, dark as. Yes, they leave you hangning there down under, but it actually makes sence in a weird way. Dark as (fill in the blank). Which is the way language is. Always changing. They say that the American accent is the accent that they had in the UK before the revolution. We talk the same, and the Brits floated off into varioable accents on the island there, seemingly on purpose in some type of class distinction and regional thing. Language can move fast too. By the time Charlemagne's grandsons had died a mere two generations later, Frankish had split into two languages (early German and French) and neither could understand each other any more.

sueann

I think you guys need to lay off the hashish bikkies! they're doing your heads in. lol! you are all crazy as.

Anyways, I was watching this programme on the telly last night about the blacks in Washington, their music called 'go go' (are you allowed to say black? I'm never sure what you're s'posed to say anymore, so sorry if that's not pc )

I've never heard of go go music, I have heard of go go dancers though none of them looked like go go dancers, it sounded like a lot of noise to me, but the thing is..they talk english but I couldn't understand a word they said!!

But then, I have trouble understanding scottish ppl and a lot of pommies as well.
Then again, my husband says I have selective hearing and only hear what I want to hear, so maybe it's just me.

windthrown

So that's why I liked the bikkies so much eh? Dessicated hashish?

'Black' is the accepted term these days in the states. Negro was accepted when I was a kid, but that is passe' now. Then there is the other N word... white is still white. Or 'whitie' in the inner city.

Selective hearing? Indeed. Women are like that. You are filters for what you want to hear. Blah blah blah (football talk) blah blah blah (company talk) blah blah blah (the old woman did this or that) and out of nowhere WHAM! "I heard that!" I can understand most dialects of English, but not Scottish and not Ebonics. Ebonics is a deep south coast island dialect that has popped up in the inner cities. I lived with a Londoner for a while, so I learned a lot of UK slang. Words like blag, nic, and ballacks. My cousin lives in Sydney so I have also learned words like chunder, didge and white pointers.

I never heard the go go music either. We called it "funk" back in the day. Go Go dancers in the 60's were women in skimpy enticing outfits like hot pants and mini skirts dancing on special raised stages or in cages in clubs. Go Go music seems to be a DC-only thing that was started by Chuck Brown. It never gained national or global popularity. I spent one summer in DC. What a hell hole that was. 100% humidity, and 85-95 degrees F. all the time. Never again.

sueann

Words like blag, nic, and ballacks.

I have no idea what they mean. We say nick for jail though, and bollocks which means someone is talking crap. Blag has got me stumped.

windthrown

Nic has several meanings in the UK. It can means to steal, to be arrested, to be locked up in jail, and the jail itself. Blag means to steal something, as in a heist. Ballacks means testicles, my dear. In the states we call them balls or nuts. There are other meanings as well, like 'the dog's ballacks' which means the the best of the best or the cream of the crop.

Its funny, but there are all these BBC TV shows and British movies shown in the US now. I swear half the people watching them have no clue what the Brits are saying half the time. The movie Bank Job is filled with British street slang. Similar with Aussie movies and TV shows, like Crocodile Dundee, and The Crocodile Hunter. I did not know what a donk was for the longest time.

sueann

Yep, yep, I forgot, nick also means to steal something as well, and also when you are going to run away from something you would say I'm going to nick off now or he's nicked off.

American is not so different from us really..but the pommies are really difficult sometimes. The first time I heard a pommy chick swear I couldn't stop laughing the way she said it..but I won't repeat it haha! think 'chook', that's what it sounded like, you would never take it for swear word!