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Lost in translation (US to UK)
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Browsing this whilst enjoying some vegemite on toast, a delicious quick Australian brekkie. I'd say that if you like XXXX but are not quite ready for vegemite you are getting there and there's hope for you yet, mate! Keep trying; it's just a matter of time...
As I have said many times on this forum - vegemite is a cheap copy of Marmite, which is the "real thing"!!
As most Australian culture is....
As I have said many times on this forum - vegemite is a cheap copy of Marmite, which is the "real thing"!!
As most Australian culture is....
Marmite!?! Boo! Hiss! Boooo!
Does Marmite have an amazing song like this:
We're happy little Vegemites
As bright as bright can be.
We all enjoy our Vegemite
For breakfast, lunch and tea.
Our Mummies say we're growing stronger
Every single week
Because we LOVE our Vegemite.
We all ADORE our Vegemite.
IT PUTS A ROSE IN EVERY CHEEK!
It's pretty awesome, yeah?... so, Vegemite FTW!
People in the North West of UK call each other cock as another way of addresing a person: e.g, "Alright cock", "No problem cock".
My father in law offered me some Lobby, which is another word for stew, even I didnt know that one.
Someone previously mentioned Self Adhesive bandage...thats a plaster in the UK.
My father in law offered me some Lobby, which is another word for stew, even I didnt know that one.
Someone previously mentioned Self Adhesive bandage...thats a plaster in the UK.
As a brit myself, Cod is always the way to go. It's just the best hands down.
Shame most chippies here are run by chinese guys, doesn't make sense. A british favourite is made and run by the chinese, and the british guys run the chinese shops. Has always confused me (please note, not a racist comment at all, just a thought.)
That happens all over though. I live near Toronto which is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. We got Chinese running Quiznos, and Canadians opening sushi bars.
Weirds me to think that there may be Canadian food joints, and people are importing Molson Canadian beer.
Found a video about this with Hugh Laurie on the Ellen show not that any of those words are actually used. They're mostly from terrible hip hop songs.
That's how it done out here
real men playing a real sport lol. Got to say, I've had a pretty bad season for injuries this year, far more scars then I started it with. One of my mates broke his collarbone in a bad tackle about 4 years ago, when we were 11 lol.Zach
Of course! For "strimming" (?)
Brits "strim." How posh.
Americans just whack the damn weeds.
Blame Black and Decker - that's what they called them when they introduced them over here - "Strimmer". Actually, as it uses a nylon String to trim the weeds - kind of makes sense?.
I don't think I have THAT much time Johnny. I might just have to come down under and try "the good stuff."
In the early '60s my wife did a five-week group tour of Europe (Spain, Portugal, France, England). The only language besides US that she spoke was some French and she was able to squeeze her way through communication by using it, her charm, and the graciousness of the locals. When the tour finally hit London she heaved a sigh of relief because she would now not have to pre-think a translation of everything she said. The first person she spoke to outside Heathrow was a huge looming conductor on the bus who barked out such a thick Cockney accent thats he couldn't understand a single word he said; she broke down in tears. The lady sitting next to her said, "Now now, dearie. He only wants to know where you're going so he knows how much to charge you." She thinks it's hilarious now, but it was incredibly frustrating then.
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Me and the mrs went to Dublin few years ago, it was ace. Especially the fact that all my family are from there so I spent the whole time translating to the other half!! Its a great accent and a great city!
Me and my mates donged-up a quick whipper-snipper in typical bogan fashion with some barbed wire, a frisbee and an outboard. Too bloody broke to buy one, so a cobbled up one it was. A bit agricultural but nothing that didn't work.
And I tell you what, it worked. Once we got some piss into us, downed some Bundy's and started 'er up. Finchy, the bloody drongo, put dings and marks all over the hills.
So we drank some more and had a fight.
Cheers,
Mick
And I tell you what, it worked. Once we got some piss into us, downed some Bundy's and started 'er up. Finchy, the bloody drongo, put dings and marks all over the hills.
So we drank some more and had a fight.
Cheers,
Mick
some of this has been covered already
but i spent some time in the UK myself and this is what i walked away with...
guy asked me for a fag....by the look on my face i guess he figured i was american and asked for a cigarette..lol
had a girl asked me if i fancied a root or caed for a snog....i had no clue much to the amusment of my friends within earshot...though she did eventually get stuffed...lol
spunk = yea um can't post that here
why would you want to keep water in a closet? they talked about water closets everywhere i went..tha and the loo...really annoying to have to wash you hands in one room and piss in the other...lol
leave it out?....leave what out is somebody going to come and get it?...lol always telling to leave it out mate...
Bird = chick ok that one wasn't hard to grasp
have one off the wrist?....yeah get somebody else to explain that one...
Jelly babies rule...
smarties are like giant M&M's in the UK smarties here are tiny tart candies
a Biscuit is a cookie?
chips = french fries (which are actually belgian)
crisps = chips
cake hole = pie hole
muffin/crumpet in england is flat an kind of like toast, where a muffin here is more like an cupcake without icing
bollocks = testicles?
bugger = yea can't type that here either
bunking off = skipping school
duff = broke won't work
jammy = lucky
nicked = stolen
sod and or sod off = go away idiot
barney = trouble?
man i could do this for days...
thankfully Austin powers has exposed abunch of us to british slang...
but i spent some time in the UK myself and this is what i walked away with...
guy asked me for a fag....by the look on my face i guess he figured i was american and asked for a cigarette..lol
had a girl asked me if i fancied a root or caed for a snog....i had no clue much to the amusment of my friends within earshot...though she did eventually get stuffed...lol
spunk = yea um can't post that here
why would you want to keep water in a closet? they talked about water closets everywhere i went..tha and the loo...really annoying to have to wash you hands in one room and piss in the other...lol
leave it out?....leave what out is somebody going to come and get it?...lol always telling to leave it out mate...
Bird = chick ok that one wasn't hard to grasp
have one off the wrist?....yeah get somebody else to explain that one...
Jelly babies rule...
smarties are like giant M&M's in the UK smarties here are tiny tart candies
a Biscuit is a cookie?
chips = french fries (which are actually belgian)
crisps = chips
cake hole = pie hole
muffin/crumpet in england is flat an kind of like toast, where a muffin here is more like an cupcake without icing
bollocks = testicles?
bugger = yea can't type that here either
bunking off = skipping school
duff = broke won't work
jammy = lucky
nicked = stolen
sod and or sod off = go away idiot
barney = trouble?
man i could do this for days...
thankfully Austin powers has exposed abunch of us to british slang...
Wasn't nicked also being arrested by the Bill?
another one (coorect me if I'm wrong, I'm by far from the isles) : "you need a good seeing to, lass..."
another one (coorect me if I'm wrong, I'm by far from the isles) : "you need a good seeing to, lass..."
In British English, a biscuit is a hard baked sweet or savoury product like a small, flat cake, which in North America may be called a "cookie". In the UK, "cookie" is usually only used in specific terms such as "chocolate chip cookie" or to refer to larger, softer American style biscuits. The nearest thing we have in the UK to what Americans call biscuits (a small bread made with baking powder or baking soda) would be a scone.
This is the American muffin, called a "muffin" in the UK and USA:
This is the British muffin, called a "muffin" in the UK and an "English Muffin" in the USA:
This is an English crumpet:
And a Scottish crumpet (the one at the back, behind the pancake):
I don't know if you have crumpets in America.
Bollocks literally means testicles. Often used figuratively to describe something bad, "That's bollocks!", or outrageous, "You are talking bollocks mate!". Note that if something is "the dog's bollocks" it is considered very good.
This is an example of rhyming slang. Barney Rubble = Trouble.
