Hello all,
Joined the site a few weeks back, it's been a handy site to visit! Already had a cheap subway sarnie, a free burrito and I'm looking forward to that Krispy Kreme goodness on Friday. I'm not just in it for the cheap grub though! Cheap booze too. I'll be sticking around and plan to get involved in what little way I can.
Cheers!
That moment when you realize you're dyslexic.
"Gday porn here"
To be fair, "rn" is pretty close to "m"; especially if you have bad handwriting :P
I read 'Gay Porn here.'
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I don't doubt you're a pom, that's one pommy name you have there!
Why are you saying G'day if you're a pom? ;)
Lol, coming from Gaz.
Am actually a pom myself :)
Strewth, cobber! Just trying to integrate!
Burger King = Hungry Jacks
Peppers = Capsicum
Aubergine = Eggplant
I'm sure someone else will come along and help with the rest.
You put thongs on your feet.
That's an important one, but probably more so for Aussies going over to the UK.
NBN — at best, 25 mbps.
NBN - AT BEST scheduled for completion 2051
More like No Bloody Network
I've been here a while mate, got all those nailed. Still feels a bit weird saying capsicum after the 4 or 5 years I've been living here. Fine with the rest of them but capsicum? C'mon! They're peppers!
Haha, lucky when I was in subway in the UK ordering capsicum on my sub, my mate had previously been to Oz, so he translated for me.
Nope they're capsicum !
Arvo = Afternoon
My Mate = Marmite
Tasty cheese = plastic cheese
And don't laugh at the 'Coon' cheese. Oh, and 'Wog' seems to mean something totally different as well. You can see why americans have heart attacks when they visit.
Indeed, the Coon got me good. Still refuse to buy it but the alternative Cracker Barrel is not much better…
It's not what you think:
"The brand name recognises the work of an American, Edward William Coon, who patented a unique ripening process.."
You have to go to S.E. Asia if you want "Darky" toothpaste tho, that one fell out of favour and fashion quite a while ago
Courgette = Zucchini.
I was actually thinking about that the other day. Knew there was a pommy name for it. Thanks.
Where pommy = French!
Mangetout = Snowpeas
Sarnie = Sanger :)
Don't talk to the locals about sport. A sore point.
Cheap booze doesn't exist here. At least not by European standards.
The best we can do, OzBargain style, is use Boozle.com.au to compare prices. For anything but bourbon, I'll shop the competitor. Dan Murphy matches and beats the competitor's price by 50c to $2, depending on what it is and how often you've asked for a price match (i.e. if the cashier recognizes you). We have one down the road so that's why we buy the bourbon there.
I am a fair dinkum sandgroper born in subiaco.
Let me tell you why poms are called poms…
In the 1800 and 1900 etc centuries, people from the UK were noticed by fair dinkum aussies to have "red rosy or pink cheeks" when they first arrived, and these cheeks were of a colour similar to a pomegranate.
This was shortened to "poms" for new arrivals from the uk.
When i was at school, our teacher told us that……. and the info was extracted from the WA school curriculum apparently.
This is very interesting, thanks :-) I recalled reading somewhere that it is not nice to use this term on another, hence I googled to find out if this is the case. And found this
The terms Pommy, Pommie and Pom, in Australia, South Africa and New Zealand usually denotes an English person (or, less commonly, people from other parts of the UK).[6] The Oxford Dictionary defines their use as "often derogatory"[7] but after complaints to the Australian Advertising Standards Board regarding five advertisements poking fun at "Poms", the board ruled in 2006 that these words are inoffensive, in part because they are "largely used in playful or affectionate terms".[8] The New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority made a similar ruling in 2010.[9] Despite these rulings, the terms are considered offensive and derogatory by many British, regardless of context.
Would be nice to hear from more British people, what they think of it. Clearly, alastairmoore is OK with it, but this could just be self-deprecating humour, so may not count :-)
i have had several nicknames since i came here, 5 unprintable
the other 2 are pom and guv/guvnor, english people moving here should expect to lose the christian name
i care not nor am i upset at being called pom, and for clarity i have often been called an effin pom in areas of conflict
other words to look out for are
tinnie = can
ue = uturn…… dont laugh i dont know how to spell ue
take a righty or lefty = turn left or right
servo = garage
glad wrap = clingfilm
ute= we dont have them we have ford transits, far superior
barrack = support
bottle shop = off license
zuccini=courgettes
chips = crisps
while over here dont confuse the natives, whatever you do dont ask for a bacon sandwich at a cafe, they will insist on serving a premade one with an egg, when you point out you dont like eggs they simply tear the clingfilm apart and remove the egg from a premade one
you also know your really in australia when you visit the local laundrette for the first time and wonder why all these people are queueing up to use just one dryer out of ten because its the only dryer thats warm
as a side note if your a cereal or chocolate lover, you might need to organise supplies from the motherland, coco pops and cornflakes and chocolate from the motherland are vastly superior the australian equivilant is ghastly, also if your a fruit lover you will be u a little underwhelmed at the choice and especially, the taste, veggies and meat are awesome tho
odgaf said: "servo = garage "
Servo is not used by fair dinkum aussies born in Western Australia, and never has been.
It is foreign in WA and the only people that use it in WA are from the eastern states.
Also the "eastern states" to fair dinkum sandgropers includes south australia and northern territory, anything east of the WA border is eastern states…
@grog: so what do you call a servo in those parts, ive never been west of that border and just assumed
have had several nicknames since i came here, 5 unprintable
the other 2 are pom and guv/guvnor, english people moving here should expect to lose the christian name
i care not nor am i upset at being called pom, and for clarity i have often been called an effin pom in areas of conflict
LOL …
Service stations..
The first time i heard the word servo was on a TV program from eastern states and honestly it took me a minute to work out what the hell he was talking about.
Then i realised he said something about dropping into a servo to get petrol etc.
A servo to me is a electro or mechanical "servo" thingy.
all depends on taste.
not sure what uk cereal or aussie stuff you buy but ive had booth and would never pick uk stuff first. again its taste.
indian food is about the only thing I've had better in the uk in general. most here are average I find.
dem Timmy Tams though, much better than penguins :D
Well a Pommy colleague of mine says it stands for Prisoner Of Mother England. And he wasn't against using the term.
Ouch.. but Aussies didn't just spawn from a bunch of best of breed poms (ie. the ones with enough balls to get into a little trouble)
But a stack of Irish and Scottish blood chipped in too.
Pomes
Absolutely no problem with being called a pom, I call myself a pom when necessarily and say I'm from pommyland. As do the pommy mates I have here. I'd be curious to meet the pom that finds being called a pom offensive. I'd suggest they're living in the wrong place if they find that offensive. Australia has some far more derogatory names for their mates.
Good to know :-)
like (profanity), i call my mates (profanity)
Fact: Dinkum was invented by the chinese during the gold rush. It is actually chinese.
You just got smarter
I have also come across another origin for dinkum, in Melvyn Bragg's "The Adventure of English". This tv series explain the history of English, and origin of many English words.
Supposedly "dinkum" comes from the English Midlands and meant work. "Fair dinkum" referred to a fair day's work and subsequently fair play.
For those interested in the origins of more Aussie words, this Episode 7 of "The Adventure of English" from about 28:40 to 37:00 covers colony of Australia. Dinkum is explained at 31:22 thereabouts. Transcribing his words,
Some words we think of as most typically Australian were actually imported. Dialect words that have died out in England but have hung on in their new home … "dinkum" was a word for "work", "fair dinkum" meant something similar to "fair play".
BTW I highly recommend this series.
No, it means "gold". The chinese found gold and they say dimkun and the whites just copied it and put their own meaning to it.
So was it racist back the
Welcome to OZbargain! It's a lively forum as you probably know by now.
Disappointing, I only clicked because I didn't have my glasses on so thought it said "porn here" Nevertheless welcome to the community.
Bargains are porn in my eyes.
Porn is a bargain
I got glasses it still look like porn. Damn porn, I mean font.
Its the keming…
I had the exact same thought. Got cheated.. can I report OP to OFT? Seems like what Ozbargainer thing to do. :P
so, you came for the porn?
I thought u said porn…
Read the article you provided with interest. Thanks :-)
Last part seems to give credibility to the pomegranate link:
The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) refers to a 14 November 1912 edition of Australian newspaper, The Bulletin, which includes the statement; “The other day a Pummy Grant (assisted immigrant) was handed a bridle and told to catch a horse.”
…
Given this perfectly satisfactory explanation by a recognised authority, there’s no reason to believe in the “Prisoners of Millbank” backronym, not any of its variants.
Wiki article also has this to say:
Another explanation – now generally considered to be a false etymology – was that "Pom" or "Pommy" were derived from an acronym such as POM ("Prisoner of Millbank"), POME ("Prisoner of Mother England") or POHMS ("Prisoner Of Her Majesty's Service").[14] However, there is no evidence that such terms, or their acronyms, were used in Australia when "Pom" and "Pommy" entered use there.
Whatever is the truth or otherwise, etymology is such a fascinating field.
I was a POM once. Peeps must have been nice telling me it meant 'Preferred Olde Mate'.
Shite. It takes m a long time to cotton-on… C@&#s!
Route not root(pronunciation, not spelling). This one caught me out.
Be careful buying second hand phones. A phone that is rooted is not the same thing as a rooted phone.
Khackin' meself reading that one.
To khack urself means to shit yourself laughing, kinda like LMAO
G'day m8, I've not met a pom who was insulted at being called that, just as insultingless(?) as a pom calling us an aussie….political correctness can get buggered, and we'll sort it out on the cricket pitch :)
Howay man, divvin' be daft. Giz a bag o' crisps.
viz??? hahahah
U wot m8!? R u 'avin a giggle?
U want sum? I'll give it ya!
Have you gone yampy or what?
Ah divvent kna!
Nee way. Aa jus knaa!
How many times have you had a bath/shower since coming to Australia? Please be more than twice
Mange tout = snow peas. When I first moved to the UK this one had me baffled.
Hello, will you join our contingent for the next Olympics ?
Hello, do you like banana-flavoured M&Ms?
As an Australian, I'm implore you not to take your shirt off on a public street when the weather hits 20 degrees and above. That's just not acceptable anywhere.
maybe in Tasmania though
OP, you should consider doing an AMA (Ask Me Anything) Pommy session in the future lol
POM = Pomeranian??
8/10! Not bad. Didn't get wombat crossing or bunny rug.
I'm Austrayan and I didn't get either of those two either, never heard of them
I hadn't heard of Wombat crossing but I have kids so I've heard of bunny rug.
that test shouldn't read do you speak Australian, rather do you speak bogan.
Batteries = eneloops
Pom? Are you Thai? I have a Thai friend who is also called Pom :)
Ripper tune boris
How are you = you'(r) alright !
Angry at a neighbour? yell this over the fence…
I hope your chooks turn into emus and trample your dunny into the dirt.
the (profanity) is a sarnie mate
Unfortunately you won't find cheap beer here, England's the best place for that lol!
England, where lager is called lager and beer is called beer.
457 Visa?
Hope you didn't use your real name!
You want your pseudonymous names down voted and not your real name. Minimises the destruction of one's self-esteem.
Welcome!