31 Jan 2016, 11:36 pm
I remember in middle school a British girl transferred to us and I shared a few classes with her. So one day in class she was writing in pencil and needed to erase an error, but her eraser wasn't working. So she turned to the boy next to her and asked if he had a rubber.
She wasn't quiet, so everyone heard and either gasped or started laughing wildly. She was so confused!
(for those that don't know: in the UK a rubber is an eraser, but in the US it's a condom).
In Australia, we call an eraser a rubber but we are aware if the overseas implication.
Do you know, what you Americans call a fanny (bum), has a completely different (literally opposite) meaning here in Australia. Every time I hear of an American talking about their fanny pack, I cringe!
Haha, I can only imagine what that could mean! It's such a ridiculous word to begin with, and fanny packs don't go on your butt anyways, the clip around the waist, so they should call it something else.
When we moved back to the states, I was with my bf and my mom somewhere in public, and he said something using (what to him was a military term) that's known as a racial slur here (maybe it's just in the south?). We immediately tried to shush him, but he wouldn't believe us.
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31 Jan 2016, 11:43 pm
And do you know the other night, you said you were "rooting" for pizza?
Do you know why Raleigh and I were carrying on so much about that?
"Rooting" here in Australia has a completely different meaning.
I know what it means there (not many Australians would) but you wouldn't want to say that here, otherwise you might get a lot of unwanted attention.
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Aurora is rooting for a pizza??Does she know what that means in Aus?
31 Jan 2016, 11:45 pm
Yup that was the gaff I was referring to
Didn't you see my response? 
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31 Jan 2016, 11:50 pm
Didn't you see my response?
No, sorry. Replay it for me.
31 Jan 2016, 11:54 pm
I am afraid to look up the Aussie meaning to this....----Ah, okay Urbandictionary.com informed me of it. Woops!
Definitely not what I meant!my post this morning ^
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01 Feb 2016, 12:03 am
I am afraid to look up the Aussie meaning to this....----Ah, okay Urbandictionary.com informed me of it. Woops!
Definitely not what I meant!my post this morning ^
I know - language is a funny thing. We both speak Engrish but it can have such different meanings.
When my Aunty went to America, her friends she met over the Internet invited her to stay with them.
One morning, they asked her if she'd like a sloppy joe for breakfast.
Here in Australia, a sloppy joe is a warm top we wear over our clothes in winter to keep us warm.
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01 Feb 2016, 12:12 am
When my Aunty Dorothy was still alive, she had some Mormons come to her door.
She invited them in and gave them dinner.
We have food here we call rissoles - balls of fried beef mince with stuff in them like onion, herbs spices. Crap like that.
Now, keep in mind, they're called rissoles - but when the Mormons were leaving, they said, "Thank you for those rosellas ma'am. They were beautiful"
This is a rosella:
You can see why my Mum and my Aunty split their sides laughing!
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01 Feb 2016, 12:22 am
Hahaha!
I didn't know you had mormons in Aus, I thought (since it started in the US) that they were just in the US.
In Ireland they have these birds called Magpies (maybe you have them too?)
And when I came across one there for the first time I pointed and said to my bf, "look! It's the Shamu of the sky!!"
I'm a true Floridian, that's for sure! 
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01 Feb 2016, 12:26 am
I know - language is a funny thing. We both speak Engrish but it can have such different meanings.
When my Aunty went to America, her friends she met over the Internet invited her to stay with them.
One morning, they asked her if she'd like a sloppy joe for breakfast.
Here in Australia, a sloppy joe is a warm top we wear over our clothes in winter to keep us warm.
MMmmm I miss sloppy joes! (vegetarian for the past decade)
So is it like sweater vest?
Yeah, sort of. fleecy on the inside.
I am such a carnivore. Have been all my life but once, I saw a YouTube video about what goes on at the abattoirs and I went TOTALLY vegan - Never ate meat, fish, eggs, dairy for a whole 8 months. It was the hardest 8 months of my life.
Eventually, Kato (Kathy) talked me into eating eggs saying, nothing dies when you eat eggs.
I found this (what I thought was a) nice man who sold eggs - free range eggs and advertised he was "animal friendly".
He live miles and miles away - hours of traveling just to get these damn eggs - but Kat and I made the trip just to get these eggs, because he seemed like an animal lover.
When I got there, he started walking me around his back yard and calling the chooks by name. I thought, this is nice. He knows them by name. What a nice guy. He must be alright.
He gave me their names, when they were born. What they get up to.
I though, "What a nice bloke"
And then, I made the mistake of saying, "That's a cute lamb" he had on the other side of his yard.
He said, "Oh yes. That's Bessy. We've got her mother in the freezer!"
I just left. I didn't say a word and just walked out of his back yard.
01 Feb 2016, 12:30 am
Yeah, sort of. fleecy on the inside.
I am such a carnivore. Have been all my life but once, I saw a YouTube video about what goes on at the abattoirs and I went TOTALLY vegan - Never ate meat, fish, eggs, dairy for a whole 8 months. It was the hardest 8 months of my life.
Eventually, Kato (Kathy) talked me into eating eggs saying, nothing dies when you eat eggs.
I found this (what I thought was a) nice man who sold eggs - free range eggs and advertised he was "animal friendly".
He live miles and miles away - hours of traveling just to get these damn eggs - but Kat and I made the trip just to get these eggs, because he seemed like an animal lover.
When I got there, he started walking me around his back yard and calling the chooks by name. I thought, this is nice. He knows them by name. What a nice guy. He must be alright.
He gave me their names, when they were born. What they get up to.
I though, "What a nice bloke"
And then, I made the mistake of saying, "That's a cute lamb" he had on the other side of his yard.
He said, "Oh yes. That's Bessy. We've got her mother in the freezer!"
I just left. I didn't say a word and just walked out of his back yard.
Oh no! Poor Bessy (and poor Bessy's mom)! !
