The Aussie Humour Thread

[Buckshot Bear]

2 minutes ago, Alpo said:

That was my thinking. Y'all are a bunch of lushes.

 

Alcohol is a social lubricant in Oz. It's the liquid equivalent of loosening your tie. In most social situations we need a drink to kick things off. No XXXX, no party.

But this isn't a good look for a beach to look like this after Australia Day or Christmas Day and costs local councils a fortune in clean up costs. 

[Alpo]

How do you pronounce the country?

 

I've always thought it was

Aus-strayl-ya

 

The reason I ask is because in the video I mentioned she referred to her country as

Aus-strayl-lia

 

That could just be an individual thing. I know people that pronounce the double t in kitten and button. Kit-ten. But-ton. I know a girl that pronounces the t in panties like it's a double t. Pant-ties.

 

I don't pronounce that second t.

Kit-un. But-un. Pan-ties.

 

I don't know whether I'm saying it right and they're saying it wrong or they're saying it right and I'm saying it wrong. But I do know that we don't say it the same way.

 

So maybe it's just her. But it sure sounded strange every time she said it.

[Alpo]

Now there's a law that I think should be in effect. That picture of the beach.

 

All those glass bottles? On a place where people run around barefoot??

 

That oughta be agin the law. You want to carry booze to the beach, that's fine. But it needs to be in something that's not breakable - plastic or metal.

[Eyesa Horg]

There's some cans in there.

[Buckshot Bear]

16 minutes ago, Alpo said:

How do you pronounce the country?

 

I've always thought it was

Aus-strayl-ya

 

The reason I ask is because in the video I mentioned she referred to her country as

Aus-strayl-lia

 

That could just be an individual thing. I know people that pronounce the double t in kitten and button. Kit-ten. But-ton. I know a girl that pronounces the t in panties like it's a double t. Pant-ties.

 

I don't pronounce that second t.

Kit-un. But-un. Pan-ties.

 

I don't know whether I'm saying it right and they're saying it wrong or they're saying it right and I'm saying it wrong. But I do know that we don't say it the same way.

 

So maybe it's just her. But it sure sounded strange every time she said it.

 

Dunno....I just say "Australia"

 

One thing of interest, unlike the USA, we don't have regional accents. 

[Buckshot Bear]

5 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

There's some cans in there.

 

Mostly this is done at Bondi Beach and o'seas backpackers.
Bondi has become famous for a big pi$$ up on Australia Day and Christmas Day.

[Eyesa Horg]

28 minutes ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

Mostly this is done at Bondi Beach and o'seas backpackers.
Bondi has become famous for a big pi$$ up on Australia Day and Christmas Day.

😊 My comment was a follow up to Alpo's law on breakable containers.😊

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQbBFYMEw0-/?igsh=MW90OW9ubnNsYXlvYw==

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

This photograph taken in 1942, during WW2, of an Australian soldier as he holds "Joey" the mascot in his arms.

This young kangaroo was smuggled into Malaya.

Lest We Forget.

Photograph came from the Imperial War Museum.

 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

[Alpo]

1 hour ago, Buckshot Bear said:

This young kangaroo was smuggled into Malaya.

Learn something new every day.

 

I thought that was a typo - not Malaya but Malaysia. Because I've heard of Malaysia but I've never heard of Malaya.

 

Malaya was a British colony until 1957. Then it was its own country until 1963, when it joined with Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak to form Malaysia.

 

Golly gosh.

[Buckshot Bear]

42 minutes ago, Alpo said:

Learn something new every day.

 

I thought that was a typo - not Malaya but Malaysia. Because I've heard of Malaysia but I've never heard of Malaya.

 

Malaya was a British colony until 1957. Then it was its own country until 1963, when it joined with Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak to form Malaysia.

 

Golly gosh.

 

You've never read about the Malayan Emergency?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Alpo]

I've heard of the Malayan peninsula. I've heard of the Malay pirates. I've heard of Malay loads. But I always thought the country was Malaysia.

 

Like I've heard of Aussie this and Aussie that, but the country is not Aussie - it's Australia.

[Buckshot Bear]

1 hour ago, Alpo said:

I've heard of the Malayan peninsula. I've heard of the Malay pirates. I've heard of Malay loads. But I always thought the country was Malaysia.

 

Like I've heard of Aussie this and Aussie that, but the country is not Aussie - it's Australia.

 

The Malayan Emergency was very similar to the Vietnam War (Which we were also involved in) for Australia.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

13 hours ago, Alpo said:

Learn something new every day.

 

I thought that was a typo - not Malaya but Malaysia. Because I've heard of Malaysia but I've never heard of Malaya.

 

Malaya was a British colony until 1957. Then it was its own country until 1963, when it joined with Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak to form Malaysia.

 

Golly gosh.

"joined with Singapore"?  Singapore is a country all by itself.

[Chantry]

13 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

You've never read about the Malayan Emergency?

 

There are people that haven't? 

 

It's where the Gurkha's developed their reputation as superb jungle fighters (along with the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation).

[Chantry]

35 minutes ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said:

"joined with Singapore"?  Singapore is a country all by itself.

Singapore gained self-governance in 1959 and, in 1963, became part of the new federation of Malaysia, alongside Malaya, North Borneo, and Sarawak. Ideological differences led to Singapore's expulsion from the federation two years later; Singapore became an independent sovereign country in 1965.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore#Within_Malaysia

 

An useless fact, Singapore recruits Gurkhas for part of their police force:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurkha_Contingent

 

 

Edited November 8 by Chantry

[Buckshot Bear]

15 hours ago, Chantry said:

 

There are people that haven't? 

 

It's where the Gurkha's developed their reputation as superb jungle fighters (along with the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation).

 

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[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

Its un-Australian if the Vegemite jar does not have bits of butter, anything less is borderline unpatriotic.

 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

 

[Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062]

^^^^^^^

 

   ........ you can have my share ........  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 13 by Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062
speeling erer

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

I do think WJ , be comin' around 

 

  CB 

 

  close the cooler 

 

    🤣

[Buckshot Bear]

A new dangerous Aussie animal.

 

[Alpo]

If he indigenous or an invasive species?

[Kid Rich]

Yep we got those too. Those lyd's be very dangerous.

kR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PS lyd=little yellow ducky

[Buckshot Bear]

A kookaburra eating a tiger snake

 

[Buckshot Bear]

[Buckshot Bear]

[Sedalia Dave]

4 hours ago, Buckshot Bear said:

 

This is what we think of.

 

 

Some of us even top it with a fried egg.

 

[WIld Weasel]

12 minutes ago, Sedalia Dave said:

 

This is what we think of.

 

 

Some of us even top it with a fried egg.

 

Or scrambled eggs like my wife. M just two over easy eggs and a couple of crispy strips O bacon! Yummy 

ANd boy are the New Yorkers gonna find out about the socialism shit.  Oh, no they had to give up all their guns.  Guess just the bangers are getting out.