G is for G'day

Devolution...


As these beefed up stick men demonstrate; Australians, wanting to separate themselves from The British have achieved a form of linguistic devolution. Curious.

F is for Fair Dinkum

I have been ashamed of British politics in recent weeks to say the least, to quote my own father “We have a new government headed up by what looks like a couple of public school poofters”.

But imagine how you’d feel if the opposition leader said shit like “I try to be fair dinkum with the Australian people” shame on you Tony Abbott and shame on you Australia for not throwing eggs at him.

This is a picture of Tony Abbott, a kind of hybrid of David Hasselhoff and Mr Bean. I think we might've struck gold here!

A is for Abbreviation

Australians have a strange tendency to abbreviate or shorten about 80% of the English language. I struggled to understand at first, thinking that I was too old and uncool to know what the 'yout' was on about, here are some fine examples of what I was up against:

Mushies – Mushrooms, I have actually seen this used on the afore mentioned shit Australian TV

Arvo – Afternoon. Of course it’s far too gentlemanly and polite to use the full version.

OTB – Over The Bridge, a term used for people living on the North side of Sydney Harbour. What the fuck?

TBH – To Be Honest. Not to be confused with GBH… it’s a slippery slope.

WE – Weekend, a beautiful word, squandered.

Thingo – Thingamajig, which is actually in Word Spellchecker shockingly.

You’re stupid y’hear… stupid! It’s easier to say the full word than it is to put all that energy into working out what the abbreviation is. Like, OMG.