Don’t irritate an Aussie….

Posted on November 22, 2014 by KG

‘Kiwi’s body found cut to pieces in chilly bin
A Napier man has been found “cut into pieces” and stuffed into a chilly bin in rural Australia….’

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17 Responses to Don’t irritate an Aussie….

  1. Oswald Bastable says:
    November 22, 2014 at 06:10

    I thought it was an Esky over there.

  2. Phil Stephenson says:
    November 22, 2014 at 08:03

    I had no idea what a chilly bin was until now. I have some distant cousins from NZ, and I met them for the first time when I was about 15 years old. I had never heard a kiwi accent before, (must have had a sheltered life), and one of them said there had been a “screp” up the street a few minutes before I arrived. I asked what a screp was, and it turned out he was talking about a fight, but he was calling it a “scrap.” I have only ever visited New Zealand once, back when I was young. Everything in the place was expensive, except the beer.

    • Ronbo says:
      November 22, 2014 at 08:10

      Sounds like Seattle :!: :mrgreen:

      We have taxes to the third power here :!: :mrgreen:

      But they don’t have much of an accent here…except for “roof” which comes as “rough”…Oh, well…In good Southernese Washington is pronounced “Warshington” :mrgreen:

  3. KG says:
    November 22, 2014 at 08:34

    “Everything in the place was expensive, except the beer.” Nothing’s changed, Phil – except that the beer is expensive too, now.
    A “chully bun” is a portable icebox, Ronbo. Known as an Esky in Ozspeak.

    • Ronbo says:
      November 22, 2014 at 11:51

      You learn something new everyday, thanks KG.

      • Darin says:
        November 22, 2014 at 12:15

        Two Englishmen were riding through South Mississippi when they crossed the Hobolochitto River and began arguing about how to pronounce it.Finally after several miles of arguing they spotted a local walking on the side of the road.

        They pulled over and flagged the man down,he walked up to the car and the passenger said “Good afternoon chap,I was wondering if you could possibly be so kind as to settle an argument as to the proper pronunciation of a locally used name?”

        “Shonuff,happens all in the time rounheah,it’s pronounced as Da-ree-queen” :mrgreen:

      • Phil Stephenson says:
        November 22, 2014 at 16:41

        I once read that durng the Second World War, when there was a large US military presence in Australia, there were two army bases side by side in Brisbane, one Australian and one US Army. An Australian Army officer telling the story said that a young US Army lieutenant came to the Aussie barracks and asked if he could borrow a punch ball, or at least that is what the Australian soldier heard and understood, so he went to the gymnasium, picked a punching ball and took it to the Yank, who looked at him like he was a complete idiot, and explained that they were having a dance that night and they wanted to borrow a punch bowl. When an American says “bowl” to us, it sounds like “ball.”

  4. dondiego says:
    November 22, 2014 at 19:32

    Wonder he didn’t feed him to the crocs :?: Only evidence would be his wedding band & steel-caps, *if* they found the correct crocodile.

    • KG says:
      November 23, 2014 at 01:31

      Perhaps the logistics of getting him to the nearest croc were too difficult? There’s not always a croc handy when you need one…..

  5. mistress mara says:
    November 23, 2014 at 14:51

    Yanks speak funnily too. The people at FOX News say ” Fawx” news which sounds comically like the very word they would desperately avoid using on air. Why can’t Yanks say FOX? :roll: My sis went to America and asked for water. The waiter did not understand the word. He did eventually fetch her waarterr.

  6. mistress mara says:
    November 23, 2014 at 17:11

    Yeah we do which is why I love to visit other Countries. Been to Europe, never been to America. My next plan.