Hahaha I swear I wasn't reading! There was a picture on the wall there and I kept looking at it when I was thinking. I had thought about what sort of things I was going to say but I didn't read them at all.

You left out some classics! Allow me to write them for you (although they're coming in Part II):
o you little ripper
o fair go!
o rack off!
o she'll be right
o pig's arse
o sheila
o hard yakka
o true blue
o tracky-dacks
o blighter
o holy dooley!
o rack off
o shit house
o mozzie

The thing about this clip is realising how many sayings we use that I just assumed were used equally frequently all over the world. Now I think about it they're really not.

I know, Becky, I know. That's why it's only part 1. I WAS going to do a part 2. I have way more than that written down. I could do about 10 parts with the stuff I thought of the other day.

Rack off Bouncer, must be my favourite. I'm a die-hard neighbours fan

I personally find it hilarious when you refer to someone who has sex a lot as being someone who 'bangs like a dunny door in a storm'. Again that's way to hardcore for me. No one I actually know would say anything like that.

neighbours is my hobby!!

cool, that was hella educational. :-)

my fave: throw a snag/snack on the barbie...

What about, "you Spiggin' Hufter?" Stingray of Neighbours-fame, I thank you. What is a Hufter?

7how7: it's snag, and it can also be said as "throw/chuck a shrimp on the barbie". Basically the same thing, but I take shrimp as meaning any food really. I'm pretty sure they're not really referring to some form of aquatic creature as such, as shrimps and prawns aren't really a token Aussie meal.

TheJoe1000: honestly? I have no freaking idea what a hufter is. I've never heard it in my life. Neighbours is so FAKE! They make up slang and then claim it's totale Aussie when it isn't. Don't trust those Neighbours kids, Joe. They're polluting your mind with fake Australian phrases. Just listen to me and you'll be right, mate!

ummm, that last one???

I needed that.

So Jess, what is UP?! It's been forfreakingever!

I for one would like you to say:

"Strewth, it's as dry as a dead dingo's donger" or
"The Jackaroo put on his budgie smugglers."

Also, my friend who is heading to Oz wishes to know where he can find a "root rat"? Any suggestions?

Its funny, we actually use a fair few of the phrases you mentioned in England, but obviously with less of an Aussie accent. Maybe this should be another international thing - people explaining the bizarre phrases that crop up in their respective countries. The only trouble with England is that like with the accents, if you travel 20 miles in any direction the slang being used completely changes!!!

That is 1000% better than gangsta rap slang we have in the states. Although, gangsta rap with an English or an Australian accent is even better. We need to vimeo a Boston slang clip folks.

Thanks for the lesson, Jess!

vimeo.com/clip=45539
so whats happening in neighbours at the mo , we've just had an plane crash , does Karl die ?

Neighbours is well good, nothing ever happens. How can you not like it?
I have also produced my own Valuable English Sayings...Check it:
vimeo.com/clip=45600

jijiji,thanks for the lesson

Most educational thing I've seen all arvo.

howdy cobber!

Hahaha Jake, the last phrase is what started the entire video in the first place, and it's ZACH'S FAULT! HE MADE ME DO IT!

I also love how I've never heard half of the Aussie phrases that people are coming up with in the comments. It's awesome.

Ok, well, um, yeah -- I did ask you what rooting meant after I read it in a book. But, I didn't ask you to propose rooting to me!!!

(It was much appreciated anyway.)

Hahaha it's not like that was my intention, I was merely noting that you were the one who asked me to say that phrase in the first place!

It's still pretty funny that it turned out like that though.

And if you appreciate it, then stop whinging and just enjoy the clip.

:)

PS. I had to look up whinging in the dictionary.

Hahaha, that's not even Aussie slang, is it?

My dictionary says it's British.

Okay, fair enough. I'll let you off this time. I'm still quite amused that you had to look it up in the dictionary, though.

i love this.

HAHA! This is awesome, as you probably know us American's love those damn Australian accents, love it!

funny story: i was at the backpackers pub a couple nights ago wearing a "roots" brand t-shirt from canada... when a group of australian boys wandered in and decided to explain just why they they couldn't stop laughing at me. apparently they'd walked pas a "roots kids" store earlier that day and had a good laugh as well.

haha what about a 'wombat'....hey you can teach me australian anytime

champas = champagne ?

What happened to 'strewth!' and my personal favourite, 'rack off!'??

You guys are a hoot! Thanks for making me smile!

what about cozzies? my Australian friend said she was trying to get people there to call Diet Coke "Dackers". did you ever hear anyone call it that?

what nothing on dags, or brickies cleavage, or 'having a naughty'...

Check out my Aussy Slang video and my American Slang video!

Nice shirt Jess :)

Beepee
Aussy Slang Man

WOW! What a classic! I must say that your clip is one of the first amateur clips I have seen on this type of clip sharing and it really made me laugh.
You looked a bit nervous in the video. Was someone that you don't know filming or automatic filming or what?
Cheers!

cfowler: Haha thanks! No I wasn't nervous, but I kind of just sat down in front of the camera and had absolutely no idea what I was going to say, so I had to make it all up on the spot. I kept having to think. Maybe I should have actually had a rough idea of what I was going to say, but I didn't. I kept pulling all these slang phrases out of nowhere. I'm surprised I could think of that many!

gooooooo the aussies! green and gold, green and gold

OZZI OZZI OZZI.... OI OI OI!

Bugger me dead? Did you say that?

How about "No walkin' furries"?

my German dictionary reports whinging as aust./brit...

hehehe. Jess, what really got me chuckling was how you start jiggle your head around as you say each phrase. It's like you're saying each one with an attitude. So funny.

trp0: I KNOW! I noticed that too! I have no idea why I do it, but it's pretty funny.

What about "flamin' mongrel"? Not that ive ever heard anyone say it apart from Alf of Home and Away fame...
And "bogan" - only a bogan will say "Spiggin' Hufter"...

Nice pompadour. Ethnolinguistics is rad.

That's so funny! Papa and I miss Sydney.

I find it really funny how the Tourism Australia commercial has been banned from British airwaves due to the use of the word "bloody".

There was similar commotion over a car ad wasn't there? And an underwear ad where whatshername spills milk on herself and goes 'Aww fuck!' Which they re-dubbed to something else so they could show it on TV before 9pm or something.

There should be more swearing in commercials.

there's an advert on the telly here in england at the moment that enquires, quite aggresively: "australia: why the HELL aren't you here yet?"

there's also this really long advert on twice a day called "neighbours"

please tell me that "spiggin' BELGIUM" is genuine australian slang! also, i can't believe that "bugger me dead" is slang! what a terrible image that creates!

they should change it from 'where the bloody hell are ya?' to 'get your f*$@ing ass over here or else...'

Psssh Aussies are just like that, Crawfish. We are just rude, unfriendly people who choose to have people identify us by swear words. Not really. I actually find 'bugger me dead' hilarious. It just sounds so funny.

People should stop being so sensitive towards swear words. ESPECIALLY bloody and hell. I honestly don't see either of them as being swear words anyway. I don't know why those ads were such a big deal. Prime time tv shows use those words and worse. I mean, kids are exposed to that sort of thing all the time nowadays. It's just not a big deal anymore, so I really don't think that trying to filter out stuff like that on TV is doing any good.

Well put!

Though i can think of any other country which would use that kind of slogan to get people to visit. I think its pretty damn cool!

Fuck oath

Bugger me dead! This Sheila is Beautiful!
Oh also aussieslang.com/

i do agree re: swearing on the telly, considering bloody hell isn't techincally swearing anyway (or as i claimed to my mum when i was about 10). however, with the harder stuff, (like 'fuck', the heroin of the swearing world) you have to respect it is a mass media and not all families want their children effin and blindin like crazies. i thought that advert was hilarious though just for it's aggressiveness really... i felt forced into coming up with a reason why i wasn't in australia... actually, why the hell AREN'T I there yet?

heh... still funny... "sodomize me until i literally do not live anymore"

Me and my friend Heather are going to use your phrases tonight in our Midwestern American accents.

About " hufter "....

Hufter is a Dutch word, it is used to describe a male person who, in your opinion, is not very well-behaved.

I really want to go to Austrailia some day

haha awesome! i'm excited for a part 2! i'm going to check out sydney in the summer so i guess i better get cracking on the slang....

extremely useful! Rock on!