Quiz: Aussie sayings

Where'd that saying come from? You say 'fair dinkum' just like the rest of us ... but do you know what it really means? Take our quiz and find out where our favourite Aussie sayings come from!

[ngali]

6/12

As if you could do any better.

[Elias]

4/12
Thank god I havent been contaminated by "Aussie" colloqialisms

[AussieBobby]

Elias wrote:

4/12
Thank god I havent been contaminated by "Aussie" colloqialisms

Its you that's been rejected.

Long time no see,nothing has changed with you.

[ImmigrantOverlor d]

Elias wrote:

4/12
Thank god I havent been contaminated by "Aussie" colloqialisms

you whinge like an Aussie woman.

[khalid]

what kinda aussies, african aussies or anglo aussie, or aussian aussies

im telling u, african aussie dont use this word. and asian aussies dont use it.

the only way we can beat these european rejects aka convicts is to breed.. we ned to out number them and keep our language.. 30 years later ordo will be the second language in australia followed by chinese and Arabic than English lol

[Elias]

AussieBobby wrote:

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Its you that's been rejected.
Long time no see,nothing has changed with you.

Sorry "mate" if I choose not wear an Akubra or watch the footie or drink like a fish or swear at immigrants thats my choice.

If I choose to be a citizen of Australia, get the dole, or find a job and root as many nice young white girls as possible (while not wanting to transform myself into a Barry Crocker "Aussie") thats also my choice.

[AussieBobby]

Elias wrote:

Sorry "mate" if I choose not wear an Akubra

Same here

Elias wrote:

or watch the footie or

same here

Elias wrote:

drink like a fish

Only on my days off

Elias wrote:

or swear at immigrants thats my choice.

Only if their a BB immigrant you dont..but a white one that's different..isn't

Elias wrote:

If I choose to be a citizen of Australia

Well you never have

Elias wrote:

get the dole, or find a job and root as many nice young white girls as possible

This old tact(rooting white girls)..tiring to get me angry..well I dont blame you from going white

Elias wrote:

(while not wanting to transform myself into a Barry Crocker "Aussie") thats also my choice.

No you will never be that..just an ungrateful parasite

[Elias]

AussieBobby wrote:

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Same here
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same here
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Only on my days off
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Only if their a BB immigrant you dont..but a white one that's different..isn't
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Well you never have
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This old tact(rooting white girls)..tiring to get me angry..well I dont blame you from going white
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No you will never be that..just an ungrateful parasite

parastite my a$$- my taxes pay for your pension old man!!

[SUPERIOR AUSSIE]

Elias wrote:

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parastite my a$$- my taxes pay for your pension old man!!

I thought you would get paid cash down at the kwickie mart.

[hypocrite bragging]

Elias wrote:

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Sorry "mate" if I choose not wear an Akubra or watch the footie or drink like a fish or swear at immigrants thats my choice.
If I choose to be a citizen of Australia, get the dole, or find a job and root as many nice young white girls as possible (while not wanting to transform myself into a Barry Crocker "Aussie") thats also my choice.

and you will be looked down on and judged for your behaviour like you do to others.

[Elias]

SUPERIOR AUSSIE wrote:

<quoted text>I thought you would get paid cash down at the kwickie mart.

No I'm not like 90% of the white tradesman who dont declare their cash earnings. I get a cheque and pay my taxes.

[Andrew]

Elias wrote:

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No I'm not like 90% of the white tradesman who dont declare their cash earnings. I get a cheque and pay my taxes.

Mind your own business Muslim. Go home.

[mostly numb but good]

ngali wrote:

6/12
As if you could do any better.

Well it was not an easy one but I did get 9/12.

However, I do know that one of the answers was wrong;

10. "You're so bogan"


Correct answer : An Aboriginal word, first written down when the Bogan River in north-western NSW was included on maps in the 1830s.

Your answer : A word that derives from the Irish term 'bog' with a derogatory implication that anyone bogan must have come up from uncivilised muddy depths.


Bogan DOES dervie from the word 'bog'.
This I am 100% sure of.

Good test though, really got me thinking.

Shame most of the 'brain children' on this thread were not interested in the actual test.
So thanks for that N.

[TBA]

mostly numb but good wrote:

<quoted text>
Well it was not an easy one but I did get 9/12.
However, I do know that one of the answers was wrong;
10. "You're so bogan"
Correct answer : An Aboriginal word, first written down when the Bogan River in north-western NSW was included on maps in the 1830s.
Your answer : A word that derives from the Irish term 'bog' with a derogatory implication that anyone bogan must have come up from uncivilised muddy depths.
Bogan DOES dervie from the word 'bog'.
This I am 100% sure of.
Good test though, really got me thinking.
Shame most of the 'brain children' on this thread were not interested in the actual test.
So thanks for that N.

LOL, I always thought bogan was named after the moths. The term hasn't been around that long- they used to be called yobbos and ockers.

[Tweeter]

mostly numb but good wrote:

10. "You're so bogan"
Correct answer : An Aboriginal word, first written down when the Bogan River in north-western NSW was included on maps in the 1830s.
Your answer : A word that derives from the Irish term 'bog' with a derogatory implication that anyone bogan must have come up from uncivilised muddy depths.
Bogan DOES dervie from the word 'bog'.
This I am 100% sure of.
Good test though, really got me thinking.
Shame most of the 'brain children' on this thread were not interested in the actual test.
So thanks for that N.

I don't know man that test looks a little dodgey to me.

The word Bogan and where it came from is debatable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan

[ngali]

mostly numb but good wrote:

<quoted text>
Well it was not an easy one but I did get 9/12.
However, I do know that one of the answers was wrong;
10. "You're so bogan"
Correct answer : An Aboriginal word, first written down when the Bogan River in north-western NSW was included on maps in the 1830s.
Your answer : A word that derives from the Irish term 'bog' with a derogatory implication that anyone bogan must have come up from uncivilised muddy depths.
Bogan DOES dervie from the word 'bog'.
This I am 100% sure of.
Good test though, really got me thinking.
Shame most of the 'brain children' on this thread were not interested in the actual test.
So thanks for that N.

Yeah - I wasn't sure about that one either.

Besides I heard that in Queensland at least, and possibly other Eastern states, they're called Bevans.

[SUPERIOR AUSSIE]

Elias wrote:

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No I'm not like 90% of the white tradesman who dont declare their cash earnings. I get a cheque and pay my taxes.

90%? ROFL. They pay GST when they buy goods, don't worry about that. They pay tax at every turn. unlike the dishonest imports.

[mostly numb but good]

Tweeter wrote:

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I don't know man that test looks a little dodgey to me.
The word Bogan and where it came from is debatable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan

I think I will go with the origin of the word being from the UK as I have hear this several times, and not on an anyone can write wikishite page...

Also, the sir name "Paterson" is scott and he was well travelled so chances are 'bogan rain' that being three parts dust and one part water referrs to mud, rather than geography.

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/canwehelp/txt/s26480...

Where does the term ‘Bogan’ come from?… asks Noni, email

David Dale - Social Commentator

So the word ‘bogan’ which we love and which we use for people from the western suburbs, if it’s on the east coast, and the eastern suburbs if you are in Perth, it refers to somebody who is perhaps not as fashionable as they might be or have a different idea about fashion.

There’s a lot of theories about where the word came from and there was a poem written by Banjo Patterson in 1902 in which he refers to a ‘bogan shower’, which is ‘3 drops of dust and 1 drop of water’ and ***apparently**** that refers to the Bogan River and the Bogan shire in NSW and the possibility is that people who were perceived as coming from the bush, from the Bogan area, were called ‘bogans’.

But there’s also an origin back in old Scottish which is about people who come from the Bog, so perhaps we should be pronouncing it the ‘bog-ans’ rather that the ‘beau-gans’. All those people that Kylie Mole used to make fun of in the Comedy Company …“eeww, she’s a Bogan” might really be Scottish people from the Bog.

Bogans aren’t always unfashionable, they go through periods, I mean Radio Triple J had a ‘National Bogan Day’ and they reckon that Midnight Oil, with our esteemed Environment Minister in it, was a bogan band, now that’s pretty fashionable.

So there are times when we love bogans and there are times when we perhaps make a bit of fun of them.

[Elias]

SUPERIOR AUSSIE wrote:

<quoted text>90%? ROFL. They pay GST when they buy goods, don't worry about that. They pay tax at every turn. unlike the dishonest imports.

So how do I (an import) avoid GST tax when I buy goods?

[Tweeter]

Elias wrote:

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So how do I (an import) avoid GST tax when I buy goods?

People like you buy stuff that fell off the back of a truck.No questions asked and cheap as chips.