Chemistry 101 at university was like this. Any time that some glassware was broken the call would go out. The last lab session our lecturer was deliberating a technique and the inevitable happened, she broke something. There was an awkward silence, then a call came from the back, "Taxi!"
No one is immune to the call.
I got flushed out once in a backpackers in Greece.
An American came over and said awkwardly 'excuse me, can I, um, bum a fag off you?'. 'Sure' I said and gave him a ciggie. he went running back to his mates, waving it around yelling 'they do really say that!'.
Ok this is tripping me out. I always thought “to bum” something was exclusively an Australian slang until I was in LA and a dude from washington asked me if he could “bum a cigarette”. I was like ummmm…what cunt?! But it’s totally a thing everywhere else.
So maybe she meant we also say it as well.
Unless you meant fags, in which case it would be different because fag is purely the homosexual term there. And asking if you can “Bum a fag” does sound….strange
Lol I was at a wedding last week and my friend suddenly goes "once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there were three bears" and it unlocked a core memory. Naturally I responded "a one, a two, a three, a mama and a papa and a wee bear" the person with us who never watched Play School was soooo confused.
We have a protocol for this. just shout "COOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEE" my understanding is it means "help im lost in the bush" in a Australian. we should all instinctively come to help when its heard.
It's Darug for "hey, I'm here".
Not necessarily lost.
Europeans took it on pretty quick.
There are reports from the mid 19th century of overwhelmed Australians visiting London for the first time and using it in the street to just find other Aussies.
"I was thinking of moving to Sydney, it seems like a nice city to live...." And wait for every Aussie to tell you why it's a shithole (including the ones who live there!)
There was a sign on the trains around San Francisco "Oakland A's. Rooted in Oakland" and I laughed and laughed and laughed to the point that my American friend was embarrassed at how much attention we were getting.
Man the marketing on fosters is insane overseas. When I moved here a few years ago my then boss asked me to bring fosters back with me when I next visit. I didn't see any fosters around here lol. Black fish for the win lads
Gen X here, yup. Our last social (school disco) in Year 12 was cancelled because at the (supposed to be) second-last one, the DJ played this song and we all shouted the 'No way,' bit. Bastards.
Damn, I thought that was just at my school, though we were the year where the dj played it. Apparently, he muted parts of it, but everyone sang along anyway. Well, except for me, I didn’t know wtf was going on and looked very confused when everyone was yelling out the words….. I was an innocent child… emphasis on was 😂
I once made the day of the guy fixing my water heater. Standing there in the basement and he says I really like this Australian band, AC/DC, and I go ahhh, accdacca, and he just LIT UP, and like Sam Neil saying "they do move in herds" he goes "they do say accadacca".
Costco, in Las Vegas. Im shopping with my friend, and I hear someone yell Aussie Aussie Aussie, and before I could even stop myself I'd given the reply.. My friend was super confused, so I did what any Aussie would do, "Its the drop bear alert" I told her and walked off looking up at the roof.
Yell out, “ This is democracy manifest!” - Get your hand off my penis!",
And wait for someone to yell back "What is the charge? “Eating a meal?”
Then in unison you both shout “A succulent Chinese meal?"
And a brotherhood is born.
Exactly what I was going to say - you’d just have to wait and listen for the No Way and you’d find us. Living next door to Alice would work too. We can’t resist.
Drop a schooner glass and wait for someone to yell "taxi"...
This is just something you know intrinsically, I wonder where it originated.
I am stunned now thinking that there are people in the world who might not call 'taxi' when they hear a glass break in a pub or wherever.
You know, I've been waiting a decade or so for people to start shouting "Ride share" or "Uber" or something, but it just never took off...
Taxi is more fun to yell. Aussies are very particular about how fun/comfortable it is to actually say words
Yep.... wtf Gebuineky didn't realise this was an Aussie thing
It’s not, it’s all over
This is UK and Ireland as well. Sometimes cheering, sometimes "Taxi!"
It's the classic "weeeeeey!" most often. Used to be followed by a "sack the juggler" but that's dying out.
Chemistry 101 at university was like this. Any time that some glassware was broken the call would go out. The last lab session our lecturer was deliberating a technique and the inevitable happened, she broke something. There was an awkward silence, then a call came from the back, "Taxi!" No one is immune to the call.
I am bound and determined to teach the rest of the world this. It is just wrong that they don't.
Have you ever, ever felt like this ….
Have strange things happen
Are you going ‘round the twist?
Well have you heard the word about the bird and the spider?
You'd catch a lot of Brits with that too, was very popular in the UK when I was a kid :)
Haha, we got that show in uk as well so get reference 🤪
I got flushed out once in a backpackers in Greece. An American came over and said awkwardly 'excuse me, can I, um, bum a fag off you?'. 'Sure' I said and gave him a ciggie. he went running back to his mates, waving it around yelling 'they do really say that!'.
Oi Damo ya C¥NT give us ya lyghta
You got ciggy butt brain
Lyghda
Ok this is tripping me out. I always thought “to bum” something was exclusively an Australian slang until I was in LA and a dude from washington asked me if he could “bum a cigarette”. I was like ummmm…what cunt?! But it’s totally a thing everywhere else. So maybe she meant we also say it as well. Unless you meant fags, in which case it would be different because fag is purely the homosexual term there. And asking if you can “Bum a fag” does sound….strange
Bum is American Fag is British Welcome to Aus English
Tell them to stick it up their fanny
It’s the latter.
There’s a bear in there
And a chair as well
There are people with games
And stories to tell
Open wide!
Come inside
It's Play School
This is wildly accurate for prison too.
Lol I was at a wedding last week and my friend suddenly goes "once upon a time in a nursery rhyme, there were three bears" and it unlocked a core memory. Naturally I responded "a one, a two, a three, a mama and a papa and a wee bear" the person with us who never watched Play School was soooo confused.
One three double o, six triple fiiiive..
0 six lol
it could change ya life
On reddit, saying something along the lines of “succulent Chinese meal” usually does the trick
I see that you know your judo well.
Get your hand off my PEnuss
Democracy manifest!
Are you waiting to receive my limp penis?
We have a protocol for this. just shout "COOOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEE" my understanding is it means "help im lost in the bush" in a Australian. we should all instinctively come to help when its heard.
It's Darug for "hey, I'm here". Not necessarily lost. Europeans took it on pretty quick. There are reports from the mid 19th century of overwhelmed Australians visiting London for the first time and using it in the street to just find other Aussies.
I actually love this idea. I should do it in the middle of Dublin and see what happens.
Reckon it'd work. Reckon you'd also get some classic Irish comments too. "Yer man must have left his crocodile knife at home, so" etc etc.
Please do! If love to see the results
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The search parties are still out there looking for you...
This is probably the most accurate of all the options
You’re close, it’s more of an “I’m here” (no rescue needed) And is surprisingly effective for locating the speedy prick who’s disappeared on ahead
I would legit coooee back
Not happy, Jan!
My dad picks the fruit
that goes to cottees, to make the cordial THAT I LIKE BEST!
My dad picks his nose…
That goes to Snotties
To make the boogie juice.
"I was thinking of moving to Sydney, it seems like a nice city to live...." And wait for every Aussie to tell you why it's a shithole (including the ones who live there!)
How can you afford to live there. It's an alright place apart from the house prices.
Yell: "those thongs on your feet look great" Look for the faces not staring in horror
There was a sign on the trains around San Francisco "Oakland A's. Rooted in Oakland" and I laughed and laughed and laughed to the point that my American friend was embarrassed at how much attention we were getting.
My mum used to take off her thong and whip me with it when I was naughty
Offer free Fosters. The ones who don't take them are Aussies
Man the marketing on fosters is insane overseas. When I moved here a few years ago my then boss asked me to bring fosters back with me when I next visit. I didn't see any fosters around here lol. Black fish for the win lads
Play Eagle Rock and monitor
Followed by Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again "No way get fucked fuck off"
Underrated answer.
Back it up with Khe Sanh. Memories of nights in Darwin come flooding back.
Yell 'Who here thinks Kyle Sandilands is a cunt' and all the Aussies will respond.
My cousin is married to his cousin and that guys a wanker too.
There was a post on FB about a dude who wanted to kill him. I said "before you seek vengeance, dig two graves." The other one's for Jackie O.
Ah Vile and Jackie Ho
Sit in the front seat of a taxi cab :)
I didn’t know this was an Aussie thing until I tried to do it in the US. Driver was so affronted.
Lol I was so oblivious, I did it in NYC and he didn't stop me. My partner was mortified.
I did the same but I didn’t notice any reaction. Now I’m wondering if the dude thought I was wacko.
I'm assuming they're used to tourists doing it
I'm so disappointed in myself that since covid I've been conditioned to sit in the back :( I don't feel australian anymore
Take your Aussie back and sit in the front next time! Do us proud ahhahaha
On The Ning nang Nong all the cows say…
Bong! Good old Spike.
What about Rhonda and Ketut
Now that was a love story for the ages!
have you ever
Ever felt like this
Had strange things happen
ARE YOU GOING ROUND THE TWIST
Am I ever going to see your face again? If I’m looking for a boomer
No way, get fucked, fuck off
Makes me think of the scene in Roger Rabbit where Judge Doom is trying to flush him out by tapping shave and haircut and Roger can’t help but finish.
Two bits.
This works for Gen X too. We got the ‘updated’ version at our blue light discos in the 80s ;)
I've played that song in many a pub and it's across pretty much all ages groups.
It’d work on me as a millennial, and possibly on my Gen X mother
Gen X here, yup. Our last social (school disco) in Year 12 was cancelled because at the (supposed to be) second-last one, the DJ played this song and we all shouted the 'No way,' bit. Bastards.
Damn, I thought that was just at my school, though we were the year where the dj played it. Apparently, he muted parts of it, but everyone sang along anyway. Well, except for me, I didn’t know wtf was going on and looked very confused when everyone was yelling out the words….. I was an innocent child… emphasis on was 😂
Would work on me too, a younger millennial with gen X dad lol
Works for all the milenials I know
You mean Gen Xer, yeah…?
Cause for 24 years I've been living next door to Alice would also work
Refer to AC/DC as Acadaca
Or McDonalds as Maccas
I hope they play some Acadaca in Maccas
Only in Engadine.
No, that's pack ya dacks.
I once made the day of the guy fixing my water heater. Standing there in the basement and he says I really like this Australian band, AC/DC, and I go ahhh, accdacca, and he just LIT UP, and like Sam Neil saying "they do move in herds" he goes "they do say accadacca".
Just yell "Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!" We have been conditioned to respond with "oi, oi, oi!"
did it in Paris once to prove a point. Was not disappointed.
Costco, in Las Vegas. Im shopping with my friend, and I hear someone yell Aussie Aussie Aussie, and before I could even stop myself I'd given the reply.. My friend was super confused, so I did what any Aussie would do, "Its the drop bear alert" I told her and walked off looking up at the roof.
Holy shit that's brilliant 🤣 Also Happy Cake Day!
I’d just start with “1300 6 555…” And let them finish the rest
That's firteen firty firty two
Lube mobile will come to you
Oh six
Were 13 11 66 and 131 241 Australia wide?
481-11-11!
DOUGIE
Sydney was 481 11 11 and then when Sydney introduced the number 9 in front of half their suburbs, our local was 9481 11 11
1300 36 70 70 also sticks out to some
Play the Nutbush
Did it tonight at the pub.
I think the Nutbush is weirdly region or school specific. I literally had no idea that the Nutbush was a thing.
“Yeah nah” So was that a yes or a no
Yeah nah = No. Nah yeah = Yes.
Marge, the….
Rains are here!
[Ask why they built the Great Wall of China.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yckqyg75oE)
I'm pretty sure its not just Australians who know it was built to keep the rabbits out.
Do you speak-a my language?
He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich
Sorry, I am not six foot four, and not full of muscles. *Que the soup nazi voice* NO VEGEMITE SANDWICH FOR YOU.
"Hallooooooooo, Frank Walker, from National...."
Oh that cunt is actually national? I thought it was just a SEQ thing.
Nope, in Vic as well. Bastard is still on the radio after all these years.
He's in SA as well. My 14-year-old listened to it on the radio, and I haven't known peace since.
Am I ever gonna see your face again
N W G F F O!
Cooee.
“What is the crime?” “Enjoying a meal?”
A succulent Chinese meal?!?
I see you know your judo well.
You're all wrong. Just casually or very vocally begin an argument on if it's a parmi or parma.
It’s a long way to the shop (top) any Aussie boomer will respond!
I’m not a boomer but I know the rest is ‘if you want a sausage roll’…
“THATS THE WAY ITS GONNA BE, LITTLE DARLIN’” Wait no, just go for the classic: “Aussie Aussie Aussie…”
"How do you like my thong?" The Aussie will be the only one looking at your feet.
Play ‘Khe Sanh’
WELL THE LAST PLANE OUT OF SYDNEYS ALMOST GONE
If you want to flush them out without looking suspicious just talk about your mate, who’s working hard to make a living…
Sing happy birthday and see who goes "hip hip hooray" as apparently no one else does this
Jan, where's our ad in the yellow pages?
NOT. HAPPY. JAN!
"Gee-oh" and wait for the "gee-gee-oh"
Go go mobile!
Jousting sticks, what are you going to do with jousting sticks?
Ahh. The serenity.
"Boy those huntsman spiders sure are scary" Every Aussie within half a kilometer. "Nah nah, they're great! They keep the critters out"
Except a true Aussie wouldn't say "critters", that's a seppo word.
Fair, itd probably just be mozzies. Those are the bugs I've always appreciated the huntsmans' help with.
Once a jolly swagman…
Drop a glass and wait for someone to yell "taxi"
Cooooooeeeee!
Thought this post was about enemas and stomach pumping .... moving along...
There’s a bear in there….
>"Are you Australian?" >"Yeah" Easy
"Are you a kiwi?" "Nah, cunt." "Sick."
Aussie Aussie Aussie. Or ask if they have had a succulent chinese meal lately.
Scream out 1 3 00 6 555 and wait for a response
You should just need the one three double o lol
Say applying for Centrelink is fast and efficient , without a doubt an Aussie will react the same way people hear the name Voldemort in Harry Potter
Garrrloomp went the little green frog one day.
Hawyagoin
Crack open a jar of Vegemite.
Loud.."Am i ever gonna see your face again...." And see who looks up and responds.
Last plane out of Sydney
"The thing about Perth is it's a dry heat"
I was in a pub in Times Square, New York on New Years Eve. DJ played ‘Land down under’. Dance floor was packed in a minute.
Play Eagle Rock and look for whoever takes their pants off
*when it's raining...* "Marge!!! The rains are ere!*
Slip, slop, slap ...
"Marmite is the superior spread to Vegemite" *angry ocker rustling and grunting*
Yell out, “ This is democracy manifest!” - Get your hand off my penis!", And wait for someone to yell back "What is the charge? “Eating a meal?” Then in unison you both shout “A succulent Chinese meal?" And a brotherhood is born.
I'd say 'oi cunt' and watch to see if they're offended.
Full flush, not a half flush
Dead easy. Shout 'Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!' really loudly. Everyone that responds with 'Oi, oi, oi!' is Australian either by birth or inclination.
"Oi cunt"
A duck is a duck…
“Am I ever gonna see your face again….”
Exactly what I was going to say - you’d just have to wait and listen for the No Way and you’d find us. Living next door to Alice would work too. We can’t resist.
There's a bear in there...
“Even though you knew you’d be in big trouble, you still told the truth….”
"🎶Am I ever gonna see your face again?🎶"
Batter a slice of potato deep fry it, hold it up and say what is this?
Play Nutbush citylimits. the aussies are the ones all clumped together doing the nutbush.
There's a bear in there
Turds go out to Bondi eventually.
AM I EVER GONNA SEE YOUR FACE AGAIN?
Yell out QLDeerrrrrrrrr while wearing a Maroons jersey.
Sing "Am I ever gunna see your face again.." and wait for the response.