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What the? That's not what it means here.; what words mean in your country
Topic Started: Apr 24 2007, 05:24 PM (7,364 Views)
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May 1 2007, 06:16 PM
i've seen a couple of dubious comments about the Scots in some of your comments. if you ain't a Scot yerself, them's fightin' words
:guns Stand-down soldier! Aye, I wudna hae dared say them if I wasnae! Anyway, aren't you now an adopted Canadian or something?

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I' m trying to think of a sport that we excel in worldwide.
Em ... practically every winter sport that you can name? And I'm not going to expend any energy even trying to think of something in return ..... :rofl
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ye can take the lassie out of scotland, but ye cannae take the scot out of the lassie. and yes, i am now a canadian citizen. cbg is probably a better example of a canadian, so adaptable (did someone say boring? lol). i still have the bad temper of the typical scot. red hair too.

here's another word they use in the uk - not sure if i'm spelling it correctly - anorak. i remember it from when i was a kid - it's a light, zippered jacket. but i also saw the word used in an article someone wrote about simone. she said she'd looked a whole bunch of stuff up on simone on the internet, but wasn't sure she wanted to mention it to simone in case she seemed like an anorak - so it must have a second meaning?

p.s. i can't believe the canadian under 20 men's soccer/football team beat scotland in a friendly recently. never know who to root for in those circumstances. but i would probably wear blue and white.
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May 1 2007, 11:27 PM
here's another word they use in the uk - not sure if i'm spelling it correctly - anorak. i remember it from when i was a kid - it's a light, zippered jacket.  but i also saw the word used in an article someone wrote about simone.  she said she'd looked a whole bunch of stuff up on simone on the internet, but wasn't sure she wanted to mention it to simone in case she seemed like an anorak - so it must have a second meaning?
Yeah, in the UK it was originally applied to 'nerdy type' trainspotters (presumably because they wore anoraks when sitting around on freezing cold platforms) but is now applied to anyone with an obsessive interest in anything. Hmm ... she says looking round ..... Don't think I know anyone who fits that description!

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May 1 2007, 11:27 PM
p.s. i can't believe the canadian under 20 men's soccer/football team beat scotland in a friendly recently.
Oh, everyone beats us these days! Hence my amusement at trying to think of a sport that we're actually good at!!

ETA - The Aussie's have gone awful quiet!? Do you think they've been eaten by the Tasmanian Devil?
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The Aussie's have gone awful quiet!? Do you think they've been eaten by the Tasmanian Devil?


You obviously dont known any Australian's. Us lot are not a very quiet bunch.

And as for the Tassie devil eating us, thats quite possible since they are meat eaters. But they are lazy and usually wait for a car to kill there dinner first. So im not playing on the road any more. :lol1
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Tasmanian devils have a disease that is killing them all off
But not me i hope
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May 2 2007, 01:18 PM
Tasmanian devils have a disease that is killing them all off
But not me i hope

Glad to hear it. Just be careful playing on the roads then. I was kinda frightened to ask what happened to tassiedevil1!

ETA - Hmm ... I had no idea that Tasmania was so far from Australia ... you seem to be in a time zone all on your own! :)
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oh i think they went by way of the facial tumour disease
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I wonder if using root to mean F---, has it's origins in the word rut.

Rut, rutting,rutted.
3. applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
1. be in a state of sexual excitement;
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You're probably right, Washuai. I think the breeding season for deer in the UK is often called the "rutting season". Do you have deer in Aussieland & Tassieland?

I've been looking through the slang link you gave, BGEp1,2&3. Lots of great words there. I like the fact that hotel is another name for pub! Under the word "root", it concludes it is "a very useful word in fairly polite company"!! Like that!!
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We have lots of feral deer in Tassie
Early white settlers intoduced them to make it seem more like home
and to hunt
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but soccer should be called football eveywhere as it is a very international game.


I agree, but I think we'd have a hard time convincning the Americans. In Canada we could do the same as in Aussie, call soccer football, and the North American version could be called American-rules Football, or something. In Toronto, we have a brand new team that has just joined the North American Major Leage Soccer. Our team is called Toronto F.C., with the F.C. being an abbreviation for Football Club.

I just went to one of their games, and when the fans were pissed off with the referee, they all yelled "The referee is a wanker." Not a typical Canadian phrase, but I guess the language of football is universal.


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oh i think they went by way of the facial tumour disease


Really? That's horrible.
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ETA - Hmm ... I had no idea that Tasmania was so far from Australia ... you seem to be in a time zone all on your own! 




I think tassiedevil2 will agree with me here.

There is a really love hate relationship between Australia and Tasmania.

If Australian's could give away Tasmania we would. And of course we would give them to New Zealand. :D

And If they could get their independence from us they would.

They say we are from the mainland, and as I have said before we call Tasmanian's two-heads.

But when it comes down to our sports, we are all Australian's and we claim each others stars as our own. :lol1

For some reason we just have to give each other a hard time. But when the push comes to the shove we are all Aussies. :hug2

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I know what you mean, BGEp1,2&3.

The Scots and the English too have a love-hate relationship. Mainly to do with politics and history. It doesn't help that the Scots also have their own parliament (for what its worth) with separate legal and education systems, thus sometimes laws and budgets appear to favour the English.

Mainly this 'love-hate' is jokey and good humoured but it does go a bit too far sometimes. For example in the 2006 FIFA World Cup, there was controversy as a lot of Scots refused to support England. A little also due to the fact that the Scots are crap at football and the English are always going on about their win in 1966!

For some reason we just have to give each other a hard time. But when the push comes to the shove we are all British!!
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the Scots also have their own parliament (for what its worth)


I saw the Scottish parliament building when I was over on holiday last year. Interesting!!! I heard one of the beams fell from the ceiling and near hit someone. Doesn't quite blend in with Holyrood House across the road.

Did the Scots not just have some sort of election, where separation was on the table? How did that turn out?

I fear every level of government they put into place is just another excuse to get into the pocket of the poor taxpayer.
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May 17 2007, 07:39 AM
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but soccer should be called football eveywhere as it is a very international game.
I agree, but I think we'd have a hard time convincning the Americans. In Canada we could do the same as in Aussie, call soccer football, and the North American version could be called American-rules Football, or something.
Are football/soccer rules the same in all countries or are there variations? I've always assumed they were the same otherwise it would make international matches confusing.

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May 17 2007, 06:00 PM
I saw the Scottish parliament building when I was over on holiday last year. Interesting!!!  I heard one of the beams fell from the ceiling and near hit someone.  Doesn't quite blend in with Holyrood House across the road.
That was a complete fiasco from start to finish!!! It went seriously late and overbudget. I think it was originally supposed to cost £50m and ended up costing around £410m. And one of the main beams came loose in the main debating chamber once it opened so was out of commision for a while. Yeah, I've seen it too. Interesting is one word to describe it. Personally I might go for eyesore and hideous (OK, I cheated ... that was two words) since it is situated in an olden historical street! It has won a lot of design awards so someone must like it. And for those who haven't seen it ......

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ETA - Talking about millions (as you do), am I right in thinking that what the UK calls a billion is a trillion in the US? So our billionaires are even richer in the US!
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