How do you say that in Swedish?

[mckutzy]

Those are pretty funny. what a difference in Language.. truely interesting.
I have a English friend he chuckles when ever he hears some one use "rooting" for that reason.
I just found out from a friend from SA who told me about the BBQ saying, interesting.

One thing here we canucks dont have much for any distinct sayings,
some we do say..

When going overyounder to Tims to grab some coffee and timbits, means not your friends house and no one is named Tim there aswell as no one is in pieces.

When you say can I get a #2 robertson, you mean a screwdriver...... seriously.

Crappy tire in context can mean just that from that(its our national hardware store), or a bad tire from walmart.


Well thats a few, I know there is a bunch more , but I guess when your just accustomed to it, it dont register on a daily thought.

 

[OzFab]

When going overyounder to Tims to grab some coffee and timbits, means not your friends house and no one is named Tim there aswell as no one is in pieces.

Come again?

 

[Poboy kartman]

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout

Thanks fowler



Didn't really get what you're saying; maybe there's something lost in translation

IDK- could be- here little boys have wee wees whereas little girls don't.

 

[mckutzy]

Could be considered our national fast food chain. but more coffee.

 

[OzFab]

IDK- could be- here little boys have wee wees whereas little girls don't.

Ah ok, got that but, what's that got to do with "seppo's"?

Any guesses yet?

 

[Doc Sprocket]

Tim Horton's IS a holy place!

Actually, we'll march right into Timmie's, and order a "double-double". An entirely Canadian term used to describe a coffee with two shots of cream, and two measures of sugar.

The Robertson screwdriver thing is a constant source of amusement. The bit (and corresponding socket in the screw) is square instead of a flat slot or your Phillips star. It is quite superior, grabs well and much less likely to strip out. If it hasn't caught on elsewhere, I cannot imagine why.

I like terms like "Brazil nuts". Are they just "nuts" in Brazil? I imagine a "Mexican Blanket" to be merely a "blanket" in Mexico. I guess "standoffs" are fairly common there, too. LOL

One thing is for certain. I will never understand why we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway. Well- except for the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto. More often than not, it truly is parked...

BTW- If anybody saw the kitsch movie "Wayne's World", Stan Mikita's donuts was a direct parody of Tim Horton's. Tim Horton was a local NHL hockey player, born and raised a few hours north of me. When Tim Horton opened his first coffee shop (1964), people scoffed. Now, Tim Horton's is as much Canadiana as hockey is. (*Ice Hockey to the rest of the world, as if there's any other kind of Hockey)

EDIT- Thanks to my friend Google, I see that "seppo" isn't very nice... Glad I'm Canadian.

 

[Poboy kartman]

OK-I should have known you'ld be talking sh!t.Seppo comes from the abbreviation for septic tank and is a dergatory term for us "Yanks"(seems like you could have expanded on that. ..) that was coined in retaliation for the reason we had our way with your women so easily. ....Does your wife have a sis?
Am I close?

 

[Rustydog2010]

You believe all famous Kiwis are actually Australian, until they stuff up, at which point they again become Kiwis.

 

[Poboy kartman]

Doc-We sent a guy named Robertson up north awhile back. He was supposed to introduce a square headed screwdriver and a screw with a round hole-we didn't expect ya'll to figure it out......
Actually square headed screws are extremely common here. The newest trend is a hybrid Robertson/Phillips hybrid very common on deck screws.
We just don't call them "Robertson's" (the guy obviously "screwed up" his mission! )LOL.....

 

[Poboy kartman]

Tim Horton's IS a holy place!

Actually,
One thing is for certain. I will never understand why we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway. Well- except for the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto. More often than not, it truly is parked....

We do the same thing here-but I've done it the other way around a few times at 3am.....

 

[OzFab]

OK-I should have known you'ld be talking sh!t.Seppo comes from the abbreviation for septic tank and is a dergatory term for us "Yanks"(seems like you could have expanded on that. ..) that was coined in retaliation for the reason we had our way with your women so easily. ....Does your wife have a sis?
Am I close?

Correct:
Seppo, short for Septic tank, rhymes with Yank.

I have no idea of the origins

Now for fowlers contribution (I've added a bit to it):

Bazza took his missus shazza in the kingswood ute to the servo for some go juice then down to maccas listening to aca daca
While drinking some bush chooks

Wait, drinking bush chooks? Even I don't get that one

 

[machinist@large]

The divisions of the English language are just mind boggling; living in a small rural farming community growing up, I was taught the basics of the language as we see it used here (most often, our base line, as you will). What is still a really astounding (scary?!?) thing for me is driving ~20 minutes from my house, while en route to work (~ 36 miles from home) was stopping for gas this morning approximately 5 blocks from downtown Grand Rapids Michigan, I walked (parked?) into two females having some kind of argument between their cars on the other side of the pump.

They were speaking english; I was getting ~2 or 3 words out of 5; it was the remaining words that had me wondering just what they were arguing about....

And race doesn't even factor in; they were both of European descent (just like me), and they were dressed far better than I will ever wear to work, and the combined cost of the cars they were driving would cover the cost of my home with a lot of change left over....

P.S. I found the heading humorous because I just scored a retro ABBA CD at the grocery store......

 

[itsid]

Well I'm imagining two yuppies arguing about the new Louis Vuitton collection, if the Louboutin mules are actually better than the ones by Jimmy Choo,
or far worse (for males to listen to) if the new Chanel clutch is superior to the one from Gucci.
Since that clutch does not go onto an engine but into an armpit (axle if you will )

*shrugs* women.

'sid

 

[Poboy kartman]

Well I'm imagining two yuppies arguing about the new Louis Vuitton collection, if the Louboutin mules are actually better than the ones by Jimmy Choo,
or far worse (for males to listen to) if the new Chanel clutch is superior to the one from Gucci.
Since that clutch does not go onto an engine but into an armpit (axle if you will )

*shrugs* women.

'sid

That wasn't it-He conviently omitted the fact that they both had great big bogonzas and his mind and ears were overwhelmed by his eyes.

 

[devino246]

My boss, who's from Massachusetts, was giving me a hard time the other day because I was telling him to "cut the engine off" and "cut it back on". Apparently that's a southern US thing. My grandmother says "over yonder", and I spend many weekends "down home" where she grew up.

I'm sure there are plenty others that I hear all the time or use myself, but I'm so used to hearing them. I don't think I realized my grandparents all talked "different" until I was 10 or older.

 

[firemanjim]

Jeet yet y'all? Aight.....

 

[itsid]

no, djoo?

'sid

 

[fowler]

Wait, drinking bush chooks? Even I don't get that one

Emu export

 

[OzFab]

...I was telling him to "cut the engine off" and "cut it back on".

"Cut the engine off" sounds ok but, "cut it back on" does sound a bit strange, not to mention illogical...

Emu export

Ah, ok

 

[Poboy kartman]

Jeet yet y'all? Aight.....

Gnaw n steel hongree-got n e mo a them slim jims?