Septic tank rhymes with yank. We often use rhyming words to describe things, like calling someone China is actually another way of saying "Mate", as mate rhymes with China "Plate" etc. Seppo is special though because it also refers to a specific type of "Yank" where they're considered, as thick as concrete and full of shit. In other words, stupid and full of bravado and idiotic rhetoric and therefore ripe for an absolute piss take. 😁More or less in much the same way as we treat our own mates.
Besser Block was a real name for the cinder block as it was made by a company which is not around anymore and that was Monier Besser who but it has stuck with the name.
Also understand that on the West coast of Australia, we have alot of different "slang" words. We never had "milk bars" we had "Corner Deli's". We have Prickles or Double G's. The list goes on....
In 1983 my family moved house - 3 hours drive (from NSW to Qld). I was lost in conversations sometimes because I had no idea what they were saying. They would say, "we're gonna put on our togs and go to the pool". My (eventual) translation was, "I'm gonna put on my swimmers and go to the baths". They wrote on pads. I wrote on notebooks. To me pads were Sanitary Pads so I got pretty embarrassed when a teacher said to get out our pads! They put runners on their feet. I put runners (always black) on over my underpants, when we had sports at school. My runners were just undie shaped Lycra bike shorts (but not made of Lycra, just nylon). I wore sandshoes on my feet (as running/sport shoes). I took a port to school. They took a bag. I used a Niko, they used a felt-tip marker. The absolute worst insult at my new Qld school was to be called a Scholar. It took me weeks to grasp that this was neither an observation nor a compliment. I couldn't get over how many differences there were between the people of two similar sized towns, only 3 hours apart, but with a State line between.
Poof is a derogatory term for a gay guy. Has kinda been embraced though by the gay community. So a Poof Doof is a gay dance party or club night. Doof refers to like house / electronic music as its base sound goes Doof Doof Doof. This is actually funny. Guess he's been hit on and invited to a few Poof Doofs lol and thought it was some kind of bush music festival.
I believe the term is “Bush Doof”, the sound of pumping bass speakers in the middle of the bush… I don’t think they have solely gay outdoor techno festivals here, yet 🤣
The gutter thing is a what he showed is a storm water drain pit. The kerb and gutter bit is the kerb is the part of the gutter section that is side that goes up.
Maybe some terms are different in each Aussie State, but we call the gutter the entire part of the corner of the road which steps up to the footpath, not just the outlet to the drain. In fact that opening part we would refer to the 'drain' in NSW.
Rhyming slang was invented by east Londoners, Cockneys, and came to Australia in the early days. The way it works is that you have a phrase that rhymes with the word you want but you drop the rhyming word so "going home to the trouble" is trouble = trouble and strife = wife. Septic tank is rhyming slang for Yank but the "tank " gets dropped and just "septic" becomes the name, which, because this is Australia, is abbreviated to "sepo". It is not, usually, intended to be offensive. Probably the most widely used piece of rhyming slang in the English speaking world, is the rude noise you make with your tongue and lips. Babies are very good at it. This is usually called "blowing a raspberry". It is rhyming slang: raspberry = raspberry tart = fart.
Here's a party trick. You stand around a bunch of people at the party and just thrust your hips back and forth for no apparent reason. When someone inevitably asks you what you're doing you just say, "fuckin' nothin'."😁
A milk bar isn't a milk bar unless you can buy freshly made milkshakes, thickshakes, and spiders from there, with an exceptionally wide range of amazing flavours including lime, pineapple, mango, passionfruit, spearmint, butterscotch, etc. There's not many milk bars around anymore which is why the term isn't heard so often nowadays, and most of the ones that do still exist often end up being referred to a an ice cream shop or deli or something based on other things they sell. There are still a few genuine milk bars around though, I'm grateful to be living in a town that still has one.
We had milk bars on every second corner when I was a kid. They don't have to have fresh food, they just need to have milk and the newspaper, then they can all differ from there.
Don't worry Ryan, I hadn't heard of a lot of them. I'm in Melbourne and after travelling found some slang words are regional. So QLD will have different slang words to Melbourne etc.
So true. Fellow Melbo here too. When I travelled to QLD especially Bundy, their accent was true blue and slang was definitely different. And they mentioned that my/ our vocabulary was .... I'll let others fill in that blank.
@@Di_678 Lol, no, i'm a "wog" but my son has been called one due to his "looks" while he is part Asian part European. smh. As for the vocabulary, they mentioned that it "wasn't" Aussie and it was to "soft". I have been mistaken for a South African many times over for my accent although I am not. Although a South African has told me that she can understand why but that they wouldn't make that assumption. hehe.
Also from Melbs (it’s NEVER called Melbo ) and I have heard them all, but really, what is referred to a true blue Aussie I believe is simply bogan. Not all Aussies speak bogan.
@3:40 it is a 'kerb and gutter'. The kerb is the upstand which with the raked strip of concrete forms a gutter. This drains storm water (rain) from the road surface to the stormwater outlet at 3:35.
in WWII Australians called American servicemen "Yanks" (we did not differentiate Americans into Northerners or Southerners, most Aussies were ignorant of the origin of Yanks vs Johnny Rebs). It was a derogatory term for many Australians to use because US soldiers came over here with lots of cash, and swept up many of our women while our own soldiers were overseas fighting in North Africa at the time. Many of our men became angry and jealous thus the insults. Yank eventually became "Septic Tank" simply because it rhymed with Yank. Then like we always do, we shortened Septic Tank to simply Sepo.
Much of the use of the Yanks / Yankees name is directly from the famous baseball team that was probably the best known sporting team in the world during the pre war era. Everybody know the names of Babe Ruth and a number of his team mates. Many also knew of Lou Gehrig who became a world figure at the time. While there was no TV there were regular updates of Movietone newsreels at the theatres.
A few of these (zopper dooper for instance) is something that is slang in part of Australia but most of us would call it something else like an icy pole, very regional for that. We do use stroller - pram tends to be lying down baby, stroller tends to be sitting up toddler but can be interchangeable.
Wog actually originated as a shortening of Western Oriental Gentlemen during the gold rush days, now it's mostly Greek/Italians. We had a stage show called "Wogs" and "Wogs out of work".
The origin is actually unknown but may be linked to golliwogs. The words Western and Oriental are the exact opposite of each other so that explanation makes zero sense.
@@g0tdan I think she meant Worthy, but I agree that it's probably not where Wog for Southern Greeks and Italians started. More likely they looked similar to Wops = Egyptians/Arabs being darker skinned than the predominantly fair skinned British.
"Ambo" usually refers to the people in the vehicle taking you to hospital (ambulance officer or paramedic), though I've occasionally heard it used for the vehicle. A "Yank" is just a generic American - it doesn't have to be insulting at all. "Seppo" (= "septic tank") is usually insulting and originated as a term for US troops stationed here and in England during World War 2. It is rhyming slang for "yank".
@@tlihdsnm26947 the general consensus at the time was "over dressed, over paid and over 'ere". the seppos were well paid by comparison to the diggers and their uniforms were a bit flashier too. It was a bit of a shock for some of the G.I. brides when they got over to the states to find out that the bloke they married wasn't the high flyer they thought he was. For a lot of those US troops, being in the military was probably the highest paying job they would ever have, especially for those from the more rural/"backwoods" areas of the country...
@@tlihdsnm26947 Yep, "Over-sexed, Over-paid and Over-here" because the Yank soldiers (here after the withdrawal from the Philippines of US troops led by Macarthur) became the catch-cry of our Aussie soldiers.
A 'Pram" is a shortening of a very old English word 'Perambulator', which used to be very different to the modern 'baby stroller'. Much larger with larger spoked wheels and had a shell-shaped sun shield that could be adjusted to protect the baby. They used to be available in the US as well, as they can be seen sometimes in early black and white movies.
Notable for being shaped like medieval caltrops in that it sits on 3 points on the ground with the fourth point pointing straight up, hurts like hell on the soles of the feet when it punctures them.
I’m a Ranger lol born in the 50s and some I’ve never heard of lol. Redheads go grey later, I’m 68 and people ask what colour I’ve put in my hair - nothing, it’s still just fading lol. I remember my parents, sometimes, not often, calling Americans Yanks. Mum (born 1920) told me she got it from a song in the movies, I’m a Yanky Doodle Dandy. Pram is short for perambulator, "one who walks or perambulates," which gained the meaning "baby carriage" in the 1850s. Someone mentioned rhyming slang, we got that from the UK. I’m so old - I can’t remember the others lol - brain fade 😂
Septic Tank is a word that was used to describe US troops stationed in Australia during World War 2. Derived from Yank. hence Septic Tank/Yank.. Shortened in later years to Seppo. In the 60/70's when american cars were huge with big fins etc we called them Yank Tanks. Bonnet on a car is your Hood. Bonnet and hood are both head coverings. So they cover the motor, Bonnets and Hoods are hair coverings used by women in older times. eg. She wore a red Bonnet and Little Red Riding Hood.
Drain attached to the gutter? Ranga from Orangutan equals redhead. WOG is originally derived from Gollywog Doll but was equated to Southern Europeans and Middle East in Australia, in Britain it refers to a person who is not white.
As a south aussie I’ve never heard sepo being used, Where I grew up, to go look at something people would say ‘im gonna have a snizz’ for cigarettes: literally everywhere it’s called a ciggie, ambo is the paramedics in an ambulance, postie is yeah postie, the one for a party out bush I’ve never heard that being used, for a party it’s usually just party for alcohol it’s booze which I’m pretty sure isn’t just aussie, with beer it’s different in different states for example, people in the eastern states might say a carton or box of beer, in South Australia is also depends on where you are from, where I’m from most people say slab of beer, sausages are called snags (the best ones are bunnings snags), a zooper dooper isn’t slang, it’s just a brand name. If you want real Australian slang talk to a real aussie lol, an American trying to teach other Americans aussie slang is like trying to stuff too much food down your gullet
He hasn't been around long enough in Australia to know some of the terms he's using. The "bar" in milk bar just derives from the meaning of a bar anywhere......i.e. it serves drinks. But not alcoholic ones. Originally they served flavored milkshakes and sodas and candy. Often located next to cinemas. Some served tea, coffee and light meals, like a cafe. Then they evolved into mini-marts and the term has now largely disappeared, replaced with "convenience stores" .
Growing up in Melbourne, the little corner store often in the back streets where called milk bars, they basically had milk, newspapers, lollies and fire crackers and other assortment of daily required items. I haven’t heard that term used in QLD where I live now though.
Now that I think about it, I've never heard anyone say "sepo" in the factory where I manufacture their control units. It's either septic or the model type.
That wasn't a gutter, that was a drain in the gutter. Septic tank has no meaning, septic tank rymes with yank that's it. Sepo just means american no negative meaning attached. Bindies are a specific type of prickle. Not all prickles are bindies.
Septic tank = rhyming slang for Yank. It’s something we brought from England - Cockney rhyming slang. There are others eg do the Harold Holt = do the bolt. HH was a prime minister who went for a swim at a beach and was never seen again. Also an ambo is the paramedic more often than the actual ambulance.
The "bonnet" and "hood" are similar terms - both are _head coverings_ that, for whatever reason, became attached to the movable cover over the engine. So bonnet/hood is roughly the same, just a different type of "hat". Where the big difference lies is in the rear of the car. Americans refer to it as "trunk" due to it being like, well, a large solid travelling case. In UK, NZ, Aus, since it's at the other end of the car from the bonnet, it's named after a garment at the other end of the body: the "boot". "Bonnet" at the front of the car", "boot" at the back - a "car boot sale" is where people sell stuff from out of the boots of their cars, not a sale of specialised footwear for cars.
If I remember right "trunk" comes indeed from a truck strapped to the carriage. And the word stayed even when the horses went from in front of the vehicle to the inside.
Lol seppo is rhyming slang. We inherited that from the British cockney culture. It started out as septic tank because it rhymes with yank. But that got shortened to "seppo" from septic tank.
Answered already, but for deep background, septic tank is based on the old Cockney rhyming slang. Septic tank = yank, trouble and strife = wife, dead horse = sauce, and so on.
I was just typing that when I saw your comment!😂 Is some more: Steak and kidney = Sydney. Butcher's hook = look. Plates = feet (plate of meat). Dropkick (i.e. punt) = c -- well, I'm sure you can figure is out. Porky (pork pie) = lie. Pat Malone = alone. Frog and toad = road. Reg Grundys or Grundys = undies (underpants).
I think the reason that Septic Tank was chosen for Americans may go back to WW2 when US military came here on R&R and hooked up with Australian ladies so it had its derogatory context. not 100% sure on this but i remember a couple of ex servicemen suggested it to me.
Most of these arent slang, its just the english word for it.. remember aussie was colonised by england, the country that invented english, so we still use the english words that are used in every english speaking country except america.. like bonnet or boot for a car, only usa say trunk or hood..
The term Septic Tank is rhyming Slang for Yank and was mainly used when the yanks were in Australia during World War Two. The American soldiers were said to be over paid and over sexed and hated by Australian soldiers.
Yep I'm here, I enjoy watching you and your reactions, yes especially the Aussie ones. I loved the dash cam one you did the other day, do more of them.
The milk bars were licensed to sell milk and bread. They all sold ice cream as well and a few lollies. Most sold every lolly, chocolate and sweet you could think of, most soft drink brands or flavours and cigarettes. Most milk bars only sold one brand of ice cream ..... like Peters, Toppa, Sennets, Streets etc
Ambo is also slang for a ambulance attendant/driver or a paramedic, ie "The Ambos are here, she'll be right now mate". Love watching your ideos, very funny. There was a short segment on the news tonight of two kangaroos fighting and one got pushed straight through a colourbond fence, you would have loved it!!
Bindi is the name of the plant that produces those thorn-like little bastards. They're everywhere in Australia and particularly prevalent during dryer seasons. They are a massive pest problem and really make your front and back yard suck arse during summer.
A lot of these aren't slang, just names of items. Quite a few, like tap and pram (originally called a peramulator), are simply English words that the Americans have changed.
So "Milk Bar" would refer to somewhere you could get a milkshake, traditionally a delicatessen or "deli" for short. A convenience store wouldn't usually qualify. Rexona and Zooper Dooper are brand names so wouldn't be classed as slang. Pram is short for "perambulator," derived from perambulate - to travel by foot, and therefore synonymous with stroller. Postie can also be Post-it note.
Go back a few years and milk bar was literally what we called a convenience (usually corner) store. I don't remember any of those we used to frequent selling milk shakes etc. They were usually privately owned too. Chain shops like 7/1, as well as much longer supermarket hours generally took most of them out of business.
@@elsa557 Yeah, go back about 48 years and you see the changes from the corner shop to a milk bar then deli onto convenience store finally over priced , packed coffee lounge with staff that would never get a tip except "... get a job you like..."
Wog used to apply to Greek and Italian immigrants many decades ago. Started arriving in the 50's. Septic tank rhymes with yank so it's not meant to be derogatory Filing a tax return more to the point.
I've never referred to that as a gutter - it's a curb. The gutters are the things around the roof of your house that catch water and leaves. The big hole in the pavement is a drain.
Awesome vid Ryan...I laughed a lot..🤣 If you hear an Aussie saying I am having a Barry it means they are having a shocker..shocking performance, shocking day, etc. Barry Crocker was an Aussie singer ..shocker rhymes with Crocker...lol
That explains a lot. It’s what I was called by the boys’ school next to my school where they used to hang out of their corridor windows and yell, “C’mon, blue!”, at us playing tennis and at me at the bus stop. I never knew why! I was rubbish at tennis as I didn’t yet have contact lenses. Once my short-sighted friend and I once ran for a bus that turned out to be a telephone box! How she was in the tennis team, lord knows.
'Septic tank' (rhyming slang for Yank) originated in the late 1970's during the rivalry between Australian and US surf competition participants. It was a derogatory term to demean US surfers but quickly spread to mean all US citizens when used to deride.
Bonnet is what the English people say as well. We say boot instead of trunk as well. A bindi is a particular kind of prickle that come from a plant called " bindi eye". Not all thorns and prickles are called bindis.
Maybe different parts of the country are different, but I hear "Extension Cord" far more often than "lead" - and while I associate "lead" with electrical stuff, I would more likely think something related to car electrics (e'g' "Jumper Leads" (although even that I think I'm more comfortable with "Jumper Cables")) Milk Bar is definitely regional - in SA we used to call them "Delis" and else where I've heard "Corner Store" a lot too
Milk bar is more commonly used in Victoria. In Queensland the same kind of store would be called a Deli. Or though now days these are being replaced by stores such as 7/11, and therefore not as common as they would have been 20 years ago.
"Well Bill, I'd go one step farther than that even and say that I think the high five should be outlawed from the game [cricket] all together, it's just a bit of seppo bullshit that the West Indies have introduced into the game. And I reckon when it comes to congratulating one of your teammates there's simply no better ay of doing it than with the traditional Australian jug or a kiss or a lick, a grope on the arse, or a bit of a dry root, it's still the most appropriate way I think of showing one's exuberance and excitement and it's certainly the most masculine and manly way of going about it." -- Richie Benaud (aka The 12th Man aka Billy Birmingham).
Yep us Aussies love to shorten a lot of words. In fact The world can thank us for the word "Selfie" when in 2002, an Australian man, Nathan Hope, got drunk at his 21st birthday and posted a picture of his stitched lip with the caption “sorry about the focus, it was a selfie” and it took off from there
Another one he did not mention is; "I don't give a rats arse". This is how an aussie might say he "does not give a shit" meaning, he/she "does not give a damn" or "does not care" or not interested.
hey ryan the term pommie , as you know we aussies like to add ie to stuff. the origin of pommie was Prisoner Of Mother England, pome, thus pommie or pommy or pomster. or even pom.
While the term "Pommy" is indisputably a words for Brits, it's origin is one little Black Hole in the world of etymology. There is still no etymology for the word i.e. no historical underpinning to explain where it came from. But the closest idea seems to be linked to the word Pomegranate - not as rhyming slang (Pomegranate doesn't rhyme with "immigrant") but because of a) the pom-poms on British sailors hats or b)their round, red faces after a couple of days in the sun.(There's also a story that Brits introduced Pomeranian dogs to Australia!! 😁) But even those don't sound definitive. Unfortunately, nowhere in the Navy, judicial system, thieves cant, general population or government was there ever an acronym such as POME - which'd be pronounced like 'phone' or POHM - which'd also be pronounced like ''phone'. But the main rejection of all these explanations is that the word Pom/Pommie didn't enter the language until long after prisoners had stopped being transported to Oz. Its derivation is still unknown. Don't you just love Mysteries??
@@cireenasimcox1081 Thank you, at last. A thousand entries telling the poor bugger he will be called a shit bucket and this story that the poms used to pay to have words sewn on or printed on the clothes of people they were pretty sure would die en route to the place that they would be worked almost to death until they finally did.
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I don't say Zuper Doopers unless I'm buying that brand. Everyone I know calls them Icy Poles
i have a friend who is from Melbourne and she now lives in WA, she has/uses such different slang to us in WA
One Yank trying to learn Australian from another Yank, 🤣🤣 It's the blind leading the blind. good on ya. 😎👍
Tristan should really have a genuine Aussie double-check the correct meaning and pronunciation of any terms before he tries to teach others.
@@Zac-qo9id some things he picked up were either people taking the piss or using very regional slang. He got a lot right though!
@@Zac-qo9id true cuz not that much were right
Mate, it's a dead set. Barry Crocker.
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Love your guesses .. thanks
Septic tank rhymes with yank. We often use rhyming words to describe things, like calling someone China is actually another way of saying "Mate", as mate rhymes with China "Plate" etc. Seppo is special though because it also refers to a specific type of "Yank" where they're considered, as thick as concrete and full of shit. In other words, stupid and full of bravado and idiotic rhetoric and therefore ripe for an absolute piss take. 😁More or less in much the same way as we treat our own mates.
Spot on. 🇭🇲 fan 💜
Also called Wooden Plank refers to dumb yanks
Originally comes from the East End of London known as a cockney rhyming slang
Gotta love the Aussie wit. Make them wonder if it's an insult til they figure it out. 😏
Yank is used because It's a shorter version of Yankee, a yankee > yank > septic tank (rhymes with yank)
We also use the word "lead" for a dog leash.
A lot of these words aren’t slang, they’re just the words that are used in Australia.
So true
Besser Block was a real name for the cinder block as it was made by a company which is not around anymore and that was Monier Besser who but it has stuck with the name.
Haha had me at so “I’m a septic tank ?” Very funny
I love Fuck All. It can be used for soooo many things!! ‘What you doing? Fuck all.’
Ryan seems quite unwell. He should be lying down and doing fuck all.
Also understand that on the West coast of Australia, we have alot of different "slang" words. We never had "milk bars" we had "Corner Deli's". We have Prickles or Double G's. The list goes on....
In 1983 my family moved house - 3 hours drive (from NSW to Qld). I was lost in conversations sometimes because I had no idea what they were saying. They would say, "we're gonna put on our togs and go to the pool". My (eventual) translation was, "I'm gonna put on my swimmers and go to the baths". They wrote on pads. I wrote on notebooks. To me pads were Sanitary Pads so I got pretty embarrassed when a teacher said to get out our pads! They put runners on their feet. I put runners (always black) on over my underpants, when we had sports at school. My runners were just undie shaped Lycra bike shorts (but not made of Lycra, just nylon). I wore sandshoes on my feet (as running/sport shoes). I took a port to school. They took a bag. I used a Niko, they used a felt-tip marker. The absolute worst insult at my new Qld school was to be called a Scholar. It took me weeks to grasp that this was neither an observation nor a compliment. I couldn't get over how many differences there were between the people of two similar sized towns, only 3 hours apart, but with a State line between.
Thankyou for doing this - you obviously were still unwell. Cheers
Poof is a derogatory term for a gay guy. Has kinda been embraced though by the gay community. So a Poof Doof is a gay dance party or club night. Doof refers to like house / electronic music as its base sound goes Doof Doof Doof. This is actually funny. Guess he's been hit on and invited to a few Poof Doofs lol and thought it was some kind of bush music festival.
That’s hilarious, was wondering where he got the “poof” bit from lol
Tristan is gay so it makes sense
Well he is gay
He came to australia to come out.. he hasnt left the poofdoof yet, or learned any aussie slang
I believe the term is “Bush Doof”, the sound of pumping bass speakers in the middle of the bush… I don’t think they have solely gay outdoor techno festivals here, yet 🤣
The gutter thing is a what he showed is a storm water drain pit.
The kerb and gutter bit is the kerb is the part of the gutter section that is side that goes up.
Wishing you a speedy recovery, feel better soon mate
I usually hear people say 'take a squiz' at something, rather than take a look / gander.
He hasn't included 'No wuckin' furries'. When we were backpacking, we used to amuse ourselves teaching foreigners this Aussie phrase. :D
It's very funny strange and different watching my country through your eyes Ryan I've learnt new things
You just used ‘fair dinkum’ correctly. Well done.
Maybe some terms are different in each Aussie State, but we call the gutter the entire part of the corner of the road which steps up to the footpath, not just the outlet to the drain. In fact that opening part we would refer to the 'drain' in NSW.
Rhyming slang was invented by east Londoners, Cockneys, and came to Australia in the early days. The way it works is that you have a phrase that rhymes with the word you want but you drop the rhyming word so "going home to the trouble" is trouble = trouble and strife = wife. Septic tank is rhyming slang for Yank but the "tank " gets dropped and just "septic" becomes the name, which, because this is Australia, is abbreviated to "sepo". It is not, usually, intended to be offensive. Probably the most widely used piece of rhyming slang in the English speaking world, is the rude noise you make with your tongue and lips. Babies are very good at it. This is usually called "blowing a raspberry". It is rhyming slang: raspberry = raspberry tart = fart.
Awesome reply 👍
I did not know 'blowing a raspberry' was rhyming slang! Never really though about it tbh, but it does make sense. lol.
Marsie is one i came across.
Mars bar
Car
They also called a female a tucky. No idea about that one though.
It’s a gutter because the water runs there into the drains too. We still call the top but the curb.
Here's a party trick. You stand around a bunch of people at the party and just thrust your hips back and forth for no apparent reason. When someone inevitably asks you what you're doing you just say, "fuckin' nothin'."😁
I've never heard of "Sepo"
A milk bar isn't a milk bar unless you can buy freshly made milkshakes, thickshakes, and spiders from there, with an exceptionally wide range of amazing flavours including lime, pineapple, mango, passionfruit, spearmint, butterscotch, etc. There's not many milk bars around anymore which is why the term isn't heard so often nowadays, and most of the ones that do still exist often end up being referred to a an ice cream shop or deli or something based on other things they sell. There are still a few genuine milk bars around though, I'm grateful to be living in a town that still has one.
We had milk bars on every second corner when I was a kid. They don't have to have fresh food, they just need to have milk and the newspaper, then they can all differ from there.
Milk Bar is what I heard called a dairy when I was in the States ..it's where you go for milkshakes, ice-cream etc.
Don't worry Ryan, I hadn't heard of a lot of them. I'm in Melbourne and after travelling found some slang words are regional. So QLD will have different slang words to Melbourne etc.
So true. Fellow Melbo here too. When I travelled to QLD especially Bundy, their accent was true blue and slang was definitely different. And they mentioned that my/ our vocabulary was .... I'll let others fill in that blank.
@@borisjevic6338 Were you called a Mexican as well? 🤣
@@Di_678 Lol, no, i'm a "wog" but my son has been called one due to his "looks" while he is part Asian part European. smh. As for the vocabulary, they mentioned that it "wasn't" Aussie and it was to "soft". I have been mistaken for a South African many times over for my accent although I am not. Although a South African has told me that she can understand why but that they wouldn't make that assumption. hehe.
Also from Melbourne, also never heard half of them.
Also from Melbs (it’s NEVER called Melbo ) and I have heard them all, but really, what is referred to a true blue Aussie I believe is simply bogan.
Not all Aussies speak bogan.
@3:40 it is a 'kerb and gutter'. The kerb is the upstand which with the raked strip of concrete forms a gutter. This drains storm water (rain) from the road surface to the stormwater outlet at 3:35.
in WWII Australians called American servicemen "Yanks" (we did not differentiate Americans into Northerners or Southerners, most Aussies were ignorant of the origin of Yanks vs Johnny Rebs). It was a derogatory term for many Australians to use because US soldiers came over here with lots of cash, and swept up many of our women while our own soldiers were overseas fighting in North Africa at the time. Many of our men became angry and jealous thus the insults. Yank eventually became "Septic Tank" simply because it rhymed with Yank. Then like we always do, we shortened Septic Tank to simply Sepo.
Much of the use of the Yanks / Yankees name is directly from the famous baseball team that was probably the best known sporting team in the world during the pre war era. Everybody know the names of Babe Ruth and a number of his team mates. Many also knew of Lou Gehrig who became a world figure at the time. While there was no TV there were regular updates of Movietone newsreels at the theatres.
But also because Americans according to Ozi men were full of shit, hence the connection brought together septic tank/Yank.
A few of these (zopper dooper for instance) is something that is slang in part of Australia but most of us would call it something else like an icy pole, very regional for that.
We do use stroller - pram tends to be lying down baby, stroller tends to be sitting up toddler but can be interchangeable.
I never head lead for an extension cord an I am an Australian
I’ve never heard anyone in Australia call a lead an extension cord lol
@@aaronf1078 I would always say extension lead too!
Glad you’re feeling better Ryan 😊
Wog actually originated as a shortening of Western Oriental Gentlemen during the gold rush days, now it's mostly Greek/Italians. We had a stage show called "Wogs" and "Wogs out of work".
They also went on to create the movie Wog Boy. Very funny.
The origin is actually unknown but may be linked to golliwogs.
The words Western and Oriental are the exact opposite of each other so that explanation makes zero sense.
Similar old slang is Wop for Egyptians and other Arabs, rarely heard since the 1960s.
@@g0tdan I think she meant Worthy, but I agree that it's probably not where Wog for Southern Greeks and Italians started. More likely they looked similar to Wops = Egyptians/Arabs being darker skinned than the predominantly fair skinned British.
I'm not sure of the offense factor now,
But wog in context meant you had a cold/flu... you've got the wog.
Your feeling poorly.
Time for chicken soup.
Zooper doopers were my childhood, especially the sour flavours
"Ambo" usually refers to the people in the vehicle taking you to hospital (ambulance officer or paramedic), though I've occasionally heard it used for the vehicle. A "Yank" is just a generic American - it doesn't have to be insulting at all. "Seppo" (= "septic tank") is usually insulting and originated as a term for US troops stationed here and in England during World War 2. It is rhyming slang for "yank".
The fact that they are both full of the same substance is just a happy coincidence
@@tlihdsnm26947 The actual reason is because both a septic tank and Americans are full of crap!
@@tlihdsnm26947 the general consensus at the time was "over dressed, over paid and over 'ere".
the seppos were well paid by comparison to the diggers and their uniforms were a bit flashier too.
It was a bit of a shock for some of the G.I. brides when they got over to the states to find out that the bloke they married wasn't the high flyer they thought he was. For a lot of those US troops, being in the military was probably the highest paying job they would ever have, especially for those from the more rural/"backwoods" areas of the country...
@@tlihdsnm26947 Yep, "Over-sexed, Over-paid and Over-here" because the Yank soldiers (here after the withdrawal from the Philippines of US troops led by Macarthur) became the catch-cry of our Aussie soldiers.
Ambo is one hundred percent the people AND the vehicle :)
A 'Pram" is a shortening of a very old English word 'Perambulator', which used to be very different to the modern 'baby stroller'. Much larger with larger spoked wheels and had a shell-shaped sun shield that could be adjusted to protect the baby. They used to be available in the US as well, as they can be seen sometimes in early black and white movies.
A bindi is a particular kind of prickle that comes from a plant called a " bindi eye". Not all thorns and prickles are called bindis.
*Bindii* pronounced "bindy-eye"
@@nolamullen1889 You pronounce it bindy-eye? wtf
Notable for being shaped like medieval caltrops in that it sits on 3 points on the ground with the fourth point pointing straight up, hurts like hell on the soles of the feet when it punctures them.
Bindis are bad, though gotta admit, cateyes are the worst @@; They are like bindis on steroids lol.
So many bike tubes ruined by these little bastards. And no, “thorn-proof” tubes aren’t.
I’m a Ranger lol born in the 50s and some I’ve never heard of lol. Redheads go grey later, I’m 68 and people ask what colour I’ve put in my hair - nothing, it’s still just fading lol. I remember my parents, sometimes, not often, calling Americans Yanks. Mum (born 1920) told me she got it from a song in the movies, I’m a Yanky Doodle Dandy.
Pram is short for perambulator, "one who walks or perambulates," which gained the meaning "baby carriage" in the 1850s.
Someone mentioned rhyming slang, we got that from the UK.
I’m so old - I can’t remember the others lol - brain fade 😂
Glad you’re back. Hope all family doing ok.
Septic Tank is a word that was used to describe US troops stationed in Australia during World War 2. Derived from Yank. hence Septic Tank/Yank.. Shortened in later years to Seppo. In the 60/70's when american cars were huge with big fins etc we called them Yank Tanks. Bonnet on a car is your Hood. Bonnet and hood are both head coverings. So they cover the motor, Bonnets and Hoods are hair coverings used by women in older times. eg. She wore a red Bonnet and Little Red Riding Hood.
Drain attached to the gutter? Ranga from Orangutan equals redhead. WOG is originally derived from Gollywog Doll but was equated to Southern Europeans and Middle East in Australia, in Britain it refers to a person who is not white.
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Pram and stroller are both used in Australia. A stroller is usually for older children, while a pram is used for newborns.
As a south aussie I’ve never heard sepo being used,
Where I grew up, to go look at something people would say ‘im gonna have a snizz’ for cigarettes: literally everywhere it’s called a ciggie, ambo is the paramedics in an ambulance, postie is yeah postie, the one for a party out bush I’ve never heard that being used, for a party it’s usually just party for alcohol it’s booze which I’m pretty sure isn’t just aussie, with beer it’s different in different states for example, people in the eastern states might say a carton or box of beer, in South Australia is also depends on where you are from, where I’m from most people say slab of beer, sausages are called snags (the best ones are bunnings snags), a zooper dooper isn’t slang, it’s just a brand name.
If you want real Australian slang talk to a real aussie lol, an American trying to teach other Americans aussie slang is like trying to stuff too much food down your gullet
He hasn't been around long enough in Australia to know some of the terms he's using. The "bar" in milk bar just derives from the meaning of a bar anywhere......i.e. it serves drinks. But not alcoholic ones. Originally they served flavored milkshakes and sodas and candy. Often located next to cinemas. Some served tea, coffee and light meals, like a cafe. Then they evolved into mini-marts and the term has now largely disappeared, replaced with "convenience stores" .
Nothing you said is true, using the words "candy and soda" are a dead giveaway that you are a Seppo.
septic tank was a term used be Australian soldiers in ww2 referring to a yank.
Growing up in Melbourne, the little corner store often in the back streets where called milk bars, they basically had milk, newspapers, lollies and fire crackers and other assortment of daily required items. I haven’t heard that term used in QLD where I live now though.
It used to be.
The only time I see the words milk bar here in qld is whenever I come across the elusive ‘Wendies” lmao
We still have milk bars!
Now that I think about it, I've never heard anyone say "sepo" in the factory where I manufacture their control units. It's either septic or the model type.
That wasn't a gutter, that was a drain in the gutter. Septic tank has no meaning, septic tank rymes with yank that's it. Sepo just means american no negative meaning attached. Bindies are a specific type of prickle. Not all prickles are bindies.
Septic tank = rhyming slang for Yank. It’s something we brought from England - Cockney rhyming slang. There are others eg do the Harold Holt = do the bolt. HH was a prime minister who went for a swim at a beach and was never seen again. Also an ambo is the paramedic more often than the actual ambulance.
Hope you getting better soon mate 👍👍🇦🇺🇦🇺 I had Covid last month and it wasn’t fun… can’t wait to have a Captain Cook at your next video 👍👍👍
The milk bars used to be like American 50's diners kinda. Theres not many old school ones left
The "bonnet" and "hood" are similar terms - both are _head coverings_ that, for whatever reason, became attached to the movable cover over the engine. So bonnet/hood is roughly the same, just a different type of "hat".
Where the big difference lies is in the rear of the car. Americans refer to it as "trunk" due to it being like, well, a large solid travelling case. In UK, NZ, Aus, since it's at the other end of the car from the bonnet, it's named after a garment at the other end of the body: the "boot". "Bonnet" at the front of the car", "boot" at the back - a "car boot sale" is where people sell stuff from out of the boots of their cars, not a sale of specialised footwear for cars.
If I remember right "trunk" comes indeed from a truck strapped to the carriage. And the word stayed even when the horses went from in front of the vehicle to the inside.
G'day mate, love your videos. Keep up the great work and I hope you feel better soon.
Haha 😂 I am in tears laughing at your guessing
Lol seppo is rhyming slang.
We inherited that from the British cockney culture.
It started out as septic tank because it rhymes with yank.
But that got shortened to "seppo" from septic tank.
Answered already, but for deep background, septic tank is based on the old Cockney rhyming slang. Septic tank = yank, trouble and strife = wife, dead horse = sauce, and so on.
Dog and bone, phone
I was just typing that when I saw your comment!😂 Is some more: Steak and kidney = Sydney. Butcher's hook = look. Plates = feet (plate of meat). Dropkick (i.e. punt) = c -- well, I'm sure you can figure is out. Porky (pork pie) = lie. Pat Malone = alone. Frog and toad = road. Reg Grundys or Grundys = undies (underpants).
@@michealbohmer2871 and then to confuse them more some are shortened to one word, ie out there on his Pat, or telling a Porky.
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I think the reason that Septic Tank was chosen for Americans may go back to WW2 when US military came here on R&R and hooked up with Australian ladies so it had its derogatory context. not 100% sure on this but i remember a couple of ex servicemen suggested it to me.
@@ianmontgomery7534 yeah both are full of shit lol. Hence seppo
A milk bar was where you got a Milkshake or a Malted Milk .And you could also get the shakes at the Local Hamburger shop.
Most of these arent slang, its just the english word for it.. remember aussie was colonised by england, the country that invented english, so we still use the english words that are used in every english speaking country except america.. like bonnet or boot for a car, only usa say trunk or hood..
Correct Canada uses similar terms to us as well as they are another commonwealth country
As a Aussie i use most of this and i thought everyone would. e.g. having a sook
You were right about ranga being short for orangutang that’s where the redhead slang comes from
Oh, I never knew that I thought it was orange shortened.
The term Septic Tank is rhyming Slang for Yank and was mainly used when the yanks were in Australia during World War Two. The American soldiers were said to be over paid and over sexed and hated by Australian soldiers.
He was good to watch during the covid/lockdown years
Yep I'm here, I enjoy watching you and your reactions, yes especially the Aussie ones. I loved the dash cam one you did the other day, do more of them.
You should face time an Australian and ask them a couple questions
The milk bars were licensed to sell milk and bread.
They all sold ice cream as well and a few lollies.
Most sold every lolly, chocolate and sweet you could think of, most soft drink brands or flavours and cigarettes.
Most milk bars only sold one brand of ice cream ..... like Peters, Toppa, Sennets, Streets etc
Broken down into the evolving nature of Aussie slang for an American goes: American > Yank > Septic Tank > Septic > Seppo
I'm Australian and I havent heard people saying HALF of the things on this list
Ambo is also slang for a ambulance attendant/driver or a paramedic, ie "The Ambos are here, she'll be right now mate". Love watching your ideos, very funny. There was a short segment on the news tonight of two kangaroos fighting and one got pushed straight through a colourbond fence, you would have loved it!!
Bindi is the name of the plant that produces those thorn-like little bastards. They're everywhere in Australia and particularly prevalent during dryer seasons. They are a massive pest problem and really make your front and back yard suck arse during summer.
A lot of these aren't slang, just names of items. Quite a few, like tap and pram (originally called a peramulator), are simply English words that the Americans have changed.
I'm Aussie and I say cord lol, also depending on the state "swimsuit" can be called "togs" "cosies" and "bathers"
So "Milk Bar" would refer to somewhere you could get a milkshake, traditionally a delicatessen or "deli" for short. A convenience store wouldn't usually qualify. Rexona and Zooper Dooper are brand names so wouldn't be classed as slang. Pram is short for "perambulator," derived from perambulate - to travel by foot, and therefore synonymous with stroller. Postie can also be Post-it note.
Yep, nothing confusing about Aussie slang!
Go back a few years and milk bar was literally what we called a convenience (usually corner) store. I don't remember any of those we used to frequent selling milk shakes etc. They were usually privately owned too. Chain shops like 7/1, as well as much longer supermarket hours generally took most of them out of business.
@@elsa557 Yeah, go back about 48 years and you see the changes from the corner shop to a milk bar then deli onto convenience store finally over priced , packed coffee lounge with staff that would never get a tip except "... get a job you like..."
...we still call them Milk Bars out here in the bush.
@@7thlittleleopard7 I’m glad, I miss them!
I'm an Aussie and have never heard of a Besser Block either... I have always known them as a cynder block too.
Wog used to apply to Greek and Italian immigrants many decades ago. Started arriving in the 50's.
Septic tank rhymes with yank so it's not meant to be derogatory
Filing a tax return more to the point.
I've never referred to that as a gutter - it's a curb. The gutters are the things around the roof of your house that catch water and leaves. The big hole in the pavement is a drain.
Awesome vid Ryan...I laughed a lot..🤣
If you hear an Aussie saying I am having a Barry it means they are having a shocker..shocking performance, shocking day, etc. Barry Crocker was an Aussie singer ..shocker rhymes with Crocker...lol
never heard of toolie lol
hope you feel better Ryan
love from Melbourne ❤
Everyone in Qld knows what a toolie is.
Dog and bone = phone.
Billy lids = kids/ children.
Frog and toad = road.
Dave and mable = table.
There are lots more!!!
Cheers Ausgranny 🇦🇺🇦🇺🤶❤
Can't forget the dead horse!
My grandfather called us billy lids. I miss that!
Bin lids
Skin an blister is sister , almond rock is sock
"Pram" Shows picture of a pusher.
Feel better Ryan.
I'm surprised Tristram did't say that redheads are often called"Blue".
Or Snowy
That explains a lot. It’s what I was called by the boys’ school next to my school where they used to hang out of their corridor windows and yell, “C’mon, blue!”, at us playing tennis and at me at the bus stop. I never knew why! I was rubbish at tennis as I didn’t yet have contact lenses. Once my short-sighted friend and I once ran for a bus that turned out to be a telephone box! How she was in the tennis team, lord knows.
@@lindylou7853 Blue comes from the generalization that red hair = fiery temper and therefore likely to get into the other kind of blue ie a fight.
@@A_nony_mous I thought that would be because blue fire is hotter than red fire, but that works too I guess
Where I come from, a redhead is a Ranga.
We call them cinder blocks. Some I never heard before before.
I hope you feel better soon Ryan….just love your channel ❤😂🇦🇺
'Septic tank' (rhyming slang for Yank) originated in the late 1970's during the rivalry between Australian and US surf competition participants. It was a derogatory term to demean US surfers but quickly spread to mean all US citizens when used to deride.
Bonnet is what the English people say as well. We say boot instead of trunk as well. A bindi is a particular kind of prickle that come from a plant called " bindi eye". Not all thorns and prickles are called bindis.
A water fountain you drink from is a “bubbler” here
A pram is a Perambulator
"Septic tank" rhymes with "Yank". That's all it is. We do a lot of rhyming slang here. Glad you're over your COVID...
Yes, and being called a Sepo, is nothing too concerning.
They're not fighting words..
Yes I’ve never known it to be derogatory. It’s just rhyming slang for Yank.
@@starlightshimmery its derogatory as the origin is that both are full of sh1t. Hence seppo
Yanks were called septic tanks because they are both full of sh#t lol
Maybe different parts of the country are different, but I hear "Extension Cord" far more often than "lead" - and while I associate "lead" with electrical stuff, I would more likely think something related to car electrics (e'g' "Jumper Leads" (although even that I think I'm more comfortable with "Jumper Cables"))
Milk Bar is definitely regional - in SA we used to call them "Delis" and else where I've heard "Corner Store" a lot too
I'd used 'extension cord', not 'lead'.
According to my English grandfather they called them Septic Tanks, Sepo, because they were usually full of shit.
Bonnet and hood are both headwear
Sepo/septic tank usually refers to SOME Americans that think they know everything. So what is a septic tank full of?
Best explanation yet.
Milk bar is more commonly used in Victoria. In Queensland the same kind of store would be called a Deli. Or though now days these are being replaced by stores such as 7/11, and therefore not as common as they would have been 20 years ago.
Sook is not crying, it's a weak man, i.e. "He's a bit of a sook" or "Don't be a sook, mate".
Sook does also mean cry that’s why people say things like “what you sooking for” and “stop having a sook”
@@aaronf1078 Yeah, suppose so but I've never heard that, Ya BIG SOOK 😁
No a sook is whining/crying. A weak man is a sooky la la.
seppo*
"Well Bill, I'd go one step farther than that even and say that I think the high five should be outlawed from the game [cricket] all together, it's just a bit of seppo bullshit that the West Indies have introduced into the game. And I reckon when it comes to congratulating one of your teammates there's simply no better ay of doing it than with the traditional Australian jug or a kiss or a lick, a grope on the arse, or a bit of a dry root, it's still the most appropriate way I think of showing one's exuberance and excitement and it's certainly the most masculine and manly way of going about it." -- Richie Benaud (aka The 12th Man aka Billy Birmingham).
Snorted my coffee at this, thank you so much 😂🤣😂🤣😂
@@A_nony_mous No worries!😁
Yep us Aussies love to shorten a lot of words. In fact The world can thank us for the word "Selfie" when in 2002, an Australian man, Nathan Hope, got drunk at his 21st birthday and posted a picture of his stitched lip with the caption “sorry about the focus, it was a selfie” and it took off from there
DON'T trust what he says I think some Aussies are pulling his leg.😂
Another one he did not mention is; "I don't give a rats arse". This is how an aussie might say he "does not give a shit" meaning, he/she "does not give a damn" or "does not care" or not interested.
hey ryan the term pommie , as you know we aussies like to add ie to stuff. the origin of pommie was Prisoner Of Mother England, pome, thus pommie or pommy or pomster. or even pom.
While the term "Pommy" is indisputably a words for Brits, it's origin is one little Black Hole in the world of etymology. There is still no etymology for the word i.e. no historical underpinning to explain where it came from. But the closest idea seems to be linked to the word Pomegranate - not as rhyming slang (Pomegranate doesn't rhyme with "immigrant") but because of a) the pom-poms on British sailors hats or b)their round, red faces after a couple of days in the sun.(There's also a story that Brits introduced Pomeranian dogs to Australia!! 😁)
But even those don't sound definitive. Unfortunately, nowhere in the Navy, judicial system, thieves cant, general population or government was there ever an acronym such as POME - which'd be pronounced like 'phone' or POHM - which'd also be pronounced like ''phone'.
But the main rejection of all these explanations is that the word Pom/Pommie didn't enter the language until long after prisoners had stopped being transported to Oz. Its derivation is still unknown. Don't you just love Mysteries??
@@cireenasimcox1081 Thank you, at last. A thousand entries telling the poor bugger he will be called a shit bucket and this story that the poms used to pay to have words sewn on or printed on the clothes of people they were pretty sure would die en route to the place that they would be worked almost to death until they finally did.
Actually that is not the meaning. More likely to be short for pomegranate
Before zooper dooper’s there was Funny Face’s. You collected the transferable tattoos and stickers to collect every face.