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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 4/1/2012, 11:13 | |
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| | | jimsigs1 Let Gen
Number of posts : 1298 Age : 89 Localisation : West of England Cap Badge : Royal Signals Places Served : Harrogate 1949-52. HQ BAOR Sig Regt 1952-54, Korea 1954-55, Egypt 1955, Cyprus 1955-57, HMS Santon 1957, UK 7th Hussars 1957-59, 1st Gds Bde 1959-60, 201 Signal Sqn 1960-62, 206 Sig Sqn 1962-63, 7 Sig Regt 1963-66, 249 Sig Sqn 1966-68, 11 Sig Regt 1968-72. Retired 1972 Registration date : 2010-02-22
| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 4/1/2012, 11:58 | |
| Getting back to the original subject of recruiting etc, what kind of specialists are the Australian Government looking for ? Is it that it would cost too much to train Australian nationals or no applicants have come forward. Seems strange that they would fast track citizenship that quickly. Mind you, we are as guilty - remember Zola Budd !!
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| | | brum FM
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 4/1/2012, 12:05 | |
| - Gordon. wrote:
- Banker..
Would that be Cockney rhyming slang, Gordon ? | |
| | | Shelldrake FM
Number of posts : 3048 Localisation : Camberley Cap Badge : Royal Artillery Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh Registration date : 2010-10-26
| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 4/1/2012, 12:14 | |
| [quote="jimsigs1"]What is president in waiting Salmond's background ? Jimsigs1[/quote Comes fae Govan. | |
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 4/1/2012, 13:36 | |
| - Quote :
- Banker..
Would that be Cockney rhyming slang, Gordon ? Could very well be Brum..but he was in banking - Quote :
- Comes fae Govan.
But lives in Linlithgow. |
| | | Hardrations Let Gen
Number of posts : 1070 Localisation : Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Cap Badge : RC Sigs (RTG Op) / CF Logistics (Cook) Places Served : Germany, Egypt, Cyprus, CFS Alert and some other strange places Registration date : 2007-12-16
| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 5/1/2012, 00:50 | |
| I just followed all this track. ??????????????????????????????
Fun but frustrating to understand.... | |
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 5/1/2012, 08:22 | |
| - Hardrations wrote:
- I just followed all this track. ??????????????????????????????
Fun but frustrating to understand.... CANUCK - Hardrations, I started this but these bloody Poms railroaded it. They are all mad, too much bratwurst. Now I am confused. |
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 5/1/2012, 09:24 | |
| Perhaps Brum will provide translation services for our colonial friends..... |
| | | brum FM
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 5/1/2012, 10:13 | |
| I'll be happy to deal with anything that's in any of the Birmingham area dialects, (except Black Country !), but translating British / Army humour ?
Impossible !
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 5/1/2012, 10:21 | |
| Ah well....They will just have to form their own conclusions.... It would be much easier getting a PC fix from an Indian call center. |
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 6/1/2012, 06:58 | |
| Colonials ? leave us £10 poms alone ! I am an Aussie now ! I am bloody well over in ye olde Dart 27 April, when the good ship 'Arcadia' arrives in Southampton, (if the pirates off Somalia don't get us) watch out or I will might come knocking on your door for a pint of looney juice. that is. |
| | | brum FM
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 6/1/2012, 08:36 | |
| Les, I think a lot of people are aware of at least a few examples of Aussie humour, (you mentioned "Ranga" for someone with red hair, I always thought they were nicknamed "Blue").
What I can't figure out though is why Blighty is called "The Old Dart".
It's probably insulting but tell us anyway !
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 6/1/2012, 09:50 | |
| The “Old Dart” means “the old country”, that is Great Britain (especially England). This is a piece of Aussie slang that can confuse visitors who come from the Old Dart, and have never heard it before...
“dart” is a corruption of “dirt”. So, the Old Dart meant “the Old Dirt” – hence, the home country
Originated in the gold diggings i`m told |
| | | brum FM
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 6/1/2012, 11:16 | |
| Thanks for that Gordon, (not insulting then !).
You've got wondering now, whether the Cornish miners that went over there would've pronounced "dirt" that way.
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| | | Shelldrake FM
Number of posts : 3048 Localisation : Camberley Cap Badge : Royal Artillery Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh Registration date : 2010-10-26
| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 6/1/2012, 17:28 | |
| - brum wrote:
Thanks for that Gordon, (not insulting then !).
You've got wondering now, whether the Cornish miners that went over there would've pronounced "dirt" that way. Nah, they would have pronounced it "Pasty"! | |
| | | brum FM
Number of posts : 2808 Age : 83 Localisation : Sandbach Cheshire Cap Badge : RA/QOH Places Served : JLRRA (Hereford) Nienburg Paderborn Colchester Munster Maresfield (Cyprus) Hohne Hemer Op Banner x4 Woolwich Registration date : 2010-03-02
| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 6/1/2012, 17:53 | |
| No Cornish blokes on here, are there ? | |
| | | Shelldrake FM
Number of posts : 3048 Localisation : Camberley Cap Badge : Royal Artillery Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh Registration date : 2010-10-26
| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 6/1/2012, 19:59 | |
| Hope not!! | |
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 6/1/2012, 23:29 | |
| - Quote :
- Nah, they would have pronounced it "Pasty"!
Don`t you mean Patsy? Incoming!!!!!!!!! |
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 7/1/2012, 03:27 | |
| - Gordon. wrote:
- The “Old Dart” means “the old country”, that is Great Britain (especially England). This is a piece of Aussie slang that can confuse visitors who come from the Old Dart, and have never heard it before...
“dart” is a corruption of “dirt”. So, the Old Dart meant “the Old Dirt” – hence, the home country
Originated in the gold diggings i`m told G'day fellas..howyagoin? Yes Gordon, Old Dart or The Mother Country is England to older Aussies. Pasties are very popular here, meat and veg in pastry, just like ones in UK. We also have pork pies, better than the England ones, though no pastries for me these days, as Coeliac hit me, gluten free. I hear you can buy gluten free pork pies in UK, I will be looking for some to with the looney juice (cider.) Well fair dinkum cobbers, it has been a bonza yarn, bloody beaut. See youse all down at the rubbity for a cold one. Strewth it is a warm one, 32C. Time to hit the beach, hopefully no noah's arks in there, plenty of sheilas down there but, getting the skin cancers all over their white pointers. |
| | | Shelldrake FM
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| | | | Shelldrake FM
Number of posts : 3048 Localisation : Camberley Cap Badge : Royal Artillery Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh Registration date : 2010-10-26
| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 7/1/2012, 07:46 | |
| Well fair dinkum cobbers, it has been a bonza yarn, bloody beaut. See youse all down at the rubbity for a cold one. Strewth it is a warm one, 32C. Time to hit the beach, hopefully no noah's arks in there, plenty of sheilas down there but, getting the skin cancers all over their white pointers. [/quote] I was just thinking that. | |
| | | brum FM
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 7/1/2012, 09:36 | |
| - Shelldrake wrote:
Well fair dinkum cobbers, it has been a bonza yarn, bloody beaut. See youse all down at the rubbity for a cold one. Strewth it is a warm one, 32C. Time to hit the beach, hopefully no noah's arks in there, plenty of sheilas down there but, getting the skin cancers all over their white pointers. I was just thinking that. [/quote] Bloody started something now, aint we ? | |
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| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 7/1/2012, 10:03 | |
| I was not aware that Rhyming slang was a feature of OZ.
noah's arks and rubbity dub |
| | | Shelldrake FM
Number of posts : 3048 Localisation : Camberley Cap Badge : Royal Artillery Places Served : Troon, Lippstadt, Devizes, NI, Paderborn, Dortmund, Colchester, Belize, Canada, Cyprus, Gutersloh Registration date : 2010-10-26
| Subject: Re: AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCES RECRUITING OVERSEAS 7/1/2012, 10:59 | |
| - Gordon. wrote:
- I was not aware that Rhyming slang was a feature of OZ.
noah's arks and rubbity dub It is Gordon, most of their ancestors were born within the sound of the Bow Bells, then they joined the Transports!! | |
| | | recymech WOII
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