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Australian here. I just watched the curry and bolognese videos. Although I'm vegan and hate recipes with meat, I laughed out loud, a lot. Loved it. Can't wait t

Australian here. I just watched the curry and bolognese videos. Although I'm vegan and hate recipes with meat, I laughed out loud, a lot. Loved it. Can't wait to play them for my household. Just yesterday I was planning to make a home cooking series featuring the housemates, dammit! Too late.. As for whether he's a typical Aussie.. I have met people who talk pretty much like this. Probably none who are good cooks though. I had a German friend here who had a very fat book of Australian colloquialisms he was learning, but I hadn't heard 95% of them. Full of stuff like "dry as a dead dingo's donger". You hear them much more in country Australia I think. About 10 years ago our Prime Minister was widely mocked for saying "fair shake of the sauce bottle", when everyone knows it's a fair suck – a failed attempt to talk like an average Australian. https://www.google.com/search?q=rudd+fair+shake+sauce https://www.google.com/search?q=rudd+fair+shake+sauce

yesenadam 7y ago
p.s. Damn, the housemates had already seen them and love them too. I have to share Michael Cusack's animations[0], they're very funny, appalling, and super-Australian. I've met many Australians who talk exactly like this. It's the most Australian stuff on youtube I've seen. [0] particularly the Damo & Darren series and the YOLO series, but pretty much all his videos since the first YOLO are amazingly good. (The very short Chuck Her In The Ute is genius.) https://www.youtube.com/user/aekime/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/aekime/videos Damo & Darren pt 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ (ha, I just noticed most of the comments are from Australians confirming that it's very realistic)
- ajxs 7y ago
  It's worth adding that for foreign viewers that no respectable Australian speaks like this, haha. The train station in the animation is supposed to represent Dapto, which is a lower socio-economic area located a few hours south of Sydney. In my experience, the animation captures the area pretty well.
  - dsfyu404ed 7y ago
    You're not gonna hear any American news anchor or enterprise sales rep speaking in appalachian or black english yet there are no shortage of people who speak either. Just because the well to do don't do something doesn't mean that isn't part of a place's culture.
tomhoward 7y ago
A close friend of my S.O. is a German woman, who moved here about 15-20 years ago to marry an Aussie bloke who speaks with a very strong "Strine" accent (which is not so common here in Melbourne). It's one of our greatest delights to hear her use, in her still-strong German accent, the Australian slang words/phrases she's picked up from him. Like the time we dropped into their house, and she greeted us, ushered us in, and said (if you can imagine this being said in a thick German accent) "Mark will be with us soon, he is just on ze blower". https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=On%20the%20blower https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=On%20the%20b...
- rmason 7y ago
  Actually my grandfather had friends who spoke of the telephone as 'the blower' and I'm from Michigan. These would be guys mostly born in the 1880-1900 range.
  - tomhoward 7y ago
    Yeah interesting. As I searched for references I found it originates from Britain. This Quora thread has some interesting info: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-call-their-telephone-the-blower https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-call-their-telephon...
gerdesj 7y ago
That business with a "sauce bottle" has just filled 20 mins for me before I dive into the helpdesk at work, here at home (in the UK.) ... Sauce is alcohol, not ketchup - now it makes sense! That's why you would suck and not shake the thing. We use the term sauce in the same way but not the term sauce bottle.
puranjay 7y ago
I just watched the curry recipe. It's funny but far from being anything close to authentic (bell peppers was the first sign).
- zrth 7y ago
  Sure, but then again chilly/paprika/capsicums were none existent in India before the 15th century, so what is ever authentic and original except a continuous change?
kls 7y ago
Your post reminded me of a story I have, I was the CTO for a company that exited to a Spanish owned company. When that happened we had a lot of Spaniards that would come over and work for a while. Anyways somehow there became this competition among them to learn and use the most obscure American English colloquialisms and use them in meetings. One of them the CTO for Spain became a very good friend of mine and we decided to start teaching him some words so he could win in these competitions. With that said I am from a rural town in the US southeast (Florida to be specific). Needless to say he learned a lot of obscure US country colloquialisms. I can still remember the look of wordsmithed defeat by the other executives when he declared, in a meeting, that they where carpetbagging hornswogglers for deciding something without him. I have to say I nearly fell out of my chair with laughter in seeing how impressed with himself he was. The meeting quickly devolved into defining what was a carpetbagger and what was being hornswoggled, as well as requests for other words in which my friend declared that they need to get their own US mentor and not steal his. I was all good fun. I also learned some Spaniard ones. My favorite which I could not spell out here to save my life, was one that amounts to the equivalent of monkey business.
- 11thEarlOfMar 7y ago
  Speaking of Floridian, long ago, I worked with a developer from a rural area in that state. My favorites were, "Shittin' in high cotton!" when a program finally ran correctly and when the network connection finally came up, "We're swappin' spit now!" .
  - kls 7y ago
    Heard and used it many times, an equivalent to high cotton would be "Eating high on the hog". Which comes from the higher cuts being the better cuts of pork. My absolute favorite was the one my grandfather used to tell me, he would say "Boy if your gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough and you are, by far, the toughest kid I know" I love the back-handedness of the insult. The other one that I think is funny is due to Tombstone most people think it is: "Im your huckleberry" when in fact the correct term is "I'll be your huckle bearer" which is the equivalent of a pall bearer, in the south we call the casket handles huckles. The term basically means keep it up and you are going to get the fight you are looking for.
simias 7y ago
He seems funny but I can't stand the Youtube-style "ADHD" editing with cuts every 3 femtoseconds. I feel like I'm holding by breath watching it. There's no gap to process what you've just seen or heard. I get that it's effectively the point: you overwhelm your audience without giving them the time to consider switching to a different video, but I find it frankly unpleasant.
- michaelt 7y ago
  > I get that it's effectively the point: you overwhelm your audience Equally, you could argue reading a recipe in a book takes less than a minute; stretching the same recipe out to five minutes is already pretty leisurely. If a video maker wants a shot for 'rinse the rice before you boil it' anything over 3 seconds is filler.
  - yesenadam 7y ago
    Yes. Still, I thought the comment you responded to made a refreshing change from 100 successive HN comments saying they have to watch youtube videos at 1.5x speed cause they're boring and a waste of time otherwise! Can't please everyone I guess.
  - simias 7y ago
    I can understand tight editing and skipping over redundant parts but this goes way beyond that. Take this video from the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uBDNhe6Gkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uBDNhe6Gkk It starts with "Guess what's for dinner everyone <cut> shitty mall curry in a jar <cut> [puts bin on table] <cut> he shoots he scores <cut> almost... [intro] What's going on <cut> we're back in the kitchen saying <cut> no to jar sauce [cut to filtered dramatic zoom] neveee <cut>" etc... They should add an epilepsy warning at this point. Many of these cuts don't actually cut anything, they're just changing the crop to make the video more dynamic. I find it headache inducing. You never have a continuous shot that lasts for more than 5 seconds or so. Everytime he naturally takes a breath while talking he cuts. Every time a shot lasts for more than 5 seconds he changes the crop to make a dramatic zoom on his face or something. It's a very popular type of editing on Youtube as far as I can tell, but I find it unbearable to watch.
rb808 7y ago
I can't get my Australian friends 'dry as a nun's nasty', metaphor out of my head when talking in polite company.
ajxs 7y ago
I'm in my 30s and I grew up in Sydney. I have never ever heard the phrase "fair suck of..." until your post. Mind you, the first time I had ever heard any phrase involving sauce bottles was Rudd's famous usage. Which I feel brought it back into common parlance. With people mostly using it as an ironic exaggeration of country slang, and in tribute to Rudd. It's worth noting, that Rudd was an actual country kid. While certainly not representative the average Australian, he would definitely have been exposed to more authentic bush slang than most.

yesenadam 7y ago

p.s. Damn, the housemates had already seen them and love them too. I have to share Michael Cusack's animations[0], they're very funny, appalling, and super-Australian. I've met many Australians who talk exactly like this. It's the most Australian stuff on youtube I've seen. [0] particularly the Damo & Darren series and the YOLO series, but pretty much all his videos since the first YOLO are amazingly good. (The very short Chuck Her In The Ute is genius.) https://www.youtube.com/user/aekime/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/aekime/videos Damo & Darren pt 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmL72sgVdAQ (ha, I just noticed most of the comments are from Australians confirming that it's very realistic)

ajxs 7y ago
It's worth adding that for foreign viewers that no respectable Australian speaks like this, haha. The train station in the animation is supposed to represent Dapto, which is a lower socio-economic area located a few hours south of Sydney. In my experience, the animation captures the area pretty well.
- dsfyu404ed 7y ago
  You're not gonna hear any American news anchor or enterprise sales rep speaking in appalachian or black english yet there are no shortage of people who speak either. Just because the well to do don't do something doesn't mean that isn't part of a place's culture.

tomhoward 7y ago

A close friend of my S.O. is a German woman, who moved here about 15-20 years ago to marry an Aussie bloke who speaks with a very strong "Strine" accent (which is not so common here in Melbourne). It's one of our greatest delights to hear her use, in her still-strong German accent, the Australian slang words/phrases she's picked up from him. Like the time we dropped into their house, and she greeted us, ushered us in, and said (if you can imagine this being said in a thick German accent) "Mark will be with us soon, he is just on ze blower". https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=On%20the%20blower https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=On%20the%20b...

rmason 7y ago
Actually my grandfather had friends who spoke of the telephone as 'the blower' and I'm from Michigan. These would be guys mostly born in the 1880-1900 range.
- tomhoward 7y ago
  Yeah interesting. As I searched for references I found it originates from Britain. This Quora thread has some interesting info: https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-call-their-telephone-the-blower https://www.quora.com/Why-do-some-people-call-their-telephon...

gerdesj 7y ago

That business with a "sauce bottle" has just filled 20 mins for me before I dive into the helpdesk at work, here at home (in the UK.) ... Sauce is alcohol, not ketchup - now it makes sense! That's why you would suck and not shake the thing. We use the term sauce in the same way but not the term sauce bottle.

puranjay 7y ago

I just watched the curry recipe. It's funny but far from being anything close to authentic (bell peppers was the first sign).

zrth 7y ago
Sure, but then again chilly/paprika/capsicums were none existent in India before the 15th century, so what is ever authentic and original except a continuous change?

kls 7y ago

Your post reminded me of a story I have, I was the CTO for a company that exited to a Spanish owned company. When that happened we had a lot of Spaniards that would come over and work for a while. Anyways somehow there became this competition among them to learn and use the most obscure American English colloquialisms and use them in meetings. One of them the CTO for Spain became a very good friend of mine and we decided to start teaching him some words so he could win in these competitions. With that said I am from a rural town in the US southeast (Florida to be specific). Needless to say he learned a lot of obscure US country colloquialisms. I can still remember the look of wordsmithed defeat by the other executives when he declared, in a meeting, that they where carpetbagging hornswogglers for deciding something without him. I have to say I nearly fell out of my chair with laughter in seeing how impressed with himself he was. The meeting quickly devolved into defining what was a carpetbagger and what was being hornswoggled, as well as requests for other words in which my friend declared that they need to get their own US mentor and not steal his. I was all good fun. I also learned some Spaniard ones. My favorite which I could not spell out here to save my life, was one that amounts to the equivalent of monkey business.

11thEarlOfMar 7y ago
Speaking of Floridian, long ago, I worked with a developer from a rural area in that state. My favorites were, "Shittin' in high cotton!" when a program finally ran correctly and when the network connection finally came up, "We're swappin' spit now!" .
- kls 7y ago
  Heard and used it many times, an equivalent to high cotton would be "Eating high on the hog". Which comes from the higher cuts being the better cuts of pork. My absolute favorite was the one my grandfather used to tell me, he would say "Boy if your gonna be dumb, you gotta be tough and you are, by far, the toughest kid I know" I love the back-handedness of the insult. The other one that I think is funny is due to Tombstone most people think it is: "Im your huckleberry" when in fact the correct term is "I'll be your huckle bearer" which is the equivalent of a pall bearer, in the south we call the casket handles huckles. The term basically means keep it up and you are going to get the fight you are looking for.

simias 7y ago

He seems funny but I can't stand the Youtube-style "ADHD" editing with cuts every 3 femtoseconds. I feel like I'm holding by breath watching it. There's no gap to process what you've just seen or heard. I get that it's effectively the point: you overwhelm your audience without giving them the time to consider switching to a different video, but I find it frankly unpleasant.

michaelt 7y ago
> I get that it's effectively the point: you overwhelm your audience Equally, you could argue reading a recipe in a book takes less than a minute; stretching the same recipe out to five minutes is already pretty leisurely. If a video maker wants a shot for 'rinse the rice before you boil it' anything over 3 seconds is filler.
- yesenadam 7y ago
  Yes. Still, I thought the comment you responded to made a refreshing change from 100 successive HN comments saying they have to watch youtube videos at 1.5x speed cause they're boring and a waste of time otherwise! Can't please everyone I guess.
- simias 7y ago
  I can understand tight editing and skipping over redundant parts but this goes way beyond that. Take this video from the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uBDNhe6Gkk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uBDNhe6Gkk It starts with "Guess what's for dinner everyone <cut> shitty mall curry in a jar <cut> [puts bin on table] <cut> he shoots he scores <cut> almost... [intro] What's going on <cut> we're back in the kitchen saying <cut> no to jar sauce [cut to filtered dramatic zoom] neveee <cut>" etc... They should add an epilepsy warning at this point. Many of these cuts don't actually cut anything, they're just changing the crop to make the video more dynamic. I find it headache inducing. You never have a continuous shot that lasts for more than 5 seconds or so. Everytime he naturally takes a breath while talking he cuts. Every time a shot lasts for more than 5 seconds he changes the crop to make a dramatic zoom on his face or something. It's a very popular type of editing on Youtube as far as I can tell, but I find it unbearable to watch.

rb808 7y ago

I can't get my Australian friends 'dry as a nun's nasty', metaphor out of my head when talking in polite company.

ajxs 7y ago

I'm in my 30s and I grew up in Sydney. I have never ever heard the phrase "fair suck of..." until your post. Mind you, the first time I had ever heard any phrase involving sauce bottles was Rudd's famous usage. Which I feel brought it back into common parlance. With people mostly using it as an ironic exaggeration of country slang, and in tribute to Rudd. It's worth noting, that Rudd was an actual country kid. While certainly not representative the average Australian, he would definitely have been exposed to more authentic bush slang than most.