Taking the P

[DaveDiamond]

Aussies and Brits are known for 'Taking the P...'.
We also say 'He's full of P and wind'.

Discuss.

 

[Snuffy]

We have a similar saying, "He's full of p... and vinegar".
And then there's "Go p... up a rope".

 

[Rish]

Don't P on my leg and tell me it's raining.

 

[MaxStout]

On the p**s (drunk). Probably heard it in a few too many Kevin Bloody Wilson tunes.

 

[Brockness Monster]

He's just Pi..ing into the wind

as a famous person once famously said of a famous American Light Lager "put this pi.. back in the horse"

 

[MaxStout]

This thread needs some Jerry Jeff Walker.

 

[Brockness Monster]

Who pi..ed in his Cheerios?

 

[Broken Crow]

Familiar with the term since growing up on CBC, TVO and PBS....BBC, London Weekend, Thames, ABC (Austrailian).....
over here it was ususally the equivalent of "Pulling my leg", but over here is kinda puritanical with broadcasts.

This thread needs some Jerry Jeff Walker.

I'd have gone with Patti Smith;

 

[Snuffy]

 

[day_trippr]

One of the more curious threads in a long while...

 

[doug293cz]

One of the more curious threads in a long while...

Yes. I wonder what motivated the OP to start it.

Brew on

 

[Rish]

motivated the OP

Hard OJ and lemonade

 

[seatazzz]

Since I live in the great PNW, our phrase should be "who p***ed in your double tall half caf oat milk sugar free vanilla frappe this morning?" I know people who order this offal. Which says a lot about the company I keep (not willingly, they are coworkers. One of which is so hipster that she refuses to wear standard deodorant, she uses frankincense or myrrh or something to the point you can tell when she's been in a particular area of our office two hours later. Not a pleasant smell either. She's a lovely girl but I stand upwind when I am in her company.),

 

[passedpawn]

Aussies and Brits are known for 'Taking the P...'.
We also say 'He's full of P and wind'.

Discuss.

Aussies also refer to me as a seppo. so there's that.

 

[DaveDiamond]

One of the more curious threads in a long while...

Yes. I wonder what motivated the OP to start it.

Brew on

Hard OJ and lemonade

Actually it was a few Ales, followed by 3 litres of Hard Lemonade, chased down by a few mugs of Hard OJ!
Then a YT video talking about a visit to Australia and how we take the P out of you to see if you're worth talking to. Then I wondered if taking the P out of someone was related to people being full of P and wind. Perfectly normal if you ask me!

 

[day_trippr]

^Sounds legit^
Carry on.

 

[Snuffy]

Aussies also refer to me as a seppo. so there's that.

I had to look that one up. Yank. Septic Tank. Seppo. That's a crooked path to an inside-joke kind of insult, but creative for sure.
You gotta figure it could make a guy a bit surly listening to Christmas music in a Speedo.

 

[DaveDiamond]

I had to look that one up. Yank. Septic Tank. Seppo. That's a crooked path to an inside-joke kind of insult, but creative for sure.
You gotta figure it could make a guy a bit surly listening to Christmas music in a Speedo.

Nah it's just straight rhyming slang. Septic Tank - Yank.
You drop the rhyming word so you get Septic.
Seppo is just how Aussies soften it.

The fact that people from the US spent decades developing an International reputation of being loud, brass, crass, boastful, arrogant and ignorant was just a happy coincidence. Septic Tank would still rhyme with Yank.

 

[Snuffy]

I would be willing to bet a large bar tab that the only place Aussies have seen loud, brass, crass, boastful, arrogant and ignorant Americans is on TV.
If I ever get to Australia, I'm going to wear Bermuda shorts, a cowboy hat and a sweaty tshirt with "SEPPO" emblazoned on it.
And then I would buy you a beer and we would get along just fine.

 

[DaveDiamond]

I would be willing to bet a large bar tab that the only place Aussies have seen loud, brass, crass, boastful, arrogant and ignorant Americans is on TV.
If I ever get to Australia, I'm going to wear Bermuda shorts, a cowboy hat and a sweaty tshirt with "SEPPO" emblazoned on it.
And then I would buy you a beer and we would get along just fine.

Yeah, it's just a stereotype, but a pretty widespread one, this sketch is one example of how they're viewed.

American tourists are usually portrayed as loud, brash, boastful, arrogant and ignorant, and most times wearing a loud colourful Hawaiian shirt!
Australians are usually portrayed as something like Steve Irwin meets Crocodile Dundee. Like every stereotype there will be people proudly living up to it, while the majority of the population are just your average person who could fit in anywhere.
A Seppo shirt would definitely go down well in Australia, you'd be welcomed and bought many beers wearing one because you'd be taking the P out of yourself, a sure sign of a good bloke!

 

[Snuffy]

A Seppo shirt would definitely go down well in Australia, you'd be welcomed and bought many beers wearing one because you'd be taking the P out of yourself, a sure sign of a good bloke!

Now, I would just like to say this. See, that fits MY stereotype of Aussies. No-nonsense folks with a great sense of humor who drive modified monster trucks and know how to voodoo a water buffalo.

 

[passedpawn]

Now, I would just like to say this. See, that fits MY stereotype of Aussies. No-nonsense folks with a great sense of humor who drive modified monster trucks and know how to voodoo a water buffalo.

That is my experience. You nailed it.

 

[MaxStout]

You want to play the true travellin' 'Murican, you need to wear cargo shorts, a trucker cap and a t-shirt like this.

 

[passedpawn]

lol.

 

[passedpawn]

in Europe, the obv sign you were American was tennis shoes. NOBODY wore them. granted, this was a while ago

 

[Dland]

I spent most of a year in Australia, drove around all the way around the country on Highway One in a Holden HR, which is pretty equivalent to a "66 Chevy Nova with the steering wheel on the other side. I was mainly out in the "bush" but checked out Sydney and Perth pretty well. That was 35 years ago so no doubt it is different.

One of many interesting memories is being in a pub in Cooktown Queensland, and some old timer called me a POM (his derogatory term for english person), his buddy corrected him, and said, Bob, he's not a POM, he's a Yank. I could not buy myself a beer for the rest of the few days I was there, as Bob always insisted on covering them. He put me up in his dirt floor quanset hut for a night or two. Things got wierd when some people came out of the bush with unregisterd vehicles and had me bring them to town for a trial involving death of someone called yankee lynn. Local constablray took note of me with these people and questioned me a bit. Bob told me to get out of town before the "reedys flooded", as it has started to rain, and there were no bridges or culverts, just gravel in the road where streams crossed. You could see several carcases of cars down stream that had not made it across over the years.

Anyway, back to the original premise of thread; If a guy is out in the woods, or a rural area, or somewhere like my yard, where no one can see in due to vegitation, and they have been drinking beer and such, and they insist on going inside to pee, are they overly domesitacted, or just a ******? (Apparently this Austrailian term is considered a swear word, as it has been auto edited but rhymes with banker and starts with w) [;

 

[MaxStout]

in Europe, the obv sign you were American was tennis shoes. NOBODY wore them. granted, this was a while ago

Ball caps, fanny packs, and massive luggage.

 

[passedpawn]

I spent most of a year in Australia, drove around all the way around the country on Highway One in a Holden HR, which is pretty equivalent to a "66 Chevy Nova with the steering wheel on the other side. I was mainly out in the "bush" but checked out Sydney and Perth pretty well. That was 35 years ago so no doubt it is different.

One of many interesting memories is being in a pub in Cooktown Queensland, and some old timer called me a POM (his derogatory term for english person), his buddy corrected him, and said, Bob, he's not a POM, he's a Yank. I could not buy myself a beer for the rest of the few days I was there, as Bob always insisted on covering them. He put me up in his dirt floor quanset hut for a night or two. Things got wierd when some people came out of the bush with unregisterd vehicles and had me bring them to town for a trial involving death of someone called yankee lynn. Local constablray took note of me with these people and questioned me a bit. Bob told me to get out of town before the "reedys flooded", as it has started to rain, and there were no bridges or culverts, just gravel in the road where streams crossed. You could see several carcases of cars down stream that had not made it across over the years.

Anyway, back to the original premise of thread; If a guy is out in the woods, or a rural area, or somewhere like my yard, where no one can see in due to vegitation, and they have been drinking beer and such, and they insist on going inside to pee, are they overly domesitacted, or just a ******? (Apparently this Austrailian term is considered a swear word, as it has been auto edited but rhymes with banker and starts with w) [;

ok. That was fantastic. Please go on...

 

[DaveDiamond]

I spent most of a year in Australia, drove around all the way around the country on Highway One in a Holden HR, which is pretty equivalent to a "66 Chevy Nova with the steering wheel on the other side. I was mainly out in the "bush" but checked out Sydney and Perth pretty well. That was 35 years ago so no doubt it is different.

One of many interesting memories is being in a pub in Cooktown Queensland, and some old timer called me a POM (his derogatory term for english person), his buddy corrected him, and said, Bob, he's not a POM, he's a Yank. I could not buy myself a beer for the rest of the few days I was there, as Bob always insisted on covering them. He put me up in his dirt floor quanset hut for a night or two. Things got wierd when some people came out of the bush with unregisterd vehicles and had me bring them to town for a trial involving death of someone called yankee lynn. Local constablray took note of me with these people and questioned me a bit. Bob told me to get out of town before the "reedys flooded", as it has started to rain, and there were no bridges or culverts, just gravel in the road where streams crossed. You could see several carcases of cars down stream that had not made it across over the years.

Anyway, back to the original premise of thread; If a guy is out in the woods, or a rural area, or somewhere like my yard, where no one can see in due to vegitation, and they have been drinking beer and such, and they insist on going inside to pee, are they overly domesitacted, or just a ******? (Apparently this Austrailian term is considered a swear word, as it has been auto edited but rhymes with banker and starts with w) [;

It sounds like a great trip, I haven't gone as far and I live here! I've been to Sydney, I found the people there to be paranoid, seemingly scared because a stranger talked to them and wanting to minimise interaction. I went to Melbourne, much friendlier people, but the city was just filthy, as in needing a good wash! I got some clue as to why when a truck came past clearing the gutters, which mostly consisted of blasting everything out of the gutter on to the footpath with a jet of water and spraying grime all over the footpath and buildings with a rotating brush! While we were there we went to look at the Yarra River, a dead fish floated by as we stood there!
Apart from those Cities the furthest we've gone on a holiday is shown on this map, the red line is a 9 hour drive.

Oh, and Pom isn't really that derogatory, it's just short for Pomegranates. You can tell a newly arrived Pom by the fact that they're bright red from the sunburn.

 

[Dland]

That may be, but according to "Wobbly Bob" and his friends, it meant Prisoner Of her Majesty) And yeah I know, that is what the brits called the Aussies since it was once a penal colony, but they had switched it around, and they weren't the only ones I encountered who meant it this way.

These guys were pretty old, as evidenced by them thanking me several times for the fact that the "Yanks kept the Japs from invading Darwin when the POMs abandoned them". And yeah, I know, the brits had problems of their own at the time. These guys were also openly hostile to any of the "abbos" who entered either of the two pubs, which led to some uncomfortable moments. It was off season, tourist wise, the time of year of stinger jelly fish, salt water crocs breeding and stifling heat, but at least there were mostly only the locals around.