dgbrit 258 Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 The word Bloke always puzzled me but i did use it Same with Ta, maybe that was thanks alot but Ta Ta means bye bye. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted November 10, 2011 Report Share Posted November 10, 2011 The word Bloke always puzzled me Simples A Chinaman with no money Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Didn't "Bloke" come from Australia??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fynger 841 Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Strewth Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Bloody oath cobber. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 10,479 Posted November 11, 2011 Report Share Posted November 11, 2011 Didn't "Bloke" come from Australia??? That's just people called Bruce or Sheila Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dgbrit 258 Posted November 19, 2011 Author Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Didn't "Bloke" come from Australia??? I thought we only exported but then again i remember a mate of mine emigrated got to Oz & at the airport booked his flight back ,There & back in a week lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ayupmeducks 1,730 Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 I did note during my stay down there, they usually refer to men as Guy's and girls as Sheilas. The only place I heard "cobber" used was in Tasmania, it had died out on the mainland....I was just a Pommie Bastard, although when you're accepted, the way it's said is differently expressed... Bit like "G'Day yer pommie bastard" or "Oi, YOU yer pommie bastard" The second is derogatory! All the blokes who worked for me just called me pommie or pom when they phoned their shift reports out to me. I did look up Bloke the other day, and I didn't find where it originated, but it just said a common term for a man used in the UK, Aus and NZ. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beefsteak 305 Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 They called me "Please don't hit me any more mister" when I met up with some of them .............. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubblewrap 3,815 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Simples A Chinaman with no money A Chinese dentist Two Thirty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,874 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 A Chinaman had his camping equipment stolen at Ten Twenty. TAXI ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 My dad, who had absolutely no connection with Oz, frequently used cobber as an expression of matey affection. His mildly insulting term for anyone who behaved foolishly, (including me from time to time) was "Yer great pie-can." Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mick2me 3,033 Posted May 15, 2012 Report Share Posted May 15, 2012 Would that be similar to "Pike-hand" (pikey?) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Compo 10,328 Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Stephen: was yer dad in World War Two perchance? Many ANZACS fought alongside the Poms and phrases rubbed off on one another. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
StephenFord 866 Posted May 18, 2012 Report Share Posted May 18, 2012 Hi Compo - he was indeed - although from his diaries he doesn't seem to have seen much action (maybe I owe my existence to that!) He was in the Royal Army Medical Corps - first in France, near Pornichet. Not involved in Dunkerque - I think they were sufficiently near the coast already to be evacuated and brought back a bit before then. Then for a while he was stationed at Goodwood House near Chichester, before going to India for the duration. Returned, I think, late 1945 after the fall of Japan, by the Union Castle liner Capetown Castle, via Singapore, picking up a lot of lads more dead than alive, who'd been in Japanese POW camps. So yes, endless possibilities for picking up phrases from other nationals over a 6 year period. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 5,091 Posted May 19, 2012 Report Share Posted May 19, 2012 My dad served in India and Burma and always said odd words to us from his time there. The paper wallah, let's have a decko, etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Paulus 541 Posted May 19, 2012 Report Share Posted May 19, 2012 Tea Wallah, punka wallah etc Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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