Reaction To 26 Things Only Australians Say

[@MelodyMan69]

Doggy Bag was originally to take the left overs Home for your Dog. Back in the day, many Dogs were feed with table leftovers instead of tinned Dog Food.

[@nolaj114]

I used to feel embarrassed as a kid if my parents asked for a doggy bag when we didn't have a dog..lol.

[@DocIdaho]

Came here to say this exact thing

[@Danger_Mouse3619]

Snag is a sausage. A hotdog is a Frankfurt in a long bun and that becomes a hotdog.

[@raymondhardy8468]

You are right. A hot dog is the red skin sausage ( a frankfurt) that is boiled , snags are pork, beef etc sausages that are grilled bbq or fried in a pan..

[@johnwilliams2711]

Yep. What she was describing was a sausage sandwich, aka a sausage sarmy, aka a democracy sausage (at polling centres at election time). Sometimes the bread is buttered. You can usually cover it with fried onions and/or the condiment of your choice.

[@kristinedunner988]

​@@johnwilliams2711barnyard not sarmy.😊 but barnyard from the word sandwich

[@johnwilliams2711]

@kristinedunner988 Never heard of a "sausage barnyard". A sausage sanga is another one that gets used a lot.

[@nolaj114]

I think"won't be a minute" is more like, in customer service for example, when you are occupied doing something but will give the other person your attention shortly, so you say that to acknowledge you've seen they are waiting .

[@brianreilly1033]

Ranga (red haired person) is abbreviation for Orang-utan.

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

Not a very nice word in the school yard

[@utha2665]

@@ariadnepyanfar1048 It you're a ranger, haha jks.

[@heathertomlinson3948]

Not nice anywhere

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

@@heathertomlinson3948 Ikm just absolutely disgusted by adults who use ranger, as if it hasn’t been genuinely used as a hate word to ‘other’ redheads, which culturally comes down from redheads being literally seen as a physical mark of having no souls, or being born under the influence of the devil in past superstitious and ultra religious centuries. Communities and parents believed this so hard they automatically assumed red headed children and adults were by nature prone to evil: theft,violence, rape, promiscuity. Anything going wrong in a family or community was automatically blamed on the red head if there was one. They were treated like criminals their entire lives.

[@kristinedunner988]

​@@utha2665( ???)😊

[@celesteklose4903]

I feel like she has been hanging around young guys on the Eastern Coast, judging from the language. It’s not typical everywhere.

[@JohnHollands]

"Doggie bag" is when we ask for the leftovers at a restaurant and WE PRETEND it's to feed our dog back home because we wouldn't want it to seem like we're poor.

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

Yes but that was the original reason

[@Dr_KAP]

Surprisingly the story is a little more intricate.. The doggie bag originated in the USA during world war 2 when food shortages were a thing. People were struggling to feed their pets and were encouraged to give their pets table scraps. Restaurants and hotels developed paper bags “Bones for bowser” which they gave to people so they could take scraps home to their pets. Over time people started to request the bags so that they could take leftovers home for themselves too. Hence they became known as doggie bags!! 😊😂

[@patrickwells8349]

In regards to "it's alright", I think many of us still say "no worries" as well. I also say "it's all good" sometimes.

[@utha2665]

or, sorright mate. :)

[@Nat-dx3vp]

@@utha2665 yeah Im more of a no worries or alls good or even no wuckkas

[@utha2665]

@@Nat-dx3vp or no wukken furries. she'll be right, so many different ways to uniquely express reassurance.

[@Roddrummer]

A few points: I call anyone I like a 'legend'; I call a meal a 'feed' more than I call it a meal, and sometimes it's even a 'scoff' - 'let's go get a scoff'; I even use 'doggy bag' as a verb - "Can you doggy bag that for me?"

[@nolaj114]

Never heard 'scoff' as a noun, just a verb..as in "he scoffed all the biscuits" but legend, yeah..all the time.

[@michaelfink64]

I have some favourite Aussie sayings but they are a bit old fashioned and rarely said. These include: "Flat out like a lizard drinking" (meaning very busy - flat out - you can imagine how flat a lizard is when it is drinking), another term for the same thing - "As busy as a one armed paper hanger" (presumably hanging wallpaper), "Dry as a dead dingo's donger" (donger means penis), "Butcher's canary" (blow fly), "Mad as a cut snake" (This one is a bit of a play on the term "mad" meaning either angry - which a cut snake would be - or crazy, which the saying actually refers to) or "Mad as a meat axe" (this one is interesting because it is attributing the madness to the weapon that the mad person would be wielding) and "Pissed as a newt" (unlike in America, where it would mean angry, in Australia pissed means drunk - not sure why a newt is the epitome of drunkenness).

[@mort8143]

Yep. That was my era too. Sticking your thumb up at someone was like giving the middle finger today.

[@michaelfink64]

@@mort8143 I remember if you put your index and middle finger together and flexed your elbow, it meant "get stuffed". Haven't seen or heard of that one for a while.

[@peterwalker5677]

@@mort8143 Never heard that. Giving a thumbs up was always considered to be good. It is used in Auslan (Australian sign language the deaf) for that reason. (This goes back to at least the 1960s when i first encountered sign language). Incidentally, the sign for bad is sticking up your little finger.

[@johnwilliams2711]

@@peterwalker5677 Maybe for Auslan, but in the Sixties and Seventies the "thumbs up" sign was a pretty good way to get in a punch up. Back then it was a sign of utter contempt and meant, "stick it up your a*se". I think it was also offensive in the UK. The "thumbs down" sign was perfectly alright to use (Roman emperors, gladiators, yadda yadda). The turning point in Australia was the popularity of the TV show "Happy Days". "The Fonz" (key character) frequently gave the "two thumbs up" as a sign of firm approval. Older Australians would cringe at this, but knew it was a due to a cultural difference. Thumbs up caught on with the kids because The Fonz was a popular character.

[@Jeni10]

Stubby originally was a short beer bottle with a short neck from a specific brewery. Bundaberg Brewed Soft Drinks are also in stubby bottles.

[@carolannhartley359]

Ours were dumpies.

[@nolaj114]

Your thoughts on most of these are spot on 😊

[@helenvann3506]

A stubby is a small bottle of beer as opposed to the old school large bottles - which I don’t know if they even still exist - which were known as tallies or long necks

[@FenrirWolfTV]

Great video as always man, I'm slowly making my way through all of your other content! Most of these details in the video are pretty spot on, I was expecting to see some misinformation but I think she has a firm grasp on the Aussie lingo. I'm awaiting your next video

[@taniaPBear]

Snag is a sausage, as you would probably know, but Americans don't have those kind of sausages, they call hotdogs, sausages. We put hotdogs in buns, but often have a sausage on a piece of bread at a barbeque or whatever. A 'stubbie' is a small, squat bottle with little to no neck, not every bottle as she thought.✌❤

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

She is Canadian but I am sure there are sausages in America lol

[@Dr_KAP]

@@Fiona-zc6ozyou can get sausage links which are small frozen breakfast sausages in links. As for sausages like ours, nope not a thing in the U.S. but yeh obviously if you looked hard enough you could find anything in some boutique butcher in New York etc. But generally sausages as well know them aren’t a thing culturally over there 😊❤

[@jaccilowe3842]

When I first came to Oz in the 80s, I would often hear No Wuckin' Furries as a spoonerism, which then, in true Ozzie style, was shortened to No Wuckers.

[@aussieswatching3135]

“We’re not here to put socks on centipedes”

[@paulmolloy4649]

We're not here to fuck spiders

[@ninitech6230]

She'll be right, mate.

[@stevenmccloskey4866]

I was a bit disappointed that " we're not here to f*** spiders" wasn't mentioned.

[@shaneb4612]

It's not a thing said in every day life. Yes it's common & us Aussies love to use it at the appropriate time.

[@jparko4944]

With the sausage sanga on a slice of white bread, It's all about the bread and sausage ratio. Gotta have grilled onions and BBQ sauce on top obviously.... Take a bite out of one end, of which the sausage overhangs a fair bit, so more sausage. Then flip and repeat on the other end, more sausage. Then rip off the top triangle of bread that's left and throw it to the Magpie standing next to you. And you're left with the bread making a small comeback in the mini 'hotdog', but the onions and sauce are now squashed into the middle, crescendoing the flavours. Three bites...... I'm off to Bunnings right now:P

[@livertic]

She did a good job !

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

Hot dogs are different...long, white, soft roll with a frankfurt sausage. The other one is just sausage in bread from a sausage sizzle event. We do say Just a sec or second

[@lync8884]

Too easy is used the same as no problem. Not everyone uses “the c word”. We don’t say “it’s alright” we say “you’re right” shortened from “you’re alright mate”. Never heard anyone say “thanking you” and yes a snag is specifically a sausage, served in bread not a hotdog (which is served in a hotdog roll).

[@Hope-sf3dk]

bottle of beer is called a 'long neck'

[@johnwilliams2711]

Or a tallie.

[@LeanneAnderson-e5c]

Not weird to us 😂

[@tonym7012]

A bottle-o was once a Stepoe and Son like character who came around to collect empty bottles - predominately beer bottles that in the 1950s carried a deposit of a halfpenny.

[@shaneb4612]

I'm an old boy now, I use darl all the time, especially at work. A women you don't know, instantly becomes darl. For the old ducks, I tend to use sweat-heart. We don't use love or pet as much, but they're interchangeable. Guys are dude, mate, fella or man. A few of the common phrases said are "Are you sh!tting me" or "I sh!t you not". Translation Are you lying to me, I'm not lying.

[@djgrant8761]

The doggy bag originated in the US. Steakhouses would often serve steaks on the bone and after people would eat they’d ask the bones to be bagged up so they could take them home for their dogs. Today the term is used for leftovers so any uneaten edible food can be consumed at a later date.

[@suebooth2431]

I think 'doggy bag' originated that if someone couldn't finish their meal, they'd get a doggy bag to take the scraps home for their dog.. whereas now, it's just going home and the person will probably eat it later themselves.

[@carolannhartley359]

We, in BC, talk about doggie bags to take home extra food from a restaurant.

[@mawguwerr]

In Australia, in some parts we still use "Cockney slang" such as, if you came to me, I might say "You got any Bugs Bunny in your Skyrocket!?" and I would be saying, "Do you have any money in your pocket?" or "Would you like a Dogs eye with some dead horse!?" ( a meat pie with sauce) lol

[@johnwilliams2711]

There used to be a part of Brisbane called Myrtle Town, where they had a particularly strong application of rhyming slang. It got bulldozed for the development or the Brisbane International Airport and its inhabitants, cast to the four winds. Sadly, that extinguished a unique local culture.

[@slamminbanquets]

She forgot “old mate”. What we call someone when we don’t know their name

[@peterwalker5677]

Originally a swag was the rolled up bedding (and belongings) of an itinerant worker (That's where the term swagman came from) By the 1950's it had evolved, with commercial versions having a waterproof covering for use in lieu of a tent. I'm sure there are fancier versions these days.

[@jvvoid]

We don't even say "how are you going", it's "how ya goin'?". We don't call chocolate 'lollies". I know the N.Americans call chocolate 'candy'. We don't even use the word ''candy'', we say lollies or sweets for things like mints or jelly beans, that sort of thing. I haven't heard anyone say ''swag'' since I was in the army reserves, she somehow knows someone in the .01% of the population that would use that word in general conversation. "Thanking you" means they're happy to see the back of you. I thought doggy bag was N.American. Out of all that she left out the one phrase said the most: ''No worries''. And I say g'day all the time, like everytime I greet a stranger, talk to a shop attendant etc.

[@utha2665]

The 4WD community use swag quite a bit, and they are sold as swags in camping stores.

[@johnwilliams2711]

"Sweets" was also the term for dessert. I think people stopped using it in that context in the 80s.

[@damionkeeling3103]

Pretty much the same as you get in NZ with a few exceptions like servo and arvo. Snag is used sometimes but the older generation would say snarlers. Gidday is fast disappearing from kiwi slang and I guess that's true in Oz too. If people ever saw Home and Away there was a character called Alf Stewart who used a lot of slang which was already becoming rare 20 years ago.

[@martyjones1413]

G'day is, spoken as a greeting to everyone!

[@Jeni10]

The doggy bag is easy. Decades ago, people took their leftovers home to give to their dog. The name has stuck even if you’re not feeding it to your dog.

[@redwarpy]

Frankfurters are put in Rolls, Sausage Sizzles are sausages on bread with onions and sauce.

[@TheNakedWombat]

Snag for thin sausage. Banger for thick sausage - bangers and mash.

[@andrewhowie6646]

I feel the reaction to Australian slang and language culture shock is giving a platform to people who generally feel entitled to think their narrow experience has some value and insight. Of course anyone from one English speaking country to another, or even within Britain is going to find differences. Just be aware that you are saying more about yourself having narrow view of world cultures if you find this surprising. I do appreciate the MSTV channel as you do a good job at calling out the specifics that have similarities between Australian and British idioms.

[@Maireadmoss]

They are in a different country and things are different. Who knew?

[@johnwilliams2711]

Hoorah! Best Answer! 👍👍

[@HoratioIsHere]

Yep snags are sausages, hot dogs are hot dogs. Stubbies are small bottles of beer something around 385ml pr so but more rare now days is the long neck a 750ml beer but I haven't seen them in years. Bottlo is a bit of a regional thing, common in the north, not as much in the south in my experience.

[@blacksorrento4719]

The bad language i think would be definitely used among the younger generation. I’m a 70+ down to earth grandmother and I have never heard it used in general speech. My father in law a 5th generation Aussie, brought up in western NSW, used to say “ time to put the feed bag on “ in other words it’s time for a meal. Possibly from putting the feed bags on the horses when there was little on the ground to sustain them.

[@garrymuir1442]

Hot dogs(frankfurt on a long bread bun) are different to sausages(snags). Yep Ranga or Bluey, Ranga are both used as slang for someone that is redheaded, ranga is probably more commonly used these days. G'day is used far more in regional areas than cities.

[@raymondhardy8468]

A swag is a one man tent and mattress built in one

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

I actually don't know anyone who says the C word and Darl is pretty rare as well. Also few of my friends say F and family never. Not sure who she mixes with lol but it is mainly younger people swearing. Used to be fined for it on public transport.

[@Dr_KAP]

So glad you said this Fiona - I’m so sick of all this KZbin stuff suggesting we all use the c word casually. I don’t know anyone who says it either !!

[@lyncanning4849]

Not used in my world.. & work places frown on swearing. Some, not all of the younger generation use these swear words more casually. Doesn't mean we all do.

[@PeterMoir-r7d]

In a shearing shed when a woman appears they say ducks on the pond to let the men know not to swear as for the c word and f word not said in mixed company considered very bad manners.

[@lucyblazebright6339]

Read C.J Dennis poetry “The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke” (not the film) especially the fifth one in the series called “The Play”. The main character is taking his girlfriend to watch stage performance of Romeo and Juliet play. I find it so much fun to see if Australian kids today can even read the Aussie lingo. It was written in 1915. I have to channel my best Kath and Kim to read it to them - then they understand it 🤣 Mostly…🤣

[@timrozitis961]

Might be wrong (and quite pedantic), but I think the " 'ts alright" as a response to "thank you" is not actually "it's alright", but "that's alright" - maybe it's same, I can't explain the difference, but I feel there is one (also I think my response to "thanks" would be "no worries"). "Ranga" for redhead comes from "Orangutan"

[@philllynch3265]

I'm a Aussie who thinks that the C word is an awful word, and I'm disappointed it's being used as normal language.

[@goaway2803]

It is an awful word, but I told my nurse after my Neurosurgery that I can say the word (in relation to my ex at least) and not feel mortified. She thought that was priceless XD Take care, Mate.

[@Bellas1717]

@@goaway2803Strange that neurosurgery did that for you.

[@Bellas1717]

Totally agree. It’s certainly not used in my family or circle of friends.

[@datwistyman]

Don't move out of the city then. Because we all use it.

[@Bellas1717]

@ You and the people you know might, many others don’t.

[@utha2665]

We say g'day far more than we say g'day mate. "G'day, owyagoin". :)

[@debugin1227]

Watching this was more fun than chewin the leg of a chocolate frog

[@56music64]

We do say g'day mate. When walking towards a stranger, you could smile, nod your head OR more likely say "g'day mate" also another time you may say it would be, if you were standing in a shop waiting for your order or to be served and someone you know comes in unexpectedly or taps you on your shoulder you would say 'g'day mate!"

[@kellyd2691]

You can also call it dinner or tea... we're just having tea (meaning dinner)

[@goaway2803]

I use Thanking you, only at the bottom of a letter, like Sincerely yours. What's funny, is the UK, Ireland and Australians can use the C word and it doesn't sound shocking but with some of countries, it just sounds weird (I'm saying it's a 'nice' word) or wrong XD Ta as you know can be for asking a wee one to give you something, or as a thank you and of course as goodbye. Thick as bricks, (stupid) As useful as tits on a bull (useless) is couple my Dad used and Shitting bricks (being very worried). Thank you for yet another classic vid, Mate.

[@BigGen222]

Or as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.

[@ellefitzpatrick6339]

Thanking you is something I have never heard in my 40 years of written business communication.

[@Danger_Mouse3619]

We use words and terms etc both from the UK and the US. That's why people are so confused. Some are a universal thing but for some reason we just picked and chose what we wanted to call it.

[@RussellJohnson-h2f]

Never heard the ...alright... we say ....no worries...

[@livertic]

If you bump into someone, we say sorry, the other bloke says your right mate. !

[@datwistyman]

I've almost never heard anyone say thanking you. Or won't be a minute. But I'm from Qld. Won't be a minute is, More likely to be Hang on a sec. Second. Be back in a sec. Sec or minute are interchangeable. Lol we use hot dog buns if we are making a hot-dog 😂

[@utha2665]

Older folks say Back in a jiffy.

[@lowcostiqchasm3226]

Complimenting somebody by calling them 'A good egg'

[@Jeni10]

No one in my circle of family and friends uses the c word, I’ve only heard it mentioned by visitors on KZbin and they see, to all be in Queensland. I’m in NSW and I’m aware that each state has its own slang with some overlap.

[@TheCaptainbeefylog]

HOw are you going? - is often pronounced owya garn? A stubby is a beer bottle with a short, or stubby, neck.

[@stevendean2999]

I'm a red haired Aussie.

[@Nat-dx3vp]

I think some of the younger generation may use the "c" word but I dont hear it much at all. the "f" word is much more prevalent. "cheers mate" for thank you is pretty common, Thanking you never heard. She missed "old mate", could be used for someone you dont know, or someone not well liked.

[@dupex2]

ranga is short for orangatang which are red haired too.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Hot dogs and sausages are 2 different things

[@jeromeshaw2248]

Australians created utes. As in utility vehicles. That’s what it is originally called. Please use it

[@draken68]

You left out "No Wukkas" meaning No Worries.

[@paulabbott7620]

I am 67 year old Australian and I hate the c word and I hardly ever hear it.

[@antheabrouwer3258]

Some of her explanations are not correct. She has misunderstood many of the sayings.. ..and very few people say C***T. Only Bogans say this..Hot Dogs are different from sausages..they are like big Frankfurts..Many of the sayings we say are British!!

[@garyrose9805]

U take the scraps home for the dogs

[@martinfinn674]

Djavagoodweeken?

[@patrickwells8349]

Remember the Aerogard.

[@utha2665]

ken oath mate, a rip snorter.

[@stevendean2999]

Say how are u going mate.

[@RussellJohnson-h2f]

Never heard of ..thanking you or ranga.. Don't know who you been hanging out with.

[@christophermurphy5454]

Why do yanks think Canadians are slow ??????