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Originally Posted by astroron
I fear after my generation leaves, there will be no one around to say things like ...
"She'll be right mate" or "Hooroo sheila, grap a coldie for that drongo and don't ya let the nippers have any." "Oh fair go, course I wouldn't give them nippers any and I 'aint drinking much myself otherwise I'll need a real ridgy didge loo and not some bush out woop woop because I'd look like a yobbo."
The only time I hear this type of talk now is by truck drivers on the CB.
It is a long time since I have heard anyone with ginger hair called "Blue" and except for the odd occasion English people called Pommies except when the cricket is on 
Yes we have lost a lot of the Aussie identity over the last forty years  |
I quite agree. I'm a member of the 'bloke' preservation society. If I ever accidently say 'guy' I severely castigate myself.
I take the shuttle bus to work at uni and it is mostly full of overseas students. Nearly everyone thanks the driver as they alight but I make the point of saying 'thanks mate' or 'cheers mate'. Occasionally I get the correct Ozzie reply 'you'r right'. The students I work with also learn a bit of the lingo (and not just the swearing), not so much because I try as because it just comes out. Sometimes I get some puzzled looks.
