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A thread to celebrate the trivial stuff that is us, be it a term, event or tradition - anything actually.
So, I'm in the garden today uprooting all the stuff I planted 6 years ago (yeah, I know) and after the shock of paying for the first trailer load to the tip, load up again.
I thinks to self "Hmmm.....bloody full already - I needs to fit some hungry boards".
Now I haven't even thought of the term 'hungry boards' let alone said it for the last two decades - but I do bloody like it and am thinking of using it more in the future.
For the uninitiated, it's a woodcutter's term for raising the volume of your trailer by raising the side height with boards to increase you payload and payday.
What I love about it is the fact that it is derogatory, but sort of respectful - Australian.
On an event and more footy orientated note - the 'Last Man Standing' or more correctly now 'Last Person Standing' has been the bastion of country footy clubs for eons - have 3 or 5 of them over a season and you'll make the payments for at least two good players.
The premise is simple - 400 tickets @ $15-$20 per head, winner takes home a gorilla (next 5 might get a pineapple depending on the club) and free piss and a BBQ during the draw which generally takes at least 2 hours.
It works because on a Sunday morning the most amount of punters that ever show up will be 100, so your costs are pretty well capped at 2 and a half to 3 large whilst your incomings are 6 to 8.
And for the punters who do show up, even coming off a big night, it's not hard to knock back 15 pots over 2 hours when free.
Totally Australian!
What australianisms, localisms do you think are unique?
So, I'm in the garden today uprooting all the stuff I planted 6 years ago (yeah, I know) and after the shock of paying for the first trailer load to the tip, load up again.
I thinks to self "Hmmm.....bloody full already - I needs to fit some hungry boards".
Now I haven't even thought of the term 'hungry boards' let alone said it for the last two decades - but I do bloody like it and am thinking of using it more in the future.
For the uninitiated, it's a woodcutter's term for raising the volume of your trailer by raising the side height with boards to increase you payload and payday.
What I love about it is the fact that it is derogatory, but sort of respectful - Australian.
On an event and more footy orientated note - the 'Last Man Standing' or more correctly now 'Last Person Standing' has been the bastion of country footy clubs for eons - have 3 or 5 of them over a season and you'll make the payments for at least two good players.
The premise is simple - 400 tickets @ $15-$20 per head, winner takes home a gorilla (next 5 might get a pineapple depending on the club) and free piss and a BBQ during the draw which generally takes at least 2 hours.
It works because on a Sunday morning the most amount of punters that ever show up will be 100, so your costs are pretty well capped at 2 and a half to 3 large whilst your incomings are 6 to 8.
And for the punters who do show up, even coming off a big night, it's not hard to knock back 15 pots over 2 hours when free.
Totally Australian!
What australianisms, localisms do you think are unique?
- especially as Aust Day is here next week.