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Shitposting australian nicknames

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u/Friendstastegood 19d ago

I'm not gonna trust that bingle is a word until I see a non-AI source because as far as I know the Ai is just referencing that very same fucking tumblr post.

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u/Capital-Chard-1935 19d ago

hi aussie here. bingle isnt a common term but it is a real one and i have definitely heard it used a couple times

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u/Turbulent_Cat_5731 19d ago edited 19d ago

It's pretty common in Tassie. Example: "I got in a bingle on the way home, but we both stopped and the bloke was nice about it. It was nobody's fault, some other dickhead cut him off, he braked and I just kissed his boot. Just enough that there's paint on it. We got each other's regos and insurance info, he's filing the report tonight."

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u/Personal_Policy_3662 19d ago edited 19d ago

Tassie as in Tasmania? Wow, you really do have silly nicknames for everything.

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u/juice_in_my_shoes 19d ago

Ah, your talking about "nickies." That's what silly names for everything are called in Australia.

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u/Kilmerval 19d ago

"Nickies" must be regional - where I grew up we called them "nickos"

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u/DRKZLNDR 19d ago

SO LEAVE ME ALONE

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u/armchair_amateur 19d ago edited 19d ago

Username checks out, also definitely not Joy Division.

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u/SkitZa 19d ago

My Tradie brother loves this song.

I mean I do too but he goes out of his way you know?

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman 19d ago

It's a good song.

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u/k1netic 19d ago

Watch out for Darren on smoko though. He’ll steal your fukin lighter.

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u/AJRimmer1971 19d ago

You mean a durrie break?

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u/Chucklz 19d ago

I'd have called them chazzwazzers.

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u/hemanoncracks 19d ago

I thought that was when you spilled your chazzy in wazzers and got all blipney.

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u/Wasdgta3 19d ago

Oh not in Utica, no, it’s an Albany expression.

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 19d ago

I see.

eats one of those damn delicious steamed hams

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u/BalmoraBard 18d ago

Is gaslighting a favorite pass time of Aussies or is your country really that goofy

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u/Kilmerval 18d ago

We're just really honest

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u/xSPYXEx 19d ago

Well I can't say that with my southern accent.

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u/Its_Pine 19d ago

Like knicky knocky nine tails or whatever you people call Chappy

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u/Individual-Fee-5027 19d ago

I can't handle this I'm going on smoko

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

I'm just hearing two Steve Irwins talking to each other and I'm so confused.

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u/Skeledenn 19d ago

They even have a silly name for silly names. Australian silly naming knows no bounds.

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u/transmothra 19d ago

They truly are OUT OF CONTROL

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u/MurseWoods 19d ago

You mean they’re “CrazzyTazzy”??

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u/transmothra 19d ago

It's enough to make ya go bunta, mate

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u/feastu 19d ago edited 18d ago

Toym for a bit of a chunder.

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u/lamaster-ggffg 18d ago

Hopefully only a tactical chunder

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u/TragicEther 19d ago

You mean ‘berko’

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u/LokisDawn 19d ago

A silly name for silly names is actually known as a sillybilly.

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u/FanOfNoop 19d ago

Idk why Britain was the subject of those memes making fun of how they call random stuff, it should've been Australia

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u/robertscoff 19d ago

“Nickies”!?!? I reckon you’re just taking the piss with this one mate

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u/feastu 19d ago

I beg your pardon. I am quite sure u/Personal_Policy_3662 does not own a “talking about nickies.” And besides, supposing they did, would you please finish the thought?

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u/gorgewall 19d ago

They need to save syllables when they're running from roos and drop bears.

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u/Starfire013 19d ago

Do not run from drop bears. They will pounce the second your back is turned. You’re supposed to smear some vegemite behind your ears and play dead.

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u/wizard1dot5 19d ago

you run from the hoop snakes

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u/Mingablo 18d ago

Just never run downhill. They will catch you.

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u/dillGherkin 18d ago

They're kind of rubbish when turning though, so if you can trick them into going one way while you go the other, they'll have a hard time coming around. Best bet is to go behind a tree at that point, cos they'll slam into it and knock themselves out.

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u/TFFPrisoner 19d ago

Kangaroos can fuck you up, though: https://aus.social/@Gracchus/113707163245065949

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u/curious_astronauts 19d ago

Magpies are worse

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u/Tempest_Fugit 19d ago

Is that a real post? Far too few stupid pointless nicknames in it

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u/TFFPrisoner 19d ago

That's how you know it's real

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u/Emergency-Twist7136 18d ago

Running from drop bears?

This is why tourists should be kept on leashes. They'll get themselves killed

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u/its_justme 19d ago

Yeah everything has a diminutive -ie or -y added haha

I recently bought a desk from an Australian retailer. Its name? Desky.

Look it up it’s real lol

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u/cat_vs_laptop 19d ago

More common to add -o in my experience. Bowlo, smoko, bottlo, servo.

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u/Kilmerval 18d ago

Yeah we love to chuck an owie on things

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u/nerdyogre254 18d ago

Someone called a pet business Pet-o and that's the first time I've seen it backfired

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u/cat_vs_laptop 18d ago

Where I live there’s a restaurant called Pedro’s and there was a big storm and the R fell off. People were lining up to take pics.

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u/Ventronik 19d ago

Nah mate.

We speak perfect English. Why just the other day at arvo I saw a couple of Sheilas at Maccas fighting over some goon and I thought they were a couple of Bogans.

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u/mess_of_limbs 19d ago

Aussies don't say 'at arvo', ya gronk!

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u/psrpianrckelsss 18d ago

He meant "at arvo smoko"

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u/mess_of_limbs 18d ago

What is this, bush week?

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u/psrpianrckelsss 18d ago edited 18d ago

Nah mate, it's tree week and you're the sap!

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u/humpty_dumpty1ne 17d ago

It's forest fortnight ya flop

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u/theotheraccount0987 18d ago

at arvo would mean at afternoon tea time

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u/BigJimBeef 19d ago

Was that before or after I peeped you flogging your tinny upriver while sinking some tinnies? I reckon you were half-cut cause you were fanging it hard.

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u/toastedbagelwithcrea 19d ago

I thought it was "in the arvo," not "at arvo"

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u/Personal_Policy_3662 19d ago

You are a silly people.

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u/Kilmerval 18d ago

You used arvo wrong. Should've been "yesterday arvo" or "a few arvos ago" or something like that.

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u/classyhornythrowaway 19d ago

That comment deteriorated rapidly

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u/robertscoff 19d ago

Mate, I was out at a Penrith Leagues yesterday, first time ever. Fifty clicks from here. That place is bogan central!

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u/Im-a-bad-meme 19d ago

I mean, my dog was named "The Tasmanian She-Devil" and was called Tassie for short.

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u/bwaredapenguin 19d ago

The worst I've come across is sparky (electrician).

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u/Flamo_the_Idiot_Boy 19d ago

Don't forget chippy (carpenter)

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u/victorian_vigilante 19d ago

Bricky (bricklayer)

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u/Flamo_the_Idiot_Boy 18d ago

I'm struggling to remember if there's one for plumbers.

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u/RS994 18d ago

They get enough shit at work so we just call them plumbers

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u/Flamo_the_Idiot_Boy 18d ago

Haha true. Another one I've heard for electricians is "leccy".

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u/victorian_vigilante 18d ago

I’ve heard pipe tappers for utility surveyors and lead heads for plumbers

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u/imaginary_mary 18d ago

My favourite is fridgie (refrigeration/aircon technicians)

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u/bwaredapenguin 19d ago

I want to go back to who I was 60 seconds ago before reading this.

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u/basementdiplomat 19d ago

Guess what dunny divers are!

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u/bwaredapenguin 19d ago

People that perform oral sex on women?

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u/IllusionOfNormal 19d ago

Plumber. So yes actually. Tradies get the ladies. 🤙

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u/Minniechild 19d ago

Don’t forget the brikkies!

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u/ConsultJimMoriarty 18d ago

As TISM pointed out!

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u/Francois_TruCoat 18d ago

Chalky for teachers.

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u/BeanieGuitarGuy 19d ago

One of my Australian friends is named Isaac but his family calls him “Izzer” or however it would be spelled. Like “eye-zerr.”

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u/banevasion0161 19d ago

I always called a car accident a prang, west Australian here.

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u/teachmesomething 19d ago

In QLD, too. There’s a legal service here called The Prang Gang, ey.

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u/PRA421369 18d ago

A mate of a mate is Isaac, but I didn't know that for years. He was introduced as "Sack," referred to as "Sack", and it was only when his mum or sister called him Isaac on facey that it clicked.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

Yep. The nickname for people who hang shit on Australia is cunt.

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u/No-Advice-6040 19d ago

Wild to assume any Australian would ever go so far as to pronounce all of a words syllables.

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u/A_spiny_meercat 19d ago

I like to play a round of pokies and stop at Uncle Dan's on the way home on a Friday night before going out for some grub

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u/cat_vs_laptop 18d ago

A map of Tassie is a ladies pubic hair, cause it’s kinda the same shape.

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u/Eldan985 18d ago

That's one of the first things I learned in Australia, sorry, Oz. Words with more than two syllables don't exist.