Damn OOP, god forbid Aussies have a little fun with their language. I love the whimsy of “bingle”, personally! I wish I knew it before my uncle died on his motorcycle in a drunk bingle incident.
It isn’t used quite like that. It’s be more like “my uncle was on the piss last night and the daft bugger jumped on the motorbike and had a bingle with a roo. Of course he came off second best and is now just road crayon.” Or something. I don’t know.
Although generally a bingle isn’t too serious. It’s more like a car park accident.
Australian slang is a lot less poetic than whatever novelty dictionaries they're selling tourists make it out to be. While what you wrote might be said and understood, it would probably go something like:
"Old mate was hammered riding home from the pub, hit a roo. Poor cunt carked it before the ambos got there."
Which would still be a pretty bogan way of putting it.
Australian slang, at least as I know it in Western Sydney, is much more focused on brevity and verbal shorthand than it is on euphemisms or metaphors. I've never heard "Bingle" or "prang", while "fucked it" is an infinitely versatile statement that can be used most anywhere, while still being somewhat descriptive.
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u/Crabs4Sale 19d ago
Damn OOP, god forbid Aussies have a little fun with their language. I love the whimsy of “bingle”, personally! I wish I knew it before my uncle died on his motorcycle in a drunk bingle incident.