OT - Funny Australian Bin sign (128kb)

Took this picture on my holidays last week. It's a picture of a bin at Bondai Beach in Sydney. Like it says, Don't be a Tosser :smt043 (Maybe none British or Europeans won't understand the joke)


Yakumo

 

Superb Yakumo!......Amazing how some places say things which would be banned in other countries...and worse Aussie and UK are both english speaking countries...

But then UK and US differences like - fag and fanny can land you in deep shit in the wrong context..... :smt043

US say "lets' table it" in a meeting and it has the total opposite meaning in the UK.....

(People must have thought you were nuts taking a pic of a bin....)

 

Heh, Excellent pic Yakumo.

 

:smt043 :smt043 That's great!!! :smt043

Yeah, it is a bit odd how even in English-speaking countries the language can be so different. I'm never going to the UK and ask about buying a fanny pack (small pouch worn around the hips here, but there... :smt043), and all my friends just pass it off as a typo when I refer to the Gamecube Zelda monstrosity as the "Wind Wanker". It's definately interesting, alright.

Maybe it's just me and my never having been out of the motherland, but I would have thought the Australians would have used "tosser" in the same context as in the UK, but guess that shows how much I know.

 

:smt043

Very cute. Most of my friends are British, so I speak the lingo. I've even been known to ask for a fag, back when I smoked.

 

:smt043 i wish we had more of those funny things arround here.

 

I think Australians do your the word tosser in the same context as British people but they seem to have a more relaxed attitude towards bad language. I saw another sign for a web site that when like this. SMELLS LIKE SHEET, LOOKS LIKE SHEET, HOLY SHEET IT IS SHEET !! Now, Australians pronounce the word sheet pretty much like the word shite. Here's the URL that the add was for http://www.holysheet.com.au/ Nobody cares there. There was even a Toyota add a while back were the guy says bugger :smt043

Yakumo

 

I'm guessing those kinda adds don't go down well in japan ?

 

I don't see what's so funny. :Hangman:

*Looks location in own profile on side*


Oh wait... :smt017

 

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that was bloody fantastic sh*t mate!

now I know this won't go down well with you guys...
but we say all the time...

by the way i thought bugger is actually more NZ than AU?

keepup the bloody good job!
cheers

 

There really are no foul words in Japanese. I guess the closest thing you'd here is slang word for body parts, but they dont' have the same impact as say... the word cock. It's very frustrating -- I'm sure most people are in the same boat as me, when you would swear in your own language but can't in Japanese.

There are puns in advertising, but I don't find them near as clever.

 

Re: .

Yeah like dj898 said. For non-aussies it's a complete crack up, but for us it's nothing but a cheap pun. :Hangman:

 

I know exactly where your coming from Gaijin Punch. I swear in English so my wife copies because there's nothing at all in Japanese that's remotely close to English bad words except for Slang Body parts words or sexual words. The funny thing is that my wife had no idea of the serious offence a word like F*ck You ! can imply. She things it has the same offence level (if there is such a thing) as P!ss Off or something like that.

Yakumo

 

Yeah, I read about that in a magazine, supposedly the lack of dominant religion, difference in sexual taboos and various other things in Japanese history made swear words "unnecessary" :smt017
The article also had a nice part about rudeness in various politeness levels in the same sentence, illustrated with sentences varying in rudeness from "Nani o shite wa imasu ka" to "nani shite yagarande", the latter one supposedly very insulting :smt043

For those that want a list of Japanese swear words nonetheless: http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/japanese.htm (link courtesy of retr0 )

 

Its funny what some of them translate as:

ひれつかん

Is supposed to be "bastard" or "nasty person" but translates as:

"The fin handle it is"

Could just be my crappy translation of it though, I did use babelfish :Hangman:

 

Yeah, Babelfish seems to provide the translations most of the time as something akin to what the guy half passed-out in the alley near your hotel would say or something like that.

I've had websites where words I know that should be "software" come out as "soft hat." :smt043

 

Yeah, that happened to me a lot too :smt043
<--- there's a genuine soft (foam) hat

 

Anti, you know who you look like in that hat? You remind me so much of Suggs from Madness. :smt043




Sorry, couldn't find one with him wearing a hat like yours.

Now if only Importaku would do a picture of himself wearing that Mario hat I sent him. Then we'd have the ultimate "Twat in a Hat" :smt043 I was going to do it but I backed out as being the ultimate "Twat in a hat" was to scarry for me :smt022

Yakumo

 

Well I dunno, you'd be hard pressed to beat this...



And surely this is the ultimate twat in a hat?

 

:smt043 :smt043 :smt043

Yakumo