yabbies?
- frank lee bent
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Re: yabbies?
may be a bit of class warfare and the convict heritage there with the rhyming slang which Australia has a wealth of, lots unique to oz, some from mother England.trying to speak in code
i kind of like it.
As you will know, many ( most? ) convicts shipped to Oz were Irish.
i bet Ireland has some argot to keep the poms from knowing all.
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They do, it's called Gaelic.frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 5:14 am
i bet Ireland has some argot to keep the poms from knowing all.
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some plain English too i bet.
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Re: yabbies?
you called??frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 5:14 ammay be a bit of class warfare and the convict heritage there with the rhyming slang which Australia has a wealth of, lots unique to oz, some from mother England.trying to speak in code
i kind of like it.
As you will know, many ( most? ) convicts shipped to Oz were Irish.
i bet Ireland has some argot to keep the poms from knowing all.
They grow in dams and other water courses and were great fun to catch with a bit of meat on a string when we were kids where we lived out in the bush.
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Re: yabbies?
Aboriginal name...
So where does crawdad come from?
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Re: yabbies?
chinks are eating this by the pound in chinkville, bbq with chillies, hotpot drowned in chilli oil, stir fried in (u guessed it) chilli!!!
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Unlike every other country, so the point about Australians is kinda moot.frank lee bent wrote: ↑Sat Jun 16, 2018 12:07 am OP is Singaporean, not Australian.
Americans call them crawdads or mud bugs
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Gonk had a pet yabbie. It misbehaved with his other marine life (not in a kinky way) so he mutilated it. I worry about Gonk, at times.
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