AE 1435 - Buckley's Chance & Budgie Smugglers | Does Dad Know It Ep 5

Get a you mop. Welcome to Aussie English. I'm your host Pete and my objective here is to teach you guys the English spoken down under. So whether you want to sound like a faired income Aussie or you just want to understand what the flip and L we're on about when we're having a yarn, you've come to the right place. So sit back, grab a cuppa and enjoy Aussie English. Let's go. Dad, Pete, did you wear your Budgie smugglers today? No, I didn't. I wasn't going swimming and I actually do wear Budgie smugglers when I'm swimming, but he's a brave man. I'm a brave man, but I also wear board shorts over the top of them. Yeah, that I definitely would do that. Alright, so we're already into number one. Budgie smugglers, what is what a Budgie smuggler's dad. Speedo's and speedo is a brand of a brief male swimwear. Undies for the water. Water jocks. Water jocks. Why do we call them Budgie smugglers? Because a piece of male anatomy that is obvious when you are wearing a small bathing costume, especially when you're cold in the water, is about the size of a budgie gar for those of us who are well in doubt. Speak yourself. Mine's probably a cockatoo, I think dad. A cockatoo. That's it. That's it. Two of them. Boom, boom. Anyway, so you'll hear this quite a bit in Australia. It tends to be the joke. It's funny when I was a kid, I remember growing up and Budgie smugglers, speedo's were much more readily used by people. And it was less of a big deal. I think, well, as soon as everyone's doing it, no one gives a shit. Exactly. I mean, you could probably have a society that everyone decides to swim naked and it'd be weird for the first week. And then after that, when I, when I was a teenager, almost nobody wore anything else. If that's not a double negative. Besides speedo's. Yeah, he was well, speedo's or some equivalent of. Yeah, as a speedo is an Australian brand name. And it's a worldwide brand name of, of swimwear. And they invented the, yeah, the underwear-looking swimwear. But yeah, so I remember it at the pool and having to do it for swimming lessons and everything, always wearing speedo's. But it's funny now, it's pretty rare to ever see anyone wearing speedo's. Yeah, it's weird. You don't see anyone wearing them anymore. Sometimes you do, but usually they're really buff dudes trying to show off their quads. Or there's something else. Yeah, that's it. Or there's swimming socks. How would you use, imagine that, you know, it swells up in the water. It's just swimming around. It just falls out. Yeah. All right. So, um, geez, we're already getting silly. How would you use budgie smuggles in a sentence, dad? Um, oh, I probably wouldn't. Really, I would want. Yeah, it's just, I think I would be it. It's a comedy. It's, it's a jockey expression. Yeah, it's a bit of fun. Yeah, it is. Was it ever used seriously? No, I don't think it was. That's the whole point. It's meant to be colorful and fun. Yeah. And it probably only to bet 20 years old, I reckon. You reckon? Yeah. I remember it definitely made it be tough. I certainly didn't exist when I was a child. Okay. It became big when Tony Abbott had years. Tony Abbott, who was a previous prime minister of ours, who was actually a surf lifesaver. He was always in the media wearing budgie smugglers. Yeah. On the, and you were just like unnecessary, buddy. Put it away. So yeah, I think it'd be the kind of thing where I'd be at swimming lessons. My kids are in the water. My wife and I sit and they're watching and some guy just walks out with budgie smugglers. And I'd be like, check it out, I'll make some budgie smugglers. Yeah. Yeah. I'll make some. I'll make that another expression that isn't in here yet. All right. Number two, Krikey. Krikey. Krikey. Yeah. This one, that's another elf. I learned about this from Steve Irwin. Steve Irwin. Yeah. The Krikey. It's on home in a way as well. Krikey. I guess there's another Struth flame in Struth, Krikey. Yeah. Yeah. It's just an expression of shock. It's probably related to Christ, right? It's just another way of saying Jesus Christ without that being blasphemous. Yeah. Exactly. Okay. So how would you use Krikey? Well, if you'd something happened anyway. Oh, Krikey. You probably, this is the kind of thing I think you would use in front of the kids, right? My kids. If you stopped your time. Yeah. Exactly. I'd be like, Dad, you might want to children in the room. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. I feel like this is the kind of informal explicit, exploitive that you can use that isn't going to offend anyone. And you could use in front of kids, you know? So this is, I think, yeah, if you, I think I would probably say biscuit. Yeah. Well, that's, that's become famous for blueie. Exactly. But yeah, Krikey was an expression that was used by Steve Irwin a lot. Yeah. And I don't know whether he actually ever said it in his normal life. But he, he, he used it on his TV show. Krikey. Krikey. Yeah. What a monster. Krikey. Well, you look at that monster. Krikey. That's it. All right. Number three, Dury. Dury. Yeah. This isn't Australian, but it gets used in Australia. No, it's a marijuana joint. No, it is. It's a cigarette. Yeah, but it's also, you know, a marijuana joint. Really? Yeah. Dury, definitely sorry. I've never heard of it used for marijuana. Really? Oh, it says tobacco here. Oh, well, a rolled Indian rug. Yeah. Dury. That's where it comes from. It's a rolly. Yeah. Roll your own. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dury. I've never heard of it being a joint. No. No. Can I get used to cannabis joints? Yeah. That didn't. He's, um, in my, in my youth, smoking, too. I didn't smoke anything in my youth. I'm an asthmatic. Yeah. That's it. All right. So Dury, is this Dury? Yeah. You hear this much in Australia anymore? No. You just don't hang out with smokers though. Yeah, but I've been it also when I said, when I used to hear it a lot, it was people who were rolling their own. Yeah. And often those would be a mixture of tobacco and something else. Yeah. Gotcha. So you're getting just contact highs. You didn't have to smoke it yourself. You just stood next door. Yeah, exactly. Just hang around and then feel like you. I feel so alive. That has actually happened. Oh, that very much. All right. Um, so how would you use this in a sentence? A Dury? Can it give us a Dury mate? Yeah. Somebody's got a pack of the cigarettes out. Give us some ciggies. Yeah. Give us a Dury. Yeah. I probably wouldn't use that anymore. Not anymore. But that was common, are you? I know. All right. Number four, Eski. And Eski you'd never use that. Charlie Bunn in New Zealand. Charlie Bunn Eski. Eski is a brand name for a, um, a passive cooling vessel to keep food and drinks in. So you put ice or freezer blocks in it. Yeah. So for keeping food and drinks cool, you used in camping or down the beach or at the sporting event or something like that. I have a feeling. So Eski must be a brand name. It is. Eski is a brand name. It's an Australian brand name. And it must have come from something related to Eskimo, right? Which is pretty politically incorrect now. It's something. Yeah. But can you give me that in your device, please? It just doesn't work. Yeah. So I guess it comes from like native abbreviation of Eskimo. From Canada. Yeah. That would have had some kind of a very cold box or cold place that they put food, right? Um, but it says the far out comes from 1884 or Francis Mali launches a sheet metal working business in Sydney, which later expands into household appliances and large ice chest. Yes. Ice chest. We call this. Mali's use, Mali's uses the name Eskimo for a large home ice refrigerator soon shortening and applying the name Eski. Yeah. Okay. All right. So that was the 1940s. So that was probably way before political correctness came in. They just shortened it. So it's just become the thing now. It's one of those. And it's one of those brand names like Speedo's are referring to brief bathing wear rather than the actual brand name. Hoover refers to a vacuum cleaner, even though almost nobody uses Hoover. Do you know one of those? Dooner is a brand name of a duvet as they would call it in Britain or a quilt down quilt. There's a bunch of those right that become like verbs like to Google something. Yes, you know, I'll Facebook you. Yeah, I'll Google something on some other search engine. Well, no, you won't. Now imagine that. Eventually the word search online becomes a Google. Yeah, it is. All right. Number five, Fosic. Fosic. Yeah. Fosic is a legitimate word to fosic or search for. It is one of those funny things though, where usually it's fosicking is usually related to digging. Yeah. As in go fosicking for gold means you're going to go digging around or fosicking for a pair of socks in the sock drawer. See that that feels like the slang sort of version. The legitimate type like actual, what would you say, literary version would feel like fosicking is in you're actually lifting up rocks or searching in the bush. Yeah, but something doesn't mean that you're just wandering through the forest searching. I don't go fosicking for an hour when you're doing your bird photography. I'm going to go for a bird fosic. I feel like you could use it for a seagull. I think a good example might be, you know, I had the garage door open and I'm rummaging through the garage. You might be like, what are you fosicking for? Yeah. You have enough fosicking in the garage. What are you looking for? Are you searching for something? Yes. You're looking for coins. I'm having a fosicking for coins in the couch. Yeah. I'm looking for coins. To have a fosick, I feel like that's pretty Aussie though. If you went, I think if you stood that to an American, they'd be like, you're what? Yeah. If you had a fosick, Americans listening, you'll have to let us know. You guys working on your Aussie English. It's one of those things too that it's the - I can't, it's fossicking is the word that gets used. People don't tend to use the verb to fosick. I'm going to go on fosick, you don't. What do you do? I'm fossicking. - Yeah, there must be some real active verb, not a. - There must be some really interesting linguistic type stuff on that way. You've got this word that can be used as a verb and noun and adjective for that. But for whatever reason, it ends up only really being used for one of them, and not one tense. - Yeah, exactly, right? All right, number six. Give someone a wedgie. - Give someone a wedgie. - This has two meanings, right? Depending on how you want to use wedgie. (laughing) - So a wedgie is a slang term for pulling somebody's usually underpants or bathers, or in fact, whatever clothing they are wearing on the lower half their body, up their butt crack. (laughing) - Wedging it up. - Wedging it up. - Wedging it up. - Bunch exactly. This was something that again, it's like. - It's a prank. - It's the language you use at primary school. There needs to be a whole book that's just about primary school. - Primary school. - Yeah, give my wedgie. - Yeah, that's it. - Oh mate, I went for a run and my job's to give me the biggest wedgie. It wedged right up my butt crack. So yeah, you would, in school giving someone a wedgie would be that idea of usually looking up behind the other boys and just pulling their pants up. - But a wedgie, what else can a wedgie be? - A wedged-tailed eagle. - Exactly, yeah. - But you tend not to give them to people. - When you. - No, thank you. - That's it, they pull out the bird. - Hand this to you. - His Australian is the largest eagle with that. - Give the wedgie a wedgie. - All right, number seven, Buckley's Chance. - Buckley's, I think we've talked about this ages ago. - Yeah, we've talked about this many times. - Yes, Buckley's Chance means you have very little chance of being successful in this venture. - So it's one of those ones with, I think it's got two different areas. - There are two, allegedly two different areas. - You want to talk about those? - There are allegedly two different origins. I have a preference for the second one, whereas the first one is the one that is usually given. - Well, you might think. - I will, which I think is apocryphal. The first one is that William Buckley was the first wild European in what is now the state of Victoria. - Wild. - Well, he was wild. Not angry wild, but just crazy. - The first settlement in the state of Victoria was in what now we would call the suburb or town of Saranto in Pondport, Philip Bay. It only lasted a few months before they realized after the first summer that the water that was there, the little creek that was there, was ephemeral. It was not big constant. So they bug it off. But so William Buckley was one of the convicts in this settlement and he disappeared from the settlement. - For 35 years. - And it was never found by Columns who was running the thing and they just left without him. - To be fair, they didn't bother searching for him. - No, exactly, it was only gone. - Keep the chance to see you enjoy. - It's gone. And 35 years later, he was rediscovered when the next settlement in Port Phillip Bay, which became the permanent one, came around. And so that whole thing was, you've got Buckley's chance of surviving, was meant you had very little chance to survive. - Which is ironic because he did survive. - Exactly, exactly. And it's a one out of one. 100% of university tests prove that white men can survive in these conditions. So that's why I think it's apocryphal. The second one is that in, and this is a very specific Victorian expression. And so both of these things are true for being Victorian. But in the 1950s, 40s, 50s, 60s, there was a, what we would now call a sort of furniture shop and it brought him out into, including other goods, called Buckley's and none, as in two surnames, Buckley. - And none. - None, and you double in. And so I think people looked at that and went, you've got no chance of that, Buckley's and none, it's that. So I think that's where it has come from. But in the end, the other one is probably a good story. - It's funny, isn't it? It's like, it probably came from that, that made more logical sense. But then Buckley's and none just became forgot about where it's buckley and the story and that being the indigenous people were made. - But the thing is that when I was a kid, when you said, there's Buckley's chance, it was an abbreviation of, you've got two chances here, Buckley's and none. So you've either got no chance of it happening or you've got Buckley's chance, which is I think where the William Buckley part came from, is that people forgot about the fact that the original expression was, you've got two chances here mate, Buckley's and none. - Yeah. - So. - I think that's gonna have to be the cover of the episode, dad. - Buckley's and none. - I haven't spent so much time on it. Number eight, come a gutzer. - Come a gutzer. That's a ripper. Where did you get that one from? - What a corka. - Oh yeah, absolutely. He's come a gutzer. You probably haven't heard it before. - No, I always thought this was come a gutzer. - No gutzer, come a gutzer means to have an accident. - Yeah, okay. So fall over and make a big mistake. - Yeah. - So how would you use this, come a gutzer? - Yeah, I was going for this big mark and the footy mate. I came a gutzer, it just fell and flattened me face. - This is one that's outdated though, right? - Oh yeah, it hasn't been used since the '60s. I don't know. - By anyone. - By anyone. - But no, come a gutzer was a common one. My grandfather used to say it. - Yeah, okay, all the time, huh? That's one of the beautiful things I think about slang. Probably happens in any language. It's the speed at which this stuff evolves and changes. - Yeah, but things make comebacks. - Sometimes. - Yeah. - Like crikey, or I can crikey was probably something from the early 20th century. - Yeah. - And then Steve Irwin started saying it made a comeback. - I want rack off to come back. - Rack off. That's a disabute in the 90s. - Rack off. - No, rack off. - Rack off. - Get out of here. - Rack off. - That one's not on the list. We've been to the new ones. - Might be in the next episode. - All right, we'll wait for that. - No, but no, no, no, no, it's not. Yeah, we'll give you a bonus one, guys. Rack off. - Rack off. - That's like, fuck off, go away. Again, it's just a way of politely using a swear word. - It's funny because-- - It's like, fuck off, mate. Or piss off, mate. It's rack off. - There's some of these videos-- - The rack makes no sense whatsoever. - There's these videos on YouTube where they show-- So I think it was Heartbreak High, the TV show, and home in a way. They obviously used the same script writers for these. And so you see the same language coming up again and again and again and again. And they have this compilation of rack off, rack off, or rack off, mate. And clearly it was their chosen way of getting the kids to sort of swear. - Yeah. - You know, but it was always really funny when you watch these TV shows, especially Heartbreak High. The kids are interacting with one another, having an argument or a fight or something. And they use this really kind of, like, docile polite language. And you're like-- - Yeah. - The kids in high school would not be so-- - The kids in high school would not be so-- - They would not be so-- - And certainly not when that was made. It wasn't as like that was made in the '50s. That was made in the '80s and '90s. - '80s and '90s. - Yeah, no, but I mean, my point is, if I got into a fight, a fist fight with someone-- - Yeah, I got a lot of rack off. - I'm not telling them to rack off. - You're part of when you were eight years old at primary school. - I'm using stronger language than that. - Yeah, exactly. - Please go away. Anyway, all right, what are we up to now? - Number nine, Jack of it. - Jack of it, I'm Jack of it, mate. - Yeah, it's like-- - I'm tired of it. I'm sick of it. I'm fed up. - I don't want to have it going on anymore. - You use this, don't you? - You say, get Jack of it? - Yeah. - Get Jack of it. - I'm getting Jack of it. - Get Jack of it. - No, I'm getting Jack of it. - I'm just trying to get Jack of it. - Don't want to pick on now. He's a lovely boy. - He just keeps coming to mind. - He'll come back and listen to these one day. - He will, you'll have kicked the bucket, and he'll be like, I'm trying to remember grandpa. - He'll just pick on me. - How do you pick on him more than I do? So it's all right, you'll still be alive. - Yeah, that's it. He'll be like, I'm just imagining him listening to this in 20 years and being like, the fuck you, dad. (laughing) - And you're fine, I can go with you. - That's it. (laughing) - Don't die now. - Don't die now, yeah, exactly. - All right, so the episode. - To be Jack of it, to get sick of something. So this one is still be used, and then I guess just, yeah, staying in the same stream. Number 10, Jack of Roo. - Jack of Roo, it's a hub of the same stream. - Well, Jack of Roo's not even a slang term. It's just a, it is a word. It's an Australian word that has a feminine version, a jillaroo. - Jack and Jill went up the hill. - Jack and Jill, exactly. And it means a stockman, literally a man, 'cause a jillaroo would be a stock woman. So somebody who's usually in country, outback areas, rounding up, cattle or sheep. - Yep. - It's funny that they combined it with Kangaroo. - Yeah. - Jack of Roo. - And I don't know where the Jack bit came from, but. - Well, they would've just said, you know, every Jack and whatever you would've just used it for talking about blokes, right? But yeah, so a good example would be, he spent two years working as a Jack of Roo in the Northern Territories. - Yeah, and it became a verb as well. - What have you been doing? I've been Jack of Rooing up the territory. - Really? - Yeah. - And what a friend who would actually tell you that, that's what he did after he left school. I went Jack of Rooing in the territory. - Yeah. - That sounds like you've been stealing something. - Yeah, Jack of Rooing up. - I'll be Jack of Rooing it up. - Jack and all the cars. - Jack those cars. (laughing) - All right, that's probably enough for this one. We'll see you in the next one. - Oh, I've got to say, before you begin. - Do you think? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Give me a sec, I'm just gonna prepare myself. - If you want to learn Aussie slang, check out the Aussie slang ebook. You'll learn over a thousand slang terms and expressions. Go to slangebook.com. Once again, that is www.slangebook.com. The link will be in the description, go check it out. I think it's priced at about 16 bucks, so yeah. Good little deal, ripper deal. Anyway, thanks for joining us and we'll see you next time. - Bye. 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