A Language Question For The Linguists

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 1:00pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 12:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 12:45pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 12:18pm
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I like it! I am going to adopt the phrase.
This seems way more like Aussie slang than anything else.
I am insulted! Australian? Ugh.
Respect the Aussie slang, you drongo.
The idea of respecting anything Australian goes against the ideals of the Enlightenment.
You telling me you don't think a kangaroo is cool as shit?
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Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 1:26pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 1:00pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 12:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 12:45pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 12:18pm


This seems way more like Aussie slang than anything else.
I am insulted! Australian? Ugh.
Respect the Aussie slang, you drongo.
The idea of respecting anything Australian goes against the ideals of the Enlightenment.
You telling me you don't think a kangaroo is cool as shit?
Flora and fauna, along with the indigenous people, predate the idea of Australia. Those are all cool. It's the twisted, diseased quasi-culture that was excreted by those who called and call themselves Australian.
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Takes the biscuit is Aussie / Kiwi slang.
It means takes the piss as in being unreasonable, being selfish.

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101Walterton wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:14pm
Takes the biscuit is Aussie / Kiwi slang.
It means takes the piss as in being unreasonable, being selfish.
See, that's just dumb use of the word biscuit. :shifty:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 1:32pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 1:26pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 1:00pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 12:55pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 12:45pm


I am insulted! Australian? Ugh.
Respect the Aussie slang, you drongo.
The idea of respecting anything Australian goes against the ideals of the Enlightenment.
You telling me you don't think a kangaroo is cool as shit?
Flora and fauna, along with the indigenous people, predate the idea of Australia. Those are all cool. It's the twisted, diseased quasi-culture that was excreted by those who called and call themselves Australian.
You're just mad because Young Einstein flew over your head.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:32pm
101Walterton wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:14pm
Takes the biscuit is Aussie / Kiwi slang.
It means takes the piss as in being unreasonable, being selfish.
See, that's just dumb use of the word biscuit. :shifty:
I think it is just for politeness, 'that takes the biscuit' goes down better in public than 'he is taking the fucking piss'.

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101Walterton wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:36pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:32pm
101Walterton wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:14pm
Takes the biscuit is Aussie / Kiwi slang.
It means takes the piss as in being unreasonable, being selfish.
See, that's just dumb use of the word biscuit. :shifty:
I think it is just for politeness, 'that takes the biscuit' goes down better in public than 'he is taking the fucking piss'.
And yet talking about fucking spiders is ok?
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Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:44pm
101Walterton wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:36pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:32pm
101Walterton wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:14pm
Takes the biscuit is Aussie / Kiwi slang.
It means takes the piss as in being unreasonable, being selfish.
See, that's just dumb use of the word biscuit. :shifty:
I think it is just for politeness, 'that takes the biscuit' goes down better in public than 'he is taking the fucking piss'.
And yet talking about fucking spiders is ok?
Do Australians even have a concept of politeness?
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Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:34pm
You're just mad because Young Einstein flew over your head.
You wouldn't laugh if you were alive at the time!
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:50pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:34pm
You're just mad because Young Einstein flew over your head.
You wouldn't laugh if you were alive at the time!
I was 5. Just old enough to be all like what the fuuuuuuuuu
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Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 3:12pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:50pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:34pm
You're just mad because Young Einstein flew over your head.
You wouldn't laugh if you were alive at the time!
I was 5. Just old enough to be all like what the fuuuuuuuuu
Five years old isn't alive (if Republican efforts to reverse child labour laws succeed).
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 3:27pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 3:12pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:50pm
Kory wrote:
25 Sep 2017, 2:34pm
You're just mad because Young Einstein flew over your head.
You wouldn't laugh if you were alive at the time!
I was 5. Just old enough to be all like what the fuuuuuuuuu
Five years old isn't alive (if Republican efforts to reverse child labour laws succeed).
We'll be able to abort at 5 if the Dems get their way!! /Huckabee
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Yahoo Serious was a better Prime Minister than Paul Hogan.
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I wonder if Yahoo Serious will ever reform the Jam.

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I wonder if Yahoo Serious will ever reform the Jam.

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