Night Owl
This Bird Has Flown
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Can I sleep on your roof for a month?
Only if you're Jewish and can play the fiddle - well, really well.
Can I sleep on your roof for a month?
Only if you're Jewish and can play the fiddle - well, really well.
Once I met some Aussies where I currently live. One of them hated New Zealand with a passion. Do Aussies and Kiwis hate one another? And if so, why? Is it like England and Ireland or something?
If one was a toddler one could successfully attempt to do so. Yet the fully grown men who have tried, and there's been stories, have been kicked in the belly I've heard. There have been instances of joeys (baby kangaroos) climbing into the 'pouch' (i.e. shirt, make-shift pouch) of humans, thinking they were its mummy (we don't say mom/mommy). I rode a donkey once. It was a bad time.
Question: Is yank considered an endearing or offensive term for North Americans in general? Or is it endearing in the north and less so in the south?
Yank pretty much refers to the Yankees baseball team now. New Englander's were called Yankees during the American revolution and during the civil war those in the south refered to those in the north that supported the union as Yankees or yanks. I just call everyone a wank. As in wanker.
Up here we still use the word Yank to refer to Americans in general.
Yank pretty much refers to the Yankees baseball team now. New Englander's were called Yankees during the American revolution and during the civil war those in the south refered to those in the north that supported the union as Yankees or yanks. I just call everyone a wank. As in wanker.
I once knew a guy from Louisiana. Boston is my home town. He used to call me a Yankee, not as a joke. Some Southerners act like the civil war just happened last year.
What is going on!? I'm from the heartland USA and I rarely hear the word yankee unless it's about baseball or candles! My brain just ate itself and exploded as cerebral diarrhea within my skull...
Only if you're Jewish and can play the fiddle - well, really well.
Yank pretty much refers to the Yankees baseball team now. New Englander's were called Yankees during the American revolution and during the civil war those in the south refered to those in the north that supported the union as Yankees or yanks. I just call everyone a wank. As in wanker.
Up here we still use the word Yank to refer to Americans in general.
Interesting country Australia with so many similarities to Canada and yet so many differences. We share a lot of common history, but its the geography that has pushed in different directions. Nevertheless there is kinship there, similar to cousin you have that lives far away and you don't see very much. We a great many of the same challenges moving as well. Some of these include:
(1) Aboriginal Peoples. How do we move forward? Reconcile and atone for the past injustices and allow them to find their rightful place in our society?
(2) Multiculturalism as an official policy. Two immigrant nations trying to figure things out. Again with the history, the White Australia policy and the Head Tax and other bad stuff we did up here.
(3) The role of government, different approaches using the same system
I'm sure there's more, this is what comes to mind right now.
One thing for sure, is that the French never managed to establish a colony in Australia. I've wondered now and then how different Australia would be if that had happened. There would probably be two countries on the one Island.
Well maybe and maybe not. It didn't turn out that way for Canada, we are still one nation with two identities
Western Canadian separatism is actually a real thing. There are Quebec separatists (they don't like to call themselves separatists - sovereigntist/nationalist is the preferred term) and those in Western Canada who have at various points felt alienated from the centre. This is not cultural. like the Quebecois, and it more due to the feeling that Canada was being governed by central Canadians for their own benefit and the West was being used for its natural resources (mostly oil) and was not being given a equal voice in the federation. There are also vast distances at play here. So keeping Canada together hasn't been easy