ohefdubs Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported. One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute. "Gimme a break," said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids. "We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they," she told the Telegraph. "Leave Santa alone." A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was "misleading" to say the company had banned Santa's traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some1 Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 What the fuck is Mauler thinking!? p.s. no boogie hands no vote... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClueTwo Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Stupid fuckers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earl broclo ESQ Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 i saw this article this morning. i always thought aussies were on the "crazy" side of the politically correct arguement. i guess i'm completely fucking wrong. then again, i've never been there, and all i really know about austrailia, was delivered to me by paul hogan. "now that's a knife." pretty fucking sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 What the fuck is Mauler thinking!? p.s. no boogie hands no vote... Somehere, why does everyone forget this? BTW, i almost always vote for whatever is on the bottom of the poll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blood fart Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Santa Claus is a black man that likes to paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 What i find funny is how seriously religous people celebrate the day jesus was born and also find a place for santa claus. Seems like the golden cow to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deloner Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Too funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 aggro - aggressive amber fluid - beer ant's pants - height of fashion, or to think highly of yourself arvo - afternoon Aussie - Australian av-a-go-yer-mug - traditional rallying call, particularly at cricket matches ay - pardon me back o'Bourke - back of beyond, middle of nowhere barbie - barbecue barking up the wrong tree - labouring under a misapprehension barrack - cheer on a team at sporting event, support your team battler - trier, struggler beanie - ski hat beat around the bush - not getting to the point beaut, beauty, bewdie - great, fantastic belt up - stop talking! bench - table top better half - husband or wife bikey - motor cyclist billabong - water hole in dried-up river bed billy - tin container used to boil tea in the bush biscuit - cookie black stump - where the 'back o'Bourke' begins block - do your block: get angry bloke - man blower - telephone: on the blower blowies - blow flies bludge - do nothing bludger - lazy person, one who won't work blue - argument or fight: have a blue bluey - swag, nickname for a red-haired person bonzer - great, ripper boogie board - half sized surf board boomer - very big, large male kangaroo boomerang - curved flat wooden instrument used by Aborigines for hunting booze - alcohol booze bus - police van used for random breath-testing for alcohol bottle shop - liquor shop bottler - something that has gone the way you want: you little bottler brass - money brekkie - breakfast brown-eye - to show one's bottom, mooning Buckley's - no chance at all bundy - Bundaberg rum, also time-clock for employees bung on - put on bunyip - Australian yetti, or bigfoot burl - have a try: give it a burl bush - country, away from the city bushranger - Australia's equivalent of outlaw of American Wild West bush tucker - native foods, usually in the outback BYO - bring your own (booze) to a restaurant cask - wine box (an Australian invention) cheerio - good bye chock-a-block - full chin wag - to have a good chat chips - french fries choof off - to go chook - chicken cobber -mate coldie - a cold beer come good - turn out all right corroboree - Aboriginal festival dance cozzie - swimming costume crook - ill, badly made, substandard cuppa - cup of tea cut lunch - sandwiches dag, daggy - mildly abusive term for socially inept person, nerd, nerdy damper - bush loaf made from flour and water, cooked in camp oven deli - delicatessen didgeridoo - cylindrical wooden Aboriginal musical instrument digger - Australian soldier dill - idiot dinkum, fair dinkum - honest, genuine dinky-di - the real thing dob in - to tell on someone docket - receipt, bill dole - unemployment payment don't come the raw prawn - don't try and fool me dunny - toilet earbash - talk nonstop esky - insulated box for keeping beer etc cool fair go! - give us a chance fairy floss - cotton candy fanny - crude term for female genitalia flat chat, flat out - going very fast footy - football full as a boot - drunk funny farm - mental institution galah - noisy parrot, hence 'noisy idiot' game - brave gander - look: have a gander garbo - person who collects your garbage gas bag - talk a lot give it away - give up g'day - good day, traditional Australian greeting good oh - OK good on ya - well done grazier - large-scale sheep or cattle farmer grog - alcohol grizzle - complain hang on a tick - wait a minute hoon - idiot, hooligan, loud show-off hoo-roo - good bye how are ya - standard greeting how ya going - how are you doing howzat - asking how something is idiot box - television iffy - risky or suspect: something a bit iffy irrits - irritating: you give me the irrits jack of it - fed up with it, had enough (of a situation) jiffy - short time: see you in a jiffy job you - hit you or punch you: I'll job you journo - journalist jumper - sweater keen - very interested Kiwi - person from New Zealand knickers - underwear knock - criticise, deride knock off work - time to go home lamington - square of sponge cake covered in chocolate icing and coconut (an Aussie icon) lift - elevator lollies - sweets, candy lurk - a scheme manchester - household linen mate - friend, general term of familiarity, whether you know the person or not middy - 285 ml beer glass missus - your wife mobile phone - cellular phone mozzies - mosquitoes nappy - diaper Never-Never - mythical, remote, isolated place in the outback nick - steal nick off - go away! get lost! no hoper - hopeless case nose - on the nose: something stinks no worries - she'll be right, that's OK ocker - uncultivated, uncultured, boorish Australian off-sider - assistant or partner off the beaten track - on an unused road, in a remote area oldies - parents once over - looking something or someone over, checking it out outback - remote part of the bush, back o'Bourke Oz - Australia Ozzie - Australian paddock - field pavlova - meringue and cream dessert perve - to gaze with lust pinch - steal piss - beer pissed - drunk pissed off - annoyed piss in your pocket - brown-nose piss-weak - no good, gutless Pom, Pommie - English person pokies - poker machines postie - mail man prang - motor vehicle accident pub - hotel pull your head in - mind your own business! push bike - bicycle put up or shut up - prove you can do it or keep quiet! rack off - get lost! Rafferty's rules - no rules, a mess randy - sexually excited, horny ratbag - friendly term of abuse rapt - delighted, enraptured reckon! - you bet! Absolutely! rego - registration: car registration rip off, ripped off - you have been cheated ripper - good, also: little ripper rip snorter - something that is great root - have sexual intercourse rooted - tired ropable - very angry or bad-tempered rubber - eraser rubbish - deride, tease: to rubbish sacked - fired from work Salvo - member of the Salvation Army sandshoes - sneakers, joggers sanger - sandwich scallops - fried potato cake in New South Wales, shellfish elsewhere schooner - large beer glass semi-trailer - articulated truck session - lengthy period of heavy drinking sheila - woman (can be somewhat derogatory) she'll be right - no worries, everything will be fine shonky - unreliable, suspect shoot through - leave in a hurry shout - buy round of drinks, or pay for someone shove off - go away! sickie - day off work ill (or malingering) sloppy joe - cotton fleecy-lined sweater smoko - tea break, go and have a cigarette snag - sausage Speedo's - male swimming costume spit the dummy - throw a tantrum stickybeak - nosey person stir - tease or joke with person strides - trousers Strine - conversation with a lot of Aussie slang stubby - small bottle of beer stuffed - very tired, had too much to eat sunbake - sunbathe (not recommended) surfies - surfing fanatics take-away food - fast food, to-go food tall poppies - achievers tea - evening meal, dinner tinny - can of beer too right! - absolutely! tracks - make tracks: leave to go home truckie - truck driver true blue - dinkum tucker - food two-pot screamer - person with low tolerance for alcohol two-up - traditional heads/tails gambling game uni - university up yourself - have a high opinion of yourself ute - utility, pick-up truck vegies - vegetables verbal diarrhoea - talking non-stop, usually nonsense wag - to skip school or work: to wag school walkabout - lengthy walk away from it all weatherboard - wooden house wharfie - dock worker whinge - complain, moan wobbly - disturbing, unpredictable behaviour, temper tantrum: throw a wobbly Wog - derogatory term for foreigner wowser - spoilsport, puritan, old-fashioned write-off - car involved in an crash that is not worth repairing yabbie - small freshwater crayfish yacking - talking non-stop yahoo - noisy and unruly person yakka - work yobbo - uncouth, aggressive person yonks - ages, a long time youse - the plural of you zonked - really tired zebra crossing - painted pedestrian crossing on street Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jackson Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 I hate Australia and Australians. Exclusively Apart from Kylie. I was watching a progamme about London the other night and there was a point when Australia said "OK England, we dont have any more room for you convicts any more." So we built some prisons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 wow australia must be way more politically correct than the u.s. they still don't let grand theft auto get sold there and i think snoop dogg can't go there to perform either Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
podrido Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 the only way a woman would feel offended by santa saying ho ho ho is if she actually is a ho ho ho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 Or she got a lump of coal in her pussy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BadWithNames Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 australias generally pretty liberal , but fuck the conservatives are weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
estaked Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 ha ha ha wtf? I can't believe how people can get so far away from reality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shitting Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 SYDNEY (AFP) - Santas in Australia's largest city have been told not to use Father Christmas's traditional "ho ho ho" greeting because it may be offensive to women, it was reported Thursday Sydney's Santa Clauses have instead been instructed to say "ha ha ha" instead, the Daily Telegraph reported. One disgruntled Santa told the newspaper a recruitment firm warned him not to use "ho ho ho" because it could frighten children and was too close to "ho", a US slang term for prostitute. "Gimme a break," said Julie Gale, who runs the campaign against sexualising children called Kids Free 2B Kids. "We are talking about little kids who do not understand that "ho, ho, ho" has any other connotation and nor should they," she told the Telegraph. "Leave Santa alone." A local spokesman for the US-based Westaff recruitment firm said it was "misleading" to say the company had banned Santa's traditional greeting and it was being left up to the discretion of the individual Santa himself If you bothered to read the article you could tell that this is a total beat up, provided by the sydney's shittiest paper, and that HOHOHO hasn't actually been banned BORING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~KRYLON2~ Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 soon there wont be a christmas, which is cool cause i hate christmas shopping Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_gooch Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 wow, that's some up tight shit! when i was in sydney back in september i rememeber cops were on a jay walking blitz, giving out tickets left and right. lighten up! no wakkas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sleeping Pills Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Everybody in Australia calls eachother cunts left and right.... yeah... after joining this website and being around the few aussies in here, i call everyone on the road "cunt." whenever someone else is in the car they're like "that's pretty rude you bitch, and who says cunt anyway" then i say "cunt, shut the fuck up before i eject your ass out of my car." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wayne hits Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 If you bothered to read the article you could tell that this is a total beat up, provided by the sydney's shittiest paper, and that HOHOHO hasn't actually been banned BORING you mad! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cocaine Computer Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 ...................................................ho.................................................ho...............................................ho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 What the fuck is Mauler thinking!? p.s. no boogie hands no vote... yeah... after joining this website and being around the few aussies in here, i call everyone on the road "cunt." whenever someone else is in the car they're like "that's pretty rude you bitch, and who says cunt anyway" then i say "cunt, shut the fuck up before i eject your ass out of my car." Anyway, I have no idea what is going on, and Xmas here is a joke, especially with the traditional Santa outfit. I mean, to endure the heat here, Santa would be wearing stubbies shorts and a wifebeater, not some snow repelling suit. And I was having a debate with someone online from Adelaide the otehr day who was debating the actual use of the word cunt here. I mean, I use it every second sentence, and it isn't an insult. I mean to call someone a 'funny cunt' is a compliment. I couldn't believe this dickhead though he was adamant people don't use it. But saying stuff like 'That cunt! I haven't seen him in ages, what the fuck has that cunt been up to?' just flows off the tongue so damn easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theo Huxtable. Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 oh yeah you niggas got christmas in the summertime. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Yep, and it usually stinking fucking hot, driving around in the car from one relatives place to another. At least at every place there is free booze I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mauler5150 Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 I have no e-cred? WTF?? I thought I stepped up my game?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tango 24 Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Everybody in Australia calls eachother cunts left and right.... but Santa can't say Ho,ho,ho cause it sounds like hoe? :lol: QUOTE] oh so true i throw it around like it aint no thang cunt is one of those universal words here it can be used in any context Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime stoppers Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Conservatives are ruining our country. In perth, we got a bunch of up tight cunts petitioning for it to be illegal to wear pants on your ass. Shits pathetic. Also, cunt is the greatest word in the english language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CILONE/SK Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 Conservatives are ruining our country. I hate when people say shit like this. Not that I care about conservatives, but I just do not think that any group is out there trying to ruin the country or world, unless they are Dr Evil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire15 Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 WHERE DUH HO HO HO'S AT?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crime stoppers Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 I hate when people say shit like this. Not that I care about conservatives, but I just do not think that any group is out there trying to ruin the country or world, unless they are Dr Evil. Thats not what i meant, i meant that conservatives, by the views that they impose on people, are ruining our country. They obviously aren't trying to ruin shit, but they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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