Messenger silliness
Two excerpts from recent Messenger chats with my wonderful mum:
Chat #1
Mum: So what are you up to son?
Me: Gonna grab a tallie from the bottlo
Mum: What's a bottlo?
Me: A bottleshop - an offie in the UK
Mum: ok. What's a tallie?
Me: It's a long neck
Mum: Which is?
Me: A big stubbie
Mum: What the hell is a stubbie?
Me: A small bottle of beer
Mum: So why the hell didn't you just say you're going to the off-license to get a large bottle of beer?
Me: "Gonna grab a tallie from the bottlo" is easier!
Mum: It's such a shame you've already forgotten how to speak English my son!
Chat #2
Mum: I woke up with toothache so I called my dentist but he's in Prague
Me: Shit mate! That's a long way to go whenever you get toothache! Why don't you register with one that's nearer home?
Mum: You think you're funny but you're not. And making me laugh is not helping!
Me: I crack me up. Really hope it gets better soon...
I love her to pieces! I am concerned about my increasing aussieness though. Whenever I speak to anyone on the phone in the UK they make comments. I think it's more the increased coarseness, decreased shyness and the use of slang. I keep ending nouns with "ie" or "o" as is the aussie way. I guess it's like living in any foreign country - when you're surrounded you just can't help but absorb it.
posted by Only me @ 9:55 pm
4 Comments:
Hilarious, it's such fun to mess with my mom. My problem with Messenger or IM is that my humor doesn't always come through. People sometimes think I am being short or mean when it's just sarcasm.
I had a roomie from NZ for a year and when she used slang it made my brain hurt.
LOL! Priceless!
heh...sounds like your mom is a very cool lady.
go ahead and absorb away. then you can go home and horrify all your old friends and your mom's neighbours :)
Waluley: Writing is tougher than being there in person! But generally I manage to piss people off both ways - I'm a pro ;)
goblinbox: Glad to make you smile honey!
dykewife: She's totally brill. Don't want to absorb. 'Aw mate, that'd make me sownd loike a bogan, ey? Sheet, can't 'ave that fuckn appening....'
Her neighbours are too old, they'd be very bewildered if I went back like that!
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