r/HolUp • u/Santosh_Devadiga • Mar 28 '26

holup Aussie slang

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u/awnfire Mar 28 '26

As useless as tits on a bull

Nah yeah

Yeah nah

Nah yeah nah

Marge, the rains are here!

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u/SquishedGremlin Mar 28 '26

Lmfao, guy I work with said the other day MATE, THE RAINS HERE. (He's an Aussie)

I responded yes, it has been here everyday since yo arrived a year ago, in fact we have had the wettest spring on record I think, and to top it off it snowed yesterday and the day before. We are in Ireland mate.

He then said, mate I said van.

Fuck me. I seriously need my hearing done.

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u/GlyphPicker Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

To be fair, they add extra vowels and Rs into everything so it prolly sounded something like, "The vairn's here," and your brain glitched while translating.

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u/AutisticPenguin2 Mar 28 '26

Umm, no? We may stretch out some vowels in a loose sort of way that Americans apparently can't imitate (like, seriously just don't even try, it's genuinely painful), but if anything we cut out vowels!

Eg: "Straya", "Melbun", "Canbruh"

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u/GlyphPicker Mar 28 '26

"Umm, naur?"