I just learned I am a Seppo

[kurohinge1]

I recalled a couple of old comebacks for when you're suffering through someone's whinging & whining:

1. "Would you like some cheese with your whine?"
2. "How about you do that in the basement - I've always wanted a whine cellar"

[silverfall]

I was not complaining in the first place. If I was speaking there would have been no annoying tone of voice that accompanies someone who whines. Niether would I have been doing that little hop thing that you also so frequently see happen.

That's the problem with typing a message all the people who want to call others names and sound all mature get the opportunity to misinterpret what others are writing.

Besides isn't the point of a forum to spout off about what ticks you off and listen to others criticize what you wrote and point out spelling errors?

[amdg]

[silverfall]

An argument is lost whenever there is some kind of solid and undeniable proof that cements one sides argument into the realm of FACT. My proof came in the form of two others who knew something on the subject and a dictionary. So even in a court of law I would have won and he would have lost due to the weight of overwhelming evidence.

It wasnt the fact I didnt know what was said that made me angry. I knew it was a dergitory term from the moment it was spoken. That much was not difficult. It was the fact that he insulted my whole country and all of my compatriots because he was a petty bastard that figured he could get in a last jab after the bell had been rung.

You are obviously an Aussie cause you feel you have to defend someone who is from your country even though he was in the wrong. It is something that seems to happen a lot from people from every country. Don't get caught up in that crap. If someone is at fault let them hang. If an American caught flack for calling someone by a derogitory name I would not defend them and blame the other person's ignorance. When you were born, did you know everything?

About learning Aussie slang. Before I came to Japan the only experience I had with Australians was the croc hunter and Paul Hogan. I have since learned that Aussies use some kind of shortened word for almost everything on the face of the planet. I have learned hundreds of Aussie slang expresions and have even used some of the ones that I liked. One of the purposes of my post in the first place was to enlighten others about the word and to try to make the bigots who use them in the first place realize that they might be offending someone and that they should think twice before calling people names. I have my own prejudices, but I try to think before I speak. It's called courtesy or tact. I have never sunk as LOW as using racial or ethnic slurs. I can accept defeat whenever someone can PROVE I am wrong.

[amdg]

An argument is lost whenever there is some kind of solid and undeniable proof that cements one sides argument into the realm of FACT.

Your stock in credibility is falling Silverfall. Would you like to redeem your shares?

[Hound]

Amdg....Mate, your response by calling him a dickhead is a case in point that insults are the last resort. Aussies do it yanks do it, and im sure those jungle bunnys, spiks,wogs and bloody japs do it to.

Silverfall, hes not having a go at your whole country, he was just putting in the final jab as you said. You probably have done the same as him before, but instead of calling them a seppo you called them something else (dickhead, wannker, whatever)

Point is, like i mentioned in my other post is dont take it too seriously. Just give as good as you get. Its not racism or derogitory, its just something hes doing to get under your skin.

I know the next time a yank pisses me off ill call him a fuckin yank, same for any nationality. It doesnt mean we hate everyone of your nationality, jsut the one im speaking to at the time.

Just like that other joker that was posting about aussies (charles) given the chance im sure you would see him fuck around to all ends trying to get into an aussie birds pants. sometimes racial views are selective depending on the individual we are confronted with.

Anyway you bloody seppo, dont worry about it. Us aussies love ya.

[silverfall]

What? That's how you lose an argument. It wasnt about opinion. It was about someones mistaken education. He was proven wrong. It was a fact he got wrong. I was just going off because you wanted to talk about not being able to lose an argument. He did. Opinions cant be proven but facts can.

Dont worry. I know most of you Aussies are cool. I have nothing personal against you. I usually find your brutal honesty refreshing. Just think it's wrong to stick up for someone because you share a country. I have met a lot of my countrymen that I would never stick up for. Most of them are polititians but that's universal.

[Samurai_Jerk]

Silverfall,

Grow some nards and stop acting like such a victim. Being called a seppo is NOT like being called a nigger.

[nrky]

Agreed with everything DJ says. Most of my friends are from Australia and they sometimes use the word seppo. So what I really don't care if they call me a Seppo if they don't mind me calling them a sheep shagger or something else in retort. Aussies like to take the piss out of eachother and you too. It means they like you.

the sheep-shagging thing is what us aussies use to refer to the NEW ZEALANDERS, ie. kiwis, although, most kiwis know that we are just takin the piss with them, and dont mean it to offend them.
youll find it rather hard to say something about australia thatll piss us off, we are too laid-back a country, we arent as tightarsed and uptight as the yankees appear to be. (i refuse to call them 'americans', as that would discredit the canadians, who us aussies LOVE, because they remind us of ourselves, minus the whole hockey thing)

[Marvin Feltcher]

Sorry!

[cstaylor]

Boy, I'm really glad this thread came up. It's been really enlightening. For years, I'd always thought we would call an American a Yank because it's a synonym for jerk.

I could have told you that, you drongo.

[Marvin Feltcher]

CS, that was exquisite! Or, perhaps I should say, a real bewdy.

[cstaylor]

I bet the pronunciation is the most difficult. I wish that dictionary had an audio guide.

[Taro Toporific]

[Marvin Feltcher]

Lengthen your vowels and pronounce words as though you were pinching your nose (although you don't actually do it).
That's why "right" becomes "roight" "day" "die" and "yeah" "yia."
If you want to sound like a Queenslander (Our Deep South Way Deeper than The Deep South), slow your talking speed by half again and add "eh" at the end of every sentence. (But, to make it really work, you have to put a swear word and racial slur in every sentence as well).
Another good hint is to make sure every word you say is halved and ends with a "y." For example, "Oi, Sundy's a bloody bewdy for a barby, eh?" (Don't you think Sunday would be a lovely day for a barbecue?) or "My best Chrissy prezzy was a cozzy." (The swimming costume <also known as 'bathers' or 'togs'> I got for Christmas was my best present.)

[cliffy]

Marvin, You have been away a long time. It's now a racial slur every second sentence, but profanities are free.