Thread: What a load of olde bollocks behaviour this world is coming to!

Originally Posted by 4bee

Don't Seth Africans say Blick? They also say Grudge when referring to a garage. Now I will offend some one I just know it. Maybe not.

Most Seth Efricans are easy going, but call one a "Jarpie" and he may take offense! (sometimes spelt "Yarpie)

Originally Posted by Old Farang

Most Seth Efricans are easy going, but call one a "Jarpie" and he may take offense! (sometimes spelt "Yarpie)

I used to work with a couple of white South Africans
They used to have some full on barnies at smoko
I’m sure one of them used to call the other a “kaffa lover”
Kaffa being derogatory for black man

Originally Posted by 4bee

Don't Seth Efricans say Blick? They also say Grudge when referring to a garage. Now I will offend some one I just know it. Maybe not.

Originally Posted by Old Farang

Most Seth Efricans are easy going, but call one a "Jarpie" and he may take offense! (sometimes spelt "Yarpie)

4bee I'm not just offended, but outraged on behalf of all Sth Africans, as it is pronounced "Bleck". When I got here the guys at work used to love getting me to say Tony Greig's lines form the "12th man" things like "Get the lion on the line" and "To me a grudge (garage) is just a place to pork (park) your core (car)" at first I had no idea what they were talking about. The Twelfth Man - Wikipedia

A "Jaapie" is short for "Plaas Jaapie" and basically means a farm boy, and can cause offense as it can be construed as calling someone a redneck, backward, uncouth, in the army we used to joke that they'd joined up so that they could, "wear shoes, grow their hair long and sleep in late"!, they were good blokes, tough and hard-working obviously coming from such a background. I learnt to speak Afrikaans fluently from them, as coming from an English background, at school we were taught the language in a pure form, not how it is actually spoken, complete with slang, swear words, etc.

Randlover, funny how things change. When I was a tacker, to call someone a 'Cowboy', had similar connotations to your 'Farm Boy' except it meant 'Someone who was pretty useless on the property and only good for milking the house cow to supply the kitchen'. I knew that America had cowboys, what kiddie didn't, but they were always appeared to be milking Indians.
(We never had 'Broncos' either!)

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

4bee I'm not just offended, but outraged on behalf of all Sth Africans, as it is pronounced "Bleck". When I got here the guys at work used to love getting me to say Tony Greig's lines form the "12th man" things like "Get the lion on the line" and "To me a grudge (garage) is just a place to pork (park) your core (car)" at first I had no idea what they were talking about. The Twelfth Man - Wikipedia

A "Jaapie" is short for "Plaas Jaapie" and basically means a farm boy, and can cause offense as it can be construed as calling someone a redneck, backward, uncouth, in the army we used to joke that they'd joined up so that they could, "wear shoes, grow their hair long and sleep in late"!, they were good blokes, tough and hard-working obviously coming from such a background. I learnt to speak Afrikaans fluently from them, as coming from an English background, at school we were taught the language in a pure form, not how it is actually spoken, complete with slang, swear words, etc.

I worked for a while with a Rhodesian (NEVER Zimbabwe) who told me that Rhodesians called Seffrikan Boers the Van der Merwes and told Van der Merwe jokes. He served two years in their army during the bush war and said they referred to the AK47 as kaffir proof.

On Western Queensland stations the cowboy was generally an old guy, a pensioner who looked after the house cows and did some gardening. The guys who worked stock were ringers.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

On Western Queensland stations the cowboy was generally an old guy, a pensioner who looked after the house cows and did some gardening. The guys who worked stock were ringers.

Exactly, hence the insult when used with regard to a persons working ability, normally due to their ethics.

Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

I worked for a while with a Rhodesian (NEVER Zimbabwe) who told me that Rhodesians called Seffrikan Boers the Van der Merwes and told Van der Merwe jokes. He served two years in their army during the bush war and said they referred to the AK47 as kaffir proof.

On Western Queensland stations the cowboy was generally an old guy, a pensioner who looked after the house cows and did some gardening. The guys who worked stock were ringers.

We used to call Rhodesians "When we's" as they would usually start all their stories with "When we were in Rhodesia...…."

Edit: I think I should explain that "kaffir" is a bad word in South Africa akin to the "n" word in America, it is what the Arabian traders called Africans and means "unbelievers" or "non-Muslims" not sure how it fell into misuse, which is why it seems odd to watch cooking shows here, when they mention "Kaffir Lime" as that would cause an uproar in SA.

Originally Posted by RANDLOVER

We used to call Rhodesians "When we's" as they would usually start all their stories with "When we were in Rhodesia...…."

Edit: I think I should explain that "kaffir" is a bad word in South Africa akin to the "n" word in America, it is what the Arabian traders called Africans and means "unbelievers" or "non-Muslims" not sure how it fell into misuse, which is why it seems odd to watch cooking shows here, when they mention "Kaffir Lime" as that would cause an uproar in SA.

My work mate is English Seth Efrican and I think I need to start calling him a 'When we' as every second sentence is "when we were back in Africa it was better.. "
Don't worry, I pull him up and remind him he can go back anytime
And I've learnt the really good Afrikaan swear words to really tick him off.

We actually get on really well, but yes, there's liberal use of the 'K' word.
A few years back he was swearing at the flies and alarmed our apprentice as he was screaming "**** off you K***** budgies!"
They just happened to be working in a correctional facility full of our indigenous cousins!

He was great with an oldie in a dementia facility last week as he made her day, chatting away in Afrikaans.