El Nino is coming!
El Nino is coming they say. “Too big to fail” they say. Which means if you live in North America it is time to steel your backbone. It is time to wax the rhino chaser. It is time to be a man/woman.
And being a man/woman means taking it right on the head. Yesterday, I surfed some little waves near my home and, due a very full moon, the tide was sucked all the way out. The little waves hit the reef and dumped and spit and woooooosh! It felt like I was surfing a slab. I also took one on the head but it was little.
Here we see Tyler Hollmer-Cross surfing a slab and taking one on the head too except it is big. It is called Ship Stern Bluff and it is on Tasmania. Australians call it “Shippies” as is their want and I read, recently, a headline on an American website with a predilection for race baiting calling it “Shippies” too. I’ve always had a problem with Americans using Australian diminutives. Australians use them with an instinctual command. Americans use them haltingly, generally to show themselves in the know, which turns out awkwardly.
Do you have an American friend who says things like “Shippies” “Goldie” “blowie” “breckie” “chippie” “chalkie” “footy” “freshie” “povvo” “reffo” “maccas” “trackies” “veggo” “Brizzie?”
Tell them to stop.
The worst is when an American tries to say “Melbourne” in Australian – shocking.
Yeah, just fucken shut up generally. What did Monty Python’s Death say to the American visitors who’d died from eating the salmon mousse? “You Americans! You’re always talking! Well you’re dead now, so shut up!”
Professor Nitpick here. Isn’t “Chas” an Aussie diminutive of “Charlie”?
It is, certainly, a diminutive but not an Aussie one. I believe it is Limburgish in origin.
No, Chas is an American term
Believe the name originated from the Bono family. A form of the name Chastity.
…the similarity with Chas Bono is… striking! I’ve never seen them together etc…
can confirm, I feel mildly uncomfortable every time I say ‘arvo’ in an American accent