@@Recusant_ Nice to hear , my best mates father did 2 tours of Vietnam and after he retired he did a 12 month visit to the US . He said that when he got to Texas and talked to some Texan vets they all knew Australia was involved and showed him a lot of respect. Your welcome to come to Oz anytime .
@@Recusant_ Cool glad you liked it here , I'm in Townsville and have been to Cairns and the Daintree many times and yes it pays to be wary of the crocs lol . We have them here in Townsville . I have not been to the US yet but when I do go Texas is definitely on the list of places to go .
Riding shotgun comes from the time where stagecoaches need protection. Someone would sit next to the driver with a shotgun to protect everyone or everything in the stagecoach.
My favorite part of this video is just how uncomfortable everyone looked when asked what "John Hancock" means. Every one thought it meant something sexual, but only one guy was brave enough to voice his thought.
Joshua King I knew the word my dad told me before, but I couldn’t remember the meaning! I just guessed checkbook ;;. But same it still does sound bad...
@@JamesPrime1 As an amateur linguist and person who's listened to 'heaps' of australian podcasts, I'm uniquely qualified in this area lol. Lmk if you have any other q's about aussie dialect! Interested in your perspective on it.
DH Hahahaha. Ok you’re my official online amateur linguist with an emphasis on Australian dialect. If I come up with questions, I know who to go to 😂😂😂
In the US we thought the" nads hair remover" was particularly funny! In the US, mads is short for gonads... so you pictures poor Guy having his scrotum waxed, skins all stretched out like the neck on an iguana but the hair is hanging in there!! AAAIGGHH. I can't understand why it didn't sell more!?
Walter Shumate nads means gonads in OZ too, but this families company was named after someone’s non English speaking countries family name. Which most Australians think is ironical funny..... 🤣
Everyone in the comments talking about how "square off" means to fight and "square up" means to pay a debt. Idk how old u guys are but nowadays "square up" means to fight. I have literally never heard anyone say "square off" in my life.
Jamie Stanford Ohio. Hmmmm yes. I’m familiar with the place. Very familiar in fact. The greatest state in the Untied States one might say. But yea, I thought these slang terms were fairly common?? Maybe a regional type thing 🤔
"Square up" Northern Americans:it means to fight Southern americans (mostly Texans): *oWe MoNeY* Edit: ight i think we found out older people especially not cought up with modern talk thinks about owening money while the younger generation thinks abour it as fighting or how its used in media today for fighting
lol i'm from Arkansas and I've only heard it used to mean fight. Young people in Arkansas almost all sound like they could be anywhere in America except for that one country kid
@@mfd588 It wasn't explained well enough though, because it doesn't mean, "Got a good deal." 2 for $5 at McDonalds is a good deal. Buying one burger there, and getting $15 in free shit, now THAT'S "making out like a bandit."
@@SY-fo3bb fr I've lived in the us for 19 years of my 20 year life and I've literally never hears someone use that phrase. A good one tho is "you've yee'd your last haw pardner"
Hey thanks! I tried to mix in some of the old slang with some new slang. There are about 5 other slang words that I used in the video that I ended up cutting out because the video would have been too long. But it was interesting to see what their response would be to some of the words that I thought everyone already knew!
as a middle aged Australian (56) I was amazed how the younger generation knew what 'on fleek' was but I had no idea at all but they didn't know 'for the birds' which I think most older Australians would.
I'm from the states and didn't know what the fleek "fleek" ment😂. Although" it's for the birds" most younger folks in the US don't have a clue on either or any Aussie slang like Bogan either nor did I know what a Bogan was till my cousin's family explained while I was down in Melbourne.
Don't feel bad. As a 55 year old American, I didn't get all the slang either. "Squared-up" to me means to settle a debt, but to some kids it means a fight. If he had said "squared-off", I would have understood that to mean a fight. I haven't a clue as to what "on fleek" means. Then again, I haven't watched TV in about three years (don't miss it at all), so I am probably way behind the times.
Yea some of them were from social media. I also asked them about 5 additional words but ended up cutting it out of the video because the video would have been another 2-3 minutes long.
The term “riding shotgun” comes from stagecoaches. There would be a driver handling the horses and a guy next to him literally riding shotgun. He would be armed with a shotgun to protect against bandits.
Hey I’m glad at least you watch some of my stuff! I’m not very consistent, but the videos I do make, I have a lot of fun making them. And if anyone actually watches, that’s a huge bonus. Thank you.
"Get outta town!" always gets me in trouble overseas. "Spinning a yarn" "Dough, bread, skrilla, chedda, green (back), a fin, five spot, Benjamin, stack" "The pigs, the fuzz, the heat" "Selling like hot cakes, gangbusters" "Three sheets to the wind, Shit faced, blotto'd, hammered, wasted, getting tight, tying one on" "Six of one (half dozen of the other)." Then my personal favorite: Yiddish words. Putz, schmuck, schlep, schvitz, plotz, nosh, schmeer, schmaltz, tuchus, meshuggeneh, klutz, chutzpah, verklempt. The list goes on.
to my understanding, "square off" is to fight, esp. to fist-fight, box, fisticuffs...while "square up" is to settle accounts financially, as in to achieve a square deal.
"Five-0" was the name of the fictional crime fighting task force in "Hawaii Five-0". Although they weren't affiliated with the state police force (they worked directly for the governor), the name was adopted as slang for the police, in any state. In other words, the TV program didn't just help your people guess the meaning, it was the actual origin of the slang.
@@heckerj44 I've seen this fact cited elsewhere, but it seems highly unlikely. For one thing, the 5.0 liter displacements were not specific to the Mustangs used by law enforcement; the consumer V8s were 5.0 L as well, and many models had a "5.0" fender badge (which *weren't* always on present the police models). For another, the Mustangs only filled a relatively small segment of the law enforcement market (dominated by Ford Crown Victorias), were only bought by a handful of states, and were mostly used as pursuit vehicles by highway divisions, so they wouldn't be very salient to the street gangs I think of as the source and primary users of the "five-o" slang. And finally, who besides a fanatical car buff or collector would think to identify a profession by the _engine displacement_ of the vehicle _some of them_ drive? Is that somehow less arbitrary than the wheel base length or the angle the front seats recline through? The 5.0 Liter story sounds to me like a myth invented by a gearhead.
@@auldrick , sorry amigo, it's from the 5 liter mustangs that the California Highway Patrol was using in the 80's and 90's. Nobody used that term until that show was long gone.
Stonemansteve II Absolutely. Most white Southerners come from English and Scots-Irish heritage, so those cultures had a huge impact on traditional Southern accents. Some Southern accents haven’t changed much from British dialects from the 18th century. Some of the really isolated rural communities in Appalachia still have the same Celtic dialects they did 200 years ago.
Wow thank you so much! I don’t mind having a really small channel actually. Sure it would be cool to have a lot of people watch my videos, but at the same time, having a small channel gives me a chance to respond to people! Plus my channel doesn’t really have a direction, I just upload whatever I think would be a fun video to make. And if it sucks, who cares! Not a lot of people are ganna see it anyway lol 😂 Anyway, thanks for watching the video and I’m happy to see you liked it! 🙏🏽
woah you replied, that means so much. even some small youtubers don’t reply, so you talking to all your subscribers just shows what an amazing guy you are. my dream is to actually go to australia one day! watching your videos help me imagine like i’m already there :) thank you for replying and just being so amazing at what you do. god bless!
Woah sorry for the late response Gia! RU-vid doesn’t notify me when someone replies for some reason. 🤦🏽♂️ I really appreciate you watching some of the videos! I really hope you get a chance to check out Australia one day. I remember watching videos and vlogs about it when I went and when I finally got there, it was even BETTER than what I imagined. And if you get some extra time, stop by New Zealand if you get a chance!
Hey thanks Cesar! I used to love making videos as a kid. Now that I’m a bit older and have the means to go around and do some of the things that I wanted to do as a kid, I figured I would try and make the most out of it. Who knows, maybe someday if I have kids, they will watch these videos and be like, “ WOAH! DAD YOUR VIDEOS SUCK MAN.” Then I would look at them in disappointment and go mow the grass angrily.
@@halcionkoenig243ooook... why so skeptical? Minnesota, USA...not every single person in the whole world/country uses the the same phrases. I learn new ones all the time. Those are oooolllldd phrases.
"square up" that has different meanings, it doesnt always mean to fight, like when someone loans me something or i loan someone something like money, we can square up the loan
I think 5 0 is derived from the (1968-1980) TV show. The 5 0 in Hawaii 5 0 was derived from Hawaii being the 50th state. It had nothing to do with cops before the TV series.
5-0 is for TV show about the police department in Hawaii which happens to be the 50th state of USA. It has since become a common slang term for any states PD.
Context is everything. If you're having dinner and the bill comes, "Square up" obviously means settling the bill. If someone charges at you yelling it and rolling up their sleeves, it means something else. 😁
Square off is to fight. It's an old boxing reference for the boxing ring being square. Square up is to position yourself for a fight. "Square up bruh!"... means step up and it comes both from the square off reference and from actually getting chest to chest to fight. You're square in front of the opponent ready to fight. That's why it's usually said with arms open and chest out.
I have been around most of the country (except the west coast) and square up too most ppl is fight if you say it in anger but you say it nicely too someone you owe a debt, it takes on "paying your debt".
Squaring up where I'm from in the US means to pay a debt to become even or to be fair. If you owe someone some money and then pay it back, you can say "Let me square up with you."
MMM i dunno I have moved around the use and the way you say 'square' seems to be the difference. If some one says, "Lets square up" (not that they would say it like that more like "square up B____" lol) then that is fight but if you were to say, "hey, are we square?" that would be are we good? or the is the dept paid
Im gunna shed some light on the 5-0 meaning. It most commonly is from that show Hawaii 5-0 which happens to be the 50th state but the name actually predates the show. It originally stuck because the police were commonly using 5.0 liter Mustangs and Crown Victorias
@@chanceg6209 interesting, born and raised in CA and have never used "square up" to indicate a fight, has always been used to mean paying your debt, that or "let's settle up". Have used "square off" to indicate a fight, but then have used other terms as well, one of my favorites is "toe the line" meaning step up and let's do this. "Put your money where your mouth is" is a good one but pretty general, because is basically just saying prove your boasts or whatever and doesn't have to involve a physical altercation. Basically all kinds of terms to mean let's fight. Think it's a regional thing? "Square up" could be synonymous with "square off" when it involves a fist fight to pay the "debt" when money isn't involved, such as someone talking shit.
I think of "square up" to mean to use body language to signal that you're ready for a fight - like you're facing the other person directly and your shoulders are "square" with theirs. But I've only started hearing it that way for the last decade or so; in other contexts, it could also mean "settle up", as in a tab or debt.
“Eventuate an encounter” Damn that’s a legendary line I’m using that. Ayo girl you tryna eventuate an encounter between our two eternal multidimensional souls
"Square up" also means that I ask you to square up with me which is to pay me the money that you owe me. Once you pay me, now we are "Square." Which means neither of us owes any money to the other.
They've been saying 5-0 a lot longer than that show was in existence. It is derived from the 5.0 liter engine that used to come standard on the police cruiser version of the crown Victoria automobile (the most common type of police car when this was originally coined)
Ramsey Hennis That is absolutely WRONG. 5-0 came from Hawaii being the 50th state to join the United States. The show started BEFORE the Windsor engine was even on the market.
Ramsey Hennis The show started in 1968 and the Windsor engine that you’re talking about came out in the fall of 1968. The show already had its name when the engine came out. In the late 60’s and 70’s, the Chevrolet Caprice and the Dodge Diplomat were the most common police cars. The CV police car didn’t become popular as a police vehicle until almost the 1990’s. Your version of history doesn’t match what actually happened.
Storfax I know right! I don’t want people to get confused and get stuck in a time loop watching the video. So I thought I would let people know when it’s over. Just lookin out for the people 🙏🏽
cops being called five-0 started with the original 60s-70s tv show Hawaii Five-0 because they were the police force in the 50th state, on the show they would announce their presence by shouting "police, five-0!" from there it spread and became adopted as another way to say it's the cops
Its old and its the name of one of our Founding Fathers that was the first to sign the Declaration of Independence. His name is the first thing you see at the bottom since its so big cus he didnt care if he was hanged.
As a Canadian, I’ve only ever used or heard “square up” in terms of paying a bill. Like at a restaurant. “Hey guys, are we all squared up?” would mean “has everyone paid yet, so we can leave?”
@@JamesPrime1 Also, how old you are. Some of your last ones are fairly new which I had not heard of. I'm over 50, and only knew about 2/3 of them and deduced about 1/2 of the remaining ones.
That sounds accurate Australians used the word birds for women and and in America we use it to say that’s meaningless, yeah that job is “FOR THE BIRDS”
I guess I'm old, but you could have given me the rest of my life and I couldn't have told you what "ratchet" (except referring to a wrench) or "on fleek" mean.
The term 5-0 comes from back in the day when in 1982, Ford's new high performance 5 (5.0) liter engine was put into the Ford Mustang SSP (Special Service Package) and was packed with significant upgrades including power disc brakes, forged pistons, dual exhaust, larger fuel tank, heavy duty stabilizer bars, and was popularized by the California Highway Patrol. It instantly became an icon since Police now had these new loud and fast 5.0 liter Mustangs that could keep up in any pursuit, many calling these new upgraded police cars "5.0s" or "5-0" for short.
LOL!...I am in my 50s and as a kid watching 'Hawaii Five-0, I was wondering if there could be a show called 'Missouri Two-4'! (I was and still am a total nerd) Both numbers are based upon our respective states' order of admission to the federal union.
@@candicescott7176 Very cool didn't know their was 5 Islands, but that doesn't explain the 0. Not to mention I'm pretty sure it explains in one of the first 3 episodes that the Five O was because it was the 50th state of the Union.
The theme song for the original TV show was performed by The Ventures , an excellent Surf Music band of the 1960s. One listen and you're hooked on the tune . The intro drum roll is sick .
Hawaii is the 50th state, and that's where the original title was born for the show. But it's also true that it was the original series in 1968, that led to the creation of the police slang "5-0."
as your link says - i use it to settle a financial balance. Square Off I use to fight. Have not read past this comment so I donno what is going on below.
It’s interesting seeing the younger generation changing original terms over time, not sure if there wrongfully informed or they just like to put there own spin on things, yes I’m an Aussie but my fathers side came Wyoming USA, so I was raised on English spelling and USA spelling, very confusing when I went through school.
I’ve lived in California and now live in the east USA. I’ve been in 48 states over my life, and as they said above Square Up = settle finances, Square Off = fight.
That’s so weird. I’ve never heard anyone call it anything else other than Jonh Hancock. It wasn’t til I was 24 til I heard it referred to as “signature.” I still get confused when someone says, “annnnnd print your name here...signature here please...” I then whip out my PDA and do a quick Duck Duck Go search on what “signature” means. 🤷🏽♂️
Interesting to see how even the slang in the video has been shortened so much too haha. Occasionally you’ll hear someone say “let me get your Hancock”. And a lot of folk say shotty instead of shotgun, not to be confused with shawty. And shooting the shits is quite common as opposed to shooting the breeze. Dope vid!
Im American and haven't heard some of these before, even the 5-0 was foreign to me until I heard Hawaii 5-0 then I understood. To me square up means to pay what you owe someone and no idea about thirsty, ratchet, on the fleek, keeping it 100, gucci, or throw shade..never heard anyone around me saying these things and I talk to younger people every day so it might be a regional thing. In any case, very interesting to watch!
5o means police due to the show itself Hawaii 5o. It was not a thing before that show. 5o in the show played homage to Hawaii being the 50th state in the US.
For the birds used to be a street corner where you don't want to stand because the birds landed overhead and the ground was covered with bird droppings.
I live in America and I've never heard most of these but I was guessing some of them at the same time. The for the birds one I kind of guessed the answer because I remember sometimes when I would be at McDonalds I would feed some fries that would fall on the ground to the birds, so I basically guessed that.
I'm American (59 yo) and half of those I didn't know! Too old? Younguns' talk? These Australians did better than this oldish American! Apparently I"m not "woke".
Poor senior citizen!! Just joking, I'm 58 and I knew all of them but wasn't quite sure about the on fleek one. I've heard it used by the younger crowd though.
For the record..... all these slang are pretty common..... idk what people are talking about. Not like I personally use these at all.... but they are common
I'm 43 and have lived in each corner of the US. I also watch a lot of old movies and am aware past cultures and practices. I have never heard the term "thirsty" as a common slang for "desperate". I would understand the reference if it was in a sentence with context.
@@kevinp8108 I lived in SoCal for my first 36 years (now 44). Got only 8 of 15; did better on the "old-fashioned" ones, I think. It's a mix of regional, generational, and type of social group, I guess.
