Idk, positive tone I'd say it's genuine. Negative tone I'd say it's sarcastic usually about being forced to work constantly and still not being able to pay for Aussie life.
I think it’s generally sarcastic but not necessarily negative. Like, things are just the same old average, but you say you’re “livin the dream” because fuck it, why complain?
When I first moved to Australia my neighbour would reply this. But we lived in Manly, with a view to the ocean, parrots flying around, tropical plants and flowers and all around pretty damn close to paradisiacal. But he’d absolutely sound sarcastic, leaving me torn on wether we were snarky about living on the beach or genuinely just appreciating our surroundings :)
Sometimes we forget we live in paradise and are just annoyed that old mate Dave next door keeps burning incense. So the hierarchy of thought is that the paradise thing takes a back seat while we stew about the incense.
So in that case, the incense is annoying, therefore life is annoying. That’s why we might sarcastically say “another day in paradise!”
Hear this at least once a day working at the register of a small town Supermarket.
Its like NPC dialogue. Everyone has the chance to say some version of it.
I work with oldies. They often tell me “don’t get old”. I’ve stopped replying with “better than the alternative”, because their reactions were often too depressing.
I asked this to a 95 year old bloke the other day, he replied with “if you’ve got half an hour I’ll tell ya”. I smiled then he walked off a few steps, came back and went into a bunch of one liners/stand up routine for about 10 minutes.
He used up all his creativity on idioms so when he finally got around to finishing the animal names he was like...brown snake, green tree frog, red-tailed black cockatoo.
Or let predictive text fill in the gaps:
Easy as a mud crabs knife...
Moist as a natural bushland setting...
Great as a whole day for teething....
Iffy as a business manager in Queensland...
Yeah nah, just remember and repeat the good ones you heard. Also, what have I been typing??!?
An adult asked me the "are you winning" when I was about 8 and I had no idea what to answer. I asked my dad for help! He said a good answer was "Keeping out of trouble!". I think I was happy with this, following another rule that adults seemed to like: ask a silly question, get a silly answer.
I say this at work with some of my offshore coworkers and they get terribly confused. ‘What am I winning? I don’t understand’
Same with ‘how’s it travelling?’ They generally say ‘I’m not going anywhere!’
I still laugh when I think of this guy from one of the local councils in western Queensland. I rang to ask him a couple of questions, he answered the phone and I was “hi Council Guy, it’s Catmama67, how are you?” His response? “Aaahhh shithouse mate!” It cracked me up - such an unexpected response on a work call.
One of my mates used to say "Another day another 75.6 US cents, seasonally adjusted, plus GST."
Yes, he was a bit of a knobhead now that you mention it.
The only answer is. "Yeah good, how you going?" The trick is to see how many times you can both say it/ask before one of you go hang on.... I've already answered this...
Living the dream mate
Narrator: Nathypoo was not, in fact, living the dream.
Pretty sure that’s exactly what “living the dream” means in the Australian vernacular.
Idk, positive tone I'd say it's genuine. Negative tone I'd say it's sarcastic usually about being forced to work constantly and still not being able to pay for Aussie life.
I’ve honestly never heard it used in the positive, ever. Am I just surrounded by Debbie downers?
I think it’s generally sarcastic but not necessarily negative. Like, things are just the same old average, but you say you’re “livin the dream” because fuck it, why complain?
Yeah this is it.
How about deadpan flat, no vocal expression or inference, maybe some strong eye contact
They are not living the dream
Dreaming of living
Then if you’re at work the other person can say “another day in paradise”
When I first moved to Australia my neighbour would reply this. But we lived in Manly, with a view to the ocean, parrots flying around, tropical plants and flowers and all around pretty damn close to paradisiacal. But he’d absolutely sound sarcastic, leaving me torn on wether we were snarky about living on the beach or genuinely just appreciating our surroundings :)
Sometimes it's both
Sometimes we forget we live in paradise and are just annoyed that old mate Dave next door keeps burning incense. So the hierarchy of thought is that the paradise thing takes a back seat while we stew about the incense. So in that case, the incense is annoying, therefore life is annoying. That’s why we might sarcastically say “another day in paradise!”
If your a bricklayer you say or any sort of construction type worker the reply is “another day in the office”
Maybe not my dream, but someone’s.
And I hope to fuck that they are enjoying it... Cos tbh I'm on the fence...
Nightmares are technically dreams too ...
living the dream...surviving the nightmare..
Dad? I didn’t realise you were on Reddit
I dunno if it's a sandgroper thing, but: X: Hows it going? Y: Yeah, Getting there X: That's the way
or thats the ticket
classic exchange. 'soldiering on' is a variant.
GÜDNU?
I’ve always wondered what other languages version of gudnyu would be.
The British English "alright mate?" can sometimes be responded to with "yerightmate, yeright?"
Can't complain. Then they can come back with 'yeah no one listens anyway'.
Hear this at least once a day working at the register of a small town Supermarket. Its like NPC dialogue. Everyone has the chance to say some version of it.
Ohhhh the barcode won't scan, must be free is it? Hurhurhurrrrr which account mate? Savings, more like spendings hurhurhurrrrr
I’ve been out of retail for like 10 years and this still got a visceral shudder from me.
Working at a bottleo, “do you need the receipt?” They always come back with “nah can’t drink it” or “nah can’t put it on the tax return”
“Nah don’t want the wife to find out” Shudders
This is bang on
TIL *hurhurhurrrr* is the Aussie translation of the French *hon hon hon*
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It only just started raining about 30 minutes before close so I've skipped hearing that about 30 times today. Absolute classic line.
My oldies at the library are fans of "Gettin' older - but it's better than the alternative!" Must hear that one a few times a week.
Yep that's about right. Or "Still upright". Oldies love joking about the other option.
I once had an old bloke reply with "struggling along regardless", which i thought was pretty good
I work with oldies. They often tell me “don’t get old”. I’ve stopped replying with “better than the alternative”, because their reactions were often too depressing.
I'll often respond with "I'll bet you could if you gave it a crack!"
And then you come back with "Sorry, what was that"
I asked this to a 95 year old bloke the other day, he replied with “if you’ve got half an hour I’ll tell ya”. I smiled then he walked off a few steps, came back and went into a bunch of one liners/stand up routine for about 10 minutes.
Did you request he finish the other 20 minutes worth?
Maybe it was 30 minutes but just felt like 10.
You absolutely made his day, mate.
*x* as a *y*, mate. Ex: Busy as as a cat burying shit on concrete
Flat out like a lizard drinking.
Happy as a pig in shit
As my dad always says, happy as a cock in a cunt shop.
Your dad was paying for sex?
You didn’t get paid?
You guys are getting sex?
In my experience... Being a dick at a police station will get you a $480 fine...
One legged man at an arse kickin
(If drunk) Blind as a welders dog.
This is a showstopper. Big fan
Busier than a bricklayer in Beirut.
The actual saying is, Busy as a one armed bricklayer in Beirut, but hey it will do😁👍
Busy as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking contest is my fave.
Busy as a one armed taxi driver with crabs
My uncle always used to say As useful as a one-legged man in an asre-kicking contest.
Going off like a one legged lesbian on a pogo stick
Useless as tits on a bull
Busy as a one armed paperboy.
Oh my god... can't tell if this is funny or mean! Classic aussie shit right there xD
Flat out like a lizard drinking.
I wish I was creative as you Aussies 😂
Yeah nah, I reckon there was one creative bloke a few years back and the rest of us just have good memories
He used up all his creativity on idioms so when he finally got around to finishing the animal names he was like...brown snake, green tree frog, red-tailed black cockatoo.
And plants, Paperbark, Stringybark, Scribbly Gum
What was that last one mate? The gum tree... its all scribbly This led to the saying "a few stubbies short of a six-pack"
Green Tree Frog? I'd have called them chazzwazzas
100% the one of us with the best memory is “The Honey Badger”. He had hundreds of these.
Or let predictive text fill in the gaps: Easy as a mud crabs knife... Moist as a natural bushland setting... Great as a whole day for teething.... Iffy as a business manager in Queensland... Yeah nah, just remember and repeat the good ones you heard. Also, what have I been typing??!?
As busy as a one-armed drummer with crabs
Busier than a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest
Dry as a nun's nasty. (A Barry Humphries original).
As suspicious as a nun doing squats in the cucumber patch.
“Wet as a nun’s cunt at a cucumber stand” is my favourite variation.
Drier than a witch’s nipple.
I always heard- Colder than a witches tit
A busy little beaver!
My, that is busy
busy as a one-armed picture hanger
Nice and loose, full of juice, ready for use. Or one word - goodthanksmateyaself?
OMG I haven’t heard pretty loose, full of juice, ready for use, since about the 80s
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Short and taught, ready for sport.
Fit, fat and farting.
Goin off like a frog in a sock
Like a fish milkshake
in the sun
I’m only Australian by marriage, but my answer has always been and will always be “Too early to tell”
With an answer as dry as that, you're as Aussie as the rest of us.
Yep. "Gimme a few hours, and I'll let ya know."
Yeah I chuck a “so far so good” in the mix.
Flat out like a lizard drinking. Flat out = very busy.
Na mate, there’s only one of two responses you can have here. ‘What are you, my fucking doctor?’ ‘Nunyafuckingbuisness’
My favourite response to “what are you doing?” Is: “I was minding my own business. How about you?”
This cunt here knows
Going off like a cut snake
I’m Good from the soles of me feet down
Just a big elongated “awwww yeah”
Right as rain mate
If I was feelin any better it would be illegal
Or an alternative "If I was any better I'd be dangerous"
Apples mate
Same shit, different day Every day above the ground is a good day Any fitter I’d be dangerous I’d tell ya but nobody gives a shit
the "Every day above the ground is a good day" is always fun when talking to the Underground guys on the Mine Site
Same shit, different bucket
Slowly dying is the best one I’ve heard
Shithouse.
This is unprecedented.
I work in a bar on a golf course, every single one of my regulars has this response only
There is power in truth.
I worked with a bloke who would always say "farken shiddowse" regardless of his actual mood.
Shithouse , thanks for asking
You can preempt their question with the classic: "G'day Bruce, are you winning?"
Kickin' goals, Dazza. Kickin' goals.
An adult asked me the "are you winning" when I was about 8 and I had no idea what to answer. I asked my dad for help! He said a good answer was "Keeping out of trouble!". I think I was happy with this, following another rule that adults seemed to like: ask a silly question, get a silly answer.
I say this at work with some of my offshore coworkers and they get terribly confused. ‘What am I winning? I don’t understand’ Same with ‘how’s it travelling?’ They generally say ‘I’m not going anywhere!’
"hey Chook, waddya know?" Is another I hated as a kid. Dad said "enough to get me in trouble" is what I would now describe as the canonical answer
Scarnon
Grouse
answering with the question 'how ya going' is a perfectly acceptable response!
"Hagarn?" "Hagarn."
Yeah not bad yourself?
Yeah not bad, yourself? Yeah not bad, yourself? Not bad. Yourself? Yeah, not bad, yourself? Yeah not bad, yourself? Rinse repeat.
Four limbs and a heartbeat m8
Every day above ground is a good day 👍
"Woke up this side of the grass, so can't complain."
My grandparents and some older customers at my work say something along the lines of “well I woke up this morning”. Similar vibe.
Oooh this is way better then my stock response of 'Alive.' Brings a fun spin to the depression, thanks!
Alive, occupying space, and exerting gravitational force.
Any happier and i'd need a box of tissues
Wouldn’t be dead for quids
kicking goals mate
awyemategarnrighthowboutyou?
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What's wrong with your dogs?
“ how ya going, mate? “ “ mate I’m going that bad, the other day I went down to the park and the ducks threw bread at ME!”
Fit as a mallee bull
My Dad always says “any better I’d be dangerous”
As busy as a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.
Wouldn't be dead for quids.
If I was any better I'd be fucking someone elses wife.
My go-to response is "not bad for a work day". Importantly, it doesn't matter what day it is.
Just tickety boo
Yeah, nah, yeah
Yeah?
Nah…
You just say “howsitgoin” back Neither require an answer
Just another day in paradise
My dad answers “fit and fat and full of farts” 🤷🏼♀️
Mate, if I’d be any more fuckin relaxed, I’d be in a coma.
Get fucked cunt 😂😂😂
What I came here to say. Or, fuck off cunt 😆
Not dead yet.
Shittin glitter
Arse is still pointing to the ground mate.
My go to at work is 'fkn tickled pink just being here'
yeah nah yeah...not bad ay
full of fruit and ready to root.
I still laugh when I think of this guy from one of the local councils in western Queensland. I rang to ask him a couple of questions, he answered the phone and I was “hi Council Guy, it’s Catmama67, how are you?” His response? “Aaahhh shithouse mate!” It cracked me up - such an unexpected response on a work call.
Well, I'm vertical with 2 feet and a heartbeat
happy as a pig in shit mate
good: "yeaoroight" bad: "yeaoroight"
Good thanks mate, how are you?
Breathin’
Awritematewatboutyou?
Another day another 50 cents
One of my mates used to say "Another day another 75.6 US cents, seasonally adjusted, plus GST." Yes, he was a bit of a knobhead now that you mention it.
Hit them with the old "Yeah good thanks, how are you?" and when they reply "Good." you say "That's good."
Ridgy didge, mate
My Dad used to say, at the end of the day” “Bitched, buggered , and bewildered “
Flash as a rat with a gold tooth
Busier than a Baghdad brick layer.
Get a dog up ya
Tops.
Living the dream
A little to the left. Keeps em guessing. Usually a response to “how’s it hangin’”
Still on the perch
I used to work with a guy who said “shithouse but thanks for asking” every time
Shittin glitter mate ,shittin glitter
Someone: "How's it going?" Me: "Getting there."
Good mate you?
Hanging loose and full of juice
Yeah, not bad mate.
Can’t complain, no one listens anyway is one of my usual responses.
Living the dream or another day in paradise
Flat out like a lizard drinking
Bloody shambles of-course!!! Only if your in Kingswood country though.
Not too foul
Flat out like a lizard drinking
Enjoying the serenity
The only answer is. "Yeah good, how you going?" The trick is to see how many times you can both say it/ask before one of you go hang on.... I've already answered this...
someone I know always responds ‘No point grizzlin’ when asked how he is