This isn’t really slang, but every time my mom met someone that she thought was smart, she would say, “S/he’s a fart smeller!” because she loved Spoonerisms. I smiled when I saw the title of your reading because I came to the same conclusion last night when I realized that transiting Neptune is only 2° away from my natal Mars and has been for a while. No wonder I’ve been feeling so weird! I surrender! And that’s a good thing. Thank you, Gemma! I think your Aussie accent is amazing. Every time I try to do a French accent, it comes out Russian. I have no idea why. 😊💕

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

Thank you for the giggle. I love your mum’s spoonerism 🤭

@whitebirchtarot

2 ай бұрын

@@Gemstonetarot You were right that it was kind of a putdown. Almost all of her planets were in Scorpio. Run for your life! She was really funny though. 😁

Leave it to Beaver was a family show in the 50s. Beaver was the nickname for Theadore Cleaver

@suburbohemian

2 ай бұрын

A very fun and funny show...oh my the sass that went on! And no dissing June Cleaver who held her own like the Queen of the Home!

Lost my brother today, glad to watch you for support

@whitebirchtarot

2 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry to hear that! Take care of yourself. Grief is rough. 💕😪🌸

@carole2835

2 ай бұрын

Thinking about you today 💚

@theresagreat1618

2 ай бұрын

So sorry for your loss

@susanstangeland3064

2 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry for your loss ❤

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

Sending you love 🩷

Thanks Gemma! My dad was in the Oz Navy for a bit and used loads of slang. Being sick always - 'chuck a custard'!

Funny, I almost commented on “Gee Whiz” yesterday, too, and also associated it to the Boomer generation and specifically to “Leave it to Beaver.” This was a popular American tv family sitcom from the late 1950s to early ‘60s meant to portray typical white middle class small town American life during that era. Beaver was the nickname for the youngest son of the Cleaver family, who was ever getting himself into ridiculous scrapes of one sort or another. Ward and June Cleaver (the parents), and Wally and Theodore (Beaver), their 2 sons. I used to watch it every afternoon after school, along with Superman and Perry Mason.

The Beaver's Mom would serve breakfast to the fam in a dress, high heels, and a pearl necklace -with a dainty apron on, of course.

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

Wow - I’ve never heard of this! 🤭

@whitebirchtarot

2 ай бұрын

The Beev! 😊

@Sbmhdk

2 ай бұрын

My aunt used to call me June Cleaver because I’d wear a dress to clean my apartment 😂

I visited England in 1970 for 13 days. I was absolutely flabbergasted and what the Brits called hot weather. I was shivering!

Leave it to Beaver and Denis the Menace are very famous American sitcoms from the late 1950's to early 60's. Loving the slang!

When i heard "Yinz" for "You all" i was a little confused until I remember that in the Bahamas we say "Yinna" 😂

Wow! I just feel tickled pink to have had a little call out, and all thanks to the “Beav’ 🤣 SLAY! (as the kids say now) That’s 🔥 FIRE! 🤣🤣🤣

@annadavis9723

2 ай бұрын

(in other words, I’m “quite chuffed” 💖 ( Sorry. Lived in the UK once upon a time)

Leave it to Beaver was an awesome show it depicted the perfect family dad went to work and mom would take care of the house she wore dresses and high heels every day and while she cleaned and cooked 😀

Another Oz daily thing is "You'll be right love"no matter if you are falling apparat in that moment, ahahaha😅

Sweltering hot or thunderstorms! This is the new pattern of weather for southern Ontario during the summer now.🌞🌩️🌡️☀️⚡🔥

If someone was tight with money my dad used to say they would "skin a turd for tuppence" 😂😂😂

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

That is classic! 🤭

Leave It To Beaver was a really popular TV show in the Fifties that was revived eventually on Nickelodeon. You can find some episodes or portions on KZread. It was about an iconic Fifties white suburban family with a stay at home mom who was always perfectly conservatively stylishly dressed, a wise dad, a “hip” teenaged older brother, and a middle school kid named Theodore whom they nicknamed The Beaver or just Beaver who had a kid’s philosophical view of life. Plus there was a snotty friend of the older brother who changed his color around the parents and snowed the mom with his flattery and fake good behavior. It was rather bland yet amusing and a definite icon of American culture.

I always liked the word salacious ❤😊

@arbel7655

2 ай бұрын

Me too! Also salubrious and sartorial.

I do remember one time a pacemaker didn’t drop off in the marathon but kept on running and won the race! 😅

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

🤭

Leave it to Beaver was a sitcom in the 50s...Beaver Cleaver was the main character. Wally his older bro - Ward his dad & June his mom. It's a must watch - at least one episode...😆 Love Officer & a Gentleman!!

If someone is getting upset over nothing you say "Don't get your panties in a bunch!" (Is that slang?!)

My Dad used to say slow down Neddy presume was referring to a horse. If I had a new outfit he would call me a bobby dazzler 😂. Evening dinner was always referred to as tea. Lunch was dinner. Trainers were called pumps. My Grandad used to call the pathway between the back of the houses the ginnel and the drain was the suf. The toilet was the lavatory. All 1970-80’s Northern English slang 😄x

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

I’m so familiar with all of this especially the dinner and tea! 🩷

Thank you!

Thank you, Gemma!! 😊❤ Love reading all the slang terms. I unfortunately can’t think of any new ones. I’ve been seeing them alll in the comments.

Gemma I think you were talking about preventing slugs in the garden and one trick that works is to plant in containers of galvanized steel - they can’t cross it ✨

Hit the frog and toad well used in my family. Love from Australia xx

😂😂go have a cup of tea!!

Leave it to Beaver was a sitcom from way back in the U.S. The Beaver was this kid's nickname. His nuclear family was supposed to be the ideal American family in the 1950s.

@cancermoonoracles

2 ай бұрын

Yes i used to watch this as a kid

North Eastern Pa we OUTTEN the lights, and "awhile ?" used in a sentence "Do you want your drink awhile? "

Hello dear Gemma ! Leave it to beaver was a tv comedy back in 1997 here in the US. 🤣 Have a nice day 🌹

My mother-in-law is from Pittsburg and so can definitely confirm the whole 'Yinz' thing (though she says it more like 'Younz' -- like 'you' + 'nnz' -- and told me it can depend where in Pittsburg you're from for if you say Yinz or Younz). Back when I was still a roller derby official, I saw the Steel City Rollers play (the Pittsburg team) at a tournament and their chant was 'Yinz! Yinz! Yinz!'. They also had a t-shirt with that on it, which I bought for my mother-in-law and she loves it! P.S. As I'm sure others have said, 'Leave it to Beaver' was a 1950s TV show here in the US, chock full of 50s Americana. It's also sort of shorthand for that time period for Americans these days -- very simple, very conservative, very white. Not sure what the equivalent in the UK would be, but it was basically a family sit-com with 'The Beaver' (the son's nickname) as sort of the lead, plus his brother, friends, and his parents. I haven't seen it since I was a kid in the 70s/80s, when it would rerun all the time. But it was pretty popular for it's time, if not a bit 'innocent' and 'dated' for a modern audience.

Pull a Ueee in the US. Denis the Menace was both a show and cartoon strip in the US. I was only aware of the cartoon strip as I was born in 1966 and the show ran in the 1950's.

@whitebirchtarot

2 ай бұрын

I must’ve watched reruns because I saw Dennis the Menace on tv in the 60s! Lucky me.

Well most people in the US southern states say "I'm fixing to do that" meaning --I'm getting ready to do something. No idea where it came from but its still said right today.. 😂

@NicoleM_radiantbaby

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, I grew up in Atlanta and at one point in my 20s was a bookstore manager. One of my newest employees who had just moved from Iowa and had become a friend one day asked me: 'Nicole, what does 'fixin' to' mean?' and I was like 'Do I say that?' and he laughed and said 'Yes, ALL THE TIME' -- LOL! I explained -- as you said -- it's getting ready to do something. It's just so common here in the South, I don't even notice it!

@km9200

2 ай бұрын

Oh that's hilarious... I lived in Atlanta for 10 years myself. 🙂

@NicoleM_radiantbaby

2 ай бұрын

@@km9200 Cool!

My birthday is today and my moon is in scorpio. Leave it to Bever was a sitcom it was so annoying.

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

Happy birthday! 🎉🥳🎂🎁🎈🎊

That was weird you were wearing you Topgun tshirt for the army-navy slang. My dad (being uncouth) says my very tall and skinny son is "built like a streak of pelican sh*t" 😂 I don't think you can get more Aussie than that. Thank you Gemma 💖 from Australia xx

I was literally thinking that I love how you were wearing your top gun t-shirt while sharing military slang and then you said it!

Thanks for the Reading, and name mention Gemma 😉👍🏻🙏

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

🙏🩷✨

My dad's personal jargon I still recall with fondness, as we entered or exited the Los Angeles freeway by way of those near circular on/offramps, he'd say, "Round and round the bendem, Johnny, making yellow ice cream." I've no idea where he got that, but I admit to saying it with my own little ones when we hit those same structures.

@suburbohemian

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, "Whoa, Nelly" was one of my dad's faves too. He was born in 1932 (passed in 1980, way too soon) so maybe that's the reason.

Thanks Gemma 😁

Don’t worry, be happy 🤣😂 havacuppa

Living in North Dakota, USA, everyone around here says "oofda" (oof-duh) instead of oof.

Perhaps being a pacemaker is a stage that some athletes go through on the way to running their own race. Must be hard!

Haaaa... slow burn but you want it to happen quicker. Yes 😅! In a fiery stormish mood i"ve asked for a raise (quite one) while naming all additional tasks i do. I dont know if this was a smart move 😂😂 but i do do a lot for the company. It would be fair buuuuuttt... yeh you know :p well see eh. I did stay positive 😊 which is always good

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

Good for you! 💰💰💰

All I can say is, yesterday I had an Australian person deal with my issues. Straight to the point, no trying to avoid paying back, etc. Insurance!! He sorted it, money back 😁 all within 5 minutes!! No bs!! As a former South African, it’s still occasionally difficult to understand however rarely with attitude 😁✌🏽✌🏽✌🏽🙏🏽👍🏽 been here over 40 yrs 😂☺️☺️

Love me some Officer and Gentlemen 😍

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

Such a good film 🍿

Hi Gemma 👋 Well being a Canadian from Ontario🇨🇦 we say "Eh" alot. As in ..How you doing eh? Sometimes every sentence we say ends with Eh. The Canadian provinces all have their own dialects. Eh is only a small part of our colourful lingo ❤🇨🇦

"I love her hair" ... i don"t think its hair gemma😂🤭

@lausanneolvitt8783

2 ай бұрын

agreed! Its a veil thingie...

💜

5 of swords again. This sucks. I need to know if I'm heading for a repeat year of misery at work.

My brother passed away.

@robotgirl5714

2 ай бұрын

Sending you love❤

@gloriastroedecke2717

2 ай бұрын

I am sorry for your great loss.

@CasasdeAntigona

2 ай бұрын

Im really sorry, I hope you can handle it as best as you can❤

@miriamchikwanda201

2 ай бұрын

Sending you light

I know you dont drink alcohol,Gemma but just bought two bottles of Australian Wine , called .. " 19 crimes" !! Strange name for a wine I know lol, but its named after the convicts who got deported to Australia for a new life, if they survived the journey...wish I could post a photo 😉😊

Codswallup meaning a load of old nonsense😂😂

I would say all the spanish slang but it would make no sense I think (?) Jajajjajaja❤

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

What does it mean? 🧐

@as9198

2 ай бұрын

That's ha, ha, ha, ha, ha - b/c in Spanish an initial J is usually like the h sound: por ejemplo - Spanish Christian name Jesus is pronouned hey-sus, hence ja, ja, ja, ja, ja

Ok, so here's South African Slang 101'for you to practice: A 'babbelas' is a bad hangover. 'Eina!' means Ouch! (pronounce ay-nah). And say 'Eisch' (ay-sh) when someone or something surprises you. E.g. Gemma: Eina! My head hurts from this babbelas! Me: Eisch, sorry Gemma! 🤭

@Gemstonetarot

2 ай бұрын

Fantastic 🙏🩷✨

@Qursheed

2 ай бұрын

Perfect 😂😂😂

American Dennis the Menace is not at all related to the British one, oddly enough.

“Gosh,” “Golly,” “Gee whiz,” “Geez,” and the like were parentally disapproved when I was growing up (born 1951). They were identified as taking God’s name in vain, and even called “Minced Oaths.” OMG is popular now. I love it when people who don’t believe in God use these, especially second language speakers in English. It’s hard to swear appropriately in another language, isn’t it?

My father use to substitute," Oh,Fiddle Faddle" for the F word because my parents didn't use profanity.😆

@whitebirchtarot

2 ай бұрын

I had a friend who used to say “oh, frass!” That’s a good one.

@gloriastroedecke2717

2 ай бұрын

Side Note: Fiddle Faddle is also the name of a snack food which is similar to Cracker Jacks but more buttery and in cluster formations.