Why do Australians say smoko?
Thanks K seems it all began with a "smoke break". I remember you calling chickens "chooks". You guys have your own language and it's charming!
Even when I buy a hot supermarket chicken …..I always …ask for a ..chook , yep we’ve got a few funny sayingsThanks K seems it all began with a "smoke break". I remember you calling chickens "chooks". You guys have your own language and it's charming!
.correctly ..and I’ve been hanging round here in and off for almost 10 years ….words like ….Tyres …..Colour …my parents were smokers but I’ve never touched them ..ever …or drank @MarkDMy mother brought me up drinking black tea with milk and sugar and she did have lots of smokes but those were Pall Malls.
️ gotta go get dancing cloths ready for our ..Tuesday arvo dance which is usually lotsa fun mixed in with the exercise …for our brains to remember steps …We do modern waltz’s / tangos / foxtrots / blues / rhumba / old time waltz / quicksteps
Even when I buy a hot supermarket chicken …..I always …ask for a ..chook , yep we’ve got a few funny sayings
and I’m still trying my best to educate some of my friends on here how to spell .
@RadishRose
You had 6 siblings? I’m so sorry for your loss. 60 is quite young
Did you mom drink a lot? My mom was about 85 when she started getting dementia. She drank quite a bit but I think the stroke she had was what pushed her over the edge, dementia wise. It’s very sad watching loved ones lose their mind.
Yes six, of the original 7 of us four remain, my sister and two brothers and I.
Yes @PeppermintPatty every day ….while we starved ….the very reason … I’ve never drank or smoked.
I take it you don’t drink. Neither do I. I quit doing cannabis also. I’m straight now. Your poor mom. Did you go and visit her?Yes @PeppermintPatty every day ….while we starved ….the very reason … I’ve never drank or smoked.
She developed alcohol induced dementia at 50 soon after my step father died @ 60 years old ….so my youngest brother was left without parents at 9 years old cause our mother was placed in a institution…. where she was till she died at 59 …
3 deceased siblings 10 years younger then myself died in their 50’s due to following thier parents bad habits
I look at it as what a wasted life …….here I’m I at 78 ….not far off 79 ….no serious health issues …apart from BP pill I take 1/2 a pill a day for …reluctantly ….. walked 5 km yesterday…..going dancing today as mentioned …we will be dancing from 12.30 to ..3.30 …..
and yeah yeah I’m organised …no nagging please …..
I just stopped for a morning smoko ..and a bicky …that’s a biscuit
and not just any biscuit ..it has to be arnotts ( SA made) spicy fruit roll bicky.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/...ucIyWSac3jFED5zyB92Q67dTaUz7uVx0-uUcIFMbNIaAH
Sorry Kadee. I didn’t realize you answered my questions in this post. My apologies.Yes @PeppermintPatty every day ….while we starved ….the very reason … I’ve never drank or smoked.
She developed alcohol induced dementia at 50 soon after my step father died @ 60 years old ….so my youngest brother was left without parents at 9 years old cause our mother was placed in a institution…. where she was till she died at 59 …
3 deceased siblings 10 years younger then myself died in their 50’s due to following thier parents bad habits
I look at it as what a wasted life …….here I’m I at 78 ….not far off 79 ….no serious health issues …apart from BP pill I take 1/2 a pill a day for …reluctantly ….. walked 5 km yesterday…..going dancing today as mentioned …we will be dancing from 12.30 to ..3.30 …..
and yeah yeah I’m organised …no nagging please …..
I just stopped for a morning smoko ..and a bicky …that’s a biscuit
and not just any biscuit ..it has to be arnotts ( SA made) spicy fruit roll bicky.
https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/...ucIyWSac3jFED5zyB92Q67dTaUz7uVx0-uUcIFMbNIaAH
yes once ..it was to much for me …..OMG the huge Big old stone creepy building was surrounded by a huge wire fence no razor wire but very similar to prisons …..and the yard was full of people with dementia….some had the belief they were kangaroos and jumped around the fence like a roo’s ….omg …the big stone building/ fence is still there but it’s surrounded by a big new development of town houses.( it was the hospitals ground )
but wait ….not anything like that 
, when I go get my packet of BP and cholesterol pills once every 2 months ..I say to the chemist I’ve come in for my drugs 
my cholesterol is 3.8 so i don’t even know why I take them ..( once a week ) .
I’m not judging you Kadee. It must have been horrible having an alcoholic as a mother. The institution sounds depressing as ever.yes once ..it was to much for me …..OMG the huge Big old stone creepy building was surrounded by a huge wire fence no razor wire but very similar to prisons …..and the yard was full of people with dementia….some had the belief they were kangaroos and jumped around the fence like a roo’s ….omg …the big stone building/ fence is still there but it’s surrounded by a big new development of town houses.( it was the hospitals ground )
@PeppermintPatty
I lived 3 hour drive each way from Adelaide where my mother was in the institution so it wasn’t as if she was just down the road
I tasted beer for the very first time when I was 40 years old , and I’ve tasted wine that tasted more like vinegar to me …..nah never ever tasted more than a sip of either … the pub life never interested me ..it just not my style sitting in a pub day after …day ….i put I put up with drunks at home ….I had no interest in putting up with them as a social outing as well …… I’d rather be out in the garden TBH
Where we dance is a community hall no booze seen at ANY dances we attend here or interstate .
Never smoked …..i never liked the smell …of cigarettes when I was a kid ,
so had no intentions of taking in that smelly habbit …..Drugs yep ….
And besides I was flat out feeding myself and the kids let alone finding money for booze and smokes ,
DH drank when I met him ..(only beer ) ( 1 was single for 14 years by choice )
DH gave up drinking long ~ long … ago he’s never smoked or taken drugs , either he may have one can of light beer at Christmas but usually doesn't bother .
Where we live there is 6 hotels in a small town .I've never been in any of them ….and when DH wanted a carton of beer ( he’d buy a carton once or twice a year ) he ask me of I’d get it and I’d blankly refuse if he wants to drink it he has to go buy it …..simple as that
my aunt and uncle Didn’t drink or smoke …..Who knows if that was an early influence on me …
What a precious little girl you were @Kadee
