Question for the UKers and Aussies

Elizabeth

... and perhaps others, as I don't know the breadth of this cultural phenomenon. My husband has some overseas friends that have a little wordplay going on, but as I'm blonde and slow I'm having a hard time catching on.

They told me what a dodgy boat was, but I swear I wouldn't have been able to figure it out.

anyone know what I'm talking about?

thorpe

sorry... you've lost me. and im as aussie as they come. i know what a bashed crab is though. well, at least i know when i see one.

Jason_Batten

thorpe wrote:
sorry... you've lost me. and im as aussie as they come. i know what a bashed crab is though. well, at least i know when i see one.

LMAO, I grew up in a small-yobbo town, nothing like the freshing sound of "face like a smashed-crab". Now that’s a classic! 😃

As for dodgy boat... English people are, different. I need a interrupter when I speak to my dad sometimes. Anyone watch East Enders? *shudders :glare:

LoganK

"...and then he shat on a turtle!" -- Austin Powers

I never did understand that!

Drakla

I think this is the first thread I've really laughed at. I love it when people from other 'cultures' use your phrases and it for some reason seems hilarious.

Boat is cockney rhyming slang for face, derived from boat race. So a dodgy boat means you've got an 'interesting' (coff) face.

This is off topic for this thread, but I'm going mental trying to remember where you do output redirection in Windows like > /dev/null I know it's just > SOMETHING but can't remember what. Cheers ducks.

Elizabeth

Drakla wrote:
I think this is the first thread I've really laughed at. I love it when people from other 'cultures' use your phrases and it for some reason seems hilarious.

Boat is cockney rhyming slang for face, derived from boat race. So a dodgy boat means you've got an 'interesting' (coff) face.

This is off topic for this thread, but I'm going mental trying to remember where you do output redirection in Windows like > /dev/null I know it's just > SOMETHING but can't remember what. Cheers ducks.

Yay, drakla gets the prize! So are there other phrases? Our friend was trying to explain the whole rhyming thing (and actually he's Irish go figure) but it seemed quite random to me.

vaaaska

You all would love Dutch so much. Man, every day I find something new that sounds too cool and insane...

Klootzak = the tofu of swear words...means alot of things I shouldn't type here...
Hagelslag = a type of chocolate topping for pastries...

And the pronunciations are just a wicked as they sound.

(Perhaps Leatherback can give us lesson in Dutch slang...)

LoganK

Drakla - it's exactly what you said it was:

echo Hello > test.txt

Will redirect the "Hello" output to a file called "test.txt". The same can be done with commands, i.e. "dir > dirlisting.txt". If you were talking about a null thing, I don't know.

leatherback

vaaaska wrote:
(Perhaps Leatherback can give us lesson in Dutch slang...)

If(in_phpBuilder($me->translate('klootzak'))
{
$you -> kick_ass($me)
}
else
{
$my_ass = "happy";
}

Dutch slang? Hm, not sure my mammie would like that. 😃

Anyway:

<span id="sensitive_content">
echo translate('kloteding', 'dutch, 'english') = stupid piece of sh*t, often when referring to computers which fail to understand what you want them to do

echo translate('klootzak', 'dutch, 'english') = literally scrotum. In normal day-to-day speech something less friendly.
</span>

leatherback

Oh Vaaska,

I actually use hageslag on my sandwiches hmmm..

Drakla

LoganK wrote:
Drakla - it's exactly what you said it was:
echo Hello > test.txt
Will redirect the "Hello" output to a file called "test.txt". The same can be done with commands, i.e. "dir > dirlisting.txt". If you were talking about a null thing, I don't know.

No, definitely want the null one. I've used it time and time again, but for some reason today I just can't think of what they hell it is.

vaaaska

leatherback wrote:
Oh Vaaska,

I actually use hageslag on my sandwiches hmmm..

Yep, just like the picture on the box. I should take a picture of this.

Oh, and we found some "American Buns" recently at the grocery store. Best I can tell they are a cross between sloppy joes and piroshki with a rather odd bolognese twang to them. If I was anything but American my gf wouldn't have given them a second thought. Yeah, I know...

leatherback

vaaaska wrote:
Yep, just like the picture on the box. I should take a picture of this.

have a lok at the attatch

dalecosp

Drakla wrote:
No, definitely want the null one. I've used it time and time again, but for some reason today I just can't think of what they hell it is.

Terrible kludge:

echo NUL >&2 2>foo.txt

obtains a similar result (foo.txt becomes empty). However, as you can see, it doesn't really do the equivalent of cat /dev/null > foo on 'Nix...for one thing, your terminal will echo "NUL".

"NUL" is supposed to be the Windows equivalent to /dev/null ... but for some reason WinXP doesn't want to let me access it...it'd be nice if Windows had a real shell like tcsh or bash . . .

thorpe

never used it, but, here. bash for windows

Drakla

Cheers NUL was what I was looking for. I've used it to exec stuff and get php to run straight past, and last night was sick of forgetting where to edit the dreamweaver config files every time I need to add a new type, as I want .cgi to be highlighted as php. I put this in a bat file, but both windows won't kick off at once:

"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" "C:\winFiles\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004\Configuration\DocumentTypes\MMDocumentTypes.xml" > nul 2>&1

"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad" "C:\Documents and Settings\s\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004\Configuration\Extensions.txt" > nul 2>&1

Any idea if I can get it to not wait for the first one to close?

LoganK

Leatherback - chocolate sprinkles on bread? :eek:

dalecosp

Drakla wrote:
Cheers NUL was what I was looking for. I've used it to exec stuff and get php to run straight past, and last night was sick of forgetting where to edit the dreamweaver config files every time I need to add a new type, as I want .cgi to be highlighted as php. I put this in a bat file, but both windows won't kick off at once:

"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad.exe" "C:\winFiles\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004\Configuration\DocumentTypes\MMDocumentTypes.xml" > nul 2>&1

"C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories\wordpad" "C:\Documents and Settings\s\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004\Configuration\Extensions.txt" > nul 2>&1

Any idea if I can get it to not wait for the first one to close?

Tried "&" between calls? That's the UNIX way.

Generally I have to get up and walk to a system to play with Windows....

leatherback

LoganK wrote:
Leatherback - chocolate sprinkles on bread? :eek:

Yes.
Where else??

Didn't you see the scan of the pack I showed?

LoganK

Yes I did - that's what freaked me out 😃