TexasProud Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 I keep seeing this and have no clue what it means. Didn't want to hijack a thread to ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasProud Posted July 23, 2021 Author Share Posted July 23, 2021 4 minutes ago, Seasider too said: My guess is European soccer, where they call it football. Ah, ok. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 I was thinking Aussie Rules Football. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 I'm used to hearing "footy" as a nickname for Australian Rules football, which has some similarities (and differences) with Rugby league and Rugby union. Bill 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 1 minute ago, BaseballandHockey said: I was thinking Aussie Rules Football. Beat me by a split second. LOL. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Louise Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 Footy is any non-soccer game where people in teams run up and down a field kicking a ball, lol League or Aussie Rules here. Soccer is soccer. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Louise Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 13 minutes ago, Seasider too said: Mine was just a guess…. Please go with those more knowledgeable! No, you're right. In Europe, soccer is football. Usually the shortened term is pretty typically Aussie (maybe typical elsewhere?) And we are uncivilized and call football soccer and all else 'the footy'. I hate the footy. I like football! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasProud Posted July 23, 2021 Author Share Posted July 23, 2021 Thank you all for educating this uneducated Texan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 (edited) I think I'm more confused now than before the thread, lol. Footy is...what? And where? Edited July 24, 2021 by ktgrok 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Footy is soccer in NZ. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Ok..so... In NZ what I call soccer is Footy. In Australia, what I call soccer is called soccer, and what they call Footy is what is officially Australian Rules Football, and from the wikipedia article is a drunken version of rugby with rules made by a 4 yr old with an incredible imagination. And in the UK and most of the world, what I call soccer is called football. (but not footy?) And then there is American Football, which is never ever called footy. 1 1 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 American Football is Gridiron in NZ. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 And none of this is to be confused with footsie...which can mean touching feet under the table or be a euphemism for more. 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Which is different than futsal, which is like indoor mini soccer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futsal 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 5 minutes ago, ktgrok said: And none of this is to be confused with footsie...which can mean touching feet under the table or be a euphemism for more. No, but it's okay for guys to pat each other's butts on the footy field. (Aussie Rules, anyway.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 1 minute ago, Rosie_0801 said: No, but it's okay for guys to pat each other's butts on the footy field. (Aussie Rules, anyway.) That's universal, I think, lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMD Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Footy is definitely Aussie slang for football which is Australian Rules Football. Also called AFL (Australian football league) If you put 'footy' into YouTube you get videos like this - a pretty decent explanation Rugby is just rugby or NRL (national rugby league) Soccer is just soccer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 6 minutes ago, ktgrok said: That's universal, I think, lol. Why is that? lol It's a bit weird when it comes off the field. Someone I know was running against a former football player in a political race, and they almost patted his bum. 😂 He decided to take it as a complimentary code switching error. 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 3 minutes ago, Rosie_0801 said: Why is that? lol It's a bit weird when it comes off the field. Someone I know was running against a former football player in a political race, and they almost patted his bum. 😂 He decided to take it as a complimentary code switching error. 😂 The excuse in American Football is that it is one of the only areas without pads. But...the other sports mentioned they don't wear pads, so that kind of falls apart, lol. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 If I’m saying it I mean Aussie Rules if I was talking about anything else it would get the full name. In spite of watching my kids play Aussie Rules for the last four years I still can’t figure out the rules so don’t ask me to explain it! However they seem to have a lot of fun although my dd seems to see it mostly as a kind of giant legalised brawl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 In my household, footy would usually mean NRL. If my husband is watching the footy, it's likely to be a Broncos game or the State of Origin. I think we (Australians) have a tendency to change words to have a -y ending. We don't put on sunglasses. We put on our sunnies. We don't go to Woolworths. We go to Woolies. We don't give a present. We give a pressy. We don't watch the football. We watch the footy. You get the idea 😉 It's all part of our bogan charm, I'm sure 😄 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Louise Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Snap. Was just about to say that footy is bogan 🙂 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 In the covid context as it happened in Victoria at the Victorian footy match it is definately AFL 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Though there was also spread at a Rugby match Aus v France in Melbourne as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spy Car Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 1 hour ago, lewelma said: American Football is Gridiron in NZ. I like that name. American football here in the US has also historically been referred to as Gridiron, but it is sort of archaic. I wonder how many Americans would know what the term Gridiron means these days if they heard it? Not sure about that. Bill 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 I knew about footy the word I didn’t know in that thread was removalist. Anyone want to clue me in? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danae Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 31 minutes ago, BaseballandHockey said: I knew about footy the word I didn’t know in that thread was removalist. Anyone want to clue me in? Movers. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 37 minutes ago, BaseballandHockey said: I knew about footy the word I didn’t know in that thread was removalist. Anyone want to clue me in? I don't know which thread you are referring to, but here in Australia a removalist is a person or company that you hire to assist you to move house. They generally turn up with a truck and with muscles. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 7 minutes ago, chocolate-chip chooky said: I don't know which thread you are referring to, but here in Australia a removalist is a person or company that you hire to assist you to move house. They generally turn up with a truck and with muscles. I would expect them to be “movies”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 1 minute ago, BaseballandHockey said: I would expect them to be “movies”. 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 I never knew in USA removalists were called movers. When I hear the word movers I think of one of those convayer belt things that some airports have to shift people along Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 3 minutes ago, Melissa in Australia said: I never knew in USA removalists were called movers. When I hear the word movers I think of one of those convayer belt things that some airports have to shift people along We call those moving walkways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 29 minutes ago, BaseballandHockey said: We call those moving walkways. I don't know what they are called here. But think of them as people movers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosie_0801 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 3 minutes ago, Melissa in Australia said: I don't know what they are called here. But think of them as people movers Maybe they are still called escalators? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drama Llama Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 2 minutes ago, Rosie_0801 said: Maybe they are still called escalators? Escalators go up. They escalate you to the second floor. These are flat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Louise Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Travelators 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewelma Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 50 minutes ago, Melissa in Australia said: I don't know what they are called here. But think of them as people movers A people mover is a van in NZ. We actually call them people movers. LOL. A moving sidewalk is a travelator. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ausmumof3 Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 1 hour ago, Melissa in Australia said: I don't know what they are called here. But think of them as people movers Travelators? Or moving walks I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasProud Posted July 24, 2021 Author Share Posted July 24, 2021 7 hours ago, lewelma said: A people mover is a van in NZ. We actually call them people movers. LOL. A moving sidewalk is a travelator. Yeah, we call vans people movers here as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 11 hours ago, chocolate-chip chooky said: In my household, footy would usually mean NRL. If my husband is watching the footy, it's likely to be a Broncos game or the State of Origin. all part of our bogan charm, I'm sure 😄 NRL is what? 10 hours ago, Spy Car said: I like that name. American football here in the US has also historically been referred to as Gridiron, but it is sort of archaic. I wonder how many Americans would know what the term Gridiron means these days if they heard it? Not sure about that. Bill I know it - but more as a term for the field than the game itslf. 7 hours ago, lewelma said: A people mover is a van in NZ. We actually call them people movers. LOL. A moving sidewalk is a travelator. I had to google people mover recently, as I was reading a book set in the UK and they used the term. 8 minutes ago, TexasProud said: Yeah, we call vans people movers here as well. In Texas? I'd never heard it called that until I read it in a book set in England. Or might have been Scotland. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasProud Posted July 24, 2021 Author Share Posted July 24, 2021 17 minutes ago, ktgrok said: In Texas? I'd never heard it called that until I read it in a book set in England. Or might have been Scotland. Yes, at church we have the church van and then the people mover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 16 hours ago, ktgrok said: NRL is what? National Rugby League. Not to be confused with Rugby, AFL or soccer. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 13 hours ago, chocolate-chip chooky said: National Rugby League. Not to be confused with Rugby, AFL or soccer. Wait...National Rugby League isn't Rugby??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chocolate-chip chooky Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 40 minutes ago, ktgrok said: Wait...National Rugby League isn't Rugby??? Crazy but true. I'm no expert at all, so I differentiate them by considering rugby as the one where they all pile on top of each other for some reason. Funny story. Years ago, I was at a birthday party for a friend of one of my children. It was at their house, and I was hanging out in the back yard, chatting to their neighbour. Turned out that neighbour was the captain of the Australian Rugby team at the time. A huge national figure. So yeah, my 'info' isn't expert-based at all 😏 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Ok, found this to "explain" the differences between Rugby Union (UK version mostly) and Rugby League (Australian version mostly). Confusingly, both at least part of the time had the word "union" in the name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_rugby_league_and_rugby_union Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa Louise Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 1 minute ago, ktgrok said: Ok, found this to "explain" the differences between Rugby Union (UK version mostly) and Rugby League (Australian version mostly). Confusingly, both at least part of the time had the word "union" in the name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_rugby_league_and_rugby_union League - bogan Rugby - rich blokes 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 1 minute ago, Melissa Louise said: League - bogan Rugby - rich blokes and now I have to google "bogan". 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 7 hours ago, ktgrok said: Ok, found this to "explain" the differences between Rugby Union (UK version mostly) and Rugby League (Australian version mostly). Confusingly, both at least part of the time had the word "union" in the name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_rugby_league_and_rugby_union We have both rugby league and rugby union in the UK. There's a class/geographical divide here too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ktgrok Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 After reading about all the differences between union rugby/rugby league/australian rules football/etc I fell asleep dreaming that there was a game that was a combination between basketball and barbecue potato chips. No idea what that would look like, lol. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanier.1765 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 8 hours ago, Laura Corin said: We have both rugby league and rugby union in the UK. There's a class/geographical divide here too. I just recently watched The English Game on Netflix and it was interesting to learn about the class divide in football as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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