Can anyone tell me what this means?
"as far as a weekend up the Goldie goes, I suppose it beats being glassed on the Glitter Strip by some roided up wanker with a Bintang singlet and a schnozz full of goey.”
wanker and schnozz are common in the US, but the rest?
…as far as a weekend up at the Gold Coast, I suppose it beats being struck in the face with a glass or bottle, while out on the street, by a chap full of steroids wearing a Bintang beer singlet and full of amphetamines.
Mind you the Gold Coast and the Glitter Strip are really synonyms. I imagine goey is meant to be cocaine from the schnozz reference, but around here it’s amphetamines of various descriptions.
"as far as a weekend up the Goldie goes, I suppose it beats being glassed on the Glitter Strip by some roided up wanker with a Bintang singlet and a schnozz full of goey.”
Goldie = Gold Coast ie Australia’s Florida strip also referred to as the Glitter Strip
glassed = thrust a broken beer glass into somebodies face
roided up = high on steroids or other pharmaceuticals
Bintang singlet - Indonesian brand of beer, the cheap souvenir you’d get on an alcohol fueled trip to Bali.
Schnozz usually the nose, could also mean the head
gooey = I’d go with drunk on cheap white wine (ie goon from flagon wine in a box) but might also be cocaine
Of course it sounds far more lyrical and romantic with the appropriate accent.
You’d probably be right, though I’d have classed the venue for Skoolies as more biological than romantic …
Stiffen the wombats!!
A “singlet” would usually be called something like a tank top or muscle shirt in North America.
Except (there’s always an “except” with language), “singlet” is also used for a sleeveless running shirt, such as a track team uniform top, in North America.
But would someone in Australia recognize a trackteam uniform singlet as a singlet?
Yes.
It is used for any non-tailored, stretch fabric sleeveless top with narrow shoulder straps.
I don’t know that I’d agree that “singlet” is equivalent to “muscle shirt” because the latter doesn’t have the narrow shoulder straps (I don’t think?).
So to me this would not be a “singlet”
But this is:
I suspect opinions may vary.
Bintang singlet
… and no, absolutely no, that is not being modelled by PT