MYASS

• Sometimes Saintly Nick
  September 29th, 2007 at 12:20 pm

  Perhaps they were making a statement?

• iTim
  September 29th, 2007 at 12:28 pm

  Yes, we speak English in Australia, but I don’t think they do in Yass…

• Yak Boy
  September 29th, 2007 at 1:25 pm

  Yes, we speak English here not American English.

  Here, as in England, “ass” means nothing more than donkey, and the equivalent word meaning bottom is “arse”.

  So, I don’t think they raised too many eyebrows by putting up a sign that can be misread as “my donkey”.

• Chris
  September 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pm

  goatse@6am?

  American English rules, yeaaaah!

  :p

• paul
  September 29th, 2007 at 4:25 pm

  “American English rules, yeaaaah!”

  in English English, we spell that as yeah, or yes

• K
  September 29th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

  Shut up you YANK!

• Colour
  September 29th, 2007 at 5:21 pm

  You can be a right ARSE sometimes, you know that?

• Tom
  September 29th, 2007 at 5:59 pm

  Yank eh? you know, i think anybody who would have found that offensive died like ten years ago. Nobody thinks “Yank” is a derogetory term anymore.

• Tit
  September 29th, 2007 at 6:22 pm

  Really? Are you a Yank? Ever been to England? When you go over there and have the very Waspy English call you a Yank all day without even an inkling of a sense of common decency, then you’ll see that your statement is only wishful-thinking, you poofter.

• Carruthers
  September 29th, 2007 at 7:02 pm

  Such nice polite people, the British.

• Michael Phipps
  September 29th, 2007 at 7:57 pm

  Every time I go through Yass , I look for this sign. I’ve never found it! Even went to the lengths of eating at McDonalds in Yass to see if it was near their store.

  Nope. Can someone in Yass actually confirm this sign exists, now, or ever?

• Kct
  September 29th, 2007 at 8:01 pm

  How about this one? It is in Brazil!

  http://www.omundodemarlon.blogger.com.br/mc2.jpg

• Larfin Jackarse
  September 29th, 2007 at 11:03 pm

  Being called a Yank is nicer than being called a seppo or a tank.

• kerozene
  September 30th, 2007 at 12:19 am

  I kind of laugh at being called a Yank too. Most people that try to use it in an insulting way don’t realize that inside the USA its borderline patriotic to call yourself a Yankee (more in colonial times than now). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee Yankee soldiers did some awesome stuff for this country. They were pretty badass.

  Maybe we should start calling English peps “Redcoats” and Australian people “criminals”. lol.

  (oh what… don’t like that? )

• gruntski
  September 30th, 2007 at 3:14 am

  This sign is (or was a couple of months ago) real. It is located on the Hume Highway, running between Sydney and Melbourne. It is located south of Goulburn, and is visible when driving south (from Sydney to Melbourne, for those of you who are directionally challenged) and is on the right hand side of the road (above directions applied). Click the link above for a different picture of that sign, taken in November, 2006

• LosButchos
  September 30th, 2007 at 10:44 am

  I’d almost rather eat from my ass than from McD’s. UGH.

• Steve
  September 30th, 2007 at 4:51 pm

  Larry Craig’s re-election Campaign!

• Pol x
  October 1st, 2007 at 7:38 am

  So Yankee comes from the dutch settlers name of Jancke.

  No idea why you find that insulting.

  Amstedam, Bronx, Brooklyn, Staten, Great Kills, stoop, knicker bocker, Roosevelt, Hells Kitchen, Harlem, and a shed load more names places and people all are Dutch.

  I fail to see the slander.

  And yes Aussies do speak English, very good clear and comparatively unaccented English.

  Particularly compared to Britain, which as nice a bunch of people as you could meet, have a HUGE varied and sometimes incomprehensible take of their shared tongue.

  If you aren’t British that is.

  Never been to Yass, but if it’s claim to fame is that it has a Macca’s it dosn’t sound too appealling.

  I’d sooner be in Saint Fuckin’ Kilda.

• just a guy
  October 1st, 2007 at 9:51 am

  a tank?! People are basing insults of off WoW roles?

• Jon Fox
  October 11th, 2007 at 5:07 am

  I’ll give you one better. I have been to YASS many times to run P.A. for the annual Yass River Festival. It’s a great little town.
  Each visit, I’ve pulled into town at night. The sign that welcomes you to Yass has only the last three letters painted with reflective paint. So at night it reads…
  “Welcome to ASS”
  It’s a quirky little town, and I think this was an intentional little joke by the local council boys.

  If you ever visit Australia, I suggest pulling through. I have always felt welcome in yASS

• Rodney Todd
  November 18th, 2007 at 1:02 pm

  The derogotry part of Tank when refering to Yanks hasn’t been used by any of U it’s a term i don’t use as why throw insults at a person u know nothing about the full insulting title is Septic tank quite a common site in Aus where towns don’t have a piped water supply it comes from the Aussie habit of using rhyming slang. Septic tank became common as an insulting name during the 60’s when Yank servicemen came to Aus on R&R leave

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