Unfortunate Australian slang is unfortunate (also I am twelve)

[lizbee]

[Julie Gardner] explained the team had decided the assistant needed to "root"' the doctor...

Whatever happened to "no hanky panky in the TARDIS", anyway?

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[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Yep, I read it that way too. As bad as one of my fandoms that keeps talking about bonking people.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

...bonking as in ... but they don't mean...? How confusing!

[ravenskyewalker.livejournal.com]

Years ago in USA fandom (and maybe still, somewhere), "bonk" was one of the terms used when one wrote fanfic that abused a character and put him through hell. Hurt / comfort, though with a bit less comfort. I occasionally used the term, but the alternate sexual slang meaning made me quit. "Trashing" the character isn't so iffy; "bonking" is, to my ears.

[aquila1nz.livejournal.com]

Zigackly!

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

"Earth"? "Cement"? "Anchor"? If you're twelve enough, anything sounds a bit filthy under the circs.

Still, LOL.

[amaresu]

Care to share the meaning of the unfortunate Australian slang? I can guess from context obviously, but...

I'm so sick of 21st century companions. Can we at least get someone not from London?

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

"To root" = "to have sex". Also "rooted" as a euphemism for "fucked".

We snicker when Americans talk about "rooting for their team", too.

[amaresu]

That's funny. Oh slang.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Cheap laughs FTW!

[drakyndra.livejournal.com]

*another inner 12 year old is snorting*

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

I fucking hate Julie Gardner.

On the upside, I love when slang goes wrong. ;-)

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go so far as to say hate, she just manages to hit a lot of my narrative and characterisation DO NOT WANT buttons a lot. And spent a lot of time in her season 3 commentaries Martha-bashing. Fail.

[elyssadc.livejournal.com]

Every time I read anything about her or quoting her or whatever, I want to smack her in the face. Which, ok, isn't hate, really. But still. DO NOT WANT.

But I didn't mean to go all negative here. The point was unintentional dirty talk, which I am fully supportive of.

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

And spent a lot of time in her season 3 commentaries Martha-bashing.

...but WHY?

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

I couldn't say why, precisely, but she's the producer most likely to be found making fatuous and subtextually-classist remarks about how Rose is the most special. (She's also the one who had never seen Classic before she started work on DW.)

[nostalgia-lj.livejournal.com]

I've never got the impression she likes anything in DW other than Ten/Rose.

[airie-fairy.livejournal.com]

"And spent a lot of time in her season 3 commentaries Martha-bashing. Fail."

Wtf? Good job supporting your own show.

[cesario.livejournal.com]

There's something I'm not getting, here.

[lizbee.livejournal.com]

It's as if she said, "the assistant needs to fuck the Doctor".

[naewinter.livejournal.com]

I had a dreadful moment thinking that they might actually mean that. I wouldn't put it past them. =(

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Julie Gardner explained why the Doctor never had an assistant from another place in time.

Okay, perhaps being dense here, but . . .

Susan, Jamie, Victoria, Zoe, Leela, Romana, Adric, Nyssa, and what his name again? Oh yeah, JACK.

And there may even be more because I can't be bothered to go to Wikipedia to check. (Not sure if Astrid counts, so I'll give Julie a pass on her.)

[philippos42.livejournal.com]

Turlough was from Trion, though I think they found him in near-future Britain.

[melengro.livejournal.com]

Present-day Britain, actually. 1983 in 1983.

[strangefrontier.livejournal.com]

Oh! A song lyric makes much more sense to me now! "In case he scores a root," was a rather mysterious line without a translation of the slang.

[skywaterblue.livejournal.com]

At least she's leaving soon.

[neutralalienist.livejournal.com]

Not reading the actual interview, as I have learned better than to read New Who interviews, but...*snicker* I love Australian slang.

(...I'm now imagining Tegan making rude euphemisms and Five being oblivious.)

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Oh, boy, can you imagine Tegan teaching Nyssa the art of the Australian double-entendre?

[neutralalienist.livejournal.com]

...Awww.

I wonder if Traken had any.

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

It took me longer than I care to admit to realise she meant it in another way. *is twelve*

[aceofannwn.livejournal.com]

Well, in Australia at least, that's the only way it's used, really...

[akashasheiress.livejournal.com]

Argh, I should've known better than to read that stuff. Maybe her successor will disagree. Pretty please?

And wait, she bashed Martha?

Unintentional dirtiness is always good, though.

[melengro.livejournal.com]

(To the interview in general, not the double entendre, which is awesome):

Ewwwwww. Please leave immediately or sooner.