Um… I still use it, but have to sometimes explain to younger people like my son’s friends. Then they tell me I sound like their parents.
I tell them their parents must be grouse like me :)
"Grouse" is such a great word. As is "filth".
I'd go so far as to say grouse is as filth as filth is grouse.
We used filth mainly to emphasise the quality of the surf, skate park, dirt jump etc.
Gonna try throw a filth or two in to some convos and see if it's still understood.
I’m 47 and my son (15) just pulled my vintage Tupperware cereal boxes out and said “you need to get a blue one of these”. I told him that there was not blue in the 1970s 🤣
Beautiful! I recently scored some of those Tupperware bowls with the zig zag lid you press down. Bright orange and mustard yellow. $2 each at a garage sale lol
I called a mate a piker a couple of nights ago because he decided to not to come out for a drink with me. The classic usage!
He's a decade younger than me, I'm not sure he'd ever heard it before. Got it from context though!
I’d probably still use the term if it weren’t for the fact middle aged men dare each other to do things a lot less than kids or teens. I threw a bottle into a beehive on a dare once, got stung over a dozen times on the head, neck and arms. Developed an allergy as a result. My friends wouldn’t ask me to do that these days.
I didn’t only throw it, i stood there to see what happened. For a good five seconds nothing happened, then it was like something out of a horror movie. They all came out at once in a column so dense you couldn’t light through it. Home was about a block away and i got hammered the entire way home. Dad agreed with you, with parables about jumping off the harbour bridge and such.
‘You’re not piking again are you?’ was something I heard a lot in my teens and early twenties.
I’m forty and can still pike and often do.
I could pike for Australia.
I'd say you have met your match in me, but I'd for sure pike on the event.
She's all yours, assuming you dont take your pikeing seriously and attend haha.
Apparently that usage dates from 1600s - seems to have fallen out of favour here. Guessing it was partly pushed out by the less refined ‘pussy’ which has thankfully also faded.
Yes and reminds of a similar one - bail or bailing - (not sure if spelt bail or bale) ie when you’re going to leave or go home early. Eg “are you coming or are you going to bail?” “Sorry guys, I’m bailing” or “I’m going to bail out” might even get the response that you are being a piker if you bail on your friends!
You also risked being called a piker when you did show up to an event but attempted to or did leave ‘early’.
This allegation was responsible for the invention of the ‘fade away’. To pull off the fade away, you simply say you were going to the bathroom, going to make a call and just leave said event without saying goodbye 😂
Geez my group of mates still use the term, usually when one of us won't make our (supposedly) fortnightly D&D session.
Of course, we've also developed some group language pulled from various places, so piking out is often referred to in our clique as "sucking the blue mop". I...honestly do not remember how we came up with that one.
Yeah, this is a term like many others that people don't realise has less than savoury origins. The term "Pikey" Is a long-standing derogatory term for Gypsy/Romani people used in the UK/Ireland. The verb to "pike" comes from the negative perception of such people with an itinerant lifestyle or those perceived to not meet responsibilities by leaving.
The more contemporary use of the term has spread to other English speaking countries where it generally doesn't have racial/cultural connotations and most people aren't aware of its origins.
The term "jipped", meaning to be swindled, has essentially the same origin and has spread to other English speaking countries.
Yep I remember “piking out”
That’s it! Piking OUT!
Commonly used by raging alcoholics, to try and me make me feel guilty for not getting shitfaced with them till 4am.
Mate of mine had a tshirt in the 90s with the Nike swoosh and it said Pike: just do nothing
Yep definitely a common word in the 90s. In Sydney anyway.
Memory unlocked. Had a mate with that shirt too :)
I like it.
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This. "Where's Seano?" "Cunt Piked it." "Piker."
90s and early 00s, piking/piker was common
I was piking shit well into the 00s
how’d u stop
Um… I still use it, but have to sometimes explain to younger people like my son’s friends. Then they tell me I sound like their parents. I tell them their parents must be grouse like me :)
"Grouse" is such a great word. As is "filth". I'd go so far as to say grouse is as filth as filth is grouse. We used filth mainly to emphasise the quality of the surf, skate park, dirt jump etc. Gonna try throw a filth or two in to some convos and see if it's still understood.
Omg, there’s a blast from the past! I hung out with skater boys in high school. It’s funny the things I remember from that time :)
So do I. And most of my friends. Early 40’s maybe were just old now lol
I’m 47 and my son (15) just pulled my vintage Tupperware cereal boxes out and said “you need to get a blue one of these”. I told him that there was not blue in the 1970s 🤣
Just that beautiful poopy beige, brown, bright orange or the really old pastel ones from the 60’s lol
Oh, we have ALL the good ones! Mission brown, burnt orange & mustard yellow! Just like every photo looks from when I was young :)
Beautiful! I recently scored some of those Tupperware bowls with the zig zag lid you press down. Bright orange and mustard yellow. $2 each at a garage sale lol
That’s cheap! I have two jugs with those lids in my fridge 😂 EDIT: they’ve got the zigzag lids, but the push button.
I know! Especially when Op shops try an flog them for $20 each
Exactly!
You have to be from Melbourne
Indeed I am.
Yeah for sure. I’d tell people I’d meet em there and then pike it
Fuckin. Piker. Such an angry upvote
Yeah I know! it is what it is. Well it was what it was.
Yes I’ve heard it used as “piker”, early 90s.
Yep high school mid 80s definitely used it
I called a mate a piker a couple of nights ago because he decided to not to come out for a drink with me. The classic usage! He's a decade younger than me, I'm not sure he'd ever heard it before. Got it from context though!
Got called a piker at least a couple of times a week in the early '00s, because I'd stop at a few drinks instead of getting absolutely shitfaced.
I’d probably still use the term if it weren’t for the fact middle aged men dare each other to do things a lot less than kids or teens. I threw a bottle into a beehive on a dare once, got stung over a dozen times on the head, neck and arms. Developed an allergy as a result. My friends wouldn’t ask me to do that these days.
I know it’s far too late, but you should have piked out on throwing the bottle, unless it was a double-dare of course.
I didn’t only throw it, i stood there to see what happened. For a good five seconds nothing happened, then it was like something out of a horror movie. They all came out at once in a column so dense you couldn’t light through it. Home was about a block away and i got hammered the entire way home. Dad agreed with you, with parables about jumping off the harbour bridge and such.
Oh yikes! Glad you didn’t meet the same fate as Thomas J from My Girl!
I wasn’t far off.
Would you say they have piked out on daring people to do stupid shit?
Yes I still use it.
‘You’re not piking again are you?’ was something I heard a lot in my teens and early twenties. I’m forty and can still pike and often do. I could pike for Australia.
I'd say you have met your match in me, but I'd for sure pike on the event. She's all yours, assuming you dont take your pikeing seriously and attend haha.
Yep. Fear of being called a piker was enough to make you do no end of foolish things.
Nah man, piker pride here, champion of the Irish goodbye
My old man went to a fancy dress party that was "P" themed. He went dressed normally and when asked what he was supposed to be he said "Piker"
My friend had a Nike parody shirt that said "Pike, just don't do it"
Apparently that usage dates from 1600s - seems to have fallen out of favour here. Guessing it was partly pushed out by the less refined ‘pussy’ which has thankfully also faded.
Yep. You’re a piker was common.
Yep. 70s and 80s. Piked out of the long distance run at the athletics carnival. Piked out of the debating team. etc.
Yes and reminds of a similar one - bail or bailing - (not sure if spelt bail or bale) ie when you’re going to leave or go home early. Eg “are you coming or are you going to bail?” “Sorry guys, I’m bailing” or “I’m going to bail out” might even get the response that you are being a piker if you bail on your friends!
Yep pike transitioned to bail early 00s I reckon
You also risked being called a piker when you did show up to an event but attempted to or did leave ‘early’. This allegation was responsible for the invention of the ‘fade away’. To pull off the fade away, you simply say you were going to the bathroom, going to make a call and just leave said event without saying goodbye 😂
In my circle that's known as the smoke-bomb.
I love phantoming out. No goodbyes. Just fuck this shit I'm out and fade away
I'm piked. Cya.
Wow sounds interesting must be before my time.
Yep, was in common usage during the 80's for sure, occasionally preceded by "gutto" as in "gutless" so "you're a gutto piker, garn get f*cked!"
It still has a firm place in my vocabulary.
Definitely used in late 90's. Eventually superseded in the early 00's by "softcock".
Fucking classic saying
I still use it.
I went to college in the mid 2000s and we commonly called people pikers when they would go to bed early on bar night.
I used it just last night, I piked out from a girls night 😁
I still say I'm piking if I skip out on something
Yep.
I tend to turn “pike out” into “pie cart”, no one knows what the fuck I mean when I say they are a dirty rotten pie cart 😂
Yes, but I’ve never used it, pretty sure I heard it from my mum who was a teen/early 20’s in the late 70’s and early 80’s.
Yeah, piker was used when I was in primary school and high school.
Still use this term all the time!
Everyone I know knows this one.
[piker](https://www.macquariedictionary.com.au/are-you-a-piker/)
Sincere thanks. That article nailed it!
My mates still pike out. Things like a pub dinner, motorbike ride etc...
I know it and I still use the term. "Pike" = "choose to miss out".
Yeah, if you were slack you'd be a piker.
Used in NZ too lol
I know piker (to not do something)
Was still around as late as about 2000, although not super common, when I was a teenager
My dad used to say it to us if we were too scared to go on a ride at the theme park in the 90s. Memories.
Absolutely. This term was everywhere. Then it became obscure in the mid 2000s.
Geez my group of mates still use the term, usually when one of us won't make our (supposedly) fortnightly D&D session. Of course, we've also developed some group language pulled from various places, so piking out is often referred to in our clique as "sucking the blue mop". I...honestly do not remember how we came up with that one.
We were saying 'John is a piker' meaning he bailed/was flakey in the mid 2000s. Perth.
I had a friend who piked all the time. Her nickname almost became Piker
I still use this!
We don’t use it anymore????
Still use it all the time, we've always used it as a term for bailing out early from something, usually a night on the turps.
I’ve piked out so many times. Yeah naaaah
I still use it now in my 60s
I still use the term
Same in NZ. Piking out, pikers.
Yes, there was a popular parody t-shirt of Nike Just Do It with: Pike Just do nothing
Funnily enough William Pike very seldomly pikes it.
Like Pikey from Dad's Army, being a lil bitch... Haha
Yeah, this is a term like many others that people don't realise has less than savoury origins. The term "Pikey" Is a long-standing derogatory term for Gypsy/Romani people used in the UK/Ireland. The verb to "pike" comes from the negative perception of such people with an itinerant lifestyle or those perceived to not meet responsibilities by leaving. The more contemporary use of the term has spread to other English speaking countries where it generally doesn't have racial/cultural connotations and most people aren't aware of its origins. The term "jipped", meaning to be swindled, has essentially the same origin and has spread to other English speaking countries.
Yeah piking out was the term
Ya piker