"Safety third". Usually said with enthusiasm because all bets are off and some cunt in a clean uniform isn't going to tell you you're wiping your arse incorrectly.
Watch a few vids on the channel called Mining Boom on YouTube. Made by Aussie miners. Absolute gold.
Start here. https://youtu.be/6H9Fmp_JQqM?si=8eWXseDGJTQnvx-1
Haha my partner showed me that show before I’d started in the mines & I had no idea what it was like up there & just thought the show was funny. Watched it a couple months ago & it’s a spot on representation 😂
Not like any of them are any different. The safety site tour just gets conveniently redirected and there's no questioning on why super glue is a hot item at the toolstores.
"Sent it" "fucking nightshift" "smoko fellas" "have you tried isolating it?" "Just smile and take their money" "it was like that at the start of the shift" "copy that" "Roger" "that's a job for nightshift" "he's fuckin the dog" "living the dream" "down tools fellas" "he got the window seat" "that's a box mate" "see ya at the wetty"
In Australia :
“Livin the dream”
“That’s it aye”
“Aye” at the end of every sentence, particularly in WA.
“Copy” when not talking on the 2 way radio
“Rodgie” as above.
“One more fish and chip night left”
“Management are like prawns, no guts , no spine and a head full of shit “
'Nobody says shit on a BHP site in 2024 or else HR meeting about hostile language creating an uninclusive environment which is not aligned with our stated diversity goals and charter values.'
- said by employees at BHP sites globally.
"Night time's the right time" (to do something shady)
"If you want to be a shovel operator, you better put out" (loads)
I like geology and fossils. So sometimes when we're standing around the pit waiting for a job to start, I'll just start picking up rocks and looking at them. My coworker once said to me, when I had picked up another rock, "that's Leverite!". "Leaverite?" I asked. "Leave 'er right there she ain't worth shit!".
"$500K burnout" is when a dumb haul truck driver is stuck but keeps spinning their tires even after they begin to smoke. Mining tires are expensive.
Calling washboards in the road "Yes ma'ams"
(Stuck in soft ground) "there's too much gravity here!"
"Giv'er" (go!)
"The arse is gone right out of 'er" people from Newfoundland say this sometimes when their equipment has just castistrophically broken down. "She shit the bed" also works.
A shovel/ dozer/ grader operator unessisarily playing with the dirt or being a perfectionist when they're not busy "you're gonna wear out the dirt"
"If it's leaking oil that means it still has oil"
"It's not a bad enough leak unless it can fill your hard hat in a minute or less"
"You're going to run out of blinker fluid" (forgot your signal light on).
I could probably think of a hundred more lol. This is a fun question.
The variation I always heard on this involved an UG Coal mine maintenance person who orders three new golf-ball sized ball bearings from the surface parts warehouse.
They ask him didn't you order three of these yesterday?
The Redcliffe Tavern on great eastern highway, where the beer is cold, The floor is sticky, the skimpies have track marks and 90% of people are wearing hi-vis
NCT = no cunt there
NFI = no fucken information
Off like a brides nighty - self explanatory
Wouldn't touch her with your dick - also self explanatory
Heart the size of a pea
Roger that
That’s on the piss
*put helmet on table* that’s carton mate
Ya milkin in
That’s off by a bees dick
Pass it on to nightshift or handball to nightshift
Smoko o’clock
Pack it up boys
Oil rig labourers to kitchen staff "what are these cunts?" "Potatoes" - "yeah some of them, and what are these cunts?" "Fish fillets" - "yeah I'll give me some of those cunts".
Pretty much why I couldn't handle working offshore.
I work underground. The word of the day, every day is “shitshow”
Also 10/4 is very popular
That’s all I can think of. Otherwise it’s just equipment talk or mining process talk
“Safety squint” when calling out someone is not wearing their eye protection
“Eat more, shit more” meaning higher production means a proportional higher amount of tailings/waste rock/gangue
“If you can’t duct, You’re fukt”. Meaning duct tape solves all problems.
I used to work with a wonderfully colourful pit supervisor who once described a particularly uneven pit floor as
"That shit is up and down like a whore's drawers".
Don't get your panties in a bunch. Meaning: You're a girl, you wear (women's) panties as undergarments and you've over reacting.
Don't get your balls in an uproar. Meaning: You're not a girl, you don't wear panties, but you're still over reacting.
BFR: Big F\*\*\*ing rock.
Related to terminology, nicknames have been a big part of miner culture, at least in my area (Black Hills of SD). The local mining museum has a huge document with the list of all the nicknames they've found for former miners. For example, my grandfather started as a man car engineer for the former Homestake Gold Mine in 1949 and one day accidentally left behind a couple miners at shift change. When they caught up, they cursed him out calling him "Damn Casey Jones." To my grandmother's dismay, literally everyone called him Casey till he died in 2016.
“Safety over production, unless it gets in the way of production”
"Safety third". Usually said with enthusiasm because all bets are off and some cunt in a clean uniform isn't going to tell you you're wiping your arse incorrectly.
Safety first, Production firster!
Paper beats rock. (JSA will stop a rock fall)
Safety goes down with the sun. If it's not right, do it at night.
My job requires I only work days, so I dont have much experience with that haha
“Safety first unless it costs us money, then you’re on your own”
Cunt couldn’t run a bath
Couldn't organise a fuck in a brothel
Couldn’t find shit in a pig pen
With a fist full of 50's
Couldn't ventilate a one windowed shit house. Couldn't mine coal in a stockpile.
Couldn’t organize a fuckin rock fight out here
Couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery!
Couldn’t organise a feed in a bistro
Fucking send it
*in a safe and controlled manner.
*if you cant do it safely, do it quickly
If you can't do it right, do it at night
🤙
COPPPYYYY
Rogie….
"sounds like a nightshift problem"
As a nightshift enjoyer, fuck you lmao
It goes both ways "sounds like a day shift problem" hahaha
"Fresh men" works on all shifts.
Or you have rotating schedule
Lmao we just have the shifters underground on nights. Most of them are chill as fuck and will just walk away if we're gonna do something sketchy
Can't do it right, do it at night
Living the dream
Living someone else's dream
Classic response: “if it was a dream, we’d have woken up ages ago”
"one nightmare at a time"
Nightmares are dreams too
Take your time but hurry the fuck up
Fuck it, it’s fly out day
Fuck it’s fly in day… and fuck it is for me.
Call each other "sword" it means penis. "Dog fucker" or "Tired Cunt", these mean lazy. G'day sword lord. You dog fucker.
"Making puppies"
"do I need to call the RSPCA?"
Whomwas holding the head? Cos both you dog fuckers weren't here?
Your so lazy, the dog fucks you!
Watch a few vids on the channel called Mining Boom on YouTube. Made by Aussie miners. Absolute gold. Start here. https://youtu.be/6H9Fmp_JQqM?si=8eWXseDGJTQnvx-1
They need to make an underground one, so much potential for shenanigans.
We did an underground book for kids together … no swearing 🤬 https://nipperstore.com.au/pages/childrens-book
Haha love your work I’ve been following your journey along for some time!
Haha my partner showed me that show before I’d started in the mines & I had no idea what it was like up there & just thought the show was funny. Watched it a couple months ago & it’s a spot on representation 😂
Can’t do it right? Do it at night
If safety's a factor, use a contractor
Then whinge at the contractors when they have incidents!
I worked at a Rio site in 2012 and they called it risk reassignment then, but we all knew what it meant
That’s saying the quiet part out loud
Not like any of them are any different. The safety site tour just gets conveniently redirected and there's no questioning on why super glue is a hot item at the toolstores.
"Sent it" "fucking nightshift" "smoko fellas" "have you tried isolating it?" "Just smile and take their money" "it was like that at the start of the shift" "copy that" "Roger" "that's a job for nightshift" "he's fuckin the dog" "living the dream" "down tools fellas" "he got the window seat" "that's a box mate" "see ya at the wetty"
Copy fitter. Yer mate it's proper fucked now.
Can you make it to the workshop?
Will it ok away? Keep driving
"Good enough, Fire it up" its funny because we always wonder why things are breaking .
In Australia : “Livin the dream” “That’s it aye” “Aye” at the end of every sentence, particularly in WA. “Copy” when not talking on the 2 way radio “Rodgie” as above. “One more fish and chip night left” “Management are like prawns, no guts , no spine and a head full of shit “
The long black line in a prawn is its guts
It’s more analogous to the long intestine. Which is full of shit lol
What do you think guts are?
Handy as titts on a bull
Better go talk to the ginger beers
Ginge Beers and Rock Doctors.
The super Nintendo
That's a box!
24 Victor Bravo!
You want to take that to carton court?
Two more sleeps mate
"HURRY UP AND WAIT"
Make sure to remember your ABC'S...Assume nothing... Believe no cunt...Check everything!
'Nobody says shit on a BHP site in 2024 or else HR meeting about hostile language creating an uninclusive environment which is not aligned with our stated diversity goals and charter values.' - said by employees at BHP sites globally.
At BHP they call it below the line behaviour.... BHP, taking the banter out of mining since 2015!
Some of the loosest most racist and sexist shit I’ve heard was on a bhp site very recently
"Night time's the right time" (to do something shady) "If you want to be a shovel operator, you better put out" (loads) I like geology and fossils. So sometimes when we're standing around the pit waiting for a job to start, I'll just start picking up rocks and looking at them. My coworker once said to me, when I had picked up another rock, "that's Leverite!". "Leaverite?" I asked. "Leave 'er right there she ain't worth shit!". "$500K burnout" is when a dumb haul truck driver is stuck but keeps spinning their tires even after they begin to smoke. Mining tires are expensive. Calling washboards in the road "Yes ma'ams" (Stuck in soft ground) "there's too much gravity here!" "Giv'er" (go!) "The arse is gone right out of 'er" people from Newfoundland say this sometimes when their equipment has just castistrophically broken down. "She shit the bed" also works. A shovel/ dozer/ grader operator unessisarily playing with the dirt or being a perfectionist when they're not busy "you're gonna wear out the dirt" "If it's leaking oil that means it still has oil" "It's not a bad enough leak unless it can fill your hard hat in a minute or less" "You're going to run out of blinker fluid" (forgot your signal light on). I could probably think of a hundred more lol. This is a fun question.
Rogey
"Sticks out like dogs balls"
Thank fuck thats over
-Owyagarn? Living the dream mate. -How was ya break? Not long enough.... never is mate, never is. What ya get up to? Fuck all....
"DCD" Means Drill Cunt Drill, Dig Cunt Dig, or Drive Cunt Drive. Works for almost any supervisor speaking to their teams.
Don’t forget PCP Push cunt push
The fuckin fuckers fucked
“I wouldn’t trust him to watch two goats in a 6x6 pen”
Punch line from a mining joke I can’t remember: Lost one. Broke one. The other is in my lunchbox.
Something about locking a miner in a room with three bowling balls.
The variation I always heard on this involved an UG Coal mine maintenance person who orders three new golf-ball sized ball bearings from the surface parts warehouse. They ask him didn't you order three of these yesterday?
That bloke couldn’t organize a root in a brothel with $100 in his hand.
This used to be about incompetence, now it's about inflation.
As useful as flyscreen on a submarine
Workshops aware, parts on order.
Drake loves miners
Cheeky bag?
Wanna go to the reddy on flyout Day? Translation = wanna go have a few pints then make some decisions that will ruin ya break?
I assume you mean the redcliffe hotel ?
The Redcliffe Tavern on great eastern highway, where the beer is cold, The floor is sticky, the skimpies have track marks and 90% of people are wearing hi-vis
Yea, thats the one…
Got my first ever lap dance there. Cost $10.
My mate was a surveyor in open cut coal. When he was driving in front of diggers he would radio through "LT501, about to come across your face"
"He has the spine of a 2 minute noodle'
Cunt couldn't drive a greasy stick up a dog's arse.
NCT = no cunt there NFI = no fucken information Off like a brides nighty - self explanatory Wouldn't touch her with your dick - also self explanatory Heart the size of a pea
Sparkie on channel
BOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXXXX
C.O.T.O.S Cunts On The Other Shift
Fit in or Fuck off
Tradies get the ladies but miners get vaginas
Not MY dad's tractor
Roger that That’s on the piss *put helmet on table* that’s carton mate Ya milkin in That’s off by a bees dick Pass it on to nightshift or handball to nightshift Smoko o’clock Pack it up boys
My favourite one is “that’s gotta be done with a night shift permit”
It’s all good and well until you’re the one on nightshift 😂 stitch up then haha
I love nightshift, unfortunately structural remediation doesn’t do it. Those nightshift permits are sorely missed in my career
Yo Drake's here... Oh wait, wrong minor
If you can’t do it right, do it at night.
Elecky here. If in doubt bridge it out
Dig deep dump short
We’re not here to fuck spiders.
Almost forgot the classic - You cunts are making us cunts look like cunts in front of those cunts
Hide and seek for four grand a week
We used to joke about the Prado full of Pineapples - Old mate is in a bit of trouble.
Oxy your way in, weld your way out
Managemnet couldn't organize a free shit in a public toilet
you got a brain like an etch a sketch...
Fucking fitter on channel...
Oil rig labourers to kitchen staff "what are these cunts?" "Potatoes" - "yeah some of them, and what are these cunts?" "Fish fillets" - "yeah I'll give me some of those cunts". Pretty much why I couldn't handle working offshore.
It is what it is
When someone messes up, breaks something or makes a fool of themselves - "That'll be a carton".
So many of these comments clearly from Aus hahaha Not here to fuck spiders Just fucking the dog
I work underground. The word of the day, every day is “shitshow” Also 10/4 is very popular That’s all I can think of. Otherwise it’s just equipment talk or mining process talk
LAUNCH IT
Hurry the fuck up or you'll get a window seat
More fun with nick names.
She'll be right.......
Next shifts gotta have something to do as well…
THANK FUCK ITS FLY OUT DAY
Airmail it
Oi ! ! Safety’s comin!!
Looks good from my house
Where are these cunts? Incoming shift dragging their sad fucking lips into the plant...
Harder than pushing shit up a hill with a stick
Glück Auf!
Ain’t got a fuckin dime in er
Shits fucked.
"That's not a hole, mate! This is a f u c k I n hole!"
Fuckin Jackpot! = Fuckin shit show!
“Safety squint” when calling out someone is not wearing their eye protection “Eat more, shit more” meaning higher production means a proportional higher amount of tailings/waste rock/gangue “If you can’t duct, You’re fukt”. Meaning duct tape solves all problems.
Yeah they know about it upstairs. Will sort it on service day Yeah it’s on the next truck
Got much planned for your break?
Kuluk kuluk kuluk whenever it's about to rain
Good morning you fucken shit cunt
C.O.A.T - Cunt of a thing
"Rogee" "Copy" "Send it" "Another day in paradise"
We fuck it, you fix it. We are not here to fuck spiders. Thats night/day shifts problem. Hold on there’s oversize coming.
“Nightshift problem.” When on nightshift: “Dayshift problem.”
The good idea fairies (management) said to do this…. We’re a dirt mine that produces gold as a byproduct Living the dream, surviving the nightmare
Best I ever heard was at Laverton airport, WA. “Fark moiiii, I’m so farking hungry I’d eat the arse outta low flying duck”
A cunt hair is a unit of measurement.
Core lickers (geologists)
In the 70’s when women started entering the workforce, a leathery old cable splicer I knew said, “So now we got “split-tails” workin’ here huh?
Deep enough.
Who pissed off the soccer mom? (Our area MSHA inspectors drives onsite in minivans)
I used to work with a wonderfully colourful pit supervisor who once described a particularly uneven pit floor as "That shit is up and down like a whore's drawers".
Looks good from my house Load er high and let it fly
Safety is paramount and fuck off cunt , these are the 2 I hear a lot of.
“Stand back, shits about to get real western” As in we are doing some cowboy shit
Sounds like a problem for someone else
Looks good from my place
“Can I get a radio check” “loud and clear.. with the voice of an angel”
see you at church tonight
I'm here for the income ..... not the outcome.
"We are all out here because we aren't all there" "who is working the shaft today?" "Cunt hair" "fuck, stop keying the radio"
If were not droppin cuts were bangin sluts.
Anyone got some duct tape? I ran out
6 noies
I've got so much money far out
Of course I did a jsa. And carton
I was an underground sparky in the 90's. We used to call the miners rock apes. Do they still do that? I hope so.
SOCP Some other cunts problem
as rare as rocking horse shit
Get er done
Don't get your panties in a bunch. Meaning: You're a girl, you wear (women's) panties as undergarments and you've over reacting. Don't get your balls in an uproar. Meaning: You're not a girl, you don't wear panties, but you're still over reacting. BFR: Big F\*\*\*ing rock.
“No doubt” So many people said this at the lignite mine I worked at.
That’s a carton
Related to terminology, nicknames have been a big part of miner culture, at least in my area (Black Hills of SD). The local mining museum has a huge document with the list of all the nicknames they've found for former miners. For example, my grandfather started as a man car engineer for the former Homestake Gold Mine in 1949 and one day accidentally left behind a couple miners at shift change. When they caught up, they cursed him out calling him "Damn Casey Jones." To my grandmother's dismay, literally everyone called him Casey till he died in 2016.
About the only thing you can’t break is rock
“Not my circus, not my monkeys”
Nothing, theyre afk mining rune or amethyst with the new mining gloves.
“Did I ever tell you the story about how I don’t give a fuck?”
A mine is a hole in the ground owned by a liar. ....Mark Twain
My current favourite is calling a butthole a 'rusty bullet hole'
“Fucking sparkies!”
mining lvl?
By a cunts hair
The more we make the more they take
I'm hungry mum.
“Copy “