Ya know when ya is a Bajan......jokes

Ya know ya is a Bajan when ... 

-- You refer to a national/public holiday as a bank holiduh or a 'bank'

-- You know to 'curse' someone doesn't mean putting a spell on them

-- Ya does move 'scruffy'

-- 'Cheese on bread' ain't got nuttin' to do wid being hungry

-- Ya does use words like fowl, cock, rock stone and ram goat

-- Every childhood game can be played for 'licks'

-- Soup is water, nuff dumplings, potatoes, yams, eddoes and any other ground provision ya could find

-- You consider any hot beverage to be 'tea' - cocoa tea, coffee tea, tea tea, green tea

-- You finish your sentences wid de word 'dennnnnn'

-- You call an avocado a 'pear'

-- You take sick people to the 'horse-pit-al'

-- You say 'dat eaaaaasy' instead of 'no problems'

-- You have a bad fall and ya either 'lick up' or 'breck up'

-- You play football on the 'parse-ture'

-- 'Horning' has no association with jazz music

-- You wonder why people are always 'playin' de fool', doing 'bare foolishness' or 'sky larking'

-- Anything in the distance is 'yonder'

-- De cardinal points are eass, wess, norf and sowf

-- Yuh constantly explaining dat de dolphin you does eat is not 'Flipper'!

-- A 'cutter' is not a sharp utensil

-- You call a machete a 'cutlass'

-- A 'snakebite' meks you drunk or tipsy - depending pun how much
bites yuh have!

-- Yuh just cyant guh town an' 'doan see someone yuh know

-- When people see ya up pun de road they ask ya if ya still living

-- Yuh call everyone either 'boss man', 'boyyyyyy',
'partner' or 'skipper' (or variations of these)

-- You wouldn't dream of going out anywhere at the slightest sign of 'rain falling'

-- Yuh call a man a 'Johnny' and de man name Kevin

-- You know de 'Banks' is not only good for keeping ya money

-- In moments of disbelief, yuh does say either 'Waaaaait?!' or 'fuh chu?!'

-- Making 'sport' hardly ever has anything do wid sports

-- If ya say ya 'did de dawg', it has nothing to do wid a canine

-- You understand the phrase 'don't off-set me!'

-- You distinguish between publicly and privately-owned transport by 'bus' and 'van' 

- You can 'go up St Lucy' and 'go down St Lucy' without changing direction

-- Words like 'hard' and 'bad' have too many meanings to count

-- You speak of 'the van stand' and everyone knows what you're talking about, even though there are three of them!

-- Yuh know dat a 'hard wine' ain got nuttin tuh do wid liquor

-- Hell is both de worse and the best place ever - you could look good as hell, dem fishcakes could be oily as hell, that garbage could smell stink as hell ...

-- You know the licence plates of all public transport, and you're on a first name basis with all de drivers

-- Yuh does live 5 minutes from de beach and does get a sea bath 5 times a year, if you're lucky!

-- Yuh don't have to be an athlete to know 'bout de 'runnings'

-- Yuh know dat liming ain't got nuttin' to do with de orchard.

-- You tell the host "good night" when you first arrive at someone's home in the evening

-- When someone sympathises with you, you comment 'Yuh tink it easy?'

-- You suck all the marrow from the chicken bone and chew the ice when you finish your drink

-- You have to have black cake at Christmas 

Thanks Totally Barbados for these wonderful jokes about Ya kno when ya is a Bajan.
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