Bikers = Motorcyclists.
Bikies = Members of an outlaw motorcycle club.
The distinction is clear...to us colonials, anyway. Might not make sense to people from places with more evolved criminal underworlds than a bunch of macho pricks with beards who wouldn't look out of place in an S&M leather club.
Similarly;
Surfer = one who engages in the act of surfing.
Surfie = scruffy yob dickhead who has never ridden a wave in his life.
The finer points of Australian lingo are really just a nationally understood combination of monosyllabic grunts.
You should see our parliament - it's fucken embarrassing.
Bikies = Members of an outlaw motorcycle club.
The distinction is clear...to us colonials, anyway. Might not make sense to people from places with more evolved criminal underworlds than a bunch of macho pricks with beards who wouldn't look out of place in an S&M leather club.
Similarly;
Surfer = one who engages in the act of surfing.
Surfie = scruffy yob dickhead who has never ridden a wave in his life.
The finer points of Australian lingo are really just a nationally understood combination of monosyllabic grunts.
You should see our parliament - it's fucken embarrassing.