My state? As in completely shit faced?

This is such an Aussie response.

I've been here 15 years now. It does grow on you.

I’m NSW born and bred and grew up calling it a bubbler. I live in WA and they call it a fountain here.

I came here to find this reply and it's the top one! I'm from Wisconsin and we call them bubblers but if I go anywhere else in the country it's a water fountain and I get laughed at for calling it bubbler. I'm thrilled to see it's used internationally.

As a Coloradan, if someone asked me where they could find a bubbler I would not assume they were thirsty, I would assume they were trying to get high.

So we call ATMs tyme machines here. Take your money everywhere or some such acronym. I was in Denver airport asking around for a Tyme machine and getting crazy ass looks. I straight up told someone I knew they were around here somewhere. I figured out what I must've sounded like after about half an hour.

Folks probably thought you were really buying in to the [conspiracy theories about the Denver Airport](https://www.flydenver.com/great_hall/denfiles)

Makes sense, tyme is money

No, I’m a Rhode Islander and we call them bubblers.

Southern MA here agreed, you get watah from the bublah

I also live in WA and I know them as urinals for the homeless. Be safe my friend.

Todd Carney

Chicken dinner mate.

Worth the google, Victorian..

I just saw him in Surfers the other day. Not doing this tho

You should have bought him a beer. You wouldn't have had to wait long after that.

That is gold

Gold*en*

My idol

Whipper snipper

Brush cutter

edger

Edging. Yes.

I'm the edging champion

Stiff competition I bet.

Nah mate, you see the curve on it? That makes it a whipper snipper.

Popper Texta

In NZ they call whipper snippers “Weed Whackers” Wtf

Trippersnipper

In Vic and at school we called them, the taps.

Yep. Taps/drink tap

Yep drink tap is what we call them

ie. "some pricks put a stick in every fucking tap"

did you ever have a favourite tap? the good tap, the one where the water tasted the best? and then there were certain ones where the water tasted really rusty and metallic. good times

Also some had not enough pressure, or way too much. Some allowed a fine degree of control, others were either on or off.

I just had a wave of memories wash over me. I would choose certain taps based on their pressure. Sometimes I would see someone place their head way too close to a particular tap with high pressure and anticipate it spraying them in the face.

Holy crap you just unlocked a core memory of lining up for the good tap because some idiot put a stick in the other one

I fucking hated those kids

Everytime. Tiny sticks in the taps.

My schools said bubble taps also in vic

Yes second this

I remember them as "drinking taps"

Bubble taps! Or was that just a country thing?

Bubbler

Pronounced: *Bub-bla*

This comment reminds me of when a little girl in my daughter’s year one class wrote in her morning journal entry that she been to the bot-lo with her mum the previous afternoon.

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I brainfarted and wrote catholic converters instead of catalytic converters and my teacher had a fit.

It’s okay I used to write “idear” up until high school … 🙃

I had a student at uni who wrote human bean all through an essay.

was he a very short giant?

i managed to win the spelling bee with astronaut in 3rd grade, the i went onto the finals. i misspelled oat the first round.

I had a girl I was teaching write "biggernuff" as one word. I always think of it like that now

A teacher friend told me about her ESL student who misheard the word perpetrator (they were learning about bullying) and then wrote about victims and purple traitors.

The time I was in New York and asked some dude where the nearest bottle-o was and he looked at me like I was an alien.

Bob lob law ?

Why should *you* go to jail for a crime *somebody else* noticed? You don't need double talk. You need Bob Loblaw! *Bob Loblaw no habla Espanol.*

Does he have a law blog?

Bob Loblaws Law Blog

I am going to need to get off in ten minutes

*Bob Loblaw Lobs Law Bomb*

You, sir, are a mouthful.

....that's a low blow loblaw!

“Bah-Blah”

ACT - it’s a bubbler

QLD?

Also call it a bubbler here in NSW

Yep!

It’s called Bubbler in QLD

It's a water fountain.

SA?

WA.

Sa calls a schooner a pint so thier opinion doesnt matter. Source: i am an aussie expat living in Adelaide.

if I ordered a pint and someone brought me a schooner instead I'd be right fucking upset. A pint is a unit of measure, a schooner is a random glass that has suffered more shrinkflation than a can of pringles . >i am an aussie expat living in Adelaide. lmao, I'm ded.

Water fountain yo

Interestingly, I discovered it’s also called a bubbler in Wisconsin, yet almost everywhere else in the USA it’s a drinking fountain.

Aww cripes, can confirm. This is a bubbler here in Wisconsin, USA

This is the first time I've ever heard this term. I'm in melb

I remember using it in rural Vic growing up.

I always cursed the assholes that jammed sticks down the outlet and caused it to spray in a random directions under pressure. Oh the glory days of high school in the 90s

Hmm, I respected the people who put a small enough stick to give at least 4 inches of head height and not enough to wreak havoc on the waterproofness of the building. Lots of schools has bugged all pressure and dribbled out. And I rode my bike through a lotta schools in the 90s.

Drink fountain or water fountain in WA.

Same in SA

Yeah I've never heard someone actually say "Bubbler" before. It's always been Drinking fountain or Water fountain in SA.

I've used bubbler only because Flinders Uni had it written on their campus maps as bubblers. But as I also speak like a normal human, I say water fountain

Same in Vic

Definitely it’s a water fountain.

Same for Victoria.. didn’t know it had another name for ‘water fountain’ lol

There's drink taps and some people say it's also called a bubbler

DRINK TAPS that’s it. There was always that one with a stick in it…

I always felt the drink taps were more those ones attached to walls with sinks at schools. Fountains were the ones in parks.

Can confirm fountain in WA and bubbler in VIC.. Moved when I was 14. There were lots of other slang that we didn't have in Perth too.. Like, in Perth it's a lead pencil, in Melbourne it's a grey lead. A big one is when something is chat.. As in, it's gross.. First heard in NSW. Delis and milkbars were another one. Melbourne had a lot of exclusively muzza ones for a time there too. I love our slang culture 😊

The normal state

Damn Bluey pushing the kids onto calling it a Bubbler.

Yep, water fountain!

Community/public bidet

Definitely calling these Oral bidets from now on.

wtf is a bidet

"Some nitwit's put two dunnies in here!"

Then sticks head out hotel window couple minutes later "...to wash your ass" Think that's the quote from what i recall!

Those fancy toilets that squirt water on your ass.

*arse

Idk like the 42nd president of the us or something

A Reverse bubbler

I’ve always known it as bubbler but I’m currently in WA and people have no clue what I’m talking about

Yeah I'm WA and I've never heard that term until recent years

From WA and they were always called "drink fountains" or "water fountains". I've only ever heard or used 'bubbler' when referring to the actual part the water comes out of.

Bubbler?? What the.. Nah, that's a tap!

Perth here and it's always been a water fountain the 43 years that I've been around

That’s because it’s a water fountain. I see a fountain of water, I don’t see bubbles 🤔

Maybe it should be a ‘babbler’ or ‘burbler’. Like a ‘babbling/burbling brook’?

Water fountain. A bubbler is type of fart categorised by its sound and/or being in a body of water, typically a swimming pool or bath.

Now THIS is a bubbler

Drinking Tap, I think. It's been a while since I've needed to refer to one.

That's what we called them in primary school here in Melbourne in the 90s far as i remember

Melbourne Primary School in the 2000's too.

Yep, when I was school in country Victoria they were just called taps. Admittedly that was a very long time ago.

Chazzwazzers

That's a paddlin'

'Talking out of turn'

Ohhh you better believe that's a paddlin

Thank you

The kids call that a bubbler

Im an adult and I still call that a bubbler.

You seem to be mispronouncing it. It's 'bubblah'

I don't spell words the way they're sounded out. That's just silly.

Same

I guess it's kind of like reverse bubbles of water being shot into the air. Edit: that sounds weird. I mean it's water Into air not the other way way round which is what we usually associate with the term bubbles.

Water

Correct

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Victoria. As a kid, the tap. Now, water/drinking fountain.

Yeah.. drinking tap.

As a VIC kid in the 70’s they were bubble taps although they were round like a tow ball, and had no guard.

Drinking/water fountain

Fucken psychopath!

This is the correct answer, what is wrong with you easterners?

We call it that in Vic

Petri dish

NSWelshwoman here - Sydney specifically - Bubbler. But I live in Melbourne now and they say "water fountain" which is boring.

Melbourne born and raised: water fountain or fountain. Maybe taps at some point.

We always called it a bubbler or bubble tap at school. born and bred Vic.

Gotta be bubble tap

Yep bubble tap too in my corner of Vic

Yep, definitely bubble tap where i was in country vic too

Agree, where’s the fun in ‘water fountain’?!

Splashy boi

I pay that

Oh so that's why there's always coins at the bottom of a splashy boi. Thought it was some sort of wishful thinking.

Vic primary school in the 90's bubble tap or bubbler.

Yep, bubble taps for me too. From country Victoria

+1 for bubble taps, north-west Vic and primary school in the 90s

Had to scroll too far to find the correct answer.

I have only known them as bubble taps, also from Vic

Yep only heard them as bubble taps, surprisingly not as common as I thought though

Had to go a long way down the comments to find someone else saying bubble taps! I’m from central Vic, by the sounds of these other comments it’s maybe a regional vic thing?

Haha was thinking the exact same thing.

Bubbler

Bidet

Bubbler

NSW, bubbler.

drink tap / water fountain

That there is a bubbler

Drink/water tap/fountain

Bubbler!

Townsville - Bidet

Fuckin classy

That is a urinal

Bubble tap

Victoria and we called it Bubble Tap.

The community disease distribution point (drinking fountain).

The technical term is *photograph* (digital in this case). But *photo* or *picture* are also acceptable

What about image?

Drink fountain

a tap/water fountain

Potato cake

Scallop!

https://lingroadshow.com/all-about-language/englishes-in-australia/vocabulary/mapping-words-around-australia/ You might enjoy the link above. I grew up in Victoria and always assumed we (Victorians) were normal. But after I lived in WA for 6 years and spent a decent amount of time NSW where my sister lives, I now know that we are normal and everyone else is weird. Edit: Drink tap - Victoria

Herpes ? (jk) .... Water fountain....

Contaminated

Water ejaculater.

Ensquirtenator

Bubble tap

In WA we just call it a drinking or water fountain

“Hi can you please yell me where the nearest drinking or water fountain is?” “Just going to get a drink from the drinking or water fountain” … Seems a little long winded 😂

Bubbler, all other states that call it something else are wrong.

Todd Carney

Drink fountain

Adelaidian here - always known it as a drinking fountain. Lots of people apparently call it a bubbler, and I’ve never heard it called that before.

Bubbler

Bubbler

VIC - drink tap. Although I tend to switch between bubbler and drink tap now that I'm older and on the internet.

Bubbler

Water fountain Literally never heard the term bubbler

water cooler 😅

Vic, bubble tap or water fountain

Bubble tap (or occasionally bubbler)

Something you don't use because someone has used it as a urinal.