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It's a stubby holder.
Yes. Nobody calls it a stubby cooler. It is intended to stop your hand getting cold, as much as keeping the beer cold.
Yep we definitely call it a stubbie holder but I have heard it called a stubbie cooler as well!! as atleast here in Adelaide
She's definitely only showing the polite and PG rated Aussie slang.
@@geoffoconnor3487
It's intended to keep ur beer cold, bugga ur hands!
In 38° heat no-one wants warm beer!
Beer comes in stubbys!
100 %
Well, I’ve always known them as stubby holders, because like… they hold stubbies.
Aye! No idea who's running around calling 'em coolers! XD
@@KaralexiaQLDer’s 😂🥲😅
One thing you need to remember in all this is that this lady is talking slowly so you foreigners can understand. In Australia we talk much faster than this to each other. Love your channel, mate! ❤️🇦🇺
Except in the back blocks of Queensland where they talk even slower and much broader LOL
If there was an Olympic event for breaking the most sentences with pauses in a video Ryan would be the Gold Medalist every time. lol
Agree
Bloke needs a new keyboard every other month. 😉
He’s driving me crazy he’s talking more the presenter
Right? Stoooopp 😂
This video was hard to watch!
I've said this before but there's a descending grade of words in Australia. "Mate' is a near universal word and covers everything from friendliness to hostility - "Are you having a go at me, mate?" [tone is everything]. Things are going downhill if you are called 'Sport" - "Listen, sport, you want to pull your head in". When you get called 'Sunshine" it's time to run - "I'm beginning to think you fell down and broke your nose, sunshine."
🤣🤣🤣
Sometimes I use "Sunshine" in a friendly banter kind of way, but it still sounds a bit menacing (even though I don't actually mean it that way) and people aren't really sure, like in a mock friendly tone, "Off you go Sunshine". I rarely use "Sport" (in fact I don't think I ever have), but I do use "Mate" from time to time. However, I often use "Dude" which is more American, but I use it a bit like "Mate", particularly when I'm driving, like, "Dude, what the hell are you doing?", or "Don't cut me off dude". In that context, "Dude", like "Mate" has no gender, so recipient can be male, female, or anywhere in between.
I use Mate and Bloke often , Dude never and Sunshine is a line in the sand moment .
Stubby Holder, never heard heard anyone call it a Stubby Cooler.
We use stubby cooler here in Qld.
“Pub” is the abbreviated version of “Public House”, the original name for a public drinking house
@@That_is_for_me_to_know from England
Some of what she referes to as the older slang words are still used but it depends what demographic and or location that you are in. Gander and dunny are still used, just not by everyone.
Ripper is an old one. And I have never heard the Gold Coast referred to as the goldie
@@dianacourt377 It is unfortunately. And the "Sunny Coast". Even on weather reports. Urrgh.
@@GeoffCB do you mean the sunny coast for the Sunshine coast? Is this how they refer to them in QLD? (I am in NSW)
@@dianacourt377 I've heard it called the Grey Coast.. cos 95% of the time it's overcast... but the Goldy for tourists.. deffo!
@@dianacourt377 seriously?!
"Servo" or service station was from days in the distant past (which I vaguely remember as a young kid) when an attendant came up to your car, asked how much petrol (yes the "l" is pronounced) you wanted, pumped it in, washed your windscreen, checked the oil, and so on. All included in the pump price. Such days are consigned to folklore now. Occasionally there is still a mechanic workshop attached to servos. There is sometimes a bottle-o attached to the servo (eg a small Coles Liquorland attached to Shell servos) too!
Also checked your tyres and gave water for your dog. More civilized times.
I miss those servos.
One of my first jobs.
We have a proper servo who pumps your petrol. ❤️Cairns
@ I’ve looked for one in Sydney but sadly I think I’m more likely to find a dodo bird.
Australia's use of "footy" and "soccer" for two different sports, is usually understood in the US but the one that always gets me is "hockey". You say hockey in Australia and everyone knows you mean the thing you play on grass with a ball, whereas in the US and definitely in Canada they instantly think you are talking about ice hockey and want you to clarify that it is field hockey that you are talking about.
Bro I’ll come to Indiana to say gday- cannot believe you’ve never met anyone from Australia
there's an aussie guy in indiana who hosts car meets/bbq's on his property for charity. It's called "outback in the midwest". he has a bunch of HSV's and Falcons. saw him on Tavarish's channel (the vid where he imports a maloo ute). Maybe Ryan can go have a gander and join the great cause. Just search outback in the midwest on google.
Yes we are part of the Commonwealth
Which means that we are still attached to England's coattails. But perhaps one day we will grow into adults.
Mate, I think you have gone to the dark side without you realising. You said chicken burger rather than chicken sandwich. 😂😂😂😂
Yay!!
And Ryan doesn't even know he's doing it😂😂😂👌👌👌👌👌😉🤣💪💪
If it's not a chicken patty then it is a sandwich, I'm with the seppos on this one.
😂
I thought it was a sarnie
When I was a kid, the “Bottle’o” was a bloke who would come to your home with his horse and dray and collect the empty beer bottles and pay you for them. He’s gone now but the term “Bottle’o” was somehow transferred to the bottle shop.
When I was a teenager, a bottl'o was someone who collected empty bottles from bins or just off the ground (wherever people littered a lot, like at parks after a party, or sporting fields after a game, or just on the side of the road) to turn them in for money. It tended to be an insult, like they were poor, or druggies. That was before it became popular like now. I recall there was a period you could cash in drink cans and bottles for I think 5c which ended a while before the current 10c "containers for change" came in.
No, we're not a British colony. We're a FORMER British colony. That's how the English language started here, and I guess that's what she means.
I hope Ryan sees this comment.
More or less, she means we were founded as a British colony and thus our language, laws and culture are in origins those of Britain.
Same as New Zealand, Canada, South Africa and the USA.
@@ianharkin2691 when she said that she was referring to our history. He just jumped in too soon and assumed she meant now although I suppose given that we are still part of the commonwealth it could also be said we are more colony than not.
@@marsbearmcw3050 , yeah gets a bit hazy. We are not a republic , we are a Commonwealth country . We are no longer considered British subjects, yet the King is still our head of state and our taxes fund royal visits etc..
We are still apart of the commonwealth our head of state is still the king
Place names can't always be shortened:
For example, Wagga Wagga can just be called Wagga. But Woy Woy will never just be Woy.
Curl Curl can never be Curl
I am originally from Wagga and that's how you tell a local. One exception is the Mayor always says Wagga Wagga when making an official announcement.
Same with the nearby Gumly (Gumly).
Mate, you didn't say Wagga is pronounced Wogga.
@@jennyhenningham4100 maybe the rule is it needs two syllables?
I always heard that only someone from wagga wagga can call it wagga, the saying is "only someone from wagga wagga can call wagga wagga, wagga"
I still use “dunny” I must be of lower class but I still like the sayings “Bangin’ like a dunny door in the wind”
In a cyclone.
@@infin8ee You don't want to go through a cyclone. The outside dunny is probably 10 miles away now.
Banging like a dunny door, and what it means, I don't think that applies to cyclonic weather. Some of the girls I met were cyclonic. Usually redheads, lol. Celtic blood.
Me too 👍
Same
@@infin8ee Same here
I’m Australian, from Victoria and a stubby is a small bottle of beer, a slab is a carton with bottled beer in it, a doorstep is a carton with canned beer in it and it’s a stubby holder not stubby cooler.
Waiting for someone to confirm stubby holder which is all I have ever heard it called.
A box of cans/ tinnies can also be a slab.
@ UIsually same price and way lighter to carry home.
WA here. A carton is 24 stubbies and a slab is 30 cans. Stubbie holder is just that. 750 ml bottle of beer is a long neck.
A slab is from when the cans used to be in a plastic wrapped 'slab'. A carton is, obviously, the name for those in a cardboard carton. The glass stubbies were in a carton
I’m an Aussie in LA. Everyone here hears me speak and thinks I’m from London. So I set them straight, then everything changes. They became more friendly. Love LA. Love the USA.🇺🇸🇦🇺
I had the same thing ordering lunch at a food cart in Denver, lady asked me which part of England I am from. When i said no, from Australia she was interested and asked me lots of Questions about Australia and what I thought of America.
I've visited California over a dozen times. With that many Australians I started to think LA meant "Little Australia".
She's from a big city. She assumes that certain words like 'dunny' aren't used often. She's wrong.
Bloody oath mate...
I do my best work in the dunny...
💪🏼😄
Don’t they say that 90% of our population live in the big cities? So yeh I guess that makes her right 😂
@@wilsonperez2668 Pissa or piss house or even shitta or shit house...
@@Dr_KAP About 66% live in the cities, not 90.
And plenty in those cities say dunny too.
I do think its less common than it was about 20 years ago, but it's not gone.
Agreed.
If it’s around friends or family I’ll commonly use dunny/shitter/throne room otherwise I’ll just ask for the toilet.
"The Gabba" is slang for the Brisbane Cricket Ground. The stadium and sporting ground is located in the Brisbane suburb of Woolloongabba and is one of the major Australian stadiums for playing international Cricket matches, as well as AFL, Rugby Union, Rugby League, Soccer and many events for the Brisbane Olympic Games were staged there.
Gabba in Germany Holland Netherlands means mate
Brisbane Olympics "were" staged there? You a time traveller mate? Hopefully you're not a Terminator 😂😉
Is it 🤦 I literally thought that's what it's called lol
You mean the Commonwealth Games in 1980?
@trevorkrause7220 that's cool, I didn't know that and could never understand what Gabba was an acronym for lol.
12:45 hot dogs are properly frankfurters, whereas sausages are more like the English type
Ryan, My favourite Aussie brand names is,
"Start Ya Bastard" a product to make starting a motor easy, be it a car or truck motor, or lawn mowers brush cutters 2 or 4 stroke, in fact, it never fails. Although this is not an Aussie slang it is a name that could only come from Australia.
Haha as soon as I read the brand, I pictured an annoyed older bloke trying to get a motor going. Awesome business brand name
It is a slang as well actually, probably where they got the idea.
Its the companion slang to 'Come on yah mongrel' when something refuses to budge; whether a dog pulling at the leash to keep sniffing a tree, or a bolt that won't come loose.
Never heard of that brand, but I love it! 😂
They (Start ya Bastard) sponsored a drag car...
It raced in the US, the commentators lost their heads!!
@@baabaabaa-El😂
I’m Australian, and visited Indiana. We thought of moving there, around Nashville (little town near Bloomington, not the Tennessee version). Met a couple other Aussies there we’d been in touch with on FB. One’s a builder, the other is the head of the accounting dept at the University in Bloomington. By the way, we were there when the “polar vortex” hit, temps down to -30°F. Chilly!
Look up doona, bludger, dunny diver, Manchester, smallgoods, smoko, crib, budgie smugglers, nippers, barracking, bin chickens... I could go on, but you'd probably interrupt me 😉
ooh snap 😄
Ken excellent list mate.
Service Stations name derived from when attendants "serviced" your car by washing the windscreen, checking and topping up oil and filling your tank without you even leaving your car.
And no tips
No, they used to service your car, all servos had a mechanics on the side bit, Bowser's out front.
The bloke wd fill your car, check your oil and wash the windscreen.
They've mostly gone now, you fill up at the servo and get your car serviced at the mechanics..
@@baabaabaa-El Even the word Bowser (a brand name) has survived in Australia.
@@GeoffCB It has mate...
For years the little town l grew up in had 1 pump.. Standard, had little coloured balls in a glass bubble so you cd see if it was pumping.
You had to drive half an hr to get Super from the next town!!
It’s a contraction of ‘full service station’ to just service station, then to the Aussie - servo. Full service stations did do everything from maintenance and repairs, to fuel, to food etc. But they also had attendants who came out and put the fuel in, checked the water etc while the driver sat in the car. The only places I’ve seen that do close to this now are in Japan.
If an Australian doesn't like you, they will tell you. No bullsh*t, no apologies.
Exactly 😂
we like everyone mate 😁
It usually won't be for no reason, either.
The majority of people here are okay, but ever country has some total morons.
Doesn't change that will live in Adelaide till I die here.
Like the Germans they say it to straight to your face no beating around the bush but they can sound harsh, agressive even when they aren't trying to be.
They are very misunderstood the Germans of today they aren't all Nazi's.
This movie will show you how Aussie households (or Bogans) are The Castle (1997 Australian film)
I myself cringe at that shite!
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Yes, but all in fun. As with Kath and Kim.
@@GeoffCB😂😂😂😂
@@GeoffCB I know, I also cringe with "Down Under" song, and the Australia movie as well!
Yer Dreamin. It's classic bewt aussie cinema
Bloody hell she tried to display herself as the smartest person in the room and failed, despite being the only one there.
I can't believe how much she got wrong 😮
Some Aussie words come from historical brands, Esky comes from the company that made Eskimo coolers, Bottle-O was a Liquor store chain, we Hoover carpets in stead of vacuum.
There are also larger volume beers we call longnecks.
The slang for our money “Bucks” came in shortly after our conversion to decimal currency & was definitely acquired via America. Prior to this, we had similar slang as the English, such as quid for pound etc. I Romberg my father had slang terms for coins too such as trey (three pence), Zac (sixpence), deenah or Bob (one shilling).
I remember Bob and Quid but not the others.
I remember doing “bob a job” for cubs where we would do any jobs around the house for family & neighbours to raise money for the cubs(pre scouts). We also called threepence as throopenny bits & a halfpence as a haypenny bit. It was the currency of my childhood & I was pissed off when we changed to decimal currency. They said we would not lose anything in the changeover, but I remember being very annoyed when my sixpence became 5 cents & my shilling became 10 cents. It meant less lollies for my pocket money. Ripped off!!! Ha ha
Haven’t heard ‘ripper’ since the 70’s. Dunny is still used, very often. It’s never been a stubby cooler, it’s a stubby holder.
Depends what part of the country you're in, or who you hang around with. I know plenty of people who say stubby cooler. When my husband and I are packing drinks for a get together, we also usually just ask "have you packed a cooler?". You should never say never based on only your experience.
Paul Hogan or his mate used to say it on Hoges's 1970s TV show.
The mention of Paul Hogan has reminded me of this minor Australian personality called Steve Irwin. Reckon he used ripper just once or twice since the 70s too 🤔 /s
Ryan watch the movie called the castle
TOTALLY!!! +1 for this. Family movie, Ryan I hope you read this ^ comment. You'll love it!
"Tell him he's dreaming" has become part of the vernacular.
Aah.. the serenity!!
That's goin' straight in the pool room!
@@jennyhenningham4100 one of the most quoted movies of all time 😄
When my Kiwi husband and I adopted our son he was so thrilled but said "don't ever expect me to call him mate!" - I didn't, but it took about 2 days before he did and hasn't stopped since ❤
Hi Ryan..You need to realise that these Australian type videos are made by young people. They don't have the slang down as pat as us older folk. Let's not confuse you anymore though, it's tough enough to learn aus slang, yes it's part of our culture which you seem to enjoy learning about.
Gold Star for you Ryan. You did well!
Hey Ryan love your naivety and enthusiasm to all things Australian, enjoy your content
I have had whole conversations with my Aussie friend in front of a crowd of Americans without even one of them understanding a thing we said.
My son in law is Lebanese He learnt English in Oz. His brothers live in the U.S and learnt English there. On a trip to America
my daughter had to translate for the brothers.. Their words ,spelling and pronunciation is very different
@@dianneraphael8248thats very interesting actually
I once read a quarter-page column in a newspaper, entirely in slang. I understood it easily. But I could see why other people might not.
Well, I guess I'm a nobody because 90% of the time, I would say dunny. And everyone knows what I'm talking about.
I'm guessing she may be from WA or VIC, as I use it relatively commonly depending on company. NSWelshman here.
I only hear the local bogans saying it, no one I know in Sydney these days says it but yeh growing up in the country in the 80s you heard people say it
@@Dr_KAP Not all of Australia is in Sydney, and it probably depends on what suburbs of Sydney one frequents.
@@garrymuir1442 I've never used it, rarely heard it, and I'm 54 so I don't think it is that common, and I grew up in country WA.
“Loo” was a rather twee slang word that caught on with some Aussies in the 1960s onwards when they heard it on British tv shows. Thankfully, the coarse “khazi” did not. But occasionally you hear the stupid Americanisms “bathroom” and “wash room”.
Ryan... try dropping the "r" on the end for an "ah" sound - "rippa", stubby "coola", etc 😊
And the 'bottle-o' is pronounced closer to 'Bott-lo' in most places.
A dunny was an outhouse, so it fell from use when sewerage & indoor loos became the norm.
I still use it
My second cousin Tony (a real Aussie larrikin BTW) had a business in Central Qld many years ago emptying septic tanks (for those that still didn't have town sewerage, you know, in the country). His business name was Tony's Takeaways.
A slab is 24 cans wrapped in plastic in a flat rectangular shape. Bottles(or stubbies) usually come in 4 x 6packs in a cardboard carton
In Australia, we do have hotdogs in the supermarket, but much more popular are our real meat sausages. Americans seem to say sausage when they mean minced meat, but in Australia, the sausage refers to the shape, and the sausage filling refers to the meat and whatever else is inside the natural casings. Sausages are not hotdogs. Sausages can be thin or thick and are made from minced meat and combinations thereof: beef, lamb, pork, chicken, beef and lamb, beef and pork, pork and lamb, lamb with mint, chicken and veg, beef with rosemary and thyme, beef and onion, beef with tomato and herbs, etc. Limitless combinations! We pan fry them, or boil them first and then panfry them, which releases some of the fat and yet keeps it moist and tender, with a crispy skin. Bunnings sausage sizzle is a slice of bread with a sausage and some caramelised onions, then you can choose tomato sauce or barbecue sauce. Delicious. Bloody delicious!
Bunnings sausage sizzle is only a slice of bread on the east :) Here in Western Australia, the sausage sizzle at Bunnings is in a bun, there might be the odd one that chooses to use bread, but it's pretty much always in a bun. Even outside of Bunnings the general consensus over here is a bun :)
@@ray73864 I always ask for the crust, it's almost a bun!
I have been called blasphemous for this, but steamed sausage has become my go-to. A layer of carrot sticks, green beans, sausage. Then some spinach or pak choy or broccoli on top. They loose alot of fat, but stay super moist, n the veg catches alot of flavor, if you use a nice snag. One pot, fast, cleanup is a breeze. My dad had a look in his eye that suggested he was about to disown me, but I've since converted him.
@ The only thing is that the skins can become too thick and chewy, which is why we fry after boiling.
Ryan words can have more than one meaning
Replay it, arvo sounds different to avo. Ah-voh, but avvo short vowel A. I know it’s a problem 8n America when it comes to short vowels, some of them are actually short, like apple, but many of them get drawn out for some reason. Again, I blame Noah Webster for everything that’s wrong with American English.
Webster kept 470,000 English words but the official Oxford Dictionary of English has 600,000 words.
When I was in the Australian Army we were doing a training exercise jumping off of a tower into a river. A British captain was standing on the tower encouraging young soldiers to jump from said tower. the usual response from the soldiers was 'yeah, right mate, when I'm ready' after a dozen had been through he stopped the exercise and addressed the Troops " Right, I wish to remind you I am an officer of her Majesty’s british Army and I am sir, I am not your bloody mate" a moment of silence then chuckles and jeering of about fifty Aussie soldier clapping and laughing whilst shouting back at the tower "yeah, right mate" Makes me laugh to this day. He just went red and I don't recall ever seeing him again.😅
Love it. Serves him right.
smoko is between breky and lunch
Or in the arvo….
😊or both, preferably.
More morning or afternoon tea than an actual meal. Could be a smoke (cigarette) break but usually just a short break from work.
Whenever someone says smoko, all I can think of is this: ua-cam.com/video/j58V2vC9EPc/v-deo.htmlsi=k3hCV5_E0yDkc3bm
Here in South Australia, some of us shorten bottle-o even more like you suggested we would. Bot-lo. Short and sharp.
👍yep and it a carton or a toon
Nationwide I'd say...
I'm pretty sure that's how it sounds when all (maybe most) Aussies say it, now matter how it's written. LOL
How slang, nicknames etc is all about the tone. Inflection is key. Sarcasm is also a big part of pur language and a self deprecating sense of humour.
We call 'em "Stubby Holders" or "Hand warmers". Never heard it called a stubby cooler.. must be an Eastern states thing. As for service stations, back in the day you would drive up and an attendant would come out and provide service - ie fill up with petrol, clean windscreen, add water for wipers - hence the "Service Station". By the late 1980's, these all were "self service" and now referred to in full as Petrol Station but the Servo moniker has stuck
Absolutely NOT an Eastern states thing, she is a Mexican, i.e. she lives south of the NSW border, she included much of the crap they say there, for instance, footy in NSW and Queensland refers to Rugby League Football, not AFL.
I thought she was from WA and therefore some of her knowledge is quite different and she's young so some slang is different as well.
Nah, stubby cooler isn't Eastern states, stubby holder here, too. No idea where she got that one from.
I'm from Vic and I call them stubby holder's. I've never heard anyone say stubby cooler
@Zygon13 WA is 20 years behind.... But even then she is wrong
I believe that the can of 'Off' used to be called 'Buzz Off' back in the day and was reusing an Australian slang [Buzz off] which you would say to a person who is talking and annoying you. Their yap is irritating and continuous so you'd say "Buzz off" either in mild irritation or in a very strong tone. So the term was adopted to sell insect repellant since insects often buzz.
Pity the flies never buzz off when told!
PETROL
"what you pronounce the L ?"
Yeah we’re weird like that 😀
Petrol is short for petroleum spirit. Still longer than gas though. The Seppos win that one.
if we drop any letter from "petrol" it's kind of the "o", really does roll from the "r" to the "l" doesn't it 😆
We haven't been a colony for over 100 years.
If you gef your car serviced in Australia you may go to service centre or a garage. Petrol stations often used to have a small garage with a mechanic or two. Service centres are those recognised under a warranty and are often sited with a dealership selling cars.
If everyone is ignoring you and you say something but no one acknowledges you, then maybe they don’t like you. You don’t have that problem, we’re loyal to you, Ryan! We just want to teach you, and if that requires some corrections, we’ll do those too. 😃👍🇦🇺🥰
We are still part of the British Commonwealth and we participate in the Commonwealth Games every four years. “Australia is a constitutional monarchy and our head of state is the King. However, the King does not have a role in the day-to-day running of Australia. On the advice of the Prime Minister, the King appoints the Governor-General, who is the King's representative in Australia.”
“Australia is a founding member of the modern Commonwealth and has been an active participant in Commonwealth organisations, programs and meetings for over 60 years. It is in the top four-largest contributors to the Commonwealth budget.”
This is not the case I’m afraid my friend. There is no such thing as the British Commonwealth. The Commonwealth of Nations has been independent from Britain for many years. Please feel free to look it up but yeh most definitely NOT part of any BRITISH commonwealth. Our head of state is the King of Australia (that’s his official title) - will leave you to read up on what that means and why the Commonwealth is no longer British. Always happy to help, take care ❤ 👍
As pointed out, there is no longer a British Commonwealth. It's long gone. The Commonwealth of Nations is basically just a large club and Britain is no longer in charge of it.
Ah, well, it was called British when I was growing up, so that’s how I think of it. Missed the updates.
@@Dr_KAP Hehe, that was the only sentence I wrote myself. Everything else is in quotation marks because I did look it up. Thanks for the correction. 🥰
Lotto is a actually totally differant game We have lotto and lotteries.
the Sydney Opera house was funded by lotteries.
Lotto is generally balls in a basket or similar. Lottery is generally ticket numbers being drawn/selected.
@@peterhoz Tatts ticket for us older generations!…
@@Zygon13
“I’ve bought tickets with my spouse & we’ve got shares in the opera house!” The More they Try To Keep Me Down, song from the - 1970’s?
She is from Melbourne and she meant TattsLotto, also called XLotto or CrossLotto, which is neither a lottery nor ordinary lotto.
She missed ‘a roadie’ (one for the road). “Just gunna have a roadie and I’m outta here” (before leaving the pub etc). My brother still says this so I always know when he’s leaving 😂🍺
I’ve heard it called a traveller 😂
@@pamelasparkes-bm5oz not heard that one, I’m getting old lol
always called a traveller, a roadie is someone who moves and sets up Rock Bands.
A roadie can be taken to mean someone that travels with a band on the road and is responsible for setting up the band equipment and staging for each gig.
@@pamelasparkes-bm5ozYeah I've only freaky heard it called a traveller, not a roadie. A roadie to me is the Kind of roadie that sets up sound equipment etc on tour.
Ryan, while I recognise that southern Indiana is not quite the centre of the universe, I'm a tad surprised that you've never met an Australian. Whether in Washington or Wales, Nairobi or Nagoya, Bergen or Bujumbura, I've rarely gone a month over the past 75 yrs without bumping into an Aussie.
The phrase has kind of been lost to time as cartons became more popular, but a slab is specifically when all cans are laid out on the same level. They used to come in a cardboard tray, shrink wrapped, but now in the non plastic days, everything's in cardboard boxes, so modern slabs don't really resemble a slab.
Also a stubby, is specifically a short single serve bottle with no neck, like VB, not just any old bottle.
Yeah it is weird, in NSW the 'stubby' is the mid size bottle 375 or 330mL , 'tallies' or 'long necks' are 750mL and small 250mL bottle is referred to as 'twist top' or 'throw down' . Grew up in NSW and that's all I've ever known them as, but would imagine that varies amongst the states.
I’d say that will it originally referred to the VB style bottle with no neck, it has meant the single serve bottle with or without a neck, for a long time. (As distinct from a “long neck” 750ml bottle)
And it’s still a stubby holder even though all good beer comes in cans. Maybe we can get “tinnie holder” started.
Finally Ryan, a video with an actual Australian explaining Australia 🇦🇺 ! 👏🏼👏🏼
I'm an Australian and have visited Indiana. Sure, it was because I have family who live in Kentucky, but still...
Tall poppy syndrome is a term which originated in Australia and New Zealand in the 1980s that refers to people with notable public success, who excessively promote their own achievements and opinions.[1][2] Intense scrutiny and criticism of such a person is termed as "cutting down the tall poppy".
Nope, Aussies use the tall poppy syndrome out of envy and petty jealousy, not because the person is heavily promoting themselves as you claim.
It’s a very Australian thing to do, that’s why it’s referred to as ‘typical tall poppy syndrome’ as it’s not about the person themselves but US being petty yet using it as an excuse to cut the person down….
@bellabana your life must be sad and you are wrong.
Did you see people like Weary Dunlop get cut down? No
Charles Kingsford Smith ? No
Bradman? No
Albert Namatjira? No
Sir John Monash? No
Peter Doherty? No
Fred Hollows? No
Sir Reginald Ansett? No
Sidney Myer? No
Dick Smith? No
Paul Hogan? No
Bud Tingwell? No
Richie Benaud? No
Dawn Fraser? No
Pharlap? No
Ita Buttrose? No
The list goes on.
But the fly-by-nighters, the people who think like Trump, those who are in it for themselves and don't care who they stand on, on their way up are the tall poppies that get cut down
Christopher Skase YES
Alan Bond YES
Gina Rinehart YES
Rupert Murdoch YES (His mother would be turning in her grave if she knew what he did/does)
Any politician (past or present) "who wroughts the system" YES
Clive Palmer YES YES YES
Do you see a pattern forming here ?
Tall Poppy Syndrome may have historically started out as jealousy or resentment, but for the past 40 or 50 years it is a way to bring superficial hucksters back down to earth, no matter what industry, level of society or level of BS they have been spouting.
There's a very successful book from then called "Tall Poppies" (or similar) and it explains how we tend to tear people down who are too successful, or move out of their "station". When Kylie Minogue first had success in the UK , people in Australia turned against her, stating that she was "up herself" and so on. It's always been about staying humble and not putting up with anyone who thinks they're better than anyone else.
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@bellabana Nup. Don't agree. We cut down tall pollies when they're also wankers about their success. If they're decent people, they can be as successful as they like and most of us won't dump on them.
If something is Crash Hot means it’s good or if something isn’t so crash hot it means it’s bad. If something is nothing to write home about it means it’s not so good.
Dude, the old 2 ears 1 mouth rule.
Wish maccas would bring back all-day brekkie, at least the limited version. 1130am is far too early on a weekend to end the brekkie menu!
Bottlos are also commonly drive thru! Best thing ever they pack it in your boot and you pay out the window. We like to make it easy
Mate! You are an honorary Australian! You are welcome here!
a snag and a hot dog are nothing to do with each other. Hot dogs are generally fatty horrible things though sometimes you're in the mood but a snag is great and limitless in variety.
Awe mate you got the PC Version of our slang Nuff said 😂
Ken Oath mate...
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Yep 😂😂😂😂
No offence, but outside Australian humour, we tend to like British rather than American humour.
Definitely.
Oh god yes!!!
Because of the wit in it. There’s no clever twists in US humour.
I hear funny Americans but not humourous.
@ correct 😂
Bottle-O is a Chain of Liquour stores in Queensland and NSW. The name seems to have entered the lexicon up there as common word for all bottle shops, but its not used in Victoria, at least not among my Millennial generation. We just say Bottle shop, or we used to maybe say drive-thru as there were a lot of drive through bottle shops in the 80s and 90s, like Thirsty Camel.
I knew the term loooong before the stores came along.
If you want to hear a tradie use some of this Aussie slang in an entertaining way, you should check out Bruce’s videos on Drain Cleaning Australia. He’s hillarious 😆
she's chockers mate
A Stubby was a particular short necked bottle containing a specific beer, but across the decades, it has become more widely used, even by Bundaberg brewed soft drinks, which Walmart imports.
2:53... In that case, we should pay Indiana a visit if we have the chance.
When deciding a footy team, it can be hard for someone new to the country. Traditionally it was related to your suburb or city however it’s 2025 not 1925 so the whole country is your oyster. I have asked new arrivals how they chose their team. The answers varied from the first game they saw, to who they worked with, to the colours they traditionally followed at home. There is no right or wrong answer you just have to find your tribe- especially here in Melbourne. As for explaining local sayings, I work with a number of people who were not born in Australia, I am the cultural ambassador… I explain sayings eg. ants in your pants and other cultural norms - fairy bread. It can be hard arriving in a new country and not understanding what is going on. I know I moved to New Zealand and let me tell you it’s a different country 50% of the time and had to go through the whole language thing. Fun fact in NZ you go to varsity not university, and a milk bar is a dairy. Have a good day and by the way you can visit Australia by chance if you are heading to New Zealand.
They have great ice cream, I’ve heard.
Every November many Australian's participate in Movember. Growing a mo and raising money for prostate cancer. So, Mo, is actually very common haha.
22:50 in Brisbane there is a suburb called woolloongabba (woo-lin-gah-ba) and the stadium that was built there is officially named the gabba
Woolgoolga in NSW is referred to ad Woopi.
Stubby holder
never heard it called cooler stubby should be cool before you put it in 😎
i still say dunny
Many years ago in Oz, our servo's (garages) always had mechanics working on cars. There are still servo's that have mechanics today, many of which do the road worthy on cars when you sell them or in NSW case, once your car is over 5yrs old, you need to provide a current rwc to get another 12mths registration on your car.
Australia is still part of the Commonwealth of Nations, which is not the same as "England," but is a group of independent countries that were mostly formerly under British rule, and Australia is considered a "Commonwealth realm" where the British monarch (King Charles III) is still the head of state, though this role is largely symbolic
Of course, you realise that we don’t have the British monarch as our Head of State? Oh no! Instead of that, we have our very own Head of State, our constitutional monarch the King/Queen of Australia, although we do share the real person occupying the office of our Head of State with 14 or so other equally independent countries. So rather than saying “the British monarch (King Charles III) is still the head of state” it would have been more accurate to have inserted “also” before “is the head of state”, having removed the “still”, more accurately reflecting the current status of our Head of State.
@@DeepThought9999 In other words we share the same 'Head of State' as the UK?
I’ve just replied to another comment on here where someone said we are still part of the British commonwealth! I’m shocked people still think this, and to suggest we are still a colony is even worse 😂😂
ripper isn’t really to describe a thing or person but it’s just an expression used after something good/lucky happens..like after winning the lotto
@@mrl1408 "you bloody rippa"! 😉
Less common, but I’ve definitely heard it.
Some call the bottle-o the grog shop.... just so you know Ryan.... that's where we get our grog.... depending where you live I guess. Place names.. Newy = Newcastle, The Gong = Wollongong.
I'm surprised she didn't mention the way some Australians shorten the names for the days of the week. Mundee, Tuesdee, Wendsdee, Thursdee, Fridee, Sat'day, Sundee. And although she refered to her examples as being fairly universal across all regions and demographics in Australia, I don't find that at all. I moved from Newcastle, NSW to Geelong, Victoria and noticed a lot of differences in slang and pronunication. Sometimes it was confusing - like when my school friends would ask me what I was doing tonight and I thought they meant "this evening" but that actually meant "this afternoon after school finishes". Weird.
That’s a cockney London thing we appropriated.
You said, “Aussie Mozzie”. Don Spencer wrote a great song for kids called the Aussie Mozzie.
As an Aussie, just a bit of advice for anyone trying to learn the accent. We are super lazy here, the letter ‘R’ that belongs on the end of any word, we usually don’t pronounce.
Example: BAR becomes BAH, CAR becomes CAH, WATER becomes WATUH and so on so forth haha.
We still use Dunny in Queensland.
Sandringham is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria as well as a suburb of Sydney, NSW. There’s also a small town in rural Queensland called Sandringham, with a population of 49 people!
I don't know if I would call Sandringham Qld a "town". It's really more a rural locality. A bit like Kokotungo near the town I grew up in (Wowan, pop. about 200). I guess we thought of Kokotungo as a town, but it too, with a pop. of about 89, is really just a rural locality. Back when I lived in Wowan, all you could see driving "through" Kokotungo on the road to Baralaba, was 1 house, the Post Office and a hall (I think the PO and hall are no longer there). The rest of the population lived on properties in the locality.
Nope. You can just use "Mate" when you don't know the name of that arsehole who just stole your parking spot. no affection at all. It's like the American, "Buddy". You missed the whole point of the "eee" sound. That's the sound of a "y". Not the spelling of the sound.
Yep its the phonetic.
yeah he really fumbled that part, also she was explaining how many beers are in a carton and he was too busy pausing it to listen and just went "must be a 12 pack" 😂
Yes, stubby holder. And I never hear anyone use "ripper" these days
Bro, instead of saying happy arvo Aussies don't say that crap, I'll spell it how it sounds but say it fast, Gdaaaay mayte---------------------howya garn!!!! That's how we greet each uva!
Got another one!
A text to my brother an hour ago: "I found a bottle-o with interesting beers. Want to check it out?"
I have 2 cool stubby coolers:
A Pacman one that I bought at an op shop (short for opportunity shop) - you'd call it a thrift store.
A Bali-themed one that my parents brought back from Indonesia. There are A LOT of Aussie tourists in Bali, enough that the Aussie embassy there has a department that helps tourists get out of legal trouble when they do stupid sh*t on holiday.
It’s aaavo and a-vo. The a in avocado is a short sound. Like the first a in Appalachia. A slab has between 24-30 beers. 😅I think. Haven’t bought one on a while
Slab is 24 cans or stubbies and 30 can cartons is a "block".
Esky is actually a brand name but is so common, it doesn’t what brand your cooler is, it will be referred to as an Esky.
We are still a member of the commonwealth as many former British colonies are.
As many FORMER British colonies are.
@ I stand corrected. Touché
Edited To former British……
@ Thanks Marvin.
If you're in the Pub, you need to know that a Pot is a small beer, a Schooner is a bigger beer. Many places also do pints but you need to ask.
Also at the bottle-o you can buy a box of wine known as a goonbag. Most frequently bought by wino's...
3:40... My first passport's cover stated in 1959, that I was a British Subject & an Australian Citizen.
This would have changed after the passage and Royal Assent of the Australia Act in 1986, I believe. Royal Assent being from the Queen of Australia, as that role had now become.
Not to mention the slang we have for people due to where they live ... South Australia: Crow eater, Queensland: Banana bender, Victoria: Cabbage patcher, Cabbage gardener
Western Australia: Sandgroper etc
Septic-yank
Septic tank is slang for yank. Never heard septic yank
@@peterhoz Yep. Rhyming slang does not use the actual word. Septic tank rhymes with yank & was shortened to septic or seppo.
@peterhoz t hey are easily recognized they look like orangevturnips.
I really can’t imagine not ever meeting foreigners