@@elizabethpilarski1076 oh there’s been a few of us into it but society wouldn’t let us celebrate spooky things. Heck we still can’t celebrate at the right time of year! This isn’t autumn!
The reject shop doesn’t carry all the grocery lines necessary to feed a family. They are like the dollar store. They have limited ranges of items and can’t be depended on to have items. I think they buy cheap when things are being discontinued or not selling well. So being opportunistic they just get whatever is on offer. They don’t have fridges or freezers or produce. I always pick up whatever I can find there that is cheap and I can use but that’s it. I usually get snacks for my dog, dishwasher tablets, coffee mugs.
i guess the reason the price gouging is so talked about is because our aussie culture is typically one of comradery, so to have companies not giving a crap about the general population doesnt go down well with most. The price gouging affects the most vulnerable so the outcry is large because we are fighting for justice
The Australian government created mass inflation through deficit spending, and printing money like it was going out of fashion during the plandemic, as well as knee-capping cheap energy production to appease those duped by the Chicken Little theory of 'climate change'. Our government and their cronies in the media have somehow convinced the population that Coles and Woolies are to blame. Goebbels and Bernays would be proud.
plus these are chains that advertise themselves on their low prices and sales (or at leastn giving people the idea they are about that), so price gouging means they're being dishonest and taking advantage of their old reputations
The Reject Shop has a whole lot of stuff that didn’t make the cut for what can be sold at actual stores. For example, we got a motorised mouse toy for a cat from there that went backwards. They’ve got SOME gardening gear, party supplies, makeup, basic homewares like pillows, coat hangers, and picture frames. Similar to Big W or K-mart, but generally considered cheaper. Coles and Woolworths are your supermarkets, for food, basic medicine and care, cleaning supplies. The other have chocolate, lollies, and sometimes chips, but they’re mostly for all the other stuff.
Correct it’s a marketing trick to get rid of “close to use by” date food sold off rather than thrown in the bin. Having said that who is buying “grey mince”?
I’ve worked in the meat case at Coles, their markdown tactics are questionable but grey mince should always be taken off the shelf. In all honesty the meat was potentially fine when marked down, but when you put it back on the shelf you can accidentally pierce a hole in the film by knocking it on the underneath of a shelf causing this issue to happen quicker. Time pressure is insane and we don’t have time to treat all products as fragile as eggs.
The Commonwealth of Australia doesn’t get its name because it is part of the Commonwealth of Nations. The Australian states started out as separate colonies each with their own government. They came together to form the Commonwealth of Australia. It can get confusing for some because the Commonwealth of Nations is largely made up of former British colonies and Australia was one of them. It also creates confusion about the Commonwealth star on our flag which represents the states and territories. The only reference to our British beginnings on the flag is the Union Jack in the corner.
Lol, I’m actually married to the guy that deals with all the consumer complaints for Arnotts, so when I see posts like this one about the shapes I’m always pointing them out to him.
@@IdaMaryLew I can still buy the Strawberry Shortcake here in Regional Victoria, maybe your store has stopped stocking them. I want to know what happened to the Strawberry Mellows I think they're called. They look like Iced Volvo's but it's marshmallow where the fondant is with a line of jam and coconut down the middle. I don't like fondant but I loved the marshmallow.
@@perryschafer5996 We are not a monarchy and the electoral process that insists that every one must vote is pure democracy ,the concept of a system that eliminates those the people do NOT want may not give them the final candidate that some people DO want , but it gives them the person and party they dont MIND, instead of a polarised situation of daggers out on both sides with potential anarchy, like what happens in MOST republics, even those that claim they are the home of the brave and land of the free !
Interesting fact: Butchers fill the meat package with carbon monoxide to make it virbant and red, the meat had turned grey because the carbon monoxide has decreased with time. They also often bleach chicken to make it pink, fresh chicken meat is generally more yellow in colour.
There was huge immigration from Europe in the late 1950s and early 1960’s, people trying to escape from post war Europe. My parents (from Germany) and many other Germans, Italians, Maltese, Greek etc immigrated in large numbers seeking a better life. And that life included having large families. I remember the family across the street had 12 children with average families having 3-4 children. That is no longer the norm and the problem now is that all those children born then are aging… That is one reason immigration is important as we need younger people with skill to work and pay taxes to support the increasingly growing aged population.
Immigration causes the inhabitants of nations to be out priced not only in costs of living but in the ability to raise children. Endlessly increasing the population and demand on services doesn't make having children anything resembling affordable Necessary immigration is an oxymoron just as intellect in those trying state it is so
1935 was the depression, 1950s was the wool boom and full employment. 1970s was a recession and the start of manufacturing decline in Australia - few jobs and lots of unemployment.
Yeah then birth control and women not only entering the workforce, but pursuing careers, made the birthrate decline rapidly in the 60s. There was also a shift in economic factors that had been going on for some time, but finally cemented itself in people's minds around that time. Basically for a long time a person's quality of life in retirement was dependent on support from their children. But the industrial revolution brought banking to the working class, and then the pension system, and eventually this was no longer the case. But it took a few generations for this economic reality to break the cultural tradition of having a large family. And now the economics have shifted so far that you are incentivised to have fewer kids. A dual income is necessary to purchase a family home, meaning women have no choice but to delay having kids while they educate themselves and start a career. And due to equity appreciation being the only real way to generate a comfortable level of wealth, the economics of old age have done a complete 180. Whereas the old used to be dependent on their kids for retirement, now what you leave your kids could be the determining factor of their quality of life in retirement, and the more kids you have, the less each of them will recieve in inheritance. It really is a sorry state of affairs when couples who want to start a family, or have more kids, feel that they can't for financial reasons. Especially when we're talking about the average couple on average incomes. Having kids is such a fundemental part of the human experience, it shouldn't feel like a luxury that's almost out of reach for a hard working couple.
Hi Ryan, I am 60. When I was a kid, Halloween was not celebrated or even mentioned, so I guess in that sense, it is true to say that it was not acknowledged. I would say it has become more of a thing in the last 20 years, but still not nearly as big as in the US. We already had a referendum on whether Australia should become a republic in 1999 and it obviously did not pass. I think it will be a while before the momentum builds again. Aussies are pretty conservative about the form of government: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (Don't blame me. I voted for the republic).
If we’re going to have a head of state, I prefer the nominal, powerless, ceremonial one we have, who’s spent his whole life preparing to be regal & graciously diplomatic. Better than someone whose only qualification is that he’s rich enough to win an expensive popularity contest.
@@SueNicholls-95 The President wouldn't be running the country. It would still be just a figurehead position like now, with the exception it would be one of our own and we would never have to potentially answer to another foreigner at that level.
@@brianlove8413 that would be no different to what we have now except the King is only a figure head, he has no say in the running of this country. What's the point of a President who's only a figurehead that's pointless! We could end up with numbskulls like Biden/ Harris who answer to no one! No thanks.
A rare Aussie Taco Bell sighting, I’ve only seen 2 in my whole life Edit: I saw a third the other day, apparently they’re actually pretty common in Victoria which makes sense
Funnily enough i actualy live around there. Millars junction shopping center in melb, the sore just got built 2 years ago. Probably the only taco bell ive ever seen
There’s on in Midland, WA and Ellenbrook, WA. We went to the midland one and it sucked 😅😂 Hubby liked it but it was such a let down for me. Was very eh.
Halloween or All Hallows Eve (All Saints Eve) is a Christian / Gaelic festival first recorded about 1300 years ago in what we now call Britain, and as Australia was founded mainly by the British, of course we would recognize it. Although it was never really celebrated until recently.
Perhaps, but the children in my old neighbourhood liked me because I was one of the few adults who made the effort to have lollies to give them when they went trick-or-treating.
They sure do. We they have all so adopted Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Do not like the term for Black Friday as this was the term to describe some very tragic bushfires that happened in the 1930,s over here.
B.W.S is beer wine and spirits bottle shop. Shops do sell Halloween stuff and some people decorate but it is still not a really big thing here ( anything to promote a sale ).
I guess we're not fans of traipsing around the streets in the middle of the night dragging tired toddlers and noisy 9 year olds, knocking on stranger's doors asking for free stuff. If they haven't got a display out front, lights are off, obviously avoid. But if there's only 2-3 houses in a long street, parents would have to DRIVE their kids everywhere....Nah.
@@Kayenne54 That and we don't have a connection to the root of the holiday or the peoples' who started it. I'd be fully down to ask Aboriginals if we could share in some of their celebrations - things we actually have roots to in our country, though.
@@7thlittleleopard7 Well, if you have ancestors from Great Britain, then you would have connections to the "holiday", even if not to the underlying reasons for it. I think putting more Aboriginal celebration days on the calendar is a great idea though!
@@Kayenne54 Sure, and I guess I'm connected to Spanish and Scottish and French and Torres holidays too, by that thought. no, nah. I'm far enough removed that I feel icky about trying to claim that shit. Except Torres... that's closer to the bucket.
Lots of Aussies *do* shop at The Reject Shop. I get a lot of my cleaning supplies there for about 20% cheaper than at colesworths. That said, it's not a supermarket. You can't get much in the way of foodstuffs there - junk food and some canned foods, yes, and sometimes pasta, but no fresh foods. "Reading" cinemas is pronounced "Redding", like the town in the UK. As for the AI image on the HSC - yup, 100% bullshit laziness. I teach year 12 English in QLD and we've spent the best part of the past 3 months getting our kids ready for their exam, and I am SO GLAD it's based on a real text (Macbeth) and not an AI image, because at least with Macbeth you *can* analyse the author's intention behind the use of aesthetic devices and language features and the attitudes and values that underpin the text and the audience's engagement with and response to it, then AND now *deep breath*. Re: "what happened with the birth rates?" - post WW2 there was a bit of a "populate or perish" mentality. This is where the "Baby Boomers" came from - there was a huge "boom" in babies.
The first time I ever mowed the lawn I literally ran over the tap in the front yard with the mower and broke the whole top part completely off and had to call out S/E water as it was pouring into the air and down the street. I need that tyre 😂
What happened in 1962 to drop the fertility rate???? The first oral contraceptive pill (Enovid) was approved by the US Food and Drugs Administration on 9 May 1960. It was released in Australia on 1 February 1961 under the name Anovlar.
For example. Im disabled, i WAS comfortably renting with no real financial struggle, that was untill 1yr ago. Now im homeless and in debt and decide between buying food or buying medication. I also live in a town with Woolworths. The next supermarket choice is 100kms away
@@joannemurdock7899 Just remember that when you go to the polls, Liberals put us in this position in the first place. Labour is dealing with the fallout. Labour doesn't "decide" to bring millions of people, millions of people decide to immigrate here legally. It isn't Labour's fault that these immigrants are following the rules as they flee worse economies. You can't deny entry or deport someone who came here by following the rules.
The problem with introducing an elected president is that it begs the question, if both the prime minister and the president are elected who has the power? Countries which have figurehead presidents, like Germany, don't elect them. Basically I go with the dictum, "If it works, why fix it?"
Germany has indirect presidential elections, it's similar to how the US system was suppose to work. Essentially they elect their electors, who then vote on the president.
You can still elect a non executive president. The model put forward in 1999 did just that, and it's better than the PM just appointing whoever they like as GG...
@@smalltime0 of the twenty most democratic countries, (the US is not one, Australia is) 16 are either parliamentary constitutional hereditary monarchies or parliamentary republics with elected but non-executive presidents. Only three are presidential republics with a president with executive powers. What matters, it seems, is the role and style of legislature, not the role (or lack of role) of the head of state.
I've always done 3 versions of halloween ,, depends s Addams Family on tv on the niggt ,,,host Casper,,,t ,,,ost~ly or Hogwarts where i make hot milo with mashmellow
what you call a mall we call a shopping centre and just about all the shops are inside the shopping centre depending on the centre of corse some small restaurants cafes or boutiques may have public access only from the outside but are still able to be converted into inside public access only stores so staff and deliveries are the only ones who can access the store from outside in most stores
They certainly conspire together, just like the petrol stations do ( gas for cars ) . When one station rises their prices all the other stations rise their prices to match . When there is a war in a petrol providing country the price goes sky rocketing up but when their war finishes the prices only drops a tiny bit . When they had the first Iraq war Shell made their highest ever profit.
2:39 I know where exactly that sign is. Here you go ‘Millers Rd Altona North VIC 3025 Australia’ Or the coordinates ‘37.84372° S, 144.84588° E’ Thank me later.
The best explanation for the falling birth rate. When a lot of the population lived on farms, children were valuable cheap labour. When people moved into the cities, children became expensive pets. The pill has had a massive effect worldwide. Some countries cannot attract immigrants as a solution. China, Japan, Korea. Italy, and Greece for example.
17:20 The graph shows the baby boom (1945 ~ 1970) in all its glory. The world was desperately trying to repopulate after the carnage of WW2 and Australia felt particularly vulnerable because of our very low population. When I was in primary school the pop was 12 million so it's more than doubled in my lifetime.
My Grandfathers Family was 10 kids ,he had 5 . My Dad's Family had 12 . Big thing missing was contraceptives and a world before Regan/Thatcher economics you could survive in
Mum had 6 kids, and her mum had 13. We ate offal like sheep's brain, cow liver, tripe, fish head soup, grew our own chooks and eggs, made brawn from pig's heads and grew our own veggies but usually had a lamb leg roast on Sundays. My older relatives didn't wear shoes to school. Times were different then. Today weve become used to living on the high hog, its our own fault. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Hey yeah, it was like that for me, and I was only born in 1960 in country west Australia. Everyone ate a lot of offal, sometimes that’s all there was, or just bread Weren’t able to be choosy. You had the option of going hungry or eating, simple!
Last summer the same weather bureau predicted very dry and we ended up with record flooding. Based on last year people should be stocking up on winter and snow gear if the weather bureau predicts hot.
Brief instances of extreme tropical cyclones causing dangerous and damaging localised flooding doesn't change the fact the overall picture is one of severe prolonged drought.
@BowieZ it was a prediction for 1 summer season not a long term climate change prediction. The rain mostly fell south of the tropical cyclone affected zones in record amounts. Trying to bring politics into this is silly.
The latest story out of the Woolworths/Coles involved them buying land in areas that are in prime retail positions. They buy the land and then go slow in the development paperwork. So slow in fact, that one parcel of land was sitting vacant for 10 years. The German retail giant, "Kaufland" pulled out of Australia because of this, publicly they said it was a corporate "change". Kaufland is the 4th biggest retailer in the World, except for Australia. The duopoly of Woolies and Coles is so bad they even use the Murdoch media to air disparaging articles against any perceived competitor (Aldi mainly) and have advertising disguised as news articles. Stories of their tactics goes back 30-40 years, or maybe even longer.
As someone working at a small business, we are raising prices because everywhere else is. Because the places where we get the ingredients for our stuff are raising the prices, wages are rising, transport costs are rising, rent is rising where we have a physical shop, everything is getting more expensive, so it’s costing more to make the produce, which means to make any profit we must also raise the price. We’ve actually raised the price a ridiculous amount of times since Covid hit (I know because it’s my job to make all the new labels and I’m sick of it 😭) yet we aren’t making nearly as much in profit margins. It’s becoming harder and harder to make ends meet for small businesses. Which makes it frustrating when the big companies are driving these price increases and they don’t actually NEED to.
Hey mate, good video. The only thing I have to say this week really is about the Coles mince post. The one on the right was reduced because it was closer to expiry date at the time of the post itself obviously. And they all do this to try to get rid of stock faster making people think 'Ok, should cook that up tonight then.'
Reading Cinemas is actually an American chain. Their logo actually has a very neat reference, the curvy bits of the R form a filmstrip toward the bottom, but toward the top it turns into railway track. This is referencing the fact that it's the remnant of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, commonly known as the Reading Lines. When the Railroad operations were sold to Conrail in the 1970s, the company still owned a bunch of real estate that Conrail didn't want (abandoned lines, old yards, obsolete infrastructure for Steam locomotives, offices, etc). A lot of this was sold off through the 1980s to settle debts. The company was bought in the 1990s, and the new owner started buying cinemas and theatres, forming the Reading Cinemas chain.
The Reject Shop is a discount store - sells cheap mostly imported stuff (like toys, household items, seasonal decoration, imported lollies) - not a full supermarket so not competition for the big 2. Aldi is better competition (and smaller local ones like IGA, and ones like it). Coles & Woolworths aren't owned by the same company (Coles owned by Coles Group - used to be owned by ColesMeyer who also own Kmart & Target as well as a whole lot of other chains, Woolworths owned by Woolworths Group, who also own Big W). It's mostly a duopoly and some smaller towns have no choice at all. The drop in fertility coincides with the introduction of the contraceptive pill in 1961.
Mum & Dad baught the house I grew up in, in 1962 for just under £9,000 when my sister sold it in 2013 it went for $5050,000 & when it sold again just 3 years ago it went for just over $1,000,000. The reason my sister sold it was to boost Dad's bank account to cover the cost of the nursing home. And 6 months after he passed away I got half of what was left, my half $267,000. The first thing I did was purchase a brand new car, (the youngest car I had ever got before was 8 years old, & the oldest was 35 years old)
The Reject Shop sells damaged or faulty goods, not foods, except some candy stuff. Where I live, we have three supermarkets, but we also have individual shops like butchers, fruit and veg shops, news agencies, bakeries, and dozens of nice restaurants.
The numbers that were being used in the house /unit prices, the larger number added is what the units /house would cost today if it were only the cpi rise taken into account.
I’m with you on this one, I like Christmas but it just feels too fake (and as an introvert being forced to spend the whole day with my extended family-no thanks)
The BOM is relatively accurate but now and then they warn of a storm that never arrives. They also show relatively low temperatures in red to try to make it look like Global Warming is actually a thing.
G'day Ryan. The Tyre next to the garden tap might look to be in the middle of the yard, however. It is most likely to be gust inside the property boundry and will be covering the Water meter. The tyre offers some mechanical protection from over excited kids cutting the lawn. The main thing it doesis to protect the Meter from frost. Yes Australia can and does get cold. If you have a choice of pay for a new water meter several times a year or stop it from freezing, then an old tyre is a cheap option.
Not only has the marketing to Embrace Halloween become entrenched here in Australia we now have your thanksgiving shopping period Black Friday and Cyber Monday as major shopping days. Do not like the term for Black Friday as this is a reference to a very tragic bushfire period that happened in the 1930,s but marketing always prevails
@@trevormaurer3684 thanksgiving is truly an American thing and has no place here but Halloween comes from pagan celebrations we share because like America we have a lot of people with the Irish and other pagan heritage. We should be celebrating Christmas in June and Halloween before then technically. If we did it right. However Victorian England sunk its claws into both us and America.
@@trevormaurer3684 it’s actually worth looking into because it’s truly an interesting meld of things. There are some cool docos on UA-cam. Mostly based on America but Samhain is just as legit in Australia with so much Irish blood here.
They're wrong about there being a lack of consensus for a republic model. The Australia Choice Model has been developed from consultation and surveys across 23 years. It has approval from constitutional scholars, legal experts, and widespread acceptance from invested groups. The model even has over 60% support from both major political parties, almost unheard of.
I sincerely hope that Australia remains a constitutional monarchy. The monarchy, represented by the King, and The Queen before him, plays a vital role in our democratic system. It provides a unifying symbol of our nation, a historical connection to our past, and a sense of continuity. This system has served us well, balancing tradition with democratic principles.... Unlike some countries, like the United States, our constitutional monarchy avoids the risks of a potentially divisive and partisan head of state, ensuring stability and national unity.
The two previous referendums rejected a Republic because the politicians would get to decide who a President would be. The people want to elect their own President period, or no deal.
I agree. The royal commission is the the most important thing we have, the one ultimate failsafe we have to ensure our government doesn't turn us into a country like Russia or China and yes on some levels America.
@@ChristopherJewels But our president was to be essentially ceremonial, pretty much the Governor General (who is chosen by parliament) with a new title. I think too many people were thinking our president would have similar powers to the US President.
19:01 The half tire is to show you where the water meter is, protect the water meter from damage and protect it from freezing due to frost (it gets near zero C here fairly often but it's not a hard freeze just a surface freeze and the tire stops the meter freezing solid enough to rupture)
Our HSC is done in year 12. That's 6 years primary and 6 years of high school. It was found that Coles and Woolworths both raised the price of articles a month or so before then put the prices back to the original price or slightly more on sale. It Australia becomes a republic, we would no longer be a part of the Commonwealth. To buy a normal 2/3 bedroom house will cost anywhere from $650,000 to (and this is in the area I live) $1,200,000 or more. That's Aud. The tire is protecting the water metre that gets read by the water board.
The Reject Shop doesn't sell fruit & veg like the supermarkets, and they tend to have very variable stocked items. We all know we have problems with Colesworth because they're essentially a duopoly. Btw, we call the consumer competition body the "A triple C".
The reject shop is actually amazing. I always go there for snacks and toys. Their prices are a bit cheaper than the rest, definitely suggest to go there.
We rejected republic last time, mostly because there was no model about how it would be done. Seeing DJT in the US makes us very wary about how a head of state is chosen. Random birth to royalty with years of training has given better results, although they do not exercise any actual power.
October 31st 1917, was the day of the very last successful cavalry charge and it was carried out by the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade on Beersheba. There is even a film made about it. This helped Australians fledging reputation at a very important time, allies learned that we could be trusted, and enemies learned not to under estimate us. The charge is part of our military history and far more important then some Celtic pagan autumn harvest ceremony that got corrupted by America, after all in October it’s spring in Australia not autumn.
That is not true. I grew up on Halloween. Halloween is not originally American. It is Irish. It was called All Hallows Eve. Halloween was a bigger thing when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. We love watching Halloween movies in Australia. Australia is heavily influenced by America from TV, movies, and music.
A big reason for the summer temps in Australia is Earth's rotation. Our axis is tilted in such a way that Australia and New Zealand are the countries that get most lovingly kissed by the summer sun (and by that, I mean a bit like Two-Face from the Batman franchise).
Hi Ryan, your sofa is getting hectic with toys, are they yours? All Hallows Eve is the real Celtic name for the event, it's an annual open portal to your deceased loved ones! It's going to be a long hot summer, yes, new air-con! Garn did a fun video about the supermarket duopoly! We love King Charles, he's lived here, he's very knowledgeable and stands between us and a socialist dictatorship! After 1960, 'the pill' happened! Very informative! 🙋
Love your videos man, such a good vibe here. When it got to the 'average temperature in Australia' part of this video I thought I would see if you have reacted to any of the Australia Volunteer Firefighting services. South Australia has the CFS (Country Fire Service), Victoria has the CFA (Country Fire Authority), New South Wales has RFS (Rural Fire Service), Queensland has RFSQ (Rural Fire Service Queensland), Northern Territory has NTFRS (Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service), and Western Australia has VFRS (Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services). There are some really interesting videos on UA-cam!
My family told that the Reject Shop started by selling items that weren't up to par for other stores, or discontinued brands and stuff like that, aka the rejected items, at lower prices.
What you call Halloween was a Celtic festival celebrated in old Britton and Ireland called Samhain. It is still celebrated, but Americans made it commercial.
Err....it's the....err....juxtaposition of nature and technology in an uneasy tension of...... waffle and verbiage to impress the marker of my English exam!
BWS is Beer Wine Spirits - liquor store. TK Maxx has different names all over the world. Reading Cinemas is owned by Reading International which is a chain of cinemas in America, Australia & New Zealand. The Reject Shop is like your Dollar Store - it's a bit of everything - we do & we don't do Halloween in Australia... More so we don't. Shapes dust is the best part. HSC - Higher School Certificate - Year 12. Today is 34 degrees where I live.... Not normal for Spring.
Halloween is a Pagan Harvest Festival, reinvented as a way to sell a lot of chocolate, it's not something I care to associate with. Stores though, any chance for a sales pitch, they've had Halloween displays, Sales! and adverts since the 90s.
Somewhat correct. The pagan Northern Hemisphere festival is Samhain. Christians put a lot of their stuff over the top of older festivals, so Samhain became All Hallows Eve which was corrupted to Halloween. Christmas over the top of Yule. Easter from spring goddess name Eostra and so on.
Celebrating Halloween is becoming more common in Australia, especially in the younger generation (I’m in my 70’s so “younger” is anyone under 50 🤣). Personally I don’t nor do any of my friends but our children and grandchildren do.
With the mince one; all meat goes grey like that over time, the only reason it stays red like we're used to is because we fill the packaging with nitrogen or oxygen gas mixtures which keeps the meat oxygenated. the meat isnt bad just because its not bright red, thats what meat actually looks like
Just to clarify. Australia 'celebrates' Halloween, October 31st just like America and other countries. The difference is, is that kids love it, and the oldies usually hate all the hassle of getting lollies for kids and having people at their house at unnecessary times. In full, Australia has Halloween too, it's just not as heavily implied by every single person here as it is in America. :)
It’s Oxidation. Beef will loose it's bright red color being exposed to air. Typically this is just surface oxidation the meat unexposed to air is bright pink. Nothing to worry about. If you want to get a deal on meat, go to the clearance bin.
@@jaggsy420 One gas does make it go grey - it is called Oxygen. Sure it starts out red but as it oxidises it changes colour - like steel changes to rust but with different colours.
@ianmontgomery7534 your right. I wasn't referring to that but the gases they use in the packaging. They don't turn the meat red as the original comment suggested.
the reject shop is like a dollar tree. theirs less competition than you think between coles and woolies as a lot of regional towns have one or the other. so there's no real competition in those towns. you can pay extra in store or drive further and pay extra in fuel and time. but it's not just driving to the next town either. you have to drive to a town where there's both.
A lot of Australians have embraced it. I like it actually. Isnt that real multiculturalism? Take the best of what other cultures offer and integrate it? (American version) Halloween is really fun. I went out with a group from my sons school one year, it was so fun and I felt very connected with my community. Whilst I reject many things that America stands for and think they are not appropriate in Australia, I'm fine with Halloween. Let's take Halloween and reject predatory capitalism and so forth. Imo.
Both WOOLORTHS and COLES also employ anti consumer policies like IF you have shopped in another store and put that product in your trolley, when u check out at the auto pay check outs and scan all your stuff you leave the other stuff in your trolley but the machine wont let you finalise your purchase untilit has called a check out "gaurd" to go make sure you are not trying to steal from them, they want to SEE your receipt for these other products ! And IF you leave the products and receipt in the trolley and INVITE them to have a look at the receipt they wont reach in and get it to look, they want YOU to hand it to them, because it contravnenes your civil liberties for them to reach into your trolley, so the checkout "gaurd" wont do this but instead calls a supervisor! This is getting disgusting and they are DIFFERENT companies Ryan and both crap !
Haha Readings is pronounced "Red-ings" ETA: we call it the A triple C it's a lot quicker to read. I do shop at the Reject Shop, 2kg Radiant washing detergent is less than $10. It's $22 at Coles and Woolies.
@@lindamcgregor4080 when it's on special at Coles or WW's it's $11. Still cheaper at the Reject Shop and it's Commercial Blend 🤷 ETA: It's actually $8 at the Reject Shop for a 2kg box. I'm on the Pension too.
@@lindamcgregor4080 No you are wrong. It's $11 when it's on special at Coles and Woolies, it's $8 at the Reject Shop for a 2kg box and it's Commercial Blend. I'm on the Pension too.
@@lindamcgregor4080 why does my comment keep disappearing grrr Yes it is cheaper than when it's on special at Coles and Woolies. It's $11 when it's on special. It's $8 for Commercial Blend at the Reject Shop 🤷 I'm on the pension too.
Bunnings is good for laundry detergent too. I get Cold Power there for cheaper than the Woolies on sale price. 5.4 litres for just under $25. Surf powder 5kg is $20.
The general consensus of halloween here is...decorations go ahead and trick or treat, no decorations dont knock. Our town (orange nsw) every year, there is a "map" that people can add their address too if they want to partake. This map is then listed out as the shortest direct route to hit all houses. Unfortunately this means most kids are driven to each address by their parents, not just walking around their area. Also, broccoli at coles is currently price at $6.50 per kilo lol
3:37 oh, we’ve done Halloween….we just didn’t do trick or treating; mainly because October 31st is after the daylight savings crossover, and it’s still light until after 8pm in those states that observe DST
Some of us Australians absolutely adore Halloween festivities. I have all out decorated my yard for the neighbourhood for the last 13 years and the community love it. Some Aussies are just not into Halloween I guess. Just as I dislike doing the Xmas light thing. The joy I see every Halloween as the families come by to take pics and grab treats is enough for me to keep doing it. To each their own.
As a brisbane online streamer ,, in 1990s ,, the whole Thanksgiving to Halloween video / live chat by americans wanting to see the full 24 hours of an australian halloween , because they were still on oct 30.. so us NZ ~ aussie live telecasts would do the traditional toffee apple making ,bob for apples in a tub of water ,, plus ,, the difference in flavoured chip packets ,, aussie shapes with vegemite lavour ,, even unique cream buns,, as perth streams had some fancy bakery treats ,, really,, yes past 20 years since myspace 2003 showed how unusual state or country /bush town pride changed as even bakery /cake shops got requests for special/ orange /purple / black donuts with bat icing ,, spider marshmellows ,, even 20 years of INKTOBER /GOTHOBER /GORETOBER .. plus we would do american football tradition of 25th November Thanksging & watch Macy"s Parade with inflated SNOOPY ,, WOODSTOCK,, Sonic .. the plsbory Doughboy.. lol.. since channel 7 & 9 had NBC TODAY ,, CBS morning shows live.from 2005 youtube to now ,,there were sometimes when i would just have american friends watch me,, as australia to them,,they thought our lives were so different ,til they saw us aussies liked the celebration of seasonal change halloween,
Coles & Woolies are owned by completely separate entities. Woolworths is it's own entity and Coles is owned by Westfarmers. There is technically two other supermarket chains with Aldi & IGA, which IGA is the independent super markets in Australia. Aldi is considered cheap but usually only range their branded stock rather then common brands. IGA is considered expensive due to the unknown nature from store to store as they are independently operated but are governed by an overall company (Metcash) who regulate the pricing in stores and provides stores with promotional activities to try and rival the big two.
The shops still put heaps of halloween onto us but noone ever really does it, maybe like one house in a whole suburban area or maybe some street where everyone has kids who cares, but pretty much nah
Starting to get a little more popular. Mainly with primary school kids or a street with like minded people. I wasn’t a fan but my kids do it with their kids.
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Halloween became a thing when retailers realised they could make more money.
100%, its retailer pushed and they want people to take it up as they plan from event sale to even sale.. Of course some people lean into it/
Only retailers care
Kmart seems to have more Halloween stuff each year.
it's still not a thing, but retailers will use any excuse to sell shit lol
@@elizabethpilarski1076 oh there’s been a few of us into it but society wouldn’t let us celebrate spooky things. Heck we still can’t celebrate at the right time of year! This isn’t autumn!
When you’re in Brisbane, watching an American react to Sydney house prices in the 80s and you recognise 1 of your old school mates 😂
Wow! How cool is that?
I’m in Brisbane too!!
The reject shop doesn’t carry all the grocery lines necessary to feed a family. They are like the dollar store. They have limited ranges of items and can’t be depended on to have items. I think they buy cheap when things are being discontinued or not selling well. So being opportunistic they just get whatever is on offer. They don’t have fridges or freezers or produce. I always pick up whatever I can find there that is cheap and I can use but that’s it. I usually get snacks for my dog, dishwasher tablets, coffee mugs.
Toilet paper 😏
It’s clearance stuff that they bought off liquidators and over stocks from other shops. That’s why it’s the “reject” shop
Woolworths… Ryan, theres NO ‘S’ in the middle of the word.
BWS = Beer, Wine, Spirits.
The Reject Shop = very cheap items.
He knows about "Woolsworth" it's an inside joke on this channel.
He's had this problem with Woolworths for years , Right , Ryan?
He said it right today. At 4:24.
Just the once….
Woolies not Woolworth
@@harvey-y7f Yeah no one calls it anything other than Woolies.
We don’t get a public holiday on Halloween. Therefore, it’s useless 😄
Yeah damn that's a good point 😊
neither does America
@@ryanreaction What they mean is that we are used to holidays that are holidays.
i guess the reason the price gouging is so talked about is because our aussie culture is typically one of comradery, so to have companies not giving a crap about the general population doesnt go down well with most. The price gouging affects the most vulnerable so the outcry is large because we are fighting for justice
Gouging!!
The Australian government created mass inflation through deficit spending, and printing money like it was going out of fashion during the plandemic, as well as knee-capping cheap energy production to appease those duped by the Chicken Little theory of 'climate change'. Our government and their cronies in the media have somehow convinced the population that Coles and Woolies are to blame. Goebbels and Bernays would be proud.
plus these are chains that advertise themselves on their low prices and sales (or at leastn giving people the idea they are about that), so price gouging means they're being dishonest and taking advantage of their old reputations
i wrote an hsc essay 2 weeks ago about this 😂
The Reject Shop has a whole lot of stuff that didn’t make the cut for what can be sold at actual stores. For example, we got a motorised mouse toy for a cat from there that went backwards. They’ve got SOME gardening gear, party supplies, makeup, basic homewares like pillows, coat hangers, and picture frames. Similar to Big W or K-mart, but generally considered cheaper. Coles and Woolworths are your supermarkets, for food, basic medicine and care, cleaning supplies. The other have chocolate, lollies, and sometimes chips, but they’re mostly for all the other stuff.
1:20
"QUICK SALE" means that it has a short used by date, and they are trying to sell it quickly before it goes 'out of date'
IT'S NOT A SALE!
Correct it’s a marketing trick to get rid of “close to use by” date food sold off rather than thrown in the bin. Having said that who is buying “grey mince”?
Coles Myers is different from Woolworths, plus we are not unaware that the growers get underpaid. I shop at smaller supermarkets.
If I'm planning on eating it tonight anyway, of course I'll save a few extra cents and avoid food waste.
@@minwade5436I get it for my dogs 😅
I’ve worked in the meat case at Coles, their markdown tactics are questionable but grey mince should always be taken off the shelf. In all honesty the meat was potentially fine when marked down, but when you put it back on the shelf you can accidentally pierce a hole in the film by knocking it on the underneath of a shelf causing this issue to happen quicker. Time pressure is insane and we don’t have time to treat all products as fragile as eggs.
The Commonwealth of Australia doesn’t get its name because it is part of the Commonwealth of Nations. The Australian states started out as separate colonies each with their own government. They came together to form the Commonwealth of Australia. It can get confusing for some because the Commonwealth of Nations is largely made up of former British colonies and Australia was one of them. It also creates confusion about the Commonwealth star on our flag which represents the states and territories. The only reference to our British beginnings on the flag is the Union Jack in the corner.
Australia is still part of the commonwealth of nations
That’s only one of the reasons not the main reason, it is also influenced by being a commonwealth member.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts?
Coles and Woolswoths are definitely not owned by the same company, they are in competition with each other.
....or in cahoots with each other.
But they work with each other to push out any competition
They are a duopoly. lack of competition has allowed these 2 to plunder the shopper and supplier both.
They aren't really in competition tbh, backroom deals with agreed prices to both survive and kill off any other businesses.
I’ve got a bridge to sell you
Halloween's also during the start of Spring for us, so the cozy, spooky vibes feel pretty out of place in October.
Yeah it is still daylight when the kids are out. So that is better
@@madis7588 only if you don’t celebrate it properly. Like Christmas in December. We shouldn’t be celebrating it then
Halloween has absolutely nothing to do with Australia. Our family has never celebrated it.
@@BassDuchess it does actually but by your logic Christmas has nothing to do with Australia either.
@@BassDuchessneither does Christmas, Easter or new years but I bet you celebrate those who cares what you’re parents did ?
FYI, most packaged meat is gas'd to keep the red colour longer for shelf live.
And when it’s not handled correctly temp wise and or gets perforated air gets in and it goes grey.
That's why I only buy meat at the butcher!
Lol, I’m actually married to the guy that deals with all the consumer complaints for Arnotts, so when I see posts like this one about the shapes I’m always pointing them out to him.
Ask him why they changed the recipe for Ginger Nuts!
Can you ask him what happened to the Arnotts strawberry shortcake? My husband won't stop looking for them. They disappeared
@@IdaMaryLew I can still buy the Strawberry Shortcake here in Regional Victoria, maybe your store has stopped stocking them. I want to know what happened to the Strawberry Mellows I think they're called. They look like Iced Volvo's but it's marshmallow where the fondant is with a line of jam and coconut down the middle. I don't like fondant but I loved the marshmallow.
Stupid auto correct 😆 clearly I meant Vovos
@@Anonamiss782 clearly stupid : use the 3 dots to edit your wrong statement
People want the Westminister system NOT a presidential system.,
People are stupid.
Some of them want the Westminster system
Why change something that works well and will cost 40 billion to change the legal system and all the laws
@@HenriHattar I like the idea of a republic. I just don’t see any that are good examples right now.
@@perryschafer5996 We are not a monarchy and the electoral process that insists that every one must vote is pure democracy ,the concept of a system that eliminates those the people do NOT want may not give them the final candidate that some people DO want , but it gives them the person and party they dont MIND, instead of a polarised situation of daggers out on both sides with potential anarchy, like what happens in MOST republics, even those that claim they are the home of the brave and land of the free !
Interesting fact: Butchers fill the meat package with carbon monoxide to make it virbant and red, the meat had turned grey because the carbon monoxide has decreased with time. They also often bleach chicken to make it pink, fresh chicken meat is generally more yellow in colour.
There was huge immigration from Europe in the late 1950s and early 1960’s, people trying to escape from post war Europe. My parents (from Germany) and many other Germans, Italians, Maltese, Greek etc immigrated in large numbers seeking a better life. And that life included having large families. I remember the family across the street had 12 children with average families having 3-4 children. That is no longer the norm and the problem now is that all those children born then are aging… That is one reason immigration is important as we need younger people with skill to work and pay taxes to support the increasingly growing aged population.
Oh cool. Now I know why my Hungarian grandparents came to Sydney. I probably should've figured that out earlier 😅
Immigration causes the inhabitants of nations to be out priced not only in costs of living but in the ability to raise children. Endlessly increasing the population and demand on services doesn't make having children anything resembling affordable
Necessary immigration is an oxymoron just as intellect in those trying state it is so
The birthrate went up after 1945 when all the men came home from the war, until the 1960s
1935 was the depression, 1950s was the wool boom and full employment. 1970s was a recession and the start of manufacturing decline in Australia - few jobs and lots of unemployment.
@@anthonyj7989 There was no Birth control pills until 1956 😘
Abortion also became legal after 1969, so a lot of potential babies died, that could have been adopted out.
And birth control made a big impact in the 60's too
Yeah then birth control and women not only entering the workforce, but pursuing careers, made the birthrate decline rapidly in the 60s. There was also a shift in economic factors that had been going on for some time, but finally cemented itself in people's minds around that time. Basically for a long time a person's quality of life in retirement was dependent on support from their children. But the industrial revolution brought banking to the working class, and then the pension system, and eventually this was no longer the case. But it took a few generations for this economic reality to break the cultural tradition of having a large family.
And now the economics have shifted so far that you are incentivised to have fewer kids. A dual income is necessary to purchase a family home, meaning women have no choice but to delay having kids while they educate themselves and start a career. And due to equity appreciation being the only real way to generate a comfortable level of wealth, the economics of old age have done a complete 180. Whereas the old used to be dependent on their kids for retirement, now what you leave your kids could be the determining factor of their quality of life in retirement, and the more kids you have, the less each of them will recieve in inheritance.
It really is a sorry state of affairs when couples who want to start a family, or have more kids, feel that they can't for financial reasons. Especially when we're talking about the average couple on average incomes. Having kids is such a fundemental part of the human experience, it shouldn't feel like a luxury that's almost out of reach for a hard working couple.
Hi Ryan, I am 60. When I was a kid, Halloween was not celebrated or even mentioned, so I guess in that sense, it is true to say that it was not acknowledged. I would say it has become more of a thing in the last 20 years, but still not nearly as big as in the US. We already had a referendum on whether Australia should become a republic in 1999 and it obviously did not pass. I think it will be a while before the momentum builds again. Aussies are pretty conservative about the form of government: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." (Don't blame me. I voted for the republic).
@michaelfink64 let,s have another one
@@selmaroberson4447no! I couldn't imagine anything worse than a President Albanese! It's better the devil we know, stay as we are!!
If we’re going to have a head of state, I prefer the nominal, powerless, ceremonial one we have, who’s spent his whole life preparing to be regal & graciously diplomatic. Better than someone whose only qualification is that he’s rich enough to win an expensive popularity contest.
@@SueNicholls-95 The President wouldn't be running the country. It would still be just a figurehead position like now, with the exception it would be one of our own and we would never have to potentially answer to another foreigner at that level.
@@brianlove8413 that would be no different to what we have now except the King is only a figure head, he has no say in the running of this country. What's the point of a President who's only a figurehead that's pointless! We could end up with numbskulls like Biden/ Harris who answer to no one! No thanks.
A rare Aussie Taco Bell sighting, I’ve only seen 2 in my whole life
Edit: I saw a third the other day, apparently they’re actually pretty common in Victoria which makes sense
He only one I know is near Campbeltown Sydney nsw
I've only ever seen one taco Bell in my life, your a lucky one.
Funnily enough i actualy live around there. Millars junction shopping center in melb, the sore just got built 2 years ago. Probably the only taco bell ive ever seen
There’s on in Midland, WA and Ellenbrook, WA. We went to the midland one and it sucked 😅😂 Hubby liked it but it was such a let down for me. Was very eh.
they built a taco bell in cairns, but nobody actually goes there lol
1962 - the Pill
And few years later a further fall when it's available for everyone. At first only to married couples.
I thought the exact same thing when he said the year. He’d see the same trend in his own country too if he looked.
Duh, I said that several hours ago! 🥱
Halloween or All Hallows Eve (All Saints Eve) is a Christian / Gaelic festival first recorded about 1300 years ago in what we now call Britain, and as Australia was founded mainly by the British, of course we would recognize it. Although it was never really celebrated until recently.
Retailers want us to do halloween.
yep more money in their greedy pockets
Perhaps, but the children in my old neighbourhood liked me because I was one of the few adults who made the effort to have lollies to give them when they went trick-or-treating.
They sure do. We they have all so adopted Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Do not like the term for Black Friday as this was the term to describe some very tragic bushfires that happened in the 1930,s over here.
@@brettevill9055 and us pagans. Not this time of year though. We just go shopping for our house decor ;)
But that's the same as ANY holiday.
My niece has been specially selected to Meet King Charles in Canberra on Monday
Ooh! Enjoy, probably her only chance.
(Unless he decides to retire here. Unlikely.)
Very historic event.
That’s really special. I hope she has a lovely day. 🩷
my condolences
B.W.S is beer wine and spirits bottle shop. Shops do sell Halloween stuff and some people decorate but it is still not a really big thing here ( anything to promote a sale ).
BWS is a business owned by Woolies, too.
I guess we're not fans of traipsing around the streets in the middle of the night dragging tired toddlers and noisy 9 year olds, knocking on stranger's doors asking for free stuff. If they haven't got a display out front, lights are off, obviously avoid. But if there's only 2-3 houses in a long street, parents would have to DRIVE their kids everywhere....Nah.
@@Kayenne54 That and we don't have a connection to the root of the holiday or the peoples' who started it. I'd be fully down to ask Aboriginals if we could share in some of their celebrations - things we actually have roots to in our country, though.
@@7thlittleleopard7 Well, if you have ancestors from Great Britain, then you would have connections to the "holiday", even if not to the underlying reasons for it. I think putting more Aboriginal celebration days on the calendar is a great idea though!
@@Kayenne54 Sure, and I guess I'm connected to Spanish and Scottish and French and Torres holidays too, by that thought.
no, nah. I'm far enough removed that I feel icky about trying to claim that shit. Except Torres... that's closer to the bucket.
Lots of Aussies *do* shop at The Reject Shop. I get a lot of my cleaning supplies there for about 20% cheaper than at colesworths. That said, it's not a supermarket. You can't get much in the way of foodstuffs there - junk food and some canned foods, yes, and sometimes pasta, but no fresh foods.
"Reading" cinemas is pronounced "Redding", like the town in the UK.
As for the AI image on the HSC - yup, 100% bullshit laziness. I teach year 12 English in QLD and we've spent the best part of the past 3 months getting our kids ready for their exam, and I am SO GLAD it's based on a real text (Macbeth) and not an AI image, because at least with Macbeth you *can* analyse the author's intention behind the use of aesthetic devices and language features and the attitudes and values that underpin the text and the audience's engagement with and response to it, then AND now *deep breath*.
Re: "what happened with the birth rates?" - post WW2 there was a bit of a "populate or perish" mentality. This is where the "Baby Boomers" came from - there was a huge "boom" in babies.
The first time I ever mowed the lawn I literally ran over the tap in the front yard with the mower and broke the whole top part completely off and had to call out S/E water as it was pouring into the air and down the street. I need that tyre 😂
I think that's why people put a metal star picket where the tap is.
The reject shop is like the dollar store you can’t buy groceries there.
What happened in 1962 to drop the fertility rate???? The first oral contraceptive pill (Enovid) was approved by the US Food and Drugs Administration on 9 May 1960. It was released in Australia on 1 February 1961 under the name Anovlar.
Going around to strangers houses and getting lollies/candy that may or may not have been tampered with..not real safe..
My thoughts exactly bugger that.
For example. Im disabled, i WAS comfortably renting with no real financial struggle, that was untill 1yr ago. Now im homeless and in debt and decide between buying food or buying medication. I also live in a town with Woolworths. The next supermarket choice is 100kms away
Labor ALLEGEDLY don't care, brought in millions of people 😮 caused rents to double in price fact! sorry for your plight, All the Best to you! 🙏
@@joannemurdock7899 Just remember that when you go to the polls, Liberals put us in this position in the first place. Labour is dealing with the fallout. Labour doesn't "decide" to bring millions of people, millions of people decide to immigrate here legally. It isn't Labour's fault that these immigrants are following the rules as they flee worse economies. You can't deny entry or deport someone who came here by following the rules.
The problem with introducing an elected president is that it begs the question, if both the prime minister and the president are elected who has the power? Countries which have figurehead presidents, like Germany, don't elect them. Basically I go with the dictum, "If it works, why fix it?"
Very much this which is why I'd never vote for a system with an elected President.
Germany has indirect presidential elections, it's similar to how the US system was suppose to work. Essentially they elect their electors, who then vote on the president.
You can still elect a non executive president. The model put forward in 1999 did just that, and it's better than the PM just appointing whoever they like as GG...
@@paulhunt3307 Electing one person just to fill the current role of GG isn't really something that will gather support
@@smalltime0 of the twenty most democratic countries, (the US is not one, Australia is) 16 are either parliamentary constitutional hereditary monarchies or parliamentary republics with elected but non-executive presidents. Only three are presidential republics with a president with executive powers. What matters, it seems, is the role and style of legislature, not the role (or lack of role) of the head of state.
Halloween was huge in my area, when I lived on the Gold Coast! We would even have ice creams for the kids as well as lots of lollies etc…
I've always done 3 versions of halloween ,, depends s Addams Family on tv on the niggt ,,,host Casper,,,t ,,,ost~ly or Hogwarts where i make hot milo with mashmellow
Hello from South Australia Ryan.
Reading (pronounced Redding) Cinemas are a Us based company.
what you call a mall we call a shopping centre and just about all the shops are inside the shopping centre depending on the centre of corse some small restaurants cafes or boutiques may have public access only from the outside but are still able to be converted into inside public access only stores so staff and deliveries are the only ones who can access the store from outside in most stores
A Pharmacy is just the medical prescription part. The chemist is everything
They certainly conspire together, just like the petrol stations do ( gas for cars ) . When one station rises their prices all the other stations rise their prices to match . When there is a war in a petrol providing country the price goes sky rocketing up but when their war finishes the prices only drops a tiny bit . When they had the first Iraq war Shell made their highest ever profit.
2:39 I know where exactly that sign is.
Here you go ‘Millers Rd
Altona North VIC 3025
Australia’
Or the coordinates
‘37.84372° S, 144.84588° E’
Thank me later.
I saw the thumbnail and was like is that Altona?!
The best explanation for the falling birth rate. When a lot of the population lived on farms, children were valuable cheap labour. When people moved into the cities, children became expensive pets. The pill has had a massive effect worldwide. Some countries cannot attract immigrants as a solution. China, Japan, Korea. Italy, and Greece for example.
Charles went to school here for a couple of years, so he does have fond memories of Australia.
He was only here during one year at Geelong Grammar.
i think he had a kind of gap year as well
Get your facts right. Timbertop @@kennethdodemaide8678
@@kennethdodemaide8678 A friend of mine was here for half a year and waxes poetic at times about that time. Australia tends to stick to the heart.
KCIII stayed @ what was or still is “Timbertops” Geelong Grammar Boarding School & has fond memories
The reject shop is awesome
17:20 The graph shows the baby boom (1945 ~ 1970) in all its glory. The world was desperately trying to repopulate after the carnage of WW2 and Australia felt particularly vulnerable because of our very low population. When I was in primary school the pop was 12 million so it's more than doubled in my lifetime.
The baby boom stopped in the sixties...😂
My Grandfathers Family was 10 kids ,he had 5 . My Dad's Family had 12 . Big thing missing was contraceptives and a world before Regan/Thatcher economics you could survive in
Mum had 6 kids, and her mum had 13. We ate offal like sheep's brain, cow liver, tripe, fish head soup, grew our own chooks and eggs, made brawn from pig's heads and grew our own veggies but usually had a lamb leg roast on Sundays. My older relatives didn't wear shoes to school. Times were different then. Today weve become used to living on the high hog, its our own fault. Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺
Hey yeah, it was like that for me, and I was only born in 1960 in country west Australia. Everyone ate a lot of offal, sometimes that’s all there was, or just bread
Weren’t able to be choosy. You had the option of going hungry or eating, simple!
Last summer the same weather bureau predicted very dry and we ended up with record flooding. Based on last year people should be stocking up on winter and snow gear if the weather bureau predicts hot.
It doesn't matter what temperatures we actually get, the bureau will declare it the hottest summer ever. Even if we have 20 metres of snow in Sydney.
Brief instances of extreme tropical cyclones causing dangerous and damaging localised flooding doesn't change the fact the overall picture is one of severe prolonged drought.
@BowieZ it was a prediction for 1 summer season not a long term climate change prediction. The rain mostly fell south of the tropical cyclone affected zones in record amounts. Trying to bring politics into this is silly.
@BowieZ simple physics says warmer temperatures means more evaporation and more rain. The world is getting wetter.
@@roadie3124these were the same people who said we would have a dry warm winter. It’s been raining nearly everyday and cold.
The latest story out of the Woolworths/Coles involved them buying land in areas that are in prime retail positions. They buy the land and then go slow in the development paperwork. So slow in fact, that one parcel of land was sitting vacant for 10 years.
The German retail giant, "Kaufland" pulled out of Australia because of this, publicly they said it was a corporate "change". Kaufland is the 4th biggest retailer in the World, except for Australia. The duopoly of Woolies and Coles is so bad they even use the Murdoch media to air disparaging articles against any perceived competitor (Aldi mainly) and have advertising disguised as news articles. Stories of their tactics goes back 30-40 years, or maybe even longer.
You’re right. The Reject Shop is a cool place
As someone working at a small business, we are raising prices because everywhere else is. Because the places where we get the ingredients for our stuff are raising the prices, wages are rising, transport costs are rising, rent is rising where we have a physical shop, everything is getting more expensive, so it’s costing more to make the produce, which means to make any profit we must also raise the price. We’ve actually raised the price a ridiculous amount of times since Covid hit (I know because it’s my job to make all the new labels and I’m sick of it 😭) yet we aren’t making nearly as much in profit margins. It’s becoming harder and harder to make ends meet for small businesses.
Which makes it frustrating when the big companies are driving these price increases and they don’t actually NEED to.
The tyre is to prevent you tripping over the tap after a bbq....
Hey mate, good video. The only thing I have to say this week really is about the Coles mince post. The one on the right was reduced because it was closer to expiry date at the time of the post itself obviously. And they all do this to try to get rid of stock faster making people think 'Ok, should cook that up tonight then.'
All the unsole halloween food will be 1/2 price on 1st November.
Reading Cinemas is actually an American chain. Their logo actually has a very neat reference, the curvy bits of the R form a filmstrip toward the bottom, but toward the top it turns into railway track. This is referencing the fact that it's the remnant of the Philadelphia and Reading Railway Company, commonly known as the Reading Lines. When the Railroad operations were sold to Conrail in the 1970s, the company still owned a bunch of real estate that Conrail didn't want (abandoned lines, old yards, obsolete infrastructure for Steam locomotives, offices, etc). A lot of this was sold off through the 1980s to settle debts. The company was bought in the 1990s, and the new owner started buying cinemas and theatres, forming the Reading Cinemas chain.
So the half tyres were to stop you running into it when you either, mowed the lawn, played on the grass or show where the water pipe and meter were.
The Reject Shop is a discount store - sells cheap mostly imported stuff (like toys, household items, seasonal decoration, imported lollies) - not a full supermarket so not competition for the big 2. Aldi is better competition (and smaller local ones like IGA, and ones like it). Coles & Woolworths aren't owned by the same company (Coles owned by Coles Group - used to be owned by ColesMeyer who also own Kmart & Target as well as a whole lot of other chains, Woolworths owned by Woolworths Group, who also own Big W). It's mostly a duopoly and some smaller towns have no choice at all.
The drop in fertility coincides with the introduction of the contraceptive pill in 1961.
Mum & Dad baught the house I grew up in, in 1962 for just under £9,000 when my sister sold it in 2013 it went for $5050,000 & when it sold again just 3 years ago it went for just over $1,000,000.
The reason my sister sold it was to boost Dad's bank account to cover the cost of the nursing home. And 6 months after he passed away I got half of what was left, my half $267,000. The first thing I did was purchase a brand new car, (the youngest car I had ever got before was 8 years old, & the oldest was 35 years old)
The Reject Shop sells damaged or faulty goods, not foods, except some candy stuff. Where I live, we have three supermarkets, but we also have individual shops like butchers, fruit and veg shops, news agencies, bakeries, and dozens of nice restaurants.
🇦🇺💙💛✌ 🇺🇦 I am so worried about the chaos in America that I just watch Ryan to see what happened here over the past week.😉
Their eating the dogs!!! 😂
@@kirk5152😂😂😂😂
The numbers that were being used in the house /unit prices, the larger number added is what the units /house would cost today if it were only the cpi rise taken into account.
1950s was a booming time in Aust. I was born in 1959 and many families I knew at school had 4 or 5 children.
The 50s and 60s were great here in OZ, then came Globalization and the good times ended.
I may be an Aussie, but I think Halloween is WAAAAY better than Christmas.
In fact, Christmases in our house tend to be Halloween themed.
Also, I work for Coles, but I generally shop at Aldi.
Even with my staff discount, I can typically spend anywhere from 10-25% more at Coles.
I’m with you on this one, I like Christmas but it just feels too fake (and as an introvert being forced to spend the whole day with my extended family-no thanks)
The BOM hasn't got a clue, they couldn't tell the people on the Gold Coast that there was a store coming. When it had already hit 5 hours earlier!
They have over 90% accuracy. That's higher than the 1990s.
How bad did the store turn out? Were its prices high?
The BOM is relatively accurate but now and then they warn of a storm that never arrives. They also show relatively low temperatures in red to try to make it look like Global Warming is actually a thing.
G'day Ryan. The Tyre next to the garden tap might look to be in the middle of the yard, however. It is most likely to be gust inside the property boundry and will be covering the Water meter. The tyre offers some mechanical protection from over excited kids cutting the lawn. The main thing it doesis to protect the Meter from frost. Yes Australia can and does get cold. If you have a choice of pay for a new water meter several times a year or stop it from freezing, then an old tyre is a cheap option.
Not only has the marketing to Embrace Halloween become entrenched here in Australia we now have your thanksgiving shopping period Black Friday and Cyber Monday as major shopping days. Do not like the term for Black Friday as this is a reference to a very tragic bushfire period that happened in the 1930,s but marketing always prevails
@@trevormaurer3684 thanksgiving is truly an American thing and has no place here but Halloween comes from pagan celebrations we share because like America we have a lot of people with the Irish and other pagan heritage. We should be celebrating Christmas in June and Halloween before then technically. If we did it right.
However Victorian England sunk its claws into both us and America.
@@Angelicwings1 Thanks for your reply I do not have a great deal of knowledge on the history of Halloween
@@trevormaurer3684 it’s actually worth looking into because it’s truly an interesting meld of things. There are some cool docos on UA-cam. Mostly based on America but Samhain is just as legit in Australia with so much Irish blood here.
I refuse to shop on Black Friday. Australia is NOT America … thank the Lord!
They're wrong about there being a lack of consensus for a republic model. The Australia Choice Model has been developed from consultation and surveys across 23 years. It has approval from constitutional scholars, legal experts, and widespread acceptance from invested groups. The model even has over 60% support from both major political parties, almost unheard of.
I sincerely hope that Australia remains a constitutional monarchy. The monarchy, represented by the King, and The Queen before him, plays a vital role in our democratic system. It provides a unifying symbol of our nation, a historical connection to our past, and a sense of continuity. This system has served us well, balancing tradition with democratic principles.... Unlike some countries, like the United States, our constitutional monarchy avoids the risks of a potentially divisive and partisan head of state, ensuring stability and national unity.
The two previous referendums rejected a Republic because the politicians would get to decide who a President would be. The people want to elect their own President period, or no deal.
I agree. The royal commission is the the most important thing we have,
the one ultimate failsafe we have to ensure our government doesn't turn us into a country like Russia or China and yes on some levels America.
I’m with you !!
We call it a Shopping Centre. BWS :,Beer , Wine and Spirits .
@@ChristopherJewels But our president was to be essentially ceremonial, pretty much the Governor General (who is chosen by parliament) with a new title. I think too many people were thinking our president would have similar powers to the US President.
19:01 The half tire is to show you where the water meter is, protect the water meter from damage and protect it from freezing due to frost (it gets near zero C here fairly often but it's not a hard freeze just a surface freeze and the tire stops the meter freezing solid enough to rupture)
ATM in Darwin nt is 37cel
Thanks be to God I'm in Sydney!
Best before date on the "grey" mince is different from the full price mince
Our HSC is done in year 12. That's 6 years primary and 6 years of high school.
It was found that Coles and Woolworths both raised the price of articles a month or so before then put the prices back to the original price or slightly more on sale.
It Australia becomes a republic, we would no longer be a part of the Commonwealth.
To buy a normal 2/3 bedroom house will cost anywhere from $650,000 to (and this is in the area I live) $1,200,000 or more.
That's Aud.
The tire is protecting the water metre that gets read by the water board.
The Reject Shop doesn't sell fruit & veg like the supermarkets, and they tend to have very variable stocked items. We all know we have problems with Colesworth because they're essentially a duopoly.
Btw, we call the consumer competition body the "A triple C".
The reject shop is actually amazing. I always go there for snacks and toys. Their prices are a bit cheaper than the rest, definitely suggest to go there.
We rejected republic last time, mostly because there was no model about how it would be done. Seeing DJT in the US makes us very wary about how a head of state is chosen. Random birth to royalty with years of training has given better results, although they do not exercise any actual power.
Glad I am not the only one who remembers why the vote went the way it did...was a double-edged sword, and no one trusted the premiss...😊
Seeing Kamala in the usa shows we have the same in albo
President Keating is my personal nightmare.
@@InfinitePlain 😉
October 31st 1917, was the day of the very last successful cavalry charge and it was carried out by the Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade on Beersheba. There is even a film made about it. This helped Australians fledging reputation at a very important time, allies learned that we could be trusted, and enemies learned not to under estimate us. The charge is part of our military history and far more important then some Celtic pagan autumn harvest ceremony that got corrupted by America, after all in October it’s spring in Australia not autumn.
Don't take too much notice of the Bureau of Meteorology's prediction, they have trouble getting the forecast right for the next day.
It was supposed to rain today here. Didn’t.
that’s funny!
Weather said it was going to be sunny where I live and it rained , maybe they got post codes mixed up
2:29 BWS= beer, wine, sprits
Halloween isn't a holiday here, no one in Australia understands what its about and just thinks they should get candy from peoples houses....
That is not true. I grew up on Halloween. Halloween is not originally American. It is Irish. It was called All Hallows Eve. Halloween was a bigger thing when I was a kid in the 80s and 90s. We love watching Halloween movies in Australia. Australia is heavily influenced by America from TV, movies, and music.
We don't eat candy. We eat lollies.
@@martinwhite3559what you celebrate here is the is the American commercialised version
@@adriancampbell6924 A rose by any other name.
The choice to have kids sadly isn’t about affordability. It’s about a chosen lifestyle….
Woolworths are you intentionally trying to piss people off😂😂😂😂
A big reason for the summer temps in Australia is Earth's rotation. Our axis is tilted in such a way that Australia and New Zealand are the countries that get most lovingly kissed by the summer sun (and by that, I mean a bit like Two-Face from the Batman franchise).
Hi Ryan, your sofa is getting hectic with toys, are they yours? All Hallows Eve is the real Celtic name for the event, it's an annual open portal to your deceased loved ones! It's going to be a long hot summer, yes, new air-con! Garn did a fun video about the supermarket duopoly! We love King Charles, he's lived here, he's very knowledgeable and stands between us and a socialist dictatorship! After 1960, 'the pill' happened! Very informative! 🙋
hes a dad
@@jettyUA-cam1 I know, just a cheeky observation, he does get frustrated sometimes and may need an outlet!
Love your videos man, such a good vibe here. When it got to the 'average temperature in Australia' part of this video I thought I would see if you have reacted to any of the Australia Volunteer Firefighting services. South Australia has the CFS (Country Fire Service), Victoria has the CFA (Country Fire Authority), New South Wales has RFS (Rural Fire Service), Queensland has RFSQ (Rural Fire Service Queensland), Northern Territory has NTFRS (Northern Territory Fire and Rescue Service), and Western Australia has VFRS (Volunteer Fire and Rescue Services). There are some really interesting videos on UA-cam!
It is mince, 5 stars best, 3 star average.
It's the fat content. I prefer the pork/beef mince even though it's cheaper than the beef.
My family told that the Reject Shop started by selling items that weren't up to par for other stores, or discontinued brands and stuff like that, aka the rejected items, at lower prices.
What you call Halloween was a Celtic festival celebrated in old Britton and Ireland called Samhain. It is still celebrated, but Americans made it commercial.
Yes I would be into Samsain if that's what was acknowledged here
@@bblake5116 truth
@@bblake5116 I believe the Irish brought a lot of the customs with them.
It was big in England too but then Bon fire night got bigger there
Err....it's the....err....juxtaposition of nature and technology in an uneasy tension of...... waffle and verbiage to impress the marker of my English exam!
BWS is Beer Wine Spirits - liquor store.
TK Maxx has different names all over the world.
Reading Cinemas is owned by Reading International which is a chain of cinemas in America, Australia & New Zealand.
The Reject Shop is like your Dollar Store - it's a bit of everything - we do & we don't do Halloween in Australia... More so we don't.
Shapes dust is the best part.
HSC - Higher School Certificate - Year 12.
Today is 34 degrees where I live.... Not normal for Spring.
Halloween is a Pagan Harvest Festival, reinvented as a way to sell a lot of chocolate, it's not something I care to associate with.
Stores though, any chance for a sales pitch, they've had Halloween displays, Sales! and adverts since the 90s.
Somewhat correct. The pagan Northern Hemisphere festival is Samhain. Christians put a lot of their stuff over the top of older festivals, so Samhain became All Hallows Eve which was corrupted to Halloween. Christmas over the top of Yule. Easter from spring goddess name Eostra and so on.
Celebrating Halloween is becoming more common in Australia, especially in the younger generation (I’m in my 70’s so “younger” is anyone under 50 🤣). Personally I don’t nor do any of my friends but our children and grandchildren do.
If kids trick or treat at my house, I'll just give them a beer.
We got the gold rush. Halloween was not attached... not here until the movie😊 and still then it took a while...
With the mince one; all meat goes grey like that over time, the only reason it stays red like we're used to is because we fill the packaging with nitrogen or oxygen gas mixtures which keeps the meat oxygenated. the meat isnt bad just because its not bright red, thats what meat actually looks like
Just to clarify. Australia 'celebrates' Halloween, October 31st just like America and other countries. The difference is, is that kids love it, and the oldies usually hate all the hassle of getting lollies for kids and having people at their house at unnecessary times.
In full, Australia has Halloween too, it's just not as heavily implied by every single person here as it is in America.
:)
Where I live they usually only go to houses with decorations out the front. No decorations, no lollies!
@@elizabethpilarski1076 exactly!
It is a good time to get SLIGHTLY cheaper share packs of choccies, though.
I've never had anyone come to my door or participated in Halloween in all of my decades long life.
the grey mince is actually what the mince is supposed to look like... the red one is spray with gases to make it red... lol
It is just the effect of oxygen on the meat. If you mince a steak it will be red like the tray on the left.
It’s Oxidation. Beef will loose it's bright red color being exposed to air. Typically this is just surface oxidation the meat unexposed to air is bright pink. Nothing to worry about.
If you want to get a deal on meat, go to the clearance bin.
Mince isn't meant to be grey unless you think cows produce grey meat. The gases don't make it red they just make the meat red longer.
@@jaggsy420 One gas does make it go grey - it is called Oxygen. Sure it starts out red but as it oxidises it changes colour - like steel changes to rust but with different colours.
@ianmontgomery7534 your right. I wasn't referring to that but the gases they use in the packaging. They don't turn the meat red as the original comment suggested.
the reject shop is like a dollar tree. theirs less competition than you think between coles and woolies as a lot of regional towns have one or the other. so there's no real competition in those towns. you can pay extra in store or drive further and pay extra in fuel and time. but it's not just driving to the next town either. you have to drive to a town where there's both.
We have no choice[HALOWEEN] as with most US Culture foist upon un suspecting Aussies .
It is Celtic in origin ...not American
A lot of Australians have embraced it. I like it actually. Isnt that real multiculturalism? Take the best of what other cultures offer and integrate it? (American version) Halloween is really fun. I went out with a group from my sons school one year, it was so fun and I felt very connected with my community. Whilst I reject many things that America stands for and think they are not appropriate in Australia, I'm fine with Halloween. Let's take Halloween and reject predatory capitalism and so forth. Imo.
Both WOOLORTHS and COLES also employ anti consumer policies like IF you have shopped in another store and put that product in your trolley, when u check out at the auto pay check outs and scan all your stuff you leave the other stuff in your trolley but the machine wont let you finalise your purchase untilit has called a check out "gaurd" to go make sure you are not trying to steal from them, they want to SEE your receipt for these other products ! And IF you leave the products and receipt in the trolley and INVITE them to have a look at the receipt they wont reach in and get it to look, they want YOU to hand it to them, because it contravnenes your civil liberties for them to reach into your trolley, so the checkout "gaurd" wont do this but instead calls a supervisor! This is getting disgusting and they are DIFFERENT companies Ryan and both crap !
Haha Readings is pronounced "Red-ings"
ETA: we call it the A triple C it's a lot quicker to read. I do shop at the Reject Shop, 2kg Radiant washing detergent is less than $10. It's $22 at Coles and Woolies.
Not when it's on special. I only buy stuff that's on special, otherwise I couldn't afford to live. I am on a pension.
@@lindamcgregor4080 when it's on special at Coles or WW's it's $11. Still cheaper at the Reject Shop and it's Commercial Blend 🤷
ETA: It's actually $8 at the Reject Shop for a 2kg box. I'm on the Pension too.
@@lindamcgregor4080 No you are wrong. It's $11 when it's on special at Coles and Woolies, it's $8 at the Reject Shop for a 2kg box and it's Commercial Blend. I'm on the Pension too.
@@lindamcgregor4080 why does my comment keep disappearing grrr
Yes it is cheaper than when it's on special at Coles and Woolies. It's $11 when it's on special. It's $8 for Commercial Blend at the Reject Shop 🤷 I'm on the pension too.
Bunnings is good for laundry detergent too. I get Cold Power there for cheaper than the Woolies on sale price. 5.4 litres for just under $25. Surf powder 5kg is $20.
The general consensus of halloween here is...decorations go ahead and trick or treat, no decorations dont knock. Our town (orange nsw) every year, there is a "map" that people can add their address too if they want to partake. This map is then listed out as the shortest direct route to hit all houses. Unfortunately this means most kids are driven to each address by their parents, not just walking around their area. Also, broccoli at coles is currently price at $6.50 per kilo lol
The grey ground beef had a use by date 3 days earlier so is reduced because it's older (and so grey)
3:37 oh, we’ve done Halloween….we just didn’t do trick or treating; mainly because October 31st is after the daylight savings crossover, and it’s still light until after 8pm in those states that observe DST
Some of us Australians absolutely adore Halloween festivities. I have all out decorated my yard for the neighbourhood for the last 13 years and the community love it. Some Aussies are just not into Halloween I guess. Just as I dislike doing the Xmas light thing. The joy I see every Halloween as the families come by to take pics and grab treats is enough for me to keep doing it. To each their own.
Likes Halloween decor but not xmas lights....I feel so seen
As a brisbane online streamer ,, in 1990s ,, the whole Thanksgiving to Halloween video / live chat by americans wanting to see the full 24 hours of an australian halloween , because they were still on oct 30.. so us NZ ~ aussie live telecasts would do the traditional toffee apple making ,bob for apples in a tub of water ,, plus ,, the difference in flavoured chip packets ,, aussie shapes with vegemite lavour ,, even unique cream buns,, as perth streams had some fancy bakery treats ,, really,, yes past 20 years since myspace 2003 showed how unusual state or country /bush town pride changed as even bakery /cake shops got requests for special/ orange /purple / black donuts with bat icing ,, spider marshmellows ,, even 20 years of INKTOBER /GOTHOBER /GORETOBER .. plus we would do american football tradition of 25th November Thanksging & watch Macy"s Parade with inflated SNOOPY ,, WOODSTOCK,, Sonic .. the plsbory Doughboy.. lol.. since channel 7 & 9 had NBC TODAY ,, CBS morning shows live.from 2005 youtube to now ,,there were sometimes when i would just have american friends watch me,, as australia to them,,they thought our lives were so different ,til they saw us aussies liked the celebration of seasonal change halloween,
Coles & Woolies are owned by completely separate entities. Woolworths is it's own entity and Coles is owned by Westfarmers.
There is technically two other supermarket chains with Aldi & IGA, which IGA is the independent super markets in Australia.
Aldi is considered cheap but usually only range their branded stock rather then common brands.
IGA is considered expensive due to the unknown nature from store to store as they are independently operated but are governed by an overall company (Metcash) who regulate the pricing in stores and provides stores with promotional activities to try and rival the big two.
The shops still put heaps of halloween onto us but noone ever really does it, maybe like one house in a whole suburban area or maybe some street where everyone has kids who cares, but pretty much nah
Starting to get a little more popular. Mainly with primary school kids or a street with like minded people. I wasn’t a fan but my kids do it with their kids.