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Australians were not up in arms about the Simpsons ep , we just laughed along with it .
knoath, i still call frogs "chuzwazzas"
maybe depended on where you were in Australia. I remember alot of newspaper articles and things on the news about the upset of it.
"I found that out during a quiz night." Well, that's conclusive evidence. 🙄 That's only marginally better than finding out on breakfast TV.
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A a teenager in the 1970's in Sydney, if the coppers caught you misbehaving while out at night it was customary to get your address, boot yer' arse, and send you home... Lord help you if they caught you again that night...
😂 I aced it !!! No funds
Aah, the good old days. 🎉😅
True, happened to my brother one night. Double whammy to come home and cop a flogging after spending the night in a lock up!
Anyone who grew up last century knew what a good "arse kicking" felt like😅
Same in UK 🇬🇧❤
I worked for the VictoriaPolice for 15 years, never heard about the hot pink pants on a Sunday and no one has ever been arrested for it 🤣
I think that law was only ever enacted on folks over 25 stone, live weight.
I’m sure you would have taken a good look like any man.
It was actually a joke 😂 made up by the Anglicans to stir their husbands to stop them looking since Church services finished at midday.
These are just old laws that governments have never got around to getting rid of .
This "ding dong" thing kids do in the US is a bit wimpy. Where I grew up, streets were narrow with no front yards/gardens. There were very few cars on residential streets. My classmates and I would tie a rope to one house's doornob, run across the street and tie the other end to another house's doornob. Neither house could open their doors until a chuckling neighbour came to the rescue. 😅
😂😂😂😂😂😂 We never thought of that 😂😂😂😂😂😂 we played knick knock.
It was actually the reverse RE the Aussie episode of the Simpsons. Australians found it funny but Matt Groening was ashamed of it as he thought it was probably crossing a line with a country he felt fond about. 😂😂
i want some coffee.
beeeeeeeer!
It was standard Aussie humour! So funny.
actually it pissed off many Australians (not me personally), it was culturally insensitive in parts, I personally found it lame humour, some of it was funny, but mostly just overused generalisations that they took to an extreme, making the joke unfunny, I consider it 1 of their worst episodes, but only because they missed the mark with the writing
We can take a joke, if we even watched it. l didnt, so couldnt care any less.
As an Aussie I've never met anyone offended by the Simpson's . Anyone that soft wouldn't be able to leave the house .
Having to run over the hill to find our Prime Minister floating around leisurely and he doesn't respond until you use his first name is pretty accurate
Mate, I worked in Vancouver for a short while in the early 80's and there was a small subculture 'newspaper' called the 'Gas town Times'
(Gas town was Vancouver's red light district, a small version of Sydney's Kings Cross) Groenig had a cartoon page in it. My favorite was 'School Kids from Hell', a full page of just individual characters like a year book.. 'The Sports Guy, The Prissy one, Mr Smelly, Goody Two shoes, Cool Guy, Everyone's Girl and many more. I always wished I had kept a few editions.. Groenig was brilliant. His style of drawing though well smoothed by the time of 'The Simpsons' was unmistakable!!!
@@theChickenstones First couple season of simpsons had a rough charm, but that old stuff would probably be worth something nowadays
Just make a law that for every new law or regulation proposed you have to propose an obsolete law or regulation to be removed by the same bill. That's common advice for hoarders: one item in = must also remove one item
I did hear growing up south of Sydney that a drover walking a min of 3 sheep had right of way on streets even thru Sydney if needed & it's a law that dated back to when Australia relied on sheep as a main export
Sort of, you have to get a permit from the Local Land Services and those are region based. So if you could get one for Greater Sydney, sure.
Girls in the 1970s wore hot pants. They were usually worn with patent leather white lace up boots. They were mostly black velvet, but coincidentally mine were hot pink. And yup I’m 70 years old. 🤣
Mine were bright blue and I am 73. They certainly the best days.
Mine were yellow! I'm 64
Hot pants = booty shorts
Mine were patterned, black background, bright coloured patches. 82 here!
@@heatherhoward2513 Very daring. I remember my sisters went to discotheques, with the "dolly cut", hot pants and vinyl knee boots. They are 75 and 73. Fringed leather jackets and vests were part of the scene too.
Our Parliamentary representatives don't wear judges wigs, and visitors are not allowed in the Politicians seating area! 🧐 Bart got his own back as he was leaving later! 😵 I'm going to use the Bus Splashing law! 😁👍
‘Ding dong ditch’ is a much more fun name than our ‘knock and run’
Every teen boy should be able to do that, like moving the bins if they're left out, etc! Harmless!
my friend from England said that over there they called it 'nicky knocky nine doors'. I think ours is a bit more sensible.
@@sbf5174 Not if you need to do nine doors and run! 😁
The thing about potatoes in Western Australia is real. Well it was. The Spud Board won in the Federal High Court and now it's just a war against excessive amounts Ammonia Nitrate...that I can understand...
Bags used to have words to the effect of 'it is illegal to plant these potatoes'. Good riddance to the Potato Marketing Corporation, you have not been missed this past 8 years.
It used to be due to the amount of potatoes because they can be used to make alcohol.
@@ellefitzpatrick6339 In that case I'm defiantly going to buy more potatoes now...
When I was a kid my father had the boot, but your not allowed to do that now.
That's the standard of morning television in Australia, absolute gibberish and treating the audience like idiots. Mind you, afternoon television is almost as bad and evening television not much better than that.
I have two tvs. Neither has been plugged in for nearly a decade.
Yes, free to air tv is appalling and has been for years. I last owned a tv in 2010, but hadn't watched it for about fve years or so. But when I stay in a motel, I see what there is on offer, and it's so boring or mindless.
@@xymonau2468 Exactly.
@@xymonau2468 not to mention the number of gambling ads!
@@ange4048 I don't remember any of the ads, honestly. But I do remember there were about 15 minutes of them in a row a lot of times.
Im from South Australia, and theres many reasons why i think my state is totally messed up, and that doorbell law has just been added to my list
The potatoes thing was real - and it was in all Australian states for a time. There were state government bodies that regulated what types and how many potatoes farmers could grow in order to keep prices arbitrarily high. You were not allowed to sell anything you grew over your quota. 50 kg / 110 lbs, was considered commercial, so you needed a growers or sellers license to have that much. After WWII most states set up lots of those boards for agricultural price protection, but they were largely phased out in the late 1950s. The potato boards hung around in Tasmania (1977), South Australia (1986) and Western Australia (2016!!). Relic of the last century that was long past it's expiry date.
You also couldn't move potatoes between state lines. Which might be still the case in WA and Tas, but for quarantine reasons. Sort of how Vic has the rice quarantine zone
Honestly in Tasmania that law was pretty much ignored anyway.
It wasn't until the the law was rescinded about 15 years ago that taxis had to still carry a bail of hay in the trunk of their taxi in Australia.
Do you have some evidence for that?
@@oakfat5178 Although repealed in 1980, it was once illegal for taxi drivers in Melbourne to drive around without a hay bale in the boot. The law was a throwback to when taxis were horse-drawn and it was a requirement to have food onboard for livestock.
@@systemsrenegade9888 Do you have a source or some credible reference for that?
I'm not saying it's untrue, just that I'd need more than your word for it, for me to believe it.
No offence intended, I'm like that to people IRL too.
@@oakfat5178 If you are that interested, you can Google it yourself. I looked this up a long time ago, and can't remember the details. It may have been true in some places when vehicles were horse-drawn, but I doubt it was ever enforced for motor vehicles. It would be covered under animal welfare regulations now.
It may have been a law, but taxi drivers certainly didn't abide by it. I travelled to and from the airport several times during the 1990s and my suitcase went in the boot, and there was no hay bale. This would also be the experience for everyone else.
Hot pants were BIIIG in the 70s. Very short & fairly tight.
So indecent on Sunday! 😁
I’m now 70 and I wore super small hot pants.
@@c8Lorraine1 Very brave! 😂
I remember wearing hot pants to a school social. I had to borrow my Mum's coat to wear over them otherwise my Dad wouldn't have let me out the door.
Booty shorts would be the name the kids are using these days 😂
It was still illegal to spit on the footpath or pavement when I was a kid in Melbourne. They used to have those old-fashioned signs on the subway wall tiles at Flinders Street Station, "No Spitting". Other strange signs at the train stations at the men's room: Ädjust your dress before leaving". We laughed at that one as school kids every time. It must have been an old expression meaning "do up your fly"
I loved my hot pants particularly the ones with the bib fronts (like overalls). Very popular late 60's into the 70's. I wish my legs looked that good now. 😂
As an Australian my entire life ive never heard of any of these
When that Simpsons episode came out I was pissed off at what they thought Australia was like (We have moved on since Crocodile Dundee by the way), but then later I found out that the creators of the Simpsons wanted to do an episode where they go to Australia, But they knew so little about Australia they didn't think they could pull it off, so they deliberately made the episode as bad and inaccurate as possible, now I enjoy that episode alot
The ‘best’ line in that Simpsons episode for me, when Marge and Lisa are exploring Canberra and walk past a massive building with a sign saying ‘AUSTRALIAN CULTURAL CENTRE’, and in smaller print under that ‘Cart your arse on in’.
Yes, Tristan McManus is Irish, Ryan...Hes in the jungle at the moment doing Im a Celebrity, Get me Outta Here, Africa, along with Frankie Muniz from Malcolm in the Middle...a bit of trivia for you...The potato thing is a very old law, at least it was....not so any more apparently....see above comment for clarity...
“…with a battery inside them so they heat up?”
HAHAHA! You really don’t know what Hot pants were? Look ‘em up.
Kylie Minogue, wore gold hot pants! 😂
@@jenniferharrison8915 Don Dunstan, pink hot pants in SA Parliament! Scandal!
I'm good thanks everyone loves ya Mate in Australia. Best to the Family. 😊
In NSW you can be fined $114 for being more than 3 metres from your unlocked car. Windows open less than 20mm are permitted.
Income tax was brought in, in 1901, to pay for the Crimea war. 90% of income tax was paid by corporations. Here we are in 2024, income tax still exists, and now the public pay 90% of all income tax, and corporations 10%
income tax was started by the British in 1812
@@greggiles7309 The first evidence of income tax is over 1500 years old, from Egyptian records, according to
Breasted, James Henry (1906). Ancient Records of Egypt. Vol. II: The Eighteenth Dynasty. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. paragraph 719-742
My source - Wikipedia footnote. I haven't read the book itself.
Wrong. The Crimea war was fought in the early 1850's.
@@lennywalin-bates5410 Putin seems to have forgotten that.
At least we don’t have to send in the Light Brigade this time.
What? Nobody criticised the Simpsons Australia episode, we all thought it was really funny. Who did get upset was Brazilians with the Brazil episode because the Simpsons got robbed by a gang of orphans in a slum.
A few years ago I was looking up stuff like this. I found one where you're still allowed to ride your horse on public roads, and cars aren't allowed to use their horn near the horse in case it scares them. I'm pretty sure a cop would still pull you over if you were holding up traffic with your horse though.
Getting the boot up the backside was a very popular saying & concept when I was growing up in Australia. If you got into trouble it was literally dished out & metaphorically.
The obscene song law is in Victoria, where Melbourne is. Sydney is in New South Wales.
Sydneysider here came to say u can sing wap in the middle of martin place if u really want 😂
"Hotpants" were a fashion choice in the (late) 70s - very short shorts for women, usually made from a shiny satin type fabric but sometimes velvet or denim. Often seen at the disco.😊
40 or 50 years ago ,if the police caught young kids out at night getting up to mischief they’d most certainly get a foot up the bum and told to get home. 🤣
That Simpsons episode is where I learned that our toilets swirl a different way and that you's have way more water in ya loo than we do!
Network 10 is part of Paramont, its part of the reason why their running simpsons clips on a breakfast show
the 50kg potato law in WA has been re peeled.
Ouch!
The potato law was repealed in 2021, it was a law created in WWI-II due to food being needed for the war effort. The law concerning splashing mud on bus passengers refers to people waiting for the bus, and pedestrians. The hot pink pants law has never existed and is simply an extreme extrapolation of the law on public indecency (how little clothing can you get away with and what your shirts / hats can or cannot say.
On a side note, it is illegal to clean up seabird or bat poo in public without a licence in Western Australia, as guano is extremely valuable.
Kylie Minogue's Gold Hot Pants are a National Icon
"I would actually definitely be more prone to ding, dong, ditch"
You know who says that?
Somebody who needs the 🥾
We always called it knick knock.... best game to play as a kid.
hot pink is a colour
4:51 He is an Irishman . Worried about potatoes and pink pants. He's I wild one I bet he drinks Guiness. ;)
That obscene singing I reckon was due to the song “I’m an a$&hole” by Dennis Leary (just a theory) … I remember everyone coming out of the pubs and clubs at night singing this song real loud a lot lololol fun times
Back in my day.... no one had door bells, Rocking rooves was favoured crime from the misspent yoof of my generation.
And the cops would threaten to boot us up the backside if they caught us doing it again, or tell our parents.
It's still illegal to splash people on the side of the road by purposely driving through puddles.
Most of the laws we think are crazy now, weren't so crazy when there was a level of public decency and respect.
Most of them are legacy laws lounging about the books that have yet to be formally rescinded, and any legitimate use they may get is a stretch while proper charges are brought out, assuming the prosecutor doesn't get laughed out of court for raising them.
“HEY Mr Prime Minister! ANDYYYYY” HAHAHA one of the best episodes of The Simpsons ever.
As a bus driver in N.S.W. in SYDNEY, for many years, I have never seen, been told of or any other method such as driver training school, about any such law.
Hope you're safe from the tornado over in your neck of the woods. Take care Ryan concerned Australia.
Love ya vids mate
It wasn’t until about 1980 in the ACT that the law stating a horseless carriage could not travel more than 4 miles per hour and a person with a red flag had to walk in front of it to warn people it was coming was removed. Until the Air Force Act of 1921 was replaced in about 1986, it was on the books that if a RAAF member rode a horse to work as their primary means of transport, the base was required to provide a hitching rail and the owner could claim 6 Pence a day for agistment costs. Neither rule was enforced but they remained on the books way past their use by date.
Half these are fake as man just google it lmao. Typical morning news lying to the public for no reason then saying "it's true" because they like the sound of it 😂😂😂
We were never stupid enough to get caught. 🤣🤣🇦🇺🤗
We loved the Simpons ep. It was great! :D
I hope you are staying safe as I hear that there is some bad weather events happening in US. I believe the potatoes' law in WA is to prevent diseases in crops. Plus 60 KG is A lot of potatoes 132.2774 Pounds.
THAT GUY WAS IRISH ON STUDIO 10 IN AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 FROM COLEEN ARMSTRONG PERTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 😊
We absolutely loved the Australian Simpsons episode, literally every Aussies fave episode 😂❤
Absolutely not a favourite. A lot of BS that America spread about Australia that the gullible audience believed,,,
I think you are among the very few who liked that episode. I found it insulting and extremely non humerus.
@@aussiejohn5835 you're probably mad BC you always lose at knifey spoony.
I don't really remember it. My favourite one was the X-files one. "He bit me with my own teeth!" 😂
Every aussie loved the simpsons episode?? you are nutz if you think that, few people watch the simpsons, certainly not 27million of us. My mid 20s daughters think the cartoons are stupid, and even when the were 8 and 11 never watched.
"I'd do ding dong ditch if the stakes were high"
"It should be illegal to waste people's time"
When I was a kid the coppers did not like my family & were always trying to pins things that we did not do & when old Sargent Muller from the cop shop two suburbs away was having a quite day & he found you walking in the street he would make you hop in the sidecar of his motorbike & take you to the police station then he would ask you a shit load of questions then take you to the front gate of the police station then give you a swift boot up the arse & tell you to walk home. Which did not worry us kids because we could walk for many miles every day.
“ Hot Pants “ were a fashion all over the world in the 1970’s.
Laws no one knows about probably not even the police.
5:45 I bet I still can't ride a horse through town naked at midnight. Maybe I can......... Oh no not again.
Kerry Packer once said that for every law enacted two should be removed.
Its knock and run 😂😅
Potato reference is Irish 1899
Hot pants - very short short, think Daisy in Dukes of Hazzard.
Yeah they call them daisy dukes over there right?
2:34 In North Queensland it is called playing knock and run with the old girl.
We called it "Knick Knock".... Knock on the door and knick off. Certainly wasn't illegal in Victoria in the 1960's and we were 8/9 years old. Hot pants are very short shorts, usually with a bib and braces. I nver got kicked by a cop but I knew of it.... everyone did. Sometimes they'd give the kids a choice. A strapping or a trip to the cop shop. The kids chose the strapping usually . ( It would have been a lot worse at the cop shop).
Hotpants were short shorts in the 70's for women. There are strange laws in Carmel Calif too.
Didn't the creators of the Simpsons do the most accurate Antipodean accents ever?? They deserve Oscars. I swear, the voice overs sound like true blue, dinky-di Aussies; they're soooh good I can't tell them apart from the real thing.🙄
The one about the potatoes dates back to the depression
We have crocodiles not Florida where there are alligators I presume.
Florida has both crocs and alligators 😊
Everyone i knew laughed at the simpsons aussie episode as unrealistic as it is 😂
Australia's most famous pair of Hot pants can be seen in the music Video of Spinning Around by Kylie Minogue.
Have you ever noticed that these segments NEVER feature details such as which act or regulation this law is in let along which section and paragraph the law is?
I mean, it's not hard to look up, ALL of our acts and regulations are available online to read including all the amendments, old laws etc.
For example, I looked up the "Protection of Word Anzac Act 1920" and it's associated regulations the other day.
By the way, the penalties for misusing the word Anzac may not exceed $1,000 or 12 months imprisonment.
In Queensland you can get arrested for drink driving on a horse.
Australia has actually got rid of a few really weird old laws.
I heard that it used to be against the law to fly a kite, on a Sunday in South Australia.
I'm guessing that the "Authorities" of the day , thought that all God fearing folks should be down on bended knee, in church, praying,
Praying for forgiveness, for getting sprung flying kites, last Sunday , I spose.
There was that story of the bloke that got caught drunk on his horse. He said it is okay the horse knows the way home. That must be the first autonomous transport. Elon the 1800's had it. The plane with no wings to the pub has it as a story not even Steve the mower man can top that.
Qld bylaws state the if a hotel/bar/pub doesn't have a hitching spot for your horse. The publican or member of the staff must hold your horse until you're finished drinking. Only thing is that you can be charged for drink riding a horse. If you are mowing your yard on a ride-on with a beer in your hand you can be charged with: Drink driving & driving with an open container.
thats a load of crap mate, yes you can get charged on the horse, but mowing the lawn is on your private property and you can mow and drink to your hearts content
@@trevorpridham5644 It's not a load of crap. Though I believe it's a rarity, I witnessed my mate (Steve. J) get charged for drinking & mowing. He was on the footpath, with a beer in his hand. A cop came past, doubled back & made him blow in the bag. Then charged him with low range drink driving. I don't know if it was bad luck. Or the cop had a grudge, but he was fined & lost 2 points. Fined for drink driving & fined for an open container. This took place in a small mining town in CQ in 93 or 94. It was around Chrissie time. Being a small town, I knew the cop as well.
@@shaneb4612 yeah right... think you were being spun a big furphy at the pub after tooo many 4xxxx middies of midstrength..
@@belleriffraffI was there!!! It absolutely happened. No bloody furphy at the pub. I don't drink xxxx, it's a shit beer. I tried to avoid the pubs out there. They were a bit to rough for my liking & full of miners'. I was there to pick Steve up & go out to Sapphire. Where we spent the weekend fossicking for gem stones. I'm wearing 2 gems stones, 1 on a chain & the other is set into a ring.
I think it’s because Steve was on the footpath. Obviously the cop classifies the footpath as part of the public road. Not sure if it is; after all, we have to mow it!
Have you not heard the James Brown classic “Hot Pants” ??
i got the boot from my old man many times when i was a kid.
Every new law they make should mean they take one old law off. Expect the boot. We should always keep the boot
In the UK, we have some strange laws, but 99.9%, if not 100%, are not enforced. I bet the USA some strange laws, too
30th may 2022 you put out a reaction viideo and in it, the potato law was mentioned
Channel 10 Australia, owned by Paramount a yankee organisation, has the most repeated dinosaur era shows on tv. Then created deadend shows like studio 10, i am a wannabe celebrity, etc.. I watch more shows on NITV and SBS than 7,9,10 and the ABC combined.
They're cobblers mate, spinning a yarn
That WAS a short video, but I'm okay with it. Fair dinkum,
Thought it might be interesting to mention a traditional aboriginal punishment of spearing. A deliberate, obviously, stabbing with the spear in the calf or thigh. intentionally non lethal, but obviously painful and crippling, both physically and emotionally, as you rely on others to move and provide. and for a nomadic race, it was a case of let the gods decide your fate. the location and number of stabs dependant on the crime. only for major crimes such as murder and rape. and a lesser punishment if you willingly accept it and your wrongdoing (say, 1 instead of 5 stabs). less so now, but there have been cases where someone gets released from white mans prison, still going through with the ceremony, in order to 'make things right' within their culture.
I know plenty of WA people who harbour 50+kg of potatoes!!
The trick is to keep them buried in the backyard for much of the year, so the cops don't spot them....
I've never heard of this... only Tony of the Spud Shed getting into trouble because he was giving bags of potatoes away, instead of playing them into the ground. The Potato Board was a joke.
Tony's still going stronger than ever and now running marathons
@@cbisme6414 Well I only made this dad joke up 2 days ago, so it's not that surprising that word hasn't reached you yet.....
Keep your ear to the ground.... ;)
It’s already the second here, btw……. I hope this wasn’t a joke. If it was, looks like I’m the only one who fell for it.
Hot pants are short lycra shorts. James Brown has a whole song about them.
I think nearly all Aussies found that Simpsons episode hilarious (or a pisser). like them all.
It should be law here that "Nobody has the right to not be offended". We've gone too prissy.
Every country has strange laws
So aussie it's old mate Jeremy Niven at the MCG for AFL
Yes Tristan is Irish
Mud is pretty rare where I come from
Well it was April fools day.
How do you not know what "hot pants" are? Young woman's very short shorts. Big rage in the 70s.
"it's not pink, it's apricot!" Go on, doit