I’ve just realised why I enjoy watching Ryan. He has reached 72000 subs without doing anything except do what he enjoys while putting in no unnecessary effort at all. He is just like most Australians.
Your right, he's a rude ignorant, procrastinating clown who can't shut up long enough to let anyone else finish speaking right from the start because he can't engage his brain before putting his mouth in gear!
The things that other people think are great about Australia do have a downside for the average American. The free refills is one of them. Do you want free stuff, or better rates of pay. Our work/life balance is also a great thing but then you see Americans react negatively to the short opening hours of businesses. Do you want 24 hour stores? Or do you want a better work/life balance?
Idk those drink cost so low, you would never drink your money back without od yourself with them. I would rather drink water 😂 plus you are just adding more work to screw over the workers and your health
……& they don’t realise the DISTANCES we travel to just go from a to b. Remember years’ ago a rellie was coming from UK, & wanted a one day hire of a car to go Brisbane-Cairns. He was soon told correct info…………
Free electric BBQs are available all around Australia. Cricket games vary from about 3 hours, (20/20), up to 5 days (Test Cricket). You won't see many kangaroos during the day. They are most active around sunrise and sunset. However, you will see them on golf courses as the fairways provide plenty of nice green grass for them.
I have Roos around all day and even at night. Occasionally I find a juvenile in my kitchen after it has squeezed through the car flap, which can be a tad startling at a 0300 loo trip.
@@bootn13 I found in Darwin you get like a 5-10 minute cool breeze right before it buckets down as the warning, and as soon as the rain finishes it's gone.
I also laugh when tourists talk about cute warlies and I think stuff going near one in the wild, not with those tree climbing claws XD I totally respect roos too. I got nervous feeding them in a zoo once, especially the big reds. (I have four possies sitting around me right now as I'm outside XD They are brushies and Mummy has a new bubby in her pouch but it's too young to be on her back yet. Take care, Mate
Yes once again, they think that all the world conforms to what they do. Talk about living in their own little bubble. America is only a certain part of the land mass on this planet. We may have their franchises, but it’s done by our rules. Not everything revolves around them. Starbucks failed miserably in 🇦🇺because they brought terrible coffee to a country that truly knows how coffee should taste and the majority of our little coffee shops do a brilliant cup of coffee blindfolded. Plus we pay decent wages, so refills get charged for.
Hungry Jacks used to have the free refills. Not even sure if they still do. They wouldn't even care or notice if we got refills at my local anyway. It's all run by kids.
On ABC t.v (Australia) there's a program called Foreign Correspondent and this week the show was America through Australian Eyes. Apparently there's around 100,000 Australians living in America. They interviewed a few Aussies, some had lived in the U.S for 10 years. What suprised me was that none had lost their Aussie accent or gained an American one. Worth a look imo.
Its amazing how many Aussies are oversea. back in 2005 I was talking to the Australian Consul in Guangzhou and he said he had over 6,000 registered Aussies just in Guangdong Province alone.
I’ve been here in the US since 1986, when I was 20. There is not a day that goes by without someone asking where I’m from. Proud to say the accent has stuck. I use Oz slang around the house constantly and the fam gets it, and they’re all from here. And they all love Vegemite. Jackpot!
How is that possible, I spent a little over 4 months in the USA and my accent started flipping to the US accent within a few days! Also happened to me when I worked in the UK for 2 years, I was sounding British after 2 months. When I got home, people constatntly asked me if I was from England. I try really hard not to change my accent but maybe that is why it happens. Or I am a natural mimic ...
The “shrimp on the barbie” ad by Paul Hogan (Hoges) was aimed at the US tourist market. Americans may not have known what a prawn was so ‘shrimp’ was used instead.
Australians seem to be more scared of Plovers and Magpies than anything else in Australia 😂 we are just more aware of all the stuff that'll actually kill you and avoid them lol
So true. Plovers & maggies are harder to avoid. Feeding them is a good idea, but they shouldn’t eat bread crusts & anything good for them is a bit more trouble. Wild parrot food isn’t.
I have magpies that will follow me into the house for a feed, they sit at my door and sing. Feed them and they LOVE you Plovers on the other hand I would stay well away from.
If you ever visit australia, please blog your entire stay here. Would love to see you experience australian culture first hand from your point of view. I think it would be super interesting to see first hand your likes and dislikes to everything here :)
@@darneyoung537well yes, menulog. Where the person leaves their home and drives to the shops and collects your food and delivers it to you, using their vehicle (registration and wear and tear) and fuel. You're paying someone for your laziness. Durrrh.
@@tiz848 not always laziness! I didn’t have a car for six months and had to get food delivered. I live 20 kilometres from nearest supermarket and being on disability pension I can’t afford to tip!!
Not only refills but wages for service workers in the US are tragic . It's because the employers , usually big corporations ,are not forced by law to pay decent wages and want to keep all the profits for themselves !
@@horatiomh As someone who used to work at an establishment that sold carbonated drinks, I can tell you that the price of those drinks do not match the manufacturing costs. Refills have no financial burden on the business.
Councils realised pretty quickly, it’s cheaper to provide them free than have to repair them every. single. week. cos people had broken into the coin boxes when we had to pay.
I met two young men from Utah over here and I was so impressed with their English that I thought wow why do they speak so much better than us. I listened very carefully for a couple of weeks still bugged at what the difference was. Then one day it clicked and I started laughing my head off. The difference was, they finished their words 😂
Many people from Utah are members of a particular way of life... & they put those members through language school, so when they go out into the world, they can be well understood and spread the message. It's fascinating, really, the MTC run by CLDS have one of the largest language schools in the United States, & they train 36k ppl a year.
This is such a sweet video on so many levels. I saw the original video a few years ago and loved the poster's open mind and willingness to embrace our unique Aussie features. I loved the way that Ryan obviously has no idea who this guy was or why he was in Aus. The guy in the video is a Mormon (Church of the Latter Day Saints?), on his 2 year mission to spread the word to us heathens. He was part of a "reaction video" that recorded all of the thoughts and comments from the Mormons who had finished their tours, and I have seen several of these from the same group. They all had much the same reaction - Aus is a very unique place full of weird and wonderful animals and generally pretty nice people. In return, I would like to say that Utah seems to be a unique place full of weird and wonderful religious beliefs and generally pretty nice people! As a whole, Aussies are bewildered by the entire US religious landscape, let alone the Utah variations on that weirdness. That doesn't mean that we can't recognise and acknowledge nice people when we meet them!
@@chrisflesser2171 It's just that Americans (with all their good manners) believe they need to have more guns than people to protect themselves against the ever-present deadly threat of other Americans. Apart from that, yeah, great people!
12:35 Yes, at parks/playgrounds, camping grounds, beaches, etc. There are BBQ that are free to use. You press a button and wait a couple of mins and start cooking your snags, etc. Some are electric and gas/propane.
If you know how cheap those drinks are, there is no way that you could drink enough to put them out of pocket. Those drinks are probably one of the biggest rip offs of the food/hotel industry.
When I saw how big your servings are, and the amount of sugary drinks you guys drink, I understood why toilet seats were larger too. Australia has enough of its own obesity problems. We don’t need free soft drinks. Instead, restaurants, cafes and bars have to have water freely available. “Table water” (tap water in a refillable bottle or dispenser) is ubiquitous here.
I can see why he had an easy ride here. He's not a knob. He sounds decent. He's going to come along and be a yank but he'd want to fit in. And he's not a winger. He's just a nice bloke. We'd love him.
Growing up on a farm, Plovers scared the absolute shit out of me my whole childhood. The amount of times I had to dive to the ground and they would miss by centimeters.
The magpies scared me and they terrorized us at primary school. I spent hours one Sunday hiding under a busy with them walking around me... waiting. Many years ago now but I've never forgotten it😅
You probably sound a bit funny to people when you go back to the States. I’ve heard that accents are usually set in by the time people are about 8 years old.
probably fair. apparently younger Aussies are starting to develop American accents themselves. I'm lead to believe this is because of our TV. I'm Aussie but, have been asked if I'm a Brittish Expat for my accent. I assume it's a result of too much UK TV as a kid myself.
When you come to Australia I can show you places where you will see 50-100 wild kangaroos grazing close by most days of the week. It's not that hard outside the city/suburbs. That said, you can seen some kangaroos roaming the streets of Canberra in the middle of the night fairly regularly.
Canberra is the place. I lived near Queanbeyan golf course and it was full of them. In the Queanbeyan river in the centre of town they had a pair of platapus. The male had his hole near the noisy club and the female was located 200 yards away near the supermarket. The male platapus takes no part in the upbringing of the children which is similar to the human population in Queanbeyan.
My first sight of a magpie in Australia was watching one swoop a little blond toddler. The poor kid fell over trying to get away and the magpie landed on him and started pecking his head. The kid was screaming. I had no idea what to do, I was 10 years old and had never seen anything like it. Before I could get my head around it some adults ran out of a nearby house and rescued him. That was more than 50 years, and numerous swooping of my own, ago but it was such a shock, I remember it clearly.
There's a real nasty magpie around where I live, it's pecked me so hard while swooping that it put a hole in my hat and drew blood. Felt like someone threw a stone at my head, quite a shock.
That’s a bit of a myth.The locals called it the Rock in their own way. Ularu was the name of their tribal council area and they never pushed for the name change.Katajuka a different story.
If you want to hear an Ameristralian accent, look up Mason Cox...a Texan who by chance, got the opportunity to be considered for becoming a player in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is now a professional player and has lived here for long periods since around 2015 and has a very noticeable Ameristralian accent.
You do not want to box a kangaroo! They can shred your abdomen with their hind legs! Seeing them in the wild isn’t easy, because even when you travel inland, you would need to cross their path when they were on the move.
Ive heard that before, but have never actually heard of it happening in my whole life, in over 50 years. Though I did know someone who was knocked unconsious by a roo while jogging in the bush around Canberra.
Plovers (Actually Masked Lapwings) can be very protective of their nests, but its very rare to hear of people being hit by them.. Magpies are a bit different, because even though its pretty rare, they are known to peck and damage you when they swoop.
Ryan, "How did I not know that?" Because you haven't been outside the borders of Indiana since you were six years old. There's a world out there waiting for you mate. I'll shout you a trip to an Aussie beach when you get your arse over here.
PLEASE, PLEASE, THEY ARE KOALAS.🐨.. NOT KOALA BEAR'S.. WE DON'T CALL THEM SHRIMP IN AUSTRALIA THEY ARE PRAWNS .. LOVE THE AMERICAN ACCENT AND THE COUNTRY.. CHEERS FROM DOWN UNDER 🇦🇺❤
Plovers are fascinating. They nest on the ground and defend the chicks with concentric circles of family members. Their strategy is to draw attention away from the nest, so they don't actually attack if they can distract you. The final defence, closest to the nest for them to simulate being injured and flapping away in the hope you will follow.
They are nature's "Karens"... here in Tassie they nest right beside roads or driveways. Nesting to them means basically setting up home and laying their eggs on the grass. Then they do what birds do. Sit and hibernate. If you have to use your driveway or walk on the road or even drive they behave like they are being invaded by aliens. Flapping wings and squalking... springtime is noisy. Our dogs sit and watch the shenanigans from our deck. 😂😂😂 These same birds will walk their little families onto a busy road and expect the cars to stop all the while squalking and flapping ( like that is going to stop a speeding car) luckily our locals are well aware but it has caused a few to drive into ditches.
Australian… ‘Touch a button’ comment… In Brisbane (and loads of other places around the country) we have free BBQs in parks. They’re stainless steel and gas powered. We used to have wood fired BBQs but they became too much of a fire risk (starting a bushfire). They then moved to gas powered and coin operated but they were often broken or jammed, or worse, broken into. Eventually they became free ammenities and paid for by local councils. They are really great and get used a lot.
"Like an infommercial". Yes, this is a video produced as an LDS missionary's views prepared to help new missionaries get ready for their 2-yr missions to Australia.
@@nevyn_karres If the videos of this channel are anything to go by, these are just decent people, who have some different views on religion than I do, but they don't rub it in your face. All fine with me.
Darwins wet season lasts for 8 months from October to May in which it starts as "The Build up" hot humid weather with little rain or scattered rain, then from November to February, will be Monsoon season where it can be overcast with 40% Sunlight and rain for weeks non-stop, Cyclones also form during this time, and from February tp May, it goes back to hot humid weather with scattered rain. From May to October is the Dry season, where June and July it gets cold due to the southern Australian winter. The Dry season in the Top End is also known as "Fire Season" due to all the bushfires.
This guy was staying in the tropics where you find most of our dangerous critters. Snakes are mostly timid and scurry away from you. You almost never see dangerous animals, bugs etc in city environments.
Exceptr for Sydney. The funnelweb spiders are there in the thousands in some places. And the blue ringed octopus is in the harbour and surrounds. Maybe the odd redback, but they generally wouldn't kill a healthy person.
Not true. I saw a red-bellied black snake in the CBD of Brisbane. It was under a bench and a girl was sitting on the bench. Plenty of snakes in country towns and even in the suburbs of cities. They are not always timid.
@@xymonau2468 I live in Sydney, and the part I live in, have never seen anything other than a huntsmen, not so when I lived in a different part, but have only ever seen a snake in a country area once in 75 years!
You crack me up - when you said shrimp on the barbie - I pulled a face and you glanced at the screen and said I know you don't call it that 😂😂😂😂 too funny man
we used to have Free Refills back in the 80's/90's, but from 2000's businesses were reporting too much loss on Free Refills for drinks, so a lot of the fast food restaurants stopped doing Free Refills. I think one of the Last Restaurants to stop it was Hungry Jacks (Burger King). Also all the "All you can eat places" Like Sizzlers, Pizza Hut, etc stopped doing All you can Eat, and subsequently Shut down.
It’s cool that you getting this perspective of Australia- normally you hear about Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. That part of Australia is really cold and not humid. Whereas northern Australia is where you find the Heat, Humidity, Bugs, Storms, and it’s always warm- I think that’s why you’ve never heard of Plovers.
Ryan, why did you say John Cena? From what I remember of this guy and his associates, he’s a Mormon and he was on his mission in Australia, and spent several months here, adapting and learning about our culture. It was several years ago, pre pandemic.
This is pre-pandemic and he's a Mormon the John Cena reference other than its name may mean nothing to him. However, he'll know more about life outside of America than you because as a Mormon they get to travel. Where you never leave your bubble and rely on the Internet and experience life outside of America. Where he has experienced it firsthand and will have social awareness that you don't have.
@@davidmalarkey1302 Mate, your response to Jeni10 is kinda rude. They were just asking a question, while also being informative about the subject of the video.
In response to the concerns about deadly snakes/spiders etc my son went bush bashing/ 4x4 driving last weekend and was bitten by a poisoned spider, no problem he was able to access antivenom at one of Australia's free hospitals and he was back to work the following day. The best advice to stay safe is to listen to the locals and you will have a bloody good time. No worries mate.
I never thought Australia was dangerous until I showed friends from the UK around. They were like kids wanting to pick everything up or pet it. If you're in the cities you won't know, but if you've grown up in the countryside you learn from a young age to watch where you walk and not to touch things. I told my mates the golden rule is don't put your hands on things in nature and you'll be fine. 😂
I live in Canberra, and we occasionally have kangaroos in our front yard. I have also seen them relaxing in business areas where there is always some greenery which kangaroos love. Australia is not dangerous at all. Most people who visit will never see a snake and generally any spiders will be more-or-less friendly.
Once again, an American on UA-cam says there are no kangaroos except for the outback or in a zoo. I live in Canberra, the Capital city, and kangaroos visit my backyard, jump down the main roads, once there was a story about a kangaroo in the city centre.
Mate I think he is talking about a normal BBQ which is electrically powered. These are typically free. Much safer than people lighting fires. The BBQ only heats up for a certain time then automatically shuts off. After that the button must be pressed again. Each Aus state is different with slightly different attitudes. With respect to crocs. The first time you approach the water the croc notes this and moves closer. The second time he moves into the attack position. The third time, you are dinner. In the tropics in far north Australia crocs can be anywhere... even on a remote beautiful tropical island.
I think this guy is a returned mormon missionary being interviewed about his experience by the church. We get a decent amount of American mormon missionaries here in Australia lol but he seems so wholesome and glad he had such a great time here!
I’m laughing so hard idk who lied to him we don’t love America an accents 😂 and also if you ever wonder why a lot Aussies fit, healthy, active because of our health and food standards smaller portions, less sugar in our foods, no free refills for soft drinks ahaha
Yes, here in Melbourne the local council runs bbq stoves in most public parks. You just push the button and get 10 mins of electrical heat under the hot plate. Then push the button again for more. Very popular in summer - there's a whole etiquette over sharing a hot plate with other groups of strangers. Quite a few of these stoves are under a shade shelter for protection from the summer sun - usually a water fountain/tap there too and public toilets nearby which are pretty basic. No you don't pay a cent for using the hotplate, the water or the toilets.
There's plovers around me - they seem to be everywhere across Australia - but I've never been swooped by one. I got swooped by a noisy miner tho recently. That was a first. They make a little wing snap like magpies do, but it was so cute you could only laugh.
I have been swooped by a plover on a golf course, just about to swing the driver and looked up to see this thing coming at me at head height. It pulled away at the last second squawking at it flew by. It kept threatening until we were halfway down the fairway away from wherever its nest was in the neighbouring paddock. It was a new way for me to suck at golf!
In SA a shrimp is a fresh water crustacean that resembles an ocean prawn but generally much smaller. We use it regularly as bait on a hook to catch river fish.
The Kangaroo thing is spot on being like your Deer. In suburbs close to the bush they will come in when it quiet in some spots, just like Deer, and occasionally one will lose its way and you'll see footage of it hopping down past the shops. Seeing roo's in the wild is fairly easy even on the east coast close towns, just follow the road out of town and keep an eye in any clearings, and as most roads have power line clearings close by it usually doesn't take long. PS. The bug poison/venom thing is annoying, because by FAR the most dangerous animal is the mosquito, and guess what, US has them too.
I live in NSW and along the south coast you will see Kangaroos eating grass on people’s front lawns. Also in Jindabyne, you need to be careful on the roads because they come out of nowhere fast on the roads. I was staying in a airbnb which was on a golf course in Kangaroo valley and there were Kangaroos everywhere in the early mornings feeding on the grass. It was pretty cool because we also got to see all the beautiful Wombats come out at night to feed. NSW has quite a few spots where you will see Kangaroos out and about I could name a few more… 👍
Hosted a Canadian student here for a year. We couldn't pick it, but she reported that when she went home, all her family and friends told her she now had an Aussie accent.
Definitely come to Canberra to see the roos. 20/20 cricket is great fun, and no longer than 3 hours (which is the limit my poor back can sit in those chairs). Absolutely great vibe, I even dress up in our colours and scream myself hoarse.
Aussie here . I love accents, i really enjoy listening to people that have really strong accents. btw there are free refills it just depends on the store. Having lived in a few of the different Australian states i can tell you they are ALL different in the people, lifestyles and environment. You have to visit all of the country to get an accurate picture. I have lived in Darwin, i love the wet season the rain is awesome. You can see kangaroos in peoples yards there are places in coastal Queensland that have trouble with kangaroos in the streets, back to it depends on where in Australia you live.
In general I don't like the American accent. It is loud and it sounds like they really try to accentuate it even more, to me it sounds aggressive. However dear Ryan you seem different, you speak more quietly and speak more clearly. You just seem to me to be more gentle in the way you talk. Please don't be offended, but I have watched a couple of your brother's videos. He sounds like my idea of the typical American, that I described, loud. Sorry. Keep doing you Ryan, you're great, and more like an Aussie than anything, you have a great attitude and you're not obnoxious or arrogant like some. You would fit in well in Australia, this is supposed to be a complement. I don't give them if I don't mean it. Love your videos, good on ya mate!
Roos are Australia wide but if you want to see them in the suburbs and have to be extremely aware at all times on the country roads, the Canberra region and suburbs is the place for you!
Shortly after I moved into my home in Greenwood 50 years ago, a discus golf course was created. It's about 200 metres away. Whilst it's rarely busy, it is used quite regularly.
There are 3 formats of cricket. Test cricket is the premier form for international cricket and goes for 5 days; One Dayer goes for 50 overs each innings and the last one is a 20/20 which goes for about 3 hours with each team playing 20overs.
The dude is talking about his time in Australia as a Mormon Missionary. That's why he's talking like that. I'm 99% sure, the way he talks about his Companion, and their bikes and Utah. 😂 Coming from an ex-Mormon, I just Know 😂
That was good to watch. My partner and I just drove from Broome through the Kimberly, Kakadu, Jabiru and on to Darwin. We were camping in National parks and the odd town for 5 weeks. Darwin was really nice, but very different and always hot. All the time in the top end, I would see a river or a beach and couldn't just jump in like I have done all my life. The best place for wild crocs is at Cahills Crossing on the East Alligator River, into Arnhem Land. Al and I camped there for 2 nights so we could see the tide change and bring the Barramundi up river. I counted 19 in one hole snapping up huge fish. You can hear them fighting at night. Got some good videos of the crossing.
🇦🇺we live an hour out of Melbourne and have had koalas, brushtail possums, blue tongue lizards, Cunningham skinks, tawny frogmouths (bird), wallabies, etc. visit our one acre block. Every day is something new to discover especially the bird life…
Throw another shrimp on the barby is a line in a 1970s tv ad. Ayres rock is about a 500 km drive from Alice Springs and the jumping crocks are about 120km drive from Darwin. Darwin and Adelaide are just over 3000 km from each other directly north and south .Alice is the largest town in between Adelaide is about 10 times the size of Darwin.
Most older public parks have an undercover BBQ areas with a public BBQ that you turn on by pressing the button and it will work on a timer. Means in summer groups head down with buttered bread and rolls and salads and have BBQ lunches. It’s an outdoor culture!
I live rural-residential in the Lockyer District, and we occasionally have a small mob of Eastern Greys (smaller species) feeding near our back fence. Fewer times still one buck may hop the fence, and seek grass down the front. These are very timid, and had our house cat throughly bewildered when we moved here -- may have thought that they were exceptionally large mice!?
"Throw a shrimp on the barby" was a line from a tourism commercial in the 1980's. It starred Paul Hogan, the man who played Mick Dundee/Crocodile Dundee.
I’m an Aussie and I’ve been taking my 8 year old to a couple of theme parks here in Qld. I prepaid for our meals online when I bought our tickets which included free refills with the cup that you get with the meal. I felt so weird, on the day, letting my son go and get drink refills because it felt so wrong not paying for it- I made sure we asked each time if it was ok 😂
I live in Australia and when my dad was a kid he had a pretty kangaroo called Sophie and one day some people who had just moved to Australia came. They were eating dinner with my dad's family and Sophie came over and started eating the peas. Then the new comers were just like wow this is what Australia is like😂
There was a little dingy pub, up the hills just on the outskirts of Perth (Very sadly closed recently). The doors stayed open so all the patrons and Roos could just cruise in and out. First time I went I thought it’d be a hazard but quickly learned the buggers are way too lazy to take any interest in people food. They just wanna recline and chill
Visiting the US I was much more worried about rattle snakes than the ones I live with at home in Australia. Also we have no land animals that want to eat you - bears or cougars.
@@awoodward37 Adults are occasionally bitten by dingos at tourist spots where the animals are used to people. Crocodiles are confined to northern Australia, as are box jellyfish and irkandji jellyfish in season, mixed with sharks all all around the coast - stay out of the water as required. Water buffaloes are confined to the far north and don’t eat people, I can’t recall a news item of a buffalo attack, but I wouldn’t try to pat one.
Laughed my head off at your remark "you have to get some water proof shoes in Darwin!" No mate you don't wear shoes you go bare feet, or you wear thongs (flip flops)! When you get to where you are going then you put your shoes on! Same in Cairns on' the East Coast. There are only 2 seasons the Wet and the Dry and they last for 6 months each. The temperature is pretty much the same, a little hotter and humid in the Wet, but the Dry seldom gets below 23 C in Darwin, that's 73.40 degrees Fahrenheit. I lived for 35 years in Babinda the wettest town in Australia, with an annual average rainfall of over 4,279.4 millimetres (168.48 in) each year. Monthly totals over 1,000 millimetres (39 in) are not uncommon during the Wet season.
@@redoctober00 Yeah and everything gets mouldy, even you if you stand still long enough! lol But seriously the build up of the rainy season is the worst, the heat, and humidity so high, the air so thick you could cut it with a knife! You pray for the rain to begin, trouble is when it starts it doesn't stop for months! The first year I moved to Babinda, it rained every day for 9 months, not just rain, but torrential rain so loud you can't hear the TV over the sound of it, we had a huge Wet season that year! They left the sugar cane in the fields that year, because they couldn't get the harvesters into the fields with out them bogging.
@@elizabethroberts6215 There is a great rivalry between Tully and Babinda over the title of wettest town. Called the Golden Gumboot Competition. Some years Tully has more rain, others Babinda. However Babinda is usually the winner, recording an annual average rainfall of over 4,279.4 millimetres (168.48 in) each year.
In Western Australia we have a lot of Roos in southern coastal suburbs, just chillin at their favourite spot at dusk or chillin in your front yard in the early hours of the morning. You probably won’t see a roo in the city.
If you want to see kangaroos in the wild, go to Canberra and Thredbo. If you want to box one in the wild, wear full ice hockey goal keeper uniform and a Kevlar vest if you want to keep your intestines inside you.
As an American who has moved and lived in Australia for almost 12 years, him saying he felt safe in Alice Springs is crazzyyyy. I’ve more bad stories then good in Alice
I'm an Australian and I've lived in America and as for portion size, The States overloaded my digestive system. Too much food. Aussies don't tip. Ever. I also barrack for Richmond in The AFL /MCG. Test Cricket can go for five days. Mt daughter's Tucson was hit by a Kangaroo. A total write off. All okay. The Darwin newspaper is called THE NT NEWS. Americans eaten by crocs is it's favourite Headline.
The Jellyfish are Box Jellyfish. There's also irukandji, really small jellyfish that sting and cause total agony. Rock fish sit on the sand and have spikes and you do NOT want to stand on one. People have been known to drown themselves to stop the pain. All these are up in the north of the country. Down south there's none of these, you just have sharks to worry about down there.
You're kinda right about the videos being a promotion. I'm pretty sure it's a Morman production and these are missionaries that did 1-2 years door knocking in Australia. There's a few different uploads of others experiences.
I met some Mormons in Sydney a few years ago and I was invited to eat with their group. I really liked them. They were very polite, sincere, respectful.
Another thing that makes our shopping centres better than American malls is that you don't have to carry everything. You can usually find a trolley (shopping cart)in the car park and put everything in it. They'll let you go practically anywhere in the shopping centre with it.
2:33 people seeing plover spines for the first time always makes me laugh, they are less scary than magpies as unlike magpies they only swoop to scare not make impact. Whereas a magpie swoops to draw blood, a magpie will try and hit you every time but plovers just play a game of chicken essentially and turn at the last second before reaching you.
While I agree in prionciple, they will hit you. My son and his friend were swooped by masked lapwings - their proper name - and the birds were hitting their knapsacks again and again. Obviously they were very close to the nest. But that was the first time I had heard of them making contact.
We have many public parks usually situated near playgrounds that offer free bbq grills. You just bring the drinks in your cooler(esky), food like sausages to grill, picnic rugs or outdoor chairs and its a party. Its great during large scale family gatherings without the cost of hiring a space and bridging your own grill in a truck to a public park. I do recall 20 years ago free refills used to be a thing in Australia. We also used to have a lot more all you can eat resteraunts like Pizza Hut and Sizzlers (which are almost non-existent in Australia now).
Australian… Kangaroo comment… In Brisbane we have Kangaroos and Koalas on our property so we definitely see them in the wild. We don’t need to go to a zoo. We live less than 20km from the city centre on a couple of acres in a semi rural area. It’s not like that in the suburbs, we’re very lucky to be located on the outskirts of the 3rd largest capital city, at the foothills of the Daguilar Range in South East Queensland.
I’m well into my seventies and although I’ve seen many venomous snakes we were taught never to venture into their area without shoes. Mostly they go the other way when they hear you approaching, only occasionally have I ever met one unexpectedly and you just stand still until they move away. We lived at the beach for nearly 30 years, couldn’t leave the doors open as they would come into the house. That was the only time my husband was bitten by one he did a stupid thing and picked it up by its tail and it turned itself in half to bite him. Luckily it was winter and he had a heavy coat on and it was only a baby so the fangs didn’t penetrate through to his skin. We used a snake catcher from then on.
Lol, dont box the roo, u need those intestines 😂 We have a saying about salty's here, that theres no sharks in Darwin cause the crocodiles ate them all.
@@gregorygant4242 none of those. I don’t know the name of it but it poisons the muscle tissue and you have around 24 hrs before the limb has to be amputated
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I’ve just realised why I enjoy watching Ryan. He has reached 72000 subs without doing anything except do what he enjoys while putting in no unnecessary effort at all. He is just like most Australians.
LOL I'll take it! Thank you.
Maybe, but he has his heart in it! 🤗
Your right, he's a rude ignorant, procrastinating clown who can't shut up long enough to let anyone else finish speaking right from the start because he can't engage his brain before putting his mouth in gear!
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I remember before 5000, and 50 likes on a vid!!!
It’s a Morman debriefing. We used to have them living with us when I was young. They had to give full details of their stay.
The things that other people think are great about Australia do have a downside for the average American. The free refills is one of them. Do you want free stuff, or better rates of pay. Our work/life balance is also a great thing but then you see Americans react negatively to the short opening hours of businesses. Do you want 24 hour stores? Or do you want a better work/life balance?
there would be a load of Americans that believe they're better off with free refills and shops open
Idk those drink cost so low, you would never drink your money back without od yourself with them. I would rather drink water 😂 plus you are just adding more work to screw over the workers and your health
One thing about in Australia as an Aussie is that most tourists dont realise how the sun is intense here and the actual need for sunscreen
……& they don’t realise the DISTANCES we travel to just go from a to b. Remember years’ ago a rellie was coming from UK, & wanted a one day hire of a car to go Brisbane-Cairns. He was soon told correct info…………
50+ sunscreen made here is what is recommended for tourists as sunscreen from other countries won't cut it here
Free electric BBQs are available all around Australia. Cricket games vary from about 3 hours, (20/20), up to 5 days (Test Cricket). You won't see many kangaroos during the day. They are most active around sunrise and sunset. However, you will see them on golf courses as the fairways provide plenty of nice green grass for them.
And some are Gas powered
Gas powered kangaroos... Nice. 😅
Depending on where you drive, you might not see alive kangaroos, but dead ones on the side. Dont hit one, they can total your car
I have Roos around all day and even at night. Occasionally I find a juvenile in my kitchen after it has squeezed through the car flap, which can be a tad startling at a 0300 loo trip.
@@zoe9190 Yeah, watch out for those dead ones, they can really do some damage to your car!
You will smell the rain before you hear or see it….
And it’s a beautiful smell.
Not in Darwin its different you don't really smell rain like down south the humidity is so high that rain doesn't change the air/water ratio.
It's the smell of rain hitting the asphalt, its called Patrichor.
@@jasminelaird8626Petrichor. It’s is also the smell of rain hitting dry earth. It’s wonderful after a drought.
@@bootn13 I found in Darwin you get like a 5-10 minute cool breeze right before it buckets down as the warning, and as soon as the rain finishes it's gone.
Australian wildlife just needs respect & common sense. Wild animals are not pets, if anything feels threatened it will protect itself.
I also laugh when tourists talk about cute warlies and I think stuff going near one in the wild, not with those tree climbing claws XD I totally respect roos too. I got nervous feeding them in a zoo once, especially the big reds. (I have four possies sitting around me right now as I'm outside XD They are brushies and Mummy has a new bubby in her pouch but it's too young to be on her back yet. Take care, Mate
Can't teach the bloody people how ya gunna teach the wildlife
@@goaway2803 What are war-lies? (Won't let me write the word you used).
Yah they're free, the gas BBQs. The local council or park service maintains them. It's polite to clean it after use.
The reason you haven't heard about free refills in Australia is that very few countries do free refills apart from USA
Yes once again, they think that all the world conforms to what they do.
Talk about living in their own little bubble. America is only a certain part of the land mass on this planet.
We may have their franchises, but it’s done by our rules. Not everything revolves around them.
Starbucks failed miserably in 🇦🇺because they brought terrible coffee to a country that truly knows how coffee should taste and the majority of our little coffee shops do a brilliant cup of coffee blindfolded.
Plus we pay decent wages, so refills get charged for.
Because they pay decent wages so people can afford a second drink
Nothing like going into a fast food place and paying $3 for a drink and getting 6 for the price of 1. Go figure.
Ahh back when we had free refills
Hungry Jacks used to have the free refills. Not even sure if they still do. They wouldn't even care or notice if we got refills at my local anyway. It's all run by kids.
On ABC t.v (Australia) there's a program called Foreign Correspondent and this week the show was America through Australian Eyes. Apparently there's around 100,000 Australians living in America. They interviewed a few Aussies, some had lived in the U.S for 10 years. What suprised me was that none had lost their Aussie accent or gained an American one. Worth a look imo.
Its amazing how many Aussies are oversea. back in 2005 I was talking to the Australian Consul in Guangzhou and he said he had over 6,000 registered Aussies just in Guangdong Province alone.
I’ve been here in the US since 1986, when I was 20. There is not a day that goes by without someone asking where I’m from. Proud to say the accent has stuck. I use Oz slang around the house constantly and the fam gets it, and they’re all from here. And they all love Vegemite. Jackpot!
@@vinsgraphicsOnya, mate.
No worries@@judithstrachan9399
How is that possible, I spent a little over 4 months in the USA and my accent started flipping to the US accent within a few days! Also happened to me when I worked in the UK for 2 years, I was sounding British after 2 months. When I got home, people constatntly asked me if I was from England. I try really hard not to change my accent but maybe that is why it happens. Or I am a natural mimic ...
The “shrimp on the barbie” ad by Paul Hogan (Hoges) was aimed at the US tourist market. Americans may not have known what a prawn was so ‘shrimp’ was used instead.
Why do you need free refills? I can’t drink that much at a meal! 400ml is the maximum for my stomach which also has my meal in it
Cos American drinks are 80% ice
When Subway first came over here, you did get free refills. They didn't advertise it, and it only lasted a couple of years before they stopped it.
Two places that I'm pretty sure you can get free refills in Oz - Costco and Carl's Jr
Hence the obesity epidemic in the US. Supersizing has gone apocalyptic there.
@@sparky347347 Costco and Carl's Jr exist here? WTF get them outta here.
Australians seem to be more scared of Plovers and Magpies than anything else in Australia 😂 we are just more aware of all the stuff that'll actually kill you and avoid them lol
Magpies are the devil's bird during nesting season!
@@christinahowell5965 I feed my local magpies so they will not kill me
@@septemberclare2697 haha they will remember you
So true. Plovers & maggies are harder to avoid.
Feeding them is a good idea, but they shouldn’t eat bread crusts & anything good for them is a bit more trouble. Wild parrot food isn’t.
I have magpies that will follow me into the house for a feed, they sit at my door and sing. Feed them and they LOVE you Plovers on the other hand I would stay well away from.
If you ever visit australia, please blog your entire stay here. Would love to see you experience australian culture first hand from your point of view. I think it would be super interesting to see first hand your likes and dislikes to everything here :)
We don’t have free refills but we don’t tip anywhere 😂❤
Oh yes we do tip, if you use Menulog they want tips up to $5.00 that’s a shock to me. ❤️🇦🇺🐨🐨🇦🇺
@@karenr1688 I tip for good service or if I respect their hustle.
@@darneyoung537well yes, menulog. Where the person leaves their home and drives to the shops and collects your food and delivers it to you, using their vehicle (registration and wear and tear) and fuel.
You're paying someone for your laziness.
Durrrh.
@@tiz848 not always laziness! I didn’t have a car for six months and had to get food delivered. I live 20 kilometres from nearest supermarket and being on disability pension I can’t afford to tip!!
Hungry snatch used to.
You get free refills and that's why your workers get low wages pay for the refills and pay workers proper wags. Peace out.
At Carl’s Jr and Pizza Hut Restaurant in Australia you get free refills.
Not only refills but wages for service workers in the US are tragic .
It's because the employers , usually big corporations ,are not forced by law to pay decent wages and want to keep
all the profits for themselves !
Just what I was thinking. There's no such thing as a free refill, the employees are paying for it 😊
To be surprised by the seasons tells me that this guy did NO research before coming to OZ.
@@horatiomh As someone who used to work at an establishment that sold carbonated drinks, I can tell you that the price of those drinks do not match the manufacturing costs. Refills have no financial burden on the business.
When American people sound overly polite, Aussies are instantly suspicious of your motives!
yep. I'm watching this thinking this dude must be a Mormon missionary!
@@O2BSoLuckyyes hehe
Free electric BBQ at most parks and beaches!
And they are well-kept and cleaned often. Sunday afternoon at the foreshore means everyone out and having a family BBQ. It has a lovely communal vibe
@@hannahjordan9833 yep!
@@hannahjordan9833 and pissed on twice as often as they're cleaned. Enjoy the free "seasoning". 🙂
Councils realised pretty quickly, it’s cheaper to provide them free than have to repair them every. single. week. cos people had broken into the coin boxes when we had to pay.
@SKY031 , whatever mate!😞
I met two young men from Utah over here and I was so impressed with their English that I thought wow why do they speak so much better than us.
I listened very carefully for a couple of weeks still bugged at what the difference was.
Then one day it clicked and I started laughing my head off.
The difference was, they finished their words 😂
😂
Many people from Utah are members of a particular way of life... & they put those members through language school, so when they go out into the world, they can be well understood and spread the message. It's fascinating, really, the MTC run by CLDS have one of the largest language schools in the United States, & they train 36k ppl a year.
@@MsCateStar Thank you 🙏 as we’re going the ways of TLA’s 😂 I’m LDS for a decade now 👍
Why would you want to waste time doing that?😂
@@SharonMcauley-h1wthey are Mormans. Just say it. Will be returning to have multiple wives.
This is such a sweet video on so many levels. I saw the original video a few years ago and loved the poster's open mind and willingness to embrace our unique Aussie features. I loved the way that Ryan obviously has no idea who this guy was or why he was in Aus. The guy in the video is a Mormon (Church of the Latter Day Saints?), on his 2 year mission to spread the word to us heathens. He was part of a "reaction video" that recorded all of the thoughts and comments from the Mormons who had finished their tours, and I have seen several of these from the same group. They all had much the same reaction - Aus is a very unique place full of weird and wonderful animals and generally pretty nice people. In return, I would like to say that Utah seems to be a unique place full of weird and wonderful religious beliefs and generally pretty nice people! As a whole, Aussies are bewildered by the entire US religious landscape, let alone the Utah variations on that weirdness. That doesn't mean that we can't recognise and acknowledge nice people when we meet them!
They come down to Australia to enlighten the unrighteous...LDS rule the world with their unique insights into reality.
Ryan, I'm getting so proud of you with how your really starting to get us and your understanding our ways, on ya mate.
I think you will find he’s a Mormon being debriefed. I’ve seen these types of videos before. Always very respectful and wholesome people, nice
Yes, he definitely is. And he did briefly mention Utah too :)
.. Americans, in general, have better manners than Australians.
@@chrisflesser2171 It's just that Americans (with all their good manners) believe they need to have more guns than people to protect themselves against the ever-present deadly threat of other Americans. Apart from that, yeah, great people!
Yeah he has that vibe
Yeah I went down a rabbit hole of these Mormon videos one night, fascinating to hear their impression of us 🙂
12:35 Yes, at parks/playgrounds, camping grounds, beaches, etc. There are BBQ that are free to use. You press a button and wait a couple of mins and start cooking your snags, etc. Some are electric and gas/propane.
If US stops giving free refills and sauces maybe they could afford better wages
If you know how cheap those drinks are, there is no way that you could drink enough to put them out of pocket. Those drinks are probably one of the biggest rip offs of the food/hotel industry.
When I saw how big your servings are, and the amount of sugary drinks you guys drink, I understood why toilet seats were larger too.
Australia has enough of its own obesity problems. We don’t need free soft drinks. Instead, restaurants, cafes and bars have to have water freely available. “Table water” (tap water in a refillable bottle or dispenser) is ubiquitous here.
I can see why he had an easy ride here. He's not a knob. He sounds decent. He's going to come along and be a yank but he'd want to fit in. And he's not a winger. He's just a nice bloke. We'd love him.
Growing up on a farm, Plovers scared the absolute shit out of me my whole childhood. The amount of times I had to dive to the ground and they would miss by centimeters.
The magpies scared me and they terrorized us at primary school. I spent hours one Sunday hiding under a busy with them walking around me... waiting. Many years ago now but I've never forgotten it😅
Plovers are way more bad ass than magpies...
We don't have plovers here in WA lucky for that.
At school every lunch hour we use to purposely get attacked by plovas but dam we wouldn't go near magpies, a magpie is like a plover on steroids
Determined little buggers are Plovers
My husband and I are American/Australian, we have lived here for over 50 yrs and have not lost our American accent!
Ive been here 27 years and i have not either. But i am only Australian. I relinquished my us citizenship.
@@MichelleWAperth💕🙏🥰
You probably sound a bit funny to people when you go back to the States.
I’ve heard that accents are usually set in by the time people are about 8 years old.
Then try. Why would you like to continue to sound big mouth?
probably fair. apparently younger Aussies are starting to develop American accents themselves. I'm lead to believe this is because of our TV. I'm Aussie but, have been asked if I'm a Brittish Expat for my accent. I assume it's a result of too much UK TV as a kid myself.
When you come to Australia I can show you places where you will see 50-100 wild kangaroos grazing close by most days of the week. It's not that hard outside the city/suburbs. That said, you can seen some kangaroos roaming the streets of Canberra in the middle of the night fairly regularly.
Canberra is the place. I lived near Queanbeyan golf course and it was full of them. In the Queanbeyan river in the centre of town they had a pair of platapus. The male had his hole near the noisy club and the female was located 200 yards away near the supermarket. The male platapus takes no part in the upbringing of the children which is similar to the human population in Queanbeyan.
My first sight of a magpie in Australia was watching one swoop a little blond toddler. The poor kid fell over trying to get away and the magpie landed on him and started pecking his head. The kid was screaming. I had no idea what to do, I was 10 years old and had never seen anything like it. Before I could get my head around it some adults ran out of a nearby house and rescued him. That was more than 50 years, and numerous swooping of my own, ago but it was such a shock, I remember it clearly.
There's a real nasty magpie around where I live, it's pecked me so hard while swooping that it put a hole in my hat and drew blood. Felt like someone threw a stone at my head, quite a shock.
We get taught young here in Australia to respect magpies, by the magpies themself.
Every Aussie remembers the first time they got swooped, I called my mum crying about a duck attacking me (it was a plover)
@@kari2570 Feed the maggies.....end of problem.They'll remember you for years.
I can relate first hand I was pecked in the back of the head when I was 5 enough to draw blood that was well over 50 years ago
Uluru{the local indigenous name for} Ayres Rock
That’s a bit of a myth.The locals called it the Rock in their own way. Ularu was the name of their tribal council area and they never pushed for the name change.Katajuka a different story.
I still call it Ayers Rock. Sick and tired of all the name changes 🙄 Oh and I still eat Chicos and Coon cheese 🤷♀️
……Ayer’s Rock………
@@nevilleapple629……it’s Kata Tjuta………
YES and you call it ULURU (OO LOO ROO) NOT AYRES ROCK
If you want to hear an Ameristralian accent, look up Mason Cox...a Texan who by chance, got the opportunity to be considered for becoming a player in the Australian Football League (AFL). He is now a professional player and has lived here for long periods since around 2015 and has a very noticeable Ameristralian accent.
You do not want to box a kangaroo! They can shred your abdomen with their hind legs! Seeing them in the wild isn’t easy, because even when you travel inland, you would need to cross their path when they were on the move.
or just go to Anglesea Golf Course (Vic) where they inhabit a couple of fairways.
Ive heard that before, but have never actually heard of it happening in my whole life, in over 50 years. Though I did know someone who was knocked unconsious by a roo while jogging in the bush around Canberra.
@@ianmontgomery7534and Safety beach (NSW)
We see them daily in the streets of Buderim Qld. Usually sunny themselves at a roundabout.
Wallabies are all over the place at the Bunya Mountains.
Plovers (Actually Masked Lapwings) can be very protective of their nests, but its very rare to hear of people being hit by them.. Magpies are a bit different, because even though its pretty rare, they are known to peck and damage you when they swoop.
Wholesome American. Thanks pal. Cheers from Sydney.
Mormon lol
Coloniser. It's frowned upon in the 21st century.
Ryan, "How did I not know that?" Because you haven't been outside the borders of Indiana since you were six years old. There's a world out there waiting for you mate. I'll shout you a trip to an Aussie beach when you get your arse over here.
PLEASE, PLEASE, THEY ARE KOALAS.🐨.. NOT KOALA BEAR'S..
WE DON'T CALL THEM SHRIMP IN AUSTRALIA THEY ARE PRAWNS ..
LOVE THE AMERICAN ACCENT AND THE COUNTRY.. CHEERS FROM DOWN UNDER 🇦🇺❤
Plovers are fascinating. They nest on the ground and defend the chicks with concentric circles of family members. Their strategy is to draw attention away from the nest, so they don't actually attack if they can distract you. The final defence, closest to the nest for them to simulate being injured and flapping away in the hope you will follow.
They are nature's "Karens"... here in Tassie they nest right beside roads or driveways. Nesting to them means basically setting up home and laying their eggs on the grass. Then they do what birds do. Sit and hibernate. If you have to use your driveway or walk on the road or even drive they behave like they are being invaded by aliens. Flapping wings and squalking... springtime is noisy. Our dogs sit and watch the shenanigans from our deck. 😂😂😂 These same birds will walk their little families onto a busy road and expect the cars to stop all the while squalking and flapping ( like that is going to stop a speeding car) luckily our locals are well aware but it has caused a few to drive into ditches.
Ryan is have lived here 75 years. Never bitten by a snake or spider. Only come across red belly black snake once or twice. Just need to be aware.
Yes, I've had more ant bites than anything, sneaky little buggers
My family, kids, sisters n brothers have _never_ been bitten by spider _or_ a 🐍! They try n avoid people
@@acatnamedtaz2167 Yeh n mozzies
I have had a red belly slither over my gum boots to get away from me. You can tell if they are dangerous beause they rear up.
@@mjkelly9801 you would be more likely to be bitten by a spider than a snake as they are much harder to see.
Australian… ‘Touch a button’ comment… In Brisbane (and loads of other places around the country) we have free BBQs in parks. They’re stainless steel and gas powered. We used to have wood fired BBQs but they became too much of a fire risk (starting a bushfire). They then moved to gas powered and coin operated but they were often broken or jammed, or worse, broken into. Eventually they became free ammenities and paid for by local councils. They are really great and get used a lot.
It’s funny that if an American likes or dislikes Australia we really just don’t care.
"Like an infommercial". Yes, this is a video produced as an LDS missionary's views prepared to help new missionaries get ready for their 2-yr missions to Australia.
I was thinking pilgrimage, but you're right. I remember seeing the original of this years ago and they had 2 other missionaries speaking as well.
Yeah we do not need to hear reactions to LDS missionaries.
@@nevyn_karres 100% no religious group tbh
@@nevyn_karres If the videos of this channel are anything to go by, these are just decent people, who have some different views on religion than I do, but they don't rub it in your face. All fine with me.
@@KeesBoons Yeah ok, I actually like the guy but he is less than natural.
Darwins wet season lasts for 8 months from October to May in which it starts as "The Build up" hot humid weather with little rain or scattered rain, then from November to February, will be Monsoon season where it can be overcast with 40% Sunlight and rain for weeks non-stop, Cyclones also form during this time, and from February tp May, it goes back to hot humid weather with scattered rain. From May to October is the Dry season, where June and July it gets cold due to the southern Australian winter. The Dry season in the Top End is also known as "Fire Season" due to all the bushfires.
And the ‘knock em down rains’!!!❤
This guy was staying in the tropics where you find most of our dangerous critters.
Snakes are mostly timid and scurry away from you.
You almost never see dangerous animals, bugs etc in city environments.
Central west NSW born, I saw snakes constantly. Never worried about one actually biting me, let them run away and you'll have no problems
Exceptr for Sydney. The funnelweb spiders are there in the thousands in some places. And the blue ringed octopus is in the harbour and surrounds. Maybe the odd redback, but they generally wouldn't kill a healthy person.
Not true. I saw a red-bellied black snake in the CBD of Brisbane. It was under a bench and a girl was sitting on the bench. Plenty of snakes in country towns and even in the suburbs of cities. They are not always timid.
@@xymonau2468 I live in Sydney, and the part I live in, have never seen anything other than a huntsmen, not so when I lived in a different part, but have only ever seen a snake in a country area once in 75 years!
You crack me up - when you said shrimp on the barbie - I pulled a face and you glanced at the screen and said I know you don't call it that 😂😂😂😂 too funny man
I remember Subway in Australia having free refills in the early 90’s but it didn’t last long.
we used to have Free Refills back in the 80's/90's, but from 2000's businesses were reporting too much loss on Free Refills for drinks, so a lot of the fast food restaurants stopped doing Free Refills. I think one of the Last Restaurants to stop it was Hungry Jacks (Burger King). Also all the "All you can eat places" Like Sizzlers, Pizza Hut, etc stopped doing All you can Eat, and subsequently Shut down.
Yaeh we are not afraid to call a spade a f'n shovel.
😂
It’s cool that you getting this perspective of Australia- normally you hear about Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra. That part of Australia is really cold and not humid. Whereas northern Australia is where you find the Heat, Humidity, Bugs, Storms, and it’s always warm- I think that’s why you’ve never heard of Plovers.
Ryan, why did you say John Cena? From what I remember of this guy and his associates, he’s a Mormon and he was on his mission in Australia, and spent several months here, adapting and learning about our culture. It was several years ago, pre pandemic.
I thought it was funny! 😂
My immediate thought was that he was a Marine deployed up North and was on manoeuvres when the pluvvs came knocking.
Just a joke I think Jeni, because he looks a bit like him.✌❤
This is pre-pandemic and he's a Mormon the John Cena reference other than its name may mean nothing to him. However, he'll know more about life outside of America than you because as a Mormon they get to travel. Where you never leave your bubble and rely on the Internet and experience life outside of America. Where he has experienced it firsthand and will have social awareness that you don't have.
@@davidmalarkey1302 Mate, your response to Jeni10 is kinda rude. They were just asking a question, while also being informative about the subject of the video.
I'm a fellow Aussie and the only reason I watch this is to know what an American thinks about my country/continent
In response to the concerns about deadly snakes/spiders etc my son went bush bashing/ 4x4 driving last weekend and was bitten by a poisoned spider, no problem he was able to access antivenom at one of Australia's free hospitals and he was back to work the following day.
The best advice to stay safe is to listen to the locals and you will have a bloody good time.
No worries mate.
I never thought Australia was dangerous until I showed friends from the UK around. They were like kids wanting to pick everything up or pet it. If you're in the cities you won't know, but if you've grown up in the countryside you learn from a young age to watch where you walk and not to touch things. I told my mates the golden rule is don't put your hands on things in nature and you'll be fine. 😂
City kids in Australia know this stuff as well, it's drilled into all of us.
I live in Canberra, and we occasionally have kangaroos in our front yard. I have also seen them relaxing in business areas where there is always some greenery which kangaroos love. Australia is not dangerous at all. Most people who visit will never see a snake and generally any spiders will be more-or-less friendly.
This
It is a no nonsense, no fluff or filler type of interview, makes a great change to the usual fare. it is how it is.
Once again, an American on UA-cam says there are no kangaroos except for the outback or in a zoo. I live in Canberra, the Capital city, and kangaroos visit my backyard, jump down the main roads, once there was a story about a kangaroo in the city centre.
Um, better than the stupid politicians visiting you over there in Canberra I suppose !
absolutely. I live ten minutes from Hobart CBD. We don’t have kangaroos but abundant wallabies and loads of other marsupials.
Mate I think he is talking about a normal BBQ which is electrically powered. These are typically free. Much safer than people lighting fires. The BBQ only heats up for a certain time then automatically shuts off. After that the button must be pressed again. Each Aus state is different with slightly different attitudes. With respect to crocs. The first time you approach the water the croc notes this and moves closer. The second time he moves into the attack position. The third time, you are dinner. In the tropics in far north Australia crocs can be anywhere... even on a remote beautiful tropical island.
True shrimp are virtually unheard of in Australia, and we don't really put prawns on the barbecue.
Depends where in Oz. I'm aussie/European Melbourne based and we do prawns on the BBQ all the time.
I’m Asian Australian, Melbourne based and we do prawns on the bbq all the time.
Prawns on the BBQ are the only way I cook them and done all the time over in WA
I think this guy is a returned mormon missionary being interviewed about his experience by the church. We get a decent amount of American mormon missionaries here in Australia lol but he seems so wholesome and glad he had such a great time here!
I’m laughing so hard idk who lied to him we don’t love America an accents 😂 and also if you ever wonder why a lot Aussies fit, healthy, active because of our health and food standards smaller portions, less sugar in our foods, no free refills for soft drinks ahaha
That said Obesity is a growing issue here.
Yes, here in Melbourne the local council runs bbq stoves in most public parks. You just push the button and get 10 mins of electrical heat under the hot plate. Then push the button again for more. Very popular in summer - there's a whole etiquette over sharing a hot plate with other groups of strangers. Quite a few of these stoves are under a shade shelter for protection from the summer sun - usually a water fountain/tap there too and public toilets nearby which are pretty basic. No you don't pay a cent for using the hotplate, the water or the toilets.
There's plovers around me - they seem to be everywhere across Australia - but I've never been swooped by one. I got swooped by a noisy miner tho recently. That was a first. They make a little wing snap like magpies do, but it was so cute you could only laugh.
I have been swooped by a plover on a golf course, just about to swing the driver and looked up to see this thing coming at me at head height. It pulled away at the last second squawking at it flew by. It kept threatening until we were halfway down the fairway away from wherever its nest was in the neighbouring paddock.
It was a new way for me to suck at golf!
In SA a shrimp is a fresh water crustacean that resembles an ocean prawn but generally much smaller. We use it regularly as bait on a hook to catch river fish.
The Kangaroo thing is spot on being like your Deer. In suburbs close to the bush they will come in when it quiet in some spots, just like Deer, and occasionally one will lose its way and you'll see footage of it hopping down past the shops. Seeing roo's in the wild is fairly easy even on the east coast close towns, just follow the road out of town and keep an eye in any clearings, and as most roads have power line clearings close by it usually doesn't take long. PS. The bug poison/venom thing is annoying, because by FAR the most dangerous animal is the mosquito, and guess what, US has them too.
I live in NSW and along the south coast you will see Kangaroos eating grass on people’s front lawns. Also in Jindabyne, you need to be careful on the roads because they come out of nowhere fast on the roads. I was staying in a airbnb which was on a golf course in Kangaroo valley and there were Kangaroos everywhere in the early mornings feeding on the grass. It was pretty cool because we also got to see all the beautiful Wombats come out at night to feed. NSW has quite a few spots where you will see Kangaroos out and about I could name a few more… 👍
Maggies especially swoop the posties. Draw eyes on your ice cream container helmet 🤣
Hosted a Canadian student here for a year. We couldn't pick it, but she reported that when she went home, all her family and friends told her she now had an Aussie accent.
Definitely come to Canberra to see the roos. 20/20 cricket is great fun, and no longer than 3 hours (which is the limit my poor back can sit in those chairs). Absolutely great vibe, I even dress up in our colours and scream myself hoarse.
Aussie here . I love accents, i really enjoy listening to people that have really strong accents. btw there are free refills it just depends on the store. Having lived in a few of the different Australian states i can tell you they are ALL different in the people, lifestyles and environment. You have to visit all of the country to get an accurate picture. I have lived in Darwin, i love the wet season the rain is awesome. You can see kangaroos in peoples yards there are places in coastal Queensland that have trouble with kangaroos in the streets, back to it depends on where in Australia you live.
In general I don't like the American accent. It is loud and it sounds like they really try to accentuate it even more, to me it sounds aggressive.
However dear Ryan you seem different, you speak more quietly and speak more clearly. You just seem to me to be more gentle in the way you talk. Please don't be offended, but I have watched a couple of your brother's videos. He sounds like my idea of the typical American, that I described, loud. Sorry.
Keep doing you Ryan, you're great, and more like an Aussie than anything, you have a great attitude and you're not obnoxious or arrogant like some.
You would fit in well in Australia, this is supposed to be a complement. I don't give them if I don't mean it.
Love your videos, good on ya mate!
Agree 💯. With everything you said.
Thanks
Roos are Australia wide but if you want to see them in the suburbs and have to be extremely aware at all times on the country roads, the Canberra region and suburbs is the place for you!
Yes the golf course over the road from me outer north Melbourne every Green has at least 20 kangaroos at dusk
@@MeredithBell-v3fdo they keep the grass short?
This.
Anywhere along the south coast of NSW too, from Merry Beach down. There are plenty on front lawns etc.
Shortly after I moved into my home in Greenwood 50 years ago, a discus golf course was created. It's about 200 metres away. Whilst it's rarely busy, it is used quite regularly.
He has an aura of calm integrity
Its a mormon video prepping other mormons to head to Australia
There are 3 formats of cricket. Test cricket is the premier form for international cricket and goes for 5 days; One Dayer goes for 50 overs each innings and the last one is a 20/20 which goes for about 3 hours with each team playing 20overs.
The dude is talking about his time in Australia as a Mormon Missionary.
That's why he's talking like that. I'm 99% sure, the way he talks about his Companion, and their bikes and Utah. 😂
Coming from an ex-Mormon, I just Know 😂
That was good to watch. My partner and I just drove from Broome through the Kimberly, Kakadu, Jabiru and on to Darwin. We were camping in National parks and the odd town for 5 weeks. Darwin was really nice, but very different and always hot. All the time in the top end, I would see a river or a beach and couldn't just jump in like I have done all my life. The best place for wild crocs is at Cahills Crossing on the East Alligator River, into Arnhem Land. Al and I camped there for 2 nights so we could see the tide change and bring the Barramundi up river. I counted 19 in one hole snapping up huge fish. You can hear them fighting at night. Got some good videos of the crossing.
🇦🇺we live an hour out of Melbourne and have had koalas, brushtail possums, blue tongue lizards, Cunningham skinks, tawny frogmouths (bird), wallabies, etc. visit our one acre block. Every day is something new to discover especially the bird life…
Throw another shrimp on the barby is a line in a 1970s tv ad.
Ayres rock is about a 500 km drive from Alice Springs and the jumping crocks are about 120km drive from Darwin.
Darwin and Adelaide are just over 3000 km from each other directly north and south .Alice is the largest town in between Adelaide is about 10 times the size of Darwin.
Paul Hogan .
Most older public parks have an undercover BBQ areas with a public BBQ that you turn on by pressing the button and it will work on a timer. Means in summer groups head down with buttered bread and rolls and salads and have BBQ lunches. It’s an outdoor culture!
If you come to Australia and want to see a kangaroo, go to a golf course in the early morning or you may not see one.
Go to any paddock in the morning a few km outta a city and you will see them
Even in the middle of the cities
@elizabethscott7660 In Perth, any golf course on the outskirts of the metropolitan area.
I live rural-residential in the Lockyer District, and we occasionally have a small mob of Eastern Greys (smaller species) feeding near our back fence. Fewer times still one buck may hop the fence, and seek grass down the front. These are very timid, and had our house cat throughly bewildered when we moved here -- may have thought that they were exceptionally large mice!?
"Throw a shrimp on the barby" was a line from a tourism commercial in the 1980's. It starred Paul Hogan, the man who played Mick Dundee/Crocodile Dundee.
Lifey is a Mormon missionary channel, btw (the Utah reference). That's why the vid feels like a 90s interview / promo thing.
I’m wondering if I’ve ever shut the door in his face 😂
I’m an Aussie and I’ve been taking my 8 year old to a couple of theme parks here in Qld. I prepaid for our meals online when I bought our tickets which included free refills with the cup that you get with the meal. I felt so weird, on the day, letting my son go and get drink refills because it felt so wrong not paying for it- I made sure we asked each time if it was ok 😂
That frisbee golfer was stuck in the 90's. He was using using a floppy disc lol
I live in Australia and when my dad was a kid he had a pretty kangaroo called Sophie and one day some people who had just moved to Australia came. They were eating dinner with my dad's family and Sophie came over and started eating the peas. Then the new comers were just like wow this is what Australia is like😂
There was a little dingy pub, up the hills just on the outskirts of Perth (Very sadly closed recently). The doors stayed open so all the patrons and Roos could just cruise in and out. First time I went I thought it’d be a hazard but quickly learned the buggers are way too lazy to take any interest in people food. They just wanna recline and chill
Visiting the US I was much more worried about rattle snakes than the ones I live with at home in Australia. Also we have no land animals that want to eat you - bears or cougars.
Not counting dingos and crocs, and water buffalos.....
@@awoodward37 Adults are occasionally bitten by dingos at tourist spots where the animals are used to people. Crocodiles are confined to northern Australia, as are box jellyfish and irkandji jellyfish in season, mixed with sharks all all around the coast - stay out of the water as required. Water buffaloes are confined to the far north and don’t eat people, I can’t recall a news item of a buffalo attack, but I wouldn’t try to pat one.
Laughed my head off at your remark "you have to get some water proof shoes in Darwin!" No mate you don't wear shoes you go bare feet, or you wear thongs (flip flops)! When you get to where you are going then you put your shoes on! Same in Cairns on' the East Coast. There are only 2 seasons the Wet and the Dry and they last for 6 months each. The temperature is pretty much the same, a little hotter and humid in the Wet, but the Dry seldom gets below 23 C in Darwin, that's 73.40 degrees Fahrenheit. I lived for 35 years in Babinda the wettest town in Australia, with an annual average rainfall of over 4,279.4 millimetres (168.48 in) each year. Monthly totals over 1,000 millimetres (39 in) are not uncommon during the Wet season.
Let's not mention the build up when you think you're going to die from sweating 🥵
@@redoctober00 Yeah and everything gets mouldy, even you if you stand still long enough! lol But seriously the build up of the rainy season is the worst, the heat, and humidity so high, the air so thick you could cut it with a knife! You pray for the rain to begin, trouble is when it starts it doesn't stop for months! The first year I moved to Babinda, it rained every day for 9 months, not just rain, but torrential rain so loud you can't hear the TV over the sound of it, we had a huge Wet season that year! They left the sugar cane in the fields that year, because they couldn't get the harvesters into the fields with out them bogging.
……thought Tully had that ‘title’?………
@@elizabethroberts6215 There is a great rivalry between Tully and Babinda over the title of wettest town. Called the Golden Gumboot Competition. Some years Tully has more rain, others Babinda. However Babinda is usually the winner, recording an annual average rainfall of over 4,279.4 millimetres (168.48 in) each year.
@@jesamindee6783 ……thank you for that clarification. When at School in the ‘60’s, we’d a boarder from Tully, who told us about the rain record………
In Western Australia we have a lot of Roos in southern coastal suburbs, just chillin at their favourite spot at dusk or chillin in your front yard in the early hours of the morning. You probably won’t see a roo in the city.
If you want to see kangaroos in the wild, go to Canberra and Thredbo.
If you want to box one in the wild, wear full ice hockey goal keeper uniform and a Kevlar vest if you want to keep your intestines inside you.
As an American who has moved and lived in Australia for almost 12 years, him saying he felt safe in Alice Springs is crazzyyyy. I’ve more bad stories then good in Alice
As an Aussie, I completely agree!
I'm an Australian and I've lived in America and as for portion size, The States overloaded my digestive system. Too much food. Aussies don't tip. Ever. I also barrack for Richmond in The AFL /MCG. Test Cricket can go for five days. Mt daughter's Tucson was hit by a Kangaroo. A total write off. All okay. The Darwin newspaper is called THE NT NEWS. Americans eaten by crocs is it's favourite Headline.
Standard news headline "ANOTHER tourist taken by a croc" followed by a yearly counter.
The Jellyfish are Box Jellyfish. There's also irukandji, really small jellyfish that sting and cause total agony. Rock fish sit on the sand and have spikes and you do NOT want to stand on one. People have been known to drown themselves to stop the pain. All these are up in the north of the country. Down south there's none of these, you just have sharks to worry about down there.
You're kinda right about the videos being a promotion. I'm pretty sure it's a Morman production and these are missionaries that did 1-2 years door knocking in Australia. There's a few different uploads of others experiences.
Knock, knock, knock! (Oh crap, it's more Morman's wanting to make you worry about the horrors of daily life! )
I met some Mormons in Sydney a few years ago and I was invited to eat with their group. I really liked them. They were very polite, sincere, respectful.
Another thing that makes our shopping centres better than American malls is that you don't have to carry everything. You can usually find a trolley (shopping cart)in the car park and put everything in it. They'll let you go practically anywhere in the shopping centre with it.
2:33 people seeing plover spines for the first time always makes me laugh, they are less scary than magpies as unlike magpies they only swoop to scare not make impact.
Whereas a magpie swoops to draw blood, a magpie will try and hit you every time but plovers just play a game of chicken essentially and turn at the last second before reaching you.
While I agree in prionciple, they will hit you. My son and his friend were swooped by masked lapwings - their proper name - and the birds were hitting their knapsacks again and again. Obviously they were very close to the nest. But that was the first time I had heard of them making contact.
True, and they usually give a whole lot of warning cries before they get to swooping
We have many public parks usually situated near playgrounds that offer free bbq grills. You just bring the drinks in your cooler(esky), food like sausages to grill, picnic rugs or outdoor chairs and its a party.
Its great during large scale family gatherings without the cost of hiring a space and bridging your own grill in a truck to a public park.
I do recall 20 years ago free refills used to be a thing in Australia. We also used to have a lot more all you can eat resteraunts like Pizza Hut and Sizzlers (which are almost non-existent in Australia now).
Australian… Kangaroo comment… In Brisbane we have Kangaroos and Koalas on our property so we definitely see them in the wild. We don’t need to go to a zoo. We live less than 20km from the city centre on a couple of acres in a semi rural area. It’s not like that in the suburbs, we’re very lucky to be located on the outskirts of the 3rd largest capital city, at the foothills of the Daguilar Range in South East Queensland.
I’m well into my seventies and although I’ve seen many venomous snakes we were taught never to venture into their area without shoes. Mostly they go the other way when they hear you approaching, only occasionally have I ever met one unexpectedly and you just stand still until they move away. We lived at the beach for nearly 30 years, couldn’t leave the doors open as they would come into the house. That was the only time my husband was bitten by one he did a stupid thing and picked it up by its tail and it turned itself in half to bite him. Luckily it was winter and he had a heavy coat on and it was only a baby so the fangs didn’t penetrate through to his skin. We used a snake catcher from then on.
Your post sounds very accurate. Another post which says snakes are timid etc is not quite accurate
The BBQ's he's talking about are free and yeah gas and plenty of room on the grill, take your family and food we take things for all to share.
Some r electric
All electric in Qld.
Lol, dont box the roo, u need those intestines 😂
We have a saying about salty's here, that theres no sharks in Darwin cause the crocodiles ate them all.
I nearly lost my left arm to a spider in Darwin, didn’t even feel it bite me 18 times lol
Holy fuck dude!
You were lucky! Must have been a small one.
Red Back ,Black Widow , Funnel Web ?
@@gregorygant4242 none of those. I don’t know the name of it but it poisons the muscle tissue and you have around 24 hrs before the limb has to be amputated
White tail maybe? Causes necrosis of the tissue@lillibitjohnson7293