Boiling the billy is boiling water in a small tin pot over a campfire - to use to make tea. “To boil the billy” became a phrase that meant “make tea”. Also “Circular Quay” is pronounced like circular key.
I am of the generation where we didn’t have supermarkets and everything was delivered by horse and cart from its source and a weekly bill paid … ice for our ice chest (pre electric refrigerator) delivered to us and bread delivered to homes from the bakery etc. As a child I carried a Billy can (metal canister with a lid and a handle) to the front gate and the milk man scooped milk into the canister. Billy cans could be used to boil water over an open fire and loose tea leaves added for a “pot of tea”.
all that good food (containing no chemicals, no anti biotics,no hormones) all that good fresh air and all that sunshine , has added ten years to your life. Enjoy our beautiful land people, and thank you for visiting us.. Hope we meet you all again Cheers and God bless you all
You picked the perfect times for your ferry trips in Sydney. Days like this are the best Sydney does with it's gorgeous sunsets and blue sunny days. Nothing like Sydney harbour on days like this. 👍
🤗Before you leave Australia 🇦🇺you need to try 🤞Pavlova and lamington,s.👍Just go to Woollies 🙏and get a tray 💋of Lamington,s and a Pavlova!🇦🇺Both are a wonderful sweet to have!💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶
You definitely need to go to Luna Park with the kids. I hope you're still in Sydney for the Vivid Display; begins on Friday. Next time you have fries, ask for chicken salt; you'll love it 😀 You're taking awesome video of the harbour, nice work!
This may seem strange but "quay" is pronounced "kee'. Likewise, "buoy" is pronounced "boy" as in buoyant. FYI, Luna Park is quite old school when it comes to amusement parks. It was opened in 1935 and is heritage listed so its aesthetic hasn't really changed over the years.
True South. Hello. I must pull you up on your “BUOY” information. Yes today it is pronounced as you said, however, if you are a British subjects as I and all of us were who were born here in the sixty’s, the word was then pronounced as “BOO-IE (EY).” So either is correct - Until we die out 😅
@@davidjames-maddaford4531 Yeah sure "BOO-IE (EY)" is the American pronunciation and "BOY" is the English pronunciation. I look at the pronunciation of the words "buoyant" and "buoyancy" as indicators of the pronunciation of "buoy". The etymology of the word comes from Middle English drawn from Middle Dutch and possibly Old French and Spanish ca. late 13th century.
@@davidjames-maddaford4531I have to disagree. As a 72 year old Australian it has been pronounced boy here all my life and the same goes for pronunciation by English actors in old war movies, which would suggest that is how everyone said it. The only people I have ever heard pronounce it booey are Americans.
Will you still be in Sydney for the Vivid Festival starting the 26th of May? To boil the billy is to make a cup of tea. the term comes from the old bushmen that used to boil a billy can over the fire, a billy can is a small tinplate bucket.
So glad you liked out beautiful city and just in time for great weather. Stay for Vivid, you and the kids will love it. Such a beautuful family and it's a pleasure to see. Blessings to you all.
I very much enjoyed all your videos, and i'm so Pleased you and family enjoyed your stay " Down Under " in Sydney, it's been a Pleasure to have you and your lovely family here in Oz. Unfortunatly every thing has become expensive here now... Welcome back any time 👍
Boiling the Billie comes from olden days, when swagmen (roamers who walked from job to job) boiled water in a tin can called a billie. Nowadays it means to turn the electric kettle on...A friend will call on the phone and say "put the billie on, I'll be there in 10" meaning I'll be there in 10 minutes for coffee so boil the kettle 😊 I'm a West Aussie
If you are still in Sydney - you should go to Vivid Festival... Boiling the Billy is making a cup of tea (Billy Tea)... BTW - Circular Quay (pronounced Circular Key)
This one of the better video's I've seen of my home town made by visitors. I hope you've enjoyed your stay? The weather has been quite sublime and you seem like a lovely family so, I think you've deserved to be blessed by the Sun God while visiting our patch of the world here in Sydney at this particular time of the year. Happy travels 👍
@@robynmurray7421 Oh diddums, the taxes we pay in Sydney for everything go to supporting regional Australia for many projects, if you don't have attractions in Sydney tourists don't come, locals don't spend money so regional suffers, move along nothing to see here.
That rollercoaster at Luna Park starts from the top of the incline, goes forwards until it reaches the top of the second incline, and then reverses back. Luna Park is open on weeknights only during school holidays.
In modern times "Boiling the Billy", means to put the kettle to boil some water. Most commonly for tea, as that's where it hails from. Billy Tea, was once a brand of tea sold in Australia. And you usuallyusec any old tin, such as old jam tins with a makeshift a wire handle, to boil water over a camp-fire. They were then called Billy tins. This was back a century or so, when. Such items weren't sold new, you had to make them yourselves. Go to a camping store and you may find modern variations used for Boiling water, stilled called Billy Tins, or cans. But usually those small enough for a few cups of tea or coffee. P.S. Don't rely on a single source for Aussie slang, there isn't z book big enough. Every book out there usually misses a few. And what isn't usually explained very well, is that our slang is context based, the same word can have many meanings, and sometimes they are polar opposites from each other, which only adds to the confusion. So the tone of voice as well as the context, makes all of the difference. The word "Bastard" is a good example. Its either an insult or a term of endearment, and many more as well. Show this video link to an Aussie, and he/she will be able to explain why its funny and that the memory of body line, it isn't a pleasant one. ua-cam.com/video/21zgV8_PBM0/v-deo.html This website despite being British. Does an excellent job. The good bit starts at the 3rd paragraph. www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/33/messages/1181.html
I think Americans are surprised that shops in Australia close at about 5pm. This is because we have the 3x8 hours rule (since the 1800s). 1x8hours to work, 1x8 to sleep, and 1x8 hours to live.
@@allisalie101 It's such a silly mistake of mine, so I'll re-dit it... it's the 8hr day. The 8hr day was first trialled by Robert Owen in Scotland in the 1800s. He also established ideal worker's villages thinking that this would get the best out of workers - by treating them decently And it was in 1916 that both Victoria and my state - NSW passed their respective Eight Hours Acts
In Australia, learning how to whistle and snap (or “click”) means reaching a huge milestone - you’re no longer a li'l tacker, you’re officially a big kid! 🎉
“Boilin’ the Billy” is two things: 1. Means to put the jug on or kettle to boil water for making primarily Tea, may Coffee / 2. Is colloquial slang for someone who acts “Silly” (stupid). “Oh, look, that kid is boilin’ the billy!”
A Billy is a billy can. For boiling water on a camp fire. Its is simply a large can holds about 3 pints with a wire handle. Its not in the slang book because it isnt slang. Just a word. Boil the billy simply means make billy tea. You boil the water , throw in a handfull of tea and proceed to swing the billy in 11:41 a circular motion . The syntrifcal force pushes the tea leaves down ( not floating) and water will not spill while swinging but be careful stopping the swing. Old timers might say put the billy on while at their house. That just means boil the electric jug for a cuppa
ive heard new south welshmen describe vfl (originally it was victorian football league) as aerial pingpong which i recon is the best discription of whats now known as AFL (australian football league),, before it became a family friendly nation wide sport and it was a local melbourne thing it was feral as fuck with regular punch ons and savagery being a normal part of saturdays games lol
Boiling the billy is not slang for anything. Billy is short for billycan...a metal pot with a handle which you boil over the campfire to make your tea, sometimes called billy tea.
Our backman family kids kuya grace Joe Joe kuya Jake kuya Benny kuya mother father Sir Cris 👼😇🙏💙 happy good morning Wednesday God bless thank you heart love ❤️❤️❤️ Mr Cris Claudio Gomez molina bicol Naga city Philippines filipino 🇵🇭🇵🇭 prayer for good health ad protection Our backman family grace Joe Joe Jake Benny sam Sir Cris kuya joy 🥰😘😍🤩 Jesus love 🙏💙🙋👼😀 australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺
I feel sorry for the poor people on the ferry, just trying to chill after a long day, and having to put up with a hoard of loud, feral Americans. Bit of respect for others please, family. Use your inside voices. You don't need to always be shouting.
Sydney harbour is fantastic tho the nightlife is dead. Unless your here for gay festivals and sleazy gar bars it doesn’t compete with plenty of other cities in the world. Thanks clover Moore
@@HenriHattar i don’t live under a rock of travel to other cities in the world and Sydney’s nightlife is absolutely pathetic I feel sorry for any young guy if they happen to be straight that comes here and statistics last a read agree with me that they don’t return in a certain age group in large numbers and the numbers of clubs that have closed down don’t lie
@@DavidSmith-tn9qq It's about the people who do live here and the last time I read stats they were at complete contradiction to your stats. And if you dont wanna beleive stats then have a listen to and a look at all the immense number of blogs that any one can view. YES you really do live under a self indulgent rock pandering only to your thought with little ability to view or consider any thing else!
welcome to Australia
Sydney is hands down one of the most beautiful cities in the world and I’ve been to plenty of them 🇦🇺❤️
Boiling the billy is boiling water in a small tin pot over a campfire - to use to make tea. “To boil the billy” became a phrase that meant “make tea”. Also “Circular Quay” is pronounced like circular key.
You can even buy Billy Tea
Billie is what a Swagman has and boils his water over the camp fire. "Swagman" is a man who seeks casual work while traveling about carrying his swag.
All the teenagers love Bettys Burgers.....those burgers are very popular....
Beautiful family ,look like 'Fair Dinkum' Aussies
Sydney is beautiful!
I am of the generation where we didn’t have supermarkets and everything was delivered by horse and cart from its source and a weekly bill paid … ice for our ice chest (pre electric refrigerator) delivered to us and bread delivered to homes from the bakery etc. As a child I carried a Billy can (metal canister with a lid and a handle) to the front gate and the milk man scooped milk into the canister. Billy cans could be used to boil water over an open fire and loose tea leaves added for a “pot of tea”.
the ferries and the harbour are the best thing about sydney %100
🇦🇺Our French Fries (chips) have 👍Chicken Salt on them!!!😘That,s why they taste so good.💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶
all that good food (containing no chemicals, no anti biotics,no hormones) all that good fresh air and all that sunshine , has added ten years to your life. Enjoy our beautiful land people, and thank you for visiting us.. Hope we meet you all again Cheers and God bless you all
Just in time for Vivid! Taking the kids to Sydney myself for this
Great videos! What a beautiful family! Bonza, mates! 🤣
You picked the perfect times for your ferry trips in Sydney. Days like this are the best Sydney does with it's gorgeous sunsets and blue sunny days. Nothing like Sydney harbour on days like this. 👍
Welcome to Sydney, Backman Family - your video experiences are so cool and I can see the fun you are all having - keep sharing
missing this😢
🤗Before you leave Australia 🇦🇺you need to try 🤞Pavlova and lamington,s.👍Just go to Woollies 🙏and get a tray 💋of Lamington,s and a Pavlova!🇦🇺Both are a wonderful sweet to have!💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶
They really also need to taste a Golden Gaytime icecream as well, the original is the best. 👍
You definitely need to go to Luna Park with the kids. I hope you're still in Sydney for the Vivid Display; begins on Friday. Next time you have fries, ask for chicken salt; you'll love it 😀 You're taking awesome video of the harbour, nice work!
This may seem strange but "quay" is pronounced "kee'. Likewise, "buoy" is pronounced "boy" as in buoyant. FYI, Luna Park is quite old school when it comes to amusement parks. It was opened in 1935 and is heritage listed so its aesthetic hasn't really changed over the years.
True South. Hello. I must pull you up on your “BUOY” information. Yes today it is pronounced as you said, however, if you are a British subjects as I and all of us were who were born here in the sixty’s, the word was then pronounced as “BOO-IE (EY).” So either is correct - Until we die out 😅
@@davidjames-maddaford4531 Yeah sure "BOO-IE (EY)" is the American pronunciation and "BOY" is the English pronunciation. I look at the pronunciation of the words "buoyant" and "buoyancy" as indicators of the pronunciation of "buoy". The etymology of the word comes from Middle English drawn from Middle Dutch and possibly Old French and Spanish ca. late 13th century.
@@davidjames-maddaford4531I have to disagree. As a 72 year old Australian it has been pronounced boy here all my life and the same goes for pronunciation by English actors in old war movies, which would suggest that is how everyone said it. The only people I have ever heard pronounce it booey are Americans.
Will you still be in Sydney for the Vivid Festival starting the 26th of May?
To boil the billy is to make a cup of tea. the term comes from the old bushmen that used to boil a billy can over the fire, a billy can is a small tinplate bucket.
So glad you liked out beautiful city and just in time for great weather. Stay for Vivid, you and the kids will love it. Such a beautuful family and it's a pleasure to see. Blessings to you all.
I very much enjoyed all your videos, and i'm so Pleased you and family enjoyed your stay " Down Under " in Sydney, it's been a Pleasure to have you and your lovely family here in Oz. Unfortunatly every thing has become expensive here now... Welcome back any time 👍
Boiling the Billie comes from olden days, when swagmen (roamers who walked from job to job) boiled water in a tin can called a billie. Nowadays it means to turn the electric kettle on...A friend will call on the phone and say "put the billie on, I'll be there in 10" meaning I'll be there in 10 minutes for coffee so boil the kettle 😊 I'm a West Aussie
If you are still in Sydney - you should go to Vivid Festival... Boiling the Billy is making a cup of tea (Billy Tea)... BTW - Circular Quay (pronounced Circular Key)
I heard Vivid is great for the family. I believe it starts in a couple days.
Putting the kettle on
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This one of the better video's I've seen of my home town made by visitors. I hope you've enjoyed your stay? The weather has been quite sublime and you seem like a lovely family so, I think you've deserved to be blessed by the Sun God while visiting our patch of the world here in Sydney at this particular time of the year. Happy travels 👍
I missed watching your vlogs. Love from the Philippines 🇵🇭
Wow amazing trip enjoy guys❤❤❤❤
The North Sydney pool next to Luna Park is just gorgeous!!
It should be after a that money that was intended for regional (ie not in Sydney) swimming pools was spent on it.
@@robynmurray7421 Oh diddums, the taxes we pay in Sydney for everything go to supporting regional Australia for many projects, if you don't have attractions in Sydney tourists don't come, locals don't spend money so regional suffers, move along nothing to see here.
A Billy is a can use to boil water to make tea, over a camp fire
The tea is called Billy Tea
That rollercoaster at Luna Park starts from the top of the incline, goes forwards until it reaches the top of the second incline, and then reverses back.
Luna Park is open on weeknights only during school holidays.
The expression, Boiling The Billie is just Boil some water for a cuppa. Haha. The Burgers at Betty's aren't too bad.
The SLANG term of boiling the billy means "to stir up trouble"
Boiling the billy .. have a cup of tea I guess
FYI , Quay is pronounced key!
Enjoy my beautiful city. 😊
In modern times "Boiling the Billy", means to put the kettle to boil some water. Most commonly for tea, as that's where it hails from. Billy Tea, was once a brand of tea sold in Australia. And you usuallyusec any old tin, such as old jam tins with a makeshift a wire handle, to boil water over a camp-fire. They were then called Billy tins.
This was back a century or so, when. Such items weren't sold new, you had to make them yourselves.
Go to a camping store and you may find modern variations used for Boiling water, stilled called Billy Tins, or cans. But usually those small enough for a few cups of tea or coffee.
P.S. Don't rely on a single source for Aussie slang, there isn't z book big enough. Every book out there usually misses a few.
And what isn't usually explained very well, is that our slang is context based, the same word can have many meanings, and sometimes they are polar opposites from each other, which only adds to the confusion. So the tone of voice as well as the context, makes all of the difference.
The word "Bastard" is a good example. Its either an insult or a term of endearment, and many more as well.
Show this video link to an Aussie, and he/she will be able to explain why its funny and that the memory of body line, it isn't a pleasant one.
ua-cam.com/video/21zgV8_PBM0/v-deo.html
This website despite being British. Does an excellent job. The good bit starts at the 3rd paragraph.
www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/33/messages/1181.html
That was a big day out I bet the kids slept that night.
I think Americans are surprised that shops in Australia close at about 5pm. This is because we have the 3x8 hours rule (since the 1800s). 1x8hours to work, 1x8 to sleep, and 1x8 hours to live.
What do we do with the other 3 hours? 😂
@@allisalie101 It's such a silly mistake of mine, so I'll re-dit it... it's the 8hr day.
The 8hr day was first trialled by Robert Owen in Scotland in the 1800s. He also established ideal worker's villages thinking that this would get the best out of workers - by treating them decently
And it was in 1916 that both Victoria and my state - NSW passed their respective Eight Hours Acts
Apologies for the parking fees in Sydney
In Australia, learning how to whistle and snap (or “click”) means reaching a huge milestone - you’re no longer a li'l tacker, you’re officially a big kid! 🎉
You could have walked back to the quay over the bridge and beaten the ferry.
“Boilin’ the Billy” is two things: 1. Means to put the jug on or kettle to boil water for making primarily Tea, may Coffee / 2. Is colloquial slang for someone who acts “Silly” (stupid). “Oh, look, that kid is boilin’ the billy!”
A "billie" is just an old fashioned term for a kettle.
If your still is Sydney go to Vivid
A Billy is a billy can. For boiling water on a camp fire. Its is simply a large can holds about 3 pints with a wire handle. Its not in the slang book because it isnt slang. Just a word. Boil the billy simply means make billy tea. You boil the water , throw in a handfull of tea and proceed to swing the billy in 11:41 a circular motion . The syntrifcal force pushes the tea leaves down ( not floating) and water will not spill while swinging but be careful stopping the swing. Old timers might say put the billy on while at their house. That just means boil the electric jug for a cuppa
I’m pretty sure it means to make some tea???
ive heard new south welshmen describe vfl (originally it was victorian football league) as aerial pingpong which i recon is the best discription of whats now known as AFL (australian football league),, before it became a family friendly nation wide sport and it was a local melbourne thing it was feral as fuck with regular punch ons and savagery being a normal part of saturdays games lol
Boiling the billy is not slang for anything. Billy is short for billycan...a metal pot with a handle which you boil over the campfire to make your tea, sometimes called billy tea.
Boil the Billy....boiling water over a camp fire in a little pot called a "billy"
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Hope you took in a game of rugby league ,my teams the sharks .
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They are not French fries they are hot chips.... Just saying 😀👍
Our backman family kids kuya grace Joe Joe kuya Jake kuya Benny kuya mother father Sir Cris 👼😇🙏💙 happy good morning Wednesday God bless thank you heart love ❤️❤️❤️ Mr Cris Claudio Gomez molina bicol Naga city Philippines filipino 🇵🇭🇵🇭 prayer for good health ad protection Our backman family grace Joe Joe Jake Benny sam Sir Cris kuya joy 🥰😘😍🤩 Jesus love 🙏💙🙋👼😀 australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺
Those aren't "french fries" those are just chips.
"Pretty sure Boiling the Billy" means pregnant. same as "Bun in the Oven"
I feel sorry for the poor people on the ferry, just trying to chill after a long day, and having to put up with a hoard of loud, feral Americans. Bit of respect for others please, family. Use your inside voices. You don't need to always be shouting.
Sydney harbour is fantastic tho the nightlife is dead. Unless your here for gay festivals and sleazy gar bars it doesn’t compete with plenty of other cities in the world. Thanks clover Moore
Not sure what rock you live under David.
@@HenriHattar i don’t live under a rock of travel to other cities in the world and Sydney’s nightlife is absolutely pathetic I feel sorry for any young guy if they happen to be straight that comes here and statistics last a read agree with me that they don’t return in a certain age group in large numbers and the numbers of clubs that have closed down don’t lie
@@DavidSmith-tn9qq It's about the people who do live here and the last time I read stats they were at complete contradiction to your stats. And if you dont wanna beleive stats then have a listen to and a look at all the immense number of blogs that any one can view. YES you really do live under a self indulgent rock pandering only to your thought with little ability to view or consider any thing else!
What's with the chewing gum? Revolting and rude.
Who cares 😅