As a Tasmanian who lives in the North of the state, this is very accurate. We also eat ice cream in the middle of winter when it's colder outside than in the fridge.
but if you’re from the North, surely you’re like my family: my ancestors arrived as free settlers in the 1830s not as convicts. They settled around Devonport way.
They stopped people from doing that... Health and safety, local council edition prohibits people from driving up the mountain when there might be any snow or ice.
@Nigel Hickman They block off the road at "The Springs" don't they and you can't go any further up the road, but it has to be pretty bad before they do that. I've been up to the top when there's been snow. Or, is this a relatively new rule. What is far more dangerous I think, is driving to work along the Southern Outlet, going down that steep section from near Tolman's Hill when the road is icy. That road is so steep. Someone told me the road works people spread salt on the road to melt/dissolve the black ice when it gets too dangerous. Anyone know if that's true? Still love Hobart though. It's a special place.
@Caroh Yeah, it's fun. Kids love doing that, so do the big kids. The snowmen don't last long though, sitting on a warm car bonnet. I've seen them make it all the way down into the city though.
“through the correct pylons” I lost it. TOTALLY LOST IT. I remember the bridge going down, was too young to really understand… until the next time we visited Hobart and had to drive all the way down to Grandma’s via the eastern shore because NO BRIDGE!
@@GoonSmith007 please explain why the Eastern Shore has the most expansion then? lol. Eastlands used to be Rosny Regional and was TINY with concrete flooring and a scattering of flouro lighting with exposed corrugated roof. NOTHING was on the Eastern Shore! Then it EXPLODED, with the services increasing. Now it’s nothing like what it was. Pity the ferries don’t run between shores still though: a good fast catamaran could save some traffic over “the bridge”. That one with “the correct pylons” lol. O FYI father in law was a metallurgist. He’d only just moved to Hobart when the bridge went down. He worked on the bridge. Fascinating photo relics, of cross sections of damaged portions I think. By the time he retired he was in his 70s, a forensic investigator contracting for the police, so I guess it all started with the bridge!
@@DarkMatterZine I don't understand why anyone would say that nobody lives on the Eastern Shore, however I thought the reason for most of the growth being in the East would be quite self explainatory in that there's basically nowhere left to build in the West. That is until someone finally gets around to moving that mountain. 🧙
Jimmy ... you Sir, over the last few years, have made me laugh longer and stronger than I have in all of my previous 55 years of life! I can truly say I love your 'video presence' in my life!!!
“Peak minute traffic” 😂😂😂 And knowing someone everywhere you go - love it! Even if you don’t know them, you soon will! When my Tassie uncle came to Sydney he seemed to know everyone, he was waving g’day mate and they were all waving back. He’d got to know the locals within hours 😆 (which is why Tasmanians are great community people! ) “The shack” caught me out when I saw what my Tassie cousins meant - a full blown retro gorgeous beach house 😂
@@chelskay3995 👌spot on! I worked with children in local area and can tell eg who child's father is when I first meet child and their mum because of family resemblance..... Freaks the mums out but I went to school with the dad at some point 😂 had happened a dozen times or so 😂 And got to be careful with road rage.... Careful who you flip the bird too.... You will probably run into them soon....!
I'm a descendent of a tassie convict. He did his time, for stealing a hanky, got a land grant on the Tamar and married the 14 yld daughter of an officer. And here is my family now. 4 generations later.
OMG when American sailors were in town it was HILARIOUS. “Excuse me, where is Lu-an-keston?” “Oh, you mean LAUN-CES-TON, about 3 hours THAT WAY”. “Three hours? Really??? I didn’t think Tasmania was that big” “It is.”
@@hails8907 it’s so silly! We went back for a holiday one time, arrived on the Spirit, drove to Strahan for a river cruise, drove to Hobart through the wee hours trying to avoid suicidal animals etc. We know Tassie so picked some stuff we couldn’t afford when we lived there and revisited some places we love. Saw a teeny fractional percentage of the state in 2 weeks. So much there to love!
Feelin’ ya Tasmania! We right down here in New Zealand are constantly left off maps! Particularly in America. I’ve heard Tasmania referred to as New Zealand’s West Island…😁
Yes! Exactly. I lived in New Zealand from the age of 12 to 27. When we moved back to Australia, people used to teach me about my kiwi accent, so I'd say "you know there's space on the New Zealand flag for one more star. If you play your cards right that could be Australia, as New Zealand's western province. THAT shut them up!
Maybe but I wish I had spent 10 years in New Zealand and not Tas. You had the best Prime Minister in the world David Lange who had guts to stand up to keep Pacific (NZ) nuke free.
🤣🤣🤣 What!? No Cadbury Chocolate Factory gag? Or mutton bird? Wrest Point Casino? Great aunts that worked at Cadbury spoiling you with chocolate and KFC? (hang on, that's a childhood memory) A horse stable in the back yard in suburban Hobart - horse included? (Nah, another childhood memory. Yes, I went there in the 1970s) Lavender even? 😂 Oh Hobart! You hold a special place in my heart. The birthplace of my Nanna (may she rest) and a few of my great aunts and great uncles. Another gem; hilarious.
Absolutely the Cadbury factory hauls are legendary, I have a much loved photo of bringing home a reject box and my grandmother and mother diving into them on a picnic blanket in front of the log fire. You can’t replace memories like these!
I was worried you wouldn't really know the ins and outs of being a Hobartian... but this is great!!! A few new ones for me..."North of the flannelette curtain".... is he talking about Glenorchy?
“I’ll be there in August” “That’s gunna be a bitch to edit” I love that he’s not even trying to stay within the realm of the story anymore & he knows we love it 🤣
literally got back from Hobart yesterday after a week and YES to all of this except you forgot to mention $15/dozen oysters !!! OMG almost worth the weather
“Checking the BOM weather app when you go through any door” As a Tasmanian, this had me in absolute stitches… until I had to get my shit together enough to check the rain radar on the BOM app.
Absolutely brilliant! Forgot one thing though: Having a pointless rivalry with the Eastern Shore because it’s 2 degrees warmer on that side of the river 😜 Edit: Also being like the world’s biggest morning tea because our Casino looks like a giant thermos and our Federation Concert Hall looks like a biscuit barrel. 😂
Me, a resident of the east: you’ll all see when Rosny Park becomes the next cbd Also we have the airport, the cricket, the risdon dam, and the ✨sparkling✨ bays.
I think that rivalry of the eastern shore vs the city side goes back a long way. It's not just about the eastern shore getting more sunlight (because as the sun sets, the mountain blocks the sun's rays earlier than on the eastern shore). In colonial days, if you fell out of favour with the hoi polloi of society on the western shore, you were banished to live on the eastern shore. The only means of getting there was a row 🚣♂️ boat, and you took your life in your hands because there were so many whales in the river back then. Apparently whale song used to keep people awake at night but I'm not sure if that's true, it sounds like a tall story, but there were whales in the river. On the side of Knopwoods tavern at Salamanca, there is the story of Reverend Knopwood who fell out of favour and got himself banished to the eastern shore, and his residence was confiscated. When it became a tavern, I don't know, its a long time since I read the history. Nice people those early settlers, NOT. Bryce Courtenay's book is about colonial life in Hobart. One chapter opens with a brilliant description of the sun disappearing behind the mountain and sucking the light out of the town and the river. Some parts of the book are a bit x-rated, but overall it's a good account of life in Hobart Town in the 19th century. The Hope and Anchor pub on the waterfront is still in use today.
Hey Jimmy The Two Head thing came from an Iodine deficiency due to the nature of the soil. Lack of Iodine led to goitre (a swelling of the glands on the side of the neck). It resembled a smaller second head. It had to be surgically removed, this why sometimes people look for the scar. You should really do a POV on the West Coast Tas.
All the strategies used in Tasmania to combat iodine-deficiency have now been adopted by the rest of Australia. Rather than making jokes about Taswegians, they should be saying thankyou for doing all the heavy lifting... Bloody mainlanders...
Oh yeah! You need a passport to go to the west coast of Tassie. Queenstown that the locals call " Mordor". Watch where you walk; around Zeehan, there are still drilling holes left over from the mining days that aren't covered over, except by undergrowth. Fall into one of those and you'll come out the other side in South America.
A few years ago I took the family to Tassie for a holiday.When we landed in Launceston they said "It's a cool 10 degrees you'll probably need your jacket".As we left the plane in our shorts and t shirts the hostess said to us You're from Melbourne aren't you?"Correct.
10 convicts in my family tree. The number is a bit low by Tassie standards because my mother was from Queensland (Goondiwindi) and all her folks came as free settlers.
One more thing..... the f*n wind in spring!!!! It's a turbulent phenomenon. It did my HEAD IN after my 2 week quarantine with 2 kids. The windiest of windy winds!. Roof, gutters all flapping about 24/7. Apparently it's only a couple of months of torture each year 😁🙄😓 yaaaay.
Tasmanian seasons... Summer - late Jan to mid march Autumn - Mid March to late June (sometime July) Winter - June to September Windy - October thru Jan
Yeah… people think winter is bad in Tassie. Nope! Spring is the absolute worst. All the wind. Sideways hail. And it sucks so bad because most people expect that the worst is over by August… but that’s just the beginning!
Oh my stars that is seriously so accurate - have never seen a Tassie devil - been here 6 years. Some part of me believing the tiger still exists . . . . .and I am one of those who lives north of the flannel curtain - and I do wear a flanney as one of my 14 layers. But as an ex Qlder and WAer, I don't wear shorts!!!!!! There are limits.
Hilarious! 😆🤣😂...& go Darwin next - we share the odd bit with Tassie as there's maybe 4 degrees of separation! (& I wonder if he'll nail the 'Territory Rig' & 4:21?)
The bit about wanting to go to Salamanca but only if you can park right outside is so true of the Tassie attitude. It's probably becoming less of an issue as the oldies die out but certainly back a few decades if you ran a business and didn't have parking right outside or a car park you were at a disadvantage.
As a Canberran, it was interesting to see many things (half of the items?) that also apply to Canberra but weren't in the Canberra video that included some things I didn't know about...
I’m a bit embarrassed to say this but, I hadn’t heard of Jimmy Rees until his “The guy who decides Formula 1” clip (I’m an F1 fan), but now I am hooked. Jimmy you are a comedic genius. Can’t wait for your Canberra Show. Thank you for making me laugh out loud which is a gift not many comedians have. Can’t wait for Darwin 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@AthomewithKaren oh yes, I was sent a video by a friend of the Meanwhile back in Australia...series. Funniest thing I have ever heard . You're a legend Jimmy, keep it up..
Loved your show and meeting you tonight Jimmy! We had front row seats - your Brighton lady asked me how I have my coffee and was disappointed that I don’t usually have almond milk 😏. We laughed the whole time. Brilliant!
I've seen tourists burn bright red on a 10 degree winter day. When in QLD, one joker thought he'd advise me (a Tasmanian) about sunscreen - couldn't understand why I collapsed laughing...
@@macca3803 Tassie has low levels of UV through winter - but even at low levels people can burn after just 60 minutes of exposure - coupled with less air pollutants and the wind burn factor - means that I have seen people get burned on a sunny winters day in Tasmania.
Look, I may be Brisbane born n bred, but reading the comments below from the Taswegians (I did get that right, right?!) I am now officially scared of Jimmy. He knows EVERYTHING. E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. Edit: also not afraid to admit I just googled the Wall of Vaginas!
I lived there for 33 years then migrated to the mainland/north island. Didn’t buy a puffer jacket until hubby got a job in Canberra *cough* see POV Canberra! lol
The last one, 😂 I, not Tasmanian, (or Australian) was attempting to ship something to a friend in Tasmania, the "worldwide" shipping had the option to send to Antarctica (bit took longer, with extra fee) but still had no Tasmania! I think they are just taking the Mickey
😅😂😅 I’ve never been there , but I get the picture. LOL . Absolutely Hilarious ., well done Jimmy you’re AMAZING ~ cashier beep beep beep x 1000million 👏👏👏👏 Thanks for the laughs !! 🍻👌😆
This is so damn relatable as a Hobartian. Also. The only acceptable Tasmanian beer in Hobart is Cascade. Also, Launceston is the problem in our argument. They complain that we get everything as the capital. Hospital, Cricket, and complaining about their lack of tourist attractions.
I’m feeling a little attacked, I was raised and lived on the Gold Coast for most of my life and I now l live in Tasmania about an hour out of Hobart. Apparently an hour out of Hobart it too far for Tradies. Gotta love rural living.
I've been in Hobart about 20 years. I've love the place, the history, all those marvellous beautiful colonial buildings that Governments had to brains to NOT knock down and replace with hideous modern boring architecture, like the Port Authority building down near Constitution dock which is known as "the mud cake", a large square brown block of a building 😕 Its great to stand on the footpath in Macquarie Street and look up and the intricately carved buildings. They're just wonderful. They were built to last!
So right! All of it! 😂 A special shout out for Hobart people never turning up to stuff, then whining when they lose them. Oh, and if you’re in Hobart, no need to mention Boags. Love ya work, Jimmy. 😊
Luckily the Greater Hobart region has asked for an election commitment for active travel, which is greatly suited to Tasmania -- so the minute traffic, which is actually abysmal, will be completely anihilated! Hopefully our ferry network will get expanded and the northern rail corridor reinstated, as well as a statewide rail network. Oh, and we have to sort out our immense corruption problem, and tendency to log ancient rainforests. Apart from that, it's absolutely horrible, don't come.
Hope have fun down here when you visit! Btw if you think Launceston and Hobart are rivals, you don’t know Burnie and Devonport. And yes, when looking at the map of Australia, these two city locations are indistinguishable from each other. And btw when you are here, remember to not confuse Glenorchy as being part of Hobart. That can get ugly! Essentially what I’m sayin, rivalries galore! Awesome vid :) Ps, I cheated by moving to Melbourne , but I’ve been on The Boat. I have no idea if southerners call it that, but north-westerners do!
haha as a Tasmanian i can relate to nearly all that was said i mean who hasn't had a commodore and done blockies in town and when i go out i at least take a few hours because i run into everyone i know. One thing you did forget is apparently we talk really quickly, i had a customer in WA recognised this and ask if i was from tassie, when i asked how did he know he replied i cant understand you and tasmanians talk like they have had too much coffee haha
You missed the cheese and whisky, Tassie has the best cheese in the country and it's the birthplace of Australian whisky. Other than that, so accurate. Watching the FIFOs come in with a box of doughnuts from Melbourne always cracked me up. Loved Tassie, but too cold for me.
Ha ha, love it. I’m originally from Hobart but left at 19 yo. Been in Melb for 50 years. I don’t know where the 2 heads thing came from either but I still gets asked!!! I have convict ancestors & I’ve seen the Wall of Vaginas. Keep up the great vlogs.
Tasmanians used to get goitres from a lack of iodine in their diets. It caused a neck growth which needed to be removed - hence the scar. This is one theory anyway.
@@carokat1111 when I was in primary school in the 1950’s we were given a weekly goitre tablet. They were tiny & salty. They were discontinued once bakers were told to add iodine to their bread.
When you do Darwin’s shopping trip, don’t forget: crocs, fish and chips at the wharf, crocs, Mindel Beach Markets, lunch at the HumptyDoo Pub, backpackers, crocs, pluggers, stubbies (the shorts), fifo, crocs, backpackers, saying “you get used to the heat” to southerners, when what you really mean is “you’ll get used to sweating 24/7!”… crocs, backpackers, backpackers stying to swim with crocs, crocs trying to swim with backpackers, backpackers trying to swim nude with crocs, the outrageous front page of the ‘NT News’ newspaper… locals breaking out the jackets and beanies when it drops down to a freezing 20 degrees Celsius in the dry season. Surfers who can only surf during a giant storm because they are not likely to get eaten by sharks crocs or stingers at that point! Crocs, a gazillion inches of rain in the ‘wet’ season every year! Snakes in the dunny. Redbacks in the dunny. Crocs in the dunny. And of course to go with the beers-beers-beers-beers a permanent “she’ll be right” holiday attitude to life. 🤔 did we mention crocs?
As a Tasmanian who lives in the North of the state, this is very accurate.
We also eat ice cream in the middle of winter when it's colder outside than in the fridge.
I’ve lived in Melbourne for 50 years (originally from Hobart) & still eat ice cream all year round.
but if you’re from the North, surely you’re like my family: my ancestors arrived as free settlers in the 1830s not as convicts. They settled around Devonport way.
@@DarkMatterZine yes, my parents and in-laws are all from "mainland stock" 😉👌🏻
Shut up North Tasmania. 👥️️
😉 Just kidding . South trying to be heard. Lol
Only way to have it. That way it doesn't melt as fast
As a Tasmanian, I would like to say that 100% of that is accurate. Good job.
The back space button is just a tad more to the right
Shutup
Tassie to.
True I’m lmfao at the dark mofo bit and the school part
Yeah ikr
I honestly didn’t think he could make any better series then “meanwhile in Australia” but yet, here we are! Thanks for all the laughs Jimmy
Brilliant.
Agree..
You missed....driving up mt wellie, building snowman on your bonnet then driving down and seeing how long it lasts.
They stopped people from doing that... Health and safety, local council edition prohibits people from driving up the mountain when there might be any snow or ice.
@Nigel Hickman They block off the road at "The Springs" don't they and you can't go any further up the road, but it has to be pretty bad before they do that. I've been up to the top when there's been snow. Or, is this a relatively new rule. What is far more dangerous I think, is driving to work along the Southern Outlet, going down that steep section from near Tolman's Hill when the road is icy. That road is so steep. Someone told me the road works people spread salt on the road to melt/dissolve the black ice when it gets too dangerous. Anyone know if that's true? Still love Hobart though. It's a special place.
But on the days you can drive up people definitely do the snowman bonnet thing.
@Caroh Yeah, it's fun. Kids love doing that, so do the big kids. The snowmen don't last long though, sitting on a warm car bonnet. I've seen them make it all the way down into the city though.
“through the correct pylons” I lost it. TOTALLY LOST IT. I remember the bridge going down, was too young to really understand… until the next time we visited Hobart and had to drive all the way down to Grandma’s via the eastern shore because NO BRIDGE!
Same happened with me, I’m just old enough to remember seeing the big gap, we were in Hobart to visit rellies just after it happened.
Still the reason nobody lives on the Eastern shore, because once they had to drive and extra 20 mins via Bridgewater to get anywhere
@@GoonSmith007 please explain why the Eastern Shore has the most expansion then? lol. Eastlands used to be Rosny Regional and was TINY with concrete flooring and a scattering of flouro lighting with exposed corrugated roof. NOTHING was on the Eastern Shore! Then it EXPLODED, with the services increasing. Now it’s nothing like what it was. Pity the ferries don’t run between shores still though: a good fast catamaran could save some traffic over “the bridge”. That one with “the correct pylons” lol.
O FYI father in law was a metallurgist. He’d only just moved to Hobart when the bridge went down. He worked on the bridge. Fascinating photo relics, of cross sections of damaged portions I think. By the time he retired he was in his 70s, a forensic investigator contracting for the police, so I guess it all started with the bridge!
@@DarkMatterZine I don't understand why anyone would say that nobody lives on the Eastern Shore, however I thought the reason for most of the growth being in the East would be quite self explainatory in that there's basically nowhere left to build in the West. That is until someone finally gets around to moving that mountain. 🧙
I thought they ran ferries from Bellerive across the river to the city until the bridge was repaired. I've seen the photos!
Jimmy ... you Sir, over the last few years, have made me laugh longer and stronger than I have in all of my previous 55 years of life!
I can truly say I love your 'video presence' in my life!!!
He's still Jimmy Giggle :)
“Peak minute traffic” 😂😂😂
And knowing someone everywhere you go - love it! Even if you don’t know them, you soon will!
When my Tassie uncle came to Sydney he seemed to know everyone, he was waving g’day mate and they were all waving back. He’d got to know the locals within hours 😆 (which is why Tasmanians are great community people! )
“The shack” caught me out when I saw what my Tassie cousins meant - a full blown retro gorgeous beach house 😂
Legit, one of my teachers is married to someone whose involved in my sporting association...
If you don't know them, you have a friend in common!
My drama teacher, my friends mum, my other friends mum and my mum, all went to the school we all go to
@@chelskay3995 👌spot on! I worked with children in local area and can tell eg who child's father is when I first meet child and their mum because of family resemblance..... Freaks the mums out but I went to school with the dad at some point 😂 had happened a dozen times or so 😂
And got to be careful with road rage.... Careful who you flip the bird too.... You will probably run into them soon....!
In New Zealand it's called a "batch". Same horse, different colour.
exclaiming 20 degrees in hobart is equivalent to 25 on the mainland...(true though!)
I'm a descendent of a tassie convict. He did his time, for stealing a hanky, got a land grant on the Tamar and married the 14 yld daughter of an officer. And here is my family now. 4 generations later.
I laughed so frickin' hard. Everything is bloody accurate
Pronounced Launceston correctly well done.
Ba ha ha ha Tassie described so so well.
Yes, I was impressed
OMG when American sailors were in town it was HILARIOUS. “Excuse me, where is Lu-an-keston?” “Oh, you mean LAUN-CES-TON, about 3 hours THAT WAY”. “Three hours? Really??? I didn’t think Tasmania was that big” “It is.”
Only ever beaten by mainlanders and Strahan. Took me a while to figure out WTH they were talking about the first time or two.
@@DarkMatterZine so many people think they can see Tassie in 1 day 😂😂😂
@@hails8907 it’s so silly! We went back for a holiday one time, arrived on the Spirit, drove to Strahan for a river cruise, drove to Hobart through the wee hours trying to avoid suicidal animals etc. We know Tassie so picked some stuff we couldn’t afford when we lived there and revisited some places we love. Saw a teeny fractional percentage of the state in 2 weeks. So much there to love!
Feelin’ ya Tasmania! We right down here in New Zealand are constantly left off maps! Particularly in America.
I’ve heard Tasmania referred to as New Zealand’s West Island…😁
Yes! Exactly. I lived in New Zealand from the age of 12 to 27. When we moved back to Australia, people used to teach me about my kiwi accent, so I'd say "you know there's space on the New Zealand flag for one more star. If you play your cards right that could be Australia, as New Zealand's western province. THAT shut them up!
Maybe but I wish I had spent 10 years in New Zealand and not Tas. You had the best Prime Minister in the world David Lange who had guts to stand up to keep Pacific (NZ) nuke free.
🤣🤣🤣 What!? No Cadbury Chocolate Factory gag? Or mutton bird? Wrest Point Casino? Great aunts that worked at Cadbury spoiling you with chocolate and KFC? (hang on, that's a childhood memory) A horse stable in the back yard in suburban Hobart - horse included? (Nah, another childhood memory. Yes, I went there in the 1970s) Lavender even? 😂 Oh Hobart! You hold a special place in my heart. The birthplace of my Nanna (may she rest) and a few of my great aunts and great uncles. Another gem; hilarious.
HAHAHA Mutton Bird!!! Forgot about that
Absolutely the Cadbury factory hauls are legendary, I have a much loved photo of bringing home a reject box and my grandmother and mother diving into them on a picnic blanket in front of the log fire. You can’t replace memories like these!
I missed the Cadbury factory too. I'd it still there? I'll get back one day to see it again if it is....... that and the great wall of vaginas.
I was worried you wouldn't really know the ins and outs of being a Hobartian... but this is great!!! A few new ones for me..."North of the flannelette curtain".... is he talking about Glenorchy?
yeah. North of Moonah.
That was new to me too.
Chigwell
Glenorchy has always been boganville!
WHAT?! How have you never heard of that?! Also known as NCR or North of Creek Road
“I’ll be there in August”
“That’s gunna be a bitch to edit”
I love that he’s not even trying to stay within the realm of the story anymore & he knows we love it 🤣
literally got back from Hobart yesterday after a week and YES to all of this except you forgot to mention $15/dozen oysters !!! OMG almost worth the weather
You were ripped off - I paid $12 last week - oh, but that was in 'Miffton' - so not Hobart.
“Checking the BOM weather app when you go through any door” As a Tasmanian, this had me in absolute stitches… until I had to get my shit together enough to check the rain radar on the BOM app.
Smashed it Jimmy!! Us Taswegians are a special type! lol! Thanks for the love that went into this - great job!!
Can confirm this is a 100% accurate I’m a Tasmanian 😂
Shut up Tasmania! 😆
Absolutely brilliant! Forgot one thing though: Having a pointless rivalry with the Eastern Shore because it’s 2 degrees warmer on that side of the river 😜
Edit: Also being like the world’s biggest morning tea because our Casino looks like a giant thermos and our Federation Concert Hall looks like a biscuit barrel. 😂
100% agreed! Also, south of Bridgewater bridge being pissy at the the north and east having 110km speed limit, whilst south has max 100 km 😂 WHY!?!?!?
🤣🤣🤣oh God yes!
Me, a resident of the east: you’ll all see when Rosny Park becomes the next cbd
Also we have the airport, the cricket, the risdon dam, and the ✨sparkling✨ bays.
I think that rivalry of the eastern shore vs the city side goes back a long way. It's not just about the eastern shore getting more sunlight (because as the sun sets, the mountain blocks the sun's rays earlier than on the eastern shore). In colonial days, if you fell out of favour with the hoi polloi of society on the western shore, you were banished to live on the eastern shore. The only means of getting there was a row 🚣♂️ boat, and you took your life in your hands because there were so many whales in the river back then. Apparently whale song used to keep people awake at night but I'm not sure if that's true, it sounds like a tall story, but there were whales in the river. On the side of Knopwoods tavern at Salamanca, there is the story of Reverend Knopwood who fell out of favour and got himself banished to the eastern shore, and his residence was confiscated. When it became a tavern, I don't know, its a long time since I read the history. Nice people those early settlers, NOT.
Bryce Courtenay's book is about colonial life in Hobart. One chapter opens with a brilliant description of the sun disappearing behind the mountain and sucking the light out of the town and the river. Some parts of the book are a bit x-rated, but overall it's a good account of life in Hobart Town in the 19th century. The Hope and Anchor pub on the waterfront is still in use today.
Hey Jimmy
The Two Head thing came from an Iodine deficiency due to the nature of the soil. Lack of Iodine led to goitre (a swelling of the glands on the side of the neck). It resembled a smaller second head. It had to be surgically removed, this why sometimes people look for the scar.
You should really do a POV on the West Coast Tas.
All the strategies used in Tasmania to combat iodine-deficiency have now been adopted by the rest of Australia.
Rather than making jokes about Taswegians, they should be saying thankyou for doing all the heavy lifting...
Bloody mainlanders...
I'm Tasmanian. I always thought thev2 head jk it was cos of you know- inbreeding😥😅. I feel better now haha
Oh yeah! You need a passport to go to the west coast of Tassie. Queenstown that the locals call " Mordor". Watch where you walk; around Zeehan, there are still drilling holes left over from the mining days that aren't covered over, except by undergrowth. Fall into one of those and you'll come out the other side in South America.
@Cathy Jacobs That's what I had been told too. The iodine thing is new to me.
I thought the 2 heads was from the time when both Hobart AND Launceston claimed to be our capital city; 2 political heads.
Fantastic! Thanks Jimmy. Looking forward to Darwin.
I so need a curried scallop pie now......
A few years ago I took the family to Tassie for a holiday.When we landed in Launceston they said "It's a cool 10 degrees you'll probably need your jacket".As we left the plane in our shorts and t shirts the hostess said to us You're from Melbourne aren't you?"Correct.
Watching this as a Tasmanian is just like so true
OVERPRICED EVERYTHING IMPORTANT
10 convicts in my family tree. The number is a bit low by Tassie standards because my mother was from Queensland (Goondiwindi) and all her folks came as free settlers.
Oh my god 100% nailed it from someone proud of living north of the flannelette curtain😂
I am in Tasmania...you are spot on! Well done. I literally laughed out loud.
Accurate 😂😂 it’s freezing today but I was still wearing a jacket and shorts 😂
One more thing..... the f*n wind in spring!!!! It's a turbulent phenomenon. It did my HEAD IN after my 2 week quarantine with 2 kids.
The windiest of windy winds!. Roof, gutters all flapping about 24/7. Apparently it's only a couple of months of torture each year 😁🙄😓 yaaaay.
Tasmanian seasons...
Summer - late Jan to mid march
Autumn - Mid March to late June (sometime July)
Winter - June to September
Windy - October thru Jan
Yeah… people think winter is bad in Tassie. Nope! Spring is the absolute worst. All the wind. Sideways hail. And it sucks so bad because most people expect that the worst is over by August… but that’s just the beginning!
"Family tree resembles a poplar" always riles them up.
Oh my stars that is seriously so accurate - have never seen a Tassie devil - been here 6 years. Some part of me believing the tiger still exists . . . . .and I am one of those who lives north of the flannel curtain - and I do wear a flanney as one of my 14 layers. But as an ex Qlder and WAer, I don't wear shorts!!!!!! There are limits.
Watching the boats come in is awesome! And hiking up (and down) the mountain not so much fun…but a lifelong memory.
Hilarious! 😆🤣😂...& go Darwin next - we share the odd bit with Tassie as there's maybe 4 degrees of separation! (& I wonder if he'll nail the 'Territory Rig' & 4:21?)
Brilliant. I'm Tasmanian through and through, so many accuracies it's hard to pick a stand-out although the puffer jacket and Hartz is so correct.
The bit about wanting to go to Salamanca but only if you can park right outside is so true of the Tassie attitude. It's probably becoming less of an issue as the oldies die out but certainly back a few decades if you ran a business and didn't have parking right outside or a car park you were at a disadvantage.
Love to you all from Tasmania! This was brilliant. Super accurate 🤣🤣🤣 love you Jimmy xx
Perfect! Had a good chuckle from this, and it's all true!
As a Queenslander living in Tasmania ,That was so funny and so true , I had to watch it twice. 🤣👍
As a Victorian, life in Hobart doesn't sound too bad. 🍷🍸🍺
Impressive - over 5 minutes lol. The longest so far - just so much to poke fun at 🤣 So much great material, great one Jimmy
Yay for Darwin! Thanks Jimmy, looking forward to it! 😁
As a Canberran, it was interesting to see many things (half of the items?) that also apply to Canberra but weren't in the Canberra video that included some things I didn't know about...
Seriously hilarious and mostly true facts 😅😅. Well done to the people who gave the suggestions and to the great JS for coming up with gold 👏👏👏🤟
I’m a bit embarrassed to say this but, I hadn’t heard of Jimmy Rees until his “The guy who decides Formula 1” clip (I’m an F1 fan), but now I am hooked. Jimmy you are a comedic genius. Can’t wait for your Canberra Show. Thank you for making me laugh out loud which is a gift not many comedians have. Can’t wait for Darwin 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jimmy's updates during covid lockdowns etc kept us all going! 🤣🤣
@@AthomewithKaren oh yes, I was sent a video by a friend of the Meanwhile back in Australia...series. Funniest thing I have ever heard . You're a legend Jimmy, keep it up..
It's Jimmy giggle from giggle and hoot
Absolutely love your POVs though I've only visited Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Cairns!
Outstanding! You have gotten Tasmanians spot on.
Thanks Jimmy. I'm surprised you managed to sneak in some many items so local to Hobart. Well Done !
these never get old Jimmy! Well done ...
😂😂😂😂😂 I lived there for 10yrs and it’s all true 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Loved the smash of the dropped Cascade/Boags/Cascade/Boags.........stubbies
I spent 2020 in Hobart. Moved from the mainland for an "adventure" 🤣 all of what you say is 100% correct! Lololol
I'm now back on mainland.
Loved your show and meeting you tonight Jimmy! We had front row seats - your Brighton lady asked me how I have my coffee and was disappointed that I don’t usually have almond milk 😏. We laughed the whole time. Brilliant!
"Getting sunburnt" 3:18 but you failed to mention it's only 19 degrees
I've seen tourists burn bright red on a 10 degree winter day.
When in QLD, one joker thought he'd advise me (a Tasmanian) about sunscreen - couldn't understand why I collapsed laughing...
@@nigelhickman2274 in tassie.. if it hits past 24 degrees .. all the old people drop dead from heat exhaustion 🤣
@@nigelhickman2274 That's cap. UV is not high enough to burn in winter
@@macca3803 Tassie has low levels of UV through winter - but even at low levels people can burn after just 60 minutes of exposure - coupled with less air pollutants and the wind burn factor - means that I have seen people get burned on a sunny winters day in Tasmania.
Absolutely!!
brilliant. I was about 5 when the ship brought down the Tasman bridge. Well researched.
Look, I may be Brisbane born n bred, but reading the comments below from the Taswegians (I did get that right, right?!) I am now officially scared of Jimmy. He knows EVERYTHING. E.V.E.R.Y.T.H.I.N.G. Edit: also not afraid to admit I just googled the Wall of Vaginas!
Lol the gift shop even sells vagina shaped soap 🧼 🤣
I bet you wish you hadn't 😮
yes this is true in avery odd museum we have...heck theres even a poo machine lmaro
Brilliant Jimmy you really pegged Tassie. I lived there for 5 years and it's all true.🤣🤣🤣👍
I lived there for 33 years then migrated to the mainland/north island. Didn’t buy a puffer jacket until hubby got a job in Canberra *cough* see POV Canberra! lol
@@DarkMatterZine "The land that time forgot".
How have I only seen this now!!! This is absolutely 100% on the money! How did you know about our 'flannel border'???!!!! Haha amazing!!!!!
Haha. Were still better than any other state because you missed out one thing. "Our Clean Air"
I’ve recently been in hospital and all you videos make me laugh. Thank you for bringing me some joy in my day 😄
The last one, 😂 I, not Tasmanian, (or Australian) was attempting to ship something to a friend in Tasmania, the "worldwide" shipping had the option to send to Antarctica (bit took longer, with extra fee) but still had no Tasmania! I think they are just taking the Mickey
😅😂😅 I’ve never been there , but I get the picture. LOL . Absolutely Hilarious ., well done Jimmy you’re AMAZING ~ cashier beep beep beep x 1000million 👏👏👏👏
Thanks for the laughs !! 🍻👌😆
The two heads thing was apparently from a lack of iodine in the diet way back when, resulting in goitre.
Better than the excess cadmium out west!
Yes, I'm in Tasmania. This is so true
This is so damn relatable as a Hobartian.
Also. The only acceptable Tasmanian beer in Hobart is Cascade.
Also, Launceston is the problem in our argument. They complain that we get everything as the capital. Hospital, Cricket, and complaining about their lack of tourist attractions.
I’m feeling a little attacked, I was raised and lived on the Gold Coast for most of my life and I now l live in Tasmania about an hour out of Hobart. Apparently an hour out of Hobart it too far for Tradies. Gotta love rural living.
I've been in Hobart about 20 years. I've love the place, the history, all those marvellous beautiful colonial buildings that Governments had to brains to NOT knock down and replace with hideous modern boring architecture, like the Port Authority building down near Constitution dock which is known as "the mud cake", a large square brown block of a building 😕
Its great to stand on the footpath in Macquarie Street and look up and the intricately carved buildings. They're just wonderful. They were built to last!
I remember the Mudcake going up and just going slack jawed with horror. There was some babble about nods to the vernacular. Sure. 🙄
This is brilliant! 😂😂😂 thanks so much Jimmy !
Absolutely true !! Just watching POV You're from Hobart.. I'm crying here with laughter ! Everything is so true.
So right! All of it! 😂
A special shout out for Hobart people never turning up to stuff, then whining when they lose them.
Oh, and if you’re in Hobart, no need to mention Boags.
Love ya work, Jimmy. 😊
So good. He didn't mention the fact that people put snow on their windscreen to show that they had been up the mountain
Luckily the Greater Hobart region has asked for an election commitment for active travel, which is greatly suited to Tasmania -- so the minute traffic, which is actually abysmal, will be completely anihilated!
Hopefully our ferry network will get expanded and the northern rail corridor reinstated, as well as a statewide rail network.
Oh, and we have to sort out our immense corruption problem, and tendency to log ancient rainforests.
Apart from that, it's absolutely horrible, don't come.
Yes, this is so funny and I'm from the jolly "eastern shore". Well done.
Jimmy I think you need a holiday after all that scanning laughed the whole time and I've never been , but I did have tassie friends once.
The love and dedication to the HUON PINE!?
Did you really miss the biggest must of Tassie?
OMG, never a truer word was said 🤣! You've nailed it 👌.
Perfection as always!! I'm still laughing from the SA video 🤣
Hope have fun down here when you visit!
Btw if you think Launceston and Hobart are rivals, you don’t know Burnie and Devonport. And yes, when looking at the map of Australia, these two city locations are indistinguishable from each other. And btw when you are here, remember to not confuse Glenorchy as being part of Hobart. That can get ugly!
Essentially what I’m sayin, rivalries galore!
Awesome vid :)
Ps, I cheated by moving to Melbourne , but I’ve been on The Boat. I have no idea if southerners call it that, but north-westerners do!
Are you from Hobart because this was suspiciously accurate
I've lives for a good amount of time in four different capitals, and he's suspiciously accurate in all of them.
This was the best one. Appreciate you Jimmy. Looking forward to August 10th. I’m driving down (5hrs).
haha as a Tasmanian i can relate to nearly all that was said i mean who hasn't had a commodore and done blockies in town and when i go out i at least take a few hours because i run into everyone i know.
One thing you did forget is apparently we talk really quickly, i had a customer in WA recognised this and ask if i was from tassie, when i asked how did he know he replied i cant understand you and tasmanians talk like they have had too much coffee haha
I live in Tasmania but I was born overseas but the line ‘matching with someone on Tinder then checking Ancestry’ 😂
Totally nailed it, Jimmy! 😆
As a Launceston resident I laughed so hard at this !! It was sooooo true !
Pretty much nailed it Jimmy! 🤣
You missed the cheese and whisky, Tassie has the best cheese in the country and it's the birthplace of Australian whisky. Other than that, so accurate. Watching the FIFOs come in with a box of doughnuts from Melbourne always cracked me up. Loved Tassie, but too cold for me.
As a Tasmanian this is fucking hilarious.
I laughed so hard - thanks for the endorphins from the southern eastern shore resident 😉
Love your work Jimmy! 👍😂
Ha ha, love it. I’m originally from Hobart but left at 19 yo. Been in Melb for 50 years. I don’t know where the 2 heads thing came from either but I still gets asked!!! I have convict ancestors & I’ve seen the Wall of Vaginas. Keep up the great vlogs.
Tasmanians used to get goitres from a lack of iodine in their diets. It caused a neck growth which needed to be removed - hence the scar. This is one theory anyway.
@@carokat1111 when I was in primary school in the 1950’s we were given a weekly goitre tablet. They were tiny & salty. They were discontinued once bakers were told to add iodine to their bread.
It’s supposed to be the in-breeding.
as a Tasmanian, I can approve that everything on this video is accurate, full stop.
LOLOL the tinder line was my fav LOL
Oh thank you Jimmy for giving me a good belly laugh about my home state Tasmania. It was all pretty accurate! 🤣🤣🤣
When you do Darwin’s shopping trip, don’t forget: crocs, fish and chips at the wharf, crocs, Mindel Beach Markets, lunch at the HumptyDoo Pub, backpackers, crocs, pluggers, stubbies (the shorts), fifo, crocs, backpackers, saying “you get used to the heat” to southerners, when what you really mean is “you’ll get used to sweating 24/7!”… crocs, backpackers, backpackers stying to swim with crocs, crocs trying to swim with backpackers, backpackers trying to swim nude with crocs, the outrageous front page of the ‘NT News’ newspaper… locals breaking out the jackets and beanies when it drops down to a freezing 20 degrees Celsius in the dry season. Surfers who can only surf during a giant storm because they are not likely to get eaten by sharks crocs or stingers at that point! Crocs, a gazillion inches of rain in the ‘wet’ season every year! Snakes in the dunny. Redbacks in the dunny. Crocs in the dunny. And of course to go with the beers-beers-beers-beers a permanent “she’ll be right” holiday attitude to life. 🤔 did we mention crocs?
Only things you forgot were frogs in the toilet, saying people are from Down South, and explaining to southerners that there IS no winter.
I’m Tasmanian, and this is so bloody true. 🤣
Gosh! I never knew there were so many stereotypical things to do in Hobart. I’ll really have to bone up on all this if I do manage to visit sometime.
I love the cold, seafood, veggie restaurants, zero traffic. Maybe I should move to Tassie? I could use a second head too.
That was actually not annoying, for a mainlander doing tassie comedy
As I always say when landed with the two heads joke, “obviously you are not Tasmanian, if you were, surely you would never have chosen that one…”
Ah Hobart - where the six degrees of separation does not exist.
It's two degrees if you're lucky.
A lot of this could be said about people from Kangaroo Island too 🤣
Peak minute traffic 😆😆😆