It's honestly because Australians have heard so many tall tales from foreigners about what Australia is like. That at this point, we just lean into it for our own amusement. If someone asks you if the Babadook is real, people will sarcastically tell you that old mate, Darell, saw one just the other day and swear by it.
That was my take as well. For me I see Australia as the World's Florida. They're on the bottom right of most maps. Everything defies logic and everything is trying to kill you. Unlike Florida however, Australia completely owns the joke. Are we gonna tell them no?
Just be glad Sydney didn't smash the Tim Tams against Joey's head for him pranking her. Because if she can be tsundere with her husband, she would give someone who pranked her Assault with chocolate cream cookies.
As an Australian, I never actually thought about it, but I realise it's completely true. I'd be immediately onboard as soon as I realise what was happening.
It really is instinct at this point, innit? Some rando with a foreign accent says they were told this or that, our brains don't even try to correct the info, it just goes straight to 'How can I make this even more ridiculous?'
@@AriosQarsute Connect the dots? We did that as kids -- it's a game where you label boxes and put all dots in one. Then you shake it round and give it to a friend to open. Then they become a dot.
It’s not really sarcasm, it’s just gaslighting on a national level. It’s pretty common in South Africa too, where you’ll tell a foreigner to use the word “poes”
Pretty much all the former colony’s of Britain that were closer to us Australia and South Africa are infected with our culture or more specifically our sense of humour sarcastic and extremely dark humour I’m pretty sure and it’s great because most of the rest of the world get annoyed and angry because they don’t understand sarcasm and can’t take dark humour what makes this all better is that all the other countries try to make fun of us for revenge because they don’t understand anything but we just laugh even harder or get more sarcastic because there’s no one who makes fun and jokes about their own country more than ten British countries and Australia and South Africa just picked that up from us and Australia decided to go one step further and just simply gaslight every clueless foreigner who is to ignorant or innocent to some of the stuff in their country And this is why Australia is Like Britain’s favourite child Sorry for going on a long explanation I planned to have it short only a few lines but then ended up going on and on
Lol can’t believe they think drop bears aren’t real, my brother got attack just last week, we almost didn’t save him in time he lost some of his ear but he’s fine now
Damn. Since the tree kangaroo population has dropped off, the drop bears tend to wander further for food, you can't trust the local exclusion zone maps any-more, worse winter will be over soon and they get super territorial.
@@boxhead6177 yeah mate, I also heard that the Hoop snake population is on the rise again and we’ll be having a massive surge in their numbers by summer so we’ll have to be extra safe around any sandy or warm places like the beach and desert
@@cullanu Vegemite, thats an old wives tale, rub some vegemite on it you will be alright!, seal the wound, soothe itches, repels mosquitos, magpies, lithgow panthers... just go to Bunnings and buy proper repellant. Then again might have to resort to vegemite if supply chain issues happen again... seriously why do paniced people only stock pile toilet paper and animal/insect sprays.
I can't help but take offense to Connor calling tim tam generic chocolate. Our generic chocolate is shite so tim tam is fucking amazing. Make yourself a tim tam tiramisu
nah I agree with connor we have laminations why tim tam . but then again fosters and shrimp on a bbq so im wondering if this was yet another troll and the troll was that good even 90% of Aussies fell for it
"There's literally no point in doing this. It offers no benefit to either the drink or the biscuit." Bruh. The TimTam chocolate literally melts in your mouth after using it as a straw for your hot beverage. It's nice af. That's the benefit/point in doing it. Come on Connor.
@@remuvs It's actually used to be quite common in Indonesia too. We used to that a lot when I was a kid. I think it's popular because timtam actually advertised that you can do that and people just follow along.
I love that Connor says "you guys got a chance to try again" buddy you sent us your slaves and convicts, the fact that we made it this far is a miracle
Oz put out the call hard cunts only. The Aboringal heard it 70 thousands years ago. The brits sent the best and the sunlight still kills their descendents
As an Australian, we all have this catapillar called a Witchetty grub inside us. Local Aboriginals invite you to try ingesting them. Often referring to them as "good tucker". Once they are in your gut they connect you to the hivemind like wi-fi. So you automatically get the signal to be in on the joke.
Given Sydney would have beaten Garnt up if he didn't act on behalf of his wife, he did it to save his rear from being publicly spanked after she spanked Joey.
It's all personal preference, and everyone is entitled to their opinion. HOWEVER If you do a Tim Tam slam, with any chocolate covered Tim Tam style biscuit, and your takeaway is that it adds nothing to the experience... Your mouth is broken.
@@imimori Yup. "bone in chicken is better tasting chicken", and "all bread tastes the same" came from the same brain. Joey isn't much better tbf with "steak is mid". Truly Trash Taste.
@@icecream-soup The secret truth is that we all have trash taste, but most of us never realize which of our opinions are the crazy ones because we don't have a podcast
Hahahahahaha. As an Aussie, I can tell you, we're literally brought up from a young age to do it. It's ingrained in us. Also, chocolate tastes a bit different out here, they put an additive in chocolate to stop it melting in the heat.
Aussie sarcasm is telling a lie or tall tale completely straight faced or seriously, sometimes we might even let the person know we’re being sarcastic, but most the time we either let them believe it or let them figure it out themselves
Basically anyone who hasn't spent much time on Twitter or Tik Tok is fine with sarcasm. The more time you spend, the less aware they become (at least in my experience)
@@lawmanlawman2210 Is that because those platforms already have people speaking in a semi-sarcastic matter? So people become a bit too used to that sarcastic tone as almost a normal way of speaking? (this is hypothetical)
@@SWProductions100 That's about right (source: my little brother is a sarcastic prick. I can only tell when he's sarcastic because he's my brother, everyone else has a tough time with it)
I’m British and we sort of get Australia, but honestly they’re even better than us at banter. My colleagues got me with the drop bear thing. SO annoying.
Tim Tam Slam is sooo good because after a couple of sips through it, it becomes soft and when you eat it, it melts in your mouth so F* off Connor and Garnt! There is a point why we do it!
Joey: We went with the least controversial choice. I mean, who doesn't like chocolate biscuits? Connor *raises hand*: I don't like chocolate biscuits. Connor can say that swirling a slice of Wonder bread in a toilet bowl is the best thing ever and it wouldn't surprise me anymore based on his various takes on food.
Oh, do I have a story! I'm Australian and I cannot say how much I love that our country bands together to play a joke on other people. It's basically a right of passage when you come to Australia. Now, our story begins when I was at university. I was helping put some welcome packs together for open day and a few International students were also helping out. I go over to their table and do the dropbear routine (let it be known, this is all for good fun and never mean spirited). Come back to my table and have a giggle with my tablemates and I get glared at. I'm told that they're half Australian and they think the whole joking around thing is cruel, and shame me into going back to the other table to apologise. I can't believe this but have very bad anxiety, so I end up doing it, and this girl...She laughs and says where she's from they tell foreigners that a whole town doesn't exist. The speed of which I turned around to say I told you so...Suffice to say, I stayed at her table instead.
There is 100% a point to the Tim Tam slam, it melts the biscuit from the INSIDE OUT, are you seriously saying that's not amazing, you liar? Also Connor is creating a false dichotomy between something being completely shit and the best thing ever. Tim Tams and Fairy Bread are emblematic of our whole culture, it's totally shit-house but also the best thing in the world. I don't see why this is confusing.
My nephew is now 11, born and raised in Australia. He had one Tim Tam and that's because his parents were giving it to foreign friends to try. I've always thought all of that Tim Tam things are tricks, made up for tourists.
I'm convinced our beer exports are an elaborate prank. The Australian brands you see overseas can't be seen anywhere here and they're all utterly terrible and I don't know how anyone can stomach the garbage juice.
@@ddshocktrooper5604funnily enough, Foster's group own a lot of the beer companies that Australians actually DO drink, even though noone drinks Foster's itself
I'm from Scotland and we do the exact same thing, I've lost count of the amount of times the entire pub have convinced Anmerican tourists Haggis is a little creature with red eyes that only appears on the day of a lunar eclipse within the Highlands. Its great cause anytime we've done it each person makes up a random characteristic of the Haggis and everyone else just agrees with it until its the most amazing animal anyone has ever heard of and for some reason the tourists always seem to believe it. I mean in the end its there own fault for listening to group of drunk scots chatting actual shite
I'm an Australian that lived in Glasgow for 2 years, and there was zero difference in humour. Scots and Aussies are on the almost on the exact same level (the only difference is that Scots were a lot more self-deprecating).
@@MLKS1001 in the same way that Americans believe in Aliens at Area 51. It's a fun "what if" myth that no one really takes seriously except for a few fringe people that are really into the idea.
Tim Tams aren't really biscuits though, they're a blended soft chocolate combined with a small quantity of biscuit coated in lots of chocolate, AND with chocolate filling; even more with the Double. They're a chocolate, calling a Tim Tam a biscuit would be like calling a cake with a biscotti base (e.g. Cheesecake), a biscuit. A Tim Tam Slam is done to melt the Tim Tam. If it was a biscuit it wouldn't melt, it would just crumble away. If you sucked hot liquid through a cadbury straw, you'd do it to intentionally melt it. People go nuts for Tim Tams as a "biscuit" because it's like preferring a cadbury bar block over a traditional biscuit, of course a chocolate bar is better lol.
@@DavidCruickshank You also find tea and coffee in the biscuit aisle, are they biscuits too? Wagon-Wheels are stocked there also, I wouldn't really call them a biscuit either.
They're definitely a biscuit. But also, who the fuck cares if someone thinks they don't classify as one because "oh, they have a coating and filling inside too"? I'm gonna be over here enjoying my fucking biscuit and you're not invited. Next you'll be saying a fucking ANZAC bikkie isn't a biscuit because it's cereal. ffs
My next troll is that I’m going to start telling Americans that Aussie is a slur that British people used to call us so they stop pronouncing Aussie with their terrible American accents
Its cause saying something counter to what you mean completely serious without even a change in intonation isn't sarcasm to us, its just gaslighting lmao. Sarcasm as we know it is obviously played up because you're intentionally being a smartass.
What amazes me the most about this is that Australians seem to interpret it as the rest of the world being gullible instead of the more probable reason: The rest of the world thinking Australia and by extension Australians are strange and therefore not finding it odd no matter what they claim.
Actually the Tim Tam slam does have a purpose, the same purpose as dunking a biscuit in tea or coffee. The hot liquid causes the sugars to melt and as such the biscuit becomes sweeter. You can do the Tim Tam Slam technique with lots of biscuits including Kit Kat fingers (bite of both ends and use as a straw).
Its a right of passage on your first day of work to be pranked. So just think of it as our "welcome to our tribe" induction. PSA: Be aware that if an Aussie tells you you need thongs for the beach to be ve-e-e-ry careful.
Just the thought of drop bears and and what they are or do brings so much laughter in me. Vicious monsters ripping scalps off, you don't see that everyday.
As an American, slamming food/ a snack on the ground isn’t really that unusual. Some people literally do this to ramen, where one would take a Maruchan/ Top ramen packet-the ones in a bag as it’s a cheap snack. (uncooked) slam it on the ground, sometimes even stomping it. Then either cooking it the regular way with hot to boiling water or drenching the crumbs in the flavor powder packet, hot sauce, lime, or whatever preferred condiments and then eating it raw. Also Americans probably didn’t invent this way to eat ramen, but a lot of people do it because it’s such a cheap/ fast/ easy snack to prepare.
A little tip out there for Australians I figured out when traveling over seas to make any foreigner fall in love with you, thinking you are some kind of Australian master chief god is learn how to make a Pavlova cake with fresh fruit .... Seriously I can not tell you how many women have Confessed that all because I made a simple cake my grandmother taught me how to make when I was 5 have blown their minds .
using tim tam as a straw for a hot milo is the only way to go. It is a straw for drinking but it results in making the tim tam taste 1000x better after its soggy rather than hard
As an Australian, this just made me realise that everywhere else in the world, it’s not normal to just fuck with people and see how long it takes for them to realise.
Also to add onto this, because everyone is joking and fucking with everyone else in Australia, we have all experienced jokes failing or being ruined by others, so if anyone is making a joke and everyone knows that they are fucking with someone, it’s an unspoken rule that everyone supports that person and backs them up so the joke lands, also for shits and giggles.
Real talk: The problem with the Drop bears thing is that everyone gets the part that's a fabrication wrong. If you asked me "are drop bears real" when i'm hooked up to some theoretical perfect lie detector, it would detect no lie when I said "Yes". The fabrication is that there's very little chance that a stoned koala is going to leap off a tree and attack someone. Much more likely one fell out of the damn tree and then grumpily savaged the poor bastard it landed on.
This is the bit that I stress whenever I get an international mate to the point where we start clearing these fibs up: _They're all based on something true._ Koalas falling out of trees happens quite often, statistically. Certain eucalypts really are known for dropping healthy branches with next to no warning. All of that, we just juice up a little so we can have a laugh. And yes, that koala will absolutely hand you your hide, _literally_, if you survive it landing on your head. And then it will just climb back up it's tree and go back to sleep.
@@AriosQarsute Widow makers, yeah. That's the colloquial name for the specific tree that drops its branches (sometimes on peoples' heads, hence the name).
@@7thlittleleopard7 That's them. Most that I speak to don't seem to realize how bad they can be until I stress that the only warning you get is a loud crack, and that they can be difficult to tell apart from other eucalypts. Don't rest under a gum tree, kids!
@@AlvinTheLAW eh at least with canned tuna you are guaranteed what the tuna will taste like, fresh tuna is a bit of a gamble, especially if you don’t buy them at supermarkets.
The real falsehood about dropbears is that they're _bears_ because they're not. Species-wise, they're not at all related to bears, they just look a bit like 'em.
I can’t believe Garnt is trying to trick viewers into thinking drop bears aren’t real
Yea, what if someone goes to the forest without drop bear repellant. Could be dangerous
More food for them I suppose
Good ide rather unbeknownst tourist being eaten then the locals
He could of gotten people killed
drop bear denial is a crime in australia its a threat to public safety
Gaslighting foreigners is just an Australian national passtime, noted.
Just be glad you didn't gaslight Sydney. She would have given you what-for with the Tim Tams.
No its not.
As an Australian I can 100% tell you that is IS in fact a national passtime
@@eddiewang2040 And all Cretans are liars.
@@eddiewang2040 bet you feel real dumb now huh?
It's honestly because Australians have heard so many tall tales from foreigners about what Australia is like. That at this point, we just lean into it for our own amusement.
If someone asks you if the Babadook is real, people will sarcastically tell you that old mate, Darell, saw one just the other day and swear by it.
That was my take as well. For me I see Australia as the World's Florida. They're on the bottom right of most maps. Everything defies logic and everything is trying to kill you. Unlike Florida however, Australia completely owns the joke. Are we gonna tell them no?
@@orangeapples Just try and we'll give ya a free trip to drop bear avenue
Just be glad Sydney didn't smash the Tim Tams against Joey's head for him pranking her. Because if she can be tsundere with her husband, she would give someone who pranked her Assault with chocolate cream cookies.
@@pokeoh1831 avenue? You mean any tree?
What the heck is a Babadook?
As an Australian, I never actually thought about it, but I realise it's completely true.
I'd be immediately onboard as soon as I realise what was happening.
It's just an unspoken duty, you're compelled to make an outsider's lack of knowledge an inside joke, just that unrivalled opportunity
We don't always tell tall tales though. Drop bears are real, and our real cars are Kangaroos
@@THAT1ZELDAFAN The car cult sure is a threat to our kangaroo rides -- quick, mount up and arm the cassowary turrets!
It really is instinct at this point, innit? Some rando with a foreign accent says they were told this or that, our brains don't even try to correct the info, it just goes straight to 'How can I make this even more ridiculous?'
@@AriosQarsute Connect the dots? We did that as kids -- it's a game where you label boxes and put all dots in one.
Then you shake it round and give it to a friend to open.
Then they become a dot.
Sydney got gaslighted by an entire convention.
At two separate days too.
Never been so proud.
Yea that's us Aussies. We are hive mind when it comes to taking the piss out of foreigners or even non locals
And we'd do it again in a fuckin' heartbeat xD Hell, we gaslight each other as practice.
The entire continent of Australia collectively decided to gaslight Sydney lmao
"The person or the city?"
"...Yes."
we've done that for years, Sydney believes it's a good city
Well we were already gaslighting the world into thinking we do/don't exist so this was a small thing in comparison.
New Zealand: *”Am I a joke to you?”*
@@mrpukio8336 New Zealand is in on the act too. They love to gaslight foreigners also.
Connor-I avoid politics
Also Connor-Tim Tams are shit
Everything that monke says is controversial lol
Also he thinks they are "just a normal chocolate biscuit". Also he doesn't like chocolate. Like what are his expectations going in?
@@TheyCallMeDio toxic monke
When Piers Morgan retires they can just get this knob-jockey to replace him.
He's right about tim-tams just being an ordinary chocolate biscuit that we overhype for some reason, but saying they're shit is ridiculous.
It’s not really sarcasm, it’s just gaslighting on a national level. It’s pretty common in South Africa too, where you’ll tell a foreigner to use the word “poes”
I was told to use 'shire' every third word.
Pretty much all the former colony’s of Britain that were closer to us Australia and South Africa are infected with our culture or more specifically our sense of humour sarcastic and extremely dark humour I’m pretty sure and it’s great because most of the rest of the world get annoyed and angry because they don’t understand sarcasm and can’t take dark humour what makes this all better is that all the other countries try to make fun of us for revenge because they don’t understand anything but we just laugh even harder or get more sarcastic because there’s no one who makes fun and jokes about their own country more than ten British countries and Australia and South Africa just picked that up from us and Australia decided to go one step further and just simply gaslight every clueless foreigner who is to ignorant or innocent to some of the stuff in their country
And this is why Australia is Like Britain’s favourite child
Sorry for going on a long explanation I planned to have it short only a few lines but then ended up going on and on
The zelda ghosts?
@@kricku Yup! Exactly
Wahh wahh gaswiting huwt my feewings
My grandmother was an Australian immigrant, and her sarcasm was RELENTLESS when my siblings and I were growing up. Yall are messed up. xD
Lol can’t believe they think drop bears aren’t real, my brother got attack just last week, we almost didn’t save him in time he lost some of his ear but he’s fine now
Damn. Since the tree kangaroo population has dropped off, the drop bears tend to wander further for food, you can't trust the local exclusion zone maps any-more, worse winter will be over soon and they get super territorial.
@@boxhead6177 yeah mate, I also heard that the Hoop snake population is on the rise again and we’ll be having a massive surge in their numbers by summer so we’ll have to be extra safe around any sandy or warm places like the beach and desert
The vegemite behind the ears helps ward off most drop bear attacks, but its not 100% effective unfortunately
Ah i feel you my condolences friend one of my old mates got his eye taken by one of them
@@cullanu Vegemite, thats an old wives tale, rub some vegemite on it you will be alright!, seal the wound, soothe itches, repels mosquitos, magpies, lithgow panthers... just go to Bunnings and buy proper repellant.
Then again might have to resort to vegemite if supply chain issues happen again... seriously why do paniced people only stock pile toilet paper and animal/insect sprays.
I can't help but take offense to Connor calling tim tam generic chocolate. Our generic chocolate is shite so tim tam is fucking amazing. Make yourself a tim tam tiramisu
Tim tam tiramisu.... Well that's a hot take. Absolute blasphemy
nah I agree with connor we have laminations why tim tam . but then again fosters and shrimp on a bbq so im wondering if this was yet another troll and the troll was that good even 90% of Aussies fell for it
So many bad takes
Wow
Tim Tam is just way too sweet, no wonder this slamming thing exists.
Coles had Penguins and I tried one. They were so shit. In a previous video they said they were better and now I've never felt so Insulted
"There's literally no point in doing this. It offers no benefit to either the drink or the biscuit."
Bruh. The TimTam chocolate literally melts in your mouth after using it as a straw for your hot beverage. It's nice af. That's the benefit/point in doing it. Come on Connor.
And I don't even know if ur being serious or just fucking around xdd
So it's Australia's attempt at being French?
@@I-am-in-excruciating-pain He's being serious. We do it in New Zealand too since we share a lot of stuff from Australia.
@@remuvs It's actually used to be quite common in Indonesia too. We used to that a lot when I was a kid. I think it's popular because timtam actually advertised that you can do that and people just follow along.
Sounds interesting, but also tedious
I love that Connor says "you guys got a chance to try again" buddy you sent us your slaves and convicts, the fact that we made it this far is a miracle
Yeah! Not to mention we take pride in our Tim Tams instead of bitching about it being 'just chocolate biscuits'!
The British abandoned us multiple times, yet we still cling to them ... now I know where our second chance has been muted...
Oz put out the call hard cunts only. The Aboringal heard it 70 thousands years ago. The brits sent the best and the sunlight still kills their descendents
Australians are on a whole new other level than the rest of the people. 😂
We r birts that have advanced further into the skill tree
Its mostly due to forced evolution though the uses of meth, cigarettes and twice your body mass in alcohol
@@stundexim5 I first heard that from RussianBadger
@@SgtPotShot yep
Australia man vs Florida man. I need to see this
As an Australian, we all have this catapillar called a Witchetty grub inside us.
Local Aboriginals invite you to try ingesting them. Often referring to them as "good tucker".
Once they are in your gut they connect you to the hivemind like wi-fi.
So you automatically get the signal to be in on the joke.
Not to mention they taste buttery! At least, that's what I read back in Primary School...
This one isn't even a lie...
As an Australian, I am disappointed in you Garnt
Given Sydney would have beaten Garnt up if he didn't act on behalf of his wife, he did it to save his rear from being publicly spanked after she spanked Joey.
As a Jamaican I am disappointed
Sydney: Five months ago, I lost 30 Tim Tams in the blink of an eye. And those Australians just fuckin' watched...
Where the hell did they get a 30-pack? Just want to know for... scientific purposes. >.>
@@7thlittleleopard7 as would i!
It's all personal preference, and everyone is entitled to their opinion.
HOWEVER
If you do a Tim Tam slam, with any chocolate covered Tim Tam style biscuit, and your takeaway is that it adds nothing to the experience...
Your mouth is broken.
It's Garnt and Connor
What'd you expect from someone who said all bread taste the same.
@@imimori Yup. "bone in chicken is better tasting chicken", and "all bread tastes the same" came from the same brain. Joey isn't much better tbf with "steak is mid".
Truly Trash Taste.
Bro Tim Tam Slams with milk are almost like a religious experience for me 🤣
@CMBDA Yeah, I 100% agree. That's what I was saying. 2 opinions that you'd never guess came from the same person, but they did.
@@icecream-soup The secret truth is that we all have trash taste, but most of us never realize which of our opinions are the crazy ones because we don't have a podcast
This applys for new zealand as well
Aus and NZ have an amazing ability to fuck with foreigners minds
(Tim tams ftw)
Way my grandpa told me, the ANZAC spirit was mostly messing with the British officers and the American troops every chance they got :P
@@boxhead6177 I think we just take malicious compliance and complaints too far. Well... too far by others' standards. Perfectly far as needed by ours.
Either this is legit or this is another case of NZ claiming another Australian trait ;P
it's so on brand that Garnt and Connor have the exact opposite opinions on food.
Vegemite is certified sht though, other than if you put it in soups or stews
Hahahahahaha.
As an Aussie, I can tell you, we're literally brought up from a young age to do it. It's ingrained in us.
Also, chocolate tastes a bit different out here, they put an additive in chocolate to stop it melting in the heat.
At this point it's not even ingrained, it's literally genetic memory xD
Aussie sarcasm is telling a lie or tall tale completely straight faced or seriously, sometimes we might even let the person know we’re being sarcastic, but most the time we either let them believe it or let them figure it out themselves
My friend studied in New Zaeland years ago and brought back tim tams and I've been obsessed ever since. And Tim Tam slams 🤣
"that's a you problem"
Thank you Joey, you have announced what the rest of us were thinking.
As an Australian, i can wholeheartedly say that i would have joined in on this joke.
Oh yeah, for sure.
As an American, so would I.
Sydney would have used the Tim Tams to beat up Joey later. Because if she could beat up her husband, she would ruin Joey double for pranking her.
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I've heard Americans are not that good with sarcasms, don't remember where I heard that or why but I found it funny that Sydney didn't get it.
I’ve never been offended by something I 100% agree with
Basically anyone who hasn't spent much time on Twitter or Tik Tok is fine with sarcasm. The more time you spend, the less aware they become (at least in my experience)
@@lawmanlawman2210
Is that because those platforms already have people speaking in a semi-sarcastic matter?
So people become a bit too used to that sarcastic tone as almost a normal way of speaking?
(this is hypothetical)
it’s true when compared to brits or aussies who love their dry humor
@@SWProductions100 That's about right (source: my little brother is a sarcastic prick. I can only tell when he's sarcastic because he's my brother, everyone else has a tough time with it)
I’m British and we sort of get Australia, but honestly they’re even better than us at banter. My colleagues got me with the drop bear thing. SO annoying.
Tim Tam Slam is sooo good because after a couple of sips through it, it becomes soft and when you eat it, it melts in your mouth so F* off Connor and Garnt! There is a point why we do it!
The drop bear is the koala's alter ego. He comes out when you piss a koala off.
Joey: We went with the least controversial choice. I mean, who doesn't like chocolate biscuits?
Connor *raises hand*: I don't like chocolate biscuits.
Connor can say that swirling a slice of Wonder bread in a toilet bowl is the best thing ever and it wouldn't surprise me anymore based on his various takes on food.
I mean, I say this as a fellow white Brit, boneless chicken is a sht take
Oh, do I have a story! I'm Australian and I cannot say how much I love that our country bands together to play a joke on other people. It's basically a right of passage when you come to Australia. Now, our story begins when I was at university. I was helping put some welcome packs together for open day and a few International students were also helping out. I go over to their table and do the dropbear routine (let it be known, this is all for good fun and never mean spirited). Come back to my table and have a giggle with my tablemates and I get glared at. I'm told that they're half Australian and they think the whole joking around thing is cruel, and shame me into going back to the other table to apologise. I can't believe this but have very bad anxiety, so I end up doing it, and this girl...She laughs and says where she's from they tell foreigners that a whole town doesn't exist. The speed of which I turned around to say I told you so...Suffice to say, I stayed at her table instead.
I just felt at home when I lived in Melbourne, the Australian humour is very similar to Irish humour 😄
Australians gaslighting Sydney
There is 100% a point to the Tim Tam slam, it melts the biscuit from the INSIDE OUT, are you seriously saying that's not amazing, you liar? Also Connor is creating a false dichotomy between something being completely shit and the best thing ever. Tim Tams and Fairy Bread are emblematic of our whole culture, it's totally shit-house but also the best thing in the world. I don't see why this is confusing.
Sarcasm is like the Australian love language, the more we do it to someone the more we like them.
I use my scars to fabricate a story about surviving a dropbear attack when asked about them lol
My nephew is now 11, born and raised in Australia. He had one Tim Tam and that's because his parents were giving it to foreign friends to try. I've always thought all of that Tim Tam things are tricks, made up for tourists.
I'm convinced our beer exports are an elaborate prank. The Australian brands you see overseas can't be seen anywhere here and they're all utterly terrible and I don't know how anyone can stomach the garbage juice.
@@ddshocktrooper5604funnily enough, Foster's group own a lot of the beer companies that Australians actually DO drink, even though noone drinks Foster's itself
I'm from Scotland and we do the exact same thing, I've lost count of the amount of times the entire pub have convinced Anmerican tourists Haggis is a little creature with red eyes that only appears on the day of a lunar eclipse within the Highlands. Its great cause anytime we've done it each person makes up a random characteristic of the Haggis and everyone else just agrees with it until its the most amazing animal anyone has ever heard of and for some reason the tourists always seem to believe it. I mean in the end its there own fault for listening to group of drunk scots chatting actual shite
Australians and scots being so sarcastic that neither knows if they're being serious or not would be a mad night out xD
They coukd also just "agree" with you cause they don't want to say anything or be rude.
I'm an Australian that lived in Glasgow for 2 years, and there was zero difference in humour. Scots and Aussies are on the almost on the exact same level (the only difference is that Scots were a lot more self-deprecating).
Don’t Scottish people actually believe in the Loch Ness monster
@@MLKS1001 in the same way that Americans believe in Aliens at Area 51. It's a fun "what if" myth that no one really takes seriously except for a few fringe people that are really into the idea.
I was there at the panel and it was so hard to not start cracking up laughing when Joey described a Tim Tam Slam 😂
Tim Tams aren't really biscuits though, they're a blended soft chocolate combined with a small quantity of biscuit coated in lots of chocolate, AND with chocolate filling; even more with the Double. They're a chocolate, calling a Tim Tam a biscuit would be like calling a cake with a biscotti base (e.g. Cheesecake), a biscuit.
A Tim Tam Slam is done to melt the Tim Tam. If it was a biscuit it wouldn't melt, it would just crumble away. If you sucked hot liquid through a cadbury straw, you'd do it to intentionally melt it.
People go nuts for Tim Tams as a "biscuit" because it's like preferring a cadbury bar block over a traditional biscuit, of course a chocolate bar is better lol.
It is a biscuit, they may have other components but it is a biscuit. We have them everywhere else.
Tim Tams are biscuits, you find them in the biscuit aisle.
@@DavidCruickshank You also find tea and coffee in the biscuit aisle, are they biscuits too? Wagon-Wheels are stocked there also, I wouldn't really call them a biscuit either.
@@artoriasoftheabyss1495 :(
They're definitely a biscuit. But also, who the fuck cares if someone thinks they don't classify as one because "oh, they have a coating and filling inside too"? I'm gonna be over here enjoying my fucking biscuit and you're not invited. Next you'll be saying a fucking ANZAC bikkie isn't a biscuit because it's cereal. ffs
good thing whoever posted this cut the clip right before garnt could finish his food take. You're doing the lord's work my friend
Of course the American doesn’t get sarcasm, but I’m surprised that Sydney didn’t even catch a hint after dealing with Garnt & Connor for ages.
My next troll is that I’m going to start telling Americans that Aussie is a slur that British people used to call us so they stop pronouncing Aussie with their terrible American accents
Its cause saying something counter to what you mean completely serious without even a change in intonation isn't sarcasm to us, its just gaslighting lmao. Sarcasm as we know it is obviously played up because you're intentionally being a smartass.
What amazes me the most about this is that Australians seem to interpret it as the rest of the world being gullible instead of the more probable reason: The rest of the world thinking Australia and by extension Australians are strange and therefore not finding it odd no matter what they claim.
That sounds like being gullible to me 🤔
Did you know that the word "gullible" isn't in the dictionary?
They need to make the HSP the food of Australia, this needs to spread
Actually the Tim Tam slam does have a purpose, the same purpose as dunking a biscuit in tea or coffee. The hot liquid causes the sugars to melt and as such the biscuit becomes sweeter.
You can do the Tim Tam Slam technique with lots of biscuits including Kit Kat fingers (bite of both ends and use as a straw).
Its a right of passage on your first day of work to be pranked. So just think of it as our "welcome to our tribe" induction. PSA: Be aware that if an Aussie tells you you need thongs for the beach to be ve-e-e-ry careful.
I will not accept this Timtam slander
i call them a timtam dunk and theyre so good when it melts in the middle
Tim Tams are to biscuits, as Fosters is to beer,
We don't actually care much for either.
Anzac Biscuits are where it's at.
Drop Bears are very much real. You just expect them when it’s too late.
When someone says that Tim Tams are crap and generic, and that Vegemite is good, you know they've tasted neither.
That, or they actually fucking _know_ how Vegemite is meant to be eaten...
Honestly I’m Australian and I would’ve thought that the food mascot would be either Vegemite or lamingtons
Just the thought of drop bears and and what they are or do brings so much laughter in me. Vicious monsters ripping scalps off, you don't see that everyday.
Of course Connor would be the one not liking chocolate biscuits
“..well that’s a you problem”
My god this just brought back so many memories of my uncles gaslighting other guests abiut the most random stuff
Timtams are great, I dunno what Connor is on about.
Its him and his trash tastes
even a year after hearing conner saying tim tams are boring and ordinary, i still haven't recovered
No no no, timtam slams are the jam my man
a country that casually gaslight you like that is horrifyingly funny
when the boys grow up and realise a lot of your sweet tastebuds literally switch to more savoury and bitter tastebuds.
You learn early on in school how to survive camping and avoid being attacked by dropbears
yah gotta chuck them in the fridge or freezer
British boys talking about sarcasm? Is that supposed to be sarcastic?
More recognising kindred spirits...
bro really the Tim Tam Slam with a hot coffee is the best thing in the whole!
im not australian but i love tim tam slam, makes the inner nice and gooey
As an American, slamming food/ a snack on the ground isn’t really that unusual.
Some people literally do this to ramen, where one would take a Maruchan/ Top ramen packet-the ones in a bag as it’s a cheap snack.
(uncooked) slam it on the ground, sometimes even stomping it. Then either cooking it the regular way with hot to boiling water or drenching the crumbs in the flavor powder packet, hot sauce, lime, or whatever preferred condiments and then eating it raw.
Also Americans probably didn’t invent this way to eat ramen, but a lot of people do it because it’s such a cheap/ fast/ easy snack to prepare.
Jokes on Garnt and Connor for not realising Tim Tams aren't real
Can't believe he thinks Timtams are an ordinary biscuit
Australian humor: “haha you believed me when I said a totally plausible but incorrect statement with a straight face”
Connor is just Salty that the Brits lost their cannon fodder.
I love how people call part of my childhood "an australian thing" and I'm not even from australia nor have I ever been there
Okay you know what this is the best thumbnail on the channel.
WOW, and I thought we New York Italians were well versed in the art of sarcasm, but you Australians are on another level.
Now the boys need to live the latam sarcasm.
los, that's is just bulling cosplaying sarcasmo and ironical talk...
@@cookiemonsta3350 But we do it with love~
A little tip out there for Australians I figured out when traveling over seas to make any foreigner fall in love with you, thinking you are some kind of Australian master chief god is learn how to make a Pavlova cake with fresh fruit .... Seriously I can not tell you how many women have Confessed that all because I made a simple cake my grandmother taught me how to make when I was 5 have blown their minds .
drop bears are real, i lost my uncle to one.
using tim tam as a straw for a hot milo is the only way to go.
It is a straw for drinking but it results in making the tim tam taste 1000x better after its soggy rather than hard
The only person they managed to gaslight is called Sydney
Let that sink in
This is literally the plot of the original Gaslight movie.
If you harm a timtam I will make sure you're never heard from again.
Idk why but the term "tim tam slam" had me cracking tf up alone
As an Australian, this just made me realise that everywhere else in the world, it’s not normal to just fuck with people and see how long it takes for them to realise.
Also to add onto this, because everyone is joking and fucking with everyone else in Australia, we have all experienced jokes failing or being ruined by others, so if anyone is making a joke and everyone knows that they are fucking with someone, it’s an unspoken rule that everyone supports that person and backs them up so the joke lands, also for shits and giggles.
It's the real Aussie team sport. >.
You can tell Garnt is from a posh school because it’s like this all over the UK too. Wind ups and banter is how we get by.
"Tim Tams are nothing special" says the guy who doesn't like chocolate. Yeah, like that opinion counts.
Like Joey said about Tim Tams in a previous episode:
"IT IS NATIONAL PRIDE! IT'S F***ING AWESOME!"
Real talk: The problem with the Drop bears thing is that everyone gets the part that's a fabrication wrong.
If you asked me "are drop bears real" when i'm hooked up to some theoretical perfect lie detector, it would detect no lie when I said "Yes".
The fabrication is that there's very little chance that a stoned koala is going to leap off a tree and attack someone. Much more likely one fell out of the damn tree and then grumpily savaged the poor bastard it landed on.
This is the bit that I stress whenever I get an international mate to the point where we start clearing these fibs up: _They're all based on something true._
Koalas falling out of trees happens quite often, statistically. Certain eucalypts really are known for dropping healthy branches with next to no warning. All of that, we just juice up a little so we can have a laugh.
And yes, that koala will absolutely hand you your hide, _literally_, if you survive it landing on your head. And then it will just climb back up it's tree and go back to sleep.
@@AriosQarsute Widow makers, yeah. That's the colloquial name for the specific tree that drops its branches (sometimes on peoples' heads, hence the name).
@@7thlittleleopard7 That's them. Most that I speak to don't seem to realize how bad they can be until I stress that the only warning you get is a loud crack, and that they can be difficult to tell apart from other eucalypts. Don't rest under a gum tree, kids!
On the TimTam packaging at 1:13 : THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
🤣
Drop Bears are Koalas being bit on by green ants. They occasionally fall out of treed to shake them off.
Connor’s take on Tim Tams is one of the worst takes on this podcast ever.
Canned tuna is better than fresh tuna is by far the worst imo
@@Axemninja I dont know if ur being sarcastic or not, but in case you aren't
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@@AlvinTheLAW eh at least with canned tuna you are guaranteed what the tuna will taste like, fresh tuna is a bit of a gamble, especially if you don’t buy them at supermarkets.
It's called Trash Taste for a reason.
@@AlvinTheLAW when someone prefers canned over fresh anything that means they will die before their 50's
Sydney is so sweet
Kangaroos are not real. Every kangaroo you've seen is an Aussie in a costume, mocking you.
A TimTam in the uK is called a Penguin…
We have Tim Tams in my part of Canada. They are good.
so real, drop bear with the news reporter
The real falsehood about dropbears is that they're _bears_ because they're not. Species-wise, they're not at all related to bears, they just look a bit like 'em.
It's an Australian rule to take the piss when ever the opportunity arises.
Ahhh yes the Aussie prank hive mind. I agree with Garnt, Vegemite is wretched.
sounds hilarious if there is a video I would love to see it
The Australian hive mind
If you bite off the ends of a twice and use them as a straw for hot chocolate it's amazing