THIS WEEK IN AUSTRALIA [52] - Christmas in OZ!
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when you called Pavlova a strawberry cake i died a little bit inside because it isn't even cake
He actually called it a strawberry pie.
And the kiwis have this coming, our navy is in home ports and is itching for action.
@@smalltime0he also called it strawberry cake later in the video.
@@smalltime0 haha
@@kristinretallack8238 Yeah, but the strawberry pie was worse
would that be new Zealand Pavlova?
The fire trucks come around every Christmas Eve with someone dressed up as Santa on the back 😂
How dare you say that ,that is the real Santa.😊
They throw lollies at errr.. for, for the kids too.
I used to love this as a kid.
@Luum81 ..I was a kid in the 70s and lived in a small rural town where the fire truck came around at Christmas with Santa throwing lollies off the back of the Fire Truck at us...great memories
@@stuartmcquade3407 We used to live in a small town ourselves only a few years back, every Christmas we had the Firies, Police and local SES do the same, fantastic fun. Glad to hear it happens in other places too.
The blue tree project is about awareness of mental health; encouraging people to speak up and ask for help. I think it particularly focuses on remote areas and farmers - you'll likely see the trees along highways in country areas.
Often it indicates a family is supporting mental health awareness due having a family member suicide or attempted suicide,
Here they paint the trees all different colours, and patchwork trees. So when you drive along, you know without anyone saying that the very least they are thinking of you. You ask for help you get silence....there is no real help, so you learn to stand on your own two feet and how to deal with it, and you end up being your own help and support. I like seeing the different colour trees..... I learnt how strong I really am, how vunerable, and how capable and able. It reminds not to forget about our mental health.
❤
Blue Tree Project is supporting mental health awareness, particularly men’s mental health and suicide risk. It’s only done to dead trees as a way to give a dead tree new life and meaning.
It’s dolly’s speak up campaign isn’t it? The girl I’m who was 14 who lived outback somewhere?
Here in Port Stephens the fieries don't do water fights but they do go up and down all the town streets, bursting there truck sirens to let the kids know to come and get Xmas lolly bags handed out to them from the truck. They even have a Santa in the truck. Similar squeals of joy and laughter from the kids trailing them. Love we live in a country where this is possible!
Yeah they came here in Medowie too, kids loved it.
Been doing it for as long as I can remember. Remember my baby brother chasing them down the street when he was 7 or 8 yrs old 30 yrs ago. Now he's 1 of the fieries himself.
Kids love the Fire brigade Xmas - Seaside Estate Fern Bay Look forward to it each year 🎉
We sometimes give them beer or bottles of water !!
@@kingpin1982hi I’m from medowie too
My grandpa drives the fire truck in Clarence town!
Water balloon fights was an annual event for 30+ years with the firemen and police spraying the kids and throwing lollies. Started in Wickham, West Australia but they apparently stopped it in 2022 because a stupid bureaucrat said it was an inappropriate use of services and worried the water was not safe. They totally lost respect from the community.
That sux. I bet they were the first to spray DDT at the kids too.
My opinion I was gonna say too. That sux.
we still do it :), WA
Sack that beaurocrat
I was gonna act like I knew what I was talking about for a perfect Pav. Passionfuit marang, crumble base, cream, maybe some peach and /or kiwi fruit on top. Then I realised that I don't know wtf I'm talking about.
that water fight with responders NEEDS to be a Christmas Tradition!
There's a fire station and an ambulance station across the road from each other on the Gold Coast and they have a water fight every Christmas day.
The paramedics give it a go, but the outcome is inevitable.😂
Where I live south coast NSW , Santa is on the back of the fire truck throwing lollies at the kids, so water balloons is fair lol
damn i'm in Sydney, too paranoid for that@@RyanRyan-qn2bq
Yeah same where I live just outside of Newcastle
Used to love Santa on the firetruck on Christmas morning! Our Little Athletics group had the local CFA come out for the Christmas get together (we provided a donation to them).
you need to read the articles and not just the headlines...The one about the bins was his bin had already been emptied at 5.30am then the neighbour put their prawn trash (shells,tails etc) into their empty bin. Bins are collected once a week so that prawn rubbish will stink to high heaven by the time the bin is emptied again
Here gen bin collection is every 2 weeks, with green bins on the off week. Putting prawn heads, or any seafood / meat, into a neighbours bin would be a homicidal defence argument! 🤣
I wish we had our bins emptied weekly. We get through the first week and our red bin is full. And we've asked our real estate for bigger bins or even a second bin and they wont cough up to cost.
In town where I lived the fire brigade would bring Santa around to throw lollies to the kids and spray them with water. The kids loved it.
Many rural brigades still do this. We look forward to it every year.
Ryan, “Cooch” is a type of Grass and a “Bindi” is one of your worst nightmares when stepped on in the grass.
Have you ever stepped on a 3 cornered jack? MUCH worse!
@@Rottnwomangod yes..three cornered Jacks really make you jump! Found here in Western Australia!
The grass is couch, pronounced cooch.
"Couch" pronounced "cooch" is a commonly used grass for lawns. Pronounced "cowch" it is another word for sofa.
We used to call then Cats Heads. Really severe injury too!
Jayden also, unknowingly, started a mental health revolution throughout regional Australia, where hundreds of trees have been painted blue to encourage people to speak out when doing it tough. Ms Whyte said the Blue Tree Project started organically and went further than anyone expected
7:38 this Christmas parts of south east Queensland were smashed by storms, necessitating help from other states’ emergency services - we just sent 80 up from Victoria with 13 trucks to spend the next 3 days helping the locals.
As one of those living in the affected areas, thank you as always to our mates around the country ❤
As a new Queenslander THANK YOU to our Southern States for your help.
I really think Ryan should do this or one of the many storms we get while it or the recovery is in progress, would be really interesting for him I think to see the differences between the responses here & where he is, with the way we all stick together & support each other & just deal with it without a song & dance, just get in there & fix it by working together. I think our response to disasters is a large part of what makes Aussie culture what it is
& thinking of all you guys affected up there - and all the volunteers who missed Christmas/New Year with their families to help
My heart goes out to all affected Queenslanders you really are getting smashed to the max.. the level of flooding is really gobsmacking. I really hope this starts to recede asap for you all. 😢
Hail from Cowra NSW to Gympie Qld. It was a crazy storm front.
Someone send Ryan a pavlova egg so he can make what’s not a cake. 😆
With reference to the surcharge some businesses add on to food invoices, we pay our fast food and cafe workers well and they also receive penalty rates eg double time on public holidays. NB Not every business adds a surcharge. 👍
Fire and Rescue NSW are paid firefighters and are mainly in cities and major towns but the Rural Fire Service NSW are unpaid volunteers and are in regional and rural areas of NSW. I'm in the Rural Fire Service NSW.
Public holiday surcharges make sense, but a surcharge on other days just because it's summer seems a ripoff.
Answering a couple of questions: the Christmas in Australia image to me respresents the storm clouds in the background and no cars on the street because there might be hail coming (we have already had a couple of hail storms so far this December, there is great debate over the origin of the pavlova (a meringue-based dessert that is topped usually with tropical fruit and whipped cream) being an Aussie I call it an Aussie dessert - kiwis tend to disagree, prawn (or shrimp) rubbish goes off very quickly and extremely smelly in our hot summer heat hence the annoyance, the lizard is a water dragon ... Happy New Ryan to you and your family
I thought it was a bearded dragon
Yeah i was wondering the same thing @tishwho but the main difference is the size which you can't really tell in this pic. I'd say it's a water dragon though, as it doesn't look fully grown with that skinny tail. Water dragons are larger than bearded dragons.
There has been a dispute between Australia and New Zealand as to who invented the pavlova forever. Very good natured argument, heated at times.
Aussie here, I was talking to a kiwi a few days ago about the pav, we just ended up laughing over who started it - was all in good fun 😂
My grandma had a recipe for pavlova dated 1926 which was just called summer dessert at the time. It later became famous in 1935 when a chef made it and called it pavlova in 1935 after the ballerina Anna Pavlova. While we didn’t call it pavlova beforehand we did actually make the dessert from 1926 or before. Based on what I learned from my aunt, Australia did invent the dessert but it simply had a name change in 1935. The New Zealanders got the recipe from Australia but changed the name before us.
@@cherylemaybury9967love a good pav, can’t have Christmas with out it.
@@cherylemaybury9967what makes you think kiwis weren't making it in the 1920s too?
Unlike America Australians mostly respect the police and can have fun with them.
Maybe not so much if you're a 90 year-old female nursing home resident, armed to the teeth with a butter knife, who has been tasered by a member of the NSW police force.
@@waggafletcherffs. The staff called the cops for help to deal with her. Stop making out the cops just attacked an old lady for zero reason
@@waggafletcherah yes, whataboutism. Perhaps if the media wasn’t hellbent on focusing on the controversial and news that sells, we’d hear more about the hundreds upon hundreds (if not thousands) of good, kind and fun things the boys and girls in blue do every single day.
What happened to that lady was absolutely terrible, there’s no doubt about that.
Perhaps we should all (Americans included) be directing our attention at the media and their desire to create disharmony and opposition within the populace?
@@lillibitjohnson7293
Yeh, she was such a threat to armed police.
@@Andrew.quigley we don’t know either way of she was or wasn’t, but she had been a danger to her caring staff. Hence the call
No this isn’t an Australian tradition but I guess individual Aussie towns have their own arrangements and do stuff like this at Christmas.
It’s done in just about every rural community where there is a volunteer fire brigade at the annual fire brigade Christmas party. Only the families of the fire brigade members would be involved. Very much an Australian tradition.
@@Warspite03 the local CFA where I have a house send a letter around to all houses advising when they will be doing the "Santa Run" so the kids can be out waiting
That wasn't a police 4x4. It was a fire department, rural fire service vehicle . Cheers mate. 👍
How can Ryan seriously say he doesn't know what prawn is? That aside, nothing much worse than putting your prawn shells/heads in someone else's bin! I freeze mine until bin day to stop the smell.
Agreed, the freezer method is the only way to go unless you are a savage 😂😂😂😂
They dont call them prawns in America, they call them Shrimps.
Good fun to put a couple in someone's desk drawer on Christmas Eve. Unforgettable by New Year!
@@Rottnwoman That's cruel but worth remembering!
He doesn't know what anything is.
No matter how many times he's been told, on his numerous channels.
Christmas/Summer holidays run from about 20th Dec - end of Jan. Our peak season.
Australia Day is Jan 26th.
It’s good to teach the kids and the community not to fear the police
100%! i worked in law enforcement for a while and you'd always have parents saying "can you tell off my kid for (insert whatever here) or scare them into doing what i tell them?" i'd always say no for the exact reason you've mentioned. you want police to be approachable.. not to strike the fear of god into people... especially if they're in need of help.
Nah many police people aren’t good people and people need to learn to be wary. More often than not they cause more harm.
@@LM-EntertainmentAustralia Did you ever go up to said kid & tell them "your Mummy told me you're being naughty, I think she was naughty for saying that, what do you think? Do you have any naughty things your Mummy does that you want to share with me?" & have a little fun with them if they tell you about "naughty things" their mum does, such as using swear words or other silly nothingnesses? I think that's what I'd do in that situation, teach the kid that the police are there to be their friend instead of what Mum wanted
@@mehere8038 haha in hindsight that sounds like a great thing to do.. but no, never did. the last thing anyone wants is complaints made against them (though it is inevitable). the process is a painful one and so doing what you suggested could make you end up in that position. what i would do though is that if parents said anything like that - id go out of my way to be nice to the kid/s by just talking to them normally.. asking how they are.. kicking a footy (if they were doing something sports related), giving high fives etc. those small interactions made more of a positive impact on the kid/s and hoopefully showed police werent the bad guys. 😃
Oddly enough - I’ve taught all three of my now adult children to FEAR tyrants. This includes QPOL.
Pavlova is made of similar ingredients to the top of lemon meringue pie, except you add cornflour. The outside is crusty like a meringue but the inside is like soft and light. You cover the top with whipped cream (not out of a can) and add peppermint crisps, chocolate flakes, bananas, kiwi fruit or tin fruit salad. It is disgustingly sweet, but awesome. You or your wife should get the recipe from UA-cam and you’ll be the talk of the town at the next dinner party or barbecue.
He should make it for a video on his channel imo, would get a massive response from Aussies (and Kiwis) if he tried
OMG if you put peppermint on my Pav I would throw it at you - jeez louise that's insane what the hell is wrong with you
It’s a ‘Santa Run’ Ryan. The RFS ~ Rural Fire Service (in New South Wales) drive through their local suburbs or villages, with Santa on board, and give lollies to the kids. The first vehicle is a fire vehicle also, used by the ‘Groupy’, the boss of the relative region.
Not only the RFS but so does FRNSW (Fire and Rescue NSW)
Also in my small town in SA with the CFS
My grandpa drives and is Santa on one of the fire trucks in my local area in nsw! He loves handing lolly bags out but retired afterwards as he’s 80 now
CFA in Victoria does it too, but icy poles and soft drinks
A Bindi is a spiky centre of a tiny flower that has dried. They come from a weed that’s low spreading so they hide in amongst the grass and you step on one or more and they get embedded in your foot and you absolutely feel it! It’s like stepping on broken glass but it doesn’t cut you. However you do need to stop and pull them out before you can continue to walk! The plural is Bindii, sounds like bin-dee-eye.
Xmas in Australia...
Always high chance of thunderstorms
Pretty much guaranteed. 🤣👍
U In qld or vic
@@StellBell121 QLD
Same Goldie got smashed
The ‘Peak Season surcharge’, aka; Public Holiday surcharge, is well advertised in restaurants that are open on a public holiday. That’s because staff will be payed Holiday rates, which amount to the hourly rate, times two and sometimes times three, depending on whether they are paid according to Federal or State pay rates. There are Unions that are Federally regulated and those that are State regulated. Either way, the restaurants will charge extra on public holidays like Christmas Day and Boxing Day, to cover the extra cost of having staff working on those days.
Australia is the place where the 8 hour working day was first established by law and this idea of paying people double or triple for working on public holidays is related to that principle of paying people a fair rate of pay and not forcing them to work longer hours without getting paid extra.
True but I have never seen a ‘peak season’ surcharge. That’s cheeky af and not the norm
And as for it ending on the 26th, it's because it's our national holiday - Australia Day
The fire trucks go around all the suburbs just before Christmas to entertain the kids. Also Rotary does a Christmas Pudding Run. They have a Santa on the front of a Ute ringing a Bell & everybody comes out & buys a Christmas Pudding. Santa's little helpers running everywhere delivering the Puddings & collecting the money for Charity. Happy New Year to you & Yours.
The temp here has been between 40 to 44 this week.. it has been over 38 c for the last three weeks. It will be cooler next week, will drop down from 40c on Wednesday to 36c, on Thursday. Lucky for us we never have a heatwave, it is just hot in summer... 🤣
OMG our highest in the Canberra area has been 23°C - BLISS!
The 0% Australian ingredients symbol is on the vast majority of food products. In this case it could be a spice mix where all the ingredients were imported but mixed and packed in Australia.
All the best for the New Year to you and your family 😃
The blue trees are more than just for show, they are part of a Australian project that raises awareness of depression and suicide. The owner of Atlex Stockyards, first became aware of the Blue Tree Project after travelling to Western Australia
lazy dude could have figured that out with a small search.
@deborahgale he isn't lazy, and he does research stuff a lot. He probably googled it after he finished filming. If you watch his other videos, you will see he does look up things.
Pavlova pronounced Pav loh vu. Yes its war, we say we created it and NZ say they did. it's a meringue dessert with cream and fruit. Named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. The first written record of the recipe they list the origin as being “Australia and New Zealand”.
The lizzard is a water dragon; very common along the Australian east coast
Pavlova is a meringue-based dessert. Originating in either Australia or New Zealand in the early 20th century, it was named after the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova.[1] Taking the form of a cake-like circular block of baked meringue, pavlova has a crisp crust and soft, light inside. The confection is usually topped with fruit and whipped cream.[2] The name is commonly pronounced /pævˈloʊvə/ pav-LOH-və or (in North America) /pɑːvˈloʊvə/ pahv-LOH-və, and occasionally closer to the name of the dancer, as /ˈpɑːvleva/ PAHV-lə-va.
how dare you, it’s australian! ….and those bits of kiwi fruit, well they’re Australian too
@@redherring9497
The "kiwi" fruit is actually a Chinese gooseberry.....NZ stole that too #bastards 🤣👍
*Throws argument grenade ;)* Oh? Are you also going to claim that the millions of Kiwis who took it over there, back in the day, stole it? :D TBH the 40 years I spent suffering Perth never included much Pavlova on the shelves at Christmas (I mean it was Perth afterall, might have been plenty on sale in East Coast Stores) unlike the amount I've seen in NZ supermarkets
@@woolenthreads As we all know, people in WA don't always cast themselves in the general Australian mould. They're Western Australians and good luck to them. From my limited experience, it's a good place. As to the pav? Well, it's easier and cheaper to smuggle to NZ from our Eastern States than from Western Australia. I dread what a pavlova cooked in WA would be like even in Sydney, let alone after surviving a trip to NZ. We Aussies like quality pavlova. Why wouldn't we, since we invented it?
@@AUmarcusthe Chinese Gooseberries that were taken to NZ back in the day are a far cry from what has been created in NZ by fruit breeding programmes.
This Santa on a Firetruck bringing Toys and Cheer happens every year, they all love it! 🧑🎄 Loose change? 🤑 Pavlova is Australian! 😠 You don't want prawn heads in your bin! 🤨 Happy New Year to you and your family Ryan, see ya 'somewhere' next year! 🌠🙋🎉
I spat out the water I was drinking when you suddenly turned on your Aussie accent 4.30 secs in. Definitely getting better.. could absolutely give you "Most Improved" award this 2023 end. Happy New Year, Man (for you lot tomorrow 😉). Warning (edit)...: ops forgot to add the warning, This heatwave sucks. I think that's why six days ago, with the kids and the fire trucks having a wee water fight... We all knew it was a heatwave prelude, My Dude. It's NYE night, and I'm about to strip down to my underwear, it's so damn hot. 🔥
It's Summer here.. obviously just having fun.. the fire brigade obviously are good sports 🌞👍 Bindi is actually an Aboriginal name meaning flower. However most people call prickles bindi.. Neighbours put trash in my bin quite often..oh well there are worst things in life 😅
The ‘silly season’ in Australia seems to start on the first Tuesday in November (Melbourne Cup Day), goes on to Christmas, New years, and through to the end of Summer school Holidays on 26 January (Australia Day). You don’t even try to get a tradesman during that period, it ain’t going to happen.
In Sydney, I would question that start date, here I'd say not until the school holidays start, which is only about a week or 2 before Christmas. I definitely agree on the end date though, work doesn't restart properly until after Australia Day
@@mehere8038 Fair point, what I was getting at after Melbourne cup, people start focusing on end of year parties/lunches and stuff, farewells for people leaving/retiring, taking leave, and generally winding down. Things start stoking up again around 10 January but you don’t really ‘settle in’ to the new work year with everybody back on deck until after Australia Day.
@@marklivingstone3710 I specified Sydney for a reason & you've explained why. I didn't realise the extent of the wind down there, but it makes perfect sense :) We have work parties & stuff here, but it doesn't seem to really result in a wind down, people tend to end up in a panic cause Christmas has caught them unawares & then after that, they take the time to recover. It does start up again 10th of Jan or whatever the Monday around that date is here too, but I'm feeling probably not as much as you're saying there, we probably take that extra time after, that you have before. I actually know someone who's workplace this year is having their Christmas party in January, cause they forgot to book until a week before school holidays started & by then couldn't get anywhere, so had to go with January instead. Their office is closed for the entire month of January
@@mehere8038 thanks for response. I always chuckle when people say Christmas caught them unready and I have to bite my tongue. I’m always tempted to respond with something like yeah, who knew Christmas was on the 25 December? Easter I could understand but Christmas? I’m retired military, I start writing my Christmas cards on the 1st November, they are stamped, addressed, letters written and ready to be sent 29 November so most will get the card in first week of December. A number of friends have told me, my Christmas card arrives first and gets them going to get theirs done😂
Love your videos. Firefighters dressing up as Santa and throwing lollies and spraying you with water is Christmas tradition here lol. Blue trees are for men’s mental health awareness. It’s ‘wet season’ here where I live and we’ve had 0 rain. It’s currently 40 degrees as well
too relatable, its an oven and rain clouds keep taunting me
@@AshD-mj3vw I really hope you get rain. Drought is the worst 🥵
@@littlecatfeet9064 went out for dinner, the second we left it started raining at my house
@@AshD-mj3vw ☔️ love it.
The blue trees are about mental health... it's a 'you are not alone ' thing
The Blue Tree Project began in Western Australia and encourages people to choose a dead tree that needs a "blue lease on life" and paint it in memory of a friend who lost their life to depression or had battled the illness.
The little critter on the balcony of the airbnb is a waterdragon. They are quite common in Australia 🦎
They weren't pretend snow balls. They were huge hailstones. We have had the most amazing weather and a lot of the eastern sea board has had rain +++. the far north actully got flooded and 300 people had to be airlifted out of one settlement cos they were completely cut off and would be for some time.
They were water balloons,
The surcharge is for Christmas holidays/ summer holidays as the staff get paid double or triple time their pay for working on the many public holidays around this time of year. 10% won’t even cover the extra wages paid lol
In Melbourne where I live the CFA (country fire association) drive around on Christmas eve, lights and sirens and do an annual lolly drop, Santa in the back, driving down all the streets throwing lollies to the kids. It’s great. My tradition is giving them 1/2 a slab of beer as thanks for their hard work, it is peak fire season.
Lol pavlova is a simple dessert of meringue, fruit and cream. There is some dispute as to the origin... I heard it was a NZ chef working in QLD who made this dessert in honour of Anna Pavlova, the Russian ballerina who was visiting at the time
Water balloons is as close to snowballs as we can get here this time of year (and the rest of the year in most parts of Aus).😂
Hope your move is easy.🙂
Happy New Year 🎉🎉🎉
Ryan, we also have Christmas in July as a thing. You could do Christmas in July as a thing and let the kids have fun with the firies. Santa comes around on the back of a fire truck in most suburbs and throws lollies to the kids along the street
Happy New Year and thanks for all the entertainment during 2023😊.
Hey Ryan, awesome job that you are doing! If you can wake up at 7.30am onwards and watch us celebrate the New Year Live, you will celebrate 2024 before it actually happens? Have a great New Year Mate, and God bless you and your family. You are the first American that I have come across that has such an open mind! Happy New Year 🥳 🎉
So open nothing can stay in it.
Hi Ryan. My family and I went to a local club for lunch this week and the prices were doubled for Xmas season. So our roast meal was $36 each. It was basically meat and three veg. Drinks were extra. 😮
It's "Peak Season" because of Summer, Christmas, New Year and "Australia" Day (Jan 26th). A lot of people visit families during that period and Foreigners visit for the sun.
It is traditional for the Fire Trucks to roll through the streets on Christmas, but this new twist of the water fight is too funny and must become tradition.
Keep in mind Australias Summer Christmas holidays are a 6 week break from school, most government functions are closed between Christmas, as govt workers all get a holiday and new years most families go on vacation during this 6 weeks with some of their annual leave that all full time workers get. So all the service/tourism services are booked out, especially at popular spots for basically all of the six weeks.
Have a wonderful New Years Ryan & Family.!
Yes this water bombing the local Fire Truck is a growing tradition. I think used to be mostly in country towns, but has been spresding to the suburbs year by year. Usually there's a very wet Santa on top the truck throwing out lollies/ lolly bags.
The Kiwi's say THEY invented the Pav. We say WE did. The Brit's say it was a recipe 'stolen and adapted' from them. I dont care where it came from so long as I get me a slice, preferably with lots of cream, mango and passionfruit topping!
'Prawning' your neighbours bin is a hanging offence, in all Australian States & Territories, especially the hot ones, and rightly so. 🤣 But last week I prawned my own! For some reason the bin only 1/2 emptied! WTF!!!
What happened? Did Jace enter the TARDIS overnight - turn into a Teenager and throw you out of 'His Room'!?!
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Merry Christmas to you and family!
Merry Christmas to you & your precious family Ryan 🎉
They have Father Christmas on fire trucks the Sunday before Christmas giving out balloons, comic books and sweets.
"Dream Big Little One". Glad your bronchitis has improved Ryan. Happy new year mate.
Happy New Year Ryan and family! Thanks for entertaining us.
All the fire trucks go round with a santa on board giving out lollies...in smaller towns, they even give the little ones presents. Xmas is summer in Australia.
Happy Arvo. Happy New Year Ryan and family and cat.
Loose change in Australia is different to the US. Our smallest note is a $5 note and our smallest coin is a $2 coin with the $1 coin just slightly bigger, so $8.95 is just five small coins that fit easily in the palm of your hand as well as in your shirt pocket.
You forgot about the 50 cent, 20 cent, 10 cent and 5 cent coins all lower value. The 10 and 5 both physically smaller than the $1 coin.
@@johnhardwick8771 I didn’t forget them, I didn’t include them because they don’t help to make $9. Four $2 and one $1 = $9 and the seller gives you five cents change. That’s the most effective way to spent $8.95 in loose change.
Ahhh you make me laugh Ryan - love ya - Happy New Years!
The small white vehicle in front is not the Police. It's a NSW Rural Fire Service command or Group Officer's vehicle. The RFS specialise in bush fires, but also do structure, vehicle and other fires in villages. Brigade members are all unpaid volunteers and usually very close knit to their local communities. They often do 'Santa Runs' in the country and outer suburban areas. (I wonder whether it was them or the kids that started the 'water fight' tradition.) The multiple sprays at the front of the tankers ('brush trucks' to you) are for grass fire edges and wetting down areas they drive across. The tankers will also have full spray systems they can operate to help protect the vehicle in the event of fire overrun.
Blue painted trees in the outback mean water is near by, it could save a life. Please dont call pavlova strawberry cake, its not even cake 😂 & that beautiful creature is a bearded dragon, very common lizards here in Oz. Happy new year Ryan & family
It’s for Beyond Blue - mental health awareness
Even worse, he called it a strawberry pie 😒
Blue painted trees do not mean water is near by, It is showing support for Beyond Blue, the mental health unit.
The trees are for Beyond Blue (AFAIK), but many fire services use blue reflectors on roadways to indicate near where there are (underground) hydrants. Don't know if they still do it, but in NSW, some motorways in rural areas also have blue reflective markers off to left side to indicate where there is an entry gate to get into adjacent rural properties. Quite helpful at night.
And the lizard is an eastern water dragon
There are many restaurants & service businesses who claim to keep their costs down during the year, but add a "Premium" for public holidays, high peak seasons (like summer). The only time this should apply is if the wages to staff are increased due to awards or employment agreements (like working on christmas day vs a standard weekday). Any other excuse like "we have to put on extra staff" should be offset by the extra income from the additional customers & demands for products/service that required the extra staff, otherwise the business is just price gouging.
We are in Upper Coomera in QLD. We had a tornado on Christmas Night and lost power for days - during December in QLD, during a heat wave of temperatures of over 35 degrees celsius and 70+% humidity.... Some suburbs still don't have power today and its currently December 31st at 9:42pm. The whole of the Gold Coast looks like a war zone. Tamborine Mountain is still without power and water as they are on tank water normally which requires power to pump the water into your home. You should look it up. Its been literally the worst storm I have ever experienced in my 38yrs alive.
(Live in the area as well) And they we got floods, it’s ridiculous
Ryan I think the streetscape with the thunderclouds overhanging, gives you a sense of how quiet the day is on the roads. Everyone is home having Christmas Dinner and relaxing and hustle and bustle of everyday life gone for awhile. This seems to be more a country town feel.
Pavlova is not cake it is merange filled with whipped cream and fruit. It's a summer time treat and Xmas is in summer here.
M E R I N G U E
Merangue covered with whipped cream & fruit
The fire brigade comes around on Christmas morning in our area and throw out some lollies to the children, the tradition started when some elderly people said that they didn’t see anyone most of the time. The fire brigades decided to call in on these people and give them a loaf of bread. Time has changed the tradition and now all the children and extended families come out to wave to the volunteer firefighters and launch water balloons etc. at the firefighters. These dedicated volunteers are a wonderful bunch of people caring for anyone in need in their communities.
Happy New Year to you and yours Ryan! Hoping 2024 is better for us all 🎉
Pavlova is made from meringue not flour therefore not cake.
Meringue is a type of dessert or candy, of French origin, traditionally made from whipped egg whites and sugar...
the lizard is an eastern water dragon.
Ryan, I hope you & yours had an awesome Christmas & have a very happy & safe New Year.
We have wet summers in coastal cities like here in Sydney. Scorching heat one moment, thunderstorms the next. That is what that nostalgic photo implied. That we can be worried about burning the soles of our feet while simultaneously watching huge storm clouds rolling in. Love it! 🤘
Hello there Ryan, I'm now here and have been enjoying your Reaction Videos so very much. I would like to purchest one of your "Happy Arvo" T-shirts, and shall put my order in the new year.
Hope you've had a Happy Christmas and wishing you a Happy New Year for 2024.
Regards
Darren from Australia, in Sydney in the suburb of Beverly Hills,....And yes there is a Beverly Hills in Sydney.
Pavlova isnt cake, its meringue
Any fruit, is a topping and can vary
Hope y'all had a lovely Christmas, 'Happy New Year' stay safe from Oz Let's start it the right way 🫂🙏💜
the first vid was all RFS, and yes it is a tradition, RFS & FRNSW do drives around the towns to celebrate
Unfortunately Christmas is storm season in Australia, cyclone Tracy sticks in the mind of many.
Pavlova is 12 egg whites mixed with half a kilogram of sugar then baked, topped with cream and fruit, then served to adults
4 egg whites for a normal family sized pav
Christmas in Australia is hot and wet in the north, hot and dry in the south. Everywhere it's hot. It gets hotter in the new year. Welcome to Australia! Love it. Personally I don't like pavlova. Yes, there are kangaroo road signs, you don't want to hit a kangaroo. I hit an emu once and it really f'd up my car. Wombats are a road hazard in some places too. You don't want to hit a wombat because it will f'k up your car as well.
It is pretty kickass that we get to celebrate most of our holidays in the warm months 🇦🇺 also I believe the “blue tree project” is a way for Aussies to honour their loved ones who lost their life due to depression
some places in western NSW temps are reaching 49 C
Gets to 51c where I am in SA, edge of the desert.
Lizard looks like a bearded dragon, the grass looks like artificial grass which is getting more common here
Close. It's a water dragon. Different family and can grow a lot bigger. I can't speak to other cities, but these are very common in Brisbane and they love pools.
@@lindsaytaylor9643 a good guess grim down here in Adelaide 🙂
The CFA (Country Fire Authority) which are volunteer firefighters who work in rural and regional areas have a christmas tradition of giving out icy poles and soft drinks on christmas day, usually as santa riding a firetruck.
Santa on the rural fireservice before Christmas is a tradition in Australia. Great tradition.
Happy New Year Ryan and family 💗🇦🇺
Think it's law here to know how much is made in Australia for food products
Happy New Year to you and the family Ryan.🎉🎉
The water fight along streets in a poorer neighbourhood was a great public service in addition to being fun. A recent study by the Australian National University showed that increasing temperatures in the country had contributed to the deaths of 36,000 Aussies over the previous decade. 🥵
@t.a.k. palfrey3882 you are a disgraceful scaremonger, how dare you!! I’m not in a poor area, My 7 grandchildren, now my great granddaughter, enjoyed running up our steep driveway when hearing the horn of the fire truck.on Christmas Eve, the temperature is not Catastrophic as you people love Screeching about. Climate changes, and NO ONE!! sitting in an Air Conditioned Office in Parliament is going to change MOTHER NATURE!! No wonder many of our youth are feeling lost, it’s thanks, because of you lot, let the kids be kids for once 😢
New Zealand THINK they invented Pavlova. They didn't. What they had was gelatinous meringue. 😁 But honestly, Pavlova is definitely Australian.
We had massive thunderstorms over Christmas this year all down the east coast. Some had a white Christmas as there were massive hail storms blanketing areas suddenly in white.
Happy New Year Ryan & family 😊 The Christmas in Australia pic evokes summer, because there's a huge thunderstorm coming. A bindii (also pronounced bindi-eye) is a prickle. It's practically obligatory to step on a massive bindii patch a few times in your childhood and feel the agony 😅
I'm rally glad to see you have survived Christmas. Now I wish you a happy new year :-)
A bindi is a near invisable prickle in your lush green lawn, we used to laugh hysterically as we sat on our porch and teenagers would run towards us across the lawn only to stop, yell and jump up and down in pain, they are very difficult to get rid of them so we just leave them there and put shoes on
Hot as in Oz,water fights are a great way to cool down,bindis are thorn like things that stab and stick in your feet when you walk through them and the tar melts on roads,great combo,pavs rock,roo signs are common,lizard looks like a water dragon and maybe artificial turf also common in Oz it dont need water, cheerz
Happy new year Ryan and family 🎉😊❤🇦🇺
Happy New Year Ryan x