Ok so a thong was originally a narrow strip of leather usually used tie things up with. You's shoved them up your but crack and we used them to tie our shoes on. WHO'S THE STRANGE ONES?
what's more our "Thong" has a deeper connection with this word, being a shortening of the term "Leather Thong" for the original leather versions leather sandals ranging from the heavy duty roman Caligae worn by roman soldiers to the various Grecian sandals (some of which are constructed and look exactly like a leather version of the modern flipflop/jandal/thong) are essentially a sole held to the foot by ... a leather thong.
@@sarak1542 Australians shorten just about EVERYTHING. Service station - servo. Politicians - pollies. Afternoon - arvo. Smoke-break - smoko. Americans - Seppo. Breakfast - Brekkie. Sandwich - sarnie. Cigarette - smoke. University - Uni. What is going on? - Scarnon? McDonalds - Mccas. The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on. It is said that this method of shortening English was made so that the mouth could move as little as possible, to prevent the ingestion of flies.
@@ScottEDawg (A) Nah. Never been a great fan but though messy and very red ... is .. um .. okay. (B) Duh! But don't tell anyone. Millions cannot cope with reality. You will only upset them. ( They . . might ... eventually work it out for themselves.) But Hey.. I'm an enthusiastic optimist Humanity must evolve eventually beyond our Medieval "reality"
@@pinkmagicali The garment strippers wore was called a G-string as it was made from string or cord in 2 parts, each looped in the shape of the letter G. As Australia (as with many other countries) already had the "thong" footwear for decades (at least 1910 in Australia), we called the "thong" garment a G-string as it resembled that strippers wore.
Went for a run few years ago and one put a hole in my nose! Then it flew up onto the power lines and just looked at me like, "I can do it again for ya"
@@TristanKuhn Don't be excited...be afraid. However, they are really intelligent birds and if they know you, seriously they don't attack you as you are a part of their territory.
@@steelcrown7130 exactly! There's a flock in my suburb that love coming and chilling in my backyard and will just sit me while I do work out in my garden. And they have a lovely call if you're lucky enough to hear it!
Just to add; we still have the leavers on the pumps, they're just not usable. I'm guessing by law. It's been like this since I started driving in early 2000's.
They had the leavers on the fuel pump in the 80s when I started driving and I think they took them off as a safety thing that’s what I heard at the time. A while ago.
@Peter A. Yes. It is. In every State and Territory. We used to have the levers with locks, but they often failed, and after several stations burned down and people died after unattended vehicles spewed petrol on or near hot exhaust pipes (etc), it was made illegal.
You can't even jam your fuel cap in the handle to make it self pump, I use to do it when I was younger and have been told off by a cop who pulled up beside me and the attendants many times.
2017, 2,364 teens in the United States aged 16-19 were killed, and about 300,000 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes. 48 Australian teens under 17 were killed in 2017. 244 between 17-25 yrs of age. That’s why it takes so long to get a full licence in Australia, to save young lives.
PS : licence training ..yes the slow entry to a full licence is a great idea because in my opinion , as a retired paramedic , it teaches patience ..the great majority of P platers obey the rules...to me ,our mixed population is what makes Australia ..
On your P licence, it’s a zero alcohol requirement, and you’re limited with the number of passengers you can have. Hopefully reduces the risk of a young bloke taking a heap of his friends, and, hopped up on testosterone and bravado, crashes the car. They’re ten foot tall and bulletproof.
Yeah... there is no lever to hold the fuel. But in Australia, haven’t seen a driver drive away while the nozzle is still in the car (which happens a bit in America apparently)
The auto-fill lever was removed shortly after self serve came in. People were driving off with the pump nozzle still attached to the car. The Auto-fill was originally used so the station attendant could fill the tank and wash wind screen.
Dude, work it out mate, Australia is so big, that's the reason for time change, you do realise that Australia is as big as the USA?we have 6 states not 52 like Yankee land lol.
Garbage disposals aren’t used here in Australia as it uses a lot of water and as Australia is a very dry country and suffers from droughts we tend to try and save as much water as possible.
Jemxs not if you’re in Australia or New Zealand you don’t. In these two countries, Ugg is an uncopyrightable term, literally it is illegal to copyright it. So while an American company owns the term outside of Aus and NZ, they don’t own it here. It’s why even the cheapest knockoffs can still legally use the term Ugg here, because it’s a type of show, not a brand.
"We are one, but we are many, and from all the lands on earth we come. We share a dream, and sing with one voice, I am, you are, we are Australian." This should be our National anthem, as it sums up what you mentioned about how multicultural Australia is
“That is not human”. No Tristan, thats a bird 😂 Lived in Sydney for about half a year, didnt realize the thing about the timezones, thats definitely strange! Also the gaspump thingy annoyed me so much when I came back to Europe after living in the States for two years. Its such a small little improvement, why not implement it everywhere 🤷🏻♂️
Wait, Europe also doesn’t have automatic gas pumps? And yes 🤣🤣 when editing the “that’s not human part” I was wanting to change it so badly but I didn’t have anything else to replace it with lol
For the folks going "ew, beetroot" - remember that these are not sweet, they're (sour) pickled beetroot. So it's like having pickled cucumbers/gherkins on your burger, except that beetroot will seek out any white or pale coloured T-Shirt and fly towards it (or seemingly so). If you think that bird sounds weird, try listening to Cockatoos. Preferably a whole flock of them fighting over something. The Garbage Disposal / Sink Grinder thing is because these use a shitload of water to flush down whatever you put in them. Water is a precious and limited resource in Australia. Running your sink for 10-15 minutes to make sure that whatever crap you put in there doesn't clog up your pipes is expensive and wasteful. Put it in the (green) bin instead. "I wasn't going to say how y'all shorten everything" ... pot, kettle, black.
I grew up in the 60's and 70's in the Seattle region and thongs (or flip-flops) were the name of the footwear that you featured in this video. I had no idea that the term "thongs" was a controversial name.
Australians called the footwear "thongs' (after the 1,600 BC Egyptian "thong sandals") since at least 1910. We called the garment "G-strings" as they resembled (and were styled on) the item worn by strippers. America wasn't introduced to the garment (they call a "thong") until the 1939 New York World's fair, and the footwear (they call "flip-flops") until 1945 post-WW2 Japan.
the birds thing: the first dutch explorers ran back to their ships when they heard kookaburras. they thought they were evil spirits! i am glad you are enjoying your time in my country :)
A friend from Germany had a whinge to me about having to manually hold the trigger on the fuel pump, while filling his car. Five minutes of his life was wasted away, every week, while he fuelled up his car. I think it might be safety related. If the fuel nozzle were to fall out of the car’s fill point, it would continue to spray fuel all over the environment and create a fire hazard.
There's literally a super popular tiktok of two girls in America sitting in the car not realising there's fuel going everywhere. It takes another guy knocking on their window to tell them
you are right. most pumps have an automatic cut of built in [ pressure switch I think] if that fails to work , petrol will continue to pump all over the ground and that is very dangerous
It’s also for static electricity, holding on to the pump you stay grounded but if you get back in to the car, move around, then grab the nozzle again you could discharge a shock and start a fire
It is actually illegal (at least in Queensland) to walk away from your car while pumping fuel. So for that reason you won't find any pumps with the little lever and if you stick something, like a pen in there you can be fined.
I completely agree with the cars being overly polite! I'm Australian, and moved back 2 years ago after living in the UK for 6 years. I STILL find it weird as they're not that polite in London haha
The lever is not there is because of static electricity. If you have one of your feet in the car and the other on the floor you are creating a static circuit. If you create a spark near the gas then it can explode.
I grew up with a 'Garbage Disposal' (Insinkerator) and every house we have lived in either had one, or we would get one installed when we moved in. As we ate a lot of seafood it was really handy for getting rid of the stinky parts that would otherwise rot up the bins all week long. Curlews rock. They can become quite tame and I have spent a lot of time hanging out with the ones in my street. Talking to them and watching them raise their babies. Listening to one call as I type this actually.
@@TristanKuhn Depends on the State or Territory here. Different ages and time periods for plates. In South Australia you could pass a written test as soon as you turned 16 to get an L plate, and less than 6 months later (if you passed a practical test) your full license. Not nowadays, though.
Our petrol pumps had the hands'free option removed ages ago. They removed the holding pin, but not the holes in the lever and grip - but I carry a nail or small screwdriver to get around it.
The beetroot thing: Macca's Australia wanted to introduce a burger with beetroot. It took about 5 years of negotiation because head office in the USA insisted it was risky. Finally it launched for a limited time - the McOz. It was their biggest seller, outsold every other burger. Head office guy interviewed expressed surprise that it sold it at all, insisted it could not stay permanently for some policy reason. By now if *you* Tristan were at head office you would be able to tell them "It will sell out". We are different. You get this. This is very nice. It's the whole point of travelling.
the word thong originally referred to a thin strip of Fabric or leather, flip flops are held on the foot by thin strips rubber, g-strings are made entirely of thin strips of fabric, both names make sense
Here in NT we just have Ls and Ps. The Ps are white background with a red P. You’re on your Ls for 6 months of which then you are eligible to go for your Ps test. After 2 years on your Ps u can get your full license
Time zones: Ceduna on the border of SA and WA: a town with its own time zone - half way between SA and WA time. Beetroot on burgers: not regional. Common (and delicious) in Melbourne as well. Paying at the counter in restaurant: you don't have to, but it saves time. Licences: Ps = some limits (zero blood alcohol - therefore people get used to not drinking and driving). What you call thong, we calla G string. Most of our birds are pretty raucous. Some of them are pretty amazing. Check out the lyrebird (ua-cam.com/video/mSB71jNq-yQ/v-deo.html). It is an awesome mimic. Garbage disposal (insinkerator) - we recycle and compost instead.
Ceduna is not on the SA-WA border - you're thinking of Eucla. But Eucla and several of the roadhouses along the Eyre Highway in WA have adopted Central Western Time, which is GMT+8:45, splitting the difference between Western and Central Time.
Surely people understand why time zones exist. West is hours behind east. It’s like 15 degrees per hour. Adelaide isn’t far enough west of the east coast to warrant a full hour, so half an hour it is. And the further north you are, the less effect daylight saving has, because the closer to the equator you go, the shorter the difference between day and night. Queensland, for instance, could be divided into two for daylight savings. The far north point is only about 10 degrees south, while Brisbane and the Gold Coast are 2900km (1700 miles) south. Bit confusing having two time zones in one state. Same with Western Australia, only the difference between north and south is closer to 4,500km. .
As i said, it’s more to do with the latitude as to whether they have DST or not, and longitude as to how much DST. Really only an issue on the borders, like the NSW-Queensland border. And two states, Queensland and WA, don’t want to have to have two different time zones in the same state. Brisbane and Cairns have two very different times of sunset, ditto Perth and Broome.
Paul Dobson also because WA is so wide there’s about half an hour difference between sunset in Kalgoorlie and Perth. Most Australians don’t know there is a small area in the south east corner of WA/south west corner of SA which has its own time zone, it runs for 340 km along the Eyre Highway. It’s call Central Western Time and it’s 45 minutes behind Adelaide and 45 minutes ahead of Perth.
Beetroot is on burgers all over Australia. They used to have the lever (pronounced leeever) years ago but stopped it as some older cars did not have the hole in them for the auto shut off and some cars had some fires. Safety is a thing here, once one bad things happens, safety measures are put in place immediately so it doesn't happen again. That's why we have such a low death rate with covid. Crosswalk = pedestrian crossing.
In the USA it is quite a common occurrence for cars to drive from a service station with the pump hose still attached to the car because the driver forgot to replace the hose onto the bowser.
living in cairns I'd say we are the curlew capital everywhere what I find weird about USA no electric kettles weirds me out seeing Americans boil stuff in microwaves or on stoves and everything to do with cash money names for coins what the is a dime ect and the tipping sales tax stuff u forgot the biggie root rooting for USA v aussie meaning
Yes! That’s where I first saw curlews! They’re everywhere in cairns! Also, I talk about a lot of the weird things you mentioned that are weird about America I’m my “20 weird things about America” video and “the crazy truths about America” video
Andrew Bristoe agree. I drove all Over usa on a roadtrip holiday - stayed in about 30 hotels and not a kettle in any. They had ice makers everywhere which i thought was weird. I eventually bought a kettle in walmart and a jar of instant. Not the best but sure beat that weak dishwater from the hotel coffee machines.
The petrol pump locking mechanism thing was a thing until the late 70s early 80s and the introduction of self serve. Too many malfunctioning locks and too many gas spillages and accidents with people driving off with the pump still in the car so they got rid of them except high flow diesel pumps for trucks. We like to prevent accidents 🤷
Egyptian "thong sandals" have been around since at least 1,600 BC. Australians called them "thongs" since at least 1910. New Zealand called them "jandals" after Japanese sandals and were introduced to them in late WW1. Americans soldiers discovered Japanese "zori"s in 1945, post WW2. The "G-string" garment was styled and named after similar item strippers wore. Americans discovered G-strings in 1939 New York World's Fair and called them "thongs". They changed the name of the footwear to "flip-flops" in the 1950's when they became popular in beach culture and started making them from rubber, plastic and foam...naming them after the sound they made when walking.
Hi Tristan, It's quite common for us to stop in the car for people crossing over. No i haven't found automatic pump leavers at the petrol station as I've lived here in Australia my whole life. Beetroot and pineapple is very common too in hamburgers. You'll get used to the different time zones it just takes time to get used to. Enjoy your time in Australia. Take care. Zoe. 😄
Beetroot on burgers - almost mandatory. And thongs on your feet - definitely! Not flip-flops, and absolutely not jandals. Thongs. If you are going to convince people that you have successfully assimilated, then you have to embrace both of these cultural icons ☺
Let's start with some explanations: The fuel pump trigger thingy - why can't you click on and walk away? A: it's a safety thing, the car is insulated by rubber tyres, and the rubberised fuel hose, by making you stand there it's grounding out from static electric shock, ie. a small spark that could ignite the fuel vapour between the hose and the tank... I'm sure you've seen other videos of sudden fires at the pump...
Grew up in Queensland where a burger without beetroot isn't really a burger. Wondered as a kid why McDonalds didn't have beetroot? It's competitor which you would call Burger King (Hungry Jacks) added beetroot to some burgers and for 40 years or so have used a slogan 'the burgers are better at Hungry Jacks. Hand has to be on the petrol pump in case of overflow and ignition of a fire. My sister was hospitalised with burns in the 70s when an adjacent customers pump overflowed and a cigarette ignited it. Thongs for your feet were called 'thongs' long before women wore dental floss underpants. Curlews are creepy. Bin chickens seem to be a new phenomenon i.e. maybe they've urbanised in the last 30 years. Can't recall seeing them in Brisbane last century. On a positive note, a New Yorker once sat on my deck (verandah) in Brisbane and expressed his amazement at the abundance and diversity of the large birdlife in the trees in front.
Hey Tristan, long term viewer from Melbourne, first time commenter! Awesome list, and bin chickens seem exotic to me too; they're not found down south though
The white ibis have become bin chickens only recently. When I was a kid they were a freshwater wading bird that you saw in cow pastures, and never saw in cities. When I moved to Sydney forty years ago there were none on the streets. I think it was only in the last fifteen or twenty years that they moved in to Sydney, and that's about when I started to hear them called "bin chickens". Blame climate change.
Hey Chris! Happy to have you as part of the channel. Glad you liked the list. I have to agree, I never saw bin chickens down south. But they’re all over Brisbane and some other places up north
Thanks for acknowledging our multicultural society! I think ppl from other countries presume we were all born here and have blue eyes and blonde hair 😂 The Aussie surfer clichè!
You forgot Magpies swooping you from behind in Spring. The lever thing on petrol pumps is actually illegal here - you are not allowed to jam the lever with anything as it is a fire/danger hazard. Beetroot + hamburgers - the only way The word thong for footwear has been around since Adam played Fullback for Collingwood in the Galilee Footy league Also here in Victoria - you have to have a zero Blood alcohol level while on your L's and P's (red for 1 year then green for 3) and there is a restriction on the engine size you can drive (IE no souped up V8's on L's)
i have never been in a restaurant where teh cheque was brought to the table, the whole concept is too bougie for me thanks. yeah bin chickens man! i guess our equivalent to raccoons, except theyre creepy as hell lmao
The reason for no garbage disposals is they waste water. This country suffers very severe droughts (we are only just coming out of one now) and there are times when people are only permitted a 10cm deep bath or 3min shower per person per day, and only 1 or 2 washing loads per week, and no washing hard surfaces with a hose or water your garden at all. Instead some councils have green waste bins, which includes your food waste... it is used to make compost. Much more water efficient. Plus, extra nutrients in the water is not always good and can encourage algal blooms which can kill marine life. Garbage disposals are NOT a good environment way to deal with food waste.
Welcome to Queensland. Garbage disposals were popular in Australia 30 - 40 years ago, but now that Australians are more environmentally savvy, we like to use our scraps in compost. Also curlews are related to Roadrunners. If you haven't heard them, before and you are lying awake at night and you hear one, you think someone is being murdered and they stand stock still if feeling threatened, as if that is going to help them!
Ok so the gas pumps usual have the thing that holds in on disabled for safety reasons except for the diesel pumps at the truck stop they always have them BUT I have a trick that most old school truck drivers will know! Have a tennis ball in your car and when you pump gas wedge it in the handle and it will hold the leaver to the on position 👍🏼🇦🇺
I got my learners in 1994 and it still took 1 year for the learners before I could go for my licence (the year after this they reduced it to 6months) then you had your provisional for a year (or P’s) and then you could have your open licence after that. Some states made P’s for two years. Qld’ers never had to show the p plates like NSW but they then changed that law to match the other states as we drive across states all the time.
When I got my licence in NSW in 1967 there was no set time to have your learners permit and P plates, which hadn’t been around for very long, were for one year. There were no demerit points back then, if you were caught speeding you automatically lost your P’s for a while.
Stop saying gas it’s petrol mate. You’ve been in Aus for a bit, you should know that your pumping petroleum into your car, if you didn’t know, petroleum is short for petrol. ⛽️
The word Thongs (plural) not singular has been used for 60 yrs that I know of (Yes I am older than 60). In Adelaide we tend to stay away from L-plate drivers. They are unpredictable because they are learning. P-plates in South Australia is only introduced about 30 yrs ago. Other states have had the P-plate system longer. In South Australia pedestrian Phone Zombies are worth 25 points, 50 points if they are driving a car.
@@cherylween4973 When I got my licence you had a cop sitting beside you to pass the practical side of the test. The written side was also done at a police station.
Egyptian "thong sandals" have been around since at least 1,600 BC. Australians called them "thongs" since at least 1910. New Zealand called them "jandals" after Japanese sandals and were introduced to them in late WW1. Americans soldiers discovered Japanese "zori"s in 1945, post WW2. The "G-string" garment was styled and named after similar item strippers wore. Americans discovered G-strings in 1939 New York World's Fair and called them "thongs". They changed the name of the footwear to "flip-flops" in the 1950's when they became popular in beach culture and started making them from rubber, plastic and foam...naming them after the sound they made when walking.
If you’re a pedestrian ans you come up to a zebra crossing, it’s the law for you to stop and let the pedestrian walk across the road. Sometimes we’re forced to be nice lmao
Some bowsers do have the lever, however most people grab the fuel cap and put that inside the grip which holds it open. With the garbage disposals, we did used to have them in Australia however we were starting to get issues with what was being placed in them and then the final refuse would make it's way into our ocean and other waterways causing disgusting pollution issues, never mind the occasional finger or hand :)
bowsers aren't actually meant to have them (at least in some states) its a safety thing, say there is an emergency like for instance a fire starts your natural instinct is to let go of the lever thus shutting off the patrol coming out if you have the clip and you panic and pull it out of your car petrol will go everywhere and make the situation potentially more dangerous
That's wonderful but not true of everybody. My lot has been here since 1842: we sort of fall between Aboriginal and Multicultural. Bit of a no-man's land :-)
Am i the only one wondering where you get than magical white mini van parked on the road? So far I have seen a black Ford Ranger disappear behind it, a jogger mysteriously appear from it! And yeah I know this video has edits, but its just amusing! Small things... I know...
Actually the other way round - in Melbourne it's still light at 9:30. It's just so stinkin' hot in FNQ that people don't want the sun to stay up later (by the clock) than it needs to.
So a few things at the service station it’s the diesel pumps only that have the little switch that holds it on automatic pump on and on the crossings for the road pedestrians have right of way all the time
Petrol pumps that continue to pump when none supervises are dangerous and are therefore banned. Even Australians are amazed by the time zones and daylight saving. Simple answer is that in the tropics it really does not work very well. Bin chickens only exist in cities.
There’s a servo round the corner from me that still has the levers and they’ll still serve you if they’re not busy. I go there specifically for that! Love the old fashioned service and friendly chat! They even cleaned my windscreen the other day! So lovely.
This man, has obviously never been attacked by magpies to not have magpies on your birds list... 🤣 Plz take the time to see why u might see funny helmets on people who ride bikes and general fear of these bastards 🤷🏼♀️
Adelaide should be one hour behind Melbourne but the government changed it a long time ago to make business between Adelaide and Melbourne easier for both sides.
Back in the day when servos had attendants who would pump the petrol for you, the pumps had the catch you describe. This allowed the attendant to clean your windscreen, check your oil etc while the pump was working. When self service pumps came in, the catches were removed and you had to hold the pump. This is a legal requirement, you must be holding the handle while the pump is working. What it does prevent is the people leaving the nozzle in the tank and then driving away, taking the pump assembly with them - which happens quite frequently in the USA.
Um, we like to slow down and stop for pedestrians at crossings because we don't like to kill them. I guess I won't be walking around the US if I go... especially not in my thongs....
If you look closely at the petrol browser (pump as Americans call them) hose nozzles, you can see that they are made for being able to be left flowing automatically: However the lever catch has been taken off so you cannot leave the filling of your car unattended. This law was brought in because of some serious failures causing dangerous situations.
Haha curlews are nightmare material for sure. When they let out the longer scream, it sounds like someone is legit being murdered. I love the use of the term bin chicken! 🤣🤣
I thinks it’s cool that you can get your license fast in America but also cars are dangerous so it taking longer to get a license in Australia is way safer and I feel lucky to live here even if I have to rely mostly on my parents (I live in the country public transport is minimal)
Until you've tried beetroot on a burger you really don't know what your missing but never understood why this is seen as weird, we put it in sandwiches too - is that not normal elsewhere?
Beetroot on all burgers nationwide. It's in the constitution. Americans like guns, we like beetroot!
It's so good!!!
There is no beetroot on Hungry Jack's vegan cheeseburgers or rebel burgers though.
@@cherylween4973 That's an OUTRAGE!
'ken oath.
@@cherylween4973 thats cause it called the aussie burger
Ok so a thong was originally a narrow strip of leather usually used tie things up with. You's shoved them up your but crack and we used them to tie our shoes on. WHO'S THE STRANGE ONES?
That’s good to know. Didn’t know the words origin
Thongs have been called thongs for millenia BCE
Aussie Jacktars, we call 'em "geddas"!
Damo Leslie haha 🤣 good one! I didn’t think of it like that 😆
what's more our "Thong" has a deeper connection with this word, being a shortening of the term "Leather Thong" for the original leather versions
leather sandals ranging from the heavy duty roman Caligae worn by roman soldiers to the various Grecian sandals (some of which are constructed and look exactly like a leather version of the modern flipflop/jandal/thong) are essentially a sole held to the foot by ... a leather thong.
Americans: "You guys shorten everything"
Also Americans: every 5th word is *Y'ALL*
Not me I’m from Chicago .. northern and Midwest states do not say y’all we say all of you or you guys lol
Hahaha 😆 so true
That was the first thing I noticed, too!
I am a Texan and I still laughed when he said, "how y'all shorten words".
@@sarak1542 Australians shorten just about EVERYTHING.
Service station - servo.
Politicians - pollies.
Afternoon - arvo.
Smoke-break - smoko.
Americans - Seppo.
Breakfast - Brekkie.
Sandwich - sarnie.
Cigarette - smoke.
University - Uni.
What is going on? - Scarnon?
McDonalds - Mccas.
The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on. It is said that this method of shortening English was made so that the mouth could move as little as possible, to prevent the ingestion of flies.
Beetroot on hamburgers, though. That's what God intended.
A) Beetroot sucks!
B) There is no God!
Beetroot on a burger is awesome. You can even get burger patties made from beetroot.
1) beetroot on burgers is necessary.
2) so is an egg.
@@ScottEDawg (A) Nah. Never been a great fan but though messy and very red ... is .. um .. okay.
(B) Duh! But don't tell anyone. Millions cannot cope with reality. You will only upset them. ( They .
. might ... eventually work it out for themselves.) But Hey.. I'm an enthusiastic optimist
Humanity must evolve eventually beyond our Medieval "reality"
Beetroot in a ham sanga or beef burger ❤👌
Thongs are thongs, g strings are g strings, Australia's right, the rest of the world is wrong
My question is why G? Why not T?
Y e s
Pink Magic Ali because that’s shit, there g strings and that’s a fact
Thongs (underwear) & G-Strings are actually different. Different size or something like that.
@@pinkmagicali The garment strippers wore was called a G-string as it was made from string or cord in 2 parts, each looped in the shape of the letter G. As Australia (as with many other countries) already had the "thong" footwear for decades (at least 1910 in Australia), we called the "thong" garment a G-string as it resembled that strippers wore.
"I don't know why the cars are so nice". It's definitely the people that are nice, not the cars.
It is his naïvety that gives him an endearing persona.
@@brisbanerugby yeh he is super cute. In the kid way. Very endearing.
I thought about that too, I was going to correct him, is the people driving the cars that are Nice to him, not the cars.
No it's definitely the cars lol.
The use of the word 'thong' for a type of footwear predates the use of the word for a type of underwear by decades.
I have placed the dictionary meaning above somewhere...
Interesting! Never knew this and im an aussie
I'd say thongs refers to anything that gives you a wedgie on any body parts...
Thongs have been around well before I was a child and I am almost 60.. It was weird seeing them called Havianas.. like... weird .
@@tukicat1399 I remember thongs being big in the early 1960s. The underwear was called a G-string long before I heard it called a thong.
Curlews and Ibis are nothing compared to Magpies and Plovers. Wait till Magpie nesting season in August!
I’ve heard! Not gonna lie I’m a bit excited
Went for a run few years ago and one put a hole in my nose! Then it flew up onto the power lines and just looked at me like, "I can do it again for ya"
Magpies are nasty sons of bitches. Just ask Nathan Buckley.
@@TristanKuhn Don't be excited...be afraid. However, they are really intelligent birds and if they know you, seriously they don't attack you as you are a part of their territory.
@@steelcrown7130 exactly! There's a flock in my suburb that love coming and chilling in my backyard and will just sit me while I do work out in my garden. And they have a lovely call if you're lucky enough to hear it!
It’s illegal to leave your car unattended when refuelling.
Peter A. Yes it is
Just to add; we still have the leavers on the pumps, they're just not usable. I'm guessing by law. It's been like this since I started driving in early 2000's.
They had the leavers on the fuel pump in the 80s when I started driving and I think they took them off as a safety thing that’s what I heard at the time. A while ago.
@Peter A. Yes. It is. In every State and Territory. We used to have the levers with locks, but they often failed, and after several stations burned down and people died after unattended vehicles spewed petrol on or near hot exhaust pipes (etc), it was made illegal.
You can't even jam your fuel cap in the handle to make it self pump, I use to do it when I was younger and have been told off by a cop who pulled up beside me and the attendants many times.
But do you give the cars a little thank you wave when you walk across a zebra crossing?
Yes
Of course!! Got to keep the niceness going
Yea if u don't give people a nod or a wave they can get angry coz it's the right thing to do and nice.
Always good to give a short wave.
A smile and nod even
2017, 2,364 teens in the United States aged 16-19 were killed, and about 300,000 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes.
48 Australian teens under 17 were killed in 2017. 244 between 17-25 yrs of age.
That’s why it takes so long to get a full licence in Australia, to save young lives.
The difference in population might account for most of that discrepancy.
Taking account population USA still has a higher rate
@@Christian-xv2lj it's not dramatically more considering they have 13x Australia's population
@@JBofBrisbane 2364 divided by 13 = 181.64.
I seriously doubt Australia had 181 deaths aged between 16-19
I came here for people defending beetroot on burgers. The way burgers should be.
LOL, I Agree and I Can't wait to eat them, Yummy!!!!!!!!! What a great idea, I gotta try it at home, Since I cannot Go to Australia Right Now.
MHMM
Nope I'm an Aussie and hate beetroot blah
We don't need to defend it. It's just the way it is. Yanks should get with the programme.
We’ll stop saying thong if you stop saying fanny
Tim Huguenin YESS! 👍🏻🙌🏻
fair
When do we say fanny? And don’t say fanny pack because no one uses those.
@@monkeydui7241 Well half our population sit on thiers so when it is appropriate we use it.
@@ianmontgomery7534 I don't hear anybody say fanny though.
Thongs will allways go on your feet what you showed was a g-string
Thongs are thick, G-strings are thin
MonkeyDUI thongs still go on your feet not up your arse 😂 unless you have a kinky fetish 😂😂😂😂
@@tishbrett Nothing really goes up your ass.
G banger
PS : licence training ..yes the slow entry to a full licence is a great idea because in my opinion , as a retired paramedic , it teaches patience ..the great majority of P platers obey the rules...to me ,our mixed population is what makes Australia ..
On your P licence, it’s a zero alcohol requirement, and you’re limited with the number of passengers you can have. Hopefully reduces the risk of a young bloke taking a heap of his friends, and, hopped up on testosterone and bravado, crashes the car. They’re ten foot tall and bulletproof.
Yeah... there is no lever to hold the fuel. But in Australia, haven’t seen a driver drive away while the nozzle is still in the car (which happens a bit in America apparently)
Hahaha 😆 that’s so true. I’ve never seen it but I know it’s happened before. I’ve seen a couple pictures and memes about it
high flow diesel is the only one with it
Ohhhh true... true.. high flow diesel does have it at most truck stops and big petrols stations
It's better for safety to manually hold the lever.
The auto-fill lever was removed shortly after self serve came in. People were driving off with the pump nozzle still attached to the car. The Auto-fill was originally used so the station attendant could fill the tank and wash wind screen.
Bird makes a noise.. Tristan: “that is not human”
I know right, he should’ve said that is not bird
@@soffmoff9434 yeah no shit thanks for clearing that up
Try finding a Lyrebird...
LOL, LOL, LOL, So funny. Yeah, but it did Not bother me a bit, and I thought the Bird Sounded Cute.
@@soffmoff9434 LOL, LOL, LOL,
Dude, work it out mate, Australia is so big, that's the reason for time change, you do realise that Australia is as big as the USA?we have 6 states not 52 like Yankee land lol.
LOL, LOL, LOL,
We are smaller than America mate. Sorry.
50 states
@@lonewolf9753 if you take out alaska and hawaii we are roughly the same size as the USA.
I think he may be more puzzled about the 30 minute split rather than setting the time zones in 1 hour blocks.
Garbage disposals aren’t used here in Australia as it uses a lot of water and as Australia is a very dry country and suffers from droughts we tend to try and save as much water as possible.
It's also a terrible waste of compost when we can just let it break down in the garden
Julie-Ann Whittaker or feed it to the chooks.
@@marievan-doorn806 yes!! Great idea.
Saves on hospital visits too
@@julie-annwhittaker7902 exactly!
Just remember when someone stops for when crossing don't forget to give a little wave it way of saying thank you.
Yes the 1 finger salute
Haha it’s the law we have to stop if a pedestrian approaches a crosswalk.
The same in the states, they were the same when I was there. I found it weird and thought they were waiting for me to walk out and run over me!
@@Blanchy10 Oh sorry to hear that that's terrible
Only if you’re turning
Shhhhhhh! Don't tell him about our platypus. Let's keep that a secret. He'll go nuts!
Dean Washere
Or Drop bears.
We were probably using the word "thongs" longer then America so we own the rights to it first..
Yep. The underwear are called G-Strings.
@caveman Well that didn't work for UGG Boots 😃. Oops I now owe an American company money!
Jemxs not if you’re in Australia or New Zealand you don’t. In these two countries, Ugg is an uncopyrightable term, literally it is illegal to copyright it. So while an American company owns the term outside of Aus and NZ, they don’t own it here. It’s why even the cheapest knockoffs can still legally use the term Ugg here, because it’s a type of show, not a brand.
@@katherinemorelle7115 yes thanks good to know 👍 I was really just being flippant 🤣
WraithReaper09, G Banga
"We are one, but we are many, and from all the lands on earth we come. We share a dream, and sing with one voice, I am, you are, we are Australian." This should be our National anthem, as it sums up what you mentioned about how multicultural Australia is
Agreed. It's ridiculous that our current anthem has the word "gurt" in it.
maybe we should have chosen waltzing matilda!
yuck.
“That is not human”. No Tristan, thats a bird 😂
Lived in Sydney for about half a year, didnt realize the thing about the timezones, thats definitely strange!
Also the gaspump thingy annoyed me so much when I came back to Europe after living in the States for two years. Its such a small little improvement, why not implement it everywhere 🤷🏻♂️
Wait, Europe also doesn’t have automatic gas pumps?
And yes 🤣🤣 when editing the “that’s not human part” I was wanting to change it so badly but I didn’t have anything else to replace it with lol
@@TristanKuhn hahah no worries, it was funny!
And no, never seen any of them, only in the US!
We used to have those levers on petrol pumps. They were removed years ago
There's a reason we have higher life expectancies in Australia :p
@@TristanKuhn I'm glad you didn't change it☺️👍
For the folks going "ew, beetroot" - remember that these are not sweet, they're (sour) pickled beetroot. So it's like having pickled cucumbers/gherkins on your burger, except that beetroot will seek out any white or pale coloured T-Shirt and fly towards it (or seemingly so).
If you think that bird sounds weird, try listening to Cockatoos. Preferably a whole flock of them fighting over something.
The Garbage Disposal / Sink Grinder thing is because these use a shitload of water to flush down whatever you put in them. Water is a precious and limited resource in Australia. Running your sink for 10-15 minutes to make sure that whatever crap you put in there doesn't clog up your pipes is expensive and wasteful. Put it in the (green) bin instead.
"I wasn't going to say how y'all shorten everything" ... pot, kettle, black.
Will Hughes Have you ever heard an whole lot of crows, going off, now they are bad, especially early in the morning, when you’re trying to sleep.
@@suzanneyoung6273 And kookaburras, and magpies, and the common koel, and...
I grew up in the 60's and 70's in the Seattle region and thongs (or flip-flops) were the name of the footwear that you featured in this video. I had no idea that the term "thongs" was a controversial name.
Australians called the footwear "thongs' (after the 1,600 BC Egyptian "thong sandals") since at least 1910. We called the garment "G-strings" as they resembled (and were styled on) the item worn by strippers. America wasn't introduced to the garment (they call a "thong") until the 1939 New York World's fair, and the footwear (they call "flip-flops") until 1945 post-WW2 Japan.
the birds thing: the first dutch explorers ran back to their ships when they heard kookaburras. they thought they were evil spirits! i am glad you are enjoying your time in my country :)
Haha
A pedestrian has right of way when at a crossing at a zebras crossing
A friend from Germany had a whinge to me about having to manually hold the trigger on the fuel pump, while filling his car. Five minutes of his life was wasted away, every week, while he fuelled up his car.
I think it might be safety related. If the fuel nozzle were to fall out of the car’s fill point, it would continue to spray fuel all over the environment and create a fire hazard.
True. But I’ve never seen or heard of that happening before
Tristan Kuhn ...It did happen at one stage , around my teenage years ( 72 now) when fuel pumps were pretty basic ..I guess they just stayed with it
That's right.
Diesel pumps have the latch you're speaking of.
There's literally a super popular tiktok of two girls in America sitting in the car not realising there's fuel going everywhere. It takes another guy knocking on their window to tell them
From memory I think its not allowed for them to have the little clip thing on pumps as it can cause a fuel spill if people are not paying attention.
you are right. most pumps have an automatic cut of built in [ pressure switch I think] if that fails to work , petrol will continue to pump all over the ground and that is very dangerous
It’s also for static electricity, holding on to the pump you stay grounded but if you get back in to the car, move around, then grab the nozzle again you could discharge a shock and start a fire
Yes. Too many stations and people went up in flames due to faulty and unattended filler lever locks.
Spot on, it's a safety thing.
It is actually illegal (at least in Queensland) to walk away from your car while pumping fuel. So for that reason you won't find any pumps with the little lever and if you stick something, like a pen in there you can be fined.
It's illegal in every State and Territory.
I completely agree with the cars being overly polite! I'm Australian, and moved back 2 years ago after living in the UK for 6 years. I STILL find it weird as they're not that polite in London haha
Cars aren't polite, people are! Lol
@@cherylween4973 hahaha I guess technically it is the people not the car... But people get what I meant 😉
The lever is not there is because of static electricity. If you have one of your feet in the car and the other on the floor you are creating a static circuit. If you create a spark near the gas then it can explode.
Interesting. I feel like that would be really hard to do but still good to know
new zealand has beetroot on burgers..its not just an aussie thing
Good to know
TBH.. New Zealand is basically Australia just with an accent haha.. We do most things the same.. Just NZ's Prime minister is waaaaay better
@@ThatguyPurps we in New zealand do everything better than Aussie
@@londonbeatz lol.. debatable, but ok.
The Australia/New Zealand accent is almost identical anyway. The same almost goes for the South African accent too.
I grew up with a 'Garbage Disposal' (Insinkerator) and every house we have lived in either had one, or we would get one installed when we moved in. As we ate a lot of seafood it was really handy for getting rid of the stinky parts that would otherwise rot up the bins all week long.
Curlews rock. They can become quite tame and I have spent a lot of time hanging out with the ones in my street. Talking to them and watching them raise their babies. Listening to one call as I type this actually.
In NSW if your caught with any alcohol in your system whilst on your p plates you automatically lose your licence.
It’s like that too in the US when you’re under 21, which is about the same year you get off hour Ps
That's country wide. P platers aren't allowed to have alcohol in their system at all. They have to blow 0.00.
And South Australia.
@@TristanKuhn Depends on the State or Territory here. Different ages and time periods for plates. In South Australia you could pass a written test as soon as you turned 16 to get an L plate, and less than 6 months later (if you passed a practical test) your full license. Not nowadays, though.
Another difference - lever is pronounced "LEE-ver", not "lev-er".
Our petrol pumps had the hands'free option removed ages ago. They removed the holding pin, but not the holes in the lever and grip - but I carry a nail or small screwdriver to get around it.
The beetroot thing: Macca's Australia wanted to introduce a burger with beetroot. It took about 5 years of negotiation because head office in the USA insisted it was risky. Finally it launched for a limited time - the McOz. It was their biggest seller, outsold every other burger. Head office guy interviewed expressed surprise that it sold it at all, insisted it could not stay permanently for some policy reason.
By now if *you* Tristan were at head office you would be able to tell them "It will sell out".
We are different. You get this. This is very nice. It's the whole point of travelling.
Whenever I go to maccas I require beetroot be added.
Australia also invented McCafe
the word thong originally referred to a thin strip of Fabric or leather, flip flops are held on the foot by thin strips rubber, g-strings are made entirely of thin strips of fabric, both names make sense
Beetroot on burgers are common in NSW too, so good!
Red Ps are before greens
Great to know! Thanks!
but you only get green p's are for after 21 I think.
What state is that in? We just need to be on our reds for at least 12 months
@@HPereira89 I'm in vic but I'm pretty sure it is a bit more complicated than what I said.
Here in NT we just have Ls and Ps. The Ps are white background with a red P. You’re on your Ls for 6 months of which then you are eligible to go for your Ps test. After 2 years on your Ps u can get your full license
Time zones: Ceduna on the border of SA and WA: a town with its own time zone - half way between SA and WA time. Beetroot on burgers: not regional. Common (and delicious) in Melbourne as well. Paying at the counter in restaurant: you don't have to, but it saves time. Licences: Ps = some limits (zero blood alcohol - therefore people get used to not drinking and driving). What you call thong, we calla G string. Most of our birds are pretty raucous. Some of them are pretty amazing. Check out the lyrebird (ua-cam.com/video/mSB71jNq-yQ/v-deo.html). It is an awesome mimic. Garbage disposal (insinkerator) - we recycle and compost instead.
Ceduna is not on the SA-WA border - you're thinking of Eucla. But Eucla and several of the roadhouses along the Eyre Highway in WA have adopted Central Western Time, which is GMT+8:45, splitting the difference between Western and Central Time.
USA mainland has 4 times zones... 5 including Alaska, 6 including Hawaii. They rotate around the sun too 🙄
Well said. And also on the Earth's axis.
Surely people understand why time zones exist. West is hours behind east. It’s like 15 degrees per hour. Adelaide isn’t far enough west of the east coast to warrant a full hour, so half an hour it is. And the further north you are, the less effect daylight saving has, because the closer to the equator you go, the shorter the difference between day and night. Queensland, for instance, could be divided into two for daylight savings. The far north point is only about 10 degrees south, while Brisbane and the Gold Coast are 2900km (1700 miles) south. Bit confusing having two time zones in one state. Same with Western Australia, only the difference between north and south is closer to 4,500km.
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Are they more in unison? It is wierd when some states have daylight savings and some don't.
As i said, it’s more to do with the latitude as to whether they have DST or not, and longitude as to how much DST. Really only an issue on the borders, like the NSW-Queensland border. And two states, Queensland and WA, don’t want to have to have two different time zones in the same state. Brisbane and Cairns have two very different times of sunset, ditto Perth and Broome.
Paul Dobson also because WA is so wide there’s about half an hour difference between sunset in Kalgoorlie and Perth. Most Australians don’t know there is a small area in the south east corner of WA/south west corner of SA which has its own time zone, it runs for 340 km along the Eyre Highway. It’s call Central Western Time and it’s 45 minutes behind Adelaide and 45 minutes ahead of Perth.
Beetroot is on burgers all over Australia. They used to have the lever (pronounced leeever) years ago but stopped it as some older cars did not have the hole in them for the auto shut off and some cars had some fires. Safety is a thing here, once one bad things happens, safety measures are put in place immediately so it doesn't happen again. That's why we have such a low death rate with covid. Crosswalk = pedestrian crossing.
Australians don't use "Y'all". That is "hick" - speak!
We say YOUS (yooze).
@@nikolasb2933 in New Zealand they say "ewes", but that might be referring to their girlfriends.
@@brisbanerugby lmaooo classic
@@nikolasb2933 I don’t!
I love y’all
In the USA it is quite a common occurrence for cars to drive from a service station with the pump hose still attached to the car because the driver forgot to replace the hose onto the bowser.
living in cairns I'd say we are the curlew capital everywhere what I find weird about USA no electric kettles weirds me out seeing Americans boil stuff in microwaves or on stoves and everything to do with cash money names for coins what the is a dime ect and the tipping sales tax stuff u forgot the biggie root rooting for USA v aussie meaning
Yes! That’s where I first saw curlews! They’re everywhere in cairns! Also, I talk about a lot of the weird things you mentioned that are weird about America I’m my “20 weird things about America” video and “the crazy truths about America” video
It's because they have a lower power voltage in the US (110v vs 220v) , so they take twice as long to boil over there
Andrew Bristoe agree. I drove all
Over usa on a roadtrip holiday - stayed in about 30 hotels and not a kettle in any. They had ice makers everywhere which i thought was weird. I eventually bought a kettle in walmart and a jar of instant. Not the best but sure beat that weak dishwater from the hotel coffee machines.
The petrol pump locking mechanism thing was a thing until the late 70s early 80s and the introduction of self serve. Too many malfunctioning locks and too many gas spillages and accidents with people driving off with the pump still in the car so they got rid of them except high flow diesel pumps for trucks. We like to prevent accidents 🤷
In Australia you have thongs, you can also use flip flops, in New Zealand they are called jandles.
Egyptian "thong sandals" have been around since at least 1,600 BC. Australians called them "thongs" since at least 1910. New Zealand called them "jandals" after Japanese sandals and were introduced to them in late WW1. Americans soldiers discovered Japanese "zori"s in 1945, post WW2. The "G-string" garment was styled and named after similar item strippers wore. Americans discovered G-strings in 1939 New York World's Fair and called them "thongs". They changed the name of the footwear to "flip-flops" in the 1950's when they became popular in beach culture and started making them from rubber, plastic and foam...naming them after the sound they made when walking.
Hi Tristan,
It's quite common for us to stop in the car for people crossing over. No i haven't found automatic pump leavers at the petrol station as I've lived here in Australia my whole life. Beetroot and pineapple is very common too in hamburgers. You'll get used to the different time zones it just takes time to get used to. Enjoy your time in Australia. Take care. Zoe. 😄
"That is not human!"
Right. It's a bird.
Beetroot on burgers - almost mandatory. And thongs on your feet - definitely! Not flip-flops, and absolutely not jandals. Thongs. If you are going to convince people that you have successfully assimilated, then you have to embrace both of these cultural icons ☺
We have to give way to pedestrians by law... and we're nice!
Let's start with some explanations:
The fuel pump trigger thingy - why can't you click on and walk away? A: it's a safety thing, the car is insulated by rubber tyres, and the rubberised fuel hose, by making you stand there it's grounding out from static electric shock, ie. a small spark that could ignite the fuel vapour between the hose and the tank... I'm sure you've seen other videos of sudden fires at the pump...
We used to have a lever to hold the petrol bowser handle .. for decades but recently it has been phased out.
For good reason. Too many stations and people went up in flames.
Grew up in Queensland where a burger without beetroot isn't really a burger. Wondered as a kid why McDonalds didn't have beetroot? It's competitor which you would call Burger King (Hungry Jacks) added beetroot to some burgers and for 40 years or so have used a slogan 'the burgers are better at Hungry Jacks.
Hand has to be on the petrol pump in case of overflow and ignition of a fire. My sister was hospitalised with burns in the 70s when an adjacent customers pump overflowed and a cigarette ignited it.
Thongs for your feet were called 'thongs' long before women wore dental floss underpants.
Curlews are creepy. Bin chickens seem to be a new phenomenon i.e. maybe they've urbanised in the last 30 years. Can't recall seeing them in Brisbane last century. On a positive note, a New Yorker once sat on my deck (verandah) in Brisbane and expressed his amazement at the abundance and diversity of the large birdlife in the trees in front.
Sounds like everyone loves their beetroot here. I need to give it another try
Hey Tristan, long term viewer from Melbourne, first time commenter! Awesome list, and bin chickens seem exotic to me too; they're not found down south though
The white ibis have become bin chickens only recently. When I was a kid they were a freshwater wading bird that you saw in cow pastures, and never saw in cities. When I moved to Sydney forty years ago there were none on the streets. I think it was only in the last fifteen or twenty years that they moved in to Sydney, and that's about when I started to hear them called "bin chickens".
Blame climate change.
Hey Chris! Happy to have you as part of the channel. Glad you liked the list. I have to agree, I never saw bin chickens down south. But they’re all over Brisbane and some other places up north
They're everywhere in QLD. And I've never seen a curlew in Vic either.
South where?
I’m in Port Fairy, 300km west of Melbourne on the south west coast. We certainly have bin chickens here.
We do have the little lever thing at the fuel bowser but it only at the pumps for semi trucks
Thanks for acknowledging our multicultural society! I think ppl from other countries presume we were all born here and have blue eyes and blonde hair 😂 The Aussie surfer clichè!
Yeah, not gonna lie, I thought that before I came here
Gr8 list Tristan. As the guy in Sydney said to me, put on your boardies, grab a few tinnies and head down to Bondi!
Thank you!
6:31 "That is not human"???
Ahhh, that's right- it's a bird!!!
You forgot Magpies swooping you from behind in Spring.
The lever thing on petrol pumps is actually illegal here - you are not allowed to jam the lever with anything as it is a fire/danger hazard.
Beetroot + hamburgers - the only way
The word thong for footwear has been around since Adam played Fullback for Collingwood in the Galilee Footy league
Also here in Victoria - you have to have a zero Blood alcohol level while on your L's and P's (red for 1 year then green for 3) and there is a restriction on the engine size you can drive (IE no souped up V8's on L's)
i have never been in a restaurant where teh cheque was brought to the table, the whole concept is too bougie for me thanks. yeah bin chickens man! i guess our equivalent to raccoons, except theyre creepy as hell lmao
The reason for no garbage disposals is they waste water. This country suffers very severe droughts (we are only just coming out of one now) and there are times when people are only permitted a 10cm deep bath or 3min shower per person per day, and only 1 or 2 washing loads per week, and no washing hard surfaces with a hose or water your garden at all. Instead some councils have green waste bins, which includes your food waste... it is used to make compost. Much more water efficient. Plus, extra nutrients in the water is not always good and can encourage algal blooms which can kill marine life. Garbage disposals are NOT a good environment way to deal with food waste.
We used to have the lever to fill but they were phased out about 30 years ago
Welcome to Queensland. Garbage disposals were popular in Australia 30 - 40 years ago, but now that Australians are more environmentally savvy, we like to use our scraps in compost. Also curlews are related to Roadrunners. If you haven't heard them, before and you are lying awake at night and you hear one, you think someone is being murdered and they stand stock still if feeling threatened, as if that is going to help them!
What kind of muppett doesn't have beetroot in their burger?
Anyone that's not from Oceania.
Mate beetroot is so disgusting
Ok so the gas pumps usual have the thing that holds in on disabled for safety reasons except for the diesel pumps at the truck stop they always have them BUT I have a trick that most old school truck drivers will know! Have a tennis ball in your car and when you pump gas wedge it in the handle and it will hold the leaver to the on position 👍🏼🇦🇺
It only took me a year to get my full license, but that was 23 years ago.
The good old days .Took me a year to get .6 months to loose
I got my learners in 1994 and it still took 1 year for the learners before I could go for my licence (the year after this they reduced it to 6months) then you had your provisional for a year (or P’s) and then you could have your open licence after that. Some states made P’s for two years. Qld’ers never had to show the p plates like NSW but they then changed that law to match the other states as we drive across states all the time.
When I got my licence in NSW in 1967 there was no set time to have your learners permit and P plates, which hadn’t been around for very long, were for one year. There were no demerit points back then, if you were caught speeding you automatically lost your P’s for a while.
Stop saying gas it’s petrol mate.
You’ve been in Aus for a bit, you should know that your pumping petroleum into your car, if you didn’t know, petroleum is short for petrol.
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You mean petrol is short for peteoleum🤔
The word Thongs (plural) not singular has been used for 60 yrs that I know of (Yes I am older than 60).
In Adelaide we tend to stay away from L-plate drivers. They are unpredictable because they are learning.
P-plates in South Australia is only introduced about 30 yrs ago. Other states have had the P-plate system longer.
In South Australia pedestrian Phone Zombies are worth 25 points, 50 points if they are driving a car.
Where I’m from, I don’t know if it’s the whole of QLD or not but we call L-platers “learner burners”.
P plates were introduced almost 40 years ago. I know as they were used when I got my licence 38 years ago.
@@cherylween4973 When I got my licence you had a cop sitting beside you to pass the practical side of the test. The written side was also done at a police station.
Egyptian "thong sandals" have been around since at least 1,600 BC. Australians called them "thongs" since at least 1910. New Zealand called them "jandals" after Japanese sandals and were introduced to them in late WW1. Americans soldiers discovered Japanese "zori"s in 1945, post WW2. The "G-string" garment was styled and named after similar item strippers wore. Americans discovered G-strings in 1939 New York World's Fair and called them "thongs". They changed the name of the footwear to "flip-flops" in the 1950's when they became popular in beach culture and started making them from rubber, plastic and foam...naming them after the sound they made when walking.
@@suelynch when was that? That was not necessary when I got my license.
6:32 no it’s a bird 😂
Oh my universe, daylight saving needs to die, but you can pry my beetroot hamburger out of my cold dead hands.
Hahaha
Daylight savings is still around because the City people want to go home in winter while it's still daylight. All of us in the country hate it.
yes! beetroot all the way and daylight savings is the devil! Why do they have to use it down south? It just stuffs us up here!
If you’re a pedestrian ans you come up to a zebra crossing, it’s the law for you to stop and let the pedestrian walk across the road. Sometimes we’re forced to be nice lmao
Some bowsers do have the lever, however most people grab the fuel cap and put that inside the grip which holds it open.
With the garbage disposals, we did used to have them in Australia however we were starting to get issues with what was being placed in them and then the final refuse would make it's way into our ocean and other waterways causing disgusting pollution issues, never mind the occasional finger or hand :)
Thanks for the info! Good to know why they’re not here anymore
bowsers aren't actually meant to have them (at least in some states) its a safety thing, say there is an emergency like for instance a fire starts your natural instinct is to let go of the lever thus shutting off the patrol coming out if you have the clip and you panic and pull it out of your car petrol will go everywhere and make the situation potentially more dangerous
Welcome to Australia. Get use to hearing the word thongs :3
A third of Australians were born overseas, AND half of Australians have at least one overseas born parent. This is true for me and my family.
That's wonderful but not true of everybody. My lot has been here since 1842: we sort of fall between Aboriginal and Multicultural. Bit of a no-man's land :-)
Yes my son and I have! My dad is Hungarian My sons Grandparents are Greek 😊
Am i the only one wondering where you get than magical white mini van parked on the road? So far I have seen a black Ford Ranger disappear behind it, a jogger mysteriously appear from it! And yeah I know this video has edits, but its just amusing! Small things... I know...
In Qld they tried daylight saving but in FNQ it was still broad daylight at 11 PM & hard to get your kids in for tea
Actually the other way round - in Melbourne it's still light at 9:30. It's just so stinkin' hot in FNQ that people don't want the sun to stay up later (by the clock) than it needs to.
The sun would never set that late in FNQ. The closer to the equator you are, the earlier the sun sets.
So a few things at the service station it’s the diesel pumps only that have the little switch that holds it on automatic pump on and on the crossings for the road pedestrians have right of way all the time
Ima just wait for Isaac butterfeild to make a vid bout this
Petrol pumps that continue to pump when none supervises are dangerous and are therefore banned.
Even Australians are amazed by the time zones and daylight saving. Simple answer is that in the tropics it really does not work very well.
Bin chickens only exist in cities.
There’s a servo round the corner from me that still has the levers and they’ll still serve you if they’re not busy. I go there specifically for that! Love the old fashioned service and friendly chat! They even cleaned my windscreen the other day! So lovely.
Thongs go on your feet, G-Strings cover your bits (barely)
I’m Australian, AND BURGERS WITHOUT BEETROOT IS A CRIME!
Those sink grinders used to be a thing but local councils turned against them because they add a lot of fat and solid waste to sewerage systems.
This man, has obviously never been attacked by magpies to not have magpies on your birds list... 🤣
Plz take the time to see why u might see funny helmets on people who ride bikes and general fear of these bastards 🤷🏼♀️
Adelaide should be one hour behind Melbourne but the government changed it a long time ago to make business between Adelaide and Melbourne easier for both sides.
Back in the day when servos had attendants who would pump the petrol for you, the pumps had the catch you describe. This allowed the attendant to clean your windscreen, check your oil etc while the pump was working. When self service pumps came in, the catches were removed and you had to hold the pump. This is a legal requirement, you must be holding the handle while the pump is working. What it does prevent is the people leaving the nozzle in the tank and then driving away, taking the pump assembly with them - which happens quite frequently in the USA.
Some truck servos have the lever like the big Diesel road train section of the servo
Um, we like to slow down and stop for pedestrians at crossings because we don't like to kill them. I guess I won't be walking around the US if I go... especially not in my thongs....
If you look closely at the petrol browser (pump as Americans call them) hose nozzles, you can see that they are made for being able to be left flowing automatically: However the lever catch has been taken off so you cannot leave the filling of your car unattended. This law was brought in because of some serious failures causing dangerous situations.
The reason why we have a EMU and a Kangaroo as our national emblem is That they both can’t take a step backwards
Haha curlews are nightmare material for sure. When they let out the longer scream, it sounds like someone is legit being murdered. I love the use of the term bin chicken! 🤣🤣
I thinks it’s cool that you can get your license fast in America but also cars are dangerous so it taking longer to get a license in Australia is way safer and I feel lucky to live here even if I have to rely mostly on my parents (I live in the country public transport is minimal)
Yummy, Beetroot on Burgers Sounds Delicious!!! I gotta Go to Australia and have a taste of that. Australia is my Kind of Place.
No we don't have the lever thingy and i am absolutely shocked at this. Thank you for opening my eyes.
Until you've tried beetroot on a burger you really don't know what your missing but never understood why this is seen as weird, we put it in sandwiches too - is that not normal elsewhere?
Not many birds are human really!
Chickeeeen Maaaaan..... (He's everywhere)