The Little Nippers program isn’t related to the school, it’s a club the kids join especially if they’re interested in becoming a lifeguard when they get older. Most of them do achieve their dream!
Yes, all six of my grandsons who live north of Brisbane do or did attend Little Nippers. Two have gone on to junior life guard programmes. Nippers isn't just about water/beach safety though. They arrange museum trips, forest safety, wildlife recognition, and other outdoor safety events too.
The reason for the alcohol not being in the supermarket is that you have to be over legal drinking age to serve/sell alcohol to someone else and you have to get a licence to do so ( which is just a quick course to ensure you understand all the laws and responsibilities involved). In supermarkets you have people as young as 15 on registers, so that won't fly.
Yep that and also it allows the government to put restrictions on the opening hours of liquor stores. They have to close by 11pm in NSW and 10pm on Sundays.
another factor is that in a lot of bottle shops and depending on the state - it's illegal for people under 18 to be in the shop, even if not making a purchase (exemptions obviously apply to parents with their young children). some stores it's simply another measure to ensure they aren't breaching liquor licensing laws. obviously, people under 18 are allowed in supermarkets, which is another reason why they dont sell alcohol in supermarkets.
We have similar laws here(Ireland) around not being able to serve alcohol as a minor & restricted times but we simply have a section/isle in the supermarket(or even local shop) that is separate with barriers that is closed after serving hrs and you have to be served by an adult at the till. Severe fines for those not following the rules makes breaking them not worth it. (Course some do but they are either tiny local shops or not doing it for long)
One of the reasons bidets haven't taken off here is the historical water restrictions. There was a point in time where showers were supposed to be a maximum of 3 minutes, there were low-flow shower heads and half flush toilets put in, you couldn't water a garden or fill a pool, you couldn't water hard surfaces, you could spot clean your cars mirrors/lights/number plate or other 'safety' related areas, otherwise only at a car wash where they'd recycle the water, no fountains or water features could be used, etc. We had a massive campaign about not being a 'wally with water' and constantly had news updates on the water shortages. While that isn't the case now, most of us still have the subconscious thought of not wasting water, so the idea of shooting it up our nether regions felt exceptionally wasteful.
We are the driest inhabited Continent on the planet so yeah water conservation is essential 👍also some cities and council areas voted to keep a lot of the drought restrictions in place voluntarily even after the dams started filling back up
another thing to add is that if you have a pool in your backyard, it is mandatory to have it fenced accordingly to pool safety standards, even to the point of certain types of kiddy pools are supposed to be fenced
G'day Ian, I would love to address the "Bottl'o" subject and the high taxes on alcohol here in Australia. All types of alcohol are restricted to 18+. therefore the places that you can buy alcohol are restricted too. There are penalties for selling alcohol to people under 18. It would be unfair to expect the checkout operators or the counter staff to risk being penalised selling to underage. The staff in bottle shops are trained to be qualified to check for the buyers' age at time of purchase. The tax on alcohol as well as tobacco is high because of the financial strains placed on the Australian economy for medical costs for treatment of both alcohol and tobacco related illnesses. You have often commented on our free medical care here in Australia. These taxes are just one of the ways our government are able to fund our Medicare. So our alcohol and tobacco is expensive but our health care is cheap! It is almost like a "user pays" system. That is, you want to drink or smoke, then you contribute more to the health care expenses incurred. Also the "feet on seats" fines. Yes they are high in price but so are all our fines for doing anything wrong. This is a simple process. Break the law, pay a big fine. If you don't want to pay big fines then do not break the law. I turn 60 in a few months and, touch wood, my last fine was for speeding 13 years ago. This doesn't mean that I drive like a "grandpa". I just don't drive like an idiot.
😂 yes that sounds reasonable here but compared to back home in UK 🙈. When it comes to public holidays, you normally get 2/3x20 packs for 40 dollars and that is normally a choice of commercial lagers not just carlton dry. The cost here is mind-blowing. Even when you take into account the higher wages.
Here in Australia, kids safety in the water is paramount, whether that is on the beach or in a pool. There is a program called Kids alive do the five (Fence the pool, Shut the Gate, Teach your kids to swim it’s great, Supervise Watch your mate and learn how to resuscitate.). In regards to Little Nippers this is more for towns near a beach. When I was growing up we were a fair distance from beaches while we travelled around (Mundubberra in Queensland and Mooroopna /Shepperton in Victoria - Fruit picking) so it was more learning to swim in swimming pools. The people who love the beach started with the Nippers and graduated to Surf Lifesaving.
Recently on a train in Perth, (Australia) a man put his feet on the next seat. Another passenger complained and the man was taken off the train at the next station
I'm a retired early childhood educator (3 to 9 year olds) and my little ones did not have heavy backpacks - they were not expected to carry large numbers of books, etc., in their bags. Many of their workbooks, etc., were kept in the classroom. Most young children were picked up from school so they rarely had to have the backpack on for more than a couple of minutes as they have to wear seatbelts in cars/minibuses so backpacks can't be worn in those vehicles. Little Nippers is a program run by the various Life Saving Clubs based at individual beaches and the Life Saving Clubs are volunteer members, not paid life guards. Little Nippers is purely recreational and optional, not mandatory, for children and has no association with the Education Department. However, children who attend state schools, i.e. publicly funded schools run by each state government, have compulsory swimming classes as part of the school curriculum - in Western Australia it's 2 weeks a year, so 10 lessons of 1 per school day.There are also summer vacation swimming classes run by the Education Department which range from 5 to10 lesson programs but these are optional and there is a cost to the parents, albeit heavily subsidised by the government with further discounts for families that have 3 or more school aged children enrolled. Best part is that if you're taking your family on a summer vacation at another town in Western Australia, for example as a family in the Perth metropolitan area deciding to head to a coastal town in the south-west for an extended holiday of a week or more, you can enrol your child/children in the Education Department's summer vacation classes for that town.
The school bags used to be school cases, the hard kind that you could only carry with one hand, so you walked tilted sideways. They switched it up to an ergonomically designed backpack that would distribute the weight more evenly and keep the child’s spine aligned properly. When they wear it as they’re meant to be worn, no problem. The problems come from kids who are too lazy to put it on and they just lug it around, making it like the old hard school cases. Kindergarten, Years 1, 2 and 3 don’t have much to carry so they’re not the problem. Years 4, 5 and 6 need to wear the backpack properly because they’re starting to get more homework. Teachers should be able to assist kids in donning them, but so can they help each other, and make sure the straps are pulled firmly in place for good back support. I had a hard case for twelve years of school, they just kept getting bigger. Google Globite school, to see what I mean.
The first year of secondary college they brought in 2 stap bags that you couldn't carry or put on your back comfortably. Im left handed and carried this bag on my right now im stronger in my right arm/shoulder so im now ambidextrous?? South paw with a killer right hook
The old Globite suitcase ruined many peoples spines - only we didn’t know about it until we were over 40. Those school bags were really heavy, I remember having to lug half a dozen neatly covered exercise books and usually the same number of textbooks to school every day - including about 2kg of Professor Messel’s Science textbook, vol 1 & 2. But it was an incredible Science curriculum, best in the world. The other thing about Globites was that incredible smell when everyone opened them to take out their books in class 🤢
Gidday. As an Aussie who has spent time in the Midwest, I can comment on the alcohol retailing. In Indiana, they had drive-thru EVERYTHING. Banking, ATMs, pharmacy and newsagents. Everything EXCEPT drive-thru bottle shops. Yes, you could buy alcohol in CVS, Walmart and Krogers, but you had to exit your vehicle and walk inside to get it. Australia has a very strict licensing program for establishments that sell alcohol. The supermarkets own many pubs and bottle shops, often next to the supermarkets. The checkout assistants don’t have to waste time on checking IDs. That said, every neighbourhood has a local pub. Pubs and RSL clubs are also family friendly. They serve as community hubs and restaurants. I grew up with my parents taking us out for dinner at local pubs and it was the same as dining in a restaurant, with table service. I also like going to a drive-thru bottle shop and having personalised service. The staff will get your order, put it in your car and take care of the payment without having to step out of your car. Their prices are very similar to walk in bottle shops. As for ALDI, you can order alcohol online and have it delivered. Most bottle shops also do the same now. As for swimming, Nippers is a life saving program. Most Aussie kids have compulsory swimming lessons at school, regardless of where they live. If the kids are not confident in the water, the school will have after-school swimming programs you can enrol the kids in for a small fee. Throughout primary school, we had yearly swimming carnivals and also had to complete a swimming safety certificate.
Agree, our hyper-awareness of water conservation extends to the toilets themselves having two separate flush buttons, one for "small" flushes for wee and "full flush" for more than that. It is a HUGE issue in Australia. :)
OMG. Who puts that much Vegemite on ANYTHING? The photos she used for the rubbish would be for council footpath collections. You can leave furniture on the footpath but not like that. Council rubbish collections happen a couple of times a year in NSW anyway, Seven year olds don't carry enormous bags - but as they get older, into high school they can be heavy.
If you have a toilet next to the sink where you keep your toothbrush, unless you have a cap on your toothbrush, if you were to put it under a microscope/ get it swabbed you will find you have fecal matter on it, to which you are then putting in your mouth on a daily basis.
NATURALLY you make friends with the owner of the local bottle shop. My local guy suggested I bring my kids in to meet him. When I did, the guy was very polite but said to my 14yo son that he didn’t want to see him until he was 18 and now he knew what he looked like and how old he was, my son didn’t need to try fake ID. I thought it was a sensible thing. (Aussie, drinking age is 18).
little nippers is an awesome program, parents are often involved add that most states have a learn to swim program for primary school kids and even baby have a watersafe program where they are introduced to water and taught basics of survivability like floating, then paddling to get back to the side.
The Carlton Dry sign was for "Any 2 for $89". Not one carton for $89. It's about $50 for a single carton. BTW, most of those separate liquor stores (or bottlos) are owned by Coles or Woolies and yes, they are usually attached to a supermarket.
Let's break it down properly for him, coz easier is better, right? 2 cartons of 30 for $89 AUD = 1 carton for $44.50. Minus GST ($4.89) is $39.60 a carton, $1.32 per can. $1.32 AUD translated to USD is $0.85 per can. I googled and found Walmart selling 30 can cartons of Budweiser for $22.73 or $0.75 USD per can. So the difference is 10c USD per can before taxes - not so bad when you look at it that way!
Bidets must use a lot of water, which is not something we want in Australia, where water is not so plentiful. Anyone who spreads that much vegemite on their toast is just not doing it right and the lesson here is; less is more. What she has to say about hard rubbish collections is something that I find disturbing as an Aussie, because the throw away mentality in Australia means that perfectly serviceable items get thrown away when they get tired of the colour, etc, where people elsewhere in the world will use something for as long as possible. The reason that most Aussies get to go to the beach so often is beacuse we all live near the coast. That’s because the centre of the country is so inhospitable.
Regarding supermarkets and the sale of alcohol. Many checkout operators in supermarkets are ‘under age’, as in under 18 years of age. They cannot legally sell alcohol (or drink it). Also, a person of any age can shop in a supermarket, but they can’t shop in a ‘bottle shop’. So, having the alcohol separate from the supermarket solves some problems that are related to age groups. Imagine the 16 year old kid working at the supermarket after school having to ‘police’ their friends from buying alcohol? I don’t understand how the rest of the world does it and gets it to work? But there would be more teen drinking problems in Australia if we had underage kids selling alcohol to underage customers.
Nice commentary Ian, thank you. American alcohol legal age is 21, ours is 18. This plus the mandatory minimum age to serve it makes a difference in how available you make it. We don't have school lunches, so kids carry all their food too, usually in insulated containers, which adds bulk to their bags.
I was in the nippers program as a kid and it was amazing, they teach you how swim in the sea, body surfing, life saving, resuscitation, CPR and of course how to ride a surfboard.
About the school children with the school bags. The back pack is an essential item and a Primary school kid does not have much stuff in their bag, its not heavy at all. They only have it on their back on the way to school, and home again. I think its another reason why Australian kids grow up self sufficient and very capable to fend for themselves.
Fun fact, on the house plans, the toilet's room is labelled 'WC' for 'Water Closet'. Bidets were sold out during the pandemic, mostly because toilet paper was so hard to find. The problem is most peoples houses just weren't designed for them. Also another fun fact, the WC is generally next to the laundry, that way once you've done your business, you go into the laundry to wash your hands :)
Separate toilets are historically because of the outdoor dunny. When houses had an external toilet to the house. So bathrooms typically did not have a toilet in them. The toilet was more likely to be located near the laundry as a lot of houses had their laundry on the back verandah.
I lived in Rockdale in the 80's as a school kid, lived on Rocky Point Road, then moved to Ramsgate Road in Ramsgate then again to Torwood St Ramsgate. I'm 53 now.
6:12 That's 2x 24 cans of Carlton Dry for $89! I'm a bit confused by Martina, in the video, saying you can't buy alcohol in supermarkets as she lives in Melbourne. You can buy it in supermarkets there, can't you? It's true that up here in QLD you can't though. 7:53 - you can only put stuff out on the median strip when the local council is planning a collection, right? My LGA doesn't do that, so I drive our crap to the dump. 9:05 - Fines for feet on seats probably rarely happen. At least here in Brisbane.
G'day it's Steven from down under ( Sydney ) Of course we have bidets however they're not popular, what has always been popular though are flushable "bum wipes" 😊 Like so many Aussies I've been raised on Vegimite, its delicious on toast in the morning, with butter though. As for alcohol availability, Australia's favourite supermarket is Coles and they also own the popular alcohol retailer called Liquorland, in most locations there's likely to be a Coles and a Liquorland side by side. Many newer homes these days actually have a powder room woth a dunny ( toilet ) and hand basin too. School bags may seem heavy however there are obviously load limits.
Hey Ian (@IWrocker). Re the school kids mandatory hat wearing: Either where I used to live in Victoria wasn't that bad, or it's a more recent thing - we very rarely EVER wore hats around school - mostly caps when it was time for sports (obviously not indoors). I finished school pre-1990, and it was only around the early 2000's that I started seeing kids in hats. Nowadays, it's true - there are more kids in hats than not. Also, it was mandatory for a uniform to be worn at pretty much every school - to and from school inclusively. Jumpers / pullovers / blazers were to be worn until the temp reached above 35 C (95 F) - also ties for the lads were to be worn until similar temp reached. My oldest brother (lived with my dad in South Australia, after mum and dad divorced) only ever got out of going to school if the day was forecast to be over 40 C - 104 F - (South Australia at the time had the highest UV, so a simple safety choice there) so there's a really good reason now for kids to have decent sun protection. Like yourself - gimme a baseball cap and I'm good to go anywhere - even if it's stinking hot and midday with full sun! Cheers mate ... Steve (Sydney, Australia) 👍🦘🇦🇺
Sweden, Norway and FInland have also a separate store for alcohol (like that in Australia) and it's for the same reason. High taxes and a way to regulate how much alcohol the citizen will drink. It has a history behind it. And it's only opened during weekdays and 5-6 hours on Saturday. So planning is a must. I think that we who live in countries like that are so used to it so we don't really bother anymore. It's just how it is. It will also be easier for the cashier to ID check people that they are hesitant about for their age. The age limit for buying alcohol in Sweden is 20 years. If you look young but are older they can still demand to check your ID, just for them to be sure there are no underage drinking. I showed my ID a couple of week back when buying whisky (I'm 40 years old).
Bidets are a lot more common in Australia for those in Aged or Disability care. Simply makes their life easier. Don't need to go out & buy an entire new toilet or anything can get one you just put over the top of your toilet seat & hook it up.
- Japanese-style bidet toilet seats (and toilets) are a thing here and there. Not common, but available. I know a few households who have converted. - Coles and Woolworths usually have a bottle shop attached to the store, or just outside.
A good mate of mine was travelling from Sydney to Emu Plains (about 60 km) by train, he went by train if he had a day shift. Police officers travel for free, but they travel in what is known as half uniform (another shirt or jacket over the police shirt). Well my mate got on a train to go home and this young bloke in his late teens had his feet up on the seat. My mate asked him politely to take his feet off the seat. The young bloke refused, my mate asked again and he refused.My mate said to him if you don't take them off the seat I will arrest you, to which the young bloke started laughing(well not for long) my mate got up put him in an arm lock and walked him up the stairs to the door level (double decker trains) he handcuffed him to a pole and went to find the guard to contact Penrith police station. When the train stopped at Penrith there was a paddy wagon waiting to take them to the police station. My mate charged him and he was bailed to appear in court. What annoyed my mate the most was he had to hang around and wait for another train.
Nippers is a great program, but some schools (such as the high school my kids went to) actually offer water-based classes in marine studies, boating and water-safety, also individual sports afternoons such as fishing or surfing, alongside football, cricket etc.
The separate toilet thing is partly a practicality thing. It wasn’t until the 80s that it became common to have 2 bathrooms in a house so being able to use the toilet while other people were bathing was useful, but also because in the 50s/60s there was a huge population and building boom and many houses were built in areas without sewerage or piped water, even in big cities. This meant the bathroom indoors was built without a toilet and the toilet was a “dunny” (a hole in the ground or a pan that was collected regularly by the nightsoil collector). The dunny was in a little outhouse in the back yard, separate from the house. By the late 60s, most houses in the suburbs had sewerage and flushing toilets became the norm, but there was no room in the bathroom for one, so it usually went in a little room at the end of the hallway. The problem with the separate room means there’s no space for the bidet and no sink to wash your hands straightaway (you have to open and close 2 doors and go into the main bathroom), although when toilet paper became scarce during the COVID lockdowns, bidet attachments on toilet seats became popular and many middle eastern immigrants often have a hose or bidet attachment on their toilet for washing as it’s customary where they come from. In Australia, I’ve only ever seen standalone bidets in high-end houses built in the 70s/80s and even then, really rare. As for Nippers, it’s more of a Sydney/Perth/Gold Coast/Newcastle thing and even then, only for people who live right next to the beach. You’re not going to take your kids to Nippers if the beach is half an hour, or an hour plus away in the car and culturally Surf Lifesaving clubs aren’t really the most welcoming environment for people who aren’t from a coastal neighbourhood/family (most beachside neighbourhoods are very parochial and don’t welcome outsiders) and those areas are expensive to live in, so not really a common Australian experience. Living in Brisbane and Melbourne, I never knew anyone who did it as a kid.
Bidet's do exist in Aussie. I worked for a hardware company in Sydney for nearly 10 years selling bathroom products and although not common we did sell bidet's. Developer builds tended not to put them in because it adds to the cost of the build but people doing their own bathroom renovations would consider them if only for their ensuite. But it would be rare to find one in an older build. One thing I do miss is hard rubbish.
Pretty much every supermarket has the alcohol section just separate within the store. The sun protection, SAVE THE RANGAS , no hat no play. Most kids will have a locker for their bag so only carry it in.
As a brit living in oz and has spent time in us I will give some context. Alcohol here is expensive compared to uk, UK is expensive compared to US. I remember paying like 6 gbp for a 70cl bottle of flavoured vodka from Walmart in Vegas in 2015. That would have cost atleast 15 gbp at the time. If I tried to buy that now in Australia it would be equivalent to 25 gbp. I can get a 6 pack of Heineken in UK for half of what it costs here and that's a cheaper import beer. A nice 4 pack independent oz craft beer is 10gbp/13usd minimum. Tempurature here is obviously pretty high but the uv level is off the charts. All time record in UK is 8.6. A cloudy summer day in oz is 12. A sunny day is 14+ 🙈 honestly insane, feels like arrakis. The temps you kinda get used to, no way of getting used to extreme cancer levels of UV. Fells like your in the film sunshine!
As an Aussie and a seasoned Vegemite connoisseur.The thicker the Vegemite is spread the better. There's nothing like biting into a piece of warm toast with butter a very thick layer of Vegemite. YUM,YUM!!!
Beg to differ. Vegemite is revolting spread on thick! A thick piece of fresh bread, butter then a thin layer of Veg is the way to go. Yum. Honestly I have yet to meet an aussie that likes it spread thick. You are a rarity!
In the "dutch"lands we mostly have a bathroom including toilet and a separate toilet in a small area. bathroom is usually for private usage (in-house) separate toilet is usually for guests, so they dont try to claim your throne.
Australia had separate indoors toilets from the 1950s/60 to the 1970s. But, unfortunately, the "open plan living" craze of the 1980's put the toilet back in the same room as your toothbrush 😢
I don't know about other schools but the primary school I attended was less than 5 min walk to the beach so each year for half a day the entire school went to the beach and had the talks on beach safety followed by beach games and competitions and ended with sausage sizzle. another weird thing my school did was have an afl day where students could wear their teams colours and donate a gold coin to charity where each team had the line of coins built to show which team had most supporters then split into class size and rotate between various afl minigames led by a couple of afl players. usualy ended by lunch time.
We have a lot of swimming lessons here because a majority of Australia is within 1hr of the ocean. Im in the hills in western Australia and its a 30 to 45min drive to the ocean. My husband and I go fishing often. My kids are 00 kids and had a average sized school bag. But until grade 2 the parents or guardian would carry their bags. It wouldn't have much in it. Their lunch, reader book, communication book with the teacher.
Here. scoliosis (spinal curvature) is sometimes called in layman's terms "schoolbag spine". I have it, from carring my heavy school bag on one side in the 60s and 70s. Then backpacks became more popular and there was less of a problem with this. Wheelie bags sounds like a good idea but only if you have transport, not walking miles down a bitumen road. You'd need cross-country tyres.. lol.
I learnt to swim when i was 2 and at the age of 10 our school marched us all down to the jetty and we had to jump off and be able to tread water fully dressed minus our shoes for 2 minutes, it felt brutal but now im older i appreciate it.
Your videos are great and I feel good as an Aussie seeing you cover different Aussie things. Growing up in Australia we like stuff from USA so this is cool. I’m always curious as to what started this Australian rabbit hole for you…love your work, always get straight into it ✌️
Our kids all did nippers and became adult Surf Lifesavers. They also did lots of water sports for school - as their schools were on the creeks… near the beach…so boat licenses, kayaking, surf ski, surfing, beach walking, 🤿 scuba and …outside of school there was swim club, gymnastics, footy AFL and League…opportunities to Japan, USA, UK for cultural travel normal and music focus - this was Public School on the Gold Coast. Amazing childhood! In USA the Californian kids asked the 13 year old Aussies what diet they were on…. Answer: No diet - natural food and fun social environment (full of movement) 🤩
Ian,I understand that Australia has a huge tax on alcohol but $89 dollars on a case of beer? Australians would never pay that much for a case, that advertisement was for two cases😂 Can I buy you a decent cap as that one on your head just doesn't look right for you, a blue NSW state of origin is more suitable for your good looks 👍
Not all houses in Australia have a separate toilet especially older ones. And a lot of apartments/Units still have the toilet in the bathroom. It's not inconvenient re alcohol, the liquor stores are literally attached to the supermarket chains. BWS for Woolies and liquor land for Coles. It's right outside the door. Also Aldi sells alcohol inside their stores in some states like NSW. Alcohol consumption in Australia is too high. Luckily , I don't really drink so the taxes don't affect me. That being ssid the sign actually said "any TWO for $89" No one's policing the fine for feet on trains thing. It's nonsense trust me lol. I've travelled on them consistently all my life. Most of the time people aren't even around to tell people to remove their feet. Once in a blue moon some guard might come past and motion for someone to remove their fee but no one's getting fined. I've never heard of having to have a big bag for school or a certain size. Yeah nipper or junior life guarding is a great incentive.👍 Also, Learning to swim is part of the curriculum. It was mandatory when I was in school, along with basic beach safety/first aid. It should be compulsory world wide.imo. so many tourists come and drown in our waters because they can't swim properly and don't understand the dangers of the ocean. Every parent world wide should make sure their children can swim, if it's not part of the school curriculum, then get them.lessons. because even if you don't live near a beach or lake etc.or have a pool...one day your children will travel beyond their home town, maybe across the world. And just maybe those skills may save their life some day or equally important, may allow them to save another person's life.
Many supermarkets have an alcohol section. My local supermarket sells grog. Then there are dedicated grog shops, drive through bottlos and take outs from pubs. There is a wide availability but the cost is getting higher. The Carlton Dry was 2 for $89.
In Brisbane, we call it the Brisbane City Council kerbside collection. It's usually once a year for each suburb and we can only do it 24-48hrs prior to collection.
I heard that they’re starting a program like Little Nippers for foreigners and travelers soon… Apparently there was a heap of drownings over summer in Australia this summer… I live in Thailand now, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong 👍🏽
For over 30 years. I sold ONLY NEW Homes in SydneyAustralia. You are Right, Bidets just haven’t caught on here. Over all those years I only Sold ONE Home with a Bidet.and to do that we had to extend the Ensuite by a metre to get the space to fit one.Also it caused Double plumbing so the Bidets water system was totally separate from the standard toilet pan and cistern.This caused some extra expense but my client agreed and we built it for him. He was from the Middle East and had one in their home over there. No doubt there are a few in our more Affluent suburbs but I’m talking about an average 3 - 5 bed home in an average priced suburb.I have however, done a few Squat toilets for customers from Asian countries and the Middle East.
You are never short of a bottle shop in Australia. Im glad its not sold everywhere though. On the backpack issue. Once upon a time we used to take a type of hard suitcase or soft sports type bags to school and due to the heaviness kids were developing crooked spines or scoliosis of the spine, due to them constantly carrying the weight in their favoured hand, causing them to tilt. Kids now carry backpacks which takes a lot of the load off, it prevents the scoliosis and does the child absolutely no harm at all.
Bidets not big Due to water consumption Also what toilets don't have full bowl of water Why we have two buttons for different water use depending on use We have a filtration systems to handle toilet paper as well So not needed Most modern home's now have toilet and bathrooms combined Buggers me why other then saves builders money on building extra wall in materials labor The reason for alcohol separation is so kids aren't around it and most have a section separated You do have to walk out store into the other and pay different tellers as government's use it as a deterrent But for people like you they have drive through you pull in they asked you what you want get it charge you Then you on your way without getting out the vechile most hotel / pub / boozers have them attached to the building Just depends on preference then you have the bottle shops which carry larger varieties of alcohol from all over the world The drive through have limited varieties most fast selling products including wines spirits beers We're all pretty similar in western societies other than a few by laws and here we are pretty regulated on certain things Alcohol cigarettes/ ciggys weapons even pocket knive / knives are illegal to carry unless you can prove a need for it and must be locked in boot / trunk and driving laws very strict as all are things that can cause issue's in public So it to keep some order and respect for others in society It doesn't hurt the government's with extra revenue for no compliance either We're not quite the land of the free But up side it is pretty safe in public at anytime of night or day People not walking around on edge all the time and enjoy themselves instead Nothing perfect it a balance of giving up so rights to have a safer society If not doing anything wrong not a problem and alot of time police will warn you and move you on Depending on what you've done and how your acting when speaking with them Cheers mate 🦘🇦🇺👍
Yeah, walking around the streets of Australia you know you're not walking past people with a gun on them. Our coppers are armed but I've only once in my life been within cooee of a copper drawing their gun and that was in a dodgy neighbourhood. And you only need to be afraid of the police here if you're a crim or, sadly, if you're indigenous.
The school bags are to help children with posture and weight. When I was at school we did not have backpacks, but suitcases or ports. These were carried in one hand,so you tended to be weighed down on one side. I still have some pain in my lower right back from this practice and I am in my 60s. I think the reason the backpacks are so big is as they are bought when a child starts school and the child keeps them for at least 6 or more years. The child grows into them. When the child is very small, there is very little in the bag.
Hard rubbish days are set by councils & are not an every day thing. It's a kind of tradition to rummage a bit but don't make a mess! It helps folks get rid of bulky items & helps prevent illegal dumping. The council trucks take everything away on pick up day.
In Belgium most houses have a toilet in the bathroom and a separate one in its own little room, usually complete with its own sink. It's called the guest toilet. I don't see why you can't have both in Australia.
It may have changed, but what I couldn't understand in the US is that you couldn't buy mixed drinks. Here in Australia you can buy cans or bottles of Jim Beam and Cola, Jack Daniels and Cola and Rum and cola. In the US you had to buy a litre of the spirits and coke separately.
i'm american from pennsylvania and we can only buy liquor at a state store, but beer from a beer distributor, and no alcohol in grocery stores. i didn't notice we were the only ones until i started living in other states. i live in australia now and there's so many different things. the backpacks for school kids are SO heavy.
In Australia a grocery store needs to have a licence to sell alcohol, this also means they have to hire only workers who are 18 years or over. To compensate for this, most grocery stores seperate their liquor into a seperate store to one side, this store often has a seperate name too, but is owned by the grocery store.
it was standard when i grew up - the toilet always had its own room and the toilet being in the bathroom came about when newer houses were building multiple bathrooms so that a separate toilet was not essential - I always thought toilets in the bathroom was a European thing until it became common in all new houses
A bit of context on rubbish on the strip outside homes is that there are a number of FREE council rubbish pick ups you are entitled to each year, you ring em up an they come an pick it up but you gotta put it out in the first place!
I have 8 bottleos within 10 minutes drive of my house (Northern suburbs Brisbane). And yeah most of them are just outside a supermarket. So I've never considered this a problem, it's just how it is :)
I grew up in the melbourne burbs, not far from a city council area that was reknowned for decades for it’s lack of alcohol availability - and I mean, not just a pub with no beer, but no pubs, no bottleshops, no supermarkets selling grog, no byo restaurants, and no licensed restaurants. Admittedly I’m in my sixties, and that all started charging thirty or forty years ago, but even as a teenager in the 1970’s I remember being blown away at the “civic attitudes” that prevailed in the area at the time.
Bottle shops are a separate section of the supermarkets not just for legal reasons and to not have restricted substances in view of underage kids but also because we have a huge selection of alcohol and need way more space than just an isle in a supermarket. Some of our liquor stores are as big as a supermarket on their own.
That was $89 for 2 cartons, also the majority of the cost of alcohol in Australia is government tax, which is a real problem for hotels and liquor stores and their ability to earn a honest living.
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Like any business, they rely on paying customers to keep the doors open and pay the staff and the the excise tax that has been imposed on alcohol, it will become to expensive for people to afford. Plain and simple and definitely not rubbish.
Booze might seem cheap in the US compared to Oz, but IMO, the difference is where the bill comes: in Oz, medicare (ie the govt) picks up the tab for the cost of alcohol-related harm: whether disease or injuries from alcohol-fueled violence. High booze taxes offset some of this cost. In the US, you pay the tab yourself either directly or through exorbitant health insurance premiums.
Here in Australia, our local supermarket sells alcohol. If any worker at the checkout is under 18 he/she will have a sign on the counter informing customers of the fact and warning them not to bring alcohol through that particular checkout.
It may not be well known that Australia usually leads the Summer Olympic medal tally for the first week during the aquatic program. We eventually get overtaken with the field events and athletics. We have great depth in our swimming clubs and it is not just the beach culture but the swimming pool culture that makes us focus on learning to swim. Most beach deaths are foreigners who have poor swimming skills and can’t understand the life saving signs and flags.
Supermarkets can employ kids from 14 yrs old (lowest wages) But you have to be 18 to buy or sell alcohol. So they have a separate store, usually next door, for drinks. I didn’t do Nippers but I did do school swimming lessons at the local beach.
I once had a table and chairs set that I wanted to get rid of so decided to put it outside my house. Took the table out, and went around the back to start bringing the chairs out, and this lady was already trying to get the table into her boot.
The Carlton dry you saw was 2 cases for $80 not one. Nippers is for kids that live near the beach to learn life saving. They also do fitness. The toilets we have separate as we typically didn't have ensuites in our older houses. I find it weird how you use shower curtains still, we don't tend to use shower curtains in new build houses here
So I am from New Zealand originally but got married in Australia and have been living here since 2007. Neither countries have Bidets my first experience was in Japan and I loved it. So much more hygienic really only using toilet paper to dry. I'm not a huge fan of vegemite but we also have marmite and promite here in Australia, I enjoy marmite more personally it's slightly sweeter and I have mine with a good amount of butter on bread or toast with marmite/vegemite and also have plain salted chips in my sandwich with it, tastes so good. In New Zealand you can buy Wine, Beer and Cider in supermarket but no liquor. Alcohol in Australia is very very expensive.
The heavy rubbish collection is not designed for “other” people to come and rifle through. That is an unfortunate byproduct of the service. The council collects this rubbish in the early morning on the night you put it out. We call people who surf this rubbish “borrowers”. They make a fricken mess
With that Carlton Dry, Ian, it was 2 for $89. So $44.50 a case/slab. Still used to be a lot cheaper a few years ago. We have an insane alcohol and tobacco tax.
I work in a school. Wheelie bags are starting to catch on at my school. Our kids even have to bring a laptop every day from grade 1 (5-6 years old). So they are carrying a lot of weight. I feel sorry for some of the little ones. Often parents help but not always.
I live on the coast in Sydney . In the mid 80 we all had to do the bronze medal which was from memory swim 100 m , swim / rescue fully clothed and learn CPR among other things .We did this during school hours maybe once a fortnight till we passed . It was at the local beach pool . Every Tuesday afternoon we had sport . Surfing was one of the choices , I did sailing for 6 months and power boating for 6 months . To me this was all normal stuff . I Always remember in primary school they told us if it ever reached 40 c we were allowed home , and guess what , they lied 😅
The Little Nippers program isn’t related to the school, it’s a club the kids join especially if they’re interested in becoming a lifeguard when they get older. Most of them do achieve their dream!
And so kids can competently swim & navigate the ocean
You mean Life Saver?
@@RobertBatchelor We call the lifeguards here, I think of candy when you say lifesavers. 😋
@@Jeni10 Ah, I see. Ok then.
Yes, all six of my grandsons who live north of Brisbane do or did attend Little Nippers. Two have gone on to junior life guard programmes. Nippers isn't just about water/beach safety though. They arrange museum trips, forest safety, wildlife recognition, and other outdoor safety events too.
The toilet separate from the bath room stops poop particles getting on your tooth brush.😁
I've started a habit of closing the toilet lid before I flush now. If I can't prevent the particles I try to limit it.
Call me a hygiene freak, I always pick the bits of brown stained sweetcorn off my toothbrush before I use it.
Keep a cover on your toothbrush and in a draw 😊
Yeah what happens if your busting for a crap and the missus is in the shower
no problem, i always use the spousess toothbrush to clean the toilet..
The reason for the alcohol not being in the supermarket is that you have to be over legal drinking age to serve/sell alcohol to someone else and you have to get a licence to do so ( which is just a quick course to ensure you understand all the laws and responsibilities involved). In supermarkets you have people as young as 15 on registers, so that won't fly.
Yep that and also it allows the government to put restrictions on the opening hours of liquor stores. They have to close by 11pm in NSW and 10pm on Sundays.
theres normally a small bottle shop connected to the supermarkets anyways, (or at least the bigger ones) so its not like you have to go too far
If there’s no bottle shop attached to the grocery shop you can go through the drive through bottleo on the way home.
another factor is that in a lot of bottle shops and depending on the state - it's illegal for people under 18 to be in the shop, even if not making a purchase (exemptions obviously apply to parents with their young children). some stores it's simply another measure to ensure they aren't breaching liquor licensing laws. obviously, people under 18 are allowed in supermarkets, which is another reason why they dont sell alcohol in supermarkets.
We have similar laws here(Ireland) around not being able to serve alcohol as a minor & restricted times but we simply have a section/isle in the supermarket(or even local shop) that is separate with barriers that is closed after serving hrs and you have to be served by an adult at the till.
Severe fines for those not following the rules makes breaking them not worth it. (Course some do but they are either tiny local shops or not doing it for long)
One of the reasons bidets haven't taken off here is the historical water restrictions. There was a point in time where showers were supposed to be a maximum of 3 minutes, there were low-flow shower heads and half flush toilets put in, you couldn't water a garden or fill a pool, you couldn't water hard surfaces, you could spot clean your cars mirrors/lights/number plate or other 'safety' related areas, otherwise only at a car wash where they'd recycle the water, no fountains or water features could be used, etc. We had a massive campaign about not being a 'wally with water' and constantly had news updates on the water shortages. While that isn't the case now, most of us still have the subconscious thought of not wasting water, so the idea of shooting it up our nether regions felt exceptionally wasteful.
exactly , waste of water .
We are the driest inhabited Continent on the planet so yeah water conservation is essential 👍also some cities and council areas voted to keep a lot of the drought restrictions in place voluntarily even after the dams started filling back up
Not an issue in Tasmania
We got a timer thingy to put in the shower here in Melbourne when we were in the water shortage years.
@@user-gq2sl2mb7m we used a 3 min egg timer lol .
another thing to add is that if you have a pool in your backyard, it is mandatory to have it fenced accordingly to pool safety standards, even to the point of certain types of kiddy pools are supposed to be fenced
G'day Ian,
I would love to address the "Bottl'o" subject and the high taxes on alcohol here in Australia. All types of alcohol are restricted to 18+. therefore the places that you can buy alcohol are restricted too. There are penalties for selling alcohol to people under 18. It would be unfair to expect the checkout operators or the counter staff to risk being penalised selling to underage. The staff in bottle shops are trained to be qualified to check for the buyers' age at time of purchase.
The tax on alcohol as well as tobacco is high because of the financial strains placed on the Australian economy for medical costs for treatment of both alcohol and tobacco related illnesses. You have often commented on our free medical care here in Australia. These taxes are just one of the ways our government are able to fund our Medicare.
So our alcohol and tobacco is expensive but our health care is cheap! It is almost like a "user pays" system. That is, you want to drink or smoke, then you contribute more to the health care expenses incurred.
Also the "feet on seats" fines. Yes they are high in price but so are all our fines for doing anything wrong. This is a simple process. Break the law, pay a big fine. If you don't want to pay big fines then do not break the law. I turn 60 in a few months and, touch wood, my last fine was for speeding 13 years ago. This doesn't mean that I drive like a "grandpa". I just don't drive like an idiot.
I should point out that, toilets were once outside the house.
Ours was near the bush and it was dark, hated going in the night. I would just squat and piss near the stairs.
FYI - The sign for Carlton Draught says $89 for 2 cartons, or 'slabs' as we call them. Each slab has x24 bottles (x4 six-packs) or cans of beer.
😂 yes that sounds reasonable here but compared to back home in UK 🙈. When it comes to public holidays, you normally get 2/3x20 packs for 40 dollars and that is normally a choice of commercial lagers not just carlton dry. The cost here is mind-blowing. Even when you take into account the higher wages.
Here in Australia, kids safety in the water is paramount, whether that is on the beach or in a pool. There is a program called Kids alive do the five (Fence the pool, Shut the Gate, Teach your kids to swim it’s great, Supervise Watch your mate and learn how to resuscitate.).
In regards to Little Nippers this is more for towns near a beach. When I was growing up we were a fair distance from beaches while we travelled around (Mundubberra in Queensland and Mooroopna /Shepperton in Victoria - Fruit picking) so it was more learning to swim in swimming pools. The people who love the beach started with the Nippers and graduated to Surf Lifesaving.
Recently on a train in Perth, (Australia) a man put his feet on the next seat. Another passenger complained and the man was taken off the train at the next station
Lol
I'm a retired early childhood educator (3 to 9 year olds) and my little ones did not have heavy backpacks - they were not expected to carry large numbers of books, etc., in their bags. Many of their workbooks, etc., were kept in the classroom. Most young children were picked up from school so they rarely had to have the backpack on for more than a couple of minutes as they have to wear seatbelts in cars/minibuses so backpacks can't be worn in those vehicles. Little Nippers is a program run by the various Life Saving Clubs based at individual beaches and the Life Saving Clubs are volunteer members, not paid life guards. Little Nippers is purely recreational and optional, not mandatory, for children and has no association with the Education Department. However, children who attend state schools, i.e. publicly funded schools run by each state government, have compulsory swimming classes as part of the school curriculum - in Western Australia it's 2 weeks a year, so 10 lessons of 1 per school day.There are also summer vacation swimming classes run by the Education Department which range from 5 to10 lesson programs but these are optional and there is a cost to the parents, albeit heavily subsidised by the government with further discounts for families that have 3 or more school aged children enrolled. Best part is that if you're taking your family on a summer vacation at another town in Western Australia, for example as a family in the Perth metropolitan area deciding to head to a coastal town in the south-west for an extended holiday of a week or more, you can enrol your child/children in the Education Department's summer vacation classes for that town.
The school bags used to be school cases, the hard kind that you could only carry with one hand, so you walked tilted sideways. They switched it up to an ergonomically designed backpack that would distribute the weight more evenly and keep the child’s spine aligned properly. When they wear it as they’re meant to be worn, no problem. The problems come from kids who are too lazy to put it on and they just lug it around, making it like the old hard school cases. Kindergarten, Years 1, 2 and 3 don’t have much to carry so they’re not the problem. Years 4, 5 and 6 need to wear the backpack properly because they’re starting to get more homework. Teachers should be able to assist kids in donning them, but so can they help each other, and make sure the straps are pulled firmly in place for good back support. I had a hard case for twelve years of school, they just kept getting bigger. Google Globite school, to see what I mean.
I remember those heavy school cases, when I was at school in the seventies. 😊
The first year of secondary college they brought in 2 stap bags that you couldn't carry or put on your back comfortably. Im left handed and carried this bag on my right now im stronger in my right arm/shoulder so im now ambidextrous?? South paw with a killer right hook
The old Globite suitcase ruined many peoples spines - only we didn’t know about it until we were over 40. Those school bags were really heavy, I remember having to lug half a dozen neatly covered exercise books and usually the same number of textbooks to school every day - including about 2kg of Professor Messel’s Science textbook, vol 1 & 2. But it was an incredible Science curriculum, best in the world.
The other thing about Globites was that incredible smell when everyone opened them to take out their books in class 🤢
That person was putting a lethal dose of vegemite on that toast!
That's a good hit of vitamin B 😂 just how I like it 😂
Looks fine to me.
Microwave it for 45 sec n put staw in it u plebs 😂😂😂
@@griff420blazer4
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a healthy* dose 🙂
Gidday. As an Aussie who has spent time in the Midwest, I can comment on the alcohol retailing.
In Indiana, they had drive-thru EVERYTHING. Banking, ATMs, pharmacy and newsagents. Everything EXCEPT drive-thru bottle shops.
Yes, you could buy alcohol in CVS, Walmart and Krogers, but you had to exit your vehicle and walk inside to get it.
Australia has a very strict licensing program for establishments that sell alcohol. The supermarkets own many pubs and bottle shops, often next to the supermarkets. The checkout assistants don’t have to waste time on checking IDs.
That said, every neighbourhood has a local pub. Pubs and RSL clubs are also family friendly. They serve as community hubs and restaurants. I grew up with my parents taking us out for dinner at local pubs and it was the same as dining in a restaurant, with table service.
I also like going to a drive-thru bottle shop and having personalised service. The staff will get your order, put it in your car and take care of the payment without having to step out of your car. Their prices are very similar to walk in bottle shops.
As for ALDI, you can order alcohol online and have it delivered. Most bottle shops also do the same now.
As for swimming, Nippers is a life saving program. Most Aussie kids have compulsory swimming lessons at school, regardless of where they live. If the kids are not confident in the water, the school will have after-school swimming programs you can enrol the kids in for a small fee.
Throughout primary school, we had yearly swimming carnivals and also had to complete a swimming safety certificate.
Agree, our hyper-awareness of water conservation extends to the toilets themselves having two separate flush buttons, one for "small" flushes for wee and "full flush" for more than that.
It is a HUGE issue in Australia.
:)
All of Europe has this too.
OMG. Who puts that much Vegemite on ANYTHING? The photos she used for the rubbish would be for council footpath collections. You can leave furniture on the footpath but not like that. Council rubbish collections happen a couple of times a year in NSW anyway, Seven year olds don't carry enormous bags - but as they get older, into high school they can be heavy.
Every Aussie would know “no hat, no play”.
If you have a toilet next to the sink where you keep your toothbrush, unless you have a cap on your toothbrush, if you were to put it under a microscope/ get it swabbed you will find you have fecal matter on it, to which you are then putting in your mouth on a daily basis.
you need to watch The Mythbusters episode on just this very topic, you'll be surprised.
Oh, so those things are not tiny toilet brushes? :o
@@BlaTaN save me the trouble. Conclusion?
@@Mike...01 shit gets everywhere!
@@cool386vintagetechnology6 that's not helpful without context obviously.
NATURALLY you make friends with the owner of the local bottle shop. My local guy suggested I bring my kids in to meet him. When I did, the guy was very polite but said to my 14yo son that he didn’t want to see him until he was 18 and now he knew what he looked like and how old he was, my son didn’t need to try fake ID. I thought it was a sensible thing. (Aussie, drinking age is 18).
little nippers is an awesome program, parents are often involved add that most states have a learn to swim program for primary school kids and even baby have a watersafe program where they are introduced to water and taught basics of survivability like floating, then paddling to get back to the side.
It's funny she used ALDI as an example at 5:34 when it's the one grocery store that does sell alcohol.
Not in QLD
The Carlton Dry sign was for "Any 2 for $89". Not one carton for $89. It's about $50 for a single carton. BTW, most of those separate liquor stores (or bottlos) are owned by Coles or Woolies and yes, they are usually attached to a supermarket.
Most Supermarkets have the Bottle Shop NEXT DOOR to the Supermarket. Both Woolworths and Coles has 'their own' Bottleshop outlet brand.
Ian, look again, it says Any 2 for $89.
That's two 30-can cartons.
Totally restricting mass consumption of alcohol.
Let's break it down properly for him, coz easier is better, right? 2 cartons of 30 for $89 AUD = 1 carton for $44.50. Minus GST ($4.89) is $39.60 a carton, $1.32 per can. $1.32 AUD translated to USD is $0.85 per can. I googled and found Walmart selling 30 can cartons of Budweiser for $22.73 or $0.75 USD per can. So the difference is 10c USD per can before taxes - not so bad when you look at it that way!
Bidets must use a lot of water, which is not something we want in Australia, where water is not so plentiful. Anyone who spreads that much vegemite on their toast is just not doing it right and the lesson here is; less is more. What she has to say about hard rubbish collections is something that I find disturbing as an Aussie, because the throw away mentality in Australia means that perfectly serviceable items get thrown away when they get tired of the colour, etc, where people elsewhere in the world will use something for as long as possible.
The reason that most Aussies get to go to the beach so often is beacuse we all live near the coast. That’s because the centre of the country is so inhospitable.
Regarding supermarkets and the sale of alcohol. Many checkout operators in supermarkets are ‘under age’, as in under 18 years of age. They cannot legally sell alcohol (or drink it). Also, a person of any age can shop in a supermarket, but they can’t shop in a ‘bottle shop’. So, having the alcohol separate from the supermarket solves some problems that are related to age groups. Imagine the 16 year old kid working at the supermarket after school having to ‘police’ their friends from buying alcohol?
I don’t understand how the rest of the world does it and gets it to work? But there would be more teen drinking problems in Australia if we had underage kids selling alcohol to underage customers.
Nice commentary Ian, thank you.
American alcohol legal age is 21, ours is 18. This plus the mandatory minimum age to serve it makes a difference in how available you make it.
We don't have school lunches, so kids carry all their food too, usually in insulated containers, which adds bulk to their bags.
I was in the nippers program as a kid and it was amazing, they teach you how swim in the sea, body surfing, life saving, resuscitation, CPR and of course how to ride a surfboard.
About the school children with the school bags. The back pack is an essential item and a Primary school kid does not have much stuff in their bag, its not heavy at all. They only have it on their back on the way to school, and home again. I think its another reason why Australian kids grow up self sufficient and very capable to fend for themselves.
Fun fact, on the house plans, the toilet's room is labelled 'WC' for 'Water Closet'. Bidets were sold out during the pandemic, mostly because toilet paper was so hard to find. The problem is most peoples houses just weren't designed for them.
Also another fun fact, the WC is generally next to the laundry, that way once you've done your business, you go into the laundry to wash your hands :)
bro that was 2 boxes of carlton dry for $84
Separate toilets are historically because of the outdoor dunny. When houses had an external toilet to the house. So bathrooms typically did not have a toilet in them. The toilet was more likely to be located near the laundry as a lot of houses had their laundry on the back verandah.
When I was a kid living in Rockdale in the 80s I am 55 we had an outside toilet with spiders the house is 140 years old now with an insight toilet
140 year old spiders !!! I can believe that, we had an outside dunny as well, and the guy who used to come around and collect the pans.
I lived in Rockdale in the 80's as a school kid, lived on Rocky Point Road, then moved to Ramsgate Road in Ramsgate then again to Torwood St Ramsgate. I'm 53 now.
I was told terrifying tales of the ubiquitous dunny spider by my uncles. Thank fruck I was born in an indoor dunny era.
6:12 That's 2x 24 cans of Carlton Dry for $89!
I'm a bit confused by Martina, in the video, saying you can't buy alcohol in supermarkets as she lives in Melbourne. You can buy it in supermarkets there, can't you? It's true that up here in QLD you can't though.
7:53 - you can only put stuff out on the median strip when the local council is planning a collection, right? My LGA doesn't do that, so I drive our crap to the dump.
9:05 - Fines for feet on seats probably rarely happen. At least here in Brisbane.
Bidets are not common as we are the dryest country on the planet, we consider a bidet as wasting water unnecessarily
Doesn’t stop you from mass migration overpopulating your cities and country towns ! Where is all the new water coming from I wonder??
Don't know how it works in your country but here in Australia we get far more rain along most of our coast and stuff all inland.@Cuddywuddles
G'day it's Steven from down under ( Sydney )
Of course we have bidets however they're not popular, what has always been popular though are flushable "bum wipes" 😊
Like so many Aussies I've been raised on Vegimite, its delicious on toast in the morning, with butter though.
As for alcohol availability, Australia's favourite supermarket is Coles and they also own the popular alcohol retailer called Liquorland, in most locations there's likely to be a Coles and a Liquorland side by side.
Many newer homes these days actually have a powder room woth a dunny ( toilet ) and hand basin too.
School bags may seem heavy however there are obviously load limits.
Hey Ian (@IWrocker). Re the school kids mandatory hat wearing: Either where I used to live in Victoria wasn't that bad, or it's a more recent thing - we very rarely EVER wore hats around school - mostly caps when it was time for sports (obviously not indoors). I finished school pre-1990, and it was only around the early 2000's that I started seeing kids in hats. Nowadays, it's true - there are more kids in hats than not. Also, it was mandatory for a uniform to be worn at pretty much every school - to and from school inclusively. Jumpers / pullovers / blazers were to be worn until the temp reached above 35 C (95 F) - also ties for the lads were to be worn until similar temp reached. My oldest brother (lived with my dad in South Australia, after mum and dad divorced) only ever got out of going to school if the day was forecast to be over 40 C - 104 F - (South Australia at the time had the highest UV, so a simple safety choice there) so there's a really good reason now for kids to have decent sun protection.
Like yourself - gimme a baseball cap and I'm good to go anywhere - even if it's stinking hot and midday with full sun!
Cheers mate ...
Steve (Sydney, Australia) 👍🦘🇦🇺
Baseball caps are useless for sun protection. They do not protect the back of your neck or your ears. Wide brimmed hats are the way to go.
Sweden, Norway and FInland have also a separate store for alcohol (like that in Australia) and it's for the same reason. High taxes and a way to regulate how much alcohol the citizen will drink. It has a history behind it. And it's only opened during weekdays and 5-6 hours on Saturday. So planning is a must. I think that we who live in countries like that are so used to it so we don't really bother anymore. It's just how it is.
It will also be easier for the cashier to ID check people that they are hesitant about for their age. The age limit for buying alcohol in Sweden is 20 years. If you look young but are older they can still demand to check your ID, just for them to be sure there are no underage drinking. I showed my ID a couple of week back when buying whisky (I'm 40 years old).
Bidets are a lot more common in Australia for those in Aged or Disability care.
Simply makes their life easier.
Don't need to go out & buy an entire new toilet or anything can get one you just put over the top of your toilet seat & hook it up.
- Japanese-style bidet toilet seats (and toilets) are a thing here and there. Not common, but available. I know a few households who have converted.
- Coles and Woolworths usually have a bottle shop attached to the store, or just outside.
A good mate of mine was travelling from Sydney to Emu Plains (about 60 km) by train, he went by train if he had a day shift. Police officers travel for free, but they travel in what is known as half uniform (another shirt or jacket over the police shirt). Well my mate got on a train to go home and this young bloke in his late teens had his feet up on the seat. My mate asked him politely to take his feet off the seat. The young bloke refused, my mate asked again and he refused.My mate said to him if you don't take them off the seat I will arrest you, to which the young bloke started laughing(well not for long) my mate got up put him in an arm lock and walked him up the stairs to the door level (double decker trains) he handcuffed him to a pole and went to find the guard to contact Penrith police station. When the train stopped at Penrith there was a paddy wagon waiting to take them to the police station. My mate charged him and he was bailed to appear in court. What annoyed my mate the most was he had to hang around and wait for another train.
Vegemite is something that you need to grow up with. To try it as an adult could be somewhat confronting.
Traumatic even😅
It's also not for everyone either. I'm Australian and hate the stuff lol.
Vegemite is the work of the devil. How anyone can eat it and lamb is something that should be investigated by psychiatrists…🫵🤡
One of the many things I like about Vegemite is how it punishes the greedy! 😄
@@davidbarry994 🤣👍
We installed a bidet. Best thing ever. I don't know how i lived life without one.
I highly recommend to anybody thinking about it. Just do it!
Nippers is a great program, but some schools (such as the high school my kids went to) actually offer water-based classes in marine studies, boating and water-safety, also individual sports afternoons such as fishing or surfing, alongside football, cricket etc.
The separate toilet thing is partly a practicality thing. It wasn’t until the 80s that it became common to have 2 bathrooms in a house so being able to use the toilet while other people were bathing was useful, but also because in the 50s/60s there was a huge population and building boom and many houses were built in areas without sewerage or piped water, even in big cities. This meant the bathroom indoors was built without a toilet and the toilet was a “dunny” (a hole in the ground or a pan that was collected regularly by the nightsoil collector). The dunny was in a little outhouse in the back yard, separate from the house. By the late 60s, most houses in the suburbs had sewerage and flushing toilets became the norm, but there was no room in the bathroom for one, so it usually went in a little room at the end of the hallway.
The problem with the separate room means there’s no space for the bidet and no sink to wash your hands straightaway (you have to open and close 2 doors and go into the main bathroom), although when toilet paper became scarce during the COVID lockdowns, bidet attachments on toilet seats became popular and many middle eastern immigrants often have a hose or bidet attachment on their toilet for washing as it’s customary where they come from. In Australia, I’ve only ever seen standalone bidets in high-end houses built in the 70s/80s and even then, really rare.
As for Nippers, it’s more of a Sydney/Perth/Gold Coast/Newcastle thing and even then, only for people who live right next to the beach. You’re not going to take your kids to Nippers if the beach is half an hour, or an hour plus away in the car and culturally Surf Lifesaving clubs aren’t really the most welcoming environment for people who aren’t from a coastal neighbourhood/family (most beachside neighbourhoods are very parochial and don’t welcome outsiders) and those areas are expensive to live in, so not really a common Australian experience. Living in Brisbane and Melbourne, I never knew anyone who did it as a kid.
Bidet's do exist in Aussie. I worked for a hardware company in Sydney for nearly 10 years selling bathroom products and although not common we did sell bidet's. Developer builds tended not to put them in because it adds to the cost of the build but people doing their own bathroom renovations would consider them if only for their ensuite. But it would be rare to find one in an older build.
One thing I do miss is hard rubbish.
Separate bottle shops prevent children getting away with stealing. Youth are not allowed to purchase alcohol
Pretty much every supermarket has the alcohol section just separate within the store.
The sun protection, SAVE THE RANGAS , no hat no play.
Most kids will have a locker for their bag so only carry it in.
Not in Qld
Yep, save the rangas. My uncles were ranges. 10:59 .
As a brit living in oz and has spent time in us I will give some context. Alcohol here is expensive compared to uk, UK is expensive compared to US. I remember paying like 6 gbp for a 70cl bottle of flavoured vodka from Walmart in Vegas in 2015. That would have cost atleast 15 gbp at the time. If I tried to buy that now in Australia it would be equivalent to 25 gbp.
I can get a 6 pack of Heineken in UK for half of what it costs here and that's a cheaper import beer. A nice 4 pack independent oz craft beer is 10gbp/13usd minimum.
Tempurature here is obviously pretty high but the uv level is off the charts.
All time record in UK is 8.6.
A cloudy summer day in oz is 12. A sunny day is 14+ 🙈 honestly insane, feels like arrakis.
The temps you kinda get used to, no way of getting used to extreme cancer levels of UV. Fells like your in the film sunshine!
As an Aussie and a seasoned Vegemite connoisseur.The thicker the Vegemite is spread the better.
There's nothing like biting into a piece of warm toast with butter a very thick layer of Vegemite.
YUM,YUM!!!
Beg to differ. Vegemite is revolting spread on thick! A thick piece of fresh bread, butter then a thin layer of Veg is the way to go. Yum. Honestly I have yet to meet an aussie that likes it spread thick. You are a rarity!
In the "dutch"lands we mostly have a bathroom including toilet and a separate toilet in a small area.
bathroom is usually for private usage (in-house)
separate toilet is usually for guests, so they dont try to claim your throne.
Australia had separate indoors toilets from the 1950s/60 to the 1970s. But, unfortunately, the "open plan living" craze of the 1980's put the toilet back in the same room as your toothbrush 😢
I don't know about other schools but the primary school I attended was less than 5 min walk to the beach so each year for half a day the entire school went to the beach and had the talks on beach safety followed by beach games and competitions and ended with sausage sizzle. another weird thing my school did was have an afl day where students could wear their teams colours and donate a gold coin to charity where each team had the line of coins built to show which team had most supporters then split into class size and rotate between various afl minigames led by a couple of afl players. usualy ended by lunch time.
We have a lot of swimming lessons here because a majority of Australia is within 1hr of the ocean. Im in the hills in western Australia and its a 30 to 45min drive to the ocean. My husband and I go fishing often.
My kids are 00 kids and had a average sized school bag. But until grade 2 the parents or guardian would carry their bags. It wouldn't have much in it. Their lunch, reader book, communication book with the teacher.
Here. scoliosis (spinal curvature) is sometimes called in layman's terms "schoolbag spine". I have it, from carring my heavy school bag on one side in the 60s and 70s. Then backpacks became more popular and there was less of a problem with this. Wheelie bags sounds like a good idea but only if you have transport, not walking miles down a bitumen road. You'd need cross-country tyres.. lol.
I learnt to swim when i was 2 and at the age of 10 our school marched us all down to the jetty and we had to jump off and be able to tread water fully dressed minus our shoes for 2 minutes, it felt brutal but now im older i appreciate it.
BWS is normally attached to Woolworths supermarkets and Liquourland is attached to coles. Aldi stores sell alcohol next to register
Your videos are great and I feel good as an Aussie seeing you cover different Aussie things. Growing up in Australia we like stuff from USA so this is cool. I’m always curious as to what started this Australian rabbit hole for you…love your work, always get straight into it ✌️
Our kids all did nippers and became adult Surf Lifesavers. They also did lots of water sports for school - as their schools were on the creeks… near the beach…so boat licenses, kayaking, surf ski, surfing, beach walking, 🤿 scuba and …outside of school there was swim club, gymnastics, footy AFL and League…opportunities to Japan, USA, UK for cultural travel normal and music focus - this was Public School on the Gold Coast. Amazing childhood! In USA the Californian kids asked the 13 year old Aussies what diet they were on…. Answer: No diet - natural food and fun social environment (full of movement) 🤩
Ian,I understand that Australia has a huge tax on alcohol but $89 dollars on a case of beer? Australians would never pay that much for a case, that advertisement was for two cases😂
Can I buy you a decent cap as that one on your head just doesn't look right for you, a blue NSW state of origin is more suitable for your good looks 👍
That was a deal 2 cases for $89 still a rip off I paused Cheers
Not all houses in Australia have a separate toilet especially older ones. And a lot of apartments/Units still have the toilet in the bathroom.
It's not inconvenient re alcohol, the liquor stores are literally attached to the supermarket chains. BWS for Woolies and liquor land for Coles. It's right outside the door. Also Aldi sells alcohol inside their stores in some states like NSW. Alcohol consumption in Australia is too high. Luckily , I don't really drink so the taxes don't affect me. That being ssid the sign actually said "any TWO for $89"
No one's policing the fine for feet on trains thing. It's nonsense trust me lol. I've travelled on them consistently all my life. Most of the time people aren't even around to tell people to remove their feet. Once in a blue moon some guard might come past and motion for someone to remove their fee but no one's getting fined.
I've never heard of having to have a big bag for school or a certain size.
Yeah nipper or junior life guarding is a great incentive.👍
Also, Learning to swim is part of the curriculum. It was mandatory when I was in school, along with basic beach safety/first aid.
It should be compulsory world wide.imo. so many tourists come and drown in our waters because they can't swim properly and don't understand the dangers of the ocean. Every parent world wide should make sure their children can swim, if it's not part of the school curriculum, then get them.lessons. because even if you don't live near a beach or lake etc.or have a pool...one day your children will travel beyond their home town, maybe across the world. And just maybe those skills may save their life some day or equally important, may allow them to save another person's life.
Carlton Dry - 2 cartons 48 bottles for $89 - less than 2 bucks a beer - Beer prices are roughly - 6 pack = $20 or carton 24 = $50
Many supermarkets have an alcohol section. My local supermarket sells grog. Then there are dedicated grog shops, drive through bottlos and take outs from pubs. There is a wide availability but the cost is getting higher. The Carlton Dry was 2 for $89.
Carlton dry slabs go for about $55, that sign was probably for something else
Never understood vegemite, I'm an Aussie with European ancestry, I was born in Oz and lived here my whole life but just could never stomach vegemite.
She is talking about authorized council garbage collection where people put things out on the road to be picked up.
Yep, it's called Council pick-up day in some parts of Australia. I've never heard stitch called "hard rubbish".
In Brisbane, we call it the Brisbane City Council kerbside collection. It's usually once a year for each suburb and we can only do it 24-48hrs prior to collection.
I heard that they’re starting a program like Little Nippers for foreigners and travelers soon… Apparently there was a heap of drownings over summer in Australia this summer… I live in Thailand now, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong 👍🏽
Grew up on vegemite and at 56 still eat it with a spoon horses for coursers
For over 30 years. I sold ONLY NEW Homes in SydneyAustralia. You are Right, Bidets just haven’t caught on here. Over all those years I only Sold ONE Home with a Bidet.and to do that we had to extend the Ensuite by a metre to get the space to fit one.Also it caused Double plumbing so the Bidets water system was totally separate from the standard toilet pan and cistern.This caused some extra expense but my client agreed and we built it for him. He was from the Middle East and had one in their home over there. No doubt there are a few in our more Affluent suburbs but I’m talking about an average 3 - 5 bed home in an average priced suburb.I have however, done a few Squat toilets for customers from Asian countries and the Middle East.
The toilet is often referred to as the 'Throne Room', the only place a bloke can get some peace-and-quiet and be 'master of the house'.
Very impressed with your opening G’day! Exactly how a local would say it.
You are never short of a bottle shop in Australia. Im glad its not sold everywhere though. On the backpack issue. Once upon a time we used to take a type of hard suitcase or soft sports type bags to school and due to the heaviness kids were developing crooked spines or scoliosis of the spine, due to them constantly carrying the weight in their favoured hand, causing them to tilt. Kids now carry backpacks which takes a lot of the load off, it prevents the scoliosis and does the child absolutely no harm at all.
Bidets not big
Due to water consumption
Also what toilets don't have full bowl of water
Why we have two buttons for different water use depending on use
We have a filtration systems to handle toilet paper as well So not needed
Most modern home's now have toilet and bathrooms combined
Buggers me why other then saves builders money on building extra wall in materials labor
The reason for alcohol separation is so kids aren't around it and most have a section separated
You do have to walk out store into the other and pay different tellers as government's use it as a deterrent
But for people like you they have drive through you pull in they asked you what you want get it charge you
Then you on your way without getting out the vechile most hotel / pub / boozers have them attached to the building
Just depends on preference then you have the bottle shops which carry larger varieties of alcohol from all over the world
The drive through have limited varieties most fast selling products including wines spirits beers
We're all pretty similar in western societies other than a few by laws and here we are pretty regulated on certain things
Alcohol cigarettes/ ciggys weapons even pocket knive / knives are illegal to carry unless you can prove a need for it and must be locked in boot / trunk and driving laws very strict as all are things that can cause issue's in public
So it to keep some order and respect for others in society
It doesn't hurt the government's with extra revenue for no compliance either
We're not quite the land of the free
But up side it is pretty safe in public at anytime of night or day
People not walking around on edge all the time and enjoy themselves instead
Nothing perfect it a balance of giving up so rights to have a safer society
If not doing anything wrong not a problem and alot of time police will warn you and move you on
Depending on what you've done and how your acting when speaking with them
Cheers mate 🦘🇦🇺👍
Yeah, walking around the streets of Australia you know you're not walking past people with a gun on them. Our coppers are armed but I've only once in my life been within cooee of a copper drawing their gun and that was in a dodgy neighbourhood. And you only need to be afraid of the police here if you're a crim or, sadly, if you're indigenous.
The school bags are to help children with posture and weight. When I was at school we did not have backpacks, but suitcases or ports. These were carried in one hand,so you tended to be weighed down on one side. I still have some pain in my lower right back from this practice and I am in my 60s.
I think the reason the backpacks are so big is as they are bought when a child starts school and the child keeps them for at least 6 or more years. The child grows into them. When the child is very small, there is very little in the bag.
Been a while since I watched a vid, forgot you came here and was kinda shocked how genuine your "g'day, how ya goin?" was!! 😂😂😂
Hard rubbish days are set by councils & are not an every day thing. It's a kind of tradition to rummage a bit but don't make a mess! It helps folks get rid of bulky items & helps prevent illegal dumping. The council trucks take everything away on pick up day.
In Belgium most houses have a toilet in the bathroom and a separate one in its own little room, usually complete with its own sink. It's called the guest toilet. I don't see why you can't have both in Australia.
It may have changed, but what I couldn't understand in the US is that you couldn't buy mixed drinks. Here in Australia you can buy cans or bottles of Jim Beam and Cola, Jack Daniels and Cola and Rum and cola. In the US you had to buy a litre of the spirits and coke separately.
i'm american from pennsylvania and we can only buy liquor at a state store, but beer from a beer distributor, and no alcohol in grocery stores. i didn't notice we were the only ones until i started living in other states. i live in australia now and there's so many different things. the backpacks for school kids are SO heavy.
In Australia a grocery store needs to have a licence to sell alcohol, this also means they have to hire only workers who are 18 years or over. To compensate for this, most grocery stores seperate their liquor into a seperate store to one side, this store often has a seperate name too, but is owned by the grocery store.
it was standard when i grew up - the toilet always had its own room and the toilet being in the bathroom came about when newer houses were building multiple bathrooms so that a separate toilet was not essential - I always thought toilets in the bathroom was a European thing until it became common in all new houses
A bit of context on rubbish on the strip outside homes is that there are a number of FREE council rubbish pick ups you are entitled to each year, you ring em up an they come an pick it up but you gotta put it out in the first place!
I have 8 bottleos within 10 minutes drive of my house (Northern suburbs Brisbane). And yeah most of them are just outside a supermarket. So I've never considered this a problem, it's just how it is :)
I grew up in the melbourne burbs, not far from a city council area that was reknowned for decades for it’s lack of alcohol availability - and I mean, not just a pub with no beer, but no pubs, no bottleshops, no supermarkets selling grog, no byo restaurants, and no licensed restaurants. Admittedly I’m in my sixties, and that all started charging thirty or forty years ago, but even as a teenager in the 1970’s I remember being blown away at the “civic attitudes” that prevailed in the area at the time.
Bottle shops are a separate section of the supermarkets not just for legal reasons and to not have restricted substances in view of underage kids but also because we have a huge selection of alcohol and need way more space than just an isle in a supermarket. Some of our liquor stores are as big as a supermarket on their own.
That was $89 for 2 cartons, also the majority of the cost of alcohol in Australia is government tax, which is a real problem for hotels and liquor stores and their ability to earn a honest living.
Rubbish, Bottle shops will always make money!
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 Like any business, they rely on paying customers to keep the doors open and pay the staff and the the excise tax that has been imposed on alcohol, it will become to expensive for people to afford. Plain and simple and definitely not rubbish.
Booze might seem cheap in the US compared to Oz, but IMO, the difference is where the bill comes: in Oz, medicare (ie the govt) picks up the tab for the cost of alcohol-related harm: whether disease or injuries from alcohol-fueled violence. High booze taxes offset some of this cost. In the US, you pay the tab yourself either directly or through exorbitant health insurance premiums.
Here in Australia, our local supermarket sells alcohol. If any worker at the checkout is under 18 he/she will have a sign on the counter informing customers of the fact and warning them not to bring alcohol through that particular checkout.
It may not be well known that Australia usually leads the Summer Olympic medal tally for the first week during the aquatic program. We eventually get overtaken with the field events and athletics.
We have great depth in our swimming clubs and it is not just the beach culture but the swimming pool culture that makes us focus on learning to swim.
Most beach deaths are foreigners who have poor swimming skills and can’t understand the life saving signs and flags.
You can have a cistern with a little handbasin built in. It empties into the cistern and the water goes out with the flush.
Supermarkets can employ kids from 14 yrs old (lowest wages) But you have to be 18 to buy or sell alcohol. So they have a separate store, usually next door, for drinks. I didn’t do Nippers but I did do school swimming lessons at the local beach.
I once had a table and chairs set that I wanted to get rid of so decided to put it outside my house. Took the table out, and went around the back to start bringing the chairs out, and this lady was already trying to get the table into her boot.
The Carlton dry you saw was 2 cases for $80 not one. Nippers is for kids that live near the beach to learn life saving. They also do fitness. The toilets we have separate as we typically didn't have ensuites in our older houses. I find it weird how you use shower curtains still, we don't tend to use shower curtains in new build houses here
2 boxes of beer for $84 Australian which is approx $50 US. The beer us full strength about 5 %, not dishwater.
Bidets are not common here but they have been around as long as they have existed. More often found in upper class bathrooms.
Every one fucks up the vegi mite , smash the butter on sparingly use use the vege ...heaven
On a house plan, the Toilet is called the water Closet, the WC.
So I am from New Zealand originally but got married in Australia and have been living here since 2007. Neither countries have Bidets my first experience was in Japan and I loved it. So much more hygienic really only using toilet paper to dry. I'm not a huge fan of vegemite but we also have marmite and promite here in Australia, I enjoy marmite more personally it's slightly sweeter and I have mine with a good amount of butter on bread or toast with marmite/vegemite and also have plain salted chips in my sandwich with it, tastes so good. In New Zealand you can buy Wine, Beer and Cider in supermarket but no liquor. Alcohol in Australia is very very expensive.
The heavy rubbish collection is not designed for “other” people to come and rifle through. That is an unfortunate byproduct of the service. The council collects this rubbish in the early morning on the night you put it out. We call people who surf this rubbish “borrowers”. They make a fricken mess
With that Carlton Dry, Ian, it was 2 for $89. So $44.50 a case/slab. Still used to be a lot cheaper a few years ago. We have an insane alcohol and tobacco tax.
I work in a school. Wheelie bags are starting to catch on at my school. Our kids even have to bring a laptop every day from grade 1 (5-6 years old). So they are carrying a lot of weight. I feel sorry for some of the little ones. Often parents help but not always.
I live on the coast in Sydney . In the mid 80 we all had to do the bronze medal which was from memory swim 100 m , swim / rescue fully clothed and learn CPR among other things .We did this during school hours maybe once a fortnight till we passed . It was at the local beach pool . Every Tuesday afternoon we had sport . Surfing was one of the choices , I did sailing for 6 months and power boating for 6 months . To me this was all normal stuff . I Always remember in primary school they told us if it ever reached 40 c we were allowed home , and guess what , they lied 😅
No hat no play, no school today (we added that last part as kids) 😆