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What's Something Strange about your country, city, or town??
For me currently, here in the state of New Mexico, Women can Legally be Topless in public haha
do they take advantage of that law :)
@@scottspinner One might hope so from time to time
Same thing where I live. Set them free. Tuck them in. Whatever .
Strange thing in Finland is our super weird alcohol laws. You cannot buy alcohol from any store between 9pm and 9am. You also can't get more than 5,5% alcohol stuff outside the dedicated government run liquer store Alko (or from a bar/restaurant that has to buy their stuff from Alko). The age limit for beer and such "lighter" (max 22%) drinks is 18 and hard booze is 20, BUT bars can serve anyone over 18 anything they have and they can sell the stuff way later than 9pm. I think the latest (or earliest haha good one dad) bars can be open is 4am. Don't quote me on that last one because they keep changing it
As a side note it's technically illegal to drink in public, but no one really gives a crap as long as you behave yourself
One does not simply drive home from Macca's without eating any chips.
The restriction on having alcohol in your possession is about going into an Aboriginal community that is dry, something that most Australians have never experienced. This is similar to going onto a Native American reservation. They are allowed to have different laws. These people are not fully explaining their statements, by which I mean they are trying to be politically correct.
I may be wrong but I think there may be some dry communities (Possession, manufacture, or delivery of alcoholic beverages prohibited) in Alaska and Utah.
The rules regarding aboriginal communities were done in conjunction with the community leaders who were attempting to limit the damage of alcohol while the pay rate for a public holiday is 2 1/2 times the normal rate for most industries unless covered by state rules which may be slightly less, for hospitality it means they can get up to $45- an hour to work those days.
In my part of Australia we don't have problems with "emus" if you catch my drift.
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Well said. This only applies to a tiny percentage of far outback towns/communities that you probably wouldn't visit in 2wd. But correct me if you know more.
In Australia, Bring a plate was the one that got me, "I can bring you a whole pile if you need them".
NO, it means bring a plate of food to share at a BBQ or similar functions.
If you are part of an invited family, bring a plate can mean bring a saucepan/dish or enough to feed your own lot and be prepared to share, finger food is easier. You can bring snacks, cakes or sweets and drinks. To a bbq, you bring uncooked meat, steak, chops or snags of your choice, fish can be cooked in aluminium foil parcels, and a salad, buns or what you like to have. This is very helpful if you have food intolerances, or dietary restrictions. Just take yours out first, before putting it on the serving table, so others can help themselves, be prepared to answer questions about the ingredients though.
Yeah. That gets a lot of new Kiwi too.
@@nikiTricoteuse thank gawd I wasn't the only one
@@jono.pom-downunder Yeah nah. It's pretty standard. Have heard of people who, wanting to be extra helpful, turned up with cutlery and a glass. There's even a (really good) cookbook by by Alexa Johnston called, Ladies, a plate. I think it's a hangover from the 40s/50s when no one had money to spare catering a party and there were very clearly defined roles. Pretty sure the menfolk were supposed to bring a flagon and the ladies were expected to make do with tea. Not sure if anyone still does it unless they're having a laugh at the newbies. (Apart from pot luck dinners which are still a thing.)
@@nikiTricoteuse ahhhhhh bloody 'ell I getcha, that makes sense now, a bit like when we did Christmas dinner, when each part of the family brought, one meat, one veg, one desert, to go on the table, thanks Nikki your the first one to actually set it straight for me, all I've know was "it just is" "it's what we do" cheers 🍻 N. I've only been here 30 fekin years🙄🤣
In the trucking industry in oz , dogging as the gentleman mentioned is to do with securing your load , usually with chains , for example if you have a load of steel , you would dog it down with chains , if you go on building site with a load of steel , you would find the crane operator and the dogman , the dogman who has training and certificates , secures the items to be unloaded or loaded off the truck or around the building site .
Yup. I’m a dogman/rigger for 34 years now lol
The device used to tighten the chains is called a 'dog', hence the name 'dogman'.
Cheers!
NOT to be confused with the Brittish term for dogging.
@@woodspirit7701 this is a comment I expected to see and it hasn’t disappointed
both usages often involve leather straps, chains and loads
Australia's self-sufficient in food, it has all climate zones. So temperate crops are grown further north during winter, for example. But it is a small population compared to Europe and America, so transport costs, weather fluctuations and whatnot count for a lot more. The huge volumes in America and Europe allow them to even out prices over the year.
I can add quality changes price too.
I have to say, after living in Aus for 50 years, prices have never fluctuated for produce so much since the start of covid. Shutting down international travel shut down the backpackers and seasonal migrants who were the backbone of fresh produce picking. A lot of produce rotted unpicked. International shipping/delivery systems went screwy. Australia grows more than we need, but we had long established international sale relationships for our fruit, nuts, dairy and many vegetables
The natural disasters that others pointed out, and then the petrol crisis came in on top of a market still not sorted out from covid. The end of lockdowns merely sent waves of absences from work and a slow steady death and Long Covid disability rate through the community. People inherited early from dead parents, people with long term illnesses have shut themselves away if they can... one large set of job openings set up a wave of job shifting as everyone gets to move up into better wages and conditions, leaving arduous produce picking jobs with no takers unless you finally pay what its worth, which is a lot more than we're used to paying.
Some price fluctuations in fruit and veg can be due to local conditions. For instance, the recent flooding we've had has destroyed our years harvest of lettuce, so when it is available, its really expensive. It's gotten to the point where some fast food chains are using cabbage instead
The alcohol restrictions on Good Friday are just annoying. You can go inside a pub and buy a beer, but you can't buy a bottle to take home. Some outback areas are dry which is what I think they're referring to. Alcohol has done a lot of damage to some aboriginal communities, and the government has decided that making these areas dry is the best way to help them. It's a bit controversial
You know it's happening so buy the day before . Or drum roll please.. don't drink for one WHOLE day. 😲😉
The lettuce thing will be interesting. Some varieties take about a month to grow. I wonder if we will see a drop in prices soon...
@@godamid4889 I was joking around.. but okkkkkkayyyy...
@@triarb5790 nah fair enough. Hit a trigger and I reacted. My apologies. I have removed the offending comments.
@@triarb5790 I didn't even know that was a thing? then again I don't drink much.
North QLD has alot of “dry communities” to “protect” the local indigenous community that are known to abuse alcohol
..although there's a fair bit of conjecture about if this has been a good or bad thing. Even tourist caravaning through are prohibited from taking grog past the checkpoints.
@@7six3 and political aids have been dragged over the coals for flying in with wine.
It's right across the top not just Queensland. It's in NT and the Kimberlys WA
Many of these policies are agreed upon by the local communitys that why you get a lot of people in the city's drinking is because alcohol on community
Yep, it's elder or government led in some Mission/Community areas. As the services are not the best and alcohol abuse has led to high domestic abuse in the past, an agreement was reached or forced. It's not state based, it's a local area thing in areas most people don't go anywhere near.
That was really good , we are the same as what you described with fuel prices , we were low when you said America was low and high now , not sure where these people got their fuel.
The no alcohol in certain towns is to do with the Aboriginal communities I'm guessing, I believe a joint initiative between Aboriginal elders and the government to stop alcoholism and abuse in some remote comunities
Yep, easy to identify because there's a mountain of beer cans at the town border ;)
The reason you can't have alcohol in your vehicle when entering Dry Aboriginal communities is to prevent black market smuggling.
Hi IWrocker, the restriction of alcohol being taken in to some places is usually to do with remote communities with a large indigenous population where alcohol is a big problem - it's not state-based restriction, it's area based restriction. The Queens Birthday being in June is a historic thing - it's the day that her father, King George VI, celebrated his Official Birthday during his reign and we didn't bother changing it. Yeah nah means "yeah, I hear you, but no I don't agree with you"... a softening of an outright "no" when you're trying to be non-confrontational or amicable. Could be why we find some cultures quite rude in their direct response of "no".
We just love public holidays! The queen’s birthday thing in Queensland was literally the premier saying “there’s too many holidays all clumped together. We need one for after the nrl grand final.”
Really? WA celebrates the Queen's Birthday on the last Monday in October around the 27th which happens to fall in the week we have our Royal Show. It's celebrated in October because the June date is our Foundation Day, now named WA Day Holiday.
Being a Victorian we have a public holiday for the AFL Grand Final, a public holiday for the Melbourne Cup (a Nag Race) by the way some people take the monday off as well and make it a 4 day long weekend (Bender) and if your in the country i.e. Geelong, Ballarat etc people there have their own Cup which is at different times of the year and not have the Melbourne Cup unless your employer allows you celebrate it, our Queens Birthday is around the 2 week in June and on a Monday which makes it a long weekend. Also if a public holiday is on a weekend we get the monday off as well. Public Servants/Government Employees get an extra day off the day after Boxing Day. Plus the usual ANZAC Day, Australia Day, Labour Day long weekend, Easter long weekend + Banks have the Tuesday off as well.
no we don't need a holiday for that. It's a bloody football game, nothing more.
Most drive through bottle shops also have two parking areas. One for driving through and one for browsing.
I just love the "interpretation" of English people (with the UK having more than 37 recognized dialectical variations in a relatively small area), trying to point out the variations in Australia. THE UK is 243,610 km² (about the size of Colorado), as compared to Australia
( 7,741,220 sq km, or 3,000 times bigger). Yes, Australia has many oddities...that's why we love it!
My gosh, what a surprise to wake up to! Thank you so much for your lovely reaction video, we really enjoyed this ❤️❤️
Bam Famalam. that Johnstone life. Kinda Australian. And the young marine biologist in Tasmania whose channel name escapes me for the moment. All great channels
Yes in some Aboriginal communities there are alcohol-free zones. If you think about it the indigenous people of Australia had no alcohol until just over 200 years ago and it' smashes them
It is a descision taken by the locals to have their community declared 'dry'. Alcohol has been an ongoing problem here and particularly community elders are trying to protect the youth, families and other social problems.
It’s because native Australians and Pacific Islanders don’t have the protein that processes alcohol, that’s why it smashes them hard and causes early illness. My great grandfather was Tongan and I wondered why I could never stomach alcohol, now I know why, I lack the protein that processes alcohol.
The biggest alcohol restrictions are in the NT in Darwin, where they has armed guards at liquor stores and also scan your ID before you purchase. Because a lot of the indigenous community up there like to cause trouble. Not all, I seen many who were upstanding citizens and have jobs and are generally nice people, but others are on the dole (welfare) and have no respect and get put in government housing and completely trash the places. The government have restrictions placed on them and how much alcohol they can buy, etc. There's also these security guys driving around Darwin in vehicles similar to golf carts collecting all of the drunk or unstable Aboriginals to get them out of the city or out of the touristy places so it's safe. Sounds kind of messed up as I type it out. I only saw one instance when I was there where a drunk Aboriginal man was standing in front of a bus blocking it from driving away lol
@@karenvickery6070 I know this is me being pedantic but its to do with gene mutations that lead to the production of enzymes (not proteins) that typically break down alcohol. These are human liver alcohol dehydrogenase, ADH2, and the mutant form aldehyde dehydrogenase, ALDH2. Indigenous Australians, Papua New Guineans and some Pacific Islanders lack the ALDH2 mutation and are more likely to have problems with intolerance and alcoholism compared to other groups.
@@uknowispeaksense7056 enzymes are proteins
Our veges for the Eastern States are grown where the climate suits the particular vege.
However this year La Nina has affected the weather on the whole of the East Coast, from north of the Tropic of Capricorn to the south of Tasmania.
I live in Ipswich , just west of Brisbane in Queensland with the Locker Valley just to the west. This valley produces huge quantities of lettuce, carrots , beetroot ,Asian veges, sweet corn cabbage , and on it goes. However this year we had weeks of rain with some days totalling 140 mm so the roots rotted and no machinery or staff could get in to harvest anything.
This was the same right down the Eastern Seaboard so we have shortages in supply and then we had flooding of our major transport systems meaning if somewhere had stock it couldn't be delivered.
Some areas had a normal years worth of rain in a week or less.
Unfortunately it looks as if you Americans are also due to be hit with the querks of nature in your salad bowls due to drought in California.
Paul Collinson
I was born and raised in Boonah. My uncle grows a lot of the veggies in the Locker valley for woolies, coles etc.
Recently, vegetable prices have been fluctuating in Australia far more than usual due to natural disasters. Spinach and lettuce, for example, have been seriously affected by floods in the north of the country.
Australia's laws differ between states in a number of areas. This is because prior to Federation in 1901, each colony was a self governing Dominion. After Federation, the states continued to retain much power. That has softened over time, especially with regard to income tax, which the Commonwealth assumed in 1932 under dramatic circumstances. For more details read a book called 1932 by Gerald Stone. It gives a good overview.
In Melbourne I have never paid a cafe/restaurant surcharge for weekends public holidays.
Thank you for the video!
Neither have I in Brisbane. I don't know what they're talking about with the surcharges for public holidays. Most Aussies/hospitality workers would want to work on those days so they get paid more. Places can afford to do that cos they're generally busier on those days.
@@TheSpankingMonkeys And they can factor any extra charges into the money they receive Monday to Friday, to ensure consistency in pricing.
In Australia we have Fuel cycle, so in Sydney the cycle is about 25 days with 9 days at peak and 16 days with the price decreasing. In NSW we have a Fuel Check App where it shows all the Servo's near you and what their prices are, so you have the ability to shop around. Shame some people don't understand that Prime Ministers and Presidents and the like have no control over fuel/gas pricing and that lately it's due to not pumping enough fuel and price gouging. A lot of the oil companies are making up for lost profits from 2020 and us consumers are at their mercy.
@not today You do realize that the US have been importing crude oil since the early 1960s. The highest peak was in 2005 but there has not been a year where they weren't importing oil from around the world. 23% of their imports come from Canada and Mexico. The claims of them being an export nation left out the fact that the majority of what they were exporting was 'refined oil' that was made up of US and other countries crude oils.
Tbe Bam fam are fab. Been following them from around the same I started following you Ian. Great ambassadors for Australia & loving their adventures in a new country. Another channel to watch is That Johnston Life, similiar vibe
That's the first time that I've seen them since last year. 😁
I'm with you Robert. I love the Bam Fam and the Johnston family (it's the Pommy accents) and their huge enthusiasm of living in a new country. I've learnt things about my own country thanks to these guys and from my fav family the Wrockers. Cheers to you all our little Aussie mates 👍
Some of the food pricing is because of the biosecurity. Imports have to meet high standards and checks to stop diseases entering the country.
There are also fruit fly exclusion zones which you can't carry fruit into in the southern regions of Australia.
You are correct and see the signs, especially along the Murry, but, I rarely see it enforced, except way back in the 1970's and then a couple of other times when there were outbreaks. But then again, I haven't driven since the state borders were closed an then opened again.
And they've just found the mite that kills honey bees in NSW somewhere. Biosecurity is onto it.
@@borisjevic6338 the knly place i have seen it enforced my entire 24years of life is going into wa nowhere else
@@turtleman190 the quarantine station at Yamba operates 24/7 when you drive from Mildura into SA. We’ve got a fruit fly outbreak at the moment (in the Riverland, SA) so are seeing PIRSA staff everywhere checking backyard fruit & veg as well as commercial operations. The quarantine station when you enter the Riverland from Adelaide is usually only open on the Friday’s of long weekends to stop tourists bring fruit & veg in, never seen it operating any other day.
@@elissakoch8156 we got fined at Yamba once. Over $300 because we had a half an avocado we forgot to put in the bin after lunch. It was just after they changed the way the quarantine station worked. We used to rock up, be asked if we had anything to declare, hand over anything we needed to and drive on. We had no idea it had changed! The crazy thing is, if we hadn’t just handed it over, they never would have found it. 😢
Yeah i have been subscribed to the bam fam ever since they started there channel because being English myself it's good to see how they are loving Australia and why they won't go back to the U.K.
Drive through bottle shops have been around over 60years and attached to the pub.
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The 7 Eleven app is amazing.You can pull up at a pump, do a search and find cheaper fuel 5k away and pay that price. Better yet when fuel is low you lock in the price when it jumps you pay the cheaper rate. When we lived in the States we decided drive through represents your priorities - drive through banks in America, drive through bottlo in Aus.
After locking in the price . You can use it any 7 11 servo
I follow this family as well and they have a great channel. Also if you are traveling to South Australia, by road, you are required to dispose any fruit/vegetables you are carrying before entering the state, and this is because SA has no fruit flies or other pests. There are some areas of Australia that are “dry” areas (no alcohol) normally around Aboriginal areas.
The bloke got it right - the Queen's birthday public holiday is mostly about the public holiday.
For as long as I can remember (think decades), bottle-os have always been part of (or connected to) the pub AND drive-through. In more recent years, walk-in shops like a BWS or Dan Murphy's also sell alcohol.
I've heard of types of truck trailers called dogs and pigs, and one of them is a total pig to reverse. Cheers.
There is an old joke here in Australia. How do you know a plane landing in Australia is full of English people? Because when they turn the engines off you can still hear whining.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤭🤭🤭❤
😂 yea a lot of Poms love a good old moan.
Good one! 😆😆😆 made me laugh, I'm both British and Australian.
Yes there's still the stereotype of "whinging poms", but we don't really believe it we're just poking fun.
Though they were hardly whining in this video....
No grog on Tribal Lands, that's what they're on about. It's very specific to each Aboriginal community.
I don't know about now but the old Drive Through Bottle Shops I remember in Australia as a kid, you pulled up under a large roofed area to keep dry or away from the sun and rolled down your window, a worker came to you and asked what you wanted. Then they went and got it for you and you would pop the boot if you had a latch inside or the backseat, and they would load you up without you leaving your car, you paid them through the window and drove away. Simple, effective and really quick.
We still have them. There are 4 in my little country town alone.
In Western Australia we also have Double Demerit Points on long weekends and public holidays, it was to dissuade drivers from speeding obviously, because road deaths were usually increased then, it's obviously worked because they're not as bad as they use to be at those times.
I worked in a servo and the main reason when it jumps high in a day is the site is about to run out before next delivery (not always). If you go another 5km 2m you can get get cheaper. Also worked in supermarkets and 98% of produce is grown in Australia supply and demand determines prices. Love your channel mate been following since the start
A GREAT way to stir the shit if you see a petrol tanker making a fuel delivery at a servo is to say "Hey, don't take it all! Leave some for the rest of us!"
we used to estimate distance by how many beers it would take to drink. for example "how far is it?" "4 beers"
Same way I do my '2 Can Chicken' 🤣👍
For my flatmate in the 80s driving us home from South Melbourne to Ferntree Gully after work it was 4 of a 6 pack from Clarendon St to the A frame church on Burwood Hwy and the other 2 from there home.. or stopping at The Ferntree Gully Hotel for a top up. They were like his beer markers.
@@7six3 yeah Alice to Tennant was a sixpak
A dogman is like a crane drivers assistant - the guy with the whistle that directs the fella in the crane cabin
Before occupational health and safety came in, it use to be part of the Dorman's job to hang off the hook dangling at the end of the cable. I had a photo of my father with his foot in the hook and holding on with one hand while working on the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, he also used to splice the steel cables and later used to teach rope and wire cable splicing at TAFE. He was by trade a Dogman, Rigger and Scaffolder.
I went to Coober Pedy in 2014 and they scan your driver's licence or I.D. when you buy alcohol.
It is so you can't keep coming back to buy more alcohol or purchase alcohol for others, such as the local aboriginal community or under age people. You have to make sure you buy what you want the first time. In Alice Springs it is illegal to have alcohol in you car if you drive through the aboriginal settlement, even if you don't stop and drive straight through. 😁😁
I'm in Kelowna,BC. Canada. We have drive through cold beer and wine. It's handy. She( usually a female) , will put it in the box, backseat, trunk, hand. Whatever you want. Just don't drink yet. The fines, and other possible consequences are no joke.
I do the ya nah nah ya as well Ian. Good stuff bro.
Cool stuff Jeff thanks! 👍😎
A dogman (or dogger) is the person who slings and directs the load that is lifted by a crane. 'Dogging' in the UK is something completely different.
Yeah It’s the basic qualification for a ‘rigger’ (3 levels basic, intermediate, advanced)
@@clintonburr852 Rooting strangers is a qualification, cool.
@@tropicsalt. mostly in parks
I'm from Australia and I just wanted to say thanks for the love we love you guys as well 💙
That extra price on holidays is actually quite nice idea. In our case you are basically getting paid overtime pay (which is 1,5-2X normal wages) if it's a national holiday so it's quite a strain on the companies. With something like that it might be worth it to keep the stores or whatnot open a bit longer on holidays
Hi Ian. I've been on 3 Colorado ski tours over the years and each time we all dropped into Apple Jack's, an enormous liquor store in Denver, to stock up on alcohol supplies for our 3 week tours. I remember lugging the bottles, cases, boxes out to the car (in a shopping cart). Just imagine how much easier it would be if you could drive through, order what you want, and have the staff load up your car. The US has drive through fast food joints so it's strange not to have drive through liquor stores. As for the UK, also surprised they haven't been introduced.
Wasn’t the whole “Smokey and the Bandit” film about beer not allowed across state lines?
They’re talking about indigenous communities being dry, liquor is banned in them and it doesn’t matter if you live there or just passing through, the ban applies.
The APY lands are about the same size as Kentucky and not only completely dry, but also closed to all visitors/tourists
The beer being illegal in Smokey and the Bandit wasn't because beer in general was banned in some US place, it was due to the manufacturing process in that specific beer (it wasn't pasteurised which meant it had to always be refrigerated once made and it had a limited shelf life) being okay in some US states but which made it illegal in others.
grocery price fluctuations in Oz are to do with demand, season, cost of transport etc. For instance when flooding washed out the train tracks across the Nullarbor, prices here went up because goods had to flown or trucked in.
Those Bamalang Pomy couple make great vids you'd like !! From a new arrivals perspective to Australia it's great to see how they appreciate the Sunshine Coast , and other places nearby . PS ,,,, The drive thru Bottlo rocks :-)
Hey Ian. As for take away food, I will continue to eat while driving. Although, recently it became illegal to eat or drink (water, soft drink) while driving. Drive through bottle-o's are for convenience.
Some communities it is illegal to have alcohol even within the same State. It's largely aboriginal communities in Northern NSW, QLD and NT.
Oh, thongs with socks in winter is a thing too in some part of Oz. lol.
Love your videos. I just watched your one about the reptile milking, I left a comment there as you need to visit when your family makes it here to Aussieland.
Where is it illegal to eat or drink while driving? Its not in qld but you must have atleast one hand on the wheel at all times.
@@trevorfaith180 Pretty sure it's illegal in Victoria.
There is no specific law in Australia that states you cannot eat or drink (non alcoholic drink) whilst driving. But if it were to cause you to lapse concentration etc and cause an accident etc you can be charged for that.
In Victoria: If eating or drinking interferes with your driving or causes an accident, you could be charged with careless driving.
Fine: $387
Demerits: 3 points
@@Reneesillycar74 Yes if it causes loss of concentration/distraction , but not the actual function of eating or drinking as per mobile phone use. IE Having a mobile in you hand not matter the physical outcome, will cause you to be fined as it is stipulated by law that you must no operate a handheld mobile phone whilst driving.
I've sometimes wondered if other countries have annual leave loading. I know it's starting to be phased out here in Australia but every job I've had has paid it. It is a 17% loading on top of your normal wage, paid whenever you take annual leave, originally introduced to compensate for any overtime you may miss out on while on leave. It is a nice little bonus that gives you some extra spending money when on holidays.
I haven't heard leave loading is being phased out🤔😳
@@leandabee Yeah me neither. Tho the local govt NSW Award in the early 90s traded it for a payrise. 17.5% for 4 weeks was traded for something like a 1.5% (I don't remember the exact figure) pay rise, which actually worked out as a better deal over the 12 months cos it boosted everything slightly incl overtime and super. I don't remember the origins of the change but I remember doing the maths and voting in favour.
@@peterhoz I'm on leave at the moment and am still getting the leave loading, hmmm,interesting. I'm off to do some investigating 🔎
@@leandabee not all awards or EBAs have it included. Since John Howard introduced WorkChoices as a means of reigning in the unions to try and make them ineffective, not all employers provide it because they were allowed to use it as a bargaining tool when negotiating a new EBA. Now that we have a change of government there will be less pressure to abolish it altogether but if a conservative government comes to power again you can bet it will be on their agenda.
The alcohol is not really about crossing state lines. Its really about bringing alcohol into communities which are deemed ‘dry’ because of alcohol related issues within those communities.
I can remember many, many years ago I had the good fortune of going out to drinks ( the pub) with the Canadian ice hockey team that had come to Australia ( for something that I don't remember) and the NRL ( footy) was on the big screen and an add for 4ecks ( XXXX) beer came on. The song in the add was " I can feel a 4ecks coming on, just can't wait for it, got the taste for it, I can feel a 4ecks coming on." Well the Canadians just fell about the place laughing. I was told,later, that XXXX (4ecks) was a brand of condoms in Canada. About the only thing I remember about that night, apart from singing " underneath the spreading chestnut tree, with my baby on my knee, I'm as happy as can be, underneath the spreading chestnut tree." with about 30 Canadian ice hockey players all doing the hand gestures and eventually getting nearly the whole pub involved. Man, those guys can drink, and not an arsehole amongst them. God I'm old.
Something else along the lines of your 4ecks (XXXX). Many years ago here in Australia there was a brand of sellotape called Durex which is all my family ever called the sticky tape (my mum used the old tin for sewing supplies). In England that was a brand of condom. I embarrassed myself greatly asking for a roll of Durex in a stationery shop in London in the 1980s.
Yeah nah we speak Strayan not English, 2 diff languages 😉. I always worked Chrissy Day & New Year's Eve/Day coz it's great money
way back when the net was young... i had a lot of friends that were either in Canada or in Australia or New Zealand. the 2 most interesting conversations with similar but different type things was... the Canadian comparing smarties. ours were chalky candy theirs were more like flavored m&ms. we realized the difference right away. as far as the Aussie reference.. i had to to take some medications before i went tot bed. i say "ill be right back i need to take my Meds." the Aussie half of the chat is like what are you on your period. im like no i just need to to take my meds so i can go to sleep. Meanwhile... they laugh at me and tell me that "Meds" were a brand of menstrual product in their area and that anyone saying the were going to take some "Meds" was indicating they needed to change their pad or tampon. I have never forgotten about this moment and have giggled every time i have taken any medication for anything.
Aussie here......I refer to my medications as my meds too....because like most Aussies Im basically lazy when it comes to language and shorten everything. I havent heard tampons referred to as meds for a long time now, used to be the common name for them when I was in my teens which was a bloody long time ago now.
@@heatherrowles9930 the meds conversation happened in 1997, so that would explain why you havent heard that in a while. 🙂
Already subscribed to BAMfamolam they live just up the road from me, well some 150klm away. Drive throughs have been around for at least 60 years as I would ride with my dad when he would go to the drive thru every couple of days and pick up "a couple of large coldies plus Nobby nuts" for he and mum to have after dinner whilst watching tv. Yes the workers usually pass your beers in through the window or if you pop your boot they will load them in there for you.
American - "I'm rooting for you!"
Australians - giggling
English - "Are you digging up a tree stump?"
Multiple the Aussie litre price by 3.5 to get the US gallon comparison, and we still pay more, and NZ pay even more still.
Why 3.5?
@@NoGufff There are 3.5 litres to every US gallon. I think it's something like 4.8 litres to an Imperial gallon (which is what we had before going metric). So our Aussie litre is around say $1.89/lt which would make it $5.67/gal.
@@noelinsley8057 US gallon is 3.78 L
@@NoGufff Damn, always that those conversions mixed up, anyways, you what I mean. Means we paying more for petrol than I thought. Oh well...
NZ and oz get confused and put together often but are completely different.
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Down here in Melbourne we get a public holiday for a horse race, and another for a football match (actually, for the day before the footy grand final not the match itself!). Yeah, we love our days off
It used to be the 6th June for the Queen's in Qld until the last few years. It was changed I believe to spread the public holidays out through the year better
The Bamfamalam! I’m subbed to them
Yep qlders got it later to spread our public holidays out , through the year...I love ❤️ being an Aussie ...
Ben and Maz immigrated to Australia with their 3 daughters 6 years ago. They live in the Sunshine Coast QLD. I’ve been following them for a while.
We moved it to October to spread out our public holidays. And yes, we love our days off and that's why we have a Queens birthday holiday. I doubt very many think of the Queen lol its simply an excuse to go away for the weekend.
I’ve lived in Melbourne Australia all my life and I’ve never paid 15% on my bill ever, it’s something new that’s just been introduced ,
I was away on the
queens birthday long weekend and got charged 15% on everything even coffee, my understanding was coffee stores made most of their money on public holidays, but overall this is something new and just introduced.
A lot of businesses have been charging a public holiday surcharge for years.
@@yergin83 I’m a construction worker and I go away almost every month and every long weekend,
all over Victoria,
This is the first time I’ve been changed a fee for a public holiday,
a coffee shop’s business depends on public holidays and long weekend’s,
I’ll never go to Flinders again for that reason.
Domino's Pizza has introduced 15% on Sundays
@@lynfletcher7744 they can close on Sunday, I never get pizza from domino’s
@@lynfletcher7744 dominos been doing that for decades.
Some of the stuff they've covered I can honestly say, as a proud Aussie, I've never encountered.
The Alcohol in a vehicle ban is one. I know that for a while in the early 2000's when I lived in the NT you couldn't drink beer in public within town limits, though that was repealed a few years later and some of the indigenous communities have a ban in place, but that is setup by the community elders to curb social problems.
The holidays on different days thing? Each state has public holidays that are specific to that state but important ones like the Queens Birthday in June ect are common across the nation. There are some states that have an extra one later in the year for some obscure reason.
I can't say that I've ever paid an extra surcharge on a public holiday, that I know of anyway. It's mostly the hospitality and service industries that get paid extra on public holidays (pretty sure that it doesn't cover the salaried jobs like emergency service and hospitals). My son works in a cafe and gets $17/hr on a normal day and $34 on a public holiday. There's only a couple of days that businesses have to give their workers the day off for, unless they have an exemption in place, like Christmas, Good Friday and a couple of others, and even then most operate on reduced hours. (Note that all this is my perception of how it all goes and I may be incorrect in some of the details.)
FYI queens bday is not nation wide day WA has it at end of September not in June at all (26th this year), I think it’s because WA day public hol is 1st week of June so no bday hol the next week
McDonalds were the first company I can recall that charged a 10% surcharge on your meal. I recall this in the 70's. The 10% surcharge on Sundays & public holidays on meals has been around for years - but many places will only charge on public holidays.
Queens birthday is in October in Queensland
@@clintonburr852 Similarly Qld, where the videoographers live. Queen's birthday is not a national holiday.
Queen's Birthday in Qld used to be in June but was changed by the Bligh government to October because there were no public holidays at the end of the year and a glut of them in the first 6 months. The coalition goverment then changed it back to June in 2013, and moved Labor Day to October for ideological reasons. The current Labor government reversed it again, returning the Labor Day holiday to it's correct day in May and moved the Queen's Birthday back to October. Confused?
It's not that alcohol is restricted on certain days, it's just that there are days when bottle shops are closed - Good Friday, etc. But most shops are closed anyway, for a day off.
Fuel prices here run in a cycle of about 4 weeks. they gradually increase not 30 cents a day lol.
Thank Brandon for your fuel price rising!
you'll find our supermarkets do t really sell as much local fruit and veg. they find it cheaper having it from other countries and it's sent here frozen. I once shopped at Woolworths on its opening day with a new supermarket opening up. Brought strawberries and found the ones at the bottom of the packet had mould or look like that. Returned and got my refund and let them have it for trying to say it's fresh and all when clearly it wasn't and even can't say it's old stock as it was 1st day of trading.
Fresh food people my ass. 🤬
the 'drive thru' bottle shop is less like MacDonald's, more like a servo, there are usually multiple lanes, the one closest to the door is 'car service' if they have it, where someone will come ask you what you want, then the next one over is the 'express' lane where you know exactly what you want, so you just run in, grab it and pay. the other lanes(s) are 'browse' lanes. they are nearly always under cover so you don't have to leave your car in the hot sun, even here in tassie.
I have seen a couple where it is a single lane with only car service, but its still someone walking up to the car asking you what you want.
The NT, I believe has the strictest alcohol laws to protect the indigenous communities. A lot of them are what is known as “dry communities”. If you bring alcohol into them you can get fined massive amounts and you risk the forfeit your vehicle. In Alice Springs the bottle shop near Woolworths, there are police stationed outside the door. You have to shoe your driver’s licence to confirm that you are able to purchase it. Only a certain number of people are allowed into the shop at any one time and there are restrictions on how much you can buy and in what quantities. For example you can’t buy boxed wine.
My understanding of the Queen’s birthday holiday was originally called the sovereign's birthday and was first officially marked in the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1748, for King George II. But the name King’s or Queen’s changed depending on the sex of the monarch.
The drink you have while driving is called a traveller. Not technically legal to have an open container of alcohol in the car while driving but.....
The ban on taking alcohol. Into certain settlements is an attempt to curb problem drinking in certain groups. It would be like a ban on taking alcohol onto a first nations tribal land.
Shower beer and travellers, best way to start a night out 👍🍻
One thing that a lot of Australians and visiting people from another country don’t know is the difference in the way to travel around Australia.
If you travel anticlockwise around Australia it’s 600 kilometres less than if you travelling clockwise and this is a travel guide in the caravan and campervan book.
A 6 pack at the liquor drive through?? My hubby buys it by the boxes! He usually puts it in the boot himself but when I go to buy it for him, the attendant puts it in the car for me. I love your videos. They give me a good laugh! Regards from Sydney!
The Brits don't have a public holiday for the Queen's Birthday BUT the Household Divisions celebrate it with the Trooping of the Colour on Horse Guards Parade (usually June the 2nd). 💂♂
Queens Birthday and the King's Birthday before that in most Australian states is around the first or second Monday in June. Possibly the date range fixed from to do with George III or similar era.
The drive-thru bottle shops are more for buying a case (24 beers) or a box of wine etc, where it is easier to load directly into the car. But yes of course you can get a six pack there too.
Yeah the price of petrol was extremely cheap during the flu thingy in the last 2 years but went ridiculously high in the last few months.
My city Adelaide has unregulated fuel prices so the price changes daily...it is pretty easy to find cheaper prices at nearby stations with apps and websites.
That was fun! I already saw their video so getting your reaction was cool. What a big English-speaking family we are!
So funny that I watched those sorts of clips before I found this channel, now I see even more with many perspectives
G'day, a drive through bottle shop is usually one that you drive in, park your car then go inside to select you beers, wines etc then pay for it before you return to your car and drive off. All states in Aust do not allow drinking while driving even for passengers !
Most of our produce is fresh. Seasonal produce is impacted by seasonal conditions, and prices do swing wildly on them.
However there is a second layer - our distribution network relies heavily on diesel transport by road. With fuel prices high, all groceries are affected.
@ 7:00 my local carwash here in Bangkok has draft Guinness and craft beers to keep you occupied for the hour it takes to clean your car by hand... Makes perfect sense!
Yeah..... Nah. Easy. "Yeah, I heard what you said/get what you mean, but NO; don't want to do it."
Drive in Bottlo. Makes perfect sense. Friend of mine was in England and told them. They said it was as "Bizarre as having a toaster at the bus stop..."
All I got out of that was "Hmmmm, toaster at the bus stop........" :-)
Petrol prices are crazy in Australia at the moment but I’m a bit fortunate to have a dual fuel car. I paid 89.9c per litre for LPG (propane) 2 days ago but it also varies a lot. On the down side is 5 petrol stations that sell it in the town I live in are actually out of LPG so there must be a shortage. Luckily not too far away I can get some at the moment.
prices of food here is very high atm the major floods destroyed alot of crops
Good Friday being a public holiday so shops trade less or not at all.
Lots of public holidays to prepare for the day before.
You still get out of the car to go into the bottlo its just a covered park at the doors for 4-6 cars.
Seasonal foods should vary in price and with weather conditions/supply.
As an Aussie I’ve never understood the Queens birthday holiday either, not even on her birthday.
Victoria has a Holliday for a horse (Melb cup) race and the afl grand final
Australia has stict rules for most jobs in terms of wages including higher rates for weekends, public holidays, night shifts, and long shifts when you miss a break or you work over a certain amount - including when there is only a short gap between two shifts, like working late one night and early the next morning, if there hasn't been a certain amount of time between the shifts then the second shift may require a higher rate of pay.
The public holiday bit is because of school holidays. Usally there around the same time coz we dont have spring break like u we have small breaks through the year but they are different from state to state so holiday destinations dont get swamped and there peak time last for a month instead of a week eg. A caravan park will be full of NSWings then next week will be VIC then SA etc.
There are drive-through bottle stores here in Australia but there are also laws that prohibit the transportation of open containers of alcohol. So it's not like you can buy alcohol and drink it while you drive until you reach the legal limit. Also police can charge you with careless driving if you are trying to drink any drink or eat food while driving.
Yes, the Queens' birthday is actually very important in NSW at the first public holiday, the colony ever had. The colony worked from the 26 of January until June when they can afford to have a day off and just so happen to be close to the kings birthday so they waited until it was. Now we celebrate the first public holiday in Australia. It's on a Monday so it's a long weekend so it's the Monday of the second week in June so the date changes every year instead of just King George III birthday.
The qld queens birthday was moved to October to match the nsw labour day as it was a pain in the butt on the border for businesses.👍
7:14 now that blows my mind because australia follows so much of america
Drive thu's started at the rear of pubs and most are still just that, not all pubs have the space to have 1 though for example my little home town of 4,900 people had 5 pubs but only 2 had/have a drive-thu
Fuel Prices are cyclic in some (most?) capitals - some have a weekly cycle, some fortnightly (I think some are 12 day) - and when there's a long weekend you can gurarantee the price will go up toward the end of the week.
Food prices are probably more impacted by small things here than elsewhere - because it's a fairly small population in a very large country. So a couple farms being hit by flooding (or even a couple of roads) can affect supply which makes prices fluctuate. It sometimes means they're normally more stable (but not cheaper, obviously) off-season (because shops are raiding their store with a known supply).
I think in *most* states you can't have open liquor in the front seat (some even the entire car) but I've seen a lot of bottleos that discount cold singles (in an esky not in the fridge) which seems to be intended for the "roadie" (certainly used to suck me in - I'd get a slab and a roadie).
The areas where you can't have booze in the car are fairly specific here too - mainly in Northern Australia protecting indigenous communities.
Public holiday (and Sunday) surcharges have evolved fairly recently. TBH I sort of think it should be a cost of doing business - your business is probably busiest at those times (compared to say a random Tuesday), so although I can see it impacts overheads your turnover is likely more that day - I'd rather a marginally higher cost all the time, than one that varies on a particular day (NB: I feel similar about credit card surcharges).
6:15 Yes drive thru bottlo-o's are very common we like our alcohol and it's convenient. Definitely pretty unique to us I remember driving through and being in the back of the car as a kid.
Hi Ian, great video my on the drive through bottle,O. Subject here in Whyalla South Australia, we have a bottle and bird, drive through, meaning, you can buy your alcohol and hot chicken and chips in the same drive through. Keep up the good work from Dave in Australia.
Not sure about the UK, but here in Australia, hospitality workers don't get tipped. They're paid a certain amount per hour. It varies on age and experience.
11:20 you CAN take grog across state borders. Some remote areas are dry (no alcohol) as requested by local leaders, ie indigenous leaders protecting their communities from alcoholism and the violence it often leads to. Remember that it didn't exist in their culture 250 years ago, and they're sometimes (allegedly) more susceptible to its effects due to not having generations of use of it. Not to say that "white" culture doesn't have problems either, but the indigenous communities have serious problems with it and have decided to ban it from their remote communities.
a Dogman in Aus is the guy that deals with attaching the load and safety equipment on the ground...
Eating maccas in the car... depends on the car.. if you're in a manuela then its easier to sit in the car park... in an Otto will sometimes grab bits while on the road.
I think one of the reasons bottleshops work is that anyone that drives in, unless already illegal will have a license which means you can legally buy alcohol here.
8:40 Yeah they will generally help load it up you don't need to leave the car most times.
The surcharge pees me off when a place charges it and you know damn well that their employees are all casuals and don't get any penalty rates
While many fresh fruit and vegetable prices have sky rocketed in Oz due to drought, fires and then floods, here in Bunbury W.A. my local supermarket are selling lettuce for $3:50.
That's about standard for peak summer time when supplies run short due to demand. Maybe we are growing a lot of lettuce right here in W.A. where we haven't had that disastrous weather.
One of the big drawbacks of being an island continent is we are very vulnerable to supply issues and costs, the pandemic and the war in Ukraine not to mention some pretty crazy weather around driving prices here at the moment
we dont have grog in servo's but we have enough bottlo's to choose from and dan murphies and all the other grog stores . not including coles and woolies bottle shops . and most pubs have drive throughs . were never short on booze lol .
Apparently the first ever drive through bottle shop in the world was in Largs Bay, South Australia.
That’s what they claim anyway.
Aussies celebrate anything for a day off. We have more public holidays than most countries. Plus we get a great amount of holidays including in all full-time work packages.