Americans React To "100 Differences Between Australia And America"
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You can get ketchup in the supermarket. Most people don’t use it though, because it’s way too sugary compared to regular tomato sauce.
As a german for me it seems they have waaaay more in common with Europe than the US. But in the end its not surprising since the US seems to love beeing different and keep their weird ancient stuff like the "imperial system", religion like in the middle ages, peeping Tom friendly toilets and whatever else 😄
Absolutely..... glad you see that :D it is disheartening though that so many of our youth now, through social media.... want Australia to be like the USA...... hell no..... they don't even understand what they are talking about...... but then again that's because education and knowledge are now going down the toilet as well..... ask the average young person here in Australia what's the last book they've read or the last time they've gone to the library.... they'll look at you and seriously say... I learn what I need from Tik Tok, Instagram and Facebook...... smdh....
Actually Adelaide in South Australia had a large 1800's Gernan migrant population. So did the other states. Adelaide even has a bus way called the O-bahn, based on some German ones. The coolest town nearby is called Handorf. Google it 😀
@@noone6559 Education itself isn’t going down the toilet, it’s at a very high standard still. Student engagement with education, though, is problematic for many, because the TikTok attention span isn’t conducive to understanding complex concepts, nor close to time enough to draw relationships between concepts, problem solve, etc.
Chicken salt is the best. It is not chicken flavoured salt, it was a seasoning designed to go onto chicken. We however mostly use it on chips/fries.
Also, chicken salt is mostly vegetarian friendly
@@seachangelezzie yeah n it hospitalises me coz its full of MSG
At least here you get arrested not shot by the cops
It's a nanny state but we are all pretty safe. Covid was tough but they really kept the death toll down.
Eh
Expensive alcohol and cigarettes is due to the "sin tax". On the flip side, that tax heavily supplements the health care system.
'Sin tax'. Only if you're a foolish god botherer
Sure it does 😂
Goes to show how over regulated and over taxed we are here in the nanny state
@@Paul-MP But you don't mind all the benefits
"The sin tax." I've never heard that before, but lived in Australia my whole life. I worked in the Dept if Health when they developed this tax. They did it for noble means and yes, it does go towards supplementing the health system. I'll never forget seeing a newly arrived American guy buying a pack of smokes at Coles. When the attendant asked for the money his brain almost blew out the top of his head. He couldn't believe it. His Marlboros cost $40. Welcome to Australia. Oh well, it means there's good money to be made on the black market.
Lachlan is a first name. Very common. Some people will make their own beer at home but not much else
Correct, home brewing is common but there is no bootlegging at all here
@@nevillewelsh6393Exactly. I like ETGs work but they seem to think bootlegging is necessary here. It's not like going out for a drink is illegal or anything, just, like... get an Uber home! Or have a designated driver! Or if you're drinking at a mate's place, just, like, crash there for the night! Certainly beats crashing out on the road..
Lachlan is a very scottish name,more common in NW Scotland and the Hebrides
@@nevillewelsh6393lol never been outta the burbs ay? up here in the sticks theres shine everywhere
@@jakelineham1789grew up in the country mate. Up in the mountains just outside Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Quick comment on the drinks and the stuff at the bottom. It’s because we don’t use added chemicals to suspend the flavouring in the drink. The stuff that you guys use is band in about 150 count
We used to have a big problem with Drink Driving, and our local Race Driving Hero, Peter Brock, tirelessly campaigned to have the limit lowered to .05. He even had 05 has his Car number. They eventually lowered the limit from .08 to .05. Then they brought in Breathalyzers and Random Breath Testing. The Alcohol related Accidents definitely went down, it’s much better now. I would say most people are ok to go through the inconvenience for the greater good of the Community.
i think the two blokes need to look up the science re blood absorption of alcohol, as .08 is drunk.
@@glenod Totally agree, don’t where they got their “facts” from.
Yeah 1 beer is 0.8 ahh I don’t think so haha
I think the best way to understand our speeding & drink driving laws is to look at the stats for road fatalities per capita (100,000)
U.S. - 12.7
AUS - 4.9
These figures include ALL road deaths not just the above mentioned.
Many countries have .05 limit (approx. 89) & less (approx. 27) Many have 0.8 (approx. 70) There are quite a few with 0 as well (approx. 28).
Only some places charge for extra sauce, and $1.50 is way higher than normal. I don’t have sauce, so I’m quite happy to have user pays for sauce and keep the cost of the meal down. Ketchup is much sweeter than tomato sauce. It's made with HFCS, which is banned in Australia because of its negative health impact.
Swearing depends very much where you are. It’s not common at all with my circle of family, colleagues and friends.
'Letter' paper size as used in the US is an old system of sizing, just used in the Americas. As with most metric countries, we have A4 as standard, in line with the internationally used system of sizing grades, A3, A5 etc.
They really don’t give speeding tickets for 2km over, you’d beat that easily in court, and most speed cameras have warning signs as you approach them. Why speed limits? We care about lives.
You’d get used to traffic lights in a day. It’s very clear.
No, moonshining isn’t a thing. Mostly we have a designated driver who doesn’t drink. Some people rotate that. It’s why we have standardised drinks, slightly less than yours, so it’s easier to monitor your intake for the BAC.
plus tipping is not a thing in Australia.
The red arrow on a traffic light is like a red light it will turn green when you are allowed to make the turn or it will go out and you make the decision when it is safe to turn across oncoming traffic.
One US teacher who came here for a year and did similar videos on the differences said when she went back to the US, a few months later she got a letter containing something like 3 speeding tickets from the state of Victoria. So even going back home won't get you out of those! 😂
😂😂😂 Straya 🇦🇺
Older Aussies still do babies inn inches, pounds and ounces. Everything else is metric
Most normal Australians don't curse to that extent. I dont know anyone who speaks like that
Teachers are still Mr or me unless they say otherwise
But they don't get shot
The 4 houses are Sports houses. Each house is usually named after an explorer of Australia. Eg; Cunningham, Barton, Oxley and each house is a different colour. With regards to the speeding, we have a saying here "SPEED KILLS". For every klm over the speed limit it takes an extra 3 metres of braking. We also have average speed cameras, this is usually 2 cameras, 5klm apart. Camera 1 takes your photo as you pass, camera 2 then takes your photo as you pass. If you have got from camera 1 to camera 2 faster than the average speed allows, you will be sent a ticket
Houses are like teams. So for sports days you wear the colour of your house.
Our houses were named after historical houses in the town.
Depending upon how freaking huarge your school was, you could have 11 houses... starting with the obvious colours: Red, Yellow, Blue, Green, Orange, Purple, Black, White, Grey (that's 9), Pink and Teal (Cyan/Aqua).
If you go to an all girls school the houses will be named after famous women, we had Bates, Fry , Gilmore and Turner.
At my primary school they were Cook, Phillip, Banks and Solander (we were on the shores of Botany Bay). And at high school we were Indigenous names (Warramunda, Koorawatha, Pintharuka and Yarrawonga). The colours are always red, blue, green or yellow.
Lachlan is a common first name in Australia. It is Scottish origin and was the name of one of the early Governors of the penal colony that became Australia, Governor Lachlan Macquarie. The names Lachlan and Macquarie appear everywhere as place names and business names as well. Interesting fact.... Lachlan Macquarie was sent to take over the Governorship from Bligh. Yes, the same Bligh of "Mutiny on the Bounty" fame who was appointed Governor of NSW after he returned to Britain after the Bounty episode. Bligh was replaced because he was the subject of a second mutiny in Sydney by the British army regiment that effectively ran the penal colony like an organised crime gang.
This kid is wrong about the sales tax here in Australia, we do have sales tax its just included in the price, Its stated as GST on receipts which means Goods and Sales Tax and it tells you how much the GST was that was included in the price
Goods and services tax, not sales.
@@miniveedub whatever its called we still have it here and its the same thing, products we buy are taxed
He was talking about after sales tax, not GST.
In the States, the ticket price is not the actual price - if something says it's $5, it's actually more than $5, with after sales tax.
He likes that our ticket prices *include* GST, so we don't have to calculate the cost of tax after sales.
@@christyzeeaquarianated2600 GST is a sales tax on goods sold and services rendered. It is the equivalent of the US after sales tax and the British and European VAT (Value Added Tax). The US is the only one that expects its citizens to do mental arithmetic to work out how much they’ll be paying instead of adding it before writing the price on the item. So yes, he WAS talking about GST.
@@miniveedub ugh, he was referring to the equation beforehand vs. not having to do the equation beforehand.
There.
I simplified it for you.
DISCLAIMER: Everything said here by Tristan (awesome vid by the way mate, very well done), is from his own touristing and now short living, limited experience only. Not everyone, everywhere in Aus does all these things this way. 😉
cricket would be the most popular sport in australia as it is played in all states and australia is known internationally as one of the great cricket countries while the others sports are more regional including the AFL which is domestic
@michaelrogers2080 as i said - cricket is Australia's national sport due to its overall reach and relevance as a national team - also watching and participating are two different things
More people attend AFL games now.
Hold on a minute.... are you saying you have never heard of BBQ meatlovers pizza...
I thought that was world wide 😂
Ikr? Marinara sauce? That's whack.
Over here we don't go to jail. The only time you get put in jail is something serious. It's not like the US system at all. You get in trouble here it's either let off with a warning or cop a fine generally.
Jailing depends on danger to the community status. In the US, it's a business. Private jails
He's in a tourist area. I hardly ever pay for sauce
Opened his gob....come in spinner
As of 1 July 2023 the National Minimum Wage is $23.23 per hour or $882.80 per week.
If you actually read the ingredients, "ketchup" and "tomato sauce" are virtually identical. I've had a lot of both here and in the USA and I feel that our tomato sauce is generally less sweet than ketchup in the US, but that goes for many things.Yeah they often charge for sauce but some places don't. Fosters IS an Australian beer which was popular in some parts of Melbourne in the 1980s but hasn't been popular for a long time. Random breath testing is a fact of life here and massively reduced the drunk driving death and injury toll when introduced a long time ago. The cops are polite, and it takes almost no time out of your day. Just don't drink and drive.
@@dutchroll They are similar here, but ketchup in the US is made with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). HFCS is a sucrose substitute developed in America to use excess corn crops, and to reduce prices of goods such as ketchup, soft drinks. It is a combination of the sugars fructose and glucose. Fructose has a much higher sweetness index than the sucrose used in Australia in both ketchup and tomato sauce. HFCS is banned in Australia because of its effects on obesity, and links to cancer and NAFLD.
Dotted middle line you can overtake Solid line you cannot. No speed cameras on all highways or roads. But often marked and such. But police can set up a speed trap anywhere in the country. Same as random breath testing can be anywhere
Houses in schools divide the school cohort into houses (teams) for sports results.
Australia won the cricket world up against India in India a couple of months ago. It was our 6th world cup, the country anywhere near us in world cup wins is the West Indies with 2 world cup wins so we're pretty good at cricket.
Also the person that made the Shoey famous was Aussie Formula One driver Daniel Ricciardo after a F1
Pool tables are small but snooker tables are very large. Hotel has rooms upstairs to sleep usually but they may be remnants of those places.
No one really makes moonshine here... we aren't hill billy's 🤣🤣🤣
A couple of my friends do.
Alcohol laws are very strict here and to even work in a place that serves Alcohol you have to complete a Responsible Service of Alcohol certificate (also the same case for gambling which is called Responsible Conduct of gambling). There is a recertification component and you are held personally liable if a patron was given too much alcohol and leaves the premises and injures themselves. This links back to our strict BAC rules as we have had high fatality on the roads in the past as a result of Alcohol mixed with speeding so when you start to see too many teenagers losing their lives the government does something about it.
The white egg you have in america is due to a bleaching process to remove any bacteria which removes the 'brown protective layer'. In Australia and the UK we have higher standards on the living standards of the chickens and therefore our eggs are sold in their natural form
Well said mate! These two seem to be just shitting on everything Aussie like typical arrogant Seppo's where they pound their chest telling the world they are the best at everything
@@Tully_23_32i don’t know I agree about the alcohol stuff it should be cheaper and I understand why it isn’t but having worked in several places that serve alcohol I know for a fact that the high prices are at least in some respects results of government greed for taxes over safety
In general Australia doesn't have just bars...we have pubs like the UK, but those pubs are called hotels in Australia because as Australia was growing the hotel/pub always had accommodation upstairs (most pub/hotels in Australia are multi storey and the buildings are old). These days there are motels that just have rooms like US cheap roadside ones.
Australian hotels/pubs have front bars and sports bars for betting, they all used to have ladies lounges (where women can drink and children can attend) because women were banned from front bars prior to sometime in the 70's...later on most added on a bistro or restaurant, outdoor beer gardens and depending on state a gaming room full of pokies (5 reel slot machines)
Actual hotels in cities and resorts are called hotels too...
There are small bars in Australia but it's only been in the 20 yrs.
@@heatherfruin5050
When I say bars I'm talking qbout US style dive bars...they exist but are relatively rare in Australia.
The modern little bars hidden in side lanes are not really a pub bar style place...they are more specialised and usually sell posh food...or at least expensive food.
specifically, the Exchange does have room upstairs. I've slept there. However, nowadays mainly for staff accomodation...
Chicken salt is the 💣. Check out a channel called Jolly, they tried Aussie fish and chips, absolutely loved chicken salt. Lachlan is a first name...
29:41 I could be really overprotected, but I’ve never seen illegal alcohol in Australia. The reason we’re tough on speeding and drink driving is that they massively increase the risk to others on the road, not wearing shoes etc, doesn’t effect anyone else so the attitude is “who cares”.
0.05 is based on the level of alcohol that can be scientifically shown to impair your reflexes, so no you aren’t drunk at all, but your reflexes are affected. You get to 0.05 in adult men with about one standard drink per hour (or 2 in first hour and one per hour after) which is the reason behind the strict rules on measuring alcohol in bars, so people can properly judge how much they have consumed and whether they should be driving. If a bar tender makes your drink stronger than you realize, they can be responsible when you drive over the legal limit.
There was a story, 10 years ago, where 3 kids died in Queensland (Stanthorpe) from getting into a guys homemade alcohol. The guy did jail time for the incident (it was considered accidental death), but he still got charged with the manslaughter of the 3 boys because he “didn’t store the home brew in such a way that they couldn’t access it.” The 3 boys were all adults. He was the father of one of the three boys. You can make your own beer and spirits, and people do, but there are laws around it. The supermarkets (in Qld at least) sell all the products you need to make homebrew beer in the supermarket, but if you get caught supplying the made product to someone else, that will incur a fine.
Usually I am not a fan of BBQ sauce but it’s yummy on meat lovers pizza and BBQ chicken pizza!
You can brew your own beer. You can get starter kits from shops.
Drink at home, or have a designated driver.
0.05 is 2 beers in the first hour & 1 each hour thereafter (for the "average" man)
The hotel/bar situation most towns started off with a hotel which would have a bar down stairs. Eventually most shut down the hotel part of the business.
Lachlan can be first name and last name. Its very Scottish and comes from our Scottish ancestors and familie Very common. And yes like Englamd the hotel thing is actually a pub, a bar with rooms upstairs.
The Houses system in schools is so with the School swimming carnival and athletes carnival they get points for the place they finished in each event . The House with the most points wins the Trophy for that year . It gives the children a chance to show who is the best athlete in each event . It also can show who might be able to continue to improve to Olympic standard .
there is a sales tax (we call it GST for goods and services tax), its just already included in the price, so if something says its $5, that's $5 with the tax already included.
as a kid that grew up poor, I loved the fact we had uniforms. one less thing to worry about, everyone wore the same thing, so there was no bullying about wearing something 'uncool'
'4 way stops' I don't think we even have any 4 way stops. if there is an intersection without traffic lights or a roundabout, one of the 2 roads with have priority and the one crossing it will have to 'give way' to it at all times. if it is an intersection where 2 'main' roads meet, it will have traffic lights or a roundabout.
we also don't have 'traffic circles', or at least they are incredibly uncommon and not actually 'round' usually. we have roundabouts , there is a difference.
I'm pretty sure he spent most of his time in Brisbane/Gold Coast
the shots thing is because of RSA (responsible service of alcohol), our drink driving laws are pretty strict and the limit is 0.05 so the bartender can get in a fair bit of trouble for 'over serving' if somebody knows they can have 2 drinks and still drive and you go and essentially give them 3+ drinks, they are now potentially over the limit.
fosters used to be more common here back in the 90's. My parents ran a pub for a while at that time and did sell a decent amount of fosters, but it was still outsold my most other beers, that being said, I don't think I have seen a fosters for like 15+ years. so either its no longer sold here or it is and I have just completely ignored it. I think it always sold better overseas then it did here anyway.
it is legal here to make your own alcohol, but the size of your brewing equipment is limited and your not allowed to sell it, but some people do.
with pizza, you usually get a choice, either they will ask you if you want bbq or regular or it will be named something like 'BBQ Meatlovers' or 'BBQ Chicken' on the menu, for me its always BBQ if its a meatlovers.
with the hotel thing, a lot of them actually are hotels as well or they were at some point in time. so the 'exchange hotel' either does have rooms to rent, or it probably did originally. we would also generally just call it a pub, unless using the actual name to tell someone where to meet up, but we would usually drop the hotel anyway, so that one would just be 'The Exchange'
yes your right about being like a British pub, there will quite often be a bar, a bistro and a gaming room downstairs and rooms upstairs.
Our money isn't exactly "plastic" as such, it is made from a polymer!! This makes it much more difficult to counterfeit, and it is also much stronger, and easier to keep dry and clean!! Our money doesn't tear like paper money does, which is another bonus!! 😊
...and if it gets folded or creases, it is a PITA to uncrease to get it to lay flat in the till. Also, it will shrink if exposed to extreme heat, so don't leave notes in your pants pockets if you plan to wash and tumble dry them.
Would love to see some cricket videos!! Would recommend any catch or bowling compilations. Would also recommend full game highlights for Glenn Maxwells double century for the wc semi final last year - it was a pretty crazy batting performance. Also I know you’ve done some reactions to nrl already but would love to see more (recs: rugby hits till I collapse, state of origins highlights - games 1, 2 and 3 in 2022 are a good recent example - especially game 3, fastest nrl players, crazy tries vids etc. If you want any links or anything for recs happy to provide some good ones 🫶🏻 loving the content!!
We take the safety of our citizens seriously, which doesn't seem like much fun from the point of view of younger people but as you get older and the more you see and the more you experience, you do end up appreciating the lengths we go to keep our people safe. I do love Tristan's videos but they are very much from the experiences of a young person visiting our country, lol.
Exactly
The extents the government goes to to fine you and increase revenue, you mean.
@@disvert9355 So you don't believe that our road rules save lives? That their one and only purpose is revenue?
Creating road rules does not guarantee the government will make money.
People who break the law is what makes the government money.
If you don't like the idea of the government taking your money with regard to road rules, don't break the law.
Easy peasy!
We are people who do a little bootlegging (we do A lot). We produce all of our own spirits, but in Australia, it is illegal to sell alcohol without a liquor licence. So all of our spirits are for personal use only and for food preservation only.
The lights are setup for the lanes since there is usually a dedicated turning lane for if you are in a lane that lets you turn right across traffic so long as it is either green or off (no light) you can turn, the "dot" is for through traffic so those who are continuing straight through the lights, and you can turn left on red at certain lights, sometimes they are marked with a sign but more often than not it is a dedicated turning lane without a light to allow better flow of traffic. For lane markings, centre markings are there to designate two-way flow of traffic (traffic going both ways on the road) there are three types of centre markings solid lines, dotted lines and double lines, solid lines mean that you are not allowed to pass even if there is no oncoming traffic (fines and point on your license), dotted lines allow passing if it is safe to do so, and double lines have two variations double solid meaning no passing for either lane, and solid on one side and dotted on the other allowing passing for traffic on the dotted side, also on rural highways there is usually a dedicated passing lane every 20 to 50 Kms depending on the council that maintains that section of road.
Pub (i.e. bar) is short for public house. Liquor licensing laws once upon a time required pubs in the olden days to also have some accommodation, like a house, even if it was just a couple of rooms. So lots of older pubs are still called a hotel, like the Queen's Head Hotel, or the Customs House Hotel, or the Imperial Hotel etc. although they no longer have accommodation. A few still do, however.
36 seconds listening to this kid and i would charge him $1.50 for sauce too!😂
Definitely a come in spinner
Okay with the hotel pubs. Pubs were also hotels because until the 1980s, pubs were required to provide rooms for rent in order to have a liquor license. And yes most are still hotels with rooms to rent a floor up. Not a great place to stay as they are often noisy grungy places. but they are cheap.
The reason we have such strict road rules and laws regarding speeding, is because we have a problem with road death tolls, and young people hooning and being silly in cars, and people of all ages drink driving. It is a lot better now. The Government tracks the numbers, especially during school and Christmas Holidays and often you get in double trouble for speeding or drink driving during these times. Our Licences are a point based system so you lose double points and get double fine amounts during these times. We also have road blocks set up by Police to breathalyize every person driving through, no exceptions. If you see it and turn around they will chase you becaaue that means you are likely guilty, and also unlike America, the Police here do not need probable cause to test you for alcohol or drugs if you are driving. If you want to know how serious we take it, watch some Australian Public Service Announcements (PSA’s). They will make you cry 😂😂😂
Also the fine and point loss for refusing a breath test is the same as the fine for drink driving. The long weekends are double demerits not double fined. At least here in WA.
Home brews are legal (since 1972) so it is quite popular in Australia to make your own beer. It has become quite an art form to produce your own flavours and show off your personally-made beers to friends.
In Queensland, they generally give you a bit of leeway on the speed. A policeman told me recently that if you go 10% over the limit, they will pull you over. He said this allows for possible errors such as speed gun inaccuracy, tyres with incorrect inflation etc. I believe Victoria is quite strict and being just a little over will get you fined.
Checking for intoxicated or drugged drivers is prevalent all over Australia, and rightly so. It is totally irresponsible to put others at risk. Most people accept being checked as a good thing.
Speed limits. The maximum speed limit is 130km/h (81mph) that's in the NT, In the rest pf Australia, it is generally 110km/h (68mph)
Don't forget about the unlimited speed just north of Alice Springs, that keeps changing back to 130kmh depending on who is in government on the day. lol
@@stevegraham3817 Yep.
@@stevegraham3817derestricted speed signs just mean there isn’t a set speed limit,😊 they still have the prima facile speed limit for that state which in the NT is usually 130 and other states is 110. I’ve seen derestricted signs in WA, there is one near Mullawa. I haven’t seen one in any other state in a long, long time. I’ve had my licence 56 years, there were quite a few of those signs once you got outside cities when I was first driving but they’ve disappeared over the years.
@edub Except there was a section of highway with absolutely no speed limit, like it was before 2007.
2014 it was 200km,
In 2016 the Northern Territory now has 300-kilometers of unrestricted highway speed-limits after the government approved new changes overnight.
A further 60-kilometre stretch of the Stuart Highway north of Alice Springs will be free of speed limits, allowing those behind the wheel to drive to the conditions.
“Pretty much between Alice Springs and Ali Curung now you will be able to see open speed limits,” he said.
At the end of 2016 a change of government reinstated the 130kmh limit and ever since then, one side of gumment have been promising to open the speed limits in that section, while the other side promises to keep the 130 limit.
And yes I remember the black circle with the line through it, but I wasn't talking about them.
A pub is a hotel. They are usually old with accommodation for travellers, hence they are the ORIGINAL hotels as in the UK. A monster hotel such as a Hilton is exactly the same but huge. They have accommodation, alcohol and food. And yes, Fosters is disgusting.
Some of these vary by state. In my 30+ years of living in SA, I haven't seen anywhere that has free sunscreen. The 4 houses at school are usually for sports day, which is a whole day where the entire school are teamed up to compete against each other. The teams are usually sorted by the person's surname and you will usually be in the same team every year, although you do change when you transition from primary school to high school. In SA, the lowest recored speeding ticket was 4km over the speed limit. Each state has their own acceptable tolerance when it comes to speeding fines. Some teachers will alow you to call them by their first name, especially if their surname 2 difficult to say. I don't know anyone that calls their Dr by their first name but yes, I've never seen a Dr in a white coat and I work in a hospital. They are often in neat casual clothes or scrubs.
Chicken salt is the absolute best, its a must have for hot chips. I agree 100% about the flies, especially the ones that bite. Hotels are complicated. Some hotels (accommodation) are in fact called hotels (including the fancy ones), but then you get the pubs (informal restaurants), which are also often called hotels. Some pub hotels also have accomodation and they are called motels lol.
Speeding cameras are also generally more confined to the cities. Regional areas are usually unpatrolled and you are pretty unlucky if you get caught speeding in any rural area.
The traffic light thing wasn't properly explained. On some major roads where you can turn left or right (as well as go straight) its a dual traffic light system with the left hand side showing green so you can go if you arent turning and the right hand side will show a red ➡️ which means you cant turn right until the colour changes to a green ➡️ (opposite way if the intersection has a light system for turning left). You will also find triple traffic light with left hand side for the left hand turners, middle for continuing straight and right hand for turning right. In most cases this is to allow pedestrians to cross safely.
Night clubs do cover charge, but bars don’t. So we do, do pub crawls
Some do in my area only about 4 night clubs do a cover charge the rest are free entry
Speed limit is 110kms not 100kms on freeways. Traffic circles are called round-a-bouts. 6 pack of small cans of beer here will set you back around $25AUD, one 475ml glass (schooner) of beer in Sydney at a pub will cost around $10AUD. I have no idea what he is talking about with the techno music scene, it's likely a Melbourne thing. For the most part, rock bands are still really popular. What was missing from that list was electric kettles that plug into a socket and boil water for tea/coffee. Rare to find kettles that go on a stovetop these days
12:41 Yes it is a livable wage. After adjusting for cost of living, $25 (AUD) is equivalent to $15 (USD)
The most common reason for paying for fuel after you put it your car, is that servos make more money from the drinks and snacks people buy when they go in to pay for their fuel.
Yes that and you're more likely to put in more petrol or fill your tank than you would if you pre-paid
Pool tables vary in size here!! We DO have big tables too, lol.
The speed thing depends where you are, in New South Wales, they tell you where the cameras are. And most of the states have 110 mph speed limits not 100.
100 kph in Queensland
110mph??!! 😂 maybe km/hr
@@Dr_KAP damn auto correct 🤣
@@bigoz1977 🤣
This vid is very city-east coast centric. (40) Rest of Australia you absolutely have to drive and there are parts of this country where there is NO speed limit. Lots of the country is 80mph, just not in the cities. Also it's 5kmh over speed limit that they will charge you, but you shouldn't be speeding anyway. (50) The sizes of the drinks are different from state to state, what is considered a "pint" and a "schooner" changes from state to state. (51) Again, bars open all the time isn't a common thing in all the states, that's very specific to the one city he's in.
Yes, as in most Commonwealth countries, school houses are an integral part of Aussie school spirit. Within the school, you're loyal to your house. Outside, you're cheering the school. These days, even older schools are designating house names using local Aboriginal terms. In my younger grandsons' primary school, for example, two of my boys are in Kaluin (black swan), and the third in Tibrogargan (biting flying squirrel). My older grandsons at middle school, stay at houses named Parrwang (magpie) and Kunawarra (black swan). Each house has its own sports kit colours.
The traffic light example he didn’t explain very well. You can have a green light to go straight ahead but a red arrow which means you can’t turn right because the traffic coming the other direction has a green light, it is stopping you from turning into oncoming traffic. The standard measures of alcohol are to ensure you know how much you are consuming, so you can stay under the drink driving limit. It also helps the bar manage their stock levels and profit levels. Fosters beer is disgusting, but I’m a New Zealander soooo 🤷🏻♀️😂 McFlurries are mixed properly in NZ 🤣 Lachlan is a first name.
Hahahaha, he's right about the flies!! Lol ... They're a pain in the arse!! The further north you go, the worse they get!! Lol
26million people and 40000000 trillion trillions of flies
So true
The alcohol thing, and the same with cigarettes, are taxed really heavily to discourage binge drinking. Australians drink A LOT, and strict rules on limiting alcohol consumption is intended to lower incidents involving drunk people (violence, alcohol poisoning). With a public health system, anything they can do to prevent you from going to hospital is an investment in the health system.
You’re spot on with that!
It is legal to made your own alcohol or beer, we have home brew shops.
Chicken salt is the bomb! Chicken salt with a touch of vinegar is even better!
I've seen immigrants in Oz charge $2 AUS for tomato sauce or gravy in a little cup like that when you buy a decent serve of chips (or fries to Americans). It's a CRIME ffs!!! It's ok. I know where to get the best chips or burgers in my city. It's a tiny little old school greasy take away and it's absolutely wonderful. There's very few of these old school greasy Joes type shops around now. They've all closed down and they sell fancy espresso and plated up salad with kale and pine nuts and jous and fucking pomegranates instead. If you're lucky they'll sell you a $30 burger that looks nice on the plate but it has no sauce or salt, and it's less than half the burger you used to buy for $8 wrapped in paper that you subconsciously make nom nom noises when you ate because it was so fucking good. And you could never finish the serving of chips that you ordered on top of it, even though they were perfect.
I miss the old Greasy Joe, Mum & Dad Burger Bars. Love me a big toasted (on the inside only) hamburger bun, with giant beef patty, BBQ sauce, onion, lettuce, tomato, pineapple, beetroot, egg, cheese and double the bacon, all wrapped in greaseproof paper. So big and so full of filling that it was almost impossible to get your mouth open enough for it. I would always end up picking drop outs off the paper to nibble separately. The egg and sauce would dribble over your hands and you knew you were eating a real burger. So hard to find that burger bliss now.
Just be aware - he only lived in Melbourne so some of his points will be different for other cities and States
I think only the US and Canada use letter size paper. The rest of the world uses A4.
This dude has issues!! Whinging about his M&Ms not being "mixed through" the McFlurry, but instead just being put on top of the ice-cream!! Seriously?? Lol ... Now he's just sounding like a "whinging Pom!" Hahaha 😂🤣😂
Lachlan is a very common first name here in Aus. It’s from Scottish origin. One of my children is called Lachlan.
Its way cheaper to buy alcohol from a store than a pub. I can get 24pk of beer for around 50 bucks and 1 beer at the pub is around 10 bucks
The highest speed limit is technically unlimited for that one road through the middle of the desert, but the highest speed limits are typically 110Km/h now.
We also have the occasional "average speed" cameras. 2 Cameras many km apart (like 10-20km) that measure the time it takes you between the 2 cameras and gives you a ticket if you go past the 2nd camera too early.
Calling teachers by their first names? Not when I was a kid. That is totally disrespectful. If that is the case, kids and schools should be ashamed.
Most schools do not do this... universities etc yes
It isn't uncommon to be called Miss and then their first name or Mr "first name" at school. I never understood why someone calling you by your actual first name is disrespectful? I would prefer my first name than Mrs .....
My kids' friends always called my husband and I by our first name and NEVER once felt disrespected, after all, it is my name 😊
When I went to high school (QLD, 90s), you were allowed to use teacher's first names in the classroom if you were in year 11 and 12. The school decided to treat us as near-adults to help us be in an adult state of mind for our senior years of schooling and the decisions we would have to soon make about our futures. At the time, vocational education was only just emerging in QLD schools so most students in years 11 and 12 were aimed at university - we were treated like adults because we had to make adult decisions.
But I agree with you - calling teachers by their first names is not the norm in Australian schools
The four houses is for like sporting days like swimming Festival also athlete's Day and that which is usually Red, Green, Blue and Yellow. Lachlan is both first name and last name too. Sometimes they where a hotel at one point name just hasn't changes plus sometimes back in the older times the bar was at the hotel.
Speed limit is 110kmh in some states and most have a 5kmh leeway for inaccurate car speedos. But yes anything over and a hefty fine will result...think $400 for up to 10kmh over.
Good reaction, guys.
Actually, there IS Sales Tax in Australia (called the GST), but it is automatically included in the displayed price, not tacked on when you buy something. The idea of buying something, then being told you have to pay extra because ..... Most Aussies would not put up with that, and I think doing it might even be illegal under the Trade Practices Act..
Australian toilets are typically shaped different to standard US toilets. They are more of a deep funnel shape, and DON'T have that designed-in whirlpool effect that Yanks seem to love in theirs.
Aussies don't do Ketchup, we have Tomato Sauce which is thicker and tastier. SOME places charge extra for sauce, not all and not usually much. If you order takeaway and want sauce or extra sauce, you might be charged extra per packet or sachet, but probably not an entire dollar.
Ground floor / First Floor is one of the many things we picked up from the British.
The Aussie idea of a Minimum Wage is something that an actual human being can live off, more or less. We've no clue where you Yanks are coming from with your MW ideas like Tip Jars. Here, tips are not a requirement or essential for a MW worker to get by, but something optional paid for good service.
Cricket is popular in many Commonwealth countries - Australia, New Zealand, the UK, India, Pakistan, Jamaica, etc., etc.. Not in Canada, I guess because they are all about Ice Hockey.
Speed cameras are not actually everywhere, but they can be hidden, are moved around, and there are signs all over pointing out how you COULD be in a Speed Camera zone. Including in the outer suburbs, I'll add. But, in some heavily trafficked areas, they are openly and permanently placed. All this has a definite effect on driver behavior.
If you're that worried about how much booze costs at the store, then maybe you should be buying less booze from the store. :) Note that we include all taxes, etc. IN the price of a drink.
Moonshining is not a major thing. But a lot of Aussies brew their own beer, and that is perfectly legal.
Chicken salt on chips or potato wedges is the best. :)
Lachlan is a KNOWN first name (Scottish in origin), but certainly not commonly-used. Note that one of our most well-known Governors in the early Convict Era was one Lachlan Macquarie. He did a lot of good in his time, but also seemed to put his name on pretty much EVERYTHING.
Biting flies are uncommon in urban areas.
We have standard size pool tables too. Dunno where this small pool table thing comes from.
A couple of (US-based) takeaway chains provide free refills, but this is not a common thing here.
Most restaurants I know can and will provide to-go boxes and/or doggie bags if asked.
.Barbeque sauce on a meat lovers pizza is seen as 100% normal here. Btw, note also that we're the guys who first put pineapple on pizza. :)
In the old days, a lot of hotels were drinking establishments that also had accomodation. These days, unless it's something big, it is likely just a bar or a collection of bars.
We have roundabouts (traffic circles) mainly in suburban areas, even in housing developments, we do have a couple in Melbourne itself, but not many. Another thing many of the suburban housing areas have is speed humps. Councils put them in to slow cars down in residential areas.
We have a triple roundabout here in Melbourne in the next suburb to my home
@@shezza66 We have a triple in my suburb too, but we are in the outer-eastern suburbs, nowhere near Melbourne city.
@@Ozvideo1959 yep Mooroolbark
@@shezza66 We're neighbours!!
Australians follow the rules as it's more of a community base/feeling. The thing is most of us are happy to do so. Anything for an easy life. Our cops are a lot more chilled from what I've experienced as from those in the US. In the major cities the public transport runs until the early morning hours. If you go out as a group we have mini van taxi, we take safety and drunk driving seriously. "If you drink & drive you'r a bloody Idiot" was a major campaign. Adherence to 0:05 alcohol reading is not a problem for a lot of us. Most of us don't drink & drive. E.g If between 0.07 and 0.079, you will receive a fine of $1000 and five demerit points for 1st offence. You only have 12 pts, when you lose all 12 pts your licence is gone for 3 months. 2nd offence $1250 & disqualification of licence either 8 months or 10 months. The higher the reading the higher the consequences. 3rd offence - good luck getting a licence back. Maybe with a extraordinary licence and a lock out fitted to your car.
American DUI are nothing compared to AUS
McFlurries, they used to mix them up but then all the machines broke and were to expensive to fix so they just stopped mixing them anymore. it was a sad day.
Check out the Australia day lamb ads. There is one each year
what restaurant is he eating thats charging him extra for sauce? maybe a fish n chip shop, but not a restaurant. i wonder if half of what hes saying is a Melbourne thing, because much of it surprises me. The McDonalds broken icecream machine is a world wide issue
One of the English settlers in Australia from the late 1700s was named Lachlan.
Before massive city hotels were built, Australia had much smaller hotels, usually called family hotels, sometimes several per country town. They had rooms to rent, as well as public bars and pub meal service. As times changed and big hotels and motel chains came along, these hotels stopped renting out rooms, but obviously kept the names they'd been known by for decades/centuries. We generally refer to them generically as pubs. Aussies know the difference.
Australia invented the coloured polymer banknotes and provides them to many countries.
Fan forced ovens run about 20C lower than conventional, so they save a lot of electricity. The grill is an internal element for quick browning.
Lamb in Australia is superior to most countries (New Zealand excepted) because of the way it’s raised. Traditional Aussie lamb meals are lamb roasts, barbecued lamb chops, slow-cooked lamb shanks, lamb stews…mostly quite different to Middle Eastern lamb meals.
That'd be the Governor of the New South Wales Colony, Lachlan Macquarie - who the rivers (both given and surname) are named after, and the Perch fish...
@@PiersDJackson Yep.
(85) The bars called something hotel either still have guest rooms or once did in their history and the name just stayed. They are usually really inexpensive hotels. I'm always surprised when I find out someone is staying in them, but ppl do.
Each state has different rules about speed cameras.. Victoria and Qld the strictest.. NSW you won't get done unless your nearly 10ks over.
NSW it is 10%, so yes 10kph on a highway but not in a 50 zone.
Remember too that your speedo is showing higher than you're actually going. It's usually 2kph higher than actual at lower speeds and about 4kph at higher speeds. This is so the car company doesn't get sued if you get a speeding fine. 9nce you know that, you can factor út in. Eg I always set the cruise control to 10% over, so really I'm doing about 7-8% over and safe to pass cameras etc. On a Sydney-Melb trip, that saves about an hour (it's 850km) as it also saves one stop. On a trip to the supermarket it saves a minute so who cares but I don't get pinged so that's handy.
The reason many ____ Hotels are actually pubs is because many of them used to be hotels a very long time ago, and over time they just became pubs for one reason or another. In smaller country towns you can still see the Victorian era architecture in them and sometimes some of the old rooms are still there, if repurposed. Not all used to be hotels though, I think for some it's just a style
There are now mobile phone and seat belt detection cameras.
If you use your phone, or wear your belt incorrectly- you'll get fined.
For exciting cricket check out Glenn Maxwell from Australia he won a game on one leg
They were originally called hotels as they have the bars with accommodations upstairs as you said
Here bars are called clubs Ild say with your type of bars called hotels with some connected to motels
We also have stand alone motels
Hotels are Pubs!! Lol ... BUT ... We also have hotels that are places of accommodation!! So, there is the Hotel Sofitel which is a nice accommodation hotel, and then we have public hotels /public bars where you go to eat and drink, such as The Railway Hotel, The Terminis Hotel, etc. Sooooo, his statement is not exactly 100% correct!! I can see how he would find that confusing, lol.
Watch a video on hook turns in melbourne.
it is not cheaper to buy drinks at a bar than the bottle shop. a standard drink (one shot of basic alcohol with mixer) is about $12, a cocktail is usually around $20 and at the bottle shop (bottlo) its around $60 for 1L of a standard alcohol.
Also, Lachlan/Lochie is a first name.
29: 02min..... alcohol - making kit is sold legally, and you can make your own at home, and consume. Definitely illegal to sell.😅
When 2 Main Road intersect, there is usually a Green Arrow for facing Traffic to turn RIGHT at the same time. This clears the bankup of Traffic which would not get to turn if on coming Traffic is high.
Lachlan is a first name. It’s a common first name for boys in Scotland, and there are a lot of Aussies with Scottish ancestry.
Motels are not Pubs exactly, but in Aus, a Motel is a Pub or a Bar but has rooms upstairs available to rent.
pubs in australia are called hotels not motels
There is sales tax, 10% and it's on all goods and services (it's called a Goods & Services Tax or GST) but it's part of the sticker price so you know exactly what you're paying before you check out.
The "Houses" in schools, yes they're teams, mostly for competing at athletics/swimming etc... within the school, but they're also partly administrative; our equivalent to your "home-room" I think, they're used for dividing up the school more easily for morning roll-call.
Lauchlan is a first name, it's of Scottish derivation.
I'm pretty sure he's in Brisbane as a lot of the things he said sound more city and Queensland specific.
Speed limits here aren't as slow as he seems to think. The highest speed limit is 110kmh which is roughly 70mph.
Swearing in Australia varies according to age group, socioeconomic group etc. Younger people tend to swear more. It depends….
First name mate
Northern territory spèed limt of 130km or NSW most freeways are 110km
My sons first name is Lachlan, very common first name here as it’s origin is Scottish.
I work in a liquorstore and the prices on alcohol have gone up significantly in the past 20yrs. We are heavily taxed on alcohol and smokes here. When I visited Europe 2yrs ago I bought a 1L bottle of rum for 15 euro ($28 AUD) that costs me about $90 here. Shoeys are usually done in clean ornew shoes and usually its to celebrate something.