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  • Australian pubs once had a reputation the world over as tough, brawling, hell for leather places where you could get into a fight at the drop of a hat. Or could you? In the interests of sociological research, ABC’s Gerald Stone did a little survey.
    This episode of 'This Day Tonight' aired in 1967 (exact date of transmission unknown).
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  • @finalboss8514
    @finalboss8514 Před 2 lety +2160

    0:50 "left hook the first bloke you see alongside ya." this is a man of action and simplicity.

  • @giglamesh234
    @giglamesh234 Před 4 lety +4347

    "left hook the first bloke you see along side you" correct answer sir

  • @chrismoiser6477
    @chrismoiser6477 Před 3 lety +1316

    "Well, I failed to get into a fight, so we end this report with some footage of me trying for a three way"

    • @BboyCorrosive
      @BboyCorrosive Před 2 lety +67

      US accent in the 50's or whenever this was. Dude probably smashed Don Draper style.

    • @kindclaw6605
      @kindclaw6605 Před 2 lety +18

      I read this in an old timy way

    • @jbizzle4922
      @jbizzle4922 Před 2 lety +21

      Trying? Succeeding...

    • @BLVCKSCORP
      @BLVCKSCORP Před 2 lety +6

      @@BboyCorrosive you can't read the title?

    • @CONEHEADDK
      @CONEHEADDK Před 2 lety

      To much eye contact does the job everywhere - and the exact right amount in the second situation.

  • @Purzify
    @Purzify Před 3 lety +580

    "Have you been in a fight?"
    "no, unfortunately"
    I lost it there

  • @Immortalized1
    @Immortalized1 Před 4 lety +6136

    “Flip your glass upside down and you’ve just challenged everyone in the pub”. It’s almost too perfect lol

    • @paulw6183
      @paulw6183 Před 4 lety +313

      If you're the only bloke in the pub can you automatically chalk yourself down for a win?

    • @stitcha123
      @stitcha123 Před 4 lety +29

      Paul W and a loss

    • @codenamecordon
      @codenamecordon Před 4 lety +173

      Johnny 5 what is it with turning the glass upside down? I’ve never heard of that being an open challenge to a fight.

    • @Immortalized1
      @Immortalized1 Před 4 lety +48

      codenamecordon me neither but it’s funny as hell and it works

    • @samevans1672
      @samevans1672 Před 4 lety +171

      codenamecordon flipping your glass means fight, on the bar means refill, on its side means you’re done. I’m 22 worked in a bar and all this is pretty common knowledge.

  • @tonyc.4392
    @tonyc.4392 Před 4 lety +748

    Most people think he transported himself to a posh bar at the end but it's actually a coma dream he's having while a pub full of old alcoholics kick in his ribs.

  • @purplepeopleeater1009
    @purplepeopleeater1009 Před 3 lety +1037

    "Tell me how you can get into a fight in a Sydney bar?"
    "A burrow? A burrah?"
    "A bar."
    "A WHAT?"

    • @bri5033
      @bri5033 Před 3 lety +42

      "In a rabbit?"

    • @artemislogic5252
      @artemislogic5252 Před 3 lety +43

      @@bri5033 it's because americans say the R weirdly he thought he was talking about a rabbit burrow

    • @OldNavajoTricks
      @OldNavajoTricks Před 3 lety +22

      I was prompting the word pub but he wasn't listening lol...

    • @lordgemini2376
      @lordgemini2376 Před 3 lety +21

      A borough? Just say a pub haha

    • @electricdreams9446
      @electricdreams9446 Před 3 lety +10

      we say pub really

  • @Ditka-89
    @Ditka-89 Před 3 lety +175

    0:50 “Left hook the first bloke you see along side you” LMAO

    • @danbrown4420
      @danbrown4420 Před 3 lety +6

      I'd agree with that tbh

    • @tomsharpe2251
      @tomsharpe2251 Před 3 lety +2

      @@danbrown4420 me and all

    • @Ditka-89
      @Ditka-89 Před 3 lety +2

      @Danny DNA lol although I think that’s true of pretty much any country

  • @DevilDogDen1775
    @DevilDogDen1775 Před 4 lety +2581

    Ask them what part of England they're from ......

  • @bobbythompson3544
    @bobbythompson3544 Před 3 lety +1456

    When I emigrated to Australia from Ireland I found the Aussie pubs very friendly places, the number of times I have been told to join in the company and not drink alone, great people indeed, and if you wanted work, go into a pub and ask around, you won’t be out of work long!

  • @SaintSwithinsDay
    @SaintSwithinsDay Před rokem +301

    In New Zealand, turning a glass upside down means you've finished your drink. But I admit that we lack the rich, sophisticated culture of our Australian neighbours.

    • @Harry-yx2on
      @Harry-yx2on Před rokem +4

      Play for sheep stations and sloppy seconds 😂

    • @oriraykai3610
      @oriraykai3610 Před rokem +7

      Pour your suds all over table? Seriously?

    • @ac4185
      @ac4185 Před rokem

      Quit lying, your government don't let you drink.

    • @leedwyer161
      @leedwyer161 Před rokem +4

      But you did produce "flight of the conchords" so you're forgiven 😉

    • @finnfeaver1196
      @finnfeaver1196 Před rokem +2

      That is not how we do things ya goon lolol you just finish your drink

  • @thomasworden4139
    @thomasworden4139 Před 2 lety +123

    “… Fight? Who wants to? :)” and “The quishest wey… is down, Wallamaloo!” are my favorites

    • @Johnny-Joseph
      @Johnny-Joseph Před 2 lety +9

      Its so funny how non-Australians think "Who wants to" means "who wants to fight me", when it really means you don't understand why you'd fight in a pub!

    • @YoungXelDong
      @YoungXelDong Před 2 lety +7

      @@Johnny-Joseph nah, im asian and i understood that he's asking why would anyone want to fight

  • @Dermot2927
    @Dermot2927 Před 4 lety +3685

    Most confusing ending since No Country For Old Men.

    • @Joseph-nj1up
      @Joseph-nj1up Před 4 lety +90

      Twitting On Trender and what business is that of yours, friendo

    • @MrJohnlennon007
      @MrJohnlennon007 Před 4 lety +35

      Joseph Romero I just saw you were coming from Dallas

    • @Joseph-nj1up
      @Joseph-nj1up Před 4 lety +39

      MrJohnlennon007 what time do you close?

    • @GoodDay2Smoke
      @GoodDay2Smoke Před 4 lety +18

      Watch Annihilation and tell me about confusing endings afterwards

    • @dazpatreg
      @dazpatreg Před 4 lety +20

      Who was the chick on his right

  • @carvercapitalequitypartner122
    @carvercapitalequitypartner122 Před 4 lety +1804

    Australians are well-balanced people. They have a chip on each shoulder.

    • @213kidangel
      @213kidangel Před 4 lety +6

      Michael Robert is this true?

    • @SJM6791
      @SJM6791 Před 4 lety +6

      Lol!!

    • @mr.h3603
      @mr.h3603 Před 4 lety +19

      Fark off kent! I'm aussie, u got a problem wackerrrrrr....no chips on me shoulders.

    • @moisty254
      @moisty254 Před 4 lety +5

      It's true, now let's tango Cornelius

    • @TrelafTheNinja
      @TrelafTheNinja Před 4 lety +13

      Thems fightin' words

  • @MarcusRonaldi
    @MarcusRonaldi Před rokem +840

    Everyone in this video was between 18 and 22 years old when it was filmed

  • @weekendwarriorprospecting817

    The guy fighting backwards was absolutely hammered 🤣🤣🤣

    • @lansvale28
      @lansvale28 Před rokem +4

      Haha I’m sure he still had a couple beers left in him. Then he probably drove home.

    • @FlorianD30
      @FlorianD30 Před rokem +7

      @@lansvale28 He drove home backwards.

    • @lansvale28
      @lansvale28 Před rokem +1

      @@FlorianD30 haha for sure

  • @Chris-sv8bb
    @Chris-sv8bb Před 5 lety +965

    Talking out of turn, that’s a paddlin

    • @Zion-hg3cs
      @Zion-hg3cs Před 5 lety +5

      Sourdough Garlic Bread 😂😂😂

    •  Před 5 lety +22

      Paddlin the bars canoe? That's a paddlin

    • @Chris-sv8bb
      @Chris-sv8bb Před 5 lety +24

      Arc Light oh you better believe that’s a paddlin

    • @User-dt3xl
      @User-dt3xl Před 5 lety +4

      Hahahahahahaha! GOLD

    • @DYLANYOUSONOVABITCH
      @DYLANYOUSONOVABITCH Před 5 lety +7

      Jasper!!

  • @cosmothecreator
    @cosmothecreator Před 4 lety +1920

    CZcamsrs when time travel is invented:
    *turns glass upside down*
    "I'm Coyote Peterson and I am about to enter the fight zone of the Australian Pub"

  • @briansewell6241
    @briansewell6241 Před 2 lety +54

    I'm 75 drank a lot in the 1960's in Salford England , and I remember the same thing of turning the glass over , if you wanted trouble you got it , never seen anybody dumb enough to do it , because the whole pub would kick the shit out of you

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal Před rokem +2

      Yeah something similar happened in the brass handles a few years back, it’s a dirty old town

    • @DrCrabfingers
      @DrCrabfingers Před rokem

      Brian I love your work.

    • @linus1703
      @linus1703 Před 3 měsíci

      I have to ask, why was this a thing? It seems to hilarious for there to be a signle to say "everyone let's fight"

    • @someguy2972
      @someguy2972 Před 2 měsíci

      Yeah trying that in a crowded pub sounds like suicide.

  • @macman975
    @macman975 Před 3 lety +319

    "Quickest way to get in a fight in a Sydney Bar?"
    "Say you're from Melbourne!"

    • @bitzel
      @bitzel Před 2 lety +4

      They hate Melbourne because it’s covid free

    • @tonunepz8358
      @tonunepz8358 Před 2 lety +3

      @@bitzel how are you holding up there

    • @Yourdoomawaitsyou
      @Yourdoomawaitsyou Před 2 lety +1

      And then get the sour Sydney taste smacked out of your mouth.

    • @macman975
      @macman975 Před 2 lety +4

      @@Yourdoomawaitsyou Funny how you're mentioning 'mouths' considering all Melbournians have terrible teeth and bad breath.

    • @guerralg63
      @guerralg63 Před 2 lety

      😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣❤

  • @basedbattledroid3507
    @basedbattledroid3507 Před 4 lety +517

    "You just call me a name and we'll see how quick I get in there." Haha

    • @DEE-qu5mc
      @DEE-qu5mc Před 4 lety +8

      Lol yeah that was funny

    • @spunkos5870
      @spunkos5870 Před 3 lety +3

      He said " call me a name and we'll see how quick I get into it" not "in there"

  • @peterkerslake3201
    @peterkerslake3201 Před 4 lety +528

    Most of them are pissed. He should have got to the pub earlier.

    • @ben6089
      @ben6089 Před 4 lety +8

      Haha, tell another one.

    • @DEE-qu5mc
      @DEE-qu5mc Před 4 lety

      😅True

    • @trawlerkent9101
      @trawlerkent9101 Před 4 lety +14

      1:49 is completely blind

    • @lancerd4934
      @lancerd4934 Před 4 lety +19

      When this was filmed, pubs had to close at 6pm by law. People finished work at 5pm. They had to get an entire night's drinking done in that hour. Nobody's gonna waste time talking to the seppo until they've already had a skin full.

    • @__seeker__
      @__seeker__ Před 3 lety

      That wouldn’t have mattered.

  • @BeyondDictation
    @BeyondDictation Před 2 lety +217

    “The quickest way, is down Wooloomooloo”
    Still accurate

    • @nituldeshptha99
      @nituldeshptha99 Před 2 lety +1

      What does that mean?

    • @babyfaec
      @babyfaec Před 2 lety +12

      @@nituldeshptha99 Wooloomooloo is a suburb in Sydney, Australia.

    • @BeyondDictation
      @BeyondDictation Před 2 lety +16

      @@nituldeshptha99 don’t go there unless you’ve got private health cover and your affairs in order

    • @EchoBravo370
      @EchoBravo370 Před 2 lety +3

      @@nituldeshptha99 And yes, the previous commenters are kidding. Wooloomooloo is positively swanky these days.

    • @alZiiHardstylez
      @alZiiHardstylez Před rokem

      It's nothing like I'd imagine it was back in the 60s but.

  • @dandiesel9966
    @dandiesel9966 Před 3 lety +47

    "in Australia you fight backwards" This guy time traveled and saw all the memes

  • @IshIKoara
    @IshIKoara Před 4 lety +696

    PLOT TWIST: At the end he was unconscious.

    • @Cameron-nf3nq
      @Cameron-nf3nq Před 4 lety +16

      IshI Koara viable theory, I’m behind it

    • @Gerald69420
      @Gerald69420 Před 4 lety +29

      He died and went to heaven

    • @hdmccart6735
      @hdmccart6735 Před 3 lety +2

      Holy shit! you've got it!

    • @dogmachine2406
      @dogmachine2406 Před 3 lety +3

      Yes everyone except you missed the joke.

    • @theotryhard8651
      @theotryhard8651 Před 3 lety +3

      The girls were in his dream, and when I gets wine in this eyes that really it swelling up

  • @helifalic
    @helifalic Před 4 lety +637

    1:08
    Man: "EY!?"
    Interviewer: "Best way to get in a fight in a Sydney bar?"
    Man: "Sydney burrow?"
    Interviewer: "Mhmmmmm"
    Man: "Whaddaya mean?"
    Interviewer: "You know a way to get in a fight in a bar?"
    Man: "In a burrow?"
    Interviewer: "Yeah, bar"
    Man: "In a burrow? You mean a rabbit?"
    Interviewer: "Yeah yeah"
    Man: "Getontosomesousanyfortheyrealright"
    Ask a stupid question, get a slurred mess.

    • @michaelscott8567
      @michaelscott8567 Před 4 lety +96

      He thought he meant get in a fight in a rabbit burrow. The South Sydney Rugby league team is known as the South Sydney Rabbitohs.
      Which is why the old guy said "Get onto some South Sydney Forwards, they're alright".

    • @captainsternn7684
      @captainsternn7684 Před 4 lety +40

      @@michaelscott8567 I would've had to be drunk to understand that

    • @pascalecnto68
      @pascalecnto68 Před 4 lety +20

      @@michaelscott8567 Yeah i heard him imply the Rabbitohs. But i thought it was more along the lines of "you're not some bloody south sydney blah blah blah are ya?" The bloke was a bit cut, so very slurred

    • @scwooreviews1690
      @scwooreviews1690 Před 4 lety +6

      helifalic hahha man I laughed out loud at this, thankyou

    • @Sircade
      @Sircade Před 4 lety

      I thought he was saying bar, eh?

  • @Sarah.Riedel
    @Sarah.Riedel Před 2 lety +50

    "Have you ever seen it happen?"
    [pause] [intense flashbacks] [thousand-yard stare] "...Yes."

  • @butler-macdonald8351
    @butler-macdonald8351 Před rokem +16

    As a Canadian backpacker, the first bar I walked into in Melbourne 20'ish years ago offered me a job on the door lol they reckoned I looked like Chopper Read with my moustache and tattoos. Never saw one fight in that pub during my time there haha great place, actually. $3 schooners of Toohey's back then. Many nights turned into many sunrises knocking those back.

  • @lbukem4259
    @lbukem4259 Před 4 lety +490

    The best thing is, every one of these men are 21. Drink and hard graft have withered them.

  • @ElliottTitley
    @ElliottTitley Před 5 lety +550

    “In a burrow, you mean a rabbit?”

    • @67underpar61
      @67underpar61 Před 4 lety +2

      😂

    • @onthewattle
      @onthewattle Před 4 lety +3

      Anglozion 76 burrow. Pronounced the same. A burrow is a hole rabbits live in.

    •  Před 4 lety +5

      @@onthewattle thanks, but no thanks.

    • @brightsparkey1965
      @brightsparkey1965 Před 4 lety

      @ what did he say what

    • @thenextchrislawrence
      @thenextchrislawrence Před 4 lety +1

      “you wanna go to south Sydney to get in the burrow” 😂😂

  • @johnparker8270
    @johnparker8270 Před 2 lety +47

    Seems the quickest way to start a fight would be to turn the beer off😂

    • @justdev8965
      @justdev8965 Před 2 lety +3

      None of them came up with that answer. That's how unfathomable turning off the beer is to them.

  • @rogergreen9861
    @rogergreen9861 Před 3 lety +36

    I once met Jack Sharman, the brother of Jimmy of bare knuckle tent boxing fame. Jack had a handshake that was made of granite and fossils, but he was a sweet old bugger when I made his acquaintance, then in his late 70s. Rather than push her wheelchair the extra distance around the point on the flat road, he used to carry his elderly girlfriend over Kirra hill into Coolangatta without breaking sweat.

    • @baabaabaa2293
      @baabaabaa2293 Před 2 lety +1

      My old man boxed at shows in Sharmans tents & others....last one l saw was in Darwin in the 80s..at their royal show.

  • @yaswaterworld3119
    @yaswaterworld3119 Před 4 lety +413

    Would have liked someone reply: "it is to stick a microphone right in front of my face..."

  • @grxzy7950
    @grxzy7950 Před 5 lety +189

    For anyone wondering, turning your glass upside down in some cases meant you were done drinking but in Australia meant you could fight anyone in the pub. So if you did it you would gave to be prepared to fight a lot of other pub goers that were the 'toughest'.

    • @njords77
      @njords77 Před 4 lety +11

      I would have guessed it was to signal you were done drinking and about to go home.... but you were meant to be the one getting the next round. And well, that deserves a floggin in any country.

    • @5hiftyL1v3a
      @5hiftyL1v3a Před 3 lety +17

      @@njords77 upside downs fight, on its sides done drinking.

    • @roostersbays95
      @roostersbays95 Před 3 lety +6

      also when you finish a beer in south oz you lay your glass on its side...

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal Před rokem +1

      I’ve always thought the bell ringing meant you were done drinking

    • @dimitristripakis7364
      @dimitristripakis7364 Před rokem

      In Greece the old timers flipped the glass like you said, when done drinking; so that the other fellas can not serve you more wine. Australia version sounds more fun!

  • @jonathanhammick4922
    @jonathanhammick4922 Před 3 lety +20

    “Left hook to the bloke standing next to you”
    I respect the man’s logic

  • @leaderofthesociety1775
    @leaderofthesociety1775 Před 3 lety +17

    “A fight in a burrow? Like a rabbit?”
    “Yeah a bar”
    “A burrow?”

  • @xpertdre
    @xpertdre Před 4 lety +205

    Mad respect to the editor for turning the video upside down so we could watch it

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable Před 2 lety +9

      Nah, he just held the camera upside down when filming.
      All of our cameras have a label on the lens that says "US side up"

    • @leskay1
      @leskay1 Před 2 lety

      I think Slur McSlurring was thinking along similar lines @0:58.

  • @jrbisc99
    @jrbisc99 Před 4 lety +65

    Man 1: Hey! You wanna fight!?
    Man 2: Them's fightin words!

    • @AZ-kr6ff
      @AZ-kr6ff Před 4 lety +6

      "You've played knifey spooney before!"

  • @daddychill9787
    @daddychill9787 Před 3 lety +19

    "You just call me a name, and then you'll see uhh how quick I can get into it" 😂😂😂😂

  • @lonestar6709
    @lonestar6709 Před 2 lety +58

    _"Donald Bradman sucks!"_
    I'd imagine that'd be the quickest!

    • @alwaysdisputin9930
      @alwaysdisputin9930 Před 2 lety +2

      'Repeatedly fast bowling cricket balls into his body & face like that was completely in line with the rules. Australians are soft due to not being accustomed to the more rigorous style of cricket played in the northern hemisphere.'

    • @wilsargisson3626
      @wilsargisson3626 Před 2 lety +1

      @@alwaysdisputin9930 Didn't Bradman still average 50 or 60 during the Bodyline series? It was hardly a slam dunk for the Poms

    • @alwaysdisputin9930
      @alwaysdisputin9930 Před 2 lety

      @@wilsargisson3626 It seems my proposal for trolling drunk Australians into becoming violent in the 60s is effective enough to have provoked a reaction in yourself. Albeit a mild 1

    • @wilsargisson3626
      @wilsargisson3626 Před 2 lety

      @@alwaysdisputin9930 I'm a Kiwi, and thus don't have a dog in the race.

    • @alans9806
      @alans9806 Před 2 lety +1

      Mention underarm bowling or say your name's Jardine.

  • @BrandonCooper1
    @BrandonCooper1 Před 4 lety +88

    Man, Mr. Rogers was pretty bold there at the end.

  • @dimitri00769
    @dimitri00769 Před 4 lety +505

    I love 38 seconds in when he says “different in opinions in sport”. Not politics but sports 👌

    • @_Hamish
      @_Hamish Před 4 lety +39

      Yes, snowflakes are only a recent phenomenon.

    • @robertt9342
      @robertt9342 Před 4 lety +2

      SoulBrother . And now everyone is.

    • @puretruth5090
      @puretruth5090 Před 4 lety +2

      @@_Hamish LOL

    • @AJWRAJWR
      @AJWRAJWR Před 3 lety +7

      Us Aussies couldn't care less about politics. We are sports-mad though.

    • @Ruebz_f30
      @Ruebz_f30 Před 3 lety +3

      @@AJWRAJWR most Aussies I meet are snowflakes though LOL

  • @atomchild2619
    @atomchild2619 Před 2 lety +189

    The generation where where each one of them looked like an actor. Wonderful

    • @justdev8965
      @justdev8965 Před 2 lety +8

      The camera filter and frame rate helps with that illusion.

    • @derryk1
      @derryk1 Před rokem +2

      At 1:35 Lloyd Bridges look-a-like. Perhaps that was his stunt double.

    • @AthelstanEngland
      @AthelstanEngland Před rokem

      @@derryk1 cheers was trying to place him!

    • @casuspacis3196
      @casuspacis3196 Před rokem

      Because they are all actors. it's all a simulation, people. there are no generations. history, ancestry, timelines - it's all made up, it's Truman show. We are lab rats for some big project.

  • @tulpar9154
    @tulpar9154 Před 2 lety +16

    "Left hook the first fella sitting besides ya" that probably is the quickest way🤣

  • @goyomain0774
    @goyomain0774 Před 4 lety +194

    Thanks, this is just the advice I needed!
    I’m off to 1960’s Australia.

  • @bertiodvonrastenburger1129
    @bertiodvonrastenburger1129 Před 4 lety +60

    Some great characters in this clip,

  • @alexmansell8385
    @alexmansell8385 Před 3 lety +30

    I wonder how many rabbits that guy fought in Sydney burrows over the years.

  • @mred3608
    @mred3608 Před 5 lety +604

    That yank is Gerald stone who contributed much to Australian television. A lot of those blokes he interviewed grew up or survived during the great depression then served in ww2. Many of the best years of their life were very tough.

    • @lordharry423
      @lordharry423 Před 5 lety +11

      I'd say WW1

    • @shaunely63
      @shaunely63 Před 5 lety +19

      @Corn Flakerr0 A few of them look like they're in their 70's. Possibly world war 1

    • @mred3608
      @mred3608 Před 5 lety +28

      @Corn Flakerr0 I met quite a few when I was young. They were humble men who did not complain much about their lot. In those days it was seen as your duty to serve. My grandfather was hit by a machine gun bullet at Ypres. We still have it after he kept it as a souvenir. He never really recovered from the wound and died in 1967.

    • @FawleyJude
      @FawleyJude Před 5 lety +13

      @@shaunely63 They were all in their 30s. Hanging out in Australian pubs can really put some miles on you.

    • @gloryglory5688
      @gloryglory5688 Před 5 lety

      Grenherb you’re an idiot

  • @napoleonblownapart8155
    @napoleonblownapart8155 Před 4 lety +62

    I'm reading all the comments in an Australian accent lol. Much love Australia from the USA. 🇦🇺🇺🇸

    • @skinnykid7888
      @skinnykid7888 Před 3 lety +15

      An American copying an Australian accent is the easiest way to get into a fight

    • @napoleonblownapart8155
      @napoleonblownapart8155 Před 3 lety +2

      @@skinnykid7888 don't worry I would never do it out loud. Lol

    • @brucetenhave6952
      @brucetenhave6952 Před 3 lety

      @@skinnykid7888 right you are, the American imitation is bleh, vomit, gah!

    • @user-uh9sf5sg3n
      @user-uh9sf5sg3n Před 3 lety +2

      As an Aussie I can say that if somebody does a shit accent then yea

  • @sten2246
    @sten2246 Před 3 lety +100

    Knew about a guy who once rode on horse back for 2 weeks to fight a local brawler who had a big reputation. This guy was ploughing the fields behind a team of draught horses when the guy rode up to him and said are you such and such? if so I've ridden for 2 weeks to get here to fight ya! The guy quickly said, go back into town and when you can beat all the local brawlers come back and see me! That bloke never came back, true story and a great one.

    • @stephenformosa471
      @stephenformosa471 Před 3 lety

      Great advice

    • @abdualziz9
      @abdualziz9 Před 3 lety

      Explain

    • @wasssssuppppppp
      @wasssssuppppppp Před 3 lety +4

      @Abdualziz the fighter with the big reputation wanted the challenger to prove himself by defeating lesser local men. presumably the challenger was unable to do so

    • @cplcabs
      @cplcabs Před 3 lety +10

      Sounds like a load of BS to me

    • @winkywank2650
      @winkywank2650 Před 3 lety +8

      Ahh....yes, the well known Australian farmer/fighter Mr Ip Man.........

  • @danrebeiz4598
    @danrebeiz4598 Před 3 lety +320

    The guy who says “who wants to?” With a smile on his face is the guy you want to avoid

    • @horatiooo371
      @horatiooo371 Před 3 lety +39

      No it's a lost Australian expression, slang for "Why would you want to?"

    • @Cheepchipsable
      @Cheepchipsable Před 2 lety +33

      LOL,...He was questioning the prospect, as indicted by the intonation of his voice.
      "..a fight?..Who wants to?"
      As in why would someone want to get into a fight.

    • @Johnny-Joseph
      @Johnny-Joseph Před 2 lety +7

      In Australia that translates to "why would you want to?"

    • @sirreoser5668
      @sirreoser5668 Před rokem

      I question how many people are Aussie who're replying. Without a doubt he would be keen to smash on. Not only that, "who wants" is a common saying in pretty rough areas south Perth, basically short for "who wants some/to" when talking about drugs or smashing people.
      Not only that, I'm mid 30's and I remember old boys in the pubs early 2000's who would talk about how in the early days it wasn't a good night if they didn't get into a fight or get a root. Nd if they got both then it was considered a great night

    • @Fantabiscuit
      @Fantabiscuit Před rokem +3

      @@horatiooo371 it’s well alive. ‘Who wants to do that” is a common variant

  • @Geebax2
    @Geebax2 Před 4 lety +112

    Back in those days Gerald Stone had a thick yank accent, that alone would have got him a smack in the mouth.

    • @dustinparker3573
      @dustinparker3573 Před 4 lety +3

      Did they not like Yankees back then in Australia?

    • @Geebax2
      @Geebax2 Před 4 lety +14

      @@dustinparker3573 Not particularly, we had just gotten over them from WW2, and next thing they are back here on R&R from Vietnam.

    • @dustinparker3573
      @dustinparker3573 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Geebax2 there were mistreatments on the American side whilst R@Ring in Australia?

    • @Geebax2
      @Geebax2 Před 4 lety +22

      @@dustinparker3573 Yeah, to Americans R&R means 'rampaging and rooting'. Back then everywhere they went in the world they believed thay had a undeniable right to screw women.

    • @dustinparker3573
      @dustinparker3573 Před 4 lety +7

      @@Geebax2 it's any man's right to screw a woman assuming she is willing, that was a common practice so much so that multiple nations started imposing rules for their soldiers, it's not specific to any one nation.

  • @TheArchitectOfDreams
    @TheArchitectOfDreams Před 4 lety +47

    *turns two glasses over and hears air raid sirens*

  • @TheGentGaming
    @TheGentGaming Před 2 lety +3

    1:47 is our national hero.

  • @joshooahh
    @joshooahh Před 3 lety +11

    Interviews everyone in the pub
    Has a few drinks and at the end starts chatting up 2 ladies. He had a good day that day

  • @maxredlands4001
    @maxredlands4001 Před 5 lety +30

    1:06 Q. "have you been in a fight that way yourself?"
    A. " No, unfortunately."

  • @MrJ-ro1yr
    @MrJ-ro1yr Před 3 lety +29

    "Turn ya glass upside down and you challenge the whole pub"
    Love it.

  • @TGoodwin
    @TGoodwin Před 2 lety +4

    0:28 only known footage of The Somerton Man 🤣

  • @MaxWraith
    @MaxWraith Před 3 lety +7

    Most of them gave the interviewer a look as if to say:
    "Fastest way is asking me another question while I'm drinking."

  • @presence9745
    @presence9745 Před 4 lety +56

    The guy who said to interfere with someone else's conversation was ready.😁

    • @atomic_wait
      @atomic_wait Před 3 lety +1

      'Ask a bloke minding his own business how to get in a bar fight'

    • @-xirx-
      @-xirx- Před rokem

      I clocked that!

  • @sziasanyi
    @sziasanyi Před 5 lety +67

    @0:39 "Fight?" looks him up and down "who wants to?"

  • @unclenogbad1509
    @unclenogbad1509 Před 3 lety +8

    Aside from the humour here, I love the visuals in this clip. All those weatherbeaten, lived-in, real-life faces. Guess you could start a fight today by offering them moisturiser.

  • @jeffmoncalieri7491
    @jeffmoncalieri7491 Před 2 lety +8

    The American interviewer - Gerald Stone just died in 2020 at the ripe old age of 87. RIP - may you bar brawl for eternity.

  • @pnutz_2
    @pnutz_2 Před 5 lety +242

    0:25 obviously was preparing for the bar to close

    • @jeffe6338
      @jeffe6338 Před 5 lety +15

      capnazrael .....loading up before happy hour finishes😉

    • @atw98
      @atw98 Před 5 lety +13

      Remmember last call was at 6pm back then.

    • @baertomeneguzzi9181
      @baertomeneguzzi9181 Před 5 lety +3

      Quadruple parking 🤘

    • @PostWarKids
      @PostWarKids Před 5 lety +2

      I’m getting some gay vibes

    • @Magooch86
      @Magooch86 Před 5 lety +10

      6 o'clock swill, drive home pissed and beat the missus. Or as typical youtube commenters call it, "the good old days".

  • @26TptCoy
    @26TptCoy Před 4 lety +21

    I think the turned glass is a bit of an old wives tale. I got into fights with just a bump or a shove maybe over a pool game. I saw others just fight because they were drunk and stupid thinking they were 15 feet tall, their legs were so wobbly. You cant do it now seeing people run to their lawyers and sue you saying they were planning to be a model until their face was rearranged and now can only be a truck driver or something. I was 62 last time I biffoed a bloke, he was a German with a big mouth.

  • @nickcoulton658
    @nickcoulton658 Před 2 lety +15

    “The quichest way, is down, wallamallooo” hahahahaha

  • @HiGlowie
    @HiGlowie Před rokem +4

    I love how one guy said “who wants to?”

  • @iainsmith638
    @iainsmith638 Před 4 lety +43

    "you call that a knife?..."

    • @stringsgb8833
      @stringsgb8833 Před 4 lety +2

      I always loved in that film that Mick knocked everyone out in one punch 😂

    • @F16CBlock52
      @F16CBlock52 Před 4 lety

      Ah yeah...you made my day!!! Ahhahaa... always loved Crocodile Dundee!
      So smart and clever, Australians are adorable!!

  • @m.b.82
    @m.b.82 Před 5 lety +69

    6 o'clock rule. Everyone was so maggoted all you would have to do is look sideways .

    • @robbiebalboa
      @robbiebalboa Před 5 lety +5

      worldsmostattractiveman Lol, yeah my Dad told me he’d always see his dad come home quite tipsy 🥴 when he was a kid.

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal Před 5 lety

      worldsmostattractiveman yeah Ozzy's don't handle ale too well in my experience

    • @m.b.82
      @m.b.82 Před 5 lety +12

      @@GuinessOriginal You dont get much experience in your Mum's basement I would imagine.

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal Před 5 lety +1

      worldsmostattractiveman wow that's original. I've probably forgotten more nights out than you've drank beers. Anywhere where they drink out of half pints or quarter litres aren't really the biggest drinkers, are they? Every Ozzy I met Oz was similar to a yank, 4 or 5 small beers and they started slurring and stumbling. Hence why they're all wankered by 6. I used to get shit for buying pints, was told I was doing it to show off

    • @goldenhawk952
      @goldenhawk952 Před 5 lety

      worldsmostattractiveman hahaha

  • @marktaft
    @marktaft Před rokem +6

    "In Australia we fight backwards" LOL

  • @foleyu2
    @foleyu2 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Lots of bright faced characters. Would love to go back in time and experience it

  • @stover77
    @stover77 Před 5 lety +63

    Easiest way:
    "Hey you, let's fight!"
    "Those are fighting words!"
    Fight ensues

    • @jonnomate4085
      @jonnomate4085 Před 5 lety +4

      *"thems fightin words!"

    • @dickcarpenter8947
      @dickcarpenter8947 Před 5 lety +1

      EASIEST WAY ? Hi, I'm from England how's it going you light fingered bastards.

    • @dickcarpenter8947
      @dickcarpenter8947 Před 5 lety

      PS VB and CASTLEMAINE FUCKING WALLABY PISS. FOSTERS REAL AMBER NECTAR is reasonable. Greetings from the old country you nobheads.

  • @storksforever2000
    @storksforever2000 Před 4 lety +92

    I thought those girls at the end were gonna punch him or something.

  • @martinpye549
    @martinpye549 Před 3 lety +8

    I saw a bloke do that ( turn his glass upside down ) in the Pyrmont Hotel in Sydney. He'd had a few and been thrown out by his missus. I thought he was going to get clubbed. It is a great pub, but some proper old school hard men drink in there. While there was a few that were obviously not impressed, he got a few drinks bought for him, and told to settle down. Which he did.

  • @agent0fchaos950
    @agent0fchaos950 Před 5 lety +224

    "a Sydney borough??" lol

  • @themiddlejourney6286
    @themiddlejourney6286 Před 5 lety +10

    This reminds me of some of the pubs around Hull. The old school scrappers still exist there. Great characters and down to earth people. My old man sits in those pubs and was still a scrapper up to a couple of years ago. He's 70 lol. Old school boys who's been around still exist. But not many anymore. Me I Luke love and harmony but their is a side of me that admires those lads. Have a great day

  • @argonman4290
    @argonman4290 Před 3 lety +10

    we're in Australia, and we fight backwards.
    - Random Australian man

  • @Johnny-Joseph
    @Johnny-Joseph Před 2 lety +5

    Cutting from the guy who doesn't understand why you'd fight, to a man who challenged the reporter to call him a name! Classic

  • @SkyDigital_01
    @SkyDigital_01 Před 4 lety +25

    The blonde on the left at the end is absolutely gorgeous

  • @DERISNER
    @DERISNER Před 5 lety +15

    I love Australia. I was in a few places like that back in the 80s. Good people. Had a good ol' time!

    • @rgsxyz1105
      @rgsxyz1105 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Men looked more masculine back then, the WW2 generation were tough as nails, not so much these days.

  • @Unknown_Ooh
    @Unknown_Ooh Před rokem +2

    "Have you ever been in a fight?"
    "Uhhh no, unfortunately"
    Prime Aussie blood right there 😂

  • @zombiehunter1152
    @zombiehunter1152 Před 2 lety +24

    It’s funny how he said he was going to do it, then as soon as he turned his glass upside down. the film went to him in another bar with 2 ladies. That’s cos he got the crap bashed out of him lol.

  • @bodhitree33
    @bodhitree33 Před 4 lety +60

    Is the reporter Tony Hinchcliffe's grandfather.

  • @RedesCat
    @RedesCat Před 4 lety +18

    0:24 old mate is quad parked he must of had a rough week hahahaha

    • @SamiiYou
      @SamiiYou Před 3 lety +8

      At the time all the bars were forced to close at 6pm. Consequently you had to down as much booze as possible before last orders. Due to the fact that most people would knock off work at 5 this meant downing half a dozen or so beers in a row. It was called the six o'clock swell.

    • @jamessutcliffe7984
      @jamessutcliffe7984 Před 3 lety

      @@SamiiYou *swill

    • @kradikt666
      @kradikt666 Před 2 lety

      No it was just Tuesday

  • @yourdad9502
    @yourdad9502 Před 2 lety +24

    "Quickest way to get into a fight? Just call me a name"
    "Ah okay, thanks tosser"

  • @zeke190
    @zeke190 Před 3 lety +5

    00:50 probably the most accurate one🤣 left hook the first bloke you see along side ya😂 he ain't messing around hahaha

  • @ries5859
    @ries5859 Před 4 lety +9

    “Drink somebody else’s beer” lmao that’s golden

  • @UFOhunter4711
    @UFOhunter4711 Před 5 lety +28

    0:56 "This is Australia and we fight backward"

  • @rorysullivan4913
    @rorysullivan4913 Před 3 lety +27

    I grew up in a pub in South Africa in the 50s/60s. Loved to see the fights in the two local pubs. A German tourist wanted to book in one night when a chair came flying across the room. He grabbed his hat and shouted "mein got, vorts than the vild vest" as left running. Horses were ridden into pubs ..miss the good old days. No fights on rugby fields either - sad

    • @boxtapper8550
      @boxtapper8550 Před 3 lety +3

      I remember the men's only bars & the lady's bars in Durban South Africa. The lady's had to stay outside and scream for their husbands to come home, lol. Lot's of good punch ups. I miss those days.

    • @robhart3451
      @robhart3451 Před 2 lety +5

      30 odd years ago I courted a girl who lived in Randfontein. We were walking down the main street on a Saturday morning & went past the local ( I seem to recall it was the Leopard Hotel, could be wrong) as the guy was sweeping the teeth onto the pavement from Friday night.
      Scary town.

    • @GuinessOriginal
      @GuinessOriginal Před rokem +1

      If only there’d been some Aussies in Poland in 1939, would have saved the whole world a lot of trouble

    • @kempowarrior1954
      @kempowarrior1954 Před rokem

      Haha. Love it 😊

  • @beverlytaff4914
    @beverlytaff4914 Před 3 lety +32

    Turning one's glass upside-down is a true, very old Glaswegian tradition in Scotland. Obviously, it's travelled well.

    • @Get_me_money
      @Get_me_money Před 3 lety +1

      Is it meant to cause offense? Interested to know.

    • @gomez9325
      @gomez9325 Před 3 lety +8

      @@Get_me_money it’s a universal challenge in most pubs, can be offensive if the blokes serious

    • @aa-uq1qj
      @aa-uq1qj Před 3 lety +2

      We still love bag pipes over here ;)

    • @freak1sees714
      @freak1sees714 Před 3 lety +2

      I just read that it means you're calling them weak as piss... go figure.. first time I've heard of it and I worked in a few pubs and hotels over the last 25yrs..

    • @asensibleyoungman2978
      @asensibleyoungman2978 Před 3 lety +3

      In Glasgow turning your glass upside down on the bar actually means you're ready for gay sex.

  • @themookshit
    @themookshit Před 4 lety +300

    if only cameras weren't everywhere nowadays people need good floggings.

  • @dantheman5222
    @dantheman5222 Před 5 lety +54

    Dad mum told me to tell you its time to come home

    • @deanrobert8674
      @deanrobert8674 Před 5 lety +12

      Yes, then the old man would say, tell ya muffer illllll get home when I'm fuckn done. Here Here av a drink with old man.;~}

    • @blahblahblahblah2837
      @blahblahblahblah2837 Před 5 lety +7

      "Alright, but you better drive little Jimmy"

    • @aussieoffroader1974
      @aussieoffroader1974 Před 5 lety +3

      Dean Robert omfg i laughed my arse off when i read that! My dad had to go in and get my grandfather on more than one occasion and i could just hear him saying that to the old man.. that comment made my day..

    • @dickcarpenter8947
      @dickcarpenter8947 Před 5 lety +4

      @@aussieoffroader1974 keep those memories mate, PRICELESS . LOL

  • @NathanMcCabe88
    @NathanMcCabe88 Před rokem +1

    That guy at 1:47 had traces of blood in his alcohol system!! 🤣🤣

  • @ImaKhunt007
    @ImaKhunt007 Před rokem +102

    My mum was a barmaid for over 20yrs in a country pub. I can confirm an upside down glass on the bar is a definite way to get in a knuckle up.

    • @thefreemathtutor
      @thefreemathtutor Před rokem +1

      …because your mum would punch the shit out of them for dirtying her bar?

    • @simrdownmon6431
      @simrdownmon6431 Před rokem +4

      Aussie's, more focused on getting a knuckle up than they are on just getting it up and then getting down.

    • @ImaKhunt007
      @ImaKhunt007 Před rokem

      @@simrdownmon6431 seems to be more of the dipshits these days.

    • @chriswilkinson7636
      @chriswilkinson7636 Před rokem +10

      What's so bad about putting your glass upside down? I don't understand.😂😂

    • @ImaKhunt007
      @ImaKhunt007 Před rokem +7

      @@chriswilkinson7636 it's ment to say that you will fight anyone in the bar. I don't know the story behind it but it is definitely an invitation to punch on, especially in a country pub.

  • @PillSharks
    @PillSharks Před rokem +2

    My father was locked up in australia in 1968 and did 9 months hard labour after going ashore as a british seaman and getting into some trouble with an Irishman who was also on his ship!
    Nearly 50 years later I managed to track down Samuel Ewing Black of Belfast and he made contact with me.. the first thing he asked his if my father still liked a drink lol. My father wasn’t a man who looked for trouble but grew up with 3 brothers in a maritime village so fighting was the norm… old Samuel told me that without my father he wouldn’t have lasted as my father took care of any trouble!
    They were told never to return to Australia and came home as distressed British seaman on a ship bound for Hull in the UK and that was last time they seen each other! Hard days! ⚓️⚓️

  • @bertoman1990
    @bertoman1990 Před 4 lety +11

    They forgot to mention "Just don't wink at me, mate" as one of the quickest ways to a fight

  • @sapphire4465
    @sapphire4465 Před 4 lety +9

    at 0:53 even the interviewer is getting piss wrecked hahaha slurring his words.. love this

  • @jimpikoulis6726
    @jimpikoulis6726 Před 3 lety +2

    Good old pub brawl I wish I could go back in time... Priceless moments

  • @nickbanhidy7262
    @nickbanhidy7262 Před 3 lety

    How times have changed. Golden stuff !

  • @npd6225
    @npd6225 Před 5 lety +67

    American turns his glass upside down in a hotel lobby bar surrounded by girls. Good one.