American Reacts to Things Aussies Would NEVER Do..
Vložit
- čas přidán 15. 11. 2023
- Join this channel to get access to perks:
/ @iwrocker
original - - • 10 Things Australians ...
TIP JAR - - - - - SuperThanks Button :)
This will help improve the channel greatly, New webcam for better videos, Wheel for the hotlaps, or you can just buy me a cold drink 😎 I APPRECIATE YOU
Send us Stuff!! 😋 IWrocker 5225 Harrison Ave PO box # 6145
Rockford, IL 61125
Discord - - IWrocker CZcams - - / discord
LIKE and Subscribe! Join One of the BEST & wholesome Communties on CZcams, with tons of Variety in content for You to Enjoy.
*TimTam collection Record Holder
*Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS
As an Aussie I can assure you that when it comes to cussing on radio, there’s certain radio stations that are NOT censored. As for TV shows during the hours specified, yes and no. I’ve seen raunchy sex scenes and full frontal nudity on free to air TV during a midday movie.
Aussie here too.
What level of raunchy? Simple kissing or two abalone fighting in a bag?
All depends on what company is paying for add time really
yeah, I remember when I was off sick from school as a kid, the weekday midday movies quite often had full frontal and sex scenes.
Yeah but triple j is woke af and 65% or more of the music sucks agree with still just wanted to dis the j's
Yeah quite a few Adult Swim shows were uncensored and some shows were pretty raunchy, exhibit A. being Drawn Together lol.
I live in semi rural Australia and my kids can walk to school or ride bikes to shops without a problem. And swearing doesn’t bother me as it’s just words. But I remember when I worked in the US and I swore.. I thought I was going to be run out of town! I can remember calling my mum that night and saying “imagine if I said what I really wanted to say, I would have been deported” it shocked me as they talked about freedom of speech but I was definitely not free to swear
Damn I wanna go to America but I swear alot, I don't think I'd be able to watch what I say so much, I usually just say what's on my mind
I could never go to America, we’re too Free here, like,, to an extent but
My mouth would get me 🔫
I don’t even worry about confrontation when I’m talking 💩 here,
It’s just banter for us
I don’t see it going well in the states 😂😂😂
When in NY on a free walking tour had a NY couple loud and obnoxious in the end I told one of them to f of. As I’m a little old lady he was so surprised he just scuttled of. It was hilarious. Didn’t realise they don’t cuss like we do.
@@Ober1kenobifree in Australia. Quick to forget the totalitarian hell hole of Covid.
Back in the '70s we had TV soap operas like "The Box", “Number 96" and other shows like "Alvin Purple" at prime time slots which all featured regular displays of frontal nudity. It was an accepted part of our culture and no one really got upset or bothered about it. But that's Australia for you. We took a nose dose off the censorship jetty when tastes became more conservative in the 90s and you just don't see such content on commercial TV anymore.
They were on after 8:30pm which was considered OK as kids would be in bed..
@@tazziegee8479Alvin Purple the tv series was on at 8:30, lots of nudity, Number 96 full frontal in the early 70s along with the first gay story line.
Censorship came with the snowflake generation of the late 80's early 90's. You always saw many of the women were topless on the beach in the 70's and no one batted an eyelid. Then the Muslims arrived in numbers and brought the crap they ran away from, with them.
SBS had softcore porn
If unions are big in the U.S. why have workers so few rights?
Unions are a businessa too. Corruption. I would hate to work in the states.
Union membership is below 10% in Australia. Essentially, it's dead, thuggery and extortion is dying.
Individual bargaining produces much better outcomes.
When I worked in the States, you didn’t have to join a union, but each month the union took their dues out of your pay. The thought then is if you are paying for it, you may as well join.
Do they though? Compared to most of the world they have plenty of rights.
@@twrampage Probably true. But compared to other wealthy western countries, the answer is no.
In many parts of Europe, washing machines are kept in the bathroom (or the utility room, if homes have one). In the UK, the majority of properties have their washing machine built into the kitchen, partly because we don't commonly have electrical sockets in bathrooms. "It's a very normal thing in a lot of countries. In Australia we have a room what is called the laundry.
It can be helpful for to getting thing's done around the house. You can wash your dishes in peace without anticipating the beep.
@@onenutoo both my flats have washing machine incorporated into kitchen, one because I have small bath room and was not willing to surrender bathtub and separated shower and second flat is waiting for rebuild, but normally when we modernize bathrooms we make space with plumbing and socket for washing machine and dryer, in most cases whith cozy cabinet for them and laundry (houses use more laundry room, mostly as part of technical room /room with heating, ventilation, cooling machines and solar gen control center and so/ )
In a Monty Python sketch it mentioned 'They washed their hands, they washed their faces, they washed their naughty bits.' In the U.S. they bleeped out 'naughty bits'.😅
I heard a story when one lady called police, because her neighbour had bra hanged on drying rope
I’m in Aust’. And old enough to remember 1996-1998 when John Howard as PM, & his Industrial relations minister, P Reith, setup a plan. then in 1998 proceeded to destroy the Unions, Workplace relations were strained. Govt also got rid of their own employees, secured Contractors & also set about cheaper labour. Workplace agreements & contracts was often corrupted.
I am old enough to remember he good old days in Victoria of State owned SEC, Gas & Fuel, Melbourne Water, all of which worked perfectly for decades.
Then rich boy Liberal Premier Jeff Kennett sold them to private industry at bargain basement prices with the BS line that competition will lead to better serves and lower prices. Well prices has sky rocketed and services are way worse. The infrastructure is aging and needs updating but Jeffy's much vaunted private Industry handballs that job to some/anyone else. Well done Jeff, or as we still say, we got Kennetted. Jeff doesn't care, he's rich.
Now there is a mongrel grunt. Howard the coward. Grub.
I'm Aussie and I love Ranch dressing, the problem here is it's super hard to find a good Ranch dressing.. I usually get my Aunt who lives in Arizona to send me my 'Hidden Valley Ranch' supply to keep me happy every so often 😂😂 On that note, Tomato sauce and Ketchup are NOT the same.. Sauce is sweeter than ketchup which I find more tangy..
Yes a good ranch dressing tops of subs nicely
I vary my chip toppings. These would include tomato sauce, chicken salt, salt and vinegar, mayonaise, and gravy. Depnds on what takes me at the time. Ranch isn't big here but you'll occassionally see it. I don't mind it personally.
Love chips and gravy
Hi Ian
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this before.
In the northern edge of Melbourne CBD, just outside the ACTU (Australian Council of Trade Unions) there is a marble monument with 888 on the top. It signifies the introduction of 8 hours work, 8 hours leisure, 8 hours rest for every working day. It was later adopted world-wide (except USA).
I also now live 5 minute car ride from the Eureka Stockade that saw the overthrow of corrupt police practices on the goldfields here in Ballarat
Having the laundry in the kitchen in europe is primarily due to the age and small size's of many of the homes resulting in very minimal plumbing through the dwellings
I've never been a Public transport snob, but when I lived in the US only South Lake Tahoe and Truckee, it was apparent that it was set up for driving. If you couldn't afford a car you were regarded as very low class. I was also a victim? of an attempted mugging in a San Fran bus terminal. I went to meet a friend there and a guy accosted me for some money claiming to be a Vietnam Vet. I said sorry mate you didn't serve for me in a very Aussie accent. He put his hand in his pocket and pretended to have a gun. I maybe stupidly laughed and walked away. It was only later I thought maybe he really did have a gun.
Yeah Tomato Sauce (a must on pies sausage rolls and sausages) and Ketchup 2 different things. Not sure you can get Ranch Dressing here. Maybe but I think you'd have to hunt it down. Washer dryer in the kitchen in UK is down to lack of space especially in older houses. US and Australia have the luxury of lots of free space to be able build houses that have rooms for everything.
Ive never not been able to get Ranch dressing in at least 5 different brands, in Coles and Woolies......pretty much everywhere.
As a kid who grew up in Australia in the 80's, nearly all of the school population got to school on push bikes. The one's who came on the bus was because they lived out bush. Those who walked was because they were in 20 min walk. And those whose parents dropped them off was because it was on the way to work (AUS school start time being 9am ish (give or take 20min)).If the Department of Child Protective Serveices had shown up on our doorstep, they would have been met with extreme laughter and mockery.
Also, I'm in my mid 40's. Never had a drivers license, take public transport everywhere, and live in a rural city. Have had more problems from the yobbos on the Melbourne network than the Ballarat one.
That was THEN, not NOW. NOW, virtually EVERY child is driven to school, including teenagers. Whiuch si why every second child you see nowadays is on the verge of morbidly obese. The school start and stop times are a bloody nightmare, with cars and 4WD’s everywhere, all trying to get in and out again as quickly as possible, which makes it bloody dangerous too!
Country kids and city kids are definitely different in Oz.
I’m from Queensland, Australia & when we have Hot Chips (French Fry’s) we have yummy gravy & chicken salt with them. We also have Tomato Sauce, BBQ sauce & mayonnaise mixed on them it’s so yummy. I have a laundry room that I go out the back door of the house to go into it most houses have a door on the inside not my house. Thanks for sharing your video it was fun to watch see ya 😊
Hot chips with gravy from KFC --- in a Homer Simpson voice!
The house I get up in Melbourne had a laundry like that , out back door down 2/3 steps turn left wallk a few paces enter laundry .... Attached but seperate . Then we extended & added 2 rooms making the far laundry wall the rear of house .
Toilet & bathroom is something very common in the USA & not so much here.
@@brodiegriffin_is_Ozzy when the original owner had this house built they couldn’t get it built in our town as the company was 1,500 klms away, but if she changed 4 things on the original plan then they would come & build it. She she made a sunken lounge room, put in a bar, removed the door for access to the laundry & removed the door for access into the garage. It’s crazy to move door ways
My grandfather had our house built in 1949 but it must have a common practice or design having the laundry attached to the house but with no access from one to the other , neighbour's house was the same exact house ( same builder probably ) . The extension done in the 70s made what was the backdoor an internal doorway into what was used as a 2nd lounge / study / common room with the laundry staying put but now indoors , did add a toilet off the laundry as originally was an outhouse on the property & a 4th bedroom opposite the laundry ( turn left laundry right bedroom )
Mmmmm.... gravy and chips.
I was born in Scotland and walking to school was the norm, 2miles there and back summer and winter. As for the washing machine in the kitchen that to was normal. British houses are a lot smaller and usually there's no separate laundry room or toilet facilities like you get in Australian homes.
I live next to a Metro station in Sydney. I frequently catch the train to work (three stations and a very short walk) or the nearby shopping centre (two stations and a slightly longer walk). It's fast, clean, and there's no hassle with parking.
Re the ad thing: I always loved the "If you Drink & Drive, you're a bloody idiot!" ad &, I think it was a car ad, with a dog saying "Bugger" all the time!😂 Censorship has def rolled in tho & we (Aussies) won't see ads like 'em again, I reckon!😢 Love your work mate & you're time & efforts are always much appreciated by myself & my partner!👍 Thank u!🥰 Lotsa love from Brisbane xo 💚🇦🇺💜
Where the bloody hell are ya! This was the punchline for Australian Tourist Bureau ad😂
BCF-ing fun.
As a person that spends a lot of time both in Spain and Sweden. Having a washing machine in the kitchen is very common in Spain, even though dedicated laundry rooms do exist.
I never seen a washing machine in any Swedish kitchen. Most common is to have a dedicated laudry room, otherwise the the mahine is placed in the bathroom instead.
In Australia only some small flats/units/apartments might have the washing machine in the bathroom...I hate it because the washing machine is more inclined to rust. It is very rare to have a washing machine in the kitchen probably because the default basic washing machine in Australia has always been the top loader...while front loaders are now just as common, back a few decages ago it wasn't...any small unit/flat/apartment would have a space only to accommodate a top loader washing machine.
Eww, not sure if it just has a different taste here in Australia (even the Costco one) but ranch dressing is horrendous and I absolutely detest it.
Another food I've never had before was pumkin pie...I bought a Costco one and it was yuck...no family or friends liked it and I had to throw most of it away...also don't know if the flavour is different to the US one either but nope...no good.
Ranch is a relatively new sauce here in Australia and it was hard to find it even 5 years ago...we tried a few different ones but just don't like it...also pumpkin pie (even if Costco has it) is still not a thing here (and to be honest I'm happy for that) and cinnamon isn't as popular in Australia as the US...no pumkin spice, no cinnamon bubble gum or lollies, no drinks...only doughnuts with cinnamon sugar and some cakes may have a little.
Try living in China, where it's rare to have hot water in the kitchen, and the fridge is out in the living room!
@@ianhelyar6383
Only time in Australia we wouldn't have hot water in the kitchen and have to have the fridge away from the kitchen is if the house is older than those technologies and it has not been updated or renovated...ever.
@@stevenbalekic5683 where I lived in China, the place was built in the late 90s.
When my English cousin lived in Florida, his wife used to drive her son to school every day, even though it was a literal 5 minute walk.
The locals thought my cousin mad for walking to work too (15 minutes).
His son was 15 at the time, and I kid you not, had never crossed a road on his own.
In fact he'd never been anywhere on his own. Mum drove him everywhere , as did everyone else with their children.
It seems that "helicopter parenting" is the norm in the United States...
Same in Melbourne these days. 😞
We were in Memphis and thought nothing of boarding a bus to go to town from the motel which was near Elvis Presley’s Graceland. We boarded and we were the only white people on board. Everyone looked at us as if we weren’t supposed to be there. A bloke said “hey where you from?” When I said Australia, he said “ Oh, you Crocodile Dundee”. All on the bus joined in joyfully in the conversation and it was a really pleasant experience. I am very much used to public transport because I am a drinker and make sure I don’t drive on those occasions. I want to keep my drivers licence thank you.
Ketchup isn't tomato sauce, it's a common misconception.
You expect them to admit it`s 30 - 60% sugar?
True Ketchup is much sweeter and Tomato Sauce has Vinegar in it
Spot on! Annoys me how common this myth is. You can buy both tomato sauce and ketchup in Australia, it’s just that the majority of us Aussies much prefer tomato sauce.
Lol most Australian cities have good public transport
Very debatable statement. Some tomato sauces come very close to ketchup. Essentially, ketchup is very roughly a little thicker than Tom sauce. Nowadays, most tomato sauces in Australia have a high tomato content (therefore thicker) and are really the same if not very similar! In summary, the argument is redundant…
Chips with chicken salt and covered with gravy is my normal thing although occasionally soy sauce on chips is nice as well. Dead horse goes well with pies and sausage rolls.
The more people who drive, the more pollution is created. Other countries are trying to reduce their emissions by using public transport or walking, or even shared motor vehicle transport when going to the same district.
I catch Public Transport everywhere in Brisbane & 95% of the time it’s a quiet uneventful ride - that other 5% is either kids being loud & acting tough because their in a group, or most likely, someone (I’ve seen all demographics) watch videos or play music at full volume without headphones.
I do so because the cost of living increases for this single father on an average wage has been too much & sold off the car.
Positives: WAY cheaper.
Negatives: I miss the freedom to go anywhere at anytime.
In Norway, 'adult' things, like swearwords are not used on TV, before 8 PM.
Which are normally when the younger children, are put to bed.
(Or should be)
Children learn these words much faster, when they know, they are not supposed to say them.
I can see the cost advantage in having the laundry wash and dry in the kitchen as all the plumbing would be together close. In some houses now to save space the washing and drying machines are in a small enclosure sealed off with sliding doors. I think that dryers in the kitchens would heat up the room which is not a good thing in the Australian weather, maybe good for Alaska.
you would not put your clothes in the dryer if the sun was out and we can dry on the line. its only used mid winter when we have rainy days then we would use it. the reason washer dryers were in the kitchen is to save space as it was a premium and most old english houses were typically not built to accommodate the washroom. Here in Australia we have, on general, more sunny days and more opportunity to dry outside and the sun does a fab job!
Dryers aren't massively popular in England, although we did have a washer dryer years ago, but never used it 😂
Just hang the clothes outside. It's free.
That's surprising... I would have thought that dryers would be necessary due to the wet weather...
@@Monica-gc5dh it's not as wet as people think. I have washing out today.
Plus my cousin lived in Florida and still used a tumble dryer 🤣
I come from a country town (in Australia) that didn't even have a taxi service until recent years. Community bus was for the elderly only. Bus to capital city ran four days a week. Now I'm in a city where bus, tram, and train services are fantastic (or at least in my area) so there's rarely a need to drive. Also, there have been schools within walking distance in every place I've lived so that has always been a 'normal' thing.
The washer is usually in / close to the kitchen because of the plumbing involved. You save on the cost of pipes + manhours.
The bit about washing machines/dryers in the kitchen, it's something you see a lot in the UK and Europe due to the very limited space there. There is often no space for a separate laundry room so the washing machine ends up in the kitchen.
Exactly that.
I'm an Aussie, and I'm about to move somewhere where my washing machine will be in the kitchen to save space. I believe this happens a lot in Britain. It's common to have the washing machine and dryer in the bathroom in small abodes for space reasons, so why not the kitchen?
Bus wankers, that cracked me up.LOL
As an American Australian (I've lived in Aus since 2005 and I'm now 54), I believe that Aussie Tomato Sauce tastes exactly like the ketchup knockoff we used to get in the school cafeteria - it's merely a sweet tomato sauce with no tanginess like ketchup, meaning there's no vinegar or spices.
**I gave my age bc maybe they use something different for ketchup now than they did back in the 70s & 80s.
I like chicken salt on my chips. Washing machines and dryers is more common in England, I've never seen it here. When I went to the UK for a holiday I was shocked.
I think you're more often likely to see a washer/dryer in the bathroom than the kitchen here in Australia. Especially in retirement homes.
Ranch and aioli are similar in taste but aioli is thicker and in my opinion, it has a better texture. I love aioli 🤣
Freedom is a great catch phrase for Americans but they don't realise that that is all it is.
One thing about the bus in the city, is that the cost of parking is an absolute rip off, if you park for day it can be over $80 or more. So it's really not worth using your car.
Lol my friend lives in Nevada USA in a block of flats, and they all got the washing machine in the kitchen 😜🙂
I live in a rural area in Australia, but large population (6 sate primary schools, 1 state high, 3 small alternative, 2 catholic primary and 1 catholic high). As most of the school population are on farms before and after school there are buses, and lots of them (and by lots I mean 8 that do 2 rounds lol). It's free for every kid that lives a certain distance from school. When I was a teacher on bus duty, there was an occasional adult on the bus. They had to pay AND had to sit in the row right behind the driver. It's what the town agreed upon to ensure the kids were safe. Most kids left big gaps between them and the adults.
I went to school in the city. Everyone would ride or walk to school. Uni I most opted for buses as trying to get a car park was near impossible.
Washer/Dryer in the kitchen serves the Europeans with a plus plus - they can use it as a dishwasher too haha. Actually, there are some apartments in Melbourne and probably Sydney now where some dual washer/dryers are actually in the kitchen. There's not many but there's a few about. It's such a 'yeah, nah' for me. Most apartments will have like a little compact built in closet and depending where you live, it's a requirement for the apartment owner or whatever to provide at least a wall mounted dryer. This is due to some places especially some high rise apartment blocks, in Sydney specifically had to provide this because you weren't allowed to put your washing on a clothes horse on the balcony because it ruins the look of the building.
We need to get this guy watching HSP videos.
I always rode my bike to school. My mates caught the bus but me i raced the bus daily. 😜 My last days of high school the bus driver threatened he would hit me. Gotta catch me 1st. 😂
We are now in our late 70's. For most of our lives, we've been ln a quiet part of suburban Sydney, fortunately under 10 minutes walk to the local train station and just a bit further to shops. I normally caught the train to/from work, our son walked to school - and on his own after he turned 8. The nearest large supermarkets are a couple of suburbs away, so we'd normally drive for our main weekly shopping. Butcher and greengrocer are local though. We used not be alone in these customs, but we've noticed that a lot of new arrivals to the area drive everywhere.
Every flat I've ever lived in has laundry facilities in the bathroom. Flats don't have a back door and often have several stories. Units do have a back door and are one storey. It's becoming more popular to put the laundry where the hall cupboard is or in the kitchen if you want to save space for other things in apartments etc. but it used to be Britain who did this. If possible, they disguise them with louvred folding doors etc. I don't want to take the space away from my kitchen. Women (cooks) need all the space for cupboards there.
I like my chips just salted, no sauce. I don’t even have tomato sauce on my pie!! 😂
[ UK defence ] We used to do our laundry in our kitchens.
When you have to boil the water on the kitchen fire [ normal for many of us until late 70's ], why carry that boiling water out of the room?
Many Victorian 'good' houses did have a wash-room with a large copper 'kettle' for water boiling for laundry. This wash-room was often in the small yard next to the flush toilet. [ outside dunny mate! ]
i remember my very polite and well mannered grandma asking some kids to stop riding through her garden, and they swore at her. can't write any of what she called them on youtube but my vocabulary grew by a significant amount that day. and i think those now grown up kids have probably never seen a come back like that to this day.
but yes descriptive or humorous swearing is normal. but not to insult someone in a serious or aggressive way, that will still cause a fight here.
Apparently you can get ranch in the UK, although it's not very popular.
In fact I'd never heard of it until recently.
I did have a look in my local supermarket but they didn't have it.
Plus it's salt and vinegar on chips for me.
There are plenty of people who are paranoid. When they hear about some lowlife approaching a child on the news, they tend to think there's one on every corner and in every tree. The reality is that Australia is a very safe country, and incidents of "stranger danger" are quite uncommon.
Now I will get various peanuts saying, "my nephew was approached by someone," or I know of this person who had this happen or that happen." These will still amount to rare occurrences.
It's common enough that when kids get on my bus in the morning here in suburban Brisbane without a Go card to pay, the driver has to let them on (I think it stems from what happened to Daniel Morcombe in 2003).
@@bencodykirk When you say it's "common" enough, how many thousands of kids have been on the buses since Daniel? Australia wide millions of kids travel on buses without a problem. I wouldn't call that "common." I stand by my comment.
@@bencodykirk Also poor Daniel wasn't on a bus.
Especially little country towns were everyone more or less knows everyone. Sure gossip can get rich, but that keeps the weirdos at bay lol. I have no dramas my kids walking to get where they’re going. Maybe not at midnight though
@@marchillyard199 True and would have to be a local, couldn't see anyone driving to a town for that purpose. Also figures show such incidents in the hands of someone they know or are related to.
I think the watershed in the uk is 21:00.
After that it's a free for all.
I've seen Americans seem shocked by the language on British telly, especially when they're on programmes like the Graham Norton show, for example.
Was surprised me the most when I traveled to the USA, was every table at every place we ate had Heinz ketchup. Anyway that ketchup and the one they sell here is definitely a bit vinegary compared to Australian tomato sauce.
I actually quite like "Ranch" (I first encountered it on a visit to Colorado 25 years ago) but it's not something most people have. It IS available from the big 2 supermarkets here in Australia.
I am an Aussie & became hooked on Ranch on my 1st visit to the USA in Lake Tahoe 1995. Yes Fries with Ranch & even sweet potato fries with ranch is good too. Good Ranch dressing is hard to find but we can get it in the main supermarkets now. For many years, the only Ranch dressing I could get was Paul Newman's brand. Problem is its still rare to be able to get Ranch at a restaurant or cafe.
Not all radio stations or tv channels are censored/expected to be censored. Only the “big 3” for tv here, and mainstream radio stations. One of the more popular stations across aus is triple j, no censorship there and probably the only station that anyone under the age of 30-35 would generally listen to In the first place lol
Allioli is an Spanish sauce from the Catalunya/valencia site. It means garlic=all and=i oli=oil in catalan/valencian language. The original sauce doesn’t have egg, only garlic and oil but it’s really hard to make it with the perfect texture. Takes a lot of time hand mixed. It makes more easy if you add eggs… and the taste is softer. That is why I hate allioli in Australia!! Where is the garlic?🤣🤣🤣
i just hate the taste of it all together
Ha ha ha! Well without eggs and really punch of garlic is amazing! But every person has a different taste! But none in Spanish will call what we have in Australia Allioli 🤷🏻♀️ For use is a similar as the vegemite for the Australians! I’m half Australian and I can not with Vegemite 😬
Fries with ranch. You freak. 😂
Some houses, especially in the UK, have a limited footprint property wise, so if the house was built decades ago, as most are in UK and many older houses in Australia, if the owners want a laundry, they can’t just add one on, especially if they would need to extend the plumbing and connect it to the current water supply. That involves a huge expense to run new pipes underground, especially if it requires removing floors and foundations. So rather than do that, they put the washing machine where there are existing water pipes, and that’s often the kitchen or bathroom, although older bathrooms don’t have the floor space for it.
I'm Australian who has just returned from living in the UK for the last 3 years and I thought it was very weird to have a washing machine and dryer in the kitchen. I've never seen that here.
@@user-rt9rj9eg1x It’s usually part of a renovation of an old house., not common but out of necessity in our modern era of white-goods.
Most of our older houses (mine was built in the early 1900s so reasonably new) dont have laundry rooms. Even some modern houses don't have them, we're a small island with lots of people - so we have smaller houses.
As a Belgian I find the American approach to curse words is weird. Songs don't get censored here no matter what time.
They are just words that express an emotion, treating them like something bad give curse words power. I think it's hyprocritical that you change the word (like frak) or put a * in it... you still know what word it is... To me you either curse or you don't, but don't camouflage the curse word.
As a Belgian off course my favorite on fries is mayo 😁. I like ketchup but not on my fries. BUT I like European Heinz Ketchup! My BFF is an American who lives here and she brought Heinz ketchup from America for me to taste because she said it's much sweeter... and OMG, American Heinz Ketchup is disgustingly sweet!
Here in Belgium you will find a lot of old apartments and houses with a washing machine in the kitchen. There's just no laundry room in older houses and appartments and bathrooms are too small to fit them. You have to realise that our apartments and houses are made out of solid brick walls, so it's costly to renovate and maybe take a small space out of a bedroom to create a laundry room. I've never had my washer and dryer in my kitchen, when I rented I looked for places that either had a seperate small laundry or space (and hookup) for it in the bathroom.
Of the 2 houses I've owned so far the first was a 3 bedroom detached house and had a big seperate laundry. After my divorce I bought a small rowhouse with space for it in my bathroom. Would I prefer a seperate laundry, off course, but there's no space for it and as long as it's not in the kitchen I'm happy.
Fries usually come pre-salted but I then smash it with a load of pepper. I've had some strange looks but for me it works a treat.
crazy to hear some of this. here in denmark kids only need an adult riding with them until the age of 6. after that they can ride a bike alone. even be home alone for a couple hrs if needed. to have child protection called on you you really need to mess it up. and for the ketchup thing. i see alot of americans use heintz ketchup. its the most foul thing on the planet. i understand why you dont like that stuff. try beauvais ketchup its really good and im sure you will like it. if you can find it overthere give it a try. otherwise i hope someone add a small bottle of it in a package at some point so you can try it out.
Depending on the station, (radio & tv) you wouldn't necessarily get stuff beeped out during the day hours either. (JJJ was always uncensored for example).
Growing up, if school was less than 5km away, biking to and from school was the norm. (This was a non-main-city however)
JJJ was originally censored, people got fired for swearing years ago
He is right about riding bikes or walking to school, however that was prevalent in the old days. These days there is literally traffic congestion from 2.30 pm because mums are picking up their kids from school which closes at 3 pm. This merges into the peak “hour” traffic so 2.30 to 6.pm or so is chaotic in my city of Brisbane.
I grew up in Townsville in North Queensland where the public transport is okay-ish if you’re in a suburb near a major shopping centre or near the cbd or university you can get around. But my parent’s house is in a semi rural part of Townsville where you can get a dedicated school bus to and from school but if you don’t have a car or motorbike you’re stuck because it’s a 15min drive at 100km/h most of the way to get to anything other than the one servo. So I didn’t take the bus until my second year of uni and that was only because I was late getting my licence and needed to get myself from uni to my Pilates class and i hated it. Now I live in the Gold Coast south of Brisbane and if i wanted too i could do most things without my car, and my older sister who has lived in Brisbane for over 10 years hasn’t owned a car for most of that time.
Speaking of censorship, "The Inbetweeners " gives you an idea of what goes on English tv 😂
LOVE ME SOME RANCH!! I wish it was more common in Australia.
There’s ranch “dressing” in Australia that goes on salads, but it’s thinner and acidic.
I love ranch thicker and creamier with my fries. 🍟 I can literally only get ranch sauce at Outback Steakhouse in Australia.
In some US cities I went to, public transport was totally fine and some cities you certainly knew that the only people on it had no other choice. Here in Australia I have a car and a motobike but I will still catch buses into the city because it's cheap and I can relax and don't have to worry about other drivers or find parking.
I love the Ranch dressing at Subway, definitely have it on a Ham & salad s/w maybe not chips (fries)
Laundry in the kitchen is British as most homes are not built with a laundry room
The old tonato sauce v ketchup argument. Every country has their own preferred taste and variously call it tomato sauce, tomato ketchup or tomato catsup. They all taste a little different because of relatively small variations in the proportions of ingredients. But obviously all just versions of the same basic thing. Its exactly the same with mayonaisse, that also varies in taste from country to country,ie some sweeter, some sharper, some more mustardy etc, but clearly all mayonaisse.
My bro married an English girl. They came over, my bro wanted to set up mum's house with a proper kitchen. His wife said we needed a basin in the sink for washing up in. Tried to convince us to only have 2 power plugs in the kitchen, instead of one for each appliance on the bench one behind the fridge etc. She was used to carrying the hot water up steps and down, for washing up. Uses a washer dryer in the kitchen (how unsanitary) and called us spoiled, in our tiny house. We do have a laundry room. She was used to only renting one room, in a person's house, regulated times to walk though their house, to, come or go. All the houses were old, some from the 1300's and folks are wary of builders who scam them. My bro is not a builder, has skills though, so he did fix things himself. She asked me, what else can he do?
We say laundry NOT laundry ROOM. why put room on it!???
And yet in Australia Unions have been busted before. Remember the BLU? (Builders Labourers Union).
That said..... what the Union did to warrant getting busted up was pretty extreme.
I live in a small country town and use public transport (bus and train) to travel around town and into Melbourne. It's cheaper, safer and comfortable.
on the wall behind you the XD falcon (that green car )actually belongs to a collector and lives 5 doors away from me , one of 5 Bathurst cars he owns , not replicas but the real thing , sound awesome when running
When we Emigrated in 1974 , my mother was delighted to have a separate laundry, as she found it more sanitary, as with English houses if someone was sick there is a risk for f contamination of the food prep and common room .
I got hollandaise sauce (I guess) with my chips a couple of times in the Netherlands. I loved it! But then, I normally don't use tomato sauce.
I had never heard of or tried Ranch until I visited the US in 2004. I love it and prefer it over Mayo. You can buy it here in Oz. All the best from Melbourne Australia.
Funny that most Australians think Ketchup or Catsup is American. It had a long history and was spread through Britain.
British ketchup was originally mushroom.
I'm old enough to remember before Australia went metric. We walked about 6 miles to and from school. And as I got older I was riding my bike, by myself, to and from school at a distance of about 10kms. Also the rule was we could go anywhere we could walk to, but had to be home by the time the street light came on.
Ummm 6 miles is a 2 hour walk for a child. Even a soldier can only march 4 miles an hour !
Also you were 2 yrs old when Australia went metric. So you grew up learning only metric in school. Exactly the same as i did.
@@edwardfletcher7790 yup
@@edwardfletcher7790umm he did say 6 miles, meaning 3 miles each way. This was not uncommon to do in the 50’s and 60’s
Britain old country limited space, old houses not torn down but upgraded, laundry room would mean giving up room in another area to fit it. Practical idea to fit the washer/dryer in the kitchen. Tomato Sauce, no sugar like Ketchup. We have sour cream with our chips some people do have mayo. We have Ranch Dressing without all the chemical additives the US has.
We have ranch dressing in Europe. But it tastes different than in the US. And we do censor out swear words, I rarely see them uncensored in my country atleast. We have washing machines for kitchenware in the kitchen but never for clothes
A dishwasher? Lol
Aussie houses are a lot smaller than yours in the USA. However English places are a lot smaller than ours. My SIL said aussies are spoilt wirh our big houses. My brother said 2 power points is enough for a kitchen? Like the fridge, freezer, toaster, microwave, range hood, dishwasher, kettle etc don't heed one each. Then where do you put the sanga toaster, the crock-pot, mixer/blender, a coffee machine if you have one, etc... she puts a plastic basin in her sink to wash up in, and has a washer/dryer in the kitchen. I mean you wash, and after the wash is done, the same machine is your dryer. She used to rent one room, wirh a microwave on a table, and had to take her basin down steep stairs to get washing up water, take it up to use it and down again to dispose of it. Water is heavy, One litre is 1 kilo.
On a channell called mowing for mental health, the aussie guy uses a Victa mower and some yards have Hills Hoists, to dry your clothes on. If you want to see them.
There was a short clip where a guy was trying to get the an asian pronunciation of Tomato Sauce that turned out to be Ketchup! 😂😂
Aoli is different to ordinary mao. It’s garlic mayo. Which is great with chips. I love tartare sauce with chips. And tomato sauce I only have on meat pies and sausages. 😉. Laundry in the kitchen is a UK thing.
Fries with ranch dressing doesn't sound weird to me. I am an Aussie and I have no idea what ranch dressing actually tastes like but from the look and description of it, it sounds like it is in the mayonnaise/aioli/coleslaw dressing/caesar salad dressing range and I've had chips (fries to you!) with all of those things and liked it. However, I would contest that potato wedges (not fries, not chips) with sour cream and sweet chilli sauce are the absolute peak of potato based snacks. You cannot beat them!
Ranch is to die for
Public transport is great if you are a senior. I have my gold Opal card and it costs me $2.50 to travel 60 km from Campbelltown to the Sydney CBD.. I can then travel on as many buses, trains, light rail and ferries throughout the day and I won’t have to pay anymore, not even for the return trip to Campbelltown. If I drove into the city, it’s the cost of parking plus several tolls along the way. The tolls alone would be about $20 each way.
Dire Straits 'Money for Nothing' and Elvis Costello's 'Oliver's Army' have both had words censored on Oz radio, where they weren't a few years ago.
As an Aussie, I would never boil water for coffee in a microwave. I would use a kettle.
I have never had ketchup. I understand that it is less sweet than tomato sauce. Thank you for the video.
I have fries (chips) with Coleslaw Dressing. I can do ranch, but coleslaw dressing is the "ducks guts" (term for the best).
Only about 10% of the work force are in Unions, which is crazy considering they are the only ones fighting for workers rights. But anyway, that is about 1.5 million workers, but most of them are in strategic positions, like the wharfies can shut down trade in and out of the country, truckies can block all the roads, electricians can organise unscheduled blackouts, teachers can shut down schools, trains and busses occasionally stop or reduced services, plane refuelling and baggage handling, etc, you get the point, it is mainly causing inconvenience. Nurses, doctors, fire and police, are some of the most taken advantage at times without a lot of options to make their points but the other unions all bandy behind them with threats of shutting down the while country.
Laundry appliances in the kitchen come from a time when outdoor toilets were brought inside or attached to the back of the house, easier to bring one water line in to one room, not so easy to start creating new shower rooms, bathrooms, toilet rooms, laundrey rooms, as well as kitchen. Just make it 2 rooms at the back of the house.
Later on, it just became the lay out that everyone is used to, so it is harder to change the old ways..
I like BBQ sauce for my fries, in Perth WA we have free City Clipper Buses. A train line that runs both North & South of the City, and also a train service for rural areas. Travelling on Public service is pretty safe here, most people will park & ride the Train or use buses because it's cheaper then Parking fees.
My friend said that living in Chicago you can't get where you want to go by bus and everyone has to have a car.
Washer dryers in the kitchen because UK houses are about a 1/4 the size of US houses and are 1/3 of the size of an Australian house
The cultural difference here (I'm sure similar in the US) can be large. When I moved from Adelaide to Canberra for work... at the office cafeteria, the default was chips with gravy. If you didn't want gravy, you'd have to say "no gravy", at which point they'd look at you like you had just landed from another planet. I'd actually never heard of chips with gravy, and we're talking 1,000kilometers in the same country. I couldn't stand the thought of soggy chips, so I asked for chicken salt, and they again looked at me, this time like I had escaped from an asylum.
The bus here certainly has some interesting people... I specifically remember one guy. He'd get on the bus a few stops after me, and every day he'd make a point of introducing himself to every person already on the bus before taking a seat. He'd tell you his name, ask for yours, want to shake hands, and would make a small scene if anyone refused. Once he'd done his thing, he'd happily sit quietly, hopefully with the new friend he had made.
In the CBD here, there's a free bus..and that attracts an even more special crowd, which most of the time is fun to watch, but on occasion has made me feel unsafe. Ok, they're not armed, but neither am I....
I'm from SA and it's totally and chips and gravy culture here - there are convos about who has the best gravy as well. My fav closed down a few years back and I have not found one that I can eat or like since (although Maccas did a good gravy on their fries for awhile). As a side note, are you really Australian if you don't like Chicken Salt on your chips :D Maybe that's why the countries so f*&ked up sometimes, Canberrans have actually forgotten they are part of Australia!
@@helenlecornu1651 With the exception of my time in Canberra, I have lived my entire life in Adelaide and never have I found anywhere where chips and gravy are the default. Regular salt, chicken salt (and by the way, I love it). I've been asked if I want vinegar, been asked if I want tomato sauce, NEVER have I been asked if I wanted gravy. I can see it on the menu, but it has NEVER been the default. That was my entire point.
@@digimont Okey dokey I get where you're coming from and that is true. Chips and gravy is still pretty big though - don't know about in the city though that's another planet, so I'll still stand by what i said..... Oh and I have been asked if i wanted gravy! 😉😁
Speaking about the ketchup thing, I don't mind mixing it with mayo and having that with fries. And yeah ranch is a fine substitute for fries as well. I remember going to visit my wife in Malaysia and I felt like the ketchup there is so different, kinda sweet. Not sure what it is about it. I prefer the more vinegar type.
[ UK born Irishman ] If it ain't Heinz, it ain't going on my chips, simples. [ makes a squeaky noise ]