Joel, I've been watching a lot of your videos about differences between words Americans and British people use, and you two made a comment in at least one video that you know some Brits who have begun to adopt American pronunciation. Do you, as a trained linguist see a global trend toward the Americanization of the English language in general, perhaps due to the amount of entertainment exported by the US, or even the enormous proportion of English speakers in the world that America produces?
A bit off topic, but speaking of some apps you mentioned, I thought folks should consider researching Tik Tok, WeChat, QQ and Weibo. They’re all Chinese owned and monitored by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). That means if you have the apps, their govt has your info. Hope you stay well.
Cash is dirty ...... As much as I don't like everything I do tracked, I love the convenience of using my card and buying online.....I was wondering how people from Britain who moved to live in Australia in 2019 coped with lockdown and wildfires.
I've lived in southern Arizona, plenty of poisonous animals, you just learn to deal with it. Plus Arizona has a lot of cacus, not poisonous , but it hurts like hell.
There is a particular beauty to barren landscapes….. they are inherently clean in a "lacking of human contact" sense. That's what struck me the most when I camped out in Death Valley, California……. not that Australia is Death Valley, I know it has a varied environment…… just saying there's a lot of barren outback.
@Elizabeth Cozma...Yes it makes me laugh...Many think that the Animals are on the Prowl...Especially the Kangaroos 😂🇦🇺We are so lucky to live here and I Thank the British for our System of Government...I am glad my Forefathers settled in Australia and mingled with the Indigenous😊👍❤️
Javier Solorzano You’re correct our Outback and the Simpson Desert have what your talking of...”Death Valley” is a name and I think I’ve seen it in American Westerns,anyway,no offence is taken...Aussies don’t get offended easily😂Like the British we’re pretty Thick Skinned so to Speak...Comes from our Convict Background, mixed in with All our European Settlers that Fled the Wars and Depression...Stay Well🙏
@@bryonthor The Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona is maybe, the most beautiful desert in the world. I love it here... but, I would still love to do a lot of traveling.
True..It’s a 27 hour Plane trip from where I live on the East Coast of Australia to Athens...My Friend married a Welshman and lives in London...She travels here to see her Mum 3 times a year...What a long Haul...The Jet Lag on the Aussie Return Trip is Horrendous...Wiped our for at least a week!!!Australians love to Travel and it’s well worth the effort😊❤️Stay Well🙏
USA is like a continent of 50 countries and has canada, mexico, and other countries in the americas but obviously it doesnt not compare to europe unless you are talkign about beaches in which case its far better to be in america
I was born a Brummie. Lived here in Aus since I was 5. I can legit answer this. Oh come on. We get the house sprayed. No spiders in my place. Keep your place clean and garden uncluttered, and no drama with spiders or snakes. All the killer stuff is not everywhere. Crocs are only in the far north, be smart in snake areas, by wearing appropriate clothing. Yes, Australia is big. We drive 5 hours to see specialists. Cash withdrawals are charged only when third party ATMs are used. We do great takeaway. You just need to find the proper ones. Summer is summer - when it is hot. Exactly the opposite to UK. Winter is winter - when it’s cold. How hard is that? Crikey Mate! We have proper summer when 30°C is a nice day, not a heat wave. I’ve been back to the Uk to visit family, but so glad I don’t live there.
😂😂You Tell ‘em Luv...You tell ‘em..😂👍🇦🇺I love to visit the UK Europe and NZ...However we Love to come Home to Australia...Lots of New Caravans and Boats out and About...With this COVID-19 maybe we will be Travelling in our own Back Yard...Which we also love to do😊❤️
eleni Kominos there is nothing better than getting onto a plane and hearing Aussie accents after having travelled overseas. We live travelling but no place like Australia
I am British lived in Aus for 20 years: 1) never seen killer animals, most of us live along the coast where you don't get much snakes and spiders, I live in Melbourne, the weather is temperate, the most animals I see are birds and possums. I have never checked my shoes in my life, never seen spiders in my shoes (I am a ecologist by the way). 2) yes, it is like the US for distance but most of the action/population is in the east coast, I have never been in the outback, there is nothing there but dessert, Sydney is only 1.5 hours on a plane from Melbourne. You get use of the distance, your perception of time and distance changes, and it is great when you travel, nothing phases you. 3) Not into sport but there's ton of international sport in Melbourne, the cricket, the tennis, UFC, we even get the premiere league teams on the off season, we had WWE last year 4) they only charge you on withdrawals if it is from a different bank from your own, otherwise, it is free 5) You can get every cultural food you can think of in Australia because we are close to Asia; thai, indian, Italian, everything, we have delivery services, and even fish and chips
Australia is the only country with FOUR codes of "football": Association Football ("soccer"); Rugby ("Rugby Union"); Rugby League - created in Sydney; Australian Rules - a completely different game created in Melbourne. We also play Ireland under International Rules, so that makes FIVE.
My American son LOVES Australian rules football. We're just starting to get it televised here, probably because there's one American playing it now: Mason Cox.
AFL is like Gaelic Football..That’s what I’ve heard...I am a Queenslander and really like it...Rugby is my Favourite,although League is the most Popular...Soccer is like AFL...Fast moving...Spoilt for Choice we are...I like them all👍
Simbecile It’s a Good Fast moving Game..Many like I don’t understand the Rules,but I love to watch it...It’s Exciting...My Son plays Rugby Union...It’s good for Youngsters to be involved in Sports...Good Luck to your Son and Stay Well🙏😊
@@Simbecile He plays for the Collingwood magpies I think Mason Cox is about 6' 11'" tall. And he's picked up the game here in Australia really well that is a credit to him. I don't Barrack= Root for Collingwood my team is the Western Bulldogs who won there second only grand Final in 2016 the first time in 62 years the first being in 1954. Oh yeah I believe the Chicago Cubs won their first world serious baseball final in 108 years in the same yeah as my AFL team won there in 2016 so yeah Go Cubby's. Pete from Australia... (:>{|)
I agree with your lists except for housing. I think there is a miss conception that housing in Australia is good. I’ve lived in Sydney for 5 years. I’m from London lived there for over 30 years. I think housing in London is 100% better than Sydney in quality. And way more houses rather than flats/ apartments to live in. But the main thing is the quality of housing in Australia is very poor not enough regulations to stop the bad build. I work in the construction industry so I can see the difference. It’s a big problem in Sydney. Plus infrastructure and planning of towns and the city in Sydney is really badly done. London is much better for transport and infrastructure
I lived in Australia and England for a period of time separately; Australia is very dry, the summer is very hot and the ultraviolet rays are strong. England often rains and is very humid, I prefer England’s humid climate, and will not let ultraviolet rays harm the skin
Mate Australia is a continent and has many different climatic regions just pick the one that suits you the whole of the UK would fit into it 32 times. You dont know what humidy is until you have been in the tropics of northern Australia during the wet season.
I found a tarantula on my door step in Southern California one day - he didn't bother me and I didn't bother him. I occasionally encounter rattle snakes while hiking in my local park.
WAIT, you mean the earth is kinda like a globe or something? WOW, THANKS FOR THAT! I'm not surprised that these two idiots haven't grasped the concept British education must be crap I like Joel's comment "Isn't South Africa like that too?"
Great video Joel and Lia!!! 👍 As an Australian I thought I would refute these reasons. 1. Killer Animals- While there poisonous snakes and spiders the actual number of deaths is only around 2 per year, you are more likely to be killed by a horse than a snake. 2. Spaced out - True Australia is a big country plenty of places to explore. 3. Football - I don't care about football so this doesn't affect me. However in Australia Football (soccer) is one of four main winter sports along with AFL, Rugby Union and Rugby League we have more variety. 4. Cash Withdrawals- I think he was with the wrong bank as there is no fee for me if I withdraw cash, only if I use other bank. 5. Takeaways- We have takeaway places in Australia however they are small and local.
Yeah i agree. I live in the suburbs of the gold coast and have never seen a snake. I have also never come across a shark either. People have these visions of australia to be so dangerous. Yeah maybe if you live out in the bush there is a higher chance of seeing a venomous snake or a big spider
its not the killer animals...its the big cockroaches, huntsman spiders which visit u regularly. in Europe its to cold for them so u willl never be visited by them.
According to a guy named Rick Scheff on the internet : mm/dd is categorically better for sorting data. In spreadsheet software and many programming languages it's not terribly relevant if and only if every date is correctly formatted and the software recognizes it as a date. What happens when you import something and they're just numeric or character values though? The data set containing the following values (given in words): Jan 5th, Mar 28th, Feb 1st, Sep 15th, Feb 8th can be represented in two ways: mm/dd: 01/05, 03/28, 02/01, 09/15, 02/08 OR dd/mm: 05/01, 28/03, 01/02, 15/09, 08/02 Now, pretend you perform a sloppy import process, and the software doesn't know that they're dates. It only knows that these are character values. You want to put the dates in order so you do an alphabetic sort. Here is the mm/dd (USA system) result: 01/05 - 02/01 - 02/08 - 03/28 - 09/15 OR Jan 5th, Feb 1st, Feb 8th, Mar 28th, Sep 15th. Here is the dd/mm (Europe system) result: 01/02 - 05/01 - 08/02 - 15/09 - 28/03 OR 1st Feb, 5th Jan, 8th Feb, 15th Sep, 28th Mar The superior system is the system that allowed you to get the result you wanted with the least amount of data manipulation effort." I suspect the digital age has just reinforced our usage, but also because contextually, the month is the most needed info, at least to us. Saying "it's the 20th!" gives a very narrow contextual view (at least for me), and saying "it's 2020!" is even more ambiguous. At least that's my opinion. And just the way we speak. Outside of saying "Fourth of July" to refer to a holiday, we say "It's July 4th."
you do realise you didn’t choose to have your calendars like that and neither did we it’s just how we all grew up and what we were raised with so you commenting this isn’t going to change our mind is it
Why do the British always have to compare Australia with the UK ? Why can’t everyone appreciate both countries ? It isn’t a competition.I am not talking about you two beautiful people . I am sure you two would appreciate both countries .
4th of July is how we say the holiday. In business conversation we say the whole month January 31st, 2020. So we write it numerical like that. We have always done that. When I lived in France for 10 years I got used to the other way. Is it right how it is done in the US probably not. So anyway I am bilingual French-English, dates, and Metric - Imperial. Very rarely do I need to convert to understand. Maybe sometimes in cooking.
Australia's Outback is empty of water, electricity, shade. Everything. America's Outback is full of steaks, alcohol, air con. Everything but people these days.
Funny we travel in the Aussie outback reguarly towing a caravan seems to have all those things you say it is empty of. When you have an area that is probably half the size of a continent the landscape and even the climate will change many times - only people who have never experienced being in it could be that ignorant. The Outback Steakhouse is a US chain it doesnt sell anything that is remotely Australian the only link they have to Australia is the names that they are using.
The cheating thing was to do with the cricket where one of the players tried to tamper with the ball in an international match and failed miserably (like it was super obvious, they got it all on camera). It was a national scandal and pretty much the whole country wanted to disown him because playing fairly and honestly is such a massive part of our culture.
This is a really crappy list. The killer animals thing is really exaggerated, we can get cash out at the supermarket and it costs nothing, takeaways are HUGE here, especially since coronavirus, restaurants were doing takeaways as well. We also have UberEATS, deliveroo, menulog, doordash etc for takeaway delivery!
I’m an Aussie, been to UK twice, love the place( Cornish pasties and Harvey’s) but the wildlife won’t kill you here; snakes run away; funnel web spiders are only around Sydney; more reason not to go there lol; just enjoy our country nothing is attacking you;, it’s perfectly safe, I’ve swam the Great Barrier Reef, done all the tourists spots no worries, there is a lot of rubbish on social media, don’t believe it
Agree to you 100%.But Aus is not safe any longer.Crime rate is on the increase ever than it before.House breaking,robbery and physical attacks are very common nowadays which used to happen very rarely until the recent past.Aus is very prone to many natural disasters such as flood,bushfire and so on.
I think the reason American date format is month, day, year, has to do with scheduling and wall calendars. If you want to mark a date on a calendar, on a wall calendar, the entire thing is the same year, so when referenced, the year can be omitted or said last. The year is usually assumed. But when you're searching for a date on the calendar, the first thing you're searching for is the month, because that tells you what page to go to. After you've found the page, then you find the day. Americans tend to adopt utilitarian conventions based on their most convenient use in their profession. It's a very business oriented country. This is actually the primary reason America hasn't adopted the metric system yet. Imperial measurements were easier to work with generations ago, before precision measurement tools were commonplace, because it's easier for workers to separate a unit of length, by eye, into halves and quarters, than into tenths. Since then, businesses have resisted the change to metric, because such a major change in measurement standards would require an enormous investment in new tools and training manuals for everyone. The US government just doesn't have enough power over US private business to force such a change swiftly.
America uses the traditional British date format of Month, Day, Year. Britain eventually changed to the European format of Day, Month, Year. America has retained the British format. In so many things, America is a time capsule of British culture and traditions!
@@rebeccasimantov5476 It appears to be a drift, rather than a specific date, that completed before World War II. For example, if you Google the images of British newspapers from World War I, you will find most of them (though not all) use the traditional British format of Month, Day, Year.
@@kelliestephens8743 the year is usually on the cover of my calendar. but the fact of the matter is they year is tagged on the end, because 90% of the time the year is not included in saying when something will happen. as in, "I have an appointment on July third, at ten fifteen" as compared to what I presume to be the british reckoning, "I have an appointment at fifteen minutes after ten, on the third of july"
@@kenbrown2808 Yeah, I get there is a difference - personally I'd say I had an appointment on the third of July, but I'm an Aussie so by default follow the proper English way. I'm guessing they were using calendars why before the USA?
Hello guys.. I live in the USA, and one year our Christmas was hot, it was like 75’ outside. People were going crazy, I can’t imagine having that all the time??? But I would love to live in England. That has been my goal for years! Peace and love y’all!
I live in California and when I visited my bff in Florida when my son was 4 I suggested we take our boys to play at the little park in her complex she said, ohhh we cant right now cuz theres an alligator living in the pond by the playground!! She acted like it was nothing and everytime we left the house I was looking under the cars n stuff for it..lol Not to mention the giant cockroaches and lizards that would run into the house if the door was open..lol
Yup, I used to live in California, then I moved to Florida. I was shocked when I saw how big the insects were and the amount of mosquito's. We didn't have mosquito's in California😂😂
I. Hate. The. Roaches!!! Moved to Florida from California and I see one I scream like crazy especially when they start flying. Gators just stay away from water that isn't ocean or a pool (even so keep your eyes out in case) but I have yet to see one that wasn't in a zoo or aquarium.
Yep I remembered my first trip to Florida I screamed when I saw a lizard on a log. And then I saw that they scatter across the sidewalk all time. And me being from Maryland we don’t get up there. Lol
I lived in Thailand for 3 years and a hot Christmas is better than a cold one to be honest. I doubt you'd get this in Australia but we would open our Christmas presents in the morning, go get ready and then go for a walk downtown and have Christmas lunch in a pub as a family. It's something that a lot of English people in England think is very alien but I liked it a lot. Of course, a hot Christmas means too that if you have relatives to visit you don't have to worry about snow messing up those plans etc. A walk by the beach on Christmas day is something I miss.
I've been to Ozzy but not England, and I know I'd rather stay in Ozzy because it's more spacious, and Melbourne is a more liveable city. I'll survive the Huntsman spiders
Every person have their own prospective and experience. I live in London but i love Australia. Australia is much ahead of UK in terms of weather, salary, big houses and outdoor life. We can buy our own land and make house according to our own choice in Australia. But in UK, it not possible and every houses are small and conjusted and no space for even parking. What is the use of living in a developed country like UK, where we can't even save any money. And about killer animals , they live in forest. They don't come in cities and attack. If u see the death rate caused by these animals, we see hardly 2 or 3 per year. So it's alright.
What I found out about take out here in the US, restaurants give you more food when you eat in. When you take out for the same meal , they give you a smaller amount.
The US has both alligators & crocodiles native to Florida. Alligators can be found in most of the state and are more common than the American crocodile. Crocodiles are found in the Everglades. Both are less aggressive than crocodiles from other parts of the world, but are still dangerous animals if provoked.
In Australia, we have the AFL (Australian Football League) which is a completely different game to soccer (Football) as the field its played on is a completely different shape (Oval), the ball is a different shape (look it up) and the number of players on the field is higher (European Football is 11 and AFL is 18)
I'm Australian and most of that article is rubbish! I never look in my shoes for spiders, rarely see one inside and then it's something harmless (still spray or squash it though - it's on my territory); sharks are a rarity and lifeguards are watching on public beaches anyway ; we love football, but it's Aussie rules, and DON'T cheat (we do have your football - soccer - here too, but not as big), never seen any killer animal. Most of us live lives similar to the average Brit, in urban areas. I've also lived in UK, USA, and Turkey...people have same hopes and dreams, love for family etc. And much of life is fundamentally the same. So I suggest a bit more research, and perhaps a visit here! Btw, enjoy watching you and your warm personalities, including Joel (my son's name too 😀) talking very naturally about being a Christian. It's so easy to hide that if you're in the public eye as so many mock Christians without having much/any knowledge of church or the Bible. Anyway, have carried on a bit as this is my first comment. Keep enjoying life, growing in your understanding if the world, and making us smile 😀
Added to my comment: of course we have take away! Don't understand what that writer is talking about. All sorts of different foods, can order online, delivery by Uber if you want.
My husband has experienced summertime Christmases in Chile. He said it's strange to be hot during Christmas instead of cold. They party outside till midnight with loud music and fireworks in Chile on Christmas Eve. Even the little kids are up late. I'm not sure why we do the date the way we do, but it's the way that was taught to me, and makes sense to me. For instance, I'd say that today is July 2nd (month then day), not the 2nd of July (day then month), so maybe that's why we do month then day?
Hi, guys. You're freakin' me out! I guess I'm triggered - haha. Joel is meant to be on the left and Lia on the right. Earl Hitchner said, “The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” Eric Cantona said, “You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favorite football team.”
One thing that makes England more interesting to live in than Australia is that the whole of Western Europe is just a short plane ride or plane plus train ride away. That makes for some interesting vacations that have short arrival times so you can spend more time at your destination city.
You get charged for withdrawals when it’s a atm that’s not from your bank. You get charged from your bank and that ATM as well if you use an ATM that’s not affiliated with your bank.
Sorry Joel and Lia but that Metro article you just read out is all incorrect. In Australia we do have TAKEAWAY, you can get TAKEAWAY Chinese, Indian, Italian. Not everywhere in Australia you have to check your shoes before putting them on. Not all banks charge to WITHDRAW cash especially when you’re withdrawing cash from the bank you are with. Football consists of AUSSIE RULES, RUGBY and SOCCER and love all codes of football. We also love thrashing England in The Ashes. Overall great video, can’t wait to see your other videos on Australia, keep up the good work! 🇦🇺
Also interesting (I think): the area of the continental US (minus Alaska) is just a bit larger than Australia: 3.134 vs 2.97 million square miles (about 6% bigger). Alaska accounts for about 17.5% of the total area of the US (Alaska is huge). Alaska is also the complete opposite of Australia. Which I think makes the grizzly bear the opposite of the crocodile.
I’m American. And I can say Australians are exactly like us when it comes to values. Family oriented, outgoing, hard working, prideful, sarcastic, we like our freedom and we love to protect ourselves with guns!
I’m Australian and I don’t know where you got the ‘guns’ thing from? 99% of Aussies don’t own a gun and have no interest in doing so and we have very strict gun laws, and no mass shootings in decades. I’d say some Aussies are ‘prideful’ but definitely not like Americans - we like to downplay things, very self-deprecating, and most Aussies aren’t vocally patriotic (except maybe on certain days of the year, but even Australia Day has moved away from blind patriotism). The only bit you got right was that we’re both outgoing and hardworking.
Hi, just wondering are british people is also the same with Australians... they will greet you even if they don't know you. "How are you?" I find it Australians are so cool. They are lovely people.
I believe the American date order is for cataloguing purposes. Each year is usually its own thing for tax purposes and if you want to place the days of the year in numerical order you need to have the month first.
answer all questions (i think most things in this article are subjective) 1. Animals just something we grow up and get use to. usually if your in a city like sydney it's not likely you would even come in contact with them 2. Sport its big thing in Australia we get very competitive especially with england i think it's something to do with the convicts sticking it to the motherland and the cheating thing is an english slur towards convict heritage. 3 Everything is spaced i have know idea why but where just use to it i couldn't believe in uk when i lived there people went on holiday to brighton that's like a 2 to 3 hour drive that's half hour more then i drive to work normally 4. Atm thing is completely wrong we are not charged for withdrawals from atms only certain atms at like convince stores petrols stations or pubs 5. with the take out thing i think it's just different i prefer Australian fish and chips just because its what you grow up with when i was in the uk and shocked you could only get one type of fish and no chicken salt on the chips it's a travesty Hot Christmas's are amazing leading up to christmas day you do lots of activities with friends e.g going to the beach then on Christmas day you go to a relatives house and have massive lunch spread and swim in there pool Lunch Consists of Lots of. Cold Meats like Chicken Turkey corned beef seafood like prawns crabs various salads and then for dessert we have something called a pavlova then go home quite full of food and alcohol then fall into a food coma and sleep the rest of christmas off
The better things about Australia is the Weather is better and not so unpredictable. The people are much more friendly and it’s not over crowded with to many people.
People are friendly everywhere in my experience. I have worked with some Australians they are nice but no more friendly than people from anywhere else.
England too small to be compared to Australia. Average houses are small too and no garage. Australia has everything spectacular tropical islands, white sandy beaches, tropical fruits, rainforests, deserts, but it also has worldclass snow ski resorts and it does snow in some parts in winter. Tasmania is very similar to England in terms of climate.
I live in Tasmania, the takeaway food is fine, I would think Aussie restaurants and takeaway food are better and less expensive generally than England’s!
You guys should do a livechat with 16 year old actor model William Franklyn Miller who lived half his life in Australia and half in the UK. He will no doubt have a special perspective on the differences between the two.
Dear Joel & Lia I was laughing because Lia mentioned a granddaddy long legs spider then you showed a picture of a flying insect. As far as date we do month/ day/ year so that in numerical order it is all of January days before the first day in February and so on. Otherwise you would have to go through all 12 day ones before day 2 of January.
Common names vary regionally. Lots of different creatures get called daddy long legs -- flies, spiders, harvestmen, &c. Here in the US long legged flying things like that are crane flies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly A daddy-long-legs, to me, is not a spider but a detritus eating, single segmented arachnid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
@@glennrobinson2014 But Lia specifically said a granddaddy long legs spider. So she wasn't talking about anything other then a spider and they followed her saying that with showing a flying insect.
Snakes, alligators, and spiders will more often be on your doorstep in Florida. Rule in Florida is if you're at a stop light and you press the pedal to proceed (car) and it doesn't move. Don't get out of your car
Australians think they have pluck of the Americans and decorum of the British when in truth they have the crassness of the Americans and the pretentiousness of the British (just foolin')
Noooo...We have the Humour of the British...We are not so easily offended...We can laugh at ourselves...The Resilience of the Convicts, European and Asian Immigrants And Unfortunately at times the influence of the Kardashians😂Just joking...Not really...Many Are greatly influenced here by American Culture..🙄NZ are still more Anglified and not easily influenced by American Culture and do not Bow Down to Anyone...Love those Feisty Kiwis❤️👍😂
eleni Kominos Definitely the Aussies and the Brits have the same sense of humour and we get on well together. The Aussies have a reputation in the UK for being very chilled out, nothing phases them. Lol
I'm British and agree. Aussies have the same sense of humour as we do. Sometimes it's painful watching a Brit on an American talk show cus the jokes are lost on American people..... It's so cringe worthy. They can't take a joke!
I believe the way the dates are written in the USA has something to do with the way they say them. So a Brit would say the first of April and that's why it is dd/mm. However an American would say April the first and that is mm/dd.
Great video guys! Most places uses Uber eats or something similar for food delivery now and most of the banks don’t charge fees anymore for withdrawals, unless your using an ATM that’s not owned by a bank
Good topic Guys and thanks for all the great work from all 3 of your channels as above all, I always learn something new. In a nutshell The metro article sounds like its been written by someone who has never been to Australia and is written just by their perception of what they think and may have heard which is mostly flawed. I was born and mostly raised in UK and permanently emigrated to Melbourne 7 years ago. To be honest I was never a person with dreams or aspirations to move out here and truthfully I never had the interest to even visit Australia as I was reasonably ok in the UK. Without going into too much detail, I had the opportunity to emigrate due to my skills being in demand here and one thing led to another and eventually arrived. Since then I've never looked back as the lifestyle (in Melbourne, Victoria at least) suited me to a T. Love going back to UK to visit and although we know nowhere in the world is perfect, the lifestyle here draws me back each time. Australia in general, has evolved a lot, even in my 7 years here I've seen many changes as it continues to grow, especially economically. Population is very diverse, a lot more than what I thought it would be and being a Black guy I really thought I would have struggled being the 'odd one out' but was fortunately not the case. The average Aussie IMO although can be more direct compared to most Brits tend to be very welcoming, laidback and upbeat. It's fun to compare all these variables between countries but at end of the day its all about where one most feels comfortable, if they are content with their lifestyle and the type of people one has in their circle. Cheers J & L Daniel
As an Australian this was interesting. One thing I’d like to point out is the thing about lack of takeaway food is completely incorrect, it’s as popular here as anywhere. I did find it amusing listening to you guys doing the Australian accent 😂
As you say, we celebrate Christmas in summer, but we now have a very popular 'event' in winter called 'Christmas in July'. Apparently it was started by some Irish people who missed Christmas at home. In NSW many guesthouses and old style hotels hold Christmas weekends with music hall theatre nights and Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
I want to thank all who responded to my calendar comment. Can any of you point me to a website that displays a calendar in date order? (1 January, 1 February, etc followed by 2 January, 2 February etc for the full year). Can you tell me the day of the week for 09/05/20 in your country? In your country do you also group time in seconds, hour order? Pedro, the front cover is not a calendar It's what's located inside that matters..
All countries in the southern hemisphere have their summer months in Dec, Jan, Feb...and their winter months in June, July, August...autumn and spring are also reversed... Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina are some examples...
PJ Schmid I always wondered why we (Americans) do this - thanks for clearing up the mystery. So, as with the metric system, the U.K. once again adapted to the more logical European/world standard, while the U.S. refused to budge. Sounds about right 🤦♀️
Funny that you think the month is general. If I'm talking about July 4th, July is very specific as there is only one July in 12 months. But there are twelve 4ths in a year. But that's just how I look at it.
The date thing is probably because that's the order we would write a full date as or say it as when speaking. We say or write January 5th, 2007, not the 5th of January, 2007. Also for organizing things, say a file folder of files on windows. If you sort by date when looking up a file you will have all of the 1st's of a month next together. And if you're looking for a file that you know roughly was created September 2014, it is then extremely difficult to look through a full month of files all spread out like that.
There is a particular beauty to barren landscapes….. they are inherently clean in a "lacking of human contact" sense. That's what struck me the most when I camped out in Death Valley, California……. not that Australia is Death Valley, I know it has a varied environment…… just saying there's a lot of barren outback.
Because that was the way we were taught growing up. No clue why it started. My completely made up reasoning: year is is so broad that it can be assumed and is frequently left off altogether. Month is the next general category & can more easily be misunderstood, plus you need to know which month to open calendar to before you can look at the plans for the specific day. (I tend to use YYYY-MM-DD on computer though.)
I love the video. December to February is summer, March to may is autumn, June to August is winter and September-ish to November is spring here in the summer hemisphereHope u could include new zealand somewhere in your videos as well. Thanks
Hey Guys, I follow Joel and just came across this video- sorry but Australia is much better than England. We have beaches, hot weather 6 months of the year (where I live anyway). Yes we have snakes etc but they're usually just in bushy areas.
lived both in australia ad uk as well but my heart goes to australia ., right now living in uk but dont know why i feel i should move back to australia
I believe the U.S. date format follows the way a date is spoken if you said it out loud: "May first two-thousand-and-twenty" (Month, Day, Year). Except for the end of December or tax day, people rarely say the year when they confirm a date on the phone. For example, if I was booking a dental appointment the receptionist might say, "I have an opening on the 15th or in August." They might reconfirm by saying, "Ok I have you down for August 15th at 1pm". It would sound a little formal and wordy if they said, "I have you down for the 15th of August". Although, there are exceptions which are formal holidays and celebrations like "4th of July" and "Cinco de Mayo (5th of May)". Ironically, the U.S. date format was inherited from British conventions over two hundred years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_States
The thing about being cheaters was down to the national cricket team who tampered with the balls using sandpaper, the incident became widely known as sandpaper gate in the press. Three players received bans from playing professionally, the coach resigned, it was a very big deal. Cash withdrawals were mostly free if the ATM was one of your own bank's machines, charges usually occurred if you used a machine from another bank and they were supposed to have abolished the fee a couple of years ago but some still charge it. Pizza was the most widely home delivered food until a couple of years ago when services like uber eats and deliveroo became pretty popular and a lot more fast food places joined in. In the past few months quite a few restaurants also signed up to do delivery as a way to keep money rolling in when dining had to stop due to lockdown.
I visited London zoo’s last holiday back to the UK and had a great close up discussion next to Tarantula keeper. While the spider was very placid and eventually he decided to put it away after it showed any signs of movement. I do remember asking him the basic first aid requirements which he had never been asked about and did not know and proceeded to give him thirty second explanation on what’s needed and how to save a coworkers life. Also that the dinner plate size South Eastern Qld Tarantula was approximately three times bigger and lived in my backyard, could run at 2M/Sec nearly always away from you! Great zoo at the back of Regents Park also park is full of Squirrels. NSW in Oz
Having lived in both New Zealand & Britain I love Christmas in the summer time. Yes it's beautiful & romantic in the northern hemisphere but oh so much easier, less frenetic & also just as festive in the warm countries
@@sadafrehman9107 I live in New Zealand. I am a New Zealander so I'm biased but I do prefer NZ climatic and easy access to numerous outdoor activities. I also prefer NZ's more relaxed & easy going attitudes and way of living. We have a government that cares about social justice and equity which are things I care about. I also prefer the NZ education system because it puts less pressure on children and encourages parent involvement and participation. That said like all countries we do have our problems with poverty and bigotry and the flow on affects of them.
I'm from California. I've had a pretty sunny Christmas for the most part, but it still feels magical and like it's Christmas. I wouldn't mind one "white" Christmas. Although, I don't mind not having one it if it means experiencing mostly beautiful weather and a lot of beaches! I bet Australians feel the same way. I've always wanted to go to England...especially London and wondered what it would be like for Christmas. Guess you can't have it all!
Anna Guera Fun fact. London is not the best place to go for a white Christmas in the UK, they don’t get that much snow and it rarely stays around. The most likely place to get a white Christmas is Scotland, Wales, or parts of England at a higher altitude. The absolute best place for a white Christmas is any of the Nordic countries. Copenhagen in Denmark is beautiful at Christmas.
Best Thai take aways outside Thailand. Indian take aways are good but really expensive, heaps of Fish and Chips that are as good as if not better than the UK (sorry guys)
You have to remember that the land here is quite vast compared to Britain. Takeaway only works when you live less than fifteen minutes away by car between your favourite takeaway establishment and your home.
The bank ATMs used to charge withdrawal fees, but they abolished that a couple of years ago. You only pay a fee for the ones in corner shops and pubs etc. I spent two months in England last year, but I definitely want to come back! - Proximity to Europe, North Africa, and even the Americas. It takes 5 hours to just get out of Australia on a plane. 9 hrs to SE Asia, 14 hrs to USA, 23 hrs to Europe. - Better and more festivals/gigs. I went to Glastonbury last year. Our equivalent is Splendour in the Grass, but it's nowhere as amazing as Glasto. Arts and entertainment generally are better in England. - Mild summers. I hate the heat in summer here in AUS. I can't sleep. - Everything has more character. The buildings, people etc. - Say what you want about Tim Martin, but I love how you can order affordable food and drinks to your table in Wetherspoons pubs. - I love the greenery. Everything gets dried out here in AUS because of the hot weather.
Stopping at 10:15. Regarding take aways or carry outs as we say in Chicago. Yes, Joel and Lia are correct. I went to University in England, and while I lived in student housing and had my meals on campus, on Sundays there was no food service. I am used to the American availability of small, cheap restaurants or diners to eat in, but the town I lived in really didn’t have this. It was more expensive restaurants and small take away shops. I really missed the American style of having an inexpensive place to eat. By the time I would get food in town and bring it back to my University housing, it was usually cold. And eating in a tiny dorm room so far from home was just depressing!
Former British colonies were Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, United States, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh Nigeria. Kenya, Mauritius, Belize, Guyana, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Bahamas, Egypt, Cyprus, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Gibraltar to name a few haha. There are still more Lol. Did you know, the United Kingdom controlled the Philippine capital of Manila at one point during the 17th century when the Philippines apparently was a Spanish colony. Did you know, it was the UK who introduced the English language to the Philippine Islands. Haha
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Are you ever gonna address the fact that your queen killed princess diana
Joel, I've been watching a lot of your videos about differences between words Americans and British people use, and you two made a comment in at least one video that you know some Brits who have begun to adopt American pronunciation. Do you, as a trained linguist see a global trend toward the Americanization of the English language in general, perhaps due to the amount of entertainment exported by the US, or even the enormous proportion of English speakers in the world that America produces?
A bit off topic, but speaking of some apps you mentioned, I thought folks should consider researching Tik Tok, WeChat, QQ and Weibo. They’re all Chinese owned and monitored by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party). That means if you have the apps, their govt has your info. Hope you stay well.
Cash is dirty ......
As much as I don't like everything I do tracked, I love the convenience of using my card and buying online.....I was wondering how people from Britain who moved to live in Australia in 2019 coped with lockdown and wildfires.
Number one reason it's better to live in Australia than anywhere in the world: Their animals have pockets.
Their animals are also thieves….have you ever looked in a kangaroo's pouch ?….. all stolen merch!!
Australian Cattle Dogs are so majestic-looking. Pockets, you say?
It is sad when an animal has more pockets than women's clothing. XD
Both male and female echidnas have pouches as well.
@@chrysopylaedesign so, now I have to ask how you know what's in a kangaroo's pouch.
I’m Australian.im 53 years old and still alive.it is a beautful place to live,I wouldn’t live anywhere else
I've lived in southern Arizona, plenty of poisonous animals, you just learn to deal with it. Plus Arizona has a lot of cacus, not poisonous , but it hurts like hell.
There is a particular beauty to barren landscapes….. they are inherently clean in a "lacking of human contact" sense. That's what struck me the most when I camped out in Death Valley, California……. not that Australia is Death Valley, I know it has a varied environment…… just saying there's a lot of barren outback.
@Elizabeth Cozma...Yes it makes me laugh...Many think that the Animals are on the Prowl...Especially the Kangaroos 😂🇦🇺We are so lucky to live here and I Thank the British for our System of Government...I am glad my Forefathers settled in Australia and mingled with the Indigenous😊👍❤️
Javier Solorzano You’re correct our Outback and the Simpson Desert have what your talking of...”Death Valley” is a name and I think I’ve seen it in American Westerns,anyway,no offence is taken...Aussies don’t get offended easily😂Like the British we’re pretty Thick Skinned so to Speak...Comes from our Convict Background, mixed in with All our European Settlers that Fled the Wars and Depression...Stay Well🙏
@@bryonthor The Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona is maybe, the most beautiful desert in the world. I love it here... but, I would still love to do a lot of traveling.
One thing I'd think would be top of the list is that it's easier to visit other countries/cultures from the UK than from AU or the US.
True..It’s a 27 hour Plane trip from where I live on the East Coast of Australia to Athens...My Friend married a Welshman and lives in London...She travels here to see her Mum 3 times a year...What a long Haul...The Jet Lag on the Aussie Return Trip is Horrendous...Wiped our for at least a week!!!Australians love to Travel and it’s well worth the effort😊❤️Stay Well🙏
also cold is better than hot, fucking boiling here rn
But Australia is closer to Asian countries like Singapore and Malaysia and Japan!
USA is like a continent of 50 countries and has canada, mexico, and other countries in the americas but obviously it doesnt not compare to europe unless you are talkign about beaches in which case its far better to be in america
@@john6986 closer sure but its still far away
I was born a Brummie. Lived here in Aus since I was 5. I can legit answer this.
Oh come on. We get the house sprayed. No spiders in my place. Keep your place clean and garden uncluttered, and no drama with spiders or snakes. All the killer stuff is not everywhere. Crocs are only in the far north, be smart in snake areas, by wearing appropriate clothing.
Yes, Australia is big. We drive 5 hours to see specialists.
Cash withdrawals are charged only when third party ATMs are used.
We do great takeaway. You just need to find the proper ones.
Summer is summer - when it is hot. Exactly the opposite to UK. Winter is winter - when it’s cold. How hard is that? Crikey Mate! We have proper summer when 30°C is a nice day, not a heat wave.
I’ve been back to the Uk to visit family, but so glad I don’t live there.
😂😂You Tell ‘em Luv...You tell ‘em..😂👍🇦🇺I love to visit the UK Europe and NZ...However we Love to come Home to Australia...Lots of New Caravans and Boats out and About...With this COVID-19 maybe we will be Travelling in our own Back Yard...Which we also love to do😊❤️
I've been to Brisbane/Gold Coast absolutely loved it. So beautiful, modern, and a bit tropical. The U.K can't compare.
Heyyyy, fellow Brummie!!!
eleni Kominos there is nothing better than getting onto a plane and hearing Aussie accents after having travelled overseas. We live travelling but no place like Australia
Phoebe Crane So true and so much to be Grateful for at this time..Extremely Fortunate to live in Australia 🇦🇺
I am British lived in Aus for 20 years:
1) never seen killer animals, most of us live along the coast where you don't get much snakes and spiders, I live in Melbourne, the weather is temperate, the most animals I see are birds and possums. I have never checked my shoes in my life, never seen spiders in my shoes (I am a ecologist by the way).
2) yes, it is like the US for distance but most of the action/population is in the east coast, I have never been in the outback, there is nothing there but dessert, Sydney is only 1.5 hours on a plane from Melbourne. You get use of the distance, your perception of time and distance changes, and it is great when you travel, nothing phases you.
3) Not into sport but there's ton of international sport in Melbourne, the cricket, the tennis, UFC, we even get the premiere league teams on the off season, we had WWE last year
4) they only charge you on withdrawals if it is from a different bank from your own, otherwise, it is free
5) You can get every cultural food you can think of in Australia because we are close to Asia; thai, indian, Italian, everything, we have delivery services, and even fish and chips
Rock on am moving to Australia
Lexine Bate sun and beaches with white sand
hey...cool comments... you said lived in Aus.. do you not live in Aus now"?
How about Soul food
Australia is the only country with FOUR codes of "football": Association Football ("soccer"); Rugby ("Rugby Union"); Rugby League - created in Sydney; Australian Rules - a completely different game created in Melbourne. We also play Ireland under International Rules, so that makes FIVE.
My American son LOVES Australian rules football. We're just starting to get it televised here, probably because there's one American playing it now: Mason Cox.
AFL is like Gaelic Football..That’s what I’ve heard...I am a Queenslander and really like it...Rugby is my Favourite,although League is the most Popular...Soccer is like AFL...Fast moving...Spoilt for Choice we are...I like them all👍
Simbecile It’s a Good Fast moving Game..Many like I don’t understand the Rules,but I love to watch it...It’s Exciting...My Son plays Rugby Union...It’s good for Youngsters to be involved in Sports...Good Luck to your Son and Stay Well🙏😊
Lmao and?
@@Simbecile He plays for the Collingwood magpies I think Mason Cox is about 6' 11'" tall. And he's picked up the game here in Australia really well that is a credit to him. I don't Barrack= Root for Collingwood my team is the Western Bulldogs who won there second only grand Final in 2016 the first time in 62 years the first being in 1954. Oh yeah I believe the Chicago Cubs won their first world serious baseball final in 108 years in the same yeah as my AFL team won there in 2016 so yeah Go Cubby's. Pete from Australia... (:>{|)
Lia gets more beautiful by the day. Just like Joel.
Back off Jim!! she's my RUclips girlfriend!!
@@tycobb2580 and Joel's mine.. 😜
She has changed her look, though. Definitely had plastic surgery. Always make me feel weird about people who do that.
Awwww...@James Anderson...You’re so Sweet...😊❤️Now what do you want??😂That’s my Australian🇦🇺 sense of Humour😂
Ty Cobb 😂😂😂Eat your Heart out😂Funny😆👍
UK for:
Universities
Culture
History
Globalisation.
Aus for:
Salaries
Quality of life
Housing
Weather
I agree with your lists except for housing. I think there is a miss conception that housing in Australia is good. I’ve lived in Sydney for 5 years. I’m from London lived there for over 30 years. I think housing in London is 100% better than Sydney in quality. And way more houses rather than flats/ apartments to live in. But the main thing is the quality of housing in Australia is very poor not enough regulations to stop the bad build. I work in the construction industry so I can see the difference. It’s a big problem in Sydney. Plus infrastructure and planning of towns and the city in Sydney is really badly done. London is much better for transport and infrastructure
I lived in Australia and England for a period of time separately; Australia is very dry, the summer is very hot and the ultraviolet rays are strong. England often rains and is very humid, I prefer England’s humid climate, and will not let ultraviolet rays harm the skin
@Theta Wearing a hat and putting on sunscreen isn't enough...also sunscreen is gross.
@Theta It gets up to 45C in the summer and that's really rough if you're Irish...can hardly breathe
Mate Australia is a continent and has many different climatic regions just pick the one that suits you the whole of the UK would fit into it 32 times. You dont know what humidy is until you have been in the tropics of northern Australia during the wet season.
I found a tarantula on my door step in Southern California one day - he didn't bother me and I didn't bother him. I occasionally encounter rattle snakes while hiking in my local park.
Spiders I can Handle...Snakes...I Step away...😳😳😳😂Regards and Stay Well🙏 from Australia 🇦🇺😊
You should have caught it and cooked it, they fry Tarantulas in South East Asia…. They're delicious.
Tarantulas are big but they aren't dangerous. Some people actually keep them as pets.
LOL- When you guys get here, i'll give you a crash course on being Aussie. (Also.. Metro is doing y'all dirty...)
Go ChoppA..Lia needs a bit of work on the Accent...Sounded a bit Kiwi to me😂
reasons why England is better
Thank you for listening
Every country south of the equator has opposite seasons. Although not always extreme.
Any country below the equator.
WAIT, you mean the earth is kinda like a globe or something?
WOW, THANKS FOR THAT!
I'm not surprised that these two idiots haven't grasped the concept
British education must be crap
I like Joel's comment "Isn't South Africa like that too?"
Feliks DZ America is worse...They know nothing of the World...At least these two want to know about us😆
@@elenikominos7404 right, all countries other than America are imaginary.
@@elenikominos7404 right, American schools teach very little geography.
Great video Joel and Lia!!! 👍 As an Australian I thought I would refute these reasons.
1. Killer Animals- While there poisonous snakes and spiders the actual number of deaths is only around 2 per year, you are more likely to be killed by a horse than a snake.
2. Spaced out - True Australia is a big country plenty of places to explore.
3. Football - I don't care about football so this doesn't affect me. However in Australia Football (soccer) is one of four main winter sports along with AFL, Rugby Union and Rugby League we have more variety.
4. Cash Withdrawals- I think he was with the wrong bank as there is no fee for me if I withdraw cash, only if I use other bank.
5. Takeaways- We have takeaway places in Australia however they are small and local.
In the us it’s the same if you take out money from a bank that’s not yours than you pay a fee but from your own bank there isn’t
Yeah i agree. I live in the suburbs of the gold coast and have never seen a snake.
I have also never come across a shark either.
People have these visions of australia to be so dangerous. Yeah maybe if you live out in the bush there is a higher chance of seeing a venomous snake or a big spider
I agree, and "s p a c e" to US/AU folks is translation for "Outdoor activities" (i.e. hiking, cycling, off-roading etc.)
its not the killer animals...its the big cockroaches, huntsman spiders which visit u regularly. in Europe its to cold for them so u willl never be visited by them.
We have both football which like the American one but Aussie rules and soccer
Look at a calendar. Which comes first?: The name of the month or a particular date?
Ohhh SNAP! 👍
It depends on where the calendar is printed.
@@KRWdstck UK calender's look like US calendars, it's just a difference.
Wouldn't the first thing be the year on the front?
According to a guy named Rick Scheff on the internet :
mm/dd is categorically better for sorting data. In spreadsheet software and many programming languages it's not terribly relevant if and only if every date is correctly formatted and the software recognizes it as a date.
What happens when you import something and they're just numeric or character values though? The data set containing the following values (given in words): Jan 5th, Mar 28th, Feb 1st, Sep 15th, Feb 8th can be represented in two ways:
mm/dd: 01/05, 03/28, 02/01, 09/15, 02/08
OR
dd/mm: 05/01, 28/03, 01/02, 15/09, 08/02
Now, pretend you perform a sloppy import process, and the software doesn't know that they're dates. It only knows that these are character values. You want to put the dates in order so you do an alphabetic sort.
Here is the mm/dd (USA system) result:
01/05 - 02/01 - 02/08 - 03/28 - 09/15
OR
Jan 5th, Feb 1st, Feb 8th, Mar 28th, Sep 15th.
Here is the dd/mm (Europe system) result:
01/02 - 05/01 - 08/02 - 15/09 - 28/03
OR
1st Feb, 5th Jan, 8th Feb, 15th Sep, 28th Mar
The superior system is the system that allowed you to get the result you wanted with the least amount of data manipulation effort."
I suspect the digital age has just reinforced our usage, but also because contextually, the month is the most needed info, at least to us. Saying "it's the 20th!" gives a very narrow contextual view (at least for me), and saying "it's 2020!" is even more ambiguous. At least that's my opinion. And just the way we speak. Outside of saying "Fourth of July" to refer to a holiday, we say "It's July 4th."
You do not need to be any sort of expert to see that YYYYMMDD sorts best. Computer programs can deal with the YYYY MM DD as separate fields anyway.
So you think dates and all should go from smallest increment to largest (day, month, year). So would you tell time by second, minute, then hour?
Drop the mic! Nice.
you do realise you didn’t choose to have your calendars like that and neither did we it’s just how we all grew up and what we were raised with so you commenting this isn’t going to change our mind is it
The American date format sucks. The world is all in agreement on that lol.
YES Twenty past four!
killed it, well done
We get bushfires every year at Christmas and the best parking spots are determined by shade, nit how close it is to the doors
Why do the British always have to compare Australia with the UK ? Why can’t everyone appreciate both countries ? It isn’t a competition.I am not talking about you two beautiful people . I am sure you two would appreciate both countries .
Americans use mm/dd/yyyy because we say the date like July 4th 2020. Or Christmas is December 25th 2020.
David Lebarron wait what? Isn’t it called “4th of July”?
@@supergran62 It's both. Fourth of July is on July 4th.
Kyle McDonald 🤷♀️🤦♀️😳
Worst date format. Thankfully only the US use it lol.
4th of July is how we say the holiday. In business conversation we say the whole month January 31st, 2020. So we write it numerical like that. We have always done that. When I lived in France for 10 years I got used to the other way. Is it right how it is done in the US probably not. So anyway I am bilingual French-English, dates, and Metric - Imperial. Very rarely do I need to convert to understand. Maybe sometimes in cooking.
Australia's Outback is empty of water, electricity, shade. Everything. America's Outback is full of steaks, alcohol, air con. Everything but people these days.
Funny we travel in the Aussie outback reguarly towing a caravan seems to have all those things you say it is empty of. When you have an area that is probably half the size of a continent the landscape and even the climate will change many times - only people who have never experienced being in it could be that ignorant. The Outback Steakhouse is a US chain it doesnt sell anything that is remotely Australian the only link they have to Australia is the names that they are using.
The cheating thing was to do with the cricket where one of the players tried to tamper with the ball in an international match and failed miserably (like it was super obvious, they got it all on camera). It was a national scandal and pretty much the whole country wanted to disown him because playing fairly and honestly is such a massive part of our culture.
Killer animals, lol 🇦🇺
😂 Don’t worry, no one cares about this “cricket” except for the Indiens!
This is a really crappy list. The killer animals thing is really exaggerated, we can get cash out at the supermarket and it costs nothing, takeaways are HUGE here, especially since coronavirus, restaurants were doing takeaways as well. We also have UberEATS, deliveroo, menulog, doordash etc for takeaway delivery!
I’m an Aussie, been to UK twice, love the place( Cornish pasties and Harvey’s) but the wildlife won’t kill you here; snakes run away; funnel web spiders are only around Sydney; more reason not to go there lol; just enjoy our country nothing is attacking you;, it’s perfectly safe, I’ve swam the Great Barrier Reef, done all the tourists spots no worries, there is a lot of rubbish on social media, don’t believe it
Agree to you 100%.But Aus is not safe any longer.Crime rate is on the increase ever than it before.House breaking,robbery and physical attacks are very common nowadays which used to happen very rarely until the recent past.Aus is very prone to many natural disasters such as flood,bushfire and so on.
@@DR-wn2mb Your too paranoid
What rock are you living under ?. Funnel Webs are along most of the east coast not just Sydney.
2:04 We heard that South Florida is the only place in the world where you can encounter both wild alligators and crocodiles in the same area.
Lollll I was literally thinking in my head I’m pretty sure we have both I live in south Florida 😂😂😂😂
True!
I think the reason American date format is month, day, year, has to do with scheduling and wall calendars. If you want to mark a date on a calendar, on a wall calendar, the entire thing is the same year, so when referenced, the year can be omitted or said last. The year is usually assumed. But when you're searching for a date on the calendar, the first thing you're searching for is the month, because that tells you what page to go to. After you've found the page, then you find the day.
Americans tend to adopt utilitarian conventions based on their most convenient use in their profession. It's a very business oriented country.
This is actually the primary reason America hasn't adopted the metric system yet. Imperial measurements were easier to work with generations ago, before precision measurement tools were commonplace, because it's easier for workers to separate a unit of length, by eye, into halves and quarters, than into tenths. Since then, businesses have resisted the change to metric, because such a major change in measurement standards would require an enormous investment in new tools and training manuals for everyone. The US government just doesn't have enough power over US private business to force such a change swiftly.
I am not a fan of the metric system, I do understand it though.
America uses the traditional British date format of Month, Day, Year. Britain eventually changed to the European format of Day, Month, Year. America has retained the British format. In so many things, America is a time capsule of British culture and traditions!
How fascinating...!
Just wondering...when did Britain change over to the European format of dd/mm/yt??
Btw I'm from Australia...
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@@rebeccasimantov5476 It appears to be a drift, rather than a specific date, that completed before World War II. For example, if you Google the images of British newspapers from World War I, you will find most of them (though not all) use the traditional British format of Month, Day, Year.
Look at the calendar. They show you the month, before the day. Sounds like the UK decided to do it backwards
Have a funny feeling UK was making calendars before USA - also, would the year be the first thing on a calendar?
@@kelliestephens8743 the month still comes before the day.
@@kelliestephens8743 the year is usually on the cover of my calendar.
but the fact of the matter is they year is tagged on the end, because 90% of the time the year is not included in saying when something will happen. as in, "I have an appointment on July third, at ten fifteen" as compared to what I presume to be the british reckoning, "I have an appointment at fifteen minutes after ten, on the third of july"
@@kenbrown2808 Yeah, I get there is a difference - personally I'd say I had an appointment on the third of July, but I'm an Aussie so by default follow the proper English way. I'm guessing they were using calendars why before the USA?
Kellie Stephens Yes...When speaking of an appointment...I say Time,Day then Month and don’t mention the Year unless it’s another Year...Aussie too😊🇦🇺
Hello guys.. I live in the USA, and one year our Christmas was hot, it was like 75’ outside. People were going crazy, I can’t imagine having that all the time??? But I would love to live in England. That has been my goal for years! Peace and love y’all!
I live in California and when I visited my bff in Florida when my son was 4 I suggested we take our boys to play at the little park in her complex she said, ohhh we cant right now cuz theres an alligator living in the pond by the playground!! She acted like it was nothing and everytime we left the house I was looking under the cars n stuff for it..lol Not to mention the giant cockroaches and lizards that would run into the house if the door was open..lol
As someone who lived 3 years in Orlando, I can confirm. 😂
Yup, I used to live in California, then I moved to Florida. I was shocked when I saw how big the insects were and the amount of mosquito's. We didn't have mosquito's in California😂😂
I used to live in Florida the giant cockroaches there are called palmetto bugs! I guess it's because they live in palmetto trees.
I. Hate. The. Roaches!!! Moved to Florida from California and I see one I scream like crazy especially when they start flying. Gators just stay away from water that isn't ocean or a pool (even so keep your eyes out in case) but I have yet to see one that wasn't in a zoo or aquarium.
Yep I remembered my first trip to Florida I screamed when I saw a lizard on a log. And then I saw that they scatter across the sidewalk all time. And me being from Maryland we don’t get up there. Lol
I lived in Thailand for 3 years and a hot Christmas is better than a cold one to be honest. I doubt you'd get this in Australia but we would open our Christmas presents in the morning, go get ready and then go for a walk downtown and have Christmas lunch in a pub as a family. It's something that a lot of English people in England think is very alien but I liked it a lot.
Of course, a hot Christmas means too that if you have relatives to visit you don't have to worry about snow messing up those plans etc. A walk by the beach on Christmas day is something I miss.
I dislike snow.
I've been to Ozzy but not England, and I know I'd rather stay in Ozzy because it's more spacious, and Melbourne is a more liveable city. I'll survive the Huntsman spiders
Every person have their own prospective and experience. I live in London but i love Australia. Australia is much ahead of UK in terms of weather, salary, big houses and outdoor life. We can buy our own land and make house according to our own choice in Australia. But in UK, it not possible and every houses are small and conjusted and no space for even parking. What is the use of living in a developed country like UK, where we can't even save any money.
And about killer animals , they live in forest. They don't come in cities and attack. If u see the death rate caused by these animals, we see hardly 2 or 3 per year. So it's alright.
What I found out about take out here in the US, restaurants give you more food when you eat in. When you take out for the same meal , they give you a smaller amount.
The US has both alligators & crocodiles native to Florida. Alligators can be found in most of the state and are more common than the American crocodile. Crocodiles are found in the Everglades. Both are less aggressive than crocodiles from other parts of the world, but are still dangerous animals if provoked.
In Australia, we have the AFL (Australian Football League) which is a completely different game to soccer (Football) as the field its played on is a completely different shape (Oval), the ball is a different shape (look it up) and the number of players on the field is higher (European Football is 11 and AFL is 18)
Football is ⚽️
I'm Australian and most of that article is rubbish! I never look in my shoes for spiders, rarely see one inside and then it's something harmless (still spray or squash it though - it's on my territory); sharks are a rarity and lifeguards are watching on public beaches anyway ; we love football, but it's Aussie rules, and DON'T cheat (we do have your football - soccer - here too, but not as big), never seen any killer animal. Most of us live lives similar to the average Brit, in urban areas. I've also lived in UK, USA, and Turkey...people have same hopes and dreams, love for family etc. And much of life is fundamentally the same. So I suggest a bit more research, and perhaps a visit here!
Btw, enjoy watching you and your warm personalities, including Joel (my son's name too 😀) talking very naturally about being a Christian. It's so easy to hide that if you're in the public eye as so many mock Christians without having much/any knowledge of church or the Bible. Anyway, have carried on a bit as this is my first comment. Keep enjoying life, growing in your understanding if the world, and making us smile 😀
Added to my comment: of course we have take away! Don't understand what that writer is talking about. All sorts of different foods, can order online, delivery by Uber if you want.
My husband has experienced summertime Christmases in Chile. He said it's strange to be hot during Christmas instead of cold. They party outside till midnight with loud music and fireworks in Chile on Christmas Eve. Even the little kids are up late. I'm not sure why we do the date the way we do, but it's the way that was taught to me, and makes sense to me. For instance, I'd say that today is July 2nd (month then day), not the 2nd of July (day then month), so maybe that's why we do month then day?
Hi, guys. You're freakin' me out! I guess I'm triggered - haha. Joel is meant to be on the left and Lia on the right.
Earl Hitchner said, “The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.”
Eric Cantona said, “You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favorite football team.”
One thing that makes England more interesting to live in than Australia is that the whole of Western Europe is just a short plane ride or plane plus train ride away. That makes for some interesting vacations that have short arrival times so you can spend more time at your destination city.
I can see your point. I'm from the U.S., It would certainly be a nice perk to have.
Gwin Willis but the problem is France next-door and that is a huge problem if there were no French people it would be great
That’s about it 😂
@cogamers84 also hawaii is close
But Australia is closer to Asian destinations like Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines 😊😊😊
As an American I have been fighting for years to get the date written Year-Month-day, largest to smallest.
You get charged for withdrawals when it’s a atm that’s not from your bank. You get charged from your bank and that ATM as well if you use an ATM that’s not affiliated with your bank.
Sorry Joel and Lia but that Metro article you just read out is all incorrect. In Australia we do have TAKEAWAY, you can get TAKEAWAY Chinese, Indian, Italian. Not everywhere in Australia you have to check your shoes before putting them on. Not all banks charge to WITHDRAW cash especially when you’re withdrawing cash from the bank you are with. Football consists of AUSSIE RULES, RUGBY and SOCCER and love all codes of football. We also love thrashing England in The Ashes. Overall great video, can’t wait to see your other videos on Australia, keep up the good work! 🇦🇺
How can summer be the same in oz as the uk both in different hemisphere
Also interesting (I think): the area of the continental US (minus Alaska) is just a bit larger than Australia: 3.134 vs 2.97 million square miles (about 6% bigger). Alaska accounts for about 17.5% of the total area of the US (Alaska is huge). Alaska is also the complete opposite of Australia. Which I think makes the grizzly bear the opposite of the crocodile.
I’m American. And I can say Australians are exactly like us when it comes to values. Family oriented, outgoing, hard working, prideful, sarcastic, we like our freedom and we love to protect ourselves with guns!
I'm Australian and most people do not own a gun here.
I’m Australian and I don’t know where you got the ‘guns’ thing from? 99% of Aussies don’t own a gun and have no interest in doing so and we have very strict gun laws, and no mass shootings in decades. I’d say some Aussies are ‘prideful’ but definitely not like Americans - we like to downplay things, very self-deprecating, and most Aussies aren’t vocally patriotic (except maybe on certain days of the year, but even Australia Day has moved away from blind patriotism). The only bit you got right was that we’re both outgoing and hardworking.
Yeah, we kept our guns!
I have noticed the rise in stabbings lately, do you propose we ban knives?
Hi, just wondering are british people is also the same with Australians... they will greet you even if they don't know you. "How are you?"
I find it Australians are so cool. They are lovely people.
I believe the American date order is for cataloguing purposes. Each year is usually its own thing for tax purposes and if you want to place the days of the year in numerical order you need to have the month first.
Its also a Military thing.
answer all questions (i think most things in this article are subjective)
1. Animals just something we grow up and get use to. usually if your in a city like sydney it's not likely you would even come in contact with them
2. Sport its big thing in Australia we get very competitive especially with england i think it's something to do with the convicts sticking it to the motherland and the cheating thing is an english slur towards convict heritage.
3 Everything is spaced i have know idea why but where just use to it i couldn't believe in uk when i lived there people went on holiday to brighton that's like a 2 to 3 hour drive that's half hour more then i drive to work normally
4. Atm thing is completely wrong we are not charged for withdrawals from atms only certain atms at like convince stores petrols stations or pubs
5. with the take out thing i think it's just different i prefer Australian fish and chips just because its what you grow up with when i was in the uk and shocked you could only get one type of fish and no chicken salt on the chips it's a travesty
Hot Christmas's are amazing leading up to christmas day you do lots of activities with friends e.g going to the beach then on Christmas day you go to a relatives house and have massive lunch spread and swim in there pool Lunch Consists of Lots of. Cold Meats like Chicken Turkey corned beef seafood like prawns crabs various salads and then for dessert we have something called a pavlova then go home quite full of food and alcohol then fall into a food coma and sleep the rest of christmas off
The better things about Australia is the Weather is better and not so unpredictable. The people are much more friendly and it’s not over crowded with to many people.
Friendlier? Aussies are arrogant wankers! Not friendly at all.
People are friendly everywhere in my experience. I have worked with some Australians they are nice but no more friendly than people from anywhere else.
You're going to have to duck a boomerang on this one. Then duck again.
England too small to be compared to Australia. Average houses are small too and no garage. Australia has everything spectacular tropical islands, white sandy beaches, tropical fruits, rainforests, deserts, but it also has worldclass snow ski resorts and it does snow in some parts in winter. Tasmania is very similar to England in terms of climate.
I live in Tasmania, the takeaway food is fine, I would think Aussie restaurants and takeaway food are better and less expensive generally than England’s!
Beth Ellingworth Plus we got legs and breast and the Mainland doesn’t
Food is Britain is fantastic and you can get food from every country in the world.
You guys should do a livechat with 16 year old actor model William Franklyn Miller who lived half his life in Australia and half in the UK. He will no doubt have a special perspective on the differences between the two.
Dear Joel & Lia I was laughing because Lia mentioned a granddaddy long legs spider then you showed a picture of a flying insect. As far as date we do month/ day/ year so that in numerical order it is all of January days before the first day in February and so on. Otherwise you would have to go through all 12 day ones before day 2 of January.
Common names vary regionally. Lots of different creatures get called daddy long legs -- flies, spiders, harvestmen, &c.
Here in the US long legged flying things like that are crane flies. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly
A daddy-long-legs, to me, is not a spider but a detritus eating, single segmented arachnid. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opiliones
JOEL, where your house is in Florida has both species crocodiles and alligators the only spot where it's native to in the United States.
Never heard it explained like that. I can't imagine a folder on my PC with dates listed with the day number first. That would be confusing.
@@glennrobinson2014 But Lia specifically said a granddaddy long legs spider. So she wasn't talking about anything other then a spider and they followed her saying that with showing a flying insect.
Yeah it was a mosquito! 🤣🤣
Snakes, alligators, and spiders will more often be on your doorstep in Florida. Rule in Florida is if you're at a stop light and you press the pedal to proceed (car) and it doesn't move. Don't get out of your car
Australians think they have pluck of the Americans and decorum of the British when in truth they have the crassness of the Americans and the pretentiousness of the British (just foolin')
Noooo...We have the Humour of the British...We are not so easily offended...We can laugh at ourselves...The Resilience of the Convicts, European and Asian Immigrants And Unfortunately at times the influence of the Kardashians😂Just joking...Not really...Many Are greatly influenced here by American Culture..🙄NZ are still more Anglified and not easily influenced by American Culture and do not Bow Down to Anyone...Love those Feisty Kiwis❤️👍😂
eleni Kominos Definitely the Aussies and the Brits have the same sense of humour and we get on well together. The Aussies have a reputation in the UK for being very chilled out, nothing phases them. Lol
I'm British and agree. Aussies have the same sense of humour as we do. Sometimes it's painful watching a Brit on an American talk show cus the jokes are lost on American people..... It's so cringe worthy. They can't take a joke!
@@amberlouise86 I do think that the Pythons helped us evolve though.
I believe the way the dates are written in the USA has something to do with the way they say them. So a Brit would say the first of April and that's why it is dd/mm. However an American would say April the first and that is mm/dd.
That makes sense...
What do you do if people keep calling your home phone number thinking it’s the number for the Chinese takeaway?
I remember seeing Australia trending on snap chat a few years back during the summer, and seeing people skiing and such.
Great video guys!
Most places uses Uber eats or something similar for food delivery now and most of the banks don’t charge fees anymore for withdrawals, unless your using an ATM that’s not owned by a bank
In Texas, you're charged a withdrawal fee at an ATM if it's not your bank's ATM and only some banks refund that fee to you.
Good topic Guys and thanks for all the great work from all 3 of your channels as above all, I always learn something new.
In a nutshell The metro article sounds like its been written by someone who has never been to Australia and is written just by their perception of what they think and may have heard which is mostly flawed. I was born and mostly raised in UK and permanently emigrated to Melbourne 7 years ago. To be honest I was never a person with dreams or aspirations to move out here and truthfully I never had the interest to even visit Australia as I was reasonably ok in the UK. Without going into too much detail, I had the opportunity to emigrate due to my skills being in demand here and one thing led to another and eventually arrived. Since then I've never looked back as the lifestyle (in Melbourne, Victoria at least) suited me to a T. Love going back to UK to visit and although we know nowhere in the world is perfect, the lifestyle here draws me back each time. Australia in general, has evolved a lot, even in my 7 years here I've seen many changes as it continues to grow, especially economically. Population is very diverse, a lot more than what I thought it would be and being a Black guy I really thought I would have struggled being the 'odd one out' but was fortunately not the case. The average Aussie IMO although can be more direct compared to most Brits tend to be very welcoming, laidback and upbeat.
It's fun to compare all these variables between countries but at end of the day its all about where one most feels comfortable, if they are content with their lifestyle and the type of people one has in their circle.
Cheers J & L
Daniel
Australia is the lovechild of the US and the UK
As an Australian this was interesting. One thing I’d like to point out is the thing about lack of takeaway food is completely incorrect, it’s as popular here as anywhere. I did find it amusing listening to you guys doing the Australian accent 😂
As you say, we celebrate Christmas in summer, but we now have a very popular 'event' in winter called 'Christmas in July'. Apparently it was started by some Irish people who missed Christmas at home. In NSW many guesthouses and old style hotels hold Christmas weekends with music hall theatre nights and Christmas dinner with all the trimmings.
I want to thank all who responded to my calendar comment.
Can any of you point me to a website that displays a calendar in date order?
(1 January, 1 February, etc followed by 2 January, 2 February etc for the full year).
Can you tell me the day of the week for 09/05/20 in your country?
In your country do you also group time in seconds, hour order?
Pedro, the front cover is not a calendar It's what's located inside that matters..
I am pretty sure that all of the countries south of the equator have their seasons backwards, but...who knows? I could be wrong.
All countries in the southern hemisphere have their summer months in Dec, Jan, Feb...and their winter months in June, July, August...autumn and spring are also reversed...
Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina are some examples...
Then again Australia has one of the highest living standards in the world.
Looks like Americans have been doing it that way for a long time. The Declaration of Independence was dated July 4, 1776. lol
We got that date format from England. It was also used in the U.K. until the mid 20th century.
PJ Schmid Yes...Lucky for us Australians the British were Adventurous and Curious...😊👍
PJ Schmid I always wondered why we (Americans) do this - thanks for clearing up the mystery.
So, as with the metric system, the U.K. once again adapted to the more logical European/world standard, while the U.S. refused to budge. Sounds about right 🤦♀️
As an American I think the way British people do dates is super confusing so I guess it's confusing no matter who you are lol
What?
Funny that you think the month is general. If I'm talking about July 4th, July is very specific as there is only one July in 12 months. But there are twelve 4ths in a year. But that's just how I look at it.
I love how you guys made a video about Australia but ended up talking about the US more than Australia itself 😂
There's more to talk about!
The date thing is probably because that's the order we would write a full date as or say it as when speaking. We say or write January 5th, 2007, not the 5th of January, 2007. Also for organizing things, say a file folder of files on windows. If you sort by date when looking up a file you will have all of the 1st's of a month next together. And if you're looking for a file that you know roughly was created September 2014, it is then extremely difficult to look through a full month of files all spread out like that.
As the "Banana boat song said" "...hides the deadly black TARANTULA...Day light come and I wanna go home!
Did anybody else notice them out a mosquito picture for a daddy long leg spider??
There is a particular beauty to barren landscapes….. they are inherently clean in a "lacking of human contact" sense. That's what struck me the most when I camped out in Death Valley, California……. not that Australia is Death Valley, I know it has a varied environment…… just saying there's a lot of barren outback.
Because that was the way we were taught growing up. No clue why it started.
My completely made up reasoning: year is is so broad that it can be assumed and is frequently left off altogether. Month is the next general category & can more easily be misunderstood, plus you need to know which month to open calendar to before you can look at the plans for the specific day.
(I tend to use YYYY-MM-DD on computer though.)
The weather might be better in Australia.
I love the video. December to February is summer, March to may is autumn, June to August is winter and September-ish to November is spring here in the summer hemisphereHope u could include new zealand somewhere in your videos as well. Thanks
Disgusting
Hey Guys, I follow Joel and just came across this video- sorry but Australia is much better than England. We have beaches, hot weather 6 months of the year (where I live anyway). Yes we have snakes etc but they're usually just in bushy areas.
lived both in australia ad uk as well but my heart goes to australia ., right now living in uk but dont know why i feel i should move back to australia
The UK having nice rainy weather as opposed to Australia's dryer weather, that's a good one to me.
I believe the U.S. date format follows the way a date is spoken if you said it out loud: "May first two-thousand-and-twenty" (Month, Day, Year). Except for the end of December or tax day, people rarely say the year when they confirm a date on the phone. For example, if I was booking a dental appointment the receptionist might say, "I have an opening on the 15th or in August." They might reconfirm by saying, "Ok I have you down for August 15th at 1pm". It would sound a little formal and wordy if they said, "I have you down for the 15th of August". Although, there are exceptions which are formal holidays and celebrations like "4th of July" and "Cinco de Mayo (5th of May)".
Ironically, the U.S. date format was inherited from British conventions over two hundred years ago.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_States
The thing about being cheaters was down to the national cricket team who tampered with the balls using sandpaper, the incident became widely known as sandpaper gate in the press. Three players received bans from playing professionally, the coach resigned, it was a very big deal. Cash withdrawals were mostly free if the ATM was one of your own bank's machines, charges usually occurred if you used a machine from another bank and they were supposed to have abolished the fee a couple of years ago but some still charge it. Pizza was the most widely home delivered food until a couple of years ago when services like uber eats and deliveroo became pretty popular and a lot more fast food places joined in. In the past few months quite a few restaurants also signed up to do delivery as a way to keep money rolling in when dining had to stop due to lockdown.
2:07 correction, America has both crocodiles and alligators and is the only place in the world where they both exist in the same habitat.
We use MM/DD/YYYY because that is how we say the date... July 4,1776.
Americans, I mean.
I visited London zoo’s last holiday back to the UK and had a great close up discussion next to Tarantula keeper. While the spider was very placid and eventually he decided to put it away after it showed any signs of movement. I do remember asking him the basic first aid requirements which he had never been asked about and did not know and proceeded to give him thirty second explanation on what’s needed and how to save a coworkers life. Also that the dinner plate size South Eastern Qld Tarantula was approximately three times bigger and lived in my backyard, could run at 2M/Sec nearly always away from you! Great zoo at the back of Regents Park also park is full of Squirrels. NSW in Oz
Try the San Diego Zoo, its great. There is also a San Francisco zoo.
Having lived in both New Zealand & Britain I love Christmas in the summer time. Yes it's beautiful & romantic in the northern hemisphere but oh so much easier, less frenetic & also just as festive in the warm countries
Which country do you love better and why?
@@sadafrehman9107 I live in New Zealand. I am a New Zealander so I'm biased but I do prefer NZ climatic and easy access to numerous outdoor activities. I also prefer NZ's more relaxed & easy going attitudes and way of living. We have a government that cares about social justice and equity which are things I care about. I also prefer the NZ education system because it puts less pressure on children and encourages parent involvement and participation. That said like all countries we do have our problems with poverty and bigotry and the flow on affects of them.
@@tessmonro7102 Thanks for the honest answer , much appreciated!
Guys, come on, the whole southern hemisphere have their Christmas in summer hahaha
😂😂😂❄️👍They’re trying time Educate😊Some have some pretty weird ideas when it comes to Australia 🇦🇺
I'm from California. I've had a pretty sunny Christmas for the most part, but it still feels magical and like it's Christmas. I wouldn't mind one "white" Christmas. Although, I don't mind not having one it if it means experiencing mostly beautiful weather and a lot of beaches! I bet Australians feel the same way. I've always wanted to go to England...especially London and wondered what it would be like for Christmas. Guess you can't have it all!
Anna Guera Fun fact. London is not the best place to go for a white Christmas in the UK, they don’t get that much snow and it rarely stays around. The most likely place to get a white Christmas is Scotland, Wales, or parts of England at a higher altitude.
The absolute best place for a white Christmas is any of the Nordic countries. Copenhagen in Denmark is beautiful at Christmas.
Best Thai take aways outside Thailand. Indian take aways are good but really expensive, heaps of Fish and Chips that are as good as if not better than the UK (sorry guys)
You have to remember that the land here is quite vast compared to Britain. Takeaway only works when you live less than fifteen minutes away by car between your favourite takeaway establishment and your home.
The bank ATMs used to charge withdrawal fees, but they abolished that a couple of years ago. You only pay a fee for the ones in corner shops and pubs etc.
I spent two months in England last year, but I definitely want to come back!
- Proximity to Europe, North Africa, and even the Americas. It takes 5 hours to just get out of Australia on a plane. 9 hrs to SE Asia, 14 hrs to USA, 23 hrs to Europe.
- Better and more festivals/gigs. I went to Glastonbury last year. Our equivalent is Splendour in the Grass, but it's nowhere as amazing as Glasto. Arts and entertainment generally are better in England.
- Mild summers. I hate the heat in summer here in AUS. I can't sleep.
- Everything has more character. The buildings, people etc.
- Say what you want about Tim Martin, but I love how you can order affordable food and drinks to your table in Wetherspoons pubs.
- I love the greenery. Everything gets dried out here in AUS because of the hot weather.
I noticed this for a long time but never said anything, but why is @Joel in front of Lia and @Lia in front of Joel?
Cos they're sitting on the wrong side! It's Joel and Lia. He's usually on the right of Lia.
Stopping at 10:15. Regarding take aways or carry outs as we say in Chicago. Yes, Joel and Lia are correct. I went to University in England, and while I lived in student housing and had my meals on campus, on Sundays there was no food service. I am used to the American availability of small, cheap restaurants or diners to eat in, but the town I lived in really didn’t have this. It was more expensive restaurants and small take away shops. I really missed the American style of having an inexpensive place to eat. By the time I would get food in town and bring it back to my University housing, it was usually cold. And eating in a tiny dorm room so far from home was just depressing!
did you two ever go to school ?
In America, we will say July 2, 2020. That’s why we put the dates that way. Whenever I hear 2 July 2020, it sounds weird to me.
Why do you say 4th of July instead of July 4th
@Ogone - Because the year isn’t included. If we were talking about someone’s birthday, we would say it’s July 4th, xxxx.
never happened to me charging for cash withdrawals??
Former British colonies were Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, United States, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh Nigeria. Kenya, Mauritius, Belize, Guyana, Fiji, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, Bahamas, Egypt, Cyprus, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Gibraltar to name a few haha. There are still more Lol. Did you know, the United Kingdom controlled the Philippine capital of Manila at one point during the 17th century when the Philippines apparently was a Spanish colony. Did you know, it was the UK who introduced the English language to the Philippine Islands. Haha
Kenya 🇰🇪 loves the uk.
Florida has both alligators and crocodiles.