I've had you subbed for years. You know what I like about you? As a seventh or eighth-generation Anglo Aussie with a slightly cultivated general accent, you're my kind of normal and I find I find listening to you somewhat comforting if I'm honest. Smart, articulate, well spoken middle working class. For me at least, it's homely. Having married an American and due to the widely dispersed and short term nature of my contracts(roughly three months), I have lived ALL OVER the United States three months shy of a decade. There is absolutely a certain demographic that asks those questions and I have certainly been asked if we ride kangaroos more than once. but that was not the worst question about Australia. I am pretty easy going but have to admit, the sheer ignorance of "do you have schools in Australia", both frustrated and stuck with me, as did "Does the Tasmanian devil really spin,. though to a slightly lesser extent because it didn't outright assume our total and fundamental lack of education. Lol. (edit) - Sorry, I was half way through the video. American toilets are actually round. They also have far more water, so they do spin. Australian toilets are...whatever shape you might call that - not round and have less water.
Where I live on the foothills near Canberra, our capital, we have a continental climate so routinely in winter have nights -3°C/25°F down to -6°C/°F or so with white frosts followed by blue sky days around 11°C/50°F or so with about 12 days when it is colder and rains. We have about 3 snowfalls per year when the max temp is under 5°C/40°F. Snow stays only briefly on the ground here though. One year we had snow 3 days before Christmas, which is in our summer! Spring and autumn are mild with clear days around 20°C/70°F and cool to crisp nights down to +5°C/40°F. Summers are usually hot dry cloudless days ie 35-43°C/95-110°F, dropping about 10°C to 25°C/80°F or so at night if the easterly comes in from the coast at sunset when you can open up the house and sleep better. Snow routinely falls and stays on the ground in the mountains where the ski fields are located in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales between June and October, which is from our early winter into spring. Our skifields are about half the size of those in Switzerland. It also sometimes snows in South Australia and southern Queensland. Canberra is about 1.5 hours from the NSW skifields so I could easily do a day trip to ski for the 3 decades I lived there. In summer it was a 30 minute drive from Canberra to go camping and bushwalking in the Brindabella Mountains and about 10 minutes walk to go swimming in the cold clear Murrumbidgee River.
Moin(as we say in the north of Germany), I watch your videos for a long time now and you really hyping me up to come and Visit Australia as soon as I'm done with school! I can't wait to be there and see the beauty itself :) Thanks for your great Videos!
I'm a student and I'm a huge fan of Australia 🇦🇺 I love Australia very much and I'm real interested in Australian news also and I have a hope to study and live in Australia. Hope one-day I will be able to live in this beautiful country 🙏 ❤ 😃😀
A male adult eastern grey kanga weighs about 50-70kg (110-150lbs) and stands about 1.6- 2M/4-6 feet tall. It would not be a wise idea to get close to one in the wild or attempt to ride it as they can do some serious damage to you using their tail to balance on while kicking out with their long hind feet while boxing and holding with their front paws. Females are smaller and are about half that weight. Ditto other varieties like the red or western greys. Wallaroos and wallabies are similar to or less than human size. They all can significantly rearrange your vehicle's front if you hit one because they suddenly jumped onto the road in front of you; they can cover up to 12M/40 feet in a single bound, travel at up to 50+kph/30+ mph and hop up to 3M/10 feet vertically so things like farm fences are no obstacle.
Worked for an IT company subcontracted to an overseas airline. Given the small nation that the airline was based, I often received calls to attend a site in another city. My stock answer was "Going to provide the airline ticket ? That site is actually 1600/2000/2500 km away (depending on site)." incredulity at other end of line -"that big??" 22 shark deaths in Australia 2020 -2024 for an average of 4.5 per annum. They are on the increase. Note though they are mainly around known white pointer breeding and feeding areas (sea lions) areas along southern Australia (Cape Leeuwin WA to Limestone Coast SA). Omitted such creatures as Stone Fish, Bluebottles, Irukandji and blue ringed octopus. The last is 12 to 20 cm (arms extended) size have enough neurotoxin to kill up to 26 people. Spiders are found over all Australia though the Sydney Funnel Web is confined to mainly that area. The Red-Back and Trapdoors are extremely painful and can possibly be fatal. Fortunately there are antivenoms for each. I was bitten once by a Trapdoor (though there are many varieties) and I needed the antivenene and it was in suburbia. Snakes are common now in the metro areas though fortunately most varieties are non-aggressive. My close relatives have had them appear on their back doorsteps (sun) and they were Red-Belly Brown Snakes! My sister knew the first recoded survivor of an Inland Taipan bite (without any antivenene - none existed at the time and they did not even know the variety of snake existed)
Have you talked about how Aussies add the letter R to the end of certain words sometimes? Like for example, "I sawr it yesterday". Also, this guy adds the R to the end of the word Australia at 11:33. I joke with my boyfriend (who is Australian) that you all have a love-hate relationship with the letter R. When the letter is ACTUALLY at the end of the word, you all drop it like it's hot: cheddar/cheddah, better/bettah.. but then you'll turn around and chuck the R onto the end of words that don't need it! Hahaha 😂 Oh, Australia. How I love thee!
Howdy 👋 I’m American Thanks for all the Aussie awesome content keep it going mate I use your stuff for laughs Share with my Aussie lady friend G’day / Gnite
Canberra.......politician, university.......or if you're in the Defence Force. All roads lead to Canberra in the ADF (if you stay in for more than a decade or so).
there are actually 4 human killing spiders.. Red Back, funnel web, paralysis tick (which is an arachnid), and the Mouse spider (almost identical to the funnel web but lethargic and non aggresive with no deaths reported, but uses the same anti venine as the sydney funnel web)
I never heard the roo riding story in the US, but I probably did think that you'd see them everywhere. I was surprised in traveling to NSW, VIC, and SA that I saw zero roos in many places, but heaps in others. Halls Gap and the Flinders Range are chockablock. I was sure I'd be able to avoid hitting any in SA, but alas, I couldn't brake in time for one. Only going about 5 kph when we collided, and it hopped off, but who knows whether it died soon after. Felt low about it, but everybody who saw the damaged hire car said it had happened to them too at one time or another.
10:00 um excuse me, but I've worked in 52°C on multiple occasions. People should ignore the maximum and minimum temperature as stated in the news because that's wildly inaccurate. It gets far hotter and colder than the media says.
In 1999 there was an article in the Daily Newspaper, about a skeleton found way deep in a cave, somewhere near Margaret River in West Australia. It was described as very much like a koala, that stood near 4 feet tall, had canines, and it's thumbnails were lie a knife or small sicle about 5 inches long. There was also a photo showing the skeleton. The article stated they might have to rethink the urban legend of dropbears. Down that way in September 2002, I also saw these very fast flying things, that swere long with a sort of wing along the body. Years later I saw that these things were called rods. I believe a guy in America called to discover them, and give them the name. I and my friend watching them, just thought they were weird. Turns out they're rarely seen. This was outside a cave in an area that locals call, Bobs Hollow.
Sydney I guess is an industrial capital of Australia just like Istanbul is an industrial capital of Turkey and Ankara is a real capital of it. 09.12.2021, 12:12
The US does indeed have Alaska, but it's worth pointing out that WA is more than 1.5 times the size of Alaska. I mention this because the size of Australian states is part of the reason Australia's size is underestimated by us in the US. We have a smaller idea of how big a state is. Of course, we have so many states that we can't even name or recognize them all.
Tbf, you may very well find redback spiders at your desk, and funnel web spiders in your yard, especially in Sydney. Also red-bellied black snakes and possibly an antsy eastern brown snake in the suburbs. Blue-ringed octopus inhabit tidal pools near swimming beaches. But it's not hard to avoid any of them with a bit of common sense, and no-one has died of snakebite for about 40 years.
I agree. I found a little red back nest in my front door windows. I dust every week… 🙃 had a female daddy in the back of my old Nissan Pajero, which totally means jerk off in Spanish , coincidentally I was a jerk back then 😂 she had just laid her eggs, had what seemed to be a million babies crawling all around her then they went back on her and I couldn’t notice them. I thought it was the hangover from the weekend. Tripped balls😅, had my toddler in the back, so drove home, screaming. His father had the bug spray. I would have appreciated that moment much more now☺️ I ran down the street ha
We regularly catch funnel web spiders in our garden on Sydney's upper north shore. They're pretty easy to catch in a jar, then they go to the casualty section of the nearest large hospital. From there, they're collected by people who milk them for their poison - which is made into the antidote for those bitten. Redback spiders have. reputation of living under toilet seats. Who knows if this is true, but always check if using an outdoor toilet. We're far enough from proper bushland never to have seen black or brown snakes around the house. Certainly you keep your eyes open if walking through the bush.
Canberra hosts a number of cultural, art and tourist destinations worth visiting. The War Memorial, the Sound and Film Archive, the High Court, National Gallery, and many more. It’s not true that we don’t have shrimps. We do, but they are tiny. They are used in cooking, like Asian food. As for things that kill us, the croc is the only predator, and to die from a croc attack, you would have to do something stupid like swim in croc territory. We don’t have bears and cougars
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Most of my post seems to have vanished. The bite from a funnelweb spider can be fatal. There have been no fatalities for quite a few years now, because there's a very effective anti-venene. Funnelwebs are endemic in my area of Sydney (the Upper North Shore) and you watch out for them when gardening. Never leave gardening gloves on the ground and bash your gardening boots before putting them on. We catch a couple every year and take them to the local public hospital. From there, they go to a specialist who milks them and turns the venom into the anti-venene.
Very scary to look at and not all that different an appearance to funnelwebs. The easy rule is to treat any spider you see as potentially dangerous.@@a-the-na6901
A popular misconception is that we call all shrimp, "shrimp". We call large shrimp "Prawns", and small shrimp are "shrimp". So whatever Australian tourism interest that made that commercial got that wrong right off the bat. 14C/57F is downright warm, or at least mild compared to most of America in winter, where I live winter is more like 45F/7C in winter for a average, a good portion of America can exist for weeks, even months below freezing. So Australian winters are quite mild by comparison. I never heard of "Drop Bears" until recently, when I hear them mentioned I just figured it was Aussie slang for Koalas. I never heard the riding kangaroos thing, I think that was an inside joke that Australians took to be a real perception I guess. I hope I strike it rich one day and visit, Australia is intriguing even if it isn't as dangerous as popular myths make it out to be.
Considering that roos are wild animals, the roo would fight like hell to throw the kid off. I think it's the kid who'd end up the worse for wear, not the roo 😂 As for the convict bizzo, I'm Anglo as all get-out, a descendant of convicts, and therefore pretty much a minority these days - yet I love the cultural diversity of our sunburnt country!
Hell, when I moved across America, at age 20 mind you, I truly believed in my heart to the point of haphazardly studying log cabin construction, that the West really was like some old movie. Turns out, they have roads and a Costco, who knew?
Sydney has more PEOPLE, but Melbourne is the largest city as far as AREA goes. In fact, Melbourne has been the largest city by area for a long time. From what I have seen and heard about what foreigners know about Australia, most don’t know where Australia actually IS, let alone how big it is.
I found a 4 foot brown snake on my bed ones the little terriers were having a ball with it not sure if they brought it inside or it was hibernating because it was the middle of August
Something that isn’t a myth tho and I believe everyone should know when they visit. Is driving in the country here from dusk till dawn is highly dangerous. Kangaroos are actually nocturnal. Most of our natives are. Our headlights blind the, from a distance so they can just slam into ur car and at 100-110kls it can be deadly. Up north with the reds even more so. On the west it can even happen with emus… during the day too. Seen them in vic sw boarder and here in WA… the one on the boarder freaked me out. I had done that drive for about 7 years. Over 120 times at day and night. And never in my life had I seen a wild one near the road. It was trying to jump the clay mound that went on for about 50ks just over and over again… have u done an actual warning video? Great work btw just found u. Thanks mate x
I was talking to an American school teacher in Paris and she asked where I was from. I told her and she said "That's up near Norway, right?" I agreed that it was.
It’s because we ride Emus, I mean EeeMooo’s to school 😂 My father had business to attend to Canberra and said it was the most boring place he’d ever been to. Well our family living in wonderful Melbourne, Canberra was um 🧐 lol I’m a 3rd gen English Irish and Scott. 14 daily average high in Melbourne in Winter? No, it’s gotta be lower, it’s December and I’ve got my winter cardy on lol Oh yes, I was eaten by a Croc last year. I’m only a lonely hand typing this, that’s all he left of me, probably because I one hand full of vegemite 🖐
Knew the capital and all the rest, but honestly believed that everything in Australia is trying to kill you. I'm American and wouldn't mind Ayer'sr Rock in my backyard but would be too afraid of a dingo stealing my baby. 😂 One thing I did hear when I was very young was that Australians were just English hillbillies. Cheers, Pete! I, too, am of English and Scottish descent.
you sit on the roo's back and straddle ya feet in their pouch but be careful that the roo doesnt stop too quickly cause you will go over the roo's head lol.. you can aquire a roo riders licence if your new too australia 😂😂
If you attempted to ride a kangaroo, it would throw you off. They're not domesticated. It would be awkward riding a kangaroo anyway. They don't get around on all fours. They jump on their two powerful legs. It would be a very bumpy ride if you managed to stay on. It's just not practical. I remember the TV show Skippy (1968-1970 - I watched the repeats in the 70s) about a boy and his pet kangaroo, and no one tried to ride him. That would be ridiculous. I live in Canberra and it is kind of boring. Canberra is cold in winter. I hate the cold. We don't even get snow . Have to go to the Snowy Mountains.
Dunnies in Australia are different from the USA. Our don't fill up and then run out . Our's are flushed by letting the water out of a cistern post crapping.
Historical fact Melbourne was Australias Capital at one time until it was agreed for Canberra and the ACT to be created as the Capital. South Australia was never convict and heavily populated by Lutheran Germans in the mid 1800s hence the reason why the Wine and food is superior from places like the Barossa SA. Danka.
Melbourne was never going to be the Federal Capital on a permanent basis. The Commonwealth Constitution prescribes that the Federal capital was to be on land excised from NSW and at least 100 miles from Sydney. The agreement to which you refer occurred as part of the whole package of detail leading up to Federation. NSW also ceded land at Jervis Bay to the Commonwealth so as to provide the Commonwealth a sea port.
To he fair, years and years ago Alaska was Russian Impire's part. But Aleksandr The Second sold it to the US for no a big amount of money for those days due to hard development of the territory.
I think you're more likely to be bitten by some sort of animal as a foreigner than an Aussie tho. Because you don't really know what to be aware of, or cautious about. My husband is from Darwin, and I nearly stepped on a snake once while visiting him. We were camping at a camp ground, and my scandinavian brain thought the thing on the ground outside of the dim lit bathroom was obviously a rope. It wasn't. And I wouldn't think to be careful when picking up branches etc outside, or not to wade into long grass, just because I've never had to. Luckily I did my research, because my husband didn't think to warn me about a lot of the dangers either, as for him it was a given😅
Probably the scariest native animal the average tourist will encounter is a magpie. And even then it's only the occasional overly-territorial male during a few weeks of the year. And if you befriend them they are sweetest, smartest birbs and have a beautiful song.
They only attacked any creatures that moving around the area whereas their young about to leave the nest and learn to find food "just for the first few weeks " but when their chick can fly properly they won't stay around them or attack anyone until the next breeding season. It's just parent's instinct to protect their young children but they're lovely birds.
😍 Riding roos to school? Now that is a very cool myth -- imagine if that were REAL! 😻 I'd ride those muscly red roos than buses ... tie 'em up to some shady tree, leave it a tuft of green grass and fresh water ... imagine riding home into the sunset on a kangaroo! 😎
Actually if you asked for shrimps in Australia- you will get the tiny prawns. Although I think even the use of shrimps for theses is falling out of flavour.
A adult red kangaroo would probably GUT you if you tried to put you child on its back. Their legs have a claw similar to a velosoraptor?Canberra is bloody cold in winter- thats why Parliament dowes not sit during winter. Lived there in 1970. And it snowed on the higher hills - Red Hill for example. Went golfing ar Royal Canberra and the greens were white. Could not see the balls. Not directly descened from convicts but we wha one 1st Fleet convict 1788. Australian Royalty. Convicted of highway robbery at 16. arrived in OZ aged 20. Withing a day of arriving in Sydney Cove chared with stealing extra rations, sentenced to be hung, no one willing to hang him, pardoned on condition he become the public hand man, had loaded muskets pressed into his back at each execution, later hung some of the same guards. Went to school kids from with China, Malta, Algeria, Celyon, India, Ireland, England, Scotland, Italy, Greece and one Australian born serial killer. Cross the Nepean River at Penrith NSW and you are in the 'bush' for car rego purposes. Or used to be. The innocent platapus can actuall kill you - they have spurs on their hind legs that secrete a neurotoxin. There is a story that Sir Joseph Banks picked one up in1770 and exclaimed 'what a beautiful animal' and woke up two days later and asked 'who hit me??' I had an encounter with a blue ring octopus when i was about 10 years old. In a rock pool on a pupular beach. Had red back spiders nesting in my timber boundry fench - 2 inches from where I was resting my arms on the fence while talking to my neighbours. One of my neighbours erected fences. He had been bitten by red backs so many times he had built up an imunity to their toxin.
Omg in grade three. They did this to me I was born here we did a school camp. I was terrified. Yes do it to adult tourists not children ffs. Our teachers were mean af…. I cried. Assholes. My daughter is year 3 I might pass my childhood trauma on 😂 I kid
I've had you subbed for years.
You know what I like about you?
As a seventh or eighth-generation Anglo Aussie with a slightly cultivated general accent, you're my kind of normal and I find I find listening to you somewhat comforting if I'm honest.
Smart, articulate, well spoken middle working class.
For me at least, it's homely.
Having married an American and due to the widely dispersed and short term nature of my contracts(roughly three months), I have lived ALL OVER the United States three months shy of a decade.
There is absolutely a certain demographic that asks those questions and I have certainly been asked if we ride kangaroos more than once. but that was not the worst question about Australia.
I am pretty easy going but have to admit, the sheer ignorance of "do you have schools in Australia", both frustrated and stuck with me, as did "Does the Tasmanian devil really spin,. though to a slightly lesser extent because it didn't outright assume our total and fundamental lack of education. Lol.
(edit) - Sorry, I was half way through the video.
American toilets are actually round. They also have far more water, so they do spin. Australian toilets are...whatever shape you might call that - not round and have less water.
Where I live on the foothills near Canberra, our capital, we have a continental climate so routinely in winter have nights -3°C/25°F down to -6°C/°F or so with white frosts followed by blue sky days around 11°C/50°F or so with about 12 days when it is colder and rains. We have about 3 snowfalls per year when the max temp is under 5°C/40°F. Snow stays only briefly on the ground here though. One year we had snow 3 days before Christmas, which is in our summer! Spring and autumn are mild with clear days around 20°C/70°F and cool to crisp nights down to +5°C/40°F. Summers are usually hot dry cloudless days ie 35-43°C/95-110°F, dropping about 10°C to 25°C/80°F or so at night if the easterly comes in from the coast at sunset when you can open up the house and sleep better.
Snow routinely falls and stays on the ground in the mountains where the ski fields are located in Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales between June and October, which is from our early winter into spring. Our skifields are about half the size of those in Switzerland. It also sometimes snows in South Australia and southern Queensland. Canberra is about 1.5 hours from the NSW skifields so I could easily do a day trip to ski for the 3 decades I lived there. In summer it was a 30 minute drive from Canberra to go camping and bushwalking in the Brindabella Mountains and about 10 minutes walk to go swimming in the cold clear Murrumbidgee River.
Moin(as we say in the north of Germany), I watch your videos for a long time now and you really hyping me up to come and Visit Australia as soon as I'm done with school! I can't wait to be there and see the beauty itself :) Thanks for your great Videos!
Naw! Thanks mate :) Hope you get to come soon!
Come…. Ur welcome anytime and enjoy x good luck with school hope it’s going well x
I'm a student and I'm a huge fan of Australia 🇦🇺 I love Australia very much and I'm real interested in Australian news also and I have a hope to study and live in Australia. Hope one-day I will be able to live in this beautiful country 🙏 ❤ 😃😀
A male adult eastern grey kanga weighs about 50-70kg (110-150lbs) and stands about 1.6- 2M/4-6 feet tall. It would not be a wise idea to get close to one in the wild or attempt to ride it as they can do some serious damage to you using their tail to balance on while kicking out with their long hind feet while boxing and holding with their front paws. Females are smaller and are about half that weight. Ditto other varieties like the red or western greys. Wallaroos and wallabies are similar to or less than human size. They all can significantly rearrange your vehicle's front if you hit one because they suddenly jumped onto the road in front of you; they can cover up to 12M/40 feet in a single bound, travel at up to 50+kph/30+ mph and hop up to 3M/10 feet vertically so things like farm fences are no obstacle.
Worked for an IT company subcontracted to an overseas airline. Given the small nation that the airline was based, I often received calls to attend a site in another city. My stock answer was "Going to provide the airline ticket ? That site is actually 1600/2000/2500 km away (depending on site)." incredulity at other end of line -"that big??"
22 shark deaths in Australia 2020 -2024 for an average of 4.5 per annum. They are on the increase. Note though they are mainly around known white pointer breeding and feeding areas (sea lions) areas along southern Australia (Cape Leeuwin WA to Limestone Coast SA).
Omitted such creatures as Stone Fish, Bluebottles, Irukandji and blue ringed octopus. The last is 12 to 20 cm (arms extended) size have enough neurotoxin to kill up to 26 people.
Spiders are found over all Australia though the Sydney Funnel Web is confined to mainly that area. The Red-Back and Trapdoors are extremely painful and can possibly be fatal. Fortunately there are antivenoms for each. I was bitten once by a Trapdoor (though there are many varieties) and I needed the antivenene and it was in suburbia.
Snakes are common now in the metro areas though fortunately most varieties are non-aggressive. My close relatives have had them appear on their back doorsteps (sun) and they were Red-Belly Brown Snakes!
My sister knew the first recoded survivor of an Inland Taipan bite (without any antivenene - none existed at the time and they did not even know the variety of snake existed)
Have you talked about how Aussies add the letter R to the end of certain words sometimes? Like for example, "I sawr it yesterday". Also, this guy adds the R to the end of the word Australia at 11:33.
I joke with my boyfriend (who is Australian) that you all have a love-hate relationship with the letter R. When the letter is ACTUALLY at the end of the word, you all drop it like it's hot: cheddar/cheddah, better/bettah.. but then you'll turn around and chuck the R onto the end of words that don't need it!
Hahaha 😂 Oh, Australia. How I love thee!
Yeah, it's called the intrusive R - ruclips.net/video/A2tah25j30U/видео.html&ab_channel=AussieEnglish
Omg ur right 🤣
We pronounce the 'r' when theres a word starting with a vowel after it.
I love the snow in Oz. Especially on Hotham.
Howdy 👋 I’m American Thanks for all the Aussie awesome content keep it going mate I use your stuff for laughs Share with my Aussie lady friend G’day / Gnite
Haha, thanks, mate. Coming to Aus any time soon?
12:10 thank you for acknowledging that Alaska exists. (Also PR and Hawaii and a bunch of other areas.)
Canberra.......politician, university.......or if you're in the Defence Force. All roads lead to Canberra in the ADF (if you stay in for more than a decade or so).
there are actually 4 human killing spiders.. Red Back, funnel web, paralysis tick (which is an arachnid), and the Mouse spider (almost identical to the funnel web but lethargic and non aggresive with no deaths reported, but uses the same anti venine as the sydney funnel web)
I never heard the roo riding story in the US, but I probably did think that you'd see them everywhere. I was surprised in traveling to NSW, VIC, and SA that I saw zero roos in many places, but heaps in others. Halls Gap and the Flinders Range are chockablock. I was sure I'd be able to avoid hitting any in SA, but alas, I couldn't brake in time for one. Only going about 5 kph when we collided, and it hopped off, but who knows whether it died soon after. Felt low about it, but everybody who saw the damaged hire car said it had happened to them too at one time or another.
When I travelled from Melbourne Victoria to Orange NSW and back I did not see one roo in NSW but plenty in Victoria.
I've only found 1 concict ancestor
Fun fact my cousin actually leased horses out for the film Australia
10:00 um excuse me, but I've worked in 52°C on multiple occasions.
People should ignore the maximum and minimum temperature as stated in the news because that's wildly inaccurate.
It gets far hotter and colder than the media says.
In 1999 there was an article in the Daily Newspaper, about a skeleton found way deep in a cave, somewhere near Margaret River in West Australia.
It was described as very much like a koala, that stood near 4 feet tall, had canines, and it's thumbnails were lie a knife or small sicle about 5 inches long.
There was also a photo showing the skeleton.
The article stated they might have to rethink the urban legend of dropbears.
Down that way in September 2002, I also saw these very fast flying things, that swere long with a sort of wing along the body.
Years later I saw that these things were called rods.
I believe a guy in America called to discover them, and give them the name.
I and my friend watching them, just thought they were weird.
Turns out they're rarely seen.
This was outside a cave in an area that locals call, Bobs Hollow.
Sydney I guess is an industrial capital of Australia just like Istanbul is an industrial capital of Turkey and Ankara is a real capital of it. 09.12.2021, 12:12
Canberra is the capital of Australia. I am shocked to know that there are people who don't know it. 09.12.2021,12:36
Quite a lot of Australians would struggle to remember that Canberra is the capital 😉
lol they'd be the same ones whinging about the Australian citizenship test being too easy to 'let people into my country!'
The US does indeed have Alaska, but it's worth pointing out that WA is more than 1.5 times the size of Alaska. I mention this because the size of Australian states is part of the reason Australia's size is underestimated by us in the US. We have a smaller idea of how big a state is. Of course, we have so many states that we can't even name or recognize them all.
Croc Dundee didn’t live in the outback either- Aus kids should have to visit the outback to see what it is and what it’s not..
Tbf, you may very well find redback spiders at your desk, and funnel web spiders in your yard, especially in Sydney. Also red-bellied black snakes and possibly an antsy eastern brown snake in the suburbs. Blue-ringed octopus inhabit tidal pools near swimming beaches. But it's not hard to avoid any of them with a bit of common sense, and no-one has died of snakebite for about 40 years.
I think you mean spider bite. I think the average is 1-2 people a year die from snake bites still.
I agree.
I found a little red back nest in my front door windows. I dust every week… 🙃 had a female daddy in the back of my old Nissan Pajero, which totally means jerk off in Spanish , coincidentally I was a jerk back then 😂 she had just laid her eggs, had what seemed to be a million babies crawling all around her then they went back on her and I couldn’t notice them. I thought it was the hangover from the weekend. Tripped balls😅, had my toddler in the back, so drove home, screaming.
His father had the bug spray. I would have appreciated that moment much more now☺️ I ran down the street ha
@@AussieEnglishPodcast Should have Googled before I hit post 😉
We regularly catch funnel web spiders in our garden on Sydney's upper north shore. They're pretty easy to catch in a jar, then they go to the casualty section of the nearest large hospital. From there, they're collected by people who milk them for their poison - which is made into the antidote for those bitten. Redback spiders have. reputation of living under toilet seats. Who knows if this is true, but always check if using an outdoor toilet. We're far enough from proper bushland never to have seen black or brown snakes around the house. Certainly you keep your eyes open if walking through the bush.
Canberra hosts a number of cultural, art and tourist destinations worth visiting. The War Memorial, the Sound and Film Archive, the High Court, National Gallery, and many more. It’s not true that we don’t have shrimps. We do, but they are tiny. They are used in cooking, like Asian food. As for things that kill us, the croc is the only predator, and to die from a croc attack, you would have to do something stupid like swim in croc territory. We don’t have bears and cougars
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Bears! I would be really scared of the thought of crossing paths with a grizzly bear….Good thing I live in Australia where we don’t have grizzlies~!😊
During my 10-week trip to Australia I didn't even see any kangaroos, but a huntsman spider almost landed on my head in a Pattison's Patisserie place
Huntsman spiders look dangerous but they're not really. Funnelweb spiders are the ones to watch for.
Most of my post seems to have vanished. The bite from a funnelweb spider can be fatal. There have been no fatalities for quite a few years now, because there's a very effective anti-venene. Funnelwebs are endemic in my area of Sydney (the Upper North Shore) and you watch out for them when gardening. Never leave gardening gloves on the ground and bash your gardening boots before putting them on. We catch a couple every year and take them to the local public hospital. From there, they go to a specialist who milks them and turns the venom into the anti-venene.
@@doubledee9675You're so right, not enough people know that so thanks for saying.
Those huntsmans are SCARY though
Very scary to look at and not all that different an appearance to funnelwebs. The easy rule is to treat any spider you see as potentially dangerous.@@a-the-na6901
A popular misconception is that we call all shrimp, "shrimp". We call large shrimp "Prawns", and small shrimp are "shrimp". So whatever Australian tourism interest that made that commercial got that wrong right off the bat. 14C/57F is downright warm, or at least mild compared to most of America in winter, where I live winter is more like 45F/7C in winter for a average, a good portion of America can exist for weeks, even months below freezing. So Australian winters are quite mild by comparison. I never heard of "Drop Bears" until recently, when I hear them mentioned I just figured it was Aussie slang for Koalas. I never heard the riding kangaroos thing, I think that was an inside joke that Australians took to be a real perception I guess. I hope I strike it rich one day and visit, Australia is intriguing even if it isn't as dangerous as popular myths make it out to be.
Considering that roos are wild animals, the roo would fight like hell to throw the kid off. I think it's the kid who'd end up the worse for wear, not the roo 😂
As for the convict bizzo, I'm Anglo as all get-out, a descendant of convicts, and therefore pretty much a minority these days - yet I love the cultural diversity of our sunburnt country!
Drop bears are great mate I love that one.
Flying out next year, thanks so much for the vids mate. cheers
Hell, when I moved across America, at age 20 mind you, I truly believed in my heart to the point of haphazardly studying log cabin construction, that the West really was like some old movie. Turns out, they have roads and a Costco, who knew?
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Hey, even the Australian museum has an article on drop bears!
Haha oh yeah?
Sydney has more PEOPLE, but Melbourne is the largest city as far as AREA goes. In fact, Melbourne has been the largest city by area for a long time.
From what I have seen and heard about what foreigners know about Australia, most don’t know where Australia actually IS, let alone how big it is.
I found a 4 foot brown snake on my bed ones the little terriers were having a ball with it not sure if they brought it inside or it was hibernating because it was the middle of August
Wow... Do not want! Hope you got rid of it safely.
@@AussieEnglishPodcast l have a recipe for snake! Must be over 6 foot/ 2 metres. And yes, it tastes like chicken.
Your videos I watched it for the last two days and I love your videos. I am from Punjab India
Yay the movie Australia was filmed where I'm living currently, which is not Darwin (as in the movie) it's actually Bowen, Nth QLD :)
To be honest about Canberra, You could hardly take a wrong turn there from Myponga SA to Campbelltown NSW. No one gives a toss about em hahaha
being ripped apart by crocodiles is just a primal fear humanity haS
Hi mate watch u regularly from India Kolkata
The toilet is spinning counter clockwise
Love your videos!!
Unofficially, Australia has three capital cities. Political- canberra business - sydney art - melbourne
hehe very true. Which would you prefer to live in?
@@AussieEnglishPodcast Perth. Naturally :p
And Melbourne was the actual capital from 1901 to 1927.
Something that isn’t a myth tho and I believe everyone should know when they visit. Is driving in the country here from dusk till dawn is highly dangerous. Kangaroos are actually nocturnal. Most of our natives are. Our headlights blind the, from a distance so they can just slam into ur car and at 100-110kls it can be deadly. Up north with the reds even more so. On the west it can even happen with emus… during the day too. Seen them in vic
sw boarder and here in WA… the one on the boarder freaked me out. I had done that drive for about 7 years. Over 120 times at day and night. And never in my life had I seen a wild one near the road. It was trying to jump the clay mound that went on for about 50ks just over and over again… have u done an actual warning video? Great work btw just found u. Thanks mate x
Nice… pretty proud of the fact we have people from every country around the world. If ur a great person ur welcome
You're on the mark there cob!
In West Virginia I was asked if Australia was next to Germany. These were college students. So I said yes.
I was talking to an American school teacher in Paris and she asked where I was from. I told her and she said "That's up near Norway, right?" I agreed that it was.
Sydney is on the otherside of the swiss alps
It’s because we ride Emus, I mean EeeMooo’s to school 😂
My father had business to attend to Canberra and said it was the most boring place he’d ever been to. Well our family living in wonderful Melbourne, Canberra was um 🧐 lol
I’m a 3rd gen English Irish and Scott.
14 daily average high in Melbourne in Winter? No, it’s gotta be lower, it’s December and I’ve got my winter cardy on lol
Oh yes, I was eaten by a Croc last year. I’m only a lonely hand typing this, that’s all he left of me, probably because I one hand full of vegemite 🖐
Ehhh! Don't do it! It's Eeem-mew!
@@AussieEnglishPodcast haha, I’m an Aussie, I was trying out my American accent lol
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@@bigbad6983 ok 😂😂
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I can't wait to go to Australia 😍
When are you coming?
@@AussieEnglishPodcast I'm in Australia now 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Very happy 😊 it's amazing😍😍😍😍
Knew the capital and all the rest, but honestly believed that everything in Australia is trying to kill you. I'm American and wouldn't mind Ayer'sr Rock in my backyard but would be too afraid of a dingo stealing my baby. 😂
One thing I did hear when I was very young was that Australians were just English hillbillies.
Cheers, Pete! I, too, am of English and Scottish descent.
Ayers Rock is now called Uluru.
you sit on the roo's back and straddle ya feet in their pouch but be careful that the roo doesnt stop too quickly cause you will go over the roo's head lol.. you can aquire a roo riders licence if your new too australia 😂😂
To be fair we do use the word shrimp just not for prawns ha
Yes. Shrimps are little cousins of prawns which are caught and used for fishing bait.
I have never seen anyone BBQ a prawn OR a shrimp in Australia. Hoges probably should have said he'd chuck another snag on the barbie.
If you attempted to ride a kangaroo, it would throw you off. They're not domesticated. It would be awkward riding a kangaroo anyway. They don't get around on all fours. They jump on their two powerful legs. It would be a very bumpy ride if you managed to stay on. It's just not practical. I remember the TV show Skippy (1968-1970 - I watched the repeats in the 70s) about a boy and his pet kangaroo, and no one tried to ride him. That would be ridiculous. I live in Canberra and it is kind of boring. Canberra is cold in winter. I hate the cold. We don't even get snow . Have to go to the Snowy Mountains.
Drop Bears sound like Snipe
Im old enough to remember when they used to drive the kangaroos out of the city and over the harbour bridge every morning before dawn.
Dunnies in Australia are different from the USA. Our don't fill up and then run out . Our's are flushed by letting the water out of a cistern post crapping.
Historical fact Melbourne was Australias Capital at one time until it was agreed for Canberra and the ACT to be created as the Capital. South Australia was never convict and heavily populated by Lutheran Germans in the mid 1800s hence the reason why the Wine and food is superior from places like the Barossa SA. Danka.
Melbourne was never going to be the Federal Capital on a permanent basis. The Commonwealth Constitution prescribes that the Federal capital was to be on land excised from NSW and at least 100 miles from Sydney. The agreement to which you refer occurred as part of the whole package of detail leading up to Federation. NSW also ceded land at Jervis Bay to the Commonwealth so as to provide the Commonwealth a sea port.
To he fair, years and years ago Alaska was Russian Impire's part. But Aleksandr The Second sold it to the US for no a big amount of money for those days due to hard development of the territory.
I think you're more likely to be bitten by some sort of animal as a foreigner than an Aussie tho. Because you don't really know what to be aware of, or cautious about. My husband is from Darwin, and I nearly stepped on a snake once while visiting him. We were camping at a camp ground, and my scandinavian brain thought the thing on the ground outside of the dim lit bathroom was obviously a rope. It wasn't. And I wouldn't think to be careful when picking up branches etc outside, or not to wade into long grass, just because I've never had to. Luckily I did my research, because my husband didn't think to warn me about a lot of the dangers either, as for him it was a given😅
Probably the scariest native animal the average tourist will encounter is a magpie. And even then it's only the occasional overly-territorial male during a few weeks of the year. And if you befriend them they are sweetest, smartest birbs and have a beautiful song.
They only attacked any creatures that moving around the area whereas their young about to leave the nest and learn to find food "just for the first few weeks " but when their chick can fly properly they won't stay around them or attack anyone until the next breeding season. It's just parent's instinct to protect their young children but they're lovely birds.
😍 Riding roos to school? Now that is a very cool myth -- imagine if that were REAL! 😻 I'd ride those muscly red roos than buses ... tie 'em up to some shady tree, leave it a tuft of green grass and fresh water ... imagine riding home into the sunset on a kangaroo! 😎
Lol I'd feel incredibly sorry for any kangaroo that had to hop along to school with me on their back
The trouble with riding roos is they're not the sharpest knives in the drawer😉🦘
@@Merrid67play yeah and the saddle rash would be a bitch!
Actually if you asked for shrimps in Australia- you will get the tiny prawns. Although I think even the use of shrimps for theses is falling out of flavour.
It's a myth that kangaroos are vegetarian. I once saw a kangaroo eat a postman.
I've also seen a kookaburra eat a car (a yellow Renault, to be exact).
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Those snakes are actually scary.
Last year 2023 I saw 5 King Brown 🐍 in the grounds of my mother's nursing home yeah not a problem 😂
I've talked to people online in America that are convinced my country is hoax conducted by governments.
I just go with it, haha.
I thought Australia only had summer, spring and barely autumn
Before Canberra, Melbourne was the capital.
No it was where first Parliament convened at the Exhibition centre. It was never the national capital
😱😱😱DROP BEAR!!!😱😱😱
Lol my worst nightmare!
Tornadoes are more deadly than the wildlife.
I've shot, butchered and ate Roos but never rode one.
Weird. When I lived in Australia, I did ride kangaroos to work. Much better for the environment.
Meh, Skippy is the best Uber ever!
I wish the water flushed clockwise 😔 it’d be more interesting uk
I paused the video to suggest that #1 would be that spiders and snakes are everywhere all the time!
Hahaha
Koala is a bear. A marsupial bear.
drop bears are to Australia what haggis are to Scotland
A adult red kangaroo would probably GUT you if you tried to put you child on its back. Their legs have a claw similar to a velosoraptor?Canberra is bloody cold in winter- thats why Parliament dowes not sit during winter. Lived there in 1970. And it snowed on the higher hills - Red Hill for example. Went golfing ar Royal Canberra and the greens were white. Could not see the balls.
Not directly descened from convicts but we wha one 1st Fleet convict 1788. Australian Royalty. Convicted of highway robbery at 16. arrived in OZ aged 20. Withing a day of arriving in Sydney Cove chared with stealing extra rations, sentenced to be hung, no one willing to hang him, pardoned on condition he become the public hand man, had loaded muskets pressed into his back at each execution, later hung some of the same guards.
Went to school kids from with China, Malta, Algeria, Celyon, India, Ireland, England, Scotland, Italy, Greece and one Australian born serial killer.
Cross the Nepean River at Penrith NSW and you are in the 'bush' for car rego purposes. Or used to be.
The innocent platapus can actuall kill you - they have spurs on their hind legs that secrete a neurotoxin. There is a story that Sir Joseph Banks picked one up in1770 and exclaimed 'what a beautiful animal' and woke up two days later and asked 'who hit me??'
I had an encounter with a blue ring octopus when i was about 10 years old. In a rock pool on a pupular beach. Had red back spiders nesting in my timber boundry fench - 2 inches from where I was resting my arms on the fence while talking to my neighbours.
One of my neighbours erected fences. He had been bitten by red backs so many times he had built up an imunity to their toxin.
The truth is that there is so much more to see and do in Oz.
In 1985 my friends and I went to Italy and told guys at cafes that we had pet kangaroos and koalas. Sorry.
Lol well, if you own a zoo, you may
Dropbears?
More people live in Canberra than Tasmania
Not crocodiles. Snakes though.
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The capital is Melbourne. Melbourne is the best got it 😃 omg act blows there’s nothing there
If that's the top ten myths that means you guys Carry bottle of beers and explosives with you all the time
I knew it
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Haha
Sydney is capital mate. LoL
hehe.. drop bear
Omg in grade three. They did this to me I was born here we did a school camp. I was terrified. Yes do it to adult tourists not children ffs. Our teachers were mean af…. I cried. Assholes. My daughter is year 3 I might pass my childhood trauma on 😂 I kid
It would be fucking cool if u could do that
Skippy peanut butter is sweet horrid american food.
Snake deaths are exaggerated. A few die. Annually 51,000 die in India. I would be more concerning with being in a car
Myth number 0:
Australia doesn't exist
Biggest myth is that Australia is a free country