Australian here. I have 1Gbs internet. Also... people always seem to be, "If Australia invented wifi why is the internet in Australia so slow?" Wifi is not the internet. Wifi is a local area connection. You don't even need the internet to have wifi.
Strictly Australia did not invent Wi-Fi, rather CSIRO made it useable. The signal bounces off everything around and was pretty much useless until CSIRO figured out how to isolate the main signal from the mess.
@@Alpha14Music No. You have Tony Abbott (Australia's most incompetent PM) to thank. He once said 25Mbps was enough speed for anyone, just before he butchered the nationwide rollout of fibre to most places and introduced FTN.
At 19:20, you say that Pom was an abbreviation of "pomegranate", I was told, that it was Pom as in "POHM" "Prisoner of his Majesty", which makes a lot more sense, because of how many Prisoners came here from Britain. Normal Boomerangs were made to scare animals toward a trap, or other hunters, and "Hunting" Boomerangs were heavier and a Straighter shape to hit and Kill an Animal, but not designed to return.
Hulks were NOT transport ships. Odd that a pom would get that wrong. Hulks were large de-masted ships that lined rivers and ports in England , usually old decommissioned warships, used as barracks, prisons and stores. Convicts might be held on hulks before being transferred to transports for the journey to Australia.
The initial impulse for transportation came from a group of well-known English evangelicals, both inside and outside the Government, including John Newton, the author of the hymn, "Amazing Grace". They opposed the inhuman conditions and overcrowding in the prison hulks, and suggested that New Sourh Wales would be a place where convicts could have a chance at a fresh start in a new land. The transports used in the First Fleet had been passenger ships, and conditions were fairly good by 18th century standards. There were few deaths. The British Government was convinced and decided to take over the project. The Second Fleet used decomissioned slave ships, conditions on board were appalling, and there were many deaths. Stuart Piggin and Robert Lindner, "The Fountain of Public Prosperity," is a useful resource.
If he read or saw "Great Expectations" he would know what a hulk was! My 3X-great-grandfather Jacob was sentenced to life in NSW in 1821 in Ireland and arrived in Sydney in 1822 on the transport ship "Isabella 1". None of the convicts died on the voyage.
Babe. Starred Magda Szubanski as the farmers wife and has been in almost every "fast forward" clip you've reacted to. People please help me get this noticed by Ryan
My dad made boomerangs that, if you threw them right, came back. They were terrifying actually. You didn’t try to catch it like a frisbee or something. You just kept your eye on it hoping it wouldn’t hit you! He explained to me that it was a matter of paying great attention to the edges when he was carving them. And then he tried to explain aerodynamic mechanics to me by us making lots of different types of paper planes together and experimenting with them. It was brilliant fun. Literally.
Boomerangs are so fascinating and ingenious. Having them return makes sense if your using it to hunt. Why would you want to constantly have to run and try and find it? Those things made properly and thrown hard and fast could travel a fair distance have it come back is handy. The skill needed to make them is increadable and knowing the various designs for different purposes. Also interesting that if I'm not mistaken all the mass produced ones you find in the tourist trap shops were never meant to return. I think in many communities if they are selling them or giving them to people outside the community its rarely one designed to return. Also the technique needed to throw them with accuracy takes years of practice. To then develop the technique to ensure its return takes time too. I don't think many people would be able to pick one up and instinctively throw it to ensure its return. Chances are if someone picks one up and throws it in the correct manner even if not entirely successful they have grown up watching people hunt with it also most likely to be a child. Pre colonisation many games and kids play were about developing skills needed to live. So before boys were of an age to be relied upon to provide the food they had the necessary skills.
@@kristalpower292 in school we had elders come and not only show us how to make them but also how to throw them properly as well as teaching us about aboriginal history and the dream time amongst other things it was always my favorite time of the year the canteen served emu and kangaroo and i learned about the good and bad history of my home i still have two boomerangs made by my little sister and i mine does come back hers doesn't she wasn't one for listening
@@kristalpower292 So interesting and true. My father who made some great ones, and taught me how to throw them, was a white man. He intended no disrespect, far from it. He also knew some bush stuff and shared it too. Like, you can eat this or that, something about rubbing bracken tips on bites. He was amazing at starting the campfire…saw him eat witchety grubs… I secretly thought he must have had indigenous heritage, but genetic testing has shown I was mistaken. I was a little disappointed, but not surprised.
@@TheTynell1 Oh that’s just beautiful. I was lucky enough to have had Elders, from the far north, come to our primary school for at least a week. We sat on the floor and didn’t make a sound, or even wriggle. It was around 1970, school was Rosanna Golf Links PS. (Slightly odd name for a school. I never thought of that before, in 50 years!) It was very unusual at the time. I wish I remembered more of it.
I’m glad you kept watching and that you’re open to finding out more than what your told. ❤ Cochineal is the red colour you were thinking of. It’s made by squishing a South American bug. Green ants are added in the process of making green ant gin as it adds a citrus flavour, not a colour. And sorry for the correction…..Mt Kosciusko pronounced Koz ee os ko
I knew the Director of Babe back in the late 70s in Sydney. He shared a house with a friend of mine. Lovely human. Heart of gold. He made movies on a budget. Then Babe became a hit. A lot of the cast are Australian
In North Queensland the boomerangs of the rainforest peoples were smaller, 4 pointed star shapes, because they fly very straight and fast, needed for getting between branches to hit birds and small animals up in the trees.
@@leechgully not what they were saying, they were pointing out that common boomerangs aren't for hunting, traditionally they weren't even decorated, unless for ornamental purposes (gifts etc), I have never seen a hunting or war boomerang that returned, some will hook around and come part way back, but never seen one that could fully return
@@leechgully I am not sure about "killing" hunting boomerangs, because there was good reason to have killer boomerangs fly straight so as to accurately hit the target, but I do know of hunting boomerangs that were returners that were designed to be relatively noisy and to fly low over bushes etc to scare out hiding animals which would then be speared as they ran toward another hiding place. Those returning boomerangs would definitely be considered 'hunting' boomerangs. I also suspect the curving flight of a returner would be very effective thrown into a flock of birds, with a high probability of knocking at least one bird out of the sky on its curved path. I am speculating on that, but I have witnessed the hunting technique of throwing of a returning boomerang to scare critters, and then spearing them. Requires great speed and skill, but is quite astounding to see. While the heavy hooked style of kangaroo killing boomerangs are best known as hunting boomerangs, and they did indeed not-return, I can confirm that returning boomerangs were an important part of the various hunting techniques used by Aboriginals. I don't think a lot of people are aware of the many different sizes and shapes of boomerangs that were made for many different purposes. My favorites are the star shaped boomerangs from North Queensland rainforests that are small and designed to fly between branches in trees to knock down animals and birds up in the tree canopy.
There is also the Harold Holt Memorial Naval Communication Station in Exmouth, WA, which used to be an American naval base with a huge VLF antenna array (the size of a small town) once used by the American military to spy on Soviet submarines in the Indian Ocean. (You can see the hexagonal array at the tip of the peninsula from space - check out Google Earth or Maps.)
And we made the rhyming slang to disappear quickly or "to do the bolt" is to do "the Harold Holt" or just the Harold once your circle knows the slang. As in "where's Davo, it's his shout", "Oh, he's done the Harold and disappeared, the cunt".
With sweets we differentiate between lollies and chocolate. When referring to wanting some chocolate, we specifically say chocolate. When referring to other types of sweets soft and hard we refer to them as lollies. I think they use the term candycane for a specific lolly.
@@Zygon13 So we include lozenges, gum-based sweets, redskins, musk sticks etc in "lollies", but not what Americans call "candy bars". We generally call things like Mars, Cherry Ripe, Picnic etc "chocolate bars". Collectively, they'd be called "sweets", I guess, but a lot of people call dessert, specifically , "sweets". Depends on context.
Hello Ryan. Yes " Babe " is an Australin movie. And the farmer's wife in this movie is our very own Magda Zubanski. You featured a comedy skit not long ago of her and Jane Kennedy ; "....I said Love, I said Pet, I said, you got a nerve to leave me standing on your very door-step in the blistering heat, while you just thrash around inside having a grand mall (?) siezure in the air-conditioning. "
When he says that koala, wombat, etc come from "the aboriginal language", he really means they come from "an aboriginal language", of which there are hundreds. "Koala" comes from the Dharug language. In our local indigenous language, Gumbaynggirr, koalas are "dunggirr".
my former in-laws family have done their research - they are descended from a boy who at the age of 14, was sentenced to 14 years - for supposedly stealing a handkerchief. In court he denied having stolen it and said that some boys he had just met gave it to him then called the police on him. The policeman gave evidence against him but agreed that a gang of street urchins had reported him. He had just arrived in Manchester to look for work. It was his first day there. But he was convicted. Had he been younger they might have sent him to a workhouse, but they sent him to the hulks and then to NSW in the 1830’s So our convict ancestors were often not terrible criminals. There’re were also many Irish political prisoners amongst them, who brought the spirit of rebellion with them.
they must have been getting kickbacks or something, a female ancestor of mine was given a jacket to borrow for her walk home from work, when she returned she was accused of stealing it. another in ireland, a connoly, shot a pom dead when he came collecting some tax or such, his son hid him in a wine barrel and wheelbarrowed him down to the docks. he bought passage on a ship and got him out once they were at sea. he popped up and said "well done son, now when do we get to america" son "aah, yeah about that"
I apparently had an ancestor on the 1st fleet but they weren't a convict - it was a cop. There's a good chance that cop did far worse things than the convicts ever did. The police force were not exactly known for treating people with respect or kindness in the 18th century.
And “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”: I’ve been on the boat at Warner Bros Movie World (Gotta say the whole thing!). The others were FILMED here, but Babe & Croc D were all-Australian. Financed, filmed, premiered (I think).
That "kangaroo = I don't understand you" has a variant in a Terry Pratchett book in which a place was named "Your Finger, You Fool", so named when an official explorer pointed somewhere and asked a local, "What is that?"
Fun Fact: Melbourne has an annual festival called “Moomba”. It got its name when an Aboriginal filmmaker had his visa to the USA cancelled and couldn’t meet Walt Disney, then when asked by the VIC government to give a new festival an inclusive name he, still upset the government told the USA to cancel his Visa suggested “Moomba”, saying it meant “coming together”. It was named that but it turned out it actually translated to “Up your arse!”. Despite this, the name has stuck and it’s still celebrated today.
It's actually prisoner of Mother England, apparently the prisoners had P.O.M.E. on their shirts. I remember learning this back in high school when we were doing early settlement history
Quokka lives on Rotto (Rottnest island) off the west coast of Australia. Friendliest marsupials and have no problem helping themselves to your tent and camp kitchen.
"the Ashes" came about because when the Aussies thrashed the Poms(England) in a test series, The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia
They were called poker machines because the first ones had playing cards on the reels, and youi won prizes by getting various poker hands. Also the reasom they are mainly 5 reel machines here, while the USA has mainly 3 reel ones.
So many people are repeating the "Prisoner of Mother England" story or the slightly less silly "Prisoner of His Majesty", but it's nonsense -- "intellectual vandalism", as one writer described it. It is, rather, a fairly recent folk etymology, probably from the 1950s. I remember my grandfather talking about "pommies" sometime in the early to mid 1950s and telling me it was rhyming slang from "pomegranate". He added that the pale, sometimes "green around the gills" pommies (if you have seen a partly ripened pomegranate you will know the colour) ripened to a rich deep red after a few hours in the Australian sun. Words made up from the initial letters of other words (acronyms) were extremely rare -- ANZAC is one of the few -- before World War II, but "pommy" goes back a lot further. The word "acronym" itself was coined in 1943 -- the term had little use before then. Of course, transportation had ended about a century earlier
When I first visited Australia, I thought they had a SHEDLOAD of brothels on the Gold Coast. Turns out XXXX is just a type of beer (almost every bar has a big XXXX sign out the front of it)
the XXXX brewery in Milton, Brisbane would have seemed like one very large brothel. Funnily enough, the first drink produced by the company was the XXX sparkling ale - good thing they ended up adding another X
A “Like” from me for booing Fraser from your school bus. Here in Sydney in the 1960s we had a VERY famous radio presenter/disk jockey called Ward “Pally” Austin. We were coming back from school sports in the school bus when someone spotted WPA sitting in traffic in his loud (I think from memory it was bright pink) American convertible (roof down, of course) so naturally we all went nuts, hanging out of windows and shouting hello and other things, which elicited a big smile and cheery wave from him. Our on-board teacher was not impressed so we finished up all being placed on detention and missing school sport the next week as well. It was worth it, though. Fun times!
Good on you! I was still a Liberal voter at the time, but still thought Fraser's/Kerr's actions were reprehensible. I had actually taken the day off work to study the Russian Revolution for a History exam when the news broke, so I was in Sydney Uni's Fisher Library. A young woman I had never met said to me, "Kerr can't do that!" I answered that I thought he could, but that he shouldn't. I got to know Kerr's daughter through work five or six years later. She was a somewhat commanding figure, but I got on quite well with her. And, a few years ago, my younger son was working in IT and mentioned one of his colleagues with a distinctive surname -- Kerr's grandson.
Fun fact. We don't call an english person a pommy because pomegranates rhyme with immigrants. Its because POME stands for Prisoners Of Mother England in reference to the first non indiginous people to settle Australia, who were transported here as prisoners of mother England.
66 The Governor General fired Whitlam and his government, and they lost the subsequent election. The GG is the queen/kings representative in Australia and has powers nobody else does, such as that one. Until the 1930's (GG's go back before federation) they were all born and raised in the UK and were not even citizens here. Every state also has a governor, which is the same as the GG, but for states. What you call state governors in the USA are called Premiers here.
There is a conspiracy theory that the CIA was behind the 1975 Dismissal (soft coup) because Whitlam wanted to close Pine Gap spy base. There was a lot of shady financial deals done at the time by the Government but also the CIA were allegedly involved in a banking and murder (Nugan Hand bank) to launder drug money from Vietnam. So weird it could be possible.
@@Shazzam74 sort of true, but in 1975 Kerr dissolved the parliament as they were holding up gvt funding. It was a deadlock that could've gone on for ages, so Kerr intervened. The houses were disloved because of what Kerr directed, not the other way around. I guarantee you Whitlam did not ask Kerr to do that. Fraser may have though, and probably did.
Nope. Hulks are ships that are ships that are afloat but are incapable of going to sea, usually because their propulsion systems have not yet been installed or have been removed. The prison hulks of ca. 1777-1800 had had their masts taken out. Prisoners were kept in hulks in ports in the UK. But they weren't - and could not have been - sent anywhere in hulks, because hulks don't go anywhere. They were sent in transport ships. Nothing can be a descendant of both wallabies and koalas, because wallabies and koalas cannot interbreed. Quokkas are related to wallabies and koalas. But then, beavers are related to deer and rhinoceros- it's hardly worth remarking on. "Poker machines" are just slot machines. They have nothing to do with loving or even playing poker. About the GG firing the PM. In that particular instance there had been a lot of anti-democratic skulduggery by the premiers of Victoria and Queensland, that gave the Opposition control of the Senate. {There was a hefty constitutional amendment in 1977 to prevent those tricks from being played again (the new Ch 1 part I §15. It is nearly two pages long)}. But as for the Dismissal itself, you have to remember that the PM is not actually elected as such and has no term or tenure of office. The person who can get a budget through the Parliament is appointed PM by the GG, and ought to resign when he or she loses the confidence of Parliament. Then if nobody can get a budget through the Parliament the GG is supposed to dissolve Parliament and call elections for a new one. The Dismissal in 1975 was controversial because of the aforesaid shenanigans, and because the PM of the day wanted to play chicken with the Senate instead of advising the GG to dissolve Parliament. And in the end, it resulted in prompt elections. This is how parliamentary systems work, both constitutional monarchies and parliamentary republics. They have a much better record for stability than presidential republics, and they dominate the top ten lists on most measures of well-run countries. So the system is weird, and runs counter to American notions of the separation of powers, but it works well in practice. He's probably talking about the Australian box office, not the world total box office. As well as being wrong. Captain Cook didn't explore "the land". He sailed past it, mostly. The Netherlands is lower than Australia, and I think it's flatter, too. Lots of small-island countries are lower than Australia, too. I think he's misquoting a statistic that Australia is the lowest and flattest continent.
The gold rushes actually connected Australia to California, because a lot of Californian gold seekers came to Australia from California. The ones that went back took Australian things with them, like eucalypts, which is when they started being planted in California.
a bunch of em fought at the eureka stockade and gave themselves the name of the mounted californian pistol brigade, or something along those lines. they fought well apparently.
Actually the pomegranate is the correct one. It’s been proven from this 1912 Perth newspaper Also we were advised to this effect: "Beware of the Pomegranate Johns (immigrant policemen). If they catch you asleep it's odds on them putting the boot in. The local chaps are all right. They do give a man a chance. Although this is a public recreation ground, some of the Johns won't let the hard-up people use it, especially at night. There's one bloke comes down here who's a fair nark. We don't understand his language too well, him being a 'pommy,' but he lets us know what he means all right. The ANZAC BOOK of 1916 also supports the pomegranate theory . Why would call them prisoners of mother England ? The prisoners were already settled- we were the prisoners.. they’re the immigrants- they weren’t prisoners 😂
Yes, Australians eat a lot of fish. I think much of this is because of the traditional Fish & Chips shops, a concept that was brought in from the UK in the early 20th century, but which didn't make it to America. In Victoria the most popular fish from a chippy shop is Flake, which is Shark. So add that as another entry on the list of Australian Peculiarities: Australians eat sharks.
I went to England to visit some relatives many years ago and we decided on fish and chips. The guy asked what fish? I said flake. Mum laughed and told him it was shark. The look of shock on his face was priceless. 😂
Yes, Australia does deserve better internet, and was getting it when one government created a scheme to roll out fiber optic cabling to most places, and then there was a change of government and they nixed the idea simply because it was the other party that had started it. The new government said that the old copper telephone wires were good enough, and fiber installation was halted. As a result Australia has a mix of fast internet via fiber optic and molasses speed internet via copper wire. Oh, and that government [Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull] spent more money establishing the copper wire system than the fiber optic was projected to cost, so go figure.
Another ‘vision’ project with no realistic costings, parameters, longevity, that was pushed into partisan electorates. Forced consumers onto less reliable systems to garner electoral votes. Refused to consider the rapid pace of technological advancement that would render the imposed system obsolete well before the roll-out was completed. Resulting in an expensive white elephant for the next government to try to reshape into less of an encumbrance. Like all ‘vision’ projects, don’t let the 8 year old’s school science project get taxpayer funding. Money does not grow on trees!
No. That's a fairly recent folk etymology. Words made up from the initial letters of other words (acronyms) were extremely rare -- ANZAC is one of the few -- before World War II, but "pommy" goes back a lot further. "Prisoner of Mother England" is a quite recent idea, probably from the 1950e. I remember my grandfather talking about "pommies" sometime in the early to mid 1950s and telling me it was rhyming slang from "pomegranate". No official description of a convict would refer to "Mother England" which was never an official term, and more a sentimental term used in relation to war or the desire to get back. Even so, it wasn't particularly common. The word "acronym" itself was coined in 1943 -- the term had little use before then. Of course, transportation had ended about a century earlier
@@jennifercampbell7698With skilled players being able to inhale through the nose while exhaling through the mouth or something similar, I’ve been told. I can’t do it so I dunno if it’s true.
Didgeridoo is a tube with a hole at either end, no side holes. Sounds are controlled with lip movement like with a Bugle, as well as vocalisations down the tube and breath control. It also requires circular breathing to play continuously, like Bag Pipes.
The term 'black box' existed before the black box for aircraft was invented. It was a term that was meant to convey anything operated but people didn't know what the inner workings were, so they were called 'black boxes' because such devices often were mounted in black boxes. As people like me tirelessly always point out, the aircraft black box is [first of all] not black; it's orange to make them easier to find in a crash scene, and second there are two of them in an aircraft: one for audio recording and the other for the flight data. So, because people didn't know how the flight recorders worked, somebody attached the already existing term 'black box' to them and the name stuck.
A lot of movies especially Disney movies are actually filmed in Australia. At Warner bros movie world they have movie studios which was where Thor: ragnarok was filmed as well as surrounding locations on the Gold Coast. Pirates of the Caribbean was also filmed partly at sea world and partly at a clearing behind a local shopping centre.
Pommy is a cute way of saying a POM. In it's real history, it was said when referring to convicts that came out to Australia in the ships. It stood for Prisoner Of Her Majesty (or His Majesty) - i.e. POHM.
G'Day Ryan! This guy you're reacting to really is a few prawns short of a barbie! Lake Eyre is 15m below sea level. That's METRES you dingbat, not MILES! (To clarify, that was not directed at you, Ryan. I Iove your content. Look up my town: Finley, NSW)
When the Ashes was mentioned those players were definitely not playing or competing for the Ashes. Cricket has three main forms of professional Cricket, Test matches, One day Cricket, and Twenty twenty Cricket. The Ashes is played for under Test Match rules and the players depicted are playing under One Day Cricket rules. With Test Match rules all players must wear all white uniforms, sometimes called "Creams", and the team uniforms depicted are bright, single coloured uniforms as worn for One Day Cricket, which as a form of Cricket does not compete for the Ashes.
The green ants they are talking about are green weaver ants and their abdomens have a tangy slightly acidic taste like citrus. They actually use the nest and ants to make like a tea and is said to be helpful if you have a cold. They are yummy, I've eaten many green ant bums 😂
Here is a fact it’s illegal to call an ANZAC biscuit a ANZAC cookie it’s listed on the Government page about the proper use of the word ANZAC and can be jailable or fineable offence
In primary school they got an Aboriginal guy to come one day and try to teach us how to thrown boomerangs properly. I was terrible at it. I couldn't get it to come back, but some could after only a few tries. The speed that it comes back at is quite intimidating though. You don't want to be standing right in the way of it. Kinda off to the side a bit and reach out to catch it. It's a fantastic weapon though if you're eating whatever you just slapped out of the sky. - edit. Also, boomerangs you buy at gift shops aren't hunting boomerangs.
There was a debate in Britain whether transportation actually encouraged crime - it was free passage to a vastly better and more prosperous lifestyle for the UK underclass
The ones transported were the smart one's not only did they get a free ticket they left the daft pommies to their wet miserable place while we basked in the warm.
@@judithstrachan9399 - 1 in 85 ain't too bad a gamble. "A death rate of 1 in 85 transportees in the early years had fallen to 1 in 180 by the end of transportation. From 1815, every convict ship was required to carry a naval surgeon to supervise sanitary conditions and prisoner health."
“American reacts to fast forward funniest bits” your video from two months ago featured Magda Szubanski, the female human star of babe. As for slang, if you “do the Harold Holt”, you’re taking the bolt, and disappearing lol
26:54 The internet numbers are dragged down because of the outback. In 2005, In the city, I have 3x faster than that my friends has in the Netherlands, using optical fibre. Where we do get hit is to communicate with US & Europe, it has to use cables at the bottom of ocean.
My paternal grandpa lived next door to Harold Holt as a child. They even shared a nanny. My dad was named Harold. Some Aussies with dark senses of humour call salt Harold Holt. It's culturally insensitive for women to play the didgeridoo. So don't do it.
Well a load of BS. Hulks were decommissioned naval vessels that served as prisons. There is no way they would have made the journey to Aus. All convicts were transported by private shipping under contract to the navy. Admittedly the conditions were not much better, although there were fines and other conditions in place to ensure that convicts arrived in as good health as possible.
The first official gold discovered was in Bathurst in 1928, but The Gold Rush was in Victoria, mostly centred on Ballarat. The famous discovery that kickstarted the actual Rush being in Bunniyong in 1951 about 15 miles from Ballarat. Bathurst is in NSW, nowhere near the Golden Triangle.
I have ant trauma from green ants. I pushed my friend on a swing into one of their nests once, they build them in trees, by accident. We were screeming as I was swiping them off her. They have a nasty bite.
My dad asked me to help cut branches on one tree in the yard when I was 7 or 8. Friggin green ants🤣. Dad and I were both rolling around in the fish pond and I swear that tree has never been pruned since😂
the red dye is cochineal, crimson-dye-producing insect of the Dactylopiidae family. Not to be confused with the crimson-dye-producing insects of the Margarodidae family sometimes called Armenian cochineal and Polish
Comes from the acronym POM meaning “Prisoner Of her Majesty” Used as a disparaging term for a British person, especially a recent immigrant. “Pommy” (or “pom”), a slang term for a British person, comes from the acronym POHM, which was used to designate a “Prisoner of His Majesty.”17 Jan 2023
I read that myth had been well and truly debunked? The story closer to the truth is that it is from Pomegranate- rhyming slang - immigrant, Jimmy Grant etc - this has been proven by the following excerpt from the Perth Sunday times 1912: Also we were advised to this effect: "Beware of the Pomegranate Johns (immigrant policemen). If they catch you asleep it's odds on them putting the boot in. The local chaps are all right. They do give a man a chance. Although this is a public recreation ground, some of the Johns won't let the hard-up people use it, especially at night. There's one bloke comes down here who's a fair nark. We don't understand his language too well, him being a 'pommy,' but he lets us know what he means all right
Babe was filmed in the NSW town of Robertson, about 30 minutes from my home. The Border Collie pups used in the film belonged to a guy I knew, a local Border Collie breeder.
There were two types of Boomerangs, non-returning ones were heavier and designed for killing, the curve giving better flight control. Returning Ones were used in Bird Hunting and intended to look like a hovering hawk and scare the birds either into diving into nets or else return to their nests where the non returning ones could then be used. Non returning ones were also used for small game and big fish, and warfare, as well as general tools like a Digging Stick.
As well as the swimming pool, there's also the "Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt" and the "Harold Holt Fisheries Reserves". So we named a few water related items after him.
That reminded me that there was a US Navy warship named Harold E Holt, named after our missing Prime Minister. From the relevant Wikipedia article: “USS Harold E. Holt (FF-1074) was a Knox-class frigate of the United States Navy. She was named for Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, who had disappeared while swimming in December 1967. The ex-Harold E. Holt hulk was sunk as a target during RIMPAC 2002.”
There were different boomerangs for different things, some were made to strike and stun the animal, some to dazzle/distract the animal and some were intended to "put the animal to sleep" completely.
Ryan, you have to listen to the voice-over. The movie info was for Australia only, so Babe did quite well for a tiny country like Oz. Also, the movie industry of Australia began with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, arguably the world's first feature film.
I think the 1975 thing was about Gough Whitlam, it is really interesting, albeit concerning how our prime minister was ousted from government by the queen. I recommend Mr M History and his video on it
Well I lived through all the scandals of the Whitlam administration. I was in my twenties and learning about politics so that I could decide who to vote for. The Senate controlled appropriations and supply Bills. To get around the legislative framework, Whitlam’s administration tried to borrow money from shady foreign investors in the Khemlani Affair. They lied about it in Parliament and refused to call an election to resolve the deadlock. So Fraser requested that the Governor-General, the Queen’s viceregal representative, dismiss both Houses of Parliament to allow fresh elections. Fraser was appointed as the head of the caretaker government to oversee elections. The voters elected Fraser’s administration in a landslide, proving that the G-G was correct in the dismissal. Facts are facts. The voters decided in a democratic election. We were there. The misinformation that has been spread is not accurate.
All bills have to pass both houses. Reps, no prob, Labor in control. Senate, coalition in control, sure they could win a double dissolution, blocked supply. Turned out they were right.
Yes and he causes cyclones, bushfires, my team losing at the footy, the Newcastle earthquake, my car breaking down. There is no problem in the world that he is not personally responsible for.
@@Guvament_bs He literally lobbied the government for copper internet cables instead of fibre optic cables because he didn’t want streaming services to challenge his monopoly on Paid TV in Australia. Remember he owns Foxtel.
@@Markstubation01 "He literally lobbied the government for copper internet cables instead of fibre optic cables because he didn’t want streaming services to challenge his monopoly on Paid TV in Australia." Evidence please.
Im pretty sure the movie section doesnt make sense because the video is talking about profit alone. The 250mil at box office ignores cost of production...
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Australian here. I have 1Gbs internet. Also... people always seem to be, "If Australia invented wifi why is the internet in Australia so slow?" Wifi is not the internet. Wifi is a local area connection. You don't even need the internet to have wifi.
Thank God for that, somebody finally said it. People seem to think a connection of any kind is WiFi.
We do have our ever so fun Slowest Internet Speeds though! We got NBN to thank.
WiFi is Not the internet
Strictly Australia did not invent Wi-Fi, rather CSIRO made it useable. The signal bounces off everything around and was pretty much useless until CSIRO figured out how to isolate the main signal from the mess.
@@Alpha14Music No. You have Tony Abbott (Australia's most incompetent PM) to thank. He once said 25Mbps was enough speed for anyone, just before he butchered the nationwide rollout of fibre to most places and introduced FTN.
At 19:20, you say that Pom was an abbreviation of "pomegranate", I was told, that it was Pom as in "POHM" "Prisoner of his Majesty", which makes a lot more sense, because of how many Prisoners came here from Britain. Normal Boomerangs were made to scare animals toward a trap, or other hunters, and "Hunting" Boomerangs were heavier and a Straighter shape to hit and Kill an Animal, but not designed to return.
Common saying in Australia: a boomerang that doesn’t return is called a stick.
I was taught the same thing apparently P.O.H.M was printed on the convicts uniforms and that's where Pom and Pommy came from
I’ve never heard the “pomegranate = Pom” story before. I’m calling BS.
Pomegranate?? Ridiculous! Yes it's POHM.
My father who is English told me that “POME” (pommy) stands for “Prisoner of mother England“
Hulks were NOT transport ships. Odd that a pom would get that wrong. Hulks were large de-masted ships that lined rivers and ports in England , usually old decommissioned warships, used as barracks, prisons and stores. Convicts might be held on hulks before being transferred to transports for the journey to Australia.
The initial impulse for transportation came from a group of well-known English evangelicals, both inside and outside the Government, including John Newton, the author of the hymn, "Amazing Grace". They opposed the inhuman conditions and overcrowding in the prison hulks, and suggested that New Sourh Wales would be a place where convicts could have a chance at a fresh start in a new land.
The transports used in the First Fleet had been passenger ships, and conditions were fairly good by 18th century standards. There were few deaths.
The British Government was convinced and decided to take over the project.
The Second Fleet used decomissioned slave ships, conditions on board were appalling, and there were many deaths.
Stuart Piggin and Robert Lindner, "The Fountain of Public Prosperity," is a useful resource.
@@silverstreettalks343 Correct. Another one in that group being William Wilberforce, the MP who led the charge in the abolition of slavery.
Well said!
Thank you. I was gonna jump on that one.
If he read or saw "Great Expectations" he would know what a hulk was! My 3X-great-grandfather Jacob was sentenced to life in NSW in 1821 in Ireland and arrived in Sydney in 1822 on the transport ship "Isabella 1". None of the convicts died on the voyage.
Babe. Starred Magda Szubanski as the farmers wife and has been in almost every "fast forward" clip you've reacted to. People please help me get this noticed by Ryan
Magda Szubanski is a brilliant actress and Babe just Wonderful
Yeah Babe was about country town in Australia and the local shows in farming districts are certainly an important part of country life
@@micheledix2616 what about feret and michelle the bogan dancers on fast forward
@@micheledix2616 Magda, not Margaret!
@judepower4425 yes quite correct, the computer was thinking it knew more than me and decided I was wrong in my spelling🫣
AFL IS NOTHING LIKE RUGBY !!!!!!!!!
It's more like crosscountry basketball than rugby..
Yeah it's way shitter!!😂😂
Yeah it's way worse!😂😂
So true i dont like sport but even i know that am an aussie
It is. Theyre both shite
Fun fact there’s a public swimming pool named after Harold Holt in Melbourne 😂
Named that before he drowned though
The facility was under construction when Holt disappeared at Cheviot Beach in December 1967, and it was subsequently named in his memory.
I remember they reopened the Holt case....they were looking for a dingo with a snorkel!
@@CecilyMiddleton "A dingo stole my PM!" lol
There's a military communications base in WA named Harold E Holt.
My dad made boomerangs that, if you threw them right, came back. They were terrifying actually. You didn’t try to catch it like a frisbee or something. You just kept your eye on it hoping it wouldn’t hit you!
He explained to me that it was a matter of paying great attention to the edges when he was carving them.
And then he tried to explain aerodynamic mechanics to me by us making lots of different types of paper planes together and experimenting with them.
It was brilliant fun. Literally.
Boomerangs are so fascinating and ingenious. Having them return makes sense if your using it to hunt. Why would you want to constantly have to run and try and find it? Those things made properly and thrown hard and fast could travel a fair distance have it come back is handy. The skill needed to make them is increadable and knowing the various designs for different purposes.
Also interesting that if I'm not mistaken all the mass produced ones you find in the tourist trap shops were never meant to return. I think in many communities if they are selling them or giving them to people outside the community its rarely one designed to return.
Also the technique needed to throw them with accuracy takes years of practice. To then develop the technique to ensure its return takes time too. I don't think many people would be able to pick one up and instinctively throw it to ensure its return. Chances are if someone picks one up and throws it in the correct manner even if not entirely successful they have grown up watching people hunt with it also most likely to be a child. Pre colonisation many games and kids play were about developing skills needed to live. So before boys were of an age to be relied upon to provide the food they had the necessary skills.
@@kristalpower292 in school we had elders come and not only show us how to make them but also how to throw them properly as well as teaching us about aboriginal history and the dream time amongst other things it was always my favorite time of the year the canteen served emu and kangaroo and i learned about the good and bad history of my home i still have two boomerangs made by my little sister and i mine does come back hers doesn't she wasn't one for listening
@@kristalpower292 So interesting and true.
My father who made some great ones, and taught me how to throw them, was a white man.
He intended no disrespect, far from it.
He also knew some bush stuff and shared it too. Like, you can eat this or that, something about rubbing bracken tips on bites. He was amazing at starting the campfire…saw him eat witchety grubs…
I secretly thought he must have had indigenous heritage, but genetic testing has shown I was mistaken. I was a little disappointed, but not surprised.
@@TheTynell1 Oh that’s just beautiful.
I was lucky enough to have had Elders, from the far north, come to our primary school for at least a week. We sat on the floor and didn’t make a sound, or even wriggle.
It was around 1970, school was Rosanna Golf Links PS.
(Slightly odd name for a school. I never thought of that before, in 50 years!)
It was very unusual at the time. I wish I remembered more of it.
@jessovenden mine was the 90s, and now it's done in some schools as part of nadoc Week
I’m glad you kept watching and that you’re open to finding out more than what your told. ❤
Cochineal is the red colour you were thinking of. It’s made by squishing a South American bug. Green ants are added in the process of making green ant gin as it adds a citrus flavour, not a colour.
And sorry for the correction…..Mt Kosciusko pronounced Koz ee os ko
sounds more like a sneeze when pronounced in polish.
I knew the Director of Babe back in the late 70s in Sydney. He shared a house with a friend of mine. Lovely human. Heart of gold. He made movies on a budget. Then Babe became a hit. A lot of the cast are Australian
Hunting boomerangs are differently shaped and not intended to return
In North Queensland the boomerangs of the rainforest peoples were smaller, 4 pointed star shapes, because they fly very straight and fast, needed for getting between branches to hit birds and small animals up in the trees.
Trust a Brit to FK this up aey.... If it's curved it's a boomerang hahahha
No, there are hunting boomerangs that are designed to return. Youre wrong.
@@leechgully not what they were saying, they were pointing out that common boomerangs aren't for hunting, traditionally they weren't even decorated, unless for ornamental purposes (gifts etc), I have never seen a hunting or war boomerang that returned, some will hook around and come part way back, but never seen one that could fully return
@@leechgully I am not sure about "killing" hunting boomerangs, because there was good reason to have killer boomerangs fly straight so as to accurately hit the target, but I do know of hunting boomerangs that were returners that were designed to be relatively noisy and to fly low over bushes etc to scare out hiding animals which would then be speared as they ran toward another hiding place. Those returning boomerangs would definitely be considered 'hunting' boomerangs.
I also suspect the curving flight of a returner would be very effective thrown into a flock of birds, with a high probability of knocking at least one bird out of the sky on its curved path. I am speculating on that, but I have witnessed the hunting technique of throwing of a returning boomerang to scare critters, and then spearing them. Requires great speed and skill, but is quite astounding to see.
While the heavy hooked style of kangaroo killing boomerangs are best known as hunting boomerangs, and they did indeed not-return, I can confirm that returning boomerangs were an important part of the various hunting techniques used by Aboriginals.
I don't think a lot of people are aware of the many different sizes and shapes of boomerangs that were made for many different purposes. My favorites are the star shaped boomerangs from North Queensland rainforests that are small and designed to fly between branches in trees to knock down animals and birds up in the tree canopy.
How do you remember a PM who disappeared presumed drowned? With the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool of course!
There is also the Harold Holt Memorial Naval Communication Station in Exmouth, WA, which used to be an American naval base with a huge VLF antenna array (the size of a small town) once used by the American military to spy on Soviet submarines in the Indian Ocean. (You can see the hexagonal array at the tip of the peninsula from space - check out Google Earth or Maps.)
And we made the rhyming slang to disappear quickly or "to do the bolt" is to do "the Harold Holt" or just the Harold once your circle knows the slang. As in "where's Davo, it's his shout", "Oh, he's done the Harold and disappeared, the cunt".
Melbourne used to have an electorate called the Division of Batman. For a time the representative of Batman was the Shadow Minister of Justice.
The difference is that it's pronounced "bat-m'n", not "bat-man".
With sweets we differentiate between lollies and chocolate. When referring to wanting some chocolate, we specifically say chocolate. When referring to other types of sweets soft and hard we refer to them as lollies. I think they use the term candycane for a specific lolly.
And a lollipop is considered by Australians to be a lolly.
@@DeepThought9999 Yeah basically if not chocolate it's a lolly.
@@Zygon13 So we include lozenges, gum-based sweets, redskins, musk sticks etc in "lollies", but not what Americans call "candy bars". We generally call things like Mars, Cherry Ripe, Picnic etc "chocolate bars". Collectively, they'd be called "sweets", I guess, but a lot of people call dessert, specifically , "sweets". Depends on context.
Yes, candy canes are those lollies you hang on Christmas trees. They are in the shape of a walking stick.
Hello Ryan. Yes " Babe " is an Australin movie. And the farmer's wife in this movie is our very own Magda Zubanski. You featured a comedy skit not long ago of her and Jane Kennedy ; "....I said Love, I said Pet, I said, you got a nerve to leave me standing on your very door-step in the blistering heat, while you just thrash around inside having a grand mall (?) siezure in the air-conditioning. "
She’s also Sharon from Kath and Kim 😊
That's Jane Turner. Jane Kennedy is a different person.
@gusdrivinginaustralia6168 Yes. You're right. Weren't they hilarious ?
When he says that koala, wombat, etc come from "the aboriginal language", he really means they come from "an aboriginal language", of which there are hundreds. "Koala" comes from the Dharug language. In our local indigenous language, Gumbaynggirr, koalas are "dunggirr".
my former in-laws family have done their research - they are descended from a boy who at the age of 14, was sentenced to 14 years - for supposedly stealing a handkerchief. In court he denied having stolen it and said that some boys he had just met gave it to him then called the police on him. The policeman gave evidence against him but agreed that a gang of street urchins had reported him. He had just arrived in Manchester to look for work. It was his first day there. But he was convicted.
Had he been younger they might have sent him to a workhouse, but they sent him to the hulks and then to NSW in the 1830’s
So our convict ancestors were often not terrible criminals. There’re were also many Irish political prisoners amongst them, who brought the spirit of rebellion with them.
yep, sadly a lot of people were framed like this, 1 of my ancestors was sent out in a similar way, her son became Ben Hall, the bush ranger
they must have been getting kickbacks or something, a female ancestor of mine was given a jacket to borrow for her walk home from work, when she returned she was accused of stealing it. another in ireland, a connoly, shot a pom dead when he came collecting some tax or such, his son hid him in a wine barrel and wheelbarrowed him down to the docks. he bought passage on a ship and got him out once they were at sea. he popped up and said "well done son, now when do we get to america"
son "aah, yeah about that"
I apparently had an ancestor on the 1st fleet but they weren't a convict - it was a cop. There's a good chance that cop did far worse things than the convicts ever did. The police force were not exactly known for treating people with respect or kindness in the 18th century.
@@CoralMcPherson But they had a lot of rum.
Other British political prisoners too, for such serious offences as trying to start trade unions
More movies than you think are filmed in australia . Pirates of the Caribbean for instance
dont forget the matrix & mission impossible 🙃🙂
Babe was directed by George Miller.
Maker of mad Max.
Other movies are made here by Americans.
And “Voyage of the Dawn Treader”: I’ve been on the boat at Warner Bros Movie World (Gotta say the whole thing!).
The others were FILMED here, but Babe & Croc D were all-Australian. Financed, filmed, premiered (I think).
Aquaman
@@andreahall523 EW lol
Not only was Magda Szubanski in Babe, but so was James Cromwell as the farmer. He also played Zefram Cochrane in Star Trek First Contact.
Love the Zefram Cochrane reference 👏🏻
That "kangaroo = I don't understand you" has a variant in a Terry Pratchett book in which a place was named "Your Finger, You Fool", so named when an official explorer pointed somewhere and asked a local, "What is that?"
Ah, The Lost Continent! I adore Terry Pratchett's books.
Fun Fact: Melbourne has an annual festival called “Moomba”. It got its name when an Aboriginal filmmaker had his visa to the USA cancelled and couldn’t meet Walt Disney, then when asked by the VIC government to give a new festival an inclusive name he, still upset the government told the USA to cancel his Visa suggested “Moomba”, saying it meant “coming together”. It was named that but it turned out it actually translated to “Up your arse!”. Despite this, the name has stuck and it’s still celebrated today.
Babe was filmed not far from me in a town called Robertson, west of Wollongong.
POM is an abbreviation for Prisoner Of her/his Majesty POM. Absolutely nothing to do with a fruit
Thank you! I saw that and went... wtf?
It's actually prisoner of Mother England, apparently the prisoners had P.O.M.E. on their shirts. I remember learning this back in high school when we were doing early settlement history
It's not know where it comes from. It has unknown origins.
Its from the fruit
True. When convicts were initially sent, they became knicknamed POHMs - Prisoner Of Her Majesty, and the name stuck for all English people.
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Quokka lives on Rotto (Rottnest island) off the west coast of Australia. Friendliest marsupials and have no problem helping themselves to your tent and camp kitchen.
That description of the dismissal of Gough Whitlam, was so underrated. It was so much more complex than that!
"the Ashes" came about because when the Aussies thrashed the Poms(England) in a test series, The term originated in a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, immediately after Australia's 1882 victory at The Oval, its first Test win on English soil. The obituary stated that English cricket had died, and that "the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia
bloody oath well done sport 🙂🙃
and they burned the bails from that test, and that's what is in the famous urn. (which I think is a repurposed perfume bottle)
@@davidmccarthy6390 yep thats right mate
And they’re still winging around it.
@@anthonyj7989 yeah, well whingeing Poms lol lol lol
The sacking of the Whitlam Government in 1975 is commonly called The Dismissal.
There is also a tv mini series re-enacting what happened.
It is still very controversial.
I thought America was responsible for overthrowing the Whitlam government?
@@kyato2480
It stuck to the facts and worth watching
They were called poker machines because the first ones had playing cards on the reels, and youi won prizes by getting various poker hands.
Also the reasom they are mainly 5 reel machines here, while the USA has mainly 3 reel ones.
Harold Holt and LBJ were great friends… LBJ flew all the way to Australia for his memorial service.
So many people are repeating the "Prisoner of Mother England" story or the slightly less silly "Prisoner of His Majesty", but it's nonsense -- "intellectual vandalism", as one writer described it.
It is, rather, a fairly recent folk etymology, probably from the 1950s. I remember my grandfather talking about "pommies" sometime in the early to mid 1950s and telling me it was rhyming slang from "pomegranate". He added that the pale, sometimes "green around the gills" pommies (if you have seen a partly ripened pomegranate you will know the colour) ripened to a rich deep red after a few hours in the Australian sun.
Words made up from the initial letters of other words (acronyms) were extremely rare -- ANZAC is one of the few -- before World War II, but "pommy" goes back a lot further.
The word "acronym" itself was coined in 1943 -- the term had little use before then.
Of course, transportation had ended about a century earlier
The returning boomerang was only used to disturb the birds out of a tree not for attacking them. They have others they used to attack the prey. .
When I first visited Australia, I thought they had a SHEDLOAD of brothels on the Gold Coast.
Turns out XXXX is just a type of beer (almost every bar has a big XXXX sign out the front of it)
The number of X's is an old British Empire-era rating for the alcohol content of beer. in this instance the rating became the brand
the XXXX brewery in Milton, Brisbane would have seemed like one very large brothel. Funnily enough, the first drink produced by the company was the XXX sparkling ale - good thing they ended up adding another X
😂😂😂
Why do Queenslanders drink XXXX?
Come on, you all know it.
(Proud Queenslander who doesn’t drink at all.)
@@judithstrachan9399 Because they can't spell 'BEER'?
I was in Canberra on a school trip just after John Kerr sacked Whitlam. Some of us got into trouble for booing Malcolm Fraser from the bus.
We went on a school trip to Canberra in 1981 and were all sitting quietly in the House of Reps when a woman threw an egg at him. Hilarity.
A “Like” from me for booing Fraser from your school bus. Here in Sydney in the 1960s we had a VERY famous radio presenter/disk jockey called Ward “Pally” Austin. We were coming back from school sports in the school bus when someone spotted WPA sitting in traffic in his loud (I think from memory it was bright pink) American convertible (roof down, of course) so naturally we all went nuts, hanging out of windows and shouting hello and other things, which elicited a big smile and cheery wave from him. Our on-board teacher was not impressed so we finished up all being placed on detention and missing school sport the next week as well. It was worth it, though. Fun times!
Good on you! I was still a Liberal voter at the time, but still thought Fraser's/Kerr's actions were reprehensible.
I had actually taken the day off work to study the Russian Revolution for a History exam when the news broke, so I was in Sydney Uni's Fisher Library.
A young woman I had never met said to me, "Kerr can't do that!" I answered that I thought he could, but that he shouldn't.
I got to know Kerr's daughter through work five or six years later. She was a somewhat commanding figure, but I got on quite well with her. And, a few years ago, my younger son was working in IT and mentioned one of his colleagues with a distinctive surname -- Kerr's grandson.
Goodonya, I'd still boo him if I had the chance.
@judepower4425 he did actually improve with age.
We call all candy lollies except for chocolate. Chocolate is chocolate. You'll find all candy in the confectionery aisle of shops
Fun fact. We don't call an english person a pommy because pomegranates rhyme with immigrants. Its because POME stands for Prisoners Of Mother England in reference to the first non indiginous people to settle Australia, who were transported here as prisoners of mother England.
Fun fact, it no.t its from pomegranates but its from the colour they go in the sun
@@freddy9120 haa
If you're going to go the "Prisoner" route it's Prisoner of Her Majesty
@@freddy9120 fun fact ITS FROM THEM BEING PRISONERS
@@TheTynell1 it not though the term came out late 1800s early 1900s by Australians talking about the English
66 The Governor General fired Whitlam and his government, and they lost the subsequent election.
The GG is the queen/kings representative in Australia and has powers nobody else does, such as that one. Until the 1930's (GG's go back before federation) they were all born and raised in the UK and were not even citizens here.
Every state also has a governor, which is the same as the GG, but for states. What you call state governors in the USA are called Premiers here.
Love your comments but the only thing I’d add is it has to be a double disillusiotion before the queens rep can intervene.
There is a conspiracy theory that the CIA was behind the 1975 Dismissal (soft coup) because Whitlam wanted to close Pine Gap spy base.
There was a lot of shady financial deals done at the time by the Government but also the CIA were allegedly involved in a banking and murder (Nugan Hand bank) to launder drug money from Vietnam.
So weird it could be possible.
@@Shazzam74 sort of true, but in 1975 Kerr dissolved the parliament as they were holding up gvt funding. It was a deadlock that could've gone on for ages, so Kerr intervened. The houses were disloved because of what Kerr directed, not the other way around.
I guarantee you Whitlam did not ask Kerr to do that. Fraser may have though, and probably did.
Nope. Hulks are ships that are ships that are afloat but are incapable of going to sea, usually because their propulsion systems have not yet been installed or have been removed. The prison hulks of ca. 1777-1800 had had their masts taken out. Prisoners were kept in hulks in ports in the UK. But they weren't - and could not have been - sent anywhere in hulks, because hulks don't go anywhere. They were sent in transport ships.
Nothing can be a descendant of both wallabies and koalas, because wallabies and koalas cannot interbreed. Quokkas are related to wallabies and koalas. But then, beavers are related to deer and rhinoceros- it's hardly worth remarking on.
"Poker machines" are just slot machines. They have nothing to do with loving or even playing poker.
About the GG firing the PM. In that particular instance there had been a lot of anti-democratic skulduggery by the premiers of Victoria and Queensland, that gave the Opposition control of the Senate. {There was a hefty constitutional amendment in 1977 to prevent those tricks from being played again (the new Ch 1 part I §15. It is nearly two pages long)}. But as for the Dismissal itself, you have to remember that the PM is not actually elected as such and has no term or tenure of office. The person who can get a budget through the Parliament is appointed PM by the GG, and ought to resign when he or she loses the confidence of Parliament. Then if nobody can get a budget through the Parliament the GG is supposed to dissolve Parliament and call elections for a new one. The Dismissal in 1975 was controversial because of the aforesaid shenanigans, and because the PM of the day wanted to play chicken with the Senate instead of advising the GG to dissolve Parliament. And in the end, it resulted in prompt elections.
This is how parliamentary systems work, both constitutional monarchies and parliamentary republics. They have a much better record for stability than presidential republics, and they dominate the top ten lists on most measures of well-run countries. So the system is weird, and runs counter to American notions of the separation of powers, but it works well in practice.
He's probably talking about the Australian box office, not the world total box office. As well as being wrong.
Captain Cook didn't explore "the land". He sailed past it, mostly.
The Netherlands is lower than Australia, and I think it's flatter, too. Lots of small-island countries are lower than Australia, too. I think he's misquoting a statistic that Australia is the lowest and flattest continent.
The gold rushes actually connected Australia to California, because a lot of Californian gold seekers came to Australia from California. The ones that went back took Australian things with them, like eucalypts, which is when they started being planted in California.
a bunch of em fought at the eureka stockade and gave themselves the name of the mounted californian pistol brigade, or something along those lines. they fought well apparently.
POME = Prisoner Of Mother England. Never heard the pomegranate reference before.
Or POHM - Prisoner Of Her Majesty
Actually the pomegranate is the correct one. It’s been proven from this 1912 Perth newspaper
Also we were advised to this effect: "Beware of the Pomegranate Johns (immigrant policemen). If they catch you asleep it's odds on them putting the boot in. The local chaps are all right. They do give a man a chance. Although this is a public recreation ground, some of the Johns won't let the hard-up people use it, especially at night. There's one bloke comes down here who's a fair nark. We don't understand his language too well, him being a 'pommy,' but he lets us know what he means all right.
The ANZAC BOOK of 1916 also supports the pomegranate theory .
Why would call them prisoners of mother England ? The prisoners were already settled- we were the prisoners.. they’re the immigrants- they weren’t prisoners 😂
Yes, Australians eat a lot of fish. I think much of this is because of the traditional Fish & Chips shops, a concept that was brought in from the UK in the early 20th century, but which didn't make it to America. In Victoria the most popular fish from a chippy shop is Flake, which is Shark. So add that as another entry on the list of Australian Peculiarities: Australians eat sharks.
And the sharks eat a few Aussies each year to get even.
@@gregoryparnell2775 Top comment on YT. Love it!
@@gregoryparnell2775, I thought shark victims were mostly tourists.
Probably thinking of crocs.
I went to England to visit some relatives many years ago and we decided on fish and chips. The guy asked what fish? I said flake. Mum laughed and told him it was shark. The look of shock on his face was priceless. 😂
@@judithstrachan9399 Sadly the shark victims are mostly Aussie surfers.
The $42M figure for crocodile Dundee was Australian box office total (worldwide was $328M), Babe did $254M worldwide (and $30M in Aus).
Yes, Australia does deserve better internet, and was getting it when one government created a scheme to roll out fiber optic cabling to most places, and then there was a change of government and they nixed the idea simply because it was the other party that had started it. The new government said that the old copper telephone wires were good enough, and fiber installation was halted. As a result Australia has a mix of fast internet via fiber optic and molasses speed internet via copper wire. Oh, and that government [Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull] spent more money establishing the copper wire system than the fiber optic was projected to cost, so go figure.
Another ‘vision’ project with no realistic costings, parameters, longevity, that was pushed into partisan electorates. Forced consumers onto less reliable systems to garner electoral votes.
Refused to consider the rapid pace of technological advancement that would render the imposed system obsolete well before the roll-out was completed. Resulting in an expensive white elephant for the next government to try to reshape into less of an encumbrance.
Like all ‘vision’ projects, don’t let the 8 year old’s school science project get taxpayer funding.
Money does not grow on trees!
I've got lightning fast HFC. 1Gbs.
Yay! As of this year I have - at last- got FTTP! It's a paltry 100Mbps tho 😒
Pommy is short for Prisoner of His/Her Majesty (POM - Pommy)
We learnt in the 60s and 70s it was actually POM Prisoner of Mother England .
We learnt in the 60s and 70s it was actually POM Prisoner of Mother England .
POHM Prisoner Of His/Her Majesty
we always were told the opposite meant a Person Of Means, in other words someone who wasn't a prisoner who funded their own trip here...
No.
That's a fairly recent folk etymology. Words made up from the initial letters of other words (acronyms) were extremely rare -- ANZAC is one of the few -- before World War II, but "pommy" goes back a lot further. "Prisoner of Mother England" is a quite recent idea, probably from the 1950e. I remember my grandfather talking about "pommies" sometime in the early to mid 1950s and telling me it was rhyming slang from "pomegranate".
No official description of a convict would refer to "Mother England" which was never an official term, and more a sentimental term used in relation to war or the desire to get back. Even so, it wasn't particularly common.
The word "acronym" itself was coined in 1943 -- the term had little use before then.
Of course, transportation had ended about a century earlier
Group watch of the movie Rabbit Proof Fence?
Babe was filmed in Robertson NSW. I know of the family member that owned the black and white Border Collie in the movie. Very intelligent dogs 🐶
The funniest thing about the black box flight recorder is that it's orange.
The didgeridoo is essentially a hollowed tree limb the sounds are produced using the mouth vibrating the lips. 😊
we had a really talented person play one at our school during an assembly, it was awesome
And they use a rhythmic breathing technique as well.
@@jennifercampbell7698With skilled players being able to inhale through the nose while exhaling through the mouth or something similar, I’ve been told. I can’t do it so I dunno if it’s true.
@@jennifercampbell7698 yes circular breathing not easy to do 🙃
@@JoBarnes-x2n Ah, yes that was the name I was looking for! 😄
Didgeridoo is a tube with a hole at either end, no side holes.
Sounds are controlled with lip movement like with a Bugle, as well as vocalisations down the tube and breath control. It also requires circular breathing to play continuously, like Bag Pipes.
The term 'black box' existed before the black box for aircraft was invented. It was a term that was meant to convey anything operated but people didn't know what the inner workings were, so they were called 'black boxes' because such devices often were mounted in black boxes. As people like me tirelessly always point out, the aircraft black box is [first of all] not black; it's orange to make them easier to find in a crash scene, and second there are two of them in an aircraft: one for audio recording and the other for the flight data. So, because people didn't know how the flight recorders worked, somebody attached the already existing term 'black box' to them and the name stuck.
That video may be D tier in terms of facts, but B+ in terms of banter.
A lot of movies especially Disney movies are actually filmed in Australia. At Warner bros movie world they have movie studios which was where Thor: ragnarok was filmed as well as surrounding locations on the Gold Coast. Pirates of the Caribbean was also filmed partly at sea world and partly at a clearing behind a local shopping centre.
Pommy is a cute way of saying a POM. In it's real history, it was said when referring to convicts that came out to Australia in the ships. It stood for Prisoner Of Her Majesty (or His Majesty) - i.e. POHM.
Debunked
slll.cass.anu.edu.au/centres/andc/meanings-origins/p
G'Day Ryan! This guy you're reacting to really is a few prawns short of a barbie! Lake Eyre is 15m below sea level. That's METRES you dingbat, not MILES! (To clarify, that was not directed at you, Ryan. I Iove your content. Look up my town: Finley, NSW)
What do you call a boomerang, that doesn't come back? A stick!😅😅😅
Lost
Updated answer I heard from an 8yr old 🤣🤣
Give that 8yr old a pat on the back.
When the Ashes was mentioned those players were definitely not playing or competing for the Ashes. Cricket has three main forms of professional Cricket, Test matches, One day Cricket, and Twenty twenty Cricket. The Ashes is played for under Test Match rules and the players depicted are playing under One Day Cricket rules. With Test Match rules all players must wear all white uniforms, sometimes called "Creams", and the team uniforms depicted are bright, single coloured uniforms as worn for One Day Cricket, which as a form of Cricket does not compete for the Ashes.
Ryan, if you drank VB you’ll be pissed as a fart in less than a six pack 😂
G'day Ryan, most hunting boomerangs did not return. Those used to knock birds out of the sky did return and became more well-known.
The green ants they are talking about are green weaver ants and their abdomens have a tangy slightly acidic taste like citrus. They actually use the nest and ants to make like a tea and is said to be helpful if you have a cold. They are yummy, I've eaten many green ant bums 😂
Then there are green *head* ants that are inedible and their sting really hurts
@@coastalgardeningexternalcl7680 me roo
@@janehall7737 yep know those suckers well too, ouch alright
Here is a fact it’s illegal to call an ANZAC biscuit a ANZAC cookie it’s listed on the Government page about the proper use of the word ANZAC and can be jailable or fineable offence
In primary school they got an Aboriginal guy to come one day and try to teach us how to thrown boomerangs properly. I was terrible at it. I couldn't get it to come back, but some could after only a few tries. The speed that it comes back at is quite intimidating though. You don't want to be standing right in the way of it. Kinda off to the side a bit and reach out to catch it. It's a fantastic weapon though if you're eating whatever you just slapped out of the sky. - edit. Also, boomerangs you buy at gift shops aren't hunting boomerangs.
Mr Holt was the prime minister that went for a swim and never came back. They named a public pool after him.
There was a debate in Britain whether transportation actually encouraged crime - it was free passage to a vastly better and more prosperous lifestyle for the UK underclass
The ones transported were the smart one's not only did they get a free ticket they left the daft pommies to their wet miserable place while we basked in the warm.
As long as they survived….
@@judithstrachan9399 - 1 in 85 ain't too bad a gamble. "A death rate of 1 in 85 transportees in the early years had fallen to 1 in 180 by the end of transportation. From 1815, every convict ship was required to carry a naval surgeon to supervise sanitary conditions and prisoner health."
For didgeridoo, try listening to some of William Barton's playing. The sounds he can make are truly incredible! Next level.
Ryan you're kidding. Right? Re not having a vibrant film industry in Australia? We make heaps.
We made the first full length movie in the world.
Paul Hogan's "shrimp on the bbq" is the biggest add ever of all time.
“American reacts to fast forward funniest bits” your video from two months ago featured Magda Szubanski, the female human star of babe.
As for slang, if you “do the Harold Holt”, you’re taking the bolt, and disappearing lol
Harold Holt has a Memorial swimming Pool named after him. Made me laugh.
26:54 The internet numbers are dragged down because of the outback. In 2005, In the city, I have 3x faster than that my friends has in the Netherlands, using optical fibre. Where we do get hit is to communicate with US & Europe, it has to use cables at the bottom of ocean.
My paternal grandpa lived next door to Harold Holt as a child. They even shared a nanny. My dad was named Harold. Some Aussies with dark senses of humour call salt Harold Holt.
It's culturally insensitive for women to play the didgeridoo. So don't do it.
i've heard it used more as "do a harold holt" or bolt if the cheese n kisses is looking for you.
The bug your talking about is cochineal. Red food dye for icing, cakes, soft drinks, cordials just about anything red in food and drink.
Well a load of BS. Hulks were decommissioned naval vessels that served as prisons. There is no way they would have made the journey to Aus. All convicts were transported by private shipping under contract to the navy. Admittedly the conditions were not much better, although there were fines and other conditions in place to ensure that convicts arrived in as good health as possible.
They were first kept in hulks in England then transferred to the ships for travel
@@Fiona-zc6oz Oh so true. Must own up to leaving that bit out. It was their way of relieving pressure on the overcrowded prisons of the time.
Thank you for correcting that BS. I have done it on other clips. It may even have been the one he was watching.
The first official gold discovered was in Bathurst in 1928, but The Gold Rush was in Victoria, mostly centred on Ballarat.
The famous discovery that kickstarted the actual Rush being in Bunniyong in 1951 about 15 miles from Ballarat. Bathurst is in NSW, nowhere near the Golden Triangle.
🎉 How cool! Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO is one of my favorite songs of all time! Get always in a good mood when I hear it! Love the song!🫶
I have ant trauma from green ants. I pushed my friend on a swing into one of their nests once, they build them in trees, by accident. We were screeming as I was swiping them off her. They have a nasty bite.
My dad asked me to help cut branches on one tree in the yard when I was 7 or 8. Friggin green ants🤣.
Dad and I were both rolling around in the fish pond and I swear that tree has never been pruned since😂
When they bite you, you bite back- they're bloody good lol!
@@becsterbrisbane6275 not Soo good when they get in the undies 😅😭
the red dye is cochineal, crimson-dye-producing insect of the Dactylopiidae family. Not to be confused with the crimson-dye-producing insects of the Margarodidae family sometimes called Armenian cochineal and Polish
Hunting boomerangs are different to the ones that return. They are actually a kids toy. Keeping them entertained and training them at the same time
10:20 star wars episode 3 was filmed in australia so that should count as an australia film which im sure made more
Comes from the acronym POM meaning “Prisoner Of her Majesty” Used as a disparaging term for a British person, especially a recent immigrant. “Pommy” (or “pom”), a slang term for a British person, comes from the acronym POHM, which was used to designate a “Prisoner of His Majesty.”17 Jan 2023
Not all of what the US calls candy is a lolly, some of it is called chocolates. These are grouped as confectionery. That word is mostly used by shops.
But I'd call M&Ms lollies. So you wouldn't?
@@bencodykirk, good question.
We call a lollie pop a lollie pop
Or lollipop.
We call them pommies because they have ruddy complexions like pomegranates
Pommy was once spelt Pome. It is an anachronym for Prisoner Of Mother England.
POHM. Prisoner of her majesty'
I was told it was Prisoner of Her Majesty. POHM. But same same I guess.
I read that myth had been well and truly debunked? The story closer to the truth is that it is from Pomegranate- rhyming slang - immigrant, Jimmy Grant etc - this has been proven by the following excerpt from the Perth Sunday times 1912:
Also we were advised to this effect: "Beware of the Pomegranate Johns (immigrant policemen). If they catch you asleep it's odds on them putting the boot in. The local chaps are all right. They do give a man a chance. Although this is a public recreation ground, some of the Johns won't let the hard-up people use it, especially at night. There's one bloke comes down here who's a fair nark. We don't understand his language too well, him being a 'pommy,' but he lets us know what he means all right
@@thatfelladownunder9396 That's how I've always known it as to for the past 40 years.
@@thatfelladownunder9396Prisoner of Mother England was what we learnt in the 60s, 70s
Hulks didn’t leave England, they were permanently moored in the Thames. convicts were transported on fleets of ships, starting in 1788
Babe was filmed in the NSW town of Robertson, about 30 minutes from my home. The Border Collie pups used in the film belonged to a guy I knew, a local Border Collie breeder.
There were two types of Boomerangs, non-returning ones were heavier and designed for killing, the curve giving better flight control.
Returning Ones were used in Bird Hunting and intended to look like a hovering hawk and scare the birds either into diving into nets or else return to their nests where the non returning ones could then be used.
Non returning ones were also used for small game and big fish, and warfare, as well as general tools like a Digging Stick.
As well as the swimming pool, there's also the "Naval Communication Station Harold E. Holt" and the "Harold Holt Fisheries Reserves". So we named a few water related items after him.
That reminded me that there was a US Navy warship named Harold E Holt, named after our missing Prime Minister. From the relevant Wikipedia article:
“USS Harold E. Holt (FF-1074) was a Knox-class frigate of the United States Navy. She was named for Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, who had disappeared while swimming in December 1967. The ex-Harold E. Holt hulk was sunk as a target during RIMPAC 2002.”
There were different boomerangs for different things, some were made to strike and stun the animal, some to dazzle/distract the animal and some were intended to "put the animal to sleep" completely.
Ryan, you have to listen to the voice-over. The movie info was for Australia only, so Babe did quite well for a tiny country like Oz. Also, the movie industry of Australia began with the 1906 production of The Story of the Kelly Gang, arguably the world's first feature film.
My cousin played in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for the beautiful music in this movie. He didn’t really know what kind of movie it would be.
Hunting boomerangs do not return. The boomerangs that come back were specifically made to return, because they are kids' toys.
I think the 1975 thing was about Gough Whitlam, it is really interesting, albeit concerning how our prime minister was ousted from government by the queen. I recommend Mr M History and his video on it
Well I lived through all the scandals of the Whitlam administration. I was in my twenties and learning about politics so that I could decide who to vote for.
The Senate controlled appropriations and supply Bills. To get around the legislative framework, Whitlam’s administration tried to borrow money from shady foreign investors in the Khemlani Affair. They lied about it in Parliament and refused to call an election to resolve the deadlock.
So Fraser requested that the Governor-General, the Queen’s viceregal representative, dismiss both Houses of Parliament to allow fresh elections. Fraser was appointed as the head of the caretaker government to oversee elections.
The voters elected Fraser’s administration in a landslide, proving that the G-G was correct in the dismissal.
Facts are facts. The voters decided in a democratic election. We were there. The misinformation that has been spread is not accurate.
All bills have to pass both houses. Reps, no prob, Labor in control. Senate, coalition in control, sure they could win a double dissolution, blocked supply.
Turned out they were right.
Dog fence is likely why we get so much lamb. In the US coyotes and wolves would get it first.
Pom, or Pommy comes from an acronym of "Prisoner Of her/his Majesty"
The internet is so slow because of Rupert Murdoch
He seems to be responsible for everything the left doesn't like.
Yes and he causes cyclones, bushfires, my team losing at the footy, the Newcastle earthquake, my car breaking down. There is no problem in the world that he is not personally responsible for.
@@Guvament_bs He literally lobbied the government for copper internet cables instead of fibre optic cables because he didn’t want streaming services to challenge his monopoly on Paid TV in Australia. Remember he owns Foxtel.
@@Markstubation01
"He literally lobbied the government for copper internet cables instead of fibre optic cables because he didn’t want streaming services to challenge his monopoly on Paid TV in Australia."
Evidence please.
Murdoch seems to be responsible for everything the left doesn't like.
A didgeridoo is a hollow tube played like bugle, just constant air pressure vibrating down the tube. A tube like a vacuum cleaner tube is one.
I was in Parliament the very evening before the 1975 Dismissal. Naturally, nobody knew what was coming in the morning.
Visiting or participating?
Im pretty sure the movie section doesnt make sense because the video is talking about profit alone. The 250mil at box office ignores cost of production...
The person giving these facts is a pommy “from England” who knows nothing about Australia
You can eat green ants butts, they taste sweet.
you first
I have too. theyre nice. Tangy citrus flavour. Thats why people are suggesting they could be used flavouring drinks.
19:03 Pom is actually an acronym for prisoner of her/his majesty
I learnt about the convicts being sent to Australia in English class !