Reaction To Things Australians Do That Confuse Americans
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2023
- Reaction To Things Australians Do That Confuse Americans
This is my reaction to Things Australians Do That Confuse Americans
In this video I react to things that are common in Australian but maybe not so much in USA or other countries
#australia #culture #reaction
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For those who dont know,
Chicken salt does not contain chicken. It was a salt seasoning originally designed for roast chicken, but we worked out it was amazing on fries/chips/potato
Yes!! Like Pumpkin spice!
Or if you want something that’ll really blow your mind, get the chicken stock called Vegeta and put that on your hot chips. You’ll love that shit.
@@Devastator0 ive only been told you cant eat it as it is unless you cook with it like it cant be eaten as it is straight from the container
Just as frozen Coke is the ultimate Coke, chicken salt is the ultimate salt but adding processed flavouring to salt doesn’t make it healthier just a freezing Coke doesn’t make poisonous amounts of sugar mixed with rust remover healthier. They’ll both kill you slowly.
@@dongoDP1 that is an absolute lie. You 100% can.
Doesn’t take much to confuse Americans 🤣
How true 😂
"Drop Bears" are a good sell. Gets 'em every time!
@@rexharrison6827hell yeah, they terrify me 🤣, it amazes me how many tourists get suckered into that one , a bit like NZ’s flesh eating sheep - there’s even a movie about them so it must be true 😀 (Black Sheep)
@@Chris-NZ "Black Sheep" based on a True Story as told by a high country shearer while relaxing with a crate of Speights!
Vowels - that confuses them... That and not being gun-happy.
Our pedestrian crossing are designed to cater for the blind and hearing impaired, the sound beeps slow, then fast when it's safe to cross. You can also place your hand on the arrow which vibrates in time with the beeps. (Also the arrow points in the direction of the crossing to aid the blind)
I seen somplace lately that they are now being used in other Countries.
@@patrickbrady447 that's awesome!
Singapore I think has them.
Oh, and a ranga has ginger hair. I’m not going to say it…
Old Aussie joke….
What’s the definition of a real bastard?
Someone who walks up to blind people at traffic light crossings and says, “byeee-op bop-op-op-op-op-op-op….”!
Malaysia is one of the countries with a lot of subtle Australian influence so it makes sense you understood a lot of these
Is it Australian influence, or are the similarities both a legacy of being part of the British Empire (and still being Commonwealth countries)?
@@leotavira7854 Australian Influence
@@leotavira7854 Milo ain't British just as an example. Then there is also the Christmas island immigration history. That's more about more modern culture and items that the two cross migration population heavily share. I just happen to be an Aussie with parents from Johor.
the Pedestrian Button in australia is one of the greatest things to exist. they are designed with accessibility in mind and adapt to their environment for sound.
just say its for blind people, you dont need to try and sound smart while not even addressing why they are actually there
@@forget2bhuman993Not just blind but heard of hearing as well - put your hand on the arrow part of the button and you feel the pulses if you otherwise can't hear the pulsing of the arrow.
You'd be surprised how much of civil infrastructure is hostile to those with hearing problems especially combined with sight problems, heard of hearing is an invisible disability especially when combined with aural sensory overload from traffic.
@@forget2bhuman993it’s not just for blind people though
@@forget2bhuman993it’s for people with disabilities, period.
And NZ
Not only do our pedestrian crossings make a noise, they also vibrate a little with each tick, so that people who have hearing and sight issues can put their fingers on the raised arrow above the button and feel when it's time to cross.
They are also sensitive to surrounding sound levels - if there is a lot of traffic noise they get louder.
So blind and deaf people can hate them too!
They are also positioned on the pole so that the face of them is perpendicular to the crossing direction. Ie if you follow the face in the direction of the arrow you will walk on the crossing.
And a lot of the sidewalks/paths in Australia leading up to roads and crossings have particular patterns of bumps to tell sight-challenged people where the crossings are and what direction they're in.
And then a 7 year old kid comes along, presses his ear against that arrow then nearly bursts his eardrums, I know this because I was that kid....don't be dumb kids
I was in NYC last year and Omg the coffee was terrible. The only good coffee shops we found were run by Aussies. I’m in Melbourne and have travelled to Italy a few times. I found the coffee to be very hit and miss. Coffee in Melbourne is consistently great.
Mate I run by a decent rule - if you go to a town in Australia and you can't find a reliable source of good coffee or good curry, the town is junk. I don't know if this is so elsewhere in the world.
My son is a barista at Tulla airport International terminal, the staff of the 6 cafe's he works from are constantly run off their feet by everyone dying for a descent cup of coffee.
@@treadingtheboards2875 the food service industry is a rat race no matter where you go. Even in smaller areas we were piled with people looking for food and beverages because they all came in at the same time. For some it's infectious but for others it can be very very stressful.
Coffee in Melbourne is consistently great. Melbourne itself however, isn't.
@@raviscott4853 awe Ravis, Melbourne is awesome.
Chicken salt originated in south Australia and is a unique combination of different spices. Including garlic, paprika, onion powder, celery, sea salt, chicken stock, curry Powder, table salt, white pepper. There are of course other versions with different ingredients. But these are usually the main ones.
no it is not it is made from chicken sweat when they are put on a treadmill for exercise
First was Chick Hanson's on Main North Road at Enfield n the early seventies...
@@stevemundy4511 Chicken Chef Blair Athol?
@@billyfunt Yes! Used to be Chick Hanson's. All the kids from Enfield High used to sneak over there...
we also have seasoning salt which is a different combination of things and doesn't taste like chicken flavoring but seasoning (hence the name).
On the Chicken salt, it is a uniquely Australian product, first made back in the 1980's in my very own home town of Gawler, South Australia. the guy that came up with it first used it as a rub on his roast chickens he sold in his fish & chip shop. then one day they used it on their chips, and it quickly became a hit. he eventually sold the recipe to a larger manufacturer, and it is now sold Australia wide, and is the single most popular seasoning used on hot chips across the country. I hope it can start being sold in other countries one day, you'll love it.
It's chicken salt or nothing!
Mitani Foods Saints Rd Salisbury
it’s extremely popular in nz too, i can’t really think of the last time i got normal salt on hot chips or something lmao
Oh is that why it's called chicken salt?! I never knew that. I'd rather have no salt if I can't have chicken salt.
We have ot in nz too
Frozen Coke = A+ on a hot day.
Chicken Salt = The only salt you will ever need on chips.
Coffee = Is amazing here I have traveled a lot of Europe and originally from Ireland and I can say hand on heart coffee from the Italian quarter of Sydney is something to behold.
Cafe culture is also lovely here.
We in Australia have so much to thank the Mediterranean immigrants for. Me personally, life, because my Gran was from Malta, LOL. But generally, our culture would be like cold porridge if it wasn't for them.
@@napalmnacey and potatoes 🥔 lots of potatoes 😊
Its a $50 fine here in nsw if you ride a bike without a helmet. It's ingrained in you as a kid like wearing a seatbelt in a car
@@johnnichol9412 Oh that's crazy, yeah when i was a kid in the 80s it was $50, i guess that's probably around $300ish with inflation now a days so yeah about the same.
We had cops park their motorbikes outside the bike racks at our school and rip kids a new asshole everytime one rocked up without one.. can't remember if they ever gave out tickets though.
i don't think they will fine u here in Tas, they will probably just ask u were your helmet is and tell u to go and get it, Tassie coppers are pre lenient on the matter really, too lenient if u ask me (i know because i live in Tasmania).@@johnnichol9412
Well you need to become a a curry sikh. They have religious privilege and do not need to wear a helmet. But, then again. I'm into equality. If they don't have to wear it neither do I...
@@Calliegun in the 80's there was no compulsory helmets and yes i am a kid of the 80's they only became compulsory in July of 1990 so how you got a fine for something that never existed is beyond me.
Also one thing to note about australia is that names of things change from state to state. For example, cocktail frankfurts are cheerios in QLD and little boys in other states. Or battered potato slices are Potato scallops in QLD, potato cakes in other states.
and then theres parmi vs parma..
Polony/fritz/devon/other state names I don’t know off the top of my head.
@gnu740 lmao its bologna brother
@@SupChiefzBologna and devon are different meats
Absolutely right. I went to nsw and asked for scallops and got potato cakes and im like what the f u been smokin?? 🤣🤣
Whipper snipper is probably more familar to you as a lawn trimer or edger or cord/line trimmer or even brush cutter. But the garden appliance's function is to snip off small bits of grass or plant leaves by whipping it repetitively with a cord or line, thus whipper snipper.
Yeah a whipper snapper is slang for a young child/toddler.... Whipper snipper is a lawn trimmer
Reckon they're called 'strimmers' in the UK
The Yanks call it a weed wacker
that's the word, i just couldn't remember it off the top of my head, yea Whipper Snipper here in Australia just makes more sense imo but that could be the Aussie bias in me XD.@@FlowerBot
We have dual flush because it conserves water and it was invented in Australia.
..."Bruce Thompson led Adelaide's Caroma bathroom products design team in developing a world-first dual-flush toilet cistern in 1980."
Eksy .. they just spelt it wrong, it's ESKY(to keep drinks cold).
Tracky Dacks = tracksuit pants
Whipper Snipper = line trimmer/weed whacker etc
Durries =Cigarettes
Ranga = Redhead(oRANGutan)
what about gobbie?
@@spankmeflanders1466 blowjob
@@spankmeflanders1466 .....Blowjob. Gob means mouth, hence a Gobbie.
@@spankmeflanders1466Going down
Okay the last two were new to me never heard it before not even when I use to smoke as we only ever called the fags or cigs
Your Partially right about penicillin. The Scottish discovered it (by accident). But it was the Aussies who purified it and actually invented the method of mass production. Florey refused to patent it. The Yanks did instead, even though they had absolutely no input whatsoever. So that’s stolen money, we’ll sort of.
It was an Aussie leading a TEAM at Oxford University who purified it, and Moyer, Coghill and Raper from the USA who invented the method of mass production which was then copied by the Aussies after they had visited several production plants in the US. Florey definitely deserves massive credit/respect for his work, but to say it was the 'Aussies' is a bit of a stretch.
huh im Australian and i didn't know this.
Space program and moon landings courtesy of Operation Paperclip and Nazi scientists work with the V2 rocket program.
didnt we also invent wifi?
Mark Oliphant (an Australian) was, I think, the first person to successfully demonstrate nuclear fusion. He later joined the Manhattan project and helped America create the first nuclear weapons.
Pink loves Australia and always pits on extra shows .... in return us Aussies treat her like one of us... When we had the big bushfires in 2020 , she donated a large amount of money to help people ... she also thinks like us too
I miss the years she was a big part of V8 supercar tour promotions
Australians love Pink? That’s news to me. I don’t think I know anyone who is a big Pink fan.
@@lamsmiley1944
You clearly haven't taken any notice of how many sold out shows in a row Pink puts on in every major city, every time she tours Australia.
Pink did 7 or 8 shows in Melbourne alone in the past, during one of her touring events.
Just because you personally may not know any Pink fans, doesn't mean they're not out there, all over the country.
@@mebeme007 There are lot's of artist that would sell out multiple shows, Taylor Swift for example. So why mention Pink over other artists?
@@lamsmiley1944
OMG Did you not see the entire list of things that were mentioned in this video?
Particularly the last one at 11:34
There's your answer as to why Pink is being mentioned.
Far out.
Pink is not even that big in the U.S.
But here, millions of Aussies of all ages love her and her music.
It's just a fact.
May not be an appealing fact to you personally, but a fact all the same. Nothing wrong with a bit of frivolity being added to that list.
Chicken salt is amazing. Make chips taste so much better than regular salt.
debatable, chicken salt is basically for if u want that chicken flavoring taste.
It’s great if used for what it’s designed for, seasoning a chicken before roasting it. Definitely does not belong on fish n chips which has become the only way if you’re Australian.
To those saying it's "debatable" or that it "definitely does not belong on fish and chips", that is your personal opinions.
If @JustGunnie enjoys chicken salt over regular salt, then that is @JustGunnie's opinion. Not something to dispute.
@@mebeme007 Thanks dad!
@@JustGunnie
Dad?
We have the same traffic lights with audio cues for pedestrians here in New Zealand. Inside the white arrow (4:50 in the video) there's a metal arrow with a gray bit halfway up it, that is a plate that vibrates hard when the pedestrian phase goes so short sighted deaf people can rest a finger on it while they wait and feel when they should cross. Have to say sometimes when there's leads of noisy traffic and I'm paying more attention to a podcast than where I'm going I've also used the vibrating plate to let me know when I can cross, it's surprisingly handy,
I didn’t realise it vibrated.
It's not so much the speed that bugs me it's the high price we pay for low speeds.
Tell me about it. The internet companies here are assholes.
Im an Australian, and i am proud of how we live.
Same. We're not perfect, but most people know that and there's a lot of heart in the people of this country. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else, really.
@@napalmnaceywell unless your the wallabies at least
Same here. @@napalmnacey
@@napalmnacey Same! :))
@@napalmnacey same, we might have some... interesting.. animals but, we definitely have an otherwise great community. Though that's just what I reckon..
Took me 1 hour to download 19gbs the other night. The issue with our internet is that our government created something called NBN that was supposed to provide fiber to every house in Australia but before it could go through, we had a change of government and instead of sticking to their promise they switched it to fiber to the node, copper to the house, which throttles the internet. That plus the cables that run under the sea and connect the worlds internet together are very, very long so that causes a delay in ping too.
That government bought the copper phone lines from Telstra for $11b. Telstra finally got rid of a loss making infrastructure that needed $640m in repairs and now without that baggage they went forward with 5G phone towers and competed with NBN in regional areas.
That deal looks so much like a bail out for Telstra and now we're stuck with sub standard internet. New Zealand didn't play politics like this and everyone just agreed to scrap the copper lines FTTN rollout and go straight to full fibre for their internet infrastructure.
You can still get fast enough speeds with fttn, im on 80 mbit.
Spelt Fibre dude . Libs slowed it down as Murdoch was selling Foxtel on Satellites. They butchered the competition from NBN Wholesale . Its been rectified now Labor are back in Abbott and Turnbull the culprits using Murdoch donations. In 2021 they donated $40 million to Foxtel and no one knows why
Gotta love the liberals
I'm on 50 Mbit and it's not too bad. We paid for 100 MBit for a while but didn't notice much difference for day-to-day stuff. Yes, big downloads were quicker, but we don't do a lot of that.
Australia has a higher voltage (230v) than North America does (120v). I have lived in both places and always thought that the reason for switches in UK, Australia, etc was because of this fact.
120v is enough to make your teeth pop out, it just make safe sense to have switches fitted as well as RCD's fitted for any power outlet of 10 amp's or more.
Power = Volts x Current so if an appliance or whatever has the same power requirements then it just means that yank stuff will need more current, which is not entirely true because they run at a higher frequency but either way the point is that the no switch thing is not due to their electrical system being somehow safer. I’d say it is due to the American psyche of not adopting new (and improved) ways of doing things opting instead to maintain the status quo lest their world falls apart, such as the case of the metric system.
240V
America uses a split phase system, so it is a 240v system but split into 2 circuits. Don't know how they handle a 3 phase system.
Using 120 volt means you use twice the current to do the same work. While voltage pushes the current, it is the current that kills you ( I use something commonly called a "Megger", I will hold it on myself on the 1000v setting if you do it on the 240v. ( it doesn't generate as much current at the higher voltage )) Wiring in the US has to be bigger sizes (more cost but they think it is cheaper ).
An RCD/MCB covers the safety differences otherwise.
And yes, the Aussie system is nominally 230v ( it was changed decades ago ) but is mostly still called 240v. Can be anywhere between 200v to 250v and still called normal.
The reason that America has no switches on the sockets, is weirdly archaic, being that everything is on the single circuit in the room. In Australia it's common to have separate circuits (fuse/circuit breaker) for different things, so lights, power, hot water, oven, air-conditioning, etc. But the board could have dozens, so there's six or ten just for the kitchen, but it might be three in America, if you're lucky.
Slippery Dip = Those plastic (sometimes metal) slides at kids parks
Budgie smugglers = Speedos (those underwear things men wear at the beach)
Esky = cooler (you put ice and drinks in it and take it somewhere)
Tracky Dacks = Tracksuit pants (could also just call them trackies)
Whipper Snipper = Weed Eater or Trimmer
Durries = Cigarettes (Pronounced Duh ries)
Bum Bag = Fanny pack
Spag Bol = Spaghetti Bolognese
Gobbies = Another name for Fellatio on a male
Ranga = Red Headed person (because their hair is the same colour as an Orangutan)
The seasons to months thing helps because we go by a general chronological calendar year in Australia. The year starts in Summer and goes Autumn (Fall), Winter, Spring. So it makes sense.
However, the reason they do it middle of the month in Northern Hem is actually because of proper seasonal and geological timing. June 21st in the Northern Hemisphere is the Summer solstice, being the longest day of the year, (shortest in Southern, obviously being the winter solstice). After which, the daylight hours get shorter/longer, depending on which part of the world you're in. With September and April, this is where the earth actually catches up and a day and night becomes an equal length for both hemispheres, thus having the spring/autumn equinox.
well we have had Summer for a month already when the year begins but yea, it also just makes a hell of allot more sense for the seasons to start at the start of the month rather than on the 21st.
Lol. Summer is already 1 month in by the time the year starts. Also, some north hem countries also follow this same pattern. The reason is, matching the months to seasons aligns the seasons better with the weather when they actually occur. The older use of solstices gives more of a mismatch in the actual seasonal weather - although this can depend on the region/area you live in.
I’d support us moving over to the indigenous calendar instead. Downside is it would be different from state to state, but the Nyoongar calendar makes so much more sense in WA. Six seasons, half of which are some variation of ‘hot’…
we were settled by the english who didn't have a fricken clue about our seasons and nearly starved cause they planted their first crops in the autumn. the native Australians have a calender that says we have six seasons actually and they should know. they have lived here continuously for nearly 60,000 years
Those dates - around the 21st or 22nd - also correspond to when star signs (horoscope) change. Yes, it is for astrnomical, or at least astrological reasons.
Another feature of many pedestrian crossing button indicators in Australia is that they sense ambient noise. For instance at a busy traffic corner in the city during the day the noise from the traffic might be high and the crossing sound signals have to be loud to be heard over the traffic noise but in the evening that same street corner may have cafes with outdoor seating that if the same level of sound from the crossing signals were produced it could disturb the cafe customers unnecessarily. So many of these pedestrian crossing button indicators will adjust their output sound level throughout the day and night automatically as required creating a generally more pleasant ambience.
On the Australian pedestrian crossing the button is the speaker & it's designed that a deaf person can leave their hand on the button & feel the change in vibration.
And for blind folk, to know when they can walk. It's a terrific invention.
Starbucks is slowly growing again in Australia after their utterly embarrassing first attempt that saw them open dozens of stores only to have to shut all but a handful down within a year, because of two main reasons; they didn't understand the coffee culture here is more 'cafe' and less 'mcdonalds' and; their coffee was shit.
Now they are slowly opening more stores and finding somewhat of a market, but their coffee is still shit, I can personlly confirm.
I think they’re going for more of the drive thru coffee market these days and pushing their cold frappes and stuff more than their coffees. There is one I drive past and they’re always advertising their cold drinks and never their coffee.
im more suprised that we let them back, thankfully they haven't made their way down here to tassie yet or i would be telling them to go back to America with their shit coffee.
second time round they've realised we have a LOT of foreigners in Australia as backpackers, students etc etc & if they set up where those non-Aussies will be, they can appeal to some of them with "a sense of home" & get buisness that way, but certainly not from coffee quality!
I refuse to pay for coffee when eating in, that comes in a paper cup. N.O.
'more cafe and less mcdonalds' you say.... but even mcdonalds coffee is pretty cafe now days. Its actually not bad.
I laughed out loud when you said "gobbies". That was too good
Please don't explain 'gobbies' to him.
😂😂😂
@@johnnichol9412 Ah yes, the three gobbies of the dna apocalypse.
Ditto. Not volunteering to tell him tho 😂
Sloppy gobbies ftw
Switched sockets are a safety thing. Isolating the active conductors inside the socket is particularly important when junior is crawling around and decides he's going to poke something into it (yes you're also much more likely to be electrocuted with 240V than 120V but it's still an important safety feature).
@@johnnichol9412 the reason you're more likely to be electrocuted by 240V than 120V is because it requires higher voltage to overcome your natural skin resistance.
This is why you can stick your fingers across 12V car battery terminals and nothing happens. Now try dropping a metal wrench across those same terminals and watch the sparks fly.
You only need 0.2 amps to kill a person. A car battery, a 120V electrical system, and a 240V electrical system can all supply way more than this. The problem is getting it inside your body over your skin resistance. Higher voltages can do that. AC versus DC current makes a difference too (AC is much worse).
@@dutchroll Try 10 milliamps can kill ( across the heart, guaranteed, 2 milliamps may ). anything over 80 volts (may be lower ) is enough toi beat skin resistance. 120 volt AC still peaks at over 200v.
@@johnnichol9412 I didn't say 240V *will* kill you. It is *more likely* to than 120V and here in Australia 73% of deaths due to electrocution occur in the home (Australian Institute for Health and Welfare study of electrical injuries resulting in hospitalisation or death).
If you want to get into more detail then maybe read this scientific paper titled "Conduction of Electrical Current to and Through the Human Body":
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763825/#:~:text=Go%20to%3A-,Skin%20breakdown,of%20the%20skin%20breaks%20down.&text=This%20lowers%20the%20body%27s%20resistance,flows%20with%20any%20given%20voltage
Lightning is different again - it often flashes over the surface of the body hence the burns but no death (in many cases). And as per the above study, wet skin also encourages electricity to travel over the surface rather than "through" the body so while I mentioned nothing about wet hands, your example of not being killed by a shock despite wet hands is totally unsurprising.
As the paper states: "Voltage can be thought of as the force that pushes electric current through the body." and while the current determines physiological effects, voltage influences the outcome of an electric shock.
So yeah there's more to it but for the average layperson, 240V is *more likely* to shock you than 120V, and 12VDC will not. End of story. There's nothing to debate there.
pretty sure higher voltage means higher electrical pressure meaning more amps can flow over a shorter time and overcome more resistance to flow
@@billygarnett Yes and no... (1) protection systems, look at lower fault currents before they trip and (2) the short circuit current in the supply tends to go down as well. I can't go much deeper ( I haven't got the physics to do so ).
I was in hospital on and off for ages, and my biggest complaint was that the only coffee shop was a Starbucks, I was forced into walking out of the hospital grounds and constantly harassing family to fetch something decent. They didn’t last very long fortunately 😂😂😂 Oh, and chicken salt is the bomb
u have starbucks where u live? i though they weren't alloed in Australia because of how terrible their coffee is compared to our amazing Australian coffee.
@@FuryousD I think there’s one or two left in the city, but this was back in the 2000s when Starbucks thought we’d like em 😂
ah i see, well im glad the never came down here to Tasmania.@@AnnQlder
I couldn't believe they used to have a Macca's included in the old Children's Hospital building in Melbourne back in the late 90's.
Assuming it's no longer there, if common sense has prevailed. But seriously, not a good thing to be encouraging youngin's to be eating that sort of stuff, especially when they're ill.
@@mebeme007 i mean I used to eat it once a week as a kid, only got fat after we stopped eating there every week, didnt really encourage me to eat fast food, I just became lazy from gaming so I got fat.
the cross walks are great, it helps blind and sight impaired people cross safely and even seeing eyedogs can be trained to know when its safe to lead someone across
There's no switches on EU sockets either. And, here in Finland at least, older sockets don't include earth contacts.
Here in Finland seasons are simple. There's winter, and summer is on the 10th July. 😜
Whipper Snipper is those motorised long stick type things for clearing under bushes & edging your lawn.
Ranga is slang for a Red headed person.
Esky (Looks like a typo in the video) is a portable cooler for food & drinks.
Durries are cigerettes.
Spag Bol is Spagetti Bolagnase.
Budgie Smugglers are Speedo's.
Gobbies are the flem you cough up and spit out.
Tracky Dacks are tracksuite pants.
Hope this clears things up for you.
When I was in Sabah I was chatting with the guy working in the coffee lounge in the hotel- he said his dream was to be a barista in Melbourne. He was trying out different blends/beans and I, being Aussie, was his guinea pig..
Whipper Snipper is what we call a strimmer/line trimmer/ weed whacker etc.
The cross walk buttons that make sound are designed for deaf or blind people. If you touch the plate with the arrow it also vibrates.
Pink loves coming down under, to quote her, “Because Aussies get me!”
She also has a vineyard and works with the workers and operates the machinery including forklift
Aitch or Haitch. The "Haitch" pronunciation is more common in areas of Australia where there are a lot of Catholic schools. I can't confirm this, but I was told that the "Haitch" pronunciation is associated with Irish nuns who taught there. After a few generations of school children being taught by them the "Haitch" pronunciation would then become the local standard. The Oxford English Dictionary on my desk only lists Aitch as an option. Aitch is the only way that I've ever pronounced it, although I hear "Haitch" used a lot in the area where I now live.
Haitch comes from the eastern states, due to the number of Irish settlers (who were transported here as convicts in large numbers)
My Dad used to say that Haitch came from the Catholic schools too. I don't know if it's true. I was told it is Aitch, so that is how I say it, and I live in an Eastern State. All I know is Aitch is the answer in the crosswords when the clue is 8th letter.
West Aussie born raised and went to a government school. Always have said haitch. Oxford dictionary might say aitch but I wonder what the Macquarie (Australia) dictionary says.
@@suemoore984 I went to school in a WA public schools and it was Haitch there as well.
Grew up in North Queensland. Also said Haitch
Whipper snipper is basically a brush cutter, a whipper snapper is a young person.
Though the ‘whip’ part refers to the spinning nylon cord that only snips very soft stemmed foliage (aka grass, some weeds), which I think helps it make more sense. Brush cutters are much more scary, no cute name for them
@@dag__hag yeah I know the difference between all the types and attachments, I just called it that for lay man’s terms. As I think it’s called that across a large part of the world.
We had coffee culture here in Fremantle in the 70s . It has a large Italian community so it was modelled on that. Melbourne had the same but Greeks.
So did Adelaide...
Ginos in the 80s/90s. God damn, that was good coffee.
@@napalmnacey Yes it was!
A basic mix for chicken salt I use is 2 parts Knorr chicken seasoning powder (a cross between stock and seasoning) , 1 part table salt and if you want garlic or onion powder for taste. I make my own salt & pepper blend for general use and usually add that. It is an even mix of pink salt, sea salt and mixed peppercorns (green/black/white/pink) ground together.
I never knew the seasons in other parts of the world didn’t start on the first of a month, I always thought that the American seasons for example was just our current season but back by 2 seasons so the start of summer for Aussies would instead be the start of winter for Americans on the 1st of December. Hell, I still struggle remembering the exact seasons order sometimes…
“My mum scolded me for saying hech, and I never said it again.” Awww, that’s so cute 💙
Cafe culture & good coffee was brought over by Italian and Greek migrates who introduced Australia to the Espresso, they would also go to the cafe to meet and hang out with their family and friends which is what Australians do today. I went to a cafe in Leichhardt Sydney, once known as little Italy, but most Italians had moved out. The coffee shop there was full of people, Italians I think in their 40s, 50s & 60s all seeming to have known each other for decades, it was a really good vibe.
The Old Greeks and Turks have shop fronts where they gather inside . Almost an exclusive Mens Club. Its not high dress . More like get a way from the Misses . Theres a couple around Brompton and Ridleyton Adelaide
yes the Italians brought it, the Aussies embraced it, learnt from it & improved on it & recently returned to italy to win the world coffee championships
The gentrification of the inner cities has pushed out so many of the amazing immigrant markets, dining and service experiences, it's tragic. Subiaco, in Perth, was a haven for international cuisine and was a hotbed of Italian culture. It was SO great, so cosy and accessible and fun. Everyone went there for the weekend, to stroll through the markets and get good deals on clothing, bric-a-brac, unusual imported goods, foreign food, etc. You could get a cheap but delicious meal at the international food halls, hear buskers and local music. It was amazing. But after the 80s, property developers took over the spaces and evicted all the immigrant families and market spaces and now Subiaco is a dead, hyper-commercial, upper-crust, posh wasteland of shops no normal human being would ever need to use. I still miss it. It doesn't surprise me that it's happening elsewhere in the country. Property Developers are the Rupert Murdochs and Gina Rineharts of community culture and lifestyle and housing availability.
@@napalmnacey There are definitely gentrification issues around the place, however for Leichhardt, I think it's just generational chance. I was born in 1973 and the peak Italian/Greek migration was during Australia's building phase, mid 60s to mid 70s. When people move from the old country they want to be near other so Italians moved to Leichhardt which was cheap at the time, when their kids grew up (who are my age) they would have purchased property al around Sydney. The best years Leighard had of being little Italy was the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. It was probably like that in the 1970s but I wasn't around. The nightlife was amazing in the area (90s and 2000s), I'd go their and it would be packed with people eating at all kinds of restaurants and yes Italian restaurants too. Sadly if you go their now its dead. It's the first 20-30 years that Immigrant communities are the best and a culture such as the Greeks and Italians where family is important makes it beautiful. Good thing for Australia there wasn't much of a mob influence as there was in America but people came to Australia mostly with construction jobs and not general immigration escaping from poverty.
Chicken salt is so ubiquitous that its now the standard salt for most takeaways. You have to ask for regular salt (if they even have it).
People complain if there's no massive chippie salt shaker on the counter at most chip shops! LOL
So many appliances still draw power when turned off at the devise so it’s great to be able to turn the TV etc off at the wall to totally kill the juice drain.
Switches on wall sockets just makes sense and tends to be a lot safer. It'll also stop idle power consumption without needing to fully pull out a cord.
No, it was a government decision to make our lives miserable. We should have had fibre to the house but they decided it was not necessary and cheaper to go to the node and wire to the house, it ended up much more expensive and 3 times longer to hook us up They also reduce the speed so they can charge more.
well thankfully we now have NBN.
@@FuryousDthats what shes talking about, the LNP opted to give the wealthy fibre to the home (faster, bigger bandwith per house) and everyone else fibre to the node, slower shared bandwith between multiple houses, all because Rupet Murdoch didnt want it to out compete foxtel, it also turned out to cost 3 times the original plan, with some properties still waiting for conection all these years later, its ranked 163 in the world for service
@@craigharrison6662 I still don't have it. I'm 1.8k from the main street of a country town. The next town over actually had a working DVD movie rental store until 2-3 years ago. It made money because nobody there could even get Netflix.
Most of Vic has fibre to the house. Other states hit and miss
You can get 1000mbit or download 200 megabytes in 1 second if You've got $200 per month.
Whipper snipper's a trimmer and Ranga is s redhead. Enjoyed the video, thanks.
Someone else probably has already done this but, just in case, here's some remarks about a few of those items on that list.
Item 1 - Just in case you were wondering, HJs is Australia's Burger King, it's pretty much the same business but ours is called Hungry Jacks.
Item 6 - If a crossing has lights controlling it, they make noise; one for don't walk, and the other for walk. Quite a few crossings nowdays also have bumps near the curb for vision impared people as well (on the footpath, not road)
Item 8 - I can confirm that most Australians typically have a theoretical maximum internet speed of 100 Megabits per second however due to the terrible national broadband network, most people never see that kind of speed. In some cases it can be as slow as 2 or 3 Megabits, I'm not joking.
Item 9 - I don't personally know too many people who finish a sentence with "but" so I don't know how true that one is.
Item 10 - we do often say reckon something instead of think or believe.
Item 11- I can confirm that cycling on any kind of bike, or even scooter without a helmet is an offence for which you can be fined.
Item 17 - Exie X ee is what we call expensive, Whipper Snipper is a line trimmer/weed whacker. The other terms such as Budgie smuggler you were pretty spot-on there (correct in other words).
If someone else already commented on these, oh well.
I lived in Canada for two years and could not believe a commercial for a washing powder that sprouted the "Fresh out of the dryer" feeling for clothes, towels, etc. I understand the need for a dryer in Ottawa Canada, especially in the winter, but fresh off the "outside" clothes line is a much better deal.
Yep the coffee is great and we love a catch up at a coffee shop. Don't forget that even our dog's enjoy a good pupperchino 😂
I don't have a dog but I brought a pupperccino home for my cat once. She loved it. I told her it was a pussaccino. Microsoft editor is getting confused.😂
I have yet to find this great coffee anywhere. Although I did have a brilliant one once at a specialised coffee seller many years ago, but for the rest, I'd rather not waste my money
I was shocked when i found out chicken salt was just an Australian thing. Its a must try
Specifically, dryers damage elastics.
Not just stretchy things, but semi-stretchy shirts, jeans, etc. would also get damaged.
Been using a dryer here in Aus for years (mainly due to a physical limitation of being unable to hang things on a clothesline). You can dry elastic things in a dryer, given enough time. Set to the lowest heat, and longest dry time. Works fine on undergarments, but worth keeping an eye on other items, until you are confident you have the time down pat.
Still have an indoor clothes hoist for those things you should never put in a dryer (polyester, etc).
The internet thing. We had a plan to lay high speed cable, to the house, across the nation.
Politics rooted it, so while we have the high speed cable passing in front of our house, the connection to the house is near 30 year old copper wiring.
So the speed is there, you just have to fork out to get it that extra 4 or five metres.
We did have a clothes dryer, which we used to feed the cats on outside under the veranda. Never used it for clothes 😂
The switch situation in the USA is even worse than it seems, some places have "lamp switches" on the wall somewhere controlling the outlet in a random part of the room.
that seems dangerous.
That's a standard here in Australia. Two outlets with switches and one switch in the middle to control either another outlet somewhere else. Same thing as in The US. Deta, HPM and all others offer it as hardware.
switch in the middle? ive never seen that my entire life mate (im Australian obviously), it's just two outlets with a switch on either side or above to control the outlet they are connected to, never seen one in the middle.@@engineerjack6190
As an Australian that loves chicken salt I am baffled that it’s not really anywhere else! Trust me you ARE missing out
I love P!nk! Seeing her concert in Feb 👍❤️🇦🇺
About coffee, you must drink filter coffe in South Indian. It is amazing. In fact, Star Bucks had to bring in Filter Coffee into their menu in South India to get more customers.
Can buy power outlets without switches in Aus.
I purchased from Bunnings.
They have Red light which illuminates when appliance is plugged in.
I live in the far west of NSW. I only ever use my phone to pay. My licence et al is on my phone. I use hatch (h) but the kids have been
raised to say atch. I have a whipper
snipper my nephew is
a whipper snapper. I
still say gday and
strewth but niece who
lives in Sydney just
laughed out loud at me when she heard me say it. I live 1000kms from Sydney and 500 kms from Adelaide and we have fantastic coffee. That’s australia. ( also great chocolate and I had smashed avo for breakfast) But used to be a Queensland thing.
We used to grow nuts known as Queensland nuts that grew in SE Qld & Northern NSW then somebody changed their name to Macadamias & now the whole world wants to grow & eat them.
Mitani chicken salt is a must on chips, also Adelaide business.
The original and the best!
About the seasons, as an Aussie abroad I thought it hilarious that summer started on mid-summer’s day!
Like WTAF? I still think it’s funny actually.
The seasons in the UK are determined by the distance of the sun to earth and the effect that has on climate. We dont worry about that shit in Oz, ,it's all about convenience here so we made it easy to remember, bugger the accuracy.
We were tea drinkers until post WWII when Italian and Greek immigrants brought their coffee culture with them and taught us how to do it properly!
I still am ‘only’ a tea drinker lol. Aussie here, I can’t stand the taste or smell of coffee - except when pregnant with my son. He adores his coffee, not from a jar, grinds his own beans etc, and whatever else he does with some fancy machine lol
@@bernadettelanders7306 Some people can be allergic to coffee, one of my friends gets nausea if he drinks it.
@@Jeni10 I didn’t know that, hadn’t heard of anyone being allergic to coffee. U learn something every day. I just hated the smell and taste of coffee lol
@@bernadettelanders7306 Yeah, I hadn’t either. He enjoyed his morning cuppa, but as the day progressed, he would feel sick and have stomach problems. He went to the doc and they talked, then the doctor told him to proactively eliminate foods until he worked out which food was causing the problems. Since coffee was the first item of the day, he stopped drinking it and within two days he felt so much better! He even stopped taking his gastro meds!
@@Jeni10 WoW, that’s confirmed it’s true. Had no idea. I’d never heard of anyone having effects re coffee, I believe you, just never heard it. Only time I ever drank coffee, strangely enough, was when I was pregnant with my son who loves coffee. He must have needed his coffee fix then 😂 He didn’t start drinking coffee until he was an adult. And I never had any ill effects at all drinking it when pregnant with him. Wonder if that happens with other people. With my 3 children, all my cravings when pregnant ended up their favourite foods - there must be some connection - interesting.
omg the whipper snipper "is that like a young person" had me 😂
Sockets without switches need to be made ILLEGAL horrendous things
Most US houses don't even have RCDs in them (you might know them as an "earth switch" or "saftey switch". so you can still do like in the old movies and take a bath with your toaster to end it all. Here in Aus all new houses must have them by law.
Never heard slippery dip, could be something from a different state.
Budgie smugglers: what you said
Esky (not eksy): hard cooler (nz call them chilly bins thats so much better than us naming them after a brand name)
Tracky dacks: yes, tracksuit pants
Whipper snipper: weed wacker? Its a line trimmer that uses spinning plastic string/line ranther than a blade.
Durries: cigarette
Bum bags: fanny pack? A small bag that straps around your waist, you might put wallet/money, passport, keys ect in it.
Spag bol: spaghetti bolognese, though ive only just discovered some places dont have it, my partner had never herd of bolognese so just incase its basically a tomato sauce with beef mince, and some vegetables, maybe some cut up carrot, onions ect. Its very popular, especially with kids, usually one of the options on a kids menu.
Gobbies: uhhh im surprised they added this. Lets just say gob is a word we use for mouth (ie chuck that in ya gob - eat this food, or shut your gob), ill let you figure out what a gobbie is from that lmao.
Ranga - (from orang-utan) person with red hair, usually used in a kinda joking, kinda derogitory way. You'd definitely get told off for using it as a kid.
Slippery slide? We used to call it a dip
When he was reading out the items and got to whipper snipper, it was so much like Jimmy Carr using a saying to get into accents. I think it was like "pooper scooper" lol
The Dual Flush was invented by the R&D at Caroma Bathrooms and Toilets at Norwood in South Australia; my wife was working there at that time.
Chicken salt is the BEST!
👍Pink.
As an Australian I do not understand the "we love pink" and most of the "unique names for things"
My brother and I have worn a bicycle helmet long before they were mandatory. Our dad was knocked off his bike when he was 10 years old and was left with a permanent disability, so he never allowed us to ride our bikes without one on.
Our pedestrian crossings make noise so that visually impaired ppl know when it's safe to cross. I'm not visually impaired, but find myself listening to the sound signals more than I watch for the 'walk' sign! And yes, chicken salt really is that good 😋 I disagree with no. 12 though. The summer & winter solstices, and the spring & autumn equinoxes, are the true marker of seasonal change, because they're natural phenomena. Calendar months are a human invention. *This is a hill I will die on* 😅
The concept that there are four seasons is an entirely human invention...
As someone with ADHD, I get really lost without the "tok-tok-tok" thing. I look around a lot when I'm standing and waiting for things, and I always miss the "Go" sign if there isn't any sound. I hate crossings without the aural prompting.
You can’t have fish and chips without the good old chicken salt!!
Whipper snipper is a weed eater, trimmer can be petrol (gas) powered or electric. Also a term old folks use for young people, oh wait that's whipper snapper lol 😂😊
Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) has functionally decent download speeds, which can be upgraded to pretty good download speeds if you get direct to the node installed in your home instead of relying on the street node option. It’s a packaging/ plan thing so they can get more money out of you. However, upload speeds in Australia, with some small exceptions, are horrendous. It’s almost impossible for an Australian to take up a career in live streaming, because our Internet doesn’t support it. Which is wild considering the age we live in.
it's Esky, not Eksy, it was the early dominant brand of icebox here, become the generic name for an icebox here, the logo on the Esky brand ones is an Eskimo(sorry this isn't the currently preferred term but it explains the branding).
@@johnnichol9412 Yep, noticed that.
Eksy is Aussie slang for ‘expensive’; it’s not necessarily a typo.
@@noelleggett5368 That's usually Exy/Exxy. The text he was reading from said "an" eksy, it was referring to an object, not to be confused with ecky.
@@milksheihk Didn’t notice that. Thanks. I’m pretty sure that ‘icebox’ is an old American term for ‘refrigerator’ (another Aussie invention), but what Aussies call an ‘esky’ (derived from a brand name), Americans generally call a ‘cooler’.
@@noelleggett5368 Yeah, in my original post I said it was derived from a brand name, I think ice box can mean a fridge or a cooler, I think cooler is a more recent term, I've seen older Yogi Bear cartoons refer to a travel cooler(portable fridges wouldn't have been around when those cartoon were made) as an ice box.
Please know that not every Aussie uses terms or slang in this vlog, also our coffee culture grew when Italian migrants came herein the 1940s and on bringing coffee making skills and cuisine with them, which we are very grateful . Whipper-snippers are those hand held motorised grass etc cutting machines with a rapidly spinning piece of nylon wire at the end...👍🤗
I think the Greeks would like a word with you! Australian coffee culture has grown from a fusion of Greek and Italian influence taking the best of each and creating something greater.
Frozen Coke was a think in several countries. Contactless Payments are pretty common world wide. Switches on power outlets is common in EU, UK, NZ...... Line drying is cheaper, and more environmentally friendly than the dryer, but we definitely have dryers......... Sure, there are a couple of unique things, but most things on this list are common in many countries. It seems the US are the ones that are a bit weird.
The pedestrian crossing thing is to assist vision impaired people to know when the crossing indicator has changed.
Regarding Seasons and the calendar year, we're often a month out way down in Tasmania - Summer carries on into March, Winter hangs about through September, and Spring/Autumn tend to be that bit shorter with the transitions between the two.
I didn't know this! Awesome!
Slippery Dips = Slides
Budgie Smugglers = Men's Underwear that are not briefs or boxers or the combination of the two (just the bridge style underwear for your "budgie")
Esky (they spelt it wrong) = Cooler (for beverages and food)
Tracky Dacks = Track Pants
Whipper Snipper = Trimmer (for lawn care)
Durries = Cigarettes (may also refer to Cigar's but I don't know many Cigar smokers)
Bum Bag = Small bags like fanny packs that hang over your bum (may sometimes be used for small satchels as well)
Spag Bol/Spag Bog = Spaghetti Bolognese
Gobbies = R rated blowing action - You get what I'm talking about right?
Ranga = Ginger/Red Head
I do like that they included gobbies in the post xD.
In victoria budgie smugglers are speedo swimmers. Not sure what state you live that its underwear? 🤔
@@leviniahill454it's Speedos in WA too
@@leviniahill454 Yeah dunno if it's just the people I grew up around but speedos are also budgie smugglers. I grew calling that type of men's underwear budgie smugglers.
As a born and bred Aussie, the 'haitch' thing is not universal. I've always said 'aitch', which is correct. It's usually the more uneducated who mispronounce the letter.
"Haitch" really annoys me! I say "aitch".
I was taught that Catholics say haitch...
@@stevemundy4511 I was brought up Catholic. I was taught 'aitch'.
@@michaelflanagan6583 Good on you. You're an exception. Most say haitch...
@@stevemundy4511 I've had chats with Americans who proceeded to lose their minds after I pulled them up about pronouncing "herbs" as "erbs". I ask if they study istory with their uncle Erbert in their ouse on an ill? I say Haitch and proud of it! lol
They misspelt Esky as Eksy. It's supposed to be Esky. It's just a little cooler box for your drinks, that normally has ice in it to keep the drinks cool.
Ranga is a person with red or orange hair, like an orangutan. They might call them Gingers in Europe and the U.S.
Whiper Snipper can be 2 things, either a line tirmmer or a youngster. Both can cause damage to your ankles ;)
Trackies/Tackie dacks = Tracksuit Pants.
Slippery Dip is just because some of them used to have an actual dip in them
Esky a brand of cooler so we just all call it that.
Budgie Smugglers - Speedos.
Durries - Smokes/Cigies.
Spag Bol - Spaggetti Bol.
Bum Bag = a bag that hooks around your waist and typically rests against the rear.
If you don't have switched outlets there is a high chance of arcing, which will damage the contacts. It is a potential fire hazard. Even at 120V this is a problem. The only reason not to have switches is to make the product cheaper for the manufacturer, not the consumer of course. That money goes into the pockets of CEO's, directors and shareholders, at the risk of the customer. As usual.
First, arcing is not such a big issue with AC. By its very nature, the voltage drops to zero 100 or 120 times a second (50Hz or 60Hz respectively) that breaks any arc and stops the ionisation of the air which is what makes it conductive. I'm not saying there's no arcing, just very little. It is not the problem you have with DC where there is no break in the voltage allowing a spark to extend as you separate the conductors and ionise the air as you do it.
Second, switches are prone to almost the same level of arcing. The only benefit they enjoy is the spring mechanism that reduces it compared with slowly withdrawing a plug from a socket.
@@briancampbell179 Well that isn't my experience buddy. Yes of course switches arc, especially the cheap sh$t that is peddled out these days. I have opened up plenty of charred power boards, many of which could have become a fire hazard. Cheap power boards often make it difficult to plug and unplug the adapter. You need both hands. People that don't know any better will just keep twisting the plug until it goes in, the whole time with the sounds of arcing contacts. At least with a switch you are not struggling with a live connection. Of course the solution is to stop making dodgy sh$t in China and go back to proper quality control.
@@anth5189, that's generally crappy and/or loose contacts. Comparing apples with apples, crappy switches are just as bad as crappy contacts. Good quality contacts are not really improved with good quality switches.
I was talking about the suggestion that switches prevent arcing in the power point.
Also, if you are talking about switching off a crappy powerboard at the power point before removing plugs from it, simply unplugging it will achieve the same result.
God bless Capitalism. God bless the Corporate States of America. God help the consumer....
Chicken salt is freakin awsome. If noone has sent you any then I'll send some over.
In Australia we mostly use a clothes line (hills hoist) to dry our clothes on.
Every Aussie will use X amount of the slang words, so they're all valid but different people will use different ones to the next person, but they are all in use collectively by the majority of Australians.
Some of them are pretty much used by everyone. Gday (hi) is the most standard Aussie greeting. Having said that there are three main categories of how slang words are spoken. A recent video explained it well by saying, "regular" is like Hugh Jackman, "cultured" is Kate Blanchett, and "broad" is Paul Hogan/Steve Irwin.
It is a law to wear helmets with a bike, it's also absolutely necessary if you ride around in leafy suburbs with lots of trees to avoid magpies. 🇦🇺🦘
"It is law to wear a helmet".. Nope, because of certain religion's (third world Indian religion). They are exempt.. But, as I'm into equality and believe real Aussies come first and the rest can go away quietly.. I refuse to wear a helmet...
Just noting here that this person is not representative of Australians in general, and most of us aren't racists.
No 4 Power outputs. I used to lecture students at a College for Electricians etc. in Electronics/ Maths. WE here have law that all inputs MUST be two slanted ( for ac current ) and a vertical ground at the bottom. Also for many years or so there is a red marker on a switch, idicating ON and current ( the killer) is ON. If you want to save money, always turn off those not in use: particularly the bigger current appliances such as a washing machine, Clothes Dryer, Air- condioner, even a TV or computer. Sounds like a pain but if it becomes habit, which only YOU can change, it's a nightly/daily routine and Will save you on power bills. Some children have died by placing a wire clip in to two top live inputs. Dual flush toilets are compulsory in Australia as to water shortages. A South Austrlian invention as was the petrol lawn mower and Penicillin ( proud Aussie). Butts are out, 10% of Australians smoke and not near a shopping centre entrance. Frowned upon habit generally. I was in Kuala Lumpur and an Arab was smoking a Hookah next to my table, yet a Heineken cost $10.17 a small beer. Offensive ( I know Malaysia's offocial state religion is Moslem) . I like Singapore where the street bars have bin sized ash trays with sand and seperate smoking non - smoking sections. I am 67 and bike helmets became compulory when I was a young teen ( 70s). Starbucks wasa atotal failure as Australian barristas make much better coffee ( I only drink tea). Being "old school" it's aitch not Haitch. Speedos are fine as I was a swimmer and they dry qucker than big cotton shorts. You do need to be slim to wear them.
Because you have red hair I feel like I need to explain what a "ranga" is. Ranga is short for Orangutan or... you guessed it a redhead
As a red head not my favourite word.. lol
@@redhorsburgh..2345 As one of the soulless you don't get to complain
@@kazdean 😎🤣🤣
As far I know, the difference between aitch and haitch was whether you were protestant (aitch) or catholic (haitch). I had one parent of each 🇮🇪🇬🇧and my sister says haitch and I say the aitch (she also had a catholic prep teacher which may also have influenced her)
You of course, are correct. No such word as haitch!
- Slippery dip = slide
- Budgie Smugglers = men's swimming speedos
- Eksy is supposed to be spelt as Esky = insulated containee for food and/or drinks
- Trackey Dacks = Fleece track pants or sweat pants as I've heard some call them
- Whipper sniper = a lawn edge mower
- Durries = cigarettes
- Bum bags = fanny packs (small pouch worn on the waist)
- Spag Bol = Spaghetti Bolognaise
- No idea what gobbies or ranga are supposed to be
Ranga is meant to be a word to describe a red-headed person (i think)
@@siimplyrowan OK. Never heard that one before and I've lived in Australia my entire life. But it also could be used in different parts of the country than where I am
With the Pedestrian Buttons, the circle above with the arrow also vibrates; this allows blind or hearing impaired to know when to cross, the arrow indicates the direction to walk as an aid to the blind.
Not sure where or when the "slippery dip" thing started.
I've always known them as "slides". And I'm an Aussie born and bred. Been alive almost 50 years.
The odd random person may call it a slippery dip (if they're a bit slippery dippy LOL), but I'm pretty sure the majority of us are calling them slides.
Yeah, growing up it was always a slide. But I reckon the curly ones you see at Maccas, etc., now that's a slippery dip?! Back in the day it was just the straightforward metal slide, to be assiduously avoided in summer 😂
I grew up with the old metal ones. Everyone called them slippery dips. Even Peter Combe called them "slippery dips" in his song "Wash your Face in Orange Juice (Mr Clicketty Cane)"
Always called a slippery dip in Adelaide when I was growing up
In regards to the seasons I like the indigenous concept of 6 seasons that describe the change in weather & flora patterns. However, with so many languages it would be difficult to implement as each area would call it something different. Here in Perth we are now in Kambarang season - represented by colour bursts of flowers and the return of hot weather.
The reason for the switches on electrical outlets is the higher voltage, the Americans got stuck with 110 volts due to a quirk of history (quantity of light globes out in the market, especially Chicago)
They deemed 110 volts not dangerous enough to warrant switching.
Avo toast is not just for health food enthusiasts, it’s a standard brekky at home and at cafes, my family like Vegemite & avo toast too.
I live in Australia, and I studied for a semester in Singapore. Couldn't find a good cappuccino anywhere, but after trying the kopi, I've made a point of having a supply ever since I came back to Australia.