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With the crosswalk button, the idiot is filming while a nearby vehicle is reversing. Doesn't have the brains to wait until the vehicles his finished reversing.
@giobozzreacts Just remember that we don't mean any malice in it. A lot of aussie humour involves taking the piss out of people and poking fun at them and each-other.
In regards to PayWave- Visa payWave was invented in Australia, where the Commonwealth Bank first introduced it in 2006. The technology allows users to make contactless payments by tapping their cards on a reader, without the need to enter a PIN.
Well, small payments (under $100AUD) are automatically pre-authorised for the system. Anything OVER this still needs a PIN. They waived the limit/PIN during lockdowns, when cashless payments were preferred (so staff didn't have to handle cash) but it came back in 2023.
The 'noisy' pedestrian crossing device is an Australian invention. In technical terms It is referred to as audio tactile. It is used by vision impared coupled with hearing impared people trying to navigate city streets. You will note that the arrow is raised and it points to the direction to cross. Also when it is safe to cross the whole arrow (embossed on a stainless steel sheet) vibrates so that a vision and hearing impared person can feel the vibrations.
Sorry to inform you but pretty sure Canada had the noisy pedestrian button before us, might have been invented by an Aussie though,not sure,but my friends mother was the person to convince government to introduce it to our crossings.she witnessed it in use in Canada before it was here in Australia.
@@paulvandersluys7412 Are you pretty sure or is it a fact? The history of the audio tactile pedestrian crossing button is well documented. It started in the 1970's in NSW.
@johnspathonis1078 ok, it was early 1980's when Wollongong adopted it, my mates mother did see similar in Canada,and pushed for it to go on crossings in Wollongong. anyways & whatever ,great for the blind.merry Christmas to you.
🟢 Why Australia’s Crosswalk Buttons are the Best (ft. Billie Eilish) ruclips.net/video/FwbNFRbqwfg/видео.html Feb 25, 2021 04:57 CHANNEL: Julian O'Shea » www.youtube.com/@JulianOShea If there was a competition for world’s best crosswalk button, Australia would have gold locked in with the remarkable PB/5 button. Its distinct sound has been streamed over 1 billion times on Spotify and RUclips thanks to a collaboration with Billie Eilish. There’s not a competition by the way - but this video explains why the design is so clever.
The little cut out piece in the middle of the arrow is part of the internal mechanism call a transducer (where my Girl From Tomorrow fans at?). It’s the transducer that produces the vibration and has the speaker attached that works with the audio-tactile controller on the post to give you that sound and vibration.
Not to be rude but has he never heard of maccas before because I feel like any American or any on else form a different country has heard it am I wrong??
Wrong. I used to think that. We are the one of the only Countries that have four seasons that are all the same length. As in 3 months each. Other Countries have short summers and long winters or the other way around. It is not flipped. It is totally different. He is not ignorant btw, he is trying to learn and I absolutely respect him for doing so. Also as you can see in the video, he has dyslexia, which is a learning disability. So be nice. A holes.
@@ozzybloke-craig3690Dyslexia is a reading disability. There are other ways to learn that do not involve reading. Dyslexia is not an excuse for ignorance.
@@ozzybloke-craig3690 Well if you look it up they also have 3 month seasons. Regardless, their seasons are fundamentally 'flipped' compared to ours. Not 100% exact, but near enough. Hence their White Christmas traditions being very different to our summer versions. OP was correct and wasn't being unkind. Further, I don't see how dyslexia should make someone unaware of this. Just another tip. Whenever I see a comment that begins with 'Wrong'... that comment is almost invariably wrong. Interesting, that. Merry Christmas. 😁
Australia is the only country that Starbucks failed, they closed down 61 of their 87 outlets because Australian's didn't buy it, Starbucks used the same American model in Australia which was making quick sugary awful tasting overly large, fast in-and-out rubbish, Australians like to either sit down in a cafe and have a coffee (cafe culture) or have a properly brewed great tasting coffee in a take away cup., Starbucks is trying to make a comeback but Australian's won't buy it, only the American tourists will buy this crap, which is a shame as they will miss out on what good coffee taste's like.
The universally adopted Dual Flush Toilet system is an Australian Invention, designed to save water. The Helmets are Law, and after seeing a friend’s Father pass away from a Cycling Head Injury and a friend of my Sons narrowly escape Brain damage, both from minor accidents, I totally support it. The love of ‘P!nk’ is the Singer. She’s very loved here, she famously did a 59 date Tour here back in 2009, selling 650,000 Tickets.
I'm pretty sure the dual flush toilets thing was made mandatory here in Victoria when we had the big drought of the noughties. From 2001 to 2010 we had a crippling drought in Melbourne that almost left us with no water for the entire city. We went down to about 23% and if it had gone down to 15% it would have been too low for the pumps to reach. They implemented very strict water restrictions, with encouragement for people to put things like a water bottle in the cistern of the toilet so it wouldn't fill up as much, thus saving water with each flush. Rebates were offered for people buying rain water tanks to water their plants, as well as other water saving devices. People were encouraged to shower with a bucket to water their plants. They made in mandatory that all new toilets had to have dual flush capabilities. Before that, many people had toilets that were just single flush. We were also encouraged to keep our showers to under 3 minutes. It was a bad time.
2:50 Australia had paywave well before anyone else, including America. We had paywave back in 2009. Read the text. "If you go to the US and try to hover your card or phone they look at you like you have two heads" because we do that in Australia, they didn't have it for a long time in the US
I think what was confusing him is the post was made a few years before which he didn’t realise and though it was talking about current times which obviously most places in the world have this now
EFTPOS was first released In NZ way back in 1985. America still uses checks. They were phased out here years ago we just use direct fund transfer on the phone . I haven't had any cash money for years. I did have 60 bucks in the ashtray of my last car forgot about it being there when I sold it.
@@martinsmallwood9605 Living in Australia I still carry around cash, especially after natural disasters or something, leading to know internet or power. But yes, the fact they still use checks, is insane. My dad works in the US, and he was overpaid by his company. He asked them for their bank details so he could just transfer the over payment. Americans are weird about their bank details and think they need to keep them secret, despite the fact you can only deposit money with those details. He had to request a check online, where a company prints a physical cheque and mails it to the other party..... fucking nuts.
Australia is in the Sothern hemisphere so seasons are reversed to that of the north. Summer:Dec-Feb Autumn: Mar-May Winter: Jun-Aug Spring/ swooping magpie season: Sep-Nov
Our seasons aren't just reversed, ours are simplified to begin on the first of a particular month, and end on the last of a particular month. Many countries, including the USA, set the dates for their seasons based off the solstices and equinoxes - which to me, makes more sense.
@@kirstonemmm1423 Basically it's because the British Royal Navy and Army needed to make it easily remembered by its low-level staffing in foreign climes that they made the seasons start on the first of a month. We have just continued on from that decision.
Americans standing next to our traffic lights heard the noise on our lights and asked what the beeping was, my friends said it's for the sight impaired they said we don't let our sight impaired drive. Doh
I live in the Darwin in tropical Northern Territory and we only have 2 seasons, wet & dry. We can’t swim at any of the beaches due to venomous jellyfish called Stingers and crocodiles. So Christmas is hot and humid. 36-38 degrees or more Celsius or 100 degrees Fahrenheit & up to 98% humidity. Thank goodness for air conditioning. And if you think you can cool down in your swimming pool, nope. It’s about 23 to 25 C degrees or more. BUT we love it up here, except for the crocs 🙄
@@esmed779I live in Nhulunbuy and I feel you about humidity it’s so hot and we can never swim in the beaches except for one time in the year when the coast guard sets up a swimming zone
Aussies not having clothes dryers is not true. Most people have them but dont use them very often. We prefer to use the outside Hills Hoist rotary clothes lines. The clothes dryers get more use during winter, unless people have a sun room connected to their home.
I'm in W.A. and I left my parent's home 46 years ago and I've never had a clothes dryer. I keep an eye on the weather forecast in Winter to work out which days to do the washing. If I have to I put in all on airing racks around the house.
Ok, I'm an American & I'm in process of becoming a dual citizen of USA/AUS, so I reckon I can help ya out mate. 1. Yes, we've got "Macca's" just like almost everywhere else in the world. 2. EPTOS? We've had this for a while, but bro, did you see the date? That's from 2019! 3. How do we have/make "chicken salt?" Same way they make onion salt, garlic salt...seasoning 4. Our wifi SUCKS! 5. I bet 80% of Americans could NOT distinguish Australian, New Zealand and English accents if their lives depended on it. 6. Helmets are compulsory & you can cop a fine. Also, it's not mandatory to take swimming as a kid. 7. We're on the southern hemisphere and our seasons are the exact opposite of USA. Instead of building snowmen, we build a sandman at the beach at Xmas 8. We're coffee SNOBS, especially in Melbourne. The closest likeable coffee comparison to ours is a Cuban coffee. 1 bad barista can sink your morning rush 9. The letter "H" is weird but true...just like "Z" is pronounced "Zed" 10. Pink, the iconic signing artist that can't do a show floor level, is a amazing! Her tickets sell out 30 seconds after being released and she adds more shows that sell out again. 11. If you REALLY want to question something completely Australian, look up our COMPULSORY voting law or how to do a "Hook Turn" that's found in Melbourne CBD area...cos it'll do your head in, seriously. I'm really not trying to have a go at you with this long comment, but I wanted to make sure you got better info from an American.
@laabsenceofcol8079 been here for almost 11yrs & when we holiday to see my family in USA, they claim they can't understand what I'm saying cos I shorten everything 🤣
The pedestrian crossing noise the fast beat means time to cross...one aussie pedestrian crossing noise has actually been used in a song by billi eilish
actually, blind people use the sound to know when to wait or cross, if it's too noisy they can touch the arrow area and feel the vibrations from that metal part in the middle of the arrow, with that being said a blind and deaf person can use the vibrations too as they cant hear the sound at all. fun fact, if you actually hold the metal part the noise is much quieter
@@giobozzreactsalso Australia invented tap to pay electric drills and wifi and we've had Macca's (McDonald's) for over 40 years it ain't a US only chain
@@johnstart92 and in reality, more commonly, it's those blinded by their focus on their mobile phone screens that use it to know when to cross. The noise means people don't have to look up from their phone while walking around, will just naturally stop & go at each intersection, normally without even noticing they are doing it
Been here 40+ years, and it’s adapted to Australian preferences, so much so that even they call it Maccas. McCafe started here, many years before the US, and is a very decent Oz-style coffee. If only Starbucks had adapted rather than trying to force that rubbish on us. They even built one in Lygon St, Carlton in Melbourne, our epicentre of Italian cuisine. Long gone with the Starbucks retreat.
I’ve actually come back to this post because it was the first one I’d seen (YT suggested) I’ve since watched several posts and came back here to where it began for me to just say that I am so impressed to see someone own their difficulties and just keep powering through them …THIS is how we learn & grow, and he takes the time to do that openly and without shame as it should be and the entire time he is still engaging with the viewer….that’s some serious skills! 👌 Aside from that, I love the open wonder and amazement at each new thing….I just want to scoop him up and bring him here to Australia to enjoy viewing it through this persons eyes…and because I can see that THIS is exactly the type of people we as a country NEED to see and experience all we have to offer, because this dude really has an appreciation for the world outside of what he is used to and respects that those differences are what makes life a great and wonderful adventure! 🙌
In the payWave thing the commenter is saying that Australia has had it for a very long time, whereas in the USA it's only a fairly recent thing. Australia introduce an electronic payment system called "eftpos" back in 1984 using a swipe card. Tap & go was introduced here in 2008. The USA has always been way behind us but it's finally catching up.
Chicken Salt was first made by a Melbourne Chicken Shop owner, to help season the chickens when roasting; technically, it's just seasoned salt but it really enhances the flavour of chips. Yes, we use Eglish words so we put a 'u' some of our words; like harbour, favourite ad flavour. Chips are straight cut fried potato, aka french-fries.
We don’t put in the “u”. It was always there, as those words came from French etc into English with the “u” already there. The Yanks (Webster’s Dictionary) took the “u” out.
Chicken salt actually originated in South Australia and was copied by a Victorian (badly) and that is why the South Aussie brand (Mitani) is the popular choice across the country….and also the most requested item aside from Tim Tams to be sent overseas 😉
Not just in Australia! I must point out (and emphasise) that those seasons apply EVERYWHERE in the southern hemisphere, although in the tropics it’s less noticeable. Just to be sure that Giobozz Ozzie is aware, in the tropics (between the tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere, past the Equator to the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere, effectively there are only two seasons: in Australia we call them “the Wet” and “the Dry” with the Wet season being now. Also, “Hemisphere” means, you know, half of a sphere, the sphere being our planet, the Earth. Our planet rotates on a fixed axis, one rotation every 24 hours. The axis of rotation is on a 23.5 degree inclination to the plane of its orbit around our star (the Sun), one orbit being completed every 365.25 days. The axis of rotation of the Earth remains steady, fixed and unmoving (aside from a very, very small wobble which is irrelevant in this discussion) all of the time while the Earth orbits the Sun, so in one half of the orbit more of the Southern Hemisphere will be tilted towards the Sun (at its maximum this is a tilt of 23.5 degrees in the height of the southern Summer/northern Winter, like now) while in the other half of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, more of the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun (northern Summer/southern Winter). They really need to issue more Earth globes to school kids (and some adults) in USA. Lesson ends.
I appreciate your taking the time to learn about Australia. It is not surprising that you would get confused with some of the explanations because I think some were not explained well. For example, with the power outlets, the article should have included an image showing the Aussie power outlet with the switch. It would be helpful for readers who have never been to Australia.
It's not written in the text but the pedestrian crossings not only make noise but are accessible for blind and deaf, usually we have bumps for canes and also the arrow on the crossing points in the directions of the crosswalk, and that little silver rectangle has a vibration for deaf people to feel when it's time to cross
And Deaf people can also look at the red & green little men to know when it's time to cross too I think you mean a Deaf AND Blind person can use the vibrations
Mandatory helmets is law in Australia and I think it's $161 in Queensland if you don't. But personally with good reason. In Australia if you come off your bike and need surgery it will cost you nothing, the government will pay for it. So in my opinion if the government is paying to repair you they have the right to tell you to wear it. How much could hospital fees be in America if you had a serious accident?
Just wanna say that I see people calling you ignorant. You said you have dyslexia. And I can see you do. Ignore those morons mate. You are trying to expand your knowledge, and learn, and I respect that. Good on ya mate. F the haters. Also everyone says our wifi is slow lol I have fast NBN, mine is so damn fast. People love to complain about what happened to them a decade ago as if it is current.
He doesn't have dyslexia, he just lacks the education, if he had dyslexia he wouldn't be able to read like this, he's just either putting words he previously read where HE thinks it will be again or not knowing a word.
You get confused not because of dyslexia, but because you read one sentence, then forget that sentence, then read the next sentence, then don't understand it because it is referring to the sentences you just threw from your mind. Example: Your confusion over the "Aussie one" that you said "doesn't belong there" was because the full phrase was... "Coffee shops in Australia are different" - talking about coffee shops "An Aussie ONE on the weekend..." - still referring to coffee shop
guess what, that's dyslexia. I'm dyslexic, so I know. Dyslexia means when you're reading out loud, your entire focus is on trying to say each word correctly & you tend not to actually process anything you read for meaning. It's not about forgetting the sentence before, it's that the MEANING of the sentence before never processed in the first place. I always had to pre & re-read anything we read in class at school, normally multiple times before I actually grasped the content. As an adult, I was assessed as having the reading level of an 8 year old, despite having a high enough IQ that no-one at school ever picked up on it (other than me, it seriously impacted my learning capacity & time I needed to spend on educational pursuits) & btw, he also won't have the ability to follow any of what you said there either, cause dyslexic brains can't take in that sort of presentation, all you had to say is "when it says "one" with the coffee shop, replace "one" with "coffee shop" and read it again (that said, our written grammar is actually different & where we put "," etc in sentences so different to other countries, that what I just wrote will be hard for him to grasp too as a result of that, in particular with where I have written "with the coffee shop", that's creating the same grammar situation that tripped him up in the first place
Sometimes inquisitive young children stick metal objects into those plug point sockets. The on/off switch will help prevent this - although you can buy plastic covers for those sockets.
Starbucks came to Australia without doing ANY research. They rolled out sixty plus stores and within a year, all of them failed. Starbucks makes desserts, not coffee. Americans seem to love straight black coffee without any thought to the coffee beans, the blend, the roasts, etc. Here in Australia, we have Baristas who know coffee and can help you decide which coffee is your favourite. We learned about tea from the British, but we learned about coffee from the Italian and Greek migrants who came here during the Wars and set up cafes everywhere. They began to employ Aussies and train them, and we quickly learned all about coffee and the many varieties and blends. We loved it and now we sit in our favourite cafe each morning, enjoying our favourite coffee and chatting with a friend or two.
We have been doing payWave using either cards or phones for nearly 10 years. We often refer to it as tap tap. Our payment systems are years ahead of the US and many other places. When I travel overseas, I take a small coffee plunger and coffee with me! My day doesn’t start without my morning coffee!
@@davidareeves those are "tactile dots" not brail, for brail, look at floors 5, 10, 20 etc in a building lift. You don't see that brail pattern on notes or crossing buttons, do you
14:46 yes, we have summer starting in December. The Southern hemisphere (lower side of the earth) has the reversed seasons to the Northern. This is why some birds fly South for the winter, because they’re flying to warmer weather.
Southern hemisphere has reversed seasons, basically. When it's hot for you guys, it's cold for us. When you guys have snow, we have fire season. And yes. There is a Fire Season in Australia. And we love P!nk cause she's the most Australian person not born in Australia to ever exist. She is an honorary Aussie and is always welcome on our shores.
Yes, Australia has summer in December thanks to being in the Southern Hemisphere. It makes Christmas very different for us, but if you like having fun in summer, then you will definitely like it.
Chicken salt is a mix of things that go on a chicken to roast it. People like it on chips. People think you’re un Australian if you prefer normal salt. Chicken salt on fish n chips just isn’t right. Flavour mismatch. Normal salt with malt vinegar for that.
The fine for not wearing a bike helmet is a mandatory law in all Australian states. Anything from AU$50 in Western Australia, to AU$344 in NSW and Tasmania. Kids generally won't be fined, but mum and dad might get a polite visit from the local copper.
I used to run a hotel (in centre of Melbourne) , a lot of overseas people would come here and they'd always come to me with a list of words they'd discovered and totally confused by. I even once taught a (mate) guy from Italy Aussie slang, he had studied English for 8 years while in Italy, but was scary he wasn't good enough speaker to trust what he knew. In the end, he thought English was easy compares to our slang. Mission accomplished ;)
as we are at the opposite end of the earth, our seasons are the opposite of America. We have Christmas in summer, and no Santa has still not learnt to dress for the weather!!! We spend Christmas on the beach!!
If caught riding a bicycle without a helmet, you'll get fined; most cities don't always have dedicated bike lanes, so riding on the roadway is fraught with danger. Better a helmet than a busted head.
Our cards have been paywave for over a decade. Tbh it has been in the US for a while as well at least 2016 but maybe not understood as I was in Dunkin Donuts outside St. Augustine and the teenager behind the counter freaked out when I tappe my card against the paywave symbol and the receipt started to spit out, no signature, no fuss. As for internet speed. Aus is long way from anywhere and there is only a few international trunks connecting us to the world a round trip for a packet going to the UK and back again will take about a second in a perfect world. However the internet is like a road with different ways to get to a destination and like roads there are short ways, long ways and the longest ways. Also with its own version of traffic jams to slow things down even further. The farther you need to go to more possibilities for delays Soooo if you are in Aus connecting to a US site it is a lot further to connect and pull data from than being on the same continent. Apologies for the rant but I see so many people dis Australian internet speeds without understanding why.
As an Australian who understands computers, networking, radio communications etc, please explain this to me. Living in Darwin with Gigabit fibre to the premises connected to the NBN with Optus. I ping a server located in Darwin connected to the NBN via Telstra. The trace route showed my packets travel via Adelaide. WHY? Now, moved back to Victoria. Parts of town have fibre to the premise. Some have fibre to the node (I'm standing in my lounge room and can SEE those houses with my naked eyes). But my house, located in town, has fixed point wireless. Explain why houses inside a town are stuck on fixed point wireless. Oh and besides ridiculously slow speeds where anything over 10Mbps is considered excellent, there are frequent drop outs that leave us with zero internet at all. I run my own commercial multi-wan router with 4G cellular back-up just so we can maintain some form of internet. Do you consider this to be good internet? A 300ms ping when playing with my American friends isn't great, but it's playable. That's not the issue. The issue is a connection that is stable and has sufficient bandwidth to allow just one other person to browse a website whilst I'm playing a game without causing the connection to get jammed up and kick me out of the multiplayer session for "lost connection". This happens so much that I plug my mobile phone into my computer and use USB tethering to share it's internet connection because that's actually more stable. Can you start to understand why people like me are saying the internet in Australia SUCKS? BECAUSE IT DOES SUCK. There are pockets where there is half decent internet and large areas where it is actually worse than the old ADSL2+ connections we used to have.
@@35manningI’ll try to answer. 1 Optus needed to access a network crossover point that happened at the time to be in Adelaide, due to there being no available crossover point in Darwin. Might not be a permanent arrangement. Just guessing here. 2 Maybe your house for some reason was not connected to the NBN when that first came through, so now is left as an orphan on fixed wireless as they can’t be bothered or it’s too difficult or expensive now to connect. 3 Congestion or interference on the fixed wireless circuit, made worse for you by your modern usage needs and the built-in bandwidth limitations of your fixed wireless connection. I’m with NBN over cable and while I don’t have speed problems I have reliability issues, with several outages per year meaning I also have to connect via my mobile phone when those occur. The problem for me is that whichever device I’m using is not the only one here needing internet access so those other devices are disconnected while the NBN is having its little holiday. When we had Optus cable pre-NBN, there were never outages (or speed problems). NBN as built sucks. Trouble is, I don’t seem to be able to get Fibre-to-the-Premises.
@@DeepThought9999 1) I ran regular ping and speed tests over several years, it was consistently faster to cross the country than it was to go next door because of how either Optus or Telstra connected into the NBN and how the NBN was configured to use their networks. It COULD have been set up differently, but wasn't and as a result was slower than it needed to be. 2) And all of the neighbours homes too? No, they just decided on a map to not hook up wires on my street and the streets behind me. Just like walking away from the promise of fibre to the premise everywhere, this was a pure cost cutting procedure. 3) There is most definitely interference, because they installed the NBN antenna BELOW the height of multiple trees. However the local NBN technician also confirmed that the towers themselves have multiple faults including one of not enough capacity. Oh, for those not in the know, Fixed Point Wireless is 4G cellular phone technology, only with a roof mounted directional antenna and cell towers that are meant to be dedicated to just NBN internet coverage. Given that it uses the exact same technology as my 4G phone, only it has a dedicated tower and a much larger directional antenna and is powered by mains electricity, you'd think it should be faster and more stable. I've actually found it's often the opposite. My mobile phone has done back to back speed tests at double the speed at times.
@@glenod it was and I was one of the testers before it launched. I also tested the internet banking in its early days using a device I placed on the phone mouthpiece and typed in numbers back when mobile phones were new and analogue so I used it on my mobile and also on regular phone in 1989 or 1990 but not many businesses had BPAY so mostly I moved money around my bank accounts and paid my phone bill.
14:27 In Australia (and the rest of the southern hemisphere), the seasons are reversed compared to the northern hemisphere, so Australia's summer is the US' winter.
Summer in Australia is from December 1 to the end of February, followed by autumn from March 1 to May, then winter from June 1 to August, and finally spring from September 1 to the end of November.
First trip to USA in 2014 they were still swiping credit cards and writing cheques. Not even using a pin let alone tap n go. That was Seattle. They still use cheques.
as an australian who went to hawaii this year, one of the biggest 2 things that caught me off guard was that there was no noise at crossings. i didnt know where i was so i was listening carefully to everything and looking around and almost missed a traffic light or 2 late at night because i wasnt completely focused on the light.
Start of summer indeed, it was 108 degrees in freedom units the other day! That being said, it was Melbourne, so literally the next day didn't hit 70 degrees.
@@thisnametaken3735 I've always joked that the weather in Australia has very little correlation to the seasons and is whatever the hell it wants to be. Don't like the weather? Give it half an hour, it'll probably change.
As an Aussie ik there actually called frozen fantas but most people call them frozen cokes and the flavours are grape blueberry Fanta coke and coke zero there pretty much just slushies 1:35
Australia used to count the change of seasons by the natural season changes, based on the solstices and the equinoxes. The solstice is when the Sun seems to stand still. The Summer Solstice marks the longest day of sunlight, while the Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of sunlight. The Spring Equinox and Autumn Equinox occur when the sun is directly over the Equator at noon and the day and night are equal length in time. The Southern Hemisphere has reverse seasons, so the Summer Solstice falls on 21st of December each year. Not the 1st of December. The Winter Solstice falls on 21 June each year. Not the 1st of June. The Spring Equinox falls on 23 September each year. Not the 1st of September. The Autumn Equinox falls on 20 March each year. Not the 1st of March. Over time, the start of the four seasons have been officially moved to the first day of the month, regardless of the fact that the change of season has not actually happened yet. This is what the comment refers to. Some young person does not understand that the actual seasons do not conveniently start on the first day of the human calendar months in Australia. Other countries use the natural season changes.
Lol I can't even understand Americans sometimes... All Australians know that Christmas is in the Winter for America and Europe (mostly from TV) and that Christmas here is in the Summer. I guess that Americans don't get to see much Aussie TV, but it's so strange lol
Number 12) The reason Australian Summer is North America's Winter is because we are on different hemispheres. As the earth spins around the sun, towards the end/start of the year, the earth is angled with the northern hemisphere further away from the sun and the southern hemisphere closer to the sun. Midway through the year the angle changes the other way. Closer to the sun, hotter, summer. Further away from the sun, colder, winter.
The pedestrian button is called an audio tactile. The beep allows a blind person to locate it, the arrow is raised so they know which direction to walk, the round noise is triggered with the walk light to allow the person to track the noise. They vibrate so a blind and deaf person can feel the vibration. Hense audio/tactile, sound/vibration
Listening to you trying to understand our way of talking and our slang is good fun. We can have a different way of saying things at times. There are plenty of videos out there about our slang terms etc that you might enjoy looking at.
@@giobozzreacts I have dyslexia too, I have the same problem as you in reverse. Apparently our commas & speech patterns (and therefore writing, as we write, the way we speak) are very confusing for others, but for me it's clear, but other countries ones throw me. Also even basic word differences, such as apparently you don't use "learnt", but rather "learned". Is a hard switch
2:20 we have had pay wave since it came out this is most likely a store that hasn't bothered to update their machine in years... it's the stores fault not our banks... as if you lived in the city from 2012-present you would have used pay wave heaps
Fun fact WiFi was invented in Australia by the CSIRO government organization. Our internet costs and speed come under the equation of massive land mass over a small population. With the new 5G system I can download a movie in 2 minutes but the cost is 85aud a month.
About the half flush option, in Australia years ago we had more water in the cistern so a half flush was worth doing but these days it's kinda there for decoration as even a full flush is just barely enough, we went so heavy with being conscious about our water usage that it has ruined our toilets and it's sooo much easier to get a blocked toilet than it used to be. AUSTRALIANS, if you are seeing this message (coming from an ex-plumber) PLEASE NEVER HALF FLUSH AND PLEASE HOLD THE FULL FLUSH TILL THE END OF THE FLUSH.
Do we have McDonalds over here? Haha mate, McDonalds or as we call it Maccas is everywhere. In fact its a key part of getting your drivers license. Its essentially an unwritten rule that as soon as you get your drivers license and are now a "P Plater" You have to do a Maccas run for your first drive.
1:09 For the frozen coke, it is one of my favourite drinks to get from McDonald's. 2:56 I THOUGHT AMERICA HAD CHICKEN SALT?? 14:00 Idk how to explain that myself although I'm an Aussie. 20:33 I mix it with slide and slippery dip, just feels more natural. 23:27 We call people with orange hair rangas.
Don’t blame your dyslexia, be proud your reading is as good as any average person. I am dyslexic, couldn’t read till high school, I now have 2 degrees and done many courses. Don’t let anyone put your reading or speaking down.
Well done you. One of my daughters has dyslexia and she has really struggled hard to overcome it. She now has a degree and is thinking about doing her masters. She still finds reading and writing difficult at times, especially if she is tired, but we could not be prouder of her if we tried. She has come such a long way .
@ it’s very unusual for females to have dyslexia my youngest son has it as well. But usually we are very good at maths and creative personalities. I am with both.
1:50 we have these because we have a tendency to be the hottest place on the plant for the whole week so far so these "frozen" drinks are common place like ice cream but these are thinner liquid meaning can be drunk and not eaten but.... they used to be $1AUD or $0.65USD but now are $2.50AUD or $1.59USD for a large 😢
@giobozzreacts theyre awesome you need to try it if you visit AU as they are kinda like freezing a softdrink in the freezer but bit better, it's very common in north AU to find these colder snacks around at different places aswell as slushi alcoholic beverages because who wouldn't want one? For example it said that across north AU for the past 4 days was 38⁰c but with humidity and UV strength it feels like 43⁰c or 107.5⁰F so literally over 100⁰ here that's why we have other places like Vietnamese cold brew coffee (kinda like iced coffee just way better) that comes from places like "ANNIE'S Cafe de suda" which is like AU's Starbucks but to be more accurate it's more luxurious as we have zeraffas coffee (basically Starbucks) so yeah you'll find alot of cooler foods here because of how hot it is and because we're close to Asia like the US is to Mexico we have alot of their foods like you guys do with Mexico it's cool to see the opposite of what you're used too from different places and is always worth checking out 👍 keep up the videos man AU videos are most likely what's going to be running the YT algorithm for a bit so feel free to jump aboard and learn a thing or too
The "Aussie" thing confuses people because of the daft double S. It's Ozzy, as in Osbourne, and it really should be spelled Ausie. But that looks silly, so... Then there's Ossie Ostrich. That's a whole other rabbit hole, but.
Mandatory helmets are the law, because what we kept seeing were both kids and adults being rushed to the ER with head trauma - either they had crashed their bicycles or motorbikes, had been hit by a car while riding, or had been hit by a bus or a truck while riding. The hospitals saw so many of these horrendous injuries that they wrote letters to the government, begging for safety gear to be compulsory. “Introduction of the laws: legal requirements Mandatory helmet laws were first introduced in Victoria in July 1990, followed in January 1991 by laws for adult cyclists in New South Wales and all age-groups in Tasmania. In July 1991, New South Wales extended the law to child cyclists.”
The season start finish: In US/Europe etc it's linked to the solar Solstice and Equinox. In Oz, it's a historical artifact where an early governor decided to issue "spring/summer uniforms" to the army on the first of September. That became the official start of the season. And yes seasons are flipped in northern and southern hemispheres.
Lmaoo man searched up gobbies on Google 😂😂 A ranga, is a red haired person, but it can be offensive to some red haired people if you say it to them since it can be perceived as derogatory.
My friend has dyslexia. She studied to be a nurse and I proof read a lot of her assignments. She passed and has been working in a hospital for about six years! She still has dyslexia, that doesn’t go away, but she manages it better.
Love your videos mate, got some clarification for ya Ok here we go... Gobbie= ummm a sex act Esky= cooler. Rangga= a red haired individual, normally with freckles. Lastly when you see "Oz". It's pronounced like in "wizard of Oz" Keep doing what your doing man... All the best from Oz
Pay wave thing is over 5 years old, we were one of the first countries to largely adopt the technology, before America. Queenslanders say haich, the rest of us say aich. Seasons are opposite to the northern hemisphere of course but the point they are making is the seasons start on the first of the month and all seasons are exactly 3 month. 1 Dec - 31 Feb summer. 1 march - 31 may autumn. 1 June - 31 august winter. 1 September - 30 November spring.
@@elisekellett2378I’ve noticed that Queenslanders tend to do it, as do people educated in the Catholic schools system in the rest of Australia. It’s a dead giveaway and very common in the public service.
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We pronounce it ozzy
Evan MacDonald's in Australia sells better coffee than 99.9% of American coffee shops.
It's only a fanny pack in the US because fanny is English for the c-bomb lol
@@peterdubois65 That is the truth
With the crosswalk button, the idiot is filming while a nearby vehicle is reversing. Doesn't have the brains to wait until the vehicles his finished reversing.
It's not hard to confuse an American, we get joy in Australia confusing them 😂😂
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@@giobozzreacts in a friendly way 😊
@@giobozzreacts it is done with hugs and love, 😂😂
@giobozzreacts Just remember that we don't mean any malice in it. A lot of aussie humour involves taking the piss out of people and poking fun at them and each-other.
It's more Australians than sayin Crickey Mate
In regards to PayWave-
Visa payWave was invented in Australia, where the Commonwealth Bank first introduced it in 2006. The technology allows users to make contactless payments by tapping their cards on a reader, without the need to enter a PIN.
It's amazing how you had to google that just to give yourself a reason to comment bahahaha
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@@tsm5856 its basic fact here in australia
@Ramen5000Manga I know, I'm from far North QLD, you can't tell me you both just knew the exact year it was implemented tho 😂😂😂😂
Well, small payments (under $100AUD) are automatically pre-authorised for the system. Anything OVER this still needs a PIN.
They waived the limit/PIN during lockdowns, when cashless payments were preferred (so staff didn't have to handle cash) but it came back in 2023.
The 'noisy' pedestrian crossing device is an Australian invention. In technical terms It is referred to as audio tactile. It is used by vision impared coupled with hearing impared people trying to navigate city streets. You will note that the arrow is raised and it points to the direction to cross. Also when it is safe to cross the whole arrow (embossed on a stainless steel sheet) vibrates so that a vision and hearing impared person can feel the vibrations.
Sorry to inform you but pretty sure Canada had the noisy pedestrian button before us, might have been invented by an Aussie though,not sure,but my friends mother was the person to convince government to introduce it to our crossings.she witnessed it in use in Canada before it was here in Australia.
@@paulvandersluys7412 Are you pretty sure or is it a fact? The history of the audio tactile pedestrian crossing button is well documented. It started in the 1970's in NSW.
@johnspathonis1078 ok, it was early 1980's when Wollongong adopted it, my mates mother did see similar in Canada,and pushed for it to go on crossings in Wollongong. anyways & whatever ,great for the blind.merry Christmas to you.
🟢 Why Australia’s Crosswalk Buttons are the Best (ft. Billie Eilish)
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If there was a competition for world’s best crosswalk button,
Australia would have gold locked in with the remarkable PB/5 button.
Its distinct sound has been streamed over 1 billion times on Spotify
and RUclips thanks to a collaboration with Billie Eilish.
There’s not a competition by the way - but this video explains why the
design is so clever.
The little cut out piece in the middle of the arrow is part of the internal mechanism call a transducer (where my Girl From Tomorrow fans at?). It’s the transducer that produces the vibration and has the speaker attached that works with the audio-tactile controller on the post to give you that sound and vibration.
In Australia, if someone says "let's meet for coffee"; we meet at a coffee shop, and sit down at a table to talk.
my god danm bro am a australian i say let meet at the coffee shop that how we say dumass
@@JacquieLondrigan I'm Aussie and I thought you meant the Texas city. XD JK
@ lol am 13 and i play fortnite and five night at freddy and i dont really like hatters crux hey are mean to australia but your not your cool
1:13 bro did not say “y’all got McDonald’s over there?” 💀 💀
Apparently, we finally have electricity to allow Maccas to operate here.
Like what
Not to be rude but has he never heard of maccas before because I feel like any American or any on else form a different country has heard it am I wrong??
Bro thought we lived under a rock 💀
McDonalds is all over the world! In many countries!
Come on mate, you know the seasons are flipped. You have winter, we have summer. You have spring we have Autumn/Fall.
I can’t believe he is that ignorant
Wrong. I used to think that. We are the one of the only Countries that have four seasons that are all the same length. As in 3 months each. Other Countries have short summers and long winters or the other way around. It is not flipped. It is totally different. He is not ignorant btw, he is trying to learn and I absolutely respect him for doing so. Also as you can see in the video, he has dyslexia, which is a learning disability. So be nice. A holes.
Americans don’t start their season in the first of the quarter. They stick with solstices.
@@ozzybloke-craig3690Dyslexia is a reading disability. There are other ways to learn that do not involve reading. Dyslexia is not an excuse for ignorance.
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Well if you look it up they also have 3 month seasons.
Regardless, their seasons are fundamentally 'flipped' compared to ours. Not 100% exact, but near enough.
Hence their White Christmas traditions being very different to our summer versions.
OP was correct and wasn't being unkind.
Further, I don't see how dyslexia should make someone unaware of this.
Just another tip. Whenever I see a comment that begins with 'Wrong'... that comment is almost invariably wrong. Interesting, that.
Merry Christmas. 😁
Australia is the only country that Starbucks failed, they closed down 61 of their 87 outlets because Australian's didn't buy it, Starbucks used the same American model in Australia which was making quick sugary awful tasting overly large, fast in-and-out rubbish, Australians like to either sit down in a cafe and have a coffee (cafe culture) or have a properly brewed great tasting coffee in a take away cup., Starbucks is trying to make a comeback but Australian's won't buy it, only the American tourists will buy this crap, which is a shame as they will miss out on what good coffee taste's like.
And 3 new Starbucks has popped up this year in western Australia yuck.
Yeah we love our real coffee with smooth, strong flavour. We also have our awesome Italian immigrants that brought it with them.
@madenabyss6981 Yes for tourists
Lots of Greeks and Italians in Melbourne. Cafe culture with proper coffee will always win out.
Tried Starbucks coffee once, never again, it was vile.
The universally adopted Dual Flush Toilet system is an Australian Invention, designed to save water.
The Helmets are Law, and after seeing a friend’s Father pass away from a Cycling Head Injury and a friend of my Sons narrowly escape Brain damage, both from minor accidents, I totally support it.
The love of ‘P!nk’ is the Singer. She’s very loved here, she famously did a 59 date Tour here back in 2009, selling 650,000 Tickets.
You know, I thought of this idea nearly 50 years ago when I was a kid.
Then it became a thing everywhere.
Yes, that still bugs me a bit. 😆
I mean helmets also help protect people from being swooped
I'm pretty sure the dual flush toilets thing was made mandatory here in Victoria when we had the big drought of the noughties. From 2001 to 2010 we had a crippling drought in Melbourne that almost left us with no water for the entire city. We went down to about 23% and if it had gone down to 15% it would have been too low for the pumps to reach. They implemented very strict water restrictions, with encouragement for people to put things like a water bottle in the cistern of the toilet so it wouldn't fill up as much, thus saving water with each flush. Rebates were offered for people buying rain water tanks to water their plants, as well as other water saving devices. People were encouraged to shower with a bucket to water their plants. They made in mandatory that all new toilets had to have dual flush capabilities. Before that, many people had toilets that were just single flush. We were also encouraged to keep our showers to under 3 minutes. It was a bad time.
2:50 Australia had paywave well before anyone else, including America. We had paywave back in 2009.
Read the text. "If you go to the US and try to hover your card or phone they look at you like you have two heads" because we do that in Australia, they didn't have it for a long time in the US
I think what was confusing him is the post was made a few years before which he didn’t realise and though it was talking about current times which obviously most places in the world have this now
EFTPOS was first released In NZ way back in 1985.
America still uses checks.
They were phased out here years ago we just use direct fund transfer on the phone .
I haven't had any cash money for years. I did have 60 bucks in the ashtray of my last car forgot about it being there when I sold it.
@@martinsmallwood9605 Living in Australia I still carry around cash, especially after natural disasters or something, leading to know internet or power. But yes, the fact they still use checks, is insane. My dad works in the US, and he was overpaid by his company. He asked them for their bank details so he could just transfer the over payment.
Americans are weird about their bank details and think they need to keep them secret, despite the fact you can only deposit money with those details.
He had to request a check online, where a company prints a physical cheque and mails it to the other party..... fucking nuts.
Australia is in the Sothern hemisphere so seasons are reversed to that of the north.
Summer:Dec-Feb
Autumn: Mar-May
Winter: Jun-Aug
Spring/ swooping magpie season: Sep-Nov
America doesn't start the seasons on the 1st though.
It's southern.
Our seasons aren't just reversed, ours are simplified to begin on the first of a particular month, and end on the last of a particular month. Many countries, including the USA, set the dates for their seasons based off the solstices and equinoxes - which to me, makes more sense.
@@kirstonemmm1423 Basically it's because the British Royal Navy and Army needed to make it easily remembered by its low-level staffing in foreign climes that they made the seasons start on the first of a month. We have just continued on from that decision.
To make chicken salt you take a chicken, make it really angry then squeeze the salt out of it.
Unless you poor like my grandparents. They'd Hang the chicken out on the line, wait for them to dry out, then grind em down for Chicken Salt
Can confirm
@@davidareeves must be a hills hoist it's hung on though or it won't work
Americans standing next to our traffic lights heard the noise on our lights and asked what the beeping was, my friends said it's for the sight impaired they said we don't let our sight impaired drive. Doh
😂😂 I hope you are joking
😂😂 please let that be true that's so friggin funny ☠️
We often eat our Christmas lunch in 30 plus degrees, that's celsius.
I live in the Darwin in tropical Northern Territory and we only have 2 seasons, wet & dry. We can’t swim at any of the beaches due to venomous jellyfish called Stingers and crocodiles. So Christmas is hot and humid. 36-38 degrees or more Celsius or 100 degrees Fahrenheit & up to 98% humidity. Thank goodness for air conditioning. And if you think you can cool down in your swimming pool, nope. It’s about 23 to 25 C degrees or more.
BUT we love it up here, except for the crocs 🙄
@@esmed779I live in Nhulunbuy and I feel you about humidity it’s so hot and we can never swim in the beaches except for one time in the year when the coast guard sets up a swimming zone
Calling it a bum bag is actually closer in meaning to US fanny pack.
Because 'fanny' here means something rather different. 😆
For anybody wondering what fanny means in Australia, it's a slang term for female genitalia.
When I told my American aunt what "fanny" means in Australia, she was horrified and agreed to stop talking about grabbing a fanny pack!😊😊
They were also invented by an Australian who named them bum bags.
Haha fanny in Australia means vagina, first time I heard an American use it I thought that’s a bit rude till I worked out what they meant
Simply put, a fanny here in Oz is a females front bum 😜 rather than your backside
Aussies not having clothes dryers is not true. Most people have them but dont use them very often. We prefer to use the outside Hills Hoist rotary clothes lines.
The clothes dryers get more use during winter, unless people have a sun room connected to their home.
Actually in NQ they get more use in summer, when it rains all the time.
@@G.H.O.S.T.254 we also have fences so our stuff doesn’t get snow dropped (stolen) off the line.
I'm in W.A. and I left my parent's home 46 years ago and I've never had a clothes dryer. I keep an eye on the weather forecast in Winter to work out which days to do the washing. If I have to I put in all on airing racks around the house.
Ok, I'm an American & I'm in process of becoming a dual citizen of USA/AUS, so I reckon I can help ya out mate.
1. Yes, we've got "Macca's" just like almost everywhere else in the world.
2. EPTOS? We've had this for a while, but bro, did you see the date? That's from 2019!
3. How do we have/make "chicken salt?" Same way they make onion salt, garlic salt...seasoning
4. Our wifi SUCKS!
5. I bet 80% of Americans could NOT distinguish Australian, New Zealand and English accents if their lives depended on it.
6. Helmets are compulsory & you can cop a fine. Also, it's not mandatory to take swimming as a kid.
7. We're on the southern hemisphere and our seasons are the exact opposite of USA. Instead of building snowmen, we build a sandman at the beach at Xmas
8. We're coffee SNOBS, especially in Melbourne. The closest likeable coffee comparison to ours is a Cuban coffee. 1 bad barista can sink your morning rush
9. The letter "H" is weird but true...just like "Z" is pronounced "Zed"
10. Pink, the iconic signing artist that can't do a show floor level, is a amazing! Her tickets sell out 30 seconds after being released and she adds more shows that sell out again.
11. If you REALLY want to question something completely Australian, look up our COMPULSORY voting law or how to do a "Hook Turn" that's found in Melbourne CBD area...cos it'll do your head in, seriously.
I'm really not trying to have a go at you with this long comment, but I wanted to make sure you got better info from an American.
"Having a go"...youre up on our slang already. Too right mate
@laabsenceofcol8079 been here for almost 11yrs & when we holiday to see my family in USA, they claim they can't understand what I'm saying cos I shorten everything 🤣
@Kmorlandhy16 haha yeah it's contagious. Bonza 😀
Include the Sth African accent in that.
EFTPOS? I was a teenager in the 1990s when I got a card with EFTPOS
Fact.you dont get a wet ass on the toilet in Australia. USA water level is way higher
We don’t waste water in Oz.
They have a completely different plumbing system which necessitates the higher water level.
When I saw the water level in a US toilet rise to almost to the top of the toilet I evacuated the cubicle!
The pedestrian crossing noise the fast beat means time to cross...one aussie pedestrian crossing noise has actually been used in a song by billi eilish
I had no idea
I never listen to her unfortunately
actually, blind people use the sound to know when to wait or cross, if it's too noisy they can touch the arrow area and feel the vibrations from that metal part in the middle of the arrow, with that being said a blind and deaf person can use the vibrations too as they cant hear the sound at all. fun fact, if you actually hold the metal part the noise is much quieter
@@giobozzreactsalso Australia invented tap to pay electric drills and wifi and we've had Macca's (McDonald's) for over 40 years it ain't a US only chain
@@giobozzreactsbro... yuo maetn dexlysia.
@@johnstart92 and in reality, more commonly, it's those blinded by their focus on their mobile phone screens that use it to know when to cross. The noise means people don't have to look up from their phone while walking around, will just naturally stop & go at each intersection, normally without even noticing they are doing it
Frozen Coke is basically a McDonald’s staple in Australia. It’s just a slushy. Large frozen Coke (and many other flavours) for $1
Thinking McDonald’s is an American only chain is wild bro 😂
Been here 40+ years, and it’s adapted to Australian preferences, so much so that even they call it Maccas. McCafe started here, many years before the US, and is a very decent Oz-style coffee. If only Starbucks had adapted rather than trying to force that rubbish on us. They even built one in Lygon St, Carlton in Melbourne, our epicentre of Italian cuisine. Long gone with the Starbucks retreat.
I’ve actually come back to this post because it was the first one I’d seen (YT suggested) I’ve since watched several posts and came back here to where it began for me to just say that I am so impressed to see someone own their difficulties and just keep powering through them …THIS is how we learn & grow, and he takes the time to do that openly and without shame as it should be and the entire time he is still engaging with the viewer….that’s some serious skills! 👌
Aside from that, I love the open wonder and amazement at each new thing….I just want to scoop him up and bring him here to Australia to enjoy viewing it through this persons eyes…and because I can see that THIS is exactly the type of people we as a country NEED to see and experience all we have to offer, because this dude really has an appreciation for the world outside of what he is used to and respects that those differences are what makes life a great and wonderful adventure! 🙌
The US electrical domestic equipment and reticulation is antiquated and relatively dangerous!
In the payWave thing the commenter is saying that Australia has had it for a very long time, whereas in the USA it's only a fairly recent thing. Australia introduce an electronic payment system called "eftpos" back in 1984 using a swipe card. Tap & go was introduced here in 2008. The USA has always been way behind us but it's finally catching up.
that needs updating on the wiki Aussie inventions page
Chicken Salt was first made by a Melbourne Chicken Shop owner, to help season the chickens when roasting; technically, it's just seasoned salt but it really enhances the flavour of chips. Yes, we use Eglish words so we put a 'u' some of our words; like harbour, favourite ad flavour. Chips are straight cut fried potato, aka french-fries.
Pretty sure it’s from Adelaide?
We don’t put in the “u”. It was always there, as those words came from French etc into English with the “u” already there. The Yanks (Webster’s Dictionary) took the “u” out.
Chicken salt actually originated in South Australia and was copied by a Victorian (badly) and that is why the South Aussie brand (Mitani) is the popular choice across the country….and also the most requested item aside from Tim Tams to be sent overseas 😉
In Australia, summer is December to February; Autumn is March to May, Winter is June to August and Spring is September to November.
Not just in Australia!
I must point out (and emphasise) that those seasons apply EVERYWHERE in the southern hemisphere, although in the tropics it’s less noticeable.
Just to be sure that Giobozz Ozzie is aware, in the tropics (between the tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere, past the Equator to the Tropic of Cancer in the Northern Hemisphere, effectively there are only two seasons: in Australia we call them “the Wet” and “the Dry” with the Wet season being now.
Also, “Hemisphere” means, you know, half of a sphere, the sphere being our planet, the Earth. Our planet rotates on a fixed axis, one rotation every 24 hours. The axis of rotation is on a 23.5 degree inclination to the plane of its orbit around our star (the Sun), one orbit being completed every 365.25 days. The axis of rotation of the Earth remains steady, fixed and unmoving (aside from a very, very small wobble which is irrelevant in this discussion) all of the time while the Earth orbits the Sun, so in one half of the orbit more of the Southern Hemisphere will be tilted towards the Sun (at its maximum this is a tilt of 23.5 degrees in the height of the southern Summer/northern Winter, like now) while in the other half of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun, more of the Northern Hemisphere is tilted towards the Sun (northern Summer/southern Winter). They really need to issue more Earth globes to school kids (and some adults) in USA. Lesson ends.
@@DeepThought9999 did he say "just in australia"
I appreciate your taking the time to learn about Australia. It is not surprising that you would get confused with some of the explanations because I think some were not explained well. For example, with the power outlets, the article should have included an image showing the Aussie power outlet with the switch. It would be helpful for readers who have never been to Australia.
It's not written in the text but the pedestrian crossings not only make noise but are accessible for blind and deaf, usually we have bumps for canes and also the arrow on the crossing points in the directions of the crosswalk, and that little silver rectangle has a vibration for deaf people to feel when it's time to cross
The bumps are also large enough to be felt with feet through shoes.
And Deaf people can also look at the red & green little men to know when it's time to cross too
I think you mean a Deaf AND Blind person can use the vibrations
Ranga is a red headed person
“Ranga” derives from Orangutang, that red-haired ape from Borneo.
@@DeepThought9999Yes. But we also use it to refer to people with red hair.
Same as Bluey ;)
@@DeepThought9999don’t forget Sumatra
Ranga is a soul-less beast
Yes, we do have McDonalds in Australia but we call it Maccas.
As do they.(the company)
9:23 Aussie is pronounced Ozzie
Credible source I see
Mandatory helmets is law in Australia and I think it's $161 in Queensland if you don't. But personally with good reason. In Australia if you come off your bike and need surgery it will cost you nothing, the government will pay for it. So in my opinion if the government is paying to repair you they have the right to tell you to wear it. How much could hospital fees be in America if you had a serious accident?
With anything if the Government is "paying" for anything it's ACTUALLY the TAXPAYERS who're paying.
It's higher now, around $318 fine
@@dianaellul9345yeah but we don’t have to pay when we’re going to a hospital unless it’s a private one
Just wanna say that I see people calling you ignorant. You said you have dyslexia. And I can see you do. Ignore those morons mate. You are trying to expand your knowledge, and learn, and I respect that. Good on ya mate. F the haters. Also everyone says our wifi is slow lol I have fast NBN, mine is so damn fast. People love to complain about what happened to them a decade ago as if it is current.
My NBN is currently running at 67 mbs because my daughter is watching movies on her computer. Usually it runs at around 98.
Starlink is around 150 in rural areas.
@@dianaellul9345 yeah and 67 is very fast.
He doesn't have dyslexia, he just lacks the education, if he had dyslexia he wouldn't be able to read like this, he's just either putting words he previously read where HE thinks it will be again or not knowing a word.
Also, notice the raised arrow; this enables blind and partially blind know which way the crossing goes.
You get confused not because of dyslexia, but because you read one sentence, then forget that sentence, then read the next sentence, then don't understand it because it is referring to the sentences you just threw from your mind.
Example: Your confusion over the "Aussie one" that you said "doesn't belong there" was because the full phrase was...
"Coffee shops in Australia are different" - talking about coffee shops
"An Aussie ONE on the weekend..." - still referring to coffee shop
guess what, that's dyslexia. I'm dyslexic, so I know. Dyslexia means when you're reading out loud, your entire focus is on trying to say each word correctly & you tend not to actually process anything you read for meaning. It's not about forgetting the sentence before, it's that the MEANING of the sentence before never processed in the first place.
I always had to pre & re-read anything we read in class at school, normally multiple times before I actually grasped the content. As an adult, I was assessed as having the reading level of an 8 year old, despite having a high enough IQ that no-one at school ever picked up on it (other than me, it seriously impacted my learning capacity & time I needed to spend on educational pursuits)
& btw, he also won't have the ability to follow any of what you said there either, cause dyslexic brains can't take in that sort of presentation, all you had to say is "when it says "one" with the coffee shop, replace "one" with "coffee shop" and read it again (that said, our written grammar is actually different & where we put "," etc in sentences so different to other countries, that what I just wrote will be hard for him to grasp too as a result of that, in particular with where I have written "with the coffee shop", that's creating the same grammar situation that tripped him up in the first place
Sometimes inquisitive young children stick metal objects into those plug point sockets. The on/off switch will help prevent this - although you can buy plastic covers for those sockets.
Starbucks came to Australia without doing ANY research. They rolled out sixty plus stores and within a year, all of them failed. Starbucks makes desserts, not coffee. Americans seem to love straight black coffee without any thought to the coffee beans, the blend, the roasts, etc. Here in Australia, we have Baristas who know coffee and can help you decide which coffee is your favourite. We learned about tea from the British, but we learned about coffee from the Italian and Greek migrants who came here during the Wars and set up cafes everywhere. They began to employ Aussies and train them, and we quickly learned all about coffee and the many varieties and blends. We loved it and now we sit in our favourite cafe each morning, enjoying our favourite coffee and chatting with a friend or two.
We have been doing payWave using either cards or phones for nearly 10 years. We often refer to it as tap tap. Our payment systems are years ahead of the US and many other places. When I travel overseas, I take a small coffee plunger and coffee with me! My day doesn’t start without my morning coffee!
The reasoning for the same beeping of pedestrian crossing allows blind people know when to cross
The raised arrow is also like Brail. Some newer ones I've seen do have brail symbols like the new money cash notes
@@davidareeves those are "tactile dots" not brail, for brail, look at floors 5, 10, 20 etc in a building lift. You don't see that brail pattern on notes or crossing buttons, do you
14:46 yes, we have summer starting in December. The Southern hemisphere (lower side of the earth) has the reversed seasons to the Northern. This is why some birds fly South for the winter, because they’re flying to warmer weather.
THANK YOU finally someone who explained this
@ I’m not sure if that’s sarcasm or not so thank you.
If legit: thanks, glad I could help.
If sarcasm: thanks, loved it.
@@cleverfoxdwellingbyapeartr2679 it was not sarcasm
@cleverfoxdwellingbyapeartr2679 I'm just glad that someone else finally noticed
@ then I’m truly glad to have assisted
we have a sun, but its upside down.
Gold!
Surprise: so is the Moon!
MA8 that's Gold 😂
And travels West to East or East to West on alternating years
@@natchaos5604 and north to south on a leap year.
Southern hemisphere has reversed seasons, basically. When it's hot for you guys, it's cold for us. When you guys have snow, we have fire season. And yes. There is a Fire Season in Australia.
And we love P!nk cause she's the most Australian person not born in Australia to ever exist. She is an honorary Aussie and is always welcome on our shores.
Except that it's fire season all year round XD
@@asp99999 pretty sure California understand that better than us right now! I can't imagine us having black saturday like fires in July!
Fun fact..... The Australian Pedestrian Crossing Sound was actually used in Billie Eilish's 'Bad Guy' song
I mean... the article DOES mention that... (4:52)
Yes, Australia has summer in December thanks to being in the Southern Hemisphere. It makes Christmas very different for us, but if you like having fun in summer, then you will definitely like it.
Pink loves touring Australia! She says it’s because “we get her”, and she appreciates that.
Also, budgie smugglers are male bathing suits, named because it looks like the wearer is smuggling a small bird (aka a budgie) in the front.
as an australian YES we do have a clothes dryer
Chicken salt is a mix of things that go on a chicken to roast it. People like it on chips. People think you’re un Australian if you prefer normal salt. Chicken salt on fish n chips just isn’t right. Flavour mismatch. Normal salt with malt vinegar for that.
Haitch vs aitch: it throws me when seppos leave the "H" off words like Hotel and Herb.
Seppos is rhyming slang for Americans. E.g. Yanks = septic tanks then septic shortened to seppos. You're welcome.
You do when saying something like an otel. It's correct grammar.
Only if you're French mate .....
The fine for not wearing a bike helmet is a mandatory law in all Australian states. Anything from AU$50 in Western Australia, to AU$344 in NSW and Tasmania. Kids generally won't be fined, but mum and dad might get a polite visit from the local copper.
The Parents will cop the fine instead. Thanks to my sister and her team
@@annhaworth4514 Pretty much, yep.
I used to run a hotel (in centre of Melbourne) , a lot of overseas people would come here and they'd always come to me with a list of words they'd discovered and totally confused by.
I even once taught a (mate) guy from Italy Aussie slang, he had studied English for 8 years while in Italy, but was scary he wasn't good enough speaker to trust what he knew. In the end, he thought English was easy compares to our slang. Mission accomplished ;)
as we are at the opposite end of the earth, our seasons are the opposite of America. We have Christmas in summer, and no Santa has still not learnt to dress for the weather!!! We spend Christmas on the beach!!
If caught riding a bicycle without a helmet, you'll get fined; most cities don't always have dedicated bike lanes, so riding on the roadway is fraught with danger. Better a helmet than a busted head.
Our cards have been paywave for over a decade. Tbh it has been in the US for a while as well at least 2016 but maybe not understood as I was in Dunkin Donuts outside St. Augustine and the teenager behind the counter freaked out when I tappe my card against the paywave symbol and the receipt started to spit out, no signature, no fuss. As for internet speed. Aus is long way from anywhere and there is only a few international trunks connecting us to the world a round trip for a packet going to the UK and back again will take about a second in a perfect world. However the internet is like a road with different ways to get to a destination and like roads there are short ways, long ways and the longest ways. Also with its own version of traffic jams to slow things down even further. The farther you need to go to more possibilities for delays Soooo if you are in Aus connecting to a US site it is a lot further to connect and pull data from than being on the same continent. Apologies for the rant but I see so many people dis Australian internet speeds without understanding why.
As an Australian who understands computers, networking, radio communications etc, please explain this to me.
Living in Darwin with Gigabit fibre to the premises connected to the NBN with Optus.
I ping a server located in Darwin connected to the NBN via Telstra.
The trace route showed my packets travel via Adelaide. WHY?
Now, moved back to Victoria.
Parts of town have fibre to the premise.
Some have fibre to the node (I'm standing in my lounge room and can SEE those houses with my naked eyes).
But my house, located in town, has fixed point wireless.
Explain why houses inside a town are stuck on fixed point wireless.
Oh and besides ridiculously slow speeds where anything over 10Mbps is considered excellent, there are frequent drop outs that leave us with zero internet at all.
I run my own commercial multi-wan router with 4G cellular back-up just so we can maintain some form of internet.
Do you consider this to be good internet?
A 300ms ping when playing with my American friends isn't great, but it's playable. That's not the issue.
The issue is a connection that is stable and has sufficient bandwidth to allow just one other person to browse a website whilst I'm playing a game without causing the connection to get jammed up and kick me out of the multiplayer session for "lost connection".
This happens so much that I plug my mobile phone into my computer and use USB tethering to share it's internet connection because that's actually more stable.
Can you start to understand why people like me are saying the internet in Australia SUCKS?
BECAUSE IT DOES SUCK.
There are pockets where there is half decent internet and large areas where it is actually worse than the old ADSL2+ connections we used to have.
@@35manningI’ll try to answer.
1 Optus needed to access a network crossover point that happened at the time to be in Adelaide, due to there being no available crossover point in Darwin. Might not be a permanent arrangement. Just guessing here.
2 Maybe your house for some reason was not connected to the NBN when that first came through, so now is left as an orphan on fixed wireless as they can’t be bothered or it’s too difficult or expensive now to connect.
3 Congestion or interference on the fixed wireless circuit, made worse for you by your modern usage needs and the built-in bandwidth limitations of your fixed wireless connection.
I’m with NBN over cable and while I don’t have speed problems I have reliability issues, with several outages per year meaning I also have to connect via my mobile phone when those occur. The problem for me is that whichever device I’m using is not the only one here needing internet access so those other devices are disconnected while the NBN is having its little holiday. When we had Optus cable pre-NBN, there were never outages (or speed problems). NBN as built sucks. Trouble is, I don’t seem to be able to get Fibre-to-the-Premises.
@@DeepThought9999
1) I ran regular ping and speed tests over several years, it was consistently faster to cross the country than it was to go next door because of how either Optus or Telstra connected into the NBN and how the NBN was configured to use their networks.
It COULD have been set up differently, but wasn't and as a result was slower than it needed to be.
2) And all of the neighbours homes too?
No, they just decided on a map to not hook up wires on my street and the streets behind me.
Just like walking away from the promise of fibre to the premise everywhere, this was a pure cost cutting procedure.
3) There is most definitely interference, because they installed the NBN antenna BELOW the height of multiple trees.
However the local NBN technician also confirmed that the towers themselves have multiple faults including one of not enough capacity.
Oh, for those not in the know, Fixed Point Wireless is 4G cellular phone technology, only with a roof mounted directional antenna and cell towers that are meant to be dedicated to just NBN internet coverage.
Given that it uses the exact same technology as my 4G phone, only it has a dedicated tower and a much larger directional antenna and is powered by mains electricity, you'd think it should be faster and more stable.
I've actually found it's often the opposite. My mobile phone has done back to back speed tests at double the speed at times.
11:57 law mate
Been using tap n go in Australia with my bank card since 2006 way before USA
What 😮
You gotta be kidding
same here. comm bank were the first if i recall to introduce it, then all the banks followed.
@@glenod it was and I was one of the testers before it launched. I also tested the internet banking in its early days using a device I placed on the phone mouthpiece and typed in numbers back when mobile phones were new and analogue so I used it on my mobile and also on regular phone in 1989 or 1990 but not many businesses had BPAY so mostly I moved money around my bank accounts and paid my phone bill.
I think it was a CommBank "invention" .
@@giobozzreactsNope, not kidding.
14:27 In Australia (and the rest of the southern hemisphere), the seasons are reversed compared to the northern hemisphere, so Australia's summer is the US' winter.
Whoever did this video you watched obviously doesn't live in Australia. Although, chicken salt is a thing and it's delicious.
Buzzfeed 😭
Hate chicken salt and I'm an aussie. Never had it back in my days and yes have tried it. It's a SIN to put it on fish and chips.😂
@@AnneTobin-z2p 100%
I hate chicken salt but am the only person who does.
@@roberte5057 Same
Summer in Australia is from December 1 to the end of February, followed by autumn from March 1 to May, then winter from June 1 to August, and finally spring from September 1 to the end of November.
First trip to USA in 2014 they were still swiping credit cards and writing cheques. Not even using a pin let alone tap n go. That was Seattle. They still use cheques.
as an australian who went to hawaii this year, one of the biggest 2 things that caught me off guard was that there was no noise at crossings. i didnt know where i was so i was listening carefully to everything and looking around and almost missed a traffic light or 2 late at night because i wasnt completely focused on the light.
Start of summer indeed, it was 108 degrees in freedom units the other day! That being said, it was Melbourne, so literally the next day didn't hit 70 degrees.
Honestly that’s sick😮🤝
@@giobozzreacts The saying is, if you don't like the weather in Melbourne, wait an hour. It will change.
@@thisnametaken3735 I've always joked that the weather in Australia has very little correlation to the seasons and is whatever the hell it wants to be. Don't like the weather? Give it half an hour, it'll probably change.
As an Aussie ik there actually called frozen fantas but most people call them frozen cokes and the flavours are grape blueberry Fanta coke and coke zero there pretty much just slushies 1:35
Australia used to count the change of seasons by the natural season changes, based on the solstices and the equinoxes.
The solstice is when the Sun seems to stand still. The Summer Solstice marks the longest day of sunlight, while the Winter Solstice marks the shortest day of sunlight.
The Spring Equinox and Autumn Equinox occur when the sun is directly over the Equator at noon and the day and night are equal length in time.
The Southern Hemisphere has reverse seasons, so the Summer Solstice falls on 21st of December each year. Not the 1st of December.
The Winter Solstice falls on 21 June each year. Not the 1st of June.
The Spring Equinox falls on 23 September each year. Not the 1st of September.
The Autumn Equinox falls on 20 March each year. Not the 1st of March.
Over time, the start of the four seasons have been officially moved to the first day of the month, regardless of the fact that the change of season has not actually happened yet.
This is what the comment refers to. Some young person does not understand that the actual seasons do not conveniently start on the first day of the human calendar months in Australia. Other countries use the natural season changes.
Lol I can't even understand Americans sometimes... All Australians know that Christmas is in the Winter for America and Europe (mostly from TV) and that Christmas here is in the Summer. I guess that Americans don't get to see much Aussie TV, but it's so strange lol
Christmas carols educate us from a very early age too
Number 12) The reason Australian Summer is North America's Winter is because we are on different hemispheres. As the earth spins around the sun, towards the end/start of the year, the earth is angled with the northern hemisphere further away from the sun and the southern hemisphere closer to the sun. Midway through the year the angle changes the other way. Closer to the sun, hotter, summer. Further away from the sun, colder, winter.
for aussie its like ozzi
“Ranga”
An example: people say I have Ranga hair because my hair is orange like an Orangutang 😊
Yes we have tap and go Apple Pay . Having just been to Hawaii the US is a bit slow on the uptake.
The pedestrian button is called an audio tactile. The beep allows a blind person to locate it, the arrow is raised so they know which direction to walk, the round noise is triggered with the walk light to allow the person to track the noise. They vibrate so a blind and deaf person can feel the vibration. Hense audio/tactile, sound/vibration
Listening to you trying to understand our way of talking and our slang is good fun. We can have a different way of saying things at times. There are plenty of videos out there about our slang terms etc that you might enjoy looking at.
Yeah it was tough since I also have dyslexia 😂
I laugh at myself too 🤝
@@giobozzreacts Keep up the good work.
@@giobozzreacts I have dyslexia too, I have the same problem as you in reverse. Apparently our commas & speech patterns (and therefore writing, as we write, the way we speak) are very confusing for others, but for me it's clear, but other countries ones throw me. Also even basic word differences, such as apparently you don't use "learnt", but rather "learned". Is a hard switch
I've had an Italian man tell me "this is the best coffee I've had since leaving Europe" I will forever wear that compliment with pride
2:20 we have had pay wave since it came out this is most likely a store that hasn't bothered to update their machine in years... it's the stores fault not our banks... as if you lived in the city from 2012-present you would have used pay wave heaps
Wearing a helmet on a bike in Australia is a law.
The US ... we're "Ignorance is Virtue"
The mandatory helmet is law, and fun fact its not to protect you from a bike crash its actually our first defence against drop bears and magpie's
Some of the stuff you're looking at is really old (paywave, etc) and some of it is timeless (chicken salt).
Fun fact WiFi was invented in Australia by the CSIRO government organization. Our internet costs and speed come under the equation of massive land mass over a small population. With the new 5G system I can download a movie in 2 minutes but the cost is 85aud a month.
You feed your chickens salt...then you cook chickens and add regular salt to make chicken salt.😂
Lmao yes 😭
@@giobozzreacts Chicken salt was a seasoning they made to go on chicken. We found it better on hot chips and roast vegetables.
About the half flush option, in Australia years ago we had more water in the cistern so a half flush was worth doing but these days it's kinda there for decoration as even a full flush is just barely enough, we went so heavy with being conscious about our water usage that it has ruined our toilets and it's sooo much easier to get a blocked toilet than it used to be. AUSTRALIANS, if you are seeing this message (coming from an ex-plumber) PLEASE NEVER HALF FLUSH AND PLEASE HOLD THE FULL FLUSH TILL THE END OF THE FLUSH.
Do we have McDonalds over here? Haha mate, McDonalds or as we call it Maccas is everywhere. In fact its a key part of getting your drivers license. Its essentially an unwritten rule that as soon as you get your drivers license and are now a "P Plater" You have to do a Maccas run for your first drive.
I'm over people from other countries thinking we're so backwards that we don't have certain things here, like electricity
McD's has restaurants in actual 3rd world countries, ffs. 🤦♂️
@@Tully_23_32Wot’s this tricky thing of which you speak?
1:09 For the frozen coke, it is one of my favourite drinks to get from McDonald's.
2:56 I THOUGHT AMERICA HAD CHICKEN SALT??
14:00 Idk how to explain that myself although I'm an Aussie.
20:33 I mix it with slide and slippery dip, just feels more natural.
23:27 We call people with orange hair rangas.
Chicken salt is the best! And yes we have payeave, not just apple pay we have all our cards savings and credit on our phone
Don’t blame your dyslexia, be proud your reading is as good as any average person. I am dyslexic, couldn’t read till high school, I now have 2 degrees and done many courses. Don’t let anyone put your reading or speaking down.
Well done you. One of my daughters has dyslexia and she has really struggled hard to overcome it. She now has a degree and is thinking about doing her masters. She still finds reading and writing difficult at times, especially if she is tired, but we could not be prouder of her if we tried. She has come such a long way .
@ it’s very unusual for females to have dyslexia my youngest son has it as well. But usually we are very good at maths and creative personalities. I am with both.
1:50 we have these because we have a tendency to be the hottest place on the plant for the whole week so far so these "frozen" drinks are common place like ice cream but these are thinner liquid meaning can be drunk and not eaten but.... they used to be $1AUD or $0.65USD but now are $2.50AUD or $1.59USD for a large 😢
That makes sooo much sense honestly
@giobozzreacts theyre awesome you need to try it if you visit AU as they are kinda like freezing a softdrink in the freezer but bit better, it's very common in north AU to find these colder snacks around at different places aswell as slushi alcoholic beverages because who wouldn't want one? For example it said that across north AU for the past 4 days was 38⁰c but with humidity and UV strength it feels like 43⁰c or 107.5⁰F so literally over 100⁰ here that's why we have other places like Vietnamese cold brew coffee (kinda like iced coffee just way better) that comes from places like "ANNIE'S Cafe de suda" which is like AU's Starbucks but to be more accurate it's more luxurious as we have zeraffas coffee (basically Starbucks) so yeah you'll find alot of cooler foods here because of how hot it is and because we're close to Asia like the US is to Mexico we have alot of their foods like you guys do with Mexico it's cool to see the opposite of what you're used too from different places and is always worth checking out 👍 keep up the videos man AU videos are most likely what's going to be running the YT algorithm for a bit so feel free to jump aboard and learn a thing or too
@@hazardous2593two
In Australia we do have dryers, yes we can put clothers on the clothers line or we can put it in the dryer.
We have had Apple Pay, tap and go, payWave for a while now in Australia.
Please remember this video was originally uploaded April 2021 and was in our Autumn.
December in OZ is Summer.
The "Aussie" thing confuses people because of the daft double S. It's Ozzy, as in Osbourne, and it really should be spelled Ausie. But that looks silly, so... Then there's Ossie Ostrich. That's a whole other rabbit hole, but.
No it shouldn’t be spelt like that!
Mandatory helmets are the law, because what we kept seeing were both kids and adults being rushed to the ER with head trauma - either they had crashed their bicycles or motorbikes, had been hit by a car while riding, or had been hit by a bus or a truck while riding. The hospitals saw so many of these horrendous injuries that they wrote letters to the government, begging for safety gear to be compulsory.
“Introduction of the laws: legal requirements
Mandatory helmet laws were first introduced in Victoria in July 1990, followed in January 1991 by laws for adult cyclists in New South Wales and all age-groups in Tasmania. In July 1991, New South Wales extended the law to child cyclists.”
You want to see a new type of road signal check this out...(soft stop ).uses water curtains and laser light to stop traffic. In Australia
the pedestrian crossing, you click the button, it makes the beep every few seconds but when it goes crazy it means its safe to cross.
we have pay wave everywhere
The season start finish: In US/Europe etc it's linked to the solar Solstice and Equinox. In Oz, it's a historical artifact where an early governor decided to issue "spring/summer uniforms" to the army on the first of September. That became the official start of the season.
And yes seasons are flipped in northern and southern hemispheres.
Lmaoo man searched up gobbies on Google 😂😂
A ranga, is a red haired person, but it can be offensive to some red haired people if you say it to them since it can be perceived as derogatory.
My friend has dyslexia. She studied to be a nurse and I proof read a lot of her assignments. She passed and has been working in a hospital for about six years! She still has dyslexia, that doesn’t go away, but she manages it better.
Love your videos mate, got some clarification for ya
Ok here we go...
Gobbie= ummm a sex act
Esky= cooler.
Rangga= a red haired individual, normally with freckles.
Lastly when you see "Oz". It's pronounced like in "wizard of Oz"
Keep doing what your doing man...
All the best from Oz
We were using contactless payment for about 5 years before it started to take off in the US
Pay wave thing is over 5 years old, we were one of the first countries to largely adopt the technology, before America. Queenslanders say haich, the rest of us say aich. Seasons are opposite to the northern hemisphere of course but the point they are making is the seasons start on the first of the month and all seasons are exactly 3 month. 1 Dec - 31 Feb summer. 1 march - 31 may autumn. 1 June - 31 august winter. 1 September - 30 November spring.
What? It's not just Queenslanders. Pretty much the whole country. Where did you get that idea from...?
@@elisekellett2378I’ve noticed that Queenslanders tend to do it, as do people educated in the Catholic schools system in the rest of Australia. It’s a dead giveaway and very common in the public service.
Watching American’s find out things happen differently outside of America is one of my favourite things to watch.