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STRANGEST things ABOUT AUSTRALIA
10 Things AMERICANS Find STRANGE About AUSTRALIA
WEIRD THINGS ABOUT AUSTRALIA
In this video I talk about 10 things that I find a little bit strange about Australia including their time zones, use of the word "thong", and birds like the bin chicken.
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@MrBrettley 4 года назад

Beetroot on all burgers nationwide. It's in the constitution. Americans like guns, we like beetroot!

@HPereira89 4 года назад

It's so good!!!

@cherylween4973 4 года назад

There is no beetroot on Hungry Jack's vegan cheeseburgers or rebel burgers though.

@MrBrettley 4 года назад

@@cherylween4973 That's an OUTRAGE!

@johnwhear9600 4 года назад

'ken oath.

@blakestevens2007 4 года назад

@@cherylween4973 thats cause it called the aussie burger

@Her_Imperious_Condescension 4 года назад

Americans: "You guys shorten everything" Also Americans: every 5th word is *Y'ALL*

@catherinewest4140 4 года назад

Not me I’m from Chicago .. northern and Midwest states do not say y’all we say all of you or you guys lol

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Hahaha 😆 so true

@shahancheong9792 4 года назад

That was the first thing I noticed, too!

@sarak1542 4 года назад

I am a Texan and I still laughed when he said, "how y'all shorten words".

@shahancheong9792 4 года назад

@@sarak1542 Australians shorten just about EVERYTHING. Service station - servo. Politicians - pollies. Afternoon - arvo. Smoke-break - smoko. Americans - Seppo. Breakfast - Brekkie. Sandwich - sarnie. Cigarette - smoke. University - Uni. What is going on? - Scarnon? McDonalds - Mccas. The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on. It is said that this method of shortening English was made so that the mouth could move as little as possible, to prevent the ingestion of flies.

@Fa_Ken_Oath 4 года назад

Ok so a thong was originally a narrow strip of leather usually used tie things up with. You's shoved them up your but crack and we used them to tie our shoes on. WHO'S THE STRANGE ONES?

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

That’s good to know. Didn’t know the words origin

@santyclause8034 4 года назад

Thongs have been called thongs for millenia BCE

@shanewall4470 4 года назад

Aussie Jacktars, we call 'em "geddas"!

@sareenac9348 3 года назад

Damo Leslie haha 🤣 good one! I didn’t think of it like that 😆

@TheRealMarxz 3 года назад

what's more our "Thong" has a deeper connection with this word, being a shortening of the term "Leather Thong" for the original leather versions leather sandals ranging from the heavy duty roman Caligae worn by roman soldiers to the various Grecian sandals (some of which are constructed and look exactly like a leather version of the modern flipflop/jandal/thong) are essentially a sole held to the foot by ... a leather thong.

@lunch2102 4 года назад

Thongs are thongs, g strings are g strings, Australia's right, the rest of the world is wrong

@pinkmagicali 3 года назад

My question is why G? Why not T?

@diamondingot7476 3 года назад

Y e s

@obi-wankenobi4336 3 года назад

Pink Magic Ali because that’s shit, there g strings and that’s a fact

@monkeydui7241 3 года назад

Thongs (underwear) & G-Strings are actually different. Different size or something like that.

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

@@pinkmagicali The garment strippers wore was called a G-string as it was made from string or cord in 2 parts, each looped in the shape of the letter G. As Australia (as with many other countries) already had the "thong" footwear for decades (at least 1910 in Australia), we called the "thong" garment a G-string as it resembled that strippers wore.

@RandomStuff-he7lu 4 года назад

The use of the word 'thong' for a type of footwear predates the use of the word for a type of underwear by decades.

@ScottEDawg 4 года назад

I have placed the dictionary meaning above somewhere...

@jonothanmcleod-crouch3138 4 года назад

Interesting! Never knew this and im an aussie

@joeyeh6707 4 года назад

I'd say thongs refers to anything that gives you a wedgie on any body parts...

@tukicat1399 4 года назад

Thongs have been around well before I was a child and I am almost 60.. It was weird seeing them called Havianas.. like... weird .

@sigmaoctantis1892 4 года назад

@@tukicat1399 I remember thongs being big in the early 1960s. The underwear was called a G-string long before I heard it called a thong.

@MrsMichelleLacasse 4 года назад

2017, 2,364 teens in the United States aged 16-19 were killed, and about 300,000 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes. 48 Australian teens under 17 were killed in 2017. 244 between 17-25 yrs of age. That’s why it takes so long to get a full licence in Australia, to save young lives.

@JBofBrisbane 4 года назад

The difference in population might account for most of that discrepancy.

@Christian-xv2lj 3 года назад

Taking account population USA still has a higher rate

@shaungordon9737 3 года назад

@@Christian-xv2lj it's not dramatically more considering they have 13x Australia's population

@analcommando1124 3 года назад

@@JBofBrisbane 2364 divided by 13 = 181.64. I seriously doubt Australia had 181 deaths aged between 16-19

@yianniathanasopoulos 4 года назад

It’s illegal to leave your car unattended when refuelling.

@lemon_guy9122 3 года назад

Peter A. Yes it is

@xtramoist9999 3 года назад

Just to add; we still have the leavers on the pumps, they're just not usable. I'm guessing by law. It's been like this since I started driving in early 2000's.

@waynewilson2357 3 года назад

They had the leavers on the fuel pump in the 80s when I started driving and I think they took them off as a safety thing that’s what I heard at the time. A while ago.

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

@Peter A. Yes. It is. In every State and Territory. We used to have the levers with locks, but they often failed, and after several stations burned down and people died after unattended vehicles spewed petrol on or near hot exhaust pipes (etc), it was made illegal.

@ausraider 3 года назад

You can't even jam your fuel cap in the handle to make it self pump, I use to do it when I was younger and have been told off by a cop who pulled up beside me and the attendants many times.

@machvayne 4 года назад

"I don't know why the cars are so nice". It's definitely the people that are nice, not the cars.

@brisbanerugby 4 года назад

It is his naïvety that gives him an endearing persona.

@thatchick8796 3 года назад

@@brisbanerugby yeh he is super cute. In the kid way. Very endearing.

@jenniferlorence1950 3 года назад

I thought about that too, I was going to correct him, is the people driving the cars that are Nice to him, not the cars.

@skzstarstruck1930 2 года назад

No it's definitely the cars lol.

@brettevill9055 4 года назад

Beetroot on hamburgers, though. That's what God intended.

@ScottEDawg 4 года назад

A) Beetroot sucks! B) There is no God!

@RandomStuff-he7lu 4 года назад

Beetroot on a burger is awesome. You can even get burger patties made from beetroot.

@MrsMichelleLacasse 4 года назад

1) beetroot on burgers is necessary. 2) so is an egg.

@RyanLye1975 4 года назад

@@ScottEDawg (A) Nah. Never been a great fan but though messy and very red ... is .. um .. okay. (B) Duh! But don't tell anyone. Millions cannot cope with reality. You will only upset them. ( They . . might ... eventually work it out for themselves.) But Hey.. I'm an enthusiastic optimist Humanity must evolve eventually beyond our Medieval "reality"

@joshuawillmott7547 4 года назад

Beetroot in a ham sanga or beef burger ❤👌

@biggin9077 4 года назад

Curlews and Ibis are nothing compared to Magpies and Plovers. Wait till Magpie nesting season in August!

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

I’ve heard! Not gonna lie I’m a bit excited

@andrewmcdonald6780 4 года назад

Went for a run few years ago and one put a hole in my nose! Then it flew up onto the power lines and just looked at me like, "I can do it again for ya"

@stupendous1068 4 года назад

Magpies are nasty sons of bitches. Just ask Nathan Buckley.

@steelcrown7130 4 года назад

@@TristanKuhn Don't be excited...be afraid. However, they are really intelligent birds and if they know you, seriously they don't attack you as you are a part of their territory.

@eleanorfogarty9973 3 года назад

@@steelcrown7130 exactly! There's a flock in my suburb that love coming and chilling in my backyard and will just sit me while I do work out in my garden. And they have a lovely call if you're lucky enough to hear it!

@rhodes1948 4 года назад

PS : licence training ..yes the slow entry to a full licence is a great idea because in my opinion , as a retired paramedic , it teaches patience ..the great majority of P platers obey the rules...to me ,our mixed population is what makes Australia ..

@pauldobson2529 4 года назад

On your P licence, it’s a zero alcohol requirement, and you’re limited with the number of passengers you can have. Hopefully reduces the risk of a young bloke taking a heap of his friends, and, hopped up on testosterone and bravado, crashes the car. They’re ten foot tall and bulletproof.

@Lydisquidie 4 года назад

I came here for people defending beetroot on burgers. The way burgers should be.

@jenniferlorence1950 3 года назад

LOL, I Agree and I Can't wait to eat them, Yummy!!!!!!!!! What a great idea, I gotta try it at home, Since I cannot Go to Australia Right Now.

@sophcoad 3 года назад

MHMM

@carriebizz 3 года назад

Nope I'm an Aussie and hate beetroot blah

@queenslanddiva 3 года назад

We don't need to defend it. It's just the way it is. Yanks should get with the programme.

@squiz4465 4 года назад

Bird makes a noise.. Tristan: “that is not human”

@soffmoff9434 4 года назад

I know right, he should’ve said that is not bird

@squiz4465 4 года назад

@@soffmoff9434 yeah no shit thanks for clearing that up

@PiersDJackson 4 года назад

Try finding a Lyrebird...

@jenniferlorence1950 3 года назад

LOL, LOL, LOL, So funny. Yeah, but it did Not bother me a bit, and I thought the Bird Sounded Cute.

@jenniferlorence1950 3 года назад

@@soffmoff9434 LOL, LOL, LOL,

@jackryan5268 4 года назад

But do you give the cars a little thank you wave when you walk across a zebra crossing?

@MC-wd4oi 4 года назад

Yes

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Of course!! Got to keep the niceness going

@joshuawillmott7547 4 года назад

Yea if u don't give people a nod or a wave they can get angry coz it's the right thing to do and nice.

@7s29 4 года назад

Always good to give a short wave.

@clmm7418 4 года назад

A smile and nod even

@tishbrett 4 года назад

Thongs will allways go on your feet what you showed was a g-string

@monkeydui7241 3 года назад

Thongs are thick, G-strings are thin

@tishbrett 3 года назад

MonkeyDUI thongs still go on your feet not up your arse 😂 unless you have a kinky fetish 😂😂😂😂

@monkeydui7241 3 года назад

@@tishbrett Nothing really goes up your ass.

@peytongomer2305 3 года назад

G banger

@Iamnotjosh 4 года назад

Yeah... there is no lever to hold the fuel. But in Australia, haven’t seen a driver drive away while the nozzle is still in the car (which happens a bit in America apparently)

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Hahaha 😆 that’s so true. I’ve never seen it but I know it’s happened before. I’ve seen a couple pictures and memes about it

@hughenden6 4 года назад

high flow diesel is the only one with it

@Iamnotjosh 4 года назад

Ohhhh true... true.. high flow diesel does have it at most truck stops and big petrols stations

@cherylween4973 4 года назад

It's better for safety to manually hold the lever.

@suelynch 4 года назад

The auto-fill lever was removed shortly after self serve came in. People were driving off with the pump nozzle still attached to the car. The Auto-fill was originally used so the station attendant could fill the tank and wash wind screen.

@duke_hugo 4 года назад

We’ll stop saying thong if you stop saying fanny

@sareenac9348 3 года назад

Tim Huguenin YESS! 👍🏻🙌🏻

@lemonspider5083 3 года назад

fair

@monkeydui7241 3 года назад

When do we say fanny? And don’t say fanny pack because no one uses those.

@ianmontgomery7534 3 года назад

@@monkeydui7241 Well half our population sit on thiers so when it is appropriate we use it.

@monkeydui7241 3 года назад

@@ianmontgomery7534 I don't hear anybody say fanny though.

@tiaelina1090 4 года назад

Garbage disposals aren’t used here in Australia as it uses a lot of water and as Australia is a very dry country and suffers from droughts we tend to try and save as much water as possible.

@julie-annwhittaker7902 4 года назад

It's also a terrible waste of compost when we can just let it break down in the garden

@marievan-doorn806 4 года назад

Julie-Ann Whittaker or feed it to the chooks.

@julie-annwhittaker7902 4 года назад

@@marievan-doorn806 yes!! Great idea.

@ratsrude 3 года назад

Saves on hospital visits too

@cherylween4973 3 года назад

@@julie-annwhittaker7902 exactly!

@1969firefox 4 года назад

Just remember when someone stops for when crossing don't forget to give a little wave it way of saying thank you.

@goldenhawk952 4 года назад

Yes the 1 finger salute

@wonkyspider2429 4 года назад

Haha it’s the law we have to stop if a pedestrian approaches a crosswalk.

@Blanchy10 3 года назад

The same in the states, they were the same when I was there. I found it weird and thought they were waiting for me to walk out and run over me!

@leannebishop7880 3 года назад

@@Blanchy10 Oh sorry to hear that that's terrible

@peytongomer2305 3 года назад

Only if you’re turning

@myauramusic 4 года назад

"We are one, but we are many, and from all the lands on earth we come. We share a dream, and sing with one voice, I am, you are, we are Australian." This should be our National anthem, as it sums up what you mentioned about how multicultural Australia is

@rebeccadelbridge2998 3 года назад

Agreed. It's ridiculous that our current anthem has the word "gurt" in it.

@andrewdavidson6495 3 года назад

maybe we should have chosen waltzing matilda!

@lifelongbachelor3651 2 года назад

yuck.

@caveman5831 4 года назад

We were probably using the word "thongs" longer then America so we own the rights to it first..

@WraithReaper09 4 года назад

Yep. The underwear are called G-Strings.

@jemxs 4 года назад

@caveman Well that didn't work for UGG Boots 😃. Oops I now owe an American company money!

@katherinemorelle7115 3 года назад

Jemxs not if you’re in Australia or New Zealand you don’t. In these two countries, Ugg is an uncopyrightable term, literally it is illegal to copyright it. So while an American company owns the term outside of Aus and NZ, they don’t own it here. It’s why even the cheapest knockoffs can still legally use the term Ugg here, because it’s a type of show, not a brand.

@jemxs 3 года назад

@@katherinemorelle7115 yes thanks good to know 👍 I was really just being flippant 🤣

@dantemadden1533 3 года назад

WraithReaper09, G Banga

@deanwashere7619 4 года назад

Shhhhhhh! Don't tell him about our platypus. Let's keep that a secret. He'll go nuts!

@vk3hau 3 года назад

Dean Washere Or Drop bears.

@SomeRandomPerson 4 года назад

For the folks going "ew, beetroot" - remember that these are not sweet, they're (sour) pickled beetroot. So it's like having pickled cucumbers/gherkins on your burger, except that beetroot will seek out any white or pale coloured T-Shirt and fly towards it (or seemingly so). If you think that bird sounds weird, try listening to Cockatoos. Preferably a whole flock of them fighting over something. The Garbage Disposal / Sink Grinder thing is because these use a shitload of water to flush down whatever you put in them. Water is a precious and limited resource in Australia. Running your sink for 10-15 minutes to make sure that whatever crap you put in there doesn't clog up your pipes is expensive and wasteful. Put it in the (green) bin instead. "I wasn't going to say how y'all shorten everything" ... pot, kettle, black.

@suzanneyoung6273 4 года назад

Will Hughes Have you ever heard an whole lot of crows, going off, now they are bad, especially early in the morning, when you’re trying to sleep.

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

@@suzanneyoung6273 And kookaburras, and magpies, and the common koel, and...

@timor64 4 года назад

the birds thing: the first dutch explorers ran back to their ships when they heard kookaburras. they thought they were evil spirits! i am glad you are enjoying your time in my country :)

@goldenhawk952 4 года назад

Haha

@willr69420 4 года назад

I grew up in the 60's and 70's in the Seattle region and thongs (or flip-flops) were the name of the footwear that you featured in this video. I had no idea that the term "thongs" was a controversial name.

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

Australians called the footwear "thongs' (after the 1,600 BC Egyptian "thong sandals") since at least 1910. We called the garment "G-strings" as they resembled (and were styled on) the item worn by strippers. America wasn't introduced to the garment (they call a "thong") until the 1939 New York World's fair, and the footwear (they call "flip-flops") until 1945 post-WW2 Japan.

@timor64 4 года назад

The beetroot thing: Macca's Australia wanted to introduce a burger with beetroot. It took about 5 years of negotiation because head office in the USA insisted it was risky. Finally it launched for a limited time - the McOz. It was their biggest seller, outsold every other burger. Head office guy interviewed expressed surprise that it sold it at all, insisted it could not stay permanently for some policy reason. By now if *you* Tristan were at head office you would be able to tell them "It will sell out". We are different. You get this. This is very nice. It's the whole point of travelling.

@michelleneave4116 3 года назад

Whenever I go to maccas I require beetroot be added.

@heritagehorsedrawncarriage1069 3 года назад

Australia also invented McCafe

@hayleykane88 4 года назад

I completely agree with the cars being overly polite! I'm Australian, and moved back 2 years ago after living in the UK for 6 years. I STILL find it weird as they're not that polite in London haha

@cherylween4973 4 года назад

Cars aren't polite, people are! Lol

@hayleykane88 4 года назад

@@cherylween4973 hahaha I guess technically it is the people not the car... But people get what I meant 😉

@OilBaron100 4 года назад

A friend from Germany had a whinge to me about having to manually hold the trigger on the fuel pump, while filling his car. Five minutes of his life was wasted away, every week, while he fuelled up his car. I think it might be safety related. If the fuel nozzle were to fall out of the car’s fill point, it would continue to spray fuel all over the environment and create a fire hazard.

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

True. But I’ve never seen or heard of that happening before

@rhodes1948 4 года назад

Tristan Kuhn ...It did happen at one stage , around my teenage years ( 72 now) when fuel pumps were pretty basic ..I guess they just stayed with it

@cherylween4973 4 года назад

That's right.

@Bully1973 4 года назад

Diesel pumps have the latch you're speaking of.

@liamsbeterthancharli 4 года назад

There's literally a super popular tiktok of two girls in America sitting in the car not realising there's fuel going everywhere. It takes another guy knocking on their window to tell them

@westsyd27 4 года назад

From memory I think its not allowed for them to have the little clip thing on pumps as it can cause a fuel spill if people are not paying attention.

@woollee 4 года назад

you are right. most pumps have an automatic cut of built in [ pressure switch I think] if that fails to work , petrol will continue to pump all over the ground and that is very dangerous

@24staples 3 года назад

It’s also for static electricity, holding on to the pump you stay grounded but if you get back in to the car, move around, then grab the nozzle again you could discharge a shock and start a fire

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

Yes. Too many stations and people went up in flames due to faulty and unattended filler lever locks.

@LeesreeNSubbi 3 года назад

Spot on, it's a safety thing.

@katiebaird7330 3 года назад

There’s a servo round the corner from me that still has the levers and they’ll still serve you if they’re not busy. I go there specifically for that! Love the old fashioned service and friendly chat! They even cleaned my windscreen the other day! So lovely.

@TheOneMaxShow 4 года назад

“That is not human”. No Tristan, thats a bird 😂 Lived in Sydney for about half a year, didnt realize the thing about the timezones, thats definitely strange! Also the gaspump thingy annoyed me so much when I came back to Europe after living in the States for two years. Its such a small little improvement, why not implement it everywhere 🤷🏻‍♂️

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Wait, Europe also doesn’t have automatic gas pumps? And yes 🤣🤣 when editing the “that’s not human part” I was wanting to change it so badly but I didn’t have anything else to replace it with lol

@TheOneMaxShow 4 года назад

@@TristanKuhn hahah no worries, it was funny! And no, never seen any of them, only in the US!

@chucky110 4 года назад

We used to have those levers on petrol pumps. They were removed years ago

@woodvineandco 4 года назад

There's a reason we have higher life expectancies in Australia :p

@catherinemcdade9518 4 года назад

@@TristanKuhn I'm glad you didn't change it☺️👍

@westsyd27 4 года назад

In NSW if your caught with any alcohol in your system whilst on your p plates you automatically lose your licence.

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

It’s like that too in the US when you’re under 21, which is about the same year you get off hour Ps

@WraithReaper09 4 года назад

That's country wide. P platers aren't allowed to have alcohol in their system at all. They have to blow 0.00.

@cherylween4973 3 года назад

And South Australia.

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

@@TristanKuhn Depends on the State or Territory here. Different ages and time periods for plates. In South Australia you could pass a written test as soon as you turned 16 to get an L plate, and less than 6 months later (if you passed a practical test) your full license. Not nowadays, though.

@thomasmiller7332 4 года назад

A pedestrian has right of way when at a crossing at a zebras crossing

@bettyboop73 3 года назад

LOL Tristan, grea post thanks!!!

@michaelfink64 4 года назад

Time zones: Ceduna on the border of SA and WA: a town with its own time zone - half way between SA and WA time. Beetroot on burgers: not regional. Common (and delicious) in Melbourne as well. Paying at the counter in restaurant: you don't have to, but it saves time. Licences: Ps = some limits (zero blood alcohol - therefore people get used to not drinking and driving). What you call thong, we calla G string. Most of our birds are pretty raucous. Some of them are pretty amazing. Check out the lyrebird (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mSB71jNq-yQ.html). It is an awesome mimic. Garbage disposal (insinkerator) - we recycle and compost instead.

@JBofBrisbane 4 года назад

Ceduna is not on the SA-WA border - you're thinking of Eucla. But Eucla and several of the roadhouses along the Eyre Highway in WA have adopted Central Western Time, which is GMT+8:45, splitting the difference between Western and Central Time.

@RyanLye1975 4 года назад

We used to have a lever to hold the petrol bowser handle .. for decades but recently it has been phased out.

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

For good reason. Too many stations and people went up in flames.

@philliptraslavina184 4 года назад

Dude, work it out mate, Australia is so big, that's the reason for time change, you do realise that Australia is as big as the USA?we have 6 states not 52 like Yankee land lol.

@jenniferlorence1950 3 года назад

LOL, LOL, LOL,

@lonewolf9753 3 года назад

We are smaller than America mate. Sorry.

@bruceevennett955 3 года назад

50 states

@Movingallthewhile 3 года назад

@@lonewolf9753 if you take out alaska and hawaii we are roughly the same size as the USA.

@michaelmclachlan1650 3 года назад

I think he may be more puzzled about the 30 minute split rather than setting the time zones in 1 hour blocks.

@markdrennan5723 4 года назад

Love your videos you are a very good presenter. Always entertaining and have great camera presents. Where is your Texan accent.

@martinmckowen1588 4 года назад

We used to have the lever to fill but they were phased out about 30 years ago

@PhotogNT 4 года назад

In Australia you have thongs, you can also use flip flops, in New Zealand they are called jandles.

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

Egyptian "thong sandals" have been around since at least 1,600 BC. Australians called them "thongs" since at least 1910. New Zealand called them "jandals" after Japanese sandals and were introduced to them in late WW1. Americans soldiers discovered Japanese "zori"s in 1945, post WW2. The "G-string" garment was styled and named after similar item strippers wore. Americans discovered G-strings in 1939 New York World's Fair and called them "thongs". They changed the name of the footwear to "flip-flops" in the 1950's when they became popular in beach culture and started making them from rubber, plastic and foam...naming them after the sound they made when walking.

@HPereira89 4 года назад

Beetroot on burgers are common in NSW too, so good! Red Ps are before greens

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Great to know! Thanks!

@isabelguszlovan1780 4 года назад

but you only get green p's are for after 21 I think.

@HPereira89 4 года назад

What state is that in? We just need to be on our reds for at least 12 months

@isabelguszlovan1780 4 года назад

@@HPereira89 I'm in vic but I'm pretty sure it is a bit more complicated than what I said.

@OwenNovakChildofGod 4 года назад

Here in NT we just have Ls and Ps. The Ps are white background with a red P. You’re on your Ls for 6 months of which then you are eligible to go for your Ps test. After 2 years on your Ps u can get your full license

@montrealgay3907 3 года назад

I have watched several of your videos and I'm sold!

@adzboy88 4 года назад

Love that you keep making these videos. When I move to the US I’m gonna do the same

@londonbeatz 4 года назад

new zealand has beetroot on burgers..its not just an aussie thing

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Good to know

@ThatguyPurps 4 года назад

TBH.. New Zealand is basically Australia just with an accent haha.. We do most things the same.. Just NZ's Prime minister is waaaaay better

@londonbeatz 4 года назад

@@ThatguyPurps we in New zealand do everything better than Aussie

@ThatguyPurps 4 года назад

@@londonbeatz lol.. debatable, but ok.

@stupendous1068 4 года назад

The Australia/New Zealand accent is almost identical anyway. The same almost goes for the South African accent too.

@JBofBrisbane 4 года назад

Another difference - lever is pronounced "LEE-ver", not "lev-er".

@aimeewalker4419 3 года назад

I'm an Aussie away from home and your videos are helping me with my quarantine homesickness, thank you!

@Rebecca.G 3 года назад

@2:00 That's eye opening. I always wondered how you managed to walk away while it's still pumping.

@carabatzis25 4 года назад

Hey Tristan, long term viewer from Melbourne, first time commenter! Awesome list, and bin chickens seem exotic to me too; they're not found down south though

@brettevill9055 4 года назад

The white ibis have become bin chickens only recently. When I was a kid they were a freshwater wading bird that you saw in cow pastures, and never saw in cities. When I moved to Sydney forty years ago there were none on the streets. I think it was only in the last fifteen or twenty years that they moved in to Sydney, and that's about when I started to hear them called "bin chickens". Blame climate change.

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Hey Chris! Happy to have you as part of the channel. Glad you liked the list. I have to agree, I never saw bin chickens down south. But they’re all over Brisbane and some other places up north

@shaungordon9737 4 года назад

They're everywhere in QLD. And I've never seen a curlew in Vic either.

@cherylween4973 4 года назад

South where?

@pauldobson2529 4 года назад

I’m in Port Fairy, 300km west of Melbourne on the south west coast. We certainly have bin chickens here.

@kenlawton1531 3 года назад

The petrol pump locking mechanism thing was a thing until the late 70s early 80s and the introduction of self serve. Too many malfunctioning locks and too many gas spillages and accidents with people driving off with the pump still in the car so they got rid of them except high flow diesel pumps for trucks. We like to prevent accidents 🤷

@EdsWorld56 4 года назад

Gr8 list Tristan. As the guy in Sydney said to me, put on your boardies, grab a few tinnies and head down to Bondi!

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Thank you!

@stevesymonds7724 3 года назад

Back in the day when servos had attendants who would pump the petrol for you, the pumps had the catch you describe. This allowed the attendant to clean your windscreen, check your oil etc while the pump was working. When self service pumps came in, the catches were removed and you had to hold the pump. This is a legal requirement, you must be holding the handle while the pump is working. What it does prevent is the people leaving the nozzle in the tank and then driving away, taking the pump assembly with them - which happens quite frequently in the USA.

@MrsMichelleLacasse 4 года назад

USA mainland has 4 times zones... 5 including Alaska, 6 including Hawaii. They rotate around the sun too 🙄

@phoarey 4 года назад

Well said. And also on the Earth's axis.

@pauldobson2529 4 года назад

Surely people understand why time zones exist. West is hours behind east. It’s like 15 degrees per hour. Adelaide isn’t far enough west of the east coast to warrant a full hour, so half an hour it is. And the further north you are, the less effect daylight saving has, because the closer to the equator you go, the shorter the difference between day and night. Queensland, for instance, could be divided into two for daylight savings. The far north point is only about 10 degrees south, while Brisbane and the Gold Coast are 2900km (1700 miles) south. Bit confusing having two time zones in one state. Same with Western Australia, only the difference between north and south is closer to 4,500km. .

@woodvineandco 4 года назад

Are they more in unison? It is wierd when some states have daylight savings and some don't.

@pauldobson2529 4 года назад

As i said, it’s more to do with the latitude as to whether they have DST or not, and longitude as to how much DST. Really only an issue on the borders, like the NSW-Queensland border. And two states, Queensland and WA, don’t want to have to have two different time zones in the same state. Brisbane and Cairns have two very different times of sunset, ditto Perth and Broome.

@miniveedub 4 года назад

Paul Dobson also because WA is so wide there’s about half an hour difference between sunset in Kalgoorlie and Perth. Most Australians don’t know there is a small area in the south east corner of WA/south west corner of SA which has its own time zone, it runs for 340 km along the Eyre Highway. It’s call Central Western Time and it’s 45 minutes behind Adelaide and 45 minutes ahead of Perth.

@bloggaloggs 3 года назад

"That is not human!" Right. It's a bird.

@shaynereid2975 4 года назад

you are awesome and we love your channel, you alway's make us laugh. everything you say is so true.

@jamielogie2040 3 года назад

Great job 👌 Keep it up 👍 Also, have a great and amazing day and year. :>

@RyanLye1975 4 года назад

Australians don't use "Y'all". That is "hick" - speak!

@nikolasb2933 4 года назад

We say YOUS (yooze).

@brisbanerugby 4 года назад

@@nikolasb2933 in New Zealand they say "ewes", but that might be referring to their girlfriends.

@ZosiaDabrowski 4 года назад

@@brisbanerugby lmaooo classic

@cherylween4973 3 года назад

@@nikolasb2933 I don’t!

@iamisaid2295 3 года назад

I love y’all

@pauljarvis446 4 года назад

It only took me a year to get my full license, but that was 23 years ago.

@nicksmifso8071 4 года назад

The good old days .Took me a year to get .6 months to loose

@lynandrews1033 4 года назад

I got my learners in 1994 and it still took 1 year for the learners before I could go for my licence (the year after this they reduced it to 6months) then you had your provisional for a year (or P’s) and then you could have your open licence after that. Some states made P’s for two years. Qld’ers never had to show the p plates like NSW but they then changed that law to match the other states as we drive across states all the time.

@miniveedub 4 года назад

When I got my licence in NSW in 1967 there was no set time to have your learners permit and P plates, which hadn’t been around for very long, were for one year. There were no demerit points back then, if you were caught speeding you automatically lost your P’s for a while.

@skwervin1 4 года назад

You forgot Magpies swooping you from behind in Spring. The lever thing on petrol pumps is actually illegal here - you are not allowed to jam the lever with anything as it is a fire/danger hazard. Beetroot + hamburgers - the only way The word thong for footwear has been around since Adam played Fullback for Collingwood in the Galilee Footy league Also here in Victoria - you have to have a zero Blood alcohol level while on your L's and P's (red for 1 year then green for 3) and there is a restriction on the engine size you can drive (IE no souped up V8's on L's)

@harrynolan3002 3 года назад

Some truck servos have the lever like the big Diesel road train section of the servo

@jatkin1720 4 года назад

About the cars and stopping a crosswalks: they stop because they have to. It’s a requirement to always give way to pedestrians (unless the pedestrian is not supposed to cross, etc.)

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

And cyclists are supposed to get off and walk their bike, not ride it across. After all, it's called a pedestrian crossing (foot traffic).

@GoldCoast85 3 года назад

@@mikeparkes7922 Jesus Christ what an up tight wanker

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

@@GoldCoast85 Chill, dude. No cause for dissin', just because you weren't aware of something.

@andrewbristoe1833 4 года назад

living in cairns I'd say we are the curlew capital everywhere what I find weird about USA no electric kettles weirds me out seeing Americans boil stuff in microwaves or on stoves and everything to do with cash money names for coins what the is a dime ect and the tipping sales tax stuff u forgot the biggie root rooting for USA v aussie meaning

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Yes! That’s where I first saw curlews! They’re everywhere in cairns! Also, I talk about a lot of the weird things you mentioned that are weird about America I’m my “20 weird things about America” video and “the crazy truths about America” video

@shaungordon9737 4 года назад

It's because they have a lower power voltage in the US (110v vs 220v) , so they take twice as long to boil over there

@marievan-doorn806 4 года назад

Andrew Bristoe agree. I drove all Over usa on a roadtrip holiday - stayed in about 30 hotels and not a kettle in any. They had ice makers everywhere which i thought was weird. I eventually bought a kettle in walmart and a jar of instant. Not the best but sure beat that weak dishwater from the hotel coffee machines.

@robertqld 3 года назад

Thongs as in footware is actually an old school term that use to be used decades ago in the States. It just fell out of use in favour of flip-flops, but you might still find an old person who knows the term or somebody remembering their grandmother saying it

@brendancolley7353 3 года назад

Curlew sound spot on!! Hahaha made me chuckle so much..

@jeffmoffatt7939 4 года назад

Some bowsers do have the lever, however most people grab the fuel cap and put that inside the grip which holds it open. With the garbage disposals, we did used to have them in Australia however we were starting to get issues with what was being placed in them and then the final refuse would make it's way into our ocean and other waterways causing disgusting pollution issues, never mind the occasional finger or hand :)

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Thanks for the info! Good to know why they’re not here anymore

@comeatmebro3229 4 года назад

bowsers aren't actually meant to have them (at least in some states) its a safety thing, say there is an emergency like for instance a fire starts your natural instinct is to let go of the lever thus shutting off the patrol coming out if you have the clip and you panic and pull it out of your car petrol will go everywhere and make the situation potentially more dangerous

@internetapocalypse4885 4 года назад

6:31 "That is not human"??? Ahhh, that's right- it's a bird!!!

@Sidrcride 4 года назад

the fuel levers where a thing years ago but they have slowly disappeared, same with sink disposals, although we used to call them insinkerators.

@williamm8240 4 года назад

I like the Thong picture. Very revealing. LOL (was that you?)lol

@cherylween4973 4 года назад

Are you gay?

@WraithReaper09 4 года назад

yah the pluggers were great. The G-String was a bit much.

@suelynch 4 года назад

The word Thongs (plural) not singular has been used for 60 yrs that I know of (Yes I am older than 60). In Adelaide we tend to stay away from L-plate drivers. They are unpredictable because they are learning. P-plates in South Australia is only introduced about 30 yrs ago. Other states have had the P-plate system longer. In South Australia pedestrian Phone Zombies are worth 25 points, 50 points if they are driving a car.

@soffmoff9434 3 года назад

Where I’m from, I don’t know if it’s the whole of QLD or not but we call L-platers “learner burners”.

@cherylween4973 3 года назад

P plates were introduced almost 40 years ago. I know as they were used when I got my licence 38 years ago.

@suelynch 3 года назад

@@cherylween4973 When I got my licence you had a cop sitting beside you to pass the practical side of the test. The written side was also done at a police station.

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

@cherylween4973 3 года назад

@@suelynch when was that? That was not necessary when I got my license.

@lynchie2073 4 года назад

i have never been in a restaurant where teh cheque was brought to the table, the whole concept is too bougie for me thanks. yeah bin chickens man! i guess our equivalent to raccoons, except theyre creepy as hell lmao

@catherinewest4140 4 года назад

Not used to driving but I got my license stats after driving 20 plus years back home in the states lol

@boovaher 3 года назад

I grew up with a 'Garbage Disposal' (Insinkerator) and every house we have lived in either had one, or we would get one installed when we moved in. As we ate a lot of seafood it was really handy for getting rid of the stinky parts that would otherwise rot up the bins all week long. Curlews rock. They can become quite tame and I have spent a lot of time hanging out with the ones in my street. Talking to them and watching them raise their babies. Listening to one call as I type this actually.

@lidiabona 3 года назад

We have to give way to pedestrians by law... and we're nice!

@RyanLye1975 4 года назад

A third of Australians were born overseas, AND half of Australians have at least one overseas born parent. This is true for me and my family.

@steelcrown7130 4 года назад

That's wonderful but not true of everybody. My lot has been here since 1842: we sort of fall between Aboriginal and Multicultural. Bit of a no-man's land :-)

@iraynalee3570 3 года назад

Yes my son and I have! My dad is Hungarian My sons Grandparents are Greek 😊

@carlanderson774 3 года назад

another difference from this video , in Australia we put petrol ( not gas ) in our cars , so we stop at the petrol station or " Servo " service station , there is an option to fill cars with gas ( many taxis run on gas ) but it is different

@Hudpower 3 года назад

All of the petrel stations I've been to have the 'automatic lever' you were talking about.

@FionaEm 4 года назад

Thanks for acknowledging our multicultural society! I think ppl from other countries presume we were all born here and have blue eyes and blonde hair 😂 The Aussie surfer clichè!

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Yeah, not gonna lie, I thought that before I came here

@ariadnepyanfar1048 4 года назад

Oh my universe, daylight saving needs to die, but you can pry my beetroot hamburger out of my cold dead hands.

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Hahaha

@WraithReaper09 4 года назад

Daylight savings is still around because the City people want to go home in winter while it's still daylight. All of us in the country hate it.

@naughtscrossstitches 4 года назад

yes! beetroot all the way and daylight savings is the devil! Why do they have to use it down south? It just stuffs us up here!

@bigfoot22au 3 года назад

Nice video bro... I love the states too, both have pros and cons... but at least your getting use the lifestyle and the way we do things here. Btw. whats your favourite state here?

@ScarlettDuchess 4 года назад

Back in the day when I got my licence it was learners permit then open licence lol.

@edwardupton6129 4 года назад

In Qld they tried daylight saving but in FNQ it was still broad daylight at 11 PM & hard to get your kids in for tea

@JBofBrisbane 4 года назад

Actually the other way round - in Melbourne it's still light at 9:30. It's just so stinkin' hot in FNQ that people don't want the sun to stay up later (by the clock) than it needs to.

@Alzipan 3 года назад

The sun would never set that late in FNQ. The closer to the equator you are, the earlier the sun sets.

@adriang6259 4 года назад

What kind of muppett doesn't have beetroot in their burger?

@stupendous1068 4 года назад

Anyone that's not from Oceania.

@DeadPool-uy4gd 3 года назад

Mate beetroot is so disgusting

@andrewstrongman305 3 года назад

Our petrol pumps had the hands'free option removed ages ago. They removed the holding pin, but not the holes in the lever and grip - but I carry a nail or small screwdriver to get around it.

@HymenInspectorSAK 4 года назад

We do have the little lever thing at the fuel bowser but it only at the pumps for semi trucks

@karenvickery6070 4 года назад

Thongs go on your feet mate! And I’m 54 and I was shocked when Mac Donald’s came to Australia and there was no beetroot on the burgers! As for the bin chickens, they are lovely birds, they nest in the trees near my house, they really are called Ibis, but they love the bins so much we gave them that nickname.

@stuarthancock571 4 года назад

Standard self serve suburban petrol pumps won't lock in, but high flow diesel pumps for big trucks will, and some small country town garages that sell fuel with just 1 or 2 pumps might have a lockable lever.

@gilbej91 3 года назад

Haha curlews are nightmare material for sure. When they let out the longer scream, it sounds like someone is legit being murdered. I love the use of the term bin chicken! 🤣🤣

@matthewgates3720 3 года назад

There are still a lot of diesel pumps which you can lock the handle on, (although some now only have the clip on the high flow diesel pumps, for bigger tanks and trucks)

@samgourzis9300 4 года назад

We used to have auto fill on the our fuel Balser handles. For safety they took the auto clip off. Years ago.

@naedynot1 4 года назад

I used to live at Edge Hill in Cairns and ride my bicycle to start work at a hotel at 3.30am. The sound of those curlews in the pitch darkness is freakiest thing ever.

@downundarob 4 года назад

Suddenly riding up on them from out of the dark seems to put the wind up them too, have struck a few with my pedal as they attempt to run away...

@markdeguara7190 4 года назад

The lever is not there is because of static electricity. If you have one of your feet in the car and the other on the floor you are creating a static circuit. If you create a spark near the gas then it can explode.

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Interesting. I feel like that would be really hard to do but still good to know

@julie-annwhittaker7902 4 года назад

It is actually illegal (at least in Queensland) to walk away from your car while pumping fuel. So for that reason you won't find any pumps with the little lever and if you stick something, like a pen in there you can be fined.

@mikeparkes7922 3 года назад

It's illegal in every State and Territory.

@melsdowninit 3 года назад

There used to be the lever on petrol bowser. They had them removed many years ago.

@julianjones1732 3 года назад

We used to have the lever at petrol stations but over the past 15+ years they have all but disappeared (the lever still there but the pin to hold it is removed). You still find them on some older style country/rural ones.

@jarrahgreensill2752 4 года назад

What is a garbage disposal? Haha. P.s love your videos man

@snoopy13946 4 года назад

Garbage disposal units were extremely common in Australia in the 70’s and 80’s when I grew up. Our house had one. However they were deemed environmentally unfriendly and created problems with water treatment plants so were very much discouraged, hence the lack of them today. Kitchen disposal units are considered backward.

@OwenNovakChildofGod 4 года назад

When u mentioned the birds I instantly thought “Ahhhh Curlews and Plovers”. I forgot all about Bin chickens, considering I haven’t seen them for quite a long while. Same can be said for magpies. Haven’t been seeing them around a lot lately... maybe that’s just coz I’ve been inside a lot lately.

@TristanKuhn 4 года назад

Yeah, need to watch out for magpies. It's magpie season soon

@stupendous1068 4 года назад

Ever since Nathan Buckley took over as their coach, I've always loathed the Magpies.

@daintymagician3609 Год назад

No we don't have the lever thingy and i am absolutely shocked at this. Thank you for opening my eyes.

@zoeirvine93 3 года назад

Hi Tristan, It's quite common for us to stop in the car for people crossing over. No i haven't found automatic pump leavers at the petrol station as I've lived here in Australia my whole life. Beetroot and pineapple is very common too in hamburgers. You'll get used to the different time zones it just takes time to get used to. Enjoy your time in Australia. Take care. Zoe. 😄

@waza987 25 дней назад

The Timezones are weirder than you think. Broken Hill in NSW runs on Adelaide time, Lord Howe island only shifts 30 minutes for their daylight savings change and Australian Central West Time is half way between SA and WA, that is 45 minutes from each, and only applies to a 350 km stretch of highway that has 5 towns with a combined population of less than 200