11 things I didn't expect about Australia | LIM Ep 21 | Sub Esp 

hehe yeah, short trading hours because ya know, they actually want the average/lower paid/retail/service workers to have a home life!

Afternoon tea isn't dinner. Afternoon tea is small snack and drink. Example, scones and cup of tea. "Tea" by itself can mean dinner. It comes from England...in the south of England dinner is the evening meal but in the north, dinner is the midday meal and tea is the night time meal. Australians use both dinner and tea to mean the evening meal.

on thursday nights, shops are open until 9, 10 or 11 at night

Afternoon tea is.... afternoon tea. Tea or coffee & maybe a piece of cake or a couple of biscuits, in the afternoon. Around 3:00pm. Tea is dinner, the evening meal. The bars are IN the hotels. It's the long thing the bartender stands behind. Tipping... As a customer it's not my job to pay the staff.

Dropbear!!! I heard it from your channel and I said, now what! And when I went to search it on the internet I laughed a lot! Good trick! LOL! I love it! 😂😂😂

Haha!! was kinda scared knowing about that drop bears thing but laughed out loud after reading your description. I have always been a fan of yours and love watching your videos about the life you are living in Melbourne! Also I am applying for November intake for my masters in Melbourne. Yayyy!!

You hit on soooooo many things no other vids do. I love hard rubbish days! Score soooo many freebies that way. And the Maggies are traumatic... Worse are plovers.

i'm glad you survived your first drop bear mating season - you must be a natural!

Oh gosh girl, you've really made me laugh! I'm going to come to Melbourne in february 2018 and I have to admit that I'm binge-watching your videos: not only are they funny and entertaining, but also very useful. So...TA! Greetings from Italy!

Hard rubbish/COuncil clean up is awesome. lovely old furniture, fridges, BBQs, exercise equipment and Bikes!

Hola Mai, nice to see you back on RU-vid, great video! I wanted to point out that "tea" as an alternate to the word dinner comes from high tea and not afternoon tea, high meaning advanced/late - a meal after 5 or 6pm. Although it's all mixed up these days because people and places have starting replacing the name afternoon tea (with scones and cakes etc) with high tea - I think they think "high" makes it sound fancier or more special than the ordinary after school afternoon tea we grew up with. Looking forward to your next video!

Hilarious, love, great vid. Glad someone tipped you off about drop-bears... that's a beaut though.

Hello:) when someone uses the expression "fair dinkum" they are either asking if what you are saying is the truth, or telling the person that it is the truth. So if you were to tell me something that I am not quite sure is true, I might ask, "Fair dinkum?" Or if I was telling you a story I might add , "It's fair dinkum" which is letting you know that what I am saying is the truth. I hope that made sense:)

Lol sweet as :) That cracked me up, it's true we are so lazy we can't even think of something to compare it with

In Brisbane hard rubbish days are called curbside collections. And people go around looking through others piles of unwanted stuff to see if theres furniture they want or they collect old disused appliances to collect the wiring to fix things.

keep up the good work. Excellent!!!

If the magpie lives near you . You can feed it and it will eventually not attack you anymore. They are territorial.

Drop Bears ......funny! BUT, if you ever try to get at a Huntsman spider with a broom (Huntsmans, are the ones often called tarantulas), they drop to the ground so quick , it scares the shit out of you. And i am supposed to be the tough, protecting bloke around the house.

Just FYI, "reckon" isn't really slang, its kind of like saying estimate, and has been used for a long time, such as in navigation where someone might use "dead reckoning".

Very Nice Video Mai. I actually learned things I didn't know about the wild animal. Good to have you back in RU-vid. Hope to see more from you in the Near Future.

Tobacco tax: This worked with you in stopping your smoking. That's a major part of the heavy tax, discouraging smoking. Hard rubbish: Not a way to get cheap furniture but to get rid of unwanted pieces. The truck that collects them is operated through the local council. Shopping hours: In suburban Sydney, small shops such as butchers, will close around 5.30. Supermarkets are normally open until at least 8 and those operated by the major chains stay open until 10 or 11. Afternoon tea is not dinner. It's a cup of tea or coffee, sometimes a piece of cake or a biscuit. Dinner is called either dinner or tea, without the afternoon. Magpies are only a danger for a few weeks in spring - the magpie is protecting its chicks. Even then, wear a hat, which you should be doing outdoors in any event. A small penalty for the beautiful song.

I live just outside of Melbourne. I enjoyed watching your video. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I'm glad your video wasn't just filled with a lot of negative things, which I see from a lot of people's opinions.

you seem so fun & i love your accent :)

Tap and go cards whilst convenient means that if you lose your card anybody can go crazy with your card.

i'm an Australian and we invented droppers to prank/scar tourist

The Drop Bears are kinda-sorta real. Many species of eucalyptus trees (eg: the Brittle Gum) will shed entire branches during drought - it can be quite dangerous to camp or hang around under one. Of course, it's difficult to explain this to the kids, so …

Afternoon Tea is the PC term for 'Smoko', a break given for a cigarette break at work, usually mid afternoon (between lunch/midday meal and knock off/end of work). There is a smoko break between start of work and lunch, called 'mornos'/morning tea. Both breaks are usually 10 minutes each. Often they are combined to be a 20 minuet morning tea smoko and the arvo one is foregone

In Sydney we call hard rubbish council clean ups or council toss outs. I have found many things I needed over the years, but you have to be selective on what you take or you get overrun with junk!

I`m in Australia and I tip. Always have done so have many other west Australians. You are experiencing the astern culture. Geez I`ve tipped 2 girls at the checkout and one in Chicken treat - $50, $50 and $20 just because they had pride in their work and did it with a smile. A mate that moved out of here 6 weeks ago is from the east and he didn't like tipping either. West is different to east and each has their version of slang.

A DROP BEAR!!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣

I´m happy to know that you are from Colombia!! and I assume you have a lot of years living there because some words with Autrialian accent. Well apart of that I´m English learner one of my future plans is to go to Australia maybe to live for many years. I will cheking your channel. Regards from Pamplona Norte de Santander

Ha ha ha ha drop Bears there is not such thing, u r funny love it

Few things wrong but any Aussie can tell where and why you went wrong, but she's all good mate

Buenísimos tus videos! si te diría que por ti tengo un Excel con calculo de taxes no me creerías! Me preparo para Melbourne y no podría estar mas agradecido por personas como tú, sin duda haces la transición mas fácil.

Im from Melbourne and the supermarkets are open untill 10pm

Shoping hours are regional. Were are you talking about? Ours in the NT are 8am to 7pm for small shops and 8am til 10pm for shoping centers

Fair dinkum as a question means "really?" or "is that true"...sometimes rhetorical ? eg. "She's dead."... "Fair dinkum?" Fair dinkum as a statement or answer means "yes, it's true" eg. "Really?"... "Yep, fair dinkum" Fair dinkum as a description can mean "they tell the truth"....eg. "They are fair dinkum"

I live in Melbourne. It's got it's good and it's bad, but I hope you are finding Australia enjoyable. I visited Colombia this year and found it beautiful. Hope you get to see some other parts of Australia too. Queensland and the Outback are amazing.

dropbears are a joke to stir up tourists ..funny lol

I’m proud to be a Melbournian. Biggest reason is our multiculturalism. We are all Australian people - not races.

I saw that image of the drop bear and I instantly curled up into a ball. Brought back some horrifying memories. I wont share them because it's a happy video but yeah. Drop bears. Watch out.

Lol watch out for those drop bears, they'll get ya 😂😂😂

Can you recommend the best bank you found?

Drop Bears !!! LOL!!! Aussies are great at fooling outsiders about the dangers of these legendary critters . I remember telling a Texan in a New Orleans bar that these Bears where the reason we don't buy convertable cars in Australia. The look on his face will be etched in my funny bone forever . Come to Australia it's as good as our sense of humour and just as friendly.

I live in melbourne Edit /: i lived here for over 16 years but im 10. And i went to school for my whole life and now grade 5

if you come to Australia, you REALLY need to see more of the nation than just Sydney and Melbourne.

Hola Hola!!! I'm back.. a well over-due video!!! But I'm back for good!! I hope you enjoy this one.... if you do.. you know what to do... share the love, like the video and don't forget to subscribe!!!!!

Tea: in Melbourne we say "Tea" for evening dinner and "supper" for a sweet treat and cup of tea around 9pm Shopping: All shopping centres are open to 9pm on Thursdays and Fridays.

If you have a local magpies feed them they will remember you and not attack you

Australians do tip, it just depends what restaurant. Myself and my friends always tip at restaurants especially high end restaurants. I am Australian and have worked in the hospitality industry and tips are greatly appreciated.

Did she share about dropbears ironically or seriously? I'm really not sure.. Because if she was serious someone has sold her some serious bullshit

You said you were wrong in the description however tea does mean dinner afternoontea doesn't mean dinner though. It's just a light snack when you get home wrong school/work.

Hiya from NSW, I agree about the magpies, I hate them lol

We close at 5 because we dont bugger off for an hr and a half in the middle of the day>

You still can tip if it's great service, but it's true that waiters and waitresses in most cases get good wages.

Dance in the end 👍👍

Good funny video, please tell me you don't believe in drop bears??? and magpies attacks are part of growing up in Australia.

Dropbears aren’t real but magpies are scary.

we say sweet as because other australians know what the end of the phrase is.only foreigners dont know.

I havent really seen homeless people in Perth and i've been here 24 years.

Drop Bears... LMAO

So, no one told you about hoop snakes ? They're a dead set bastard in the bush. You'll see them and if your on a hill, where they prefer to nest...you'll run down hill to get some speed up. Well, the hoop snake forms a circle then flicks himself up like a hula-hoop and rolls down after you faster than you can run...sneaky bastards, a bit like dropbears...fairdinkum !

ur cool darlin :-)

Mai, you are adorable hay. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Cutest voice ever

why is it that when people visit our country they automatically think that the things that they have experienced where they are that they think that means all of Australia is the same??? for fucks sake each state in Australia does things differently so just cause you might visit Sydney that does not mean that every state here is the same ....look at America every state there has different rules too just like we Aussie's do!! well in the country we have magpies but we also have a bird called the plover that you wont find in the city areas that will swoop and chase you so we have 2 swooping birds to watch out for!!! I moved to the country from the city and was terrified when I first encountered this bird as I had never seen one before!!

Me subscribo! I'm moving to Australia couple of months.

Hard *as* or hard *ass?* Because we tack "ass" onto the end of a lot of things as an intensifier in the US.

Nice table

They tip, they tip -

Homelessness is generally a big-city problem. Any city with more than a million people is probably going to have some homeless. In small communities, everybody knows everybody, so if somebody needs a place to stay or even just wants a different place to stay so they can get away from family, they generally know somebody they can stay with. The larger the city, the higher percentage of people you have who don't feel like they know anybody well enough to even talk about their domestic issues, much less stay in their house. There are also cultural and even legal factors that contribute in some areas, but community size is relevant to homelessness in just about any country. The phrase "fair enough" is widely used throughout the English-speaking world. "Thongs" used to mean flip-flops in America and still does in some older-generation circles. (In America, this usage declined after the introduction of thong bikinis in the eighties and declined further after the introduction of thong underwear in the nineties; but it used to be quite common.) "I reckon" is quite common in the American South. Drop bears actually make great pets, if you have the hard lump of bone in their posterior surgically removed. They only need it to stun prey, so if you're going to feed them as pets, it's unnecessary. It's sort of like having a cat declawed or a skunk descented. HTH.HAND.

Tipping is not required as workers are already paid well but expect to be paid the same as the bosses so think they’re entitled to even more. Its those wages that make extended trading impractical.

Homeless people decide to be that way , too hard to work , easier to be a bludger .

Welcome beautiful :) yes sadly in the last 10 yeArs Everything has just gotten more and more expensive in a crazy way!!! Internet is slow and yup expensive!!! Hotel & bars hmmmmmm not sure what you mean there although I guess some places do have in the name eg "majestic hotel" so I had to think about that one but hotel are hotels in the real meaning to lol a tad confusing :) are you going to stay in MELBS??? Or will you explore more of Australia ???? Glad your making use of the 'road side pick up' I have also found some cool stuff to :) yup drop bears is just 1 big Aussie joke and even some Aussies start believing but not for long lol I REALLY HOPE YOUR MAKING SOME COOL FRIENDS AND ENJOYING YOURSELF :) much health love and light fee (the gal from oz)

If I was a magpie I would attack you so hard!!!

Homeless people usually want to live that life , plenty of options , lazy drunks or druggo's

No estás hablando en serio acerca de los dropbears cierto?

Aw hun drop bears aren’t real. Great video tho.

Oh you are so adorable!

I reackon flip-flops is Kiwi we only where thongs g but your sweet as 😂

Good you dropped smoking nice fingers beautiful nails☺😯😯. Good video

Most real Australians live outside the cities to get away from the foreigners

Afternoon tea is NOT dinner.

Yeah here in Australia we have this thing called minimum wage, so people don't get fucked

They're not homeless. They are there by choice. Housing is available out of the city but they don't want it.

sweet as is more Kiwi Slang

Drop bears.. Seriously girl someone is.. As we say in Australia is "someone is taking the piss" Dropbears 🤣😅🤣🤣 Don't exist. Like really

Plumbers like to eat like everyone else. That's why you pay money for their work

oi

Shhh Mai, don’t get caught taking things on hard rubbish day. Drop bears is an Australian way of having fun with you. It’s not true.

"Sweet as".... has been shortened from "Sweet as a nut".

Sounds like the anti-smoking tax worked for you :)

DROPBEARS. You cruel bastards did a real number on her getting her to believe in that one. Magpies are real as fuck though and cunning as.

mmm, shake it

There are a lot of inaccuracies in this video... because in most parts of Australia we DO tip waiting staff, but it is not something we do because we have to, it is because the service impressed us. Drop bears are not real. Hard rubbish "days" don't exist in Melbourne any more as the local councils found it more efficient to have residents ASK for a hard rubbish pick up. Rummaging through a hard rubbish stack is strictly speaking illegal. That said, not bad as a starting point video.

Triggered

Sexy intro lol

as is as fuck lolololol

Thanks for the insights. Dropbear as per Wikipedia seems to be hoax ? Have you seen any yourself ? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear

All first world countries has homeless people, so what made you surprised😁