American Asks "What is This Thing Australia?" (With Answers) 🎉 

Afternoon Ian & all. _PS: Don't touch anything blue that washes up on the beach!_

The little mobile delivery device was interesting because we don't have side walks in Australia WE HAVE FOOT PATHS !!!

The bus wheel is not a training wheel, but is actually a guide for the O-bahn which is a guided busway that is part of the bus rapid transit system servicing the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide. basically a concrete track with kerbs each side for buses only. Occasionally the odd car tries and fails.

Mate, is it just me, or are you actually starting to sound a bit of an aussie, and this is coming from an Australian? You are a legend, mate! 😂

The creature is called a Blue Dragon. It eats Blue Bottles (Pacific Man of War) and uses the Blue Bottle venom themselves. They float at the surface where their prey also lives.

Now I’m tempted to construct a monument out of random household items and leave it in a public area, just to see people be confused about what it’s for.

West Aussie here . Never heard it called Joker Poker , everywhere I've been its Chase the Ace .

The key safe on the boot of the car will be a car sharing club. The sticker on the back window gives it away. "SMBI Car Club"

The wheels on the bus are for a dedicated bus track in Adelaide called the "O-Bahn Busway". O-Bahn opened in 1986 & is closer to "full self driving" than Tesla lmao.

The wheels on the bus....haha, it's actually the bus auto barn in Adelaide, a seperate section of road for buses only,driver sits back takes hands off wheel and cruises along.

The silo looking thing in the middle of a paddock was probably part of a water pipeline for the water bore. Its basically a buffer which also allows any air bubbles to escape the line. The height of it provides enough head pressure for it to not overflow.

that rock is where monkey came from. In the Worlds before Monkey, Primal chaos reigned, Heaven sought order. But the Phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, As endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, The moisture of the Earth, And the powers of the Sun and the Moon All worked upon a certain rock - old as Creation, And it magically became fertile. That first egg was named Thought, Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, Said, ‘With our thoughts we make the world.’ Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch, from it then came a stone Monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!”

Back in the late 1980's i am talking about 1988-1989 period people use to get plastic bottles fill them up with half of water and put them on their front lawns to stop dogs pooping but the concept was short lived because it didnt work so it was forgotten ever since *it just goes to show how proud that i am to be an australian.* 😄

The board with the cards is a common pub game in Australia called "chase the ace". When you but drinks, they give you a raffle ticket. If your ticket is drawn at the end of the night, you get to pick a card. If you manage to pick the ace you win a cash prize, between $100 and $500 at most establishments

SMBI car club is the Southern Moreton Bay Island Car Club. There's a key in there. Sh!t parking and expensive barges it makes life a little easier for the island folk.

The legless lizard they posted is known as a “three clawed worm skink”. Very common on Australia’s East Coast.

that's a three toed skink not a legless lizard, not a snake. and yes lizards have earholes.

I’m pretty sure that the small box on the back of the car is for car share access. You can essentially rent a car by the hour or day that isn’t a traditional car rental place and you collect the car from where it is parked. I’ve heard they are getting more common! Super convenient!

Definitely fish farm near Boston Island which is near Port Lincoln. They are Tuna pens to fatten up tuna caught off shore.

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Glaucous are common throughout The Pacific. They feed on jellyfish and incorporate their sting cells into the tentacle, "limbs", for hunting and defence.. Their stings are uncomfortable, not deadly

The lock box on the car is for a community car hire group. The SMBI on the back window is 'South Moreton Bay Islands'. The cars are parked at the ferry terminal at Redland Bay. Many people who live on the islands have an 'island car' and a 'mainland car'. Many don't, so join the car club.

The wheel on the bus is so it can run on Adelaide’s ‘o-Bahn’ tracks. Sort of like a rail system but made from concrete and uses these side wheels to steer the bus along the track.

I think the X bottle thing is just to deter people from walking on the grass. The keypad on the Renault could be a mini safe for the key maybe its a hire car or something weird Lizard looks like a Sheoak or a 3 toed skink. It is NOT a legless lizard. the bus tire thing is to stop it wiping the side panels of the bus on gutters.

The Green box on the post is a Hazmat or Displan box, usually for emergency services. A Disaster Plan box (displan), shows where the hydrants, evacuation points, fall back procedure & building exits etc. A Hazardous chemical list (Hazmat), shows what chemicals are in a factory or building. My uncle was a fire chief & showed me a few boxes. Being a delivery driver owner/operator I can tell you straight up that it's not an "Over-weight" bin/box. I use to deliver the mail that the postie's couldn't carry in big yellow bags funny enough called over-weight bags. These bags are designated with a number which coincides with a run (Route),each bag or bags went to a different OW bin. They are usually red & are a lot bigger. Even in the centre of the city you have OW bins maybe a little smaller, but are red also.

The odd wheel you saw on that bus is from the O'Bahn which is a guided track that exclusively buses use. They can get off of the track in 3 places and drive on the road. I used to drive these, I've actually have a video which I should upload and you'll see how it works. Side note I have a Renault Clio.

In the UK it was a Fairground Game to win a Prize, a Player would pay for three Darts... Then throw the Darts at the Cards, Any card hit would be turned over...Only one card would be the winning card

That lizard the cat brought home is what we call a skink. Very common auz

The circles in the sea ... yer I got that straight away we have lots in New Zealand.. 🎉

the silver box in downtown is a 'resupply' point for biking postmen so they don't have to go back to the distribution centre if their route is a decent trip away, as Postie you pack your bike with what you can, and sort out the rest (ideally primarily/only paper-spam) in a number of post sacks that someone drives around dumping in their respective boxes (boxes usually either have some internal number, or are known by their address). And they're usually quite deliberately shaped for the uninitiated to be misinterpreted as some sort of electrical/telecommunication supply closet as to blend in. We have the exact same kind in Denmark, whereas here they're coloured a deep dark green, and often placed at or near hedgerows or green spaces to further blend in (and often the aforementioned supply closets are also placed in the same kind of areas) as to some sort of 'out of sight, of of mind' stealth

I'm in Australia but in New Zealand they have no snakes at all so in their zoos they have legless lizards to represent snakes.

I've only seen the delivery robot in the US. In Australia, in the ACT, they have been trialling food deliveries by drone.

The "training" wheel on the bus is exclusive to Adealaide busses that run on the Obahn busway.The bus is on a concrete track and the driver can let the bus steer itself as the guide wheels steer the bus. The driver still has to watch the track, but they have one less thing to do about 80% of the time. Some guy below said the wheels keep the bus away from the gutters and in a way he was right, but he was also very wrong as he didn't give the reasons for keeping the bus away from the gutter and which gutters the bus is being kept away from! Either way, the wheels on the bus still go 'round and 'round...

Actually called "Jag the Joker"

The “training wheel” on the side of the bus is for the Adelaide o-Bahn. It’s a track designed for the sole use of buses (though tourists and unaware locals will drive their cars on and get stuck on it all the time), and runs from the city out to the northern suburbs. Basically once the bus is on the track, the driver doesn’t need to steer, as the side wheel lines up with the sides of the track, and they can eat their lunch if need be (way back when you’d often see a driver pull out a newspaper). All they need to do is keep the bus at speed, and listen in on the radio in case there is a hold up ahead; can be a thing during peak times, but middle of the day, weekends etc. it doesn’t get very congested. I worked on the o-Bahn upgrade about 7 years ago, where they extended the route further into the city by digging a tunnel under the parklands, so it now comes out on east terrace. The concreters that had to build the track in the tunnel were only allowed 1mm of tolerance in their measurements, as these side wheels wouldn’t work properly otherwise

Mate, you're getting postal drop box and a post box mixed up. Australian suburban posties arrive at work and sort their route out in an order that they will deliver. Maybe 2000 houses and businesses to deliver up to many more 1000's in bigger cities. My husband worked like this for Australia Post 1990 to 2004. When he sorted the route and stacked his bike with that route in mind, if there was a lot of mail, a van member would deliver to this grey type of box and put his mail there for him to unlock and put on his bike so he didn't have to ride all the way back to the sorting depot in another part of Hobart. Hope that helps. Cheers, Tassie Joy

The car with the lock box is a community share car, once you have payed online to use the car you will get two pin codes one to collect the keys and one pin code to enable the igniton, the car is generally parked at the owners house and once you have used it you return it back to its car port. I think that is what it is, not a 💯%, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

5:20 Actual miniature sea dragon :D

Australia, the land of wierd stuff. 😂

The device you say is a "wine bottle holder" is actually called a Woomera. It's a device Aboriginal people used to throw spears with more power.

The adelade bus wheel is for the o bahn, which is a guided bus way

First one, chase the ace. In Western Australia this used to be a big thing. I've never picked the ace unfortunetly but won the pick of many card flips. Everywhere I've played this, when your raffle number is picked, you get like $5 or something along them lines.

The little wheel on the bus in Adelaide is to essentially give the bus hands free steering when they go into a concrete channel type thing they have over there. It's like an express lane for busses and the concrete channel / road guides the bus for the driver.

As a Aussie, I have seen none of these things. But guessed it was a fish farm. As they have mussel farms as well, elsewhere. But a eye opener for me as well, very obscure random things

Joker draw! 🤣 I won $1100 at some a local bush pub on joker draw. It's customary to "shout the bar" if you win! Good old fashioned healthy gamblin/drinkn😂🇦🇺 The combination gizmo on the car is great for leaving the car keys and enjoying a pre-work surf with out taking the keys into the Pacific.

I rented a moving van through a contactless service which had a similar lockbox for the car key. The lockbox had an internet connection and they PIn was reset for every new renter.

Everyone that has identified the wheel on the bus as the guide wheels on the buses that transit on the o Bahn are correct. There is one on each side and they are directly connected to the steering. The track sides or curbs are like a funnel with the driver of the bus directing the bus onto the track and with the small wheels finally making enough lateral contact on each side so that these wheels take over the steering wheel of the bus. When the bus is ready to leave the track, the curbs part and the driver simply takes back over. The speed limit used to be open and when they first introduced these bus’s in Adelaide in the 80’s, they actually clocked them doing over 140 kph, keeping in mind that some of the drivers would often have a news paper spread out over the steering wheel, occasionally looking up to see where they were. However after a couple of close calls and a potentially deadly mishap, they limited them to 100 kph and I think the drivers hands must remain on the steering wheel now as well!

If those empty bottles were full of water lying on the grass it's to stop that dog in the background from pooping on the lawn.

That's definitely a key locker on the Renault. I have never seen one used that way.

the bus with the side wheel is for steering. The BUS is called O'Bahn. It runs on concrete rails as well the road and it started in Germany and in 1985 it came to Adelaide and it can go 100km in some parts of the track

3 O-Bahn Busway: Fast forward to the present day, and Adelaide has another innovative transit system: the O-Bahn Busway. Developed by Daimler-Benz, this guided busway services the northeastern suburbs. Buses run on specially built concrete tracks, combining elements of both bus and rail systems. The O-Bahn track is elevated due to poor soil quality along the River Torrens. It includes interchanges at Klemzig, Paradise, and Tea Tree Plaza, allowing seamless transfers for passengers. Buses can reach speeds of up to 100 km/h (60 mph) but are typically restricted to 85 km/h (55 mph). As of 2015, the O-Bahn carries approximately 31,000 people per weekday3.

The cards on the cork board above the glass doors may have something to do the Harley Davidson motor bike pub crawl. Quite popular where I live.. dont know how it works but substantial numbers of bike riders get cards and ride to the next pub and in the end a rider wins something. At a distance it looks like a domesticated version of hills angels on the prowl...

I think the thing at 6:40 is a Fleet Air Arm pin. My dad served on a Royal Navy Aircraft carrier in WW2 and he had a tattoo like that.

That thing on the rear of the Renault Megane looks to be an electronic combination door lock adapted from a hotel room entry door.

16:00 absinthe spoon, it's used to dissolve a sugar cube in a glass of absinthe to sweeten the drink.

The bus wheel is for travelling on a cement track that allows bus drivers to just run the track straight into adelaide cbd from outer northern suburbs and and gets the bus off the street and buffers it down the track so the driver can basically just use the accelerator and brake to drive the bus with little steering of the wheel. The track is called the O-Bahn and started use in mid 1980s. They've in recent years extended the o bahn out further as adelaide has grown outwards. The o bahn is like a kind of cement train track for buses in adelaide.

The Salmon fish farms off Tasmania are controversial. Pollution, degradation to local fisheries, collapsing ecosystems and an antibiotic scandal found in the fish to name a few.

the silo looks like a livestock feeder, they fill the top and it trickle feeds, like the chicken feeders, but for bigger animals, either that or used to burn off stuff, making it not a fire hazard as it contains the flames etc

The car with the lock box on his car probably does some sort of car sharing, so it's really obvious. Or just a general work car stored on site for employees to use.

The small wheelbehind the buses front wheel, is a guide for the O Bahn; which is a guided busway, that goes from the city to the north eastern suburbs, part of the rapid transit system.

First time watching your videos. Loved how easy going and good natured you were ☺️ As an Australian, I got a bit confused over some of the things too but others were more recognisable. Glad that you had a laugh and so did I !

"chase the ace" is pretty popular here, especially country pubs, my local the jackpot sometimes gets near $5,000, basically you get a ticket or 2 with every drink purchased and the winner is drawn at 20.00. great fun, esp. when there's only a few cards left, the bar manager plays it well, he gets the card you selected, looks at it and then starts making offers that you can take instead of what's on the card, every card has a prize, from a packet pf peanuts, meal vouchers, bar tabs, etc and one has the jackpot its pretty funny when he offers up to $1500 in cash and goods and the winner picks what's on the card and it turns out to be a packet of peanuts, or similar :)

Legless lizards slither like a snake..a bit unsettling!

That wheel sticking out of the side of the bus near the rear of the. front wheel is a guiding wheel for the Adelaide O-Bahn to help guide it on the O-Bahn track.

Yeah in Victoria in my area the postal drop boxes are green. I see the them dropping off & another postal worker opening up and filling up for the run.

Gidday. I am from South Australia. The tall “silos” are actually old drying barns for tobacco. In the old days when we still grew tobacco crops, they were a common sight. I have also seen them on fishing trips to Inglewood, Queensland, dotted across the paddocks. These days, they mostly grow wheat and olives.

The green boxes are postie depot boxes, 2 or 3 of them are placed around the posties beat. Because you can't carry all the mail for the beat you have the rest placed in the green boxes and you pick it up as you go around

Joker poker… pick the right card…

That thing on the back of the Renault is a key safe. May be its a car sharing car or whatever. That way you can send the combination to somebody via email or phone, and the person doesn't have to come to you to pick up, or drop off the key. This is cheaper than installing a fancy electronic system in the car to open the doors and the ignition with a app or so. There is one of those things next to my house door, because there is a Fahrschule in the house as well and they use it to pass on keys to the instructors or whatever.

The "training wheel" is a guided bus sytem using kerbstones to keep the bus on track. Buses can run, excluding other traffic, in both directions using much less space than a road and revert to ordinary use when the trackway ends.

Indeed, that is a blue dragon sea slug. A shorter way of saying "so venomous it will kill you if you touch it" is "Australian" ;-)

Hi Ian, pretty sure the "training wheels" on the bus are guide wheels. This is a bus that sometimes runs on the road, as a normal bus, but sometimes runs on an elevated concrete track with guide rails, sort of like a tram with tyres. I think it is in Adelaide and is called the 0-Bahn (I live in Melbourne and have never seen one before but remember reading about it years ago when they were first developed).

Pick(Jag) the joker, To win look for the card with the bent edges..it gets damaged because they move it every week.

That wheel on the bus is a guide wheel. There was a section of roadway in Adelaide that was only for buses, and it was like a chute, in that it had a higher kerb/concrete "low rail" that these wheels would run up against. I heard about them, and I had never caught a bus in Adelaide, but the only time I did (was with someone when we visited there who had caught a bus there/knew the fare system) , we happened to pull into one of these bus lanes, and once on there, the driver just let go of the steering wheel and let the guide wheels do it for him. That was 80's I think, I don't know how long they had them for.

the clue for the lock on the car is the CAR CLUB stickers on the back and side of the car. It's a shared/hire vehicle so likely through an app on your phone you get the combination when it's your hire period so you can go to wherever the car is parked and just get in. These car club initiatives don't have central lots or hubs where they keep their cars, they have designated Car Club parking spaces throughout cities where you can drop-off/pick up the carwhenever you might need one. We have them in the UK but the cars here will lock/unlock through the app itself, i've never seen one with a box on the outside, seems quite primitive.

The lockbox might be used for people who rent their cars out on apps like Ubercarshare...the key is locked in that box and unlocks with a code or through the app. This way the owner doesn't need to be there to hand over the keys.

1:03 our local pub does this every Friday night. It’s great. You get a meat tray for just the raffle but a (jack potting $500) for turning the joker. The pub was getting pretty full on Friday nights as the jackpot got to $10000.

The key om the back . is so you can let the wife out when she shuts up LOL

I'll give you this mate, you may be American but you pronounce 'Australia' like a true Aussie!

That’s spare key box is obvious because it’s for car sharing, so who hires it can get the key without needing to meet up for it.

The bus in Adelaide is an Obahn bus. Essentially it's route takes it both on road AND on 'bus rail' sections along it's journey, hence requiring both road and rail wheels to be used intermittently.

lol, fishing around the fish farms foe escapees is one of my favourite things to do!

@IWrocker, the word "brooch" is pronounced like "roach" but with a "b" at the start of the word. Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards that have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion. It is the common name for the family Pygopodidae. These lizards are often distinguishable from snakes on the basis of one or more of the following characteristics: possessing eyelids, possessing external ear openings, lack of broad belly scales, notched rather than forked tongue, having two more-or-less-equal lungs, and/or having a very long tail (while snakes have a long body and short tail).

The wheel for the bus is for buses that travel on the auto bahn that is a special track from Adelaide to Modbury. Many cars have entered it by mistake and get stuck as its a specialised track only for the buses. They travel about 80kph and are basically guided by the high curbs

The lock box on the back of a car is for your keys so you can ;lock them up when you go surfing. Other designs lock to your tow ball or hitch.

7:30 looks like fish traps. Tide comes in, fish come looking for food. Tide goes out and fish are trapped. Aboriginals used them all around Australia. 13:00 the legs are vestigial, just like our tailbone and appendix. Unused things we've evolved past.

The silo looking structure on the border of SA and Victoria is actually nothing more than just a random piece of artwork/sculpture that a farmers put in his paddock as a way for him to voice his opinion on whatever political issue was it's inspiration.

That AUDI Sign is hurting my eyes

Adelaide has a bus system that runs on a concrete expressway called the 0-Bahn. The small guide wheel keeps the bus on the track. It's a fast track commuter system. Sometimes drivers who don't pay attention to the signs bring the system to a standstill by driving onto the track and getting stuck.

Looks like some sort of salt water lizard.....maybe THE missing link ? lol

7:05 I instantly knew they were fish farms. I saw plenty of them, when I visited the Faroe Islands.

Yes it's a ozpost drop box for posties on foot or bike in the suburbs. Qld's has red boxes

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As an Australian, I appreciate your correct pronunciation of the name of my country :-)

@5:05 it looks like something out of the game SPORE when you first start to make creatures in the game.

The board with the cards more often than not is called JAG The joker

Living in Sussex U.K. I immediately thought it was a legless lizard. We know them as slow worms, ours are usually sandy brown, they like sparse undergrowth and are harmless.

I would love to get a picture of lydia thorpe & jacqui lambie together in parliament house and ask 'what is this thing' just to see the answers! 🤣🤣🤣

In Germany and I guess in most of Europe we have legless lizards too. But there are much smaller and thinner. We call them "Blindschleiche" (Blind creeper) 😀

I believe the postal drop box is for local businesses to use, not average customers. Note that it is locked and no slot. Businesses who register to use it are given a key for drop off. It's nothing like the Australia Post boxes which are red in Australia.