American reacts to 12 Things AMERICA Could LEARN From AUSTRALIA 

Lmao I know! What the heck are traffic circles?! Never heard them called that

@@salzsays They have some traffic circles in the US, they work a different way but because it's round Americans think it's a roundabout. 😁

many people dont use the roundabouts well here either. particualrly the multi lane ones. they think you can exit from any lane but no! you cant exit left if youre in the right lane, you cut straight across the other cars! many older people insist its just give way to your right, as the basic driving rule has always been, but there isnt 'fair' turn taking on roundabouts. you must wait for a gap, no matter how long you have been waiting and whether the cars to your right didnt have to wait at all

EXACTLY what I was gonna say 💯❤️🇦🇺😉👍

Traffic circle, adorable. Though can't fault them on that, just as descriptive as ours!

Yeah ... as a fellow Aussie I will now look at each and every one of those 12 things with GRATITUDE and not take them for granted!! Thanks for making this video 👍

Same! 😂😂😂

same lol im an Australian and im confirming we do have big parks here 😂😂

Same

America is corrupt. We don't realize how lucky we are

Surprised that wasn’t on the list too ha

Probably because old mate isn't eligible. He's a tourist, isn't he?

Our Medicare system is falling apart .many general practitioners are now charging the difference that past governments havnt made up .Many big medical centres are not making money from this neglected system .If your lucky enough not to be billed by your gp its your tax and mine that pays for this system which needs fixing in a hurry.

@@darren5971 You're right of course Darren, the system needs urgent attention but at least we can still access quality medical services if we have a life threatening condition. If you get cancer or whatever you will be looked after. That's still something to be grateful for

Yea I love it

so true! my uncle has added an extra beatitude to refelct this blessed are those who follow an honest and clean BBQ user

The “wait line” is signified by placing a Tupperware container or another item the same as when you put money on the side of a pool table… this saves people standing and waiting making the person/family cooking feel pressured to hurry and accidents could happen plus the standing around tempers could be an issue.

We're called MELANOMA CAPITAL OF THE WORLD.

@@rodneybourne9230 I would believe that. My siblings & their partners have had skin cancers removed.

@@Rose-jz6ix Yep ,I've got that may scars, skin grafts, holes and dents it looks funny, I've had stitches on my back I've ripped out, got someone to take a picture, half a tongue and floor pan of mouth as well, melanoma behind knee, nice job there and now looks like prostate. Who says hard work doesn't pay. But I'm still laughing.

Ikr!

Yeah same here 😊

More sunscreen equals fewer skin cancers equals lesser medical costs.

I didn't even know America had different words for there signs, I feel so stupid 😂

Alot of people think Sushi means raw fish but it means vinegar rice ... so you don't have to have raw fish and it is still called Sushi

The type of sushi sold here in Australia is Makizushi or rolled sushi. The portion size is definitely a bit bigger here than offered in Japan hahah. Sushi hub has monster sized sushi rolls imo haha

Really! Where I live there is NO Japanese restaurants and most Aussies I know holiday in USA or Bali. Kids here and even ones that I know in cities like Brisbane or Sydney definitely do not take Japanese food to school!

School sells sushi at school

@@victoriacarpenter2657 Sashimi means fish doesn't it?

Same although I haven’t seen a coin operated BBQ in at least 15 years. Even private venue waterparks have free BBQs these days

Good news is that Council is phasing out cash Barbies because of the issue with handling cash, cheaper to just make it free from a running cost. Nowadays it's usually the Caravan parks that will sting you for the plate.

*The actual ATO in Australia is a fully illegal entity that has never actually registered with the Federal government, and is not even recognised by the High court of Australia!!! 🇦🇺 FACT!!*

@that guy there are still a few around that are coin operated but yes most are free to use.

Oh wow, I've never, ever seen a coin operated public barbecue in any of the parks I've ever been to in Australia.

"Traffic Circles" makes me think of crop circles. Nobody knows who put them there or why, they just appeared in the road layout one day.

It was aliens I tell you! @smalltime0 👽👽😜

They mainly do breath testing for beer mainly holiday season

....there are a fair few people here in Oz that have no idea how to use a roundabout too.

Yep - it has bipartisan support and very high community acceptance. No-one wants to see people killed by drunk drivers. If someone is dumb enough to drive while they are drunk they deserve to be caught.

i live in a small vinyard town just over the border of NSW into Victoria. we have a couple big festivals during the year where our usual little 3000 people town explodes to a couple hundred thousand. i notice at festival time, the road signs are often changed in order to 'shock' people and boost compliance. one read, 'drink driving? bloody idiot!' another read, have you been drinking? get off the bloody road and into bed' i thik the use of swearing still surprises people and so theyr'e not ignored

@@lisaflower5994 I live in Wodonga!

@@muzzaball hello neighbour!

100% agree. Again, Aussies on mass give a shit about others. Young old, everyone. Extremely proud of this country during covid, especially western Australia where we basically lived as absolute normal during covid. And our breath test for drink is unlike America, ours actually work, not rigged. I was my groups mother hen/designated driver in the old days. And during the Claremont serial killer times, I can tell you going downhill was a stress, even without that hanging over our heads. And one of the poor girls lived up the hill close by. RIP girls. I'm so very sorry.

we are true blue aussies

Me two

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE OI OI OI

Yes it is a law. All new toilet installs must have a half flush option. Old toilets don’t have to be replaced immediately, but they can’t be replaced with exactly the same thing if they ever do need to be updated.

The old school way was to put a brick in the cistern etc. to reduce the amount of flush.

It's been 40 years since .05 was introduced in NSW. Time flies....

I’m 45 and it’s been 0.05 for almost all of my life. I think since the early 80’s.

Toss in seat belts. In Victoria the year before the law was introduced there were 1300+ deaths, the year the law came in, around 300! And that was just for the front seat! Rear seat belts were added I think 3 years later as a lot of cars didn't have them fitted and people had to get the retrofitted or buy a new car.

I teach PDHPE in NSW and we have an awesome graph from RMS (as it was) that shows the impact of each road safety strategy, and accompanying media ads, on road death and injury: indicators, seat belts, P-plate licences (1- and then 2-year), RBT, BAC limits, lower speed limits in residential and school zones and for P-Platers, roundabouts, revive stations - all highly effective despite increasing road use and higher performance cars.

@@Bellas1717 is there a way we can get a copy of this graph my daughter is close to her L age and i would like to show her a copy

That guy made heaps of videos during his visit to Australia. His name is Tristan Kuhn from memory.

Yes we are lucky, but not free.

Agreed we are lucky

yes we are

Yess we’re lucky

Bro he’s sounds like a zombie🧟‍♂️

I never knew this was just Australia! Or invented here at least

We have them here in NZ too :)

We've been living with water restrictions for decades now ... Maybe other countries don't have the same issues with water that we do

If this RU-vidr guy wants to learn a little bit of good old Aussie slang, here’s some: dunny (toilet), arvo (afternoon), esky (cooler), smoko (break), tradie (someone who works in the trade, e.g, construction worker, plumber, etc.), mate (friend)

Queensland is a behind New South Wales. NSW you can get your licence in an hour. In Qld it’s 35 day’s wait. Just had to say. However, in Queensland registration stickers are no longer required. Police can check from the licence plates. I don’t know about the parks being like that either. Certainly not where I grew up in the burbs of Sydney.

Right? And the chicken!

Yeah and sushi is not raw fish that is sushimi

@@MarkWilliams-wp8kc yeah. 'Sushi' refers to the type of rice used. So yeah you can call it sushi even if it's got chicken in it.

Lol it is normal sushi, America just weird

a sushi train I go to in Wollongong they cook the sushi with blowtorches

Aah, the one at Palm Beach on the Gold Coast. Its great. We are having a late Christmas lunch there on Christmas day. Cause I'm working till 2pm..

There's a pirate ship at Elwood beach in Melbourne, not far from a friend's place. And yes, the adults and teens have played on it. No drinks involved, some of us were driving.

Yes, the late night drunken play on the swings and climbing structures at the park is a must! 😂 Still can’t believe I didn’t fall off something and break a bone!

@@jaggirl that's the one, Pirate Park at Palmy ⛵🤣

@@zombiemeg I know right 🤣 I used to live near one we called the 'spinny one', everything used to spin around and its a miracle no one got killed lol

and why Australia is one of the countries Starbucks failed at.

Just so that the Americans don't get confused barbies are bbq's

And bbqs are barbecues

grew up with those big ass woolies and coles sunscreen tubs

But the cancer council one from coles and the banana boat ones are really good just not very cheap.

lol same i enjoyed this for the same reason

A lot of Americans can not understand a country that cares for its people, they class it as socialism, they do not understand a country that has freedoms since they think they are free, they do not understand what free speech is since in America it only gives criminals and bullies rights and their victims have none, they think unfettered and non regulated capitalism is a good thing while those that own everything use the masses as slaves

>>. I've had Americans tell me that Australia is a fascist state and we are all sheep because we allow things like this. I get that A LOT from Americans. It must be a part of their school curriculum.

yup agreed. The US competed to get prairie land, while in Australia, anyone who tried to compete instead of working with their neighbours simply died from the harsh conditions. Different attitude from the start. I think we also underestimate how much the original Aboriginal culture influenced what Aussie culture became too, I was told a story at a Sydney festival event, about how Barangaroo saw a soldier whipping a convict for stealing Aboriginal fishing gear & was appalled by his violence & so grabbed the whip off him in a tirade of abuse & started whipping him with it. When invited to accompany her husband Bennalong to a formal dinner, she dressed in her traditional dress for such a formal occasion - naked & with ceremonial body paint! She refused to accept British, or male authority & stood firm to her culture & beliefs. Presumably any good people who ran into trouble with the British authorities would have been welcomed by her & the rest of her community, who were overall of similar attitudes too, hence, I believe, the real reason convicts etc got away with sticking it to authority, but did so in a way that didn't hurt their friends & community & Seppos talk about "freedom", but in reality, they have far less freedoms than we have! Obvious example being their mandated evacuations in disasters & forced into FEMA camps, while being forced to leave their pets behind too! Imagine if authorities here tried to enforce laws like that on us! They also have limited gun rights if they're not white males, very limited voting rights & options on the ballot papers, mandatory lockdown training in public schools, so that the little kids understand how to respond to the regular mass murderers with high powered guns they get in their classrooms, random police shootings of drivers at traffic stops & their water is being drained at an astonishing rate, by mega corporations, who use it to grow crops to sell to Asia & the Middle East, creating a situation where in 50 years time, they will have no water left, while we have a huge aquifer under our country that we limit the use of, so as to ensure it's there to support us for eternity. Look into their dairy farms in their deserts! It's really scary the way their politicians can be bribed into allowing total destruction of their country & resources! Same with pollution rules there for air & water, chemicals, nuclear waste, animal waste, it's all allowed to be just dumped into public waterways untreated!

@@mehere8038 Hey Me Here, do you know any of our Australian history, go to any old country cemetery and you will find the graves of settlers slaughtered by Aboriginals but mostly in payback for us slaughtering them, it was a very violent time like the Americans that invaded their country we also invaded ours but the European idea was, if you where not white you where not human, did you also know if you shot an Aboriginal you needed an excuse but shooting Chinese was a free for all and more Chinese than Aboriginals where slaughtered in this country, did you know the poverty policy that the British government wanted in Australia was to get rid of the lower class that populated the country after freedom from the crimes committed was achieved, they did not want the lower class gaining control, the Aboriginals talk about this all the time as the stolen generations as this policy stayed in place into the 1960's and yes a lot of Aboriginals where taken as another way of getting rid of a problem but what is never talked about is more white children where taken from those living poverty than Aboriginals to attempt to eradicate the lower class from the country. As for our great artesian basin that is now just starting to recover from overpumping where in many cases the salt levels in the soil are so high nothing will grow and all because we sold off most our prime lands to the Chinese and others with unrestricted water usage, gust look at what the Chinese cotton farms done to the Darling River.

How dare we care if people die on the road from drunk drivers, right? 😅 Definitely fascism.

I can understand that in Queensland where Tristan is, where they have so many foreign tourists, free sunscreen would be necessary to ensure tourists enjoy their stay in burnt - and even to prevent hospital admissions.

A lot of companies that have workers that have to work under the sun provide sunscreen as part of their duty of care. As said in the video, sunscreen is a lot cheaper than medical costs.

@@stevep2430 schools also have it in every classroom for the kids to put on before they go out for recess and lunch. It's part of basic supplies like paper and whiteboard markers.

Sunscreen is tax deductible if it's not provided by your employer and you need it for your job. e.g. construction workers.

Frank Carbone - The mayor of Fairfield, NSW did the exact same thing there about 4 or 5 years ago when I lived there. He used to always post on Facebook about different issues in Fairfield that people had, and he would reply to every single one!!! 😍😍😍😍😍

What are you talking about? Man made beaches? Ha ha ha! Beaches that have nets around them so you are not stung by the Mano war which will kill you stupid!

Yeah, I'm a Sandgropher, we don't have these man made beaches, we just have the beach. Don't have to worry about box jelly fish. Just sharks. Spent most my holidays in Esperance, very sharkie. But it's their home not ours.

The Airlie Beach lagoon is amazing

Yeah we don't have them in Tasmania. Natural beaches everywhere and we don't have crocodiles. We have sharks though.

We have them in many places in Qld - only other place I've ever seen something similar in other states is in caravan parks though

Former gov worker here. The perks of the job are very generous, differing on if you’re state or federal gov. As for pleasant interactions theres always this fear that you’ll have to deal with someone who interprets something you did as a personal dig at them and they’re off to their local representative who then complains to the Minister. The result is you having to explain what happened to the manager and maybe having to help with the explanation letter of reply. It’s a pain in the ass and far easier to smile through the jerks and the antagonisers who try to bait you into saying something wrong. As for being treated well… the benefits were good, but the cronyism, corruption, reckless spending, anti-corruption sections that don’t care and ladder-climbing managers with little interest in the actual role (instead looking for visible projects that make the exec look good), the job can be soul crushing. If you, for whatever reason, weren’t in the right clique then your opportunities for progression were limited.

wow. I'm from WA and we just introduced monthly renewals for car rego!

Come to Qld - we have the dearest registration in the country thanks to Anna and cohort

We can only do 6 or 12 month rego in NSW.

Sun bloke sounds like some old dude, walking around with a stick and sunscreen, and hitting people until they apply some.

My rego, for a 4x4 Triton Ute is under $600. Says something for living in the country.

Me too😂

Same, I love our country ❤ and the community of people here just seems so nice

Lmao same 😂

Lmao YES

@@GeorgeBraun10 He called them traffic circles in the video 😂

don't forget the 17.5% annual leave loading.

Until dictator Dan says you're not allowed, we don't care about the future problems it will cause.

True

I've never seen playgrounds like those giant ones in the video! Not in Brissie where I live anyway. Are those in Sydney? Melbourne?

@@bencodykirk not in melbourne either

I have also never seen anything like this

Update: I had chicken sushi rolls and nigiri for lunch today haha XD

My mum thinks that sushi is raw fish 💀🤚 so I've never tried it. I'd love to some time though, any sushi train/ resturant reccomendations?

Also I love the term "born, bred and buttered" 😂 very Aussie of you ❤

@@iqluvnat I'm a relatively new sushi fan too, so I'm still trying out different ones myself! My favourite sushi shop is Sushi Hub!! My fav pick for a snack/lunch is the chicken avocado nigiri, a very popular choice among myself and my friends :)

@@iqluvnat yess ofc

You don't want to live in America. The more you know about it the more corrupt that place is

Same mate the more I learn about different countries the more I think we are such a uniquely successful race.

Us Aussies have definately won the "country lottery "

Yep

Also I’m Aussie aswhell

I've heard the same thing from friends and others I've met in my travels about American coffee. and that is it tastes terrible. one friend and his wife said the best part about coming home to Oz from a U.S. holiday a few years ago, was they could finally have decent coffee again...lol 😅

Oh, really? I didn't know that haha! I thought that coffee cafes were a normal thing that every country has. I'm gonna ask my dad abt this tomorrow morning since he loves coffee and has also been to America lol. Thanks for sharing!

I’ve been to the states twice and the coffee is definitely nowhere near as good

Also, when I was in America, they just served straight out of a pot of filtered coffee. I don't think Starbucks survived in Australia. It had a go, but I think there may be 1 left in Sydney

@@cath-meantostopcafefb There is Starbucks in Melbourne too.

Isn’t the thinning of the ozone layer (which is recovering) above Antarctica? I thought Australia's harsh sunshine results mainly from its location in the Southern Hemisphere. The elliptical orbit of the Earth places the Southern Hemisphere closer to the sun during its summer months than the Northern Hemisphere during its summer 🤷🏼‍♀️

@@Reneesillycar74 Yes there is no ozone hole over Australia. It is a myth

The down side to so much sunscreen is that most Australians have low vitamin D levels. We have more depression, arthritis, ADD, Autism than we used to research shows that vitamin D levels are in part to blame for this. Lack of Vitamin D during pregnancy can result in more allergies etc for the child. Interesting research.

Slip, Slop, Slap has been upgraded to Slip, Slop, Slap, Wrap and Sip. Wrap on some sunnies - to protect your eyes from sunburn, sip water - to remind people to stay hydrated/prevent heat stress.

@@Reneesillycar74 yes, the hole in the Ozone layer impacts Australia although since the ban of CFCs it's healing. This is why Skin Cancer rates are highest in Tasmania, due to the hole in the ozone layer

Yes. Every day when I drop two grandchildren off to school I have no anxiety about whether I can expect to find them safe when I go to pick them up in the afternoon. No country is perfect, the US has a lot of good points but Australia is an easy country to live in.

Last I heard 488 kids have died gun related deaths this year in America 🤔

And because we have sun safety drilled into us from a very young age. I remember the original slip, slop, slap ads from the early 80's.

And because of the big flippin hole in the ozone layer. The sun is harsh.

yeah we just grab sunscreen off cancer council and claim it

Sunscreen is dirt-cheap to produce. Why should it NOT be cheap to buy?!

Sunscreen is cheat because down here we have a much higher chance of getting skin cancer more that anywhere else in the world

I've always thought they are called nori rolls.

Bit of a gamble tbh some places are yum but some are wayyy too sweet

Ikr. Btw i live in Perth as well, or specifically around freo

I have a friend in Perth, she said that the people there are really nice! Sending love from Canberra

I've heard Perth is nice because there are less eshays lol😂

@@NGB656 lolll 😂

I also live in Perth! I’m in Brisbane rn and I’m going to the river beach the guy was talking about 😅

Yep, Im allergic to iodine so sushi for me is chicken katsu in a naked roll (without the nori which is full of iodine)......delish and means I dont feel left out.

Chicken sushi is just the best

@@heatherrowles9930 oh man if I developed an iodine allergy I'd really miss the nori. I'm so sorry 😞

Same the I’m proud to be Aussie 🇦🇺

Australia is soo good❤ love my country

I've heard nothing but bad things about seppo coffee. Look what happened with Starbucks.

US coffee is worse than coffee was here in the mid-1950's (with the exception of the espresso bars that were starting to spring up).

Sea baths in Victoria.

There are a few in the outer suburbs of Melbourne but there are more water play parks than pools. There are a couple and there are a few swimming lakes as well.

Can't say I've seen any in Perth, but I'm from the country so I could be wrong.

i don’t think that there is any in SA

@@carlybernard8155 yeah we don't have any in Perth, but we have a lot of really good beaches that are pretty safe so we don't really need the man made beaches like other places.

Yup, the DMV as described sounds much like the RTA (here in NSW) used to back in the 2000s. It's shockingly efficient now, which would have been unthinkable in the past and proves that Government services can be streamlined by continuous improvement.

So you're not in QLD then, haha.

I'm sorry but it's not free. Rates paid. Sorry but it just bugs me. Nothing in this world comes for me. I am behind this type of spending though.

Yes traffic circles are not well designed and is one of the reasons Americans are opposed to roundabouts because they mistakenly think a roundabout is a traffic circles

What is tge difference?

@@timothyconnolly6910 traffic circles actually have the people in the circle stop instead of roundabout where you give way to anyone on the roundabout This is a vid explaining better 3.11 for exact spot in vid ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AqcyRxZJCXc.html

@@timothyconnolly6910 if there is a traffic light inside the circle, its not a roundabout. im not talking about roundabouts with peak/congestion lights. if you ever have to stop in the roundabout for any reason other than the road in front of you is backed up, its not a roundabout.

A depressing amount of Australians don't know how to indicate properly at roundabouts. Drives me round the bend

He did mention 5 weeks annual leave - although that isn't normal - usually it's 4 weeks. Those that get 5 weeks are generally shift workers - miners, nurses etc

@@annetterawlings4549 I agree ... 4 weeks; perhaps he confused it with 4 weeks 'plus some' (that being 10 days sick leave)

@@ireneb3433 my husband worked in the mines and got 5 weeks annual leave plus 2 weeks sick/personal leave - which is what most 24/7 shift workers get

A lot of people don't get leave loading, only those lucky enough to have had a Union negotiate it for them. Take the IT sector. No leave loading.

@@guyb7995 I'd be looking into that if I were you - it's got nothing to do with union representation - I have never belonged to a union and have always had leave loading UNLESS it was a casual or salaried position

*drought .. draught is carlton, in a can. its a beer. typo there in your first line :)

Drought. ..Draught is a beer😁👍✌️ ..& Australia Invented the dual flush toilet👍

@@glenod drought is also when the cold air comes in under the door 😂 (pronounced draft) EDIT- I meant draught!!

@@Dr_KAP hmm, nah.. thats spelt Draught or draft, ( cold air under the door ) drought is prolonged period of low rainfall. Theres a difference. youd best double check your own spelling before commenting cobber.

@@glenod draught yes that’s what I meant 🤦‍♀️ lol I’m losing it 😂