American reacts to 20 photos ONLY in Australia 

yep and then riding home on the bus in 45 degrees... basically having to peel your skin off of the seat when getting off of bus.

Me too

Still doing PE outside cause it was usually cooler then the classrooms

Me 2😂

@@user-qw4nc9tp2g and heading straight to the beach for that wonderful plunge into the waves (I lived on the coast)

surprised he didn't click to that with the later poker possum

And the big lizard/croc was a goanna

A brushie

There are meerkats in Tasmania... but only at the Wildlife park. They do have an enclosure of meerkats and they are cute as hell. No they arent native but fun to watch.

@@taltaleweaver9085, there are meerkats at the Royal Children’s Hospital here in Melbourne…

When was the last time you saw a Platypus in the wild. Let alone picked one up. I would really like to know. Particularly that their in real danger of extinction.

​​​@@garryellis3085Yes, she should first find one, then find out how to pick it up from the water, then tell us if it attacked her or just slithered away! Dangerous? 🧐👎

True dat!

@@garryellis3085 you can spot hem in a lake just outside of Proserpine.

Reportedly even morphine doesn't kill the pain if you get spurred by a male.

ikr funny

As well as serving lobster and red wine to the Chinese Trade delegation after they raised the taxes on them in China,but that year us Aussies got $20lobsters!!!!

hang on a second there was no real evidence China was sending anything to Russia, but evidence they didn't like that Russia had invaded Ukraine, I know the shit China did but don't blame them for doing that, they want Putin out of Ukraine why do you think Putin had to buy North Korean ammo thats mostly Rubbish. China has its own problems atm but we need them to keep Putins finger off the NUKE button

he still said "echidnas" incorrectly, the "ch" is pronounced like a "k" and not your usual "ch"

😂 love it

And when you're overseas, and other Aussies think yelling that at every opportunity is cool, you squirm with embarrassment. It's a bogan chant, if not ultra-bogan.

Only bogans chant that! So embarrassing to hear it happened at a citizenship ceremony in 🙄🤪

I have never chanted that !

I loathe it. No way I'd ever join in.

Oi is something you say at someone when they do something wrong,I absolutely hate that chant too

Thank you thank you. I live in Australia and I'm embarrassed to say I'm learning a lot on this Chanel. 😊 great info about the fig tree👍

……they weren’t ‘Australians’. They were from Java……came across on the ancient land bridge from there…..

@@elizabethroberts6215 those migrants, claimed this land as their own and their descendants identify as Indigenous Australians. Think about what you’re saying. You’re dis-inheriting Aboriginal Australians. I call them Ancient Australians because I don’t know what they called their new home. How dare you disrespect the ancestors of a people who have suffered more than enough in living memory! I pay respect to the Elders of Darumbal Country, past, present and emerging.

They're the worst!! I collected 100 in my yard last night!

They are also not Australian but an introduced species

If you're referring to the frog eating the snake, it's not a cane toad, it's a green tree frog 😊

@@karollinecostello8559No I think they're referring to the cane toads hitching a ride on the back on a snake.

@@DanChristos hahaha I must have blinked and missed the hitch-hiking toads 🤣

I should have twigged to that! Well done!

China is backing Russia against Ukraine, so the display at the embassy is like an upturned middle finger directed at the CCP.

Mate, we'll all stand up for the weak one.

And what's cheeky about it is that China supports ruZZia! 🇦🇺💙💛✌ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini!

I thought they were bloody Eagle supporters.

Me too...

Even though he called an "echidna an enchilada? ESPECIALLY because he called an echidna an enchilada!

@@bencodykirk Okay fair point that one got me a bit.

I used to be, getting a bit bored of it now, it's not really going anywhere, just repeating the same stuff rather than really learning more about the country. Needs to move on from the obsession with kangaroos etc into actually seeing the animals we actually see & interact with regularly for example, same with the rest of our culture vs stereotypes of it. This video has possums & lorikeets in it, but he won't go further with that, he'll go back to kangaroos again, cause that's what foreigners always obsess over. Same with everything, yes it's great to start with, but I'm getting bored now, cause it's not going anywhere further than the stereotypes. Another example, he knows cities & "outback" but still hasn't even started to grasp "the bush" & with cities, it's Sydney only, nothing on any other cities. I live in Sydney, but it would still be interesting to see him notice the weather in say Hobart or Darwin for example, rather than thinking Sydney IS Australia

@@mehere8038 You have a fair point, very valid arguments. He’s learning and he’s smarter than most Americans I have seen. I say he comes to Australia, I would love to see that.

Just the male platypus.

Platypus venom won't kill you but you will wish it had

feel that one or the slip and slide on the front lawn all the kids from the street coming to cool off

which is why that photo he came across on reddit some time ago was a really interesting "what if" - the photo asking "what if Australian geography was reversed" & putting the climate of the east onto the west & visa versa. Would be interesting if that was what all those explorers discovered, instead of the sandy deserts to near the coast, could have completely changed history here

@@mehere8038 there was no exploration or sandy deserts on the west coast? there is a lack of rainfall compared with the east coast but its no more a desert than the westcoast of america it was a shock for the dutch and the french coming from their climate the great dividing range is the reason for the climate difference with the east and west coasts..the first fleet originally arrived in botany bay as instructed by cook..but arthur phillip decided it was to inhospitable and they searched for another five days until they came upon sydney cove..and dont forget there werent many free settlers aboard the majority wre transported convicts..so there was no turning around and sailing back like the west coast explorers..also lets not forget tasmania was discovered in 1642 by the dutch

Expensive cigarettes have also discouraged school kids from the old habit of smoking to appear "cool," which was where the majority of people used to start their habit. Also easier for people who migrate here from heavily smoking countries to give up due to lack of people being everywhere around them puffing out the habit triggering nicotine smoke. Less smoking related health problem patients taking up hospital beds. Far less tragic house fires due to falling asleep smoking. It was first banned in the late 70"s here when I was 19. So I grew up in a world of room, car, public transport, office and street filled cigarette smoke and have lived as an adult without it ever since the ban. What a difference it makes, truly it can be described as a " breath of fresh air." Nobody misses it and other younger ones never had to know how bad it was to have to suffer through it.

@@chookinathunderstorm3446 There are now more Australians who smoke pot than smoke tobacco.

In reality, not going as far as possible though, there's been anti-smoking people pushing for years for Australia to adopt the same approach NZ now has. I remember a fairly big campaign back in 2017, they wanted the government to go with "smoking is SO last century" & implement a rolling age ban, meaning anyone born this century could never legally start smoking. NZ didn't do it at the time, but has since, so the younger generation is permanently banned from smoking & over the next whatever number of decades, all existing smokers in the country will die off & never be replaced. Is a great idea, doesn't target existing smokers & cause them problems, but stops anyone not already addicted from ever legally becoming so

@@21stcenturyozman20 Not surprised ! New health issues for the next generation

@@mehere8038 Correction. Were going to. The incoming government canned the rolling ban.

Ee-kid-nah 😅

And now they want to go back to that! 🤨

​Colonialists want to go back : to dark ages ignorance of indigenous rights , is that what you mean .... change the date gronks ​@@jenniferharrison8915

Wasn’t he Dutch?

@@jessicascoullar3737 No he was definitely English, the first Englishman to visit Australia, after the Dutch and well before Cook! He wasn't as experienced or successful as Cook! He called the Aboriginals "miserable" and also "BRUTES" that doesn't sound like pity to me! The "impoverished" statement makes no sense, Dampier was basically known as a pirate!

​@@jessicascoullar3737you might be thinking of Dirk Hartog. First Dutch to step foot on Australian soil as opposed to just charting the Coast & watching from the ship..

Yeah cops- did Ryan think it was another 4 letter word starting with ‘c’?

He really needs to cover more of these types of animals that are actually in all our day to day lives, rather than focusing on roos & koalas, that we never see

We always had at least one heater in the room when I was in primary school in Sydney - sometimes only a little foot heater under the teacher's desk that the teacher had brought in themselves & very commonly just 1, maybe 2 bar heaters so high up on the wall as to be pretty useless, but kinda worked, due to everyone crowding around them so much that the body heat kinda worked to heat us lol. Lights we had, but commonly the teachers would turn them off in summer, cause they actually really added to the heat in the room & yeh, obviously no air con back then, windows on each side of the room to open & hopefully get a cross breeze. High school, I went to an expensive private school, so we had 2-4 bar heaters in each classroom & ceiling fans. The hall was ALWAYS freezing! Year 12 exams were done in there & everyone was allowed (and had to) wear their sports uniform tracksuit pants under their dresses & black coloured anything else, such as scarves, bennies etc was also permitted, despite not being "official uniform", so as to not freeze during the exams - and remember the exams are at the end of the year, so summer, but it was still THAT cold in there! There were a few little heaters brought in, but they did nothing in such a big space with so few windows. Primary school, in summer, we just used to have water fights at recess & lunch so as to be always wet while in class so as to stay cool :)

I used to like the frozen cream on top of the free milk we got every day. Winter cold, summer warm.

WE HAD GAS HEATERS IN EACH CLASSROOM AND IF YOU HELD YOUR EMPTY TWISTY PACKET IN FRONT OFIT IT WOULD SHRINK @@mehere8038

That's a soft "E" like Uh, or Eh. Not Eee.

My daughter recently finished school at one of Sydney’s best private schools and only about half the classrooms were air conditioned. The hall/gym at my son’s school isn’t air conditioned either.

My first years at school...we were in an old room with a tin roof, and considering we went back to school in late Jan, early Feb, the hottest time of the year, needless to say there was no a/c or ventilation. Not long afterwards, it was turned into a bicycle shed.

@@Dr_KAP Best classrooms at my Sydney private school were the portables, cause they had ceiling fans & a number of bar heaters & heaps of windows & so all round actually heated & cooled a reasonable amount, unlike the main classrooms with the gas heaters that did nothing & often no ceiling fans, cause the roof was too low or whatever & windows were small & useless too. And yes, we had portable classrooms at the private school too!

discovered for the Europeans. Met with the Indigenous people while "discovering" it too & they were apparently really nice to him & hosted him in luxury, fed him, watered him, showed him around & then he went back home & bad mouthed them

Another conclusion………..William Dampier was a “Whinging Pom.”

To be fair, Western Australia has the most desolate coast in Aus once you go up North from Perth. Also 🥵 😂

@@arnolddavies6734 Duh.

And there was an old song "There's a Redback on the Toilet Seat". Redback spider bites won't kill a healthy adult, but will hurt like buggery (not literally).

@@pauldobson2529 If buggery hurts, you're not doing it right!

goannas

Not in Perth though. We're heading for a breezy 41C (105F)😜

So club cricket is off for the day? We don't play if it's above 38.

@@sg4364 Not Perth, in Ellenbrook.

Not the case in Victoria where at one school last week the students had no air conditioning in the classrooms, but it was working perfectly in the staffroom.

@@mickm6309 Oof. Not a great look.

@@jgraaay18 Schools should never had got into such disrepair.

hi fellow central coaster, Buff Point here

Hey hey locals! I used to live 5 doors down from the station 😊

Fun fact it is my actual job to pay them. Better get back to it.

They were gross,I have a lifelong dislike of milk coz of drinking those when I was a kid(we weren't allowed to play til we drank it).

@@anneloving8405 I remember that vividly, you had to drink all of it I think that’s why I can’t drink warm milk

And in area’s of Aus that have high levels of granite rock, they get monster hail storms - so much so, we have such a thing as hail netting for our food crops. Granite Rock attracts lightning and hail …

I've gotten the art of strategically placing them, a bit like playing the old Tetra game. Hahahaha Pisses me off something shocking. Good idea to file them down, hadn't thought of that.

@digitalsparky - no such word as ‘platypi’. The plurals of platypus can be either platypuses - plain English plural, or platypodes - from the Greek (pronounced plat-e-po-deez).

​@21stcenturyozman20 Platypi USED to be a legitimate word, in the dictionary too. It's the plural form of platypus. Platypi isn't used much these days but was many decades ago (when I went to school in the 60s). Now, when I hear platypuses I think it's just bad grammar because I was taught platypi. It's a changing world alright.

@@janined5784 Yes, platypi was reported in some dictionaries, because dictionaries are descriptive rather than prescriptive: They describe words and report their usages, but don’t necessarily prescribe. Just because platypi was in a dictionary doesn’t make it ‘correct’; rather it merely acknowledges it.

And they make the most adorable 'chirping' sound.

At my country high school, we all had to assemble in the school hall to access the airconditioning and we were only allowed to loosen our ties if it was over 40°! 🥵

Older Aussie here. We had absolutely no air conditioning and the only time we were sent home was if there was a cyclone threat or if the flood waters were rising rapidly and we could be cut off from our families for several days. We students celebrated a couple of school free days. Probably was an important aspect of learning to be Aussie, making the best of what you are dealt. Now, as Australia has evolved and developed into the wonderful country that it is, I would not describe myself as a patriot, but rather as a person who loves being an Aussie.

Maybe it was a Sydney thing 🤷🏽‍♀️

In Germany, we got sent home when it hit 27°C in the 90s 😁