American reacts to Photos that prove Australia is Unique 

I worked in a polling station one federal election. Yes, people come in to vote very casually dressed. The most memorable for me was a young lady who presented at my desk for a ballot, wearing a grass skirt, and a top consisting of some straps, and two half coconut shells. I was temporarily lost for words.

I’m an Aussie and I love your channel. I was cringing when you were talking about the doll as I knew what type of doll she was!

Aussie here, watching an American on RU-vid and learning about Australia! Lol crazy. Love your vids!

This week we had what is known as “double day”. Every donation made to the Flying Doctor on the day was doubled by a number of very generous companies. It was very successful.

"The crocs do not attack a boat unless they are bigger than it" GET A BIGGER BOAT!

4:58 from my many decades of experience with native Australian plants , I can confidently say that from the colour of the leaf it is in fact new growth of around 2 - 3 weeks old. New growth on many Australian plants starts off red before transitioning to the colour of the leaf held by the quokka. It then darkens until it reaches mature colour. IMHO the most beautiful thing to see is the Australian bush in the height of Spring. Trees and bushes highlighted with red and light greens. Fluffy White, Red and Yellow flowers everywhere . It hard to put into words without writing a 5000 page essay the sights sounds and smells of the springtime bush.

it was a family at the polling station looking over each others ballots husband, wife and kids. you wouldn't be looking at a strangers ballot that would be weird like looking at the guy next to you at the urinal.

Cig prices are entirely designed to drive people off cigarettes. Apart from revenue of course. Cig packs are also covered in warnings and gruesome imagery of cancers and can't use branding - they are brown with text and cancer pics. Last survey found a smoking rate of 11%. In the 1970s about half of Australians smoke - three-quarters of Australian men and one quarter of women.

The cardboard drone made it hard to detect as it would not be picked up by radar and they are very cheap for a big bang.

Nope , no decoration. I have one that big living on my ceiling at the moment. Ergo no flies and insects in the house either! LOL

We always make friends with the maggies just a give them occassionally a tiny bit of mince.. they remember your ok.. and come back through breeding season with the young magpies because you have a safe area.... i have never ever been swooped either

We had a problem with magpies swooping us in our yard. So we started feeding them pieces of bread and now they’re friendly. I can even get them to eat from my hand. 😂

We have about 25 magpies that we feed. Got to keep them onside so they nest somewhere else 😂

Yes, an Australian company makes relatively cheap cardboard drones that can be used for surveillance or be weaponised and sold/donated? (I think donated) them to Ukraine for the war. Australia has also given Ukraine Howitzers, ammunition and Australian-made armoured personnel carriers (Bushmasters).

Yes the drones are true. They are provided as a flat pack. Cheap and very effective with very sophisticated electronics . Australia has provided thousands of them.

It’s not only the Magpie we have to watch out for in Australia. We also have the plover (Masked Lapwing) which I consider to be a more aggressive bird than the Magpie. At least if you feed the Magpie it remembers you and won’t swoop you. The Plover has its nest on the ground and anyone who comes within about 25 metres will get attacked. You might like to check them out, I know there are film on RU-vid about them.

Maggie’s are shockers, especially in the burbs. If you’re a parent you need to keep your ice cream containers, draw eyes on the back, put one on your head and Wallah, you’ll live to face another day. Yeah, that’s an ordinary Huntsman spider.

Had some friends visit from Norway and they were a bit on edge with my pet spider in my Kitchen, in the morning their son crept out to see if it had gone...Alas it was still there, I heard from them recently (16 years later) and the youngster (now 21) still recalls the spider!

I'm a postie (mailman) on a pushie (pushbike, although we cheat with an electric motor to assist), and the 3 months or so of Magpie Season is a pain in the arse. But Butcher Birds can be way more aggressive

Yeah I wouldn't be ignoring that croc. I would be at the other end of the boat. Although tours like that feed the crocs (see the pole) which is probably what it's after. It's probably conditioned to expect food delivered right into its gullet. And being biggest croc in the neighborhood, it gets first (probs only) place.

I remember PT Arthur massacre. During the buy-back, there were a lot of odd weapons handed in to the police - including a WW2 German grenade (a live one).

the drone is disposable. They can be successfully reused, they have the ability for many different kinds of payloads, its light so it can be carried and its flight time is increase due to the light weight and ability to fly on thermals.

Just last week, my brother was hit in the face by a magpie while crossing the road in Melbourne cbd on his way to work. He's on antibiotics for a scratched eyeball. Luckily, there is no permanent damage to his iris... just walking to work! It happens!

I got woken up last night by the Mrs, telling me to look at something, still half asleep, to be greeted by something around that size above the bedroom door. (Mr Huntsman Spider at 2 Minutes). Knocked it down to the floor, the cat appeared out of nowhere and grabbed it, then ran off. I never saw it again, I suspect the cat ate it.

We have Magpies in New Zealand. A couple nest on the way to my work, in Auckland City, I say hello to them, but they pretty much ignore me.

If you notice the doll was made by Anko, that company makes virtually everything and most of what Kmart sells here in Australia is made by them.

Huntsmen spiders are huge and they love getting in your house and car. Many, many stories of them popping out while driving.

Context about the guns. The government offered $600 per gun in a buy back scheme. Most of the guns turned in were old and/or unregistered. Many gun owners saw it as an opportunity to deal with that problem old gun. Maybe in the shed left by Pop, or simply old, in need of maintenance and untrustworthy. They then used that money to replace the old unregistered guns with new ones and hold them as legally registered. It didn't end gun ownership in Australia. In fact, it is now estimated that there are more guns in Australia than there were then. The crims and gangs didn't turn in their unregistered guns. So, the gun buy back didn't do much to disarm the Australian public, but it did clear out a lot of the old problem guns that people were clinging on to. All on the taxpayer coin.

My friend has a Down Syndrome child and he loves his Down Syndrome doll

🇦🇺💙💛✌ 🇺🇦 Yeah, nah, spread out, the spider on the wall would not cover an average adult hand. I just had one such large huntsman trying to come in through the sliding glass back door which was closed as summer has decided to finally kick in in autumn in my neck of the woods in Victoria and it is hot. I was debating whether or not to let him into the relative cool of 26degC indoors when the geriatric cat-from-hell who had taken off before dawn, also turned up at the door. She immediately spotted the spider, did the "cat spooked" thing bouncing four paws in the air backwards and into pounce mode. I really like these big guys. They don't build webs, they don't make much of a mess on your walls but I just don't like one hanging on the wall right above where I lay my head to rest at night. I wasn't going to let cat kill spider, so I caught him easily enough and returned him to the backyard.

The drones were made from waterproof cardboard , cheap and successful in their task.

The photos of voting is not right! The Electoral Office is very strict on privacy on voting. As I once worked in the Electoral Office, I would be shocked if I found these voters are real( not the attire) but looking over each others shoulder! We take our compulsory voting seriously.

We vote on Saturdays so dress is more casual than if it was on a workday for most people.

That doll does not look to have Down Syndrome to me and my nephew has DS. Never even occurred to me that it was trying to represent DS so I don't blame you. Not a he lol. Hate to break it to you Ryan but only female marsupials have a pouch. Cigs at $50: Got to fund Medicare somehow. Now its soda water that's in short supply. Americans "18 wheelers!" Aussies "We raise you a 80 wheeler" 😂

We take an umbrella with us when walking during Magpie breeding season. Better safe than sorry.

Its absolutely true about the cigarette prices here....the gov. Because of this Now have a huge problem with illegal tobacco and deadly turf wars over it. Tobacconists are burning each others stores down.......

The cardboard drones are true. They are waxed and weather-resistant. Sypac is the company, in Melbourne.

Kmart (not related in any way to Kmart in USA) is extremely inclusive. In addition to dolls with DS, Kmart also has dolls in wheelchairs and other disabilities, realistic figure dolls, dolls of all color skin tones, and family doll sets with kids with two dads/mums, and kids with grandparents, etc.

That spider is probably what they call a "Huntsman Spider", they seriously do get that big, think dinner plate sized and the buggers have no right to move as fast as they do for something with that many legs. As far as the price of cigarettes goes, hard core smokers are moving to vapes or just plain quiting because they are so expensive. Third edit XD The Flying Doctors will come for *anyone* who needs them, it doesn't matter if they are a tourist or an Aussie Citizen.

I know that Ryan meant no disrespect in regards to the doll. It's probably the first one he has seen and wasn't aware that it was a fantastic special doll for fantastic special kids. Ryan is sweet and kind, so try and gloss over this. We xan all be surprised when we see something new, without knowing the context.

7:19 I have heard complaints that people steal the ash trays from in front of houses for the stubs. They must break them down and re roll them. I don't know but it is how it is.

When I got a trip to Sydney in an air ambulance the cost was thousands of dollars - covered by my insurance. A lot of people seem to confidently assume that stuff is free or covered by Medicare that actually isn't.

Yea most things that have significant negative health impacts are taxed quite high both as a deterrent, and the tax dollars are meant to go into the health system to pay for all these people ending up with lung cancer. They are effectively prepaying their future hospital bills. So that everyone else doesn't have to.

The spider is a Huntsman spider. I used to get them on the wall on my bedroom. I used to spray insect spray on them so much that it concealed into a mass on its back - with no effect. The way to kill it was to squish it with the spray can or something else. I remember one occasion I was driving on a major highway in the southern part of Adelaide when one crawled out of the sun visor towards me. I totally freaked out and almost ran into a historical stone monument.

I currently have a Huntsman spider in my kitchen - will see how it pans out - it rushed at me, a moment ago, like an angry cougar, because I went to the FoGo bin.

Theres a fluorescent globe in the box next to the spider, its a biggen but not that big

Love your stuff... P.S. No one I know has ever used this greeting in my 70 years as an Aussie, regardless happy arvo Ryan! Cheers mate from Sydney, AU.

I got the shivers when saw the pic of the huntsman spider!! that is actually huge LOL! Kmart over here is like Primark in the UK, full of cheap clothes and junk!! hahaha voting in Aus, we wear next to nothing because it's HOT AS FCK!! and those ballot papers are meters wide too they're probably asking for help haha! Oh wow that pack of beef mince for $6 4 years ago is now $9 today and beef started tasting weird so stopped buying it, btw cigarettes are already $50 for a 20 pack, so glad i quit when they were $13, although the old woman behind me smokes and it goes right into my bedroom wtf do i do. Remember the toilet paper hoarders? I was living in a country town and a bus from sydney full of asians, came in and bought up all the toilet paper. And as a kid used to ride my bike in the streets with a gum tree branch in my hand just to try to keep the magpies from swooping me!! GREAT VID!

Road trains are so much fun to pass. They are limited to 100 kph, the speed limit is usually 110kph. But the roads are usually good, flat and straight.

You can't imagine a hot Christmas and new years. My Christmas and new years are always hot. I am not trying to imagine a cold snowing Christmas and new years. Voting pic: probably a family with the parents teaching kids about Voting.

When that decoration moves you know it’s real, huntsman spider it is

I love your fascination with our country. Keep the videos coming 🦘🍿🇦🇺

Yeah the cardboard drones are real! 😮 Hard to detect.

As a young 6-7 year old a magpie swooped and pecked some of my hair. I ran all the way home to my mother. Former British PM lived in Australia for a while and remembers swooping magpies. I I once saw a large dominant magpie being territorial and pecking a smaller magpie almost to death.

The doll is aimed at people who have Down Syndrome, someone who looks like them. I think it's brilliant and about time. All other members of society have dolls that resemble them, so it's a good thing 😍👌

My favourite 12-year old almost lost an eye to a Magpie back when she went to preschool. Wound about 1/2 cm from her eye. She still remembers the event. But the thing to remember about magpies, is they remember faces, so if they don't like you, they will pick you out of a crowd. If they do like you, they might introduce you to their offspring.

We have loads of voting places…this is obviously close to a beach. Why not - vote then hit the beach. BTW Quokkas (the marsupial) - is a girl - it has a Joey in her pouch.

A young boy coming to or from school was terrorised by a magpie.He rode his bike onto the road to get away from it and sadly was killed by a car! Magpie’s are dangerous in the mating season!

There's a lightbulb by the spider. Gives you the scale. A few inches. Not your head.

Where the magpie sign is, is where someone died due to a magpie swooping… true story

Man, that crocodile must be nearly 20ft long!

Its funny about the cigarettes, it has been mildly effective at stopping smoking but it has created a booming black market that is accessible to all pretty much.

One year at a poling both I decided to number every box(there were a lot of boxes) my husband decided I was taking too long to do this so took my ballot and put one number in and said now lets go.

1:15 Is that Sweetheart? For the non-Aussies here: Sweetheart was a crocodile nortorious for boat attacks in the Northern Territory in the 1970's

Got woken up by a kookaburra this morning. They must be returning to the suburbs now that autumn is here.

The funny thing is I mentioned recently to my family that some people you talk to (overseas) will not come to Australia because of the snakes and spiders, but little do they know about The Magpies during nesting season😳. It becomes like a scene from a Hitchcock Movie🐨🦘🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛

I've seen a huntsman with the leg span wider than a dinner plate

The drones are manufactured by Australian company SYPAQ and cost around US$3,500 ($5,300). Australia has been supplying Ukraine with 100 of the drones per month from March this year, according to the Australian Army Defence Innovation Hub.6 Sept 2023 How Australian-made cardboard drones can shape Ukraine war

That first photo is pointing towards east. Perth is to the west. East coast gets the best ocean sunrises and the west coast (Perth) gets the best sunsets.

"It looks like a criminal" Proceeds to read description 💀

Hi Ryan.I smoked for 26years then in1992 they bought my home state of Queensland in line with pricing in southern states. I used to smoke 2.5 packs of HORIZON 50's at$4.60 a pack.Then they increased them to $6.20 a packs that's why I gave up.Those same 50's packs when I Last checked were $99.90.Do your sums as that is about $600 a year to nearly $13000 now.

Sydney bonfire! Yep, lit bridge! Crococlock! Huntsman handfull! Chucky's Baby! 🤐 That's Mrs Quokka! Don't drop that! Yes we designed and donated them paper drones, light and lethal, and Bushmasters, etc, anything in the cause of safety! Check out Aussie trucks and road trains! Magpies made that sign! 😁

Fing hilarious, great description of a d's kid. I know you meant well. Cheers Aussie James

Google "cardboard drones for Ukraine" and you will see how cool they are, made here in Melbourne they are "Origami of death" and like ikea are flat packed.

That spider is no decoration. Some people call them a wall puppy. It's a huntsman spider. More scared of you than you are of it

The cardboard Corvo drone takes an hour to assemble with glue and rubber-bands. The "Precision Payload Delivery System" is backed with sophisticated software and has been donated to Ukraine by the Australian government

It may be the last time you ever see fireworks over the Sydney Harbour bridge and other famous landmarks as there is a serious move to drone shows.

Yes the cardboard drone is true. They were sent over as flat pack can't detect on radar, quiet, cheap.

Pasture raises minced meat costs $20-22 per kg here in oz. I saw recently organic filet steak for sale at $99 a kilo. Our aussie dollar in the 60s was valued at 30% more than the US$, today the situation has been reversed. Thanks to privatisation we've been selling Ausralia off to the highest bidder at cutthroat prices for decades. Happy days.

Research on smoking said that NEW smokers (especially children) were price sensitive. Hence, Australia has been pricing cigarettes out of the range of new smokers on lower incomes

Why do you think the mother Quaka is a him? To be fair, the magpies don’t swoop if they consider you a regular part of the territory they built their nest in (they only swoop in breeding season). If you just walk on your feet around the area several times a week, they aren’t worried that you’re going to hurt their babies

Any other Aussies look at that stack of Woolies groceries and see things they buy regularly?

In Magpie season you see people riding their bikes with one hand, looking back and forward At The Same Time, hunching their head down into their shoulders and waving one arm in the air as they ride. Then you see the Maggie 🦅 swooping them again and again till the hapless bike rider is out of their territory.

Spider on the centre left you can see a light, off that size the spider looks about 3 inchers, a small one, most you see are around 4 to 5 inchers

magpies can be dangerous but I have around 30 living close to me. At least 10 of them regularly use my birdbaths in the back yard. There are probably five I can walk within a metre of without them flying off but some of this years fledglings are not used to me yet.

Magpies are always aggressive in the towns because usually kids mess with them. i have never had a bad experience with them out of town, in fact they form super trusting friendships and remember faces and are fun to watch and interact with.

Family members of mine get those chinese branded packs of ciggy for like $20 - who knows what they put in those cigarettes.

I am Australian but was swooped by a bird walking along the riverbank in Milwauke.

Sadly a few years back a mother was walking in a park up the road with her baby with a front baby harness, when a magpie started swooping, she panic, in her attempt to get away from the bird she fell over and crushed her baby to death 😢

Huntsman spiders are friendly and very helpful in the house especially if you have pets..... fleas disappear that spider is verry good with all kind of annoying insects. I had one in my house for a very long time.

The mince (ground beef) has actually dropped to $5.50 down from the $6 shown

In Australia we don’t have a hunting for sport thing going on unless you mean rabbits. We don’t have large animals to hunt even kangaroos ( the biggest) you need a license to cull. Even crocodiles are usually caught live not hunted. So no need for guns for hunting. Many farmers use guns to shoot injured cattle and sheep but the average person does not usually have access to guns. Road trains are spectacular to see but to get past one takes forever. The magpies are a real problem because they swoop without notice, ( hence the sign) they go for your eyes and head very scary and persistent , can go on for 100 metres with no escape from them. Good on the people who feed them etc… and make friends with them but the sign is for people who don’t live in their area and are unaware that they can be violent.

Looks like a Wolf Spider but definitely real. She's big, but I've got bigger ones hanging around. The Wolf spiders I get will rise up like a snake and bare its fangs when trying to cup it, the Huntsman is pretty laid back and just waits for the cup to cover it. I never kill them, it just feels wrong, but show me a smll black spider and I'm out with the spray

The trouble is when the Government introduces seriously high taxes on still legal products like cigarettes the other major problem it causes is high end crime ( remember the prohibition on alcohol in the USA early last century) because at the moment as we speak there is the criminal underworld here in Melbourne in Victoria state breaking into and setting on fire tobacco and vape shops by crime gangs just about every night it seems as they want to control the illegal out of control black market on cigarettes as the retail price is so high that it spawns the sale of smuggling in to Australia literally millions upon millions of cigarettes for the black market and the Victoria and Federal Police are like a dogs chasing their tails, they don’t know where to start as the crime syndicates use under age youths to do a lot of their initial dirty work also as they generally are too young to be charged or they get off on bail multiple times with just a slap on the wrist with a wet tram ticket, so unfortunately raiding the taxes to try and stop people smoking really just doesn’t work like a lot of other things in this world, if people stupidly want to slowly kill themselves smoking I reckon let them do it as the massive crime at the moment both in Melbourne and rural towns to businesses at the moment is the byproduct of these governmental decisions which clearly is not working, obviously there is big money to be made by the underworld to diversify into tobacco as well as their drugs

You dare you,,,that’s not an ugly baby ,,,,it’s my school photo

I know of an alcoholic who spends $600 a fortnight on cigarettes, $300 on booze a fortnight, $50 a fortnight on food and the rest of his money is rent and utilities

basically his reaction to the first four dayummmm, DAAYUMMM, DAYYUUMMMMM!!!!!!!, DDDDDDDDAAAAAAAAYYYUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMNNNNN!!!!!!!!

That spider was a mediam size huntsman

It’s a huntsman spider and they grow HUGE

As a non smoker it doesn’t matter how expensive cigarettes are or become. Food is more important. When you compare the price of food to cigarettes, food is cheap.