American Reacts to Things You Can Only See In Australia 🇦🇺 

Hats off to you - you're the only American I've ever heard pronounce "Melbourne" correctly. Bloody grouse mate !

They got you with the weather rock. First lesson when dealing with us Aussies, someone could be taking the mick.

I feel it's worth mentioning that some of these were limited-time/temporary promotional items. The faces on the tic tacs were temporary, for example. And the miniature food items from Coles. That's a limited-time promotion they run sometimes. For every $30 you spend during that time period, you get a mini plastic toy of a food item they sell. Complete with brand name and all. I keep mine lined up in my kitchen window.

The tree in the Daintree @8:20 is a "Strangler Fig" Technically it is not a tree, but a vine. The vine grows up around a tree, which it then kills by stealing nutrients / sunlight. The dead tree then rots away leaving the vine standing on it's own. Result, what you see in the picture.

Haha did not expect Wollongong to show up on here, especially for that bloody tree. It was just a local council art project that most people ended up either not liking or thinking it was a waste of half a million bucks.

South Australia had the deposit scheme for empty bottles 40 years before New South Wales thought it was a good idea and copied us. After rubbishing us about it for years I might add.

Ive never heard an American pronounce Australia so close to how we actually say it. Fuckin oath mate 👍👌

I live in South Australia. We have had empty can and bottle refunds since 1977. The rest of the country didn't start doing it until 35 years later (Northern Territory - 2012 / New South Wales - 2017 / Australian Capital Territory and Queensland - 2018 / Western Australia - 2020) Tasmania and Victoria do not have a empty can and bottle refund, however it is proposed from 2022 and 2023 respectively.

Ian hasn’t heard of Solo. We better send his family some soon! 😃🙃

The Paramedics on road bikes in Victoria is a great idea. When rushing to a vehicle accident to dodge through traffic to save the patients life, and get them prepped for the Ambulance later, just makes alot of sense!

10:04 South Australia has had Recycling Centres that honour the container deposit scheme, It was started back in the mid to late 70's In Adelaide by a man named Alby Rawlings Who owned Daws Road Recycling Centre, His son Nev is now at the helm.Now there's over a hundred yards and many businesses in SA serving the Adelaide community in its recycling needs. The incentive is good for the consumer, the environment, and for the economy here. and the other states have gotten onboard in recent years.The Auto sort tech you see has only come in to Australia in the last 5-10 years. It used to be a 5c deposit, but after legal battles with coke Recyclers SA won and it went up to 10c. That was ages ago now, Its a multi - tier industry with multiple specialised recyclers. Its all about Sustainability.

Love how Sydney gets the credit for having 10c refund for recycling. It's only a recent thing there, South Australia and N.T have been doing it for decades.

The road with no parking is for the flying doctor to land

And there are towns in Australia (eg, Stanthorpe, Queensland) that actually get a lot of hail due to the high amount of granite rock in the area. Granite attracts lightening. Crops around Stanthorpe all have hail-netting over the entire crops to protect them due to the consistent hailstorms. During the summer season, you can easily expect hail in every storm, and especially in a La Niña weather pattern year. Great vids by the way! 😎

You gotta see the old Solo commercials! You gotta crack a Solo! Solo! Light on the fizz, so you can slam it down fast! "Solo Man ad, Australia 1995"

Literally hailed yesterday in Sydney. We even had a tornado warning. Looks like we're heading into a La Nina summer, so it'll be cool, wet, and stormy. Much less threat of major bushfires, which is good.

the tree in the daintree was a strangler fig. it grows up another large tree like vines to get to the sunlight quickly. then over the years it kills the original tree and becomes a large tree itself.

The Coles miniature items were a limited time collection a couple of years ago.

Sa has had 10c recycling for years. Started out as 5c, rest of oz are still behind us on that but slowly catching on.

Depending on where you are, the fire danger sign is different, sometimes code red is called Catastrophic and I think on some signs there's a code black after the code red. Considering the really big fires we had a few years ago started in late August which is the tail end of winter for us, I wouldn't be surprised if some day the signs lose low-moderate and just start at high

Our Snowy Mountains actually get quite a bit of snow. Thredbo, NSW held the Skiing world cup in 1989.

In NSW the fire danger for code red is actually catastrophic

2:40 The emergency airstrip is primarily for the use of our Flying Doctor Service which serves much of outback Aus.

that NO PARKING air strip is a runway for the Royal Flying doctors service. I know of 2. One is between Adelaide and Alice springs and the other is between Perth and Adelaide. South Australia has had a bottle return cash system since the 70's and Florida dose have a city of Melbourne, its the birth place of Jim Morrison from the Doors.

The beehive in the BBQ is gross 😂 I love that you're using Aussie terms for things, like petrol and lollies. You're definitely reaching honorary Aussie status 😊 P.S. There's a Perth in Scotland and Melbourne in Florida, so whoever put this video together has thrown in a couple of shots that have nothing to do with Australia.

In South Australia we have had a 10c refund for over 30years...

Hi Ian! I live in Wollongong and the palm tree was covered with mesh around the root ball so it could transported. They were replanting it in the small sandy area below. They left them like that for a while as art installations.

You know you're Aussie when pics of hunstman come on, and you spend the next 2 minutes looking around to make sure there's none watching RU-vid with you 🤣

I think whoever put this together saw Perth and Melbourne and just included them. As someone has said, Perth WA as named after Perth in Scotland and Melbourne Florida is near Orland (it has Melbourne Orlando International Airport).

There was a big hail storm in Sydney last night 😂 It collapsed a roof of a major shopping centre. Sydney also has paramedics on motorbikes as well as a tiny Smart car ambulance. These vehicles are designed to get through city traffic and navigate the light rail train lines in the central business district to ensure the quickest response to emergencies.

Congratulations Ian on your pronunciation of Australian place names. I've never heard better from anyone not born here. You must have done a lot of research and practice.

Tree is a strangler fig. Fig tree starts growth up in the canopy then sends roots towards the ground. Eventually fig overcomes host tree and host rots away leaving a "tunnel " in the middle. One can go inside the tunnel and see daylight through it. Common in our tropical and subtropical rain forests. Birds drop seeds up high to start the process.

That is a strangler vine in Queensland. It grew up around a tree and killed it. The tree rotted away only leaving the vine.

The bbq with bees on it, brilliant, I guess it really is a Bee Bee Que ? Right 😄 A Bee Y O Bee 🤣 Ok I’m done

Hey Ian, another thing, the coles mini items (Promo'd as Coles mini shop) was a limited time thing. Woolworths (being the other major grocery powerhouse) had similar promotions for collectibles. It was very stupid, and some people were paying thousands for rare versions to finish their collections for something made in china for 2 cents. I'm hoping these promos don't come back but as it stands they are still doing it. The latest as of today is that Woolworths is doing a promotion where you get mini lego kits for every $x spent (not sure what coles is doing at the moment but i'm sure it's something similar.

Quick story from Sydney, 1998. i was in the tiny backyard of the terrace house I lived in in Darlinghurst, and I heard the strangest noise coming from the South. It grew in volume, and I honestly wondered if it was a spaceship, as it was unlike anything I'd ever heard before, it was loud, pulsing, and it was getting closer. Then the hailstones hit and I stepped inside. They were large, some the size of tennis balls, and the sound I heard was them hitting tin roofs as they drew nearer. I went out the front to see what was happening in the street, saw the back window of a hatchback get smashed in. Someone was walking with an umbrella, and I yelled at them to get under cover. They ducked under someone's front veranda. 1 billion dollars in damages that night. Many houses in my street had tarps over the roofs to stop water coming in, mine too. Nature sure gave us a reminder what she was capable of that night.

We also have a town called Perth here in Tasmania, as well as Bagdad, ( Spelled without the h between the d ) Jordan River and The Walls Of Jerusalem which is a rock formation.

The supermarkets run different collecting promotions from time to time. Currently, woollies are doing a bricks (lego) promotion that create a mini supermarket using the bricks, there are 40 packs to collect, you get a pack for every $30 you spend. So if you do a $150 shop you would get 5 packs.

South Australia has been doing the bottle/cans recycling since 1977. Some other states are slowly following SA now though so that’s good 🙂

majority of fire danger rating boards refer to "code red" as "catastrophic", school gets cancelled, everyone preps their homes or evacuates just to be safe, can be very scary when something happens.

We actually had hail yesterday! A tornado too (our second one in 2 weeks), which is not that common, especially in NSW.

My daughter works in the city and saw that seal (pre lockdown) when she went for her lunchtime walks. Ian, your were correct the first time with Mount Isa and we had hail yesterday and maybe more today in Sydney

Just to touch on the fire danger rating, Victoria and the Adelaide Hills are some of the most fire prone areas on earth due to our environment landscape and weather patterns. There is a very well done documentary on RU-vid ( abc black Saturday bushfires documentary - whophd ) that shows what the world was like on black Saturday in Victoria. Watch in your spare time if you’d like to learn a lot about Victoria Australia and what the people are like here. Love your content and your beautiful family all the best and stay safe

When you realise huntsmans are basically ya little mate killing all the other dangerous insects in your dwelling they really do become endearing little freaky buggers 😂🤣 I barely bother relocating them these days anymore. They are territorial so won't just get out of control if you leave them.

There is a melbourne in Florida and a Perth in Scotland. I’m guessing the people who made the video just did google searches with no research. Most the things on the list are once off, or rare. Like the mini food thing was probably a promotional thing like 15 years ago

😂 Watching your video before I jump online to order some new roof sheeting after a hailstorm hit Sydney yesterday. Thank goodness it only damaged the front verandah. Two hailstorms in one day was a bit much Australia!! 😅

My dear old Dad used to say , if you want to know the Weather , stick your head out the window , if you get wet , it's raining , Son . A wise man .

The Potato Vending machine is correct. Perth, Scotland (not Western Australia) -just a little way north of Edinburgh. Not sure why the OP put it in the video that you're reviewing. And yes Ian, there IS a Melbourne in Florida. About 30 miles north of Vero Beach. Surprised you didn't know that :D

Geez, that recycling station is too much hard work, we have a drive-through one here in Brissy where you pull up inside the shed, pop the boot and a guy comes and takes all your stuff, counts it, brings you your cash and you drive out the other side...you don't get out of your car at all!

Not even summer yet, and weve had two hail storms in south west syd already this year ! not huge hail, but still aint fun.

Huntsman can grow to the size of a regular dinner plate once you get about 100km from the coast. While they are not poisoness thet are capable of causing injuries. People have been know to jump out of their cars while the car is still moving and heart attacks. A lot of different Olympic records get broken when Huntsman's scare the crap out of people. While spiked hail doesn't happen often, hail the size of golf balls up to and including softball size happen all the time. In South Australia we have had places called bottle O's (not to be confused with a place to purchase alcohol) where you recycle bottles/cans/milk cartons and recieve money. There are some people who earn hundreds of dollars a week doing it.

There are or were tic-tacs with the faces that were also yellow and had Simpson's faces on them. Our video games have all the same ratings as movies. That's a kind of new thing though. Video games used to have ratings like G and G8+. Now everything is rated E for everyone which is usually or always a rating for documentaries, G, PG, M, M15, MA15 and R18. Getting 10c for recycling bottles and cans is a thing in a bunch of places. South Australia where I live also gives you 10c for recycling bottles and cans.

I've lived in QLD for 33 years, small hail we might see every year or two, the larger spikey hail I've seen a few times of various sizes, maybe 5 times in my life around golf ball size, once closer to tennis ball size, which smashed roof tiles, and once baseball size which came through the roof, pretty scary when happening!

I recommend watching jimmy Rees video’s on the COVID situation in Australia, he has done about 30 and they last for about 6mins and there basically a comedy of all the things going on in Australia told by each state’s perspective, I definitely recommend it!

9:38 My man correcting the crisp wording to chips. Fucking legend

The bus stop is in the US, the phone number on the pole for “junk cars” is definitely not from Melbourne, Australia

looks like whoever did this video Ian, didnt actually check some of their pictures to realise melbourne, florida is not in australia :-), so probably wasnt an australian who did this video.

I have a family of gnarly lizards that live in my backyard and have migrated up to my 2nd storey back verandah. It's taken months but they know me now and happily crawl up my legs and sit in my lap. I'm actually kinda freaked out by reptiles but they've helped me overcome my fear through the cuddles. They're so friendly and I've never even fed them.

I'm on the Gold Coast in Queensland Australia 🇦🇺 and mate we just had golf ball sized hail 2 days ago 😀 it happens frequently here it's normal people put mattresses and blanket on their cars for protection and put a bucket out the back for the free ice 🧊

Fun fact: Most desert areas will freeze at night in winter. The only reason you don't usually see ice is because the humidity is usually to low the further inland you go. Even in warmer states, it will regularly drop below freezing every night for a few weeks at least. It has occurred far less recently, winters are not as cold as they used to be.

Theres 2 Perth’s in australia. One is the city I’m WA & the other is a little town in TAS

Trees in Wollongong were put there as art to get more people to walk through Crown Street Mall

It gets cold on a crisp clear night in winter, we don't get snow in most of the country but we get moisture turning into frost and ice. Sometimes if you get up very early in the morning at first sign of dawn, you can see grassy fields looking white from the ice.

i used to walk past that wobbly building on my way to university every day - the white squares are indeed also windows, the light is just reflecting off them funny. It’s called the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building and it’s owned by UTS, one of Sydney’s major universities!

Also 2 more things you only get in Australia...my husband and I get our vegemite from Costco where you can get it in 950g buckets :) Also, Dominos have recently bought out a vegemite and cheese pizza. Im yet to try it however I do love my vegemite so I will at some point :)

Ian, loved your reaction to the weather rock. You cracked me up.

The criss-cross tree roots is a strangler fig. Birds drop seeds in a niche in the tree, it grows and sends roots down to the ground, eventually strangling the original tree, leaving the hollow inside the roots as seen in the photo. 😀

8:18 is a Strangler Fig in the rain forest. You can actually climb up inside them. These trees are seeded in the upper branches of a rain forest giant and then they send their aerial roots down the trunk to the ground. They eventually encircle the host tree and kill it. The host then rots out and leaves a pipe. The pipe can be over 30 metres in height. You climb all the way up inside it then poke yourself out of a hole and on to the upper branches where all the orchids and epiphytes live. Fun times.

There is a Perth in Scotland and Melbourne in Florida. I'm guessing the creator of the vid made a boo boo. Also we get hail all the time but normally very small like the size of a m&m or smaller

That building is known as the brown paper bag which is said to have been the inspiration for it. It's a part of the University of Technology Sydney I believe and is called the Dr Chau Chak Wing Building

One thing you can only taste in Australia is Solo. In the very early '80s, the maker of Solo (Schweppes) decided to test market a version of it in the SW United States. It was called Rondo. The tagline in the ads was "Rondo. The thirst crusher!". I'm pretty sure the writers of Idiocracy called on memories of that for their "Brawndo! The thirst mutilater!" line. It only lasted a few years in the US and I do miss it. If I ever visit Australia, I'm getting a sixer of it.

Return and earn is still relatively new in New South Wales. When it reached 1 year in 2018 they reported that they had collected nearly a billion drink containers, leading to a record reduction in litter volume across NSW. Eligible drink container litter volume was down by 44%. I’m a librarian and we do blind date with a book for borrowing. It is VERY popular. We include the genre and a couple of points with the general gist. Another version we do is we write just the first sentence of the book.

I'm from Wollongong and the suspended trees in the outdoor mall were some weird council project. Some of them ended up falling down and last time I was there there was one just laying on it's side in the middle of the footpath 😂

Few of these things were just special event items during special periods. They are not always common. KFC Tabasco, was part of a limited time meal deal Cole's Mini Groceries. Was a special deal. Woolworths does it too, right now a the time of this, they are doing a PsudoLego thing where you get Woolworths Supermarket blocks and its like 1 block or a pack of scatter items for each 30$ you spend. Tictaks with Faces - Limited Edition item. Tbh though, if your Supermarkets and Companies are not doing these things for their special events/promotions. Then yeah, you guys are missing out...

My sister worked for a panel beater for over 20 years. Hail damage work was their bread and butter. Its unusual in winter but certainly a regular occurrence in summer

We get smashed with hail fairly regularly. Yesterday, we got hit with a really bad storm. During storm season (Spring and Summer) we can get several storms in a year, but large hail like that is less common. It look like it snowed yesterday, my kids were so excited as they have never seen snow. Solo is like Lift, only better. They had the same weather rock in Lithgow for awhile, but it's been gone a few years now. My friends in Wollongong hate the hanging trees, LOL

At this point you should just revoke the USA residency and become a permanent resident here 😂

Great video Mr.Rocker, love hearing an American using Aussie slang! U’ve pick it up pretty well good mate 👍

The BBQ beehive probably came about when the owners went away for an extended holiday. When bees swarm, they will look for anything that is convenient for them. The weather rock is a bit of dry Aussie humour. The original Perth IS in Scotland, the one in OZ is named after it.The weird house is a semi-detached house where on owner has done up extension and painted their half a different colour. Wolf spiders are NOT dangerous but their bite can be painful, mainly because they have big fangs. In their natural habitat, usually gardens, they difficult to see. When a speed sign is posted like that, usually there is camera there as well. Huntsman spiders are HUGE, but harmless. Pretty well every year we have a season with hail, but hailstones THAT size are unusual. Hail starts out as rain and as it descends it gets frozen, then it can travel through a layer of rain where they grow and get re-frozen. This can happen a number of times as they descend and the big stones are where a number of stones have joined together like the one in the image.

Very long outback highways have designated sections along the route as emergency air strips for use by the flying doctor service. So you’re not allowed to stop on these sections even beside the road so it’s always available if a plane needs to land. Usually police will block road at each end so the plane can land, but they don’t want a stray vehicle to be stopped in the middle. So if a road ambulance has picked up a patient who needs evac they meet at the nearest one of these with the flying doctor service air ambulance. I read somewhere a while back that they are being updated with traffic lights at each end which the air ambulance can trigger on approach to stop traffic without the help of police on the ground. The whole of outback Australia is reliant on the royal flying doctor service they are absolutely an essential service. Most large properties, farms out there have two airstrips on the property. One well maintained dirt strip for the flying doctor, and a rougher less maintained one for the postal service planes which fly in once or twice a week. A great experience for you would be the mail run from say broken hill which takes passengers for day trips to help fund it, delivering mail to the remote cattle stations. I did it as a kid so was the nominated one to jump out of the plane at each stop and take the mail to their mailbox, which was usually an old refrigerator at one end of the strip. Amazing experience.

10:17 unfortunate side effect of Return and Earn (which is great way to earn a good few bucks if you hoard you recyclables) is that you usually get people who rummage through bins (train station bins) and they leave a big mess even though IT IS A VERY DANGEROUS THING TO DO. 1. they rarely wear gloves 2. there may be discarded needles or other sharps 3. it is disgusting 4. WHY ARE YOU DUMPING THE OTHER BITS OF RUBBISH ON THE GROUND!

There is in fact a Melbourne in Florida XD There's also a Perth in Scotland so gotta wonder if the person conpiling the video was just looking for keyterms and screwed up a few times

If you watch Bondi rescue you will see an even rare beehive type thing there except it’s just a bunch of bees XD also have you learn the nutbush dance :> some places do this for special events like discos and what not we all learn it in school well some places in Australia anyway -

#16 It's called a "strangler fig" and it's a vine that grows around a host tree, entangling it. The host tree eventually dies, and the fig remains. There are numerous species of stranglers, and can be found in many tropical regions around the world. #20 Refund for recycled containers is available pretty much everywhere in major settlements. #21 That indeed does not belong in this list, there is a Perth in Scotland, which is where that vending machine is (there is also a town called Perth in Tasmania). #27 This was a limited run promotion, they won't do it anymore.

Crazy weather including hail and snow yesterday, from Adelaide, through to Melbourne and over to Sydney, including hail and also a tornado! Stay safe, mate!

in melbourne its hailed twice in the last month and one of the times i got golf balls in my back yard

07:17 - 'Weather Rock' - I have a much lighter equivalent of that - which is a 'Weather String' How it works is very simple. When it swings - it is windy ---- And when it is wet it is raining

@11:07 While on the frost thing, I've seen frosts so cold that I filled a 20L container with water and through a bit of spillage while filling the little well, to fit your fingers, under the handle had ice in it by the time we got out to our worksite about half an hour later. Also I've seen ice form horizontally off a mobile phone antennae as we travelled through light mist on a bitterly cold morning

There is a Melbourne in Florida, and a Perth in Scotland. No idea what they're doing in this video.🤷‍♂️

We have one of those weather rocks hanging outside a waterfront restaurant called Longboard here in Townsville, Queensland 😁

"Length of string nailed to a board" as a weather barometer with instructions; string is limp and dry (weather is fine), string is limp and wet (weather is rainy), string is horizontal (gale force wind), string is on fire (bushfire conditions). The rock is the same humour.

Your 1st attempt at pronouncing Mount Isa was correct. As for hail, I live in Brisbane, during a normal summer, we'll get hail somewhere around the Brisbane area at least once every 1-2 weeks. For some reason, Brisbane is a magnet for super cell storms.

The driest continent is Antarctica, then followed by AU

Jindabyne is right in the heart of the Snowy Mountains and the ski resorts for winter.

The brown paper bag building is called the Chau chak wing building and is part of the university of technology in Ultimo , Sydney , it is a frank gehrey design , all the windows work and are reflective glass , it's the reflection of an overcast sky that makes some look white

The cool tree that was shown is a Strangler Fig. It grows up and around the host tree, which eventually dies and rots away, leaving the shell of the Strangler as seen in that picture.

Love the weather rock!

Ha ha, that Independence day, doesn't fool us. Didn't you know Ian? Aliens always land in the US! They never come to Australia or somewhere else like Brazil E.T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Arrival, Mars Attacks, War of the Worlds. Even our own Chris Hemsworth playing Thor lands in New Mexico. But I guess it wouldn't work if the Transformers landed in India and became tut-tuts would it?

No, there IS a Perth in Scotland, it is on the river Tay, they were known for specialised Glassware, especially High temperature "Guage glass" for steam boiler water drums. I used to replace them when I worked in the Power Department Boilers, at B.H.P. Newcastle N.S.W. and they all came from Perth Scotland.

It's nice watching someone to react to Australia without shitting on everything.