My whole city is mildly interesting. It’s quite pretty except the outer suburbs and tourists often ask me “is there anything to do here”? Yes, go to the Gold or Sunny Coast. ❤️ from Brissy.
i had to use a payphone after totalling my car in the middle of the bush - managed to limp it to the nearest town, then had to use the free payphone to call a taxi to get me to the airport to get a hirecar so i could get the rest of the way home. Definitely an important service, if not technically a lifesaver. They also provide free WiFi, but I think you might have to be a Telstra customer to access it.
I don’t know who’s more insane, those who think the earth is flat or those who think someone should be imprisoned over a victimless opinion. Sorta leaning towards the latter
@@dylanzrim3635 if it weren´t for many many people instrumentalizing and capitalizing on such "opinions" I would agree... But I don´t, so off to Fakestralia with ya :) (jk)
The pay phone for free is great as they make no money off of them and cost more to gather the money or dispose so someone smart just made them free. Iwish they had that 20yrs ago when I was drunk trying to get home at 3am and getting my mum to pick me up and drop me off at my house she is the best mum ever.
Halloween is only a recent thing here in Australia . I never heard of it growing up , and some Aussies lately put up some related decorations if want to be involved .
Ian is about that only American that pronounces Melbourne correctly! Saw you on another video taking about a guy there hoisting an F1 car to his penthouse. Perfect pronunciation, as its kinda pronounced "Mel-ben". Well done!
Last time I was up at a place called Aberfeldy in the high country of Victoria there was a pay phone there. Just did a quick Google search and it's still there. It's freaking amazing as there's not really anyone out there, and it's not easy to get to. I'm not even sure you can get there without a 4x4. It's really weird. The only thing I can think of is there may not be any mobile coverage up there and they need it for emergencies.
Ian, you keep saying it’s very hot here, but the heat is mainly in the red centre and the further north you go, the higher the temperatures, but generally, Australia has a similar temperature range to the US, because we cover a very similar latitude and longitude, it’s just that we’re south of the Equator while you’re north of it.
6:09 we don't have the red and yellow dye that the US does, they are illegal to be used in foods made here. The dyes are classed as a cancer causing chemical
I used to work for the company that operates the payphones, if you look carefully you'll also see the wifi logo on a small link box sticking out the top of the payphones ....yes they are also wifi hotspots
8:00 Fun fact. When I lived in Far North Queensland ten years ago, there was a public phone in the village near where I lived, and one in the community further down the road. You couldn't use coins in the phone. You had to buy a phone card from the local store if you wanted to make a call. Why? Because in remote areas where there isn't surveillance or lots of witnesses, phone booths that took cash were a gold mine for travelers or locals short on cash. Making them free was a wise economical decision with respect to maintenance and repair by Telstra.
I know the chances of this comment being seen are slim, but 8:28 I don't see this mentioned often re: payphones, so maybe it's not hugely common knowledge, but the payphones (with the Wi-Fi symbol on top anyway) are dual purpose in that they also provide "free" Wi-Fi "hubs" to anyone with a Telstra account number. I haven't been with Telstra in years, and stopped working for them even longer ago, so there may be other options regarding the Wi-Fi that I'm currently unaware of, but this is how they (Telstra) initially repurposed them.
5:21 One time when it was so hot it was around 50,49 or 48° in Sydney with been hearing popping sounds on a tin roof and when my sister got out to the backyard to check, what was popping it was spiders that got killed by the heat, and the spiders were actually dangling down while it was dying from there the heat
4:00 interesting point about the 'Australia' shape - this is what most people will draw when asked to draw Australia, as people will generally leave out Arnhem land at the top! (I found this out at university when we were given an activity to do, and as a teacher I've tested it on students and other teachers many times). For some reason even Aussies will do the Kimberlies and Cape York in the north, but mangle the NT in between.
Not only are those "payphones" free but they are also Wi-Fi hotspots. So if you have no internet signal you can use the wi-fi if you are in range of the phone.
1:50 I'm relatively old when it comes to Freddo Frogs. I still remember the original chocolate Freddos that looked like the Australian Rocket Frog, and you could eat the back legs first, and then the front legs, and then work your way up the body from either end. No fillings. Just chocolatey frog goodness. Then they changed the frog! They turned it into some bizarre cartoon character that was looking at you as you ate it! And then they gave it INTESTINES! In the form of caramel or raspberry or some other sick, intestine-looking colour. My chocolate frog became a gut-ooze-filled monstrosity that nightmares were borne from.
Our neighbour was bitten by a white tail spider while checking his mail. Most of his hand is now missing. I now live in QLD and honestly thought those things were only found down south. Salt mine - that rectangular building directly in front of the salt looks like a ship container.
I got bitten once when a White Tail got me on ankle above my work boot. The bite left a 20c coin blister pop & cleaned with alcohol / betadine & only to learn how bad it could have been.
I’ve been bitten three times on the same foot by a white tail & it’s not fun 😅 Twice on the same day while attending an outdoor event a few years ago. I had deep small ulcer-like sores that took months to heal & itched like hell for a long time. I still have bruise-like discolourations/scarring. The third time was a few weeks ago. Healed a lot quicker but still left a “bruise”. I think the severity of your reaction depends on whether you’re allergic? 🤷🏼♀️ Anyway, I know I’m lucky & I wish they’d leave me alone, I’ve had my turn…3 times 🤬😂
Lived on over 5 acres of bush here in Western Australia with lots of sand & water, so lots of #7 (Western Australian Tiger Snake) & a few #14 (Dugite - Spotted Brown Snake). It was an interesting life trying to avoid each other. Lost quite a few pets along the way too - with one notable survivor.
My man. A fellow named Mc Robertson ran a chocolate business. He had an 18-year-old kid who was his mould maker. He asked the boy to make a chocolate mouse. The boy told him that women and children might be afraid of mice, so he suggested to his boss, maybe we should make a frog. That was the birth of Freddo frog, 93 years ago. The company is now owned by Cadbury. Amazing story. Tasmania is not there because we call the place, “Melbourne’s apple storage.” (They’re big on apples but you can’t buy a decent apple on the island, coz they export all the good ones.) Must do a trip to Australia number two. 😹
Tasmania governed Melbourne before 1850! My family grew apples in the Huon Valley and exported them to Europe, unfortunately the market ended and closed in 1971, most of the apple orchards were flattened for other farming! The Apple Isle apple market is a pale imitation of pre 1970s, flowers are the biggest export now! Bilpin & Orange in NSW still grow a lot of great apples!
Wow an eastern diamond back is less deadly than a red bellied black snake, I see them in my yard regularly. A long handled shovel usually sorts them out pretty quickly.
Starbucks didn't do well here because their coffee isn't nearly as good as ours and we have many coffee shops all over the place, they just couldn't compete
That 100s and 1000s Freddo Frog was from the EU. Did you notice the weight thing on the bottom front of the pack? So Australia may not have them. And on the TShirt of the boyfriend who spilled the beer, there is even Kangaroo Island!
Pay phones are still here by law as not everyone has a mobile phone or at minimum a charged phone. They are also free due to cost of cleaning the cash out. Pink phones are also wifi hubs
FAIRY BREAD is Australia's national birthday party fare. It's a slice of white bread with butter and 100s&1000s sprinkled all over. that slice must then be cut into quarters for little hands😜
Those are sea salt ponds mines. We have I believe 5 of those in Australia. Those vary in size, but the big ones are just massive and the salt mountains can be 30-50m high.
How many pay phones is there in Australia, Australians will be able to make free calls from public pay phones across the country under a new Telstra initiative. Standard national calls and SMS from Telstra’s network of more than 15,000 pay phones will be made free from Tuesday, while pay phones will become completely coinless from 1 October. But consumers will still have to pay for overseas calls.
That world map actually exposes a secret hidden in plain sight. Remember when Australia II won the Amercias Cup race? Now you know how that boat was named...
The pay phones are legal requirement put on the telecommunications. They are free because it costs more to pay someone to empty the coin holder than it costs for free phone calls.
How big was the fatberg in London? In September 2017, Thames Water made a horrifying discovery in a sewer below Whitechapel: the fatberg, a 250 metre long, 130 tonne mass of oil and grease congealed with wet wipes and other sanitary products . It's the largest ever discovered, and the Museum of London wants to put it on display. When was the first fatberg discovered? The word “fatberg” was coined in 2008, but only rose to prominence in 2013 when utility firm Thames Water discovered a 15-tonne blockage in London's sewers. By 2017, the portmanteau had been added to the Oxford English Dictionary, so clearly it has caught people's imaginations.
I’m Catholic and almost none of my Catholic friends celebrate halloween, because we our focus is on the religious side, All Saints Day and All Souls Day. There’s no room for celebrating any distortions. It’s also not a thing to go door to door. The first year we moved here, back in 1981, we had a couple of kids come to our door for candy, but we told them we don’t do halloween. No one has come since then. It’s also not a safe practice for children in today’s society.
public phones also have a number i have a bunch fo them stored in my phoen because my mum always rings me when they are treckig nabout jsut for fun haha
0:28 There is also Greenland, Iceland, Madagascar the Philippines, Indonesia & the continent Antarctica missing🦧...& What a joke of a "map". also dozens of important Islands but if i had to list em i would sit here all day.
This is different! 😁 (No Tasmania! 😁😉) Bizarre, one Australia is enough, more floods today! 🧐 Chocolate, Freddo's Frogs! 🤩 Rock of refuse! 💩 Rock of Australia! 👍🇦🇺 Real Stock, Campbell's!! 😯 WA dry and hot, asbestos gloves! 🥵 Gummy worms, yes, Australia uses less chemicals! 👍 Payphones, are still around in case of emergencies! 🤗 Starbucks, commit coffee suicide, in that missing country, down under! 😂 Woollies, cup holders, preventing spills in Aisle 3! 🔊 T shirt!? 😏 Halloween! 😛 USA section, hoho! 😳 Banksia bark, great for art/craft projects! 😄 21 snakes, yeah world record! 🤩 Clean out the pantry! 😩 KFC, c'mon thru mate! 👍😁😊
This is so funny to me, every time I come across this: no equivalent > mars bar (in US) mars bars (everywhere except US) > milky way (in US) milky way (everywhere except US) > wunderbar (in US) wunderbar (Canada, Germany) > star bar (in US and some others)
@8:34 well surprising here they are still people in AU that don't have mobile phones or even a landline so they reply on these ex-pay phones. Edit: Just my suburb we have like 3 of these phone.
sad story is that in larger cities throughout the western world they make a comeback because of poverty. With social projects installing free phones and USB charging ports where people would actually need it because more and more people cant afford the calls or dont have the opportunity to charge phones.
My missus is a chef. But if she was Mexican and a good cook I wouldn't eat Macca's either mate. Lol I don't now. But I'd love to eat good Mexican food on a regular basis.
It always amuses me when people call them Malteasers... look again... it's Maltesers...for some reason or another the manufacturer omitted an "a" in the branding.
Starbucks failed because they didn't understand the coffee culture already in Australia, we've already have the best coffee from Europe and Starbucks just couldn't compete.
So, how many Starbucks are there in Australia? As of 2021, there are now only 58 total Starbucks stores across Australia! For comparison, the US has some 11,962! Queensland 24 (36%) A location for every 216,458 people, in Queensland with about 36% of the total number of Starbucks locations New South Wales 24 (36%) A location for every 340,542 people, in New South Wales with about 36% of the total number of Starbucks locations Victoria 19 (28%) A location for every 350,632 people, in Victoria with about 28% of the total number of Starbucks locations
Ha ha ha….. I so hate huntsman spiders. Your reaction is exactly how I feel every time I find one. Thankfully I’ve never found one in the pantry. Knock on wood…. And I hope I never do.
That first part is interesting with the map of the world? Just goes to show that you can't trust people that are supposed to be smart especially people that create maps of the world lol! Question everything people you might get a surprise?
I dont think it was stuck there cos off the sun , look at roof out side the window , i have been 50 degrees going too Perth and i dont think that could happen mate
