American Asks "What is This Thing Australia?" (With Answers) 🎉

[@UncleJoeLITE]

Afternoon Ian & all. _PS: Don't touch anything blue that washes up on the beach!_

[@ianwhite1858]

The bus wheel is not a training wheel, but is actually a guide for the O-bahn which is a guided busway that is part of the bus rapid transit system servicing the northeastern suburbs of Adelaide. basically a concrete track with kerbs each side for buses only. Occasionally the odd car tries and fails.

[@LucasBrown02]

👍

[@Grayhouse67]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway

[@becp488]

I knew someone would know what that was for. Cheers.

[@jamesaustralian9829]

​@@becp488 it's an Adelaide thing, and they were toying the idea of extending through the south of the Adelaide CBD for a while there, unsure if that's still on the cards or not.

[@questex4340]

And the old joke... She had legs like the O-Bahn. They went all the way to Paradise

[@fleachamberlain1905]

The creature is called a Blue Dragon. It eats Blue Bottles (Pacific Man of War) and uses the Blue Bottle venom themselves. They float at the surface where their prey also lives.

[@bgreen7286]

It is a kind of nudibranch

[@Sparky_D]

The silo looking thing in the middle of a paddock was probably part of a water pipeline for the water bore. Its basically a buffer which also allows any air bubbles to escape the line. The height of it provides enough head pressure for it to not overflow.

[@steventurner8428]

The little mobile delivery device was interesting because we don't have side walks in Australia WE HAVE FOOT PATHS !!!

[@trishnewman3122]

Or nature strip in Victoria I believe

[@alanmacpherson3225]

Plus we don't have bathrooms and elevators we have toilets and lifts.

[@fleaniswerkhardt4647]

@@alanmacpherson3225 Check any architect's plans to see Australians certainly do have bathrooms.

[@alanmacpherson3225]

@@fleaniswerkhardt4647 I was referring to the fact some people in Australia now say I'm going to the bathroom when they mean toilet. I usually say toilet or dunny.

[@bangkokstallion]

Cool kids call it a Water Closet

[@UncleJoeLITE]

The wheels on the bus are for a dedicated bus track in Adelaide called the "O-Bahn Busway". O-Bahn opened in 1986 & is closer to "full self driving" than Tesla lmao.

[@boostabuse]

The wheels on the bus....haha, it's actually the bus auto barn in Adelaide, a seperate section of road for buses only,driver sits back takes hands off wheel and cruises along.

[@Seaside5]

That'll be the O-bahn Busway in Adelaide, South Australia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O-Bahn_Busway

[@Dan-B]

Now I’m tempted to construct a monument out of random household items and leave it in a public area, just to see people be confused about what it’s for.

[@IWrocker]

Haha 😂

[@AussieLana]

🤣🤣🤣 do it! 👏👌👍✌🇦🇺🦘🐨

[@RickyisSwan]

Stick a $10 note to it with a sign, "danger do not touch" 😹😎

[@TangerineTulip]

🤣🤣🤣 that’s a great idea - make it a mission and create random “waste” art 😊 each time you’re in a different town 😊

[@glennllewellyn7369]

Do it!

[@macman1469]

West Aussie here . Never heard it called Joker Poker , everywhere I've been its Chase the Ace .

[@siryogiwan]

yeah in NSW, it's called that too

[@BarzulRei]

I live in Sydney and have worked in a few pubs, we have called it Joker Poker. Because the winner has to find the Joker, sometimes we might have a schooner (or something similar) as a prize for someone who reveals an ace.

[@nataliemay415]

I'm a vic/ nsw bartender and here we call it joker poker. Still have the old one up behind the bar where I work.

[@AussieRoni]

Aussie here and never heard of it. Has that overtaken the meat pack raffle on a Friday night. ???

[@nataliemay415]

@@AussieRoni not at the pub where I work. We still hold a meat raffle. 1st prize, $80-100 meat pack, 2nd prize a $50 BBQ pack and 3rd prize a 6pk... 1st prize differs on the time of year. We have happy hour everyday, meat raffle every month or so, 2up every Anzac day, sadly the new bar manager isn't interested in setting up joker poker again. But the board, cards, everything's still there under a glass case.

[@6226superhurricane]

that rock is where monkey came from. In the Worlds before Monkey, Primal chaos reigned, Heaven sought order. But the Phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, As endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, The moisture of the Earth, And the powers of the Sun and the Moon All worked upon a certain rock - old as Creation, And it magically became fertile. That first egg was named Thought, Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, Said, ‘With our thoughts we make the world.’ Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch, from it then came a stone Monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!”

[@kevkoala]

Hahahaha...Good Onya! I have the box set of Monkey.

[@6226superhurricane]

@@kevkoala me too

[@becp488]

I read every word, in the voice.

[@MrThomas864]

Yeah I got the box set too, love ya monkey

[@6226superhurricane]

@@becp488 did you scream monkeeeeeeeaaaahhhh after the last word.

[@tomthebadasscat]

The key safe on the boot of the car will be a car sharing club. The sticker on the back window gives it away. "SMBI Car Club"

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

It sounds very reasonable. But I have to agree with Ian that it's an odd placement, especially considering how easy it is to "pick" a combination lock. Edit: a very clever analogue way to do car sharing though, they can change combination every week and have few people that'll always know it that you can call. I would probably modify a Bluetooth smart deadbolt lock to pop the boot instead and keep the key in there... that's invisible, keeps a log and most people do have a smartphone with Bluetooth nowadays.

[@tomthebadasscat]

@@BenjaminVestergaard After I posted I searched and there is an SMBI Car Sharing Club in Redland Bay Qld.

[@unoriginalsyn]

Was coming here to explain that 😂

[@unoriginalsyn]

​@@BenjaminVestergaardit's simply so strangers can easily find and access the key, just like when you arrive at an air bnb, often the property's keys are in a lock box next to the front door 👍

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

@@unoriginalsyn yeah, I still wouldn't trust a combination lock box blindly 😄 seen too much LPL, I guess. I'd at least hide it out of sight. But yeah, as I mentioned, I would aim for a smart lock instead. The one I have for my own door is a simple Bluetooth replacement of the deadbolt handle. I got it because my daughter forgot her keys a little too often... now her phone is paired, and if utilities need access I can send a time limited link that'll work as long as they have mobile data and Bluetooth. Good thing about this smart lock solution is that there's no sign of it outside the door. No silly panel that can be broken from outside... and it works just as usual with the key.

[@top40researcher31]

Back in the late 1980's i am talking about 1988-1989 period people use to get plastic bottles fill them up with half of water and put them on their front lawns to stop dogs pooping but the concept was short lived because it didnt work so it was forgotten ever since *it just goes to show how proud that i am to be an australian.* 😄

[@TheZodiacz]

I remember my old neighbour did it when she heard about it on the radio in the mid-80s.

[@top40researcher31]

@@TheZodiacz yes it was a myth

[@fimbulsummer]

I remember that! I was in Grade 7 and I remember talking to my mum about I how I couldn’t see any logical way that it could repel dogs. I still think of it sometimes to remember that people have always been gullible.

[@top40researcher31]

@@fimbulsummer I thought it was hilarious at the time and to this very day i still do.

[@bobboberson2571]

SMBI car club is the Southern Moreton Bay Island Car Club. There's a key in there. Sh!t parking and expensive barges it makes life a little easier for the island folk.

[@maude1111]

I’m pretty sure that the small box on the back of the car is for car share access. You can essentially rent a car by the hour or day that isn’t a traditional car rental place and you collect the car from where it is parked. I’ve heard they are getting more common! Super convenient!

[@Dan-B]

That makes the most sense to me. Other than it being a poorly placed lockbox, the only other guess I had was it potentially being a tracking device put on people’s cars who are under curfew/house arrest to check where they’ve been. 🤷‍♂️

[@AmplifiedBluesHarmonica]

Had me stumped, but you make sense!! 👍🏼

[@killercoop]

Mate, is it just me, or are you actually starting to sound a bit of an aussie, and this is coming from an Australian? You are a legend, mate! 😂

[@garryfrater7536]

Yep Ian is the first Americian that doesn't make me cringe when he says G/Day.

[@Gizmo27gremlin]

The board with the cards is a common pub game in Australia called "chase the ace". When you but drinks, they give you a raffle ticket. If your ticket is drawn at the end of the night, you get to pick a card. If you manage to pick the ace you win a cash prize, between $100 and $500 at most establishments

[@rjyadventures]

Definitely fish farm near Boston Island which is near Port Lincoln. They are Tuna pens to fatten up tuna caught off shore.

[@bradheath6079]

The wheel on the bus is so it can run on Adelaide’s ‘o-Bahn’ tracks. Sort of like a rail system but made from concrete and uses these side wheels to steer the bus along the track.

[@RickyisSwan]

I think that's a different wheel. It looks too small and in the wrong position to be an Oban wheel. Others have said it's a wheel that indicates too close to the kerb.

[@cathymoss6400]

1000% it's an Obahn bus, ridden like 10,000 of them, that's absolutely what the guide wheel looks like

[@ScottEDawg]

The "training" wheel on the bus is exclusive to Adealaide busses that run on the Obahn busway.The bus is on a concrete track and the driver can let the bus steer itself as the guide wheels steer the bus. The driver still has to watch the track, but they have one less thing to do about 80% of the time. Some guy below said the wheels keep the bus away from the gutters and in a way he was right, but he was also very wrong as he didn't give the reasons for keeping the bus away from the gutter and which gutters the bus is being kept away from! Either way, the wheels on the bus still go 'round and 'round...

[@Sianistic]

the silver box in downtown is a 'resupply' point for biking postmen so they don't have to go back to the distribution centre if their route is a decent trip away, as Postie you pack your bike with what you can, and sort out the rest (ideally primarily/only paper-spam) in a number of post sacks that someone drives around dumping in their respective boxes (boxes usually either have some internal number, or are known by their address). And they're usually quite deliberately shaped for the uninitiated to be misinterpreted as some sort of electrical/telecommunication supply closet as to blend in. We have the exact same kind in Denmark, whereas here they're coloured a deep dark green, and often placed at or near hedgerows or green spaces to further blend in (and often the aforementioned supply closets are also placed in the same kind of areas) as to some sort of 'out of sight, of of mind' stealth

[@SalisburyKarateClub]

The odd wheel you saw on that bus is from the O'Bahn which is a guided track that exclusively buses use. They can get off of the track in 3 places and drive on the road. I used to drive these, I've actually have a video which I should upload and you'll see how it works. Side note I have a Renault Clio.

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

Yep, remember them when I lived in SA

[@ScottEDawg]

Yay, someone who actually KNOWS what they are! I live in the Eastern Suburbs and have all my life - I remember when the O'Bahn was introduced in the 80's!

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

I'm also the unfortunate owner of a Clio, worst car I've ever owned when it comes to doing any work on it, might be fine if you have baby size hands!

[@warwickofnorwich]

Not exclusively buses. A couple of times a year a car will try to use it. 😂

[@automation7295]

@@warwickofnorwich But even if a car will try to use it, they're still signs saying "No entry, busway buses excepted"

[@whymeeveryone]

the bus with the side wheel is for steering. The BUS is called O'Bahn. It runs on concrete rails as well the road and it started in Germany and in 1985 it came to Adelaide and it can go 100km in some parts of the track

[@way2dumb]

And is a fun ride. As well, the land underneath the overhead parts is parklands. It is fantastic fir walking the dog, riding your bike on the bike path, running etc

[@The_Slavstralian]

I think the X bottle thing is just to deter people from walking on the grass. The keypad on the Renault could be a mini safe for the key maybe its a hire car or something weird Lizard looks like a Sheoak or a 3 toed skink. It is NOT a legless lizard. the bus tire thing is to stop it wiping the side panels of the bus on gutters.

[@bkeckk]

nope on the bus wheels its the O-bahn bus Its runs on a concrete track like a train at 60mph then switches to road for the inner-city stops.

[@shaneb4612]

The Green box on the post is a Hazmat or Displan box, usually for emergency services. A Disaster Plan box (displan), shows where the hydrants, evacuation points, fall back procedure & building exits etc. A Hazardous chemical list (Hazmat), shows what chemicals are in a factory or building. My uncle was a fire chief & showed me a few boxes. Being a delivery driver owner/operator I can tell you straight up that it's not an "Over-weight" bin/box. I use to deliver the mail that the postie's couldn't carry in big yellow bags funny enough called over-weight bags. These bags are designated with a number which coincides with a run (Route),each bag or bags went to a different OW bin. They are usually red & are a lot bigger. Even in the centre of the city you have OW bins maybe a little smaller, but are red also.

[@belleriffraff]

The overweight boxes have never been red, the have always been GREEN' these were first installed during the mid 90s, when regulations about what weight the posties can carry were being enforced, due to injuries and accidents. 33years with Post.

[@shaneb4612]

@@belleriffraffI've never seen any other colour other than red & green. Most of the newer one are red. Aust Post distribution manager told me, that the OW bin/box was to be standardized red. So I assumed that most would be red. 33 Years, dedication, great work.

[@BarzulRei]

Living in Sydney, I can assure you that those green boxes are for the posties, I have seen them being filled by the postie trucks and being used by the postie's on bikes/motorcycles. And the one closest to me is green.

[@shaneb4612]

@@BarzulReiAs I stated only one's I've seen are red & green. I've not seen a lot in Sydney, TBH & haven't taken much notice when I've lived there or visited. When I worked for Aust Post in CQld, 99% of them were red. Here in SEQld I've seen more red than green. In Nth NSW I haven't taken noticed. I've not left the Nth for some time so I can't tell you.

[@kerryskee2494]

The lock box on the car is for a community car hire group. The SMBI on the back window is 'South Moreton Bay Islands'. The cars are parked at the ferry terminal at Redland Bay. Many people who live on the islands have an 'island car' and a 'mainland car'. Many don't, so join the car club.

[@adrianblackberry9327]

Mate, you're getting postal drop box and a post box mixed up. Australian suburban posties arrive at work and sort their route out in an order that they will deliver. Maybe 2000 houses and businesses to deliver up to many more 1000's in bigger cities. My husband worked like this for Australia Post 1990 to 2004. When he sorted the route and stacked his bike with that route in mind, if there was a lot of mail, a van member would deliver to this grey type of box and put his mail there for him to unlock and put on his bike so he didn't have to ride all the way back to the sorting depot in another part of Hobart. Hope that helps. Cheers, Tassie Joy

[@fringelilyfringelily391]

Glaucous are common throughout The Pacific. They feed on jellyfish and incorporate their sting cells into the tentacle, "limbs", for hunting and defence.. Their stings are uncomfortable, not deadly

[@TheCaptainbeefylog]

7:30 looks like fish traps. Tide comes in, fish come looking for food. Tide goes out and fish are trapped. Aboriginals used them all around Australia. 13:00 the legs are vestigial, just like our tailbone and appendix. Unused things we've evolved past.

[@suecottrell4003]

🤗Hubby and l sailed 👍to Port Lincoln in South Australia 👍Had to manoeuvre around a lot of these!💕Tuna and other fish 🐟 are growing in these!🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋🫶🐟🐟🐟🫶🫶🫶🫶🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟

[@jacquimott386]

1:03 our local pub does this every Friday night. It’s great. You get a meat tray for just the raffle but a (jack potting $500) for turning the joker. The pub was getting pretty full on Friday nights as the jackpot got to $10000.

[@bradheath6079]

The legless lizard they posted is known as a “three clawed worm skink”. Very common on Australia’s East Coast.

[@tanyabrown9839]

17:10 that second tyre on the bus is for the O-bahn, a special track for buses to go along. The bus can cruise along itself. Look up 0-bahn.. it's like a train track for buses. If you ever come to Sth Australia, get a bus which uses the O-Bahn so you can really check it out for yourself. Here in Sth Australia I've seen many legless lizards over the years. I think they are a type of skink lizard and they are very wiggly, they actually do also use their legs. I knew the round things in the sea were fish farms. I think with some they also do abalone, others they tuna or salmon into it. 16:55 That silo thingy I think is something which grain can be stored in. I think I've seen these (or something very like them) in old country railways.. the top hole section is where its loading into using some kind of attachment and the bottom area I think is where it's taken out from.

[@nataliemay415]

16:00 absinthe spoon, it's used to dissolve a sugar cube in a glass of absinthe to sweeten the drink.

[@altaylor3988]

In the UK it was a Fairground Game to win a Prize, a Player would pay for three Darts... Then throw the Darts at the Cards, Any card hit would be turned over...Only one card would be the winning card

[@speedyjago]

I rented a moving van through a contactless service which had a similar lockbox for the car key. The lockbox had an internet connection and they PIn was reset for every new renter.

[@tonitrusz4943]

Yes it's a ozpost drop box for posties on foot or bike in the suburbs. Qld's has red boxes

[@Sparky_D]

The little wheel on the bus in Adelaide is to essentially give the bus hands free steering when they go into a concrete channel type thing they have over there. It's like an express lane for busses and the concrete channel / road guides the bus for the driver.

[@dorothymelia2569]

It’s called the O Bahn

[@Sparky_D]

@@dorothymelia2569 yeah, it's been literally about 35 years since I went on it so couldn't quite remember.

[@libablo]

The “training wheel” on the side of the bus is for the Adelaide o-Bahn. It’s a track designed for the sole use of buses (though tourists and unaware locals will drive their cars on and get stuck on it all the time), and runs from the city out to the northern suburbs. Basically once the bus is on the track, the driver doesn’t need to steer, as the side wheel lines up with the sides of the track, and they can eat their lunch if need be (way back when you’d often see a driver pull out a newspaper). All they need to do is keep the bus at speed, and listen in on the radio in case there is a hold up ahead; can be a thing during peak times, but middle of the day, weekends etc. it doesn’t get very congested. I worked on the o-Bahn upgrade about 7 years ago, where they extended the route further into the city by digging a tunnel under the parklands, so it now comes out on east terrace. The concreters that had to build the track in the tunnel were only allowed 1mm of tolerance in their measurements, as these side wheels wouldn’t work properly otherwise

[@jayweb51]

The small wheelbehind the buses front wheel, is a guide for the O Bahn; which is a guided busway, that goes from the city to the north eastern suburbs, part of the rapid transit system.

[@adrianmclean9195]

I've only seen the delivery robot in the US. In Australia, in the ACT, they have been trialling food deliveries by drone.

[@Malaka-r9p]

Yeah in Victoria in my area the postal drop boxes are green. I see the them dropping off & another postal worker opening up and filling up for the run.

[@RYAN-eu9tz]

The circles in the sea ... yer I got that straight away we have lots in New Zealand.. 🎉

[@cristop5]

I think the thing at 6:40 is a Fleet Air Arm pin. My dad served on a Royal Navy Aircraft carrier in WW2 and he had a tattoo like that.

[@belleriffraff]

The Royal Australian Navy has a Fleet Air Arm also..

[@cristop5]

@@belleriffraff If you search "British Fleet Air Arm Sweetheart Wings Badge" you'll see a similar pin. I don't know whether the RAN also had that pin.

[@artistjoh]

The battle cruiser HMAS Australia became one of the first naval ships to be modified to fly aircraft from the ship in 1915. It carried two Sopwith Camels. At the same time it installed four inch anti-aircraft guns and participated in one of the first ship to air battles with a Zeppelin, so a World War I RAN fleet air arm badge is definitely a thing, but would be incredibly rare. It is more likely from the inter-war period as aircraft became more common..

[@stuartrowley1981]

The bus wheel is for travelling on a cement track that allows bus drivers to just run the track straight into adelaide cbd from outer northern suburbs and and gets the bus off the street and buffers it down the track so the driver can basically just use the accelerator and brake to drive the bus with little steering of the wheel. The track is called the O-Bahn and started use in mid 1980s. They've in recent years extended the o bahn out further as adelaide has grown outwards. The o bahn is like a kind of cement train track for buses in adelaide.

[@siryogiwan]

the silo looks like a livestock feeder, they fill the top and it trickle feeds, like the chicken feeders, but for bigger animals, either that or used to burn off stuff, making it not a fire hazard as it contains the flames etc

[@NETFREIGHTSERVICESQUEENSLAND]

3 O-Bahn Busway: Fast forward to the present day, and Adelaide has another innovative transit system: the O-Bahn Busway. Developed by Daimler-Benz, this guided busway services the northeastern suburbs. Buses run on specially built concrete tracks, combining elements of both bus and rail systems. The O-Bahn track is elevated due to poor soil quality along the River Torrens. It includes interchanges at Klemzig, Paradise, and Tea Tree Plaza, allowing seamless transfers for passengers. Buses can reach speeds of up to 100 km/h (60 mph) but are typically restricted to 85 km/h (55 mph). As of 2015, the O-Bahn carries approximately 31,000 people per weekday3.

[@-sandman4605]

The car with the lock box is a community share car, once you have payed online to use the car you will get two pin codes one to collect the keys and one pin code to enable the igniton, the car is generally parked at the owners house and once you have used it you return it back to its car port. I think that is what it is, not a 💯%, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[@vallejomach6721]

17:00 O-Bahn Busway (Adelaide) - guided bus...runs in between rails/guides for part of its route

[@hybridgoth]

The rock with the unusual shape @12:20 looks to be a weathered septarian nodule, calcite and or aragonite are generally found associated with septarian but as calcite/aragonite are much softer than the host rock they're prone to getting worn away quicker than the rest of the formation occasionally leaving examples like the one shown here.

[@papaquonis]

7:05 I instantly knew they were fish farms. I saw plenty of them, when I visited the Faroe Islands.

[@6226superhurricane]

that's a three toed skink not a legless lizard, not a snake. and yes lizards have earholes.

[@Bicycle-Bill]

Everyone that has identified the wheel on the bus as the guide wheels on the buses that transit on the o Bahn are correct. There is one on each side and they are directly connected to the steering. The track sides or curbs are like a funnel with the driver of the bus directing the bus onto the track and with the small wheels finally making enough lateral contact on each side so that these wheels take over the steering wheel of the bus. When the bus is ready to leave the track, the curbs part and the driver simply takes back over. The speed limit used to be open and when they first introduced these bus’s in Adelaide in the 80’s, they actually clocked them doing over 140 kph, keeping in mind that some of the drivers would often have a news paper spread out over the steering wheel, occasionally looking up to see where they were. However after a couple of close calls and a potentially deadly mishap, they limited them to 100 kph and I think the drivers hands must remain on the steering wheel now as well!

[@retrorevival1]

the clue for the lock on the car is the CAR CLUB stickers on the back and side of the car. It's a shared/hire vehicle so likely through an app on your phone you get the combination when it's your hire period so you can go to wherever the car is parked and just get in. These car club initiatives don't have central lots or hubs where they keep their cars, they have designated Car Club parking spaces throughout cities where you can drop-off/pick up the carwhenever you might need one. We have them in the UK but the cars here will lock/unlock through the app itself, i've never seen one with a box on the outside, seems quite primitive.

[@AussieRoni]

As a Aussie, I have seen none of these things. But guessed it was a fish farm. As they have mussel farms as well, elsewhere. But a eye opener for me as well, very obscure random things

[@michaelsnell284]

The cards on the cork board above the glass doors may have something to do the Harley Davidson motor bike pub crawl. Quite popular where I live.. dont know how it works but substantial numbers of bike riders get cards and ride to the next pub and in the end a rider wins something. At a distance it looks like a domesticated version of hills angels on the prowl...

[@jamesaustralian9829]

3:56 - his trying to get the grass to regrow fully there and it's a deterrent to stop people walking / riding a bike there. 9:00 - key locker, for a modern ride hire car. It's a new thing like those rental scooters, you can rent a car and leave the key in the locker. 10:50 - those postal lockers are often found in towns and built up residential areas that dont have a nearby post office. 17:32 - those busses are for the "O-Bahn" and the O-Bahn is two concrete tracks, with gutters either side. Those runner wheels lock into the side gutters and keep the bus on the tracks. They will also steer the bus if the driver takes his hand off the wheel. There's lots of footage online of people trying to drive cars on Adelaide's O-Bahn and failing.

[@aussiefirefighting4062]

The wheel for the bus is for buses that travel on the auto bahn that is a special track from Adelaide to Modbury. Many cars have entered it by mistake and get stuck as its a specialised track only for the buses. They travel about 80kph and are basically guided by the high curbs

[@KJs581]

That wheel on the bus is a guide wheel. There was a section of roadway in Adelaide that was only for buses, and it was like a chute, in that it had a higher kerb/concrete "low rail" that these wheels would run up against. I heard about them, and I had never caught a bus in Adelaide, but the only time I did (was with someone when we visited there who had caught a bus there/knew the fare system) , we happened to pull into one of these bus lanes, and once on there, the driver just let go of the steering wheel and let the guide wheels do it for him. That was 80's I think, I don't know how long they had them for.

[@nathanvanlieshout7834]

First one, chase the ace. In Western Australia this used to be a big thing. I've never picked the ace unfortunetly but won the pick of many card flips. Everywhere I've played this, when your raffle number is picked, you get like $5 or something along them lines.

[@justohall]

Still kicking around in the Hills :)

[@heatherharvey3129]

@@justohall And the wheatbelt

[@debrakaycassedy5688]

The green boxes are postie depot boxes, 2 or 3 of them are placed around the posties beat. Because you can't carry all the mail for the beat you have the rest placed in the green boxes and you pick it up as you go around

[@ajnathan9490]

The bus in Adelaide is an Obahn bus. Essentially it's route takes it both on road AND on 'bus rail' sections along it's journey, hence requiring both road and rail wheels to be used intermittently.

[@petebeatminister]

That thing on the back of the Renault is a key safe. May be its a car sharing car or whatever. That way you can send the combination to somebody via email or phone, and the person doesn't have to come to you to pick up, or drop off the key. This is cheaper than installing a fancy electronic system in the car to open the doors and the ignition with a app or so. There is one of those things next to my house door, because there is a Fahrschule in the house as well and they use it to pass on keys to the instructors or whatever.

[@Music_mental_health]

First time watching your videos. Loved how easy going and good natured you were ☺️ As an Australian, I got a bit confused over some of the things too but others were more recognisable. Glad that you had a laugh and so did I !

[@nataliemay415]

0:45 joker poker 😃 I have one at work. Although we haven't played it in a long time.

[@michaelfink64]

Hi Ian, pretty sure the "training wheels" on the bus are guide wheels. This is a bus that sometimes runs on the road, as a normal bus, but sometimes runs on an elevated concrete track with guide rails, sort of like a tram with tyres. I think it is in Adelaide and is called the 0-Bahn (I live in Melbourne and have never seen one before but remember reading about it years ago when they were first developed).

[@LucasBrown02]

The adelade bus wheel is for the o bahn, which is a guided bus way

[@nephilimslayer73]

Gidday. I am from South Australia. The tall “silos” are actually old drying barns for tobacco. In the old days when we still grew tobacco crops, they were a common sight. I have also seen them on fishing trips to Inglewood, Queensland, dotted across the paddocks. These days, they mostly grow wheat and olives.

[@NenadTrajkovic]

9:46 Renault doesn't have a key, but a card, and that generation of Renault Megane is very easy to break, so I think it's some kind of security

[@Fish29077]

The Salmon fish farms off Tasmania are controversial. Pollution, degradation to local fisheries, collapsing ecosystems and an antibiotic scandal found in the fish to name a few.

[@mika72.-Bois]

Salmon farms are Bad for the onshore marine ecosystem I think! 😠 I couldn't believe that salmon farms were allowed in the formerly pristine Macquarie Harbour! 😳😲😧😥

[@thevocalcrone]

i watched a doco and they are causing havoc in south america as well and in fact they are trying to get them banned because of the environmental damage.

[@comeatmebro3229]

those werent salmon fish farms, they were Tuna pens, the boats go out and net the tuna schools then bring them in and leave them in holding pens

[@Fish29077]

@@comeatmebro3229 i know, it was just a comment about the fish farms in Tasmania.

[@chrlz904]

​@@comeatmebro3229.. to feed them well, mainly for the Japanese sashimi market. Southern Bluefin tuna.

[@Rooster1172T]

The lock box on the back of a car is for your keys so you can ;lock them up when you go surfing. Other designs lock to your tow ball or hitch.

[@carolinemcnulty6169]

Adelaide has a bus system that runs on a concrete expressway called the 0-Bahn. The small guide wheel keeps the bus on the track. It's a fast track commuter system. Sometimes drivers who don't pay attention to the signs bring the system to a standstill by driving onto the track and getting stuck.

[@vicbittertoo]

"chase the ace" is pretty popular here, especially country pubs, my local the jackpot sometimes gets near $5,000, basically you get a ticket or 2 with every drink purchased and the winner is drawn at 20.00. great fun, esp. when there's only a few cards left, the bar manager plays it well, he gets the card you selected, looks at it and then starts making offers that you can take instead of what's on the card, every card has a prize, from a packet pf peanuts, meal vouchers, bar tabs, etc and one has the jackpot its pretty funny when he offers up to $1500 in cash and goods and the winner picks what's on the card and it turns out to be a packet of peanuts, or similar :)

[@CarolErnst-j3x]

I'm in Australia but in New Zealand they have no snakes at all so in their zoos they have legless lizards to represent snakes.

[@helloshiny8475]

the thing on the car is a lockbox. like with Air B&B. it will be a rental car. in Oz they have some companies that you can rent cars or scooters by the hour. so you drive it and leave it either at a designated point or at your destination.

[@krazy_m0ntr570]

That lizard the cat brought home is what we call a skink. Very common auz

[@vtbn53]

I have loads of skinks at my place and they don't look anything like that, but sometimes names are shared between different species, so I won't call you wrong.

[@markleon411]

I believe the postal drop box is for local businesses to use, not average customers. Note that it is locked and no slot. Businesses who register to use it are given a key for drop off. It's nothing like the Australia Post boxes which are red in Australia.

[@Alex.The.Lionnnnn]

The little magnetic box on the car does indeed hold a car key but not a spare. There's a car sharing service called 'share my ride' where you rent out your car for an hour to a few days. Once you book it they give you a code to the box and you get the key. Pretty cheap and convenient way to hire a ute for a couple of hours to pick up some shit from ikea.

[@si_vis_amari_ama]

I know where that silo-thing is in SA. I looked up google maps and you can see that there used to be a house or shed structure there, as indicated by the chopped cypress pines. There is also a lot of industry in the area, paper/timber/dairy so perhaps something was repurposed?

[@danielhayton9438]

The "training wheel" is a guided bus sytem using kerbstones to keep the bus on track. Buses can run, excluding other traffic, in both directions using much less space than a road and revert to ordinary use when the trackway ends.

[@darrenhunt9049]

Boston island just off from Port Lincoln and there's Squeaky beach where the high silica makes the sand squeak when you walk on it.

[@QIKUGAMES-QIKU]

1:10 It's like a Raffle but legal to get around certain gambling laws, Basically buy something and pick a card, Win a slab, a meal etc.. / There is also a Darts version with the same card setup 🎉

[@kevkoala]

That wheel sticking out of the side of the bus near the rear of the. front wheel is a guiding wheel for the Adelaide O-Bahn to help guide it on the O-Bahn track.

[@AUmarcus]

Lots of those salmon farms in Macquarie Harbour near Strahan Tasmania.

[@stevenbalekic5683]

The lockbox might be used for people who rent their cars out on apps like Ubercarshare...the key is locked in that box and unlocks with a code or through the app. This way the owner doesn't need to be there to hand over the keys.

[@MultiKillakoala]

The wheel on the bus is a guide wheel for the buses the travel along the Obahn busway. sort of like a trainline for buses. It is an expressway specificfally built for buses and travels from the City of Adelaide to Modbury in the north eastern suburbs that stops at the Tea Tree Plaza shopping center

[@steveteece8889]

The device you say is a "wine bottle holder" is actually called a Woomera. It's a device Aboriginal people used to throw spears with more power.

[@BarzulRei]

That was my first thought, but the ones I have seen are thinner and the hole is not as deep and more angled, so it is probably a souvenir version.

[@mezanian]

Wrong, it a balancing wine bottle stand. 😊

[@DeepseaSteve]

Wine bottle stand not even close to a Woomera

[@Ishlacorrin]

@@DeepseaSteve To be fair, it's probably a wine bottle stand made to look like a Woomera as a souvenir item.

[@gusdrivinginaustralia6168]

Yeah the lock box on the back of the car is weird to put it in that spot . We borrowed a car last year online and picked it up solo, we got the code to get the car key but it was clipped into the window ,once you unlock the box, grab the key unlock the car, put the window down to release the box and put it back when dropping the car back.

[@MelodyMan69]

11:00. That 'box' looks similar to a DISPLAN DOCUMENT HOLDER. Used by Fire Dept in case of a fire, when the Building has Hazzard Materials. Chemicals etc. Displan = Disaster Plan.

[@shaneb4612]

The Aust post drop boxes are a lot bigger & painted red. I use to deliver what's call over-weight bags (mail excess that can't be carried by postie). Atleast in Qld anyway.

[@aussiejohn5835]

​@shaneb4612 They are green in NSW identical to the one in the video. I had one at the end of my street, which the postie used in Sydney.

[@shaneb4612]

@@aussiejohn5835The one in the video, is either a DisPlan or Hazmat box (Hazardous materials). These have emergency numbers on them. There is usually a sticker in the corner. The Aus-Post ones are a bit bigger & are found beside the road, not next to the building. There is usually a post dropbox near the Over-weight boxes. Due to the location being recognised by the Post staff.

[@aussiejohn5835]

@shaneb4612 I have a photo of the box that was on my street, and I must admit that it is much larger than the one in the video but the same colour. Thanks for your information.

[@shaneb4612]

@@aussiejohn5835No problemo, mate. You might say I've got inside knowledge. I was a delivery driver/ owner operator for Aust Post, I use to deliver the OW bags, 5 days a week for over 7 years. Good money in it. Van & deliveries easy life. When I left it took Aust post 4 people & 4 big vans to cover what I use to do in a day, in a Citroen Berlingo (Small Van/car). My uncle was the Fire chief for Rocky, so I got to see cool stuff & rode in some nice trucks.

[@tonydodds5207]

Actually called "Jag the Joker"

[@BlightStorm]

The car with the lock box on his car probably does some sort of car sharing, so it's really obvious. Or just a general work car stored on site for employees to use.

[@terryloveuk]

The "training wheel" on the bus - could it be a guiding wheel for a bus that has a guided bus lane? I've seen that type of thing on some buses here in the UK - the guided bus land (just wide enogh for the bus) has high kerbs and the guide wheel steers the bus through the lane.

[@paulocarvalho6480]

Australia, the land of wierd stuff. 😂

[@vtbn53]

Like the misspelling of weird? LOL

[@Rassskle]

​@@vtbn53 don't forget your primary school English lessons.... always i before e except after c...? One of the many lies we were taught, but now all education is pure Socialist lies .

[@timjohnun4297]

@@vtbn53 Almost as weird as the I before E rule. With more exceptions than rules lol

[@vtbn53]

@@timjohnun4297 Yep you just have to be aware of them.

[@fleachamberlain1905]

That's definitely a key locker on the Renault. I have never seen one used that way.

[@MsGetInspired]

dominoes pizza was trialling a pizza delivery robot years ago in Aus, dont think it really got off the ground. Covid and all the delivery services probably put an end to that expensive venture. google has loads of images on these robots

[@suecottrell4003]

🤗The wheel on the side 🫶of the bus in Adelaide 👍is used on a special bus track.🫶It only takes buses 🚌 from Tea Tree Plaza to City, and back.🙏The road has cement sides 👍that these wheels run along.💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋

[@781David]

A pub that I often go to in Sydney has a Joker Poker board, it's run on Tuesday evenings. You have to buy food or drinks and they give you a ticket. The holder of the ticket drawn out must select the Joker to win the jackpot, if they don't get the Joker they win a $50 bar tab. The Jackpot goes up $50 if it doesn't goo off. I've seen Australia Post workers use those drop boxes. A Aust Post van will leave bundles of letters in the box, the person who actually delivers the mail is either on foot or rides a bicycle.

[@namewithheldbygoogleforsec673]

@IWrocker, the word "brooch" is pronounced like "roach" but with a "b" at the start of the word. Legless lizard may refer to any of several groups of lizards that have independently lost limbs or reduced them to the point of being of no use in locomotion. It is the common name for the family Pygopodidae. These lizards are often distinguishable from snakes on the basis of one or more of the following characteristics: possessing eyelids, possessing external ear openings, lack of broad belly scales, notched rather than forked tongue, having two more-or-less-equal lungs, and/or having a very long tail (while snakes have a long body and short tail).

[@geoffconroy3284]

There is a glass on a string hanging from the ceiling in a pub in N T if you ask whats it for 'to catch the drips'

[@kevo6190]

Joker draw! 🤣 I won $1100 at some a local bush pub on joker draw. It's customary to "shout the bar" if you win! Good old fashioned healthy gamblin/drinkn😂🇦🇺 The combination gizmo on the car is great for leaving the car keys and enjoying a pre-work surf with out taking the keys into the Pacific.

[@nataliemay415]

11:20 That's not a Australia post drop box, actually called a street posting box. You know a street posting box as they're bright red with the AusPost symbol on them. That looks more like a service wire conductor box. Usually used to power underground or large buildings with a main switchboard.

[@tonyollier7098]

Apparently, Australia Post disguises the drop boxes as electrical junction boxes in order to deter scallywags from stealing the mail. Judging by your comment, the plan seems to be working! 😂