American reacts to 20 photos ONLY in Australia

[@georgecole3964]

My entire Aussie schooling life was completed in non- air conditioned classrooms. Even some of my uni lecture halls were the same.

[@bonnielee78]

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

[@PatBlake-m1m]

Me too

[@Impound13]

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

[@patrickodonnell4505]

Me 2😂

[@JB-zs1oq]

@@PatBlake-m1m and heading straight to the beach for that wonderful plunge into the waves (I lived on the coast)

[@CaptainAndy99]

No Meerkats in Australia. That was a possum.

[@mehere8038]

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

[@kitty-dc1nl]

And the big lizard/croc was a goanna

[@andreagriffiths3512]

A brushie

[@taltaleweaver9085]

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

[@behemothsbaby]

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

[@sueburn536]

Haha - sorry to have to tell you - male platypuses have a highly venomous spur on their hind legs. They say it won't kill you but the pain will make you wish it had.

[@garryellis3085]

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

[@jenniferharrison8915]

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

[@fionapaterson-wiebe3108]

True dat!

[@crocobyte24]

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

[@willpugh-calotte2199]

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

[@Munromad]

The Blue and Yellow out the front of the embassy is in support of Ukraine (it's the Ukraine flag colours).

[@vtbn53]

I should have twigged to that! Well done!

[@willpugh-calotte2199]

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

[@davidsage124]

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

[@Hochspitz]

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

[@kenchristie9214]

I thought they were bloody Eagle supporters.

[@rachnailedit]

I just spat out my dinner 🥘 when you said the Brushtail possum was a Meerkat 🤣🤣🤣

[@cakesboo6554]

ikr funny

[@noelinsley8057]

If no-one has said it, but the Aussie Embassy in Beijing had the front pillars painted with the Ukranian flag colours (blue over yellow), and considering that China was supplying Russia with ammunition, it's the typical Aussie way of giving them the middle finger...

[@anneloving8405]

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

[@LSturboguy]

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

[@joshw7152]

Are you sure the embassy in Beijing wasn’t already those colours? Blue and gold have heraldic significance as the colour of the wreath in the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, which was granted by royal warrant in 1912. In 1975 blue and gold were selected as the colours of the ribbon of the Order of Australia

[@noelinsley8057]

@@joshw7152 good point, however, the ribbon is a darker shade of blue, navy blue, and the yellow is more of a gold than yellow, and the coincidence of the Ukraine war should not be overlooked, considering China support of Russia.

[@joshw7152]

@@noelinsley8057 agreed, just wasnt sure on the timing.

[@judithstrachan9399]

We have a saying: No sharks in our dam, the crocs ate them all (or scared them away).

[@belindaweber7999]

😂 love it

[@helmuthschultes9243]

That framework tree in the Daintree Rainforest is a sStrangler Fig. It starts as a vine climbing into a tree, to sunlit leaf branches tops, and grows more and more around the tree, to the point that the tree is smothered, dies, and finally rots, leaving the Strangler Fig framework behind, growing on its own, fertilised nicely by the rotting wood of the victim tree. Leaving this hollow frame structure seen behind. In the mean time it's fruits get eaten by birds that poop the seed to land by other trees that fall victim to more Strangler Figs growing

[@sharonlanteri2537]

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

[@imac1957]

Small correction: the seed is dropped by birds on the branch up high where there is sunlight, then it grows down to the ground (getting nutrients from the host tree along the way) before enveloping the tree over time and killing it.

[@meredithpope333]

Ryan your pronunciation of Aussie words is getting so much better, we will get you talking with the accent next. Love your videos 💕💕

[@mreggs3731]

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

[@murrayreed2881]

@@mreggs3731 Just want to hear him say "chook"

[@CorinneRockliffe]

He said galahs wrong- he pronounced it galas

[@jamesbennettackland]

My husband (from Texas) had his Citizenship ceremony on Australia Day, there was 400 others and they all had one family member/spouse and it isn't a welcome to becoming Australian without everyone screaming 'Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi!'

[@pauldobson2529]

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

[@Val-qv3me]

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

[@BlackStump172]

I have never chanted that !

[@originalotto7126]

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

[@anneloving8405]

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

[@fionapaterson-wiebe3108]

The ‘crocodile’, on the wall is a goanna (monitor lizard). The other one is not a Komodo dragon. It’s rather smaller. Australia used to have a monitor lizard much larger than the Komodo dragon (nightmare proportions). It’s hypothesised that Ancient Australians helped their demise.

[@elizabethroberts6215]

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

[@fionapaterson-wiebe3108]

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

[@knifeyonline]

@@fionapaterson-wiebe3108 nah you're wrong. the ancestors of those who claim to be indigenous never had any sense of ownership or responsibility to the entire continent. For them to claim it now is the same as the french claiming they are descendants of the original owners of all of Europe. stupid to say the least. They didn't help create anything that makes Australia what it is, except maybe ruin the environment with back-burning that turned out to be horrific for the environment and probably the cause of ozone thinning.

[@jeremyjohnson-r1r]

cane toads are poisonous would be the last thing the python would do

[@samlawrie965]

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

[@user_angelmum]

They are also not Australian but an introduced species

[@karollinecostello8559]

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

[@DanChristos]

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

[@karollinecostello8559]

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

[@Joanne-t6j]

You can sometimes pickup brand new cars really cheap after a hailstorm, as long as you don’t mind loads of big dents and having to get new glass parts.

[@gravelsandwich]

Sorry to inform you Ryan, Platypus have a poison barb on their hind leg and if sting won't kill but causes the most excruciating pain that even pain killers are ineffective against.

[@mika72.-Bois]

Just the male platypus.

[@peteryou2188]

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

[@notyourtypicalgranny]

They are very rare to find though so not much of a threat.

[@natk9438]

8:20 and I absolutely lost it laughing. No it's not a meerkat it's a possum 😂😂😂. Also square or rectangular trampolines are the best. Why you ask? Because when it's stinking hot you get out the sprinkler and detergent, soap up the trampoline, stand it up on the side then run at it to knock it down and slide along. Good times. Oh... and pink and greys are fantastic birds. We have one called Rosie who likes to sing 'dance cocky dance' and now the wild ones have started copying her.

[@olivermcgrath931]

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

[@IdonthaveatwittersoFoff.]

“We’ll be less activist if you’ll be less shit.” 😂❤👍 The Australian embassy was supporting Ukraine with blue and yellow lights…..

[@paulhunt3307]

The tiny lizard with banana is a gecko. The giant lizard on the wall is a goanna...

[@gregconnaughton1409]

william dampier was an english pirate who charted parts of australia about 80 years before cook discovered the east coast the west coast of australia had been visited by various dutch and french hundreds of years before the poms got here

[@mehere8038]

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

[@gregconnaughton1409]

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

[@buffalobill2874]

G'laaah galah g'lar

[@carolynovens5074]

We had a health minister at Commonwealth level whose Dad died of lung cancer when she was very young. She said if you get power you go for it. Tax & packaging. No visual availability in super markets etc.

[@chookinathunderstorm3446]

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

[@21stcenturyozman20]

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

[@mehere8038]

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

[@c8Lorraine1]

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

[@allanmowz]

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

[@Jaydaydesign]

I nearly peed my pants at the ‘Enchiladas” 😂😂😂 Say Ekk-id-nah Ryan

[@Val-qv3me]

Ee-kid-nah 😅

[@YvettefromAus]

Definitely a double E to pronounce Eee kid na

[@KarynMP]

Ee-kid-naaa

[@tropicsalt.]

That new coat of arms for Australia cracked me up.

[@evalovesbread]

As an Aussie I’m obsessed with this guys channel.

[@susanrogers2761]

Me too...

[@bencodykirk]

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

[@evalovesbread]

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

[@mehere8038]

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

[@evalovesbread]

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

[@Aurochhunter]

William Dampier also wrote that 'the aboriginies are the "miserablest" people in the world' in his log book, because they seemed so impoverised compared to what he was used to back in Enlgand.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

And now they want to go back to that! 🤨

[@ZootZinBootZ]

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

[@jessicascoullar3737]

Wasn’t he Dutch?

[@jenniferharrison8915]

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

[@belleellis8833]

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

[@rustygrigg]

Yep, I never had an air conditioned class room my whole schooling, it amazes me how we got through the summers.

[@Archarapter]

True story I was camping once, and in an open paddock near the campsite, I saw an emu standing there so me and my little brother ran up to it and it started running in circles around us. We had no idea what to do so we just sat down and waited for it to leave. LOL 😂

[@Jordy120]

'I won't be comfortable doing that', after he DID do it!! LOL....

[@starmellie]

I’m looking forward to the time our boy Ryan and fam pays us a visit 🇦🇺

[@oldboyswok]

I'll say one thing.. there's usually no confusion if we have something to say... Usually .. I hit the like as soon as you lean in and say.. Happy Arvo lol lovin' ya work

[@nolasmith7687]

That’s a beautiful possum sitting above the curtains. Our possums are really pretty compared to the opossums that you guys get in the Americas. In NZ they are an introduced pest and are trapped to keep numbers down. Their fur is used to knit up into the warmest woolies you can imagine. I paid nearly $50 for a pair of possum wool socks. Soooo comfie!

[@taipan801]

Hail is most common in Summer as it needs really strong updrafts to form, and the sun provides the energy for the storms, same as your tornado's.

[@narellesmith7932]

Ryan We used to be sent home when temp got to 100 F … my sister gets unused emu eggs paints them. Beautiful

[@gregneil612]

The photo of the drunk was taken by two police.

[@didntlistendad]

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

[@goaway2803]

That was my primary school and I am shocked they have air con now. That is an old school, but has it's own swimming pool, tennis courts and dental surgery which was great, except the oval full of green ant's nests XD I'm off to feed the Kookies, Butchies and Maggies. Tonight I'll feed the possies, before they do a B&E Thank you for another classic vid, Mate

[@mehere8038]

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

[@eclecticapoetica]

I went to schools that were not air-conditioned, no heating in winter (Blue Mtns, winter temps frequently below 0C in the mornings) My primary school had no lights except in the headmaster’s office, until I was in 6th class. BTW that is not a komodo’s dragon, it is a Goanna (rhymes with Joanna, so a lot of people call their local goanna Joanna)

[@mehere8038]

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

[@leed206]

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

[@meredithangove7644]

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

[@RevPeterTrabaris]

I had fun recoiling with you at the pictures of snakes and spiders. At least they didn't have pictures of the really giant ones. I love these pics from Australia too. Thanks for helping to make me smile today, Ryan. Peace

[@Bellas1717]

I've never seen a croc in the wild in Australia, but spent three days in Florida and saw five alligators in ditches on our way to Kennedy Space Centre.

[@Bellas1717]

@@arnolddavies6734 Duh.

[@davidsage124]

Onya, mate. Very funny. It's good to look at your own country from another person's pov. 😂

[@citrinedragon1466]

William Dampier “discovered” Western Australia, and wasn’t fond of what he found lol

[@mehere8038]

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

[@arnolddavies6734]

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

[@Val-qv3me]

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

[@1964Rennie]

Cats are very good at finding places to hide in bushfires. After bushfires near me where a lot of houses were razed, the CFA were reporting heaps of domestic cats roaming around after dark, and the Animal Aid group I was in had to trap them to reunite them with owners. They were in fallen trees, and animal burrows. Oh and the little barking geckos have weird tails as a decoy - it looks like its head.

[@scott72able]

I can't remember any classroom being airconditioned - they all had windows. That said, it was awfully hot sometimes.

[@mCblue79]

Love that the ad they showed was Heath Ledger, another Aussie legend. 👍😊🇦🇺

[@cazzle80]

In primary & high school we only had ceiling fans that would shake bad when on full blast, us kids would take guesses on who would get decapitated if it fell off the ceiling.

[@Coooeee]

When I was a kid, foods like chocolate were not sold in Supermarkets in the summer, as even the supermarkets and shopping centres didn't have air conditioning.

[@mjkelly9801]

We put cut off feet of stockings over our shoes to _keep redbacks out_ (n anything else!) as alot where we lived!

[@thepurpledragon3870]

The Platypus Photo was actually even more special than you realise. It is VERY rare to see one during the Day as they are Noctunal

[@dalebotgaming]

15:24 you say it more like E-Kid-Nas

[@endotherm]

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

[@circleofleaves2676]

I'm aussie, living in very hot Queensland, and my entire primary school wasn't air-conditioned. Shoes also weren't compulsory. In older photos most of hte kids were barefoot in their annual school photos. Highschool wasnt air conditioned either, except for one building which was the new building - the gym/hall/stage/music building.

[@dcrewsy]

Happy Arvo Ryan, had one of those goanna’s visit me in my backyard the other day, was a metre long, big buggers they are 👍

[@bencodykirk]

goannas

[@nataliecarrington2550]

And re: the air-conditioned school - some of our schools (I teach in Brisbane, same city as the school referred to) were only fully air-conditioned in the last 5 years or so. The school I am currently at actually managed to convince the Department of Education that we needed to be fast-tracked after we had 3 kids faint from heat exhaustion in the space of two days - in the morning, before lunch!

[@Dr_KAP]

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

[@pauldobson2529]

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

[@mehere8038]

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

[@suekennedy1595]

The little catholic school my boys went to in the early 2000s had an offer from a parent to aircon the whole school for free,but a green friendly architect parents didn’t believe in aircon and it was voted down!!! My older son’s special school (school for the disabled)was completely aircon as we put our kids first . I am a real greenie and vote green but I can’t live without my aircon.

[@krank8385]

We had an outside toilet when i was little, you'd often go in and find 2 goanna's in there, they lived next door, gives you a fright in the night when you have a torch.

[@pauldobson2529]

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

[@21stcenturyozman20]

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

[@jordihull]

That beautiful plant is called crotalaria cunninghamii common name green birdflower you can probably guess why haha. It’s in the legume family and fixes nitrogen into the soil :)

[@caltravels9454]

the little guy on the wall with banana for scale was a gecko lizard, either just a baby or one of the smaller species. obviously lol.

[@magg0tmacdonald]

"each pack seems to have its own leader now -- a big black-plumed bird which stands fully six feet high and keeps watch while his mates carry out their work of destruction and warns them of our approach" - excerpt from The Great Emu War of Australia

[@jodierobinson4558]

The Budgewoi Firestation pic, I know some of the fireries there.. they always put something funny there.

[@deadkodo]

hi fellow central coaster, Buff Point here

[@peachesandcream6710]

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

[@deadkodo]

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

[@Robert-v5h]

You should know by now Wasza Roos can do anything !

[@judileeming1589]

Never ever had air conditioning or central heating when I went to school. YES FLUSH if you go to a toilet out in the bush because the snakes love to get up under the bowl rim where the water flushes from in the older model toilets. New models are all stainless steel and many don’t even have seats, but I still flush if there is a lip on the bowl. The worst public toilet EVER was a non-flushing drop toilet at Moombi, an outlook above Tamworth. I swear it was a huge concrete tank and if you fell in there, you would die there it was so deep. That chain of caterpillars was neat. We have the largest earth worms in the World in my state, around 6 feet long.

[@katsukirenka1629]

Oh god, I wish every school was air conditioned! We were in a demountable for a year in sunny QLD with no air con, literally stuck in a tin box. Thankfully we had a great teacher who would take us outside to play volleyball/generally chill out on particularly bad days. We usually roped in the class in the opposite demountable too. My uni accomodation has no air conditioning, same with several classrooms/lecture halls/common spaces.

[@cgkennedy]

Dampier hit the west coast, like the Dutch and it was really dry, so didn't go further around the coast.

[@helmuthschultes9243]

Ringtail possum, not a Meerkat

[@jenniferharrison8915]

My favourite was the signs, more Aussie sign videos please (censored of course)! 😂👍

[@suechandler8162]

It's a brushtailed possum up there on the curtain rail. They have no fear.

[@davejensen7922]

The charger plugs can be filed down pretty easy to make more fit the multi outlet power boards

[@pandasrover]

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

[@kraftykatty]

Ukraine colours at Aussie Embassy 💙💛

[@juliechurley2716]

Thanks for that. 👍🏻

[@citrinedragon1466]

It would likely be a very dead python if it ate the cane toads

[@gregself6203]

As of this year, all public schools in Queensland are fully air-conditioned. It used to be that the government paid for the installation but the school community paid the power bill and some schools couldn't afford to run it. That may have changed.

[@mickm6309]

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

[@jgraaay18]

@@mickm6309 Oof. Not a great look.

[@mickm6309]

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

[@bonnielee78]

Ryan, check out some of the videos of the hail storms we get!! Let's just say it happens often and as everything in Australia, our country doesn't do things by halves 😁

[@mandacurtis4456]

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

[@defineddisabledlife3463]

My dad used to drive and armoured car in Western Australia. And the air con broke the windows can’t be rolled down. There was a whole week of over 50 degrees temperatures And my dad said he knows how it feels to be a roast chicken now. Lol.

[@lynneperry7454]

No air con when I was in school. Morning assemblies were a nightmare. Couple of hundred girls in a hall just big enough to hold them with a headmistress who could Easily talk for 3/4’s of an hour to an actual hour most mornings. In summer it was intolerable and girls would faint - every day this would happen. Teachers would drag them onto the nice “cool” 100F air on the verandah outside. I tried to faint but never could. She never once moderated her speeches. Thanks Mrs Way.

[@damienmilk3025]

In the North of Australia, small frogs live in the cistern (tank on top of the toilet), and the brown snakes know when the toilet is flushed sometimes a frog will get flushed out of the cistern. The snakes curl up under the rim of the toilet, waiting for the frogs.

[@lindykeddie3119]

It is a possum, they live in people's roofs, and when they move around at night, you think there are burglars , up there, they make so much noise

[@KarynMP]

I was in hospital, and a possum baby fell through the ceiling panel during the night.

[@spirityder52]

I seriously love your reactions to the videos people send you.. I do hope you get to come to Australia one day. 🤎🤎🤎🤎 from far north NSW (a stones throw from QLD) 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@gregmccallum3124]

6:52 Check out the weather in WA for the next week. Saturday 10th Feb (2024) is forecasted to hit 45c (113f).

[@sg4364]

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

[@pauldobson2529]

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

[@gregmccallum3124]

@@sg4364 Not Perth, in Ellenbrook.

[@HenriHattar]

Those birds are Lorikeets, very , very FRIENDLY and if you feed em wont leave you alone and will come at the same time every day! LOTS OF THEM!

[@heatherlewis3713]

0:51 - These birds are called Rosella's (The S is pronounced Z, as in Zoo.) 8:19 - That is a Possum. 15:25 - The Chid in Echidna is pronounced Kid.

[@gemnfert]

The birds are rainbow lorikeets. While similar, rosellas don’t have the same variety in colouring.

[@shaunamurray8501]

About 10 years ago we had hailstones in Sydney as big as bowling balls. All the parked cars ended up with big dents in them. It was the middle of summer, and had been a pleasant 25 degree C day, but after the hail storm it looked like it had just snowed. It was very hazardous to walk home with my daughter, who was little at the time. We kept slipping on the ice. On the plus side, she was completely enchanted. She had never seen snow, and this was as close as it came.

[@leighdonald3112]

William Dampier wasn't the "sharpest tool in the shed" ("the/his shop" to Americans), then again he looked only at a stretch of the northern part of the West coast and "buggered off" so we got Capt. Cook instead and HE was smart - though he was pretty ridiculous when you look at how he dealt with the encountered Original Inhabitants, VERY British (at the time, "don't you know") ... LOL

[@judithstrachan9399]

And, yes, you did see Stafford State School twice.

[@darneyoung537]

Not when I was a kid and the bottles of milk were left out in the sun, so we’d have to drink warm milk YUK!! 🇦🇺🐨🐨🇦🇺

[@anneloving8405]

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

[@darneyoung537]

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

[@joyanderson1594]

I must be the only kid who loved that milk,cream and yoghurt!

[@digitalsparky]

Platypi actually do have poison tipped barbs on the back of their hind legs, so you gotta be careful around them too. I don't think it's super lethal or anything, but I'm positive it's super painful!

[@21stcenturyozman20]

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

[@janined5784]

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

[@21stcenturyozman20]

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

[@geofftottenperthcoys9944]

4 days of scorching heat here in Perth. 39c+

[@dunkodownunder]

Re: Frogs hitching a ride. The Python is having take out...with endless supply of frogs.

[@veronikataf5206]

That hail can dent your car too. The nocturnal visitor was a possum.The point of the embassy photo was the Ukrainian flag colours in a country that thinks Putin should be able to just take it over.

[@paulbaker9277]

In regard to hail , our home had galvanised sheets for the roof and it hailed so bad it bent a lot of the sheets in two which had to be replaced, their was no rain at all only large ice when it happened .

[@jorietayla97]

I love your channel ❤️ I’ll forward any funny Aussie things I find 👍👍🙏😊

[@muffinandme1]

Ah yes, the green tree frog!! Our cat, Decius is terrified of them. The first frog he encountered was one of the local green tree frog. When he tried to "play" with it, it not only latched on to his tongue, but also I started screaming at him.

[@davexenos9196]

Sydney is the hail capital of Australia

[@KarynMP]

Brisvegas mate

[@JustSomeRando1331]

William Dampier landed in Western Australia, which is mostly desert, with a very small arable area. If he'd landed in Eastern Australia, we'd be speaking Dutch, instead of English

[@fabiacooney9378]

6:55 when I was at school we would get sent home if the temperature hit 40°C (104°F) as air conditioned rooms wasn't a thing in the 90s.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

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

[@JB-zs1oq]

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

[@fabiacooney9378]

Maybe it was a Sydney thing 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@thisismetoday]

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

[@popeye807]

Regarding the cost of cigarettes in Australia, a packet of 30s can cost up to $45 Au

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Grasshhoppers can get big down here.

[@kingsfordpaintinganddecora7913]

That school sign is at the end of my street in Stafford Heights. 😂

[@samlawrie965]

When are we going to crowd fund to bring Ryan and the fam on a trip here.?

[@davidestoppey23]

Dampier actually discovered Australia before Captain James Cook, and also in his log book was the words, no water, no food, angry natives, we're leaving

[@TeamD3ath2]

kangaroos kill things by baiting them into the water where they then hold them under to drown

[@rickyscott9351]

That's not a crocodile, it's a real lizard called a Goanna. And the "Meerkat" is a Possum. I'm laughing so hard at the animals you mixed up. This is gold. Subbed

[@aaronf1078]

Public Schools are not air conditioned

[@mariabutler8680]

Public schools are air conditioned in nth qld and out west in qld, not sure of the colder/cooler states. Ryan, you need an aussie sitting beside you to explain a lot of your Aussie clips to you etc. The very large lizard is a goanna. We had one living in our garden some years ago in qld. He/she has now moved on.

[@pandasrover]

Depends where you are and how much funding goes into the school. When I was growing up, never saw an air conditioner. Not once. I vividly remember having to march around and around the black asphalt and hoping this time I wouldn't be the one who fainted. Hahahaha! Freezing in winter and boiling in summer. How times have changed.

[@KarynMP]

In the 70s/80s the private schools weren’t aircon either.

[@ZootZinBootZ]

Dampier's voyage to Western Australia was for the first Quakka lithography etchings 🤣

[@wdazza]

Male echidnas have a poisonous spur on their back legs. the venom probably won't kill you but it is extremely painful. There is a roll-out of both rooftop solar and air-conditioners at public schools. This is ideal as schools have a very large roof area for the solar which then powers the air-conditioners.

[@jwnomad]

The male platypus' spur is venomous, but the male echidna's spur isn't. It's also ideal since they need the power most during the peak sunshine hours. The schools... not the echidnas.

[@Impound13]

Echidnas? I thought it was a platypus mate that had the venom

[@perryschafer5996]

Male Echidnas do have a spur on their back legs but it is not venomous.

[@judithstrachan9399]

That at 5.14, with the banana, is a tiny gecko. Eats insects, can walk on the ceiling because of its unique feet. Not everything here is huge.

[@Mirrorgirl492]

And they make the most adorable 'chirping' sound.

[@NorwayForeva]

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