10 STRANGEST things ABOUT AUSTRALIA

[@MrBrettley]

Beetroot on all burgers nationwide. It's in the constitution. Americans like guns, we like beetroot!

[@HPereira89]

It's so good!!!

[@cherylween4973]

There is no beetroot on Hungry Jack's vegan cheeseburgers or rebel burgers though.

[@MrBrettley]

@@cherylween4973 That's an OUTRAGE!

[@johnwhear9600]

'ken oath.

[@blakestevens2007]

@@cherylween4973 thats cause it called the aussie burger

[@damoleslie]

Ok so a thong was originally a narrow strip of leather usually used tie things up with. You's shoved them up your but crack and we used them to tie our shoes on. WHO'S THE STRANGE ONES?

[@TristanKuhn]

That’s good to know. Didn’t know the words origin

[@santyclause8034]

Thongs have been called thongs for millenia BCE

[@shanewall4470]

Aussie Jacktars, we call 'em "geddas"!

[@sareenac9348]

Damo Leslie haha 🤣 good one! I didn’t think of it like that 😆

[@TheRealMarxz]

what's more our "Thong" has a deeper connection with this word, being a shortening of the term "Leather Thong" for the original leather versions leather sandals ranging from the heavy duty roman Caligae worn by roman soldiers to the various Grecian sandals (some of which are constructed and look exactly like a leather version of the modern flipflop/jandal/thong) are essentially a sole held to the foot by ... a leather thong.

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

The use of the word 'thong' for a type of footwear predates the use of the word for a type of underwear by decades.

[@ScottEDawg]

I have placed the dictionary meaning above somewhere...

[@jonothanmcleod-crouch3138]

Interesting! Never knew this and im an aussie

[@joeyeh6707]

I'd say thongs refers to anything that gives you a wedgie on any body parts...

[@tukicat1399]

Thongs have been around well before I was a child and I am almost 60.. It was weird seeing them called Havianas.. like... weird .

[@sigmaoctantis1892]

@@tukicat1399 I remember thongs being big in the early 1960s. The underwear was called a G-string long before I heard it called a thong.

[@MrsMichelleLacasse]

2017, 2,364 teens in the United States aged 16-19 were killed, and about 300,000 were treated in emergency departments for injuries suffered in motor vehicle crashes. 48 Australian teens under 17 were killed in 2017. 244 between 17-25 yrs of age. That’s why it takes so long to get a full licence in Australia, to save young lives.

[@JBofBrisbane]

The difference in population might account for most of that discrepancy.

[@Christian-xv2lj]

Taking account population USA still has a higher rate

[@shaungordon9737]

@@Christian-xv2lj it's not dramatically more considering they have 13x Australia's population

[@analcommando1124]

@@JBofBrisbane 2364 divided by 13 = 181.64. I seriously doubt Australia had 181 deaths aged between 16-19

[@yianniathanasopoulos]

It’s illegal to leave your car unattended when refuelling.

[@lemon_guy9122]

Peter A. Yes it is

[@xtramoist9999]

Just to add; we still have the leavers on the pumps, they're just not usable. I'm guessing by law. It's been like this since I started driving in early 2000's.

[@waynewilson2357]

They had the leavers on the fuel pump in the 80s when I started driving and I think they took them off as a safety thing that’s what I heard at the time. A while ago.

[@mikeparkes7922]

@Peter A. Yes. It is. In every State and Territory. We used to have the levers with locks, but they often failed, and after several stations burned down and people died after unattended vehicles spewed petrol on or near hot exhaust pipes (etc), it was made illegal.

[@ausraider]

You can't even jam your fuel cap in the handle to make it self pump, I use to do it when I was younger and have been told off by a cop who pulled up beside me and the attendants many times.

[@lunch2102]

Thongs are thongs, g strings are g strings, Australia's right, the rest of the world is wrong

[@pinkmagicali]

My question is why G? Why not T?

[@diamondingot7476]

Y e s

[@obi-wankenobi4336]

Pink Magic Ali because that’s shit, there g strings and that’s a fact

[@monkeydui7241]

Thongs (underwear) & G-Strings are actually different. Different size or something like that.

[@mikeparkes7922]

@@pinkmagicali The garment strippers wore was called a G-string as it was made from string or cord in 2 parts, each looped in the shape of the letter G. As Australia (as with many other countries) already had the "thong" footwear for decades (at least 1910 in Australia), we called the "thong" garment a G-string as it resembled that strippers wore.

[@Her_Imperious_Condescension]

Americans: "You guys shorten everything" Also Americans: every 5th word is *Y'ALL*

[@catherinewest4140]

Not me I’m from Chicago .. northern and Midwest states do not say y’all we say all of you or you guys lol

[@TristanKuhn]

Hahaha 😆 so true

[@shahancheong9792]

That was the first thing I noticed, too!

[@sarak1542]

I am a Texan and I still laughed when he said, "how y'all shorten words".

[@shahancheong9792]

@@sarak1542 Australians shorten just about EVERYTHING. Service station - servo. Politicians - pollies. Afternoon - arvo. Smoke-break - smoko. Americans - Seppo. Breakfast - Brekkie. Sandwich - sarnie. Cigarette - smoke. University - Uni. What is going on? - Scarnon? McDonalds - Mccas. The list goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on. It is said that this method of shortening English was made so that the mouth could move as little as possible, to prevent the ingestion of flies.

[@biggin9077]

Curlews and Ibis are nothing compared to Magpies and Plovers. Wait till Magpie nesting season in August!

[@TristanKuhn]

I’ve heard! Not gonna lie I’m a bit excited

[@andrewmcdonald6780]

Went for a run few years ago and one put a hole in my nose! Then it flew up onto the power lines and just looked at me like, "I can do it again for ya"

[@stupendous1068]

Magpies are nasty sons of bitches. Just ask Nathan Buckley.

[@steelcrown7130]

@@TristanKuhn Don't be excited...be afraid. However, they are really intelligent birds and if they know you, seriously they don't attack you as you are a part of their territory.

[@eleanorfogarty9973]

@@steelcrown7130 exactly! There's a flock in my suburb that love coming and chilling in my backyard and will just sit me while I do work out in my garden. And they have a lovely call if you're lucky enough to hear it!

[@rhodes1948]

PS : licence training ..yes the slow entry to a full licence is a great idea because in my opinion , as a retired paramedic , it teaches patience ..the great majority of P platers obey the rules...to me ,our mixed population is what makes Australia ..

[@pauldobson2529]

On your P licence, it’s a zero alcohol requirement, and you’re limited with the number of passengers you can have. Hopefully reduces the risk of a young bloke taking a heap of his friends, and, hopped up on testosterone and bravado, crashes the car. They’re ten foot tall and bulletproof.

[@tiaelina1090]

Garbage disposals aren’t used here in Australia as it uses a lot of water and as Australia is a very dry country and suffers from droughts we tend to try and save as much water as possible.

[@julie-annwhittaker7902]

It's also a terrible waste of compost when we can just let it break down in the garden

[@marievan-doorn806]

Julie-Ann Whittaker or feed it to the chooks.

[@julie-annwhittaker7902]

@@marievan-doorn806 yes!! Great idea.

[@ratsrude]

Saves on hospital visits too

[@cherylween4973]

@@julie-annwhittaker7902 exactly!

[@Iamnotjosh]

Yeah... there is no lever to hold the fuel. But in Australia, haven’t seen a driver drive away while the nozzle is still in the car (which happens a bit in America apparently)

[@TristanKuhn]

Hahaha 😆 that’s so true. I’ve never seen it but I know it’s happened before. I’ve seen a couple pictures and memes about it

[@hughenden6]

high flow diesel is the only one with it

[@Iamnotjosh]

Ohhhh true... true.. high flow diesel does have it at most truck stops and big petrols stations

[@cherylween4973]

It's better for safety to manually hold the lever.

[@suelynch]

The auto-fill lever was removed shortly after self serve came in. People were driving off with the pump nozzle still attached to the car. The Auto-fill was originally used so the station attendant could fill the tank and wash wind screen.

[@jackryan5268]

But do you give the cars a little thank you wave when you walk across a zebra crossing?

[@MC-wd4oi]

Yes

[@TristanKuhn]

Of course!! Got to keep the niceness going

[@joshuawillmott7547]

Yea if u don't give people a nod or a wave they can get angry coz it's the right thing to do and nice.

[@7s29]

Always good to give a short wave.

[@clmm7418]

A smile and nod even

[@brettevill9055]

Beetroot on hamburgers, though. That's what God intended.

[@ScottEDawg]

A) Beetroot sucks! B) There is no God!

[@RandomStuff-he7lu]

Beetroot on a burger is awesome. You can even get burger patties made from beetroot.

[@MrsMichelleLacasse]

1) beetroot on burgers is necessary. 2) so is an egg.

[@RyanLye1975]

@@ScottEDawg (A) Nah. Never been a great fan but though messy and very red ... is .. um .. okay. (B) Duh! But don't tell anyone. Millions cannot cope with reality. You will only upset them. ( They . . might ... eventually work it out for themselves.) But Hey.. I'm an enthusiastic optimist Humanity must evolve eventually beyond our Medieval "reality"

[@joshuawillmott7547]

Beetroot in a ham sanga or beef burger ❤👌

[@squiz4465]

Bird makes a noise.. Tristan: “that is not human”

[@soffmoff9434]

I know right, he should’ve said that is not bird

[@squiz4465]

@@soffmoff9434 yeah no shit thanks for clearing that up

[@PiersDJackson]

Try finding a Lyrebird...

[@jenniferlorence185]

LOL, LOL, LOL, So funny. Yeah, but it did Not bother me a bit, and I thought the Bird Sounded Cute.

[@jenniferlorence185]

@@soffmoff9434 LOL, LOL, LOL,

[@Lydisquidie]

I came here for people defending beetroot on burgers. The way burgers should be.

[@jenniferlorence185]

LOL, I Agree and I Can't wait to eat them, Yummy!!!!!!!!! What a great idea, I gotta try it at home, Since I cannot Go to Australia Right Now.

[@sophcoad]

MHMM

[@carriebizz]

Nope I'm an Aussie and hate beetroot blah

[@queenslanddiva]

We don't need to defend it. It's just the way it is. Yanks should get with the programme.

[@machvayne]

"I don't know why the cars are so nice". It's definitely the people that are nice, not the cars.

[@brisbanerugby]

It is his naïvety that gives him an endearing persona.

[@thatchick8796]

@@brisbanerugby yeh he is super cute. In the kid way. Very endearing.

[@jenniferlorence185]

I thought about that too, I was going to correct him, is the people driving the cars that are Nice to him, not the cars.

[@skzstarstruck1930]

No it's definitely the cars lol.

[@tishbrett]

Thongs will allways go on your feet what you showed was a g-string

[@monkeydui7241]

Thongs are thick, G-strings are thin

[@tishbrett]

MonkeyDUI thongs still go on your feet not up your arse 😂 unless you have a kinky fetish 😂😂😂😂

[@monkeydui7241]

@@tishbrett Nothing really goes up your ass.

[@peytongomer2305]

G banger

[@duke_hugo]

We’ll stop saying thong if you stop saying fanny

[@sareenac9348]

Tim Huguenin YESS! 👍🏻🙌🏻

[@lemonspider5083]

fair

[@monkeydui7241]

When do we say fanny? And don’t say fanny pack because no one uses those.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

@@monkeydui7241 Well half our population sit on thiers so when it is appropriate we use it.

[@monkeydui7241]

@@ianmontgomery7534 I don't hear anybody say fanny though.

[@myauramusic]

"We are one, but we are many, and from all the lands on earth we come. We share a dream, and sing with one voice, I am, you are, we are Australian." This should be our National anthem, as it sums up what you mentioned about how multicultural Australia is

[@rebeccadelbridge2998]

Agreed. It's ridiculous that our current anthem has the word "gurt" in it.

[@andrewdavidson6495]

maybe we should have chosen waltzing matilda!

[@lifelongbachelor3651]

yuck.

[@1969firefox]

Just remember when someone stops for when crossing don't forget to give a little wave it way of saying thank you.

[@goldenhawk952]

Yes the 1 finger salute

[@OilBaron100]

A friend from Germany had a whinge to me about having to manually hold the trigger on the fuel pump, while filling his car. Five minutes of his life was wasted away, every week, while he fuelled up his car. I think it might be safety related. If the fuel nozzle were to fall out of the car’s fill point, it would continue to spray fuel all over the environment and create a fire hazard.

[@TristanKuhn]

True. But I’ve never seen or heard of that happening before

[@rhodes1948]

Tristan Kuhn ...It did happen at one stage , around my teenage years ( 72 now) when fuel pumps were pretty basic ..I guess they just stayed with it

[@cherylween4973]

That's right.

[@Bully1973]

Diesel pumps have the latch you're speaking of.

[@liamsbeterthancharli]

There's literally a super popular tiktok of two girls in America sitting in the car not realising there's fuel going everywhere. It takes another guy knocking on their window to tell them

[@hayleykane88]

I completely agree with the cars being overly polite! I'm Australian, and moved back 2 years ago after living in the UK for 6 years. I STILL find it weird as they're not that polite in London haha

[@cherylween4973]

Cars aren't polite, people are! Lol

[@hayleykane88]

@@cherylween4973 hahaha I guess technically it is the people not the car... But people get what I meant 😉

[@timor64]

The beetroot thing: Macca's Australia wanted to introduce a burger with beetroot. It took about 5 years of negotiation because head office in the USA insisted it was risky. Finally it launched for a limited time - the McOz. It was their biggest seller, outsold every other burger. Head office guy interviewed expressed surprise that it sold it at all, insisted it could not stay permanently for some policy reason. By now if *you* Tristan were at head office you would be able to tell them "It will sell out". We are different. You get this. This is very nice. It's the whole point of travelling.

[@michelleneave4116]

Whenever I go to maccas I require beetroot be added.

[@heritagehorsedrawncarriage1069]

Australia also invented McCafe

[@willr69420]

I grew up in the 60's and 70's in the Seattle region and thongs (or flip-flops) were the name of the footwear that you featured in this video. I had no idea that the term "thongs" was a controversial name.

[@mikeparkes7922]

Australians called the footwear "thongs' (after the 1,600 BC Egyptian "thong sandals") since at least 1910. We called the garment "G-strings" as they resembled (and were styled on) the item worn by strippers. America wasn't introduced to the garment (they call a "thong") until the 1939 New York World's fair, and the footwear (they call "flip-flops") until 1945 post-WW2 Japan.

[@deanwashere7619]

Shhhhhhh! Don't tell him about our platypus. Let's keep that a secret. He'll go nuts!

[@vk3hau]

Dean Washere Or Drop bears.

[@timor64]

the birds thing: the first dutch explorers ran back to their ships when they heard kookaburras. they thought they were evil spirits! i am glad you are enjoying your time in my country :)

[@goldenhawk952]

Haha

[@SomeRandomPerson]

For the folks going "ew, beetroot" - remember that these are not sweet, they're (sour) pickled beetroot. So it's like having pickled cucumbers/gherkins on your burger, except that beetroot will seek out any white or pale coloured T-Shirt and fly towards it (or seemingly so). If you think that bird sounds weird, try listening to Cockatoos. Preferably a whole flock of them fighting over something. The Garbage Disposal / Sink Grinder thing is because these use a shitload of water to flush down whatever you put in them. Water is a precious and limited resource in Australia. Running your sink for 10-15 minutes to make sure that whatever crap you put in there doesn't clog up your pipes is expensive and wasteful. Put it in the (green) bin instead. "I wasn't going to say how y'all shorten everything" ... pot, kettle, black.

[@suzanneyoung6273]

Will Hughes Have you ever heard an whole lot of crows, going off, now they are bad, especially early in the morning, when you’re trying to sleep.

[@mikeparkes7922]

@@suzanneyoung6273 And kookaburras, and magpies, and the common koel, and...

[@wonkyspider2429]

Haha it’s the law we have to stop if a pedestrian approaches a crosswalk.

[@Blanchy10]

The same in the states, they were the same when I was there. I found it weird and thought they were waiting for me to walk out and run over me!

[@leannebishop7880]

@@Blanchy10 Oh sorry to hear that that's terrible

[@peytongomer2305]

Only if you’re turning

[@caveman5831]

We were probably using the word "thongs" longer then America so we own the rights to it first..

[@WraithReaper09]

Yep. The underwear are called G-Strings.

[@jemxs]

@caveman Well that didn't work for UGG Boots 😃. Oops I now owe an American company money!

[@katherinemorelle7115]

Jemxs not if you’re in Australia or New Zealand you don’t. In these two countries, Ugg is an uncopyrightable term, literally it is illegal to copyright it. So while an American company owns the term outside of Aus and NZ, they don’t own it here. It’s why even the cheapest knockoffs can still legally use the term Ugg here, because it’s a type of show, not a brand.

[@jemxs]

@@katherinemorelle7115 yes thanks good to know 👍 I was really just being flippant 🤣

[@dantemadden1533]

WraithReaper09, G Banga

[@katiebaird7330]

There’s a servo round the corner from me that still has the levers and they’ll still serve you if they’re not busy. I go there specifically for that! Love the old fashioned service and friendly chat! They even cleaned my windscreen the other day! So lovely.

[@philliptraslavina184]

Dude, work it out mate, Australia is so big, that's the reason for time change, you do realise that Australia is as big as the USA?we have 6 states not 52 like Yankee land lol.

[@jenniferlorence185]

LOL, LOL, LOL,

[@lonewolf9753]

We are smaller than America mate. Sorry.

[@bruceevennett955]

50 states

[@Movingallthewhile]

@@lonewolf9753 if you take out alaska and hawaii we are roughly the same size as the USA.

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

I think he may be more puzzled about the 30 minute split rather than setting the time zones in 1 hour blocks.

[@westsyd27]

From memory I think its not allowed for them to have the little clip thing on pumps as it can cause a fuel spill if people are not paying attention.

[@woollee]

you are right. most pumps have an automatic cut of built in [ pressure switch I think] if that fails to work , petrol will continue to pump all over the ground and that is very dangerous

[@24staples]

It’s also for static electricity, holding on to the pump you stay grounded but if you get back in to the car, move around, then grab the nozzle again you could discharge a shock and start a fire

[@mikeparkes7922]

Yes. Too many stations and people went up in flames due to faulty and unattended filler lever locks.

[@LeesreeNSubbi]

Spot on, it's a safety thing.

[@TheOneMaxShow]

“That is not human”. No Tristan, thats a bird 😂 Lived in Sydney for about half a year, didnt realize the thing about the timezones, thats definitely strange! Also the gaspump thingy annoyed me so much when I came back to Europe after living in the States for two years. Its such a small little improvement, why not implement it everywhere 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TristanKuhn]

Wait, Europe also doesn’t have automatic gas pumps? And yes 🤣🤣 when editing the “that’s not human part” I was wanting to change it so badly but I didn’t have anything else to replace it with lol

[@TheOneMaxShow]

@@TristanKuhn hahah no worries, it was funny! And no, never seen any of them, only in the US!

[@chucky110]

We used to have those levers on petrol pumps. They were removed years ago

[@woodvineandco]

There's a reason we have higher life expectancies in Australia :p

[@catherinemcdade9518]

@@TristanKuhn I'm glad you didn't change it☺️👍

[@carlanderson774]

another difference from this video , in Australia we put petrol ( not gas ) in our cars , so we stop at the petrol station or " Servo " service station , there is an option to fill cars with gas ( many taxis run on gas ) but it is different

[@michaelfink64]

Time zones: Ceduna on the border of SA and WA: a town with its own time zone - half way between SA and WA time. Beetroot on burgers: not regional. Common (and delicious) in Melbourne as well. Paying at the counter in restaurant: you don't have to, but it saves time. Licences: Ps = some limits (zero blood alcohol - therefore people get used to not drinking and driving). What you call thong, we calla G string. Most of our birds are pretty raucous. Some of them are pretty amazing. Check out the lyrebird (kzbin.info/www/bejne/o4SlaGSgg9Zgr7M). It is an awesome mimic. Garbage disposal (insinkerator) - we recycle and compost instead.

[@JBofBrisbane]

Ceduna is not on the SA-WA border - you're thinking of Eucla. But Eucla and several of the roadhouses along the Eyre Highway in WA have adopted Central Western Time, which is GMT+8:45, splitting the difference between Western and Central Time.

[@stevesymonds7724]

Back in the day when servos had attendants who would pump the petrol for you, the pumps had the catch you describe. This allowed the attendant to clean your windscreen, check your oil etc while the pump was working. When self service pumps came in, the catches were removed and you had to hold the pump. This is a legal requirement, you must be holding the handle while the pump is working. What it does prevent is the people leaving the nozzle in the tank and then driving away, taking the pump assembly with them - which happens quite frequently in the USA.

[@westsyd27]

In NSW if your caught with any alcohol in your system whilst on your p plates you automatically lose your licence.

[@TristanKuhn]

It’s like that too in the US when you’re under 21, which is about the same year you get off hour Ps

[@WraithReaper09]

That's country wide. P platers aren't allowed to have alcohol in their system at all. They have to blow 0.00.

[@cherylween4973]

And South Australia.

[@mikeparkes7922]

@@TristanKuhn Depends on the State or Territory here. Different ages and time periods for plates. In South Australia you could pass a written test as soon as you turned 16 to get an L plate, and less than 6 months later (if you passed a practical test) your full license. Not nowadays, though.

[@HPereira89]

Beetroot on burgers are common in NSW too, so good! Red Ps are before greens

[@TristanKuhn]

Great to know! Thanks!

[@isabelguszlovan1780]

but you only get green p's are for after 21 I think.

[@HPereira89]

What state is that in? We just need to be on our reds for at least 12 months

[@isabelguszlovan1780]

@@HPereira89 I'm in vic but I'm pretty sure it is a bit more complicated than what I said.

[@OwenNovakChildofGod]

Here in NT we just have Ls and Ps. The Ps are white background with a red P. You’re on your Ls for 6 months of which then you are eligible to go for your Ps test. After 2 years on your Ps u can get your full license

[@thomasmiller7332]

A pedestrian has right of way when at a crossing at a zebras crossing

[@julie-annwhittaker7902]

It is actually illegal (at least in Queensland) to walk away from your car while pumping fuel. So for that reason you won't find any pumps with the little lever and if you stick something, like a pen in there you can be fined.

[@mikeparkes7922]

It's illegal in every State and Territory.

[@martinmckowen1588]

We used to have the lever to fill but they were phased out about 30 years ago

[@RyanLye1975]

We used to have a lever to hold the petrol bowser handle .. for decades but recently it has been phased out.

[@mikeparkes7922]

For good reason. Too many stations and people went up in flames.

[@Rebecca.G]

@2:00 That's eye opening. I always wondered how you managed to walk away while it's still pumping.

[@londonbeatz]

new zealand has beetroot on burgers..its not just an aussie thing

[@TristanKuhn]

Good to know

[@ThatguyPurps]

TBH.. New Zealand is basically Australia just with an accent haha.. We do most things the same.. Just NZ's Prime minister is waaaaay better

[@londonbeatz]

@@ThatguyPurps we in New zealand do everything better than Aussie

[@ThatguyPurps]

@@londonbeatz lol.. debatable, but ok.

[@stupendous1068]

The Australia/New Zealand accent is almost identical anyway. The same almost goes for the South African accent too.

[@andrewstrongman305]

Our petrol pumps had the hands'free option removed ages ago. They removed the holding pin, but not the holes in the lever and grip - but I carry a nail or small screwdriver to get around it.

[@MrsMichelleLacasse]

USA mainland has 4 times zones... 5 including Alaska, 6 including Hawaii. They rotate around the sun too 🙄

[@phoarey]

Well said. And also on the Earth's axis.

[@pauldobson2529]

Surely people understand why time zones exist. West is hours behind east. It’s like 15 degrees per hour. Adelaide isn’t far enough west of the east coast to warrant a full hour, so half an hour it is. And the further north you are, the less effect daylight saving has, because the closer to the equator you go, the shorter the difference between day and night. Queensland, for instance, could be divided into two for daylight savings. The far north point is only about 10 degrees south, while Brisbane and the Gold Coast are 2900km (1700 miles) south. Bit confusing having two time zones in one state. Same with Western Australia, only the difference between north and south is closer to 4,500km. .

[@woodvineandco]

Are they more in unison? It is wierd when some states have daylight savings and some don't.

[@pauldobson2529]

As i said, it’s more to do with the latitude as to whether they have DST or not, and longitude as to how much DST. Really only an issue on the borders, like the NSW-Queensland border. And two states, Queensland and WA, don’t want to have to have two different time zones in the same state. Brisbane and Cairns have two very different times of sunset, ditto Perth and Broome.

[@miniveedub]

Paul Dobson also because WA is so wide there’s about half an hour difference between sunset in Kalgoorlie and Perth. Most Australians don’t know there is a small area in the south east corner of WA/south west corner of SA which has its own time zone, it runs for 340 km along the Eyre Highway. It’s call Central Western Time and it’s 45 minutes behind Adelaide and 45 minutes ahead of Perth.

[@boovaher]

I grew up with a 'Garbage Disposal' (Insinkerator) and every house we have lived in either had one, or we would get one installed when we moved in. As we ate a lot of seafood it was really handy for getting rid of the stinky parts that would otherwise rot up the bins all week long. Curlews rock. They can become quite tame and I have spent a lot of time hanging out with the ones in my street. Talking to them and watching them raise their babies. Listening to one call as I type this actually.

[@PhotogNT]

In Australia you have thongs, you can also use flip flops, in New Zealand they are called jandles.

[@mikeparkes7922]

Egyptian "thong sandals" have been around since at least 1,600 BC. Australians called them "thongs" since at least 1910. New Zealand called them "jandals" after Japanese sandals and were introduced to them in late WW1. Americans soldiers discovered Japanese "zori"s in 1945, post WW2. The "G-string" garment was styled and named after similar item strippers wore. Americans discovered G-strings in 1939 New York World's Fair and called them "thongs". They changed the name of the footwear to "flip-flops" in the 1950's when they became popular in beach culture and started making them from rubber, plastic and foam...naming them after the sound they made when walking.

[@aimeewalker4419]

I'm an Aussie away from home and your videos are helping me with my quarantine homesickness, thank you!

[@carabatzis25]

Hey Tristan, long term viewer from Melbourne, first time commenter! Awesome list, and bin chickens seem exotic to me too; they're not found down south though

[@brettevill9055]

The white ibis have become bin chickens only recently. When I was a kid they were a freshwater wading bird that you saw in cow pastures, and never saw in cities. When I moved to Sydney forty years ago there were none on the streets. I think it was only in the last fifteen or twenty years that they moved in to Sydney, and that's about when I started to hear them called "bin chickens". Blame climate change.

[@TristanKuhn]

Hey Chris! Happy to have you as part of the channel. Glad you liked the list. I have to agree, I never saw bin chickens down south. But they’re all over Brisbane and some other places up north

[@shaungordon9737]

They're everywhere in QLD. And I've never seen a curlew in Vic either.

[@cherylween4973]

South where?

[@pauldobson2529]

I’m in Port Fairy, 300km west of Melbourne on the south west coast. We certainly have bin chickens here.

[@skwervin1]

You forgot Magpies swooping you from behind in Spring. The lever thing on petrol pumps is actually illegal here - you are not allowed to jam the lever with anything as it is a fire/danger hazard. Beetroot + hamburgers - the only way The word thong for footwear has been around since Adam played Fullback for Collingwood in the Galilee Footy league Also here in Victoria - you have to have a zero Blood alcohol level while on your L's and P's (red for 1 year then green for 3) and there is a restriction on the engine size you can drive (IE no souped up V8's on L's)

[@kenlawton1531]

The petrol pump locking mechanism thing was a thing until the late 70s early 80s and the introduction of self serve. Too many malfunctioning locks and too many gas spillages and accidents with people driving off with the pump still in the car so they got rid of them except high flow diesel pumps for trucks. We like to prevent accidents 🤷

[@harrynolan3002]

Some truck servos have the lever like the big Diesel road train section of the servo

[@JBofBrisbane]

Another difference - lever is pronounced "LEE-ver", not "lev-er".

[@robertqld]

Thongs as in footware is actually an old school term that use to be used decades ago in the States. It just fell out of use in favour of flip-flops, but you might still find an old person who knows the term or somebody remembering their grandmother saying it

[@pauljarvis446]

It only took me a year to get my full license, but that was 23 years ago.

[@nicksmifso8071]

The good old days .Took me a year to get .6 months to loose

[@lynandrews1033]

I got my learners in 1994 and it still took 1 year for the learners before I could go for my licence (the year after this they reduced it to 6months) then you had your provisional for a year (or P’s) and then you could have your open licence after that. Some states made P’s for two years. Qld’ers never had to show the p plates like NSW but they then changed that law to match the other states as we drive across states all the time.

[@miniveedub]

When I got my licence in NSW in 1967 there was no set time to have your learners permit and P plates, which hadn’t been around for very long, were for one year. There were no demerit points back then, if you were caught speeding you automatically lost your P’s for a while.

[@julianjones1732]

We used to have the lever at petrol stations but over the past 15+ years they have all but disappeared (the lever still there but the pin to hold it is removed). You still find them on some older style country/rural ones.

[@RyanLye1975]

Australians don't use "Y'all". That is "hick" - speak!

[@nikolasb2933]

We say YOUS (yooze).

[@brisbanerugby]

@@nikolasb2933 in New Zealand they say "ewes", but that might be referring to their girlfriends.

[@ZosiaDabrowski]

@@brisbanerugby lmaooo classic

[@cherylween4973]

@@nikolasb2933 I don’t!

[@iamisaid2295]

I love y’all

[@waza987]

The Timezones are weirder than you think. Broken Hill in NSW runs on Adelaide time, Lord Howe island only shifts 30 minutes for their daylight savings change and Australian Central West Time is half way between SA and WA, that is 45 minutes from each, and only applies to a 350 km stretch of highway that has 5 towns with a combined population of less than 200

[@andrewbristoe1833]

living in cairns I'd say we are the curlew capital everywhere what I find weird about USA no electric kettles weirds me out seeing Americans boil stuff in microwaves or on stoves and everything to do with cash money names for coins what the is a dime ect and the tipping sales tax stuff u forgot the biggie root rooting for USA v aussie meaning

[@TristanKuhn]

Yes! That’s where I first saw curlews! They’re everywhere in cairns! Also, I talk about a lot of the weird things you mentioned that are weird about America I’m my “20 weird things about America” video and “the crazy truths about America” video

[@shaungordon9737]

It's because they have a lower power voltage in the US (110v vs 220v) , so they take twice as long to boil over there

[@marievan-doorn806]

Andrew Bristoe agree. I drove all Over usa on a roadtrip holiday - stayed in about 30 hotels and not a kettle in any. They had ice makers everywhere which i thought was weird. I eventually bought a kettle in walmart and a jar of instant. Not the best but sure beat that weak dishwater from the hotel coffee machines.

[@williamm8240]

I like the Thong picture. Very revealing. LOL (was that you?)lol

[@cherylween4973]

Are you gay?

[@WraithReaper09]

yah the pluggers were great. The G-String was a bit much.

[@jeffmoffatt7939]

Some bowsers do have the lever, however most people grab the fuel cap and put that inside the grip which holds it open. With the garbage disposals, we did used to have them in Australia however we were starting to get issues with what was being placed in them and then the final refuse would make it's way into our ocean and other waterways causing disgusting pollution issues, never mind the occasional finger or hand :)

[@TristanKuhn]

Thanks for the info! Good to know why they’re not here anymore

[@comeatmebro3229]

bowsers aren't actually meant to have them (at least in some states) its a safety thing, say there is an emergency like for instance a fire starts your natural instinct is to let go of the lever thus shutting off the patrol coming out if you have the clip and you panic and pull it out of your car petrol will go everywhere and make the situation potentially more dangerous

[@snoopy13946]

Garbage disposal units were extremely common in Australia in the 70’s and 80’s when I grew up. Our house had one. However they were deemed environmentally unfriendly and created problems with water treatment plants so were very much discouraged, hence the lack of them today. Kitchen disposal units are considered backward.

[@internetapocalypse4885]

6:31 "That is not human"??? Ahhh, that's right- it's a bird!!!

[@matthewgates3720]

There are still a lot of diesel pumps which you can lock the handle on, (although some now only have the clip on the high flow diesel pumps, for bigger tanks and trucks)

[@bloggaloggs]

"That is not human!" Right. It's a bird.

[@karenvickery6070]

Thongs go on your feet mate! And I’m 54 and I was shocked when Mac Donald’s came to Australia and there was no beetroot on the burgers! As for the bin chickens, they are lovely birds, they nest in the trees near my house, they really are called Ibis, but they love the bins so much we gave them that nickname.

[@RyanLye1975]

A third of Australians were born overseas, AND half of Australians have at least one overseas born parent. This is true for me and my family.

[@steelcrown7130]

That's wonderful but not true of everybody. My lot has been here since 1842: we sort of fall between Aboriginal and Multicultural. Bit of a no-man's land :-)

[@iraynalee3570]

Yes my son and I have! My dad is Hungarian My sons Grandparents are Greek 😊

[@samgourzis9300]

We used to have auto fill on the our fuel Balser handles. For safety they took the auto clip off. Years ago.

[@suelynch]

The word Thongs (plural) not singular has been used for 60 yrs that I know of (Yes I am older than 60). In Adelaide we tend to stay away from L-plate drivers. They are unpredictable because they are learning. P-plates in South Australia is only introduced about 30 yrs ago. Other states have had the P-plate system longer. In South Australia pedestrian Phone Zombies are worth 25 points, 50 points if they are driving a car.

[@soffmoff9434]

Where I’m from, I don’t know if it’s the whole of QLD or not but we call L-platers “learner burners”.

[@cherylween4973]

P plates were introduced almost 40 years ago. I know as they were used when I got my licence 38 years ago.

[@suelynch]

@@cherylween4973 When I got my licence you had a cop sitting beside you to pass the practical side of the test. The written side was also done at a police station.

[@mikeparkes7922]

Egyptian "thong sandals" have been around since at least 1,600 BC. Australians called them "thongs" since at least 1910. New Zealand called them "jandals" after Japanese sandals and were introduced to them in late WW1. Americans soldiers discovered Japanese "zori"s in 1945, post WW2. The "G-string" garment was styled and named after similar item strippers wore. Americans discovered G-strings in 1939 New York World's Fair and called them "thongs". They changed the name of the footwear to "flip-flops" in the 1950's when they became popular in beach culture and started making them from rubber, plastic and foam...naming them after the sound they made when walking.

[@cherylween4973]

@@suelynch when was that? That was not necessary when I got my license.

[@CamMcGinn1981]

The petrol nozzle thing used to be pretty common here in NSW, but they gave them the arse when they'd get stuck and the auto release thing wouldn't work so you'd end up with panels covered in petrol.

[@ariadnepyanfar1048]

Oh my universe, daylight saving needs to die, but you can pry my beetroot hamburger out of my cold dead hands.

[@TristanKuhn]

Hahaha

[@WraithReaper09]

Daylight savings is still around because the City people want to go home in winter while it's still daylight. All of us in the country hate it.

[@naughtscrossstitches]

yes! beetroot all the way and daylight savings is the devil! Why do they have to use it down south? It just stuffs us up here!

[@robertqld]

I've seen petrol stations with the pumps set up theoretically like they've been set up for that auto pay/got the right buttons. but they've never been switched on either and you still have to go inside to pay.

[@mikeparkes7922]

They were bought when there was talk we were going to change...but didn't.

[@lidiabona]

We have to give way to pedestrians by law... and we're nice!

[@danielryan4050]

The auto-shutoff on petrol pumps used to be common until there were several incidents caused by these. You can still find them on some diesel pumps and often on the high flow pumps used by trucks purely due to the amount required to fill the tanks.

[@lynchie2073]

i have never been in a restaurant where teh cheque was brought to the table, the whole concept is too bougie for me thanks. yeah bin chickens man! i guess our equivalent to raccoons, except theyre creepy as hell lmao

[@inodesnet]

Great videos Tristan. Fair, concise and entertaining. It's great to see videos that care more about easy to watch content that pushing views. A couple of supporting points from an Aussie though: 1. Timezones - The US and Australia follow the exact same rule here. In Australia, the northern states don't require daylight saving. It does not make sense for any region between the tropics and the equator to have a daylight saving due to the regular sunlight all year round. In Australia, the bulk of Queensland, Western Australia and Northern Territory are between the tropic of Capricorn and the equator. Western Australia doesn't have their population in that region, so they join the south states in having daylight saving. In the US, only one state is within south of the tropics; Hawaii. It doesn't have daylight saving for the same reason as Queensland and NT. 2. Beetroot on a burger. You wouldn't (or extremely rarely) serve beet the same way in US. These slices of beetroot are both pickled and slightly sweet, so it adds another element of flavour. Back in the days when the corner store in the US was more common, we had what was known as Milk bars in Australia. This would be a corner store in the middle of nowhere suburbia which would sell groceries and always have a large hotplate for cooking. The milk bars would sell burgers called burger with "the lot". It would have 4 ingredients that were typical, but could be taken off one by one to get down to a normal burger. Those 4 in least importance where: pineapple ring, bacon, egg and beetroot. The beetroot would be the last one to remove. Further to this, bacon is a generic term for the preservation of the pork, but does not explain the cut of meat. Bacon in the US is generally always pork belly (which Australians would reserve for an actual "pork belly", whereas for Bacon in Australia is almost never sourced from the belly and instead, leaner portions of the pork are chosen. This means because there is less fat on the cut, there is less need for rendering the fat down. In the US, due to being sourced from the belly the fat must be rendered leading to much crispier bacon. Some Australians try this one the leaner Australian bacon, but it will never work as well because of the lower fat. 3. Check to table - depends on the place. Cafes that are smaller will sometimes use the pay at counter and give you a number for a good reason. Generally speaking, Australian cafes are casual spots that focus on sitting and talking. We don't like to be bothered by table staff. By paying at the counter, it allows for less waiting staff and more emphasis behind the counter serving people for take away coffees, and it also allows for outside tables or tables in out of the way areas which can be attended to less frequently due to the number of staff. If a cafe however wants waited tables, that's up to them. But you'll note more waiters in these cafes. But still, they'll try not to hover or bother. 4. Gas/petrol. I still find the need to pay first in the US to be weird. I've accidentally pulled into a military gas station in Hawaii and when I showed my ID in order to pay, they laughed. The strange NSW license didn't look very US Navy like to them. I think because you're putting fuel in car and it doesn't take long, they never bothered to add the clips. Also, a lot of people love to hit an exact amount of money or exact amount of litres, so many pay more attention to the last few seconds that they might miss if they had the hose clipped. In the US though, I hated how I would have to estimate sometimes and be totally off. Furthermore, estimation on money goes out the window when tax is added on afterwards. $20 in Australia is $20. 5. Cars and pedestrians. Depends on area as well. In Sydney we're mean. In Los Angeles I think people are ironically so nice (traffic there sends me crazy so I have lost my niceness). 6. License plates were changed a long time ago due to very poor driving standards. With a very high foreign born population, there became a time where so many different driving styles and understandings of driving were brought in. Having a long people of provisional licenses along with a very strict logbook was thought to be a way to being some sensible driving to the road. I am not sure it has worked. 7. Thongs. Thongs as shoes has been used for many, many, many decades before the word was coined for underware. Likewse, uggs has always been a generic term used for the Australian woollen boots. An ugg is a noun in a similar way to a sneaker or gaming console is to a Playstation or X Box. Unfortunately, Deckers (the big US shoe company), decided they would purchase one of the main ugg companies (there are many companies making uggs in Australia), then copyrighted and licensed the noun to prevent companies that made uggs from using the noun "ugg". There is an exception in Australia, but Deckers in this one unfair action has prevented those companies from exporting outside Australia. 8. Australian everything is strange. Being the only inhabitable continent which for millions of years has been isolated (all other land from Africa to South America has been joined at various times by land bridges), has led to the bulk of both flora and fauna being endemic has let to uniqueness. The first area of Australia colonised in south of Sydney was called Botany Bay because so much of the botany was new. Birds follow this as well, although not to same degree likely because of the fact that there are migratory birds as well. 9. Garbage disposals are an almost US unique thing that came out of a bit of kitchen design, laziness and convenience. They have never really taken off anywhere else potential due to either old waste systems (Europe) or laws around what can go down a sink. They've been banned in some countries. I think Canada has banned them. 10,. Foreign born. It's very high for the country as a total, but cities like Sydney and Melbourne help this figure. Australia has had waves of immigrants like the US and Canada. But for a country of only 25 million versus 350 million, countries like China have emigrated to Australia in larger numbers in the past decade or so more than they have over the same period to the US. There are reasons for this. Australia's timezone and distance is closer to Asia. Education is cheaper (usually kids some to study, never want to go home and bring a family). Safety. Paid visas are possible. Actually the last one is interesting. There are a LOT more wealthy Chinese immigrating to Australia than the US. Sydney has been the number one city for millionaire migration the last 4 years by a large margin. The paid visa is called a major investor visa 1888 - which becomes an 888 for residential stays - yep, use of 8 there is intentional as it's a Lucky Chinese number. The numbers of Chinese that choose to come to Australia on a paid visa is higher than the US despite the fact that the Australia visa costs roughly 8 times as much. It's a $5 million visa, which is basically put into bonds until the visa converts to an 888. Sydney, Miami and Dubai have the highest foreign born globally as a percentage. But I would argue Sydney has a lot more diversity in terms of country source than Miami's Cuban heavy population. Sydney is 44% foreign born. Over 60% of Sydneysiders speak a language other than English at home. Melbourne is not too far behind in this statistic. The two cities alone account for 40% of Australia, so that helps the figure hit over 30% foreign for the country. Another variance is the style of immigration integration. In the US I feel that has been a tradition of melting pot through assimilation. You become an American. In Australia there has historically been an encouragement to bring your culture to Australia. Assimilation is not done as much or in some cases, not done at all. Ask a second generation Greek, and they can identify as being an Australian by birth but as a Greek by culture. There is not shame in that, nor does anyone encourage otherwise.

[@FionaEm]

Thanks for acknowledging our multicultural society! I think ppl from other countries presume we were all born here and have blue eyes and blonde hair 😂 The Aussie surfer clichè!

[@TristanKuhn]

Yeah, not gonna lie, I thought that before I came here

[@Sidrcride]

the fuel levers where a thing years ago but they have slowly disappeared, same with sink disposals, although we used to call them insinkerators.

[@edwardupton6129]

In Qld they tried daylight saving but in FNQ it was still broad daylight at 11 PM & hard to get your kids in for tea

[@JBofBrisbane]

Actually the other way round - in Melbourne it's still light at 9:30. It's just so stinkin' hot in FNQ that people don't want the sun to stay up later (by the clock) than it needs to.

[@Alzipan]

The sun would never set that late in FNQ. The closer to the equator you are, the earlier the sun sets.

[@naedynot1]

I used to live at Edge Hill in Cairns and ride my bicycle to start work at a hotel at 3.30am. The sound of those curlews in the pitch darkness is freakiest thing ever.

[@downundarob]

Suddenly riding up on them from out of the dark seems to put the wind up them too, have struck a few with my pedal as they attempt to run away...

[@adriang6259]

What kind of muppett doesn't have beetroot in their burger?

[@stupendous1068]

Anyone that's not from Oceania.

[@DeadPool-uy4gd]

Mate beetroot is so disgusting

[@YetMoreCupsOfTea]

We used to have the little lever that holds the petrol pump to keep it going, but they were removed in the 90s if I remember correctly. I think there were some accidents.

[@melsdowninit]

There used to be the lever on petrol bowser. They had them removed many years ago.

[@alisharutland3487]

Diesel pumps will often have the levers to hold on for such things as trucks (takes a super long time to fill) but they don’t do it for petrol because cars don’t take that long to fill and you have to stay with the car while filling as it reduces the possibility of anything going wrong.

[@paulbuckley833]

We have levers that hold the pumps up, but only for high flow diesel at designated truck bays, as a truck driver myself I would hate to be holding the pump constantly for 400+ litres of diesel... 😅😅

[@zoeirvine93]

Hi Tristan, It's quite common for us to stop in the car for people crossing over. No i haven't found automatic pump leavers at the petrol station as I've lived here in Australia my whole life. Beetroot and pineapple is very common too in hamburgers. You'll get used to the different time zones it just takes time to get used to. Enjoy your time in Australia. Take care. Zoe. 😄

[@marvinmartinsYT]

Garbage disposals aren’t very common here for a couple of reasons. Waste of water mainly. But most cities now recycle water. So everything that goes into the water or down the sink is recycled.

[@Margatatials]

the word thong originally referred to a thin strip of Fabric or leather, flip flops are held on the foot by thin strips rubber, g-strings are made entirely of thin strips of fabric, both names make sense

[@gilbej91]

Haha curlews are nightmare material for sure. When they let out the longer scream, it sounds like someone is legit being murdered. I love the use of the term bin chicken! 🤣🤣

[@alanuridge8374]

Servos don't have that level is because sometimes the nozzle didn't stop pumping fuel when the tank was full and most of the time the little lever got stuck and fuel went everywhere so it was classed as a safety hazard so they removed them .

[@peteranson4021]

In the days before self serve pumps (yes, I'm very old) they all had a latch to allow hands free and some still have the holes where the latch fitted. I think there must be a safety regulation that doesn't allow them.

[@ratsrude]

The lever on the petroleum pump used to be there, but they removed them. Some people did not know how to disengage it and ended up putting in more fuel than they could pay for. This is why they were removed. There was a time , still is lol , that fuel was really expensive and people were only putting in minimum amounts and the lever ended up putting in more than they wanted. So they were removed. It’s a pain I like to use them

[@markdeguara7190]

The lever is not there is because of static electricity. If you have one of your feet in the car and the other on the floor you are creating a static circuit. If you create a spark near the gas then it can explode.

[@TristanKuhn]

Interesting. I feel like that would be really hard to do but still good to know

[@dennishunt1590]

If you look closely at the petrol browser (pump as Americans call them) hose nozzles, you can see that they are made for being able to be left flowing automatically: However the lever catch has been taken off so you cannot leave the filling of your car unattended. This law was brought in because of some serious failures causing dangerous situations.

[@adoreslaurel]

We used to have a thing on the fuel pump nozzle to lock it on but I think they must have scrapped it because some of them may have failed to have the shut off always work and maybe they caused an overflow.

[@HymenInspectorSAK]

We do have the little lever thing at the fuel bowser but it only at the pumps for semi trucks

[@alanuridge8374]

The first bird is a curlew and it's singing out and warning the rest of the group, when I here them I know I'm home the sound they make is beautiful and the second bird is yes a bin chicken or sometimes here in Queensland (Townsville) you will here people call them dump birds because you go to the dump and they are everywhere.

[@djdazzydeaf7568]

about the petrol handle lever thing. We used to have that but we got rid of it because of a number of reasons, 1# people walking away and forgetting about it which cause the petrol tank to overfill and that cause lead to dangerous situations and it waste petrol, 2# it also kinda allow you to steal petrol easier (just lock it in place and wait in car and when you think it ready you just drive off. BAD IDEA) those are the reason that i kinda remember

[@EdsWorld56]

Gr8 list Tristan. As the guy in Sydney said to me, put on your boardies, grab a few tinnies and head down to Bondi!

[@TristanKuhn]

Thank you!