Comments by "Brad Griffin" (@BradGryphonn) on "IWrocker" channel.

  1. Here's something weird: I'm 58, and when I started school I was taught that 'Christopher Columbus' sailed West from Europe to prove the earth wasn't flat. I still remember imagining as my teacher told the story, of ships tipping off the edge of the world, and thinking how stupid people were in ancient (for me) history. A few years later, Apollo 11 happened and we saw pictures of the earth from space. Many years later I learned that the Columbus stories were bunkum and that people centuries before his time knew the earth was a globe. History repeats itself. Today there are a lot of people who believe the earth is flat. Stupid never disappears.
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  2. There is a story behind this clip. It's actually an edit of the race. The driver, Samir, owned the car and had uploaded the original long video to his channel. Someone downloaded the video and edited it down, then uploaded it and it went viral. Samir and his co-driver complained and the uploader was arrested, but released soon after. Samir was really pissd off over the video.
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  3. I once left my wallet on the roof of my car at a shopping centre. I got home and realised what I'd done and was getting ready to retrace my steps to try and find my wallet. As I was about to leave, a gentleman came into the property asking for me. He'd found my wallet on the road and checked the license, then drove 5km to my place to return it. Bloody legend.
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  4. One day you'll have new friends over for a barbeque and they'll see all the Aussie ephemera around the house, and they're going to ask, "why do you Aussies have such strong American accents?"
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  5. RIP Gary The Goat. A Legend with a short, yet stellar life.
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  6. I have a theory. From what we see of US politics, decisions seem to be made in favour of which company's lobbyist has the deepest pockets. So I'm thinking that chemical companies, including Monsanto, who I believe owns patents on most of the corn grown in the US, spend a lot to ensure food and health scientist's warnings about unhealthy food additives are ignored by politicians. Just a thought. We have similar problems here in Oz.
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  7. Finally! Possibly my favourite Australian comedy series. The handshake shots always made me laugh. Yeah, you need to watch more of Russel. Any of them/all of them are funny. Try and find the one where he met the hippies in the bush and they fed him some 'cookies'.
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  8. I'm happy you are doing videos about other countries. It helps us all learn more about our friends around the world.
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  9. Rain on a tin roof, mate. A beautiful sound. These two are about 2.5 metres, maybe 7 feet? And thanks buddy. I thought people would like this. The one at the bottom that looked at me I think is the male that claims this territory, and the female. I feel so privileged to have watched and recorded this for over 40 minutes.
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  10. The EU is far more complex than I thought! This was educational and enlightening. I'm going to the original video to watch because it deserves more views. Thanks, Ian. I probably wouldn't have seen this if not for your reaction.
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  11. Absolute Aussie Gold. This video should be in the National Museum on loop.
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  12. Coopers Pale or Sparkling Ale
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  13. Hey, Ian. The one thing I've always been really disgusted within American Culture is (besides paying for health care) is the fact that people who work in the service industry have to rely on tips to survive. I find that very close to slave labour. To have to rely on your 'service level' and compete with your work colleagues to make enough money to live is just shameful. A minimum wage of five bucks or whatever is deplorable. I remember a Uni lecturer who was a Californian telling me in the late 90s how people in the US can have full-time employment, yet be homeless because they have to choose between rent and food/transport/healthcare. A country and its government should look after its people, not leave them to their own devices.
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  14. Hey mate. I live a bit North of Brisbane in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. I live in a rooftop tent on a mate's property, so I'm keeping a close watch on this. I'll probably pull the tent down tomorrow morning. I feel sad for my daughter though. She came down for the Greenday concert on the Gold Coast, but it's been cancelled, and now they're stuck there, waiting for the cyclone to hit. The south side of cyclones carry the most damaging weather, so we may dodge the bullet if it doesn't push north.
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  15. 9:50 Cassowary and that was a BIG Apple. Fun Fact: Cassowaries and Flying Foxes are two of the most important animals for rainforest survival. They both spread seeds far and wide to help maintain biodiversity and longevity.
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  16. Shares in Arnott's has had a boost lately. I am comfortable that you have a larger Tim Tam collection than anyone in the US and arguably in Australia and the world.
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  17. 1: Got hit by a bastard paralysis tick about 2 months ago. I have a small lump of subcutaneous scar tissue from it. I removed it thinking it was a regular tick and left some mouthparts in the wound. Got them out last week. 2: I saw one in rocks when I was about 12-years old. That colour is correct, Ian. They flare brilliant Blue rings when in defensive mode. Deadly bastards. 3: Stingy bastards. 4: Soldier Beetles. Bitey, stinky bastards. 5: I've seen similar on a property I lived on in Central Queensland. Amazing, flying bastards. 6: Platypus. Cute, but still venemous bastards. 7: As kid living in Perth, we had a fibro fence with capping along the top. We had HUNDREDS of Redbacks living under the capping. I used to play with them and their webs. Scary bastards. 8: Lucky enough not to have stood on one of these bastards. But a mate found one in the rocks one day at Yeppoon. 9: I used to hunt stingrays with a spear up North. Easy pickings and good eating if cooked right. Tasty bastards. 10: I've had many encounters with wild dingoes (and wild dogs-feral dogs). Cunning bastards, but very cool. 11: Yeah, nah. F**k that. I also am wary of Northern Funnel webs. But these Sydney ones? If I lived there I wouldn't garden. Nasty bastards. 12: Living in the tropics and subtropics, Flying Foxes have been part of my existence. Smelly, noisy bastards :o). Trivia: I used to have a photo of my dad holding out the wings of a Flying Fox he'd shot (in the 60s). He was about 5'7 and had his arms almost fully stretched out, making the bat's wingspan over five feet. Oh, and they're actually quite cute. I've rescued a few from barbed wire fences. 13: Irukandji .Tiny, nasty bastards. Swim at your own risk in Summer/Wet season. 14: Oh, the Inland Taipan is an unlucky bastard. It's coastal cousin gives it a bad reputation. They are generally placid unless provoked or in breeding season. 15: Bull sharks are sneaky, aggro bastards. They swim right up into fresh water. There's video on YouTube of bull sharks in a lagoon/billabong just up the road from where I used to live. And yep, people swim in there. 16: Box Jellyfish. Refer to my description of the Irukandji for these stinging bastards. 17: Big bastards. But ya gotta love 'em. And finally, that narrator could not have been Australian. He didn't call one of those animals a bastard...oh, and his accent was waaaay off.
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  18. Simon Whistler has to have the busiest voice on YouTube. Multiple channels with him as the narrator/host with content being pumped out almost daily. Oh, and the bridge? A stunning piece of architecture.
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  19. This is from the Campdraught page, Ian: The rider (cuts out) one steer or heifer from the cattle in the camp and brings that beast to the front of the camp and block and turns that beast at least two or three times to prove to the judge that they have the beast under control. The rider then calls for the gates to be opened. The cut out is worth a total of 26 points. The rider then proceeds to draft (work) the beast around a figure of eight course in a larger arena. Generally, the course is set to the left and once the beast has gone around the left peg, it must then be drafted around a peg on the right. Once that is completed, the rider then guides the steer through the "gate" which is two pegs placed apart. Once gated, the Campdraft is complete and the rider can be awarded up to a total of 100 points. Points are awarded for horsemanship and control of the beast.... within set time limits (usually 45-47 seconds).
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  20. Flashback to mid-2000s. My soulmate and I were at a National park in Queensland. We're heading to a toilet block and see a man with his two kids, probably about four years old I guess. He's got a stick and is poking it at something. As we get closer we see he's poking the stick at a snake. Suddenly, the snake (an Eastern brown) lunges toward him. He immediately turns and runs, leaving his two screaming kids in the path of the snake. I make the decision to stand between the kids and the snake. Meanwhile, my soulmate absolutely destroys this bloke with choice words along the lines of how much of an idiot he is and how he just left his two kids to potentially die. I just stood there until the snake dropped from its attack stance and slithered off into the bush. Those two kids were terrified, and I reckon if not for us being there at the time, one of them may have been bitten, a long way from medical treatment.
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  21. Fun fact: The following advertisement appeared as full-page ads in many magazines some years ago. Mid 90s? An Apology Dear Motorists, Subaru Australia would like to apologise for the article titled 'The Handling Debate' published in a recent issue of AUTOCAR (UK). The contest unfairly pitted the two-wheel drive Porsche 911, BMW M3, Lotus Elise and Peugeot 306 GTi-6 against the All-Wheel Drive Subaru Impreza WRX. It was not so much the result that has embarrassed us, but the way in which one of the most respected and authoritative motor magazines went about damaging the reputation of the world's most prestigious car companies. It must have been heartbreaking for them to read that Autocar named the All-Wheel Drive Subaru 'The Ultimate Driver's Car' and called it 'one of the outstanding car designs of the decade.' Obviously Autocar were amazed by the acceleration off the line of the Subaru during the Traction Test. But did they really have to go on and on about it? 'Six and a half thousand revs, dump the clutch and away she goes. And there was nothing even the 911 could do to touch it.' Our hearts go out to all those rear-wheel drive Porsche owners who paid 5 times the price of the Subaru, only to come a distant second. As if they didn't have enough insecurities already! And it's hard not to feel for the poor BMW driver whose M3 clocked up an impressive 46/52mph in the Speed Corner Test, only to read '... that was nothing compared with the beautifully balanced Impreza through the bend. Result? A crushing 52mph in the wet, 58mph in the dry and the widest smile from our drivers all day.' Really, how could a two-wheel drive be expected to compete with that? But it wasn't until Autocar said '... so well balanced was the Subaru's basic handling and so well apportioned was the grip between the four driven wheels that... in the dry the Subaru was untouchable,' that the rumours and innuendo began to surface. For the record, we would like to state that every new Impreza, Forester, Outback and Liberty we sell does in fact contain the unfair advantage of Subaru All-Wheel Drive plus our unique flat-four boxer engine and summetrical drive line. Admittedly, it does make contests like this a little one-sided. So much so that All-Wheel drive vehicles have been banned from the world's major motor sport competitions like Formula One. Only the World Rally Championship allows us to demonstrate the full advantages of AWD. A championship, by the way, we've won for the past 3 years. Even Autocar admits 'a properly sorted All-Wheel drive car like the Impreza will blitz any two-wheel drive rival in virtually any objective handling contest. That's a truly astonishing result given the quality of the rest of the field.' You see, there was nothing they could do. In the end, the only thing we couldn't handle was all the attention. 'There was one very clear winner in this contet. The Impreza was more composed, generally faster and markedly grippier than most of the competition in most of the tests.' Again, Subaru would like to apologise for any harm or distress this has caused any makers or owners of two-wheel-drive vehicles and outrageously expensive sports cars. The fact that our All-Wheel Drive vehicles start from $21,990 (and $39,990 for the Impreza WRX) must simply rub salt into the wound. For those looking for compensation, please visit your nearst Subaru Dealer. By experiencing All-Wheel Drive yourself, it should go some way to making the whole situation easier to handle. If you would like a full copy of the Autocar article in question, call Subaru on 1 800 642 454, or visit our website www.subaru.com.au. And remember, we don't write the articles, we just make the cars. Yours sincerly, Trevor Amery Managing Director Subaru Australia
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  22. A few days ago, I had a 'discussion' with someone in the wildcencias channel about this very subject. Back in the 70s when I was in oil search, one winter afternoon a crew member came into the camp with a snake draped over his shoulders. He was showing everyone the 'Black-headed python' he'd found outside the camp. I was a young snake geek back then and had to inform him that he was holding an Inland Taipan. And honestly, it was docile. Late afternoon out there gets cold fast. He said he found it out in the open. The thing with Inland taipans is they vary wildly in colour and shade. Quite often they have a dark to black head and nape and to the uninitiated, they could be mistaken for a Black-headed rock python.
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  23. I'm a Ford fan. However, when I was a young teen, I got to ride in a modified A(X. This thing had a 308 with twin 750 Double-pumpers on top of a tunnel ram manifold and was freaking scary quick. Just awesome. The same bloke ( a neighbour) also owned an L34 Bathurst spec 'sleeper'. Oh, and my dad worked at as a senior mechanic at a major Holden dealer for a while, so he would bring home many of the second-hand trade-ins 'to test drive'. Statesmans, Devilles, Toranas etc. He brought home a Hot Pink GTR XU1 Bathurst model one day. Oh, maaaan.
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  24. Comparisons between Australia and the US are very interesting. I've long held the belief that the US was influenced strongly by their war for independence history. Therefore, defence spending and the capitalisation and rampant promotion of gun rights were born from that history. White Aussies came from convict stock. Our Cultural capital (in Psychology terms) is completely different. I'll also state that the economics of the US Government and the arms industry, in my opinion, survive by ensuring that the US is involved in some sort of armed conflict. Please understand, I don't blame the majority of US citizens, I just feel that the US is culturally controlled by the perceived need to keep the economy going by producing arms and securing oil deposits. In respect to the video. No, we spend relatively little on defence. I think we rely on our Big Brother, the US, to come to our defence when we need defending. Personally, we all, as humans, need to learn to be excellent to each other.
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  25. Funny. It's a shame no one from OS believes Tree Kangaroos exist. But hey, if you reckon duck beavers are weird, I guess Tree Kangaroos would be a bit out there too.
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  26. That's a herring trail at Hook island. Or a blackweed trail. Edit: Or, it's a mass of fish caught in a drag net. The bloke on the boat is probably pulling the net with the fish balling at the close end.
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  27. 2:15 When I was in primary school, we had a police officer come to the school to lecture about safety when cycling on the road. He proceeded to tell us that we had to obey the same road rules as cars. Me, being a smartarse 11-year-old, asked, "Well, if we have to follow the same rules as car drivers, why can't we ride in the middle of the road like cars do?" He replied, "Well, you can. But don't come crying to me when a truck runs you over."
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  28. The HAKA. Yep, frikking formidable. Absolutely awesome stuff. I'm Aussie, but Haka are just mesmerising and somewhat scary.
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  29. I had some 'interesting' experiences as a driver in Central Queensland in the late 80s. When the rains hit the dirt roads were, let's just say, not a place for young players.
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  30. The thing about that move is it was all or nothing. He was out of the championship but that mad move got him in. I understand why he did it but yeah, it could have ended in carnage.
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  31. 6:50 Well, for me this is a daily thing. Not the show these guys performed, but the girl and the boy are always here. And the rain on the roof and the bird's sounds from out the back are very calming. Plus the birds, and my new friend, an Alexandrian Parrot that ran away from home and decided it likes it here. If I was religious, I'd say I'm blessed. But no, I just like animals.
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  32. The NFSA have a great collection of archived Australian films. Everything from info movies for immigrants to films documenting the construction of dams and highways. Well worth checking out.
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  33. You can't record people without permission? Then turn off your hundreds of security cameras. Arsehats.
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  34. I was reawakened to how vast Australia is when I used to talk to friend in Brisbane when I live at Bloomfield in Far North Queensland. We'd be talking at about 6pm and down in Brisbane it was dark, yet the sun hadn't quite set up in Bloomfield. It was then I realised that even though Brisbane and Bloomfield are on the coast, Bloomfield is as Far West as Charleville and Quilpie are from Brisbane.
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  35. I have a friend who is involved with the Australian Yowie Hunters team. I don't doubt his integrity and he has thermal footage of an unidentified, tall creature taken in the Gold Coast hinterland. Have a search on YouTube. The video is around somewhere.
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  36. Solo cups are also marketed here in Oz as 'Party Cups', and they are ALWAYS Red. A great marketing tactic.
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  37. Every time I watch this (and yes, I've watched it a lot too) I think the video has been sped up. An insane, yet oh-so-clever move!
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  38. I just love the sound of a dirty old Aussie V8. Both Ford, Holden, and Valiant (Chrysler) produced some awesome V8s and they all sounded deadly with the right exhaust system. The VK SS sounded like that off the showroom floor though.
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  39. Ummm, I thought that the liw 'tables' were for one person tents to be erected on when hiking. It keeps you off the ground so that ants, bugs, and snakes can't get into your tent.
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  40. There was a lady cop worked in Cooktown years ago and she was well over 6 foot tall. She was a gem.
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  41. That channel and that man are awesome. I've been following him for a while. He had a family tragedy sometime ago and has recently started posting again. He describes our animals so well.
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  42. 102 thousand subs? Your channel has exploded, mate! Give the family a hug for me.
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  43. 2:26 It's that instant gear change that gets me. Like a high-powered motorcycle in a shell with four wheels but harder.
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  44. I remember when I first saw this. Laughed my arse off! Yes, I've been guilty of warning tourists about Drop bears...in the Tropical North, where Koalas don't live. Well, they do live up North on the tablelands, but not up around Cooktown way.
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  45. This year's race was an example of intelligent and clean racing. There were a few mistakes, but only one safety car. I call that a win.
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  46. Giant pillarless warehouses with giant uncovered car parks. I resisted Bunnings for years. I tried to support local hardware stores but the Green Giant assimilated me and now ... I'm one of the masses. We are Bunnings. We are Borg.
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  47. I was shocked by the Formula 3 crash in 2018 when 17-year-old Sophia Floersch went airborne and slammed into a media stand some 12 feet off the ground. She survived, but how is anyone's guess: https://youtu.be/ju2oF2d4vGA
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  48. Automatic gearboxes for truck have advanced in leaps and bounds for heavy vehicles. I remember when they were first coming on the market and the doubts that old-school truckies had about them. I was lucky enough to have a run in an automatic prime mover pulling a B-double from Mackay to Gympie 10 or so years ago. No, I wasn't driving, I was hitch-hiking. But the driver and I had a great yarn about the truck and how good the box was. I'm an ex-truck driver, so we had a good old yarn.
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  49. 7:06 It's an old telephone junction box I think.
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  50.  @eh1702  Please allow me to disagree. ALL bread will go mouldy. It is made from flour, salt and yeast which, after baking creates ideal conditions for mould.The reason many breads don't go mouldy after a week or so is because they have mould inhibitors added. Properly baked bread with the right ingredients will keep well and actually become more nutritios after a few days. However, it will go mouldy after a week, depending on the climate. In Australia in the tropics, bread tends to go mouldy very fast if not kept in a fridge.
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  51. Hey mate. You should check out some videos of the Laura Dance Festival, held every two years in Far North Queensland. Clans from all over meet and 'compete' over a few days, dancing traditional dances. It's a pretty special experience.
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  52. The Fan palms are Licuala ramsayii. The little hook vines that hang down in tendrils come from Lawyer Cane. They are often called 'wait-a-while' because when you get hooked up on one, you'll have to wait a while to pick the hooks off. Yeah, you don't run on rainforest paths up there. The walk on Palm Drive is quite close to the Daintree Tea Company. You may be able to buy Daintree Tea over there somewhere.
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  53. Gotta say, I'm very happy that the US ones are true to the Aussie recipe.
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  54. Ah, Simon Whistler. His team has a lot of channels but ALL of them are very interesting. And Simon has one of those voices that keep you interested.
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  55. I grew up in small, sometimes tiny communities. It was standard to say "g'day" to the people you walk by. Sometimes it was just normal to stop and talk with a person you haven't seen before. The first time I went to a 'big' town (pop 20000), I was walking down the street with my friend who was a local and I was saying g'day to everyone who walked past. He was laughing at me the whole time.
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  56. Crocs. Sneaky buggers. I've lived in croc country and camped near croc-infested rivers. They are cunning things and have endless patience. Locals and just about any tourist guidebook worth its salt will advise you to camp at least 30 metres from any creek or river, especially tidal ones. They'll also tell you, that if you're camping for a few days, don't access the creek or river via the same spot every day, and always go in pairs so someone can be a spotter if you're collecting water or even fishing. Crocs will notice unusual activity on the bank from a distance, and if the activity is repeated, the croc/s will come closer each day. You can pretty much count on a croc being very close to your river access spot by day three. And in cloudy water, you won't see it even if it's only six inches under.
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  57. Drop Bears. Scary buggers... However, Koalas themselves can be seriously dangerous in their own right. They can cause serious damage with those tree-climbing claws if they feel threatened.
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  58. Guava trees grow like weeds where I'm currently living. I'm currently making walking/hiking sticks from the branches. The timber is extremely dense and strong. I love guava fruit.
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  59. 4:00 That was quite poignant for me. In the late 70s, I was exploring an abandoned homestead in far western Queensland. One of the quirks of these old buildings was they'd lay newspaper down before laying linoleum or other coverings on the floor. I was peeling up the flooring to check if there was newspaper underneath and found a page from 1947. There was a small article of only a few paragraphs that said the Holden company was discussing designing and buildng an all-Australian car. I took that page from under the floorboards and kept it for about 2 years before I lost it in a duffel bag fire.
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  60. 1:13 Just yesterday, as I was walking down the street, I watched a bloke in an Audi turn left off a main street, then left into a shopping centre car park that was on a bend, and at no time did the indicators flash. I so much wanted to ask him if Audi provided working indicators on a subscription plan...
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  61. Yeah, don't go to Devil's Pools. That's just a scary vibe there, even without knowing the traditional story. Oh, there is a waterfall up where I lived called Roaring Meg Falls (Kija) where men are not supposed to swim. For good reason. Traditional Lore says the falls are only a woman's place and men can die if they venture too close. And yes, many men have died ignoring this rule, yet no women from memory have ever come to harm there. I just didn't go near the place.
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  62. 13:00 The Dutch extensively mapped the Western coast of Australia and even attempted to settle there, according to archeological discoveries. The evidence of Dutch discovery and settlement was suppressed by the British for many years. It was funny for me when I was a kid because my early schooling on the east coast taught us how Capt Cook discovered Australia. When I went to Perth as a ten-year-old, we were taught that the Dutch discovered Australia on the West coast and were taken on excursions to the Freemantle museum to show us the Dutch relics there. They didn't know much of the East coast, but they knew the West very well.
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  63. Aotearoa, New Zealand is the one place I'd migrate to if I had a mind to leave Australia. The history and culture and landscape just draws me in. Aotearoa never ceded to British rule. A treaty was signed, unlike Australia where the British basically tried to commit genocide on the Traditional Owners of this country.
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  64. The Stinging Tree, or 'Gympie Gympie' (pronounced gimpee with a hard G as in golf) is fairly common in rainforests, especially in the Southeast around the area of Gympie. We get them up north but they don't seem to be as common. I've been lucky so far in that I've only ever had a very light contact with one. And yeah, kinda like a burn. I'd hate to trip into a sapling and cop a big hit though.
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  65. I have my own grinder and espresso machine and have had for many years. However, on the rare occasion that I buy a coffee, I've found that even the 7/11 coffee over here isn't too bad. I've only ever bought coffee in a specialist cafe a couple of times and decided not to again because I realised exactly how crappy my homebrew was in comparison. Mine is great if I don't have good coffee to compare it to.
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  66. 6:06 An anti-hammer device. It prevents that bang bang bang when you turn on a tap.
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  67. 4:20 QANTAS' reputation as the most reliable and safe airline in the world was irreparably damaged during the tenure of their last CEO, Ziggy Stardust, or whatever his name was. He gutted the airline for shareholder profits and personal bonuses. It's a damned shame. We also had another major airline in Australia called Ansett. Unfortunately, they entered into a business contract with Air New Zealand, which led to the complete collapse of Ansett, the only real competitor to QANTAS in Australia.
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  68. That downshift in the chase, man. So sweet.
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  69. 10:55 In the 90s, friends and us would host university students or foreigners studying in Australia. One of the guys, when the semester finished, decided to ride from Rockhampton to Uluru. Have a look on Google maps how far it is. Thankfully, he was somewhat aware of the distances he'd have to travel. However, on the first day, he only made it to Duaringa, 100 km from Rockhampton. Still a good feat in my eyes if look at the terrain he covered. If memory serves me correctly, he actually made it in a few weeks.
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  70. Hey mate, have a look for the Doug Anthony Allstars. A comedy/satire trio from the 70s/80s who really made an impact over here. In particular, see if you can find their cover of 'Heard it Through The Grapevine', or ' Throw Your Arms Around Me'. Two songs that completely divert from their sometimes very crass comedy.
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  71. It is truly stunning. But remember, we have our fair share of idiots here in Oz as well. I have met many Aussies who don't know much about Australia beyond a 60km radius from their home.
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  72. At 7:25 you just missed where one of the pythons had a bite at the other one. That's why they did that big slap. They only bit at each other twice in the 40 minutes. Otherwise, they were trying to out climb or squeeze each other. It was pretty trippy.
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  73. I remember being tripped out years ago when I first saw those walking tree loppers. They were on six independent legs and had a tree-stripping attachment. It could walk sideways up steep terrain and selectively pick a tree, cut it at the base, and then strip the branches off. I immediately wanted one...and still do.
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  74. There are ignorant and unconsciously racist people everywhere. For example, possibly the most out of touch and overtly racist statement I ever heard came from a couple of tourists in Far North Queensland about 10 years ago. They were from Melbourne. For those who don't know, Melbourne is down South on the coast near Tasmania. I was in Helenvale, home of the Lion's Den Hotel near Cooktown, up on Cape York. The two places are not only worlds apart in distance (3000km/2000miles) but also in attitudes and population. Anyway, as you do up there in a country pub, you say hello to the tourists. So I sat down and started to have a yarn with this couple. It was all going fine until the woman said to me, "The boongs are really friendly up here..." 'Boong' is a term that was once common among white city folk to describe aboriginals... I was lost for words. All I could do was walk away and sit with my friends again. Just. Blown. Away.
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  75. 9:11 The way both wheels got ripped off at the same time, and how the two concrete barriers created the perfect ramp to launch the car into the canal. Like a failed James Bond movie stunt.
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  76. Aldi's 'Prince' brand 'Calibre 6' razors and blades are the best razor I've ever used. Sharp, long-lasting, and a quarter the price of Gillette. Ironically, two years ago I stocked up on them and then grew a beard...
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  77. I live in a converted 60/70s era Bedford passenger bus that originally had a big old six cylinder engine. Back in 1989, the original owners swapped it out for a 308 Holden engine. I'm pretty sure the engine is worth more than the bus.
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  78. I call gugu Yalanji my home country. It's up on Cape York between Mossman and just South East of Cooktown. It is one of the 20 languages where it is spoken as a first language still. I know a little language and will learn more when I return next year. Wujal Wujal, the main community North of Cape Tribultionis very cool. It's one of those places where you'll see the lads driving down the road with their mullet spears hanging out the window. The Culture is still rich up there.
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  79. Yep, houses, wineries, farms. A regular rural neighbourhood :o)
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  80. That's awesome, Raye! It is an incredibly technical sport to excel in. Congrats to all your family champions.
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  81. Record profits during a downturn, and these areshats keep pumping up prices.
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  82. I don't watch TV. I haven't seen this before now, and I came into it expecting some sort of cringefest. I am pleasantly surprised. This is pretty good. Quite enjoyable, and just sayin' when I see people speak language, it moves me emotionally.
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  83. 2:55 That may be a Kellit Autogiro craft that the US Mail used for a while in the 30s. Mail was delivered and picked up from skyscraper rooftops. Yes, of course, I Googled, and was truly surprised by what I found!
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  84. Australia has evolved along US lines with respect to servos. Back in the day, every servo in Australia also had a mechanic workshop attached and didn't sell food or even snacks besides drinks like coke and fanta. They didn't have restaurants etc. As time passed, the model changed and we got carwashes instead of workshops. Then came video shops, then came basic snacks and stuff. Then...a sudden change happened and servos became affiliated with supermarkets and sold groceries as well as fuel. They also became part of the 'Service Centre' complexes that have become common in Australia. It is a huge fuel centre that also offers food and drinks, with other shops like Maccas or Hungry Jacks or McDonald's. As well as coffee shops and other stores (Dunkin Donuts anyone?). The whole idea of entering a petrol station has changed. You rarely see a mechanic's workshop attached to a servo today.
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  85. @kevkoala You made some really thoughtful choices man, well done.
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  86. Yeah, I'm pretty proud of how cool our cash looks. It's also very tactile. It can be folded with a crease and then, with a little work, flattened to where you can't see where it had been folded.
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  87. I will always love the huge rear tyres of this era of F1 cars. You just know there is some serious torque and power driving them.
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  88. 6:00 Yep. The 'Biro' advanced our world in ways we just don't appreciate.
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  89. @not today Oh, and my comment was completely in context, so yeah, I'll comment about the 'bad problems' and most Americans will agree with me.
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  90. 7:30 Yeah, nah. That blew me away. I started my computing days when 5-inch floppies were a thing. I had no idea the floppy was a Hungarian invention.
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  91. Some trivia about Queensland. When you're not looking at a map, it's easy to think that Queensland's coastal towns and cities are in a line running North/South. However, even though both Cooktown and Brisbane are on the coast, Cooktown is as far West as Cunnamulla, in Far West outback Queensland. I got my first realisation of the difference when I was in Bloomfield/Cooktown, talking to a friend on the phone who was in Brisbane. The sun had already set, and it was dark in Brisbane, but the sun was only just setting up where I was. It was still daylight.
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  92. Gotta love Carl. A legend of Aussie comedy.
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  93. I was at Lakeside in around 1978 and watched a mini brick roll at Hungry's. It rolled for about 100 metres (100yards or thereabouts) and as it rolled the bonnet, boot, and both doors got ripped off. It ended up on its wheels and the driver climbed out with no dramas. But damn, it was an exceptional crash LOL.
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  94. Not sure if anyone has commented, but the disk she is holding holds 1.44mb.
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  95.  @7six3  Not quite. In Far North Queensland, if there is only one way in and one way out of a community, and that community is 'dry', then no, usually you can't bring alcohol in your vehicle, even if you don't intend to drink it or take it out of the said vehicle. However, if you travel through a community that can be driven through to a destination that is not under the dry rules, you can take your alcohol through. You must be a bona fide person passing through, you can't stop, and the alcohol must be hidden from outside view.
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  96. 9:55 You'll see a lot of the bays etc in Far North Queensland retain their names from 1770 when Cook was up that way. Cape Tribulation was named because that's around where Cook hit the reef for the first time. He ended up in the Endeavour River further North and the locals looked after him.
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  97. You can tell you're in Bogan country when every second singlet or t-shirt is Black with some variation of the Jack Daniels logo. See 1:55 to 2:05
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  98.  @stormygayle9388  Now you're just trying to pull someone's leg. There aren't too many habitated places here where it's 40+ for weeks. High 30s, yeah, but 40s aren't as common as you're spruiking.
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  99. Man, that's cool. I have a collection of the old 1:50000 maps that cover most of Cape York. They were made using data from the 40s thru to the 60s if I recall correctly. I've been a bit of a map geek since my childhood. We moved from Brisbane to Perth in the early 70s and when I got there, our first geography class was mapping, and the textbook we had was using Mt Tibrogargan to show contours. I was 9or 10 years old and was so excited that a mountain near where I used to live was in a textbook. After that I was hooked.
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  100. I should hunt down some video showing how eroded and topsoil-depleted land is being restored. Yes, we have a deplorable record with respect to logging native forests. Further, people were paid to clear land many years ago for grazing and agriculture. Contrary to some in the comments, we have clear-felled 90% of our arable land. Land was cleared using two bulldozers with a huge chain attached between them. They just drive through the scrub, ripping every tree from the ground. There are a now vast tracts of land being repaired by farmers nowadays. I won't go on. It'll be another long rant.
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  101. The closed captions are Gold!
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  102. Good on ya, mate. Bloody beautiful stuff my friend. And thanks for keeping the video simple. No need to 'big-note' with a flashy video, as us Aussies would say. Love your work and say hi to the family for me, please.
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  103. Hey Ian. You and I both. Banger racing is quite simply the most insane style of racing I've ever seen. I have been told by Dutch banger racers that there are very few 'serious' injuries. Mainly due to the vigilance of the volunteer flag people. They check to make sure a trapped driver is okay by receiving the thumbs-up. If they don't get that, or feel the next bang will hurt someone, they throw up the Red flag, indicating that drivers can't ram that particular pile of carnage.
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  104. Many, many years ago we used to camp near a huge waterfall in the forest in outback Queensland. I remember one morning sitting down for sausages and bacon for brekky and a Kookaburra flew down, grabbed the sausage and took off with it in almost the wink of an eye. Cheeky buggers.
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  105. Hey, you do you. Family and staying real are far more important than anything else my friend. And yes, you didn't need to address this. You don't have to explain anything to us but we appreciate you do. And yeah, I saw you were pregnant on the stream. Way cool! Give Dani a hug for me.
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  106.  @wot4922  Settle petal. You're making some grand assumptions about people there. And mate, people drink for a lot of reasons and some people can't control their consumption. It's the same in any country and within any community that has alcohol in its modern culture. I've lived and worked in aboriginal communities in the Far North and generally there are two types of racists. Those that say, "Go back to the bush where you came from..." and those that say, "stop picking on the poor aboriginals. It's not their fault...". Guess which one is despised more in community? I would discuss more of your points but you know, I've had similar discussions with hundreds of people from all walks of life, and I'm just tired of it. I know how I feel about stolen family, stolen land, frontier-led massacres, and the continued disenfranchisement of many Traditional Owners. But I'm tired of repeating myself, as are many. Change is coming. People are patient. I come from Yalanji country if you're curious. Kuku Yalanji. My given name (and personal totem animal) is Gnawia (Sea Turtle).
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  107. Oh, and Ian, this guy has some brilliant videos. He even educates me as a hard-core Aussie.
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  108. I knew the air was the cleanest down that way but didn't know they archived the air. I learned it was the cleanest air because when I lived up in Far North Queensland, an old bloke told me that during the big Sou-Easters that blow up near Cooktown from around May through to September, that air blows up from where that pure is flowing. Yep. Flows all the way up to Cooktown
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  109. I was taught that there were Seven continents throughout my schooling. But both American continents were referred to as America when not discussed in the context of continents.
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  110. @not today Hehehe, chill out man. I'm relating my experience. If that hurts, sorry. I'm allowed to comment, same as you.
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  111. Velociraptors were/are actually a genus of species. Some were turkey size, while others were ostrich sized. They were also feathered. The ones depicted in Jurassic Park were based on a relative species. So yes, the cassowary probably came from that line. I've seen the odd one and a family up where I used to live. Awesome birds.
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  112. You've got me intrigued, Ian. What were you saying under the "Queensland" you were dubbing when you edited? C'mon, mate, don't come the raw prawn and try and pull the wool over our eyes, what word did you stuff up?
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  113. 8:05 I need to weigh in say that the land that is designated 'nature or minimal use' in NSW is land that is too steep or inaccessible for farming or forestry. All that purple stuff is wild country. If it wasn't, we white people would have raped it for its resources by now...Sadly, there are very few areas that are good for cropping or grazing that have been designated National park or environmentally important. Australia's attitude seems to be, "If we can't mine it, crop it, deforest it. or graze it, then bugger it, make it a National Park". Pretend environmentalism. Places of real importance such as the Daintree and some of Tasmania were tenaciously fought for by environmentalists. I personally know people who tree-sat up at Cape Trib in the early 80s, fighting to protect rare, pristine rainforests from development. Sorry, I'll stop now. I'm a mad greenie hippy and get carried away sometimes LOL.
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  114. 1:55 'Chicken Crimpies' were the original 'Shapes', and the only made Chicken Crimpies. Then they diversified and changed the brand to Shapes.
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  115.  @anjehouse9507  Wujal Wujal (Bloomfield) is my spiritual home. I lived there in the 80s and returned in 2011. I left again in 2016, but I'll be back up that way next year. No where near as remote as you are but still a very traditional area. It's one of the places where the local gugu yalanji language is spoken in the home as a first language. Back in the 80s, it was a very remote area as access was difficult. Nowadays the road in has been sealed, and the Bloomfield track cut the time to get to Cairns by hours. I'll be wandering all over the country next year so may end up your way at some stage.
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  116. 2:25 I've got a similar photo somewhere but the downdraft is circular. It's a phenomenon (I think) where there is a part of the atmosphere where the clouds are that causes a sudden downward pressure due to cold. Kind of like a microburst in a storm. It's trippy to see in real life.
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  117. I LOVE Ginger. Ginger in cooking, sugared Ginger, Ginger marmalade, Ginger tea. I love the stuff. Bonus for me is that I live not too far South of the Buderim Ginger Factory. A somewhat famous tourist attraction on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
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  118. That was so much more fun than I expected! They had a ball playing with each other for the crowd.
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  119. Yeah, nah. I'm glad it was just an April Fools joke. Ian, the best way to test this is to spread some Vegemite on a Tim Tam and let us know how it tastes :) Or, drill a hole through the centre with a small drill bit and fill the centre with Vegemite.
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  120. This was a brilliant ad.
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  121. Did you work out the reason why those choc coated caramel toffee lollies are called 'Fantales'? They were a staple in picture theatres in Australia for years. I started collecting the wrappers and began linking each numbered and categorised 'Fan Tale' into continuous rolls. I basically categorised and organised the wrappers and kept them in special containers. They were like an encyclopedia of movie stars on the wrappers. You would be guaranteed to get one full story on a wrapper, with portions of other stories at the top and bottom where the machine cut the long wrapper feed.
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  122. @mandoleenebando429  Yep. It'll be wild. I've been through a few when I lived up north, so I'm hypervigilant when following the track. They are really unpredictable beasts. You stay safe too, mate.
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  123. Yeah man, weather-wise, we're blessed by the season gods. I'd die at -20. Kangaroo, in the gugu Yimmithr language, is spelt, 'gungurru'. The 'g' is pronounced more like a 'k'. Yes, I lived in that country for some time. And the story wasn't so much 'debunked', more like clarified. Our Aboriginal Culture is rich and complex. Well-worth researching.
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  124. 6:20 I am dead-set sure there is an ad, possibly a parody, or maybe a banned ad of a similar situation. However, the pigeon was on the bonnet/hood, and the car itself flipped up the bonnet and jettisoned the pigeon. I'll try and find the ad and post it on your Discord.
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  125. Did you hear the Kiwi, Scott Dixon, broke the Indianapolis 500 qualifying lap record during qualifying? He averaged 234.046 mph. He's second fastest ever.
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  126. I had a little 'discussion' with a few people about Inland Taipans and Coastal Taipans on the original video. The coastal taipan is very aggressive, whereas the Inland is much more docile. Docile to the point where a bloke on an oil search crew I worked on carried one into the mess thinking that it was a Black-headed python (Inland Taipans often have a dark head which can confuse a snake noob). I would much prefer to come across an Inland Taipan than a Coastal one. Why? Because I've come across Coastals and they can be super aggressive, much like an Eastern Brown when stirred up.
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  127. It wasn't too long ago that in Australia the shops weren't open after 5pm, they closed at 11am Saturday and didn't open again until Monday morning.
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  128.  @LeglessWonder  Yep. That's because the US doesn't have a realisitic minimum wage. A decent minimum wage removes the need to tip.
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  129. 3:25 The big problem with a lot of usually city drivers on outback highways is that they sit so close behind a semi that they can't see what's coming, even if it is a dead flat, open highway. All they need do is back off a hundred metres and have a peak. Most cars/SUVs/4Wds have enough acceleration to safely pass without going in blind.
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  130. That sausage roll looks better than anything I've seen at home LOL. I think our love of coffee comes from the Italian/European influence we have. I always thought US coffee was better (though not having tasted it) than Aussie coffee. It wasn't until I got older that I heard that US coffee is just strong, bitter grounds. Australian coffee is constructed with care and love. Strong, yet not bitter.
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  131. Yeah, Ian, I agree. As much as I love the idea of small-time supercar makers, yes, I still consider the Vector W8 my Grail car. If I won a big lottery I'd hunt one down. I just see this as a great idea that has been choked by budget versus aspiration constraints, and the developers are doing an Elon by promising diamonds and delivering Zircons.
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  132. This sort of inventiveness of humans always makes me feel good. We can be destructive, but sometimes we make awesome stuff.
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  133. 6:10 I feel many instances of people not getting out of the way of emergency vehicles comes from the fact that most modern cars are basically soundproof boxes. The people driving them lose a certain sense of awareness when driving with the windows up and the stereo on. And mirrors? Some folk consider them just decorations. I'm a bit (well, maybe a lot) old school. I tend to have a window at least halfway down on either side of the car so I can hear, as well as see (with my mirrors and eyes) what's going on around me.
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  134. Frill necks are the BEST lizard! No, they don't spit venom hehehe. They will run on their hind legs at trippy speeds to get away. They will rise up on their back legs and tail and flate out that big frill to scare large potential predators. They will also try to lay flat against a tree trunk. As you approach, They'll move sideways around the trunk to try and stay out of site. They are way cool! The longest I've seen was nearly 2 metres long, 5 feet from nose to tail tip.
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  135. I haven't seen this breakdown of the crash before. I've seen a few but none so intense as this. Even though I know he got out okay, I'm 3-minutes in and seriously rocked by this once again.
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  136. BUNNINGS! In Queensland and Western Australia you can/could get a Covid vaccine when you went shopping at Bunnings Warehouse. I shit you not. I think you folks have a big Lowes hardware warehouse? Imagine a Covid vaccine tent near the sausage sizzle tent outside a Lowes.
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  137. I love this 'home-style' footage. Excellent stuff!
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  138. Some serious 'The Italian Job' vibes in that video.
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  139. I grew up using ft/lb for torque doing mechanical work, so in that context, I can relate to foot/pound easier than Newtonmeters. However, my new torque wrenches have both measurements so I'm learning to use Nm. As for vehicle torque and horspers, I am easy with both measurements.
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  140. 0:55 Days in mangrove country, Sandflies, mosquitos, relentless sun, cuts, and abrasions. Yeah, he was gunna be a red mess. I've experienced one night in a similar environment with no way of repelling the bitey bugs other than a sleeping bag. I had to keep part of my face exposed so I could breathe. In the morning I discovered that during the minimal sleep patches I got, the mozzies had been on my eyelids. They were swollen to the point that I could barely open them. Yeah, nah.
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  141. @SeanCleverly When I lived in Perth as a kid, my mate and I knew of a Bull Ant nest in the bush across the road. We'd harass them after school and watch them jump at us. Oh, and yeah, a bite hurts. Like. Really. HURTS!
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  142. Tracy James. Yes! I like to extract the lumps of Milo from the bottom of my glass too!
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  143. GREEN TREE ANTS. Their butts contain a very acidic, citrusy liquid. They actually taste really nice and also work as a poultice on sores like an antiseptic. Yes, I have lived with them and used them.
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  144. I know enough about Dakar vehicles to sound stupid, but I love this style of racing. Hardcore speed over country tracks and off-road. Awesome stuff.
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  145. Yeah, that hairpin pass is bloody brilliant! I've seen it before and never tire of watching it. I hadn't seen the back side view before though. Yeah, legend status pass that. I really hope he waved at them as he was sideways in front of them.
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  146. Hey Dani! Those glow things are beautiful. There is a small cave under a waterfall in Queensland's Gold Coast hinterland that has a small population of glow worms. Nothing like this spectacular light show. This reminds me of Avatar.
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  147. EDIT: Ian, I wrote this before I watched the video. I had to smile when I was listening to your reaction after posting it. When I first saw the rise in drift racing, I wrote it off as just a silly fad. I mean, what can you do by deliberately losing control of your car? But then I started to actually watch how it worked. These drivers sit on the extreme edge of control, more than in conventional racing. Traditional racing relies on tyre grip. This racing relies on being able to 'control' a vehicle that has essentially lost control. It's pretty damned special.
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  148. The Kimberley region is truly stunning. As an Aussie, it's on my bucket list to spend some time there, but not as a tourist.
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  149. The male Platypus has a half-inch venomous spike on its hind legs. Yep, we WERE top-ranked in a lot of things. That's changed though. Oh, we have very poor rate of rate of C***d immunisations.
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  150. @35manning I'm old enough to have been wary of those new-fangled 'circuit breakers', thinking that a properly installed and fused porcelain contraption was safer than a fraction of a millisecond reaction device.
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  151. Granny-Golf was funny. The last one with the key rings was very clever.
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  152. New Zealand. Australia's better-looking sibling.
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  153. We don't have Walmart in Australia. We do have IKEA, CostCo, Aldi, and a few other foreign mobs I think.
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  154. 2:45 IAN! I had basically the same LandCruiser and my soulmate and I lived in it for about four years. Mine was white with the 2H non-turbo diesel engine. Oh man, it was a tank. If I had 7G spare I'd go to Alice and buy that in a shot.
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  155. 6:35 I watched the full-speed shot twice and didn't see the other car. I couldn't figure out what all the Black plastic bits were flying through the air...then I saw the slomo. Holy shitballs Batman! That was close!
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  156. An old fella once told me, "There are drivers of machinery, and then there are Operators of machinery". This dude is an operator.
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  157. My father died from a Brown snake bite. He had stepped out of his 4WD and a brown was hiding under a small saltbush shrub right near where he stepped. It hit him twice in a split second. He said he barely felt the bite. Oh, it wasn't the snake that really killed him. It was the incompetence of the hospital he attended that caused him to suffer for 2 weeks before organ failure killed him. Long story for another time.
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  158. Spare a second at 1:00-1:02 to appreciate the expression on that kid's face. It is just too cute, and way too piss-funny to ignore.
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  159. 12:30 COUGH SPLUTTER COUGH COUGH SPLUTTER SPLUTTER...WTF? Oh, Ian. When you come to Australia, please let me introduce you to proper seafood? I will give you foodgasms.
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  160. @DaveOz I only saw your comment after I went on a geeky ramble about our Base 10 counting system and how well the Metric system works in that space as opposed to imperial. If I'd read your eloquent statement, I wouldn't have bothered :)
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  161. The 'foreign' cars entering the Bathurst races disappointed me as a kid. I hated the idea that they were moving away from strictly production vehicles. I never really appreciated the Jags and Nissans etc. but begrudgingly realised they were better engineered than a lot of our locally produced vehicles.
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  162. 6:52 Yeah, cops catching a trail bike on the footpath...
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  163. I love these boats. The pilots are crazy!
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  164.  @daveamies5031  Absolutely, Dave. Daylight Saving is a pointless exercise in Queensland, even as far south as Brisbane.
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  165. Hey, Chris Bell. I really feel for you folks. I relate it to me trying to cope with a 2C Winter. I wouldn't cope well.
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  166. 12:10 I hope everyone saw the snake being given right-of-way across the road.
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  167. It's a beast of a thing! I had an XR Fairmont with a 289 in it for a little while in the 70s. It had a V8 sound but yeah, nothing like a big banger like that.
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  168. Someone else had to have seen the Binford Tools sticker on that saw. Surely, Tool Time hasn't been forgotten by the masses.
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  169. Back in the day we had a place in our city (they were popular around Oz) called the 'Pancake Manor'. My favourite meal was Californian Pancakes. Bacon, eggs, pancakes, maple syrup and a big dollop of whipped butter. Is that an American thing, or did I fall in love with a lie?
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  170. I went to the first-ever Truck Grand Prix in Australia. It was held at the big Calder Park Thunderdome complex in 1988 (if memory serves correct), and I was lucky enough to get a VIP pass because a mate managed a fuel depot in the town I was living in. We drove five hours through the night to get there early. What an awesome day.
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  171.  @TheReptileBloke  Hey buddy. Specifically Mango Hill on the North side of Brisbane. Feel free to share mate. I'm glad people like it. Full 40-minutes will be up once I've edited it all together.
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  172.  @kevkoala  Definitely! He loves his 4x4 stuff.
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  173. If I'm correct, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Ferrari were all tractor manufacturers initially. Mahindra is the worlds largest manufacturer of tractors at the moment. They sell 4WDs now that are damned solid workhorses out of the box. Rear Eaton diff locker standard, full ladder chassis, Borg Warner gearbox and transfer case, and a 2.2 litre intercooled turbo diesel. All that and more for about 40K Australian.
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  174. I've been spending some time trying to find a video of Dick Johnson's XB Falcon from 1977. The only stuff I found was a Scalextric car and another 1/12 scale model. Any XA-XC series videos are Moffat's or collector's videos. Frustrating. I did find some A9/X videos (my second favourite car behind the XA or XB). I won't post them here, but I'll work out a way to get the links to you. I have some stuff to send to you when I am rich enough to pay the postage. Take care you wonderful people.
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  175. Damn you to HECK! I'm watching this at about 6pm (just after you uploaded) and I have nothing to put in with my rice besides a tin of Baked Beans (payday will be Thursday). So now I'm putting a few things on my shopping list so I can cook up a storm in a few days. Pop over and I'll share.
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  176. I seem to remember reading or seeing something about how they introduced divers and boats after a fatality when a car went into the water and no one could save the driver? The thought of building raised barriers wasn't considered because it would interrupt the view (in those days).
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  177. 7:15 Yes. At the very least, learn to explain that you know very little of the language of the countries you're visiting, in the language of the countries you are visiting. Keep a notebook with the words you need written down, and add more as you learn. Those tips come not from me, I don't even have a passport. They are things that a Korean traveler I met years ago used to learn more english.
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  178. 1:50 I'm relatively old when it comes to Freddo Frogs. I still remember the original chocolate Freddos that looked like the Australian Rocket Frog, and you could eat the back legs first, and then the front legs, and then work your way up the body from either end. No fillings. Just chocolatey frog goodness. Then they changed the frog! They turned it into some bizarre cartoon character that was looking at you as you ate it! And then they gave it INTESTINES! In the form of caramel or raspberry or some other sick, intestine-looking colour. My chocolate frog became a gut-ooze-filled monstrosity that nightmares were borne from.
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  179. I fell in love with the 555 Subarus the first time I saw them in rally. Prior to that I thought the car was all hype. I'd have bought one back then if I'd been rich enough. Beasts.
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  180. This is cool. I've been subbed to Tom Scott for years, and I watched this only a few days ago. Cool!
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  181. Keen to watch. Oh, and I think I'm first? EDIT at 15:10 This has been really cool. I know of some of these places, but I'm surprised I had never heard of others. Well worth a Livestream or series of videos.
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  182. 4:47 The Blue car is a Valiant Pacer and if memory serves correctly it has a 265 Hemi 6 cylinder.
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  183. Oh, and if you do get to Australia, I will get some kangaroo for you to try. Gamey, but very high in protein and low in fat.
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  184. @lisc7204  I'll be okay. If it gets gnarly, I'll be packing the tent down and sleeping inside. I've been through a few when I lived up north, so I know how unpredictable and destructive they are. I am definitely not underestimating the potential danger.
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  185. I saw a Frill-Necked lizard that was a good metre-long once. It was catching the morning sun on the side of a termite mound. I've got the photo somewhere.
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  186. Be careful of the Minties. They can stick to your teeth and pull fillings. True story.
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  187. UnZud :o). Maori is generally pronounced (by Maoris) as 'Mow (like Mao tze dong)dee'. The 'r' is hard, like a D. Well, that's what I was taught by Maoris. I may get to New Zealand one day. I think it's a beautiful country.
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  188. When the tyre came off at about the 00:52 mark I saw it was heading straight for 'me'. I would have taken a step forward before worrying about the shot of the car sliding sans wheel. That would have hurt.
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  189. 2:10 Hang on one second here! look at the interior of that cab! That is something special.
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  190. And you freeze your butt off every Winter, and tourists annoy you. You should check out Cape Trib. Yes, people live amongst it. Further, I lived right on the edge of the Daintree World Heritage area, in rainforest. I've also spent quite some time around the Central and Northern NSW coast and yeah, it's pretty too. But it has nothing on the Daintree area, sorry.
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  191. I'll apologise beforehand. I've tried Reeces pieces and I can't do them. I guess it's because I figure Peanut Paste (as some of us Aussies call it) is supposed go on bread with lashings of butter, or in Satay. Sorry, but yeah, nah.
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  192. XA to XC Falcon coupes. The Mad max cars. Yes, the A9/X was an awesome car, but the Falcons were beasts.
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  193. I'm seven minutes in and I think I've got sand in my eyes or onion juice...
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  194.  @QuestionThingsUseLogic  G'day Kerry! Pleased to virtually meet you. Yep, so was I! But hey, we're generally a bunch us Aussies.
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  195.  @QuestionThingsUseLogic  Say g'day to your boy for me. He's a good man. I understand the Black Dog well.
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  196. That was a very cool video! Great to see stuff like this from OS.
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  197. I shall refrain from comment-flooding but yes, please give us a review of 'The Castle' after you watch, even if it's a comment on Discord.
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  198. I'm not sure if anyone has said yet, but whenever the question of changing our national Anthem comes up, three songs always rank high in the list of alternatives: Waltzing Matilda I Am Australian I Still Call Australia Home If you see this, Ian (I'll put it on the Discord video ideas too), may I recommend you listen to this version of 'I Am Australian', by The Seekers, a famous Australian band from the 60s. https://youtu.be/pL_JvhfQjms
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  199. The Christmas beetle also has colour changrs like pearl paint.
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  200. Australia has the Aldi South logo.
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  201. Flashback to 1967/8. Outback South Australia. An old drilling truck rumbles past, kicking up clouds of dust. A few minutes later an FX Holden, towing an 18-foot caravan drives by. A young woman is driving, with her two young children alongside her. A 7-year old girl, and a young fella of about 4. They're following her husband who is in the drill rig, to the next camp in the middle of nowhere.
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  202. I found Sassy the Sasquatch a few years back and have been a fan ever since. Great fun.
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  203. I saw this video prior to this. I'm keen to hear your take. She was definitely a driver. A very good driver.
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  204.  @NebraskaGonvilleJones  Haha. Nah, mate. They were so intent on this fight they didn't care. But, I reckon if it was a pair of Browns I'd still do the same. It was just fascinating to watch. I'm just glad I could share it with people.
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  205.  @axle.australian.patriot  Thanks, mate. Yeah, pretty lucky to witness this.
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  206. Quokka. Think 'Rock'. 'Rock-a'. Quokka.
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  207. I like the longer vids, but shorter clips are cool. Yep, I remember this. Back in those days I never missed a race in the series.
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  208. Hi Maria. I worked for Ansett (air freight) in the 90s, before the airline got stolen from us. Yes, we have extremes of weather. Always have. But from my experience, the weather events are getting more intense and erratic.
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  209. I'm 2:45 in. You know I love your family, and I hope you know I don't tar all Americans with the same brush. However, I see a little proud American defensiveness creeping into your tone. I'm only a few minutes in and I haven't watched it all the way through, but mate, you deserve to have a little defensiveness. America isn't quite the shitshow it is sometimes portrayed to be. I've spent the past 20 years online and I haven't 'met' a shit American in chatrooms, BBS's, IRC, etc. ever. The only bias I have is that the US has an extreme level of mass shootings compared to any other country on the planet, including the lawless ones. Your citizens need to get that sorted, and you ALL need to start demanding free healthcare. For the supposed bastion of freedom the US claims to be, the government sure doesn't care about the people that live there when it comes to keeping them alive. It seems to me (from all I've seen and heard) that only the rich can afford proper health care. Anyway, I'm going to shut up and keep watching now that I've dumped my opinions in the thread.
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  210. 17:30 Wow! I like that idea. (This is not spam...honest) I have bought a whole heap of products from 'Coconut Bowls' recently. I bought a small sample pack first to see what the quality was like and then decided to order enough bowls, cutlery, and bamboo straws to send to all my rellies and friends. I know this isn't related to the restaurant giveaway thing, but the company has worked with locals to produce beautiful, inexpensive, sustainable bowls, cups and other products. Sorry, I know it is a tangent, but these bowls and stuff are awesome.
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  211. You knew that a bunch of Aussies were going to comment on this, hey. LOL.
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  212. I call most 'cookies', biscuits. Except for chocolate chip. I always call them chocolate chip cookies. Maybe a hangover from watching Sesame Street as a kid.
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  213.  @cbjones2212  He gave it a red hot go, but yeah, kinda missed it.
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  214. The doomsday fish is believed to rise to the surface from deep oceans when there is a deep undersea earthquake. Hence, the belief that catching one is a harbinger to a doomsday event likre a mega tsunami. I think the Japanese coined the term for the fish.
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  215. 500 miles, but I guess you figured that out. Prior to Australia going metric.
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  216. It never ceases to cynically amuse me when I hear our PM and Defence Minister warning about the dangers of China while at the same time exporting copious tonnes of coal and other raw materials to that country. It's no surprise that when Scott Morrison went to the latest climate summit, he had zero plans to cut coal production or fossil fuel dependence. One more interesting fact. If Australia's coal exports were included in our CO2 figures, we would be the largest emitter of greenhouse gasses on the planet.
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  217. I've seen Fj Holden, Dead-End Drive-in, The Man From Hong Kong, Midnite Spares, Running on Empty, and of course, Mad Max. All were fun movies.
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  218. Yeah, we got pretty wet. And I'm above flood levels. The amount of rain inundated the area where my fridge and washing machine live and stuffed them. Bus leaked and ruined the bus floor. Septic tank backed up for days. But hey, at least I didn't have a house to lose.
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  219. Big all-wheel-drive vehicles leave me in conflict. One the one hand, yeah, they're kick-ass and you can put a house on them. On the other hand, in reality, they are very restricted in where they can go both legally and physically. Plus, the damage they can do to tracks and dunes is horrendous. I know, the weight is distributed across six or eight axles and big tyres, but they still chew up tracks. However, I'd love to see them tackle the CREB track. Back in the 80s, the Cairns Electricity Board used an old WW! single track tank to get through there in the wet season, and that was when it was properly maintained.
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  220. LEGEND!!!!!!
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  221. Aboriginal people weren't counted in the official census figures until after a referendum in 1967. They had voting rights (except for a couple of states) but weren't counted in the population and separate laws applied to aboriginals. The referendum recognised them as citizens of Australia. Interestingly, there has been a common belief since the 1970s that aboriginals were classified under the 'Flora and Fauna' Act prior to the referendum. However, this claim has turned out to be a myth and originated as a metaphorical statement made by an academic who compared the lack of rights of aboriginal peoples to that of flora and fauna. To be honest, I think that the governments of the day spent most of their time pretending that aboriginal didn't exist, such was the way they were treated. It is no secret that Lang Hancock, a Western Australian mining magnate from the 60s and 70s, once approached the WA govt with an idea to put drugs in the water supply of remote aboriginal communities to render them sterile. Yes, even as late as the 60s/70s, genocide was discussed.
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  222. @andrewhall9175 Hey, mate. Yep, Finger limes are a true citrus (Citrus australasica). We have a few native citrus here.
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  223. Rock n Roll, Ian! Happy Thursday! This story was a cracker! I remember when this happened. You wouldn't be an Aussie if you didn't offer a fugitive a beer after he'd spent days in the mangroves.
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  224. In the 70s, we had a local warehouse-type grocery store here in Queensland called 'Franklins'. It was essentially a warehouse with stock in the bulk boxes. You had to write the price of the item on the packaging supplied Nikko pens. It was around half the price of regular supermarkets. They changed business model a few years later and eventually became a small-time supermarket business.
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  225.  @davidcarr2649  Your comedy writing would go over better if you kept it succinct.
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  226.  @blueycarlton  I'm mostly retired due to mental health issues (which may or may not explain something) ex-truck driver and IT geek. But I have worked in many professions/trades/stuff before doing anything long-term. I used to get bored really easy and would jump from job to job once I'd learned enough of that trade to be either barely proficient or just dangerous :)
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  227. PAUSE! 8:20 Nah mate, you're right. They're venomous. Extremely venomous. Actually, some of this video has some glaring errors, but I don't want to be the usual me and over-comment. Cheers.
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  228. Four minutes in and loving this! I'll be sure to share the original and your reaction video, Ian. Cheers buddy. I'm at the intermission (20:00). Yep, absolutely succinct. Love it.
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  229. The Kia Stinger is a formidable performance vehicle. It out-accelerates and out-performs the SS Commodores without trying. Rear-wheel drive 3.3l twin-turbo V6 with an 8-speed trannie, launch control and it has an LSD amongst other performance bits (Brembo brakes etc) and they're cheaper than a Commodore was/is.
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  230. Hey, mate! I at first thought that we'd had some algorithm match. This was a great video. I'm glad you liked it.
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  231. @xgford94  I reckon. Be safe, mate. Looks like you'll cop it.
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  232. @QuestionThingsUseLogic  Will do. Thank you.
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  233. Nice work.
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  234. When I lived in Rockhampton we had a day in March 1995 where it hit 42C (107F), but it gets higher in other places. LOL at the 'Artwork Ahead' sign. I have a photo of the safety sign on the other side that says 'End Artwork'. 7:10 WOW! That's way cool.
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  235. Rowan, I remember watching that movie and seeing the Kuranda railway tourist train and laughed my head off. Way funny!
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  236. Ah, the Salvos (or Sallies). A dear friend of mine's parents have been members for many years. Her dad is 80+, a Major (ret.), yet still takes donations at his local train station and plays trumpet in the local Salvos band. He's a really nice bloke.
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  237. I didn't watch the original. I figured you'd find it and react :)
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  238. Oh, my friend. When I was of an impressionable age, the 'Antz Pantz' "Sic 'em, Rex!" ad came out. Please, do a search and watch, react. A truly brilliant ad.
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  239. DIY all the way.
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  240. When I was about 3 years old, we lived on the Whitsunday islands because dad was drilling water bores on the big islands.
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  241. I like the exaggerated side-mirror mounts. These are similar to the Japanese car mod hobby of Bosozoku. Indonesia and Pakistan also have a subculture of decorated trucks.
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  242.  @looking8030  Winter, West of Winton. But apparently, he'd found it in the afternoon. It was night when he came into the mess. I was chased by a big Brown near Longreach once (Summer). Well, I was with the bloke who tried to coax it out from under some dozed up scrub and he passed me as it came out after him. I went in a different direction. It was a monster and it was fast. I had so much fun in the 70s LOL...
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  243. Memories of riding around in my mate's Canary Yellow Sandman. His GF in the front and me and anyone else in the back. Now, with the Sandman, in Summer, you had two choices when riding in the back. Back window closed and slowly cook in the back, or back window flipped up so some cooler air would suck in. The problem with the latter choice was if people in the front had their windows down, as they usually would, exhaust fumes would suck into the back. My mate's Sandman 253 ran really rich, so it was never a fun time.
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  244.  @victorchalker5148  The magnetic fuel parralerator? The device that aligned your car's chakras to provide more power and better fuel economy.
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  245. 'Packer', not 'Parker'.
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  246. 11:55 That graphic is awesome! Contrary to my previous comment, I do love the technology behind F1 racing cars. It is completely insane. Oh, Ian. If you read this, please have a look at some of the Formula E racing. I call it electric F1 and it's arguably 'quicker' and more entertaining due to the battery limitations. You don't get to refuel in F-E.
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  247.  @willynebula6193  Legend!
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  248. 4:19 If you look at the chrome pieces on the corners at the back window, they were supposedly designed to create a wind across the back window to keep the dust off them. And yep, they are louvres on the car. Very popular over here in the day as an optional extra. They're fixed, as in they don't move.
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  249. The Chicago NASCAR race was brilliant. I hope to see more US cities hosting street races. It would have been awesome even if SVG wasn't in the race.
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  250. I worked in Western QLD for a few years in oil search in the 70s. I would spend all day working in full sun in a pair of stubbies (shorts), thongs, and sometimes a hat. I have also spent some years living right on the coast, beachcombing, and camped just off the beach. I can attest that there is a difference in the way the sun 'burns' in central Australia compared to the coast. Further, the sun, or more, its UV rays from my experience are harsher further south compared to the tropical North. I grew up when the Ozone hole was a real concern, and remember the scientists on TV saying that it would take 20 or 30 years to see a reduction in the thinning of the Ozone layer (it's not a 'hole' per se) and to see any thickening at all. I recall reading some years ago that the 'hole' wasn't as big as it used to be but I haven't done any recent searching. Oh, no skin cancer yet as far as I know and the majority of my life has been in the full sun.
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  251. There was an old bloke lived in Proserpine in North Queensland who had a pet croc for 20+ years. It (in his words) mistook his hand for food one day and bit it clean off at the wrist.
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  252. 6:15 "Marge! Marge! The rains are here!" But, "Not Happy, Jan" is my favourite, and "Bugger". https://youtu.be/MdxfurkPuTo
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  253.  @SilvaDreams  But when mass media, advertising and social media tell people they NEED to have the latest and greatest otherwise you're worthless, then says, hey, you're fine on minimum wage, just budget better, it grates. It's much like the whole, 'work hard and you too could be a billionaire like me' attitude. It's rubbish. A living wage where people can pay rent and utilties, and food, and still be able to have some 'nice things' shouldn't be a big ask for the majority of the nation that carries the load. Paying someone 5 bucks an hour and then saying, "be nice to EVERY customer, no matter how big an arsehole they are, and you'll make rent this week" is no way to have to live.
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  254. Back in the 70s, on the Sunshine coast in Queensland, there was 'The House of Bottles. An entire house constructed using old beer bottles, with a 'tower' shaped like a stubbie bottle. Down the road was an entire castle, but not built from bottles. Pretty sure both attractions are long-gone..
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  255. 3:45 In Queensland, if you drive any sort of ute (pickup truck), especially a Hilux or BT-50 you are exempt from state road laws.
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  256. 3:28 I'm not quite sure, but that looks suspiciously like the Cape Tribulation Road over one of the ranges. But I could be way off. Definitely the Dry season but looks like that road. I drove over it hundreds of times some 10 years ago. EDIT: Aaah, that's why it's familiar. I've driven that road a few times as well.
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  257. It's happened again, Ian. We watched the same video at the same time...(fade in Twilight Zone theme music)
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  258. This was a great video, mate. Thank you for sharing.
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  259. WooHoo! Go bubba!
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  260. The drifters were very cool. Arguably better than the Sandman and Sundowner. Well, way better than the Sundowner (and I like Fords).
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  261. I like the old '71 ute with the 350. I'm old school. And I like the history of the old gems.
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  262. The accident compensation 'No win No pay' lawyers have exploded in Australia. Shine, Maurice Blackburn, and Slater & Gordon come to mind. Australia seems to follow US trends and overtake them to the extreme. For example, per capita, we own more mobile phones than the US. As for litigation, I remember being surprised many years how people in the US would sue for the slightest chance of a payout. Fast forward and today, Australia has a reputation as a leader in people starting trivial lawsuits. Toilets: Many years, a politician over here started a campaign to have toilet cubicle doors open outwards, rather than inwards. The rationale behind the campaign was that if someone collapsed in the toilet, they could block the door from opening if they collapsed against it, making rescue/first aid very difficult. Today most public toilet facilities have sliding or outward opening doors.
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  263.  @iankearns774  The main reason for the 'Queenslander' stilt style was for cooling, but yes, handy if you're in a flood zone or flood plain so long as you're not storing prized possessions under there.
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  264. You'd think he'd use reverse! LOLZ. On another note, I knew a truckie who picked up fish from Kuranda years ago, and when he'd back the trailer down the ramp to load directly from the boats, sometimes he'd have to hang the last two axles of the trailer over the edge of the ramp to reach the boat due to the tide. He was also a master of driving one of those rigs over that slippery red dirt around Normanton.
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  265. 2:00 No, that's not fun. That's bloody terrifying! It's not that easy to unhitch a harness while trying to get a door open, while trying to make sure you have the ability to hold enough air, while trying to figure out, once you get out of that car, which way is up in that sludge. Yeah, nah...f*** that...( just saw the end...thank the water gods it was just a muddy puddle)
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  266. Up where I'm from in Far North Queensland, there are...or maybe were because I think they've finally laid the corrugated concrete on all the steep bits... dirt sections of the Bloomfield Track that are as steep, or steeper. Almost impassable in the Wet, but tourists and some locals still attempt it. Another steep track is the old CREB Track. A challenge in the Dry, and smart people don't even think about it during the Wet season. All dirt. Extremely steep gradients. Worth doing a YouTube search for the CREB Track, Ian.
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  267.  @Thisismeeeeee  Oh yeah! The way they kind of popped and collapsed when you bit them because they were kind f hollow inside.
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  268. Keyboard trick with YouTube videos: If you pause the video, you can use the ',' and '.' keys (comma and period/full stop) to go frame by frame forward or backward.
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  269. Twisties. Arguably my favourite Aussie-born snack. Cheese or Chicken. Don't need any fancy stuff. Oh, and you put a Cheezel on each finger and slowly munch on them. My second favourite. Then Cherry Ripes.
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  270.  @wetcat833  Yep. Which is kinda why the regulations were changed. Using out-of-spec wire led to a few electrocutions over the years...lol
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  271. One minor lapse of concentration away from a potential Darwin Award. This is absolutely nuts and I love it! Like Block's almost fall off this same road.
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  272.  @kraeboi3422  This one only had a chance to bite in. I felt the itch, felt the tick and assumed it was just a Brown tick. But when the poison hit, I knew it. I even went to the doctor a few days later which is kinda rare for me.
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  273. 1:30 BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Chortle, choke, gasp, LOL and LOL again. Ya did well, mate :)
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  274.  @busterbell871n  Ah, okay. But hey, I'm Aussie. I'm still learning :)
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  275. 12:30 Translation: US Public Land is equivalent to Australian State Forest, National Parks, and the old 'Common Land' that rarely exists in Australia today.
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  276. 5:35 I think that in Australia, we'd call that a cute decoration. That thing isn't stopping a bullock or even a big roo.
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  277. Rock n Roll, mate! How cool is that?
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  278. 5:20 Okay, I'm calling Moo Poo here. My guess is, that they have a prototype V16 and couldn't supply the motor. If you can afford to buy the first of a particular 'supercar', you don't 'choose' a V8 based on your local laws.
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  279. Sorry for the multiple comments. I became a fan of modern military aircraft when I worked airside in the freight industry. I got to meet an FA-18 pilot before an airshow in our city. He described how efficient the aircraft was by stating that one of these jets could take from Brisbane some 800km away and release ordinance on our city of 75000 people, completely wiping it out before anyone knew what was going on. On the days before the show, he showed everyone at the airport how nimble the aircraft was by taking off and instantly going vertical until he was out of sight. Insane weaponry.
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  280. Marree man was made in the 50s I think, before GPS etc
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  281. Ian, can I highly recommend doing some searches for 'Toots Holzheimer;. She was a legend in her own lifetime as a semi driver carting freight from Cairns up through Cape York for many years. Here's a start: https://youtu.be/jM1J6ih1uTI
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  282. It's trippy. In the early 80s, a friend related a trip he did to Europe in the late 70s and they had a heatwave there where people died and the locals were swimming in the Trafalgar Square fountain. It was 23C. I really feel for folks in Europe suffering these (for them) extreme heat conditions. I can only come to grips with this by considering how I'd handle a Winter averaging 2C. I feel confident that one of two things would happen: 1: I'd stay inside in the warmth all Winter and go broke buying gas for my heater.. 2: I'd go outside for 20 minutes and die. I can't cope comfortably with 15C.
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  283. A million bucks? I could buy a thousand acres up in Far North Queensland and build a fully self-sufficient home right in the middle of it and still have change to buy a ute and a boat and throw a party. LOLZ!
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  284. They're a lovely-looking and sounding motorcar. I'd have one. They'd be a ton of fun.
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  285. 2:35 Cairns is pronounced like 'cans'. Forget the 'R'. As someone suggested, it's on the North East coast, not West. Also, things get better once you head North of Cairns. The North used to be my stomping ground. 6:40 Yep, you got the pronunciation correct. I currently live in BrisVegas. 11:10 Yep, that's the 'MCG', Melbourne Cricket Ground. Considered by some the home of AFL. Up until a year or so ago, you could climb Uluru. However, due to its cultural value and importance, climbing the rock was stopped. If you hunt for 'Rozalyn Veersma', Roz's Moto Adventure Ride Australia on YT, her video where she visits Kata-tjuta and Uluru will give you an idea of just how big 'The Rock' is. It's episode 208, https://youtu.be/PAYS2gWZzrM We have over 600 National Parks. The US has around 400. Cheers buddy.
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  286. Ian is all rally fanboy now. That's very cool. Personally, rally is far more technical and dangerous than any other mortorsport. These guys drive at the very edge of no control. They allow themselves to let their vehicle slip and slide and then correct the uncontrol to continue driving. It's pure driving.
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  287. I'm now getting to finish watching this. Lowes is a clothing store that caters for big blokes (and us little fellas).
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  288. 8:00 Fun fact. When I lived in Far North Queensland ten years ago, there was a public phone in the village near where I lived, and one in the community further down the road. You couldn't use coins in the phone. You had to buy a phone card from the local store if you wanted to make a call. Why? Because in remote areas where there isn't surveillance or lots of witnesses, phone booths that took cash were a gold mine for travelers or locals short on cash. Making them free was a wise economical decision with respect to maintenance and repair by Telstra.
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  289. Ian, wild kangaroos (and even domesticated ones) can be real arseholes. They'll get an idea in their head that some random human is a threat and will attack if you don't back down. Many Australian zoos have open areas where people can interact with kangaroos because greys are generally kind of okay when they've had a lot of human interaction. however, the zoos also have areas where the roos can go to get a break from humans and they also have signs warning people not to let their kids approach a roo unsupervised. They can hurt. I have spent a fair portion of my life in the scrub seeing everything from Rock Wallabies to big Red Kangaroos, and I wouldn't approach or have a stand-off with a wild roo. I'd shoot it and eat it if I had to but I wouldn't try and make friends with it. I'd much prefer to admire them from a distance if they weren't my food item for the day.
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  290. 2:00 Exactly, Ian. The navigator is calling corners about 3-seconds or so ahead of where they are. As a driver, it would take me a long time to get my head around that.
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  291. Kenny seems really upset that his series has been somehow disrespected by people applauding a foreign driver for winning. I also think he was highly offended when one of the NASCAR drivers in an interview asked the hypothetical question, "Do we suck?" Geez. C'mon, man. We love (or at least I do) enjoy all motorsports. And Kenny saying, "They all want to come and race with us..." is an untruth. Drivers from all different classes and types swap and change. I agree with you, Ian. Rally drivers are the best drivers. I doubt a NASCAR driver would be able to deal with that style of racing.
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  292. Pretty sure (after some searching) that Hell Razor ran an 8-litre. Apparently Higgins supplied the heads, and were also involved with Perkins racing back in the day when he was winning Bathurst.
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  293. I'm up to the pricing thing. Yep, lots of money, and yes, it can be done cheaper. However, if you want a good quality, robust, and comfortable setup that you could live in 24/7, and could go to just about any vehicle accessible place in the country, then the entire cost, including the vehicle, is a wise investment. If I had the money, I'd be spending big too.
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  294. Hahaha! Yes! We did too!
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  295. A little history. Back in the 90s, lamb was one of the cheapest meats you could buy. I used to get it for about 1 dollar a kilo for entire side of lamb, cut into chops, roasts etc by the local butcher. That works out to about 20 dollars for roughly a month's worth of meat for a family. The board that oversees lamb sales and production decided that that wasn't good enough and embarked on an advertising campaign to increase the popularity of the meat. It started with, of all people, Tom Cruise. The ad campaign became super famous and lamb rocketed to the top of the popularity list (and cost). Nowadays, lamb is one of the most expensive regular meats you can buy in Australia. There are many, many classic lamb adverts. If you're interested, this is the first (I think) lamb ad that started the phenomenon: https://youtu.be/fH_Ar2h6Q-U And for another take on the ad, watch this one after you watch that first one: https://youtu.be/m3r33HmAfyo
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  296. 9:55 He surfed through part of that with his skid pad like a surfboard.
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  297. 6:48 The Nibiru, Flat Earth, and alien invasion conspiracy theorists will LOVE that image.
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  298. My Milo method: Two tablespoons of Milo, then top with milk. Stir n stir n stir n stir. Eat the undissolved Milo off the top. Test taste the milk. It will obviously be too weak. Add another 2 tablespoons of Milo. Stir n stir n stir n stir. Eat the undissolved Milo off the top. Now enjoy sipping on that wonderfully Milo-infused milk. Optional: Put the final Milo mix in the freezer for half an hour to get it really cold.
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  299.  @stevenbalekic5683  Not sure what your point is, but, okay...
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  300. 8:35 Australia, in particular, NSW has such a high density of poker machines that in some areas, there is 1 machine for every 18 people in the district. So, imagine a suburb of say, fifty thousand. That's about 3000 thousand poker machines. Now, extrapolate that across a population of about 5 to 8 million around Sydney...
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  301.  @aussieausdeutschland4245  Yes. They live in my old stomping ground.
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  302.  @Apokalypse456  I've never tried Alligator. I'd assume crocodile is similar. Crocodile is very bland. It needs to marinate or have a good sauce. I wouldn't eat it again unless it was a survival situation. I prefer to see them in the wild. Much the same with Kangaroo. But I'd hunt kangaroo and wild pig if I was in the bush, rather than hike 150km to a store.
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  303. When I was in my teens, there was Citroen of that era in our neighbourhood. Sometimes you'd see three or four different ones in a week because (unknown to me) other Citroen Club members would visit his place. As a result, I thought they were just normal, everyday cars that lots of people owned. But no, not quite.
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  304. I sometimes feel that a lot of people in the US will live in poverty and work their guts out all their life because they were brainwashed into that old trope, 'If you work hard enough, you can become rich and successful in the US'. The same mantra is chanted over here as well, but thankfully, our wage system allows people who work hard enough to have a healthy credit rating, even if they have no spare cah after paying their house payments and hire-purchasepayments.
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  305. I'm a big fan of Jackalopes. A hare with deer antlers? How cool is that?
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  306. If you automatically throw comments with links into the spam bucket, there'll be one from me in there with some links to videos about Wujal Wujal in Yalanji lands.
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  307. 10:10 Enough of my incessant commenting. Just know that I'm tripped out by these trucks. I want one!
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  308. I spent all of my high school years and a few after that, living in this area. The chook shed collection was spoken about in whispers amongst us tappet heads. Some claimed to have seen them. Some claimed to know the person who owned them. It took years before the myth was found to be true blue. I also knew a bloke from Bald Hills who had every car he or his father had owned lined up in the backyard, from Model A and T's to a 58 Plymouth hardtop, through to HR Holdens and others. More than a dozen cars and a couple of ancient motorcycles. I dunno what happened to all those cars.
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  309. 9:51 3 hours? Three hundred kilometres. That's just down the road in most parts of Australia. However, in the cities, in peak hour, a three hour drive might literally be, just down the road.
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  310. G'day mate...yes, you've become an Aussie. Now all you need to do is try Coopers beer.
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  311.  @fugawiaus  I modeled my teenage dating strategy on Rex. It was quite successful...
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  312. Yeah, we copped some serious rain. The rain in the Southeast was what should have fallen up around Cairns way this time of year. The monsoon trough has been creeping South for the past 30 years...but climate change isn't a thing...
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  313.  @billylionisnotagoat  Well, no. Not a 90cm move. The monsoon trough has progressively 'licked' south over the past 20 odd years. I have seen it progressively reach further South since I was a kid of 13. This year I watched the trough throw south and that system that moved down from about Bundaberg right through into NSW was something that is seen closer to the equator. It was a slow-moving rain pattern that dumped Far North Wet season rains some 1800km further south than normal. It may just have been an anomaly, but given the plethora of weather anomalies across the planet, I'll lean towards Climate Change on a more extreme scale than continental shift. I hear you, but to change our climate the way it's been changing in my lifetime, Australia would have to be where PNG is now if the continental drift was a factor.
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  314.  @marco_grt4460  I guess for spotters, guides and other crew if we're talking about wide loads and other heavy loads. I was impressed with the obvious safety features and sport-style seats.
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  315. The East and West Berlin light patterns and the reason behind them was fascinating.
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  316. Irukanji are nasty little buggers. I know a bloke who grew up in Cooktown and has spear fishing and hand netted since he was a kid up there. When an irikanji hits him, all he does is get itchy. Like really itchy. But the itch goes away after a few hours. True story.
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  317. In Australia, as with, I assume, anywhere else on the planet, including the US, you can buy imperial, metric, or both in a tape measure. But hey, dumb Americans ( not you or your family my brother).
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  318. There is a phrase that was coined in Australia after Steven won that Gold in the speed skating. When someone has a win when they would normally have no chance of success, it's called 'Doing a Bradbury'.
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  319. Nomm! Nomm!
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  320.  @Happymali10  That's them. Yeah, found both. Sportka, Ka's Evil Twin...
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  321. American Chargers were awesome too. We had a 'Chrylser by Chrysler'. A luxury Valiant in 2 or 4 door with options up to a 360 V8. They had the wrap around front bumper as well. I owned one for a while that had a completely rebuilt and toughened engine, torqueflite and an LSD.
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  322.  @AndrewFishman  Yep. Over the years I've hitch-hiked and driven between Brisbane and Cairns quite a few times. I've also done Rockhampton to Griffith, and Rocky to Milton (South of Sydney) a few times. We live in a big country. At the tender age of 12, in the 70s, I drove with my parents back from Perth to Brisbane. That was a journey. Three days all up because we had to repair the radiator on the Nullarbor after a kangaroo hit. That took about 8 hours out of the trip.
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  323.  @AndrewFishman  Ah, cool. My ex's father owned and ran the Post Office at Milton. One of his four daughters runs it now. It's a beautiful old building, dating from the 1800s.
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  324. 31:35 I played that endlessly on PC back in the day. And mostly the Bathurst track.
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  325. When I first left school and entered the workforce (here in Australia) in the 70s, it was normal to have a 20-minute 'smoko' (morning break) around 9 or 10am, depending on when you started work, and an hour for lunch, usually around 12 or 1pm. Nowadays I think that most workplaces have a 10-minute morning break and a half-hour lunch.
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  326. 6:15 I did some searching, knowing that the car was obviously something available, or built in Australia in the 60s. I first thought maybe a Sunbeam, then I thought maybe Austin. Finally, I went image-searching for Singer Motor Cars. This is most likely a 1960-ish Singer Gazelle.
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  327. Posting a link to your Suggestions video (sorry, posted multiple) thing. I have one coming with the World Record truck tow...which of course happens here in Australia.
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  328. 11:08 This is on my 'get there one day' list. You young folk may refer to it as a bucket list LOL. I too have been a dabbler in photography since I was a kid and was given a KODAK Instamatic camera and a box of flashes.
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  329. Emoo is so funny!
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  330.  @MrKnowledge0014  I was thinking n terms of torque, and when they use the boost mode or whatever they call it. I'm only an F-E noob at the moment.
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  331. Yep, we're old. Sixty-odd thousand years of indigenous habitation and hundreds of millions of years of dinosaur habitation. We're a very lucky country. Oh hey, look up a song called 100 Smokes To Kununurra by The Roadtrippers. It may give you some ideas to make a video following the places mentioned in the song. Start at The Lion's Den Hotel at Helenvale in Far North Queensland.
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  332. I was told that kid falling out of the plane was in Africa.
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  333. @Danger_Mouse3619  thanks for the clarification
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  334. 4:45 I believe that is a 1963 EJ Holden Special or Premier with the Whitewall tyre option but no rear louvre in the rear window. I could be way wrong though. And they don't look like option whitewalls so could be aftermarket given the pic was taken in 1969.
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  335. It's Mad Skelli! Wasteland Firebird's camera person.
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  336. I've driven a left-hand drive '68 Mustang over here on the left side of the road. Now that's an interesting experience. It also taught me that once you're inside an old Mustang, driving it down the street, the entire 'Mustang Magic' feeling fades. Yeah, nice looking car. But it's just an old car with a nice paint job and a V8.
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  337. The beauty of drifting down a mountain at night is that you can't see the impending death over the side of said mountain...
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  338. 7:10 I've always known that what the media says about the border country was just propaganda. When two societies live close together like that (ignoring Isreal/Palestine), the locals tend to socialise and share their 'cultures' socially with no conflict.
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  339. I knew a Systems Engineer in the late 70s (these guys were rare and earned 700 bucks a day back then) who had his home base in Pattaya. He didn't say too much but yeah, big house, lots of staff, an international model for a wife. You know, normal stuff.
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  340. The 'Cursed Map' shows the Mediterranean Sea inside Australia.
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  341. Mate, if it gets a bit foggy over here, people begin to go into armageddon mode.
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  342. That Thrifty car rolled nine times in about six seconds. That would have been an insane ride.
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  343.  @Matt09pearce  At the apex of the bend, he was doing about 120mph, while the cars on the racing line were doing 60. So yeah, I reckon when he slingshotted out of that bend he would have been hooking in hard.
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  344. I've seen a video like this before, but this one gave me some perspective. The wheels on that machine are taller than the humans climbing around on the machine.
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  345. My friend, most Aussie kids have no clue about our history. It's a result of the dumbing down in the education system. Yes, there are kids out there who are aware, but many don't want to know. Can't blame them. Society is making the future hard for our kids.
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  346.  @fugawiaus  I was a bit earlier. I've probably forgotten more than I learned lol
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  347.  @whitebloodism  Dark Blue. It was a bit rough, but still a fun ride.
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  348. Righto then. Kununurra ... pronounce all the 'U's like nun. And, as a lad that's lived in remote communities and knows a little language from a couple of community clans, aboriginal language is really hard to pronounce from printed words.
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  349. Ian, education is wanting in every country. I'd suggest Aussie kids have an enclave of clueless kids too.
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  350. Drummer Boy. No, buddy. Two males. One came into the domain of the other. There is a pair (the female is much bigger) that live in and around the shed and another male came in and tried to move in on old mate's territory. Pretty sure this fight started in the rafters and they fell down onto my toolbox. I'll post the full video some time.
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  351.  @roninsghost108  Yep. He was doing well. Impressive passing manoeuvre at the bottom of the chase.
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  352. My soulmate and I lived out of a 60 series Landcruiser wagon (early 80s model) for 4 years or more. It was a brilliant vehicle. Up North where I call home, a 3WD is a pretty common family vehicle because you need something a bit tougher than your family sedan.
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  353. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Chortle, choke, gasp, LOL and LOL again. Ya did well, mate :)
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  354. 7:10 Agreed. The head on that tripod is some serious tech.
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  355.  @vajoynus  But the problem is, you end up doing terrible things to each other because of that pseudo freedom. I mean seriously, it would probably cost you 1 or 2 percent more in income tax to have free healthcare for all. Isn't that a fair price to pay so that everyone has equitable access to healthcare?
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  356. Angry bees, man! It's an altogether different sound to a lumpy cam V8, but I love both notes :)
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  357.  @littlecatfeet9064  Yeah, it was weird but cool in its day.
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  358. Black Mountain has always fascinated me from the first time I saw it in 1982. Then I got to live fairly close to it some 30 years later. EDIT: I used to drive a bus from Wujal Wujal to Cooktown, taking dialysis patients to the hospital. When we drove through the gap at Black Mountain, my passengers stayed quiet so as not to disturb the spirits.
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  359. Green tree Frog. They grow big!
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  360. Did you know that Australia invented cask/boxed wine? Do a search for old 'where will you hide your Coolibah' ads. They are classics.
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  361. Just sayin', besides the Cadbury Flake ads, the 'Charter Boat' ad was my favourite. I pissed myself almost literally when I first saw it.
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  362. 13:32 A Sulpher=Crested Cockatoo. If you look for old 'Arnott's' labels, you'll see a sketch of this very thing happening...a cockatoo eating a SAO biscuit.
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  363. I was going to suggest this stuff some time ago. They have entire shows where they move dirt with dozers and buckets and dump trucks, crane freight onto trucks, and tow thing in huge stadiums. It's insane!
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  364. Bwahahaha! Yeah, Eastern Browns are cranky buggers if you harass them. Whenever I see one, I just stop, and watch where it goes. I've seen some absolute idiots hassling Browns.
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  365. The second one I thought might have been Perth but then thought maybe Adelaide. The third one is definitely Ferny Grove, and that bus company is from my old neighbourhood area. I know it's Ferny Grove because I used to deliver groceries to a house near Archdale Rd.
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  366.  @axle.australian.patriot  I'd love to see that IRL. I've seen a croc in the 'surf' up near Cooktown, and mates who fish out on the reef have told me about crocs laying on the sand near a coral island 10km offshore. I like sea snakes. They move so smoothly.
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  367.  @TrashskillsRS  Yeah, I followed the Brexit saga. Not in detail but yeah, it's been a sh_tshow.
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  368. 6:25 I go outside at night to kill cane toads. However, this monster? Yeah, I'd call the museum and give it to them alive. The average size toad I kill is about 300gms and 10 to 15cm long. This thing is/was a dinosaur of crocodile proportions.
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  369. Who'd have thought that only a year or so later, Lakeside Raceway would host a Grand Prix, as would Mt Panorama.
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  370. 8:35 HOLY WATER TRAPS BATMAN! That was mad!
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  371. I was looking at the first one thinking, "Yeah, Queensland, back of Brisbane", then saw the QWarrandyte SP sign and knew I was way off. A quick search told me how far off I was.
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  372. 4:30 You hit the nail on the head and an example was happening as you spoke...LOL
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  373. I much prefer fresh-cooked doughnuts. I can get them at Wendy's.
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  374. That's a Vitamin B overdose right there!
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  375.  @daveg2104  That's a funny history when you consider that Cook crashed into the reef LOL. In my early and even high school education on the East coast never really mentioned the Dutch. It was only when I lived in Perth that it was considered important.
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  376. 21:30 I remember the (justified) hype around population growth back hit the year 2000 and 6 billion people. The population growth of humans is similar to a plague. We're very close to reaching 8 billion today.
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  377. My dream 'home on wheels' manifested in my thoughts when I first saw (I think) a Daihatsu or Isuzu 6WD long-nose truck. I thought from that day that if I won a lottery, I'd buy a 6WD drive bare tray chassis and build the most kick-arse, go-anywhere self-contained/sufficient truck that my winnings could build.
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  378. I met a family that were into Excel racing. They told me it's about the cheapest car racing series you can get into. Spend a few dollars on safety and you're basically racing.
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  379. Ian, you know I've been subbed to your channel for quite some time. However, can I just thank you (maybe) again for pronouncing Australian towns and cities like a proper Australian? One thing though. You can pronounce 'Australia' the way you do 'Ostralia', or you can also pronounce it, 'Ahstralia', Just a short 'ah' ...'Asrtralia'.
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  380. 2:20 I'll wild guess a suburb in Brisbane. Maybe Ferny Hills or close by. EDIT: 2:44. I'm wrong. They're NSW number plates.
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  381. 00:44 That Valiant is the same colour as my old VE.
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  382. Ian, maybe don't open the cellophane on those 'Final Chapter' books...or open them and show us. Either or...that's a pretty special gift.
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  383. 10:25 I spent nearly 2 weeks isolated after a cyclone without power, phone, or access to anywhere. Our access road was impassable due to downed trees, and of course, the power lines were taken down by the trees. I feel for Kalgoorlie people, especially when you consider it is a city, not some backwoods road where I lived. And it's a result of poor power supply reliability, not a natural disaster.
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  384. 3:45 "...The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead When the skies of November turn gloomy...".
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  385. I knew an old Turkish bloke once who wouldn't buy fresh bread. He always asked the local baker to store a loaf or two for a few days for him. I've heard that a lot of old folk (like, older than me!) prefer to buy 'day old bread' from the bakery. Apparently healthy enzymes develop in the bread if it's allowed to stand for a day or so.
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  386.  @tropicsalt.  True mate. But I'll need to move on soon. I'll miss my wild friends but hey, progress deems this last bit of rural land here will be subdivided into 62 housing units. I don't own it so I have no say in its future :(
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  387.  @petethebastard  Nah, mate. Fighting. Two males competing over the big female that's lived here for years.
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  388.  @rasmuswi  True. I often wonder why people would camp in bear country or in Puma country. As you say, it's what you're used to. I've camped and lived near rivers full of crocodiles. The thing about crocs is they are often not seen. I've had to warn German tourists in a campervan not be swimming at the boat ramp near my old home. Yes, they were bathing at a boat ramp in a river that has at least 5 crocs over 3-metres and more smaller ones, and crocs were regularly seen around the ramp.
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  389.  @prestonwestend1278  Ah, of course. That would be a good explanation.
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  390.  @crunchytheclown9694  Dad worked on mobile drill rigs when I was a young fella. We travelled from the SA deserts to the Whitsundays drilling water bores and doing core tests for coal etc. I'm QLD born but have travelled around. However, I've lived or worked throughout most of Queensland except the Granite Belt and Gold Coast areas. I consider my spiritual country up around Cooktown and the coastal areas south east of there. Kuku Yalanji and gugu yimmithrr country.
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  391.  @crunchytheclown9694  I've only got 2 years on you. Born late '63.
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  392. @IMissMyScrotum Yep. One of these males has lived in and around this shed with a 3-metre female for 4 years that I'm aware. This new lad came in yesterday and tried his luck. At the end, the interloper retreated with the victor riding its back like a jockey! I'll post the full edit as soon as possible.
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  393. As an old truckie from a past life, I was always aware of the fact when driving cab-over style trucks that my legs were at the very front of the truck. Any type of head-on crash and the driver of a cab-over truck, especially smaller body trucks are exposed to impact. And let's not talk about an incident that might cause the cab stay pins to fail, leading to the cab tipping forward in front of the truck. Case in point. That truck racing video Ian reacted to a few days ago.
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  394. Fairy Bread. Butter a slice of bread and sprinkle Hundreds and thousands on it.
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  395. Merry Christmas iWrocker Fam! I can't help but think that in this internet/web world we live in, there has to be at least another one or two YouTubers sitting in their cars in that carpark reviewing CosMc's new foods. I delayed watching this...but after watching it, I kinda hope to see CosMc's over here. Critically speaking, I think this takeaway shop is offering a range of items similar to many other FF outlets, but in a convenient drive-thru scenario. I'd try the food, even though I haven't been to a Maccas in years.
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  396. I started following this lady some time back on Instagram, then discovered she has her own YouTube channel. She has a very special relationship with the birds in her garden and neighbourhood. The ones here will come down and feed near me but they don't hang around much. The dog is the main reason, even though she doesn't chase them. But other dogs do so they don't get too close. Yeah, I'd love to have this happening around here.
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  397. Crazy? No, far worse. They become effing idiots! I had an accident in my mid-twenties because my off-sider was chewing my ear and i wasn't watching. Distractions...
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  398.  @Alberthoward3right9up  Well, yeah :)
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  399. @Jus Cals Yep. I've had the pleasure of either owning or regularly driving early models and others. Foresters, WRXes, and hatchbacks. I learned that Foresters will go most places a regular 4WD will go but you need to rev high and dump them because they just won't crawl up a hill. You need to give them some throttle. I am a bit of an idiot, so I've put Foresters in places that Foresters weren't designed to go...
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  400.  @Alberthoward3right9up  True that. I've driven a Sportswagon too. Great cars. Yeah, clearance and mud (and deep sand) are their Achilles heel. I pulled a camping trailer up a steep, rutted gravel hill that a Landcruiser with no extra weight struggled to climb. Difference was, that I had to keep the momentum and revs up. They tend not to 'walk' up rough hills like a low range cruiser will do.
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  401.  @Alberthoward3right9up  Hehe. Well, our 'camper' trailer was much the same. A 6x4 with all our camping crap in it LOL. I'm currently sorting out a 2005 V6 4.0l SOHC Ford Courier Cab. It's only a 2WD but is a hi-lift model with an 1800x1800 tray. I've rebuilt the motor and am starting on the back. Eventually, I'll mount a winch on the front so I can drag it through crappy country.
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  402.  @Alberthoward3right9up  Kia, Hyundai, and the other 'Asian' manufacturers have surpassed European and US manufacturers in quality and reliability in leaps and bounds. I would buy a new Mahindra 4WD (Indian-made) over any other 4WD on the market today. They have standard equipment (Eaton diff-locker, ladder frame chassis, 9-star safety rating etc) that you would expect to pay 90K for, for 38K Australian. I'm talking full bash bars and roo bar, winch, blah blah BLAH. And, the running gear is taken from the engineering of the tractors Mahindra is famous for...like, the biggest manufacturer of tractors worldwide. I was a long-time Landcruiser devotee, but the new Mahindra makes them look like Tonka toys.
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  403.  @Alberthoward3right9up  It has the clearance in spades. I've driven a commondore (yes, I spelled it that way) with a 'country pack' up and down the Bloomfield track in the dry season, so yeah, I reckon this thing will be okay. I'm more worried about the fuel consumption. I've even replaced the regular clutch-type fan with an electric setup to try and save some tiny bit of fuel and gain some HP or torque.
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  404.  @Alberthoward3right9up  The standard on mine is a large, clutch assisted fan. I will pick up minimal savings with the swap out (twin fans...check my profile), but given the trouble I had with the clutch one, the electric worked out far less expensive and easier :). I got the fan assembly for free. All I had to do was modify the mounts and wire them up. I've made some really short, really amateur videos of the journey so far.
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  405. That tree in the Daintree is a Strangler Fig. They start growing ina fork of a tree after a bird has passed the seed. As they grow, they send 'roots' down the outside of the host tree and eventually wrap around and strangle it. The now dead tree rots away leaving that latticework of what are now essentially multiple trunks of the Strangler Fig. The process takes many years and there are some spectacular examples in the forests. Do a search for the curtain fig, found up on the Atherton Tablelands. The one I've linked to is a little long but also takes you for a drive around some of the area before getting to the fig tree itself. https://youtu.be/akONYFvpWqI
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  406. This comment needs to be pinned!
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  407. Very cool boots!
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  408. 8:05 The design on the top of the lid looks like an homage to the Blue and White 'Willow' pattern on classic Chinese dinnerware and pots.
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  409. This is a bit trippy. I watched this exact video a few days and when you uploaded this, I thought, "did I recommend this video?" But I don't think I did. Agro was awesome.
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  410. Maaate, three videos in one day? I'm having trouble keeping up :)
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  411. I actually waited until the end before commenting. That's just some weird '5 Things' video. Defs a great clickbait title for the creators.
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  412. I used to camp up at a National Park in Central Queensland and it was similar there. For many years goannas and kookaburras and other wildlife were fed by people. Anyway, I was up there one year and as you did back in the day, I decided to feed a goanna some raw sausage. I was squeezing he sausage meat out of the end of the sausage, being sure not to get my thumb in the way as the big lizard rose on its hind legs to grab the meat. I did this right up to the last bit of sausage. It was at the end of my thumb as I stretched my hand out towards the lizard. It was just then that I realised how stupid I was. I was pulling my hand back when the goanna grabbed at the sausage mince...and got my thumb. I had multiple razor-like cuts along my thumb. I was just intelligent enough to thoroughly wash the wound and apply disinfectant and antiseptic straight after. Yeah, those teeth are like tiny razor blades.
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  413. 'Most' and 'most'...I was confused by the title until I started watching...
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  414. Our ingredients are ordered by weight in the product.
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  415. Oh, awesome! Thank you for this! Show us more, please! Heading down the shops tomorrow to get the stuff I need to make these. I have a dry fryer but I'll pan fry them I reckon.
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  416. Sorry for the timestamp and rambling stuff but man... 2:30 Yep, Ian. We had/have the 300/Cs and the Chargers. Had a drag racing acquaintance in a city I lived in who owned a tweaked 300C with the 5.7 litre. It was all Black and in Chrysler 300C terms, it was a sleeper. For context, he owned and ran a Top Fuel drag racing team with a full workshop. The car got the treatment. His car made me want a big 300C. I still want one 16-odd years later. 2:47 I'm commenting as I go, so there may be more further on, but that Pink Dodge reminds me of a '58(?) Plymouth Hardtop that someone offered to sell me for 700 bucks in 1977 when I was a young car nut of fourteen. It was a 318 with a push-button auto on the dash. Not inlet manifold and it had been sitting with no bonnet/hood for many years. Anyway, I raced home on my pushbike/dragster the five kilometres/3 miles home and proceeded to beg and plead with my dad to loan me the money. I raved and raved about the thing and he said no. I was gutted. 3:20 I had a Fawn '74, 245 Charger for a few months in 1983 before I near killed myself in it. That's way too long a tale to tell here...lolz 3:33 I bought one of these, a VG, for 300 bucks in 1993 from a bloke. I drove it home and started to work on it from front to back. I stripped out the flooring and it was pristine. In fact, from the front to the back of the rear quarter panels was pristine...the rear quarter panels had been stuffed with chicken wire and bog. The entire rear bottom 18 inches of the car was bog, wire and prayers under a so so paint job. He used to back it into the river with his boat trailer... 9:03 I love the Australian Ford coupes (XA/B/C) from that era but I too feel the Chargers had their own style that just said 'Muscle Car'. 9:23 I think that's a 'Chrysler by Chrysler', the luxury model that Chrysler/Valiant released over here in the 70s. I had one of these in 2004 that just needed paint and a new electric fuel pump before it was ready to roll. Worked 360, 727 Torqueflyte(?), LSD. Then someone decided to put a wallaby carcass in the back seat (we lived in the bush) to keep it from the dogs overnight and then forgot to tell anyone. I found it four weeks later...I sold the drivetrain for 1500 bucks on the condition that they took the entire vehicle away on purchase. I've had a few more Valiant/Chryslers but this comment may not even make it. It is a bit long.
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  417.  @barath4545  Mate, I'd go outside to the barbecue to eat, keep plenty of beer in the cold room and invite mad friends to come socialise at the block. I don't mind the city but I need a bit of country to keep my head sane.
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  418.  @shagged-kf7nj  Just sayin, they were a big influence on me as a kid. But Jack Absalom was an even bigger influence.
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  419. A quiet warning. Tasmania has the highest density of Drop-Bears than any other part of Australia.
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  420.  @AndrewFishman  Ah, yes, the Hop Hog. Oh, and James Squire's Hop Thief.
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  421. I have way too many stories to tell about the adventures I've had in many of these Nat. Parks in Queensland. I could write a book.
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  422. 6:55 I didn't notice the placement of the video side mirrors before this shot. That's clever. It would really suck if the cameras failed though.
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  423. I lived up North close to an aboriginal community, Wujal Wujal. The town's welcome signs said: "Wujal Wujal A place so nice, you say it twice". But in the local language (Kuku Yalanji) it means 'many falls' or 'lots of water'. The area has many magnificent waterfalls and beautiful creeks and rivers in the rainforest.
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  424. Yeah, I call all of them utes. I've got a hi-lift Courier Crew cab with a tray back but to me, it's still a ute. If it can't carry 4 tonnes of freight at least, it's not really a truck over here. We do have trucks that carry 2-tonne, but they're just baby trucks or glorified utes.
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  425. Ah, home. I lived at the Northern end of the Daintree, up Wujal Wujal, Bloomfield way. I'll be going home at some stage.
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  426. Wow! One percent! That's seriously dry!
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  427.  @IWrocker  You can have some of ours :)
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  428. 4:00 The water is higher now too.
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  429. 4:50 Ian, search for 'Cooktown Underwater videos' to see what lives under the Cooktown wharf, my old stomping ground. You'll be spun out.
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  430.  @michaelvanderham217  I see what you did there...
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  431. Full respect for old-school NASCAR. Just like Australia's early production car series that helped cement Bathurst as the best race track on the planet...REAL wheels.
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  432. I had a mate in the mid-80s over here who had a fully imported Euro-spec RS2000 Escort. He'd made further mods, including a custom LED dashboard (he was an electronics geek), and had fat low-profile tyres before they were cool as well as competition suspension. He took me for a run one night and threw 180 handbrake turns at 100kmh, and drove it like a race ca around town for a while. It was an angry little beast of a 2-door. He went on a holiday and asked me to look after his pride and joy...and I did...until temptation got the better of me and I took it for a drive. Holy shitballs Batman! I flogged this thing. It was a magnet to the road and had no discernable body roll and was very quick. On the way home I took the t-junction corner at about 60kmh. It was slightly off-camber and I got a bit of understeer, hit the gutter, and destroyed one of his $250 rims. I got it home, changed out the spare, and left the busted rim in the boot. Of course, when he got home he inspected the car, saw that there were more miles on the odometer, and proceeded to go right over the car...and found the rim...yeah, he wasn't happy...
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  433.  @IWrocker  Yeah, she was a bit laggy :)
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  434. Useless fact: I haven't watched commercial TV for over four years.
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  435.  @fugawiaus  Hehehe! I didn't ask them how they identify. They were a little preoccupied so I just assumed with this testosterone-infused performance that they would like to be called men.
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  436.  @geoffwrigley1494  Given the way the victor rode the loser like a jockey at the end (video coming), one might wonder if Brokeback Mountain wasn't in their Netflix favourites.
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  437. The weird thing about the US that comes to mind is if your Federal Government has a shutdown, all your National Parks and monuments close as well. Fair enough no rangers are working, but how do you close thousands of acres of land to the public?
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  438. I used to go to the truck drags in the 70s when Surfers Paradise raceway was still a thing. Then, in about 1988 I was privileged to see the first Australian Truck Grand Prix at Calder Park. Crazy stuff.
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  439.  @johnd8892  Ah, okay. I had a 1967 VE with the 225 many moons ago. I sent Ian a pic to check out.
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  440. 1:10 Unimog...but time will tell if I'm correct in my assumption... EDIT: I'll go with my initial vote. The Unimog was a bit howagoin in those deep holes but I feel the HMMWV was getting a bit too close to hanging up a few times.
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  441. Spanish is a language I want to learn. English borrows a lot of Spanish as well as French, Italian, & Greek.
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  442. I'll say it again, I like NASCAR. The dynamics of an oval track with an extremely powerful car at extreme speeds is a skill. NASCAR drivers have to deal with close racing and need to understand the effects of slipstream and side draft as well as stay on the very edge of traction while avoiding contact with all the other nutters around them. Once you understand it, the races are very exciting in their own, unique way.
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  443. The first clip comes from a David Attenborough documentary. Yep, Lyrebirds are the bosses of mimicking.
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  444. I think F1 is a rich man's game, much like horse racing.
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  445.  @elizabethscott7660  NEVER! That's something that needs to be individually discovered. After their first experience, we tell them how to make Lemon tea with them.
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  446. Those older Porches handled like they had a pendulum on their arse.
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  447. 17:44 on 4 August, East side odf Australia on a mobile wireless 4G pod: Average 9.8 mbps
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  448. You were wondering about what that car was at 3:08 May I suggest you watch and react to '1978 Bathurst 1000 opening Laps' https://youtu.be/GKSXWH3aEEE You'll get an introduction to one of the most iconic Australian cars. Oh, and it's Bathurst before The Chase was built.
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  449.  @tonybodlovic5825  Up North we call them Stinging trees. They grow fairly big.
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  450. I love these big jiggers. I can think of places I'd go if I had one ...
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  451. That would be a fun road. Up north, the Gillies Range Road that runs from Gordonvale to Atherton is popular with bikers. It has 263 corners in 19km. Of course, it's a baby compared to the road in the video, as the Gillies only rises 800 metres.
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  452. 18:20 It's a lot easier to fit $20 of $2 coins in your pocket. Imagine if they were bigger than a fifty cent, or 20 cent piece.
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  453. I'm almost motivated to make a video of a walk-through of Brisbane City from The Valley to the River.
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  454. 4:15, yeah, he was an obese Kangaroo. But even obese Kangaroos look buff. It's that chest, those shoulders, and popeye forearms that do it. I remember the first time I saw a rock wallaby, way out West of Longreach. Little buggers are only a metre tall but are built like that Internet muscle kid. Zero fat. All muscle. And when they are are alerted their mates, they grunt malevolently. Almost like male Koalas in mating season but shorter grunts. Oh, Ian, search male Koala mating calls. You'll know where the Drop Bear legend came from.
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  455. I might have to start playing Geoguesser too. I reckon I'd do far worse than you did LOL..
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  456. We've had roundabouts here in Oz for many years and still, there are people who don't know how to use them. Some people just weren't meant to drive on roads.
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  457.  @wot4922  I understand. However, the media does like a meaty story, so they'll focus their attention on the worst off. Small communities are like big suburbs. There are the houseproud people and there a those that don't really care. Sadly, there are also places where government housing is just not maintained by those responsible, so people get demoralised when they can't get running water issues fixed. It can be 12 months before a government-contracted plumber turns up. Anyway, I am going to sneak away and edit some more python in my home videos :)
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  458.  @MELODYMUNRO  Why's that, Melody?
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  459. 3:00 That is trippy! It looks like the lane that the Aussie cars are racing on is levels lower than the normal traffic because of the size difference in the cars. That's weird!
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  460. 11:30 When I get back up to Green Tree Ant territory up North, I'll make a video where I walk into a shrub with a Green tree Ant nest in it. Those buggers are nutters, and they can squirt formic(?) acid from their butts onto the spots where they bite you. They will jump on you en masse and just attack. I might also show how to make a 'lemon/citrus tea' from the ants and nests. Yeah, the bonus is you can eat green Tree Ants and get revenge for all the bites.
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  461. Maybe I'm feeling in a cynical mood but I smell snake oil. All power to them if they're genuine, but yeah, a bit suss. But then, I was a huge fan of the Vector W8.
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  462. 00:30 Dunno about you, Ian, but I have trouble comprehending how small the cylinders in a 3-litre V10 would be...I guess smaller than 100CC MC engines?
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  463. I feel ignorant. I am more familiar with the V8 F1 cars than I am with these modern engines. Probably because I'm an old fart :)
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  464. 5:00 In the 70s, as a teenager, I used to go to a pool/billiards hall in 'The Valley' in Brisbane. it was in a basement...I always wondered how they got 20+ slate tables into the place...until years later when I realised there was a freight entrance behind the 'basement'. The land dropped steeply behind the building. Anyway, I always remember walking don the steps into the pool hall through a haze of smoke, then seeing clear air and all these huge tables...and signs everywhere stating 'NO SMOKING OVER THE TABLES' . And everyone obeyed that one rule. And god rest his soul anyone who left a smoke in their mouth while taking-a shot. Well, I always thought that if someone did, some mafioso-looking bloke would come out of the shadows, smash an 8-ball over the miscreants head and drag him up the stairs and out of that respected establishment. Man, that place had atmosphere.
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  465. 2:47 Croc. You can tell by the way the teeth sit in their mouths. Gators have their bottom teeth slotted insed., whereas crocs have some of their bottom teeth poke outside the mouth. Their snouts are very different too. Even salties and freshies have different snouts.
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  466. I'm surprised the amount of 4 wheel steer and quad axle trailers in this. Is that normal for NZ?
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  467. Somewhere...I have photos of some AU's and Commo's out West of Kingaroy, QLD, rallying on a private track. No snow but truckloads of dust!
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  468.  @kyato2480  Yes, I know. I used to live in Tree kangaroo country.
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  469. Yeah, gotta watch those Koala claws. They climb tall trees
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  470. Here's a review of Coopers Pale Ale by an American guy that does knife reviews. Thought you might appreciate it. He's pretty funny. Dry humour: https://youtu.be/Fkk1Bnmn9PI
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  471. I had to laugh while you were discussing the NASCAR top speed. I was thinking, "Look at us armchair racers whinging about 198mph..." Probably not many of us have reached that speed in a car and probably never will Hehehe.
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  472. My mates and I used to near live at Blackdown Tablelands on the weekends back in the mid-80s, before it became a National Park.
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  473.  @shaneferris6742  Agreed, I remember being shattered when Dick jumped in a Sierra. That was the beginning of the end for me as a Bathurst watcher for a long time. I come from a time when I used to talk (13 year old annoying someone really) to Dick Johnson while he and his mates were prepping his Blue 2-door at Lakeside with a tarp as a floor and a glorified marquee as a roof.
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  474. We do like good coffee. I grind my own beans and brew my own.
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  475. I need to play this to brush up on my geography knowledge. Looking forwaRD TO THIS (YES, i COMMENTED IN THE FIRST 20 SECONDS.
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  476. @midnightkitchen8379  Thank you. I'll keep you and Ian updated x. I'll do another video tomorrow while I'm down the mountain getting fuel and food etc.
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  477. @heatherwardell2501  True. It pays to err on the side of caution with a cyclone. They are so erratic.
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  478. 3:35 Do you folks have 'Windy Loos' in the US? They are composting public toilets that are set up in remote places where septic or sewerage is impractical, due to potential flooding etc. They are made with corrugated iron in an almost Fibonacci curve, or a Nautilus shell on its side. The design helps to reduce the footprint while maintaining privacy, as well as to catch breezes to keep the toilet ventilated. I've seen and used many 'Up North', and have them pronounced as 'Windy Loos' (like as in the wind), and 'Windy Loos' (like a winding path). They are cheap to construct and are very environmentally friendly.
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  479. @Simon Slayton NO! DON'T YOU DARE! I KNOW ALREADY! DON'T DESTROY MY FANTASY!
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  480. I wonder what the postage and rules are about sending beer to you folks from Australia. I think we can legally send 750ml of beer...I think. See if you can find Coopers Sparkling Ale.
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  481. I fell into the YouTube RC Rabbit hole some time ago. From memory, some of these RC machinery vehicles can cost upwards of 20 thousand dollars.
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  482. I used to live in a 60 series Toyota Landcruiser wagon. It was an '83 model, completely stock in the drivetrain. 2H diesel, 5-speed manual. 60mph was it's top speed. On the flat. She was old and tired but would go just about anywhere I wanted to go. Loved that wagon. I'm currently refurbishing a hi-lift Ford Courier 2x4. It's got the Ford SOHC V6 4.0l. It's a crew cab with an 1800 mm (6' x 6') aluminium dropside tray. I'm fixing the back up to hold my genset, welder, tools etc, plus a 100 litre water tank, small hot water tank, stove etc. I'm building an elevating platform that will sit low over all the tools etc and can be raised to roof height. That will be my bed (yes, it will be covered). Eventually, I'll have racks over the body to hold a solar panel setup. Then I'll be living in it and tripping around the country permanently.
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  483. Cadillac. We had a 70s vintage Cadillac hearse in the yard here for about 3 years. It had been here for some panel work but due to some serious health issues for the bloke working on it, work stopped and it sat in the paddock. It eventually got sold for the giant big block motor that was in it. However, before they took the thing away I grabbed a bunch of badges and lights off it. I might mount the emblem on my old Ford Courier when it's finished. That Caddy had truck tyres on it. Heaviest looking car I had ever seen. You could have built a house with the chassis rails.
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  484.  @IWrocker  Hehe, yep. This one had a monster in it and I could have built a house on the bonnet!
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  485. Hey Ian. This is a longish video, but I'm sure you'd love to see a KE20 Toyota Corolla with a Turbo-charged Barra motor that does 7-second quarter miles. https://youtu.be/_RkBHY-jP1A
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  486. 4:38 Nearly 17 and a half feet, buddy.
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  487. 22:06 All good, buddy. I've been to Canberra twice. Once for my sister's wedding, and once for her first son's christening. Both times it was bitterly cold. And for the christening there was no room in the house so i had to sleep in the woodshed.
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  488. 7:05, yep, America.
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  489. Yep, the snorkel is a factory option. Most Australian sold 4WDs have a snorkel option. My old 60 series...it died a less than graceful death due to rust issues those models had. We lived on a beach for quite some time. Anyway, my 60 series Landcruiser wagon had the old 2H diesel and a snorkel. I put extensions on the axle breathers so that they were above wheel height It was a great old rig while it lasted. I bought it in around 2007(?) and put it to rest in a paddock up North in 2012. It has some stories to tell.
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  490.  @karlbobthepirate5704  Hey! I lived in Perth from around 71 to 75 when Duncraig was mostly bushland and there was no Northern freeway. Our house was in Glengarry, about 300 metres from where the reserve was for that future freeway. 7 Carlyle Crescent if you're a map geek like me. Parents paid 35k for the house and land package back then. I think it's worth over a million now. Mum and dad sold it for 120K four years after they had it built.
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  491.  @karlbobthepirate5704  Trippy man... :o)
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  492.  @karlbobthepirate5704  I tried to find my old house for the first time about 5 years ago using Google maps just by scrolling around. I figured it would be easy enough to find...I had to search. There is a park across the road that used to be bushland and mum took photos of emus walking down the road. There was a track up the road that lead out through the bush and my mate and I once saw a mob of at least a hundred Kangaroos. That was between Duncraig and Sorrento. It was all bushland. Oh. That track is where Glengarry Drive runs now. North of us, where the Glengarry Primary school is or thereabouts, was a horse farm. They used to break horses the old fashioned way. Very cruel for a 10 year old to watch in hindsight. But hey, they let us hang around and watch. They bred quarterhorses I think.
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  493. Having spent my formative years in Brissie, the Gold Coast was a fun place for someone in their late teens/early twenties in my day. It looks like it still is focussed at that demographic because I'm in my late 50s and all looks too busy and loud for me now LOLZ
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  494. Stories? Too many and it would be boring... ;o)
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  495. Holy snap! I've been pretty busy lately and haven't been watching too many of your videos. I just noticed your sub count mate. Woah! You'e smashing it, you folks! Congratulations!
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  496. I knew an alcoholic, habitual drink driver back in the 90s. He lived way out of town, would get pissed, run out of grog and drive the 30km down the highway to town. He had been convicted many times and had been prohibited from driving permanently...forever. He managed to stay out of jail for a few years but eventually got busted again and was put in jail for a few years to think about his past.
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  497. On the subject of a Tassie to mainland bridge? Way too far. Way too deep, and way too rough seas to consider it. You may find some videos online of the ferry service that runs over there. They hit some insane weather.
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  498. Oh, hey! If you do Easter, have a happy one! I'll be putting a V6 SOHC 4.0l Ford motor back together. Well, the thermostat housing, water pump and plenum. I've done everything else.
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  499. Sometimes I forget how old I am... My youngest daughter was born in '97.
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  500. Freight logistics is a dark art. Well, it was back when I worked in road and air freight. I worked in the game before scanners etc. It was all paper-based. Tracking a piece of freight was a matter of physically going through a depot looking for it. I watched scanning and barcodes being introduced and experienced its development. Nowadays with scanning and tracking happening along the entire route, it's surprising that anything goes missing in transit. But it sill does...
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  501. And then there are the povvo buggers like me who have a 60-dollar Aldi helmet just in case we need it one day.
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  502. I'll be...well, I am watching now. Did the Kayo thing again as I don't have TV reception.
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  503.  @the_mini_axe2817  ...with thousands of dialects/languages. It's unfortunate that only about 20 are regularly spoken nowadays.
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  504. @spankyjeffro5320  Yeah, Spanks. Whatever you say. Those arsehats are ripping us off, and you think it's okay for them to have surveillance instore and at self-serve checkouts? Are you a supermarket schill? They're stealing from us and farmers, and you think THEY have a right to monitor US? Rock on, dude...
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  505. 7:15 I worked construction on a washplant at a new coal mine many moons ago. There was a deadline date on that project as well, with the main contractor facing thousands of dollars a day in penalties if the project wasn't finished by deadline. Not sure if they succeeded. I ended up in hospital after a car crash a month before they finished.
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  506. I've seen this one, but love your reactions to it. Confession: I've loved Bentleys since around the late 80s. I would love one. But I like the 300C Chrysler too. And FB Falcons. Maybe I just like big cars with big engines.
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  507. I like my Jakfruit really ripe, so it tastes like bubblegum.
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  508. 11:16 (you know me, I comment throughout the video like I'm having a conversation with you) Yeah, gotta give them credit for a well-tuned exhaust. Still suss tho.
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  509.  @billylionisnotagoat  You're talking 90cm in 30 years. I'd suggest climate change may be the issue, not continental drift.
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  510.  @billylionisnotagoat  Gold, Billy. Your description was eloquent and funny. I agree. Us humans are doing grand job of acting like parasites on our planet.
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  511. I too would recommend Black Opal Direct. He cuts some stunning stones.
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  512. I didn't realise you hadn't covered these little jiggers. They're much fun!
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  513. 8:15 Cardi B is such an intelligent star. She's one all the young girls should aspire to be like. She is almost as intelligent as Niki Minaj, who warned us about the penis swelling antivirus.
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  514. 8:36 What about 7/1/2025...is it 1st July, or 7th January? The plot thickens...
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  515. Gotta love a Charger.
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  516. I get a perverse joy watching people argue over this subject. I was born in the early 60s, so I grew up when Australia changed from Pounds to dollars and from inches to centimetres, and Fahrenheit to celsius. The currency change was a little early for me to remember though, but in respect to metric and imperial, I can swap between the two and generally convert most measurements in my head. As a result of this, I can say, based on life experience, that the metric system (for me) is a far more logical and less confusing system than old imperial measurements, whether they be British or US Imperial.
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  517. Deleted my political comment. Ian's video comments aren't the place for it. Sorry, buddy.
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  518.  @stormygayle9388  Swim? In Winter? On the Central Coast? You can have it LOL. Lovely area but way too cold for me. I freeze in Brisbane in Winter!
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  519. No4, I was thinking Winton. It's not far from The Isa.
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  520. In the mid-eighties, I'd buy kangaroo skin/fur rugs and would make knife sheaths from them. They were about five or ten bucks each (close to 300 or more for a full hide today). I could layer the skin to make it thicker without worrying about the cost. Cattle leather (and floor rugs) were way more expensive.
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  521. The Whistlin' Diesel video...hang on, EVERYBODY in this comment section will know, so why am I say this...was a challenge/homage to the Top Gear video series. I have an early association with the Hilux and as such, never thought of them as a 'tough' ute. I worked in seismic oil search throughout Western Queensland in the late 70s-very early 80s and drove all manner of Toyota Landcruiser 4WDs; troopies, utes, wagons, and they were all tough vehicles. One of the survey crews came in with Hiluxes, which were kind of novel back then. Unfortunately, they were just too light for the conditions we were working in. We made our own tracks when the bulldozers couldn't due to terrain issues and the Hilux couldn't cope. They were woefully underpowered back then and were considered 'paddock utes', not serious 4WDs. We were driving the Landcruiser utes up insanely steep hillsides and through some disgustingly boggy wet country at times that the Hilux utes couldn't deal with. Nowadays it's a different story. The Hilux has grown up to be as good as its brother, and arguably a bit more sexy.
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  522.  @josephbargo5024  They average the lap times over (I think) three laps. He had the fastest lap speed for his first lap, but I think it was the second-fastest lap average over all 109 races held there. I'd have to go back and reread the story to get the full details.
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  523.  @josephbargo5024  That's some speed.
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  524. The last time I drove anything resembling a truck was a few years ago. They were auto with a manual shift option. The exhaust brake was controlled by a stalk switch on the column. Most big trucks are electronically sophisticated nowadays, and everything is push-button or automatic. The little truck I drove had the following 'driver safety' features: Proximity sensors Reversing camera Front traffic sensor with sensors that calculate speed, distance, and time to warn if you're too close to safely brake. Internal and external cameras linked to a central office The big jiggers have a lot more though.
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  525. As much as the raw, angry, "LET ME LOOSE!", screaming wasp sound of these 10K+ RPM machines is just absolutely awesome, I still love the lumpy 'thrump' of a big V8 with a lumpy cam that rocks the body of the car as it turns over. That deep 'thrump...thrump...thrump' is just wonderful. There is an FJ Holden in Brisbane (I've only seen it once) with some big jigger of a cammed-up V8 that sounds just ... mean. You know, the kind of engine that at idle, almost bunny-hops the car forward as it turns over. EDIT: Not a spam but if you want to get an idea of the sound I'm trying to describe, check this out. This is a detuned ex-drag car. Not as lumpy as I like, but pretty damned close: https://youtu.be/mR0w6SjUXGg
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  526. Driving/owning an escort vehicle in Australia can be quite lucrative. However, expect to spend a lot of time on the road traveling between jobs.
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  527.  @JoannaHammond  I feel bad for you, Joanna. I can deal with heat if I can go outside and be in some shade. But cold? Yeah, nah. I just freeze. eg, it's about 16C outside at 9pm here. I have an electric heater and a gas stove burning inside my bus to stay warm. Oh, and I have my boots, jeans, and shirt on, with a jacket, beanie and gloves on standby if i have to go outside. If it was summer, I'd be sitting here in shorts and not have to rug up to go outside LOL.
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  528.  @solreaver83  Mate. I have lived and worked all over this island and no, it's not common. High 30s, yes. Forties, not so much.
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  529. Porche. Angry bees. They are the driver's car. You have to drive them. Unlike many other sports cars.
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  530. Congrats on the 50K subs, Ian. Nice work, buddy.
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  531. If you take the military figures/stats for US v Aus in per capita terms, we're equivalent in troops etc. However, if we were invaded by an Asian country, we'd be basically defenceless. Indonesia could give us a run for our money.
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  532.  @RandomStuff-he7lu  They have trained with Australian troops for years. They know our weaknesses. But hey, I don't really care. War is futile.
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  533. I'm not up to speed on Group B, but I believe the Toyota is a Celica...(goes a-hunting for input like Johnny-5)... If it's early 80s it would be a Celica TA64. A Twin-cam turbo model based on the Japanese GT-T (TA63). Toyota built 200 of a special GT-TS model to comply with FISA's Group-B rules and built the TA64 rally car around that.
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  534. 10:10 Yeah. It's interesting...but man, such nice boots...
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  535. 3:47 The Cutting looks like a boomerang from the air. Trippy how tight it is.
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  536. A lot of people put extended diff breather hoses on their old Cruisers too. My 60 series was almost amphibious LOL.
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  537. I watched an interview with Sally Struthers discussing this interview. Struthers said that she'd been told that a high profile Australian journalist would visiting her place to interview her. She had no idea of who Norman Gunston was. Her reactions were all genuine, and her first thought when she answered the door was that Australian journalists mustn't be very sophisticated. She honestly thought the tissue paper (to soak up blood from razor nicks) was legit and that he'd forgotten to remove them before the interview.
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  538. I'm probably repeating other comments, but yeah, we have some places with not so much border controls, but more quarantine controls. Some states have quarantine restrictions that prohibit carrying fruit over certain borders, for example, Western Australia, and we even have quarantine checkpoints through certain parts of a particular state. There is a checkpoint on the road up through cape york where certain fruits are banned from outside. Back in the day when Fruit Fly was an even bigger issue than it is now, you couldn't carry fruit into particular citrus growing regions. For many years, Queensland had quarantine controls on every border crossing, including so-called back roads. Nowadays, all the former Queensland fruit checkpoints are used to stop Gucci carrying Hipsters soiling our land, as witnessed in that documentary purporting to be a Toyota advert.
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  539. 11:30, yeah, I was watching it and the front wheels bulldoze through the corner.
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  540. Still It and The Whiskey Tribe do interesting things with stills and everyday foods and drinks.
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  541. Happy New Year gang! Love a good hat. Mine is pretty weather-beaten now. It's probably 20 years old or more.
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  542. 9:45 I'm 60, yet have never needed a passport. Oh, TC Jasper crossed the coast right over where I used to live up near Wujal Wujal in Far North Queensland.
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  543. Muh LOO laba (as in baa-baa).
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  544. Red hot tail pipes. Yessss.
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  545.  @783342  I agree. The vastness of distance is magical in itself.
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  546. Early 2000s. A 5 speed manual Nissan Micra hatch (3 door). I think they were a three cylinder? Spanish long gearbox. I drove it when doing special parts runs to mines in Central Queensland. The Micra would cruise at 160kmh at 5000rpm all day. I peaked it at 185kmh. 5th to 4th when passing a car that was doing the speed limit 100kmh). It was a brilliant little car.
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  547. Our 'Health Star' rating system is kinda mixed up due to the way it's implemented. This article (if you get time to read it) explains it in a lot more detail than I could in a comment: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-22/can-the-health-star-rating-help-you-find-healthy-food/11700958
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  548. The fourth one I was way off too, mate. I was thinking West of Townsville.
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  549. 17:12 I used to live in a small bush camp at the southern end of that beach.
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  550. Ian, based on recent years, I really fear the coming tornado season for folks in the US in that area. I also worry about the intensity of coming hurricanes and cyclones this season. The weather this year has so far been extreme all over the world. 40C in the Arctic! That is insane! 40C for weeks in Europe! Winter rains in Australia causing massive flooding when it is supposed to be dry. Wildfires planet-wide in the summer areas. Massive flooding in China and much of Asia. Climate Change is a given and people need to accept that and start adapting because if we don't, we'll all suffer. We lost our chance to reduce our pollution to help slow this, so we need to learn how to sleep in the bed we made.
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  551. I think I clicked too early. Still lo-res.
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  552. My YouTube cookies and the algorithm seem to be making very similar suggestions to what you've been reacting to. The Blendline TV stuff keeps jumping into my suggested channels so I subbed...
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  553. She was correct, though.
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  554. Yep, 202 6 cylinder HQs.
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  555. Tornados are quite common in Australia. However, due to our sparse population, they generally don't affect populated areas. My sister lives at Burrum Heads, on the coast of Queensland near Hervey Bay and they got hit by a tornado some years ago. A neighbours roof half destroyed their home.
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  556. IAN! This has to stop! One of us is stalking the other's YT habits. I watched James Hoffman's Beginner's Guide to Coffee yesterday because yes, I'm a caffeine addict as well LOL, https://youtu.be/O9YnLFrM7Fs
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  557. Gout Gout. Remember his name.
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  558.  @flamingfrancis  We called them louvres when I was a kid. Parents had an AP6 Valiant and an XM wagon. Both had those cool white louvres/blinds.
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  559. Once you've seen a few 'magpies attack' videos, check out a different side of Magpies. Some Magpie trivia for you, Magpies have long memories. They will remember individual people reportedly up to 9 months or more. The Magpie Whisperer is a channel you should check out. Here's one of her videos: https://youtu.be/mpNwLJTeB9s
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  560. A lot of these ads were sold in South Africa (as shown by the website links in the ads) with no changes. These commercials were made when Australian ad agencies were flavour of the month. We were embracing our Bogan and didn't care what the rest of the world thought.
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  561. These boys are clever lads!
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  562. Back in the 70s, I went to the truck drags down at Surfers Paradise. There used to be a drag strip and race track down there. Anyway, the truck drags were just that. The trucks had to be working trucks. No custom built rigs. These blokes would pull up outside the track, drop their trailers and head in to line up. There were Macks, Kenworths, Whites, Peterbilts and Fords. All the old classics. Just great fun to watch.
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  563. Oh, yummo. I've done similar with Capsicum (which you call peppers). Now I'm hungry. I might buy some squid tubes and stuff them for dinner!
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  564. Someone has a drone...
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  565. One of the worst moments in Australian motorsport was when a dickhead (edit: 2 dickheads that didn't actually throw the rock but were responsible for it rolling onto the track) on the mountain threw a rock onto the track in front of Dick Johnson when e leading the 1980 Bathurst race in 'Tru Blue'. Absolutely effing shameful stuff. There are a few videos covering it, but this is worth looking at if you can use it: https://youtu.be/MtcjlF4aFo4
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  566. 9:35 I just horrifically realised that I'm wearing a pair of board shorts that look almost the same. Mine are Yellow with a red/silver/blue band around the waste. Annnd, they have a built-in the pocket waterproof sleeve and in the left pocket, a board comb! True god and I'd take a photo and post it for proof if I could.
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  567. How cool! Hey, if you shine a UV/Blacklight on the notes, you'll see hidden security stuff on them. And from what I saw, some of the coins are limited runs as well.
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  568. We had our own form of Cannonball Run on the Stuart. Not sure if they still run it. There were a couple of nasty incidents that put doubt into its continuation.
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  569. 12:30 Yes, Ian. The cost of healthcare, and the availability of quality healthcare are the major factors affecting the longevity of a society. If you check the map, those countries with free, or near-free healthcare have the highest longevity, whereas places such as the US, where healthcare isn't free, have lower figures. Then, when we get to African nations, where in many places there is little to no proper healthcare (and there is conflict), the figures are even lower. Pretty eye-opening, really.
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  570. The first map shows surviving aboriginal languages. However, only 20 of those are still spoken as a first language. I speak a little kuku yalanji (upper right side of the map), one of those 20 languages.
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  571. 10:55 It depends on the corrugations, the bulldust, and the weather. In my experience in the Peninsula Development Road (the road through to Cape York), in a Coaster 22-seat bus, the corrugations were 'smoothed out' at around 70km/h. However, it depends on what vehicles use the road as to how the corrugations form. Bulldust is a serious trap for young players. Bulldust (as fine as talc) can hide deep potholes or other dangers which can lead to shattered wheels, or worse, rollovers. I've seen more than one flash 4WD or trailer, on its side or roof on the road between Haan River and Coen.
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  572. I have a few magpies here that I've been hand-feeding for three years. They bring their babies to meet me and some eat straight from my hand. They're great birds. Oh, not sure if you've heard of 'Riverfire' but this video will show it all. https://youtu.be/BAXpIwFeUAA You might be able to find shorter videos of the event to react to.
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  573. We all say dumb stuff. But hey, US folks sometimes say the darndest things.
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  574. One of us needs to send Ian a pair of Rocko's/Mangrove Jack's double plugger thongs.
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  575. Trivia: First time I tasted genuine American Hershey's, I thought the chocolate had gone off.
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  576. @andymills2985  I was hoping Lowndes and the new guy were going to place higher...until the new 80kmh Safety Car rule came into effect. That was an interesting change.
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  577.  @johntaylor6654  I hear ya. TLDR mentality. I guess 6 hours is way too long for some. For me, it's the one day of the year that I watch a television voluntarily. I've only missed a couple in the past 40 years.
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  578. The guys at the top of the 'complication' is there to save the rider in case of a nasty cock-up from my knowledge. They may also be watching for ground touches. I dunno.
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  579. 5:23 Forgive me for going down this path but the first thing I thought was that the permission for false teeth by the husband law seems like a misogynistic law relating to the perceived benefits of fellatio without teeth. Given that many restrictions on women's freedom in the past were based on men's sexual proclivities, I feel that's the only reason why this law was in place...
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  580. Queensland mobile phone use laws and fines: '$1,033 and four demerit points for illegal mobile phone use while driving (*having it in your lap is one example regarded as illegal use). Double demerit points apply for repeat offences committed within a 12-month period.' I agree. Using a mobile phone when driving is just plain suicidal, and you'll likely kill someone else one day if you keep doing it.
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  581. If you like gamey meat, you'll like kanga bangers
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  582. 13:30 Now that was the funniest instant karma clip i have ever seen. Pure gold!
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  583. If you see this comment, Ian, and you're curious, check out @TheRealRCSparks and his playlist of the gold hunting videos using RC vehicles with his mates. I'm sure you'll love it.
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  584. Somebody wasn't being safe in the Safety motorcar. Probably on their phone asking where all the race cars were.
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  585. Tell me you're stating the obvious by stating the obvious... @lundi44 
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  586.  @gregmorgan737  I must have missed it, or forgotten. I usually don't miss a video :)
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  587. It's great to see the family all together. Hey gang!
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  588. Back in the late 90s, I got my first taste of 'real-time' interactions with people on the other side of the world via the internet. I still love live streams because we get to interact from all places over the world and get to talk to you and your family from all over the planet. I'll see what I can do with the Patreon. I don't have much to spare and already spend about 20 a month through Patreon. As for the 'Aussie Shop' idea. Please, and I know you would, be authentic. That 'Bloomin' Onion' thing from that Aussie-style restaurant made me cringe in a huge way. We wouldn't eat that crap! We cook our onions on the BBQ until they're black and within an inch of their functional life. Then we slap them into a bun or over our steaks. Bloody Bloomin' Onion! What a load of Codswallop!
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  589. Happy Born day, buddy. Hey, someone has probably already said so in the comments, but those 'corks' hanging off the hat are to keep the flies off your face.
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  590. That's a mutation if not photoshop
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  591. Yes, yes he did have his pronunciations down pat. Good work!
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  592. Damn it, I can't help myself. Snakes first. I love snakes. However, my father died from an Eastern Brown snake bite in 1997. He may have survived, unfortunately, the hospital he was taken to had minimal protocols in place for snakebite and effectively killed him. Eastern Browns have a nasty reputation because they like the East coast, much like us humans do. Next, the thunderstorm asthma events. Caused by the storms whipping up dust and pollen and seed fragments from far away and that dust blew in ahead of the storms that hit Melbourne. We started getting fatter at around the same time KFC, Maccas, and HJ's became a thing here. Ugg boots were my go-to in Winter. Yep, someone claimed the name and sued the originators of the Ugg boot. A US company owns the Trade Mark now. Anyway, I'll shut up now.
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  593. The NASCAR Mustang is an 870+ horsepower beast. I like it more than the Supercar version. I've never been negative about NASCAR. The cars are way overpowered which makes for a serious exercise in driver control both mentally and physically.
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  594. 8:44 Processionary caterpillars. They're hairy, and the hairs are highly irritating. They'll travel like this and then climb a tree and form a mass 'nest'.
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  595. Chinese, Ian. There is a big Chinatown precinct in The Valley.
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  596. Ian, I hate to admit it but I know people like this. Complete fucking loose units LOL.
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  597. I think it's 2.2lbs to the kg. So about 1700lbs.
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  598. Didn't see the community post, so ... : With respect to the new video layout, it will be much better for motorsport videos where it would often happen that your noggin was in the way of the action...
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  599. We've got Maccas, KFC and most other franchises.
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  600.  @michaelmclachlan1650  That's why I said most, not all.
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  601.  @psychedelicprawncrumpets9479  I was tending towards Perth due to the flat terrain and the sandy footpaths. Reminds me of Duncraig/Glengarry where I used to live. But for some reason, I changed my mind and leaned toward Adelaide.
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  602.  @julzhunt7790  It was pretty special. I'm still sorting out the entire 40 minute fight video. My editing skills are minimal LOL
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  603. This was a brilliant comparison. However, you have to give technology an award for being able to put the power and torque of a beast machine into a package that is quite civil when driving on your average road but can unleash itself to almost Group B pace when allowed.
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  604. Cane Toads nnext maybe. Worst environmental disaster we've experienced in terms of introduced animals. We have problems with other feral creatures, but Cane Toads are the worst. And the idiocy of their introduction is just incredible. One simple fact about Cane Toads is they can't climb and they were introduced to eat Cane Beetles. But Cane beetles eat the top of cane plants. They don't hang around on the ground.
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  605. Stil chatting with you while I watch. Yeah, smoke and mirrors. It looks pretty but doesn't deliver. Think DeLoraon.
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  606. I hope you see this link, Ian. This video was produced in Wujal Wujal, telling the story of water on Country and how important it is.I know all the people in this video, and Norm Tayley, the teacher was the friend I used to share a house in the rainforest with. I worked at the school for a little while, assisting teachers with Infotech and helping the kids with their computers. I also drove the school bus for a while as well as shuttle buses to Cooktown. Anyway, here's the link. I hope you'll react to it. https://youtu.be/ZZXprABVaDQ This is a longer video (24 minutes) but well worth a look. https://youtu.be/6iP3FPHyclU
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  607.  @allandriver2066  90% of Australian woodlands were lost to clear-felling. The land was either used for agriculture or grazing. I'm not talking about 90% of the entire continent, just the arable, potentially productive land. Then, with early farming methods of ploughing, or allowing cattle free access to creek banks, erosion started, and in some cases has completely destroyed former fertile country.
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  608. I've seen the Big Prawn, Merino, and the whale. A couple missing are the Big Pineapple and the Big mango and the Big Banana. The Big Pineapple is big. It has a shop inside and a lookout up top. There were actually two Big Pineapples. One at Nambour and one at Gympie in Queensland. The Gympie one was demolished some years ago. Oh, and it is prononced 'Harvey' Bay. Cheers, mate.
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  609. Not sure if any experts have spoken but my limited knowledge of these bikes is they are stripped to be as light as possible, are geared for high torque as opposed to power, and are meticulously balanced to the rider. You noticed basically no regular placed fuel tank or seat. It's a highly specialised sport nowadays. Back in the 70s, the bikes weren't far from a standard dirt bike spec.
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  610.  @elowishusmirkatroid4898  You should check out smallpox and Polio vaccination histories. Then get back to me on that 'vax genocide' thing.
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  611. 9:40 I'm up to the VC ute and yeah, absolutely love it. Chrysler/Valiant fan from way back as you know.
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  612. Umm, I think that's a computer simulation...Try this one https://youtu.be/w8QwLlLp29M
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  613. Fishing from a helicopter was (and maybe still is) a thing in remote Australia.
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  614. 11:20 An ancient form of recycling. back in the 1800s when I was a boy... Back in the 60s and 70s, when I was a boy, these mats were quite common. The rich people had the coir mats, made from coconut husk. Sometimes they'd have 'Welcome' painted on the mat...which would be ruined if any commoner with actual dirty feet wiped them on the mat. And yes, the povvo door mats shown were made from recycled materials. Tyres, wire, and coloured electrical conduit sheaths for the pretty separators. And, they were hand made besides the tools used to cut the rubber etc.
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  615. I didn't watch your reaction when you posted this because I saw the race in 1995, and I've watched highlights over the years. However, on this Winter's day, while I'm making Pea and Ham soup, this video popped into my recommended feed. That win still gives me the feels whenever I watch it. Trivia: Back in the 90s, when Bathurst was on, I'd set up my BIG stereo speakers in the lounge room hooked up to the TV. I'd then set up a bean bag chair in between them, put an esky next to the bean bag and crank up the speakers. My family knew that Bathurst was the one day of the year that I controlled the TV and the lounge room. I was surrounded by V8 sound and the TV was BIG, and I was only 7 feet from the screen. It was awesome!
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  616.  @simonm1528  Yep
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  617.  @planetdisco4821  Completely off-topic but I had a Doberman many years ago. He was my best mate and glue by my side. He was an awesome dog. I could go into a shop and he'd just wait outside for me. He'd let babies climb all over him and he'd guard our home at night. Yeah, he was special.
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  618.  @planetdisco4821  Hehe. Yeah, sorry. I sometimes check profiles to see where people are from and saw yours. They are excellent. King used to tow me on my bicycle for exercise. I'd just have him on a lead and he knew not to cross in front of the bike. He'd also tow me to the pub for takeaways and I'd balance a carton of beer on the handlebars while he towed me home. I trusted him unconditionally, as did he, me.
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  619.  @sturmpantsu5468  Thank you for the correction, Sturm. My mistake.
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  620. For many years, Australian cars had both speeds on the speedo (MPH/KMH). Funnily, some had the MPH in bold, while others had KMH bold. Slowly but surely, times changed and most cars only have KMH now.
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  621. I think NSW and Vic are the most expensive states. Sydney is, from all reports, by far the most expensive city to live in.
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  622. Information you didn't need to know: At around 3:12 on, see that funny shaped thing under the Kangaroo between his legs? That's his dick...or penis for the sensitive. And, if you pause at 3:30 and look close, you'll see that his balls (testes) are in front of his dick. Yes, Kangaroo's balls are in front of their dicks. Thank you for your time.
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  623. Looks like Elon Musk's robot promo. A human in a body suit...A Volkwagen in a supercar suit?
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  624. Not sure if it was mentioned in the comments, but Port Arthur was also the site of the massacre in 1996 that was the catalyst for changing our gun laws forever. Thirty-five died and 29 were injured.
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  625.  @Duchess_of_Cadishead  I remember back then, talking to Ansett Ground Crew (I worked for Ansett Air Freight). There were rumblings about Air New Zealand using Ansett's accounts for fueling their aircraft.
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  626. Yep, snap clips for a tonneau cover.
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  627.  @rogerramjet6429  Oh, Roger. Stop being silly...
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  628.  @roberttaylor2569  Yeah, okay Rob...
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  629. These folks are from Perth if memory is correct.
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  630.  @top40researcher31  Yep. A two-day safe drive.
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  631. 2:45 I remember the tables! I used to collect them...for no idea why! Probably because they looked like little tables...
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  632. 16:43 Yeah, props to the person who put so much effort into making that topographical map. It is pretty impressive, even if his 'world map' is somewhat lacking.
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  633. I'm glad you found this video. It's epic.
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  634.  @IWrocker  Luv ya buddy. I am not one to watch 'reaction' channels in general. I tend to think they're sometimes just cheap 'cash-in' channels. I'm probably just judging others without actually looking but I've sampled enough, covering a myriad of subjects. You were genuine. Sorry. You are genuine. You are honest. Hang on a second. You're a bloody good bastard, that's what you are! And your family. I'll shut up now. I'm a few Coopers Sparkling Ales in...which reminds me, I'm supposed to send you some one day. The problem is, I drink them before I send them. Say g'day to Pedro and the family for me. And now I will shut up LOL. Roll on the 100K subs!
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  635. Nice work, mate. You beat on new Zealand. I always confuse which city is on which island.
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  636. 19:30 Yeah, nah. I'll just follow along and learn about the US thanks. I doubt I'll get one even close to correct (commenting as I watch).
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  637. There's a bloke in the US that has a channel and he mines gold using RC trucks and sluices. Seriously. He dredges Gold with RC vehicles.
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  638.  @6toeNL  @TheRealRCSparks
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  639. Look at that beautiful Bubby. Sydney...haha! Awesome! She's such a cutie x.
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  640.  @glenchapman3899  Same era. I was in grade 1 and 2/3 in the late 60s, then did four years in Perth. When I came back to Brisbane, no mention was made of the Dutch in Australian history except for a little of Hartog but more the mutinies. It was as if QLD ed was trying to deny anything but Cook and the First Fleet.
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  641. 8:00 Smart move. Outback roads get taken over by wildlife at night, making driving a tricky prospect. Out that way, you'd be contending with roos, bullocks, and probably camels.
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  642. Just in: T***p says that when he takes the Panama canal, it will be renamed Trump's Canal. Engineers are designing giant diapers in anticipation.
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  643. Ah, yes. 'Be Amazed'. One of the most inaccurate channels on YouTube. They still perpetuate the giant Colossus statue in Europe as having been real. The only real issue I have with US government is the way they absolves themselves of being responsible for their citizens' health. You guys pay taxes. Those taxes should be used to keep you folks healthy, not to support the defense or arms industries.
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  644. 10:20 I don't think Kenny has seen Bathurst. International drivers clamber for a chance to race Mt Panorama and the V8 Supercars. But hey, he's passionate about his motorsport, and that's always a good thing.
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  645. Given that the V8 Supercars are now a battle between Chevrolet and Ford USA, I hope that a round will happen somewhere in the US. I reckon Ian might get a little wee in his pants if that happened, :o)
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  646. As a kid I built models of these type of race cars. Way cool.
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  647. There was a little bit of classic Aussie sarcasm and satire in the second video. Very cool!
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  648.  @baird55aus  I used to hang around Johnson's pit tent at Lakeside back when it was an ATCC track. He was very patient with this then 14 year old curious kid.
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  649. Fun fact. Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas in Far North Queensland was once used as an airfield. It was also a really nice, quiet country fishing village before the megarich developers turned it into a playground for the wealthy. Second fun fact. That lookout where the photo was taken was a great spot to trip on mushrooms back in the late 70s, early 80s.
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  650. The first clip was significant because Cathy Freeman was the first Aboriginal (TO) person to win an individual Olympic Gold medal, and she did it in 2000 in Sydney. If you're interested in cricket, try checking out some of the classic day/night matches of the 80s and look at the new 20/20 matches. Faster and a little more exciting than classic Test matches that run for days.
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  651. On the subject of having to move if Aust didn't exist? I'd be heading to Costa Rica. Good weather, awesome coffee, great people.
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  652. 9 seconds in. Liked and sound up and watching on the 100 cm computer monitor. I LOVE my Chryslers/Valiants.
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  653. The complete rebuilds may go some way to explaining why they were so competitive. I was going to rant on about that subject but got to the 12-ish minute mark and decided to shut-up. Group B was an exercise in over-engineering and unintentional suicide.
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  654. I will always love the sound of a large bore V8 with a stupid cam, but that sound at the 2:57 mark? It sounds like the car is saying, "Why are we stopping? Let's go. NOW!"
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  655.  @bonnie7898  Definitely one to keep. More volumes are set to be produced with different Holden owner's cars, so they will be sought after in years to come.
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  656. It's happened again. LOL. This is a great video. Mad nutters these riders!
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  657. Damn, I missed this and the UnZud one! I better watch both. The Ram. Nice vehicle. I feel sorry for you folks not having a wide choice of 4WDs. We have a huge choice over here from small ones like the Daihatsu Feroza (I have a '2' model that I got for free) up to your beastie size Rams etc. Mahindras, Mitsubishi, Mazda, Nissan, Toyota, Ford, Holden just to name a few brands. The new model Mahindras are pretty good, tough vehicles. They come standard with full ladder chassis, rear diff locks, an Eaton transmission and a winch for under 40K Australian.
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  658.  @peterflynn2111  Well yeah, but they're badged. I remember when Toyota was rebranding Commodores and tweaking the ECUs just to make them a little more torquey and called them Lexcens. That was weird. And Nissan rebadging Ford utes. I could get pedantic and say, "Hey, what about the Overlanders?" when it comes to Holdens, but yeah, just about every 4WD Holden is a rebadged Isuzu :)
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  659.  @peterflynn2111  Yep, but really only the chassis. The suspension and drivetrain were all a mix of stuff, some of it specifically for the Overlander. I just did a Google and found the Adventra. But we won't talk about that one...best everyone forgets it existed, LOL.
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  660. Not sure if you'll see this, but do some research on Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Home of RockyNats, but also home of some serious Victorian architecture, a support city for a Gold rush and then a Coal rush. It's a pretty interesting city.
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  661. If you make it here I'll make you my Australian version of Oysters Kilpatrick and you'll discover a love for oysters my friend.
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  662. Yep. Ya gotta love big trucks doing awesome stuff.
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  663. Your audio dropped out from about the 4:40 mark, Ian. Comes back at about 5:57
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  664. 5:00 Well that was awkward. Trying to talk around the fact that the camera person was stalking the two chicks in the Green and Blue toob skirts...
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  665. I've seen sunflower paddocks, what appears to be eggplant paddocks and is that barley? Racing through farm tracks. Cool.
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  666. I have fond memories of the Thunderdome. I saw the first Australian Truck Grand Prix down there after a 5-hour roadtrip (I believe it was 1988 as well). We got there about 7am and had pit passes, so got to check everything out. Sadly, the Calder Park complex had a meteoric rise to fame and a crash almost as spectacular. It was almost a Mecca for motorsport geeks for a while. As for Nascar, as a teenager I could never understand oval track racing for race cars. I liked our Aussie speedway, where we had dirt ovals and raced bikes and super-modified cars. It wasn't until I got older that I began to understand the dynamics of racing on a banked oval. The speed and aerodynamics of other cars make this sport a very complex one. I enjoy Nascar nowadays but don't see enough of it. I don't have TV as such, so don't get sports channels. That's why I like your content and other motorsport-related channels. I get my fix on YT.
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  667.  @quantisedspace7047  Fair enough. My mistake with my grammar.
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  668. Pike's Peak is an absolutely awesome hillclimb. The drivers that attack that mountain are fearless.
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  669. I really like Prickly Pear fruit. Haven't tried the flesh yet.
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  670.  @sharg0  Interesting. I have problems with some breads nowadays. I have to choose wisely, lest I be woken in the middle of the night with an urgent need...and I live in a bus some 60 feet from my toilet...I've learned what bread brands and baking styles to avoid but have never studied the ingredients to figure out the culprit for my ...need to poo...
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  671.  @leglessinoz  Nasty.
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  672. 02:00 Yeah, little gator. I like gators, they're cute :)
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  673. Trivia: I live in an old 60s/70s Bedford bus that has a 308 Holden motor. It originally had a straight-six diesel, but back in the late 80s, the owners swapped it out. It even has extractors.
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  674. 2:55 I am only making an uneducated assumption, but is that some sort of convertible Jaguar they're using as a camera car?
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  675. 21:15 I'm assuming someone has mentioned that the car is a Ford Capri. Quite probably the V6 version. An underrated monster pocket rocket.
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  676. 10:55 Is it just me, or do the smaller lights (towns) on the Eastern half of the US almost form a grid pattern? The smaller light points seem very evenly spaced. Oh, man. And the gas fields! That's trippy!
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  677. I'm late, sorry. And...as soon as your video started, I couldn't take my eyes off that A9/X model. It's purty, Ian.
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  678.  @crunchytheclown9694  Somewhat controversial for people who don't know the full history of White 'settlement' here. My studies and research involve specifically Queensland and our history in this State is pretty bad. May I suggest having a look at 'Conspiracy Of Silence' by Timothy Bottoms. His book should be required reading in schools. A very well-researched record of the true history of the European pioneers of Queensland. It's not pretty. Further, yes, I have spent a good part of my years in remote areas and communities. Interestingly, BLM and other matters rarely rate a mention in remote communities. It's more a case of "Where are the dialysis machines and advanced healthcare centres that we really need?" Sorry for the long-winded rant, but I needed to explain why I made that comment.
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  679.  @busterbell871n  Hehe, yeah, that's kinda funny. It blew me away when I learned that. I remember when I was growing up in the 70s (I'm 58), 'Kiwis' were like the little brother we took the piss out of, especially at the pub. Nowadays, most of us are jealous of your country.
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  680.  @bestfit  Thanks mate. And thanks for subscribing. Not much to see on the channel but it's more a life blog when I feel like posting. I'll probably trim a lot of the 40 minutes down tho. But they do fight the entire time.
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  681.  @bestfit  She's a big, pretty girl. Shot a quick clip today with both the male and female in the rafters together.
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  682.  @bestfit  That's a long battle!
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  683.  @bestfit  I haven't seen them mating yet. But the pair are more often than not coiled together during the day in the rafters or somewhere secluded. I was hoping to see some younger ones from previous breedings. I think I did one day way down the paddock. It was a good metre long.
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  684. I live on the northern outskirts of this city. I used to deliver to restaurants and convenience stores in the Valley at night. Interesting place. I know those streets almost like the back of my hand. I also used to hang out in the Valley when I was living here in the 70s.
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  685.  @petersargeant1555  Crown Land. That's the one I missed. Brain fart.
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  686. If I had a fat enough wallet I'd build something similar but with my home on the back.
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  687. Here's a couple of the earliest Aussie Valiants https://youtu.be/6KyQ_Pylq1E
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  688. 14:25 Before I see where it is, I'm thinking far north Queensland. Maybe around Mossman? Or Tully. Okay, Ingham. Pretty close to Tully but a long way from Mossman.
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  689. 5:10 I have a 100cm screen to watch YouTube on. Yes, they are some BIG lips! We caught one at a river mouth about ten years ago up north. But it was a baby, only about a metre and a bit long, and with a mouth about 12 inches/30cm wide. I've got a crappy old night shot photo somewhere on my storage of it with someone's foot beside its mouth.
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  690. 10:30 Isn't that the nugget named. 'Welcome Stranger'?
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  691. I vote for Dark Chocolate too. I LOVE Rum N Raisin.
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  692. KOMBI. Short for 'Kombination' from memory. The Kombi van was very versatile.
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  693. 12:05 Because we all know that a red car is always faster than any other colour... :)
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  694. 19:10 Me too. Middle hemisphere? Okay then...
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  695. Peter Champion once had the largest collection of Brock's race cars known. I used to live fairly close to the place he had them. This story may sadden a few people: https://youtu.be/ukQZZix2fhg
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  696. As with my comment on the Banger video, our viewing/recommendations seem to gel. I watched this. It's cool.
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  697. I hate to join the fun police but if this guy lost it around other cars or the trucks, there would be carnage. Therefore, this guy is stupid, not brave.
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  698. 1:55 I am very wary of the little Blue-rings when I'm on a beach or rocky area on the coast. I've seen them in tiny rock pools at low tide. When they're agitated, the bright blue would be very attractive to an unsuspecting tourist or child. Funny thing about their venom is, potentially, if proper CPR could be provided to the envenomation victim for about 90 minutes, they might survive. The venom paralyses the victim, so breathing and heart-beat must be assisted while the venom is active. Having written that, I should say that very few people have died as a result of Blue-ringed Octopus bites/stings. Problem is, the bites can be painless and the first thing you know is that you are having trouble breathing. First aid is immobilisation of the limb and person, with a double compression bandage if possible. In summary, if you intend going outdoors in Australia, always carry a comprehensive creature-bite-related first Aid kit.
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  699. 2 and 3? You did way better than me. I picked WA but the Tassie one I pegged as SA.
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  700. Good old Simon Whistler. He produces some great content.
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  701. @mum Hehehe. I sometimes queue a few 20-minute videos of his before I go to bed and listen to the dulcet tones of his voice as it lulls me to sleep. Weird. But hey, whatever helps this part-time insomniac sleep I'm good with.
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  702. It is, @anjehouse9507  . I feel complete when I am there.
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  703.  @midnightkitchen8379  There is a big market nowadays for multi-grafted citrus. Saplings are being sold with different branches that produce Oranges, Mandarines and other types of citrus. Very cool.
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  704. ESKY! And the ones I've seen in this video are all period correct...70s type eskies.
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  705. I got my first tattoo at the top end of Brunswick Street in 1979. I was nearly 18 years old.
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  706. Australian built cars I've owned: 1963 (?) XP Falcon wagon 1966 (?) HR Holden panel van 1966 XR Fairmont with the 289 V8 1967 VE Valiant with the 225 slant six (my favourite car EVER) 1969 VF Valiant Pacer (265) 1970 (?) VG Valiant with the 265 Hemi 1971 CH Chrysler by Chrysler with the 360 and the Torqueflite transmission 1974 Valiant Charger (245 model) 1980 something XE Falcon There may have been others that were somewhat forgettable.
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  707. Tooheys...2 Es...Tooees
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  708. I hope you see this, Ian. A V8 Supercar on a speedway track...It's only a little over a minute long. 1:17 I think. https://youtu.be/xQlpHrXJPGM
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  709. This trips me out. It seems that 70 to 80 percent of videos I watch, you end up reviewing the subject a short time later. YouTube must be applying the same algorithm to both of us LOLZ
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  710. The 253s were a really strong donk. If memory serves correct, the same block as the 308s?
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  711. I'm happy you found this. I knew you would. This car is tiny. I had no idea how small it was until I saw the driver in it with the door open. I WANT ONE NOW! I'd have to double-check, but I think this thing generates 2000kg (4400lbs) of downforce at start-up and standing still. That increases to 2250kg as it accelerates. Oh, they are planning on releasing a road-legal version. However, the designers and builders say this car is meant for racing, and the road car will have a 'street' setting that will need to be activated before driving on the road. I think that's the basic gist anyway. I'd have to reread the articles online that I fell into when I first saw this car. It is AMAZING! I have to wonder how this thing would go in the wet. It generates downforce using basically the same tech as a vacuum cleaner, so I think it would suck water off the surface of the road and into the fan, as it does with dust and dirt on the road. I did notice that they didn't (not that I saw) run it in the wet weather at Goodwood.
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  712. Sunshine State= Queensland
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  713. Couldn't find an email address but thought you'd like this to react to. Just uploaded by Glenn Everitt, Master of machines. Rotarys and 70s muscle cars at Bathurst this year. This is a full race, in-car view from a mazda Rotary racing at Bathurst against some classic 70s cars, including Mustangs, Torana GTRs, Valiant Chargers and others. It's brilliant.: https://youtu.be/lPTWnP3sPOQ
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  714. 18:15 I always wondered whether the high gaps in some cubicles were to make it easier to mop out the public bathroom.
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  715. You commented about the handling of the Monza. Yep, when you've got basically three feet of grip (a metre for you young folk) at the back end of your rear-wheel drive car, it's going to grip well. It's cases like that that you need to modify your suspension and frame to handle the extra grip. It's a balancing act and when you get it right, you're set.
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  716.  @chriscollins550  Yeah, I guess so, Chris. Probably get parked in a carport and only driven to car shows.
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  717. Fish cakes are bloody brilliant! Damn! I haven't made fish cakes for at least 15 years! Fuggit, I'm making fish cakes on Thursday night!
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  718. Lamb tastes pretty bad...and it's woefully expensive.
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  719. @jennyhenningham4100  Cool. Thankyou. I thought I was out by a bit but not 40 plus years :)
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  720. Buddy! 99 thousand plus subs already! You damned legend!
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  721. Ian, search for a song called 'Beautiful People' by an Aussie band called 'Australian Crawl'. It kind of personifies places like the Gold Coast.
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  722. 13:13 This ute looks suspiciously exactly the same as an acquaintance in Rockhampton rebuilt some years ago. Same colour, same wheels, same painstakingly polished deck. It may well be the same car.
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  723. I assume you and most everyone here has been watching the rebuild of old Ed's Suzuki 4WD and Rokon motorcycle.
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  724. Oh, and Townsville had their V8 Supercar event this weekend. The Supercars channel has some highlights, but they're VERY copyright pedantic, so may not like you sharing. Here's some qualifying highlights: https://youtu.be/__Hz1qiPtlE
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  725. There's a nice stretch of highway between Cairns and Mossman that hugs the coast for a while. It's my favourite drive.
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  726. Oh man. You need to search for an All Blacks Rugby team Haka video and react to it. Or any Haka video. Definitely an intimidating welcome or challenge. New Zealand was part of what was called 'New South Wales', basically Australia, New Zealand, and I think Papua New Guinea. New Zealand became a separate colony in 1841. PNG gained independence from Australia in 1975.
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  727. 14:50 Rainbow Lorikeets. They are bullies to other birds but are very cool and friendly if you feed them. BEWARE though. Feed one and you'll end up with dozens coming by for an easy feed.
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  728.  @shaundgb7367  Dozen, with an s. :)
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  729.  @shaundgb7367  Hehe. Cheers, mate.
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  730. Rally cars. Little known fact: Rally cars have specially designed seats with cushioned gaps to accommodate the balls of the drivers and navigators. Women you ask? Same, but the shape is a little different...
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  731.  @IWrocker  This video from the 17:40 mark has some great footage from Toot's days. https://youtu.be/7ImxYswEgd0
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  732. 3:30 Now that is clever. How much easier would that be in very tight garages where you have to carefully squeeze out of the car, or when putting your car in a closed trailer? As much as I prefer a basic vehicle without any frills, this is cool. Remote control trailer reversing and other silliness could ensue.
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  733. I have never installed the app and won't. Social Media overload.
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  734. 13:00 I lived on the very Northern outskirts of Perth when I was a kid. Some years ago I used Google Earth to find my old home. Just by scrolling around, I couldn't find it. So I put my old address into the search thing on Google Maps. Holy shitballs Batman! My old home is basically part of Perth suburbia now. I did learn that the 4 bedroom, two bathroom, main bedroom ensuite walk-in -robe, lounge and family room, lowset home, and block of dirt that they paid 36000 for, are worth near on a million now. They sold the place four years after it was built for 120000, when we had to move back to Brisbane.
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  735. TIM TAM SLAM! Bite a tiny bit off diagonal corners. Dip one end into a cup of coffee and suck the coffee into the Tim Tam. Eat quickly or it will collapse on you. NOMM NOMM!
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  736. Trials. I was a fan as an early teen and will always consider it the pinnacle of technical riding, or driving for that matter.
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  737. No one ever mentions Woodenbong in Northern NSW! It's not too far from Mullumbimby and Nimbin.
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  738. Where's that new bubbah?
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  739. You were asking about a particular car at about the 6:36 mark. If you pause there, from left to right, an XA-C series Falcon, the next I can't figure out just yet (Capri or Alfa?). Next, the one you were asking about, is a Ford Anglia, the white one is a Ford Escort, and the lead car on the right is a (trumpet blasts because...Chrysler) Valiant Charger.
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  740. No5, I picked Sunshine Coast/Melany area. It's North of Brisbane.
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  741. That was an alligator, not a croc...
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  742.  @tropicsalt.  Haha. Yeah, you know. Don't tell everyone or you'll f**k it all up LOL!
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  743.  @julzhunt7790  Julz, my parents bought a 1/4 acre house and land package at Glengarry estate (Duncraig) in 1969/1970 for $35000. Back then most of the surrounding area was bushland. No freeway. No shopping centres. I saw a mob of roos in the bush between Glengarry and Sorrento that numbered in the hundreds. Anyway, we went back to Brissie in about 1975 and the house sold for $120000. A few years back I heard that you couldn't buy a house in the neighbourhood for under a million. If you're curious, it was 7 Carlyle Crescent, Duncraig. We lived in Wembley Downs for a while before the house was finished.
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  744. I guess 'recently discovered' can cover anything over the past 200 years :).
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  745. Summer storms in some parts of Queensland are intense. Then we get cyclones (hurricanes). Been through plenty of the former and a couple of the latter.
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  746.  @Rhythmattica  I agree with your Pale Ale opinion. It's an all day beer. Sparkling Ale has been my daily drinker since the mid nineties. I like checking out other small batch craft breweries, but Sparkling Ale is my regular. Oh, Vintage Ale...each year is different but special in It's own way .
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  747. 9:10 And to think, we are considered a 1st World country. Yet we can't provide power reliably to places that desperately need it to cool their homes. Not that it would worry me too much. I sit in my bus with only a fan when it's anywhere from 36C (96F) to 46C (114F) inside. Outside it might only be 29 - 31 but I'm a hermit agoraphobic, so it's easier to swelter than face outside and people. Oops, that went dark fast...
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  748. Chips n gravy all the way. No cheese. Chicken salt yeah. Salt first, then gravy.
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  749. The fifth one...Ian...the sign...Asahi Brewery Tullamarine. (Melbourne Victoria). But hey, if I'd seen an American brewery with some weird town name I'd be thinking the same as you.
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  750. Now I really, really need to send you some Coopers Sparkling Ale.
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  751. Bunji (an aboriginal term for friend), please don't neglect family for the YouTube thing. I'm single, widowed and have a lot of free time. I have the freedom to devote time to making videos (even though I don't do it much), but man, please devote time to enjoying your life. Having said that, if you're starting to earn some income from uploading and it helps your family, go hard! I love your channel and have become invested in your family. Hug your family for me and do what you do, Ian. Love ya guts as we say over here.
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  752. All I want is a manual 300C with the BIG engine! That would make me happy. A big chunk of car with a big chunk of power.
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  753. There were some awesome clips in that compilation!
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  754. @daviddou1408  Great solution, mate. I'll just drive 20km every night for a feed. That'll be cheaper. I can only assume that you live somewhere with 2 dollar minimum wage and a dollar a gallon fuel.
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  755. Some silly bugger somewhere on the corporate Walmart ladder thought that the company could play Aldi's game in the US and take a bite of the pie in Germany. And they went into Germany with that blissfully ignorant attitude that far too many rich folk have.
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  756. The round with the witches hats is exactly what yo were thinking. Guiding the beast around a course in the tightest and fastest way possible.
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  757. Simple fix. Raise the legal minimum wage to something livable. Ensure employers suffer BIG penalties for ripping off their employees.
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  758.  @michaeldavidson5839  True that.
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  759. Australia invented wine in a bag. Oh, and Bundy Rum? If you do find it anywhere, try the overproof. The regular is a sickly sweet rum.
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  760. Hahaha! Peter, that was funny! I can relate to that LOL
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  761. No2. The fire extinguisher decided to let go.
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  762. Bloody copyright. Some channels such as yours promote videos to people who may otherwise miss them. It's the same with incidental music. I got struck for having something in the background that wasn't even part of the video.
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  763. Opossums are scary-looking. But hey, our 'cute' possums are scary buggers when they're angry. They'll rip you up.
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  764. Who remembers Skycam? Do they still use them in stadiums. or is it all drone footage now? They used it, or maybe still use it on the main straight and pits area at Bathurst (I think).
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  765. Mate, Tree Kangaroos are real too :o). Search for Bennett's Tree Kangaroo.
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  766. Lamborghini still makes tractors. Mahindra is considered the biggest tractor manufacturer in the world.
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  767. 5:21 Looks like a square VW Kombi from the inside. Or an old Hi-Ace.
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  768. Prestigious? I'm being Mr Negative but I'd call it a rich man's cult. Yes, modern car tech is a result of the experimentation of F1 engines. However, the whole F1 scene is complex. It's a tax dodge. It's a tech company's dream contract. Rish, egotistic corporation CEOs will spend whatever it takes to put their name at the top of the F1 list. But they don't pay to race at a track. Gullible city councils who believe that F1 will draw huge crowds and their cash find out that it doesn't quite work that way. The councils and states pay to host a GP. In the end, it is just an exposure exercise because most cities/councils break even at best. Some local businesses profit but an equal amount lose money because their businesses become inaccessible at race time. Oh, dear. I am a Mr Grumpy this evening. Sorry for the rant.
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  769. I've talked to leather workers before and the one thing they have all said is that roo leather is really easy to work with due to its inherent strength and flexibility. Cattle leather will tear under stress. Of course, we're talking comparative thickness here too. Roo hide is a lot thinner than cattle hide. If you want something that suffers a lot of wear, like a saddle, I don't think roo skin would do the job. But I'm no expert. Maybe it could be laminated?
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  770. The beauty of the metric system is that it works well with our Western Base 10 system of numbering. The main reason why imperial measurements can be confusing or complicated is that it doesn't work well with a Base 10 math system.
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  771.  @midnightkitchen8379  Yep. And honestly, I've only ever had to kill a couple of roos for food over the years. I do prefer to see them hopping rather than roasting.
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  772. Oh, and just sayin', Michelle was hot AF. Many years my senior, but hey, she had 'it'.
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  773. I can only imagine being a driver in one of those cars that got passed. It would be a 'HOLY F**K!' moment.
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  774. Try a history of Lakeside, north of Brisbane. The birthplace of Queensland motorsport.
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  775. 3:45 Look on the bright. That person now has TWO pieces of amber from Australia.
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  776. Milo on thickly buttered toast sounds way cool.
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  777. 5:10 I expected that map to be a quarter the size! Trippy.
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  778. Daniella better tell us. My Spidey sense tells me something...
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  779. I used to have film and photos of my friend's cars doing burnouts at a new housing estate near where we used to live in the 80s. This takes me back, man.
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  780. I had a 1970, fully imported VW Kombi pop-top camper with a 1600CC engine. 60mph flat out, downhill with a tailwind.
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  781. Geoff. Nah mate. Two males fighting for territory and dominance. The female is up in the roof rafters.
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  782. It's okay my friend. We have Australians who live in a bubble, too. The sad thing is, many of them think our constitution is the same as the US constitution. Oh, and they have also jumped on the 'Sovereign Citizen' bandwagon as well.
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  783. 6:50 I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the Holden Fronterra is a rebadged Isuzu MU-X over here? Someone will correct me if I'm wrong I hope.
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  784. We don't get Koalas 'up North'. When I moved down to the city I was living by a wildlife corridor and one night heard what I thought was a boar in the creek. I went out with my torch and couldn't find any sign of a pig. The next night it happened again and so out I went looking for the boar. Then it happened... It was coming from a tree...
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  785. Hey mate, I know you get heaps of links to videos but I thought you'd like this one. Amethystine Pythons are fairly common in the rainforest where I used to live and I figured you might like to see how big they can be. https://youtu.be/bPMRodTixnM
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  786. And HOA? Yeah, nah. That's communism dude.
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  787. 4:14 Cosworth?
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  788. If I win the lottery, I'll find one and send it to you...
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  789. Hey. Got a generator to use so I'm back online. No power on the property for two weeks now...
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  790.  @jodie01  Yes and no. Last bit of rural property in the area but earmarked for development. Hooked to mains but there has been an 'issue' with power and who was supposed to pay...long story. I'll have stable , portable power by the end of next week for myself. I won't have to rely on mains anymore.
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  791. 6:40 I owned one of those for a while. Ended up with a friend who had more use for it then me. Bugger...
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  792. He near lost it in the dirt at the top of the mountain, then locked up heading into the dipper (or was it the esses?) and still hit the line half a second in front of everyone else. One can only wonder what the time would have been if he'd nailed the top of the hill.
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  793. Queensland: "Just ask someone where to go. Road signs are too confusing..."
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  794. I think the old car in British Racing Green is an old Rover.
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  795. 22:30 That thing looks like a stretch armstrong VW bug.
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  796. 2:00 Doesn't matter if it didn't do a full pull, the cool factor gives this jigger the win.
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  797. Violence statistics? If you believed them to be gospel, no one would visit Sydney, Melbourne, or even Brisbane, and especially not Townsville or Cairns, or many, many small towns over here.
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