Comments by "Jeni10" (@Jeni10) on "IWrocker" channel.

  1. In Australia, they won’t let you out of the hospital unless you’ve recovered well enough to take care of yourself, or unless you have family members who have time to take care of you at home.
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  2. Ian, in Italy, they speak Italian but they also speak their local dialect. I have a couple of great friends who are both from Sicily and when they talk to each other, they use their local dialect, but when they speak to me, they use Italian and English, depending on the conversation. They crack me up, even when they’re using their dialect, because their gestures, voice tone, and occasional familiar phrase or reference each play a part in my ability to pick up on the humour of the conversation. I recall one of them standing in the open doorway and taking a deep breath followed by, “Aah, Fresco! Como vino bianco!” Then he turned to me and said, “Did you understand me?” I said, “Yes. Fresh! Like white wine!” He was very pleased! 😃🥰 Their jokes were many but I understood them, even when they were risque! LOL!
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  3. She’s a normal Aussie with the average Aussie accent and most of us sound very similar to her. The slang stuff is a lot less than you would think!
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  4. Thanksgiving in Europe just tells me that Americans don’t understand why they celebrate Thanksgiving at all, the history of it and how it came about and so on. If they did, they would know it’s an American holiday and nothing to do with the rest of the world.
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  5. The dual flush was to save water in a land that was often in severe drought. Necessity is the mother of invention!
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  6. The lack of a kettle is definitely a thing in America. Some of my YouTube channels often speak about it, especially those who have migrated, those who receive tea in a parcel/package opening, and several others have mentioned that they don’t own a kettle.
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  7. OK Ian, you need to learn about spiders so you understand which ones are harmful and which ones are harmless. Huntsman spiders are our friends because they eat cockroaches and other nasty insects. I had one living in my house last year and saw him stalking a cockroach in a corner of my kitchen floor. He got him and I was very happy, because I hate disease ridden cockroaches.
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  8. I imagine schools innEurope would teach world geography and world history. In Aussie schools, we certainly knew these things from about sixth grade upwards. The same can’t be said for American schools, their knowledge is limited to the US, and these days, even that is asking a lot!
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  9. Then the Texan saw dozens of kangaroos leaping across the valley. “What the heck are those things?” The Aussie replied, “What? You don’t have rats in Texas?”
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  10. The Little Nippers program isn’t related to the school, it’s a club the kids join especially if they’re interested in becoming a lifeguard when they get older. Most of them do achieve their dream!
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  11. Hey Ian, Aussies grew up with Fahrenheit as well! We just adapted very easily. Americans really don’t like change. I’ve witnessed that with so many things!
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  12. Bundaberg Ginger Beer is a brewed soft drink, which is why it tastes so much better. I love their Sarsaparilla! I sip it, I just want the flavour in my mouth.
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  13. I remember asking an online American friend, “Who plays in the World Series Baseball?” I expected a list of countries but I got a list of states. “So none of the teams are outside of the US?” “No.” “Then why is it called the world series?” He didn’t know. Neither do I!
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  14. I miss Rowntrees and MacRobertson’s, they were both manufacturing delicious chocolate bars for decades, but like most companies, time outgrows the family connection and corporate buys them out.
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  15. “In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries, similarly to the Post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.”
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  16. Ian, be VERY CAREFUL when you eat the Fantales and Minties because they’re hard and will stick to your teeth if you try to bite them! Just suck on them! The creature on the pack of Bananas is a monkey! I think you’ll find that the big bottle cap is actually a bottle opener. Look on the other side and see if it’s shaped like a hollowed out bottle cap. Speaking of cobbers, there are cubes of hard caramel we have here that are called Cobbers. Their opposition candy is called Mates but the Cobbers are better, as with most original products. Steve Parrish is a well known Australian photographer. You can google him to see his amazing photographs. Yagoona is a suburb of Sydney. You guys really need to make your ANZAC Biscuits at home! They taste so much better and were never meant to be mass produced. Even in WWI, they were home baked, packed into a tin and sent overseas to the Aussie troops. It’s only been in the last ten years that biscuit companies have started making them for the supermarkets. I’ll see if I can find you a proper recipe, 🇦🇺🔻 but you need to find Golden Syrup. I know they have Lyle’s Golden Syrup in Canada, so hunt around for it. You will also need finely shredded coconut, not the thick cut style. Vegemite used to be owned by Kraft but is now properly owned by Bega, an Aussie company named after the town of Bega on the southern coast of Australia. The Vegemite factory is on its own street called Vegemite Way. Someone started trying to expand the Vegemite lines but none of their experiments have lasted for very long, Cheesymite is one of them. We, the people, just keep reverting to the original Vegemite. Don’t mess with the real thing, right? With one exception, the low salt version, which has a blue stripe around the top of the regular label. 45% less salt is good for me. LCMs are a lunchbox treat for kids, made from Rice Bubbles and a yummy binding agent that kids love. They’re too sweet for me, but you might enjoy them. 🇦🇺🔻 ANZAC BISCUITS RECIPE: https://youtu.be/WCbud7sUXsk
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  17. Aussies have pressured Macca’s into providing healthier choices over the years, so they have come to know what we prefer and try to go our way without losing the McDonald’s style. It certainly doesn’t mean we regard them as healthy food, but we have definitely made an impact.
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  18. Hehehe! Fantales isn’t a Spanish word, it’s a compound word from Fan Tales, because each wrapper has a celebrity story or a quiz question on it!
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  19. Sorry, Ian, but the US uniform looks like the blazer of an Aussie high school, most of them in fact!
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  20. That bird is an Australian Magpie, yes, the same type that swoops you for two weeks in the Spring when you get too close to their nest. However if they live in the trees around your house, they know you and you will never get swooped. They’re actually friendly!
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  21. That story about asking where people are from and the Americans saying their state or city, I’ve had that discussion with someone in the YT comments, when this woman was asked by a European where she was from and when she replied, Arkansas, the response was, “I don’t know where that is.” The American called that response “stupid”, so I leapt to the European’s defence by explaining that not everyone knows all the states of America. I was promptly chastised for being stupid.
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  22. Poor Ian, he’s been listening to American hype his whole life! Glad to see you’re learning so much! 😜😍🇦🇺
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  23. Ian, look again, it says Any 2 for $89.
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  24. Aussies don’t need huge ovens because we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving. Sometimes the double oven is one oven and a microwave below it. Most Aussie stoves have four burners/hotplates.
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  25. “Only three nations do not use the metric system today: Myanmar, Liberia and the United States.” “In 1866, the U.S. Congress authorized the use of the metric system and almost a decade later America became one of 17 original signatory nations to the Treaty of the Meter. A more modern system was approved in 1960 and is commonly known as SI or the International System of Units.”
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  26. I sent you this link months and months ago, when you reacted to the magpie attacks, because those videos give magpies a really bad rap and yet Australian magpies are my favourite birds! They live in the trees around our house and have never attacked any of us because we are familiar to them and they know we can be trusted. I love their warbling! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺. Ian, imagine you were out and about with Andrew walking beside you, and someone tried to get too close, you feared for Andrew’s safety, told the person to get lost and protected Andrew. That’s what the magpie fathers do when strange humans get too close to their babies in the nest, they swoop to tell you to go away. They’re not interested in your eyes, they’re being really good Dads! Unfortunately, those swoops have become the main attraction on YouTube when really, that’s just 1% of their lifestyle. They love to feed on the grubs and insects living in and under our lawn and the surrounding greenery. I love to open the backdoor and just watch them and listen to them, and sometimes they let me talk to them. Definitely my favourites!
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  27. The journalist used as many “Juan one won” in a question as possible.
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  28. Pineapple fritters are very readily available in Australia. They’re a throwback to the Chicken Maryland era and are still popular. I love mine dusted with cinnamon and sugar! The perfect dessert with fish’n’chips or chicken ‘n’ chips. By chips, I mean the full ones, because the skinny ones that Macca’s has, are full of grease and inedible when they’ve gone cold. Good chips can still be enjoyed cold and not be full of grease! The more surface area of the potato that’s exposed, the more fat is absorbed, so bigger cut chips have less grease, which is why Aussies love potato wedges too!
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  29. The Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race takes about three days of hard sailing along the Pacific coast. The entrants are all millionaires who can afford the big racing yachts with room and beds for a dozen or more crew. If you follow these yachts, you can bet on the race and it screens on the TV News, but otherwise we just make the most of the day off and hang out with family and friends that we didn’t get around to seeing yet.
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  30. AC/DC is actually an Aussie band.
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  31. My Sydney suburb has benches facing the shops, because they’re for people to rest from walking around. The bus stops have a shelter with the bench facing the street, but only the bus stops. If a mother sits on the bench with her toddler, it’s much safer to control the toddler and prevent them from stepping off the kerb.
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  32. He sent you the best sauces too! Beerenberg is yummy! Their tomato sauce is bright and vibrant with the full flavour of fresh tomatoes, hopefully you’ll get one in future. Compare the ingredients list with your ketchup.
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  33. The school bags used to be school cases, the hard kind that you could only carry with one hand, so you walked tilted sideways. They switched it up to an ergonomically designed backpack that would distribute the weight more evenly and keep the child’s spine aligned properly. When they wear it as they’re meant to be worn, no problem. The problems come from kids who are too lazy to put it on and they just lug it around, making it like the old hard school cases. Kindergarten, Years 1, 2 and 3 don’t have much to carry so they’re not the problem. Years 4, 5 and 6 need to wear the backpack properly because they’re starting to get more homework. Teachers should be able to assist kids in donning them, but so can they help each other, and make sure the straps are pulled firmly in place for good back support. I had a hard case for twelve years of school, they just kept getting bigger. Google Globite school, to see what I mean.
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  34. What’s even weirder is embracing the British Empire’s system of weights and measures, aka the Imperial System! Even Britain has abandoned it in favour of the metric system because the old system was subject to failure especially with mechanical and engineering systems on aircraft.
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  35. Canned beetroot is usually pickled so serve them in salad sandwiches or as a side vegetable on a dinner plate such as chicken and salad. You can also julienne them and mix with other julienned vegies like carrots and peppers. Great with cottage cheese or ricotta on some crackers.
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  36. High school stuff that requires cheerleading? Not in Australia. We also wear uniforms to school. Your uniform identifies you as part of your school and you’re expected to behave accordingly, with integrity and dignity.
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  37. I live in Sydney’s southern suburbs where our local Council covers a very large area, and one of their major policies is to maintain the trees. No one is allowed to remove a tree from their property without an application to the council with a sound reason for its removal. The Council can approve the removal of diseased trees at risk of falling onto properties or spreading disease to other trees, etc., but the Council will require the tree to be replaced. The trees give out oxygen, counteracting the fumes from the cars in the area, as well as keeping the air breathable.
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  38. Ian, have you ever noticed how many movies and TV shows mention the city followed by the state during the dialogue? It’s how I’ve learned a lot of them here in Oz: Chicago, Illinois, Springfield, Massachussetts, Las Vegas, Nevada, Atlanta, Georgia, Tampa, Florida, Denver, Colorado, etc
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  39. McCafe was introduced to the franchise in Australia first. After they perfected it, it spread to other countries. The reason we say Maccas and the UK, Maccies, is because of the prefix - whether spelt Mc or Mac, it’s always considered Mac. We would never have gone Mickey because it’s not an “i” but an “a”.
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  40. In Australia, the number plate is an indication that the car has been registered, because they’re issued upon vehicle registration which is then paid annually including Comprehensive Third Party Insurance to protect any person you injure while at the wheel. A licence is issued when you successfully complete your Driver’s Examination, both in handling the car and knowing the rules of the road. If you want to sell the vehicle at some stage, you have to pay to transfer the number plate with the vehicle so the new owner can apply to attach themselves to that motor vehicle’s registration. All vehicles must bear front and rear plates. NSW originally had a luminous yellow plate with solid black lettering, so the Police could identify a car at night, as could anyone looking to report a driver. As the years went by, the number of drivers/owners kept growing until they began to run out of three letters and three numbers combinations, even with recycling expired plates. This caused the new versions and order of letters and numbers in order to extend the number of available registrations. Personalised number plates have become more popular as time has gone on, but very expensive.
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  41. Not quite, you were very close! The Woll is pronounced wool, woollen-gong.
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  42. Roads in the US are designed for cars. Roads in many parts of Europe and UK are not. They can be thousands of years old, they were pathways for walking or riding a horse or a small cart pulled by a horse. Adapting them for cars means people need to use common sense as well as know the rules, written and unwritten. Don’t drive in Europe until you have become used to how things work! It’s like Europeans visiting America who think they can walk to the shops, something they do frequently back home.
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  43. Aussie actress, Jackie Weaver, has always reminded me of Sally Struthers! Same sense of humour, very similar appearance, and both great actresses.
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  44. Ian, the pointed region of Far North Queensland is called Cape York Peninsula, which is sparsely populated and mostly aboriginal lands. It’s pristine and unique so it’s preserved from structures and pests which could destroy this unique environment. You can read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_York_Peninsula
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  45. A Chiko Roll is the branded version of two rolls available in many fast food shops. The Spring roll is an Asian item, home made, full sized, filled with cabbage and minced beef. The Chiko roll has different ingredients inside but is the same everywhere because they’re mass produced.
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  46. 1851 was the great Australian Gold Rush so the wealth of Victoria subsequently rose. The Sydney Opera House was designed to be different, but without much thought given to the activities within its peaks. Cast members have long complained about the lack of space, the narrow hallways and the long climbs to get to and from the stage. You can research everything online.
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  47. I ordered from Domino’s tonight and the app asked me if I wanted to add a tip. I clicked No, but it does make me a bit concerned.
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  48. LOL! I was thinking it when Ian said, “That’s probably not even enough!” (Milo). I spoon it out because if it gets around the rim of the tin, it absorbs moisture from the air and becomes sticky and then sets hard.
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  49. The only reason Australian retailers have Black Friday sales is because of the influence of the US and online shopping. Prior to that, Australia’s Black Friday came from something utterly different: It referred not to shopping at all, but to the devastating Black Friday bushfires that occurred in Victoria 1938–39. “By 13 January – Black Friday – the temperature reached 44.7 degrees Celsius in Melbourne, and 47.2 degrees Celsius in Mildura with very low humidity levels. Narbethong, Noojee, Woods Point, Nayook West and Hill End were completely destroyed by the fires on this day. The fires claimed 36 lives in Victoria on Black Friday; the total number of deaths across January was 71. Approximately 1300 buildings were lost – more than 700 homes, 69 sawmills, many businesses, farms and other buildings. The south-east of South Australia, southern New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania also experienced fires in January 1939. A Royal Commission for the Black Friday bushfires played a significant role in increasing bushfire awareness and prevention throughout Australia.”
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  50. Ian, did you know that in Sydney, we can drink our tap water because it’s perfectly clean and safe? You can buy bottled water but it’s not necessary.
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