Youtube hearted comments of Jeni10 (@Jeni10).

  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. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. “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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  6. Sorry, Ian, but the US uniform looks like the blazer of an Aussie high school, most of them in fact!
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  7. Poor Ian, he’s been listening to American hype his whole life! Glad to see you’re learning so much! 😜😍🇦🇺
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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. Not quite, you were very close! The Woll is pronounced wool, woollen-gong.
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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. I think this is the first time seeing you both eat with cutlery, and yet I wasn’t ready to see you eat the clumsy American way! Knife in the left hand, fork in the right! The complete reverse of the way UK and Australia does it. Now I’m wondering how other European countries use cutlery!
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  17. In Australia, it tends to be the old houses that have eight and ten foot ceilings and the newer builds have seven foot ceilings.
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  18. Oh gosh, even the Aussie girl got that wrong! She said capsican instead of capsicum!
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  19. The dual dial on US cars might be because you actually converted to metric some years ago but no one really uses it, whereas we converted to metric in the 1960s and had a grace period for both which ended after a few years of adjustment. We have no further use for mileage.
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  20. The interviewer is the late great Keith Smith! He was a popular host of a variety of Radio and TV shows and was very likeable, versatile and charismatic. He was also good with young kids. “Keith Smith went on to have a career in radio and TV that spanned decades and involved him interviewing about 2 million children in his role as a self-described ''Pied Piper''. He also wrote a sitcom and published almost 30 books, ranging in topic from jokes for children to parenting tips. He published his 27th book, a collection of interviews about the Depression called Australian Battlers Remember, at the age of 86. But it was his ability to elicit candid responses from children that proved most enduring.”
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  21. Magpies that live around your home, recognise people as they come and go, and if she was the one who talked to them and fed them, they would be aware that someone had died. I love the maggies around my house. The parents and baby number 2 were in my yard a couple of hours ago, listening and feeding on the bugs in the soil. They can hear them! 🇦🇺🥰🥰
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  22. Ian, in Australia, we call soft candy “jubes” whereas you guys seem to call them all gummy candy. The word gummy arrived in Australia with Haribo Gold Bears, but prior to that, fruit gums were harder jubes without sugar on the outside.
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  23. Quik has no vitamins or minerals, it’s just sugary chocolate drink, originally to get kids to drink milk who wouldn’t otherwise. Milo leaves Quik in the dust.
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  24. The koalas have like a big paper clip inside them so you can make them cling to the curtains, the computer monitor, and so on.
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  25. Lamingtons can be frozen in an airtight container separated by some freezer safe paper so they don’t stick together.
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  26. I never use ice cubes, especially when the ice is in a public place! But even if the staff give it to you, there’s no guarantee it’s safe!
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  27. Coles & Kmart, Woolworths & BigW. The supermarkets and their associated variety store. Steve Parish is one of our best known photographers. Originally from Britain, his work in Australia has been amazing!
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  28. Because Sydney has a massive suburban sprawl, you can find a suburb that suits your prices and then explore that suburb to see what facilities, transport, shopping and general population are like in that area. Some are ridden with poverty and not a desirable location, while others have a great suburban feel, friendly people and lots of transport and facilities etc.
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  29. Our houses are measured in square metres. Most TVs are made in Japan so they still use inches, from 32” to 85”.
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  30. Ian, check where the product is made and compare the ingredients to find out the differences. Keep the packaging so you can do that before tossing the packaging out.
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  31. “Pretty darn close to the Equator” - yeah right, Australia occupies the entire Equator by being stretched along its entire length. DUH! Mexico and Florida are just as close if not closer and people live in both of those places! He’s also wrong about the Outback! Cattle stations and sheep stations, the Australian Wheatbelt and our entire river system thrives because of the Outback!
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  32. English isn’t one language, it’s been compiled throughout history from combined tribes like vikings, Romans, Germans, etc, creating a hodge podge of etymology with clashing rules of grammar, but it’s also the most spoken language in the world.
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  33. Ian, the USPS doesn’t know the difference between Austria and Australia! Some years ago, I ordered some products online from America. I was tracking the parcel online and saw that it was travelling all over the US until it got to LA and then it seemed to stop. On the plane to Oz, I concluded. Days later, it had arrived in Austria! After two or three days (hard to tell with the time zones), it was in New York. After clearing, it was reposted and a week later, was back in Austria! Once again, they sent it to NY. Three or four weeks went by with no tracking notices. By now I had contacted the shop and reported it missing. They agreed to send me another one, which I received two weeks later. Still no sign of the original parcel. A couple of weeks later it arrived, having been to Austria and back to the US three times before someone finally figured out that the address said AUSTRALIA not Austria!
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  34. Tartufo is the Italian word for truffle. Tartufo Pistachio is actually a ball of almond gelato with a pistachio centre and rolled in crushed pistachios. It’s very popular in southern Italy!
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  35. ROTFL! Can you imagine a young American couple wanting to buy a four hundred year old house as their home? “Knock it down and rebuild, I want a modern home!” The US is losing its architectural history every day! In Rome, the terrazzo floors in churches and Cathedrals have a wavy surface, due to the millions of feet that have worn it down over many centuries!
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  36. Bushell’s Tea is flavourful especially with a generous slurp of milk in it. Even the kids will like it, especially if you make it in a special cup with a little extra milk and perhaps half a teaspoon of sugar, just to give it a sweet hint.
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  37. I clicked and the first thing I notice is a Christmas Beetle! There used to be millions of them but now I see maybe one a year! They’re normally about an inch long and metallic green and gold, not defined but shimmery all over.
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  38. Ian, there’s a difference between the Outback and the desert. No one lives in the desert. The Outback has people living remotely for whatever reason - cattle station, sheep station, private properties, government installations, aboriginal communities, etc.
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  39. We call it an island! “My Island Home”
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  40. Wow! Ian is so tall! I’ve only ever seen him sitting down!
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  41. In Australia, we have local bakeries in every suburb.
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  42. Ian is right, it’s pronounced kinder and is the same as kindergarten, which means children’s garden. German origin. Be careful that Emma doesn’t accidentally swallow any of the small plastic pieces, nor Anthony!
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  43. Quokka - kwocka. I’ve noticed a lot of American pronunciations tend to change a short vowel into a long vowel. Quokka is a short O as in crock
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  44. Ian, you’re looking good today! Neatly trimmed beard and hair. 😃👍🇦🇺
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  45. Pascall Marshmallows are wonderful in hot chocolate/ Milo - two or three would be perfect. Honeycomb just think Violet Crumble or Crunchie.
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  46. Gippsland is a region in Victoria. It’s also well known for its dairy products.
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  47. Better Homes and Gardens is also a weekly TV series. You might find some episodes on YT.
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  48. The packaging for the cars will help them to keep their value. No packaging, less value, especially with unique collectables.
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  49. Oh! That ram’s head on the coin used to be on our old currency before we went decimal! The ram’s head was on the shilling, which became the ten cent piece on 14 February, 1966!
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  50. Bryce Courtenay is a well-known Aussie author.
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  51. Ian, find a video of how engineered stone is made, then you’ll understand why it’s being banned. They have given us till July 2024 to have it no longer in use anywhere in Australia.
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  52. Ian, when you come Down Under, you’ll be able to eat the ORIGINAL Golden Gaytime! Eat one every day you’re here!
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  53. We’ve always had fake trees, except for one year when we got a real tree. Well, never again! Sticky pine needles were everywhere and the tree died much faster than we expected, so we had to get rid of it, which was a problem in itself! My Dad and brother had to get at it with a chain saw so the branches would fit into the garden waste bin ready for collection. The most fun we had was when we were kids, Dad built a tree from dowel sticks and we would make the leaves for the branches by stitching crepe paper and sliding it onto each dowel length like a sleeve or a curtain onto a curtain rod. The crepe paper was cut into strips with pinking shears and scrunched a little to give it some fullness. Then we decorated the tree with gauge wire shaped into hooks, as well as screw-in hooks st the end of each dowel so Dad could safely hang the Christmas lights from it. Our family is Catholic so Midnight Mass is the most important event, then each Sunday afterwards throughout Christmastide. We had a little bit of Santa stuff but it was never the focus and even when I was five, I knew that Santa wasn’t real. Jesus is at the heart of every Catholic Christmas.
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  54. That croc is small compared to the adult crocs, no worries mate.
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  55. Mr Squiggle was a puppet on a kids’ TV series, he would be given a couple of lines or squiggles on a piece of cardboard and then turn it into a proper drawing! If I can find anything on YT, I’ll send you the link. https://youtu.be/BX_APbyV24c
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  56. I love Dutch Spekulaas! They’re spiced biscuits thst go perfectly with a cup of tea or a glass of milk! They’re impressed with windmill shapes because of the Dutch.
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  57. I don’t follow big rigs at all, but as soon as I see a red one with yellow logo in the distance, I know it’s one of Lindsay Fox’s trucks, aka Linfox!
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  58. Dani, the white birds on your kitchen accessories are called Sulphur Crested Cockatoos. Parrakeets are a different bird. 😍👍🇦🇺
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  59. The biggest problem with fast foods is the extremely high sodium content - bacon, cheese, pickles, bottled sauces, bread, - the list goes on and on. I watched a video of a place in New York that makes giant rolls and the contents had 3 whole chicken schnitzels chopped up and drenched in chipotle sauce, four rashers of fried bacon, 8 slices of salami, a pound of mozzarella cheese, and half a cup of chipotle sauce plus half a cup of mayonnaise, all rolled up inside an 18 inch circle of pizza dough and baked in the pizza oven. “Death by Sodium”, I called it!
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  60. Ian, in the USA, everything revolves around the Dollar = corporate greed.
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  61. Raisins aren’t as common in Australia because while you can find them, sultanas are way more popular - sultanas come from small seedless green grapes and taste very different from raisins. Not sure which product Pedro means, would be interested to know. 😍🇦🇺
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  62. The drink is called Maximus and it comes in 1 litre bottles. I’ve never heard of it. Most of our purple label drinks are Blackcurrant flavoured. It’s not high in sugar, it contains sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium, plus 15g sugar per 250ml serve, that’s three teaspoons.
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  63. Ian, have you got a bottle of wine in your house? It goes into the hole on the aboriginal painted wooden piece! Luke’s red pouch is actually a pencil case. And we say “pore-pore-“ for Pawpaw. The ointment is very good for dry lips and minor skin irritations.
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  64. Ian, Ian, Ian! Five letters spelled the same way forwards and backwards, with the letters mut. It can only be one of two things - mutum or tumut
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  65. I’m Australian and I agree..a house is a building but a home is where your heart lives.
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  66. Do you have a box freezer in the basement or somewhere? You can freeze them and they’ll last you for a year or more, instead of going out of date. You can also store a pack in the regular freezer and eat them frozen with your favourite hot or cold drink!
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  67. Red P = Provisional licence for one year. Green P = Provisional licence for two years.
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  68. The birds are Australian Ibis. You can see the Egyptian Ibis on the walls of the pyramids, very easy to spot by their specific shape. The Australia Ibis is a waterbird and the wetlands are their natural habitat where they feed on fish, crustaceans and small mammals. They used to be found in the wetlands of NSW but they dried up due to a combination of long drought and man constructing on their former habitat, so they were forced to search for other water and food sources so they headed east and found themselves in a totally new environment. Unfortunately their diet now consists of fast food items since so many people throw away what they didn’t eat, and the Ibis observed them, which earned them the unglamorous title of “bin chickens”, a term of mockery, but it was humans who caused it in the first place., and unfortunately, the city we work so hard to keep clean, is making these white birds look filthy. We would too, if we wore white every day! To me, they are beautiful waterbirds who look so majestic in flight and don’t deserve to be unappreciated. 🇦🇺❤️🪽
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  69. That was a typo, it’s Aurora Australis, the southern hemisphere’s version of the Northern Lights.
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  70. Volkswagen made the Kombi Van back in the sixties and seventies and they were popular for young people travelling around Australia, especially for surfers following the coast.
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  71. Clint Eastwood is 91! That’s a LOT older than Pedro! Pedro was too young to play in Clint Eastwood’s movies. 😜👍
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  72. Tasmania has great value for money because you can get a large property with a decent sized house but it’s a much cooler climate.
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  73. Evonne Goolagong is one of our greatest tennis champions! You can read it to the kids, but the story will also be for grown ups.
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  74. Ian, when you were talking about our roads the other day, I wondered how many airports we had compared to the US. We have 613 including private, domestic and international. The US has more than 5000!
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  75. If they’re labeled cookies, then they’re probably the soft style cookies. Sultanas are dried seedless green grapes, usually Thompson’s seedless grapes. We do have raisins but they’re much less common and are much bigger and darker than sultanas. Raisins taste very different too.
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  76. Ian, I googled a shopping mall in the US to see what it looked like. The search results gave me a map of how to get there, leaving Sydney and flying across the Pacific! ROTFL! Google, that’s not quite what I wanted!
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  77. Ian, have you ever had Guinness? I love it much more than beer because it has a rich, delicious flavour and has a lot more nutrition in it! It needs to have a tall head on it because if you let it stand, the head slowly disappears from the bottom up, so drink it with the head! Yum!
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  78. Gymea Station has Jacaranda trees around it. This photo was probably taken between September and November, our Springtime. The bell shaped flowers fall off in strong winds. Also, you pronounced Gymea correctly! Google Gymea Lily and check out how tall they grow!
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  79. He sent you two of those folded promo sheets so you could hang them up and see both sides!
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  80. Fanny is the female front, so yeah, not a good word to use! Australia has clean water so we can drink tap water without problems. Some risks can arise during flooding because mud and debris get into the river system, but once the flood has subsided, things return to normal. Prices have been adjusted to the nearest five cents because we no longer use 1 and 2 cent coins. It saves us having to round up or down.
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  81. Bunnings is quietly pulling the pin on its famous tagline. “Lowest prices are just the beginning …” is, well, ending. At least for now.
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  82. You’ll need a good storage container for the small grocery items so they don’t get lost. Think Lego sets. There’s no edible items inside the packets, so make sure the kids don’t try to open them.
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  83. Oh! I miss the Adelaide circuit!! ☹️ Mountains in the background?? Hmmm…. Must be Mount Barker because Adelaide is flat.
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  84. That guy has a channel “2 Aussie” which I follow, but I worry about him eating too much brown food. If I order a McFlurry, I just get the plain one with no toppings, and when I get it home, I open my Milo tin and put big spoonsful of Milo on it, eat, and then add more as needed!
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  85. Steering wheel centre = the Lion logo and the Southern Cross constellation which, you identified correctly, is also on the Australian flag.
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  86. Sandman wagon looks like a panel van - a closed in ute.
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  87. That advice to Aussies about places to visit, also applies to you when you come down here. Which is why the towns BETWEEN major cities are so interesting..
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  88. Dani, pavlova is easy to make, just look for a recipe and give it a try!
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  89. First pair of socks has the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo. Kookaburras are brown, cream and a touch of blue. I think you all know that, it was Dani’s slip of the tongue and Ian followed suit. LOL!
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  90. A Milo beach would get very sticky and turn hard within a day!
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  91. Subway in Australia is fresh, I love it.
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  92. Ian, it’s not pronounced as you said it, but rather as bond-eye.
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  93. I’ve driven across the Woronora Bridge many times. When it was under construction, you could never see it moving. It took a long time to complete it and it was a fabulous feat of engineering! It felt like it moved two inches a day.
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  94. Sloppy Joes in Australia are a winter jumper made of knitted fabric.
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  95. Fauna means animal life and flora means plant life.
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  96. Cable Beach is near Broome, a town near the coast and is on red sand. It has a population of about 15,000.
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  97. 10,000 steps a day is the healthy recommendation in Australia.
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  98. Ian, I’ve been to Canberra with my family and aside from visiting a few places like the Mint and the foreign embassies, the place is a nightmare to drive around. Dad wanted to take us to the movies - he and I were movie buffs - but although we could see the cinema as we drove past, we couldn’t find how to get there. After an hour of driving literally round and round and round, he gave up! My Dad, the man who used logic and reasoning to do everything and studied the roadmap before we went anywhere, surrendered to the impractical design of Canberra’s roads and we went back to our campsite then left for good the next morning. Google a street map of Canberra. If you don’t live there, you go nuts trying to find your way!
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  99. Ian, we were in WW1 because we fought at Gallipoli under the title ANZAC - Australia and New Zealand Army Corp. I’m sure you knew that.
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  100. Ian, don’t guess, do your research then you’ll actually learn the answers and remember them.
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  101. Kensington Pride mangoes have the best flavour of all mangoes!
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  102. Cassowary section: that native looks like one of the characters from the movie, Apocalypto! In fact none of the natives we see in this video are Australian aboriginals. Perentie is actually native to Australia and is larger than a Komodo dragon, but like most lizards, it eats insects, small animals such as rats, mice and rabbits, but the largest perentie may also eat small kangaroos and small wombats. Like other lizards, humans can scare them away by seeming aggressive. The only bad thing about that Aussie was the over-use of the f bomb. Thankfully no one in my social circle uses that word nor the other distasteful word he said. Such language draws the wrong kinds of people around you and isn’t attractive to women nor your boss nor your family and definitely not your wife and kids.
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  103. The L is to indicate the driver is on a Learner’s Permit so they need a licensed driver with them.
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  104. I’m very suspicious of that first kangaroo video because the photographer zooms in on the action. They’re on a golf course for crying out loud! Who’s behind the camera and why isn’t he helping or at the very least, calling the clubhouse for help. And killing a kangaroo with your golf club isn’t an option. I can’t help wondering if it was all a set up to get a good video for their channel. The river side video: That Indian couple are fine taking pictures of the kangaroos but leave as soon as they see the birds approaching. The kangaroo turns to see what’s behind him and when it turns back, that guy is a lot closer than he had been, so the kangaroo defends itself, just in case this is an attack. The last video, that adult was touching the animal, which looks like a wallaby to me, but even so, as soon as he was touched from the back, he reacted by jumping. You can’t play with them like dogs and cats, they’re wild animals even in zoos and wildlife parks, so you can sit near them and take photos, you’re not a threat, but as soon as you surprise them or come at them from behind, they will spring into action, usually by attacking not evading.
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  105. West of Sydney is prone to early morning frosts. Just to let you know.
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  106. That’s a normal fridge. Families might opt for a taller one but it’s pretty standard for a couple with a toddler or two. Remember that we shop more often than you guys do.
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  107. Drinking and swearing is an age thing. I’ve never been a part of that scene. The generation gap has help me avoid it altogether. There are towns in the outback but really, unless you’re part of a guided tour, you have no reason to be out there, especially amongst the scorpions and deadly snakes.
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  108. One Aussie’s BBQ on his apartment balcony: https://youtu.be/HOpDAzjD564 Aussie workplace BBQ: https://youtu.be/fr6YhR7cspo
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  109. Coober Pedy: peedy peedy peedy!
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  110. The slogan for Nobby’s Peanuts is, “Nibble Nobby’s Nuts!” 😜👍😂
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  111. When you can’t hit the ball you need to hit, you’re snookered.
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  112. Don’t you have street circuits in America?
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  113. Ian, when you come Down Under, you and your kids will need lots of sunscreen, cotton broad brimmed hats (not baseball caps), anti UV shirts, sunglasses and jeans, all to protect you from the Sun and the hole in the Ozone layer. Protect your skin and eyes and head!
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  114. The green spirals are Mosquito Coils. They come two in a box with a little metal stand that folds open, then you place the slot at the centre of the coil over the metal tip. It balances there nicely. You light the outer tip and it will smoulder for hours ridding the tent, room or caravan of mozzies and other flying insects. Best to do before you go out for the day.
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  115. The deserts of Australia aren’t like the Sahara, it changes from region to region, but the way to survive out there is to understand it and to be well prepared both mentally and physically. Port Macquarie (which is the surname of the fifth Governor of NSW, Lachlan Macquarie, 1810-1821, and a rock formation in Sydney is called Mrs Macquarie’s Chair), is pronounced “ma’quarry”. How Governor Macquarie impacted New South Wales: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Macquarie
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  116. Balut has been eaten on Survivor!
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  117. Ian, loose change can be five small coins, which, if they’re $2 coins can mean $10 in your pocket the size of five nickels.
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  118. You missed Lebanon - the cedar tree was the giveaway! Also Argentina!
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  119. Red Rooster is an Australian company. Their chicken is barbecued, but they also have deep fried crispy and other styles from time to time. Check out their website.
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  120. Vegemite. The original and best. I tried the copy, Promite once many years ago, but went right back to my Vegemite. Now they have a Vegemite with 45% less salt and that’s yummy as well, also better for my low sodium diet.
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  121. Sunday prices anywhere are always higher because the employer has to pay the staff double time. However, that $77 seems like a rip off to me, even for Darwin, because I can eat a three course meal at my favourite local restaurant owned by a four star chef and his wife, for less than $50, and that includes salad, main, dessert and coffee! A main would be something like grilled beef fillet with mushrooms and red wine jus, dutch carrots and potatoes dauphinoise.
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  122. Much better look! Well done!
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  123. I was stunned that we had 613. My guess was about 50!
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  124. Those notes are plastic notes. The first plastic notes came into circulation around 1988 or 1989. The whole reason we went from paper to plastic is for longevity and durability. They also can’t be torn up. Definitely legal tender.
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  125. Ian, leave all the models in the original packages because they maintain their value way better.
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  126. I used to sit on the approach side of that Adelaide hairpin turn every year! You could see the cars coming and then slow for the hairpin and accelerate up the straight. Pity they shortened it.
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  127. A tourist drives into the city of Bathurst: https://youtu.be/E7sJFzEJ-6U
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  128. Ian, if you want to study some really interesting history, start with the ancient Vikings because they were fierce warriors who explored with ships and travelled further than anyone else in that era. They travelled as far as Canada, the UK and France, and claimed many lands, before they finally came across armed adversaries. Their influence around those regions is still there to this day. Modern Britain is full of their exploits along with the Romans, another conquering people.
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  129. This isn’t from NZ but rather Ukraine. I thought you and your wife might enjoy this amazing sand artist: https://youtu.be/9zLa-o7ZeiQ
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  130. Film becomes brittle over time so preserving the old films for archiving is a global practice. Film can also be damaged by fire, water, heat and freezing temperatures.
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  131. Ian, it’s not so much about facts as much as it is about perceptions of America, and those count! The US is not making a good impression on the rest of the world, the perception is that they think they’re a great country but that’s not always what we perceive from outside.
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  132. I rarely drink, but I do enjoy a glass of Guinness, and the bigger the head, the better, because sipping through that creamy foam makes the Guinness taste way better!
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