Comments by "Goatcha" (@Goatcha_M) on "IWrocker" channel.

  1. Most Australians tend not to navigate by Highway Numbers, but by Highway Names instead. Most of us don't even know what the numbers mean. From what I remember, before the 00s most highways didn't even display number codes; there was National Highway 1, and that was about it.
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  2. Pepper Spray is completely illegal in Australia too, as are credit card knives, tasers, batons and a whole lot of other weapons. Pocket knives and multi-tools aren't illegal, but you need a valid work reason to carry them, otherwise they are an illegally concealed weapon.
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  3. The reason the US homeless situation is so out of control, especially in cities like LA is a combination of local ordinances, complete lack of provisions for the mentally ill or those who simply cannot afford rent, the impossibility of being hired with a prison sentence when 1% of the population is incarcerated at any given time... the list goes on. Australia has homeless, and the way things are going with housing we are rapidly heading towards the Japanese situation with an entire class of Gainfully employed people who are homeless because rents are too high. But most destitute or mentally ill people do receive some form of welfare and care.
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  4. Wendy's is one of those confusing ones for me, because Australia has its own Wendy's chain which is very different from the US one. They sell Ice Cream, Milkshakes and Hotdogs from small kiosks in shopping Malls.
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  5. In Australia eggs are generally sold unrefrigerated, but we put them in the fridge as soon as we get home. Of course we have to deal with hot temperatures Europe rarely sees.
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  6. I've seen quite a few people driving on the wrong side of the road outside Avalon Airport, very dangerous. And all along The Great Ocean Road they now have signs up reminding people to drive on the left, so it must be a common problem there.
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  7. Its all changing now as people universally build ugly grey concrete blocks, but traditionally there is a bit of variation between places. In the Outback the Australian Bungalow is pretty standard, single story weatherboard, wide verandah, tin roof. In North Qld houses are built on stilts for better airflow underneath to keep cool. Also good in floods. Older houses in Geelong have a distinctive look with a slightly rounded front and are made of brick. Melbourne has its townhouses and Ballarat has a lot of houses that are very long and narrow as well as a mix of other styles. There is also the Federation style with its wrought verandah railings.
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  8. The odd thing about the groundstone axe mentioned is that it predates other ground axes in Australia by about 40,000 years. There was a major ground greenstone axe industry in south-eastern Australia in the late Pleistocene, but there is at least a 30,000 year gap where the technology goes out of observed use.
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  9. Was a lot better 20 years ago, before John Howard took away 30% of its funding to pay for the Private Health Insurance Rebate. Still easily better than the US lack of a system though.
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  10. That's the Flinders Ranges to the north of Adelaide, and there are indeed mountains there. Its a truly beautiful area. The Great Dividing Range of course goes all the way up the East coast, although it has several names depending on the region including the Snowy Mountains around the source of the Murray and The Blue Mountains near Sydney.
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  11. My dad was a stockman at Alexandria Station back when it was 11,000 square miles and the biggest farm in the world. Before most of it had to get sold off because of a law restricting the amount of foreign ownership of Australian land was introduced. And back then they still used horses almost exclusively, it was long before helicopter herding.
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  12. What happened was John Howard slashed the Import Tariffs and the market became flooded with cheap foreign imports.
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  13. 09:31 He's sitting on an ostrich. Note the white feathers compared to the black heads and brown necks of the emus in the next image. Ostrich eyes are different too, bigger.
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  14. Australian Sates, bit easier than US right off the bat. I could probably only name 20 of the United States, let alone pinpoint them.
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  15. Even in the US I have to imagine that whipping out a gun in a store is going to send "give me all your money' signals.
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  16. It'd be 60,000. A standard Truck with duel tanks holds 1000Lt, a tanker transports a LOT more.
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  17. I grew up on Clarke and Dawe, and they're almost all pure gold.
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  18. Not really the top. Labor's Fibre to the Home plan was 50 Mb/s on 3 years at a time when some countries already had 1000 Mb/s and the average in Europe and America was 250-500 Mb/s. But the Liberals of course went for Fibre to the Node with an optimal speed of 25 Mb/s falling off sharply if you lived more than 2 houses away from the node so for most people it was 1-5 Mb/s. And doing that halfway measure over 10 years instead of 3.
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  19. You need to react to some of the old Hard Earned Thirst VB adds. Oh and all these private signs aside, (I suspect the rude outback signs are on Stations at that), the official anti-drinking slogan sponsored by the TAC government body was "If you drink then drive, you're a bloody idiot", which certainly summed it up a lot better than the modern PC adds do.
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  20. Even in the dry you can have your whole vehicle swallowed by ruts hidden by bulldust.
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  21. Metric was a lot less complicated when they weren't defining things by universal constants and instead just had it all based on the distance between the equator and the North Pole and the volume of fresh water at sea level, which all those complicated maths are replicating based on Caesium atom vibrations. But for the layman its still the same. 1ml of fresh water weighs 1g and fills a 1cm3 box. Its all translatable 1:1 That's the real reason Metric is superior, within a measurement its all base 10, distance, volume, weight and its dead easy to convert them. Plus Celsius temperature, At Sea Level Fresh Water Freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100. As opposed to Fahrenheit where you mix water, ice and ammonium chloride to get a system that matches up to nothing in nature.
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  22. A coach is just a specific type of bus, specifically the type with only one door. But yes, Bus Replacement Available is a very well known event, and is rarely a good thing as it means extensive delays.
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  23. The problem with the rich and their greed is that they are never satisfied. Earning enough every year to last a lifetime? Got to earn that much every month, then every week, every day, every hour. And they just horde that wealth, they don't spend more than a fraction of it and they don't pay taxes. Corporate mindset: If your revenue doesn't double every six months the company is failing, even if it has consistent billion dollar profits. You need perpetual growth in a finite world, and when the bill comes due, just declare bankruptcy and start a new company. The world where CEO's get paid millions and workers cannot afford bread.
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  24. The whole lunch order convo. That made me laugh, I got everything they were saying, but I doubt Wrocker caught more than 3 words.
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  25. 2:05 I'm pretty sure the original poster was referring to the Ukrainian Constitution which expressly forbids elections when Martial Law has been declared. The Ukrainian Constitution was written during the breakup of the USSR and was written with fears of a Soviet re-invasion in mind, 30 years later those fears came true.
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  26. Black Friday has been making inroads in Australia for the last few years, but our equivalent is really Boxing Day Sales, the day after Christmas when all the excess stock goes on sale, good time to spend your gift vouchers. Used to be that Black Friday referred to a massive bushfire in 1938-1939 where the skies of Melbourne were darkened by the smoke.
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  27. Land of the Rising Gun is a good one.
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  28. Dude, there is nothing within 100 miles of Alice Springs except some great scenery.
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  29. Sandles are a different type of shoe. What defines thongs is having the three point strap, one connected between the big toe and next toe and the other two either side of the foot.
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  30. Hazard signs are taken from UK, speed limits from UN and the rest from US, but with our own distinctions. Like the sensible Give Way instead of the obscure and demanding Yield. Yield what?
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  31. You hear about jobs in America where not only is the Minimum Wage half what it should be because of expected tips, but the businesses are then allowed to pay Below Minimum Wage because the difference is expected to be made up in tips, so the tips need to be twice as big to compensate. Just pay your employees more and set your prices accordingly America.
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  32. It's a panel van.
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  33. Australia’s average download speed is 58.83Mbps with an average upload speed of 21.44Mbps (as of December 2020). That puts us 61st in the world. But the numbers are skewed, because we have Fibre to the Node, you can have triple the internet speed just by living 2-3 houses closer to the Node and big cities get vastly better service than regional areas.
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  34. Billabong is also an ice cream brand, and a surfing gear brand, but mostly its a pond. Guide Dog's Australia uses a replica of the dog on a tuckerbox for collecting donations.
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  35. Most Road Trains are 2-3 trailers, the mining ones are exceptions. For long trips its not uncommon to have two drivers, one sleeps while the other drives to keep the truck moving, while complying with the mandated rest periods. They stop for fuel and maintenance, as well as food and inspections, but mostly, they keep rolling.
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  36. Australian road signs are a combination of the UK and US systems. We basically cherry picked the best sign for the job from both, and then added highway numbers which no-one understands or cares about because overseas people like them. We do not use that Eu no-stopping sign, at least not enough that anyone would recognise it.
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  37. You can't accidentally climb a mountain, but its pretty easy to accidentally fall into a river, lake, swimming pool, etc, or just be caught in a flood. It reakky is very flawed logic to say the least.
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  38. Aboriginal names are always incredibly difficult to pronounce, and it doesn't help that they have over a 250 different languages and 800 dialects.
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  39. 3:07 it's not that they cut off the bike, its that they crossed double white lines, they could have hit the oncoming traffic. And of course they didn't indicate, generally seems that about 90% of drivers fail to indicate when changing lanes, 1 in 10 will fail to indicate when turning Right across traffic, even at rush hour.
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  40. Surprised me that map showed the top of NT as managed by Qld. We learned in school that A managed everything up to the North Coast until NT was established as a separate Territory under Federal control.
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  41. Cable Beach is in Broome, its actually a pretty well known town, famous for pearl diving and tourist resorts. My parents met there actually.
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  42. Yes it is socialism, but that is not a bad thing.
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  43. Given how little regard smokers have for no-smoking signs, I'd say the ashtray makes perfect sense.
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  44.  @sandrarobinson3266  The rebate on Private Health is a bad thing, it takes Billions of dollars out of Medicare and Public Hospitals just so those who are rich enough to be able to afford Private Health Insurance are even better off, while not making it affordable for the Loe Income Earners who pay for the rebate with the Medicare Levy.
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  45. There is an excellent video of Stephen Fry explaining the laws of cricket. Better than the overview vids most youtubers react to, although you shpuld react to both. Cricket is similar to baseball, vut less complicated rules and more opportunities for batter skill.
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  46. 164c a litre is actually cheaper than the petrol in Melbourne right now. When my family took the Nullabor as a kid the petrol was $1 compared to 58c back home, how times have changed.
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  47. If Woolies is anything like Coles, you have dedicated workers fore each department and aside from managers there is no crossover. Fruit and Veg don't stock grocery and grocery don't run registers. Meat, Bakery, trolleys, its all separate jobs.
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  48. The C word is one of the worst swear words, and while I guess its become popular amongst the youth and drunks, its not really that common, not like the F or B words which are ubiquitous. Not the female dog one btw, the other b word.
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  49. Better than the US, 'you will get killed' motto certainly.
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  50. Check out The Grampians, then for a contrast, the Flinders Rangers.
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