Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "American Reacts to USA VS Aussie VS Singapore VS South Africa ENGLISH Slang" video.

  1.  @Kayenne54  Lots of references from Australia back even a hundred years ago referring to flats. Flats started to have negative connotations starting in the fifties with public housing tower blacks. Response from the real estate industry is to call them apartments to distance them from public housing. Worked well as even now lots of people in high rise object to calling them flats.
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  2. Flats in use in the 1920s before public housing gave them a bad name and real estate people started calling them apartments in response : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lU0EeUo6LY&t=843s
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  3. G'day Ian. Lots of fish and chip shop memories got raised by this comedy vid on old school fish and chip shops that are still popular but not as extreme as this : https://youtu.be/SVgzuE7293Q Newer current one : https://youtu.be/DRbLaBdfIQs Was so common a feed on Friday nights.
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  4. Except in a Fish and Chip Shop just chips. Never a Fish and Hot Chip Shop.
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  5. Another fish and chip shop worth a look for recording a big part of our culture : https://youtu.be/bBb7LJ6DFEA Explains what Flake is too. The most requested fish serving in Melbourne.
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  6. Used in Australia too. Fifty or more years ago my local Amoco was Karl's Garage. He was expert in VW repairs but sold petrol too. Carpenters Garage was another local one maybe dating from the thirties
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  7. 3:33 your Trash night is our Bin night. Although some Australians do go out at night with the aim of getting Trashed. Nightclubs and Pubs help with that aim.
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