Comments by "Peter" (@peter65zzfdfh) on "IWrocker" channel.

  1. Most houses in Australia that have one bathroom have separate bathroom and toilet (allowing multiple people to use). With houses having usually more than one bathroom there’s often a mix of separate and combined, even in the same house. Sometimes larger houses also having a completely separate ‘powder room’ with a sink/toilet without an associated shower/bath.
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  2. They have big light switches in Australia for the disabled…… oh now I see…..
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  3. Translink where she is even has an app that will alarm just before your stop, or you could just ask the driver. Too hard…
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  4.  @arnoldhillbillygrizzlyputm1493 because they’re a regular occurrence in FNQ anyone who has built where the floods would wash them away is long gone. People have forgotten the last one to hit Brisbane in 1974 caused mass flooding. And just heavy rain has caused fatalities in Brisbane. It’s just not prepared for what’s an annual occurrence in FNQ. It’s be like 4 inches of snow hitting Cairns.
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  5. Paid weekly too these days.
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  6. So in Australian. Capsicum, Chilli & Pepper. In American Pepper, Pepper & Pepper.
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  7. They have them in some pretty remote areas. One of the reasons is it lets people cook without an exposed flame. They don’t want people bringing open flames to places with high fire risks.
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  8.  @Muck006 there’s lots of bus stops with multiple routes, waste of time to stop for people that aren’t even necessarily looking for that bus. This means a route can have more stops, and still be efficient and fast most of the time as it’s rare many stops will have people at them. There’s no way a bus won’t be either early or late depending on traffic, so either you make the timetable have wider spacing and have the bus do a lot of useless waiting to not be early, or as I assume in Germany, the bus is always late and slow.
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  9. Size of houses varies a lot, smaller closer to big cities, where people have big blocks have bigger bedrooms. 8ft is minimum ceiling height basically, 9ft is pretty standard with 10ft in more expensive places (or cathedral ceilings).
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  10.  @allangibson8494 and the 1974 floods were traumatic for my parents generation. A much less built up Brisbane got whacked hard.
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  11. It’s funny because we made TVs here in the 80’s and 90’s and they were all in cm, but when LCDs etc came along they all switched back to inches.
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  12. Two stories is pretty standard for suburbs these days, no basements, there’s no tornadoes, no frost line. No need for a basement, costs more than building up. Single stories are more very far outer areas / older areas / you have to seek them out specifically if you have mobility issues etc. Blocks of land in the major capitals are shrinking and expensive so people kind of have to build two stories on them or they will have a very small house on an expensive block.
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  13. The layer is varying degrees of thickness, it’s thinner over Australia, but yes, technically never non existent.
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  14. With grave consequences for fire risk. Eucalyptus burn very well, and really need fire to thrive. They’re so entrenched in California now people don’t realize they’re introduced.
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  15.  @majorlaff8682 today maybe, but 30+ years ago they were to allow for stack effect ventilation. So they were absolutely due to the heat. Conversely high ceilings make houses harder to heat, so they’re rare in colder areas.
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  16. Well the bar for success is set at not being shot.
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  17. You could fairly effectively argue that any country pulling out of NATO would increase the required tax spend, and make it more likely that the country would get involved in a hot war. The whole point of NATO is to be so scary to attack that no one does, thus you can spend less. Less scary, more spending required. If for instance Ukraine was in NATO prior to 2014, you basically wouldn’t have the war there and the west would have saved a heap of money.
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  18. Similar climate. The weather is different though just due to the differing surrounding geography. It’s like 5 degrees C warmer in an average Brisbane winter night, and Brisbane has fewer rain days due to not being on a peninsula. No cyclone risk either. The Gulf of Mexico really ups Hurricane risk, while the most Brisbane gets is the rain from Cyclones much further north. At least until the planet gets a bit warmer I guess.
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  19. Any of the capitals walk into 99% of cafes and you’ll find a trained barista, most regions centers too. It might have originated in Melbourne but it’s no different elsewhere these days. Maybe somewhere *extremely remote*. Both Brisbane and Hobart for example are the same. There’s more people from Melbourne in other capitals than there is in Melbourne these days.
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  20. There’s lots of Australian blends of coffee but we only grow ~600 tonnes of raw beans a year, we import ~ 132,000 tonnes.
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  21.  @Apollorion I’m pretty sure it was a joke, but jokes don’t work well on the internet.
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  22. ⁠ @TheRockkickass Thomas Jefferson wrote of the first amendment in 1802 that it should represent a ‘wall of separation between Church and State.’ Basically it’s impossible to comply with the first amendment without violating the first amendment as it effectively makes some religions persecuted by exclusion. It’s only been in the last 5 or so years that the idea that it’s not a constitutional requirement has been more than a minority opinion.
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  23. There’s still a thinner ozone layer in the southern hemisphere than the north (it never really was a ‘hole hole’ just thinner), and the thinnest part intersects with Australia more than other countries even at the same latitude due to the shape of Antarctica and prevailing winds. (Antarctica’s meteorological conditions actually help CFCs deplete the Ozone layer. Couple that with good weather and the sun distance and it makes melanoma a problem.
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  24. Yeah rent/mortgage may be more in Sydney and Melbourne but they are the cheapest for food. Big cities have a lot of competition and so there’s lots of good, but still reasonably priced food. Just the logistics to get food to regional areas costs more and there’s less competition. In Tasmania for instance there’s no Aldi, in WA there’s a lot of national chains that have products they don’t stock there. If you’re in the remote parts of the country fruit and vegetables are whatever is hyper local or in stock. Back a few decades ago I remember a supermarket that just had one ‘fruit of the week’ and one ‘vegetable of the week’, and not much of anything else except expensive scraps. Meanwhile in the capitals or very big towns you can get anything.
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  25. If it’s not in sandwich bread, it’s not a sandwich.
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  26. 1987 in QLD it was already no hat, no play. Good thing too, I have half a dozen aunts and uncles who had melanomas removed.
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  27. They’re expensive and not needed because there’s no frost line. The raised houses helped with breezes and flooding.
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  28. No when there’s a bus every 15 minutes one will be 20 minutes late, one 5 minutes late, and another 10 minutes early because the first two picked up all their passengers 😂so they’ll all show up at once!
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  29. The other hilarious thing that happens is people complain about the foreign spending. And when asked what it should be, here and in the US, think it should go ‘down’ to ‘only’ 10%. And here, like the US, it’s only around 1% total, and much of that is soft power to get things in return, like an agreement to stop refugees, stopping China from using their country as a base etc. But it’s an easy target for some politicians and their cronies to dupe their supporters into thinking that’s the problem and not the tax cuts for the ultra wealthy.
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  30. ⁠​⁠ @jenniferharrison8915 Brisbane has rainforests. I’ve lived in both Hobart and Brisbane for years. Currently live in Hobart. Brisbane leaves it for dead. Brisbane has actual public transport, for 50c that covers an area greater than that from Launceston to Hobart. Sydney takes a great picture, Hobart does have some great scenery (once you get out of Hobart) but you’ve clearly never been to Brisbane. At least when there isn’t a bus strike traffic in Hobart is good. Because you need that car if you want to get most places, or in a reasonable amount of time.
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  31.  @ChristopherJewels the beaches in Hobart this year were famous for the no swim warnings due to sewage being dumped after the sewage plant was knocked out by industrial waste… delightful.
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  32. In primary school all that’s often in it is lunch anyway.
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  33.  @grahamejohn6847 I wish we gave them more, but deducted from their pension a proportion of the amount they earned after leaving. For the level of job we don’t actually pay them that well, I’d certainly never bother. So you get people in their more concerned with what job they can line up after (especially now we removed any special pension benefits from politicians who were elected after 2004).
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  34. Depends on the state. Supermarkets in QLD are ineligible to hold a license under any circumstances and cannot even share an entrance directly with a bottle shop. In other states there’s a special checkout for alcohol. And in others you’ll find 14 year olds serving alcohol provided it’s in a place where people under 18 are allowed.
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  35.  @badpossum440 I have literally dozens of relatives that have had skin cancers cut out, and a family friend died of melanoma at 35…. One person’s experience doesn’t make reality.
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  36. One of the reasons Australian live ~10 years longer. It’s too expensive to send yourself (and those around you) to an early, unhealthy grave. Probably also one of the reasons why we spend less taxpayer money per unit population on healthcare than the US and still manage to have universal healthcare…
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  37. The ones in South Bank (in this video) are maintained by South Bank Corporation which is a 30 year old state government owned corporation in charge of the massive South Bank parklands, and all the commercial space in it. The rent from the commercial space pays for the upkeep. They’re a not-for-profit so they have a lot of cash to keep maintaining and redeveloping it. It was going to be massively expanded 12 years ago but Campbell Newman won the election and scrapped it.
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  38.  @Srstrix the sunset and sunrise times are the same for the same latitude. The difference for cities at the same latitude is thus down to local factors like cloud cover. (Or if you’re hyper local, mountains in the way).
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  39.  @paul1979uk2000 humidity makes you feel warmer, oceans and seas stabilize actual temperatures. Altitudes also make a difference.
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  40. Mostly the 1950’s parts.
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  41. It’s not actually a hole at all, it’s a variation in the concentration of ozone. It was never 0, it neither forms nor goes away. It does vary with weather though, particularly Antarctic weather. The concentration of Ozone compared to more northern latitudes is definitely a thing in Australia. You can see satellite images of it. Just because it’s not as bad as over Antarctica doesn’t mean it’s not a factor.
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  42. The bagel boys in Brisbane are amazing, haven’t found any decent bagels in Hobart yet, at least beyond the basics. 15 years ago they were basically unheard of. We just have a different makeup of immigrants to the US and have only really been getting more diverse than Asian/British/Greek/Italian etc in the last 20 years.
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  43. This simply isn’t the reason. Eg, none of the capitals had any form of water restrictions until the 1990’s. Brisbane didn’t even have water meters. While it’s certainly a dry country bidets were not more common when there was more water, they are increasingly common now. The water used to make toilet paper is greater than the water they use, it’s like a fraction of a flush, or about 25 seconds of seconds of water saving shower usage.
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  44. If you have a big cockroach you live rurally or your neighbors have a cockroach problem. If you have small cockroaches, you have a cockroach problem.
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  45. I know dozens of people who have had melanoma, half a dozen of which are family members. I know someone who died of it in their 30’s. If anything I think it’s understated.
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  46. The standard used to be cm, but there was a huge amount of manufacturers consolidating in the mid 2000’s that meant they marketed it to the US (the biggest market at the time) they didn’t bother re-labelling them for other markets anymore. So it’s not really a standard but it is the defacto one for the last 15-20 years. Bought many a TV in sized in cm before that. But that was back in the day the PAL markets had totally different TVs to the NTSC markets.
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  47. Well it’s not technically ‘a hole’ it’s a reduction in concentration of ozone, and that reduction while most significant over Antartica, still extends into Australia, and due to the shape of Antarctica (the ozone depletion is helped along by weather caused by Antarctica itself), and prevailing wind currents the ozone layer while far from ‘gone’ above Australia is significantly reduced at certain times of the year.
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  48. I have wallabies in my Hobart backyard, like a dozen of them. I don’t feed them, at least voluntarily. If I plant something they find delicious though….
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  49. Depends on the state as to if it’s allowed. States manage liquor laws and it varies widely.
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  50. Brisbane busses in the CBD loop route have been free for 20 years. Currently all non airport fares are 50c. The Airport terminal is privately owned so costs an additional $10.95. Not sure how far you went for $15/ticket, that would get you more than an hours drive away on the Sunshine Coast at full adult fare anytime in the last 15 years.
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