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

  1. A penny in the US costs 3.07c US to make. So if we were making a similar coin it would cost around 5c to make. No point in literally throwing away taxpayers money to keep such a thing. Pennies shouldn’t even exist in the US, they haven’t made sense to exist for a long time. As she says, she doesn’t care about change, and that’s with a more valuable currency. Australian’s have a higher % of card transactions than anyone else in the developed world, so it doesn’t really matter here either, just saves money overall.
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  2.  @taniaPBear depends on the state. In QLD they are not allowed in supermarkets full stop. There’s no adjoining bottle shops you have to leave the supermarket completely via the main exit. Liquor laws are very different per state, in some states you have to be 18 to serve alcohol, in others you do not.
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  3.  @felicitybywater8012 there’s really no rule as to where toilets are. Generally with one bathroom they’re separate unless it’s an apartment. Homes with two or more it could be any combination of seperate or combined.
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  4. The hole was a depletion on the concentration rather than a complete absence of ozone. It has significantly improved, but CFCs still exist in very limited applications and the depletion is still there even if less, especially in spring. There’s actually a concern it’s stopped improving potentially due to undeclared CFC use in some countries recently.
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  5. Squares have been secondary to sqm for a long time. Mostly still used by those older. Almost no one under 40 knows what a square is, it hasn’t been taught in schools since at least the 70’s.
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  6.  @BlaTaN depends very much on the state. Everything from cannot be open in the car, to can be consumed by anyone but the driver and a driving supervisor (for learners), to no specific rules other than having to have ‘complete control of the vehicle’.
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  7. When it happens regularly homes get built to deal with it or have long since been destroyed. In a location that hasn’t seen one in over 50 years homes are built where it will flood, structures that won’t survive the wind still exist. When it happens year after year people don’t rebuild in flood plains and they cyclone rate roofs etc. And when it happens to 15x as many people as normal the money that’s usually available isn’t as the scale is unmanageable.
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  8. Generally people say ‘hot chips’ when there could be any confusion. Though the context may make it unnecessary.
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  9. Bidets barely use any water, you probably use more washing your hands. They’re not big for cultural reasons. Water isn’t a problem in much of the country and wasn’t even metered in some parts until the last few decades. As water restrictions have become more common so have bidets. Still uncommon but getting more common.
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  10.  @2DogsVlogs notes cost a lot more to make and even the great polymer notes need to be replaced much more often than coins. They’re more likely to abolish cash entirely than add notes. I haven’t had to spend actual hard cash in a decade.
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  11. Same.
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  12. Depends on the state. In some it’s not even legal to have it attached. States manage liquor licenses so you can get everything from a 14 year old serving you alcohol to not being able to buy it except in a completely separate state where no one under 18 is allowed.
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  13. The age to serve alcohol depends on the state. Some states people under 18 can serve it, provided they are ‘under supervision’ and it’s not a place someone under 18 isn’t allowed. Eg, pubs serving meals yes, nightclubs no. Some states alcohol is in supermarkets, some you have to use a different checkout, some it’s outside. Australia isn’t the same in every state.
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  14. They don’t it’s purely for cultural reasons we don’t have them. The UK/US/NZ all don’t have them commonly due to the common culture. Water wasn’t really an issue in the capitals until the 90’s, and yet it’s only as water has become an issue bidets have become more popular.
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  15. Depends on the year but literally the only country to claim that title. And that’s despite the US having a special class of working visa just for Australians and Australia having a fairly high barrier to entry.
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  16. The crazy part is even the US used the word thong for the footwear until relatively recently. Eg, even post WWII ‘thong’ in the US still was used for footwear. It was only used for underwear relatively recently.
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  17. A penny in the US costs 3.07c to make, essentially the government is spending tax dollars to keep pennies in circulation which is crazy. Nickels cost 11.54 cents too. Absolutely nuts. Who’s really going to make or not make a purchase because it’s <10c different.
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  18. Having traveled a lot and moved out of Brisbane a few years ago, it didn’t surprise me. Lots of other cities have pretty spaces. But South Bank is up there with the best public spaces in the world. The way it was setup is really cool, South Bank Corporation (government owned) gets rent from lots of businesses in the area and turns that into great, very well maintained public spaces. And the location, geography and weather is just amazing.
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  19. In Australia states set liquor laws, which means depending on the state anything from supermarkets cannot obtain a license even if they have all adult employees and cannot share an entrance with them, right through to 14 year olds being allowed to serve alcohol ‘under supervision’, and totally dry communities.
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  20. Not having upper cabinets I’ve only seen in two circumstances, ‘built for rental’ - eg they saved the money because they don’t care the occupants won’t have storage. Or in absolutely huge luxury kitchens that have heaps of drawers and a butler’s pantry that has upper cabinets.
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  21.  @divid3d yeah this. Must be weird to be so technology dependent and not even know there’s an app that will alarm just before your stop, but too socially awkward to do what everyone did before there was signage (which most busses have) and new to an area and just ask the driver! They’ll stop at your stop and let you know!
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  22. Only one? There’s 3-4 on every corner in Brisbane/ Hobart / Sydney etc…. It might have been a Melbourne think in the 70’s but look around now and you can barely tell one CBD from another. Hell there’s a dozen in most regional shopping centers!
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  23. A half a bathroom is toilet and sink. Two bathrooms means both have at least showers. One bathroom may be split between a separate toilet and shower, or in the same room. It’s basically a rough guide as to how many people the home can accommodate. A place that is 1 bathroom is basically single related couple or single family. 1.5 means a toilet for guests, or the possibility of sharing with a roommate, though that’s more common with 2 bathrooms.
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  24. As water restrictions have become a thing bidets have e become more popular. A bidet uses at most equivalent to 25 seconds of water from a low flow shower head. Meanwhile water was so plentiful in places like Brisbane until the 90s they didn’t even meter it. The lack of bidets is purely a cultural thing (the UK /US doesn’t either) which is very slowly changing.
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  25. Mandatory school has been 13 years for quite a while in most (all?) states for about 18 years. QLD made it 13 (for new students) from 2007. To get that number they’d have to be counting every bit of TAFE, retraining later in life, diplomas people get while working, etc. I’d still be surprised to see the average go above 16-18 years. Even with all the doctors etc dragging it up. They are probably miscounting.
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  26. In Australia you can drive some places 10x the length of the Netherlands, not see another person, and you’ll die of heat exhaustion if you break down and aren’t prepared. 75% of people in Australia were born in another country or have at least one parent born in another country. It is not easy to get into if you are old and unskilled, but many younger people do move, as well as many much older people with in demand skills. I can’t recall the last time I even saw evidence of someone being homeless, it’s been years. Even in big cities where there is some, it’s less than anywhere else I’ve been. But everything is measured pretty extensively. There is not a lot of uncounted, and statistics like homelessness does include people that have to temporarily stay with friends etc. Housing is expensive. Some of that due to people moving here with lots of money to push up prices. It’s the only country in the world with net migration USA.
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  27.  @top40researcher31 no one lives in the places they happen so they could be super frequent and no one would notice. But yes the geography makes them less likely, along with rain.
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  28. Brick houses don’t do that well in earthquakes. It’s more a problem with how homes are built rather than timber. Timber is great as long as you protect it from the elements (eg steel cladding, concrete cladding etc.) and add lots of insulation. Brick and stone/ concrete can have damp problems too if not done properly.
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  29. The graph counts only education from age 6. And formal education doesn’t begin until at least prep at age 5. They might be counting Tare and other training and re-training and maybe miscounting completely, but they’re definitely not counting daycare. It probably also includes any people take to change careers etc.
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  30. All TVs were sold in cm until LCD/Plasma etc came along and they stopped manufacturing them outside Asia, given they were targeting the largest market that used Inches we have unfortunately had to suffer a return to using inches for TVs, even if unofficially.
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  31. ⁠ @TheBlackSeraph it went bankrupt but was bought out and the new owners closed most stores. It failed because the US idea of a coffee is either caffeinated burnt dirt (for cheap) or dessert like where you can’t toast the former (Starbucks) due to all the added sugar and fat. The reduced footprint of stores now mainly targets more dense tourist filled areas.
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  32. Back in the mid 90’s we had to bring a huge laptop, in a bag with a heavy charger. Like 4kg, built so strong you could literally sit on your laptop bag with laptop in it when the grass was wet. 3x the weight of modern laptops or 5-6x that of a tablet. Plus half a dozen huge heavy textbooks because despite the laptop none of the materials were digital yet. And an extra bag for PE with different clothes and shoes. None of the bags were backpacks. The 13 year old kids and younger started the year with a full on hand cart style trolley in order to be able to move it all at once, as you’d need three arms. Older kids would just suck it up and deal with it. In our 40’s now very much dealing with back issues….
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  33. Sound like you got indoctrinated by your Dutch education. You should think for yourself more. Uniforms are about equality. You don’t have the poor kid being picked on because they’re wearing unfashionable clothes.
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  34. The Rudd government put an extra tax on premixed drinks, consumption of them dropped 66%, STI rates decreased etc, but ultimately it never actually passed legislatively (blocked in the senate by the coalition etc) and the government had to refund the tax. It only existed in practice for a year 2008-2009.
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  35. Uyen’s sister where they were staying had open bags of rice etc from the footage she put online. It’s no wonder there were cockroaches. I probably saw one every 5-10 years in Brisbane, and never any small ones. You see the small ones they’ve found a food source in your home. The big ones mean one of your neighbours is a food source…
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  36. Depending on the city it may be scheduled for an area twice a year, once a year, or every ~18 month, or never. Guess some do on demand pickups, hadn’t heard that one before. I moved from a city with one every year-ish to one where it never happens.
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  37. Not sure what state you’re in but I haven’t seen a house listed in anything other than sqm for decades. No one under 40 even knows what a square is.
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  38. You used to see lots in Brisbane suburbs in the 90’s. Several I saw at school or even my backyard. Now they’re mostly in a few pockets near bushland.
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  39. Or the constant sound of possums jumping off nearby trees onto the roof….
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  40. Depends on the state. In some supermarkets cannot hold licenses nor even share the same entrance as a supermarket. Others they can.
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  41. Depends on the state. Some it is very much a strict rule they cannot be combined or even have a common entrance. Others have varying rules of what needs to be met to sell alcohol.
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  42. Depends on where you are. Flies in a lot of the NT can be horrific especially around September. Other places they’re not so bad. There will always be one that gets inside if you leave a screen door open too long though. At least in summer or the warmer states.
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  43. And not in all council areas either.
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  44. Only in one state, in the others this isn’t allowed. Liquor licenses are state based, in some you can’t even share an entrance with a supermarket.
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  45. Yeah Australia prints polymer notes for 31 countries and licenses the patents/technology to a couple of others.
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  46. In early primary school they’re pretty much only lunch. By late primary school maybe a tablet or laptop and lunch. High school maybe more, but both the laptops and textbooks requirements are less heavy than 25-30 years ago.
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  47. Joh Bjelke-Petersen gave it a whack approving the destruction of 60 historically significant buildings in the state in the 60’s 70’s and 80’s. South Bank is world class. Probably the best development of a waterfront in the country and one of (if not the) if not best in the world. Dense, but very accessible, impeccably maintained, walkable, green and with lots to do, and free.
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  48. Lots of giggling occurred when ‘the nanny’ was released in Australia and the line ‘she was out on her fanny’ played in the theme tune.
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  49. Depending on the state supermarkets cannot sell liquor no matter how old their employees, others you can sell alcohol at 14 if you are ‘under supervision’. Liquor laws being state laws vary widely. There’s even dry communities.
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  50. ⁠​⁠​⁠@jennypursche4488I was there, don’t need to google it, aside from the ferry terminals very little was actually destroyed in terms of what was shown. Most of that shown right by the river has been there since the 1990’s. Aside from one building at south bank they hosed out anything affected and got on with it within weeks. Hell my office flooded and the only thing not working in 2 weeks was the elevator which took months as a low rise was not a priority. Yeah, some things are new but nothing to do with flooding, they were built on empty land or in place of buildings not affected.
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