Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "American Dives into Australian Reddit (r/Australia)" video.

  1. I'm thinking he really really needs to cover "A song about birds" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO-OpFjHRbE Actually, better put a NSFW warning on that, because for American viewers it contains "strong" Australian language. C bombs, in other words. Is there a PG version anywhere?
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  2. Yeah, agree...but... it's always divisive as hell. It's one thing to follow it and get involved (EVERYONE SHOULD), but at least in the last few decades it always leads to the great majority of people not wanting to see the other side at all. If only we could still hold the civilised political discourse that previous generations managed. Sadly we tend to be too intolerant to allow that anymore. Even within your so called left and right, people tend to find ways to fight about it. And not everyone fits the cookie cutter shapes people expect from left or right either. I sure don't. Look, I'm political as all heck but it's seen a few posts removed here. Sometimes I've been like "what the heck that wasn't very political" and other times I've been more "yeah I was asking for that". :) Which is great if you want a reddit flamewar, or you want clicks for that kind of content. But it will chase away lot of people, so people really do need politics free havens too. Overall I agree that it's best to keep that stuff tightly reined in here and if you want that there are plenty of places where you can do so.
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  3. Or the one that throws snakes at people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IikDnp6UfdM
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  4. Most interesting is their official latin/scientific name. Moloch Horridus. It's one scientific name that has stuck with me forever because it is just so awesome.
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  5. Convergent evolution. Totally different animals, same outcome. You can chuck Hedgehog in there too - not related to Porcupines either. Echidnas are monotremes, so egg laying marsupial mammals. Them and Platypus are the biggest, coolest freaks of the animal kingdom by a large margin.
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  6. Worth noting if you're ever in that area you can get snowfalls even mid summer, and conditions can turn 20 degrees celsius in minutes. Major roads have warning signs about that risk. I love that part of the world but never ever go there without at least a blanket and some drinking water in your car. Even in summer.
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  7. More like Terror-tree. When you look up and see it's full of drop bears.
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  8.  @28russ  They didn't fold. They would have had to but they moved to Sydney and got new funding first. Similar to Fitzroy's merger with the Brisbane Bears but Fitzroy were in even worse financial shape.
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  9. The Barassi line concept I've discussed before. All of Australia (AND New Zealand, btw) once all played Aussie Rules football to some degree. We had Aussie Rules and Rugby as competing winter sporting codes, and summer had Cricket. Gradually Rugby became more prominent in the working class industrial areas of NSW (meaning Sydney, Newcastle, Penrith, etc) and New Zealand, and Aussie Rules in the areas more influenced by Melbourne (which included Tasmania, Adelaide and Perth, and also included the south west of NSW). Most of south western NSW is closer to Melbourne or even Adelaide than Sydney. Northern Territory of course went the way Adelaide did as it was administered as part of South Australia for so long. I can't really comment much on why NZ dropped Aussie Rules and even Rugby League until it's recent revival. Maybe a Kiwi follower can flesh that out as I'd be interested. Perth's the mystery here, since unlike Adelaide it is too far away to be really under Melbourne's economic and cultural gravitational pull. I guess they just prefer the game, and 19th century maritime shipping along the southern coast kind of makes it more Melbourne influenced than Sydney influenced, although you would also think that there should have been a competing Cape Town influence. Also worth remembering how much bigger than Perth (and Brisbane) Adelaide used to be. Maybe I'm understimating its own influence because Adelaide has been the laggard of Australia's big capitals for decades. Brisbane, due to the same geography and economics reasons as Perth in the end fell to the influence of Sydney and became a more "Rugby" region (although it held on to a stronger Aussie Rules culture for far longer than Sydney did), and honestly most of the rest of Queensland went to Rugby as quickly as most of NSW, before Brisbane did. When Rugby schismed into Rugby League and Rugby Union the "Union" side of the game became very much a sport of the elite schools and League became the working class man's sport. Of course this split had almost no influence at all on the Aussie Rules states.
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