50 Things That Are Only Possible In Australia | Americans React | Loners #34

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[moonsharn]

The spider, “daddy long legs” we keep in our houses. Most rooms will have one. They eat the mozzies and kill dangerous spiders and don’t harm humans, so they’re our mates

[jayweb]

The most common spider found in most Australian home is called a Huntsman, they're big but basically harmless.

[petemedium]

Drop Bears: Because Americans continually referred to our Koalas as bears, we just continued the myth, gave them blood red teeth, razor sharp claws and had them jumping out of trees on the unsuspecting visitors.
EE MOO, is an electronic cow. We have EE MEWS.
The Brits 'discovered' Australia in 1770, but when the US kicked them out, and they had nowhere to sent their prisoners, they sent them here to Australia. But the fact is that the Irish, Chinese and poor income Europeans really gave us a population.

[bemusedbilby]

Couple of things.
Male platypus have a venomous spur on their back feet, they do not have a poisonous bite. (Long discussion to be had on the plural of Platypus).
The Sydney Opera house was designed to look like sails.
Burger King was a shop in Melbourne that refused to sell the name, so burger king had to change the name to have a national franchise.
Drop bears are a separate carnivorous species of Koala, that ambush you at night in the forest by dropping down on you from a tree to attack your neck. They hate the flavor of toothpaste however so put it on your collar to stop them biting your neck.
Australians like to tell "Tall Tales", we don't consider them lies, just a test of what you can believe.

[jayweb]

Camel were introduced to Australia by Afghan cameleers to work in the Outback in the 1860's, the train from Adelaide to Darwin is called The Ghan; now Australia is the largest exports of camels to Middle East and Arabia.

[ahdoodeclair]

Britain started sending convicts to Australia in 1788 and continued until 1868, although numbers were much reduced in the last thirty or so years. The reason they transported them to Australia was the American War of Independence. Before that war, Britain sent convicts to the American colonies for about 200 years. Australians are proud of their convict ancestry, Americans are not, even though some of the oldest families in the USA were started by British criminals transported to America. Americans tend to gloss over that part of their history and most are unaware of it yet many make disparaging comments about the transportation of convicts to Australia.

[GenXer]

Koala's aren't all over the Country, they are only in certain areas, and they don't all have Chlamydia, and it's different to human Chlamydia. And every City is different, and personally I think there all worth a visit. I've only done the East coast as far as Melbourne. And it's all beautiful. So a road trip in my opinion, is the best way to see the things us locals experience, which is so much more then what you will get on a tour, they just take people to a few popular spots, they miss so much.

[unstablenecrophage]

Got him with the drop bear story.
Classic.

[emshahn]

Can confirm there are spiders everywhere. Never, ever been bitten by one.

[joachimkylhammar]

i recomend you see Against the Wind is a 1978 Australian television miniseries. It is a historical drama portraying both the British rule of Ireland, and the development of New South Wales and Australia.

[ElizabethVassilios]

My friend had a Huntsman spider living in the house and as they lived close to the dairy he had a unlimited supply of flies. He was the size of a dinner plate and we loved the reactions of visitors. Scared the hell out of them.

[tbonesfishies]

The English sent 165, 000 convicts over a 80 year period to Australia, everyone else who came here they came on their own accord. I live on the Gold Coast & love it, that large spider 🕸 we have in Australia is called a huntsman 😁.

[bibsp]

If you want musicians and artists, melbourne will be your place.

[Astroboy]

Burger King was already a registered trademark before Burger King got to Australia.

[suelynch]

The name "Burger King" was in use in Adelaide, South Australia when the US Franchise decided to spread to Australia. The rumour goes that in court BK lawyers said "Burger King" was their name and because their company was so large it was their right to own the name here in Australia as well. The lawyers were not happy when they were told "Where to go, How to get there and what to do when they got there".

[jamesw]

If you hit a kangaroo or otger wildlife, you are supposed to stop and check pouch for babies and take them to nearest wildlife park, zoo or wires

[whymeeveryone]

what about the Emu wars. Yes we had Emu war and yes humans lost to mindless birds

[capowable]

Wow! You pronounced it Brisben. Well done 😄

[cindytait]

You've never had a real coffee until you visit Melbin...lol

[djgrant]

Phineas and Ferb is an American animated series. They used the platypus because they are not well known outside of Australia and they wanted an uncommon species that couldn’t be purchased in pet stores. Burger King is called Hungry Jacks because when Burger King first came to Australia there was already a restaurant called Burger King so they went with the name Hungry Jacks. Over the years they have tried to buy the trademark but have not been successful. So we call it Hungry Jacks. “The burgers are better at Hungry Jacks”