10 WEIRD Things About AUSTRALIA/Australians

10 WEIRD Things about AUSTRALIANS/AUSTRALIA

In this video I discuss 12 weird things that Australian people do after having lived in Australia for almost a year.

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10 Reasons Why Australia is Better than America: (referenced in video)

10 Things that Will SHOCK you about Australia:

10 DON'Ts of Australia:

10 Things Americans HATE about Australia:

100 Differences Between America and Australia:

100 Aussie Slang Words and Phrases:

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[plaidshirt]

Lol, the mullet isn't making a comback in Australia, it never died.

[Legoboi]

American socket outlets only have 110 volts, that’s why it isn’t necessary to have an on and off switch. Here in Australia we have 240 volts, a lot higher and a lot deadlier. So on and off switches are a safety tool as well!

[shanecairns]

I’m in Queensland and we don’t get a public holiday for Melbourne cup.
I’m pretty sure it’s only Victoria

[brianmalady]

If voting wasn't compulsory here nobody would be elected

[harpo]

voting is not compulsory, turning up is.

[brettevill]

In Australia voting is a duty, like jury service. A thing that everyone has to do their share to make the system work.

Compulsory voting, or rather having a very high routine turnout, turns out to make a big difference to politics. Having a well-funded campaign and well-organised volunteers is much less important when the law does your "get out the vote" effort for you. Policy gets driven a lot more towards the centre when there is no percentage in "energise the base" policies. You can't suppress the vote when everybody got to vote. And the huge overwhelming thing is that in Australia young people, poor people, and people who have to work on Tuesdays all get to vote, so policy is not directed so strongly to retired white people who own cars.

Tristan, I really hope that you are still here next time we have a federal election, because I would love to see your reaction to watching how elections are conducted in Australia. We have mobile voting places that visit hospitals and nursing homes so that sick and bedridden people get to vote. Until the 1990s they used to visit prisons, too, so that prisoners could do their duty as citizens.

[ozwelshcobs]

Yes. Electric items still leech power. Switching them off at the power point will actually save you hundreds of dollars off your electricity bill every year

[justaguy]

No Americans are the ones that are weird for not having a switch for their outlets.

[BettyBettyBoBetty]

Brain injuries decreased by 70% after helmets were introduced - I would call that a pretty good trade off :)

[Gorejess]

The Melbourne cup is only a holiday for Melbourne or Victoria. The rest of us work and don’t get paid more. But we do normally stop working to watch the race or have an afternoon tea for it. Most place just use as an excuse to boost moral.

[XNiahXX]

I’m Australian and absolutely HATE mullets. The suburb I grew up in basically every second male has a mullet and they make me sick 🤢

[dutchroll]

Electrical sockets: Australian electrical sockets are required by electrical safety standards to have a switch which isolates the active pin in the socket. There are a couple of exceptions, such as if the appliance plugged in is normally "stationary" and stays plugged there all the time (eg a ceiling light). So when junior crawls around the floor and decides to stick something in an un-used socket, he doesn't get electrocuted.

[MC-wdoi]

Alright here are the explanations I promised last video :)

1. Mullets have never really died and they are really popular with bogans and people who want attention, although here are mixed opinions on them (personally I don’t really like them)

2. Shoeys are actually really popular now but not so much before. I believe that Daniel Ricciardo brought it back when he won Formula 1 races and he poured the champagne into his racing shoes and drank it on the podium.

3. Footy can be all of them like you said and I don’t really know why there’s a difference, it I call AFL footy (Sorry)

4. I have no clue for this one (as you mentioned there’s a law but I don’t do either so sorry again

5. The Melbourne Cup is a big event (but only Victoria has a public holiday [and the Monday off could be a long weekend and also he Friday off is private schools]) and there are different views about the Melbourne Cup, e.g. the abuse of horses etc.
6. An unknown fact about the switches - even if you turn the power off on the appliance, the socket still leaks electricity, so that’s why we turn it off (also to save electricity)
7. That’s right voting is an obligation of being an Australian citizen (if you’re 18 or older) and also if you’re talking about idiots voting I think you guys would have a bigger number because of the population so that skews the votes more than ours (also see Sian660’s comment he explained it better than me
8. Working at Maccas is very common for people’s first jobs in Australia - and yeah it is good to have experience like that at that age. Another common job is working at woolies or Coles at that age.
9. You can get aioli pretty commonly but it’s mostly for fish and chips etc. it’s not as common as you think
10. It’s just our culture accepts that more than you Americans but then again for more fancy dos then there is that usually (or you need dress-casual or better).
11. Bonus 1. Yeah those stickers are annoying but from my experience woolies does that more than Coles
12. Bonus 2. Helmets protect your head mate why would you not wear one

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[georgeswes]

I’m glad you always keep your energy high in these videos.

[pascoedunphy]

The super bowl is definitely not one of the most watched sporting events in the world, it’s not even in he top 10!

[Sian]

For the electrical outlets if an appliance is tripping the power then you can use the switches to determine which appliance has the fault without unplugging everything. I think we also use a higher voltage here and therefore that’s more dangerous. As for ignorant people voting they tend to make their form invalid by fulling it out wrong on purpose that way they avoid the fine and only spend two seconds on their form.

[sarah_cate_art]

OMG the fact that he thinks the mullet is "homosexual". WOW. it's the most blokey/heterosexual hairstyle you can get

[JoshHolden-Aka-evani]

Australians are strict on keeping people healthy because the government is the one who pays for our medical bills, so less people smoking is good, less people needing brain surgery because they wore a helmet also good.

[SipperyJim]

We put tomato sauce on everything, definitely not aioli, most places if you asked for aioli they wouldn't have it

[TheZeroAssassin]

I'm in my 40's, and had never heard of a "shoey"before watching this vid. I'm thinking it was a fad specific to where you were, i'd never heard of it