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Haha. Re the bar talk...They were so pissed I had trouble understanding them and I live in Australia!!!
Yep. I’ve been in a lot of drunken conversations in Aussie bars, but I’m f@€ked if I could understand a couple of them…
Their speech was as plain as day to me. but being over 70 and not a wuss of this generation, it was easy peasy.
Same. All elderly Australians sounded like this in the 60's.
My family paid $21 a week on the home loan.
My older sister paid $14 a week rent.
I got 50c a week pocket money.
Younger sister got 20c.
For 20c I could buy a meat pie and jam doughnut at the school canteen.
Humphrey bar was 4c.
@@belleriffraff As a 32 year old Aussie, not understanding the wasted blokes is nothing to do with any generation 😂 I can understand most of them but grew up in a pub town so I'm used to making out what people are saying, however understanding wasted people isn't always easy, wasted Aussies definitely wouldn't be very easy to understand for an American.
@@belleriffrafflol I am mid 60s and could barely follow them
As a student from the country I was paid by the Department of Education to do my teaching course at Melbourne University, Australia's top university (no fees). I received $47 a fortnight and paid $7 week for rent in a government hostel which included all meals except weekday lunch, I bought lunch at Uni, 90cents for a meal and 7cents for a milkshake. I could afford to go to the pub, buy clothes, books, go to the movies, etc. I could save money during the holidays when I went home to my parents' place in the country. When I graduated as a teacher I was required to teach for 3 years in return. The good old days of the seventies.
Free Universities and colleges back then thanks to the progressive Whitlam Labor government. Unfortunately the conservatives got voted back in and they couldnt wait to start bringing fees back in for students attending Unis or TAFEs etc
My parents were both early boomers, so they got their tertiary qualifications fully funded on scholarships that also guaranteed them a full time job in the field of their qualification upon graduation. They bought their first house, in Greensborough, in their early twenties, having easily saved the deposit from their newly-graduated salaries. My father was the first tertiary-educated person from his family.
When I was a uni student in the mid 90s Austudy was so inadequate that I routinely had to choose between paying rent or living on anything other than 2 minute noodles - the cheap chicken flavoured ones, not anything fancy. I'm also still in debt now for the HECS and I don't expect either the debt or the health consequences of those years of malnutrition ever to leave me.
My kids are doing trades courses. University has gone from a citizens' right to an unacceptable gamble.
Some of those guys talking about how to start a fight in a pub in the 60s are drunk, thats why you cant understand them.
And you know this how? One obviously had a speech impediment, and going by these blokes faces they have had more than one battle in their lifetime. Put the softard lot of today to shame in 2024.
Pissed as Parrots.
Don’t ever say Guys! When taking about Australian Fellas, MATE!! 🤣
I'm an age pensioner and the government pay us. $1300 a fortnight plus other benefits
I came here to say that - drunk! 😆 I’m Australian, and I can’t understand them.
Snakes in the toilet are so common that I have NEVER seen it in my 70 years
Plenty of frogs tho! 😂
Depends where you live.
actually that's true in the outback. I had a friend come across one at night.
Turning a glass upside down means you can fight anyone/everyone at the bar.
OR no more drinks to be served to that person please 🇦🇺❤️
@@leonietrezise9198nope!
One on one. People mostly fought fair back in those days.
Yes, in the "olden days".
@@leonietrezise9198 Glass on it's side means 'no more for me thanks' back when people sat at the bar, left their money on the bar, and bar staff just kept a full glass in front of you..
Some of those blokes in the bar, were drunk, that's why you can't understand them.
Tip the glass upsidedown on the bar for a good blue. Turn the empty glass on it's side on the bar to denote you've finish.
The American interviewer is Gerald Stone who went on to be the first executive producer of the Aussie 60 Minutes .
I am 70+ and I have never seen one either.
The American journalist was Gerald Stone.
Stone graduated in political science from Cornell University and in 1957 started work as a copy boy for The New York Times. In 1962, he emigrated to Australia.
He was very well respected as a journalist and news producer.
Wasn't he from Columba Ohio. I'm Australian from Melbourne but like in nearby Louisville KY for a year or so.
He said "the quickest way is down Woolloomooloo".
Or Darlinghurst if you can't spell, and it was up The Cross too in the old days! 😂
Woolloomooloo was a really rough area back then when it was still the wharf’s. It was still sketchy in the 90’s when I lived close by.
Half of those guys were drunk. I struggled to understand some of them and I lived through the sixties.
Woolloomooloo is a suburb just next to Kings Cross in the city of Sydney. It's where the navy ships are docked.
The crazy thing is, half of those blokes being as drunk as they were, would have jumped in the car and driven home.
Yep and then beaten their wives if dinner wasn't ready
Pythons in the toilet is a Queensland thing with the chance of being so honoured increasing the further North you go.
And green tree frogs like to rest under the shit house seat
Those accents were broader back when that pub film was taken. And those blokes were drunk. Lol
Those blokes in the pub are seven schooners deep and they only finished work 20 minutes ago. I can’t understand them either
you know zip, work harder in their life than you would in five lifetimes, and look at their faces, they would beat you up anytime, even if each was under the weather, blindfolded, and with 2 hands in handcuffs.
@@belleriffraff A strange cranky little rant for you to launch straight out of the box, don’t you think?
When you do eventually visit Australia please do try to NOT just spend all your time in the expensive biggest capital cities. There are lots of interesting lovely places in every state to visit that are beyond the major biggest cities.
Six o'clock closing was introduced to a number of Australian States and New Zealand during the First World War, partly as an attempt to improve public morality and partly as a war austerity measure. Before this reform, most hotels and public houses in Australia had closed at 11 or 11:30 pm.
Any interested about when exactly and when repealed , see: 'Six o'clock swill' article on Wikipedia.
This was around in NSW at least well into the 60's and maybe 70's too. My grandfathers on both sides would always buy around 3 beers at once close to 6pm because you were still allowed to stay to finish them. I was told it was so they'd go home to at least eat dinner. They would open again at 7pm bit if you had already gone home you probably aren't going to come back, that was the point of it anyway
@@WarLordArtos NSW abolished 6 o'clock closing in 1955.
n.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_o%27clock_swill
@@MichaelRogers-et8dq my bad. Forgot they lived in VIC then and on my mum's side in SA. Morning brain
Those guys are drunk as skunks!! 71years old Australian and i cant understand them. 🤣🤣🤣🇦🇺❤️
The old guy who didn't understand when asked about "how to start a fight in a bar" was simply a mistake on the American interviewer...Australians call it a pub, not a bar.we do use the term front bar but not just bar...bar is an American term.
There’s a reason toilets have lids
I love sitting at a restaurant table with friends or family and perusing the menu while discussing the opinions, rather than having to order on an app!
Ordering on an app is like going into Maccas and having to navigate a huge screen in order to place my simple order of a triple bacon burger 🍔, maybe with fries, plus a skim, decaf cappuccino. It takes longer than waiting at the counter to verbally give my order to the human assistant, and a lot less frustrating 😢
In the 60’s they used to have 6:00pm closing in pubs. Women were not welcome. The men used to line the beers up before closing time. They were usually pickled to the eyeballs.
Women had their own rooms they weren’t allowed at the bar but women were the barmaids
Pubs used to close at 6 and work ended at 5 so pubs were packed for an hour as blokes gulped down as much beer as they could. Hence the fights. The closing hour was a temperance thing but I’m not sure having big mobs of drunk angry men being kicked out of pubs at 6 was such a good thing. Then they went home so you can imagine what came next.
If you’re referring to DV, in those days it was pretty common for the man to be beaten by the wife. Hair in curlers, rolling pin in hand
yeah, "i luuuv you sheila, gisa kiss . . . . BLUUURGH"
I think some of these guys had been drinking on that day several hours before the camera was used. (meaning some were already slurring their words - ie drunk.
Plus I think these guys were filmed even earlier than 1960s - sounds like guys who had lived through the Depression.
The Yank interviewing the blotto blokes in the Sydney pub is Gerald Stone, who was born in Ohio and moved here in 1962. He became quite a big name in the media here and passed away in 2020.
cool bit of info, thank you.
An Ohio- born person isn't "Yank" lol
@@youtubeuserxix Everyone from the US is a Yank - or commonly a septic (tank) or seppo. Rhyming slang if you don't get it. At least it was common. I'm not too sure these days.
@@daveg2104 Alright, gotcha
In many pubs up in Queensland this unspoken law still exists (if you turn your glass upside down on the bar you are asking for a fight)
It’s a very old tradition which the regular patrons in only some pubs and a few states still carry on
“He lives in the US, what a moron!” 😂😂😂
In 1977 Australia, students could go to the movies for $1 and buy a 2 bedroom apartment for $A24,500!
There is still government assistance - DSS = Department of social security "Centerlink" Student StudyAssist Subsidy ( use to be called the "DOLE" )
The Dole was unemployment benefits not student assistance.
@@ellefitzpatrick6339 but 90% called it the Dole back in the 80's
G'day Ryan. I left school at 15 for full time work. My first pay was $101.15. with that I could pay $30 board $15 Weekly train fare. Food for the week. I'd put money in the bank, buy a new outfit and still have enough money to go out Wednesday, Friday and Sat 1982.
Some or all of these blokes are pissed at the bar. The bar culture has massively changed since the 50s 60s and early 70s
My neighbours had a dugite snake (potentially lethal) in their toilet. It got in through a hole in the outside pipe.
Woolamaloo is the dock area of Sydney Harbour notorious for being dangerous after dark back in " The day" . Bars and pubs opened early and closed early needless to say trouble was never far away with thousands of drunk blokes jammed into every pub trying to drink their fill before 6.30 pm
Try Woolloomooloo. Say it out loud: “Double-you, double-oh, double-ell, double-oh”, pause for a breath, “em-double-oh, ell-double-oh”. It’s all in the rhythm and speed and easy to spell it that way! Not to be confused with Wollongong (without any “double-ohs”), pronounced “the Gong”, to avoid any confusion.
He doesn't understand "fight in a bar" in an American accent - "barrr" instead of "bah" !
They're hard to understand because they're dunk as skunks**lol**
These old fellas are about my grandfather's age/era.... Gets a few beers into them back in those days and some just get completely unintelligible**lmao**
These were the men who'd lived thru 2 WW's, Vietnam is starting up....they're at a pub or Club(lookup RSL CLUBS) and it's probably a Thursday night.... Back then in NSW, pubs closed early Friday nights, and Thursdays were paydays for the most part....
So they'd go out and have a skinfull of they're choice of beer...get blind drunk and stagger home to the wife... Kids have grown and are out of the home...so the 50+'ers just have the missus to worry about.**lol**
Yay Ryno... you did well with the "chicken BURGER" haha
Snake in the dunny , is why I keep the lid down while not in use , lol. As the saying goes, gotta drain the snake 🤣. Thank you Ryan, that was a funny one.
They are pissed, that's why you can't understand them, it's called slurring their words!
Way back in 1976 I had just turned 18, & enjoying a game of pool, & some half wit from out of town skilled his beer & turned his class upside down.. every one in the pool room turned with arms folded, smiling big time.. & the half wit looked around about ten seconds later turned the glass right way up & BOLTED big time
She’s a student at uni so that’s most likely full time, which means she was on a student allowance of $43 per week. Rent was most likely a spare bedroom or a granny flat. When I started working in 1968, I was paid $33 per week and lived at home. A loaf of bread was about 19c, 7lb potatoes were 50c, a pint of milk was 11c. Most basic grocery items were less than 50c .
you lay your glass on it's side if you have finished drinking, and yes, if you put your glass upside down on the bar, you are looking to fight
ok TEAS. I was on 1983-85. maximum at home rate was $169/month. to put that in perspective,. my younger brother got under 18 newstart and got $180/fortnight. it went on your income, your parents income if you were under 25, and your partners income if you had one. you couldn't get concession card for cheaper busfare. And it had a cutoff point of about $20000 from everyone's income. Most of the people on TEAS were working part time while studying because that's the only way they afford to study. You had travel, books, fees all to pay from that once a month payment. My busfare was $14 a week.
Student accommodation was about $100-120 a week,so only if you had rich parents.
At that time, in 1977, university students were living on a Federal government subsidy, Austudy, and university tuition was free.
In later years, tuition fees were reintroduced but deferred until a student or former student earned an income at a set threshold. Under HECS, a set percentage is now taxed based on the income earned and disclosed on tax returns.
Hmm ! Ryan I'm detecticting an Ever so slight, semi glimpse of hope for your Australian accent. Keep going mate !
The one guy is a bit drunk and slurrying, his sugestion was call another guy a "Fuck wit" to get in a fight.
Yes, turn your beer glass upside down is challenging all others in a pub bar, to a fight if they want to take you on.
The establishment was called a pub or a hotel. That’s why the old man with the broad nose, and wearing a hat, thought the American reporter said ‘burrow’ or ‘barrow’ (barrah). Rolled American R confused the old bloke.
The bar (pronounced ‘bah’ in Aussie) was where the drinks were served. Someone worked behind the bar.
I just realised that the old guy thought the question was about the South Sydney Rabbitohs, a rugby league team. Burrow = Rabbitohs = South Sydney, the local Redfern-Inner City Team.
‘South Sydney forward’ meant one of the largest players on the South Sydney rugby league team. The forwards are the big bruisers who tackle the opposite team lightweight speedsters (the backs) to stop them running, passing the ball or scoring a try (touchdown).
Woolloomooloo was/is the really rough part of Sydney. All the wharfies drank there. AND, we have Pubs and we also have bars, they are two different things.
Still to this day....just turn it upside down.
they all sounded drunk. even they couldnt understand one another.
The American man at the end of the "fight in the bar" interview was Gerald Stone an American journalist who came to Australia in the 1970s Worked on T.V involved in some interesting Australian news stories, much more serious than this silly one. His biggest claim to fame was being the original producer of Australia's 60 Minutes which is still going 45 years later.
PM Gogh Whitlam introduced "free" tertiary education on 1st. Jan 1974
Fees were re-introduced gradually starting with
PM Hawke in 1989...similar to US system
Ryan, regarding the Pub interview. You must understand that many of the gentlemen were a couple of sheets to the wind.
G'day Ryan. Even as an Aussie I couldn't understand some of those old blokes at the pub, and the reason is: they were drunk as hell LMAO.
The worst you get from a phyton is a quick snap bite with its little sharp teeth.
I was born and raised in Australia and I can't understand some of those men either. Mainly because they're too drunk.
Curtis Stone is an Aussie Chef who lived and worked in America for many years. He comes back regularly so I’m not sure where he’s living at the moment.
He used to be a regular on Oprah!
Lives in USA, Married to American actress/singer Lindsay Price. Living his best life the way he chooses to live it. 😉
They were pissed, even we can't understand them.
most of them are pissed Ryan 😂😂, The rule in the old day was turning the glass upside down. Don’t think that’s the norm today 😂
In regard to that last one… i’m so glad I live where the air hurts my face. I only have to deal with wall puppies down here… 😬
The guy you can't understand is pissed as a parrot, drunk as a skunk, three sheets to the wind.
I was "TEAS" (Tertiary Education Allowance Scheme) 1977-1979 $45 pw paid for room and board at college while I attended university. It was tight but doable.
Turn your empty glass upside down is a challenge to everyone in the bar
Kudos for saying "chicken burger" not sandwich 🎉🎉🎉😅
I started work in Australia in 1973, as a university accounting graduate, for one of the Big 8 (now 4), on the grand salary of $5250 pa, ie $100 pw. At the time, my husband, a printer had a base rate of $68 pw, but he got paid for overtime, and I didn't!
I think the reason that you couldn't understand what the blokes in the pub were saying is that they were all pissed as newts.
6:12 You don’t understand because he’s so drunk they’re slurring, even I’m having trouble
To this day, turning your glass upside on the bar will get you into a fight 😂
In 1979, when I left school and started work, I was earning $40:00 a week after tax. That's $1:00 per hour folks. Out of that I paid $10:00 for rent, I banked $10:00 and had $20:00 left over for whatever else. I partied like the teenager I was, and had enough to get to work and feed myself all the next week until payday........... I'll just leave this here and let it sink in for a while...............
Haha “A rabbit burra?A south Sydney forward their alright”
"Chicken burger" I noticed, nice work buddy
Ryan, your Aussie accent is getting real good. You could do voice overs with that talent. G'd onya mate from QLD Australia.!
Sometimes there is an extra charge which uses🥭QR codes when ordering .
the bar is that place that you order and drink your beer in a pub. The bar is a brass foot rail that runs the length of the counter. That's why Americans call it a bar. We call it the pub.
By sheer coincidence, the journalist in the pub video was American-born Australian journalist, Gerald Stone, who passed away in 2020 at 87. No relation to Chef Curtis Stone.
When I went into nursing training in 1971 my take home wage was $14.00 per fortnight, however for that I was provided with a uniform, 2 meals a day, and a single bedroom with shared facilities in the nurses home.
The reason this sounds extraordinary is that Australia’s Dollar is worked against the USD so in 1983 Australia devalued the dollar to come in line with the USD this almost tripled my wage overnight. Since 1970 the AU dollar has been up to $1.45 down to about 0.45 against the USD.
For the Uni - people studying get government allowance of $640 per fortnight.
They used to live in dormitories or rooms on campus, these days from $300 per week, there can be gumment allowances for accommodation.
Food - pick your number, I can feed myself the basics for $100-150 per week.
Yeaah, things have changed since the good old days - the government, or more importantly the Uni should be charging full rates for overseas students to subsidise the costs for local students.
Australia is a very stupid country, we make it easy and cheap for foreign countries to learn everything we know about the STEM fields, Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine, and give them all the raw natural resources almost tax free, so they can build their countries into better and richer places, at the total expense of future Australians.
They were all pissed
In 1989 I got $224 a fortnight for being a student, but they had introduced HECS that year, so I left uni with a $12,500 debt.
The American journo ended up running 60 minutes Australia for years.
Ryan you’re not alone I’m an Aussie and I’m struggling, they’re all “Molly the monk” drunk
Mate, even I had trouble understanding what some of those blokes were saying. They were pretty smashed. Although I haven't heard of the issue of turning your glass upside down, I've just looked it up and apparently "THE UPSIDE-DOWN GLASS ON BAR
In the United States and other countries, turning your glass upside-down might indicate that you do not want anything to drink. In some pubs in Australia, however, finishing your drink, turning the glass upside-down, and placing it squarely on the bar may signal that you believe you can win a fight with anyone present."
Regarding the aboriginal tertiary scheme, when I went to uni a few years ago, the indigenous scholarships were between $10,000 -$15,000 per year with having unlimited scholarships. What was pretty sad, comparing only my own uni, students with disabilities could only apply for up to $1500 a year, and there were only a few scholarships available.
No we don’t get paid to go to university anymore. We get to defer our uni fees until after grad and working then have a $30,000 debt to pay off. I went to uni 2014 and had to work so I could pay rent and feed my family. Some students get government assistance but I don’t think many could survive on that alone
And nobody noticed that in one of the bar clips it was the wonderful Syd James playing a part
The thing about turning your empty glass upside down was real. I don't know if it's still a thing, but my dad was an early boomer and it was definitely a thing when he was a young bloke.
Snakes in the toilet are not the biggest worry. I saw a video of a snake coming out of the drain while a fella was taking a shower in the Northern Territory. It was a small python so non venomous but it would have given me a fright. I’m fine with snakes outside but I don’t like them in small areas where I am. Pythons can still give you a nasty bite if you make them mad.
I live in Western Australia
The snakes eat the frogs!
Never turn a glass upside down unless you are Mike Tyson.
We tend to call it the pub not a bar. So given the guy is a bit drunk and the American keeps saying bar, the Aussie can't understand him and thinks he is saying burrow, a rabbits burrow lol.
That video of the blokes in the bar, must be from at least the 1950s or 60s is so funny, but funnier is Ryan’s reactions.
Tha old dude at 5:56 was pretty hammered i think he was talking about the south sydney rabbitohs. He said something about a south sydney forward 😂😂
10:08 '78 I was in pre school. Everything was cheap.My Dad picked me up after pre school to do work.
The QR codes are the best. It's not for covid related things anymore. It's great cause a lot of restaurants won't split the bill. You just order your own thing and you don't have to wait for anyone to come take your order. It's fantastic!
In the bar you are not understanding the drunk ones 😂
When I was at JCU in Qld back in 1994 I was on $ 128 fortnight from the government ( my parents were pensioners at the time). I lived off campus with another uni girl. $60 of that was weekly house rent and the girl and I used to bike ride or inline skate to uni 😂😂😂. We were SO fit also because we could only afford some fruit and rice to eat for the fortnight. We learnt how to cook rice in so many different ways 😂😂. Government told me if I tried for a part time job I would have lost that fortnightly money. My HECS debt was huge back then. Took me years to repay after Uni.😂
There was a time when there was a lot of drunkeness in Australia. It's not as prominent now.There are less Pubs.
I'm Australian and I can't understand what some of them are saying but obviously some are pissed..✌️😀
Yeah the other day I got a pie and a pasty. $13. I held back the $10 . Oh for $3 that is a flash back to the 70's.
The toilet s bend? S is for snakes 😂
I hate QR code!