I have lived in Australia for 40 years, and I call people “sweety” when I am about to stick a needle in their arm (my occupation) highly unprofessional, but I do. It rubbed on me. From my colleagues. “Little sting now sweety” 😂😂
You’re right, I’m a senior woman and I don’t use c**t at all. Neither do any of my friends. My grandchildren probably do, they’re all adults anyway, but I haven’t heard it. I do use f**k, but not often, I think you need to be sparing with at least one strong word so you can drag it out when you really need it for impact. 🙊 When I greet strangers in a lift or a waiting room or wherever I usually just say g’day. I don’t want to ask a stranger how they’re going.
I am a Queenslander born and raised and i live in NSW and we say Cunt all the time lol and Rugby is union mate the Pom guy knows more than you 😂😂😂 AFL is Aerial Ping Pong not Football 👍
Only Victorians and Tasmanians (and pretentious eastern suburbs sydneysiders) get uppity about the c word. Like seriously, don't be a cunt when some mad cunt calls a funny cunt a sick cunt coz then you're just a massive cunt, and nobody likes those cunts.
Estonian here. You do not look at people in the streets. If someone does, they want something. "How's it going" illicits a thorough account of recent events in your life. The ideal home for an Estonian (Finns are the same) is far enough from your closest neighbor, that you can't see the smoke from their chimney. We're a warm and friendly bunch, but we need our space and privacy to function properly.
Haha I watched that a few years ago and loved it. One of things that blew my mind was him buying a lot of land near Sydney and having a view of the bay... I couldn't believe how much spare land there was back then haha
@@AussieEnglishPodcast My great aunt and her husband brought a terraced house in North Bondi, 3 streets back from the beach and a couple of streets away from the Royal Sydney Golf Course. My great aunt lived in it her entire life... after she passed, her sons sold the place because they all had their own places by then. 2.3 million dollars... for a 3 bed single story terrace house in North Bondi.
Don't forget there is 2 types of "Rugby", that are both called footy, one of them referred to as "League" So you only have a 1 in 4 chance of guessing what footy it is.
@@AussieEnglishPodcast People growing up in Darwin played all types of "footy" year round. Nobody could assume the type of sport others played. Differentiation between the different games was easy and named accordingly; Aussie Rules (AFL), League (Rugby League/NRL), Union (Rugby Union), Soccer (Theatre Sport) and Gridiron/American Football. Simples
Speaking of tipping, when you pay by card at some outlets (mostly cafes or restaurants), on the little screen will flash an option to give a tip. can be as much as 20%. I tell them that we are in Oz, not in the U.S. At least it's still an option (I think legally they can't automatically add it on).
Not a fan of the small talk but bloody hell i love a conversation with someone i don't know. I want to know about you. It freaks some people out but I mean no harm and I respect it if they don't want to partake but that's just my nature. I like people and where they're from and what makes them them.
As an Australian I hate small talk, if I want to talk to you it’s for a reason and if I want to waste some time while waiting for something that’s what I have youtube for lol
I'm often called blunt or considered rude because I don't partake in small talk. I just don't wanna have to talk unless I have a reason and I like the silence, no need to ruin it with pointless chats 😂
@@GcTheHardstyler Like the classic British opening line “Have you come far”? 😉 P.S. Apparently there’s a retreat in France where every guest room has a plaque that says “If you’re thinking of saying words that aren’t as beautiful as silence, please don’t say them”.
wow you would love the movie where if you aren’t silent you get attached by alien beings so everyone has to be silent. It’s actually pretty shitty but you might like it.
3:12 That would be heavenly. Perhaps it's just my autism, but I hate small talk. It is incredibly anxiety inducing. Especially with strangers. I don't find it polite of people to make me profoundly uncomfortable at all. I think we Aussies could take a leaf from Finland's book.
I came to Australia as a small child in the 1960s. There were only two things that schocked me: 1. Having to wear a uniform at school, having to sing "God save the queen" under the waving British and Australian flags at the monday morning assemblies. I liked the song which was considered as the Australian national anthem at that time though: There is a land where summer skies are gleaming with a thousand eyes .... But why was I to render homage to some useless royal? 2. Christmas in summer didn't feel like Christmas at all inspite of the decorations, the Christmas tree, our traditional German Christmas meals and presents. Spending Christmas Day at the beach was just like any other Weekend going to the beach. In Juli/August, "winter" in Perth, my brother and I used to go to the bush at the end of our dead end street looking for some kind of shrub resembling a pine tree at least a bit, which we then decorated and played Christmas. There was no air condition in those days. Were first lived in a double brick house, which had been built around 1900. The heat in summer was no problem there. Then we moved to a newly built house with walls, which seemed to have been made of cardboard. It really got hot there and it didn't even cool down at night. When the temperature here in Germany reached about 30°C it isn't much of a problem. The walls of my house are 50 cm thick. I usually open all the windows in the early morning and then roll down the blinds for the rest of the day. There's no need for air condition. I loved wearing thongs (I still do in summer), unfortunately it was forbidden to wear them at school in Australia. In German schools there are no restrictions, you can wear what you like.
Like most profanities, the use of the C word depends on where you are and who you mix with. I'm a rural farmer in NSW and can't remember the last time I heard it used.
As an Australian, yes, I've seen tones of people go bare foot, even here in Victoria. In the hot weather, we do it. Mainly in shopping centres, surfcost areas, etc.
Since moving to the UK, I have to remind everyone the word "soccer" was invented in England. Australia and The USA adopted it and the British shunned the word.
When he said cold weather normally makes everyone less happy, I'm just luke: Nah, I love it whens it's nice and cold, when it's warm it feels terrible.
The 24/7 shopping got stopped because there was a glitch in the banking system. You could withdraw your entire pay out inbetween 1am and 5:30am, then go back to the ATM and withdraw your whole pay again, without it being counted on your account. No one knows for sure how much of a hit the banks took as it didn't register for years in their system!
Rugby League mate not Rugby. The term Rugby in Australia generally refers to Rugby (Union) is a minority sport across the country. Rugby League though is a very different sport although both based on the same roots and basic goal. Rugby League is far more popular in NSW and QLD than Union is. So in summary if you say Rugby in Australia you mean union and if you're referring to the other one you either say Rugby League or just League.
I’m an Aussie now residing in Hiroshima This was such a great link thank you Japan is a lovely country But I do miss my homeland too of course I’m so glad to be an Aussie ❤❤❤
We had a Christmas at my uncles place in Oberon (near Bathurst) where it snowed on Boxing Day. Christmas is usually hot but even in Brisbane we have occasionally had cool Christmases. The snowy Boxing Day must have been about thirty years ago admittedly.
Yeah, it's good to see, the main issue though is inflation being so much higher than wage growth that we've lost buying power comparatively :( hope it bounces back though
Yeah, though, I live down the Bellarine Peninsula and there're a bunch of places like in Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale where they've always closed at like 3-4pm because everyone just disappears around that time.
Most government housing doesn't doesn't have air-conditioning an you aren't allow to pur in yourself unless you get special permission. Because their attitude is if we say yes to you them other people who can't afford their own air-conditioning. So it causes problems. We don't even have over head fans in our house. Heating you have one source of heating which is usually in the lounge room an it doesn't spend through out the house an government housing is very draftee because the houses aren't maintained very much since they where built.
@@AussieEnglishPodcast I livex in a house for 22 years an the only thing they did wad gave us a new kitchen an a disabled bathroom because you had a shower in a bath otherwise. Unless they bought a private house
@AussieEnglishPodcast little at least the roof isn't leaking the floors are collapsing.. thus isn't isolated this throughout the government housing an the myth we get cheap housing no when you take into account we are mostly on pensions or low income 😉
Vacation in Bali with Aussies was a culture shock for me. We would walk down a street and get stopped by the street vendors cuz my friends would smile and chat with the vendors. It's sweet and nice but when we've walked pass the same vendors for the 5th time and the conversation kept going back to them prompting us to purchase their goods, I started wondering if I could convince my friends to put a mask on. The first European I've ever met was in Australia. They were so friendly that it gave me the impression that all Europeans are chirpy. When I moved to Europe, I was so shock that they are very different from the ones I've met in Australia. My European friends only became friendlier in Australia. 😂
I'm Australian and I've lived in every state. (Not NT or ACT, but I've visited.) Friendliness ranges from people wanting to know your life history in rural, more isolated areas, to coldness in Melbourne and Sydney. Very much geography dependent. And I've experienced snow on Tasmanian mountains on Christmas Day.
Territorians can range from laconic to hostile. People from Darwin are generally polite and chilled out. Katherine is friendly. Alice is old fashioned but grouchy. Half of TC is on meth, so move on.
If you wanna make money in Australia be a truck driver in drive from Sydney to Brisbane to Melbourne and back to Sydney every week and I make around $2,000 a week
Yeah, I've got a mate who drives large machinery (diggers, big trucks) and he's on like 10k a month. Though, feels like way less as he lives in Sydney.
@@AussieEnglishPodcast Yes, because i live on the border between Mexico and the United States and the English is a little different, but I lke Australian english too much...😀 Saludos!!👋
I grew up in the 70s and no-one had air cond (maybe rich ppl).. If we had a heatwave like 7 days over 35° and the house got too hot, we'd sleep down the beach!
haha yeah, I was the same in the 80s and 90s from memory. Though we lived up in the Dandenong Ranges in Vic, so it was often colder up there in the mountains anyway. Now, though, it's unthinkable not having one. However, the price to run them is getting worse and worse...
Hey mate, yeah weekends they're open. It's honestly not that bad haha not like they're closed all the time. It's just that they're closed at different times when many foreigners don't expect it
Last 5 years or so, many shops can open during holidays but it's usually for half the typical business hours. A balance of allowing employees celebrate while keeping customers happy, especially the bottle'os
A lot of these things are about density of population (the friendliness stuff). Folks who live in (urban) concrete heat islands, need aircon because the cities have changed the local climate. I grew up in Perth and we had fans but never aircon
I grew up in Perth as well and we didn't even have fans. But that was a long time ago. I wonder what it is like now. We went back to Europe and I haven't been there for 50 years.
Had a Danish boyfriend first time in Oz, we went to a bottle-o and the cashier asked him 'How you doing mate, you guys going out tonight? Have a great weekend'. Afterwards my boyfriend asked it's none of his business, why is he asking?' He was just chatting, won't tell you what happened at the corner shop there.
My daughter is in Uni with a lot of Asian peoples, and they left her incredulous by stating that Aussie people work really hard. I think most of us think we work to live and would rather throw the alarm across the room every morning. When it was broken down for her, she had to agree, as do I now. Most of us have jobs while still in school. I had my first job at 12, and my daughter was 14. The Asian students told her 'we work or we're students, never both because that would be outrageously difficult to pull off' It certainly was enlightening to both of us because they're right. Neither of us know someone who didn't have a part-time job while still in high school.
I'm with you on the sauce rort. It's a national scandal. Now when I go on a long drive, such as to visit the relies (bugger that's an unwritable word - I mean relatives) interstate, I take a sauce bottle in a cooler bag with me in the car so I don't have to pay through the nose when I stop for a pastie or chips.
That's why maccas stopped leaving out sauce packets, maple syrup and peanut butter. Coz everyone would grab a handful of each and leave them in the glove box for quick snacks
Hi from Russell/Canaipa Island Qld❤ We have the best community vibe, about 6000 people we are very inclusive, most of us lol. Every time we go to the local shops we hug 5 people ahaha ❤🇦🇺
6:20 Russian culture is very much the same. You are not supposed to talk to complete strangers (except when you need to for a reason, e.g. asking directions), and god forbid you smile whilst being in a public space on your own. Now that I've been here in Australia for almost a couple of years, I'm getting more used to small talks, although it still requires a severe conscious effort to execute them properly and to not pass off at times as rude. Cheers from Melbourne (where it's always farken cold!)!
@@AussieEnglishPodcast I would say, the cultural differences are both deep and subtle, and there are both cultural and linguistic components that go into that. It is a known phenomenon that humans are deeply affected by the environment they're in, so I would expect the adaptation process goes both ways but takes a bit of time. Back in Russia, I've met a few people who'd spend considerable time abroad and come over for a short visit, and I can absolutely confirm being an émigré affected their behaviours and communication styles to a rather quite perceptible extent.
@@AussieEnglishPodcast Well first and foremost, Rugby is Rugby, 100% of the time, Australian Rules Football is generally called "Footy" By anyone who plays or watches it, which is almost nobody who isn't already watching either Footy or Normal Football. Strange thing, AFL which Was Mostly played in Victoria, originally, is barely played there anymore lol.
The C-bomb greeting depends on inflection. If the C word is said hard, it's highly likely it's actually an insult and a fight will shortly ensue. If it's said with the typical Australian uplift at the end of the word, it's a greeting to a close friend. Then you have all the other combinations of the word. The two that you never want to be referred to as is a dead set c* or a shitc*. And for the foreigners reading that... it is one word the way we say it. And it is the worst swear word Australia has. If you're called a shitc*, you've just been told you are the worst human being alive. You just know that an Australian is pissed at you when that comes out.
what makes the barefoot thing worse here is when you have wooden stairs outside that just soak up the heat, ive lost how many times ive had to litteray sprint up and down the stairs (which i do anyway) just to get inside or to the bottom
My kids are American born & raised - but they throw in a few Aussie slang words at times - As an Aussie dad who is Americanized after living here most my life now -
Only at Christmas time they did the 24 hour shopping. That was years ago. 30 years ago homes didn’t have aircon Only stand free fans or ceiling fans. Houses in Europe, England are built to keep the warmth in. That’s why when a heat wave strikes, people there die. Our homes are built to let the heat out. We would die if we had their winters. I know Melbourne and Victoria are cold 🥶. They’re either freezing or on fire 🔥 No wonder they all moved to Qld. But here in Qld we would freeze. Our homes are not built for the cold. The C word is a bloke thing. Not so much a female thing.
I think blokes say the c word more than we do. I dislike the word and only say it to describe a certain US President-elect 😎😆 BTW went to Lord Howe Island in 2007. Stunning place ❤
Haha I think I'd be a bit taken aback by a woman that used it more than the average guy to be honest. Hahaha re: the president. Do you call him the Orange C&nt? Yeah, it was a magnificent place :)
I'm a 50 year old carpenter and I don't see the need for it constantly. I work around a lot of family homes and most don't want to hear it. Modern bogans think it's cool but it's not. I've told young apprentices to cut it out. It doesn't make a good impression on clients and Many feel uncomfortable hearing it.
However, that’s precisely what Australia is, “small talk” Here nobody has any knowledge of what is going on in a global sense. Absolutely zero knowledge of what is going on anywhere outside of the suburb they live in? Zero general knowledge of anything outside of their immediate surroundings, completely ignorant of any suffering or hardship that any other person who is not as fortunate in a far less fortunate country? This video highlights the very very over privileged ignorant and spoiled mindset of the average Australian , culture shock? Work to live? That’s the biggest lie I’ve ever heard in the decade that I have been here
@@davidmaclennan5925are you sure you're talking about Australia? Coz you're describing America. Australians know about what's happening in the world; we just don't give as much of a shit
@@NishalKayI’m from South Africa and I have experienced true hardship. I have seen it first hand. Australia has never had any form of war or conflict on its own land, so yes, Australian people in general have very little empathy towards whatever is happening in the rest of the world. Yet alone the history behind the conflicts.
Why do so many people call anything other than AFL or Football (Soccer) Rugby .Please make the distinction between the Rugby codes. Rugby League & Rugby Union are two similar but completely different games with many different rules.
No they are not. Rugby used to be the amateur game with a lot of different rules.and even though they are both now professional there are many different rules differentiating the two codes.
i only wear shoes if im going to a place where shoes are required, but other than that im bare foot every where cause wearing shoes in far nth QLD gets far too hot.
I have experience more than 6 years in Sydney and more people like to talk alot old pepole but pepile aren't like American as American likes to say good morning to all the neighbours but in Australia u r free to say good morning or not
@ I’m Egyptian and lived in too many countries The USA UAE And Australia as immigrants easy to desolve in The USA but Australia u need a little bit time once u reach that time u will love Australia the most I’m Australian and proud
What culture shock have you experienced in Australia? Comment below! 👇
Hello Pete Smissen of Aussie English, I love your videos!
I have lived in Australia for 40 years, and I call people “sweety” when I am about to stick a needle in their arm (my occupation) highly unprofessional, but I do. It rubbed on me. From my colleagues. “Little sting now sweety” 😂😂
haha I'm sure they appreciate the friendliness! I would... I hate needles...
I’ve taken to calling people “doll features”. I call blokes “love” to see how it lands. 😆
On ya love
Heroin dealer? Little stings and sweet dreams sweety
@ NEVER. Vaccines more likely. No dealings here.
You’re right, I’m a senior woman and I don’t use c**t at all. Neither do any of my friends. My grandchildren probably do, they’re all adults anyway, but I haven’t heard it. I do use f**k, but not often, I think you need to be sparing with at least one strong word so you can drag it out when you really need it for impact. 🙊
When I greet strangers in a lift or a waiting room or wherever I usually just say g’day. I don’t want to ask a stranger how they’re going.
Senior Ladies ask me to reach the top shelf in the supermarket all the time 😄 Maybe I look particularly approachable
I do use it in everyday conversation at 58!
@@geofftottenperthcoys9944 GenX will never be grown-up's 😆
As a Queenslander i gotta say, your reservation to say cunt to strangers is very southern. Not everyone, but a lot of Queenslanders do.
hahaha
weirdly as South Ozzian I completely expect that from a Queenslander lol
I am a Queenslander born and raised and i live in NSW and we say Cunt all the time lol and Rugby is union mate the Pom guy knows more than you 😂😂😂 AFL is Aerial Ping Pong not Football 👍
Only Victorians and Tasmanians (and pretentious eastern suburbs sydneysiders) get uppity about the c word.
Like seriously, don't be a cunt when some mad cunt calls a funny cunt a sick cunt coz then you're just a massive cunt, and nobody likes those cunts.
As a Queenslander and a Territorian.
Estonian here. You do not look at people in the streets. If someone does, they want something. "How's it going" illicits a thorough account of recent events in your life. The ideal home for an Estonian (Finns are the same) is far enough from your closest neighbor, that you can't see the smoke from their chimney. We're a warm and friendly bunch, but we need our space and privacy to function properly.
🤣 we have a movie, "They're a Weird Mob" 😂
Haha I watched that a few years ago and loved it. One of things that blew my mind was him buying a lot of land near Sydney and having a view of the bay... I couldn't believe how much spare land there was back then haha
@@AussieEnglishPodcast My great aunt and her husband brought a terraced house in North Bondi, 3 streets back from the beach and a couple of streets away from the Royal Sydney Golf Course. My great aunt lived in it her entire life... after she passed, her sons sold the place because they all had their own places by then. 2.3 million dollars... for a 3 bed single story terrace house in North Bondi.
Don't forget there is 2 types of "Rugby", that are both called footy, one of them referred to as "League"
So you only have a 1 in 4 chance of guessing what footy it is.
Just to add to the confusion haha
@@AussieEnglishPodcast People growing up in Darwin played all types of "footy" year round. Nobody could assume the type of sport others played. Differentiation between the different games was easy and named accordingly;
Aussie Rules (AFL),
League (Rugby League/NRL),
Union (Rugby Union),
Soccer (Theatre Sport) and
Gridiron/American Football.
Simples
No culture shock, but the bit at around 7:30ish... 'unless they don't like you'..That's when we're even more friendly...lmfao
hahaha right? :D
Speaking of tipping, when you pay by card at some outlets (mostly cafes or restaurants), on the little screen will flash an option to give a tip. can be as much as 20%. I tell them that we are in Oz, not in the U.S.
At least it's still an option (I think legally they can't automatically add it on).
Yep. Agree. I think it's just a "no harm in asking as some people do end up doing it..."
Not a fan of the small talk but bloody hell i love a conversation with someone i don't know. I want to know about you. It freaks some people out but I mean no harm and I respect it if they don't want to partake but that's just my nature. I like people and where they're from and what makes them them.
Some of the best convos I've ever had have been with complete strangers.
@@AussieEnglishPodcast "a stranger is just a friend you ain't met yet"
As an Australian I hate small talk, if I want to talk to you it’s for a reason and if I want to waste some time while waiting for something that’s what I have youtube for lol
haha fair call!
I'm often called blunt or considered rude because I don't partake in small talk. I just don't wanna have to talk unless I have a reason and I like the silence, no need to ruin it with pointless chats 😂
@@GcTheHardstyler Like the classic British opening line “Have you come far”? 😉
P.S. Apparently there’s a retreat in France where every guest room has a plaque that says “If you’re thinking of saying words that aren’t as beautiful as silence, please don’t say them”.
wow you would love the movie where if you aren’t silent you get attached by alien beings so everyone has to be silent. It’s actually pretty shitty but you might like it.
@@r.fairlie7186my favourite word in the world is loquacious it’s nice to say and I like it’s meaning.
3:12 That would be heavenly. Perhaps it's just my autism, but I hate small talk. It is incredibly anxiety inducing. Especially with strangers. I don't find it polite of people to make me profoundly uncomfortable at all. I think we Aussies could take a leaf from Finland's book.
I hadn't thought about that before. I'd definitely avoid it with anyone if I knew it would make them uncomfortable.
I'm Australian born and i also don't like small talk lol. Rather read a book.
Yeah, to each their own I guess :)
You could get that as a tattoo! On your forehead would be helpful.
I came to Australia as a small child in the 1960s. There were only two things that schocked me:
1. Having to wear a uniform at school, having to sing "God save the queen" under the waving British and Australian flags at the monday morning assemblies. I liked the song which was considered as the Australian national anthem at that time though: There is a land where summer skies are gleaming with a thousand eyes .... But why was I to render homage to some useless royal?
2. Christmas in summer didn't feel like Christmas at all inspite of the decorations, the Christmas tree, our traditional German Christmas meals and presents. Spending Christmas Day at the beach was just like any other Weekend going to the beach. In Juli/August, "winter" in Perth, my brother and I used to go to the bush at the end of our dead end street looking for some kind of shrub resembling a pine tree at least a bit, which we then decorated and played Christmas.
There was no air condition in those days. Were first lived in a double brick house, which had been built around 1900. The heat in summer was no problem there. Then we moved to a newly built house with walls, which seemed to have been made of cardboard. It really got hot there and it didn't even cool down at night.
When the temperature here in Germany reached about 30°C it isn't much of a problem. The walls of my house are 50 cm thick. I usually open all the windows in the early morning and then roll down the blinds for the rest of the day. There's no need for air condition.
I loved wearing thongs (I still do in summer), unfortunately it was forbidden to wear them at school in Australia. In German schools there are no restrictions, you can wear what you like.
Like most profanities, the use of the C word depends on where you are and who you mix with. I'm a rural farmer in NSW and can't remember the last time I heard it used.
Profanities can be Un-insulting mattering on how - or to whom you say it.
We're really the pros when it comes to Expert English.
@AURON2401 that's what I said. Frequency of use is context dependent . Just wanted to point out that he's not speaking for all of Australia
In common use in NT, mining towns and Melbourne.
Lol, we gasbag over the fence..🤣
Hehe true that. I wish we had lower fences more commonly nowadays though :(
As an Australian, yes, I've seen tones of people go bare foot, even here in Victoria.
In the hot weather, we do it.
Mainly in shopping centres, surfcost areas, etc.
Gotta be careful on the grass though...
Bindies....
Since moving to the UK, I have to remind everyone the word "soccer" was invented in England. Australia and The USA adopted it and the British shunned the word.
When he said cold weather normally makes everyone less happy, I'm just luke: Nah, I love it whens it's nice and cold, when it's warm it feels terrible.
NT cold is the best cold. Brisk and no wind.
The 24/7 shopping got stopped because there was a glitch in the banking system.
You could withdraw your entire pay out inbetween 1am and 5:30am, then go back to the ATM and withdraw your whole pay again, without it being counted on your account.
No one knows for sure how much of a hit the banks took as it didn't register for years in their system!
Goddamn! Wish I'd been told about this at the time!
Whinging Pom worried about paying for sause, just saw today that Pommy servos charge to use the air pump. They literally charge for air
hahaha
Rugby League mate not Rugby. The term Rugby in Australia generally refers to Rugby (Union) is a minority sport across the country. Rugby League though is a very different sport although both based on the same roots and basic goal. Rugby League is far more popular in NSW and QLD than Union is.
So in summary if you say Rugby in Australia you mean union and if you're referring to the other one you either say Rugby League or just League.
Ye I was going to add this comment.
Yeah forgive me, mate. I'm Victorian. It's all Dutch to me...
@@AussieEnglishPodcast as is aerial ping pong to me
@@AussieEnglishPodcastactually we do have a game in nsw and qld that is similar to afl, but it's mostly just played at school.
We call it "tips" 😜
🤣🤣🤣 ..🤦♀️ you gave away the secret of the sauce packets.... When i eat fish when I'm out and about, i buy a bottle of tartee sauce at Coles😂😂😂
hahaha so it's not just me!?
There is a reason I carry a bottle of sauce in my bag
I’m an Aussie now residing in Hiroshima
This was such a great link thank you
Japan is a lovely country But I do miss my homeland too of course
I’m so glad to be an Aussie ❤❤❤
Cheers, Penny!
two of my favourite you tubers in the one video I am laughing my head off
Haha no kidding? Had you already seen this vid before (the one I'm reacting to)?
We had a Christmas at my uncles place in Oberon (near Bathurst) where it snowed on Boxing Day. Christmas is usually hot but even in Brisbane we have occasionally had cool Christmases. The snowy Boxing Day must have been about thirty years ago admittedly.
5:29 it is exactly what I experienced in Australia all the time from the first as foreigner
You're doin the lord's work Pete. Good on ya.
As an immigrant is a must-watch your reaction to Jonhson’s yt video.
Hehe cheers, mate! Hope you enjoyed it! Have you had any culture shocks here?
Wage growth is actually up and accelerating, especially for jobs in the lowest paid sectors.
Yeah, it's good to see, the main issue though is inflation being so much higher than wage growth that we've lost buying power comparatively :( hope it bounces back though
coffee shops in melbourne's north used to be open til all hours in the 90's 2000's. i think the shrinking economy has affected hours.
Yeah, though, I live down the Bellarine Peninsula and there're a bunch of places like in Queenscliff and Point Lonsdale where they've always closed at like 3-4pm because everyone just disappears around that time.
Most government housing doesn't doesn't have air-conditioning an you aren't allow to pur in yourself unless you get special permission. Because their attitude is if we say yes to you them other people who can't afford their own air-conditioning. So it causes problems. We don't even have over head fans in our house. Heating you have one source of heating which is usually in the lounge room an it doesn't spend through out the house an government housing is very draftee because the houses aren't maintained very much since they where built.
Far out! I didn't realise that was a thing :(
@@AussieEnglishPodcast I livex in a house for 22 years an the only thing they did wad gave us a new kitchen an a disabled bathroom because you had a shower in a bath otherwise. Unless they bought a private house
Sorry to hear that mate :( hope you're in a better situation now!
@AussieEnglishPodcast little at least the roof isn't leaking the floors are collapsing.. thus isn't isolated this throughout the government housing an the myth we get cheap housing no when you take into account we are mostly on pensions or low income 😉
Vacation in Bali with Aussies was a culture shock for me. We would walk down a street and get stopped by the street vendors cuz my friends would smile and chat with the vendors. It's sweet and nice but when we've walked pass the same vendors for the 5th time and the conversation kept going back to them prompting us to purchase their goods, I started wondering if I could convince my friends to put a mask on.
The first European I've ever met was in Australia. They were so friendly that it gave me the impression that all Europeans are chirpy. When I moved to Europe, I was so shock that they are very different from the ones I've met in Australia. My European friends only became friendlier in Australia. 😂
I'm Australian and I've lived in every state. (Not NT or ACT, but I've visited.)
Friendliness ranges from people wanting to know your life history in rural, more isolated areas, to coldness in Melbourne and Sydney. Very much geography dependent.
And I've experienced snow on Tasmanian mountains on Christmas Day.
Territorians can range from laconic to hostile. People from Darwin are generally polite and chilled out. Katherine is friendly. Alice is old fashioned but grouchy. Half of TC is on meth, so move on.
Rugby isn't Rugby, it's Rugby League. No one except private schoolboys plays Rugby
It's still crap anyway!
Only shock for me as a kid was feeling totally at home ... totally awesome country and people. Then again, I'm also a southern hemisphere boy 😀
As a kid my mum would always laugh at me for never wearing shoes to woolies xD Going through the dairy and freezer isles was always cold xD
I'm in Brisbane, we still have one 24 hour Woolworths. Doing your grocery shop at 1am is great.
Jealous!
If you wanna make money in Australia be a truck driver in drive from Sydney to Brisbane to Melbourne and back to Sydney every week and I make around $2,000 a week
Yeah, I've got a mate who drives large machinery (diggers, big trucks) and he's on like 10k a month. Though, feels like way less as he lives in Sydney.
Hi Pete, thanks for the gifts....🙂👍
Hehe hope you enjoyed the episode, mate. Did you have any culture shocks I missed?
@@AussieEnglishPodcast Yes, because i live on the border between Mexico and the United States and the English is a little different, but I lke Australian english too much...😀 Saludos!!👋
24 hr servos are typical in most cities. Geez mate don't tell them the tomato sauce satchel game.
hahahaha
Ahhhhh Victorians. Bless them. Rugby is not the main sport of Queensland and NSW. League/Rugby League is. Rugby (rugby union) is a minor sport.
Aren't they the same thing? haha
@@AussieEnglishPodcast like afl and touch footy mate
I grew up in the 70s and no-one had air cond (maybe rich ppl)..
If we had a heatwave like 7 days over 35° and the house got too hot, we'd sleep down the beach!
haha yeah, I was the same in the 80s and 90s from memory. Though we lived up in the Dandenong Ranges in Vic, so it was often colder up there in the mountains anyway. Now, though, it's unthinkable not having one. However, the price to run them is getting worse and worse...
Grew up in western Sydney - closest beach was an hour and a half away.
Just go outside and have fun with the sprinklers or the hose!
after some years in australia on a boat in the crew bar I mentioned a norwegian guy in a jolly mood as a bastard. that just about ended in a fight
hahaha how'd you go explaining that one?
1:35, ah yes! Metlink, PTV, before PTV, we used Metcards before Myki!
G'day mate, greetings front post-soviet Poland 😂
Love your vids!
You said that shops in au are closed at holidays. Home about weekends? :)
Cheers
Hey mate, yeah weekends they're open. It's honestly not that bad haha not like they're closed all the time. It's just that they're closed at different times when many foreigners don't expect it
Last 5 years or so, many shops can open during holidays but it's usually for half the typical business hours. A balance of allowing employees celebrate while keeping customers happy, especially the bottle'os
Thongs with socks are now popular to wear in winter😂
Haha have you rocked it?
@@AussieEnglishPodcastNo Way...😂
hahaha
Still a better fashion choice than the ugg boot trend
If your working in western Australia! The c word is totally naturlised into to many forms depending on the situation!
Same in NT
A lot of these things are about density of population (the friendliness stuff). Folks who live in (urban) concrete heat islands, need aircon because the cities have changed the local climate. I grew up in Perth and we had fans but never aircon
I grew up in Perth as well and we didn't even have fans. But that was a long time ago. I wonder what it is like now. We went back to Europe and I haven't been there for 50 years.
Rubbish! I am 61 years of age and female.
I do drop the C…. Word occasionally when I am upset about something.
Had a Danish boyfriend first time in Oz, we went to a bottle-o and the cashier asked him 'How you doing mate, you guys going out tonight? Have a great weekend'. Afterwards my boyfriend asked it's none of his business, why is he asking?' He was just chatting, won't tell you what happened at the corner shop there.
I came to Australia in 2001 after Sydney Olympic. I saw many Australian skinny athletes on TV. Then I came here…..bit shocked 😳
lol what're you trying to say? We've got overweight athletes now? haha
Most of us aren't Olympic athletes 😅
lol I wish I were...
@@AussieEnglishPodcast I thought many people would be healthy and fit. That was my problem i just stereo typed only from TV😅
@@FionaEm I know…
My daughter is in Uni with a lot of Asian peoples, and they left her incredulous by stating that Aussie people work really hard.
I think most of us think we work to live and would rather throw the alarm across the room every morning.
When it was broken down for her, she had to agree, as do I now.
Most of us have jobs while still in school. I had my first job at 12, and my daughter was 14.
The Asian students told her 'we work or we're students, never both because that would be outrageously difficult to pull off'
It certainly was enlightening to both of us because they're right. Neither of us know someone who didn't have a part-time job while still in high school.
2 vids in one week? Oh, we're so blessed!
Hehe felt inspired this week :) Hope you enjoy it!
I'm with you on the sauce rort. It's a national scandal. Now when I go on a long drive, such as to visit the relies (bugger that's an unwritable word - I mean relatives) interstate, I take a sauce bottle in a cooler bag with me in the car so I don't have to pay through the nose when I stop for a pastie or chips.
ahaha so many people in the comments saying the same kind of stuff. I wonder how many of us drive around with sauce bottles in the glove box.
That's why maccas stopped leaving out sauce packets, maple syrup and peanut butter. Coz everyone would grab a handful of each and leave them in the glove box for quick snacks
5:38
"Why are you lost?"
"Why aren't you?"
"Touchè"
As a Aussie my self, i'm shy and closed when around others.
Sitting in silence with another person whether they're a stranger, an acquainted friend or something; without talking feels like an absolute Sin xD
When I was a kid shoes were off between October to April
Hehe sounds pretty accurate. When was that?
12:00 night life has certainly gone backwards. Back in the 80s as a 20 something we never used to leave home to go out before 11pm in Sydney…
Hi from Russell/Canaipa Island Qld❤ We have the best community vibe, about 6000 people we are very inclusive, most of us lol. Every time we go to the local shops we hug 5 people ahaha ❤🇦🇺
my estonian dad didnt get small talk and when he died had a book next to bed on how to small talk
6:20 Russian culture is very much the same. You are not supposed to talk to complete strangers (except when you need to for a reason, e.g. asking directions), and god forbid you smile whilst being in a public space on your own. Now that I've been here in Australia for almost a couple of years, I'm getting more used to small talks, although it still requires a severe conscious effort to execute them properly and to not pass off at times as rude. Cheers from Melbourne (where it's always farken cold!)!
Hehe cool. So you reckon it'd be hard to undo if/when you go back home?
@@AussieEnglishPodcast
I would say, the cultural differences are both deep and subtle, and there are both cultural and linguistic components that go into that.
It is a known phenomenon that humans are deeply affected by the environment they're in, so I would expect the adaptation process goes both ways but takes a bit of time.
Back in Russia, I've met a few people who'd spend considerable time abroad and come over for a short visit, and I can absolutely confirm being an émigré affected their behaviours and communication styles to a rather quite perceptible extent.
Only in WA and Queensland is Rugby considered Football - and they are the least populated states in AUS.
Everyone else calls football what it is.
Yeah, I knew it was something like that. Though, how does it go in NSW where both are pretty popular?
@@AussieEnglishPodcast Well first and foremost, Rugby is Rugby, 100% of the time, Australian Rules Football is generally called "Footy" By anyone who plays or watches it, which is almost nobody who isn't already watching either Footy or Normal Football.
Strange thing, AFL which Was Mostly played in Victoria, originally, is barely played there anymore lol.
The C-bomb greeting depends on inflection. If the C word is said hard, it's highly likely it's actually an insult and a fight will shortly ensue. If it's said with the typical Australian uplift at the end of the word, it's a greeting to a close friend. Then you have all the other combinations of the word. The two that you never want to be referred to as is a dead set c* or a shitc*. And for the foreigners reading that... it is one word the way we say it. And it is the worst swear word Australia has. If you're called a shitc*, you've just been told you are the worst human being alive. You just know that an Australian is pissed at you when that comes out.
Yeah that sauce packet did explode to my face recently 😢
In Queensland and NSW football means league. Rugby means union.
what makes the barefoot thing worse here is when you have wooden stairs outside that just soak up the heat, ive lost how many times ive had to litteray sprint up and down the stairs (which i do anyway) just to get inside or to the bottom
I moved to the uk 12 years ago and would get strange looks and asked why am i barefoot for walking in around barefoot in my yard.
i have been in Queensland my whole life throughout my 7 different house never have had air-conditioning is this really common in other states
I have lived in Australia all my life, over 70 years and have never ever said G’day!!
haha maybe it's time to start?
@AussieEnglishPodcast
I'm Australian born, and I never say G'day.....
Most Australians just don't look at any one, anymore.
My kids are American born & raised - but they throw in a few Aussie slang words at times - As an Aussie dad who is Americanized after living here most my life now -
Only at Christmas time they did the 24 hour shopping. That was years ago.
30 years ago homes didn’t have aircon
Only stand free fans or ceiling fans.
Houses in Europe, England are built to keep the warmth in.
That’s why when a heat wave strikes, people there die.
Our homes are built to let the heat out.
We would die if we had their winters.
I know Melbourne and Victoria are cold 🥶. They’re either freezing or on fire 🔥 No wonder they all moved to Qld.
But here in Qld we would freeze.
Our homes are not built for the cold.
The C word is a bloke thing. Not so much a female thing.
My partner of over 30 years is Finnish and they not only don’t like small talk they think smiling and greeting strangers on the street just weird.
Haha so it's true! Too funny. Did it take some getting used to?
I think blokes say the c word more than we do. I dislike the word and only say it to describe a certain US President-elect 😎😆 BTW went to Lord Howe Island in 2007. Stunning place ❤
Haha I think I'd be a bit taken aback by a woman that used it more than the average guy to be honest. Hahaha re: the president. Do you call him the Orange C&nt? Yeah, it was a magnificent place :)
Yes to all 👍🇦🇺🦘🇦🇺
Biden or Obama?
😂 i hate the c word....I'm in my 50s
lol it's just a very special colour your can paint with if you want haha
I'm a 50 year old carpenter and I don't see the need for it constantly. I work around a lot of family homes and most don't want to hear it. Modern bogans think it's cool but it's not. I've told young apprentices to cut it out. It doesn't make a good impression on clients and Many feel uncomfortable hearing it.
No c#&t
I want a shoe wearing question in the next census😂😂 and also who uses the c bomb on a regular basis... Most? I wonder...
hahaha that'd be amazing! What would the options be?
I’m Australian & I’ve never said the C word.. seriously, what type of people are you mixing with?
lol other immature men I guess...
I'm from the scrub ,, most people I know say it ..after you hear it so often it's no big deal.
I absolutely loathe the C word. Just not necessary to use it and I never will.
The C word was mostly said in high schools in the 80s and 90s.
He's mixing with awesome sick cunts!
Does everyone else around you walk around with sticks up their bums too?
My last decade of experience in Australia is nothing like what you describe
However, that’s precisely what Australia is, “small talk”
Here nobody has any knowledge of what is going on in a global sense. Absolutely zero knowledge of what is going on anywhere outside of the suburb they live in?
Zero general knowledge of anything outside of their immediate surroundings, completely ignorant of any suffering or hardship that any other person who is not as fortunate in a far less fortunate country?
This video highlights the very very over privileged ignorant and spoiled mindset of the average Australian , culture shock? Work to live? That’s the biggest lie I’ve ever heard in the decade that I have been here
@@davidmaclennan5925are you sure you're talking about Australia? Coz you're describing America.
Australians know about what's happening in the world; we just don't give as much of a shit
@@NishalKayI’m from South Africa and I have experienced true hardship. I have seen it first hand. Australia has never had any form of war or conflict on its own land, so yes, Australian people in general have very little empathy towards whatever is happening in the rest of the world. Yet alone the history behind the conflicts.
Me and my sons use the C word at each other all the time!
I have to get used to swearing over here😂
Lol practice with friends first...
Nah, just wait till 10:30 at a pub and join in!
I suppose it'll be difficult to convince a Victorian that Footy is actually Rugby League. The other code is known as GayFL.😅
Happy chickin salt is free LOL
I’m a 72 y.o. woman and have never heard anyone say the “c” word! I’m shocked!
Don't go north or west of Adelaide
My partner of over 30 years is Finnish and the not only don’t like small talk they think smiling and greeting strangers on the street just weird.
Why do so many people call anything other than AFL or Football (Soccer) Rugby .Please make the distinction between the Rugby codes. Rugby League & Rugby Union are two similar but completely different games with many different rules.
They're the same thing, aren't they?
No they are not. Rugby used to be the amateur game with a lot of different rules.and even though they are both now professional there are many different rules differentiating the two codes.
We dont have aircon and have never had aircon.
Hey TH-cam. What is wrong or offensive about the word Wanker?
Nope, cant remember the last time i saw folks (other than kids) walking around barefoot.
For me it was today...
@AussieEnglishPodcast yep, but it's not everywhere, as implied by quite a few 'Australia is ...' TH-camrs
Yes, in the hot weather, as an Australian born, I've seen lots of people walk bare feet in shopping centre, ect.
Just go to small country towns everywhere you go people are talking in the middle of the street
i only wear shoes if im going to a place where shoes are required, but other than that im bare foot every where cause wearing shoes in far nth QLD gets far too hot.
I find myself using the C word as a description word nowdays e.g. that’s f***ed to that’s C***ed. Not sure if I like it
I'm gonna have to start doing that!!
I have experience more than 6 years in Sydney and more people like to talk alot old pepole but pepile aren't like American as American likes to say good morning to all the neighbours but in Australia u r free to say good morning or not
Oh nice! Where're you originally from mate? Any other culture shocks you noticed?
@ I’m Egyptian and lived in too many countries The USA UAE And Australia as immigrants easy to desolve in The USA but Australia u need a little bit time once u reach that time u will love Australia the most I’m Australian and proud
Woolies and Coles supermarkets shut early because they don't want to pay overtime to they're workers
its more like we have footy(league), soccer and aerial ping pong(AFL).
where are you what?
5:41
Hang on.... so.. we're allowed to say WANKER.
Cool.......... Good to know
let's see if this comment survives.
You're a bloody legend mate
Europeans and Seppoes have a white xmass we have a white hot xmass
I want to move to Australia, especially after the last election.
As in ours or the US's one? haha
you like communism by the sound of it
@@AussieEnglishPodcast hopefully the US because our pm it a useless prick.
Albo and Kamala are pretty similar, but albo is not going to stay for longer than one term. If he's lucky.
@@lover-of-fateyou mean if we're lucky he'll be out on his ass next election
Yep screw those packet sauces in takeaway. I buy a bottle too. Yep ketchup has more sugar
haha it's not just me! Good!
That's interesting to know. I knew there was a difference but never knew what it was. Now I do tks.