Darn straight. I'm not happy about paying a "credit card" fee when I'm using my own funds from my regular debit account. Is it uniquely Australian to have money in your bank account rather than relying on credit?
Sunday/Public Holidays Surcharge is fine by me. I don't have to Tip all year around to all in sundry. To enjoy Public Holidays, somebody has to do the work, we pay them fairly.
It’s a stupid way of doing it. You know what your costs are going to be for the year so set your everyday price to cover it instead of putting off potential customers on a day when everyone is off work
Mmm - Queensland here - sitting on couch windows and curtains tightly closed and A/C on 24 Heat. Cold air still filling room - it’s freezing. Our SINGLE GLAZED WINDOWS make sure Winters are cold in Queensland.
I know how you feel as I used to live in Mount Isa.. now Sydney and we have Both problems. Hot Summers and Cold Winters. Luckily my home is Fully insulated and reverse cycle ducted air conditioned.. and of course the car is as well. That’s the greatest refuge between Home and wherever I go.👍
@@stewartwaterman7837 Actually I now live in Sydney but am originally from Finland. Triple and quadruple lazing and all external walls about 50cm thick, all rooms heated by Piped hot water into heating batteries in each room,from a Major heating plant or electric.Temperatures in Winter can go as low as -30c or even higher, and Summer generally 20-30c. I’m much happier here .
Pumper - standard fire engine with onboard pumps. Aerial with outriggers - fire engine with snorkel / elevated platform that needs to have outriggers extended for safety and operation.
A lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, giving the cake a distinctive texture. A common variation has a layer of cream or strawberry jam between two lamington halves. 🇦🇺😉
Designed in Toowoomba for a visit by Governor Lamington when cook ran out of fresh cake. “Just cover the stale cake in chocolate & coconut, he’ll love it.” & he did.
It’s common here for credit card fees, no one uses Checks anymore and we are being forced into plastic money and bank branches are closing down , so having to pay the extra charges in fees is causing much frustration.
@@suemonckton7639 I am American/Australian so I spell it both ways depending on who I am sending the message to 🙂 Our bank doesn’t even open new Cheque accounts anymore, only still issue cheques to old Cheque Accounts….
Ive been bitten by a Huntsman twice. One on my neck as I put on my work jacket and another on my ankle from gumboots. The ankle one was like a tiny scratch but the neck one itched for a few days. Otherwise, all good. Sadly the boot one passed away.😞
Australian houses SHOULD be well-insulated, but builders build them on-the-cheap, and we spend a fortune on heating instead. It's a real pain in colder cities like Melbourne, Canberra & Hobart.
Since the early 2000s wall and ceiling insulation has become compulsory in All new homes . There is No way for a Builder to get around this and has caused house prices to go up.The benefit is that Newer homes are much easier to keep cool and warm.This has reduced the amount of power used to make homes more comfortable and easier to live in.
How is it colder on the inside? At night it gets cold. The building cools down. In the day it does not get warm enough to compensate for the retention of night temperature chilling. Over the period of Winter, the building gets colder and retains the cold even more. The frigid temps are released during the day into the living space, making it essentially colder on the inside. Of course this varies with what material the building has been built out of. I discovered this temp effect whilst living in China south of the Yangtze River where houses were not centrally heated, whereas north of the river they were. Australian houses are generally poorly insulated (except for the roof) and thermally act like heat sinks. Good for summer, shite for winter.
Lamingtons are Australian! Named after the wife of the governor of Queensland at the time. “the lamington was named for Lord Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, or perhaps his wife, Lady Lamington. What isn't clear is who was the first to cook the treat and bestow it with the governor's name. The first known printed recipe for "lamington cake" appeared in the December 17, 1900, issue of Queensland Country Life, along with several other recipes, under the headline "Useful Recipes".” reliable source: Sydney Morning Herald
until around 20-30 years ago most homes didn’t have any insulation. Generally Homes had external walls of Fibro, weatherboard or brick with the internal walls being clad with sheet rock onto the timber frames.No Insulation in walls or ceilings which made homes unbearably Hot in Summer and bloody Cold in Winter. Heaters were basically ineffective cos the warm air would rise into the ceiling and dissipate through the Sheetrock into the empty roof / wall cavities, leaving the rooms cold. In Summer Heat would come through the thin walls and ceilings and make inside very hot. Air conditioning would only marginally cool things down.My home has insulation in all external walls cavities and ceilings. Heating and cooling is very effective in newer homes as they have become compulsory to put in all new homes as they are built.
Indian drs are the everywhere! And they are bloody awful! They have caused me so many health issues because they aren't checking things. I have FINALLY found an awesome Aussie dr who has found my spinal issues instead of ignoring me and my need for pain relief and telling me no we need to get you off pain relief not give you more. Ummm just had an mri proving my last spinal surgery was a fail and I have many more issues that also require surgery. My new dr is like YES YOU ARE IN PAIN AND NEED PAIN RELIEF!
Yeah great because you have your eyes closed and can’t see people living in tent cities because of house shortages due to increased migration and population!!
Barbeque shapes are iconic. They used to have so much red stuff on them that it came off and collected at the bottom of the bag. It kept the kids busy an extra 10 minutes getting it all out by licking the tip of a finger and dipping it in there. Arnots didn't realise how important it was to have all that red stuff left in the bottom of the bag and tried to make it stick on better. They even got a food production engineer ( my nephew Anthony) to work it out but he told them it was better to have the stuff falling off because people liked it so much at the end. They still ruined the barbeque shapes somehow. There is never as much red stuff in the bottom of the bag as there used to be.😢
I remember when plastic rep was first introduced to Australia it’s generally the old houses and they are built up off the ground and air could go underneath the house so yes winters are extremely cold because it gets drafted through the floorboards
@@dougcox3990 Cut and pasted from Wikipedia: _Some acronyms are partially pronounced as a word and otherwise pronounced as letters. For example, JPEG (/ˈdʒeɪpɛɡ/ JAY-peg) and MS-DOS (/ˌɛmɛsˈdɒs/ em-ess-DOSS). Some abbreviations are a mixture of syllabic abbreviation and acronym. These are usually pronounced as words and considered to be acronyms overall._
@@dougcox3990 Also cut and pasted, from elsewhere. _Sometimes it's just a question of, "Can the acronym be pronounced as a word?" A lot of acronyms can't because they don't have the right combination of vowels and consonants. However, there's no set rule that governs this._
If they have a surcharge for cards due to processing fees, then they should also have a cash payment surcharge for needing to pay Armaguard/cash transporters to come and give them change/take away money, and the infrastructure to take cash payments such as cash self serves and registers which cost more to buy and maintain, and cash machines (like where I work at Kmart) or staff specialising in back office cash handling.
Here in Western Australia there is only one ALDI store located outside of the Perth metropolitan area, unlike Coles and Woolworths which are often the only larger supermarkets in the larger towns in regional Western Australia. Shopping at ALDI isn't an option for residents of regional WA.
I get great insulation by covering my windows inside and out with Bubble wrap. It is held on with surface tension by wetting the window and applying the smooth side of bubble wrap on the window. It also reduces noise considerably!
No i dont put the extra topping on my BBQ Shapes. I dip my fingers in the bag and eat the dregs from the bag. I dont share my BBQ Shapes so no worry for germs. LOL
BBQ Shapes! Awesome on a hexagon tile. "Chicken Salt?" Not even close, mate! And ftr, I mop the bottom of the bag out with my finger. Much like a can of plain, salted Pringles, one pack of BBQ Shapes is a single serve item 🤪
Woolworths (via ALH Group) owns over 15,000 poker (slot) machines and 350 hotels in Australia. They are the biggest poker machine owners in Australia. Coles apparently have divested themselves of their poker machine interests. NSW is second only to Nevada in poker machine numbers.
@DarkMatter1992 Don't stress at all, I only know as I was part of Target during the separation from coles and my store was one converted to a Kmart. That's why Target is also beginning yo carry a lot of ANKO products now too
Worked with a girl years ago from northern parts of Canada, was actually raised with Eskimo kids. She rented an old fibro flat in inner Brisbane during winter.. She said she had never been so cold in her life. Poker machines: years ago Poker machines were banned in Qld. The clubs at and over the border of NSW, did a roaring trade, with bus loads of punters from Qld heading over the border each and every day. The motels in the area also did a boom trade. Then Qld government saw all the money they were missing in taxes and tourism and allowed pokies in. My parents before the relaxing of the rules owned a holiday house, just north of the border, just about spending all their leisure time in those NSW clubs. Won big a couple of times, which was possible back then
I remember how it was back then with people going on bus trips to Tweed Heads . Even the pensioners going to play. "bingo" for the day. I grew up on the Northern Rivers.
@@matthoskin3572 It was 50 years ago. Her name was Rosemary. Something I do remember she had long ear lobes, which she said was due to her mother having been influenced by the native Inuit women to stretch her lobes as a small child as considered a culturally beautiful physical trait
Most houses are adequately insulated. The problem being with the housing shortage and houses pretty much going up over night. People/builders are cutting corners and not installing properly.
In fact, ‘EFTPOS’ distinguishes it from ‘Credit’. The signs on this door are saying there is a surcharge for using a debit card. The credit card fees already go without saying. Cash Is King!
2:00. It’s PER PERSON, Ry. Yeas, we’re awful per person (although we do have 10c recycling stations). Allow for population difference, 26m vs 333m. It looks worse if you multiply it by 12.
Most people in Australia do not live in the regions with extreme heat. We live in temperate to cool climates. The coast of Queensland is warm to hot but has plenty of tropical rain. Far North Queensland is tropically hot. The coast of New South Wales is ‘Goldilocks’. Not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, not too dry, not to windy, not too sultry. Each season has a short peak, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring. It was not worth insulating when most buildings were constructed since the extremes don’t last very long. We usually have reverse cycle air conditioning in cities - Heating and Cooling and Dry- so it can be adjusted. Victoria and Tasmania are much cooler as they face the Southern Ocean which flows eastward across the southern coast of Australia. As far as I can tell, South Australia seems to be more like NSW. The southern coast of Western Australia is warmer and dryer.
It is pretty cold on the south cost of WA due to the wind chill factor- blowing straight off Antarctica. It's also quite wet as well in winter with generally shorter, milder summers than further up the coast .WA is the biggest state in Aus and has monsoons the further north you go. And SA has nothing like NSW weather.
@@wendy5290 Thanks for the info. I’ve been to Perth and the south WA coast to Denmark but it was January. Perth was hot and dry, while Bunbury to Denmark was pleasantly warm to cool. As for SA, I’ve only been to Port Augusta and drove past Woomera in late December back in 1975, so I don’t know about SA weather. Just going by temp maps I have seen. The point I was making is that most Aussies live in the temperate to cool areas, except the places near or north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Personally, I’ll never use a foreign doctor as long as I live (not without looking into their history & credentials). My old Dr was an Indian fella, he treated me for nearly 3 years for really bad ulcers in my guts, the pain was insane. Turned out he was wrong and I had/have Crohn’s disease, after I pooped a heap of blood & was rushed to hospital for an immediate operation. The surgeon chopped out about 1 mtr of intestines, he said if the puss in my intestines had burst I most likely would’ve lay on the couch & be dead within 20 minutes from septic shock.
I’m so glad you went to the hospital and was treated in time. I’m a multi septic shock survivor and I still put too much blind faith in some doctors. I hope things are going better for you now
My GP of many years is a Chinese lady doctor and is Excellent. Doesn’t believe in a 3 minute consult. Every time I go she spends 15 minutes to half an hour questioning me and making notes.Only orders tests if I complain about something and has me on regular check ups for various problems I already have and refers me to Specialists only if she feels it necessary. All of my consults are fully covered by the Australian Medicare system and I am not charged for any appointments.No complaints here.
@@johnlaine2654 Ditto, my new GP is thorough, if he can’t diagnose me it’s straight off to a specialist too. Medicare picks up most of my tab with the specialist, about 80%, then they reimburse me the difference. Our (Australian) medicare system is pretty good 👍 Cheers
@@johnlaine2654 it is great when you find a GP who takes the time and really listens and cares. My old doc was like that, I was so sad when he retired. He used to call to make sure I was ok and even pop into the hospital to say hi and chat with the doctors. An old English bloke who spent years working with Doctors Without Borders and in impoverished areas. My doctor now is an elderly Polish man who is good too and friends with my old GP (and bulk bills me) but I worry that he will retire soon too.
Hi Ryan, that comparison of French real estate/realty with Australia is interesting. We recently visited France and checked out prices in some of the nice areas we were in and you could get a loverly large house on acreage for a price that you would be lucky to pay for a tiny flat in Australia. Pretty sure "pumping appliances" and "aerials with outriggers" are types of fire engines/trucks. Poker machines are slot machines, not video poker. Australia has a real issue with gambling. We have 20% of the world's poker machines. Poor people, who can least afford it, tend to be overrepresented as users. This leads to family breakdown and misery. Yes, banning them would be great but a $50 limit is a good start.
A couple of points for Ryan: 1. Kmart doesn't sell food 2. EFTPOS machines are for credit and debit cards as well as smart devices (I don't carry any physical cards any more). 3. I never pay full price for Domino's - always find a coupon online. 4. Lamingtons are THE BOMB and were invented here in Queensland, AUSTRALIA! 5. It's AntARCtica not "AntARtica" which is what you said. That first "C" ain't silent! (To be fair, most Americans pronounce it incorrectly) 6. The construction of houses varies from state to state. Here in QLD, we built our house and it has very limited insulation. I've had the ducted air on a few times recently to warm the place up a bit.
Actually, Target now has a lot of Kmart stuff. They’re under the same company umbrella, and since inflation, are looking less like the posh version of Kmart.
I believe quite a high percentage of that Pokie user population here in Oz would be Chinese or generally of Asian descent. Many Asian countries have gambling problems sadly and those living here seem to suffer from the same sad addiction.Oh, I’m not Asian but see it happening in Clubs around Sydney.
Our houses are absolutely freezing in winter because they are designed to lose as much heat as possible. It works well enough in the summer but sux in the winter.
Yeah true Our houses are built to retain the cold so we don't melt or burn in summer, autumn or spring... but that means we all freeze during winter, late autumn and early spring. It also changes depending on where you live - Rip the people who live on a mountain range or out in the middle of no where. Schools are worse, as most are aware, especially because half the kids get there early so they spend like an hour outside freezing in 6 and below degree weather only to be stuck inside for hours either freezing or sitting in the faux heat from the poor bloody heaters. School did just go out tho, so kids don't have to either freeze or sit in fake heat for hours for like the next 2 weeks :)
Here on Gold Coast we have only 2 months of winter..Mornings can be very cold until about 8am then low to high 20s then by 4pm when it starts to get cold again...Most homes are air conditioned (some also have heating)..most schools have air conditioning as well but growing up in late 40s no fan no heaters and at grade 4 girls had to wear stocking all year..I live 1 block from beach so we get sea breeze all yr but in winter close doors..In reality we live in close tropical environment but very very short winter...long hot summers.. Victoria has 4 seasons a day and gets freezing days and nights
Those crackers you saw were the actual shapes biscuit, not a seperate cracker. All shapes biscuits are different shaped biscuit depending on the flavour.
How Indians in Australia differs from Mexicans in the USA is that we have more of our construction done by Australians however there is much more money in Information Technology and Medical fields which are very much dominated by Indians/Asians here. So our low income jobs are actually done more by Australians but the higher paying jobs are from the mega continent. Also lamingtons originate from close to Toowoomba where also the author of Mary Poppins came from
It makes so much more sense than the American date format. DD/MM/YY goes from the smallest time scale to the largest. I’m also fine with YYYY/MM/DD as it’s still “in order,” big to small. I used to have to use MM/DD/YY for work and it always confused me 😂
As far as I know, only America (probably Canada too) use the MM/DD/YYYY format, and because of the universality of their software we're stuck with it.... Universal format is YYYYMMDDhhmmss +/- Timezone eg. 20240624122053+10
EFTPOS = Electronic Funds Teansfer Point of Sale. It’s not a credit card, it’s a debit card. You can buy with it and the funds come out of the bank account you have associated with the card. What do you call it?
I dealt with the cold in my new-to-me ex-rental house by dropping $12k on getting it insulated 360° when I bought it. AFter confirming that the reverse-cycle was sufficient to warm the place, I had the jurassic gas furnace removed.
Not all foods need to show percentages as long as they show all of the ingredients in descending order from Highest to Lowest. I’m Coeliac and have to study labels very closely as the wrong ingredients can make me sick.. Generally you’re on the Right track.👍
I've seen packs of mince in ALDI which made me gag. Ghastly yucky brown colour and most of the rest of their meat including very sus looking soggy chicken is far from inviting.🤢 Some of their veges are very good and like their Anzac and shortbread biscuits.
I would love to have the option of Aldi for groceries. They have just re-announced that they still have no plans of coming to Tassie though. We get our meat from the local butcher which is definitely more expensive but the quality is outstanding.
@@joanneginever1890 I think the quality of the produce is dependant on the standards of each manager . I've had the odd off item from other stores too.
@@stephaniebell4272 Hi Stephanie Note, our store is quite new. Only been open a few weeks, so you'd think they'd be very particular about the quality of their produce this early in their operation. As I say, the fruit and veges are mostly very good along with general grocery items but I would not buy meat there. I still do most of my weekly shop at Coles and Woolies and just walk up to the IGA, which is very close, for extra items if we're running short.
13:20 The point was exemplified by the fact that Mt Druitt is FAR from an exclusive suburb. It was even the focus of a TV Series called Struggle Street.
Living in Sydney right now wearing 2 pairs of tracksuit bottoms, 2 hoodies, and Ugg boots, with a fleece draped over me. I'm not sure sacrificing double glazing for a fly screen is work it. then again, the 25 Litre hot water tank is the real bane of my life. My showers this past week have been warm for 90-120 seconds and cold thereafter. I met a girl from Edinburgh over here and she said she's never been as colder in her life than being in Sydney in winter... I'm pretty much in agreement
I've had friends from Europe surprised at how cold Australian homes are in the winter. But sacrificing fly screens for double glazing?? It's best to have both in Australia.
I believe the comment about cheap Indian labor was in relation to corporate practices of offshoring Aussie jobs to cheaper labor in India. Particularly prevalent in banking and wealth management/financial services, customer service/call centers, IT etc. I work for an American company here in Aus that has been offshoring roles for years. In my opinion it’s a terribly shortsighted idea that will shoot them all in the foot one day (and it has already in many cases)
I expect this relates to fire trucks (appliances), ie. the suspended slab can take the weight of a pumper, but not an aerial appliance such as a tele-boom or ladder platform
Australian houses are built more to keep cool than keep heat in (no double glazing, central heating, etc., like UK). Air con is reverse cycle, so AC used for heating.
I know we say that, but many homes are like ovens in the summer and ice boxes in the winter - even in Sydney. Good insulation and properly sealed windows make such a difference to the power bills.
Poker machines (commonly known as pokies) are slot machines of all kind of gambling derived from the original machines gambling like poker. The manufacture of such machines is big business and the Aristocrat brand is exported to the USA.
The issue of "single use" plastic has been compounded by the "Soft Plastics" recycling disaster (formerly exported, now dumped). The majority is made up of additional packaging, and agricultural production (silage wraps).... but this is proportional to population, so Australia would be higher, and Singapore is effectively a City-State with more people than land.
The "India" comment/issue is not that "they are coming to take our Jobs", rather that a proportion of jobs have been moved offshore to India, and similar to other parts of the world (as first generation immigrants) there's a high work ethic in low income jobs, also that there's a high proportion of assisted migration for skilled migrants, particularly health, which then means that rural and remote areas will gain "a new Doctor" for as long as the requirement for "accelerated recognition of prior experience" (eg. Provisional Registration) is required, they then move to growth areas of cities, rince and repeat. With the added bonus of whatever their partner does, eg. Teachers.
Per capita is more important. People always give China crap for being the biggest polluter but they're quite low per capita. It's what the individual can control. It's only because of their large total population that puts them on these lists. If all other countries had similar populations as China their waste would be completely off the charts.
Songe cakes with chocolate and coconutsprinkled. Many Australian houses are asbestos( they call it fibro).i am wheezing from this place and had pneumonia last winter and 2020 too. I normally just get a little cold about every 2or3 years. Ginger soaked in boiling water, lemon juice..and a lif Ttle honey helps a cold....Also swimming in the ocean. Mt Druitt is not a nice area and miles from beaches...closer to the Blue Mountains
My bedroom is always several degrees colder than the rest of the house but I like it that way. We live in Canberra which is notorious for cold winters but this year is easily the coldest since I moved here. It happened fast too, I switched from air conditioner to heater in a week. 😳 My dad was a gambling addict & I’m in favour of anything that slows people down. The $50 limit is something that will inform the gambler of exactly how much money they’re wasting on the machines. If you have to find the place to press the button to spend more money, you have to be consciously aware of what you’re doing & that’s helpful in learning to stop
Ryan regarding prices and sales, particularly surcharges, as long as it has clear signage for explanation, most Australians can understand.... but get very irrationally confused in the US when the marked priced is not the final price, with various taxes and tips added. Eg. A pizza is advertised as $5.00, add $1.43 in taxes, $0.20 surcharge and $2 tip, equalling $8.63 or $3.63 more than advertised.
14:14 That's to tell fire engine drivers that they can park on that slab of concrete an ordinary fire engine which pumps water onto the fire once the truck is connected to a fire hydrant, but not a fire engine that has a ladder and stabilizing outriggers. Do your research.
BBQ Shapes aren't what they used to be. Very lucky if you get that much excess flavour these days. Back in the 80s there was guaranteed dipping flavour crumbs. Made my mouth go numb sucking on over seasoned Shapes 😂👍
I feel sorry for those people with the cold houses. It's usually the newer, housing-estate houses that are like that. The builders just skimp on materials, insulation, etc. You just get a bargain basement house. In some cases you're lucky if they don't fall apart. The liberal government removed all the restrictions and safeguards ages ago, and basically made it legal for dodgy contractors to get rich.
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EFTPOS isn't only credit cards, but also debit cards as well.
Darn straight.
I'm not happy about paying a "credit card" fee when I'm using my own funds from my regular debit account.
Is it uniquely Australian to have money in your bank account rather than relying on credit?
@@symbungeeWhen you insert your card and use your pin instead of tap and go there are no charges.
@@zalired8925 yes... and?
@@zalired8925 not always, all depends on how they like to charge you. They can charge you for any transaction type.
@@symbungee I'm not happy when Telstra tries charging "non electronic payment fee" when I use EFTPOS. The E literally means electronic.
In Oz all 'slot' machines are called poker machines or 'Pokies'.
Sunday/Public Holidays Surcharge is fine by me. I don't have to Tip all year around to all in sundry. To enjoy Public Holidays, somebody has to do the work, we pay them fairly.
Same, the employer has to pay penalty rates, so should the consumer
Nah. $50 an hour on Sundays is ludicrous.
Double time on public holiday for staff okay the businesses charge extra okay
@@Ainzleeriddellyour employee disagrees
It’s a stupid way of doing it. You know what your costs are going to be for the year so set your everyday price to cover it instead of putting off potential customers on a day when everyone is off work
Mmm - Queensland here - sitting on couch windows and curtains tightly closed and A/C on 24 Heat. Cold air still filling room - it’s freezing.
Our SINGLE GLAZED WINDOWS make sure Winters are cold in Queensland.
I;m from Ballarat and we have double glazing. You don;t know what cold is!
I know how you feel as I used to live in Mount Isa.. now Sydney and we have Both problems. Hot Summers and Cold Winters. Luckily my home is Fully insulated and reverse cycle ducted air conditioned.. and of course the car is as well. That’s the greatest refuge between Home and wherever I go.👍
@@stewartwaterman7837 Actually I now live in Sydney but am originally from Finland. Triple and quadruple lazing and all external walls about 50cm thick, all rooms heated by Piped hot water into heating batteries in each room,from a Major heating plant or electric.Temperatures in Winter can go as low as -30c or even higher, and Summer generally 20-30c. I’m much happier here .
Pumper - standard fire engine with onboard pumps.
Aerial with outriggers - fire engine with snorkel / elevated platform that needs to have outriggers extended for safety and operation.
A lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, giving the cake a distinctive texture. A common variation has a layer of cream or strawberry jam between two lamington halves. 🇦🇺😉
Or both.
Designed in Toowoomba for a visit by Governor Lamington when cook ran out of fresh cake.
“Just cover the stale cake in chocolate & coconut, he’ll love it.” & he did.
Yum.
It’s common here for credit card fees, no one uses Checks anymore and we are being forced into plastic money and bank branches are closing down , so having to pay the extra charges in fees is causing much frustration.
Use cash, I don't go to businesses who have charges
I still use cheques ( not checks )
@@suemonckton7639 I am American/Australian so I spell it both ways depending on who I am sending the message to 🙂 Our bank doesn’t even open new Cheque accounts anymore, only still issue cheques to old Cheque Accounts….
I've never used a "check" at a restaurant or anywhere else for that matter
My local Aldi is just a leisure 3000km down the road ….
My Aldi is 130 metres away 😂
It’s great 👍
So convenient
@@vickigarvie4093 yeah, Aldi & Dan Murphy…. I miss you….
"Happy arvo" Ryan. That 'call-sign' is cheerfully yours, but your Australian accent is hybrid British. But no worries mate. Cheers from Sydney, AU.
Yeah, Ryan has to learn our lingo to become one of us. We need to get him here for a while so gets to know more about Oz first hand.
Ive been bitten by a Huntsman twice. One on my neck as I put on my work jacket and another on my ankle from gumboots. The ankle one was like a tiny scratch but the neck one itched for a few days. Otherwise, all good. Sadly the boot one passed away.😞
Got bitten on the ankle too - 50c coin size blister & I popped it then cleaned it with alcohol. Was clueless until my doctor told what happened to me.
The ingredients list on foods starts from the ingredient with the highest percentage, and is in order from highest to lowest.
Australian houses SHOULD be well-insulated, but builders build them on-the-cheap, and we spend a fortune on heating instead. It's a real pain in colder cities like Melbourne, Canberra & Hobart.
You do know that it is completely possible to add insulation to your home post build?
Since the early 2000s wall and ceiling insulation has become compulsory in All new homes . There is No way for a Builder to get around this and has caused house prices to go up.The benefit is that Newer homes are much easier to keep cool and warm.This has reduced the amount of power used to make homes more comfortable and easier to live in.
Me living in Townsville….just cannot compute actually needing heating. Air conditioning yes!
Currently 3.7 where I am near Hobart - I hate Winter so very much but couldn’t imagine living anywhere else lol
New Zealand banned the use of almost all single-use plastic items a few years ago. Nobody seems to be too bothered about it now.
It’s going that way pretty quickly in Queensland too. It’s not hard to adjust.
Then why is there so much rubbish in your streets?
@@rationalbacon5872 lol what rubbish in the streets?
I buy paper bages to carry home my groceries, of which 95% are packaged in plastic.
How is it colder on the inside? At night it gets cold. The building cools down. In the day it does not get warm enough to compensate for the retention of night temperature chilling. Over the period of Winter, the building gets colder and retains the cold even more. The frigid temps are released during the day into the living space, making it essentially colder on the inside. Of course this varies with what material the building has been built out of. I discovered this temp effect whilst living in China south of the Yangtze River where houses were not centrally heated, whereas north of the river they were. Australian houses are generally poorly insulated (except for the roof) and thermally act like heat sinks. Good for summer, shite for winter.
All food labels are required to be complete disclosure.
as it should be!
5:42 EFTPOS electronic funds transfer at point of sales.
Cashless transactions using a card.
That also includes 10% goods and services tax
Australian food laws state that all food products must have the ingredients information on them
I think Ryan was specifically interested that the percentage of the ingredient was given.
Even if they don't have the %, here they must in order of % of each ingredient@@martinschalken7583
Lamingtons are Australian! Named after the wife of the governor of Queensland at the time. “the lamington was named for Lord Lamington, who served as Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901, or perhaps his wife, Lady Lamington. What isn't clear is who was the first to cook the treat and bestow it with the governor's name. The first known printed recipe for "lamington cake" appeared in the December 17, 1900, issue of Queensland Country Life, along with several other recipes, under the headline "Useful Recipes".” reliable source: Sydney Morning Herald
Thanks, SMH.
Close enough.
Qoute: "reliable source: Sydney Morning Herald" - ... ... ... 😂🤣😂
until around 20-30 years ago most homes didn’t have any insulation. Generally Homes had external walls of Fibro, weatherboard or brick with the internal walls being clad with sheet rock onto the timber frames.No Insulation in walls or ceilings which made homes unbearably Hot in Summer and bloody Cold in Winter. Heaters were basically ineffective cos the warm air would rise into the ceiling and dissipate through the Sheetrock into the empty roof / wall cavities, leaving the rooms cold. In Summer Heat would come through the thin walls and ceilings and make inside very hot. Air conditioning would only marginally cool things down.My home has insulation in all external walls cavities and ceilings. Heating and cooling is very effective in newer homes as they have become compulsory to put in all new homes as they are built.
We have a clinic full of really good Indian doctors in our area. I have no problems with migration.
Indian drs are the everywhere! And they are bloody awful! They have caused me so many health issues because they aren't checking things. I have FINALLY found an awesome Aussie dr who has found my spinal issues instead of ignoring me and my need for pain relief and telling me no we need to get you off pain relief not give you more. Ummm just had an mri proving my last spinal surgery was a fail and I have many more issues that also require surgery. My new dr is like YES YOU ARE IN PAIN AND NEED PAIN RELIEF!
Yeah great because you have your eyes closed and can’t see people living in tent cities because of house shortages due to increased migration and population!!
Barbeque shapes are iconic. They used to have so much red stuff on them that it came off and collected at the bottom of the bag. It kept the kids busy an extra 10 minutes getting it all out by licking the tip of a finger and dipping it in there. Arnots didn't realise how important it was to have all that red stuff left in the bottom of the bag and tried to make it stick on better. They even got a food production engineer ( my nephew Anthony) to work it out but he told them it was better to have the stuff falling off because people liked it so much at the end. They still ruined the barbeque shapes somehow. There is never as much red stuff in the bottom of the bag as there used to be.😢
I remember when plastic rep was first introduced to Australia it’s generally the old houses and they are built up off the ground and air could go underneath the house so yes winters are extremely cold because it gets drafted through the floorboards
We have laws here which are to try and protect society from itself, which would never be even suggested in the US, let alone understood!😂
And thank God for that, Australia has become and getting worse, one big nanny state.
Although eftpos is an acronym, we pronounce it like it's a word, much like how words like *laser* or *scuba* are actually acronyms.
The rule is it must be pronouncable as a word, to be an acronym. If you can't say it like a word, it's called an initialism.
@@dougcox3990 Cut and pasted from Wikipedia: _Some acronyms are partially pronounced as a word and otherwise pronounced as letters. For example, JPEG (/ˈdʒeɪpɛɡ/ JAY-peg) and MS-DOS (/ˌɛmɛsˈdɒs/ em-ess-DOSS). Some abbreviations are a mixture of syllabic abbreviation and acronym. These are usually pronounced as words and considered to be acronyms overall._
@@dougcox3990 Also cut and pasted, from elsewhere. _Sometimes it's just a question of, "Can the acronym be pronounced as a word?" A lot of acronyms can't because they don't have the right combination of vowels and consonants. However, there's no set rule that governs this._
You wouldn't think that 2 large pizzas + 2 sides was a good deal if you saw Domino's interpretation of "Large".
Yeah soo true.
We have Target and Kmart but they don't sell groceries, just homewares and clothing etc
If they have a surcharge for cards due to processing fees, then they should also have a cash payment surcharge for needing to pay Armaguard/cash transporters to come and give them change/take away money, and the infrastructure to take cash payments such as cash self serves and registers which cost more to buy and maintain, and cash machines (like where I work at Kmart) or staff specialising in back office cash handling.
Wouldn't live in Mt Druitt for a quarter of that price.
Here in Western Australia there is only one ALDI store located outside of the Perth metropolitan area, unlike Coles and Woolworths which are often the only larger supermarkets in the larger towns in regional Western Australia. Shopping at ALDI isn't an option for residents of regional WA.
Actually, in 2021 we ranked 7 th for our efforts to reduce plastic pollution
Yeah, 7th within the english speaking countries.
I get great insulation by covering my windows inside and out with Bubble wrap. It is held on with surface tension by wetting the window and applying the smooth side of bubble wrap on the window. It also reduces noise considerably!
No i dont put the extra topping on my BBQ Shapes. I dip my fingers in the bag and eat the dregs from the bag. I dont share my BBQ Shapes so no worry for germs. LOL
Same!
BBQ Shapes! Awesome on a hexagon tile. "Chicken Salt?" Not even close, mate! And ftr, I mop the bottom of the bag out with my finger. Much like a can of plain, salted Pringles, one pack of BBQ Shapes is a single serve item 🤪
EFTPOS = Electronic Funds Transfer Point of Service. Basically any electronic transaction by card, phone etc.
*Electronic Funds Transfer at Point of Sale
Woolworths (via ALH Group) owns over 15,000 poker (slot) machines and 350 hotels in Australia. They are the biggest poker machine owners in Australia. Coles apparently have divested themselves of their poker machine interests. NSW is second only to Nevada in poker machine numbers.
3:30 As it has been mentioned many times before, kmart and target are both owned by coles, and they don't sell groceries.
Apart from lollies (candy) & a few snack foods.
@@judithstrachan9399and some soft drinks
Just fyi Kmart and Target aren't owned by Coles any more. Target is now considered part of the Kmart Group
@@Kaymlr my mistake, I knew Coles Group separated from Wesfarmers, but I didn't realise that Wesfarmers kept Kmart and Target.
@DarkMatter1992 Don't stress at all, I only know as I was part of Target during the separation from coles and my store was one converted to a Kmart. That's why Target is also beginning yo carry a lot of ANKO products now too
Worked with a girl years ago from northern parts of Canada, was actually raised with Eskimo kids. She rented an old fibro flat in inner Brisbane during winter.. She said she had never been so cold in her life. Poker machines: years ago Poker machines were banned in Qld. The clubs at and over the border of NSW, did a roaring trade, with bus loads of punters from Qld heading over the border each and every day. The motels in the area also did a boom trade. Then Qld government saw all the money they were missing in taxes and tourism and allowed pokies in. My parents before the relaxing of the rules owned a holiday house, just north of the border, just about spending all their leisure time in those NSW clubs. Won big a couple of times, which was possible back then
I remember how it was back then with people going on bus trips to Tweed Heads . Even the pensioners going to play. "bingo" for the day. I grew up on the Northern Rivers.
What area up north?. I lived in Inuit communities for over a decade.
@@matthoskin3572 It was 50 years ago. Her name was Rosemary. Something I do remember she had long ear lobes, which she said was due to her mother having been influenced by the native Inuit women to stretch her lobes as a small child as considered a culturally beautiful physical trait
Most houses are adequately insulated. The problem being with the housing shortage and houses pretty much going up over night. People/builders are cutting corners and not installing properly.
We call it EFTPOS because it's not just credit cards, it's debit cards as well.
In fact, ‘EFTPOS’ distinguishes it from ‘Credit’.
The signs on this door are saying there is a surcharge for using a debit card.
The credit card fees already go without saying.
Cash Is King!
2:00. It’s PER PERSON, Ry. Yeas, we’re awful per person (although we do have 10c recycling stations).
Allow for population difference, 26m vs 333m. It looks worse if you multiply it by 12.
Most people in Australia do not live in the regions with extreme heat.
We live in temperate to cool climates.
The coast of Queensland is warm to hot but has plenty of tropical rain. Far North Queensland is tropically hot.
The coast of New South Wales is ‘Goldilocks’. Not too hot, not too cold, not too wet, not too dry, not to windy, not too sultry. Each season has a short peak, Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring.
It was not worth insulating when most buildings were constructed since the extremes don’t last very long. We usually have reverse cycle air conditioning in cities - Heating and Cooling and Dry- so it can be adjusted.
Victoria and Tasmania are much cooler as they face the Southern Ocean which flows eastward across the southern coast of Australia.
As far as I can tell, South Australia seems to be more like NSW.
The southern coast of Western Australia is warmer and dryer.
It is pretty cold on the south cost of WA due to the wind chill factor- blowing straight off Antarctica. It's also quite wet as well in winter with generally shorter, milder summers than further up the coast .WA is the biggest state in Aus and has monsoons the further north you go. And SA has nothing like NSW weather.
@@wendy5290
Thanks for the info.
I’ve been to Perth and the south WA coast to Denmark but it was January. Perth was hot and dry, while Bunbury to Denmark was pleasantly warm to cool.
As for SA, I’ve only been to Port Augusta and drove past Woomera in late December back in 1975, so I don’t know about SA weather. Just going by temp maps I have seen.
The point I was making is that most Aussies live in the temperate to cool areas, except the places near or north of the Tropic of Capricorn.
Personally, I’ll never use a foreign doctor as long as I live (not without looking into their history & credentials).
My old Dr was an Indian fella, he treated me for nearly 3 years for really bad ulcers in my guts, the pain was insane.
Turned out he was wrong and I had/have Crohn’s disease, after I pooped a heap of blood & was rushed to hospital for an immediate operation. The surgeon chopped out about 1 mtr of intestines, he said if the puss in my intestines had burst I most likely would’ve lay on the couch & be dead within 20 minutes from septic shock.
I’m so glad you went to the hospital and was treated in time. I’m a multi septic shock survivor and I still put too much blind faith in some doctors. I hope things are going better for you now
My GP of many years is a Chinese lady doctor and is Excellent. Doesn’t believe in a 3 minute consult. Every time I go she spends 15 minutes to half an hour questioning me and making notes.Only orders tests if I complain about something and has me on regular check ups for various problems I already have and refers me to Specialists only if she feels it necessary. All of my consults are fully covered by the Australian Medicare system and I am not charged for any appointments.No complaints here.
@@johnlaine2654 Ditto, my new GP is thorough, if he can’t diagnose me it’s straight off to a specialist too.
Medicare picks up most of my tab with the specialist, about 80%, then they reimburse me the difference.
Our (Australian) medicare system is pretty good 👍
Cheers
@@johnlaine2654 it is great when you find a GP who takes the time and really listens and cares. My old doc was like that, I was so sad when he retired. He used to call to make sure I was ok and even pop into the hospital to say hi and chat with the doctors. An old English bloke who spent years working with Doctors Without Borders and in impoverished areas.
My doctor now is an elderly Polish man who is good too and friends with my old GP (and bulk bills me) but I worry that he will retire soon too.
Hi Ryan, that comparison of French real estate/realty with Australia is interesting. We recently visited France and checked out prices in some of the nice areas we were in and you could get a loverly large house on acreage for a price that you would be lucky to pay for a tiny flat in Australia. Pretty sure "pumping appliances" and "aerials with outriggers" are types of fire engines/trucks. Poker machines are slot machines, not video poker. Australia has a real issue with gambling. We have 20% of the world's poker machines. Poor people, who can least afford it, tend to be overrepresented as users. This leads to family breakdown and misery. Yes, banning them would be great but a $50 limit is a good start.
A couple of points for Ryan:
1. Kmart doesn't sell food
2. EFTPOS machines are for credit and debit cards as well as smart devices (I don't carry any physical cards any more).
3. I never pay full price for Domino's - always find a coupon online.
4. Lamingtons are THE BOMB and were invented here in Queensland, AUSTRALIA!
5. It's AntARCtica not "AntARtica" which is what you said. That first "C" ain't silent! (To be fair, most Americans pronounce it incorrectly)
6. The construction of houses varies from state to state. Here in QLD, we built our house and it has very limited insulation. I've had the ducted air on a few times recently to warm the place up a bit.
Singapore is the cleanest city I've seen in my travels. It starts before you go through customs or in transit. Signs about chewing gum.
$1.3million = $1million for the land, $300,000 for the house.
Yep
Wow that plastic waste thing was a shock 😳. We’ve banned plastic bags from the supermarket, plastic cutlery and all of that.
It’s not Mayo if it’s not made with eggs.
Actually, Target now has a lot of Kmart stuff. They’re under the same company umbrella, and since inflation, are looking less like the posh version of Kmart.
Australia has an estimated 20% of the world's poker machines. We are by far the biggest gamblers on the planet per capita.
Too true. So sad.
The pokies are to Australia what guns are to the states. I despise how they have ruined most pubs
I believe quite a high percentage of that Pokie user population here in Oz would be Chinese or generally of Asian descent. Many Asian countries have gambling problems sadly and those living here seem to suffer from the same sad addiction.Oh, I’m not Asian but see it happening in Clubs around Sydney.
Playing the pokies is NOT gambling - it's donating!
Outside in the garden in the sun can be gloriously warm and inside is like an ice cheat, I too have one of those houses.
Our houses are absolutely freezing in winter because they are designed to lose as much heat as possible. It works well enough in the summer but sux in the winter.
Yeah true
Our houses are built to retain the cold so we don't melt or burn in summer, autumn or spring... but that means we all freeze during winter, late autumn and early spring.
It also changes depending on where you live - Rip the people who live on a mountain range or out in the middle of no where.
Schools are worse, as most are aware, especially because half the kids get there early so they spend like an hour outside freezing in 6 and below degree weather only to be stuck inside for hours either freezing or sitting in the faux heat from the poor bloody heaters.
School did just go out tho, so kids don't have to either freeze or sit in fake heat for hours for like the next 2 weeks :)
Here on Gold Coast we have only 2 months of winter..Mornings can be very cold until about 8am then low to high 20s then by 4pm when it starts to get cold again...Most homes are air conditioned (some also have heating)..most schools have air conditioning as well but growing up in late 40s no fan no heaters and at grade 4 girls had to wear stocking all year..I live 1 block from beach so we get sea breeze all yr but in winter close doors..In reality we live in close tropical environment but very very short winter...long hot summers.. Victoria has 4 seasons a day and gets freezing days and nights
Colder in my house than outside too, heater or not 😂
Most of the newer houses have insulation but that's it.
You can buy shapes in the US. You just gotta do a bit of searching.
Those crackers you saw were the actual shapes biscuit, not a seperate cracker. All shapes biscuits are different shaped biscuit depending on the flavour.
All our gaming machines are called poker machines or 'pokies'.
How Indians in Australia differs from Mexicans in the USA is that we have more of our construction done by Australians however there is much more money in Information Technology and Medical fields which are very much dominated by Indians/Asians here. So our low income jobs are actually done more by Australians but the higher paying jobs are from the mega continent. Also lamingtons originate from close to Toowoomba where also the author of Mary Poppins came from
Eftpos os NOT a credit card, it transfers money from your bank account direct to the seller!
Well, it does both.
Tapping treats your card like a credit card, just using your own money.
12/6/2024 is 12 June 2024. Month is the middle digit here.
It makes so much more sense than the American date format. DD/MM/YY goes from the smallest time scale to the largest. I’m also fine with YYYY/MM/DD as it’s still “in order,” big to small. I used to have to use MM/DD/YY for work and it always confused me 😂
Aaaaand it was my birthday!
Yay.
The way it should be... the smart way😊
As far as I know, only America (probably Canada too) use the MM/DD/YYYY format, and because of the universality of their software we're stuck with it....
Universal format is YYYYMMDDhhmmss +/- Timezone eg. 20240624122053+10
Also Ryan, just gonna make this easier for you, just call it Woolies like we all do 😅
Insulation keeps the heat in. A lot of Aussie houses designed to dissipate heat
That stat is kg per person. You can pretty much write stats to prove anything you want.
EFTPOS = Electronic Funds Teansfer Point of Sale. It’s not a credit card, it’s a debit card. You can buy with it and the funds come out of the bank account you have associated with the card. What do you call it?
I dealt with the cold in my new-to-me ex-rental house by dropping $12k on getting it insulated 360° when I bought it. AFter confirming that the reverse-cycle was sufficient to warm the place, I had the jurassic gas furnace removed.
My house is a cold house it is built for the dispersion of heat not the retention of warmth. Three months winter 9 months of summer causes that.
It's illegal not to put percentages on your food in Australia
Not all foods need to show percentages as long as they show all of the ingredients in descending order from Highest to Lowest. I’m Coeliac and have to study labels very closely as the wrong ingredients can make me sick.. Generally you’re on the Right track.👍
Aldi is great , but it doesn’t have everything, unfortunately.
And only exists in major cities :(
I've seen packs of mince in ALDI which made me gag. Ghastly yucky brown colour and most of the rest of their meat including very sus looking soggy chicken is far from inviting.🤢
Some of their veges are very good and like their Anzac and shortbread biscuits.
I would love to have the option of Aldi for groceries. They have just re-announced that they still have no plans of coming to Tassie though. We get our meat from the local butcher which is definitely more expensive but the quality is outstanding.
@@joanneginever1890 I think the quality of the produce is dependant on the standards of each manager . I've had the odd off item from other stores too.
@@stephaniebell4272
Hi Stephanie
Note, our store is quite new. Only been open a few weeks, so you'd think they'd be very particular about the quality of their produce this early in their operation.
As I say, the fruit and veges are mostly very good along with general grocery items but I would not buy meat there.
I still do most of my weekly shop at Coles and Woolies and just walk up to the IGA, which is very close, for extra items if we're running short.
We don't have Aldi in Tasmania!! FML!
13:20 The point was exemplified by the fact that Mt Druitt is FAR from an exclusive suburb. It was even the focus of a TV Series called Struggle Street.
My house is like a wind tunnel it's so drafty atm.
The red stuff is dried tomato and dried parsley.
15:20 I *think* there is a labeling law that if it is advertised/claimed on the frot (as in "made with real eggs") then the % has to be shown
Living in Sydney right now wearing 2 pairs of tracksuit bottoms, 2 hoodies, and Ugg boots, with a fleece draped over me.
I'm not sure sacrificing double glazing for a fly screen is work it.
then again, the 25 Litre hot water tank is the real bane of my life. My showers this past week have been warm for 90-120 seconds and cold thereafter.
I met a girl from Edinburgh over here and she said she's never been as colder in her life than being in Sydney in winter... I'm pretty much in agreement
I've had friends from Europe surprised at how cold Australian homes are in the winter. But sacrificing fly screens for double glazing?? It's best to have both in Australia.
I believe the comment about cheap Indian labor was in relation to corporate practices of offshoring Aussie jobs to cheaper labor in India. Particularly prevalent in banking and wealth management/financial services, customer service/call centers, IT etc.
I work for an American company here in Aus that has been offshoring roles for years. In my opinion it’s a terribly shortsighted idea that will shoot them all in the foot one day (and it has already in many cases)
Aerials with outriggers probably means cranes with extendable support legs.
I expect this relates to fire trucks (appliances), ie. the suspended slab can take the weight of a pumper, but not an aerial appliance such as a tele-boom or ladder platform
Australian houses are built more to keep cool than keep heat in (no double glazing, central heating, etc., like UK). Air con is reverse cycle, so AC used for heating.
I know we say that, but many homes are like ovens in the summer and ice boxes in the winter - even in Sydney. Good insulation and properly sealed windows make such a difference to the power bills.
Poker machines (commonly known as pokies) are slot machines of all kind of gambling derived from the original machines gambling like poker. The manufacture of such machines is big business and the Aristocrat brand is exported to the USA.
I believe they originally had pictures of all the cards in a deck (such as you’d use for poker) & you’d win big if you had 4 of a kind.
The issue of "single use" plastic has been compounded by the "Soft Plastics" recycling disaster (formerly exported, now dumped). The majority is made up of additional packaging, and agricultural production (silage wraps).... but this is proportional to population, so Australia would be higher, and Singapore is effectively a City-State with more people than land.
The "India" comment/issue is not that "they are coming to take our Jobs", rather that a proportion of jobs have been moved offshore to India, and similar to other parts of the world (as first generation immigrants) there's a high work ethic in low income jobs, also that there's a high proportion of assisted migration for skilled migrants, particularly health, which then means that rural and remote areas will gain "a new Doctor" for as long as the requirement for "accelerated recognition of prior experience" (eg. Provisional Registration) is required, they then move to growth areas of cities, rince and repeat. With the added bonus of whatever their partner does, eg. Teachers.
Single use plastic #1 China, #2 US, the given list must be per capita, big difference
Per capita is more important. People always give China crap for being the biggest polluter but they're quite low per capita. It's what the individual can control. It's only because of their large total population that puts them on these lists. If all other countries had similar populations as China their waste would be completely off the charts.
I too am shocked and appalled 😢 2:26
No-one buys groceries at KMart or Target, so you will continue to hear about the big two - Woolworths and Coles.
Just remember the plastic production is per capita so the US actually produces a lot more plastic as it has a very large population.
You Ryan crack me up.
You will love the land down under, wait a while for you little man to be a great age to remember.
Adelaide South Australia
Australia calls all slot machines Poker Machines, (Pokies). Love watching, thank you
As an Aussie I am surprised to find out that we are a number 1 producer of anything other than raw materials.
Have a good weekend Ryan .
I think one of the biggest sources of single use plastic waste is the medical sector, for hygiene reasons.
Songe cakes with chocolate and coconutsprinkled.
Many Australian houses are asbestos( they call it fibro).i am wheezing from this place and had pneumonia last winter and 2020 too.
I normally just get a little cold about every 2or3 years.
Ginger soaked in boiling water, lemon juice..and a lif
Ttle honey helps a cold....Also swimming in the ocean.
Mt Druitt is not a nice area and miles from beaches...closer to the Blue Mountains
My bedroom is always several degrees colder than the rest of the house but I like it that way. We live in Canberra which is notorious for cold winters but this year is easily the coldest since I moved here. It happened fast too, I switched from air conditioner to heater in a week. 😳 My dad was a gambling addict & I’m in favour of anything that slows people down. The $50 limit is something that will inform the gambler of exactly how much money they’re wasting on the machines. If you have to find the place to press the button to spend more money, you have to be consciously aware of what you’re doing & that’s helpful in learning to stop
Ryan regarding prices and sales, particularly surcharges, as long as it has clear signage for explanation, most Australians can understand.... but get very irrationally confused in the US when the marked priced is not the final price, with various taxes and tips added. Eg. A pizza is advertised as $5.00, add $1.43 in taxes, $0.20 surcharge and $2 tip, equalling $8.63 or $3.63 more than advertised.
It’s said like a word, not E.F.T pos but eftpos (eff-t-poss)
We do skip the T sound a lot.
Efpos.
@@RobertJWalso depends on what state you grew up in.
Australian sky is always the most beautiful blue.
Except when it's not, right?
@@judepower4425 Oh, night time? Then it's a dark blue. but still beautiful.
Don't help much if you live in the bush, closest Aldi store is 200km away.
14:14 That's to tell fire engine drivers that they can park on that slab of concrete an ordinary fire engine which pumps water onto the fire once the truck is connected to a fire hydrant, but not a fire engine that has a ladder and stabilizing outriggers. Do your research.
BBQ Shapes aren't what they used to be. Very lucky if you get that much excess flavour these days. Back in the 80s there was guaranteed dipping flavour crumbs. Made my mouth go numb sucking on over seasoned Shapes 😂👍
I never shop at Aldi. KMart doesn’t sell groceries, it’s Coles’ department store while BigW is Woolies department store.
I feel sorry for those people with the cold houses. It's usually the newer, housing-estate houses that are like that. The builders just skimp on materials, insulation, etc. You just get a bargain basement house. In some cases you're lucky if they don't fall apart. The liberal government removed all the restrictions and safeguards ages ago, and basically made it legal for dodgy contractors to get rich.
I don't know which state you live in, but in NSW newer homes must be properly insulated.
EFTPOS - Electronic Funds Transfer Point Of Sale. Maccas used to charge 10% surcharge on Public Holidays - have not eaten it for too long to know.
Your accent is okay. I love your app. Hi to your family and Indiana.❤👍🙌🇦🇺
The ONLY mayo to buy is either Hellmans or Kewpie.