Culture Shocks Moving to Australia | Part 2 with
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There were some culture shocks moving from America to Australia, but what about moving to Australia from the UK? I sat down with Maz from the BAM Famalam to see what culture shocks were experienced moving to Australia from two completely different countries. There were some American culture shocks in Australia but let's see what culture shocks a Pom went through! There are so many differences between Australia and America just like there are differences between the UK and Australia and differences between the UK and America.
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Kaitlyn, until recently, when somehow our retailers started to take on the USAsian custom of having sales on what you call 'Black Friday', we remembered the deaths of 71 people during the Victorian bushfires of 13 January 1939, a day we called Black Friday. With the culmination of several years' drought in the state, which was followed by high temperatures and strong winds, the conditions fanned several fires - some of which had been burning since early December - into a massive fire front.
It seems a shame to some of us to loose the name of such a significant event to a meaningless commercial exercise.
Now, when I see a company advertising a 'Black Friday' sale, I make a concious effort to try and avoid that company from then on.
The commercialist concept of Black Friday sales has fallen flat in Australia, but no so much because of the Black Friday bushfire history, a lot of people aren't even aware that was a thing now as it's quite far back in history. It's more because it's culturally completely meaningless to us. Shops have spent heaps of money trying to promote the idea only to end up selling no more than they normally would on any other day. Some persist in trying to promote the idea hoping it'll catch on, some new stores try it out each year, but every year more and more stores that have tried it before stop bothering because it's just wasting their money on advertising something that Aussies don't care about. I suspect given a few more years it'll sink it that it's just not worth the expense and effort and it'll fade away into the same irrelevant oblivion as Guy Fawkes night.
I feel the same way as you do Peter. Black Friday, to me, is a sad term & especially as I live in a town that was devasted by bushfire (known as Black Friday) in 1939 AND then again on Black Saturday in 2009 when we lost 173 lives.
Yeah the term "Black Friday" in regards to sales is shameful.
Just because Halloween is celebrated in the USA doesn't mean we do it here.
"Black Friday Sales" seem offensive to me.
@@grandmothergoose I agree with you GG entirely.
I mean, we don't even have Thanksgiving here, so why have a special shopping day the day afer it. Stupid, innit?
@@lindylufromoz5111 Halloween isn't exclusively American and definitely didn't start there. It's a Celtic thing from Ireland and Scotland that migrated to the US along with Christmas and Easter. The US became more internationally well known for Halloween because they over-commercialised it (as they do with everything). The reason Australia hasn't celebrated Halloween until more recent decades was due to a long history of cultural and religious repression in the UK, the banning of "excessive festivities", a forced cultural shift towards celebrating Guy Fawkes night instead, and a few other coincidences of timing such as when Australia was discovered the majority of the convicts being Irish... as if they were going to be allowed to celebrate all aspects their culture - most of which had been banned for centuries by this stage - in captivity. What I'm saying is, for many Australians, Halloween does have a cultural relevance, especially for people of Irish or Scottish heritage. But Black Friday sales, that's exclusively a US thing that only holds ties with regards to US culture because it's the day after Thanksgiving which ONLY the US celebrates because it relates exclusively and only to US history.
@@grandmothergoose - Thanks GG, I agree with you. I also admit to downplaying Halloween (for example) to my 7 grandkids (except the youngest one - she doesn't even know what her toes & fingers are yet - but of course I encourage them to follow/do as they choose, even though I know the result of them gorging on a ton of lollies full of artificial additives & really unhealthy crap...then I get their parents to pick them up & take them home with all their craze inducing bags of lollies. Then I sigh loudly & relax doing something I find peaceful. Nice.
But yeah I understand all you said.
Thanks. - Linda.
Talking openly can be very handy on health issues. In my case I was in the local pub and was mentioning to a friend that I had an appointment to get a skin cancer burned off. One of the other guys interrupted and asked why didn't I just get my doctor to do it like he does. I just said it hadn't occurred to me. He told me the doctor he used and as I was new to the area I went and saw him. It turned out that this doctor had actually taught the specialist I had being go to so I got it all done by him at no cost (what we call bulk billing) and he also referred me to the best cancer treatment hospital for things he couldn't do in his rooms. thirty years later i still go that hospital and i recently had another skin cancer removed.
Well, this was a pleasant surprise…two channels I watch every week, collaborating. Love it! I currently have Herman the Huntsman up on my wall. He’s been wandering around the house for about 6 weeks now, on strict instruction not to come down, as I can’t guarantee his safety if he does…and neither can my cat!
The more spiders you have, the fewer flies you have!
@@rossevans1774 and mosquitoes!
@@donnachatterton1639 Yes, and if you are fortunate to have geckos, they cleanup the mossies that escape the harmless Huntsmen spiders!
@@rossevans1774 I hope you are talking about the Native geckos and not the Spiny Tailed Asian House Gecko - the introduced vermin that defecate their bacteria and parasites in your kitchen when they get inside your house.
@@stevegraham3817 It is the many introduced species in Australia that endanger the wellbeing of all Native Australian flora and fauna.
Kaitlyn, huntsman spiders also eat cockroaches but only about twice a week. Handy to keep around but if you're not ok having them inside, then make up a strong citrus or peppermint spray. To keep spiders out of cars, rub lemon 🍋 oil where they hide. As to their size, you haven't seen the bigger ones yet 😁
I hadn't realised that the UK and US had a different talking culture to us Aussies, where so many subjects were considered rude or taboo to talk about over dinner or in general. I think it's because we feel comfortable joking about and taking the piss out of any topic, which ties into our lack of offence at most things.
Britain is no different
I watched a Influencer video where they watched a song from Divinyls " I touch myself " . They went all embarrassed and lost for words at the lyrics about her singing about masturbating. Amongst my friends we crack rude jokes at each other about sex in all matter of derogatory ways but its water off a ducks back . Let alone it used to be on daytime radio playing as normal
Australia is almost identical in culture to Britain because Australia was settled by them.
What are you talking about?
@Rusty_Gold85 Lol the song is called "I touch myself"
What did you expect?
Hi. I was transported in 1962. Parents were 10 pound POMS. Even back in the 60s Aussies were like you find them. I like to watch your channels. Love you both _ Pete.
so your parents were only 4 and a half kilograms
I think you really ought to look into doing Christmas in July (or early August). We used to go up to the Blue Mountains, usually Mt Victoria and stay in an old guest house in the middle of winter. Lots of mulled wine, full turkey dinner, Santa, carols and often it would snow in the evening with the snow still on the ground the following morning. Highly recommend it.
I've never had or even thought about locking my letter box. Firstly "Where's that effing key?" and secondly, if someone steals my mail, they might be kind enough to pay the overdue amount.
and most ppl get all their invoices/bills/etc online now so there's really not much to steal from a letterbox lol
Aussies are into direct, up-front, casual small talk as it is a way of connecting and sharing information. We are not so concerned with what people think of us and status. It is an undercover way of 'putting the finger up' to the British class system. I do think that some of the younger generation on social media lack a screening method regarding appropriateness. I believe Aussies are interested in politics and our compulsory voting system takes away apathy and gives energy to debate.
🎉 Yay! Kaitlin and Maz together! Sub to both channels. Always great content on both.
Well that worked out well. I loved it. I hope you do more of them. Boxing Day sales are HUGE here also
I am an Aussie and I love the part where our American friend Kaitlyn said the redback spiders were slightly dangerous, the symptoms of a Redback bite are, severe pain, sweating, vomiting, difficulty breathing, and muscle twitching, and if not treated you can die. I am not a fan of the Huntsman spider, but I do think the redback is quite a nice-looking spider (which if you know about Australian animals, the cuter or prettier they look, the more dangerous they are).
Cousin married an American lady & lives in NJ - brought his kids out for Xmas break from school & they loved the hot Xmas. We still have similar foods but alot of cold food included with lots of different salads & fresh fruit (water melon is best served chilled).
As an Australian, I've done Christmas in England/Scotland, New Year's in Scotland/England and Thanksgiving in Canada. While I loved the 'cold Christmas' and Thanksgiving as Winter events for the sake of the experience, New Year's Eve being cold, snowy & dreary is not an experience I'd want to do again. I feel like NYE is a more important ( and much more fun) celebration in Australia than either the US or the UK.
Completely agree 😊
Openness is more of young person's culture. My friends and I are baby boomers and don't talk about personal issues, because we are into local history, sports, boating fishing and camping. We do talk about what's generally happening in extended families and friends.
I agree; I think oversharing is a social media era thing. I'm a Gen Xer and wasn't brought up to discuss super-personal things openly, especially in workplaces etc.
@@FionaEm I'm GenX and although when I was growing up, just like yourself, there was the stigma of don't talk about a lot of things, the reality is, it never helped anyone and caused a lot of social harm. Over time people have become more aware that talking about one's problems, be it domestic violence, mental health, physical health, politics, religion, relationship problems does help people, be it by just getting off your chest, to getting more information to make better decisions, or even finding actual help and solutions. I think it's a good thing that we've gone down this road, because it's helped our society drag itself out of the dark ages, it's reduced the rate of certain crimes and greatly increased people's willingness to report such crimes, it's helped reduce suicide rates, and freed a lot of people from abusive situations. Although I grew up being taught to keep my mouth shut, I evolved and learned that wasn't the best way for society to be, so I embraced the talk about it no matter what it is attitude, long before the internet even existed, along with many other Aussies regardless of age. So no, it's not just a social media thing, it's an advancement of society thing - those of us that had to live suffering in silence were sick to death of having to keep our mouth shut about topics like domestic violence and child abuse, and once the door to speak openly was broken down, every other topic just naturally followed. I'm glad to be living in a country where there's no longer any stigma of shame and taboo stuck on any topic one might wish to talk about, and I'd hate to have to go back to the sort of suffer in silence culture I grew up in. Sure, there's some things you generally don't talk about too openly at work especially if customers are within earshot, despite being less formal than some other countries, work is work not a social event and customers in particular don't really care what toys other people use in the bedroom; but if you have a problem and want to more quietly confide in a work mate or your boss, to reach out to them for help or to get better information on a topic, that's more than acceptable and so it should be. Outside of work however, it's Rafferty's Rules, and so it should be.
A great concept and you must do it more often , I never realised that our irreverent attitude towards titles was a thing ,being 78yrs old I've acquired a few nicknames such as the Wrinkely, the old Fart , the Old Fossil , the Oldie all titles I wear with pride and my grandkids are always taking the piss and I love it , my granddaughter asked me if Captain Cook wore thongs , when I replied why she asked me she said didn't you come over from pommieland with him , cheeky little bugger her dad put her up to it of course it was him she asked how old is grandad and was told older than dirt ,he is obviously now disinherited . I'm glad you two got together for a natter, I've recommended both your channels plus That Johnston Life to dozens of other reactors (mostly American) to Australian content and I've seen both of your channels featured on their reactions .keep up the good work
Australia never used to have their shops open on Boxing Day. It would be visiting relatives, beach or resting after eating too much. In last 10 years its turned into a shopping spree for many. Especially first generation Australians that love shopping.
Boxing Day sales started to be a thing in at least the late 80s because I definitely went to them as a teenager.
@@kayelle8005 In a lot of Australia, shops were all shut on Boxing Day. It changed around 2015. Probably depends where in Australia you live as each state has different policies. I think its pathetic to have Boxing Day sales and think retail workers deserve a day off and they could easily have the sales on the 27th. Greed over worker's rights and I'm not lefty and I don't work in retainl. But fair's fair.
@@BDub2024 agree totally. I’m old enough to remember when all shops closed by 1pm on Saturday. Sunday was for family.
@@kayelle8005 People at work used to whinge about Perth shops being restricted. Most aren't open on weeknights still. In the city CBD only on Friday night still. Suburbs Thursday night. But I feel sorry for the staff when its open all hours (destroy family time and cause more stress for singles even and fragmentation of society). People say that if they don't want to work then they can find another job. But to me that's totally unrealistic and naive about the job market.
I say that shops used to shut at 12 noon. People still bought clothes and food, they just were organised with time. Remember the petrol stations. After Sat lunch it was all on rosters.
@@kayelle8005 Where I live (out in the bush) that's still so. We still have shops that shut for lunch.
Australian adults also celebrate "Christmas in July". It's for those who want to experience a colder celebration
Huntsman eat red backs so keep them in your house
Loved both parts. Cheers
I'm an Australian in my 50's and I was brought up like Maz, calling my parents' friends Aunty & Uncle. But as an adult, even in my 20's, older customers said, "Mrs X was my mother-in-law, call me Firstname."
My father was a cardiac physician and was always referred to as Doctor.
Nowadays in hospitals most of the staff will say their first name, including doctors. It has become more informal.
At 60, I still refer to adults as Mr, Mrs, Dr, Sir, Madam. Still cannot address an aunt or uncle by first name. Old school.
Just watching Caitlin talk about Aussie letterboxes made me remember waaaayyy back when I was really little not only did the postman deliver the mail but he picked up mail as well. If you had mail to send you had to make sure it was in your letterbox before the postie came. That was a little job mum gave me and my brother. Put the mail in the box then pick up the mail we'd received. Til we decided that was borign. And youre right Maz theres not a real problem with stealing mail from letterboxes.
Kaitlyn, Huntsman spiders CAN bite, and it can be quite painful. Not poisonous, but still a situation to be avoided !!
they are venomous (i dont think any spiders are poisonous, you can eat them if you're so inclined) but yeah nothing to really worry about
@DaveWhoa Huntsman are harmless.
Dafuq are you talking about?
Older people here talk about their health problems all the time however I have found it very helpful as I'm more aware. We were never told not to talk about illnesses when I was a kid. Not that we did as we were sheltered even from the polio epidemic, we just had all our normal illnesses and our vaccinations and got on with it.
Loved this guys... you both hinted at a big collab this week and it never clicked that you would be doing it together. Have a great week x
So glad you enjoyed it! 😊
@@KindaAustralian Me too, although Aussies mostly tend to only talk politics with people they are comfortable with , and socially won't bring it up with people they don't know well, also some Aussie houses have the mail slots in the door.
Thanks, women. Insightful and authentic. A well-produced video.Thanks again.
Just straight out magic. You guys just fitted in with each other like a pair of old gloves. Bloody brilliant, keep it going ❤️
Great to see the both of you together! I've only recently subbed to the bamfamalam and enjoy their vlogs
When I lived in the UK I found in Britain they dont like it if you ask what they do - here in Australia its more about finding a common ground when meeting people. In the Uk its more about people assume I'm making judgements about how much they earn
Nup, I fuckin hate when people ask that, fuck that, & I’m Australian & have lived in the UK, who cares what someone does
A lot of editing work there ladies. And this part touched on the possible loneliness you can feel here. If you don’t work (yeah nah - no unemployment, no medical reason, no pensioner paradise excuse …) it can be quite lonely and you can feel disjointed I guess. Spoke @ length with an Italian born young guy who lived with us for quite awhile - his life over there included the base which wa family but also friends. His friends were the people he virtually grew up with. Friends from a young age that were always his friends. When he’d go back home he would just slot back into his old life and days would be filled with family and nights filled with going out with friends. Unless you are an extrovert (no disrespect Maz) or involved more with community based groups (Kaitlyn uh well you brought it up eh - the American support through meet and greets). Unless you have kids @ school,& are involved with them at these schools - it can be very lonely out here cos we don’t tend to be invited into groups per say. Sure we can be friendly with everyone during daily life but crossing over to the friendship zone is Not as encouraged. We’ll talk to you and help you out without knowing you but you never then cross the line to being someone’s friend without the backup of all the additional clauses of the school & work connection.
You could join clubs, build up a hobby, volunteer, get involved in sports etc. You have to get out of your comfort zone and make as much effort as you can. Sitting back and waiting for things to just happen or come to you will never work. If you want it, you have to go and get it 👍🏻
Thanks for a great video!
Great to see you girls on air again, i travel alot around Australia mainly from the West to the Riverina in NSW and sometimes come across elderly travellers from overseas and hear there stories on differences from what they have experienced in Australia that they were unaware of. Like not everything is waiting to kill you, only the crocs
There be nothing left to talk about when the TH-camrs start interviewing each other.
Where I grew up in a rural area we had RMB or RSD mail boxes- Road Mail Box or Road Side Delivery You would see a cluster of them on the corner of some larger roads which was the closest point Australia Post would deliver. Ours was about a kilometre from the house- which was also the closest the primary school bus came too. We only got mail 3 days a week until 1999. Took me a year to remember to collect it on the extra days.
Regular huntsman spiders a pretty cool, they are big but kind of gangly and dorky so not to be taken seriously. But there is a Huntsman variant which has striped legs, a bit smaller than the more common one, and these rise up high on their legs and run like the wind, and I'm almost positive that if they had a mind for it then they would be able catch up to me and take me down like a lion felling an impala. So in my house regular huntsman's get shooed out the door, but if they have striped legs then I will drown the buggers in Mortein before they have a chance to put their running shoes on.
Glad to see you two found each other. The more open you are the less stress you have.
Totally agree with Peter, great collaboration. It's a HUGE thing to move to another country & you can't be expected to have a cultural lobotomy & forget your roots. Honey, keep celebrating July 4th & thanksgiving. All true blue Aussies will help you celebrate your special days even though we don't fully understand them. You are friends & any excuse for a get together aye
Thanks Robert! 😊
This was a great video 😊
This was never expected and its great
Cockroaches were alway the bugs that needed to be sprayed where I grew up near Brisbane. I haven't seen any cockroaches in Colorado where I live now. I also lived in Japan where there are lots of huntsman spiders. They liked to fill up the shower walls in the bathroom. When I was young the mail was delivered by a bloke on a bicycle.
Thanks for sharing your insights ladies. We found those to be big shocks too, especially the post boxes and my wife still doesn't prefer a warm Chirstmas yet!!
Cooking roasts such as for Christmas is very often done in the bbq here in Aus. That way the heat is out of the house.
For me christmas is a 3 day event.
My father was German and for them christmas happened on christmas eve, so we had a german christmas on christmas eve, a more traditional christmas on christmas day with my mums extended family, and the boxing day catching up with others we ran out of time for on the first two days.
Then you need a holiday because christmas was so exhausting.
These are great, I really enjoyed watching this. I'm subs to both of you guys🙂
I'm a little surprised that both these ladies have not sat down, (over a bikkie and cuppa) and discussed their culture shocks or concerns with a knowledgeable Australian. And yes, many cultural practices do seem at first a little, let's say unusual. When the logic and common sense behind most of these things is explained they will quickly become more acceptable.
In the traditionally Christian countries of the northern hemisphere, the Christmas-New Year break is but a brief festive interlude in the dour workaday routine of wintertime. Northern summer vacations happen in the middle of the calendar year, which is wintertime in the southern hemisphere. In the warm Christmas climes of the antipodes the holidays don't just come to a sudden end on January 2, with a return to the humdrum of work, school and commuting. Here the silly season abruptly crunches down into low gear for a fortnight and then over the next fortnight gradually shifts back up to cruise speed, with summer holidays finishing and schools and many workplaces reopening at month's end. In Sydney and other Australian cities in January people's stress levels fall away remarkably. The normally busy streets are now free of traffic congestion, and the few pedestrians that are left amble along as unhurriedly as the denizens of small country towns. It is all over soon enough though, as the ratrace returns with a vengeance in February, just as this continent's heat and humidity reach their stifling late summer extremes.
It's so interesting that both of you find Aussies a bit too open about personal issues. I suspect that's more of a recent/social media phenomenon. As a Gen Xer and Anglo Aussie brought up in the 70s & 80s, I don't feel super comfortable discussing personal issues with ppl I don't know well, or in certain situations e.g. workplaces.
I have a vivid memory of a woman in the next cubicle, talking to her boyfriend and dissecting their sex life - on her office phone, at the top of her lungs. I was horrified, as was my poor young intern 😅
speaking about mailboxes , you would be surprised to hear that in some country.areas they use old refrigerators. or old milk churns..
Australian red backs and American black widow spiders are the same species and have inter bred when some came over on a cargo ship years ago. I think it was here in Brisbane and an all out effort was made to destroy them.
It is theorised that redbacks came to Australia with the Miners 49 who came to the Gold Rushes in the mid 19th century. You will only find them where settlers have been. They are never in the untouched bush. Yes they readily breed with their American counterparts.
so where did they originate from?@@intothenight756d47
Really enjoyed seeing this collab with Maz🙂👏
Where I've lived, posties on motorbikes usually deliver letters and sometimes small packages. And the main parcel service is someone in van.
I think the openess to discuss things is mostly a positive. it's just part of our informal, open and relaxed culture. When people live in less open society in terms of discussing topics, issues and personal problems, it leads to more depression, isolation and anxiety.
I do agree though that not everyone sits around spilling about their sex life to everyone! Everyone I know would only ever discuss with close friends, if they do discuss.
With Christmas, my family always have cold meats, salads , seafood and grazing foods like cheeses, fruits etc. And a Pavlova. We may have roast potatoes sometimes. But I know some do the hot meals.
I moved back to SE Qld in '21 from Sydney and the Christmas that just passed was actually kinda cool temperature wise. At least for "summer" Christmas standards. It was about 22 degrees.
It depends where you are I guess. Sydney, Melb , WA etc get heatwaves more. SE Qld doesn't really get the heatwave 40-44 degree temps. It's a fairly stable sub tropical climate usually 23-28. Can count on one hand the number of times we reached 30 degrees this summer. We do get some humidity though especially before the rain.
We have huge boxing day sales here too. Some people go crazy about them. Others like me prefer to stay home lol.
Thanks again guys, that's was fun to watch.
Great collaboration.
Thank you! 😊
Huntsman spiders eat cockroaches too!
This is getting freaky! My subs are colluding behind my back!
It seems like we just like talking about "life". Also putting it out there also gets ideas to help with things aswell. Like health issues, being from USA and UK you possibly would do something different with an ailment you have compared to us. Maybe you have some way of helping something we can't solve ourselves. We also like to " vent". Which is just getting things off our chest. Just need to say something to release it from our troubled minds.
I watch you and Maz all the time.
I've heard a bloke call out to his mate when I was in a pub in the rocks and he's nickname was spoof just couldn't imagine how he got that nickname
In relation to Huntsman's(Which can make you feel sick) if you move around the room it'll watch every move you make though not to attack, merely to avoid you.
American who lives in California here, I think with the oversharing thing, mileage may vary depending on where you are and who you're with. I will never forget having a coworker openly discuss her son getting erections and I was just like...wtf. LOL. There seems to be one person in every group who overshares the most outrageous story for attention.
In Queensland - recommend you dont have boxes made out of basket weave type - they house cockroaches. Had a very nasty experience with what appeared like 1000 cockroaches.
That all depends on which group of people you talk to, we don't talk about those subjects with the people we talk too.
The Huntsman is venomous like all spiders. But they're comparatively shy. If you are unlucky enough to be bitten you'll get some swelling and a bit of pain. But like anything which uses venom, the real possibility is anaphylactic shock. Then again, many people with that sensitivity will already be aware of it. Treat the spider with a little respect and let them go their own way and things will be fine.
Years ago, my (late) wife had a Canadian among her work colleagues. He said one of the weirdest things he had to get used to was the northerly wind which is hot and the southerly which is cold. In Canada (and the US), the opposite is true, of course.
Huntsman are not venomous at all.
They are harmless
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 (From the Australian Museum website); "Despite their often large and hairy appearance, huntsman spiders are not considered to be dangerous spiders. As with most spiders, they do possess venom, and a bite may cause some ill effects. However, they are quite reluctant to bite, and will usually try to run away rather than be aggressive. In houses they perform a useful role as natural pest controllers.
They belong to the Sparassidae family.
The website goes on to recommend a cold pack to relieve pain from the bite.
Red backs, funnel webs and white tails are the ones to really watch out for and a wolf spider bite does hurt but doesn’t cause a problem.
Not so long ago, all posties used bicycles! Boxing Day in Melbourne also means cricket!
And hot cross buns on sale at coles & woolies.😉
I'm mid 50s, and I can't remember a time posties around our way rode little motorbikes or scooters.
When I was much younger, you kept your health issues to yourself, especially "ladies problems".
Things have changed over the last 20 to 30 years and the people I talk to are more open about their health.
I've also noticed a lot more discussion about mental health and I'm sure this helps keep the black dog away.
No Dr Google.
I had watched clips on and off from both families... so what a surprise to see you both together... good fun. Interesting if you can think of other topics to collaborate on??? YES??? :-)
I live in Canberra and there are people here who are really into politics. But you are right that Australians in general aren't that into politics. Often to the point where they're quite ignorant as to how government actually works.
Hi Kaitlyn living here in QLD we would have Christmas in July with our extended family and friends weather is cooler for the big roast meal big Bon fire in the evening had 94 people that day have a larger property half came with tents caravans or swags kicked the next morning off with BBQ breakfast and more friends showed up that was a Christmas still talked about glad you enjoy our life style
Huntsmen spiders kill other spiders. Ive seen them gallop across the ceiling to kill red backs and white tips.
Haha, I’ve seen a Daddy Long Legs , “ Spin Up a Huntsman “ in its web . In the corner wall . granted it was a Smallish huntsman , but still 😮😮
That's why I love huntsmen spiders.
In the past, Postman rode bicycles.
People are so quick to poisin everything. That's why the world is in the dire state it is.
I coached my eldest son's Under 15 Rugby team, I told all of the 40+ boys to call me John at training, but they all realised that liberty was at football training or games , as they became young men I had to say it was ok to call me John after they left school.
Great vid, will watch more of both Ur channels, anyway I am definitely bias (born n bred in Australia n never visited either USA or Britain) but it seems n sounds like Australia is just better than both hehe ❤️🇭🇲✌️
Ref. Doctors, I had major back surgery in 2014. 6 hours. After recovery and on the mend, I was checked out by the surgeon. When I called him "Doctor", he said, I'ts Rob, and I'll look after you for life. You've been through enough. (42 pieces of metal in my back!)
great vid between you both you and your families make us what we are good on you
Australian kids have their school holidays for approx 6 weeks, from a week before Christmas until late January.
Yes we have Christmas LUNCH instead of dinner which is when family & friends come to lunch & give gifts. Boxing Day is always looked forward to as the day of exhaustion after Christmas Day. That's when we go to visit friends or have them visit us & to chill out with a bbq watching the cricket or go to beach or swim in a pool or get gear packed for a holiday (vacation) away.
It's also when people flock to the shops to exchange unwanted or wrong sized gifts.
Between Christmas & New Year is the week when most people have time off work & the shops are quiet & casual. It is the hottest time of the year so taking it easy comes naturally.
It's a week or or so of gasbagging* with friends. To gasbag is to have a long winded casual happy chat with friends while lolling about the pool.
Noice.
I love Xmas in July, I've got three coming up. 😊
So when are you and mark going to go up and visit ben and maz?
I watched a Influencer video where they watched a song from Australian Band Divinyls " I touch myself " . They went all embarrassed and lost for words at the lyrics about her singing about masturbating. Amongst my friends we crack rude jokes at each other about sex in all matter of derogatory ways but its water off a ducks back . Let alone it used to be on daytime radio playing as normal or might end up on the Wedding playlist perhaps
Reminds me of fighting the red backs to get the post from the mailbox. I also found a beehive in the mailbox once too, poor blighters got a dose of bug spray, I would not kill bees now that I know better.
As an Australian I wouldn't expect to get such an unprofessional email or letter from a real estate agent. I wouldn't use them. In the 50's and 60's we did say Mr and Mrs and never called medical professionals by their first name. It felt weird in 1970 when my boss asked me to call him by his first name. It's been years since I've been called Mrs Fruin.😊
As someone living in Australia for 17 years I noticed any immigrants tend to generalise their experiences to everyone. Say for example you meet an odd person, especially if you've been here for a fairly short period of time (under 9 years let's say), you tend to apply those interactions to the community as a whole.
When you were in your home country you tend to not do that, because you don't think of that person as "an Englishman" or whatever country you come from. you just think of that person as an odd person. But once you are in another country you can easily apply a label to them
Thank you for sharing this video 👍👍🙏
I like your attitude toward huntsman spiders. I'm the same, leave them be. However, when you've had one wandering up high on your wall for a few weeks, cool. When they are on the back of the toilet door when you close it. They get relocated. That happened 2 days ago. :)
Oh no! Luckily I've only seen them on our hallway walls or ourdoors
@@KindaAustralian when they walk across the windscreen of your car (on the inside!) while you are driving that you truly have a heart attack !
@@PeteV.53 I totalled a car when that happened!
This was fun,please do another video with the bam family ( like maybe twice a year)
You are right about Christmas, check the kids confusion singing Jingle Bells and White Christmas when you are preparing Chilled seafood for Christmas Dinner😂
Person, Place and Circumstance. These are priorities when considering who you are going to discuss things with. Things such as politics, religion or personal circumstances. You really should consider these aspects regardless of whether you know the other person or not. Especially when it comes to a more formal setting. That is not only common decency but has a great amount of common sense to it. If you don't, then you are crass and deserve all you get!
I would like to bet you don’t miss having to clear snow from the front and back of your house in the winter time.
i always thought the brits were more social than aussies . their pubs are like family loungerooms and very convivial. we dont have the same thing
here we are a bit more socially disconnected . i guess it explains how difficult it is to make friends. people will always help but being friends is a longer process.
I have a few pre Xmas lunches with the various groups I belong to.😊😊
Boxing Day in Australia for us is having family and friends over to eat leftovers or shopping if u have any money left 🤣
I was brought up like you Maz. Calling my parents friends as Mrs and Mr or if very close Aunty or uncle. It’s become more informal.
Lol my mother’s Indian (from Fiji) dad’s an Australian. So growing up I had to constantly go back and forth between Aunty and Uncle for all my elders and the laid back approach of us Aussies have when speaking.
The formality thing is funny. I've had a career change at 54 and my manager is 31. It would be so weird if she called me Ms or anything other than my first name. I call everyone no matter who they are by their first name.
Yea it’s so good living in Australia and I live in Bankstown
I just love the laid back down to earth character……been here for 42 years now…it was a culture shock going back to England…the snobbery was terrible…here you like people or you don’t…does not matter how they speak or what school they went to…England was so crowded and dirty…very glad we came here…the fear of all creepy crawlies made laugh….
Huntsman spiders are venomous and will bite. But if you don't piss them off you are pretty OK. If one jumps on you DO NOT swat it; that will piss it off and you won't like what it does.
We dont have many spiders but there are a few redbacks in the shed. The spiders I hate are white tail spiders. They like the damp and occasionally I find one in the bathroom. Get rid of them pretty quickly though ☹
House spraying isn't to stop bugs, it's to stop termites.
This is so true
"a little too open" I hear that!
I don’t have a letter box because oz post doesn’t deliver to my street.
Have a P.O. Box at local lpo
It’s a privately owned street but is a public thoroughfare.