Things Australians Find Totally Normal But Others Find Bizarre

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As an Australian, no everything is not literally trying to kill you. It can kill you, but it isn't trying.

Australian here. Can confirm “f—king Telstra!” is the third most commonly used phrase in the country, after ‘Yeah nah’ and ‘Nah yeah.’

Okay I should perhaps clarify - dropbears are a half-joke. You see male koalas in mating season go really feral and can absolutely wreck your weekend. Having one leap on you from the trees or chase you is definitely going to make your day the worst. That's where the joke of mythical "dropbears" came from; as always a grain of truth which is perhaps scarier than the joke.

Fosters: Australian for beer. Beer: Australian for piss. Piss: Better than Fosters.

People who think we’re a weird version of the US rather than the UK don’t realise we are literally Monty Python Land. Nothing again Texans or the US South, but we’re not them. We are the feral children of British sarcasm.

Aussie here. I really do need to point out that getting harmed by our wildlife is shockingly rare and it’s frustrating how much people’s exaggerations are presented as fact. I’ve gone on many a bushwalk, been to the beach a ton, etc and I’ve never been harmed by anything more than a mosquito or leech. - The only snake I saw when I lived quite literally across the road from dense bushland (I lived there for about 12 years) was a non-venomous one. - Wearing enclosed shoes and not hugging a paper bark tree is a surefire way to not get bitten by a spider - stonefish aren’t found everywhere in australia, box jellies arent around at all times of the year or in all locations and there are less shark attacks here than in America (also sharks aren’t the crazy killing machines the media paints them ass) - ive never even seen a wild bluering octopus - crocodiles are mainly a northern thing - gympie-gympie is found only in northern NSW and southern Queensland, so just dont go bushwalking there - ive been in the presence of wild kangaroos before and they are more likely to run away than attack - our hospitals are stocked with every type of antivenom you could possibly need, unlike places like america, which means you are far less likely to die from a venomous animal here anyway I could go on and on. It is insane to me that people call australia dangerous. America is far scarier, with moose, bison, bears, mountain lions, wolves, etc as well as snakes and spiders. And overseas animals can have rabies, so a tiny little bat with a bite you can’t even feel could straight up kill anyone in America. Rabies isn’t a thing in Australia, meanwhile.

Tricking a pom with the dropbear thing is a rite of passage. We learn it in primary school.

I'm from Melbourne, Australia and work in telecommunications. In 2010 the government started to roll out their plan to give everyone (except extremely rural places) FTTP, they called it NBN. The next government cancelled that plan and replaced with a very out dated technology of FTTN. After a few years they changed it again to FTTC. Now they're changing as many FTTN to FTTP as feasibly possible, they send people out to survey the areas to see if it is feasible or not beforehand. My house has FTTP and I bought in this area because I knew it had it because I helped install it :)

Lorelei is literally the funniest editor on this channel. She deserves a raise.

As an Australian viewer, I want to give a huge shout out to Lorelai for throwing in lots of little things just for us. I don't think many internationals will fully get the Sammy J clip or just how annoying dealing with Telstra really can be, but ... IYKYK

Come to Australia in our winter. The snakes and spiders are dormant, the bushfire risk is negligible, and you'll love it here. Also, even when the wildlife are active, they actually don't want to mess with you. They'd much rather leave you alone so long as you leave them alone. The climate and the trees are much more likely to kill you than the fauna.

So I’m an American who lived in Australia for 4 years and did my master’s degree there studying wildlife, including venomous organisms. Australia does have a wealth of venomous organisms, though whether it has more than its neighbours in SE Asia is arguable, and the reason for its fame for it over those countries may simply come down to English language publicity and greater numbers of scientific publications. The other main contributing factor is that as an island, Australia’s wildlife had relatively fewer common ancestors than many other places, and many of those ancestors were venomous. So when those organisms diversified and speculated, many of their descendants retained venom. As an example, the overwhelming majority of Australian snake species are Elapids (same family as cobras and coral snakes). Since the ancestral line was venomous, when the snakes diversified over time to fill different niches, most of them retained venom. The US on the other hand has only three Elapid species, a few dozen venomous Vipers, and the rest are nearly all nonvenomous or very mildly venomous Colubrids. If you want to know more about it, read up on Wallace’s Line. It’s a really interesting topic in evolutionary biology. Also also, microdosing Vegemite is the way to go, and gympie-gympie is a nightmare.

As an Australian, Vegemite fking rocks. Vegemite and cheese sandwiches, Vegemite on toast, Vegemite just licked off a knife. Cant go wrong

Australian here - What in the heck is a disposable BBQ?! You have a BBQ and you throw it away...? What?! I can't compute this. How does that work? What is it made out of? Is it metal? Huh? That sounds so wasteful! Most people in Australia do like Vegemite. I don't, but I am always teased as being un-Australian. It's very salty. Not to my tastes, but everyone else in my household loves it. As for the warm beer - NO! We make fun of people from England for having warm beer as they allegedly drink it at room temperature, which to us, means warm. We have ours ice-cold. Literally! Many of our beer taps have ice-build up on the outside of them. And no, Fosters is awful. No one drinks that here. We tried to fix the internet but rolling out the NBN (National Broadband Network), where fibre to the house was going to be rolled out everywhere, but there was a change of government early in this process and they decided to integrate this with the existing 50-60 year old copper network, which is badly degraded. The rural and remote areas are EXTREMELY badly affected by the internet and there are places that simply do not have access to the internet at all, not via mobile signals, not by NBN or wi-fi, not satellite, not at all. This issue taps into a lot of socioeconomic, sociopolitical and even racial issues in Australia, so it's a much bigger problem than buffering on video speeds, for example. It means children in far-remote communities are not able to access the same levels of education as suburban children, medical information is delayed or very hard to get, communication is extremely strained, ability to access services is very difficult. To compound this issue, it is often Indigenous communities that are the most adversely affected by this, due to the high populations of Indigenous peoples in remote and far-remote communities. This is a big problem.

I was an American, living in Poland. We had a friend visit from Australia. She brought Vegemite for us to try. She showed us the proper method, a thin, barely perceptible amount on the toast. I decided it wasn't enough, and layered it on, more like peanut butter or jelly, and it was much better. I guess I like Vegemite.

The drop bear joke is actually us describing how insanely deadly it is and then tell you it is a joke after having terrified you. They exist and the joke is terrifying you and then making you think they aren’t actually real

Lorelei is hilarious and awesome! 😂😂😂

Watching the editor vs writer battle going on over Simon is absolutely my favorite new thing about this channel.

Hello! Rural Aussie boy here. For the internet part- it is hell. I lived about an hour away from the nearest large-ish city. NBN was started in the early 2000’s I belive? And the area I lived didn’t even have the nbn till 2023. By which point, I had mastered the arts of low frame rate for my games- and thankfully the nbn sucks anyway so nothing changes!