10 Things Australians Do Better Than Americans  - Page 1
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author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 10, 2014, 05:07:07 pm
content: What do you think Australians do best?

author: German_EE
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 10, 2014, 09:27:17 pm
content: Chocolate. American chocolate is horrible but Australians have the Tim Tam which is enough for me to consider moving there.

author: Dave
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 10, 2014, 09:33:30 pm
content: I did find it rather surprising that Aussies outlive Americans, considering that just about every single animal species down there can kill you.

author: G0HZU
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 10, 2014, 10:31:54 pm
content: Australians are better at cricket and rugby.However, both are terrible at making a decent beer

author: skipjackrc4
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 10, 2014, 10:53:08 pm
content: Quote from: G0HZU on September 10, 2014, 10:31:54 pmNot at all true. It's just the large national brewers that can't brew a decent beer.

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 10, 2014, 11:18:50 pm
content: Possibly geography.

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 02:10:46 am
content: Quote from: G0HZU on September 10, 2014, 10:31:54 pmI have a dissenting view,having tried English beer.Honourable mention though,for Newcastle Brown.Of course,my experience was back in the days of "Watney's Red" & "Tankard"---well before the rise of the "Real Ale" movement.At least major breweries in Australia,the USA,& Canada make drinkable beer!

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 02:15:44 am
content: We're worlds best at Aussie Rules Football too.If only someone else would play with us.

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 04:11:54 am
content: Quote from: German_EE on September 10, 2014, 09:27:17 pmWe very much so have Tim Tams!!! Peperidge Farms distributes them October, through March, and year round the farther north you go. Also Cost Plus World mart carries them..Living in economically depressed central California makes Australia look awesome! Here its nothing but unemployment, homeless, and the government trying to either tax you more, or have the police ticket you for anything they can. Also bureaucracy, lethargy, and ignorance of the public is so apparent that we really are not a functional society. We are just kinda stumbling along with no real plan.

author: miguelvp
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 04:20:05 am
content: We sent our daughter around the world for a gap year to experience what is like in other countries, I guess we are not your average MuricansBut the surprising thing was that she told us that she met a lot of US youth backpacking around the world just like her.

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 05:03:55 am
content: Quote from: miguelvp on September 11, 2014, 04:20:05 amWhen i asked if I could travel around a bit after highschool he pointed at my bench and said I will let you know when its time to go to a trade show, otherwise get back to work! Family electronics business.. Doing assembly work since i was about 7. We were still electromechanical back then!

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 06:50:19 am
content: You also got a lot in common, same country of origin although the prisoners went to the east, the explorers/concurrers to the west.Both love guns and you both have wild fires almost burning your cities down, a party is ok but dangerous fires....But then us has Mr T, aussie has Leo Wanker.

author: Melt-O-Tronic
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 07:09:04 am
content: I would looooooove to spend a year and a half in Australia! This Texan has very high respect for the nation of Australia.Then it's off to New Zealand for a visit . . .

author: P90
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 08:24:06 am
content: BBQ !!!

author: HackedFridgeMagnet
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 09:03:17 am
content: Looks like Leo Wanker has been outwanked. I can imagine what the old Hoges would've thought of him.http://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/sydney-man-called-australias-biggest-wanker-by-reddit-20140911-10fmfp.html

author: Yago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 09:22:17 am
content: Quote from: HackedFridgeMagnet on September 11, 2014, 09:03:17 amJeez, doesn't the guy even see the beard in the mirror (not daring to approach the "between his legs") ?!

author: dannyf
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 11:06:28 am
content: QuoteThey are much better at surviving the wild.

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 03:22:24 pm
content: Quote from: HackedFridgeMagnet on September 11, 2014, 09:03:17 amCanada's semi resident wanker (he mostly wanks in the US now)there's no accounting for tasteand nobody outwanks the Wankers in Chief: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbomination and US President Barack Obamination.

author: free_electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 03:35:30 pm
content: other things the ozzies have- the most poisonous critters in the world. it's full of stuff that will bite you, sting youe, pinch yuo or otherwise give you the heebeejeebees- barbies ( as in barbeques ) sunsets and beer.ozzie panic levels :-No worries”-She’ll be alright, Mate.-Crikey!-I think we’ll need to cancel the Barbie this weekend.-The Barbie is cancelled.in all of recorded history, “The Barbie is canceled” has never been reached.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 05:58:25 pm
content: All we have is the big 5 and the most dangerous animal in the world, the Mozzie.Though Chevrolet no longer exists here in a recognisable form any more, now GM.

author: Alexei.Polkhanov
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 06:16:58 pm
content: Quote from: German_EE on September 10, 2014, 09:27:17 pmSays man who live next to Switzeland

author: Yago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 06:30:31 pm
content: Quote from: staxquad on September 11, 2014, 03:22:24 pmNot quite so fast there!!!!

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 08:19:24 pm
content: Quote from: Yago on September 11, 2014, 06:30:31 pmHarper is twice the wanker Cameron is.

author: JoeN
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 11, 2014, 09:29:08 pm
content: Quote from: staxquad on September 10, 2014, 05:07:07 pmI wouldn't brag about this. In the USA we solve this problem by not having the problem in the first place (generally).

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 02:54:08 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on September 11, 2014, 05:58:25 pm"Badge engineered" Holden Premier!GMH in Oz actually had a reasonably good export business going for a few years.The big Holdens were popular in the Middle East,too!

author: calexanian
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 03:01:00 am
content: Quote from: vk6zgo on September 12, 2014, 02:54:08 amall of the popular chevys in the us are designed by holden for the most part.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 03:58:20 am
content: Quote from: free_electron on September 11, 2014, 03:35:30 pmDon't forget our fire danger levels whichstartat Low To Moderate and go all the way toCatastrophic!Yes, no joke, that seriously our official bush fire danger signs you get to the entry to national parks etc.

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 04:27:45 am
content: Aussies:Chevy Camarohttp://www.goauto.com.au/mellor/mellor.nsf/story2/D5E9ADA1D40D42DDCA257C1C00082F26USAYachting

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 04:53:13 am
content: Quote from: tautech on September 12, 2014, 04:27:45 amUmm, you forgot this:

author: Stonent
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 06:35:43 am
content: I hear the Mexican food is better in the US, but only having had it in the US and Mexico, I have no personal experience with that.

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 07:02:45 am
content: Oh, and speaking of Hawkey in the previous video, we had a Prime Minister who held the world yard glass beer sculling record:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hawke

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 07:07:31 am
content: Oh, and we had a Prime Minister simply vanish in the surf, never found, and, well, we didn't really give a toss, and no official federal government inquiry was conducted, we just elected another one...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt

author: JoeN
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 07:50:03 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on September 12, 2014, 07:07:31 amIf that happened to the President, the Secret Service would drain the entire sea to find him. Just sayin'...

author: GeoffS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 08:31:56 am
content: We never found the missing prime minister but we did name a swim centre in his honour.More respect than we show most of our politicianshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Holt_Memorial_Swimming_Centre.

author: SL4P
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 11:20:45 am
content: Quote from: HackedFridgeMagnet on September 11, 2014, 02:15:44 amTrue that, we're very good at playing with ourselves.

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 11:36:48 am
content: Quote from: GeoffS on September 12, 2014, 08:31:56 amBetter than that - we named an underwater communications station after him too.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Harold_E._Holt

author: staxquad
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 01:18:45 pm
content: road trainsboomerang and spear throwing

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 01:29:38 pm
content: Quote from: JoeN on September 12, 2014, 07:50:03 amAlthough it did take the US government 441 days to launch an investigation into 9/11, but I suspect that's not because they didn't care

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 01:32:35 pm
content: Quote from: GeoffS on September 12, 2014, 08:31:56 amHolt didn't get many compared to some:http://john.curtin.edu.au/resources/memory.html

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 12, 2014, 09:06:21 pm
content: My second favorite Australian is called Gary and he has a popular blog on youtube where he documents his life. Here is an episode where he visits a local pub

author: vk6zgo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 13, 2014, 02:39:29 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on September 12, 2014, 01:32:35 pmHoltie was a nice bloke,but John Curtin was a Great Man!He was arguably the best Prime Minister of his,or any other era,on a level as a Statesman with Winston Churchill & Franklin D Roosevelt.

author: Corporate666
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 01:17:36 am
content: Isn't there some kind of highly poisonous snake or spider that pretty much only lives in the Sydney and surrounding area?I seem to recall that.Always seemed so bizarre that a highly venemous creature essentially lived just in the Sydney area.Dave, how do venemous bugs affect your daily life, or do they? I used to date a girl in Arizona and they would have to shake their boots out each morning (after leaving them on the deck outside) in case scorpions got inside. Also knew a few people who lost a dog or cat to a rattlesnake. Just not stuff we deal with in the North East.

author: lowimpedance
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 01:30:52 am
content: Quote from: Corporate666 on September 15, 2014, 01:17:36 amThat would be the Funnel web spider, a nasty little bugger when pissed off but nothing a shoe cannot handle.Snakes, we do get red belly blacks around work, (Around the Northern suburbs of Sydney), which are venomous but not as grumpy as browns and the odd tiger which can be rather aggressive.And of course they are all given a wide birth when encountered.Edit: When growing up the funnel web was very common around my suburb (Lane Cove), but curiously though I have not seen any in recent years!. Plenty of other types which are no problem.

author: Uup
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 02:49:41 am
content: Quote from: Corporate666 on September 15, 2014, 01:17:36 amI live minutes away from Dave and my experience is that I don't even give it a second thought. I never worry about any snakes or poisonous bugs. Never check inside my shoes if they were left outside over night either. Not because I am crazy or stupid, because I rarely encounter any dangerous critters. Yes, see plenty of spiders but they're not usually nasty ones, and the nasty ones are usually not a problem unless you provoke them.However, if you go bush then that's a different situation but still nothing to really be afraid of, so long as you have common sense and don't panic. I regularly go bush walking/exploring to West Head (Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park), to the Blue Mountains and down south to the Royal National Park (less frequently). Rarely see anything really dangerous. More likely to see a wallabie or a kangaroo than have to fend off an attacking snake or spider. Although, there are a lot of goannas (lizards) at West Head. I often have to fend off several 1 to 2 meter long goannas when we stop for lunch. A couple of weeks ago, we were having lunch and my wife started screaming. I ran over to find a goanna head deep in our lunch. Had to pull it away by its tail. It wasn't long before there were 5 of them and a turkey came to join them as well! But it was fun and we never felt like we were in danger.The last time we went to the Blue Mountains (Bridal Veil Falls) and went down the Jungle track, we encountered a couple of large snakes coiled around two bushes (keeping themselves warm in the sunlight), which were in our path. After not being able to see where their heads were, we quietly and quickly shuffled past them. I haven't been bitten by a snake yet but have by a spider. The spider died.

author: Kjelt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 08:19:48 am
content: Quote from: lowimpedance on September 15, 2014, 01:30:52 amWould you not move somewhere else if you see people die around you every day squished by some giants shoe?

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 03:50:22 pm
content: Is it true that Australians set their bike brakes opposite than Americans? Here it is left = front.

author: Fred27
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 03:57:12 pm
content: In the UK it's right = front. Motorcycles too worldwide, with right foot = rear.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 04:03:46 pm
content: Quote from: Fred27 on September 15, 2014, 03:57:12 pmWe have British bikes that we purchased in the US (Brompton and Moulton) and they arrived adapted to the US convention.

author: Corporate666
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 07:51:59 pm
content: Quote from: zapta on September 15, 2014, 03:50:22 pmReally?I've been mountain biking for years and I've always had the front brake on the right. Then again, I've been riding motorcycles for years too, so front being on the right seems natural. Is it really on the left usually?

author: Unknown
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 08:12:33 pm
content: COFFEE!

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 08:19:45 pm
content: Quote from: Corporate666 on September 15, 2014, 07:51:59 pmYes, it is . Just found this explanationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_signals#Conflict_with_brake_operationAnd from Sheldon himself (the Knuth of bicycling):"There are also observable national trends:In countries where vehicles drive on the right, it is common to set the brakes up so that the front brake is operated by the left lever.In countries where vehicles drive on the left, it is common to set the brakes up so that the front brake is operated by the right lever. The European Union has adopted this as a standard, even though only the United Kingdom and Ireland are left-side driving countries. The standard is not universally observed; a reader has written in to say that the left lever usually controls the front brake in Denmark."http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html#whichside

author: tautech
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 09:03:51 pm
content: Quote from: zapta on September 15, 2014, 03:50:22 pmThat's a bit dumb.....especially for a young person migrating to a motorbike where worldwide the clutch lever is LH side.

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 10:12:59 pm
content: The aussies in this thread have to watch this channels videos, my god they're funny!https://www.youtube.com/user/HowToTalkAustralians

author: David_AVD
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 15, 2014, 10:31:02 pm
content: Classic!

author: Circlotron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2014, 01:26:29 am
content: Burnouts.https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=australian+vs+american+burnout

author: Circlotron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2014, 01:31:22 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on September 11, 2014, 05:58:25 pmAs was already mentioned, they came from us in Aus ->https://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1440&bih=810&q=hq+premier&oq=HQ+prem&gs_l=img.3.0.0l8j0i5l2.3699.6084.0.8051.7.7.0.0.0.0.321.1138.2-3j1.4.0....0...1ac.1.53.img..3.4.1133.cSqRw7nMi04

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2014, 05:28:29 am
content: Quote from: peter.mitchell on September 15, 2014, 10:12:59 pmIt's hilarious. What is it? Who made it?

author: atunguyd
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2014, 12:18:47 pm
content: Quote from: Corporate666 on September 15, 2014, 01:17:36 amYes that would be the Sydney Funnelweb spider - it is a little known fact that the entire species are elitists and only stay in Sydney due to the overvalued home prices there.It is even rumored that there is a arachnid movement that is pushing for the funnelweb to leave the western and southern suburbs completely and move into the eastern suburbs and lower north shore with the less fortunate occupying the upper north shore. Of course even if they do this they will still exclude St Ives as being associated with the South Africans is something even the Funnelweb would prefer to avoid.

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 16, 2014, 06:44:23 pm
content: Quote from: Circlotron on September 16, 2014, 01:31:22 amNot any more......... At least from next year, they all will be made in PE, South Africa or in Korea. Might even be some that are made in the USA ( Mexico) as well.Now, if you buy a Toyota pick up it will be assembled here in Durban South Africa, and driven onto a car carrier ship to go to Australia. That is one big parking lot for the factory output, Toyota took over a massive mall and turned it into the parking lot for around 5k vehicles.