 G'day mate 40 here So I'm back in Sydney, and it feels great back in the big smoke and One of the great things about Being in Australia is that it's perfectly acceptable for a 55 year old man to walk around without his shirt on Perfectly socially acceptable, so I just down at the beach just went to clavelli went to see bluey You know who bluey is bluey's the groper, so I was down there at clavelli saw bluey As I was coming out of the water this this bloke said to me. Oh, you seem bluey and that oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he's out there got to see bluey and And Just walked walked to the beach just totally topless and it's socially acceptable 55 year old boats It's it's a okay. You don't walk to the beach You know walk around town totally topless Okay, so I saw two Aussies almost collide into each other And I think this is this now shows the difference between a high trust society and a low trust society So these two Aussies almost collided with each other You know one was walking this way the other was turning around the corner So the first Aussie said oh whoops, sorry about that and the second Aussie said That's all right And that's how those sort of interactions go in Australia by and large So I've been in Australia for seven weeks now. I haven't heard an angry word. I haven't seen it like a nasty confrontation I Mean Aussies love their punch up so you go to the right pub, you know you can get into a punch up But by and large like The the leading Aussie sayings they kind of reflect Aussie character. So that's all right I've heard that saying over and over and over again because I've been rocking up to homes over the past seven weeks And like staying there overnight and it's like oh, you know, sorry to be an inconvenience and to be a botherer And the typical Aussie response you get is that's all right That's a really common Aussie response like someone gets inconvenience. You do something wrong You you step on someone's toes. You forget something like that's all right Really common Aussie response then another common Aussie response that she'll be right mate. No worries mate fair dinkum Radio radio. That means right got it. Right. It's all about homeostasis right Australia is a great place for homeostasis because everything is like kind of restoring you to homeostasis now what homeostasis means a solid State, right? It's homeostasis is a self-regulating process by which biological systems maintain stability while adjusting to changing external conditions Right. It's a central organizing tenet of physiology So homeostasis like that's where we want to be We don't want to be depending upon like having sex with our spouse to you know, even us out We don't want to depend upon our spouse to you know Buck us up with lots of praise and affirmation. We don't want to have to you know, depend upon our big sister You know for common sense and how to navigate reality. All right, you don't want to You know, depend upon your boss's praise so that you feel a okay All right, we don't want to be unnecessarily dependent upon others There's like a proper level of dependence, but we don't want to be we don't want to be knocked off our equilibrium And it just seems like Aussie life is all about restoring homeostasis. She'll be right mate. No worries, mate. No worries, mate right Rightio. All right, fair dinkum. So I was just been watching this Australian TV series called The Tourist. It's about some Aussie. No about some Irishman who gets into a car crash in Alback, Australia and Suffers complete amnesia just completely forgets who he is he forgets his his name just forgets everything fair dinkum and and part of the plot there are these two Italian mafia guys that come to wipe him out and they get picked up by an Aussie tax taxi rider Taxi driver and the taxi driver is like fair dinkum Aussie like oh, she'll be right mate. No worries, mate Rightio, and these uptight tense, you know Italian hip man They don't they don't really cotton well to this Aussie attitude. It should be right mate. No worries, mate fair dinkum Rightio, that's all right So it's kind of fun to watch this Aussie TV show and then see these you know caricatures of other nations Coming coming to Australia to carry out this hit. Oh So Just came from about three and a half weeks in Tannum Sands And I got my first check from the Tannum Garden Center for my hard work Which I put here on YouTube so you could you could see how hard I was working like some days I'd be shifting like three tons of cement All right, so I got my first check like money in the bank I've got my Australian Medicare card so I can go out there get all the health care I want basically for free and go out and get hundreds of dollars worth of blood tests All right, no cost to me. I got my Australian tax ID number So I'm working here legally. All right. Totally on the books legal. All right, fair dinkum I got my Australian passport. All right. I'm all ready to rock it as an Aussie. So I got so Tannum Sands Had basically no recorded COVID case cases as far as I'm aware until like this week now They're like dozens of cases in in Tannum Sands. So Queensland had locked off the border. So states led the responses to COVID in Australia So the state of Queensland basically blocked off the border basically made it virtually impossible to travel into Queensland And so as a result when I got here, they'd be like five cases new cases of COVID a day in Queensland Well today, there's something like 11 12,000 new cases of COVID overwhelming Lee Omacron in Queensland So you can see why Why At various states would would you know lock everyone out? So West Australia still got everyone locked out until February and so they're only reporting like two three four five new cases a day But South Australia is reporting about 5,000 new cases a day Victoria about 15,000 New South Wales close to 40,000 new cases of Omacron COVID day not that many hospitalizations not that many people dying, but But Tannum Sands man went from basically zero cases of COVID to this week dozens of cases Like people lining up at the doctor's office to get their booster shots. So the time Takes till you're recommended to get your booster shot has dropped from like six to five to I think it's about four months now So what are some of the other top Australian sayings wrap your laughing gear around that? dogs breakfast Tell him he's dreaming So in America when you go see someone you call first But in Australia if it's a mate you just show up and you may will greet grant you You know greet you with a stubby right a beer forex or a Fosters lager or Depending on the time of the day or the season like a hot copper of tea or coffee. Maybe some bickies All right, you just rock up to your mate's house. All right Australian slang 33 phrases to help you talk like an Aussie fair go mate fair suck of the sauce bottle fair cracker the whip Okay, this was made famous by the ill-fated former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. He speaks Chinese really smart guy That's a great politician. He enjoyed using Australian slang to speak to the electorate and pleaded for a fair suck So do you do you feel like you need a fair suck? That means you want to be treated Fairly so fair suck was coined by struggling Aussie families who shared droppings of tomato sauce to flavor their meat Such was the hard life that all they wanted was an equitable suck in the fields. They needed a fair crack of the whip Fair go mate. Right. No worries mate. She'll be right Right, this reflects a national stoicism that everything will turn out fine in the end So that being the case there's no reason to worry about anything have a captain cock That means to have a look it's a brief inspection So I was at various places in on the eastern seaboard of Australia where Captain Cook was back in 1770 when he was like one of the first Europeans to to navigate Australia and to name places in Australia so Captain Cook was the first Brit to map eastern Australia Captain James Cook. He skip at the HMB Endeavour and after landing at Botany Bay. He sailed on past Sydney Harbour. He had a Captain Cook a look and he liked it Okay, what's the John Dory? So John Dory is a fish found in the Sydney Harbour. It's great grilled with lemon and pepper also rhymes with story So when people want to know what's going on they're requesting the goss the gossip they ask what what a John Dory? What the John Dory is? Okay 29 a few stubby short of a six pack a few sandwiches short of a picnic All right, so a six pack in American terms means anyone with fit abdomens, but it used to be You know an Australian speak six pack means beers. So someone's a bit slow You know someone's feeling under the weather All right, they're feeling a few stubby short of a six pack. They're not the full quid, all right For those that don't speak about money or alcohol. They'll say a few sandwiches short of a picnic Tell him is dreaming. So this is given airtime in the movie the castle That's when you advise someone involved in business transaction to tell their counterpart that he's dreaming You're suggesting the other side's not offering a fair deal dogs breakfast, right? It's messy doesn't refer to food It is often used by parents to refer to their kids chaotic lives No water just shambles no thought just a bit of everything just a dog's breakfast Wrap your laughing gear around that Okay, well some suggest you can laugh on the inside your main laughing gear is your mouth So when you wrap your laughing gear around it that means you're eating it Rip snorter. I had someone playing a good game of sport having a blinder All right, that's something that's exceptionally good. So a rip snorter or a bonza or a butte. So I've been having a butte time in Aussie 24 better than a ham sandwich better than a kick up the backside That's something that is better than nothing even if you're paid peanuts All right, it's better than a kick up the backside. You'd prefer a fair whack But things are better than a ham sandwich Buckley's chance. So William Buckley was Australia's very own Robinson Crusoe He's a man who escaped a convict ship during the first attempt to settle Melbourne in 1803 three decades later Colonials returned to find a tattooed two meter tall long bearded man with half Aboriginal children who spoke tribal tongue Picked up English within days. So they soon realized it was Buckley He was given a pardon and he was used as a peacemaker between whites and black So in in LA if you accidentally bump into the wrong type of person like they they're looking to start a fight Right. They're like perpetually aggrieved groups in America. Just you know always looking for violence to start a fight Confrontation like always, you know looking to read every interaction in the worst possible light So we have a little bit of black lives matter here, but it's about I know it's about 5% as strong as the movement is in America There's a you know a little bit of concern about the popo the police here, but overall it's very very weak Now I haven't seen any black lives matter anti-police agitation Like in Australia you can walk on a people's property and they don't shoot you Like if you're thirsty, you can walk on a someone's property and like open up the hose and have a drink That's perfectly acceptable. Like we would just transgress over people's property all the time when I was growing up It's it's not a big deal Okay, so Buckley advocated cooperation with the Aboriginals But after the 1840s decade of slaughtering Aboriginals Right, it was said that he had a buckly's chance of making peace a buckly's chance means very little chance So he spent the last part of his life as a Paul loaner in Tasmania There was a lobby to give him a government pension, but once again he had buckly's chance All right means no chance at all pull the wool over your eyes Right, this drives from the bush Right the history of earning a buck around woolsheds meant people had to give an honest day's work All right, Australians had to be genuine with each other so they could all get their fair share of the spuds meaning potatoes So someone's being a little sheepy dishonest or spinning a yarn. They're trying to pull the wool over your eyes All right dogs eye Okay, so what really goes on inside the Aussie staple a meat pie is a beef is a kangaroo The important thing is that it rhymes so when you're having a pie, it's looking back at you in a keen eye kind of way It's a dog's eye Could that really be the running meat feeling? The dog's eye that's when the meat pie is looking back at you Bastards all right. That's anyone who doesn't play fair. So remember break a morant when he was getting shot By that English firing squad he famously shouted his last words shoot straight you bastards So during the infamous 1932-33 body line cricket series the English captain Douglas Jardine So body line meant they pitched the the cricket ball to hit people He walked into the Australian dressing room to complain about being called a bastard an Australian cricketer Supposedly asked in which one of you bastards called this bastard a bastard so Basta is not necessarily a negative term in Australia. Everyone's a bastard Toads, banana benders, cockies, sand gropers, crow eaters All right, these are favorite Aussie ways to disparage those who live elsewhere So tropical Queensland has many more bananas and cane toads than people so they're branded banana benders or cane toads Queenslanders get their own back. They call Sydney site as cockroaches in honor of the omnipresent nuclear immune pest found around Sydney South Australians Eat crow so Western Australia's spend their lives groping sand so they're sand gropers And the South South Australians crow eaters Ocker or Yabo, that's the loudmouth. There's a larrican, you know Shane Warren All right, there's a new documentary is gonna be on Amazon Prime about the great Australian spin bowl or Shane Warren The greatest spin bowler of all time All right, he's a larrican. He's a Yabo someone who likes the sound of his own voice bit of a troublemaker So a Yabo typically has a deep Australian twang to his accent in which case he's also got he's got an ochre Ochre is a deep Australian accent. Put a sock in it means to shut up throw a shrimp on the barbie Okay, it's a way of inviting someone to your house for lunch Where you throw a shrimp or a sausage on the barbie do the Harry So Harry Holt was the Prime Minister of Australia who disappeared off Victoria's coast in 1967 He went for a swim and he was never found again So he did the bolt from responsibilities of prime ministership. So some say he was abducted by UFOs or by a Chinese submarine Most likely he was caught in deadly currents. He was washed out to see his body was never found So anyone doing a disappearing act say they're doing a Harold Holt So when you have to mosey on or get the hell out of here, you do the bolt Okay, the Harold Holt or simply you do the Harry Six of one half a dozen of the other it's not quite you're damned if you do damned if you don't It's not quite caught between the devil and the deep blue sea It's when it's 50 50 odds that whatever decision you make likely will not affect the outcome of the situation Not pissing on someone when they're on fire I think Americans know what that means means you don't care about somebody Crikey or blimey or euphemisms to communicate amazement or surprise Oi for drongoes and gullars so chanted three times after Aussie Aussie Aussie. Oi. Oi. Oi. That's our national cry No more use it's mouth when you disagree with what someone is doing or to convey annoyance or to get someone's attention Such as when someone's being a drongo or a gala All right, someone who has rocks in their heads. Oi. Oi. Oi. That means you don't like what someone's doing. Oi. Oi. Oi blokes and Sheela's All right, so when Julia Gillard was voted in as the country's first female prime minister It didn't take long for Australia to start calling this prime minister's partner the first bloke. All right. Sheela's a women Bushman's handkerchief that means using your hands to delicately delicately drain the snot from your nose All right, that's a bushman's handkerchief On your bike tell your story walking When you don't want to have anything to do with someone you're telling to get on your bike All right, which suggests that he leaves It's kind of the opposite of hold your horses Which requests someone to stay or begs their patience or similar to keep your pants on or don't get your knickers in or not When you tell someone to get on your bike You're telling them to tell their story when they're walking away from you lobster pineapple grey nurse Australians don't bother with lobsters and pineapples, but most have had at least one Fred ring them up to lend lobster or pineapple So $20 note is a sparkling red lobster the $50 note is bright yellow. So it's pineapple Right, so lobster 20 bucks $50 is pineapple $100 blue grey is a grey nurse and The five and ten dollar notes are referred to by Pam Shriver is a fiver and Eton Sanner is a tenner Smoco agarbo a Bolo a Boplo and an Arvo. That's the ten minute work break after two hours of work So O is the suffix 20 word that it can shorten. So if in doubt Throw an O onto the end of a word and it's about to be Australian bound to be Australian So a break when you smoke smoke or don't even have to smoke to take a smoke I took a lot of smokers at the town of guns So I'm gonna collect garbage is a garbo bowling And community club is a Bolo bottle shop is a bottle low and the word afternoon is an Arvo Right. I hope you're having a good Arvo Have a go you mug. That's the favorite call from people are watching sports from budget seating All right, that's You hear at a cricket when the batsman is blocking the ball too much and not whacking it around the ground or a football games Where the team isn't being inventive enough and trying to score so it refers to anyone who isn't putting in full effort Taking any risk. Have a go you mug Kui, that's a loud Aboriginal cry in the outback that tells people where you are So if you're not within a kui of someone, you know where bloody near it. All right gone walkabout Right, it's from the needy as they enjoy going walkabout So Australians enjoy traveling whether it's backpacking around Asia or following a harvest at home and gone walkabout One for the road. That's the last drink before going home and hit the frog and toad Right having a frog in your throat means you got a sore throat But hitting the frog and toad is when you hit the road. All right, when you just get out of here So in Australia seven weeks haven't heard a crossword Haven't seen a punch up Haven't seen any aggro It's just homeostasis, mate Just homeostasis Now went so bluey this afternoon that the blue griper at the Clevelli Beach It was beaut, mate. Absolutely beaut. No worries. I'm going on a walkabout