6:23 a guy walked around Australia, (or Perth to Melb.) in a stormtrooper outfit for charity.

@richmanricho

2 жыл бұрын

drove past him just after he started in perth, though to myself .. well thats interesting .. Couple of days later drove past him in the country side!

@Krenisphia

2 жыл бұрын

@@richmanricho Were you going back to other way? How did he catch up ahead of you on foot?

@richmanricho

2 жыл бұрын

@@Krenisphia I saw him in the Perth area (might have been Vic Park) then several (5?) days later I was driving somewhere country based (towards margs or merridin likely). I don't recall where I passed him. It wasn't that far out of the metro area though.

@chich61

Жыл бұрын

I saw him early one morning on my way to work in Adelaide's northern suburbs .

Congratulations you are the first American that I've ever heard of in my life that can pronounce emu correctly .

The Maccas M sign with MYass , open 6am. Is one on the Hume highway. A major highway between Sydney and Melbourne. Yass is a country town for those who don’t know, a play on words there. Have to love the Aussie sense of humour. 😊😜

@katecollingridge4293

2 жыл бұрын

MY Ass lol. I don’t think Ian got that one 😝

@blacksorrento4719

2 жыл бұрын

@@katecollingridge4293 No I don’t think he did! 😊

@davidmc105

2 жыл бұрын

Myass nearly opened early laughing at this one.

@blacksorrento4719

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidmc105 My late husband had a friend in Albury near the border of NSW and Victoria. Whenever we used to be going to visit, we’d be up early whenever my husband woke up, just pack up and go. That Maccas at MYass was our breakfast stop 😊 know it well.

@esmeraldagreengate4354

2 жыл бұрын

@@blacksorrento4719 my kids love that sign 🤣

I think you will find it is McDonald's in the town of Yass but it spells my ass.

Only in Australia ( and New Zealand) Anzac day on APRIL 25TH Commemorating the first time we fought under our own flag ( previous ly our countries had both fought under the British Union Jack. The battle was against Turkey at a place called Gallipoli it was a battle that we unfortunately got soundly beaten, but one where the bond between our two countries was forged for many centuries to come, please join us on 25th of April this year to honour all those who have experienced the futility of war and to pray for peace and goodwill

@maxfish4770

2 жыл бұрын

Lest we forget.

that man in the Storm Trooper outfit is Scot Loxley and walked across Australia to raise money, over $100,000 for the Starlight Childrens Foundation which entertain sick children in the Royal Childrens Hospital. That little buggy has his tent, food, water and anything else he would need. He called it Trooper Trek. An absolute Legend.

@chich61

Жыл бұрын

I remember passing him on my way to work early one morning in Adelaide's northern suburbs. Certainly a legend.

I might be biased but I think Aussies, Kiwis and the Poms have the best humour anywhere. We are definitely sick puppies 😝

@ashlynnsomers

2 жыл бұрын

Nah nah you're right!

@maxfish4770

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashlynnsomers yeah nah yeah

@sweatynutsack698

2 жыл бұрын

lol poms have no humour.

@niktasm2490

2 жыл бұрын

@@sweatynutsack698 what do you expect they drink warm beer after all

@cireenasimcox1081

2 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Saffers. (South Africans) they're the same - though the humour can, at times, be a little darker.

The yellow signs showing all the deadly critters for the next 4000 k's has to be a fake. There's not one bullet hole anywhere!!

09:31 He's sitting on an ostrich. Note the white feathers compared to the black heads and brown necks of the emus in the next image. Ostrich eyes are different too, bigger.

@taniaPBear

2 жыл бұрын

Was scrolling through to see if someone else had said this, lol.

@shermanator87

2 жыл бұрын

I was hoping someone else had noticed.

No, just accept the burn on steering wheel.. It's the seatbelts that are a health Hazzard.

@daveamies5031

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah in summer you do anything to avoid contact with the metal buckle on a seatbelt.

@christosavos2721

2 жыл бұрын

Seat belt buckles up the back The quick branding and get on with it

a good tip for when parking, turn your steering wheel upside down so when you come back the top is cooler cause it has been shaded.

@fearnobeer9077

2 жыл бұрын

I ride a bike 🏍 😎

@carolynh8866

2 жыл бұрын

Driver training 101

@mechanic7430

2 жыл бұрын

I've been doing it for years and when it's 45 +outside here in western Australia summer bloody works a treat

@daverussell457

2 жыл бұрын

Can you turn the seat upside down too? 😎

@blacksorrento4719

2 жыл бұрын

That’s a good idea. There are never enough trees In the supermarket car parks, so I grab a spare freezer type shopping bag, turn it upside down throw, it over the steering wheel.

Australia is unique country 🇦🇺

@user_angelmum

2 жыл бұрын

We use to be ..sadly we are more American now 😢

Seeing the Glendambo sign brought back a not so great memory. When we were driving from Perth to Townsville we stopped overnight at a caravan park in Glendambo. There was no shade, our tent site was right beneath a large, bright lamp which also seemed radiate heat and overnight it was still around 45°C. By morning I was dehydrated and had a migraine. Thankfully it was only a couple of hours drive to Coober Pedy where we would stay in an underground motel where I could rest in the cool dark.

Haha the haviana thong machine is useful. I've busted a plugger before and it's a convenient replacement lol

Huge Rats = Quokka's on Rottnest island 25km just off the coast of Perth Western Australia. 👊🤠

Koala in a car - made even more Australian because that appears to be the interior of an early Holden Commodore.

@aussiebloke4601

2 жыл бұрын

I couldn't work out if it was a commodore or a sigma.

The baby eating dingo is a reference to an awful situation where 7 week-old baby Azaria Chamberlain disappeared at Ayers Rock (now Uluru) in 1980. Her body was never found. Her mother Lindy was tried and convicted of murder. Her husband Michael was found to be an accessory after the fact. Lindy served time in jail before the wheels of justice turned, it was found that a dingo took the baby, and the couple was eventually exonerated. Unfairly, there was some suspicion about the couple's religion, as they were Seventh-Day Adventists. It was a terrible episode in Australia's justice system and I don't think ppl under 45 realise how hugely controversial it was right through the 1980s.

@jaded9087

2 жыл бұрын

Its in really poor taste that the second a dingo is mentioned by anyone from any other place but Australia automatically thinks a child's death is something to laugh about . Extremely poor taste! Lets laugh at every child thats been attacked by a wolf , bear or mountain lion... Yeah thats real funny.. roll eyes. My ex got bitten by a dingo a few years back .. idiot pom. I told him to leave it be ... but NO.....

@lyndihodson101

9 ай бұрын

I felt so bad for Lindy. She was innocent n it took aboriginal knowledge to prove charge of murder was wrong. It destroyed Lindys life. So sad 😞

🤣 drop bears… best Aussie joke of all time 🤣🤣

Good explanation with the croc and fence sign cos I didn’t get it at first either. 👍🇦🇺

@cocoidiea8643

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was a double fence, basically saying to stay behind both fences.

The upside down text sign is a joke about car accidents, not an Australia upside down joke.

@mrsfreddo

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, it reads "If you can read this, you've been in an accident" 🤣😂

@TheRoswellCode

2 жыл бұрын

Well that's a change :)

As an Australian, I think America has heaps more scary things like...rattle snakes, wild cats and mountain lions, moose, bears and werewolves. I love sasquatch, got them here too, but dude, your werewolf situation is totally out of control!

@MrGutfeeling

2 жыл бұрын

DOGMAN!

@taniaPBear

2 жыл бұрын

And vampires, bloody vampires everywhere.

@joannemurdock7899

2 жыл бұрын

What's a sasquatch?

@danielyoungman9206

2 жыл бұрын

@@joannemurdock7899 "Bigfoot"

@taniaPBear

2 жыл бұрын

@@joannemurdock7899 Bigfoot

@IWrocker, at 4:35 where we see the Indian Chinese Restaurant, look at how it has the Italian flag and saying it has pizza, pasta, and all things Italian to eat. Nothing Chinese or Indian on the menu! 🙂

Opera House = NUNS IN A SCRUM.

@JudeAussie

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

Well I'm gonna watch it AND share it! Thanks Ian, I wouldn't have known of it's existence, if you hadn't found it.

Macca’s sign: I get it but thought it was a bit flimsy since we don’t say ass in Australia, we say arse. Cheers.

@xXSinForLifeXx

2 жыл бұрын

Its a play on words with a town called Yass

@esmeraldagreengate4354

2 жыл бұрын

We don't but Yass sounds alike ass not Yarse 😬

Also... The oven kits ain't much help when the bloody Sept belt patch act like a friggin branding iron on a hot summer's day.

@nathanielpillar8012

2 жыл бұрын

what is Sept belt patch?

@ozzibyka5356

2 жыл бұрын

@@nathanielpillar8012 Also what's an oven kit. Sounds like he's carrying a flat pak oven around in the car.

@nathanielpillar8012

2 жыл бұрын

@@ozzibyka5356 haha, why would you need an oven kit when you have the car body on a summer day?

@ozzibyka5356

2 жыл бұрын

@@nathanielpillar8012 Too rite mate! 👍😃👍 The inside of the car with the windows up in January is more like a microwave oven kit.😆😄🤭 Fairdinkum!🦘🐨🇦🇺

@esmeraldagreengate4354

2 жыл бұрын

Also the gear knob.

10:00 Not sure if you know but Woop Woop is slang for "in the middle of nowhere" So that makes the sign even funnier

That channel deserves more views. That was great!

Thanks man, I always enjoy :)

8:36 Ha! That vending machine was on the ground floor of the old building I worked in. Citigroup building in Sydney. Always cracked me up when I went out to lunch.

We have a thong vending machine down the road from us hahahaha, have never seen anyone use it though 🤷‍♀️

A note on the cow thing, that's not a joke, some places have long winding mountains that scare the shit out of us to get to or from city, I used to live in garden city toowoomba and that thing has a two lane death trap mountain to wind up and was not super uncommon to see dead roo's who took lovers leap off the top. Usually round the midway point near an emergency truck pit for the poor bastards who's breaks fail going down it.

@dominictaylor8672

2 жыл бұрын

It's called the range and wats scary is goin down it and trying to pass a foreign truck driver and he doesn't look confident lol

@sheepdogsandchampagne.3396

2 жыл бұрын

Fourty years ago was this road refered to as "razorback"?

@esmeraldagreengate4354

2 жыл бұрын

@@sheepdogsandchampagne.3396 I thought razorback was in or near Picton?

@esmeraldagreengate4354

2 жыл бұрын

Check out Macquarie Pass in NSW. Everytime I have to go down that bloody mountain there is a car that's ran off the mountain or there are sections of guard rail missing. My Mum and a friend lost the brakes driving down it when I was 9 and had to drive down it with just the handbreak.

Older cars with vinyl seats in summer, I reckon every Aussie has been caught once or twice before learning to park in the shade or leave a towel covering the seat. It's nothing compared to sitting on the steal bit of the seat belt ( the old cars with worn out retractors or middle lap sash belts in bench seat cars) though, that'll make you jump quick smart! Also, the dingo eating babies on map references the Azaria Chamberlain case in the early 80s when a dingo took a baby from a tent. It was a massive story, books and a movie with Meryl Streep I think. Worth a gander if you're curious. Many people believe the mother killed the poor child and just as many believe the dingo did the deed.

@blacksorrento4719

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, we all learn…… I was a city girl who married a country boy, went out west to Dubbo back in the 70’s to visit his family, not only did a I get a taste of extreme dry heat, that either burned the back of your throat or the hairs in your nostrils. I swallowed a fly, they just swarmed. Hot pants were in fashion, when I got back in the car, the cream leather seat, literally burned my arse and the back of my thighs. Never forgot the towel or those folded up windscreen shades after that.

@taniaPBear

2 жыл бұрын

One summer holiday in Queensland (long time ago) had to walk around the beach for a week, with a seat belt buckle shaped scorch mark on the back of my leg, lol.

@johnedwards7899

2 жыл бұрын

Or even the STEEL part of the car.

@paulmcmahon6875

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnedwards7899 very clever jonboy. You must be popular with..... NO ONE.

@esmeraldagreengate4354

2 жыл бұрын

My sister's brand new car has leather seats that burns asses in summer.

Have you ever seen Dame Edna everege a total Aussie icon!! Hello possums her catch cry is etched into my brain.

Love to see you coming into your own and bringing in the humorous post-edits, Ian. 😂❤️ I’ve been through Glendambo a bunch of times on the trip between Alice and Adelaide. Maybe I was tired and hungry, but they have the best schnitzel I have ever tasted 😁 Edited to add: there is a tree on the way to Uluṟu that has a bunch of old busted car tyres on it. I heard a tour operator talking about it ones - ‘this rare exotic tree with black flowers’. I was a local and even I was fooled until I saw it!

the maccas sign says 'my ass ' lol . M YASS OPEN 6AM .

Everyone laughed at me when I bought a fluffy wheel cover. Who's laughing now?

10:31 "if you can read this, you've just had an accident"

I think Ian could start checking out some Aussie music and sharing with us some of his local music we may not have heard 🤔

@carolynh8866

2 жыл бұрын

ACDC

@thatrandomaussiechick4107

2 жыл бұрын

So many acadaca , powder finger , yes comments won't let me sat it in 1 word , hunters Jimmy diesel kylie just to namea few .. don't forget the gurge

I'm never going to see the Opera House the same way again. I'm Australian 🤣🤣

I took a photo of my car in front of that 90 mile straight sign. The time I drove across the Nullabour a person dressed as a storm trooper walked across the Nullabour pushing his belongings. That photo is of the stormtrooper shows him with the cart he pushed across. It is a tradition to take a photo of your vehicle in front of thar sign.

Yeah we aussies do some strange things out of humour 😂🤷‍♂️

The stormtrooper 🤣is riding a sit down bike over the long road

The Opera house shape is actually an Orange . If you take the pieces and put them together, they make a full orange 🍊

The trees with all the bikes are most likely on the Nullarbor, people hang all sorts of things on the dead trees along the roadside. They are well known as Nullarbor trees.

3:30 i say that a warning sign of crocodile pen.

I’ve never seen or heard of anyone using the oven mitts in the car 😂😂 pretty sure we all just fight for the parking under the tree or burn the shh out of ourselves 😂😂

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French artist. That sign was a pun on his name. To Loos - La Trek

I liked the Indian Chinese restaurant that serves pizzas! Multi-cultural Australia at its finest.

The Sydney Opera House has been described as a "typewriter full of oyster shells".😅

@7:20 you didnt get the joke it was a pun of MY ASS the logo of McDonalds and the town of Yass which is a town near canberra

@Dr_KAP

2 жыл бұрын

Was just scrolling to see if anyone had let him know this 🤣

Huge rats - quokkas. Gorgeous animals & so friendly.

7:17 ah the good old Yass Macca's sign. A bonifided Australian Classic.

3:45 - that looks like the Broome crocodile park. They have a double row of fences to keep the troublemakers out and the crocks in. The sign is showing both layers of fence. And yes, the fences are about waist-high.

I've legit witnessed a cow falling from a cliff onto the road below before, it happens

The mcdonalds app in Australia is called MyMacca's and has been for a very long time. So mcdonalds fully taking onboard their slang name.

Glad you know about Drop Bears! And you will find the thong vending machines in Bali too!

And the best part about that koala pic is that koalas carry clamydia... im not kidding.🤣🤣

@Dr_KAP

2 жыл бұрын

Lol yes although the common strain of Chlamydia (pecorum) in Koalas is not a problem at all for humans and even the less common form can only be a threat to us if they pee on us 😂

Funnily enough the first time I ever saw a thong vending machine was in Las Vegas back in 2015. They were asking 20 bucks for a pair of pluggers - what a rip-off.

I didn’t know Tassie had lots of unusual names. Geez, I think you know more about Oz than I do!!

The crocodile sign... it is a double fence. First is ok, second is do not feed, the do not sit on fence, climb between fences etc

Drop Bears are just a prank Aussies play on the world. They don't actually exist, we've just made Koalas sound scary haha

A helicopter like that can carry roughly around 1800kg (around 4000 pounds) max (depending on the exact model) so that croc is going for a ride 😂 great channel Ian! Craig - Geelong, Australia.

@jackfrost2146

2 жыл бұрын

If that amount of weight is lifted by the skid on one side, the helicopter would definitely crash.

@cireenasimcox1081

2 жыл бұрын

I know nothing about the dynamics or engineering of Helicopters. But, surely if that croc was going to effect the balance or pulling power of the 'copter, helicopters wouldn't be able to pick up survivors of bushfires & other disasters; or be any good at rescuing injured people, and paramedics; or their medical equipment; or move machinery? What am I getting wrong here? And really, ...? attacking the 'copter? Surely it's been bundled up for relocation or medical attention? And as it's their job to do this, everyone would be fully aware of what loads they can take on board. They aren't going to risk their own lives moving a bloody croc. surely?

@jackfrost2146

2 жыл бұрын

@@cireenasimcox1081 If an excessive load is placed on one skid at the point of lift off, the helicopter rotates rapidly around the skid and rolls the 'copter on it's side, This is called "Dynamic rollover."

@cireenasimcox1081

2 жыл бұрын

@@jackfrost2146 Thanks, Jack - now I get it: I guess it's my bad because I didn't get that the croc was attached to a skid. (Maybe a new pair of glasses might help!) Good of you to take the time to explain.

@jackfrost2146

2 жыл бұрын

@@cireenasimcox1081 For a disastrous example of this problem, watch "Helicopter Crash Towing Boat." Coincidentally, before I replied to your first comment, I had to put on my stronger pair of glasses to check the size of the crocodile to make sure that I wasn't going to be talking nonsense!

The fact that "Thong" is a completely different thing in America compared to else where is always funny to me

Seems we have a lot of new subscribers here to educate Ian on drop bears! 😂

@thatrandomaussiechick4107

2 жыл бұрын

already done in a previous video

If you want to get an idea of how bad the flies get here in Australia Ian you should check out Mike Rowe's Dirty Jobs episode when he went to Coober Pedy....it is hysterically funny!

3:45 It‘s on the fence 😂😅

I used to drive alot for work and to prevent "drivers elbow", sunburn on the arm nearest to the window, I'd put a sock with the toes cut off on my arm like a sleeve.

At alot of zoos usually have 2 fences on the croc enclosures so the sign is in reference not to climb either fence.

Just flicking back to something I seen earlier on in the video, If you look closely at about center screen just above the sign you will see what is known as a "Dead Dog Tree"... > > > Because it's lost it's bark. 🤣

love your channe. there was an ostrich rather than an emu in one photo, and cow falling off cliff, it was not falling on the correct side of the road. we drive on the left.

Nowhere else is just over the river from my place...between paradise and lower crackpot. Dead set!

9:25 that dude is sitting on an ostrich

The stormtrooper dude discovered it was proof against brown snake strike 😆🏴‍☠️

There’s also an instrument called a thong-o-phone- based on the xylophone....

Joern Utson, the architect likened the sails to waves.

Quolls, Quokkas Kwendas, and Bilbies could all be considered as 'Huge rats' out here in WA hahaha

In Tassie they have Do Town. All the houses are named i.e. Do Come Inn....etc

Stormtrooper guy walked from Perth to the east and around Australia, over 15,000 kms to raise money for chairing, in his suit the whole way.

Stay behind both fences Don’t feed crocs Dont climb the fence Did not reach over to pat Dint climb the first fence 🤣🤣🤣🤣

hahahah Drop Bear,,,hahahaha should I tell him? lol... I think you missed the Myass one. Bikes in the tree after a flood. Toulous Le treck..lol...as in the famous French painter.

The storm trooper walked across Australia raising money

It turns out native Australian dung beetles (Christmas beetles, a nice gold-bronze colour) - being used to the modest droppings of our native marsupials - could not keep up with the monstrous dung pats from imported animals, especially cows. I remember how miserable the hoards of flies were in Melbourne in Summer in the 1970s. In one of the ONLY successful biological interventions in Australia, larger foreign dung beetles were introduced to our farms. By the 1990s the Summer fly population seemed to drop by 99% in Melbourne. Still, even today there are places in Australia that are plagued by flies. The new dung beetles don't seem to have made it across the outback.

Hi Ian, just a tip for going backwards on a video to see something you've missed. On your keyboard you have 4 arrows beside the number key pad, push the left arrow and it takes you back 5 seconds, saves you playing round with the timeline manually...Cheers...

There is a town in New South Wales called Yass... so the joke/pun with the Maccas sign is it reads "my ass" opens 6am

Hi, Dave. The 'huge rats' that live on Rotnest Island are called Quokkas.

Yass is a rural town in NSW. It’s just a sign to let you know they open at 6am if you’re hungry on your long journey to wherever you’re going.

We have a “drink driving: Selfish pr*ck.” Road safety sign. (The middle letters of the word prick are blocked out by the foot of a dead body at the morticians). Brutal. Effective.

Ian, the storm trooper walked around Oz in the suit to raise funds for the Monash Childrens” Hospital

The cute little animal you’re thinking of is the quokka.

Funniest one yet😂

So when are ya planning a trip down under? I reckon ya would have a blast and there would be a lot of people happy to show you around

There's no such thing as drop bears lol or a carnivorous Koala. Koalas are so peaceful, it's basically a leveled up Sloth with a super specific diet. Poison leaves. The worst thing a Koala will ever do to you is if you ever get to hold one, their claws are big and they have a tough grip and will grip you like you were any other Gum/Eucalyptus tree. I feel like I'm braking some sort of Aussie meme code lol. But as a fellow American brother I feel like you deserve the truth!

Ha that Golden arch and Yass the joke way MY ass ..... opens 6am lol

7:36 that is an illusion. The guy to his left has extended his right hand out pointing to something.

I'd send you a picture of a drop bear but the bugger would probably eat my phone as well.

@peterbarber7613

2 жыл бұрын

Charles Emerson. If you get a pic of one send it to me seeing theres no such thing

Let you into a secret.....There are NO DROP BEARS!!

The guy was riding an ostrich, not an emu. That tracked suv looked like it was in USA.

@sussanahkable106

2 жыл бұрын

No way you could ride one. Thought ostrich too

@daveg2104

2 жыл бұрын

Mt McKay is at Falls Creek in the Victorian High Country. Apparently it's the highest drivable peak in Australia. Other Mount McKays may be available elsewhere, but the phone number checks out to Falls Creek Victoria.

@fugawiaus

2 жыл бұрын

@@daveg2104 makes sense that if it was in aust it would the high country.

Nowhere Else is in Tasmania. We have some really hilarious place names down here. No No Hole is probably my favourite.

Glendambo, a small roadside car/truck stop for fuel travelling inland SA between Port Augusta and Coober Pedy (opal mining) It is a series of fuel browsers, a small shop and bar a number of Motel rooms, a caravan park . Placed optimally to suit range of car fuel capacity, several hundred km form other fuel. So is a needed stop for cars that need fuel a quick rest stop, and food. A few trucks too fueled up while getting food and rest and the odd cold drink at the bar. Overnight rest for weary travellers. Not much there. Dry desert scrub sand, dust, flies, the odd snake or two, lizards, scorpions, some wallabies, cockatoos. Most people see few of all that life I actually went looking for such in some spare time. I spent a week there in 1986, car hot testing north and south on the open highway. We had Halleys Comet up great view in the dark sky conditions. Covered large sky area with comet tail, while back in the city (Melbourne) it was a tiny single dull patch of core only. Glendambo hotel had a single 40W globe on all night out front and occasional trucks and very few cars with hesdlights/driving light high beam, zipped by on the highwsy located several hundred meters away, as Glendambo is a graded loop of road away from actual highway. This place is midway, no other lights from Port Augusta to Coober Pedy so delightfully dark sky for Astronomy enthusiasts like myself. So wildlife and astronomy were great pleasures for me on top of grest csr testing work in 44 to 46 °C in the shade conditions of course we were mostly out under the sun. At the time there would have been maybe 10 permanent staff there. Did not actually see any sheep.