15 WEIRD THINGS ABOUT AUSTRALIA THAT CANADIANS DON'T UNDERSTAND!

As a Tasmanian we have a list of 15 weird things that mainlanders do, and at the top of that list is "they don´t marry their cousins."

Lol! We have hotdogs! Hot dogs and sausage sizzles are two different things 😂

For elderly people riding buses that dont know their stop, I've seen them ask the driver when they get on and the driver will stop the bus at that stop and tell them it's time to get off.

This is so funny to watch! I'm an Australian living in Vancouver right now and when I came here I was like why are they calling capiscums peppers 😂

Hotdogs and Snags are two totally different things. Hotdogs are in buns where as a snag is Aussie slang for sausage. We love sausage sizzles, with grilled sausage in bread with onion and sauce 🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍

Capsicum/pepper: the food is from America, mainly around what's now Mexico. When Anglos encountered them they called them after the only other spicy food they knew. However, capsicum came to Australia by way of Italian food, so we use the Latin name.

we call them Hot Dogs here LOL a snag is a sausage! two completely different things!

I'm from Melbourne and I think a number of these "oddities" I think are only found in Queensland or the Gold Coast. Here in Melbourne the bus will stop for you without waving at them as long as you are standing at or very near the bus top sign. Hotdogs as "hotdogs" do exist. Snags aren't in toast but in just plain soft white bread with either mustand or tomato sauce (ketchup) on it. "Drug stores" are know as the Chemist or Pharmacy (sometimes they may use both terms). Shops in Melbourne, and I'm guessing Sydney, close later that 5pm, usually 6pm Supermarkets will often close at 10 pm and a few (not !any) at midnight. In Melbourne the "late night" shopping night is Friday night. Most shops will then close at 9pm. Pubs, bars and certainly nightclubs etc will routinely close much much later than that, early morning or later. "Capsicum" is the scientific name for red or green peppers. Look it up in Wikipedia. For some reason we Australians tend to use that name, but green and red peppers are usually understood. Usually. That's enough from me except to say that different cities or regions will have somewhat different terms or words for things and different customs and laws etc. Although Australia is fairly uniform in many things, maybe more so than most other countries, it's definately not 100% uniform in words, slang etc

Wherever you are in the world, when stepping into a bus that doesn't announce stops, you can kindly ask the driver as you get in to indicate when we reach your destination. I have been doing this for 15+ years and only once did a driver forget me, and I never got a refusal!

Capsicum is the botanical genus name which comes directly from latin and Greek. This includes all the capsicum nightshades. Depending on the amount of Capsaicin a given capsicum will be hot or not. Of course when Europeans first had hot capsicums (now referred to as chillies; an Aztec name), they called them peppers because they were hot like the common black pepper. So really most of the world uses capsicum to describe the basic capsicum (they should be more specific), and others incorrectly call them peppers despite the fact there is zero to no Capsaicin in them; the pepper tasting chemical for which it is called. On this I am afraid the North Americans and modern British have the word etymology all wrong and potentially the Australians (and the rest of the world) are more correct.

AS an Australian you generally have your stops memorised so you can kinda of just get off on autopilot. And it’s called sausage sizzle mainly (sorry if I come off as rude)

Everything you mentioned is easy to explain and once explained you would quickly come to realize it is all about ease, convenience, and the Australian lifestyle that over many generations have through trial and error come up with a balance between work and family time. That is why you see stores closed early but if they want to stay open they can but must pay a price for depriving a person of their family time same applies for Weekends (Saturday and Sundays), and public Holidays. Fun fact Canadian polymer banknotes are manufactured in Australia.

In Melbourne our “late night shopping” days are Thursday AND Friday :)

The logic is, Australians recognise the landscape. We look out the window of the bus and recognise the area we live in and the scenery of the stop. Same with the trains and taxis/cabs. A sausage is a snag and hotdog is usually a long red frankfurter (Werner) on a long skinny, bread roll/bun with tomato sauce and mustard (maybe cheese). What I have heard one American call a hotdog was to Aussies a “dagwood dog.” It is a battered frankfurter on a stick dipped in tomato sauce.

Also we don’t really do tipping, so the coin thing isn’t really an issue.

We put snags on white bread, not toast. We use both names, chemist and pharmacy. We don't call them malls, we call them shopping centres. It's pronounced queen's land, not queenslnd. Our toilets are the norm for most of the world, I think North America is the only place to have that much water in them. The wage thing is more complicated than that, there's different minimum wages for different industries. We call them trolleys, not shopping carts.

The reason why the $1 & $2 is smaller and gold in colour is because we use to have $1 & $2 notes but they got removed as it was expensive to print, coins are cheaper to mass produce. Buses and trains in Sydney have banner type screen that tell you the next stop unlike QLD. Snags are short fat sausages (throw a snag on the bar-be) sausage sizzles are snags with onion, bbq sauce on buttered white bread, normally u can get this at Bunnings on the weekends & yes we have hot dogs here too. As for light switches yes that is the standard one but u can install big ones if you like or L.E.D touch type ones. Most people will wear bare feet if you live or holiday near a beach. Our toilets are more environmentally friendly as they use less water and we have a half flush for number 1’s, if you get splash back from atomic number 2’s try adding toilet paper after you wipe the seat before seating

“A snag is pretty much a weiner in a piece of toast” 😂 I am dying at her confusion

Walking in the rain barefoot is one of life's pleasures.

Let’s talk about shopping carts! (Or trollies, as an Australian) This is definitely something that is normal to do, but I would recommend not just leaving them on the footpath. There are dedicated places to go and put the trolly back. Yes, there are people who go and collect the trollies that are left in random places, but it makes their job a lot easier if you put it back where it’s supposed to go.