C--uuute!!

Who goes to "america" expecting understanding?

I'm from Montana and I know a lot of people that call flip flops "thongs".

We called them "thongs" growing up near Santa Cruz, CA. I think we started calling them "slappers" or "flip-flops" a few years before that Sisqo song came out, but the Thong Song was most definitely the final nail in the coffin.

If she worked as a server she would begin to understand 'tipping' quite quickly, I am sure.

You tell 'em, love. Also, while we don't have drive through ATM's, we DO have drive through bottle shops. Now that's Australian.

>> ^lantern53:

If she worked as a server she would begin to understand 'tipping' quite quickly, I am sure.


No, you see we pay our servers.

Hah! But no, seriously.

@lantern53 knows.. that depriving servers of a living wage and forcing them to bust their asses for 5% gratuity on a $130 check.. you know, builds character.

Struggling in quasi-poverty for years of your life is what the American Dream is all about! duh.

That's why Mitt Romney is such a great American and needs to be President.
He knows what it's like.. to force people to struggle. For their own good.

p.s. - Everyone knows that raising the minimum wage is just another Socialist/Marxist scheme by Obama to disenfranchise the Job Creators in this country.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
>> ^lantern53:
If she worked as a server she would begin to understand 'tipping' quite quickly, I am sure.

No, you see we pay our servers.

A Living wage? That's Communism!!!

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Hah! But no, seriously.
@lantern53 knows.. that depriving servers of a living wage and forcing them to bust their asses for 5% gratuity on a $130 check.. you know, builds character.
Struggling in quasi-poverty for years of your life is what the American Dream is all about! duh.
That's why Mitt Romney is such a great American and needs to be President.
He knows what it's like.. to force people to struggle. For their own good.
p.s. - Everyone knows that raising the minimum wage is just another Socialist/Marxist scheme by Obama to disenfranchise the Job Creators in this country.

We need a "sardonic" button

I used to think Australian accents were sexy on women, but after being to Thailand, and overhearing so many Aussie's there on Hol-ee-day, it just became so annoying. Not quite Valley-Girl accent, but pretty close.

This girl reminded me of that.

I was expecting this to be more about cultural differences (like the tipping thing) than dialect differences. Dialect differences are interesting too, but it's not that we don't get that the "boot" is the trunk and "thongs" are flip flops, it's that we don't call them by these names so some confusion is to be expected.

I got one more thing she can add to her list of shit she doesn't get, too: apostrophes. (Or maybe I should say "apostrophe's")

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Tipping is easy and there is one simple rule that will help you understand and remember.

All ways tip the people who handle your food or drink or else they really will handle your food or drink.

She's annoying. Maybe I wouldn't think so if I were 12 years-old

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

Hah! But no, seriously.
@lantern53 knows.. that depriving servers of a living wage and forcing them to bust their asses for 5% gratuity on a $130 check.. you know, builds character.
Struggling in quasi-poverty for years of your life is what the American Dream is all about! duh.
That's why Mitt Romney is such a great American and needs to be President.
He knows what it's like.. to force people to struggle. For their own good.
p.s. - Everyone knows that raising the minimum wage is just another Socialist/Marxist scheme by Obama to disenfranchise the Job Creators in this country.

While I completely agree that people should be paid a living wage, I don't really have a problem with tipping. People should bust their asses in their job, especially if your job is customer facing. Customer service in the USA is so much better than almost anywhere else I've been, (it's particularly bad in NZ)

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
Hah! But no, seriously.
@lantern53 knows.. that depriving servers of a living wage and forcing them to bust their asses for 5% gratuity on a $130 check.. you know, builds character.
Struggling in quasi-poverty for years of your life is what the American Dream is all about! duh.
That's why Mitt Romney is such a great American and needs to be President.
He knows what it's like.. to force people to struggle. For their own good.
p.s. - Everyone knows that raising the minimum wage is just another Socialist/Marxist scheme by Obama to disenfranchise the Job Creators in this country.
While I completely agree that people should be paid a living wage, I don't really have a problem with tipping. People should bust their asses in their job, especially if your job is customer facing. Customer service in the USA is so much better than almost anywhere else I've been, (it's particularly bad in NZ)


Have you ever been to Japan? Only country I've been to where shops and restaurants have been consistently friendly and welcoming (with a couple exceptions). Every where else is a mixed bag. You get friendly, you get indifferent. You get surly, you get downright rude. The place where I encountered the friendliest waiting staff was my local cafe back in Melbourne (god i miss it) where I've never been obliged to tip (did occasionally though).

>> ^EvilDeathBee:


Have you ever been to Japan?

Nope, but I'm going in september... can't wait

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

Every where else is a mixed bag. You get friendly, you get indifferent. You get surly, you get downright rude.

True, there are definitely highs and lows, but overall, I've found the standard to be much higher in the US than almost anywhere else I've been in Europe, Asia or Oceania.

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

The place where I encountered the friendliest waiting staff was my local cafe back in Melbourne (god i miss it) where I've never been obliged to tip (did occasionally though).


Haven't been to Melbourne in a few years, but I remember it being pretty good there too (and great coffee!).

I dislike being expected to tip regardless of service. I remember being outraged that a service charge of 15% was added to my bill at a reasonably expensive restaurant in Ireland where the service was just awful. I point blank refused to pay it.

On the flip side, I'm happy to tip in countries where it's not the norm if the service is good.

Heaps in Australian is equivalent to Hella in Northern California

I thought boot was just a British thing. I know why we (Americans) call it a trunk, because some of the first cars literally had a trunk strapped on the back. Does boot refer to some a place to store boots, kind like the glovebox that nobody uses to store gloves in anymore.

What's lazy about a drive-thru ATM? Doesn't every kind of drive-thru qualify as lazy if that's how you're looking at it. Why not go one step further and say we are lazy for using a car in the first place.

Part of the problem is that tipped minimum wage has been frozen (thanks to Herman Cain for a large part) at $2.13 since 1991. Even when they saw fit to raise the federal minimum to $7.25 in 2009, they didn't raise the tipped minimum. Since to keep up with inflation, minimum should be closer to $10.35, that puts tipped minimum far behind... and minimum is far below living wages... they should couple it back up with minimum and perhaps just drop that provision all together, then the servers could bust ass to make more on tips.

Some of the terms she used are used and understood by many Americans. Seems she was hanging out with a bunch of sheltered people. Who doesn't know flip flops=thongs or trunk=boot? The ATM thing is odd as I think the drive-through ATM is also a safety thing over having to walk out to an ATM on the side of the bank, plus the bank usually has a drive through anyhow, so it saves them money from having to build a shelter for the ATM and all that.

to me you almost sounded british, i am a brit

it britain, we also call the rear of the car a boot.

we call peppers, peppers

i hear people use the word heaps in sentences lots (like "heaps better")

we call a g-string a thong

our petrol stations (garages) also sell alcohol

The one thing I don't get about this video is why I watched the whole thing before I downvoted.

>> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
Hah! But no, seriously.
@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/lantern53" title="member since August 6th, 2010" class="profilelink">lantern53 knows.. that depriving servers of a living wage and forcing them to bust their asses for 5% gratuity on a $130 check.. you know, builds character.
Struggling in quasi-poverty for years of your life is what the American Dream is all about! duh.
That's why Mitt Romney is such a great American and needs to be President.
He knows what it's like.. to force people to struggle. For their own good.
p.s. - Everyone knows that raising the minimum wage is just another Socialist/Marxist scheme by Obama to disenfranchise the Job Creators in this country.
While I completely agree that people should be paid a living wage, I don't really have a problem with tipping. People should bust their asses in their job, especially if your job is customer facing. Customer service in the USA is so much better than almost anywhere else I've been, (it's particularly bad in NZ)


Just a meaningless anecdote (just find it funny that you mention it):

I went to Sydney once (15 years ago) and the very first day, I went to a place called the Juba Cafe. My friend and I were surprised to find porridge on the menu, because all I knew of porridge was from Oliver Twist or Little Orphan Annie. Our server, who's name was Anna, was really surprised to hear it, so she bought us porridge to convince us it was good. It was. Then, after we ate (before we tipped her) she invited us over to her apartment for some wine that night. When we got there, she had invited all her friends over to meet "her new Americans." They gave us wine, we talked for a long time about NZ (where she was from) and they rolled me the first "baseball bat" that I ever smoked, with the the little cardboard filter in it and everything. They also introduced me to Aphex Twin (the "Richard D. James Album") and we bonded over Ween, which I was surprised to hear they knew all about, even in 97'. So, after we were completely blitzed, Anna and her friends took us out to dinner, where we ate and drank and talked for hours and didn't pay a dime while these guys all treated us to a great first night in their city. I'm not even sure how we got home, but they sure didn't let anything bad happen to us.

The reason I mention it, is that I would say it was, easily, the best service I've ever had in my entire life, anywhere. We had to leave town the next day and I never saw or spoke to any of those guys again. I really wish I'd kept in contact with them because I owe them so much more than a night out. I still roll a fat bat and pop in the Aphex Twin on a pretty regular basis.

Was in Texas recently... drive through BBQ down there. Heaps of 'em.

>> ^Grimm:

What's lazy about a drive-thru ATM? Doesn't every kind of drive-thru qualify as lazy if that's how you're looking at it. Why not go one step further and say we are lazy for using a car in the first place.

When I finally can, I might come back to this video just to make it my first.>> ^MrFisk:

The one thing I don't get about this video is why I watched the whole thing before I downvoted.

On my visit to Australia, two things stick out in my mind. Of course I was only there for a short time. One, those Aussies will drink me under that table every time. Sweet J! I learned quickly to accept that this is the Australian past time... or at least for most of the people I found. Second seemed to be hitting on women. In the US, it seems much more difficult where you had to almost make yourself into a jackass. In Australia, I just said, "Hi." Maybe that foreign effect?

>> ^spawnflagger:

I used to think Australian accents were sexy on women, but after being to Thailand, and overhearing so many Aussie's there on Hol-ee-day, it just became so annoying. Not quite Valley-Girl accent, but pretty close.
This girl reminded me of that.
There are several Australian accents. I myself speak with an 'Adelaide' accent, which is considered more educated (or poncey, depending on your point of view). This girl has a broader east coast accent and I particularly hate how they say "Ostraiwya" instead of 'Australia'.

There's an L in there you morons!

Merst of yer nerr.

PS this chick is intensely annoying I made my first comment 20 seconds in.. now I've watched a minute and a half, paused it, might click away. Will keep watching on the off chance a car will smash through a window and pin her to the wall.

2:15 fuck this I'm out PM me if she get maimed.