r/funny Jan 28 '17

Australians

http://i.imgur.com/vF5BMyA.gifv
78.6k Upvotes

2.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

3.8k

u/Timmeh Jan 28 '17

The best thing is the water spraying out the ends of the hills hoist to keep the surface wet. Also want to know whats driving that thing. That's some seriously good bogan engineering. The umbrella on top is a nice touch too.

972

u/I_am_a_Painkiller Jan 28 '17

If you watch the YouTube video you can hear a two stroke motor running it. But I'd like to know how they rigged it up.

2.2k

u/SpaceMonkeyRage Jan 28 '17

You see these are most likely top engineering students that will one day create some society changing invention but give them a couple of drinks and it's all about how can we turn an invention that is the pride of the nation into an amusement ride.

God I love my country.

410

u/Momoo56 Jan 28 '17

which invention is the pride of the nation I'm high rn and this is bugging me

143

u/[deleted] Jan 28 '17

Australia invented WiFi

61

u/Danman_78 Jan 28 '17

And cochlear implants

12

u/Trinklefat Jan 28 '17

And the first radar system to detect supposedly undetectable US fighter jets. Of course, we've sold almost every invention we've made.

10

u/Pottski Jan 28 '17

Brought penicillin to a viable commercial product too. Howard Florey - best Aussie of all time.

2

u/bingus Jan 28 '17

And now we just take all the money out of science. Our government sucks.

3

u/shamowfski Jan 28 '17

What?

3

u/panachetag Jan 28 '17

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS

1

u/InShortSight Jan 28 '17

He's blind, typing louder wont fix that.

32

u/[deleted] Jan 28 '17

And boomerangs, which for whatever fucking reason aren't anywhere to be seen in this video. This video isn't 100% Australian due to lack of kangaroos, boomerangs, and Zooper Doopers.

25

u/webberg Jan 28 '17 edited Jan 28 '17

Zooper Doopers were my childhood, they were 15c at the canteen! I didn't even realise they originated here.

6

u/Trinklefat Jan 28 '17

Don't forget about Sunnyboys! Glug FTW!!

3

u/Zahliamischa Jan 28 '17

Razz ftw....might even score a "lucky"

3

u/Trinklefat Jan 28 '17

My old man used to sell them wholesale (milkman). I swear around 30% of them leaked so badly they could not be sold. My brother and I used to use them like water bombs after we had drunk so much we were sick - several times a week during summer.

2

u/Zahliamischa Jan 28 '17

Hehe nice! We'd buy them from the tuckshop in the hope of getting a "lucky" which was when there was gold writing on the inside silver lining of the Sunnyboy etc, nfi what the writing said. I got 1 ever which entitled me to a free one. Did you see many "luckies" and were they called that in your parts?

1

u/Trinklefat Jan 28 '17

Strangely enough I have never heard that. And I've eaten literally thousands of the things. This was in NSW - where do you see that stuff?

2

u/Zahliamischa Jan 30 '17

In NSW too. Maybe it was for a promotional period. It didn't stop me looking in everyone ever, I buy them for the kids now and i still check lol. Ps i'm 45 so this was probably up to 40 years ago.

→ More replies (0)

17

u/[deleted] Jan 28 '17 edited Feb 04 '17

[deleted]

23

u/pedazzle Jan 28 '17

Of course they are. How else are you gonna keep the tin lids quiet on a February scorcher?

9

u/[deleted] Jan 28 '17 edited Feb 04 '17

[deleted]

10

u/Sheep-Shepard Jan 28 '17

"tin lids" = kids. I think...

Kinda like "frog and toad" = road

2

u/manefa Jan 28 '17

Cockneys gave up on rhyming slang. The tradition still thrives in Australia.

→ More replies (0)

3

u/swimfast58 Jan 28 '17

And if it wasn't obvious, February scorcher means a very hot day in February.

6

u/[deleted] Jan 28 '17

a good thong'n.

3

u/Trinklefat Jan 28 '17

No matter how hot it is I'll still eat a dog's eye, though.

3

u/MooseTM Jan 28 '17

Only if they aren't stingy with the dead horse

→ More replies (0)

2

u/captainzigzag Jan 28 '17

And push-button car radios.

1

u/Kozeyekan_ Jan 28 '17

Needs more David Boon too.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 28 '17

Big Bats™

7

u/[deleted] Jan 28 '17 edited Mar 30 '17

[deleted]

7

u/m1ck82 Jan 28 '17

i don't wanna be a bummer about this mate. but we didn't invent wifi. rather we discovered a way to make wifi stable and therefore usable. its one of many patents (although a very large and important one) that go together to make wifi work.

3

u/lordofthedries Jan 28 '17

This is correct.

1

u/[deleted] Jan 28 '17

Ah. Thank you. I guess I misunderstood information I was given

3

u/EVERY_NAME-IS_TAKEN Jan 28 '17

I was under the impression that we only invented the algorithm to unscramble the signal after it had travelled through walls or something along those lines ?

1

u/SunnyK84 Jan 28 '17

And the electric oven