More Oz Facts

• On an Australian shopping cart, all wheels swivel 360 degrees, unlike only the front two in Canada. This makes it incredibly easy to maneuver in the store, but ridiculously difficult to unload if you've parked your car on even the gentlest of slopes. Also, not one of them has a broken wheel - unlike Canada where at least one broken wheel is mandatory.
  
• Aussies drive on the left, not the right. The gearshift however, has the same shift pattern as a Canadian car. This explains why I stalled the work van 13 times in a row without realizing I was in fifth gear and not first.
• Public transit sucks. If you think transit sucks in your city, live in Sydney for a week and you will realize just how lucky you really are. The last trains are at 11:30pm, and after that there is 1 bus per hour, which is so crowded a sardine has more space to move than you do.
• It's not Sprite, it's Lemonade
• According to Australia law, if the bartender gets someone drunk and he gets into a car accident it is partly the barman's fault. If something major happens (ie. Manslaughter etc.) the barman can actually go to jail for a percentage that the drunk is sentenced to, because it is partially his fault.
  
• Aussies are addicted to news. Between 5 and 8 you can watch nothing but news on 5 different channels. If three hours of news wasn't enough for you, every other commercial break has a news update. While writing this I've heard 2 updates and it's only been about 15 minutes.
• Tape is always, always called sticky tape. I haven't figured out what I would get if I just asked for tape because nobody seems to know what it is.
• If you ask for cream in your coffee you will get some of the weirdest looks from cafe workers. Nobody knows what it is or why it goes into coffee. There are, however, 9 different kinds of milk to choose from.

That's all for now, I'll try to keep thinking up some more.