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One little thing makes me grin: Your posture. It has become "more formal" in a German style. It is more "defined", not "as slack"; at least from a Germans perspective. It is something you can percieve on People on the brink of "getting Germanized". And for the Water: Tap Water.
Did all parts of the 2CV made it through the accelaration? Or did someone hold onto the roof to keep it in place? 😃 I love those cars but there is a reason you rarely see them on the autobahn 😁
@@naneneunmalklug4032 Well, definitely some corrosion flew off, the front wings were heavily shaking and doors bent open a little (not more than a centimeter), but my sister cried honk,honk! Because there was a ford sierra in front of us 'blocking our way'... I set the left indicator ... ;-) ...
Meine Mutter hatte in den 70er eine Ente 2CV4. 80km/h gingen ganz gut, ab 90 km/h musste sie das Steuer bewusst festhalten. Auf einer Tour fuhr sie mühsam mit knapp 80 km/h auf einer Landstraße, die leicht bergauf führte, als die Straße nach der Kuppe plötzlich ziemlich heftig bergab ging. Das Tacho kletterte auf 100 km/h, meine Mutter umklammerte verzweifelt das Lenkrad, die ganze Ente klapperte und knarrte und ich hatte das Gefühl: Wir heben gleich ab. Meine Mutter hatte das Gaspedal lange los gelassen und versuchte, vorsichtig "stotternd" zu bremsen, weil die Fahrbahn nass war (Bis zur Kuppe war sie trocken gewesen, aber danach e musste ein Regenschauer niedergegangen sein) Ich war schon bereit, zu beten, als das Tempo endlich runterging und meine Mutter die Ente wieder in den Griff kriegte. Seitdem erzähle ich gern, dass unsere Ente "flugfähig" war.
I made 134 km/h in my 1990 2CV at Elzer Berg on BAB 3 downhill PLUS slipstream. Ok, it had 29 HP, a real monster... If you open both side windows 90 degrees at this speed, the "Ente" might fly away! Today I drive a black Twingo with two (!) flag holders. When I insert, let's say, the flags of Djibouti I receive much more respect with low speed on the left lane than driving without any flag.
"There is no such thing as bad weather, there is only wrong clothing." My goodness, that's been my motto forever. I am in the Midwest where it gets very cold in the Winter and I am extremely impatient with people complaining about the cold. "Oh, that's a nice JACKET you have on, did you ever consider buying a COAT?" There are people living in Antarctica, you CAN dress for the cold! :D
@@surlespasdondine I understand some people feel cold differently. "In general" there are people who do not dress for the weather then complain about being cold. (Winter's coming! Bundle up!) ;)
@@JDoors i don't wear scarves up to my nose.😆 but anyway, even when i'm covered up really well and it's -10 degrees Celsius or lower, I do feel the cold, you breathe in the cold...
Good to know that the bottle thing is now wide spread. It's a relatively new thing I first learned about moving to Berlin from a smaller city 10 years ago. It wasn't common in my hometown back then.
@@seanthiar As a German of 62 years, this is the first time I heard of this. I wouldn't dream of not taking my trash back with me until I can get rid of it appropriately, and with Pfand that usually means a Pfand machine.
@@KaiHenningsen Jo viele Rentner sammeln die, um sich noch ein paar Groschen zusammen zu kratzen. In Berlin mache ich das seit 25 Jahren man hilft damit Leuten die es brauchen und nicht immer ist eine Pfandmaschine in der Nähe!
I like sparkling water and even have a device for turning tap water into sparkling water. I rarely buy bottled water, but if I do, I get the sparkling variety. I normally drive between 130 and 140 km/h nowadays (I like to use cruise control); as has been mentioned several times here, it is much less stressful and certainly saves on fuel. But a few years ago, I was driving to Berlin on a weekend, the weather was good, and there was very little traffic (a rare occasion indeed). I hit a little over 210 km/h on that day.
I used to live in the US in the late 80ties to mid 90ties. As a german I still use english words or phrases to this day without even thinking about that!
Cards: One has to know that retail in Germany has a tough calculation. In groceries the margin is some 0.25% (!!!) Since every payment has to be payed by the shop (not mentioned that the technical equipment is expensive and cost a monthly fee) they do not force that. Payments of lager sums (>100€) most people will do by card. There is a (maybe) German speciality: We use our "EC Karte" much - that is a guaranteed payment directly from the bank account. That's cheaper than credit cards. This has a long tradition here.
About 220km/h in my Toyota/Scion/Subaru GT86/FR-S/BRZ. Owned a Ford Focus before. While the Focus felt unsafe at 140-160km/h, 220km/h in my Toyota feel incredibly safe. On an empty Autobahn, of course.
I have driven over 200 -210 km/h as a passenger and maybe 180 km/h myself. But I am most comfortable driving around 150 km/h over longer distances. Tab water at home and sparkling water at restaurants.
Many stores don't accept cards because the card reading machines (I don't know their name in English) are really expensive and small shops mostly souvenir shops can't afford them.
I drove once about 220 km/h, saw drivers up to 250 km/h, as most German cars that could go that speed, are limited to 250 km/h, and I prefer medium sparkling water, because it feels fresh.
Sparkling. I stay thirsty otherwise 🤣. Not sure if you can call it a true habit but I have cranberry juice now for breakfast. I adopted that from frequent trips to the US. And the juice is even sometimes hard to get here.
Concerning driving fast on the Autobahn: In the Eighties (or Nineties? Dunno anymore) the ADAC (german equivalent to the AAA) sent two cars to drive from Munich to Cologne, wich is about 450 km, half of the complete distance from the southern to the northern borders. One driver was instructed to go as fast as he could whenever it was possible, the other was to drive as taught by driving instructions: striving for the recommended speed of 130 km per hour, going with the traffic flow while keeping a relaxed, defensive and cooperative attitude towards other drivers, and last but not least attending the urgently recommended recovery breaks every two hours. In the end the driver that had pressed forward by all needs made the race indeed - with an advantage of just TWENTY MINUTES! The price he paid was utter exhaustion and a bad mood, plus having risked his and others' lives by rising tiredness, resulting in sinking levels of concentration. The other driver was still quite relaxed, also he had used much less gasoline. As the sayword goes: "Wer langsam reit', kommt grad so weit!" ("riding slow you cover exactly the same distance").
I made this experience by myself in the 90s. I drove several times from the Ruhrgebiet into the Bavarian Wood near to Passau what was more than 600 km. And one time I decided to drive around 120 km/h instead of pushing the car because I had found out that because of the traffic on the Autobahn it is almost impossible to drive more than 130 km/h in average. It took me 25 minutes more, I saved 15 DMark what now may be around 7,50 €. I was used to have a stop near Nürnberg to refuel and so I did it the first time I tried this but it was not necessary. So I could have saved another 15 minutes what reduces the real delay time from 25 to 10 minutes. And I was not stressed so I did not have to sit down for half an hour and have a coffee before I was relaxed again to have a conversation. All in all it saved time and money to drive that way. After that experience I changed my whole style of driving.
In the nineties two young men from our neighbourhood copied that same experiment with driving from Ruhrgebiet to Hamburg and the next day back with the very same results. Only when driving back the one who should have driven fast refused to do so to prevent from being exhausted. Let's call it 'learning by doing'.
I regularly drive from Kiel to the Saarland (around 800km). A few years ago, I usually drove 160-180 km/h when possible, but I don't like to do that anymore and always drive 130 km/h in the unlimited areas. It really doesn't make much of a difference. Traffic jams, construction sites and pee breaks have much more influence on the travel time and you can't really influence those. But now that I drive a little slower, I don't need to refuel anymore at a gas station while on the trip. That saves a lot of money because gas stations at the Autobahn are just crazy expensive. And taking a detour to a cheaper one in some town makes driving excessively fast to arrive earlier kinda pointless.
Yeah, not rocket science breakthrough discovery. ;) For longer distances i tend to hoover around 140-160, for shorter ones and sections of autobahn which i know have usually less traffic it can go up to 180-200.
I live in a small town in Rheinland-Pfalz. I have never seen or heard of bottles being put next to the bins. My three boys were brought up speaking English and German. I forbade them to mix up the languages in a sentence. A colleague was once quizzing me to find out if I thought in German or English.she actually used the example "Sie steigen in die Straßenbahn und denken "oh ich habe meinen Briefkastenschlüssel vergessen!". I found that difficult to answer as I had neither the concept of a a Strassenbahn nor of a "Briefkastenschlüssel" in my English vocabulary. (See my previous comment)
I do the bottle next to trash can thing in Finland as well. Not many do it here, which is super annoying, since we have the pfant system here as well, and it's just so unnecessary to throw away things that others would be glad to take and get the pfant.
I’ve never lived in a foreign country, but spent all my life in the Western US. Due to the large Latin influence I find myself saying “De nada” just as equally as “You’re welcome” regardless of who I’m speaking with.
Maybe "De nada" is simply so much shorter? Saves you a lot of time and - as a German - it shocked me, when I learnd, that you actually say "You're welcome" and not "Thank you". My English teacher in school missed to tell me!
Stilles Wasser. As a German living in Australia (Sydney) I very rarely use cash. Especially during the COVID pandemic, most shops/ restaurants would only accept card payments. It is months since I have withdrawn cash from the ATM. Not a habit, but I remember when I stayed with my family in Munich some years ago, I visited someone living in a block of units. So I asked for the unit number, totally forgetting that the name would be next to the bell at the frontdoor. I also take a couple of moments in German grocery stores, waiting for the cashier to pack my items in a bag for me 😀
Ich komme aus Nordrhein Westfalen und die höchste Geschwindigkeit auf der Autobahn die ich mit meinem damaligen VW Polo ( Baujahr 1987 ) gefahren bin waren etwas über 240 Km/h nach GPS!
Concerning the Autobahn Teppich as well. Im generell I am driving around 140-180 km/h, of the rod is empty and no speed Limit is given, I have gone up to 220 km/h.
About the German "Autobahn". The "no Speed Limit" is not COMPLETE correct. The Official Speed-Limit on "No Limit" Part is 130km /h. BUT: U dont get a Ticket for driving more. But when u have an Accident, because u are to fast or other things, u have to pay the half. That is what i have learned :D
Saw you 2(?) weeks ago in Bingen. Unfortunately I was driving and wasn't able to stop to say hallo. Maybe another time. Hope you had a nice trip to the Rhine.
I live in Switzerland and I think cash is an old people thing. Most of the people use there credit- or debitcard. Only in small shops like a bakery they dont accept cardpayments. So as buyer you have to use cash even if you dont want to. I often forget to go to the ATM and in the store I recognize that I forgot the cash and have to leave without buying something. This could be also one point of small shops that have to close there business. Because most of the people do there shoppings in the bigger stores were all the products can be bought at onces… and payed with card I drink water out of the sink. Why buying water in the store when the best water comes out of the sink.
no autobons ... but... the first thing my dad I and a cousin did when a new four lane road/ highway was build next to/ passing our village on Cape Cod, Ma, was to try out the overdrive on my dads Nash Rambler... We got it up to a bit over 100 !!! :) Yes the Nash kinda dates me :) the incident happened in 1962 !!! I'm now 73 ...
Hello Donny, you have to let to repair the damage on the frontglass of your car. If you have in the frontglass a damage from a little stone or what ever; when it is 2 cm andon the site on the driver, it has to repair nearly almost. Please apologize when my english is not so correct.
#4: A couple of months ago my best friend pointed out to me that I had a habit of using English idioms in German. I'd say stuff like "Du hast ja echt genug auf deinem Teller ..." or "Da kann ich grad nicht meinen Finger drauflegen ..." - and I didn't even notice I did that until she pointed it out 😅
250 kph on a nearly empty Autobahn. I would never do this if there is any traffic. That's not responsible driving. You have to adjust your speed to the traffic situation, the weather and the state of the road.
Zu Hause: stilles Wasser aus dem Wasserhahn unterwegs: Mineralwasser mit wenig Kohlensäure z.B. Gerolsteiner light. Ich zahle größtenteils mit Karte, Bargeld, das ich für Kleineinkäufe oder Taxifahrten brauche, lasse ich mir im Supermarkt an der Kasse geben, wenn ich mit Karte bezahle. Die meisten Supermärkte oder Discounter bieten diesen Service ab einem Einkauf im Wert von mindestens 5 oder 10 €uro an; man kann bis zu 200 €uro in bar erhalten.
Sparklimg water of course, in summer preferably as Rieslingschorle. My personal top speed, 245 km/h on the A60 going towards Wittlich, fairly new road back then and really not a lot of traffic at all. So I consideredthis safe. My usual travel speed is below 140 km/h much more relaxed.
Not being paid but I can recommend Readly wholeheartedly;) It saves me so much money each month especially since English magazines are not cheap to get.10€ a month and you can have up to 5 users under one logg-in. Btw...sparkling all the way!
I hate that there are so many places where you can only pay Cash...but...it is how it is... Sparkling whater....i Love the sparkel. Some Times i Drink whater Just because i neeeeeeed the sparkel.
I'm coming from baden-württemberg, but live really near Bavaria... I'm franconian, you could say xD The thing with the bottles putting next to the trash can I only learned after travelling with my boyfriend. I'm from a really small town and I was always used to take the bottles back home (if I brought them with me, I mostly still take them home again) but my boyfriend grew up im Berlin and he intoduced me kinda to that... And after that, I even noticed, that on the trash cans there are sticker saying something like: "please put your pfand bottle next, so the pfand collectors have it easier" And yeah, Autobahn is nice~ except the fact that you kinda get stressed out, cause there are 3 lines and some truck needs to get on the second line and someone driving at a speee of 120 needs to get on the left line.......... And you are aproching with a speed of 150... (Km/h) I am so used to drive there now, that I used to just take all the speed my car is able to drive and that's 180... One time I was driving my boyfriends car (it was from his working place) I drove 200... But then kinda got scared, cause I wasn't used to drive that fast... He almost always drove 200 xD But nowadays patrol is really expensive so I try to drive 130 as recommended... And even as a german I see myself driving down the road of starting to speak denglish... I watch and read really much content in english and sometimes I just don't get the german word... With my friends it's alright, cause they can all understand english as good as I do, but if it happens while I speak with my parents or siblings, it a little bit frustrating... My parents totally don't understand english and my siblings are not as good as I am... Sometimes it's frustrating, knowing two languages and starting to mingle them together...
Well, when I was in the US for 10 weeks around the turn of the Millennium, I of course mostly relied on my VISA card but quickly found out that that didn't help me much. I was war Walmart (what else?) in Vegas when my card was rejected twice. The cashier asked me it it was an "out of state card" and I responded with "no, out of country". And then I asked myself the following question: who the hell doesn't trust a VISA card just because it was issued in another state/country? You get one because you can use it everywhere, otherwise we can just as well stick to the local debit stuff. So what I had to do was... get a lot of cash from an ATM that accepted my card... (also I always have around €50 in my wallet because you never know where you won't be able to use cards... hair dresser for example. Renting those card readers is too expensive if you are using it less then 10 times a day, I have been told)
Well, I picked up (almost 3yr stay in the US) starting sentences rather often with a " Well,.." And I am suggar coating far more often ( "Good job, problem solved in a clever manner. However, you perhaps may want to consider...."). In the beginning after coming back I was avoiding long eye-contact, specifically when talking to men. Sparkling or non-sparkling water: depends. If I am really thirsty: non-sparkling, in Germany from tap (in the US mostly too chlorinated for my taste buds). With a meal or if drinking when not very thirsty (or in Apfelschorle): Sparkling.
My top speed was in a pre-production, 7-gear, hand-crafted gearbox, first series 12-cylinder, BMW 750i . Yes, the production series did NOT have seven gears. This one did, and the last gear had an incredibly high ratio. The speedometer went up to 260 km/h, but we easily surpassed that limit, and hit the stopping needle BEYOND the 260 km/h. As that was roughly the same distance away from the 260, as the 260 was distant from the 240, I'd assume it was somewhere around 275 to 280 km/h. That was deep in the night in Rheinland-Pfalz from the Saarland on an absolutely deserted strip of the Autobahn in 1999. Since then I've driven much, much more sedately (and safely, as well as sanely). /edit: Denglish is such an easy trap to fall into. Even slipping from one pronunciation style to the other in one German compound words is a regular occurence. Especially if it is an Anglicism that has been adopted (often as a false friend) into German. The ubiqitous 'Handy' for a smart-phone is a prime example. Thus the 'Handyvertrag' is your cell phone contract. And the "Handyinternetnutzung" is your cell phone web usage. That get's really strange once you start to dissect those words. 😁 /edit 2: I once was a sparkling water drinker, but in the past few weeks I changed to drink still, or rather, tap water. Drinking bottled still water is probably the most useless thing to do, in my mind. Only if there is no other choice will I drink bottled still water.
9:35 in that matter, there are a bunch of word, that are written the same way in both languages (English&German) but have totally different meanings: "Also": In De the equal meaning would be "So, or Now" "Become": In De it means "To get or receive" Classic- "Where" and "Who" have in both languages the opposite meaning Other than that, Germany has adopted a lot of english words and put that in the sophisticated vocabulary, so, if you get used to the german pronunciation, there's actually not very much, you need to learn..
I use cash a lot. I’d say the card is there as a safety. If I don’t have enough cash on hand, I’ll use it. As I have a Ford Ka, I’m unable to drive over 160 km/h.
I think the fastest my father went before is around 250 kmh on the autobahn between Cologne and Bonn, but the fastest I ever go is 130 kmh max, which is the "maximum speed" you usually learn for your drivers licence
My fastest absolute speed was 220km/h with an Audi Quattro Cabrio. Boss' car and I had permit to speed in order to taxi Boss' friend to our office. However, my fastest relative speed and alltime speed record: My first car, a 50 PS Daihatsu Cuore L201, had a speedmeter maxed at 160km/h, then some space, then the unit [km/h] and I maxed out, the needle was hopping around the unit mark. My friend an Copilot asked "How much?" and I replied "h". Probaply around 175 km/h
I still say yup, shoot, dang it, oh my gosh, oh noo and maybe a few more, that I can't think of right away. 🤣 I lived for one year in the States, when I was in my mid 20s. 😄
Im German and I'm a slow driver but I totally love the no speed limit thing. I don't Have to check ongoing my speed. This drives me nuts in Switzerland. I only drink sparkling water and if I don't have it I feel I'm drying out 😂
I'm from the Netherlands and about coasting in the left lane, it's not only unwanted behaviour, it's illegal and you can get a serious fine for it. I also want to point out that thanks to your videos I'm really seeing the similarities between Dutch and German culture. Sure, we are way more digitalized than Germany but a lot of small things are kind of similar, like the 'ja' and 'also' habit, we don't use 'also' but the Dutch variant 'dus' comes into mind a lot. One thing that the Dutch couldn't be farther away from the German culture is about the weather, we Dutchies always complain about the weather. Or well, most people. I really don't mind the weather when I want to go on a trip, when going walking during the rain even feels freeing for me in some sort of way.
Some 250 km/h. But only for a very short time. Speeds in excess of about 180km/h are extremely unsafe unless you are completely alone on the road. Someone in front of you misjudges your sped and cuts into your lane, even 300 meters or more in front of you, and you must hit your brakes really hard where at 180 km/h hit would have sufficed to get off the accelerator. 180 is relatively OK if traffic density is relatively thin. Sometimes you can even use the cruise control at that speed. Not that I still do that very. 20 years ago going fast when I could was the norm. But nowadays, as I no longer need to prove to myself that I can drive, I usually stick to the 130 km/h "Richtgeschwindigkeit", with very few exceptions.
Pleeeeeas. It is no "maximum speedlimit". There are (temporary) speedlimit but no maximum. That always confuses foreigners because all the world talks about 'no sppedlimit' while in fact it is 'no maximum speedlimit' (generelle Geschwindigkeitsbegrenzung) There is a maximum speedlimit in towns (50 km/h), out-of-town streets (100) but no maximum on the Autobahn. However, on all kind of streets temporary speedlimits who are reducing below maximum, even without a maximum, are possible!
To pay cash is so annoying. Why do I have to go to a special place to get money, an then I spend it on another place? I avoid as good as possible all stores and restaurants wich don’t accept paying by card.
240 Kph. Once. Scared the crap out of me. | I don't leave the house with less than a 100€ in my wallet even though with the current situation I pay with my EC card for nearly everything over 20€. Born in Virginia in 1963, I have lived here for so long I have a funky accent no one can place :-)
After living in Prague for 17 years I got back to the US using lift for elevator, and saying pardon (pronounced completely different from what you think) instead of excuse me and of course removing my shoes at someone's front door. That changed fairly quickly though. I also use my left blinker to indicate that I want to pass and still use Czech words when speaking, especially to my dog. My neighbors have no clue what's happening when I give Sam commands in Czech. 😁
I really would like to hear you talking to your dog in Czech. I remember, being German myself, when I wanted to go to the railway station in Mariánské Lázně by cab. The driver did not speak one of the languages I had to offer: German, English, French or Russian. So as he thought to had understood where to go, he drove to some trickle and pointed towards the dark. I was shocked and tried again, this time with steam train sounds, now he understood and off we went...
My favorite Allwetterjacken are those with multiple jackets in one. where you have a fleece jacket on the inside and a waterproof windbreaker on the outside, of which you can each one wear by it‘s own or connect them together with a zipper. And of course they have to have multiple pockets everywhere on the outside and on the inside. 🙂 In German „Also“ is often unconsciously used as a starter in front of a presentation to get all of the necessary attention of the audience. And it‘s a bad habit that is difficult to get rid of, once you‘re doing presentations at your workplace. And I‘m guilty of using it. 😉
About the Autobahn: When I do long distances, I usually don't go faster than 140 km/h on the speedo, I even use cruise control then as much as possible. You simply don't gain much time by going faster, no matter what you do, you only spend more money on fuel. I have to admit, though, that it took me some time and some getting older to finally realize that 😂 I wasn't always that sensible when I was younger 😉 However, when I drive shorter distances (100 km or less), I usually still go a lot faster and sometimes as fast as possible for a bit of fun, depending on the traffic situation. Luckily, I live in an area where the local Autobahn is very often quite empty. I would never go very fast when there is a lot of traffic, but I appreciate that I'm allowed to do it responsibly when the traffic situation allows it. The fun about driving fast on the Autobahn is not so much about being able to max your car all the time anyway - that is far too stressful - but to enjoy the feeling of acceleration every now and then when the road is empty. Also, I won't drive very fast when I have passengers on board - except they explicitly ask me to do so. Last but not least my number one safety tip for driving on the Autobahn: always drive with your low beams on, no matter the weather or if it's day or night. It's a lot harder for other drivers to overlook you in the mirror when you drive with your headlights on.
Same do I. For a short trip to next city there is no speed limit and there are times the Bahn is empty I go over 200 eventually. For longer routes it makes less sense.
I think the most comfortable speed when going basically south to north (mostly A3 the one famous for the constructions every 2 meters) is 160km/h. It's bbasically a middle ground between being many times one of the faster ones and get overtaken by everyone
Since i am a father i dive mich slower ... before i go for 240 kmh when i dive back home from my wife (back then she was my girlfriend). Now 120 is the max the most of the Time - but so my car only needs 4,5l avarege
The fastest I have driven on the autobahn was one Sunday morning and I managed to get up to 263 (GPS Speed) in my Porsche.....I was in the left lane with my palms sweating and was seriously concentrating....then I looked in the rearview mirror and a Porsche 911 Turbo was behind me flashing his lights.... when I move over he went past me at about 320km/hour or more....it was like I was standing still :( That day I learned that no matter how fast you are driving there is always someone faster!
^5, Porsche people. My top speed was from topping out a Taycan Turbo S loaner, which is irritatingly limited to 250 (but did 259 with some downhill momentum). I had to be egged on by friends to put my foot in it, not gonna lie, but it's like a track day: once you get used to it...........nah fam there are traffic jams and no yellow flags on the, ahem, non-toll'd public roads. Still gonna chill out a bit unless it's eeeeempty.
Speed: 250 km/h. But you can't keep that for more than a minute or two before some other vehicle gets in the way, or the end of the unlimited stretch has been reached.
my normal traveling speed was 130 +-10 km/h. if the road wasn't crowded occasionally 150-160 (half an hour per year when passing the first "end of limit" sign after the first restricted 300 km when going on holiday; costing me twice the fuel consumption), and only once ever 180 for two hours straight (350+ km) on an almost completely empty autobahn (right lane all the time, overtaking no other cars, being overtaken by maybe 5 porsche), and once 5-10 minutes from 140 up to 220 and back to 140 to "once have done it" when i had a new faster car and there happened to be only few other cars, but it was too stressfull (felt like work and nothing to enjoy) for a longer time. my current speed is mostly 50-80 in town and 120-160 or maybe even faster outside of town: Nowadays i don't drive for holidays any longer, and also in town i don't use my own car. for much less money (50€) than i would have to pay for a rented parking space (80-100+), i now have a card to use ALL public transport (bus, tram, Ubahn, Sbahn, some ferries, and all trains except for ICE trains) in town and everywhere in Berlin and Brandenburg (the entire net of VBB). for some rare occasions i can easily pay a taxi with all the money i save by not paying for tax, insurance, parking in town, gas, tüv, repairs, etc. and all of this doesn't even include the cost i am saving from not owning a car (buying a new one and/or value loss) in the first place.
The fastest I ever drove was 190 km/h - during my driving lesson. My driving instructor said "You'll do it anyway, so I feel better you do it while I'm still sitting beside you". His favorite place for doing that was the A6 between Homburg/Saar and K-Town-West - at that time the 130 zone only started at Einsiedlerhof - which is essentially straight with only a few bends that can be negotiated at high speeds. It did the trick, too as I never felt the urge to repeat that experience - I feel comfortable at 130 for cruising and up to 160 for overtaking.
Me too, did 190 kph with a golf diesel in driving school. We went to the Autobahn for driving lessons, and i asked him how fast are we allowed to drive on this section. He answered "speed of sound", and i replied, cool i´ll try :D
I notice in Germany sparkling water has minerals like magnesium, sodium and calcium which makes it healthy and taste good. But in the USA is just carbonated water which is disgusting.
That's a difference. In Germany "mineral water" by law has to be from a fountain. What you describe is known in Germany as "table water". But yes, in daily usage we call it all mineral water.
About 15 years ago I drove a race bike, which was tuned up to high end. My biggest fun was annoying super sport cars. My fastest speed was about 320 km/h ~199mph I don’t like sparkling water, too. But I love Apfelschorle, especially in hot summer days. I am still not a friend of small talks , but due to my connections to foreign people I learned to do it.
I thought you were just ridiculously bragging until I got that you´re not talking about a Rennrad (racing bicycle) but rather a Rennmaschine (Racing Motorbike) 😀
Bottles: my first thought was "why not putting them on top of the trash can (if it has a flat roof like the ones you show) so nobody will trip over the bottle and smash it - but then I realized the wind might throw them down and smash them for sure.
The fastest i have driven by myself was almost 300 Km/h. It was the middle of the night and the Autobahn was completely empty. The fastest i have seen somebody drive was way faster than that. I was at 130 km/h just relaxing on my way home from work. I watched my left side morror and saw NOTHING! Two seconds later a Bugatti Veyron flew away and my whole car was shaking. He definetly was way faster than 300 km/h.
I used to quite regularly max out my company cars at 250km/h (~155mph). In about 3 years of doing so, I had to make room for 2 or 3 cars that wanted to overtake (I remember a Porsche 911 Turbo and a BMW X6). Many cars that would have the power to go faster than 250km/h are actually electronically capped.
I'm just like Donnie when someone is cruising in the left lane. I grew up in the northern US and it didn't seem to be as big of a problem there. But then I moved south and it seems to get worse the more south you are. Texas is horrible and just keeps getting worse. I haven't verified this but my friends from TX say it's because "left lane passing only" wasn't expected, a law, or taught in driving school until maybe 20 years ago. Also where I grew up in the north you could flash your lights if someone was going slow and they'd pull to the side to let you pass. I wouldn't do that in TX unless you want to be a road rage victim...
