The German reply to an unsuspecting "How do you do?" is usually something like this: "Yeah, I am ok, more or less, but last week I sprained my left ankle; that still hurts a bit. And my grandma died a month ago - I still cannot believe it, I am so sad about it. She was such a wonderful person. I miss her so much! And then, spring time, pollen allergies, of course. How are you?
Oh wow a whole sentence.. where I live most people would only say "what?!!" And stare you down or Grunt and stare you down (they're not unfriendly just people of few words)
@@sapede If you go into any butchery in Germany and order "Ein Viertel von der Schinkenwurst, bitte." you'll get 125g without mentioning a quarter of what exactly. A quarter of a pound, or 500g.
you missed the handwritten sign, that fell of the wall half a week ago, which said that the people who formerly occupied room no.7 have moved to the new premises on the other side of town
Don't you mean the sign in the window formerly belonging to a washing salon, that tells you the location is closed but you can hand in your washing at this other shop a few meters away, which has since changed to a different shop, several years ago? (True story. It's gone now because the building has been removed to make space for a larger building so the supermarket can grow.)
In Brussels, that would be the correct colour... Yellow for paper and cardboard, blue for packaging (tins, cans, plastic bottles and tetrapak), green for garden waste, orange for organic waste and white for the rest. Recently, they relaxed it a bit, before, plastic bottles were in the blue bag, but plastic bottle caps in the white one...
Antrag auf Erteilung eines Antragformulars zur Bestätugung der Nichtigkeit des Durchschriftexemplars, dessen Wichtigkeitsvermerk von der Bezugsbehörde stammt, zum Behuf der Vorlage beim zuständigen Erteilungsamt.
Actually, we'll be recognized as Germans way before we even start speaking English. It might be the socks and sandals, I believe. But they do look good with my leather shorts!
"We need to invest in renewable energies and build more wind turbindes to stop global warming" "Wait not there. Not there either. Nooo you also can't put it there, what about the beautiful landscape?"
My country has voted to do away with a trading deal with twenty seven of our closest neighbours to gain access to the Papua New Guinea market.You have to laugh though...
Well you join a club and the club constantly changes its rules. So you leave the club and then they all say why did they leave. We joined the EEC. Not a european communist bloc
@@ericc1336 the EU is a right leaning organisation by the treadies, so it cannot be communism? one should think that you need to put a string on your right hand so you know right from left...
Painfully accurate. I recently moved back to Germany as an adult and I feel like dealing with the Landratsamt is a special kind of pain. What is even worse is that their departments are spread throughout the Stadt, so if you go to the wrong one, it could be a 40min walk to the next one. Ah, and forget them ever answering the phone! They are too busy telling people they are at the wrong department to answer their phone!
@@Laufbursche4u oh I know. My girlfriend’s family lives auf dem Land and everyone is very friendly. They still stare intensely though lol. City folk can be nice too, but you definitely get a lot more people who are offended by the fact that you try to be nice to them. Just poking fun!
noone else can understand our suffering, because no other nation in the world eats bread. or sausage. the brits have something they call sausage, but it's not sausage, and i feel offended by the mere fact they want to call it sausage.
@@fariesz6786 FOOL! By definition, a sausage is a conglomerate of disassociated and then reassociated animal matter! British sausages are, by definition, sausages! Even though they look very suspicious.
@@blackforest_fairy @WeisserPaladin Das regeln die Städte/Gemeinden/Kommunen/whatever, kann überall ein wenig anders sein. Gleiches gilt für die Nachtruhe.
Those are harmless. Worse are the types that consider side mirrors to be mere decoration when changing lanes... Particularly "fun" when it is a 40-ton truck doing that right in front of you.
@@alexanderschoneberg8610 Look at any footage of American highways. You see 6-lane highways where everyone is overtaking wherever they want because of that problem.
About a decade ago I had a similar experience when dealing with both the Arbeitsagentur (or, maybe even still the Arbeitsamt?) and the Jugendamt. "Oh, your surname starts with ? Please go to floor 3, room 15!" When I was there "Oh, you live in Weimarstraße? Please go to room 20, they are responsible for street names P-Z" (the details, like room names and assigned street initials might be inaccurate since it has been a long time, but still). Fun times :)
Had a similar experience. When I was traveling across the city to a different government agency I demanded to get my things done there as I didn't plan to wait another day to get back to where I started for them to open up again and it worked!
Over 15 years ago, between finishing university and starting my first full-time job, I recveived a letter from the Arbeitsagentur, telling me to show up at one of their facilities, mentioning date, time, address and room number. It did however not specity thed name of the person who wanted to talk to me. Arriving there at the right day and time, I found the room empty. Not just nobody working in there, it was literally empty, not even furniture was in there. Contacting their information desk in the lobby, I was first asked about the name of my cotact person. If course I didn't know that. They also didn't know who worked in this room before, so they couldn't even tell me where to go instead. They sent me somewhere else, that person didn't really know what to do either. Eventually I just shrugged it off and returned home. I didn't expect any money from them anyway and I had already signed my work contract to start the following week. I never heard from them ever again. PS: Ever since I came across @rewboss's channel, I was wondering about his age. Now I know that my guess was really really close. :-)
Getting a call from a friend or family member in vacation abroad: "Ahh, how is the weather in Mallorca?" This contains two hints that the person getting the call is a German.
I have to admit, having a 51 year old guy calling himself middle aged, makes me feel younger than before, as I am a 60 year old guy. Since he is going to be a hundred, I am trying to get there too.
"and you call that food? No, no, there is only one way to prepare this dish, and it's mine" "the train is 75 minutes late? That happens when it's a bit rainy!" "why did you stop at the light? It was barely red!"
Hoszitgoin boyo! Wedz love ta have ya come down to our big Octoberfest in Kitchener donchaknow! Ize bet cha'd have a great time with the beer drinkin' and all!
David Hasselwho? Knight Rider was all about the car. And I rewatch A Christmas Story every Xmas but haven't seen it through beginning-to-end since 2006!
"Our trains are less good than Switzerland's!" I was laughing so hard at that, because it's such German statement! And you know what, when speaking to foreigners about German public transport and them viewing it so positively, I must admit, I usually comment that the commuter trains often are 5 minutes late, the ICE 30 to 90 minutes and that we really ought to look for Switzerland about how to run our trains efficiently 😅
We don't even need to look to Swizerland, the Deutsche Bundesbahn (or the Reichsbahn der DDR) were perfectly capable of providing punctual transportation of goods and people before Medohrn tried to bring the DB AG to an IPO..
It's typically German to accuse another who is complaining a little too much, takes things too seriously, does things in an overly complicated way or is going all too strictly by the rules without any flexibility of thought of being typically German. It's also typically German to be offended when another German says you are typically German. Which is of course a typically German thing (being easily offended), and I'm saying that as a German.
No, being offended by getting told what you already know, is global. The differences are on two other points: First: Only the german will tell well rules or whatever, to make sure you know it, even if you probably know them, although you currently might not obey them. Not to obey means not to know for a german - not for others. Second: The german cannot give a friendly small talk phrase in reply. He has to take everything literally. He is not expecting the other one making jokes.
I am sorry but there seem to be a few steps missing for the government agencies: Part 6: "We are lunch break now. Come back in 2 hours" Part 7: (2 hours later) "Ah yes you are in the right room now. Please give me now copies of every single peace of paper you ever had in your hands in the last 3 years.... what do you mean you don't have them with you? Well then you have to come back in 5 days because tomorrow is ruhetag and then its weekend and after that i just don't wanna work" Part 8: "I know you've got here 5 hours ago and waited until your number was called but we only work until 1 pm on tuesday and its 12:59, so come back tomorrow! Part 9: "This is the old form A27, it was updated a week ago. You now need Passierschein A38 and the Formblätter 1,2,3, Ü and 99. You can get them at 3 completely different agencies every third full moon of the year. " Part ????: "Denied. Thats 249,99 euros then."
Dear Rewie, can you please do an explanatory video on why the vaccination distribution process is so painfully slow and inefficient here in Deutschland and Europe? Thanks chap, aus NRW.
Slow maybe but it looks like it may be efficient and orderly once supplies increase. In the US, it’s going much faster (second only to UK) as supply increases but only because all adults who want a vaccine spend 4 hours per day online searching for places to get one, usually in far away 200 mi/320 km rural places where less people want the vaccine.
The countries which are ahead are either massively smaller or have an unscientific rabidly nationalistic approach to it, which in the end is less likely to end the pandemic even for them and more likely to extend it, as we'll have to contend with mutations sprung up elsewhere against which the oh so successful vaccination campaign doesn't help anymore. Cf. blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2021/03/25/has-the-uk-really-outperformed-the-eu-on-covid-19-vaccinations/
What is holding Denmark back is a lack of vaccines available, we have things in place to get people vaccinated pretty fast, sure the system isn't perfect, but problems are being dealt with as fast as it can be done. And a lack of deliveries is a general problem throughout Europe, hence the clamp down on exports.
@@ohauss Another kind of nationalistic approach: The Hungarian government just buys whatever they can get from Russia and China. People don't like being vaccinated with "whatever" according to what I heard.
@@xekon14 If you wash it, it's illegal because of the car cleaning products getting into the drainage system that is meant for (relatively clean) rainwater. If the water is flowing into the sewer system it should be fine. AFAIK But who has a connection to the sewer in front of their house. That's all just drainage.
Plenty of jokes about NRW: it has very dense highways, where you can pass through 10 different adjacent cities in 45 minutes, so there is 1 highway-exit-sign for district C of city A, and the next is District A of city B, then you have district A of city C... and the highway either goes OVER cities, or trough a trench, where the city had once been demolished, to dig a trench for a highway. Duisburg train station also has over 13 parallel train lanes for public transport, as it connets all these cities, but also connects to london and berlin. the biggest and most central cities have larger malls, usually close to highways AND train stations, where older steel industry is not longer as profitable.
That was hilarious. Quite a few were extremely true. That one and Germans singing their christmas songs will be my go-to sources for basic german nature.
As someone living in germany my whole life.. you are on point!! Internet is shitty, trains are always late, goverment doesnt know its job. Its kinda ridiculous beeing in a country generally seen as a technological developed and having a internet connection which is as stable as a card house. (I lose my connection about 50 times a day for about 1-5 minutes)
Germany got widespread internet too early! Now everybody is still on _honest to god _*_Copper Wire_*_ DSL_ while the rest of Europe gets hooked up with 100 Gigabit fibreoptics
Whenever you visit someone further away by car: - Mention the AWFUL congestion on the way there. - ALWAYS mention the gas prices and how it's so so much cheaper or more expensive where you live.
The roads are rubbish, nobody indicates, nobody knows how to use a roundabout, the shops are open on a Sunday, they have got rid of the safety lane on the motorways and now they are apparently ‘smart’, there is a speed limit on the motorways but hardly anyone pays any attention to it by driving at least 10mph faster or 20mph slower. When the country was asked ‘do you want a job’ most people voted no thanks, even people who have retired to warmer places, and now there is no one to pick the daffodils for the supermarkets because the locals don’t like bending over for anyone. Is that enough?
Lol, no more :) My German friends, now envy us, Americans! In the past year they become to realize that our government respects our rights way more than their government, the reason is ...the Second Amendment. :))
How can else pseudo-justify a corporation make a citizen invest in a very expensive hundreds hp vehicle just to take the children to school and pick up the groceries?
apples and oranges: The German autobahn is one of the safest highways on the planet, the number of mass shootings and gun violence in the US is way higher than in most other Western nations, also by percentage. This also has to do with the accessibility of weapons and everyone feeling the urge to own one.
Kinda funny that lots of those fits Belgium as well, the flag bit and the government agencies bit especially. People who flow the flag outside of those occasions are usually people you'd want to avoid.
Government agency: We've never done it that way! Government agency: We've always done it that way! Government agency: We can't do that! Otherwise, everybody would want it, too!
In the part about data protection you forgot to shot a dozen of Selfies with your house in every perspective in the backgrund and uploading them to Instagram or Facebook, or both. Including bragging about your holidays to Mallorce the entire next two weeks. Because data protection would be a fine thing... if the people wouldn't toss their data around at anyone who can't duck and cover fast enough.
Guess where I live: I live in a small EU country by the sea, where everyone thinks the whole population lives in the capital. A city well known for a local football club and coffee shops.
About the dialect part... under one of your previous videos, I commented sth in ripuarian and ppl were asking me if I was speaking german at all. Sadly, the account I posted that with got deleted... Blam över dingleidung
My turn: Dialects I may have been born in a slightly mountainous federal state. However, due to my mother from a coastal federal state, and my Syrian father, I don't speak "my state's" dialects at all and stick to Hochdeutsch/Standard German. That kind of German is closer to my mother's home region anyway.
@@grandmak. Close. I'm from Dresden, but have always felt more comfortable in Mecklenburg-Westpomerania, where I'm currently studying to become a teacher.
Well, yes, you're obviously alive (or else you're a dyslexic chatbot), but where do you reside? I could say something similar, like 'Germany lives in me'.
I believe the VAT is also a thing rather high in germany. Adn taxes in general, but we don't really mind because at least some folks know what they are for and then get angry about it when they see what they are actually used for again...
0:46 that sounds very British. Besides how would you renationalize a railway like DB which is 100% owned by the state? Funnily enough DB owns DB Cargo UK who operate the British Royal Train.
Wrong DB is not owned by the state... It is a privat company and has been for at least the last 25 years. And many Germans think that DB was better back in the days then it was owned by the State.
"38 degrees outside? its gonna be an bloody brilliant day, get out the barbie, stop by the butcher's and pick up some chops, run past the servo for some petrol and have a nice roast."
Today the weather is perfect. It does not get better, it just gets warmer. Summers in Oregon, where I used to live, had weeks on end like that. They also brew beer in Oregon, though Germans might mistake it for Radler.
But you got one. And to make this a noticable fact, you need to tell how it is in other countries. How long does it take somewhere else ? 2 days ? or half a year ?
@@holger_p Well, it's this unique combination that allows to identify the country: you will get it, and everything to make it work is already there when you move in, but it still takes 8 weeks!
@@fluchschule Only from the word "still" I can conclude you find 8 weeks too long ? You can only evaluate this period, if you have ever done it in any other country, I haven't. So I cannot say it's a distinguishing attribute. Electricity and Water is never interrupted, cause the measurement does strictly belong to the apartment. With phone and Internet it's more complicated, cause your phone numbers and contracts need to be transferred. You don't get the phone-number of the person before you. Plus: There is this glorious customer protection law, you can cancel any contract within 14 days, after signing it. Of course, first they will wait for 14 days, cause you could cancel. If you do not, they really take the fulfillment of the contract into consideration.
Heiligs blechlä. Schön auf den Punkt gebracht. Konnte kaum vor lachen. Die Einhaltung der pausenzeiten wäre noch ein Punkt der fehlt. Einhaltung der ruhezeiten. Und der deutsche Polizist als Freund und Helfer ( ja ich weiß da gibt's auch a Löcher aber im Vergleich zu US cops sind die sehr freundlich)
"Just because I put a sticker on my mailbox saying that I don't want the shop's brochures doesn't mean I don't want the local paper. Why are you doing this to me mail carrier?"
And yet, they put in whatever the FUCK they want anyway. You could tape a stop sign to the mail and they'd still go all 'this sign won't stop me cause I can't read!'.
{"This service is not available online. Please call this number to make an appointment." (calls number) "We cannot arrange an appointment over the phone. Please send an email." (sends email)} loop ad infinitum
German trains are not just 5 minutes late, they tend to be cancelled. The transport ministre needs to go for (many) other reasons. You want to apply for permit no. A38. These are my corrections.
They are cancelled *after* you've waited for 30 minutes and lost multiple connections you could have reached if you had simply ignored the info given to you.
the government thing makes no sense. you need to make an appointment first, that is given you in 14 days from today and it is only for one issue to treat. if you are in the wrong room and the appointment time is up, you have to make a new appointment which is given you in 14 days time, if you are lucky. but you have to make the appointment on the internet at 7:58 in the morning, because after 8:00 all 3 available appointment dates for the next two weeks are gone.........
Now I, another different person with no Idea who said that, want you to dress up like a teenager! Where I live they do that here 7 weeks before easter and command everybody "to be joyful, but let the cathedral in this city". They started to do this also in summer.
I live in a city where hedgehogs beat rabbits at running and where the dogs bark with their tails Also, the Southern part of Germany doesn't believe my city exists
@@randomjasmicisrandom Nope. My city actually exists, it's just a misunderstanding that people don't believe it Not like that made up mumbo jumbo about Bielefeld
@@Soguwe I’ve heard of the Bielefeld ‘conspiracy’ because I lived there until last year, but I haven’t heard of any other cities that apparently don’t exist! I looked up the hare and the hedgehog and found out that it is a Niedersachsen Grimm tale which I hadn’t ever heard of before either.
For me it would be: I'll be grand. What's da story? There is always time for a pint. The pub is our extended living room, there's no time like or time. Bus is late - noone really bothers - of there is a sports game on, they may not come at all cause drivers rather stay in the depott and watch the match. You sit in the pub on your own and someone chats you up randomly or offers to join them and their friends. Cross connections for buses and trains are crap or non existing - everything is run via the capital. Ladies on the streets selling goods out of prams: "Strawberries!...Toilet paper!...Bananas - 5 for a Euro!" Also a country of writers that created works like Dracula, Gulliver's travels or Ulyses. Weather is not always as bad as perceived from the outside. Sheep. Lots of sheep. Red hair and freckles also a clichee. The country where Halloween originally derieves from (Samhain).
Approximately 50% of people in my country are saying things like, "How dare the European Union say I can only spend 90 days out of every 180 in Europe!". The same people who just voted to only be allowed to spend 90 days out of every 180 in Europe.
@@NormanTheDormantDoormat Och naja, klingt doch schon ein bisschen nach Dresdnerisch, oder? Hätte zumindest gedacht, dass das gemeint ist, kann mich auch täuschen
@@BambooTime Vielleicht. Meinem Empfinden nach: "Dafüa" klingt nicht gut genug, hab aber keine bessere Variante anzubieten. Vielleicht "davor". "Bün isch" vielleicht "binsch" oder "simmer". "ni" meinem Empfinden nach eher net/ned/nid/nit oder nich. "of di" definitiv "of de".
@@BambooTime Yeah those stereotypes don't fit my experience either. So far I could always sort things out by writing an e-mail or talking to a secretary with little to no paper work.
