What do the British think of the Germans!?
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- The most asked question you guys asked for on Instragram was for me to go back to England and ask what the British think of the Germans. I was shocked and the amount of people who actually came over. This is by far my favourite video I have made to date. Germany you are next, it will be interesting to see what the Germans say about the British .
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I am in love with the British people. I love their way to talk, I love their Pub culture very much, I love their humor and I believe even they are not as straight as we are it is always a great time beeing over to the little cute island. Furthermore I believe the British music culture is absolutely fantastic. Definitely something Germans are not as good as the British are. Much respect to the older guy. I was expecting a different opinion on us.
Yes, it's good to hear that the prejudices that result from WW2 have faded away with the older generation and given way to a friendly attitude.
I love the Germans XD
And us British love the Germans! :D
@@grandmak. The older generation that actually experienced WW2 got over the war decades ago. It's younger generations that keep mentioning it.
Yes, so me!
> "... something Germans are not as good as the British are"
immediately CRICKET comes into my mind. rofl
We Germans take our humour very serious, it's no laughing matter. ☝🏻
Good one😂
wallah
😆😅🤣
This ☝️ humor is serious business
ruclips.net/video/or_MOZeGf2c/видео.html 👈🏻And many of Germans are NAZISM racist
Keep in mind that Mr. Bean and Monty Python e.g. are very popular in Germany so I guess there is common ground when it comes to humour. The elderly man at the end speaks German with a very good pronunciation by the way.
It shocked me his german. It was one of my favourite movements on this channel. have a great easter Friday! :D
…castle of aaaaaaargh haha 😂👍💙
Miranda Hart, Rowan Atkinson, MontyPython, Father Ted, The IT Crowd, Little Britain, Green Wing, Derry Girls .... we love British Comedy
@@issykasson1668 Comedy? And I always thought these were documentations of British every day life...😶
Ich war auch sehr beeindruckt, wie gut und korrekt er sich ausdrücken konnte...Großartig!
We love the British humour so much, a British sketch that was recorded for German television in 1963 belongs to our New Year's Eve tradition till this day.
Dinner for One 😅
und genau deshalb gelten wir als "humorbehindert". Die Scheiße ist doch 0 lustig
@@hans3125 Der Trick ist dass man sich vorher erbarmungslos einen reinlöten muss.
Dinner for One has got to be one of my favourite traditions, and I’m not even German or British. Greetings from Canada!🇩🇪🇨🇦🇬🇧
@@hans3125 I also don't think it is that funny but humour is a really personal thing in general, so I don't think everyone thinks germans have no or bad humour because of one film.
"They have humour, it‘s just very well hidden."
That is the most british thing to say.😂 I love you Brits
Bruh imagine being British
As a Broke american I can say this
@@jamesabestos2800
American detected
Opinion rejected
I’m English and feel a kinship with the Germans due to our Anglo-Saxon heritage. It is a travesty what happened in the previous century.
Well said
I am a Saxon in Old Saxon:
ruclips.net/video/DJpAfDum4Cs/видео.html
When this old gentlemen said "they are generally very competent" I thought to myself: Der gute Mann hat noch nie einen Antrag auf einer deutschen Behörde gestellt.
Oder ist jemals mit der Deutschen Bahn gefahren
Du hast ihm nicht fertig zugehört "wenn sie mal inkompetent sind, dann so richtig" ich finde das passt 😂
Du glaubst garnicht wie sehr ich das gerade bestätigen kann
Das sind die Dinge, die wir einfach nicht können :D Weil alles Drölfzig mal geprüft wird. Gerade erst wieder bei dieser dusseligen Rentenkasse erlebt! Was ein Verein :D Am Freitag war der Zettel der Krankenkasse vorhanden. Am Montag war das Papier der Krankenkasse nicht da, aber das was am Freitag gefehlt hatte, das war dann plötzlich da :D Übers Wochenende einfach alles vertauscht :D Bis diese inkompetente Dame dann doch gesagt hat: OH ES IST JA DOCH ALLES DA :D Der Fall war dann erledigt und ich habe mich umsonst aufgeregt! Achja, das ist das was wir Deutschen am besten können: AUFREGEN!!! :D Darin sind wir tatsächlich Weltmeister :D
@@AliaslsailA +1
Yes, our engineering is great i am proud to be a German. British and Germans are always top tier with inventions in history 🇩🇪❤️🇬🇧
im a car guy and i think japan makes the best cars but germany is a close 2nd. i like old bmws and mercs :)
@@shay4261 absolutely.. the Japanese cars are stylish. And in my opinion very close to our engineering. But we have the history ;-)
rip british inventiveness ⚡⚡⚡
British engineering was the best in the world at one point. We still make quality products, so does the rest of the world for less cost.
I am German, but I had driven a better American car than the German ones my family and neighbours drove. German cars tend to be a bit overenginered which can be exspensive.
We are brothers! As a Briton, I think the Germans are intelligent, stubborn, and we both have a lot in common. Cheers 🍻
We have Anglo-Saxon origin, that's why
Germanic brotherhood
Coming from an Anglo-German background I just love the Germans! 🏴🇩🇪
As a German I really LOVE BRITISH ENGLISH (not American English!) because of its sound and pronounciation (I think that is one reason why I really love William Shakespeare and his plays!). England is one of my favourite countries and I would also like to visit Scotland. And I have some English relatives living in Nottingham...a cousin of my mother married a British gentleman and moved to England, I think this was BEFORE WW II started.
Since several years her son and his wife nearly regularly visits us in Germany, in Northrhine-Westfalia. They (and also the other British relatives) are very nice and intelligent.
But I am very disappointed that UK left EC. The British people are also our European brothers and sisters.
Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland...loving greetings from Germany 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗
Spoiler alert. Academic linguists have concluded Elizabethan English not only sounded entirely different than we would read it now but also had many subtle meanings lost to time. Apparently Shakespeare's plays are actually more comedic than comes across in modern times.
As a German I have lived in the UK for over 10 years and have grown really fond of British people. They are open, funny, educated, pragmatic, have the best sense of humour in the world, are very good at self-reflection/self-criticism and don't take themselves (or the rest of the world) too seriously. Genuinely nice people, I have made lots of friends in the UK and my stay there has definitely enriched my life and changed me for the better (I hope). I moved back to Germany because of Brexit - after the referendum I feel the mood in the general public had changed for the worse and I did not feel welcome any longer. Of course that was largely due to the media and NOT because of the people I knew personally. Every single Briton I have met (with the exception of my first landlord) has been absolutely fantastic and I still love GB to bits (just not their government).
I love Germany - the rest of Europe and voted for Brexit..
We will always choose the sea before the continent (look at an atlas) but that doesn't mean we don't care - we just do our own thing. 🇬🇧❤
The Brits don’t hate foreigners, we just hate being regulated and told what to do by unelected foreign politicians from the EU. I voted for Brexit but absolutely love travelling around Europe, especially Germany, Spain and Greece. My best friend is actually a German woman who has lived in the UK since 2008. She said she would have also voted for Brexit if she had been allowed to 😂
You dont understand why we voted for Brexit. We don't hate Europeans...far from it. Especially like the Germans. It was all about democracy and the fact that Britain is full ( particulary England ) . The infrastructure has not been able to keep up with immigration. We want the right kind of immigrants ( those like yourself ) not those who want to do us harm and take advantage of our good nature.
Every rational Briton apologises for Brexit.
@@chairmanalf7856 EU politicians are elected, stop reading the Daily Mail
I don’t think many foreigners watch German satire/irony in transmissions like ‘Die Anstalt’ as you would need a high level of language skills and knowledge of the political landscape.
That. Hands down.
I dont know about "Die Anstalt". But you have the "Heute-Show" which is very simmilar to The dayli show with Trevor Noah. But I am not a huge fan of either because I have the feeling that both build on insiders for people to feel smart when they get them. But the jokes arent actually good. In my opinion! Greetings from Austria! Btw I have my 18th birthday today. 🎉🙆♂️
German humor includes a fair bit of play on words and that tends to get lost in translation.
@@asorbli you should give it a try, oliver welke said its the best satire in german TV, even better than heute-show, and Id agree. And I dont like trevor noah as well, but I love jordan klepper :D
The difference is that Anglo saxon humour is part of their everyday life while we Germans separate it more, we literally have a time to joke and a time to work.
The thing about sarcasm is that it is used on a different level of intimacy here, at least in my opinion. We suck at comedy, no question, however we love satire and sarcasm.
From my personal experience I would say our humour is quite a lot drier and darker than the English, however we don't joke around with strangers unless we want to start a fight, so the British "disrespect" of our personal space can rub people the wrong way here.
However once you are on first name basis there is no holding back in mockery and Schadenfreude.
Oh and we tend to do it the opposite way of the English and over exaggerate rather than understate stuff. So e.g. a common reaction for someone dropping a tool at work would be "Lass liegen, ist kaputt." - "Leave it on the ground, its broken." Or an encouragement to throw it harder next time so that the obvious intent of breaking the floor tile may at last be accomplished.
And about the toilet related jokes: that's a general difference, where the English speaking world tends to resort to sexual intercourse related insults and swears we use fecal related equivalents in their stead.
This is an astute observation :)
I would say: Humour by overexaggeration is a common German things - but humour by underexaggeration exists also, but ist more a northern German thing. Lesser people, lesser usage of words - lesser known in the rest of Germany, but it's existing, so I heard them say.
@@ratatosk8935 ironically the cultural region anglo saxons and danish northmen colonizers were from.
@@ratatosk8935 not to mention Kingdom of Hannover which was basically an english proxy state for quite some time before prussians dominated german lands.
As a German I am sad that all british forces have left Germany. After WWII british soldiers have treated the Germans always in a fair way.
No, they don't. I grew up in a city with lots of British soldiers. They were not always the neighbors you are looking for.
@@Meckermaxxe I know, some of them were heavy drinkers, military police had a lot of work :-))
@@MeckermaxxeThe British were the ones who let Germany bring their small Army up after WW2.
Stop watching RUclips clips and watch proper TV documentaries. Ffs. Brain job. 🙄
@@Deano-Dron81 You can't read, right? Or do you just have problems with understanding?
8:43 OK that dude nailed it. Not only was the pronunciation nearly spot on. He also used surprisingly complicated words.
i love how the elderly man just casually remembered the phrase: “mEiNe dEuTsChKeNtNiSsE sInD eTwAs eInGeRoStEt” like that’s so impressive. Istg that’s better and more academic German than most of the Germans would speak 💀
What? I don't know where and how you grew up but that is a completely normal German sentence. I as a young man in my 20s would phrase it the exact same way.
But yes it shows that the old guy knows German quite well and probably was fluent at one point in his life and maybe still is after a little amount of practice.
@@johannes3153 Das Leben am Hof be like 😂
@@cedriczwiebel4873 Walla mein deutsch dings bisschen rostig Lan hahahah mashalla das diese andere Sprachkenntnis lol
@@johannes3153 Dude ich kann diesen Satz auch sagen. Das ist nur nicht zwingend ein Satz den man mal eben so lernen würde wenn man Deutsch als Fremdsprache lernt. Gerade auch weil das Wort eingerostet mehr aus der Umgangssprache als aus dem akademischen Deutsch kommt.
@@thequietkid7205 Jetzt widersprichst du dir selbst. Fu sagstest in deinem ersten Kommentar, das sei besseres und akademischeres Deutsch, als die meisten Deutschen sprechen. Wogegen ich mit meinem Kommentar widersprochen habe.
As a Englishman I love Germany and respect the German people as they generally have class and standards.
I was passing through Cologne for one night and stopped in a bar for a beer on my own and made some great friends with the regulars and will never forget their kindness, hospitality and humour.
There is definitely a cultural bond somewhere - probably from the German tribes who emigrated to Britain all that time ago. Even veterans from both world wars have said this.
I would say it's also typical for the Rheinland, here in cologne you will never be alone for long, if you are in a bar drinking your Kölsch.
As it's said here: trink doch eene mit, stell dich net so aaan :)
Greetings from cologne!
@@Tosse901 kolsch is a superb beer - loved the process of marking the beer mats with each beer before paying up at the end.
I think of the German's as family who stayed in Saxony..
Blood is blood. 🇬🇧
I love England and their people so much🏴I sometimes make jokes bout them but when Americans start making fun of them I'm defending them with everything I got. we Europeans need to help each other out after all. gettings from Germany 🇩🇪❤️🏴
I was born in Germany to English parents, grew up with both languages and speak both fluently. When it comes to humour, language is everything. How is an Englishman supposed to find someone like Otto Waalkes funny, even though he is absolutely hilarious.
How is a German supposed to laugh at a Jethro or Billy Conolly?
Otherwise, the Germans and English are not natural enemies and we have far more similarities than differences.
Really cool story. I completely agree :)
I love Henning Wehn, I hope I've spelt that right.
Hello friend kindly inbox me I need some consultation
Exactly
Otto: Egg Free Light
Love that elderly gentlemen, what a nice guy. And his german is almost perfect.
German Humour: Dry and or Dad jokes, Politics, word play, satire, reaccount of funny encounters/ stories, "Deine Mutter Witze" and potty humour. A combination of multiple or all of these.
Also humor in the ruhr area is very different from humor in munich for example. Ruhr area humor=yorkshire humor.
i would say especially the youth also has a strong sense for very dark humour, just take a look at the meme/sticker scene
@@mccorklejones9635 I think in general, the rule which applies is: The more south/east you go, the more dark the humor becomes in Germany. But usually that side is hidden from foreigners, as you don't want to make a bad impression at first, lol.
@@hopfinatorischerkuchenkrieger yeah could be, i can just speak for myself and my friend group living in the east, that i can literally laugh about anything no matter how dark it is
@@mccorklejones9635 same
Old joke: what´s the difference between an Englishman and a German?
The Englishman is too polite to be honest and the German is too honest to be polite. 😉
Wow, this really got me thinking about german humor :D
I don't think I will be the first person to mention these names, but take Loriot, Helge Schneider and Hape Kerkeling for example. They are all entirely different but all of them make fun of german mannerisms and society. German humor is about making fun of ourselves and it makes total sense that other people won't pick up our jokes.
Try translating lyrics by die Ärzte without losing the sarcastic (yes sarcastic) humor - "Junge" or "Lasse redn" for example.
Or take a look at the tv series "der Tatortreiniger" and "Mord mit Aussicht". The reason why these two shows are so iconic are because of the typical northern and west german small town mannerisms.
I'm so happy to see that so many of the people you interviewed view us so positiv
I watched this one series and it was strange. Berlin Berlin. Have a look and tell me what you think ? Have a great easter Friday! :D
That old fella impressed me by his excellent German. The term "ein bischen eingerostet" in context with language is not often used by foreigners. Greetings from Nuremberg.
Technically Germans and the English people were from the same Saxon blood.They were brothers one speaking Germans and the other english.They were both Germanic tribe and English language has German roots
We share the most similar DNA, culture and language ❤🇩🇪
You share more similar dna with the Danes
@@danishcommander4dk Anglo-Saxons came from Denmark and Germany anyway
I’m always surprised when Brits attest Germans a lack of humor, since a lot of us are infatuated with British comedy. From Python to Mitchell and Webb or Ricky Gervais, I, like many others, am regularly left in tears.
British humor is nunanced and self-depreciating with an oftentimes rather pessimistic / nihilistic outlook on life, which resonates a lot with the average German. Irony and sarcasm are prevalent and it can get downright dark, all of which is widespread in our daily lives as well (at least where I live). From my experience, British and German attitudes in general don’t seem to differ all too much and I found making friends rather easy.
I agree 100%, my German friends, who now live in Australia, are more obsessed with British comedy than me.
English and Germans are a perfect match... No mentality fits so well in Europe... Anglosaxons meet Saxons.... 🏴🤗❤️🏴
Exactly
Not all Germans descended from the Saxons. There were other West Germanic tribes like the Franks, Frisians, Alemanni, Bavarians, Thuringians who became Germans
@@lissandrafreljord7913 still ethnic brothers. The English exists thanks to Angles-Saxons, they created England
@@lissandrafreljord7913 Frisian is the mother of English
@@lissandrafreljord7913 you are right the old Saxon area is lower Saxony and Westphalia in the Northwest
they are saxons, no more words needed
That old man is so cool and charming!!
That man at 2:12 is so nice and sweet. I wish him all the best. Greetings from Hamburg!
He was lovely! have a great easter Friday! :D
Absolutely in love with that old man. "Mein Deutsch ist ein bisschen eingerostet." Who knows what he sees in his life. He's so adorable and calm. Just love from Germany to this man.
As an Englishman, I can say I love the Germans. I'm from the north of England and I find the humour of my German friends is actually very similar to ours, dark and dry. I think we are very similar characters and have much more in common with each other than we realise. Afterall, where did the the Saxons come from originally?
...Denmark.
From my experience, many Northerners would feel more at home in the Ruhrgebiet than they would in London.
Most English DNA actually came from Northern and northwest France. Brits are nowhere as "Germanic" As the Germans, Dutch or Scandinavians.. Most English DNA came from native Britons..Anglo-Saxon DNA runs 5-20% a minority of their dna
@@svenradd1027 No it doesnt
@@davidemmett8191 I can link studies proving that. Is Mr bean Germanic? What about Russell Brand? Victoria Beckham? Orlando Bloom? Most Englishmen have native Briton genetics.
that very old guy, what a beautiful soul
jürgen klopp is the best proof that the germans have a sense of humor :)
And Thomas Müller. 😊😊😊
ich bete zu Gott dass der Dude nicht Oliver Pocher gemeint hat
I always get perfectly along with british folks. In my experience they are really similar to us. Same with Scandinavians. There is no barrier, you can directly get in Touch, have some beers and laugh your Asses off 👍
Scandinavians and Dutch, I believe are the closest to Germans... British people are quite different..much less direct in communication, class conscious, more uncomfortable with nudism, and more wanting to stick from the group.. I saw more casual bar fights in England (London isn't england) in 2 months than in many years in Germany, NL and several months visiting different Scandinavian nations..
An ass is a donkey. You mean "arses".
@@acidpunker1 it's both... More Common to use asses than arses Here. Not regarding your sexual preferences
I do think the German humor is more direct and to the point, as germans generally more to the point. For me the most German humorist is Loriot. Watch "Papa ante Portas", my wife is from Russia and she loves this movie.
Mose Germans i know love british humor which is known as more dark and ironic as the german humor. I personally do love Black Adder, Fry and Lory, Yes Minister, Monty Phyton and so on.
A big shut out to the widespread Charakter of our Europe's People
Loriot is so overrated. So absolute not funny at all.
A normal German here: About sausages: You only eat "Weiswurst" without skin. The rest of the sausages you never peel (at least what I can tell from my region in Baden-Württemberg).
In regards to jokes I think this is more of an language barrier. The direct jokes which work in German language often or mostly do not work while being translated into English. The same the other way around. So it only works if the respectively German either speaks kinda almost nativ English or a English guy almost nativ German.
Grüße aus Bayern :)
Kann nur sagen wie ich es kenne,
häuten hauptsächlich Weißwurst und ein paar einzelne ander auch. Zum Beispiel die für n richtigen bayrischen Wurstsalat "schält" man auch. Die Billige Version davon hat sogar ein Haut aus Plastik und ist absolut nicht essbar, die teurere ist schon aus Darm, der "Salat" ist aber ohne einfach genießbarer.
Auch da scheiden sich jedoch die Geister.
Hab schon Einheimische gesehen die Weißwurst mit Haut essen. 🥲
In Norddeutschland werden in den Wintermonaten um Februar rum gerne 'Kohl- und Pinkelmarsche' gemacht. Man läuft in einer geschlossenen Gruppe (Nachbarn, Kegelklub etc.) mit einem Bollerwagen durch die Prärie, an jeder Kreuzung wird ein Schnaps getrunken. Ziel des Marschs ist oft eine Gaststätte, in der u.a. Kohl und Pinkelwurst serviert werden. Die Pinkelwurst wird auch ohne Haut gegessen!
Viel Glück für Deinen tollen Kanal. Ich habe ihn zufällig vorgeschlagen bekommen. Du hast eine sehr nette Art, mit Leuten zu sprechen. 🤩
Hab eine schöne Zeit bei uns. 👍🏻
I think that most of German comedians and jokes are based on sarcasm so I think it’s not true at all. It’s just hard to get sarcasm if it’s an other language.
They where just having a laugh, we know the brits and Germans have a great sense of humour! Have a great easter Friday! :D
Learn the.language
@@dagmarvandoren9364 I’m pretty bad at learning languages but I think by now my English is okay. I do watch a lot of English speaking RUclipsr and that’s why I can understand pretty much everything.
I just wrote this comment because I was in a situation where I didn’t get irony during my work and travel in Australia. My boss wanted me to do something and I struggled to understand what he said. In the end he just made a joke and I didn’t get it 😂
@@yourtruebrit yeah I thought so 😂 that’s probably a problem about me and maybe other Germans do that too. Even if I know it’s irony I want to explain myself 😂😂
Wow amazing video wunderbar lol. Okay, here is what I think of Germans:
Extremely smart people, extremely professional, the best engineers and dentist. Also I’ve been told that German language is absolutely beautiful as you have a word for everything and a Meaning for everything. I’ve got a lot of time for Germans. A big Hello to Frankfurt and to Frankfurt FC. Lots of love to Frankfurt. My mum was living in Frankfurt long before I was born. 🙏🏻 ❤️ 🇩🇪 ❤️🇩🇪❤️🇩🇪
After all, the Angels and Sachsen were German.
So we're the Friesen and so on.
Angels also Danish.
Yes but still Germanic in origin
Indeed a great among of the english have still Anglosaxon roots... As you can see when you watch the interviewer...typical Anglosaxon like a North West German...
@@hannofranz7973 actually, the Angels were a western-germanic tribe, like the english, germans and dutch are today.
The Jutes that lived north of them and controlled Kent and the Isle Of Wight have been a western germanic tribe aswell. the danes actually came there from the danish islands and southern sweden after many, if not most, jutes left for england. You could say Denmark (as we know it) exists because England exists.
My town in Scotland is paired with another in Germany, and during our 2nd year of High school their second year equivalents in Germany had a class exodus to Scotland. They stayed local and explored during the evenings and mornings, popping in to study with us in the afternoon. We all got buddied with a German and hit it off. The excitement and pleasure of speaking about our lives and countries was something to remember. I found i had shared a lot in common with my buddy, liking the pokemon franchise and having liked dinosaurs as a kid. And I learned that despite being on a larger area basis, they shared a similar style of schooling to ours where its on larger school for an area all closest were obligated to attend when of age. It baffled me then that they had some people travelling multiple hours for high-school as I was simply 30 minutes walk from mine, and the farthest student was an hour and a half out. Even now I travel half the country to get to Uni and its shorter than some of their travel times, likely due to the trains here being faster than school busses with more direct routes. I still have 2 sets of playing cards that are German from him and his Instagram account. We haven't spoken in about 5 years i reckon now, but I still one day plan on learning more of the language and returning the gesture of coming over here just to see our land and culture.
I love love love the British accent so much, as a German! Or should I say the British colour of language? Anyways, can't get enough of it. To be honest, in my opinion French is the most beautiful language on the planet. But No. 2 on my list is British English, definitely! Thanks for another great video. I had no idea there are Britains who have any positve opinion of/about/on Germans (I will never understand the correct use of English prepositions), but it feels good to hear those people's statements! Sorry for my bad English, your German is way better :-)
I was really interesting, when I first said to people I was going to ask this question in England. Most people thought this was crazy and that most people thought the British would just mention the war. How wrong thier where. ;) Have a great easter Friday! :D
Im german and i always thought of the brits as kind of the older, cooler brother of us :)
It's true. English and Germans are similar a lot. When I am in the UK I feel like staying in kind of parallel universum. It's the same a lot but different in so many details. So it's simular but different in one. By the way. I love the UK and i am so sorry that they left the EU. With greetings from Germany
Really? There is no chit chat culture in Germany .small talk is alien. Germans are much less spontaneous, predictable but also more efficient. English have much higher tendency to physical agression and being obnoxious, While Germans are more into respecting the laws and self control
The EU is a political union. The British and German people are not related to it. We are all still European.
great video!
the old man was lovely!
Hey man Was Geht! :D
In the UK people make jokes all the time in every situation but in the US and Germany I found that it leads to a lot of blank looks - similarly in South Africa. All my jokes stopped working when I went to university in Cape Town. I think the type of humor is different up to a point but there's also the amount by which people use it. In a lot of company in the UK you cannot say anything remotely serious without being mocked. Seriousness is looked down upon. Humour is also used to self-deprecate so you can disarm other people's envy. There's a difference between Irish and English humour too for example and I find it harder to describe but given that I'm 1/2 Irish I'm not surprised that I enjoy the Irish way of thinking about humour.
I'm British, and I'm a fan of the German industrial metal band Rammstein. They're the first thing that comes to mind when I think of Germany - there are only two categories of German people I know, namely those to whom I have mentioned Rammstein at least once, and those to whom I will.
I've also learned a bit about how many Germans view Rammstein. Turns out they're actually quite a controversial band, even in Germany.
Ich spreche ein Wenig Deutsch, doch ich habe das Meiste gelernt von Rammstein!
🇩🇪🎸
Brits are so gentle and polite. ❤❤❤❤
As a German I understand you pretty well 👍
The elderly gentleman reminded me a lot at my grandpa who passed away this year. Love you brits 🤞
Cool interviews, Much Respect and love to the british People!
The old gentleman is such a sweatheart. what a lovely person.
My wife and I have had several river cruise holidays on the Rhine, Main and Danube. (We are Brits.)
I absolutely loved our time in Germany. The countryside is beautiful and everywhere is so neat and clean (unlike too much of the UK).
I thought leaving the EU was an incredibly stupid thing for us to do.
Hope you be back soon =)
To really understand the humour of another culture, you have to be immeresed to the other culture as well. Otherwise it's not really funny. Sarcasm, exaggeration, understatement, puns, irony, jokes etc. therefore often don't work in the other language/culture.
Some recognise this, others consider the other people to be humourless (applies for Germans aswell as for Brits).
I agree, you also have to be familiar with the language so you know double meanings of words etc.
@@grandmak. Grandma k.! Schönen Tag! Wünsche Dir wunderschöne Ostern!
@@sisuguillam5109 Danke gleichfalls Sinus !
@@grandmak. 😂😁
Sisu, lol, habe gerade den Fehler gefunden, hahaha !
Amazing video, very respectful people, so lovely and adorable, especially that cute older man.
It's not so easy to translate humour, now the younger generation is growing up with more opportunities to learn and speak English, so now they understand eachother a lot more. But British humour was definitely something you could find in Germany. Rowan Atkinson, Monty Python - John Cleese and Faulty towers, Benny Hill. Some TV shows were inspired by British TV shows The German show, "Ein Herz und eine Seele" from the 70s found his inspiration in BBC show,
"Till death us do part"
Be careful calling older gentlemen cute. They may have 20+ confirmed kills on their record.
When we met him, we was so surprised with his knowlege on Germany
I'm German, and I used to study English at university, both the language as well as Cultural Studies, because I'm so in love with the language and all its British dialects, as well as their part of history. Also, if there are people in Europe who really do get English humour, it's the Germans, especially the understatement part. All the love from Germany! ❤
The old man was so adorable 🥺 and his german was good even after some time
As I always say, people around the world are all similar. I once was in Ireland for bit and even on the same day I arrived I realized that these people have just the same problems as everyone else in the world. The students were complaining about how much homework they have, the adults were upset, because of their politicians and then there was this one friendly bus driver telling me a story about his whole life. I did get off the bus a few stations too late, because I didn't want to interrupt him ^^
Thank you so much for the Fawlty Towers reference! As a Russian, I found this episode incredibly entertaining to watch. Looking forward to finding a soul that will understand a "Don't mention the war" reference in future talks.
I just detected your channel truebrit. I love it. Keep posting, please. I wished my son would go and live in Germany as well.
Yeah Europe needs more ethnic white babies
The british people you asked are all so nice and friendly 😊 glad they have a good opinion about us germans !!!
I've worked with a lot of Germans as I used to work in a German owned company and think you're great. I think we both have similar humour because we don't mind being self depreciating and laughing at ourselves, whereas American humour is about making fun of someone else.
That's because the English came from Germany 👍
This really brightend me up. To hear from young to old brits what they think about us germans. I really wanna travel to the GB soon :)
Deutsche und Briten sind sich sehr ähnlich
As a german who has been to Britain, Italy, France etc. i just have to say, ok maybe we dont have the brightest humour. But, for real, i never experienced more sarcasm than in Germany 😄. Peace folks.
And yes we can drink (idk if more than the brits) and we eat the skin on sausages, that ones are just the weird bavarians with their Weißwurst haha.
I worked for a German film company for 8 years in Cornwall, and got to know some really famous German film actors that have become friends, my crew i worked for were amazing, they love the english, got to admit sarcasm was wasted a little sometimes, but they are so so nice and humble
3:20 i love that stereotype of us, we have a saying that goes: 5 Minuten vor der Zeit ist des Deutschen Pünktlichkeit.
It sounds wonderful to me, that the Brits still like us even when leaving the eu. Hope ya guys come back on day so we can still do erasmus years in England and visit it more freely and unproblematic.
It's sad we never joined the Schengen zone as an EU member. Norway and Switzerland are and they're not even in the EU.
I enjoyed that. Hello from a fellow Brit also living in Munich😊
Hello fellow brit also living in Munich :D
Having lived in Germany for 5 years as a member of the forces and worked with many Germans over the years it is a complete mystery to me how we ever ended up on opposite sides in two major wars in the 20th Century. We have so much in common.
5:03 , that is such a british thing to say!😂 ”They have humour, it‘s just very well hidden“. I love you Brits, you‘re great fun!
Greetings from Germany.
I am German and we have good English friends who live in Coventry, we so love them very much and have regular contact via Whatsapp. We actually share the same dry sarcastic humor and we are not offended if they make jokes about the war (which they love to do) or when they laugh at us when our football team fails (which it does quite often recently ;-) We visited them several times in Coventry and they visited us over here in Germany. We look forward to see them in summer in Cornwall, we meet there this year☺. Tschüss und alles Gute aus Deutschland. Sehr interessant diese Videos.
I know someone , German, who when working at a large internationally staffed company in Germany always used to lunch with the Brits ,in the company eating area, who were always the 'noisy table' , as she was always had an 'English' sense of humour. Even her mum didn't understand it.
She got transferred to the UK in the end which is how I met her. Sadly for us, she is now back in Stuttgart.
Nice content, folk!
I think we are brothers
Should have never fought in wars
I have a friend who is living Yorkshire and after discovering the fact that our life does have a lot similarities we left the cultural prejudices behind. Finally raising a family and dealing with the daily life is the same everywhere.
you have the best tea, thank you for inventing my everyday drink ;)
My favourite British joke about us: ""Where would we be without a sense of humour? - Somewhere in Germany." :'-D
But it's not true, of course. I was about to say we just have different types of humour, but you have to differentiate between the North and the South (and between East and West, too, to some degree).
The Northerners WILL get understatement and darker humour, for example, and find it funny. The Southerners... maybe not so much.
What surprised me: that we seem to have a reputation for being fond of toilet humour. Because that's what many Germans think of the British. It's even mentioned in the Black Adder episode about the Royal Flying Corps and the Red Baron von Richthofen (played by the brilliant Adrian Edmondson).
We do love Monty Python by the way. A LOT! And, like me, there are not so few Germans who watch British panel shows regularly. Everyone I showed A Bit of Fry and Laurie loved it. THE "Don't mention the war" Fawlty Towers episode is almost a classic etc. etc.
So, British humour is very much appreciated over here, just not in all regions perhaps. And I may be living in a bubble a bit, but aren't we all more or less?
great one :D
I'm German and I was always interested and fond of the English culture since I was a kid. So many people I like and respect, tv shows I love and most of my favourite musicians are English or British at least. One of my first online friendships were with someone from South England.
I've heared that London does not represent England or Britain at all. I was in London once, when my adulthood only just begun. I hope I can visit the countryside some day, when I have less problems and more money.
Also, I don't like eating sausage with thick skin and I'm not often on time. German humour like Loriot or Otto or even Heinz Erhardt were brilliant and related a lot on the language itself but that time is long gone anyways. Modern famous German comedians we see on tv are mostly rubbish. And I know many people who agree. We always wonder why so many like that kind of rather dull humour.
Mr. Bean and Monty Python are brilliant and I always thought that this comedy is clever and well thought out, like the old important figures of German humour.
Herzliche Grüße an die Menschen in Großbritannien! / Warm greetings to the people in Great Britain!
I'm surprised that nobody mentioned that the difference between the two populations is immediately visible in the relative attitudes to the environments they live in. I don't mean cuddly animals or rare newts, it's the sheer amount of litter strewn across the British countryside which strikes you as you journey through a our "green and pleasant land."
9:03 what a precious old men. His laugh is full of life
You guys are so damn funny, even while having a random street interview. I am German first of all I have to say our nation's should be even better friends than we are already. But I don't get that humor thing. It's always about our humor, like you won't find something else to complain about hahaha
Greetings from Frankfurt
Wow. The oldan breaks my heart. Thank you. And greetings from north-western germany (westfalia)!
Its amazing to me, how cool all of the people were you interview. From the older gentleman to the younger girls, really cool video! =D
I grew up in Germany to a English father and a German mother.
I understand both German and English humor which is probably due to both languages being my mother tongue. Both is good in my opinion but very different especially since German humor has got more to do with the language. Meaning if German is your native language or you're not incredibly good at it, a lot of jokes will get lost (in translation). English humor can be considered weird by many Germans because it is very different from the German one. Many of my German friends say that for them it's more like weird statements said by someone who's trying to be funny. It's just difficult to understand when there's the language and culture barrier
Are u 4 sure speaking both languages
Based on that comment English is not one of your mother tongues.
The older gentlemen spoke very good german! The people you interviewed are so lovely. A lot of positive energy. ;)
As a Brit (non-English) I have a great deal of respect for the Germans, especially their engineering prowess, and willingness to invite a friend over for a consensual meal!
What a nice old gentleman. Honestly I expected way more anger against German from WW2 from people his age. It is so refreshing to see that we can leave that behind us.
Honestly, that was several generations ago and the countries were both a part of the EU for quite a while. Even here in the US, the ethnic cleansing has gotten extremely lazy.
The Chinese are still incredibly furious at the Japanese over WWII, I think part of that is due to immigration policies making it extremely hard for the groups to interact directly. On top of the repression of free speech in mainland China.
The truth has always been that among my age group (born 1946) there never was anything but respect ,admiration and good will for the Germans. It just wasn't politic to express it. Even now any favourable sentiment is capable of deliberate misinterpretation...because the war activities colour the conversation. Put simply many are not privately convinced that our war victories were indeed victories. Enough said?
Much love from Germany to all Brits ✌🏼
Same back.
So I am neither German, nor British (I'm Bulgarian) but my whole life I've been madly in love with both countries! ❤ I think they're both amazing and love their culture, language, history, nature, people, etc etc People always talk about the rivalry & animosity between the Brits and the Germans, so it warms my heart to see so much love expressed by these people for their brothers! 😊
This is good news. Thanks. It gets boring when all you see is people moaning about England, and trying to rewrite English history. The same goes for people moaning about Germany.
@Angelcynn_2001 It is boring indeed. Because that seems to be fashionable nowadays. But the ones who moan are just going with the flow of whatever they think will make them popular. My opinion is mine alone and hasn't been influenced by anyone telling me I should feel this way about these countries. I've got my own mind & eyes and I see all the beauty & greatness these 2 countries have produced over time. You've got so much to be proud of! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise!
@@KarrieDreammind5 I agree. Well said. Cheers 👍
i enjoyed your video a lot, greetings from Cologne 🇩🇪
We have humour, but it’s well hidden apparently! I loved that one! 😂🥰
The Germans are fantastic people, I discovered that on my first visit and I'll never stop going back.
Both countries are fabulous.
Germans don't peel sausages. Bavarians peel Weißwurst. Big difference. Great video, love our British siblings.
Thank you so much.
Yes. You also have Germanic roots and yes we are very similar.
My mother studied English, was an English teacher and a huge fan. She lived in the UK for one year and be both live the kindness.
I’m a huge fan of irony and sarkasm.
And we Germans love Mr. Bean, too
Schadenfreude is the best example of German humour. They are good at laughing at others but not so much at themselves. English humour is simple sarcasm and innuendo. They like to laugh at social ineptitude and cringeworthy situations.
They both share a love of satire and the absurd.
The Germans are too honest to be polite, whereas the English are too polite to be honest. That sums up the difference to me between the two cultures.
LOL I’m German and before I went abroad I used to be punctual then 2 years later I came back to Germany and now I’m always the one that’s late lol
You are now becoming less German haha. have a great easter Friday! :D
Personally as a brit, I think Germany is an absolutely lovely nation, with a lovely people, and overall one of the best countries in Europe I'd say.
@clemenciuc Well I mean I do have a highly biased opinion and obviously, my view on it is probably inaccurate as I don't know much about the cultures of many European nations, but in my own opinion from what I know, it's a very great nation, but there are bound to be others which are most likely better than both Germany and UK, but I sadly don't know much about them. Overall, every nation is extremely unique in one way or another, and there's something to love about each and every one of them. Also given how similar it is to the UK and the fact we tend to not be told the bad things about Germany, that's probably a big factor in my having a biased opinion. Have a nice day.
I’m staying in Australia right now and I was also living with some British people. I feel really related to them and like we share the same culture and as we’d come from the same place. We should focus more on our similarities than differences imo
Lived in Germany for 12 years, grew to love it so much I didn't want to come back to the UK. It'll always be my second home 🖤🖤❤❤💛💛