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American in German restaurant: What horrible customer service. They have not checked up on me for at least 7 minutes and my water glass is empty for more than 3 minutes.
German in American restaurant: Do not bother me while I am eating. Stop hovering around to increase your tip. I am a big boy and perfectly able to call when I need something.
Seriously, that must be tiring.
So true! 😂
Germans don't want to be randomly offered help when we don't want it. We ask for help when we want it and then get it.
I boycott stores where they ask you if you need help all the time ^^
@@WiesoNurMistnamen I hate those so much.
@@WiesoNurMistnamenMy favorite closing store in Frankfurt is my favorite because I have not once been asked if I need help, like I‘m some lost toddler.
These closing store employees that think your shopping experience is improved by them being around you are such a bothersome phenomenon.
fr. I'm happy to help anyone, even at the expense of the company I work for (I work in customer service, not company service) but you need to be willing to ask me and be polite. That's all, that's the bar and IMO, it's pretty low
Some informations:
1. Some church bells ring every 15 minutes to tell you the time
2. WC or "water closet" is a British thing as far as I know
3. Toilets do cost between 50 cents and 1 euro in public spaces or at festivals but not in restaurants or cinemas etc.
In malls and at highway gasstations you get a coupon of the same amount back, that way it is free for customers.
4. For fishing you need a fishing license, to make sure that you know what you are doing. For most lakes and rivers you will also need a permit from the local fishing club. All this is to protect nature. Even kids are able to get a fishing license.
5. If you only see old people in Germany, it could be that you are sitting outside a caffee at 11am and every young person is in school or at work. This is prime time for seniors even in the city.
6. It is only "Weißwurst" (white sausage) that you eat without the skin.
7. You can be sure you will not be sued if you lift any of your arms in order to call a taxi. You have to do this in the clear intention of doing the Hitlergruß. It's quite easy to tell why somebody lifted his arm in a specific manor.
8. You won't be fined 100k just fo washing your car. If you loose a lot of oil and do a lot of damage to the environment, this can look different though. These are 'up to' values for extreme situations used as clickbait.
9. Amazon indeed tends to dropoff packages when nobody's at home, most other services in Germany don't do this, at least where I live.
4. so important !!! Pro fishing license!!!
@Dschonny thanks for the good additions to the list
9. Dress code: Reeperbahn* is part of Hamburg's "red light district" and the club scene.
*Reeperbahn = now street name, in earlier times ropes were turned/made there for ships in the harbor and other uses.
What would Americans know about that? You'd think they'd prepare their trips abroad! If they did bother, they wouldn't find it weird that we live differently (fortunately!).
The first guy probably only sees older people because he's sitting somewhere in a (small?) town in the middle of the day and all the other younger people are at work, school or university 😅
Don't worry, in a few decades that feeling is going to be true no matter where you are sitting...
…so u say that he is a lazy mf?
Nah, he's right, everybody here is old.
@@SickRabbit wtf, no? I just said that is probably the reason why he sees so many older people. Whenever I have to go to university later and go shopping in the morning, for example, it's exactly the same thing
@@SickRabbitno he was obviously no Greek, italian or spanish
That first guy has no clue and is superficial... BUT we have some prejudices about americans too and he checks all the boxes!
ist doch offenkundig, daß auf diese plumpe art heutzutage bei tiktok content gemacht wird... das soll halt lustig sein. hat nichts mit "no clue" oder oberflächlichkeit seinerseits zu tun.
man kann sich sehr gut vorstellen, daß ihm in bestimmten teilen deutschlands keiner helfen möchte, weil die leute in ihm erstmal keinen amerikanischen touristen sondern einen flüchtling sehen. da kann man sich auch mal ernsthaft an die eigene nase fassen, ob das eigentlich in ordnung ist, daß man menschen mit zweierlei maß misst. sprich, wenn leute ihn auf der straße blöd anschauen oder nicht gastfreundlich sind, sind das mehrheitlich keine vorurteile ggü. amerikanischen touristen sondern ggü. flüchtlingen.
aus welchem grund würde man überhaupt den mann im ersten clip anhand von 15 !! gezeigten sekunden als "ahnungslos und oberflächlich" bezeichnen und ihn damit in ein schlechtes licht rücken...!? und dann noch hinterherschieben, dass er ALLE voruteile eines amerikaners erfüllen würde...!? das soll einer verstehen...
I think he might look a bit gangsta for some germans. If hes in an area with older people he might be too urban for them, idk.? But he does seem to have a weird attitude that wont fly in Europe..
@@ebbhead20That weird attitude is called ignorance.
@@thomasbarchen well, i will say its more to do with what older people care about. Its not a 67 year olds job to know of some guy is okay or not ? And his attitude was shite so im gonna say hes not worth spending time on.. He can't handle anything that's going on it seems, so why travel abroad if life is too hard for you.?
Yeah, he looks far to gangsta for elderly german people, probably also for elderly americans... but those are used to smile and show false sympathy. Germans wont hesitate to show their disrespect, especially as he probably also approached them with no respect for their age and status. That older people can lack english skills doesn't make it easier either.
People are buzy and certainly not all are friendly, but if you ask them politely you should be able to get some advice.
W = Water Closet, CM = Center Management, P = Parking (Car Park, Parking lot). He then said "you can go right there, there's no queue (like in standing in line). The clip with the girl being hopelessly overdressed, the German version says "OMG, look at you! Are you going to go to the Reeperbahn, or what?" (Reeperbahn means the red light district of Hamburg, where you can actually find girls sitting in a shop window waiting for "customers"). Last clip shows the famous "White Sausage" (Weißwurst), mainly a Bavarian speciality eaten for second breakfast. The black spots are not actually black, but green, are Parsley mixed into the Wurst.
Almost. The Reeperbahn and it's side streets has quite a few brothels, but the only street with the working girls sitting in the windows is the Herbertstrasse, which is a five minute walk away from a side street of the Reeperbahn.
I think 99% of Germans would not know what CM is supposed to mean.
Me included.
WC - water closet. W doesn't mean anything 🤣
@@FelixFuchsHase1105 Well, I must be in that 1% group who do know.
That is really great.
How did you come across it?@@dorisschneider-coutandin9965
the church chime is usually on the hour, in some places, every fifteen minutes. Quarter of, one bing, half two bings, three quarter hour three bings, full hour four bings and then another chime for the full hour of the day. It is quite practical when being in town without a wrist watch, which in the day of cell phones, no one wears any longer.
because your cell phone has no clock? xD
Some of the churches are from a time when people didn't have a watch on them and many didn't even had a watch in the house
@@ThereWasATime No, when I’m at home, I don’t carry my cell phone wherever I go in my house or garden. In town, I don’t necessarily take out my phone on a constant basis to check the time. I still know exactly what time it is, though, when I hear the chimes. No clock, no cell, no watch required. It is simply a lovely tradition and not a nuisance to Europeans… And I say that as an atheist, who otherwise does not care for church and never set a foot in one…
@@marcokocsyi would guess that almost all churches here are from that time xD With a few modern exceptions.
Also important to mention: they tend to be quiet after a certain time at night as to not disturb ppl's sleep. Though that is a newer rule that was made.
in Germany, you don’t waive down taxis. You either call them or approach the first taxi in line at a taxi stop. I have never ever seen anyone simply waiving down a cab, which would only make sense in really big cities where a lot of cabs are around, like Berlin of Munich. Maybe there, it is a thing. I have never seen it…
Exactly and also it's kind of rude to wave down. Like a command or something. Just wave normally and if they are stopping you can approach them at the window and ask if they are free.
German here. We've (my friends and me) done it many times and it's not guaranteed. But not by waving which would be kinda rude/dangerous to wave at cars to get their attention unless there is an emergency imo. We just put up a hand if the Taxi light showed it was free. If they stop great, if not its also ok. So I would stick with calling a taxi or going to the designated places for them.
Agree!
Light ON means: the Taxi is free for the next customer
Light BLINKING: the Driver needs help or is in danger
I did it only once, 1991 in Hamburg, in the red light district St. Pauli at 1 a.m. as I was 17 years old, going home from partying with friends, I stood on an intersection isle near Millerntor Soccer Stadium, waving down a free Mercedes-Benz 600 SEL taxi. The 1990s, as I thought the world is becoming better, but it stopped in 1998, then it started to decline.
I have never seen any 600 SEL as a taxi since 1997. The cars they use as taxi became cheaper and cheaper. It's declining, grasp it.
I do wave taxis in big cities like Berlin or Hamburg. Works!
The phrase 'water closet' arose in England in the 1870s. Originally 'wash-down closet', it quickly evolved into the phrase water closet through common usage. Over time, it has simply become 'WC'.
Using WC for the restroom is common nearly all over the world. At least I came across it all over Europe, in parts of asia and africa. And with the Q he just meant queue/line
@@TheFoundnoname exactly!
I think WC would be normal pretty much everywhere except the USA
Brits have been asked so many times about what WC means that they've resorted to calling it simply the loo.
@@TheFoundnoname
As a non native english speaker, I was wondering, why I got that, but Ryan didn't. Don't they have queues in front of their restrooms?
Hunting wild animals, including fish, without a permit is called poaching. Almost all waters are managed by fishing clubs.
TikToks are often pure satire. For a German, your reactions to it are the real fun.
Fact about the fines in Germany: The "Bußgeldkatalog" usually only defines the max. amount of fine the violation can get. Usually the fine you really get is much lower.
Yeah, it's more like a private person washing his car gets a 25 EUR for the first time and more if he gets caught a second time.
If a truckage company does it willingly without preparing a washing place for their trucks (water waste hold up tank and filter) they probably get a fine of 100k as the pollution can be much worse.
There are often fines (money) and prison sentences defined. Sentences are for the worst cases... Let's say the truckage company was already fined three years ago with 100k for washing their fleet without taking care. Now the officials caught them again and found out they have done that on a regular base (willingly and knowingly / intentionally) causing the fish in the nearby river got poisoned and died. The companies executive can be imprisioned up to two years and even more, if they broke other laws at the same time.
Hey dude, most younger people are working at daytime. Only the old one has time to do shopping or going in cafès.
I'm happy to pay 50 cent for the WC because it means they are very clean.
The sausage is the bavarian Weißwurst. Eaten with sweet mustard it's so tasty.
"Full time" is anachronistic af and has to go. Thankfully it is already on the way out. No thanks to ppl like you who are passive-aggressive about it though.
@@silkwesir1444 Passive-aggressive, what?
@@silkwesir1444 Did you understand your own answer?
Passiv- aggressiv means, you can't express your anger. My comment showed my anger about this person. I called him dude. Passiv- aggressiv behaviour is normally founded in people who are "Covered Narcissts". Your diagnosis, based on one word, is ridiculous.
When I was 13 we lived in Germany for a few years. At that time, I decided to furnish my room myself and go to the local DIY market to order wood cuts for the appropriate furnitures. I asked a staffer about the best ways to join these pieces and where to find them at what aisle in the market. He sighed and said he was on lunch break now, but showed us where to find the parts he recommended. And he spent half an hour of his time explaining the pros and cons of the various joining methods, and even what equipment to use. I think that even if Germany is still a service desert, there are still staffers for whom service is a important part of the job, because they work in such jobs.
There are some in some shops but mostly it became even worst.
I hate to got to discounter Lidl because they are do grumpy.
It seems workers in Penny are told to try to be nice
30 years ago there still was the proverb of 'customer is king'.
Nowadays it is 'customers try to make me work and so do not like them'-attitude
Hi Ryan, I am German living abroad and really enjoy your content. Please make a Collab with some German RUclipsr. It would be great to have someone explaining to you what's going on and see your reaction. Many of us would love that and even for longer videos 😜👍
Regarding the german service culture. It’s not like nobody wants to help you. It’s more like the customer is NOT king. Here in Germany peoples attitude as a customer is very important. If you treat the service staff well, they will treat you as a customer well. It’s living, working and make small business as equals. That’s the difference and that’s what many get wrong.
Interesting tiktoks :D
To the first one:
1. Yeah, looks like he is in a smaller town, and depending on the time and day you mostly meet older people (besides from the fact that our population is quite old in general)
2. The "they don't care about you" is not because he's black (yeah, we have a lot of racism as well, but it's different to the racism in America), but we usually don't care as much about people we don't know.
4. The bell he mentions are our churches, they usually have one gong at :15, two gongs at :30, three gongs at :45, and four gongs plus the amount of hours (in 12-hour format) in lower-pitched gongs at the full hour.
To the second one:
WC stands for "Water Closet", but it's British English, so no wonder you don't know the abbreviation :D And Q is queue, for "queue line".
The third one:
The German is: "Sach mal wie siehst du denn aus? Willst du auf die Reeperbahn oder was?" (How the f*** do you look like? Do you want to go to the Reeperbahn [famous red light district in Hamburg] or what?) and yeah, in Germany you only dress like this when you either want to go to the red light district or you go to a high-society party.
The forth one:
Yes, you need a license for fishing, in order to get one you have to pass a written exam, it is mostly so that you learn about the ecology of the waters and the fish.
And yes, washing your car at home is forbidden, because the grime and oils pollute the water. The washing facilities also have quite strict regulations in water storage, filtering und recycling.
She rose her arm not in the forbidden way, you are not allowed to do a Hitler salute, it's showing a sign of an unconstitutional group.
High society party with that dress? It's too short.
Fun fact about the drunk on a bike thing: Horses can get drunk, when they eat too many apples. And if you ride a drunken horse on a public street you can use your drivers licence as well and get fined as if you were drunk.
Explanation on the Mall thing with the WC…
WC = Water Closet
CM = Centre Management
P = Parking (but on the sign it shows the lift, the stairways and the way to the multi-storey car park)
Q is not a thing, he most likely said queue.
P in general stands for parking space/parking lot/parking garage. In this case it's likely the last one since it's the same way as the elevators.
As for CM... No idea. maybe Customer M...anagement?
Cash machine? ATM isn't really used around here, but I also never see CM tbh. Usually a pictogram of bank notes or the euro symbol € are used for that.
So since this is a shopping center, maybe center management?
CM = Center Management
I think 99% of Germans would not know what CM is supposed to mean.
Including me.
For whom should the sign be?
@@Linealo
Fun fact: When there are two churches within earshot of each other, they often run a little bit out of sync, so both of their bells can be heard properly. This also means if you miss the number of bings you have a second try for counting :D
And sometimes the townhall also has a bell, so yes in some places the constant ringing can get ridiculous. But if you live there long enough it just becomes another noise of the city, just like cars going by.
I live exactly in that 2 church bell situation. The second starts 3 seconds after the first church, just half a second too late to think it's the same sequence (if it's 12)
The bell is actually every 15 minutes. It sounds once for 15min after the full hour, twice for 30 min after, three time for 45min after and every full hour you maybe get a small melodie plus the current time in a different sound.
The package problem is sooo true! I was at home but my package did not come. I found a yellow note in my p.o. box. After that the postman said :" Nobody was at home and you could have a large dangerous dog. The dog could bite me and thats why I gave you the yellow note." So I had to go to the post office and than they gave me my package. He could just ask my neighbours. They could tell him that I haven' t got a dog. Maybe that's a problem just in Austria only but I don't think so.
Bathroom: Most signs will say "WC" for "water closet" (based on the English patent for a "water-closed" siphon in the toilet bowl); in some places you could also find the older "00" sign - the room number many hotels assigned to the toilet room in times when there was only one toilet per floor. In spoken language the room is often called "Toilette" (from French) or simply "Klo" (as abbreviation for "Klosett"), but since the latter was in former times perceived as ungracious and ill-mannered, there are also other words like "Lokus" (from Latin "locus necessitatus" - place of necessity / nature's call) or its diminutive translation "Örtchen", sometimes "stilles Örtchen" (silent small place). Older words are "Abtritt" or "Abort", which meant originally an outhouse (or "Scheißhaus"). But "bathroom" will confuse many Germans. The "Q" stands for "queue".
6:14 He asks her "Do you want to go to the Reeperbahn, or what?" - the Reeperbahn being the center street of the famous red-light district in Hamburg. (Originally "Reeperbahn" was the place where long ropes were produced by braiding yarns (or thinner ropes) together, for which you needed a long, straight alley).
The Sausage is a special sausage called " Weißwurst" ( White Sausage) and that's the way u eat it but normally u can eat sausage the way u want.
btw thats a "Weisswurst". Its normal to peel them before eating them. Not needed on other sausages tbh. So Weisswurst is a typical bavarian breakfast and you eat it with mustard and brezeln. Very delicious. On top you drink a good beer with it. Typically a "Weissbier" (Wheat beer i guess).
It`s funny with the DHL parcel Service, sometimes they ring the doorbell and you can`t get to the door that quickly and you already have a notification note in your mail box.😅
those guys ring the doorbell only to inform you, that the notification can be found in the m... _already running away_ ;)
It's a bell to the quarter hour. And a bigger bell to the full hour.
In Germany, Switzerland and Austria you have to take an exam before you are allowed to fish anywhere - if you pass, you get a fisher's license (of fisher's patent in Switzerland). For most rivers and lakes you need also fishing license by the owner of the place (which can also be the municipality itself). So need even two types of license (but you can get the second one only if you have already the first one). (For the exam you have for example to show you know your fishes, know which ones you're allowed to catch and how to catch them, know how to kill a fish cleanly without cruelty and so on. Catching a fish only for instagram purposes is by the way considered to be cruelty to animals.)
In Germany you are free to roam, but not to hunt or fish on private or public property except with an appropriate license by law and by the property holder (which includes the state or the municipality in some cases).
Washing your car at home can be judged as environmental crime if any poisonous substances get into nature or (depending on local rules) into the sewer system, especially oil. (Municipalities can allow washing the car at places where all the dirt water flows securely into the sewage system, if that system is built to be capable of handling and filtering such substances.) The fine can vary widely depending on state, but also on the real or possible damage caused. The widest range has Saxony with fines between 25 and 100,000 Euro, the smallest range Baden-Württemberg and NRW with 500 to 50,000 Euro, the lowest maximum fines Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein with 25,000 Euro.
The divider thing is a bit arbitrary. Most customers do it automatically, because it is considered to be the polite thing if there is another customer waiting behind you.
Raising the arm: It is only a problem with the right arm and if it looks like doing the Hitler salute (stiff arm, flat hand). It is illegal if the context suggests it was meant as Hitler salute, because doing the Hitler salute is considered to glorify or at least trivialize the Nazi crimes and the Nazi terror.
You do NOT need to peel every sausage in the future. However there are a handful or types in Germany where you are supposed to. One of which you saw there in the clip, its called "Weißwurst" (white sausage) it has a very thick casing as it is cooked rather than stuffed like other types. In order to resist the heat its needs protection, thats all
Some are made of guts, you can eat them.
Some are made of plastic, you rather not eat them.
Some are like this ok to eat, but too thick to enjoy.
In Germany you are allowed to have up to 1.6‰ on a bicycle as long as you can handle it. If you have any noticeable problems with riding it safely it can be illegal over 0.3‰ .
11:41 that is one way to eat the famous Bavarian Weißwurst. The skin of the Weißwurst could be eaten, but almost all people prefer to peel it off And leave it on the plate. It just tastes better without the skin, and the skin is easy to remove. The spots in the sausage are herbs btw.
Most other German sausages though you eat with skin (except you are a very picky eater/child), and would be also very tricky to peel.
It's a sausage from Bavaria you only eat for Breakfast and real Bavarias wouldn't use a knife, they suck the meat out of the cast.
There ist even a word for sucking the meat out of the cast. Its called 'zuzeln'. But most people who are not Bavarian find this eating technique pretty gross.
No, Germany doesn't have bad customer service, at least not in restaurants. Things are different for the other service providers in Germany As already mentioned, German service providers in restaurants, for example, are not dependent on customers' donations; they receive a fixed income
Hi @Ryan Wass you should know the white sausage. Its the famous "Weißwurst" from Bavaria. Normally you get it served with your beloved "Pretzels". 😂
Package carriers in Germany are only allowed to leave it at a specified place (like behind the house or under the stairs...), if the customer has submitted a signed permission with the exact location. But there are different parcel services with slightly different rules and of course many carriers just want to be quick and leave it before the door. However if it's stolen and the carrier/company had no permission to leave it openly they have to pay for it.
The parcel-recieving situation yesterday: Bell rings, I get up from couch, walk 7-8yrd to the front door and saw the postman's back and the information hangin in my letterbox....
In my experience, TOILETS (that is the correct term!) in malls are usually free to use, no pay. Rest stops on the Autobahn charge like 70 cents or something.
The arm raising thing is nonsense. She's using her left hand and it's vertical. The... _bad salute_ is with your right hand and it's raised straight at like a 45° angle or so. Her version is fine, just don't do the authentic bad version.
The sausage is a bavarian white sausage. The speckles are parsley and potentially other herbs. I always just eat the peel, but I usually bake them in the oven. Frikkin' bavarians don't know how to cook their own sausages right, lol.
The white sausage usually has parsley as a seasoning.
For parcel deliveries, I like to use Packstations in the meantime, because the parcel carriers usually drop by my house at noon.
The church bells are rung in Germany between 6 o'clock in the morning and 8 o'clock in the evening at regular intervals. Every half hour the so-called Great Ringing is made with all the bells. At the quarter hours, usually only one bell is rung, and usually once.
In the BR (Bavarian Broadcasting) there is the "Mittagsläuten" on Sunday at 12 o'clock, which is broadcast over the radio.
The sausage you saw is called Weißwurst (white sausage) from Bavaria and the speckles in there is parsley. You usually have to peel it, because the casing is normally not edible. Some people eat it with the casing, but in my opinion you must peel it off to enjoy it. Also you can peel and eat it by hand, that's something we allow here. 😄
The post thing is so true. I have found "you weren't at home" cards so often while I freaking didn't leave my home for the whole day (or even 2 or 3, as a home office worker).
Once I actually saw the post stopping in front of my house and thought "oh, my packet is there" and walked to the door.... but nothing happened. I heard him drive away... and found such a card.
That sucks, but often happens when the guy runs late. They usually have like 2 mins per delivery, and if something takes longer, they try to make up the time by leaving other deliveries to pick up by the customer. If you're home and its possible, just do some Abstellerlaubnis, track the delivery and pick it up from your yard, door or whatever right after they leave it. (I know in cities and apartment buildings its often not possible to just have them leave stuff in the entry way, its just a thought, since you can choose a delivery day with every service and DHL allows you to actually track the truck delivering your package)
@@blatterrascheln2267 Apartment. And point is the post guy didn't ring any bell, so of course it's not "leaving", because there is no open door.
Putting aside that since 90% of the few things I get are from Amazon I don't know which carrier they come with (or have a number) in most cases, and the rest is expensive stuff (like a CPU) where I certainly want them to give it to me.
@@blatterrascheln2267 Aus Versicherungsgründen würde ich keine Abstellerlaubnis geben.
2:30 Normally a bell in old time style rings every 15 minutes. That is called 1 Glasen.
6:05 he says "Tell me, how do you look like? Do you plan to go to Reeperbahn?" Reeperbahn is the red light district in Hamburg
8:40 raising your right arm from the left hip with an angle in your arm to top right and your arm and stretched hand are on a line plus having all fingers gathered is Hitlers hail. *THAT* will bring you in trouble
8:39 The specific greeting from darker times is made with your right arm - performed like military salutes in a certain angle in a tense and straight manner. Fingers are close together, flat open hand and arm form one line, palm more facing down and not to the front, your legs and feet are put together, the left arm is close to the body with flat open hand touching the femur. So the way this lady does it, it's like waving to a friend to say hello, or signalling someone to stop which is totally ok.
yup not washing your car at home is not because of the washing but because of potential oil that flows into the groundwater, and one single drop of oil spoils 600L (158 gallons) Water.
Oil really is no joke.
The fine are up to that high amount. Usually when they catch you they first time the fine is a lot smaller and they tell you that there will be a high fine if you do it again. And washing your car at home is allowed at some places and at other places it isn't.
If you are near a bell tower you can hear a single peal every half hour, once an hour the bells ring as many times as the hour is( 2 pm andIf you are near a bell tower you can hear a single peal every half hour, once an hour the bells ring as many times as the hour is (2 pm and the bell rings 14 times).
1:00 The city in his video is coincidental my hometown. This city in particular is a “spa town” for mostly old people. So that's why a lot of people there are very old. It is also located in a region with very beautiful nature. The people there are not always unfriendly, but it can happen that they ignore you or react unfriendly. However, this has nothing to do with whether you are black or white. A lot of African refugees and immigrants live here, who are now shaping the cityscape. Of course, some old-fashioned people don't like that, hence the lack of open-mindedness. And last but not least, even though the city was very nice and safe, it now has a small crime and drug problem. Even with only 50k residents, the city has the 3rd highest number of drug crimes per resident in Germany.
Lol, the "Q" stands for Queue (I think that's how it's written?) and the P probably stands for parking. The CM no clue tho, i guess it's written under there
Maybe: Center Management.
It's because Americans don't say queue. They call it a line
i recently FORGOT to put a divider where was more than enough space, the man behind me was nice enough to let me know with a loud annoyed moaning and smashing the divider so hard everybody couldve heard it
The Median age of germany is the 2nd highest in the world, just after japan and around 9 years higher than in the US, so the first guy isnt entirely wrong
Yes, but it also looks like he was there at a time when most young people are at work or in school.
I mean, yeah but also younger people have to go to school, work or university.
Bro he was sitting in a 30k ppl town. At 11 am outside of a cafe. Ofc there are only old ppl. If ur his age u would live in bigger cities. Also 8-11 is the prime time for seniors to eat or meet
@@RustyBear yeah, that was exactly my point. whats yours?
But that doesn't even mean that there are the most old people... a median is calculated by taking the ages all together. if people get extraordinary old of course the median is drawn towards older. Japan for example has the most oldest people in the world, you can find people around and over 100 years of age easily. In Germany elder care and medical basic standards are pretty good (still), so that counts for something as well. ;) Given that the US has the highest maternal d* rate and the highest for infants during and after birth and a rather unpleasent social system, of course people are finished faster and the population seems "younger". Its not like these stats automatically mean something bad or good, sometimes you have to look a bit closer, you know.
The high pitched bells ring every 15 minutes totally you the time and the low pitched rings every hour. Like if it’s one o‘ clock the low pitched will ring one time and the high pitched won’t ring. If it’s 1:15 the high pitched will ring one time. If it’s 1:30 the high pitched will ring two times and if it’s 1:45 the high pitched will ring 3 times. If it’s two o‘ clock, the low pitched will ring two times. The it’s 2:15 the high pitched will again ring one time and at 2:30 it will ring two times and so it goes on…
- On the bicycle, the actual reason is that you're participating in traffic while drunk/intoxicated. As long as you don't bother anyone you can be as drunk as you'd like while being a pedestrian.
- Package couriers leaving slips, legally the seller is responsible for the package until it gets into the customers hands, so if the delivery person just leaves it on the door step and it gets picked up, it's the sellers problem for which he is going to sue the delivery company for damages incurred. The package is not considered delivered until it's in the hands of the person on the shipping label, so hand it to a neighbour -> delivery not complete, leave it in the stairway -> delivery not complete. You can give the delivery company a spot where they can put packages and they're considered aas delivered without you involved, but if it gets stolen it's your problem, so nobody does that. Amazon drivers do like to leave stuff in stairways though, and when it gets stolen, Amazon just picks up the tab, hence why they now send you one-time-passwords you personally have to tell the delivery driver upon delivery for the more expensive and obvious items.
In Germany there is no legal regulation for car washing on your doorstep. It is regulated by local ordinances. This means that car washing is generally permitted on private property as long as local regulations are not violated.
the first guy is the reason why people "hate" americans.
-In bigger and big cities your stuff will get stolen if you don't have an eye of them. We have a lot of pickpocketing especially in tourist areas.
-why did he expect to see many younger people when he was there in the middle of the day? people here are working or in school.
-no one wanting to help him ? belive it or not it's not because he's black. I guess he just felt like that bc our customer service is very different.
( yes there are rascist people here but i don't think that that was the case)
it's a church bruv... it doesn't go off every five minutes.
yes sometimes you have to pay for the bathroom. but in shopping centers it's ususally free. restaurants, coffeshops etc are ususally free too if you are costumer there.
sometimes there is cleaning stuff there and you can decided to tip them or not.
you need a fishing licence bc we care about our enviornemnt and we protect wild life.
no one will have to pay such a high fine.. it says "UP TO xy Euro" for a reason.
High fines like that are for very serious and repeated offensives.
you can wash your car at home .. but not with chemicals. Because we care about the enviornment. There are many car wash places where you can wash your car for very little money. or by bringing your own stuff.
the only true thing in that video is Liams video : package delivery is a cat and mouse game here sometimes. you need to be Flash hahah
Its every 15 minutes and it is the bell of the church lol It gives you the time
6:06: He asks her "Willst Du auf die Reeperbahn?" which means "Do you want to go to the Reeperbahn" which is a synonym for the red light district in Hamburg.
6:45 You need a license for fishing and also for hunting. Reasons are animal protection (so you kill the animal properly without cruelty). For hunting you also need to learn the proper use and safety instructions for your guns.
8:14 Would be correct for the right arm because that would be the Nazi salute. Left arm is no problem.
And normally you can see the difference between waving and the "Hitlergruß" which is done with a totally stretched arm and hand.
Even for fishing there are tests and you are limited to certain baits and how much you can take home.
The arm would need to be quite similar to the Nazi salute. She is nowhere near. I don't know if the side is relevant ?
If you need a taxi, you must call it by telephone/mobile phone. There are taxi collection points at a few specific places such as train stations, but we can't hail them by hand...
Hi Ryan ! This is a Weißwurst (a white sausage)a special bavirian dish and the dark spots in the sausage are small cut spice
The sausage is a Bavarian Weißwurst. This is strictly a Bavarian thing.
The casing of Weißwürste is artificial (basically plastic), while almost all other sausages use natural, edible casing.
A sausage is: kill an animal, grind it down and stuff it up its own intestines.
If you still have parts left, stuff them in the stomach. (like im Pfälzer Saumagen or Scottish haggis).
The casing is not plastic. It's the outer skin of the intestine. And yes it works like a condom, since the flesh/bacon pieces inside is more mushy before it comes into the casing. And before that it will be seasoned - it's depends from sausage to sausage. So the casing holds everything together. Then the sausages dry out for weeks and months. This makes the flesh inside the sausage cut-resistant and durable. Weißwurst (white sausage) casing should not be eaten. Though many casings are edible and more biological!
@karllagerbier4688 ??? No.. Weißwürste aren't mainly sold in plastic! You can eat the casing.. it just doesnt taste good as it is too thick or hard or whatever.
Nonsense. It's not a plastic casing 😂. It's pig intestence instead of sheep intestence and that's the reason the skin is so tough.
7:00... Fishing licences are also required in NSW. A 75€K fine would probably only be issued if you used a trawler to clean out a fish spawning ground.
Looks like the first guy was in some small town's town square. Rural places in Germany do have a lot and I mean a lot of old folks.
We are one of the oldest countries (as in average age of people there) in the world, too. Whenever I visit the place I grew up (only 22k people but not even out in the sticks, it's almost right next to Dortmund), I don't see anyone between the ages of 20 and 40.
The fines for certain misconduct in Germany can get pretty high in a few cases because monetary fines are based on the income of the individual being punished. Depending on the misconduct you have committed you get an amount of "Tagessatz" or "daily rate" which is basically a 30th of your average daily net income. You then have to pay this 30th for the ordered amount of days. So if you are really rich you would pay a much bigger fine, this way fines as a judicative punishment don't lose it's effectiveness against people who are rich in money. That being said the upper limit of a Tagessatz is 30.000€ and many times the rates end up lower because the income they are calculated by is only an approximation by the court which legal defense can certainly have an impact on.
12:09 the cover of the meat usually is intestine from pigs, sheeps and so on. Once, before latex became our friend, there was a time condoms were made from those intestines as well. So in some weird way is wrapped into condoms indeed. xD
6:10- he says: what do you look like, do you want to go to the Reeperbahn or what?
germany has the best customer service i have every experienced lol.
in my town, your bag is safe... but dont let your bicycle alone haha
the bell goes every 15min so you know what time it is :D 1 ring for x:15 and 2 rings for :30 and so on... at full hour it rings 12times for 12 oclock e.g. (maybe + 4 different rings for the full hour)
i have no idea what the cm stands for... (maybe cash mashine? but usually we have just the symbol of the bank or something?) and the P is for parking deck :)
the german man yells at the woman "how tf are you looking, do you wanna go to the red light district or what?"
@@Dadadin
Cm = Center Management
There are a lot of half right in these clips: About the fines: It always says "up to", the actual sum depends upon the severity of the case, like if someone got harmed and most of all, upon your income. Someone with an average income will never get close to the maximum fine. Also, regarding that raised arm gesture, it's not illegal. If it IS the actual gesture from nazi time and recgnizable as such, it is, but of course you can raise your arm to call a cab (especially since it was the left arm in the video). Oh and many people ride their bikes drunk, but you'll get in trouble if something happens than.
Here in Germany in the region where I live, Rhineland-Palatine, we are very helpful to everybody who asks for help; and most of the people here can help you in different languages: German, English, and often in French and Dutch. Public toilets in Germany are marked by WC or 00. We would think of a bath tub if you would call it bathroom or of taking a nap if you would call it restroom; and what the hack is a powder room (UK)… Do they powder themselves there? Washing the car at home is not okay because of the ecological damage you can cause. But you would never get a fine. May be a neighbour would ask you not to do it. And if you lift your left arm like in the TikTok, it is completely okay. Don‘t do it with the right arm (just as a reminder: 1933-1945).
The devider thing isn't that big of a deal as people pretend it to be. Depending on my mood I might or might not use it there and when I don't, the next one in line or the one in front of me, puts it there.
Wasserklosett (WC) based on Englich water closet. We translate it into "Little water chamber".
FULL explanation of all the tiktoks: The first guy is not correct.
There are usually 50% young people, 40% middle age and 10% old people
Also germans are really tolerant and they will help you if they understand you.
If you're in a place with a bunch of old people you cant expect them to speak english and help you
The bell is only in very small/old villages and goes off onces every 15 min (DING) and a bunch every 1 hour (DIGBSINGSITNKSIDNRIDOSKFNGND)
There are two types of stores in germany: The ones who have workers that have to help you (rewe) and the ones where you do it yourself
The wc costs 50 cent at the airport, at the gas station, big cities etc.
In a restaurant or a smaller city (>40k citizen) the wc is free. At least in bavaria (the best part of germany where we dont speak german)
The dresscode video basically said at the end that she looks like a whore and should put on more and longer clothes.
My toilet is my restroom. No kid is crying no wife is calling.
Lady's powder room - they might use a mirror to check their appearance, but only after they used the water closet ;)
3:39 Some Vets from 1955-1975 would start getting flashbacks...
He said : Sage mal wie siehst du denn aus, willst du auf die Reeperbahn oder was? (Reeperbahn ist eine Straße in Hamburg mit vielen Puffs )
He says: Tell me, what do you look like, do you want to go to the Reeperbahn or something? (Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg with many strip clubs )
About the Gentleman in the first clip.
There are only old people because everybody in his age, is working! at this time of the day.
2:20 Bells of churches which bells may every 15 minutes one time and up to 12 times in a row depends on which hour it is (mostly not at night).
Yes, they show you the time in an accustic way.
1. If you come to Germany: There are Church-Bells. It is possible, that 24/7 they will ring all 15 minutes. Deal with it or don't come here.
2. Toiletts should be named toilett, not bathroom or restroom. Its not for batheing or resting.
3. Don't believe all tiktoks telling you weird stories about being fined horribly for minor rule violations.
4. parcel delivery went bad when capitalistic companies took over that business, and treat their employees like slaves.
The parcel delivery thing depends totally on the delivery service, or even on the driver working there. For example,I never have a problem with DHL or Amazon Logistics. On the other hand failure is guaranteed with DPD. They never deliver on the first day, and always blatently lie about having tried to find the adress or that nobody was home when they came. Sometimes 2 or 3 times in a row. And then, on the last possible occassion, they miraculously find the adress and ring the door bell. But they are the cheapest in postage, I think.
DPD indeed is the worst of 'em all!
followed by GLS.
You would rather want to have your Parcel sent with a catapult than one of them.
nobody will ever check your fishing license. I mean ever
church bells ring every 15teen minutes to give information about time. bells ring differently for full hours, half hours and quarter hours. one single ring bell for quarter past the hour, 2 for half an hour and so on till full hour is announced with ring bells in number of the full hour (for example 7am with 7 ring bells). I am german and I live 50 meters away from a church on 4th level and I hate it too. xD
6:57 you need the licenses not for putting the rod in the water, that you can do, if you have a friend with you with a licenses.
you need the licenses for the appropriate art of killing of vertebrates. You should not torment the animal, which you do, when you don't have the right knowledge.
The same goes for hunting. You are allowed to hold/transport the weapon, when you have someone with the license next to you, but you are not allowed to pull the trigger.
CM = Center Management
P = Parking
Q = Queue
you dont wave the taxi in germany you call the taxi company for a taxi you not really see much taxis in germany on the road ( 8:30).
greetings from germany :D
About the woman in this blue dress: The German guy is asking her, if she is going to the "reeperbahn" which is a big place in hamburg with lot's of brothels and strip clubs. So he is accusing her of looking like a prostitute.
About the driving drunk on bikes - also when you cross a red light as a pedestrian or with a bike you can loose your drivers license.
Dresscode US/Germany the german guy said: "How tf are YOU dressed? You going to the 'Reeperbahn' or smth?"
The 'Reeperbahn' is Germanys most famous red light/pleasure district since forever. He literally asked her if she's a prostitute.
6:06 He says: What do you look like? Do you want to go to the Reeperbahn?. Reeperbahn is a street in Hamburg where there are prostitutes in the side streets.
- In Germany people would think you're a prostitute wearing that blue dress + white boots, that's basically what the guy says.
- It's true you need a license for fishing.
- Regarding the car wash thing, lots of people used to do it anyways when I was a kid, though it's been a while since I've seen it frequently.
- The devider thing at the supermarket is bullsh*t. Noone will judge you if there is not much going on in the supermarket. Just if it's crowded.
- The girl apparently doesn't know how the Hitler salute looks like, cause that's why you could get the prison sentence.
- There are indeed laws about driving bicycles drunk, but the thresholds for alcohol in your blood are higher than what is allowed when driving a car.
- You have to fill out a form for each logistic company delivering packages if you want to allow them to leave the stuff in front of your door, in your backyard, wherever. (We did, life is much easier now)
- This is "white sausage", which is traditional in Bavaria/southern Germany, it's the one sausage you eat without the case
Driving a bicycle drunk: It's more complex. In fact you may drive a bicycle drunk up to 1.6 promille, as long you don't have a driving license at all. If you have a driving license, you will lose it above 0.8 promille riding a bike. But in case of you causing an accident, even 0.3 promille is the critical border.
1. Germany has a high percentage of old people,mostly in smaller towns because there is no work.
2. Churches chime every hour, not every 5 mins.
3. WC is water closet from British English. P stands for Parking lot. CM, no idea, isn't sth. common in shopping malls.
4. The comment to the lady with the blue dress from the guy is an insult,he says:' What the heck, what do you look like? Do you want to go to the Reeperbahn?' Reeperbahn is an area in Hamburg where many prostitutes run around. He insinuates that she is dressed like a prostitute....
5. Yep,you need a licence for fishing. You're not allowed to be caught washing your car, because the oil goes into the sewage which is often filtered for drinking water. You are allowed to raise your arm to wave, but not to show a Nazi sign. You are allowed to ride drunk, but don't get caught by police, because then you can lose your driver's licence.
6. The postage guy has no time to carry the package to the door,because of the reasons you mentioned.
7. That sausage is a 'Weißwurst', which is a typical Bavarian sausage which you boil and eat with pretzel and sweet mustard and drink beer. It's delicious! I also eat it with the skin,but it's common to eat it without. Every other sausage in Germany you always eat the skin. With this one it is an exception.Oh and the speckles in the sausage are green herbs 'parsley'.😂
Some churches announce every quarter hour with the tolling of bells. Mostly on the countryside, you get used to it.
5:05 WC actually stands for "watercloset". Great guess! P is for Parking. I don't know about the CM tho and I've never seen it before. Since it's inside a mall maybe it stands for "cash machine" (ATM) or "customer management". But usually we use ATM or a cash symbol for those signs in Germany and "infopoint" or a small i symbol for the information desk.
Yes 😌
CM = Center Management, can be found somewhere in every bigger shopping center.
@@tim_bublitz This would be my suggestion as well.
Q=queue that is probably what he meant
I rarely put a divider between my groceries, when the line isn't too stacked.
You can signal everyone with your hand, unless you unmistakably extend your arm and hand straight. This might get you in trouble, but you don't have to be extremely cautious when raising your arm.
11:58 A Munich Weißwurst (white sausage). The dark bits are herbs. This boiled sausage is traditionally eaten without the casing (although it is edible), and it is white because it contains no potassium or sodium nitrite (pickling or curing salt, added for food preservation to most meats).
Weird that he was confused by the dark spots though. Don't they have any spices in sausages in the US? I mean, maybe it's not as obvious as in Weißwurst, but many types of sausage have herbs in them like that.
12:40 its green specs of parsley in the Weisswurst (bavarian veal sausage)
I Germany It's called Klo or Toilette ( whats actually is french) .if you are looking outside for a "bathroom" It's really WC ( Water Closet)
I think the white sausage at the end is a "weißwurst" (white sausage) we eat it sometimes and my father told my once that it's from Bayern or the region between Bayern and Baden-Württemberg
WC: toilet (also in some rare occasions called 00)
P: parking lot
CM: no clue what that means
7:04 I'm glad it's that way. I saw so many people torturing fish due to not being able to kill them humanly when I lived in North Carolina. You could just purchase a license.
We have to, depending on which State you live in, do something similar to a drivers license test for fishing. It's getting easier with the years but at least some years ago you have a couple thousand questions as well as classes in the evening in my state
Water closet most likely comes from England. When the Brits invented indoor piping they likely only did so for one small room in their houses. Small room -> walk in closet. Or something like that.
Dress code LA vs. Germany... He said to her "How do you look like? Do you want to go to the Reeperbahn? (huge red light district in Hamburg)
The „P“ points you in the direction of the parking lot.