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I know this is off-topic, but related to your podcast. Would you consider talking about the Canada/Denmark “war” over a tiny island they finally agreed to split in half? The story is pretty funny.
As a Dane I do encourage making fun of the Danes. It´s all good and pretty safe, since nobody thinks it´s racist to make fun of the intellectual elite. But please don´t mock the Swedes. You should never punch down on those beneath you no matter how ridiculous they are.
Yeah I agree - danes are usually quiet on the trains but stillezones are where you're certain that no moron will talk on the phone which is a universally annoying thing to do!
I agree to that. I virly don't like to listen to others laud conversation on there phone. But two people are talking its okay😁. Once I painted my living room orange, and I loved it😄. It's now white.. It gives more light to the room, but my hallway is still blue. I agree to the stress and panic people are getting into, if we are a little late.. And I don't understand it. I'm the one my family always says, oh she's late again.. and?? It's not because they are waiting because of me to eat.. I'm only a little late, maybe 10 minutes, seriously.. But danes are virly a time freak, and is getting stressed if you aren't there exactly at time. By the way, I'm Danish 😂
I hate loud people talking to others on their cellphones. I also hate it when people listen to their phones and do not use earbuds or headphones. People lack civility.
Are you Danish! 'cause you sound very Danish to me. I didn't realize there were quiet zones on trains...oops, now I know why people stared at my kinds and me. I promise to be more mindful of my noisy mannerisms next time!
@@azucenabech9250 If you are "speaking" to me, I am not Danish however I am flattered that you think I am. I am just insistent upon civility being practiced on public transit: trains, busses, subways, etc. If anyone is too loud, that spoils everyone else's ride.
tbh, as an autistic individual, the quietzone is heaven. i am still in disbeleif about how they don't in praticulary exist in other countries (mostly bc even if there's the smallest amount of loudness my brain cannot count it in)
I was once travelling across the country and happened to be in the stillezone. Two men were having a beer or two and a conversation to go along with the beers. The ticket inspector told them to be quiet. They stopped talking and instead fell asleep. They ended up snoring louder than their abandoned chat.
The thing about being late: People expect you to be on time in Denmark - so it is NOT okay to be late like Erin says it is. I totally get her husbands anxiousness... Being late is embarrassing.
I mean, i agree with you to an extent. But as Erin says if they are running late 10 minutes, it's no biggie. I am one who hates being late, but for family gatherings and such which is an hour drive away you sometimes hit traffic jams, and are a little late. We write that we're late cause of traffic but are on our way. So it is "ok" to be late, as long as you actually intended and tried to be on time.
I'd say it depends on what you're late for. If you had planned to meet with someone outside then you should be on time - it would be rude to leave them standing there waiting. If you're going to someones home for a dinner or something similar you should try to be punctual, but it's okay if you're 10 minutes late as long as you let them know - this is just so they can prep the food accordingly. If it's something like a family gathering where lots of people will be coming then it's perfectly fine to arrive 10 minutes early or late without giving notice as it takes time for everyone to settle in anyway. In all cases, however, I think the person who is late will feel more strongly towards it than the one they're meeting with. Most people will be perfectly fine if you're a bit late. You can't do like they do in Southern Europe, though, and arrive like at a random time an hour or more late. I guess it might be because Danes have a bit of a schedule for our meets. We'll start with food right away and it won't be something like tapas that you can just take out of the fridge whenever, so it needs to be timed.
@@fredriknumse8991Bieng caught in a traffic jam is a excuse, but if you know that you will be more than 10 minutes late, make a phone call so people know maybe dinner is about to be served, so just to be polite
Haha! I love the quiet zones on Danish trains! Back when I was a teacher myself, I once managed to get a whole class of pupils (not my own class) to turn around and go to another compartment on the train. Just by looking at the first kid through the door 👁️👁️disapprovingly! “Don’t be noisy in this quiet zone, kids!” - was the message I was telepathising to them! It was almost too easy, being the big, old, SCARY teacher that I was! 😅
Thing about being late … subconsciously the message you bring forward is, that your time is more important than theirs. Arrogant and rude. If you got paid $1000 to be on time … would you still be late? Nah … thats what I thought. But you think you’re more important timewise than your friend? 🤦🏻♂️
The saying hi to others or not is more of a urban vs rural thing in Denmark. I live in a town of around 200 people and people wave to each other all the time On the other hand my wife's sister lives in Arhus and people there are just as standoffish with saying hi as in København, Odense and .
Definitely. I grew up in a town of a few thousand and there it's perfectly normal to say good morning or hello to strangers. It's also very common to say hello to people you pass by when walking in nature.
2:51 - About the word "Autoritetstro", you've got it a tiny bit wrong. A more fitting translation would be "faith in authority". We use it to describe people who take what people above them in the hierarchy (society, workplace, parents etc.) say a bit too much at face value. It is not about how you act, it is what you believe. People who tell you about the house order often and in a loud voice are called "røvhuller" (unless it is 3AM, then the tables might be turned haha).
I thought about the same, but came to the conclusion that both translations are equally good. Because while it is (blind) faith in authorities, you are wrong about it not being an act, because it is specifically the belief and obedience to authorities. True to authority conveys this perfectly, since you are true to the rules set by the authorities. One could even argue that this translation is better as it encompass both the belief and the adhering to the rules.
I am just so thankful to have been born in Denmark. I would not survive a country where I can't walk down the street without strangers saying hi to me. And I find it hard enough even in Denmark sometimes to find unscented products 😅 I need to be able to breathe without being swamped with stimuli constantly. I love it here.
I grew up in Scandinavia (Sweden and Greenland) with a Danish father and American mother, and I hate being late as well. It is such a no no and so deeply disrespectful of other people’s time and plans.
going through the IKEA labyrinth of only one route possible, I always try to not breathe and walk very fast when passing the candle section. Those nausiating scents really gives me a headache.
Are you Danish? Do the Danes really dislike scented stuff? I ask because I've been many times in DK for vacations and in most of the Airbnbs there were some scented candles or sticks. Is it just in Airbnbs and in general Danes don't like scented things in their homes?
I am one Dane that feel overpowered by lots of strong scents. One or few would be fine, it is the overload that bothers me. Do not think this is something that bothers all Danes, but there might be a few, just like there might be a few in other countries. My hearing is tested to be very good. Place me at a party with lots of background voices and people talking all around me, and I can not seperate the words. It just blends together into white noice. I would like to test if I also got a problem with overload of money, but sadly not had the chance yet to swim like Uncle Scrooge in the sea of gold coins. @@VERMiiNE
Uhh... I do the same every time I am in IKEA, I get a headache too, I just thought it was me who was strange 😅 It is not because I don´t have any scents in my home I actually have air freshener´s but they are more fresh scents and not as pungent or heavy as scented candles, I don´t know what the difference is but scented candles is just too strong for me especially if they are lit ??
@@VERMiiNEit must be an Airbnb thing. I don't think I have ever met someone who uses scented candles in an unironic manner. You might find it in a massage clinic but I don't know where else it would be used.
Regarding being late, I believe it is not about your nartionality, but about your personality and having good manners. I have lived to Denmark nearly 8 years and some Danes I have encountered here were always late.
Sure. We talked about it in our episode with Conrad Molden too and there are more variables that can make you late in other places (mostly around driving and transportation). Not that it's polite, but more understandable and possibly why it's tolerated more elsewhere.
My family and I will be in Denmark next week! I'm definitely showing this one to my kids, as I believe they do all of this to excess! They are not used to public transportation, so that one might be especially difficult. Thankfully, we don't have a lot planned that will require punctuality.
That's so great - wishing you and your family a fantastic trip! We have a playlist for tourist tips, quite a few of the videos are Copenhagen-specific but much of it is universal to Denmark: ruclips.net/p/PLFCSH6KqKooYx9JdadqsDJF5eFmANt_9z&si=AlSDtalBdYoMozgX
As a Dane living in California the constant talking gets to me (Including my husband's constant communication). Mind you, I've lived here for 18 years so I should have gotten used to it. I haven't.
nice clip m8, the male version of "Karen" is (in Danmark) called "Brian" like a car thats pimped out waaay to much "en Brian bil"(a Brian car) :) but the thing we realy thing is wired is when we speak with foreigners, (in English) and they then put in Danich words in between, like u just did with "stillezone" insted of "quietzone" :) --> - is not that we dont want u to speak Danich and man U 2 have come a long way, thoms up and nicely done for sure. Its just a bit wired, cus the brain is in English-mode :) ps. I like ur studioe settings, it makes u look much more pro, nice thinking👍
Ah, I have heard it as Brian - they're the ones with the loud cars... it's coming back to me now haha. It's funny about the Danish being mixed in sounding funny, only because so many Danes insert English words :)
I will say the stillezone is really important. A lot of people travel when it is dark or night or have been travelling for some time and when I tell you that it is absoletly horrible to sit in a train trying to sleep when a child is crying or drunk people are in the train on their way to a party.... it is not fun.... It is also for people who have work to do. So they won't be unexpectedly disturbed by sounds. I love the stillezone. Also the thing about colors, on walls. I have always been told that white walls are calming. But you should bring a bit of color in still with the shelves and bed and such. Also I think people are scared of making a 80-90-00s room.
I didn't realized that you also have a podcast. It is great. About being talkative. I am 100% Hungarian, living in Denmark 5 years and I always saying that I am too talkative but that is who I am. I don't want to change of this side of my personality. On the other hand, I can be quite quiet if I am working on my computers. So... I should say it is still 50-50. :)
@@Debbie338 I wish that I could say I speak Danish but that wouldn't be true. I try to speak and I definitely need to learn Danish. I also want to learn Danish but usual classes and classroom study just not my thing. I am a learning by doing person. Thanks for the positive assumption Debbie. 👍
🇬🇧🇩🇰 Oh how I agree about the talking!! I'm an anglo Dane, living in England, so being more quiet & reserved is a thing for me. But it isn't just words that come so loud, fast & furiously, it's also the strange voices that you often hear -- strange & gravelly is the way I could describe it. Odd!
Very interesting. But glad I was not aware of all this, I married my Danish husband 20 years ago, and never inquired about our social differences I am glad I didn't because I didn't have to change we all just adapted to each other. I love differences and love to be challenged. I do get better at adapting w one or 2 tequila shots.
I agree with everything, but I don't find it weird 🤔🤣 We like things quiet, when in the company of strangers - being punctual is polite and proper behavior - neon colors are extremely distracting - colors on walls take time, money and energy, when changing the pillow covers is enough new color - being true to authority, keeps us waiting to cross for the green man and teaches children to be respectful of authority Not odd qualities, are they?? really?.. hello from Hundested 🌸
yeah being punctual is polite and you know if people are late it's usually because of a good reason... if people are slack and blah blah we can be late and does it often, then it is seen as sloppy and disrespectful, wasting other peoples time because now they have to wait for you to finally arrive to do whatever it is you where meeting to do.
About the 'silent7quite zone'- I was once a teen, but everyone respected the that zone. Granted back then, there were still smoking sections, but rules were rules.. The first mobile phones came out and people would silently booh, people who took a phone call in the quite zone till they left, just to ruin their calls. We'd be 6-8 people going from from on station the next and the only places to sit was in the quite zone, and no one would talk beyound a whisper - going from loud out on the town teens to sitting in silence for 10 mins and then back againl. Respekt stillezonen!!
One of the things I really like about living here is the lack of chemical smells put in things .When I go back to the States to visit people I feel accosted by all the fake and chemical smells and by how much noisier it is.
@@RobeTrotting I'm also chemically sensitive and would get seasonal allergies and could tell when thunderstorms were coming by headaches when I lived in the States especially Ohio but since I have been in Denmark my allergies are basically gone and I have a fraction of the headaches. But even here I have issues walking down the cleaning isles
@@sontaron7 Yeah, there is way more to it than not just wanting particular scents. Allergies plays a part and even if you don't have them you can develop them due to exposure. Furthermore, let's agree to not putting unnecessary ingredients in our products. That is the sensible path considering resources and environment .
I love the 'stillezone'!! And I disagree, it's completely different and much more muted than the regular zones. I always book at ticket for that zone and my adhd brain enjoys it 🥰
The punctuality is a newer thing. And maybe also more common in cities than in the county side. In my childhood in a small Village in the sixties and seventies, we often visited neighbours and family without notice.
@@Ikkeligeglad absolutely agree. When invited for dinner at a certain time it isn't very respectfull to the person Who arranges the food etc., not to be on time.
It is easy to repaint? Have you no furniture? I don't think there is even room for all the book cases in my living room in the rest of my appartment. I use only led candles. Why fill your home with unhealthy particles? I do wear colorful t-shirts, though.
@@RobeTrotting You want me to just paint around the book cases? But how will I reach far enough behind them that the old color can not be seen from any angle, while also avoiding getting paint on the book cases themselves?
Guys, here is a request for you please: Can you please do a podcast, or two or three, about how all those Danes invented stuff that the rest of the world uses, like the ventilator for example? I would love to know how much Danes have contributed to others’ lives (if at all possible, that is). Thanks so much in advance! - Abbie
The thing about being late ohhh my stomach hurts just to think about it. I hate to be late and also it really makes me nuts when people are late for an appointment with me. My husbond is always late so for me not to be stressed we often take two cars if we’re going to visit people so I’ll be on time he will be 10-15 min late. 😂😂😂😂
Oh NO! I'm an American and I don't like smells of any kind - except food. :) I find loud people obnoxious. If I need to be somewhere at 6 I'm there at 5:45 and I don't like a lot of colors esp. red, blue, and yellow. Switched at birth! 😅By the way you guys have a great channel!
You'd love it here! haha Broad generalization of course, but overall pretty accurate. Thanks so much for watching and really glad you like the channel 😃
It's so funny, and we are still time optimists but this is something we have changed on now BUT we feel anxiety demanding a time and overthink the best time to host things or meet places now so we've just shifted the anxiety haha
Being late is something I think everyone around the world finds terribly annoying. How hard is it to set clocks 15 minutes fast and be on time, or better still, early.
It’s actually expected that you’re late in several countries. If you show up time, you might be hours earlier than ever one else and the host is nowhere near done. I’ve lived in a country like that and as a Dane it was driving me up the wall.
Mostly when you rent a space, mostly if you change the colors on walls you have to change it back when you move out. And scented candles, haven't you seen the info adds on TV on parfume allergies? 😮 We are very aware of unnecessary parfumes, we have been taught from an early age 😂
Yeah, so you paint it back - that's pretty normal all over the world. The avoidance of scents is so extreme though, if someone is allergic to perfumes it's usually only when they're in direct contact with it on their skin - lighting a scented candle isn't a risk 😂
@@RobeTrotting from my experience some landlords are very extreme with it down to brand of paint and precise shade, and if the paint job isn't to thier liking it will have to be redone. I think it just comes down to we don't want hassle. The perfume thing, I think it's also a matter of tolerance. If you are used to none, you smell even small amounts of perfume that someone who is used to more won't even notice. And I think the Danish obsession with fresh air plays a part too, wouldn't want ruin that fresh smell of "dried outside on washline smell" with fabric softner, scent beads and dryersheets 😱😱🤣🤣 I am rather biased on the perfume thing though. I have a ton of allergies and I don't want to develope another one (paranoia and over reacting here absolutely). And some peoples perfume allergy kicks in just by smell making them sneeze over and over again, or even trigger their astma. That's probably another contributing factor to the scent avoidance. The Danish Astma and Allergy Patient Association has a very strong presence, they are very well respected and for brands producing baby products and personal care products getting an endorsement from them is a big deal. Even in other countries, I see their seal on baby products here in the Netherlands.
Why wouldn't you wan't to paint your room/living spaces the same colour as the sky? I know it's hard for most 'other' people to understand, but there is a reason we have 10K shades of what you call 'white'.
Please wear the neon and the bright colors! It´s just cause almost everyone else dresse in neutral/black, that we all tend to fall back into it after we´ve been adventurous and maybe wore a white and yellow striped shirt 😄
The talking part is so different. I was in Los Angeles in my leap year and once when I had to go on a bus there was two women who just started talking to each other. I think it started with one of them saying nice shirt and since we all had to go on the same bus I could hear how they also found out they went to same church. I was so absorbed in them that I missed my stop. When I got back home I wanted to be more open, like them, so a day when it was raining there was a guy with a book waiting for the bus. So I asked him what book it was. It was the fucking Bible. So we talked about how now he had found the truth, after growing up with Buddhist parents and then something else in between. Yeah the thing about being punctual is a pet peeve. I’ll be there within 5 minutes of when I say. At 10 minutes after I’ll think and maybe text or call, if someone is that late. If someone is 30 minutes late and it’s not because of something like there was an accident or they missed the bus, then I’ll think, then why didn’t we just say let’s meet at this time instead
Yeah, we really do like to compliment strangers and I think it is actually a nice thing overall. It can really brighten your day and there’s something freeing about having a small chat even when you know it won’t turn into a long relationship or even a lengthy conversation - although we have gotten a lot more used to keeping to ourselves and when we aren’t feeling social it is nice.
Questions, please: Where do you film your podcasts? Do you do so in a studio or have you redone your apartment? Can people rent studio space in Denmark, to perform? Asking out of my natural curiosity and also to be more acquainted with Danish custom(s).
@@RobeTrotting Wow, fast reply! Thank you, Dear. Now, you know what is coming next question-wise, don't you? 🤣 *Laughs at myself* 🤣 Is the studio near your apartment / your digs? What does it cost over there to rent by the hour?
While I sit in my pastel purple suit, I will tell you that some Danes are loud as well. I have my office space next to a man that's really loud. And my friends will often tell me that I'm too loud 😆
I sometimes think about moving to Denmark, but I'm pretty loud for German standards. Now I'm wondering if that's also too loud for danish people or if Danes are also more talkative than Germans but not as much as Americans. I pretty much fit perfectly with the Dutch 😂 (in the Den Haag region)
@@Benefacez "Ze Jurmans hafe abzolutelie no zence ov humor", according to a certain Basil Fawlty, owner of the small Fawlty Towers hotel in Torquay on the South Coast of England 😂 Did our three American friends here ever watch that hilarious classic British comedy series?
This is funny! I'm very sensitive to noise, but I would never say to another person, what your boss said to you! Instead, I would buy noise cancelling headphones and wear them. About the stillezone, I'm one of those rigid people. I buy a ticket for the stillezone because I use the travel time to rest my brain. If I'm in the normal zone I'm always up for a chat. Oh, and the phone calls - please don't involve us in your convos if we have zero places to escape to. It's a major social faux pas!
nope nope it's not wrong to talk to others kids, as long as the parents are there with them... I work with an excavator, often if a small family passes by and the child shows an interest in an excavator or a dumper, I can find myself tell the parents if the children can try to get up and sit in the cabin
My UK father in law went apoplectic when a lady shushed him in the Stillezone on the S-tog. He hid not comprehend, nor appreciate, the notion of not talking all the time ❤️
No Danes aren't autoritetstro. We don't believe that just because you are an autority that you are right. We tend to question things even coming from people "above" us. Parents, teachers, bosses, officers or from the state. Even doctors if you feel they don't treat you right. Those that follow "the rules" are often older people who think that their ages gives them autority.
I disagree. E.g. Danes are probably the only people in the world who would stop for the red light at a pedestrian crossing in the middle of the night with no cars to be seen for miles. Generally they seem to blindly trust what they are told by the authorities no matter how ridiculous it may seem.
As you get older you learn to obey the rules because it makes life better for All, but it's normal for younger people to test other people's boundaries, we are also an animal just like a dog for example see the difference between a puppy of less than a year and a dog of 8 years old it's simply the same, the older dog punishes the puppy if it's not respectful
One of the reasons I wanna move there is because of how politically not correct they are, unlike the rest of the world 😊 And the minimalist fashion (and Tivoli gardens).
The quiet zone is a lot more quiet. Also, it's good you mentioned that not saying hey or something to someone is mostly a Copenhagen thing. Haha the political correct thing is also something coming from outside and yes it destroys humor as well. Which I hate
Yeah, there can be a nice balance of PC in certain environments and a more casual humor elsewhere imo - you never know who you're impacting (even though we have a really dark sense of humor that seems to fit in here).
@@RobeTrotting Haha yeah my humor is also pretty dark. When they suspected I had sclerosis I said if I have it and people tell me smoking could kill me I could always say no I have sclerosis so jokes on you😂
I go to the stillezone. Because their less people there and I want nobody to talk to me. You can whisper if your confused. I just can’t do contact so for me it a safe zone. About paint White houses are common. But I’ve always been in light tones. Such as soft pinks. Fairy green. Or sky blue. Or creams Smells!! Most places have smells were they already open so you can check. Normal does this a lot. And have a ton of snect soaps. Recommmad there. But if the shop doesn’t have some already open for you to smell you really shouldn’t be taking the head off. Opening the leid is okay but beyond that….eeehhhh Plans are plans, stay on time or I’m not there! I don’t want that ainxtey
I have experienced mostly foreigners in the trains talking on phones with the speakers on. Why do they that :-) Or people watching RUclips or Tiktok without the headphones
I have NO idea why people FaceTime without headphones or don’t bother to hold the phone to their face and do it on speaker mode. It’s so bizarre to me haha
2:00 "autoritetstro" was quite well pronounced! 3:10 "Autoritetstro" likewise. But this is not a case of belief in authorities, as much as it is a belief in the rules and the reason by most of them! We danes may seem like we believe in authorities, but we don't. We believe in democracy and regard the state as the servant of democracy and thereby of the people. We haven't sold out parties to companies, yet. ;-) Now, about telling people what the rules are. Long ago a friend told me why immigrants from Anatolia threw garbage into the backyard: Because noone had told them the rules. This may be the motive behind this behaviour. Now, Sweden is my lost love. The language is poetry. It gives the Swedish people a right to be a bit more, like what you all said. Their music is fantastic, too. It is like this: Long ago I realized that English is more pretty for singing. And the same goes for Swedish, but even more so. Swedish is the Luthuanian of the norse! It has ancient suffikses, like -o and -on instead of the Danish -e and -er. Look into it and fall in love with a language! And about being on time: Why would you say 8 o'v-clock if you don't relally mean it? Why not just say someting else? Better to let people know than to always make a quiz show of it. Otherwise, I love your show and your nice tone and all! A subsccriber, I find your vidoes both very entertaining and most informative! Your views on the differences between DK & US are both uplifting - for danes - and potentially depressing - for US citizens, given the fact that our right wing is your right wing, and we have no Don, let alone Rupert!
Haha great video. I guess your loudness stems back to when you all lived at farms and had cattle. You really had to raise your voice if you wanted your neighbors to hear you
I love bright colored cloths to and I wave to children and make funny faces to them. They think it hilarious and it´s a great icebreaker when it comes to their parents...
people should not have private conversations in front of me. I just want to comment on what they are saying. or on one occasion on the train where a group of young people were talking. I had to stiffle my laughter a lot and when they left a guy looked at me funny and one of the girls told that I was laughing at him. which was true.
I’m Danish but have lived in Australia for over 30 years. Here in Australia we say hi to strangers and often strike up a conversation. Recently I was in Copenhagen and I noticed when I smiled at people they did not smile back but instead they would look away. Most would not even meet my gaze. I was very happy to get back to Australia where people are much warmer with strangers.
Hej Helene. I try to *break the Danish tradition* of _not_ saying 'good morning' to the neighbours. Not everyone is willing to say 'hi' back to me, except the foreigners...which just highlights your comment. It *is* a Danish/Scandinavian thing to be reserved like that. I regard people who can't even say "good morning" or "hi" to be cheap people. Their loss...🙂 Good luck Down Under! We can learn a lot from the Aussies.
@@drumstick74 keep going. Break their icy facade if you can. When I first came to Australia, I was in the city one day and I saw two aboriginal people having a very loud conversation across 3 lanes of traffic. One on either side of the road. They were so loud , I had never seen anything like it. They didn’t GAF who heard them. It was so cool to me. It gave me permission to be loud as well.
We Danes need more color. I hate white walls. I hate that we have black as a favorite color. We have black trousers, t-shirts, cars, bikes, shoes, and more.... I do HATE people being late.
I get the practical sense of white walls making rooms appear brighter in winter and for black being easy for biking and not showing stains from what your trousers are exposed to while cycling… but agreed - a little color where you can fit it in is super nice 😊
I Do not like when people talk, listen too a film or hear really loud Music on trains and orther publictransport. My own head is in kaos and others noice do not need help making my kaos bigger. That is WHY I always go in stillezone when possible. Hope you boys are still god with Living in dk
"We do our best" Do you really? If you do your best you plan for eventual delays in your journey, so "sometimes" should change to seldom or rarely. It is not really a valid excuse if it happens too often. I would much rather a person just came out clean and say that they don't care about being punctual, than try to play it off that such things happens more often than they should.
Hm, so she thinks we should just paint our walls because they can always be painted over if we don't like the colour anyway. But she has to smell a piece of soap before she buys it? I'm not sure I get the logic. Paint is a lot more expensive than soap, I'd say...!
Well you should also check the color to make sure you like it before you paint it 😂 the logic isn’t hard to understand, they’re two very different things.
@@RobeTrotting But they both cost money! It's much more expensive and takes a lot of extra work if you have to repaint your walls. If you buy a soap you don't like, throw it out and buy another. No big deal really. That soap seems to be a bigger issue than paint is what seems weird to me. But then again, weird things are exactly what this video is about! 🙂Anyway, I like all of your videos a lot!
@@caythorgrimson well, I like my mother tongue and have respect for it, therefore there are rules that must be observed and the language must not be flattened. Pronunciation and writing are two different things.
@@caythorgrimson that's not how it is written in Danish, so don't write it the way you pronounce it, that is not Danish. You can see it in my call name that I care about things, don't fuck up my language and the history of my country
@@Ikkeligeglad naa det sgu nok fordi jeg er født på amar din idiot så meget amar dreng at jeg har hollansk mellem navn din spade så prøv ikke at fortælle mig vad vi gør på amar
If you are invited to "After Five" it means for dinner! Don't be late! About talking all the time: I do not think Danes are particularly quiet compared to Norwegians or Finns, but excessive babbling like some Americans do is exhausting to be around. In the Sagas of Snorre (from around the year 1000AD), there is a story about one of the Norwegian kings. As a young man, he never said anything. Then at around eight years old, his father was killed. There was a meeting and the boy showed up. He said: "I will revenge my father!". They asked him why he had not talked before, and he replied: "I never had anything important to say!". Excessive talking, like Americans often do, seems like an expression of nervous or psychological disorder. It is also an intrusion on other people's thinking. I like to think, and babbling to me when I think disturbs my thoughts.
@@RobeTrotting Haha maybe, but to me, it's a lot of hot air. Like sitting next to an American on a flight... It can be a real pain. Usually, they don't seem to live that interesting life either. I think it is more about fear of loneliness or something. Or a desperate wish to be liked? As a university professor working with wildlife in Africa, married to a Maasai woman, and having 2 small kids, life is busy and I need to spend the flight to think or read. not to babysit an American feeling lonely.
I actually think that alot of young adult danes (like myself) are starting to break the public interraction stereotype a bit, I’m seeing alot more people talking on public transport…. Stay away from me though, I’m trying to watch Netflix on my phone
😂 That could be, I definitely notice it too. It’s nice to just get a smile or even a compliment if someone has a cute dog or cool bag or something. I don’t always want to have a whole conversation but those little interactions can brighten up a day.
🎧😃 You can catch part 1 of our episode with Erin streaming now on all podcast platforms, search for What Are You Doing in Denmark or our linktree linktr.ee/robetrotting 📱👈
I know this is off-topic, but related to your podcast. Would you consider talking about the Canada/Denmark “war” over a tiny island they finally agreed to split in half? The story is pretty funny.
This podcast is so entertaining keep up the good work! Also seen some haters on other videos but it’s good knowing you’re worth more than them 😊😅
From denmark! Why do you talk shit about us all the time??? Wtf is your problem man! Please dont come back!!!!!!!!!!!
As a Dane I do encourage making fun of the Danes. It´s all good and pretty safe, since nobody thinks it´s racist to make fun of the intellectual elite. But please don´t mock the Swedes. You should never punch down on those beneath you no matter how ridiculous they are.
Even if they are totally reality challenged and a danger to themselves? 😂
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I love how frank Danes are. I am Mexican and we can punch back pretty hard too.
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Yeah I agree - danes are usually quiet on the trains but stillezones are where you're certain that no moron will talk on the phone which is a universally annoying thing to do!
I agree to that. I virly don't like to listen to others laud conversation on there phone. But two people are talking its okay😁. Once I painted my living room orange, and I loved it😄. It's now white.. It gives more light to the room, but my hallway is still blue. I agree to the stress and panic people are getting into, if we are a little late.. And I don't understand it. I'm the one my family always says, oh she's late again.. and?? It's not because they are waiting because of me to eat.. I'm only a little late, maybe 10 minutes, seriously.. But danes are virly a time freak, and is getting stressed if you aren't there exactly at time. By the way, I'm Danish 😂
I hate loud people talking to others on their cellphones. I also hate it when people listen to their phones and do not use earbuds or headphones. People lack civility.
Are you Danish! 'cause you sound very Danish to me. I didn't realize there were quiet zones on trains...oops, now I know why people stared at my kinds and me. I promise to be more mindful of my noisy mannerisms next time!
@@azucenabech9250 If you are "speaking" to me, I am not Danish however I am flattered that you think I am. I am just insistent upon civility being practiced on public transit: trains, busses, subways, etc.
If anyone is too loud, that spoils everyone else's ride.
@SuiGenerisAbbie Nope, not talking to you! Good luck on your life's mission since you are talking to me.
tbh, as an autistic individual, the quietzone is heaven. i am still in disbeleif about how they don't in praticulary exist in other countries (mostly bc even if there's the smallest amount of loudness my brain cannot count it in)
We also really like how it's so chill and quiet on public transport tbh 😊
I'm not autistic, but I feel exactly the same way.
well sweden has quietzones on the trains too. easily spotted on the Øresundståg
I was once travelling across the country and happened to be in the stillezone. Two men were having a beer or two and a conversation to go along with the beers. The ticket inspector told them to be quiet. They stopped talking and instead fell asleep. They ended up snoring louder than their abandoned chat.
As a german I go shopping in denmark regularly to stock up on scentless everything. I can't cope with the fabric softener obsession in this country 😅
scent can quickly give one a headache :)
✍🏼 Next trip to Denmark: Get Unscentables
The thing about being late: People expect you to be on time in Denmark - so it is NOT okay to be late like Erin says it is.
I totally get her husbands anxiousness... Being late is embarrassing.
I mean, i agree with you to an extent. But as Erin says if they are running late 10 minutes, it's no biggie. I am one who hates being late, but for family gatherings and such which is an hour drive away you sometimes hit traffic jams, and are a little late. We write that we're late cause of traffic but are on our way. So it is "ok" to be late, as long as you actually intended and tried to be on time.
Well, sometimes tardiness cannot be avoided.
I'd say it depends on what you're late for. If you had planned to meet with someone outside then you should be on time - it would be rude to leave them standing there waiting. If you're going to someones home for a dinner or something similar you should try to be punctual, but it's okay if you're 10 minutes late as long as you let them know - this is just so they can prep the food accordingly. If it's something like a family gathering where lots of people will be coming then it's perfectly fine to arrive 10 minutes early or late without giving notice as it takes time for everyone to settle in anyway.
In all cases, however, I think the person who is late will feel more strongly towards it than the one they're meeting with. Most people will be perfectly fine if you're a bit late.
You can't do like they do in Southern Europe, though, and arrive like at a random time an hour or more late. I guess it might be because Danes have a bit of a schedule for our meets. We'll start with food right away and it won't be something like tapas that you can just take out of the fridge whenever, so it needs to be timed.
@@fredriknumse8991Bieng caught in a traffic jam is a excuse, but if you know that you will be more than 10 minutes late, make a phone call so people know maybe dinner is about to be served, so just to be polite
And he's nordjyde. That's a big no no. You show up on time.
Haha! I love the quiet zones on Danish trains! Back when I was a teacher myself, I once managed to get a whole class of pupils (not my own class) to turn around and go to another compartment on the train. Just by looking at the first kid through the door 👁️👁️disapprovingly! “Don’t be noisy in this quiet zone, kids!” - was the message I was telepathising to them! It was almost too easy, being the big, old, SCARY teacher that I was! 😅
Thing about being late … subconsciously the message you bring forward is, that your time is more important than theirs. Arrogant and rude.
If you got paid $1000 to be on time … would you still be late?
Nah … thats what I thought. But you think you’re more important timewise than your friend? 🤦🏻♂️
I do late for a living! I'm married to a Dane but I guess he is not that Danish because he just goes w the flow.
The saying hi to others or not is more of a urban vs rural thing in Denmark. I live in a town of around 200 people and people wave to each other all the time On the other hand my wife's sister lives in Arhus and people there are just as standoffish with saying hi as in København, Odense and .
Definitely. I grew up in a town of a few thousand and there it's perfectly normal to say good morning or hello to strangers. It's also very common to say hello to people you pass by when walking in nature.
So true!
2:51 - About the word "Autoritetstro", you've got it a tiny bit wrong. A more fitting translation would be "faith in authority". We use it to describe people who take what people above them in the hierarchy (society, workplace, parents etc.) say a bit too much at face value. It is not about how you act, it is what you believe.
People who tell you about the house order often and in a loud voice are called "røvhuller" (unless it is 3AM, then the tables might be turned haha).
I thought about the same, but came to the conclusion that both translations are equally good. Because while it is (blind) faith in authorities, you are wrong about it not being an act, because it is specifically the belief and obedience to authorities. True to authority conveys this perfectly, since you are true to the rules set by the authorities. One could even argue that this translation is better as it encompass both the belief and the adhering to the rules.
I am just so thankful to have been born in Denmark. I would not survive a country where I can't walk down the street without strangers saying hi to me. And I find it hard enough even in Denmark sometimes to find unscented products 😅 I need to be able to breathe without being swamped with stimuli constantly. I love it here.
I grew up in Scandinavia (Sweden and Greenland) with a Danish father and American mother, and I hate being late as well. It is such a no no and so deeply disrespectful of other people’s time and plans.
going through the IKEA labyrinth of only one route possible, I always try to not breathe and walk very fast when passing the candle section. Those nausiating scents really gives me a headache.
Are you Danish? Do the Danes really dislike scented stuff? I ask because I've been many times in DK for vacations and in most of the Airbnbs there were some scented candles or sticks. Is it just in Airbnbs and in general Danes don't like scented things in their homes?
I am one Dane that feel overpowered by lots of strong scents. One or few would be fine, it is the overload that bothers me. Do not think this is something that bothers all Danes, but there might be a few, just like there might be a few in other countries. My hearing is tested to be very good. Place me at a party with lots of background voices and people talking all around me, and I can not seperate the words. It just blends together into white noice. I would like to test if I also got a problem with overload of money, but sadly not had the chance yet to swim like Uncle Scrooge in the sea of gold coins. @@VERMiiNE
Uhh... I do the same every time I am in IKEA, I get a headache too, I just thought it was me who was strange 😅 It is not because I don´t have any scents in my home I actually have air freshener´s but they are more fresh scents and not as pungent or heavy as scented candles, I don´t know what the difference is but scented candles is just too strong for me especially if they are lit ??
@@VERMiiNEit must be an Airbnb thing. I don't think I have ever met someone who uses scented candles in an unironic manner.
You might find it in a massage clinic but I don't know where else it would be used.
Regarding being late, I believe it is not about your nartionality, but about your personality and having good manners. I have lived to Denmark nearly 8 years and some Danes I have encountered here were always late.
Sure. We talked about it in our episode with Conrad Molden too and there are more variables that can make you late in other places (mostly around driving and transportation). Not that it's polite, but more understandable and possibly why it's tolerated more elsewhere.
I love how you're really upping your game with god audio and everything 🎉🎉 keep going?
Thank you so much! We're really happy with the new set up and creating in a studio environment :)
@@RobeTrottingwhish all You Tubers would make better sound quality, normaly the lightning is ok but the quality and volume...........
My family and I will be in Denmark next week! I'm definitely showing this one to my kids, as I believe they do all of this to excess! They are not used to public transportation, so that one might be especially difficult. Thankfully, we don't have a lot planned that will require punctuality.
That's so great - wishing you and your family a fantastic trip! We have a playlist for tourist tips, quite a few of the videos are Copenhagen-specific but much of it is universal to Denmark: ruclips.net/p/PLFCSH6KqKooYx9JdadqsDJF5eFmANt_9z&si=AlSDtalBdYoMozgX
As a Dane living in California the constant talking gets to me (Including my husband's constant communication). Mind you, I've lived here for 18 years so I should have gotten used to it. I haven't.
nice clip m8, the male version of "Karen" is (in Danmark) called "Brian" like a car thats pimped out waaay to much "en Brian bil"(a Brian car) :)
but the thing we realy thing is wired is when we speak with foreigners, (in English) and they then put in Danich words in between, like u just did with "stillezone" insted of "quietzone" :) -->
- is not that we dont want u to speak Danich and man U 2 have come a long way, thoms up and nicely done for sure. Its just a bit wired, cus the brain is in English-mode :)
ps. I like ur studioe settings, it makes u look much more pro, nice thinking👍
Ah, I have heard it as Brian - they're the ones with the loud cars... it's coming back to me now haha. It's funny about the Danish being mixed in sounding funny, only because so many Danes insert English words :)
I will say the stillezone is really important. A lot of people travel when it is dark or night or have been travelling for some time and when I tell you that it is absoletly horrible to sit in a train trying to sleep when a child is crying or drunk people are in the train on their way to a party.... it is not fun.... It is also for people who have work to do. So they won't be unexpectedly disturbed by sounds. I love the stillezone.
Also the thing about colors, on walls. I have always been told that white walls are calming. But you should bring a bit of color in still with the shelves and bed and such. Also I think people are scared of making a 80-90-00s room.
I love seeing my country through your eyes ❤ I learn something from every episode 🙂
I didn't realized that you also have a podcast. It is great.
About being talkative. I am 100% Hungarian, living in Denmark 5 years and I always saying that I am too talkative but that is who I am. I don't want to change of this side of my personality. On the other hand, I can be quite quiet if I am working on my computers. So... I should say it is still 50-50. :)
So, you speak Hungarian, Danish, and English? I know a lot of Danes speak two, but three is pretty impressive.
@@Debbie338 I wish that I could say I speak Danish but that wouldn't be true. I try to speak and I definitely need to learn Danish. I also want to learn Danish but usual classes and classroom study just not my thing. I am a learning by doing person. Thanks for the positive assumption Debbie. 👍
@@BaldieDude I wish you well, then!
@@Debbie338 Thank you Debbie!
🇬🇧🇩🇰 Oh how I agree about the talking!! I'm an anglo Dane, living in England, so being more quiet & reserved is a thing for me. But it isn't just words that come so loud, fast & furiously, it's also the strange voices that you often hear -- strange & gravelly is the way I could describe it. Odd!
Very interesting. But glad I was not aware of all this, I married my Danish husband 20 years ago, and never inquired about our social differences
I am glad I didn't because I didn't have to change we all just adapted to each other. I love differences and love to be challenged. I do get better at adapting w one or 2 tequila shots.
I agree with everything, but I don't find it weird 🤔🤣
We like things quiet, when in the company of strangers
- being punctual is polite and proper behavior
- neon colors are extremely distracting - colors on walls take time, money and energy, when changing the pillow covers is enough new color
- being true to authority, keeps us waiting to cross for the green man and teaches children to be respectful of authority
Not odd qualities, are they?? really?..
hello from Hundested 🌸
yeah being punctual is polite and you know if people are late it's usually because of a good reason... if people are slack and blah blah we can be late and does it often, then it is seen as sloppy and disrespectful, wasting other peoples time because now they have to wait for you to finally arrive to do whatever it is you where meeting to do.
About the 'silent7quite zone'-
I was once a teen, but everyone respected the that zone. Granted back then, there were still smoking sections, but rules were rules..
The first mobile phones came out and people would silently booh, people who took a phone call in the quite zone till they left, just to ruin their calls.
We'd be 6-8 people going from from on station the next and the only places to sit was in the quite zone, and no one would talk beyound a whisper - going from loud out on the town teens to sitting in silence for 10 mins and then back againl.
Respekt stillezonen!!
One of the things I really like about living here is the lack of chemical smells put in things .When I go back to the States to visit people I feel accosted by all the fake and chemical smells and by how much noisier it is.
I don’t mind my senses stimulated, even Tide detergent is something weird that I miss my clothes smelling like.
Have you tried the pre-packaged bread in the stores?! That stuff lasts over 10 days, smells weird and tastes of.
@@RobeTrotting I'm also chemically sensitive and would get seasonal allergies and could tell when thunderstorms were coming by headaches when I lived in the States especially Ohio but since I have been in Denmark my allergies are basically gone and I have a fraction of the headaches. But even here I have issues walking down the cleaning isles
@@sontaron7 Yeah, there is way more to it than not just wanting particular scents. Allergies plays a part and even if you don't have them you can develop them due to exposure. Furthermore, let's agree to not putting unnecessary ingredients in our products. That is the sensible path considering resources and environment .
I love the 'stillezone'!! And I disagree, it's completely different and much more muted than the regular zones. I always book at ticket for that zone and my adhd brain enjoys it 🥰
Fair enough haha 😆
The punctuality is a newer thing. And maybe also more common in cities than in the county side.
In my childhood in a small Village in the sixties and seventies, we often visited neighbours and family without notice.
Yes but if you are invited, then you have to be on time by the way my neighbors, friends and me still go for a visit without notice 😉
@@Ikkeligeglad absolutely agree. When invited for dinner at a certain time it isn't very respectfull to the person Who arranges the food etc., not to be on time.
@@futte8024 especially because it me who make the dinner and it's normally served 20-25 minutes after the time the guests are supposed to be here
@@Ikkeligeglad same here.
I love this new studio kind of setting youve got going
Thanks so much! Really enjoying the studio set up and experimenting with the new format for RUclips and the podcast now :)
It is easy to repaint? Have you no furniture? I don't think there is even room for all the book cases in my living room in the rest of my appartment.
I use only led candles. Why fill your home with unhealthy particles?
I do wear colorful t-shirts, though.
Yes, the paint just goes on the wall and not the furniture, having to paint the furniture too would be less easy LOL 😉
You use a drop cloth to cover everything, just push everything to the middle of the room. You're done in a day.
@@RobeTrotting You want me to just paint around the book cases? But how will I reach far enough behind them that the old color can not be seen from any angle, while also avoiding getting paint on the book cases themselves?
Guys, here is a request for you please: Can you please do a podcast, or two or three, about how all those Danes invented stuff that the rest of the world uses, like the ventilator for example?
I would love to know how much Danes have contributed to others’ lives (if at all possible, that is).
Thanks so much in advance!
- Abbie
The thing about being late ohhh my stomach hurts just to think about it. I hate to be late and also it really makes me nuts when people are late for an appointment with me. My husbond is always late so for me not to be stressed we often take two cars if we’re going to visit people so I’ll be on time he will be 10-15 min late. 😂😂😂😂
Oh NO! I'm an American and I don't like smells of any kind - except food. :) I find loud people obnoxious. If I need to be somewhere at 6 I'm there at 5:45 and I don't like a lot of colors esp. red, blue, and yellow. Switched at birth! 😅By the way you guys have a great channel!
You'd love it here! haha
Broad generalization of course, but overall pretty accurate. Thanks so much for watching and really glad you like the channel 😃
It is okay to open soaps and other stuff to smell it. We danes do it too.
weird thing 5. lol thats so me i cannot with the just come anytime/anyday thing.. gives me anxiety.. We need a schedule !!
It's so funny, and we are still time optimists but this is something we have changed on now BUT we feel anxiety demanding a time and overthink the best time to host things or meet places now so we've just shifted the anxiety haha
Being late is something I think everyone around the world finds terribly annoying. How hard is it to set clocks 15 minutes fast and be on time, or better still, early.
It’s actually expected that you’re late in several countries. If you show up time, you might be hours earlier than ever one else and the host is nowhere near done. I’ve lived in a country like that and as a Dane it was driving me up the wall.
Mostly when you rent a space, mostly if you change the colors on walls you have to change it back when you move out.
And scented candles, haven't you seen the info adds on TV on parfume allergies? 😮 We are very aware of unnecessary parfumes, we have been taught from an early age 😂
Yeah, so you paint it back - that's pretty normal all over the world. The avoidance of scents is so extreme though, if someone is allergic to perfumes it's usually only when they're in direct contact with it on their skin - lighting a scented candle isn't a risk 😂
@@RobeTrotting from my experience some landlords are very extreme with it down to brand of paint and precise shade, and if the paint job isn't to thier liking it will have to be redone. I think it just comes down to we don't want hassle.
The perfume thing, I think it's also a matter of tolerance. If you are used to none, you smell even small amounts of perfume that someone who is used to more won't even notice. And I think the Danish obsession with fresh air plays a part too, wouldn't want ruin that fresh smell of "dried outside on washline smell" with fabric softner, scent beads and dryersheets 😱😱🤣🤣
I am rather biased on the perfume thing though. I have a ton of allergies and I don't want to develope another one (paranoia and over reacting here absolutely). And some peoples perfume allergy kicks in just by smell making them sneeze over and over again, or even trigger their astma.
That's probably another contributing factor to the scent avoidance. The Danish Astma and Allergy Patient Association has a very strong presence, they are very well respected and for brands producing baby products and personal care products getting an endorsement from them is a big deal. Even in other countries, I see their seal on baby products here in the Netherlands.
Why wouldn't you wan't to paint your room/living spaces the same colour as the sky?
I know it's hard for most 'other' people to understand, but there is a reason we have 10K shades of what you call 'white'.
Scented candles and colorful wallpaint? Insane!
Who could imagine such a thing?! 😂
Please wear the neon and the bright colors! It´s just cause almost everyone else dresse in neutral/black, that we all tend to fall back into it after we´ve been adventurous and maybe wore a white and yellow striped shirt 😄
okey the thing about scented candles... theyre fine and it is actually a thing in denmark but only after october and in the chrismas month hihi
The talking part is so different. I was in Los Angeles in my leap year and once when I had to go on a bus there was two women who just started talking to each other. I think it started with one of them saying nice shirt and since we all had to go on the same bus I could hear how they also found out they went to same church. I was so absorbed in them that I missed my stop. When I got back home I wanted to be more open, like them, so a day when it was raining there was a guy with a book waiting for the bus. So I asked him what book it was. It was the fucking Bible. So we talked about how now he had found the truth, after growing up with Buddhist parents and then something else in between.
Yeah the thing about being punctual is a pet peeve. I’ll be there within 5 minutes of when I say. At 10 minutes after I’ll think and maybe text or call, if someone is that late. If someone is 30 minutes late and it’s not because of something like there was an accident or they missed the bus, then I’ll think, then why didn’t we just say let’s meet at this time instead
Yeah, we really do like to compliment strangers and I think it is actually a nice thing overall. It can really brighten your day and there’s something freeing about having a small chat even when you know it won’t turn into a long relationship or even a lengthy conversation - although we have gotten a lot more used to keeping to ourselves and when we aren’t feeling social it is nice.
I still want to be on time. I have been in America since 1960, and am still on time.🇺🇸🇩🇰
Questions, please: Where do you film your podcasts? Do you do so in a studio or have you redone your apartment? Can people rent studio space in Denmark, to perform?
Asking out of my natural curiosity and also to be more acquainted with Danish custom(s).
We rent a studio space for the podcast :)
@@RobeTrotting Wow, fast reply! Thank you, Dear.
Now, you know what is coming next question-wise, don't you? 🤣 *Laughs at myself* 🤣
Is the studio near your apartment / your digs?
What does it cost over there to rent by the hour?
While I sit in my pastel purple suit, I will tell you that some Danes are loud as well. I have my office space next to a man that's really loud. And my friends will often tell me that I'm too loud 😆
I sometimes think about moving to Denmark, but I'm pretty loud for German standards. Now I'm wondering if that's also too loud for danish people or if Danes are also more talkative than Germans but not as much as Americans.
I pretty much fit perfectly with the Dutch 😂 (in the Den Haag region)
Danes have a lot in common with Germans I see 😂. Punctuality, unsolicited lecturing about the rules, hard to approach.😂
But our kind of humor and irony is more common to the British.
@@futte8024 😀 I honestly don't know anything about that. Germans can do sarcasm well, too, if you are referring to that.
@@Benefacez
"Ze Jurmans hafe abzolutelie no zence ov humor", according to a certain Basil Fawlty, owner of the small Fawlty Towers hotel in Torquay on the South Coast of England 😂
Did our three American friends here ever watch that hilarious classic British comedy series?
@@Bjowolf2 🤣
@@Bjowolf2don't mension ze war🤣
This is funny! I'm very sensitive to noise, but I would never say to another person, what your boss said to you! Instead, I would buy noise cancelling headphones and wear them. About the stillezone, I'm one of those rigid people. I buy a ticket for the stillezone because I use the travel time to rest my brain. If I'm in the normal zone I'm always up for a chat. Oh, and the phone calls - please don't involve us in your convos if we have zero places to escape to. It's a major social faux pas!
nope nope it's not wrong to talk to others kids, as long as the parents are there with them... I work with an excavator, often if a small family passes by and the child shows an interest in an excavator or a dumper, I can find myself tell the parents if the children can try to get up and sit in the cabin
“I can attest, because I worked at the table with you during COVID.” Derek 😂😂😂
He even types loudly 😂
My UK father in law went apoplectic when a lady shushed him in the Stillezone on the S-tog. He hid not comprehend, nor appreciate, the notion of not talking all the time ❤️
No Danes aren't autoritetstro. We don't believe that just because you are an autority that you are right. We tend to question things even coming from people "above" us. Parents, teachers, bosses, officers or from the state. Even doctors if you feel they don't treat you right. Those that follow "the rules" are often older people who think that their ages gives them autority.
I disagree. E.g. Danes are probably the only people in the world who would stop for the red light at a pedestrian crossing in the middle of the night with no cars to be seen for miles. Generally they seem to blindly trust what they are told by the authorities no matter how ridiculous it may seem.
As you get older you learn to obey the rules because it makes life better for All, but it's normal for younger people to test other people's boundaries, we are also an animal just like a dog for example see the difference between a puppy of less than a year and a dog of 8 years old it's simply the same, the older dog punishes the puppy if it's not respectful
Samme studie som Mark Tange?
One of the reasons I wanna move there is because of how politically not correct they are, unlike the rest of the world 😊 And the minimalist fashion (and Tivoli gardens).
Too many people ARE politically correct already. Especially the younger generations. It's a pain.
Stille kupéen use to be rygerkupéen. The smoking compartment was only quiet in the morning, going to work. After hours... Not. A true paradigm shift.
The quiet zone is a lot more quiet. Also, it's good you mentioned that not saying hey or something to someone is mostly a Copenhagen thing.
Haha the political correct thing is also something coming from outside and yes it destroys humor as well. Which I hate
Yeah, there can be a nice balance of PC in certain environments and a more casual humor elsewhere imo - you never know who you're impacting (even though we have a really dark sense of humor that seems to fit in here).
@@RobeTrotting Haha yeah my humor is also pretty dark. When they suspected I had sclerosis I said if I have it and people tell me smoking could kill me I could always say no I have sclerosis so jokes on you😂
My boss called me too autoritetstro, which I found pretty funny.
I go to the stillezone. Because their less people there and I want nobody to talk to me. You can whisper if your confused. I just can’t do contact so for me it a safe zone.
About paint White houses are common. But I’ve always been in light tones. Such as soft pinks. Fairy green. Or sky blue. Or creams
Smells!! Most places have smells were they already open so you can check. Normal does this a lot. And have a ton of snect soaps. Recommmad there. But if the shop doesn’t have some already open for you to smell you really shouldn’t be taking the head off. Opening the leid is okay but beyond that….eeehhhh
Plans are plans, stay on time or I’m not there! I don’t want that ainxtey
I have experienced mostly foreigners in the trains talking on phones with the speakers on.
Why do they that :-)
Or people watching RUclips or Tiktok without the headphones
I have NO idea why people FaceTime without headphones or don’t bother to hold the phone to their face and do it on speaker mode. It’s so bizarre to me haha
2:00 "autoritetstro" was quite well pronounced! 3:10 "Autoritetstro" likewise. But this is not a case of belief in authorities, as much as it is a belief in the rules and the reason by most of them! We danes may seem like we believe in authorities, but we don't. We believe in democracy and regard the state as the servant of democracy and thereby of the people. We haven't sold out parties to companies, yet. ;-)
Now, about telling people what the rules are. Long ago a friend told me why immigrants from Anatolia threw garbage into the backyard: Because noone had told them the rules. This may be the motive behind this behaviour.
Now, Sweden is my lost love. The language is poetry. It gives the Swedish people a right to be a bit more, like what you all said. Their music is fantastic, too. It is like this: Long ago I realized that English is more pretty for singing. And the same goes for Swedish, but even more so. Swedish is the Luthuanian of the norse! It has ancient suffikses, like -o and -on instead of the Danish -e and -er. Look into it and fall in love with a language!
And about being on time: Why would you say 8 o'v-clock if you don't relally mean it? Why not just say someting else? Better to let people know than to always make a quiz show of it.
Otherwise, I love your show and your nice tone and all! A subsccriber, I find your vidoes both very entertaining and most informative! Your views on the differences between DK & US are both uplifting - for danes - and potentially depressing - for US citizens, given the fact that our right wing is your right wing, and we have no Don, let alone Rupert!
Haha great video. I guess your loudness stems back to when you all lived at farms and had cattle. You really had to raise your voice if you wanted your neighbors to hear you
In stillezone they can tell you to shut up that the reason people go there right?
90% of the people are there for the quiet and 10% are there so that they can enforce it. Seem right? 😂
Personally I love that you can sit in peace in the 'stille zones' when you travel by train without being disturbed by loud speaking and noisy people.
Oh yeah, not questioning that - just pointing out that the entire train is usually the exact same environment 😂 🤫
If a kid looks at you, say hi or wave, I will wave back and greet them :)
I love bright colored cloths to and I wave to children and make funny faces to them. They think it hilarious and it´s a great icebreaker when it comes to their parents...
Okay Derek is in good company then 😊
people should not have private conversations in front of me. I just want to comment on what they are saying. or on one occasion on the train where a group of young people were talking. I had to stiffle my laughter a lot and when they left a guy looked at me funny and one of the girls told that I was laughing at him. which was true.
5:45 I swear if you do that to soap bottles in the store you better fucking buy it cause that's actually gross.
I’m Danish but have lived in Australia for over 30 years. Here in Australia we say hi to strangers and often strike up a conversation. Recently I was in Copenhagen and I noticed when I smiled at people they did not smile back but instead they would look away. Most would not even meet my gaze.
I was very happy to get back to Australia where people are much warmer with strangers.
Hej Helene. I try to *break the Danish tradition* of _not_ saying 'good morning' to the neighbours. Not everyone is willing to say 'hi' back to me, except the foreigners...which just highlights your comment. It *is* a Danish/Scandinavian thing to be reserved like that. I regard people who can't even say "good morning" or "hi" to be cheap people. Their loss...🙂
Good luck Down Under! We can learn a lot from the Aussies.
@@drumstick74 keep going. Break their icy facade if you can.
When I first came to Australia, I was in the city one day and I saw two aboriginal people having a very loud conversation across 3 lanes of traffic. One on either side of the road. They were so loud , I had never seen anything like it. They didn’t GAF who heard them. It was so cool to me. It gave me permission to be loud as well.
if someone smile at you the person is either insane or drunk!
Guess I'm the odd dane.. My whole kitchen is painted orange and my carpets are purple 😟
We Danes need more color. I hate white walls. I hate that we have black as a favorite color. We have black trousers, t-shirts, cars, bikes, shoes, and more.... I do HATE people being late.
I get the practical sense of white walls making rooms appear brighter in winter and for black being easy for biking and not showing stains from what your trousers are exposed to while cycling… but agreed - a little color where you can fit it in is super nice 😊
what a nice guest you found in this episode 😀
Danish children speak extremely loudly because the others should also speak loudly because otherwise they will not be heard in the noise.
True. And the parents couldn't care less.
In Greenland we think Danes are loud and talk a lot 😂
My non danish fiancée is always opening shit in stores and smell it as well. :p
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oh shit you answered. Awesome. Love the extra perspectives you guys add@@RobeTrotting
Are you guys drinking red wine out of the bottle? 😮
I Do not like when people talk, listen too a film or hear really loud Music on trains and orther publictransport. My own head is in kaos and others noice do not need help making my kaos bigger. That is WHY I always go in stillezone when possible. Hope you boys are still god with Living in dk
"We do our best" Do you really? If you do your best you plan for eventual delays in your journey, so "sometimes" should change to seldom or rarely. It is not really a valid excuse if it happens too often. I would much rather a person just came out clean and say that they don't care about being punctual, than try to play it off that such things happens more often than they should.
Well my friends aren’t high strung and uptight. You don’t really need to worry about it this much.
#6 drinking red wine out of the bottle
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Hm, so she thinks we should just paint our walls because they can always be painted over if we don't like the colour anyway. But she has to smell a piece of soap before she buys it? I'm not sure I get the logic. Paint is a lot more expensive than soap, I'd say...!
Well you should also check the color to make sure you like it before you paint it 😂 the logic isn’t hard to understand, they’re two very different things.
@@RobeTrotting But they both cost money! It's much more expensive and takes a lot of extra work if you have to repaint your walls. If you buy a soap you don't like, throw it out and buy another. No big deal really. That soap seems to be a bigger issue than paint is what seems weird to me. But then again, weird things are exactly what this video is about! 🙂Anyway, I like all of your videos a lot!
Girls wear colour here not boys so much
Hej Vad hedder du
Mike, Derek, Erin
everybody smells ther candles or other thing
Hej
Nah bro you got played. Waving to babies is cool anywhere and whoever told you otherwise is just some antisocial weirdo
How many dead babies does it take to paint a room
What Danes hate about America. Trump! But we love you gays..."Rope Trotting" Your so sweet!😍
A LOT of Americans feel the same - that’s why he’s gone 🙌🏼 😂
Thanks for watching and for your kind words 🇩🇰😍
@@RobeTrottingOh, he’s not gone yet, unfortunately. He’s still trying to start a civil war and he might succeed.
@@RobeTrottinghopefully, soon in jail for treason 😉
I never will forget him for humiliating us by suggesting to buy Greenland
In that respect: telling people what the rules are, we are just like the Germans, and probably the Swedes as well
If yoy FORCE others to hear you - its regarded as an insult.
Meh, maybe in some cases but I don’t think it’s always like that 😊
pleace talk about when the hells angels was kicked out of amar by pregnant females
polens gade
our girls are no fear valkuries equals
You mean Amager?
well aparently u aint from there but yup but the way we say it its spelled amar withe very very flat a`s@@Ikkeligeglad
@@caythorgrimson well, I like my mother tongue and have respect for it, therefore there are rules that must be observed and the language must not be flattened.
Pronunciation and writing are two different things.
@@caythorgrimson that's not how it is written in Danish, so don't write it the way you pronounce it, that is not Danish.
You can see it in my call name that I care about things, don't fuck up my language and the history of my country
@@Ikkeligeglad naa det sgu nok fordi jeg er født på amar din idiot så meget amar dreng at jeg har hollansk mellem navn din spade så prøv ikke at fortælle mig vad vi gør på amar
I virker da ellers til at være forholdvis normale.
If you are invited to "After Five" it means for dinner! Don't be late! About talking all the time: I do not think Danes are particularly quiet compared to Norwegians or Finns, but excessive babbling like some Americans do is exhausting to be around. In the Sagas of Snorre (from around the year 1000AD), there is a story about one of the Norwegian kings. As a young man, he never said anything. Then at around eight years old, his father was killed. There was a meeting and the boy showed up. He said: "I will revenge my father!". They asked him why he had not talked before, and he replied: "I never had anything important to say!". Excessive talking, like Americans often do, seems like an expression of nervous or psychological disorder. It is also an intrusion on other people's thinking. I like to think, and babbling to me when I think disturbs my thoughts.
Maybe Americans are just more interesting and know how to socialize properly.
@@RobeTrotting Haha maybe, but to me, it's a lot of hot air. Like sitting next to an American on a flight... It can be a real pain. Usually, they don't seem to live that interesting life either. I think it is more about fear of loneliness or something. Or a desperate wish to be liked? As a university professor working with wildlife in Africa, married to a Maasai woman, and having 2 small kids, life is busy and I need to spend the flight to think or read. not to babysit an American feeling lonely.
@@williamjones4716 Wow! I don't get that! I'm not American. Im East African. So your point is?
I actually think that alot of young adult danes (like myself) are starting to break the public interraction stereotype a bit, I’m seeing alot more people talking on public transport…. Stay away from me though, I’m trying to watch Netflix on my phone
😂 That could be, I definitely notice it too. It’s nice to just get a smile or even a compliment if someone has a cute dog or cool bag or something. I don’t always want to have a whole conversation but those little interactions can brighten up a day.