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Hamburg has its own MC Donalds pick-up pier for boats and kayaks, virtually a Paddle Thru.😂
Mc Drift
@@-Alemann McBoat. Tom Scott has a video about it.
And?😂 I never would eating anything from any fast food chain. I can cook.😂
@@dfguko Me too, but just because it's not for me, it's still allowed to exist! And funny😉
@@stefanb4375 Same here. I wonder if anyone ever go to it and say "here is my catch of the morning, will come back this evening, can you fry it for me, please?"
In the Czech Republic, we have so-called book boxes in public places. If you have a book that you no longer want, you put it there and someone else can take it home. Anonymously, forever and for free.
And in the forest near my town there is a hiking trail and a self-service "pub". There is a 50l barrel of local beer and passers-by can tap their beer here. And what is more interesting, the payment is voluntary. However, people donate relatively higher amounts than the cost of regular beer. :D
We have the book Box idea in Australia to !!! It's proud having community participation with such frequently borrowed books and ever increasing new box locations. Really seriously cool stuff. People form book review clubs and kids get older education styles encouraged through the increase show of support from adults connections through books , young people see that and live happily with the hotplate of technology and analogue models to stew their respective brain nourishment.
There are book boxes in the UK and in Switzerland too.
Same in many German towns
Book boxes are all over Montreal as well! The city has a network of them, but a lot of people have made more to put in their neighborhoods, and people fill them up!
In USA they have Trump and his maga morons. So not much demand for books.
The Wi-Fi trash can also got an solar powered motor to compress the trash so it doesn't have to be emptied as often, as well as a function to signal to the company that empties it when it starts to get full. That way you save quite a bit of money (and the enviroment) when you don't have to empty it so often.
We have the exact same bins in my area in regional NSW. Ours don't have Wi-Fi however.
Wasted resources for a nonsense technology. 😂I can drop my waste anywhere i go. The planet have to deal with that.😂
@@dfguko
Ok, you're pretty cool. To live in a trash enviroment is unquestionably cool, as well as paying more taxes than necessary for trash collection. Super-cool, really.
Don't know about wasted resources, how many of those bins do you think you can build with the resources that would otherwise had to have gone to building just one more waste truck? 200? 300?
They tried to implement those here in Switzerland too. But they changed back to the older model because the new ones kept breaking down and were "ugly" (atleast people complained enough about them)
In Sweden they also say Thank you when u throw your waste into them, some pkaces at least
There was a rock venue in Finland where all the urinals had Putins face on in. All of these gimmicks are made to get your aim better so there is not so much cleaning to do after.
The small 24/7 self-service stores are getting more common in Sweden too. They're usually located in smaller places where there isn't really demand enough to have a proper supermarket and you have to identify yourself using a digital ID to enter.
Being self-service is also the main reason why they are open 24-7. No need for night shifts.
In Finland it's also common for libraries to rent out like anything. My local library has eg. art, bicycles, tools (drills, chainsaw etc.), board games and even electric car for rent. For free of course because it's library.
In the meantime, in Florida they make the libraries empty because they don't like the books.
Books are dangerous, they can make people smarter.
Here the libraries rent books, audiobooks, movies, video games, computers, board games, musical instruments and even season passes for a few museums!
@@josee-annejoly6896 Same here! Also you can book a recording studio in library for your own use, or rehearsal rooms for playing instruments etc. Libraries are wonderful.
Wow, that's interesting, I live in Finland and I've never heard of that actually, I do live in a sort of isolated part of Finland where stuff like that tends to be a bit behind the rest of the country but still
not sure if its futuristic or not but the busses and trams in the Netherlands are leveled so that you can enter with a wheelchair, busses autmaticly lower a bit so that they are aligned with the bus bus stop
And most are electric so they don't smell any more.
@@UlliStein It's same in finland and sweden too.
The same in France
There's art rentals in Finland too - You get the art You like and start paying a small monthly fee (starting from like 5-10€/month) - if You pay the fee long enough the art becomes yours. If you want some variation in the art/decor of your home, you can visit art rental services to exchange paintings, sculptures, etc., with new ones as often as you like, even once a month. The art available for rent is of high quality and created by professional artists, with plenty of options to choose from.
Ahh I see. Very cool, thanks 😎🎉
Same in Denmark ❤️👍
Same here in France. Also some libraries have art they can rent you for no extra. You do give a deposit but get it back when you bring back the art. You are allowed to keep it for 2 to 4 weeks, like, whatever applies in your local library for books. You only pay an annual fee, and in most places outside Paris, this would be something like 5 or 10 dollars max a year.
Here in the Netherlands you've got also places where you can rent Art.
My library in South Africa also have art for lending. You are allowed 2 paintings/prints per month.
About the Hague (1) it's a city in Netherlands.
There are also citis from Asia, not only from Europe (Singapore).
Also, in Poland in some stores ussualy with electronic equipment also there are electric price marks (15)
About libraries...in my home town in Finland, I can loan bicycles, frisbee golf gear, skis, darts games, golf bags, hula-loops, petanque sets, skates, umbrellas, blood pressure meters, activity trackers etc etc. For free😂
This was actually a surprise for me, just heard about this some months ago.
Usually the time for loan books is one month, but these specialties it's shorter. Some days-3 weeks. But free of charge.
I'm from Germany, I've seen the magnifying glasses in a few stores, usually in drug stores. So far I thought it was for older people so that they can read the find print on the products better.
I also saw in different kind of stores the digital pricing tags, but I kinda like the paper ones better, because sometimes they're harder to read (I guess they're low on battery)
I'm from Southern Germany and most farmers here have their own vending machine, from which you can get their and other local products, like fruit, bread, meat, cheese, sausages, fruit wine and more. All fresh, like literally from the field that is next to the vending machine, and/or produced locally.
We have the same but als over The Netherlands also for flowers.
The vegan burger king here in vienna has closed again after 8 months ! You can guess why?😁😁😁
Considering you liked the beer vending machine you will also enjoy learning about a beer fountain in Slovenia!
Once a year in my hometown in Belgium we have a small fountain spout Jenever (30% simplified gin) 😅
At McDonalds in The Netherlands you see cyclists, mostly teenagers, take the lane of the drive through at night when the restaurant is closed and only the drive through is open.
The art rental reminds me of the toy libraries we have all over New Zealand, its great for growing kids so you just swap toys as they grow out of them or get bored. Great for young families that can't afford new toys all the time.
It's one of those things that I love about our nation.
The times our family has made use of it. Such a part of our day-to-day lives here.
What a great idea. The amount of stuff my American nieces have could probably fully stock one of these 🙄 I honestly don't even want to buy them anything anymore as they have way too much, and their house is cluttered with it.
We have toy libraries in the UK too
Same in Sweden.
That is such an awesome thing, I wish we had that too in germany.
I learned today that a “puke sink” is a thing 😆
In Germany these were common in certain areas already in the 1960s.
@@McGhinch The used to be standard in officers' messes and fraternity houses - wherever "manful", that is excessive drinking was common ...
@@McGhinch Kotzbecken.☺
In Sweden we had the only floating McD. It was the only international too, was placed on a ferry / cruise ship that went between Sweden and Finland.
The first floating McDonald's was in 1986 in Vancouver. Google "McBarge". :)
And the ferry that had McD onboard in the 90's was Finnish (Silja Europa). ;)
Apparently there has been a McD on board HSS Stena Discovery later on.
Nowadays of course there are Burger King restaurants onboard two Tallink ferries.
In Finland, e-ink-based price markers are quite common in supermarkets.
And robots are delivering food from grocery stores in the capital region.
I heard about that few years ago that it's gonna be everywhere soon, but I still don't see it anywhere. 😀 That could save a lof of money, time and energy in supermarkets and workers would have time for doing more important things than just printing new stickers every day.
Aah. Can you order groceries from them to? I thought it was just ready to eat food. They are not in my town yet, but I seen them around in other.
In the Netherlands as well.
Robot deliveries in Tampere and Turku, too. Those things look funny. :)
@@Pidalin If you are in Finland, you have seen them, but just didn't realize it. They look pretty much just like the paper ones. There's couple button cell batteries in the smaller ones, so those are thicker and have a little frame around, but still could be really easily mistaken for actual printed paper ones. I'm pretty sure that 90% of customers never realized that something did change when those were installed in their local stores. I've seen couple with error code on them or even blinking black/white/red while dying, so those were a little bit easier to spot. I would not want to be a part of battery changing crew, but those have to last way longer than the prices they are showing, so it would still be way easier in the long run than the printing and changing new stuff every day.
What baffles me is your DUI of DWI tests after a traffic stop. The rest of the world let’s u blow in a portable breath analyzer, 2 minutes later the cops can go about there business. In the US it takes 30 minutes and 2 patrol cars judging what we see on the interwebs. 😂
With the fancy bus stop, I imagine it's like a adoption system, a house or street can choose to adopt a bus stop and decorate it to their liking. Which if you are someone that lives right near one and you use the bus often, I can see people doing. Just bought new furniture and don't need your old, but still perfectly fine furniture anymore? Well, just use it to decorate your "local" bus stop. You will be using the bus stop later anyways, so the nicer and more comfortable you make it for others, to nicer and more comfortable you make it for yourself too.
In poland in the big cietes (above 200k pop) there are benches with usb charging ports or an outlet, soketimes they have speakers to play music and sometimes its a stationart bike that you need to pedal to charge
I respect the patriotism of the Americans
But sometimes it makes them blind to how
America could be improved because they believe its perfect already
Trains in London now also say which carriage is full or empty
In the Netherlands digital price markers are in many supermarkets.
And we have self scan for the things we want to buy there.
You can rent art here too.
Pizza boxes are recycled as paper. We have to separate all our waste to recycle.
Funny thing about the digital price markers in the Netherlands too is that if you don't know you probably won't even notice since they often use those digital paper displays
And with an app on your smartphone you can even pay at the digital price markers, it shows the receipt on your phone so you can walk out with the article you needed to grab quickly. No check in or self scan needed.
The in-ground trampolines were quiet common. But most of them are not new. In fact a lot of them are already replaced by something newer.
Here in Australia we have free sanitation product dispensers - called Dignity Vending Machines - in numerous locations around the country.
In The Netherlands we have toilets that come out of the ground outside, and we also have toilets that clean the whole toilet after your done😂Also we have art to rent, app that show if there is alot of people in the train, busstops tell you when the bus arive, if it is late it will also tell that, all public transport have wifi, public libary also, and some supermarkts also. Also we have electric price signs, you can also ordee food online from Jumbo and in 30 minutes you can pick it up, and they put it in the back of your car, we also have drive tru construction markets, called hornbach, they sell stuff for construction, you can drive into the building, and they will put it in your lorry, or car. And every supermarket also delivers food to your house. You even have supermarkets who only sell like 500 products, and they deliver food and stuff in 10 minutes!
Great reaction again, as usual. Each time I watch your videos I also learn something about the US. Thanks a lot and please do keep the videos coming.
Regarding the petrol.. sorry, gas station, Europe has many different types of fuel. There's E5 (with 5% Bio-ethanol), E10 (with 10%) and unlike the US we do not have E20 widely available yet, then there's Super 98 (RON/ROZ - basically Octane), there's Diesel and some petrol brands have their own type of "racing" fuel - petrol has over 100 Octane, not sure what the difference is for the "racing" diesel. I occasionally use that becaues I *THINK* the engine runs smoother on it, but that could also be my imagination. Finally some stations also provide gas (as in LNG/CNG/LPG), but the 'taps' look completely different.
About digital price tags : here in France, almost every shop uses them. Only the very small ones, especially exotic grocery stores still uses paper price tags. Otherwise, everytime you go to a shop, you will see digital pricetags that are updated regularly
In Norway too for many years.
In Austria they started the last year with them at several grocery chains.
Had digital come out about 6-8 yrs ago in Sweden. Most stores have them now I think. Maybe not all though. I dont really notice them. There is still a heavy reliance on posters advertising sales in grocery stores.
Yeah the ones with e-paper displays are pretty cool
in Italy we have digital tags from 7 - 8 years. in Chinese owned shops sometimes they are off or broken and the price is € ••••••• , so you have to ask the owner who replies "2 eulo"
I do like to blend in as a tourist but I think it's good to stand out in traffic - when you see a rental car you give it a bit of extra space and count on them not knowing exactly where they are going. Many cities in Europe have good bike rentals that locals use too so you wouldn't stand out anyway but usually they aren't quite as good as the "normal" bikes, so I think it's more about a good riding experience.
I work at a supermarket here in Australia and they give away off cuts of lettuce that can't be sold to people if they ask for it.
The underfloorcontainers in switzerland are the best thing in human history!!!! No stinky garbage in switzerland
I live in the Netherlands, and all grocery stores near me have digital price markers.
Is it LCD price or.e-ink?
They switched to e-ink here some 20 years ago and most people don't understand its not paper. It looks pretty legit.
The furnitured busstop made it for me, can't wait to have these in Vienna. I'm just afraid that these would get vandalized within minutes. A McWalk would also come in handy if you wanted, say, just a couple of cheeseburgers for the little hunger. the park bench system, where you can choose the direction of sitting, sounds very useful.
The Americans get American Standard, whilst the UK get Armitage Shanks,
🤣👍🏼
On a work trip to Belgium I saw a vending machine with fresh loaves of bread.
We have vending machines (FEBO-style) at farms for eggs and fresh fruit like black- and strawberries.
Thousands of red phone boxes are being offered to communities across the country to be reimagined as defibrillator stations or even art galleries.
Nearly 4,000 of BT’s boxes from across the UK are now available through the Adopt a Kiosk programme, which allows local authorities to buy them for just £1.
Since 2008, more than 6,600 of the booths have been given away and transformed into various local services, including defibrillator units, mini history museums, art galleries and book exchanges.
BT said public-use phone boxes were slowly made redundant by the “phenomenal growth in mobiles”, adding that mobile coverage has also “improved significantly in recent years due to investment in masts, particularly in rural areas”.
Some of these are a bit silly (music at the gas station? And I am Swiss by th way). Some are great (sanitary products or greens). Laendler=Swiss Country music. Schlager: pop songs. Usually in German and totally inane...
11:17 I have no idea what kind of music Ländler is.
Also @IWrocker you could take a look at "no garbage day in Amsterdam". You bring your garbage out whenever you like.
In Switzerland you can get not just cheese but cheese fondue mix from vending machines - same in parts of France.
in Adelaide Australia you can actually press a button at a bus stop to tell the bus driver you want to get on and also you can press the button an announcement tells you what time the next bus is coming similar at a train station when you do the same thing it also tells you when the next train is coming
Don’t know why a vegan hamburger shop is cool or futuristic or remotely enticing. Vegan meat is so processed and unhealthy.
The most obvious thing that would make them think they live in the past is the US Banking system. Compared to the UK & other European countries the system of banking in the USA is from the 18th Century.
In Italy we have had digital tags for 6 or 7 years. But I don't like them 😂. Sometimes they malfunction and the price of a packet of chips is € gggg,oo 🤣
It was a buzzfeed article u are reacting to, so i cannot be suprised stuff like u showed from the article is mostly just some 50 year old gimmicks
if u take ur time nd do ur own research u will wind up with so much more great "futuristic things in europe" u would be astonished.
Btw it suprises me i never knew Korea was in Europe....
(please dont read buzzfeed articles they are just garbo)
In Romania, specifically the city of Cluj-Napoca, there are specific “sport” stations where if you do 20 squats, you get free bus tickets!
Hehe... renting art and deco in general in Europe is actually becoming a thing, you have to go find, it's not everywhere, but it's growing, as in, instead of buying and changing the house deco all the time, you can just rent it for a while, and then change deco whenever you want, without the high price of buying it.. but sure, you will have a deposit, in case you ruin it before you get it back 😅
And btw, never saw a toilet with a football game in the urinal in Germany, but saw one with a Barbie closet above it, that lights up once you piss... 😂would like to try the football or the car driving ones though 😂😂
Here in Glasgow Scotland we have a bicycle hiring scheme . We have 67 docking stations across the city with bicycles ready to use with around 500 bikes that anyone including tourists can hire for the day just by registering online . And at the end of the day when you have finished you don't have to return the bike to the same docking station that you picked it up from . Docking stations are in the city centre , outside train & bus stations , airports , museums etc . This is great for tourists who want to explore the city and keep the cost of travelling down . I believe Dublin also introduced this scheme as well .
You - Americans - are so funny :) I can imagine how such people, who think they are the coolest and most modern, come to Lithuania (yes, in the middle of nowhere) and find a singing bench in the park of a small town, where they can listen to their music by connecting their phone via bluetooth, to hear about the history of the city, and Wi-Fi is free and 5G and you can also charge your phone for free :) and next to it is a street lighting pole working with a solar battery, which was also made in Lithuania
Whole Foods has been having digital prices on grocery items for at least 10 years.
New Orleans has a sculpture park that allows you to walk along the lake above you.
The solar trash can/compactor has been all over downtown New Orleans for at least 5 years. I don't assume its the only place with them in the US.
It seems like no research was done on the part of the writer of the article and this channel.
Self check outs exist so that the company saves salary expenses of cashiers. Please don't do their work for them. If I have to self check out with no other option, I'm expecting a hefty discount.
In the Netherlands there is rental art as well. Why? so you can have a new piece on your wall whenever you want. Some people like to switch what they have and buying is not an option with art due to it being way overpriced.
In Utrecht the Netherlands, the bus stops have vegetation/gardens on their roof
In the Netherlands in general, unless you rent from the big bike share companies or national railways, all rented bikes at bikeshops look like those of the locals. and those of bikeshare companies and national railways are used by the locals themselves. Except maybe for Amsterdam, you only stick out as a tourist because you wear a helmet on your bike, often while in a group.
On number 4, though the machine is a new thing to me, I know that our foodbanks (in The Netherlands) also funcion as "menstruation" banks so to speak. As seemingly in our wealthy country, there are people who are poor enough not to always be able to buy stuff like that. And though as a male it is not something one thinks much about, however knowing how important education is, I do donate to that. As I think it is not good for girls to miss school, due to lack of hygiene products that are a primary thing of living. (Keep in mind kids can be cruel, and poverty leads to cruel behaviour to such kids. Missing school due to lack of such products, can lead to low selfesteem, being bullied and the like. So I strongly believe in donating to such cause.)
15, didgital pricemarkers are common place in The Netherlands, not just in supermarkets. It seems to be easier to use as paper one, and it can even read "out of stock" if a product can not be found.
Digital price tags are actually a lot more common. I can say that in France, Romania and a few other countries, almost all super/hipermarkets use digital "paper" (e-ink). They look like paper, but are actually digital. Trampolines like those in Germany I also saw in Spain.
I rented art already 32 yeaer ago from a place in Manchester ,UK. I think it was from the central library.
That's why Germany are so good at penalties, they practice while they pee from a young age...
dont look like a tourist on a bike has 2 sides the positive is indeed you dont stand out and are less being singled out by robbers although the clumsyness most tourists on bikes single them out anyway the negative is. most tourists aren't used to ride bikes and mostly don't know the local trafic rules. if you stand out as a tourist locals can adjust to their inexperience (and mistakes) ahead an avoid accidents easier (i speak of experience using a mobility scooter in Amsterdam traffic, nothing is more scary than a tourist on a bike change directions without looking or stop in the middle of the bikelane in heavy traffic while you are right behind them. i hit several tourists in that way cause i couldn't avoid them but when you can see from afar you are more aware of the potential danger)
The 24/7 store there are alarms before you reach the door and if you walk thru without paying the doors locks and the alarm will alert the police.
I'm pretty sure that at least some of the French hypermarchés use the digital price tags.
2:32 If you lose are you pist off?
In the Netherlands you can rent art as well. You rent it for a certain time and bring it back and take some otger art home.
It is called the art library. People love it. Even with a small purse you can have art on your wall.
And a part of the payment is saved on your account so you will be able to buy a piece you really like.
In the UK they tried the WFI bin too t started as a way to tell the council that the bin was full so they ould send out a crew to empty the bin they soon found out that people could connect to the internt useing th bins Wifi and like in Holland pople would gaher near the bin and use the WIFI anddrop therelitter off too
You can buy beer in crates at german gas stations. Usually around the clock. A crate is 20 x 0.5 liters!
@hatsross1295 Well, beer is some kind of bread.
As some say "where the brewer goes, the baker don't go"
@hatsross1295 At around 13 - 15€ per crate, it is also a pretty cheap drink.
@hatsross1295 Do you order beer in crates when visiting a bar? ;-)
@hatsross1295 I did that today. I was watching football so what else could I do? :)
24/7 store is not common in Norway, also because we have laws against open stores on sundays ... well not against, but rules how big they can be. I am sure that store is probably not in a city but maybe a town ... I have heard of it atleast. But also those digital pricetags are quite common ... its not only to help replace the papertags, they can change price on the spot ... so faster I suppose.
Some libraries here in Norway do lend out alot more stuff than just books, One I know of lend out outdoor equipment like ski's and backpacks, sledge and so on ... they get a extra yearly budget to replenish or fix the stuff. Another library I know of lend out seeds ... yep, plant seeds ... you can lend like tomatoe seeds, plant them and then return the seeds you borrowed.
We don't have stores/supermarkets that are open 24/7 here in the Netherlands, the supermarkets here are the ones with the largest opening hours a day, they (most of them) are open form about 08.00 to 22.00, 7 days a week.
The menstruation station? Dude women’s restrooms have had pad and tampon dispensers for decades. Get with a woman.
If the US was disabled friendly it wouldn't have all of its cash notes the same size with no braille.
The reason that a lot of European street rubbish bins, are so well made, is because there has been, right across europe. Various separatist movements took to planting bombs in them.
4:49 those lcd price markers was common 20 years ago but they was replaces with a sort of e-inc to use less power. The e-inc one also looks almost exactly like a paper one so most people will probobally miss them
24/7 grosery store is getting quite common. We have one in the vilage.
8:24 those trashcans qre pretty common. They also compact the trash automatically.
10:08 that is not mail. Its like uber-eats. Very common in several cities in europe.
11:02
I think its diesel, HVO ("green diesel"), E85, 95 octane and 98 octane. They are all pretty common. The 98 is probobly the least common. A lot o öf european sportscars can run on E85 as a octane boast fuel.
14:50
It use to be just one fylke. (There eqviqlent to municipality) and they just start taking furniture from the recykeling that look decent there. I think they swich them out every once and a while. But its lile just stuff people thrown away.
In sweden we have, its not quite a wending machine, but it looks like one. You just shop on there webpage and 20 minutes later its in a box, you just pull your cars and you have your shopingbag reddy.
Can you order up on downtime at work, and just swipe your cars and get it instantly on the way home.
Not sure if the E85 name is also used in America; it means he fuel contains 15% (bio) ethanol.
@@aphextwin5712 E85 in europe is 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline.. well in summers, during winters the mix is diffrent
@@matsv201 You are correct, I mixed this up with E5 and E10 which are mainly fossil fuel. E85 though isn’t widely available in most of Europe (anymore).
The digital price tags have a second purpose. Just imagine prices for goods going up and down throughout the day like gas prices.
Dig a pit for trampolines and it's awesome... Did it as kids to be able to learn to flip & tumble
In Germany we have the Tafel, where things (food, ...) which otherwise would be thrown away are sold to people without a lot of money for a very low price....
In Sweden, in the train the seats are all reversible: great when the train changes direction.
i bet the public transport system in denmark and nederland also makes the states look like a third world country
While not as fancy as what you show here, it's common to put a sticker of a fly or similar on a urinal to give the gents something to aim at.
My local bus company app tells the make of bus fleet no single or double decker whether on-time busy or not and has a map showing where the bus is on its route it is.
Emergency cord in toilet is common throughout Europe.
The slide is nice and used by kids every day. It is two stories high and really steep.
6.55 the bike path through a lake, that's close to my home. It is pretty cool . When you look over the water, your head is going to be just above the waterlevel. This is at Bokrijk in Genk.(about 90km or 60 miles from Brussels). In the middle of the province Limburg.
Biking through the lake in Genk, and biking through the top of trees in Lommel.
Our province has lots of good biking paths.
Seoul is not in Europe 😂
Nor is Singapore
Europe is whacky, wonderful and magic and I love it, but then I live here !!!
In Sweden we have speciel libraries that rents out sports equipment for free
I love those and use them frequently. Perfect for those two days a year when your kids go ice skating or skiing in school.
@@cecilialeitet2794 yes they are good, sadly the one in my hometown burn down not long ago.
In France digital price tags have been the norm in large supermarkets chains for the past 6/8 years at least. Usually LCD but e-ink ones also appears here and there.
This list is cool but it's a bit cheaty to have one unique thing that may as well exist in the US being featured here. But still nice ideas and concepts.
Something you may or may not have are pizza distributors, they deliver either to cook or cooked pizzas (as in, the machine cook them and serves it hot) what makes them stand out, at least the ones that are nearby me, is that they are refilled by local pizzerias daily, so pizzas are fresh and "good" as opposed to being generic frozen products.
Renting art can be done for a long time already in the Netherlands. I had to check it, but it's since the seventies already.
In Belgium we have a lot of vending machines. the normal ones for snacks and drinks, than we have bread, water, all kinds of fruits, potatoes, eggs, beer, milk vending machines.
We can also rent boardgames, cd/dvd, PC/ console games, newspapers and such in the library. Art is very interesting but if you like to change the art hanging around the house from time to time i say why not.
The digital price tag is not uncommon either, a lot of markets have it.
The McWalk (not always under that name) I have spotted elsewhere and at some point i think we had wifi bins as well.
#51 - Although a lot of renters will look like (American) tourists who have 'acquired' a local's bike. 🙂
Here in Germany our national train company recently started opening stores that automatically register the products you've taken out of the shelfs and then automatically bills you the moment you leave the store. I really like the idea. No need for staff and no need to stop at the checkout, you just walk out and your PayPal, Google Pay or whatever does the rest.
The downside is no jobs, which is good for the business but not so good for the population.
And if theres a issue without a docket you have a harder time noticing.
I.e not applying a discount/offer.
@@alwynemcintyre2184 Less jobs. The stores need restocking and cleaning too.
And what if i roll in without phone or bank card? Can't shop? Don't charge me anything? Call staff to get my cash money?
Well, these stores were first openend in America by Amazon. So it makes no sense to have this in an list, which should the US look old.
Italy is famous for its bureaucracy in addition to food culture art etc. but for some years we have already overcome many difficulties with the SPID or a code that you can use through an app by scanning a QR code that allows you to access all departments of the public administration and you can complete all the online procedures,
example: you can make a request for a blood test and if you are unable to go to the clinic a paramedic comes to your home to take your blood and then you can find the reports online in your National Health File, also everything free
Lower north shore Sydney they have a switch that you step on and a dog's bowl appears, it catches water from the water fountain. We have bins that are hands free emptying, check if a bottle is deemed to be recyclable before it goes in the recycling bin.
Seoul is from Korea, not the EU
Dutch busstop signs are pretty cool, they give you an exact time when your bus will be arriving down to the minute.
Same in Germany 😊
I think that must be pretty common in most of Europe now. We have that in the UK also.
I would suspect those are pretty common in most of Europe. And more than once I have been fooled by them...
I've been awake since the early hours of this morning, (UK based) and just watched this. You've put a smile on my face with your irrepressible good humour. Many thanks. xx
We do use digital price markers in Slovakia, depends on shops (e.g. COOP Jednota has them), but it's definitely a common thing to me. We have also vending machines for fresh, raw milk, or for cheese and yoghurts, and during the pandemic we've had vending machines with hand-made facemasks. That wifi trash can is great, it's a nudge. We have little see-through trash cans on a wall, they are divided in two parts with names of two local sport teams and people can vote with their cigarette butts for their favorite.
Yeah, Ahold Albert has them too in the Czech Republic. From what I've seen on other comments here, it seems that Ahold is rolling them out across the whole Europe.
PS: Pozdravy z Moravy ❤
Renting paintings is kinda strange but I guess it would enable you to change the interior decoration of your place when having guests for special events
And for you own daily joy! When you 'had enough' of one, you can exchange it for another, in that way you can pick something you have mixed feelings about, you are not bound to it for longer than three months.
Over here in Finland there are 3d-printers in library and you can use them too
11:28 Schlager is a kind of German and European pop - the word Schlager is a translation of "hit", and the style is a wild mix of folk music, roaring twenties, 1950s/1960s pop and other influences. Ländler is Swiss Country (Land = country, Ländler = from the country, like they do it in the country) or folk music.
14:27 Hamburg has also a "float-through" McDonald's: ruclips.net/video/A6F96xSoLPg/видео.html
If you don’t want to “stand out as a tourist” in Europe you might leave the baseball cap at home.
Seeing a grown man in a baseball cap REALLY stands out in Europe.
I wear a plain baseball style cap (no logo or holographic authenticity sticker) when its drizzling to protect my glasses from the rain. Seems pretty common here in northern Germany.
@@kuebbisch Also in the summer when the Sun is very hot there is nothing wrong with some headprotection.
Besides, everybody should wear what they want without other people judging them.
@@kuebbisch I would say that a hat gives better protection and is common enough. A baseball cap is something more common for kids below the age of 15 in Europe.
@@tommysellering4224 The style I am wearing is also called dad hat or dad cap. The large bill is just right to protect my spectacles in the drizzle when I don't feel like opening an umbrella. Younger people wear some big logo baseball caps, preferably with some kind of authenticity sticker on it.
I will keep wearing my plain canvas cap, even if I look like I just left a golf course.
@@kuebbisch I would say that a cap as you described it doesn’t come under the definition of a “baseball cap” and is also a common head ware in Europe.
It’s the big colourful logos that sticks out! Especially when they have exclusive American team brands.
In the US, you all say MicDonald’s but it’s said MacDonald’s, which is how we got to call it Macca’s in Australia. Old MacDonald had a farm, etc…. Irish or Scots, Mc and Mac are pronounced Mac never Mic
in the netherlands we have a mobile app specialized for public transport and it will show you how busy the train is so you can prepare where to enter the train when it enters the station :)
In Hamburg this is shown on the displays at the station, but I didn't thought this was very acurate.
10:50 Normally, at Shell petrol stations, you first have
- diesel V-Power (Reduces your engine's fuel consumption. Removes 100% of the performance-reducing deposits and prevents future formation of these on important engine parts such as fuel injectors.)
- Diesel Fuel Save(The fuel removes performance-reducing deposits on the injectors and thus helps to reduce fuel consumption and thus save costs)
- and then in third place comes unleaded (BLEIFREI) in this picture here