Well, I'm interested in the German vs. Foreigner topic, but every time I watch a Simple Germany video, my recommendations get flooded with lesbian stuff, whitch I'm not interested in. So I always hesitate to click on a video.
I gifted my nephew a "Krötenteich" for his Jugendweihe: "Kröten" is a slang word for money. So I made a nice pond (Teich) out of blue carton and green paper grass around it, and folded bank notes into origami frogs...
Thank you for another nice video. Unfortunately, in December 2022 I had to dismiss the proposal to relocate to Germany, however still watch your videos and it makes me feel better. Keep up doing this.
Love this channel!! In India we also grew up playing arcades(cardillacs and dinosaur,mortal kombat etc) and cards is one of our favourite tradition to play on Diwali ..keep making such videos as it helps us to better understand and integrate wid germany!!
06:22 Dactylonomy: From the Greek words Dactylo (Δάκτυλο = Finger) and Nomy (Νόμος = Law). So we have the law of the fingers, even though in modern Greek, as far as I know, there's no such word.
In my first job after my studies I struggeled with the Averty-Keyboard in Belgium. So I really know what you want to explain with Qwertz-Keyboard and so on.
Salt and pepper shakers: in India, we use shaker with one hole for salt and the shaker with multiple holes for pepper ,but in germany its the other way around.
I had to laugh out loud because of the nail clippers :D My boyfriend is US American and he HATES the scissors I use here and he always goes for his own nail clipper :D
Girls, such a nice episode on a day like this! Thank you for bringing back my smile. Now, I must say I had true fun with a couple of your explanations, and these are all fun because they are true! The quotation marks and traditions as to how to put them, I think go back to country alliances which have dated across Europe way before both world wars. We in Bulgaria have adopted so many German cultural traditions, as well as French cultural manners (I mean the higher educated families like mine was). I grew up with always putting the quotation marks „like this”, and yes, no place to argue with Zvonne.. oops Yvonne! 😂 Yes, this type of marks at least in Europe should go bottom first, top last. The keyboard few swaps that you talk about totally make sense and I appreciate how you clarify them! I'm also so happy that Jen has this typing ability of real high level, that's awesome! But for whoever would complain about German keyboard - have you seen and worked with the French keyboard??! 🤣 😎 It's been so easy for me with the German one, honestly. As far as getting on a bike is concerned, I'm the last person here to give insights and you know why, but something which I paid attention to is I keep seeing people setting off on their bike in the first shown way and I only raise my eyebrows, how is it safe and stuff. Two things I am very positive about, doesn't matter if I myself ride a bike or not, are to never go swimming and to never ride a bike if you've had one too many drinks (because it's not driving a car, and you think it's all ok, but it's not). I liked the bloopers, very well there! 😂Just hope Jen didn't fall bad. I've had the exact same bike falls, they weren't harmful, but still I had my mind on it at the end of the video. And congrats on that 2.02M views! 😉 I'm dying of curisity already.. you know.
@@simplegermany Interistingly, I've only hurt my arms while attempting to learn and fell off a bike, but not in a serious way. Most of the times I crashed into bushes. 🙂Whenever you feel like it, you can tell any and all stories you mean to. Next week would be 100th video, no? 🤠
I am German and have always used nail clippers. However we had a perhaps more old fashioned version looking more like pliers, which I have however also seen in UK where I live now.
There just opened a big game center in Berlin with the name "Gamesstate". The first one in Berlin think. Oh and we're German and use nail clippers most of the time specially for the toes but we also have the scissors, but not really used that much. Great video btw
Waren am Wochenende auf einer Hochzeit und haben Geld verschenkt. Damit es etwas hübscher aussah, haben wir die Geldscheine zu Fischen gefaltet, an Metallstäbe geklebt und in ein Glasgefäß mit Muscheln und einem schöne Bild als Rückwand gesteckt. Wir waren nicht die einzigen mit gefalteten Geldscheinen.
If you want another fun Roman fact, they considered everything to do with the right hand lucky, the army always starts its march on the right foot and so forth. The left was unlucky, left handed was sinistra, or sinister as we still say today.
Thanks for this! Videos like this really help me feel a little less like an alien freak for not understanding things right away. Funny also to me that some cards say “J” now meaning boy when my gf and I called the “B” card the boy when we were playing some card games over the holidays and didn’t know what it really stood for.
Well, the classical swing is for men... the other way of getting on a bike was used by the women because they wore long skirts and they were not allowed to oper their legs as wide as men... the knees had to be close together as often as possible 🙄 Btw I am German and always use a nail clipper - I cannot handle a scissors there 🤷♀️
I have another quirky German (maybe other countries also?). I noticed a difference between my English books and my husband's German books.Here in the U.S. the title of a (English language) book on the spine is read from top to bottom by tilting your head to the right. In Germany you read the spine of a book by tilting your head to the left and read from the bottom up. I don't know if all German books are like this, I only looked at the ones my German husband has.
Uh, interesting observation. We will have an eye out for it. 😉 Just had a quick look at one Spanish book from Guatemala and it is the 'German way', tilting your head to the left 😅
Yes, all German books are like this and I have English and German books on my shelf and often wondered if I should put one kind back to front so they align 🤔
That explains that why when I holidayed with (mainly) Germans earlier this year they had just scissors and not clippers. I didn't bring my own from the UK things that nails can't grow that quick in three weeks.
Again, a very fun and informing video. Bravo! Nail clipping: A scissors' etui appeared in my childhood, this was what I learned. Today, I'd use a nail clipper, too, but with both present, I'd probably still choose the scissors! Gifting money: Traditionally, "just money" is not in style. To my son's wedding, I'd gift them money, obviously. Instead of real money, I chose Monopoly money, even bought a used game for that. I put it into a decorative item to "hide" the fact. Deck of cards: You described the "French deck", while there is a different "German deck", using different pictures, different colour names (Eichel, Laub, Herz, Schellen) and different figure names (Ober, Unter, Daus). In southern Germany, Schafkopf and Watten are played with these cards. I suspect that the different names in the French deck may cover that, in German, King and Queen share the same letter K (König, Königin) but a differentiation had to show on the cards. Quotation marks: Fun fact is, in WORD's German setting, you cannot get the American "" marks - it demands the German way!
I don't know if these are the kind of Arcade games you mean, but most bigger bowling alleys have at least a few arcade/race games in addition to the actual lanes!
Very interesting hearing of arcades. When I was a kid in the early/mid 90s in Austria Street Fighter and Pacman were already oldschool but definitely NOT hidden away from children, but there were special establishments where you could go to play these "vintage" arcade games and often enough it was rebuilt in a way that you didn't have to thow in a coin at all. I for example grew up rather rural and in the local catholic community center (Pfarrheim) there were always pinball machines in the attic (along with foosball tables). That was also the place where I drank my first beer at the age of 8 or sth like that :D And in bigger cinemas there was always an "arcade" section with newer arcade games like car racing, tennis, alpine skiing, snowboarding (often with an imitating snowboard or skis for the feet) etc. as well as airhockey and things like that where you just had to convert money into jetons at specific machines in the cinemas that only fit in those machines. It was a huge thing growing up here, I didn't know that was such a taboo in Germany back then. And nowadays of course there's these "retro bars" with pinball machines and arcade games where you obviously have to throw in real money to play.
Nails... I'm clipping my finger nails since decades, but for the feet I still use the scissors. However, at least for the foot nails, the idea of using one of the services offered in almost every town ("Fusspflege") gets more and more attractive with the growing number that indicats my biological age ;-)
Oh, I forgot to say - nail scissors all the way! 🤣 And then all of the other additions in a case just like yours. I use occasionally nail clippers but I don't prefer them.
Ah such a delight to see you having so much fun filming! I am familiar with most things, but I'll provide a little data. :) I can both use a nail clipper and nail scissors. I think it was my dad or my grandparents who introduced the clipper to me. However I do prefer to use the scissors when I get out of the shower and my nails are soft. But when traveling I take the clipper for some reason. 🤷♀ Speaking about getting on a bike and being Dutch… I have a low frame because I use on a women's bike. I can do the single-footed rollway, but I don't have to swing my leg completely over my bike. And I use the method for Dutch bikes, as you call them, since the other method is illogical to use on a women's bike. Any questions? 😅😂
And .., of course, I use the scissors to cut my nails ...haha ..I remember my sister ..she was 14 maybe ...she cut the nails in zig zag ..to scrap the boys in school😉😂😂😂
In Germany you are allowed to play in a game in a Spielhalle if your age is 18 or more but ito visit a Casino you have to be 21. Greetings from Aachen - a town with a Casino.
A Casino where you can play Roulette and Blackjack and all that stuff on tables with a Croupier where you are gambling against the bank of the casino that is. German term: Spielbank. A Spielhalle or Spielothek is a different beast though. Those used to have all sorts of entertainment devices, not only slot machines, but also arcades, flippers, billiard, darts and everything. But unfortunately nowadays most of them only feature slot machines and call themselves casinos as well often enough. The gaming machines like flippers and arcades began to vanish from those places in the late 90s/early 2000s. Most of the time you only find them fun games in ordinairy pubs, but it's getting rare apart from Darts and Kicker and maybe a flipper occasionally. Billiard halls on the other side are still a thing.
Another thing that plays into the difference about accessibility (18 vs 21) is that Spielbanken are allowed to serve alcohol (beer, wine and also spirits), while in Spielotheken (the places that only feature slot machines, but are accesible from age 18) alcohol is strictly forbidden. In pubs (accessible from age 16) on the other hand, which are usally only allowed to feature a maximum of 2 or 3 slot machines depending on local jurisdiction( (but all sorts of entertainment machines like flippers, arcades, darts, billiard, if they want to), alcohol will be the standard anyway. But in those pubs you won't be allowed to use the slot machines under age 18 and only one at a time. There are mandatory safety measures like ID-validation-devices that will only unlock one single machine for every ID over age 18 runned through them and mandatory break times executed by the slot machine in which you can't play until the mandatory break is over.
Arcade games shouldn't be perceived as "games of chance". It should even be technically be classified as an "endurance test", since they requires your retention both physical (handling the joystick) and mental (moves) to win a level, and how long you can last (especially with variations).
As a child of the 80s, I remember how Arcades survived the law in Germany. During the 80s and early 90s, the place we would go to for our Arcade gambling fun was...the mall! Because in those years, there usually was a large section if not an entire floor in at least one mall per city, where there were a ton of video game consoles set up with the latest games you could just play. Playing cost 0 money (otherwise the mentioned law would have applied) and was just considered advertising for the games. They even ran contests and tournaments. We would leave school, go to the mall and play games all evening, just like Americans did, but we did it in the "Kaufhof" or similar, not the Penny Arcade. Also for free. So that was a benefit. You still can find this in some German malls, but usually only one or two consoles are available today. In the 80s and early 90s, there were dozens. Children would crowd around them, watching you play "Home Alone" on the NES :-) The big difference was, that we had no actual Arcade machines but were playing on home consoles in a public space. This came with the big benefit of us always having access to the latest and greatest in Video Games, as advertising old consoles and games that way wouldn't have made sense. But otherwise it was quite similar. No chairs, high-mounted screens, game noise from dozens of games mingling together, screaming children everywhere. I do have fond memories of that. As for nails, I actually moved from scissors to clippers. I grew up using scissors, but I have really tough nails and kept breaking scissors. And regular clippers. When I say "tough" I mean "I use my nails as a screwdriver without damaging them". Then I found a nail clipper for toe nails that's tough enough to deal with my claws and never looked back.
I think, that part of the folding money thing, is that just "money" is seen a bit as dirty and having money be part of an interaction with somebody who is part of your private life is maybe also seen as a bit of an embarrassment. Then, folding the money would be a way to distract from that embarrassment und to make the interaction not be just about the money, but also about the creative thing you have done with the money.
omg, the quotation marks, I thought that was a mistake on my keyboard, I've been manipulating it to produce the regular English quotation marks " ". And I finally know what the STRG stands for. I've been reading it as "STRong". 😊 finger counting from the thumb is sooooooo weird..!
Yeah! I also had to learn the German way of getting on a bike as an adult. I alsmost broke my neck 1st time I tried it. It is not efficient at all. But since I wanted to become a German, I had to learn it. Haha. :)
The Deck with Unter, Ober, König, Sau is called "Deutsches Blatt" as opposed to "Französisches Blatt" with Bube, Dame, König, Ass. It also has different colours. Deutsch: Eichel, Schippen, Herz, Schellen Französisch: Kreuz, Pik, Herz, Karo
@@simplegermany There you go: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gekreuzte_Finger# And btw: as you mentioned that people shouldn't be confusing someone holding his thumbs with an invitation to a fist fight... If you actually wanted to punch someone, you should never put your thumbs inside your fist, otherwise you might likely break your fingers. ;-)
Für das Daumendrücken kenne ich noch die Erklärung, daß dieser als opponierender Finger das Greifen erst richtig möglich macht. Versucht mal ohne Daumen die Schnürsenkel zu binden. Wenn ich jemanden die Daumen drücke, heißt das, ich kann nichts tun, außer an dich zu denken und vielleicht ein Stilles gebet für dich sprechen.
Re counting with fingers, is it a faux pas to hold up the index, middle, and pinky fingers; while holding down the ring finger? I ask because different cultures have different bad or obscene hand gestures.
Hello from Georgia. I thought I would share how we do keyboards here since I think you may find it interesting. We actually have a specific layout originally made for typewriters, but nobody uses it. Instead people use QWERTY but it phonetically maps to our language. This is because in past, phones didn't support Georgian font, let alone type on it, and Windows XP didn't install Georgian Typing by default, and when manually installed it would install the typewriter layout people were unwilling to learn. Instead, in the old days people just used latin letters to type, both on phone (SMS) and PC (in informal setting). In official setting however, this was not allowed, so some big brain individual invented modified fonts that would change the latin letters into Georgian letters, and it would phonetically map to it. Later on, someone made an installer for Windows XP that added this QWERTY based layout system wide, but people just didn't install it, perhaps they were unaware and they carried on using the modified font or latin instead. The QWERTY based layout was later officially included in Windows 7 and later. Some people still didn't use it, maybe they were unaware it was added. And thus carried on with latin or modified font. It was also added into Android around that time. I still get .doc files from my professors that require installing the modified font. Perhaps they are just stuck in the old ways and don't want to relearn it? Along the way, properly writing the quotes were thrown out of the window sometimes, depending on which modified font is used. The official way to do quotes here is like „this“.
Quotation marks, hidden thumb and practically everything is the same in croatia so maybe that's all european thing? I never realised that after 19 yrs l still count european way - thumb first! But l sooo prefer american quotation marks though ! Nails: l use clippers for fingers and scissors for toes.
You don´t punch with the thumb inside the fingers, it will be broken!!!!! When you cross the fingers behind the back and you lie, it don´t apply! You can find tutorials in YT to wrinkels money! For exempale: " Das Letzte Hemd/ The Last Shirt" or Frogs and any other things!!
Dear Zvonne, regarding the kezboard lazout, can zou imagine the tinz dual language countrz of Belgium, which is not much bigger than a Brazilian farm, has its own keyboard layout, which is so twisted that you may easily die over trying to enter a complex corporate BIOS password. Some modern BIOS's may offer a live-saving virtual keyboard. If you can't find the @ and are running an operating system for grown-ups, then try holding ALT and type 64 on the numeric pad ... magic happens! Since I (a Ger-man) have had a US girlfriend for 10 years, I have been slightly Americanized and will never touch scissors again when I have a nail clipper. It works 10 times faster, cuts in an almost perfect preset radius and doesn't leave sharp edges that need to be re-worked on with a file (not the one to download, though it has to be a local and physical file) 🙂. The clipper is the clear winner. The only disadvantage is that the cutting impulse is so intense that the nails are flying around with almost supersonic speed and it makes sense to operate it in an mostly enclosed environment, else it gets pretty messy. You may use protective glasses, just to not get injured from the debris. 😂 Getting on the bike I do in the classical way, not in the energy optimized more challenging way, else I may end up like Jen in the end of the video. 🤣 Hope you didn't hurt yourself in that stunt. "Germany, Austria and other parts of Germany" ... maybe like Poland and Russia? ... now you sound like the Austrian guy who died some 70 years ago, who looked like Charly Chaplin, but I heard he was less funny. And someone said he was quite a Nazi, I have never figured out in which regard?!
Ich glaube das kommt von den Herrenrädern. Die haben eine gerade Querstange. Die Damen- und Kinderräder haben eine gekrümmte Querstange, da kann man leichter aufsitzen, z. b. aus dem Stand. Beim Herrenrad geht es einfacher mit einem Fuß auf einer Pedale zu stehen und mit dem anderen Bein wie bei einem Pferd über den Sattel zu schwingen.
OMG! I thought my partner was the only one using the scissors for cutting her nails 😂 now I know it’s probably a German thing. Ps: I laughed so hard at the end. I’m sorry 🤭
I know an arcade in Germany! Just kidding. I don't. I've been living here for most of my life and i've only ever met TWO PEOPLE who knew what an arcade game cabinet was. For context: I check DDR Tracker every single fucking day and the only "arcade" wich isn't just a casino with no games in it, is Giga center. Even then, half of the stuff there is slot machines, and the only games they have nowadays are rail shooters and those purposefully unfair racing games.
Haha, I already prepared to write how we do the same in Russian, same quotes in writing, but then air qotes are like in English for some reason (I guess cause it was copied, right, as a gesture, not invited internally), and there you go, same in German! German keyboard is kind of driving me crazy, and I am a person who grew up with two sets of symbols already! Esp hate how ctrl+Z is such a convenient shortcut on QWERTY, but in QWERTZ my fingers just don´t spread that easily! Whyyyyyyyy ;( As for the getting on the bike thing, I had such a good laugh, cause as a kid I learned to hop on a bike and start like Germans do, but then I saw someone doing the swing thing and thought it was SO COOL that I learned how to do it and only do it like that now cause it looks so DRAMATIC :D And the guy on the video really does it in inappropriate conditions and very badly, sorry :D Thanks for the video, such a fun one!
Also, very cool about the typing skills! I have a soft spot for this, I almost bought a lego typing machine, but it´s on the pricey side, I will see if the idea sticks long enough so I´ll just decide screw it and get it :D
I was legitimately awe-struck that Germans don't have nail clippers. It seems like such a basic invention, like a plate for eating food. I'm European and nobody I know uses a freaking scissor to clip nails.
@@betteryou5210 It's actually more international of a thing as you might think. >>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toi_toi_toi Wether it is of jewish or germanic origins is still in debate. Although Jiddisch is a West-Germanic language anyway, so that's kind of a merry-go-round.
Then simply change it. ;-) You can change the keyboard layout easily in every operating system to the way you are used to. If you are not able to type blindly, there's stickers available for each button or you can bring your own keyboard. I'm actually typing this on a Qwerty keyboard with Qwertz stickers. (it saved me a few hundred bucks to buy the laptop with english layout) ;)
There is also another set of cards called "deutsches Blatt" (linked picture img.oldthing.net/1234/41045700/2/n/K17-Spielkarten-Skat-deutsches-Blatt-Skataktiv-Altenburg.jpg) it has other colours and just as Jen mentioned the original three male facecards K=King/König, O=Over/Ober and U=Under/Unter. This cardset is not very popular anymore just among players of "Doppelkopf" and still very popular for "Schafskopf" which is played in the southern regions, especially bavaria. Keyboards ... yeah I know where you coming from ... xD but all operating systems allow to change the keyboard layout sometimes it is coupled to the languagepreferences, why it is a difference to choose american or british english for example . :P
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Well, I'm interested in the German vs. Foreigner topic, but every time I watch a Simple Germany video, my recommendations get flooded with lesbian stuff, whitch I'm not interested in. So I always hesitate to click on a video.
@@ormsucher stop being homophobic
I gifted my nephew a "Krötenteich" for his Jugendweihe: "Kröten" is a slang word for money. So I made a nice pond (Teich) out of blue carton and green paper grass around it, and folded bank notes into origami frogs...
That’s so nice! ☺️
Thank you for another nice video. Unfortunately, in December 2022 I had to dismiss the proposal to relocate to Germany, however still watch your videos and it makes me feel better. Keep up doing this.
Love this channel!! In India we also grew up playing arcades(cardillacs and dinosaur,mortal kombat etc) and cards is one of our favourite tradition to play on Diwali ..keep making such videos as it helps us to better understand and integrate wid germany!!
Oh boy, you really went all in with the air quotes special effects, I couldn't stop laughing :)
06:22 Dactylonomy: From the Greek words Dactylo (Δάκτυλο = Finger) and Nomy (Νόμος = Law). So we have the law of the fingers, even though in modern Greek, as far as I know, there's no such word.
In my first job after my studies I struggeled with the Averty-Keyboard in Belgium. So I really know what you want to explain with Qwertz-Keyboard and so on.
Berlin’s video game museum has some really great old arcade cabinets you can play in addition to a bunch of other cool stuff to check out! 👾🎮🕹
Uhhh super cool! Next time we are in Berlin we gotta go 🤗
Salt and pepper shakers: in India, we use shaker with one hole for salt and the shaker with multiple holes for pepper ,but in germany its the other way around.
Nice quotation mark sound. :)
Viva - Nail clippers! 🙌 Over any nails pliers or scissors! You made a such a funny and true video 💯
Hey great channel I goto Germany all the time and your advice really helps.
I had to laugh out loud because of the nail clippers :D
My boyfriend is US American and he HATES the scissors I use here and he always goes for his own nail clipper :D
Hi, answering your question. I am from Germany and have scissors and clippers to do my nails. I do prefer the clippers usually.
Thanks for sharing! ☺️
Qwertz Keyboard.... "Good luck with that" and "Fingers crossed" were a bit weird to me as well.
Girls, such a nice episode on a day like this! Thank you for bringing back my smile. Now, I must say I had true fun with a couple of your explanations, and these are all fun because they are true! The quotation marks and traditions as to how to put them, I think go back to country alliances which have dated across Europe way before both world wars. We in Bulgaria have adopted so many German cultural traditions, as well as French cultural manners (I mean the higher educated families like mine was). I grew up with always putting the quotation marks „like this”, and yes, no place to argue with Zvonne.. oops Yvonne! 😂 Yes, this type of marks at least in Europe should go bottom first, top last. The keyboard few swaps that you talk about totally make sense and I appreciate how you clarify them! I'm also so happy that Jen has this typing ability of real high level, that's awesome! But for whoever would complain about German keyboard - have you seen and worked with the French keyboard??! 🤣 😎 It's been so easy for me with the German one, honestly.
As far as getting on a bike is concerned, I'm the last person here to give insights and you know why, but something which I paid attention to is I keep seeing people setting off on their bike in the first shown way and I only raise my eyebrows, how is it safe and stuff. Two things I am very positive about, doesn't matter if I myself ride a bike or not, are to never go swimming and to never ride a bike if you've had one too many drinks (because it's not driving a car, and you think it's all ok, but it's not). I liked the bloopers, very well there! 😂Just hope Jen didn't fall bad. I've had the exact same bike falls, they weren't harmful, but still I had my mind on it at the end of the video. And congrats on that 2.02M views! 😉 I'm dying of curisity already.. you know.
Hahaha, well she did hurt both knees a bit, but it's a fun story to tell now 😋 Yes....maybe next week 😉
@@simplegermany Interistingly, I've only hurt my arms while attempting to learn and fell off a bike, but not in a serious way. Most of the times I crashed into bushes. 🙂Whenever you feel like it, you can tell any and all stories you mean to. Next week would be 100th video, no? 🤠
Amongst other things, yes 😇
I am German and have always used nail clippers. However we had a perhaps more old fashioned version looking more like pliers, which I have however also seen in UK where I live now.
There just opened a big game center in Berlin with the name "Gamesstate". The first one in Berlin think. Oh and we're German and use nail clippers most of the time specially for the toes but we also have the scissors, but not really used that much.
Great video btw
Ladies I’m from Brazil and COMPLETELY identified with every single one of the topics 😂😂😂 #teamnailclippers
Yes! The only place I’ve struggled more with a keyboard is Japan. Oh and I love the sound effects 🤣🥰
Love the content! hopfully one day I can have the chance to make a video with you guys 😊
Waren am Wochenende auf einer Hochzeit und haben Geld verschenkt. Damit es etwas hübscher aussah, haben wir die Geldscheine zu Fischen gefaltet, an Metallstäbe geklebt und in ein Glasgefäß mit Muscheln und einem schöne Bild als Rückwand gesteckt. Wir waren nicht die einzigen mit gefalteten Geldscheinen.
Ahhh so beautifully presented German style 🥰
I used to have my Siemens Nixdorf and I kept English keyboard on all the time, because @ was hard to reach and sometimes pressed on ä, ö, and ü.
If you want another fun Roman fact, they considered everything to do with the right hand lucky, the army always starts its march on the right foot and so forth. The left was unlucky, left handed was sinistra, or sinister as we still say today.
Thanks for this! Videos like this really help me feel a little less like an alien freak for not understanding things right away.
Funny also to me that some cards say “J” now meaning boy when my gf and I called the “B” card the boy when we were playing some card games over the holidays and didn’t know what it really stood for.
"J" stands for "Junge", "B" stands for "Bube".
Both mean the same. They are just different words for boy.
In Dutch we call the B a 'Boer', translated that means Bauer or Farmer
Danke
Quotation sound is great 😂😂😂😂.
Awesome video as always 😍
Super interessant!! 😂 you two are so cute 😊
Please make video on if we should finance a car or lease a car
Well, the classical swing is for men... the other way of getting on a bike was used by the women because they wore long skirts and they were not allowed to oper their legs as wide as men... the knees had to be close together as often as possible 🙄
Btw I am German and always use a nail clipper - I cannot handle a scissors there 🤷♀️
Great video Mädels 😄 as always 🌺
Very interesting video 👍
I have another quirky German (maybe other countries also?). I noticed a difference between my English books and my husband's German books.Here in the U.S. the title of a (English language) book on the spine is read from top to bottom by tilting your head to the right. In Germany you read the spine of a book by tilting your head to the left and read from the bottom up. I don't know if all German books are like this, I only looked at the ones my German husband has.
Uh, interesting observation. We will have an eye out for it. 😉 Just had a quick look at one Spanish book from Guatemala and it is the 'German way', tilting your head to the left 😅
Yes, all German books are like this and I have English and German books on my shelf and often wondered if I should put one kind back to front so they align 🤔
That explains that why when I holidayed with (mainly) Germans earlier this year they had just scissors and not clippers. I didn't bring my own from the UK things that nails can't grow that quick in three weeks.
Again, a very fun and informing video. Bravo!
Nail clipping: A scissors' etui appeared in my childhood, this was what I learned. Today, I'd use a nail clipper, too, but with both present, I'd probably still choose the scissors!
Gifting money: Traditionally, "just money" is not in style. To my son's wedding, I'd gift them money, obviously. Instead of real money, I chose Monopoly money, even bought a used game for that. I put it into a decorative item to "hide" the fact.
Deck of cards: You described the "French deck", while there is a different "German deck", using different pictures, different colour names (Eichel, Laub, Herz, Schellen) and different figure names (Ober, Unter, Daus). In southern Germany, Schafkopf and Watten are played with these cards.
I suspect that the different names in the French deck may cover that, in German, King and Queen share the same letter K (König, Königin) but a differentiation had to show on the cards.
Quotation marks: Fun fact is, in WORD's German setting, you cannot get the American "" marks - it demands the German way!
Actually, the Germans use nested quotation marks just like the Americans. We use single quotation marks when quoting within a quotation.
Love your content
Huge arcade available at the Centro-Promenade in Oberhausen 🙂
Good to know 😉
I don't know if these are the kind of Arcade games you mean, but most bigger bowling alleys have at least a few arcade/race games in addition to the actual lanes!
Very interesting hearing of arcades. When I was a kid in the early/mid 90s in Austria Street Fighter and Pacman were already oldschool but definitely NOT hidden away from children, but there were special establishments where you could go to play these "vintage" arcade games and often enough it was rebuilt in a way that you didn't have to thow in a coin at all. I for example grew up rather rural and in the local catholic community center (Pfarrheim) there were always pinball machines in the attic (along with foosball tables). That was also the place where I drank my first beer at the age of 8 or sth like that :D
And in bigger cinemas there was always an "arcade" section with newer arcade games like car racing, tennis, alpine skiing, snowboarding (often with an imitating snowboard or skis for the feet) etc. as well as airhockey and things like that where you just had to convert money into jetons at specific machines in the cinemas that only fit in those machines. It was a huge thing growing up here, I didn't know that was such a taboo in Germany back then.
And nowadays of course there's these "retro bars" with pinball machines and arcade games where you obviously have to throw in real money to play.
That sounds cool! 😊
Jen, you are coder right? :p i can see it because your book in the background!
It is really good to know😊
In MMA, we also do the fist thing for good luck. Only difference is that we don't embed the thumb in the fist.
Nails... I'm clipping my finger nails since decades, but for the feet I still use the scissors. However, at least for the foot nails, the idea of using one of the services offered in almost every town ("Fusspflege") gets more and more attractive with the growing number that indicats my biological age ;-)
Oh, I forgot to say - nail scissors all the way! 🤣 And then all of the other additions in a case just like yours. I use occasionally nail clippers but I don't prefer them.
We did it! We came full circle and made an internet joke! This is already a 10/10 video
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And of course 🤜🤜for good luck...😊🖐
Yeeah, the keyboard difference is super annoying for me as well :(
Thanks for bringing back the fun videos :D
Ah such a delight to see you having so much fun filming! I am familiar with most things, but I'll provide a little data. :)
I can both use a nail clipper and nail scissors. I think it was my dad or my grandparents who introduced the clipper to me. However I do prefer to use the scissors when I get out of the shower and my nails are soft. But when traveling I take the clipper for some reason. 🤷♀
Speaking about getting on a bike and being Dutch… I have a low frame because I use on a women's bike. I can do the single-footed rollway, but I don't have to swing my leg completely over my bike. And I use the method for Dutch bikes, as you call them, since the other method is illogical to use on a women's bike.
Any questions? 😅😂
Hahaha, thanks for sharing! 😊
And .., of course, I use the scissors to cut my nails ...haha ..I remember my sister ..she was 14 maybe ...she cut the nails in zig zag ..to scrap the boys in school😉😂😂😂
In Germany you are allowed to play in a game in a Spielhalle if your age is 18 or more but ito visit a Casino you have to be 21. Greetings from Aachen - a town with a Casino.
A Casino where you can play Roulette and Blackjack and all that stuff on tables with a Croupier where you are gambling against the bank of the casino that is. German term: Spielbank.
A Spielhalle or Spielothek is a different beast though. Those used to have all sorts of entertainment devices, not only slot machines, but also arcades, flippers, billiard, darts and everything. But unfortunately nowadays most of them only feature slot machines and call themselves casinos as well often enough. The gaming machines like flippers and arcades began to vanish from those places in the late 90s/early 2000s. Most of the time you only find them fun games in ordinairy pubs, but it's getting rare apart from Darts and Kicker and maybe a flipper occasionally. Billiard halls on the other side are still a thing.
Another thing that plays into the difference about accessibility (18 vs 21) is that Spielbanken are allowed to serve alcohol (beer, wine and also spirits), while in Spielotheken (the places that only feature slot machines, but are accesible from age 18) alcohol is strictly forbidden. In pubs (accessible from age 16) on the other hand, which are usally only allowed to feature a maximum of 2 or 3 slot machines depending on local jurisdiction( (but all sorts of entertainment machines like flippers, arcades, darts, billiard, if they want to), alcohol will be the standard anyway. But in those pubs you won't be allowed to use the slot machines under age 18 and only one at a time. There are mandatory safety measures like ID-validation-devices that will only unlock one single machine for every ID over age 18 runned through them and mandatory break times executed by the slot machine in which you can't play until the mandatory break is over.
Arcade games shouldn't be perceived as "games of chance". It should even be technically be classified as an "endurance test", since they requires your retention both physical (handling the joystick) and mental (moves) to win a level, and how long you can last (especially with variations).
Very well! I totally agree with your point. 🎮
Besides, coins are business model of "per arcade establishment" and should be legislated differently. The game itself should not suffer for it.
I use a scissor for my hands and a nail clipper for my feet. And I'm from Germany. :)
As a child of the 80s, I remember how Arcades survived the law in Germany.
During the 80s and early 90s, the place we would go to for our Arcade gambling fun was...the mall!
Because in those years, there usually was a large section if not an entire floor in at least one mall per city, where there were a ton of video game consoles set up with the latest games you could just play.
Playing cost 0 money (otherwise the mentioned law would have applied) and was just considered advertising for the games.
They even ran contests and tournaments.
We would leave school, go to the mall and play games all evening, just like Americans did, but we did it in the "Kaufhof" or similar, not the Penny Arcade.
Also for free. So that was a benefit.
You still can find this in some German malls, but usually only one or two consoles are available today.
In the 80s and early 90s, there were dozens. Children would crowd around them, watching you play "Home Alone" on the NES :-)
The big difference was, that we had no actual Arcade machines but were playing on home consoles in a public space.
This came with the big benefit of us always having access to the latest and greatest in Video Games, as advertising old consoles and games that way wouldn't have made sense.
But otherwise it was quite similar. No chairs, high-mounted screens, game noise from dozens of games mingling together, screaming children everywhere.
I do have fond memories of that.
As for nails, I actually moved from scissors to clippers. I grew up using scissors, but I have really tough nails and kept breaking scissors. And regular clippers. When I say "tough" I mean "I use my nails as a screwdriver without damaging them".
Then I found a nail clipper for toe nails that's tough enough to deal with my claws and never looked back.
Super interesting, thanks for sharing your insights! 😊
❤ Simple Germany ❤
Jen: drop a visit to Karlsruhe, go for retro games. Plan lots of time.
I think, that part of the folding money thing, is that just "money" is seen a bit as dirty and having money be part of an interaction with somebody who is part of your private life is maybe also seen as a bit of an embarrassment. Then, folding the money would be a way to distract from that embarrassment und to make the interaction not be just about the money, but also about the creative thing you have done with the money.
Exactly! You beat me to it!
omg, the quotation marks, I thought that was a mistake on my keyboard, I've been manipulating it to produce the regular English quotation marks " ".
And I finally know what the STRG stands for. I've been reading it as "STRong". 😊
finger counting from the thumb is sooooooo weird..!
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waiting for the Wine tasting since yrs 🤣
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Yeah! I also had to learn the German way of getting on a bike as an adult. I alsmost broke my neck 1st time I tried it. It is not efficient at all. But since I wanted to become a German, I had to learn it. Haha. :)
There's another popular card deck in Germany, which doesn't have Bube, Dame and König, but Unter, Ober, König, and Ass.
Oh we don’t know that one!
Ich glaube das wird in Bayern für "Schafkopf" benutzt.
@@olehamburg3404 Nicht nur Schafkopf, generell für Kartenspiele
The Deck with Unter, Ober, König, Sau is called "Deutsches Blatt" as opposed to "Französisches Blatt" with Bube, Dame, König, Ass.
It also has different colours.
Deutsch: Eichel, Schippen, Herz, Schellen
Französisch: Kreuz, Pik, Herz, Karo
If we cross fingers, we are lying.
If we give a promise to someone but don't plan to actually do it, we will cross our fingers behind our back.
Ah interesting - and where is that?
@@simplegermany LOL In Germany of course.
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@@simplegermany There you go: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gekreuzte_Finger#
And btw: as you mentioned that people shouldn't be confusing someone holding his thumbs with an invitation to a fist fight... If you actually wanted to punch someone, you should never put your thumbs inside your fist, otherwise you might likely break your fingers. ;-)
I am from Germany and I use nail clippers. In our family we call it "Schnippschnapp".
Uhh interesting naming 😅
Für das Daumendrücken kenne ich noch die Erklärung, daß dieser als opponierender Finger das Greifen erst richtig möglich macht.
Versucht mal ohne Daumen die Schnürsenkel zu binden.
Wenn ich jemanden die Daumen drücke, heißt das, ich kann
nichts tun, außer an dich zu denken und vielleicht ein Stilles gebet für dich sprechen.
Ah also interesting!
Bloopers are hilarious🤣
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I love the. German way of gifting Money. 🤜🏽🤛🏼
I am german and weird, I think. I use the clippers only on my toenails. The sizzers are for my fingernails.
It’s hard texting back home with those and having to explain what they are.
Also, are you looking for an editor for your videos? if so, I would love to help out :)
Thank you so much for your kind offer, however, we are not 😉
Re counting with fingers, is it a faux pas to hold up the index, middle, and pinky fingers; while holding down the ring finger? I ask because different cultures have different bad or obscene hand gestures.
Mmh we don't think so. But we are also not experts on hand gestures 😇
Hello from Georgia. I thought I would share how we do keyboards here since I think you may find it interesting.
We actually have a specific layout originally made for typewriters, but nobody uses it. Instead people use QWERTY but it phonetically maps to our language.
This is because in past, phones didn't support Georgian font, let alone type on it, and Windows XP didn't install Georgian Typing by default,
and when manually installed it would install the typewriter layout people were unwilling to learn.
Instead, in the old days people just used latin letters to type, both on phone (SMS) and PC (in informal setting).
In official setting however, this was not allowed, so some big brain individual invented modified fonts that would change the latin letters into Georgian letters, and it would phonetically map to it.
Later on, someone made an installer for Windows XP that added this QWERTY based layout system wide, but people just didn't install it, perhaps they were unaware and they carried on using the modified font or latin instead.
The QWERTY based layout was later officially included in Windows 7 and later. Some people still didn't use it, maybe they were unaware it was added. And thus carried on with latin or modified font. It was also added into Android around that time.
I still get .doc files from my professors that require installing the modified font. Perhaps they are just stuck in the old ways and don't want to relearn it?
Along the way, properly writing the quotes were thrown out of the window sometimes, depending on which modified font is used. The official way to do quotes here is like „this“.
Super interesting. Thanks for sharing ☺️
I'm surprised how much these things are the same or very similar in Hungary!
Quotation marks, hidden thumb and practically everything is the same in croatia so maybe that's all european thing? I never realised that after 19 yrs l still count european way - thumb first! But l sooo prefer american quotation marks though ! Nails: l use clippers for fingers and scissors for toes.
,, this is the way I learn in Romania .." and "" this was only for English "" 😉
You don´t punch with the thumb inside the fingers, it will be broken!!!!! When you cross the fingers behind the back and you lie, it don´t apply! You can find tutorials in YT to wrinkels money! For exempale: " Das Letzte Hemd/ The Last Shirt" or Frogs and any other things!!
Dear Zvonne, regarding the kezboard lazout, can zou imagine the tinz dual language countrz of Belgium, which is not much bigger than a Brazilian farm, has its own keyboard layout, which is so twisted that you may easily die over trying to enter a complex corporate BIOS password. Some modern BIOS's may offer a live-saving virtual keyboard.
If you can't find the @ and are running an operating system for grown-ups, then try holding ALT and type 64 on the numeric pad ... magic happens!
Since I (a Ger-man) have had a US girlfriend for 10 years, I have been slightly Americanized and will never touch scissors again when I have a nail clipper. It works 10 times faster, cuts in an almost perfect preset radius and doesn't leave sharp edges that need to be re-worked on with a file (not the one to download, though it has to be a local and physical file) 🙂. The clipper is the clear winner. The only disadvantage is that the cutting impulse is so intense that the nails are flying around with almost supersonic speed and it makes sense to operate it in an mostly enclosed environment, else it gets pretty messy. You may use protective glasses, just to not get injured from the debris. 😂
Getting on the bike I do in the classical way, not in the energy optimized more challenging way, else I may end up like Jen in the end of the video. 🤣 Hope you didn't hurt yourself in that stunt.
"Germany, Austria and other parts of Germany" ... maybe like Poland and Russia? ... now you sound like the Austrian guy who died some 70 years ago, who looked like Charly Chaplin, but I heard he was less funny. And someone said he was quite a Nazi, I have never figured out in which regard?!
🤣🤣🤣 - thanks for the great laugh! Jen hurt her skin on both knees a bit and had some questions from friends to answer the next days 😅
@@simplegermany You made me laugh and learn - brilliant, per usual 😘
Bike question: its kinda old way how to get on bike also in czech republic. You almost dont see it anymore. Its more how older generations used bikes.
We would agree … until we see some young people here on the street doing it too 😅
Ich glaube das kommt von den Herrenrädern. Die haben eine gerade Querstange.
Die Damen- und Kinderräder haben eine gekrümmte Querstange, da kann man leichter aufsitzen, z. b. aus dem Stand.
Beim Herrenrad geht es einfacher mit einem Fuß auf einer Pedale zu stehen und mit dem anderen Bein wie bei einem Pferd über den Sattel zu schwingen.
@@olehamburg3404 Genau das!
OMG! I thought my partner was the only one using the scissors for cutting her nails 😂 now I know it’s probably a German thing.
Ps: I laughed so hard at the end. I’m sorry 🤭
Greetings
I'm colombian and I count with my fingers starting from the small finger, not the index. Does anybody else count like this? O.0
Oh interesting! Another variant 😅
I know an arcade in Germany! Just kidding. I don't. I've been living here for most of my life and i've only ever met TWO PEOPLE who knew what an arcade game cabinet was.
For context: I check DDR Tracker every single fucking day and the only "arcade" wich isn't just a casino with no games in it, is Giga center. Even then, half of the stuff there is slot machines, and the only games they have nowadays are rail shooters and those purposefully unfair racing games.
Is guthe institution good for learning German?
You mean Goethe-Institut? Should be pretty decent, yes. They are funded by the German government. The Pope did learn German there. ;)
I am German and I use clippers for my hands and scissors for my feet. Don't ask me why.
Clippers for toes simply don't work properly.
😅 that’s also interesting!
Oh interesting. It's now 80 days from when I am leaving for a German holiday :)
That sounds like a Christmas Market trip 😉
Pac-Man is not a game of chance. It is ALL SKILL!!
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Haha, I already prepared to write how we do the same in Russian, same quotes in writing, but then air qotes are like in English for some reason (I guess cause it was copied, right, as a gesture, not invited internally), and there you go, same in German!
German keyboard is kind of driving me crazy, and I am a person who grew up with two sets of symbols already! Esp hate how ctrl+Z is such a convenient shortcut on QWERTY, but in QWERTZ my fingers just don´t spread that easily! Whyyyyyyyy ;(
As for the getting on the bike thing, I had such a good laugh, cause as a kid I learned to hop on a bike and start like Germans do, but then I saw someone doing the swing thing and thought it was SO COOL that I learned how to do it and only do it like that now cause it looks so DRAMATIC :D And the guy on the video really does it in inappropriate conditions and very badly, sorry :D
Thanks for the video, such a fun one!
Also, very cool about the typing skills! I have a soft spot for this, I almost bought a lego typing machine, but it´s on the pricey side, I will see if the idea sticks long enough so I´ll just decide screw it and get it :D
Fair point about CTRL+z 😂
There’s a Lego typing machine? 🤯
@@simplegermany there is! It’s green and the keys are clickable and all
I am German I thought it's the standard to use nail clippers. Don't know any one who uses scissors haha
Oh nice! I guess there are enough Germans who use scissors 😅
I was legitimately awe-struck that Germans don't have nail clippers. It seems like such a basic invention, like a plate for eating food. I'm European and nobody I know uses a freaking scissor to clip nails.
You can get nail clippers at every drugstore. They aren't uncommon at all nowadays.
you are a so nice Couple 😍😍
Life in Germany is too hard or too serious. I can not believe this country is in Europe and so different .
Toi Toi, is also weird thing germans do for foreighners
"toi, toi, toi!" you mean.
Toi Toi is a mobile toilet. ;-)
@@cg6511 yeajh toi toi toi i meant
@@betteryou5210 It's actually more international of a thing as you might think. >>> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toi_toi_toi
Wether it is of jewish or germanic origins is still in debate.
Although Jiddisch is a West-Germanic language anyway, so that's kind of a merry-go-round.
Thanks for sharing Interesting facts..
I just got a German keyboard in my new job &&& still struggling to unlearn Querty keyboard 🥹😅
Then simply change it. ;-)
You can change the keyboard layout easily in every operating system to the way you are used to.
If you are not able to type blindly, there's stickers available for each button or you can bring your own keyboard.
I'm actually typing this on a Qwerty keyboard with Qwertz stickers. (it saved me a few hundred bucks to buy the laptop with english layout) ;)
@@cg6511 awesome tip thanks ❤️
There is also another set of cards called "deutsches Blatt" (linked picture img.oldthing.net/1234/41045700/2/n/K17-Spielkarten-Skat-deutsches-Blatt-Skataktiv-Altenburg.jpg) it has other colours and just as Jen mentioned the original three male facecards K=King/König, O=Over/Ober and U=Under/Unter. This cardset is not very popular anymore just among players of "Doppelkopf" and still very popular for "Schafskopf" which is played in the southern regions, especially bavaria.
Keyboards ... yeah I know where you coming from ... xD but all operating systems allow to change the keyboard layout sometimes it is coupled to the languagepreferences, why it is a difference to choose american or british english for example . :P