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If there is a fire in an American home, you just walk through the cardboard wall. You don't unlock the door.
Ahah thats a burn xD
🔥🔥
Hahaha, such a good burn.
@TrIpMo1981 a bit like the wall itself
There was a top latch in that apartment. If someone is home, you just lock that. The main dead lock is so kids can not walk out of the apartment without supervision.
When we lived in Denmark, we left a key in the lock
while people were home. We had no kids at that point.
No one sneezes in your face in Europe. What a load of rubbish.
Yeah, hes full of shit...
People who would do that would get a slap
It happened to him once by accident so therefore everyone does it. Everyone in Europe, they all do it. Because it happened once.
I always remember to do it when I meet a tourist, because obviously sneeze in the face is a basic greeting here in Italy 😂
@felonmarmer Exactly..One rude guy sneezed on him so all 400 million europeans DO IT ALL THE TIME, EVRYTIME!
@artemis83 We have a similar tradition in London, but only for USAian tourists.
It's funny that americans are complaining to have to pay 50 cents for the toilet but are willing to pay 25 % tip
and be OK to be bankrupted after a visit to the hospital
The standard defense for tipping (paying a portion of the service staff's salary) is that their salary is based on this payment. But apparently it costs nothing to service clean toilets.
Whinging about paying to use the toilet.
But no complaints about paying thousands for health.
And $16 for a beer during a sport event or concert.
Kurt Cobain thought that Madona was insane & greedy for charging $25 for her concerts....
plus I always wonder what exactly defines in english as "public restroom"
the ones shown are always the ones at train stations etc - where i guess part of the paying is to keep homeless people out etc
the toilets in the restaurants are here mostly for paying customers
and the ones in department/electroni/etc stores are normally free for all and these are far more of them around then the ones in the videos...
plus how often do they need those restrooms per day?!
mfg
Olli
Why would you lock the door if there is somebody inside?
the american fear that anything can/will happen, and he is concerned about his girlfriends safety.
You are not paying to pee... you are paying for a service! The cleaning service to use a wc that is not disgusting.
Capitalist Americans should understand that!
You think the pocket change entrance fee is what is covering the cost of the toilet facilities?
If the government or operator didn't want to prevent unwanted people from using the facilities for unintended purposes they wouldn't require a fee at all since it has no influence on their budget.
@freedomfighter22222The fee would go towards the cleaning, I’m not sure what you meant by the rest?
@freedomfighter22222 It seems that you don't mind to pay 25% on the tips, but you refuse to pay 50 cents for the cleaning service?
Do you know how many people go to the public toilets in per day in Europe?
MORE THAN A THOUSAND PEOPLE!!! And more than thousand multiplying for 0,50 Euro cents and you know how much it's paid to maintain the toilets cleaned...
You know, every culture has different foods. In the USA they eat a lot of beef but that's taboo in India. Paying for the toilet is like that, a different cultural expectation of what's free and what is paid.
@wanderingfool6312 Regardless of whether the fee goes towards the cleaning, the main reason is still to not have the public bathrooms become impromptu homeless shelters or drug dens.
The sneezing thing is flat out false. It's considered very rude not to cover yourself during a sneeze.
Complete bullshit. You don't cough or sneeze someone right in the face, unless you're looking to be punched in the face🙄
Sneeze Man is off his rocker.
And, notably, in the very worst case, like when having what's basically a sneezing seizure, you at least turn away and towards the ground.
Everywhere...
Remember their face though. When we meet them, we'll sneeze in their face just to make them think they're right...
Americans should just think of "paying for toilet" as "tipping the cleaning staff" it'll be less foreign
Also 0,50€....that is cheap. I mean I live in Northern Europe and some public bathrooms cost like 1-2€ and those are expensive in my opinion. But 0,50€ is not
@anu83 agreed, here in Germany the good and clean ones are all at least 2 Euros, and usually the staff is right there and cleans after every use. At least the ones at Trainstations and such.
Exactly, if you want to use clean toilet facilities someone needs to be paid to keep it in that condition. 😆 Otherwise you can find a portaloo on a worksite and borrow that.
People in European countries with doors like that usually leave a key ON the door on the inside at all times
yeah but if the other person locked the other bolt then you're still locked in with no way to open.
@Brukner841 you can unlock it with the key in the door....
@emro4344 nvm
this is some old door. all my apartments have auto lock (it is locked as soon as door is closed) and I unlock with door knob
But in this way, the person who is outside can not go inside. Key inside block key outside.
I live in a very rural part of England….. sometimes I have to wait for months in order to ensure that I only sneeze on an American
underrated comment
😂😂😂😂😂
Same thing happens to me in rural Spain. It's annoying. Sometimes I have to travel to a touristy town just to sneeze.
I keep a small pot of pepper handy in case I see an American.
😂🎉😂❤
Standard American thinking: if it's different than back home, it's wrong.
That's normal; after all, it's a country where the exercise of free will is rare, and critical thinking-which involves analyzing and comparing two facts to draw a conclusion-is even rarer. You know, the kind of process one goes through before choosing a candidate in a presidential election crucial to the country's future. Yet, to simplify things for them in the United States, they're only offered two names-which is clearly still too many.
@pierremaz6061 there's also like around 50% of the population who has a 6th grade reading level, and 22% who can't read at all
That's what the Romans and the Greek were thinking when they wrote about other people. The level of "civilized" was mostly a scale of "how close are they culturally to us". For instance when Rome decreased the amount of silver in the coins without decreasing the value (to make it profitable to mint coins), it was primitive to not accept the value on the coin and instead trade it at the metal value. There was no understanding of people outside the empire not caring for what the emperor had ordered the coins to be worth because the emperor was the emperor of the world.
Somehow this sounds oddly familiar when I write it like that.
Or communism… 😑
To be fair, Europeans think that way as well, even when in neighbouring European countries.
I'd rather pay 50 cents for a clean toilet than pay a tip of $10 for a waiter to bring me a plate
something bad somewhere else is not an argument for or against the subject of the current conversation object being bad or good.
What she conveniantly forget to mention is that you usually get a discount voucher to use in the store.
@karstenburanaphim5009or free to customers in alot of cases
...and fake ask me 10 times per hour if "I'm enjoying my meal" to get a better tip.
@freedomfighter22222 You're missing the point. Cleaning toilets costs as much as carrying a plate. Perhaps even more - there's all the cleaning liquids and materials, there's the contract for having the menstruation boxes changed, the supervision so customers keep behaving themselves, paying for the toiletpaper and handsoap and the hand drying towels etc. There's actual costs involved in running a public toilet. Especially at larger venues, like this one was. But also at petrol stations, concert venues, shopping malls etc. So it makes perfect sense to charge customers for their use. Who else is going to have to pay for the cleaner and all the materials?
It beats me why Americans can’t understand that everyone is different. They all seem to think they are the only people in the world
Don't worry. Europeans do the same thing.
@xxx357-jt5ej US'IAN SPOTTED!
Have you seen the map of the world? The American one? Its one country the rest is sea
7:39 what is that a pig stable? filthy gross ... Toilets? Man
Glad i live in the Netherlands and pay a 50 cents for a nice clean toilet. Why they want the 50 cents? Many people who don't shop there come in from the outdoors only to use and make the toilet looks like a war zone. So better pay a little to avoid having a illness. 🤮
13:21 lmao yes this is the Netherlands. Our country has a sea climate so lots of moist in the air. No this is just fog of moist not exhausts fumes.
And indeed most appears in the winter.
Mistaking fog for air pollution says more about where he came from america than the place in Europe he's in.
Realy sad.
True. However, air polution in the Netherlands is worse than we Dutchies like to claim. But that does have to do with the density of the population and minimal available space to put industry in.
However, what he saw was still not smog, but your typical North Sea fog.
If the toilets are well maintained I don’t see a problem with a small charge.
Right? Like, I live in Virginia & we experience that fog every winter, like IWrocker said; it's been known to be that foggy at noon here.
This has to be sarcasm about lack of sunshine I think. NO one is that stup... wait trump's president there right? Never mind.
07:12 "That is like the nicest public bathroom I think I ever seen". And that's why we pay for it.
She talks about having to use the tap to pay method, but at 7:04 you can see that it's not only tap to pay. Only tap to pay would have surprised me..
Why do people keep saying shit like that, when (at least in Germany) the only place you will have to pay are transportation hubs like train stations and restrooms along the autobahn.
In malls, paying is fully optional though I could understand if people don't realise because the way it's set up implies you should pay.
Everywhere else - restaurants, shops, clubs, public restrooms not on the autobahn - it's free.
The sentence "Europeans have to pay to use the toilet" is just straight up false... Or am I doing German defaultism here?
@h.w.6563 You're doing German defaultism. And also it does become more common even in malls in Germany these days. Have seen several like those in Germany now.
@FactionalSky The ones in malls aren't mandatory, though. They just set it up to look mandatory.
And for the CentrO in Oberhausen, I purposely never pay, becasue I know they do not give that money to the cleaning staff they have sitting there. Goes straight to the owners of CentrO, not the cleaning staff.
P.s.: In which European countries are paid toilets the norm? I'd really like to know...
Some of these are just straight up lying to ragebait, like the sneeze guy.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was sneezed on by another tourist.
the first one about locking the doors is definitely either ragebait or just an idiot, hard to tell with usa tourists these days, I mean, they are the kind of families who forget their kid during a holiday journey. TWICE!!
Home Alone reference muchly appreciated! 😂
...yes, I thought they were basic Americans when I was a kid, too.
@TheBiggreenpig Probably Trump!
Every sensible European has at least one spare key IN THE HOUSE!!
Also, if I'm leaving the house for more then a few minutes, then someone I don't trust with a spare key isn't staying there.
Yes but the Americans made a good point, you have one key, misplaced the other, you are locked in. I want a switch lock now.
Most home in europe have 2 locks, one alike the american one & the main lock with keyhole on both side.
If you leave and there is people staying home, they can open and close the door without the need for a key, you just dont use the main lock.
And if you are the last one to leave you close both lock ( because people living in your home should have a key)
It's that simple.
US: _"We need to tip, so the poor underpaid worker can survive. Not tipping is rude."_
Also US: _"Why should i leave a tip for the person cleaning my literal sh** after using the toilet? Europe is weird."_
Hmm... I don't know. But the irony in complaining about leaving a tip for the bathroom staff is a bit weird. 😅
Solution, pay the staff properly
@destechteacherif you are guest in a restaurant in Germany the bathroom has to be free.
Public bathrooms costs money for cleaning, water and toilet paper. Why should the tax payer pay for that.
No one is sneezing in your face. If they do, they have bad manners. This is not the average European.
During the virus, I remember sitting on the bus and a lady took her mask OFF in order to cough.
@TheSuperappelflap 😦😖
Quoi que ... si le gus est des états, ce serait tentant 😂😂😂😂
Sneeze guy is plain out lying.
@YtUser-c1c u.s.ers typically do
Why always problems with paying 50 cents or an euro for a clean toilet but having NO problems with paying 15, 20 or 25% extra in restaurants, coffeeshops etc.
That‘s “thinking” the American way !
Also US public toilets are not free, they are paid for with taxes, what kind off commie system is that😜
Yep. The idea it's free, when the cost will be recovered by inflated prices. They accept that for medical care but not toilets? Wierd. I prefer the "free" healthcare myself.
They're Americans - the ones who believe that the whole world should be designed to US standards...
a lot of places now EXPECT 30-40%..
its insane..
ive seen workers complain not getting tipped at self service kiosks... they just stand around and watch you and expect to get tips for that
Yep, here in murikkka we happily pay $500 to $5,000 a month for medical insurance with huge copays but having to pay €0.50 for a completely clean and sanitary restroom requires immediate and unmitigated rage.
6:23 but......free toilets is SOCIALISM......😂
The sneeze thing is utter nonsense
Some ppl should not travel...
Maybe he is one of those people whos attitude brings out the worst in people.
Exactly if someone sneezed in my face they're liable to get kicked into next week.
You're wrong my friend. I was in an ALDI in Kent (during lockdown) when about 15 Romanian farm workers got out of an 8-seater minibus, none of them wearing face masks, and all of them walked around openly coughing and spluttering without covering their mouths. I think it varies from nation to nation.
@maka3329 nothing to do with nation than with rare instances of inconsiderate people
There's literally a lock that you can twist on that door, above the handle, with something hanging from it...
That's a separate lock. It's the Yale type at the top. Two locks.
Yep, there's a latch lock above with a knob you twist with your fingers and don't need a key to lock and open the door from the inside. The Yankie is an idiot.
That's what I was looking at. Also, who wouldn't have several keys to the apartment? Like you always have at least 3.
@IzzysTravelDiaries Yeah, as far as i know any door lock comes with at least 3 keys... + you can always make more copies.
@DarthAgony making more copies might not always a simple case, some landlords and/or housing corporations might use keys that need permission from the landlord/housing corporation to be duplicated.
The white box above the door handle allows you to lock and unlock the door from the inside.
the guy made that video just to show how stupid and ignorant he is
Yeah - what does he think that is?
I don't see a hole in the door post, I think it has no function anymore.
This is a very bad DIY job
It does, but you need eyes and brains to see and realize it.
Not everyone is that fortunate.
@QuentinPlantsecondary lock
10:50 Here in Spain the wife doesn't take the husband last name. Also their kids get two surnames, the first surname of the father and the first surname of the mother, but there's some flexibilitity allowing other combinations to preserve family heritage, like getting the first surnames of the parents join together (separated with a hyphen) to form a new first surname and the second surname of one of the parents, or placing the surname of the mother first and the father last. It is also very very common to have a compound given name like Rafael Antonio or Angela Maria. (Imagine the nightmare to fill in a form or book flights for a person who has a compound given name AND a compound first surname AND a compound second surname 😄😄😄Edit: it is the same in Portugal, Brasil and most (if not all) of the spanish speaking countries in America.
I’m from the Czech Republic, and our names are much simpler. We usually just have a first name and a surname inherited from our father. However, there is one peculiarity here. Women’s surnames are declined differently, and case endings are added to them, so men and women end up with different surnames.
Examples:
A man’s name is Josef Novák, but his wife’s name is Petra Nováková.
A man’s name is Martin Starý, but his wife’s name is Eva Stará.
It’s hard for foreigners to understand this.
In Belgium, people can choose whether to take their spouses surname or not and which (combination of) surnames to give to the children.
But it’s not USAian so it obviously wrong! 😂
@xxx357-jt5ejthat sounds like the scandinavians names...wheres they dont keep a proper lineage based in a surname just based in " son of" or "daugther of".
No i understand the 20 names of one person🤪
A quick word about the toilets. These toilets are often cleaned immediately after use, as there is usually someone on site who is responsible for hygiene. This person deserves to be paid well.
The 50 cents to 1€ covers more than just cleaning: water costs including handwashing, toilet paper, hand paper, soap, inspection and repairs (lights, brackets, toilet seats, etc.) and, of course, the corresponding staff.
Google what is meant by "Going to spend a penny". This is not a new thing.
As someone from the Netherlands I can only join this conversation by telling you, our puplic toilet situation is pretty ridiculous. As in we almost have none....
Agreed, grew up in UK and have lived in Australia now for +45 years I fly into Europe via Nederland multiple times. It’s a basic building operational requirement for all shopping centres, all food service businesses to provide toilets let alone Council toilet that also have to be cleaned regularly in Australia. You should pressure your government to change your building codes and operational requirements. I’ve been to some really remote locations in Oz that have totally free toilet facilities with drinking water and free spotless Barbecues also! I work in Facilities Management across Aus/NZ! And know this for a fact. NSW in Oz🇦🇺
The person that cleans the toilets is not getting their salary covered by the 50 cents it takes to enter, the 50 cents has no influence whatsoever on their pay as it comes entirely out of the budget of whichever operator manages the toilets which is either the owner of the building or the government, Neither of which has their budgets influenced in any meaningful way by the pocket change they require for entering the toilets.
The entrance fee is not to cover costs, it is to prevent unwanted people from using the facility.
The keyless lock is literally right above the key lock and can also only be opened by a key on the outside. On the inside, you open it by twisting the round knob. When you close the door, this lock will also engage. You would only use the key lock when nobody is home and lock it for extra security. Also, this is a door inside the building. My guess is that this is a building that has been converted to student rooms. Doors on the outside can only be opened by a key from the outside, they can simply be opened without a key on the inside. The guy still has a lot to learn ...
Also, there is a technique of how to unlock / unlock the doors from the outside with a key that is already inside the door lock. But seems to me that Mericans with their peanut brain didn't figured it out yet.
Guess guy shows why US cars need every inside switch, knob etc. labeled by words explaining its function). Otherwise similar "bros" would not figure it out themselves (with just pictures).
Exactly, I didn't see your comment, If so, I wouldn't have posted mine. You are completely right. These people just cannot look a bit further. What a morons!!
Yes, I was wondering what the thing above the key lock was. Has he not seen that, or wondered what it was? I would have wondered and tried to figure out what that was, because we don't have doors like this in Norway either.
@Kari.F.There are two locks on this door. The lower one is the standard door lock. The upper one is a security lock. It's operated from the inside with a bolt. From the outside, as you can clearly see at the top of the door, there's a second lock that can be opened with a different key. This key opens the security bolt. I find that very practical, especially if you have small children.
the first guy is a proper idiot
He is US, so what do you expect 😂
hes american so.....
yeah it's also a very old kind of door for Belgium. Most doors have nothing outside to open them if you don't have the key now (like the secure german doors he showed a couple of months ago)
No, its not... if there is a opening lever on both sides of the door you have to lock it so no stranger can open it. In this case yes the 2nd person will be locked in.
In German flat doors there is no opening lever on the outside so you can put it in the trap and the other one can open it from inside w/o key... but you have to use the key to open it and let you in.
@altblechasyl_cs2093 for that there is that little white rectangle with nob. You can lock if you wish, but turning that knob up there, it locks doors without locking main lock (that thing up wit that pendant or what is that)
14:43 European traffic sings have to be understood by all of the citizens so text is out of the question since everyone speaks a different language.
That's why we have a unified symbology system.
The first guy needs to open his eyes. He has a string hanging on the thing he is saying doesnt exist -.-
He also doesn't need to lock the door from outside. You can't get in without a key from outside even if it's only closed.
He needs to go back to USAnia!
Also, who is locking the door when someone is inside? Either leave it unlocked, or just say, lock behind me.
Also there is a Quick Lock at the door to lock it from inside like he would do in his US home.
You can see it at the end of the video over his right shoulder.
@racamon Mistakes happen. My wife locked me in by accident once. Took my key because she thought it was hers (hers was still in her pocket) and locked the door when she went out.
Old poem about paid toilets. "Here I sit, broken hearted, paid a penny and only farted"🚽
That one made laugh out loud ... Makes me think about coming over and LOL over my farts. Made my day
2 cents and only farted! In Australia 🇦🇺
Here I sit, feeling artfull, got in for nothing and done a cart full
@vexmetA slightly more polite version of what I learned 70 years ago at school:- “Here I sit, old and artful, paid f-all and shit a careful”.
hey thats a good one can i use it .
Are bathrooms free in the USA ? That sounds like communism to me!😅
Yes they are free and extremely dirty
Just look at the state of them. Definitely what a communist country looks like.
If you saw the bathrooms, you'd be sure of it!!🤮
yes they are free with horendous sticky stained smelly filthy restrooms but are schoked they have to pay 50 eurocent to have clean nice restrooms outside the US . US intelligence amongst the common people is very very very low the bar is set so low we have to dig 100 feet down to see that bar
😂😂😂, and shouldn’t we hate communism!😜
Complaining about paying 50ct to take a shit in a clean bathroom, but being totally fine having to pay a mandatory 30-40 bucks in tips.. That's 60 to 80 shits!
There's this white box with a knob on the door a bit further up which is exactly what he's complaining about missing.
they dont investigate or ask people.. they just complain
Not to mention other very obvious fact of: Other person also having the bloody key.
No tag above the turning knob saying: "You may lock door here!". And, even more important: There is no sign written all over the door: "Beware of door may being blocking you from going outside, if closed!" I guess, he will be trying to sue his landlord on that. Good luck to him... 😆
That doesn't disengage the lock that he is engaging when he leaves while his girlfriend is sleeping,
His girlfriend waking up during a fire and not being able to locate her key in the confusion is sure going to have some fun twisting that knob on the inside only lock while she burns to death!
@Architect096 He isn't saying his girlfriend is locked in because he has the only key, he is saying if she wakes up during a fire and her key is on the living room table where the fire is she is fucked.
The risk is not having access to your key during a fire, you should at the very least have a spare key chained to the door inside at all times for this design.
As in conceptually his girlfriend or any other occupants are in a locked room where they need access to a special tool(key) to leave, that is a recipe for catastrophic failure in an emergency situation.
His explanation has poor accuracy and leaves room for misinterpretation, but not really when you try to understand what message he is trying to convey and don't try to nitpick on exact phrasings.
I rather pay for toilets than for overpriced healthcare-insurance that refuses to cover if I'm in a real pickle.
And pay taxes for police who shoot my children
Something bad somewhere else isn't an argument,
the entrance fee on toilets in Europe is not the reason healthcare is proper 😂
@freedomfighter22222 The entrance fee for toilets doesn't exist almost anywhere in Europe.
It's only transportation hubs like train stations and restrooms along the highways that have you pay.
I do not understand why everyone keeps pretending there aren't free public toilets in Europe. That's just a lie...
Yup we all sneeze and cough on each other here.
We also lock people in when we leave the house when we go out to enjoy a lovely walk in the smog.
We also have to pay so much money for the public toilets that most of us go broke because of it.
Life is great here in the country of Europe. 😎
Irony may well be wasted here...
And we're so poor we have to use public transport and eat horrible snacks.
In the mediterranean Europe too😂😂😂
Toilet bankruptcy is on the increase, especially in the Dutch Alps.
yanks will think you are serious.
Europe has had paid toilets as long as I can remember and i'm in my 70s. In the early days a person used to sit in the entrance and would clean round the toilet each time it was used. They had a saucer on the counter that you dropped money into. The UK had locks on the doors even earlier than that, it cost a penny to open the lock. Hence the saying "I'm going to spend a penny"
That first moron hasn't seen the Yale type lock above the handle, at 1:50, it has got the blue tag hanging from it, that is what you usually use, then the lock below the handle is a double bolt security lock for when you all go out.
The guy with the lock should not be allowed out without a minder !😊
Total dimbo is pretty much common sense but then they are not issued it these days. Was obvious as soon as you saw the door.
Some doors also shut the lock by lifting the handle, our Porch door does and can also be locked with a key aftrewards.
Exactly! I had the same thing in my old doors
At 0:39 that other lock is visible too. Another point: why lock the door when another person is at home. The other person is not allowed to go out? To let this poor little boy in when he has lost or forgotten his own key?
No wondering about why there is another way to handle lock & key systems or habits in Belgium (and in the Netherlands as well by the way) and possibly in more European countries? Every system has it's own ("local") reasons to be as it they are.
Ask around I'd say, instead of whining and crying about things you don't understand.
he's afraid to strain those two seperate brain cells to much with thinking NOT something americans are famous for .
the toilet scene: you see the cleaning car on the left,inside? theres a person working a full shift,keeping it all clean,refilling the soap and paper rolls. thats what you pay for...
The public toilets in shopping centres and supermarkets here in Portugal also have people in charge of all that and they're still free.
That's not what you pay for,
the pocket change entrance fees are to keep unwanted people from using the facilities for unwanted purposes,
the facilities are either paid for through the building owners budget or the governments budget, the entrance fee has no bearing on how much the salary of the cleaning personnel is for public toilets, those salaries and the other costs of the facilities are completely irrelevant to the budgets of the operators.
@Module_79L - A different business model. If a gas station owner feels they earn enough to maintain a free restroom, perfect.
@freedomfighter22222I don't agree. There are commercial companies which run bathrooms as a commercial venture. I am thinking of ones in large French railway stations.
@sydney_wellington It's not a business model, it's the HST laws. All owners of toilets that are available to the general public must have a cleaning and maintenance schedule, which has to be affixed in a visible place inside the facility, and they must follow that schedule without fail, otherwise they can be subjected to heavy fines in case there's a surprise inspection. And they do happen!
That sneeze guy is talking bs. Nobody does that.
Perhaps one person did it once and he extrapolated to the whole population of Europe.
Wrong, I do it all the time because I'm trying to get BigPharma to hire me.
In Europa wird keinen ins Gesicht geniest 😢😢
8:30 - u.s. priorities... Socialised bathroom, but no socialised healthcare.😅
Here we go again, if its not the same as in America, it's wrong, It's all wrong dammit!
To guy in ~ 20:00, I think it was a fellow American who sneezed in your face, us Europeans, have manners
Americans:refuse to pay for the clean toilet 50 cents,but also PAYS 20% TIP FOR NO REASON.
I'm in my 50's and I have NEVER been sneezed on! Nor have i EVER sneezed on anyone or seen anyone else doing it! Absolute BS.
I lost brain cells watching that first person..
Just the first? 😅🤣
I lost brain cells looking at your profile picture
I live in the Netherlands and we have more than just one key for the front door. I imagine that is the same in Belgium.
I'm not sure what the norm is in Belgium, but in Germany, I've only ever seen apartment doors that have a knob on the outside rather than a handle. You just don't need to lock the door when someone's inside.
He's completely right though. Take it from a Dutch guy.
The twist lock is literally right there in white at 0:41 - lock it from the outside and turn the knob on the inside.
He is deliberately not showing the lock in his video and pointing the camera down at the lock at the handle.
He's either monumentally stupid or just a troll.
Both. And intellectually challenged in that he can't work things out.
Also looks like a lock from the 50s or something.
@tatube76Yeah that's an internal door at best or at worst a really old building like 60+ year old building
But they can make a duplicate key anyway. And it's highly likely his girlfriend has a spare somewhere that she never uses.😅
In Spain, I never lose my name. My full name consists of my first name, my father’s surname, and my mother’s surname. It’s easy to understand that I don’t belong to anyone.
i have never seen a person sneeze without covering up... inhumane
lucky you... where I live, it's rare to see someone actually using a tissue correctly. And if they do cover their mouth and nose when they sneeze, they do it with their hands.... and then touch stuff. It's why I still disinfect my groceries when I get home.
@m0t0b33 Theres a reason someone came up with the „protection glass“ at the salad bar and wherever you pick up food. 😂
Is a problem if both hands are full though - my example- taking a tray of food to a table and luckily the bus station was empty to “dump” the tray and go back to the kitchen to wash my hands. Absolutely disaster if the bus station had been full. 😳
Hi, I'm from rural Austria. We don't lock our doors as long as someone is at home. The last person to leave locks up, and the first one back opens it. Also, in case of emergency, there's usually a key rack with a spare key somewhere in the hallway, most likely right next to the main door."
I've never even shut my back door. Grateful to be an Australian lol
sorry für Deutsch, aber bei dem ersten war so ein Ding an der Tür oben. Ich bin mir sicher dass das so Schnappchloß ist damit man nicht abschließen muß, aber irgendein Trottel hat es mit Farbe übrrstrichen, so daß man es nicht benutzen kann.
@Stein0001 sounds right
I was in Austria last October, beautiful country lovely people. I loved signs and magnets that were in gift shops. It had a kangaroo, "There are no kangaroos in Austria." I loved it.☮️🪃🇦🇺🦘
@Stein0001 en realidad es un cierre de rueda y se activa girando , funciona aunque lo pintes
20:39 No one sneezes into other people's faces! The odd person with no manners, or anyone caught by surprise sneezing, may not cover up. To claim otherwise is ludicrous!
About names: in Spain a woman doesn't lose her family name after marrying anybody. Call it 'not being a sexist system'.
Americans: I pay 15% tips because employers don't pay their staff well, or I pay 15 dollars for a "coffee" and 1000 for an ambulance, but god forbid paying 50 cents for a clean well maintained public bathroom.
There's always the option to go back to the US and use your good ones. The entire world knows the quality of US public bathrooms.
The sentence " as an American..." is never followed by something smart.
I was forced by an unfortunate choice of lunch venue some years ago to use a public toilet at a ferry terminal in New York. It was an undignified, third world experience to say the least.
They always brag about how great Capitalism is, but when they have to pay for something in Europe, aka use Capitalism and pay for something, then its a Concept they dont understand...
Something bad somewhere else is not an argument for or against the subject of the current conversation being bad or good,
It is possible to be against paying 1000 dollars for an ambulance and also be against paying 50 cents to use a bathroom
The nordic bathrooms cosa more because the standard of living there is higher than in the mediterranean countries
@freedomfighter22222 True but a lot of times the real reason you pay those 50 cents is keeping unwanted 'users' out. That's why paying for it is usually at places where a lot of people are; malls, trainstations etc. That way you keep addicts, homeless people, vandalism etc out.
you expect to pay for an ambulance, but dont want to pay to take a shit.
the fun never ends with these idiots.
To them 50000 for hospital taxi is normal, but 50 cents for bathroom is crazy
@HotDogTimeMachine385 ~$3500 for an ambulance ride. It's entirely too much, but it isn't 50k.
Why are you perpetuating the lie that Europeans have to pay for the toilet everywhere?
It's only at transportation hubs like train stations and restrooms along the Autobahn/highways where you have to pay.
@h.w.6563 in my country I pay zip for a necessary ambulance ride.
@h.w.6563 It depends on the country, basically.
It’s definitely not normal to see someone sneeze directly on someone else in Sweden.
No-one does this any place - in the world. He's either lying or some nasty person did sneeze on him by mistake and he's now whining that 'it's everyone'. Based on that, we can call ALL Americans liars because a couple (lol) of their top people, and that guy, do it? Of course we don't say that because it's ridiculous.
I mean how would you even spray someone if you tried, we're always 3m apart
@LolTollhurst Geez, are you really that weak of a sneezer? I can spray snot over someone from a distance of 40 meters. Raw talent.
No, jokes aside: I think that the dude might have doused himself in cologne and caused someone to have an allergy attack. Honestly, if someone plonked down next to me stinking like a perfumery I might be tempted to unload my bodily fluids on them, if I am able to stay conscious for that ong (I am insanely allergic and stop breathing so I might just keel over)
Nor anywhere else in Europe
Spanish here. In Spain it’s normal to have one first name and two surnames. When you get married, you don’t take your partner’s surname you keep your owns. When you have a child, the child gets the first surname from the father and the first surname from the mother. For example, if Álvaro García Blanco and Ana Rodríguez Fernández have a child together, he would be, for example, Alejandro García Rodríguez. Lately, even though the traditional order is the father’s surname first, people negotiate it more, and the same happens in same‑sex couples.
The first one is sooooo stupid.
If you lock someone inside, first, why would you do that. Second, you make a second key and problem solved. Everyone here in my country has 2 sets of key.
Also it has a clip lock above the handle
the door is stupid normal it would not have a handle on the outside so you need your key to open it
I don't think it's stupid at all (Apart from the fact that there is a knob to lock/unlock it. But you're comment is the stupid part. Why would you leave your door unlocked and what if you've lost your keys for example. I'm an European although here in Finland we have Abloy smart locks which lock themselves without having to twist the key. Same with unlocking.
Yep, we always have a spare key next to the doors that no one takes. So everyone has their own key plus there's a spare next to the door 'just in case'. At night we just use the deadbolts, we never twist the lock. Also my front door has a latch-lock which is very standard in The Netherlands. You just pull the latch to 'unlock' the door, but you'd need a key to spring the latch from the outside.
@8alakai8 That's one way to lock yourself outside when (WHEN, not if) you forget the keys.
Spaniard here: so everybody has 2 surnames. 1st one is or dad (or your mum's, nowadays you can choose the order, traditionaly it was mandatory dad first) and the 2nd the other parent surname ( I was not counting same gender parents but same procedure). As each parent has 2 surnames, the second one gets "lost". For example:
Father: Roberto Pérez García
Mother: Carmen Sánchez Montero
Son: Pablo Pérez Sánchez
(Or the other way around, but every sibling must have the same order)
I also believe it's the same in Portugal, but I think they traditionaly have the mother surname first.
When you marry, you do not change anything. I love that you were shocked by that, for me, when I started learning english (like 7 years old) and I found out you take your husband's name I was blown away. Hope that helps
I didn't know that either. Interesting. Greetings from Germany 👍
You don't have to take your husband's name. In fact, I know someone who has dropped her father's name and uses her second Christian name as her last name. She's not the only one either.
Given most countries next to Spain have a similar system to the USA, I'm pretty sure no one in Spain would be dumb enough to not understand what the American was saying. I doubt Spaniards are that stupid
Yes, you're right about Portugal.
first name 👌
last name : ok
birth name for married woman : ok
nothing else.
When you buy new lock even cheapesr lock in Europe, you get 3-5 keys for IT as standard.
I think it depends on the quality/price but even when you rent a home you get a minimum of 3 keys and you can let them make more keys if needed.
The lock on this door is rare. There is a lock on the top that can be locked from the inside, it doesn't seem to work. Some kind of strange cheap rental apartment.
Exactly. We have matching locks in our house, so front door, back door, garden shed and garden gate, and we got 3 keys per lock, so we have 12(!) keys that open all those locks. We have a spare key near the front and back door so we can always unlock the door in a hurry. The reason we lock our front door even when we are home is a habit we formed after someone in our family had a door warp and they couldn’t close it or lock it anymore, keeping it locked, because it has extra locking mechanisms at the top and bottom of the door, reduces the chance of warping.
And so? It doesn't make this any less stupid, its more expensive to use lock mechanism on both sides and it provides absolutely nothing but inconvenience and moderate danger. Or do you always keep an extra key in the lock inside? Why not use a latch then? If the extra key is not in the lock then if the room is actually filled with smoke you are _fucked_, your change of surviving just went from maybe to nope.
@Mrui There is only one lock mechanism operated from both sides, but it all depends from the one installing the lock, in my old house I replaced all the lock mechanismes (and then only that part where the key goes in) to have all matching keys. In the house I' currently living front door is the same as this one, but we have a side door with ouside key lock, inside a knob to lock or unlock the door
About the surnames in Spain, and in every Spanish speaking country, the thing is that women don't take their husband's surname, they remain themselves, and so children get a surname from each of their parents. Traditionally the first surname comes from the father and the second from the mother (in some countries nowadays you can choose the order). In the video Sergio Sánchez and Emily Smith got married and their children would be ... John Sánchez Smith. His father is Sánchez and his mother Smith. It's a nice way to follow your family tree.
Never have I ever been sneezed at anywhere in Europe.
The twist lock is just above the door handle. What an idiot!! Adding: that guy at the end saying that we cough or sneeze in people's faces is BS
I mean how hard is it??? jesus lol
What is the remaining occupants going to do with the inside only extra twist lock when someone locked the main lock from the outside?
People sometimes leave buildings or apartments while there are other occupants inside that are asleep, in which case they lock the door from the outside like this guy in the video,
sometimes fires occur while people are asleep as well, having to require those people to locate their key before being able to use the emergency exit is rather idiotic.
@freedomfighter22222 Two locks. One dead lock, with the top one carefully kept out of most of the video is operated by a knob on the inside and a key on the outside. Deadlock for when no one needs to use the door, top lock for when they do not require the additional security. Pretty simple but it appears certain types can't grasp the concept.
RIGHT? FFS, how stupid can you be??? I mean, wasn't the keyhole on the other side of the bolt a hint that it was a lock?!?!?!
Just don't lock it if you're the first to leave, duh! Only when you're last.
Aah yes. All doors in Belgium are like that. Of course. You don't just live in an old apartment, no sir 🙄
Quite a few of my apartments i lived have had a door like that. You also get at least 2 keys when you move in. Most of us just always leave the key on the door on the inside or have a key hook or jar right next to the door. But not all places have these doors, it's usually the apartments with a cheap landlord who does not want to pay for a better lock.
Regarding fire safety every place needs to have an emergency exit. I live on the ground floor so for me its the door to my terras that has a simple turn lock so I can always go outside. On upper floor its usually a large window that opens to a fire escape ladder
Hey, all doors are like that in the country of “Europe “
I mean, I've never seen a door that's not like that, just have two keys, it's pretty easy
@veritas4698 Fun fact for the Americans reading this:
(at least in germany) Your landlord HAS to give you ALL of the keys and is not allowed to enter your rented apartment/house or whatever unless he has a valid reason and does so with your consent.
@veritas4698 You could also just spend 10 minutes and €15 to swap it out to a twist lock yourself on the inside if it bothers you. Just keep the old one and put it back when you move out if it's a rental.
I'm German, I'm also a a pacifist.
But if someone were to sneeze in my face,
I'd make sure that they could no longer unlock their phone with facial-id.
The fact that that hasn't happened yet speaks for how often people sneeze in my face.
20:20 utter bullshit
Dear Ian at 5:12 if you live in an american house you take a few steps run up and just break through the wall and make a new door if nessesary, no key needed.
American has an experience in one apartment/store/bus somewhere on the European continent:
American: All of Europe is exactly like this!
Don't worry. Europeans do the same thing.
Amsterdam / Holland : that's not air pollution dude. That's just your typical North Sea grey cloud deck. Which is why many try to escape to southern Europe to see some sun..
Having lived in London my whole 66 years of life, I can honestly say no one has ever sneezed in my face.
You've clearly never been around small children under the age of 3 if you've never had someone sneeze directly into your face. But I say that jokingly, because obviously, toddlers haven't quite learned how not to do that. Anyone from about the age of 4 and up would definitely not sneeze in anyone's face, at least not intentionally.
5:56 Who do they think cleans the toilets? “It's a bit steep”, and paying a 25% tip on top of your bill in the US isn't? Work it out!
They expect nobody to clean the toilet.
20:53 I have a feeling that this guy was unlucky to come across _one_ weird person who sneezed on him, and then he thought "This is what people do in Europe!". People here in Sweden learn from toddler age to sneeze and cough in the..."arm bend" (what's the word... the opposite side of the elbow), and I think it's the same in the rest of Europe.
dunno we call it the crook of your arm in the uk
@captainaleouse Thanks!
Just say the inside of the elbow.
Most likely it was another American person who did it...
👍 UK, too
Our front doors here in the Netherlands only open from the outside with a key, even when it's already unlocked, so there is no reason to lock your door if there is someone at home.
Europe: clean bathroom = 50 cents. and free national health service
uses: free dirty bathroom and paid healthcare with the possibility of bankruptcy
and need to pay 10 bucks a waiter to bring them the plates
You pick your poison! 😃😁
sorry to burst your bubble IT'S NOT FREE we pay taxes and these taxes go back into society to make things affordable i really get so irritated by the sheer numbers of people falsely claiming european healthcare is free IT'S NOT FREE stop with that lie .
5:19 That is why you keep the door unlocked when there are people at home, so they don't have to unlock it in case of emergency. You'd be surprized how safe that is in countries that don't allow Billy who just crawled out of the womb yesterday to go to the supermarket and buy an assault rifle.
this was my thought, i don't know anyone who'd lock the door while they're inside
but the door in the video would not be unlocked, it had a primary lock ontop that automatically locks when you close the door and which have a turning handle on the inside. The lock that he locked with the key was the secondary lock which you only lock if you all leave the apartment and want to apply dual locks.
@Henrik_Holst Pretty sure the thing on top is just a deadbolt. I have a similar one with a metal slider you can engage so the door only opens a couple CM and people can't push their way in.
@Stranglehold138 a deadbolt does not allow you to open the door a few cm, are you thinking about a door guard / door chain?
And in the video the upper lock have their own key hole on the outside of the door.
Telling from your name you're probably Dutch. You oughtta know that even in the NL, people get robbed or attacked in their own houses sometimes, mostly the elderly. It depends on the place your live and whether you're male/female, old/young etc but in many cases it's a considerable risk to leave the door unlocked, if there's a handle on the outside.
It seems bizarre to me Americans complain about paying 50 cents for using a clean fresh bathroom but find it ok to tip between 20%-30% for service, regardless if it good service or bad service.
Or better to say, continue to support such a system that exploite the workers on such a level
@b.b.silverga9604but does it exploit the worker. I’d say it exploits the customer more as the American system is to get you in and out quickly as possible which lets them wait more tables and the more 25%s you get would end up a lot more that $20-$30 an hour
@Timaloy68I would say both. One one hand the customer pays more and on the other hand the top boss is too steap to pay the sevice people the same wage for the same amount of hours at the end of the day.
What the guy from first video doesn't say is you can't open a door from outside without a key. So nobody would lock a door from inside and we don't lock a door if somebody's inside (except psychopaths).
Im actually very surprised the USA hasn't had paid toilets yet. That seems like a very US thing to do.
Not really. Egoistic USAmericans think this way: "Hell no! I'm not paying for OTHERS to have a nice clean toilet!" ... not able to realize that way THEY would have nice clean toilets too because those others pay too.
Like with health insurance. They don't want to "pay for OTHERS to get affordable health service" and they don't get it either because of that mindset of no empathy and no logic/critical thinking.
@Keyboardje I was thinking more along the lines of capitalism :P
And then visiting Yanks will come to Australia and criticise us for public toilets being abundant…and free.
Ditto.
People DO NOT sneeze in people`s faces as a matter of habit That is ABSOLUTE GARBAGE !!! I`ve lived in Germany for over 40 years and THAT has NEVER happened to ME !
"Belgian doors" = a Belgian door, with another inside lock he is completely ignoring.
The sneezing thing is complete nonsense. The guy probably got sneezed on once and thinks it's 'European'.
In Europe there are millions of different door types.
The male and female symbols are the astronomical symbols for Mars and Venus respectively. Mars ♂ is a shield with a spear, and Venus ♀ is the hand-mirror of the goddess. The use of them to denote male and female was pioneered by Carl von Linnaeus, the Swedish biologist who created the Latin naming scheme for all the plants and animals so people from different places could speak about the natural world without having to know every name of every living thing in every single language. Pretty smart guy.
Uhm yeah but they are also representations of the male and female genitalia. The one thingy points upward and the other one is you know, a vessel.
The male symbol is also the symbol for Volvo. Pretty easy to remember.
We europeans are so diversed, we sometimes have three signs now.
Edit: But to be fair, some have very bad signs on the doors i have to look inside if it‘s one for male or female.
@FinalHypeI saw a comic many years ago where women had earrings in that „female“ shape. That burned into my brain, i don‘t know why. But when you see it, it makes sense.
@FinalHype ANd female symbol is also the symbol for copper.
It's still soooo much cheaper to pay 0,5 EUR for restaurant bathroom then leave 20% tip as a must.
than
you do not pay at the restaurant if you are a customer, and sometimes you don't pay if you are not.
2:30 - WTF? Don't lock other people in, maybe? - Oh, wait, u.s. mentality, you're not safe if not locked... 🤣
Better yet lol, get a second key, and leave it in the lock, like i do...
I unlock my front door when I first open it in the morning, it stays unlocked until I go to bed (unless I leave the house of course) why would I need to lock it if I'm in the house?
I had someone come into my house and steal my elderly dad's wallet and his rings while he was in the bathroom. He came out in time to spot them, but wasn't quick enough to stop them.
Another neighbor had a random person wander in, lay down on their couch and start a conversation.
So, yeah, I lock my doors. 😂
We lock our doors when we're in because over the years we had a group of ladies wander into our kitchen looking for the wrong house and a small flock of sheep, not sure what they were doing just lost.
In Germany you have the choice: keep your name, choose one of the 2 names (can be either one) or a hyphenated mix. Fair to both spouses.
The dinner between 1-3pm is just a cultural thing, what you call lunch they call dinner, what you call dinner they call supper. Same with many older folk in the UK also.
last meal is your tea
But Polish supper is not the same as dinner. We usually don't eat a big meal in the evening. It's more like a sandwich, eggs etc. The biggest (hot) meal of the day usually happens between 1-4pm.
I call lunch dinner. Breakfast, dinner and tea.
Supper is after tea at about 8 oclock TEA is at 5 oclock
Meanwhile Americans use starter-entree-dessert..
The first and last one make pretty good sense. But the word entree is literally taken from the french entree and that literally means first course.... they even pronounce it the french way.
so yeah...
NOBODY sneezes in your face.
Sry Wroker WE in Europe are Fed Up with the bathroom (No its a toilet)thingy😂😂Better pay 20-50 Cent for a Shit than have the Shit of 10000 Dollars for a Broken Leg ore arm😂😂😂😂😂
Europe: Tap to per, US: Tip to eat...
Hi Ian !! I still get surprised that Americans in particular are shocked that they have to pay for a service like the bathroom in public spaces. They aren't free to build or to maintain. Also, if 50-60 cents will brake your bank balance, then you have bigger economical worries......🙂 Best regards from Norway
Best part is the $0.60 cents are the same amount as a 20% tip for a $3 order.
Which is still less than some coffee. But paying 20% tip on a $50 order is fine.
Taking an order and brining it to a table is 'way harder' than cleaning toilets for stangers during a shift.
People in Spain use both parents' surname, and women don't change it when they marry.
There is no such thing in Poland as lunch. We call your lunch a dinner here, hence it is around 13:00 - 15:00, then in the evening, when you have your dinner, we have a supper. I hope that makes sense.
Public bathrooms in NY are cesspits. Paying not only covers the cleaning and maintenance costs but also also helps to keep out those who would mess up the place.
You don't want to pay for the toilet but you tip everywhere you eat
And take a mortgage on your home when you need hospital treatment.
23:57 The Polish village of Zalipie is known for its custom of painting rooms, exterior walls of buildings, wells and fences with floral paintings.
That first guy gave me fucking brain damage.
First guy was ragebait. Literally has the exact mechanism he was talking about just above the lock (the white box with twisty knob) it even had a key dangling from it for outside.
Also, even if that wasn't the case, everyone in the house has a key and likely leaves it near the door😂
Why should a bathroom be free? The Americans pay for everything but not for a clean bathroom?
The "everyone sneezes in my face" guy probably is just up close into everyone's face, not minding personal space. If someone just gets too close, I'd use the chance for a happy sneeze probably, too. :P ... No, I don't think that's a "common thing in Europe". He mentioned an N95, so maybe he's still wearing his mask outside, and people are just making fun of him by coughing in his direction... I think it's lacking too much context there.
The key thing, on the other hand, locking it and taking away the key, small children can’t open the door and wander off…
The first guy is an absolute idiot. In Spain everyone has two surnames, one from the father the other from the mother. Women in Spain don't change their last name, the can add their husbands surname with a "de" inserted, Sanchez Marces de Garcia for an example. 20:13 what is this guy talking about. no sane person would do that, that is gross.
No, you can't add a new surname, you can only change the order. You can also remove one, but only for serious reasons, like dropping your father's surname if he attacked your mother or something like that. What you're describing was an informal thing that was done in the past in social introductions, but it was more like "Señora de García".
Some women take their husbands name in the Netherlands, some hyphenate, I kept my own..
So in Spain you don't have last names. You have short novels instead
@snork6664 Nah, just two surnames. I have different names in different passports, in my Spanish one my legal surnames are the surnames of both my parents, in my Finnish one my only legal surname is the one from my fathers side. So in the end, I end up with a finnish name in my spanish passport and a spanish name in my finnish one...
@aruzaroku Hmm, a woman I once knew was spanish, her husband German, she added his name with a "de" to her already long name, Her name is like name1, name2 de name 3. I thought that was the norm.