Using a fake ID in Germany would get you into so much more trouble than just drinking underage. I think it’s up to one year in prison for borrowing another persons ID (like your sibling for example) and up to two years for faking one.
@@stadtpost He's right. The only real, official ID in Germany is the mandatory passport. Something the US doesn't have. Faking the passport can get you up to 5 years of prison and a hefty fine. Goes for any other official ID too. Even faking a student ID counts as forgery of documents. If you take the ID of someone else, it's just one year of prison, but for both.
@@stadtpost it is tho. Wer ein Ausweispapier, das für einen anderen ausgestellt ist, zur Täuschung im Rechtsverkehr gebraucht, oder wer zur Täuschung im Rechtsverkehr einem anderen ein Ausweispapier überläßt, das nicht für diesen ausgestellt ist, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu einem Jahr oder mit Geldstrafe bestraft
In the 90s my friend Max had an American exchange student staying with him for a school year. The guy was 16, from the midwest, raised by proper Christian parents, very shy, polite and followed all the rules. Max ruined him within a month, took him drinking, partying and over the border to Amsterdam for some pot on the weekend. He returned to the US in the summer of 97 I think and was sent back to Germany by fall because he was now " a terrible role model" for his younger siblings and "a problem". He got a student visa and was pretty happy as far as I remember.
@@friendlyreptile9931 but what does it mean? The lore here in Germany is it could be a butchering of the german word "furchtbar" which means dreadful, awful, terrible.
@@wWvwvV I guess you also know this word from a movie starring Tom Hanks? In this movie (even in the german voice over) they tell it close to the end but it goes unnoticed for most of the people watching it :D It's short for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition"
@@lukaspufahl163 in the same way I would like the US to raise driving age to 21 and improve driving exams and vehicle regulations. Emotionally unstable teens in unsafe vehicles are dangerous. But I think neither of us will get what we want.
It's quite easy to understand the two countries' differences here, guys. Just think of gun regulations in the US, and the drinking regulations in much of Europe is similar. The Europeans get their beer, wine, and public drinking. You get your hand guns, assault weapons, and open carry legislation.
Difference is people here learn how to handle alcohol responsible, because it's not so "a big deal" whereas US people just kill each other every day in streets or schools
Ye it's because in Germany restaurants have relatively small margins on food and often make their main profit from selling drinks. That's also why you usually won't get free tap water
a fake id can get you 6 month to 10 years in prison in germany depends on the severity of the crimes you commited with the id. for posession alone you would get minimum jail or a hefty fine, but you would be previously convicted, so you can get problems getting a job in certain fields or with other types of governmental stuff.
I come from Belgium and, just like Germany, we are also a beer country and we have beers here that are stronger than wine. But the mentality is just different compared to the USA, where you drink as much beer as possible in the shortest possible time (bench drinking), while here you drink much more quietly and enjoy your drink more (probably because the clubs are open longer and you still want to make it to the end). I have never really played drinking games except the games that are played when you are really drunk then you don't come home unscathed. So it's more about you wanting to get a little tipsy and have fun, but at the same time you want to keep your feet on the ground and not be the one standing outside throwing up or passing out (especially in this age of social media). 😁
It is the same as anything else. If you've got sensible rolemodels, you won't have problems dealing with alcohol at an age of 16. Usually you'll get drunk once or twice to experience where's your limit, but that's it. Afterwards you'll drink up to your limit but not over it. We've got a lot of idioms about drinking in Germany as "being half drunk is a waste of money", but we don't live that way.
13:16 just want to say that 99% of germans drink tap instead of bottled water due to how good our water infrastructure is and most people have even their own small water purifier attatched to the tap so that every single waterfaucet has fresh drinkable water we also dont put bleach in our tap water
For cigarettes, until September 2007, there used to be cigarette vending machines without any age control in the streets, as well as many tobacco stores where even children could buy tobacco, no questions asked, and it was common that parents would send their kids to get their cigarettes and tobacco for them. I went into such stores as young as 6 (the closest store was closer than the vending machine, where I would go when the store was closed) to get cigarettes for my parents or uncles. The legal age used to be 16 as well, although many younger kids were smoking, some as early as 10 or 12... There are still many tobacco stores, but now they ask for ID when they don't think you're 18. You can buy cigarettes and tobacco in supermarkets like Aldi or Lidl (among others), too, but nowadays they'll ask for ID as well at the cash register. The vending machines can now only be found in bars, and you need a special card (like a credit card, in size and shape) you get from the bar tender. There are some vending machines that read ID cards as well, but for other things like CBD (THC is still not legal). For alcohol, beer, wines can only be had at age 16 (although when I was a teen, nobody would have checked, really), in the Public Space when the teen is alone. After 8 p.m., I think, a teen can't go into a Kneipe on his/her own anymore, and if accompanied only until 10 p.m. In public spaces, the age goes down to 14 when you're with your parents and they're fine with you having a beer, or a glass of wine during a meal. But at home, even younger children are allowed a small glass of bubbly or these sweet, not very strong liquors, on special occasions like the New Year. When I was a kid age 10 and after, in early January, I would go and wish everybody I knew a happy New Year, so I'd get a little liquor from each person and I was happy to be tipsy afterwards. xD For the hard stuff like whiskey, vodka and the like, you have to be 18. But I think the mentalities are also completely different, about alcohol, in both countries. There has never been any Prohibition in Germany for alcohol, for instance, and doesn't it also have something to do with religion in the USA, at some degree? But I found some statistics, there are 7.7% of alcoholics in the USA, vs. 3.4% in Germany. I find this to be strange, I wonder why that is. Maybe the fact that teens get introduced gradually by the parents doesn't make it as attractive to go binge-drinking with friends as soon as possible, although people do that as well, as you have probably noticed. But then, all addictions are health issues, no matter the substance used, it goes way beyond having fun with friends.
I worked at an event location for weddings etc, where the drinks were free for everyone because the bride and groom paid for everything, you only met someone who didn't know their boundaries about every 7 months and in the meantime there were at least over 6000 guests there, so you had 1 in 6000 people who couldn't control themselves. They learn early how much they can tolerate, but everything has its beginnings. A youth sports club with guests between the ages of 16 and 21 had a party there and it was a disaster. Over 200 guests and I was the only waitress that day, it was worse than supervising elementary school students on a school trip (this text was presented to you by Google translator)
5:27 also, coming from a small city (now living in a big one and working in a pub) it was weird to me having to ask people of my age if they’re old enough to order hard liquor, in my first week my coworker asked me if I checked their ID’s and I didn’t even think about it since no one cared in my hometown
In Germany, you can legally drink beer from the age of 14 if your parents are present. From 16, you can buy beer yourself in a store and drink it in public. In many families, beer is also given to small children to drink, as the hops in beer help them sleep well. But only a sip, not a whole bottle. Most children get drunk for the first time at the age of 14 at their 8th grade graduation party. Basically, it's not a problem if children and teenagers drink beer, even if the age is not right. But most parents make sure that children do not drink alcohol. What is problematic, however, is the sale of high-proof alcohol to 18-year-olds and its easy accessibility to younger teenagers. Alcohol consumption by young adults has risen sharply in recent years. For many, there is no limit, which has drastic consequences for vocational training and later life.
Northern European countries like Sweden and Finland have pretty strict drinking laws, with state-owned liquor stores and youth not being allowed to go to pubs under the age of 18. Which leads to teenagers drinking outside on the streets in the summer....
Germany, especially regarding beer and wine has so many small breweries and distilleries - that it is common that you know someone who actually works or owns one. So Beer and wine is part of Germany's culture. Which is one small fact people don't really know about Germany, but especially in the south west you can like drive 10-20 miles and have a different city with its own beer and wine distilleries that they preferably use.
Yes, cultures are so different, in America you can drive a car from 16 and get a sharp weapon from 18, but alcohol is only available from 21. For us it's just a little different. 😂
i think you misunderstood the water situation in german restaurants, getting tap water is the absolute exception! ant that's not because the tap water is bad, quite the opposite. its just the restaurants make a huge portion of their income with drinks. plus nobody is required by law or socially to give out free/cheap water.
My mum is Aussie of Irish decent and dad was born in Czechoslovakia. I have a photo of me on my 4th birthday and I have my own glass of champagne. Another photo I am a couple days shy of being one year old. My dad is holding me attempting to drink champagne but I am pulling the glass to my mouth.
Drinking age in Canada varies between provinces, but they're all between 18 and 19. But alcohol in Canada is a LOT more expensive than it is in the U.S. A 12-pack of beer is over $25.00 in Newfoundland and Labrador; and in bars, a beer or a glass of wine will be over $10.00 each. Cheers! 🍺🥃🍷🍸
Wow, that's really expensive... Do they have to import it all? Brought by orcas from northern Europe? But seriously, that's incredibly expensive, illegal substances must be much cheaper for people who only want to alter their mental state, let's say, no? Is it because of taxes?
@hellemarc4767 Yes, it's mostly due to taxes. And that's our locally-made beer! The imported beer has to come in by ferry, so that's much more expensive. I'm afraid I don't know the price of cannabis, though it is legal; I don't buy it because I don't use it.
Those prices sound about on par with price here in Australia. We do produce plenty of our own products but heavily taxed by government. often the cheaper beers are the imported ones even with All the taxes. Must be production costs here.
Concerning the open containers I remember a music festival here in Germany which we joined last year. Most people were standing on a large community lawn (owned by the city I guess) and many would have cups of beer (and non-alcoholic beverages also) in their hands. Without bags hiding.
In Denmark it's 15 😂 i remember from age 14-21 i would literally party almost every weekend 😂 this is all house parties. Sometimes parents would join, or host just to watch over their kids 😂 if no one could host and weather was good, we would just sit in a park and drink 😂 public drinking is completely legal, as long as you aren't causing problems here. What's funny is i haven't drank alcohol for 4 years, never was a problem and lost interest once done with school 😂
the best way an American explained it to me was "you cant tell americans they cant drive at 16, especially with the public-transportation-disastrous-situation and you cant take their guns... so now imagine a drunk 16 year old with a truck and a gun and a fried brain due to the trash food."
In Australia the “sin taxes” on alcohol are so high. US booze is actually cheaper! A bottle of cheap vodka is over $50. You can drink at 18, but I’m buggered if I know how young people can afford it.
When I was in junior school in France, not in a good area (council houses area) I heard about pupils bringing a whole bottle of vodka or some heavy alcohol, at school!
Just because we can drink beer at 14 doesnt mean we suddenly drink beer all the time. In my experience it starts with a small glass of champagne (or similar) on special occasions. Or with my dad sharing his beer at a barbecue. But honestly, at that age, beer is disgusting. So it isnt the forbidden fruit but rather some grown up thing. But at the age of 16-18, when you start experimenting unsupervised you already have some experience. Sure, there will be the first few hangovers, but at that time you usually still live with your parents and thus have to live with them mocking you the next day for not knowing you limit 😂 And the dangerous stuff isnt beer or wine but those sweet, colorful pop drinks where you dont even taste the alcohol anymore. Thats what gets the kids.
I think your american 21 drinking age is a remnant of prohibition era. Iv'e read some research showing that it can be quite damaging especially when it comes to harder stuff. Around here in Europe, in most countries, ppl get their first taste of alcohol in their early teens, often under parent supervision. As you are still relatively young and your taste buds are much more sensitive, alcohol usually tastes much worse than it does in later years so you will treat it with some more respect later in life. Also, getting your first hangover in earlier age leaves a lasting impression so you are going to be more careful later on. In comparison, in america, once people reach the legal drinking age they often lack reason and control when consuming alcohol!
I'm from Bavaria. When I was young no one even give a shit if you have had a bit of alcohol as a child. In the christmastime I always got some eggnut or punch. I was offered a bit of beer quite often but I didnt like it. But what I loved was sloewine my grandparents made by themselves. It was very sugary and a bit stronger than normal wine, more like a liqueur. My grandgrandma always got a glass full of it after lunch. Because I liked it so much I always got half a glass too when I was with them, which was 2-3 times a week. In retroperspektive I remembered my grandgrandma died the weekend I got into primary school. I had become six three month before. So they have fed me with this wine while I was four or five. And of course after her death I also got it from time to time. But it didnt harm me. I dont drink much alcohol nowadays, perhaps one drink in two month. Obviously much less than I was a toddler😅
It's all a question of maturity. In a democracy and as an adult person , I can decide for myself what is good for me and what is not good for me. I don't need any incapacitating advice from the state. In the USA, everything is hypocritical. Behind the strict US laws, everyone does what they want (drinking, smoking, porn and so on). It's a fucking double standard. But you two guys are cool. Thank you. (A Swiss Man)
In der USA geht ein Radler (biermix)schon unter Alkohol . Die Geschichte von Bier zeigt das es ein Lebensmittel ist und kein Alkohol . Bier in Deutschland heißt auch flüssiges Brot.
I was born in 1977. I remember the time , when I was 14 and 15 (in the early 90s, about 1992/1993). When I am looking back, I am not sure, if in the 90s were any rules about alcohol in Germany at all..? With 14 years it was absolutely no problem to get beer on a fairground. When we were about 15 years old, sometimes we met with some people from our class on saturday evening (for a public party-event with dancefloor, called "total dance night"). The gas station next door sold us alcocol without asking about our age, in the late evening a Romanian guy opened his shop for us and sold us whatever we wanted: Vodka, Rum, Schnapps etc. I cannot imagine that was legal- but nobody cared about it and apparently the police either did not notice it or had other things to do than drunk kids. Otherwise the cops would have closed the shop and the Romanian probably would have been brought to court...I do not know, if the alcohol-rules in Germany have become stricter for kids in 2024?
Alcohol under the supervision of the parents with 14 does usually not mean, that the son and dad go on a booze tour. Ment is 1-2 glas (small) of beer or wine at the dinner by special occasions.
His story of his 16 year old friend wanting to buy beer with them together shows how stupid he is. The station was absolutely right because they get in trouble when they sell him beer and he shares it with others as they can simply claim hey they sold it to all of us not just the one beeing 16 which can be fined up to 50000€. We once had a similar case where we sold an 18 year old one beer and he shared it with 15 year old friends in the park they were controlled and asked where they get it from and they said we sold it to them when we only sold it to the 18 year old one and the others were not even in the market but waiting outside. The people in charge of the case allready guessed that he would have shared it but it could easely give us a 2000€ fine on the spot + their parents could have sued us for harming their children as well. by the way the 18 year old was charged in the aftermath but even a 16 year old would get in trouble for it sharing alcohol to minors. So thats basically why the gas station and super markets will not allow you to buy alcohol when you are with possible minors or even inform the police beforehand. A cashier in a bigger supermarket even told an older woman that gave her ID instead of the younger woman that had hers not with her that she will get in trouble if she give the alcohol to her when she is not old enough (I myself would say both were over 18 but this is how serious this is for businesses and by the way the cashiers also get an additional fine not just the store itself.
When you are allowed to drive a car in Germany at the age of 18 (resp. 17) you already have at least two years of experience with alcohol. I had about four years when I turned 18 and got my license. I do think this makes more sense concerning driving safety. First you get to know the effects of alcohol, THEN you are allowed to get your license.
😊 Guys, we can legally drink here in the UK, in the home with family, from the age of _5_years*...(_not_ spirits) ... I did*, and I have _never_ been a "heavy drinker"!! I do like Bacardi & Coke, or the very occasional 'Baileys' (though the whiskey in it gives me a headache!!) but mostly if I drink, alcohol, I'll choose a nice crisp, dry white wine, either at Christmas or for my birthday (in early August) hardly "knocking it back like a demon drinker" !! ...so there's no excuse for _not_ trying alcohol at a younger age... Unless you're the type to "go mad with it" - drinking "like there's no tomorrow", or likely to drink _so_ much, that you find yourself addicted to it, and / or generally cannot cope with doing without it in order to get through your day (& sadly, that can, and does hapoen to some people.😢) ... Also... In a pub which also serves meals, a 16_year old can legally drink (say, a beer, for example) _with_ their family when eating a meal, providing the alcohol is _only_ _purchased_ by a responsible adult: an_18_year old or over. But in order to _buy_ alcohol, people in Britain must be _18_ or over ...as far as I'm aware, these aee the facts regarding the 'buying and drinking' of alcoholic beverages here in the UK... (I await correction, if am mistaken, of course). 🤔❤🏴😏🇬🇧🖖(oh, I think the rules / laws nay be slightly different in _Northern_ _Ireland_, so you'd need to check that...?)
I have to say I did not even like beer (or any alcohol) when I started to go to clubs on weekends with about 16 in Germany, it was more something I had to get used to because everybody drank beer and it was the cheapest drink you could normally get in a bar or a club (even youth clubs serve beer). After a while you aquire the taste, but e.g. many girls do not like the bitterness of beer and rather stick to mix drinks like vodka with juice, or coca cola with whiskey. So - you do have the freedom to drink alcohol sooner, but because of the legality it often is also not so interesting or intriguing - it's just a normal part of growing up. You overdo ist a couple of times and then you are done with binge drinking and hangovers. So with 18 when you get your drivers license, you know how to behave responsibly - or to be honest: most do, but still, most serious DUI-accidents are caused by males under 25. Also, like everywhere, you can also smoke underage or even get some weed - but at least in my generation hard drugs (including cocaine) or even misuse of prescription drugs and pills were very uncommon - you did not need to get strange drugs with unkonwn content, you could at least get alcohol legally everywhere, which was enough for most young people.
in Begleitung eines Erwachsenen ist es auch erlaubt das ein Kind mit 12 ein kleines Glas Wein oder Bier zum Essen bekommen kann wohlgemerkt ist das hier meist so, dass wenn familiäre Feste gefeiert werden und die Eltern dabei sind es nicht verboten ist das die Kinder so erste Erfahrungen machen. Mit 16 ist es dann auch ohne elterliche Begleitung erlaubt Bier und Wein zu trinken ohne harte Getränke wie schnaps oder Whisky etc. mit 18 ist dann auch das Trinken mit harten Getränken erlaubt. Und da die Kinder so nach und nach daran herangeführt werden sind sie dann auch nicht so bekloppt wie andere zum Beispiel beim spring Break lol
im from East Germany i was 12 i have my first blackout ^^ from drinking ... and was not funny ... that was so painfull .. im Stopp Drinking the next 23 Years ,,... that was a good lesson how not to use Alcohol .... and btw all in US Store cost 4x more what ever in germany cost 1 Euro in US Store it cost 4 US Dollar and in all German restraunts if you ask ... the Personal there ... you bekome a gratis Glass of Normal Water .. Leitungswasser... WC water :)
Alcohol 24/4/7 - Party in Germany: Friday 23:00 - 4:00 Club then After Hours Club 4:00 - 11:00 then Tea Dance 11:0018:00 - Dinner Club - 18:00 - 23:00 ... until Monday! LOL
Die US-Regeln halte ich für viel zu streng. Die deutsche Regelung (die in anderen europäischen Ländern ja ähnlich ist) gibt jedem die Möglichkeit, verantwortlich mit Alkohol umzugehen. Man braucht nichts heimlich machen, zuerst ist man unter Aufsicht der Eltern, dann nur Bier und Wein, die Teil der europäischen Kultur sind und als Erwachsener hast du sonst auch alle Rechte und Pflichten, da muss der Staat dir nicht mehr reinreden, du trägst eh Verantwortung für dein Tun. Wenn man als Jugendlicher zu viel getrunken hat, werden die Eltern informiert. Mit einem falschen Ausweis geht das nicht, oder die Freunde lassen dich im Stich, da sie ja etwas strafbares gemacht haben. In Deutschland schimpfen die Eltern zwar, aber dann ist auch wieder gut, du musst keine Angst vor der Polizei haben, die werden nur helfen, nicht strafen.
16 u can legaly buy alcohol, but with 14 you can have alcohol if ur parents buy it for you and in your home there aint any restrictions so most kids drink new year a sip of sparkeling wine at like ... dont know 12 ? around 12 maybe younger xD but they dont like it so they try a sip and are like "wahhh" xD but many people drink with like 14 with their parents around, its not uncommon. the main reason alot dont is becuase they just dont like the taste xD because its no "taboo" they dont do it if they dont like it
Not really. They are still alcohol. Sure, they usually belong to a good meal, or into it, but that doesnt mean that you give your kid a bottle of wine when they are hungry.
@@535phobos you underestimate the things that are important to live for XD Beer and wine are not distilled, they contain yeast, tannins and many other things. Educating about alcohol when you still have power over your children is better than when they can legally tell you to f°ck °ff
@rasputinorco Yes, kids at 13,14,15 may get the occasional glass of beer or more often sparkling wine to toast at parties. But thats far from it being "just food".
4.99€ in a glas bottle including 19% tax, but that stuff tastes like sanatizer as well 😅 But when you´re good at making longdrinks and cocktails that crap works and comes with a headege the next day. I haven´t drank that cheap crap in almost 20years, only am drinking top shelf quality, I only drink liquor rarely but the few times I drink liquor it has to be something to enjoy like Grey Goose, Hennessy, Haku and so on. And don´t forgett you can also get boned on camera and ruin your life at 18 but not have a beer, at least they can smoke a joint to supress the low selfesteam feelings afterwards in many states 😅
This has nothing to do with drinking, I just found it funny. And that is, I got IDed at age 23 in Germany to buy energy drinks, and at age 25 in the Netherlands. Both of those cases only happened once, but like - wait, what? What is even the age limit for that and how young do I look to you?
What pisses me off about the ID you're friends if you went in with parent's the same rule doesn't apply. Mind you my parents bought mine so didn't matter 😂
Hey on the upside, kids in the US can shoot eachother at age 12. So you got that! 😂😂😂 Ok that was quite mean, but seriously you should be showing to treat alcohol with respect before you’re let anywhere near a gun. And actually I‘m quite amazed that almost in every country I know you can shoot a gun before your of legal drinking age. One thing is an addictive substance that can ruin your life if one can’t control their consumption habits. The other thing is an object that’s specifically designed to take another living beings life, no other use. Guns sole purpose is to kill people or animals. It is beyond me why not both are heavily regulated all over the world. Then you have other substances, and it’s a proven fact that alcohol is as bad as so called „hard drugs“. Most heroin addicts don’t go home and beat up their family members. It’s rare enough that people on meth do that. Most people who do speed or coke don’t cause accidents and take out an entire family in an instant, drunk driving is killing people left and right. But people are encouraged to drink alcohol in advertisements etc. Advertising smoking is forbidden in most countries. WTF? The only person a smoker kills is usually himself! Alcoholism is way more dangerous than most other addictive substances. 🤦🏻♂️ Sometimes i seriously don’t understand how humanity survived this long despite the ridiculous amounts of stupidity and neglect!
For me as European, it´s shocking that you guys think that drinking at age of 16 is wild, but in your country it´s normal that kids have guns or can use them when their parents are around.
Well, keep in mind: Just because you could possibly trink alcohol legally, it does not mean that you do it all day, 24/7. Most important, over all, is that the parents are a good example and that joung people are sensitive about drinking alcohol, and develop a feeling for being responsible.
I was just 15 when i left school and went to work in England, Friday was pay day and I would go down to the pub with the guys from work open my pay packet and order a pint, back then the drinking age was 18 but many pubs took the view that if you where old enough to do a mans job and you behaved like an adult working all day you were older enough to have a beer or two but the older guys and bar staff would not let you get crazy they would put you straight and send you home if you got out of line, which would be so embarrassing, they would make you feel like a little child, needless to say all the younger guys were well behaved an very responsible the shame of being sent away home in front of your friends and guys that new you parents, the shame was worse the being caught by the police for underage drinking. .
Hi, I'm John from England, just watched your video on Germany v US drinking. It seems to me that alcohol is really the forbidden fruit in the US isn't it, I think that in most of Europe you grow up with alcohol, it's just a part of life. I started drinking in pubs, a place in your local community where you are known so you didn't act stupid and learned to drink sensibly. For 5 years I was a European courier driver and I have been to Germany many times they have the same attitude as the UK
In the UK the drinking age is 18. But if you are 16, accompanied by an adult, you can drink beer, wine or cider with a meal. Also, parents can give alcohol to their children (supervised) from the age of 5 upwards...
First time I went to the US I was about 25 and went a week to New York with a friend. We arrived and for us it was evening (jet lag) but in New york it was morning or early afternoon. So we decided to sit on a terrace somewhere and have a beer and something to eat. But the restaurant couldn't oblige, because they weren't allowed to serve alcohol before a specific time in the afternoon. I had never ever heard of a regulation like that (this was end of the '80s, the Netherlands didn't have many alcohol rules then) and it was weird to encounter it in a country that tv and other media had told me had all the freedoms. Next disappointment was when "the city that doesn't sleep" closed their nightlife earlier than Amsterdam, where I was from.
wow when did they clode their nightlife? I never heard of that. I'm from Cologne and some clubs go until 7 in the morning...
8 месяцев назад+7
i think usa laws of driking is to prevent crime but disnt working so try to learn with other countries the more you forbid things the more people desire to do it
Im from Serbia (Europe, believe it or not) and I remember my sister going out for her 12th birthday and i went to sleep before she came home. What woke me up at night was when she was stumbling around the room going to bathroom to barf 😆 Yeah, it was from red wine...
My grandfather would give me a little glass of beer on Sundays. Then when I was about 13 I started to drink at parties and even in cafe while dancing on holidays under the supervision of my parents or older friends. But it was a very exceptional thing. We didn't think we could drink whenever we want. It needed to be a party. I learned pretty quick how much is too much.
aturo needs to ask jp why he was drinking water in Germany? you are over 21, you went to the place of beer and drinking in public. come on dude! beer = bread. so technically its nutrition. =P
@@Pr0vidence555 I still don't understand - but now I don't understand "alimentation" and "quited and pension" ??!!! Sorry if that makes me sound dense... I've just _never_ heard of _any_ of those 3 words before (& I'm _70_ now!!) 🤔
@@Pr0vidence555 Thank you... Sorry for not understanding. I just don't really know other languages - except for a _small_ amount of Latin, and a little French... I understand a pension as I started receiving mine from the age of _64_!! I'm now _70_!! As for "quitting", we call it "retiring" here, so I could be called a "Pensioner", or a "Retiree" - the latter, perhaps in the USA?! I just have _never_ heard of "alimentation" before. 😏🤔 🧡🏴🇬🇧🙂🖖
You cracking fun of the possibility of the president holding a speech drunk. Me having flashbacks of all the Bavarian politicians happily saying cheers to the camera with one litre beer mug in their hands because they have to show they're living and supporting our culture XD
Bonus of being allowed to drink early is that most of Germans have their most embarassing drinking accidents in our teens. By the time we hit 20, a lot of us are already getting bored with drinking to excess. That is when most Americans only get started.
5:37 don‘t forget that you can legally drink wine with 14 when starting to attend communion at church (only a sip though, but still). I had my first sip of my dad‘s Alster (half beer, half sprite) in the age of maybe 8… this is hardly any alcohol, but I got a healthy perception of alcohol and didn‘t end up as an alcoholic
When i was like 12 or 13 i used to get 100 crowns (4 dollars) every day for food/snack to buy on the way to school I always bought 1 pack of smokes and 1 small tiny bottle of vodka and we went to friends yard that lived nearby school and get a bit drunk and smoke some cigarettes i even got up earlier to school becose of meeting with my buddies before the school :D
There was a big discussion in Germany a few years ago: Some bars and discos offered flat rates for drinks, often specifically marketed at a younger audience. The main outcry was: You pay 20 Euros and can drink so much that you end up in hospital. I found it kind of silly, thinking: I can go to ALDI and buy a lethal dose of alcohol for 10 Euros.
Local bar/club in the 90s had a buy one drink get free refills all night if you paid £10 to get in. Was a Thursday promo, you'd get absolutely wasted but still make it to work next day
Using a fake ID in Germany would get you into so much more trouble than just drinking underage. I think it’s up to one year in prison for borrowing another persons ID (like your sibling for example) and up to two years for faking one.
Lol, not true.
@@stadtpost He's right. The only real, official ID in Germany is the mandatory passport. Something the US doesn't have. Faking the passport can get you up to 5 years of prison and a hefty fine. Goes for any other official ID too. Even faking a student ID counts as forgery of documents. If you take the ID of someone else, it's just one year of prison, but for both.
@@stadtpost it is tho.
Wer ein Ausweispapier, das für einen anderen ausgestellt ist, zur Täuschung im Rechtsverkehr gebraucht, oder wer zur Täuschung im Rechtsverkehr einem anderen ein Ausweispapier überläßt, das nicht für diesen ausgestellt ist, wird mit Freiheitsstrafe bis zu einem Jahr oder mit Geldstrafe bestraft
@@stadtpostabsolutely true
I think the fine for a fake Id is 25.000€ 🙃🙏🏽😂
In the 90s my friend Max had an American exchange student staying with him for a school year. The guy was 16, from the midwest, raised by proper Christian parents, very shy, polite and followed all the rules. Max ruined him within a month, took him drinking, partying and over the border to Amsterdam for some pot on the weekend. He returned to the US in the summer of 97 I think and was sent back to Germany by fall because he was now " a terrible role model" for his younger siblings and "a problem". He got a student visa and was pretty happy as far as I remember.
We did that to a couple of exchange students. They've all got a family now doing fine. "Opened their eyes" rather than "ruined" i'd say ;) Good times.
FUBAR🤣🤣🤣
@@tobitobsen7826 You know that this is in fact english? :D
@@friendlyreptile9931 but what does it mean? The lore here in Germany is it could be a butchering of the german word "furchtbar" which means dreadful, awful, terrible.
@@wWvwvV I guess you also know this word from a movie starring Tom Hanks? In this movie (even in the german voice over) they tell it close to the end but it goes unnoticed for most of the people watching it :D It's short for "Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition"
In Germany, beer is not considered a stimulant but a food….😅
Only in bavaria
not even true, but funny
well, what's bread? Cereals and yeast
What 's beer ? cereals, yeast and water
Ergo, beer is just liquid bread !
Well it can certainly make you fat that's for sure 😬🥴
*in bavaria
in usa u cant drink until 21 but u can drive at 16? whats the logic of that? im not gonna mention the guns because that department is so ridiculous
different country different customs
Doesnt sound that illogical tbh. Giving teens cars AND alcohol sounds kinda crazy
Or you can die for the country when you go to the army.
Driving with 16 is better becouse drinking Alkohol under 21 isnt healthy i also would like to don't sell in germany under 21 ages
@@lukaspufahl163 in the same way I would like the US to raise driving age to 21 and improve driving exams and vehicle regulations. Emotionally unstable teens in unsafe vehicles are dangerous.
But I think neither of us will get what we want.
It's quite easy to understand the two countries' differences here, guys. Just think of gun regulations in the US, and the drinking regulations in much of Europe is similar. The Europeans get their beer, wine, and public drinking. You get your hand guns, assault weapons, and open carry legislation.
Difference is people here learn how to handle alcohol responsible, because it's not so "a big deal" whereas US people just kill each other every day in streets or schools
👍🏻👍🏻
I really feel much safer next to a stranger holding a beer 🍺 than next to someone holding a gun.🙄
@@dudoklasovity2093 at least isn't holding a beer and a gun
Bottle of 1.5 liter water costs 0,19€ in germany its just expensive at Restaurants
Ye it's because in Germany restaurants have relatively small margins on food and often make their main profit from selling drinks. That's also why you usually won't get free tap water
The USA remains strongly bound by its Puritan traditions.
a fake id can get you 6 month to 10 years in prison in germany depends on the severity of the crimes you commited with the id. for posession alone you would get minimum jail or a hefty fine, but you would be previously convicted, so you can get problems getting a job in certain fields or with other types of governmental stuff.
I come from Belgium and, just like Germany, we are also a beer country and we have beers here that are stronger than wine. But the mentality is just different compared to the USA, where you drink as much beer as possible in the shortest possible time (bench drinking), while here you drink much more quietly and enjoy your drink more (probably because the clubs are open longer and you still want to make it to the end). I have never really played drinking games except the games that are played when you are really drunk then you don't come home unscathed. So it's more about you wanting to get a little tipsy and have fun, but at the same time you want to keep your feet on the ground and not be the one standing outside throwing up or passing out (especially in this age of social media). 😁
The cheapest beer in Germany only costs 0,50€ (~ $0.55) for half a litre ... *yeah ... and it's still quite tasty (compared to US beer - sorry!).
It is the same as anything else. If you've got sensible rolemodels, you won't have problems dealing with alcohol at an age of 16. Usually you'll get drunk once or twice to experience where's your limit, but that's it. Afterwards you'll drink up to your limit but not over it.
We've got a lot of idioms about drinking in Germany as "being half drunk is a waste of money", but we don't live that way.
13:16 just want to say that 99% of germans drink tap instead of bottled water due to how good our water infrastructure is and most people have even their own small water purifier attatched to the tap so that every single waterfaucet has fresh drinkable water we also dont put bleach in our tap water
For cigarettes, until September 2007, there used to be cigarette vending machines without any age control in the streets, as well as many tobacco stores where even children could buy tobacco, no questions asked, and it was common that parents would send their kids to get their cigarettes and tobacco for them. I went into such stores as young as 6 (the closest store was closer than the vending machine, where I would go when the store was closed) to get cigarettes for my parents or uncles. The legal age used to be 16 as well, although many younger kids were smoking, some as early as 10 or 12... There are still many tobacco stores, but now they ask for ID when they don't think you're 18. You can buy cigarettes and tobacco in supermarkets like Aldi or Lidl (among others), too, but nowadays they'll ask for ID as well at the cash register. The vending machines can now only be found in bars, and you need a special card (like a credit card, in size and shape) you get from the bar tender. There are some vending machines that read ID cards as well, but for other things like CBD (THC is still not legal).
For alcohol, beer, wines can only be had at age 16 (although when I was a teen, nobody would have checked, really), in the Public Space when the teen is alone. After 8 p.m., I think, a teen can't go into a Kneipe on his/her own anymore, and if accompanied only until 10 p.m. In public spaces, the age goes down to 14 when you're with your parents and they're fine with you having a beer, or a glass of wine during a meal. But at home, even younger children are allowed a small glass of bubbly or these sweet, not very strong liquors, on special occasions like the New Year. When I was a kid age 10 and after, in early January, I would go and wish everybody I knew a happy New Year, so I'd get a little liquor from each person and I was happy to be tipsy afterwards. xD
For the hard stuff like whiskey, vodka and the like, you have to be 18. But I think the mentalities are also completely different, about alcohol, in both countries. There has never been any Prohibition in Germany for alcohol, for instance, and doesn't it also have something to do with religion in the USA, at some degree? But I found some statistics, there are 7.7% of alcoholics in the USA, vs. 3.4% in Germany. I find this to be strange, I wonder why that is. Maybe the fact that teens get introduced gradually by the parents doesn't make it as attractive to go binge-drinking with friends as soon as possible, although people do that as well, as you have probably noticed. But then, all addictions are health issues, no matter the substance used, it goes way beyond having fun with friends.
I worked at an event location for weddings etc, where the drinks were free for everyone because the bride and groom paid for everything, you only met someone who didn't know their boundaries about every 7 months and in the meantime there were at least over 6000 guests there, so you had 1 in 6000 people who couldn't control themselves. They learn early how much they can tolerate, but everything has its beginnings. A youth sports club with guests between the ages of 16 and 21 had a party there and it was a disaster. Over 200 guests and I was the only waitress that day, it was worse than supervising elementary school students on a school trip (this text was presented to you by Google translator)
5:27 also, coming from a small city (now living in a big one and working in a pub) it was weird to me having to ask people of my age if they’re old enough to order hard liquor, in my first week my coworker asked me if I checked their ID’s and I didn’t even think about it since no one cared in my hometown
In Germany, you can legally drink beer from the age of 14 if your parents are present. From 16, you can buy beer yourself in a store and drink it in public. In many families, beer is also given to small children to drink, as the hops in beer help them sleep well. But only a sip, not a whole bottle. Most children get drunk for the first time at the age of 14 at their 8th grade graduation party. Basically, it's not a problem if children and teenagers drink beer, even if the age is not right. But most parents make sure that children do not drink alcohol. What is problematic, however, is the sale of high-proof alcohol to 18-year-olds and its easy accessibility to younger teenagers. Alcohol consumption by young adults has risen sharply in recent years. For many, there is no limit, which has drastic consequences for vocational training and later life.
In Germany we have a ,, Sprichwort " wich is called ,, Don't drink and drive,
Just sauf and lauf
Northern European countries like Sweden and Finland have pretty strict drinking laws, with state-owned liquor stores and youth not being allowed to go to pubs under the age of 18. Which leads to teenagers drinking outside on the streets in the summer....
Germany, especially regarding beer and wine has so many small breweries and distilleries - that it is common that you know someone who actually works or owns one. So Beer and wine is part of Germany's culture. Which is one small fact people don't really know about Germany, but especially in the south west you can like drive 10-20 miles and have a different city with its own beer and wine distilleries that they preferably use.
Yes, cultures are so different, in America you can drive a car from 16 and get a sharp weapon from 18, but alcohol is only available from 21. For us it's just a little different. 😂
i think you misunderstood the water situation in german restaurants, getting tap water is the absolute exception! ant that's not because the tap water is bad, quite the opposite. its just the restaurants make a huge portion of their income with drinks. plus nobody is required by law or socially to give out free/cheap water.
My mum is Aussie of Irish decent and dad was born in Czechoslovakia. I have a photo of me on my 4th birthday and I have my own glass of champagne. Another photo I am a couple days shy of being one year old. My dad is holding me attempting to drink champagne but I am pulling the glass to my mouth.
Drinking age in Canada varies between provinces, but they're all between 18 and 19. But alcohol in Canada is a LOT more expensive than it is in the U.S. A 12-pack of beer is over $25.00 in Newfoundland and Labrador; and in bars, a beer or a glass of wine will be over $10.00 each. Cheers! 🍺🥃🍷🍸
Wow, that's really expensive... Do they have to import it all? Brought by orcas from northern Europe? But seriously, that's incredibly expensive, illegal substances must be much cheaper for people who only want to alter their mental state, let's say, no? Is it because of taxes?
@hellemarc4767 Yes, it's mostly due to taxes. And that's our locally-made beer! The imported beer has to come in by ferry, so that's much more expensive. I'm afraid I don't know the price of cannabis, though it is legal; I don't buy it because I don't use it.
Those prices sound about on par with price here in Australia. We do produce plenty of our own products but heavily taxed by government. often the cheaper beers are the imported ones even with All the taxes. Must be production costs here.
In Denmark there is no low age for alcohol, the parents can give it to a child and (like the french :D) we give watered down wine from an early age.
Concerning the open containers I remember a music festival here in Germany which we joined last year. Most people were standing on a large community lawn (owned by the city I guess) and many would have cups of beer (and non-alcoholic beverages also) in their hands. Without bags hiding.
In the Netherland they smoke weed on streets. Such a lovely country!
In Denmark it's 15 😂 i remember from age 14-21 i would literally party almost every weekend 😂 this is all house parties. Sometimes parents would join, or host just to watch over their kids 😂 if no one could host and weather was good, we would just sit in a park and drink 😂 public drinking is completely legal, as long as you aren't causing problems here. What's funny is i haven't drank alcohol for 4 years, never was a problem and lost interest once done with school 😂
the best way an American explained it to me was "you cant tell americans they cant drive at 16, especially with the public-transportation-disastrous-situation and you cant take their guns... so now imagine a drunk 16 year old with a truck and a gun and a fried brain due to the trash food."
I 1st got drunk at 7yrs old on cider my brother gave me... got served in shops at 14... pubs at 15...
but this was the 90s....
In Australia the “sin taxes” on alcohol are so high. US booze is actually cheaper! A bottle of cheap vodka is over $50. You can drink at 18, but I’m buggered if I know how young people can afford it.
JPS for President! ;-)
Yeah here in Australia , Alcohol and Cigarettes are super highly taxed.
They say it's to contribute to healthcare costs and deter excessive use
Greetings from Germany, I love your channel. Keep it up !
I thougt its the deffinition of freedom to drink a beer in a sunny summer evenig on a park bench and enjoy the wether.
When I was in junior school in France, not in a good area (council houses area) I heard about pupils bringing a whole bottle of vodka or some heavy alcohol, at school!
Just because we can drink beer at 14 doesnt mean we suddenly drink beer all the time.
In my experience it starts with a small glass of champagne (or similar) on special occasions. Or with my dad sharing his beer at a barbecue. But honestly, at that age, beer is disgusting. So it isnt the forbidden fruit but rather some grown up thing. But at the age of 16-18, when you start experimenting unsupervised you already have some experience. Sure, there will be the first few hangovers, but at that time you usually still live with your parents and thus have to live with them mocking you the next day for not knowing you limit 😂
And the dangerous stuff isnt beer or wine but those sweet, colorful pop drinks where you dont even taste the alcohol anymore. Thats what gets the kids.
If someone is addicted then there is only one person to blame. namely the addict himself is 100% responsible and no one else.
I think your american 21 drinking age is a remnant of prohibition era.
Iv'e read some research showing that it can be quite damaging especially when it comes to harder stuff.
Around here in Europe, in most countries, ppl get their first taste of alcohol in their early teens, often under parent supervision. As you are still relatively young and your taste buds are much more sensitive, alcohol usually tastes much worse than it does in later years so you will treat it with some more respect later in life. Also, getting your first hangover in earlier age leaves a lasting impression so you are going to be more careful later on.
In comparison, in america, once people reach the legal drinking age they often lack reason and control when consuming alcohol!
I'm from Bavaria. When I was young no one even give a shit if you have had a bit of alcohol as a child. In the christmastime I always got some eggnut or punch. I was offered a bit of beer quite often but I didnt like it. But what I loved was sloewine my grandparents made by themselves. It was very sugary and a bit stronger than normal wine, more like a liqueur. My grandgrandma always got a glass full of it after lunch. Because I liked it so much I always got half a glass too when I was with them, which was 2-3 times a week. In retroperspektive I remembered my grandgrandma died the weekend I got into primary school. I had become six three month before. So they have fed me with this wine while I was four or five. And of course after her death I also got it from time to time. But it didnt harm me. I dont drink much alcohol nowadays, perhaps one drink in two month. Obviously much less than I was a toddler😅
Five years in britain at home and a little brandy in babies milk when teething.❤❤❤❤from England.
No, you can get a bottle of water with 1,5 liters in Germany for 0,29 Euros in Supermarkets...
If you don´t drink - it´s OK. If you drink to have fun - it´s OK.
It´s not OK to get drunk or drink and drive. Have fun, act resonsible.
In USA they almost always drive automatic cars, so it's understandable.
"they didn't even talk about nightlife" hahaha true xD
It's all a question of maturity. In a democracy and as an adult person , I can decide for myself what is good for me and what is not good for me. I don't need any incapacitating advice from the state. In the USA, everything is hypocritical. Behind the strict US laws, everyone does what they want (drinking, smoking, porn and so on). It's a fucking double standard. But you two guys are cool. Thank you. (A Swiss Man)
Joel having a fun day at the office.
In der USA geht ein Radler (biermix)schon unter Alkohol . Die Geschichte von Bier zeigt das es ein Lebensmittel ist und kein Alkohol . Bier in Deutschland heißt auch flüssiges Brot.
Vote 1 Jps - President of the World.
Vote 1 Arturo , Vice President of the World
😊😅😂😊😮😂 Can you _imagine_ that party celebrating?!!😊😅😂🇺🇸🤔🏴😏🇬🇧🧡🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 haha another of alcohol by the sounds of it :-/
Best moment to make beertrip in Germany is during OktoberFest ^^
I was born in 1977. I remember the time , when I was 14 and 15 (in the early 90s, about 1992/1993). When I am looking back, I am not sure, if in the 90s were any rules about alcohol in Germany at all..? With 14 years it was absolutely no problem to get beer on a fairground. When we were about 15 years old, sometimes we met with some people from our class on saturday evening (for a public party-event with dancefloor, called "total dance night"). The gas station next door sold us alcocol without asking about our age, in the late evening a Romanian guy opened his shop for us and sold us whatever we wanted: Vodka, Rum, Schnapps etc. I cannot imagine that was legal- but nobody cared about it and apparently the police either did not notice it or had other things to do than drunk kids. Otherwise the cops would have closed the shop and the Romanian probably would have been brought to court...I do not know, if the alcohol-rules in Germany have become stricter for kids in 2024?
raised in a German village myself the partying (and drinking)was something else, on another level, I would say, especially in th '80th😁
Alcohol under the supervision of the parents with 14 does usually not mean, that the son and dad go on a booze tour. Ment is 1-2 glas (small) of beer or wine at the dinner by special occasions.
His story of his 16 year old friend wanting to buy beer with them together shows how stupid he is.
The station was absolutely right because they get in trouble when they sell him beer and he shares it with others as they can simply claim hey they sold it to all of us not just the one beeing 16 which can be fined up to 50000€. We once had a similar case where we sold an 18 year old one beer and he shared it with 15 year old friends in the park they were controlled and asked where they get it from and they said we sold it to them when we only sold it to the 18 year old one and the others were not even in the market but waiting outside. The people in charge of the case allready guessed that he would have shared it but it could easely give us a 2000€ fine on the spot + their parents could have sued us for harming their children as well.
by the way the 18 year old was charged in the aftermath but even a 16 year old would get in trouble for it sharing alcohol to minors.
So thats basically why the gas station and super markets will not allow you to buy alcohol when you are with possible minors or even inform the police beforehand. A cashier in a bigger supermarket even told an older woman that gave her ID instead of the younger woman that had hers not with her that she will get in trouble if she give the alcohol to her when she is not old enough (I myself would say both were over 18 but this is how serious this is for businesses and by the way the cashiers also get an additional fine not just the store itself.
When you are allowed to drive a car in Germany at the age of 18 (resp. 17) you already have at least two years of experience with alcohol. I had about four years when I turned 18 and got my license. I do think this makes more sense concerning driving safety. First you get to know the effects of alcohol, THEN you are allowed to get your license.
😊 Guys, we can legally drink here in the UK, in the home with family, from the age of _5_years*...(_not_ spirits) ...
I did*, and I have _never_ been a "heavy drinker"!! I do like Bacardi & Coke, or the very occasional 'Baileys' (though the whiskey in it gives me a headache!!) but mostly if I drink, alcohol, I'll choose a nice crisp, dry white wine, either at Christmas or for my birthday (in early August) hardly "knocking it back like a demon drinker" !! ...so there's no excuse for _not_ trying alcohol at a younger age... Unless you're the type to "go mad with it" - drinking "like there's no tomorrow", or likely to drink _so_ much, that you find yourself addicted to it, and / or generally cannot cope with doing without it in order to get through your day (& sadly, that can, and does hapoen to some people.😢) ... Also...
In a pub which also serves meals, a 16_year old can legally drink (say, a beer, for example) _with_ their family when eating a meal, providing the alcohol is _only_ _purchased_ by a responsible adult: an_18_year old or over.
But in order to _buy_ alcohol, people in Britain must be _18_ or over ...as far as I'm aware, these aee the facts regarding the 'buying and drinking' of alcoholic beverages here in the UK...
(I await correction, if am mistaken, of course). 🤔❤🏴😏🇬🇧🖖(oh, I think the rules / laws nay be slightly different in _Northern_ _Ireland_, so you'd need to check that...?)
Im german. Started drinking at age 13. But had friends starting at 11. So I wasnt even that early 😅
Hey mate. Honestly - what's happened to Stefan? Is he ok?
In Slovenia wine‘s pretty cheap. Payed 3€ for a 2L bottle.
I have to say I did not even like beer (or any alcohol) when I started to go to clubs on weekends with about 16 in Germany, it was more something I had to get used to because everybody drank beer and it was the cheapest drink you could normally get in a bar or a club (even youth clubs serve beer). After a while you aquire the taste, but e.g. many girls do not like the bitterness of beer and rather stick to mix drinks like vodka with juice, or coca cola with whiskey.
So - you do have the freedom to drink alcohol sooner, but because of the legality it often is also not so interesting or intriguing - it's just a normal part of growing up. You overdo ist a couple of times and then you are done with binge drinking and hangovers. So with 18 when you get your drivers license, you know how to behave responsibly - or to be honest: most do, but still, most serious DUI-accidents are caused by males under 25.
Also, like everywhere, you can also smoke underage or even get some weed - but at least in my generation hard drugs (including cocaine) or even misuse of prescription drugs and pills were very uncommon - you did not need to get strange drugs with unkonwn content, you could at least get alcohol legally everywhere, which was enough for most young people.
in Begleitung eines Erwachsenen ist es auch erlaubt das ein Kind mit 12 ein kleines Glas Wein oder Bier zum Essen bekommen kann wohlgemerkt ist das hier meist so, dass wenn familiäre Feste gefeiert werden und die Eltern dabei sind es nicht verboten ist das die Kinder so erste Erfahrungen machen. Mit 16 ist es dann auch ohne elterliche Begleitung erlaubt Bier und Wein zu trinken ohne harte Getränke wie schnaps oder Whisky etc. mit 18 ist dann auch das Trinken mit harten Getränken erlaubt. Und da die Kinder so nach und nach daran herangeführt werden sind sie dann auch nicht so bekloppt wie andere zum Beispiel beim spring Break lol
im from East Germany i was 12 i have my first blackout ^^ from drinking ... and was not funny ... that was so painfull .. im Stopp Drinking the next 23 Years ,,... that was a good lesson how not to use Alcohol .... and btw all in US Store cost 4x more what ever in germany cost 1 Euro in US Store it cost 4 US Dollar
and in all German restraunts if you ask ... the Personal there ... you bekome a gratis Glass of Normal Water .. Leitungswasser... WC water :)
Alcohol 24/4/7 - Party in Germany: Friday 23:00 - 4:00 Club then After Hours Club 4:00 - 11:00 then Tea Dance 11:00 18:00 - Dinner Club - 18:00 - 23:00 ... until Monday! LOL
Die US-Regeln halte ich für viel zu streng.
Die deutsche Regelung (die in anderen europäischen Ländern ja ähnlich ist) gibt jedem die Möglichkeit, verantwortlich mit Alkohol umzugehen. Man braucht nichts heimlich machen, zuerst ist man unter Aufsicht der Eltern, dann nur Bier und Wein, die Teil der europäischen Kultur sind und als Erwachsener hast du sonst auch alle Rechte und Pflichten, da muss der Staat dir nicht mehr reinreden, du trägst eh Verantwortung für dein Tun.
Wenn man als Jugendlicher zu viel getrunken hat, werden die Eltern informiert. Mit einem falschen Ausweis geht das nicht, oder die Freunde lassen dich im Stich, da sie ja etwas strafbares gemacht haben. In Deutschland schimpfen die Eltern zwar, aber dann ist auch wieder gut, du musst keine Angst vor der Polizei haben, die werden nur helfen, nicht strafen.
16 u can legaly buy alcohol, but with 14 you can have alcohol if ur parents buy it for you and in your home there aint any restrictions so most kids drink new year a sip of sparkeling wine at like ... dont know 12 ? around 12 maybe younger xD but they dont like it so they try a sip and are like "wahhh" xD
but many people drink with like 14 with their parents around, its not uncommon. the main reason alot dont is becuase they just dont like the taste xD
because its no "taboo" they dont do it if they dont like it
Your problem is zoning: you can't walk to the pub so there's drink driving. Of course your laws were made before uber!
4,99€ reaction was authentic wtf moment 😳
light spirits, such as beer, wine, cider, etc... in Europe they are not considered alcoholic beverages but nutritional foods
Not really. They are still alcohol. Sure, they usually belong to a good meal, or into it, but that doesnt mean that you give your kid a bottle of wine when they are hungry.
@@535phobos No, no, no alcohol under 15, and if, only in moderation
@@rasputinorco What are you trying to say?
Beer, wine is still alcohol, not nutritional, and we dont give it to kids (much)
@@535phobos you underestimate the things that are important to live for XD
Beer and wine are not distilled, they contain yeast, tannins and many other things.
Educating about alcohol when you still have power over your children is better than when they can legally tell you to f°ck °ff
@rasputinorco Yes, kids at 13,14,15 may get the occasional glass of beer or more often sparkling wine to toast at parties.
But thats far from it being "just food".
Bier ist kein Alkohol sondern Lebensmittel . In Massen getrunken wird man auch nicht gleich voll
If you're old enough to go to war you're old enough to drink👍
4.99€ in a glas bottle including 19% tax, but that stuff tastes like sanatizer as well 😅 But when you´re good at making longdrinks and cocktails that crap works and comes with a headege the next day. I haven´t drank that cheap crap in almost 20years, only am drinking top shelf quality, I only drink liquor rarely but the few times I drink liquor it has to be something to enjoy like Grey Goose, Hennessy, Haku and so on. And don´t forgett you can also get boned on camera and ruin your life at 18 but not have a beer, at least they can smoke a joint to supress the low selfesteam feelings afterwards in many states 😅
This has nothing to do with drinking, I just found it funny.
And that is, I got IDed at age 23 in Germany to buy energy drinks, and at age 25 in the Netherlands.
Both of those cases only happened once, but like - wait, what? What is even the age limit for that and how young do I look to you?
The reason why the drinking age is 21 in the US is that Reagan had daddy issues.
Drinking age in germany is 14 not 16. 16 is the age you can buy beer an vine but drink it legaly is 14.
Second comment. Was the picture of kids with bottles a wind up for Ben, after he wanted money from his appearances?
i think it's better to know, what alcohole can do to you before you sit behind the wheel
Hell, you can buy it at MickeyDees here😂
What pisses me off about the ID you're friends if you went in with parent's the same rule doesn't apply. Mind you my parents bought mine so didn't matter 😂
Drinking @16 is wild? Driving a 2T Truck @15 to 16 that's wild for us europeans.
Sheers🍻
Not saying he could be lying because he doesn't want to be killed in the Ukraine. But what if is liying
you can drive a car, and buy a gun before you can drink alcohol... that just seems dumb and crazy to me!
So, when are you two guys moving to Germany permanently ;)
i'm pretty sure you americans can drink vodka in the open air in alaska 😂
let me put this whole video in ONE word.
RESPONSIBILITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey on the upside, kids in the US can shoot eachother at age 12. So you got that! 😂😂😂
Ok that was quite mean, but seriously you should be showing to treat alcohol with respect before you’re let anywhere near a gun.
And actually I‘m quite amazed that almost in every country I know you can shoot a gun before your of legal drinking age.
One thing is an addictive substance that can ruin your life if one can’t control their consumption habits.
The other thing is an object that’s specifically designed to take another living beings life, no other use. Guns sole purpose is to kill people or animals.
It is beyond me why not both are heavily regulated all over the world.
Then you have other substances, and it’s a proven fact that alcohol is as bad as so called „hard drugs“. Most heroin addicts don’t go home and beat up their family members. It’s rare enough that people on meth do that. Most people who do speed or coke don’t cause accidents and take out an entire family in an instant, drunk driving is killing people left and right. But people are encouraged to drink alcohol in advertisements etc. Advertising smoking is forbidden in most countries. WTF?
The only person a smoker kills is usually himself!
Alcoholism is way more dangerous than most other addictive substances. 🤦🏻♂️
Sometimes i seriously don’t understand how humanity survived this long despite the ridiculous amounts of stupidity and neglect!
For me as European, it´s shocking that you guys think that drinking at age of 16 is wild, but in your country it´s normal that kids have guns or can use them when their parents are around.
And can drive a massive SUV or truck at 16 but cant have a beer
Totally agree!
Same here!
Yeah, that's frigging crazy! Crazy I say! Crazy!
Well, keep in mind: Just because you could possibly trink alcohol legally, it does not mean that you do it all day, 24/7. Most important, over all, is that the parents are a good example and that joung people are sensitive about drinking alcohol, and develop a feeling for being responsible.
Yeah, a big part is learning early on to be responsible with alcohol.
I was just 15 when i left school and went to work in England, Friday was pay day and I would go down to the pub with the guys from work open my pay packet and order a pint, back then the drinking age was 18 but many pubs took the view that if you where old enough to do a mans job and you behaved like an adult working all day you were older enough to have a beer or two but the older guys and bar staff would not let you get crazy they would put you straight and send you home if you got out of line, which would be so embarrassing, they would make you feel like a little child, needless to say all the younger guys were well behaved an very responsible the shame of being sent away home in front of your friends and guys that new you parents, the shame was worse the being caught by the police for underage drinking.
.
In America you can get a gun, but not a beer 😂😂😂😂
Theoretically spoken: If you have a gun, and another guy has a beer - guess who may have both after an arguement...
@@mbkl79 In Europe the owner of the beer can will decide the argument. We are good in throwing beer cans if you know what I mean
@@mbkl79 The police.
@@gunchar06 Brilliant! 😅
But in Germany it's also kinda crazy, you can basically buy a hard drug before you can buy certain movies and video games.
Hi, I'm John from England, just watched your video on Germany v US drinking. It seems to me that alcohol is really the forbidden fruit in the US isn't it, I think that in most of Europe you grow up with alcohol, it's just a part of life. I started drinking in pubs, a place in your local community where you are known so you didn't act stupid and learned to drink sensibly. For 5 years I was a European courier driver and I have been to Germany many times they have the same attitude as the UK
In the UK the drinking age is 18. But if you are 16, accompanied by an adult, you can drink beer, wine or cider with a meal. Also, parents can give alcohol to their children (supervised) from the age of 5 upwards...
Remember that for a time they even banned alcohol.
First time I went to the US I was about 25 and went a week to New York with a friend. We arrived and for us it was evening (jet lag) but in New york it was morning or early afternoon. So we decided to sit on a terrace somewhere and have a beer and something to eat. But the restaurant couldn't oblige, because they weren't allowed to serve alcohol before a specific time in the afternoon. I had never ever heard of a regulation like that (this was end of the '80s, the Netherlands didn't have many alcohol rules then) and it was weird to encounter it in a country that tv and other media had told me had all the freedoms. Next disappointment was when "the city that doesn't sleep" closed their nightlife earlier than Amsterdam, where I was from.
wow when did they clode their nightlife? I never heard of that. I'm from Cologne and some clubs go until 7 in the morning...
i think usa laws of driking is to prevent crime but disnt working so try to learn with other countries the more you forbid things the more people desire to do it
Im from Serbia (Europe, believe it or not) and I remember my sister going out for her 12th birthday and i went to sleep before she came home. What woke me up at night was when she was stumbling around the room going to bathroom to barf 😆 Yeah, it was from red wine...
Yeah i started at 14 its normal
@@Lord_Kratos69 I mean i saw two gipsy kids arond the age of 6-8 inhaling a bag of glue in a bus and Americans think THEY are in shit...
My grandfather would give me a little glass of beer on Sundays. Then when I was about 13 I started to drink at parties and even in cafe while dancing on holidays under the supervision of my parents or older friends. But it was a very exceptional thing. We didn't think we could drink whenever we want. It needed to be a party. I learned pretty quick how much is too much.
aturo needs to ask jp why he was drinking water in Germany? you are over 21, you went to the place of beer and drinking in public. come on dude! beer = bread. so technically its nutrition. =P
I think it is somehow strange how much you American guys desire to drink alcohol, like it is alimentation.
😮 um... What _is_ "alimentation" please?
@@Pr0vidence555
I still don't understand - but now I don't understand "alimentation" and "quited and pension" ??!!! Sorry if that makes me sound dense... I've just _never_ heard of _any_ of those 3 words before (& I'm _70_ now!!) 🤔
@@Pr0vidence555
Thank you... Sorry for not understanding.
I just don't really know other languages - except for a _small_ amount of Latin, and a little French... I understand a pension as I started receiving mine from the age of _64_!! I'm now _70_!! As for "quitting", we call it "retiring" here, so I could be called a "Pensioner", or a "Retiree" - the latter, perhaps in the USA?! I just have _never_ heard of "alimentation" before. 😏🤔
🧡🏴🇬🇧🙂🖖
well, we think, that driving a car with 16 is too early...
You can buy a gun to in America at 18 but you can't buy a beer.
You cracking fun of the possibility of the president holding a speech drunk.
Me having flashbacks of all the Bavarian politicians happily saying cheers to the camera with one litre beer mug in their hands because they have to show they're living and supporting our culture XD
Bonus of being allowed to drink early is that most of Germans have their most embarassing drinking accidents in our teens. By the time we hit 20, a lot of us are already getting bored with drinking to excess. That is when most Americans only get started.
5:37 don‘t forget that you can legally drink wine with 14 when starting to attend communion at church (only a sip though, but still). I had my first sip of my dad‘s Alster (half beer, half sprite) in the age of maybe 8… this is hardly any alcohol, but I got a healthy perception of alcohol and didn‘t end up as an alcoholic
When i was like 12 or 13 i used to get 100 crowns (4 dollars) every day for food/snack to buy on the way to school
I always bought 1 pack of smokes and 1 small tiny bottle of vodka and we went to friends yard that lived nearby school and get a bit drunk and smoke some cigarettes
i even got up earlier to school becose of meeting with my buddies before the school :D
There was a big discussion in Germany a few years ago: Some bars and discos offered flat rates for drinks, often specifically marketed at a younger audience. The main outcry was: You pay 20 Euros and can drink so much that you end up in hospital. I found it kind of silly, thinking: I can go to ALDI and buy a lethal dose of alcohol for 10 Euros.
Local bar/club in the 90s had a buy one drink get free refills all night if you paid £10 to get in. Was a Thursday promo, you'd get absolutely wasted but still make it to work next day