5 Random Things Germans & Americans do differently

5 Random Things Germans & Americans do differently | Feli from Germany

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▸It's not a secret that there are plenty of cultural differences between Germany and the US but some of those things are just SO RANDOM and there seems to be no obvious explanation as to why Americans and Germans do those things differently. In 2020, I actually dedicated a whole video series to those random, little differences (see playlist link below) but since then, I've come across so many new things that I just HAD to share with you! So here are 5 MORE random differences between Germany and the US! :)
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@FelifromGermany Жыл бұрын

What other random differences between the US and Germany (or another culture) have you come across before? Share it with the rest of us in the comments! 😁👇

@robertwilson2007 Жыл бұрын

What happened to the video where Ben and you are cooking and you talking to him in German and telling him how to cook the meal? I was planning on trying that meal. Let me guess, to many people making rude comments?

@FelifromGermany Жыл бұрын

@@robertwilson2007 Nothing happened to it. It's not its own video, it's part of this one: Top 8 German Netflix Shows You Need To Check Out! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btGZmMyU196sfJ8.html

@robertwilson2007 Жыл бұрын

@@FelifromGermany Thank you

@robertwilson2007 Жыл бұрын

I am sure you have you tried Glier's Goetta and does it taste anything like scrapple? Is scrapple popular in Germany?

@claudiakarl7888 Жыл бұрын

@@robertwilson2007 No. There’s a thing called Panhas in some areas of Germany, but those two dishes seem to have taken different developments from each other. The US version has some different ingredients and is eaten in a different way. No one in Germany would eat Panhas for breakfast. Same goes for Goetta. It has German roots, but that’s it.

@shelbywoo3229 Жыл бұрын

The 2 origins of crossing fingers is very interesting. When you tell someone you’re crossing your fingers for them you make the gesture in front of them. When you are lying you cross your fingers behind your back (it’s more the act of a child than an adult, like telling a lie to your siblings because you need to keep the truth a secret).

@ambermarie211 Жыл бұрын

Also when crossing fingers for luck they are usually held upright while crosses fingera for lying are often held pointing down.

@cubbance Жыл бұрын

Those folding rulers were definitely more common when I was a little kid in the late 70s and early 80s. I haven't seen one in at least two decades though. I got a rush of nostalgia seeing one in this video, in fact.

@MsTimelady71 Жыл бұрын

Yes, parents have one and I know our contractor has one. But they aren't that common here.

@mugwump242 Жыл бұрын

Same. When I was growing up (1970s/'80s), both my parents and grandparents had a folding ruler/yard stick around the house. So they were a thing in the US but have since been supplanted. I'd forgotten all about them until I saw Feli's.

@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio Жыл бұрын

My parents had one when I was a kid. I liked playing with it. But realistically, they aren't the easiest thing to measure with because you can't lay them flat and it's much more awkward to slowly unfold them. It's much easier to simply pull out a tape measure.

@bernmuller5261 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in the 40's; my father was a German immigrant (1925) and we always had a "folding ruler" in the house. I still have it and use it.

@claudiakarl7888 Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio I definitely prefer them to tapes. I only use tapes for distances of more than 2 m.

@andrewbauer4597 Жыл бұрын

When I first started dating my wife, she thought I might be the one, she changed her phone number to the spelling of her name so I wouldn’t forget her phone number. I guess it worked. We will be married 34 years this year.❤️

@fonkbadonk5370 Жыл бұрын

The 100% sure path would have been to change it to just spell her initial(s) I guess =)

@JoshNieporte Жыл бұрын

I'm also German, and also in Cincinnati. Those rulers are just called "folding rulers" here, and are rarely used. Tape measures have been the go-to since the early 1980s. Apart from classes in Construction, I've never seen the folding rulers in use. A yard stick is one long ruler, and it's a yard long. It doesn't fold.

@ronaldgarrison8478 Жыл бұрын

Lasers have huge potential here. Over time, the details will be worked out to make them more practical in more situations.

@silkwesir1444 Жыл бұрын

@@ronaldgarrison8478 Is that a joke? Did Feli make a mistake by calling them lasers? I ask because it boggles my mind how they could work using lasers. Don't they use sound? (Speed of sound being much lower than speed of light)

@ronaldgarrison8478 Жыл бұрын

@@silkwesir1444 No, nothing jocular about it, from me or her. Laser range-finding is real. Look up LIDAR, for a discussion on an especially precise form of this. No, it doens't involve sound. Sound is also sometimes used in ranging, but that's very different, and generally not as precise.

@wabash1581 Жыл бұрын

I have seen them around when I was growing up, and have used one a few times. I prefer a tape measure. I feel you get a more precise measurement, and faster, with a tape measure. However the folding ruler is a great tool if you need a stable measurement device, longer than a yard. I like yardsticks too, and it is rare I need a stable measurement longer than a yard. I have had situations where a folding ruler would have been useful. I don't own one. From Columbus, Ohio. I just may have no idea how to use a folding ruler, to its full potential.

@salbuda6957 Жыл бұрын

@Silkwesir. You could visit a Home Depot or Lowe’s. There they are! I’d say it’s been a good 10 years. 😉

@scottgunn52 Жыл бұрын

Growing up in the 1950s, we were taught not to blow our noses at the dinner table, but nothing was said about doing it in public.

@marydavis5234 Жыл бұрын

Both me and my younger brother were told to go into the restaurants bathroom to blow our nose not at the table. and I was born in 1961.

@antoniohinojos3808 Жыл бұрын

This is the only impolite situation, you’re correct.

@akbauer2525 Жыл бұрын

The idea of blowing your nose inpublic is more about not spreading anyposible germs towards others.

@carlbeaver7112 2 ай бұрын

@@antoniohinojos3808 No, it is not. Turning away from others before blowing is polite and sanitary. At a dining table, excusing yourself is definitely preferred. Nobody wants to listen to someone blowing snot and watch them picking at their nose while eating - whether or not they are at your table or two tables away.

@jensschroder8214 Жыл бұрын

In Germany it is frowned upon to make contracts via telephone number. Only companies that have a bad reputation or want to trick you do that. You never know who's calling. Someone called recently and wanted to sell an electricity contract over the phone. When I asked how much it should cost, it was answer "half of what you pay now". When I persistently asked how much half the money was, the caller hung up.

@Chelle23464 Жыл бұрын

In the US we do a lot online too and when doing business like that we initiate the call so we know who we’re calling. Like if I wanted to switch internet providers I would call the new company and have someone handle it. We do get sales calls too be it’s highly recommended to call the company yourself.

@KristianKumpula Жыл бұрын

I recall one of my German teachers saying something about how talking with Americans is more animated and louder than what she's used to, at least in NYC. If I understood her German correctly, I think she compared it to a theatre performance.

@justina.6769 Жыл бұрын

I was born in NY and yes we tend to talk louder and some of us (Italians mostly) like to "talk with their hands" if you know what that means :)

@erictaylor5462 Жыл бұрын

12:30 It's easy to know the difference. Crossing your fingers for luck is done openly, while crossing your fingers for lying is done with the hand hidden.

@fonkbadonk5370 Жыл бұрын

Yes, so easy to know when it's hidden =)

@erictaylor5462 Жыл бұрын

@@fonkbadonk5370 I'm talking about knowing the difference if someone is crossing their fingers for you.

@estat9253 Жыл бұрын

I came across your videos by accident and have thoroughly enjoyed your enthusiastic take on cultural and infrastructure differences. I've noticed that traveling to Canada, Bermuda, the UK and Iceland. I hope to travel to Germany and your videos have helped me better understand how NOT to stand out. Vive la differences! Keep up the great work, Feli.

@FelifromGermany Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@garylshelton2463 Жыл бұрын

As for the crossing of fingers being used for two different meanings in the US, one thing Feli forgot is that the deceiving meaning of the crossed fingers is understood when the fingers are crossed behind one's back as one ostensibly promises something.

@fusion451 Жыл бұрын

The single letter usage is a popular culture trend from the 70s like the show Happy Days character Fonzie calling his surrogate family Mr and Mrs C Also the character Mr T from the A team tv show was very popular

@mikeklein1779 Жыл бұрын

From my experience, calling someone by the first initial is similar to a nickname. The only times I've experienced Mr./ Ms./ Dr. (last initial) were when either it was noted as preferred or when the last name is barely pronounceable.

@tracy3812 Жыл бұрын

Remember “Mr B” from Hazel?

@chrisk5651 Жыл бұрын

First thing I thought of was happy days. Didn't think about Mr. T as I wasn't really much of a fan but had been very well known back in the day. The single initial is a nickname and less formal & proper. I think it can also be shorthand when the name is very long or hard to pronounce. Traditionally in Germany most people had German names but in the USA there was a much greater diversity of names.

@Hans293 Жыл бұрын

@@mikeklein1779 That's also when I've heard people use a title+last initial (when people had trouble pronouncing the last name.)

@AndrewAMartin Жыл бұрын

@@Hans293 My high school band director was Mr. K because his last name would get butchered all the time, it was just faster and easier.

@anthonysheehan640 Жыл бұрын

Regarding business phone numbers, when growing up in Chicagoland in the 70s and 80s, the 3 phone numbers I absolutely knew were home, 911 for emergencies, and 588-2300 for Empire Carpeting.

@denis65 Жыл бұрын

The calling each other by an initial may be a generational thing. My friends and I have never done it (I'm mid 50's). If you cross your fingers behind your back, that means you're telling a lie, where I'm from. It's been years since I've seen one of those measuring things! In my group of friends we only use numbers, not words for our phone numbers. I've learned a bunch of new things today. Thanks, as always!

@Steve_Stowers Жыл бұрын

Agree: I can't remember hearing people calling their friends by a first initial, and I suspect that it isn't so much an American thing as it is a "kids these days" thing.

@suedenim Жыл бұрын

I'm also a GenX American, and I don't think I've ever seen the initial thing. Closest I can remember is that we called a certain teacher whose first name was Charles "Chucky C" - but never, ever to his face.

@richardsbrandon5027 Жыл бұрын

@@Steve_Stowers Eh, I've had friends or people older than I call me B, :))) And I do like it!

@CatServant Жыл бұрын

I think you’re right. I’m 60 and nobody did that when I was growing up. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it started with text messaging.

@bibliotekarin Жыл бұрын

Hm. I am 58 and my brother and I called each other B and K from a young age. My best friend and I also frequently used each other's first initials. I called another friend by her first initial too! We thought it sounded good, I guess. So...I don't know about the generational thing. It's a mystery!

@bob_._. Жыл бұрын

#4 is a "folding rule" they were common back when your older viewers were kids. Yardsticks are a single strip of wood 3 ft long. #5 Crossing your fingers only means you're lying when you do it behind your back so the other person can't see it. Actually it's a child's thing and the other person is usually a parent.

@patrickchambers5999 Жыл бұрын

I know that folding ruler as either a "carpenter's ruler" since as a child, carpenters always used them or as a "zig-zag ruler" since when unfolded they looked like that. Years ago when I was working in industry I knew two electricians, at the factory, I worked at. One had the first leg of his ruler broke off and often forgot this, so when calling out conduit measurements to the other they were off dimension. The other guy bent the conduit to those dimensions but the piece wouldn't fit, naturally because of the incorrect dimensions. Finally he bought his partner a new ruler and proceeded to break the old one at every joint so it could never be used again.

@cbyrd1061 Жыл бұрын

Yard stick is only 36 inches.Usually straight, like 3 rulers together. We have both.

@josephtoledo2693 7 ай бұрын

The folding rule is called a "carpenter's rule" and is still used in woodworking. It is similar, but not the same as, a ship builder's rule, where the thickness of the rule is an essential measuring component.

@robertwilson2007 Жыл бұрын

When I was kid in the 80's, the use of MR. P or MS. P was always reserved for teachers and parents you really liked, it was form of shown affection and respect. I don't know how kids use it today. American slang and language changes so quickly with the meaning from decade to decade and generation to generation. I hear new words and meanings of words all the time. Sometimes I will use the urban dictionary to try and understand what someone is talking about. But take the urban dictionary with a grain of salt.

@blueptconvertible Жыл бұрын

Being a member of leadership in a company I've had employees who have referred to me as Mr S because my German last name is difficult for them to pronounce. It never bothered me.

@robertwilson2007 Жыл бұрын

@@blueptconvertible Yea, I can see me doing that. It would have to be a name I would be afraid of truly butchering on a daily basis.🤣

@aquilapetram Жыл бұрын

As I recall, the Mr./Ms. [X] formulation was used on several 80s high school sitcoms - Saved by the Bell and so on. I think it may also have been used in rap of the period. I don't believe I've ever heard anyone under 50 speak this way. I would have caught hell in the 60s-70s for the disrespect if I'd spoken to an adult that way, both from the adult in question and from my parents.

@cassieberringer7427 Жыл бұрын

@@blueptconvertible Yes, My Dad also did that when he did substitute teaching, he told the kids to just call him Mr. B. Our last name isn't super difficult, but people tend to mispronounce it a lot especially when learning it at first.

@blueptconvertible Жыл бұрын

@@cassieberringer7427 yeah I'm pretty good at pronouncing names. My gut tells me it's pronounced Bear-N-Ger but I could also see Bear-ing-er as an alternate.

@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio Жыл бұрын

The pressed thumbs thing is certainly a curious difference. I'd never heard of that before! They also sometimes call people by their last initial in the UK.

@MadMusicNerd Жыл бұрын

I'm from Germany and if I want to wish somebody luck with emojis, I always make the 👊 fist, because it's the nearest I get to "pressed thumb" (and nobody I know would know what crossed fingers mean in Amerika)

@FlorianGuitar85 Жыл бұрын

@@MadMusicNerd I’m from Germany too and I hate this emoji. I perceive it as getting threatened aggressively. I take use 👍🏻 instead since we also say „Daumen hoch“ to wish someone luck.

@joeb4294 Жыл бұрын

American here and I never use "cross my fingers" for good luck. I do often say "knock on wood" and knock if any wood is around, but there usually is not any real wood around, so I jokingly change it to "knock on Formica" and knock on the countertop

@The_Dudester Жыл бұрын

4) The last time I saw a "folding ruler" was the late 1960's. From 2002 to 2011 I ran a high rise complex for a large oil company and as part of my duties I inspected work sites. Measuring tapes were the rule, but I did see the laser measuring device once as we had a major water leak and the engineer needed to know how far the pipe went before the pipe went horizontal.

@karenschafer2827 Жыл бұрын

Maybe it is because my father was in the building industry, but he always used the wooden folding rulers and I still have one or two around (I am 75).

@jeromemckenna7102 Жыл бұрын

My father (born in 1899) used a folding ruler and I used them form making picture frames.

@natalig099 Жыл бұрын

I love these random differences, so interesting! Especially comparing them to (my) third perspective. In Israel, we also cross our fingers for luck but call it "holding our fingers" in Hebrew 🤔 And not sure if it still exists among young children, but when I was a kid it was also used when lying.

@jesspeters1611 Жыл бұрын

I really appreciated the long mealtimes in Germany what dining out. A great time to share conversation and a few beers with your friends.

@wesleyw2238 Жыл бұрын

That folding measuring stick is called a tape rule! I use one often as an industrial electrician! Love your videos!

@chrysippus4321 Жыл бұрын

That folding ruler is so nostalgic. I haven't used one of those in decades!

@Sampler19 Жыл бұрын

I just used one some hours ago before ordering a new mousepad with Handballenauflage.

@LythaWausW Жыл бұрын

I don't think you can spank your children as easily with them.

@TMD3453 Жыл бұрын

Seems so normal to me. Makes me think it’s a German American thing!

@dm747 Жыл бұрын

I do not know how or when using the first letter of a person’s name to identify them started but the first time I heard it done was on a TV show called “Happy Days” when Henry Winkler as the “Fonz” called Marion Ross, playing Mrs Maron Cunningham, Mrs C. The show ran for 11 seasons starting in 1974 and as many of you know is still being shown as reruns to this day. I have also hear it used in the “Welcome Back, Kotter” TV Series that ran from 1975 to 1979 from time to time but not as much as on “Happy Days”.

@christian_w. Жыл бұрын

As a kid watching Full House, I always found it funny that Kimmy Gibbler referred to Danny Tanner as "Mr. T" - because, you know, Bob Saget looked nothing like Mr. T from the A-Team.😄

@Simeonpravoslav Жыл бұрын

My grandpa had one of the folding rulers, but it was an antique and he had switched to tape measures by the late 1960s. The tape measure clipped to his belt (he was a custodian) and was easier to handle.

@Rauschgenerator Жыл бұрын

But it's much harder to let them stay straight; for example when you have to measure a distance from a point in the air to another point in the air (measuring the length of a wall of a room, where you have a lot of obstacles like shelves, wardrobes, etc., so you can't lay it down). The tapes have their special use, but in most cases, folding rulers are better imo.

@brianostube Жыл бұрын

I remember seeing the folding rulers when I was a kid back in the 70s; I think they were more popular in previous generations here in the US. Yardsticks are exactly 36 inches = 3 feet = 1 yard long. Also back in my childhood, it was common for the local neighborhood hardware store to give out yardsticks with their store's name and phone number printed on them. I don't remember hearing people refer to each other by their first initial until I moved to the Philadelphia area about 20 years ago. Maybe it's a regional or generational thing. It was more common for kids to refer to teachers or other authority figures as Mr./Mrs. X. When I taught high school German my students usually referred to me as "Herr O" :-) Crossing your fingers when making a promise you don't intend to keep is normally something only children (or a very childish person) would do. The crossed fingers are held behind one's back so the other person can't see them. Outside of my elementary school playground, I think I've only seen this done in cartoons or sitcom TV shows. But it is an interesting point I hadn't thought about that the same basic gesture can be used for two very different intentions!

@jimpemberton Жыл бұрын

We had a folding rule when I was a kid in the 70s. I think measuring tapes are more common because they are smaller and clip to your belt. They also bend at any given distance if you are measuring an inside dimension.

@elvinjonas5451 Жыл бұрын

Fun stuff. Thanks!

@jamesmichener7526 Жыл бұрын

The assignment of letters to a number is a US, or should I say an AT&T thing, that never happened in Europe. To aid switchboard operators (before direct dial), every 'exchange' (large switchboard) was given a name, where the first two letters of the exchange name were the first two numbers of a phone number... hence for example, "Glenwood 8 5555" would be GL8 5555 or 458 8888. AT&T also made all the phones, so all dial and touch tone phones in the US have letters associated with each number. This spilled over to ATM machines as well. This was never a thing in Europe. Also, in the USA the Cell Phone adopted this, while in the Deutschland most handy do not.

@jamesmichener7526 Жыл бұрын

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names

@kam_iko Жыл бұрын

yes, it wasn’t a thing outside of US/UK/Canada, because telephones didn’t have the letters printed next to the numbers, however you’re wrong about mobile/cell phones. (almost) all mobile/cell phones did, also in germany, as this was also used for SMS (texting).

@robertdendooven7258 Жыл бұрын

Great reply. I knew this too and was glad that someone else could type the long explanation out. 👍

@jamesmichener7526 Жыл бұрын

@@kam_iko I agree with flip phones... but I don't think it appears with smart phones (Handy)... I could be wrong.. BTW were flip phones called Handy in Germany? I thought Handy came up with the advent of the smart phone.

@jamesmichener7526 Жыл бұрын

@@robertdendooven7258 You are not the same age as Feli :->

@pablodelsegundo9502 Жыл бұрын

1 - I remember doing the Mr./Ms. thing as a kid a lot, but not much at all as an adult. As for calling people by their initial, it's not common in my area (Texas) but you do hear it occasionally. I generally use given names or approved nicknames, even as a kid. 2 - I'm more German in this case. Picking your nose is unacceptable, but blowing your nose is fine...though I find people who have sneezing fits (like, 4-10 or more sneezes in a row) to be nasty if they don't leave the room, especially so once the pandemic hit. 3 - I've never encountered that outside of advertising. 4 - 😆 5 - hm, maybe it's an alternate influence on my part, but I normally do the knock wood thing.

@Ulrich.Bierwisch Жыл бұрын

Not in Texas? James Truchard, founder of the company National Instruments in Austin,TX is usually called "Dr. T". It is not appropriate to call him "Mr. T" for obvious reasons.

@simonsaunders8147 Жыл бұрын

Sneezing has nothing to do with the pandemic. COVID was lung based and nothing to do with the nose at all.

@shubinternet Жыл бұрын

#4 -- the wooden measuring tape is something that my grandfather showed me over 40 years ago when I was really young, and we were in his shop where he made wooden cabinets for his customers. But they were old-school then, and my dad had already converted to metal spring-loaded retractable measuring tapes in his theater scene shop. I haven't seen them since.

@jaygee6738 Жыл бұрын

On the folding rulers, I have heard them referred to as "red ends" . I have used them when inspecting road construction to check the depth of the asphalt when placed, drainage inlets, etc. And you can wrap a piece of colored tape around a set measurement when you have to have a ton of things that need to be uniform.

@Chelle23464 Жыл бұрын

The initial deal is often due to hard to pronounce names. Like Duke’s Coach K. Also in the 90s text speak aided the use of initials. As for the finger crossings. For luck we show the crossed fingers. If lying we hide them behind our backs.

@bernmuller5261 Жыл бұрын

We use crossed fingers in exactly the same way here in Michigan.

@ClaudiaG.1979 Жыл бұрын

same in germany.. for lying the crossed finger goes behind the back..

@petenielsen6683 Жыл бұрын

It is also mostly with Millennials. With older adults it is considered rude.

@AndrewAMartin Жыл бұрын

My high school band director/teacher was "Mr. K" because his last name would get butchered otherwise, and it was quicker too. That was back in the early 80's...

@jlpack62 Жыл бұрын

The Mr. P. or Ms. K, sort of thing has to be a newer trend or in limited use, and not a longstanding American tradition. It wasn't common when I was growing up, and I really only heard for the first time with Duke's bball coach because people couldn't pronounce his tricky Polish surname. Given the "C" virus, I wouldn't want people blowing their noses around me. Even with a tissue, there has to be germs and virus spreading with each blow. I've never heard of individuals using words instead of numbers for their personal phone numbers. Correct: yardsticks don't fold. I've never heard of pressing one's thumb, even though my ethnicity comes from your list of countries that use it.. Thanks for that insight.

@MsTimelady71 Жыл бұрын

Must be a Millennial thing as I never heard that growing up either. We always used the full name. Maybe on TV but not in RL. As for the folding yard stick, my parents have always had one of those and they are the best. Easy to handle and easy to store. Score one for the Germans.

@rosmith51 Жыл бұрын

I can remember the Mr/Mrs initial thing at least as far back as late 70s and early 80s. Certainly on Happy Days they referred to Mr. C all the time, which would have indicated it was already well established in the 50s

@jlpack62 Жыл бұрын

@@rosmith51 True. Fonzi said Mrs Cunningham, Mrs. C., but is that really indicative of the 50s or was that part of Fonzi's character and a product of Hollywood of the late 70s? I still can't say that it's common enough to be considered a cultural difference.

@JMM33RanMA Жыл бұрын

It may be a continuation of the nicknaming process. My nickname, Jay, could be the familiar name for Jason, James, Jacob, etc. It seems to have also become a full name on its own, and then been reduced to "J." I've never heard the reduction to first letter in real life, but calling me Jay or "J" would be indistinguishable.

@robertdendooven7258 Жыл бұрын

There was a teacher in my Elementary school who had a long Polish name that was hard for young kids to pronounce. So, she just went by Miss K. This was in the 1970's.

@dwightyoung8878 Жыл бұрын

I have a folding wooden ruler left over from the 1960s. They were common among the plumbers in my family but have now been replaced by the tape ruler which is easier to use & can measure much greater distances. Also you are correct, yard sticks are a yard long.

@PalmyraSchwarz Жыл бұрын

Now everything is coming together for me and I understand the background of a "Mr. T." the 80's series "A-Team" now better. For a long time it was unusual in Germany to print the letters with the numbers on telephones, since this usage was completely unknown here. Very nice, these 5 differences were all unknown.

@Julia_USMidwest Жыл бұрын

The folding wood measuring stick is an antique that was quickly replaced by the metal measuring tape in the mid 1900s. I think the naming with one letter was a trend started by some teen-targeted TV show at some point. I have rarely heard it. Naming Mrs. C, etc. was done by the Fonz on the TV show "Happy Days" in the late 1970s. Again, not that common.

@leDespicable Жыл бұрын

Interesting, because metal measuring tapes aren't really a replacement for yard sticks here in Germany. They're used in different situations.

@christ6671 Жыл бұрын

@@leDespicable Same in US. They all serve a purpose. The tape measure is mostly used as a carry on your belt. Straight metal rulers are used in shops. For measuring or drawing a straight line.

@jeffreysahaida1111 Жыл бұрын

@@leDespicable old yardsticks are rare in the US now. My dad used to have one but that was 50 or more years ago. I loved the medal tape measuring sticks because you push down on a button to hold it the flip up and it comes back like 100 MPH

@Julia_USMidwest Жыл бұрын

@@leDespicable We still sometimes have household yard sticks, and construction workers have large (or small) "squares" (L, T, or triangle shaped) or large "levels" to use as straight edges. However, the folding type used for ease of carrying is usually replaced by metal tape measures.

@wandilismus8726 Жыл бұрын

@@leDespicable i only use a Metal measuring tape playing Tabletop Games

@JMM33RanMA Жыл бұрын

In Japan, hiding your thumbs is used when you see a hearse to protect your parent from dying or to prevent bad luck. The Japanese seem a bit reluctant to discuss such things with 好奇心旺盛な外国人 like me, so I have received different answers, young people maintaining, "Oh, we don't do that nowadays!" Having spent over half of my life overseas, returning to the US in the late 20th Century I found people usually coughing or sneezing into their elbows, rather than into hands or handkerchiefs. In Asia you are supposed to turn away and or leave the room. They think it is disgusting that westerners use handkerchiefs, and think disposable tissues more sanitary, and I agree, especially now. I have not seen anyone sneezing in public since the start of the pandemic. Thanks for another very interesting video.

@tomhalla426 Жыл бұрын

I have seen folding rulers, but as a retired construction worker, never used one on the job. Soft tape measures were a tailor/dressmaker tool, while retractible tape measures were used in construction. The laser measures were more of an estimating tool, when bidding on a job.

@bobthebikerny Жыл бұрын

The folding rule(r) is also known as a carpenter's rule(r) in the US but tape measures have replaced them for the most part. Lowes and Home Depot have them for sale.

@skiiminette6725 Жыл бұрын

To clear up the confusion on the crossing fingers: Here in America we cross our fingers for good luck and show it. When we want to not make a promise, we cross our fingers behind our backs.

@fonkbadonk5370 Жыл бұрын

Which kinda makes it worse imho.

@skiiminette6725 Жыл бұрын

@@fonkbadonk5370 what does?

@fonkbadonk5370 Жыл бұрын

@@skiiminette6725 Making "not a promise" behind your back. If you don't, just don't. Don't just lie about it.

@skiiminette6725 Жыл бұрын

@@fonkbadonk5370 Well, this was more what children would do, not adolescents or adults... Kids would do what kids do.

@matthewbanta3240 Жыл бұрын

When they first started giving out phone numbers in the US, they thought it would be easier to remember them if they replaced the first two letter with a word. They still do that on the Simpsons. When they give a number they will say "Klondike 5-1234". You were supposed to know that "Klondike" means KL or 55. BTW, you will often see 555 numbers in US shows and movies because these numbers are reserved for that purpose and won't be given to anyone. Another example is the old song "Pennsylvania 65000." That was a phone number (that is still assigned to a hotel that was popular at the time). They stopped doing that word thing for the first two letters probably in the 50's or so. However the letters are still on your phone. Maybe Germans were first to figured out that the word thing didn't make things easier so they never did that. BTW, at one point everyone had rotary phones. With rotary phones, it took longer to dial large numbers. So phone numbers from high population centers like New York or LA got small numbers. Small towns (whose numbers probably wouldn't be dialed as often) got larger numbers. This was done to save time. Now it doesn't matter

@melindar.fischer5106 Жыл бұрын

I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, in the 70s and I remember local TV commercials listing telephone numbers by their neighborhood or suburb letters -- that's how the telephone numbers were assigned decades earlier. So telephone numbers in the Westport area of KC started with WE (93), and Gladstone phone numbers started with GL (45), etc. I vividly remember a TV commercial for Standard Improvement Company with the workers singing "call Westport 1-7100" while "WE 1-7100" appeared on the TV screen. (It's a really cute commercial - look it up on KZfaq).

@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 Жыл бұрын

555-1212 usually works; in my area code it used to give the time. So not ALL "555" numbers are unassigned.

@LythaWausW Жыл бұрын

@@melindar.fischer5106 I grew up in West Seattle and the whole West-side was WE (93) and there is a really cool bar there to this day with the name "West-5" because the phone number is 935.... I remember our phone at home had SO-26429 written on it for the South Park neighborhood. So you only had to remember 5 digits to learn your neighbors' numbers. Today my cell phone number has 12 digits and I cannot always remember it. My landline has "only" 11 (but the area code is 5 digits!)

@LythaWausW Жыл бұрын

@@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 Can you confirm it works today? Unfortunately in the last couple years Seattle decided that every time you make a phone call you must dial the area code. Even within your own area code on a landline. It is one of the changes that at first confused me, and now just pisses me off.

@doug112244 Жыл бұрын

Growing up in the 60s and 70s folding rulers were around but tape measures mostly replace them because I suspect they are generally cheaper, longer and less fragile. The last folding rule I used was a logging scale.

@lieninger Жыл бұрын

Normally, that "fingers crossed" to excuse a lie is done behind the back, ostensibly to hide one's deceptive intent (although generally this is supposed to be reserved for only very minor untruths, or perhaps "white lies", intended often to spare another's feelings)- whereas for a well-wish, the crossed fingers are shown and/or declared.

@pigmanobvious Жыл бұрын

The initial thing is mostly a Hollywood thing. Nobody I know uses that. Of course the country is pretty big. I also never heard of the thumb thing and my part of Wisconsin is mostly of German heritage. I can still hear my grandma saying “Ach!” It was her way of saying no!

@JMM33RanMA Жыл бұрын

There are different types of German. Pennsylvania German is a mixture of different local dialects. In the NYC area there is a significant Yiddish influence. So, between German, Yiddish and Dutch [related to Plattdeutsch] "ach" seems more like "oh!" I wonder whether in "Ach, Scheiss!" it means Oh or no. Würde mir bitte jemand erklären!

@pigmanobvious Жыл бұрын

@@JMM33RanMA yes I agree. I am a avid reader particularly on WW2. What struck me as funny was when reading these personal memoirs by German soldiers was how they kidded each other about their different accents. In America we are conditioned to believe their is only the movie style grunting type of German language.

@cubbance Жыл бұрын

I'm from the midwest, and referring to someone with just their first initial is definitely something that happens here. But only with certain letters for some reason. Like, you wouldn't say F instead of Feli. But you might say B instead of Bill, or J instead of Jason (I get this one a lot). I don't know why some letters are good for shortening and others aren't. It's also pretty common, mostly with teachers, to refer to them as Mr. or Mrs. initial. I had at least 5 or 6 teachers growing up who were commonly referred to in that way.

@pigmanobvious Жыл бұрын

@@cubbance yes I definitely agree with the teacher reference. I remember when I was in high school in the 80’s it started with teachers who had last names that were hard to pronounce. I wonder if this is how it got started?

@JMM33RanMA Жыл бұрын

@@pigmanobvious I studied German in college in the US in the 1970's. The book and the method were seriously defective. Having become an ESL teacher, I recognize the bad methodology as being only suitable for a minority of students. One semester of Ich heisse Johan, followed by Faust, and not Goethe's Faust but the older original. That is extremely bad practice, based on faulty educational theory. It is done solely in German, so the explanation of case and gender rules are opaque to people whose language has deleted most of that baggage! When I attempt to speak German, therefore, it comes out like Nazi German in WW II movies, to the dismay of any German subjected to it! Alles war unwirksam und im Wesentlichen nutzlos.

@rickleefs Жыл бұрын

In my youth (1960s) the folding rulers were common but were gradually replaced by measuring tapes.

@greg_216 Жыл бұрын

#4 is often called a "wood rule" and it's frequently used by surveyors to measure the height of survey instruments. Personally, I've never seen it used anywhere else in the USA, but it is extremely common in certain industries.

@jimjackson5544 Жыл бұрын

Feli, a "Yard Stick" is three (3) Feet long. That folding ruler that you held up is a Construction Rule(r) here in the USA.

@larrydlam Жыл бұрын

True and the yard stick doesn't usually fold.

@doug112244 Жыл бұрын

The calling someone by their initial is very weird to me except in limited cases where English speakers would badly struggle with pronunciation and spelling of the name. Likely the best known one is Coach K the former Duke University Basketball coach.

@anthonykaiser974 Жыл бұрын

@doug112244 no doubt, when I first saw Coach K's name after just hearing it, even kinda knowing Polish was a difficult language, it was not hard to get why Mike Krzyzewski became "Coach K." Beats "Alphabet," which is what you'd likely get named in a military basic training in that situation.

@shubinternet Жыл бұрын

#3 -- I've seen that with ads (as you notice), but never personal use. And I've never heard of doing things over the phone instead of online, any time in the last ten years.

@Gord2205 Жыл бұрын

I've seen one of those folding rulers before a long time ago but tape measures replaced those in the building industry 50 or more years ago here in Canada. A tape measure is much more compact, less breakable and can be clipped to your belt or tool belt.

@rahmit47 Жыл бұрын

I am over 70 years old now (American), but when I was 18 and 19 years old, I worked as a carpenter, and we always used the folding carpenter's rule or ruler, as you describe. But measuring tapes were becoming more and more common at that time, and now I agree that one can't hardly find or purchase a folding ruler any longer. By the way, I agree that groceries are more expensive in the USA, but gasoline and real estate are far cheaper here than in Germany. Cheers

@timesthree5757 Жыл бұрын

It depends on the State or if yer Urban or Rural. Were I live we have Germans move in and they are amazed at how cheap the food is.

@jimshields4 Жыл бұрын

I am also over 70 years old, and I can remember my father using the carpenter's rule. However, they are somewhat fragile, and the tape measure is more robust, and more accurate. Hope this helps.

@thehoneybadger8089 Жыл бұрын

Gasoline‽ Not for much longer!

@theawolf2478 Жыл бұрын

@@thehoneybadger8089 really? We're now at around 2.15€ per litre which equals 10.50$ per gallon

@thehoneybadger8089 Жыл бұрын

@@theawolf2478 We will probably be there by the end of Summer.

@Julia_USMidwest Жыл бұрын

I grew up in 3 different Midwest states where blowing your nose in public--in the classroom--was perfectly acceptable. Only an occasional mother might complain if she thought you were being embarrassingly obnoxious about it. It must be a regional/family culture thing.

@cubbance Жыл бұрын

I'm from Kansas City, and generally, blowing your nose in public is fine, but you should still turn away from people while you do it. But it's infinitely better than sniffing and snuffling constantly.

@ea42455 Жыл бұрын

Maybe is a regional thing. When blowing your nose here in the south you try to be a little discrete. At least turn your head away from others, altho when I worked in a govt. office we'd actually turn our back to office mates. Had never thought about it. Guess it's just an ingrained regionalism.

@kurtlong3928 Жыл бұрын

I live and work in Switzerland just across the border from Germany. I was eating in a restaurant once when a man sitting next to me blew his nose vigorously almost trumpeting like an elephant. It totally shocked me since where I am originally from in the East coast in the US this is pretty disgusting. It was surprising also since the Swiss are usually so polite and courteous.

@1FUZZTUBE Жыл бұрын

In regards to Point 4. My dad was a remodeling contractor for over forty years as well as a teacher of carpentry and cabinet making at a vocational school for most of that time. He always had a folding wooden ruler like the one that you showed, as well as a metal tape measure in his tool belt. As a matter of fact, I think that there is a pocket in most painters pants that is specifically designed to hold such a ruler. I'm not sure if it is used for that purpose anymore, but they were quite common back in the day. Also, my dad always referred to such a ruler as a "six foot rule" so I find it mildly amusing that they are used so much more in Germany where the metric system of measurement is the standard for a very long time.

@CoastalNomad Жыл бұрын

Great Video....... I enjoy your videos..... 1) I have not encountered the calling someone by the iniitial of their name, unless they had a hard to pronounce name..... If I do not call them by their name, I commonly to call them by a "Nickname"..... I have some friends that I have called them by a nickname so much that saying their real name sounds wrong...... 2) Blowing Nose - I've seen it both ways... sometimes it comes down to is there a place to excuse yourself to go to..... or how much warning you have before need to blow or sneeze...... Add) Cooking - Sometimes it has to do with amount of time scheduled (buzy day) and sometimes the availiblitly of sizing of ingrediants.... you might only need 1"teaspoon" of an ingrediant and rest of the bottle/package will go bad before use rest of it..... 3) Phone Numbers - Americans still feel better about a transaction if they are "Talking" to another person..... and if can associate a number to a word/abbreviation makes the number easier to remember.... 4) Measuring tapes - the zig-zag carpenters rule is not prefered due to precieved bulkyness and it is seen as more practical to hold operate are tape measure expecially more than 25 feet in length, especially if measuring inside an area like a window or cabinet.... 5) Thumbs/Fingers - Example of how guestures/words are regional.... I always understood showing crossed fingers was wishing someone good luck/best wishes, and hiding crossed fingers was hoping they don't figure out I'm lying......

@kam_iko Жыл бұрын

7:21 #3 the reason why most countries outside of US, Canada and UK didn’t use letters in phone numbers was/is quite prosaic: because it wasn’t common to put those on the telephones… english wikipedia > rotary dial > letters

@aquilapetram Жыл бұрын

And that's just it. Part of the issue is that it goes back to a much older phone infrastructure, from back when all phone calls were directed not by dialing a number, but by telling a human operator who you wanted to be connected with. The household phone infrastructure in the US dates back to the 1920s; I'm still surprised when I see 1950s-60s English movies, how everyone doesn't have a phone in their own houses. But in a lot of the world, a phone inside one's home was a luxury. America's infrastructure is much older than anyone else's, so each new technology has to be designed to incorporate the infrastructure that's already in place. It why the first major broadband technology in the US was DSL (which runs over the existing analog phone lines), while Europe started with ISDN (which ran over the digital phone lines that were already there, installed 30-50 years after America's phone system). When I was a kid in the 1960s, the numbers in the phone book were all listed with their "exchange" at the beginning - the two-letter code that represented the first two digits of the number. Typically, when you told someone your phone number, you turned the two-letter exchange into a full word, to make it easier to distinguish through the mediocre audio of the phone system. I can still remember my old number: THornhiil 5-4936; there were a lot of THornhills in my neighborhood. That convention went away in the early 70s, as rotary dial phones (all owned by Ma Bell, the original pre-breakup AT&T) were replaced with modular pushbutton phones. Once cellular phones started replacing landline phones 20 years ago, more and more phone carriers started requiring that the area code be included in every number you dialed. The only reason people tolerate that is because they're using ccellphones with preprogrammed contact lists; if they had to dial out an extra four digits to call next door every time (country code+area code), we'd head for the local phone company's office with pitchforks and pump shotguns, outraged at the inconvenience.

@AndrewAMartin Жыл бұрын

@@aquilapetram The requirement to dial the full 10 digit number nowadays is due to the vast proliferation of cell phones, which has caused the use of 'overlays', or multiple area codes in the same area. There are just too many numbers in use for the system to work otherwise.

@c_wanderluster Жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining to me the phone number thing. I never understood it. It's not a thing in Italy or Romania either. And definitely Romania and Italy are more similar to Germany in so many aspects like the websites and online banking

@Rocketsong Жыл бұрын

It's not really a thing in the US, other than some advertisers. And it almost always seems to be lawyers. They want a "number" that can be remembered by someone after they are arrested.

@tylerlarowe7345 Жыл бұрын

Love these little differences.

@steventagawa6959 Жыл бұрын

Very smooth segue into the sponsor plug! 😂 👍 About calling teachers by their last initial: It's most common in preschool and kindergarten, because it's easier for four- and five-year-olds to remember and say "Mrs. P" than "Mrs. Pumpernickel." If a teenager does it, it's a sign that they have a casual, friendly relationship with that teacher. And it's probably more common on TV than in real life these days. About crossing your fingers: If you mean it to negate a promise or when you're lying, the cliché is to do it behind your back, so the person you're talking to doesn't see it (since they're not supposed to know that you're lying). If you hold up crossed fingers to someone, it would usually be interpreted as wishing good luck. (The context would also probably make it clear.)

@betsyduane3461 Жыл бұрын

Americans do not use words for their phone numbers unless it's a business which pays for the specific letters or unless it's just a coincidence. And the letters on the phone are from when we used to have named exchanges before area codes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names

@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 Жыл бұрын

Individuals may choose their own phone number, too.

@betsyduane3461 Жыл бұрын

@@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 If it's available and for a fee.

@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 Жыл бұрын

@@betsyduane3461 no fee if it is a Skype Number; but of course it has to be available, that is true for individuals and corporations.

@betsyduane3461 Жыл бұрын

@@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 The cost of a Skype Number subscription varies depending on which country you want the Skype Number for and how long the subscription lasts (1, 3 or 12-months) And Skype is not a cell number

@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 Жыл бұрын

@@betsyduane3461 wow, thank you for your informative post, Mr. Know-It-All! But it is beside the point: NO CHARGE for picking an available number.

@andrewcram6032 Жыл бұрын

Crossing your fingers does mean that the person crossing their fingers mean you are not being honest although I have seen this contradiction different to me on television shows and from people I would meet in different parts of the country such as here in the West Coast or Vancouver WA.

@mariefriedmann3203 11 ай бұрын

Adorable Fele! I can’t believe how much I’m learning about Germany!! Pressing thumbs hahahaha It’s more a new thing last 20 years or so… it started from only for long complicated unpronounceable names.

@ronaldgarrison8478 Жыл бұрын

There's a much closer Aldi going in here. I'm eagerly awaiting it.

@jasonwiggins6137 Жыл бұрын

Be careful with the "Americans do" videos. There are close to 350 million people in the U.S. and a wide variety of cultures. There are also significant differences in different geographical locations within the Country. I honestly have not witnessed many of the "Americans do" examples and my bloodline runs back to the 1600's here.

@starseed8087 Жыл бұрын

Every country has different regions, groups and different behaviors, so you could not make such a video about any country at all. But still there are things that are more common in one country than in another country

@jasonwiggins6137 Жыл бұрын

@@starseed8087 Not like the U.S.

@theopuscula Жыл бұрын

@@jasonwiggins6137 As the travel prone melting pot that it is, America actually has way fewer precise geographic cultural differences than Germany for instance. Sure, there are a lot of "parralell" societies, particularly of relatively recent immigration, but you get those too in Germany and many other European countries. Considering the number of people and geographic extension, American culture is quite uniform; which of course doesn't mean that there are no differences at all, but the difference between attitudes and customs between for instance North and South Germany is larger than the overall difference between different parts of the US that I have seen.

@jasonwiggins6137 Жыл бұрын

@@theopuscula The differences between Hawaii and Alaska is night and day. The Southern States is significantly different from the Northern States. The Western States are significantly different from the East. European culture from a multitude of different European Countries are spread throughout (Irish, French, German, British, etc.) African cultures are everywhere, along with Spanish. There is currently a rapidly growing Indian and Islamic presence. Native American culture is rich in diversity, and there are countless differences within all of these examples.

@theopuscula Жыл бұрын

@@jasonwiggins6137 And still all those people you mention will know what "fingers crossed" means and in all these places you will find at least some people who might not like you blowing your nose in their vicinity. Perhaps calling semeone Mr D is less common in some places than in others, but it is nothing people would be surprised by and have never heard of in any of those places. What was initially said is true: If you assume American standards of cultural difference are anything to go by, then no country can be talked about, because almost all countries (barring maybe extremely small ones) have differences in local food, traditions, immigration background, religion. The Southern States are maybe about as different from The NOrthern as Schleswig Hollstein is from Bavaria, but only if you look at their most stereotypical incarnations. I have been to several of each and would still always have known I'm in the US and not in Germany and not in Mexico or Britain either. Except for some extreme forms of Southern US English there are even hardly any differences in dialect a typical non-native speaker of English would notice.

@usaverageguy Жыл бұрын

I was a bricklayer for many years. Every bricklayer carries a "ruler" with very special increments on one side to increase or decrease the height of each course of brick

@jaytibbles2223 Жыл бұрын

The first measuring device I used was the folder! Many places the thumbs up gesture is like the bird!

@psa110 Жыл бұрын

Feli, your explanations are fine for me. They make sense. The only thing is, I have never heard the folding wooded ruler called a yard stick. There are actual yard sticks (maybe not so common today) that are one yards long and do not fold. Every classroom in school when I was growing up (the 1950s) had one. I have one today.

@24btor Жыл бұрын

Excellent video as usual! In Germany there are cases in which initials are used for a first name, especially in a case when the first name has more than one word (similar to TJ): HP for Hans-Peter like the famous comedian HP Kerkling.

@robritenour2785 Жыл бұрын

I love it when Feli brings up something that is German and I can relate to it because it was around when I was a kid, but had no idea it was linked to Germany, aka the folding rulers. I've got a couple from my Dad.

@donbenson2099 Жыл бұрын

On the folding ruler, I have always known it as a carpenters ruler. When I was a kid they were very common ask a carpenter if they still use them I believe they do. Thank you Feli for you are a beautiful person.

@22craigjohnson Жыл бұрын

I have several 6 ft folding rulers and continue to use them. If you are measuring from an inside distance between closet walls, for instance, there is an extension or slide bar on the first 7” fold. So you can get a very accurate measurement without bending a tape measure up the other wall. Then you can take the opened ruler to the wood you want to cut, and it is already open to the exact instance. These are popular among finish carpenters at new construction jobs. We still use them here in North Carolina. Lufkin is a popular brand.

@HALWG51 Жыл бұрын

We definitely had the folding rule when I was a kid. We had several of them. I haven't seen one in years.

@oldstogey7864 Жыл бұрын

I'm in South Africa, and still have my father's yardstick from before we went metric in 1973. I think they became obsolete because tape measures were cheaper and more versatile. We also have "hold thumbs" as an expression for good luck, as well as "fingers crossed".

@thomaskeil1437 Жыл бұрын

Good segue with the Hello Fresh.

@ronaldswihart4018 7 ай бұрын

I'm an old guy, 79, and I've always used thumbs up and a gesture for 'good luck', like the like button for your video.

@sblankin Жыл бұрын

The folding ruler is an old fashion ruler. I use them all the time. But I'm old. I do Carry the tape measure when I'm measuring bigger items.

@GermanyTechno Жыл бұрын

11:34 “crossing your fingers on the other hand” literally.

@pinchtwo654 Жыл бұрын

My grandpa in North Carolina gave me one of those folding rulers when I was a kid. He called it the measuring stick. I’m pretty sure you can still find them in some hardware stores.

@DumbassPen Жыл бұрын

That sponsor segue was so smooth

@Thresher Жыл бұрын

My dad is was a contractor. He had one of the wooden measuring devices. But yeah, pretty much everyone uses a tape measure.

@nuclearpoweredbrain2211 Жыл бұрын

I've heard of preferred or nick names. Only used Mr with an initial for my name as staff at a kids summer camp. It was easier for them. I recall the folding ruler was slightly inconvenient. The tape measure is so much easier.

@sschmidtevalue Жыл бұрын

Folding rulers were used by my grandfather and father for carpentry. I may still have one in the garage. They were superseded by tape measures after WWII. Modern tape measures are smaller, lighter, longer and can hang on your belt.

@jimm6810 Жыл бұрын

I have a "folding wood ruler" but then I have lots of unusual tools. Also a yardstick is a non-folding would or metal ruler 36" long.

@machfront 11 ай бұрын

I’ve very rarely experienced anyone calling anyone by the first letter of their name. It’s generally thought of as silly and a bizarre eccentricity of the person doing so. Calling a teacher “Mr D” isn’t common but it happens. It’s more common if an older lady in a neighborhood everyone knows and loves. But more often it’s “Mrs (first name) rather than “Mrs D”. But whatever the family calls her THAT’S what you call her because it’s a sign of respect and love! 🙂 Pretty much almost never witnessed a person blowing their nose in public here in central GA in my 49 years. I know very few people who rely on fast food for their meals because it’s a lot cheaper to get groceries. While it may be true for many to spend less time preparing meals, getting groceries also means a lot of options that take mere seconds or a few minutes to warm up, etc I’ve never ever ever ever known nor heard ANYONE outside of businesses spelling their phone number. False. Folding rulers are still a thing. This is perhaps because you live and experience “America” in the context of a major city. The rest of America is often a vastly different place to the point that everyday Americans often feel as though major cities are nigh alien to a point. I’d imagine most would measure with their phone or another tech device, yes, but I still see the same type of wooden folding ruler as my father has and still uses.

@jd-zr3vk Жыл бұрын

In the 1950s telephone numbers were extended to a 3 digit prefix and a 4 digit exchange. The 3 digit prefix were written as letters. For example. Thorn,wall is 857 and Sterling is 781. Companies capitalized on this standard by using letters for the exchange.

@jamesbond_007 Жыл бұрын

The folding rulers were more common back in the day (say the 50s or before). Tape measures are just so much easier for most things, although their flimsy nature can cause issues. I probably have one of these folding rulers I inherited (along with a number of other tools) from my father. But as you say, you can still buy the folding rulers at hardware stores, so they're not completely gone from the scene.

@pwitkop 7 ай бұрын

That kind of ruler used to be really common, my grandfathers toolbox had several. Not sure why they fell out of fashion, I think it was probably sometime after the war

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@jamesbulldogmiller Жыл бұрын

@9:44 As a land surveyor, I use the folding ruler all day every working day. There are two lengths a two yard stick (6feet) And a four yard stick (twelve feet.) In the USA surveyors measure in feet. But not inches. Instead we divide the foot into 100ths of feet (4.33 feet instead of 4ft 4inches)

@justinreid2422 Жыл бұрын

Iron Workers use Folding wooden rule / der Zollstab to place marks on bridge decks before tying rebar

@kevinb2469 Жыл бұрын

I think the single initial is a familiarity thing combined with nicknames being common. Young children still use the Last Name rule when speaking to adults especially teachers. It was even more common 50+ years ago. This seems to mostly extend to high school. And I think the last initial only is a roundabout way of familiarization and friendliness without using the first name.

@Chris71151 Жыл бұрын

My father had the folding wooden measuring stick. He was born in 1929. I haven’t seen one in a long time.

@thomasvlaskampiii6850 Жыл бұрын

I can give a good reason why we do a lot of stuff over the phone. A lot of people, especially out west in the mountains, don't have access to high speed internet. So, unless you want to wait 30 years for mobile banking to load via 14.4k dialup, you call the bank

@michaelihle5264 Жыл бұрын

A yardstick does not fold and is 36 inches (3 feet, 1 yard, 0.9144 meters) long. The folding stick you refer to is commonly referred to as a carpenters' ruler.

@tracy3812 Жыл бұрын

My Grandmother’s phone number (until the late 1970s) was FL2-2603. The FL stood for Floral Park (her town) & the section she was from. My Mom’s phone in the Bronx started with LU for “Ludlowe.” Ancient US phone history.