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Hahah.. that's the same here in the Netherlands.. All supermarkets have this same system but here you can often ask for a free "muntje" (coin) at the service desk with a keychain (at least with Albert Heijn and Jumbo supermarket) so upon returning the cart, you get your coin back and hang it on the keychain for future use !

@@sannynjoo9776 Yeah, same here. I have a metal coin on my keychain. I unlock the cart and pull the coin directly out again.

Wow, it never even crossed their mind that being decent gets rewarded. Dumbest thing an American once told me was that "only a nazi would say they're from Germany, because Germany doesn't exist anymore". They genuinely believed it was disbanded after WW2, and the territories were split between the allied forces. However, nazis like to pretend Germany still exists, so they produce fake IDs, make up stories about it and so on.

@@sannynjoo9776 I am from Germany but I have heard you can do that in the US too

yh i agree :) the big difference to the US is children in germany walk or ride their bikes to school at a very young age (from age 6 or 7 upwards). that would never happen in the US. so there is a reason for setting a good example. pedestrians rely on drivers to stop at the red light and it's the same vice versa. ofc there are "black sheeps", but in general it feels safe to be part of german traffic.

I once saw a kid get hit by a car when they ran across the street instead of walking a few meters to the next crosswalk when I left my school. Really stuck with me, especially because I heard the kid barely survived.

The saying is: "No matter how cool you are, when there are children nearby you wait for the green light!"

That's actually how you recognize German tourists anywhere. They wait at traffic lights even if there is no traffic. Near German train stations you have more people running over red lights to catch their train, though ;)

that's not really true, most will stop even if there are no children in a radius of 1 kilometer, the difference is only in the size of the street, in a small side alley, most will just jaywalk despite traffic lights, however, as soon it's a two-lane road even with no cars, people will stay still until its green or if its a really straight road were you can see 500m in the distance with no car people will walk. And it's a stark contrast to neighbor countries or other EU countries, I was 2 times in England for a few weeks and it's as if traffic lights are nonexistent, people will jaywalk everywhere even on busy roads, in France its a mix and in Greece, the lights are even less important for cars and pedestrians then in England, which was shocking for me, because i and my sister were nearly run over 3 times within a week because of mopeds and cars not minding red light, and I was in Athens. ..

That really seems to mess with german people, actually. Was a cashier for a time, and I really like smalltalk, so I would regularily get verbally sanctioned at work for "talking too much". Didn't care then and don't do so now, but it is still interesting to see how uncomfortable germans are with talking to strangers. Until you're at a metal concert or festival, where everyone just uses "Du" instead of "Sie" and is basically like extended family. It's amazing, really.

@@RealMineKD It's not really about being uncomfortable, more that your first instinct is to assume the person talking to you has questionable intentions or is crazy because it's so unusual. 9 out of 10 times that's exactly what's happening (besides people who are asking for directions or something).

​@@niwa_s Not chatting back with me but becoming suspicious angry is what I hate about germans, as a german. But there are differences. In the very north of west germany they are more polite and answer. Not in the american/bavarian way of "I talk to strangers like a friend" - althow I do not mean it this way and tomorrow I do not know you anymore. The north west (Hamburg, Bremen, SH, NDS) people are more serious and truthful. At least it has been this way before the national and international cultural mix up last 30 years. Before it was like IF a north germans offers you friendship, it is for a lifetime and REAL friendship ( no facebook adding to strangers "friendship") like you can call in the rainy night and ask for a car lift up from the station. Americans, actually most of the world always realized the germans are rather inpolite in the service. But last 30 years they became really rude to all not-family members/ close friends. It was parallel with growing anonymity and egoism.

"Textilsauna" 😏

Here in Dresden, this with nude and not entirely nude in one beach works out quiet well.

In Netherlands we removed most of the designations for nude beaches. There are 1 or 2 small strips left, but they dont even have signs to indicate. Instead, it just isnt policed, if you want to take off your clothes, you take them off, women are frequently sunbathing topless everywhere. Maybe prude people with children might object if you are walking around right next to them with your schlong hanging out but I never saw anyone have a problem with it.

@@user-nq5kl7yu4di have also been to fkk beaches clothed... i mean yes, i was like 12 but still i don't believe beaches are as strict as the sauna...

While all you said is true and also understandable from the restaurants perspective, I would like to add, that I think most restaurants in Germany would give you tap water if you ask for it. Especially if it is an addition to the actual order.

@@pavlxiiv8003 Yeah, I think so too. When you order a drink and something to eat and ask for tab water too, you probably would get it.

Not completely true!You can always ask for tap water when ordering another drink to dilute it!---quite common in Bavaria and Austria!

Recently, restaurants in Croatia are increasingly offering bottled water but there are two reasons for that: a) they may not charge for tap water, but they may charge for bottled water b) health reasons if you get sick from "water" and it is from a bottle, they have no responsibility when the health inspection arrives

Especially if you order coffee you usually get a glass of water As long as you order other drinks, it's ok to have free water along with it and ask for refills

That's the pure evil😂

Just came to the video still not there, what the fuck Edit: nuke the usa

Mf denkt wirklich das Zeug wird zu einem Recyclinghof geschickt.. bro, egal wie heftig du recycelst das meiste wird straight nach China geschickt weil das in Deutschland als "wiederverwertet" gilt und China kippt das straight ins Meer

So lustig zu sehen wie jemand nen pfandautomaten bewundert

@@deancinar4384 wird trotzdem zu 90% nicht recycelt

typisch deutsch😂😂😂

So ist richtig Egal was die anderen machen halte dich an die Regeln und zeige keine schwäche

Mach ich nie... nur wenn Kinder in der Nähe sind

@@sandraankenbrand ^ This I only jaywalk if there is literally no car around and no kids. But I always adhere to the rules if there are kids around, always. Something something gutes Vorbild sein ;)

Rotgänger Totgänger

Exactly. Like in movies if a character says "I'm just 2 days away from retirement" or like "that wasn't bad" it's a sure way everythign is going to get real bad real soon. Of course in movies and the like thay do this to reverse expectations. But just in case some random deity is listening and wants to make an example of us, better not wish birthdays in advance

I'm a German and I don't give a shit about your superstitions.

Okay, but if there is anything that no doctor at night shift dares to say, it is "quiet"

Now that math teacher came out of nowhere and gave me a good laugh

I didn't know about this until my Austrian teacher told me about the culture shock she had here when she realised people in the Netherlands sometimes throw a birthday party before their actual birthday. She was like 'why would you celebrate before you're certain it's gonna happen' basically...

i still hop the imaginary gates before entering trains.

Yeah no gates here. I kinda asking myself he knows this👍

But there are Saunas where you wear your trunks. Actually I think at the most places I've ever been

@@bobindergrosse Really? I have never seen one, the ones that I have been to all over Germany are all nude and coed.

@@dirklatham1045 For example in Northrhine Westphalia in the city of Werne. There is an bathing place with a clothing sauna. Or in Plettenberg there's also one

An other reason is, in your clothes are the cloine water, and some bacteria so it is unhygienic to wear some clothes. And yes normaly in Germany the sauna is mixed. So female and male persone sitting together. And the Sauna attendant have the power to kick somebody out

What drives me crazy is people that do not understand the "kein Schweiss auf's Holz" - Rule 😈 It means that none of your sweat should get in contact with the wooden interior of the sauna cabin, hence the towel you "sit on" must cover all of your body, including feet and back (depending on the position: leaning against wall etc). A towel wrapped around your waist will not do that job. If you don't feel confortable to be completely naked, do not visit german saunas - pls

yes, to be nude in the sauna or on the beach means you share the culture not to stare on naked people. and accept symmetry/balance in relation to other. if you are shy or do not like to be starred, go to the separated sauna.

​@@LH-rp5qzExactly, this was the answer I was told from Sauna staff: In the bathing clothes usually is chlorine which is EXTREMELY unhealthy when heated up. As they can't control if the clothes are chlorine-free or not, they don't allow wearing them at all.

I agree. I've written this in other words but I'm no native English speaker, too. But i hope we are understandable :-)

But to be honest nobody would call the security when you wear swimmwear in the saune or FKK beach. But of course you shoud adapt to the culture and not do it.

The thing is, it is not unusual, that people are wearing bathing clothes on FKK beaches. I saw this even on beaches with a clothing area only 50m next to it. Noone really cares.

@@chrisr25071 Teens who Like to Go to Sauna wear swimwear Sometimes im the Sauna anyways cause their Body develops and they are unsure about themselves. Mostly thats okay for anyone, too.

@@chrisr25071 Oh, you don't need to call someone, the people will clearly moan so loud and say the person how to behave, that there is no doubt, the person will obey or go.

yes, the original meaning was more like it would have been in america (at a time when there were no united states yet but only separate colonies or states) to have a song "united states above all the colonies/states". in germany that was later misused to allegedly meaning something similar to what would have been "usa above all american countries, canada, mexico, etc". therefore the entire song itself is not illegal, but using it with that old bad meaning is, just like using, endorsing and promoting, symbols, gestures, flags, etc from those bad times. if you use eg the gesture and sing the first verse, you can and probably will be prosecuted, especially when it's done at some memorial like some stupid tourists find it funny. and therefore the entire song still was the official national anthem, with the condition to only ever sing the third verse for any official pupose. later (in 1990) they changed this and now the *entire* official anthem is *only* the third verse. fun fact: there are some laws for the looks and usage of the german flag, but none for the national anthem. that was only determined (both times) by an official exchange of letters between president and chancellor.

THIS!!!!!!!!!

Thank you for being a good person.

The bodies of water he's recounting there, however, have never been part of Germany at the same time. The Maas is in the Netherlands, the Memel in Lithuania, the Adige in Italy and the Belt is Danish. The idea was that German is being spoken within these borders and that whoever speaks German should unite as a nation. It's the idea of cultural identity being the same as national identity - which was progressive at that time but has been overcome meanwhile. Identitary movements are considered far-right, even extremist, in today's Germany.

@@Baccatube79 Between 1839 and 1866 existed a Herzogtum Limburg (Maas) and it was part of the German Confederation. The river Memel was the border between Prussia and Russia, and the far east of Prussia was inhabited mostly by Germans, but not part of "Deutscher Bund" The Adige or Etsch is a river in South- Tyrol and this was part of Austria, the most relevant state of the German Confederation. Holstein, also part of the German Confederation, is situated at the Belt too. But You are right: a person who sings today: "Von der Maas bis an die Memel, von der Etsch bis an den Belt" would be considered as very stupid, far-right and crazy. Hoffman von Fallersleben, who wrote this stanza in 1841 was a patriot and not far-right.

Agree, and the fabric is not supposed to withstand 80+ degrees celcius - but thats a fact people might realize at a later time 🤣

Yeah 😄 If someone is lost I will absolutely help them if I can. But I for example am someone who does not like small talk at all with someone I don't know, unless I'm at work.

I remember in the Rhineland , people love to communicate ! Here in Holland they certainly do not , so boring .

Agree with the train If I am on a journey 10 hours through germany i have no problem sometimes with chatting or smalltalk to someone else But if I am just walking. Or shopping. I don't want to talk If its important that doesn't count

Immer unterschiedlich

Came here to point that out as well. Also, speaking from my own experience, Germans tend to be somewhat more comfortable with nudity than many other cultures.

It’s an east west thing in Germany as well. In former East Germany it was absolutely common on every beach to swim or sun as you like. I guess 80% were naked, 20% were not. Even in the parks in the middle of Berlin, 30 years ago, you could watch serious people in their suits from the offices nearby came to have a lunch break, and after that took a little nap in the sun, completely undressing being naked. After that they put on their clothes again, dressed in their fine suits and returned to the offices. Until today on East German beaches you are free to do whatever you want. Nobody cares. The thing with the forced nudity is a special western behavior. I don’t know why, but it’s just a fact.

I also want to add my experiences as a woman going to a ladies‘ sauna and a mixed saune. In the baths you usually have the choice between unisex saunas and mixed saunas. First few times I went to the sauna I went to a ladies‘ sauna. I felt very much like being looked at and judged. I felt like being in a concurrence and there was a lot of talk about so called womens‘ subjects. So I tried out the mixed sauna. There I felt much more comfortable and it was much quieter there, what I liked much better. After a short while being in a sauna you almost forget about being naked as everybody is. I think this also is a reason, why everybody has to be naked.

Yes, and children of course can wear something while learning that being everybody is equal

The problem is: I work at night... and many people do... So its rude to expect people being quiet when you sleep, but start being noisy when they sleep... any nurse, doctor, pilot, it programmer has a right to quiet sleep also

Impossible is the wrong word - it's screwed up

You don’t need a water filter to serve your customers tapwater! Lol😂

No one needs a Filter for drinking tabwater in germany. Tab water is more controlled than bottled water!

Jaywalking is not an issue in Sweden

I was in Göteborg 2 month ago and EVERYONE jaywalked lol. The first day I tried standing my ground as a German and I was the only idiot that waited at the red light haha

I think in Germany it's pretty much the same. you'll only get funny looks for jaywalking if kids are nearby, otherwise literally noone cares

it's not a fine by some law; such law doesn't exist. BUT the terms of use of the transport companies have paragraphs about an "increased transportation fee" if you have no valid ticket, and there are general laws about "unauthorized use of any services". thus you usually have to pay that fine and get a receipt that can be used to continue traveling with that bus or tram ("real train" are different), but not change lines etc. and if you repeatedly do it and/or don't pay that fee, they can go to court because THAT then is a criminal offense.

You started your comment with RE: - something I love to do but I asked some German people and they had no idea what it means. They said they assume it means reply. Then I looked it up and there is a German equivalent in formal letter writing: Betrifft, meaninig "relating to" or "regarding" something. Is RE: still used in 2022 in letters, and if not, has it been swapped for "Subject"? Also, thanks for clarifying hopping the gate - D&P kind of left out the critical information about how you can just walk on to any train and go somewhere whether you have a ticket or not. I rode Cologne to Frankfurt last week and on one checked me for a ticket.

@@LythaWausW Yes, even though I'm German, I was aware that it means regarding. Must come with the job training back when... (Did some computer stuff in the early 2000s) It's not used in letters anymore. In Germany, nowadays the subject of a letter is placed 1 or 2 spaces above the greeting formula ('To whom it may concern...') and put in the same font and size as the rest, but as bold text. Adding 'Betrifft:' or something like that could actually be interpreted as calling the reader stupid without calling the reader stupid. Also: Yes, nowadays there are few train personnel checking for tickets. Right now, you can get a ticket for local trains and slow travel (almost any train except EC, IC and ICE) for 9 Euro that's valid for the whole month. So generally they say: 'We're not checking that often. But you must be stupid not to have the '9-Euro-Ticket'. (If they catch you with nothing, you'll be charged the 'Erhöhtes Beförderungsentgelt' for the distance you rode; Up until the next station, where they'll kick you out of the train.) But from September 1st on, that ticket offer is no longer valid and i expect normal train conductor business to resume.

@@Anson_AKB taking the train without a ticket is always a crime, when you do not cooperate with the ticket inspector, he can call the police and then you are accused of a crime. So never do it, it is theft, it doesn‘t matter if you steal a snickers or a free ride, both are crimes in germany.

@@chrisr25071 The crime in question is "Erschleichen von Leistungen". I don't know the legal term in English, but it's basically secretly getting a service without paying. If you openly communicate that you don't have a ticket they can only make you pay the higher no-ticket price. A lawyer once did that. He had a clearly visible sign saying that he didn't buy a ticket. Of course he was taken to court, but because of the sign it wasn't the criminal offence and he only had to pay the higher price.

And it reduces the need for new ones to be made.

Cola and water bottles made of PET 25 €ct. but glass bottles (beer) 8 €ct. That's why there are a lot of broken glass on the street in some areas.

bullshit, die flaschen bestehen aus polyethylenterethtalat und dürfen nicht gewaschen werden zur wiederverwendung. sie werden geschreddert und zu regranulat verarbeitet welches dann in getränkekisten, asphalt und zb tüten verarbeitet.

@Enderpro ?

@Enderpro the one use bottles with the 0.25 Cent was a really dumb decision of our politicians. The promises was that this system would reduce the trash of the one use bottles and strength the multi use bottles but it didn't work. Germany had in the past much bigger multi use bottle system. Like beer bottles make from glas that could be clean if you return them and been refilled. The one use bottles replaced this slowly and the people throw them in rivers, etc. this should be solve with higher Pfand on the one use bottles, but it don't work properly because multi use bottles are to expensive in compare.

@Enderpro Not always, I've already Had 0,15€ Pfand on my Bottles, it can range between prices, wo the Original comment is correct there. And the evenomy wouldnt Crash, why would you think that?

​@Enderpro ?!?

So many say "when a child is nearby" I say it how it is I also always live in Germany and even in a big city (berlin) and i also visited other cities. People even if there are no children in a radius of 1 kilometer they will in often not Jaywalk, the difference is only in the size of the street, on a side road with a speed limit of 30, most will just jaywalk despite traffic lights, however, as soon it's a two-lane road even with no cars, people will stay still until its green... Naturally, there are some hotspots in berlin where it also happens, but they are mostly isolated which is a stark contrast to other European countries where Lights mean nothing to drivers or pedestrians.

@@m_lies here (in berlin) i have never seen a traffic light that has a "turn around time" (to cycle through all phases) of more than a minute. thus people usually have to wait less than half a minute, and if you want to "diagonally" continue, you simply can go in any direction that is green and then in the other that becomes green when you just have passed the first. why should i bother looking for speeding cars that suddenly might appear, etc, instead of waiting just that short moment. of course, while crossing i still look whether there is a colorblind driver who only sees "cherrygreen" and doesn't stop.

@@Anson_AKB "never seen a traffic light that has a "turn around time" (to cycle through all phases) of more than a minute." yes but it's not different to other places in Europe for example when I was in Manchester (England), most of the traffic lights would also only last for under 30 seconds, but the people would still regularly walk across the red lights, even when cars were still passing by and it wasn't a one-time incident but I would see it at every second traffic light every day for a week... The same with Athen where 60% of the people would still walk when the traffic light was red on a busy road, or taxis/ mopeds that would still drive when they had already red, I and my sister were nearly driven over 3 times within a week... (places where it wasn't as bad, was Naturally, middle Europe and northern Europe + Poland, where it's somwhat like in germany)

We don't have those orange schoolbusses.....until one drove by my house this month. It totally freaked me out, cuz I didn't think they existed in Germany, and I live way out in the sticks. I looked it up and there is a party company that rents out about 20 American school busses, with the interior designed like a party bus.

i'd be really surprised if i saw a movie school bus

It's also pretty common among coworkers and even towards higher-ups in blue collar work environments.

As a German, I can only confirm this. When I was little, I also had problems addressing my teachers with the more formal „Sie“. Teachers can be approached with „Du“ for 4 years, but then have to switch to „Sie“. Greetings from Germany ✌️

i am 16 and look very young but when i applied for a "berufsschule" it felt soo wrong being called "sie" it was very off putting

Yeah, that can become confusing. I had a teacher once for five years, and obviously I called her by her surname. after graduating I still saw her because she would cut my hair occasionally. one day she offered me the `Du` and I was like `Huh? WHat? Why? Help!`

There is a tendency to slowly change to informal form in general. Due to the fact that most radio stations and online stores along with the biggest furniture store (IKEA) tend to use "du" instead of "Sie" to talk to their consumers there is kind of accustomisation to the informal version. A second reason is the big amount of (eastern and southeastern) immigrants in Germany. They usually have problems with the two versions of "you" and typically use "du" because the grammar is much easier than using "Sie". So if I (age of 40) meet somebody in same age or younger and have to deal with him more than 30 minutes I ask him to switch to "du" - in more than 80% he'll agree. For short conversation (e.g. salesperson) I keep the official "Sie". Also it is kind of respect. I would never ask an official like a police man or government related persons for a "du". Sometimes it's also better to stay at the official "Sie" in intergender conversations, just to show her "you are safe, I just want to talk with you. My intentions is not to hook you up." Kind of creating a respectfull space between you and me. And last but not least for persons I don't like I wouldn't offer a "du" nor agree to his offer.

sad thing is that some people really depend on others throwing away Pfandflaschen. There also was a social project called "Pfand gehört daneben" wich just meant to put the bottle next to a bin and not in it because you dont knwo whats in the bin.

Jap! in Turkey they don't have the system either. i always felt guilty when i threw away a plastic bottle again. but the water as the tap there was really undrinkable! That was really terrible for me on holiday ! I want to recycle my plastic! ♻️ 😅

@@raikbarczynski6582 Its kind of sad, becouse when people throw away their Pfand, they basically throw away their Money

Canada has it but they only implemented it a few years ago. I grew up in Germany and I remember Germany's had this system ever since I was a little kid.

And its good for poor people. The search bottles in the garbage and get money!

Thing is, if they really want to f you, you can get a punkt and depending on severity you can also end up with giving up your driver's license for a month. But yeah usually it's not pursued since why? 5€ is not worth the paperwork they have to do, even if you cause an accident you might not end up with a fine.

​@@juliannickermann9492 I do jaywalk for most parts of my adult life (over 50 now), even in front of police too and never ever got even an eyesight

I usually see light systems as a help to cross the street , if I don't need help because no cars are there and no children are around- I just go.

Highly depends on the area and if You’re in the city or villages though

I agree that usually nobody will consider it rude, but there's definitely people who want to be left alone and get annoyed when you "force" them into a conversation.

I agree, i don't consider smalltalk to be rude but if some stranger approaches me an start a smalltalk i will think "oh what a weird situation" and then i will proceed to answer as politly as i can and search for the perfect moment to go away. Well i don't know if my reaction is a tipical german reaction but thats how i would react.

Depends on where you are from, I find it really creepy and very uncomfortable and bothering if people just start making Smalltalk, specially if you show signs that you do not want to be approached (like headphones, keeping distance or being preoccupied with something) But I also don't understand why people make small talk in general, but specially with strangers. Like if there is a clear question or reason behind a strangers decision to start talking to me it's alright (like when they need directions) but otherwise just why, you are never gonna see me again, we are not going to become friends, no one is gonna benefit from talking about the weather

I'm Austrian and small talk is absolutely required here, you have to make little jokes and laugh about barely funny remarks, especially from old farmers with THICK accents. I try to avoid having to do this at all cost, if it's different in Germany I'll move ASAP.

Depends on the part of the country. In former Eastern Germany FKK is a very common thing, so there are a lot of nudity beaches. But in Western, North Western and Southern part of Germany they are quite rare.

@@summersun6536 Exactly.

I live in London - they do recycle

@@sandraankenbrand recycling and the way they do it is pretty different though. And a lot of folks seem to have a friendly attitude of leaving those by the dropoffs so that less fortunate folks or anyone who might need it in a pinch can get a bit of money out of it as well. I don't get this pride over who does recycling what.. better? You seem to have a fair amount of resentment for some things in Germany in these comments... Or what, maybe you hate poor ppl, like, what's up?

Actually not like that, u get an announcement when the party is actually starting, u dont have to come punctual at the time, u come when u got the time. Sorry i cant agree with it. But with the rest i do.

@@katsu9582 well at least notify the person if you are planning to come and when I think its rude to just say: I will be there and than arrive 2 hours after it started

Last time I was on a party (I'm German) with some friends we got some sceptical looks from the host. Maybe it is just a thing in our group of friends but at least the girls come at least 15 minutes later. I also don't get it.

@@valentin_te id say it depend how u say it to the host, i mean everyone i able to tell if u come or not, and if it can be late or if they are punctual, i dont think its a big problem if u have no real time. but maybe its just for me like that and other families are different. ofc getting to the party near end wont make u look good x)

It also depends on how big the party is. If there only will be 4 guests and all of them show up late without announcing it beforehand I would be pissed. If it's a big party and some guests will definitely be there when it's planned to start it doesn't matter that much if some will show up late

this is also related to _"no free refills"._ after eating (or even without eating) you can stay for a very long time in restaurants if you at least occasionally *buy* some beverages. now imagine someone drinking only tapwater or only one softdrink and refilling for hours ... question: how often can you refill in the usa before you get the bill and (have to) leave ?

@@Anson_AKB As often as you want, at least at the big fast food chains. They really don't give a fuck. Same goes for water and, in the south, for sweet tea. But don't forget that the restaurant culture in the US is completely different. You will have a hard time for instance finding restaurants with a tablecloth or a candle on the table, if you don't want to pay an exorbitantly high bill. It is more in & out. When I've lived in the US, we never spent much more time than 20 minutes in any given restaurant. And how many drinks of 32 ounces (that's just a tad short of a liter) can you drink in 20 minutes? :)

​@@dan_kay yes, that "how many liters can you drink in 20 minutes" is exactly what i meant with "how often can you refill when you (have to) leave soon" ... in germany (and europe in gerneral) we prefer to *buy* a few more beers (wine, or whatever) and stay for hours on a nice evening, instead of driving to someone's home and continueing there and then not drinking, or drinking and driving DUI to get home. and without high forced tips, we also have a little more money to not refill for free :-)

@@Anson_AKB You will never be kicked out in the US. They don't care. That stuff is so ass cheap that it really doesn't make a difference. By "how many liters can one person drink" I rather meant physically. After three refills, you're completely full. And those refills did cost the store 30 cents - if that.

@@dan_kay It costs the store. That's the magic word. It costs the store more than you think. It costs the store a not bought water, it costs the store the staff that wants to be paid and it costs the store electricity, rent etc.. It's not the cents it's the occupied table (which can cost you a paying customer on a busy night) and staff is not cheap. Where in the US the waiter/waitress gets almost nothing, in germany people get paid a living minimum wage for their work. Every hour. With benefits like health insurance, paid leave, social payments. That's not like the waitress at a bar in the US who heavily depends on the tipp of a lonely customer at an evening. That's guaranteed income that has to be paid. A learned waiter (as this is something you can learn as a real job) will cost you as an owner 25 dollars per hour. There is the loan, then the taxes, then the health insurance, social insurances. And that is the minimum. an unlearned partial student guy will cost you about 17 an hour as you can deduct most of the costs. The learned one is available all day, he knows his shit, like what wine to what, what ingredients are in the dish, he is good in conversations (mostly salesman speech), being busy all night long getting you drinks on the card, serving as many plates at once, is always running etc.. I know servers who are knowing their shit more than the owner. When they say, that's a good choice, it's a good choice. They know their basics and will make you drinks, going out their comfort zone and do even in the kitchen some things as they can. They are a goldmine and you don't wanna miss on them. They are not partial waiters having their hands in their pockets. They earn money for the restaurant. If you can handle out free drinks for customers, there must be something wrong with paying your staff as the staff is the most expensive post on your monthly roll that you can't cheat on (rent is due, electricity is due, bills for the deliveries etc..THEY will NOT serve YOU if you don't pay). A store can't give out free stuff if the owner does not cut somewhere else (if he does not decide to buy premade stuff and losing everything in a year, because people recognize good/bad food). And that is the staff. As he earns all of the revenue on his plates, the waiter pays for the customers drinks. Stuff you can ignore as this is just rant: To be clear here. I work at a family owned restaurant in germany for about 8 years now (25 in total now). I got alot of inside knowledge as, like I said, we are family and after 8 years you know how much money is going to which post. I see the bills, I see the income, I know who gets what amount of money from long evenings when you start conversations with other staff or the owner (we are legally alowed to talk about income, not like it's a secret and if the owner does not want us to talk about it there is no legal way to forbid it), doing the registry, doing the stock (I dunno about that phrase "inventur machen" in english) and paying the food delivery when boss is not around at that time. I got my ropes from 5 years of doing my work at a restaurant, cleaning the dirtiest shit and doing the worst chores up to cooking the best seafood you can get. I earned that shit and know how scummy and evil that business can be. It is fucking filled with organized crime and night times where you wish you was not been awake (not at the restaurant I learned, but all the others I walked by the past years until I found my home place to be). Also old chefs who think the new one is their closing call and fight against you no matter what. All I can say is, even if there is a ridiculous ammount of taxes to be paid in germany, a good bar or restaurant is ripping staff off in the US.

You got that wrong, like most of the people do. Theses "lanes" are not there, for the riders to have priority - they are there, so that the walking people KNOW where the riders will be !! Those lanes are still part of the sidewalk, that's why riders HAVE TO slow down, when getting close to the walkers and even have to STOP, if it is necessary !!!

@@Eysenbeiss Youre wrong there eventhough the result is pretty much as you say. 1) Bicycles are not allowed to drive on the footway/sidewalk. So if there is a bikelane it must be clearly marked. 2) There is a general traffic rule that prohibits road users from unnecessarily obstructing the flow of traffic. 3) Everyone who participates in traffic has to be carefull ands always ready to do whatever is needed to prevent to cause an accident and to harm others. As consequence of 2) pedestrians are not allowed to walk on the road or the pavement, if this obstructs the traffic flow, unless they have no other option, e.g. if there is no sidewalk or they have to cross the road. As result this of course gives bicycles a priority on a bike lane and cars a priroty on the road. As consequence of 3) cars and bicycles have to keep sufficient distance when passing pedestrians and to drive slow and carefully, if there is no room to enough distance. Nobody is allowed to walk or drive into anyone else by intention. So of course bikes and cars and even pedestrians have to stop, if thats neccesarry to prevent an accident and to prevent to harm anyone else.

@@Eysenbeiss Marked (separated, mostly coloured red) bike lanes are reserved for cyclists - pedestrians don't belong on bike lanes! It’s like your walking on the road. If it’s a shared bike-pedestrian lane then cyclist need to be careful but most pedestrians are friendly and let the bikes pass. According to §25 StVO (traffic regulations) pedestrians need to walk on the side walks.

Talkative in Hamburg would be 'Moin, Moin.', if I'm not mistaken...

We people from the Rhineland are more interested in small talk. 😉

Grüß!

Also true for movie censoring or the lack there of. Characters can talk about and/or have sex all they want and the movie could still go through with a FSK12 rating. The FSK12 rating is also interesting as it's the only one where you're still allowed to see the movie in cinema if you are at least as old as the lower rating (FSK6) and you're accompanied by a reference person. If shown nudity is not related to the actual sexual intercourse you could even see some boobies on public tv if it's a scene at a beach or something like that. But GOD FORBID you show the tiniest drop of blood. adults only it is then.

Moin Moin

those "small amounts" that you can get in supermarkets usually (at least where i live) are up to 200€ if you bought goods for at least 20€ with a card. giro vs maestro seems to be some current development where banks have started (probably since last and until sometime next year) to get rid of their old EC/Maestro cards that the mostly handled tgemselves, and the new system is instead handled by visa !? but all these cards are debit and not credit cards. "bathrooms/restrooms" ("bathroom" might be said at home since they are most often not separate, but we usually call the public ones what they are: "toilette") have to be available by law for restaurants with seating and some minimum of tables, which excludes "Imbiß". and afaik they all are or even have to be free for customers. very few exceptions, eg at the autobahn, where it has been subcontracted to some company, and where you get a voucher to buy something. in shopping malls etc, usually an association of shopkeepers pays for it, and a nice old lady (at minum wage) is put at a table to give you a bad conscience (usually, she doesn't clean, and gets no tips, but the money is collected by that company that is already payed by the shops)

Also, tap water is actually drinkable and tastes like water should....not like a swimming pool.

The first stanza in its time was not an could not be interpreted as supremacist, it meant that there was a German nation above the numerous principalities, even when there was no united German state after the napoleonic wars. Until 1991, in public celebrations just the third stanza was played, but the whhole Deutschlandlied was the official German anthem, although the state was by no means supremacist.

Macht ja auch Sinn, weil die Merkmale eines (National-)Staat sich aus Staatsvolk, Staatsterritorium und innerere/äußere Staatssouvereignität zusammensetzen

The text of the "Deutschlandlied" is from 1841, before the (failed) german Revolution from 1848, the German Reich was far in the future. (see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschlandlied)

Where did you get your Infos from, pertaining the waste-system? That was one part of my studies in uni and nowadays everything has to be sorted for valuables like metal und recycable stuff before burning/dumping or it would be illegal to do so. The sorting-system is very sophisticated and does separate further. Like plastics into different sort of plastics, organics out of the Restmüll to be dried or composted, metal out of everything else. BUT these System cost money to run and maintain. And the more wrong stuff gets thrown into one type of waste, the more complicated it is to separate again. Which is why certain areas do not get the option of separate bins and just pay more to throw everything into one.

@@kreativuntermdach7351 Yeah... I see right now that in editing, there was a thought gap left. First paragraph is german/US treatment mixed together. The brackets should read '(and mostly today still in the US)'. What it's based on? You may call that annecdotal evidence, but the US side, I get from people I know over there. Mostly southern states and west coast. No dice in the north and the east coast. And at least in some parts of Germany, waste is still combusted for energy/heat. Sure, they separate the metal (either by magnet or by sorting), but I don't know about plastic and stuff. For example, in Bremerhaven they use it for 'Fernwärme': beg-bhv.de/kommunen/leistungen/muell-heiz-kraftwerk/

Some places even have locks on the wheels that automatically block the wheels as soon as you leave the parkinlot. Lidl does it across all their stores for example. So yeah, it's illegal to take them with you. A single new cart costs around 300€ and people sometimes steal them to sell the scrap metal.

People who think that a shopping cart is paid with 1 Euro must be pretty stupid.

I once took a shopping cart a few hundred metres home because I had to buy lots of stuff and didn't have a large backpack. But I asked first and returned it after I was done. Somewhere I heard that the carts actually cost about 200 € each.

@@bjorntantau194 The price really depends. I worked at Lidl and those carts costs +400€, because they are relatively big and have a magnetic mechanism that blocks the wheel when leaving the parking lot.

But is actually not a law.

@@babettetraugott-cg4ps it's called "Mittagsruhe" ("noon silence" or something like that). In some areas (for example, spa towns) there are regulations in place, but even outside of that, it's not uncommon for tenancy contracts to include rules for loud noises during lunchtime. Although those clauses are, of course, still not "law".

ALDI is good they have over 500 Supermarkets in Australia, and I love ALDI.

And the food quality is higher than that at Walmart.

there are two brothers Albrecht, so there are two ALDI in Germany .... ALDI Süd (South) and ALDI Nord (north) ... one of them is under ALDI in the USofA the other one is Trader Joe's (spelling correct?)

Aldi's is plural. He talks about the chain of supermarkets, therefore Aldi's is correct.

@@merci1619 If it were the plural it would be "Aldis". And Americans often say "I was at ALDI's".

But you get a refund for the toilet fee, you have to pay 70 ct to use the toilet. You get a voucher for 50 ct which you can cash in if you buy something at the gas station, which is next to it.

And waiters are paid more in Germany; the money has to come from somewhere...!

Pups? Little dogs, really? Cute. Do you want to edit this maybe? :-))

I don't think the water is actually "free". This is all included in the prices.

Also i wouldn't drink this free water in the US

@@mlem6951 No, it's paid by the waiters. That's why waiters get not much money in the US. Owner throws free stuff at customers.

not to mention, if you swam in a chlorine pool...you might be in for a nasty surprise in sauna after.

besides all these important health reasons, there is yet another: everbody should feel "natural" _(just like all the others)_ and have no fear of or be intimidated by voyeurs that go to a naked mixed sauna or a fkk beach while those people themselves stay dressed.

@@Anson_AKB Yes, I know this, but for americans the health aspect is maybe easier to understand!

over time and especially due to covid, many more shops accept cards nowadays, including even my local bakery. but since there are fees involved for those companies that handle these payments, quite often there are minimum amounts like 10€. otoh, most german supermarkets also will give you cash up to 200€ (without any ATM or bank fees) if you bought goods for at least 20€ with a card. also remember that that mostly applies to debit cards (that are generally handled like cash), and not credit cards, probably because of better security and lower fees (that shops have to pay, and would need to add on all prices).

In Belgium that's also not allowed. Which is the reason people hate those "middle lane drivers" so much. You have to go all the way to the left lane to overtake.

Wow I wouldnt dare to do that in germany ... I am also someone who cleans the street from these cigarette buds in a daily basis because of my job... but I wouldnt dare to do that. But if I already cleaning and see someone throw one away I dare to say: "Couldnt you just dump it into this bucket of mine!?" And funny story a lot of people do that without a question. Pass by me and put trash in my bucket xD

The thing is, the first two stancas ain't forbidden, they are just not part of the anthem, only the third is. Besides, the way he phrased it sounds like the Nazis did create the anthem, which would be incorrect. The song is way older and the "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles" ("Germany, Germany above all") is often understood wrong, it is from a time when the multiple german states were discussing about unification, so a united Germany should be more important than the multiple small german states. So it is not about german superiority but about unification. The Nazis just misused it as they misused a lot of things (for example the swastika, which they stole from the hindus and misused it as well).

There is actually only one version of the German National Anthem (if you ignore the former East German anthem). However, this - old! - song has three verses, and the first two are no longer song. The first two verses go on about things like "Germany above all else", while the focus of the third verse - the only one being sung today - is "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" (Unity and Rights and Freedom). In those cases where the "wrong anthem was played", it was usually either the "full version" (starting with the "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles auf der Welt" (Germany, Germany above all else, above all else in the world) - which, for reasons that should not require explanation after WW II, is no longer song. Or it was the anthem of East Germany (the former "German Democratic Republic").

@@guyro3373 what you describe (that the anthem has three verses, but not singing the first two) applied to the old version after the war until 1990. since then the *_entire_* national anthem now consists of *_only one_* verse (the third verse of that original song).

@@Anson_AKB Thanks for clearing that up. I should have been a bit more precise in my comment above. (With the difference between the original song still having three verses, but the anthem having only one - the third).

yeah cant get on bus without showing my ticket x)

@@katsu9582 in Munich or Regensburg you can usually get on a bus without showing your ticket, but ticket inspection on busses is fairly common, so it depends on the region. And I have experienced many many "undercover" ticket inspections on trains or buses here, though they will show a badge or something during inspection

yes, most big bottles cost 0.25€ Pfand, thus from only 8 bottles, you already get 2€ ... it adds up quickly. and when you can carry full bottles in one direction, it shouldn't be hard to carry the same number of empty bottles in the other. thus you can pay the Pfand for the new bottles with the money that you get back for the old bottles. (if you only return bottles, you can get cash for the voucher from the cashier, or keep it for next time)

All Saunas i know are Mixed and have one day in the week a Womenday and a Menday

But the quiet hours arent taken that seriously... I mean you shouldnt hammer around all day but if you fix something for an hour lr something if its not noon then it shouldnt be a problem

@@lentintarantino392 Wouldn't that be dependent on what sort of neighbors you have? I suppose if you have laid back neighbors, it won't be a problem. However, I've heard stories from some who have very high strung neighbors who will constantly knock on your door if you aren't following every rule to the letter of the law.

@@jlpack62 yeah i guess i live in rural bavaria so its pretty laid back

@@lentintarantino392 you are winning at life! Congrats.

Latin is very useful for English, too. I heard somewhere that almost fifty percent of the English vocabulary stems from Latin words.