This time, I feel like Ryan misunderstood more memes than ever. 😂

"Ampel" not only means "trafic lights", but Ampel is a nickname of the current government coalition due to the fact that the government coalition is made up of the SPD, FDP and the Green Party. SPD uses the color red and FDP the color yellow in most graphs and the Green Party uses of course green.

promille = 1 in 1000 = 0.1 percent the kid was saying that he drove everybody home with exactly 0.5 permille/0.05 percent blood alcohol content. that's the legal limit over here. the sausage meme: the pot guy got 3,0 and the other one didn't do any homework (Hausaufgaben, lit. house tasks) for thirtheen years of school and ended up with 3,2 which is worse. 1,0 = A; 4,0 = D, over 4,0 = F. not entirely sure what they're trying to say though...

The bakery meme is not about change, it's about the chick just starting the day with a limited amount of cash in the register so draining the whole stash is not really an option. It's likely she says you can't pay with such a big denomination and sends you on your way. Hence the slap.

hausaufgaben = homework klimakleber (climate adhesive^^) - people who glue their hands to the ground with superglue in order to stop traffic and cause chaos. Very popular sport in Germany and Austria atm. 8:20 that's not beer, that's Mate Tea. Stronger than coffee (American coffee, to be precise).

You should really make a video about reading the comments and understanding what the memes are actually about.

Club Mate is not a beer. It is a coffein-based drink, I believe. Correct me if I am wrong.

It's funny how important context is. Even translated, you only get like 5% of the memes jokes 😅

10:27 The paddle is the "Kelle". If the police show you that, it means you should stop. Don't know what they use for that in the US. I'm guessing a shootgun. 7:45 This is the "Lego-Man". Its a German KZfaqr. In Germany there is a lignite mine. There are actually three between Aachen and Cologne. They are so huge that you can easily see them from space on Google Maps. Do you have to look, the hole is gigantic. Coal is dug at the front and filled up at the back. So the hole "walks". Every once in a while, when a village gets in the way, the whole village gets demolished and rebuilt somewhere else. The party "The Greens" are against lignite mining and regularly organize protest actions. But now they're in the government and since the Russians cut off our gas, they're suddenly in favor of opencast lignite mining, which doesn't go down too well with their members and activists.

Ryan, how about videos of you reacting to explanations in your comments? I often wonder whether your misunderstandings get cleared up from them. :) That would also create a conclusive narrative for your channel.

Just a suggestion, how about having a German, Austrian or Swiss by your side (a German would probably be best because you are specifically looking for Germany) who can help you translate and understand when google and translator can't.

The first meme with the 2200 netto is from an article in the Handelsblatt. Basically a magazin for investors and generally rich people that own a company or are high tiers in big companies. 99% of articles in handelsblatt are about why average employees should not be greedy with their salary, because most of subscribers of the Handelsblatt just basically dream of a slavery-comeback...

Ampel / Traffic Light refers to our government which is currently being formed by three parties with the colors green, yellow and red, so they're called a traffic light. 3,0 on a German grading scale is a 2,0 (C) on an American scale.

9€ ticket was actually available in summer last year as a measure due to the fuel scarcity and associated high prices caused by Russias war against Ukraine and a measure against pollution, as a means to reduce fossil fuel consumption by cars. The 9€ ticket admitted (with very few excpetions) any regional public transportation (everything except high speed rail (aka the ICE)) in the entire territory of Germany, such a ticket did not exist previously. It probably increased economic activity due to people doing day and weekend trips within Germany. After three months the conservatives (CDU) and neoliberals (FDP) stopped its further extension, though a 49€ ticket was planned as a replacement.

a bunch of happy Germans 😂

The gender discussion in German is about how to gender words. So in English the words are usually unisex. Like baker can mean a men or a women, but in German we always have 2 versions: Bäcker and Bäckerin. The ending "-in" makes it the female version. So in the past if you don't know the gender or speaking to a mixed group, you used the male version. So "Bäcker" is used as male as well as generic, while "Bäckerin" is just used for female persons. No people started to complain, that using the male version as generic version is confusing. People don't know if you mean female persons as well. So they started to search for solutions, like using both "Bäcker and Bäckerin" or "Bäcker(in)". Then some started to use a separation sign "Bäcker*in" or "Bäcker:in" or "Bäcker_in" as a special generic form. As usually there are no characters like *, : or _ inside words other are unhappy about that solution. So there are a lot of discussions about that. And as the language has this versions for nearly any person related word, it can be quite prominent in the language. Like Professor/Professorin, Schüler/Schülerin, Bürgermeister/Bürgermeisterin, Kellner/Kellnerin. English knows a few similar cases like waiter/waitress. It it's rare and you can say server at least in America instead.

11:11 in Germany, it's common that the Names of hairdressers consist of puns. And of course there's no way you could figure out German puns. But the funny thing is, two of them only make sense in English: "Well Kamm" is a misspelling for "Welcome" while "Kamm" means comb. And "Hairlich" includes the word "hair" while "herrlich" means wonderfull

Income will be counted monthly in Germany, netto means after taxes and social insurance fees are subtracted. The meme with the pot smoker is about two politicians. The pot smoker is Armin Laschet from the christian democratic union (CDU) who failed to become chancellor in the 2021 elections. The guy who didn't make his homework (=Hausaufgaben) is Markus Söder, the Ministerpräsident (sort of prime minister) in Bavaria from the christian social union (CSU) which is the Bavarian branch of the conservative CDU/CSU. Abitur (highschool diploma from a gymnasium) notes get better with lower numbers. If you have a 0,whatever you're a genius, 4,0 will be just passed. So 3,2 will be pretty bad. The greens are the party of ecological awareness in Germany. Since 1990 they have come to change their minds from a sort of idealistic ecological policy to more real life decisions. They are now part of the Government and had to allow mining of brown coal which the giant model of a lignite excavator represents. Thus some folks think they are traitors of their own policy. Club Mate is a drink made of Mate tea, a high caffeine containing beverage...no beer. The gender thing:: in correct German (wrote it in capitals) it would be: "Die Zeit ist reif für eine VolkSinitiative zur Verbannung der grammatiKALisch falschen Gendersprache aus Schulen und Behörden. Als @cduhamburg fordern wir dies seit Langem. Ich werde die Initiative voll unterstützen! Translation: It's time for a people's initiative for banning the grammatically incorrect gender language from schools and authorities. As @cduhamburg (=CDU, look above, Hamburg), we've been demanding this for a long time. I will totally support that initiative!"

You should do this stuff on twitch so we can actually explain the things to you in real time.

Concerning the Mate: I have got the impression that Mate is a very German thing. Even in other parts of Europe you don't find it in every supermarket - while in Germany you have got a wide variety of different brands. Mate contains a similar amount of caffeine like energy drinks but with a very different taste. People like it or hate it. I like it, although I don't like Club Mate but other brands.

We in Germany use „doch“ also in another way. e.g. when someone says something that is correct, but the other person don‘t believes it, the person says „doch“ to make sure it is true. great video😂

8:55 if you like "Gummibärenpisse", what about "Einhornkotze"? It literellay translates to "unicorn vomit" and is used (at least around where i live) to describe stuff with too much colors or too much rgb-light etc. :D

The 9-Euro-Ticket days are actually not that long gone. It was a project during summer last year where you could buy this ticket for 9€ and travel through the entirety of Germany with public transportation. Those were three months of bliss.

8:46 The "beer" is in fact no bear but a Mate Ice Tea.

You should get a German explaining the memes to you after you guessed

have you ever thought of livestreaming your reactions, cause we could help you with the words you don't understand by using the translator and it would make for very fun interactions too I bet, I mean if you are up for it

Haha the meme with the rougher tone on the country side hit home😂 I‘m working in a warehouse and everyone there is just cursing all day and when I get home I really need to focus to not cuss everyone out because I’m so used to it😂

3.2 is actually a "worse" grade here than 3.0. We use multiple systems of grading; 1 to 100 (with 100 being the best), 6 to 1 (with 1 being the best) - The latter is also often used with decimal points or just as words with or without a plus or a minus after.

man i love these vids. I just love americans watching german vids. Thx for the good content

6:55 hausaufgabe is homework 5:56 die grünen are our green party that (are supposed to) want to protect Climate and Nature, but now the state ,which they are a part of had agreed to clear a town to demolish it for open coal mining and burning, even though after the project is finished it will be immediately illegal and we also don't actually need the electricity it would generate 12:19 the joke is that he is complying about a newer inclusive way of speaking, because it hasn't yet been formalized into formal rules, while writing this, 1) there is a s missing 2) it should be "gramatikalisch" 3) As I am Stupid I'm not sure but I think "langem" should be capitalized Edit: 5:56 I can't ensure correctness of the statement @pallao3500 told me other info about that in the comments, but I cant see it anymore he said: " [Quote from me] Thats what people see who dont look into detail. The truth is, the deal to demolish the TOWN (its not a city) for coal mining was done before Die Grünen even had anything to say about it. Now that they got elected they made a deal with the responsible energy company that they wont interfere with this project which was almost finished anyway (the people who lived there already left the place) if in return the energy company would agree to stop using coal by 2030 already instead of 2038 as the agreement made with the previous government stated and that they waive to demolish five other towns they also already had an okay to do so. So for not interfering with this one project they were able to stop five others and get a guarantee to stop coal 8 years earlier, which in fact is a great achievement. "(as I couldn't see his comment anymore it was transcribed from an image sorry for potential missqouting)

German uses compound words. We just stick simpler words together to form a bigger one. English does it too, just very rarely. Example: airport - a port for aircraft (aircraft itself is a compound too); barefoot - with bare feet; bedroom - a room where the bed is. Desktop, fingerprint, lipstick, mailbox, sunflower, notebook... there are hundreds of them in English, too. In German it's just in constant use and we can freely cobble words together whenever we feel like it. So gummy bear piss just becomes gummybearpiss... Gummibärenpisse...

It's funny how you translated the sausage picture the wrong way^^ "My buddy, who took drugs straight for the last 2 years at school." (3.0 (mediocre result) on the high school diploma) - "ME, who didnt do homeworks for the entire 13 years at school." - (3.2 (marginally worse result) on high school diploma)

I would like to see you google a bit more in this. I like you finding out whats actually going on. The Club-Mate things is a good example. Thats not beer, its a kind of carbonated "tea"/lemonade with a lot of caffeine, basically a better energy drink.

06:10 promille is a unit of measurement for alcoho in your blood. And in Germany you are still allowed to drive a car after drinking alcohol if you have less than 0.5 promille...

8:20 This is no beer, this is Club Mate, a kind of energy drink only better.

7:05 in Germany, the smaller grade is the better one. One smoked weed , the other didn't do any homework for 13 years

1:30 Handelsblatt is a business newspaper and thus represents employer views on wage payments.

BTW: Bär and bear are pronounced exactly the same. I think there are some German news sources that upload to KZfaq either with English subtitles or at least an English version. That would also be interesting to react to (and would clue you in to the stuff many memes refer to...).

Hausaufgaben means Homework meaning the works you have to do for school when you are back home.

Pony&Clyde: Pony means fringe or bangs, so it's a hair-related word game. The other hairdresser names were as well.

10:20 that "ping pong paddel" calles "polizeikelle" s a police disk shown by the police officers out of the windows when they stop cars on streets

The ping pong pedal is like the sign a train conductor holds up. With that the police can wave cars off the road for checks or give them a ticket (and yes they have light signal in the cars too)

I would love to see a video of you with a German. Explaining some memes, discussing culture, talking about stuff, the other one thinks is important to know about either Germany or the US. Me as German would like this very much, I think

The 9 € Ticket was a bliss. Not only could you ride every PT in your place, but anywhere in Germany. This led to a major movement of people going places to visit. Like tenfold what normally was going on this time of year.

8:20 Club Mate is no beer its more like tea with coffein

10:28 You got it mostly. The 9€ ticket was a temporary government funded monthly train ticket to compensate high inflation and energy prices. It had a big impact because a lot of people use trains here to get around as you know. But it was obviously too expensive to keep it around permanently.

9:08 There's a huge difference between Club Mate and beer.

Yo, when you read the word “gummibärenpisse” at around 8:50, the English subtitles said “gummy bar and peace” lol

the joke about the polititian at 12:15 is that he demands grammatically correct German, yet his tweet is incorrect German. The mistakes are the underlined parts and I will explain them real quick. Volkinitiative is compound of Volk (folks, citizen, population) and Initiative (initiative, duh) however most Nouns in German require "linking letters" to flow into each other, in this case he didn't use "s", the correct word would be "Volksinitiative". The next mistake is the use of "grammatisch" which is coloquial for gramatically, the correct German word is "grammatikalisch". And the last one is "langem", he says that his party demanded something since a long time. However long in this case would be a noun and ALL nouns in German have to be written capital. So "Langem" would be correct.

at 6:10 in Germany BAC is measured in Promille: 0,5 (parts per thousand) equals 0,05% which is the BAC limit in Germany for driving.

bless your heart for reacting to those memes, even though you cant understand half of them. partly, cause it doesnt translste right, partly causr ich_iel inside jokes and partly cause there are often not even real words but direct translstions from english

2200 Eur/month net is not bad at all (about 3600 before taxes and social insurance payments). If you're not in one of the more expensive cities that easily enables you to have an okay car (on a leasing contract) and your yearly vacation abroad granted you're not a huge spender in day-to-day life. You have to remember that you're entire necessary health care is already covered at this point and you're not paying school fees for your kids. A lot people earn a lot less. My mom got around 1600 net while I was a kid, now as a retiree, she's at around 1200. It would be tough if she didn't own her flat and she still has to be a bit frugal, but she can make do. 2200 net a month may not make you rich, and it does depend a bit on your personal situation (are you single, married, kids, no kids) but generally to attain the same standard of living which you get at 2200, an American would have to earn a lot more.

I believe the Igel / Hedghog meme could be related to Mittwoch or Mettwoch. The day where you eat mett from a Hedghog that is made out of mett and Pretzel Sticks

10:40 yeaa kind of. Last year we had a time where you could buy tickets for all transportation options for just 9€. It came out to support the germans while everything, in particular the gas/petrol got really expensive because the war of ucraina and russia. With the ticket you could use every bus, train as often you want in whole germany for just 9€ in a month. It was freaking amazing!

I was a little bit surprised how the translator translated the word "Hausaufgaben".

Club-Mate is not a beer, but a Mate-tea-drink that has a lot of coffein. It also tastes like cigarette butts.

4:40 I think someone has to tell him now... The "traffic light" refers to the current ruling coalition. In germany, every party is associated with a color; CDU/CSU (conservatives) - black SPD (social democrats) - red FDP (market liberals) - yellow Green Party (Ecos) - green (obviously) AfD (extreme right) - Blue Left Party (extreme left) - sometimes red, sometimes purple We refer to different kinds of coalitions using these colors. Right now, SPD are in charge together with the FDP and Green Party, making it the "traffic light" coalition. There was also some talk about a "jamaica coalition" (CDU, FDP, Green Party) for example... Only exception to this is the GroKo (Große Koalition / Great Coalition) which is CDU and SPD, named like that bc they used to have like 70-80% votes combined and could basicially rule with absolute power.

8:52 thats because in german you can create new nouns by chaining them together

You know? I Bet there are many Happy Germany watching your Videos Well one is there for Sure cause i Love watching your Videos to brigthen up my day :D

2200 Netto is more than I would ever become as an physio therapist

"there's no way you have a whole word for gummy bear piss." as a general rule if multiple nouns are used to describe something in english it is one noun in german. compound nouns are the best thing ever.

Hi Ryan, I enjoy watching Your videos a lot, i find it interesting how an American picks up German stuff - but sometimes it is cringy when You get it wrong due to false translation. I want to help!

The trafficlight (Ampel) is the color of a coalition of 3 political parties. The green (thats also their name), the yellow (FDP, liberal party), and red (SPD, the center-left party). We also have the black ( CDU center, right), the blue (AfD, the fascists). We also have the Jamaika-coalition which is black, yellow, green

There's a reason that the rate for houseownership in Germany is only 49.5% (as of 2021) where as the rest of us are renting. To actually own a house or just an apartment you have to downpay quite a chunk and after that you are endebted around 30 years trying to pay it off so that when finally you retire one day it is all yours. So in retirement you don't have to pay rent but you still have to pay annual grounds tax, tax for being connected to the water grid, water itself and energy, trash services, upcoming reparations and considering that you'll face your body declining you might need to hire people to help you keeping your garden in shape. So even you're retired and not paying rent anymore you'll have to receive a minimum of a pension just to stay afloat.

gummibärenpisse is one of those conjoint words. a prime example of, we can just put words together and everyone understands what we mean.

basically in german, if there is "Klima" behind [Product], it's likely to be eco related

In german you combine words, so while there is no direct word for gummy bear piss, it's just "Gummi-Bär-Pisse" but in german you then write it as one word. That's why there are so many long, complicated words. They are just combinations of other words for one specific thing.

So here's an explanation with some language learning for you: We have three genders (male, female, neuter), for every noun it's one of them, and with each having the belonging article (der [m], die [f], das [n]) for it (such as "das Brot", "the bread"). And we have a different version of every noun according to the gender of person(s) or things we assume they have. For example we have "der Besucher" for the male "the visitor" and "die Besucherin" for a female "the visitor". So what gendered language ("die Gendersprache") is: What you're gonna do to gender something is you take the male word, put a "*" right after it with no space, and then you put the most common word ending for the female equivalent word, which endings almost all the times are "die GästIN" [f, singular] and "die GästINNEN" [f, plural]. So there's "der Besucher" (the visitor [m, singular]), "die Besucherin" (the visitor [f, singular]), "die Besucher" (the visitors [m, plural]) and "die Besucherinnen" (the visitors [f, plural]). And now, we have the problem that in traditional German language, you always used to use only "das generische Maskulinum" ("the generic masculinum") which is easily the male singular and plural forms to name each individual or group by calling the word for the men, sometimes we do it even if we're directly talking to a woman about herself, saying maybe to her "Du bist ein Maler!" - "You're a painter!" (male version of it: "ein Maler" [one male painter] / "eine Malerin" [one female painter]) - and most women didn't even think about that for a second ever. But in the last couple of years, things and society have changed much over here in that matter! A strong movement or open initiative started to form a couple years ago and people started to say: Wait a minute. First of all, why are we calling individual females male names? And secondly: Why do we use the male forms too for talking about multiple people, even if there's females or non-binary people along men or even if there are groups with only female and/or non-binarys, so without persons identifying as a male even in it? (I am gendering all my language too, and always, and even spoken vocally there is a possibility to inclusively do that which I do as well, and I'll explain to you in a minute.) So we thought there needs to happen a modernization and adaptation of our dealings with to whom we talk to. There happened to arise different ideas in order to do that. First of all, there's always the possibility to use the female version of every male noun (and opposite) in order to respect the person's gender (which many people nowadays don't mean their birth-given sex when talking about gender but more of what everyone's identifying with now, even if it is a non-binary or trans individual) for whom we add "the gender gap" - either an asterisk (*), a colon (:) or an underscore (_) in the middle of every word which means to include everyone who wouldn't feel included without. So "der Gast" [the guest, m, sg.] will change into "die*der Gäst*in" [f article, gap (*), m article, female beginning of the word, gap, female ending of the word]. So now to what you can do verbally. You just add the so-called "Glottisschlag" to it ("glottal stop") which means a very brief pause in spoken words in order to add the gender gap to it. :)

Club Mate is not a beer, it looks like it, but it's (in South America very popular) yerba mate tea based soda and kinda tastes like cigarette smoke, but you get used to this weird taste as it contains a lot of Coffein. Mate soda is very popular in the IT sector, but well ... we have better tasting mate sodas for a few years like Mate Mate Classic or Mio Mio Mate. PS: Club Mate is extremely high carbonated, it feels like it explodes on your tongue, so much fizzy

With 0.5 per mill alcohol content in the blood You are allowed to drive a car in Germany - so everybody gets too drunk - except the driver

Here in Bavaria, beer is a staple food😊

At 12:15 it was about the red marked words because he spelled them wrong, but he wanted do stand up for the right Grammar It must be Volksinitiative, grammatikalisch and seit Langem so it is quite funny

Did this guy legit wonder whether alcohol is a drug? I'm despairing...

The traffic light are three parties that bound together. the CDU (red) the FDP (yellow) and die Grünen (green) thats why they called it Ampel 🚦

4:27 Yeah...But "Brötchen" are like 11 cents a piece, so your bill is somewhere around 4 Euros if you go a little crazy. and in the morning, registers are stocked only with minimal change...And people DO get very upset about that a lot here x'D

10:05 the pedal is for signaling cars to stop on the side or follow the police car. They drive infront of the suspect and just hold it out the window. The meme itself is a little bit specific in terms of German political culture. The translation doesn't really transport the joke but I also don't really know how to explain it.

The 2200 € happiness thing is highly dependend on the cost of living/rent/etc in your area. For a long time this monthly income made it possible in Germany to have a good life and afford nice things. The US seems to be a lot more expensive, considering that the € was higher than the $ for a while. Or considering that waiters in the US have to get a tip to survive which adds to your expenses when going out. But I might be wrong.

That's the beauty of German. If there is no word for it you just take two words (or more) and put them together to describe what you ultimately want to describe fusing them into the ultimate, selfmade and gramatically correct word. Like Gummibärenpisse. It's piss of Gummibears. So Gummibearpiss.

Hausaufgabe = homework from school

Ahahaha Club Mate the beer, alright. Club Mate is basically a germany exclusive energy drink replacement made from a tea of Mate leaves. It keeps you awake far longer, has far less sugar, less coffein and no Taurin and other shitty stuff that gives you potential heart attacks.

Wasn't the actual line where diminishing returns of happiness for income begin like 75000 or something

getting everything wrong sure drives engagement

"Hausaufgaben" are homework assignments, and also, 3.2 is worse than 3.0

so you couldn't get traffic light because it references to the colors associated with the government in germany as it is nigh impossible for a singular party to get a majority so multiple party with aligning ideologies group together. it just happened to be that it was sdp, fdp and b90 grouped which have respectively the colors red, blue/yellow and green

2200 Netto means 2200 Euros/per month after taxes.

The "Beer" at 8:00 is a kind of a soda with coffein based on mate-tea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate

You know you need a different translator app, when it doesn't know how to translate 'homework' from German to English.

07:00 "Hausaufgaben" means homework in the sense of the exercises you are told to do at home on your own in school

Hairdresser using "Kopfgeld" in their name context: Kopfgeld means Bounty but literally translates to "Head money"

The "ping pong paddle" the police officer is holding in her hand is called "Winkerkelle" or "Anhaltekelle" and is meant to be used by the police to stop cars for a check. So if police are driving in front of you waving the Winkerkelle, you have to follow them to pull over at a good place for a check.

An Importen Thing for the first german one. Netto is the Money you get after Tax and after Paying all the insurance for health pension and moree. Which is pretty high in germany so you need a salary like a bit below 4000 for that. And the euro is worth a bit more and Cost for living is lower so in the US you need to get more like 6000 a month (depending where you live)

4:42 „Ampel“=„Traffic light“ is ALSO the actual leading political party… GREEN for the environmentalists, YELLOW for FDP (hotelowner & co), RED for SPD (should be for workers, socialism… but fail like all others) ..

Hausaufgaben is homework, tasks you get from school to do at home, which will be checked the next day at school. and about videogames they always try everything, except facing the truth.

My BIL bought a house in 2012. 175.000 €, in the middle of nowhere in Bavaria. Now, 10 years later, the same house would cost 750.000€. Its insane....

8:19 that's not Beer, that's Club Mate, a specific type of tea, specifically Mate.

The meme with the housing prices does not directly refer to the inflation of the last year(s) Yes, the inflation rate that is commonly referred to includes rents and if rents increase so should the value of housing. Also, as prices for raw material rise, so would the prices for construction etc. However, the surge in housing prices has been detached from the growth of rents. The increase in housing prices was proportionally higher during the last decade. Many people believe it is soft bubble (and indeed there a signs today that indicate that) like the one before the Great Recession in the U.S. (although for different reasons). On top of the evolution of rent prices due to the lack of housing in Germany, a more important reason lead to dramatic increase in housing prices: The (needed) cheap money policy of the European Central Bank. Like in the U.S. we had a zero-interest-environment which made it attractive to borrow money, especially through housing credits and also opened up the purchase of housing even for people with little equity. For some it was cheaper to pay the loan rather than renting (which in Europe is much more common than the U.S.). In addition, investors shifted their portfolio from riskless (now mostly interestless) investments to more profitable but seemingly unrisky housing investments. The demand for housing thus increased twofold through consumers and investors. Funnily enough, as now consumer prices increase and the future is becoming more uncertain while at the same time nominal interest rise again, we see decreasing housing prices for some areas (although rents continue to climb).

Whats that blue trophy on the shelf? It has not been there like a week ago or something?

Houseadmission was mistranslation of homework + the numbers on the bottom are the finals grades making the smaller number better. Essentially he's saying I didn't do homework and now my friend who was stoned for 2 years straight is somehow smarter than me

I am glad i bought my house in 2016. Interest 1,6% fix for 10 years. :-)

I always wanted to do this, but never actually did. But this time I am gonna clear all misunderstandings in this and answer all your questions: 1:07 Ryan: "Is it 2200 $ a month?" - Yes, 2200€ after paying taxes. 2:19 Ryan: "I wonder how the inflation is going over there..." - I think it's bad, but housing prices skyrocketed even before. And there is just a lack of appartments and houses all over Germany. It's very hard to find a place to live these days if you want to quit living with your parents or moving with your family. 3:40 Ryan: "Leave the hedgehog in peace?" - I also don't know the hedgehog :D 4:42: Markus Söder and the traffic light: (As some people explained) These are the governing parties right now: SPD (red), FDP (yellow), die Grünen (green). Germany loves doing this puns with political parties. There is also the "Jamaikakoalition" (CDU, FDP, die Grünen), "große Koalition" (SPD, CDU; usually th biggest parties), rot-rot-grün (SPD, die Linke, die Grünen; not as funny, but often said), "Deutschlandkoalition" (CDU, SPD, FDP) or "Ugandakoalition" (SPD, CDU, FDP) and so on... Anyway Markus Söder is the leader of the CSU (CDU in Bavaria) and refers to the attempts of the government to legalize marijuana and cannabis. He also was one of the most restrictive politics in terms of covid prevention measures. He btw dressed as Shrek once on carnival, it looked hilarious :D 5:56 It is not half a mile. It is 0,5‰ (= 0,5 Promille = 0,05%), what is the highest legal amount of alcohol to have in blood in Germany while driving. Alcohol AND car industry love this trick. 6:16 The whole meme: Here again you have Markus Söder (right, CSU) and Armin Laschet (CDU) who absolutely failed trying to become Bundeskanzler in 2021. I think noone takes him serious anymore. Hausaufgaben = Homework. The numbers are grades (German 1 =American A; 2=B; C=3 and so on). I don't really get why the meme is funny, but the guy smoking weed obviously got the (slightly) better degrees. 7:25 Klimakleber is one of the words invented to call people glueing themselves on streets to protest against pollution and so on (last generation, extinction rebellion ect). 7:41: Refers to "die Grünen" again. There were huge protests in a village that is to be crushed because there are loads of brown coal underneath it. Hundreds of activists were there (for years) when police raided the place this week. The clue is that the green party allowed to tear down that village as they were reponsible is that particular state. In excange Germany will be out of coal burning for energy some years earlier. Some are still angry on the party because they let this happen. 8:00 As someone said, that drink on the left is Club Mate. A very popular energy drink especially amongst alternative people, students or hipsters. Its made from mate tea (I think it tastes as horrible as RB). 9:07 I don't know if this was a thing in the US, but when the first school shootings happened in Germany (there were like three and the first one in about 2006?) people, especially elderly politics who never had used a computer before blamed ego shooters for it. The argument went kinda old as almost everyone has played some before in 2023. 10:24 Ryan "What is this ping pong paddle she's got here?" - It is called "Polizeikelle" in German and they show you while driving to make you follow them for a control. 10:33 The 9€-Ticket was a great idea the government had in summer to appease people who now had less money to spend and to encourage them to use public transport more tha before. For 9€ per month you could travel around the whole country (with local trains and busses). I travelled about 2000km with it (about 1500 miles I guess) and it was awesome :D 12:14 Yes it's about gender language. The problem in German language is much bigger than in English because most words have a gender (especially for job titles). So I think this is more of thing in Germany (maybe). But he has the three (pointed out) grammar mistakes himself. It's a mess how some officials use twitter ect... Like if you red it all! :D Love your vids Greets