Trip to Jerusalem is the German term for musical chairs.

There is a huge american/ Nato airbase in Ramstein.

In English class for ages we have been discussing the question of school uniforms. Sometimes in German class, too. And philosophy. Not because anyone is interested in the subject but to practice arguing. 😊 Edit: go, watch the sun, Ryan!😎

Last meme: all over the place playgrounds are built in Bavaria because of the legalization of Bubatz (it is forbidden to smoke weed within 100 m of schools and playgrounds). Also Bavaria is very strict about this law and anti weed. But alcohol is just fine 🙂

The first meme is about completely unrealistic train connections on your db navigator app: 3 km in 7 minutes from one train station (Kassel main station) to another (Kassel Wilhelmshöhe)

"That might be the safest place to have a highspeed chase" imagine getting overtaken during a highspeed chase by random dude in a sportscar. Yep. Welcome to Germany.

6:47 "Reise nach Jerusalem" or "Trip to Jerusalem" is more commonly known as "Musical Chairs" in English.

3:53 The translation should say "Students who cheated (on the exam) with their mobile phonrs today." There was a scheduled test alert and all the mobile phones went blaring.

4:47 Well the baveria are speaking a dialect no one else understand (also not google). And they put a law to forbid Gendern (eg: Lehrer*innen, LeherInnen, Leher:innen for masculine and feminine teachers) because its so hard to understand.

the meme is that bavaria turns everything into playgrounds so nobody can ever smoke anywhere xD

Today I learned the word "Bubatz". I feel like great wisdom has been shared with me.

I have never felt so called out before seeing the four horsemen of the apocalypse pepper, salt, fondor, (liquid) maggie combo

of course therapy is free. there just arent enough spaces

We practiced a lot of discussion/ methods of arguments and dialogue in German class and the school uniform discussion was a very good (but also very often used) practice

to 1:00 Top left: is a well known youtube channel that makes some critic reviews to lego (and similar companies) products Top middle: is a german meme, its the "Mittwochsfrosch" (wich was an english meme but we stole it) Top right: It's captain to the sea harald krull from the spiegel video of the penny-markt reeperbahn (first video but all of them are golden classics) Middle left: is also a meme, youve seen a clip from him, a reporter asks him if he has a wive and he starts accusing her of several things in a very german way Middle right: is another meme, with a guy screaming "ALAAAARM", original clip from a 18+ video Bottom left: is a guy that has made the second most legal reports in germany, like when ever he notices other people breaking the law (usually very minor stuff) Bottom middle: is another meme, from a trash tv show, his name is Andreas and he is known for being very aggressive Bottom right: he was at a PEGIDA demonstration (demo against migration and islamification) and was agressively against the camera guy. He shouted things like: "Don't film me in my face. You are commiting a crime!". He was also in civil service at this time, that makes it a bit more ironic (and tragic) 1:37 Its written like you would speak in a very stronc accent, but it says "Gendern ist jetzt verboten" 6:46 In English, "Reise nach Jerusalem" is commonly referred to as "Musical Chairs." 7:29 Its a joke, because a politician "Friedrich Merz" has the same last name as the month March "Merz"

>Boris has a heart Citation *fucking* needed lmao

For clearance: You can't bring Alkohol and Tabacco to school (school-area), but often Tabacco get's smoked in front of the school gate.

Ramstein is like "Little USA" within Germany because of the big US Airbase there. The whole Town is like the USA and it can easy happen you see a US police car. ;)

At Ramstein is one of the biggest american military bases in Germany. They have their own police inside the base, and sometimes you will encounter them outside...

9:53 Not only is it not banned to bring alcohol on school premises, we made alcohol in school in 10th grade to learn the concept of fermentation. And yes, that included tasting our product. Which means for the rest of the day half the class had what is essentially banana wine with them.

I have been living in germany my whole live and i have never heard Bubatz before, i think i am getting old.

"You tell me you can bring alcohol to the school"? - Me looking at a photo of the teacher who is equally drunk as the studens he has to look after, on a school trip when the students were 14-16yo. And the same teacher bringing jägermeister and free cigarettes to school to celecrate carnival/fasching with underaged girls age 14-16. (That was 25 years ago, but I don't think things have changed much)

at 8:50 that was Max Schradin, i would really like you to watch the video ,,Habicht hat zwei H'' because its just pure comedy

The "Endlich Frühling" got me!! 😂

4:27 Spiegel has made a TV report about a young man who drives around on his bike filing complaints against illegally parked cars. He filed 4,000 complaints last year alone. This report was wildly discussed and he was beaten up a few weeks after it aired.

You can add Maggi to any meal. Many people eat it on boiled eggs, others pour it over noodles. we usually season soup with it You should try it :)

Very much enjoying the meme reactions.

First meme: the time and distance are from the travel app of our railway system.

The memes at 1:32 and 4:45 refer to the Bavarian ban on "gendering" in public administration (which never did any gendering anyway), schools and universities. The main argument for this was "understandability", so the memes show the supporters of that law talking in their dialect nearly incomprehensible to people from outside Bavaria. 5:00 Maggi is a Swiss company (founded by Julius Maggi in 1869, since 1947 a subsidiary of Nestlé) which specialized back in the 1870s and 1880s in ready-made meals (mostly soups) based on vegetable protein (legumes, peas, beans); in 1886s the "Maggi-Würze was introduced, a vegan seasoning sauce intended to compete with Liebig's meat extract, which is very "umami" (like soy sauce) and became a default table condiment in German restaurants (in Chinese restaurants you'll find soy sauce at every table, in traditional German restaurants Maggi sauce). Fondor was introduced in 1954, a mixture of mainly iodised salt, starch and glutamate, complemented with dried vegetable protein, vegetable fats, spices and herbs. 10:05 The custom in my vocational secondary school was to celebrate birthdays with Italian prosecco and spumante during the main break around 10 am.

To the American police car on German Autobahn: There is a large US military base in Ramstein, they have their own police around there. To the last meme in Munich: Since marihuana will stay banned 100m around playgrounds and the president of bavaria is highly against marihuana the meme is, that they will just erect playgrounds everywhere, so you are always within 100m of a playground and therefore not allowed to smoke weed. *Drives away with 420 km/h

About Alcohol on school premises, let me tell you about "Abirausschmiss", or "How to give twelve year old's alcohol poisoning".

At my school the people doing the Abitur are partying in front of the school. They leave the school property by like two meters and boom alcohol allowed lmao

Ok, the name of the guy was actually Sigefried BUBACK .. but whenever i read here BUBATZ as a 59 year old german i think that has to do someting with the RAF in the 70s. Don't know who came up with tha stupid name for Grass.

7:14 Ramstein is an American Airbase in Germany sometimes you se American Police Car there as Military Police

If you want to watch a german comedy the only choice is: Pappa ante portas, by Loriot

Yes, inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy is covered by health insurance if it is prescribed by a doctor.

6:40 Journey to Jerusalem is the German name for musical chairs. It's unclear where the name comes from. Maybe it has to do with the crusades. It's also called Trip to Rome or simply chair dance (Stuhltanz).

Adding to the point if you are allowed to drink on school grounds: in many German schools there is a week of dressing up with different themes called 'Mottowoche'. Usually the last day is called 'innen blau, außen blau' which translates to 'inside blue, outside blue' meaning you are dressed up in blue clothes and drunk while in school. In my school we actually stored 12 crates of beer on school grounds and proceeded to drink all of them with around 80 people within 2-3 hours

7:01 US soldiers and MP cars are a pretty common sight in and around Ramstein (US air base), Landstuhl (military hospital and NATO radio station) and Kaiserslautern (army headquarters and several living quarters with sport fields, cinema, mall and American schools). Until the early 1990s there was a facility of the US forces in nearly every smalltown. Including missile lauchpads, airbases, bunkers for nuclear and chemical weapons, radio and radar stations... You name it. Anything that held the Soviets at bay. In my hometown they were the second biggest employer after the shoe industry. My great grandmother was a cafeteria lady in the hospital and my dad worked as a civilian support guard until the bataillon was disbanded in 1993. As a kid I often sneaked into the empty barracks with my buddies. They had their own train station, fire brigade, power plant, cinema... It was like an post-apocalyptic adventure playground for us with all the abandoned buildings and overgrown pavements. 😅 15 years ago they began to demolish the barracks and made space for family homes. Only two buildings survived. The elementary school was turned into a daycare because the Catholic kindergarten was too small and the brass band bought and renovated the officers' mess as their new club house so they could finally move out of the rabbit breeders' club house.

1:06 The chaotisch neutral guy :D ALAAARM! XD

5:20 Fondor is awesome! It's basically salt and MSG^^

1:35 "gender neutral language is now forbidden (in schools)" they wrote it in dialect ... more or less :)

7:25 The picture shows the leader of the CDU party Friedrich Merz and the caption is a word pun. His last name Merz is pronounced like März, the German word for the month March. So it's "Happy 32nd March". To understand the meme you need to know that his party has fought heavily against the legalisation of cannabis. So it would be in his interest when the date wasn't April 1st but March 32nd. That way the law wouldn't enter into force.

I'm from Germany and I really like it people from other countries react to german memes. It's so entertaining :)

Maggi is essentially soy sauce but from wheat. Originally it was precisely that, now it's just as artificial as the most bottom-shelf soy sauces: Practically no fermentation, more chemistry. It definitely has a bad rep but if it wasn't produced so cheaply (also, Nestle) it would actually be a decent product. The Vietnamese apparently love it. If you want to annoy people pronounce the 'g's like the second g in garage: It was invented by an Italian Swiss, that's how you technically pronounce the name. For completeness' sake, the standard soy sauce in Germany probably all of Europe is Kikkoman (even brewed in the EU) and noone ever heard of other styles.

6:00 don´t worry, there´s probably a beer somewhere around :)

7:15 there is American military police driving on the roads near Ramstein. They will usually be called to accidents where Ameficans are involved. Fun fact though, the A6 near Ramstein is speed limited at 130 km/h. But it's true, AMerican MP doesn't chase speeders.

9:54 Alcohol is generally forbidden in schools, but can be suspended in exceptional cases at events so that the general legal regulation applies. (Beer and wine from the age of 16 / spirits from the age of 18)

10:00 we frequently had a few crates of beer in the schoolyard back in the day, and nobody gave a damn ^^

Happy 100K!!!!!! 😍 I guess you'll soon receive a silvery background decoration.....

"In den Taasch" sounded very nice

9:55 we drank wine during our graduation ceremony

Yes therapy is included in health insurance in germany. I was for 4 month in a clinic. it cost 40.000€, covered to 100% by health insurance. Ah plus for 6 Weeks you get full salary, after that you get 60% of your salary for 19,5 months (after taxes, health insurance and so on of course) and because of law protection you cant get fired from work as well.

You don't just hand your beers for people helping you move. You often also offer some food.

Can you bring alcohol to the school premises? Yes, our deputy director (= headmaster) always had two crates of beer (20 half-liter bottles in one crate) in his office. That was his stash to get through the week. Once after a school disco (like a prom, just less formal and open to all students grades 5-13) he invited the students who acted security (and their girlfriends) to his apartment where we continued to party until 4AM (with alcohol). Smoking in our school was officially allowed for all students in grades 11-13. They even had a classroom for smokers inside the school building but that was when the legal smoking age was 16.

love that you read all memes in german first, your pronunciations here made me laugh several times, like... what happened at 04:09? 😂

The school uniform joke explained: In Germany, at some point in school you learn "debating" and the school books usually present you topics to argue about in class with pro and contra, and for some reason, the topic to be argued about is ALWAYS school uniforms. And always with the same arguments you have to state in class. Presumably because school uniform is a topic virtually any pupil can have an opinion about while the topic is still non-political, non-religious on the surface (and you don't go deep into it in school) and even neutral to personal taste in whatever. And in school, you learn that any good debate (usually, at the end, there's a written exam where you write a pro and contra consideration) is, at the end "it can be seen either that way or the other, both is legit". You are not supposed to actually argue. It does horrors to university first years, at least in philosophy. They constantly refuse to take a stand in an argument. And when given two options and two people, they just assign each one of the options, because that's the way the school exercises are constructed. Example: uni students learned about autonomy and heteronomy. When asked "What is Kant's and Adorno's stand here", they assigned Kant to be pro-autonomy (as learned) and therefore Adorno to be pro-heteronomy. I could hear him spinning in his grave from afar. From the text given to them, they should have known that Adorno is pro-autonomy as well, but they couldn't because they blindly followed the school exam's form.

4:45 That is actually BAVARIAN .. thats how the people that eat pretzels, wear lederhosen and drink from "1 liter STEINs" all day speek. So what most americans think that all of germany looks like. While we in northern germany thing, they are not even really germans.

You have seen the majority of people in the alignment chart.

7:44 "Stößchen" and "Prost" are German words for "Cheers". The former being mostly used by women in their 50s and 60s. So if you hear this on a train you know that some women are having a girls' trip and celebrate with lots of champagne and liquor and the rest of your ride probably gets rather loud and annoying.

Hey Ryan, you should try to use ChatGPT to translate some German things, like what Herr Söder says. ChatGPT can understand these things better than a translator. For example: __Prompt__ German: "dschendern is jedsd verboodn" English: __ChatGPT Response__ "dschendern is jedsd verboodn" translates to "Gendern is now forbidden" in English. you can also ask it follow up questions about it, like "what is gendern". it's very helpful!

The liquid Maggi Würze is basically like soy sauce, and it used to be made with soy beans and wheat, but since 2006, they only use wheat to make it. It has been around since 1886, and the bottle hasn't changed since 1887. The hot version with chili is relatively recent, since 2009. It's widely used in Germany, but according to Wikipedia, it's even more ubiquitous in Afrika.

We have good Comedys in Germany Like "fuck you Goethe" Trilogie.

This 18-year-old who wanted to expose Spiegel TV is a guy who goes from city to city to report illegal parking. He became known through Spiegel TV, among other things, and then people came to beat him up.

Therapy is free but there was a spike in the need for theraphy and now there are not enough therapists.

Ramstein (like the band just without the second M") is a place where a US military base is located. without that it would be impossible to control drones in the far east due to the curvature of the earth

Actually Bubatz is Turkish. It’s the germanised version of the Turkish word bobbac, which means joint.

6:00 yes, as soon as it gets warm, you get our your Kärcher high pressure cleaner to go over your driveway. And the beer is obviously off camera, can't allow to get any of the high pressure water in it.

all health care insurance plans cover therapy in germany... having health care insurance is mandatory😅

I am smoking cannabis since 35 years, I never heard the word 'Bubatz' before in my life, until the German finance minister used it recently. Maybe I am too old...

6:35 "musical chair" for americans

If OP had looked up Ramstein, OP would have gotten the meme.

The translation e. g. at 4:43 doesn't work in Google translate because it's Bavarian accent which is really hard to understand for non native (non Bavarian people). The guy says that noone can understand if someone genders. It's funny because noone can understand him. You can use Chat-GPT for translation. Just write "pls translate this weird German accent for me: [paste text here]" and it will translate it to English

"Trip to Jerusalem" is a silly party game for kids. You guys have that too, but under a different name that I can't remember right now. Everybody is running in a circle around a bunch of chairs until the music stops. Then everybody has to get seated as fast as possible. The last person standing -loses- wins, because (s)he doesn't have to play this crap any longer. (S)he also gets one of the chairs so (s)he can sit comfortably while the stupid people who haven't figured out the right strategy keep fighting for chairs by running around until the music stops again.

Never heard the term Bubatz before and I have been living in Germany for 49 years.

5:23 The original Maggi Würze is not hot sauce but the German equivalent to soy sauce. It has a salty umami taste and mainly consists of wheat protein. There's a herb that smells extremely similar - lovage (Levisticum officinale) - and is therefore also called Maggi Herb by many but it isn't an ingredient of Maggi Würze.

Not just in Germany you can bring alcolhol there, in Denmark for instance we even drink with our teachers (not when school is in session though)

Therapie is free in Germany, is capped by the statutory health insurance. (don't know if that sentence is correct, Deepl helped me a lot with that 😀). In fact, i am in Therapie since i was 5 y.o. because of Depression, suicidal thoughts (came later), autism (not a single therapist/Quack did know that until 1 year ago when i let myself check it on my own accord) and so on. 😀 But yeah, if if you have only on of those i have, it is free because the health is something German take good care of. Regardless of mentally oder physically 🙂 Oh, and Alcohol is also not allowed in Schools 😀 Well, at least not if you show it around like a medal. We bought "Cherry Water", which is a fruit Brandy, and put it into Cola to mix it 🤣

No, you aren’t allowed to bring alcohol on school property (I mean, we did in our last weeks of school, but it definitely wasn’t allowed). You are allowed to consume alcohol in a 100m radius around schools though, but not Bubatz

I missed this so much.

4:03 Anzeigenhauptmeister

The joke at 4:43 is that the CSU party that currently rules in Bavaria said "the german language needs to be comprehensible" during the gender language debate (instead of writing e.g. Lehrer*innen (Inclusive to both male and female teachers) in e.g. something like a letter they want to keep it the traditional way of writing Lehrer (male teacher) when referring to a group of both male and female teachers. In German there's a gender specific word to pretty much all jobs or when referring to a specific group of people like: Lehrer/Lehrerin (teacher), Schüler/Schülerin (student) Ingenieur/Ingenieurin (engineer), Kanzler/Kanzlerin (chancellor), Soldat/Soldatin (soldier) and so on) while bavarian dialect can be pretty hard to comprehend/understand to a non Bavarian

1:37 Mr Söder in Bavaria just banned the usage of gender neutral language in schools and other institutions.

P.S.: there is a huge US military base in Ramstein (the largest in Europe), 56,000 American people live and work there.

i loved those 32 märz (march) memes with the incompetent politician Merz. März and Merz are pronounced very similar. We will get another one for Mai (May)

first meme is the App from the German public transport - it suggests also the way between plattforms or in this case to the trainstation from your current position... so good luck to get that train on plattform 2. Spiegel memes are about the Anzeigenhauptmeister these days as he was beaten up... I saw US-styled policecars i think twice in my life in germany too - sure just private cars maybe really imported. Eh alcohol on school ehhh well we totaly did not start from the school ground with a tractor with seveal boxes of beer on our commencement and bought Feiglinge at the first stop... (the beer was ok as we where 16+ but the hard alcohol wasn't....

school grounds (the outside) become a drinking/smoking spots at night in Germany

5:21 Maggi seasoning is a seasoning sauce that was invented around 1886 and is colloquially known by the manufacturer's name "Maggi". The normal version is not spicy, but is somewhat comparable to Asian soy sauce.

The "having to do the Math" thing makes it a german Meme instead of a regular Meme.

Your German pronounciation massively improved over the last few months. The only mistake you keep repeating is confusing "ie" and "ei". German is easier than English in that case. "ie" is always a long e like in cheese, "ei" is always pronounced like eye. Only exception: When the letters accidently join in a long German word that is made from two or more short words. But that's so rare I can't even find an example. When you pretend there's so exception at all, you are right in well over 99% of the cases.

7:14 Ramstein houses the largest US Military Base outside the US. Seeing US Military vehicles - including Military Police around the area is quite a common occurrence. And yes, these MPs have no jurisdiction over German civilians as long as they don't get their business intertwined with US soldiers - and even then the MPs would usually call German Police to the scene to deal with them.

Not the band Rammstein, but Ramstein = Largest US Base in Europe, in Germany. That's where you Americans control your drones from, when you strike in the Middle East. The American police car was military police.

If you want to watch a German comedy movie you should take a look at Manitu's shoe (Der Schuh des Manitu). It's the highest grossing German movie of all time and a genius parody of the classic Karl May Western movies. Lots of the jokes would be considered some sort of -ist (racist, sexist, etc) but I grew up with this movie, it's my personal all time favorite and it's just hilarious

4:30 Spiegel tv showed a 18 year old giving parking tickets to Cars who parked bad, but nobody woud care. After that, he was in hospital.

Literally it is forbidden to smoke and drink alcohol at schools, but not 100m around them.

Boris has no heart. Just a tiny hands to do harm

If you want to watch a German comedy, I would recommend the movies "Fack Ju Göhte" or "Der Schuh des Manitu" Although I don't know if there are English subtitles for them

@11:20 Since jokes are always funnier when you explain them: in this pic there is no area left that is further than 100m from the nearest playground. so basically, smoking weed is still not legal there.

Thearepy is when needed completely free in Germany

No. And Technically Cigarettes are Forbidden too but they usually are tolerated somewhere in the last Corner of school Grounds.