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▸It's not a secret that there are plenty of cultural differences between Germany and the US but some of those things are just SO RANDOM and there seems to be no obvious explanation as to why Americans and Germans do those things differently. In 2020, I actually dedicated a whole video series to those random, little differences (see playlist link below) but since then, I've come across so many new things that I just HAD to share with you! So here are 5 MORE random differences between Germany and the US! :)
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1:03 Difference #1
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@FelifromGermany 2 жыл бұрын
What other random differences between the US and Germany (or another culture) have you come across before? Share it with the rest of us in the comments! 😁👇
@robertwilson2007 2 жыл бұрын
What happened to the video where Ben and you are cooking and you talking to him in German and telling him how to cook the meal? I was planning on trying that meal. Let me guess, to many people making rude comments?
@FelifromGermany 2 жыл бұрын
@@robertwilson2007 Nothing happened to it. It's not its own video, it's part of this one: Top 8 German Netflix Shows You Need To Check Out! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/btGZmMyU196sfJ8.html
@robertwilson2007 2 жыл бұрын
@@FelifromGermany Thank you
@robertwilson2007 2 жыл бұрын
I am sure you have you tried Glier's Goetta and does it taste anything like scrapple? Is scrapple popular in Germany?
@claudiakarl7888 2 жыл бұрын
@@robertwilson2007 No. There’s a thing called Panhas in some areas of Germany, but those two dishes seem to have taken different developments from each other. The US version has some different ingredients and is eaten in a different way. No one in Germany would eat Panhas for breakfast. Same goes for Goetta. It has German roots, but that’s it.
@cubbance 2 жыл бұрын
Those folding rulers were definitely more common when I was a little kid in the late 70s and early 80s. I haven't seen one in at least two decades though. I got a rush of nostalgia seeing one in this video, in fact.
@MsTimelady71 2 жыл бұрын
Yes, parents have one and I know our contractor has one. But they aren't that common here.
@mugwump242 2 жыл бұрын
Same. When I was growing up (1970s/'80s), both my parents and grandparents had a folding ruler/yard stick around the house. So they were a thing in the US but have since been supplanted. I'd forgotten all about them until I saw Feli's.
@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio 2 жыл бұрын
My parents had one when I was a kid. I liked playing with it. But realistically, they aren't the easiest thing to measure with because you can't lay them flat and it's much more awkward to slowly unfold them. It's much easier to simply pull out a tape measure.
@bernmuller5261 2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in the 40's; my father was a German immigrant (1925) and we always had a "folding ruler" in the house. I still have it and use it.
@claudiakarl7888 2 жыл бұрын
@@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio I definitely prefer them to tapes. I only use tapes for distances of more than 2 m.
@shelbywoo3229 2 жыл бұрын
The 2 origins of crossing fingers is very interesting. When you tell someone you’re crossing your fingers for them you make the gesture in front of them. When you are lying you cross your fingers behind your back (it’s more the act of a child than an adult, like telling a lie to your siblings because you need to keep the truth a secret).
@ambermarie211 Жыл бұрын
Also when crossing fingers for luck they are usually held upright while crosses fingera for lying are often held pointing down.
@erictaylor5462 2 жыл бұрын
12:30 It's easy to know the difference. Crossing your fingers for luck is done openly, while crossing your fingers for lying is done with the hand hidden.
@fonkbadonk5370 Жыл бұрын
Yes, so easy to know when it's hidden =)
@erictaylor5462 Жыл бұрын
@@fonkbadonk5370 I'm talking about knowing the difference if someone is crossing their fingers for you.
@andrewbauer4597 2 жыл бұрын
When I first started dating my wife, she thought I might be the one, she changed her phone number to the spelling of her name so I wouldn’t forget her phone number. I guess it worked. We will be married 34 years this year.❤️
@fonkbadonk5370 Жыл бұрын
The 100% sure path would have been to change it to just spell her initial(s) I guess =)
@JoshNieporte 2 жыл бұрын
I'm also German, and also in Cincinnati. Those rulers are just called "folding rulers" here, and are rarely used. Tape measures have been the go-to since the early 1980s. Apart from classes in Construction, I've never seen the folding rulers in use. A yard stick is one long ruler, and it's a yard long. It doesn't fold.
@ronaldgarrison8478 2 жыл бұрын
Lasers have huge potential here. Over time, the details will be worked out to make them more practical in more situations.
@silkwesir1444 2 жыл бұрын
@@ronaldgarrison8478 Is that a joke? Did Feli make a mistake by calling them lasers? I ask because it boggles my mind how they could work using lasers. Don't they use sound? (Speed of sound being much lower than speed of light)
@ronaldgarrison8478 2 жыл бұрын
@@silkwesir1444 No, nothing jocular about it, from me or her. Laser range-finding is real. Look up LIDAR, for a discussion on an especially precise form of this. No, it doens't involve sound. Sound is also sometimes used in ranging, but that's very different, and generally not as precise.
@wabash1581 2 жыл бұрын
I have seen them around when I was growing up, and have used one a few times. I prefer a tape measure. I feel you get a more precise measurement, and faster, with a tape measure. However the folding ruler is a great tool if you need a stable measurement device, longer than a yard. I like yardsticks too, and it is rare I need a stable measurement longer than a yard. I have had situations where a folding ruler would have been useful. I don't own one. From Columbus, Ohio. I just may have no idea how to use a folding ruler, to its full potential.
@salbuda6957 2 жыл бұрын
@Silkwesir. You could visit a Home Depot or Lowe’s. There they are! I’d say it’s been a good 10 years. 😉
@anthonysheehan640 2 жыл бұрын
Regarding business phone numbers, when growing up in Chicagoland in the 70s and 80s, the 3 phone numbers I absolutely knew were home, 911 for emergencies, and 588-2300 for Empire Carpeting.
@GermanyTechno Жыл бұрын
11:34 “crossing your fingers on the other hand” literally.
@fusion451 2 жыл бұрын
The single letter usage is a popular culture trend from the 70s like the show Happy Days character Fonzie calling his surrogate family Mr and Mrs C Also the character Mr T from the A team tv show was very popular
@mikeklein1779 2 жыл бұрын
From my experience, calling someone by the first initial is similar to a nickname. The only times I've experienced Mr./ Ms./ Dr. (last initial) were when either it was noted as preferred or when the last name is barely pronounceable.
@tracy3812 2 жыл бұрын
Remember “Mr B” from Hazel?
@chrisk5651 2 жыл бұрын
First thing I thought of was happy days. Didn't think about Mr. T as I wasn't really much of a fan but had been very well known back in the day. The single initial is a nickname and less formal & proper. I think it can also be shorthand when the name is very long or hard to pronounce. Traditionally in Germany most people had German names but in the USA there was a much greater diversity of names.
@Hans293 2 жыл бұрын
@@mikeklein1779 That's also when I've heard people use a title+last initial (when people had trouble pronouncing the last name.)
@AndrewAMartin 2 жыл бұрын
@@Hans293 My high school band director was Mr. K because his last name would get butchered all the time, it was just faster and easier.
@garylshelton2463 Жыл бұрын
As for the crossing of fingers being used for two different meanings in the US, one thing Feli forgot is that the deceiving meaning of the crossed fingers is understood when the fingers are crossed behind one's back as one ostensibly promises something.
@KristianKumpula 2 жыл бұрын
I recall one of my German teachers saying something about how talking with Americans is more animated and louder than what she's used to, at least in NYC. If I understood her German correctly, I think she compared it to a theatre performance.
@justina.6769 2 жыл бұрын
I was born in NY and yes we tend to talk louder and some of us (Italians mostly) like to "talk with their hands" if you know what that means :)
@estat9253 Жыл бұрын
I came across your videos by accident and have thoroughly enjoyed your enthusiastic take on cultural and infrastructure differences. I've noticed that traveling to Canada, Bermuda, the UK and Iceland. I hope to travel to Germany and your videos have helped me better understand how NOT to stand out. Vive la differences! Keep up the great work, Feli.
@FelifromGermany Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@jensschroder8214 2 жыл бұрын
In Germany it is frowned upon to make contracts via telephone number. Only companies that have a bad reputation or want to trick you do that. You never know who's calling. Someone called recently and wanted to sell an electricity contract over the phone. When I asked how much it should cost, it was answer "half of what you pay now". When I persistently asked how much half the money was, the caller hung up.
@Chelle23464 2 жыл бұрын
In the US we do a lot online too and when doing business like that we initiate the call so we know who we’re calling. Like if I wanted to switch internet providers I would call the new company and have someone handle it. We do get sales calls too be it’s highly recommended to call the company yourself.
@scottgunn52 2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in the 1950s, we were taught not to blow our noses at the dinner table, but nothing was said about doing it in public.
@marydavis5234 2 жыл бұрын
Both me and my younger brother were told to go into the restaurants bathroom to blow our nose not at the table. and I was born in 1961.
@antoniohinojos3808 Жыл бұрын
This is the only impolite situation, you’re correct.
@akbauer2525 Жыл бұрын
The idea of blowing your nose inpublic is more about not spreading anyposible germs towards others.
@carlbeaver7112 3 ай бұрын
@@antoniohinojos3808 No, it is not. Turning away from others before blowing is polite and sanitary. At a dining table, excusing yourself is definitely preferred. Nobody wants to listen to someone blowing snot and watch them picking at their nose while eating - whether or not they are at your table or two tables away.
@denis65 2 жыл бұрын
The calling each other by an initial may be a generational thing. My friends and I have never done it (I'm mid 50's). If you cross your fingers behind your back, that means you're telling a lie, where I'm from. It's been years since I've seen one of those measuring things! In my group of friends we only use numbers, not words for our phone numbers. I've learned a bunch of new things today. Thanks, as always!
@Steve_Stowers 2 жыл бұрын
Agree: I can't remember hearing people calling their friends by a first initial, and I suspect that it isn't so much an American thing as it is a "kids these days" thing.
@suedenim 2 жыл бұрын
I'm also a GenX American, and I don't think I've ever seen the initial thing. Closest I can remember is that we called a certain teacher whose first name was Charles "Chucky C" - but never, ever to his face.
@richardsbrandon5027 2 жыл бұрын
@@Steve_Stowers Eh, I've had friends or people older than I call me B, :))) And I do like it!
@CatServant 2 жыл бұрын
I think you’re right. I’m 60 and nobody did that when I was growing up. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it started with text messaging.
@bibliotekarin 2 жыл бұрын
Hm. I am 58 and my brother and I called each other B and K from a young age. My best friend and I also frequently used each other's first initials. I called another friend by her first initial too! We thought it sounded good, I guess. So...I don't know about the generational thing. It's a mystery!
@dm747 2 жыл бұрын
I do not know how or when using the first letter of a person’s name to identify them started but the first time I heard it done was on a TV show called “Happy Days” when Henry Winkler as the “Fonz” called Marion Ross, playing Mrs Maron Cunningham, Mrs C. The show ran for 11 seasons starting in 1974 and as many of you know is still being shown as reruns to this day. I have also hear it used in the “Welcome Back, Kotter” TV Series that ran from 1975 to 1979 from time to time but not as much as on “Happy Days”.
@josephtoledo2693 8 ай бұрын
The folding rule is called a "carpenter's rule" and is still used in woodworking. It is similar, but not the same as, a ship builder's rule, where the thickness of the rule is an essential measuring component.
@patrickchambers5999 2 жыл бұрын
I know that folding ruler as either a "carpenter's ruler" since as a child, carpenters always used them or as a "zig-zag ruler" since when unfolded they looked like that. Years ago when I was working in industry I knew two electricians, at the factory, I worked at. One had the first leg of his ruler broke off and often forgot this, so when calling out conduit measurements to the other they were off dimension. The other guy bent the conduit to those dimensions but the piece wouldn't fit, naturally because of the incorrect dimensions. Finally he bought his partner a new ruler and proceeded to break the old one at every joint so it could never be used again.
@cbyrd1061 2 жыл бұрын
Yard stick is only 36 inches.Usually straight, like 3 rulers together. We have both.
@MichaelPhillipsatGreyOwlStudio 2 жыл бұрын
The pressed thumbs thing is certainly a curious difference. I'd never heard of that before! They also sometimes call people by their last initial in the UK.
@MadMusicNerd 2 жыл бұрын
I'm from Germany and if I want to wish somebody luck with emojis, I always make the 👊 fist, because it's the nearest I get to "pressed thumb" (and nobody I know would know what crossed fingers mean in Amerika)
@FlorianGuitar85 2 жыл бұрын
@@MadMusicNerd I’m from Germany too and I hate this emoji. I perceive it as getting threatened aggressively. I take use 👍🏻 instead since we also say „Daumen hoch“ to wish someone luck.
@usaverageguy 2 жыл бұрын
I was a bricklayer for many years. Every bricklayer carries a "ruler" with very special increments on one side to increase or decrease the height of each course of brick
@joeb4294 2 жыл бұрын
American here and I never use "cross my fingers" for good luck. I do often say "knock on wood" and knock if any wood is around, but there usually is not any real wood around, so I jokingly change it to "knock on Formica" and knock on the countertop
@chrysippus4321 2 жыл бұрын
That folding ruler is so nostalgic. I haven't used one of those in decades!
@Sampler19 2 жыл бұрын
I just used one some hours ago before ordering a new mousepad with Handballenauflage.
@LythaWausW 2 жыл бұрын
I don't think you can spank your children as easily with them.
@TMD3453 2 жыл бұрын
Seems so normal to me. Makes me think it’s a German American thing!
@sblankin Жыл бұрын
The folding ruler is an old fashion ruler. I use them all the time. But I'm old. I do Carry the tape measure when I'm measuring bigger items.
@rrrob19 2 жыл бұрын
With the name thing another thing that we do in America is if there a lot of kids with the same first name they can be referred to by their last name only. For example my brother-and several of his friends in high school are named Chris. So I knew several of his friends as Plaster, Ashby, Osborne,or Whitt instead of Chris and several of them usually referred to my brother as Anderson.
@karenschafer2827 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe it is because my father was in the building industry, but he always used the wooden folding rulers and I still have one or two around (I am 75).
@jeromemckenna7102 2 жыл бұрын
My father (born in 1899) used a folding ruler and I used them form making picture frames.
@bob_._. 2 жыл бұрын
#4 is a "folding rule" they were common back when your older viewers were kids. Yardsticks are a single strip of wood 3 ft long. #5 Crossing your fingers only means you're lying when you do it behind your back so the other person can't see it. Actually it's a child's thing and the other person is usually a parent.
@christian_w. 2 жыл бұрын
As a kid watching Full House, I always found it funny that Kimmy Gibbler referred to Danny Tanner as "Mr. T" - because, you know, Bob Saget looked nothing like Mr. T from the A-Team.😄
@rickleefs 2 жыл бұрын
In my youth (1960s) the folding rulers were common but were gradually replaced by measuring tapes.
@Simeonpravoslav 2 жыл бұрын
My grandpa had one of the folding rulers, but it was an antique and he had switched to tape measures by the late 1960s. The tape measure clipped to his belt (he was a custodian) and was easier to handle.
@Rauschgenerator Жыл бұрын
But it's much harder to let them stay straight; for example when you have to measure a distance from a point in the air to another point in the air (measuring the length of a wall of a room, where you have a lot of obstacles like shelves, wardrobes, etc., so you can't lay it down). The tapes have their special use, but in most cases, folding rulers are better imo.
@The_Dudester 2 жыл бұрын
4) The last time I saw a "folding ruler" was the late 1960's. From 2002 to 2011 I ran a high rise complex for a large oil company and as part of my duties I inspected work sites. Measuring tapes were the rule, but I did see the laser measuring device once as we had a major water leak and the engineer needed to know how far the pipe went before the pipe went horizontal.
@robertwilson2007 2 жыл бұрын
When I was kid in the 80's, the use of MR. P or MS. P was always reserved for teachers and parents you really liked, it was form of shown affection and respect. I don't know how kids use it today. American slang and language changes so quickly with the meaning from decade to decade and generation to generation. I hear new words and meanings of words all the time. Sometimes I will use the urban dictionary to try and understand what someone is talking about. But take the urban dictionary with a grain of salt.
@blueptconvertible 2 жыл бұрын
Being a member of leadership in a company I've had employees who have referred to me as Mr S because my German last name is difficult for them to pronounce. It never bothered me.
@robertwilson2007 2 жыл бұрын
@@blueptconvertible Yea, I can see me doing that. It would have to be a name I would be afraid of truly butchering on a daily basis.🤣
@aquilapetram 2 жыл бұрын
As I recall, the Mr./Ms. [X] formulation was used on several 80s high school sitcoms - Saved by the Bell and so on. I think it may also have been used in rap of the period. I don't believe I've ever heard anyone under 50 speak this way. I would have caught hell in the 60s-70s for the disrespect if I'd spoken to an adult that way, both from the adult in question and from my parents.
@cassieberringer7427 Жыл бұрын
@@blueptconvertible Yes, My Dad also did that when he did substitute teaching, he told the kids to just call him Mr. B. Our last name isn't super difficult, but people tend to mispronounce it a lot especially when learning it at first.
@blueptconvertible Жыл бұрын
@@cassieberringer7427 yeah I'm pretty good at pronouncing names. My gut tells me it's pronounced Bear-N-Ger but I could also see Bear-ing-er as an alternate.
@jimpemberton 2 жыл бұрын
We had a folding rule when I was a kid in the 70s. I think measuring tapes are more common because they are smaller and clip to your belt. They also bend at any given distance if you are measuring an inside dimension.
@natalig099 2 жыл бұрын
I love these random differences, so interesting! Especially comparing them to (my) third perspective. In Israel, we also cross our fingers for luck but call it "holding our fingers" in Hebrew 🤔 And not sure if it still exists among young children, but when I was a kid it was also used when lying.
@skiiminette6725 Жыл бұрын
To clear up the confusion on the crossing fingers: Here in America we cross our fingers for good luck and show it. When we want to not make a promise, we cross our fingers behind our backs.
@fonkbadonk5370 Жыл бұрын
Which kinda makes it worse imho.
@skiiminette6725 Жыл бұрын
@@fonkbadonk5370 what does?
@fonkbadonk5370 Жыл бұрын
@@skiiminette6725 Making "not a promise" behind your back. If you don't, just don't. Don't just lie about it.
@skiiminette6725 Жыл бұрын
@@fonkbadonk5370 Well, this was more what children would do, not adolescents or adults... Kids would do what kids do.
@SuperBizalz 2 жыл бұрын
9:35 - Yeah, that “ruler” is HELLA weird!! 😂
@GetRidOfCivilAssetForfeiture 2 жыл бұрын
I am only conjecturing but crossing your fingers for good luck may have a similar type of origin to the Ashkenazic Jewish tradition of saying “Ken ahora” (Yiddish for may the evil eye not know) immediately before or after a statement wishing someone good luck, best of fortune, etc, so as to fool evil spirits as to your true intentions of wishing well for someone. And depending where one’s ancestors lived, you might also knock on wood while at the same time saying “knock on wood”. My step-mother would always say, “Ken ahora knock on wood” while knocking on wood three times at the same time.
@Chelle23464 2 жыл бұрын
The initial deal is often due to hard to pronounce names. Like Duke’s Coach K. Also in the 90s text speak aided the use of initials. As for the finger crossings. For luck we show the crossed fingers. If lying we hide them behind our backs.
@bernmuller5261 2 жыл бұрын
We use crossed fingers in exactly the same way here in Michigan.
@ClaudiaG.1979 2 жыл бұрын
same in germany.. for lying the crossed finger goes behind the back..
@petenielsen6683 2 жыл бұрын
It is also mostly with Millennials. With older adults it is considered rude.
@AndrewAMartin 2 жыл бұрын
My high school band director/teacher was "Mr. K" because his last name would get butchered otherwise, and it was quicker too. That was back in the early 80's...
@jlpack62 2 жыл бұрын
The Mr. P. or Ms. K, sort of thing has to be a newer trend or in limited use, and not a longstanding American tradition. It wasn't common when I was growing up, and I really only heard for the first time with Duke's bball coach because people couldn't pronounce his tricky Polish surname. Given the "C" virus, I wouldn't want people blowing their noses around me. Even with a tissue, there has to be germs and virus spreading with each blow. I've never heard of individuals using words instead of numbers for their personal phone numbers. Correct: yardsticks don't fold. I've never heard of pressing one's thumb, even though my ethnicity comes from your list of countries that use it.. Thanks for that insight.
@MsTimelady71 2 жыл бұрын
Must be a Millennial thing as I never heard that growing up either. We always used the full name. Maybe on TV but not in RL. As for the folding yard stick, my parents have always had one of those and they are the best. Easy to handle and easy to store. Score one for the Germans.
@rosmith51 2 жыл бұрын
I can remember the Mr/Mrs initial thing at least as far back as late 70s and early 80s. Certainly on Happy Days they referred to Mr. C all the time, which would have indicated it was already well established in the 50s
@jlpack62 2 жыл бұрын
@@rosmith51 True. Fonzi said Mrs Cunningham, Mrs. C., but is that really indicative of the 50s or was that part of Fonzi's character and a product of Hollywood of the late 70s? I still can't say that it's common enough to be considered a cultural difference.
@JMM33RanMA 2 жыл бұрын
It may be a continuation of the nicknaming process. My nickname, Jay, could be the familiar name for Jason, James, Jacob, etc. It seems to have also become a full name on its own, and then been reduced to "J." I've never heard the reduction to first letter in real life, but calling me Jay or "J" would be indistinguishable.
@robertdendooven7258 2 жыл бұрын
There was a teacher in my Elementary school who had a long Polish name that was hard for young kids to pronounce. So, she just went by Miss K. This was in the 1970's.
@pinchtwo654 Жыл бұрын
My grandpa in North Carolina gave me one of those folding rulers when I was a kid. He called it the measuring stick. I’m pretty sure you can still find them in some hardware stores.
@donbenson2099 Жыл бұрын
On the folding ruler, I have always known it as a carpenters ruler. When I was a kid they were very common ask a carpenter if they still use them I believe they do. Thank you Feli for you are a beautiful person.
@jamesmichener7526 2 жыл бұрын
The assignment of letters to a number is a US, or should I say an AT&T thing, that never happened in Europe. To aid switchboard operators (before direct dial), every 'exchange' (large switchboard) was given a name, where the first two letters of the exchange name were the first two numbers of a phone number... hence for example, "Glenwood 8 5555" would be GL8 5555 or 458 8888. AT&T also made all the phones, so all dial and touch tone phones in the US have letters associated with each number. This spilled over to ATM machines as well. This was never a thing in Europe. Also, in the USA the Cell Phone adopted this, while in the Deutschland most handy do not.
@jamesmichener7526 2 жыл бұрын
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names
@kam_iko 2 жыл бұрын
yes, it wasn’t a thing outside of US/UK/Canada, because telephones didn’t have the letters printed next to the numbers, however you’re wrong about mobile/cell phones. (almost) all mobile/cell phones did, also in germany, as this was also used for SMS (texting).
@robertdendooven7258 2 жыл бұрын
Great reply. I knew this too and was glad that someone else could type the long explanation out. 👍
@jamesmichener7526 2 жыл бұрын
@@kam_iko I agree with flip phones... but I don't think it appears with smart phones (Handy)... I could be wrong.. BTW were flip phones called Handy in Germany? I thought Handy came up with the advent of the smart phone.
@jamesmichener7526 2 жыл бұрын
@@robertdendooven7258 You are not the same age as Feli :->
@pablodelsegundo9502 2 жыл бұрын
1 - I remember doing the Mr./Ms. thing as a kid a lot, but not much at all as an adult. As for calling people by their initial, it's not common in my area (Texas) but you do hear it occasionally. I generally use given names or approved nicknames, even as a kid. 2 - I'm more German in this case. Picking your nose is unacceptable, but blowing your nose is fine...though I find people who have sneezing fits (like, 4-10 or more sneezes in a row) to be nasty if they don't leave the room, especially so once the pandemic hit. 3 - I've never encountered that outside of advertising. 4 - 😆 5 - hm, maybe it's an alternate influence on my part, but I normally do the knock wood thing.
@Ulrich.Bierwisch 2 жыл бұрын
Not in Texas? James Truchard, founder of the company National Instruments in Austin,TX is usually called "Dr. T". It is not appropriate to call him "Mr. T" for obvious reasons.
@simonsaunders8147 2 жыл бұрын
Sneezing has nothing to do with the pandemic. COVID was lung based and nothing to do with the nose at all.
@michaelihle5264 2 жыл бұрын
A yardstick does not fold and is 36 inches (3 feet, 1 yard, 0.9144 meters) long. The folding stick you refer to is commonly referred to as a carpenters' ruler.
@22craigjohnson 2 жыл бұрын
I have several 6 ft folding rulers and continue to use them. If you are measuring from an inside distance between closet walls, for instance, there is an extension or slide bar on the first 7” fold. So you can get a very accurate measurement without bending a tape measure up the other wall. Then you can take the opened ruler to the wood you want to cut, and it is already open to the exact instance. These are popular among finish carpenters at new construction jobs. We still use them here in North Carolina. Lufkin is a popular brand.
@matthewbanta3240 2 жыл бұрын
When they first started giving out phone numbers in the US, they thought it would be easier to remember them if they replaced the first two letter with a word. They still do that on the Simpsons. When they give a number they will say "Klondike 5-1234". You were supposed to know that "Klondike" means KL or 55. BTW, you will often see 555 numbers in US shows and movies because these numbers are reserved for that purpose and won't be given to anyone. Another example is the old song "Pennsylvania 65000." That was a phone number (that is still assigned to a hotel that was popular at the time). They stopped doing that word thing for the first two letters probably in the 50's or so. However the letters are still on your phone. Maybe Germans were first to figured out that the word thing didn't make things easier so they never did that. BTW, at one point everyone had rotary phones. With rotary phones, it took longer to dial large numbers. So phone numbers from high population centers like New York or LA got small numbers. Small towns (whose numbers probably wouldn't be dialed as often) got larger numbers. This was done to save time. Now it doesn't matter
@melindar.fischer5106 2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, in the 70s and I remember local TV commercials listing telephone numbers by their neighborhood or suburb letters -- that's how the telephone numbers were assigned decades earlier. So telephone numbers in the Westport area of KC started with WE (93), and Gladstone phone numbers started with GL (45), etc. I vividly remember a TV commercial for Standard Improvement Company with the workers singing "call Westport 1-7100" while "WE 1-7100" appeared on the TV screen. (It's a really cute commercial - look it up on KZfaq).
@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 2 жыл бұрын
555-1212 usually works; in my area code it used to give the time. So not ALL "555" numbers are unassigned.
@LythaWausW 2 жыл бұрын
@@melindar.fischer5106 I grew up in West Seattle and the whole West-side was WE (93) and there is a really cool bar there to this day with the name "West-5" because the phone number is 935.... I remember our phone at home had SO-26429 written on it for the South Park neighborhood. So you only had to remember 5 digits to learn your neighbors' numbers. Today my cell phone number has 12 digits and I cannot always remember it. My landline has "only" 11 (but the area code is 5 digits!)
@LythaWausW 2 жыл бұрын
@@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 Can you confirm it works today? Unfortunately in the last couple years Seattle decided that every time you make a phone call you must dial the area code. Even within your own area code on a landline. It is one of the changes that at first confused me, and now just pisses me off.
@pigmanobvious 2 жыл бұрын
The initial thing is mostly a Hollywood thing. Nobody I know uses that. Of course the country is pretty big. I also never heard of the thumb thing and my part of Wisconsin is mostly of German heritage. I can still hear my grandma saying “Ach!” It was her way of saying no!
@JMM33RanMA 2 жыл бұрын
There are different types of German. Pennsylvania German is a mixture of different local dialects. In the NYC area there is a significant Yiddish influence. So, between German, Yiddish and Dutch [related to Plattdeutsch] "ach" seems more like "oh!" I wonder whether in "Ach, Scheiss!" it means Oh or no. Würde mir bitte jemand erklären!
@pigmanobvious 2 жыл бұрын
@@JMM33RanMA yes I agree. I am a avid reader particularly on WW2. What struck me as funny was when reading these personal memoirs by German soldiers was how they kidded each other about their different accents. In America we are conditioned to believe their is only the movie style grunting type of German language.
@cubbance 2 жыл бұрын
I'm from the midwest, and referring to someone with just their first initial is definitely something that happens here. But only with certain letters for some reason. Like, you wouldn't say F instead of Feli. But you might say B instead of Bill, or J instead of Jason (I get this one a lot). I don't know why some letters are good for shortening and others aren't. It's also pretty common, mostly with teachers, to refer to them as Mr. or Mrs. initial. I had at least 5 or 6 teachers growing up who were commonly referred to in that way.
@pigmanobvious 2 жыл бұрын
@@cubbance yes I definitely agree with the teacher reference. I remember when I was in high school in the 80’s it started with teachers who had last names that were hard to pronounce. I wonder if this is how it got started?
@JMM33RanMA 2 жыл бұрын
@@pigmanobvious I studied German in college in the US in the 1970's. The book and the method were seriously defective. Having become an ESL teacher, I recognize the bad methodology as being only suitable for a minority of students. One semester of Ich heisse Johan, followed by Faust, and not Goethe's Faust but the older original. That is extremely bad practice, based on faulty educational theory. It is done solely in German, so the explanation of case and gender rules are opaque to people whose language has deleted most of that baggage! When I attempt to speak German, therefore, it comes out like Nazi German in WW II movies, to the dismay of any German subjected to it! Alles war unwirksam und im Wesentlichen nutzlos.
@jd-zr3vk 2 жыл бұрын
In the 1950s telephone numbers were extended to a 3 digit prefix and a 4 digit exchange. The 3 digit prefix were written as letters. For example. Thorn,wall is 857 and Sterling is 781. Companies capitalized on this standard by using letters for the exchange.
@ronaldswihart4018 8 ай бұрын
I'm an old guy, 79, and I've always used thumbs up and a gesture for 'good luck', like the like button for your video.
@Julia_USMidwest 2 жыл бұрын
The folding wood measuring stick is an antique that was quickly replaced by the metal measuring tape in the mid 1900s. I think the naming with one letter was a trend started by some teen-targeted TV show at some point. I have rarely heard it. Naming Mrs. C, etc. was done by the Fonz on the TV show "Happy Days" in the late 1970s. Again, not that common.
@leDespicable 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting, because metal measuring tapes aren't really a replacement for yard sticks here in Germany. They're used in different situations.
@christ6671 2 жыл бұрын
@@leDespicable Same in US. They all serve a purpose. The tape measure is mostly used as a carry on your belt. Straight metal rulers are used in shops. For measuring or drawing a straight line.
@jeffreysahaida1111 2 жыл бұрын
@@leDespicable old yardsticks are rare in the US now. My dad used to have one but that was 50 or more years ago. I loved the medal tape measuring sticks because you push down on a button to hold it the flip up and it comes back like 100 MPH
@Julia_USMidwest 2 жыл бұрын
@@leDespicable We still sometimes have household yard sticks, and construction workers have large (or small) "squares" (L, T, or triangle shaped) or large "levels" to use as straight edges. However, the folding type used for ease of carrying is usually replaced by metal tape measures.
@wandilismus8726 2 жыл бұрын
@@leDespicable i only use a Metal measuring tape playing Tabletop Games
@brianostube 2 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing the folding rulers when I was a kid back in the 70s; I think they were more popular in previous generations here in the US. Yardsticks are exactly 36 inches = 3 feet = 1 yard long. Also back in my childhood, it was common for the local neighborhood hardware store to give out yardsticks with their store's name and phone number printed on them. I don't remember hearing people refer to each other by their first initial until I moved to the Philadelphia area about 20 years ago. Maybe it's a regional or generational thing. It was more common for kids to refer to teachers or other authority figures as Mr./Mrs. X. When I taught high school German my students usually referred to me as "Herr O" :-) Crossing your fingers when making a promise you don't intend to keep is normally something only children (or a very childish person) would do. The crossed fingers are held behind one's back so the other person can't see them. Outside of my elementary school playground, I think I've only seen this done in cartoons or sitcom TV shows. But it is an interesting point I hadn't thought about that the same basic gesture can be used for two very different intentions!
@macprince5667 2 жыл бұрын
Folding rulers used to be in common use when I was young (50's and 60's) but were replaced for convenience.
@What_Makes_Climate_Tick 2 жыл бұрын
The common use of letters in phone numbers up to the 1960s or so was for the first two digits of a three-digit local prefix. When there were fewer area codes and less sophisticated de-coding of numbers that were dialed, area codes always had 0 or 1 as the second digit, while local prefixes never did. Both would never have 0 or 1 as the first digit because of the special meaning of dialing those digits first (this bit is still true). Since the first two digits of a local prefix have to be in the range 2-9, they correspond to letters, and they would often form a word starting with those letters, and you would use only the first two letters when dialing. For example, an old phone at the church I went to as a kid showed the prefix as "Atlantic1" instead of 281, since "AT" corresponds to 28. The old swing era song "Pennsylvania Six-Five Thousand" has a phone ringing sound effect and the title is a phone number. Since "PE" corresponds to 73, the number is 736-5000.
@jimjackson5544 2 жыл бұрын
Feli, a "Yard Stick" is three (3) Feet long. That folding ruler that you held up is a Construction Rule(r) here in the USA.
@larrydlam 2 жыл бұрын
True and the yard stick doesn't usually fold.
@lieninger 2 жыл бұрын
Normally, that "fingers crossed" to excuse a lie is done behind the back, ostensibly to hide one's deceptive intent (although generally this is supposed to be reserved for only very minor untruths, or perhaps "white lies", intended often to spare another's feelings)- whereas for a well-wish, the crossed fingers are shown and/or declared.
@CoastalNomad 2 жыл бұрын
Great Video....... I enjoy your videos..... 1) I have not encountered the calling someone by the iniitial of their name, unless they had a hard to pronounce name..... If I do not call them by their name, I commonly to call them by a "Nickname"..... I have some friends that I have called them by a nickname so much that saying their real name sounds wrong...... 2) Blowing Nose - I've seen it both ways... sometimes it comes down to is there a place to excuse yourself to go to..... or how much warning you have before need to blow or sneeze...... Add) Cooking - Sometimes it has to do with amount of time scheduled (buzy day) and sometimes the availiblitly of sizing of ingrediants.... you might only need 1"teaspoon" of an ingrediant and rest of the bottle/package will go bad before use rest of it..... 3) Phone Numbers - Americans still feel better about a transaction if they are "Talking" to another person..... and if can associate a number to a word/abbreviation makes the number easier to remember.... 4) Measuring tapes - the zig-zag carpenters rule is not prefered due to precieved bulkyness and it is seen as more practical to hold operate are tape measure expecially more than 25 feet in length, especially if measuring inside an area like a window or cabinet.... 5) Thumbs/Fingers - Example of how guestures/words are regional.... I always understood showing crossed fingers was wishing someone good luck/best wishes, and hiding crossed fingers was hoping they don't figure out I'm lying......
@betsyduane3461 2 жыл бұрын
Americans do not use words for their phone numbers unless it's a business which pays for the specific letters or unless it's just a coincidence. And the letters on the phone are from when we used to have named exchanges before area codes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names
@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 2 жыл бұрын
Individuals may choose their own phone number, too.
@betsyduane3461 2 жыл бұрын
@@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 If it's available and for a fee.
@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 2 жыл бұрын
@@betsyduane3461 no fee if it is a Skype Number; but of course it has to be available, that is true for individuals and corporations.
@betsyduane3461 2 жыл бұрын
@@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 The cost of a Skype Number subscription varies depending on which country you want the Skype Number for and how long the subscription lasts (1, 3 or 12-months) And Skype is not a cell number
@maxr.dechantsreiter5226 2 жыл бұрын
@@betsyduane3461 wow, thank you for your informative post, Mr. Know-It-All! But it is beside the point: NO CHARGE for picking an available number.
@JMM33RanMA 2 жыл бұрын
In Japan, hiding your thumbs is used when you see a hearse to protect your parent from dying or to prevent bad luck. The Japanese seem a bit reluctant to discuss such things with 好奇心旺盛な外国人 like me, so I have received different answers, young people maintaining, "Oh, we don't do that nowadays!" Having spent over half of my life overseas, returning to the US in the late 20th Century I found people usually coughing or sneezing into their elbows, rather than into hands or handkerchiefs. In Asia you are supposed to turn away and or leave the room. They think it is disgusting that westerners use handkerchiefs, and think disposable tissues more sanitary, and I agree, especially now. I have not seen anyone sneezing in public since the start of the pandemic. Thanks for another very interesting video.
@doug112244 2 жыл бұрын
The calling someone by their initial is very weird to me except in limited cases where English speakers would badly struggle with pronunciation and spelling of the name. Likely the best known one is Coach K the former Duke University Basketball coach.
@anthonykaiser974 Жыл бұрын
@doug112244 no doubt, when I first saw Coach K's name after just hearing it, even kinda knowing Polish was a difficult language, it was not hard to get why Mike Krzyzewski became "Coach K." Beats "Alphabet," which is what you'd likely get named in a military basic training in that situation.
@Michael-gh2yn Жыл бұрын
Folding wood rulers are VERY old fashion. My grandfather used one and he was born in 1893.
@thismikewill 2 жыл бұрын
Regional Area codes will be used to signify a whole area and sometimes a source of regional pride.
@aquilapetram 2 жыл бұрын
That's become more common as the geographic area of the area codes have shrunk and new area codes split off, as the population increases. When I was a child, the entire central part of the San Francisco Bay Area, on both sides of the Bay, was area code 415. The East Bay (where I live) was split off into 510 in 1991; 510 was split into bay shore (510) and inland (925) in 1998. Now 510 is being overlaid with 341, because we've run out of numbers. I can think of a few recording artists and labels that have branded themselves with the 415 or 510 area codes, reflecting San Francisco or Oakland regionalism, but that's been disappearing over the last 20 years. Associating a region with an area code really depends on people thinking in landline terms; if I look at the phone numbers of the neighbors on my block, I see six different area codes. Cellphones are removing the regionalism of phone numbers, in the same way they eliminate long-distance pricing for phone calls.
@rahmit47 2 жыл бұрын
I am over 70 years old now (American), but when I was 18 and 19 years old, I worked as a carpenter, and we always used the folding carpenter's rule or ruler, as you describe. But measuring tapes were becoming more and more common at that time, and now I agree that one can't hardly find or purchase a folding ruler any longer. By the way, I agree that groceries are more expensive in the USA, but gasoline and real estate are far cheaper here than in Germany. Cheers
@timesthree5757 2 жыл бұрын
It depends on the State or if yer Urban or Rural. Were I live we have Germans move in and they are amazed at how cheap the food is.
@jimshields4 2 жыл бұрын
I am also over 70 years old, and I can remember my father using the carpenter's rule. However, they are somewhat fragile, and the tape measure is more robust, and more accurate. Hope this helps.
@thehoneybadger8089 2 жыл бұрын
Gasoline‽ Not for much longer!
@theawolf2478 2 жыл бұрын
@@thehoneybadger8089 really? We're now at around 2.15€ per litre which equals 10.50$ per gallon
@thehoneybadger8089 2 жыл бұрын
@@theawolf2478 We will probably be there by the end of Summer.
@kam_iko 2 жыл бұрын
7:21 #3 the reason why most countries outside of US, Canada and UK didn’t use letters in phone numbers was/is quite prosaic: because it wasn’t common to put those on the telephones… english wikipedia > rotary dial > letters
@aquilapetram 2 жыл бұрын
And that's just it. Part of the issue is that it goes back to a much older phone infrastructure, from back when all phone calls were directed not by dialing a number, but by telling a human operator who you wanted to be connected with. The household phone infrastructure in the US dates back to the 1920s; I'm still surprised when I see 1950s-60s English movies, how everyone doesn't have a phone in their own houses. But in a lot of the world, a phone inside one's home was a luxury. America's infrastructure is much older than anyone else's, so each new technology has to be designed to incorporate the infrastructure that's already in place. It why the first major broadband technology in the US was DSL (which runs over the existing analog phone lines), while Europe started with ISDN (which ran over the digital phone lines that were already there, installed 30-50 years after America's phone system). When I was a kid in the 1960s, the numbers in the phone book were all listed with their "exchange" at the beginning - the two-letter code that represented the first two digits of the number. Typically, when you told someone your phone number, you turned the two-letter exchange into a full word, to make it easier to distinguish through the mediocre audio of the phone system. I can still remember my old number: THornhiil 5-4936; there were a lot of THornhills in my neighborhood. That convention went away in the early 70s, as rotary dial phones (all owned by Ma Bell, the original pre-breakup AT&T) were replaced with modular pushbutton phones. Once cellular phones started replacing landline phones 20 years ago, more and more phone carriers started requiring that the area code be included in every number you dialed. The only reason people tolerate that is because they're using ccellphones with preprogrammed contact lists; if they had to dial out an extra four digits to call next door every time (country code+area code), we'd head for the local phone company's office with pitchforks and pump shotguns, outraged at the inconvenience.
@AndrewAMartin 2 жыл бұрын
@@aquilapetram The requirement to dial the full 10 digit number nowadays is due to the vast proliferation of cell phones, which has caused the use of 'overlays', or multiple area codes in the same area. There are just too many numbers in use for the system to work otherwise.
@justinreid2422 Жыл бұрын
Iron Workers use Folding wooden rule / der Zollstab to place marks on bridge decks before tying rebar
@jasonwojnicz Жыл бұрын
With the whole using an initial, it's a form of imposed familiarity. People use it to show people around the person being addressed that they actually know each other and tells the person that's being addressed that someone wishes to be considered as a close friend.
@Julia_USMidwest 2 жыл бұрын
I grew up in 3 different Midwest states where blowing your nose in public--in the classroom--was perfectly acceptable. Only an occasional mother might complain if she thought you were being embarrassingly obnoxious about it. It must be a regional/family culture thing.
@cubbance 2 жыл бұрын
I'm from Kansas City, and generally, blowing your nose in public is fine, but you should still turn away from people while you do it. But it's infinitely better than sniffing and snuffling constantly.
@ea42455 2 жыл бұрын
Maybe is a regional thing. When blowing your nose here in the south you try to be a little discrete. At least turn your head away from others, altho when I worked in a govt. office we'd actually turn our back to office mates. Had never thought about it. Guess it's just an ingrained regionalism.
@kurtlong3928 Жыл бұрын
I live and work in Switzerland just across the border from Germany. I was eating in a restaurant once when a man sitting next to me blew his nose vigorously almost trumpeting like an elephant. It totally shocked me since where I am originally from in the East coast in the US this is pretty disgusting. It was surprising also since the Swiss are usually so polite and courteous.
@c_wanderluster 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for explaining to me the phone number thing. I never understood it. It's not a thing in Italy or Romania either. And definitely Romania and Italy are more similar to Germany in so many aspects like the websites and online banking
@Rocketsong 2 жыл бұрын
It's not really a thing in the US, other than some advertisers. And it almost always seems to be lawyers. They want a "number" that can be remembered by someone after they are arrested.
@johntom5416 2 жыл бұрын
Feli, I grew up using a folding ruler. My dad was a carpenter and joiner, and always had one. I've been doing carpentry work again these past few years and I ALWAYS have one in my ruler pocket!!! Most people in the U.S. don't even know what that funny shaped pocket one the right leg of carpenters pants is for ... it's for your carpenters ruler!!! Glad to know that they're still widly used in Germany!!!
@waaterdog Жыл бұрын
The wooden folding ruler was always around the house when I was a kid growing up in the '70s - VERY common... BUT, my father was an Industrial Arts teacher AND a Carpenter. But yeah, I haven't seen one in ages. Crossed Fingers - If you SHOW your crossed fingers, then it's implied to be the "Good Luck" symbol, if you HIDE the crossed fingers, [typically behind one's back], then it's known as "King's X", which is somehow or someway supposed to give the person some sort of exemption to whatever they might be saying or doing that is supposed to be in good faith. I never fully understood why. This seems to be somewhat of a now archaic expression that I haven't heard used in a very long time.
@andrewcram6032 2 жыл бұрын
Crossing your fingers does mean that the person crossing their fingers mean you are not being honest although I have seen this contradiction different to me on television shows and from people I would meet in different parts of the country such as here in the West Coast or Vancouver WA.
@steakismeat177 Жыл бұрын
that's what I do like about the US. We do have a lot of stuff online, but you can generally still call if the website isn't working or possibly not up to date.
@timwoody3835 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Not a yardstick, it’s a folding ruler. They were much more popular when I was younger (I’m 71) and we had a few in our home and used them regularly in my work as an inspection assistant building freeways.
@jasonwiggins6137 2 жыл бұрын
Be careful with the "Americans do" videos. There are close to 350 million people in the U.S. and a wide variety of cultures. There are also significant differences in different geographical locations within the Country. I honestly have not witnessed many of the "Americans do" examples and my bloodline runs back to the 1600's here.
@starseed8087 2 жыл бұрын
Every country has different regions, groups and different behaviors, so you could not make such a video about any country at all. But still there are things that are more common in one country than in another country
@jasonwiggins6137 2 жыл бұрын
@@starseed8087 Not like the U.S.
@theopuscula 2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonwiggins6137 As the travel prone melting pot that it is, America actually has way fewer precise geographic cultural differences than Germany for instance. Sure, there are a lot of "parralell" societies, particularly of relatively recent immigration, but you get those too in Germany and many other European countries. Considering the number of people and geographic extension, American culture is quite uniform; which of course doesn't mean that there are no differences at all, but the difference between attitudes and customs between for instance North and South Germany is larger than the overall difference between different parts of the US that I have seen.
@jasonwiggins6137 2 жыл бұрын
@@theopuscula The differences between Hawaii and Alaska is night and day. The Southern States is significantly different from the Northern States. The Western States are significantly different from the East. European culture from a multitude of different European Countries are spread throughout (Irish, French, German, British, etc.) African cultures are everywhere, along with Spanish. There is currently a rapidly growing Indian and Islamic presence. Native American culture is rich in diversity, and there are countless differences within all of these examples.
@theopuscula 2 жыл бұрын
@@jasonwiggins6137 And still all those people you mention will know what "fingers crossed" means and in all these places you will find at least some people who might not like you blowing your nose in their vicinity. Perhaps calling semeone Mr D is less common in some places than in others, but it is nothing people would be surprised by and have never heard of in any of those places. What was initially said is true: If you assume American standards of cultural difference are anything to go by, then no country can be talked about, because almost all countries (barring maybe extremely small ones) have differences in local food, traditions, immigration background, religion. The Southern States are maybe about as different from The NOrthern as Schleswig Hollstein is from Bavaria, but only if you look at their most stereotypical incarnations. I have been to several of each and would still always have known I'm in the US and not in Germany and not in Mexico or Britain either. Except for some extreme forms of Southern US English there are even hardly any differences in dialect a typical non-native speaker of English would notice.
@steventagawa6959 2 жыл бұрын
Very smooth segue into the sponsor plug! 😂 👍 About calling teachers by their last initial: It's most common in preschool and kindergarten, because it's easier for four- and five-year-olds to remember and say "Mrs. P" than "Mrs. Pumpernickel." If a teenager does it, it's a sign that they have a casual, friendly relationship with that teacher. And it's probably more common on TV than in real life these days. About crossing your fingers: If you mean it to negate a promise or when you're lying, the cliché is to do it behind your back, so the person you're talking to doesn't see it (since they're not supposed to know that you're lying). If you hold up crossed fingers to someone, it would usually be interpreted as wishing good luck. (The context would also probably make it clear.)
@thomasvlaskampiii6850 Жыл бұрын
I can give a good reason why we do a lot of stuff over the phone. A lot of people, especially out west in the mountains, don't have access to high speed internet. So, unless you want to wait 30 years for mobile banking to load via 14.4k dialup, you call the bank
@jeromemckenna7102 2 жыл бұрын
I worked in a picture frame shop for a few years and a folding ruler (and not a yardstick) was a staple but that was more than 40 years ago. The problem with them is that they are both expensive and fragile. They are still used making picture frames but not for carpentry. I still use a folding ruler. They are more accurate than tape measures
@machfront Жыл бұрын
I’ve very rarely experienced anyone calling anyone by the first letter of their name. It’s generally thought of as silly and a bizarre eccentricity of the person doing so. Calling a teacher “Mr D” isn’t common but it happens. It’s more common if an older lady in a neighborhood everyone knows and loves. But more often it’s “Mrs (first name) rather than “Mrs D”. But whatever the family calls her THAT’S what you call her because it’s a sign of respect and love! 🙂 Pretty much almost never witnessed a person blowing their nose in public here in central GA in my 49 years. I know very few people who rely on fast food for their meals because it’s a lot cheaper to get groceries. While it may be true for many to spend less time preparing meals, getting groceries also means a lot of options that take mere seconds or a few minutes to warm up, etc I’ve never ever ever ever known nor heard ANYONE outside of businesses spelling their phone number. False. Folding rulers are still a thing. This is perhaps because you live and experience “America” in the context of a major city. The rest of America is often a vastly different place to the point that everyday Americans often feel as though major cities are nigh alien to a point. I’d imagine most would measure with their phone or another tech device, yes, but I still see the same type of wooden folding ruler as my father has and still uses.
@jd-zr3vk 2 жыл бұрын
I am an 68yo American and have never been around anyone who calls someone else by first initial. I’ve seen it on TV, but not in real life. My brother was a junior. We went to Germany and found out that exit is Ass Fart (Ausfahrt). We were on a bicycle tour and started in France and entered Germany. I really like the train transportation that is not widely available in the USA. We were told if we got tired, just get on a train to get to the destination for the day. The French food was light and the German food we were served was very heavy with meats and potatoes. On the third day I sought out a restaurant for a large salad. There was an older German was lady who yelled at us for some unknown reason. We had a German guide who did not know why she was yelling at us. Feli brought up in an earlier video that older German ladies yell a lot. I like Germany. We went down the Mosel River to the Rhine River at Koblens, the most bombed and invaded city in Europe. It turns out that across the Rhine from our hotel was an old WWII bomb in the river that was found 2 months after we left Germany. They evacuated a 1 mile area around the bomb. That included the hotel where we were staying.
@voodoolilium 2 жыл бұрын
There's a line in Romeo and Juliet where someone "bites their thumb" at someone, which apparently was the equivalent of flipping someone off. If I didn't have a teacher explain that to me, I would've been so utterly confused lol. The actual lines: Sampson- Nay, as they dare. I will bite my thumb at them; which is a disgrace to them, if they bear it. [Enter ABRAHAM and BALTHASAR] Abraham- Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? Sampson- I do bite my thumb, sir. Abraham- Do you bite your thumb at us, sir? And it goes on for a bit of them arguing back and forth.
@tigeriussvarne177 2 жыл бұрын
9:44 Das ist ein Gliedermaßstab! Da sind keine Zoll drauf (ganz selten), und das ist auch kein Stock. xD
@EvinrudeDude Жыл бұрын
I’ve seen the folding-style ruler referred to as a “Mason’s Ruler”. In regard to blowing your nose, I worked with a German fellow who did the “trumpeting” you described…
@jaytibbles2223 2 жыл бұрын
The first measuring device I used was the folder! Many places the thumbs up gesture is like the bird!
@angiecibis Жыл бұрын
That folding wood ruler blows my mind.
@bobthebikerny 2 жыл бұрын
The folding rule(r) is also known as a carpenter's rule(r) in the US but tape measures have replaced them for the most part. Lowes and Home Depot have them for sale.
@tomfrazier1103 Жыл бұрын
I never saw the single initial thing in California or Hawaii . I was raised in part by my Grandparents, working class Great Depression survivors, 2d generation Americans. Dining out was a rare treat. Have watched my budget, so cooking my own is what I do, making stuff as good or better than restaurants. In my building career, tape measures, Stanley Powerlock IIs. Many Americanisms are inherited British things that can be regional, and survive out here long after they ceased in Blighty. Some survive from Native America, the Hawaiian culture strongly informs modern life here. That is a reason for a lot of your popularity- you examine this. Have you encountered antique Germanisms in the upper Midwest? Folding rulers are antique as I was raised by a trades family. I have seen them around, but never used one on the job, in shop or jobsite. I had an antique 2 meter one.
@garylshelton2463 Жыл бұрын
The folding wooden ruler I always heard called a carpenter's ruler when I was young in the 60's. My grandfather who was a carpenter would have one with his hand tools and I remember them quite clearly from him. My parents even owned one so I was definitely aware of them. I hadn't stopped to think how they are not so much a thing any longer in America, but I would have to agree with that assessment. It does seem that the best explanation as to why that is the case is that using a retractable tape measure is just far easier. A wooden foldable ruler is bulky and is always only good to 6 feet, whereas tape measures are compact and easily good to 25 to 30 feet long. This fact alone makes the foldable wooden (carpenter's) ruler a dispensable tool.
@fonkbadonk5370 Жыл бұрын
The upside of foldable ones is that they are much more stable (for the range they do cover). You can handle a 2m long one by yourself and get good enough measurements most of the time, where a tape measure would just flop out at 1m or such, rendering it entirely useless unless you have a somewhat continous flat surface to lay it on.
@fxdrider01 10 ай бұрын
I still have my folding ruler that I bought as a kid back in the early 1970's. They were very common in the US back then.
@elvinjonas5451 2 жыл бұрын
Fun stuff. Thanks!
@sassytbc7923 2 жыл бұрын
A yardstick is a flat piece of wood with measurements marked on them. They are 36” in, or one yard long
@o_d1559 2 жыл бұрын
I'm Dutch and never encountered pressing thumbs in the Netherlands so far (39 years).. we do have something to wish good luck that involves thumbs tho... but it is hard to describe... in Dutch it is called duimen (thumbs/thumbing)....
@pwitkop 8 ай бұрын
That kind of ruler used to be really common, my grandfathers toolbox had several. Not sure why they fell out of fashion, I think it was probably sometime after the war
@JostSchwider 2 жыл бұрын
9:37 No, it's officially called "Gliedermaßstab" (translates to something like "linked measure bar"). 😜
@jesspeters1611 2 жыл бұрын
I really appreciated the long mealtimes in Germany what dining out. A great time to share conversation and a few beers with your friends.
@geoffreylohff3876 Жыл бұрын
I find this SO interesting... I grew up as a 3rd Generation German American in Holstein Iowa. So many your German-isms live on without the knowledge of why. Example, the grasping the thumbs "for luck" was seen by me as more of an excitement/anxiety thing... usually when a close basketball shot bounces around before going in near the end of a game... guessing it has the luck origins. The wooden folding ruler was ALWAYS in our family toolboxes.
@ericweeks8386 2 жыл бұрын
The first letter thing was used in school when I grew up, only if the teacher's last name was difficult for kids to pronounce, so, Mr. D might have been shortened from something like Mr. Dershowitz (and it was usually requested by the teacher themselves, probably to save themselves from hearing their name mangled 30 different ways every day :) ).
@robertknight4672 2 жыл бұрын
I had a teacher in Middle School who was unmarried when I first had her but then she got married. Both the the maiden and married names were long. We went from calling her Ms. P. to calling her Mrs V.
@jaygee6738 2 жыл бұрын
On the folding rulers, I have heard them referred to as "red ends" . I have used them when inspecting road construction to check the depth of the asphalt when placed, drainage inlets, etc. And you can wrap a piece of colored tape around a set measurement when you have to have a ton of things that need to be uniform.
@wesleyw2238 Жыл бұрын
That folding measuring stick is called a tape rule! I use one often as an industrial electrician! Love your videos!
@lawrencebraun7616 2 жыл бұрын
When I was young my parents phone the letters a,b,c were number 1 and no letter Q. About 40 years ago they switch abc to number two. Another thing a yard stick is a single piece of wood not folding. A yard is a measurement. A yard is an average person holding there arm and fingers out. A yard is distance from your nose to finger tips It makes it easy to estaminet measurement expressly cloth
@shubinternet 2 жыл бұрын
#4 -- the wooden measuring tape is something that my grandfather showed me over 40 years ago when I was really young, and we were in his shop where he made wooden cabinets for his customers. But they were old-school then, and my dad had already converted to metal spring-loaded retractable measuring tapes in his theater scene shop. I haven't seen them since.
@thebizzle413 2 жыл бұрын
The folding ruler was common before metal tape measures.
@vincent412l7 2 жыл бұрын
Back in the day (up to the 70s), the telephone company used to name the exchange (area code - exchange - number). So instead of xxx-xxxx it was name-xxxx. Our 368 was Forrest 8 (FO8). TV shows used Klondike 5 (KL5 = 555). I think the words were supposed to make it easier to remember. Today I don't think spelling the number is a big thing, except in advertising. Especially with mobile phones, numbers are quick-dial or memory, and nobody knows the numbers anymore.
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