@@ahmadzaki-xl7sh idk why it should be cruel. Everything else would be pretty weird.
@taijin.9473 Жыл бұрын
@@ValentinoMPro as a german, i can confirm double😂 heheheha
@deado7282 Жыл бұрын
@@taijin.9473 Great, now hand in the document at a competent authority, so the confirmation can be confirmed
@Chubbyfilm Жыл бұрын
LOL I remember being invited to a German classmate's birthday party. The party started the night before his actual birthday, and since we came from all sorts of cultures (an international school in Europe), you could see him standing at the door, greeting everyone as they arrived while telling the non-Germans to shut it with the wishes because it's not his birthday yet. That was definitely stricter than a bouncer in front of a club.
@grindfuckernms Жыл бұрын
Aww thats a classic "reinfeiern" :D
@AlinaVitale Жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@thl7587 Жыл бұрын
God damm right! Don't wish us Germans "Happy Birthday" before our Birthday and don't make a fuss out of it. BUT don't forget the birthday neither!! AND, bring your cake to work!!
@joesouthborn29604 ай бұрын
The layers of Germanness baked into one birthday bash. #Levels 😂😂😂
@admontblanc2 ай бұрын
But where in Europe are you from? In most countries here the same superstition exists about birthdays.
@mistym0rningАй бұрын
As a German who’s moved to the US, not having to bring my own home-made cake or cupcakes to work on MY own birthday, and instead having my boss pay for a nice fancy cake for me, is amazing.
@TinaDanielsson7 күн бұрын
We're expected to bring home made cake/cookies/pastries to work in Sweden too. I've always thought that's very backwards, in every other situation YOU are the one getting gifts or are treated to something! It's pure exploitation😅
@CesarGarcia-nd5xz5 күн бұрын
Willkommen in Amerika 🇺🇸 😁 You see, isn't the American way nice? 😁
@JanetSmith9003 күн бұрын
At my old job we were expected to bring in treats for our birthdays. I hated it. It's a very Dutch area in the US and this sounds like where the practice comes from.. Not where I grew up!
@reeeyou3 күн бұрын
In my country it’s at least for primary school students, we bring small giftbags (usually a some small packets of snacks and candies) for our classmates, favourite teachers and other friends who are not in the same homeroom class. The richer kids will bring their birthday cakes to cut it after lessons. I never did it though, cuz when i asked my mom why cant we prepare these gifts for them, she said ‘it’s your birthday, why should you be giving gifts when you should be receiving them?” 😂 I thought it was embarrassing not to do it as a kid, cuz everyone else was doing it, but now that i’m older… i totally agree with my mom. 😂
@RealConstructor2 күн бұрын
@@JanetSmith900During my childhood years in The Netherlands it started for me at kindergarten (toddler school it was called back then), I always had to take tangerines, other fruits or little boxes of raisins (no candy allowed) to school to distribute in class. And even now at work you take cake or cookies to put at the coffee corner for colleagues.
@Leopold_Strauss Жыл бұрын
All of germany suddenly gasped when he said Happy birthday in advance
@jeannetteschuller35073 ай бұрын
I really did xd
@hannaR_2 ай бұрын
Me too, and I am not even German 🤣
@tmar8959Ай бұрын
So what's the custom for a group meal, does the birthday person pay for everyone or does everyone contribute to pay for the birthday person? Til today me and my mum can't agree on this and we're from the same household 😅
@hannaR_Ай бұрын
Everywhere I lived (Europe) usually the bitthday person pays for everyone else, I never heard other way around..
@Mara_1337Ай бұрын
@tmar8959 since in my friend group, everyone wanted to give group presents but noone organised them so I was always the Idiot who had to come up with something and then it was a hassle to collect the money, I just refused group presents at some point and said we should all just collectively pay the birthday person's dinner. But nobody really was for it... I think it's nice, if you go out with friends for your bday and get invited. I'd say the general rule is this: everyone pays for themselves but if we are out longer and have a few drinks, usually people will take a drink from the bday person on their bill at the end. And say "hey, I paid for a beer, just so you know". The only exception is if a friend throws a big party. Like, really booked a restaurant room and such. Then they will let you know on the invite like "hey, come to my party, beer and wine is on me, anything else is paid separately" or something. My last friend who did this (more like his mum) even paid for food but everyone was surprised because it was like a 60 ppl group... That's not the norm.
@pitpossum2 Жыл бұрын
EXACTLY! I have worked as a judge in Germany for six years. At your birthday, your colleagues expected you to bake at least two cakes and have snacks and drinks at your office. Then you had to spend all day at the office catering for your coworkers. It was so stressful that many people decided to take a vacation at their birthday.😅
@mikigosli287313 күн бұрын
But then they have to bring it after the holiday 😅
@Rosebud250311 күн бұрын
Yes, that's all so true but didn't those coworkers collect money and bought you a nice gift? I worked many years in a bank in Germany. This is what happened to me. It was lovely. By the way, German here living in Wales, UK. 🙋♀️
@Timesobserver_Xenia8 күн бұрын
@Rosebud2503 mist Germans list completely any sense of holidays. My husband (German) had a big round date last year. We invited people and organised some small table in the restaurant feeding guests and entertaining them. Let's say, my husband as a German was ignorant to his fate till thhr last moment, so, basically, I ran around along some prep so he can have memries, but closer to the party I noticed he actually wanted to have proper birthday. I guess smth is wron gwith this nation maybe because they don't want to spent money or they wait that somebody makes a surprise , but when it comes to other person's birthday they prefer to be served than to suprise that guy. So, back to my husband's birthday. His German best friends came to the even as if they worked form bar to bar or passed by just bevaus etheir house door was next to the venue. None! Absolutely nobody of that best friends had any present. They even didn't prep any nice wished or so. Even more, none of them brought anything in our wedding. Always as if they pass by to have bunch of beer for free. And that are directors, top managers etc. they have money, they have assistants, they have opportunities at least to make some small thing for their old good friend. My husband had several years with me by that moment, do, only that year he realised how bad German behaviour is. All the years before I had to train))) him to celebrate new year, make surprises and value family events. The first year our employers bought flowers and cake on my birthday and gave that to me as if my partner prepared that. Stories about Dutch are even worse. Actually, Bavarians are similar to Dutch in such a regard..eastern Germans still can have a bit of romantic behaviour.
@saram56597 күн бұрын
@@Timesobserver_XeniaGerman behavior is not bad and Dutch is not even worse. It is different than you are used to. Stop taking out your frustration with your husbands' friends on a whole country. We read these messages too, it's not nice. I loved bringing treats in primary school for the whole class when it was my birthday. 🎉
@issafula4 күн бұрын
Jesus Christ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@LeChefe Жыл бұрын
I always take vacation when it's my birthday. Like this nobody can complain to me why I didn't bring any cake to work.
@ChiakiHatori Жыл бұрын
I took a vacation day on my birthday too be we'll usually bring something afterwards either way, my coworkers prepare something (ask me what I wish for) + sweets and they sing once everyone is present (usually Fridays since that's really the only day where everybody is at work at the same time)
@eiramharas Жыл бұрын
👏🏼
@jollyfighter7319 Жыл бұрын
I do that, too. I want peace and quiet on my birthday
@IronIck45 Жыл бұрын
office-worker problems, mot in handwerk, und 2auf m bau". But intresting, that the angle saxoinians did nt know, not to wish happy birtday im voraus. strange people these island af...ecters.
@valinhorn42 Жыл бұрын
The deal is really simple: If you bring cake, you get birthday wishes. If you don't, you don't. There's nothing wrong with bringing the cake to work the next time you're there if you're absent for the actual date (it's heavily encouraged); if you delay any more things get awkward and you should apologize (twice: once on the day where you were supposed to bring cake, and then again when you bring the delayed cake).
@ahmedben9532 Жыл бұрын
"Why would I bring my own birthday cake?" 😂😂😂..so true
@aniaz5972Ай бұрын
In Poland we also do it - bring our own birthday cake.
@youngwt1Ай бұрын
@@aniaz5972ironically in the uk too this is very common
@Annamay199Ай бұрын
Same in Sweden
@nataliaa1336Ай бұрын
И в России так же. И заранее не поздравляют.
@sdd264Ай бұрын
@aniaz5972 I always thought that bringing cake for other's birthday is more of a favour than a norm
@combatduckie Жыл бұрын
spot-on. In Germany, at least in corporate, a LOT of employees actually do take the day off on their birthday...me too...in order to avoid this BD crap in the office... :-)
@lukask.3686Ай бұрын
Just do Home-Office😂
@danijel124Ай бұрын
Out of curiosity how many days off per year do you get in germany? A fresh guy just starting to work?
@lukask.3686Ай бұрын
@@danijel124 30 workdays
@CelestichthysmargaritatusАй бұрын
@@danijel124 24 to 30.Its up to what they yoffer. I wouldn't take an offer for less than 30 though😅
@danijel124Ай бұрын
In slovenia its arround 23 days for everyone starting to work loolz. Our country is scamming us...
@LittleCuteNekogirl Жыл бұрын
For how little modern germans care about superstitions, the "you can't wish someone happy birthday before the actual birthday" thing is taken very serious. I took and internship at a grammar school once and a child broke down completely, when I asked her what's wrong she told me that someone wished her happy birthday before her birthday on purpose so her actual birthday would be awful due to bad luck. The entire class was absolutely mortified on how someone could be that evil.
@m4xw499 Жыл бұрын
Yea pretty much, lol. Its very bad luck, like they tell u now because you might not live to get the birthday. At least thats how i understood it. However partying prior (or most often into the actual birthday reinfeiern) is the norm, especially if other ppl can't make it on a target after the actual birthday due to work or other factors
@karinehrlich7642 Жыл бұрын
Rotten little brats. My mother always said not to wish an early birthday to someone and I’ve never done it. Except where I live now, here no one cares. But for children to do that in school to a classmate is just nasty and evil. Now this little girl can do the same back to her class for the coming year. Hopefully that will give her some satisfaction. Don’t bother telling me two wrongs don’t make a right. Satisfaction is more important. Haha
@nightwish1000 Жыл бұрын
ok but just because you met some weird kids it doesn't mean that all Germans would be devasted if somebody does so.
@saschaheart Жыл бұрын
Stimmt, ist eine wichtige soziale Norm. ❤
@domif.b.7657 Жыл бұрын
That is a rule in Italy too; do not wish a happy birthday before the actual date
@Basti1965 Жыл бұрын
Rule No. 1: Dont Go to work on your Birthday, because you have to bring Breakfast for all Employees 😢🎉
@vierkantbonsai7450 Жыл бұрын
Dann musst du ihn aber am nächsten tag mitbringen!!
@Basti1965 Жыл бұрын
@@vierkantbonsai7450 Deshalb nehme ich mir rund um meinen Geburtstag immer 2 Wochen, damit da auch niemand mehr dran denkt. 😂
@maltep3100 Жыл бұрын
Nice life hack :-)
@natsukiilluna6324 Жыл бұрын
Ich bekomm von meiner Chefin n Geschenk😂😂😂 und weil ihr Sohn an dem Tag auch Geburtstag hat, muss ich keinen Kuchen mitbringen 😂😂😂 (manchmal mach ichs... wenn ich Lust auf Backen hab oder mein b-day am Wochenende vorher war und ich da gefeiert hab)
@ivvan497 Жыл бұрын
Or dont tell anyone when your birthday is and nobody will ever expect anything
@SebastianGrosiD Жыл бұрын
I never recognized how crazy it is to bring your own cake 😅
@htimsidАй бұрын
Oh this is so familiar! Like Germany, the Netherlands and Norway have all sorts of customs and etiquette relating to The Birthday, it's all such a minefield that I NEVER mention when mine is.
@isaza57164 күн бұрын
I can relate so much xD.
@lisaschurmann59492 күн бұрын
We have a calendar with everyone's birthday on it in the office kitchen🥴😂
@ArxInvicta Жыл бұрын
Living in Norway as a German, wishing happy birthday (and even celebrating it before the date!!) is completely normal here and makes my inner German scream in horror.
@m4xw499 Жыл бұрын
German here as well, I cant say that celebrating it prior is uncommon here, it all depends on the work schedules of your friends etc und reinfeiern happens even more often. Theres a few of either case every year for me.
@xkathygee Жыл бұрын
@@m4xw499Reinfeiern isn't really celebrating early. People still won't wish you a happy birthday until it's midnight.
@ArxInvicta Жыл бұрын
@@xkathygee Just wanted to write the same. I mean the term "Reinfeiern" -> Celebrating into it already shows what it is about. Maybe it depends a bit on where you are from but I do not know a single person that would consider celebrating early. Not really because of "bad luck", thats more an old peoples thing but simply because its rude. Gives the vibe that you see yourself as so important that your birthday can not wait a bit.
@xkathygee Жыл бұрын
@@ArxInvicta It is certainly odd.
@m4xw499 Жыл бұрын
@@xkathygee sure, but partying a week prior isn't uncommon
@heldotir Жыл бұрын
One of the weirdest things Americans complain about in Germany is the fact people throw their own parties and bring cake themselves… as if that’s not exactly how it’s done 90% of the time in America. Unless someone in the office or your friend group has a thing for party planning, you’re doing everything yourself
@alfa_kenny_body Жыл бұрын
Isn't that the best part about your birthday, inviting your friends and sharing a good time celebrating, eating and drinking?
@natsukiilluna6324 Жыл бұрын
@@alfa_kenny_body Yeah... I'd feel so bad if someone organized it for me and THEN I should still expect gifts? That's completely unneeded financial pressure for someone else! I do exchange birthday gifts with my boss and sometimes I bring a few muffins for everyone (but since our staff is a bit different every day of the week, I feel strange only bringing for one day and not the next... also a son of my boss has the same birthday as me, so they have cake that day anyway😅)
@cyan_oxy6734 Жыл бұрын
If you don't want unwelcome surprises just do it yourself. I mean what if you come to the office and then no one made a cake or there are too many cakes. Do people plan who makes a cake at someone's birthday? Absolute madness.
@hansudowolfrahm4856 Жыл бұрын
but he from UK I think it's different 😅
@christinmeyer1095 Жыл бұрын
That's what I always considered wearied since my training on the job. Since I studied afterwards I'm glad, I never heard this again
@christophergibson3846Ай бұрын
Similar in the UK. This is why I take the day off on my birthday, I'm not bringing other ppl a cake, especially when they haven't bought gifts 😂
@winterfoxx6363Ай бұрын
As an American 🇺🇸 I interned in Germany. Luckily I knew this rule of bringing your own cake. Idk about baking it myself but I brought a variety of sweets from the bakery and my team was very happy 🥳 they were so nice so I was happy to bring them cake
@Cormano98024 күн бұрын
It's common sense to bring your own, why'd you expect for others to buy one for you
@gladysserrano207020 күн бұрын
It's a special present for the ones that love You...singing ..clappiing ..whising the best for you ..cause you are so special in their lives...❤
@salmagtz711016 күн бұрын
@Cormano980 That is a joke...Right?
@Cormano98016 күн бұрын
@salmagtz7110 nope, the birthday guy buys the cake, drinks or whatever to work, at his home or at a restaurant to give to his friends I don't know how americans do it, but in Europe only kids are bought cakes and things Presents are another thing, people are supposed to bring something to the guy
@Jamietheroadrunner8 күн бұрын
As an American, I still find German accents terrifying so I’d bring a cake every day just in case, so as not to make them angry. In fact, all Americans should send Germany cake.
@vercettirulz Жыл бұрын
You had me with "Happy birthday for tomorrow then". This is something I've never expierenced in my whole life. No german ever said this once. Hahaha
@caroskaffee305210 ай бұрын
that's the point
@neutronenstern.8 ай бұрын
you dont even do this as a joke. Its like telling someone that you want him dead.
@beckypetersen2680Ай бұрын
@@neutronenstern. That's literally crazy.
@LouiseMacleayАй бұрын
We do in England
@sineadiloveyouАй бұрын
We do it all the time here in south America. Dumb superstitions
@Mexalen81 Жыл бұрын
I actually just gasped in shock, when you wished the german guy a happy birthday BEFORE the birthday!
@jeannetteschuller35073 ай бұрын
SAME
@keepcalmpreponАй бұрын
exactly
@silverserpent420Ай бұрын
I'd hate to ask about wishing a belated birthday. 🤔😂 I'm Mexican. We have birthday months 😂. Where everyday that month is a b'day party. Also, don't eat the month prior because abuelitas and tías will be making way too much food and sweets for you. The cousins will visit unannounced and bring beer. It's chaos and we love it!
@EmmaT27Ай бұрын
Oh my gosh I want to be Mexican 😂❤
@noreenelizabeth6617Ай бұрын
@EmmaT27 same. I grew up in predominantly Mexican neighborhoods and any reason to celebrate is a reason to have a massive party. My conservative Irish catholic raised butt is just grumpy thinking "that's all so wasteful... it's a 1 year old birthday.. they won't even remember this 500 person party..."
@lenny6157Ай бұрын
I wanna be Mexican now
@RichRobinsonАй бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I had no idea!
@dominiqueearly2262Ай бұрын
My husband's from Mexico and they barely acknowledge anyone's birthday. Your Mexican family sounds more fun than my husband's 😞 My family's American and birthday's are a BIG, HUGE deal!
@landers3700Ай бұрын
Love these...1st generation in America with German Mom...So many memories...LOVE GERMANS!
@sabinemuller8124 Жыл бұрын
the way she drops the baby every single time...i am laughing tears
@christophrichter2612 Жыл бұрын
I never noticed 😂 thanks 👍
@gunitsharma6997 Жыл бұрын
There is a baby 😂?
@sabinemuller8124 Жыл бұрын
@@gunitsharma6997 it gets even funnier day by day! yes, the bundle of blankets "she" is holding is a baby. you can hear it cry!
@Madeleine_des_Esseintes Жыл бұрын
Der Rentner ist einfach der Geilste :D
@florin2270 Жыл бұрын
Erinnert mich an Biden
@libertyjustice1620Ай бұрын
Same in Sweden. Always found it absurd to have to buy a cake for everyone at work when it's your birthday.
@M-Is-For-MargaretАй бұрын
Off-topic just a bit. I remember cracking everyone up when it was my last day at work and a few people brought in some snacks to celebrate my last day. 🎉One girl told me where I can put them, so everyone can have some.🥳 I told her, "Hey, I'm not sharing. These are all my favorite snacks!" 😋
@avablue6062Ай бұрын
You buy your own cake? 😭
@lauriloo38cАй бұрын
On the plus side, there’s never that awkward sadness when no one remembers or bothers to make you a cake.
@anafrischen24Ай бұрын
Não é um absurdo "ter que comprar um bolo" A ideia é você estar feliz e chamar todo mundo para compartilhar a sua felicidade
@rmz144613 күн бұрын
@@anafrischen24 acho que o absurdo é vc ter que comprar, como se fosse uma obrigação kk. Se fosse algo que você escolhe fazer ou não, sem nenhuma consequência, aí também não acharia nada demais.
@EleniKallimorouАй бұрын
In Greece we bring both in birthday and in name celebration day, not only at work, but at school as well. Although it's not a cake. It's single candy treats, like small fruit tarts or chocolates, and all greek patisseries make those for this purpose. So you give one to each person at work and you are to make sure there are enough for anyone who works with you. And it doesn't matter if you were absent that very day, next time you go to work, you are bringing treats for everyone.
@marcelaalmeida3771 Жыл бұрын
In Portugal, we also don't wish happy birthday earlier. People avoid it. And it's expected the birthday person to provide its own cake.
@juliadaimio7445Ай бұрын
Russian here, all the same.
@dmitripogosian5084Ай бұрын
@@juliadaimio7445 Indeed, it is the job of the birthday person to treat others
@yanabanana5086Ай бұрын
@juliadaimio7445 and also, you bomb children hospitals
@avablue6062Ай бұрын
Bleh
@irinas4302Ай бұрын
@@juliadaimio7445yup , I was looking for this comment.
@-Eduard- Жыл бұрын
Der Vorteil daran ist, dass man, durch das Kuchenmitbringen, anderen zeigt, dass man Geburtstag hat. So muss sich niemand merken wer wann Geburtstag hat. Man sagt einfach dem, der den mitbringt, "Herzlichen Glückwunsch" und man hat seine Pflicht getan.
@psyckwhoever4197 Жыл бұрын
"Man hat seine Pflicht getan" klingt nach einigen Arbeitskollegen von mir 😅
@BloxxingDinosaurus Жыл бұрын
@@psyckwhoever4197 Willkommen in Deutschland.
@katharinap0116 Жыл бұрын
Genau so!
@casemodder89 Жыл бұрын
oder man hat zufällig eine woche woche urlaub, in die der geburtstag fällt... dann braucht einem niemand auf den sack gehen !
@nadinerick1182 Жыл бұрын
@@Vanillevirus Natürlich nicht.
@ines_uk18 күн бұрын
Same in Latvia - we bring our birthday cake ourselves and at school we used to bring sweets for the whole class. And it’s also considered “bad luck” to wish happy birthday early.
@afsaramehrin2993Ай бұрын
That’s exactly what we always did (and still do) here in Bangladesh… kids bring their own birthday cakes to school to share with their teachers and their friends. Grown-ups bring their own birthday cakes to work to share with their boss and their colleagues. 🎂🎊🇧🇩 [A quick little edit] : Wishing somebody “Happy Birthday”, a few days in advance before the exact date of the person’s birthday here in Bangladesh is okay but… you can’t wish somebody “Happy Birthday” after the exact date of the person’s birthday !! Unlike Germany, who consider advanced birthday wishes to be “bad luck” or “bad omen”, here in Bangladesh, it’s the late birthday wishes that really make most of us… upset and if anybody here who forgets our birthdays completely… we don’t invite them back on our next birthday ! 🤷🏻♀️
@DoktorTaiko Жыл бұрын
But honestly, everyone bringing the cake themselves makes sense. This way it's always clear who gets to bring cake when and you can choose which type of cake you want. Also the amount of work is equal and no one is stuck being the birthday cake person. Furthermore, if anyone is actually good at baking, they can always still bring a cake as a present.
@ExFragMaster Жыл бұрын
Deutsche Effizienz!
@salaschnikoff Жыл бұрын
@@ExFragMaster definitiv,auch wenn wir derzeit echt ineffizient sind 🤣🤣🤣
@JuMiKu Жыл бұрын
That's what I thought! There's so many stories out there of good bakers becoming stuck with the cost and work for everyone's birthday! That's just unfair. This way nobody gets forgotten and it's equal work. At my office everyone else decorated the birthday guy's table and pitched in to buy a small present.
@zugesinddoof9885 Жыл бұрын
Good Arguments 😅
@knochenkotzer500 Жыл бұрын
Thats german
@cptnKirk Жыл бұрын
"You don't wisch someone happy birsday before the birsday" 😂😂
@jeanniejones82242 ай бұрын
I lived out there for 7 years in the 90s as a squaddie and then as a wife of a squaddie. I do miss it, stunning country. A lot of weirdly odd rules and regs yes but a lot do make sense. Love seeing it all from another Brit perspective 😂. Videos are hilarious.
@elainer82882 ай бұрын
In Brazil, we also bring our own cake to work and never wish happy birthday before the day! 😊
@KS-yn5zwАй бұрын
Desejamos sim
@elainer8288Ай бұрын
@@KS-yn5zwNa minha família e todos que conheço não. Sempre achamos que dá azar.
@KS-yn5zwАй бұрын
@@elainer8288 eu nunca ouvi falar disso, sou do rs
@elainer8288Ай бұрын
@@KS-yn5zw Eu sou de SP. 😅 Aqui só pode desejar no dia e depois. Nunca antes. 😅 Pelo menos as pessoas que eu conheço. Esses vídeos ajudam quem estuda alemão. Muito bons! 😂
@KS-yn5zwАй бұрын
@@elainer8288 sim, por isso falei do estado. Pode variar de regiao para regiao
@MLou-ns9zz Жыл бұрын
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag ☘️🙏👍Danke für die tollen Videos 👍☘️☘️
@holger_p Жыл бұрын
Everybody throwing one party per year. Much more efficient than beeing involved in throwing 20 parties together with 19 others and nobody is the Boss.
@SAMMYTASTISCH Жыл бұрын
This is reminding me so much of that one "The office" Episode 😂 Where Michael decides to merge all birthdays into one big party to avoid his employees from the party planning committee to spend too much time on organizing parties for everyone 😂
@dmitripogosian5084Ай бұрын
And then it end ups with some secretary buying the cheapest cake around :)
@holger_pАй бұрын
@@dmitripogosian5084 if you have a secretary, probably there is enough money for the bakery. If a cake is more expensive, they invest in more decoration. Nobody needs that. Wedding cake is especially expensive but not especially tasty.
@Rosebud250311 күн бұрын
I really love this. 😂 German here, living in the UK. I always tell people not to wish Happy Birthday in advance. But there is one thing in Germany, all your colleagues collect money for a present and then they expect a nice cake etc. of you. Which is fair enough, I find. 😄
@JennySimonArt28 күн бұрын
I left Germany 25 years ago and I still feel uneasy celebrating my birthday before my actual birthday but at this point I celebrate my whole birthday week 😅
@klausstock8020 Жыл бұрын
"Happy Birthday for tomorrow then" was the exact point in this video which will be remembered by future generations. Aka the point when Liam got banned in Germany.
@giuliamarsili6104 Жыл бұрын
As Italian, I didn't expect we had so similar habits and customs
@flamer6566 Жыл бұрын
Well man Italian friend from the South, us Germans and you Italians were united at the height of the Holy Roman Empire. Perhaps our modern similarities are coming from our united past
@user-eg1kz9og7s Жыл бұрын
same in Eastern Europe. own cake and no celebrations and wishes before the birthday. it would be considered as the wish to live your life faster and die earlier.
@StickStep Жыл бұрын
Same as russian
@gnuffola19792 ай бұрын
Io l'ho scoperto quando ho viaggiato negli USA, non me lo aspettavo, ma abbiamo più cose in comune con i tedeschi che con gli amerricani
@DisconnectedRoamerАй бұрын
@user-eg1kz9og7s we dont wish anyone happy birthday before their birthday in England, don't know what this guy is on about
@katm.6132Ай бұрын
At my old work, the company bought the cake and the 'Geburtstagskind' would send the email to everyone as if they'd provided it. I do remember I brought my own cake before I knew that was the case. 😅 Now I live in Scotland and panic whenever people wish me a happy birthday before the actual day! 🤣
@TrompinatorАй бұрын
in Argentina we have this both traditions, too! To bring our own cake (or pastries for breakfast) and to not wishing anyone a happy birthday before the date.
@birgit4314 Жыл бұрын
Vorher gratulieren bringt Unglück 💯!
@PhysioAl12 ай бұрын
Jo,stimmt 😢
@niviedax1944 Жыл бұрын
I'm not German but I grew up in Germany, my friend took us to a restaurant at her bday and I was still culture-shocked when she made everyone pay for themselves lol
@markhammar3977Ай бұрын
Love these, thanks from Canada.
@Nalenja21 сағат бұрын
I have to admit as a German: It’s totally true - although I have never seen it from that point of view ! 🤣👍🏻
@magiv4205 Жыл бұрын
The German absolutely set him up for that misplaced happy birthday lmao
@AmalricAntero Жыл бұрын
Dear Liam, if you want to take your level or Germanization to ze next level. You have to bring a Mettfrühstück for your coworkers on your Birthday! 🎉😂
@ButtercoreFTW Жыл бұрын
i usually try to not be at work on my birthday. cant be bothered to bring a cake to work
@hipuppy12345Ай бұрын
Omg we have the celebrating/wishing before the day as a bad omen in our culture too!!!
@8all8at8once82 күн бұрын
Which would be?
@Lady_Mikay Жыл бұрын
I'm really curious... Is it common in other countries that coworkers organise a birthday cake??
@tairegaming5464 Жыл бұрын
Here in the Netherlands we do
@gnihtyreve Жыл бұрын
no doubt only those in office i guess
@hyperionrage Жыл бұрын
Depends on the work environment. In most cases, you don't get a cake for or from work. There's also a stigma around openly celebrating your birthday because it's often done by attention seekers but you just gotta keep it low key
@unowno123 Жыл бұрын
Here in NL you bring everything yourself
@__-tp4tm Жыл бұрын
Welll, your birthday isn't everyone else's burden to carry. And people who need longer to celebrate and need to tell every single damn soul around them annoy the frick out of me.
@CruzCruz-nw7fi2 күн бұрын
You kniw what it is about his videos it’s the baby yelping the everyday noises and gasping it’s too funny 😂, honestly I can’t get enough of
@lookash3048Ай бұрын
In Poland, we simply don't celebrate birthdays, especially when we are older than 20 years.
@elainer8288Ай бұрын
Really? I'm over 40 and still have cake and baloons on my birthday! 😅 I'm from Brazil. Everybody celebrates all birthdays.
@DiazDiaz201020 күн бұрын
@@elainer8288same here in Caribbean and and Hispanics islands , we celebrate doesn’t matter how old. Usually another person buy the cake too!
@cintia_l286711 күн бұрын
That's a good idea, more practical not celebrating the birthday. I think in Brazil ppl love having an excuse for having a party for eating, drinking and dancing
@awetistic5295 Жыл бұрын
In the lawyer's office where I used to work, you didn't just have to bring a cake, you had to cook for the entire staff. It was kind of horrifying. Also, I'm usually not a superstitious person, but I am convinced that wishing someone Happy Birthday in advance will increase the risk of not making it to your Birthday up to 79,9%.
@ardehel Жыл бұрын
I live in Germany my coworker took a day off yeasterday because he had birthday and didn't want to bring cake.
@goodweib6604 Жыл бұрын
dennoch würde eigentlich überall erwartet werden, dass nachträglich ein Kuchen mitgebracht wird 😅
@lorrdy7640 Жыл бұрын
Bad coworker
@discodieter88 Жыл бұрын
Es ist unglaublich. Du triffst den Nagel jedes Mal auf den Kopf. Ich hoffe der Spruch war deutsch genug...😅 Mach weiter so bald bist du DER AlphaAlman
@zelandakhniteblade5436 Жыл бұрын
This was so me after emigrating. Not being allowed to offer someone birthday wishes the day before when you are not going to see them for a month or more afterwards is just the craziest thing.
@loligarcia5145 Жыл бұрын
OMG!! This is SO accurate. As a latina living in Germany more than 20 years I suffered every single of my birthdays at the office.... you have to bake AND eventually invite everybody for a lunch/dinner.... the solution is to take the day off
@lisaschurmann59492 күн бұрын
I have never invited the people from my office to lunch on my birthday, never heard of that either🤔😆
@PsycheTrance65 Жыл бұрын
I felt the advanced happy birthday on a spiritual level... I greeted a german colleague happy birthday a week before the date. I felt like a dumbass when she told me that its bad luck for them haha
@farnregen Жыл бұрын
I did that as a german once too (okay I was young) Then imidetly came a story with an accident, because someone wishes happy birthday before the birthday... Said really fast "okay, I take it back" Idk •-•"
@meim.1795Ай бұрын
Very much to the point. 😂 Some people in the comments suggested better not to go to work on your birthday. German here. I actually had the day off on my birthday two days ago. Brought homemade cake to work today anyway, cause it was my first day back. 😅 There's no getting out of it.
@vinciousmacabre819324 күн бұрын
My German professor told me never to wish anyone an early happy birthday 😂😂 was funny
@benutzername2.031 Жыл бұрын
Going to a birthday party (outside of official work) is already work enough.
@lena0089 Жыл бұрын
My birthday was yesterday and I brought some chocolates for my friends at uni and they were confused about why I am the one giving them something while it was my birthday. xdd
@peaceturtleinfinityАй бұрын
lol I am an American with no German heritage but the more of these I watch I find them perfectly lining up with my personality…
@user-tz5uq2bt1s2 сағат бұрын
That ending bit reminds me of that time we were closing up at work and I mentioned how it was such an easy day and no one had come in for hours. Literally as we are locking up the parking lot someone pulls up seconds before the closing, and we had to reopen everything to help them.
@tschaytschay4555 Жыл бұрын
Never got this german birthday traditions either (I am German), I am thinking about taking a vacation day on my birthday just so I don't need to bring something to work. :D And honestly, it's so unessecary to wait an extra day, maybe forgetting about it, to gratulate someone.^^
@UL1999 Жыл бұрын
Just do not tell them your birthday and problem solved.
@Kuliwa Жыл бұрын
Lol what, if I know a colleague had his birthday on the weekend I still expect him to bring cake afterwards.
@tschaytschay4555 Жыл бұрын
@@UL1999 I work in a little company, they know. :D
@tschaytschay4555 Жыл бұрын
@@Kuliwa That's your problem than.^^
@UL1999 Жыл бұрын
@@tschaytschay4555 Mein Beileid.
@giannamilo216 Жыл бұрын
When I was in school, people had to bring cake or chocolates for the entire class to school when it was their birthday. Sometimes the birthday kid would forget and our teacher would keep reminding them days later that they still owed the class some cake for their birthdays... 🤣 I never thought of it as strange until I saw this... 🤣🤣
@Unknown_flower2511 ай бұрын
Ich hatte nie genug Geld um meiner Klasse was mitzubringen mir war das total unangenehm und vielen geht es vielleicht so
@theresa5114Ай бұрын
😂. Perfekt! Der Senior mit seinem liebevollen Glückwunsch und den anderen Reaktionen ist köstlich🤣
@lucasschachtaudio Жыл бұрын
As a German, this indeed is all extremely and frighteningly accurate
@annbrnz3024 Жыл бұрын
Its not about the cake.. its about not making your colleagues feel bad, when they notice that its your birthday and they didnt give you congrats first, because they didnt know. With a cake or something else, you show them "hey, its my birthday, but calm down guys..its ok, you didnt know" :) Im not good im baking cakes, but im a really good bread baker. So i always bring breakfast with different types of bread and cheese and so on.. Its just a polite way, germans get a little extra attention on their special day, without imposing on anyone.
@anatomia.3966 Жыл бұрын
😢
@annbrnz3024 Жыл бұрын
@@anatomia.3966 Its not a sad thing :) we just make a hard difference between family and friends (they have to know your birthday date! 😅) and colleagues, which do not have to know, when your special day is. But we definetely make them notice it..with cake!
@Hirotoro4692Ай бұрын
If it's your special day why would you be expected to give everyone else cake? 😂
@dmitripogosian5084Ай бұрын
@@Hirotoro4692 Exactly because it is your day (speaking not as a German, but as a Russian) Your party, your treat. You invite people to celebrate with you and you treat them. You do not have to, you can keep it unmentioned ( then some friend will come - hey isn't it your birthday today, where is the party ? but you'll brush him off :) Same with house parties. If you are invited, you expect to be treated. If you closely know people, you will ask what to bring. They may say something non-commital, like dessert will be fine, but more probably the answer will be nothing is needed. Then you will bring alcohol. You have to be really close to be requested something substantial. If you are not close to people that have invited you, you bring alcohol. And flowers for lady of the house. It is considered iffy to bring food, because it kind of hints that the host food is not too good or plentiful and then it can destroy the menu, host may be in awkward situation to fit your food into the plans. Something small and fancy, like box of chocolates is fine.
@ajisroadtrippin5505 Жыл бұрын
I Just learned this today. Thank goodness my birthday falls on a day off. 😂🤣
@Pirrata123 Жыл бұрын
Then you can celebrate it when you are back in the office. Everyone expect it 😂
@ajisroadtrippin5505 Жыл бұрын
@@Pirrata123 Noooooooo!!!! I will Just have to change jobs every year. 😂🤣
@ThePinkGuava26 күн бұрын
Hahahahaha this is so funny and accurate. 😅😂 I guess germans bring their own birthday cake so nobody feels bad if the forgot about your birthday and they can still celebrate together. 🤭
@scottmorey6212Ай бұрын
This is what we do in England too Liam! Then everyone has to pretend to care about your bday so they can have a donut/cake 😅
@analennyja Жыл бұрын
This is true in Slovenia too. When you have birthday you need to treat others or bring something to eat to school or work. People also do that for other occasions such as buying a new car, graduating, having a baby ...
@Vaske0904 Жыл бұрын
Moraš da ih počastiš. Nemci to ne rade.
@fr98539 ай бұрын
Ja, das machen wir auch so, z.B. zur Hochzeit, Geburt etc. 👍
@nonAehT Жыл бұрын
There's a Holiday coming up in Germany soon, it's called Fronleichnahm (called "Feast of Corpus Christi" in english according to wikipedia) , but since it sounds so similar to "Froh-Leichnahm" when pronounced my dad always had this joke about calling it "Happy Corpse Day / Happy Cadaver Day".
@IISheireenII Жыл бұрын
Happy Kadaver. The hollyday every German dad loves to joke about
@7XSubaru3 ай бұрын
@@IISheireenII And for the English d(e)ad, too.
@jaegercmr5215 Жыл бұрын
Haha the last one killed me 😂 As a German I love this🇩🇪
@leaaugusta992420 күн бұрын
After living in Germany for 16 years, I still can't bring myself to say happy birthday before the day even though I've moved back to the US 😅
@Daniel-rp2rs Жыл бұрын
I'm German myself but I have to honestly say we're really weird in some things 😂
@zarzavattzarzavatt93092 ай бұрын
not in this case :) it's actually pretty common in other countries too
@turkistan597 Жыл бұрын
It’s not only in work, I’m living in Germany and I have to bring my own cake to school when I have birthday and then the whole class sings “happy birthday” but the bad thing is that they don’t give me presents
@DisconnectedRoamerАй бұрын
Its your birthday but they gain something 😂 backwards
@helgafrahmann4201Ай бұрын
And after the Song they mobbing me again !!😂
@turkistan597Ай бұрын
@@helgafrahmann4201 *bullying, but ill take it.
@fb1523Ай бұрын
Enjoy your holidays, you deserve it!😊
@erikkaiser17884 күн бұрын
In china is the opposite, celebrate before the actual birthday is considered great, after would “bring bad luck”
@everyone5150 Жыл бұрын
This is indeed a custom here in Germany. But I've only ever encountered it in office environments. And personally i couldn't bother letting my colleagues know about my birthday, let alone baking cakes for them... 😂🎉 But I do value the other custom. Wishing somebody happy birthday too early is almost as bad as not making eye contact when clinking... 😐
@oyabun9650 Жыл бұрын
Yup, that's exactly why I don't tell anyone at work my birthday and when they ask I just say "doesn't matter" or "it's only coming up again next year", even if it's a lie.
@dmitripogosian5084Ай бұрын
Here in Canada at my work place there is no expectation that something will happen on your birthday one way or another. But if you bring a cake, people will appreciate. If not, nobody will be upset.
@jjoh15812 сағат бұрын
Just moved to Germany and great to know not to wish anyone happy birthday early.
@myrillya2 ай бұрын
A few weeks ago, I was talking with some friends from the US. When I told them my birthday was coming up the next day, they wished me happy birthday in advance. That was such a strange feeling 😅
@wakeupcall2665 Жыл бұрын
I am working 100% remote from home, which I love, I don't have to see the Pappnasen every Day! I only pop into the office once a month to pick up my Kantine-Essen, super convenient and I don't have to cook myself. Chicken - PING! Curry - PING! Schweizer Schlemmerteller - PING! Home office is the best!
@Barrne_ Жыл бұрын
there's only one rule: YOU bring gifts on your birthday
@annamichniewski2120 Жыл бұрын
But where is the logic?🤔😅
@NinjaCat1490 Жыл бұрын
@@annamichniewski2120 do you really Question The German Logic? Better dont
@Barrne_ Жыл бұрын
@@annamichniewski2120 if you want to celebrate with the others you have to start the party
@annamichniewski2120 Жыл бұрын
@@Barrne_ thats a fact.
@annamichniewski2120 Жыл бұрын
@@NinjaCat1490 hmm its the same idea in my country. I allways had to get the sweets asking how come since i need to be getting gifts😅
@almond8726Ай бұрын
In Italy, it's no different. Ugh, why do I have to bring all these fancy pastries for my colleagues? I'll just keep quiet about it being my birthday and play it cool 👀
@erizamisorafujoshi7002 Жыл бұрын
Yeah 😂 it was for me such a shock to find out you have to bring your own birthday cake! And not only at work, but also at school!
@FrogeniusW.G. Жыл бұрын
Why you should bring your "own" cake? Because it's _your_ party and you are serving your guests. 😁 Und ja, _vorher_ gratulieren bringt _definitiv_ Unglück! 😂
@turkistan597 Жыл бұрын
It’s not only in work, I’m living in Germany and I have to bring my own cake to school when I have birthday and then the whole class sings “happy birthday” but the bad thing is that they don’t give me presents
@HeavenShallTremble Жыл бұрын
All true. It is just all true.
@IngridRobbel Жыл бұрын
Vielen Dank! :D
@anniep762725 күн бұрын
What's funny about this is he's showing how they don't have much of a sense of humor, but he's so funny.
@lisaschurmann59492 күн бұрын
Which is not true. The thing about humor😂
@_giraffed8 сағат бұрын
as a Bulgarian, we have the exact same approach to birthdays 😂
@dracotheshadowphoenix Жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday vorträglich is a German sin 😮
@helgafrahmann4201Ай бұрын
Nachträglich kein Problem!😂
@luthy_1 Жыл бұрын
In Brazil your coworkers organise the party and bring you a birthday cake (at least it was like this everywhere I worked)
@KarenMGC26 Жыл бұрын
In Peru is the same + birthday lunch 😊
@ivvan497 Жыл бұрын
how do they know when ur birthday is?
@luthy_1 Жыл бұрын
@@ivvan497 they ask?
@elizabethtorrales7170Ай бұрын
Right? Because they are celebrating you, not the other way around. But to each his own.
@andiematrix9082Ай бұрын
Everywhere I've ever worked in the UK the birthday haver brings the cake. Like at school you bring sweets for the class.
@KawaiiPrincess_Love Жыл бұрын
As a German, I really did have that "don't!" reflex when you said "happy birthday for tomorrow then"😅😂
@Claudia.888 Жыл бұрын
I wouldn't want to wörk in set grumpy office
@ArkaniproMA Жыл бұрын
zat*
@helgafrahmann4201Ай бұрын
Your english is so bad as mine!!😢
@helgafrahmann4201Ай бұрын
@@ArkaniproMAthat
@amato7459 Жыл бұрын
Everytime when someone had birthday, they brought sweets, chocolate and other stuff like this, everyone can grab something. Others brought cake. And everyone was singing. Having vacation on my birthday or been "ill" was the best present I could give to me😂
@thedovahkiin7896 Жыл бұрын
I actually like the idea that the birthday person brings some cake. It's your birthday after all, we're just celebrating with you.
@julieelzinga7982Ай бұрын
Hahahaha! Very similar to my Dutch family. My Oma and Opa would always throw their OWN birthday parties. I didn’t think it was strange until I grew up 😂😂😂
@dmitripogosian5084Ай бұрын
Why is it strange ? It is the most normal thing to do !
@sanipine Жыл бұрын
Soll sogar Leute geben, die ihren Geburtstag vorfeiern - also nicht rein-, sondern richtig einige Tage vorher feiern 🤷♂️ Sakrileg!!!
@airenyah7243 Жыл бұрын
ich muss zugeben, ich mach das tatsächlich 🙈 aber auch nur weil meine beste freundin grade mal 5 tage vor mir auf die welt gekommen ist und wir haben vor jahren eine tradition angefangen, unsere geburtstage gemeinsam zu feiern und zwar immer an dem wochenende, was normalerweise dazwischen liegt. und da hab ich halt die arschkarte gezogen, dass ich die jüngere von uns beiden bin und muss somit meinen geburtstag leider vorfeiern während sie nachfeiern darf 😆
@sanipine Жыл бұрын
@@airenyah7243 Hihi...verstehe ich gut 🙂 Aber geht gar nicht!!! 🤬😜