Comments by "Holger P." (@holger_p) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

  1. I summarize this as, Americans always underline how hard they work, Germans just hurry up, to have more free time. It's much more nonverbal conversation, it's faster than smalltalk. So effiency and less posing.
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  2. Actually, you haven't been wrong, just too unspecific. In another context, you would have been perfectly fine. May be in the preparation room of a surgery ;-)
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  3. The simpler word is: "Little boring .. by time". Life was pretty good .. but kind of everyday the same. What you experience in an old marriage also ;-) You feel like you want to break free, but actually it's not that bad anyway.
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  4. Even the unemployed worked hard ;-) Actually everyone pretended to work hard, you could not been fired anyway ;-) And in case of low level emergency, people tend to help each other more. It's still the case today in case of floodings etc. If you can go and by a driller in the hardware store, you don't need to ask the neighbor for one. So people ask less for help, it does not mean they would not get it any more, if they ask.
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  5. Well, being able to pretend something, is an art by itself. Trying to speak English with German accent is as hard as speaking British as an American.
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  6. Chop of you fingers, so you don't get any dirt under your nails.
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  7. At that time, the Berliner didn't even know, there is a donut named after them. Cause they themselves don't call this thing a Berliner. People from Munich, like Felicia do it. It's a regional term, and to missinterpret it, can only be stupid joke. A New Yorker can also be a merchant chain or a inhabitant of NYC, and nobody will ever mix this up.
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  8. Well, it's more cause Americans who claim to themselves "I'm German" do not necessarily speak German. America is kind of the only land, where everybody has two nationalities.
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  9. That's a crazy example Feli has choosen. Yes for 100K you pay 33%, but 90% of people don't make 100K. Average is less than 50K and there you pay around 22-25%. Not so much different from US. The " feeling " of 50% is created by adding health insurance and pension contribution to it.
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  10. I think that's the experience of any migrant. And in some rare cases you unintendedly influence German by bringing in some foreign words. But this would rather happen if there would be a larger Croatian group and you speak it in public.
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  11. none of these words from the video, was known before 1950. Introduction of such words started with the american soldiers, later on with computerization and influence of Hollywood and celebrity culture. Writing German is actually much easier then English - exponentially easier. Cause it's regular, we do not even have spelling contests, cause people don't make much mistakes. A written character is always spoken the same, not like the "I" in "I" and "Indian". Or having a word like "Ocean", with the same sound as in "ship". That's horrible. No, the difficult thing in german is gender/declination/conjugation - something untranslatable to english mind. Only remainder in English is "I" and "Me" or "she" and "her".
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  12. I kind of identified myself as a foreigner, when bringing my own bags to the supermarket in US for my shopping. Fortunatly Germans are trained and bag faster, than the bagger boy, he had no chance to give me any of his bags.
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  13. If you learn a language above 18 (actually after puberty) it's kind of impossible to learn new sounds, cause some doors in the brain are closed. With learning it before 14 and having some movies available, it's much easier for people nowaday like Feli. But neither Henry or Arnold had it. Thei hadn't even had English in school.
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  14. Sound like one thinks, any german would be the same. That's just a crazy idea.
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  15.  @Anon54387  It's a very economic approach, to relate total national tax to GDP. Here it was only about income tax, and the comment was about families. Tax is about 1 billion of 4,5 billion GDP, so with 22% that's not really much higher than in US. Sure, you as a nation can decide to not give out welfare checks to homeless and unemployed, this will lower the tax a little. The topic of the comment was: The marriage status plays a role in taxing. In US, it does not lower your tax, if you marry.
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  16. No, there is hotwater, coldwater, dumpwater, as easy to connect as a hose in the garden. You don't even need tools, or just for the last turn maybe. Installing a stove is as complicated as running an iron. You plug it in. For the oven you have extra high voltage sometimes, and you need an electrician for 10minutes, but most moving companies do this aside.
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  17. After surgery and 3 days in hospital, the Hospital charged around 7000€ to my insurance in germany. Just to give you an idea about the pricing. 7 stitches and an ambulance would probably be around 800€. Doctors charge around 40€/15 minutes or 100€/ hour.
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  18. Being sarcastic or ironic is meant to be taken seriously, but not literally. There is always some truth in it. Concerning the language, the UNO has ranked german as rank 2 of 5 in matter of ease to learn, where rank 1 is the easiest of all with english and spanish. So it's actually little harder than english, but not that much. Chinese takes longer.
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  19. The shock you get from the share of people who do it, not an individual. Why would you even think about a preference ? It's like asking "do you prefer people in a weelchair or walking people". You don't ask such question- cause you usually fall in love to the person, not body parts.
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  20. That applies to everywhere, the strange thing felicia was talking about was, you have 4 different names for it. You cannot just take something cold in your mouth and eat it - first you have to research for the ingredients to know what you eat. It's icy, that's why it's ice ;-)
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  21. Just a weird habit, as well as tattooing is - a permanent modification of the body. The strange thing in this case is, parents do it to their babies. It's not a decision one makes about his own body. Imagine somebody is tattooing the 1-year olds.
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  22. Chili is some hot pepper. I don't even get why everybody is talking about it like it would be dish. Sure you can spice up your bolognese.
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  23. This briggs guy talks like a Neo-Nazi, without realizing it. The common thing is always searching for the bad in the world. Or instead of "check the statistics" he says "ask any german" to get opinion rather than facts. Making graffiti a problem is also such a thing. Nether heard of that's a topic on any media at all. This winter: First snowflake yesterday (March 31st).
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  24. Actually Yiddish is close to German. Just nobody asks, cause it does not contain the word German. But this is easier to understand than Texas German, or Philadelphia Dutch or whatever you might associate with German.
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  25. Sounds like third world, or emerging country, to have power outages, to a german. Germans also used gas, but for a much simpler reason: Is was there before electricity. Gas was available since 1850, electricity started 1890-1900. Today it's mainly for camping only. Propane BBQ gained popularity in the last years (as American style copy). But not replacing electric ones, it's replacing charcoal.
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  26. Well in 1920 there also have been no traffic rules or drivers license. One time in past, everything was without rules.
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  27. I guess it's more like, you have sweet memories of watching it with loved ones. It's not the movie itself. Since you probable don't know german movies, produced in USA, it's a bit arrogant to expect the world to know US-movies. There are so many, not making it over the pond. Today with Netflix it's more, but on the other hand, Netflix also brings Spanish, Swedish or Argentine cinema to Germany, its not only US dominated.
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  28. Concerning your self-description as German American, we have to establish, that such third generation people, call themselves Italian German or Turkish German in Germany too. They still have trouble with their identity. Cause they never intended to migrate. The all moved with the intention to go back one day.
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  29.  @WelshRabbit  Right, but he explicitly referred to 1982.
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  30. Same in Germany. Just the kitchen is screwed as much as your Sofa (not at all). Cupboards hanging on the wall like pictures. And you can take away your pictures, can't you. If people want to have gas, they had to buy their propane in bottles. Gas in the appartment was common maybe 1860-1960, it's not built in today any more.
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  31. I'm German, and instead of swapping recipes and how-to things under a food video, people are permanently talking about where to buy things, where to go to dine out, what brand on already made food to buy. Seems nobody is cooking any more in US. Nobody discusses what type of chili peppers to use. Red Habaneros, Green Pepperoncino, ...
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  32. why do you focus on young americans? Have the young Americans of 40 years ago, the 60 year olds of today, been any different ?
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  33.  @helgaioannidis9365  However, this discussion is stupid. everybody knows a Hamburger can be food or a human, and the same is for a Berliner. There is no way of saying it wrong. If you say you are a berliner, you certainly don't mean you are something to eat.
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  34.  @celinerippl6466  Let's end this stupid discussion. If somebody says "I'm a Hamburger" nobody says he is food. Who set this stupid idea into the world ? It's a bad joke, nothing else.
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  35. But you can't compare, and you just trust they talking of other people.
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  36. But people replace the fridge, cause newer once use only 50% of electricity. So to keep the old ones running, is the most stupid thing they could do. But they do.
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  37. Very weired to have such a thing for breakfast. Was your Oma already americanized ?
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  38. All 'Features ' become useless when you start talking. Thats only for first impression.
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  39. This emphasizes it's completly meaningless to anybody out of Salzburg. There were like 500 movies of this style in the 50ies, this one, is just one of many, and since it's in English, why not watching one of the 495 ones in German ..... to cope with the Nazis, it just came too early.
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  40. Europeans change their curtains for glass walls. That's much more clean and easy drying. Haven't actually seen a home with curtains for a long time, since more and more bathrooms have shower only. I'd say 95% of new build Hotels have no bath tubs any more, they have a "shower cabin" with a glass front.
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  41. The STD thing is more a "We do it, let's find a reason why". Circumcision is not really the result of a scientific thought.
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  42. Don't worry, You get along with English. They use the same letters on the street signs, railway stations are packed with pictogram-Logos, and unlike USA, there are almost no traffic signs with words on it. Opening hours Mo-Fr 9-18, Sa 9-12 you can readwithout translation, don't you ? Its the same words in English and German. Just get used to the 24hour time.
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  43. This agressive intrusive happiness sounds awkward to Germans. Americans are a bit like "Here I come, now make me the center of your life and talk to me" or even "entertain me, keep the bad news to yourself".
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  44. The strong restrictions in US, leads to a training in how to break rules, they come with fake-id cards, wrap cans with something, so they get used not to take the law too literally.
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  45. That's something still impossible today. The German cannot find out, what ads YouTube presents to Americans today, cause the advertiser pays only for presentation in US, and somebody else pays for presentation in Germany.
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  46. That's well said.
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  47.  @Zayphar  The system is pretty much the same as in US. Just the numbers are different. And if you have a steady job all year around with the same employer, the employer is doing most of the paperwork for you. But additionally what the video is about, is why people understand by "taxes". Many don't sepearate with fees and charges, this makes the tax look higher, if you just drop numbers in a talk among hillbillies.
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  48.  @thedude5040  What crazy conclusion. When I need 1 year to build a house, I'm an idiot, an if I need 1 day I'm an expert or what ? I'm self employed and it depends on how much of your accounting you consider as "doing taxes". There is no other reason for accounting, than the taxes actually. And I keep repeating, for employees it's faster, they pass through the numbers from the employer. In the easiest case they just say "I don't want to deduct anything, sign and go". Actually in this week I'm making money, by saving 2000€ taxes eventually. How can this be a waste of time ? Adding fuel bills, estimate the electricity for hoovering the office, telephone bills, ...takes it's time. Others use consultants, that's the stupid people, but not the people who do it themselves. Sure you can become consultant yourself, when it's your daily business you will be faster, if you do it once a year, you are slower.
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  49.  @HomeyKhann  It's more like "seeing the original" I think. You feel like you have a copy of it at home. Doesn't make much sense to these chains, but it's the same as Americans eating Schnitzel in Germany. You want to behave like the locals. If you go to America, and want to behave like an American, you have the idea you have to go to McDonalds, or in this case KFC. As well as drinking budwiser or so , cause you have seen it in the movies or in commercials.
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  50. As Feli explained in an other video, the word "Stein" is not German, and nobody knows where Americans got this term from. It just means "stone" and is sometimes used for the ceramic, as "artificial stone". Never for a glass. Correct term would be "Krug" which means jar. But Glas is OK also.
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  51.  @lisamirako1073  Right, and both don't know about it and think it's from an other language.
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  52. Daily shower may be the alternative. People didn't wash that much in the 19th century maybe.
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  53. You talking about the plant, not the song. Just to not cause confusion. Yes it's an endangoured species. Maybe you also want to impress with the tusk of an elephant. IT's also forbidden. Just for case this is your next idea.
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  54. Feli explained it so nicely at around 3:30. It is very hard to ever pay 42% in taxes unless you make >600K/year. On 100K you pay 33%, as Feli explained. On 15K you pay zero taxes, but yes, you have to make an advance deposit and get it back later on. It's a problem of liquidity, not of costs.
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  55. By 'recent' I would understand "in the last 20 years."
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  56. Closest word I had seen so far, would be saucer. Apprentice in the saucer would be Will Wheaton in Star Trek.
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  57.  @thatguy8869  i don't get the link to feel joy on beeing scared. Grimm brothers is ferry tales, it happens in your head, you don't see it. And scariest things is burning a witch and consider it positive. There is nothing bloody involved, nothing with ghosts or skeletons.also nothing with vampires or mummies. A poisened Apple.. and the victim survives.
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  58. If you make fun of a Person, the Person in USA has no legal way to Protest ? Can't believe it. Injunction is something very normal in USA too.
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  59. There is nothing "spiritual" in German Christmas. It's more contemplative, you enjoy tranquility.
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  60. You do that family gathering with rituals rather on Thanksgiving. That's about the same rank and completely unknown as a family event in Germany. If at all, it's something with the village community. In reverse, all that arrived from american Thanksgiving in Germany, is the Black Friday Sale. (very recent, just in the last 5 years).
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  61. I'm German, and can't reproduce the discussion about the 'r' here. In German the word ends on -bar, in english on -bor, so he's using more the a then the o. The 'r' isn't dominant in either case. If you learn a language late in life, it's impossible to get rid of any accents, and Arnold was over 20. The duration of speaking, has no influence.
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  62.  @jeffreycaudle5108  ok, I see, so the problem is, we are learning british english in school..it's very hard to recognise different pronouniations in different dialects in a foreign language. In your german class you will get a feeling, what the song is about. But for phonetics singers take another teacher.
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  63. The benefits have nothing to do with paid taxes. Maybe you got that wrong. You pay tax + insurance. Tax is for society, insurance is for yourself, but people often tend to sum it up. While people in US don't some up their 10 payments to 10 institutions.
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  64. You get the benefits if you get poorer. This would be the right way to put it.
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  65. Also in Germany, the german cars are considered luxury most often, they always cost at least 20% more than imported cars. 50% of all the locally sold german cars, are bought by companies, they get special deals and make it affordable. In east germany, with little less if people buy a new car it's most often asian, like Toyota, Mazda, Hyundai - and they do not have any image problem, they are considered same quality for less price. So since people know, a Audi A4 is more expensive than a Toyota Corolla, they consider it as 'more luxury.
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  66. What has less pain ?
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  67. But you practice 'Thanking god" ;-)
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  68. Coming to convenience, I find it's interesting to compare cooking-habits, how common is self-cooking at home. People talk about "grocery-shopping" but maybe they just buy frozen meals? Or do they dine out more or less often, in higher/lower quality. There might be a few people having Döner daily in Germany, but maybe there are more with daily burgers in US.
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  69. After a few generations, almost any American may be 1/8 german - even some black ones.
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  70. One is English, one is German. There are no two names. German is the Latin word of a tribe living in Germany 2000 years ago. The french knew another tribe, they call it Allemande. (from Allemannic). In slawic languages it's called Nemetz. The British got mixed up with the languages also, that they call the people from Netherland the Dutch, although the word Deutsch refers to germans. That all happened centuries ago. The germans wonder more, why swine turns in pork, or cattle into beef, if you kill it ;-)
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  71. American seem to be mug adicts.
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  72. In different languages, you call every single item in the world by a different name. It's really weird to expect an exception on language names. Why you don't wonder, the chinese call a dog not a dog.
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  73.  @joannesmith2484  A flat rate, and zero cost, is still a little different. I pay 0,10$ per phone minute and 0,10$ per text message on the phone. If you are not a heavy user this is much cheaper than having a $20 or $30plan. I think Germans are more aware of what things costs and they think more where to spent money for. So for $5 I could send 50 text messages (SMS), or I can buy a data volume of 500 MB, which is about 1 million whatsapp messages, if you don't send a lot of pictures.
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  74.  @V100-e5q  "the underground", as in London, does reflect the "U" in the name very good. To find something to reflect the "S" symbol for the Americans, suburban is a good reminder. And S-Bahn is a commuter train, nothing else. They all end in nowhere-land. Places where people sleep. They bringt people to downtown of one city. All other trains are for "travelling" city to city. In opposite to commuting. For Munich: Trains go to Augsburg, S-Bahn goes to Petershausen and Tutzing.
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  75. That's very common on all the Fräuleins, that the Americans took home after War in 1945-50.
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  76. but that is by German immigrants 1850-1940 or so. The reverse direction is more recent, starting after WW II and in permanent process.
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  77. Since you can turn a mixure tab not more, than a quarter of a circle, you might have had something different. It's just one handle vs. two handles and opening two handles is also just guessing what's coming out. The idea of a mixure tab is, too keep the temperature selection for the next time. you only open/close the tab.
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  78. So with invention of induction, every advantage is gone.
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  79. Didn't realize amazon is a river. It's an online-dealer. When learning a language, you must often don't learn all native names of geographic locations, animals etc.
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  80. Does the term air condition include the heating ? Cause we do have heating, just no cooling... for let's say 30days a year above 24c, it's just not worth it. (Traditionally, before climate change).
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  81. You are a very good observer, it's not just the usual stereotypes that are kind of repeated throughout YouTube.
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  82. The idea is, to own only 2 in 30 years, at least their promise is, to last long time.
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  83. No, in 99% of cases they ask for your bank account. Although checks are possible. They don't make themselves friends, cause the receiver doesn't even know what to do with a received check. If he has an online bank, he probably had to mail it to his bank ? And what if it is lost ?
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  84.  @anta3612  Completly right, it just gives no idea, whether we are talking months or years here. It's the same with any education, with your entire school knowledge, if you don't use it, you loose it.
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  85. Shops with abundance of products ? Maybe with people searching ....
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  86. That's really gone since long time. The little heaters were a quick&dirty installations on old houses, maybe if they had coal heating in the 70ies. But since than, every house went through a makeover, usually every 50 years.
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  87.  @R0yB477y  The difference is, house do not have more than 5 stories, if they have more, they have to have an elevator. Allowed maximum height of buildings in Berlin is 22m; 72ft. And the buildings are often from 1880. NYC is young. In 1880 were haven't even been toilets in the appartments. It has been rebuild meanwhile of course. But in such old structeres there is often no space for elevators. I asked, because of nobody is complaining here. I keeps you fit. My uncle is 85 now, he moved from 5th to first floor when he was 70. That's a simple solution, if you are not fit enough. Same is for escalators or even worse "moving sidewalks". People got legs for this. They go to gym to stay fit, but are unable to use a staircase ? The simple reason why you walk up to 2-3 floor, even if an elevator is present, is very simple: First, it's faster. You don't have to wait. Second it's a courtesy to other people, who want to go higher, and dont want to stop on floor, 1,2,3 if they want to go to floor 7. YOu have to get up 5 minutes earlier, to be on time with the elevator ;-)
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  88.  @R0yB477y  I had the opposite experience in Canada, where I was studying for a while. They had no stairs in my office building, or it was on the other end of the building. They forced me to take the elevator to go one floor up.
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  89. Good compilation. Something else was hidden but appeared. It's OMG. Americans often use "gosh" for this, while Germans stay with 'god'. Don't know about differences in meaning. Something for another video, a 'Limo' are different cars in Germany and US. It's a station wagon I think. And there are more of these thinks like a convertible or a truck.
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  90.  @kevinerskine3299  But living for long time in a place, and never travel, are different pair of shoes. Where is the curiosity ? The wish to get around and learn new things. The weird thing is, it's from descendents of migrants, from people who were open mindet to try another place.
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  91. No, this is deeply judgemental, what you currently do. You don't describe "you changed" you said "you got better". Can anything be more evaluative or judgemental ? It's a shift towards lying and beeing dishonest, you don't say what you think or want anymore, you say what the other one wants to hear to please them, and call this "accomodating". A serious conversation becomes impossible this way. That's what Feli meant with beeing superficial. You lie at each other and are happy about it.
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  92. Not really. But if you say jack smith is eating cats, jack smith can sue you. Only Single persons. There is law on groups, to prevent racism too, but that had to go as far as raising riots against hawaiians.they eat cat is not even hate speach.
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  93. So, you are very likely no European.
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  94. Is fraud such a common thing in US ? Actually it's rather card payment, that replaced the checks. It's for the situation you have no cash with you and you want to pay. And card payment is not going via a third hand provider, it's done by the bank directly. This is much much cheaper, so credit cards became not that common. And even if credit cards are used today, they are not used for a 'credit', they are just used to pay.
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  95. Pumpernickel is actually an army product, cause it stays fresh for months. It's baked 24h. But I know you mean other breads who look the same.
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  96.  @Wud-f2r  I see. We don't even have drywall, the tubes are put into the concrete, all you get is three wholes in the wall, 2 for hot and cold water with a little tap, which roughly defines the sink position. Like the downpipe from the gutter,drain tubes are just sticked into each other, no thread or anything, just an overlapp, and since water flows downwards not upwards the connection is not water proof. Like a funnel on a pot. If the pot has a whole overflow is impossible. But it's all just developed habits. Some people would like to rent with a kitchen, but if available it's a surcharge. So you pay it one way or the other. Selling from one renter to the next is also an option.
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  97.  @Wud-f2r  I've seen this in movies. Drywall we use only when dividing big rooms in smaller ones. Only inside. In the mideval we also used the wooden frames. Today only the roof is made of timber.
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  98. So in reverse, if retirment payments are well organized, you don't need to own your house. That's Germany.
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  99.  @sensei48  Thanks for clarification. Hadn't expected this has really gone that political, more like a bad joke of some Comedian. I'm born in 69 and haven't experienced this shock (of building the wall) personally. For me it was like "it's always there", and it has been the West-Berliners, who called themselve the "Free Berlin", cause they could go where they wanted to go. The people around Berlin (me) were the trapped people. I think nobody realized this, in 1963. The so called iron curtain was like prison bars for the east part of Europe. The westerner could pass, if they wanted to.
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  100. That's really Nonsense, there is absolutly no relation to the number of people. Everybody pays for himself. If at all, the relation from poor to rich people is an important factor. Europe has a higher level of equality.
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  101. Sounds like a touristic place, fullfulling expectations of Americans.
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  102.  @IcouldBNE1  It's considered as (low level) comedy. But you have to know, it was first aired in 1991, 25 years after production. That's why it never become really popular, it fell out of time. And people see it with kind of distance, no matter if Hogans Heroes or Schindlers List. They don't say "they make fun of us", they say, "they make fun of the Nazis". They don't identify with them for understandable reason.
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  103. 30 miles is still kind of normal. I expected you were wondered she would walk 1 mile without hesitating a second.
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  104. Well, it may have been this way in places. Don't generalize it too much with. Steel cutlery existed, even silverware. Usually for visitors from the west, you got out the good stuff.
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  105. It's a movie and got an 6 academy award nominations, hasn't won any. Maybe TV has shown it in parts, but it's a movie.
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  106.  @edhutchinson4247  I was pronouncing the difference to his normal speaking voice. Here is an old interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gh2RUnuylUI And it's not really a bass voice, it's more grumpy and throaty.
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  107. Just regular Wine from grapes, not cider. Cider is fairly unusual and unknown in Germany, that's more british/swedish/danish - cause they don't have much grapes.
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  108. Just marriage in age of 21 or so, is still more common in US, isn't it ?
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  109. It's all the same ingredients, just in little different proportions. (And I baked both). Stollen is closer to a Cookie dough, so you can keep it 4-6 months. There is no moisture in it. No Eggs, No Water, No Milk, except very little as a starter for the yeast. By all the butter, it will rather turn rancid than perish.
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  110. Some even consider public transport as unsafe. But no European tourist using it without hesitation ever reported getting involved in robbery or whatever. So I have doubt, how much is reality, and how much just bad image or imaginary fear. I would have more fear of beeing pulled over by the cops. US has more cops and they are fast with the guns.
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  111. It must be really empty, sunday, or 3 am, to go 220 on the right lane.and having somebody passing you, may happen once per hour than. It's only about 2% of cars able to go faster than 220. That's already considered sports cars. And speeds go down by electrification. A Tesla is able to go 250, but not for more than one hour.
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  112. OK, So keep your children locked up in the cellar too, to protect them from the dangours of the world. "Not knowing" is sign of a control freak, not a real reason.
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  113. Actually, I know some Americans using this I-sch technique, and they are easy to be considered french.
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  114. Feli says correctly , it's around 10-12%, and it's noticable in supermarkets. It's a critical mass to take a chance to open vegan-only restaurants, which are pretty new. It's not the result of activism, it's more part of the organic trend, a generall awareness for the environment. Never ever heard of your Raab lady. American veganism is more of religous or cultural heritage, like with immigrants from india or maybe mexico, where you have a dominance of vegan products. It's not as strong ecological idea based, like "save the climate".
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  115. Except this is fullfilling wrong american clichees. A German would never buy a beer mug and I do not know anybody who owns one in Germany. Most people dring from the bottle, some take a glass.
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  116. But wooden tops, in stone or even metal design is still quiet common. Chipboard is absolute default, even when woolden design. It's more or less just fotos of materials.
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  117. No, it's the reverse. If you have your daily living, you feel relaxed and you don't become angry. It's not a reason to be happy. Otherwise do you smile all day for not having cancer ? A smile is the exception to everydays business in case of a joyful event occuring. Paying for a smile, feels a bit like paying for sex, you know. The smile has to be for free, otherwise it's prostitution. From a waiter, I expect the same level of friendlyness, as I would from a random person, that I ask on the street for the way to the station. It's normal social behaviour, not "service". And it's mutual. The waiter isn't tipping the client either for beeing friendly.
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  118.  @shermanInOR  Yes, I accept the tradition, I'm just saying I dislike this development, cause 100 years ago, Europe and America were more alike. A tip was gratitude. Not paying a service. It's the same as birthday gifts for children. The gift cannot tell how much you love the children, if the children expect and enforce the gift. Then they just take the gift as granted, like it's the duty of the parents to buy it. The parents or clients have no possibility to show their emotions, they just fullfill a duty. That's a pity. The meaning is lost.
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  119. That's a rather small percentage, in urban areas. But you can consider 10% of the entity system as being under construction with temparoray speed limits. Another 20% is in traffic jam, so you don't notice the limitlessness, if you go only 50-60 km/h by congestion. This all gives the idea of having more limitations, than statistics say.
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  120. For american auditory, it's conclusive to explain what they not know. I actually have never seen an iPhone closely.
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  121. The meaning is little different, it's only on childs and if you speak it really perfectly. It means there is no second/first, or own language/foreign language. It means equal-ranked languages. For achieved foreign language it's very unusual, because it would be a downgrade to skills of most people. Somebody who speaks 3 languages would never use the term zweisprachig, cause he isn't. The information "bilingual" is meaningless anyway. People just say, "Ich spreche English" or "Ich Spreche Französisch". Why this useless conversion "I'm bilingual - which language do you speak - it's German". That's American small talk. Putting the content of 3 words in 20 words.
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  122. Humidity and electricity don't go along, that's why in the beginning they were separated as much as possible. Today, It's just a little extra sealing for humid rooms, that is just a few cents, so they use the humid room switches in the entire house, to simplify construction. Plugs in the bathroom often have a cover, to protect from splashes.
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  123. This 'example' thing is just the switch from abstraction to the real world. I think in common English people are less abstract, it's really a matter of logic skills. Concluding from one case to the general, is kind of stupid ....unless you say, there are more cases, I just name you one here.
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  124. Not, if it is not known. Who is going to visit a game if you don't know what people on the grid are trying to achieve or what they are allowed to do ? It cannot develop just on the streets, cause it needs too much equipment. For soccer you just need a ball.
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  125. they even put ice cubes in a cold drink. I think it's just life style and for decoration and not really has a purpose. Maybe they eat and drink slower ?
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  126. How can you evaluate "easier" if you haven't tried anything else ? On induction you see "a pott on the stove could be hot", no pott on the stove - definitly no heat. Very easy to see with your eyes. It's a little like you say, mail on paper is better cause you can really see it, while for email you need an app to check it.
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  127.  @Marcel_Audubon  including induction ? Since natural gas in the pipelines and a prohibition of gas bottles in appartments, it's almost completly gone in germany. The biggest contra is the cleaning. Glas really is the preference.
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  128. Maybe it's just the low demand ? In Gemany Ben and Jerrys is the most expensive Ice cream in the supermarket.
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  129. Is there such a demand on acting and imitating ? You should charge Hollywood something for this lesson.
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  130. So cancer healing would be a too risky investment, no doctor would do it any more, and everybody would die. If there is only a 5% chance of curement, nobody would start to try. That's not the best idea.
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  131. Americans are honored if they speek german, Dutch are just expected to speak German ;-(
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  132. Austria doesn't feel like another Nation to Germans. That's just administrative differences. Like coming from Texas to California. The food might change a little and the accent. No border control, no change of currency, only change of speed limit and change of color of police cars.
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  133. But there is a federal tax ? Can't image you don't have to give any share to society at all. How do they finance streets and schools and police ?
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  134. I'm German and was in Canada for about a year, I kind of didn't miss speaking German, and if meeting somebody speaking German, it was just hard to decide in how to talk with each other; so an additional complication. And with a semi-perfect speaker, you tend to speak slower, using less slang etc. Learning accent less is just you have to start before adolescence (before 15), when the brain is not totally finished, it's able to create new special sounds to a certain language, like th, R, W.. I started learning with 14 but had no native language teacher - so were was no chance to hear accent free English. I think Denglish is used by almost all Germans, just if ENglish speakers try to speak German, they do not dear to use their English words in German, but the Germans do it.
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  135. That's still so , up to today. But Culture dominating, I would rather go on Music, US-Star are very likely wordwide stars, like Michael Jackson, or Beyonce or whoever.TV and movies is more like - OK- we like good entertainment and have something in common. It does not work on sports. Recently, there is a show about Colin Kapernik on Netflix. First nobody knows this guy, and even when you google it - nobody knows the rules of American football. (where a ball is not round, and you hold it in your hand).
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  136.  @wardandrew23412  True, and btw, most Germans are unable to distiguish British and American actors. It's more or less all just "hollywood". Is James Bond or Harry Potter British ? Nobody knows, nobody cares. You have to remember, all the local accents are lost and unknown in Germany. Don't worry about McDonalds, they exist, I use them about once a year when Travelling and really want to have something within 15min, but they are only popular in a rather small group of people. But Burger really became more popular in the last decade, but from regular restaurants, on real china. I sold some myself on a festival.
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  137.  @wardandrew23412  actually the turkish Kebab is the #1 fast food, followed by pizza. Sausages became seldom.
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  138.  @The_Str4nger  yes, but it's gone. You can hardly find it on the street or in a shopping mall, it's typical for a beer garden in summertime, but it's not a take away or daily Restaurant food (any more). It's ten times more easy to get Döner and Burger, than a Wurst.
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  139. Compared to other places in Germany, it's 20-30% more expensive (8€ per liter is restaurant price). But you have to remember, they build a tent, they heat it, they have no cover charge or entrance fees, you don' pay anything for the music. It all reflects in the beer price.
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  140. There is no supply crisis, not even close to it. it just became expensive. Sensibility and Awareness of risks have raised, not more. (Not the risks, the sensibility to risk).
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  141. @ so what ? I need a full week, what's this important for ? Where have you got this "struggle" from ? It's an unpleasant job, like cleaning the toilet, but you don't struggle. As more you know, as more you think. Very normal. If you are stupid, you can do it in 5minutes, and have no worries, that would be a relief. (in most easy cases of a full time employee, it can be really that fast)
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  142.  @philw6056  Correct, but that's just like talking about the length and width of a box. One is not the other, but each side of the box could by anything, a length or a width. It's both straight. So Quer is also straight, just in another direction. Like on a regular crossroad. The meaning depends on , where you are yourself.
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  143. I don't think there will be a common or representative answer on that. I think the german men is more self-confident, that means he does not need to pronounce his masculinity as much as the American do. Gym visits go up, Cars and other status symbols go down in the last decades.
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  144. Speaking quickly is a perfect way to white-wash your mistakes. Listeners will fill out the missing sounds, with what it should be. You probably know a Tsunami ? That's a perfect Z. Put that sound in Zoo. And you take the oo from English Zoo, put it in front of Bahn, to get an U-Bahn. Zoo-Bahn without the S sound.
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  145. You kind of missed the hits from the last years, like The Big Bang Theory, How I met Your Mother, or King of Queens. For some period of time, they have broadcasted up to 10 episoded of TBBT per day - and for years, I think they start with episode 1 once per year or so. They must be on the 20th repetition, and all on one channel only.
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  146. But this only makes sense to U.S. if it's separated from the living area. Of course you had to do it on the dining table, and some had it in the kitchen, others in the living room, some had two.
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  147. Everybody with preferences is boring. Try everyday a new one.
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  148. The "new" thing was, it's kind of the only portrait of the roaring 20ies in Germany. The musical 'Cabaret' has a similiar setup. But that's already 50 years old.
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  149. But a german would not set the christmas tree much before december 23rd/24th. And we just do the candles without thinking on anything religious. It's just a part of decoration.
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  150. That's definitly picking from what you already know. 90% of chains do not exist in Europe, including all the Taco-Tex-Mex stuff, or things like Olive Garden. It's kind of "if you ever go to Italy you have to have a Pizza", or "If you ever go to USA you have to have a Burger, or in this case some chicken".
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  151. There's not much difference in culture from Munich to Berlin. It's different in architecture and in size. To develop a stereotype, you need to have enough people in a category first. There aren't that many American in Germany - and if at all- it's hard to distinguish them from UK people. Actually there are only some stereotypes for tourists. Hotel-people and car-rentals complain American are very dirty, cause they always think they can leave a mess, if they pay for the cleanup. A German would cleanup more themselves, that's a part of being educated. Not doing the beds, but putting garbage in the garbage bin etc.
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  152.  @danielfrei3109  That's what I said, but nobody ever used the term Bierstein in Germany, or did they ?
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  153. Well the "go to hell" phrase is quiet often used in US. ALthough not applied to children.
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  154. ​ @stirbjoernwesterhever6223 19% is not high. Canada has around 15%. That's something you get used to.
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  155. If somebody calls you bankrupt and your credit line is cut due to that claim , you cannot do anything about it ? That's a horrible world. Calling anybody an Idiot in public is completly legal?
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  156. No, we do not have double citizenship, and you might not know, this heritage thing was used by the Nazis, to define who is german and who is not. Even today a migrant has a hard time to become German. That's kind of impossible for some people. It's more common in USA to be American and something else. Now think about the two phrases "German Jews killed by Germans" and "German Jews are Germans". Additionaly, in Sixth generation, he has about 32 or 64 migrated grand-grand-grand-grand-parents. He could have 32 nationalities in himself. So he could be 1/32 german ? But again. That's NAZI logic. If you were 1/8 Jew, you are non-german.
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  157. School system is uncomparable. Most germans don't understand what a high school is, and if this is mandatory or optional. Same is for the difference from college to university. But you are right - a try would be interesting.
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  158. Right, but this is scientificly exact. Cause you are not hot, you feel hot. Your body temperature does not change, otherwise it would be called fever. In case of fever you can really say "Ich bin warm". (the gay meaning is kind of outdated). Hot is not really horny, it's used in English the very same way "a hot girl" or so.
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  159. Black Friday was like 10 days in Germany. But it's just since around 10 years, I think initiated by amazon. And it's just an arbitrary picked friday in November for Germans.
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  160. Netflix is currently a huge game changer. It may make more American shows available for German auditory, but that's not my point. It makes shows from all over the world available for any auditory. So we now have access to Spanish , Brasilian, Icelandic or Korean shows or whatever. Besides not everything from US is brought to German TV, from imported shows, it's 95% from US, you hardly see something Swedish, Danish or French. So the domination of US production habits is broken up a little.
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  161. I think that's more a health trend, realizing daily meat is too much, just every other day is enough. The generation of truckdrivers having their sausage for breakfast is just gone. Especially less skilled workers who didn't care for their healt that much, have been replaced by immigrants. And if you have 10 million muslims in the country, pork consumption per capita goes down, it's as simple as that. It's the demographic change, more than the vegan trend.
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  162. Since germans are forced to pay in a public pension fund, they don't need security from this other side, and also have less money to do it. Mortgage you pay for 25 years, Rent you pay forever. Since you can also buy appartments (Condos) your trouble with neighbors does not apply to the buy/rent decision. But cause you mention this .. people today do prefer more the urban life, they want to be closer to downtown. To the family home districts you most often have to drive 7-10 miles. It's too quiet for many. The zone of 4-5 story buildings around a downtown is completly missing in most US-cities. They drop from 1 squar-mile of skyscrapers to 2-floor family homes.
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  163. Nothing else in mind ? Americans are always so fast in getting married. Germans would never even use this word rushing somebody in a marriage.
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  164. Both is common. Paper towels work better, but make more waste; Hand dryers are quiet loud and don't dry fully ... during corona they were blowing germs around. So people are in doubt.
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  165. you know what a typical German would say to your story: There is no guarantee this will happen to me again, that's why I will not do it. They are much more risk aware and want guarantees for everything. Also, only 5% of germans are on the stock market.
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  166. But in the age they started that, almost nobody spoke English. Let's say the time of Hitchcock or the first James Bonds. And it's almost never translated. High Noon (1952) is translated.
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  167.  @Trifler500  Yes, I just tell you, finding a german title, does not mean to "translate" it. It's an creative act of art to find a new appropriate title. That's also done with peaces of Shakespeare, so it's not the movie industrie starting it. And what sense does it make to put a title nobody can read ? It's like they give you the title of a chinese book in chinese characters, you cannot read it out loud. That's the same with english, except of beeing unable to read it, you definitly read it wrong, since all vowels and many consonants do mean something different in German and English. THere is this f, v, w mixup , or s, c, z, k the e is pronounced like i, the i like ei, the a like ä, double oo becomes u etc. Or english is not very strict, and the a in garden is pronounced differently then the a in Alabama. Or take the crazy c in Ocean, sounds like oshn. and before WWI hardly anybody knew that. You cannot read English just from seeing the letters.
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  168.  @Trifler500  No, with the german title, there is no trouble in pronunciation. Not really conclusive what you say. And people today get along with English pretty well. Accents are no mispronunciations.
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  169.  @Trifler500  If you say, Germans would have trouble to pronounce German titles (as you said either way), it does not made any sense to me either.
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  170. There is nothing happening, except (severe) inflation. Everything else is emotions, fear, nothing fact based.
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  171. But, whatever you call a german women. In USA it's likely a person with a german grandma.
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  172. Just ask the same question twice and this proofs wrong.
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  173. Germans are also not much engaged in the stock market, they don't like to take risk (or take a chance) or speculate. There are so many aspects without guarantees when owning a house, that people say. no ... better not. And this although mortgage rate most often are fixed for 10-15 years. Something impossible in USA as far as I know. I settled mine in 2017 until 2032 at 2.5%.
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  174. It's a rumour, to have a choice. At least, it's as difficult as getting out of a drug addiction, you had to reprogram your brain, it's beyond learning.
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  175. It's more a social event, than the dish itself that counts, I guess.
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  176. They "joy" of cut of arms and other bloody things is really not a thing in Germany. It's more Monsters/mummies/Trolls maybe a giant or a spider or a giant spider. And there is absolutly no habit of doing this at home at halloween.
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  177. Maybe Anne Frank oder Schindlers List is better for that purpose. But the content actually cannot be a reason to qualify as a good movie.
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  178. That's neither news nor the newest gossip ;-)
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  179. Word gets updated from Time to time. Kinder are also not called Kinder any more. If you want to be up to date, you call them Kids. And the official administrative term is Kindertagesstätte, which means something like daycare.
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  180.  @FelifromGermany  this part about what is called how, was really confusing and maybe easy to missunderstand.
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  181.  @DebPederson  That`s nice, but this does not necessarily correspond to what the term stands for today, and what kids do there. This changes over time.
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  182.  @Denara1  Es geht nur um Worte und Sprache, die Du den verschiedenen Formen zuordnest, nicht irgendwelchen Vorlieben. Gerade bei Lebensmitteln gibt es doch da sehr viele Varianten, wenn Du nur an Brötchen denkst. Verschiedene Worte heißt nicht immer verschiedene Sache.
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  183. But Tablet must have meant something in English before the electronic device existed. Something big and flat .. like a Tray.
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  184. Just 2 less per year, and everything is fine. But actually it's also vegan Bratwurst.
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  185. What is Chili for you ? Isn't this just a spice ? So if you spice your Tomato Sauce, of course you have it on Spaghetti. It would be rather called Spaghetti Arrabiata, but it has chili in it, Habaneros or so.
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  186. Germans obey the rules from the manual. That's all. They trust the manufacturer.
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  187. Sure, it's made to last around 30 year. So if they renovate about 10km per year, the chance to hit a construction within 300km is 100%. Then there are certain bridges to repair, or a section is extended from 2 lanes to 3 lanes, or they install new noise protection... there is always something to do.
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  188. No, it's not. It's per person. Nobody compared numbers like the GDP, it's all per capita and that's the correct way of comparing. US has more domestic flights, that's the only difference resulting from size.
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  189. So you explain the often clogged toilets. You use too much toilet paper.
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  190. what a waste of life-time. That's inefficient and therefore ungerman.
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  191. The strictness is limited to the name. It's about what you are allowed to call a beer. As soon as you put something unallowed in, you have to change the name. You can sell a Bud light, as long as you don't call it beer. It's easy to get around if you call it Ale, Stout, Porter, or whatever.
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  192. Differences are not bigger, than between the "flyover-states" and the coastal states in USA. It will never become totally equal, industrial cores will not move. Also a paygap of maybe 20% is normal to different US-states. But you cannot change peoples background, you cannot modify people, so this will just "grow out", by change of generations. People who experienced East worklife, and were 30 when the wall came down, are now in the age to retire.
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  193. Felicia is Bavarian. Most Germans complain, the Germany is reduced to Bavaria only - by American. Looks like Frankenmuth is fulfilling all that. Only worse thing is Schnitzel with noodles. (From sound of music).
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  194. Bei ihrem 100.000€ Beispiel kann es das noch geben, es ist nur für Großverdiener.
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  195. Vance shut down Websites with scientific climate research results, science flee from USA, and he is talking about free speach... ridicoulous
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  196. And this is true, because it was true 1950 ? It's like eating without waiting to be hungry. Just a habit.
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  197. Everybody is allowed to call chili whatever they want. Also Texans don't talk about the plant named Chili, when they take about it.
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  198. Speeding on a traffic light, means being polite to the car behind you. You don't let them wait, you don't block their way. German way of being polite, think on other people - with action, not with talking.
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  199. And they are pretty unknown in Germany. Whereas The Waltons or Little House have been popular.
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  200. Actualy, I would consider the double sink the default in the last 50years, and conversion to single is the new change in the last years. Even my auntie with a kitchen from 1920 had a double sink built in. It's always one filled with water, the other to catch dripping washed dishes.
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  201. So what do you see ? What's getting worse ? OK you have to endure the visibility of windmills, that's all.
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  202.  @peterm.eggers520  What indications do you have for this nonsense. There wasn't any growth last year, but everything is fine. Unemployment doesn't go up. Elon musk wants to invest more. Stock exchange is on all time high. Missing workers, not enough skilled people, is the only actual problem.
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  203. That's the case in most countries, except in Germany. Cause you have no shows in English in German TV. That's why in Poland, Sweden, Netherlands people actually speak better english. And so it comes, if Polish people migrate, they prefer UK over Germany. Language skills really have an economic effect - at least before Brexit.
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  204. And nobody cares .. what you proof by not knowing the reason.
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  205. Sure. It would also be difficult if you don't have electricity in your country to charge your phone. Some things are just assumed to be there.
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  206. Deutsch please. Otherwise you would be a cannibal ;-) Deutsche are the people.
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  207. I wonder, why lighting up a candle will be so much related to the Church. It's the origin, but lost connection long time ago, as entire christmas did.
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  208. But in reverse, for a German, or for Arnold, it's hard to hear a difference. To my listening, it's -bar vs. -bor, nothing special on the 'r'. (german: nachbar, american neighbor, british neighbour)
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  209. The light usually just means: Low Pressure, Refill. Add what you have lost. You don't need to exchange it. And the "metal particles" only apply to a brand new car, it's getting less by time.
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  210. Funny idea, no it's nod. And the word box for speakers is die out slowly anyway, cause they are getting so small. Due to international commercials and product names, a cutter is also known as a knife today. Movie industry was just the first who took this term over. In the credits it's still not used.
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  211.  @Alpha908-TCA  Ja, aber dann ist der Titel Blödsinn, und überhaupt nichts in diesem Video. Dein Umfeld wird kleiner. Das merkst Du nicht so direkt, aber die sterben alle weg, nach und nach.
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  212. What you can't find, you have to make yourself. Give it a try. I'm just wondered what you call a cookie. Waffles are Waffles.
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  213.  @trelala789  i did, and its almost the same, just the dough is more dry and when it comes from the iron you roll it around a stick. It's hard when cold. Similiar to oblatky .or to ice cream cones. Or in Mexico its the same as with soft and hard tacos.
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  214.  Sharon Riley  The bowels do need some training. You say something like "sport kills" - no it doesn't - it makes you stronger.
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  215. Cause you are used to it. You hear those people in school classes, you are trained to understand it... If you hear Scottish or Alabama people for the first time you are lost also, but you can get used to it, after a while.
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  216. are you making silly jokes ? Paying 3500zł on 1000zł income ?
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  217. Checks where abondened about 1995. Instead of asking someone for it's address, you ask for his account number, if you want to transfer money to them.
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  218. Didden you give the answer to the beermug yourself ? It's stoneware, or Steingut, probably locally somewhere they called Steingut-Bierkrug a Bierstein, and accidently migrated to America.
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  219. No, not in 1964, that's completly uncommon. In that time, even Italian operas were performed in german translation. Today they returned to the original with subtitles. But any commercial recent musical production on stage, like Lion king , or Les Miserables or Cats, is 100% in German today, including the songs. Can you imagine Hamilton in German Rap ? Sometimes they also mix, I saw West Side Story or Show Boat with some songs in German, some in English. Depends on Popularity and on how much of the story is in the song.
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  220. Was there this year also first time, and I really liked the atmosphere. Party Music at night (some ACDC cover songs were I was), traditional music in the afternoon, also little internationalized playing "Auld lang syne" and so on. But you cannot do much more than eat and drink, and after 2 beer (it's over half of a gallon, for the Americans) I was done.
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  221.  @FelifromGermany  Jetzt sure, It's good for one hour. I mean it's 10€/5min, you've seen it all after a while. Of course with huge company you get into talking and stay longer, wait until somebody else does a ride etc.
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  222. It's only in the south, where you need no heating. They have a chimney for Santa.
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  223. It's people like you who say look at "all the other taxes" and never start computing. They do an biased estimate. Considering social insurance as taxes is the source of this 50% tale.
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  224. And what's the "correct" form ? Sorry ? Pardon ? It's a course in doing it wrong here ;-). Mixing "Sorry" and "Excuse me" is another thing, cause there is only one word in German.
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  225. What's a six pack session ? For a six-pack you need a Fitness coach .. and the session would take a year.
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  226. Had to get out the Scot dictionary for that. Yes there are. And it's not too bad if not any of them is doing YouTube Videos.
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  227. Right, but in most cases, they associate only 1 specific out of 10 possible meanings to it. And this can cause confusion later on. Like the word "star" is only related to people and doesn't appear in astronomy.
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  228.  @rairei  Restaurants aren't buying their groceries cheaper and paying people to process it, makes it always more expensive. If you feel it's cheaper they probably process the cheapest low quality available. You have no control on what you eat, is the result. I think it also cultural habit to do thinks at home, to use the kitchen at all. In worst case you buy your sandwiches already made, cause the fridge is empty. It's becoming comfortable or lazy, two words for the same thing.
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  229. The influence of money to spread opinions became too important
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  230. It's a handy name for a handhold device ;-)
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  231. Hell no, you want to appear her in a Dirndl also ? It's like an American selling Stetsons.
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  232. There is not much to say about. She mentioned how much you pay in this video. 7% of your income. That's it. Glasses and tooth implants are not included, the rest is.
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  233. No, they sold it, it's part of PSA Group know, which is Peugeot/Citroën
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  234. No, you recognize some words. Same as for Dutch. The question can Germans understand Dutch would be more obvious, cause they are neighbors, and mainly it's not enough to grasp the content. Still better than Danish or Swedish. Easiest ist actually Yiddish, but that's not often to hear anywhere.
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  235. Depends on your age. But it was quiet common in the 70ies and 80ies, when these things were really big.
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  236. despite other rumors ..it's vegetarian and it's German. Actually something for very poor people, self picked mushrooms from the forest, old bread, only the cooking water of vegetables (the broth), and milk and eggs from your own farm, what people used to own 200 years ago.
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  237. Where does this "wisdom" come from ? Maybe it's the habits from the 70ies , taken over from the parents, and it never got an update ? Engineers improve things, and you just say "I'm in doubt it's true". There is no such thing as a free oil change, maybe it's a special offer at a sale. The fuel is getting cleaner and cleaner also, it doesn't pollute the oil any more that much. It's like eating before you get hungry - just for case - you never know when you get something - it becomes a habit or an addiction. The proof is simple, check your used oil, if it's black black black, it was about time, when it looks like kitchen oil , it's to early. You cannot even drive 250 km/h (150 miles/hour) in USA, you cannot 'stress' the car. Long drives is actually the most healthy you can do for a car. The most stress you get if you start/stop the car for always only short distances and the engine almost never gets a temperature. It's the temperature that burns the dust/the pollution, the cold engine is in danger. So it's the opposite of what you say (if you want to spoil your car).
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  238. congeniality has a meaning in german, but it's "genious and his co-genious" a very well fitting pairing of something ingenious. This would have lead to missunderstandings.
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  239.  @Henning_Rech  Yes, and since it's a direct translation, it's both right. Do you want to discuss why the Germans call the Computer a Computer and why they go 'Jogging' although german words exists ? It's both correct and you can choose what you like.
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  240.  @Henning_Rech  I say exaggeration is not irony. Never. Whether one understands it, depends on context and education of the listener. One cannot be ironic on a topic, if the listener doesn't know anything about the topic. You need common knowledge from speaker to listener, to make irony work.
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  241.  @Henning_Rech  Questions can be answered by anyone who knows the answer. You haven't been clear where your "hear" these things. It might strongly depend on your location and the language, the people are using. You ask questions like "why are people using different terms for the same thing". It's because they like to do so. Some do it this way, some in another. For me "Vereinigte Staaten" ist just too long and very very formal and old-fashioned. Diplomats would still use it. On the street, it's just refered to as Amerika. Yes, with a k, unlike in english.
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  242. It's cause Americans watch American movies, and Germans watch German movies. Very simple concept. At least in the 50ies this was true. Especially on this type of movies, Germany or Austria simply had too many. We also don't watch Bollywood movies set up in the Alps.
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  243. Like a date for a psychiatrist, can take months, yes. They make sure, you are not in danger to kill yourself immediatly, otherwise you wait. For a dentist you might get an appointment for next week, without emergency. It all depends on the local setup with doctors. Some have a shortage in optometrists, another region with urologist. You can compensate by driving more miles mostly.
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  244. To me this sounds like "I don't want to see you, but if not avoidable, I see you".
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  245. Toilets have been dry for centuries, and you always used the water just to clean the bowl. This was reproduced I guess. The water was needed to help the thing to "swim" away in the tubes. Odor protection was later added goal.
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  246. You talk about beer, cause you think you have to talk about german things with Germans. Talk about pets next time. Just for a try. And if people are retired probably they migrated in the 50ies and changed habits.
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  247. Cause it works. You proof it.
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  248. Beaches are the most boring thing of all, we need sceenery, some hills, some mountains, some caves, some cities.
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  249. Immer diese Nationalisten. Die Reichsbürger erkennen ja wenigstens die Reichsgründung an, ein Bayer jetzt nichtmal mehr das.
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  250. The stereotype is ham and eggs. This does not mean it's recent , or it's true. That's what is served in any breakfast restaurant.
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  251.  @joannesmith2484  Physical networks, there are only 3 or 4, but there are a lot of resellers with different service levels, who sell a huge variety of plans. A real flat rate does not exist, it's more like packages of 1,2,3 GByte per month. And if you are at home, you have your stationary line and WLAN (which is really flat rate, price is by speed only). So at home the entire internet traffic, also on your mobile devices is for free, you don't need a mobile plan for that. The mobile data capacity is only needed if you are in the supermarket or a restaurant or on vacation. There you can think twice if you need the pic of your grandson immediately, or when you arrive at home. And whatsapp has an option, you receive only the information there is a picture for you, you get a few blury pixels. And you can decide if you want to see it right now (than' its mobile data) or at home, via WLAN. But text messages and phone calls from mobile devices, they are charged 'mobile' also if you are at home. That's why nobody is using it. The switching of provider for the same device, the cell phone, from long distance wireless, to short distance wireless (WLAN) is only possible for internet data. It's the same in US, maybe less people are aware of it.
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  252. No, it doesn't. The online calculator takes this in consideration. That's why you come out with 33% at 100K. The first 14.6 is not called a deduction. Deduction is, if you reduce your taxable income. The "existence minimum" of 14.6 is taxable income, taxed at 0%. That's different. You cannot deduct and tax at 0% at the same time, that doesn't make any sense.
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  253.  @V100-e5q  I don't think there are established translations, how to refer from one term in one language to another term in another language. There is the term "light rail" and some people consider this a tram, others commuter trains. There are so many approaches you can categorize transport. Something like "local trains" I could not translate to German, there is no meaning for it. A train is made to go somewhere else, how can they be local ? Traditionally they are divided by speed in slow and fast. So S-Bahn is what comes closest to local or commuter trains. The daily ride to the workplace. It means "inner-city-transport", you discuss if it includes suburbs or not. Geographs don't care for administrative city borders. They talk about a metropolitain area, which includes suburbs. Therefore, as in many other cities in Europe, the transport is called Metro, not caring for over or underground. The Term "Schnellbahn" was actually derived from the electric engines in Berlin. They didn't go faster, they just had better acceleration for start/stop than steam engines. So that's what was needed in cities. Due to early electrification, Berlin still uses an electric rail system, S-Bahn trains cannot leave S-Bahn tracks there. Everywhere else in germany S-Bahn is just an organisational term, nothing technical. As mentioned, for psychological reasons, people need to memorize the meaning of "S" and "U" symbol inside cities. So the translation should reflect this. Nobody talked about subways, cause exactly this would confuse people. It starts with "S" but stands for the german "U". So when speaking about german U-Bahn with Americans, better use the term underground. They will understand it and have no further question what the "U" stands for.
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  254.  @V100-e5q  Correct, as I said, it's city-centric and you just made fun if it would include suburbs or not. But railway itself is divided in "Long distance" and "regional" (not local). While in English, you rather call it "high speed" and "Long Distance". Each country does have it's own categories. I train like Bremen-Hannover with 30 stops, 90min, would not exist in USA. It's long distance, but slow, it's not commuting, so it's called regional. Involving more than one metropolitain area. And it's evolving and emerging over time. Long distance trains got fixed frequency, as only urban transport had before. Regional trains run on or as S-Bahn. It's development in process, so also the language, all the wording, is fluid.
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  255. Among scientists this is completely OK, it's less common among normal people. They talk with less logic or evidence. They do not try to give proof of their speech. They talk in a manner, "It's so, cause I'm saying so". While in German it's more like, you give an abstract rule, a general law or whatever, and than you try to make it easier to understand by using examples. Or in Reverse : "For Example" expresses "There is a common logic behind it - I'm just missing the abstract words".
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  256. That's kind of ignoring all innovations from the last 20 years. Just tales from the past , the good old times.
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  257. There is no copyright on this glyph. Very simple. And you could only claim copyright for everybody or nobody. You cannot distinguish by country or institution.
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  258. ​ @nealandkriz to dissallow raising riots, call for mass murder and such, is Done in the name of morality. That's the idea of german constitution. Wasnt even trump sued for calling out for the riots on january 6th ? There is no difference from usa to germany.
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  259. But you must admit, the 1's and 9's look closer to what YouTube is presenting you here in Sans Serif. And today I learned another meaning of Cursive. While we consider this just as "Handwriting" and I thought the American call it 'Script', the word cursive popped into German with text processing software, and there it meant inclined characters. While "bold" has a better translation, it's just called 'fat'.
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  260.  @eDoc2020  a grill is the dirtiest thing you can imagine. Nobody wants this in the kitchen. And while a gas often has only bottom heat, electric has top and bottom. That's more often needed. Not to forget the danger of open fire, as Feli noticed. No wonder you glorify fire fighters, you really need them.
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  261.  @brettbuck7362  if you don't include the 10.000 $ extra to have it installed in your house or the extra cost to buy it in bottles, maybe. Maybe you can save by using gaslight too😉
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  262.  @alexphillips4325  In don't see any dependency between remoteness and electricity. Maybe an earthquake destroys a cable, or the wildlife is destroying it ? I think Gas in US is more a matter of heating. In warm parts, you only need small central heating devices, and you can run them on bottled propane if you like. This was never an option in Germany, it's way to expensive and incoformatable. I grow up with a propane stove in the kitchen, buying bottles once a month, but the demand was so low over time, they stopped selling such stoves.
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  263.  @alexphillips4325 I know these containers, most often outside the house, you see them here too, from time to time. But since it's a pressurized system, people prefer oil, if they have no pipeline. I never ever talked about electric heating, this is kind of inaffordable, 4 times more expensive, but it changes now, by raising oil price and the heat pump, making electricity 4 times as efficient, as it was before. There was just a huge discussion in politics, since 2024 installment of new oil, gas and coal heating is prohibited, for climate protection. Just checked statistics for stoves in Germany: 94% electric, 6% gas. And for stoves only, they have these 20 Liter (5 gallon) bottles next to the stove, good for 4-6weeks. That's like for camping.
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  264. This is due to resettlements. Dialects develope if a group of people stay among themselve, if they don't travel. While in Russia the huge parts of siberia never have been areas working by themselves, there always was huge exchange of people and good. Also by banning people, same way Australia was populated. So I think before year 1900 people have moved less in Germany. Vladiwostok was founded 1860, that's pretty bad example I think, of course it's all just (west-)russian "expats" there. And smaller but older communities like Irkutsk may have lost their dialect, they hadn't have enough speakers. Today, dialects in Germany are getting lost too.
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  265.  @f800gt76  This TV effect and more mobility you can find worldwide. Switzerland is kind of the worse, even if they have the same language, people hardly understand each other from valley to valley. But now with TV and all the tunnels, it's going to vanish. In Germany, a dialect speaker younger than 40 must be from a rural area and never left his village. That's why this is associated with some kind of primitivity or missing education.
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  266. Worth as much as the queen of england. Formal head of state - actually nothing to say.
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  267.  @dieterwohlers  doch, nur nicht das es auf Englisch amazon heißt, hattest du Geographie auf englisch? Was dein name auf suaheli bedeutet weisst du wahrscheinlich auch nicht, trotzdem weißt du wer du bist. Und der Amazonas ist nur der wasserreichste Fluss, der längste ist der Nil. Unexakte Phrasen wie der größte Fluss ist eher was für Amis
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  268. The "greater stink" is only an argument , if you know a system stinking less.
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  269. Well, at least you can asess for the missing protest, if 10% are doing abortion you have at least the protest against it in the news. There is nobody protesting for that surgery. That is as good as accepting. "I don't do it to my cat, but other people can do it to their cats" is very american inconsequence, or what they call freedom.
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  270. I think no German does even know the name or is interested in the name of grand-grand parents. I know my great grandmother was born in 1881, cause I knew her in person; I don't even know the name of her husband, cause he was already dead.
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  271. Might be not such a thing in US, also not any of the 50 states got an NFL team.It depends on the money and everybody knows.
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  272. In 1978, there wasn't even TV program 24/7. This came later, also multiple channels. They needed more material. But as more channels, as less family gatherings in front of TV. The dominance of hollywood movies also started just around this time. Maybe with Grease, Jaws, E.T. and so on. Before it was not that common. "Gone with the wind" or "Quo Vadis" made it. On TV "The Waltons" or later "Little house on the prairy" were very successfull.
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  273. It's not age dependent, it's more competence dependent, you might have more doubt on yourself if you talk with "experts" like teachers, professors, your boss, especially if you are in a dependent (devote) situation. You hold yourself a little back, when criticizing your boss - but some bosses especially encourage you to do so. Of course it depends on the choice of words. But with anonymous people you consider everybody as equal leveled and not as wiser than you. Everybody can advice everybody. It's a battle of competence - and it's most often considered helpful - you help others to know and obey the rules. It's a bid of a game to guess, if an advice is welcome or not.
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  274. yes, at a table, is a posh expression for dining, in German. The German "an" is phonetically too close to "on".
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  275.  @Brittjones  yes, we only have these little moskitos, and of course, if you open the windows, you have to turn off all lights. And it helps if you shower before you go to bed, so they cannot smell you ;-)
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  276.  @SharkfightersSH  Just do it. At least it is the least stupid solution. You change a language by speaking it in a new way. Just somebody has to start.
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  277.  @SharkfightersSH  This is an effect you see in any language, actually in any learning. At some point you consider yourself as not good enough, although you are or it doesn't matter. It's just self-esteem. Never seen anybody laughing. Either it's ignored or somebody will correct you. For correction you should be thankful (some will feel blamed, that's wrong).
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  278. So maybe of something like a Beerstein ? That's the same fake german term.
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  279. I rather get in trouble with there, their, where, or than, then, when, ....it must be concluded from context which one I mean. The most unpronouncable word I know is widths.
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  280.  @Markle2k  Thank you, the theory is clear, but making this stop without ending the word sounds always strange, not fluid.
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  281. People don't even use butter any more, cause they need to "warm it up a little", before you can spread it on the bread. If you want something it should come ready to eat right from the fridge, not waiting 10 minutes.
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  282.  @ryacus  Or they just exchange the product. Products of 80% butter and 20%vegetable oil became very popular in the last years, and they lower the melting point of butter a little, to be soft out of the fridge. If there is a problem engeneers find solutions.
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  283. But "partner look" more describes the habit, a married couple shares the same hair dresser, or buy the same clothes in male and female version cause they go shopping together. So they share "a look". They don't look the same. A Doppelgänger would rather work for the naked people or imitators. Partner look also works with you and your dog. First you need a partnership, to have a partner look.
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  284. The cold room is more common towards Austria in southern Germany, it's farmhouse design, to have so much space. There it's also common to have a "dirty bath" next to the back entry, when coming from the farmside, and a nicer bath next to the living area.
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  285. You find that too in Germany, but that'sin mountain areas, fare away from the sea shore. The northern part is more like Britain, more gulf stream influence. So the north is always warmer than the south in winter, cause elevation goes constantly up.
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  286. And you need as stamp of $1 or so for each single cheque ? And since you don't walk to the mailbox, you drive to the next mailbox ? And than it takes a day to arrive, but than the receiver still cannot spend the money. ? ... Really sounds like in the 50ies.
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  287.  @suralos  OK, However, to pay $2, you mail a check for the cost of $0.58. About 25% of transaction costs. This "i don't care if transfering money costs money" is really strange to Germans. Is it like "It was always like this, why change it ?" I need about 2-3 stamps per year. One is for the tax-declaration, another maybe to quit some kind of contract formally.
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  288. For the fruits it's most often minced, just for the processing. And yes I think the main difference is the stirring during the freezing process, that keeps it softer.
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  289. I hope the technology is not leading to people, not learning english any more. And just to be clear, the video was about Germans speaking English, just only 99% perfect, with some optional errors.
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  290. What is "gold star "? Isn't it a brand ? How can you buy a brand and "make it at home" at the same time ?
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  291.  @jdawg3629  and that's your definition of home cooking ? Opening cans .. probably warming things up in the microwave is also considered home cooking.
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  292. What is "quickly" ? It starts after 20-30 years I would say. It might be faster for children, cause the language is not completly settled up to 14.
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  293. But if enough people ask in the restaurant, maybe restaurants change to not loose business. Maybe restaurants in general have more influence, cause more people dine out, less people cook ?
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  294.  @Elo-hv3fw  No, it's called copyright.
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  295. It's as stupid as assuming, starbucks sells a buck from the stars. It's not dependent from any mood, to think like that (in serious). Either it's a cheap joke or an absolute idiot. I excuse the Americans who take the joke for serious, they can't know it better. It's the same as with a Frankfurter. Can be a human living in Frankfurt, can be a sausage. So what ? Do we discuss if one says "I am a Hamburger". Funny for Americans, Normal for Germans.
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  296. .. and don't care about other people, or what you leave behind ??
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  297.  @gregdiamond6023  It was a question. Answerable with yes or no. If you don't like to answer you don't need to, just don't know why you are writing. You don't care, if you are understood correctly or not. You don't care, but you care and write. Somehow a contradiction.
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  298. You mentioned you want the Religion out of school, but there is something else, we would prefer to have in. It's sports and music schools or other courses, this is totally separated from school in Germany. So Parents have to drive their children from place to place. Soccer training, Ballet training, Trumpet school whatever.
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  299. Maybe it's due to strong bonds or migration between Italy and US. Cause there is absolutly no relation from this movie to christmas, except US-culture made a connection. And there are plenty of these movies made in Alto Adige, you should rather bond to that somehow.
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  300.  @mytholictim  Felis Video is about TSOM is not known around the world. NO theatre is ever putting it on stage, and even in US, it became a christmas tradition, and spread as a christmas tradition, not so much as a musical. Cinderella story, reproduced in different parts of the world, for different parts of the world, is a good analogy. And there also, the story is rather unimportant, it's the fact you have to see it. It's like putting up the christmas tree, does not mean you love trees.
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  301.  @manwithpencil  If they do not try, they cannot have failed. Germans also don't know the actual president or voltage in Argentina. They just have other preferences in their common knowledge.
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  302.  @fredkrissman6527  This "wake up" phrase and seeing a crisis everywhere, identifies you as someone from the right wing. Connecting gen theory with this, fits quiet well.
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  303. @benjaminkeller4314 Yes, when the european makes 60K per year, the American makes 100K per year, with less days paid leave. As long as the American is able to say "I leave 1 week unpaid" this would be perfectly equivalent. But I think that's not the case, and that's the problem. It's about the right to take a break, not so much about the paiment. This is not "Land of oppourtunities" if your only option is to quit or to work. Not to forget, quitting would mean loosing health insurance. Calling this an "opportunity" is cynical. No, there is nothing like "vacation packages". It's vacation days in your contract, nothing else. By law it's 20 days, 25 or 30 days, is already the bonus.
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  304.  @benjaminkeller4314  I have no idea, what you understand by a vacation package. They don't organize flights for you or book a cruise. It's only about off-time. In the set of rules of mandatory breaks or maximum hours per day and so on. Do you call the plain number of days a "package" ? It has absolutly nothing to do with money, it will change nothing how much you make per hour, you just work less hours and get less money, it's not a big deal. But Americans often say "this is less degrees of freedom, if not any contract can be made indivdual". And unions say "we set a good default by law, so the single employee doesn't have to negotiate himself."
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  305.  @benjaminkeller4314  If the majority of people wants, lets say 20days vacation, they can fix it in a law. This is how democracy should work. This is how minimal wage worked. Negotiating person by person and wish them good luck is kind of not supportive to people. The better negotiater gets better salery or more vacation? It wouldn't like this idea. I'm a skilled worker, but negotiating is not among my skills. A good minimal standard should be fixed in law, otherwise people, who feel unable to say "No" to job offers, could be exploit to complete exhaustion. Sometimes you have to protect people, not harming themselves.
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  306.  @benjaminkeller4314  There is absolutly no realation to taxes. If an employer creates a value of $100 per day, you can pay him the $100 directly at the end of day. Or you give home only $90, and with any 9 days worked, he gets an additional day off with $90, from the 9 times $10 kept. It's the very same thing as working 9days, for $100, and getting an unpaid day off. In both cases he gets $900. That's why I say, this is absolutly not about any money. It's just about the right to take a brake without quitting the job. Unpaid break or paid break isn't the topic. It's the right to have a break. If the employer or the employee is collecting the $10 per day for the day off is absolutly meaningless, arbitrary. Same kind of rule as "maximum time per week is 50hours" or whatever you have. No money involved on this law. I really have no idea how you could come up with taxes at this point ? I hope I was a good math teacher in the above lines. Europeans prefer the employer keeps the money for them, so they don't tend to spend it for anything else, than for the leave time. The employers are protected from harming themselves. The law is from 1903 - nobody really thinks about it any more. It's accepted. That's why we talk about US sometimes like a bit of medeval, or let's say at least conditions like in "Les Miserables" ;-)
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  307.  @benjaminkeller4314  Never ever heared or read such a crazy thing like involving taxes. In some countries taxes are used for health insurance, never for vacation. And I explained you the german model .. copied by many countries. The negotion or not thing is just a matter of "what is the status if no individual agreement was taken". If the contract is verbal or a one line sheet of paper. But second, the little employee by itself does not have enough power for negotiations, that's why they form unions. But on the lowest level, unemployed worker, they are most often not organized. They are unable to strike for their will. The role of unions is taken over by the governement, in matter of minimum wage and minimum days paid leave. Why you agree with the minimum wage, but not with the minimum days paid leave ? It's the same reason and same thing. You also could cancel minimum wage and negotiate individually, but you don't. I really have no no no idea who is hurt in the system. It's not a matter of money as I explained. The employer needs to hire 21 people instead of 20 maybe, you even create jobs, by sharing the position to more people. What has the ability to ask for a raise has to do with it ? You still can do it. I don't understand a word. You can ask for more pay or for more days off - it's a free choice. The point is, what's the minimum pay and what's the minimum days off. work harder is a nonsense argument. It's the employer who may be able to buy a better machine, to increase the efficiency of the employee. The employee itself has not much influence. The bus driver cannot drive faster, or load more people. It's just nonsense. Should the postmen change from his walking tour, to using it's private car or what do you mean with "work harder" ? Of course there is no incentive to work harder. The incentive is, to maintain the health of the employee, to be able to work the next day also. Isn't that kind of human ? Working harder, by walking faster is kind of a medeval measurement of effiency.
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  308.  @benjaminkeller4314  OK, if unpaid leave is a common thing, then it's quiet OK, Nobody mentioned this so far. I just had scenes from movies or so, when people want 4 weeks off, they quit the job. You see, it's just a matter of telling the full story. It's kind of an act of humanity, to not allow people to work 360days/year, at least not in one regular job. You always talk about money and ability of employers, that's not the point, it's about protecting people from harming themselfe. Same as protecting people from suicide. Same reason as you prohibited alcohol or drugs or gambling, regional or some period of time. Prohibiting 24/7-jobs is reducing freedom, but it's for the good of the people themselve. It's a bit of a nanny state - if you want to call it this way. Vacation does not cost any money to employers or co-workes, not a single cent. The employee itself may make little less money per year, by working less hours per year, that's all. Very simple idea. But people like it, cause vacation is time to spend the money. What else they should do with the money ? Beside buying a house, vacation is the biggest expense and the biggest joy in the year. You can even say it's the meaning of life, it's what you remember 20 or 50 years later. What people talk about in their 80ies is their vacation in their 40ies. Almost nothing else, no other achievements, no consumed goods or products. They remember pictures in their head. Going on a cruise to Norway, seeing Venice or Paris, that's what people remember.
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  309. Does Felicia in her other Videos have an accent ? Germans are able to speak English pretty well, Felicia is more reporting about beginners or casual speakers. It's more likely the actors also did what Felicia did, they pretend to not speak English as good as they do, and if they do it willingly, it gets all mixed up. Imagine Tarzan actors, pretending to not speak English.
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  310. Since this all just means 'street' it sounds like "In one street you drive in another you park" The curious different meaning of park as noun or verb exists in both, English and German.
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  311.  @R0yB477y  Are you handicaped, or elderly ? Buildings with elevators are usually more expensive to rent.
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  312. Why ? Cause, as Felicia I had the opposite experience, in USA with everybody on equal speed you need to pay less attention, you don't have to think "should I pass or should I not", cause you drive maximum speed already etc. After having vacation in USA and coming back to Germany, I drive much slower than usually.
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  313.  @FelifromGermany  But in Germany it just means "a car with a trunk" - rear window not opening. In America it's more like a stretched car. (yes, that's called a limo in German nowadays too, due to movies etc.).
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  314.  @johnkeenan5404  have you got the message ? He wanted to be very wise, and talk like the American about a Stein or a Stone. The term is not used in any form in German. There is nothing to translate. We have no idea where the American got this word from. And I don't know anybody using anything else than a glass. Iceberg is also such a half-translated word.
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  315. Die meisten Deutschen lernen es ja auch von Menschen mit Dialekt.
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  316. No, any "why is it not everywhere the same" question is stupid. It's like asking "why they don't speak German in France" ?
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  317. Would be maybe 15€ or 25€ in Germany. I had one last year for going 45 in a 30km/h area, that was 25€.
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  318. Of course, a shack in the slum in Mexico can be owned more easy when as "real" house. That's why poor countries generally have more home owners. Some germans are just afraid of debt, of a mortgage. And if you build a house you do it with so much devotion, you build your dream house, your forever home. People hardly ever sell it again. Your house kind of becomes your golden cage, nobody ever leaves. There is no market, you cannot just swap to another house. And you forgot, 300K for a house, vs. 30K for a quiet good yearly income after tax, makes a house worth about a 10years income, if you don't buy anything else. So you get a payment plan for 25-30 years. It's a big thing, as Feli said.
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  319. But insurance is not taxes !!!! And no , the employer doesn't pay taxes for you, he pays insurances for you. Pension fond is not called a tax !!! This is what this video is about. Yes you pay 50% to different institutions, but it's not taxes.
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  320. Driving comes by experience, already more narrow streets and slalom around parked cars , are a good training. Half of the driving school is just for the gear shift and some technical knowledge of the engine, which is quiet useless on automatic cars, with AAA membership. I guess germans need also a permanent residence permit, to be able to get a local drivers license. Cause as a tourist you don't need one and don't get one.
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  321. Germany is the only country putting a value in the name "beer". Other nations just drink what they like, however they call it.
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  322. Only, if you have visitors in the house, who take care of shoe brands. This is rather rare. Speaking for men: everybody coming along has already shoes on their feet, why would they need a second pair ? And who would buy or wear shoes used by others ?
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  323.  @marcusathome  Banking, or water quality, or plates, migth not depend on the suburb. Maybe the drywall houses are common in ZA.
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  324. Freedom to kill is not existing and unnegotiable. Planning riots isn't either. Planning to be criminal in public is legal in USA but not in germany. What about the Freedom to drink in public?
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  325. But don't people search, what they not know ? It's videos like this here from Feli, causing the search.
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  326. Yes, but people like to call it taxes. That's what this video is about, where the rumour of 50% is coming from.
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  327.  @RZ-ey9jk  yes, my point is, the difference is what people understand by " taxes". This is different or unexact used in europe. Many don't separate in taxes and insurances cause they don't pay it themselves. For them, everything reducing the monthly payment is just one big block of numbers on a piece of paper. I'm not sure if US people pay all of this manually themselves. In europe you never have this money on your account.
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  328.  @decollector95  And Why ? You don't tend to explain yourself, are you the queen ? My statement was simply language related. hapless above said, it is better to be less judgemental. It's giving a judgement about not giving judgements. A contradiction in itself. I don't see any relation to your statement, what this has to do with moving. It was a pure German-US comparison anyway, why you talk about moving to asia ? No idea why you say what you say.
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  329. Sure, what else should until mean ? "effective until May 2nd" is a common term, I read quiet often. Wherelse 'by the way', 'by car', 'by chance' seems to be a pretty universal word - not time related. It is impossible to "mean by" - cause it has no specific meaning.
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  330. Today they changed for funny pictures most often. In south german you sometimes find oldfashioned "männer" and "weiber" which at least have the same initials as in english. While the "Ladies and Gentlemen" is hardly used in any other context then an address, or the toilet.
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  331. Most western people are really unable to deep squat, so physicly unable to use it, without having a handle on the wall to hold on.
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  332. Some outdoor filming would have been appreciated. Maybe you kept some material for topic by topic, to get into details. This was a good overview.
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  333. How you get this idea ? Especially football coach to federal president might be quiet equal, I guess 60% for both. Not the same 60% of course.
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  334. For what reason ? What difference does this make ? You get a certificate you are a couple, but is this good for anything ? Divorce is getting more complicated, that's all.
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  335. Yes, but they are influenced by war times, or the possibility of empty or closed shops. They had other habits to storage.
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  336. This is, if renters, not owners decide about the kitchen, they decide if they replace the old one or not. People go to IKEA and can only buy what they offer. "Country-style" is rather a newer fashion, may from 1990-2010. Before it was with orange-greeny-plastic look from the 70ies. My kitchen is 5 years old, it's woulden but in concrete look.
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  337. But kitchen is not fixed. The only connection to the wall maybe the hanging cabinets, but you hang them like pictures. Do you call a bathtub "furnishing" ? Cause the German/Norway Möbel/møbel, french meuble, explicitly means "mobile".
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  338.  @Wud-f2r  who is " our" and why you are telling stories about bathtubs. This is about the kitchen, and the kitchen sink is part of moveable furniture.
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  339.  @Wud-f2r  oh really, couldn't recall my thought from months ago. All the confusion is based on the idea connecting hoses is anything complicated. Well, some people need help to connect a TV also. What about dishwasher, nobody is replacing one themselves?
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  340.  @Wud-f2r  a pressureless drain pipe is just sticking to tubes into each other. A toddler has more complicated games to play. And in the garden all people connect their hose to the tap themselves. Nobody would call this an Installation. No glue, no Tools. However, moving the kitchen just became a habit. Maybe it's some touch of individuality, cause you live there for 10 years, or 40 years. Germans move less. My neighbor just moved from appartement to a house. He brought his kitchen, bought an extra cupboard from ikea to extend the kitchen to the larger space and it looks like made to fit.
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  341. Ice is to be licked, if you want something to chew buy cheese cake.
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  342. They don't. I mean food shops are a different story. You got some tourist shops with coffee mugs maybe, or a Louis Vitton boutique, living from selling one bag for 10.000$, that's enough to pay the employee for the entire month. But except for some clothing, small shops just don't exist any more (for hardware, pottery, lamps, shoes, fishing, fabrics, wool, ..all gone)
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  343.  @margaretqueenofscots9450  what? The german or the american? Are they in a hurry and do they want time to enyou live?
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  344. Your overly expressed happiness and loudness of your voice, makes you appear less german. ... you are loosing features.
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  345.  @helgaioannidis9365  That has nothing to do with Mixing up a Krapfen with the population of Berlin. Both is a Berliner. Two Meanings. Two Meanings is something else than one meaning.
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  346. There have not been much rules, on how to pass each other on a horseback. The need of a rule came up with increasing traffic. On the first car, the driver was placed in the middle of the vehicle, as on any coach.
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  347. Lighting candles is not a "big thing" in Germany either. It's more a decoration habit.
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  348. Ice cream in beer is the most strange I have heared of. Actually root beer is completly unknown in germany and very hard to get. I had one, closest memory were cough syrup or liquorice.
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  349. If they are born in 1953, how can they have had vacation before the war ? The point is more, you need to see the movie, to be able to love it. It's not like Germans would not love it, but how should the see it ?
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  350. This means you remain seated when you clean yourself ? Would never get this idea.
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  351. No christians follow, only people in North america do. Is the pope circumcised ?
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  352. It can be pain or fun to pick you own designs.
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  353. If Americans talk about "their house" I think thay don't literally mean a house , it can also be a condominium or half of a house, as far as I know.
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  354. But if you change after a fixed amount of mileage, it's unimportant how much you drive per year. The 3000 miles just come from an aged mindset, not from any manufactures recommendation.
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  355. This is such a culture translation thing. In English, talking about drinking rather translates to drinking beer in the mindset. The German does not, cause half of them drink almost wine-only; especially women. So getting drunk, having a party or whatever does not relate to beer. Beer is lower-class football watching Homer-Simpsons type of guy.
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  356. No, why should health insurance be included, but not your fire insurance or car insurance. That does not make any sense. It's expenses for yourself. Taxation is for the society. The only thing these two have in common, is that it's income dependent.
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  357. This is the only useful application I can imagine. Acting.
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  358. But income and assets don't at all relate to each other. Your quote is more like "make your house nice, so others have something nice to look at, you decorate the city".
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  359. Actually the Germans don't do anything. It's more like calming down, coming to rest. The english word contemplation sounds too scientific, but that's actually what's done.
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  360. We have to remember, all the marvel comics are not very popular in Germany, comics in general are kind of special interest, not pop culture. So the movie is the first contact with the characters. The importance they can only evaluate by the number of references to it, like Aqua Man or Green Lantern refereed by The Big Bang Theory tells us this must be a commonly known movie.
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  361.  @ShiningSakura  OK, lots of options. But the "electric hogs" are just from year 2000 or so, there have been lot's of updates going on.
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  362.  @ThatGirlJD  Yes, many people do this, but it's like avoiding buying a new fridge for 200€, while needing an extra of 100€ for the eletricity to run the old one. It costs more money to use the old than it would be if buying a new device. It's more significant where energy costs are high. "Fridge Rotation" is like burning money in your fireplace. (I do the same, but I turn it on, only if I have a party in summer or so, 10 days per year.).
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  363. It's a very individual experience, what people consider as a german accent.
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  364. Yes, but spaces are really growing, garages from the 60ies and 70ies are really built for smaller cars, as the VW Beetle was more common, the Golf was smaller etc. The cars have been growing here also over time - especially in length.
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  365. Already know too much about the other isn't always good, cause discovering can be kind of fun.
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  366. But pricing is just a habit, or maybe it's the low demand, same handling on less quantity might be more expensive per quantity. The ingredients are the same, or even less in gelato, it's just stirred while freezing. It holds more air and has more volume.
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  367. That sounds like a threat.
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  368. which auditory should find this interesting ? I think she's rather addressing the American. They already know, what football is.
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  369. yes, but that's not the point of this video, this was about income tax. Nobody cares for VAT. If a company is raising prices by 20% to have more profit, or the state is adding 20%, what's the difference ? There isn't any.
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  370. The claim to not have free speach is common, but the only legal meaning is, you end in prison. Does this apply to Malaysia?
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  371. You need to know the simple beers, to valuate the hand crafted ones, later on.
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  372. What kind of infections ? Like a flu ?
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  373. Feli forgot to mention, there is recycling, as for cans, and refilling as for bottles, they are most often just washed , not melted.
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  374. You have never been more east than Las Vegas ? So you are from California ?
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  375. Might also be a matter of generation. The 20year olds talk differently.
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  376. Oh not again. You must be a female American speaking German. This is not a soap opera. Lebenspartner is a term you use for unmarried couples.
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  377. This question is not so obvious, since not every food chain, is present worldwide.
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  378.  @nunyabiz012  And this is different from Wal-Mart or Standard-Oil ? It's so much common knowledge they are present in every country in the world ?
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  379.  @nunyabiz012  I'm just in doubt, the information what company is in what country is common knowledge. Your statement is, everybody is supposed to know, what you know. You want to make me feel ashamed, if I ask if McD is present in Chile ? At some point in time, if you are unsure, you can ask. It's another level than "do you have electricity". We are not talking about people knowing the size of economics. Relating the Hamburger to hamburg is really as stupid as relating the Jeans to Genoa. It's actually both the same story.
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  380. never say never, it might be a matter of time. Of course the exam is in German. That's already the hardest limitation. But there are a lot of good mechanics among them.
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  381. We are missing some year-numbers, to understand this story. What do you consider a "russian line" ? The war was over 1945, the wall was build 1963, so this does not really fit together. Maybe you describe something else as east-germany, the area today belonging to Poland maybe ? This was a topic after 1945, but has nothing to do with German division. The time after 1945 is more known as resettlement or expulsion.
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  382.  @StereoSpace  I guess so. So the term "east german escapee" is completly wrong. He is a dislocated person. There have been two steps in moving german borders, first was in 1945, by contract of the allied (Stalin, Eisenhower, Churchill). Russia as the winner wanted to have more land. So Russia got something from Poland and Poland got something from Germany. All the Germans in this had to leave. That are the dislocated persons. They did not escape, they were forced to leave. After that, Germany existed in todays borders. But it was divided, administrativly immediatly, but by the Iron curtain , the Berlin Wall, in 1963-1989. This is was this video is about, and the eastern part of this, is today considered an east german refugee (If one made to cross the wall in the 1970ies or 80ies). Maybe you know, or you can google where it is: Kalaningrad, today Russia, was a german city and is just russian since 1945. Today an enclave with no land-connection to Russia. This is, how far east germany reached out, up to 1945. But the iron curtain was just 50 miles east of Hamburg and Hannover, with Berlin as an island completly surrounded by "the east".
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  383. There are hundreds of games, and new ones coming out each year. In some groups they are quiet popular, others never play at all. But since it's so many, there is not the one popular thing. Last one people would commonly know is Monopoly maybe, that's an import. After that, world has split into online games, board games slowly came back in the last 20 years. Hans im Glück is a fairy tale by the Grimm brothers, now also a burger chain with this name, never heared of a game.
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  384. As a right hander, you are supposed to do the more detailed work with your right hand, and the more complicated work is done with the knife. You cannot do much with the fork, this you can handle with the left. On a fine dining restaurant, with silverware for some courses on the table, how are they positioned ? Do they adapt to local habits ? Or do people adapt to french style ? The spoon for the soup is also on the right, cause if you only hold a spoon, you take your good hand for that.
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  385.  @danclay8229  But switching hands, is more work, why do you call it lazy ? You demonstrate your non-dominant hand is completly useless, by behaving like a one-armed person. Using a fork is such a simple move as touching your nose, you don't need a dominate hand for this. The spoon is the first instrument, a baby gets. Do you never develop any further ? In the case of excellent cooks, you can eat a venison fillet, with just a spoon, but this is not everydays buisness.
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  386.  @danclay8229  Yes, I misread that. Comfort/Less work is not switching. The story of putting anything down I have never heard of. If you put it down, the table towel gets dirty. Some people invented a special rest for the knife. But usually, when you put it down, it means you have finished, the waiter is coming to get your plate. This is why, you get different silverware for your courses. Cause you put it down on your dirty plate. Next course you start with a new one, but as soon as you picked a new knife, you cannot put it down any more, until you finished eating. The entire dining concept collapses ;-) However, as Felicia said, the switching thing looks childish, or as you would be handicapped.
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  387. It's like with cucumbers. If you can bend it, it's gone; if it breaks, it's fine. Cookies in general are the butter-richest thing ever. Since butter used to be expensive in the 19th century, were most of our traditions came from, it wasn't used that much. And if butter gets roasted a little together with sugar, you get these caramel aromes. That's why we prefer crumbles, who get a little more of these aromes. You missed out the cinnemon addiction in the US. That's something we hardly use , unless for christmas.
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  388. It's the same effect, as Winnetou beeing unknown in USA, I think. (No, it's not Winnie the Pooh)
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  389. Maybe, but the word "Star" itself was taking over from English, only in relation to People in general. There is also that "Movie Star" song from Harpo. And the word "starring" in the begin of any Hollywood movie. Nobody ever gets the idea to relate this word to the sky. From that time, there was also the word "Hit" taken over, and it just means a popular song. And to shoot something means more something with explosive acceleration. (not speed - but acceleration).
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  390. Don't know why people put nice clothing on , or even were makeup, if they don't like to be looked at.
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  391. Either you are in Germany, than you beeing vegan count into per capita consumption in Germany. Or you are not in Germany and your German friends wherever, do not count into percapita consumption in Germany. There are no inflationary or economical problems, if at all, it's just some of the last 2 years. That's temporary. The trend Feli has shown was for a 30 years period.
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  392.  @gregalonzo747  ah, this way you can be abroad and have german friends. But people tell you if something gets more expensive and don't tell you, when prices drop or they get higher wages. If prices go up and wages go up, people can buy as much as before. Busdrivers are just in strike for 20% more. For electricity I pay less than 2019. So it's just a little shaking in the prices going on.
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  393.  @gregalonzo747  puh, where is this aggressivity coming from, all of a sudden.
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  394.  @gregalonzo747  just curius what you feel harres by.? Just by writing? You write to me just the same. And how should feli have control over me. Never met a Person like you. If you don't feel like talking, ignore me and everything is fine. Net people would say, don't feed the troll, if you consider me one.
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  395.  @gregalonzo747  Ja schön. Du drehst frei. Meld ich dich auch, dann sind wir quitt. Sprich besser nie wieder öffentlich, wenn Du keine Reaktionen möchtest. Eine andere Methode gibts da nicht.
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  396.  @gregalonzo747  Ich werde mich von dir auch nicht zu harassment provozieren lassen , und dir noch einen Anlass geben.
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  397. This is why you can start playing in the age of 4 or 5. And all you need is a ball, not tons of protectors to protect your manlyhood.
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  398. But loading it, means to put money on the phones account, isn't it ? So it's a meaningful thing to do. You know for your girlfriend, what she means, but this is not a general rule.
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  399. From modern or late model, I would never conclude it has anything to do with a "historic" car. An old timer is officially a car older than 25years. That's important for their license, they are allowed not to obey emission laws. The correct labelling of a youngtimer, is 'a younger oldtimer". That's just a too long word. So it describes cars from 1970-1990 today, maybe a Trabant.
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  400. Es wird von "Muttersprache" aber wieder positiv ausgeglichen. Das heißt in englisch nur "Native". Das Nummerieren der Fremdsprachen machen auch nur Schüler. Weil sie eine zuerst lernen, und dann noch eine. Niemand wird von der ersten fremdsprache reden solange er keine Zweite hat. Der erste Weltkrieg heißt auch erst sei 1945 der erste Weltkrieg ;-)
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  401. It might be a matter of indivuality, like the rest of your furniture. You can pick your own design, you don't have to refuse the kitchen, cause it's styles in 80ies dark oak cupboards bundled with shiny red tiles from the 80ies. I guess in switzlerland it's high class, the demand to want something "better" might be low, or in reverse, the demand to want it cheaper is low. The kitchen can make a difference of 100€/month in the price of the appartment, if it's a 12.000€ kitchen, replaced after 10 years, to keep up with design. Especially for people who cannot design their house, at least they can design the kitchen.
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  402. It must be your German American mother in law, cause German mothers don't make burgers. Some people do, but since it's done on the grill, it's more something for the men. Bread in meatballs, on the other hand, is to make it sticky. Burger paddies tend to fall apart. That's why it's so important to press them. With bread you can just form them with your hands.
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  403.  @michaelb1761  OK, but still, Burgers have been completly unknown to Germans, until the late 70ies, when McDonalds arrived. So it must be her Invention to put german meatballs into a Burger. But I really never heared of oats. It's a typical use for old dry bread.
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  404. Has the check any result ? Do you ever loose oil ? I never did, I stopped checking. I worst case you got a lamp-indicator if the level is low.
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  405. ordinary has kind of same root, just it doesn't mean common/normal, it's more simple/lowest level. Nobody wants to be ordinary (simple minded), that's a bad thing, people want to be special. Vulgar is just an exaggeration but the same direction. Vulgär is used the same way as in English. And both is Latin.
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  406. That's probably the correct explanation, cause it's very local to North America, and has no correlation to any religion. Today would be the advice to shower.
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  407.  @sewlady1625  OK, as I thought same material, but extended with former dropouts and narration to 5 hours .
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  408. You can buy somebody elses mortgage ? I mean the bank has to check your income, give you an individual rate depending on your rating, etc. Of course you get your own new mortgage. .. after you have permission, you can go apply for the house, if you made the deal, you get the money .. or you cancel the mortgage permission. The seller is finishing their mortgage with your money.
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  409.  @Micha-bp5om  I confirm you, except in the peanut aspects, cause we loose the ability to rank a price as low or high in time. It's hard to say, what was considered cheap and expensive in 2006 today. And of couse can sell, but it's still not so common. Even building a house today, is more common than buying a house. Something what is almost completly unknown in USA, nobody builds a house, a developer company does and sells it.
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  410. It only became "noodles" to rhyme with "strudel". There was literally no other reason for this "recipe".
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  411. Cause we don't remember the movie itself, we remember watching this movie with friends and family. You cannot replace the movie, cause you cannot replace the memory. Nostalgy doesn't work this copies.
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  412. The smoking is actualy british, and really meant the suit you smoke in. In the time the aristocrats had special rooms and clothes for that.
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  413. You probably never heard him talking ;-) it's a very normal voice, he only sings deep.
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  414. Apply for it and go. The Canadian-German culture shocks are much lower then the American one, cause Canada is more European. They are used to multiple languages, they have public transport and health care, they use Kilometers and the entire metric system. It's really just the food that might differ a little. Just for case you bring maple syrup as a gift- you have to tell the people what to do with it.
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  415.  @nathan8219  Oh, that is a special topic. There are several agencys for several purposes. Depends on your age and what you want to do. Are you 16 and want to go to school, oder 19 and to university, or just 18-20 and do a year of "au pair", actually babysitting. The agencys are actually private organisations, like a travel agency, just creating the contact or organzing exchange. I just googled for them. I found Nacel, DAAD is for university or youthedservices.ca I think you can find it. I just know the european view, I was in Montreal, my sister in Atlanta. The prices and services differ a lot, some agencies really want to make money, others work at self-cost.
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  416. But "highways" means that are roads with oncoming traffic ? That would be unthinkable in Germany. It has to be multi-lane in one direction plus a paved shoulder.
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  417.  @travissmith2848  OK, just wanted to make your you talk about an interstate, not just a country road. The distance to go or the number of cars cannot have an influence on the rules applied. you need to react faster on anything, like deer or bumps in the street, not just the other traffic. I think I went from Devils Tower to Billings some years ago, just didn't remember the details.
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  418. Yes, it's just you pay "fees and taxes" and with some missunderstandings, the foreigner here's like "that's all taxes". We could also add our fire insurance, and car insurance, and whatever insurance to that number to raise it to incredible heights ;-)
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  419.  @GermanLeftist  Exaggeration is actually never sarcasm or irony. In both you would say the direct opposite of what you mean. "Learning german is as easy as whipping cream", would be ironic. Or "Learn German in 20 days" would be sarcasm - wherefore you have to know it's not possible. Both require the reader to know a lot about the topic already. Mark Twain was still providing information to the inexperienced reader. To put humor in that, is more complicated.
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  420. But it was intererrupted from year 0 to year 1900. No christian in the world did it. Just when they migrated to America, they startet it. It seems like Americans added this idea to christianity.
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  421. If you change after a certain given mileage, this answer doesn't make sense.
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  422. Why ? Cause more meat left for your cat, or what's the relation ?
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  423. What's the difference to the crane at your sink ? It's a cold water dispenser. And to cool a drink, you put a buttle inside the fridge. You don't put ice-cubes in the drink; which is no accepted solution for wine and beer anyway.
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  424. Don't they give instructions in the manual ? My german manual (I had Toyota and Ford) sais "every 15.000km or once a year, whatever appears earlier". That's what I do. If people have no money to do it, they don't do it, cause it's likely around 100$. I also never check the oil, cause a modern car doesn't loose any oil. The oil lamp indicates to refill lost oil to a required level - not to replace it completly.
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  425. "regular" is meaningless, when it comes to comparing cultures.
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  426. we hardly have telemarketing. They tend to call older people only, and they estimate the age by the first name, cause their are seasons for names.
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  427. How about cooking yourself ?
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  428.  @Mustang1984  from ' local food ' , I as a german have the idea of local recipes, grandmas use to cook in some areas.
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  429. Felicia, have you had a native English teacher in grade 5 to 10 in Munich ? Most often teachers are just germans themselves and teach you with their german accent. Teenagers up to 15 are able to pick up a language accent free, after that age, some barrier in the brains language department is closed.
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  430. Well they can't move the buildings ;-) And free refills are refused, people consider it unfair, if they drink less, they want to pay less. In result, there is no habit of drinking tons of sweet sodas at all. People have a beer, if they want to drink something ;-) Also for coffee, since it's paid by the cup, it has more Starbucks quality everywhere, and Starbucks is not doing well.
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  431. Nobody mentions, advertising any pharmacy is strictly prohibited in Germany. So the pressure coming from the patients towards the doctors is much lower. Additionally it's the health insurance, having an eye on costs of pharmacy. No patient is paying the full price of the medicine to the pharmacy. It's a share to nothing.
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  432. So you don't have the freedom to sue somebody for whatever you like, he can spread the wildest rumours, ruin your reputation and you cannot do anything about it ? That's a really terrible country if you cannot aquire help to stop it. But injunction does exist, so your presentation might be wrong.
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  433. I think equality is more important to Germans, and this is infringing personal freedom. They are willing to give up freedom, if everybody else does also. That is "The freedom of the single ends, there it attacks the freedom of somebody else". So the compromise makes harmony. Compromise is not freedom.
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  434. yes, they make cookies or cheese cake in the ice cream, hard to find any pure ice at all.
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  435.  @corvanna4438  Actually in school we learn British, but by watching Netflix in original you grab more american terms. The little differences of British actors like Sean Connery or Patrick Stewart to Australians or Americans are most often lost in translation and perception. I coudn't tell if James Bond is made in Hollywood or not.
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  436. And in this way, you have no $0 wireless plan. I pay about $5 for 500MB data, thats good for endless messaging, a view photos, maybe google maps. and it's 1$ extra for 100min phone calls. I think germans do more think where and how to spend their money, while american pay whatever they are asked for, not caring if they are using the service or not. If you have the choice of paying SMS or data, you choose data, cause this is more universal to use.
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  437. The most successfull Broadway Musical in Germany through 50 years, is Fiddler on the roof/Anatevka, with so many productions in many cities. After around 1990 musical became an industry, with running one production for 30 years in one theatre only, like the Lion King or Cats. That feels more commercial.
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  438. I bet the cabinets are all rectangular, not using your pentagonal space fully, you have to get a new countertop somewhere else, but can reuse everything.
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  439. >50% of the Germans drive non german cars. Toyota might be the leader besides Renault. It's not that they are better, they are just cheaper, especially when it comes to all the extras like navigation and all the other assistence systems.
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  440.  @michaelp.7848  Leasing is popular here too, since a few years. You don't see the full price of the car, just the monthly payment. Germans are open minded, just the American brands, don't exist in Europe at all, they are just too huge and eat too much gas. Harley Davidson is working due some 'status'. And Ford exists, but it's all made in Germany since 1925. I leased a Toyota Avensis, that's there largest station wagon, but they stopped the model, demand for huge cars is decreasing, I will change for a Corolla hybrid this year probably. (If we are ever allowed to drive anywhere again.)
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  441. If you get a olympic gold medal, in athletics, than you are an athlete. I had to google what he is doing at all .. he put's balls in a basket ..the same what people at amazon do with a ball ;-)
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  442.  @realulli  As you say, it's charging speed. All the time you gain by driving fast, you loose twice by charging. High speed on short distance does not make any sense no matter for what vehicle. Going a 50km distance with 200km/h instead of 150km/h is a difference of 5 minutes - if the street is all empty. On some engine, the fuel needed does really double. This is really "just for fun".
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  443.  @realulli  Consumption ist definitely not a linear function, it's exponential. And if you talk about 120 vs. 200 you already adapted your expectations to the possibilities. So you gave up 250 already. Sure, what you say is possible on selected relations, like Munich-Nuremberg, but those are rare. For Stuttgart-Munich or Frankfurt-Nuremberg it's already critical. And the thing is, people don't buy such a car, to just go one a relation. They do their daily commuting in the rush hour, and they do their long distance on vacation. I buy a new car about every 10 years, and I see maximum speed of engines, even combustion engines, dropping for the family cars. It's goes from 220 to 210, to 200, the hybrids now go to a max of 190. And I think this trend will continue.
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  444. Energy is expensive, so to have 3 freezers really only make sense to freeze your own products. There are really people, who buy products to freeze them, to use bargains. This hardly ever pays off.
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  445. So America must have different religions, then the rest of the world. It's only known for Arabs in Jews.
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  446. Actually, you can ask this to Germans living in Germany too. Since many change habits, like having warm dinner instead of warm lunch, having cereals in the morning instead of bread rolls. More burgers are eaten, etc. And public transport is becoming more popular in German, just due to traffic jams and expensive parking. The car is loosing the role of a status symbol.
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  447. No. That is human. Once you break the language barrier, you find what you have in common with everybody. That has absolutely nothing to do with America, but this statement is very American.
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  448.  @KaiBuskirk  Hope you realize, you talk about 60 years ago, or so ?
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  449. "born and bred" is a very unique example of american phrases. Nobody else would use it, cause only Americans tend to move a lot. "for example" means "there is something more general behind it - I only give you an excerpt here", it can be generalized to a higher level. It really has a meaning. You Explain or proof yourself. This might be more german habit. Germans are teaching and giving lessons. To everybody. Americans don't like to get a lesson, they haven't asked for. So maybe your are a Scientist or a Teacher or a Nerd, than it might be conclusive if you use it in English a lot.
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  450. Now, we would need a guy as old as you, to compare ;-) Music and rides changed for sure, the menu not that much, maybe more international tourists.
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  451. Depends on where else you have been. If people talk about food, they always seem to talk about Restaurants.
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  452. You have to advertise better. Nobody changes just because you drop names.
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  453. You have no income tax ? You are kidding.
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  454. Kind of arrogant. Do you know how the describe that in German ? "We got liberated by the Allied". No Winner/Looser and no American. Also - we do not have any Veterans - we have returnees, but it's not often used cause it covers 100% of male population. So there is no other group to distinguish from. Man, Returnee, Veteran, that's all the same thing in 1950.
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  455. Cleanliness has the idea of invisible/empty/uniform, to a German. Too many materials combined hurt the eye.
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  456.  @leDespicable  Integrated is also recent, just started maybe late 90ies. But even if not integrated, it had the same dimension as the cabinets, you had a flat front. Oven, fridge, Cabinet come in standard size (of 60x60x72cm). It's like playing Lego.
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  457. Only people perfect in both, are able to evaluate your statement. So wee need bilingual kids as a judge.
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  458. Maybe a geography student came in contact with the term Eurasia and got it wrong ?
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  459. Ice cubes is fraud. If you pay for 0.33 Liters (11oz) you want to get it. And the glas has to have a calibration mark for me to check it.
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  460. Now, is this English, or do you talk french ? Which way you pronounce excellence ? Maybe you talk German ?
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  461. @marcromain64  thanks for the numbers. And now considerate the income in your job in the US. It might be 200K.
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  462. I don't think taxation is very high, 19% VAT is quiet common in Europe, oil taxes are also common in Europe, and on income tax many don't know how much they pay at all, it's about 20% most often, but people sometimes add the payments for retirement, unemployment and health insurance to it, cause it's all deducted in a single step off your income.
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  463. Maybe you also miss, how Germany changes meanwhile. Me, in Germany, go to the ATM also about once a Year. I run a little AirBnB and Take Credit Cards, many mobile salesperson on the open air markets take credit cards, people pay with their phones. Corona gave a final push to that, since cash is literally dirty and cannot be disinfected. My butcher had a sign "please pay the correct amount, round up, or pay by card." It's still that you cannot rely on card acceptance. But it works for 95% of point of sales.
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  464.  @FelifromGermany  Have not been in US in the last few years, the only cash-free society is Sweden. Do you consider the US also cash-free ? And the reason in germany is simple, It's too expensive and Germans are stingy. They dealer doesn't want to pay 2% for the payment.
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  465. But it's also up to 20min/hour, in 3 blocks. That's legal adviced. So you have to get a drink, feed the cat, go to the toilet...
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  466. Never seen one broken. Maybe You buy too cheap ? Everytime you wash your hands fiddling on two handles to find a temperature takes 30 seconds, needs a lot of water and would just go on my nervs.
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  467. Now add the meaning of, 'they are a couple' to it. To relate to a married couple as Twins could give a little incestuous idea to some people.
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  468. Don't be ashamed of making money with your hobby. You don't need to rush, beg or claim anything, but set it up to be able to receive donations. It's like with your number of subscribers, you will see where it goes. German mentality keeps you away from the idea of getting an entrepreneur, a businesswoman or just from being self-employed.
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  469. Isn't any medicine, correcting gods failure ? Vaccination must be against gods will - he want the virusses to live an men to die, otherwise he hadn't created them.
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  470.  @Winona493  Well, but I realize, if we wouldn't use these animals, they simply would not exist. Beef, Chicken, maybe not pork would all be exitinguished. That's the other option. They have no natural habitat. It's a suffering on the level of zoo animals, or maybe even dogs. And after a happy life of deer, we can eat it just the same as a wolf would do.
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  471. There is a double taxation agreement between US and Germany, and usually money made in US is taxed in US. If you just move, you are more or less like a tourist. You don't get anything. If you want benefits, you need to have a job in Germany. This statement is even valid for Germans. You don't get it just for living here. To get a pension, you have to have a job for a minimum of 5 years. So a housewife, without a job, doesn't get a cent. Citizenship only qualifies for social welfare, if you are very very poor.
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  472. Fun ? Why Fun ? This is a serious class in imitation and acting.
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  473. Wrong, Scammers always uses what the vast majority uses, never vice versa.
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  474.  @shermanInOR  No, that's not the problem, it proof they are friendly for free, so why paying them for beeing friendly, it's normal human behaviour and not a service ! Do you get the point ? I'm not against tipping, but against "working the tip". It should be a kind of acknowledgement by the client, cause they liked it. You cannot give a gift to somebody, when it's a duty to give a gift. Otherwise it's meaningless as the medal you get for taking part in a marathon, no matter what position you end up.
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  475. What do you do with the hands under the table ? Fingering your balls or one ones of your neighbors ? I really had no idea where to put it there. I mean you always hold your silverware, or a glass, or italians talk with their hands, it looks very weird to hide them.
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  476. It's still a good and recent guess for the average. Average means, in one place you can have one for 150.000 , at another place for 460.000.
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  477. Sale of non-alcoholic wine or gin has increased also, if you need another topic for another video.
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  478. But you could have gone in 1980 also. The iron curtain was not closed for you, it was only closed for the easterners.
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  479.  @hartmutholzgraefe  I see, this is all just experience the East Germans never had, they never saw any border. And sure as a tourist destination it's not that fascinating. I was in eastern military service when the wall came down. Since you had to deposit your passport for this, you could not go anywhere abroad. So my first visit to the west was a few weeks later, I think around christmas. Actually the east germans have been paid to come over (It's a strange way to describe this, I know). So even people with less intention for a visit, went to the west.
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  480. Sounds like east germany, fixed rent over 40years. No Joke. Today or in West germany there are no rent-stabilized appartments, it's a general rule for the entire city or country, to not raise the rent by more than 20% in 3 years. The extra guarantee of stabile rents comes, if the city itself builds and owns appartments. This was done up to the 80ies, today they do not build many for themselves any more. "People who cannot afford housing" is a phrase we don't like at all. Kind of a social Tabu. It's a human right to have accomodation, and in privacy. I've seen Nomadland in cinema last year, that make the US appear like a third world country. Something like this, or even trailer parks just don't exist or are a big exception.
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  481. that's more a mistake of people who don't speak english and just learned some phrases. They would apply the german G, as you do in go, als for German. It's a word they know, but if you use the word german in German it refers to a tribe, living 2000 years ago in central Europe, in the time of the Roman empire and before. People dressed like Fred Flintstone, you know.
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  482. Kind of normal, that words are borrowed in only one specific meaning, from another language. Still wondered how you can be confused by Fotoshooting and Fotoshoot. Sounds like pretty much the same, why should grammar change meaning ? "Shopping" I would rather describe as having some entertainment factor in it, it's not restricted to clothes, you can also shop a cell phone or staff. It's more the shop-hopping; going from shop to shop. So something like window-shopping - but with the option to really buy something. The older german term is Schaufensterbummel, when it was more common, not to buy everything you see immediately.
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  483. No, the title doesn't change it really. There are 500 movies like this, and nobody remembers all their names. Maybe this is one of the only movies this style, made by Hollywood. The movie became important by making it a family event in the states, it's not the movie itself. The Sissi movies took this role in Germany. There is also a German version of the story, it's not a remake, but the same story, called the "Trapp-family" with a sequel "Trapp-family in America" which is not really famous.
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  484. You have to compare it with an earth closet (outhouse in US.) Then this will appear as an advantage. My grandma changed from outdoor to indoor around 1985, which was pretty late of course, but still could be found in rural areas. And since you didn't wanted to get outside at night, there was a covered pisspott under the bed.
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  485. It's mostly to get agricultural vehicles, bicycles, horse coaches, or small motor bikes, like Vespas, off certain streets. On the Autobahn it's mimimum 60 km/h without any signalisation.
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  486. That's actually better known in Germany, than sound of music. With 168 episodes it's simply very likely to run into it accidently .. in a time with small number of TV channels.
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  487. For recurring payments, it's much easier just to allow others to take their money from your account. No bill is mailed, no cheque is mailed, everything fine. Or you give an order to your bank, to pay something monthly. So, for Germans it's already unusual to receive bills. I have maybe 4-5 per year, for craftsmen or other irregular things.
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  488. So, what's the disadvantage, what do you need it for ? Many people say it's useless, or cruel unnecessary surgery, but once it is done, what's bad after ?
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  489. She also didn't deduct from the german example, so this is fully ok. The thing is more, for the same job, you get 100k in US, you get maybe 50k in germany. With 10% less taxes, only 22%? This makes the comparison kind of complete Nonsense.
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  490. I need about 2 liters per month (about half a gallon). I put it in the coffee, sometimes in pastry.
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  491.  @lijohnyoutube101  You can't evey say, if you consider it good or bad, you just say "go read" ? Europeans usually eat way more cheese, so their dairy intake isn't lost, if they don't drink it. Cookies, as well as potato chips are more in the category of popcorn, more like soul food, nothing you eat cause you are hungry, not even as a snack. Have a banana, as a snack.
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  492. On the wikipedia-page of each movie, they always give the original title. On the english page, you sometimes can click to the other language, to get the local title.
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  493. It can hardly be confused, a capital I can only appear at the begin of the word, if an l is inside a word that is clear by the word or the context. In "Illustration" as printed here, nobody has trouble to read it. It's not starting with three L's. second and third must be L. So the first must be an I.
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  494. never heared of anything like a hotel tax. Sometimes they have something like 4€ per night, in certain cities.
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  495. Good, but it's not tax. Why everybody keeps calling the insurance premium a tax ? This is why Feli made this video.
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