Comments by "Seegal Galguntijak" (@Seegalgalguntijak) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

  1. German Feli says "I'm usually a few minutes late myself." - American understands: "Maybe 20 or 30 minutes", what German Feli actually means: "Maybe 3 or 4 minutes" ;)
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  2. It's not the side on which the washing machine is loaded, but it's the axis along which the drum inside is spinning. In Germany, even top loading machines have a drum that spins at a horizontal axis. But American top loaders have a vertical axis, and that means they don't use gravity to toss around the laundry inside while spinning, and therefore they can't really get it as clean.
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  3. You may find this surprising, but as an IT technician, being German myself, I do not use nor recommend WhatsApp to anyone, because of the large data collection and profile building by the corporation that owns Whatsapp. Also, even before that, some time in 2010 or 2011, I actually downloaded it for a short amount of time, but then the app asked me whether it was allowed to upload the contacts in my phone to their servers, and that was the moment when I deleted it again right away, because this would have been a violation of the BDSG (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz), which was in place way bevore the DSGVO/GDPR. However, I'd rather use Signal or some other messenger to contact people. But if they only have Whatsapp, I will use SMS, because that's still the common denominator for all those who aren't willing to use something that's less illegal.
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  4. Another fun fact: Berlin has more Döner Kebap places than there are McDonald's and Burger King branches in all of Germany together! ;-)
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  5. I totally agree. I find it fitting that she goes by the name of Karen.
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  6. The ones I didn't know were the "Basecap" and the "Slip". The one that weirds me out the most was the "bread" vs. "toast" one. I guess I'm too German to accept anythng as bread which needs to be toasted to be crunchy ;)
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  7. Besides ALF, I remember "Knight Rider" being my favorite American TV show as a kid, and then "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (in German, it's called: "Raumschiff Enterprise: Das nächste Jahrhundert"). And of course all the 90s spin-offs of that show, which were Deep Space 9 and Voyager. But then, Star Trek was basically dead. The attempt of revival with the prequel series "Enterprise" wasn't really it, and anything that followed afterwards was just a shame for the saga. Anyhow, another sitcom that I liked as a kid was "Hör mal wer da hämmert", but I'm not sure how it was called in the original, I think it was something with home improvement or so? Not sure...but I quite liked it. Although, I didn't even have any privat TV stations until the 90s, and then at first only 2 with bad quality, and only since about 97 or so, I could receive all the private channels. So basically, I was stuck what public TV brought, which wasn't all that much. Although I remember watching the Sesame Street from the age of about 3 or 4.
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  8. On some level, I find it rather hillarious that Karen turned out to be ... well, a Karen ;)
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  9. In Germany, it's a "friendly, harmless insult" to call your mate the colloquial word for scrotum...
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  10. Now you can make a German episode every now and then, which is then called "Es ist alles Griechisch für mich"! ;-)
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  11. Haha, that's funny "Ich wünsche ein frohes, glückliches, gesundes und erfolgreiches neues Jahr XXXX" is exactly the greeting that I bulk send to any people in any messenger on my phone. Sometimes I leave the successful out though ;-)
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  12. Whenever a German mispronounces PayPal the way you say it, I always tell them: "Es ist doch nicht der Bezahl-Paule"...but some things you don't get out of people...
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  13. One of the oldest Automotive Youtubers in the USA is somewhere in your area: EricTheCarGuy. I've been subscribed to him since about 2010 ;)
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  14. "Believe us when we say that we can't wait what you do next" - to me, this sounds like a thread from the evil AI overlord of Youtube... ;)
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  15. I am sooo glad that Fasching/Karneval isn't a thing in Berlin where I live. It was always awkward, having to be funny on command...
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  16.  @digital4282  They collect metadata, basically your whole "social network" (which doesn't mean Facebook, but which people you are in contact with and how often).
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  17.  @shubinternet  It's funny that, because since Facebook owns Whatsapp, they could easily advertise it more strongly to their users. On the other hand, they have a competing product in house, called Facebook Messenger, which doesn't even e2e encrypt, so of course they rather have their users on that platform, being able to also read the contents instead of only the metadata. However, no, it doesn't depend on the community you're trying to communicate with. I can easily live without Whatsapp, although everyone around me has it, and can still communicate with people. It is absolutely not necessary to succumb to total loss of privacy towards the players of surveillance capitalism, and I make it a point not to, because I do not want surveillance capitalism turn into corporate totalitarianism, and that is an actual danger we're facing here (even without governments noticing or - if it happened - being able to do something about it).
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  18. You wanna know my food for the end of 2020? Ramen noodles! Seems fitting for this kind of year... ;-)
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  19.  @FelifromGermany  That's why I use none of these services on my phone. OK, this limits the choice of phones I can buy, and before starting to use them, I have to de-Google them at first, but to me, this is worth it and at almost 25 years online, I'm lucky to be capable to do so myself. I actually use Google only here in this PC browser and only for YouTube. I don't use this browser for anything else in turn. That's how I hope Google to not have enough data about me so that they are able to manipulate my decisions (although ads are blocked on all of my systems anyways, both on a network level as well as in the browser/app and so on).
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  20.  @MisterPyOne  Exactly. In addition to the metadata and the contacts (which is illegally done in the EU), it also collects lots of other data from the phone, also from outside the app itself, and location data and so on...basically: You're fully spied upon when you use Whatsapp, there's no other way to say it.
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  21. Wow, that is amazing, in a weird way. You grew up in Bavaria, a region that is clearly very much determined by the Roman Catholic Church, and you say that "We don't have separation of church and state in Germany", while I grew up a bit further north in Hesse, and I learned in school that in fact state and church are separate in Germany. However, after my school was finished, I started questioning this and quickly came to the same conclusion, religion is far too much integrated into our state (i.e. with "Autobahnkirchen" and the state actually taking church tax from you if you don't resign from the religion into which you were unvoluntarily christened as a baby, and so on and so forth). We should really change something about that!
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  22. I can't follow the reasoning why circumcission would be able to cure erectile dysfunction. I mean, the part that's normally covered by the foreskin is an extremely sensitive part with literally millions of nerve endings, and when a boy or man is circumcised, this sensitivity decreases by several orders of magnitude. So how would it be easier for an erection to occur when a major erogenous zone is made much less sensitive? Makes absolutely no sense whatsoever!
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  23.  @zomb1e098  And that's also the reason why people eat it mainly when they have diarrhea, because it soaks up all the moisture out of the digestion tract.
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  24.  @jacobvriesema6633  I use AOSP based custom ROMs without Google Apps on my smart phone. Although, this is only for the secondary phone. My primary phone uses SailfishOS by Jolla (which is the successor of Nokia's Maemo/Meego OS), and that's definitely as surveillance free as a cellphone can be. Also, it basically turns your phone into a Linux computer, just like any decent PC - meaning you as the user have the full control over the system, because root privileges are only one command + password away.
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  25.  @shubinternet  That's where you're wrong: WhatsApp is NOT an alternative to Facebook, it's just as bad.
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  26.  @MisterPyOne  That's the thing: German/European top loaders don't work worse, because their drum spins on a horizontal axis just like the front loading machines! The drum is closed (with holes for the water to flow through) on the circular front and back sides and has a door that can be opened on the rounded side, if you want to load/unload the laundry, you have to rotate it into the right position (modern machines do that for you and lock the rotation as long as they're open) and then you can access the contents.
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  27. I'd like to see a video where you say what you think about the Pennsylvania Dutch German speaking. I find it really easy to understand, but other Germans might not.
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  28. Feli, have you ever asked one of your American friends how Americans clean their showers? What do they tell you?
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  29. A good friend of mine is from Vienna, but she's living in Germany since at least 15 years, probably more like 20. If she doesn't want you to hear that she's Austrian, you won't hear it. She even played some roles in German TV shows and nobody mistook her for an Austrian.
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  30.  JonDoe123456  You seem to think that I'm making more of it than it is. I know all these facts, it's fully called "Dönerkebap", while one part of the word stands for the meat, and the other part stands for the skewer it is mounted on in order to be grilled, I just don't remember which was which, but it's not important. The only thing that I know is that it became a "trend" in Germany that actually started in Berlin, I think in the late 70s or early 80s, when some Turkish guest workers who were imported after WW2 to help building up the country looked for different revenue streams, so they basically put meat in bread and gave it a fancy name.
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  31. I could never understand nor accept people using disposable paper or plastic plates in their own home. I mean, OK, if they don't have a dishwasher, they could be looked down upon and called exceptionally lazy for doing this, but if they do have a dishwasher (which, I assume, most American households do), this is just totally unfathomable.
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  32. To tell a secret, that's also a "German" trait: To avoid any kind of battle and be on good terms with each other if at any way possible. In fact, Karen showed how not German at all this old American girl really is by doing what she did.
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  33. My car is old, rusty and damaged. But it always passes the TÜV with flying colors, because it's really good in all the places where it counts :-)
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  34.  @RedRat98074  I am doing just that. In fact, since my phones are de-googled, they don't even contain Chrome (as an app, of course the Chromium WebView component is still there, but that's open source software, so it's fine). Also, I use Blokada (the version from F-Droid of course) for system-wide blocking, as well as an adblocker on my OpenWRT router, and on the computer I also use Chromium (not Chrome, which isn't needed any more) only for YouTube, and for other sites I use Firefox, Brave or even other browsers - but all of them have an ad blocking component in them. In addition to this, on my phone, there's of course also other safety software installed, i.e. AFWall+ which restricts apps from using the internet (like, most apps don't need to do that, why would a calculator have to go online? and so on). So you can believe me that I'm somewhat proficient in protecting myself from a) annoyances and b) automated privacy intrusions by surveillance capitalism.
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  35.  @RedRat98074  And of course blocking tracking is even more important than blocking ads. Meticulously chosing which cross-site-requests are allowed and which aren't....
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  36. Creepy dude towards Feli: "Show me your slip" Feli: Holds up a piece of paper "There you go, asshole" ;-)
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  37. Feli, do you know about the "PA Dutch"? Those are descendants from German expats in Pennsylvania, mostly from the Rheinland-Pfalz and Saarland area, and they actually still speak a language that's mostly based on the German dialects from these areas, with a simplified ("Americanized") grammar and a few English words mixed in. It's really funny, and I think you should check that out. The fact that it's called "Dutch" is due to a translation error, it has nothing to do with the Netherlands, but they also call it "Deitsch", which is again very close to Deutsch :-) - Douglas Madenford has a Youtube channel where he introduces the language and the culture and he actually does quite a good job presenting it!
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  38. OK, sorry, my last two comments were a bit dark - of course I'm happy for you, and hey, about a month after this arrived, your subscriber count is almost half way to doubling again! The only downside is that you'll have to divide your attention between all of us (and we might become many hundreds of thousands, or even a million!) - so yeah, I'm glad that I joined the club when it was still a somewhat small and personal community, but I also wish you all the success you can stomach! :-)
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  39. Feli why do you talk about "German accent" when American actors try to speak German? They would of course do an American accent in this case, because speaking German "in a German accent" (as a non-native speaker) would just mean that you sound like a native-speaker ;)
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  40.  @lukehorvath571  Humans are officially weird.
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  41.  @SpartacusColo  LOL, I'll take your word for it!
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  42.  @HansVonMannschaft  But the thing that gets toastet is good for nothing else but getting toasted, so it's toast in the pre-toasted state (inedible) or in its toasted state (edible).
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  43.  @edwardma-6559  I think it's even the reason why this country acts as this brutal bully towards the rest of the world - all males in leadership positions are desensitized and therefore also greatly lack empathy. But it's just a little theory I've been developing...
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  44.  @edwardma-6559  Then somebody should blow up this theory in media so that it becomes general knowledge. So that maybe the world changes for the better?
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  45. What a beautiful video! Something different than a talking head format - nice! And with random cat content! I approve! :)
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  46.  @affemakla6884  Greetings to the Saarland as well. You'll find the PA Dutch dialect to be very similar to your own.
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  47.  @m.d.5463  ROFL!
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  48. Feli, you've been living in the USA for too long! We now do have a capital ß, which looks like this: ẞ - quite a small difference, but it's noticeable. I think it was introduced in 2019 or so, so it is pretty new and you (as I) never learned about it in school.
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  49.  @JungleScene  Well, part of it is a myth (he isn't really popular nowadays any more), but when Knight Rider was on, he actually sold quite a few of his records, I remember his songs from my childhood as well. So yes, in part he was famous because of that (also because his gig at the Berlin wall and all that), but that's all stuff that happened in the 80s. He continued to be liked by those who watched Baywatch, but that's about it. People nowadays don't remember much of him any more (except those who liked him/his work back in the day), I know today that he has a massive alcohol problem and that he isn't really present any more anywhere.
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  50. Wow, that was a shoutout if there ever was one. From a 200k subs channel to one that's 3 orders of magnitude smaller.
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