Comments by "Sebastian Nolte" (@sebastiannolte1201) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

  1. The problem with this is, that there is not even an English word for the German "scharf" in that context. Of course "scharf" also originally has a different meaning, but when we talk about food and I say "Hui, das ist aber scharf!" it is obvious what I mean (and that it has nothing to do with a sharp knife). But when taste some food and say "Wow, that is hot!", then how can somebody know if I talk about the temperature of the food or of the "spiciness"? And "very spicy" is not even a correct term for food with that includes much caspaicin. Food can be very blend but "scharf".
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  2. And this can get even funnier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell Notice that Germans understand English quite well, especially of course swear words... so when Germans read "Fucking hell" on a beer bottle, they would intuitively pronounce it in English.
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  3. Sarcasm?
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  4. She is from Germany but she lives in Ohio, has an American Boyfriend and is a Permanent Resident with a Greencard since August 2019.
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  5. Don't you have dishwashers? Throwing cutlery and dishes into that instead of the trash doesn't seem so much more work to me ;-) Plastic cutlery and dishes are actually illegal in the EU since 2021. But also before that it is a weird idea here in Germany to use disposable for anything else than a bigger party (so where you often even just haven't enough dishes anyway). Here you often even get an actual dish and actual metal fork, when you eat fries at a "Pommesbude", so a small fast food place, that focus on take away or delivery and only has three tables and no table service. We meanwhile have "Five Guys" here, and I tried it and wanted to eat there, enjoy the time, had something to read with me. And I was shocked that even when I eat there and did not want to to take it away I recieved a bag, with a burger in tin foil, fries in a small bucket, that's it. That was really a downer for me. I refuse to call a place "restaurant" when I have a pile of trash on my tray at the end 😉
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  6. Funny to hear that. If you ask some people in Germany (so especially the ones who vote for the right wing AfD, meanwhile about 20%), they will say, that the current German government cares more about helping Ukraine, Isrea, the military, and refugess than it's own people.
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  7. I wonder if you are sarcastic or not. You have heard what she said about "Walking around alone at night"? So according to you, people in America should feel more safe and free than in Germany, right? Then why is it the opposite for her? Or would you just recommend to her, that she also should wear a gun, because then she could easily walk around at night alone on Cincinatti? Actual safety and freedom is when you don't even feel the need to wear a gun.
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  8. "that doesn’t effect the criminal because they’re gonna get guns no matter what." That in an argument that you hear very often. And on the hand it makes totally sense. But in reality it seems, that if there are more legal guns you also have more criminals that have guns. As Feli says: She had no problem of walking around alone in Munich, but she is afraid of doing that in Cincinatti. I live in Germany, and yes, there are of course situation and areas, were I feel uncomfortable to walk around and night, and when I meet a gang of some bad looking people. But the actual fear would "only" be to getting beat up and the only weapon would be a knife. But I can avoid that by keeping distance, and pepperspray can help. But I would never think that somebody could suddenly just pull a gun, that is extremely rare.
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  9. By the party. They made lists (which are public of course) and then the seats are staffed from the top to the list down to the bottom. So the higher somebody is on the list, the more likely he is to go into the Bundestag. But actually that is only half the truth, it is more complex. So the founders of our system thought that it still makes sense to vote for a certain candidate that represents your area (like it is in may other countries). So you actually you have two votes: the first one for a candidate and the second one for a party. The candidate in the first vote can also be independent and doesn't have to be member of a party, and he gets the seat in any case, if he gets the most votes in his area (like in many other countries) But: a) There are only half as much voting areas (and so only direct candidates) than seats in the Bundestag b) at the end still the percentage that the party gets in the second vote counts So that means, that the candidate of the first vote definitly gets a seat in the Bundestag, but it doesn't influence the distribution of the party. So let's say that a party gets 100 seats according to the second vote, and in 70 voting areas the direct candidate of this party also wins the first vote. Then the first 70 of the 100 seats are staffed with the direct candidates, and the rest 30 seats are filled according to the lists that I mentioned at the beginning. But that leads to a problem that becomes bigger since the more parties come into the parliament. In the past most people either voted for SPD or CDU/CSU (so the big "left" and the big "right" party), and some for the FDP. For the first vote usually only the big parties have a chance to win. Meanwhile the "big parties" are not that big anymore and there are several parties in the parliament. But for the first vote the direct candiate with the most votes gets the seat, no matter if he wins with 70 % of the votes or with 30% of the votes. That means that the The big parties still get all the direct seats, although they don't get so many seats according to the second vote. So let's say form my former example a party still wins 70 direct candidates from the first vote, but only 60 seats according to the distribution based on the second vote. The solution: We increas the parliament... So all 70 direct candidates get their seat, but the other parties get more seats, so that at the end the distribution of the seats again fits to the second vote. To stop the increase of the Bundestag decided for a reform, so that not all direct candidate has the guarantee to get into the parliament, but only when they go enough seats according to the second vote. That is very controversial among some parties who see that as unfair, I am not sure if it wll stay that way. Seems complicated? Yes. And I am sure that also many of my German fellas don't understand it. And don't exactly know what the first and the second vote mean. Most people just vote for the party anyway, with both votes. And actually if the direct candidate in your area is quite famous in the party, then he is also usually on the top of the list, so he doesn't need the direct vote to get into the Bundestag. And I also always wonder where is even the point in the first vote. We don't have this strong connection to "our candidate", so that represents my area. Most don't even know their name, they don't really care. I sometimes think you can make a split like: "I vote for the SPD and don't like the CDU, so the second vote goes to the SPD. But the CDU candidate in my area is a nice and humble guy, so I vote for him, because then at least I can influence that the seats of the CDU are staffed with good CDU-guys".
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  10. She is from Germany but she lives in Ohio, has an American Boyfriend and is a Permanent Resident with a Greencard since August 2019.
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