Comments by "SaBa" (@saba1030) on "Brit in Germany" channel.

  1.  @barvdw  Difference is, for the title "doctor" one had to work for, therefor it's used when talking to somebody as "respect", but noble titles one gets born into ... without having to "work/study for".
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  2.  @beccawoodhouse  😊 Yeah, I know, when my London born spouse started to learn the German language, our English friends were asking "why is that as you're speaking English", instead of saying "oh, great". I think, languages are the "door" to a country and its people 😊
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  3. @Fred Amber Richard Tice stated some time ago "Brexit was about stripping down all regulations (protection of labourship, environment, banking etc) and to convert the NHS into a private health system US style". He was smiling when saying that... My London born spouse and I are living in Germany, but we have regular contact to our English friends and family living in the UK. One of our friends might need a new knee, the NHS people were telling him to go private, would cost him £25.000. All the best to you with greetings from Germany 😊
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  4.  @barvdw  The acadamics, when both have the title, don't call each other that. Neither do people, like neighbours, collegues or whatever call each other that. I only call my doctors of medicine that, or if writing an official letter, that's it. As I'm from the North, the people over here tend to say more "Du", because of the Lower Saxon language, as there no "Sie" exists. Therefor easy going. It really depends on, in which region/Federal State one is living 😊
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  5. ​ @shelleyphilcox4743  Oh dear. So you're one of those, thinking, that "the Belgians" are "ruling/running" the EU? The EUs Parliament is the worlds second largest democratic Parliament with secret, free and independent elections (with PR) every five years since 1979. About 90ish British MEPs were working/acting on behalf of the British people. The EUs rules/laws get worked/acted on by the EUs Parliament, which have to be confirmed by the EUs member states Gvts and the EUs Parliament. Every EU member state has one voice to veto. Malta (about 550.000 people) the same as Germany (about 84ish million people). Every EU member state has one voice to veto.
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  6. ​ @JamesDeemons  Yes. All could have been "sorted" in grandmothers (Queen Victoria's) garden ... by the King, Tsar and Kaiser ...
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  7. @James "The German's" mostly love the Brits 😉 But, most of them have this image of : "Miss Marple, Rosamunde Pilcher, great fashion, fantastic music, lots of fog (even though it was smog, but that "info" never arrived over here "gg"), Pubs, etc" in their minds when thinking of Brits .... unfortunately Brexit is on that list now as well ... One thing could be a point: the language. Most German's are speaking English (like the Dutch), but what isn't liked so much is, when a foreigner lives in Germany since years, but still just speaks the own mothertongue. At least one should show good will to learn the German language. My London born spouse has been doing quite well with the German language... All the best to you with greetings from Bremen 😉
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  8.  @britingermany  Friends from Nepal told me, that in Nepal they're even calling their best friends "Sie", as it would be a real insult calling them "Du". As I'm able to speak the Lower Saxon language, there is no "Sie" available, only the "Du/di= yi/you like in English" makes it easier, but when talking Business etc, the "Sie" is showing respect. ALL other languages have the "Sie", only the English languages not, like the Lower Saxon language 😊
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  9. ​ @britingermany  Question: how would you like it, when the UK/GB would implement a second language (like German, French, Spanish or whatever) and the Brits had to go along with that? When my London born spouse started to learn the German language many of our British friends were asking "what's that for, you're speaking English"?! And btw, English is already implemented in various professions in Germany (like at many other countries) when working on International projects ... Just saying... Greetings from Bremen (second largest city in the North of Germany)
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  10. ​ @jmolofsson  😊 You can't really say that for the whole of Germany, Johan, as it's definetely not like that in the ex West Germany...
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  11. @Venlafaxine Domperidone Not really, as by that time it was called the "sick man of Europe".
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  12. ​​ @britingermany  It depends on where you're living in Germany, the North, where I'm living and from, the South or wherever, all quite with different mentality. My London born spouse is doing quite good with the "dry Northern German humour". Greetings from Bremen 😉 Edit typo
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  13. ​ @frankwitte1022  😊 Infact the titles, like "Graf Lambsdorf" turnt into "part of the names", the titles themself don't exist anymore since 1918. Therefor "Graf Lambsdorf" is like a "double name" 😊
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  14. ​ @michaelgrabner8977  Correct !! Apart from: the UK left the EU already THREE years ago ....
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  15. ​​ @britingermany  I had endless discussions with my collegue which was sitting at the window (me not), complaining about the draft, but she wouldn't want to "change" the place with me. Whenever I said "but what do you do outside as there is a draft most of the time?" her answer used to be "that's different".😳 About the "Hörsturz": it's like a "Innenohr infarkt", but also can be triggered by "sudden very loud noise or music etc" and I expierenced that at a concert which hadn't started yet, I was just passing by those huge man high speakers while out of a sudden the sax player was testing the system. All I can say it was like a hot needle in my ear, extremely painfull and afterwords that ear fellt like "stuffed up with cotton". I had a loss of 40% of my hearing, had to "plug up" my ear for nearly one year until it was back to normal. The "Innenohrnerven" are very fragile, therefor "no noise" at all ... If ever you have anything wrong with your ear: you've got 24 hours, from then on the chance of "repairing" the hearing shrinks day by day. Have a nice day 😉 Edit typo/autocorrect
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  16. ​ @britingermany  Yes, it does ! As we lived in Berlin for quite a while, the climate there is much "dryer" then over here in and around Bremen, as Bremen is surrounded by lots of moor/water. In Berlin the summers are hot and dry and he winters are cold and dry, therefor seem to be more "comfortable" instead of a summer where it's hot with high humidity or a winter, where the humidity "goes into the bones", meaning, it seems to be colder as it is. But I still prefer to live in Bremen 😊
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  17. ​ @anglogerman2287  Yes. Since Brexit you have to give back your British citizenship. This is why my London born spouse applied for German citizenship before Britain left the EU.
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  18. Showing what one has depends very much on regional habits. Like in the north of Germany/Bremen, Hamburg etc it's more like the "Hanseatic understatement", only when you look closer into it you might see the money 😊 Go to Rome or Milan, never ever you would see a Roman woman walk around with a fur coat, but going to the beach with full make up, hair styling and juwelry 😊 while in Milan, hot summer time, some woman still wear a mink coat (apart from wearing mink/fur coats is 🤨), it looks rediculess, but there you go 😊 Happy Easter to everybody here, we'll celebrate our big Easterfire with our neighbours tonight 😊
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  19. @Ludovic Errr, NO. The Germans are NOT mostly Saxon, if you want to go that far back ... The territory of the ancient Saxons are todays Federal States of Bremen, Lower-Saxony, Hamburg and partly Saxony-Anhalt (only the Saxony part). The Federal State of todays Saxony with its Capital Dresden got its name due to marriage politics (which was the normal issue hundreds of years ago), therefor the people living in todays Saxony are mostly descendants of the ancient Slavic tribes. One could say, that todays Federal States of Germany are virtually the original territories of the biggest ancient Germanic tribes. And the English language is declared to be a West-Germanic language, like Dutch and German. The North Germanic languages are Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.
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  20. Why is it like that? Because there are restrictions if a building is under protection/historical or other, and the advertising must not overdoe the "Stadtbild", as it looks ugly when advertising is taking over the streets 😊
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  21.  @james3547  Hi James 😉 Ze German's have a problem with the "th", I still remember learning it at school, we had "pronounciation training" saying "th" without the tongue "hanging out or spitting" at the person you were talking at LOL. Therefor "ze" is the "accident free" version... We have the so called "community colleges/Volkshochschule", subsidiesed by Gvt, where one can do courses from painting to languages, all sorts of sports or whatever, cheap money, good quality, available up to the "smallest villages". If moving to Germany living in the North, the German language is pretty "clean/Hochdeutsch", therefor good to learn. Good luck and all the best with greetings to London from Bremen 😉
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  22. ​ @britingermany  😊 One can be satisfied, when "that" task/job/piece is done, but one can also work on " a better/progressed/advanced" version 😊 THAT can also give one some sort of "satisfaction". "Dem Ingenieur ist nichts zu schwer" 😊
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  23. @ole schmidtke Are you recently living in the UK or are you just commenting "into the blue", especially as you're talking about the NHS? Since years the NHS is underfunded and in decline, just search for infos about the NHS, you'll find out, that the Brits are not very well treated by their own Gvt. With the food, well ... since Brexit the quality of especially fresh food/vegetables/fruit has gone down as well, also available in the media ... I've got English family and friends over there, therefor I'm up to date, and mostly it's not as good, what gets reported to me ...
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  24. ​ @britingermany  No need for that 😊 I also did Interrail and you met people all over the place, being at Nice main Station, meeting other Interrailers, asking them "where have you been? London, oh, good idea, we'll go there then". This is how it went. Visited about 18 cities/regions around the EU in 4 weeks, London included 😊
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  25. @beatus72 😊 Yes, apart from a tiny correction: Nedderdüütsch/Plattdeutsch/Lower Saxon language is a language, not a dialect, and has, like every language its own dialects as well. Like Welsh, Scottish or Frisian, Nedderdüütsch/Lower Saxon language is registered at the Unesco World Heritage as a "protected minority language" 😊 About 5ish million Northern Germans are still speaking the Lower Saxon language. Hol di fuchtig met groetens ut Bremen 😊 All the best with greetings from Bremen
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  26. ​ @JD83000  Fine, thanks, police is there doing "monitoring" 😊
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  27. ​ @TheLastSongbird124  No, but parts of your first comment was about, how much migrants/migration in Britain have changed your home country since your youth (when you've been living there). One would think, that may be, just may be the Portugiese see it the same, with "all those migrants with all their different cultural backrounds (of course)" are living in their home country now, while you, an immigrant yourself, sees it as granted to live there, ... Just saying 😊 It's always the point of view one has... the "medal" always has two sides 😊
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  28. You shouldn't judge others by your own standards 🤣 🤣 😎
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  29. ​ @britingermany  This is why Germans with their dual-system are well recommended with their education/profession, like in Canada, because it's known, that when having these papers, you know what you get 😊
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  30. ​​​ @britingermany  About 2.2 million Germans are speaking fluently/very good the Lower German/Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch language, another 5 million are speaking Lower Saxon fluently/ good. This language has, as every other languages, its regional dialects, and is registered as a "Unesco world heritage protected minority language", the same as the Frisian language, the Sater Frisian language and the Sorbic language or the Welsh and Scottish languages. Around the Sorbic areas in Germany (Kamenz is the "capital" of the Sorbic people), all signs etc are written in Sorbic and German languages (like in Wales Welsh/ English). In Lower Saxony, Bremen, Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, people which are able to speak both languages (Lower Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch and High German) get employed with priority when working at a bank, certain public gvt offices/ Behörden with public contacts, care homes and others. At the Göttingen University you can study Lower German/Saxon/ Nedderdüütsch language. There are talk shows, news, radio programms etc, all in Nedderdüütsch/LowerSaxon/German available. Lower Saxon = English he/se/mie/yi = he/she/me/you wat/dat = what/ that de = the (dd =th) = no "der, die, das" us = us modder/vadder = mother/father water = water school = school broken = broken soster = sister melk = milk klock tein = ten o'clock de Welschen = the Welsh "De Welschen/ the Welsh " means "the other ones/ the ones from abroad/ the strangers". The ancient Saxons were calling all those tribes which were living to the west of their territory (todays England) "de Welschen/the Welsh". You're still "de Welschen" when moving into another town/village in Lower Saxony 😉 And of course the pronounciation is different to the English language, therefor English speaking people don't understand Lower Saxon language but the Dutch from the area around Groningen (Holland/West Frisia) do "gg". Groetens ut Bremen Greetings from Bremen Edit typo/ autocorrect
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  31. Oh dear 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 IF you get the chance to sea a doctor in the UK, a friend of us isn't able to get a dentist appointment since about three years, had to wait six months to get an appointment for a blood test ... shall I go on?
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  32. ​ @britingermany  Because they are closed for three hours at the hottest times around midday 😊 Same goes for the lunch break =three hours, therefor they have to work up to nine o'clock in the evening.
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  33. ​ @britingermany  No, it was the other way around, there used to be the "langer Donnerstag/longer opening times on thursdays", but that doesn't exist anymore since all opening times have changed since then 😊
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  34. That's also the case with old houses over here in the north, but those windows can be opened completely, as typical for German windows. Why was it done like that? When storms/strong wind are ongoing, the storm will "press" the "wing frame of the window" tight towards the "fixed window frame", best way for "airthight windows" 😊
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  35. About 39 % of Germans have tattoos (stated 2023).
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  36. That are the "left overs" from the HRI of German Nations, which existed for about 1.006ish years. As far as I know Germany has the most small towns and villages per sq/km in the EU because of that. Same goes for castles/palaces, lots of kingdoms/ princedoms/etc, = lots of castles/towns etc 😊
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  37.  @britingermany  👍 🤣 🤣
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  38. ​ @britingermany  It's not an "obsession" about the Nazis over here in Germany but part of the, since 1945, permanently ongoing education about the Nazi past, to keep it in memory that it'll never happen again, as this is our responsability.... that's the difference!
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  39. ​ @richardwills-woodward  Nine direct border countries make it necessary for Germany to have a good road infrastructure 😊
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  40. ​ @britingermany  Please look up about the "Wandervogel" 🙂
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  41. @Opa Andre 😊 As a German being married into an English family, all I can say, that 40ish years of "blaming the EU " for everything "going wrong" in the UK and a lack of education (which should start already at school) about how the EU works and what it's for have lead to Brexit. Schöne Pfingsten 😊
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  42. ​ @britingermany  Therefor lots of "English" words origin of either Latin or Greek, opposit to the German language, where it's "declared" as "Lehnwort = Fenster/fenestra" or "Fremdwort = Diskussion etc", the English language declares all as "English", therefor sometimes there don't exist "English words" but only those "Latin/Greek words as English". It's quite "practicle", as one can use those Latin/Greek based words (knowing them when being used by speaking German, but ages ago I was asking my London born spouse "what is this Latin word in English"? Answer "that is the English word". Just saying 😄
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  43.  @britingermany  😉 I personally think, that languages are the key to a country's culture/ heart, therefor for me it always would be a pleasure to learn the language of the country I'm living in ( or at least would try my best "gg). Some weeks ago there was a report on DW about that subject (English as a second language), and weirdly only English (by mothertongue) speaking people were heavily demanding it, while all the others on that channel didn't.... as they had to either learn English or German anyway ... Have a nice Sunday with sunny greetings from Bremen 😉
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  44. ​​ @LarsPW  Moin 😊 The old northern German houses all have windows opening to the outside, exactly because of the wind/storm. The houses in the "Schnoor" in Bremen, Greetsiel, Lübeck etc, all open to the outside "pressing" the windows into the frame sealing them 😊
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  45. ​ @britingermany  🤨 You're talking about the "Reichsbürger" here, a very right wing, anti- democratic bunch of people, which are under observation of the Verfassungsschutz !! They are stating that Germany has defacto the "status quo" of the year 1871, how ever you got to those sort of people makes me wonder 🤔
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  46. ​​​ @britingermany  Add on: you were talking about the "image" of "the German's" being blonde, blue eyed and tall grown .... THAT was the "Nazi term" used all along the 12 years Nazi Germany existed, as part of the "Rassenlehre/clean blood", NOT a "good term" to use these days, especially as most Germans don't even look like that ... 🤨
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  47. ​ @Kristina_S-O  😊 They're coming back, at least over here in Bremen and Lower Saxony. The farmers get compensation when leaving a certain percentage or size of field/farmland untouched. It's visible straight away, insects are coming back, and suddenly all different sort of wild flowers are blooming again 😊
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  48.  @michaelgrabner8977  Thanks, yes, it's in its third year 😊
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  49. Well, Norway and Switzerland are EFTA members..
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  50. @Les Scott About 39 % of Germans are tattood.
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