Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Feli from Germany" channel.

  1.  @shoopdj  that's a shitty comparison. Many, if not most, places are better than Middle and Near East, and large parts of SE Asia are still underdeveloped. How about comparison to various parts of Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea (South Korea, of course) and Taiwan?
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  2.  Someone Someone  we sure hope so, as the international security currently heavily depends on USA, including security and independence of my country. What I don't like are some worrysome tendencies - USA got downrated from "democracy" to "flawed democracy" even before Trump got elected. Rising inequality of opportunities is bad, as in long run it can send country into stagnation and even worse, if one group of elites gets too much control. Rule of "work more = earn more" is no longer true since early 1970s, however regulatively recent rise of minimal pay per hour has compensated it (it set that wage where it should have been adjusted to inflation), however it came after 30-35 year delay, during those years those who earned the least, got underpaid, so they got less income for decades, less savings, less stuff bought to keep economy running, got even lower chances to get better insurance and education for themselves and their kids.
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  3.  @MrTaloul  WoW, no shit, countries are different you say?!
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  4. Aren't Americand overreacting "a bit"? I mean, when I grew up in Eastern Europe in early 1990s, I wasn't afraid to walk in the night several kilometres from school to home or even longer distances from town centre, despite those being "interesting times", back then police carried full auto AKs, and there were reasons for that.
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  5.  @jbmcdoogle  it's not always "if you don't pass, you don't drive" in Europe. Where I live, CSDD (traffic safety administration) check exaust first for emissions, while it's in process, they check lights; then brakes, then lift car up on a vibrating table and inspect car from below for structural integrity, leaks and how suspension behaves while car is shaken. Every position is marked either 0 - perfectly OK; 1 - minor problem of no immidiate concern (like some rust on an old car's structural components) or 2 - needs to be fixed. If there are no too many "2" scored, they let you go and fix that within 30 days, then check back again.
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  6. In my native language names of weekdays from Monday to Saturday would literally translate as "first day" to " sixth day", so, of course, our week starts on Monday like to everybody else in Europe.
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  7. Yeah, either far-right bullshit, or too much RT. Fun fact - in both cases those "news" may be concocted by Kremlin's masters of deceit (well, in case of RT it's 100% certain).
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  8. First, start building proper thick wall houses with proper insulation, not those cheap to build "cardboard" parodies, then we talk about air conditioning.
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  9. A girl returning from Paris described French driving style as "relaxed" and ""mindful", compared to that here in East Europe, while we still are calmer and abiding to the rules more than the guys driving in neighbouring Russia.
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  10.  @karenl6908  Then the question is, are they good aggressive drivers or bad aggressive drivers? (and then my European bias kicks in with it's instant presumptions and presuppositions) I mean, there are where are aggressive drivers, that I feel very comfortable and safe with as a passenger, but there are also a few, who might make turn your hair grey, as it feels they themselves don't know if they will make it or not, yet they keep on pressing accelerator down.
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  11. Everything is bigger and wider in America, starting with Americans themselves. XD
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  12. I almost never exceed speed limit (not a single ticket on my account), bet I might become a real asshole and push a car in front of me sometimes, that's true. XD I mean, I don't do that often, only if someone is driving at 50km/h where the limit is 70, or just like several days ago, when I was tailgating some SUV, that was dragging at 30-35km/h in a city, where limit is 50km/h. And yes, German cars might provoke people to drive faster. Mine is old and rusty VW, so I'm not too proud of it, yet it has a good engine and suspension, so springing to speed limit from zero at traffic lights and taking corners and roundabouts at a fast pace is a routine.
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  13. Gasoline in Europe and USA also has different octane rating designations - Europe uses RON system, while in USA and some other countries it's AKI, so my usual 95 gasoline is designated to 90-91 in USA and Canada, which could be confusing.
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  14. To add to your collection of "why isn't it called just Germany", in my native language: Germany = Vācija Munich = Minhene Felicia = Felīcija
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  15. OMG, that doesn't sound good, as jokes about religiosity and brother-sister close "encounters" in Albamastan are known even outside US.
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  16. 17:10 - despite living for seven centuries side by side with Germans we show numbers by fingers in a non-German way, so that's not just Anglo-American way, it's different even here in Europe. Besides I've heard it's not the same even in whole Germany either, there are some regional differences.
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  17. Plastic plates at home, seriously?! I would say it's not just about environment, that's also about etiquette and class, sort of sense of belonging, that "old word feeling" where "I got those plates from my grand-grand-parents".
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  18. "Protection from what? Zie Germans?" - from movie "5he Snatch" Those are not just Germans, having trouble with "th" sound, but pretty much everyone, including me.
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  19. In Europe many of us have properly built houses, so AC are not necessary for most part. And "cold winters" in Germany are a joke, climate in Germany is so mild, spring in South of Germany starts at least two weeks earlier than in my homeland.
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  20.  @MrTaloul  no, compared to China, DPRK, Africa (almost all of it), and most of Latin America USA are great. Compared to Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and Canada.... well, some things are better in US, some are worse or much worse. Would I move to USA? No, not on my own, only if I really had to do that for job, and even then only temporarily. For example, we can get CCP (concealed carry permit) for firearms in my country, but due to low crime, few people actually care to get it.
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  21. Not exactly a habit, but what's the deal with large coffee mugs being sort of something exotic in houses and shops in Southern Germany? And I'm not the only one who have noticed that. Maybe that's because I live further up North in Europe, so we drink more coffee, as our winters are colder, longer and darker.
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  22. My old rusty German peoples car is turning 25 this month. I get oil change once per 10k kilometers or once per year, which is more or less the same to me, as it just so happens I drive pretty much exactly 10k km per year.
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  23. "..calll it water...' Well, I appreciate you being so polite, but I don't think that's what "Bud" is usually called. XD
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  24.  @davidwilson9257  as old joke put it: - Why does beer make so fast through one body? - Because it doesn't have to change the colour. - And why does the American beer make it even faster? - Because it doesn't have to change the taste either.
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  25. I don't think it's that hard to get what wunderbahr means, as after all English is a Germanic language and some words are really similar, like welcome / wilkommen.
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  26. Here in Latvia recently some company started to sell bottled radler. Haven't checked out, I guess it's a local product, not German one, must be some marketing trick, you know - it's exotic here.
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  27. People who have travelled a lot, say that drinking to get drunk until passing out is a thing in former English colonies, but not in the French ones, seems like those former empires somehow passed their drinking culture onto colonies too. I never understood that getting drunk idea, maybe that's just not in my genes, I do love to have a drink sometimes (well.. rarely, actually, can go for years completely dry), but only if it tastes good, so I mostly chose wine or vermouth, dark beer of portr time (quite sweet and thick), some liqours, even 60% poteen or vodka on birch buds or vodka on lemon peels; or Riga Black Balsam - prefferably black currant one, as original is just way too bitter, so it''s mostly used in coctails, some sweets or poured over ice-cream. Oh yes, I live in Latvia - former German / Swedish / Polish / Russian colony, depends on the particular era, most recent being Russian/Soviet one of course. XD
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  28. Russians may also intetionally for fun or by a mistake read "Puma" as "Rita", since Latin script letters in the word "puma" look exactly like "Rita" in Cyrillic. XD Not like this would happen often in real life, but Russian comedians certainly have exployted this.
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  29. Uh, German vowels, yeeeeees and then the Umlaut shows up. O_o
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  30. Another reason for Americans using SMS instead of WhatsApp might be - mobile Internet either sucks or is expensive in USA, or both.
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  31. That smiling thing... If people HAD TO smile at customers, it looks weird. I so happy I can now use self-service gas tank, instead of going in to pay, where a cashier will wear that freaky smile and ask, if there is anything else besides gasoline I'd like. Yack! P.S. Several Scandinavian gas station networks use automated terminals, but I've heard it's not a thing in Germany. Because... No idea why, perhaps, German love for cash is to blame? But I can pay with Euro bills too, if I wanted, of course, a card is better, especially because no credit or debit cards are needed, if you have a discount card of a particular gas station network, as it has a credit too, which then gets paid through internet bank.
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  32. Merde Er sounds like a French name to me.
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  33. 7:27 - Oh, Latvia mentioned! Yeap, the agreement with the Holy Seat is still valid, or at least the old 1922 concordate got renewed in 2000 and has been in action since October 2002. But, of course, it provides no special rights to Catholic Church, as Latvia is secular republic, besides Lutherans, Catholics and Russian Orthodox Christians are in relatively close numbers, with none of them being in clear, dominating majority, Lutherans being the most numerous group - a bit over 1/3, Catholics are a bit under 1/3 and Orthodox around 1/4 of believers.
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  34. Well... from Eiropean perspective the universal answer to that hollow "how are you" is "none of your business!" XD
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  35. I'm not even gonna try, but good health... seems like I fail requirements too. What? I'm European, we love to complain! XD
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