I'm actually happy that we don't have that many air conditioning here. I'm always getting sick after working in the retail store.. I'm spending the really hot days on the Rhine or at home with the shutter down and the ventilator on. :D
Yes, if you don't mind your skin being fiery red. Maybe it's just me, but my skin is really sensible. It has like two different colors: - White: I really mean white! - Fiery Red: After being in the sun with suntan cream level 50+ for like 15 minutes.
Impossible for him! Not only is he a US boy he's also a Southerner which means he can't just go to a lake swimming wearing just his swim wear... or less... like us crazy Germans do. lol :P
Use one of those fly-door / mosquito net thing. They easy to fix(and remove) ones cost less than $ 5. You can leave your windows open throughout the night.
I have a small mobile AC, but only use it in the bedroom to cool them down. So if it is summer in Germany you can sit outside in a beergarden or terrace and drink a cool beer, thats much nicer than sitting in a AC coled house or room.
i can recommend big ass ceiling fans!! they are relatively cheap and you can install them in every apartment. not so for AC. OR i often wet some large towels and cover me with it. the resulting vaporisation of the water will take some time, but if you keep it wet and stay under the towel it will eventually cool VERY good and significant. of course works best in combination with a fan. but gets really cold then!!
Well most or many Germans will go to a "Freibad" or to a "Baggersee" during the Summer. While Stuttgart has some "Freibäder" it doesn't have a "Baggersee" which is sad because they are awesome. Oh and you should totally make a video about "Palast der Repuplik". Its kind of a wired and unique Biergarten (actually without a garden) where a lot of different kind of people hang out together and drink Beer. The funny thing is that everyone is sitting on the floor in the middle of the city. Oh and it´s also good to spot nice Cars ;)
Mein tipp: Kauf dir für 2€ eine plastikwanne und füll sie mit eiskaltem wasser. Füße rein und nach wenigen sekunden ist dein körper kühl. My tipp: Buy for 2€ a Plastik bowl and fill it with ice cold water. Put your feeds inside and you will cool down in some saconds. p.s. Sry for my bad english. i hope you understand it.
i live on the upper floor and i suffered through some really hot summers so i was fed up with sweating like a pig and one day just got me a small mobile air conditioner which helped tremendously. You just need it for one month in the year really but it's totally worth it.
If you don't have blast shields, get any piece of cloth with bright colors (bed sheets work well), preferably white. Cover your windows with that cloth on the outside (never on the inside!). It's important to not let the heat get through the window glass because once it's inside it stays there. Covering the outside helps a lot with that.
Wow, it can get to 98 degree in Germany? I lived in Texas before, bet it's not humid in Germany though. I live in San Francisco now, We get hot maybe 7-10 days, but not like the south.
The trick against bugs is to keeps your lights out. I only open my window when I sleep, so there are almost no lights (except the LED of my charging laptop) so those nasty bugs won't try to invade my room. And it's nice to be woken up by the sun. And before leaving for school/work/whatever close those Rolläden, it really helps not getting fried by the sun. And it will fry you, can confirm, being somebody who mostly wears black/dark shirts.
Try living in an attic flat with droops and two rooms on the south side - NOT FUN. You can try to shut the rollläden and ventilate in the night as much as you want... It's like 38°C instead of 40°C then (which is ni... nevermind)
I should say that not every place in America has A/C. There are some parts of the country that it doesn't get hot enough to have one installed. My friends and relatives who live in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, OR and Seattle, WA) have been facing this dilemma for the past few summers because it's not known to get so hot there that much.
Thanks for the input on the hot days here in Europe SamWaltonMan ! Yesterday, I was at the city library here in Stockholm. There is one giant hall, like ten meter to the ceiling and yeah big. And at the librarians desk, a tiny little 7" fan doing it's best to make the air circulate. About the stores and that they have air condition. Here in Stockholm, it's very mixed. My experience is that most do not have air condition but in best case fans.
Loved the weather in Ulm / Neu-Ulm, Bavaria when I lived there back in the '80's. And yes I have lived up and down the eastern seaboard of the USA. And it's hot and humid like Europe has not known.
Have you ever concidered doing an episode about the Schloss in Hohenheim with its amazing Park-landscape? It is right at the terminal stop of the U-Bahn line U3 "Plieningen Garbe". There is a nice beer garden, too.
This is how I do it: I leave the Rolladen down all day until like 5 or 6 pm, then I open the windows, turn all of your lights off and leave the room (if you have a Fliegengitter just stay in your room if you want) . When I go to bed at night, I leave the window open. The sun usually goes up at around 5ish, so when I wake up and it's too bright I just close the Rolladen, but leave the window open. Then, when you leave the house to go to class or work or whatever, close the window. But yeah, a/c ftw :P
I know what you mean. In Berlin was I think 3-4 days where i really wish we could have aur Condition. But I think these days it was a little bit more extrem (i can't remember having so hot days in germany before). But then you can go swimming(if thers school ( i hate school connected with hot weather)). One year we had in germany wonderful summerholiday wheather, while on Mallorca (germans love mallorca) it was rainy and stormy. But now the weather i think is ok.
Good Video. I'm glad you discovered the right usage of Rolläden. I personally am not a fan of air-con, because it's usually too cold (don't fancy taking a cardigan for when I go inside in the summer). Can I say that you may want to watch your pronounciation of Rolladen. It's double "L" so it's a short "a" afterwards. What you said sounded to me like "Rouladen", which is not the same thing at all. :)
I hate the heat so much D: I live in an apartment and i have to suffer the heat cause i have a skylight without Rolläden and the sun shines upon it the whole afternoon ;-; Sometimes it helps to put your feet in a bucket ful of cool water :D I really can recommend that^^
You are so great, i enjoyed every sinlge moment of your video. Had a lot to laugh because this were the hottest days this year. Another thing you can do when it's hot is going to a "Freibad or Erlebnisbad" an open air swimming pool or water park. We do have a lot of them in germany, so there you can go if it's too hot at home :D
Try to put a bowl of crushed walnuts or some walnut oil next to your window. Its an old farmer trick. They always had a walnut tree next to there manure pile. It keeps all the moskitos away, they hate the smell.
We call our 'blast shields' 'zombie shutters'. Because if they're closed, you can sleep whenever you want, and turn yourself into a zombie. Of course, if there were a zombie apocalypse, they would probably be pretty good protection against zombies as well!
You always say Rolladen so that it sounds like the food Rouladen :) it sounds just funny. you actually´re talking about Roll-laden (maybe that helps to pronounce it :) ) great video anyway
What people need to understand is that german houses are made of stone and not wood. That keeps out the heat MUCH better as long as you don't live under the roof. Our house has no aircon and it stays at a comfortable 22 degrees in summer even if it's 36 outside for 5 days in a row.
German carpenters sometimes refer to "Rolladen" as "Panzer". Not "panzer"-Panzer, because originally it is the German word for armour, which is not that far away from blast shields in it's meaning, right?
You are in Stuttgart, I envy you right now. I am living in Freiburg (im Breisgau), that ist south from you, down there where Germany meets France an Suisse (actually, I am faster in Suisse than in Stuttgart). You should come here, we have right now about 37 now (it will get near the 40 end of the week. Again) and we haven't seen any snow in years. There are more people here owning an air conditioner than a TV XD And a ventilator was the first thing I bought, movin from Villingen-Schwenningen to Freiburg. AND we finally got our air conditioner, it was sold out in every single electronic shop between Freiburg and Basel. Had to order it.
I rather think the reason why there is no AC in private homes or apartments is pretty different than the climate. First of all energy costs much much higher in almost every European country than in USA. Second the buildings in Europe are made out of bricks and concrete and not twobyfours and plywood or cardboard. The modern buildings have outside walls thick like 15-20 inches and just the windows are like 6-7 inches thick with tripple glassing. It's just all about saving the energy. A European house will never heat up as an American, even if there is 100 degrees outside.
I think its the climate.. I live in Seattle and the climate is pretty similar to Germany and we do not buy AC units here normally either we just suffer through our rare hot days and nights. South carolina where he is from or other hot states california arizona florida ect have AC because its hot there often and therefore worth the investment
That song at the end... LOL! summer is when i feel really awesome in Germany because where i came from 34-37 degrees is normal for us. but then the winter comes and I died (just like the Germans in the summer heat ;p)
Why are your lights even on at night? Why not just leave the window open while you sleep, let the first sun rays wake you, close everything, and go back to sleep? That's what I do. During the day when it gets too hot, I also put water on my face and stand in front of doors and open and close them continuously to create wind to make the water evaporate. Works perfectly ;) Just try not to be seen or people might think you're crazy.
Boris Deyanov Well, we do. At least me, my boyfriend and all of our friends. We all are Heavy Metal Fans. Same goes for people, we meet at Heavy Metal Open Air Festivals (And I don't mean Wacken, last time that was a metal festival is about 10 years ago). We sometimes have some color on the shirts (Prints) and sometimes where camouflage too. But that's it. Ok, there are the pink JBO-Fans (I have a pink cowboy hat too, I admit) but there is never a colored clothing without black on it.
On "Pfingstsonntag" I was invited to barbecue at a friends garden and I decided to go there with my motorbike. It was a really bat decision because I need to wear special clothes for safety. Oh boy, as I was arrived at his place, I really missed the air condition of my car. I was like Sautéed in my own liquor.
Hey there! You're best way of keeping cool AND your "BLAST SHIELDS" (still got a cramp in my belly from laughing so hard...) just won you another follower or whatever the bloody stupid thing is called :) cheers Thomas
+autarchprinceps Jalousie is more a sort of light window blind often fashioned of thin metal sheets. A Rolladen is a device against robbery, so no one can smasch your window in. Its usualy build into the wall on the outside of the windows and very hard to open from the outside.
But usually the (really high) german houses are reeeeally good insulated (if they've been renovated during the last...15-20 years...?), so even without Rolladen and living higher than 4th floor it won't ever get more than 25°C in there. Ever. *thumbs up*
mariöh89 living in such a building, yeah, no. As soon as the sun hits the windows those places become ovens.My place doesn't have outside "heat shields" and I keep the curtains closed from noon onward (westward facing windows). When it's warm outside I still get close to 30°C in here
mariöh89 Depends on where you are living. In Stuttgart it's the same like in Freiburg, where I live. If the house is very old, you can forget about renovating ( "Denkmalschutz" it is called, goes for everything old enough, you are not allowed to destroy or renovate it). And than Stuttgart is, as ist Freiburg a so called "Studentenstadt", that means students' city or university city. That means, no matter how shitty an apartment is, there will alway be a student, who will rent it. So it's not worth for the owners to renovate an apartement, that gets rented anyway.
Hahaha Sam, it's Rolläden, not Rouladen, which is rolled up meat you serve with red cabbage ;D Rollläden contains the word roll, which makes sense because you roll them up. Sorry for "correcting" but I was just imagining this rolled up meat on your windows. But acutally you are right, they are called blast shields ;D
I know what he ment, I was just pointing out it sounded funny :D I think everyone knows what he was saying, I don't want to correct him, it was perfectly fine :D ^_^
Ich hab nen Tipp. Wenn du die Fenster nachts offen lassen willst mach einfach das Licht aus... Von LED Bildschirmen oder dergleichen werden die Viecher nicht so doll angezogen.
Get under the shower and chill down... then start your fried up brain again and decide: a: to go Swimming. most baths are cheap as hell (1,50€ per day) if you do not want to go to a water Resort b: to go to cinema: AC as much as you want, (but horribly expensive) c: just stay under the shower, chilling... ;) Also: erst mal unter die kalte Dusche, runter kommen. Dann das frittierte Gehirn wieder hochfahren und entscheiden: a: ab ins Freibad oder Hallenbad, recht günstig wenn man nicht unbedingt ein Spaßbad will b: ins Kino, klimatisiert aber sauteuer inzwischen c: einfach weiter duschen und abkühlen
Could you please make a video about "how to behave in america"? I'm going to go to the USA in a month or so, so I would like to know how to behave. After one week my mother will left and I'm there alone for around 3 weeks. PS: I'll stay by a friend, who is lawyer. I'm sorry for all the mistakes I made, I'm from Germany. Thanks
You made a few mistakes but most Americans are pretty forgiving about language mistakes because of our history of immigrants. Plus, in English, it's pretty easy to convey what you mean. And I guess act as you normally would, and make sure to not be too quiet/reserved since Americans like meeting new people and are quick to make friends. Also remember that tipping waiters/waitresses is customary and should be minimum 15% of the total bill, if the service was adequate, which most places are since that's how waiters make most of their money. Many places include "Gratuity"(Tip) for 6 or more people and you do not need to tip anymore unless you'd like to. Also, tax is not included in the price on tags(mostly an exception for food at supermarkets) so depending on the state, county, and city you buy let's say clothes from it can be a $15 shirt but 8% tax additionally at the register. Let me know if you have any other questions. You should be fine though! =) Grüße aus Sudakalifornien! Ich hoffe dass ich habe dir geholfen!
fsruiz64 Thank you. You gave me some helpful tips. My friend is from Richmond, Virginia. I'm so excited to go to the USA because it's such a big, foreign country =). I still have just one question: How do I have to call people when meeting them the first time (hopefully you know what I mean)? So, when do I have to use Mr. oder Mrs? He is high requested lawyer and represents business men and big companies in court and said, that I will meet some of his clients and partners. It's actually a kind of work experince mixed with vacation =)
We don't have the "duzen" und "siezen" problem so you would use "you" but as a title it really depends on the profession and the person. So I would say to ask your friend once you arrive but for someone you don't know, Mr.___ and Ms.___(pronounced as "Mizz" because pronouncing it as "Miss" implies they're unmarried(just as "Fraulein" has fallen out of favor) and Mrs.(Misses) implies they're married. They might ask you to refer to them by their first name later on(similar as to in Germany). And on your business vacation if you have time I recommend driving(taking a train or bus might be an option) to Washington D.C. because it's 2 hours north from Richmond and you can visit all of the historic places like the White House, Congress Building, Lincoln Memorial, the Smithsonian Museums(which are all free) just be aware of the humidity, but then again Virginia gets very humid as well so make sure to pack or buy summer clothes, although it rained briefly when I went to D.C. 2 years ago so just be prepared for heat and possible rain. Also if you have enough time, New York City is about a 6 hour drive, which isn't too far, well at least for my American mentality where I would need to drive 2 days to get to NYC lol Also Washington D.C. and NYC both have very good subway systems(U-Bahns) so once there you wouldn't really need a car.
Maybe just a little question that comes to my mind: Can I say "gonna" instead of "going to" and "got" instead of "have got" or "have" to sound more native? Or is this just confusing when a foreigner says such things?
In Germany people actually consider you an emo if you complain a lot about the heat XD which sucks because imo heat is worse than cold. It gives you headaches and you get drained out really quick... just no. Sunshine is great and stuff but heat is not. And German ppl should finally admit that. I've lived in Japan once and people complain all the time about the heat and I was like...what? I can complain without getting the "u an emo?" look?
Maya Aoyama i have no idea where you lived that you were considered an "emo" from complaining. because that is seriously the very first time that i heard that it is supposed to be in "germany"... i actually think that was probably just in your area because as every german knows we're famous for complaining. so...ye....sounds kinda like a BS neighbourhood that you lived in.
The guys all time wearing black in germany are called "Grufties" if they are older than 30 yrs. If they are younger they call themself "Gothic". Metalheads or also known as "IG Metall" do not exclusively wear black. And yes, being drunk in public by daylight is unacceptable.
Andreas Kohlmann No, it was just a huge store labeled Saturn. It's form was pertained withe conception of being a pyramid. Saturn is a store for technology.
TheGermanFabian Well the Saturn i know is just a 3 Leveled shop in the Königsbau in the Königsstraße (He meantioned that street), and its just in that building, not like a Pyramid. Where were u?
TheGermanFabian Is it this one? www.mediamarkt.de/i/markt/galerie/16779689/2.jpg I think, now it has media markt in it (wich is also technology store).
What about Freibad? Why didn't you just go to a Freibad to cool down? Oh and what about ice cream? A decent cup of spaghetti ice cream should have cooled you down significantly, if you've discovered that yet that is dear Sam!? :-D lol
Sam, go to amazon and buy "Fliegengitter". Its a net which you can put into your window frame.... and all those nasty flies stay outside.
Thats too easy ;D
www.amazon.de/tesa-55388-00021-00-Fliegengitter-Comfort-anthrazit/dp/B001ULCOFM/
behemoth666123 there you go
Seasons in Germany for short:
"I like Summer in Germany. Its the most beautiful week in the year."
Week? Wow haha ^^
I'm actually happy that we don't have that many air conditioning here. I'm always getting sick after working in the retail store..
I'm spending the really hot days on the Rhine or at home with the shutter down and the ventilator on. :D
Geht mir genauso, bekomme immer Halsweh wenn ich bei wem mit Klima penn :o
no air conditioning? pff...
In our school, the heating is working all the time. Even with 30°C outside...
Haha was the same in our school, and the erm... "blastdoors" there did never work...
Go swimming, dude! Lakes, rivers, pools...that's the secret.
Yes, if you don't mind your skin being fiery red. Maybe it's just me, but my skin is really sensible. It has like two different colors:
- White: I really mean white!
- Fiery Red: After being in the sun with suntan cream level 50+ for like 15 minutes.
24/7? ^.^
Impossible for him! Not only is he a US boy he's also a Southerner which means he can't just go to a lake swimming wearing just his swim wear... or less... like us crazy Germans do. lol :P
*****
Cause US people are shy if not prude?!
+Anton1699 keep your shirt on while in water. It protects from burns and once you're out it keeps you cool.
Much better than 50+ suntan lotion.
can't stop laughing about the "winter-summer-cloud-thing" xD (03:20)
Use one of those fly-door / mosquito net thing. They easy to fix(and remove) ones cost less than $ 5. You can leave your windows open throughout the night.
I have a small mobile AC, but only use it in the bedroom to cool them down. So if it is summer in Germany you can sit outside in a beergarden or terrace and drink a cool beer, thats much nicer than sitting in a AC coled house or room.
i can recommend big ass ceiling fans!! they are relatively cheap and you can install them in every apartment. not so for AC. OR i often wet some large towels and cover me with it. the resulting vaporisation of the water will take some time, but if you keep it wet and stay under the towel it will eventually cool VERY good and significant. of course works best in combination with a fan. but gets really cold then!!
Well most or many Germans will go to a "Freibad" or to a "Baggersee" during the Summer. While Stuttgart has some "Freibäder" it doesn't have a "Baggersee" which is sad because they are awesome.
Oh and you should totally make a video about "Palast der Repuplik". Its kind of a wired and unique Biergarten (actually without a garden) where a lot of different kind of people hang out together and drink Beer. The funny thing is that everyone is sitting on the floor in the middle of the city. Oh and it´s also good to spot nice Cars ;)
Rollladen sounds like Rouladen which is a fulled rolled meat piece :-D
maybe the american pronunciation of "Jalousie" would sound like "jealousy" ?
@Seorful
And you can eat both, but "Rollladen" are very crunchy ;)
Thought the same thing, my mother made really good ones
Be happy that it is warm, the next 7 month it will be cold as the darkside of the moon.
Germany and the Pacific North West have very similar environments. It rains a LOT in Seattle. I have to have a window fan during the Summer.
Mein tipp:
Kauf dir für 2€ eine plastikwanne und füll sie mit eiskaltem wasser. Füße rein und nach wenigen sekunden ist dein körper kühl.
My tipp:
Buy for 2€ a Plastik bowl and fill it with ice cold water. Put your feeds inside and you will cool down in some saconds.
p.s. Sry for my bad english. i hope you understand it.
i live on the upper floor and i suffered through some really hot summers so i was fed up with sweating like a pig and one day just got me a small mobile air conditioner which helped tremendously. You just need it for one month in the year really but it's totally worth it.
If you don't have blast shields, get any piece of cloth with bright colors (bed sheets work well), preferably white. Cover your windows with that cloth on the outside (never on the inside!). It's important to not let the heat get through the window glass because once it's inside it stays there. Covering the outside helps a lot with that.
Wow, it can get to 98 degree in Germany? I lived in Texas before, bet it's not humid in Germany though. I live in San Francisco now, We get hot maybe 7-10 days, but not like the south.
I face this dilemma every summer. Spending 600€ on a mobile air conditioner that I use for maximum 7 days a year doesn't really worth it :/
The trick against bugs is to keeps your lights out. I only open my window when I sleep, so there are almost no lights (except the LED of my charging laptop) so those nasty bugs won't try to invade my room. And it's nice to be woken up by the sun. And before leaving for school/work/whatever close those Rolläden, it really helps not getting fried by the sun. And it will fry you, can confirm, being somebody who mostly wears black/dark shirts.
Try living in an attic flat with droops and two rooms on the south side - NOT FUN.
You can try to shut the rollläden and ventilate in the night as much as you want... It's like 38°C instead of 40°C then (which is ni... nevermind)
haha good think with the heat :
do lessons outside cause the school is too hot
& make evey single teacher buy the class ice cream :D
Get window screens so the insects don't come in. Still need to get some for my new flat xD
We goths don't really have a problem with sun and heat. We don't go out in the sun! No sun - No heat!
I should say that not every place in America has A/C. There are some parts of the country that it doesn't get hot enough to have one installed. My friends and relatives who live in the Pacific Northwest (Portland, OR and Seattle, WA) have been facing this dilemma for the past few summers because it's not known to get so hot there that much.
Thanks for the input on the hot days here in Europe SamWaltonMan ! Yesterday, I was at the city library here in Stockholm. There is one giant hall, like ten meter to the ceiling and yeah big. And at the librarians desk, a tiny little 7" fan doing it's best to make the air circulate. About the stores and that they have air condition. Here in Stockholm, it's very mixed. My experience is that most do not have air condition but in best case fans.
Loved the weather in Ulm / Neu-Ulm, Bavaria when I lived there back in the '80's. And yes I have lived up and down the eastern seaboard of the USA. And it's hot and humid like Europe has not known.
The cool thing is, I'm German and I lived in South Carolina (Lexington) for a year. I loved it there. Well, the people, not everything about it
Have you ever concidered doing an episode about the Schloss in Hohenheim with its amazing Park-landscape? It is right at the terminal stop of the U-Bahn line U3 "Plieningen Garbe". There is a nice beer garden, too.
This is how I do it: I leave the Rolladen down all day until like 5 or 6 pm, then I open the windows, turn all of your lights off and leave the room (if you have a Fliegengitter just stay in your room if you want) . When I go to bed at night, I leave the window open. The sun usually goes up at around 5ish, so when I wake up and it's too bright I just close the Rolladen, but leave the window open. Then, when you leave the house to go to class or work or whatever, close the window.
But yeah, a/c ftw :P
The other big technique - take 1 month's worth of vacation in August to somewhere cooler. Then return and it's September.
I can also recommend churches to avoid the heat. Allways freezing cold there
Hey Sam,
cool video. It's great fun to watch your videos. A nice reminder of home here in China.
Have a great summer in Germany.
Good idea at the end... I go and grab myself a cold, fresh beer.
I know what you mean. In Berlin was I think 3-4 days where i really wish we could have aur Condition. But I think these days it was a little bit more extrem (i can't remember having so hot days in germany before). But then you can go swimming(if thers school ( i hate school connected with hot weather)). One year we had in germany wonderful summerholiday wheather, while on Mallorca (germans love mallorca) it was rainy and stormy. But now the weather i think is ok.
37° Grad geht ja noch! Wir hatten im bergischen 40° Grad im Schatten gehabt!
Dafür haben wir im Winter manchmal -20°C
You may not have had a fan back then, but you defintely have lots of fans now ;)
.... yeah...... bad one X_X
+Levo GAMES lol
Good Video. I'm glad you discovered the right usage of Rolläden. I personally am not a fan of air-con, because it's usually too cold (don't fancy taking a cardigan for when I go inside in the summer).
Can I say that you may want to watch your pronounciation of Rolladen. It's double "L" so it's a short "a" afterwards. What you said sounded to me like "Rouladen", which is not the same thing at all. :)
I hate the heat so much D: I live in an apartment and i have to suffer the heat cause i have a skylight without Rolläden and the sun shines upon it the whole afternoon ;-; Sometimes it helps to put your feet in a bucket ful of cool water :D I really can recommend that^^
Einfach wieder grandios ! Obwohl ich als Flachländer wenig mit dieser Hitze zu tun hatte, stimme ich der letzten Maßnahme durchaus zu
Man kann es ja als Ausrede "zur Hitzeprevention" benutzen :x
I live in Western Canada and a lot of places in Germany get more snow then Western Canada.
You are so great, i enjoyed every sinlge moment of your video. Had a lot to laugh because this were the hottest days this year. Another thing you can do when it's hot is going to a "Freibad or Erlebnisbad" an open air swimming pool or water park. We do have a lot of them in germany, so there you can go if it's too hot at home :D
I live in an old house where it really doesn't get warm in the first floor (where my room is because it doesn't get warm there) :3
Try to put a bowl of crushed walnuts or some walnut oil next to your window. Its an old farmer trick. They always had a walnut tree next to there manure pile. It keeps all the moskitos away, they hate the smell.
We call our 'blast shields' 'zombie shutters'. Because if they're closed, you can sleep whenever you want, and turn yourself into a zombie. Of course, if there were a zombie apocalypse, they would probably be pretty good protection against zombies as well!
You always say Rolladen so that it sounds like the food Rouladen :) it sounds just funny. you actually´re talking about Roll-laden (maybe that helps to pronounce it :) ) great video anyway
What people need to understand is that german houses are made of stone and not wood. That keeps out the heat MUCH better as long as you don't live under the roof. Our house has no aircon and it stays at a comfortable 22 degrees in summer even if it's 36 outside for 5 days in a row.
German carpenters sometimes refer to "Rolladen" as "Panzer". Not "panzer"-Panzer, because originally it is the German word for armour, which is not that far away from blast shields in it's meaning, right?
I just came here for the beer.
You are in Stuttgart, I envy you right now. I am living in Freiburg (im Breisgau), that ist south from you, down there where Germany meets France an Suisse (actually, I am faster in Suisse than in Stuttgart). You should come here, we have right now about 37 now (it will get near the 40 end of the week. Again) and we haven't seen any snow in years. There are more people here owning an air conditioner than a TV XD And a ventilator was the first thing I bought, movin from Villingen-Schwenningen to Freiburg. AND we finally got our air conditioner, it was sold out in every single electronic shop between Freiburg and Basel. Had to order it.
98! "Some of the hottest weather" I wish it was like that here. I live in a southern Cali. and it gets up to 120 in our desert.
difference is, that moisture is higher, making lower temps feel much worse than in a desert.....
I rather think the reason why there is no AC in private homes or apartments is pretty different than the climate. First of all energy costs much much higher in almost every European country than in USA. Second the buildings in Europe are made out of bricks and concrete and not twobyfours and plywood or cardboard. The modern buildings have outside walls thick like 15-20 inches and just the windows are like 6-7 inches thick with tripple glassing. It's just all about saving the energy. A European house will never heat up as an American, even if there is 100 degrees outside.
I think its the climate.. I live in Seattle and the climate is pretty similar to Germany and we do not buy AC units here normally either we just suffer through our rare hot days and nights.
South carolina where he is from or other hot states california arizona florida ect have AC because its hot there often and therefore worth the investment
That song at the end... LOL! summer is when i feel really awesome in Germany because where i came from 34-37 degrees is normal for us. but then the winter comes and I died (just like the Germans in the summer heat ;p)
Wow, over 8000 subscribers now?? Wtg Sam!! That's awesome.
Hey im from Stuttgart too!! And omfg i love Saturn the best part of it is the CD thing :D
i wrap an ice/cold pack in a T-shirt, very helpful^^
It's hard to tell that you are southern until you say "You gone die." ah hahahha so funny
haha i'm from nc and yeah we use our ac unit like 9 months out of the year haha
Circulating fans or ceiling fans work fine but seem to be uncommon in Northern Europe
to me, you saying Rolladen sounds like Rouladen pronounced with the dialect spoken in the region of germany i live
Why are your lights even on at night? Why not just leave the window open while you sleep, let the first sun rays wake you, close everything, and go back to sleep? That's what I do.
During the day when it gets too hot, I also put water on my face and stand in front of doors and open and close them continuously to create wind to make the water evaporate. Works perfectly ;) Just try not to be seen or people might think you're crazy.
now that was a really funny vid. Thanks for the laugh Sam
23℃-25℃ definitely winter in Mauritius
>Implying that all Heavy Metal fans wear only black
Come on, man...
Didn't mean to come across that way :)
>>>Implying that all Heavy Metal fans wear only black
Come on, man...
I enjoy wearing black all day every day. And the heat.... you'll get used to it
Boris Deyanov Well, we do. At least me, my boyfriend and all of our friends. We all are Heavy Metal Fans. Same goes for people, we meet at Heavy Metal Open Air Festivals (And I don't mean Wacken, last time that was a metal festival is about 10 years ago). We sometimes have some color on the shirts (Prints) and sometimes where camouflage too. But that's it. Ok, there are the pink JBO-Fans (I have a pink cowboy hat too, I admit) but there is never a colored clothing without black on it.
Olga Hein JBO O.O ..:;wush
On "Pfingstsonntag" I was invited to barbecue at a friends garden and I decided to go there with my motorbike. It was a really bat decision because I need to wear special clothes for safety. Oh boy, as I was arrived at his place, I really missed the air condition of my car. I was like Sautéed in my own liquor.
Haha Hauptsache Saturn. I like you guy.
From what song was the film sequence at the end? :D
Quick tipp: If you Bought an Ice and it begins to melt Run in to the next Bank it's away Cooler there ;)
Get some Mückenschutznetze so you can keep everyhing open the whole day. Especially useful today ^^
Hey there!
You're best way of keeping cool AND your "BLAST SHIELDS" (still got a cramp in my belly from laughing so hard...) just won you another follower or whatever the bloody stupid thing is called :)
cheers
Thomas
Who says Rolladen? It's Jalousie, at least in every part of Germany if been to.
+autarchprinceps actually in all of Germany BOTH are correct.
i say rolllanden😅
+autarchprinceps
Jalousie is more a sort of light window blind often fashioned of thin metal sheets.
A Rolladen is a device against robbery, so no one can smasch your window in. Its usualy build into the wall on the outside of the windows and very hard to open from the outside.
+autarchprinceps a Jalousie can be a wall mounted sort-of-Sun-umbrella aswell. (like in front of many stores in cities)
Praetorian
Du redest von einer Markise.
4:20 Kappa (also referring to what you said, as there is a little truth in it.)
But usually the (really high) german houses are reeeeally good insulated (if they've been renovated during the last...15-20 years...?), so even without Rolladen and living higher than 4th floor it won't ever get more than 25°C in there. Ever. *thumbs up*
mariöh89 living in such a building, yeah, no. As soon as the sun hits the windows those places become ovens.My place doesn't have outside "heat shields" and I keep the curtains closed from noon onward (westward facing windows). When it's warm outside I still get close to 30°C in here
mariöh89 Depends on where you are living. In Stuttgart it's the same like in Freiburg, where I live. If the house is very old, you can forget about renovating ( "Denkmalschutz" it is called, goes for everything old enough, you are not allowed to destroy or renovate it). And than Stuttgart is, as ist Freiburg a so called "Studentenstadt", that means students' city or university city. That means, no matter how shitty an apartment is, there will alway be a student, who will rent it. So it's not worth for the owners to renovate an apartement, that gets rented anyway.
what is a blast shield?
Hahaha Sam, it's Rolläden, not Rouladen, which is rolled up meat you serve with red cabbage ;D Rollläden contains the word roll, which makes sense because you roll them up.
Sorry for "correcting" but I was just imagining this rolled up meat on your windows.
But acutally you are right, they are called blast shields ;D
I once even heard a german say "Rouladen" , it was a good laugh in the classroom^^ so nothing to be ashamed about, they really sound very similar
I know what he ment, I was just pointing out it sounded funny :D I think everyone knows what he was saying, I don't want to correct him, it was perfectly fine :D ^_^
Eisbehr Ok sometimes it hard to read a sense humor in a comment. Sorry I was not offending anyone, I was just pointing out that it sounded funny
Ich hab nen Tipp. Wenn du die Fenster nachts offen lassen willst mach einfach das Licht aus... Von LED Bildschirmen oder dergleichen werden die Viecher nicht so doll angezogen.
How has this not been GEMA'd yet? All the other vids that contain that song are...
i go swimming in the rivers when its about to get hot :D
Biergarten+Radler/Alster!
I thought you going to explain how to shake the cops ! lol
Get under the shower and chill down... then start your fried up brain again and decide:
a: to go Swimming. most baths are cheap as hell (1,50€ per day) if you do not want to go to a water Resort
b: to go to cinema: AC as much as you want, (but horribly expensive)
c: just stay under the shower, chilling... ;)
Also: erst mal unter die kalte Dusche, runter kommen. Dann das frittierte Gehirn wieder hochfahren und entscheiden:
a: ab ins Freibad oder Hallenbad, recht günstig wenn man nicht unbedingt ein Spaßbad will
b: ins Kino, klimatisiert aber sauteuer inzwischen
c: einfach weiter duschen und abkühlen
Watching this in 2016 - where a big storm front harrasses Germany :D
Oder man mietet sich eine Wohnung in Betonneubauten. Kommt keine Hitze rein oder raus.
how did you manage to get to stuttgart from south carolina
+Wayne Liebl flying on an airplane i guess.
what led u to come to stuttgart from south carolina?
I loooove your voice!
There aren't ceiling fans in rooms?
nope
cowlufoo2 a friend of mine had one in his old apartment. it's pretty rare.
Actually, don't drink beer when it's hot. Don't do that to yourself.
get some flyscreen / Mosquito nets ...
*gives back scratch*
hmmm...beer!
Could you please make a video about "how to behave in america"? I'm going to go to the USA in a month or so, so I would like to know how to behave. After one week my mother will left and I'm there alone for around 3 weeks. PS: I'll stay by a friend, who is lawyer. I'm sorry for all the mistakes I made, I'm from Germany. Thanks
You made a few mistakes but most Americans are pretty forgiving about language mistakes because of our history of immigrants. Plus, in English, it's pretty easy to convey what you mean. And I guess act as you normally would, and make sure to not be too quiet/reserved since Americans like meeting new people and are quick to make friends. Also remember that tipping waiters/waitresses is customary and should be minimum 15% of the total bill, if the service was adequate, which most places are since that's how waiters make most of their money. Many places include "Gratuity"(Tip) for 6 or more people and you do not need to tip anymore unless you'd like to. Also, tax is not included in the price on tags(mostly an exception for food at supermarkets) so depending on the state, county, and city you buy let's say clothes from it can be a $15 shirt but 8% tax additionally at the register. Let me know if you have any other questions. You should be fine though! =) Grüße aus Sudakalifornien! Ich hoffe dass ich habe dir geholfen!
fsruiz64 Thank you. You gave me some helpful tips. My friend is from Richmond, Virginia. I'm so excited to go to the USA because it's such a big, foreign country =). I still have just one question:
How do I have to call people when meeting them the first time (hopefully you know what I mean)? So, when do I have to use Mr. oder Mrs? He is high requested lawyer and represents business men and big companies in court and said, that I will meet some of his clients and partners. It's actually a kind of work experince mixed with vacation =)
We don't have the "duzen" und "siezen" problem so you would use "you" but as a title it really depends on the profession and the person. So I would say to ask your friend once you arrive but for someone you don't know, Mr.___ and Ms.___(pronounced as "Mizz" because pronouncing it as "Miss" implies they're unmarried(just as "Fraulein" has fallen out of favor) and Mrs.(Misses) implies they're married. They might ask you to refer to them by their first name later on(similar as to in Germany). And on your business vacation if you have time I recommend driving(taking a train or bus might be an option) to Washington D.C. because it's 2 hours north from Richmond and you can visit all of the historic places like the White House, Congress Building, Lincoln Memorial, the Smithsonian Museums(which are all free) just be aware of the humidity, but then again Virginia gets very humid as well so make sure to pack or buy summer clothes, although it rained briefly when I went to D.C. 2 years ago so just be prepared for heat and possible rain. Also if you have enough time, New York City is about a 6 hour drive, which isn't too far, well at least for my American mentality where I would need to drive 2 days to get to NYC lol Also Washington D.C. and NYC both have very good subway systems(U-Bahns) so once there you wouldn't really need a car.
Thank you so much for your tips.
Maybe just a little question that comes to my mind: Can I say "gonna" instead of "going to" and "got" instead of "have got" or "have" to sound more native? Or is this just confusing when a foreigner says such things?
In Germany people actually consider you an emo if you complain a lot about the heat XD which sucks because imo heat is worse than cold. It gives you headaches and you get drained out really quick... just no. Sunshine is great and stuff but heat is not. And German ppl should finally admit that.
I've lived in Japan once and people complain all the time about the heat and I was like...what? I can complain without getting the "u an emo?" look?
Maya Aoyama i have no idea where you lived that you were considered an "emo" from complaining. because that is seriously the very first time that i heard that it is supposed to be in "germany"... i actually think that was probably just in your area because as every german knows we're famous for complaining. so...ye....sounds kinda like a BS neighbourhood that you lived in.
The guys all time wearing black in germany are called "Grufties" if they are older than 30 yrs. If they are younger they call themself "Gothic".
Metalheads or also known as "IG Metall" do not exclusively wear black.
And yes, being drunk in public by daylight is unacceptable.
I KNEW IT WAS GONNA HAPPEN
i thought you mean the Miami Heat in the Title xD
i love your videos soon much! This is extremely funny! #imgerman
When I was in Germany, I remember the huge pyramid store called Saturn.
Please forgive me my stupidity, but what is a pyramid store? What can I buy there? Pyramids? Are they located in Egypt? ;-)
Andreas Kohlmann No, it was just a huge store labeled Saturn. It's form was pertained withe conception of being a pyramid. Saturn is a store for technology.
TheGermanFabian
Well the Saturn i know is just a 3 Leveled shop in the Königsbau in the Königsstraße (He meantioned that street), and its just in that building, not like a Pyramid. Where were u?
LpAntorax I was a child back then so it's difficult to remember, but I believe it was in Oldenburg.
TheGermanFabian
Is it this one? www.mediamarkt.de/i/markt/galerie/16779689/2.jpg
I think, now it has media markt in it (wich is also technology store).
What about Freibad? Why didn't you just go to a Freibad to cool down? Oh and what about ice cream? A decent cup of spaghetti ice cream should have cooled you down significantly, if you've discovered that yet that is dear Sam!? :-D lol
Im German
Youre so fucking right.
Everybody wants the (con-)D xD
Oh that was so funny :-)