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I think the german toilett paper have the DIN norm. It is similar like the normal DIN papers ("DIN A4" for example). That means, if you cut the long size (the 13.5 cm) in the middle, you have two papers which have the same size relationship like the original paper. In this example: If you cut the toilett paper, you have two paper with the size (13.5/2) cm x 9.5 cm = 6.75 cm x 9.5. So the original is 9.5 cm x 13.5 cm and the cutted is 6.75 x 9.5 cm. But the relation is the same: 9.5 / 6.75 = ca. 1.4 13.5 / 9.5 = ca. 1.4 That is what we do with normal paper, too. If you have a normal DIN A3 paper and cut it in the middle, you have two DIN A4 paper. And if you cut a DIN A4 paper in the middle, you have two DIN A5 paper.
Oh, and as addition to it, with the normal paper: If you want to create a little DIN A4 magazine, you can take some DIN A3 paper and fold it in the middle.
IDK if you see and can report it but there is a scammer with your profile-pictures in your coment-section who pretends to be you and asks people to contact them on WhatsApp wtf
„Wetten dass…?“ was also famous for taking longer than scheduled. The record was one show exceeding by 73 minutes. As a children who should go to bed when the show is over that was a great thing 😂
This is a common memory among German 30-somethings. The fun part is, nobody really knew when the show would end, Thomas Gottschalk would simply chat the time away and the station head honcho would give him more or less free reign. The control room would simply keep on flashing inserts with guesstimates when the late news would start.
@@sonkejager3305 And the Sportstudio would regularly get upset since it got pushed back further and further. :D Thing is, TV schedules in Austria would add roughly 40 to 50 minutes to German ending times for Wetten daß and be much closer to the truth.
Moreover, the German law on vacation stresses the fact that a single vacation should not be too short as it meant to support regeneration from work time, which does not occur sufficiently after e.g. 4-5 days off. If you get sick during a vacation, you may have the right to get these vacation days back, that you couldn’t use for regeneration, and spend them later in the year.
By law, Germans get at least 4 full weeks of paid holiday, that is 20 workdays if they work in a 5day-week and 24 workdays if they have a 6 day week (rare). Also by law, if you have more than 12 days in a year (means, you are employed more than 6 month there), the employer has to ensure, that you take at least two weeks in a row once per year. During the golden years in the 60s, 70s, German unions managed to get 25 and 30 days a year (i.e. IG Metall, that have car manufacturing and machinery companies in their contracts). We typically need 5 days for the time around Christmas. So there's plenty left. If we go abroad for such large countries as the US, Canada, Australia, ..., we like to use 3 weeks for it to have sufficient time to see a lot.
It gets even more interesting with another added detail: if you are to sick to go to work you can still work or even take a holiday during your paid time off, as long as the activity you do won't interfere with you getting better. Example: You work in construction and break your left leg (good luck working that job with a broken leg). The next day your neighbor asks you to teach his kids a bit of math because they have been slacking off in school... you can take that side job without getting in trouble with the law or your employer (ofc that side income has to be taxed, and i'm sure all of us would tell the tax man).
@@wildeast66 I think 30 days - even though not guaranteed by law - is still more or less the norm. But 4 weeks (it's 24 days minimum if you work a six day week) still is a good deal - and allows to really make those hours of flying pay off because you can stay there. BTW: Technically by law the standard is/should be that you take all your vacation time in a single block, unless the company's or your personal needs forbid that. In practice of course there are a lot of needs which will make us split it up ;) But as you stated, you have to take one two-week block at least.
@@Ulkomaalainen In many jobs, especially where smaller education is needed, they only give what's written in the law. You only might not know those people personally. Ask your local shop assistant, what he gets. But yes, it is likely more than the half. As I understand the law, you are not required to take all in one block. Nothing is written there. It only states: If you have more than 12days (referring to a 6 day week) you have to take at least 12 days in a block. Nothing said about any other days. It would also be strange, because you would never have summer holiday because you would need some for Christmas.
@@wildeast66 As I said, in practice I have never heard of somebody taking his whole year's worth of vacation - unless they really want to for a big once-in-a-lifetime trip. Even at one of my previous jobs where there was no possibility for winter vacation around christmas (because year end meant tons of work, so nobody was allowed to take days off), people would rather have one or two weeks in spring or fall than take it all in the summer. The article in question by the way is §7(2) of the law. "Der Urlaub ist zusammenhängend zu gewähren, es sei denn, daß (yeah, the law hasn't been changed in a while) dringende betriebliche oder in der Person des Arbeitnehmers liegende Gründe eine Teilung des Urlaubs erforderlich machen." - This "es sei denn" is very much used, stretching the words "dringend" and "erforderlich" a bit, but historically the idea was indeed having one large block. You may be correct about some jobs having less time. In that regard people I know may not be too representative, though it may also be an employer and/or union thing. My employer gives everybody six weeks, even in jobs which do not require higher qualifications. Then again, I am not working in an "every penny counts" environment like discount supermarkets or similar.
Well, I had to immediately pause the video and go to measure the toilet paper, 10cm x 12cm here in the UK. And of course German TV shows are longer, they have to fit in all those long words.
I remember when I was in graduate school in the US, as a German. I usually took my entire 3 weeks of vacation that I got in one batch in summer to go back home. Now one year, my grandma died and I asked if maybe, I could get a bit more vacation so as to not have my "vacation" largely consist of burying her. The dean told me that it was their experience that you couldn't do good science if you were gone for more than three weeks in a year. I really had to bite my tongue to ask him how Deisenhofer, who was by then teaching at that very university in the US, got his Nobel prize for work done in Germany, where having four weeks of vacation per year is not just seen as a good idea but the legal minimum.
@@Baccatube79 Two reasons: a)With my grandma recently deceased, I was not really in the mood for a fight. b)With a student visa, you literally need the university to certify they are expecting you back to get back into the country upon returning from back home. As such, getting into a conflict with said university is a rather poor idea. If the situation in the US is to change, that's up to US-Americans to take care of. It's not the hill I as a foreigner have to die on.
it's easy. You cannot relax mentally with only a week of vacation. One week is used for smaller activities, such as moving house or cleaning up the basement. Real vacation only begins after 1.5 weeks, which is when I personally think you slowly start to distance yourself from work. Only after the second week can you really relax
I live in germany and due to working in a 3 Shift System (early/Late/nightshift) i have 36 mandatory vacation days. If i don‘t Use them i get a ‚angry‘ Note By my Employer (usually around october) that i have to Go on vacation and Use Them all. ☺️😅
@@535phobos actually my coworkers just told me that normally we have 38 and this year 39 -> not 36 -> if we work at least 2 Night Shifts per Month. It‘s a 5 day week. However i just Realized i have to Work on Some sundays and Holidays. Maybe that‘s why? Or because my contract is Strukturen via TVÖD-K ?
@@thodan467 Yeah, but you usually get more vacation days if you work the weekends, too. As you have to take 6 days to have a free week instead of 5, which would mean, over the year, one less free week.
@@535phobos Those who work 6 days/week have more vacation days. On average, we have about 6 weeks of vacation. Those who work shifts get additional vacation for the amount of X shifts per year, as well as those who work XY night shifts per year. Disabled and/or older people also get additional vacation. Of course, all this without sick days or medical treatments. And if you, like me, are absent for almost a year due to illness, you have to make up for the vacation. Then you even have 60 days of vacation and more.
The toilet paper is very easy to explain: It's DIN-like format (i.e. ratio 1:sqrt(2)). And since you wouldn't want one side of the paper to be (much) smaller than 5cm, you'll end up with exactly that format. There is probably a norm for it somewhere (ISO/DIN). The actual ratio seems to be DIN D6 (9.6cmx13.6cm)
Regarding PTO, another important difference is, PTO in the US must also be used for sick days, while in Germany sick days are completely independent from vacation days.
That's so weird to me! Like, it's not your fault that you get sick. I guess that's the American Dream for you. You gotta make your own fortune because no one is gonna help you
@@Roozyj It gets even weirder. Everyone is forced to have health insurance, which is (for community insurance type) about 14-15% of your brutto wage (Your kids are also covered as well as your spouse, if he/she does not have own income). We typically pay nothing for ANY medically necessary treatment, no matter how expensive it is. Also, if you have children you'll be able to take 3 days a year off if they are ill and the insurance will pay your wage for those 3 days.
@@wildeast66 Oh, no, I was calling America weird. I'm Dutch myself, so very aware of the advantages and disadvantages of compulsory health insurance :P I mean, it's kinda expensive each month, but when my mother got really sick years ago, my American family asked me if we had to sell the house. Like, no? No, of course we aren't going to sell our house for medicine. Are you crazy? xD
@@wildeast66 to be precise, "pay nothing" is not 100% correct: There is a co-payment of 5 to 10 Euros (depending on the price) for each pack of medicine (exceptions are possible for poor people and for patients who have already paid a lot for these co-payments in the current calendar year), and there is a co-payment of 10€ for each day in hospital, capped to max. 28 days / 280€ per year.
True if you get sick while you are in a Vacasion the Days will added on to the Vacasion For Exemple you take 20 Days from your 30 Days than you have 10 left. Buz if you get sick and a Doctor gives you a certificate of incapacity for work for 14 days, you will be credited 10 of them and you have 20 days again because a normal Working Week is fromMonday to Friday and the Weekend is free .
Counterexample(*) I visited a baseball(*) game in San Francisco once. And the game went on and on and on and on … like 3h or so. And the longer it went on, the less I understood the rules btw. A soccer game on the other hand has 90min (plus extra-time) (*) "smushed together" 😆
3 hours for a baseball game are actually quite short. at baseball the goal is to get as fast as possible points during as least as possible innings. but you also need to stop the other Team from gaining points too. the teams have to play at least 5 innings. if the points are for example 3:20 the Team with the 20 points has already won the game after 5 innings and the game ends. but if both teams are way to close like 7:8 or 4:3 ..or something like that the game continus until a certain amount of difference in points is reached. if i remember correct there have to be at least 5 total points difference between the teams reached to have a winner. until this happens the game continues. there once was a baseball game that run 3 days because the teams were to equal. but i think there are also some rules like in the highschool Leagues where games can't run that long where the winner is who has the most points after a certain amount of innings.
I’m American and baseball is the most boring game ever. Basketball, ice hockey, lacrosse and even American football are more exciting. Baseball games can be more exciting if you are at the arena and the teams are a good matchup.
@@chrisk5651 had the impression that baseball could be typical example for a game that I find really interesting to play but not so interesting to watch. I'll go to a [ basketball | hockey | lacrosse | football ] match next time. hm... lacrosse could be a thing. thanks for the hint 🙂
@@christians-p7602 you’re welcome (in both senses - the American & Irish ones - in the USA it is the response to when someone says “Thank you” & in Ireland and maybe other places as well it is used a greeting for guests- whereas in the USA, we would just say welcome - without the “You’re”).
Came to live in the USA 12 years ago for family reasons. Thankfully we are retired. American ‘I want it all, I want it fast and I want it now’ culture quite shocked us. Money and possessions (‘stuff’) seemed to be the main religion and work the false idol. Perhaps this is why America doesn’t feature in the top 10 of World Quality of Life or Happiness tables. Priorities are wrong! America - stand back and smell the roses. Roses smell beautiful in Germany (and most of Northern Europe) and the people there love them.
US habits of taking respectivliy not taking vacation is really stange. How can you recharge your batteries in 4 or 5 days ? 2-3 weeks are normal in Germany.
@7:02 That is easily explained. Americans have problems with their attention span from constantly texting on the phone while driving. Even manufacturer are fully aware of the problem and assist with warning labels like "Don't put your cat in the microwave." :D
/This! Most Americans I know lack the attention span to even follow a one hour episode of a TV series. As a German, this view is not representative, of course. BUT, this may explain the lengthy summaries at the beginning of each episode. ;) As to the "Don't put the cat in the microwave oven": I don't know if it's an urban legend, but I remember a law suit in the US in which an owner of a cat did exactly this. Again, don't know for sure if this really happened.
The warning label that got my attention repeatedly on our last US vacation was "After cooking, food will be hot." SO many food packages had this phrase. SMH
The thing about vacation time in the US is - it is not vacation time. In many companies your 'vacation' days include paid sick days and they expect you to be available when you are on vacation. If you have no vacation days at the end of the year and break your leg on ice it can happen that this time is unpaid because you have no sick days. In contrast sick days in Germany are virtually unlimited and vacation is vacation. If your boss calls you on vacation that day is returned to you as a vacation day. The same happens if you get ill on vacation. Vacation is for you to relax and you can't relax when you are ill or when your boss calls you. One other thing about vacation - Some people in Germany does a different type of part time jobs. The work a year full time but get only paid the part time wage. Then the next year they take the whole year off to take a long vacation (I know a pair that crossed South America on motor bikes in a year) and get paid part time wage for that year, too.
Paid sick days are not quiet unlimited. After six weeks the employer doesn’t pay you anymore. Instead you get a reduced „Krankengeld“ from your insurance company. Granted this is much more comfortable than the US System, still it can get one into financial troubles.
Wait, who on earth uses just one or two pieces of toilet paper at a time? 😂 i rip off at least 5-6 pieces at once. It gets folded. It would take so much effort to do every piece individually
vacation topic: I think, life should be less about working and more about enjoying life. like as much travelling / holiday as u can get. unfortunately many countries like the US or asian countries doesn't allow much holidays or ppl just don't make use of it. Thats one major thing that has to change imho
With Covid-19, there's been a major push for a work life balance. The reason Americans are in this mess, is because it was our unions who focused more on money, whereas unions in European countries, focused on more time off. It wasn't as bad initially, but by the 70's into the 80's, employers did not want to give people time off as easily. It's 2022, and companies still want to keep this excessive work mentality, that now, not everyone is going back to work as easily. It's going to take legislation to change the work laws. Right now, they favor the employers, and not the employees. Canada is not much better. They at least guarantee 2 weeks a year by law. That is something the US does not guarantee.
And the long show times come from the fact that it was still normal 30 to 40 years ago, that the whole family gathered in front the TV to watch a single show in the evening and then everyone went to bed afterwards (except for the older teenagers who would rather go clubbding or meet some friends later one). So there was no interest in having 3 to 4 shows a single evening, that would have been like visiting 3 to 4 family events within a single evening. These shows were like you invite the show host and the guests to your home to spend a nice evening with you with food and drinks and some entertainment. This wasn't structured down to commercial entertainment because no money was earned with theses shows (they had no commercial breaks, there was no product placement, they didn't even have a sponsor) - it was just for the fun and the entertainment of the audience as well as for the guests of the show as well; as let's be honest, you cannot really call it "work" to sit in such a show, have some chitchat, watch some entertaining acts, and maybe play a couple of stupid party games, can you? Of course, it is work, you may go there to present your new album or movie or some business idea and you may also get paid just to be there but it's not like you really have to perform a lot of actual work.
I once heard that there is a specific difference in toilet paper usage between Germany (Europe?) and the US: Americans are "crumplers", while Germans are "folders". Toilet paper producers allegedly consider this in the tissue properties. I can't tell whether this is true or just some urban legend.
@@manub.3847 "Galileo" is more show than science, with many "facts" made up. Not a credible source (which doesn't mean it's all made up, but usually at least exaggerated or presented in a misleading way, or accidentally confusing for example China and Japan because who cares).
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I still cannot fathom how you could think that crumpling toilet paper is a good idea. Just thinking about it makes me go "Oh HELL no!".
By the way. The classic American PTO would get a company burned at the stake. The mere concept that sick days and paid holidays are even remotely comparable still boggles my mind. Especially in industries with lots of customer contact.
again, wonderful episode. Pretty much every friday I get home, warm up some leftovers and open UA-cam, almost always minutes after you uploaded a new video. Good start in the weekend!
Longer in Germany: restaurant visits. I was in Neuss last week and went to an all you can eat breakfast buffet and realized people were there for so long, they were done with their breakfast, sat there having coffee and dessert, and then the buffet turned into a lunch buffet and they got up and got lunch! We did the same.
That's called a 'Brunch' in Germany: Br-eakfast and l-unch. It's common to sit there for 4 or 5 hours. You have paid it, you use it! A brunch is a special thing and not every restaurant offers it. A normal restaurant visit consists of only one meal or menu.
Yeah, that is called a brunch even here. No restaurant will give you a breakfast buffet meant as breakfast and then change over to lunch food and let you eat that without paying for lunch buffet extra.
As a teacher I have even more vacation: 6 weeks in summer, one week in autum, two weeks in the Winter, one week around carneval, two weeks around easter and two weeks when Jesus sent the Holy Gost (pentecost,). This is the only reason why teachers dont quit.
My first US-vacation was a five weeks RV travel from LA to Miami in the early 90s. My longest vacation ever was 12 weeks, because I couldn't take any vacation for more than two years. To me, any vacation less than three weeks is not really regarded a vacation, just some time off work. But this has actually changed during the past two or three decades for many. They already regard two weeks off as a vacation, and some even just a week off. So instead of two vacations a year, many say now they are doing three or four vacations a year.
Regarding vacation: My last day working in 2022 will be December 7th and I will be on vacation until January 8th 2023 (last sunday before work starts). All already requested and granted by my employer. OK, I'll have to "save up", but as I am not the one going on a summer vacation, that's acutally pretty easy. As an addition from the legal perspective, an employer is required to grant an uninterrupted two week vacation once a year (Erholungsurlaub).
My theory is that the German toilet paper follows the DIN A norm, which states that the sides of papers should follow a 1:1.41 (one to square root of two) ratio, which has the advantage, that folding the paper in half keeps the ratio of the sides intact. In general, awarding the longest German word a prize is a somewhat meaningless exercise. I can easily top any word you name with a longer, really existing German word. How do I do that? Just write a number as word! For instance, I was born in 1970, which is Neunzehnhundertsiebzig, 22 letters. But the number itself is Eintausendneunhundertsiebzig, 26 letters. My brother was born 1973, or eintausendneunhundertdreiundsiebzig, 33 letters. The fact, that German writes numbers as one single word, makes words in German arbitrarily long. There is the recommendation not to write numbers with more than two syllables as words. But it's just a recommendation not to spell out the word, it does not make the word non-existant. If you ever feel the need, you might write Graham's number (famous for being included in the Guinness book) or the Small Veblen Ordinal (so much bigger than Graham's number that Graham's number looks rather minuscule in comparison) as words, you need more than just as many universes the size of our universe as our universe has elementary particles just to write each digit at a new elementary particle. The pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis has a surprisingly short German translation: Staublunge. #peas
When it comes to holidays, I can have a say. I work for an outpatient nursing service and of course worked through 1 year with preliminary talks with colleagues and nursing service management and used the vacation days saved the following year to live in Australia for 1 month (31 days) at a time + 2 days for the air travel as one flies 24 hours from Germany without major stopovers. It was a wonderful time and I can only recommend taking the time to get to know the country, culture and people.
Charles Clerc, a Swiss news presenter back in the day once said something like "Wir sehen uns in der Spätausgabe der Tagesschau, wann das genau ist weiss weder der Gott noch der Schalk". Wetten Dass was not only known to go on forever but also to be very random in how long it went on.
last year, I was away from work from April 1rst till May 23rd - I sailed across the Atlantic (Martinique to Lisbon, stopover Azores). It was all paid vacation time (5 weeks last year´s vacation, and the rest left over from the year before.
In Germany, you are guaranteed (by law) to have four weeks of vacation in a year, no matter where you work. It doesn't depend on how long you've been in the company. Also, most companies offer more weeks (I have six weeks per year). You can more or less take your vacation when you want, as long as the company agrees (which it commonly does, except for obvious reasons, for example if you're working in retail you won't get vacation between Christmas and New Year, as that's a busy time in every store, and also parents have a first-choice right to take their vacation when their children have holidays, which means if you want to have vacation in summer when school are closed parents will have the right to apply for vacation first). Other than that, if you want to take all four weeks back to back, do that, if you want to take only one week four times a year, do that. I commonly try to get two weeks three times a year (like I said, six weeks in total). Companys also are eager to have their staff actually take the vacation they have, which is why you commonly get a note if you haven't planned all your vacation weeks until October or so. You are required to take off those weeks. You can not simply say "I don't want vacation". It's a law after all, relax a little. Also, if you're sick, you are sick, not on vacation. You will get a certificate by a doctor for a specific number of days (as long as you're going to be sick and unaible to work), then you'll mail a copy of that certificate to the company and you are literally excused not to work. This also applies if you're on vacation anyway. Say you have two weeks of vacation but you are sick the second week, you can go to the doctor, he'll give you a certificate for as many days as he thinks is justified, you mail the certificate to your employer, and that number of days won't be counted as "vacation days", as you were literally sick, not having a vacation. You will get those extra vacation days later that year, you are entitled to them.
The vacation statitistics you have shown, was per trip, not per year. This is changing in Germany also, from 3weeks + christmas, more towards 4 times 1 week. For recreation even a long weekend can be enough. The travel expenses are not much higher in Germany, cause in US, you more often take flights and spend money to just see your parents. This type of travelling is rather unusual in Germany, usually you can see all your family within a daytrip by car.
I'm about to fly to Canada at the beginning of June. I'm going to stay for three weeks visiting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. Less than three weeks makes no sense because then it wouldn't be a vacation but rather stressful. Also since the flight itself is a fixed factor, a longer vacation just makes more sense.
Same for me. I drive with an RV. I need at least 2 days to most destinations which are interesting for me. So that's 4 days of stress. Therefore I tend to use 3 weeks. I wanted to go on 5 week trip to Norway this spring, which was no problem with the job, but because of the situation (oil price...) I didn't go.
This reminds me of my four trips to North America. Each one for four weeks, along with some prep time and some jetlag time afterwards, I always had five weeks off. In one piece. Granted, that's not necessarily normal. Usually an employer doesn't like that so much, they are afraid that they will have to re-train you 🙂. Keep having fun, your videos are great. Greetz Klaus
Which is partly true. Humans forget little details fast. That cooking recipe you did not use for a long time now exists only fragmented in your head. The controls of the game you did not play in a long time? Bet you forgot some of them. People ususally do not take the full five weeks off. The standard is two weeks at a time. A year is long.
I´ve never meassured the toilet paper by length and the more important part for me is actually how many layers does it have xD because the thinner the more you need^^ Ah yea, the joy of coming up with the longest words xD That´s what bothers me sometimes when I watch american shows, they go over things way too quickly and I´d love to have some more step-by-step moments or just generally a bit more details, because I wanna know more when I´m interested in something and not just "the highlights"^^ I´m still shocked every time I hear about american vacation days.. I´m not even working full time and I still get over 20 days a year^^ least favorite vegetable.. I dunno, I´m not a great fan of brussels sprouts, but I would still eat them if given?
Long TV shows: Sorry to say it like this but the attention span of a typical American is about 30 seconds. The duration of an US football play or a baseball run. The reason why hockey is popular only in certain regions. Vacation: I worked for an US company for 29 years and live in the US for some years. I once was in a meeting and we introduced ourselves. After my turn one if my colleagues (from the company headquarters) said: „Oh you Germans with all your holidays“. I replied: „What do you mean? When I look at the headquarters holiday schedule it is just ine day less than in Germany. With the differnce that in Germany holidays that fall on a weekend will not be substituted“ His reply: „OK but you have 4 weeks vacation“ „Not true I said, I have 6“. Thta outraged him, „How can you get 6 weeks vacation?“ I replied: „Simple, come at 08:00 and don‘t leave before 17:00, finish your work correct the first time.“ He didn’t talk to me for at least 4 weeks. But I also admit that my company, also in the US insited that the employees take their vacation. HR recognized that vacations increase employees overall performance.
Spinach 😅 I had an older American friend who once asked me how many vacation days I get (he found it interesting that I can easily take a week off for a children's' summer camp) and was a little bit shocked when I told him that it's 22 (was at the time) and it's constantly increasing as I get older (we get 1 extra day in every 2-3 years). He told me that he had only 2 weeks (basically 10 days) for a long time and got a few extra many years later.
I always take 3 weeks off twice a year, that is a perfect timing for me. I do not care about the company in that time, the company can burn down in that time, I neither read email, let alone answer the phone.
Any germanic language has the capability to build long word worms it's just unpopular in English which has also roman /Latin and Norman /French influence in its language. And I think the Welsh produce really long words. And in Russian quite long words and even longer sentences are very common
In the 1990s we had german franchise editions of the nice US TV shows "wheel of fortune", "jeopardy", "the price is right" and "lets make a deal" and they all where one hour long. then, in the 2000s, when the trend went away from game shows on tv, they were all canceled because of insufficient viewers.
I'am from the Netherlands and I get 24 days vacation and 19 days ATV ( special days to get the working week a little bit shorter.). In most firms this ATV shortens the week from 40 work hours to 36 work hours. In my company you can add al these hours up to days and use them like vacation days. In my case (i am 63 years old) i can add a few extra "age days". All added up to 46 days a year. Thats little over 9 weeks to spend.......
Some German companies offer something similar. In my industry it started with the reduction of working hours, at that time you "automatically" had the opportunity to work one day less every 8 weeks, and within six months you should also take this compensatory working time. In principle, overtime is compensated with days off today rather than with payment.
When you fold the german toilet paper at the perforation, you have a good lengt to not touch something you don't want to touch accidentally, but on a shorter american style paper, I wouldn't fold it at the perforation, so I would take 4-5 pieces instead of 2-3 on the longer size paper.
In Some bigger German Companies you are forced to use at least 2 weeks at a time while planning your vacation. Generally you MUST take your Holiday. By the way I have 48 Work-Days paid Vacation this year - almost 10 weeks.
EVERY company should, because it's written in the law. Even if the employee itself would prefer several single weeks, one two-week-holiday is mandatory. It can bring a company into trouble later in a lawsuit against three employee or the union if they wouldn't. The law gives the employee a responsibility to ensure that their employees take their rights, to avoid that a company intentionally creates a mindset, that "motivates" employees not to use what's their right. For instance a company that I know used to pay their employees on montage EVERY overhour that they made, which was often a lot. However they had to limit that to accept only as much as 10 working hours per day and 60 a week, as these are the laws limits. Paying 11 hours a day would mean, they would support that their employees did not follow the law and could bring them into trouble.
Americans *should* be up in arms about their vacation stats. Maybe the internet will help them understand that things don't have to be the way they are. I've really come to appreciate having thirty days PTO to vacation, get things done, or just loaf about. The sick days are crucial too. I don't know if it counts, but I'd say 'creamed corn'. That stuff is disgusting.
I love your channel. I came across it the other day and have since watched quite a few. I'm not sure if you say exactly where you are, but my family is from the Luxembourg border area (echaternacherbruck/irrel/bitburg areas). I haven't been back in a few years and hope to go again in the next year. Love watching. (Brussel sprouts)
My dad once saved 20 days of His Holidays untill the next year (He could keep Them until the end of march) and then He took those 20 days and His whole Holidays for the current year and traveled 10 Weeks to die US.
I work in municipal administration, it's why I come across some strange long word "creations". German tends to reflect a situation as accurately as possible in one word so especially in jurisdicial language they add the circumstancial description to make it plausible. That paradoxically makes the longer words better to comprehend...🤷♀️
I hate chicory.... Concerning the "Germans do it longer"-thing: Sitting in a restaurant and enjoying social life. In the USA, eating in a restaurant feels more like thing you have to go through as fast as possible and you are blocking a table, because the staff interrupts the flow of the conversation frequently every 3-5 minutes.
I was honestly shocked last time I went for lunch (in germany) with my friend and the meal came in less than 10 minutes and we were fully prepared to wait at least 20, because it was packed! xD
@@sunflowerice Another thing Americans do a lot is completely miss the point. Your comment is one example :) Back to topic: Germans (and pretty much everybody else) like to go out to eat because they enjoy the social event of having a meal together. In America, life oftentimes feels a lot like a parking meter. When you're done inserting coins, you're expected to leave and go back home.
@@psibiza I am german and sorry for missing the point? xD I meant that I actually like to take my time when waiting for the meal and I was shocked that one time it came so fast?^^
Yes, this is really a pain in the ass. They just want to Milk you off. You re supposed to eat Quick and leave, then they piss you off by tending to your non-existent needs and then they expect 20% (ESP. In CA) tips for getting On your nerves. And they have guaranteed normal minimum wagę in CA...
@@sunflowerice Ah. okay. Now I get what you tried to say. I have been waiting for the food long and short in both countries. Depends on the place and time of day/week/season more than anything. What @Siggi Kalkmann 's comment is all about is what happens when you're done eating: In both countries, the waiter will come to your table and ask if you want anything else. If you say "No", the German waiter will check on you sporadically but essentially they'll leave you alone. In the US, they're going to bring the check - even if you didn't ask for it. You said you don't want more, so it's okay to ask you to pay and leave, right?
My dad takes eight weaks in summer and two in the Winter every year! Thanks to overtime, and 38 days of payed Holliday's a year! (World wide montages, sometimes 7-10 month at a time). I have only 31 days off. But here in Germany you can also always ask for no payed vacation.
Ich habe 30 Tage Urlaub (= 6 Wochen), über den T-ZUG kommen nochmal acht Tage drauf. Mit einer 35-Stunden-Woche fallen ettliche Überstunden an, die abgefeiert werden müssen und dann war ich noch keinen Tag krankgeschrieben. Läuft.
Most people I know here in Germany get 30 days = 6 weeks of paid vacation. Which you should, considering you only begin to really de-stress after 2 weeks straight off work. And you should do that more than once a year. (Explains why we live longer and are more productive than Americans. 😉)
Brokkoli. Many like to smoke it though. btw. French minimum holiday is 30 days. As is Brazilian afaik. And I love how you say Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacherwerbeeinblendungsschriftart.
@@PassportTwo Well, in our last government our drugadviser said when asked about the Dangers of Cannabis that "Cannabis is no Broccoli" which sort of became a meme for the stupidity of this woman and german drug policies as a whole🤣.
I've heard this from so many Germans. That is why Doritos are having such a hard time here. I learned that Cheetos were literally originally cattle food! Oh, and Germans feel beef jerky being something your dog would eat. Wow we Americans have no class at all, we eat with our hands, and we eat animal feed.
Cabbage Turnip To be fair, that one Schlag den Raab episode that took 6+ hours was caused by a calculation error that left the 15th and final game of the show, the UK pub game Ringing the Bull unwinnable. They simply placed the ring that you had to swing the hook around in a location that could not be reached considering the trajectory of the throw.They still played the game for more than an hour or so, and both candidates left the studio for toilet breaks during the game. :D
Thing #3 is one of the many reasons why I don't watch regular TV anymore. I once watched the first season of The masked singer on Pro7 and IT WAS HORRIBLE ENDLESS!
And belive it or not, as a Kindergartenteacher in Berlin, I got pregnant, and in the 6th week I got a letter from my Doc, written on, yes, she ist very, very pregnant and my boss said "ok, go home and enjoy your full preagnancy, without working, and full salary". 💖
The german vacation time is given by law. You get a certain amount of time depending on your age and that is a must for the employer, but many give more days. It is also by law that you should take the days in that year, but are allowed to take it until march the next year. Every day after that is being dropped. Many employers dont like to see that and some even force you to take your time off from the last year. I think it has something to do with taxes, but I dont really know.
I am German and always use 3 to 4 sheets of toilet paper (yes from the big german ones). When I visited the US I also noticed that their sheets are smaller than ours and there I took 5 or 6 sheets per ... ähhhem ...
I join the : ''... how thick it is '' Group. My longest payed holiday was 3 month (2y vac and 100+ overtime hours) thx to a spec. agreement with my boss ( my longest visit to the US and Kanada ). And 2nd was a 1 month trip to Iceland. A normal v. was between 3 weeks and just a longer weekend. I am retired now. To less money for vac.
My least favorite vegetable is most kinds of cabbage 😔 that said, even when I was in training, during my first year I already had 23 paid vacation days. Might have been because of the worker's union's contract with my employer at the time. I'm from Germany btw.
There is 2-3-4 layer toilet paper available. You fold them to make it thicker. Buying 2layerd ones and take 2 and stack it, is the same as taking just 1 sheet of 4-layerd one. I use the latter. One per swipe. No folding. ... buying the thin one cause it's cheaper, but using 4-5 sheets at a time, is just stupid.
@@PassportTwo The thickness is important. We dont like to get our hands full of stuff while swiping. 1 layer paper ripes too easy apart. Atleast 3 layers are recommended
What I hear is that US TP is usually thinner and is bunched up (creating a kinda temporary loofah). German TP in general is thicker and Germans use the TP sheet flat, or at most two folded. Once someone told me that, I was much happier with US TP. It really isn't suitable to be used "the German way".
Zucchini, courgette, whatever it is called. I used to hate them with a passion. Now I can at least tolerate them. Still not a great fan. Toilette paper is shorter in the US? Huh, I didn't really notice. I primarily noticed the vast amount of water in the toilette. The first time I saw that, I thought the toilette was broken.
I do not like mushrooms are they vegetable? We just call the Eierschalensollbruchstellenerzeuger (we have one) Plong. Nice and short. I have six weeks vacation in a year an I am told to take threes weeks in a row if possible, because it ist called Erholungurlaub. And you can relax better, if you have longer vacation. I work for the state government as a "Beamtin" and I get one week extra, if I help at a Verein as a Ehrenamtliche. I do not do that every year, but I could. I would also get Bildungsurlaub (educationvacation), but I never took that so far. And Some people call the time bevor and after birth Mutterschaftsurlaub. And to top that all. I was alread four time in Kur, you geht that not only paid, but the time off on top off your vacation. And I would also get paid, when I would stay home with a sick child (unter 12). Which country can top that?
With regard to long words: English does have the exact same linguistic feature, just the rules for writing are different: "knee jerk reaction", "health care reform bill amendment" etc.. Linguistically, these form one cluster word. The difference exists only in spelling, where German writes these clusters together or combines them with hyphens in order to stress how they function.
I might be wrong, but I am 99.9% sure - It is mandatory for German workers to take two weeks off in a row at least once a year. Apperently relaxation really only starts after two weeks and that is needed "zum Erhalt der Arbeitsleistung" or in English: A relaxed worker with time off is a more productive worker while in office. Maybe a follow-up episode with an analysis of workplace productivity would help here. ;-)
Vacation: if you marry your partner, someone in your family dies, you are moving from one household to a nee one (and some other stuff you can get extra vacation(1-4 days). Not in every job, you must look at the Tarifvertrag. Or when you want to learn something new there is „Bildungsurlaub“. Another point, when your Kids are sick and one of the parents have to stay at home the doctor gives you a paper and you can stay home. You get your money from the Krankenkasse for this time.
In Danish we also make new words by adding words together, like sporvognsskinneskidtskraberfabrikantsekretærassistenskriveborsbutik and more can be adxec
I'm a member of an old Usenet language group. It has many times been discussed what the longest Danish word is, and the answer is that it does not exist, as you can always add more. Like ie in English if you did the same: Let's say you begin with Train. You could add conducttor and get trainconductor. He is wearing a uniform, thus trainconductoruniform. This is made by a tailor who lives in a house built by a mason with a family car: trainconductoruniformtailorhousemasonfamilycar.... 😁
I think you mistranslated the law name. Let me try: beef labeling supervision duties delegation law. Yes, that works. There's no "cattle" in the title.
Where I work now I get 8hrs of vacation every 2 weeks (I work for the Veterans Administration). And yes I find it hard to just...take days off. Least favorite veg...definitely okra!
I work here too and when I first started to work here, my dad was surprised when I had a vacation here in August. He told me that in the USA, you needed to work a full year to even get vacation and he was surprised. With the vacation days, here in Germany, you must take them the last day of the year the following year by the end of March or say Tschüß to them.. There are exceptions though.. I work in a production company and if I can't take them, I can take them after March 31st. If I am denied because of workload
i have 3-layed toilet paper and use 2-3 pieces depending on the ... outcome 😅 and my least favorite vegetable - if this count as vegetable - would be artichoke 🤢 i will never understand how some Pizzerias can put this garbage on my beloved 4 seasons Pizza 😖
I loved Schlag den Raab never saw an issue with shows taking longer in general or longer than what they're supposed to (from a viewing experience, might be different for the people in front of the camera of course). Depending where I'd go on vacation (longer flights to another continent especially) I couldn't imagine going for less than 2 weeks for it to be worth it. Good question.. I like vegetables, obviously some are preferable, but I can't think of one in particular that I really dislike.
I guess Mark Twain didn't ever read German law codes or other bureaucratic texts.... pretty fun if you like to read complicated stuff. That's where most of the unusually long German words are used. At least those without comical use... There's a relatively new feature: "Easy Language" which is meant to be barrier-free. Vacation is an important thing over here. Employers know about the importance of a healthy Work-Life-Balance. Most of them care about it, too. You have a certain ammount of vacation days per law (basically 2 days per month) - Whether you use them or not, that's mostly your own choice. In some cases, you can choose between a higher salary or more vacation days. After the last time when postmen and -women went on strikes, this choice was offered to them. A friend of mine who is a postman from Hamburg, took the latter option. He then visits his parents in Bremen or his brother in Hannover. Or friends in Bielefeld or near Dortmund. My last vacation was to go to Bielefeld and visit my mum. I stayed there for a week. But there's a special kind of vacation when you have a case of death in your family. Then you can have some days off, too - Employers know you can't focus on your work performance when you mourn about the loss of a beloved one. It happened to my adoptive father (mum's team partner when both worked as paramedics) when his father passed away a few days after a car accident - The worst thing is, my mum and my adoptive father were the ones who were called to the place of the car accident. It happened to me when my grandpa died in 2020 as a result of cancer - I had already informed my superiors and my boss as well some days before, as it was only a matter of time until grandpa passed away. When it happened on a tuesday, I called in at the store and got the rest of the week off. That wasn't a problem - I tried to work after my adoptive father had died in 2019 and it didn't work out well.
My favourite German word is "Zahnradbahnradradmutter". I worked for a short while for a company that built cog rail trains for climbing up steep mountains. You know, the weird leaning trains that can go up steep inclines on the side of mountains. The word is for the nuts to bolt the cog wheel (Zahnrad) to the train and is included in the maintenance list of spares.
TP: somebody isn't fully germanized yet x'D You think too complicated. think practical! 2 squares of TP that are longer not only guarantee you're not pushing your finger through (honestly, I think one is enough with the 3-5 layered TP xD), but also, you're not "missplacing" your hand if you touch your metabolism final product ejecting hole. also, skilled pooper can fold that and use the backside and STILL have enough paper without touching same hole. I am gonna edit this as I watch xD
Let me just point out that as far as I can make out, the rules of when to smush words together with or without hyphens seem to be pretty much the same in German and English, Germans just do it more often. There are quite a lot of words created this way in English, even excluding loan words from German.
Most native speakers of English are completely unaware of the concept behind "long German words". Of course, English also has compound nouns such as watchtower or housewife, but they are limited to two. Watchtower keeper and housewife cliché are already two nouns that one has to recognise as belonging together from the context. Germans recognise them as belonging together by writing them together. Another peculiarity of English prevents native speakers from doing the same in English: The discrepancy between pronunciation and spelling. Few Americans are likely, I assume, to understand at first try what is meant by a watchtowerlightbulbstorageboxkey. Germans read and understand Wachturmglühbirnenvorratskasten schlüssel without any problems.
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I think the german toilett paper have the DIN norm. It is similar like the normal DIN papers ("DIN A4" for example).
That means, if you cut the long size (the 13.5 cm) in the middle, you have two papers which have the same size relationship like the original paper.
In this example: If you cut the toilett paper, you have two paper with the size (13.5/2) cm x 9.5 cm = 6.75 cm x 9.5.
So the original is 9.5 cm x 13.5 cm and the cutted is 6.75 x 9.5 cm.
But the relation is the same:
9.5 / 6.75 = ca. 1.4
13.5 / 9.5 = ca. 1.4
That is what we do with normal paper, too.
If you have a normal DIN A3 paper and cut it in the middle, you have two DIN A4 paper.
And if you cut a DIN A4 paper in the middle, you have two DIN A5 paper.
Oh, and as addition to it, with the normal paper:
If you want to create a little DIN A4 magazine, you can take some DIN A3 paper and fold it in the middle.
IDK if you see and can report it but there is a scammer with your profile-pictures in your coment-section who pretends to be you and asks people to contact them on WhatsApp wtf
3 with 3 ply 2 with 4 ply.. nobody does the one square thing, that is nasty
„Wetten dass…?“ was also famous for taking longer than scheduled. The record was one show exceeding by 73 minutes. As a children who should go to bed when the show is over that was a great thing 😂
This is a common memory among German 30-somethings. The fun part is, nobody really knew when the show would end, Thomas Gottschalk would simply chat the time away and the station head honcho would give him more or less free reign. The control room would simply keep on flashing inserts with guesstimates when the late news would start.
@@sonkejager3305 And the Sportstudio would regularly get upset since it got pushed back further and further. :D Thing is, TV schedules in Austria would add roughly 40 to 50 minutes to German ending times for Wetten daß and be much closer to the truth.
Moreover, the German law on vacation stresses the fact that a single vacation should not be too short as it meant to support regeneration from work time, which does not occur sufficiently after e.g. 4-5 days off. If you get sick during a vacation, you may have the right to get these vacation days back, that you couldn’t use for regeneration, and spend them later in the year.
By law, Germans get at least 4 full weeks of paid holiday, that is 20 workdays if they work in a 5day-week and 24 workdays if they have a 6 day week (rare).
Also by law, if you have more than 12 days in a year (means, you are employed more than 6 month there), the employer has to ensure, that you take at least two weeks in a row once per year.
During the golden years in the 60s, 70s, German unions managed to get 25 and 30 days a year (i.e. IG Metall, that have car manufacturing and machinery companies in their contracts).
We typically need 5 days for the time around Christmas. So there's plenty left. If we go abroad for such large countries as the US, Canada, Australia, ..., we like to use 3 weeks for it to have sufficient time to see a lot.
It gets even more interesting with another added detail: if you are to sick to go to work you can still work or even take a holiday during your paid time off, as long as the activity you do won't interfere with you getting better.
Example:
You work in construction and break your left leg (good luck working that job with a broken leg). The next day your neighbor asks you to teach his kids a bit of math because they have been slacking off in school... you can take that side job without getting in trouble with the law or your employer (ofc that side income has to be taxed, and i'm sure all of us would tell the tax man).
@@wildeast66 I think 30 days - even though not guaranteed by law - is still more or less the norm. But 4 weeks (it's 24 days minimum if you work a six day week) still is a good deal - and allows to really make those hours of flying pay off because you can stay there.
BTW: Technically by law the standard is/should be that you take all your vacation time in a single block, unless the company's or your personal needs forbid that. In practice of course there are a lot of needs which will make us split it up ;) But as you stated, you have to take one two-week block at least.
@@Ulkomaalainen In many jobs, especially where smaller education is needed, they only give what's written in the law. You only might not know those people personally. Ask your local shop assistant, what he gets.
But yes, it is likely more than the half.
As I understand the law, you are not required to take all in one block. Nothing is written there. It only states: If you have more than 12days (referring to a 6 day week) you have to take at least 12 days in a block. Nothing said about any other days. It would also be strange, because you would never have summer holiday because you would need some for Christmas.
@@wildeast66 As I said, in practice I have never heard of somebody taking his whole year's worth of vacation - unless they really want to for a big once-in-a-lifetime trip. Even at one of my previous jobs where there was no possibility for winter vacation around christmas (because year end meant tons of work, so nobody was allowed to take days off), people would rather have one or two weeks in spring or fall than take it all in the summer.
The article in question by the way is §7(2) of the law. "Der Urlaub ist zusammenhängend zu gewähren, es sei denn, daß (yeah, the law hasn't been changed in a while) dringende betriebliche oder in der Person des Arbeitnehmers liegende Gründe eine Teilung des Urlaubs erforderlich machen." - This "es sei denn" is very much used, stretching the words "dringend" and "erforderlich" a bit, but historically the idea was indeed having one large block.
You may be correct about some jobs having less time. In that regard people I know may not be too representative, though it may also be an employer and/or union thing. My employer gives everybody six weeks, even in jobs which do not require higher qualifications. Then again, I am not working in an "every penny counts" environment like discount supermarkets or similar.
Well, I had to immediately pause the video and go to measure the toilet paper, 10cm x 12cm here in the UK. And of course German TV shows are longer, they have to fit in all those long words.
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Frank Motchell! 🤣🤣🤣
I remember when I was in graduate school in the US, as a German. I usually took my entire 3 weeks of vacation that I got in one batch in summer to go back home. Now one year, my grandma died and I asked if maybe, I could get a bit more vacation so as to not have my "vacation" largely consist of burying her. The dean told me that it was their experience that you couldn't do good science if you were gone for more than three weeks in a year. I really had to bite my tongue to ask him how Deisenhofer, who was by then teaching at that very university in the US, got his Nobel prize for work done in Germany, where having four weeks of vacation per year is not just seen as a good idea but the legal minimum.
Why didn't you just ask? If people keep holding back their frustration, nothing will ever change
@@Baccatube79 he literally wrote that he asked the dean (his boss, as far as my understanding for the Anglo Saxon academic world goes)…
@@lukilup1 I'm referring to the tongue-biting part...
There's an imposter among us! 👀
@@Baccatube79
Two reasons:
a)With my grandma recently deceased, I was not really in the mood for a fight.
b)With a student visa, you literally need the university to certify they are expecting you back to get back into the country upon returning from back home. As such, getting into a conflict with said university is a rather poor idea.
If the situation in the US is to change, that's up to US-Americans to take care of. It's not the hill I as a foreigner have to die on.
it's easy. You cannot relax mentally with only a week of vacation. One week is used for smaller activities, such as moving house or cleaning up the basement. Real vacation only begins after 1.5 weeks, which is when I personally think you slowly start to distance yourself from work. Only after the second week can you really relax
In Germany you need to take a PTO of at least 12 working days once a year by law, so usually at least a two week vaction.
I live in germany and due to working in a 3 Shift System (early/Late/nightshift) i have 36 mandatory vacation days. If i don‘t Use them i get a ‚angry‘ Note By my Employer (usually around october) that i have to Go on vacation and Use Them all. ☺️😅
You are supposed to have 36 vacation days when doing 3 shifts? Man, I should really join an Union...
(Do you have 5day or 6 day weeks? Or even 7?)
@@535phobos actually my coworkers just told me that normally we have 38 and this year 39 -> not 36 -> if we work at least 2 Night Shifts per Month. It‘s a 5 day week. However i just Realized i have to Work on Some sundays and Holidays. Maybe that‘s why? Or because my contract is Strukturen via TVÖD-K ?
@@535phobos
Free days between shifts do not count
@@thodan467 Yeah, but you usually get more vacation days if you work the weekends, too. As you have to take 6 days to have a free week instead of 5, which would mean, over the year, one less free week.
@@535phobos Those who work 6 days/week have more vacation days. On average, we have about 6 weeks of vacation. Those who work shifts get additional vacation for the amount of X shifts per year, as well as those who work XY night shifts per year. Disabled and/or older people also get additional vacation. Of course, all this without sick days or medical treatments.
And if you, like me, are absent for almost a year due to illness, you have to make up for the vacation. Then you even have 60 days of vacation and more.
The toilet paper is very easy to explain: It's DIN-like format (i.e. ratio 1:sqrt(2)). And since you wouldn't want one side of the paper to be (much) smaller than 5cm, you'll end up with exactly that format. There is probably a norm for it somewhere (ISO/DIN). The actual ratio seems to be DIN D6 (9.6cmx13.6cm)
Makes sense. I always take three TP stripes btw. 👌🚽
Regarding PTO, another important difference is, PTO in the US must also be used for sick days, while in Germany sick days are completely independent from vacation days.
That's so weird to me! Like, it's not your fault that you get sick.
I guess that's the American Dream for you. You gotta make your own fortune because no one is gonna help you
@@Roozyj It gets even weirder. Everyone is forced to have health insurance, which is (for community insurance type) about 14-15% of your brutto wage (Your kids are also covered as well as your spouse, if he/she does not have own income). We typically pay nothing for ANY medically necessary treatment, no matter how expensive it is. Also, if you have children you'll be able to take 3 days a year off if they are ill and the insurance will pay your wage for those 3 days.
@@wildeast66 Oh, no, I was calling America weird. I'm Dutch myself, so very aware of the advantages and disadvantages of compulsory health insurance :P I mean, it's kinda expensive each month, but when my mother got really sick years ago, my American family asked me if we had to sell the house. Like, no? No, of course we aren't going to sell our house for medicine. Are you crazy? xD
@@wildeast66 to be precise, "pay nothing" is not 100% correct: There is a co-payment of 5 to 10 Euros (depending on the price) for each pack of medicine (exceptions are possible for poor people and for patients who have already paid a lot for these co-payments in the current calendar year), and there is a co-payment of 10€ for each day in hospital, capped to max. 28 days / 280€ per year.
True if you get sick while you are in a Vacasion the Days will added on to the Vacasion For Exemple you take 20 Days from your 30 Days than you have 10 left. Buz if you get sick and a Doctor gives you a certificate of incapacity for work for 14 days, you will be credited 10 of them and you have 20 days again because a normal Working Week is fromMonday to Friday and the Weekend is free .
Counterexample(*)
I visited a baseball(*) game in San Francisco once.
And the game went on and on and on and on … like 3h or so.
And the longer it went on, the less I understood the rules btw.
A soccer game on the other hand has 90min (plus extra-time)
(*) "smushed together" 😆
3 hours for a baseball game are actually quite short.
at baseball the goal is to get as fast as possible points during as least as possible innings. but you also need to stop the other Team from gaining points too. the teams have to play at least 5 innings. if the points are for example 3:20 the Team with the 20 points has already won the game after 5 innings and the game ends. but if both teams are way to close like 7:8 or 4:3 ..or something like that the game continus until a certain amount of difference in points is reached. if i remember correct there have to be at least 5 total points difference between the teams reached to have a winner. until this happens the game continues.
there once was a baseball game that run 3 days because the teams were to equal.
but i think there are also some rules like in the highschool Leagues where games can't run that long where the winner is who has the most points after a certain amount of innings.
I’m American and baseball is the most boring game ever. Basketball, ice hockey, lacrosse and even American football are more exciting. Baseball games can be more exciting if you are at the arena and the teams are a good matchup.
@@chrisk5651
had the impression that baseball could be typical example for a game that I find really interesting to play but not so interesting to watch.
I'll go to a [ basketball | hockey | lacrosse | football ] match next time.
hm... lacrosse could be a thing.
thanks for the hint 🙂
@@christians-p7602 you’re welcome (in both senses - the American & Irish ones - in the USA it is the response to when someone says “Thank you” & in Ireland and maybe other places as well it is used a greeting for guests- whereas in the USA, we would just say welcome - without the “You’re”).
I don't understand baseball, but I don't understand American football either. Or cricket.
Came to live in the USA 12 years ago for family reasons. Thankfully we are retired. American ‘I want it all, I want it fast and I want it now’ culture quite shocked us. Money and possessions (‘stuff’) seemed to be the main religion and work the false idol. Perhaps this is why America doesn’t feature in the top 10 of World Quality of Life or Happiness tables. Priorities are wrong! America - stand back and smell the roses. Roses smell beautiful in Germany (and most of Northern Europe) and the people there love them.
John Kitchen and in southern Europe Rose's stink? My Rose's smell absolutely wonderfull in southern France!🤗😉
US habits of taking respectivliy not taking vacation is really stange. How can you recharge your batteries in 4 or 5 days ? 2-3 weeks are normal in Germany.
@7:02 That is easily explained. Americans have problems with their attention span from constantly texting on the phone while driving. Even manufacturer are fully aware of the problem and assist with warning labels like "Don't put your cat in the microwave." :D
/This! Most Americans I know lack the attention span to even follow a one hour episode of a TV series. As a German, this view is not representative, of course. BUT, this may explain the lengthy summaries at the beginning of each episode. ;)
As to the "Don't put the cat in the microwave oven": I don't know if it's an urban legend, but I remember a law suit in the US in which an owner of a cat did exactly this. Again, don't know for sure if this really happened.
The warning label that got my attention repeatedly on our last US vacation was "After cooking, food will be hot." SO many food packages had this phrase. SMH
The thing about vacation time in the US is - it is not vacation time. In many companies your 'vacation' days include paid sick days and they expect you to be available when you are on vacation. If you have no vacation days at the end of the year and break your leg on ice it can happen that this time is unpaid because you have no sick days. In contrast sick days in Germany are virtually unlimited and vacation is vacation. If your boss calls you on vacation that day is returned to you as a vacation day. The same happens if you get ill on vacation. Vacation is for you to relax and you can't relax when you are ill or when your boss calls you.
One other thing about vacation - Some people in Germany does a different type of part time jobs. The work a year full time but get only paid the part time wage. Then the next year they take the whole year off to take a long vacation (I know a pair that crossed South America on motor bikes in a year) and get paid part time wage for that year, too.
Paid sick days are not quiet unlimited. After six weeks the employer doesn’t pay you anymore. Instead you get a reduced „Krankengeld“ from your insurance company. Granted this is much more comfortable than the US System, still it can get one into financial troubles.
Wait, who on earth uses just one or two pieces of toilet paper at a time? 😂 i rip off at least 5-6 pieces at once. It gets folded. It would take so much effort to do every piece individually
vacation topic: I think, life should be less about working and more about enjoying life. like as much travelling / holiday as u can get. unfortunately many countries like the US or asian countries doesn't allow much holidays or ppl just don't make use of it.
Thats one major thing that has to change imho
With Covid-19, there's been a major push for a work life balance. The reason Americans are in this mess, is because it was our unions who focused more on money, whereas unions in European countries, focused on more time off. It wasn't as bad initially, but by the 70's into the 80's, employers did not want to give people time off as easily. It's 2022, and companies still want to keep this excessive work mentality, that now, not everyone is going back to work as easily. It's going to take legislation to change the work laws. Right now, they favor the employers, and not the employees. Canada is not much better. They at least guarantee 2 weeks a year by law. That is something the US does not guarantee.
And the long show times come from the fact that it was still normal 30 to 40 years ago, that the whole family gathered in front the TV to watch a single show in the evening and then everyone went to bed afterwards (except for the older teenagers who would rather go clubbding or meet some friends later one). So there was no interest in having 3 to 4 shows a single evening, that would have been like visiting 3 to 4 family events within a single evening. These shows were like you invite the show host and the guests to your home to spend a nice evening with you with food and drinks and some entertainment. This wasn't structured down to commercial entertainment because no money was earned with theses shows (they had no commercial breaks, there was no product placement, they didn't even have a sponsor) - it was just for the fun and the entertainment of the audience as well as for the guests of the show as well; as let's be honest, you cannot really call it "work" to sit in such a show, have some chitchat, watch some entertaining acts, and maybe play a couple of stupid party games, can you? Of course, it is work, you may go there to present your new album or movie or some business idea and you may also get paid just to be there but it's not like you really have to perform a lot of actual work.
I once heard that there is a specific difference in toilet paper usage between Germany (Europe?) and the US: Americans are "crumplers", while Germans are "folders". Toilet paper producers allegedly consider this in the tissue properties. I can't tell whether this is true or just some urban legend.
I heard that ist is in general divided into the 2, so even within Germany.
heard that too o.o
There was a report about it once on a TV show. Unfortunately, I can't remember if it was "Galileo" or another short science program.
@@manub.3847 "Galileo" is more show than science, with many "facts" made up. Not a credible source (which doesn't mean it's all made up, but usually at least exaggerated or presented in a misleading way, or accidentally confusing for example China and Japan because who cares).
I still cannot fathom how you could think that crumpling toilet paper is a good idea. Just thinking about it makes me go "Oh HELL no!".
By the way. The classic American PTO would get a company burned at the stake. The mere concept that sick days and paid holidays are even remotely comparable still boggles my mind. Especially in industries with lots of customer contact.
Everyone I know here in Germany uses 3 sheets of toilett paper and we fold them together
For no 1 I only use 2 😉
so true 😅 that's scary what's wrong with us 😂
again, wonderful episode. Pretty much every friday I get home, warm up some leftovers and open UA-cam, almost always minutes after you uploaded a new video. Good start in the weekend!
So nice to hear that 😊 and I am glad that you enjoy!
Longer in Germany: restaurant visits. I was in Neuss last week and went to an all you can eat breakfast buffet and realized people were there for so long, they were done with their breakfast, sat there having coffee and dessert, and then the buffet turned into a lunch buffet and they got up and got lunch! We did the same.
That's called a 'Brunch' in Germany: Br-eakfast and l-unch. It's common to sit there for 4 or 5 hours. You have paid it, you use it! A brunch is a special thing and not every restaurant offers it. A normal restaurant visit consists of only one meal or menu.
Yeah, that is called a brunch even here. No restaurant will give you a breakfast buffet meant as breakfast and then change over to lunch food and let you eat that without paying for lunch buffet extra.
I repeatedly got scolded for not taking two consecutive weeks off. "You can't really relax if you only get one week!". It always feels a bit weird lol
As a teacher I have even more vacation: 6 weeks in summer, one week in autum, two weeks in the Winter, one week around carneval, two weeks around easter and two weeks when Jesus sent the Holy Gost (pentecost,). This is the only reason why teachers dont quit.
That definitely sounds awesome!
Sie haben mehr Urlaub, als Schüler Ferien haben?
@@Graham1312 ne wir Schüler haben auch 12 Wochen Ferien in RLP dieses Jahr 6 im Sommer 2 im Herbst 1 Weihnachten eine Fasching e2 Ostern
@@Sennahoj_DE_RLP laut Frau von Schneiders Rechnung sind es sogar 14 Wochen.
@@Graham1312 der Rest sind bewegliche Ferientage. Ich glaube das sind auch nochmal 8
My first US-vacation was a five weeks RV travel from LA to Miami in the early 90s. My longest vacation ever was 12 weeks, because I couldn't take any vacation for more than two years. To me, any vacation less than three weeks is not really regarded a vacation, just some time off work. But this has actually changed during the past two or three decades for many. They already regard two weeks off as a vacation, and some even just a week off. So instead of two vacations a year, many say now they are doing three or four vacations a year.
Regarding vacation: My last day working in 2022 will be December 7th and I will be on vacation until January 8th 2023 (last sunday before work starts). All already requested and granted by my employer. OK, I'll have to "save up", but as I am not the one going on a summer vacation, that's acutally pretty easy.
As an addition from the legal perspective, an employer is required to grant an uninterrupted two week vacation once a year (Erholungsurlaub).
My theory is that the German toilet paper follows the DIN A norm, which states that the sides of papers should follow a 1:1.41 (one to square root of two) ratio, which has the advantage, that folding the paper in half keeps the ratio of the sides intact.
In general, awarding the longest German word a prize is a somewhat meaningless exercise. I can easily top any word you name with a longer, really existing German word. How do I do that? Just write a number as word! For instance, I was born in 1970, which is Neunzehnhundertsiebzig, 22 letters. But the number itself is Eintausendneunhundertsiebzig, 26 letters. My brother was born 1973, or eintausendneunhundertdreiundsiebzig, 33 letters. The fact, that German writes numbers as one single word, makes words in German arbitrarily long. There is the recommendation not to write numbers with more than two syllables as words. But it's just a recommendation not to spell out the word, it does not make the word non-existant. If you ever feel the need, you might write Graham's number (famous for being included in the Guinness book) or the Small Veblen Ordinal (so much bigger than Graham's number that Graham's number looks rather minuscule in comparison) as words, you need more than just as many universes the size of our universe as our universe has elementary particles just to write each digit at a new elementary particle.
The pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis has a surprisingly short German translation: Staublunge.
#peas
When it comes to holidays, I can have a say. I work for an outpatient nursing service and of course worked through 1 year with preliminary talks with colleagues and nursing service management and used the vacation days saved the following year to live in Australia for 1 month (31 days) at a time + 2 days for the air travel as one flies 24 hours from Germany without major stopovers. It was a wonderful time and I can only recommend taking the time to get to know the country, culture and people.
Charles Clerc, a Swiss news presenter back in the day once said something like "Wir sehen uns in der Spätausgabe der Tagesschau, wann das genau ist weiss weder der Gott noch der Schalk". Wetten Dass was not only known to go on forever but also to be very random in how long it went on.
Neither the god nor the rogue ... Huh? ... Oh, I understand, neither the "Gott" nor the "Schalk". A pun on the presenter's name.
@@uteziemes5633 Yes, this one works only in German 😉
@@uteziemes5633 a Schalk is I think better translated as a joker (as in, someone who makes jokes/a jester/a disreputable person)
last year, I was away from work from April 1rst till May 23rd - I sailed across the Atlantic (Martinique to Lisbon, stopover Azores). It was all paid vacation time (5 weeks last year´s vacation, and the rest left over from the year before.
I love this edit style and especially the music int this video. Donnie you're really improving on and on although you're already on a high standart!
Thanks so much for the encouragement 😊
In Germany, you are guaranteed (by law) to have four weeks of vacation in a year, no matter where you work. It doesn't depend on how long you've been in the company. Also, most companies offer more weeks (I have six weeks per year).
You can more or less take your vacation when you want, as long as the company agrees (which it commonly does, except for obvious reasons, for example if you're working in retail you won't get vacation between Christmas and New Year, as that's a busy time in every store, and also parents have a first-choice right to take their vacation when their children have holidays, which means if you want to have vacation in summer when school are closed parents will have the right to apply for vacation first). Other than that, if you want to take all four weeks back to back, do that, if you want to take only one week four times a year, do that. I commonly try to get two weeks three times a year (like I said, six weeks in total).
Companys also are eager to have their staff actually take the vacation they have, which is why you commonly get a note if you haven't planned all your vacation weeks until October or so. You are required to take off those weeks. You can not simply say "I don't want vacation". It's a law after all, relax a little.
Also, if you're sick, you are sick, not on vacation. You will get a certificate by a doctor for a specific number of days (as long as you're going to be sick and unaible to work), then you'll mail a copy of that certificate to the company and you are literally excused not to work. This also applies if you're on vacation anyway. Say you have two weeks of vacation but you are sick the second week, you can go to the doctor, he'll give you a certificate for as many days as he thinks is justified, you mail the certificate to your employer, and that number of days won't be counted as "vacation days", as you were literally sick, not having a vacation. You will get those extra vacation days later that year, you are entitled to them.
It’s about the same here in Belgium.
You are soooo funny! 😂
Thank you for making me aware of these hilarious facts. 🤩🤩🤩
The vacation statitistics you have shown, was per trip, not per year. This is changing in Germany also, from 3weeks + christmas, more towards 4 times 1 week. For recreation even a long weekend can be enough. The travel expenses are not much higher in Germany, cause in US, you more often take flights and spend money to just see your parents. This type of travelling is rather unusual in Germany, usually you can see all your family within a daytrip by car.
Right, I was talking about per trip at that time because I was talking about how Germans' single trips are longer than Americans' single trips. 😊
I'm about to fly to Canada at the beginning of June. I'm going to stay for three weeks visiting Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. Less than three weeks makes no sense because then it wouldn't be a vacation but rather stressful. Also since the flight itself is a fixed factor, a longer vacation just makes more sense.
Same for me. I drive with an RV. I need at least 2 days to most destinations which are interesting for me. So that's 4 days of stress. Therefore I tend to use 3 weeks. I wanted to go on 5 week trip to Norway this spring, which was no problem with the job, but because of the situation (oil price...) I didn't go.
This reminds me of my four trips to North America. Each one for four weeks, along with some prep time and some jetlag time afterwards, I always had five weeks off. In one piece. Granted, that's not necessarily normal. Usually an employer doesn't like that so much, they are afraid that they will have to re-train you 🙂.
Keep having fun, your videos are great.
Greetz Klaus
Which is partly true. Humans forget little details fast. That cooking recipe you did not use for a long time now exists only fragmented in your head. The controls of the game you did not play in a long time? Bet you forgot some of them. People ususally do not take the full five weeks off. The standard is two weeks at a time. A year is long.
My favourite german word: Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung. Each letter only occurs once. Only possible due to ß, ä, ö and ü.
In German language, composites are written in one word while in English the components remain separated most of the time.
I´ve never meassured the toilet paper by length and the more important part for me is actually how many layers does it have xD because the thinner the more you need^^
Ah yea, the joy of coming up with the longest words xD
That´s what bothers me sometimes when I watch american shows, they go over things way too quickly and I´d love to have some more step-by-step moments or just generally a bit more details, because I wanna know more when I´m interested in something and not just "the highlights"^^
I´m still shocked every time I hear about american vacation days.. I´m not even working full time and I still get over 20 days a year^^
least favorite vegetable.. I dunno, I´m not a great fan of brussels sprouts, but I would still eat them if given?
Long TV shows: Sorry to say it like this but the attention span of a typical American is about 30 seconds. The duration of an US football play or a baseball run. The reason why hockey is popular only in certain regions.
Vacation: I worked for an US company for 29 years and live in the US for some years. I once was in a meeting and we introduced ourselves. After my turn one if my colleagues (from the company headquarters) said: „Oh you Germans with all your holidays“. I replied: „What do you mean? When I look at the headquarters holiday schedule it is just ine day less than in Germany. With the differnce that in Germany holidays that fall on a weekend will not be substituted“ His reply: „OK but you have 4 weeks vacation“ „Not true I said, I have 6“. Thta outraged him, „How can you get 6 weeks vacation?“ I replied: „Simple, come at 08:00 and don‘t leave before 17:00, finish your work correct the first time.“ He didn’t talk to me for at least 4 weeks.
But I also admit that my company, also in the US insited that the employees take their vacation. HR recognized that vacations increase employees overall performance.
The TP in Germany is not square because your hand is not square. German TP simply covers more of the hand and is more functional for a swiping motion
I mean..I wouldn't exactly describe my hand as a rectangle either 😂😉
What is especially long in Germany? Saying goodbye.
Spinach 😅
I had an older American friend who once asked me how many vacation days I get (he found it interesting that I can easily take a week off for a children's' summer camp) and was a little bit shocked when I told him that it's 22 (was at the time) and it's constantly increasing as I get older (we get 1 extra day in every 2-3 years). He told me that he had only 2 weeks (basically 10 days) for a long time and got a few extra many years later.
I always take 3 weeks off twice a year, that is a perfect timing for me. I do not care about the company in that time, the company can burn down in that time, I neither read email, let alone answer the phone.
Any germanic language has the capability to build long word worms it's just unpopular in English which has also roman /Latin and Norman /French influence in its language. And I think the Welsh produce really long words. And in Russian quite long words and even longer sentences are very common
In the 1990s we had german franchise editions of the nice US TV shows "wheel of fortune", "jeopardy", "the price is right" and "lets make a deal" and they all where one hour long. then, in the 2000s, when the trend went away from game shows on tv, they were all canceled because of insufficient viewers.
I'am from the Netherlands and I get 24 days vacation and 19 days ATV ( special days to get the working week a little bit shorter.). In most firms this ATV shortens the week from 40 work hours to 36 work hours.
In my company you can add al these hours up to days and use them like vacation days.
In my case (i am 63 years old) i can add a few extra "age days".
All added up to 46 days a year. Thats little over 9 weeks to spend.......
Some German companies offer something similar. In my industry it started with the reduction of working hours, at that time you "automatically" had the opportunity to work one day less every 8 weeks, and within six months you should also take this compensatory working time.
In principle, overtime is compensated with days off today rather than with payment.
When you fold the german toilet paper at the perforation, you have a good lengt to not touch something you don't want to touch accidentally, but on a shorter american style paper, I wouldn't fold it at the perforation, so I would take 4-5 pieces instead of 2-3 on the longer size paper.
In Some bigger German Companies you are forced to use at least 2 weeks at a time while planning your vacation. Generally you MUST take your Holiday. By the way I have 48 Work-Days paid Vacation this year - almost 10 weeks.
EVERY company should, because it's written in the law. Even if the employee itself would prefer several single weeks, one two-week-holiday is mandatory. It can bring a company into trouble later in a lawsuit against three employee or the union if they wouldn't. The law gives the employee a responsibility to ensure that their employees take their rights, to avoid that a company intentionally creates a mindset, that "motivates" employees not to use what's their right.
For instance a company that I know used to pay their employees on montage EVERY overhour that they made, which was often a lot.
However they had to limit that to accept only as much as 10 working hours per day and 60 a week, as these are the laws limits. Paying 11 hours a day would mean, they would support that their employees did not follow the law and could bring them into trouble.
Switzerland has 4 weeks paid vacation (5 if you are under 20, and sometimes also 5 once you are over 50). I hate eggplant.
Almost every single person I know working a normal 40h week, has at least 30 days of PTO a year.
Americans *should* be up in arms about their vacation stats. Maybe the internet will help them understand that things don't have to be the way they are. I've really come to appreciate having thirty days PTO to vacation, get things done, or just loaf about. The sick days are crucial too.
I don't know if it counts, but I'd say 'creamed corn'. That stuff is disgusting.
FFS! We *DO NOT INVENT* words - they just happen to be needed in random, picular spots in ie: Law-Texts, contracts, etc
I love your channel. I came across it the other day and have since watched quite a few. I'm not sure if you say exactly where you are, but my family is from the Luxembourg border area (echaternacherbruck/irrel/bitburg areas). I haven't been back in a few years and hope to go again in the next year. Love watching. (Brussel sprouts)
My dad once saved 20 days of His Holidays untill the next year (He could keep Them until the end of march) and then He took those 20 days and His whole Holidays for the current year and traveled 10 Weeks to die US.
I work in municipal administration, it's why I come across some strange long word "creations". German tends to reflect a situation as accurately as possible in one word so especially in jurisdicial language they add the circumstancial description to make it plausible. That paradoxically makes the longer words better to comprehend...🤷♀️
I hate chicory.... Concerning the "Germans do it longer"-thing: Sitting in a restaurant and enjoying social life. In the USA, eating in a restaurant feels more like thing you have to go through as fast as possible and you are blocking a table, because the staff interrupts the flow of the conversation frequently every 3-5 minutes.
I was honestly shocked last time I went for lunch (in germany) with my friend and the meal came in less than 10 minutes and we were fully prepared to wait at least 20, because it was packed! xD
@@sunflowerice Another thing Americans do a lot is completely miss the point. Your comment is one example :) Back to topic: Germans (and pretty much everybody else) like to go out to eat because they enjoy the social event of having a meal together. In America, life oftentimes feels a lot like a parking meter. When you're done inserting coins, you're expected to leave and go back home.
@@psibiza I am german and sorry for missing the point? xD I meant that I actually like to take my time when waiting for the meal and I was shocked that one time it came so fast?^^
Yes, this is really a pain in the ass. They just want to Milk you off. You re supposed to eat Quick and leave, then they piss you off by tending to your non-existent needs and then they expect 20% (ESP. In CA) tips for getting On your nerves. And they have guaranteed normal minimum wagę in CA...
@@sunflowerice Ah. okay. Now I get what you tried to say.
I have been waiting for the food long and short in both countries. Depends on the place and time of day/week/season more than anything.
What @Siggi Kalkmann 's comment is all about is what happens when you're done eating: In both countries, the waiter will come to your table and ask if you want anything else. If you say "No", the German waiter will check on you sporadically but essentially they'll leave you alone.
In the US, they're going to bring the check - even if you didn't ask for it. You said you don't want more, so it's okay to ask you to pay and leave, right?
shows last for hours on TV because you have 15 minutes of ads every 20-30 minutes .... reason why i dumped my TV some 10 years ago.
lol one or two single squares? I make a meter long stripe, fold it two times that the paper has 16 layers and then its good to go.
My dad takes eight weaks in summer and two in the Winter every year! Thanks to overtime, and 38 days of payed Holliday's a year! (World wide montages, sometimes 7-10 month at a time). I have only 31 days off. But here in Germany you can also always ask for no payed vacation.
Ich habe 30 Tage Urlaub (= 6 Wochen), über den T-ZUG kommen nochmal acht Tage drauf. Mit einer 35-Stunden-Woche fallen ettliche Überstunden an, die abgefeiert werden müssen und dann war ich noch keinen Tag krankgeschrieben. Läuft.
Most people I know here in Germany get 30 days = 6 weeks of paid vacation. Which you should, considering you only begin to really de-stress after 2 weeks straight off work. And you should do that more than once a year. (Explains why we live longer and are more productive than Americans. 😉)
I can't stand Olives.
Donnie = Magnum P.I. 🤔
Donnie = Ned Flanders 👍
the minimum paid vacation by german low for employees how work 5 days a week is 21 days per year. (typically in firms without labor union)
companies*
I am a german, so maybe this is ironic, but my least favourite vegetable is asparagus lol
You are not alone.
Brokkoli. Many like to smoke it though.
btw. French minimum holiday is 30 days. As is Brazilian afaik.
And I love how you say Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacherwerbeeinblendungsschriftart.
Cannabis is no Brokkoli xD
@@EHonda-ds6ve Really? Who would have thought!
I admit the joke might not hit with non- Germans.
Anyway, I can't stand the smell of either.
Unfortunately that joke did go over my head I guess...😂
@@PassportTwo Well, in our last government our drugadviser said when asked about the Dangers of Cannabis that "Cannabis is no Broccoli" which sort of became a meme for the stupidity of this woman and german drug policies as a whole🤣.
CORN!... but actually couldn't think of any vegetable at first & I eat even corn but think it's something we definitely can leave for animals to eat.
I've heard this from so many Germans. That is why Doritos are having such a hard time here. I learned that Cheetos were literally originally cattle food! Oh, and Germans feel beef jerky being something your dog would eat. Wow we Americans have no class at all, we eat with our hands, and we eat animal feed.
Me and my family normally travel 3 weeks to Denmark every summer. (Witch are 21 days, so pretty long, but it’s the only Travel we make in a year.)
Cabbage Turnip
To be fair, that one Schlag den Raab episode that took 6+ hours was caused by a calculation error that left the 15th and final game of the show, the UK pub game Ringing the Bull unwinnable. They simply placed the ring that you had to swing the hook around in a location that could not be reached considering the trajectory of the throw.They still played the game for more than an hour or so, and both candidates left the studio for toilet breaks during the game. :D
Thing #3 is one of the many reasons why I don't watch regular TV anymore. I once watched the first season of The masked singer on Pro7 and IT WAS HORRIBLE ENDLESS!
And belive it or not, as a Kindergartenteacher in Berlin, I got pregnant, and in the 6th week I got a letter from my Doc, written on, yes, she ist very, very pregnant and my boss said "ok, go home and enjoy your full preagnancy, without working, and full salary". 💖
The german vacation time is given by law. You get a certain amount of time depending on your age and that is a must for the employer, but many give more days. It is also by law that you should take the days in that year, but are allowed to take it until march the next year. Every day after that is being dropped. Many employers dont like to see that and some even force you to take your time off from the last year. I think it has something to do with taxes, but I dont really know.
I can easily do without 3 hours of „Wetten dass“, but I do love my 30 days of paid leave every year.
Please maintain the bloopers at the end 😂👍🏻
I am German and always use 3 to 4 sheets of toilet paper (yes from the big german ones). When I visited the US I also noticed that their sheets are smaller than ours and there I took 5 or 6 sheets per ... ähhhem ...
I join the : ''... how thick it is '' Group. My longest payed holiday was 3 month (2y vac and 100+ overtime hours) thx to a spec. agreement with my boss ( my longest visit to the US and Kanada ). And 2nd was a 1 month trip to Iceland. A normal v. was between 3 weeks and just a longer weekend. I am retired now. To less money for vac.
My least favorite vegetable is most kinds of cabbage 😔 that said, even when I was in training, during my first year I already had 23 paid vacation days. Might have been because of the worker's union's contract with my employer at the time. I'm from Germany btw.
Normaly we had 28-30 days off for a holiday. That are 1x tree weeks, 1x two weeks and 1x one week.
If you are older you get more days.
There is 2-3-4 layer toilet paper available. You fold them to make it thicker. Buying 2layerd ones and take 2 and stack it, is the same as taking just 1 sheet of 4-layerd one. I use the latter. One per swipe. No folding. ... buying the thin one cause it's cheaper, but using 4-5 sheets at a time, is just stupid.
Ah, now we are getting into thickness rather than just length. Nice strategy though! 😅
@@PassportTwo The thickness is important. We dont like to get our hands full of stuff while swiping. 1 layer paper ripes too easy apart. Atleast 3 layers are recommended
Well Europeans Fold toilet paper and americans crumple them i think, American toilet paper i did use just breaks and u have shit on ur hand xD
@@Warliet *rips
Just what I wanted to write 👍
What I hear is that US TP is usually thinner and is bunched up (creating a kinda temporary loofah). German TP in general is thicker and Germans use the TP sheet flat, or at most two folded. Once someone told me that, I was much happier with US TP. It really isn't suitable to be used "the German way".
Zucchini, courgette, whatever it is called. I used to hate them with a passion. Now I can at least tolerate them. Still not a great fan. Toilette paper is shorter in the US? Huh, I didn't really notice. I primarily noticed the vast amount of water in the toilette. The first time I saw that, I thought the toilette was broken.
I do not like mushrooms are they vegetable? We just call the Eierschalensollbruchstellenerzeuger (we have one) Plong. Nice and short. I have six weeks vacation in a year an I am told to take threes weeks in a row if possible, because it ist called Erholungurlaub. And you can relax better, if you have longer vacation. I work for the state government as a "Beamtin" and I get one week extra, if I help at a Verein as a Ehrenamtliche. I do not do that every year, but I could. I would also get Bildungsurlaub (educationvacation), but I never took that so far. And Some people call the time bevor and after birth Mutterschaftsurlaub. And to top that all. I was alread four time in Kur, you geht that not only paid, but the time off on top off your vacation. And I would also get paid, when I would stay home with a sick child (unter 12). Which country can top that?
From heidelberg to Jacksonville FL and now also in rheinlandpfalz
With regard to long words: English does have the exact same linguistic feature, just the rules for writing are different: "knee jerk reaction", "health care reform bill amendment" etc.. Linguistically, these form one cluster word. The difference exists only in spelling, where German writes these clusters together or combines them with hyphens in order to stress how they function.
I might be wrong, but I am 99.9% sure - It is mandatory for German workers to take two weeks off in a row at least once a year. Apperently relaxation really only starts after two weeks and that is needed "zum Erhalt der Arbeitsleistung" or in English: A relaxed worker with time off is a more productive worker while in office. Maybe a follow-up episode with an analysis of workplace productivity would help here. ;-)
Vacation: if you marry your partner, someone in your family dies, you are moving from one household to a nee one (and some other stuff you can get extra vacation(1-4 days). Not in every job, you must look at the Tarifvertrag. Or when you want to learn something new there is „Bildungsurlaub“.
Another point, when your Kids are sick and one of the parents have to stay at home the doctor gives you a paper and you can stay home. You get your money from the Krankenkasse for this time.
In Danish we also make new words by adding words together, like sporvognsskinneskidtskraberfabrikantsekretærassistenskriveborsbutik and more can be adxec
That makes sense with how closely related the two languages are, but I never knew that about Danish. Thanks for teaching me this! 😊
I'm a member of an old Usenet language group. It has many times been discussed what the longest Danish word is, and the answer is that it does not exist, as you can always add more. Like ie in English if you did the same: Let's say you begin with Train. You could add conducttor and get trainconductor. He is wearing a uniform, thus trainconductoruniform. This is made by a tailor who lives in a house built by a mason with a family car: trainconductoruniformtailorhousemasonfamilycar.... 😁
I think you mistranslated the law name. Let me try: beef labeling supervision duties delegation law. Yes, that works. There's no "cattle" in the title.
Where I work now I get 8hrs of vacation every 2 weeks (I work for the Veterans Administration). And yes I find it hard to just...take days off. Least favorite veg...definitely okra!
I work here too and when I first started to work here, my dad was surprised when I had a vacation here in August. He told me that in the USA, you needed to work a full year to even get vacation and he was surprised. With the vacation days, here in Germany, you must take them the last day of the year the following year by the end of March or say Tschüß to them.. There are exceptions though.. I work in a production company and if I can't take them, I can take them after March 31st. If I am denied because of workload
i have 3-layed toilet paper and use 2-3 pieces depending on the ... outcome 😅
and my least favorite vegetable - if this count as vegetable - would be artichoke 🤢
i will never understand how some Pizzerias can put this garbage on my beloved 4 seasons Pizza 😖
Most Americans don't fold toilet paper, they crumple it, and they definitely aren't counting the squares 😂
I rip off two sheets of paper.
Least favourite vegetable? Probably bell peppers.
I loved Schlag den Raab never saw an issue with shows taking longer in general or longer than what they're supposed to (from a viewing experience, might be different for the people in front of the camera of course).
Depending where I'd go on vacation (longer flights to another continent especially) I couldn't imagine going for less than 2 weeks for it to be worth it.
Good question.. I like vegetables, obviously some are preferable, but I can't think of one in particular that I really dislike.
I guess Mark Twain didn't ever read German law codes or other bureaucratic texts.... pretty fun if you like to read complicated stuff.
That's where most of the unusually long German words are used. At least those without comical use...
There's a relatively new feature: "Easy Language" which is meant to be barrier-free.
Vacation is an important thing over here. Employers know about the importance of a healthy Work-Life-Balance. Most of them care about it, too. You have a certain ammount of vacation days per law (basically 2 days per month) - Whether you use them or not, that's mostly your own choice.
In some cases, you can choose between a higher salary or more vacation days. After the last time when postmen and -women went on strikes, this choice was offered to them. A friend of mine who is a postman from Hamburg, took the latter option. He then visits his parents in Bremen or his brother in Hannover. Or friends in Bielefeld or near Dortmund.
My last vacation was to go to Bielefeld and visit my mum. I stayed there for a week.
But there's a special kind of vacation when you have a case of death in your family. Then you can have some days off, too - Employers know you can't focus on your work performance when you mourn about the loss of a beloved one.
It happened to my adoptive father (mum's team partner when both worked as paramedics) when his father passed away a few days after a car accident - The worst thing is, my mum and my adoptive father were the ones who were called to the place of the car accident.
It happened to me when my grandpa died in 2020 as a result of cancer - I had already informed my superiors and my boss as well some days before, as it was only a matter of time until grandpa passed away. When it happened on a tuesday, I called in at the store and got the rest of the week off. That wasn't a problem - I tried to work after my adoptive father had died in 2019 and it didn't work out well.
i think the vacation thing is also because in america there are quite a few 24/7 stores which is a rarity in germany
My favorite long German word is from the title of Robert Schumann’s “Faschingsschwank aus Wien”. 7 consonants in a row!
My favourite German word is "Zahnradbahnradradmutter". I worked for a short while for a company that built cog rail trains for climbing up steep mountains. You know, the weird leaning trains that can go up steep inclines on the side of mountains. The word is for the nuts to bolt the cog wheel (Zahnrad) to the train and is included in the maintenance list of spares.
TP: somebody isn't fully germanized yet x'D You think too complicated. think practical! 2 squares of TP that are longer not only guarantee you're not pushing your finger through (honestly, I think one is enough with the 3-5 layered TP xD), but also, you're not "missplacing" your hand if you touch your metabolism final product ejecting hole. also, skilled pooper can fold that and use the backside and STILL have enough paper without touching same hole.
I am gonna edit this as I watch xD
Let me just point out that as far as I can make out, the rules of when to smush words together with or without hyphens seem to be pretty much the same in German and English, Germans just do it more often. There are quite a lot of words created this way in English, even excluding loan words from German.
Most native speakers of English are completely unaware of the concept behind "long German words". Of course, English also has compound nouns such as watchtower or housewife, but they are limited to two. Watchtower keeper and housewife cliché are already two nouns that one has to recognise as belonging together from the context. Germans recognise them as belonging together by writing them together. Another peculiarity of English prevents native speakers from doing the same in English: The discrepancy between pronunciation and spelling. Few Americans are likely, I assume, to understand at first try what is meant by a watchtowerlightbulbstorageboxkey. Germans read and understand Wachturmglühbirnenvorratskasten schlüssel without any problems.