5 ANNOYING THINGS ABOUT LIFE IN GERMANY
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Living in Germany is amazing and we are so fortunate to be able to do so! But...if we are being nit-picky...there are a few things that we find mildly annoying. Today we discuss a few of these very small and minute things! Again, we LOVE it here and the good FAR outweighs just a tiny few things that mostly aren't even that big of a deal at all. 😊
1:55 - Cool Off
2:20 - Right Turn on Red
4:15 - Accessibility
7:23 - Bio Trash
8:51 - Free Refills and Water
10:02 - German Bureaucracy
13:00 - Bloopers
Filmed: Kaiserslautern / Ramstein, Germany - June 2020
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Again! 😅We hope you all understand how much we LOVE it here in Germany, how fortunate we are to live here, and we are just having a little fun. We had to sit and think for a while in order to even just to come up with these things to have this little fun. 😊Hope you enjoyed!
Have you noticed the green arrow ( der grüne Pfeil) at Traffic lights. This allowed you to turn right at a red light after stopping and checking for traffic.
I agree with the disabled accesses, I takes way to long not only in Germany also here in Australia where I live.
Paying for tap water is ridiculous, here in Australia you can get in all cafes and restaurants tap water for free!
With the German bureaucracy I got angry too while I was living in Germany. Here in Australia is it so easy with order a driving license or register a vehicle. That I don’t miss from Germany.
Only the bread, cake and pastries I miss very much.
@@markusberndkrause2858 The green arrow on the traffic lights is in Germany since the German reunification. Before that it was only in the DDR (GDR)
Bureaucracy at perfection:
ua-cam.com/video/wAoUNTRFgvM/v-deo.html
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@robertdeschinger2968 Der gute alte Passierschein A38 :) just re-watched it - what a great and timeless piece of entertainment - here an English version for those who don't understand German: ua-cam.com/video/kg-HNYCJQ1U/v-deo.html
To make the life of people with disability/wheel chair easier, for example all S-Bahn and U-Bahn stations in Hamburg got an elevator in the last years. Public buildings (like Finanzamt) mostly have possibilites for disabled people. Of course, there is still a lot to do, but we are working on it. :-) I know some Volkshochschulen in Hamburg (Sternschanze, Mönckebergstraße, Farmsen, Barmbek), they all have an elevator to every floor for disabled people.
However, disposing of biowaste through the sewerage system - as in the USA - also leads to many more mice and rats living in the sewers because they find food there. The only rats I have seen in almost 40 years in Germany were pets.
You can sometimes see them close to rivers... 😨
Divers licences, ID card and passport are federal documents.
There is only the Bundesdruckerei in Berlin which is allowed t print these documents.
So it takes time.
Hi guys! regarding your german drivers license: First: Going to driving school in germany takes actually A LOT of hours driving and learning before you can get a license. it can take months until you are approved for even taking a goverment approved final testdrive. which you have to do almost without any fails! Second: There are a lot of cars moving in a much more dense and narrow environment, comparing to the US. Third: In Germany it is mandatory to be able to drive with a stick shift gearbox, which makes your learning curve even harder! Fourth: As you know, being able to drive on Autobahn, sometimes without any speed limits, your driving skills need to be practiced very well before you can be allowed to participate in traffic. And finally: Therefore, the german drivers lisence has to be a nearly unfakeable ID-card which needs time to produce. And usually, if you apply for a lisence while taking driving lessons, your license ID-card gets produced in the meantime, so that you get it handed over immediately, after you master your final testdrive. And by the way, in 1992 for example, I paid around 2.500 Euro and spent 4 month in driving school before I got my lisence!
Your third is wrong. You can get a drivers licence without even once getting a hand on a stick. But then you are not allowed to drive cars with stick. So if you get your non-stick licence, you are only allowed to drive non-stick cars. Sincerely a German guy who got his licence 5 years ago and opted(!) in for stick driving
If I remember correctly, it took me 7 weeks, the mandatory 12 hours driving lessons and 1800 DM in spring ‘88
Von der Wiege bis zur Bahre - Formulare, Formulare ...
Passierschein A38
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@@Akkaren79 -> Reinhard Mey: Einen Antrag auf Erteilung eines Antragsformulars zur Bestätigung der Nichtigkeit des Durchschriftexemplars ...
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Lyrics:
Mein Verhältnis zu Behörden war nicht immer ungetrübt
Was allein nur daran lag, daß man nicht kann, was man nicht übt
Heute geh' ich weltmännisch auf allen Ämtern ein und aus
Schließlich bin ich auf den Dienstwegen schon so gut wie zu Haus
Seit dem Tag, an dem die Aktenhauptverwertungsstelle Nord
Mich per Einschreiben aufforderte: Schicken Sie uns sofort
Einen Antrag auf Erteilung eines Antragsformulars
Zur Bestätigung der Nichtigkeit des Durchschriftexemplars
Dessen Gültigkeitsvermerk von der Bezugsbehörde stammt
Zum Behuf der Vorlage beim zuständ'gen Erteilungsamt
Bis zu jenem Tag wusst' ich nicht einmal, daß es sowas gab
Doch wer gibt das schon gern von sich zu, so kramt' ich, was ich hab
An Papier'n und Dokumenten aus dem alten Schuhkarton
Röntgenbild, Freischwimmerzeugnis, Parkausweis und Wäschebon
Damit ging ich auf ein Amt, aus all' den Türen sucht' ich mir
Die sympatischste heraus und klopfte an: "Tag, gibt's hier
Einen Antrag auf Erteilung eines Antragsformulars
Zur Bestätigung der Nichtigkeit des Durchschriftexemplars,
Dessen Gültigkeitsvermerk von der Bezugsbehörde stammt
Zum Behuf der Vorlage beim zuständ'gen Erteilungsamt."
"Tja", sagte der Herr am Schreibtisch, "alles, was Sie wollen, nur
Ich bin hier Vertretung, der Sachbearbeiter ist zur Kur
Allenfalls könnte ich Ihnen, wenn Ihnen das etwas nützt
Die Broschüre überlassen, , Wie man sich vor Karies schützt'
Aber frag'n Sie mal den Pförtner, man sagt, der kennt sich hier aus."
Und das tat ich dann "ach, bitte, wo bekommt man hier im Haus
Eine Antragsformulierung, die die Nichtigkeit erklärt.
Für die Vorlage der Gültigkeit, nee halt! Das war verkehrt
Dessen Gültigkeitsbehörde im Erteilungszustand liegt
Na ja, Sie wissen schon, so'n Zettel, wissen Sie, wo man den kriegt?
"Da sind Sie hier ganz und gar verkehrt, am besten ist, Sie geh'n
Zum Verlegungsdienst für den Bezirksbereich Parkstraße 10
In die Abwertungsabteilung für den Formularausschuss.
Bloß, beeil'n Se sich ein bisschen, denn um zwei Uhr ist da Schluss.
Dort bestell'n Se dann dem Pförtner einen schönen Gruß von mir,
Und dann kriegen Sie im zweiten Stock, rechts, Zimmer 104
Einen Antrag auf Erteilung eines Antragsformulars
Zur Bestätigung der Nichtigkeit des Durchschriftexemplars
Dessen Gültigkeitsvermerk von der Bezugsbehörde stammt
Zum Behuf der Vorlage beim zuständ'gen Erteilungsamt."
In der Parkstraße 10 sagte mir der Pförtner: "Ach, zu dumm
Die auf 104 stell'n seit 2 Wochen auf Computer um
Und die Nebendienststelle, die sonst Härtefälle betreut,
Ist seit elf Uhr zu, die feiern da ein Jubiläum heut'
Frau Schlibrowski ist auf Urlaub, tja, da bleibt Ihnen wohl nur
Es im Neubau zu probier'n, vielleicht hat da die Registratur
Einen Antrag auf Erteilung eines Antragsformulars
Zur Bestätigung der Nichtigkeit des Durchschriftexemplars
Dessen Gültigkeitsvermerk von der Bezugsbehörde stammt
Zum Behuf der Vorlage beim zuständ'gen Erteilungsamt."
Ich klopfte, trat ein, und spürte rote Punkte im Gesicht
Eine Frau kochte grad' Kaffee, sie beachtete mich nicht
Dann trank sie genüsslich schlürfend, ich stand dumm lächelnd im Raum
Schließlich putzte sie ausgiebig einen fetten Gummibaum
Ich räusperte mich noch einmal
Doch dann schrie ich plötzlich schrill
Warf mich trommelnd auf den Boden, und ich röchelte: "Ich will
Meinen Antrag auf Erteilung eines Antragsformulars
Zur Bestätigung der Nichtigkeit des Durchschriftexemplars
Dessen Gültigkeit, ach, wissen Sie, Sie rost'ge Gabel Sie
Nageln Sie sich Ihr Scheißformular gefälligst selbst vor's Knie."
Schluchzend robbt' ich aus der Tür
Blieb zuckend liegen, freundlich hob
Mich der Aktenbote auf seinen Aktenkarren und schob
Mich behutsam durch die Flure, spendete mir Trost und Mut
"Wir zwei roll'n jetzt zum Betriebsarzt, dann wird alles wieder gut
Ich geb' nur schnell 'nen Karton Vordrucke bei der Hauspost auf
Würden Sie mal kurz aufstehen, Sie sitzen nämlich grade drauf
Is'n Posten alter Formulare, die geh'n ans Oberverwaltungsamt zurück
Da soll'n die jetzt eingestampft werden
Das sind diese völlig überflüssigen
Anträge auf Erteilung eines Antragsformulars
Zur Bestätigung der Nichtigkeit des Durchschriftexemplars
Dessen Gültigkeitsvermerk von der Bezugsbehörde stammt
Zum Behuf der Vorlage beim zuständ'gen Erteilungsamt
I told your fellow american Zac Saleski the trick about to get water in Germany. German beer contains about 95 % of pure, clean delicious water ! Take advantage of this ;-) .
Schmeckt trotzdem nicht gut.
@@caciliawhy5195 was für ein Gesöff trinkst Du denn? Das Bier von den großen Braurereien ausser Rothaus kann man getrost vergessen, aber es gibt ja immer noch die Kleinen.
I love the turn on red rule whenever I'm in the US, but I can also see as to why it is not suitable for German roads. You have a lot more pedestrians and bicycles on the road, and intersections here can be quite different to the generic grid intersections you'll find in the US. In places where it is safe to turn on red, you'll find the green arrow which must be treated as a stop sign.
Also, I remember getting free refills at KFC in Germany like 10 years ago. Not sure if that's still the case.
As a person who rides the bicycle everywhere, I must agree. Even as it is car drivers often take my right of way. So if I am on the bicycle lane riding straight on, but the bicycle lane is on the sidewalk, I would have the right of way before a car could turn right, but I sure wouldn't get it and soon be run over. But well, that perhaps is more a problem of bicycling in Germany *sigh*
So, I already am frustrated about the problems getting everywhere by bike, missing bike lanes etc, and am totally with you, Aubrey, about the lack of accessability - Germany really has a lot of work to do on this topic.
Beamte arbeiten nach drei Grundsätzen: 1. das haben wir schon immer so gemacht. 2. das haben wir noch nie so gemacht. 3. da könnt ja jeder kommen.
Advice on Biomüll: Keep, if possible, the big bins outside in the shadow. Empty the small bin at least after 2 days if there's something in it. And most important of all: wrap EVERYTHING you put in the Biomüll in one or two layers of old newspaper. It's OK because paper is biodegradable and it helps prevent bad smell and flies in the kitchen.
well at least where I am living the Bio bin is emptied every week in Summer and every two weeks in winter, it sits outside and as the food rubbish is always covered with stuff I took out of the garden it does not really smell
Well, theoretically we have in Germany the "Grünpfeil" that allows cars to turn right at a red light if installed. The traffic sign came from East Germany and was then introduced to West Germany in the 90s. Unfortunately, it seems to have been too dangerous in many cases; I know that Hamburg for example started with a large number of "Grünpfeile" and then reduced them to like a 100 or so, when the number of accidents with pedestrians and bicycles increased.
The problem is that for Grünpfeil to legally use, you need to halt first and look if the road is clear
And some cars and some bicycles doesn't respect that
@Tagedieb However they vote green most of the time^^.
@@Hanmacx That would also be the rule if you could go on red wouldn't it?
nice video!!! :-)
... the "problem" with bio trash, especially in cities, is super annoying. If you have a garden or ever visit a German family in a smaller town or village, basically everybody will have a compost. We don't even have bio trash bins :)
That is a really great solution to the problem!! We are slowly starting to garden ourselves and this is something we will definitely have to look into to solve this problem 😂 Thanks for the suggestion!
we have both
We also have a bio trash bin and a compost in our garden too. For people who don't have gardens, there are ideas on how to build a compost to have inside the kitchen, if people are into it.
Complaining about mildly annoying things? Okay, you are germanized...
You are actually allowed to turn right at a red light IF there is a sign with a small green arrow. Most of the time it is simply too dangerous, though, because there are cars, pedestrians and bikers coming from different directions and there is not way that the driver can truly take in all of them.
Also we have to contend with strassenbahn.
You usually can make online appointments at the Bürgeramt and the Kfz-Zulassungsstelle which skips the waiting
Great tip!
They call it Bürgerbüro here in Neuwied (65K pop) and combine all but the exotic stuff in one place.
They enshure a first come first serve with a ticket dispenser and have about ten counters to work on the line, online reservation ist possible.
Just retrieving things like a document is handled at a reception counter.
@@PassportTwo I admit (as a German!) I am not able to do my annual Lohnsteuererkläung (tax declaration) for Finanzamt alone. Luckily the labour union Ver.Di offers a free service and does it for me every year...
The German singer Reinhard May made a funny song about German bureaucracy ("Einen Antrag auf Erteilung eines Antragformulars"): ua-cam.com/video/MJbn5BtAEoc/v-deo.html
Love the dance party at the beginning!! 😍🎉 Great video guys!! I agree with the water refill thing!! And, not going to lie...I wore socks and sandals when I lived in the US and I'm loving that Germany is so accepting of this fashion choice! 😂😋
Haha, well...to be come clean ourselves...we are big Chaco wearers and we have been known to pull a “socko-Chaco” day and wear socks with our sandals as well...😂
@@PassportTwo 😂😂😂 LOVE IT!
My first shock regarding the love for letters was when I first went to my family doctor and, at the end, they said they would send the invoice by post. It came a month later with the "outrageous" amount if 11€ something. Just the time and cost of printing it, posting it, the paper, the ink, etc, was a chunk of that. 🤔
The second time I went there I said "well... I can give you my email and you can send the invoice by email". And they replied "it's the first time someone asks that". 😳😲
We have the same thoughts every time we notice mail in our mailbox for things like this 😂
Very awesome video. I do miss the free refills when I am in Germany lol. I have a bad back due to a back injury that occurred in Grafenwoher, Germany many years ago and sometimes I walk with a cane. Sometimes I have a hard time climbing stairs due to my injury and that could be a literal pain :). I don't let anything stop me though lol. I do notice that the newer building all have elevators which is a plus. Thanks for this video, I loved all the dancing and of course the bloopers lol lol :).
I love it! So true about rationing your drink! I now have a system where I will order a full bottle of (still) water and either a coke or a glass of wine. Together I have more than enough to get through a meal. But gosh darn it, I miss free refills!!!
As a German, the most annoying thing about Germans to me is, that Germans seem to always complain about everything.
you shoul talk to Poles then.. you in Germany barely know what the real complaining is ; )
Lukas .. very amusing.
Turn right stuff: There is that in Germany but not as a general rule but as a sign close to the traffic light. It is rare and has been removed on a couple of occuasions it was but yes: It is available. It is just no general rule or something like that.
You mean the green arrow? In Berlin I come across it daily hundreds of times.
Great video. Love the t-shirt, Donnie!!
Love the person who gave it to me! 😃
They had a trial run at a crossroads in a suburb where I used to live with a green arrow sign that allowed people to turn right even when the light was red.
They took down the sign after a year or two and gave up on the whole idea because there were suddenly SO many accidents at that crossroads. I watched people trying to use the green arrows a few times, and it appears that they were concentrating so much on the fact that they were allowed to drive through a red light that they completely forgot to check whether the road was actually clear. Drivers would also get quite aggressive if they wanted to turn right on the green arrow but had to wait behind a car that wanted to go straight over the crossroads and, therefore, had to wait at the red light. It appears that Germans just can't handle this situation...
haha, I think the same things happen with roundabouts in the US. Most Americans have NO CLUE how to handle a roundabout and stop completely before entering, go around and around before they figure out how to get out. It may just be a matter of what we are used to 🤷♂️
To use that green arrow shield you need to halt first and look if the road is clear (and look back for cyclists)
Otherwise you are not allowed
Some driver and cyclists doesn't follow that
The trick is to drink a lot before going to the restaurant and have an emergency bottle to use in the restroom.
I'm a subscriber for a couple months now, and I'm not offended by anything you posted. In fact, I'm highly entertained !!!
Glad to hear! 😃
Yes, it rather entertains me as well. And it gives me sort of a hint of how screwed up Americans are as well as how some Americans try to understand European/German culture. Nice try and please more of it! I definitly want more of international understanding.
In our village you can let a company clean your trash bins. They have a special car and wash your trash bin directly in front of your house. It's great. It's called "Sammie's Reinigungsservice" and according to their website their services are available in many places within Germany. At the moment our trash bin is full with maggots (ugh) and I'm really looking forward to the next cleaning.
All great points - totally agree with you.
Btw, in Austria you typically are offered a glass of tap water with your drink in Cafes, and you used to get that at restaurants too, but it is not consistent anymore. You can always ask for it though, but obviously, you also want to order a regular drink besides the water. That is where the margin is for them, so it is kinda understood that if you sit there, you also have something to drink.
I really wish they would pick up those bio bins on a weekly basis. It used to be that way, and then they just changed it to bi-weekly and for bio-stuff, this is just not ok, especially in the warmer months.
Good on you to pick up controvertial subjects in this open way!
Love it!!
1) Traffic efficiency seems a goal of municipalities NOT - I experienced a lot of intermittent morning "to the office" traffic.
Alas, in 1994, the "Grünpfeil" (sign #720, Green Arrow (not the superhero) at traffic lights (*) came to all of Germany from the former GDR - it may be rare in your region though.
With that sign, you have to stop shortly at a red light and may continue a right turn if there's no traffic from the left.
(*) not to confuse with "Grüner Pfeil" which is a light of the traffic lights ;)
2) Accessibility: Agree to your sentiments
3) Trash: In my village, bio bins are emptied every week in Summer. I also have experienced bins with smell filters. Talk to your mayor's office for a change!
They may also advise on the prerequisites to omitting the bins altogether.
4) Drinks refill: Different customs, and take into account the different climates. You live in the latitude of Winnipeg, Canada, here ;)
5) Bureaucracy: No comment ;)
(but I read in the NYT that it may be almost impossible to receive unemployment money in the USA due to the complex bureaucracy)
to 4.: I think, you'll get your free refill in a restaurant in Alaska, too. In Germany you get free refills in KFC-Restaurants, because it's self service. A restaurant owner once said to me: "die liedrichsten Gäste sind die, die nichts trinken". So it's a big part of his income. It's a matter of calculation. The drinks in the US are mostly more expensive than in Germany, but you get the refills. And you only get refills on fountain drinks - with a glass full of ice cubes, sometimes tasting like chlorine.
at certain red-light-crossings there is a green arrow, which means you are able to to turn right on red. it still means you have to stop at the line and again at the point where pedestrians and cyclers cross. This was common in the GDR and was made common law during reunification. In Bavaria one can spot them quite often. It depends on the region who decides which red traffic crossing will have a right to turn right on a red light.
East Germany had an extra green arrow allowing you to turn on red. Unfortunately, when this was implemented in the whole country, it resulted in additional accidents, as German drivers will then not stop at the stop line and look for all kinds of traffic. They automatically advance to the road they want to turn into crossing the bike lane and the pedestrian crossing ignoring cyclists and pedestrians. So most of these signs have been removed again.
Oh, thats interesting! I know about 1 or 2 places with those green arrows and in one of them there are no pedestrian or bicycle lanes, so I guess the danger is a lot lower
Hi...nice video...and you are so polite...you can just say when something sucks in our nice country ;- I'm german and married to an american women...so we compare the two different cultures all the time...Viele Grüsse aus Berlin
Roundabouts can be NO FUN around rush hour, though. Not getting in because there's such a steady flow of vehicles coming from other entries for minutes per car on your road to the roundabout can be frustrating :D (adding to the frustration: Drivers in front of you who are very shy of entering the thing, not timed with the flow of things but waiting until everything is really free... argh) With traffic lights, there's at least a guaranteed time frame for every direction to pass. But at less crowded times of day roundabouts can be nice - if they are somewhat greater in diameter, anyway, so that you can actually make it through in 3rd gear, instead of having to slow down to bicycle speed to make it around the really small ones inside towns.
Haha, all so true, and i totally understand that these things can annoy you. Most of them i simply got so used to, that it doesn't annoy me, though the bio trash can especially with the weather we are currently experiencing.
Yes! These 30+C days make for quite a smelly atmosphere 😅
@@PassportTwo It helps when you wrap your bio trash into old newspapers-only problem is that hardly anyone reads newspapers anymore.
At some intersections there are special lanes for turning right that have often own traffic lights that show up green, or there is some green arrow sign which allows you to turn right if it‘s save, even if the traffic light is red. I don‘t really know the system when there is which or none of them. But it has probably something to do with the risk for accidents.
Well, in my Bavarian town there is something called the green arrow - der grüne Pfeil. You can turn right despite of a red traffic light if there aren't any cars on the road you want to enter.
I'm looking forward to your video about accessibility in Germany.
We do have right turn on red at certain redlights. They are indicated by a green arrow on black background next to the traffic light. But they are not that common and usually only exist in areas where no pedestrians or cyclists are expected, since they tend to be overlooked a lot.
You basically explained the accessability issue perfectly. A lot of old houses that you are not allowed to change because of "Denkmalschutz". However, a lot of places will be in contact with their handicapped attendees and they have portable ramps to fit onto stairs fe in case they are needed. But you are absolutely right it has to get a lot better.
Not much to say about bio trash. it's gonna smell. Never nice. it sucks that your trash bin seems to be in an area you actually frequent. They are usually pretty hidden away in a part of the garden or street you don't neccessarily have to pass unless you dispose of your trash.
I am pretty sure you can get tap water at any restaurant if you specifically ask for it. You just have to make it clear, which can be hard since it is not your native language I guess. But most waitstaff will understand english. I don't order tapwater often when I'm out, since usually I get a beer, if I eat out with friends, but in case I am the driver I have never been denied tap water yet.
The burocracy is something that is great in theory. All your information is shared between government agencies, it makes moving and registering your new adress easy and automatically registers you to vote if you are eligable. The ID-cards and drivers licences are basically unfakeable. But everyone hates state officials. They basically cannot be fired. they will drop everything the second the clock strikes 4pm, their work ethic is generally horrendous and accountability does not exist.
We were promised digitalization every other election for the last 2 decades and yet nothing happens. You still have to do every fart with paper trails and wait for the snailmail to get a simple response 3 weeks later. Their idea of "digitalization" is that you cannot call any agency anymore because they simply will not answer the phone and instead make you schedule appointments online. it's horrible. They digialize in all the wrong places and drop things that are essential especially for older generations who usually have less access to the internet.
Everyone hates it and anything relating computers or the internet our government is utter shit at and has been for a long time. There is a slight chance this will get better now, since the party in power changed last elections and the more tech savy parties are in power now, but I wouldn't keep my hopes up.
I wish we had free refills in Germany... 🤠
About the right turn on a red light: you are completely right. But there is a little exception on that rule: IF (!) there is a traffic sign showing a green arrow, you are allowed to turn right, although it shows red. BUT you have to stop first and confirm that there's no crossttaffic.
I wish we had a regulation like in the US to turn right and not only if a sign allows it 😅
Great point! It definitely is a great feeling coming to a red light and knowing you don't have to wait needlessly 😃 haha
Unfortunately, that green arrow is pretty rare, at least where I live. In fact, I only know of one around where I live.
I think it’s fine to have the extra sign instead of allowing it across the board. Many crossings simply are too dangerous for that. But it’s handled way too restrictively in Germany.
Yes, the green arrow is convenient and sensible. It totally depends on the region you live in as it was one of the few things that was adopted from Eastern Germany, so you may find it more seldom in the West.
Yeah, the green arrow was pretty normal in GDR and the years after but I think they got "westernized" in that way over the years since I don't see them that often anymore when I visit.
1: I's up to you to make your local council add turn on red signs(green arrow)
2: Have you ever tried to walk some US street outside city centers? It's already hard for people with functional legs, but factual impossible for wheelchairs thanks to non connected sections, ramps leading into nowhere and so on.
5: Bureaucracy speeds things up by being predictable - of course that doesn't work as good without knowing the process.
The whataboutism is strong with you today i see.
@@peterpain6625 Learned a new word? GZ!
Great video!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! 😃
Turn right at red traffic lights: Here in Karlsruhe and surroundings you will (sometimes!!!) find a small green arrow pointing right at the traffic lights. At these traffic lights it is allowed to turn right even at red, if you do not obstruct the traffic.
What drives me crazy about my home country and many fellow citizens are the hundreds of "don't s" that we constantly impose on others. When a German is strongly convinced of your wrong-doing, he/she will tell you but there are so many, that you won' stop being told off by someone.
We have the green arrow sign which allows to drive right when there is no traffic de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnpfeil
Turning right on a red light is possible IF there is a black sign with a green arrow pointing to the right, right next to the red light. If there is such a sign you have to fully stop, watch if you can pass without any danger of causing an accident and than you may turn right.
And the bureaucrazy annoys us germans too!
In the Netherlands we have crossings where you can turn right without waiting for a green light, but they are very rare
This is probably due to the many cycle paths we have in our country, which often run parallel to the road
Ya, exactly what we thought would be issue! Just So many more pedestrians and bicyclists than in most parts of the US.
@@PassportTwo The trafficlights should be there for safety. Keeping conflicting traffic seperated. "Not just bikes" has made a good comparison video that mentions the dreaded RTOT rule: ua-cam.com/video/knbVWXzL4-4/v-deo.html
@@PassportTwo As a Dutch person, I don't feel safe on a bike in Germany at all. Since you have to use the sidewalk or road. In the Netherlands you either use a bike path and/or road. It's even illegal in the Netherlands to bike on the sidewalk. So Germany is not bike friendly at all
@@dutchgamer842 First of all we have bike roads EVERYWHERE in Germany and secondly riding on the pavement is illegal too in Germany. However I do it anyway.
I'm not offended at all, but anyway, here are some comments :)
1. You have the possibility to turn on red light, if it is indicated by a green arrow. So I think the assumption is, that whenever it is possible to turn without danger, you have the green arrow.
2. The Volkshochschulen usually doesn't have it's own buildings. So usually they use buildings which are owned by somebody who allows them to use it for evening classes. So basicly the have to take what they get.
3. No meat in the bio-bin ;)
4. For the bureaucracy, you are not wrong, but here in Hesssen we could ask for the driving-license to be mailed, so we only had to get there once for the demand.
That was your example for bureaucracy? One appointment to apply and one to pick up? You sweet summer children! *lol*
Yes, It can get much worse. That example doesn't reflect the true nightmare our bureaucracy can be. Wait, until you want to build your own house (but there are many many more horrible processes in Germany).
Try to get multiple agencies work together is a nightmare
There is thomething calld the "grüner Pfeil" (Green Arrow) a permanent sign at the Traffic light - allowing right Turn on Red.
Germany is a beautiful country, love from south korea 🇩🇪🤝🇰🇷.
It’s is and so is South Korea! We were there about a year and a half ago and loved it 😊
@@PassportTwo Thank you, you are always welcome in South Korea. :-)
@@sungjin3605 AND WHAT ABOUT NORTH KOREA ?
@@stevenscoville9732 North Korea is a dictatorship.
You can wrap the biodegradable trsh in old newspapers.( like not every little bit, but like somme things together. They suck in the humidity and it wont smell that bad since it is in small packages . And it is allowed to do that. Small amounts of old newspaper or similar are fine in the Biomüll.
In my part of Germany many (but not all) right turns have a little green arrow sign next to the light...That means you are allowed to turn right on red! But you might not have known that if you didn't take the long ass German drivers test that I had to! LOL
The reason why restaurants in the US serve free water comes via, believe it or not, the building code.
Buildings of certain occupancy groups must provide drinking fountains and the building code (sometimes the plumbing code) states how many. But there are exceptions. One is for restaurants. They are not required to have fountains IF they serve water.
They don't serve water out of the goodness of their hearts. They'd essentially be breaking the law if they didn't.
You would need to providing something to support this because this is not true at all. You will find restaurants in the US that charge for water, they are far and few between, but they are not breaking any law by doing so. It is purely customary to do so.
@@PassportTwo The reason for WHY they serve water is irrelevant to the fact THAT they do. It's not only a different question, it's an entirely different category. One is binary, one isn't, and one is essentially a subset of the other.
But since you asked:
Some states have local amendments, but most, if not all, have adopted some form of the "Uniform Plumbing Code", which is referenced in some form of their "International Building Code" (IBC). For example the "California Building Code" is the IBC with amendments. The same, or similar, is true for the "California Plumbing Code" (and a bunch of other codes). To stay in California for this example, the "Building Standards Code" (which is a collection (individually called "Parts") of various codes for the buildings, energy, mechanical, plumbing, electrical, etc.) and is part of the "Codes and Regulations" of the state, in this case "Title 24". So Building Codes are incorporated into law either directly, or by reference, and this makes them law.
With that out of the way:
Uniform Plumbing Code
Chapter 4 Plumbing Fixtures and Fixture Fittings
401.1 Applicability
This chapter shall govern [...] the minimum number of plumbing fixtures required based on occupancy.
Author's comment: occupancy definition NOT per chapter 3 of the applicable building code.
415.0 Drinking Fountains
415.2 Drinking Fountain Alternatives:
Where food is consumed indoors, water stations shall be permitted to be substituted for drinking fountains. [...]
Author's comment: The word "indoors" is not defined in the code's "Chapter 2 Definitions". It is up to the Authority Having Jurisdiction to make a determination on whether they consider patio dining areas indoors, or outdoors. Since restaurants don't want everyone to run to the fill stations all the time they serve it at the table.
422.0 Minimum Number of Required Fixtures
TABLE 422.1
Type of occupancy: "A-2 Assembly occupancy-restaurants, pubs, lounges, night clubs and banquet halls"
Drinking fountains/Facilities (Fixtures per Person): 1: 1-250; 2; 251-500, 3; 501-750; Over 750, add 1 fixture for each additional 500 persons.
Building codes are publicly accessible online. Do a google search. I provided the code sections.
Fun video!
Accessibility remains an issue due to the large amount of old buildings whose architecture makes it hard or impossible to implement any sort of ramp system. Especially where several parties have stakes in different parts of an object, things can get dicey.
Even if you want to implement something, you can run into space issues due some weird historical boundaries of the property or even laws on the conservation of historical sites which flat-out forbid the addition of an elevator.
Even in the northern flatlands almost every public building built before WW2 has been designed with steep staircases at the entry.
Our local town hall now has a ramp along the entire broad side of it because the entry is more than 2m above street level.
I have no idea how anyone survived harsh winters with the ridiculous amount of steep, slippery staircases installed everywhere.
We know about the RTOR rule, and we try to add it to the traffic light in the situations where it is totally save, it's called "green arrow". If there is a green arrow sign next to the red light you can RTOR. Because like you say, its save and there is no need to waite.
I have my bio trash in the freezer end I bring it to a public compost station every once in a while, those are accessible for every one and in fairly every city
Not quite sure about RTOR, but otherwise spot on! The bureaucracy thing has actually improved somewhat over the course of my life, but there is still that authoritarian feel about "state" which turns you from a citizen into a supplicant as soon as you enter a federal or local office.
Before starting the video: how much will I agree?
After ending the video:
1. I guess it could make sense? Don't have my drivers license, but passed the theoretical exam.
2. true. Fun aside, in Würzburg, I saw some stores having a ramp made out of lego to make them more accessible
3. if you've always lived there it's not an issue. And I never had that regulation booklet.... And yep, chopping it up in a sink would feel nicer, but if the bin stuff is recycled into something useful, I can take it.
4. Yeah, having those things cheaper, would be a little bit nice, but no big deal, due to the getting used to it factor and it's rarely me that makes the decision "let's go to a restaurant", so the paying thing doesn't affect me either way (despite being an adult, and "german bill" being the word for everyone pays for their own restaurant meal in some other lanuages)
5. YES! Nuff said
Regarding the Biomüll (bio trash) - something to look into may be a "Wurmkiste" (worm box). It's basically a special breed of earthworm that can eat a lot of organic trash before it starts to really rot (it needs to break down a bit, but it doesn't smell at that point).
They can't eat everything (no meat, unfortunately - it spoils too fast and will stink), but from what I've read it's rather smell free (when working correctly), and you get some good fertilizer/earth out of it. (And lots of liquid that you need to remove, but that is fertilizer too.)
It's definitely not drop and forget, there is work involved and you can't throw in just anything, but as I said, it might be worth a look.
The Bio bin can really be a desaster in the summer. Best you can do: try to place it out of direct sunlight and keep the lid a crack open (with a stick or something) so it vents a bit all the time and doesn't kill you when you open it. Oh - and keep the meat scraps out of it.
And then the Wasp and Flys get in and make sound all the Day over.
Were your Coronamask and it dont stinks,its your Garbage ,that your throw in.Its stinks only if you open it,but thats the nature.
They get youre stinking Garbage and youre find that what?
In Munich they have the right on red turns, not on all intersections but on the big ones and there are some (😬) in Landshut.
It is embarrassing, but I actually thought the "turning right on red" thing would have been established in most of Germany by now.
I know that the county neighboring the one I live in started doing it 20 years ago and my county slowly started adopting that crazy new innovation too since then, so I assumed it must have spread to other places too. It just isn't a blanket thing, but you can only do it on crossings where there is a small green arrow sign, pointing to the right.
That traffic rule "trailblazer" county is the county of "Heilbronn".
Maybe you remember, I told you about that wine themed theme park in February or March. It is the county where that theme park and that town that was taken over by a weird, blue clothes wearing cult from Canada is located in.
For some reason they were always the first to adopt new traffic related stuff and experiment.
They were also the first county that started putting roundabouts everywhere and replaced every traffic light they could with them, which too has become a wider trend in the last 20 years or so.
In East Germany they used to have a green arrow that indicates that you are allowed to turn right on a red light. It was one of the few things West Germany adapted from East Germany after reunification. So those green arrows occur in some places in the West these days.
As for the free refill thing: German restaurants make most of their money through drinks, so it would be a very stupid move for them to offer free refills.
You can turn right on red in germany aswell, if there is an greenarrow next to the light.;)
As a german I agree with you on all topics! Regarding the disposal no german completley make an absolutley effort for this. In my house I see a lot of plastikbags in the bio-wastebin e.g.
I totally agree with the refill at a restaurant. Wou have to pay more for a glas than you would have to pay for a whole bottle in the grocery store
Some restaurants are starting to have self-sufficient drink stands, but it´s very rare and i mostly saw them in american restaurants 😂
And nice innuendo to the with white socks in sandals 👍
So for every traffic light in Germany without right turn on red, there is a 4-way stop sign in the US which requires a full stop, where in Germany priority from the right rules apply, which allows for easier traffic flow.
I have seen a lot of Judge Frank Caprio's videos. A really heartwarming judge. And the trials are nearly 50% about this turn right by red light issue. But as I know (learned) in the US there is a additinal sign beside the traffic light, that allows you to turn right on red, if there is no danger, but you first need to stop. In germany we have got that green arrow. Stop! And when the traffic is save, you can go at red.
Well it was Canada and not the US but i was baffled at how everything was accessible for people with disabilities and things like baby care desks even in the mens rest room! Something we really need to realize here as well.
My best story still is when a friend with a non-german passport had some appointment at the Rathaus and he was presented with an interpreter he was supposed to also pay for. Mind you he spoke with the person he had the appointment before on the phone in fluent german on multile occasions! He got back at them spell and grammar-checking all of the letters he had from them in red ink and sent them back ;)
Funny! But you don't expect the official to remember every person who shows up and what he is able to or not if they had an encounter only by phone before?
@@user-sm3xq5ob5d They made an appointment at a date and time while speaking german. The official still had an interpreter show up without asking if that was needed AND tried to make my friend pay for it.
When you put the bio trash in the sink, where does it go after that? There must be a storage bin that needs to be emptied anyway? Isn't it the same in the end?
Nope. Our water facility plants that these drain to are built to handle, separate, and purify the water. Literally chops it up and sends it to the treatment plan in the city 😊
@@PassportTwo so its not
environmentally friendly :D waste of energy :D
As I was on the "Amt für Öffentliche Ordnung" to get my passport they told me, that I get a E-Mail when it is ready to fetch. I never get the E-Mail. I go there about 6 weeks later and the passport was already there.....
To "turn right at red": At more and more traffic lights there are green right arrows, which explicitly allow you to turn right at red. Every single traffic light is checked by the local authorities to see if this is reasonable.
But in principle, it can be said that Germany is having a particularly hard time with changes to the road traffic regulations. This is also due to the complex driving training, because it has to be revised including textbooks, test sheets, etc. In addition, there is the problem that the millions of driving licence holders have to be informed about the new regulations.
A few years ago, when making an emergency lane on multi-lane roads in case of a traffic jam became the rule, there were extensive advertising measures by the government, so that everyone would know about the new rules.
But be careful, the green arrows are also stop signs. This arrow does not mean that you can just continue driving. You first have to stop and check if the way is really free. I see in our city again and again that drivers simply drive through at high speed and endanger lives, especially lives of pedestrians.
@@uteziemes5633
You wrote about Disabled persons,the Blinds are a part of it.
They dont wanted the Rule ,with the turn right on red light
because its a Horror for they.The Red Lights now, have a
acustic sound for Blind Peoples,if they hear that, but the
Cars drive on Red, they getting Mad.
But normaly its so, that it give wordwide Trafficrules and youre
american had exceptions.Dont expect, this exceptions in
other Coutrys.You can think, that this bureaucracy is a
restriction of your Freedom,but its only Trafficrules.
They teach us to better Drivers,which you had say too,
that were better Drivers.Then you must learn and respect
the Rules, like any other Person that is live here.They dont
make exceptions for you.Then you had to go in Countrys like
Italy ,they all take a red light as a suggestion and not as a Rule.
There you can get all bureaucracy acts much quicker with a payola.In Greece ,they use this at the Doctor too.
Do you prefer that System?
In our Community the Bio bin gets from April to october emptied every Week , to avoid the smell and the Other stuff. In the Other time in the year it is Evers two Werks.
Im unserem Kreis ist es so, dass die Biotonne von April bis Oktober jede Woche geleert wird, damit der Gestank und das sonstige vermieden (reduziert) wird.
Im restlichen Jahr, wird sie alle Zwei Wochen geleert
groovy music in the beginning😎
I was taught, that the bio trash is not for a) cooked food b) raw meat
basically any plant matter is ok, as is things like eggshells, used coffee grounds and tea leaves
It depends on where in Germany you live. In my area we are allowed to put cooked left over food into the brown bin "kitchen waste (including cooked)" as it says in our bin guide
Totally agree about disabled people. The problem is rather the recognition. Until I didn't had someone in my family who was disabled or had a child (strollers and wheelchairs both have problems with stairs and large steps) I didn't notice this was a problem. I even noticed that it was more a problem in the rich and big international cities than in the rural areas or towns.
Many Germans hate Biotonne especially in summer. But there is no opt-out, so we all have to deal with it.
Bureaucracy can be a bit annoying but at least it works. How much I had to deal with companies who doesn't seem to have any kind of system and left me helpless and feeling like a single little ant. Germans don't want to sue others on regular basis.
Free refills would be nice but it also would come with higher prices for the food since the restaurant has to cover them somehow. A lot of restaurant owners make most of their income on drinks and not on food. Germany is the country who had to make it a law that the cheapest drink must be non-alcohol. Before the owners would take more for just water than for beer. A check with 1/3 the amount just for non-alcoholic drinks isn't uncommon when you go out with people who are used to drink a few liters of water each day. 5-7 EUR for a bottle of water (0.75l) is quite normal. So, it is rather food or drinks and Germans are more used to cheap food than to cheap water/softdrinks.
Great video, like always. But I still cannot understand why Americans complain about not having refills. Eating out in restaurants is pretty cheap in Germany, especially compared to the US. The reason is the owners make most of their money with drinks.
Thanks! 😃 Depends on where in the US...we did. side by side comparisons and eating out in Germany is more expensive than in Oklahoma, our home state but groceries are cheaper here. So we feel like we are paying more for less 😅
And why would anyone think drinks should be free the second (third/fourth/etc) time, i mean why would it? Water should be free, but other drinks? No.
@@19Rena96
Well if you're used to it, then it might annoy when you cannot have it. Perfectly human to feel that way.
@@FINNSTIGAT0R true
Right turn on red had worked in GDR, and was adopted at some west-german intersections. But current a scientific report by the GDV (german insurences) dinies the fact of a more efficient traffic and shows some dangers e.g. the lack of overview in european lorries. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnpfeil#cite_note-12
Summer 2019 I went on a road trip and spent a lot of time in Utah and Arizona and in most restaurants the menue said only two refills for free. Maybe the no refill is comming slowly to the US. I hope not! 😅
Nicely done ;-). I am a German subscriber and I am not complaining... (Might be due to the weather, it‘s 22+ already...?)
haha, thanks for that! Glad you enjoyed 😃
@@PassportTwo I have already enjoyed so many of your videos, thanks for all the work!
Bureaucracy in Germany is often a nuisance, but no compare to bureaucracy in France!
Perfekt, das kommt meiner urdeutschen Seele sehr nah (auch die Kleinigkeiten die noch nicht absolut rund laufen müssen angesprochen und verbessert werden). Noch ein paar Jahre und ihr seit perfekt qualifiziert für eine Deutsche Staatsangehörigkeit.
As far as biowaste, is there no opportunity to compost outside somewhere? It won't take care of all the biowaste but it may be useful for some of it - maybe?
American bureaucracy can be very bad too. I have a friend who's grandma died in the US (she lived there). To get the inheritence she had to fill in form after form and after 4 months it was denied because she made one spelling error. Same thing next time. It wasn't that much, especially after tax (about 70% because she would have had to pay taxes in both countries). In the end she just gave up.
In Germany, the "turn on red" think is right the opposite way than in the U.S. We have a traffic sign, that allow turning right on red. It's a small green arrow "Grüner Pfeil". If it is there, you MAY turn right, by first stopping at the line of sight, and then turning when you can. But you also may stay in front of the red traffic light with the right indicator blinking. That's the more annoying thing for people behind those people.
But, yes your're right. It works in the US, why not in Germany. Other example: All way stops or 4-way stops. In Germany, we are building roundabouts 'literally' everywhere. If we had such traffic rule, in many cases we could save the money for constructing new crossroads.
As a German who has lived in the States and is back in Germany now I agree with you on everything. I also hate having to pay for a refill or having to sit on an intersection when making a right turn. The beaurocracy gets on my nerve often. But like you said every country has its good and bad things. I love living in the US and Germany.
😂 Alles klar! Dann bezahle ich im Supermarkt nur einen Joghurt und verlange zwei weitere für umsonst!
I would be more surprised if somebody went to live in a foreign country and found nothing annoying about that country. And Germany should be no exception. I lived in Missouri for a year. It was an awesome experience, but there were definitely a few little things that annoyed me about life there... 😉
I am always impressed by how handicapped-accessible everything is in the US. Definitely decades ahead of Germany!
i wish that america would improve theyre heathcare better !
Oh, yes... the bureaucracy. If you have to deal with it at work, even not because some restrictions may be harder than elsewhere, only just due the delay piling up, the bureaucracy is easily qualifying for very annoying or pain-in-the-a**.
The biowaste issue should indeed be better. All the municipalities I have seen before collect it once per wekk, and twice per week in summer. Biweekly collection is too... well... you know.
Three things mildly annoying in the USA, during only a few days, in a big city. (And I am not mentioning the lack of bread...)
1. No breakfast in hotels
2. Nowhere to buy full-fat milk
3. Getting the meal option with chicken after choosing the option without beef, pork and duck ("vegetarian option" would have been correct)
4. Having to tip the restaurant service so much. (This is a combination with German bureaucracy again: Was there on a business trip, and the rules say: tipping a waiter is a private expense. So I can either opt to finance my public employers costs for sending me there, which are short enough anyway, and I end up losing more money; or I can opt to be very rude and strip the waiters of their salary. It feels more like a USA related mild annoyment, as we feel, that leaving your service employees on the tips of your customers is a clear exploitation of the working class to european eyes.)
And if I were living in München or other festival places, I would consider the Oktoberfest (and the drunk roaming your city) a mild to considerable annoyment in Germany.
In East Germany often you can find 'Grüner Pfeil' next to traffic lights. It allows to turn right when red light. That surrvied from GDR times. In the West they had it not and in the early 90th they test it. No way! Many problems and crashes because that, so they take it away again. 🤷♀️
Turn on read totally makes sense. They should adopt that (wherever possible) in Germany as well.
I don't mind paying for water, but on the same note there's a big lack of free water dispensers in Germany. In the US (or even in other European countries) they are all over the place which I appreciate.
Accessibility is definitely a big problem in Germany. There's a lot of things that Germany is seriously behind in (why Germans complain all the time (and now you do too ;) )) and it might be that the reason for that is mostly bureaucracy.
Volkshochschule does not give out their own degrees, but offers quite some courses where you can at the end get a degree - just that the test is often taken by other institutions.
Like my German course! Except, it is not a degree...but an official certificate proving my German level for jobs and the government. 😂 But I do have to sign up with outside businesses to take official exams for my German level.
@@PassportTwo Yes, exactly, your test will probably be done by the Goethe-Institute. My English test back in the 90s was done by Cambridge Assessment English, or Cambridge English, one of three main exam boards forming Cambridge Assessment, a non-teaching department of the University of Cambridge. The test itself was supervised by the organisation of the Volkshochschule, but the tests were passed on to the CAE and I got my Certificate weeks later by snail mail (hey, that was the 90s).
Also some work qualifications with official tests are prepared for at the Volkshochschule (something like accountancy), but the test is done by the official board called "Industrie- und Handelskammer" (IHK)
Man darf den Biomüll in Zeitungspapier wickeln und auch die Stücke von Küchenrollen als Biomüll entsorgen, sofern keine schädlichen Substanzen dran sind. Beides hält die Biotonne draußen innen trocken und luftig, dadurch stinkt sie deutlich weniger.
no need to sugarcoat anything don't be afraid to tell us your honest opinion i as a german appreciate that. love your vidoes btw.
The items you are complainting are also frustrating me. Seriously. E.g. why no free refill for water in restaurants? (not for beer).
One tip for Bio Abfall (specific in Summer time), use paper bags, wripe organic waste into old newspapers, put additional used dry paper or paper roll pieces into the waste. The paper shall absorb the liquids generated during the degradation process. In general try to keep liquids out from the trash can, e.g.let coffee filter dry before you put them into the bio can.
C'mon when you order a drink in a restaurant in Amerika you get a glas full of ice and some Coke or whatever in it. In Germany you get a full glas of whatever you ordered not mixed with ice. So your complaint about not getting refills is not really fair. When it comes to turning right at a red traffic-light we do have the green arrow!!!
You can ask for no ice in the US and then you get a full glass and still free refills 😊
Yes, but these are, for the most part, rare exceptions in most parts of Germany (especially in west Germany)! Whereas in the US, it is EVERY red light (unless a very rare exception) 😁
Being a German, I agree with all of the points you make the way you presented them. Great video.
So, did you change your mind over time? Did new stuff come up?
You can turn right at red, - if you have a Grünpfeil: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCnpfeil
Great, you have found the nit-picking stage of being Germanized. Love your videos.
1. Turning right on red: totally agreed, should be used in Germany as well.
2. Accessibility: many buildings are so old that either elevators, or even wheelchair ramps, can't be usefully installed. True, it should be installed if possible.
3. Bio-trash: yepp, that stuff stinks, especially in the bio-bin. Totally agreed, again.
4. Free water: yes, free water (tap water) should be a thing. Free refills: naaah, still don't see that, as something useful. In many restaurants you can ask for tap water, and many will oblige you with free tap water.
5. Bureaucracy: if the Romans hadn't installed it, Germans would have had to invent it. That is a remnant of the Prussian Beamtenstatus. The Prussians were known to have loads and loads of officials. Horrible.
Bio bin, lay a flat stick between the lid and bin. That kind of ventilates the bin and keeps the smell at bay.
Free refills, come on nothing in life is free you pay for it one way or the other.
Burepeaucracy. I lived in NJ, NJ does not obey other countries driving licences so I had to make the NJ drivers license. That was a similar bureaucraric experience as you described. But don‘t take me wrong I hate bureaucracy as well.
🤣Ja...so ist es. Da sind viele Sachen die einfach nur stimmen. Aber eine Sache ist da, die zwar stimmt, aber mich auch etwas verärgert. Es ist der Fakt, das es die Möglichkeit des Abbigens im Straßenverkehr seit der Wende (bei uns im Osten) nicht mehr gibt. In der Ehemaligen DDR gab es den Grünen Pfeil (er war sehr verbreitet) der zeigte, das man fahren darf (wenn es den anderen nicht die Vorfahrt nimmt). Also durfte man bei Rot fahren. Es wurden einige gute Sachen der ehemaligen DDR einfach wegrationalisiert. Die Später langsam wieder erschienen.
Man sollte von anderen lernen und nicht alles einstampfen, bloß weil es "Altlasten" sind.
Aber super tolle Videos die ihr da macht!!!! Schön das ihr da seit🌹🌹🌹