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No,it s not normal to throw eggs cause somebody is Smoking on the balcony
Espeically not when it happens for the first and only time. Somebody must have a very short fuse.
Normally I would say, probably thebbbird did not do it.
But I moved 3 years ago sone km from Ocean ( east/balcan sea) and a lot of seagulls are stealing food/trash from balconies out of bags, ... and throw them around. And another balcony may be hitten.
... but then what normal anyways.
You can't be a german. It is very common over here to throw eggs (especially big eggs) to show your respect to someone who is very quite in their flat. One is not sure where this custom comes from. Some experts say that it probably has a pagan background.
I agree!! My wife is from Germany. I smoked all the time when I visited when I use to smoke. Nobody ever said anything. But it really out of respect that you don't late at night whenever it's hot night. In close areas. Heading back next month!! Wife is leaving tomorrow morning!! I love it there so much thinking of moving to Germany for 5 to 6 years! Loving your channel!!
As for the Euro: They changed it for book keeping and financial transaction purposes in 1999. The physical currency was rolled out early 2002.
Mainzelmächen only are used in Traffic Lights in the City of Mainz Since they are the mascot of the city Mainz. "Mainz - elmächen"
yes, it is a little bit like - the little (small and funny) guys from Mainz 😃
Mainz'el-Männchen
And the original Heinzelmännchen are from Cologne.
About the middle lane: Germany is a transit country. Located in the middle of Europe, it has all kinds of traffic passing through. This means that on many highways (especially those with 3 lanes---that's why they have 3 lanes), the right line is packed full of semis during the day. Trying to squeeze in there with a car would be foolish, so many people develop a habit of simply ignoring the right lane. Sadly, that habit sticks even when the right lane is empty...
Ryan, when do you grasp, that these things like aggressive neighbours are fact, in Germany but it's still so that the big majority of Germans don't are like this. There are maybe 5-10% of Germans who get aggressive with neighbours but that means that 90-95% of the Germans don't do that and find it as bizarre as you do!
Mittelspur-Schleicher… Another German insult 😂
That is not an insult, but a description.
It is not an insult. It's an appraisal.
Yeah, they are annoying for us too in Germany. Just to lazy to change the lane.
its like mittle lane sneaker xd
4:52 In Bad Nauheim there is a traffic light for pedestrians which shows Elvis Presley walking.
For the egg mystery my personal theory is that it was simply a bunch of kids (maybe the neighbour's, maybe random ones from the street) being brats.
If you have a normal 9 to 5 Job and a normal tax bracket (steuerklasse 1 meaning single-household), and no other sorces of income, you don't actualy have to declare your taxes. The employer deducts the taxes from your wages (depending on how much you get they know how much you have to pay) and pays the taxes for you. Only if you have more deductables then normal (we all get a built in standart amount of 1.230 €) which would result in lower taxes it is advised to file for taxes to get your money back.
*salary/wages. "loan" is Kredit (Wortverwand mit Leihe)
Arbeitnehmerpauschbetrag was 1000€ for a long time, but it's 1230€ now.
On income taxes in Germany: As part of being employed, you have to submit your tax information to your employer. That includes a "tax class" (the mentioned Steuerklasse), a number between 1 and 6 (1 is for singles, 2-4 for couples with different split levels, 6 for other cases). Based on that tax class, the employer MUST deduct taxes from your loan and send them directly to the tax office. If you have no special circumstances (deductibles, a second income, etc.), that amount matches the taxes you have to pay exactly, so you do not have to file a tax return.
It seems that in this case, the "exactly" was off by 5 Euros for some reason. Weird---there are very few circumstances where the employer would deduct less taxes than you'll have to pay in the end. The system is geared so you're never under if you do nothing.
I think you might be overestimating the number of smokers and the acceptance of it in Europe in general, also as a general rule, the further northwest the less smokers you find, the more south and east, the more smokers you find in general.
As for the customized pedestrian lights: If there's a local famous and beloved character, chances are that they change at least some pedestrian lights at prominent crossings to that image. Examples include "Äffle & Pferdle" in Stuttgart, the "Piper of Hamelin" in Hameln and Elvis in Friedberg (where he was posted). And there's tons more to discover, as many depict local characters of historical import or characters connected to the city in question.
I did not know that. Thanks.
They should do the Goetz von Berlichingen in Heilbronn ;)
Yes. in addition: there are now also women, couples, children and man/man women/women holding hands, as well as queer families or people in wheelchairs etc. I really like that. It's nice.
Also Otto in Emden
As an employee, you don't have to make a tax declaration, because the taxes are already deduced from your pay check. You only voluntarily make a tax declaration to get some money back for spendings which can be deduced from your taxes, so that you effectively paid too many taxes and will get some money back. For an employer, it is highly unkikely to get a supplementary payment, because that means that you generated more taxable income than declared on your wage notification.
The "Deutsche Mark" is still around, as in people my age+ (40) still convert in our heads.
It is a horrible thing to do, since prices have gone up that much since those times.
I don't convert, and it's a silly thing to do after more than 20 years. In the 70s, a litre of petrol costed around 0,60 DM. In the 90s, it was 1,50 DM and more.
@@Nikioko I don't know anyone who always converts to DM. But that is often done if you want to express that you think something is expensive, because you can double the number.
1€? That's 2 Mark! That's 4 Ostmark! Thats 456000000000000 Reichsmark!
@@Warpwaffel Said the kangaroo.
Regarding cash money, the Euro was introduced in January of 2002.
This looks like the Mark they used in the GDR.
@@ralfbauerfeind8236No, these are D-Mark coins from West Germany. The East German currency was called “Mark der DDR” and simply had “Mark” imprinted on them, as opposed to “Deutsche Mark” for the West German currency. On the coins shown here, you even see “Bundesrepublik” on some of them, which explicitly refers to West Germany.
@@ralfbauerfeind8236??? No it’s the regular West German and reunified German Mark
@@ralfbauerfeind8236 it's the Normal Deutsche Mark I got a few like this somewhere ... by the way 1993 Germany was already reunificated so they wouldn't be making any Ostmark anymore anyway.
6:10 personally, if I had paid for a movie and i hate it after the first 30 mins i feel like i've given it enough time and i will leave. Why should i torture myself through it, knowing i wont like the rest even though i paid for it? On the contrary... i wont spend my money torturing myself! But yea, most people have a different mentality.
In Switzerland, the vast majority of movies are shown with a break in the middle. That is when I leave the theatre if I don’t like the movie. It doesn’t happen often, maybe one in 30 to 40 movies.
Yes, you are oaying the film in money AND TIME.
The money is gone anyway.
But when going if movie is to bad, you can at least save some time and do more pleasant things.
@@aphextwin5712 They used to do that in Germany, too (at least some theaters did). I don't remember when they stopped but I distinctly remember missing those breaks.
Breaks in the middle of a movie are great! You can use the restroom, fill up on snacks, stretch your legs or turn around to glare at the idiots behind you being loud :P
Usually a 3-lane Autobahn is filled with slow Semi-Trucks on the right lane. Therefore many People started to believe the right lane is only for Semis, which are not allowed to drive faster than 80 kph (50 mph) on the Autobahn.
real 80-95 on flat area, and "not allowed" means they have a technical speed limit, which is sometimes a little bit tuned
4:25 you see those in the city of Mainz, because the tv station which created them is there
It's really cool to watch you videos mainly for two reasons, one is that your appreaciation of and interest in Germany and its culture makes me feel appreaciated in some interesting way, the other is that it is really fun to see and hear a very intelligent mind operating. Go on Ryan!
Mainzelmännchen Traffic Lights (Pedestrian exclusively) only in Mainz, Elvis Presley Traffic Lights (Pedestrian exclusively) only in Bad Nauheim, there are some more, like a coalminer in Duisburg, plus some other special ones.
If you are an employed worker, then by law, your work income has to be reported to tax authorities by your employer. So they will already know how much you've made, and crucially, tax will be deducted from your monthly pay at the source. It's only if you have other sources of income like capital gains or income from renting out property that you yourself have to report that via an income tax return.
Even with capital gains often you will not have to do anything. For example if you have an ETF and you sell it with capital gains, the bank that held your ETF will automatically deduct the capital gains tax and send it to the state so that there is nothing left to do for you - the tax is already paid the moment you sell.
10:43 : Gesundheit!
🤧
The thing with the egg on the balcony: if it was even the neighbour at all, of course it wasn't ok and a pretty aggressive thing to do. There are many people (and I feel they get more and more) who can't stand cigarette smoke. The way I understood it, the person who posted the question thought the smoke might have gone into the neighbours house when their bathroom window was wide open. In that case I kind of do understand why the neigbour might have felt really annoyed. Though it's not uncommon to smoke on the balcony, since smokers 'have' to smoke somewhere. Not sure on whose side the law would be in this case.
I remember we started to pay with Euros in 2002. But Deutsche Mark was still accepted by shops etc. for a while, so people could adjust to the conversion. I think 1999 was when banks/non-cash transfers started to use the Euro, at least that's what I read a while ago. Us 'regular people' started to have Euro coins and notes in 2002.
The country the car is registered in is written on EU number plates.
It looks like the last guy was worried he was being scammed, because the seller wouldn't agree to pickup. He probably worried he would pay for the item without ever receiving it in the end.
I stopped smoking about 6 years ago, but before I always went out on my balcony to smoke and there was never any complain about that. In one of my previous apartments I had neighbors which used their grill every day in the summer on the public backyard. So I was forced to close my windows every day for hours in the hot summer, otherwise the smoke would get inside. After a few days I did get angry and made a clear message, but I would never considered throwing eggs or something. This is crazy.
I heavily dislike smoking. It bugs me most when I'm waiting for a bus or in a queue where I can't really leave or must be somewhere near. Also in amusement parks - I visited one that actually had a policy and smoking spots and I loved it so much!
Well anyway, if your dad comes over and smokes at the balcony two times - even if I was outside and getting some of that smoke - I would be slightly annoyed and move on with my day. Unless that smoke got magicly sucked into my kitchen through the open window or something, but then they probably wouldn't know that.
I hate the smell of cigarettes, too. And like you, most of the time I just move on with my day. A big part of learning how to be an adult is learning how to compromise, and when to pick your battles.
Since I am ex-smoker I can't stand the stinky smell anymore.
Even if a man stands by my side under waiting point of the bus and I cannot go in distance because it is raining hard and I forgot umbrella, I nearly through out.
What is enoying me: When I was smoker I always tried to respect the wind, standing where it does not go to non-smokers. Young men especially refugees from other countries do not care about others, smoking and spitting where they like without respecting others. That is sad.
@@MiaMerkur I would be careful assuming a correlation specificly for something like young male refugees.
Ironicly, now that I think about it, for me it's been mostly white men, and some white women. And it's also usually older people which makes sense because less younger people smoke (at least not traditional cigarettes it seems).
@@ann18o96 i agree! Smoking has always been a thing in my family and when I was younger, something young people did to be 'cool'. Their ethnicity didn't matter at all. So I too don't think of migrants when I think of 'smokers', maybe even quite the contrary.
As for people spitting on the ground: that also was a VERY common thing to do for young people here maybe one or two decades back, and still is for some (I don't think they're all refugees). I think often it were people who considered themselves 'punks', spitting everywhere they wanted, to make a statement or something like that. Some time ago I was at a bus station, and a tall, blond man, probably in his (late?) 30s, was sitting there, repeatedly spitting like he was kind of making a sport out of hitting the same spot or something. It was REALLY disgusting, especially since he targeted the sidewalk in front of us. Then he turned to me and really nice and politely asked me for the time. In perfect German.
12:35 It's the other way around. The person who asked wants to pick it up. That saves shipping costs, but more importantly you can have a look at the product before paying it.
However the seller refuses to meet. One reason could be that the seller wants to receive the money and ship an empty box to the buyer (so it looks like he fulfilled his duty). He couldn't do that when they meet in person.
Also, if you change your mind and want to contact me, just leave a comment below.
We have a lot of rules about driving and what to do but in practice we still dont follow those rules to the letter. We drive a little faster then the Speed limit and since there are a lot of trucks and a few slow drivers on the right lane. Because of this your regular driver who thinks they are fast enough to just stay in the middle lane will just be stuck there because they dont like the hassle of switching lanes over and over (to overtake a few trucks and then get back into the right lane) even though they should.
Greetings from Germany I love your videos and have fun looking at the differences between Germany and America btw if a German doesn't know proper English and a mix of German and English is spoken we call it Denglish whatever keep it up I'm a little big fan of your content ♥
Right lane is for slow ones like LKWs, so the normal cars are driving most of the time in the middle one
In Germany, there are court rulings regarding smoking and harassment, requiring smokers to adhere to certain times. The problem is that if one has young children and chain-smokers as neighbors, it endangers the health of everyone, not just the smokers.
No, it doesn't.
@@DenUitvreter of course it does, do you think the smoke magically disappears?? Even if you can't see it when it gets mixed up in the Air it doesn't just vanish and for little kids small amounts of smoke already higher the risk of health issues
Ja, and if the same neighbor owns a car, he pollutes the air with exhaust fumes, which will directly give the children cancer. But it doesn't actually matter because when the little couch potatoes are finally allowed to go out on their own for the first time at the age of 14 or so, they'll be run over anyway. Probably from the same yellow-toothed neighbor in the car that smells of cold and stinky smoke...
We live in harsh -Karen- times.
Lucky that I survived my childhood in the _negligent_ 80's! 🙄
"endangers" you know you sound silly with all the wars going on. live a little
I guess my siblings and I were lucky to have survived our childhood in the 60's with a chain-smoking in-house smoking dad and family gatherings every sunday with 5 chain-smokers in the same family room. I guess I will never know how my mother lived to be 87 after having been married 59 years to said chain-smoker.
4:32 its a "Mainzelmähnchen" you can find this in the german city mainz
In some movie theatres around here, when you don’t like the movie and leave in the first 15 minutes, you can claim your money back.
The funny thing is that the German mark is worth twice as much as the €. Now we have the € but they never changed the prices in the store, just like the wages for a job, so we can now pay twice as much for everything. I love Germany :D
That is not correct.
Wie alt bist du wenn ich fragen darf ?
yeah except inflation would still exist if we kept the mark. And it would probably be even more extreme because a single-country currency is way less stable than one that rivals the Dollar
also: that they just "never changed the prices" is a gross oversimplification bordering on a lie and you know it
According to German law the one that throws the egg would be liable for the costs of the balconies cleaning and possibly criminals charges for harassment
I hope one day he reacts to Tabaluga ( the green German dragon)😇.
Den Film oder die gute alte serie
@@StarwarsLexikon Ich meine allgemein, wie er es mit der Sendung mit der Maus gemacht hat.
Ich muss sagen wenn ich zwischen dem Film und der alten Serie entschieden müsste, würde ich mich für die alte Serie entscheiden, wegen der Nostalgie 😇👍 ( ich habe mir gestern das Intro zum Einschlafen angesehen und habe Gänsehaut bekommen, danach bin ich wunderbar eingeschlafen).
Driving on the middle lane in a foreign country/area is not the worst idea - at least if you are not an obstacle for the rest. It's just easier to turn left or right if you have to. I do this eg. in foreign and to me unknown cities quite often - and in Paris, Athens or Napoli... Not on railroads though - although the right lanes are often very broken because of the trucks driving there.
Speaking of tax: I own a bit of woodland and so I have to pay property tax on it. I think it's good that this exists, because ownership is an obligation and I do like to do my bit for society. I really do. Completely unironic, but don't worry, it's about to change.
For me, this tax is €2.30 a year and they debit it from my bank account. The state uses it to pay for Autobahnen (lots of Autobahnen), kindergartens and schools and to help people who are not doing so well ... and of course the envelope, paper and postage for the tax assessment notice. 😂😂 (I spoke to the tax office about it and even offered to pay it in advance for the next 20 years. The person was very friendly humorous and helpful, but there's nothing we can do about it.)
You've watched multiple videos on the introduction of the Euro as a currency, and you still wonder when we adopted to it and whether Marks are still around?
Driving in germany its always the dutch drivers i see blocking the middle lane (living in the west not too far from the border), I always thought its because they arent used to the autobahns speeds and think "im going super fast, no way theres someone faster than me on the right!" but maybe people do it more on vacation than at home i guess
I found myself doing it in the Netherlands too.
They have a 100kmh speed limit, try to get you at ever corner and have much larger fines then Germany.
So put your cars speedometer at 102 and just drive the same lane forever. As nobody should be faster ;)
Obviously the dutch still go way over the speedlimit, either by not being relentlessly hunted down like speeding Germans or by not caring.
But it feels just good to drive your 102, overtake the trucks driving 92-95 and just don't care what speeding yellow plates are doing. So we end up in the middle lane.
Bane of the speedlimit.
I don't believe the people leave the movie. There are cinemas you have to pay different prices for different seats. If the movie already started and someone sees a free higher priced seat, they move to the better position. In the dark nobody notices
The employer calculated the payroll tax incorrectly and withheld too little payroll tax. Too much wages were paid and too few taxes were paid to the tax office. Therefore, the tax office has an additional demand for 5 euros.
We were standing in line to a night club once and talking in a normal taking volume. Then one of the residents’ windows opened above us and a bucket of water was poured on our entire group. We were soaking wet. 2 minutes later the police arrived because the same resident called them to get us in trouble, but we told them what he did and they went to his apartment and interrogated him. Meanwhile we went on.
4:08 Actually in what you Americans would call a condominion the balcony doesn't belong to the flat but is considered a feature of the building which is commonly owned. If you doubt this, just ask anybody if they want to renovate their own balcony or want the condominion to cover the costs.
We are not passive aggressive… we are more likely active aggressive in those cases.
... aaahhh!
Endlich Neuigkeiten aus Stenkelfeld. "Seit 7:23 wird zurückgeschossen!"
... muss ja schließlich nicht immer Advent oder Silvester sein.
Lohnsteuerjahresausgleich is voluntarily!
some people believe the far right lane is only for trucks....they are idiots.....
i am German and i have to go around them with my motorbike..
i drove 230kph in the far right lane!
Same. I hate having to change lanes twice because of these people. And they don't even take the hint of me on my bike overtaking them with a significant speed difference and then changing back to the rightmost lane right in front of them.
"I found some old money"? Those coins don't even get close to the old German coins I found. My oldest dating back to 1875...
In Austria you dont have to do taxes if you dont have something to declare. You either get money back automaticly or you have to pay back something.
12:05 : Unfortunately, this has been happening a lot lately. Almost every second or third comment is affected by this.
These are probably bots that are causing this. Just ignore it and report it. It's just annoying. Hope some people read this! But it would be fun if a bot responded to this comment too 😁...
Greetings from Northern Germany ♥️🇩🇪
Aber normaler Weise antworten Bots doch nicht, oder?
Grüße ebenfalls aus Nord Deutschland
What is it about? What is affected by what in which way?
The „MAINZelmännchen“ Traffic lights can only be found in my hometown Mainz, the central of TV broadcaster ZDF
And me too: I’ve never left a cinema before the end of the movie…nor have I ever observed other people doing it
The Euro conversion for the public was Jan. 2002. That's when coins and bank notes were issued to the public.
The Euro was introduced in 2002. So, you will find DM coins from 1999.
I wanted to say that they probably stopped making new DM coins. But they didn't. The production in 2001 was almost doubling the amount of the years before. crazy. (ok, it was even higher before 1995...)
Weird question but what messengers are you using in the us?
Hello from Germany
Nice Video. Perhaps it would be a cool idea to delve into the traditions and differences between East and West Germany. I believe there's significant interest in understanding how other countries perceive East German kids with there motobikes.
These Munchkins on traffic lights are only used in Mainz, the city were the studios of this TV stations are.
I only once left a movie quite early as it was a completely different genre than expected and looked very bad, I then went to into a different film I didn't pay for, which was much better.
a tip for pronouncing "Mainzelmännchen" :
1.) Of course, separate the two words Mainz (name of the town ) and Männchen ( small men)
So they are from Mainz.
and to say it :
Main zel männ chen /
( main cell man chen ) 😃
Or "mine cell mansion".
@@HarveyHirdHarmonicsbeing a Meenzer myself, I really like mine cell mansion
Dieser Komentarsektor ist jetzt Deutsches eigentum
Watching a movie you don't like but paid for is a perfect example of the "sunk cost fallacy". 😄
If you want to see "Rambo" and end up in an Arthouse movie.
Dont forget to watch the 24h Nurburgring Livestream on June 1st!
Gesundheit! 🤧
Mainz is a sity in german the tv ZDF '' 2. Deutsches Fernsehen '' second german canal ist das zuhause der mainzelmänchen is the Home of the mainzelmänchen
People staying on the middle lane without overtaking someone else for more than 20-30 seconds are really bad drivers. That is my honest opinion. And then they get angry when I overtake them on the right lane.
When I pass a Mittelspurschleicher on the leftmost lane, I quickly move over to the rightmost lane, hoping that some if them will notice the difference between their and my behaviour.
@@aphextwin5712 Same for me 😂 🤜🏼🤛🏼
It's not schleichen, when the dutch only allow 100 km/h and relentlessly hunt you down with speed cams to pay large fines for even 4 km/h over the limit.
Rechts überholen ist noch viel übler als in der Mittelspur herum zu schleichen…
2:55 you are alowed to smoke in your flat or on the balcony, BUT you have to make sure the windows of you neighbours are closed so that the smoke doesn't get into your neighbours flat.
I assume the neighbour who just moved in lived above a heavy smoker right before moving.
The guys Dad who smoked even though he saw the window was completely open is the actual dickhead here.
3:45 actually you are more free, because you can do whatever the f you want, UNSLESS it disturbs/endangers/hurts/annoys anyone else. Here you have to think before you act instead of simply remembering what you're not allowed to do.
@CrazyManuel94 I assume that the actual dickhead is someone who suggests that a neighbour's open window would ban smoking by law.
Bro you really have to go to Germany hahaha
9:29 In Germany, we have a derogative name for those that drive in the middle lane: "Mittelspurschleicher" (middle lane crawler/sneaker). Why would we have a name for them if we didn't have them? :P Unfortunately, there's a TON of those on the Autobahn and somehow they don't see anything wrong with it since it's "not really a violation". The "Rechtsfahrgebot" (rule to drive on the right) is not a "Linksfahrverbot" (prohibition to drive on the left) and Germans take words very literally. The latter would be taken more seriously.
I know enough people that don't realize they COULD get fined for it and feel like they are doing nothing wrong. Although their behaviour can cause traffic jams and is also very dangerous since it causes more overtakes and therefore more dangerous situations that can lead to bad accidents.
And you definitely DONT wanna have an accident on the Autobahn!
If the traffic allows for it, I try to move from the leftmost lane into the rightmost lane quickly after passing a Mittelspurschleicher, hopefully making some of them notice that even cars faster than them will move to the rightmost lane if there are no other cars directly ahead.
Hi Ryan, eggs are definitely too much. I wonder if you ever think about the other side.
You always talk about those who are angry, but 95% of Germans are considerate of the neighbors on their own. That's the norm - people are quiet because they don't want to disturb the neighbors, not because they'll get pelted with eggs.
The problem is the people who don't think about their fellow human beings, and ignorant is the adjective for that. Don't smile when you talk about the other side. Think about what would happen if everyone acted like they were alone in the world.
But other than that, great channel.
If Mainzelmännchen was written like you pronounced it, it would be the Mentschelmänn and Manselmanken
The Egg thing could be coincidental. There are a lot of Kids goring round and throwing raw eggs at random Houses (speaking as a victim).
It Looks Like a duck egg. False accusation.
The egg Thing...
3:20 Not really! This is a clear message not to smoke under my nose. Very well articulated and delivered.
I didn't do that Tax shit for 10 years ... I would still deny doing my taxes, if not being self employed.
You really should ract to Hornbach advertisment.
Taxex include al Items in a Store ;D
@10:17:
Yes. And there's a reason for taht. You can stay on the middle lane (or the second from the right), if there are more than two lanes and you'll experience some traffic on the right lande every then and when. So when you maybe drive with 150 and you have slower traffic on the right lane, you are allowed to stay on the mid lane, even if the right lane traffic is very sparse. Of course there are a lot of idiots who stay on the mid lane, even if the right lane is free ore with a speed difference of 20 km/h against the right lane. This is not how this rule is meant.
Funny idea for a reaction. It is kind of a big issue if it "should be allowed" to use a different Ampelmännchen or not. Because it is "strictly illegal", Germans like to fight about it. That ist a kind of our culture. 😅😉😳 Search for "Ampelmännchen extra 3" or something similar. Maybe "Ampelmännchen heuteshow".
The topic with the middle lane is a kind of "common misconception". "If I drive faster than 90 km/h or if I don't drive a truck, I should be allowed to drive on the middle lane. We are the free people, we are free to drive without rules. (proverb: Freie Fahrt für freie Bürger! ~ We are the free people, we are free to drive without rules.)" And some people call them "Mittelstreifenschleicher" ( ~ middle lane creeping snails). Germans and cars are probably like Americans and guns. 😅😉😳
It is true about German drivers in the Netherlands
It’s really not that many who are smoking
Be prepared what's about to come at you when you're BBQing in Germany.
Germans turn into maniacs one they enter a car in the drivers seat. I mean a lot of people have lane discipline yes, because you get honked at instantly if you don't. We are driving too fast and most people know where the speed cameras are on their usual routes. Most people drive big cars (suv) and can't properly handle them. Meaning they either drive too carefully or like it's others responsability to not crash into them (even when their lane would need to wait).
I tried to find what "Rettungsgasse" means in english and it's giving me "corridor for emergency vehicle access" - what the hell xD Anyway people are bad at keeping _that thing_ free. If you have build one then there's motorcycles using it to get through the traffic jam.
In my opinion, for the speeds that we are driving at and for the big cars a lot of people have, this is irresponsible and a big mess. And most people become aggressive like their playing an online team game or something...
Mittel - spur - schleicher = middle lane skulker
Rettungsgasse - emergency lane
The "Mittelspurschleicher" means ?!middle lane to slow driver! and sometimes this is the typical , fuck-off-all-aroundme-german-driver. They all have to visit our neighbors at the same time, once the weather is good and the highway is clear in Germany, at this time =) =D
I just leave bad movies too before the end. Maybe it also has something to do with age (?) . I don't have the time to watch bad films and so by going I can "send" feedback (that I don't like the film at all) to everyone else who want's to notice.
But that happens very rarely and only with such a bad story that everything that follows is actually already clear, or has been presented in a better form by much better films.
It's similar to putting away a novel a novel because because the author has written it according to formula and you've read (or heard) the whole thing (type of) so many times that you just don't want to bother with it.
Then you were probably the wrong target group. I would never have done that when I was young, even because everything was “new” (to me).
That's why "good" is of course extremely subjective.
@12:06 - thanks for pointing this out. I am very communicative and I like to talk to people, but I clearly smell a scammer.
"...with how many more people smoke in germany compared to america" - ... do you ever look something up before you say it? there are more people who smoke in the US (24,3%) compared to germany (21,3%).
Pls react to Rhababerbarbara
10:46 Gesundheit! :D
Couples leaving the cinema while sex scenes? Well, I do have a clue why 🤣
Our local Autobahn was on construction for the last five years to make it a 3 lane out of a 2 lane (5y because they had to build 16 new bridges). Now there are many people driving in the middle, which is totally annoying. I guess the problem is, that they never learned how to drive on a 3 lane Autobahn, because in former days more than 2 lanes were only to find around really big cities. So they just had nowhere to practise it and now are just asked too much of. Hopefully the next generation of drivers will learn it properly, due to the new Autobahn they have to practise it.
Mittelspurschleicher = middle lane crawler
It was really a crazy week in Germany. I'm so tired now, I hope this week is more chill and has less of those world shattering events ...
Why should i leave the Movie, i paid for? never done this (I am German)
8:50 Every year I get an invoice from the tax office asking me to pay 0,00 Euro.
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It's a scam what this Duch said about Germans not to drive right, sorry neighbors.
I have a new neighbor and her friend is a smocker. Everytime the smell comes up to my balcony. I dislike this smell because it's also going in the washed clothes who are drying on the balcony. Because my neighbor is a nice lady and her boyfriend is not always there, I let it go. But the smell isn't good and very unhealthy.
Ryan you should react to Forsen the most popular German man in the world.
Gun laws are very strict in Germany. You have to throw eggs. 😬
Can you please react on old german advertising
If you smoke on your balcony and the smoke goes right into your neighbor's apartment, you deserve much worse than an egg.