Reacting To Things I Didn't Know
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- So I found this old footage and had a good laugh looking back at things I didn't know. This was filmed exactly 2 weeks after I landed and pretty much sums up my first thoughts on Germany.
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#1: It's a combined heater and towel rack, yes - not every household has one of these, but they are pretty popular, I mean, they are useful, right?
#2: Awww ... the good old "Why are there no ACs in Germany?" :) I'm not getting tired of hearing this from americas who moved to Germany. They are veeeeeeeeeery uncommon in Germany, mostly just used in office buildings, stores or such buildings but not in private homes. For the winter we have the standard heaters (that you have already shown) and in the summer, well ... we sweat :) Oh and the german word for it is probably "Klimaanlage" - Klima = climate & Anlage = unit/device, so a unit that controls the "climate" in your home or car :)
But what get's more and more popular is the so called "Fussbodenheizung" = underfloor heating and for that you need the control panel somewhere on the wall :)
#3 the "cold" symbol on the heater means, that the water inside is still flowing on a very very small level, so that the heater itself will not get frozen.
#4 how hot it can get during the summer months? Well, temperatures of 30°C (86F) and more for days in a row are not seldom. I think last year one town nearly hit the 40°C (104F) mark for one day.
#5 ceiling fans are also not a thing over here, but yes you can buy portable fans in each size, shape and price. What do we do in the summer to cool the house down? Only "passive" stuff (since we don't have ACs) - you open the windows wide at night and let the cooler air in and close the windows on day time and that's pretty much about it. Going to a lake or the see or a "Schwimmbad" (pool) and cool of in the water is VEEEEEEEEEEERY popular here during the hot months :) Oh, and eating ice cream :D
ACs are not a thing in Germany because they are bad for the environment (you probably know that germans try to be very eco-friendly) and the summer isn't that long so they would be too expensive for the short period you would use them (do you know what I mean?)
#6 Credit cards/debit cards ... yeah, not really a thing over here - in Germany in general CASH IS KING :)
#7 traffic lights ... if you are the first car in the row of a traffic light and you probably can't see the one "over" you, there is another one on the pole to the right side of you (or the left if you want to turn left) which shows "your" lights, so you don't have to bend forward or wait till everybody after you honks :D
#8 HAHA, yeah the image of the Autobahn that "every" american has, is hilarious - I heard some said "I thought it would be one straight line going from the north to the south or east to west but in every case just ONE special road, nothing more" :) No, Autobahn is just the german word for highway/freeway (actually it's the other way round, since the american highway system was built after the german Autobahn system) and yes it is true that on most parts of it you can drive as fast as you want but they encourage you to go with 130 km/h (approx 81 miles per hour)
#9 the groceries have different names - come on, what do you expect when you move to a different land and culture? Don't get me wrong, but you can't be that ignorant to think that over here everything is exactly like in the states only with a different language. Of course the things have different names, there are different brands (even though they are still a few american brands like Coca Cola, McDonalds etc. ) and since we use the metric system (which you should get used to real quick, because no one here knows what a cup is, except for the thing you drink your coffee/tea from) of course there are different sizes/boxes the stuff gets sold in. And for your baking powder ("Back" = baking, "Pulver" = powder ... some times it's not that hard if you know the words ;) ) one of these tiny bags is enough for 500 grams of flour - it's standardized ... we Germans love standards :)
#10 The staring ... oh that one is funny too, because for us it's just looking at someone for a longer time. It doesn't mean that they don't like you or want you any harm or something like that, they just look at you, sometimes not even with the intent to look at you, it's just that our eyes point in one direction (I mean, you have to look somewhere, right? You can't close your eyes for the entire time) and we think of something else so it just looks like we look at you - if that makes sense to you :)
ad 7 traffic lights: the reason the small light is needed is often because the crossing road is too narrow to allow for a good view both from afar and right at the crossroad.
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For Germans fresh air is only considered fresh if it comes through a window. If the same air from outside comes through an AC, Germans will not see it as fresh. Even if apartments have AC (like mine), the AC only cools the air, but does not exchange air from the inside and the outside. Isn't it strange that there are $100 million apartments in New York City where you can't open a single window?
The only special thing about Autobahns is that there is no speed limit at all. Technically you could drive 1000 mph if you find a car that is that fast. It is hard to understand for Germans that the speed limits in the US are so low. 65 mph or less. The US are so large. So the speed limits should be very hight to allow you crossing the country fast.
Germans only stare at good looking women :-)
These regulators on the radiators are thermostatic regulators. 3 equals to 21 °C, and each point on the dial is roughly 1 °C. So, 4 is 25 °C and 2 is 17 °C. The little snowflake symbol means that the thermostat will open at around 5 °C so the radiator does not get damaged from freezing as ice will burst it. Set it to the desired temperature and leave it there and let it do its thing. If you feel too hot or cold just turn it up or down a little notch and the temperature in the room will adjust within the next 30 to 60 minutes.
Since we don't have that much space here as they do in Canada or the US, traffic lights hanging on the OTHER side of the crossing would only be confusing. Thus we have the traffic lights at the end where you need to stop, aside on the walkway, and the ones hanging up high are meant for the drivers farther behind, or when you're approaching a crossing, as they can't be blocked from being seen by huge vehicles.
Backpulver is NOT baking soda. It's similar, but what you want is Natron Pulver (Brand name: Kaiser Natron)
Of course there's a name for air central heating in germany: Warmluft-Zentalheizung. It's just not very common in germany. It's usually not as efficient as direct heating, because it requires a fairly powerful fan, which requires much more energy than the pump required to supply warm water to the radiators. Also, it requires tubes going to every room, which is not easy to incorporate into existing buildings, so you'll probably find one in fairly new buildings. Low energy houses sometimes use this kind of heating because they do not require high temperatures for efficient heating. But the more prefered way of heating in this case is floor heating (because you'll always have warm feet :-) ), which you may find even in older houses because those are also fairly easy to incorporate.
Of course, air heaters are much more common when combined with AC, because AC requires the air tubes, anyway, so adding an air heater to this is much easier than adding an additional heating system. But, as you know already, AC is not a big deal in germany.
Heater/towel-racks are common in apartments and houses built or renovated after 1990. They make plain sense in bath rooms and kitchens in a cold country
Yes the bathroom heater is common in newer homes. Older buildings have the older radiator version. And we heat only low energy buildings with a special system with heated and circulated air. Heating with electricity is too much inefficent and expensive so we use central heating systems based on hot water.
Towel rack type heaters are a somewhat newer development - mainly meant for drying towels and kitchen cloths. Maybe 10% of the households have them.
The heat in the houses is not a problem besides some days in the year when it does not get below 20 degrees Celsius in the night either. I live in an appartment on the top floor with a bad insulated roof and it will get pretty hot in there then. Else it is just a thing about "heat management". Keep the window closed in the days - open them in the nights. Close the shades in the morning so that the "sun does not come in". Maybe you cannot cool the house as much down as you can with an AC - but you somehow get used to the warmer temperature, too. Germans take the weather like it comes - spend a lot time outside when they can in beer gardens or at the lakes. Energy costs are higher in Germany than they are in Germany - a people are a lot more aware of energy wasting than US citizens are. That is why ACs are seen as unnecessary - yes, sometimes it would be nice to have but not at those cost.
The towel heaters are no feature in older appartments. A lot newer ones have it.
People are different with the way they feel hot and cold. I am somebody that freezes easy, too, especially when I am not moving like when I sit at the computer. Apart from during the summer I usually wear a big pullover inside or a T-shirt with a sweat-jacket.
I am fully embracing lüften 🤗. My second worry are spiders or something coming in at night, but I think I can remedy that by getting a screen for the window.
Yes. Best is if you get one with a frame - might be more expansive than the screens with adhesive band but when once fixed into the window better to handle. The discounters often have them in their special offers around this time of the year. Spiders aren't my problem - camping with a mixed group when I was about 12 got me over my fear of spiders. But I am really scared of bees and because the night you might have in the evenings the moskitos are a problem, too, without screens.
Go to the Baumarkt and ask for Fliegengitter or Insektenschutz. There are different type of Fliegengitter. Some glue a Klettband to the window frame and you can mount the fabrics net on the Klettband. Others have their own frames and can be hooked to the window frame. Search for these german words on you tube 😎
Yeah keep the Rollladen down amd windows closed during the day and if you still die from the heat,you can still buy a standing fan. For the most part we don't have ceiling fans in Germany.
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And they are fast at spinning, too. After "lüfting" (now it's a word (: ) for like 15-20 mins, I once had a full-blown spider's web between the bottom edge of the widely open window and the floor with its huge resident sitting in the middle. That's where vacuum cleaners come in handy.
Again it is so funny if Americans find out that the American way of live isn't the world standard.
And btw the metric system is more logical, US dollars are in a metric system for a very long
time according to US standards.
And who uses Fahrenheit? There is no sense of logic in it.
Mark Schattefor when you grow up using Fahrenheit, it makes sense. I wish I learned Celsius in school but they told us it would never be needed. I hope to one day visit Germany. My great grandmother was German and I have been studying the language for years 😀 but not seriously so I am not too good at it. Now, I am studying more.
90% of homes in germany dont have AC cause it consumes tons of electricity (which is faily expensive in germany) and for 11 months of the year you just dont need AC in germany... newer homes have them but old buildiongs dont and installing them would cost tons of money as well. you dont have to sign eerywhere when using a debit card. depends on the card and store. most places use pin codes..^. classic way to confront staring people is either to stare back (they will turn away immediately) or ask them "Kann ich helfen (may i help you)?".. same result..
I've figured out that as long as I have a "US" debit card, I will have to sign. I noticed it's the same routine in London as well. Haha but I'm getting used to everything else 😊. I just learned about lüften lol.
Actually there is no answer ^^ (9:33+) you just melt in the sommer. If you know it's getting super hot a day, you just close your windows in the morning and open them again in the evening, so you don't let the warm air in.
I like that “you just melt” 😁
Our widest Autobahn's have four lanes for one direction. Most have three or only two when the area is more densely populated.
The crossing light´s at the side of the streets are necessary, because in germany the lights above the street are not after a crossing rather bevore the crossing. The first driver has to dislocate his neck or looks sideways... The streets are not so big in germany and they had to eqalize the drivingrules...(and Yes every german loves the crossinglights in US). The most highways with uneven numbers connect north to south, even numbers connect east to west (that was the origin idea)
The traffic lights are on this side of the road because:
- a right turn is not free in Europe.
- crossings are smaller and more complex.
"autobahn" means "cars only" -if you drive there law requires that your vehicle can maintain a minimum speed of 60 km/h(approx 40mph)
the towell-racks get´s more and more in common. The normal radiator is more efficient. The radiator heat the air between the waterfilled metaldoubleplates and so the "konvektion" let raise the warm air. the towell-rack heat without konvektion. AC is not so in common, because you need an AC in only a vew month of the year and the buildings are theramly insulatet. If you open the window in the night (you "kipp" the window in halfopen), the cool air comes in; in the morning you close all windows and the thermal insulation causes that the warm air doesn´t came in... Furthermore the electricity-costs are very high in germany...(keyword: "Energiewende" = green energy)
please continue making videos. :)
i really taking a liking in your videos, cause everytime i must laugh or at least i'm still smiling. :D
To keep the flat cool in summer without having AC, you keep the windows CLOSED and let down the blinds or close the second set of curtains (a feature that became mostly lost in the past decades), so the heat is kept out. Fans don't really cool, they only stir up the hot air.
Zentralheizung - yes. Klimaanlage - only rarely to be found. Our windows can be tilted instead. ;-p
The signing with debit card purchases it possibly because of a difference in laws between the US and Germany. In Germany you could roll the transaction back - meanig after the purchase you cancel the payment (electronically or by phone). But since you signed it the company could present your signed slip and reclaim their money. So signing is an ensurance that you cann weasle out of paying by simply cancelling the payment. :)
When I was in the US I had to sign when using my mastercard everywhere (100%), with the exception of gas stations. Every now and then I also had to show my ID.
Do you have a card from a German bank? Perhaps that is why.
Of course. As I do not have an American address opening up a US bank account is quite hard I imagine.
How to keep cool in the summer: Open windows in the morning when it is still cold (or keep open during the night), close them when it starts to get warm and close shutters on the windows when the sun shines directly through. Combined with stone construction and insulation that does quite nicely and costs no electricity. And if it still get's too warm after a few days ... get a portable AC for the bedroom. :)
Thing is that since my childhood the climate HAS changed in Germany - despite all the claims from certain circles in the US. When I was a kid we got like 26°C+ for a few days in August but still had cool nights. Nowadays we can hit 30°C starting in March and keep it until August. I would have considered AC in a car a silly luxury 20 years ago - nowaday it's a must. And I think it won't be far into the future when ACs in buildings will become standard. But given the cost of electricity here (reasonable because of CO2 emission - we shall see how things work out price-wise with renewable energy) you'll never get 24/7 AC operation in Europe.
About the baking powder - the Germans recipes are based on this. In it are 16 gramms - one and a half table spoons - or backing powder for about 500 g flour (or 4 cups)
Actually what you call staring is just "looking around". Why should people look the other way?
Always photograph a letter sized cardboard that has your name, email, phone number on it and says reward if returned as the first photo on your camera before you set out. Helps getting your stuff back. Otherwise - how should a finder find out to whom it belongs?
Germans / Europeans don't stare. They just hold eye contact a fraction of a second longer as Americans do - and so these feel stared at.
For cooling off, I'd say portable fans are probably the most common, but AC is also available. It's just quite expensive to run. It's pretty standard in cars though.
Most people don't see any reason for spending a few thousand bucks for cool air. When buying a home that already has it, people usually don't dislike it.
The word for central heating stuff is Zentralheizung. So somewhat similar to english
Staring: i had this issue in australia.germans do stare but its not JUST staring its also taking an interest an eye contact. I noticed in australia the difference between melbourne and sydney. In sydney its not cool to "stare" whereas melbournites appreciate eye contact. Europeans generally like to look at each other. Why otherwise invest in chique clothes :-)
Numbers on exits have been introduced here only some decade or two ago. Anyway, the exits all have them. And all the signs announcing the next exit as well. By monitoring the numbers you can determine the direction in which you're going, listen to the traffic news on the radio and you know it's the direction you're going when they announce a jam between exit #34 and #36. It's then not on the other side, unless they announced it would be on BOTH sides.
The radio stations with traffic news are also announced on signs along the highway, with the relevant frequencies for that area.
if you need cold in germany- just turn the dial on your microwave until the numbers turn negative (watch for the "minus" symbol!)then turn it on full!
What I think when I'm staring: Is she from here? Does she need help (like telling her the direction or other information)? By staring I want to signal you that you ask me. Or sometimes I just think about what it was like when I was your age or I notice your hair or your clothes and I wonder if it would fit me or I admire how a person can underline her/his personality by an outfit. It's never negative, it's interesting. But in more than 90% it just means: Can I help you? Or: I'm open for a conversation. I stare for just some seconds until I'm sure that you noticed me. If you don't ask me anything or you turn away I stop.
Over here on average one spends about 2000 Euros for the hours, study material and fees to get the car driving license. Make that 2500 if you want to do the motorbike license along with it. And it takes at least about 20 hours (which are 45 minute units). There is a certain amount of hours that are required, like for "overland" and highway driving, and driving at night.
We have a kind of hirarchy of streets between cities. The fastest ist the Autobahn named An or Ann or Ann. Number depends on direction and length, then the Bundesstraße named Bnn and Landstraße named Lnn. You can find the street names and numbers on Google maps.
Did you check the Lost and Found office for your camera? If you just lost it and if it was not stolen you have a good chance to get it back. You should contact the town hall of the castle where you have been.
Traffic lights - there's not enough room here to have them on the other side of the crossing. It would be totally confusing to people to know which lights were meant for them and which for others.
Highway (Autobahn) -> federal roads (Bundesstraßen) -> minor federal roads (Landstraßen) -> regional area roads (Kreisstraßen) -> city / town roads
to stay cool in the summer, open the windows at night and ventilate, close at sunrise and keep closed for the entire day, windows in germany have two layers of glass, some even three, they insulate very well.
Ceiling fans are a personal choice like lamps, if you need one, buy one. yes there are mobile fans, buy if needed.
The fact that there are no air conditioners in houses and flats is related to the fact that the electricity in Germany is sometimes four times as expensive as in the USA. In addition, we build houses made of stone and not of wood and have several centimeters outside insulation under the visible façade.
heat pumps and multi-zone air conditioning comes in the next few years more and more when people get away from gas oil coal and wood as a source of heat.
if you are constantly cold vitamin D is missing, once a week in the tanning salon or a vitamin D capsule daily will help, unfortunately we do not get so much sun that our body can produce enough vitamin D itself
Vita D capsules? I'll have to try this.
i take this goo.gl/NwbcTw works for me, maybe you can find VITAMIN D3 from other brands in Rossman or DM or in the pharmacy
Lux Forever Vitamin D can become a problem in the rather dark German winter for people with darker skin as their tan absorbs a lot of the UV necessary to make Vitamin D before it can reach the skin layers that can synthesize it. The problem is more pronounced in women, which have a higher requirement for Vitamin D. There used to be special UV lamps ("Höhensonne"), which had to be used with special eye protection due to their high UV-B output, but I don't know whether they are still available. Plenty of vintage ones are still on Ebay, but have to be used with care.
The only thing that could stop us on the autobahn is the physical law called "speed of light"
:-D
If you're the first person at a traffic light, just look left or right to the lower traffic lights. The ones high above are not for you but cars further away
All the exits on the autobahn are numbered.
The heaters are quite uncommon. I only saw them once in my sisters old apartments bath room
The heater is uncommon in rental apartments because they are way more expensive than a regular one. I bought one for my bathroom when I bought my apartment because these heaters are useful and stylish. My rental apartment didn't had one and none of my friends have one. But my parents and their friends who almost all own their house/apartment also almost all have one.
Best of all is: you can laugh about yourself.
How's your german going on?
It is going quite well 😊.
Backing Powder= on the pack sight it! one pack for 500g .....but you are right it is single working!!
1 packet of Backpulver fits for 500g flour. 2 packets for one packet flour (which is 1kg). Same for dry and fresh yeast.
central heating air: warmluftheizung- totaly inefficient....and so antiquated
8:00 Das Wetter in Deutschland ist wechselhaft-mild. Extreme Temperaturen im oberen und unteren Bereich treten in der Regel nur für ein paar Tage am Stück auf. Deswegen braucht es auch keine besonderen AC oder Heizungs-Einrichtungen in den Wohnungen - zumal die meisten Wohnungen aus Stein sind und isoliert (sowohl Wände wie Scheiben), so dass die Temperatur in der Wohnung nicht sofort gleich der Außentemperatur ist. Die Zimmertemperatur liegt im Schnitt bei 16 bis 20 Grad - und das ist oft im Gleichgewicht mit der Temperatur außerhalb der Wohnung. Im Sommer reicht daher lüften oder ein Ventilator und im Winter der einfache Heizkörper. Das wäre mit Sicherheit alles anders, gäbe es in Deutschland lange Hitze- oder Kältestrecken in extremen Temperatur-Bereichen.
Die Fenster müssen übrigens geöffnet werden können, da Mieter täglich einmal lüften SOLLEN, um z.B. Schimmel in der Wohnung zu verhindern (die Frischluft verringert die Luftfeuchtigkeit).
Ich lüften täglich lol.
staring: you are very prety!- but by german standards you look definitely exotic. so "staring" is rather fascination...
Bahahaha, I thought it was just me who noticed it, but their traffic lights are horrible. They really take awhile for Americans to get use to. If ever :)
I thought the traffic lights in the US are horrible! I arrived in winter, the roads were covered in snow. The traffic light was on the other side but there was no way to tell where you actually had to stop because it was all covered in snow.
It gets hot but not that humid in Germany and the houses are built differently so it's fairly cool inside. AC's wouldn't be needed for long and wouldn't be worth the damage they do to the environment. A very old house in Germany my mother lived in had central heat and it warped all the furniture very badly.
That is awful to hear! So far the temperature inside feels nice but I'll come back to this topic in July hahahah.
That‘s not entirely true. The humidity depends very much on your location. I live next to the Rhine river and believe it, it is VERY humid all throughout the warm season... However, since most houses are made of bricks and not cardboard (...), they tend to stay cooler inside as long as you remember to let down the shades in the mornings and to open them widely and get a draft once the sun has lost most of its power at night... Most Germans also consider air conditioners very dangerous as (especially in large buildings) they tend to diffuse bacteria over and over again.
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1.) did you call the bus drivers fat? that's rude...
maybe you said "fast", but that's not what comes to my mind when i think of a bus. (for once, in city traffic, there is just no way they could go very fast, especially as the next stop is going to come pretty soon; and on the other hand, there is a regulation that they are not allowed to go above a certain speed unless they have seatbelts for the passengers. city buses usually don't have that. buses that go larger distances do.)
2.) that we do have none of the American brands isn't true... I was surprised you made no comment there. Of course mostly we have different brands, but there are definitely some American ones.
3.) when the bus is coming, go for it (if the road is clear). of course it's not legal to go over a red traffic light in that situation, but it is not frowned upon.
(btw, as a rule of thumb, in a big city, people are rather fine with crossing red lights as a pedestrian. the bigger the city, the more likely it is. still not legal, of course, but often almost everyone seems to do it... just do what everyone else does, or err on the safe side of not breaking the law, even if some people will roll their eyes at you standing there...)
also, i always thought the concept of "jaywalking" is an American thing, that you are only allowed to cross the street at marked crossings... We do not have that at all, you can cross the street wherever you want, as long as you don't impede on traffic. however, if there is a traffic light in the direct vicinity, you have to use it.
4.) the staring thing... yeah, i've seen the other video on that too. staring IS considered rude here in Germany! However, from what i can tell, it seems the threshold of what is considered staring is much higher than in the USA.
Silkwesir she said “fast” in reference to the bus drivers but she cut off the footage so it got kinda cut off.
ok that staring women in the supermarket just creepy
i know we germans stare wehen someone is an exotic beauty or openly a nerd may be behaving strange
but to stare at someone withaut any reason that long, just rude
and even as a german i hate that staring so i listen to musik and play a mobile game so i do not have to notice the people around me
then te first place in tram or bus in driving deraction is always mine or the last one in the diraction of the doors
when none of this places are free i just stand neer the dors (ok not if there is a stroller or someone in a wheelchair)
fun fackt even with this let me alone aditude i often get asked for the diraction from old people or tourists
its like i have a stamp on my forehead "i live in this city, speek english and i am very helpfull" TT
😂 What ... you don’t like helping us lost tourists 😄
Forget credit cards in germany. You need an EC-card. So you have to open a bank account in germany
Many exits on the Autobahn are numbered:
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Nobody stares at you when you're ugly, so take it as a compliment ;-)
Usually we avoid staring. It's considered impolite.
However, sometimes we can't avoid being caught eyeing on someone who stands out. Shame on us.
Do you know the youtuber Hayley Alexis? You have to watch her videos, she's from Florida and she's living in Munich for a while now.
Yes, I just watched a video with her and another UA-camr about living long term in Munich. Very interesting.
In many new houses you have a central air ventilation system to get some fresh air in. That is not a real ac like in the US. What is that thing on the ceiling on the right side of your head? Looks like an outlet of fresh air. Or is it a fire alarm?
Could you tell me how to apply for it jobs in Germany ?
6-7 hours for a 6 minute video? Either your upload speed is extremely slow or your files are way too big. With UA-cam's recommended encoding quality settings, a 6 minute 1080p30 video should be 350-ish MBytes. Even if your ADSL connection isn't too fresh and is only 6 MBit/s down / 500 kbit/s up (common about a decade ago, maybe not even that long), you shouldn't be seeing more than 2 hours. You may be suffering with first-gen DSL speeds or even DSL light there, which is getting really long in the tooth even by our comparatively modest standards. Rural areas can still be pretty bad in that regard at times. (Seems like the US can be even worse though, which really is no surprise. Getting fast internet access out is easiest in countries that are fairly small and densely populated.)
Originally the plan was having 50 MBit/s available everywhere by this year, but that didn't really work out, though FTTC rollout seems to be coming along pretty well and it is not at all uncommon to be seeing 50 MBit VDSL available (10 MBit up), even 100 (20 up) with vectoring. An average run of the mill internet connection for basic needs these days would be ADSL2 with 16-18 MBit/s nominal, real 10-18 MBit/s down, 0.9-1 MBit/s up. (We're running our terminal server at work over a connection like that, though VDSL is finally supposed to be available later this year - yay.) You can also get "hybrid" connections that are bundeling stationary DSL + LTE cellular capacity, which tends to be super handy when your DSL is super lame but LTE coverage in the area is good. Inventive if entirely proprietary for now. Finally, those with broadband cable also have some really decent speeds to choose from (up to 100-200 MBit/s down), though generally no external IPv4 address (DSlite).
Sloooow upload speed. I have to use my phone as a wifi hotspot until the internet providers can come out and fix it 😊. Fingers crossed that it will happen soon.
I'm really wondering why this is such a problem for many people.
You are in a strange city and feel alone? you are not alone, you have a smartphone! A smart one - right?
Use it!
Google will tell you what it is (image search) or tell you how to call it in the foreign language AND how to pronounce it.
Just
like Mr. @Silas Nacita - he's in Cologne looking for this huge church -
if only he had asked Mr.Google, Mr. Google would have taken him to his
destination (Maps)
In my youth, there were no smartphones but apparently I can use this technique better than young people without a plan :)
Sorry that I'm so German, but ... it's like it is!
Zentralheizung und Klimaanlage. But we germans are very electricity savy so we only have AC in offices or stores. No it doesnt act as an AC. The cool symbol just tells you that you shouldnt expect it to be warm. You should go into an media markt or saturn when it gets really hot then you will see literal thronges of people who are buying little portable ventilators.
If you want a lesson in driving, I would be willing to offer my time and my Audi S4.
We cool the house by opening the windows during the night. And close the blind over day.
Ask German to drive slower. If they don't agree you don't want to drive with them. It's ok to ask.
Nice one 😍😬😂
Not to be rude, but what always kind of amazes me (and that wouldn't be in a good way) is how foreigners always expect things abroad to be like things at home. I mean, come on, you must at least have SOME that this might not be the case. This goes for everyone, so don't take it personal.
Slight correction: there is only ONE metric system. ;)
"it's in a completely different metric system" how many metric systems are there?
Cute. ^^
The others on the bus did not think anything about you. Maybe that you are not used to taking the bus.
fastidious naive americans
clichee confirmed