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Hundreds of kingdoms and hundreds of towns needed castles to protect themselves, so they build castles and we decided to keep a lot of them to honour our past.
Not to mention that huge amount of wooden castles which not exist anymore.
Only the americans have nothing of this
We call it toast because you have to toast it to make it kind a eatable thing. Raw it is a disgusting sticky, inmouthspitabsorbing, bad experience. So take the hint in the name seriously, toast this US style bread to give it a bit of crispiness and taste.
I looked into the comments to find exactly this! 👍 😁
Bread intended to be toasted = toast bread
I often eat it untoasted and I actually do like it. Though I think "Weissbrot" is better than the one that says "Toast" on the package. And "American Sandwich" again in my opinion is better than "Buttertoast" (or "Vollkorntoast") - but a bit more expensive, as well. I also sometimes like to knead the bread a little between my fingers, so it becomes a bit like dough.
Now I have a feeling like this reads a bit like a confession and I'd better said all this to a priest.🤔
@@stef987"a bit like a confession"? This is reason enough to banish you to some horrible god forsaken place like France! Or maybe your eating habits would make you feel more at home with the British?
Raw with Teewurst is geil
In case of an emergency you have to help in Germany. You don't have to put yourself in danger. The minimum is making an emergency call, but you have to do more, if you can. And to give many people the ability to help, you don't get a drivers licence, without learning first aid and you are not allowed to drive without a first aid kit in your car. So if something happens to you in Germany, the chance is not too bad, that someone comes around with a first aid kit, who has not forgotten everything from the first aid training decades ago.
In a survey 93 % of German adults said, they have had a first aid trainig at least once.
I once was involved in a car accident, and the driver in a truck in front of me was severely injured. I got out of my car, took up my first aid kit, phoned the police, and then went up to the injured person to help. I used up my bandages and compresses for a makeshift dressing. After ten minutes or so, the first responders took over. We all have to learn that before passing the driver's license here.
cool bro..wowi. wow
9:13 You don't have to endanger yourself, but at least call the police. Otherwise it's "unterlassene Hilfeleistung".
Yup. But also if you are in shock yourself because of the situation you won't get charged, because you are literally a victim in this case.
Otherwise you are at least to be expected to call the police OR call others for help.
And you don't have to fear that some sore crash victim will sue your ass off, because you broke his ribs while saving his life by chest compressions.
You don't need to run into a fire. But you must have done a first aid course for your driving license. So you are expected to do at least simple medical aid if necessary. And as said you are covered for any failures you do as long as they are not willful or insane. Covering someones mouth because he screams too loud is not the right way 🙂.
@@EyMannMachHin yeah in germany everyone would be extremly thankfull that you saved their lifes :D In the US you have to pay your whole live afterwards because of breaking the rips like you said :D
@@kuessebramato be fair, the story I have been told was actually a German EMT on holiday and the judge decided he was a medical professional. And the person sueing was probably bullied into it by an ambulance chaser lawyer... I'm pretty sure the case could have gone totally different, if you where just a layman helping another person to the best of your abilities. Call me naive, but I really think people in the US are better than the internet makes them.
The English word "castles" includes both German words "Burg" and "Schloss". So not all castles in Germany look like a medieval stronghold with moat, portcullis and drawbridge (Burg). Schlösser look more like very stately houses, mansions, estates. Often with nice gardens, or even some water features like a moat, but mostly not. And many of these Burgen and Schlösser actually are not complete buildings any more but total ruins. And we have about 1400 McDonald's.
Even if you count all (what english speakers understand) castles and all strongholds together, it's not even close to the amount of Mc Donalds. In Germany, old mansions, buildings with sorrounding gardens and just "bigger houses" are called "Castle" or "Schlösschen". Thats why the number is so big. When I was younger I lived near a "Schloss" and it really just was a small, unspectacular, quite normal looking but old building with some green around it, this was enough to make it a "Schloss".
We have a Schloss too. But it it looks more like a villa. It used to have a large tower and a giant garden that was bigger than the area of our village but both where destroyed during the time of the DDR. (the tower because it's simbolism didn't aline with communistic ideals and the garden for wood production)
It still kept the title of Schloss. I can imagine that many other Schlösser met similar fates and were destroyed during or after WWII.
It is easy. Burg = castle, Schloss = palace.
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Yes, but the 25.000 castles includes Burgen and Schlösser, at least that's what it says when you look the number up in German.
@@katse1204 Ah, okay!
In Germany, you are allowed to drink wine and beer at 14 years old, if your parents are with you.
You are allowed to do by yourself at the age of 16.
Hard stuff is allowed at 18.
It is not a crime, to run around everywhere with an open container of alcohol - if your age fits.
It is not a crime to drink in public even as a child - it is a crime to give alcohol to the kid. This means the vendor or landlord will get in trouble.
Here in Wisconsin older children are also allowed to drink alcohol in public establishments if in the company of their parents. It was also the last state to raise the drinking age from 18 to 21. A state with one of the largest percentages of German immigrant population. In Canada the drinking age is 19 in most provinces with two of them still at 18. Prost!
not all of the 25000 castles might look like you imagine a huge castle with many walls, towers and gates. Within these 25000 places are also ruins and different types of castle-buildings like water castles etc.
they have no fucking clue what a water castle (Wasserschloss) is
The word "Schloss" can be used to describe practically any house, for example, most manor houses are castles.
also the use of the term "castle" in this context summarizes very different kinds, e.g. defensive buildings like Burgen, Festungen (fortifications) and representative buildings like Paläste, Schlösser, Jagdschlösser.
@@vomm
Yeah, this absolutely pushes the numbers up significantly.
Also you have like a 1000 years period over which there have been castles of any kind built in significant numbers.
So if this counts every 9th century ring fort and manor house, the number is no big surprise.
Maybe they also counted the Vorhängeschlösser (padlocks), too.
The fact with the blocked videos isn't true anymore since 2017. There was a fight of GEMA ( Society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights ) and UA-cam. And you can't watch most music on UA-cam before. Big music industry wanted money, but in 2017 they came to an agreement.
The blocked youtube videos was an issue where youtube was not paying for copyrights and that was resolved years ago. Before Shorts even existed on YT.
No rick roll is a thing of the past. We can watch pretty much everything without vpn
Years ago there was a problem cause we have a system of paying the musicians for public playing of there songs and youtube had no contract so it was blocked.
TikToks spelling "facts" are always 99.999% absolute complete bs
The number of 25,000 castles includes every castle, palace, château, and big mansion and ruins thereof. The distinction between the different types of buildings is a little different in German. The word Burg is the classic medieval defensive building and the word Schloss can be everything from a huge palace to a bigger mansion. You would call most of them castles in English.
There is a section of the river Rhine that is around 60 miles long and has 60 castles next to it.
About the castles along the Rhine, I think I once saw a documentary or read an article about them - not sure, though, if it was the Rhine or another river. Apparently these castles were built so the owners could collect taxes from the ships that were passing by. I found it kind of funny, actually.😅
13,514 McDonalds restaurants in the United States as of August 01, 2023
Germany was once home to some 25,000 castles. just 60% of those castles remain either in all their glory or in ruin, meaning just about 15,000 can be found in the nation today
Both the getting punished for not helping and insulting someone are both kinda overly simplified and the Rickroll fact is false
Germany has around 25000 castles, while the US has around 13000 mcdonalds
FACTS 😆
Isso 😂
Everything comes down to the distribution. I would expect that McDonald's in the US are far better distributed then castle in Germany.
The word "castle" differs from the German word "Schloss". You cannot translate it that easy. In German, "Schloss" also is used for old houses with big gardens. 95% of castles in Germany no American would consider as such, because they use this word not like us. Same for British people.
@@vomm It is easy. Burg = castle, Schloss = palace.
I once read in the newspaper about people who were found guilty for not helping someone. It happened in a bank, so they were filmed walking by a person who was dying. They claimed they thought it was a homeless guy who was sleeping there. Calling the emergency is considered as helping. That's something everyone can do.
This was a pretty big thing in newspapers and talk shows. There was security footage that proved some of the people even stepped over the dying person.
What they were convicted on was "Unterlassene Hilfeleistung" and that is officially a crime in Germany. It translates to "failure to provide assistance" in the sense of actively not providing assistance.
But since no one can ask of you to put yourself in danger to help someone, it boils down to calling for an ambulance. And when you don't have a phone you are supposed to go to the nearest place that has one and make a call from there.
There really are castles everywhere in Germany. I live in the suburbs of a city. Of course in that city there is a castle. But there are 2 more in the suburbs just near mine. These suburbs used to be their own little towns before the big city grew in the last 150 years. It is a remnant of how society used to work in the middle ages here. No idea how it compares to McDonalds, but there is definitely more castles than McDonalds here in Germany.
Us germans are not patriotic in a flag swinging way, instead we quietly enjoy your reaction to the number of our castles :) i actually live and work right next to one. it´s pretty cool :)
Regarding the castles you need to take into consideration that we have a large variety of castles in Germany. For instance in my home-town of 30k inhabitants, we have a small castle (700 years old) which consist of three (formerly four) buildings (chapel, accommodation, supply) surrounded by guardwalls and water. This one served for many purposes through the history. Just one example for the high count of castles we have. Not every castle looks like one you would expect.
As germany is formed of many small and big counties, there are many castles 🙃
In German law there is no, differentiation based on the percentage of the alcohol but on if the alcohol is burned or not. This was introduced because earlier you were allowed to buy alcohol up to (i think) 15% under 18, but then the big companies at some point kind of just sold premixed vodka to minors, which was something that the government and parents did not like seeing.
Oooh i remever that shit, were they not called Alkopops?
Here a big but simple brick building can be a castle - with historic background and everything. Not every Castle is Neuschwanstein.
And don't forget the vast areas in the US with next to no population - and no McDonald's
"Has anyone ever been actually tried for not helping someone in need"
Yes, it happens more often than you might think🤷♂️ In Germany you have to try to help someone in danger as best as you can without endangering yourself...so you don't have to run into a burning building and save the people inside, but you have to call the fire department or if someone suffers a heart attack or something like that, or gets injured, you have to perform first aid...if you don't and there is proof for it, you'll be tried most definitely
liamcarps is a great channel. He is British, lives in Germany with his German girlfriend and focuses on the real German things in his videos.
Even me as a German, I didn't realize how German many things are that I perceived as normal.
It should be said that we distinguish between medieval castles (Burgen) and representative castles (Schlösser).
Many of the medieval castles are now only ruins or
rudimental remnants.
Just like our small medieval castle, of which only the main building and the bower remain today, only fragments of the moat and the city wall remain.
You also have to keep in mind that many cities in Germany were completely bombed in WW2 (our city was completely destroyed by 80%, in the city center, in fact, only the castle square was almost spared), so much of what had been there until then has disappeared. Before WW2, there were many more of them.
By the way, you can see our castle in "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters"
Yes, "Toastbrot" do especially fit into a standard toaster. For other sorts there are long slot toaster.
See toast as one of the most popular sorts of hundrets of sorts of bread in germany.
But if we talk about bread in germany we usually don't refer to toast, because it is rather low quality for nutrition compared to other breads.
In general our bread and buns are not that soft and sweet as yours. Ours have in general a crunchy crust and no sugar (depending on sort) and can be customized sweet or salty.
Of course we also have the typical hamburger buns so we can also make a typical McDonalds hamburger.
Austria with 83.000 km2 (aproximatly as big as South Carolina) has 3.664 registered castles. This number contains everything from big fortresses and fairytale looking castles to ruins and archeological sites where only a few stones or landmarks are left visible.
You can use a kettle for making not only tea, but coffee, cocoa, soup ...
The term "castle" is used rather losely. There's a list of german castles in wikipedia, and a lot (I guess most) of them I would call "mansion".
The reason for the amount of castles and estates lies in our feudal history. Every bit of land needed some nobleman as an administrator. Every duke, count, baron etc. had a grand building of sorts that you would call castle in English.
Also German is quite similar to asian languages. Both use a Word/symbol for Basic words (like Ship, forest, River, water, ect.). More complex words are just simple words put together. Like 'Wald' (Forrest) und 'Brand' (Fire) combining into 'forrest fire'.
So there's no need to be scared by big german words, just break them down into thier respective little words and they're quite easy to understand
In America you can get sued for helping, which means you’re more likely to not help. Which is even even more weird. Helping needs to be mandatory and not get helpers in trouble.
All 50 states have good samaritan laws to protect the people who help.
"How can you have 25000 castles?"
Long story...
To the castles. I didn't know myself and googled it. So if you add up all the castles, palaces and mansions in Germany, you get around 25,000. But there are only 13,400 McDonalds in the US. Not every castle is as big as Neuschwanenstein Castle. There are also many small castles. You might not even notice some as Castles. But I'm not sure what the definition is either.
the nearest castle for me is literally a 10 minute walk. It's not a gigantic palace by any means but it's a proper castle , just relatively small with multiple floors.
"Never gonna give you up" is in fact not blocked in germany and people also like to rickroll their friends here as I have experienced quite often. There are a lot of popular videos though that are blocked in germany like the oversimplified video about Hitler (for obvious reasons).
11:04 Yeah, but not every castle is like „Neuschwanstein“. Sometimes it‘s more like a mansion that was used by some aristocrats as a summer residence for vacation.
Castles: The US have vast areas with no people and therfore no McD. In Germany there are nearly no areas where you don't get to the next city or village after a few kilometres. Calculated with area there is about one castle every 4km.
The US has about 27times the area of Germany but only 9times as much McDs. So calculated to area Germany has 3times more McDs.
yes 25k castles is an official number. In medieval times there have been much more. The estimate goes over 60k. 25k is with roof as they say.
3:08 man we dont even call your normal bread bread
Yes, we call it Toast or Toastbrot. Because the only why you can eat that cr*p is toasted 😂
3:29 Yes thats exactly how it is. We use it for breakfast and pretty much only for that. And only, if better options arent available or if we feel too lazy for them.
1:38 ah nice, your typical German, just takin out his pet glock to Home Depot 😂❤
Not all German Castles are created equal. For example, where I live, most castles more look like large, ornate houses that were used for local diplomacy or as summer residences (Lustschloss) for hunting trips (Jagdschloss).
Nearly every village or town, which is older than maybe 300 years has it's own castle
The fact about the Rickroll isnt true
We had times when there were almost 3000 independent states, cities or territories under the umbrella of the Holy Roman Empire (German Nation). Almost everything the nobles built there for themselves was then a castle (Schloß). I think what you mean are castles (Burgen), more or less large building complexes with defensive functions.
Hi. E.g. Karlsruhe has 3 castles in town. In Potsdam there are a couple of castles for every member of royal family or episode or season. Also a lot of German small towns has its own castle as well. And any place with beautyful landscape a king or regin built a castle too.
You can rewind shorts if you pause them, u can see the progress bar down below and move the positioner. 😉
12:12 The rule about helping in an acute emergency is, that you have to help as good as you can. And you don´t have to put yourself into unreasonable danger to help. There is no exception for handicaped people required and if you cannot swim, you are not supposed to jump into the water to save a drowning person.
Regarding the castles: All fortified homes of nobles are called castles, that includes the very big ones of the highest nobility and plenty of smaller ones. Sometimes palaces as well as some buildings like ancient roman fortifications are also called castles. Most of the 25000 castles are more or less ruins. So the actual numbers can be taken with a grain of salt. But in general, it is true that the country is pretty full of castles. Nobles controlled the land from their fortified homes and to do that, everything usually had to be within the distance which could be reached a days horseride or less.
About the not helping someone in need, this is a quote from the german stgb (the law regulating criminal offences) (translated from german to english) :
"(1) Anyone who fails to provide assistance in the event of an accident or general danger or need, although this is necessary and reasonable under the circumstances, in particular without significant personal risk and without breaching other important obligations, shall be punished with imprisonment for up to one year or a fine . (2) Anyone who in these situations obstructs a person who is providing or intending to provide assistance to a third party shall be punished in the same way."
And yes, this is prosecuted, and you will get trialed for it.
You leave someone lying on the sidewalk unconciously, you'll get sued if someone sees that and reports it.
(btw, "helping" in that sense is already something like calling an ambulance.)
8:00 There are that many castles that most people aren't really too fazed by it, like there is one not even half a mile away from my house where my friends and I went to explore it often as kids, the elementary school here holds like a fundraising race around it annually. For contextI live in Nuremberg, Bavaria so we do also have the Kaiserburg, where the Emperor stayed in the past. So it's just like a small little ruin in the outskirts of the city but seeing some ruins here and there while on the road isn't too out of place. On the Autobahn you'll also sometimes see Signs telling you about cities and castles nearby.
You have seen so many videos about Germany in which the toast bread was mentioned a hundred times. Nobody in continental Europe calls this bread. Only Brits because they invented it. There is literally no other use or this bread than being put into a toaster, you are correct, that is the reason why we call it toast. Nobody would eat it otherwise, it's too sweet and tasteless and soft and overall awful.
To have more castles than McD places sounds like a cultural achievement to me XD These castles are old, they are not something your neighbour has built. And they are also not like the Disney castle in Disneyland. They are real and not made of plastic or paper-walls. They all served a purpose (protection/military, living for nobles/kings), some still do. Imagine every county was a kingdom and you needed a castle for the king, for the nobles and for the knights and a few for protection.
Having castles is a symbol of our long history which the US obviously lacks. France might even have more than Germany, at least in the Loire region.
8:10 The duty to help in an emergency situation (life depending or in relation to great damages) in germany is basically done with calling for help, if it is not reasonable for a person to provide more help due to their abilities.
You don`t have to help under a risk for yourself or if you are too insecure to help more.
The call for help 112 (firefighter/rescue service) is free of cost risk unless you misuse it with false alarm.
11:05 "What are we counting as a castle"
Well, that's the question. I assume this includes many things like palaces, moated castles etc.
What I can tell you is that in a 30 km (20 mile) radius around my home there are more than 20 of these "buildings" and, in fact, I don't believe there are as many McDonalds here.
We have only 25.000 castles left, because the rest was destroyed and torn down in a few very smal military conflicts we used to have with all of those who would later become tourists.
We than decided to make them pay for visiting us and to get them drunk with, way to good, beer.
That does make them less capable in their deconstructional skills.
Since that great move of ours worked out pretty well they don't damage each and everything they come across and are jealous of.
:D :D :D
The "not helping is criminal"-thing applies especially in car accidents. If there is any form of camera proof (e.g. dashcams) that you were there and saw the accident and then left without helping, you can be charged for "unterlassene hilfeleistung". BUT you cannot be charged if helping would have meant to put yourself in danger. So you have to call the police or ambulance, if you have a cell phone at hand, but you don't have to walk on a busy street or leave your car at a unsafe place (e.g. as a woman at night in the woods) to help.
On the law about helping. It considers approptiate help, like calling an ambulance or police or getting you out of imidiate danger if they can (for example if someone has a stroke on the street, carrying the person to the sidewalk or signaling oncomming traffic to stop.) I know one famous case from a few years ago, where a teen girl was sexually assulted in a pedestrian area and people just walked by even though she screamed for help. No one even called the police. So they considered taking all the people that walked by and ignored it to court.
@Ryan Wass : open up a map of Germany and count every City with the ending -burg for example......!
in middelval times allmost every city was build like a Fortress with walls defence towers and so on....
basicly we germans played "TOWERDEFENCE Games" IRL ....
in my hometown we have 17 Castles alone, but only 10 " MAC DOOF "
Warum so rüde?
In my town there is a castle called Burg Linn and is not that big at all. You can put it on a soccer field .... 🏰
For the castles, it's true, there are 13,514 McDonald's restaurants in the USA, and there are something like 25,000 castles in Germany.
The legal age for drinking beer and wine is 16 (18 for hard liquors), not 14, and yes, people can drink alcoholic beverages in public, no matter how much alcohol there is in them. But if parents decide that their 14 year old can have beer or wine at home, nobody will bat an eyelash. In French boys only schools, wine used to be served during lunch even in middle schools until the late 1950s.
For the obligation to help people who are injured or sick, it's in France (and probably the rest of the EU) as well. There are cameras everywhere, they will see you didn't stop. It's called "unterlassene Hilfeleistung" (failure to assist). By the way, when people learn in order to get a driver's licence, there is a first aid course with it, where you learn to do CPR, mouth to mouth, recovery position, pressure points for people who bleed and the like. Of course, with people on motorbikes or else who wear helmets, you're not allowed to remove it to prevent damage to the neck and spine, for instance. In the USA, people might help, but the victim of the accident will sue your a** if something goes wrong, even if it has nothing to do with you helping. Once you've learned it, it becomes like a reflex, muscle memory kicks in and you just do things without thinking.
So, the castle one is true, but beer and wine at age 14 is not.
Toasted bread is the same as white bread, suitable for the toaster, but mostly industrially produced. Personally, I would never call toast bread white bread. in germany there are a few things, e.g. a handkerchief is called "Tempo". "Tempo" was the first brand in Germany for paper handkerchiefs. Although toast bread is not a brand, we make short of “white bread ready to bake in the toaster”: toast bread. 😊😅 sometimes it's funny how different one and the same can be.
the difference:
The biggest difference between white bread and toast is that the toast is made to be toasted in the toaster, so it is untoasted, so to speak, "unfinished", while white bread is already baked.
I think if we’re talking about weird names you could come up with the us is right up front! So many cities (Brooklyn, America,…), nature things (cloud,sky,…), „values“ (honor, lucky,…) or just random stuff like hunter, Apple, seven. Many of them might sound ok, but still feels weird to be named after such things. I feel like Germans don’t normally do that…
Too the Thing with the castles, ITS also at austria and Switzerland Like this.
We have History, and a Lot of Hills. so 500 years ago, you would Ned a Castel or something Like this, for some Type of Observation and protection
uyen (the vietnamese girl in the second short) is an absolute german content queen
10 Castles *_Burgen_* and 16 Palaces *_Schlösser_* in one hour radius , just checked. So ya, its true about Germany. There are many different types of Castles and Palaces. in the majority of cases, a castle *_Burgen_* was build for defense often along rivers or has water around it, Palaces *_Schlösser_* are build to rule and entertain.
The 60% of UA-cam videos are blocked was true in like 2010 because of copyrighted music I think
the blocked music video thing is a really old thing, that hasn't been the case since about 10 years.
11:21 The count also all the small taxcastles, castles that are more ruin than fortification and so on.
Remember we had hundred of years to build those... and a lot of wars to need them.
Also a couple of hundreds years ago an "army" was considerable smaller, if you only count actual soldiers.
Nope, the time it took to build 13.000 McDs is crazy.
McD was founded in 1940.
Toeast Bread is called so because you toast it, (nearly) nobody would eat that untoasted because it has nearly no taste. Its only nice when its warm and crunchy directly out of the toaster.
- Yes, we call it Toastbrot. But our American style toast ist much bigger than the standard one and doesn't even fit in some standard toaster.
- Regarding WW2 and Russia: Germany had more of a problem with the Russian winter and it cost them to much equipment and manpower, just like Napoleon 150 years earlier. After that, the Russian military was indeed a challenge but it's difficult to say what would have happened without the US entering the war. Thanks for that, I would not have wanted to grow up in a fascist country.
- Yes, wine, beer and champagne are allowed from 14 years on when accompanied by parents or a legal guardian. From the age of 16 even without and from 18 even stronger alcohols. Doesn't matter if it's public or private. Though at home, who would tell the authorities?
- Germany consisted of hundreds of separate kingdoms and many of those were for defensive purposes, more like fortresses, which we call Burg, and less like castles for nobles, which we call Schloss. But there is an immense overlap between those and sometimes it's hard to make a distinction or they count as both.
you can rewind on shorts, for some reason just on mobile though
btw, if you click on the 3 dots in the short, you can see the date when it was posted =)
Toast bread: We call it toastbread because this stuff nobody eats without toasting it. Its not „real bread“, its only right to exist is, because its perfect to toast it. 😜
Toast bread for toasting is also available as whole grain and as normal wheat grain. Whole grain toast has more taste.
my perspective: We're officially in a recession now. What people feel at the moment is only the inflation. But everyone is worried about the recession. I hope we'll not come to actually feel the recession.
German visa-prolonging/renewal is a real topic among residents ... and it is so bothersome that marriage can become a solution even for "idealists"
In Germany there are castles even where there is hardly any populatinon ... ; There is a ... felony(?) of "not acting to help" or "unterlassene Hilfeleistung") and yes, people have been indicted and punished for it. However, you are only obligated to help "within reason". The insulting thing is ... much more difficult. The video one is because of very strict copyright laws.
This was my running commentary.
Ryan with the castles you got to remember that Germany is the size of something between Montana and New Mexico yet it still has almost double the amount of castles than Americans have McDonald's.
When you look for the definiton of castles you need to be more specific in German.
A castle usually is referred to as a "Schloss", like the Neuschwanstein castle, that is what we would call a "Schloss". So usually a beautiful renaissance or baroque residence, not meant to defend anything, just to show wealth and power.
Much more common are what we would call a "Burg", a fortress or what the old meaning of an English borough was. Today boroughs describe administrative districts in the UK but originally it just meant the same as a "Burg" fortress whatsoever. A wall enclosed building complex with a purpose on defending or lookouts.
And those walled fortresses are much more common or basically ruins of these things.
So when you hear castles don't automatically think of Neuschwanstein style castles, think of medieval fortresses.
Since ruins also count into that calculation you probably realize why there are so many. Every area hat it's fortress, since they all had different dukes, dutches, monarchs or just nobles owning land. Not every fortress was huge, some were small combinations of stables, some houses and a watch tower, others were larger. And many of them still stand today.
idk how many castles we have but alot, also i think they counted also castle ruins in that which there are also alot from.
that with the beer, wine and liquor is true, youre allowed to drink liquor with up to 20% alc at age 14 when your parents are with you and allow it to you, so no strong alcohol but yet we are allowed to drink it at age 14
An electric kettle isnt just for tea.
I don't drink tea, but use the kettle daily. I couldn't live without one.
There are like 3 "castles" in the range of 5km of my home town xD
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Germany's castles (lots of only ruins or buried fundations) >25000
McDonalds in USA at August 01, 2023: 13,514
so...true
Ryan, the 25k castles in Germany aren't all Neuschwanstein. Most of these "castles" are no bigger than your house :D Also. I love how Americans keep banging on the size of their country and conveniently ignore the fact that 85% of it is absolutely empty. With the exception of some population hubs from Cali to PNW and Denver, the entire damn West is completely uninhabited. In Germany, the vast majority of the country is covered in highly populated cities ^^ You can tell by the population-to-size ratio alone. Germany has 83 million people living in it while the US has 330mil. Do the math! Compare the pop diff to the size diff and think again :D
And it is also punishable by law in the US when someone comes to harm through your neglect. I think criminal neglect is the term. If someone's choking next to you and you do absolutely nothing to help them, you are in for it in the US. Same in Germany.
Could you make a reaction about a German band called Rammstein?
One year you made a video about their song "Deutschland", so I think it's a good idea
Inflation: The inflation was calculated using a fictitious & manipulative bucket of wares, to make inflation look less bad. When Germany hit an inflation of 9% the government changed the way how they calculate inflation to make it look better. In reality we're at about 45% inflation for food, 20% for rent and energy. The short just hawks the government numbers.
No, we don't call our bread toast, toast, i.e. white bread, which is often bought and eaten in the USA, is called inferior, so it's more of a warning than bad bread: "toast"!
Wine beer and sparkling wine are absolutely harmless in small quantities, which is why young people aged 14 are allowed to drink them when accompanied by their parents. As I said, small quantities so just one bottle of beer.
If you want to rewind the short you have to copy and paste the video code into a standard youtube video URL.
The short is then played in the usual player with all controls.
ua-cam.com/users/shorts[cut out this]
www.youtube.com/watch?v=[insert here]
But you are right, youtube developer sux and make things worse than before.
(Like big mess with the comments- system and remove age sorting of videos for the whole channel. ..so stupid ... sometimes)
They added the regular time bar to mobile just recently, I still don't understand why they removed it from the shorts interface in the first place.
Your country the USA is hughe but rarely populated and you devide every rural area into shopping, housing, finance and industry, so only in the shopping areas are McDonalds stores located. And only where enough people live or have to drive through a McDonalds store will be placed, while our castles stay on top of every important hill and at every tiny place where you had to pass a kingdoms border, every old river-bridge or ford will have one too and so on. We are a smal coutry compared to the USA but big enough to fit 100 smaler kingdoms, bishoprics, dukedoms, ... in. cheers
The US visa took 10min to fill in and to have it approved (for traveling), so pretty easy. Only the questioannaire was very odd or to say "American". They ask you thinks like " have you ever committed genocide?" like.. I mean even if I had, would I cross yes?
It isn't toast because it is perfectly made to be put in a toaster, but because that is the only thing you can do with it.
Calvinandhabs are so funny, I love the German story time 😂
Ryan could actually react to some of their videos about differences between germany and the US or their take on german oddities (calvinandhabs are native german and austrian now living in the US).
The helping thing refers strongest to car accidents. You are supposed to stop and help, doing first aid and stuff. If there are 5 guys beating someone up and you fear harm to yourself you wont get trialed not helping. This doesnt mean you shouldnt.
There are 13,514 McDonalds restaurants in the United States as of August 01, 2023. (Google Info)
There are an estimated 25,000 castles and palaces in Germany, from imposing fortresses to fairytale summer residences. (Google Info, too😅)
13,400 McDonald's in the USA
25,000 Castles in Germany
Castles: Or village of 2.00o souls has two. One which controlled the river transports from a hill over the valley and the one of the nephew who built his castle nearby the brigde to take the toll. The nephew then faught against his uncle and won.
In either case, it's only *possible* to be punished if someone didn't help or offended someone. There is no need for punishment.
In German law, attention is paid to the circumstances of the individual case. The exact wording of the law will be construed for the purposes of the law. In Anglo-American law, in my opinion, too much has to be "glued" to the legal text.
In fact, higher instances can even “create” new law if existing law is not applicable in a specific individual case. The Federal Constitutional Court can also recommend that the legislature amend the law or create a new law. (Here in Germany, unfortunately, there is a lot of ignorance about this. Presumably, half-knowledge comes from American movies and ignorance about the origin of this movies.)
My car is my castle wasn't even counted on it😆
I live in a small village of Germany. And there are already two castles😂 in this village😂😂
Parents in germany have the duty to prevent their minors to be intoxicated.
The point, that it is not forbidden, to give them small amounts of wine or beer does not mean they are allowed to let the minors be intoxicated.
Beer is also drunk as a mixed drink with lemonade as a so-called Radler, which then only has between 2 and 2.5% alcohol, and wine is also often served as a wine spritzer with mineral water.
Minors below 16 usually get drinks with less alcohol or get small amouts only to taste.
What the hell do you think about us? 🧐
But from 16 years on we are a bit more tolerant with young people who try alcohol on their way to adulthood, but even that has its limits.
If the police find a minor intoxicated, they take him to his parents, a sobering-up cell or to the hospital depending on level and the parents can listen to something up to punishment.
In the worst case, if this happens repeatedly, you can lose custody of your child.
I was about to say how the Mc Donalds thing simply can not be true considering the countries sheer size difference. Anyway i decided to look it up first and to my shock it actually seems to be true. Google sais there are about 13000 Mc Donalds in the USA (1500 in Germany) and during its history there have been about 25000 castles, palaces and mansions build in Germany of which about 60% are still partially standing. So apparently this is actually a thing.
The crime you commit by not helping others is called 'Unterlassene Hilfeleistung' (or 'Not taking any effort to help').
The law basically requires you to help in a situation of danger (e.g. Natural desasters, Illnesses or crimes someone elses commits) as long as you don't danger your own life or health or have important stuff to do. It's more of a 'Just don't be a dick'-law and it's not that strongly enforced. Germany basically has this law to make people remeber to help out each other, allthough us germans would do so anyway