That is not true. Most of Tornadoes in the US (85%) are weak. Germany has a similar Rate. F3 Tornadoes do occour in Germany too and cause severe damge to well built houses. Weak Structures get destroyed.
Germany is known as the tornado ally of Europe. I never would have guessed this. But I do have a picture of a tornado just a mile from where I live in southern Germany from last year.
@@lukasrentz3238 So far correct. Here, a house is occasionally covered and some windows are broken. In America, half of a suburb disappears. Supposedly, many American homeowners would build their own underground bunkers because of this. We prefer to build proper houses right away.
@@fipsvonfipsenstein6704 Not going to comment on those annoying Comment on US Tornadoes. I am talking about the ones in Germany. It doesn´t matter how bad they are anywhere else in this Case. The Definition of low End F3 Tornados, which occour annually, in the for Germany adapted Version of Fujita Scale is: Destruction in greater extent of weakly build structures, severe damage to strucural parts of massively built homes. Some buildings collapse. We aren´t talking about damage Rooftiles or blown out Windows. These are severe Damages to sturdy build german Homes which roughly occour once a year. And this is by far not the worst recorded nor the worst Case. To sum it up a trillionth time: Germany does have strong Tornadoes regularely which do cause severe Damage to our well build homes. No matter how bad Houses at the other Side of the Atlantic are built.
It is called Paprika in Sweden too. And what about the spice pepper? Isn't that confusing? I think it is very confusing. Pepper the vegetable or pepper the spice... no, better to have Paprika and pepper.
I feel like the new video from Feli in Germany ("How Hitler Ruined the Reputation of the German Language") is quite fitting for the second Tiktok you've watched!
Why do Americans think Germans shout all the time, but I don't think all Americans talk like Mickey Mouse? And this although I never watched a video with the title "How Mickey Mouse ruined the Reputation of the American language".
Thanks for pointing that one out, it's really well made and hadn't popped up in my recommendations. But I'm not sure it fits Ryan's style; probably better for someone like IWrocker, who's more about absorbing information and reflecting on it instead of single-sentence reactions.
I stopped watching her after a video in which she basically tells that the Russians blew up their own pipeline, can't trust any of her "facts" anymore.
Usually the interior walls get build with the same material then outside walls u just build the whole house at once and these walls are rly good at noise cancelling u can literally do whatever u want during nighttime nobody will hear u in adjacent rooms unless u scream 🤣 Also we or atleast most in my family and friends actually do quite a bit of remodeling but if we do u usually got like 4-5 men in ur house completely removing and rebuilding the brick walls 🙂
Yes plus you don't have to be afraid to lean against them or put pressure on them, I now live in a house that has those plywood walls inside which are common in America... I am to afraid to rest my back against them, I would never place anything that needs to be mounted against a wall on an interior wall here
@@thefruitdude8327 we aren't usually afraid of winds. Even the strongest usually only destroy some rooftiles and trees. But other than staying inside so you aren't hit by objects there really is nothing to be concerned about usually.
Here's the thing with snow in german winters: You get a little in early december before what could be called somewhat of a heat wave around christmas and then snow only comes back in late january (more specifically: This week).
2:30 As feli said in her Video yesterday. Thats the best example of Hitler ruined the reputation of the german language. And its really annoying hearing people scream in broken german.
It was not Hitler, but idiotic people who think that one guy is like everybody. Why would you think everybody speaks like this only because you just know him? How dumb can you be?
About arrestable offenses: In Germany, it's not illegal to break out of prison, as long as you don't commit a crime on your way out (like property damage), because of the natural will to be free
Also if you ever get cought, you still have to complete your remaining prison time. But if you manage to break out without a crime, you don't recieve more prison time.
As a german I was shocked when I saw the temperature of Berlin, then I realize it's Fahrenheit. Because 34 Celcius would be like 93 Fahrenheit. Thats a little bit to hot for January.
Paprika: is the name for the vegetable bell pepper. It can also refer to the spice made out of bell pepper but most people say "Paprikapulver" (paprika powder) to distinguish those two. Pepper, the small black seeds or powder, translates to "Pfeffer".
That's what I didn't understand about this Video. She brought back paprika spice (paprika powder) which is just dried and ground up paprika (Bell pepper) and was wondering why we named the powdered paprika, paprika (powder)?
@@carstekoch also wenn ich es richtig verstehe sagen die Amis zu Paprika Pulver einfach "Paprika" aber zu einer Paprika sagen sie pepper. Und zu Pfeffer sagen sie auch Pepper obwohl das nichts miteinander zu tun hat. Da ergibt die englische Sprache Mal echt überhaupt keinen Sinn.
@@irgendeinname9256 Pretty much. The vegetable is "bell pepper", The ground up spice from this vegetable is "paprika", And the spice consisting out of small dried seeds in various colours is just "pepper". But the German language is inconsistent and confusing.
"as long as the carbon is in the ground, we will not give up" that can be misunderstood, but it does actually make sense. they are just acknowledging that they dont see themselves winning, and that eventually the coal will be mined despite their protests. but that they will keep going and keep the protest up until they have lost, which is when the coal has been mined.
If they've got nothing better to do one could through them into a stack at the museums or car dealers where other climate monkeys glued themselves to walls or the ground and complained about the temperature in the buildings being too cold over night. Just imagine. They just left them there glued, gave them food and just turned heating down over night as usual to save energy and therefore do something good for the climate they initially protested for 😂
At this point it't more about taking up as much time with the protests as possible to delay the start of mining.. as part of the deal is them stopping the mining by 2030, so its "only" seven more years, the less time they got the less coal they will be able to mine, sell and burn :)
@@xenia6103 well, as a german I can tell you this project was already decided in 2005. Where were the climate people all these years? It's just en vogue now and changes nothing.
German architecture student here. Not only do we have buildings that are hundreds or even over thousand years old, we still build in a very sturdy way today. Our interior walls are (especially in the cases of single-family homes) often load-bearing, reducing the thickness of the ceiling, especially since there is a second floor above it in the most cases. Also, the higher mass of a brick wall helps with the acoustic isolation of different rooms. Where we don't use brick walls (like in buildings that undergo numerous refittings and where the support structure is not exclusively relying on the walls) we use walls that are similar to your american walls, but since we have to fulfill mandatory acoustic isolation, we will most likely use not two layers of drywall, but instead use three to (in extreme cases) six or seven layers, of course with something like a mineral wool or other soft isolation to make the walls less permeable for the sound. We even build walls out of drywall that aren't even supposed to be removed later, in those cases we will puor the screed around the already constructed gypsum board walls to make the transition of the sound less easy. At least the architects mock the american walls often like "Punch an american wall and it has a hole, punch a german wall and it threatens to break your other hand, too", or "Horror movies take place in America, because there you can simply tear down a door or a wall with an axe, in Germany that would take too long". We have to at least meet, or better exceed the standard values of the DIN/EC-standards, which are much higher than the ones required in the US. Also, our job is to surpass the required values as much as possible, so that the client has a building that is as good as possible. Our houses are designed to stand for multiple decades and hopefully over a hundred years. If we built a house that would fall apart/wouldn't work anymore after nine years, the architect would be held accountable, the earliest date for the architect to be released of possible legal liability is ten years after the handing over to the client. That leads to us doing the best work we possibly can and we are very proud of that. TL;DR: We build our walls with a high mass, so that you can still sleep while you have guests snoring on the sofa.
The small gate in the "wizard"-video is for children, so they don't go out by themself. In Germany especially Berlin there are not enough kindergarden, so parents build a new form of daycare we call "Kinderladen" (childstore) where the parents look after the children by themself sometimes with the help of one childteacher. These "Kinderläden"( plural) are called so, because they were build most of the time in small storerooms. So there frontdoor goes direktly to the street. And this is reason of the smalldoor, as a doublecheck, that small children does not get in danger by walking alone in to the street.
Usually not all inside walls are this thick. It mostly depends on what weight the wall has to carry. But sometimes it also helps to isolate noise and heat.
Berlin was pretty much bombed into oblivion in WWII. Afterward, a lot of people needed a lot of cheap living spaces. So both East and west Berlin built a lot of apartment complexes. Back then they were actually considered very modern and desirable since, for example, they had indoor plumbing and central heating. They haven't aged too well and yes, there are just as many areas with social problems as you would expect from a city of this size. Quite a lot of those buildings have been renovated in recent years, adding elevators and more green spaces, and aren't too bad now.
The treehouse thing worked last time with huge protests at the Hambacher Forst. Was a similar situation and people stayed in the trees so that the others couldn't remove them and start mining the coal
The treehouses might look nice, but the protests also included emptying buckets full of feces on the police, when they were tasked to evacuate the Hambacher Forst. In Luetzerath protesters threw stones, molotow cocktails and set off fireworks. These are the not so nice sides of the allegedly peaceful protests.
Thickness of a wall depends on the structural integrity, inside walls usually come in these sizes: 11.5 cm/15 cm and 17.5 cm ( bricck ) plus plaster. Outside walls or walls between different appartments are another matter. If the walls are not related to structural integrity it's easy to remove them, otherwise you'll need a civil engineer to prove the structure and advice on the beam ( mostly steel ) strength to replace the wall. Pro: very stable buildings, fireproofness, the wall itself isolates ( heat in summer, cold in winter ) Con: higher costs, less freedom to rearange the interior.
Some interior walls in German apartments are also made out of drywall. They might be easier to remove, but are horrible for putting up shelves or even picture frames, especially when you have to drill into them.
Kind of insulating, but actually they have a higher capacity to hold the temperature (high densitiy) + high soundproofing , but insulation keeps warmth inside (low density). :)
@@RoxRikSor not as easy as you think Cream cheese is way denser and doesn't turn out the same at all. Yogurt (even Greek) is sour and also doesn't bake the same way. 😭
@@K__a__M__I to mmee it seems they don´t have Quark anywhere outside of Germany (maybe Poland)...I lived in England for a while and was so surprised as I thought by that time Quark is like a proclaimed UN cultural good :D...
German inner walls are usually 115 mm thick, 175 or 240 mm if used for holding the ceiling. While drywalls are possible and used if you want it to be cheap, nobody would really prefer drywall over brick, other than drywall builders 😂
When talking about the spice it's often referred to not only as Paprika but Paprika edelsüß or Paprika rosenscharf and sometimes we add Pulver at the end (Paprikapulver= Paprika powder). First one has a sweet note (süß=sweet) and isn't spicy at all whereas the second is definitely used to spice up your food (scharf=spicey).
Exactly. So more like: why do you call it in powdered form paprika, but in original form bell pepper? Especially since pepper is still... you know... pepper the black spice = Pfeffer... It makes no sense to me why English speakers do that...
@@natsukiilluna6324 Cauz english is actually a weird language once you dive deep into some aspects of it :D German isnt better tho, for example the whole "umfahren" and "UMfahren" thing. ;D
@@roarbahamut9866 That's true😂😂😂 But at least we have not that many that are pronounced the same but are written completely different. I'll aisle isle break brake through threw etc. etc. ... Edit: Though it's fun torturing my student with those. 😂😂😂
i havent't heard mein kleiner grüner kaktus in years. that'S like one of the german songs of all time. while you can do funny stuff with the compound nature of german just plain simple language and ridiculous plot always works
Got one of your videos recommended and subscribed instantly. I'm from Germany myself. I usually don't like reaction videos, but you're a great guy and I really enjoy your content.
When a bigger room is divided into two small ones, we also use some lighter walls. My parents gave me ¼ of the living room and the person who rented the apartment after us was glad about a separate bedroom.
Hey you seem like a really sympatic dude. I really like watching "videos with you together". There is something notable about you. I could watch those videos alone or from another content creator but I watch them with you!
@ around 5:00 : yep, that's a dish we eat in Germany. It's similar to donuts, just better 😅. The name is "Quarkbällchen", so litterely "little curd balls". So yeah, includes curd in the dough which makes them somewhat more refreshing in taste.
I live in Germany and I am so jealous of the germans who actually get a lot of snow. I was snowing yesterday in the morning but it was already melting at noon. Today it´s completly gone :(
The difference in Berlin is so drastic because West Berlin belonged to Germany and East Berlin to the DDR, which was a vastly different country with different politics and living standards - and the most depressing architecture ever.
The most depressing architecture ever? There are some pretty bad massive concrete appartment builidings in the west as well. I'm from Leipzig and until I spent a few years living in Würzburg I had no idea some western appartment complexes look just as horrible.
@@michaausleipzig yes but they are rare, it was not a whole "style" while the Plattenbau was favored by the Soviets because of how fast an easy you could house many people. Looks was not a concern nor was longevity
@@ngotemna8875 i never said it wasnt, i get why Plattenbauten were build. Doesn't make them less depressing and ugly especially in the case of Königsberg
6:50 only like 10 years ago, we actually had snow, but over the last years, we not only had the most droughts and highest temperatures ever recorded, but we also only have like 1-2 days of snow in many areas of germany, which is sad...
6:30 Yes, the energy prices are still raising in Germany, i live not far away from this village called "Lützerath" and I saw this massive digging hole quite a few times. A few days ago the village was cleared by the police and I sat in a train with a bunch of the activists. The most of them doesn't even know much about the relevant themes and struggles but they are still trying to stop the government and energy concerns from countinuing. Also many of them are trying to protest while they are sticking theirselves on high frequency roads with superglue but drive there by petrol cars. The situation is clearly difficult.
speaking of small talk, you should definitly check out this video: "A guide to making small talk in Germany | Meet the Germans". btw love your channel, greetings from germany
i have come back from the darkest corner of my brain with some complicated germn words for you guys to try too pronounce. 1) Freundschaftsbeziehungen 2)Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung 3)Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister 4)Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung 5)Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften 6)Streichholzschächtelchen 7)Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftkapitän 8)Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz 9)Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz 10)Sonntagnachmittagsfernsehlutschbonbon
Quarkkrapfen - love them! But this shouting "is this German or Gibberish" guy was a bit annoying. Bell peppers are called Paprika in German. And the paprika spice is made of bell peppers, hence it is called Paprika in German, too. Why you would have different names for spice and the vegetable it is made of, I don't understand.
About the controversy with bell peppers and pepper: German language is not as lazy and re-uses words to the extent that the English language does. Paprika in german means the bell pepper as a vegetable. If it is dried down and ground to powder, its called "Paprikapulver" or seldom "gemahlener Paprika" . Pfeffer in german means the condiment pepper, the white/green/black pebbles from india i believe. It they are ground down, they are called "gemahlener Pfeffer".
I think paprika in english is just the odd one together with cilantro/coriander, because there are no two names for other dried spices like garlic (powder), oregano (dried), onion (powder), turmeric (powder) and so on...
@@kuebbisch not really, in UK they call it koriander, in the USA they use the spanish word cilantro for the same plant (and yes, they speak spanish in mexico, not mexican)
Many buildings were also build after they were demolished during war, so they were build to hopefully keep the residents safe in another war. Also to be able to withstand storms and stuff
the one with the rain is common for any city in the north, funnily enough. We have the ocean right next to us, so lots of salt in the air, making it rain instead of snow. But sometimes, rarely, we get some snow, just for it to melt after a day or less
If it's not a holding wall, you can for sure remove brick walls it's just about more work ;) but u have good noice cancelling between the rooms which is good when you have kids or someone snorts. When you later add some walls with USA like small walls i always find that you can hear the person in the room behind and i rly dislike that.
Yep, we usually dont move our walls. Once built everything stays where it is. It can be done (if the wall doesnt carry weight, which you can usually distinguish by its thickness) but is a huge effort.
Snow in Germany really depends on where you live. When I was a little kid we had a lot of snow but for +15years there wasn't much snow anymore (same cit of course). Maybe an inch at best for a few hours before it melted, it was mostly just ice/frozen. And roughly 20min away, you'll get lots of snow for the whole season! I was amazed at how much snow we had, after we moved. You could clear the snow on one side of the street and when you finish up the other side, the first half will be completely white again. 😂 Just so funny that weather can vary very much in a few miles. 😄 And yes, we call a bell pepper "Paprika", the powder would be "Paprikapulver"/Paprika powder. I had a hard time figuring that out when I first learned English, because you guys have two peppers (bell pepper and pepper, the spice) and it just didn't make sense. 😆
Just adding Slovakia and Czech Republic to the countries that call the actual vegetable 🌶🫑 pepper/bell pepper 'paprika'. It's a word from Hungarian, their gastronomy is famous for pepper/paprika. The paprika spice is called 'ground paprika' and spice in general is called 'korenie' in Slovak and 'koření' in Czech, Slavic words meaning 'radixes'.
Why so sturdy? Well, thick sturdy walls cancel noise, they don't break just because someone bumped into them, they are not susceptible to rot or termites, they can withstand strong winds and they might help to save most of the house in case of a fire. Oh, and non-loadbearing walls can still be moved pretty easily.
The thing with the paprika on our side is: the Spice/Powder is made out of the vegetable. It's usually combined with other herbs and spices so it doesn't exactly taste like the vegetable anymore. So why would you use a different herb/spice to name it? Made outta Paprika - we call it Paprika. What I don't understand is why everything on your end is a pepper. Pfeffer - Pepper (that one i get) Paprika - Pepper Chilischote - Pepper (e.g. Ghost Pepper, which has nothing to do with the regular black and white pepper) If for example a recipe asks for red pepper(s) which do you use? Red Paprika, which is sweet? Red Pepper, which is a tad spicy? Or Red Chili Peppers, which is spicy?
German walls are not meant to be moved. If they have to go, we can tear them always down. Sincerely: Most German houses are constructed from stone (and in parts concrete). They are heavy, and therefore some interior walls are parts of the static structure of the house - if you wanted to remove them, you would have to replace them with additional supports and beams. Other walls can be drywalls or lightweight walls, but sometimes they are also build with bricks (however only one brick thick), because that was the simpler thing during the construction process.
What Greta meant with "as long as the carbon is in the ground the struggle is not over" is more of a thing "as long as its there people will try to mine it and we need to stop it everytime, so the struggle to defend it will never be over."
In newer buildings we now have a mix of concrete load bearing walls and thinner plaster walls. I have also lived in a place (built 1908) where the walls were just one brick wide (about 3”). Thunberg said ‘as long as the coal is in the ground, this struggle is not over’. The small green cactus song is from the 1930ies.
Nice reaction! The last tiktok didn't mean West and East-Berlin but just two sides of one big City. Like you could do this Trend with other cities too it wasn't about geographical sides :)
Holding walls that are important for the buildings structure are always built solid. We do have some drywalls too tho, they’re also a bit bigger and better insulated than American walls
As for the video of the guy you were confused about: The guy is part of the elevator boys, a group of German guys that are famous on TikTok because teenage girls love them. The only reason why I know about them is because one of the members is the little brother of a former classmate.
So are we just skipping the part where he sais he doesn’t think there is anything notable about him, or…? 7:31 :c Ryan I actually think you’re quite notable! I like watching TH-cam videos while doing stuff around the house, and since you slid into my recommendations I find myself putting yours on more often than not. You caught my attention with your calm way and how open minded and reflected you are. I also like the way your thought process goes! It’s pretty interesting, entertaining and weirdly comforting (in the best ways). Also quite interesting for me as a German ;) You’re definitely a notable person and I’m sure I’m by far not the only one that sees it that way :)
Pepper is Pfeffer. The small round perls that are black or white or red or green and usually ground down. Pepper. It is the same word even, just with p instead of f, like in northern german dialects (which lots of english word come from). Paprika is the vegetable you over there call bell peppers for some reason. Paprika the spice is made from hot bell peppers (or chilis I guess). So it is dried and ground hot paprika powder.
german winter depends on the region. just like in the us i guess you expect a different winter landscape in florida than in seattle. bavaria usually drowns in snow, meters high. The north of germany usually has nice 10-20 cm of snow and central germany....well...we had a total of 4 days snow this year.
West Berlin and East Berlin are shown in the video of Berlin. East Berlin used to belong to the GDR and were allied with the Soviet Union. There it was common, especially in cities, to build larger high-rise buildings called prefabricated buildings( Plattenbauten). Many families also lived in the apartments.
@@blondkatze3547 nearly all picture were taken in the former Eastern part of Berlin, if those with prefabricated concrete buildung or those without. Though prefabricated concrete buildings can also be found in the former Western part of Berlin, e.g. in Neukölln or Reinickendorf.
You also asked if the coal thing is a big thing here in Germany: IT DEFINITELY IS! the village they are tearing down is called Lützerath and many people went there or had solidarity demonstrations in other German cities in order to stop them tearing it down. The tree houses for example were not only hanging in the trees, but people would actually live, sleep and hang secured in trees in order to keep the bulldozer from destroying these trees and the whole village. The video about the police is also at the mine and they were stuck in the mud which was quite funny as also some of them did got hurt just by being stuck in the mud ...
The housing blocks are from different locations in Berlin, it's not a distinctly Eastern thing. The style is somewhat different, but it's the same basic 70s architecture.
Since there was a video about "My green little cactus" I'd recommend watching or reacting to shows or clips from Otto Walkes! Great comdedian that nearly everyone here has seen or heard about. Or in general the "cultural goods" if there are any with translations or the community can put some together :)
But unfortunately I have the feeling that many of Otto's joke will be lost in translation for Ryan, even English for runways aka Englisch für Fortgeschrittene
7:10 The east (including Berlin) has a continental climate (like most of North America), meaning more extreme seasons and generally snow every winter. The west looks entirely different with its marine climate. Mild winters. Before I moved out of Bonn, I had several years of maybe a day or two of snow per year and I usually went shopping in December and January wearing a t-shirt (granted, I didn't walk far). It really depends on where you live. Not sure about North vs. South bc the North is closer to the sea (so warm water) but also simply further North and the South is at some elevation, so dunno.
5:35 meaning: when it has been mined (and consequently burned) the struggle is lost. As long it's in the ground she wants to make sure it stays there, and it (currently) is an ongoing struggle to make sure it does that.
Pepper and paprika are totally different plants. Black Pepper, and it's alter egos green and white pepper, are made from Piper nigrum, and paprika belongs to the Capsicum family which again belongs to the tribe Solanacea (like tomato, potato, tobacco... Black pepper has nothing to do with them, except all of these are plants. 🙂
The US timber huts are cheaper to build, but over the years You waste so much energy due to bad or missing insulation, even with US energy prices far lower, You pay more in the end. Not to mention the CO2 climate problem. As thicker walls also protect (a bit) from the summer heat, AC is not so widespread here, again less energy wasted For example, this winter is relatively warm, but below 0 Celsius on nights, I did not turn on the radiator since winter started
6:08 We are no longer dependent on Russian gas. We have even built three LNG terminals in record time. Fuel and natural gas prices have dropped to pre-war levels. The national gas storage facilities are still 90% full thanks to mild weather and the thriftiness of the population. 7:30 Hey! You are a very handsome and funny guy! And the best thing: There are *two* of you! 8:53 Ever thought about what the spice "Paprika" is made from? That's right, dried bell pepper! So, we just call both the same (as any reasonable person would).
The thing about Berlin: it is not just eastern vs. western Berlin but rich vs poor areas in general (they also exist in west berlin a lot). And people life these neighborhoods because it is the only place where they can afford rent since it has been rising and rising for the last 6 or so years.
hi, german civil engineering student here the outside walls are usually made of heavy bricks, walls inside too depending on how big the house is. these walls carry the ceiling and everyting above, their main function is structural integredy (~40cm). The thinner walls inside (~11cm), made from a very light brick (Ytong), seperate the room and usually contain a lot of the wiring. They stand on the floor and are attached to the thick walls and ceiling but do NOT carry any weight, they can be removed and rearrangend, though it is a lot of work.
I like our brick walls, you do not hear everything from the other room... Yeah the German or Gibberish is nuts, no normal German talks harsh like that, just some satire guys maybe Quarkbällchen are pretty popular Energy prices were higher a few months ago but that Lützerath problem lasts for about 2 years? Don't know exactly. But experts on the news say, this cole will not make a difference in the energy crisis. And the green party in the government didn't do anything against the energy corporation which wants to mine the cole. So the police had to take the protesters away who hid in the abandoned village. It was on the news all the time. Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus, golden twenties music from Comedian Harmonists, we sang that song with the school choir In Eastern Berlin you have this huge houses "Plattenbau", because it was a cheap way for living for many many people (due to the planned economy in the democratic republic of Germany)
The Plattenbau actually Was fast built housing all over germany (but mainly east), because especially the eastern part had to accomodate huge amounts of germans fleeing from the now non-german territories. Also, many houses in the big cities were destroyed. So they built the Plattenbauten to safely and efficiently put them all into some form of housing. But it was invented by the Bauhaus-Movement (at least the layouts) as affordable living spaces for poor and working people that are high-functioning and low-maintenance, though those Architektur certainly had in mind better Overall planning.
Interial walls of brick are called Tragende Wände, which you cannot remove unless you want to destroy the whole house and want it to collapse. There are walls that are thinner and can be removed more easily.
Seriously, I'm SO tired of this screaming in German bs... We don't talk like that and never did. Well except for that sad little man withe the mustache and his minions. 😜
We are able to heat each room on its own in Germany. We can decide if we want it hot or not by using the thermostate. Therefore a good interior insulating wall saves a lot of money as it keeps the room warm/cold just how you like it. No need to heat the entire house.
One of the big advantages of thick and steady walls are that it will contain a fire very well. If an american house catches fire and it's not put out by fire brigade within 5-10 minutes, you can say bye bye to your house. In germany often the fire stays contained to just one room and unless you have old dry wooden interior doors or highly flammable wallpaper on the walls, the fire brigade can put it out before it spreads into the whole apartment/house. Also multi-apartment houses with 3-5 floors are much much more common than each family owning their own house.
The little gate is a common thing in kindergardens. Especially with kids from 0-3 years you often have this gates. While the door is open the small gate can get closed so the kids can't run out of the kindergarten.
Bell peppers are called "Paprika" or "Paprikaschoten" (paprika peppers) in German, the spice is called "Paprikapulver" ("Pulver" for powder). There are usually 2 or even 3 types of paprika spice: sweet, spicy and (sometimes) smoked. There are green long peppers (not that sweet, not spicy) that are mostly called "Spitzpaprika" (pointy paprika). There's "Peperoni" or "Pfefferoni" in Austria, thin green or red peppers, sometimes spicy, often used as spice or sold in jars with water and vinegar. "Chili" or "Chilischoten" (chili peppers) are in German the very spicy ones. For the extremely spicy ones the names (Jalapeño, Habanero, etc.) are used. Black / white pepper is "Pfeffer" in German.
Some more reasons why buildings are made so sturdy: - so that they last a long time and won't be destroyed by storms or heavy weather as easily as it sometimes already happened in the US - so that you won't hear every noise from the room next door (in many other countries such as France and UK the walls are not very thick either and you can literally hear everything that happens in the whole house) - so the rooms are better at staying warm in the winter and cold in summer - it's still possible to remodel houses as there is a differences (in width) between load-bearing an non load-bearing walls. And it's also possible to tear down/remodel the non load-bearing ones.
0:51 We have also lots of old houses that are still used. In Mainz, Germany, we have a house (people live in) that is from 1250. Usually, we build something once and this in best quality and to last forever. Furthermore, you can move most walls - only not that easy…
"So your interior walls are made out of BRICK!?" ... oh you sweet summer child.... But in fact, drywall is common place here too. But it`s not "the norm".
The eastern part of Berlin has many DDR-buildings like in the video but the other pictures were mainly in Berlin-Mitte (central Berlin) which was also part of East-Berlin.
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The German vs Gibberish hurts me physically
Why does everyone trying to speak german sound like the austrian who ruled germany in the later 30s and early 40s
@@lphaetaamma291 because the only German they ever heard in their entire life is in a WW2 documentary.
@@Monsterstrike7 and he wasn’t even German...
@@lphaetaamma291 bc of what Monsi Said and the German Language is associated with that stereotype (as to how the guy in the Video spoke)
It hurts. Hard to understand him even as native speaker.
USA Tornado: All People are homeless…
Germany Tornado: Oh it’s a little windy outside…
That is not true.
Most of Tornadoes in the US (85%) are weak. Germany has a similar Rate.
F3 Tornadoes do occour in Germany too and cause severe damge to well built houses. Weak Structures get destroyed.
@@lukasrentz3238 That's why we have them thick interior walls ;-)
Germany is known as the tornado ally of Europe. I never would have guessed this. But I do have a picture of a tornado just a mile from where I live in southern Germany from last year.
@@lukasrentz3238 So far correct. Here, a house is occasionally covered and some windows are broken. In America, half of a suburb disappears.
Supposedly, many American homeowners would build their own underground bunkers because of this. We prefer to build proper houses right away.
@@fipsvonfipsenstein6704 Not going to comment on those annoying Comment on US Tornadoes. I am talking about the ones in Germany. It doesn´t matter how bad they are anywhere else in this Case.
The Definition of low End F3 Tornados, which occour annually, in the for Germany adapted Version of Fujita Scale is: Destruction in greater extent of weakly build structures, severe damage to strucural parts of massively built homes. Some buildings collapse.
We aren´t talking about damage Rooftiles or blown out Windows. These are severe Damages to sturdy build german Homes which roughly occour once a year. And this is by far not the worst recorded nor the worst Case.
To sum it up a trillionth time: Germany does have strong Tornadoes regularely which do cause severe Damage to our well build homes. No matter how bad Houses at the other Side of the Atlantic are built.
FYI: the German word Paprika refers both to the spice and to vegetable peppers, whereas Pfeffer = (black / white) pepper
Isn't Paprika Called Bell pepper to begin with? This should help distinguish everything a bit better.
and then theres Peperoni :D
That's because, if you dry and pulverize bell peppers, you get paprika.
Also Paprika is made from dried bell peppers 😁
It is called Paprika in Sweden too. And what about the spice pepper? Isn't that confusing? I think it is very confusing. Pepper the vegetable or pepper the spice... no, better to have Paprika and pepper.
I feel like the new video from Feli in Germany ("How Hitler Ruined the Reputation of the German Language") is quite fitting for the second Tiktok you've watched!
Why do Americans think Germans shout all the time, but I don't think all Americans talk like Mickey Mouse? And this although I never watched a video with the title "How Mickey Mouse ruined the Reputation of the American language".
Thanks for pointing that one out, it's really well made and hadn't popped up in my recommendations. But I'm not sure it fits Ryan's style; probably better for someone like IWrocker, who's more about absorbing information and reflecting on it instead of single-sentence reactions.
I stopped watching her after a video in which she basically tells that the Russians blew up their own pipeline, can't trust any of her "facts" anymore.
this is fuckn racism
One guy ruined a whole language? Tell me how that happened...
Usually the interior walls get build with the same material then outside walls u just build the whole house at once and these walls are rly good at noise cancelling u can literally do whatever u want during nighttime nobody will hear u in adjacent rooms unless u scream 🤣
Also we or atleast most in my family and friends actually do quite a bit of remodeling but if we do u usually got like 4-5 men in ur house completely removing and rebuilding the brick walls 🙂
Yes plus you don't have to be afraid to lean against them or put pressure on them, I now live in a house that has those plywood walls inside which are common in America... I am to afraid to rest my back against them, I would never place anything that needs to be mounted against a wall on an interior wall here
Plus we have massive thick concrete floors, even in the upper floors. So the walls are often needed as additional Support for those.
Nobody can congratulate you from 4 rooms away if you rip a fart in a german house, like it is possible in a US house 🤣
And germany is also a Tornadozone, up to 60 dangerous tornados a year
@@thefruitdude8327 we aren't usually afraid of winds.
Even the strongest usually only destroy some rooftiles and trees. But other than staying inside so you aren't hit by objects there really is nothing to be concerned about usually.
Here's the thing with snow in german winters: You get a little in early december before what could be called somewhat of a heat wave around christmas and then snow only comes back in late january (more specifically: This week).
I told my parents that that's how it always is but they won't believe me! But I guess I'm not the only one who notices
2:30 As feli said in her Video yesterday. Thats the best example of Hitler ruined the reputation of the german language. And its really annoying hearing people scream in broken german.
@Ryanwass2 I think this is the video they are all referring to: th-cam.com/video/tenkDWUfo58/w-d-xo.html
It was not Hitler, but idiotic people who think that one guy is like everybody. Why would you think everybody speaks like this only because you just know him? How dumb can you be?
American propaganda about Germany is the real problem here. And now everyone thinks we all are Bavarians and wear dungarees and dirndls.
@@screeaveDestination who cares about superficial morons? They think their shit anyways so we might just give a crap
Everything about Jerries and Krauts 😂
About arrestable offenses: In Germany, it's not illegal to break out of prison, as long as you don't commit a crime on your way out (like property damage), because of the natural will to be free
But having on swimming glases or stuff at a demonstration. Or this hitting is a crime.
@@tilmanarchivar8945 Yeah, protesting is fine. Trespassing is not.
@@gazz3867 for me its legitimate and good. but its not legal - y
Also if you ever get cought, you still have to complete your remaining prison time.
But if you manage to break out without a crime, you don't recieve more prison time.
Right, but keep in mind that a prisoner will loose all his benefits (shared room, tv access, better jobs…).
Feli from Germany made a really great video about the aggressive sounding German language yesterday. Highly recommend!
Yep, I second that!
I can also recomend chipflakes Video about it.
There is no need for such a video. Anyone who thinks that in any language there is always only shouting and spitting is lost anyway.
Any language sounds aggressive if you yell in it and pronounce everything really harsh. If you need a video like that, then you're racist and stupid
@@amirahavemann2939 You are right but did you watch it? She gives interesting background details about how that came. Beyond the widely known.
As a german I was shocked when I saw the temperature of Berlin, then I realize it's Fahrenheit. Because 34 Celcius would be like 93 Fahrenheit. Thats a little bit to hot for January.
me too 😂
Das Frischt wieder auf,dass hab ich im Urin!
Paprika: is the name for the vegetable bell pepper. It can also refer to the spice made out of bell pepper but most people say "Paprikapulver" (paprika powder) to distinguish those two.
Pepper, the small black seeds or powder, translates to "Pfeffer".
Also Amis nenne Pfeffer und Paprika pepper? Das ist schon sehr komisch
@@irgendeinname9256 They also name their spicy sausage peperoni
That's what I didn't understand about this Video. She brought back paprika spice (paprika powder) which is just dried and ground up paprika (Bell pepper) and was wondering why we named the powdered paprika, paprika (powder)?
@@carstekoch also wenn ich es richtig verstehe sagen die Amis zu Paprika Pulver einfach "Paprika" aber zu einer Paprika sagen sie pepper. Und zu Pfeffer sagen sie auch Pepper obwohl das nichts miteinander zu tun hat. Da ergibt die englische Sprache Mal echt überhaupt keinen Sinn.
@@irgendeinname9256
Pretty much.
The vegetable is "bell pepper",
The ground up spice from this vegetable is "paprika",
And the spice consisting out of small dried seeds in various colours is just "pepper".
But the German language is inconsistent and confusing.
"as long as the carbon is in the ground, we will not give up" that can be misunderstood, but it does actually make sense. they are just acknowledging that they dont see themselves winning, and that eventually the coal will be mined despite their protests. but that they will keep going and keep the protest up until they have lost, which is when the coal has been mined.
Yes, it should be read as: “Right until the mining equipment starts digging, we will fight to ensure the carbon remains in the ground”.
They didn't only built treehouses, two of them had made a tunnel and had been the last ones in the village...
If they've got nothing better to do one could through them into a stack at the museums or car dealers where other climate monkeys glued themselves to walls or the ground and complained about the temperature in the buildings being too cold over night. Just imagine. They just left them there glued, gave them food and just turned heating down over night as usual to save energy and therefore do something good for the climate they initially protested for 😂
At this point it't more about taking up as much time with the protests as possible to delay the start of mining.. as part of the deal is them stopping the mining by 2030, so its "only" seven more years, the less time they got the less coal they will be able to mine, sell and burn :)
@@xenia6103 well, as a german I can tell you this project was already decided in 2005. Where were the climate people all these years? It's just en vogue now and changes nothing.
German architecture student here.
Not only do we have buildings that are hundreds or even over thousand years old, we still build in a very sturdy way today.
Our interior walls are (especially in the cases of single-family homes) often load-bearing, reducing the thickness of the ceiling, especially since there is a second floor above it in the most cases. Also, the higher mass of a brick wall helps with the acoustic isolation of different rooms.
Where we don't use brick walls (like in buildings that undergo numerous refittings and where the support structure is not exclusively relying on the walls) we use walls that are similar to your american walls, but since we have to fulfill mandatory acoustic isolation, we will most likely use not two layers of drywall, but instead use three to (in extreme cases) six or seven layers, of course with something like a mineral wool or other soft isolation to make the walls less permeable for the sound. We even build walls out of drywall that aren't even supposed to be removed later, in those cases we will puor the screed around the already constructed gypsum board walls to make the transition of the sound less easy.
At least the architects mock the american walls often like "Punch an american wall and it has a hole, punch a german wall and it threatens to break your other hand, too", or "Horror movies take place in America, because there you can simply tear down a door or a wall with an axe, in Germany that would take too long".
We have to at least meet, or better exceed the standard values of the DIN/EC-standards, which are much higher than the ones required in the US. Also, our job is to surpass the required values as much as possible, so that the client has a building that is as good as possible. Our houses are designed to stand for multiple decades and hopefully over a hundred years. If we built a house that would fall apart/wouldn't work anymore after nine years, the architect would be held accountable, the earliest date for the architect to be released of possible legal liability is ten years after the handing over to the client. That leads to us doing the best work we possibly can and we are very proud of that.
TL;DR: We build our walls with a high mass, so that you can still sleep while you have guests snoring on the sofa.
The small gate in the "wizard"-video is for children, so they don't go out by themself. In Germany especially Berlin there are not enough kindergarden, so parents build a new form of daycare we call "Kinderladen" (childstore) where the parents look after the children by themself sometimes with the help of one childteacher. These "Kinderläden"( plural) are called so, because they were build most of the time in small storerooms. So there frontdoor goes direktly to the street. And this is reason of the smalldoor, as a doublecheck, that small children does not get in danger by walking alone in to the street.
Usually not all inside walls are this thick. It mostly depends on what weight the wall has to carry. But sometimes it also helps to isolate noise and heat.
Berlin was pretty much bombed into oblivion in WWII. Afterward, a lot of people needed a lot of cheap living spaces. So both East and west Berlin built a lot of apartment complexes. Back then they were actually considered very modern and desirable since, for example, they had indoor plumbing and central heating.
They haven't aged too well and yes, there are just as many areas with social problems as you would expect from a city of this size. Quite a lot of those buildings have been renovated in recent years, adding elevators and more green spaces, and aren't too bad now.
The treehouse thing worked last time with huge protests at the Hambacher Forst. Was a similar situation and people stayed in the trees so that the others couldn't remove them and start mining the coal
The treehouses might look nice, but the protests also included emptying buckets full of feces on the police, when they were tasked to evacuate the Hambacher Forst. In Luetzerath protesters threw stones, molotow cocktails and set off fireworks. These are the not so nice sides of the allegedly peaceful protests.
Where was Gondor when Lützerath fell?
Thickness of a wall depends on the structural integrity, inside walls usually come in these sizes: 11.5 cm/15 cm and 17.5 cm ( bricck ) plus plaster. Outside walls or walls between different appartments are another matter. If the walls are not related to structural integrity it's easy to remove them, otherwise you'll need a civil engineer to prove the structure and advice on the beam ( mostly steel ) strength to replace the wall. Pro: very stable buildings, fireproofness, the wall itself isolates ( heat in summer, cold in winter ) Con: higher costs, less freedom to rearange the interior.
i men... my outside walls are almost 2m thick so... well, they are very isolating.
@@akteno2796 isolating? or insulating? isolierung = insulation, isolation = einsamkeit :)
Some interior walls in German apartments are also made out of drywall. They might be easier to remove, but are horrible for putting up shelves or even picture frames, especially when you have to drill into them.
@@shadowfox009x That reminds me that I need to buy longer screws, because my coat rack keeps falling off.
Kind of insulating, but actually they have a higher capacity to hold the temperature (high densitiy) + high soundproofing , but insulation keeps warmth inside (low density). :)
YOU SHOULD make a cooking video, making those Quark Bällchen
You get them at basically every bakery here in Germany ♥
They don't have Quark in America.
@@K__a__M__I you can use unsalted/unsweetened cream cheese too I think. is ... that what it's called? xD
There are ways to replace quark
@@RoxRikSor not as easy as you think Cream cheese is way denser and doesn't turn out the same at all. Yogurt (even Greek) is sour and also doesn't bake the same way. 😭
Quark and German bread would be things I miss if I ever go to the US! Quark is so yummy too!
@@K__a__M__I to mmee it seems they don´t have Quark anywhere outside of Germany (maybe Poland)...I lived in England for a while and was so surprised as I thought by that time Quark is like a proclaimed UN cultural good :D...
German inner walls are usually 115 mm thick, 175 or 240 mm if used for holding the ceiling. While drywalls are possible and used if you want it to be cheap, nobody would really prefer drywall over brick, other than drywall builders 😂
When talking about the spice it's often referred to not only as Paprika but Paprika edelsüß or Paprika rosenscharf and sometimes we add Pulver at the end (Paprikapulver= Paprika powder).
First one has a sweet note (süß=sweet) and isn't spicy at all whereas the second is definitely used to spice up your food (scharf=spicey).
The spice paprika is made out of Paprika (bell peppers). So ist is actually the the same thing in different form.
Exactly. So more like: why do you call it in powdered form paprika, but in original form bell pepper? Especially since pepper is still... you know... pepper the black spice = Pfeffer...
It makes no sense to me why English speakers do that...
@@natsukiilluna6324 Cauz english is actually a weird language once you dive deep into some aspects of it :D
German isnt better tho, for example the whole "umfahren" and "UMfahren" thing. ;D
@@roarbahamut9866 That's true😂😂😂
But at least we have not that many that are pronounced the same but are written completely different.
I'll aisle isle
break brake
through threw
etc. etc. ...
Edit: Though it's fun torturing my student with those. 😂😂😂
i havent't heard mein kleiner grüner kaktus in years. that'S like one of the german songs of all time. while you can do funny stuff with the compound nature of german just plain simple language and ridiculous plot always works
Got one of your videos recommended and subscribed instantly. I'm from Germany myself. I usually don't like reaction videos, but you're a great guy and I really enjoy your content.
Ich schaue gerne solche Videos, aber Ryan ist auch so ein wholesome Typ. Ich würde ihm und seiner Familie gern mal meine Stadt zeigen.
When a bigger room is divided into two small ones, we also use some lighter walls. My parents gave me ¼ of the living room and the person who rented the apartment after us was glad about a separate bedroom.
5:00 it isn’t something casual to make at home but they’d usually sell it in almost every bakery
Hey you seem like a really sympatic dude. I really like watching "videos with you together". There is something notable about you. I could watch those videos alone or from another content creator but I watch them with you!
@ around 5:00 : yep, that's a dish we eat in Germany. It's similar to donuts, just better 😅. The name is "Quarkbällchen", so litterely "little curd balls". So yeah, includes curd in the dough which makes them somewhat more refreshing in taste.
I live in Germany and I am so jealous of the germans who actually get a lot of snow. I was snowing yesterday in the morning but it was already melting at noon. Today it´s completly gone :(
Würzburg has snow *-* quite rare here and the streets are chaotic but so pretty😂
That jealousy won't last long when you have to shovel snow daily and life comes to a standstill because the plowing vehicles only plow main streets.
@@juliawacker Last time we had enough snow for that was 2004.
I was too until I moved to the Rennsteig-region. The amount of times I slipped here because of frozen snow and ice isn’t funny anymore
Now it's snowing again quite heavily here in the middle of Hesse.
Quarkbällchen, yummy. Yes, you get this stuff in most regions of Germany.
Having these strong brickwalls inside your house, is pretty standart for western/central europe.
For this we dont have standart aircondition
4:55 Yes, they are called Quarkbällchen (literally white cheese balls) and are a common staple at Christmas markets and other similar venues.
The difference in Berlin is so drastic because West Berlin belonged to Germany and East Berlin to the DDR, which was a vastly different country with different politics and living standards - and the most depressing architecture ever.
The most depressing architecture ever? There are some pretty bad massive concrete appartment builidings in the west as well.
I'm from Leipzig and until I spent a few years living in Würzburg I had no idea some western appartment complexes look just as horrible.
@@michaausleipzig yes but they are rare, it was not a whole "style" while the Plattenbau was favored by the Soviets because of how fast an easy you could house many people. Looks was not a concern nor was longevity
@@bastik.3011 I'd argue that housing lots of people for low costs is pretty logical after a war
@@ngotemna8875 i never said it wasnt, i get why Plattenbauten were build. Doesn't make them less depressing and ugly especially in the case of Königsberg
And the western side is even worse
6:50 only like 10 years ago, we actually had snow, but over the last years, we not only had the most droughts and highest temperatures ever recorded, but we also only have like 1-2 days of snow in many areas of germany, which is sad...
Quark Bällchen as we call them in germany are so delicious, everybody loves them :)
6:30 Yes, the energy prices are still raising in Germany, i live not far away from this village called "Lützerath" and I saw this massive digging hole quite a few times. A few days ago the village was cleared by the police and I sat in a train with a bunch of the activists. The most of them doesn't even know much about the relevant themes and struggles but they are still trying to stop the government and energy concerns from countinuing. Also many of them are trying to protest while they are sticking theirselves on high frequency roads with superglue but drive there by petrol cars. The situation is clearly difficult.
speaking of small talk, you should definitly check out this video: "A guide to making small talk in Germany | Meet the Germans". btw love your channel, greetings from germany
i have come back from the darkest corner of my brain with some complicated germn words for you guys to try too pronounce.
1) Freundschaftsbeziehungen
2)Kraftfahrzeughaftpflichtversicherung
3)Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister
4)Betäubungsmittelverschreibungsverordnung
5)Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften
6)Streichholzschächtelchen
7)Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftkapitän
8)Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz
9)Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
10)Sonntagnachmittagsfernsehlutschbonbon
Quarkkrapfen - love them! But this shouting "is this German or Gibberish" guy was a bit annoying. Bell peppers are called Paprika in German. And the paprika spice is made of bell peppers, hence it is called Paprika in German, too. Why you would have different names for spice and the vegetable it is made of, I don't understand.
Agree with the screaming..
Not only a bit annoying.... That was more than stupid...
I think he meant 'Chili' or 'Peperonie'.
Why is he yelling, can't he speak normal 💀
Don't you usually call the spice "Paprikapulver" anyway?
About the controversy with bell peppers and pepper: German language is not as lazy and re-uses words to the extent that the English language does.
Paprika in german means the bell pepper as a vegetable. If it is dried down and ground to powder, its called "Paprikapulver" or seldom "gemahlener Paprika" .
Pfeffer in german means the condiment pepper, the white/green/black pebbles from india i believe. It they are ground down, they are called "gemahlener Pfeffer".
I think paprika in english is just the odd one together with cilantro/coriander, because there are no two names for other dried spices like garlic (powder), oregano (dried), onion (powder), turmeric (powder) and so on...
@@kuebbisch not really, in UK they call it koriander, in the USA they use the spanish word cilantro for the same plant (and yes, they speak spanish in mexico, not mexican)
@@juliawacker yes, but at least in the US the fresh herb is called cilantro but dried they also call it coriander.
@@kuebbisch when they say koriander, do they mean the dried seeds, dried leaves or both?
@@juliawacker I think that coriander are the dried and ground seeds.
13:05 The concrete housing blocks are part Eastern Berlin, part Western. The Western one is called Gropius-Stadt.
Many buildings were also build after they were demolished during war, so they were build to hopefully keep the residents safe in another war. Also to be able to withstand storms and stuff
So just because a wall is made of solid stone doesn't mean it can't be removed, at least as long as it's not a load-bearing wall
the one with the rain is common for any city in the north, funnily enough. We have the ocean right next to us, so lots of salt in the air, making it rain instead of snow. But sometimes, rarely, we get some snow, just for it to melt after a day or less
If it's not a holding wall, you can for sure remove brick walls it's just about more work ;) but u have good noice cancelling between the rooms which is good when you have kids or someone snorts. When you later add some walls with USA like small walls i always find that you can hear the person in the room behind and i rly dislike that.
Yep, we usually dont move our walls. Once built everything stays where it is. It can be done (if the wall doesnt carry weight, which you can usually distinguish by its thickness) but is a huge effort.
Snow in Germany really depends on where you live.
When I was a little kid we had a lot of snow but for +15years there wasn't much snow anymore (same cit of course). Maybe an inch at best for a few hours before it melted, it was mostly just ice/frozen.
And roughly 20min away, you'll get lots of snow for the whole season! I was amazed at how much snow we had, after we moved. You could clear the snow on one side of the street and when you finish up the other side, the first half will be completely white again. 😂
Just so funny that weather can vary very much in a few miles. 😄
And yes, we call a bell pepper "Paprika", the powder would be "Paprikapulver"/Paprika powder.
I had a hard time figuring that out when I first learned English, because you guys have two peppers (bell pepper and pepper, the spice) and it just didn't make sense. 😆
Additionally, you do not hear what someone else is doing in the room next door when the doors are closed. And THAT is really good.
Just adding Slovakia and Czech Republic to the countries that call the actual vegetable 🌶🫑 pepper/bell pepper 'paprika'. It's a word from Hungarian, their gastronomy is famous for pepper/paprika. The paprika spice is called 'ground paprika' and spice in general is called 'korenie' in Slovak and 'koření' in Czech, Slavic words meaning 'radixes'.
Why so sturdy? Well, thick sturdy walls cancel noise, they don't break just because someone bumped into them, they are not susceptible to rot or termites, they can withstand strong winds and they might help to save most of the house in case of a fire. Oh, and non-loadbearing walls can still be moved pretty easily.
The thing with the paprika on our side is: the Spice/Powder is made out of the vegetable. It's usually combined with other herbs and spices so it doesn't exactly taste like the vegetable anymore. So why would you use a different herb/spice to name it? Made outta Paprika - we call it Paprika.
What I don't understand is why everything on your end is a pepper.
Pfeffer - Pepper (that one i get)
Paprika - Pepper
Chilischote - Pepper (e.g. Ghost Pepper, which has nothing to do with the regular black and white pepper)
If for example a recipe asks for red pepper(s) which do you use? Red Paprika, which is sweet? Red Pepper, which is a tad spicy? Or Red Chili Peppers, which is spicy?
German walls are not meant to be moved. If they have to go, we can tear them always down. Sincerely: Most German houses are constructed from stone (and in parts concrete). They are heavy, and therefore some interior walls are parts of the static structure of the house - if you wanted to remove them, you would have to replace them with additional supports and beams. Other walls can be drywalls or lightweight walls, but sometimes they are also build with bricks (however only one brick thick), because that was the simpler thing during the construction process.
What Greta meant with "as long as the carbon is in the ground the struggle is not over" is more of a thing "as long as its there people will try to mine it and we need to stop it everytime, so the struggle to defend it will never be over."
In newer buildings we now have a mix of concrete load bearing walls and thinner plaster walls. I have also lived in a place (built 1908) where the walls were just one brick wide (about 3”). Thunberg said ‘as long as the coal is in the ground, this struggle is not over’. The small green cactus song is from the 1930ies.
Nice reaction! The last tiktok didn't mean West and East-Berlin but just two sides of one big City. Like you could do this Trend with other cities too it wasn't about geographical sides :)
Congratulations on over 50,000 subscribers 🎉🎉🎉
Yes! And compared with your other channels you will visit Germany first, right?
Holding walls that are important for the buildings structure are always built solid. We do have some drywalls too tho, they’re also a bit bigger and better insulated than American walls
As for the video of the guy you were confused about: The guy is part of the elevator boys, a group of German guys that are famous on TikTok because teenage girls love them. The only reason why I know about them is because one of the members is the little brother of a former classmate.
12:37 judging by that bear-cutout, It's probably a Kita so the gate is that the children don't run out.
So are we just skipping the part where he sais he doesn’t think there is anything notable about him, or…? 7:31 :c
Ryan I actually think you’re quite notable! I like watching TH-cam videos while doing stuff around the house, and since you slid into my recommendations I find myself putting yours on more often than not.
You caught my attention with your calm way and how open minded and reflected you are. I also like the way your thought process goes! It’s pretty interesting, entertaining and weirdly comforting (in the best ways). Also quite interesting for me as a German ;)
You’re definitely a notable person and I’m sure I’m by far not the only one that sees it that way :)
Pepper is Pfeffer. The small round perls that are black or white or red or green and usually ground down. Pepper. It is the same word even, just with p instead of f, like in northern german dialects (which lots of english word come from). Paprika is the vegetable you over there call bell peppers for some reason. Paprika the spice is made from hot bell peppers (or chilis I guess). So it is dried and ground hot paprika powder.
In all over Europe interior walls are built of bricks, stone or concrete.
Some of the walls are load bearing. And no, we don't remodel as much. Not all walls are as thick though, and sometimes it's really just drywall.
In Germany we say "chilli" to the spice version of the Paprika
german winter depends on the region. just like in the us i guess you expect a different winter landscape in florida than in seattle.
bavaria usually drowns in snow, meters high. The north of germany usually has nice 10-20 cm of snow and central germany....well...we had a total of 4 days snow this year.
West Berlin and East Berlin are shown in the video of Berlin. East Berlin used to belong to the GDR and were allied with the Soviet Union. There it was common, especially in cities, to build larger high-rise buildings called prefabricated buildings( Plattenbauten). Many families also lived in the apartments.
Almost all images of the Berlin video were take from the form East part. That was not the point.
Many prefabricated buildings were buildt in East Berlin and in other cities , which was easy to see in the pictures. @@henningbartels6245
@@blondkatze3547 nearly all picture were taken in the former Eastern part of Berlin, if those with prefabricated concrete buildung or those without. Though prefabricated concrete buildings can also be found in the former Western part of Berlin, e.g. in Neukölln or Reinickendorf.
Ok.👍@@henningbartels6245
Thank you for being so open minded... You are doing a very good job!
You also asked if the coal thing is a big thing here in Germany: IT DEFINITELY IS! the village they are tearing down is called Lützerath and many people went there or had solidarity demonstrations in other German cities in order to stop them tearing it down. The tree houses for example were not only hanging in the trees, but people would actually live, sleep and hang secured in trees in order to keep the bulldozer from destroying these trees and the whole village.
The video about the police is also at the mine and they were stuck in the mud which was quite funny as also some of them did got hurt just by being stuck in the mud ...
The housing blocks are from different locations in Berlin, it's not a distinctly Eastern thing. The style is somewhat different, but it's the same basic 70s architecture.
Since there was a video about "My green little cactus" I'd recommend watching or reacting to shows or clips from Otto Walkes! Great comdedian that nearly everyone here has seen or heard about. Or in general the "cultural goods" if there are any with translations or the community can put some together :)
Oh yes and especially his "english for runaways" 😂
But unfortunately I have the feeling that many of Otto's joke will be lost in translation for Ryan, even English for runways aka Englisch für Fortgeschrittene
The brick wall inside your house is for structural engeneering purposes. It's a "carrying wall" (tragende Wand)
7:10 The east (including Berlin) has a continental climate (like most of North America), meaning more extreme seasons and generally snow every winter.
The west looks entirely different with its marine climate. Mild winters. Before I moved out of Bonn, I had several years of maybe a day or two of snow per year and I usually went shopping in December and January wearing a t-shirt (granted, I didn't walk far). It really depends on where you live.
Not sure about North vs. South bc the North is closer to the sea (so warm water) but also simply further North and the South is at some elevation, so dunno.
5:35 meaning: when it has been mined (and consequently burned) the struggle is lost.
As long it's in the ground she wants to make sure it stays there, and it (currently) is an ongoing struggle to make sure it does that.
Pepper and paprika are totally different plants. Black Pepper, and it's alter egos green and white pepper, are made from Piper nigrum, and paprika belongs to the Capsicum family which again belongs to the tribe Solanacea (like tomato, potato, tobacco... Black pepper has nothing to do with them, except all of these are plants. 🙂
The US timber huts are cheaper to build, but over the years You waste so much energy due to bad or missing insulation, even with US energy prices far lower, You pay more in the end.
Not to mention the CO2 climate problem. As thicker walls also protect (a bit) from the summer heat, AC is not so widespread here, again less energy wasted
For example, this winter is relatively warm, but below 0 Celsius on nights, I did not turn on the radiator since winter started
6:08 We are no longer dependent on Russian gas. We have even built three LNG terminals in record time. Fuel and natural gas prices have dropped to pre-war levels. The national gas storage facilities are still 90% full thanks to mild weather and the thriftiness of the population.
7:30 Hey! You are a very handsome and funny guy! And the best thing: There are *two* of you!
8:53 Ever thought about what the spice "Paprika" is made from? That's right, dried bell pepper! So, we just call both the same (as any reasonable person would).
4:58 that’s like one of my favorite Item to get in the bakery where I live in Germany
Hi Ryan, I recommend the newest Video of Feli from Germany about the German language to you. It was really interesting
The thing about Berlin: it is not just eastern vs. western Berlin but rich vs poor areas in general (they also exist in west berlin a lot).
And people life these neighborhoods because it is the only place where they can afford rent since it has been rising and rising for the last 6 or so years.
Correct!👍
Here in Germany, many things are much more expensive
The small gate at the shop is because it is probably a dog groomer that the dogs don't run away
hi, german civil engineering student here
the outside walls are usually made of heavy bricks, walls inside too depending on how big the house is. these walls carry the ceiling and everyting above, their main function is structural integredy (~40cm). The thinner walls inside (~11cm), made from a very light brick (Ytong), seperate the room and usually contain a lot of the wiring. They stand on the floor and are attached to the thick walls and ceiling but do NOT carry any weight, they can be removed and rearrangend, though it is a lot of work.
That little gate on front of the door is probably a remaining from the pandemic, when gastronomy was only allowed to sell „to the street“.
A few years ago there was a hurricane ( Orkan ) who even broke smaller trees.
But the houses stood firm, except some unfortunate roof tiles.
I like our brick walls, you do not hear everything from the other room...
Yeah the German or Gibberish is nuts, no normal German talks harsh like that, just some satire guys maybe
Quarkbällchen are pretty popular
Energy prices were higher a few months ago but that Lützerath problem lasts for about 2 years? Don't know exactly. But experts on the news say, this cole will not make a difference in the energy crisis. And the green party in the government didn't do anything against the energy corporation which wants to mine the cole. So the police had to take the protesters away who hid in the abandoned village. It was on the news all the time.
Mein kleiner grüner Kaktus, golden twenties music from Comedian Harmonists, we sang that song with the school choir
In Eastern Berlin you have this huge houses "Plattenbau", because it was a cheap way for living for many many people (due to the planned economy in the democratic republic of Germany)
The Plattenbau actually Was fast built housing all over germany (but mainly east), because especially the eastern part had to accomodate huge amounts of germans fleeing from the now non-german territories. Also, many houses in the big cities were destroyed. So they built the Plattenbauten to safely and efficiently put them all into some form of housing. But it was invented by the Bauhaus-Movement (at least the layouts) as affordable living spaces for poor and working people that are high-functioning and low-maintenance, though those Architektur certainly had in mind better Overall planning.
Interial walls of brick are called Tragende Wände, which you cannot remove unless you want to destroy the whole house and want it to collapse. There are walls that are thinner and can be removed more easily.
Seriously, I'm SO tired of this screaming in German bs... We don't talk like that and never did. Well except for that sad little man withe the mustache and his minions. 😜
The reason why the police gets stuck but the monk does not is about 20 kilo tactical riot gear I assume.
We are able to heat each room on its own in Germany. We can decide if we want it hot or not by using the thermostate.
Therefore a good interior insulating wall saves a lot of money as it keeps the room warm/cold just how you like it. No need to heat the entire house.
my house is so old, its build from granite and sandstone bricks... like, its older than the first mentioning of a america in any document...
One of the big advantages of thick and steady walls are that it will contain a fire very well. If an american house catches fire and it's not put out by fire brigade within 5-10 minutes, you can say bye bye to your house. In germany often the fire stays contained to just one room and unless you have old dry wooden interior doors or highly flammable wallpaper on the walls, the fire brigade can put it out before it spreads into the whole apartment/house. Also multi-apartment houses with 3-5 floors are much much more common than each family owning their own house.
The little gate is a common thing in kindergardens. Especially with kids from 0-3 years you often have this gates. While the door is open the small gate can get closed so the kids can't run out of the kindergarten.
Hey Ryan! Great video! Made me chuckle the whole time!
Bell peppers are called "Paprika" or "Paprikaschoten" (paprika peppers) in German, the spice is called "Paprikapulver" ("Pulver" for powder). There are usually 2 or even 3 types of paprika spice: sweet, spicy and (sometimes) smoked.
There are green long peppers (not that sweet, not spicy) that are mostly called "Spitzpaprika" (pointy paprika).
There's "Peperoni" or "Pfefferoni" in Austria, thin green or red peppers, sometimes spicy, often used as spice or sold in jars with water and vinegar.
"Chili" or "Chilischoten" (chili peppers) are in German the very spicy ones. For the extremely spicy ones the names (Jalapeño, Habanero, etc.) are used.
Black / white pepper is "Pfeffer" in German.
Some more reasons why buildings are made so sturdy:
- so that they last a long time and won't be destroyed by storms or heavy weather as easily as it sometimes already happened in the US
- so that you won't hear every noise from the room next door (in many other countries such as France and UK the walls are not very thick either and you can literally hear everything that happens in the whole house)
- so the rooms are better at staying warm in the winter and cold in summer
- it's still possible to remodel houses as there is a differences (in width) between load-bearing an non load-bearing walls. And it's also possible to tear down/remodel the non load-bearing ones.
0:51 We have also lots of old houses that are still used. In Mainz, Germany, we have a house (people live in) that is from 1250. Usually, we build something once and this in best quality and to last forever. Furthermore, you can move most walls - only not that easy…
"So your interior walls are made out of BRICK!?" ... oh you sweet summer child....
But in fact, drywall is common place here too. But it`s not "the norm".
The eastern part of Berlin has many DDR-buildings like in the video but the other pictures were mainly in Berlin-Mitte (central Berlin) which was also part of East-Berlin.
The wooden gate in front of the store is probably to keep a pet inside the store when the entrance is opened during summer to let some fresh air in.
11:35 initially a French pop song and 100 years old.
No this Song was written and composed by German Men who lived in France but yeah its very old
the thick walls are mostly for better indoor climate (stays more cool in the summer and holds the heat better in winter)