Appreciation for getting done what is of cause his/her job.... How could that be a bad thing? That way of thinking and feeling for me is like spitting people in the face for being kind, polite and grateful.
@Dreyarde I agree. This only happens on charter flights i.e. full of tourists, who fly once or twice a year max. You don't applaud your everyday bus or train driver for not crashing into a wall, do you? The pilot's just do their job.
@@montitaz It's a special thing for most tourists but business as usual for the crew. Better to be respectful without a reason thant the other way around.
@@lifeingermany_ Honestly I didn't realise this was a typical german thing to do until I saw the meme about it. Since then I have kind of an existential crisis XD
Right ! I just realize it now that you mention it and yes; it's absolutely true. Sometimes, prior to this move there's a brief moment of an almost contemplative silence, just about one or two seconds long - no motion at all - as if you're checking whether everything necessary has been said and done and so you're good to go. I'm amazed by the fact that I never thought about this so common habit in my 47 years! And of course; I do it just like that and I actually like it; it's like a little, personal curfew like "All right (slaps), meeting is over, heading home!"
@@lifeingermany_ you need to nod with it as well. Slapping the upper leg, nodding and saying "so" at the same followed directly by a slight upward movement with your upper body. ... if you are german, you have to be precise ;-)
HaHaHa - "einen letzten Absacker, und dann können wir gehen" ist völlig akzentfrei - Übung macht den Meister! Ausgehen hilft beim Sprachelernen, das ist der Beweis :-)
Perhaps people should clap when the bus driver stops in a decent way at a stop? The few times I am on a bus (in Bonn that is) I feel thrown around by violently stopping and accelerating. I always wonder how people, who have not the same strength as I, deal with that.
@@northernlight2840 yes, or on Billigfliegern too. On a flight with Lufthansa let us say from Fraport to Nairobi there is no hand clapping at all. I never did it and will not do even on a Billigflieger. If it shows the respect for the pilot or the relieve to have landed safely... The pilot will not notice
Wenn du dich entschuldigst, weil du statt um 19 Uhr um 19:02 Uhr zu einem Treffen kommst :D Wenn du immer nach der BESTEN Lösung suchst und niemals die einfachste willst... Wenn niemand weiß, was du wählst Wenn du täglich Brot essen kannst und das in vielen Sorten Wegen den Restaurants... Ich denke oft sind wir auch zu faul, selbst zu überlegen ob das Restaurant offen ist :D Ich liebe deine Videos... Ich war ein Jahr in Chicago und hatte tatsächlich Kulturschocks in ähnlichen Punkten, nur halt anders rum ;)
I think it is so .... The pilots can't hear it and the flight attendants, who can, have nothing to do with it. I consider it a reaction of relief by people who are not used to fly and have felt uneasy in the air.
V 100 Depends on the aircraft. On smaller machines they often do hear it. Not on large aircrafts though. Especially since they wear noise cancelling usually. Some pilots appreciate clapping.. Some get straight up offended, lol.
As a native German (and being born and raised in the Lower Rhine area) I would assume that your empty restaurant explanation is close to my thoughts on why it is the way it is. Keep in mind that going to a restaurant is more than just eating for almost every European we sit down and chit chat or gossip or discuss family issues and so on. If you do that inside an empty restaurant you are the one who feeds the curiosity of the service staff and at least I did feel uncomfortable with that. So if there are other guests the service staff would be more occupied and could not listen to my conversation that close.
I am German and my Grandmother moved out to the US. When visiting her the biggest difference I recogniced was that Germans like to cook themselves much more often than americans. As a result of that I also found that the food items in the stores here in Germany include more fresh vegetables and meat and the one in the US includes more premade foods.
To land a plane safety is the most complex (and maybe difficult) part of a flight. So, when pilot crew manage to land us safely, it's really a life-saving moment. To thank them all for the pleasing journey as well as for landing us safely, we clap for them.
It's not just the Germans who clap when the plane lands, the Dutch also do it! They're expressing their gratitude to the pilots & crew for getting them there safely. I even experienced that among Italians on a A'Italia flight.
Who told you what finger is "the first" one? Going in a row the thumbs are clearly the first or the last finger. If you are used to not consider the thumb a "finger" this conception is what makes the difference. Would you agree? There is nothing wrong with different conceptions. The thing is: Think about, if "the conception"/ the way you have been trained to think about certain things you are used to is the "right one". Hmm. Maybe there is no right ore wrong one. Just different ones.
@@antjeschwarz7874 well I mean the thumb either is the first or the last finger of a hand. Why would the thumb not be considered a finger since it clearly is. The human body usually has ten fingers, not eight. Therefore the pointing finger would be either the second finger or the fourth, but never the first. If in a country the general conception was that they only have eight fingers, I agree with you. Otherwise rather not.
@@NoName-xw2mg Thank you 👍 My question on this would be: How come in Canada/America they usually start counting with the "second" finger calling it "first"?
@@antjeschwarz7874 even though my original comment was rather just joking, I think the topic is quite interesting. As far as I know, there are many ways of counting with the body. Some cultures even use their palm. And I have to say that I do know quite a lot of Americans who start counting with their thumb, despite their cultural background. To me it seems that this is the way that actually makes sense as I have tried to explain in my previous answer. It just makes sense to start with the thumb because it is seen as a finger and because the majority of people seem to still be right handed, you start with your right hand on the left side. But that's just my opinion and my experiences. Perhaps you've watched the film "inglorious bastards" where the different ways of counting actually tell about where people are from. But there's a whole scientific field where people study ethnomathematics, which I'm not part of. So all of the above is just my opinion.
German here, and switching fingers from ‘3’ (thumb, pointer, middle finger) to ‘4’ (all fingers sans thumb) bothered me. Way more logical to do it the American Way 🤷🏼♀️.
The most stereotypically German thing I do is... I am Obsessed with bread. I don't even eat bread every day, or every week. But I love good bread! And while living abroad the lack of good bread was the hardest thing 🤣 I will probably take a loaf with me when I go to Japan for my exchange year 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Mastering the checkout system does contain more than yelling for a new lane. You also need to be able to pick the fastest one, when multiple are available. It's not as straight forward as counting the people waiting. You also need to analyze the speed of ther cashier, the amount of items they have in their cart and sometimes even the personality types of the people waiting (some are more chatty than others). And there is of course your own speed. You need to be able to beat the cashier: bagging your items faster (or at least as fast) as the cashier can scan them. That's extra tricky since you also have to pay while your're at bagging. Pro tip: If you're not alone at the store, let your partner take care of the payment process, while you are bagging. And please get your wallet ready while waiting in line. THAT is the right time to search for it. I can't believe how many people I met, bagging their items, the cashier demands an amount of money and THEN they starting to look for their wallet. As they havn't expected to pay anything. Speaking of not paying anything... If you ever wanted to buy something but leave a grocery store with MORE money in your pocket than going in, germany's bottle deposit system is your chance. Bring back a lot of returnable bottles or crates, pick an item that costs less than the deposit total and head to the checkout. It feels like a dick move, but it's worth it.
And then there is the customer who messes up when paying for not finding the right amount of change and looking to pay with either bills or coins. Or the terminal cannot read the card. Or doesn't have enough money and the cashier has to call the manager to cancel items already punched in. Or has not weighed the fruits and the cashier has to go and do it herself. Then all your careful calculations go down the drain. And you get mad at yourself, the cashier, the customer, the day of week and what not. I personally hate women who can only use one hand to load the belt or bag the items because the other has to hold their hand bag. Instead of putting that in the cart and use both hands. But using two hands at once is probably too complicated.
About "leaving the grocery store with more money you had while entering"... Fun fact... if the cashier hands you over more change than you ought to get.... be quiet, say nothing and take it... you cannot be blamed of fraud for that ;-)
@@petereggers7603 Yes.👏 And don't feel pissed if anyone not saying anything while you are doing the mistake.💪 How you handle every day situations shows where your moral compass is adjusted.😋 And you will one day get what you gave. Good luck. 👍🙏🙋
Looking in the eyes of a person youre talking to is necessary expression of respect. At least my father told me that fifty years ago :). And to be honest " i hate small talk"! XD
Clapping when the plane lands is not just a german thing LOL. The British do that too, just like reserving a pool seat with a towel, while on vacation in Mallorca.
I also suspected that it's not solely a German thing. It's been a while since my last trip on a plane, due to Covid and so I wasn't quite sure anymore...
A doner kebab is fast food. Am guilty of asking for another checkout at Aldi. Love fresh air in my house. Love Dinner For One. Not the slightest bit Germanised because I am Australian and in Australia.
Hi Jenna, TH-cam algorithm has brought me here. However, I like your content and your likable way of presenting your ideas. By the way, very German is waiting at red lights at a crosswalk in the middle of nowhere! :-) In diesem Sinne! Greetings Hubertus
I've never really been a huge Tatort fan, except for the ones with Kommissar Schimanski (starring one of my favourite German actors Götz George). They were so successful that they even made two movies that played in cinemas and later he got his own series (called simply "Schimanski").
As for those alltime- favorites like Tatort or Dinner for one, I know of intelligent people that still enjoy those shows. Dinner f.o. was first broadcasted in my teenage days but I got sick and tired of it ,as for Tatort. I think that fiction has to be " real" , whereas Tatort is strictly opposed to reality. Cops always showing guns and being tough, the vilains mostly upperclass people living in decent homes.. come on, how far is that from real crime, in comparison to flicks like " Bosch" ? I rest at this.
Döner is the fastfood for the after hours before going home. I’m not german, but southern neighbor 😂. We complain about the same stuff like jaywalking lol
you nailed it. i would add to that supermarket story: if you DONT bag your stuff but just throw it back into the cart to pack it outside because you dont want to slow anyone down. edit: döner is definitely fast food because you can get in and out of a dönerladen within 4 minutes with your customized döner. can it get any faster?
@@marbe166 I don't agree. Germans are simply used to efficiency. It is a way of thinking, a kind of conception. Don't feel pissed only bc it is not the same way you are used/ trained to. I always think about the packing before putting things on the band. Just to make sure heavy stuff first, light and breakable last. It's like a challenge/ a game to be prepared and focused on fast and effective packaging. 💗💖💕💞💕💖💗
@@antjeschwarz7874 That is a good strategy to put the things on the band like that. But that doesn't remove the fact that German supermarket checkouts are awfully designed with very little space after the cashier. Look at Swedish supermarkets. There you have a much larger and wider space after the cashier, with a movable divider, which gives you a lot of time to bag your things after you have paid and the cashier is serving the next customer and puts that person's items on the other side of the divider. Simple, more efficient, and has been like that for decades.
@@marbe166 Yes sometimes the space is limeted. It is for a few reasons: In Germany most people, especially in urban areas do little grocerys every or every other day. No need in the first place to have much more space. Would also reduce the space to offer/present the stuff to sell. I think the space is pretty much optimized as needed in every single place. In Sweden I would guess, they do more american like shopping once a week up to once a month which is the reason for adapting the space on the needs of the costumers like it is.
@@antjeschwarz7874 thats correct. when i am in rural sweden, i see a lot more people buying a lot of stuff because bigger stores are a lot further away from their homes. in some stores in germany we have those luxus-checkouts with a lot of space with a divider where you can pack your stuff unstressed. but still i put my stuff back in the cart and i see a lot of other people do the same. i have a grocerie-box in my car which is very convenient. putting it into bags to me is unlogic. sometimes i buy only a few things. then i put them into my backpack but even that is easier at the table that is provided at the exit for baging your groceries. i would not put anything into any form of bag at the checkout unless its just 3 or 4 small things.
When you cheer and don't look into each others eyes, we say, that this will lead to seven years of bad sex, or at least seven years of misfortune. So, always:. 😳
@Smart Play It's the contrary: by not looking into the eyes you will have bad luck. In other regions, it might even be that you will have to pay the drinks if you forgot to look into the eyes.
Your point with the crowd choosing is so true! I’ve been working at a outside pool since I was 15 and I noticed that especially on slow days people start to come to our shop when they see people in line. It is really weird it looks like sometimes Germans wait for someone else to do the first step
I am really surprised about these observations, since I personally enjoy going somewhere where only a few other people are at and where I have time and space to look around (when it comes to stores). Restaurant-wise I think it depends, since we normally plan beforehand what restaurant to visit or at least what kind of food we want to have...
Me too... but not for the small talk reason. The service staff only focusing on me/us makes me feel uncomfortable. On the other hand: I would never stand in line for a restaurant because everyone else does, these are not my kind of criteria to choose a restaurant.
If i never been to a restaurant before and it's empty i will definitely refrain from going in. It just feels weird to sit there all by yourself. It might be a different story if the server is standing at the entrance, i might go in then, because at least i can be sure that it is really open and i feel compassion for the server without customers. (this applies to outdoor areas of a restaurant mostly) But i would also avoid restaurants where i have to wait in a queue to get in.
The clapping on a plane is supposed to be something like a thank you to the pilot for a smooth landing. So if the landing is quiet rough there shouldn't be any clapping.
I'm German and I can't care less about Tatort - bc I don't care about any TV(brain)-programming. Appreciation for a secure landing, in my opinion, does not only appreciate the pilot but brings in mind how precious life is and how "not natural" it is for a human to "fly". It is always a good thing to be grateful for beeing alive and healthy. 👏💞💕👍💖💗
@@northernlight2840 I am sure it is worse than assisted thinking😵 TeleVision tells the vision they want you to believe in. The TV program is constantly programming your mind. And they don't even hide it. Everything has meaning. And the programmed brain is not able to react other than repeating the BS as if it would be your own believes. Turn TV off. Turn common sense on.
When I was in kindergarden, I noticed that some people started counting with the pointer and some with the thumb. And I was always thinking that I liked starting with the thumb better, because you don't have to switch direction while counting. And then, I was already in school, someone actually started from the little finger. (And all of them were native Germans...)
Clapping once your plane has just landed is also done in the Philippines. It is like thanking the pilots and the crews that they did a well-done job that we arrived safely and well.
Concerning "Absacker" there is even a song named "Gute Nacht Freunde" by Reinhard Mey which perfectly describes the custom and it's a great tribute to friendship in general.
I think the restaurant thing is mostly true for settings where we are not at home + at least for me, when I didn't look up restaurants beforehand. If there are a lot of people that must mean they are doing something right there ;) but I don't do it at home. I'm from the German countryside in the Southwest of Germany... Döner is fast food.
Good morning ☕🔆 Maybe you should make a business out of it, if a new restaurant opens, they can hire you to sit there with someone. The most clapping happens on flights to Mallorca or Ibiza Germany's so called 17th federal state for party, is there something you need to say or to confess? Visiting Mallorca is very German. A Sunday family breakfast with everything prepared on the table like cold cuts, cheese, salmon, jam, plum butter, honey, Nutella with a boiled egg and different kind of rolls and bread, coffee, tea or hot chocolate is very German. And of course watching the Tagesschau, the most important News show on German TV every day at 08:00pm, that's why all the movies start at 08:15h. The private TV channels tried it a couple of times earlier, but failed. I guess there is enough material for more videos like this.
The character "Max Ballauf", who works in Cologne now. Worked before that in Düsseldorf, as an "assistant" to Kommissar Flemming, the episodes were aired in the 1990s.
Haha, your observation about empty restaurants does not only apply to restaurants. Try standing in front of a shop window - looking at the shop's display will usually get you company after a while, too. :D
2 Thoughts about the restaurant thing: in the past most customer were from the same village were the restaurant is located. So if the restaurant is empty it meant to be a bad omen, because not even the own folks want to go there. 2nd thought is that this behaviour got worse when gemans went to holidays and fell into a "Touristenfalle" which means they were tricked with bad food, service and so on. The other effect you described is the "Schaufenstereffekt". Nice german words in my opinion:) .
😂 herrlich! Tatsächlich kann ich mit Tatort nichts anfangen. Aber ich bin wohl eine der wenigen Deutschen. Es gibt ja tatsächlich Bars/Kneipen bei denen Sonntags der Tatort gezeigt wird. Dinner for one hab ich auch nur ein Mal gesehen 😂 Aber beim Absacker bin ich dabei 👍🏻🤣
Hahah, great vid and fun list. Even still being here in the US, I picked up the habit a while ago of using my thumb to count and still do it here. Daran bin ich schon gewöhnt. Natürlich habe ich das auch festgestellt aus Inglorious Basterds (spoiler alert), weil der Fehler jeden das Leben gekostet hat. Das ist ja gute Verstärkung.😂 „So!,“ Jenna 😂 Na dann, weiter machen. LG aus Michigan. Ich freue mich, bald nach Deutschland zu kommen.
TATORT is one good example for federalism in Germany. ;) Crime stories/TV Shows and their appreciation have a long history in german TV... from "Stahlnetz" (1950s) to "Der Kommissar" (1960s) to "Derrick" (1970s) to "Der Alte" (1980s). But the unique point for TATORT is their alternating venues, representing one (or more) special city per federal state...in the beginning in the 1970s with a great amount of "Lokalkolorit", very typical characters with a very local atmosphere. In recent days 21 different teams and citys/regions (including Austria and Switzerland) are shown...in 35 installments per year.
Ein fröhliches Hallo von Ba-Wü nach Düsseldorf 😎 Lüften ist wichtig 😇 "Stoßlüften" ist besser. Das bedeutet das kurze 5-Minuten - Lüften zum Energiesparen 😁😉
I visited Vancouver once and there you say 'Thank you.' to the bus driver. That is pretty much the same with the clapping when a plane has landed. We just say 'Thank you' to the pilot. And in germany we have a Superstition that you get 7 years bad sex, when you don't look into the eyes, when cheering.
In NY some people say thank you to bus drivers as well but I don't do it because I feel weird about it. I only say thank you if the driver waited for me to get on from a distance.
About the new restaurants that are always empty... Well, Germans tend to only trust what they know and they don't like risks. That's why they have so many insurances: to have a safe life without any bad surprises.
Absacker are a thing! So much so there's even songs about them (such as Reinhard Mey's timeless classic "Gute Nacht, Freunde"). Where I'm from, we call them "Schlürschluck" (round here, a 'Schluck' in this context isn't a sip but a shot and 'schlür' probably refers to the waddling way you'll be walking home after having one too many Schlürschlucks. My brother was pissed drunk out of his mind at the end of his wedding reception (which was around 6am) because everybody tends to insist on drinking one last Schlürschluck with the groom. :D The Absacker is the most dangerous drink of the night. When hungover, we always say, 'That last beer probably was bad/expired.' :D It's always the Absacker's fault, never the 35 beers' you had before that.
Very funny how you hold us Germans a mirror under our noses. But I was surprised about the clapping in the plane. Is that still going on? I didn't hear this in years and I'm usually several times a year in the air. Maybe my ears cut it out now automatically. =;-)
Opening aother supermarket lane: supermarkets in my area have a bell ringer / remote hanging in front of the lands where people can push a button and the announcement "another lane will soon be opened" then sounds, alarming the staff to send another cashier.
I was laughing so hard about the grocery store part! As a German, I've encountered this situation regularly and I feel embarrassed every time ("fremdschämen"). That is, being part of a group of customers where one customer is so rude to the store employees. Usually the cashiers do a pretty good job at calling for additional personal, when lanes get too long. As you mentioned, German Discounters are very "günstig" in comparison to North American stores. But in order to offer those low prices, the stores need to cut costs in some areas. Usually that means having less staff. So I find it extremely rude to expect to pay very little, but on the other hand expect premium service. Yelling "neue Kasse" means to the cashier "you're doing a sh*tty job", even if there is no one around to open another lane. I always think, if you don't have those three minutes to wait in line, then pay a little extra in a more expensive store. 😜
My German gran had a zero tolerance line for being loud on a cemetery. She would always hiss at me then with "Sei nicht so laut! Das ist ein Friedhof! Man stört die Totenruhe nicht!" Aka "Don't be so loud! This is a cemetery not a playground! Don't disturb the peace of the dead!" Followed by evil stares towards little me 😆
As for the restaurants: I agree. It is because if a restaurant is bad, one expects it to be empty and if it's full it must be for a reason. It is different with stores though. I would rather not enter a shop that is empty, because often you are just browsing, you don't quite know what to get - entering a store and being the only customer I'd feel all the eyes of people working there on me and feel compelled to buy something. As for the plane-flights: that usually happens with tourists who do not fly often. The more business-people are on the plane the scarcer it is.
- You can only experience clapping hands on a vacation plane. Maybe we Germans did not understand that a successful landing is included in the price? You would be the only one in an German business aviation if you applaud and would expose yourself as a newbie. - Line up at poorly restaurants. I think that Germans are simply very loyal, regardless of whether the quality offered still corresponds to what the restaurant started with.
Tatort, which means "Crime scene" btw. starts at 20:15 because before that, at 20:00 there is the Tagesschau. Fun fact: Tatort started 1970 and to this day they purposefully never changed the intro.
Placing a towel reserves the spot at the swim center forever. You must follow the little man on the walk signals even at 3 am when there is no cars on the street. You must be on time for meeting.
We swedes oftentimes clap at planes landing too, but also stare at people in general, when someone does something wrong and sometimes at foreigners regardless of ethnicity, we're also quite shy and following societal and unspoken rules quite strictly...
I usually don't clap after a plane landing, rarely when there are severe weather conditions at the target airport. But I've observed it. This happens usually when you are on a "vacation" trip / plane. Many people, probably rarely flying / not being used to fly are doing this. However on regular business flights I've never observed it. There obviously most business travelers just expect the pilot being a professional who's just doing his job.
Okay, let's see if I can agree :D I often start with the pointing finger... huuuuh, interesting! Not all the time, though. I'm a mix! The plane lands and people start clapping? Only encountered that once. My parents definitely follow the crowds. I'm more adventurous, but they definitely follow that rule! (and my parents think that if a restaurant is not filled with people, then it's probably not good) I know some people who like 'Absacker', but we usually don't do it. My parents just love to have a coffee after their food. And when 'Prosting', we also don't have to look each other in the eye. We only do it for fun to check if we can lift the glass and not spill anything while not looking at it. Döner... yeah, fast food. That fits. I never yell to ask for another lane... and I also rarely see it. So it happens, but it doesn't happen often. Fresh Air. Oh yes. I often open up the window. Especially in summer and autumn. But in winter, I mostly keep it close. I'm not that much a fan of Dinner for One, and I only watched it once and we never watch it New Year's Eve. My parents watch 'Tatort'. I don't. Almost never do. (Netflix here!) It's totally fun to check what applies and what not! Fun video! Thanks!
ok I am probably not the right person to talk about the restaurant thing because I barely go out, and if I do my friends chose the restaurants, and it is most of the time that we make reservations, so of course restaurants that are not already on the radar will probably not get picked... generally I would always choose a not so crowded place over one with lines outside the door...
OMG. I have never been to Germany, but after watching this video I find myself soooo German! In fact, I'm Russian and I'm applying to university in Dortmund (if i manage it, we gonna be almost neighbors), so that's why I subscribed to your channel and I find it very informative and amusing. In Russia we start counting from the thumb too. And we also have an "Absacker" as well. And we clapp in planes after landing. My first trip abroad was from Moscow to Paris and then from Paris to Chicago. So when we landed in Paris everyone started clapping. I was like "Why do they do it?", but eventually I started to clapp as everyone else. But when we landed in Chicago I was about to start to clapp and no one, literally no one clapped in the plane. I was completely bewildered about that. The empty restaurant's fenomen seems to be weird to me. Taking into account such tendency of Germans to visit only full places, If I had to open a new restaurant in Germany I would simply hire some people for a week to imitate my customers and show how they enjoy the cuisine and atmosphere.
I only go insane with opening the windows to let fresh air in since we had mold in our new built home, last year and we were told we did not have to "Lüften" regularly because we have a built-in ventilation system that would take care of it, we followed the rules during the first few months as told and then mold happened to be a real big issue here. The humidity from the building process was still remaining in the walls. In the past, people moved in their homes after they let them dry for a certain period of time but now landlords and banks want to get their money in as soon as possible and thus they let the people move in immediately. Never again. Now I do Stoßlüften 2 to 3 times a day, every day and I find the ventilation system in here kind of redundant.
8:38 well most newer European Windows are isolated that well, that you HAVE to open windows once a day in winter or else you have water run down Windows and will have Mould soon... ask you apartment owner ... and google „warum lüften wichtig ist“ ... it’s also for YOUR Health.
With restaurants, you can actually get paid to go to restaurants so that they are not empty and actually customers come in. And if you go to an rater empty restaurant, they will always set you next to a window. So other people can see you sitting in the restaurant
You have to learn some expressions: Clapping in airplanes: "Fremdschämen". Going into prefilled restaurants only: "Herdentrieb". Btw: "Absacker" means: "Suicide drink" ("Absacken" from aviation means: "to loose altitude involuntarily", literally: "to go down like a sack"). "Döner" is fast food in South Bavaria too.
The most German thing... knocking on the table instead of clapping😂 (not always though) When I was in Mexico i was in a local company with other german volunteers and after they did a presentation for us we unconsciously knocked on the table, because we are used to do so. They were surprised and didn't really know why we were doing this😅 it was quite funny to me when i realized it😂 we never spoke about it so technically they still don't know what was going on😂
counting starting with thumbs is funny, i didnt realize that :D. i didnt clap after landing, i dont like it. i prefer empty restaurants. last drink is a must :D. döner is the best.
I go to the market when it opens to beat the crowds lately. Many times I am the first to park in the customer section. No matter which row I park in the next cars park around me leaving 100's of empty spaces. I think people just naturally clump together. This would be easy to confirm by a statistician.
Because of: "Dinner For One" It's funny that the little comedy has become a tradition in Germany. When you consider that Freddie Frinton, the butler, absolutely hated Germany.
Hi Jenna, ich muß dir leider in einem Punkt widersprechen..."Dinner for one" wurde zwar in Deutschland vom NDR produziert, ist aber in 23 Ländern rund um den Erdball fester Bestandteil an Silvester. Unter anderem in Skandinavien, einigen asiatische Ländern, Südafrika und auch Australien. Die meisten Briten kennen diese Sendung allerdings nicht.
@@KosmoKool Bei Google-Suche,"Dinner for one international" eingeben. Da sind verschiedene Artikel zu diesem Thema, u.a. von Wikipedia, Merkur, NDR etc.
@@KosmoKool Das war bei mir das Gleiche...ich hatte zu Neujahr einem südafrikanischen Freund den entsprechenden YT-Link zur Sendung gemailt und zu meiner Überraschung schrieb er zurück, das er den Sketch schon lange kennt und das er auch in Südafrika jedes Jahr im Fernsehen läuft. :-)
One more thing what ist very German, is when we open all windows to get fresh air but when you open the door to the garden and you stand in the open door you parents tell you:" close the door we don't heed für the outside/ Mach die Tür zu wie heizen nicht für alle anderen".
... to the broadcast of "Dinner for one!" but still missing important two facts at the end of the year: Number 1 - it is not Christmas, if at least 3 weeks before Christmas Eve the song of the group Wham "Last Christmas" is not sounded. Number 2 - you MUST watch the movie "The Little Lord" on TV before or on Christmas and you must be able to recite the lyrics to the movie by heart. THEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S EVE CAN COME.
Latvians do most of those things as well! Except for the last two mentioned here and yelling at the checkout counter might be less common here in Latvia (but happens from time to time). I guess, those centuries living under German cultural influence still has its mark left here.
Zagreb, Croatia here. #1, #4, #5, #6, #7 are perfectly common here, too; Central European stuff, I guess. OTOH, #8 (fresh air) is our nemesis - we are _terrified_ of "draft".
2:40 Even if some have that point of view like you said in irony...its more a sign of appreciating the service...and even though that I clap less (but more because I have my mind occupied with other things) I blame more the people who blame those claping people for showing respect and appreciation...
Clapping on a plane actually means: "Yeah, you didn't kill us!"
Appreciation for getting done what is of cause his/her job.... How could that be a bad thing?
That way of thinking and feeling for me is like spitting people in the face for being kind, polite and grateful.
@Dreyarde I agree. This only happens on charter flights i.e. full of tourists, who fly once or twice a year max. You don't applaud your everyday bus or train driver for not crashing into a wall, do you? The pilot's just do their job.
Clapping used to be embarrassing but now I decided it's cool again 👍😉
@@montitaz It's a special thing for most tourists but business as usual for the crew. Better to be respectful without a reason thant the other way around.
in this times when you take off you don't know if you'll be back home in one piece, that's why.
*slaps upper leg*
"So!"
*stands up and leaves*
That's a true thing. I do this myself lol
Hhahah I love this one and it’s so true!!
@@lifeingermany_ Honestly I didn't realise this was a typical german thing to do until I saw the meme about it. Since then I have kind of an existential crisis XD
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Right ! I just realize it now that you mention it and yes; it's absolutely true.
Sometimes, prior to this move there's a brief moment of an almost contemplative silence, just about one or two seconds long - no motion at all - as if you're checking whether everything necessary has been said and done and so you're good to go. I'm amazed by the fact that I never thought about this so common habit in my 47 years! And of course; I do it just like that and I actually like it; it's like a little, personal curfew like "All right (slaps), meeting is over, heading home!"
@@lifeingermany_ you need to nod with it as well. Slapping the upper leg, nodding and saying "so" at the same followed directly by a slight upward movement with your upper body.
... if you are german, you have to be precise ;-)
HaHaHa - "einen letzten Absacker, und dann können wir gehen" ist völlig akzentfrei - Übung macht den Meister! Ausgehen hilft beim Sprachelernen, das ist der Beweis :-)
Not the plane lands, but the pilot lands the plane. I always considered the clapping an appreciation for the pilot. Whatever, I never clap.
Perhaps people should clap when the bus driver stops in a decent way at a stop? The few times I am on a bus (in Bonn that is) I feel thrown around by violently stopping and accelerating. I always wonder how people, who have not the same strength as I, deal with that.
We germans only appreciate the pilot when the landing is smooth 🤣
Usually clapping happens on charter flights only!
You’re wrong: the plane lands, the pilot is just assisting.
@@northernlight2840 yes, or on Billigfliegern too. On a flight with Lufthansa let us say from Fraport to Nairobi there is no hand clapping at all. I never did it and will not do even on a Billigflieger. If it shows the respect for the pilot or the relieve to have landed safely... The pilot will not notice
Wenn du dich entschuldigst, weil du statt um 19 Uhr um 19:02 Uhr zu einem Treffen kommst :D Wenn du immer nach der BESTEN Lösung suchst und niemals die einfachste willst...
Wenn niemand weiß, was du wählst
Wenn du täglich Brot essen kannst und das in vielen Sorten
Wegen den Restaurants... Ich denke oft sind wir auch zu faul, selbst zu überlegen ob das Restaurant offen ist :D
Ich liebe deine Videos... Ich war ein Jahr in Chicago und hatte tatsächlich Kulturschocks in ähnlichen Punkten, nur halt anders rum ;)
Russians also clap to the successful landing. I find it's a nice way to say thanks to the crew, and a good stress relief if you're afraid of flying.
I think it is so .... The pilots can't hear it and the flight attendants, who can, have nothing to do with it. I consider it a reaction of relief by people who are not used to fly and have felt uneasy in the air.
V 100 Depends on the aircraft. On smaller machines they often do hear it. Not on large aircrafts though. Especially since they wear noise cancelling usually. Some pilots appreciate clapping.. Some get straight up offended, lol.
I watch "Dinner for One" only one time every year: on New Year's Eve and it's always so much fun. It will never ever become boring.
Same XD
As a native German (and being born and raised in the Lower Rhine area) I would assume that your empty restaurant explanation is close to my thoughts on why it is the way it is. Keep in mind that going to a restaurant is more than just eating for almost every European we sit down and chit chat or gossip or discuss family issues and so on. If you do that inside an empty restaurant you are the one who feeds the curiosity of the service staff and at least I did feel uncomfortable with that. So if there are other guests the service staff would be more occupied and could not listen to my conversation that close.
Ahhh so interesting!! And a valid reason that I never really thought of that way!! Cool!
@@lifeingermany_ definitely my reason, too.
Also when a restaurant is empty, there might be a good reason why it's empty. Expensive prices, low quality, unfriendly staff
I am German and my Grandmother moved out to the US. When visiting her the biggest difference I recogniced was that Germans like to cook themselves much more often than americans. As a result of that I also found that the food items in the stores here in Germany include more fresh vegetables and meat and the one in the US includes more premade foods.
To land a plane safety is the most complex (and maybe difficult) part of a flight.
So, when pilot crew manage to land us safely, it's really a life-saving moment. To thank them all for the pleasing journey as well as for landing us safely, we clap for them.
do you also clap when the bus stops? I mean, ab bad bus driver could kill you just as well.
Oh my gosh, your German is amazing. Almost accent free.
It's not just the Germans who clap when the plane lands, the Dutch also do it! They're expressing their gratitude to the pilots & crew for getting them there safely. I even experienced that among Italians on a A'Italia flight.
I mean, starting to count with a finger that isn't the "first" finger just doesn't make sense 🤷🏻♀️😂
Who told you what finger is "the first" one?
Going in a row the thumbs are clearly the first or the last finger.
If you are used to not consider the thumb a "finger" this conception is what makes the difference. Would you agree?
There is nothing wrong with different conceptions. The thing is: Think about, if "the conception"/ the way you have been trained to think about certain things you are used to is the "right one".
Hmm. Maybe there is no right ore wrong one. Just different ones.
@@antjeschwarz7874 well I mean the thumb either is the first or the last finger of a hand. Why would the thumb not be considered a finger since it clearly is. The human body usually has ten fingers, not eight. Therefore the pointing finger would be either the second finger or the fourth, but never the first. If in a country the general conception was that they only have eight fingers, I agree with you. Otherwise rather not.
@@NoName-xw2mg
Thank you 👍
My question on this would be:
How come in Canada/America they usually start counting with the "second" finger calling it "first"?
@@antjeschwarz7874 even though my original comment was rather just joking, I think the topic is quite interesting. As far as I know, there are many ways of counting with the body. Some cultures even use their palm. And I have to say that I do know quite a lot of Americans who start counting with their thumb, despite their cultural background. To me it seems that this is the way that actually makes sense as I have tried to explain in my previous answer. It just makes sense to start with the thumb because it is seen as a finger and because the majority of people seem to still be right handed, you start with your right hand on the left side. But that's just my opinion and my experiences. Perhaps you've watched the film "inglorious bastards" where the different ways of counting actually tell about where people are from. But there's a whole scientific field where people study ethnomathematics, which I'm not part of. So all of the above is just my opinion.
German here, and switching fingers from ‘3’ (thumb, pointer, middle finger) to ‘4’ (all fingers sans thumb) bothered me. Way more logical to do it the American Way 🤷🏼♀️.
The most stereotypically German thing I do is... I am Obsessed with bread. I don't even eat bread every day, or every week. But I love good bread! And while living abroad the lack of good bread was the hardest thing 🤣 I will probably take a loaf with me when I go to Japan for my exchange year 🤣🤣🤣🤣
absolutely !
The first thing when I come back home from a vacation somewhere abroad is to eat "Schwarzbrot mit Leberwurst" 😂
Mastering the checkout system does contain more than yelling for a new lane. You also need to be able to pick the fastest one, when multiple are available. It's not as straight forward as counting the people waiting. You also need to analyze the speed of ther cashier, the amount of items they have in their cart and sometimes even the personality types of the people waiting (some are more chatty than others). And there is of course your own speed. You need to be able to beat the cashier: bagging your items faster (or at least as fast) as the cashier can scan them. That's extra tricky since you also have to pay while your're at bagging. Pro tip: If you're not alone at the store, let your partner take care of the payment process, while you are bagging.
And please get your wallet ready while waiting in line. THAT is the right time to search for it. I can't believe how many people I met, bagging their items, the cashier demands an amount of money and THEN they starting to look for their wallet. As they havn't expected to pay anything.
Speaking of not paying anything... If you ever wanted to buy something but leave a grocery store with MORE money in your pocket than going in, germany's bottle deposit system is your chance. Bring back a lot of returnable bottles or crates, pick an item that costs less than the deposit total and head to the checkout. It feels like a dick move, but it's worth it.
ha ha 100% 🤣
And then there is the customer who messes up when paying for not finding the right amount of change and looking to pay with either bills or coins. Or the terminal cannot read the card. Or doesn't have enough money and the cashier has to call the manager to cancel items already punched in. Or has not weighed the fruits and the cashier has to go and do it herself. Then all your careful calculations go down the drain. And you get mad at yourself, the cashier, the customer, the day of week and what not. I personally hate women who can only use one hand to load the belt or bag the items because the other has to hold their hand bag. Instead of putting that in the cart and use both hands. But using two hands at once is probably too complicated.
@NerdBot & @V100 excellent analysis and summary!!! loool
About "leaving the grocery store with more money you had while entering"...
Fun fact... if the cashier hands you over more change than you ought to get.... be quiet, say nothing and take it... you cannot be blamed of fraud for that ;-)
@@petereggers7603
Yes.👏
And don't feel pissed if anyone not saying anything while you are doing the mistake.💪
How you handle every day situations shows where your moral compass is adjusted.😋
And you will one day get what you gave. Good luck. 👍🙏🙋
They only clap on charter ( = vacation) flights, never heard it on a business flight.
Looking in the eyes of a person youre talking to is necessary expression of respect. At least my father told me that fifty years ago :).
And to be honest " i hate small talk"! XD
You know you're talking to a Canadian when they smile and apologize for everything all the time. ;)
🤣🙈 so true!!
And you're German (especially from Ostwestfalen) if you don't apologize, even if it's your fault ( to bump into someone for example). 😂
@@carolinstodt249 wenn du nicht angerempelt werden willst, geh aus dem weg... :-D
I love that Americans and Canadians say "excuse me" when they pass you in a shopping isle, I really miss it back in Germany.
A very awesome and fun video Jenna, I love it. :). I can't wait to have you as my guest on my LiveStream next Saturday, YAY :).
Queen of Positivity - das ist ein wirklich schönes und unterhaltsames Video gewesen, obwohl mich das Klatschen im Flugzeug noch immer verstört, LOL
Clapping when the plane lands is not just a german thing LOL. The British do that too, just like reserving a pool seat with a towel, while on vacation in Mallorca.
I once was in Spain and the pool staff collected the "forgotten" towels during breakfast time. I loved it.
I also suspected that it's not solely a German thing. It's been a while since my last trip on a plane, due to Covid and so I wasn't quite sure anymore...
A doner kebab is fast food. Am guilty of asking for another checkout at Aldi. Love fresh air in my house. Love Dinner For One. Not the slightest bit Germanised because I am Australian and in Australia.
Um, german heritage?
kipper mate !
Hi Jenna, TH-cam algorithm has brought me here. However, I like your content and your likable way of presenting your ideas. By the way, very German is waiting at red lights at a crosswalk in the middle of nowhere! :-) In diesem Sinne! Greetings Hubertus
I've never really been a huge Tatort fan, except for the ones with Kommissar Schimanski (starring one of my favourite German actors Götz George). They were so successful that they even made two movies that played in cinemas and later he got his own series (called simply "Schimanski").
As for those alltime- favorites like Tatort or Dinner for one, I know of intelligent people that still enjoy those shows. Dinner f.o. was first broadcasted in my teenage days but I got sick and tired of it ,as for Tatort. I think that fiction has to be " real" , whereas Tatort is strictly opposed to reality. Cops always showing guns and being tough, the vilains mostly upperclass people living in decent homes.. come on, how far is that from real crime, in comparison to flicks like " Bosch" ? I rest at this.
Wenn du keinen Applaus nach der Landung hörst, dann war die Landung SCHEISSE!!!
Sogar wenn ich abends einen Film auf Netflix schaue, muss das 20:15 Uhr sein😂
Döner is the fastfood for the after hours before going home. I’m not german, but southern neighbor 😂. We complain about the same stuff like jaywalking lol
you nailed it.
i would add to that supermarket story: if you DONT bag your stuff but just throw it back into the cart to pack it outside because you dont want to slow anyone down.
edit: döner is definitely fast food because you can get in and out of a dönerladen within 4 minutes with your customized döner. can it get any faster?
I categorally refuse to do such a thing. Let them wait! It is not my problem that German supermarket checkouts are designed completely wrong.
@@marbe166
I don't agree. Germans are simply used to efficiency. It is a way of thinking, a kind of conception. Don't feel pissed only bc it is not the same way you are used/ trained to.
I always think about the packing before putting things on the band. Just to make sure heavy stuff first, light and breakable last. It's like a challenge/ a game to be prepared and focused on fast and effective packaging. 💗💖💕💞💕💖💗
@@antjeschwarz7874 That is a good strategy to put the things on the band like that. But that doesn't remove the fact that German supermarket checkouts are awfully designed with very little space after the cashier. Look at Swedish supermarkets. There you have a much larger and wider space after the cashier, with a movable divider, which gives you a lot of time to bag your things after you have paid and the cashier is serving the next customer and puts that person's items on the other side of the divider. Simple, more efficient, and has been like that for decades.
@@marbe166
Yes sometimes the space is limeted. It is for a few reasons:
In Germany most people, especially in urban areas do little grocerys every or every other day. No need in the first place to have much more space.
Would also reduce the space to offer/present the stuff to sell.
I think the space is pretty much optimized as needed in every single place.
In Sweden I would guess, they do more american like shopping once a week up to once a month which is the reason for adapting the space on the needs of the costumers like it is.
@@antjeschwarz7874 thats correct. when i am in rural sweden, i see a lot more people buying a lot of stuff because bigger stores are a lot further away from their homes.
in some stores in germany we have those luxus-checkouts with a lot of space with a divider where you can pack your stuff unstressed. but still i put my stuff back in the cart and i see a lot of other people do the same. i have a grocerie-box in my car which is very convenient. putting it into bags to me is unlogic.
sometimes i buy only a few things. then i put them into my backpack but even that is easier at the table that is provided at the exit for baging your groceries. i would not put anything into any form of bag at the checkout unless its just 3 or 4 small things.
When you cheer and don't look into each others eyes, we say, that this will lead to seven years of bad sex, or at least seven years of misfortune.
So, always:. 😳
👁️👁️
@Smart Play It's the contrary: by not looking into the eyes you will have bad luck. In other regions, it might even be that you will have to pay the drinks if you forgot to look into the eyes.
@Smart Play Sorry, you're right. I'm just backing up what you wrote.
Which always leads to the question what is worse - having seven years of bad sex or having no sex at all? :-)
We look into each others eyes when saying „cheers“ so That we dont have Bad Sex for 7 years, kinda Important!
Der Film auf netflix oder prime wird 20:15 Uhr gestartet. So will es das Gesetz. Und vorher kurz durchlüften. 🤣
Your point with the crowd choosing is so true! I’ve been working at a outside pool since I was 15 and I noticed that especially on slow days people start to come to our shop when they see people in line. It is really weird it looks like sometimes Germans wait for someone else to do the first step
I am really surprised about these observations, since I personally enjoy going somewhere where only a few other people are at and where I have time and space to look around (when it comes to stores). Restaurant-wise I think it depends, since we normally plan beforehand what restaurant to visit or at least what kind of food we want to have...
It‘s definitely the small talk reason in empty restaurants. I would feel super uncomfortable.
Me too... but not for the small talk reason. The service staff only focusing on me/us makes me feel uncomfortable.
On the other hand: I would never stand in line for a restaurant because everyone else does, these are not my kind of criteria to choose a restaurant.
Meistens sind die ziemlich teuer.Das ist vermutlich der Hauptgrund.
If i never been to a restaurant before and it's empty i will definitely refrain from going in. It just feels weird to sit there all by yourself. It might be a different story if the server is standing at the entrance, i might go in then, because at least i can be sure that it is really open and i feel compassion for the server without customers. (this applies to outdoor areas of a restaurant mostly) But i would also avoid restaurants where i have to wait in a queue to get in.
Cool video with a lot of truth to it. You got me with Dinner For One. I had to LOL. (The clapping after the landing bothers me a lot.)
The clapping on a plane is supposed to be something like a thank you to the pilot for a smooth landing. So if the landing is quiet rough there shouldn't be any clapping.
I am a German and i find it silly to clap when the plane lands.
And i couldn't care less about Tatort.
Ich kenne noch die Zeit, als "Tatort" noch nicht regelmäßig lief.
So habe ich mich daran gewöhnt, nicht zu schauen.
I'm German and I can't care less about Tatort - bc I don't care about any TV(brain)-programming.
Appreciation for a secure landing, in my opinion, does not only appreciate the pilot but brings in mind how precious life is and how "not natural" it is for a human to "fly". It is always a good thing to be grateful for beeing alive and healthy. 👏💞💕👍💖💗
Tatort nowadays is nothing but "assisted thinking"... Propaganda, really. 😥
@@northernlight2840
I am sure it is worse than assisted thinking😵
TeleVision tells the vision they want you to believe in.
The TV program is constantly programming your mind. And they don't even hide it. Everything has meaning. And the programmed brain is not able to react other than repeating the BS as if it would be your own believes.
Turn TV off. Turn common sense on.
When I was in kindergarden, I noticed that some people started counting with the pointer and some with the thumb. And I was always thinking that I liked starting with the thumb better, because you don't have to switch direction while counting. And then, I was already in school, someone actually started from the little finger.
(And all of them were native Germans...)
Hahaha I love this!
Clapping once your plane has just landed is also done in the Philippines. It is like thanking the pilots and the crews that they did a well-done job that we arrived safely and well.
Concerning "Absacker" there is even a song named "Gute Nacht Freunde" by Reinhard Mey which perfectly describes the custom and it's a great tribute to friendship in general.
I think the restaurant thing is mostly true for settings where we are not at home + at least for me, when I didn't look up restaurants beforehand. If there are a lot of people that must mean they are doing something right there ;) but I don't do it at home.
I'm from the German countryside in the Southwest of Germany... Döner is fast food.
Good morning ☕🔆
Maybe you should make a business out of it, if a new restaurant opens, they can hire you to sit there with someone.
The most clapping happens on flights to Mallorca or Ibiza Germany's so called 17th federal state for party, is there something you need to say or to confess? Visiting Mallorca is very German.
A Sunday family breakfast with everything prepared on the table like cold cuts, cheese, salmon, jam, plum butter, honey, Nutella with a boiled egg and different kind of rolls and bread, coffee, tea or hot chocolate is very German.
And of course watching the Tagesschau, the most important News show on German TV every day at 08:00pm, that's why all the movies start at 08:15h.
The private TV channels tried it a couple of times earlier, but failed.
I guess there is enough material for more videos like this.
The character "Max Ballauf", who works in Cologne now. Worked before that in Düsseldorf, as an "assistant" to Kommissar Flemming, the episodes were aired in the 1990s.
Haha, your observation about empty restaurants does not only apply to restaurants. Try standing in front of a shop window - looking at the shop's display will usually get you company after a while, too. :D
2 Thoughts about the restaurant thing: in the past most customer were from the same village were the restaurant is located. So if the restaurant is empty it meant to be a bad omen, because not even the own folks want to go there. 2nd thought is that this behaviour got worse when gemans went to holidays and fell into a "Touristenfalle" which means they were tricked with bad food, service and so on.
The other effect you described is the "Schaufenstereffekt". Nice german words in my opinion:) .
😂 herrlich! Tatsächlich kann ich mit Tatort nichts anfangen. Aber ich bin wohl eine der wenigen Deutschen. Es gibt ja tatsächlich Bars/Kneipen bei denen Sonntags der Tatort gezeigt wird.
Dinner for one hab ich auch nur ein Mal gesehen 😂
Aber beim Absacker bin ich dabei 👍🏻🤣
Omg, what you've described is soooooo russian, I can't believe😅 most of it at least. I'm russian in germany lol
Hahah, great vid and fun list. Even still being here in the US, I picked up the habit a while ago of using my thumb to count and still do it here. Daran bin ich schon gewöhnt. Natürlich habe ich das auch festgestellt aus Inglorious Basterds (spoiler alert), weil der Fehler jeden das Leben gekostet hat. Das ist ja gute Verstärkung.😂
„So!,“ Jenna 😂 Na dann, weiter machen. LG aus Michigan. Ich freue mich, bald nach Deutschland zu kommen.
TATORT is one good example for federalism in Germany. ;) Crime stories/TV Shows and their appreciation have a long history in german TV... from "Stahlnetz" (1950s) to "Der Kommissar" (1960s) to "Derrick" (1970s) to "Der Alte" (1980s). But the unique point for TATORT is their alternating venues, representing one (or more) special city per federal state...in the beginning in the 1970s with a great amount of "Lokalkolorit", very typical characters with a very local atmosphere. In recent days 21 different teams and citys/regions (including Austria and Switzerland) are shown...in 35 installments per year.
Ein fröhliches Hallo von Ba-Wü nach Düsseldorf 😎 Lüften ist wichtig 😇 "Stoßlüften" ist besser. Das bedeutet das kurze 5-Minuten - Lüften zum Energiesparen 😁😉
Wobei wir schon beim nächsten typisch deutschen Stereotyp wären: das Sparen. Besonders hier im Schwobaländle 😄
@@girlfromgermany Da fehlt nur noch die Kehrwoche.😉
Grüsse aus Mannheim
I visited Vancouver once and there you say 'Thank you.' to the bus driver. That is pretty much the same with the clapping when a plane has landed. We just say 'Thank you' to the pilot.
And in germany we have a Superstition that you get 7 years bad sex, when you don't look into the eyes, when cheering.
In NY some people say thank you to bus drivers as well but I don't do it because I feel weird about it. I only say thank you if the driver waited for me to get on from a distance.
About the new restaurants that are always empty... Well, Germans tend to only trust what they know and they don't like risks. That's why they have so many insurances: to have a safe life without any bad surprises.
Yessss!!!! 😂😂😂 Risky Germans exist but most of us like it comfy and safe and solid and sound. Change is evil 🤣🤣🤣
Absacker are a thing! So much so there's even songs about them (such as Reinhard Mey's timeless classic "Gute Nacht, Freunde").
Where I'm from, we call them "Schlürschluck" (round here, a 'Schluck' in this context isn't a sip but a shot and 'schlür' probably refers to the waddling way you'll be walking home after having one too many Schlürschlucks.
My brother was pissed drunk out of his mind at the end of his wedding reception (which was around 6am) because everybody tends to insist on drinking one last Schlürschluck with the groom. :D
The Absacker is the most dangerous drink of the night.
When hungover, we always say, 'That last beer probably was bad/expired.' :D
It's always the Absacker's fault, never the 35 beers' you had before that.
Very funny how you hold us Germans a mirror under our noses. But I was surprised about the clapping in the plane. Is that still going on? I didn't hear this in years and I'm usually several times a year in the air. Maybe my ears cut it out now automatically. =;-)
Wow I didn’t know that your Chanel is so new on TH-cam. That’s amazing congrats you are doing great
Thanks 🥰 yes! I just started last summer! So many more video ideas to come! 🤗
Opening aother supermarket lane: supermarkets in my area have a bell ringer / remote hanging in front of the lands where people can push a button and the announcement "another lane will soon be opened" then sounds, alarming the staff to send another cashier.
This is SO cool! I want this in Düsseldorf!!
@@lifeingermany_ relocate to Hessen :)
@@lifeingermany_
DM Shops in Duisburg do have this. Especially old people with no patience do pull such a string endlessly 😑
I was laughing so hard about the grocery store part! As a German, I've encountered this situation regularly and I feel embarrassed every time ("fremdschämen"). That is, being part of a group of customers where one customer is so rude to the store employees. Usually the cashiers do a pretty good job at calling for additional personal, when lanes get too long. As you mentioned, German Discounters are very "günstig" in comparison to North American stores. But in order to offer those low prices, the stores need to cut costs in some areas. Usually that means having less staff. So I find it extremely rude to expect to pay very little, but on the other hand expect premium service. Yelling "neue Kasse" means to the cashier "you're doing a sh*tty job", even if there is no one around to open another lane. I always think, if you don't have those three minutes to wait in line, then pay a little extra in a more expensive store. 😜
Pointer finger?!? Shouldn't that be index finger?!?
That is SOOOO German, that literal translation of "Zeigefinger" being a pointer finger.
:D
Haha sometimes I accidentally translate German back to English! Downsides of learning another language 🤣 I start to forget my mother tongue!!
My German gran had a zero tolerance line for being loud on a cemetery. She would always hiss at me then with "Sei nicht so laut! Das ist ein Friedhof! Man stört die Totenruhe nicht!" Aka "Don't be so loud! This is a cemetery not a playground! Don't disturb the peace of the dead!" Followed by evil stares towards little me 😆
Das wurde mir als Kind auch eingetrichtert. 😂
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Sie war da eisern. 😄 Schlurfen war auch böse "Heb' deine Füße hoch! Man schlurft nicht! Das ist unhöflich!" 😉😂
The First thing isn’t german, its european 😅
And your german is amazing 👌🏻
And „lüften“ is important 😅 who likes mold?😂
"reservier uns schon mal Liegen" (on vacation), "vorglühen" (drinking at home before going out), "soooo" the opening to say good-bye
As for the restaurants: I agree. It is because if a restaurant is bad, one expects it to be empty and if it's full it must be for a reason. It is different with stores though. I would rather not enter a shop that is empty, because often you are just browsing, you don't quite know what to get - entering a store and being the only customer I'd feel all the eyes of people working there on me and feel compelled to buy something. As for the plane-flights: that usually happens with tourists who do not fly often. The more business-people are on the plane the scarcer it is.
I Like your friendly openness
Thank you so much 🙃🥰
- You can only experience clapping hands on a vacation plane. Maybe we Germans did not understand that a successful landing is included in the price? You would be the only one in an German business aviation if you applaud and would expose yourself as a newbie.
- Line up at poorly restaurants. I think that Germans are simply very loyal, regardless of whether the quality offered still corresponds to what the restaurant started with.
No Silvester without "Dinner for One"! Yes, I'm German, obviously! 😂
Selbst hier auf dem Land gibt es überall Dönerläden! Schöne Grüße aus der Eifel (Kreis Cochem-Zell) :D
😳 Ich bin in Zell geboren, verrückt!
@@lindahammann3363 Die Welt ist echt klein :0
Plus ein China-Restaurant 😁 und einen Bratwurst/Hähnchen-Imbiss 😁
Tatort, which means "Crime scene" btw. starts at 20:15 because before that, at 20:00 there is the Tagesschau.
Fun fact: Tatort started 1970 and to this day they purposefully never changed the intro.
It is cult 😄
Placing a towel reserves the spot at the swim center forever. You must follow the little man on the walk signals even at 3 am when there is no cars on the street. You must be on time for meeting.
We swedes oftentimes clap at planes landing too, but also stare at people in general, when someone does something wrong and sometimes at foreigners regardless of ethnicity, we're also quite shy and following societal and unspoken rules quite strictly...
Clapping on a plane actually means " Pilots are awake"🤣
I usually don't clap after a plane landing, rarely when there are severe weather conditions at the target airport. But I've observed it. This happens usually when you are on a "vacation" trip / plane. Many people, probably rarely flying / not being used to fly are doing this. However on regular business flights I've never observed it. There obviously most business travelers just expect the pilot being a professional who's just doing his job.
Okay, let's see if I can agree :D
I often start with the pointing finger... huuuuh, interesting! Not all the time, though. I'm a mix!
The plane lands and people start clapping? Only encountered that once.
My parents definitely follow the crowds. I'm more adventurous, but they definitely follow that rule! (and my parents think that if a restaurant is not filled with people, then it's probably not good)
I know some people who like 'Absacker', but we usually don't do it. My parents just love to have a coffee after their food.
And when 'Prosting', we also don't have to look each other in the eye. We only do it for fun to check if we can lift the glass and not spill anything while not looking at it.
Döner... yeah, fast food. That fits.
I never yell to ask for another lane... and I also rarely see it. So it happens, but it doesn't happen often.
Fresh Air. Oh yes. I often open up the window. Especially in summer and autumn. But in winter, I mostly keep it close.
I'm not that much a fan of Dinner for One, and I only watched it once and we never watch it New Year's Eve.
My parents watch 'Tatort'. I don't. Almost never do. (Netflix here!)
It's totally fun to check what applies and what not! Fun video! Thanks!
ok I am probably not the right person to talk about the restaurant thing because I barely go out, and if I do my friends chose the restaurants, and it is most of the time that we make reservations, so of course restaurants that are not already on the radar will probably not get picked... generally I would always choose a not so crowded place over one with lines outside the door...
Oh help! I'm as German as you can get, but still I don't seem to be fully integrated going by your list. 🤣
OMG. I have never been to Germany, but after watching this video I find myself soooo German! In fact, I'm Russian and I'm applying to university in Dortmund (if i manage it, we gonna be almost neighbors), so that's why I subscribed to your channel and I find it very informative and amusing.
In Russia we start counting from the thumb too. And we also have an "Absacker" as well. And we clapp in planes after landing. My first trip abroad was from Moscow to Paris and then from Paris to Chicago. So when we landed in Paris everyone started clapping. I was like "Why do they do it?", but eventually I started to clapp as everyone else. But when we landed in Chicago I was about to start to clapp and no one, literally no one clapped in the plane. I was completely bewildered about that.
The empty restaurant's fenomen seems to be weird to me. Taking into account such tendency of Germans to visit only full places, If I had to open a new restaurant in Germany I would simply hire some people for a week to imitate my customers and show how they enjoy the cuisine and atmosphere.
I only go insane with opening the windows to let fresh air in since we had mold in our new built home, last year and we were told we did not have to "Lüften" regularly because we have a built-in ventilation system that would take care of it, we followed the rules during the first few months as told and then mold happened to be a real big issue here. The humidity from the building process was still remaining in the walls. In the past, people moved in their homes after they let them dry for a certain period of time but now landlords and banks want to get their money in as soon as possible and thus they let the people move in immediately. Never again. Now I do Stoßlüften 2 to 3 times a day, every day and I find the ventilation system in here kind of redundant.
ich hab soo gelacht! Danke für das Video! You made my day! :D
People in the US used to clap on landing (50s-70s). That progressed towards long haul flights, and now not all that often.
8:38 well most newer European Windows are isolated that well, that you HAVE to open windows once a day in winter or else you have water run down Windows and will have Mould soon... ask you apartment owner ... and google „warum lüften wichtig ist“ ... it’s also for YOUR Health.
About 75% of this also applies to Dutchies 😂
So many Swedish habits as well. The plane claps( i cringe), The dinner for one, fresh air and more.
With restaurants, you can actually get paid to go to restaurants so that they are not empty and actually customers come in. And if you go to an rater empty restaurant, they will always set you next to a window. So other people can see you sitting in the restaurant
You have to learn some expressions: Clapping in airplanes: "Fremdschämen". Going into prefilled restaurants only: "Herdentrieb". Btw: "Absacker" means: "Suicide drink" ("Absacken" from aviation means: "to loose altitude involuntarily", literally: "to go down like a sack"). "Döner" is fast food in South Bavaria too.
The most German thing... knocking on the table instead of clapping😂 (not always though)
When I was in Mexico i was in a local company with other german volunteers and after they did a presentation for us we unconsciously knocked on the table, because we are used to do so. They were surprised and didn't really know why we were doing this😅 it was quite funny to me when i realized it😂 we never spoke about it so technically they still don't know what was going on😂
counting starting with thumbs is funny, i didnt realize that :D. i didnt clap after landing, i dont like it. i prefer empty restaurants. last drink is a must :D. döner is the best.
I go to the market when it opens to beat the crowds lately. Many times I am the first to park in the customer section. No matter which row I park in the next cars park around me leaving 100's of empty spaces. I think people just naturally clump together. This would be easy to confirm by a statistician.
was soll man sagen !!! Perfekt du hast alles richtig gesagt, und dein Deutsch ist unglaublich gut .
germans do actually believe that it's bad luck if you don't look into the eyes of the person you cheer's with
And it absolutely is, don't tempt fate.
Because of: "Dinner For One"
It's funny that the little comedy has become a tradition in Germany. When you consider that Freddie Frinton, the butler, absolutely hated Germany.
The biggest thing is prefering a drink with no ice, it's been my thing my whole life, it just makes sense...
Hi Jenna, ich muß dir leider in einem Punkt widersprechen..."Dinner for one" wurde zwar in Deutschland vom NDR produziert, ist aber in 23 Ländern rund um den Erdball fester Bestandteil an Silvester. Unter anderem in Skandinavien, einigen asiatische Ländern, Südafrika und auch Australien. Die meisten Briten kennen diese Sendung allerdings nicht.
Was? Weiß von Norwegen, dass die das an Weihnachten gucken, aber der Rest? Bitte Quellen.
@@KosmoKool Bei Google-Suche,"Dinner for one international" eingeben. Da sind verschiedene Artikel zu diesem Thema, u.a. von Wikipedia, Merkur, NDR etc.
@@reinerpohl7749 wieder was gelernt. 👍. Hab ich tatsächlich mündlich immer anderes Erfahren
@@KosmoKool Das war bei mir das Gleiche...ich hatte zu Neujahr einem südafrikanischen Freund den entsprechenden YT-Link zur Sendung gemailt und zu meiner Überraschung schrieb er zurück, das er den Sketch schon lange kennt und das er auch in Südafrika jedes Jahr im Fernsehen läuft. :-)
One more thing what ist very German, is when we open all windows to get fresh air but when you open the door to the garden and you stand in the open door you parents tell you:" close the door we don't heed für the outside/ Mach die Tür zu wie heizen nicht für alle anderen".
... to the broadcast of "Dinner for one!" but still missing important two facts at the end of the year:
Number 1 - it is not Christmas, if at least 3 weeks before Christmas Eve the song of the group Wham "Last Christmas" is not sounded.
Number 2 - you MUST watch the movie "The Little Lord" on TV before or on Christmas and you must be able to recite the lyrics to the movie by heart.
THEN CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S EVE CAN COME.
Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel - must-see on X-mas or the weeks before.
Appreciation for the pilot.
Latvians do most of those things as well! Except for the last two mentioned here and yelling at the checkout counter might be less common here in Latvia (but happens from time to time). I guess, those centuries living under German cultural influence still has its mark left here.
Zagreb, Croatia here. #1, #4, #5, #6, #7 are perfectly common here, too; Central European stuff, I guess. OTOH, #8 (fresh air) is our nemesis - we are _terrified_ of "draft".
parts of a tatort episode was partially filmed at my past school in Vienna in the summer break while I was a student there
Actually when there's nobody inside a restaurant I just assume it's closed and don't bother to check😅
or maybe you feel uncomfortable to be the only guests in a silent restaurant.
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Even if some have that point of view like you said in irony...its more a sign of appreciating the service...and even though that I clap less (but more because I have my mind occupied with other things) I blame more the people who blame those claping people for showing respect and appreciation...
when going back to italy. every.single.flight.clapping.after.landing. i thought it was only an italian thing 🤣
YOU are 100 % right! Well done. :D