In the spirit of being eco-conscious, how about those extremely lightweight fabric shopping bags that can be folded up to palm size and tucked into an attached pouch that'll fit into a back pocket or any handbag to bring to the grocery store instead of paying for new plastic or paper bags? Good to have in reserve if you buy more stuff than planned, or fall prey to the dreaded impulse buy! (Oh, fun fact: One of our neighbors produces the thin cellophane bags in the produce aisle for stores; he told me that the oh-so-eco-friendly brown paper bags are dyed that color to make them look more "natural". The paper from which they're made actually comes out of the mill in a somewhat dirty-looking white.) I even use a bigger version as a beach bag because it takes up hardly any room and weighs mere grams, plus you can tuck room key cards into the fold-into baggie if it doesn't have an extra pocket that's zippered or buttoned.
English USED TO do numbers like german ... which you can easily find in Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice", where the heroine describes her age as "I am not yet one-and-twenty".
@@michamcv.1846 Actually, I think you can get some kind of paper insert/catching layer at a pharmacy if you have to provide a stool sample for a lab. Have never tried it myself, but that's what my doctor told me when the subject came up once during a physical. 🤭😅
deswegen sehen wir uns das doch alle an, oder? Weil wir wissen wollen wie uns andere sehen und ob das so korrekt ist. Und wenn das nich korrekt ist dann korrigieren wir die. Wir sind schon nen komisches Völckchen! LOL
The 'Besucherritze' is probably called that because when a third person sleeps over, they will end up sleeping on the divide. It's not uncommon for children to sleep with their parents here, especially when not feeling well or having nightmares. On that note, they usually also bring along their pillow and blankets so everyone is covered without any fights :)
@@franhunne8929 True enough; I'm sure there's also plenty of kids that decide that mom's blanket is just so much softer than their own, even though it's literally the same. Kids are gonna be kids after all. I still think it's probably worse with just one blanket for everyone
One thing that was intimidating for me when I worked in TX were the names of medical specialists. See, we Germans just use the compound words instead of the Latin words. Augenarzt literally means Eye doctor, Zahnarzt means Tooth Doctor and Hals, Nasen und Ohrenarzt (or short HNO-Arzt) means Throat, nose and Ear Doctor. You don't have to know (or learn by heart) the Latin words before you can seek out the doc you need. Ophthalmologist, Dentist, Otolaryngologists. OMG!
Not exactly true. As soon as you leave the path of doctors everyone goes to, you are landing at Latin names quickly, Kardiologe, Gastroenterologe, etc.
I think they even think you are the King if you know Latin/Greek names: otorinolaringologist, stomatologists, cardiologists... If you even know names body parts and illnesses then you are the God. I guess most people from Serbia are in that status even if they didn't finish Gymnasium or medical school (where you naturally learn Latin) you just know medical names
I agree with you on the separate duvets. We just returned from vacationing in Italy where we had to share the American style bedding. I didn’t sleep so well. Then we moved north to the Dolomites and German style bedding….so much better. As for the mattresses…my husband’s is too hard for me. And I love sticking my foot in the gap when I sleep. 😂 I agree when I first moved to Germany, I thought the two duvets was not romantic. Well after 23 years married and 29 together…give me my own duvet!!! I know where to find you when I need/want you! 😊
Actually, my mom told us children last Christmas (when the entire family comes together for a couple of days once a year) that she started to stick her right foot into that gap in 1980. My sisters both laughed .... since they do the same. We have never ever spoken about this habit before and found it very funny.
F. e. When I was 173cm and 70kg and my boyfriend was 204 and 130 KG we needed definitely two duvats, much harder for him. Plus he was a heater, like sauna, bad in summer.
There are wonderful German compound words: I call them Wohlfühlwörter like Augenweide, Fingerspitzengefühl, Hoffnungsschimmer, Engelsgeduld, Herzallerliebster, Schlummertrunk etc .
English should adapt rules to create compound words. German is very flexible, accurate and versitile language. English a bit less. For example the verb to put. In the dictionary is is translated with setzen, stellen oder legen. It depends on the way and direction you move the object. In some cases English is over simplified.
The different blankets and stuff can be debated, but mattresses? The right hardness depends on your weight, which will nearly always be different in a couple.
The European thing of having two mattresses also probably has to do with the difficulty or impossibility of getting a huge mattress into the room through narrow stairways.
The "Besucherritze" between the matrasses is called that because little kids sometimes climb into their parent's bed and during the night end up in the "Besucherritze".
I come from a 50% Canadian/50% German family and I used to work in Oklahoma for years! Your videos always put a smile on my face because I understand both sides! So happy to see that there are several of us!.
Not sure but maybe the German preference for seperate duvets is due to a lot of Germans sleeping with their windows open, meaning it is rather cold in their bedroom, especially in winter. So, when you use just one duvet, inevitably there will form a gap, where it stretches from one back/ shoulder to the other, and thus the cold air gets under the duvet and the sleepers get cold. Whereas with only one person under the duvet, the latter fits snugly and keeps people warm.
Everyone just makes fun of the shelf toilet - til you actually need it. It saved me from having a surgery as child to get the appendix taken out. I had strong pains and it was either the appendix - or some sort of food poisoning. Only way to figure out the difference was to get a poop sample for the doc. And that's what the shelf toilet is for. Easy access is only given with it, not the other types of toilet. You could call them a rare use medical tool with just one purpose, or something like that. Quote my mother: "If we live somewhere with more than one toilet, one will always be a shelf. Just in case." - she had a point.
After there were some renovations in our rented appartment, we had one of these "new modern" toilets. It got clogged at least once per month and i had the ugly work to unclog it, sometimes by fishing in it with my arm and a stick. thus i payed to get it replaced with a shelf toilet like we had before, and had no single clogging for 10+ years now. the reason : the "new modern" toilets have only a tiny hole and the internal piping also is much smaller in diameter and more curved. thus it passes the extensive factory tests they do with a few simultaneous small "standard test objects" according to some industry norm. Too bad that my digestion doesn't agree with their amount and/or size of "standard test objects" ...
I just did a home stool test and they come with a paper that can be sticked to the lid and used to catch your stool and it also disolves in the toilet.
@@tubekrake Yes, these sticky paper-thingies are nice...until you happen to p... a lot. Then, when you lift your - ah - rear end from the seat, the glue is not enough to hold it there and the whole thing slides gracefully into the abyss below... And you longingly start reminiscing the thrones of your childhood...
People also gonna be thankful for that feature if you empty your stomach on the wrong side, cause you most likely will not cause as much of a fountain 💀💀💀 sorry, I know it's gross. But it's honestly a less disgusting experience with shelf toilets.
The Zipper Merge in Germany does only work well when the Drivers are capable of forgetting their Egos to always be first and we have many of those here. The Ice Cream, especially the Houses Brands (the brand that the supermarket chain hosts itself) contains much more air and thus is of course more scoopable. but let the same weight of ice creams melt, blue bell and gut&gunstig, and you will see that there is actually more melted ice in the blue bell.
my favorite sentence in german: Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. (Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.) -Franz Grillpanzer
During the production of ice cream, the liquid ice mass is whipped with air during the freezing process. This prevents large ice crystals from forming during freezing. If, on the other hand, you would only freeze the ice mass, you would get a hard block of ice with a consistency comparable to that of an ice cube. The light, creamy consistency that is typical of ice cream is only created when the air is introduced, which makes the ice cream melt so pleasantly on the tongue. The basic rule is: the smaller the ice crystals, the creamier the ice cream. Everyone knows this method of air whipping from their own kitchen: There would be no whipped cream without air whipping and no meringue without previously whipped egg whites. Just think of the difference in taste between whipped cream and liquid cream, between egg whites and beaten egg whites. The same applies to the ice cream. The manufacturers of branded ice cream produce ice cream with different creaminess levels for the different taste preferences of consumers.
I feel like soft ice cream is a relatively new thing in German supermarkets. I am probably old enough to feel that way and to remember ice cream being quite solid and how the first companies started to advertise their new 'ready-to-spoon' products.😅 My grandma still puts a mug of hot water on the table whenever she serves ice cream for dessert, to dip the spoon inside in order to heat it up (some brands may still be quite hard, or the freezer maybe too cold). Letting ice cream sit for a while can make people anxious, though, because of salmonella. At least where I am from. Although you're actually supposed to do exactly that with the products of certain American brands, according to the text on their packages.
My favorite compound words are the ones with -zeug (stuff). Flugzeug (airplane): Stuff that flies Spielzeug (toy): stuff to play with Werkzeug (tool): stuff to craft with Feuerzeug (lighter): Thing that makes fire
Ölzeug (clothing): oily stuff = water repellent (Ostfriesennerz) Sportzeug (clothing aand more): stuff for doing sports (usually all the clothing you need for PE, including shoes) Zeugwart (job description): carer for stuff (caring for sports-clothing of whole teams - mending, cleaning, renewing...)
The Gelato vs Ice Cream thing confounds me, because apparently Gelato is supposed to be more rich and creamy and Ice Cream is supposed to be more watery, but I always perceived it the other way around. Compared to the Gelato I know from Italian cafes in Germany, American Ice Cream from Hagen Dasz or Ben & Jerry's always seemed very dense and heavy, while Gelato seems more airy, light and refreshing. Frankly, while I appreciate the creativity of Ben & Jerry with their many different toppings, I never really liked their ice cream. It always seemed like sugary, frozen deep fryer lard to me.
You can't compare ice cream from the store with ice cream from an italian cafe, especially when they make the ice cream themselves (which becomes more and more uncommon in germany). Also ice cream in german stores often contains up to 50% air. Some cafes also tumble their ice cream longer so it contains more air, so they make more profit.
Gelato: lower fat, more sugar, less air than standard ice cream. So the flavors are stronger and cleaner tasting with gelato, but it's less creamy. And more expensive.
"No, the air isn't better..." Speak for yourself! You can taste the difference between the dry, stale air in Saxony and the refreshing, iodine filled air on the Baltic Coast within seconds! Also, you could drive the point about compound words even further with a "Kofferwort" (suitcase word), such as "satanarchälogügenialkohöllisch" which is a famous word from Michael Ende's novel "Der satanarchälogügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch". Concerning jeans, washing once a week or every other week feels appropriate.
If you get the chance, try the Schwedenbecher (Swedes Cup). It is an ice cream dessert invented in the East during Socialist times. It is vanilla ice cream with apple mash (Apfelmus), Eierlikör (a German variant of eggnog), whipped cream and chocolate sauce and sprinkles.
Not quite eggnog. Eierlikör is the German word for advocaat, the main difference being that Eierlikör only uses the yolks while eggnog uses the whole egg.
For Aubrey: If you feel that single standard size German duvets are not good for cuddling, try comfort size (155cm by 220). We always use one of them which covers both of us when cuddling, even though we are absolutely not slender, and after final "good nights" my partner gladly grabs his own, thinner one... 😊
I don't know who first compared German to the Lego of languages but I find that description genius. While there are quite a few words that crept into German from other languages, the number of original German words is still the majority. Yet the total number of short words with few syllables is far smaller than in many other languages. Because you can build the required compound words for a new concept right on the fly when it is required. While that compound word may not be completely exact it will still convey the general gist of the concept in such a way that anyone able to understand each individual word in the compound word will understand the whole compound word as well. Whereas other languages often resort to latin or greek versions, such as agoraphobia when talking about the fear of wide open spaces with crowds of people . Which in German is literally called Platzangst, or square-fear, as in fear of the town square. However that is the medical term and definition. It was misued for so long and so often that many Germans often misuse it for claustrophobia, the fear of tight, enclosed spaces in colloquial German. Random question: Jeans need washing?😂 Nah, just kidding. When visibly dirty, stiff, smelly, or shiny.
I once heard that some americans laughed about the german word "Doppelkupplungsgetriebe". The english translation is "dual-clutch transmission". The english word is only three letters shorter, if I not miscounted. I think they have sesquipedalophobia (fear for long words)
I grew up thinking that all clothing should be washed after each wearing including jeans. While at university, I started thinking that jeans may not need washing as often as underwear or tee shirts. Then later heard that you aren’t supposed to wash jeans as often or maybe not at all - and even heard about storing them in the freezer. I couldn’t do that. But also heard that the No Washing them or storing them in the freezer was actually referring to Salvaged Jeans - which I don’t love anyway.
About Ice-Cream in Germany, the big trick with the air is: Ice-Cream is sold by volume in liter, not by weight in gramms or kilogramms. Air give a nice volume and is free for the producer, but not free for the customer.
Actually, not true. You'll find both number on the package. You could also say, you get more volume for the same amount, therefore it takes longer to eat it all.
In Finnish it is also easy to form new compound words. One that I recently learned is "hirvikilpi", literally "moose shield". It means another car driving right in front of you; if a moose suddenly jumps on the road, the other car will hit it and you don't. More realistically, it means a car in front of you that is driving a bit too slowly considering the speed limit, but it is not possible to overtake it for a reason or another.
@5:16 Gelato is the Italian word for icecream, just look it up. That doesn't mean what is referred to as Gelato is the same thing as German icecream. 😊
as always i really enjoyed your video! and a big thanks for the first "foreigner" (in quotes bcs you are probably 85% germanized ^^) in videos like this understanding the system behind these "unlearnable long words" and getting the pro's of this (like not to have to invent new words again and again). for example "Verkehrsregeln" is the same in english "traffic rules", only difference is we get rid of the space and you guys don't. not that complicated to wrap the head around, but still you are the first i ever witnessed! so again, big thanks for that :)
@@PassportTwo plural in german can be quite difficult sometimes ... in a dictionary you have lots of single _words_ *(Wörter)* while a comment, saying, or speech are nice _words_ *(Worte)*
@@Anson_AKB There is a difference in meaning for that (although just in the plural). Wörter refers to words as systemic parts of a language: The system that a certain term refers to a certain thing or action, etc. Worte refers to specific uses of such terms. A dictionary - Wörterbuch - contains the units from the language system, a greeting card uses them in practice. Think of Wörter as stamps (the device you put the color on) and Worte as the traces of the color and stamp on paper.
Another genius thing in Germany is how we keep six packs of cans together. In the USA they are held together by plastic rings. These rings are bad for the environment and animals often get caught in them. There were never such rings in Germany. Here cans are held together by plastic film or cardboard. In the USA they are researching dissolvable plastic rings, while a better solution is in Germany. And the deposit system is also a genius thing in Germany. Every plastic drink bottle and every drink can has a deposit. You can recycle plastic and metal and get 25 cents for each bottle or can. So I was able to get 4.75€ recently.
German Hack for Icecream get a coffee mug or something simular put hot water in it take the spoon let it rest some 1 or 2 minutes in the hot water. that way it will be way easier to get the icecream out of the box nice side effect the icecream will not stick on the spoon....reapet the process until you are done with the icecream-
I had ice cream american style a few weeks ago. I had to mine that ice before eating it. The term "Besucherritze" is known because, when you have little kids, it can be, that you have a visitor between both of you. But that is the position of the gap between matrasses, so the visitor is in the gap. So it is called visitors gap. How often I wash my jeans? Normally I should wash it once a month. But that is, when I'm wearing it every day. But as I only wear it twice a week, I have to wash it rarer.
The part with the compoung nouns is one thing I always convey to my students in my German lessons. While they do look scary, you can 1) understand words you have never seen before and 2) reference to something you have no word for and people are still likely to understand
I also find it normal to have two mattresses in a large bed. My ex and I had different preferences about the softness of the mattress. I’m female, I often sleep on the side so a soft mattress is how I sleep better. He slept better on a hard mattress. The German way: no problem. Different mattresses with just the same height. My new partner is Filipino, he insisted on the American way of having one mattress. That was the first time I ever made this experience to have one big mattress.
Nice Video! I am german and also live in germany and for my experience, the icecream isn't always saft when you take it out of the freezer. I think it is very diffrent for diffrent Brands, probably because they doesn't all put so much air in the ice Cream. And like you said, it also depends on the temperature
0:43 It is a flat flusher ("Flachspüler"), not a "flat platter shelf" or something like that. Afaik it was invented to be better able to hide the syphon within the corpus of a standing toilet, but they later found additional benefits of it. While it was replaced in most private and public toilets by "deep flushers" (Tiefspüler") without any "shelf" since the 1990s, it is still used in some hospitals to facilitate the taking of stool samples (and you can still order it with companies like Villeroy & Boch, who also advertise it for avoiding the "splash"). 12:45 Having two smaller mattresses instead of a large one makes it also easier to handle the mattress e.g. if you want to turn it or for cleaning/maintenance of the bed base. (That's the main reason why I've switched back.)
The „Besucherritze“ is exactly what it describes: its the gap in which the visitor falls, when attempting to visit the other side 😂 It is also the reason why German couples actually prefer the 180cm matresses. Until they get back pain. Then the Besucherritze suddenly is bearable😉
well in the 90s i did only get the US hard version of ice-cream (vanilla cheap brand) but then Mövenpick invented this creamy style which is more soft out of the freezer. Since then many adopted this style. So i think US and german style was not that different in the near past
as for compund words (being German myself): when I was back in school I had a text in my German textbook, that I found outstandingly hilarious: the story of the "hottentottenstottermutter". Someone had tried to put as many words with double "t" in a text, and since the rule of putting words together the final "hottentottenstottermutterwetterkottenbeutelrattenatttentäterfangprämie" amazes me to this day. Meanwhile other people came up with similar texts with playing the same game with elongated "e" (the Schneeseekleerehfeedrehzehwehtee) (and kids in school might curse on that because certain words spell with "eh" versus "ee", so it's great for spelling tests..), or someone else tried to put as many words as possible with the ending "anz" together with is a tongue twister in it's own right. (see Finanzbilanzfranztoleranztanz), or the famous Rhabarberbarbara, which doesn't quite follow the rule of the ones mentioned before but still goes in the same direction. To all mentioned texts there are nice youtube videos, some even have english subtitles...
yes, those youtube videos about the Drehzeh and Rhabarberbarbara are amazing and amazingly funny. and then we make jokes about creating such words by intentionally misspelling them, eg a word with 4 "tz": Atzventzkrantzkertze (Adventskranzkerze)
Secret of icecream is stir while it freezes, so it doesn't become an icecube. That's why you need a machine inside the freezer or a special ice cream machine. You can also sit in the freezer yourself, and stir for 4 hours.
Besucherritze: When a third person (your child) joins you in bed in the middle, there is a chance that it partial gets stuck in the Besucherritze, perhaps just a leg or - if the mattresses have slide apart - the whole body.
When it comes to mattresses, as a couple where I am 6.5ft and my wife is 5.2ft, we have completely different demands on our mattresses in terms of comfort and health due to height and weight. 🤗 So we have the right mattress, and it doesn't separate us in any way. By the way, even if you have two duvets, you can cuddle and feel your partner's skin. 🥰 The "Flat patter shelf toilet" is for elderly or sick people who have to check their bowel movements regularly and are not the only type of toilet in Germany. 🤭
I think the shelf toilet was very common in the past along with a German scientific approach to observing their poop. Not as common now but the very recently done transit museum in Vienna has them.
Funfact: "Tier" in compound words is misleading. Originally, the word was only used for furry critters (broadly mammals in modern speech) in the woods and fields. Not birds, fish or reptiles. In English, the meaning got narrowed down - deer. In German, it got broader - animal. However, most of these compounds predate that change being final. So, for example , "Schnabeltier" (Platypus) shouldn't be translated as the super vague "beaked animal" (which birds are as well, aren't they?) but "beaked MAMMAL", which is indeed pretty descriptive for what a Platypus is.
It is then still a little more complex. In Old High German, the word Tior (later Dier->Tier) described everything that was not domesticated. Domesticated animals were called Fihu (later Vihe->Vieh). Until the 19th century, there was simply a distinction between humans, animals, livestock and plants. The more exact division is realtiv new. Therefore also Vogeltier (bird animal), Meerestier (sea animal), etc.
The ice cream thing is also a way for the manufacturer to make more money. That's why they advertise "a three liter bucket of ice cream". That bucket in the hard variant would probably come in around 2.7 kg. The ready to spoon one will probably come in around 1.9 kg (10% vs. 30%+ of air). So, the manufacturer sells "new and improved, ready to spoon" ice cream, possibly for even a higher price and saves 25% of raw ice cream mix. That's also why all the fastfood places that don't have free refills (and possibly even those) are always trying to add ice to you coke...
Another genius aspect of compound words is grammar: you can use that word in any sentence and move it around as need be without needing to adjust for grammar when you would use a small sentence to express what that compound word means.
The Zipper has to be on the left side, because the pocket watch is in the right one, and the chain of the watch would entangle around the zipper if it would be on the same side. Also there is a difference in germany between "Eis" and "Eiscreme". Eiscreme, Fruchteiscreme, Milcheis and Rahmeis contain aside from milk or cream only milk fat for example butter. "Eis" on the other hand, are allowed to contain cheap vegetable fat like coconut fat, also its allowed to contain water. On that note, Vanilleeis and Eis mit Vanillegeschmack are also different, the first one has to contain Vanilla extract or natural vanilla flavor, while Vanillegeschmack (vanilla flavor) doesnt have to contain the real vanilla, artificial flavorings can be in there. If "Geschmack" (flavour) is part of the name, it has only to taste like that, it doesnt have to contain it. Vanilla is actually one of the easiest to just see, if the quality is good, milk is white, vanilla beans are black/brown and dont dye anything... So if its yellow, its dyed which dont belong in there. The matrasses, i have a hollow back, i need hard matrasses if i dont want to get back pain, my girlfriend doesnt have hollow back and needs soft matrasses if she doesnt want to get back pain, we both dont like back pain, so we have different matrasses... Backs are different from person to person, and therfore have different needs and sleep gets a lot better if your back feels comfortable. If someone would be against me not having back pain and/or a more comfortable sleep, that would be a huge red flag(my opinion).
We actually Made Up Our own traveling Game where we basically create new compound words. Every Person has to add a Word when it is their Turn in Order to lengthen the compound. For an extra Challenge, you can Play a la "packing a suitcase" where everybody has to repeat the whole Thing before lengthening it
For fact two I would say its definitely the air. You can see the difference if you look at the weight and the filling capacity. Soft ice cream should be much lighter then the american one at same filling capacity. I think for the most time the people like the soft ice cream straight out the freezer but in some tv shows about casual groceries its seen as a lack of quality to have somewhat around 50% of air in your ice cream.
the Edeka icecream they showed in the video has exactly only half a kilogram for one liter (500g for 1000ml), thus 50% air, while american style (eg Häagen-Dasz or Ben&Jerry) has around 400g for 460ml (for comparison: 500g for 575ml), and pure water with no air should have a ratio of 1:1 ... in another comment i have listed lots more of different icecreams. about the quality: imho, having softer icecream than the hard american style is good, but having too much air in it looks like a scam (big packages with no contents, and this often goes along with low quality of ingredients to make it even cheaper) and also allows it to completely melt to some (non-ice) cream soup while you eat a serving directly from the freezer. ps: you also have this "smelting problem" with the harder icecream: you need to let it sit for some time first and then have the center still frozen while the outer volume is almost liquid.
If I buy ice cream it is usually a pint of Ben & Jerry’s or Häagen-Dazs (which was invented by an American from the Bronx, NY who made up the name to seem fancy and sophisticated). And I don’t buy it at the supermarket but rather from a convenience store which may be stored at a less frigid temperature.
How often do I wash my jeans? Hard to tell. I wash them when they're dirty. And I have a very, very tolerant attitude towards the notion of "dirty". Besides, jeans wouldn't be jeans if they needed washing so often. Most of the time, some brushing will do. Let's give the dirt back to nature, where it came from!
Tips for the heat: Open the windows at night for long. Or in the morning or evening when it‘s still cooler outside. Over the day keep the windows closed and use the window shades. Voila, a cool flat in the summer. 😎 germany doesn‘t have hot climates, so there is not much need for air conditioning. The best about ice cream in germany is the „go to an ice cream shop and buy a scoop or two while walking around the city center or sit in a cafe“-culture. Soft ice cream makes this possible, but there‘s more to it than just soft ice cream.
"car engine insurance policy" is a compound word that means exactly the same as "Automotorversicherungspolice" and works the same way, i.e. the part on the left influences the meaning of the part on the right. The only difference is that English is the only Germanic language, where the orthographic convention is to make spaces inbetween the parts of a compound word.
yeah the zipper merch even doesn’t work in germany most times. as drivers don’t let other drivers in or drive to the very end of the lane that’s closing to then try to break in
Compound words do have one advantage: online searching. When searching for very specific things, the precise words often are basically a heap of super general words and pre or suffixes. If you seach them as a lose pile of linguistic gravel as in english, search results will include a lot of crap and few if any hits. If the words are properly welded together, though, like in german, chances of finding results are much better
i hope, you know, the platform toilet is for that the water dosent spatter against your butt, the water will also not splatt out of the toilet wen you make it on and you can see how the poop locks like wen you are sick or just want to check if its helthy. i personaly really like this typ of toilet
Hardness of ice cream is mainly due to the freezer temperature. In the US supermarket ice cream comes in many versions but not so much in the EU. If you want stuff in it you mostly have to add your own.
If one has separate mattrasses and is worried about the "Ritze" - just place a 1,80 by 2,00 topper over it. I had the problem that I was able to find a mattress of 1,80 by 2,00 m, but not the slat frame, they are separate which helps with the individual height adjustment and hardness of the bed, but if one lands in the middle one can feel the frame of slat frame clearly through the mattress and topper. When one is edging over the invincible "border" for longer, one can clearly feel it the next day.....
I remember one research showing that couples often sleep ‘better’ and ‘deeper’ on individual mattresses as your personal sleep phases won’t be disturbed by your partner rolling around and the motions spread across the whole bed. Most likely also a very individual thing, depending on whether one is a more ‘light’ sleeper. My wife and I however chose one large mattress without Besucherritze while still keeping two separate duvets. You can still snuggle by overlapping them, and when fallen deep asleep and rolling around individually, they separate without fighting. … unless of course my wife manages to wiggle her duvet onto the floor mid-sleep and then just reaches over to grab n pull mine 😆
I always hold the spoon under hot water for a moment when i get ice cream that's too hard. Also the german language is engineered in a way that lets you make up a word to describe something and people will still understand you.
The bed room thing goes way beyond that - Duvets can still be used sort of as one. We layer them with about one third overlapping and snuggle up. When at night you roll over, you just pull your duvet with you. Simple as that. - Mattress There are companies specializing in Kingsize-Matresses with divided stiffness degrees. A bit expensive, but worth it. Since my wife and I really differ in weight, we found another solution. We have one mattress with a stiffness that i need and a topper with the softness she needs. It is a pretty thin topper that provides her all the comfort andmy side is totally crushed beneath my weight and i enjoy the matress beneath :)
Oh dude... 0:43 the flat splatter shelf is the best construction 😂 It has only advantages - you safe water, toilet paper, the use of the brush and avoid "Poseidon's kiss", which is really gross.
I always thought it was called a "Besucherritze" because that's where any "visitors" to the bed (pets, children, the occasional third person in a "thruple" [hey, no judging!]) slip between the mattresses. My great-grandmother called it the "Schloßgraben" or "Wassergraben" ("moat") because it keeps any unwanted visitors to your territory at a distance. As for the jeans question, I tend to wash a pair of jeans after five times being worn or sooner if required.
No Torschlußpanik is not "door" but a "goal" in soccer. One gets panicked if he does not reach the goal at the end. For example, women do not get pregnant before their eggs run out. Or literally, the soccer team gets nervous near the end without a goal
Donnie, what happens if the two matrasses move apart ? Right, you'll get a trench. Or in German: einen Graben. In some cases Swabians are prefering the diminuitive form as in this case: hence it's a Gräbele. Where does Besucherritze come from ? Ritze: engl. slit, crack; Besucher: visitor. Since in most cases the bed is the parents' one the visitors are obviously the child/children who might have woken up in the night - due to a bad dream or a strange noise or whatever - and will come to their parents bedroom to feel safer. Or they come because they got up in the morning earlier than their parents and decided to start turning their parents bed into a temporary playground until the parents finally surrender and get up to make breakfast. C'est la vie, c'est la gare. Anyway children are often small enough to squeeze between the matrasses and "disappear" in the Besucherritze, by accident or by intention.
Well, to peel eggs easily, no need for a special device (do you really put the eggs into the water when it's boiling? Don't do that, chances are the shells will crack and the content will ooze out). Just remove the hot water when finished boiling, replace it with cold water and let it sit for 2 minutes (until the water has absorbed the heat). The shells will come off very easily, try it, you'll see.
Ich bin zufällig auf Deine Videos gekommen und habe inzwischen die meisten geschaut. Freue mich immer über die gut recherchierten Vergleiche zwischen USA und Deutschland. Habe selbst in den 1980er Jahren für eine deutsche Firma für einige Jahre in Chatsworth/LA gearbeitet/gelebt und es sehr genossen! Bei meiner Rückkehr nach Germany kam mir der Flughafen Hamburg wie ein Parkplatz eines 7Eleven vor. So "small" alles. Ok, das war vor 40 Jahren. Leider ist CA inzwischen so teuer geworden, dass ich als Rentner wohl nie wieder dort hin reisen werde. Ich liebe Kalifornien aber trotzdem. Über die anderen Bundesstaaten kann ich nichts sagen, weil ich nie dort war. Eigentlich wollte ich ja nur wegen der Eiscreme für Zuhause kommentieren😂Die Eigenmarken von Rewe/Penny und Co. sind bei mir nach einem Tag im freezer auch steinhart! Please keep up with ur good videos. Liebe Grüße aus einer Samtgemeinde bei Stade/Lower Saxony.
In the case of ice cream, manufacturers simply take advantage of the fact that the package contents are specified as volume and not as weight. In a price comparison, the ice cream with a lot of air is naturally cheaper. The fact that it is softer is only a positive side effect, but not a sign of quality...
I do have severe back issues and some artificial parts in my neck. It is not possible for us two share the same matress, as I need it as hard as it gets with special functions inserted and my wife can't get comfortable on my matress. So I'm really glad to live in a system that does allow us to just do it as we want and need and gives us the opportunity to buy two matresses (we also could have gotten only one, but the above problem exists). And I don't own jeans, to answer the question.
My grandparents bed was just to single wood frames pushed together. So visiting them as a child during night was pretty uncomfortable. As the distance between two matraces was 5 cm of wood frame filling. Soo uncomfortable. In the bed of my parents the matraces were not securd to sliding to the sides. Start sleeping with parents in bed. Wake up in a space as wide as myself a matraces high lower. Things improved a lot in regards to the Besucherritze
Question of the week: I usually wash my jeans when they are dirty or smelly (or feel like they should be washed). Sometimes I have several different pairs in use because I don't want to wear the same ones days or even weeks in a row. But as long as there is no reason to wash them, why would I? On average I'd say I wear every single pair like 10 times before washing if no reason comes up to do it earlier.
I don‘t think German married couples ever slept in separate twin beds. Even in the Middle Ages, the beds were much smaller than today, but there was only one bed for couples.
RQotW: As I have several, I rotate and let recent worn ones air out, so I guesstimate each gets a wash every 4 weeks, maybe every 6. We have separate mattresses, one is a lot firmer than the other and on one frame we have an electric raising/lowering function. Whomever is ill, and needs to stay in bed longer gets that side, plus it's a great advantage if one of us is ill, feverish, we need only change one set of sheets as needed. We also have different weight duvets, I like the heavier one, he the lighter one. I actually prefer the ice cream that gets hard in the freezer. Seems to last longer before melting into a puddle at the bottom of the bowl. I've seen and used the trick to take a small container (has to be cardboard) and using a serrated knife to cut it in two and peeling off packaging and serving it as it.
Nice Jack Wolfskin Shirt! I have a similar one! My comments: Ice Cream!! I live in the Ice Cream Consumption capital of the US - Boston. I hosted a German/English language student in High School in 1989 - he loved our local ice cream and wished he could have it in Germany. I went to Germany that summer and fell in love with Spaghetti Eis and wished I had that here (we always want what the other one has!). My wife and I went full-German on our beds after our 2018 trip to Germany. We now have a queen "sleep number" bed, where we can set our own firmness, and we have our own duvets with only a top sheet. We love it!!! Question of the week! - I usually wash my jeans after 2 or three days of wear. I work overnight and sleep during the day, so I usually only wear them for 4-5 hours at a time.
2 matrazes is a good thing some people like to sleep on a softer one and some people sleep on harder ones so you can easely fit 2 1x2m next to each other that does mean that you can also fit a big 2x2m single one in the same frame sometimes even a water one 😅
16:15 „How often do you wash your Jeans 👖?“ @Ryan: a) when they are dirty or gotten into rain / smell b) without any reason, ABOUT once very two weeks, surly not daily (unlike t-Shirts, don’t ask my why)
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Know of any other genius things I should include in a part 2?? 😃
In the spirit of being eco-conscious, how about those extremely lightweight fabric shopping bags that can be folded up to palm size and tucked into an attached pouch that'll fit into a back pocket or any handbag to bring to the grocery store instead of paying for new plastic or paper bags? Good to have in reserve if you buy more stuff than planned, or fall prey to the dreaded impulse buy! (Oh, fun fact: One of our neighbors produces the thin cellophane bags in the produce aisle for stores; he told me that the oh-so-eco-friendly brown paper bags are dyed that color to make them look more "natural". The paper from which they're made actually comes out of the mill in a somewhat dirty-looking white.)
I even use a bigger version as a beach bag because it takes up hardly any room and weighs mere grams, plus you can tuck room key cards into the fold-into baggie if it doesn't have an extra pocket that's zippered or buttoned.
How do you know If U have blood in your fecies?
INCLUDE GERMAN TOILETTs 😂
English USED TO do numbers like german ... which you can easily find in Jane Austen's "Pride & Prejudice", where the heroine describes her age as "I am not yet one-and-twenty".
@@michamcv.1846 Actually, I think you can get some kind of paper insert/catching layer at a pharmacy if you have to provide a stool sample for a lab. Have never tried it myself, but that's what my doctor told me when the subject came up once during a physical. 🤭😅
You should focus on that 'Germans are better in bed' topic. 😆😆
Als Deutscher ist es für mich immer unterhaltsam Ausländischen Leuten zuzusehen die über Deutschland reden. Thx 👍👍😁😁
Wahrscheinlich hast der Kanal mehr deutsche Zuschauer als alles andere 🤣
@@KFrancisPowerhier zum Beispiel eine Britin 🫡
Et moi je suis du Québec, Canada !!!
deswegen sehen wir uns das doch alle an, oder? Weil wir wissen wollen wie uns andere sehen und ob das so korrekt ist. Und wenn das nich korrekt ist dann korrigieren wir die. Wir sind schon nen komisches Völckchen! LOL
Da kickt bei allen gleich wieder der Nationalismus richtig rein.
The 'Besucherritze' is probably called that because when a third person sleeps over, they will end up sleeping on the divide. It's not uncommon for children to sleep with their parents here, especially when not feeling well or having nightmares. On that note, they usually also bring along their pillow and blankets so everyone is covered without any fights :)
Trust me, there still are fights - as kids do not stay in the normal sleeping direction and suddenly they occupy the bed in its width ..
@@franhunne8929 True enough; I'm sure there's also plenty of kids that decide that mom's blanket is just so much softer than their own, even though it's literally the same. Kids are gonna be kids after all. I still think it's probably worse with just one blanket for everyone
I never taken my stuff with. I robed everything from my father. Sometimes he left and slept in my bed😅 I'm sleeping in my son's bed now.😂
Hehe indeed untill the kid dreams of being a Starfish.. -.-
not me i have always stuck my feet and hands in the divide like a dog xD@@franhunne8929
One thing that was intimidating for me when I worked in TX were the names of medical specialists. See, we Germans just use the compound words instead of the Latin words. Augenarzt literally means Eye doctor, Zahnarzt means Tooth Doctor and Hals, Nasen und Ohrenarzt (or short HNO-Arzt) means Throat, nose and Ear Doctor. You don't have to know (or learn by heart) the Latin words before you can seek out the doc you need. Ophthalmologist, Dentist, Otolaryngologists. OMG!
Not exactly true. As soon as you leave the path of doctors everyone goes to, you are landing at Latin names quickly, Kardiologe, Gastroenterologe, etc.
Stimmt schon - warum einfach, wenn’s auch kompliziert geht.
Being born in the USA, you grow up learning the types of doctors by their Latin-based designations - its really no problem.
I think they even think you are the King if you know Latin/Greek names: otorinolaringologist, stomatologists, cardiologists... If you even know names body parts and illnesses then you are the God. I guess most people from Serbia are in that status even if they didn't finish Gymnasium or medical school (where you naturally learn Latin) you just know medical names
@@EyMannMachHin die man normalerweise im Krankenhaus trifft... in ther INNEREN Medizin? ;)
I agree with you on the separate duvets. We just returned from vacationing in Italy where we had to share the American style bedding. I didn’t sleep so well. Then we moved north to the Dolomites and German style bedding….so much better. As for the mattresses…my husband’s is too hard for me. And I love sticking my foot in the gap when I sleep. 😂
I agree when I first moved to Germany, I thought the two duvets was not romantic. Well after 23 years married and 29 together…give me my own duvet!!! I know where to find you when I need/want you! 😊
Actually, my mom told us children last Christmas (when the entire family comes together for a couple of days once a year) that she started to stick her right foot into that gap in 1980. My sisters both laughed .... since they do the same. We have never ever spoken about this habit before and found it very funny.
❤ you can live together without sharing everything 😊 perfect example for that! ❤
In very cold winters i actually loved the combination...
Each one gets one fluffy blanket for themselves, and one big heavy blanket over both
F. e. When I was 173cm and 70kg and my boyfriend was 204 and 130 KG we needed definitely two duvats, much harder for him.
Plus he was a heater, like sauna, bad in summer.
There are wonderful German compound words: I call them Wohlfühlwörter like Augenweide, Fingerspitzengefühl, Hoffnungsschimmer, Engelsgeduld, Herzallerliebster, Schlummertrunk etc .
Gaumenschmaus, Sternenstunde, Traumtänzer, Herzensdank, Himmelszelt, mucksmäuschenstill,…
Hast da nen Punkt👍
English should adapt rules to create compound words. German is very flexible, accurate and versitile language. English a bit less. For example the verb to put. In the dictionary is is translated with setzen, stellen oder legen. It depends on the way and direction you move the object. In some cases English is over simplified.
The different blankets and stuff can be debated, but mattresses? The right hardness depends on your weight, which will nearly always be different in a couple.
The European thing of having two mattresses also probably has to do with the difficulty or impossibility of getting a huge mattress into the room through narrow stairways.
The "Besucherritze" between the matrasses is called that because little kids sometimes climb into their parent's bed and during the night end up in the "Besucherritze".
Wenn Children are small and maybe scared at night they are sometimes allowed to sleep in the „Besucherritze“
I come from a 50% Canadian/50% German family and I used to work in Oklahoma for years! Your videos always put a smile on my face because I understand both sides! So happy to see that there are several of us!.
Not sure but maybe the German preference for seperate duvets is due to a lot of Germans sleeping with their windows open, meaning it is rather cold in their bedroom, especially in winter. So, when you use just one duvet, inevitably there will form a gap, where it stretches from one back/ shoulder to the other, and thus the cold air gets under the duvet and the sleepers get cold. Whereas with only one person under the duvet, the latter fits snugly and keeps people warm.
Everyone just makes fun of the shelf toilet - til you actually need it.
It saved me from having a surgery as child to get the appendix taken out.
I had strong pains and it was either the appendix - or some sort of food poisoning. Only way to figure out the difference was to get a poop sample for the doc.
And that's what the shelf toilet is for. Easy access is only given with it, not the other types of toilet.
You could call them a rare use medical tool with just one purpose, or something like that.
Quote my mother: "If we live somewhere with more than one toilet, one will always be a shelf. Just in case." - she had a point.
After there were some renovations in our rented appartment, we had one of these "new modern" toilets. It got clogged at least once per month and i had the ugly work to unclog it, sometimes by fishing in it with my arm and a stick. thus i payed to get it replaced with a shelf toilet like we had before, and had no single clogging for 10+ years now. the reason : the "new modern" toilets have only a tiny hole and the internal piping also is much smaller in diameter and more curved. thus it passes the extensive factory tests they do with a few simultaneous small "standard test objects" according to some industry norm. Too bad that my digestion doesn't agree with their amount and/or size of "standard test objects" ...
Absolutly right. i have to use that "feature" once a year as i am working in the food industrie for my Salmonela test.
I just did a home stool test and they come with a paper that can be sticked to the lid and used to catch your stool and it also disolves in the toilet.
@@tubekrake Yes, these sticky paper-thingies are nice...until you happen to p... a lot. Then, when you lift your - ah - rear end from the seat, the glue is not enough to hold it there and the whole thing slides gracefully into the abyss below... And you longingly start reminiscing the thrones of your childhood...
People also gonna be thankful for that feature if you empty your stomach on the wrong side, cause you most likely will not cause as much of a fountain 💀💀💀 sorry, I know it's gross. But it's honestly a less disgusting experience with shelf toilets.
The Zipper Merge in Germany does only work well when the Drivers are capable of forgetting their Egos to always be first and we have many of those here.
The Ice Cream, especially the Houses Brands (the brand that the supermarket chain hosts itself) contains much more air and thus is of course more scoopable. but let the same weight of ice creams melt, blue bell and gut&gunstig, and you will see that there is actually more melted ice in the blue bell.
my favorite sentence in german:
Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft.
(Jealousy is a grievous passion that jealously seeks what causes grief.)
-Franz Grillpanzer
During the production of ice cream, the liquid ice mass is whipped with air during the freezing process. This prevents large ice crystals from forming during freezing. If, on the other hand, you would only freeze the ice mass, you would get a hard block of ice with a consistency comparable to that of an ice cube. The light, creamy consistency that is typical of ice cream is only created when the air is introduced, which makes the ice cream melt so pleasantly on the tongue.
The basic rule is: the smaller the ice crystals, the creamier the ice cream. Everyone knows this method of air whipping from their own kitchen: There would be no whipped cream without air whipping and no meringue without previously whipped egg whites. Just think of the difference in taste between whipped cream and liquid cream, between egg whites and beaten egg whites. The same applies to the ice cream. The manufacturers of branded ice cream produce ice cream with different creaminess levels for the different taste preferences of consumers.
But it also means you buy 1l but only get 550 gr.
@@arnolsi That's a feature, not a bug (for marketing purposes anyway).
I feel like soft ice cream is a relatively new thing in German supermarkets. I am probably old enough to feel that way and to remember ice cream being quite solid and how the first companies started to advertise their new 'ready-to-spoon' products.😅 My grandma still puts a mug of hot water on the table whenever she serves ice cream for dessert, to dip the spoon inside in order to heat it up (some brands may still be quite hard, or the freezer maybe too cold). Letting ice cream sit for a while can make people anxious, though, because of salmonella. At least where I am from. Although you're actually supposed to do exactly that with the products of certain American brands, according to the text on their packages.
Salmonella are not a problem when the ice cream doesn‘t contain egg.
My favorite compound words are the ones with -zeug (stuff).
Flugzeug (airplane): Stuff that flies
Spielzeug (toy): stuff to play with
Werkzeug (tool): stuff to craft with
Feuerzeug (lighter): Thing that makes fire
😂
Ölzeug (clothing): oily stuff = water repellent (Ostfriesennerz)
Sportzeug (clothing aand more): stuff for doing sports (usually all the clothing you need for PE, including shoes)
Zeugwart (job description): carer for stuff (caring for sports-clothing of whole teams - mending, cleaning, renewing...)
I understood "Bazooka-Ritze" and I was like what?? made my day
Besucherritze. Visitor‘s gap. You’re welcome.
The Gelato vs Ice Cream thing confounds me, because apparently Gelato is supposed to be more rich and creamy and Ice Cream is supposed to be more watery, but I always perceived it the other way around. Compared to the Gelato I know from Italian cafes in Germany, American Ice Cream from Hagen Dasz or Ben & Jerry's always seemed very dense and heavy, while Gelato seems more airy, light and refreshing.
Frankly, while I appreciate the creativity of Ben & Jerry with their many different toppings, I never really liked their ice cream. It always seemed like sugary, frozen deep fryer lard to me.
You can't compare ice cream from the store with ice cream from an italian cafe, especially when they make the ice cream themselves (which becomes more and more uncommon in germany). Also ice cream in german stores often contains up to 50% air. Some cafes also tumble their ice cream longer so it contains more air, so they make more profit.
Gelato: lower fat, more sugar, less air than standard ice cream. So the flavors are stronger and cleaner tasting with gelato, but it's less creamy. And more expensive.
You got me at 5:45 vs. 5:55 with the background sounds to scooping American vs. German icecream. Just hilarious! 😂
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"No, the air isn't better..."
Speak for yourself! You can taste the difference between the dry, stale air in Saxony and the refreshing, iodine filled air on the Baltic Coast within seconds!
Also, you could drive the point about compound words even further with a "Kofferwort" (suitcase word), such as "satanarchälogügenialkohöllisch" which is a famous word from Michael Ende's novel "Der satanarchälogügenialkohöllische Wunschpunsch".
Concerning jeans, washing once a week or every other week feels appropriate.
satanarchäolügenialkohöllische
If you get the chance, try the Schwedenbecher (Swedes Cup). It is an ice cream dessert invented in the East during Socialist times. It is vanilla ice cream with apple mash (Apfelmus), Eierlikör (a German variant of eggnog), whipped cream and chocolate sauce and sprinkles.
Just by the description- I don’t like it.
Not quite eggnog. Eierlikör is the German word for advocaat, the main difference being that Eierlikör only uses the yolks while eggnog uses the whole egg.
For Aubrey: If you feel that single standard size German duvets are not good for cuddling, try comfort size (155cm by 220). We always use one of them which covers both of us when cuddling, even though we are absolutely not slender, and after final "good nights" my partner gladly grabs his own, thinner one... 😊
Besucherritze is the place a third visitor will natually take over. Usally by children visiting in the morning.
Here in Baden, the gab between the matresses is called "s'Gräble", which means "the small ditch"
If the jeans can stand on it's own, it's past due time.
To cover the "Besucherritze" we have the "Liebesbrücke" 😉
I don't know who first compared German to the Lego of languages but I find that description genius. While there are quite a few words that crept into German from other languages, the number of original German words is still the majority. Yet the total number of short words with few syllables is far smaller than in many other languages. Because you can build the required compound words for a new concept right on the fly when it is required. While that compound word may not be completely exact it will still convey the general gist of the concept in such a way that anyone able to understand each individual word in the compound word will understand the whole compound word as well. Whereas other languages often resort to latin or greek versions, such as agoraphobia when talking about the fear of wide open spaces with crowds of people . Which in German is literally called Platzangst, or square-fear, as in fear of the town square. However that is the medical term and definition. It was misued for so long and so often that many Germans often misuse it for claustrophobia, the fear of tight, enclosed spaces in colloquial German.
Random question:
Jeans need washing?😂
Nah, just kidding.
When visibly dirty, stiff, smelly, or shiny.
I once heard that some americans laughed about the german word "Doppelkupplungsgetriebe". The english translation is "dual-clutch transmission". The english word is only three letters shorter, if I not miscounted. I think they have sesquipedalophobia (fear for long words)
Its called Klemmbaustein :)
"Platz" does not only translate to "Plaza", it also means "spaces" so "Platzangst" also means "spaces" "anxiety".
agoraphobia is also a compound word, made up of angora and phobia.
I grew up thinking that all clothing should be washed after each wearing including jeans. While at university, I started thinking that jeans may not need washing as often as underwear or tee shirts. Then later heard that you aren’t supposed to wash jeans as often or maybe not at all - and even heard about storing them in the freezer. I couldn’t do that. But also heard that the No Washing them or storing them in the freezer was actually referring to Salvaged Jeans - which I don’t love anyway.
About Ice-Cream in Germany, the big trick with the air is:
Ice-Cream is sold by volume in liter, not by weight in gramms or kilogramms. Air give a nice volume and is free for the producer, but not free for the customer.
Actually, not true. You'll find both number on the package. You could also say, you get more volume for the same amount, therefore it takes longer to eat it all.
@@TarikDaniel You're right, both numbers are on the package, but have you ever seen an advertisement or a commercial were they mention the weight?
In Finnish it is also easy to form new compound words. One that I recently learned is "hirvikilpi", literally "moose shield". It means another car driving right in front of you; if a moose suddenly jumps on the road, the other car will hit it and you don't. More realistically, it means a car in front of you that is driving a bit too slowly considering the speed limit, but it is not possible to overtake it for a reason or another.
This toilet isn't the one and only standard, the other one with poop get direct in water also in use in many apartments, in my toilet also.
@5:16 Gelato is the Italian word for icecream, just look it up. That doesn't mean what is referred to as Gelato is the same thing as German icecream. 😊
Its pretty cute how you explain the things you love in Germany ❤
We don't have firemen or mailmen any more outside of Oklahoma. We have firefighters and mail deliverers.
as always i really enjoyed your video! and a big thanks for the first "foreigner" (in quotes bcs you are probably 85% germanized ^^) in videos like this understanding the system behind these "unlearnable long words" and getting the pro's of this (like not to have to invent new words again and again). for example "Verkehrsregeln" is the same in english "traffic rules", only difference is we get rid of the space and you guys don't. not that complicated to wrap the head around, but still you are the first i ever witnessed! so again, big thanks for that :)
Danke für die netten Wörter 😊
@@PassportTwo plural in german can be quite difficult sometimes ...
in a dictionary you have lots of single _words_ *(Wörter)* while a comment, saying, or speech are nice _words_ *(Worte)*
@@Anson_AKB There is a difference in meaning for that (although just in the plural). Wörter refers to words as systemic parts of a language: The system that a certain term refers to a certain thing or action, etc. Worte refers to specific uses of such terms. A dictionary - Wörterbuch - contains the units from the language system, a greeting card uses them in practice. Think of Wörter as stamps (the device you put the color on) and Worte as the traces of the color and stamp on paper.
Another genius thing in Germany is how we keep six packs of cans together. In the USA they are held together by plastic rings. These rings are bad for the environment and animals often get caught in them. There were never such rings in Germany. Here cans are held together by plastic film or cardboard. In the USA they are researching dissolvable plastic rings, while a better solution is in Germany. And the deposit system is also a genius thing in Germany. Every plastic drink bottle and every drink can has a deposit. You can recycle plastic and metal and get 25 cents for each bottle or can. So I was able to get 4.75€ recently.
German Hack for Icecream get a coffee mug or something simular put hot water in it take the spoon let it rest some 1 or 2 minutes in the hot water.
that way it will be way easier to get the icecream out of the box nice side effect the icecream will not stick on the spoon....reapet the process until you are done with the icecream-
I had ice cream american style a few weeks ago. I had to mine that ice before eating it.
The term "Besucherritze" is known because, when you have little kids, it can be, that you have a visitor between both of you. But that is the position of the gap between matrasses, so the visitor is in the gap. So it is called visitors gap.
How often I wash my jeans? Normally I should wash it once a month. But that is, when I'm wearing it every day. But as I only wear it twice a week, I have to wash it rarer.
The part with the compoung nouns is one thing I always convey to my students in my German lessons. While they do look scary, you can 1) understand words you have never seen before and 2) reference to something you have no word for and people are still likely to understand
I really love these old Audrey clips, like as in the egg hammering scene. A true classic!
haha love the slow-mo of the ice cream. Well done 👏
Danke ☺️
I love the short cameo appearance of Aubrey! ❤️
I also find it normal to have two mattresses in a large bed. My ex and I had different preferences about the softness of the mattress. I’m female, I often sleep on the side so a soft mattress is how I sleep better. He slept better on a hard mattress. The German way: no problem. Different mattresses with just the same height.
My new partner is Filipino, he insisted on the American way of having one mattress. That was the first time I ever made this experience to have one big mattress.
Nobody really uses the word Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz. We just talk about Bafög. I wash my Levis when they are dirty.
Poop shelf toilets are disappearing, I think. I don't have one in my 1998 apartment. It's a trend that's ending, alas ;)
Nice Video!
I am german and also live in germany and for my experience, the icecream isn't always saft when you take it out of the freezer. I think it is very diffrent for diffrent Brands, probably because they doesn't all put so much air in the ice Cream. And like you said, it also depends on the temperature
0:43 It is a flat flusher ("Flachspüler"), not a "flat platter shelf" or something like that. Afaik it was invented to be better able to hide the syphon within the corpus of a standing toilet, but they later found additional benefits of it. While it was replaced in most private and public toilets by "deep flushers" (Tiefspüler") without any "shelf" since the 1990s, it is still used in some hospitals to facilitate the taking of stool samples (and you can still order it with companies like Villeroy & Boch, who also advertise it for avoiding the "splash").
12:45 Having two smaller mattresses instead of a large one makes it also easier to handle the mattress e.g. if you want to turn it or for cleaning/maintenance of the bed base. (That's the main reason why I've switched back.)
Don't wash your Jeans until they get up on their own and do it themselves.
I never had any "soft" icecream. I even bend a steel spoon once or twice. Tho tbf I buy at Lidl not Edeka, maybe theirs is just softer by default.
The „Besucherritze“ is exactly what it describes: its the gap in which the visitor falls, when attempting to visit the other side 😂
It is also the reason why German couples actually prefer the 180cm matresses. Until they get back pain. Then the Besucherritze suddenly is bearable😉
I wash my jeans the day they start standing upright on their own.
well in the 90s i did only get the US hard version of ice-cream (vanilla cheap brand) but then Mövenpick invented this creamy style which is more soft out of the freezer. Since then many adopted this style. So i think US and german style was not that different in the near past
as for compund words (being German myself): when I was back in school I had a text in my German textbook, that I found outstandingly hilarious: the story of the "hottentottenstottermutter". Someone had tried to put as many words with double "t" in a text, and since the rule of putting words together the final "hottentottenstottermutterwetterkottenbeutelrattenatttentäterfangprämie" amazes me to this day. Meanwhile other people came up with similar texts with playing the same game with elongated "e" (the Schneeseekleerehfeedrehzehwehtee) (and kids in school might curse on that because certain words spell with "eh" versus "ee", so it's great for spelling tests..), or someone else tried to put as many words as possible with the ending "anz" together with is a tongue twister in it's own right. (see Finanzbilanzfranztoleranztanz), or the famous Rhabarberbarbara, which doesn't quite follow the rule of the ones mentioned before but still goes in the same direction.
To all mentioned texts there are nice youtube videos, some even have english subtitles...
yes, those youtube videos about the Drehzeh and Rhabarberbarbara are amazing and amazingly funny.
and then we make jokes about creating such words by intentionally misspelling them, eg a word with 4 "tz": Atzventzkrantzkertze (Adventskranzkerze)
Rhabarbarbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbier
@@Anson_AKB you forgot about the beauty of the glow emitted by the Atzventzkrantzkertze, the Atzventzkrantzkertzenglantz.....
Secret of icecream is stir while it freezes, so it doesn't become an icecube. That's why you need a machine inside the freezer or a special ice cream machine.
You can also sit in the freezer yourself, and stir for 4 hours.
Besucherritze: When a third person (your child) joins you in bed in the middle, there is a chance that it partial gets stuck in the Besucherritze, perhaps just a leg or - if the mattresses have slide apart - the whole body.
When it comes to mattresses, as a couple where I am 6.5ft and my wife is 5.2ft, we have completely different demands on our mattresses in terms of comfort and health due to height and weight. 🤗 So we have the right mattress, and it doesn't separate us in any way. By the way, even if you have two duvets, you can cuddle and feel your partner's skin. 🥰
The "Flat patter shelf toilet" is for elderly or sick people who have to check their bowel movements regularly and are not the only type of toilet in Germany. 🤭
I think the shelf toilet was very common in the past along with a German scientific approach to observing their poop. Not as common now but the very recently done transit museum in Vienna has them.
Funfact: "Tier" in compound words is misleading. Originally, the word was only used for furry critters (broadly mammals in modern speech) in the woods and fields. Not birds, fish or reptiles. In English, the meaning got narrowed down - deer. In German, it got broader - animal.
However, most of these compounds predate that change being final. So, for example , "Schnabeltier" (Platypus) shouldn't be translated as the super vague "beaked animal" (which birds are as well, aren't they?) but "beaked MAMMAL", which is indeed pretty descriptive for what a Platypus is.
It is then still a little more complex.
In Old High German, the word Tior (later Dier->Tier) described everything that was not domesticated. Domesticated animals were called Fihu (later Vihe->Vieh). Until the 19th century, there was simply a distinction between humans, animals, livestock and plants. The more exact division is realtiv new. Therefore also Vogeltier (bird animal), Meerestier (sea animal), etc.
I approve of the Faultier example. Well done.
The ice cream thing is also a way for the manufacturer to make more money. That's why they advertise "a three liter bucket of ice cream". That bucket in the hard variant would probably come in around 2.7 kg. The ready to spoon one will probably come in around 1.9 kg (10% vs. 30%+ of air). So, the manufacturer sells "new and improved, ready to spoon" ice cream, possibly for even a higher price and saves 25% of raw ice cream mix.
That's also why all the fastfood places that don't have free refills (and possibly even those) are always trying to add ice to you coke...
Another genius aspect of compound words is grammar: you can use that word in any sentence and move it around as need be without needing to adjust for grammar when you would use a small sentence to express what that compound word means.
The Zipper has to be on the left side, because the pocket watch is in the right one, and the chain of the watch would entangle around the zipper if it would be on the same side.
Also there is a difference in germany between "Eis" and "Eiscreme". Eiscreme, Fruchteiscreme, Milcheis and Rahmeis contain aside from milk or cream only milk fat for example butter. "Eis" on the other hand, are allowed to contain cheap vegetable fat like coconut fat, also its allowed to contain water.
On that note, Vanilleeis and Eis mit Vanillegeschmack are also different, the first one has to contain Vanilla extract or natural vanilla flavor, while Vanillegeschmack (vanilla flavor) doesnt have to contain the real vanilla, artificial flavorings can be in there.
If "Geschmack" (flavour) is part of the name, it has only to taste like that, it doesnt have to contain it.
Vanilla is actually one of the easiest to just see, if the quality is good, milk is white, vanilla beans are black/brown and dont dye anything... So if its yellow, its dyed which dont belong in there.
The matrasses, i have a hollow back, i need hard matrasses if i dont want to get back pain, my girlfriend doesnt have hollow back and needs soft matrasses if she doesnt want to get back pain, we both dont like back pain, so we have different matrasses...
Backs are different from person to person, and therfore have different needs and sleep gets a lot better if your back feels comfortable. If someone would be against me not having back pain and/or a more comfortable sleep, that would be a huge red flag(my opinion).
We actually Made Up Our own traveling Game where we basically create new compound words. Every Person has to add a Word when it is their Turn in Order to lengthen the compound. For an extra Challenge, you can Play a la "packing a suitcase" where everybody has to repeat the whole Thing before lengthening it
Ok the ice cream thing is confusing I mean one part of the name is "cream" not "steel block" 🤣
For fact two I would say its definitely the air. You can see the difference if you look at the weight and the filling capacity. Soft ice cream should be much lighter then the american one at same filling capacity. I think for the most time the people like the soft ice cream straight out the freezer but in some tv shows about casual groceries its seen as a lack of quality to have somewhat around 50% of air in your ice cream.
the Edeka icecream they showed in the video has exactly only half a kilogram for one liter (500g for 1000ml), thus 50% air, while american style (eg Häagen-Dasz or Ben&Jerry) has around 400g for 460ml (for comparison: 500g for 575ml), and pure water with no air should have a ratio of 1:1 ... in another comment i have listed lots more of different icecreams.
about the quality: imho, having softer icecream than the hard american style is good, but having too much air in it looks like a scam (big packages with no contents, and this often goes along with low quality of ingredients to make it even cheaper) and also allows it to completely melt to some (non-ice) cream soup while you eat a serving directly from the freezer.
ps: you also have this "smelting problem" with the harder icecream: you need to let it sit for some time first and then have the center still frozen while the outer volume is almost liquid.
If I buy ice cream it is usually a pint of Ben & Jerry’s or Häagen-Dazs (which was invented by an American from the Bronx, NY who made up the name to seem fancy and sophisticated). And I don’t buy it at the supermarket but rather from a convenience store which may be stored at a less frigid temperature.
How often do I wash my jeans? Hard to tell. I wash them when they're dirty. And I have a very, very tolerant attitude towards the notion of "dirty". Besides, jeans wouldn't be jeans if they needed washing so often. Most of the time, some brushing will do. Let's give the dirt back to nature, where it came from!
Tips for the heat: Open the windows at night for long. Or in the morning or evening when it‘s still cooler outside. Over the day keep the windows closed and use the window shades. Voila, a cool flat in the summer. 😎 germany doesn‘t have hot climates, so there is not much need for air conditioning.
The best about ice cream in germany is the „go to an ice cream shop and buy a scoop or two while walking around the city center or sit in a cafe“-culture. Soft ice cream makes this possible, but there‘s more to it than just soft ice cream.
In Germany, the packaging on American ice cream actually says to allow to thaw for 5-10 minutes before serving.
"car engine insurance policy" is a compound word that means exactly the same as "Automotorversicherungspolice" and works the same way, i.e. the part on the left influences the meaning of the part on the right. The only difference is that English is the only Germanic language, where the orthographic convention is to make spaces inbetween the parts of a compound word.
yeah the zipper merch even doesn’t work in germany most times. as drivers don’t let other drivers in or drive to the very end of the lane that’s closing to then try to break in
Compound words do have one advantage: online searching. When searching for very specific things, the precise words often are basically a heap of super general words and pre or suffixes. If you seach them as a lose pile of linguistic gravel as in english, search results will include a lot of crap and few if any hits. If the words are properly welded together, though, like in german, chances of finding results are much better
i hope, you know, the platform toilet is for that the water dosent spatter against your butt,
the water will also not splatt out of the toilet wen you make it on
and you can see how the poop locks like wen you are sick or just want to check if its helthy.
i personaly really like this typ of toilet
Hardness of ice cream is mainly due to the freezer temperature. In the US supermarket ice cream comes in many versions but not so much in the EU. If you want stuff in it you mostly have to add your own.
If one has separate mattrasses and is worried about the "Ritze" - just place a 1,80 by 2,00 topper over it. I had the problem that I was able to find a mattress of 1,80 by 2,00 m, but not the slat frame, they are separate which helps with the individual height adjustment and hardness of the bed, but if one lands in the middle one can feel the frame of slat frame clearly through the mattress and topper. When one is edging over the invincible "border" for longer, one can clearly feel it the next day.....
I remember one research showing that couples often sleep ‘better’ and ‘deeper’ on individual mattresses as your personal sleep phases won’t be disturbed by your partner rolling around and the motions spread across the whole bed.
Most likely also a very individual thing, depending on whether one is a more ‘light’ sleeper.
My wife and I however chose one large mattress without Besucherritze while still keeping two separate duvets. You can still snuggle by overlapping them, and when fallen deep asleep and rolling around individually, they separate without fighting.
… unless of course my wife manages to wiggle her duvet onto the floor mid-sleep and then just reaches over to grab n pull mine 😆
I always hold the spoon under hot water for a moment when i get ice cream that's too hard. Also the german language is engineered in a way that lets you make up a word to describe something and people will still understand you.
The bed room thing goes way beyond that
- Duvets can still be used sort of as one.
We layer them with about one third overlapping and snuggle up.
When at night you roll over, you just pull your duvet with you.
Simple as that.
- Mattress
There are companies specializing in Kingsize-Matresses with divided stiffness degrees. A bit expensive, but worth it.
Since my wife and I really differ in weight, we found another solution.
We have one mattress with a stiffness that i need and a topper with the softness she needs.
It is a pretty thin topper that provides her all the comfort andmy side is totally crushed beneath my weight and i enjoy the matress beneath :)
Oh dude... 0:43 the flat splatter shelf is the best construction 😂
It has only advantages - you safe water, toilet paper, the use of the brush and avoid "Poseidon's kiss", which is really gross.
I let the german icecream at the counter for a time to scoop it, because for me it is still too hard when it comes out of the freezer...
The thing is the Eierschalensollbruchstellenverursacher is a tool you do not actually need.
Honesty yes the air makes it softer, but also cheaper. It esencecially reduces the amount of actuall ice cream you are getting.
I always thought it was called a "Besucherritze" because that's where any "visitors" to the bed (pets, children, the occasional third person in a "thruple" [hey, no judging!]) slip between the mattresses.
My great-grandmother called it the "Schloßgraben" or "Wassergraben" ("moat") because it keeps any unwanted visitors to your territory at a distance.
As for the jeans question, I tend to wash a pair of jeans after five times being worn or sooner if required.
No Torschlußpanik is not "door" but a "goal" in soccer.
One gets panicked if he does not reach the goal at the end.
For example, women do not get pregnant before their eggs run out.
Or literally, the soccer team gets nervous near the end without a goal
Donnie, what happens if the two matrasses move apart ?
Right, you'll get a trench. Or in German: einen Graben.
In some cases Swabians are prefering the diminuitive form as in this case: hence it's a Gräbele.
Where does Besucherritze come from ?
Ritze: engl. slit, crack; Besucher: visitor.
Since in most cases the bed is the parents' one the visitors are obviously the child/children who might have woken up in the night - due to a bad dream or a strange noise or whatever - and will come to their parents bedroom to feel safer. Or they come because they got up in the morning earlier than their parents and decided to start turning their parents bed into a temporary playground until the parents finally surrender and get up to make breakfast. C'est la vie, c'est la gare.
Anyway children are often small enough to squeeze between the matrasses and "disappear" in the Besucherritze, by accident or by intention.
Well, to peel eggs easily, no need for a special device (do you really put the eggs into the water when it's boiling? Don't do that, chances are the shells will crack and the content will ooze out). Just remove the hot water when finished boiling, replace it with cold water and let it sit for 2 minutes (until the water has absorbed the heat). The shells will come off very easily, try it, you'll see.
Ich bin zufällig auf Deine Videos gekommen und habe inzwischen die meisten geschaut. Freue mich immer über die gut recherchierten Vergleiche zwischen USA und Deutschland. Habe selbst in den 1980er Jahren für eine deutsche Firma für einige Jahre in Chatsworth/LA gearbeitet/gelebt und es sehr genossen! Bei meiner Rückkehr nach Germany kam mir der Flughafen Hamburg wie ein Parkplatz eines 7Eleven vor. So "small" alles. Ok, das war vor 40 Jahren. Leider ist CA inzwischen so teuer geworden, dass ich als Rentner wohl nie wieder dort hin reisen werde. Ich liebe Kalifornien aber trotzdem. Über die anderen Bundesstaaten kann ich nichts sagen, weil ich nie dort war. Eigentlich wollte ich ja nur wegen der Eiscreme für Zuhause kommentieren😂Die Eigenmarken von Rewe/Penny und Co. sind bei mir nach einem Tag im freezer auch steinhart! Please keep up with ur good videos. Liebe Grüße aus einer Samtgemeinde bei Stade/Lower Saxony.
In the case of ice cream, manufacturers simply take advantage of the fact that the package contents are specified as volume and not as weight. In a price comparison, the ice cream with a lot of air is naturally cheaper. The fact that it is softer is only a positive side effect, but not a sign of quality...
When kids come to their parents, they often lay in the middle, between the two mattresses in the "Besucherritze".
I do have severe back issues and some artificial parts in my neck. It is not possible for us two share the same matress, as I need it as hard as it gets with special functions inserted and my wife can't get comfortable on my matress. So I'm really glad to live in a system that does allow us to just do it as we want and need and gives us the opportunity to buy two matresses (we also could have gotten only one, but the above problem exists).
And I don't own jeans, to answer the question.
My grandparents bed was just to single wood frames pushed together. So visiting them as a child during night was pretty uncomfortable. As the distance between two matraces was 5 cm of wood frame filling. Soo uncomfortable. In the bed of my parents the matraces were not securd to sliding to the sides. Start sleeping with parents in bed. Wake up in a space as wide as myself a matraces high lower. Things improved a lot in regards to the Besucherritze
Question of the week: I usually wash my jeans when they are dirty or smelly (or feel like they should be washed). Sometimes I have several different pairs in use because I don't want to wear the same ones days or even weeks in a row. But as long as there is no reason to wash them, why would I? On average I'd say I wear every single pair like 10 times before washing if no reason comes up to do it earlier.
I don‘t think German married couples ever slept in separate twin beds. Even in the Middle Ages, the beds were much smaller than today, but there was only one bed for couples.
RQotW: As I have several, I rotate and let recent worn ones air out, so I guesstimate each gets a wash every 4 weeks, maybe every 6.
We have separate mattresses, one is a lot firmer than the other and on one frame we have an electric raising/lowering function. Whomever is ill, and needs to stay in bed longer gets that side, plus it's a great advantage if one of us is ill, feverish, we need only change one set of sheets as needed. We also have different weight duvets, I like the heavier one, he the lighter one.
I actually prefer the ice cream that gets hard in the freezer. Seems to last longer before melting into a puddle at the bottom of the bowl. I've seen and used the trick to take a small container (has to be cardboard) and using a serrated knife to cut it in two and peeling off packaging and serving it as it.
Nice Jack Wolfskin Shirt! I have a similar one! My comments: Ice Cream!! I live in the Ice Cream Consumption capital of the US - Boston. I hosted a German/English language student in High School in 1989 - he loved our local ice cream and wished he could have it in Germany. I went to Germany that summer and fell in love with Spaghetti Eis and wished I had that here (we always want what the other one has!). My wife and I went full-German on our beds after our 2018 trip to Germany. We now have a queen "sleep number" bed, where we can set our own firmness, and we have our own duvets with only a top sheet. We love it!!!
Question of the week! - I usually wash my jeans after 2 or three days of wear. I work overnight and sleep during the day, so I usually only wear them for 4-5 hours at a time.
those poopshelves are outdated but they made a lot of sense when they where not
I appreciate the inclusion of Bernd D. Brot in the images of German geniuses.
2 matrazes is a good thing some people like to sleep on a softer one and some people sleep on harder ones so you can easely fit 2 1x2m next to each other that does mean that you can also fit a big 2x2m single one in the same frame sometimes even a water one 😅
16:15 „How often do you wash your Jeans 👖?“ @Ryan: a) when they are dirty or gotten into rain / smell b) without any reason, ABOUT once very two weeks, surly not daily (unlike t-Shirts, don’t ask my why)