It took me a while, too. The second one shows the train arrival overview and there is one train that is supposedly arriving 2 minutes early, which is basically unheard of. German trains are known for being late or not even arriving at all.
Bruh, to me it looks like digital signage on the actual train for arrival time at the next stop, indicating platform number and soonest departures/connections.
Big crowds at train station are not normal in Germany. During the summer the german citizens were able to buy a train ticket which was really cheap (9€). You were allowed to take all the slower public transportations in the whole country (bus, small trains, etc.) but not the fast ones (IC and ICE). Many Germans were using this ticket for short vacation trips. Sylt is a very popular island in the north-west of Germany and due to that, thousands of people tried to take the slower trains to have some nice days at the beach. The ticket was sponsored by the government to compensate the higher gas prices.
"Big crowds at train station are not normal in Germany" You clearly have never been in one of the big cities. Crowded train stations in the morning (at the start of the workday) and in the afternoon (at the end of the workday) are the norm there. Like, you know something is wrong if the train stations are NOT crowded.
@@mementomori5580 to be fair, it's normally not THAT full. Still one could be Hard pressed to sometimes fit on the train on a normal workday, but it definitely was quite extreme around that time. On the other hand I totally was enticed to take the train to Sylt myself, just because the rich people were afraid that more 'poor' people would come to their Island. What does one say? Self-fulfilling prophecy?^^
@@mementomori5580 That would be the usual rush hour traffic. It’s the same for trains in any big city around the world. Just look at the London tube when people are commuting to and from work, or NYC, Paris. The crowd turnout was definitely much larger at all times than it usually is during the summer months with the €9 ticket. Being retired and not having a great deal of money, I used the ticket quite a bit to get around, at least in the vicinity of my hometown.
As a German: The second video is so shocking to Germans because the train is 2 minutes early. German trains are notorious for ALWAYS being late. It's super rare when they arrive on time, this one's even early.
The last clip is from the main city square from Halle, the second largest city in Sachsen-anhalt a east german state. In the video you can see the roter Turm (red tower) in the background. The main plaza is built over a salt mine, which is long dry out, but the remnants are still there. It is possible to look down trough little windows, but you also can take a tour trough it. The salt produktion was the main produktion in Halle so it is also seen in the coat of arms of the city. I actually live in the southwest of Germany, but I have a friend in Halle who studies geography.
I saw the tower and was like, wait... that's Halle. Never expected to see my (current) home city here :D A little correction on the geology. The salt in Halle was not mined, so there is no salt mine underneath. The salt got to the surface via salt springs. The thing you can see through the window is the Hallesche Marktplatzverwerfung (the fault under the town square). The tunnel/shaft was only made to make this fault visible from above. The fault is the reason why the salt got to the surface without having to be mined.
6:15 Yeah, he just said "hello" in many different german dialects and in a touristy area you may encounter all of These greetings in a Single hiking Trip
Also you instantly know where that person is from lol. Moin us usually said in the very north of Germany, while grüß gott is more common in the south, Bavaria specifically etc.
But there should be an explanation. After a full cycle and the escalator thinks it is empty it will stop. At that time, whoever steps first on the sensor plate, top or bottom, will get the right of way for the escalator direction.
The best thing about the reversible escalator is that you can wait at the top until a train arrives. Then a hundred people want to go up and you activate it just in time. Now you leisurely ride it down while you watch everyone having to climb the stairs. This is how you can get some of the most intense, soul-penetrating stares you'll ever experience in your life.
Where i live (bigger city in germany) we have those a lot but at very crowded places there are usually 1 just for up and 1 just for down. Otherwise we wouldn't have a lot of streetfights here i guess.. 😅 In smaller cities i never saw them.
That "be rich or be poor" take is so weird. I have a middle class income. The "benefit" I get is never having to worry about money, being able to afford luxuries like tech, vacations etc without having to plan much of a budget for it.. And I still get to live in this country, which despite much whining is still one of the best places in the world to live in (no offence to other countries, elsewhere can be nice too).
@@noobdrawings3289 Nah, I think not having particular income worries is pretty much what defines the middle class. Upper middle class is a whole different ballpark, that's borderline rich. I'd say someone who owns either several properties or one fancy one, can afford the occasional high end luxury etc would count as upper middle class (that's wealth-equivalent of about close to 1mil, to a couple mil). If you're struggling to pay bills, can't afford any luxuries, constantly have to worry about whether your income is going to be sufficient and the cause is _not_ just that you're incredibly irresponsible with your spending (which is not a nice thing to assume of other people), you're not any sort of middle class, you're poor. That's all by 21st century german standards of course. Historically you'd say you're not poor if you were _presently_ not starving, but we don't live in the middle ages or a warzone.
It's like in comedy: you either punch up or you punch down. That guy decided to punch down. He clearly hasn't understood that the wellbeing of an individual in the end benefits all of society. Calling a basic RIGHT 'handouts' says a lot about his character.
@Hannes Steffenhagen I am considered lower middle class and totally agree. Also even as middle class you can still benefit from many things, you just got to inform yoursleves.
We also have egg holders in France. It's for eating eggs that are only slightly cooked (3min). You cut off the top, add salt, pepper, and dip pieces of buttered bread in it. Very nice :)
Only 3 minutes 🙀 Where I live the eggs need at least 5 minutes so the white part is not liquid anymore. Or are you eating your eggs with liquid egg white? Or well...a teacher told me once that it actually depends on the height you live in.. for example cooking an egg in the mountains takes longer. 🤔
@@desotodavill7740 well it depends on a lot of factors. Size of the egg, when you start the timer (right when you put the eggs in the boiling water or once the water boils again), if the eggs where in the fridge or room temperature. A higher altitude means lower air pressure which means lower boiling temperature and slower cooking in theory. I don't know how significant the boiling temperature difference really is though.
@Desoto Davill Let me guess: you put your eggs in boiling water and set your timer for five minutes. This is a popular method of cooking eggs, quite widespread in Germany. Another option, though, is placing the eggs in cold water, then bringing it to the boil and setting your timer for three minutes. 🙂 A more energy-efficient option. Potentially. 😅
1:01 i think what she wanted to say is that the train arrives earlier as planned. Germany is known that trains are delayed very often or that trains are cancelled in the last second. She should arrive at 10:46 pm (22:46) but her arrivement is at 10:44 pm (22:44) so shes 2 minutes early and she took the video at 10:41pm (22:41 top right corner)
Hey guy! You were wondering about "Döner Kebab". You already have seen it before but i can't remember in wich video. The Döner (Kebab) is a pita bread filled with meat (mostly chicken or deer but sometimes lamb or sheep), onions, cucumber, tomato, coleslaw and diffrent sauces. It is really delicious and a good food to eat while walking because of the (pita) bread. It was foundet by a turkish immigrant in Berlin. The meat is the turkish version of greek gyros. So it is "baked" in many layers on a stick. Greetings from Germany and Thank You for your interesting stuff
Ryan is quite good at the "pretending to have no former knowledge" act. Unlike other "Germany reacters" who build their audience on their progression, he's targeting the "random recommendation" crowd.
Absolutely agree, the egg yolk should always be runny and the egg whites should be hard. (In every way you can make your eggs, except Omelettes and scrambled eggs of course. 😂)
1:25 It is a panel INSIDE the train showing you date, time, train you are using, how many wagons it has, next stop (with the sceduled time ("geplant") and the actual time ("Aktuell") of arrival.) as well as the next few following stops.
It's always funny to me that Ryan keeps on reacting so surprised to door handles. Actually most countries use door handles and only a minority like the US use door knobs. Door knobs are much harder to operate especially for small children or people with disabilities or when your hands are wet or greasy. Also you can operate door handles with your elbow if you carry something heavy or f.i. a sleeping child. There are actually no redeeming factors for using door knobs at all 😃
.. you just made me realise - how are americans opening doors in covid times?? Here everyone started using their elbow -and you can even buy little plastic gadets to use instead of your hand.
I don´t think , this is what it means. In Germany most of the main doors have no handle on the outside. You need the key to open it again. But it is much more safe, because it prevents people, to just enter your house. if you leave the house, you don´t need to close the door with the key. But... if you accitently walk out without your key you have a problem.
I have one reason: you wouldn't get caught on a doorknob as easily as on a handle..... you know you're jacket or headphone cable or pockets etc. at least inside the house....
Second one at 0:58 : This looks like the route monitoring and Schedule inside a train wagon. As to be seen in the upper Left Corner, it is the "Regional Express Train 1" (RE 1) The "HDMI Port" , if I remember right , says it is wagon 4. Above that "HDMI Port is says the time in 24h System, or "Military" as most US Citizen refer to it. 22:41 is basically 10:41 p.m.. The white marked line shows the next Stop for the train. it says "geplant" (planed) for 22:46 (10:46 p.m.) → "Aktuell" (actually) 22:44 (10:44 p.m.) at Gate 7 A-C at the Nuremberg Main Train Station. The Lines below show scheduled most common Connecting trains for Transfer Passengers. The unreal part is, that the Train arrives 2 minutes early. Usually Trains are late, sometimes very late, sometimes won't come at all...
@@rediflow "aktuell" in such tables usually means "aktuelle Schätzung"; current estimate. Depending on how far away the stop is, the estimate can change later.
8:05 Yes Germans do love their techno. The genre was actually invented here in the 80's and has been the most popular club music until quite recently when pop and hiphop took over.
@@foxdaroxx6739 Schranz... „Techno“ wird auch als Oberbegriff für verschiedene miteinander verwandte Stilrichtungen der elektronischen Tanzmusik verwendet. In diesem Zusammenhang knüpft er an das Verständnis der 1980er-Jahre an, als „Techno“ eine Funktion als Sammelbezeichnung für „technologisch-fortschrittliche Musik“ innehatte.
The "enjoy paying taxes" thing is all about give and take, yeah. We see our taxes as "paying into the pot" for all the benefits that you don't get in the US, plus we actually earn enough usually, that the taxes don't hurt in the same way.
There is nothing better than having to pay a lot of tax. Because íf you have to pay a a lot of tax this means you made an even much bigger amount of money. Who could ask for more?
What she says. Paying taxes is seen by most Germans as sensible because it pays for roads, schools, hospitals, social welfare, etc., etc. The less we pay, the less the state can spend on meaningful things.
@@stanislavbandur7355 i am happy to pay the taxes so she can spend time with her baby. And best of all...if she got the baby in germany and is already in the healcare sytem she got the baby without getting into debt, only for looking at it. I can be wrong but i think you have to pay 10 euro per day in the hospital👍🏾
That’s totally ridiculous, as an unmarried person without family you pay nearly over 40% taxes and no it’s not pleasant and no we don’t have better infrastructure than many other countries, I would argue even worse..
"Bubbled Water" is in fact soda water. Most of us Germans highly prefer it over still water. And because in Germany (and Europe and I think in most parts of USA as well) tab water usually is of a very high quality, you can drink it without having doubts about it. It is far cheaper than bottled water, so having a soda streamer is quite a good idea - and you don't have to carry those bottled you would have bought otherwise.
In fact it is not cheaper than really cheap soda/mineral water. The CO2 tanks are not so cheap as a refill. But you don't need to carry all the bottles which makes it quite nice (I own one).
@@reinhard8053 it's 5,55€ per refil and you can drink one to two month from it. A six pack of plastic bottle water ranges from 90 Cents to 3 €, depending what you buy. So it's way cheaper. And on top of that you safe a lot of transportation and waste
@@PeterPan-vz7mk The cheapest mineral water here is about €0,27 / 1,5l , so €0,18/l. The refill should be good for 60l and is about €6-7, which means €0,10 / l if you really get so much from a tank. I always had the feeling that it's less. In the beginning I noted it and it were about 40-45 fillings of these bottles. They are 1l, but you are supposed to only fill it to 0,84l per manual and marking on the bottle. So about 40l / tank or up to €0,17/l. Yes it is cheaper, but not so much. If you really calculate you need to add the price of the Sodastream and the bottles and that you need new bottles every 2(?) years. I have 2 for home and 3 for the office.
Greetings man from a humble German. Currently ill since 2 days, the first day i got to know your channel. Since than i watched a whole bunch of your videos. It's a pleasure watching you react to german culture, and getting to learn more about the german culture i kinda didnt know or "ignored".
Since: a point in the past: since Tuesday, since January, since 11:30 yesterday, since I was born, since I got my diploma For: a period of time - for three months, for years, for days, for hours, for ages You’re welcome!
12:30 Haha not expecting to see the Hallesche Störung there... it's a actually an exhibition piece showing off a geological feature that made the city rich and which runs right through the market square - a crack (or rather, a system of cracks) in the underlying rocks, which allowed salt water to raise up. The salt water was cooked off and the salt was sold and remained an identity piece for the city (they still have a salt crystal and a boiling vessel as their coat of arms), so they decided to at least make a confusing display piece out of it - if you turn it just right, a light goes on allowing you to see the crack structure a bit better. Geology and geography students of the town university are sent there regularly, so at least someone in town knows what is going on.
@1:30 it shows a display in a regional train ( to Nuremberg, southern Germany, in coach # 4) - showing that the arrival will be 2 minutes ahead of schedule. This video takes the piss of the fact that every other train in Germamy arrives late.
#1:22 -- the train is faster as planed ... it's a helarious joke about punctuality of the deutsche Bahn. it's a train shedule .. and the "hdmi-port" is the count of wagons.
At 5:21 - The "Döner" is a famous takeout. I guess you could say it is the equivalent to your Taco trucks in the US. They are everywhere and it is a foreign dish and cheap. It is toasted bread filled with hot sauce and vegetables and then some type of grilled chopped meat. It is a traditionally turkish dish, but in Germany they have invented many variants, differen toppings and sometimes combined with fries. (edit: the song is a silly german folk song, that makes not much sense but is funny to sing along.. drunk people greatest hits .. lol)
1:20, the train is supposed to arrive at 10:46 p.m., but the Deutsche Bahn (thr train servise in Germany) is late for 95% of all trips, but this train is supposed to arrive at the station too early.
I'm German and I've been on so many train stations, running after so many trains.... I did NOT know that the escalators would turn their direction if I had approached them. My god, I'm laughing at myself right now 😂
Die Rolltreppen die die Richtung wechseln findet man auch eher an U-Bahnen oder Zughaltestellen die nicht so hoch frequentiert werden. In meiner Stadt sind die an den U-Bahnen zu finden. An großen Bahnhöfen findest du die nicht, da gibt es für jede Richtung eine. ;)
1:30 that is the train Schedule of an Inter City Express (ICE) which is on Time and the funny part about that is that especially the DB(Deutsche Bahn the Biggest German Train Company) is known to be always late. And it is almost a miracle that a train is on time and even more so because the train arrived before the scheduled time.
The last video is filmed in Halle (Saale) and the "weird" thing is a Geoskop, where you can look at the tectonic disturbance called "Hallesche Marktplatzverwerfung" or "Hallesche Störung" (eng. "Halle fault"). Halle is the only bigger city in Germany that is located on something like this (but I'm not sure how common it is in the rest of the world). Unfortunately, there are no information in English about it.
@@fatc4t no problem. I live in Halle and a lot of inhabitants here don't know either what exactly this is. It's also very inconspicuous between the historical buildings, so many people don't notice it.
@@AbsolutePernilla it was built in 2006, so it isn't that old yet. Maybe it just didn't exist, when you were here? It is in front of the church on the town square..
6:30 They have three lights: top one: ⛔ - wrong direction; middle one: ⬆️ go on; bottom one: like a triangle with up and down arrows - if you walk on them wrong way, I will reverse.
The greetings are a mix of typical regional ones. "Hallo" the more international German version of "Hello" used everywhere. "Grüss Gott" most common in the south basically derived. from "Gott segne dich" ("May God bless you"). "Servus" more common in southern Germany, especially Bavaria along the old "I am your humble servant". Another is "Pfuät Di" ("May God guide you"). "Moin" is typical for northern Germany and most people mistake it for something about "Morning", but it actually is a shortened form of "Moien Dag"/"Moi'n Dag" which means "Guten Tag" ("Have a good day") in Plattdeutsch/Friesisch.
1:35 it's actually a display in a train that shows the arrival time of the next station and some connections available there. Since germans often complain about the unpunctuality of the trains, this picture shows, that the train will arrive even 2 minutes EARLIER 😱😉
0:52 explanation: in germany it´s a meme that the trains always arrive much later than they should (and it´s true) but in this case the train arrives sooner than it should
in my country you also cannot congratulate to birthday, we have the same "thing" here, it is said if you wish early birthday you will die, you can be congratulate after birthday, cause you actually survive and getting older...and last time I was visiting graves I realise many people died couple days before their birthday, so maybe it´s some true in it;)
6:00 when you’re hiking in the mountains, it’s normal to greet everyone even if you don’t know each other. It’s like a mountain law. If you don’t greet, you’re disrespectful.
We use eggholders almost every Saturday/Sunday when we make like the "big fancy" breakfast and make fresh boiled eggs. As they are too hot to hold we use Eggholders. Or we just put the egg on breat (So the yellow from the egg flows all over the bread and ham, delicious x3)
01:16 This is an information display from a german comutter train. It says, that this train is today 2 min before its timetable. Sadly, the german (former federal) train company saved a lot of money and reduced the railwaysistem that there a lots of construction works neccessary and if one train is delayed, it will has consequences on many other trains. Because of that, german trains are VERY often delayed and it is really rare that a train is running before its timetable.
2:48 this refers to the 9€ ticket we got this summer as a special offer to reduce energy consumption. For 9€ per month you could use every regional public transport all over the country. You could also use regional trains to go for longer distances by changing trains a lot on the way. A lot of people did that and there where a lot of pretty much over crowded trains last summer. We get kind of the same ticket continuously starting next year but for 49€ a month which is also pretty nice.
Two-way escalators just work by having a pressure plate at both ends that triggers it to run the right direction for a short while when someone steps on it. It's mostly on smaller entrances to inner-city rail/subway stations. 11:30: Eggholders are for classic breakfast eggs, which are slightly boiled in their shell, but not to the point of becoming fully solid. Then you put it into the holder, crack the shell at the top and can eat the runny egg with a spoon. Optionally, sprinkle some salt on it.
Looking someone in the eyes is sign of respect , especially while talking to the person. But eye contact is also a great way to communicate . “Ein Blick sagt mehr als 1000 Worte .” american tourist are known for being a bit more noisy and so they might get a irritated/ angry look but it is most of the time just a sign of “ pls be quit you are disturbing me “ I would say it is just how we do it. PS : Could you react on the NFL game in Munich
I have to admit it took some getting used to when I first came to Germany. I didn’t speak the language at first it took a couple of months to learn it, but by 6 months I was pretty fluid. So when Germans would look at me, say something and laugh, I got paranoid thinking they were laughing at me. It took me a while to realize that they were just laughing at something that was said in the course of their conversation and that they had just coincidentally looked in my direction, but that their laughter really had nothing to do with me.
6:15 it's pretty normal to greet people you meet on the trail. even though you never see those people again. also showcasing different greetings used here
In reality, middle class German life is probably closest to the reality of life while being comfortable. Sure, getting benefits and support when you're poor is nice, but keeping those benefits is not always easy and even with them, you'd feel much more comfortable and would probably have a better lifestyle if you didn't depend on public support. Just mentally and physically, being financially independent as a middle class person will make you a lot better off than somebody who's poor on benefits. The whole premise of the video talking about this was based on a selfish giving and taking dynamic, aka a "why help others if there's nothing in it for me" which is just sad and I'm glad you agree that being poor still sucks, even with comparably good benefits.
1:24 it is time schedule inside of train, it says next stop Nurnberg. The train should arrive 2 minutes earlier than expected :D where almost everywhere else in the world usually train is late :) Btw i'm curious, do you plan to do commentary about videos from other European countries or you want to focus on Germany only? thanks ;)
I mean it is pretty rare in germany that a train isn't late ;D At least if you travel longer distances. Short distance train travel is on time at least most of the time
11:29, the door does not lock automatically, just the top bolt "locks" the door in place, however it is very easy to open with a bit of knowledge if it isn't locked for real.
The DJ playing in the club clip is Liltexas from LA/California. He primarily plays Hardcore and Uptempo and gained a lot of traction in the last two years. So he is now a regular guest at hardcore festivals all over Europe with most of them still happening in the Netherlands. His performances are weird ones of a kind. Despite his mixing style he does a very exhibitionist and provocative show. Most often going full commando near the end of his sets.
Egg cups as we call them are rife in the UK and been around since the 1600's, we use them to eat boiled eggs and dip toast or bread soldiers into, as for Soda Streams, they are British too, having been made since 1903, my first job after leaving school in 1976, was making the bloody things..😊
Its always so weird for me to hear that other countries wish each other a happy birthday before its their birthday. The "bad luck" part is so normal here in germany that we used to chase each other around with it when we were kids. Every time someone was close to their birthday we'd just try to catch them off guard and say it. The other party would always hold their ears shut, make loud noises to not hear it and run away. Was pretty fun.
1:40 it is the schedule displayed inside of a train. The train is scheduled to arrive at 22:46 but is predicted to arrive at 22:44, i.e. 2 minutes early. It is a reference to the often-times delayed German trains.
12:05 … Surprised to see my hometown HALLE (SAALE) in your video. 😅 So I'm one of the 0.01% who know. This is a rotating geoscope, installed on the market square. You can see a special geological fault, which allows the formation of brine springs. The cornerstone of wealth of the city in the Middle Ages, salt was more valuable than gold. The guy didn't take it properly, you can see only his camera. 🤪
6:35 Oh man, that's boring. Takes the whole challenge out of running up the "wrong" escalator trying to beat it before someone else steps on it from the right side... XD
Nah it works differently when someone walks through the sensor it goes into one direction for a set amount of time You can still run up the wrong direction just someone has to activate the sensor at the top first
Lol that 99,99% thing is pretty funny actually 😅. It's at the "Marktplatz" from my Hometown "Halle (Saale)" and especially this city kinda grow big economical (in the Middle Ages) because it was build on salt. Through that thing on the Market you can see a real salt line in the underground but the lights are only on if you rotate it to the correct angle xD (in the Video they was off). I loved to play with it in my young ages ☺️
1:21 the scheduled arrival for the train was 22:46 (or 10:46 p.m. for any werd people using that system) and the predicted time of actual arrival was 22:44 (or 10:44 p.m.) so the train would have arrived two minutes earlier than planned (instead of later like they usually do)
The one at 0:55 is an insider. In germany the trains are often not on time (5-10minutes late for normal trains, ICE I dont know..but more I think). The Picture shows, that the train should arrive at 22:46 but is there at 22:44 instead.. so 2 minutes EARLIER. We often joke about our trains being late.
2:29 Some context regarding the ICE (InterCity Express) and the 9€: This summer our government sponsored train tickets for a period of 3 months. During that time you were able to purchase a ticket for 9€ that was valid all across Germany for one month. Only limit: The ICE had been excluded from that offer so that you had to take low-speed regional trains. The island of Sylt (at the most north-west corner of Germany) became a running gag as it is known to be a highsociety destitation which is out of reach for most germans because of distance and of pricing.
In Germany you can still wish sb sth in advance for their birthday. Phrasing is key. You can say: "I hope, you'll have a great day on your birthday" or comparable.
I enjoy paying taxes. I would enjoy paying taxes more if I knew that the money is used better (for example the Educational System is still underfunded), but it's not that the society does not benefit. I took classes at an evening school to qualify for studying at an university, which was mostly funded by other people, paying taxes. (both, evening school and University) Now, as I have a job, earning good money, I gladly pay taxes to give back to society...
The second one is about the German Train Company called "Deutsche Bahn" and is known for being late. Like not 2 or 3 minutes late but late as in 30 to hours late or that the train isn't even coming. I traveled for nearly 3 years with the train on a daily to get to school and back. And I have seen it all, except that the train came early, that is something I have never seen before. It is even unusual that the train arrives on time. But it is only the Company "Deutsche Bahn" other Train Company like "FlixTrain" manage to always arrive on time, with at least only a few minutes of delay
10:05 I always cringe from this argument, he literally has the option of "benefiting" from being poor too, but somehow he choose against this amazing option of being poor ...curious.
It even annoys me personally. I happen to grow up in a poor family (by german standards of course, so it wasn't too bad), getting the benefits this guy is talking about. Now I am very much part of the middle class and would I want to go back? Hell no. I can afford a way nicer life now compared to what we had before. His kind of argument usually only comes from people who didn't actually experience the kind of life and is envious about what others get for free. Not realising that almost anyone of those poorer people would probably trade places with him, if they could.
7:04 this kind of escalators have two light sensors at each end. Normal is off . They start at contact rolling toward the other end. If a configured time has passed. They will stop. If than activated from other end they will roll the reversed way. So to change direction you have to wait for a full stop.
The reversable esacllators usually are used for stuff like subway stations, where there is either a train arriving in the near future or just has departed, so there even can be much traffic, but only in one direction
1:28 - it's a monitor showing the train's arrival 2 minutes earlier... that's the unreal moment because trains here are either on time or late... the 9€ situation... that's been real. Germany had a 9€ ticket for 3 months (June - August) and regional trains had been packed... So many trains had to be cleared out because there'd been too many people.
1:33 that's the time schedule on the trains. Hbf means Hopbahnhof (train station) . I wanna say it's one of the trains that departs from my city, but there's no direct to Munich train as far as I'm aware. But Ansbach, Nürnburg, Roth are all stops on the train i take to work each morning. Although I get off at Postbaur Heng🍻
1:34 it most likly means she expects her train to be late. Her plan says the train will arive at 22:46 (10:46pm) and it's allready 2 minutes before she arrives at her city so she most likly either thinks her train will be too late or (wich is very rare) it could be that her train was too early
3:13 It was the time we had a special 9 Euro ticket, valid for all public transportation in Germany, except the fast intercity and eurocity trains. And there is a huge difference in the time you need. When I would go from Berlin to Hanover by train, it is 2 hours from main station to main station, but 4 hours and more, would I try to use slower trains, I also have to change to another train at Magdeburg and Braunschweig.
The second thing is an in-train display, showing that the train will be 2 minutes early. The thing that looks like an HDMI port to you is a depiction of a train car (in this case the picture was taken in car number 4)
In high traffic areas the escalators move only in one way. They can be controlled how to behave. In subway stations that are not like in the middle of the cities usually they go both ways. They only stop if noone is on them, so if there come more and more people in one direction it wont stop and be able to reverse in the other direction. There are also elevators in every subway stop.
We got these displays on almost all trains. Tells you the next stops, scheduled and expected arrival times, wich track you will arrive on, and even the available connections from there. And if you really know how to read the signs, you can even tell where a wagon will be while waiting at a train station.
+9:50 i enjoy paying taxes. Because those taxes pay for a lot of services i use or used in the past. Also these taxes pay for a whole lot of social welfare programs. And that means none of my friends or family ever asked me for money to pay medical bills, loosing a job doesn't mean you are immediately without income. It also pays for our roads and infrastructure. And last but not least, those taxes also pay for the upkeep of our many historical sites. A couple of years back, i went on a daytrip with a friend and we visited some church. That church was built in the year 1100+smthn. Just think about that for a moment. Walking a huge cathedral, built out of 5 feet thick boulders, 900 years ago. Almost a millenium, and that is not even that rare. So yea, i enjoy paying my taxes.
8:00 this genre is called hardcore/uptempo. Invented in the netherlands. The Djs name is Lil Texas👍and yes we do love harder styles of music in germany🔥
What you can see in the last TikTok is the "Hallesche Marktplatzverwerfung" (Halle's marketplace fault). It's where you can look at a fracture in the rock which I believe is the result of a former earthquake (sorry for my english skills, geology is totally not my field of expertise)
Just the fact that me a 15yo german is chilling in his bed at 0:25 in germany and watching a guy from Indiana reacting to german tiktoks or tiktoks about germany is kinda mindblowing if you consider the distance etc
the second tiktok was the screen that are in the trains , showing the nextstop and if its a station where you can get connections to other trains , subways , bus or trams , you can see that on the screens with times and platforms too. i dont know if its special for other countries but thats what the tiktok showed ^^
1:11 that clip was about the german trains by the company "DB" they're known for the trains that are ALWAYS too late but the train in the clip was 2 minutes too early (Which like never happens)
In regards to the crowded platform @3:15 one should point out that the circumstances had been special last summer: Because of increasing gas prices the german government funded a 3 months campaign when one could get a ticket for a whole month covering the complete german railway system and all municipalities' public transportation systems for only 9€/$9, not included only the highspeed trains ICE, "Inter City Express". At the height of the summer vacation season travelling got suddenly so cheap that it was basically for free, that's why far more people than usual used the railway system during june, july and august.
The last one is actually a fault zone that runs through the marketplace in Halle (Saale). It doesn't record anything (it was the reflection of the camera) and by rotating it while looking through the glass you can see the fault better because of the differing angles. It's called a geoscope.
The one video at abou 6:00 was a small set of greetings used in Germany. One thing is interessting he acutlly useed the right for of Moin to start. A lot of people use Moin, Moin to start, but that is the response.
Depends on the area. In some places of northern germany you will only hear "Moin, moin" from tourists. In fact I lived in an area, where that was used to identify tourists. Edit: The "Moin, moin" from tourists in that area originates, because often people got told "Moin, moin" would be a specially friendly greeting and of course they want to be friendly and use it.
Döner Kebap is an originally Turkish food accommodated to German needs. This style of serving this dish was allegedly invented in Berlin in the late 1960s. The German Wikipedia page is more thorough on the specifics of the dish than the English page but the English page covers more international aspects.
@Ryan Wass The last tiktok is in Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt on the market square. It shows a fault line (this has been created artificially) because the city was built on different soils. For example, a building on the market square has sagged so much over time that the building and its tower are crooked. It was not built on the otherwise resident porphyry (a volcanic rock) but on quicksand-like soil. This was discovered and cleaned up years ago. And I know about it because I studied geology there...
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It took me a while, too. The second one shows the train arrival overview and there is one train that is supposedly arriving 2 minutes early, which is basically unheard of. German trains are known for being late or not even arriving at all.
nah its the DEUTSCHE BAHN thats always late but yeah its like 99% of all trains
Haven't noticed that, even as a german native. 🙂
lol., thank for clarifying. I had no idea .. 😄
Bruh, to me it looks like digital signage on the actual train for arrival time at the next stop, indicating platform number and soonest departures/connections.
It's a regional train (RE = Regionalexpress). Regional Trains are, in my experience, usually on time, while Intercity trains like the ICE have delays
Big crowds at train station are not normal in Germany. During the summer the german citizens were able to buy a train ticket which was really cheap (9€). You were allowed to take all the slower public transportations in the whole country (bus, small trains, etc.) but not the fast ones (IC and ICE). Many Germans were using this ticket for short vacation trips. Sylt is a very popular island in the north-west of Germany and due to that, thousands of people tried to take the slower trains to have some nice days at the beach. The ticket was sponsored by the government to compensate the higher gas prices.
"Big crowds at train station are not normal in Germany"
You clearly have never been in one of the big cities.
Crowded train stations in the morning (at the start of the workday) and in the afternoon (at the end of the workday) are the norm there.
Like, you know something is wrong if the train stations are NOT crowded.
@@mementomori5580 to be fair, it's normally not THAT full. Still one could be Hard pressed to sometimes fit on the train on a normal workday, but it definitely was quite extreme around that time.
On the other hand I totally was enticed to take the train to Sylt myself, just because the rich people were afraid that more 'poor' people would come to their Island. What does one say? Self-fulfilling prophecy?^^
@Monkeynut Projecting much?
@@mementomori5580 That would be the usual rush hour traffic. It’s the same for trains in any big city around the world. Just look at the London tube when people are commuting to and from work, or NYC, Paris. The crowd turnout was definitely much larger at all times than it usually is during the summer months with the €9 ticket. Being retired and not having a great deal of money, I used the ticket quite a bit to get around, at least in the vicinity of my hometown.
@@mementomori5580 not that Full and I‘m German
As a German: The second video is so shocking to Germans because the train is 2 minutes early. German trains are notorious for ALWAYS being late. It's super rare when they arrive on time, this one's even early.
The last clip is from the main city square from Halle, the second largest city in Sachsen-anhalt a east german state. In the video you can see the roter Turm (red tower) in the background. The main plaza is built over a salt mine, which is long dry out, but the remnants are still there. It is possible to look down trough little windows, but you also can take a tour trough it. The salt produktion was the main produktion in Halle so it is also seen in the coat of arms of the city.
I actually live in the southwest of Germany, but I have a friend in Halle who studies geography.
Even my German hubby doesn’t know that. Thank for sharing the information, we learn something new from Sachsen-Anhalt. Grüße aus Hessen.
👏👏👍🤩Uauuu!!!! ❤️😘
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallesche_Marktplatzverwerfung
I saw the tower and was like, wait... that's Halle. Never expected to see my (current) home city here :D A little correction on the geology. The salt in Halle was not mined, so there is no salt mine underneath. The salt got to the surface via salt springs. The thing you can see through the window is the Hallesche Marktplatzverwerfung (the fault under the town square). The tunnel/shaft was only made to make this fault visible from above. The fault is the reason why the salt got to the surface without having to be mined.
@@resathe6760 Hallenser, Halloren, Hallunken ;)
6:15 Yeah, he just said "hello" in many different german dialects and in a touristy area you may encounter all of These greetings in a Single hiking Trip
Aaaah, now I understand the point of that TikTok. Thank you.
Also you instantly know where that person is from lol. Moin us usually said in the very north of Germany, while grüß gott is more common in the south, Bavaria specifically etc.
moin
Tach auch!
From the Ruhrgebiet in the west.
The reversible escalator was at a small train station,where people either want to enter the train or leave.pretty smart.
But there should be an explanation. After a full cycle and the escalator thinks it is empty it will stop. At that time, whoever steps first on the sensor plate, top or bottom, will get the right of way for the escalator direction.
@@larsradtke4097 It is no sensor plate but a light barrier that activates the escalator.
@@ReisskIaue it depends, some have a light sensor, some you just step on the platform.
That is clearly a Hamburg U-Bahn station. Reversable escalators are common in Hamburg
Haven't seen a reversable escalator in Berlin so far
but its also in the Hamburg main train station, i think
The train was ahead of schedule and they are usually really late.
@Phili yes, that is pretty accurate for the german trains! Also greetings from Germany 🇩🇪
The best thing about the reversible escalator is that you can wait at the top until a train arrives. Then a hundred people want to go up and you activate it just in time. Now you leisurely ride it down while you watch everyone having to climb the stairs. This is how you can get some of the most intense, soul-penetrating stares you'll ever experience in your life.
We have escalator going up and down side by side and sometimes with out Stepps just the one you find at the airport except going up and down
Wait whaaaat? How? What the hell? Where? How do I do that, did I really grow up here without ever noticing?
Where i live (bigger city in germany) we have those a lot but at very crowded places there are usually 1 just for up and 1 just for down. Otherwise we wouldn't have a lot of streetfights here i guess.. 😅
In smaller cities i never saw them.
@@Ljónáma wo wohnst du denn?
@@giuseppeburmeister6009 same
That "be rich or be poor" take is so weird. I have a middle class income. The "benefit" I get is never having to worry about money, being able to afford luxuries like tech, vacations etc without having to plan much of a budget for it..
And I still get to live in this country, which despite much whining is still one of the best places in the world to live in (no offence to other countries, elsewhere can be nice too).
Then ure upper middle class
@@noobdrawings3289 Nah, I think not having particular income worries is pretty much what defines the middle class. Upper middle class is a whole different ballpark, that's borderline rich. I'd say someone who owns either several properties or one fancy one, can afford the occasional high end luxury etc would count as upper middle class (that's wealth-equivalent of about close to 1mil, to a couple mil).
If you're struggling to pay bills, can't afford any luxuries, constantly have to worry about whether your income is going to be sufficient and the cause is _not_ just that you're incredibly irresponsible with your spending (which is not a nice thing to assume of other people), you're not any sort of middle class, you're poor.
That's all by 21st century german standards of course. Historically you'd say you're not poor if you were _presently_ not starving, but we don't live in the middle ages or a warzone.
It's like in comedy: you either punch up or you punch down. That guy decided to punch down. He clearly hasn't understood that the wellbeing of an individual in the end benefits all of society. Calling a basic RIGHT 'handouts' says a lot about his character.
@Hannes Steffenhagen I am considered lower middle class and totally agree.
Also even as middle class you can still benefit from many things, you just got to inform yoursleves.
Kinda true, but middle class does not excist
We also have egg holders in France. It's for eating eggs that are only slightly cooked (3min). You cut off the top, add salt, pepper, and dip pieces of buttered bread in it. Very nice :)
Here is a picture www.cuisineetsentiments.com/images/cuisson-oeuf-a-la-coque_7.jpg
Only 3 minutes 🙀
Where I live the eggs need at least 5 minutes so the white part is not liquid anymore. Or are you eating your eggs with liquid egg white?
Or well...a teacher told me once that it actually depends on the height you live in.. for example cooking an egg in the mountains takes longer. 🤔
@@desotodavill7740 well it depends on a lot of factors. Size of the egg, when you start the timer (right when you put the eggs in the boiling water or once the water boils again), if the eggs where in the fridge or room temperature.
A higher altitude means lower air pressure which means lower boiling temperature and slower cooking in theory. I don't know how significant the boiling temperature difference really is though.
@Desoto Davill Let me guess: you put your eggs in boiling water and set your timer for five minutes. This is a popular method of cooking eggs, quite widespread in Germany. Another option, though, is placing the eggs in cold water, then bringing it to the boil and setting your timer for three minutes. 🙂 A more energy-efficient option. Potentially. 😅
HOW do people eat an egg without an eggholder??? 🤔😳
Just put it on a plate where its rolls from side to side???
1:01 i think what she wanted to say is that the train arrives earlier as planned. Germany is known that trains are delayed very often or that trains are cancelled in the last second. She should arrive at 10:46 pm (22:46) but her arrivement is at 10:44 pm (22:44) so shes 2 minutes early and she took the video at 10:41pm (22:41 top right corner)
Hey guy! You were wondering about "Döner Kebab". You already have seen it before but i can't remember in wich video. The Döner (Kebab) is a pita bread filled with meat (mostly chicken or deer but sometimes lamb or sheep), onions, cucumber, tomato, coleslaw and diffrent sauces. It is really delicious and a good food to eat while walking because of the (pita) bread. It was foundet by a turkish immigrant in Berlin. The meat is the turkish version of greek gyros. So it is "baked" in many layers on a stick. Greetings from Germany and Thank You for your interesting stuff
And as vegan or vegetarion option falafeln are often used instead of meat
Döner macht schöner/Döner makes more pretty
Ryan is quite good at the "pretending to have no former knowledge" act. Unlike other "Germany reacters" who build their audience on their progression, he's targeting the "random recommendation" crowd.
@@HenryLoenwind true
Ehm no, a real döner is veal!
If you never ate a soft boiled egg(white part hard yellow still liquid)you missed the best way to eat an egg.
i was like, how does he eat his egg without an eggholder?! :)
@@MalenBu
They would usually poach an egg, while we boil it in its shell.
cut open, salt and dip a bread-stick in it.... delicious!
Absolutely agree, the egg yolk should always be runny and the egg whites should be hard. (In every way you can make your eggs, except Omelettes and scrambled eggs of course. 😂)
The good old 6 1/2 minutes egg 💕
1:25 It is a panel INSIDE the train showing you date, time, train you are using, how many wagons it has, next stop (with the sceduled time ("geplant") and the actual time ("Aktuell") of arrival.) as well as the next few following stops.
It's always funny to me that Ryan keeps on reacting so surprised to door handles. Actually most countries use door handles and only a minority like the US use door knobs.
Door knobs are much harder to operate especially for small children or people with disabilities or when your hands are wet or greasy. Also you can operate door handles with your elbow if you carry something heavy or f.i. a sleeping child. There are actually no redeeming factors for using door knobs at all 😃
.. you just made me realise - how are americans opening doors in covid times?? Here everyone started using their elbow -and you can even buy little plastic gadets to use instead of your hand.
I don´t think , this is what it means. In Germany most of the main doors have no handle on the outside. You need the key to open it again. But it is much more safe, because it prevents people, to just enter your house. if you leave the house, you don´t need to close the door with the key. But... if you accitently walk out without your key you have a problem.
@@sandrakarls8466 you are right regarding this video, but Ryan always reacts very confused when he sees doors with a handle in his other videos ; )
I have one reason: you wouldn't get caught on a doorknob as easily as on a handle..... you know you're jacket or headphone cable or pockets etc. at least inside the house....
@@ninag3262 that's very theoretical : ) I can't recall any instance where this happened to me.
Second one at 0:58 :
This looks like the route monitoring and Schedule inside a train wagon. As to be seen in the upper Left Corner, it is the "Regional Express Train 1" (RE 1)
The "HDMI Port" , if I remember right , says it is wagon 4.
Above that "HDMI Port is says the time in 24h System, or "Military" as most US Citizen refer to it. 22:41 is basically 10:41 p.m..
The white marked line shows the next Stop for the train. it says "geplant" (planed) for 22:46 (10:46 p.m.) → "Aktuell" (actually) 22:44 (10:44 p.m.) at Gate 7 A-C at the Nuremberg Main Train Station.
The Lines below show scheduled most common Connecting trains for Transfer Passengers.
The unreal part is, that the Train arrives 2 minutes early. Usually Trains are late, sometimes very late, sometimes won't come at all...
"aktuell" means "currently"
"actually" means "tatsächlich"
It's a classic example of a "false friend"
@@NicolaiCzempin
and "tatsächlich" would fit way better... but you are right
@@rediflow "aktuell" in such tables usually means "aktuelle Schätzung"; current estimate. Depending on how far away the stop is, the estimate can change later.
@@NicolaiCzempin I would agree the best translation of "Aktuell" in this case would be "estimated" or "ETA"
8:05 Yes Germans do love their techno. The genre was actually invented here in the 80's and has been the most popular club music until quite recently when pop and hiphop took over.
Still is. I go to techno party's only.
@@ritterderkokosnuss3379 yea I mean same, but majority of clubs sadly don't play tech nowadays, but literally just radio music.
das ist kein Techno... das ist mehr Uptempo lol
@@foxdaroxx6739 Schranz... „Techno“ wird auch als Oberbegriff für verschiedene miteinander verwandte Stilrichtungen der elektronischen Tanzmusik verwendet. In diesem Zusammenhang knüpft er an das Verständnis der 1980er-Jahre an, als „Techno“ eine Funktion als Sammelbezeichnung für „technologisch-fortschrittliche Musik“ innehatte.
@@heiko4297 weiß ich ja nicht
The "enjoy paying taxes" thing is all about give and take, yeah. We see our taxes as "paying into the pot" for all the benefits that you don't get in the US, plus we actually earn enough usually, that the taxes don't hurt in the same way.
There is nothing better than having to pay a lot of tax. Because íf you have to pay a a lot of tax this means you made an even much bigger amount of money. Who could ask for more?
What she says. Paying taxes is seen by most Germans as sensible because it pays for roads, schools, hospitals, social welfare, etc., etc. The less we pay, the less the state can spend on meaningful things.
@@Ploinmaker It seems that she is on maternity leave - paid leave - paid by taxes, the who will be happier than mom spending her time with her child?
@@stanislavbandur7355 i am happy to pay the taxes so she can spend time with her baby. And best of all...if she got the baby in germany and is already in the healcare sytem she got the baby without getting into debt, only for looking at it. I can be wrong but i think you have to pay 10 euro per day in the hospital👍🏾
That’s totally ridiculous, as an unmarried person without family you pay nearly over 40% taxes and no it’s not pleasant and no we don’t have better infrastructure than many other countries, I would argue even worse..
"Bubbled Water" is in fact soda water. Most of us Germans highly prefer it over still water. And because in Germany (and Europe and I think in most parts of USA as well) tab water usually is of a very high quality, you can drink it without having doubts about it. It is far cheaper than bottled water, so having a soda streamer is quite a good idea - and you don't have to carry those bottled you would have bought otherwise.
In fact it is not cheaper than really cheap soda/mineral water. The CO2 tanks are not so cheap as a refill. But you don't need to carry all the bottles which makes it quite nice (I own one).
@@reinhard8053 it's 5,55€ per refil and you can drink one to two month from it. A six pack of plastic bottle water ranges from 90 Cents to 3 €, depending what you buy. So it's way cheaper. And on top of that you safe a lot of transportation and waste
@@PeterPan-vz7mk The cheapest mineral water here is about €0,27 / 1,5l , so €0,18/l. The refill should be good for 60l and is about €6-7, which means €0,10 / l if you really get so much from a tank. I always had the feeling that it's less. In the beginning I noted it and it were about 40-45 fillings of these bottles. They are 1l, but you are supposed to only fill it to 0,84l per manual and marking on the bottle. So about 40l / tank or up to €0,17/l. Yes it is cheaper, but not so much.
If you really calculate you need to add the price of the Sodastream and the bottles and that you need new bottles every 2(?) years. I have 2 for home and 3 for the office.
I've never had good tap water in the US... I've had algae-taste, chlorine-taste, sulfuric-taste....
And the tap water is tested several times a day, while the bottled water is only tested all 2-3 years, so the tap water has better quality.
Greetings man from a humble German.
Currently ill since 2 days, the first day i got to know your channel.
Since than i watched a whole bunch of your videos.
It's a pleasure watching you react to german culture, and getting to learn more about the german culture i kinda didnt know or "ignored".
Since: a point in the past: since Tuesday, since January, since 11:30 yesterday, since I was born, since I got my diploma
For: a period of time - for three months, for years, for days, for hours, for ages
You’re welcome!
@@wakeupcall2665What was he wrong about? Since was right, not for. It would have been for only if he had stopped.
12:30 Haha not expecting to see the Hallesche Störung there... it's a actually an exhibition piece showing off a geological feature that made the city rich and which runs right through the market square - a crack (or rather, a system of cracks) in the underlying rocks, which allowed salt water to raise up. The salt water was cooked off and the salt was sold and remained an identity piece for the city (they still have a salt crystal and a boiling vessel as their coat of arms), so they decided to at least make a confusing display piece out of it - if you turn it just right, a light goes on allowing you to see the crack structure a bit better. Geology and geography students of the town university are sent there regularly, so at least someone in town knows what is going on.
8:10 this „cowboy“ actually called „Lil Texas“, one of very few popular american djs in this genre. And yes, he is really from Texas (Dallas)
@1:30 it shows a display in a regional train ( to Nuremberg, southern Germany, in coach # 4) - showing that the arrival will be 2 minutes ahead of schedule. This video takes the piss of the fact that every other train in Germamy arrives late.
#1:22 -- the train is faster as planed ... it's a helarious joke about punctuality of the deutsche Bahn.
it's a train shedule .. and the "hdmi-port" is the count of wagons.
At 5:21 - The "Döner" is a famous takeout. I guess you could say it is the equivalent to your Taco trucks in the US. They are everywhere and it is a foreign dish and cheap. It is toasted bread filled with hot sauce and vegetables and then some type of grilled chopped meat. It is a traditionally turkish dish, but in Germany they have invented many variants, differen toppings and sometimes combined with fries. (edit: the song is a silly german folk song, that makes not much sense but is funny to sing along.. drunk people greatest hits .. lol)
1:20, the train is supposed to arrive at 10:46 p.m., but the Deutsche Bahn (thr train servise in Germany) is late for 95% of all trips, but this train is supposed to arrive at the station too early.
I'm German and I've been on so many train stations, running after so many trains.... I did NOT know that the escalators would turn their direction if I had approached them. My god, I'm laughing at myself right now 😂
Mach auch nicht alle. meistens nur an Stationen an denen nicht ganz so viel los ist.
not every escalator, pay attention to the "gegenverkehr" schild
Die Rolltreppen die die Richtung wechseln findet man auch eher an U-Bahnen oder Zughaltestellen die nicht so hoch frequentiert werden. In meiner Stadt sind die an den U-Bahnen zu finden. An großen Bahnhöfen findest du die nicht, da gibt es für jede Richtung eine. ;)
@@gerryatriesilke oder nur für eine richtung einen.
1:30 that is the train Schedule of an Inter City Express (ICE) which is on Time and the funny part about that is that especially the DB(Deutsche Bahn the Biggest German Train Company) is known to be always late.
And it is almost a miracle that a train is on time and even more so because the train arrived before the scheduled time.
As a German I suggest u to Watch something about the „Miniaturwunderland“ in Hamburg… it is very interesting
6:40 not in Berlin - you do even see the different symbols (so in THEORY they could) but it's always one-way
The last video is filmed in Halle (Saale) and the "weird" thing is a Geoskop, where you can look at the tectonic disturbance called "Hallesche Marktplatzverwerfung" or "Hallesche Störung" (eng. "Halle fault"). Halle is the only bigger city in Germany that is located on something like this (but I'm not sure how common it is in the rest of the world). Unfortunately, there are no information in English about it.
Thanks, the information i needed. Im from germany and i dont now that thinks like this excist in germany
@@fatc4t no problem. I live in Halle and a lot of inhabitants here don't know either what exactly this is. It's also very inconspicuous between the historical buildings, so many people don't notice it.
My dad was from Halle and I have visited my relatives there a few times but I totally missed this or simply forgot about it. I miss Halle.
@@AbsolutePernilla it was built in 2006, so it isn't that old yet. Maybe it just didn't exist, when you were here? It is in front of the church on the town square..
6:30 They have three lights: top one: ⛔ - wrong direction; middle one: ⬆️ go on; bottom one: like a triangle with up and down arrows - if you walk on them wrong way, I will reverse.
The greetings are a mix of typical regional ones. "Hallo" the more international German version of "Hello" used everywhere. "Grüss Gott" most common in the south basically derived. from "Gott segne dich" ("May God bless you"). "Servus" more common in southern Germany, especially Bavaria along the old "I am your humble servant".
Another is "Pfuät Di" ("May God guide you"). "Moin" is typical for northern Germany and most people mistake it for something about "Morning", but it actually is a shortened form of "Moien Dag"/"Moi'n Dag" which means "Guten Tag" ("Have a good day") in Plattdeutsch/Friesisch.
1:35 it's actually a display in a train that shows the arrival time of the next station and some connections available there. Since germans often complain about the unpunctuality of the trains, this picture shows, that the train will arrive even 2 minutes EARLIER 😱😉
0:52 explanation:
in germany it´s a meme that the trains always arrive much later than they should (and it´s true)
but in this case the train arrives sooner than it should
in my country you also cannot congratulate to birthday, we have the same "thing" here, it is said if you wish early birthday you will die, you can be congratulate after birthday, cause you actually survive and getting older...and last time I was visiting graves I realise many people died couple days before their birthday, so maybe it´s some true in it;)
6:00 when you’re hiking in the mountains, it’s normal to greet everyone even if you don’t know each other. It’s like a mountain law. If you don’t greet, you’re disrespectful.
Samething if you live in a Village or a small town.
We use eggholders almost every Saturday/Sunday when we make like the "big fancy" breakfast and make fresh boiled eggs. As they are too hot to hold we use Eggholders. Or we just put the egg on breat (So the yellow from the egg flows all over the bread and ham, delicious x3)
01:16 This is an information display from a german comutter train. It says, that this train is today 2 min before its timetable.
Sadly, the german (former federal) train company saved a lot of money and reduced the railwaysistem that there a lots of construction works neccessary and if one train is delayed, it will has consequences on many other trains. Because of that, german trains are VERY often delayed and it is really rare that a train is running before its timetable.
2:48 this refers to the 9€ ticket we got this summer as a special offer to reduce energy consumption. For 9€ per month you could use every regional public transport all over the country. You could also use regional trains to go for longer distances by changing trains a lot on the way. A lot of people did that and there where a lot of pretty much over crowded trains last summer.
We get kind of the same ticket continuously starting next year but for 49€ a month which is also pretty nice.
Two-way escalators just work by having a pressure plate at both ends that triggers it to run the right direction for a short while when someone steps on it. It's mostly on smaller entrances to inner-city rail/subway stations.
11:30: Eggholders are for classic breakfast eggs, which are slightly boiled in their shell, but not to the point of becoming fully solid. Then you put it into the holder, crack the shell at the top and can eat the runny egg with a spoon. Optionally, sprinkle some salt on it.
Looking someone in the eyes is sign of respect , especially while talking to the person. But eye contact is also a great way to communicate .
“Ein Blick sagt mehr als 1000 Worte .”
american tourist are known for being a bit more noisy and so they might get a irritated/ angry look but it is most of the time just a sign of “ pls be quit you are disturbing me “
I would say it is just how we do it.
PS : Could you react on the NFL game in Munich
I have to admit it took some getting used to when I first came to Germany. I didn’t speak the language at first it took a couple of months to learn it, but by 6 months I was pretty fluid. So when Germans would look at me, say something and laugh, I got paranoid thinking they were laughing at me. It took me a while to realize that they were just laughing at something that was said in the course of their conversation and that they had just coincidentally looked in my direction, but that their laughter really had nothing to do with me.
6:15 it's pretty normal to greet people you meet on the trail. even though you never see those people again. also showcasing different greetings used here
In reality, middle class German life is probably closest to the reality of life while being comfortable. Sure, getting benefits and support when you're poor is nice, but keeping those benefits is not always easy and even with them, you'd feel much more comfortable and would probably have a better lifestyle if you didn't depend on public support. Just mentally and physically, being financially independent as a middle class person will make you a lot better off than somebody who's poor on benefits. The whole premise of the video talking about this was based on a selfish giving and taking dynamic, aka a "why help others if there's nothing in it for me" which is just sad and I'm glad you agree that being poor still sucks, even with comparably good benefits.
1:34 in germany trains arrive with a delay super often, so it's a miracle when u arrive on point
1:24 it is time schedule inside of train, it says next stop Nurnberg. The train should arrive 2 minutes earlier than expected :D where almost everywhere else in the world usually train is late :) Btw i'm curious, do you plan to do commentary about videos from other European countries or you want to focus on Germany only? thanks ;)
He uses more channels like Ryan Wuzer for Europe in general, Ryan Was for Australia...
I mean it is pretty rare in germany that a train isn't late ;D At least if you travel longer distances. Short distance train travel is on time at least most of the time
11:29, the door does not lock automatically, just the top bolt "locks" the door in place, however it is very easy to open with a bit of knowledge if it isn't locked for real.
The DJ playing in the club clip is Liltexas from LA/California. He primarily plays Hardcore and Uptempo and gained a lot of traction in the last two years. So he is now a regular guest at hardcore festivals all over Europe with most of them still happening in the Netherlands.
His performances are weird ones of a kind. Despite his mixing style he does a very exhibitionist and provocative show. Most often going full commando near the end of his sets.
1:31 I have no idea too, and the display is in trains to show the next stations and when the train arrives
the 9€ Ticket was for 2 month only. for this you could drive through germany. it was a government help. but only the slow trains not the fast ones^^
6:40 I live in Austria and didn’t know these escalators existed.
Egg cups as we call them are rife in the UK and been around since the 1600's, we use them to eat boiled eggs and dip toast or bread soldiers into, as for Soda Streams, they are British too, having been made since 1903, my first job after leaving school in 1976, was making the bloody things..😊
1:21 The train seems to be on point. planned arrival is 2 minutes AFTER actuall arrival. This is not usual in Germany. Trains are always late.
7:50 it's more like hardcore than techno. But yes Germany is the techno nation.
1:20 The train arrives two minutes earlier than planned. Trains are usually late or cancelled.
Its always so weird for me to hear that other countries wish each other a happy birthday before its their birthday. The "bad luck" part is so normal here in germany that we used to chase each other around with it when we were kids. Every time someone was close to their birthday we'd just try to catch them off guard and say it. The other party would always hold their ears shut, make loud noises to not hear it and run away. Was pretty fun.
1:40 it is the schedule displayed inside of a train. The train is scheduled to arrive at 22:46 but is predicted to arrive at 22:44, i.e. 2 minutes early. It is a reference to the often-times delayed German trains.
12:05 … Surprised to see my hometown HALLE (SAALE) in your video. 😅 So I'm one of the 0.01% who know. This is a rotating geoscope, installed on the market square. You can see a special geological fault, which allows the formation of brine springs. The cornerstone of wealth of the city in the Middle Ages, salt was more valuable than gold.
The guy didn't take it properly, you can see only his camera. 🤪
7:00 That's why escalators are broken so often.
But if they work it's really practical.
6:35 Oh man, that's boring. Takes the whole challenge out of running up the "wrong" escalator trying to beat it before someone else steps on it from the right side... XD
Nah it works differently when someone walks through the sensor it goes into one direction for a set amount of time
You can still run up the wrong direction just someone has to activate the sensor at the top first
That board was telling you what the next stop was and what time it would arrive. It also shows the next few stops on the train.
Lol that 99,99% thing is pretty funny actually 😅.
It's at the "Marktplatz" from my Hometown "Halle (Saale)" and especially this city kinda grow big economical (in the Middle Ages) because it was build on salt. Through that thing on the Market you can see a real salt line in the underground but the lights are only on if you rotate it to the correct angle xD (in the Video they was off). I loved to play with it in my young ages ☺️
1:21 the scheduled arrival for the train was 22:46 (or 10:46 p.m. for any werd people using that system) and the predicted time of actual arrival was 22:44 (or 10:44 p.m.) so the train would have arrived two minutes earlier than planned (instead of later like they usually do)
08:58 a smile may not be mandatory, but if you catch one its honest. :)
And if you smile at the waiter and just be a nice guest, than you will often encounter those.
@@livinghypocrite5289 Exactly. Service is actually incredibly good if you don't expect them to lick your shoes and be actually nice to them.
The one at 0:55 is an insider. In germany the trains are often not on time (5-10minutes late for normal trains, ICE I dont know..but more I think). The Picture shows, that the train should arrive at 22:46 but is there at 22:44 instead.. so 2 minutes EARLIER. We often joke about our trains being late.
6:46 I am german, also i also didnt know that
Same
Ist in Hamburg (Liegienstraße U2/U4)
2:29 Some context regarding the ICE (InterCity Express) and the 9€: This summer our government sponsored train tickets for a period of 3 months. During that time you were able to purchase a ticket for 9€ that was valid all across Germany for one month. Only limit: The ICE had been excluded from that offer so that you had to take low-speed regional trains. The island of Sylt (at the most north-west corner of Germany) became a running gag as it is known to be a highsociety destitation which is out of reach for most germans because of distance and of pricing.
Eating soft boiled eggs without an egg holder is really troublesome.
In Germany you can still wish sb sth in advance for their birthday. Phrasing is key. You can say: "I hope, you'll have a great day on your birthday" or comparable.
I enjoy paying taxes. I would enjoy paying taxes more if I knew that the money is used better (for example the Educational System is still underfunded), but it's not that the society does not benefit. I took classes at an evening school to qualify for studying at an university, which was mostly funded by other people, paying taxes. (both, evening school and University)
Now, as I have a job, earning good money, I gladly pay taxes to give back to society...
The second one is about the German Train Company called "Deutsche Bahn" and is known for being late. Like not 2 or 3 minutes late but late as in 30 to hours late or that the train isn't even coming.
I traveled for nearly 3 years with the train on a daily to get to school and back. And I have seen it all, except that the train came early, that is something I have never seen before. It is even unusual that the train arrives on time.
But it is only the Company "Deutsche Bahn" other Train Company like "FlixTrain" manage to always arrive on time, with at least only a few minutes of delay
10:05 I always cringe from this argument,
he literally has the option of "benefiting" from being poor too, but somehow he choose against this amazing option of being poor ...curious.
It even annoys me personally. I happen to grow up in a poor family (by german standards of course, so it wasn't too bad), getting the benefits this guy is talking about. Now I am very much part of the middle class and would I want to go back? Hell no. I can afford a way nicer life now compared to what we had before.
His kind of argument usually only comes from people who didn't actually experience the kind of life and is envious about what others get for free. Not realising that almost anyone of those poorer people would probably trade places with him, if they could.
7:04 this kind of escalators have two light sensors at each end. Normal is off . They start at contact rolling toward the other end. If a configured time has passed. They will stop.
If than activated from other end they will roll the reversed way.
So to change direction you have to wait for a full stop.
5:07 Döner is like Kebab Sandwich (There is a saying 'Döner makes you prettier' - sounds funnier in german, by the way a joke)
The reversable esacllators usually are used for stuff like subway stations, where there is either a train arriving in the near future or just has departed, so there even can be much traffic, but only in one direction
1:19 that’s the tv of a train, that’s showing the destinations
1:28 - it's a monitor showing the train's arrival 2 minutes earlier... that's the unreal moment because trains here are either on time or late...
the 9€ situation... that's been real. Germany had a 9€ ticket for 3 months (June - August) and regional trains had been packed... So many trains had to be cleared out because there'd been too many people.
1:33 that's the time schedule on the trains. Hbf means Hopbahnhof (train station) . I wanna say it's one of the trains that departs from my city, but there's no direct to Munich train as far as I'm aware. But Ansbach, Nürnburg, Roth are all stops on the train i take to work each morning. Although I get off at Postbaur Heng🍻
1:34 it most likly means she expects her train to be late. Her plan says the train will arive at 22:46 (10:46pm) and it's allready 2 minutes before she arrives at her city so she most likly either thinks her train will be too late or (wich is very rare) it could be that her train was too early
3:13 It was the time we had a special 9 Euro ticket, valid for all public transportation in Germany, except the fast intercity and eurocity trains. And there is a huge difference in the time you need. When I would go from Berlin to Hanover by train, it is 2 hours from main station to main station, but 4 hours and more, would I try to use slower trains, I also have to change to another train at Magdeburg and Braunschweig.
The second thing is an in-train display, showing that the train will be 2 minutes early. The thing that looks like an HDMI port to you is a depiction of a train car (in this case the picture was taken in car number 4)
1:36 that’s from for Deutsche Bahn the part where it says which is the next stop in the ICE. it’s because it’s not late.
1:37 that is a trainstation Plan for regional Train (Regional = RE), and for the ICE Station. That is maybe a monitor in a train.
In high traffic areas the escalators move only in one way. They can be controlled how to behave. In subway stations that are not like in the middle of the cities usually they go both ways. They only stop if noone is on them, so if there come more and more people in one direction it wont stop and be able to reverse in the other direction. There are also elevators in every subway stop.
We got these displays on almost all trains. Tells you the next stops, scheduled and expected arrival times, wich track you will arrive on, and even the available connections from there. And if you really know how to read the signs, you can even tell where a wagon will be while waiting at a train station.
+9:50 i enjoy paying taxes. Because those taxes pay for a lot of services i use or used in the past. Also these taxes pay for a whole lot of social welfare programs. And that means none of my friends or family ever asked me for money to pay medical bills, loosing a job doesn't mean you are immediately without income. It also pays for our roads and infrastructure. And last but not least, those taxes also pay for the upkeep of our many historical sites.
A couple of years back, i went on a daytrip with a friend and we visited some church. That church was built in the year 1100+smthn. Just think about that for a moment. Walking a huge cathedral, built out of 5 feet thick boulders, 900 years ago. Almost a millenium, and that is not even that rare.
So yea, i enjoy paying my taxes.
at 1:31 It is an indication of the train route from Nuremberg to Munich and the route takes only 15 minutes (104mi)
8:00 this genre is called hardcore/uptempo. Invented in the netherlands. The Djs name is Lil Texas👍and yes we do love harder styles of music in germany🔥
7:10 There Are these escelator or there Are Eskalator were 1 goes down and on the other side it goes up
What you can see in the last TikTok is the "Hallesche Marktplatzverwerfung" (Halle's marketplace fault). It's where you can look at a fracture in the rock which I believe is the result of a former earthquake (sorry for my english skills, geology is totally not my field of expertise)
1:09 train wasn't delayed or simply removed from the plan for some BS reason.
Just the fact that me a 15yo german is chilling in his bed at 0:25 in germany and watching a guy from Indiana reacting to german tiktoks or tiktoks about germany is kinda mindblowing if you consider the distance etc
the second tiktok was the screen that are in the trains , showing the nextstop and if its a station where you can get connections to other trains , subways , bus or trams , you can see that on the screens with times and platforms too.
i dont know if its special for other countries but thats what the tiktok showed ^^
1:11 that clip was about the german trains by the company "DB" they're known for the trains that are ALWAYS too late but the train in the clip was 2 minutes too early (Which like never happens)
In regards to the crowded platform @3:15 one should point out that the circumstances had been special last summer:
Because of increasing gas prices the german government funded a 3 months campaign when one could get a ticket for a whole month covering the complete german railway system and all municipalities' public transportation systems for only 9€/$9, not included only the highspeed trains ICE, "Inter City Express".
At the height of the summer vacation season travelling got suddenly so cheap that it was basically for free, that's why far more people than usual used the railway system during june, july and august.
The last one is actually a fault zone that runs through the marketplace in Halle (Saale). It doesn't record anything (it was the reflection of the camera) and by rotating it while looking through the glass you can see the fault better because of the differing angles. It's called a geoscope.
1:30 its a screen at a bus or trainstation or in a train that show what the next destination is ans when you arive
The one video at abou 6:00 was a small set of greetings used in Germany.
One thing is interessting he acutlly useed the right for of Moin to start. A lot of people use Moin, Moin to start, but that is the response.
Depends on the area. In some places of northern germany you will only hear "Moin, moin" from tourists. In fact I lived in an area, where that was used to identify tourists.
Edit: The "Moin, moin" from tourists in that area originates, because often people got told "Moin, moin" would be a specially friendly greeting and of course they want to be friendly and use it.
In the first tiktok, the pic with the two men is a painting which was painted on the ,,Berlinder Mauer''
Döner Kebap is an originally Turkish food accommodated to German needs. This style of serving this dish was allegedly invented in Berlin in the late 1960s. The German Wikipedia page is more thorough on the specifics of the dish than the English page but the English page covers more international aspects.
@Ryan Wass
The last tiktok is in Halle (Saale) in Saxony-Anhalt on the market square. It shows a fault line (this has been created artificially) because the city was built on different soils. For example, a building on the market square has sagged so much over time that the building and its tower are crooked. It was not built on the otherwise resident porphyry (a volcanic rock) but on quicksand-like soil. This was discovered and cleaned up years ago. And I know about it because I studied geology there...