American laughs (and cries?) at German memes

[@SiqueScarface]

The Ruhr area is something like the Rustbelt of Germany. Imagine the answer being: "Mr. President, we are currently flying over Detroit."

[@Dekamusic07]

This is a good comparison

[@BeOtterMyFriend]

Hömma... Kannze so nich sagen. Detroit hat weniger Brauereien.

[@SiqueScarface]

@@BeOtterMyFriend Stehse aufm Gasometer im Sturmessausen, und allet watte siehs, is Oberhausen!

[@BeOtterMyFriend]

@@SiqueScarface Machse Nix. Hasse Scheiße am Schuh, hasse Scheiße am Schuh.

[@germaniatv1870]

South Side Chicago maybe?

[@marcelmichaelson306]

"Erstie" is the abbreviation for "Erstsemestler", which means students in their first semester in College or university

[@f-149]

ich dachte es wär ein anderes wort für jungfrau

[@ArKa_47]

I think "freshman" Would be a good substitute 😊

[@wozn7195]

​@@f-149 Spätestens seid Gründung der berliner Produktionsfirma für Erwachsenenkurzfilme - Also hab ich gehört 😅😅

[@germaniatv1870]

Das bisher einzige College in Deutschland war das Bielefelder Oberstufenkolleg Bielefeld in seiner alten Form (bis 2005), das Abitur und Grundstudium in zwei Fächern in einer vierjährigen Ausbildung verband. We dont have Colleges in that sense 🙂

[@marcelmichaelson306]

@@germaniatv1870 Das ist mir schon klar, es ist nur als Begriffserklärung gemeint.

[@RainBrain26]

"A true pirate dares to also set sail on the red sea" means daring to have sex with somebody on their period. "To set sail on a sea" in german literally means "to stab in the sea", so there is where the double entendre comes from. Because you stab that person with you pe- The Turkey one is because of the huge tragic earthquake that killed tens of thousands. The Ruhr area is a huge urban area with a huge industrial base. Maybe like the rust belt but still going strong?

[@OnePieceFan2100]

The Turkey one is because on the Picture we see Fynn Kliemann, an Influencer, that scammed his viewers with masks produced under shitty conditions, claiming they are fair trade and that its a non-profit thing for him during Corvid. In a private chat that was later leaked he wrote "Krise kann auch geil sein" to a business partner regarding the money he earned due to it.

[@CodeNascher_]

"MaiMai" is the literal translation of "maymay", which in turn is an incorrect pronunciation of "meme". Some people pronounced it that way, and now it has become a meme in itself.

[@kleinweichkleinweich]

was zur Hölle ist denn ein "Meme-Ersteller"?

[@hermannschaefer4777]

@@kleinweichkleinweich Ein Contentcreator.

[@Viertelhund]

@@kleinweichkleinweichIst das nicht der Typ von der heute Show, der eine Gehaltsverdienung erhöht?

[@bencze465]

never understood it, always assumed

[@freidenkerin5198]

Aaaah. Den hatte ich nicht verstanden. Danke!

[@nichfra]

9:00 the benefits are government benefits for people with a low income. It can happen that just barely passing the threshold where you're no longer eligible actually means having less disposable income. 10:00 MaiMai is just a meme word for meme

[@spagettie1589]

Thanks for the help with 10:00, it is problebly a regional thing like everything her in germany... I hope I am not so far gone from the 'youth' to say nobody would be caught saying MaiMai at my school XD (Nothing personal to those that say it, my school is just full of judgy toddlers....)

[@bertholdb9037]

@@spagettie1589 No, it is ich_iel slang. They attempt to replace every English word with something German-ish. Mostly because it can be really funny. And for some reason, Meme became "Maimai". I think it should be "Michmich".

[@marcelwin6941]

I am pretty sure that review near the end (kids with guns) is from a German about a stay somewhere else. And unless this person staid in Palestine or some other war zone around the world, it must have been about the sunshine state (or Texss???)

[@quarksandaces2398]

@@marcelwin6941 I'd say those were toy pistols. Probably those that shoot small plastic balls

[@clauslangenbroek9897]

Das deutsche Wort für meme ist Mem und das gibt's seit 1948. Wie blöd die Leute manchmal sind... @@bertholdb9037

[@H.G.Halberd]

12:20 thats a german politician called sahra wagenknecht i think, in this video she predicts that putin wont invade since he isnt as he is shown in the media and isnt a crazy nationalist etc. (Which turned out to be wrong obviously)

[@AB-on1on]

In addition: that clip of her is from a talk show one or two days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

[@olgakipke3720]

Victoria Nuland had already been there in 2014. So no.

[@Melanie-qm6yj]

yes, she said a few days before the invasion, that Putin is not as cracy as he is portrayed and dont want to move any borders. Now Sahra Wagenknecht wants to stop weapon deliveries to Ukrain and requests negotiations with Russia instead.

[@darthplagueis13]

Bonus: Towards the end of the clip she says that if Putin actually was like he's often made out to be, that there'd be little hope of achieving a diplomatic solution. Recently, she's made a name for herself by publicly demanding that the west force Ukraine into peace negotiations by stopping all arms deliveries, as if that would achieve anything other than allowing Russia to win the war or at least force whatever conditions they want on Ukraine.

[@tychobra1]

@@darthplagueis13 Nice bonus pick :-) One could get the impression that this Sahra W. is not the brightest candle on the cake. Long time ago when when Oskar Lafontaine started pushing her in the late 2000s and early 2010s, I thought she was quite intelligent. But with many of her public appearances she has proven me wrong. In the context of the clip shown her latest statement given by co-authoring the Manifesto for Peace (in which she is calling on Chancellor Olaf Scholz to halt the escalation in arms supplies following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and instead advocate diplomacy and negotiation) appears pretty dumb.

[@Heiliger.Paul.]

What I really do appreciate about your reactions is that you refrain from fake laughing/being shocked for entertainment value, thus giving us an authentic reaction of yours to the inside jokes of our culture. Thank you very much and carry on.

[@Otzelix]

"Fachkräftemangel" means that they dont have enough employees, idk what your translator came up with

[@vsmash2]

He put Fachkraftemangel instead of Fachkräftemangel, thats why google went -> skilled work shortage -> skill shortage instead of "Skilled woker shortage"

[@raileon]

The translator wasn't too far off. I would've translated it as "skilled labour shortage" or "shortage of skilled labour".

[@germaniatv1870]

We have Job-Mangel in Germany. We make Fachkräfte. The Altersheime needs more Fachkräfte, yet the Fachkräfte are are availlable. They reduce the ammount of employed. Another firm shut down and over 2.000 people may lose their job (again)... we dont have Fachkraftmangel... they sit on the Bench waiting for a chance. Thats the reality.

[@Ellisepha]

​@@vsmash2 Yup. Ryan, if you ever see this comment: you should use ae instead of ä, oe instead of ö and ue instead of ü to get the most accurate translation, if you don't have access to these umlauts.

[@OpaSpielt]

​@@vsmash2 Skilled *worker* shortage 😉

[@Blovu420]

11:50 „I mean, we all can see this, Russia is not interested in invading Ukraine, of course not. We can be glad that Putin is not (as the medias portrait him) an insane russian nationalist who gets excited about changing borders. If that were so, diplomacy would not be a way anymore!“ She said this 4 days before the invasion of Ukraine and she is accused of being a good friend with Putin because she is member of a quite communist party and wants to end Germanys sanctions against Russia. Hope I could help you to understand the context😊

[@katharinawinter3788]

Thank you for the translation. I want to add that her party "Die Linke" goes not go in accord with her and is very clear on distancing from Putin.

[@luisesteves5929]

Wie hieß die nochmal?

[@Blovu420]

@@luisesteves5929 Sarah Wagenknecht, die linke

[@luisesteves5929]

@@Blovu420 danke

[@miriamweller812]

She isn't good friend with Putin at all, typical lies again. Just as the lie that Putin didn't have eight years of peace talk to stop the mass murder in Ukraine by the Banderas regime (Banderas = an Ukrainian Nazi who mass murdered polish and jewish people in 2.WW - treated as hero by the regime in Ukraine, which follows his same ideology of race hate). CIA talked about the plan to sow Chaos in Ukraine and start a civil war that would drag in Russia in year 2008(!) already. So the usual thing the US deep state (CIA and so on) does world wide in dozesn of countries, including creating islamistis terrorism as a proxy army (that's all written in the history books meanwhile). Same for Ukraine and there is no discussion about, since the Banderas regime politician snd their western masters already openly admitted it, that the peace talks of Minsk 2 were all lies. By the way: Putin's order was against intervention in Ukraine a week before it. Then those Nazis started with brutal bombardement of the Donbass region with up to over 1000 attacks, clearly going for finishing the genocide they tried to commit since 2014, but lacking the strenght against the iron will of the people there, even more when many Ukrainian soldiers denied the order of that regime and even switched sides. It was clear, that after the years of military build with the help of NATO, they would have had no chance this time and be slaughtered or driven from their homeland forever, followed up by the Nazi regime going south to attack Crimea - and in that case Russia would have had to annihilate Ukraine. So Russia had to intervene. And that was the plan from the start. A stupid plan, because the idea was, that this plus sanctions plus cancelging SWIFT for Russia would push it into chaos, so we can have our regime changes. Completely absurd, but if there is a second thing typical for the west beside its monsterous bloodthirst, it's the delusion of its own greatness and being super smart.

[@paha4209]

The drop in price for a vacation in turkey isn't because of the inflation but the massive earthquake that happened there Ryan. Killed a lot of people too.

[@voyance4elle]

It's so crazy that this wasn't on the news in the US or apparently nobody talked about it... :O

[@AB-on1on]

'Erstie' ist short for 'Erstsemester', a freshman in collage. 'MaiMai' is a jokingly direct English German translation for meme on German subreddits.

[@HonkaiHistory]

I traveled to Gelsenkirchen for a concert before and walked through an area that looked like it has been abandoned for at least 20+ years. But people were still living there. All stores either closed or broken, most other houses very run down with broken entrance doors and doorbells and if you took a look at the courtyards, they looked like they weren't touched since after the war. It was probably once a very nice sub area of the city but now it looks more like a desperate place.

[@MrOrmanley]

14:01 The joke translates to: A true pirate sailes even the red sea. The german version of sailing, to move out to sea can be "in see stechen" to stab into sea. They are in a gf/bf relationship, he says he'll "move" even into the "red sea" and she takes him up on it. A bloody gf... I'll let you figure out the innuendos yourself :p

[@karinland8533]

He ment having sex on her period would not bother him

[@Kenzi0815]

Probably would've translated it with thrust instead of stab - think that gets the innuendo easier

[@baerchen9591]

warum redest du um den heißen Brei?! Es geht darum Sex zu haben während SIE ihre Tage hat...

[@MrOrmanley]

@@karinland8533 I know, I didn't want to explain the punch line of the joke.

[@wingedhussar1117]

Hello from the Ruhr area :) The "Ruhrgebiet" is a Metropolitan area in Germany with many medium sized cities (Dortmund, Bochum, Essen, Duisburg, Gelsenkirchen etc.), all in all, the Ruhr district has around 5 million inhabitants and is thus one of the most densly populated areas in Europe after London, Paris, Moscow and Istanbul. The reason why so many people settled here in the past was that the Ruhr area had a lot of industry and coalmining, thus many people came here to work in the factories. Due to the fact that the cities along the Ruhr river had so much industry and were also heavily bombared in WW2, the Ruhr area has the reputation of being ugly, grey, dirty and not a pleasent place to live. However, nowadays this is becoming a cliché, because most of the factories and coal mines have been permanently shut down and today we have a lot of green areas, the Ruhr area has become much cleaner and we also have a lot of culture, museums, sport events etc. here. One thing that is true, however, is that you will not find any beautiful old towns in the Ruhr area because everything got destroyed in the war, which is why the cities look very modern today, because there is hardly any old architecture left.

[@silkezabinski4988]

That`s right but Haltern am See is just half an hour away and there you can find everything you need : Forest, Lakes, Heath (Heide), a beautiful old town..etc 😌

[@OpaSpielt]

Dortmund and Essen are medium sized? When you compare them with New York or Tokyo, yeah. But compared with other German cities or those in Indiana USA, they aren't medium

[@Sandhof17]

Grüße aus Essen

[@matthiasjankowski24]

Grüße aus Herne ✌🏻😄

[@spagettie1589]

Fun Fact: Essen, one of the Ruhrgebiets Citys, and origin to several important companys like Krupp (cast-steel-factory in WWII) and ALDI, has gotten the Europe wide award as 'Europe's green capital'...

[@H.G.Halberd]

4:04 its about there not being skilled workers especially in the social sector (educators, teachers, caretakers for the elderly etc.) But those workers also being paid barely enough to pay rent

[@katharinawinter3788]

Plus: Men are still looked on skeptically when they apply to work with small children. Sad but true.

[@janschulte8434]

The Ruhrgebiet is kind of the rust belt of Germany.

[@certaindeath7776]

i thought thats sachsen. ruhrgebiet is actually one of the richest areas of europe^^

[@David169100]

also you can see the coal mines which could look from a plane a bit like bomb struck terrain

[@mr_chickenpoop]

@@certaindeath7776 nein

[@mercatorjubio3804]

@@certaindeath7776 He probably meant Germany as in "West" or "classic" Germany. The whole former GDR is essentially a rust belt.

[@wolf310ii]

@@David169100 What? The coal mines im Ruhrgebiet are all below the surface, the Ruhrgebiet is more like one giant city, there isnt even space for open mines. It was just a bad try to be funny, by replacing Chicago or Detroit with the Ruhrgebiet.

[@warmsnow]

Just here to say I think your way of being pretty open and non judgmental is really fun and sweet to watch. I wish all ppl would be able to find out about different cultures and ways to live and still be able to find similarities or differences and just be like ok I see that but who am I to judge. We should all be more interested and less anti when learning about different things. Love your content. 😊

[@21_f_aus]

I have some German genealogy and love learning about the culture, and language..

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@21_f_aus which area?

[@rhysodunloe2463]

8:54 It's not the employer but the municipality that pays for those. If your income is below what is considered by law the existential minimum in your area you can often benefit from the same or similar programs as someone who is unemployed. Especially single mothers who can only work half a day greatly rely on this. But often you're very close to the income limit and if you make a few more bucks those benefits can be revoked completely. And then these few bucks more from your employer cost you multiple hundred bucks from the social system.

[@Al69BfR]

10:24 I had to look it up because it says nothing to me. Apropos me, maimais is the plural of maimai which is a play on the American pronunciation of meme, at least in some areas? 11:37 it‘s probably because of the earthquake that vacations suddenly got cheaper than they were three weeks ago. The guy in the picture is Fynn Kliemann a German influencer who got a reputation as a very socially engaged guy. But allegedly during the Covid crisis he scammed people with masks made in far east Asia while selling them as made in Germany, making almost 1m €. „Krise kann auch geil sein“ was allegedly a text he wrote to his business partner while making this deal.

[@ravenhavengaming]

I am not surprised america didn't report on the earthquake.

[@MissTaraCotta]

"Ruhrgebiet" is a former industrial area with a LOT of coal mines, industry facilities and simple homes for the working class. Most parts of it - not all - don't look good. You can compare it with Pittsburgh or Chicago, while the center looks nice with new, shiny buildings and recreation facilities, the area around them are still a mess. Especially cities like Duisburg, Hagen or Gelsenkirchen are famous for being ugly - in places.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

And obviously the holes everywhere from getting the coal out.

[@vloplob]

7:30 It´s quiet common for university students to share a flat to lower the rent (you know, mostly no dorms here). Thats called a Wohngemeinschaft, or short WG. "Burschenschaften", the german fraternities often have a very weird reputation. They usually are very strong with their traditions that mostly date back to the time of the German Empire and they have a lot of strict rules. If you want to compare them to US frats there is a similar amount of drinking involved but also stuff like communal singing, old uniforms, fencing with sharp weapons or other weird stuff. They are usually kinda conservative so people often (mostly falsely) misidentify them as being very right wing.

[@FAL87]

you are half right. there are many Burschenschaften full of at least far right people. i was in the same situation like the guy in the meme, many years ago. The guy from the Burschenschaft openly said wierd stuff about genetical supriority of germans and more realy shady things from the first moment. But thats only logical. beeing "traditional" in a 1800's manner is far right. And this is going to attract people that arent keen and open minded.

[@vloplob]

@@FAL87 Conservative is not automatically far right. Keeping up traditions from the 1800s does not automatically make you a racial supremacist. There are thousands of Burschenschafts-members in the country, dont judge them because of one dude you met. When they were foundet, most of them were viewed as pretty revolutionary and modern... Look at the democracy movement around the Hambacher Fest for example. I feel like they are often misjudged.

[@FAL87]

@@vloplob 1800s were different Times. Compared with today, even the most liberal then, would be on the far right corner today.

[@vloplob]

@@FAL87 Like Marx and Engels?

[@FAL87]

@@vloplob marx and Engels were left not liberal or right, dude. But yes, Boths theories are looked at as far left today too.

[@bmkmymaggots]

13:42 thats not a "nice" old lady. its Alice Schwarzer

[@44WarmocK77]

As Gordon Ramsay would say:"Yeah, nevermind the old bag." ^^

[@kleinweichkleinweich]

got a bad case of rofl from that one

[@ralfjansen9118]

Notorious feminist

[@bloody_albatross]

Not the feminism part that is a problem, the transphobia is.

[@PadelbootStudios]

@@bloody_albatross And the tax-evasion. Let's not forget she was a tax evader.

[@nevillelongbottom7687]

The ruhr valley was once a disgusting industrial centre but we put billions of € into this area. So now it's quite neat for most/many parts^^ There is still a bit higher rate of unemployment and some areas got a bad rep for good reason but there has been a lots of stuff done to improve over all

[@bastik.3011]

Was such a Culture Shock when i visited my friends in the Ruhr Area coming from Bavaria to see all these production Factories along the train tracks

[@annypenny8621]

@@bastik.3011 …🤦🏼‍♀️

[@bastik.3011]

@@annypenny8621 whats your problem ?

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Not just Euros but also Reichstaler, Konventionstaler, Goldmark, Papiermark, Rentenmark, Reichsmark, and Deutsche Mark. And pretty sure at a couple points in between also different versions of Francs

[@jabuknesselviech6673]

damn your german reading skills have rly improved. you even get the ü sound. pretty good!

[@Luziemagick]

What??? His pronounciation is aweful.

[@peteraltnow]

@@Luziemagick Really not bad for an inexperienced speaker 😎👍

[@jabuknesselviech6673]

@@Luziemagick haha it is still not the best. but if you listen to his earlier videos it is quite an improvement.

[@Luziemagick]

@@jabuknesselviech6673 hm..still he uses *that austrian guy* speaking pattern and after all his Videos saying *dei*instead of *die* is not cute it's Lazy. He earns money with his videos so he at least has to put some effort in his communicaten patterns.

[@toomflussiggrillanzunderfu8828]

9:45 we actually had a game in the bar in the village where i am from in which you had to hit the nail into a tree stump with the false side of the hammer. The winner was the one who needed the least attempts and the loser had to buy him a shot (usually Jägermeister).

[@magnusthiel6065]

I'm from the Ruhrgebiet. Proudly born, raised and living here. That first meme hit so close home, I could see it in my Ring door camera. LOL

[@StarLee_]

Hoffentlich geht es der Ring klingel gut!

[@SayokoAkuma]

The one about kids with pistols is most likely about kids annoyibg you with water pistols 😅

[@sebastianwittmeier1274]

It is also a vacation review by a German, not in Germany

[@sojus7929]

@@sebastianwittmeier1274 Could definitely also be Florida then. ^^

[@Steppenkater]

I think that it's not kids with water pistols. It's a review from someone from Germany and probably took vacation in USA

[@H.G.Halberd]

7:30 german burschenschaften are known for being very nationalist

[@pelle7771]

Known or thought of. There are Burschenschaften that are Not Nationalist or right.

[@SatieSatie]

"Very nationalist" or, as some might say, right-wing extremist. Man muss ja nicht alles so verharmlosen.

[@pelle7771]

@@SatieSatie Not all of them. Not even right or nationalist.

[@DerTK]

Liebe den Kontent man fühlt er ist mit Liebe gemacht

[@vgrundt]

Finde ich auch

[@dereiertreter7803]

Seh ich auch so. Ich vermute, dass die meisten Zuschauer deutsche sind, die nur sehen wollen, was ein Ami von "uns" denkt, wenn er die Deutschen kennenlernt.

[@isolu9386]

German here: The meme from around 4:00 minutes got me thinking: my school (in lower saxony) got rid of a few politics teachers (because the school principle is a narcicistic asshole, who gets rid of teachers when they dont share his opinions and shit) but at the same rejected multiple applications of other politics teachers, leading me and other students getting half of the politcs classes we we're supposed to get last year. Then he collectively lied to every student and teacher (on a meeting) that he didn't get any applications. He has done more stuff and hast even kicked students out of certain classes that they were going to take a year later, because these students went to the local newspaper and made them write an article about how the students are unhappy (those issues however have been dealt with properly and I believe all of those students got into the classes that they wanted to get in). Damn I hate our principle. But it also underlines two problems that Germany has in education: not enough teachers and other educators and the fact that to a certain point in the past teachers couldnt get fired for fucking up but instead got moved to a different school where they often end up as principles. Another example is my elementary school teacher who got put as the principle of our elem. school for doing some pedophile stuff (and he continued). Good thing that bastard broke his shoulder joint and had a stroke in quick succesion, so that he had to retire. If you made it this far, thx for reading (and im not avoiding school tasks (⁠٥⁠↼⁠_⁠↼⁠)

[@MAKgargos]

But other teachers who have not been in the service for so long, who have not been made civil servants (verbeamtet), can be fired all the more easily with the famously lousy example that some schools have hired teachers from summer vacation to summer vacation, i.e. not for 6 months and then one is surprised that they don't come back or that new ones apply.

[@maaiker2977]

1:11 its a self deprecating joke. Its like if Americans go "mister president that's Chicago". Its a german saying "this part of our country is so sh!tty it looks like a warzone". 😂

[@rebeckavogel]

I think you need a german from your community standing by to explain some of those memes from the german prespective. You know different culture and some things not even all germans would know, that are relevant to some of the memes.

[@MrOrmanley]

An Erzieher typically works in Krippen (0-3y old children) or Kindergarten (3-6y olds). After kindergarten comes primary school. Different from the US, it is not counted towards school, but it prepares for school by teaching basic common life skills, such as writing your own name, counting, proper pronouncing of letters and words etc. childcare worker would probably be closest in translation. There's a severe lack in germany in the field of social jobs, such as childcare workers, geriatric nurses also other jobs as teachers. So the joke is there's a severe lack of trained people, everyone's looking for them, but then you get rejected non-stop. ;)

[@32JEAN34]

As an Erzieher in a Krippe I have to say, just because they have Fachkräftemangel, they don't have to take everyone coming along. Especially working with children requires some really high emotional intelligence, critical ability, being able to reflect every little detail that happens through the day, knowing how to phrase your sentences when talking to children (neutral phrasing) etc. Children deserve professionals around them and if you get rejected everytime you apply to a social institution where they really search for people, 95 % the problem is on the one applying.

[@rainghostly]

I wanted to become a nurse after finishing school. One of the places, a really big hospital at that, had two open spots for the apprenticeship with over 100 applicants. I didn't become a nurse.

[@sojus7929]

14:11 translates to: My girlfriend, who took my joke for face value. I, who said "A real pirate also sails the read sea." The joke is that in German there's the phrase "in see stechen" it directly translates to "to stab the ocean/sea" and means "to take your ship to the open water and start a journey" or in this case however it refers to having sex while your girlfriend is on her period.

[@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard]

11:03 I never knew YFood was part of Nestle. TBH I just know that YFood's founder was on "Die Höhle der Löwen" with the product (German version of "Shark tank") and yeah... nowadays I see this constantly advertised on YT (since they sponsore some channels I watch). It's also not a protein shake tho. It's a meal full of all nutritians you need to be feeling feed up for 3-5 hours when you have no time to eat

[@thegestruepp529]

With the meme with the "children with weapons" there is probably a misunderstanding because in Germany a toy gun does not have to be recognizable as such, i.e. the muzzle is colored red or something similar and therefore the impression can be given that the weapons are real. This is due to the fact that it is very difficult in Germany to get a real weapon as a civilian and the fear that a civilian / child walking around with a real weapon is nearly non-existent.

[@janschulte8434]

That doesn't stop the police from reacting like a those guns are very real if the are not clearly marked to be toys. Which is okay. I wouldn't want to be the person who could have prevented a shooting but didn't do anything because I thought the weapon was just a toy.

[@thegestruepp529]

@@janschulte8434 The police in Germany are trained differently than in the US, they are very reserved when it comes to the use of firearms. In addition, it is always about a child, which increases the inhibition threshold to use the firearm.

[@janschulte8434]

@@thegestruepp529 Sure, German police isn't as trigger happy as there colleagues in the US, but don't expect to have a polite conversation while pointing an Anscheinwaffe - a toy that looks like a real gun - at them. We may not have as many shootings as the US, but police and many other professions are hyper aware of the danger even a single individual with a gun poses. As long as a child can pull the trigger it can hurt or even kill people with a gun. Police will act accordingly, which means that there is a non zero chance of them pulling the trigger themselves. It is marginal, I know, but I don't want to be the one having to explain parents why their child has a bullet in their body.

[@H.G.Halberd]

14:14 a german expression about having sex even if the girl is on her period

[@kluckytv]

So ein sympathischer dude

[@N4iiiis]

11:25 I rather would assume it's because of the horrific earthquake crisis in turkey three weeks ago (where over 50k+ people died so far) that the prices went down 2k€ to fly there. Also in the picture it's Fynn Kliemann and he was an inspiring youtuber and everybody thought he was a good guy that became famous, but he enriched himself with dubious mailfunctioning masks delivery during covid and stated in a private message "crisis can be cool"

[@not_that_person]

The stuff listed at 8:31 is paid by the government, but because the person in question made more money than before, they no longer qualified for the benefits. MaiMai is a silly germanized version of Meme.

[@inkubusarchitektde]

11:30 this man is Tim Kliemann. He was part of Funk a german based TV and media plattform paid by taxes. He sold masks he said that they were made in the EU but originally came from bangladesh. And he gave refugees and poor people broken masks, who weren't able to provide any safety. Crisis can be cool means, that he made so much money with his intransparancy, that the coronavirus situation was the best deal he ever made.

[@biggsdarklighter0473]

"Erstie" is best translated as "College Freshman"

[@moki4541]

People who only think of left and right aren't seeing the train coming straight for them.

[@marcromain64]

And people who never thought of left and right wouldn't know where to jump before the train hits them.

[@eastfrisian_88]

7:35 soo true 😀ended university in 2017 and I thought that this time (especially the last two semester) was very bad, but then came the reality outside of the university bubble and hit brutally hard. 😂😂

[@cold_fire]

2020-2023 are the years of pandemic and war. That's the meaning.

[@TheRafraf23]

the Ruhr area is heavily industrialized especially features the largest area in Germany for coal and steel. Hence it is considered by many as dirty and a little rundown, an overall unpleasant area. Also regarding "Bruderschaften": we don't have the fraternity/sorority system in Germany and most fraternities in Germany are conservative/right-wing groups.

[@sebastianwittmeier1274]

And with bad housing situations for students in many cities and German students not living on campus, the Burschenschaften often offer very cheap rooms (if you become a member with very strict rules)

[@pierrefley5000]

9:55 Explanation: Start with the word "memes". Mispronounce it as "mémés" (two syllables). Spell it phonetically as "maymays". Look up "May" (the month) in your English-German dictionary and find "Mai". Translate "maymays" as "MaiMais". 😺

[@tychobra1]

Thanks for the explanation. Way too far fetched for me (as a German) to realize its origin 🙂

[@bloody_albatross]

The Turkish vacation thing: There was a major earthquake in the Turkey with many buildings collapsed and over 50000 dead. They guy in the quote is a German KZbinr who profited of the pandemic and wrote that quote in a leaked private chat ("crisis can also be awesome").

[@ownageDan]

Burschenschaften are very different from US fraternities. Socially very conservative and (esp. in Austria) with fascist / antisemitic undertones.

[@DieFarbeLila88]

Not all of them are all bad. There are a vew that are just all about music, playing music, singing, stuff like that :) not much politics. but yeah, there are a vew bad eggs

[@jonnnyai]

Fachkräftemangel is more like skilled workers shortage.

[@christianosminroden7878]

The „Fachkräftemangel“ is referring to the blatant dissonance between the economy as a whole constantly complaining about too few well-trained people to hire on the one side and the companies‘ reluctance to train people on the other; countless companies just want to hire people who‘ve been trained somewhere else, often with hilariously unrealistic demands. For example, labor market portals are teeming with job ads looking for people with „several years of work experience“ (ON TOP of advanced degrees) in a certain field while jobs where one could gather said experience in the first place are incredibly sparse. And ads demanding a PHD, two additional masters and five years of work experience in a similar position (because you attract applicants by offering the same job they already have, since people want to stay on the same level all their working life, right?), „but don‘t be older than 23“ have been a meme on their own since before the word „meme“ was a thing.

[@steven03048]

14:10 "A real pirate even pierces into the red sea" it's a wordplay, because in german you "pierce into the sea" when you put to sea. And in the end it's a joke that real men even have sex with their girlfriends or wives when they have their menstruation.

[@Einfach_nur_Lars]

Das beste an Ryan seiner Kommentar sektion ist einfach dass mindestens die hälfte, Deutsche sind die ihm die dinge erklären die er als Ausländer nicht checkt. Aber ich noch nie ein mit "Herz markiert" oder ein Kommentar von ihm irgendwo gesehen habe

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

Als jemand aus dem Ruhrgebiet kann ich das erste bestätigen, muss wohl Gelsenkirchen gewesen sein

[@H.G.Halberd]

10:02 maimais is a jokingly germanised term for memes

[@karstenvagt1075]

14:02 is pretty naughty...literally it means "a good pirate will also enter the red sea" but it is a German paraphrase for a man having sex with a lady in her period.

[@fighterphoenix5789]

Some school book refer to the Ruhrgebiet as a metropolis because most cities are touching eachother. Also it has the highest population density and the most industry. It is so important that after WW2 the Alli forces shared jurisdiction over that area. During WW2 the area was bombed so much that we even nowhere days we dig up undetonated bombs.

[@HalfEye79]

Yeah, I once saw a picture of a street, with one side of the street belonged to one city and the other side belonged to another city. But I don't know, which cities it are, anymore.

[@True_NOON]

3:10 its the completing sentence , its a quote of the teacher or professor saying you'd be here if you had a car

[@adlerweb]

09:42 The guy, Hubert Aiwanger, is a politician and leader of the "freie Wähler" (conservative center-right) in Bavaria. He is Deputy Minister President of Bavaria and the Bavarian Minister of Economic affairs. He is known for his (at least in Germany) argumentative ideas like "more weapons = everyone is safer", "eating meat must be good, otherwise god wouldn't have created humans to eat it", "ecological activists should shoot animals to equalize balance in the wild instead of demonstrate on the streets", etc.

[@xaverlustig3581]

09:00 Those are benefits handed out by the government (the municipality in this case), but only to those in need.

[@anunearthlychild8569]

The Ruhr area was mainly known for mining until the 80s, it may be that it looks a bit like a war zone from the air, because many changes to the landscape have happened. Craters from open pit mining certainly look similar to bomb craters from above. There was no public transport almost everywhere in Germany on Friday because the unions called strikes for higher wages. In some professional areas (in nursing, for example) there is an actual shortage of skilled workers, in many other areas the same is claimed, but the companies are not willing to adjust their sometimes excessive demands to the average. Tasks that used to be performed by someone with a secondary school diploma suddenly require a high school diploma. 🤷🏼‍♀️ Rooms in shared apartments for students are often extremely expensive, it's very hard to find something like that where you don't feel like you have to sell your right arm to pay for it. And if you do find a cheap room, the apartment belongs to a fraternity. And the thing with the pirate "A real pirate also goes to the red sea" means that he doesn't care that she is menstruating and still wants sex 😉 And she shows him what she thinks about it.

[@HrLBolle]

8:50 its more like the state grants you these subsidies, but that one higher income pushes you out of the bracket. this is one of the driving reasons more and more people apply at "Tafel (a form of welfare organisation helping to keep the amount of food ending up in the garbage down" to get at least some decent food on their plate.

[@SaschaBielicke]

"a real pirate also dives into the red sea" is related to period sex. So take that red hand and have some fun ;)

[@felixklusener5530]

8:53 Households in Germany that are below a certain income level (depends on how many people live in a household, where the household is located, etc) can get subsidies from the federal and the state government for housing, public transportation, cultural participation, etc. If your income increases, the subsidies are lower and from one point on they are €0. So earning more money can in some cases mean that you have less disposable income.

[@nifflergaming8922]

As an explanation for the bus meme. Tere was a strike and a lot of busses just didn't drive

[@snakeoilaudio]

the "Ruhrgebiet" is the German coal belt, suffering more or less the same problems like the American coal belt.

[@freidenkerin5198]

Thanks for trying to understand those memes with the help of translation programs! As a German I feel quite flattered when people care for our culture and language. Was too lazy to post an explanation to every meme but hope those I did helped 😊

[@joshuameier9191]

If you are used to sleep in a hospital after a heart surgery with a lot of tubes next to you, it‘s actually pretty easy to sleep on your back

[@Ray_Vun]

idk how it works in germany, but in portugal, if your household's income is below a certain amount, you can apply for financial help with social security. and they'll help cover certain basic expenses. so they might help with the rent, medications, get you stuff from the food bank, pay for public transport. but the minute, the second, the millisecond, you start making anything above the minimum requirement for those aides, they immediately cut you off. which means even if you're only making like €10 more per month, if that puts you above the requirement, you don't get any more of that help and now you're back to struggling because you can't afford food, or transport, or medication, and now you're not able to get any help because you're making above the required household income

[@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard]

12:00 the woman in the pink suit (I forgot her name) said in a talkshow on TV that she belives that Putin wasn't as crazy as everyone says and that he wasn't about to do crimes towards the Ukrain, so yeah ...

[@sylviav6900]

Regarding the apprenticeships: In Germany, almost everybody, who doesn't study, gets an apprenticeship to get prepared for their future job. That takes between 2-3 years and involves 1-2 days a week of vocational school. Maybe something to look up for a future video. 😉

[@s.b.907]

8:55 I don’t think the German employers pay for daycare and the other things mentioned. It is that a lot of this is subsidized by the government but is depending on your income. At least, I think it works about the same in Germany ( I am from the Netherlands). It happened to me years ago, I went from one job to another and got a small pay raise. Just enough to pass the threshold for getting rent assistance. So, 50 euro in pay raise, 100 euro less in rent assistance. Really f…ed me over that year but luckily I got another job soon that paid enough.

[@olgakipke3720]

And nobody dares to explain the pirate thing. lol

[@SillyhAsH]

please go ahead.

[@olgakipke3720]

@@SillyhAsH The pirate represents a brave man. The red sea represents a woman on her period. Do the math.

[@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard]

Ruhrgebiet comes from the fact that the largest river in this region is called Ruhr, it is often named in combination with the river Rhein as the "Rhein-Ruhr" area and is even the most populated area in all of Europe with a lot big cities in a small distance of eachother. The Ruhr-area contains of places as for example Wuppertal, Witten, Bochum, Essen, Gelsenkirchen, Dortmund, Hamm,.. who are all around 100-600K citizen big. If you hope into your car and drive from a place to another it takes you (outside of trafic jam) mostly just 30 minutes to be in the next city. On the other hand for the Rheinland, wich is obvisiously named after the river Rhein you get cities as for example Cologne, Düsseldorf, Koblenz, Mainz, Trier, Leverkusen and many more.

[@ShatroGames]

Fun fact to 2:38 : my local public transportation was on strike both on monday and friday last week so I couldn't get to work and had to work from home. Back when I went to school that basically meant you had two free days (maybe with some extra homework that wasn't a big deal) It's about Germany being heavily reliant on public transportation and them being on strike quite often. Context for 11:33 : this is a quote by Fynn Kliemann, who is an entrepreneur and seemingly "hip with the kids" who sold masks to people and claming that they were manufactured in Germany and that he wouldn't profit from them. He said that a "crisis can be cool" because Covid gave him the opportunity to give everyone the needed masks at a good price and that he did a good thing. Later he was exposed by Jan Böhmermann (the German equivalent of John Oliver) that he was making a lot of profit from those masks, was manufacturing them in sweat shops outside of Germany and was aware of all of it. 14:16 the bloody hand represents the period the girl is having and being empathatic about the struggles the bf is having while the bf says that "a real pirate also embarks on the red sea." The "red sea" (Roter See) is a real lake in germany but the quote is also a euphemism for f*cking a girl also when she's on her period (the "red sea"), implying that they're empathatic of her needs when she's having that time of the month.

[@HenryLoenwind]

About the "Ausbildung", instead of apprenticeship, I'd translate it as "college degree". That better conveys the meaning, even though the German Ausbildung requires a higher skill level than an American college degree.

[@enricoritter6441]

in bavaria we actually have a pub game where you have to hit the nail into a log with the wrong site. Pretty funny if u ask me

[@TheFuriousBrother]

4:05 Fachkräftemangel translates to skilled laborer shortage, first time Google being wrong I've seen for a long time

[@siliconvalley577]

9:03 The employer doesn’t pay for public transport etc. but you get support payments from the state if you earn lower than certain limits, and by getting this extra monthly check the person in the meme crossed those limits and wasn’t entitled to the support anymore.

[@beardiemom]

6:30 An "Erstie" is a first semester student at uni or trade school.

[@l.c.8475]

6:56 the same thing was said to me after my sister and I told someone that we're actually 5 years apart and not twins... I'm the younger one

[@datpudding5338]

"MaiMais" is the plural form of "MaiMai" and dates back to an old-ass meme where an english speaking dude pronounced it maymay and aboslute literal translations of memes is kinda one of the points of ich_iel (which itself is just literally translated me_irl). Since "may" is the english word for a month we call "Mai" in german "MaiMai" became an ich_iel-based equivalent to meme - the term in itself being a meme aswell

[@Kivas_Fajo]

It's actually skilled worker shortage...

[@blatterrascheln2267]

..that's not even a "skilled worker shortage", only a shortage of skilled workers willing to work for minimum wage, being basically always available and with no regards for any personal life 😅

[@Kivas_Fajo]

@@blatterrascheln2267 Oh, you tell me! I know that. I am also in Germany, a skilled worker and I have no intention to finance my boss's next Yacht or supersportscar. Meaning, I'd rather stay at home unemployed and get only social welfare than going to work for peanuts...

[@derneuewestphalian296]

okay energy and hot dogs from the gas station killed me

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

"Hardwerk" are the vocational trades. So carpenters, plumbers, electricians, welders, painters, etc

[@ThehakkeMadman]

Quiet Quitting is a joke with silent laughter

[@kiwijonowilson]

Thats the thing... good humour can be found anywhere but often there is a local context you need to understand first to get the joke. Regarding left or right, relative to American politics then I'm probably to the left but relative to NZ politics I'm pretty central (and have voted National and Labour depending on policies and candidates at the time).

[@deinemutter7472]

thanks for your videos!

[@f-149]

bro you commented this the minute the video came out lmao

[@deinemutter7472]

honestly that‘s why i commented

[@vgrundt]

I just thought about something, what if "ich_iel" stands for "Ich im echten Leben" in other words "I in real life"🤯🤯

[@KalmerVT]

It does

[@b.k.5667]

No sh*t Sherlock

[@blatterrascheln2267]

To make it more obvious, it's the German me_irl... 🎉

[@vgrundt]

Ryan didn't get it either

[@lydiathealien]

2:55 the joke is: the bus were striking and no one had a real way to go to school if parents had to work. Many stayed at home cause of it

[@StarLee_]

3:06 it’s about fridays for future in germany

[@marcoadamberger4456]

Ruhr Area is a very gray Industrial place without any historical buildings cause everything got destroyed in world war 2.

[@lennartgamer2339]

Skilled worker shortage / experienced workers shortage would be the correct meaning of Fachkräfte Mangel

[@Jasongilliar]

Thanks for this fantastic video

[@TheChaosDream]

For me, the meme with the clown is an excellent example of the clown show that is being pulled off here in Germany. There is always talk of "people should use the public transport system more to relieve the burden on the environment and not use the car". We have regions here where buses don't even drive because they have been saved. You can only feel like in a circus and watch these clowns. Especially when the bus drivers go on strike.

[@chnoxis]

To the meme with the Hammer and Nail: Maybe he thought he should play the nailing game. :D

[@tobiasschwaiger2266]

fachkräftemangel means you dont have enough ppl that can work this specific post

[@gwendolynsnyder463]

I am the most comfortable on my back, but I'm sleeping on the side, because I'm scared of getting a sleep paralysis.

[@PogoDarnexx]

Okay that Meme in the Thumbnail is already killing me! Also you did well reading the first Meme man! Yeah the Joke is basically, that the Person said they don't own a car, but then someone says, well with the Car you'd be already at School. Like WTF did I just told you ,me not owning a Car. XD 5:40 so true, I used to work on Construction Sites xD Erstie I think means for People who are in their first year of Education, not sure tho. 8:10 welcome to Germany xD YFood is in the news because they got a deal with Nestle now lol 11:40 I love the Woman in the background, I can read her mind "WTF is this Bitch saying!" XD 14:04 means basically she's on her Period and he would still nail her, so she took what he said and wanna bang XD

[@windsaw151]

"Quiet quitting" implies much more than simply "not overperforming". In reality, it is usually doing just enough that you are not getting reprimanded. Or worse: Just enough that you are not actually getting fired. Often these people are also detrimental for the working environment because they complain constantly or just shut themselves off from any social contact with their coworkers. They are also often a problem in relation to customers. Imagine a call center worker who greets callers with a bored voice, talks sarcastic and does everything get rid of the caller instead of helping him. In short: They are often the kind of employees that would react to criticism from their bosses with a line like "Do you want to fire me? You would be doing me a favour!".

[@50svent]

The guy in turkey picture is Fynn Kliemann. He made 500k € with masks and told everyone "this good masks from Portugal are sold at his cost price or minimal above" but He Sold cheap masks from Bangladesh with a lot of profit...

[@pascalsteiner1705]

9:00 the authorities will pay for benefits if you‘re beneath a certain income. This kind of subsidy is quite common in the EU. However when the employer is kind enough to give you something additional and you come from the income over xx$ then the subsidy will be canceled and if you have to pay the subsidised things yourself you‘ll need to pay more than you had before.