American Learns Bad German Words from Boyfriend and About Dangerous Jobs in Germany

[@HiFromHamburg]

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[@TremereTT]

The Marriage "convoys" are Geman and foreign, yet Turkish marriage convoys are larger and many of them think there are no laws in Germany and they block traffic lights anfd hinder cars to driver at green so their convoy doesn't get split up by redlights traffic lights. I hate that sheninigans. After it happened to me a few times beeing blocked off at a green light by an idiot I Just drove my cowpolw into his backseats door...lol . He missed the marriage and at the end I even won in court . It was a phantastic feeling. Profit.

[@tramper42]

6:56 „Hoch die Hände - Wochenende“… ‚Hände‘ and …ende rhymes … German Like to construct phases that rhyme

[@BremerFischkoop]

Before we start a construction (Tiefbau) we normally call the "Kampfmittel-Räumdienst" who do a check regarding bombs in the ground. They use Fotos from the allied reconnacaince which documented the results of bomb raids.

[@derradfahrer5029]

I have heard stories from a friend who does these kinds of arial survialance analysis. Even if they know about a suspicious places from the reconnacaince pictures, they will more often then not just leave the bomb in the ground unless there are planned constructions and excavations at that site. There rational is, that a bomb might go of from the disturbance of the ground alone. Plus, since the bombs are covered by a few feet of earth, they pose not that much of a risk if they explode while beening buried, compared to tring to dig them up and diffuse them. This of course depends on the type of bomb that is expected to have been used in that aere and the shape of the impact crater and therefore the likely depth of the unexploded bomb.

[@AhmetMurati]

Here in Stuttgart it was found a bomb

[@brannzo6147]

Here in Nordrhein-Westfalen almost every week there is an evacuation because a bomb is found. The Kampfmittel-Räumdienst are real heroes.

[@ohauss]

The thing is that these allied post-bombing reconnaissance photographs were only released to German authorities in the 90s, after reunification. It's only since then that there can be actual verifications and authorities can go deliberately in search of undetonated bombs. Before than, it was largely a random issue and any excavator driver who heard the sound of metal on metal had their blood freeze. The only option they had before was ask people who lived in the area during the war if they had noticed any duds, and of course the memory on these aspects is not necessarily reliable half a century later...

[@McGhinch]

"Fresse" is a noun related to "Fressen, fressen". In German we distinguish between food intake from humans vs. animals/beasts. "Menschen essen, Tiere fressen." (Even though some humans have table manners that qualifies their food intake as "fressen".) So the actual process is "fressen", the food is called "(das) Fressen", and the mouth is logically "(die) Fresse". By the way: Many English cussword also are difficult to translate to German.

[@sejtam]

"Es isst der Mensch, es frisst das Pferd, doch manchmal ist es umgekehrt !"

[@maxipaduser3553]

We can feel the drop in temperature, when the Ice Cream car gets closer. We do not need any acoustic signal at all.

[@frischifrisch6860]

L(° O °L)

[@thomasschrecker5396]

I guess he said: "Scheiß die Wand an!" a way to say "It does not matter" in a mixture of resignation and anger when you failed or made a mistake.

[@bubbafato]

i think he refered to " Mann piss die Wand an" poorly translated from the Movie Donny Brasco.... Forgedaboutit... 😃

[@lamprete]

Being German, I don't know this exact one. "Scheißt der Hund drauf" (meaning "I don't care a shit") comes close.

[@ShSwStudios]

"Scheiß die Wand an!" may also refere to being surprised.

[@chrissoclone]

The unearthed bombs are just one WW2 remain still haunting us - After the war shittons of bombs and ammunition were simply dropped in the North- and Baltic Sea, For one these old bombs and grenades regularly find their way into fishing nets, and then also the stuff slowly corrodes and releases dangerous chemicals. One word of warning esp. for tourists at the Baltic sea is be careful when looking for amber - it could be amber because the Baltic is full of it, but also phosphorous which looks similar and will self ignite once dry in your hand or pocket and is almost impossible to extinguish.

[@beluch2768]

Hey, they used that confusion in one episode of the Usedom-Krimi, an awesome German detective show!

[@michaelgoetze2103]

Dumping at sea is a favourite. Boris Johnson wants to build a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland. Only problem is the bridge would go over a massive dump site of WW2 munitions. End of plan.

[@connectingthedots100]

When I was a little kid I found a small torpedo on the beach and dragged it with me to ask my parents what it is. Needless to say, they were shocked.

[@harleyquiinnnn]

thats so interesting

[@CouchPolyglot]

I was living in Hamburg 9 years ago and my German was still quite bad. So one day I was waiting at the train station and saw a message about a bomb and I really panicked 😂😂😂 But then I saw everyone was super calm and managed to understand it was about one of those old WW2 bombs... I did not need a coffee that day, I can tell you that 🤣

[@Recko1468]

I'm with a fire department in the Ruhrgebiet (Ruhrarea) in western Germany. During World War II, it was the center of the German arms industry, and thus a primary target for the USAF and the RAF. Unexploded bombs of all calibres are regularly found here. And there are still thousands in the ground! Recently someone found a thermite incendiary bomb in his garden.

[@Faulpelz55]

Essen Stoppenberg? Yes, that was tough day with 40,000 people being evacuated. 😅

[@wernholttempelhoff9301]

Vacation is important for health not just for fun. Those who only work are at risk of burnout, a form of depression, i.e. a serious mental illness that can lead to incapacity for work. In addition, the efficiency of one's own work results decreases without vacation. In the long run I produce less and the quality of my work gets worse. Actually, it should be the case that the employer should not only hire as many employees as he needs to cope with the ongoing work. Normally, the employer should always employ additional workers to cover vacation, sick leave and maternity leave. From colleagues who are not on vacation should be expected to overtake only very urgent work for the absent employees on vacation that cannot be postponed. A boss who does not hire enough employees does not win, but loses. Employees who are constantly overworked work slower and their results are of poor quality. Those employees get sick more often and die earlier.

[@McGhinch]

In most places the ice cream truck is the last one to roam streets for business. There were farmers selling vegetables (mostly taters -- potatoes for those who are not familiar with southern drawl), there were people collecting metal and old fabrics. The bell was their announcement that they were "here". They also usually had a schedule to come every second Thursday for instance.

[@daimhaus]

In a village in the Uckermark near Berlin there is also a small grocery truck sometimes that comes by and sells vegetables and stuff

[@carolineASMR]

I absolutely love your channel! I listen to your videos when I'm walking on the treadmill and find them so interesting! :D I also studied German and lived in Berlin with mein Mann for several years, but now I'm back in the states, and it's fun to hear your experiences there, I can relate to so much of them!! :)

[@HiFromHamburg]

Hey Caroline, thanks so much for the comment! I’m glad to hear you relate with my stories 😊. I also like to listen to podcasts and stuff while on the treadmill at the gym so that was cool to see it’s not just me 😁🙌. Just subscribed to your channel channel, love ASMR 🙌

[@jensschroder8214]

Bombs are found all over Germany. Often near train tracks, train stations, old industrial centers and cities. After the attacks, a plane with two cameras flew behind and took stereo photos. Some old bombs can be found with it. Dangerous if a bomb fell into an already existing crater or if a second bomb buried it. There were two types of bombs: with an impact detonator and with a long-term acid detonator. Bombs that are found today all have a defect so that they have not yet been deployed. Most of the time, a demolition engineer can remove the detonator. Because this is life-threatening, it is usually done remotely. But there are also acid igniters whose position must not be changed because nobody knows why it did not ignite. Then only blasting it on site helps. Once, a few roofs caught fire in Munich because of this, but the fire brigade was quick to help. Many panes of glass were still broken. There are also cordoned off areas because of old monitions and mines. Better not enter. However, the mined strip between west and east Germany has been cleared. It was dug up several times with tanks and old mines exploded. It is not allowed to keep old military objects, they must be disarmed. Belgium, the Netherlands and England were also involved in bombs. Oh yes, the German man who shot rockets to England later built the NASA rockets and was involved in the moon landing. For this he got the American citizenship. Some of his colleagues found themselves in the Russian camp. This laid the foundation for the start of the Sputnik and russian space agency. But they were never mentioned.

[@dnocturn84]

I think it's also worth to mention WW2 bombs hidden in fields. When Allied bombers finished their bombing run, they had to clear out all remaining bombs their planes were carrying. Fuel was calculated with a plane full of bombs going to Germany and returning empty. More fuel wasn't an option, as it would have limited their operation range. So it was very common to drop all remaining bombs before they returned home. Often on fields close to their target. This was at least very common to the city close to where I live. Plenty of bombs hidden in the city center and even more on the fields outside of the city.

[@V100-e5q]

About the Russians I think you are wrong. The development of Russian space rockets started well before. From a Russian source it is said that the Germans were only sitting around begging for some useful work on rockets. But even when they came out with ideas and proposals those were all rejected and the Russians did their own thing. Look for Tschertschok. In contrast to the Americans who had nothing regarding rockets before the Russians simply didn't liked to have Germans in their teams and didn't share. All the consequence of Russian mistrust against anyone.

[@dnocturn84]

@@V100-e5q Well, the second tier scientists and technicians from Germany were deported to the Soviet Union (against their will) for that very purpose. They were forced to live there with their families for 5 years, before they were allowed to return. And they did work with them on rocket development. How much of the Soviet rocket design is based on their input is a different question. It is not impossible, that their contribution wasn't that useful for the Soviet scientists after all. So you're not wrong about this. The Soviet rocket development programm did start after they've got intel on the German rockets. So their basic idea for this was definitely based on the general technology they've witnessed from the Germans and not randomly through a stand-alone invention they came up with out of curiosity. Soviet scientist were interested in guidiance systems (the A4 was build around a primitive, mechanical solution) amongst other topics. But yes, it is possible, that the vast majority, or even the entire technology they've managed to develop, was an original one for them and those German helpers solely turned into an annoyance for them and didn't contribute much at all. But I also want to mention, that Soviets were really really proud about their victory against the Nazis (and rightfully so, if you ask me; they paid an insane price for that victory) and would never ever confess that even the smallest thing on their rockets had anything from their former enemies on it. I highly doubt, that they would be honest about this. This would be a propaganda debacle for them.

[@V100-e5q]

@@dnocturn84 Yeah, it is a little doubtful that they didn't take advantage of their knowledge. And Tschertschok is a Soviet/Russian scientist. So how much is propaganda or pride is unknown to me. Soviet paranoia would be pretty consistent with just draining knowledge but not letting them particiate. And lying about it.

[@wolf310ii]

@@dnocturn84 When allied bombers finished their bombing run, they didnt have to clear out all remaining bombs, because after the bombing run they dont have any. They didnt bomb run like today, some bombs here, some bombs there, they dropped all bombs at once. They also didnt operated always on maximum range and couldnt just trade fuel for bombs like an airliner can trade fuel for freight. Bombers were build for a MTOW fully loaded and fueled, less fuel didnt mean they could carry more bombs, so more fuel was an option. The russians used the german rocket engeneers to learn how the V2 works and how to build it, but after that they didnt want them in higher or leading positions. In the US it was in the beginn similar, until the shit hit the fan with the sputnik shock, befor that von Braun was working for the US Army on ballistic missles and not for the air force wich was working on the Space program and befor that there were also years for the germans with nothing to do.

[@stefanschanzenbacher9513]

Here in our region there are 3 instances that use Bell rining on the streets. Its either: - ice van - Scrap an garbage disposal Merchants - Food Vans from specific regions on nearby countrys that sell specialities

[@Flashguitar]

The Song "Hoch die Hände Wochenende" is inspired by the saying.

[@kaszaspeter77]

WW2 bombs are found regularly in Hungary, too. I live close to a place that used to be a military airstrip during the war. The place was thoroughly bombed of course. Every time there is a construction of some sorts, they find bombs and the whole 'hood is evacuated. Happens every year and this is just one place. The worst I think are the mines and bombs found in rivers and lakes.

[@peterhorvath3142]

My highschool friend lives near the '44-'45 Margit line. They still got some landmines too.

[@V100-e5q]

That honking in a wedding parade thing is a new development. At least for me. I think it was in the 90s that it came about. The flowers are a longer tradition.

[@USArmeeAAF]

I think it’s originally a Turkish thing. At least here in Vienna only the lads from Turkey do that 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@V100-e5q]

@@USArmeeAAF That was my impression too. That it was imported.

[@geraldettmayr8435]

@@USArmeeAAF Here in Austria people do that too. And I heard it in the 60s as well up to today. In the 60s we had no turkish people here.

[@ralfmoll5727]

Hi Lila, regarding marriage differences, talk to your boyfriend and compare. There are so manny more differences than just the cars. You could make a whole video about it. To give You a starting point for the discussion with your boyfriend: - The process how to apply for a marriage at the Standesamt in Germany vs. what to do to get an approval for the marriage. - The different celebrations in the US vs. Germany. Polterabend, … - The seating of the guests in the church. In the US I experienced, it was dependent on if You are a relative of the bride or the groom. - Also there are differences regarding the clothes. Rent vs. buy. - … Best regards, Ralf

[@acidcurrator]

The correct phrase is:"Hoch die Hände, Wochenenede!". And it translates to like "Hands up (like, take your hands off your work), it's Weekend!".

[@dietapferetrantute7679]

My grandma had a car dealership and it closed in 2009. When they were demolishing the building they found two big WW2 bombs underneath (still active duds). One was a 4000 pound british blockbuster bomb and the other one was a 250 kg bomb. 10.000 people had to be evacuated. So i basically spend a lot of time right above two active bombs as a kid.

[@HiFromHamburg]

Oh wow so crazy - that must've been so scary to think about after finding that out O.O

[@hawkanonymous2610]

Was man nicht weiß macht dich nicht heiß :)

[@Akkaren79]

If you are to build a house, there is not only the bombs that suck but, and especially if your in the south, you will often find remains of the Romans. This can get really expensive and take a long time with archaeologists digging it up.

[@Myladyinred999]

Not just stuff by the Romans ;)

[@Akkaren79]

@@Myladyinred999 true! But most of it is from them.

[@ErklaerMirDieWelt]

Next to my workplace they tore down an old supermarket from the 60's to build a shiny new neighborhood. They ended up finding the remains of an old castle that had been destroyed in WW2 underneath! Let's just say the construction company and their investors were not pleased.

[@V100-e5q]

I had a colleague who wanted to do some improvements in his basement. They found a stretch of a Roman street. Guess what he did? Never tell anyone, do the concrete and live happily ever after.

[@davidbraun6209]

In my part of the world (Florida), native American sites' and Spanish sites' (including missions') being discovered at construction sites will trigger the obligation to let state archeologists come in and excavate.

[@Commandelicious]

Yay, comments active. I am glad you are back. [waves frantically from Oldenburg]

[@lamprete]

A special sound, not from the ice cream truck, though, is the (nowadays electronic) whistle blown by the "Lumpensammler"/"Schrotthändler", a truck collecting recyclable materials, mostly metals.

[@tasminoben686]

Moin Lila, zu dem Thema mit den Blindgängerbomben: In Kiel sind allein in diesem Jahr etliche Fliegerbomben aus dem 2. Weltkrieg entdeckt und entschärft worden! Erst gestern, am 04.11. wurde in Neumünster ein Blindgänger entschärft werden! Die meisten Blindgänger, habe ich mal gelesen, werden wohl in Potsdamm, bei Berlin gefunden. Die Stadt war in den letzten Kriegstagen ein heftig umkämpfter Ort. Lg Ben

[@peremeesz]

I don't think the bombs were "placed". They were dropped on the cities from aeroplanes pretty randomly and some of them were duds. Take the bombing of Dresden: 1,249 British and American heavy bombers dropping their loads on Dresden destroying the city and maybe 25,000 people in four raids. They pretty much missed the industrial infrastructure outside the historical centre which would have been a legitimate strategic target. Yeah, Americans never had and probably cannot imagine 1,249 enemy bombers on an American city destroying it and tens of thousands of civilians.

[@rena-chan3686]

I think the icecream truck bells is something you learn as a kid, specially when growing up in smaller german cities. There is another melody that the metal-collectors use (at least wehre i grew up) as a signal, and as a kid i allways thought the metal-collectors were icecream trucks as well. Extra fact: The big alarm bells in germany (and i guess europe) have melodies as well telling you what kind of alarm it is, but since we've gone decades with only fire alarms nobody remembers what 'bombing' or 'chemical' alarms sound like.

[@frankteunissen6118]

Not just in Germany. When I was a school governor in Rotterdam we needed to do some work on the sewage pipes underneath one of our school buildings. The contractor was back up within minutes after starting the work. “You’d better contact MoD”, he said, “there’s a bomb down there.”

[@felixmidas2020]

3:06: You're overestimating the danger these old bombs pose. They usually get deactivated without further ado and nobody gets hurt.

[@stefanhennig]

no, just no. i was working in a nice office looking over a meadow in center Hesse. when i came into the office on Monday, all there was was a huge crater. that was 2013. and the owner had driven his farming equipment over the place hundreds of times before. the bomb exploded for no reason at all. these things are dangerous and can still kill. that they can be defused in most times just tells how good the people of the bomb squad are.

[@felixmidas2020]

@@stefanhennig That's all I'm saying: They got it under control. In the video she made it look like forgotten bombs pose a big danger and that's just not the case.

[@SiqueScarface]

Ice Cream trucks have a quite humble origin. Before the existence of electrical fridges cooling with a heat pump and a coolant, there were trucks loaded with ice driving around, ringing, and then the people know that they could buy a new block of ice to put in their cooling cabinet, where it slowly thawed, so it had to be replaced regularly. Only with time, the ice trucks also started to sell ice cream, as they had no problem to keep the ice cream cool while doing their rounds.

[@CorvanEssen]

I always explain to people that bombs are found so often, there are commercal companies that remove bombs. Whereas in he Netherlands I think it's always the military that remove them.

[@gert-janvanderlee5307]

Yes, in the Netherlands it's always the EOD or Explosieven OpruimingsDienst is called in when old bombs or grenades are found. That does happen much more often since magnet fishing became popular. The EOD is a special department of the ministry of defense.

[@michaelgoetze2103]

@@gert-janvanderlee5307 Had to look up what magnet fishing is. Was wondering what type of fish you have in the Netherlands 😀

[@gert-janvanderlee5307]

@@michaelgoetze2103 Explosive ones. 😉 It isn't my hobby either. Too much risk that you find something that csn blow up any second. Just learned about it from the news because they keep pulling bombs and grenades out of the water very often.

[@sphhyn]

I am from Berlin. In the City Oranienburg just North of Berlin they still find more WWII bombs than usual and have to evacuate several times each year. I think there was a lot of (war) industry in that area and it was severely attacked during the war.

[@ErklaerMirDieWelt]

(Not so) fun fact: At the manufacturer Auer in Oranienburg, the Nazis were doing research to develop an atomic bomb. When the plant was bombed, the uranium that was stored there was set free. That's why Oranienburg is the most radioactive city in Germany to this day.

[@davidbraun6209]

Didn't help that Berlin was the capital.

[@reginas.3491]

A few weeks ago in Berlin a neighbourhood with a big hospital had to be evacuated (funny in times of Corona...) because of WW2 bombs. Concerning the weekend, a frequently heard sentence is: "Freitag ab eins [13:00 Uhr] macht jeder seins." Edit: spelling

[@istoOi]

Cultural differences American: Hey what's up German: They found a WW2 bomb in the street American: OMG, i'm shocked. Is everything ok?? German: Yea, happens all the time. No big deal. --- German: Hey what's up American: Someone got shot in the streets German: OMG, i'm shocked. Is everything ok?? American: Yea, happens all the time. No big deal.

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

Working in Germany, you have to deal with the fact that people go on vacation a lot and they are not available for a week or more several times a year. In the US this is not the case but you have to deal with the fact that people leave the company or the work place to do something else without any notice in advance. I heard several times "Hi guys, today is my last day. I'm going to work at .... from next week on.". Also people are getting moved to a different place within the company at the beginning of the work day and the others have to find a way to continue with the work. This is very unusual in Germany. Most of the time people have some weeks of time to finish work and introduce others into the job to get a smooth transition.

[@mich8222]

It ain't "Scheiße an die Wand" it's "Scheiß die Wand an". Translated to English it would be: "crapping the wall (on)". It is like saying:"I'm going nuts" - "Ich werd verrückt" but on a funnier sounding way. It's meant for situation like having a big problem or a weird situation. Doo not know why, but I like ur content. Keep going.

[@Frahamen]

Here in Belgium, we still finds shells from WWI fairly regularly.

[@shadowday24]

the most important part of the car at a wedding is the bow. My parent's is still attached to their car after nearly 30 years. you are not supposed to take them off, they have to let them fall off

[@AhmetMurati]

I just started working and also during the probation period Probezeit I have 8.5 holiday for this year.

[@arrensen]

I am also from Hamburg and you got the bomb findings a lot here. I would say at least once a month in Hamburg alone you got some evacuations going on to safely remove found bombs. Especially in the area around the harbour (which was obviously a prime target during the war) there are still so many undetected ones left, and are found quite often. If a bomb is found and to be removed in the harbour area in most cases also the highway (A7) has to be closed for some hours. But even though it sounds so dangerous (and it could be if handled wrong) i have not heard about a bomb detonated uncontrolled during construction because it was missed. And even the removal works fine and safely. At least i cant remember anything else in the last couple of years

[@michaelkonig5576]

I herd once from an accident with WW2 bomb. An excavator hit the detonator of a bomb. Mostly they know if in this area could be bombs in the ground. Mostly they find it without damaging anything. The disarm specialist trys to remove the detonator. If this is not possible they have to blow it up.

[@jannisnoltsch2087]

the bombs have not been 'placed here' as you say in 3:50 lol but dropped by western allied air raids mostly on densly populated cities all over germany - numbers of civilian death due to that are difficult to examine, but i think its commonly accepted, that they amout up to something like 500.000 due to that. so way more civilian death, than the US suffered in soldiers death in the whole war (surely, the fighting in the western front was mainly short and not as hard, but still). the eastern front was were the hard fighting took place, the western front was then just the nail in the coffin for the third reich

[@emcotec1463]

A well deserved nail in the coffin. I mean its still wrong bombing civilians but its not like they just wake up one day and where like yeah today we will bomb german citys for no reason. If you want to combare death you should compare civilian deaths comited by western allies versus civilian deaths comited by NS-Germany. I looked it up its like around 1.1mio killed german civilians and 13.1mio killed civilians by the NS-Regime. I get your point the "bombs placed there" is a typical american way going around like we have not done anything but still i think that that we as germans are not in the position to moan about our hardship since we( the then to be german citizens) where the one starting it in the first place.

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

Regarding the dangers of old WW2 duds: About 9 years ago, I was in my living room one late morning when suddenly there was this deep distant boom, that ever so slightly shook the windows. The next day it was all in the newspapers. In a neighbouring town 20 km's away an excavator driver had accidently triggered an air-mine. Of course he was killed instantly. But can you imagine the strength of the shockwave if it managed to still rattle windowframes where I was, that far away?

[@brannzo6147]

Was it the accident in Euskirchen 2013 or 14?

[@Quotenwagnerianer]

@@brannzo6147 Yes.

[@frederickrueger7861]

I always understood "Scheiss die Wand an!" as in "Shit the wall!" .. so yes, a mixture of resignation, anger and maybe even relief from stopping trying something too hard.

[@smaragdwolf1]

The City of Oranienburg (north of Berlin) has its own Bomb Disposal Team and because they find soooo many bombs there, they became such experts, that they are even send to other Countries to train other Bomb experts. Oranienburg had large ammunition Production back in the Day....it was a main Bombardement target for the Allies. People who live in bombardement-Areas are pretty much some of the most chilled people by now.

[@HoldMySoda]

Several years ago a road construction worker died during construction work on the Autobahn, near Aschaffenburg.

[@Stevenjohe]

"Hoch die Hände - Wochenende" could be translated like "high up the Hands its Weekend" - similar rhyme like in german, but the same meaning :D :D :D

[@Sarah83_loves_bass]

I live in Huertgen Forest/Germany and over here we have to call the "Kampfmittelräumdienst" before starting to build a house because there are a lot of "Blindgänger" (bombs that didn't explode in WW2) over our area 🙈 If they find something, the area is evacuated... one day I couldn't go home during my lunch break (I work in our little village) and had to stay at work 🤣🙈 Very common over here 🙈

[@michaelgoetze2103]

That was the site of a major battle between American and German forces.

[@Kampfkeks321]

in Magdeburg in germany there where bombs found a lot like 6-12 a year or more

[@douglasostrander5072]

I was in the Army in the 80s in Wildflecken Germany and we ran across unexploded ordnance all the time. It usually just smoked when you hit it or you would see it and stop. Scary stuff

[@KarlSanathos]

3:12 Yes, that's nothing new.. we had to evacuate for several hours because some neighbours child found a live US-WW2-Granade while playing in the woods.

[@jessiejamesferruolo]

I had to leave the schengen zone for three months, and the left over bombs were the reason I spent it in Croatia and not Bosnia. The beach helped the decision too 😅

[@danielw.2442]

Sounds great, handsome. 🏖👍

[@AhmetMurati]

Here in Stuttgart last week it was found a unexploded bomb in north-east Stuttgart

[@JollyRogerVF84]

Vor ca. 4 Wochen hat man in meiner Nachbarstadt eine alte Bobme gefunden und, ich meine, in Essen auch. Ist hier "leider" wirklich normal, daß man fast wöchentlich was findet. ;)

[@wandilismus8726]

They had to explode one under a controlled Environment about 3 km from here, that they found under a Spielplatz (childrens play ground). The Kampfmittelräumdienst couldn't defuse it, so they exploded it. I felt the ground shaking even 3 km away

[@lionsmustard]

According to wikipedia, around 5.500 unexploded bombs are found each year in Germany!

[@stevecyclemaker492]

bei Uns hatte der Eismann die Mr. Sandman Melodie und vorher einen anderen Sound

[@tomtitom5259]

Hoch die Hände! Wochenende!

[@sejtam]

When i was small our ice-cream trucks did play music, but a different melody from the US one. Cannot name/find it though. sometimes it is just a handbell

[@bellschmitz4310]

Hi. I know one good Thai restaurant in Hamburg I always go there and they have Pad Ziu Eiw with pork,chicken or shrimps . The restaurant name “Samui Thai Cuisine”. Maybe you can try. 😊

[@catmini1]

I guess the US food names you are missing here is probably because these name are "americanized" food names. for example: in a pizzeria here you won't find normally a pizza Hawai. no Italian cook would put ham and pineapple on a pizza.

[@pebo8306]

Exactly!

[@leiselilaasmr]

But I looked for these dishes on the menu by looking at the ingredients to see if they had a different name and they just don’t exist. Pad see ew broccoli and beef and baked penne pasta marinara mozerella cheese... let me know if you know the German name for these because no restaurant in Hamburg that I’ve found sells these dishes

[@catmini1]

@@leiselilaasmr I guess these aren't even original Thai or Italian food. they are just used by some franchised restaurants. never heard of these names too.

[@CocoLicious]

@@leiselilaasmr I'v seen Thai places here in Stuttgart offer Pad See ew, but I haven't tried. With Marinara Sauce, It's a classical italian sauce (a little different from the American-italian Version) but It's not commonly baked with mozzarella in Italy, so I guess that's why it's not offered this way here in Germany.

[@mangalores-x_x]

@@leiselilaasmr Baked pasta is usually pasta al forno. However common sauce is a aurora (Creme + tomato) with ham, onions and peas, sometimes minced meat instead of ham. Possibly a Germanized thing and concrete recipe can vary by restaurant. It is my favorite Italian delivery food though! :)

[@mycroftholmes6476]

We say "schönes Loch im Hemde" (nice hole in shirt) - because it's sounds like "schönes Wochenende" (nice weekend)

[@danmac0]

Your face is so familiar, didn't you use to have another youtube channel maybe 10 years ago?

[@LJJ22]

I think there are half a million or more of those bombs in the ground in Germany (because the British and USA bombed Germany). The exact number is unknown of course, but they are everywhere in bigger cities, especially close to (former) train stations, military bases and airports. In 2 years, there were 3 bombs found within ~1-1.5 km where I live.

[@DSP16569]

Currently in Cologne there are a lot of construction sites and I do not know how often in the last year parts of cologne must be evacuated because they needed to defuse a found WW2 Bomb.

[@eliass6200]

Another sad but interessting fact about the second world war is, that they found still 200 Soldiers in the ground in Germany every Year. Germany was havely bombed. Some cites were 90% destroyed. And even in my hometowhn which has a populatation of 86.000 people and was hardly boombed, they sometimes find bombs.

[@hangar4851]

The wedding honking is actually a turkish habit, and people who want to show off their great wedding celebration adopted this annoyance. It is not a german tradition.

[@vbvideo1669]

Nice video! :)

[@liamodonovan6610]

Your beautiful nice video just found your channel and you seem like an interesting love you and your channel

[@beluch2768]

You're so right about missing American breakfasts! Every morning here I eat a halbes Broetchen mit Lachs oder Mett oder gekochtem Ei for breakfast... it's good, I like it, but I'm getting tired of it--especially because they eat much the same thing for supper (Abendbrot). Brot mit Aufschnitt for breakfast _and_ dinner. The bread in Germany is fantastically good and so are all the cold-cuts ... but I get tired of eating so much bread.

[@RustyDust101]

Hah, when you talked about the bombs being found, I assume you were referring to that construction site in Hamburg - Harburg. They had four (4!) separate bomb removals in one week just barely 6 weeks ago. Yepp, Germans are more or less immune to bomb scares now. It's more of a 'meh, another one?!?' kind of situation. Only the really big ones really raise eyebrows. I've checked the number of major bombs being found and disarmed by the bomb squad, the Kampfmittelräumdienst, and it numbers over 4500 bombs on average per year found and disarmed. The evacuations are more for safety reasons so no one gets hurt in case the bomb squads can't disarm the bombs safely, and actually have to detonate it in a controlled fashion. That does NOT include minor caches of live ammunition being found and destroyed regularly.

[@ShredAstair]

during droughts people find a lot of bombs in dried out riverbeds

[@51tomtomtom]

What is this "Pseudo-Italian" thing you're talking about ? BTW there is no Italian kitchen, there are several hundreds (every 50 km dialect and cooking changes)

[@berndschmidt6059]

WW2 bombs are still found in many parts of Europe.

[@BobWitlox]

That wedding parade sounds like a Turkish wedding. That's what Turks do in the Netherlands when they get married. Also when Turkey wins a football match, they parade around town honking in their cars.

[@forfor1942]

Sehr gut

[@juricarmichael2534]

Stupid question: Have you ever dressed up as Leela from Futurama on Halloween or Carnival/Madi Gras? And if, how did you realize the "mono-view"? Ciao Ps. Bombs on germany 2.000.000 tons, but on Vietnam (almost same size) it's 2,5 times that amount.

[@georgepalmer5497]

You should see the number of unexploded bombs we left behind in Southeast Asia. We dropped 2.4 million tons of bombs over there, the largest bombing campaign in history. There has got to be a better way. Hopefully, smart bombs will greatly reduce the collateral damage from the bombs we drop.

[@cedricberger4323]

"Hoch die Hände, Wochenende!" is the phrase you're looking for the tgif

[@Nikioko]

In Germany, the ice cream trucks play Für Elise.

[@bwgbwg1529]

"Sch*** an die Wand" - could be inspired by the German dubbed version of "Donnie Brasco", as a "translation" of forgetaboutit....

[@Stefan_Dahn]

Now, what about an "Eisbombe" after dining, served with an annoying ring bell, when placed on the table? 🤣🤣🤣

[@CocoLicious]

A guy in my neighbourhood found a WW2 bomb on a construction site, put it in His car and drove around for like a week with it before he tried to turn it in at the police, ofc in the busy city center of the Kiez so the most possible people had to leave their homes Till the explosion 😅

[@BaluDerBaer933]

This ice cream truck thing is a huge problem! ;-)

[@catmini1]

who else I gonna ring a bell on the street?? Cars are using there horns. so a bell is ice cream truck - why a certain melody is connected to ice cream in the US?

[@HiFromHamburg]

I guess my point was that it was only 1-3 times and that was it. I almost didn't hear the bells because it started and ended so fast. I probably wouldn't have heard it if I was not in a quiet room. The icecream truck in the US plays its music the entire time so you never stop hearing it until it leaves your street

[@catmini1]

@@HiFromHamburg ah ok. i understand now. here the people know what time the truck will come and the bell is just the signal that he arrived.

[@kallejodelbauer2955]

They had a Soundmodul since the 70s, that playing this Song. They use that in Britain too, but they play more Classicmelodys like the blue Danube at example. In Germany we use a Bell, because that had a Tradition like Hundreds of years.But who needs a Bell when we have Marktschreier? kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3_LgoyobNyif9k

[@V100-e5q]

@@HiFromHamburg Actually I experienced it differently. We had an appartment in Florida and the ice cream truck came once a week. He played his music only one time. AFAIR it was the start of Papageno's song from Mozart's Vogelfänger: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqGwdIWOrrxqpM0&ab_channel=stevegillan11

[@Thoringer]

Guns in the U.S. kill. Bombs found in Germany don't. I mean, they do, but in the last 10 years, there was one incident killing one construction worker. Before that, in 2010 3 members of a bomb squad were killed, but given that about 10% of ordinances were duds and they get found all the time, there is a higher chance to be hit by lightning on the way to work than getting killed by a bomb as construction worker. So, it may be a "hazard" but that's only theoretical - there is a reason that bomb is still not blown up - it's a dud. It was one back then, it most likely is one right now. PS: I'm not anti-gun. I'm a German expat in the US with guns. However, it is too easy to buy guns, none of them are registered, and people that shouldn't have guns have them.

[@patriciastuart8079]

There is unexploded ordnance (aka bombs or land mines) in Hawaii and California all leftover from WW II. Learned this while hiking in Marin county and on the Big Island in Hawaii

[@marcst.2012]

6:00 "Scheiß die Wand an"

[@detlefklinge1195]

Well, Hamburg was indeed a special target during WWII. There were several heavy bombings which led to the destruction of almost half of the whole city of Hamburg. And that happened for other areas and cities in Germany as well. So it is not unusual that bombs are still be found every now and then, in Hamburg several each year. Yeah, it is something that we are used to experience. The only place in the US where I could imagine something like that would be Pearl Harbour, I guess. But honestly I don't know if that's the case.

[@derdiddo]

"American breakfast culture" ... that got me rolling on the floor laughing.

[@davidbraun6209]

The breakfast burrito with avocado sounded vile, but unless the avocado is made into guacamole with either a garlic flavor or a decent amount of pickled jalapeño peppers, I dislike avocados (to put it mildly). My brother in law thinks avocados are God's mistake (everybody gets one mistake).

[@Tom-hz1kz]

Comparing the risk from gun violence in the US to the risk from bomb explosions in Germany seems totally out of proportion. Not counting suicides, 15,766 people died in the US in 2019 because someone else killed them with a gun or they killed themselves by accident. Nobody dies from a bomb explosion in Germany in an average year and every few years you have 1 or maybe up to 3 deaths.

[@HiFromHamburg]

I wasn’t comparing the risks of dying from one or the other. I was just comparing the way or method of dying and how finding bombs at construction sights is something I never heard of before. Compared to being shot is something I’ve heard of before.

[@Tom-hz1kz]

@@HiFromHamburg Thanks for the clarification, I misunderstood that

[@BaluDerBaer933]

You look fanastic here! ;-)

[@51tomtomtom]

Never saw or heard Ice-Cream-trucks in Germany

[@PhilippBlum]

They rarely explode though. It's not as dangerous as it may sound. But, of course, they still take it very serious, just in case.

[@ContinuumGaming]

Yeah there are some old bombs sometimes, but in my whole lifetime I do not remember anybody being harmed by one of those. It really isn't a big deal anymore... most are very very corroded and would not blow up if you would jump on them and since it is just pretty normal to find some people are very used to it. But yes... that is the beauty we all left behind when WW2 was over. It is all over Europe and of cause in Iraq, Afanghanistan, Viertnam and so on that is pretty common too. But in those other conflicts there are a lot of land mines which where intended to blow up people stepping on them still there, not a big bomb burried pretty deep under the ground for 60 years which never were intended to blow up with small amount of vibrations and force created by "normal day" stuff. "Meine Fresse" is a little like "Oh my god" or something like that... but yes, "Fresse" is another word for "Gesicht" (face). Why? I am really not sure ;).

[@ryderhook]

Unfortunately it happens that a bomb explodes when defusing. So it happened a few years ago in Göttingen, 3 people perished here. In Euskirchen it was an excavator driver who triggered a dud when a building was demolished. But they are extremely rare events.

[@sko3225]

Yeah, that honking is soooo annoying. It was different in the 80s when I grew up. Not the "Hochzeitsgesellschaft" would honk their horns like crazy, but the other cars on the road did it BRIEFLY to greet the "Brautpaar". That was way nicer and less egocentric. Then came absolute honking madness when there's a win of the German soccer team in a tournament. I want the 80s back - without the hairstyle and fashion, of course.

[@gregorstrohman3619]

The bombs have not been "placed" :D They have been dropped by the millions on every factory, railline and towncenter all over germany. I come from a village that had 1000 people at the time that had a sugar plant, and it was bombed several times.

[@Anixpj007]

Mullaperiyar Dam in Idukki district in the state of Kerala in India is in danger. If the dam collapses, 50 lakh people will lose their lives, so help us to decommission the dam🙏🙏🙏

[@31337flamer]

"Scheiß die Wand an!" Himmel, Arsch und Zwirn. :D

[@renatoherren4217]

There are two ways to deal with bombs when they go off: You either have to be very far away or very close. 😉😉😉

[@lauchzwiebel8114]

That musical sound from the ice cream man is almost like the most of the Germans garbage dealers they drive around with their cars collection your old metal trash and other stuff

[@georgevi119]

No great danger for construction worker. Last Time A construction worker died by an WW II bomb happend 20 years ago in Berlin.

[@V100-e5q]

Not really.

[@annkathrinhanamond2982]

Not true. The last time I know of was 2014, but I don't follow the news every day, so I might miss some incidents.

[@georgevi119]

@@annkathrinhanamond2982 I referred to workers on building construction not to men who try defuse the bombs.

[@armadspengler2717]

@@georgevi119 These victims were not professional bomb disposal experts from the explosive ordnance disposal service (Kampfmittelräumdienst), but ordinary construction workers who stumbled upon these unexploded bombs by pure chance: In October 2006, a worker on a highway construction site near Augsburg in Bavaria got killed when his milling machine damages a World War II bomb. In Euskirchen near Cologne, Germany, an excavator operator dies in January 2014 while moving debris from an demolished commercial building when he accidentally hits the unexploded ordnance of a World War II bomb. And BTW there are plenty of accidents every year all over Germany were construction workers hit such unexploded ordnance with their tools or heavy machinery without causing casualties just by pure luck - so I wouldn't say "No great danger for construction workers".

[@flylikeanowl8667]

Oh there are ice-cream trucks in Germany? Never seen or heard one here.

[@NikolausUndRupprecht]

These remnants of the war are disturbing. However, not as disturbing as the fact that people kept producing ammunition for the past 76 years. And not just those good old air raid bombs, also landmines, cluster munition and nuclear bombs. It’s absolutely insane.

[@helfgott1]

nuclear bombs ????? Bist du Hauptschüler???? Muahahaha