American reacts to FUNNY GERMAN MEMES [#54]

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[@MrAnimegucker]

Americans at 21: Finaly partying and drinking Germans at 21: Time to get sober and stop partying

[@germaniatv1870]

Germany: Drinks first before it drives. USA: Drives first before it drinks. - USA: AR-16 = Legal Selfdefense. Germany: Pepperspray = Illegal Weapon of Massdestruction.

[@mats7492]

american do it earlier as well but can get in major legal trouble for it

[@soewenue]

​@@mats7492would say the average european starts with 13 to 14 and ends the career with 18 to 21. Or to say it different the 16 year old me could drink more than the "21 to 27 years old me" could drink combined 😅

[@Johannes1888]

@@mats7492 like what serious trouble? actual a real question

[@mats7492]

@@Johannes1888 You can get a criminal record if you drink under 21.. its illegal after all

[@Nemokiddy]

6:49 OMG the "Those pencils probably don't paint the german flag, it just ends up looking like brown or something." Was the funniest unintenional political joke 💀😂😂😂

[@brillitheworldbuilder]

LOL! Didn't notice this until reading your comment 😂

[@germaniatv1870]

The Leaders of the German-Military-Party wore "Ocker". The correct one is: “pale yellow”. The lower Rank was dark-Ocker, which is a darker "Senf-Gelb" (Mustard Yellow). But we agree it can be described as "brown". The rest wore Black. The Pencil was actually made as a "German Pencil". The other ones are Rainbow-Pencils. But indeed will the black, red, yellow turn brown when you Kritzel-Kritzel on the paper. The interesting thing is, the Communists wore the same Green as the USA. 🙂

[@Hirnspatz]

@@germaniatv1870 The SA was called "Braunhemden", therefore "braun" is the correct name for that colour.

[@germaniatv1870]

@@Hirnspatz True. But for a artists its Ochre or Senf-Gelb. 😄

[@detlevschwarz9573]

This comment nails it 😂

[@Psi-Storm]

Ryan also didn't get the cable meme. Van Gogh cut of one ear, so he only has the yellow video cable and mono sound, Mozart went deaf early, so he just has the video cable, and Ray Charles is blind, so just the two audio channels.

[@xxJOKeR75xx]

That's Beethoven...

[@freshdash2956]

Das ist Stevie Wonder

[@LordKosmos]

@@freshdash2956 @xxJOKeR75xx Danke euch, meine innere Ruhe wurde wieder hergestellt. XD

[@Matty0311MMS]

They even got the correct audio channel (red for right and white for left).

[@kimberlymay3175]

Beethoven went deaf

[@MellonVegan]

*An exploder is a mistranslated boomer* Maybe he sees it this time.

[@Matty0311MMS]

Maybe, hopefully. I upvote and interact with every comment I see that explains this.

[@Matty0311MMS]

As a helper in a voting location, I can say that there were many people who had trouble folding that giant thing back together again. For all the non-germans, we had 34 parties to choose from, and the paper ballot was about half a meter long. You had to fold it in half, then the folds for the next steps became more clear. Keep that in mind for future elections.

[@Finsternis..]

I haven't voted in person in ages. Are they not prefolded like the ones for mail-in votes?

[@rufusandres4511]

True. I can relate. It took me a minute I guess to fold it back together. This Paper is long!

[@Matty0311MMS]

@Finsternis.. Yes, they are folded, but when people unfold it, they rarely pay attention to the way it is folded. So after they studied the sheet of paper, and sometimes wrote a comment, or crossed off every party, they can't remember how it was folded, when they got it. (Yes, this happens. I've seen people write their name on it, because it said "Name" above the candidates.)

[@Matty0311MMS]

@@Finsternis.. Yes, they are. But it's like the "Beipackzettel" in medicine boxes for some.

[@Finsternis..]

@@Matty0311MMS I see. I was just a bit confused, since I had the feeling that unless you go out of your way to remove the greases, the paper almost folds back on its own. But it is quite possible that I am thinking of the ballot of the municipal vote, which we in RLP had as well on the same day.

[@Finsternis..]

10:55 Two party guy can't understand the pain of a meter long ballot with dozens of parties.

[@Matty0311MMS]

Yep. It's like the "Beipackzettel" in medicine boxes.

[@moritzw.7030]

I think the Bigger problem is that the Envelopes arent wide enough for the documents

[@RichelieuUnlimited]

I prefer a meter long ballot over having only a choice between two parties.

[@piffpuffpeng]

@@RichelieuUnlimited correction: ... between two old farts

[@Keksemann666]

​@@Matty0311MMSfrom what i know, a CVS Receipt would be the correct analogy.

[@SiqueScarface]

An exploder is someone, who goes "Boom!" - a boomer.

[@EvilGrin]

Ryan, please take note - the community is telling you this for months now...

[@Matty0311MMS]

@EvilGrin It may get lost in the comment section, because other comments get more upvotes.

[@Schwuuuuup]

Ryan reads the first 5 posts - at most

[@Hey.Joe.]

@@EvilGrin This or maybe his intention was to generate (more) comments? Who knows?

[@DownDance]

As a German I didn't know this word, but I instantly understood it while reading. That's why I like the german language

[@steffahn]

The elections we had were the European (parliament) elections. In contrast "Bundestagswahl" would be German national (parliament) elections. The ballot for the European election in Germany was huge, featuring 34 parties to choose from. You can find a picture of it e. g. on Wikipedia "2024 European Parliament election in Germany". The meme about folding it was eluding to how you were handed that huge/long ballot paper in a folded state, and it could be tricky to fold it up "correctly" the way it was after you're done making the vote. (It's certainly more relatable for people who had that thing in-hands themself.)

[@moritzw.7030]

It's annoying that the Envelopes aren't wide enough. Both for the Oath and for the Ballot

[@Matty0311MMS]

@moritzw.7030 You're not supposed to put them together into one envelope. Only the ballot goes into the blue envelope, and that blue envelope, together with the declaration, go into the red envelope.

[@mangantasy289]

wow, did not even think of that. I live in Luxembourg and we had only 6 Parties to choose from. But we HAVE to go vote by law, a fact that allways adds another aspect to all the discussions and election compaign before hand. You won't find any posters encouraging to even take part. (But there's no real lagal persecution if you don't. But with being forced to vote, some people hate that and may make their voice "not count" by invidualizing their sheet with insults or using a red pencil symbolizing blood (or even real blood).

[@Finsternis..]

@@mangantasy289 So what you are saying is, that you, at least by law, do not have democracy. Because the freedom to not vote is part of the "free elections" requirement of democracy.

[@mangantasy289]

@@Finsternis.. somehow. You have of course the right to give back an empty or unconform vote, but yes, you have to participate (unless you are minor, mentally unable or over 70 (still optional then). So forcing people that would usually not have a political opinion to take part in the elections could still be an issue. Like people may just give voices to the candidates they have heard of as a person, that present nicely, that are e.g "that former classmate of their kid" etc. without necessarily being aware of their political programs. Maybe more so than in other systems. I'm still unsure whether to find the mandatory voting a good or a bad thing.

[@Sylphenar]

"Explodierer" is a very germanized way of "boomer" (because boom like explosion). The german meme subreddit has the rule to write EVERYTHING in German. Even if you mean an English word, you translate that into German no matter how stupid it sounds. For example, reddit becomes Lasses. (As in "I have read it" which translates literally to "Ich laß es"). It's just a german meme thing. (Also memes are translated to MaiMai's. Because reasons.)

[@brillitheworldbuilder]

Wäre "Michmichs" nicht eine bessere Übersetzung?

[@Sylphenar]

@@brillitheworldbuilder Kann sein, aber die ich_iel community hat es so beschlossen, also heißt es jetzt so.

[@SirRichfield]

​@@brillitheworldbuildernein, denn MaiMai bezieht sich auf das Angelsächsische Mem, wie man meme ausspricht. Manche nennen es maymay.

[@alexoerter2687]

"Ich las es" oder "Ich habe es gelesen". "Ich laß (today correct "lass") es" means "I leave it".

[@majascha3414]

I love that, i basically stopped frequenting the German internet 10 years ago but there are some memes I can appreciate... Also noticed that they wrote Zuhausis instead of homies, just amazing

[@jojosumilu]

Ryan needs a German sitting beside him to explain some of the memes :D

[@rhysodunloe2463]

0:13 Being invited to a friend's house as a kid. For dinner they put plenty of food on the table. "You can wait in Jonas' room till we finished dinner." Many families in my childhood sent their kid's play dates home before dinner or wouldn't let them join family dinner unless agreed otherwise with their guest's parents. Luckily my mum and most of my friends' parents weren't like that but just rang each other before they started cooking asking if the other parents had any plans for dinner or if their kids could join the family dinner.

[@jennyh4025]

The sandwich was an extreme version of a Leberkäsesemmel. Usually you just get a big slice of the meat, not the whole thing.

[@malvinafis6907]

I feel like the joke here is that it refers to a very common advertisement with the same words.

[@jennyh4025]

@@malvinafis6907 I don’t know too many adverts. 🤷‍♀️ But when you don’t know what the normal version looks like…

[@malvinafis6907]

@@jennyh4025 totally not a critique on your explanation. Just some additional information :)

[@mangantasy289]

18:36 as a kid befor knowing english, living in Germany, I thought Germany was some exotic country far away, like China. Lots of my toys had one of these two on them.

[@rogerk6180]

Trucks are limited to 90 kmh with a limiter in europe. But between trucks the limiter might have a small difference of 1 or 2 kmh in top speed. So if trucks overtake eachother they generally do so with a 1 or 2kmh difference blocking the highway for 10 minutes. And that creates an elephant race between the trucks.

[@Matty0311MMS]

Very annoying, when there are only two lanes for each direction.

[@NeverMind439]

Meanwhile are allowed to only drive 80, which no one really does to be fair. But in that picture, the Speed of 100 is a car, not a Truck and the other ones are those who need, most likely hard, to break for that one person driving only 100 to overtake it. Correcting myself because i DIDN'T think that there would be TWO of that Kind: You are right about your statement and i am sorry that i was to fast to answer 😀

[@vrenak]

@@Matty0311MMS Which is why many of them have signs telling trucks can't overtake during rush hours for instance.

[@D3nn1s]

Im pretty sure theyre limited at 80. But ige seen some going 100+

[@rogerk6180]

@@D3nn1s they are allowed 80 but are limited to 90.

[@queeri_o]

10:32 "You don't have an electronic voting system?" Me: *cries in german*

[@Leenapanther]

They tried it in some places in Switzerland but it wasn't secure enough.

[@TheFeldhamster]

Re: the toys from Taiwan meme. There's ALF there, that tv show was a thing in the 80s. Back then, the cheap stuff did not come from mainland China yet (China only got into the WTO in the early 90s). Back then, the cheap stuff came from Taiwan. Basically, "Made in Taiwan" was the "Made in China" of the 80s. Just like "Made in Japan" and "Made in Italy" were the "Made in China" of the 60s and 70s.

[@arnonym42]

10:30 this is Germany... of course we need to have everything on paper 😂

[@NeverMind439]

Explanation for the "Autobahn" one: Trucks aren't allowed to drive faster than 80 Km/h, which is 49 Miles (around 50). A lot of Trucks are driving around 85, sometimes 89, even overtaking other Trucks which would be called "Elefantenrennen" (Elephant race). So Overtaking a Truck with aroun 100 could lead to internal rage by people who are driving 150, 160 or even 250 and need to break for that person 😀 And the same could be applied to the Truck. A lot of Highways/Autobahn are only two lanes. So everyone has to break from 120 to around 80 and waiting for the Truck to overtake and going to the right site 😀

[@D4RKBRU73]

14:12 This meme is actually genuis, it goes much deeper than just showing the old AV chinch cables: 1) left channel no sound (L sound cable missing) = Van Gogh (cut off par of his left ear) 2) no sound at all (both sound cables missing) = Beethoven (was deaf later on) 3) no video signal (yellow video cable missing) = Stevie Wonder (obviously blind)

[@Durin01]

yeah the actual joke went over his head^^

[@oezgeyueksel1824]

The disappointment with the cookie box is that there are no cookies in it but mom's sewing kit

[@darchonyo]

Exploders are boomers! Cheers Ryan

[@Matty0311MMS]

I'm upvoting every comment I see, that explains this. Hopefully, Ryan sees it too someday.

[@ralfbauerfeind8236]

14:00 Picture 1: Van Gogh cut off his ear, so yellow (picture) and red (audio mono). Picture 2: Bethoven was deaf. So video only. Picture 3: Ray Charles was blind, so left and right channel of audio only. (red/white) That's it for the color coding of cinch cables. Simple.

[@herrhartmann3036]

2:43 Sometimes I think that it never occurs to people that an arriving train might actually have people aboard who might actually want to get off. They just think: "Oh, good, the train had arrived, the doors open, so I can get in." And when they find someone else coming towards them from out of the train, they are genuinely surprised and don't immediately know what to do.

[@steemlenn8797]

That is why in Japan they paint at the ground where to stand so that people can leave the train first. But in Germany you probably would have some Queerdenker standing in the middle of the "keep empty" zone because they don't do what the government want and if they are forced to pay GEZ they have the right to stand wherever they want.

[@herrhartmann3036]

@@steemlenn8797 Do you seriously expect people to notice anything written on the ground?

[@kuebbisch]

It is not only trains, but elevators and escalators too. How I hate people stepping off an escalator and immediately stopping to see which way they need to go while me and dozends of people get shoved into them.

[@Hey.Joe.]

It's still not exploder, It's boomer! Just a translation fail.

[@Matty0311MMS]

I'm upvoting every comment I see that explains this. The joys of the german subreddits, transliterating everything.

[@boblife3647]

18:50 The picture from the German police officers is out of the movie "Haialarm am Müggelsee" by Detlef Buck.

[@S0nOfABeach]

Soooo. You got everything wrong with the voting. It was "europe election" - the kid is crying because the afd was that strong. now imagine it was a general election... :(

[@sebastianwittmeier1274]

The AfD (politically comparable with a conservative Republican wing) got 15.9% and was second strongest. The overall vote was quite split into a lot of parties. Most times the European election has more left-leaning results, the general election is in overall balanced between left and conservative. This time the European election was balanced, too. Which meant around +6% to +7% boost to the conservative parties in total. The current Bundeskanzler is from the left-leaning SPD. So it also was a small protest sign by the voters, or a balance-of-power vote (vote in regional or European elections against the ruling party from the general elections.) The commentators made a big deal about it. The only special thing is that the times are over, when the political right had below 5% in Germany in total. It was always a specialty in Germany, but got more prominent after Merkel's and her party's move to the center and years of Grand Coalition governments. Politically Germany had immigrants before, e.g. from Italy or from Turkey. And German's international role, e.g. how to deal with Russia was questioned before. The same for industry vs. environment. I personally do not believe that the topics and the leanings of the people have changed so much. Only the times are over, when 2 or 3 parties (Volksparteien) represented the spectrum. And if you go back further in Germany's history, you find more parties again. So it was a special time, when there were few parties, not now, when there are more parties.

[@pixelbartus]

The folding of your ballot can be tricky, because it can be very long. For the european election the german voters could choose between 35 different partys. And the envelope in which you have to put your ballot in feels always a little bit too small.

[@Matty0311MMS]

Small correction. There were "only" 34 parties on the ballot. I heard the number 35 before, too, but I sat in our voting room as a helper, and could look at this gigantic thing the whole day.

[@pixelbartus]

@@Matty0311MMS we are both right. There have been 34 parties on the ballot, but 35 parties have run for Europe. The reason for that mystery is the csu which runs only in Bavaria and the cdu running in the rest of germany

[@Matty0311MMS]

@pixelbartus I tend to forget, that they are actually two separate parties.

[@MrOrmanley]

1st: - Being a guest at your friends house in your childhood - At noon, there's a hearty/yummy meal being served - You can wait in Jonas' room until we've finished eating 5th: Me and my homies leaving today FOR SUPER EUROPE 9th: -It's good to restrict driving to not be faster than 160km/h on the autobahn -It's even better to voluntarily not drive faster than 130km/h -And the psychos on the autobahn like going 150, 250 even more, and obstructing traffic when overtaking trucks by going barely faster than them most (full r3tard) 10th: The multi-colored pencils dont leave a true mix of colours, you dont get the explosion of colours you might expect. The box with cookies (my assumption) would be that there's sewing stuff or similar in it, not actual sweets/cookies. These metal containers oft-times do not get thrown away and get used to store all kinds of stuff. So as a child you might see that, open it exitedly and get disappointed. No idea on the minecraft thing The spring board does not grant nearly as much lift as you expect 19th: The "oder" can be translated to "or", in other cases, but in this it would more appropriate to use "right?" I assumed Ubisoft has disappointed many times in the recent future, so the advice is to not pre-order their games and wait for reviews before buying. 23rd: Instead of "exploder", the author was probably going for "boomer" as a translation 24th: Sparkasse (lit. savings treasury) is a german bank 25th: It's a common bane on the autobahn that truckers, who are to drive in the right-most lane at 80km/h (truck speed limit) often overtake each other, blocking a second lane during a very lengthy overtaking process because of a very small speed difference. 3km/h is like half a persons walking speed. 26th: The meat in the bun is Leberkäse. It is a specialty of southern germany and consists of super finely minced pork, beef and bacon paste, formed into a loaf and than baked till it developes a crust. Bakeries often offer it and will cut off slices (like from a loaf of bread) and put into a bun (like a hotdog). The slice is about 1 inch thick or so and usually topped with mustard. It's a very simple, convinient and popular food to go for early in the morning before arriving at work or during lunchtime. Basically the guy is so rich, he bought the entire loaf.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

4:06 On Sunday June 9th there was an European Union election. We voted the representatives for the European Parliament. The two big winners were the leading opposition party CDU (Christian Democratic Union) who got 29 seats and the right wing party AfD (Alternative for Germany) got 15. A lot of the first and second time voters (aged 16 to 25) voted for them. So there's clearly a right wing tendency amongst the younger folks who suffered the most during the Covid lockdowns and are especially disapointed by the current government. The Green party only got 12 seats. Aparently climate protection is seen a lesser priority since the start of the Ukraine war. People seem to focus more on national security.

[@axelk4921]

@5:50 what many people don't know, or have forgotten... an "overtaking maneuver" must be done at a significantly higher speed, "at least 20 km/h" faster, and in Europe trucks are limited to a maximum of 89 km/h

[@WereDictionary]

14:00 if you are a child of the HDMI era: Yellow is video, white and red are sound. The people depicted are Vincent Van Gogh, Ludvig van Beethoven and Stevie Wonder. Van Gogh cut off one of his ears, so he has visual feed, but only one audio feed. Beethoven was deaf later in his life, so he only had visual feed. And Stevie Wonder is blind, so he only gets audio feed.

[@IIIAnchani]

Exploder = boomer. ich_iel uses germanized denglish words. Usually we use "boomer" in German as well, but to boom is to explode, thus it's called "Explodierer"

[@HrLBolle]

17:38 Leberkäse muss etwa daumendick sein mit gutem Schwarzbrot oder frisch gebackenen Brötchen Leberkäse must be about the thickness of a thumb with good black bread or freshly baked rolls

[@nilshoppenstedt6073]

Exploder = Boomer

[@flittzekagge69]

warum sind diese ich_iel dinger immer so komisch geschrieben, ryan sacht immer da ist was in der überstezung verloren gegangen wenn er was nicht versteht, aber tatsächlich ist der deutsche originaltext ja schon wierd

[@nilshoppenstedt6073]

@@flittzekagge69 Naja, Explodierer ist halt die direkte Übersetzung von Boomer. Ich nehme an, das soll witzig sein...

[@Matty0311MMS]

@@flittzekagge69 Das ist so eine Eigenart in deutschen Subreddits. Es werden häufig "wörtliche Übersetzungen" benutzt, und englische Wörter, die es in den Sprachgebrauch geschaft haben, werden auch übersetzt, ob sie es wollen, oder nicht.

[@Naanhanyrazzu]

17:50 is what you get at the Globus market in Dudweiler (Saarland), if you order a "meat-cheese bun" with a thin slice.

[@blondkatze3547]

Voting does bring something. Together for democracy and against the right.

[@alexanderantoninsommerkamp4714]

Nö, wir sind jung und rechts und gehen wählen :)

[@denzelpanther240]

KNTHLZ regelt​@@alexanderantoninsommerkamp4714

[@Matty0311MMS]

Going to vote, and giving an invalid ballot brings something, too. Because an invalid vote is still a vote, and counts towards the total number of votes, which means the percentages of all parties are lowered. If every non-voter would have counted as an invalid vote, the percentages of all parties in Germany would have been lowered by almost half.

[@blondkatze3547]

Zum Glück gibt es genug andere Wähler in Deutschland die anders denken.@@alexanderantoninsommerkamp4714

[@marvinkant5205]

​@@alexanderantoninsommerkamp4714Ihr seid immer noch nichts anderes als eine laut kreischende Minderheit die kollektiv am Main character Syndrom leidet.

[@alis49281]

The chaos at German train stations os real. It doesn't help everyone is even more in a hurry, because the train is late...

[@MentionedBefore]

omg folding the ballot also chose to be the most difficult thing to do for me that week

[@CatzHoek]

And for the 100th time ... an exploder is a boomer

[@anneb.3923]

For some more context on the election ("Wahl") topic. On 9th of June there was the european union election. We elect which parties we want to rule europe and unfortunatly, in germany, the most (but not the majority) of people elected AfD (far right/right extremists). And many elect the CDU (conservative right). And some of the memes refers to "Bundestagwahl", which is the major election in germany for the people who rule our country. So most of the memes say basically "we cry if the EU election outcome was the outcome of 'Bundestagswahl'" because this would result in a far right/extremist right and a conservative right Leadership of germany. We all have seen where this leads to around 100 years ago and most of us wont repeat it.

[@michellehmann1371]

Hi Ryan. Im watching you from Germany and i really like how you laugh about us. Funny but respectful. Go on. Laughing with you.

[@steffahn]

Hah, I got the "uploaded 4 seconds ago"!

[@elsamoneypenny8114]

I had a good laugh when you asked if we voted electonically ... that was a good one!

[@to_loww]

European trucks are required by law to have a speed limiter. So overtaking another truck with almost no speed difference is pretty pointless but it does block the passing lane for quite a while.

[@steemlenn8797]

Just remember to not buy games from Ubisoft. Especially not preorder. That is what the meme is about. Ubisoft, the undertaker of good game franchises. And undertaker does not mean "Unternehmer".

[@DownDance]

Personally I like it when someone is pronouncing "ä", "ö" and "ü" correctly. "ä" is pronounced an english "a" (e.g. like in the word "and") "ö" is pronounced like the "o" in the english word "word". "ü" is pronounced like the "u" in the english word "lurk(ing)" (bad example, but couldn't find anything better) Ö and Ü are very similar so another, so they don't make a difference. Also when german words are ending on an e, you have to pronounce it (looking at 4:35); and it's pronounced like an "ä" (ä and e mostly sound the same in german)

[@Keydoubleyou]

Einfach immer nur geil sobald du versuchst deutsch zu reden.

[@CommanderAustria]

17:42 That is Leberkassemmerl try it you love it and you will understand that meme.

[@TexasChilliMassacre]

The sandwich is called "LKW" Leberkeesweck,livercheesebreadroll.

[@Unbekannter420]

just so you know the truck isn´t even driving two MPH more then the other one.

[@Ramzy82]

your German pronunciation improved significantly 👍

[@smu4242]

19:26 This one is a bit more subtle :D Being out (without a parent) for 16y olds is allowed between 5am and midnight. So this picture must have been taking when they *started* partying :D Another interpretations is that in Germany the rules are just more relaxed in general and younger people party more. That may be true, or it could be just more visible because they don't have to hide it.

[@Seamus.Harper]

Someone is not playing Helldivers 2... 😂

[@LeDuud]

nothing forges two nations together more than loosing the biggest war together

[@ShadeScarecrow]

I have no idea what kind of weirdo family Jonas has, but whenever I visited a friend I got fed very well.

[@user-qs1xz2mx6f]

You can't vote through a voting machine in Germany, because we are so much behind the time, that we actually use the fax to communicate with state offices.

[@84com83]

16:37 : compare the excited guy to the left (with the expanded artery in his forehead) with the very relaxed woman to the right!

[@drhausig797]

That Japan thing you could also make for Americans, They just see Neuschwanstein. Which many Germans never even heard of

[@smu4242]

12:30 People complain about full price games that come with limited features or too many bugs. The solution to that is to not pre-order games, and instead wait for reviews, and then decide to buy or not. But people are people and when people are hyped, they often do the preordering.

[@FlorianBeck-r1l]

You need to be at least 10 km/h faster than the overtaken vehicle to not cause a traffic jam. If you overtake with less than + 10 km/h it looks like this and takes for ages. In germany we call that "Elefantenrennen". 17:15

[@maskharat]

"I imagine it's very bouncy and you can have a lot of fun with it" - Yeah, we all imagined that. Then reality hit. S**t is as bouncy as a f***ing brick.

[@Charlie_..]

17:17 In Europe Trucks with more than 3,5t max weight are allowed to reach a max. speed of 80kmph... but 89kmph are tolerated. So European trucks are technically limited to this speed. If one truck overtake an other, the speed difference is not too high which means it takes some minutes... In whole Europe this is ok, and usually the other drivers have the patience, but not in Germany... they honk and rage behind the truck😂😂😂😂

[@EVPaddy]

I have waited in my friends room so many times while they were having dinner ^^ My Colombian girlfriend couldn’t believe it when I told her…

[@aviation.001]

"Some kind of Minecraft thing, idk I'm too old" Bro doesn't know about Gronkh.

[@nero756]

by all the gods you may think are there it hurts if he trys to speak german... but damn he is really giving his best and i'm all for it 😅

[@marvintolke3134]

Well what a lot of foreign people and even some of the german people themselves dont know: yes it is allowed to drive more than 130 in certain areas of the "autobahn" BUT!: every insurance for your car tells you, that if you have a crash at speeds exceeding 130, they WONT HAVE TO PAY for the costs.

[@marvintolke3134]

So its responsible driving at a max of 130 even in no speed limit areas

[@timposter]

8:46 You call it "Shaumi" and they produce basically everything, from phones to printers to even cars.

[@LigH_de]

0:13 - in my childhood: visiting a friend / a lavish lunch is served / "You can wait in Jonas' room until we finished eating." // Please practice the difference between "ich" (sh) and "ach" (kh) 8:28 - Xiaomi (shiao-mee) is a major Chinese electronics company, competitive to e.g. Samsung among mobile phones // 9:12 - Helldivers "Bugs" (opponent species in a hive society) 10:28 - paper ballots are safer than voting machines, the Chaos Computer Club proved they are hackable; also you can re-count paper ballots in case of doubts 12:19 - pre-ordered games will disappoint, the hype won't last; especially when major (already notoriously fraudulent) publishers announced them 13:46 - you did not understand either. Which plugs are missing? Which senses did the displayed celebrities miss? (van Gogh: cut-off ear; Beethoven: deaf in old age; Stevie Wonder. blind) 16:33 - look at his veins, he is obviously trying very hard, close to collapsing (trucks are usually limited to a sane maximum speed, so why even try to overtake when it would take ages?) 17:21 - "razor-thin sliced" [sarc] meat loaf (Leberkäse) in a roll

[@uhrensohnmentalitaet]

12:40 The "oder?" Would rather translate into "right?" in this context

[@mangantasy289]

The first one: when you were a kid and hang out over at your friends house, you witness the friends parents putting exuberant amounts of food on the dinner table. Likely you are already salivating... but then they go like "nah, you can hang out here but don't assume we would feed you. Go into John's room and wait until WE have eaten. (And you can stay hungry or go home...) Which is mean of course.

[@Bahzur]

There was a waiting line when i went to vote, and im certain that there would have not been a line if the ballot wasnt longer than your arm and folded in a different direction every few centimeters!

[@queeri_o]

1:07 Its a german cliche that friends who come over arent supposed to join the dinner/lunch table bc the meal is supposed to be family-exclusive. They had to go home or wait alone in the friends room. It was quite common in german families until the 90s. Specially migrant families brought it up because they thought it was quite weird and offending to make a child wait alone in the room while eating. But also in white families it varies. I as a white 90s kid never experienced it personally and think its weird af, but know people who experienced it regularly.

[@23GreyFox]

Aren't all native Europeans white?

[@queeri_o]

@@23GreyFox more or less (it's a complex topic), but the biggest numbers of migrants in Germany in this times were turkish and vietnamese immigrants

[@23GreyFox]

@@queeri_o Well these are not native Europeans.

[@queeri_o]

@@23GreyFox when did I say they are?

[@Korbin0815]

so, my 2 cents on "Explodierer". The real meaning seems to be "Aufgeblasen", like in "aufgeblasenes Ego" or "aufgeblasener Typ", which is a big head, according to LEO. "Aufgeblasen" translates literally to "blow(n) up", so translated again "Explodieren" (to explode). Since a guy is meant, "Explodierer" (exploder?). Weird. No one says "Aufgeblasener". A snob or poser ("Angeber", "Wichtigtuer") would be alright. It seems to be translated 3 times back and forth with ChatGPT 0.1 and then you get "Explodierer"...

[@ramonos1000]

You gotta drive on the autobahn once and have a truck infront of you overtaking another truck with like 1-3 khm diffrences it takes like minutes and you come with 250+ and you break for the truck and just watch him overtake and take forever but hey he needed to overtake cause he could go a mikrobitfaster ahahaha

[@ramonos1000]

Edit; sometimes its only two lanes or construction and then only 2 lanes

[@TimoLaine-pv5ph]

There is a mandatory speed limiter in trucks above x ton weight, which limits the top speed at 85km/h.

[@stumpfi2628]

The Afd actually had very many votes

[@HrLBolle]

5:48 17:01 not to be confused with the NCC-1701 Enterprise Moin, Ryan, don't know if there are other truckers from Germany watching commenting what Im about to write: overtaking Trucks at 100 on the highway is prime display of idiocy because trucks are BY LAW limited to 80 and most do drive 90, these numbers are speed in kph. 150 on the highway is slightly above the most efficient speed bracket for cars, that would be at around the 135 mark. 190 and above is the land of lunatics or planes

[@Matty0311MMS]

...and people who really need to get to a toilet.

[@HrLBolle]

@@Matty0311MMS or those who have a woman giving birth that moment in their backseat

[@NeverMind439]

@@HrLBolle Or People with a Mercedes or a BMW 🤣

[@HrLBolle]

@@NeverMind439 depends on the model from Mercedes, As I belong to the overall bracket 😜

[@philippgro2797]

@@NeverMind439 Mercedes driver? In Germany: When you buy a Mercedes you get Valium for life. Unless it's a Sprinter 😂

[@iodiimelita7999]

Please ryan check out "not just bikes"

[@ultrafreshlol6768]

Komm gerade vom Deutschland Ungarn Spiel und hab noch ne Bierflasche leer zu machen 😄

[@noniLaus]

Bro I'm sure there will be at least one viewer willing to provide a proper translation and context for these ahead of time

[@RubenKelevra]

19:55 we got clubs and bars which do not close over the weekend. You can literally go there 24h ;) If you're 16 or 17 you can stay as long as you want in a club, as long as you got paperwork from your parents and a person which is 18 years old who is their “guardian” ;)

[@JohnDoe-us5rq]

Especially with the Electoral College a single vote can trip the whole outcome. But on the other hand the impact is biggest in swing States. I think the last election was basically decided by about 90k votes in specific counties. It's absurd, but yeah, with the electoral college a single vote get's even more important.

[@Al69BfR]

2:10 I think that meme isn‘t about idolizing the respective culture but more about the narrow view some people have when it comes to Japanese culture. It‘s all just either Anime or Manga.

[@убитьБэра]

Yes. And no one is idolizing the US anyways. And espiacially not the japanese after what america did to them lol

[@Finsternis..]

No, generically speaking the meme is just mocking the "grass is greener on the other side" concept in terms of loving the exotic. As in "it is kind of funny how Japan loves the European culture while the Europeans love Japanese culture at times more than their own." It's also an obviously exaggerated view.

[@steemlenn8797]

@@Finsternis.. Japan is not just manga and anime, as Germany is not just beer and sausages. But that is what comes to mind for most people first. And that is what the joke is about.

[@Finsternis..]

@@steemlenn8797 I don't know what meme you are refering to, the one in the video certainly did not try to depict that.

[@die_evolutionsbremse07]

English: I was born in 2007 and I know both HDMI and RCA plugs German: bin 2007 geboren und ich kenn sowohl HDMI wie die RCA stecker

[@VSDeluxe]

14:37 we europeans had SCARD adapter so we plugged them only into that and the adapter with it into the TV.

[@DaGuys470]

There is absolutely no courtesy at German train stations. It's anarchy.

[@TheVoitel]

13:46 That one went quite over your head. Hint: It has to do with the people on the left and the connectors missing on the right.

[@seanarmstrong8460]

The Xiaomi meme was great!

[@hoppelrap]

I was a helping with the counts at the polls two weeks ago. You should have seen the ballots in my city (we had three polls at once) and two of them were MASSIVE because of the sheer amount of parties and candidates.

[@boblife3647]

13:55 The one with van gogh, Beethoven and Charles killed me. 🤣😂😂

[@nils7559]

10:45 A ballot here is huge. For the European Elections we had 34 parties you could vote for

[@BlackKalser]

The Ballot was 75cm and you could choose between 35 parties 🙃

[@tigersilberhannes9153]

If your electronic voting mashine is connected to the internet, Warren Buffet decides the outcome of your vote.

[@spieleohnesound8549]

well just so you know 18- free alc if you have identification 16- beer without parents consent 14 with parents consent (parent must be with you if bought)

[@dergrossekaiser]

13:50 damn this is a very deep meme.

[@nephistar]

5:39 The inner meme is saying: Driving fast is cool but driving even faster is great. But those people who overtake trucks with 10 km/h difference and block the 2-lane Autobahn for minutes, those are the worst. Why? Because we cool kids can't drive 250 because of them. Now the outer meme saying that worldview is stupid makes much more sense. It's still not very clever to overtake trucks with 100 km/h, not even for the climate. Everybody still has to brake if they're being responsible and drive 130.

[@knicklichtjedi]

2:52 and 9:12 are Helldivers Memes! Amazing game! Für Freiheit! Für Demokratie! Für Supererde! 14:45 hahaha, blliblublabla xD

[@never-live-style8827]

The AFD actually got a alarmingly high amount of supporters

[@rogerk6180]

Sparkasse is a bank.

[@schwurbelschmock2240]

13:09 actually got me 🤣