American reacts to the most absurd 'Realer Irrsinn' yet

[@j.z.7337]

Explanation for the "dinosaur flu" (In German: "Dinosaurier-Grippe"): A little added letter makes the difference because it's "Dinosaurier-Gerippe" (in english: "dinosaur skeleton") instead.

[@Vampirzaehnchen]

Well.. When I got the flu I always feel as if I am a skeleton, so.... not entirely wrong. :,D

[@vete6864]

also the house from 'reuse' was fun. its a fishing net thats left in the water for day(s) at a time, not a house...

[@missoats8731]

@@vete6864 Maybe the youtube translations understood "Häusle" :)

[@pakabe8774]

At the end it was more of a flu/malady than a skeleton...

[@ebbhead20]

He actually said 1,1 so its 1.1 million euros and not 11 million euros as the translation wanted it to be. Huge diffence. Like if a million euros wasn't enough.. 😅

[@bulldowozer5858]

Well... 10 fold cost overrun doesn't seem that far fetched....

[@starstencahl8985]

@@bulldowozer5858Pretty average for tax funded projects

[@attackdoughnut]

The "sound elements" is one thing, but how did these metal plates get through any stage of planning? Was the architect a Final Destination fan? 😂

[@oneworld1160]

The bridge connects two beautiful parks separated by a highway. But that also means that there are no houses nearby. Must have been the visitors of the parks for whom the bridge was too loud…

[@missoats8731]

Or people actually walking on the bridge found it too loud 🤣

[@jackychamber534]

minute 2:39 yes, the translation here was really wrong too. ("house/building" was wrong) The translation for the German word "Reuse" seems to be: fish trap 😅 🐟 🐠

[@ShadowOfStrikes]

The next village actually filed a noise complaint, cause´ they couldn´t sleep at night xD

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

In Germany we don't have hurricanes, those are tropical storms. We have Orkans which are outertropical low pressure systems that can create just as strong winds. Some of the biggest ones in the last decades, Wibke and Lothar in the 90s leveled large parts of german forests and caused immense destruction. We also have tornados which also cause large damage once in a while, but they don't level entire towns like in the US, because we don't build our houses out of cardboard... 😉

[@OpaSpielt]

Wind of strength 12 in the Beaufort Scale (in German Orkanböen) is translated into English as "Hurricane Force." No matter if the wind is caused by a hurricane or by an intense extratropical low or by a thunderstorm. 🖐🏼👴🏼

[@ElwoodEBlues]

I remember the storm series of of 1990 very well. I lived in a motor club's clubhouse that time. At night I couldn't sleep because things in the garden and the side porch's roof rattled so much. I finally went out to fix the side porch's roof by setting new screws . When I just wanted to climb onto a ladder with an eletric drill I saw part of the roof fly away, onto the railway tracks right behind the house 😅 One of my motorcycles was blown down from an elevated location. The next morning I found it standing upright ... but upside down. Another motorcycle was nearly missed by one half of an aspen that was blown down. A sudden gust tore a window from my hand when I wanted to close it. The next gust slammed it shut and destroyed it. I also remember pretty infamous storms like Kyrill of 2006 and the lower saxony storm of 1972 where we had 12 Beaufort *inland*

[@OpaSpielt]

@ElwoodEBlues 1972 November ... I had to walk to the university because driving bicycles was too dangerous and the tram didn't run. My professor said to us, " Look, guys, an autumn storm," but he didn't know what kind of autumn storm it was. A meteorological station lost its mechanical wind anemometer at about 160 kph that day because the wind was too strong. So nobody knew the real wind speed. 🌬

[@ElwoodEBlues]

@@OpaSpielt yes ... I still remember that day. Nov 13th, 1972. I lived in Bremen (as most of my live) and was 11 years old. Around noon, when the storm was srongest, I was in school. 4th or 5th lesson of the day: music with Mr. Sellheim. We all, including the teacher, looked out again and again, irritated by the storm and the sound of many roof shingles blown down. I don't remember anything from that lesson - the music was playing outside. After that lesson school was over. I left the school, and nowadays I wonder that we were allowed to leave - there was a real danger of getting hit by the many many shingles from that big school roof. The school is not far away from the central railway station, and I walked over there as the trams had stopped due to destroyed catenary cables. At the main station the storm had blown down parts from a nearby hotel which had fallen down onto a bus. Driving home by bus I saw a lot of broken windows and clearly remember a torn-open flat roof on a 3-storey building - I could look into the living room from our windows. Few storms, if any, were as fierce here in Northern Germany as that one. Wikipedia has an article about it (Sturm Quimburga).

[@BennoWitter]

I'm amazed how good you've become to decipher the meaning of those clips without understanding the language and subtitles that make no sense. 😂 Some of the translations were screwed up, because Google can't tell words apart that are too similar. Gerippe=Skeleton/ Grippe=Flu

[@MrGaldor123]

At least it was only 1.1 Million, not 11 Million

[@Fochest0r]

The lady said: "It was a sound bridge because of the elements... but not they are gone... so it does not sound anymore... you barely can hear anything".

[@NickNelsons_bigsis]

1.1 million becoming 11 million in translation is hillarious! 🤣

[@Linuxdirk]

1.1 million is still a lot of money for ... this.

[@nerdbot4446]

Google's AI powered translation engine was probably trained on videos about BER

[@kuessebrama]

Google is just so good that it knows the real cost. I mean every building project wich our politic brings to life costs way more then what was said in the begining :D I don't know why they pay it, i mean nobody would pay a house if the constuction company said to you it costs for example 500.000€ but during the build they say "oh now it costs 2 million because the planig was not right" and after a building time wich was tripple that of what was planed it's suddenly costs 5 million. But ok it is not the money of the politicions so they don't car 🤷‍♂

[@vomm]

Finally, we know why the dinosaurs actually died out. Because of the Dinosaur-flu.

[@schnelma605]

KZbin's translation is entertainment in itself 🤣

[@ianwalker5842]

🤣

[@fnb19]

COVID -65.000.000

[@ParaSpite]

They didn't, birds are dinosaurs and they're alive today.

[@tosa2522]

2:40 "The bridge has evolved from a fish trap/cage into a dinosaur skeleton."

[@mariusmittig8695]

If that were the most absurd thing in Germany, it wouldn't be my Germany anymore :D We have hundreds more absurd things to offer.

[@ElwoodEBlues]

BER airport! "Niemand hat die Absicht, einen Flughafen zu errichten" 😅 - no one has the intention to erect an airport

[@TheRealFizzbin]

@@ElwoodEBlues Elbphilharmonie, "S21", new Munich City Tunnel for train...

[@cicitrek]

I can see it in front of me...65 million years ago....a t-rex sneezing in the woodlands. That was the start if their doom🧐😂😂

[@derGlasdrache]

2:00 Mayor: "This is an art piece, this is a special bridge that is unique in this world." Commentator: "Unique indeed, in a changeable way, because six years ago the sound bridge looked a bit more opulent." Mayor: "[?] the bridge developed from a fish trap to a dinosaur skeleton, both versions, this one and that one, are kind of attractive for tourists." 5:00 Lady: "The sound bridge [was called like this] because of these [sound] elements. Now that they are gone, it doesn't sound (or ring) anymore, the few [elements] that still hang there can hardly be heard."

[@squarecircle1473]

LMAO the noise-complaint fits so excellently in the stereotype 🤣

[@Nifuruc]

The captions are absolutely hilarious! Dinosaur flu is the best XD

[@xaverlustig3581]

2:40 "from a house to a dinosaur flu" is a hilarious google mistranslation. He actually said "in between a fish trap and a dinosaur skeleton". Which makes sense when you look at it.

[@Microtubui]

1.1 million not 11 ^^

[@saiberfun]

Been there both with and without the elements. The idea was nice. There is not really any houses nearby just 2 nice parks and it was not that loud. But yes, it was dangerous because there is a road with walkways below the bridge. Those elements shouldn't have been able to fall off, then it would have been really nice.

[@Wildcard71]

A tube with a net wall could have been a solution-

[@ShadowOfStrikes]

Not loud? Ask that the people of Zweibrüggen (the village next to it), they had a petetion against the sound elements cause´ they couldn´t sleep at night xD

[@vallara1974]

Took me 10 mins from watching the reaction to be able to write a comment because I was laughing so hard about the dinosaur flu. Google translate is a thing of beauty. XD

[@jonasl.4810]

There is now a German McDonald's ad about how crunchy the chicken is and people will complain about the crunch noise so they can't sell it during the quiet hours.

[@Wildcard71]

Haven't seen it!

[@Kath-Erina]

Noooo, that can't be real, that just makes zero sense. I'm German and I refuse to belive that McDonald's does not sell during quite hours because it's too loud?

[@johanmesser9218]

This "bridge" does not connect anything. So it is not a bridge connecting one side of a river to another or so, it is just a piece of (sound-)art, where people can walk through a "tunnel of sounds". But, without sounds, it is just a piece of steel standing in the landscape for big money....

[@TheRealFizzbin]

That´s what so called in dialect "Soda-Brücke" (a bridge that stands just there without sense)

[@petebeatminister]

The show is called "Extra Dry" - 3 is pronounced "dry" in German

[@qgame4941]

OH GOTT, das ist mir nie aufgefallen xD I feel very stupid now xD

[@Wildcard71]

They already pointed this out when the show was limited to Northern Germany and Berlin.

[@ThomasMBusch]

extra 3 is a satiric show of wasting taxes in germany

[@Vampirzaehnchen]

"If a tree falls in the forest and there's no one there to hear it you can bet we've bought the vinyl." :D (AVByte - Hipster Disney Princesses, the musical)

[@rouvendaniel9121]

That is typical for Germany. In my Hometwon the City build a new big bus station. After the busstation was ready, they notice that the bus platform was to small.... for the bus.

[@holleholl3057]

The translator missed a point. The costs of this non-sounding sound bridge were not 11 millions but "only" 1.1 million Euros. I say it with Simon & Garfunkel: this sound bridge serves is purpose right, it simply plays the "sounds of silence" 😂

[@DJone4one]

The bridge did not cost 11 million euros, but the state of NRW provided 1.1 million euros in funding. The bridge was to be built for tourists. The bridge is supposed to give a different view of the site.

[@dietermcdevitt4015]

As an extension to the question about the sound in the forest when no one is there. if a married man stands alone in the forest and says something - is he still wrong?

[@christiansonnenberg6306]

This special effect at the start of the video gets me every time :D

[@DerMaje]

It is art and we like art…But no one checks if it‘s safe or not, because it‘s art. We had some roundabouts with a chunk of metal pipes in the middle that pointed outwards and no one saw the „unsafeness“. The ADAC had to tell them that it is unsafe to have that kind of obsticle right in way. If someone would have driven over these, the people would be impaled by all those pipes.

[@franconianbike]

@2:48: flu is the wrong translation .... Grippe is the German word for flu Gerippe is the German word for skeleton. @03:29: Klang translates to sound or tune. @05:20 : Now the elements are gone and now the bridge doesn't make sounds anymore,

[@Sarmari86]

This bridge was build to connect two parks. But there are not many people because in one park all you can do is walk around. In the other park you have a little shop, you can sit down for eating and drinking there, a playground, you can take a boat and drive on the lake

[@MarsOhr]

You can't trust automatic translations. It mistook "Dinosaurier-Gerippe" (dinosaur skeleton) for "Dinosaurier-Grippe" (dinosaur flu).

[@caccioman]

Google translate gets worse by the day, cant even do numbers (made 11 million out of 1.1 million)

[@blenderpanzi]

Given how bad these auto generated subtitles are with that clear German, I guess when people would talk proper dialects it would just totally give up.

[@MellonVegan]

While there are no hurricanes in Germany, heavy storms are a regular occurence. The associated floods as well. And the odd tornado here or there. This is a very windy country. It's not nearly as cold in terms of insolation (how much the sun shines onto Germany) as people from other places would think but the wind certainly makes it feel colder than it is, sometimes.

[@wannes9125]

About the tree falling, that's not so much a figure of speech as it is a philosophical question If I have never heard of the concept, you can say that and I'll immediately know what you mean, the language directly expresses what it's trying to say For miscommunications, you need to look at figures of speech where the language you use is different from normal For example, in dutch when it's raining a lot, we have an expression that directly translates to "it's raining lead pipes" If I think about it for one second, I realize that lead pipes are not the thing that normally rains down, so I know if I say this expression someone could be confused An English example would be "they kicked the bucket". Obviously when someone dies, they don't actually kick a bucket, so if you use that expression for someone that doesn't know it it'll be confusing Also, I think the majority of us learned English from the internet and tv, so we probably know the more common expressions already

[@eBBeLBeBBeL]

Whole Germany be like: Yeapp, thats me. You probably wondered how I ended up in this situation 😂🤣

[@norrinradd2364]

Funny part of the story is the road in the background where the bridge goes over. The noisy traffic doesn't disturb the peace of surroundings. Germany at it's best🤦‍♀🤦‍♀

[@pehpunkthahpunkt4179]

5:15 missing translation of that woman: "it was the sound bridge because of those elements. and now they are gone... and now it doesnt make sound anymore" (in a funny and simple german accent)

[@followeroj9115]

The city is acctualy obligated to track the soundlevels on their buildings not necessarily a complaint. As the bridge conects 2 Parks which should be a place for people to relax the treshhoulds for the sound intensity are fairly low

[@MellonVegan]

"I don't know how my impression went from British to Japanese when I'm trying to do German" I'm sorry Ryan but all of that was just either just plain American or American doing a voice ^^

[@Horstilein1991]

i love all our real madnesses! 😅 there are so many more buildings, houses, behaviors from all over Germany where you will finally shake your head and really be shocked how stupid people are and especially how much money was spent for those ... things..!! Best show, best humor, best satire 😉 Greetings from Aachen, Germany ✌

[@Ted1405]

In 150m distance there is a single house, two others at 200m and a whole bunch within 500m. Don't know how they thought, that could be a good idea there.

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

It developed from a Reuse = creel, fish trap, not Haus = house, to a Dinosaurier-Gerippe = dinosaur skeleton, not Dinosaurier-Grippe = dinosaur flu. Klang-Elemente = sound elements, not klamm elements. 5:17 She said: "Sound bridge - that was because of those elements. And now they are all gone and there is also no sound anymore." And "11 million" was also wrong, they said 1.1 millions.

[@sadsally]

yeah germans, and austrians too, have that expression with the tree falling

[@rhysodunloe2463]

2:34 What he actually said was "In its appearance the bridge has evolved from a bow net (form of a fish trap) to a dinosaur skeleton." In German: "Bildlich hat sich die Brücke von einer Reuse zu einem Dinosauriergerippe entwickelt." But Google understood "Gehäuse" (housing/case) or "Häuser" (houses) instead of "Reuse" (fish trap) and "Grippe" (flu) instead of "Gerippe" (rips/skeleton).

[@BlackRainbow667]

1. Noone has to complain. Bureaucracy tends to set in motion by its own. 2. Parcours? MENTAL!? That would be way to dangerous!

[@cornelia6276]

I think they do not know what to do with our taxes!!

[@TackerTacker]

Yea that did look like it was out in the middle of nowhere, but if it isn't then wouldn't you complain if that thing would have been build right next to your house? With thousands of wind chimes clanking away all day and night 😵‍💫

[@liamwagner6597]

As a student of art and design, I feel entitled to say: This is how art fails because of the authority of the German bureaucrazy. Once again.

[@olli1068]

Is there something similar to "Realer Irrsinn" in the US? The question is not if such things happen, but if someone can recommend a TV show that makes fun of it in a similar way.

[@maho7694]

extra3 is one of the most loved (and best) satire formats we have here in Germany, some things are really... guess you get/got it right ;) :)

[@the_devils_jester]

And that's why you hire an engineer foor bridge construction onstead of an artist.

[@little_forest]

Two things: 1. you can’t be so American customer service like nice in the intro! This is the German video channel! ;) 2. If a tree falls in the forest, does a German complain about the sound? - Yes, if there is a report!

[@debian_i3]

Cool channel u have. greets from Germany, Bremerhaven (y)

[@bulldowozer5858]

Improve the steel cables, so that nothing can fall down... nah Removing the sound elements from the SOUND bridge... yeah!

[@tihoe8860]

So funny. I live in Übach Üalenberg. A lot of people are still angry about it.

[@annemckervey9023]

We also know the phrase with the tree in the woods. Someone took it further and asks: If a man is talking alone in the woods, is he still wrong? 😂

[@silkwesir1444]

Talk about taking it further, ever heard of Schroedinger's Cat?

[@blenderpanzi]

Also it translated 1.1 million Euros as 11 million Euros. Quite a difference.

[@reginaa.t.6827]

Extra 3 is a satire show

[@ArmandoBellagio]

Yeah, we have that tree-falling expression too.

[@DSilver93]

Search for "so da Brücken" (just there bridge's) 😉😅

[@BeckyCz1]

You should watch realer Irrsinn about the goldenen Bänke in Wuppertal 🤣

[@Techmagus76]

As a german i am not sure whats more funny the clip or the english translation.(my highlight for this clip as he says one_point_one million and the translation takes it 11 million and that consistent , house (fish trap) to dinosaur flu(skeleton) and klamm(sound,tone) elements )

[@IIIOOOUS]

A silent bridge that swallows the neighbors noise would be successful.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

build a sound bridge ... but without sound! :) 1.1 million euros very well spent! :)

[@Lemuriam]

oooh :O you much improved your "hallo" sir :D

[@Raffael-Tausend]

Please Ryan, listen to the audience and go get yourself a german friend to helpyou translate. I always feel sorry for you!

[@noshua8949]

I love your videos because I find it interesting how an American reacts to us Germans😂👍

[@GaunerNo1]

the translation of the shows name is something like"real madness"

[@sayrocks11]

Das größte Highlight von hinten 😂 totaler Fail

[@pakabe8774]

6:23 "...really shot yourself in the foot with that..." - even we have more gun restrictions, we have a similar saying: Das war wohl ein Schuss ins Knie (that was probably a shot into the knee). I'm always interested in such similarities.

[@dimrah]

Perhaps it were the resident German songbirds who filed the noise complaint. XD

[@dorisschneider-coutandin9965]

I'm shocked by Ryan admitting that he didn't know what the word "opulent" meant.

[@sreny148]

i would argue that the majority of people dont know that word, no matter what country they are from. Noone uses it unless you wanna brag about knowing a fancy word.

[@dorisschneider-coutandin9965]

@@sreny148 I am shocked even more now.

[@sreny148]

@@dorisschneider-coutandin9965 you're welcome

[@stevenvanhulle7242]

Shocked that he didn't know the word, or shocked that he admitted it?

[@dorisschneider-coutandin9965]

@@stevenvanhulle7242 That he didn't know what it meant.

[@Caddl123]

A storm in the forrest at night.. You stand there at the forrest border *Ears up* LISTEN KRX BRX A tree was falling down.. AND NOW rascheleaschel.. The leaves in the wind are sounding.. :D :D :D A soundforrst.

[@RustyDust101]

German bureaucracy at its finest.😂😂 First supporting the building of a piece of art that had nothing to do with optimizing a path from A to B over something else. It was supposed to be nothing but an artistic show piece.😂😂 Welcome to Germany's bureaucratic hell scape.😉🤣

[@waltergro9102]

Not just bureaucrats. Politicians!

[@jensschroder8214]

A city probably had too much money and put up a sound bridge. It's just stupid that more and more had to be dismantled over time. But the question remains: why is it all? Couldn't something sensible have been built with the money? At least the company got paid for the job

[@guteadele5963]

Hey Ryan, thank you for your Reaction Videos to Realer Irrsinn. You also can try Realer Irrsinn: Brücke ohne Boden Here you can learn more about German city government madness. Realy Funny I like watching all your videos.

[@PiratePawsLive]

Philosopher Ryan xD.

[@knicklichtjedi]

Okay, those subs were terrible, lol. Do you have any episode in mind that you want to watch in the future? If so, let me know and I will create a version with subtitles for you.

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

Ryan, we're world leading experts for bridges in the middle of nowhere. For almost all the years I went to school there have been a few bridges for an Autobahn which eventually got built ten years later. OK, there was just the tiny little difficulty that the Autobahn was supposed to cross the border between Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg several times. Whenever one side was ready to go the other wasn't, vice versa, and all other contorsions of the huge universe of German burocracy. I think it's a bit unfair that noone ever considers writing an opera about such things (eg. an opera about the Berlin-Brandenburg airport or about Stuttgart21). Given that there are so many opera houses in Germany continously playing the same old stuff, or the latest absurd one provided by some academic genius I'm really wondering about that gap in our cultural repertoire.

[@Wildcard71]

You know, copyright issues.

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

@@Wildcard71 Please don't tell me that Deyle's musical theatre owns the rights to this 🤣

[@Kathy9586]

I love realer Irrsinn 😂

[@SovermanandVioboy]

0:23 heh, hes beginning to understand how Germany works.

[@thomasroese2651]

Its not allowed for a tree to fall in the forest without a permission by the local authorities 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@legent23]

He said "1,1 Mio. €, not 11 Mio. €" :D

[@Attirbful]

Pretty bad subtitles. But very funny for someone who knows both German and English. The bot translated “Dinosaurier Gerippe” (Gerippe is a skeleton as in Rippen/ribs) as “Dinosaurier Flu” (Influenza, in German, is Grippe - not Gerippe)…. Also, the mayor talks of “Klangelemente” (sound elements) that were supposed to be hung at the bridge. Klammelemente is not a German word at all. A Klamm (noun) is either a gulch or something kann be klamm (adjective) and that means something is damp.

[@nabuli_9337]

You should read or watching videos about the "Schwarzbuch der Steuerzahler" (Taxpayers' black book). There you will find tons of entries where taxpayers' money was wasted on garbage and rubbish.

[@oskarprotzer3000]

well nothing opulent in Indiana xD

[@HopeeInk]

These subs are wild not the dinosaur flu 😂

[@73smoo]

There can be just one reason why Germans can't stand noise: they're the most sensitive people in the world.

[@helloweener2007]

Gerippe - skeleton Grippe - the flue The major did not speak clearly enough for the automatic translation. 😀 It looks like a dinosaur skeleton. That is what he said.

[@ianwalker5842]

The skeleton of a dinosaur that died of influenza, perhaps.

[@editaedita473]

You're funny.

[@meisterbastler]

Yes, this bridge is on the butt of nowhere and connects nothing. German local politicians love to build such senseless and useless "art projects".

[@eBBeLBeBBeL]

When will someone finally take a big package, pack it full of great treats from the German lands, send it to the america lands and let this wonderful Ryan taste it with relish?

[@KolaKoala-jn2jr]

This is all horribly translated by Google!!! Especially what the mayor says...

[@SafezoneExpert]

Did you ever figured out why you are obsessed of Germany?

[@silkwesir1444]

Should not the question be: why are so many people - most Germans themselves - watch it?

[@SafezoneExpert]

@@silkwesir1444 Both questions are legitimate. I think everyone is interested in how others view from the outside what they themselves perceive as normal due to socialization. This doesn't just apply to Germans and is a completely normal interest in feedback. What is striking, however, is when a single person delves so obsessively into every little detail of a culture and social group. But the answer is simple - marketing, traffic, sales!

[@Linuxdirk]

The translation function has a hard job this time ...

[@Flashguitar]

it was 1.1 million euro

[@Kayak_Killer]

It is 1,1 million euros. The translation was wrong.