American reacts to TOP GERMAN MEMES THIS MONTH [#47]

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[@chrissmith8773]

Trip to Jerusalem is the German term for musical chairs.

[@Karrrsten]

I have never heard of that. I think you refer to Stuhltanz (chair dance)

[@riesenbonobo7846]

@@Karrrstenits Stuhltanz, but always strictly in a circle and no dancing

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

I only know it as "Reise nach Jerusalem"... "Stuhltanz" for me sounds like something you pay for at a nightclub... 😅

[@Asperger0815]

@@stuborn-complaining-german I would definitely pay for that... or ask my wife. Or my girlfriend. 🤣

[@martinaklee-webster1276]

There is a huge american/ Nato airbase in Ramstein.

[@karstenbursak8083]

It’s no simply „huge“ … it’s the biggest US Airbase outside the US

[@user-wy4vn1rj8y]

And its also called Ramstein airbase

[@vincentschult1725]

Apparently it's also essential for US overseas drone operations as a relay station due to earth's curvature.

[@Zirror]

But why was there american police? I would get if it was the military, of course.

[@karstenbursak8083]

@@Zirror ever heard of „military police“ ? Actually in the Ramstein area, the local police and the Airbase MPs often do joint patrols, specifically on the weekends and in the summer when there are a lot of local festivals. Why ? Easy: on several occasions US Soldiers forgot their manners, specially when alcohol was/is involved.

[@winterlinde5395]

In English class for ages we have been discussing the question of school uniforms. Sometimes in German class, too. And philosophy. Not because anyone is interested in the subject but to practice arguing. 😊 Edit: go, watch the sun, Ryan!😎

[@vomm]

School uniforms are great for people with school uniform fetishes

[@winterlinde5395]

@@vomm Generations of German students… I guess that’s no new argument. 😁

[@MiaMerkur]

School uniforms are good for poor people. Or less worse with that brand crazyness. Plus less thinking and longer sleeping in the morning.

[@MichaelBurggraf-gm8vl]

@@MiaMerkur Ha! ... as if that brand crap was ever cool ... slaves to the system ... (went to school in the 1970ies and -80ies)

[@ryanwass]

I went to watch the sun and it wasn't there!

[@DirkMetall]

The first meme is about completely unrealistic train connections on your db navigator app: 3 km in 7 minutes from one train station (Kassel main station) to another (Kassel Wilhelmshöhe)

[@MartinaD]

If you look carfully you can see that the distance is photoshopped. :D

[@felix7771]

Last meme: all over the place playgrounds are built in Bavaria because of the legalization of Bubatz (it is forbidden to smoke weed within 100 m of schools and playgrounds). Also Bavaria is very strict about this law and anti weed. But alcohol is just fine 🙂

[@user-wy4vn1rj8y]

Tobacco is also no problem. I even saw Teenagers from school getting drunk on Brake and going back in class while being intoxicated and with more beer in hand

[@user-wy4vn1rj8y]

Its just crazy to think about it. Even Mobile Phones are more strictly regulated in school

[@corncutter]

Consumption of crack and other hard drugs next to schools (not on school ground) is also still fine. And it was fine for Bubatz, too, before this so called "legalisation". Now you can get fined at least 500€ for smoking weed while all illegal drugs under BTM are still ok to consume near playgrounds, schools, etc.

[@frankie9373]

Id argue that passive smokinng is more dangerous than people drinking, but honestly, with all the shards of broken bottles on the ground and some people going semi insane when drunk and also nicotine being legal next to kids it massively weakens the argument. Im heavily in favour of being able to smoke, drink, and smoke weed in general (I do it myself) but imo all three should be banned around places build for small kids

[@RJ-os2ux]

@@frankie9373interesting point. I wonder if the secondary injuries through alcohol count. Like physical violence, traffic accidents, etc. I find it really difficult to compare substances.

[@hucky89]

4:47 Well the baveria are speaking a dialect no one else understand (also not google). And they put a law to forbid Gendern (eg: Lehrer*innen, LeherInnen, Leher:innen for masculine and feminine teachers) because its so hard to understand.

[@Plantoffel]

Similar hypocritical to the „Keine Drogen für Bayern“ (No Drugs for Bavaria) thing, in a Bundesland (state) that’s known for the tendencies of Drinking a LOT of beer.

[@pok81]

show one dialect in Germany which you would understand coming from somewhere else

[@Roberternst72]

@@pok81Hannoverian. 😎

[@SiqueScarface]

@@pok81I understand most of them. I just once had a hard time understanding someone from Oberpfalz (Upper Palatinate) speaking very fast, and swallowing half of the syllables. But on the other hand: his people had a hard time understanding him either.

[@gavinderulo12]

As and Austrian, their accent is super easy to understand. Also, I'm pretty sure chatGPT can translate it

[@AlastorXescy]

6:47 "Reise nach Jerusalem" or "Trip to Jerusalem" is more commonly known as "Musical Chairs" in English.

[@MrHodoAstartes]

Yeah. The Americans are not so excited about the Crusade metaphors in their children's games.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

3:53 The translation should say "Students who cheated (on the exam) with their mobile phonrs today." There was a scheduled test alert and all the mobile phones went blaring.

[@user7gaming372]

"That might be the safest place to have a highspeed chase" imagine getting overtaken during a highspeed chase by random dude in a sportscar. Yep. Welcome to Germany.

[@brusecco]

… or a random dude in a VW passat… even better :)

[@rey6708]

the meme is that bavaria turns everything into playgrounds so nobody can ever smoke anywhere xD

[@prototype665]

Today I learned the word "Bubatz". I feel like great wisdom has been shared with me.

[@Johannes212]

Please carry this wisdom with honour and pride

[@frankie9373]

I have never felt so called out before seeing the four horsemen of the apocalypse pepper, salt, fondor, (liquid) maggie combo

[@simongruber9786]

the fact that they translated "horseman" to "Pferdemänner" (literal translation) instead of "Reiter" (Rider) like they are called in Germany, shows me that they still use translation software to create this "german" memes - and the fact that 50% percent of german cuisine is made up of the swiss brand "Maggi" instead of it's main competitor, the german "Knorr" brand just proves my disapproval .... how obvious is it that i'm drunk right now ? 🥳

[@frankie9373]

@@simongruber9786 I dont think it's a translation software. intentionally badly (literally) translating english words to german is a common gag in german memes. Often times german memes even emulate english grammar as a joke (f.e. "my friend be like..." gets intentionally translated to "mein freund sein wie..."). It's part of the humor. Maggie is more common here than knorr afaik (at least in bavaria), but knorr is also pretty big.

[@theKiwii]

@@simongruber9786 Even the subreddit's name "ich_iel" which stands for "ich im echten Leben" is an intentionally literal translation of the English subreddit "me_irl" (me in real life) which inspired it. It's all part of the joke. And I dare you to find a translation software that translates horsemen as Pferdemänner.

[@SilverScroll]

>Boris has a heart Citation *fucking* needed lmao

[@helenewei4232]

We practiced a lot of discussion/ methods of arguments and dialogue in German class and the school uniform discussion was a very good (but also very often used) practice

[@SempfgurkeXP]

to 1:00 Top left: is a well known youtube channel that makes some critic reviews to lego (and similar companies) products Top middle: is a german meme, its the "Mittwochsfrosch" (wich was an english meme but we stole it) Top right: It's captain to the sea harald krull from the spiegel video of the penny-markt reeperbahn (first video but all of them are golden classics) Middle left: is also a meme, youve seen a clip from him, a reporter asks him if he has a wive and he starts accusing her of several things in a very german way Middle right: is another meme, with a guy screaming "ALAAAARM", original clip from a 18+ video Bottom left: is a guy that has made the second most legal reports in germany, like when ever he notices other people breaking the law (usually very minor stuff) Bottom middle: is another meme, from a trash tv show, his name is Andreas and he is known for being very aggressive Bottom right: he was at a PEGIDA demonstration (demo against migration and islamification) and was agressively against the camera guy. He shouted things like: "Don't film me in my face. You are commiting a crime!". He was also in civil service at this time, that makes it a bit more ironic (and tragic) 1:37 Its written like you would speak in a very stronc accent, but it says "Gendern ist jetzt verboten" 6:46 In English, "Reise nach Jerusalem" is commonly referred to as "Musical Chairs." 7:29 Its a joke, because a politician "Friedrich Merz" has the same last name as the month March "Merz"

[@felix7771]

Bottom right man with the Germany hat: he was at a PEGIDA demonstration (demo against migration and islamification) and was agressively against the camera guy. He shouted things like: "Don't film me in my face. You are commiting a crime!". He was also in civil service at this time, that makes it a bit more ironic (and tragic).

[@Miessa1989]

1:00 You don't know top right? You are missing out on something. :D It's captain to the sea harald krull from the spiegel video of the penny-markt reeperbahn (first video from 2007 but all of them are golden classics)

[@EyMannMachHin]

Bottom right is the "Hutbürger", the one going on about "Sie filmen in mein Gesicht", and yeah dunno the person in the top right either. Kinda looks like a German version of "The Dude".

[@Retroxyl]

The Guy in the top right corner is from the "Penny Markt Doku" about a Penny Supermarkt on the Reeperbahn(famous street in Hamburg(famous for MANY sex shops and brothles)). He is called Harald Krull and was as he said himself Kapitän zur See(captain of a ship), has the patents A, B, C and 6 and drives the big ships. Now he is homeless and an alcoholic. The Guy in the bottom right is Max Schradin, a former host of many game shows at 9Live. The picture is from his most famous show, where he completely loses it because the people calling aren't able to name him animals with exactly one H. It's very funny

[@SempfgurkeXP]

@@felix7771 Thanks, added it to my comment

[@alinadornieden8411]

of course therapy is free. there just arent enough spaces

[@Battlehammer333]

therapy isn't free. it's payed either by yourself or your private or statutory health insurance, which, in both cases, you also have to pay yourself.

[@miztazed]

Ramstein is like "Little USA" within Germany because of the big US Airbase there. The whole Town is like the USA and it can easy happen you see a US police car. ;)

[@espneindanke9172]

"We all living in America" - Rammstein

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

At Ramstein is one of the biggest american military bases in Germany. They have their own police inside the base, and sometimes you will encounter them outside...

[@moritz1932]

Ramstein is the biggest US Airforce base outside the US

[@stuborn-complaining-german]

@@moritz1932 I thought so, but was too lazy to check and make sure... 😆 Thanks for confirming!

[@Gellert187]

at 8:50 that was Max Schradin, i would really like you to watch the video ,,Habicht hat zwei H'' because its just pure comedy

[@Linuxdirk]

DER HAAAABICHT!

[@Gellert187]

@@Linuxdirk HAT 2 H!!! ICH BIN SCHON GENAUSO BLÖD WIE SIE!!!!

[@eyekona]

"You tell me you can bring alcohol to the school"? - Me looking at a photo of the teacher who is equally drunk as the studens he has to look after, on a school trip when the students were 14-16yo. And the same teacher bringing jägermeister and free cigarettes to school to celecrate carnival/fasching with underaged girls age 14-16. (That was 25 years ago, but I don't think things have changed much)

[@sandra7790]

That changed a lot, even here, near cologne it is not allowed to bring alcohol to school at Karneval and the police shows presence at school at those days. Also there were "Raucherecken" (smoking areas) at schools when I was young. Today it is forbidden at the whole school area.

[@m.m.6171]

@@sandra7790 Yesyes, but watch what’s going on, when the kids have left the building. 😇

[@sandra7790]

@@m.m.6171 ok, but that was not the topic of the comment🤷

[@Cheshire_the_smiling_Cat]

I have been living in germany my whole live and i have never heard Bubatz before, i think i am getting old.

[@felix7771]

Well, outside of Reddit the least people do actually use it anymore. About a year ago it was also mentioned in the Tagesschau but "Gras" oder "Hanf" is most common.

[@artforz]

@@felix7771 Bavarian born '81 here. "Das gute Kraut" ("the good weed") and "Ganja" were also not that uncommon. These days it's basically always "Gras."

[@beldin2987]

Ja, ich werde demnächst 60 und wenn ich das höre denke ich maximal daran ob nich der Typ den die RAF damals entführt hatte so ähnlich hiess 🤔🤔Ansonsten kenn ich nur "Hasch", "Grass" oder "Shit"

[@annaschie]

I'm old and have never heard the expression. Although I consume myself since there existed hippies and therefore have contacts with people of all generations. Some people know 100 varieties by heart, but this expression has never been used by anyone. Not even in the literature that I know.☮👵

[@RSProduxx]

It´s become a meme over the past few years since legalization got more and more serious... also if you see brokkoli pictures... you now know what they mean ;)

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

9:53 Not only is it not banned to bring alcohol on school premises, we made alcohol in school in 10th grade to learn the concept of fermentation. And yes, that included tasting our product. Which means for the rest of the day half the class had what is essentially banana wine with them.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

We made and tasted banana wine in chemistry class too. And most of us weren't 16 at that time yet. Also at the "day of the open door" of my daughter's school - a Gesamtschule - the graduation class (12th or 13th grade) ran a beer cart on the schoolyard. They served wine and beer to the parents. 😅

[@j.h.3425]

For clearance: You can't bring Alkohol and Tabacco to school (school-area), but often Tabacco get's smoked in front of the school gate.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

4:27 Spiegel has made a TV report about a young man who drives around on his bike filing complaints against illegally parked cars. He filed 4,000 complaints last year alone. This report was wildly discussed and he was beaten up a few weeks after it aired.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

That is something where I notice that I get old. People parking and riding their bicycles on the sidewalk there annoy me.

[@bannigmng638]

You can add Maggi to any meal. Many people eat it on boiled eggs, others pour it over noodles. we usually season soup with it You should try it :)

[@steemlenn8797]

Yeah, the same people who say that this Chinese stuff called MSG kills you then use something that is basically MSG and salt if you take the water out.

[@klausjuergen]

Maggi Würze and Maggi Fondor is pretty much MSG.

[@MiaMerkur]

You should not try it. It is not healthy and makes everythink taste artifical.

[@tsurutom]

You can indeed add artificial flavor enhancers to any meal. The food industry does it all the time. A great alternative: high quality, in-season ingredients and learning how to cook. But don't ever combine the two.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

It adds a salty and umami note to stuff, very much like soy sauce in east asian cooking. And here is a tip: buy the cheapest, most low quality chips you can find and put Maggi on it. Just a small drop.

[@FrogeniusW.G.]

The "Endlich Frühling" got me!! 😂

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

The memes at 1:32 and 4:45 refer to the Bavarian ban on "gendering" in public administration (which never did any gendering anyway), schools and universities. The main argument for this was "understandability", so the memes show the supporters of that law talking in their dialect nearly incomprehensible to people from outside Bavaria. 5:00 Maggi is a Swiss company (founded by Julius Maggi in 1869, since 1947 a subsidiary of Nestlé) which specialized back in the 1870s and 1880s in ready-made meals (mostly soups) based on vegetable protein (legumes, peas, beans); in 1886s the "Maggi-Würze was introduced, a vegan seasoning sauce intended to compete with Liebig's meat extract, which is very "umami" (like soy sauce) and became a default table condiment in German restaurants (in Chinese restaurants you'll find soy sauce at every table, in traditional German restaurants Maggi sauce). Fondor was introduced in 1954, a mixture of mainly iodised salt, starch and glutamate, complemented with dried vegetable protein, vegetable fats, spices and herbs. 10:05 The custom in my vocational secondary school was to celebrate birthdays with Italian prosecco and spumante during the main break around 10 am.

[@FLTech]

Very much enjoying the meme reactions.

[@nekromain]

To the American police car on German Autobahn: There is a large US military base in Ramstein, they have their own police around there. To the last meme in Munich: Since marihuana will stay banned 100m around playgrounds and the president of bavaria is highly against marihuana the meme is, that they will just erect playgrounds everywhere, so you are always within 100m of a playground and therefore not allowed to smoke weed. *Drives away with 420 km/h

[@opfipip3711]

If that's what it takes to get proper playground coverage, and to stop them from closing more of them all the time, i'm 100% for it.

[@Gods1princess1]

​@@opfipip3711exactly! For the Kids I'd love that! A lot of new Playgrounds, Kitas and schools? Yes please!!!

[@CJO-lq8bp]

​@@opfipip3711they will just set up some bs and call it playground...its Bavaria, they hate all people that don't vote for their semifascist party and young people tend to not vot for stuff that objectively ruins their future.

[@Xalinai]

First meme: the time and distance are from the travel app of our railway system.

[@CrimsonIsDevious]

At my school the people doing the Abitur are partying in front of the school. They leave the school property by like two meters and boom alcohol allowed lmao

[@BernhardGiner]

Yes, inpatient and outpatient psychotherapy is covered by health insurance if it is prescribed by a doctor.

[@beldin2987]

Ok, the name of the guy was actually Sigefried BUBACK .. but whenever i read here BUBATZ as a 59 year old german i think that has to do someting with the RAF in the 70s. Don't know who came up with tha stupid name for Grass.

[@Gnoccy]

About Alcohol on school premises, let me tell you about "Abirausschmiss", or "How to give twelve year old's alcohol poisoning".

[@shinyhappyrem8728]

12?

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

@@shinyhappyrem8728 probably meant 12th graders

[@PeterBuwen]

If you want to watch a german comedy the only choice is: Pappa ante portas, by Loriot

[@MiaMerkur]

No, all Loriot films are good. 😉

[@m.m.6171]

We once showed Loriot sketches to our Canadian colleague and he did not laugh anytime! He did not understand anything. Not even the sketches without words.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

7:25 The picture shows the leader of the CDU party Friedrich Merz and the caption is a word pun. His last name Merz is pronounced like März, the German word for the month March. So it's "Happy 32nd March". To understand the meme you need to know that his party has fought heavily against the legalisation of cannabis. So it would be in his interest when the date wasn't April 1st but March 32nd. That way the law wouldn't enter into force.

[@janoschwecker1415]

7:14 Ramstein is an American Airbase in Germany sometimes you se American Police Car there as Military Police

[@RSProduxx]

1:35 "gender neutral language is now forbidden (in schools)" they wrote it in dialect ... more or less :)

[@rhysodunloe2463]

6:40 Journey to Jerusalem is the German name for musical chairs. It's unclear where the name comes from. Maybe it has to do with the crusades. It's also called Trip to Rome or simply chair dance (Stuhltanz).

[@tnttnt2006]

I'm from Germany and I really like it people from other countries react to german memes. It's so entertaining :)

[@rhysodunloe2463]

7:01 US soldiers and MP cars are a pretty common sight in and around Ramstein (US air base), Landstuhl (military hospital and NATO radio station) and Kaiserslautern (army headquarters and several living quarters with sport fields, cinema, mall and American schools). Until the early 1990s there was a facility of the US forces in nearly every smalltown. Including missile lauchpads, airbases, bunkers for nuclear and chemical weapons, radio and radar stations... You name it. Anything that held the Soviets at bay. In my hometown they were the second biggest employer after the shoe industry. My great grandmother was a cafeteria lady in the hospital and my dad worked as a civilian support guard until the bataillon was disbanded in 1993. As a kid I often sneaked into the empty barracks with my buddies. They had their own train station, fire brigade, power plant, cinema... It was like an post-apocalyptic adventure playground for us with all the abandoned buildings and overgrown pavements. 😅 15 years ago they began to demolish the barracks and made space for family homes. Only two buildings survived. The elementary school was turned into a daycare because the Catholic kindergarten was too small and the brass band bought and renovated the officers' mess as their new club house so they could finally move out of the rabbit breeders' club house.

[@aoeuable]

Maggi is essentially soy sauce but from wheat. Originally it was precisely that, now it's just as artificial as the most bottom-shelf soy sauces: Practically no fermentation, more chemistry. It definitely has a bad rep but if it wasn't produced so cheaply (also, Nestle) it would actually be a decent product. The Vietnamese apparently love it. If you want to annoy people pronounce the 'g's like the second g in garage: It was invented by an Italian Swiss, that's how you technically pronounce the name. For completeness' sake, the standard soy sauce in Germany probably all of Europe is Kikkoman (even brewed in the EU) and noone ever heard of other styles.

[@VascarVanVamp]

Maggi has nothing to do with soy sauce at all. That's like portraying wine and beer as "the same thing." It's exactly the opposite. Maggi used to be pure chemistry. In fact, wheat was cooked in hydrochloric acid. Today it is produced exclusively through fermentation. Maggi may have Some reputation in your immediate environment, in the rest of Germany it is considered the most popular seasoning for soups and sauces.

[@missoats8731]

@@VascarVanVamp Isn't all food pure chemistry?

[@arthur_p_dent]

7:15 there is American military police driving on the roads near Ramstein. They will usually be called to accidents where Ameficans are involved. Fun fact though, the A6 near Ramstein is speed limited at 130 km/h. But it's true, AMerican MP doesn't chase speeders.

[@edsc8840]

Not to forget the stationary speed controls around the A62 exit, where only 80 km/h are permitted. In the past, the speed limit in the construction zone was only 60 km/h.

[@arthur_p_dent]

@@edsc8840 again, this has nothing to do with the US Military Police, these speed controls are run by either State or Federal Police, not sure which. At any rate, if you do 200 km/h there, you won't be pulled over - but you WILL lose your licence for quite awhile, German or American, doesn't matter.

[@espneindanke9172]

5:20 Fondor is awesome! It's basically salt and MSG^^

[@godthatfailed6478]

Adding to the point if you are allowed to drink on school grounds: in many German schools there is a week of dressing up with different themes called 'Mottowoche'. Usually the last day is called 'innen blau, außen blau' which translates to 'inside blue, outside blue' meaning you are dressed up in blue clothes and drunk while in school. In my school we actually stored 12 crates of beer on school grounds and proceeded to drink all of them with around 80 people within 2-3 hours

[@Gaston413]

9:54 Alcohol is generally forbidden in schools, but can be suspended in exceptional cases at events so that the general legal regulation applies. (Beer and wine from the age of 16 / spirits from the age of 18)

[@marpfel]

1:06 The chaotisch neutral guy :D ALAAARM! XD

[@butenbremer1965]

Happy 100K!!!!!! 😍 I guess you'll soon receive a silvery background decoration.....

[@RSProduxx]

6:00 don´t worry, there´s probably a beer somewhere around :)

[@Sophia-uv5it]

love that you read all memes in german first, your pronunciations here made me laugh several times, like... what happened at 04:09? 😂

[@timomager2502]

Yes therapy is included in health insurance in germany. I was for 4 month in a clinic. it cost 40.000€, covered to 100% by health insurance. Ah plus for 6 Weeks you get full salary, after that you get 60% of your salary for 19,5 months (after taxes, health insurance and so on of course) and because of law protection you cant get fired from work as well.

[@CatzHoek]

You have seen the majority of people in the alignment chart.

[@beldin2987]

4:45 That is actually BAVARIAN .. thats how the people that eat pretzels, wear lederhosen and drink from "1 liter STEINs" all day speek. So what most americans think that all of germany looks like. While we in northern germany thing, they are not even really germans.

[@MiaMerkur]

No, they are not. When looking for like SAP job most are in DACH, but D is here ( not Deutschland=Germany) but Bavaria. They speak similar (hard to understand), similar drinks, food, music, jokes ... It is like one mountain-as country.

[@stephanvolkl3701]

EYY! Greetings from Bavaria. We're really "really germans". For real! ;)

[@rhysodunloe2463]

7:44 "Stößchen" and "Prost" are German words for "Cheers". The former being mostly used by women in their 50s and 60s. So if you hear this on a train you know that some women are having a girls' trip and celebrate with lots of champagne and liquor and the rest of your ride probably gets rather loud and annoying.

[@niji.sateenkaari8835]

The school uniform joke explained: In Germany, at some point in school you learn "debating" and the school books usually present you topics to argue about in class with pro and contra, and for some reason, the topic to be argued about is ALWAYS school uniforms. And always with the same arguments you have to state in class. Presumably because school uniform is a topic virtually any pupil can have an opinion about while the topic is still non-political, non-religious on the surface (and you don't go deep into it in school) and even neutral to personal taste in whatever. And in school, you learn that any good debate (usually, at the end, there's a written exam where you write a pro and contra consideration) is, at the end "it can be seen either that way or the other, both is legit". You are not supposed to actually argue. It does horrors to university first years, at least in philosophy. They constantly refuse to take a stand in an argument. And when given two options and two people, they just assign each one of the options, because that's the way the school exercises are constructed. Example: uni students learned about autonomy and heteronomy. When asked "What is Kant's and Adorno's stand here", they assigned Kant to be pro-autonomy (as learned) and therefore Adorno to be pro-heteronomy. I could hear him spinning in his grave from afar. From the text given to them, they should have known that Adorno is pro-autonomy as well, but they couldn't because they blindly followed the school exam's form.

[@overdev1993]

Ramstein (like the band just without the second M") is a place where a US military base is located. without that it would be impossible to control drones in the far east due to the curvature of the earth

[@PrueferAuge]

9:55 we drank wine during our graduation ceremony

[@44WarmocK77]

10:00 we frequently had a few crates of beer in the schoolyard back in the day, and nobody gave a damn ^^

[@twinmama42]

Can you bring alcohol to the school premises? Yes, our deputy director (= headmaster) always had two crates of beer (20 half-liter bottles in one crate) in his office. That was his stash to get through the week. Once after a school disco (like a prom, just less formal and open to all students grades 5-13) he invited the students who acted security (and their girlfriends) to his apartment where we continued to party until 4AM (with alcohol). Smoking in our school was officially allowed for all students in grades 11-13. They even had a classroom for smokers inside the school building but that was when the legal smoking age was 16.

[@hellemarc4767]

The liquid Maggi Würze is basically like soy sauce, and it used to be made with soy beans and wheat, but since 2006, they only use wheat to make it. It has been around since 1886, and the bottle hasn't changed since 1887. The hot version with chili is relatively recent, since 2009. It's widely used in Germany, but according to Wikipedia, it's even more ubiquitous in Afrika.

[@rhysodunloe2463]

5:23 The original Maggi Würze is not hot sauce but the German equivalent to soy sauce. It has a salty umami taste and mainly consists of wheat protein. There's a herb that smells extremely similar - lovage (Levisticum officinale) - and is therefore also called Maggi Herb by many but it isn't an ingredient of Maggi Würze.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

You don't just hand your beers for people helping you move. You often also offer some food.

[@veitforabetterworld7058]

The translation e. g. at 4:43 doesn't work in Google translate because it's Bavarian accent which is really hard to understand for non native (non Bavarian people). The guy says that noone can understand if someone genders. It's funny because noone can understand him. You can use Chat-GPT for translation. Just write "pls translate this weird German accent for me: [paste text here]" and it will translate it to English

[@RainOrigami]

Hey Ryan, you should try to use ChatGPT to translate some German things, like what Herr Söder says. ChatGPT can understand these things better than a translator. For example: __Prompt__ German: "dschendern is jedsd verboodn" English: __ChatGPT Response__ "dschendern is jedsd verboodn" translates to "Gendern is now forbidden" in English. you can also ask it follow up questions about it, like "what is gendern". it's very helpful!

[@MiaMerkur]

Söder ist not only against 'gendern', he was also against ' forbid rape in marriage' Ein Schelm, der böses dabei denkt ...

[@moki4541]

"In den Taasch" sounded very nice

[@moki4541]

Hasch in den Taasch

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

6:00 yes, as soon as it gets warm, you get our your Kärcher high pressure cleaner to go over your driveway. And the beer is obviously off camera, can't allow to get any of the high pressure water in it.

[@m.m.6171]

In my area it’s the lawn mowers ...

[@E85stattElektro]

Actually Bubatz is Turkish. It’s the germanised version of the Turkish word bobbac, which means joint.

[@Auvas_Damask]

This 18-year-old who wanted to expose Spiegel TV is a guy who goes from city to city to report illegal parking. He became known through Spiegel TV, among other things, and then people came to beat him up.

[@yanamed6477]

all health care insurance plans cover therapy in germany... having health care insurance is mandatory😅

[@NGK-EchoYT]

The joke at 4:43 is that the CSU party that currently rules in Bavaria said "the german language needs to be comprehensible" during the gender language debate (instead of writing e.g. Lehrer*innen (Inclusive to both male and female teachers) in e.g. something like a letter they want to keep it the traditional way of writing Lehrer (male teacher) when referring to a group of both male and female teachers. In German there's a gender specific word to pretty much all jobs or when referring to a specific group of people like: Lehrer/Lehrerin (teacher), Schüler/Schülerin (student) Ingenieur/Ingenieurin (engineer), Kanzler/Kanzlerin (chancellor), Soldat/Soldatin (soldier) and so on) while bavarian dialect can be pretty hard to comprehend/understand to a non Bavarian

[@dan438]

If OP had looked up Ramstein, OP would have gotten the meme.

[@vrenak]

Not just in Germany you can bring alcolhol there, in Denmark for instance we even drink with our teachers (not when school is in session though)

[@DMSG1981]

"Trip to Jerusalem" is a silly party game for kids. You guys have that too, but under a different name that I can't remember right now. Everybody is running in a circle around a bunch of chairs until the music stops. Then everybody has to get seated as fast as possible. The last person standing -loses- wins, because (s)he doesn't have to play this crap any longer. (S)he also gets one of the chairs so (s)he can sit comfortably while the stupid people who haven't figured out the right strategy keep fighting for chairs by running around until the music stops again.

[@danilopapais1464]

Never heard the term Bubatz before and I have been living in Germany for 49 years.

[@Mokrator]

first meme is the App from the German public transport - it suggests also the way between plattforms or in this case to the trainstation from your current position... so good luck to get that train on plattform 2. Spiegel memes are about the Anzeigenhauptmeister these days as he was beaten up... I saw US-styled policecars i think twice in my life in germany too - sure just private cars maybe really imported. Eh alcohol on school ehhh well we totaly did not start from the school ground with a tractor with seveal boxes of beer on our commencement and bought Feiglinge at the first stop... (the beer was ok as we where 16+ but the hard alcohol wasn't....

[@73smoo]

I am smoking cannabis since 35 years, I never heard the word 'Bubatz' before in my life, until the German finance minister used it recently. Maybe I am too old...

[@vuhdoo7486]

i loved those 32 märz (march) memes with the incompetent politician Merz. März and Merz are pronounced very similar. We will get another one for Mai (May)

[@sognarisenheart7806]

Therapy is free but there was a spike in the need for theraphy and now there are not enough therapists.

[@Exodon2020]

7:14 Ramstein houses the largest US Military Base outside the US. Seeing US Military vehicles - including Military Police around the area is quite a common occurrence. And yes, these MPs have no jurisdiction over German civilians as long as they don't get their business intertwined with US soldiers - and even then the MPs would usually call German Police to the scene to deal with them.

[@Itsjustme-Justme]

Your German pronounciation massively improved over the last few months. The only mistake you keep repeating is confusing "ie" and "ei". German is easier than English in that case. "ie" is always a long e like in cheese, "ei" is always pronounced like eye. Only exception: When the letters accidently join in a long German word that is made from two or more short words. But that's so rare I can't even find an example. When you pretend there's so exception at all, you are right in well over 99% of the cases.

[@evaneumoro156]

We have good Comedys in Germany Like "fuck you Goethe" Trilogie.

[@MiaMerkur]

No, thst Goethe films are not good. Watch Herbig films or Schweighöfer.

[@neutronenstern.]

1:37 Mr Söder in Bavaria just banned the usage of gender neutral language in schools and other institutions.

[@nina-thi]

No, you aren’t allowed to bring alcohol on school property (I mean, we did in our last weeks of school, but it definitely wasn’t allowed). You are allowed to consume alcohol in a 100m radius around schools though, but not Bubatz

[@sognarisenheart7806]

The "having to do the Math" thing makes it a german Meme instead of a regular Meme.

[@PrueferAuge]

6:35 "musical chair" for americans

[@Gaston413]

5:21 Maggi seasoning is a seasoning sauce that was invented around 1886 and is colloquially known by the manufacturer's name "Maggi". The normal version is not spicy, but is somewhat comparable to Asian soy sauce.

[@oskarprotzer3000]

school grounds (the outside) become a drinking/smoking spots at night in Germany

[@ayoutubechannelhasnoname6018]

How would aliens come here without knowledge about basic physics and planetary rotation😂

[@NeverMind439]

Therapie is free in Germany, is capped by the statutory health insurance. (don't know if that sentence is correct, Deepl helped me a lot with that 😀). In fact, i am in Therapie since i was 5 y.o. because of Depression, suicidal thoughts (came later), autism (not a single therapist/Quack did know that until 1 year ago when i let myself check it on my own accord) and so on. 😀 But yeah, if if you have only on of those i have, it is free because the health is something German take good care of. Regardless of mentally oder physically 🙂 Oh, and Alcohol is also not allowed in Schools 😀 Well, at least not if you show it around like a medal. We bought "Cherry Water", which is a fruit Brandy, and put it into Cola to mix it 🤣

[@itsraining3000]

Not the band Rammstein, but Ramstein = Largest US Base in Europe, in Germany. That's where you Americans control your drones from, when you strike in the Middle East. The American police car was military police.

[@hellemarc4767]

P.S.: there is a huge US military base in Ramstein (the largest in Europe), 56,000 American people live and work there.

[@DMSG1981]

@11:20 Since jokes are always funnier when you explain them: in this pic there is no area left that is further than 100m from the nearest playground. so basically, smoking weed is still not legal there.

[@einflinkeswiesel2695]

If you want to watch a German comedy, I would recommend the movies "Fack Ju Göhte" or "Der Schuh des Manitu" Although I don't know if there are English subtitles for them

[@Auvas_Damask]

9:30 We also call it broccoli because it was once said that grass is not broccoli. It's what WE say it is!

[@timomager2502]

There are alarm tests (national emergency signal tests) on some days in the year. so at 11 AM on that days every mobile which is on and got signal will turn in alarm mode and starts ringing. so the joke here, is that all students who use there phones cheating on a school or university test are screwed when the clocks turn 11PM.

[@D4BASCHT]

This uses Cell Broadcasting, so it will only work with phones who support that (Android and iOS do since 2012)

[@rhysodunloe2463]

4:39 That's the Bavarian dialect which isn't understood by many Germans, let alone translation apps. He says "But noone can understand that. A star here, a hyphen there, sometimes written with capital letters, sometimes small. How do you want to understand that? Do you get me?" He talks about the fact that there's no standards for gender-sensitive language yet because it's a pretty new thing. This meme ridicules the argument of the Bavarian government that gender-sensitive language makes it hard, if not impossible, to understand the written language, yet they themselves speak in inaudible dialects and often struggle with High German.

[@TheKatoffen]

4:03 Anzeigenhauptmeister

[@dwayenway]

Boris has no heart. Just a tiny hands to do harm

[@Auvas_Damask]

8:40 Next he asks if we know the Brothers Grimm

[@honeybunnyhanni1931]

If you want to watch a German comedy movie you should take a look at Manitu's shoe (Der Schuh des Manitu). It's the highest grossing German movie of all time and a genius parody of the classic Karl May Western movies. Lots of the jokes would be considered some sort of -ist (racist, sexist, etc) but I grew up with this movie, it's my personal all time favorite and it's just hilarious