Canadian Reacts to 5 Things Germans Do That Americans Find WEIRD

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[@yasay1834]

Because... We dont pay for "cola with water"... we only pay for cola... 😂

[@YukiTheOkami]

Or water lol

[@Hey.Joe.]

Well there is also a moneymaking trick behind putting the glass full of ice, there is no much space anymore for the actual drink, while we got more pure cola (instead it gets watered by melting ice) which is already chilled in the refrigerator. And iced drinks is just too cold (not only for me) I could get brainfreeze like eating too fast icecream.

[@martinkasper197]

and usually no free refills..

[@Hey.Joe.]

@@martinkasper197 Indeed and no free water if it's bottled. Free tap-water is also very rare you could get, but it's not common.

[@yasay1834]

well if you See it this way: water is rare on earth, so why giving it for free while Others Walk f... 5hours to get not even Clean water. Should be not common to get it for free.

[@Roberternst72]

With regard to the "staring": It's not that the eyes are actually following a person around the room or something or attempting to attract attention or start a conversation. It's simply staring into the space ahead of you, lost in other thoughts, and there simply happens to be another person in the direction you are staring at. You are only vaguely aware that there is in fact a person right in your line of sight, and you only process something along the lines of "object ahead, do not overtake, adjust movements to object in order to avod collision." It is a strange habit of focusing on the immediate next steps and disregarding everything else, similar to "hyperfocusing" if you will.

[@miracula2226]

Also, the "German stare" a) is not a stare, we just don't avoid looking at each other, and b) is not German, because you will find this behaviour in many countries in continental Europe.

[@ChristianBeckerKapraun]

You'll also find machines accepting crates of bottles, usually where you can buy "by the crate" ;) In the shops i frequent it works as follows: - Oneway bottles and cans get crushed, then deposited in a large container underneath the machine. - single glass bottles or other multi-use bottles land on tables behind the machine for the staff to sort in crates. - crates go on a transport band directly to the storage area to be stacked for the next delivery date ;)

[@Perseus505]

Bottles and cans get seperated and crushed. Multiuse bottles were put back in the delivery boxes and returned to the beverages plant. Automatic process.

[@Nikioko]

5:02: It depends. If the vessels are single use for recycling, they go in the machine one by one. If you have a full crate with refillable bottle, you can put the whole crate at once into the machine.

[@mauertal]

YES...........there is always a little guy in each "bottle machine"!!!!!!!! Its like GOOGLE, where the "little guys" sit and search in a library as fast as they can!

[@Roberternst72]

"What if Google was a guy?"... love those clips!

[@mauertal]

@@Roberternst72 Show RESPECT to Sam Google, like u should to Rudolf DIESEL and ADI DASsler!

[@manub.3847]

The "staring": after watching a few videos on the subject, I thought about why these people think I'm "staring" at them. In fact, one might believe this, but in reality my thoughts and "staring" are mostly directed "inward". On the other hand, it is also an unconscious, but conscious perception of my surroundings.

[@SiqueScarface]

I don't use VPNs, except on my corporate laptop to connect to the corporate network.

[@seorsamaclately4294]

Same here.

[@Prim3z93]

the ice thing is just for me atlast it reduces the flavour of the beverage heavily and even ice cold reduces the flavour

[@Roberternst72]

Regarding the inner workings of a Pfandautomat: There are different processes with regard to different types of the bottlrs or cans. Cans get crushed by the machibe. So do single use plastic bottles. Both can by law be returned to amy place who sells these. Multi-use plastic bottles or glass bottles or packs/boxes of bottles (both multi-use plastic and glass) are transported to a backroom where indeed actual human beings do the sorting and returning logistics for the respective brewery or soda or juice or mineral water producer. This makes things a little complicated, because if, say, you bought a twelve-bottle box of a particular brand of beer in glass bottles from supermarket A, the supermarket B (who doesn't sell that particular brand) doesn't have to accept the empty bottle and container.

[@arnodobler1096]

Well, America is a continent (name comes from German mapmakers).

[@TheBitEater]

That is what always bothers me (as a German) a bit when US Americans talk about America but explicitly only mean USA. This gives the impression that, from their point of view, there is only the USA. 🤔

[@pitri_hub]

@@TheBitEater What's even worse is their similar tendency to equate Europe with the EU. It's a very similar situation, and I've seen it happen a lot online already. No, Europe is larger than just the nations participating in this multi-national organization.

[@DSP16569]

@@pitri_hub Or mixing both- Europe is smaller than the US (it isn't but the EU is) and has 27 Countries or talking about facts of the EU thinking of 40+Countries and so on.

[@user-yt4fd8rb4j]

I didn't know that the mapmaker Amerigo Vespucci was a german Maybe he was italian?

[@arnodobler1096]

@@user-yt4fd8rb4j When the two German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann updated the world maps in 1507, they named the new continent "America" - after Amerigo Vespucci.

[@tcp98]

Peeing standing and peeing sitting is just a matter of education. You only grow up with your mother and as a child you are told that if you miss you have to clean it up, you start to pee sitting down

[@danielklein5762]

more like the old grannys watching people stepping on them yard, get off ma yard!!! XD

[@MichaEl-rh1kv]

I usually buy most of my beverages in a specialized "Getränkemarkt" = beverage market and bring them also back there. Since there many beverages are bought by the crate, they don't use those "reverse vending machines", but have humans to write your voucher. Nearly all supermarkets and discounters however nowadays use such machines, and in most cases you have to put the bottles and cans one by one in them; sometimes they have also a separate receptacle for crates. The machine will check the bottles and accept only such of a kind sold in that store. Regarding ice cubes: To a German filling half the glass with ice cubes instead of the ordered drink is a kind of fraud. If I pay for a apple schorle, I want to get apple juice mixed with sparkling water and not watered down with cheap ice - and I want it still to have some apple taste.

[@montanus777]

the 'german stare' has two different dimensions: a) staring at strangers in public is just a matter of general awareness of your surroundings. since germans in general are less likely to talk to strangers, the stare is kind of a non-verbal communication - basically showing the other person, we recognize them but aren't interested in nonsensical smalltalk. b) staring at a person you're talking to is a different thing. we just keep eye contact longer and view that as a nice way of assuring the other person, we're still listening. people, who can't keep eye contact and immidiately shy away (and with immidiately i mean in less than 10-15 seconds) are considered socially awkward or mentally weak.

[@DMSG1981]

Please don't ask for ice for your drinks. It took us decades to teach restaurants to not water down our drinks!

[@stefanstock953]

Greetings and Love from Köln/Cologne, Germany again. 😅😅 your acting at the last topic was phänomenal. I went with my body to the left and to the right, perfectly in sync with you, while staring. 😅 and funny, you really thought you were staring at me (or us). You wasn't...cause you cannot see me/us. But i, i was staring, thou, at you. Cause i can see you, haste mich, Mr. Amateur😊😊 stay safe, buddy

[@UntilWeregoing]

Greetings from Vancouver Island. LOVE your comment haha

[@stefanstock953]

@@UntilWeregoing Great..i hoped you would...thanx for your feedback, mate. i really priciate

[@Winona493]

I liked it when you said: " It is weird AND SOMETIMES ENDEARING"!❤ So true! 😊

[@kohlenstoffeinheit5298]

The machines collecting bottles mostly have a conveyor belt slot where you can put whole beverages, too. It's smart enough to weight it and even register how many bottles are in or if some are missing. As Germans normally don't buy single bottles for at home, this is quite practical. But there is stuff that you just can't get in beverages. There are also smaller or older shops, that can't afford an expensive machine, especially in the countryside, so there they would only have some beverages, where an employee sorts in your empty bottles. You just put them there in a shopping cart and take another empty one and when you're done with shopping the employee has already sorted and counted your bottles. If ice is so cold it hurts... order warm ice! Try it! The face you'll get is worth it! 🤣 No really, Germans assume scam, when there is ice or too much ice in a drink and to be honest, if it melts, the whole thing just tastes watery and diluted. Germany isn't a car country??? Better think twice xD There is a saying: Autos sind des Deutschen liebstes Kind. Cars are a German's favorite child. Germany does a lot to support walking and cycling, but you simply cannot beat car nerds in a country that has the Autobahn and where some people always need an expensive car to show to their neighbors. She cannot know what bathroom behaviour is normal for most german men. That's just the way she was raised and told. Even if there is a sign, after closing the door everyone can do what he likes and noone will notice. And if there are splashes afterwards and there were 5 guys in, the maths of reconstructing how many of them stood would be insane xD What she said about the prostate is wrong! If the prostate is healthy the position makes no difference. Google it and you'll find it everywhere. That's the only thing everybody agrees. For people with issues there are many different opinions out there, which are completely opposite, so it may be that in this case she's right or again wrong. But noone can say. That's the problem if you just use one source for information.

[@nicklenz7030]

I often heard about the stare, but stll don't know what is meant by that. Feli said "don't stop looking at you". That is sth I don't notice because I usually only glance shortly at others. Thus I don't know if they are staring or not.

[@ulvsbane]

I recently moved and never brought any cans or bottles back but just put sack after sack into old firewood storage room to take care of them later ... Anyway, it took months to get rid of them all but I walked away with slightly more than the equivalent of USD 600$. I always joked about them as my retirement savings :p

[@fabianobermeier2838]

You have to look somewhere when you're on the bus, don't you? You can't have your eyes closed all the time. I've had someone at school ask me why I'm staring at them like that. And my answer was just I was staring at you? I didn't notice, I was just thinking and didn't pay any attention to who was standing there.

[@matthewrandom4523]

I was participating in the 1st World Outgames 2006 in Montreal (after Gay Games VI in Sydney 2002) and besides of people from everywhere in the world there were a lot of Canadians from all over the country as well, of course. What I as a German was realizing was that Canadians from the Western territories such as British Columbia and Alberta sounded exactly like Americans.

[@KrisThroughGlass]

The sit to pee thing is probably a generational thing. In my generation (late Gen x, early millennials) it's definitely not the majority that sits.. Maybe in Felis generation it is. Edit: autocorrect mistakes

[@AP-RSI]

I'm Generation Old (what is it called? Gen X) and I don't sit to pee. Only at home, just for my girlfriend, who ask me to do sit to pee. But normaly, I don't!

[@montanus777]

yeah right. if it were normal to sit down, there wouldn't be a necessity for the signs telling you to do so. and of course there wouldn't be the derrogative term "Sitzpinkler" for guys sitting down as well.

[@hushus10021971]

In Denmark too. I do use ice in anything. I do drink drinks, usually with vodka and if you ask a russian there is no ice in vodka. Try drink vodka as a shot. 2 cl glas with ice

[@red_dolphin468]

whats a Karen called in Europe ? - An american :)

[@UntilWeregoing]

LOL

[@RustyDust101]

We've pretty much adopted that term. However being a Karen/Kevin in Germany and most of Europe will probably get you at least some very direct and incredulous stares, right up to a direct "shut up!" or worse comment. 😂

[@miracula2226]

"Meckertante", or, even harsher, "Meckerziege". Male version: "Meckerheini". Meckern is the sound a goat makes, but also the act of griping about something.

[@Sciss0rman]

Wow... I'm pretty certain that you are an American living in North America. You're just not a US Citizen but a Canadian Citizen.

[@AP-RSI]

7:04 If you want ice in your drink, it's free! But most Germans (Europeans?) don't like ice in their drinks! For one thing, we don't like it extremely cold, it's enough if it comes out of the fridge and for another, the ice waters down the drink and makes it less flavourful! So, personally, I don't like ice in my drinks. But when we go to Burger King, for example, and order drinks, we always have to add that we don't want ice. Otherwise I have more ice than drink in my cup! 15:50 No, it's not as common as she makes it out to be. I, for example, don't normally sit to pee. I do it at home, out of love for my girlfriend, because she asked me to. Maybe it's more common with Gen Z, but I usually call them the 'wimp generation'.

[@tonchrysoprase8654]

Re sitting down tope: aim, splash effect, boy having time get your phone out of your own piss.

[@aoilpe]

British-American Rapper 1971-2020✝️ 7:43 It’s a tactic to sell you less of the product ! Normally beverages are stored in a cooler- why should you need ice ? To water down your drink ?😂 13:34 The problem -some parking spots make you walk for 20 minutes to reach the entrance of your destination shop..🤣😜 18:41 Me , a Swiss citizen from the German-ish speaking part ,I stare at people who’s acting I disapprove ! 😡 Or if I like their style…sorry for that…😊

[@felixblum]

VPN is a must have in Germany 🇩🇪

[@UntilWeregoing]

Yeah so I’ve heard 😊

[@felixblum]

@@UntilWeregoing 😄✌🏻

[@kallsop2]

In Oregon they have the machines for recycling cans and bottles. They are one of the states that charge a deposit on bottles and cans.

[@YukiTheOkami]

My americsn partner currently lives in oregon portland to be a bit mire precise and i feel like its the most german place in the us exept work hours

[@mickypescatore9656]

Hi, Mace! In another one of your reactions I once heard a very slight british accent. It seems to be a mixture, but both influences (british and american) are inconspicuous.

[@UntilWeregoing]

Cool, thanks!

[@Kutchulu]

You cannot make me feel uncomfortable, I am German. ;)

[@dasmaurerle4347]

The American/Canadian 'problem' is similar to the German/Austrian situation, I reckon. It's only relevant to Americans, Canadians, Germans and Austrians. Rest assured, nobody else in the world gives a flying fk...😂😂

[@helfgott1]

Sir yes you canadians are unique , the better americans 😊😊👍👍

[@UntilWeregoing]

No doubt

[@YukiTheOkami]

Howbu descripe the boddle deposit process thats how i did this as a kid and this was 20 yesrs ago 😅 and they say germany lives in the past

[@uweinhamburg]

Being American... Of course you are American if you are from Canada, Exactly like someone from Bolivia or Argentina. American is a term from geography and means belonging to the double-continent of the Americas. Unfortunately, it has become normal to call the country USA just America (or Murrica..). Although the European Union (EU) has a higher percentage of the area and population of our continent, no official of the EU would call ourselves just Europe. In writing, i have started to use the terms Europe and EUrope lately to make the difference... Just a comment on the deposit system for cans and bottles - that was not introduced for recycling purposes, but to stop littering. Germany is far denser populated, and nobody wanted empty bottles in their front gardens or driveways.

[@NijiGayCoyote]

The views - likes ratio is unrealistic. Your videos are great and I can’t believe that so many people watch your videos but not click the like button. Of course I don’t wanna judge anybody ‘cause you can of course dislike or like anything you want, still… from my point of view… I don’t understand why people don’t click the like button. Love your Videos, you are a great person ❤

[@UntilWeregoing]

I never thought about that! Of course more “likes” would be great. 👍

[@abaddon7851]

i normaly dont click the like button becaus i use the likes as a sort of playlist. and if i like any video i like it would not work anymore for me. and yes i know i am lazy

[@hakleberryfinn4545]

I´m a 40 yo Man from Germany. I do not know even 1 other Guy, that will sit down to Pee. Urban Legend, Yes there are sometimes Signs but.... You know...

[@WesterwalderAdler]

Actually,i kniw a few people that are doing that,but it's not common that's for sure.

[@Patschenkino]

Servus from Vienna (Wien)!👋🏻 (VIE if you familiar with the airport codes.)

[@UntilWeregoing]

Thanks for the info!

[@Star.line.drones]

#NiceVideos #Reaction Love From Germany / Heidelberg 🖤 ❤️ 💛

[@katschaccc]

Most Canadians I heard speak a more clear and rest easy understandable english.

[@drwarcloud666]

Nice shirt haha 😄👍

[@UntilWeregoing]

Thanks ☺️

[@RustyDust101]

0:12 You?!? American? At 'worst' North American. You are far too polite and soft spoken to be a US American.😂 Yeah, yeah, I know, the regular apologies are also a stereotype. But at least in your case they are a) at least a bit noticeable, and b) very pleasant. So no worries. Edit: 6:31 yepp, that's typical for Germany as well. Cans, glass and plastic bottles all go either into the single slot, or as a whole crate on a conveyor belt if it is a more specialized drinks store. They get automatically sorted into glass or other multi-use bottles, and transported behind the machine to be sorted by hand by employees of the store. These then get returned to their original producer to be cleaned and reused. This varies quite a bit from company to company how often they are reused. Single use items get crushed and compacted to be deposited at a large recycling center. The scanning and sorting machinery is quite advanced, with a detection rate of roughly 85-90% on the first attempt, obviously depending on the state of the container, how dirty or crumpled it is, or if the code symbol is damaged. Many bottles even get recognized simply by their shape in the machine, even without a bar code or symbol (certain types of milk or beer bottles with an afixed stopper for example).

[@marcoztak650]

just a german fun game, you and a friend stare toanother, the one who first start laughin has lost

[@red_dolphin468]

so called Stare contest in english translated

[@APCLZ]

that bag you showed, would be worth 20 EUR i think in Germany :D how much would you get in canada?

[@UntilWeregoing]

Prob around 15-2o Canadian

[@manuelplate6370]

Is there a picture with arabic letters at the background? What does it say?

[@UntilWeregoing]

Art and Love

[@krakentoast]

Tja

[@helge.]

No, you are definitely Canadian.

[@UntilWeregoing]

❤️🇨🇦🤝🇩🇪

[@helge.]

@@UntilWeregoing my best friend is canadian, so…

[@conjunctivius8552]

Wall Eeeeeeeeee❤❤❤

[@adrianfanger1620]

Mist is really your favorite German word.

[@Hey.Joe.]

Which is funny, because in english it just means fog, while in German it is something what for example dogs left on streets. ^^

[@Roberternst72]

​@@Hey.Joe.yea... no. Dogs' feces don't count as "Mist". "Mist" only refers to feces of particular farm animals, like pigs, horses or cows, and arguably chicken. I think etymologically it has to do with using these as fertilizer / dung, as they were collected on a "Misthaufen" / dung heap.

[@Hey.Joe.]

@@Roberternst72 Yes, I wasn't precise but your comment is a very good example how precise and correcting many of us do like to be in a daily conversation. 😅

[@YukiTheOkami]

She is so "amaricanized" she calls ussmericsn citycens americans but america is 2 whole continents 😅

[@Why-D]

A Canadian is not an American? On which continent is Canada located? I thought it was on the continent of Amercia, like Mexico, Panama or Brazil.

[@UntilWeregoing]

American generally refers to someone from the United States of America. Although the meaning and connotations may vary. But yes, technically speaking, you can refer to anyone from Argentina to Alaska as American but it’s generally not used that way.

[@Why-D]

@@UntilWeregoing whenever I meet an US-Amercan, I will use it that way. No one in Africa, Asia or Europe claims it that way.

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

Mist😊❤

[@red_dolphin468]

'Nebel XD

[@UntilWeregoing]

😊

[@retlady9930]

Don't get me wrong but, technically, arnt you also American ... just not from the US ? In the end, it's one continent, even if the US. claims to be America / American. Please correct if I'm mistaken 😅

[@annfrancoole34]

In school I learned North, Central and South America as "The Americas"

[@BR618]

​@@annfrancoole34 Middle America is geographically a part of North America, u know 'cause there have to be 7 seas and continents ^^

[@emilvantbregen622]

Your roots in Europa?

[@Nikioko]

Of course, Canadians are Americans. They are no US Americans, though. What continent are you living on?

[@Yulo2000Leyje]

You are not american ? On what continent is your Canada then ? 🤣😂🤣

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

I'm sure you can pretend to be US-American and nobody will notice eh? PS: Larger amounts of bottles like beer are coming typically as 20 bottles in a box and you return the whole box in a special beverage store.

[@pok81]

this "special beverage store" could just be the normal supermarket around the corner.

[@ThamiorSilberdrache]

"Germany isn't a car country". Sorry, what Germany is Feli talking about? Surely not the Germany I live in. The country where car companies could organize one of the biggest frauds in history ("Abgasaffäre") and get away without any punishment. The country where they ignored that an area was protected natural reservation when some billionaire came around looking for a spot to build a giga sized car factory and allowed him to build it right there. The country that spends more money on new Autobahnen than it spends on education... Must be another Germany, right?

[@SiqueScarface]

Compared with the U.S., Germany is not a car country. It is a country with cars. But it is not a country where you have to have a car to get somewhere.

[@arnodobler1096]

Germany is not like North America (Canada and US, not Mexico) is car DEPENDENT, that's the difference!

[@hape3862]

Don't spread misinformation. The car companies had to pay BILLIONS for the fraud in the USA, where it took place. There were and are no such emission norms in the EU or Germany, therefore they weren't punished here. And the "protected natural reservation" in Grünheide is in reality a tree plantation, a monoculture like 99% of German (and European) forests. And the spending for education in German in 2023 was 181 Billion (with a "B"!) Euros. I think we would have heard if someone had spent more than that for Autobahnen … So the Germany you think you live in is not the real Germany, but a dystopian nightmare that the AfD (BSW?/Putin?) has planted in your head with their propaganda. You should rid yourself of these delusions as quickly as possible!

[@wietholdtbuhl6168]

Why is Germany sooo rich?

[@SiqueScarface]

@@wietholdtbuhl6168So we are in the realm of defining what "car country" means. If your definition of car country is different, you can't blame someone with another understanding of "car country" for making a statement, that does not fit your definition. If I mean by field that spot of land someone has planted crops on, and you mean by field a subject in Science, and a third person means by field a mathematical structure in which both Addition and Multiplication are defined with the base set as Abelian group, then who is to blame if they can't agree if a field can have a right angle?

[@HiltownJoe]

In regards to Felis point about "Most of our cities were built before Cars even existed" this is simply not true in a practical sense. Most of our (bigger) cities were completely destroyed in WW2 and completely rebuilt later. The reason why we have walkable cities is that we revised the course to more and more car centric cities in the 80s and 90s. The chanel "Not just Bikes" has really nice videos about the topic why European countries have so much more walkable cities than north american cities.

[@xxx_phantom_xxxw_t_a9479]

I'm pleasantly surprised that you recycle cans and bottles (PET and glass) in Canada. I didn't know that before; a good thing. Here in Switzerland, these are also recycled, although we do not have a deposit system. Since we pay for the waste volume through the garbage bags, everyone actually recycles conscientiously, otherwise they would need more garbage bags and therefore incur more costs. This also eliminates the need for a deposit machine/deposit handling and makes everything easier (and cheaper for grocery stores). Our recycling rates are still very high and hardly differ significantly from those in Germany. Ice is ideal in drinks in the summer, as it dilutes the drink. With so much ice cream, you'll definitely get some confusing looks from us (but you'd definitely get it, free of charge). As a rule, if you order ice cream with it you get 2-3 cubes, which is considered enough for us. The use of VPN is generally rather unusual for private use. From my point of view, what's the point of this if service platform providers can't protect their data enough and it gets to unauthorized people, then all the effort was for nothing. Enough parking spaces, it works exactly the other way around for us. If you were to take a car for a route that would take 15 minutes on foot, you would spend a good 15 minutes looking for a parking space 😂, although the whole route can be done in 5 minutes by public transport.