Every Conversation My German Boyfriend Has With An American

[@aaronwhite1786]

I feel like all of the Germans I've talked to have the best self deprecating jokes. I remember after Germany lost to Russia in hockey she said something like "Well...I guess fighting against Russians in the Winter just isn't our thing".

[@Kellydoesherthing]

I’ve heard quite a few good ones too haha

[@aaronwhite1786]

@@Kellydoesherthing I've found Germans to be quieter in general, but when they make a joke it's always perfectly timed, and the often deadpan delivery just adds that extra bit of spice.

[@Luciele]

@@aaronwhite1786 At the beginning of the year when "WW3" was trending on Twitter many Germans tweeted something like: "Dont bother, it isnt a World War when it isnt startet and lost by Germany."

[@Tippel3]

@@aaronwhite1786 that's very true but that might also be the reason why many foreigners miss it and that is part of where the stereotype comes from. Germans usually use much irony and sarcasm and just speak it with just a slight undertone.

[@juricarmichel5864]

Come on, what's more fun, the german joke or watching the german trying to tell it funny and screwing it up? -No doubt last one. Or i just can't tell jokes.

[@karstenfritsche820]

Doesn't yell all the time, sarcastic humor and never been to Oktoberfest. Sounds pretty typical german.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Lol :)

[@lonespokesperson7254]

@@Kellydoesherthing I'm American. I know all about the yelling thing. and how. Especially working at the call center. And what was I supposed to do there? WHISPER?

[@V100-e5q]

@@lonespokesperson7254 Even callgirls do it!

[@lonespokesperson7254]

@@V100-e5q yell, you mean

[@V100-e5q]

@@lonespokesperson7254 No, when they use their phone it's a customer call.

[@toniantetucak6593]

..."german make jokes?"..."oh boy..." 🤣🤣epic... spit out my Coffee of laughing. Love that kind of Video.

[@ElRackadusch]

"How many germans do you need to change a light bulp?" "Just one - we're efficient and we have no sense of humor"^^

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Happy you liked that one!

[@Mondfischli]

@@ElRackadusch ...none, we switched to energy saving LED lights a while ago would be the correct answer 😆..🤧..😷

[@MsYolost]

I actually had someone say that to me. I made a sarcastic joke and had to explain to him that it was just a joke. The guy was completely flabbergasted: 'Germans understand sarcasm?'. But he also asked me why I can speak English even though I'm German and why I know American movies...

[@askialuna7717]

As a kid, I always thought Philadelphia was cream cheese :-D.

[@rjhikes6248]

Are you saying it isn’t? 🤯

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Lol!! I find it so funny that Germans call cream cheese “Philadelphia”

[@shieldsluck1969]

NOT?!?

[@rjhikes6248]

Kelly does her thing every time you want to say or write the word potato just substitute “bamberg”. 🤣🤗

[@rivenoak]

@@Kellydoesherthing de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_(Frischk%C3%A4se) :)

[@LWBBLeChiffre]

When I first heard the German doctors who were bringing their expertise to our hospital in Cleveland, I had a fear in my heart from being raised on Hollywood movies. Now that I am married to one of them and living in Europe, I know that the spoken German language can be beautiful and lyrical, certainly more pleasant than English the way it is spoken by modern Americans.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

While I don’t mind the way English is spoken by modern Americans, I do agree that German can sound lyrical and I enjoy listening to it

[@johnalden5821]

You had me on German being beautiful (I agree), but why throw English under the bus at the end? Or, why did this all of a sudden turn into a pissing contest? Should we now rank the musicality of languages?

[@ichselbst880]

@@johnalden5821 Some languages sounds terrible, others not. Some dialects (examples for German) sounds disgusting (saxonian), others funny (hessian). But in all cases this is a personal perception. So you CAN NOT make any contest.

[@johnalden5821]

@@ichselbst880 I completely agree. Languages just are what they are. Poetry exists in each language to maximize that language's lyrical beauty. I have never found a language that I thought sounded "bad."

[@susangutperl4937]

Ich Selbst Ich Selbst I absolutely agree that languages cannot be classified in terms of ‘beauty’. But how on earth can you classify any dialect as ‘disgusting’? Sächsisch is just as strange or funny or cryptic as the western dialects e.g. Schwäbisch, Pfälzisch, Fränkisch or whatever. As someone from Saxony it totally pisses me off to be the but of every joke and presented as the stupid Ossi while Hessisch or Fränkisch are regarded as droll. Every dialect brings a rich cultural heritage.

[@sailspo]

German: *tells you something about Germany* American: "Nonono"

[@tkrm503]

Didn't happen to me but a friend of mine who's Swiss... "So, where you from?" "Switzerland." "Oh, that's the one up north, near Finland and Norway, right?!" "No, that's Sweden..."

[@Sampler19]

When i was visiting Austria once i bought a Public Enemy Live album that taught me Switzerland is where all the money is at.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Oh yikes

[@ichselbst880]

@TheRenaissanceman65 Maybe this is because of the US is so big? Finland seems to be close to Switzerland as NYC to Boston for some geography cracks. On the globe it is really very close 😄

[@majjjjWas060]

I made a similar experience a few days ago with a colleague from Brazil. I told her about my vacation in Sweden and how much I like Scandi people to which she answered: oh! I’ve been there too! You mean the one in the South, next to Austria, right? :D

[@raistormrs]

I Work in a Hotel and right now, without American Tourists around ... well anyway, the worst thing is that most of them never even bother to prepare in any way, like, no we dont take dollars, no you have to write down your adress on the check-in form its the law, no your drivers license is not a identification document ... i could go for hours ... the only other people who behave like this are like from the Emirates or Qatar ...

[@jessicaely2521]

Not coming to a hotel or business with the correct currency is mind boggling to me. Generally that is something I did before I left the US. There was 1 time I forgot and got the money exchanged near the train station. I have accidentally handed over US currency to a clerk in Switzerland. That was the most embarrassing moment in my life. When I pay a friend for something in Switzerland as a joke I will say to a friend "do you take US dollars?" Maybe my parents just taught me the correct way of traveling. For you and the government a drivers license isn't an id. It is a valid form of id for them and their government. This isnt something that comes across someones mind when leaving the US. When I traveled I automatically left my driver's license at home and stuck with a my passport or a copy of my passport in Europe. I had a notary sign that the copy of the passport was real. Knowing me I would lose my driver's license in Europe and its just a pain to get another one. I was in this boat of losing my driver's license in Switzerland. I couldnt rent a car in the US to get back home. My husband had to pay the outrageous fees that rental companies charge Europeans without a US driver's license.

[@raistormrs]

@@jessicaely2521 sadly you are in a small minority there ... i could tell you stories ... its like, they own the place, one not too long ago was so outraged by all the "questioning", she wanted to see the manager and told me to start looking for a new job ... but she told her the same i did since those are the laws and that she is free to go and find another place, if she dislikes it so much. also one of the most "arguments" they use, when they have no argument, is the famous "you wouldnt be living like this without us..." first of all, its nonsense and even if it werent, its 75 years already, give it a rest ... maybe it just bad luck and i get all the ignorant people, who knows :P

[@jessicaely2521]

@@raistormrs its bad luck. Trust me. I lived in Switzerland and Germany for years. I worked in the hospitality business in Switzerland and the US citizens were great. They usually paid with credit card so I dont know if they had the correct currency. They didnt know about the US driver's license being a valid id. This is a honest mistake. Really think about it. Why would you search for is a US driver's license valid id in whatever country you are going to. Just a side note here French and Germans were the same way with my husbands friend who owned his own business. The French and Germans were outraged that he didnt take Euros. Now they are outraged that he does a 1:1 rate. If something is 1 CHF it is also 1 €.

[@johnalden5821]

Please don't judge all of us by our dumber compatriots. I was in Germany last year with my son, who is fluent in German. We mastered the public transportation the first day, always had enough cash for restaurants (which we hunted up all over Berlin) and basically covered every neighborhood from Charlottenburg to Alexanderplatz (including Ku-damm, Potsdammer Platz, the Tiergarten (very pretty), Kreuzberg and Museums Insel, in three days. Never once spoke to other Americans. Had a great time. I would like to go back and see the rest someday.

[@raistormrs]

@@johnalden5821 well i did say i may just have bad luck so ;) i dont judge but one cant help but notice patterns ;) my guess is that it might be a educational thing ? or a money thing ? i do remember well that lady last year who booked a summer special with some bonus program stuff pushing the price down to not even 19€/night for a queensize and stayed for a week but all she could do was complain how the Bed was too small and stuff, she wanted a upgrade to kingsize also because the breakfast wasnt included which outraged her since she was sure it was included ... for 19€ ... jea ... she was obviously trying to get more out of it, how stingy can one get ?

[@henner645]

By the way: a red cup and a beer bottle - it doesn’t take much to show who‘s who.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Exactly :) that was the goal so I’m happy it worked!

[@JohnnyBravo_201]

But a german would never drink Weißbier from the bottle, always from a Weißbierglas.

[@scifino1]

@@JohnnyBravo_201 Also a lot of germans would not be drinking Weißbier at all :)

[@ichselbst880]

@@JohnnyBravo_201 And if you do you know why you shouldn't

[@problematicpolarbear6065]

As a german guy if you want to see a universe collapse tell them you dont drink or like beer at all.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

I’m sure! I actually neglected to add this very important part in the script haha because Misha drinks beer but he just doesn’t care much about which type, etc. I went back and forth about putting it in the script since it’s not that he doesn’t drink it or like it but just that he’s somewhat indifferent. maybe I should’ve included it

[@faultier1158]

I did that, but every time I said that on purpose to shock someone, they did not care at all. But when I didn't want to be bothered, people are often like "oohh, but you haven't found the right type of drink yet! There are many where you don't even taste the alcohol". Aaaaahhhhhhhhh.

[@Noone-zf2kp]

Well the funny fing is. I am German and never drank in my life and i dont want to change that

[@californiachik619]

no one wow that’s impressive

[@badidea12341]

I know that guy...and he's even from Berlin. Then there are the Germans who don't like driving fast on the Autobahn and instead keep to the right and just get there when they get there, because, who needs that stress. That really flabbergasts non-German men.

[@tosa2522]

What do US Americans know about the world? "Belgium is a beautiful city." "Hey, don't judge me. We have to know 49... 52 ...51 ...50! US states and their capitals."

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Hahahaha this comment actually just gave me flash backs to playing a “game” in a classroom where you and a competitor had to stand with your bags against a giant US map and the teacher would say a state and you had to turn around, find the state, point to the Capitol and say the Capitol before your competitor. It was actually a lot of fun. A bit off topic but thought I’d share 😂

[@V100-e5q]

@@Kellydoesherthing First I thought you had a capitol in your bags and had to pin them at the administrative seat of every state.

[@danielastarly5803]

Well, in 9th or 10th grade, in germany geopgraphy class we had to learn all US states and capitals - and all former udssr countries and capitals... I would lie if I said I know them still all tough.

[@maxschon7709]

@@danielastarly5803 But you know the US has got more capitals then it got states. San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico but not of a state....

[@HolgerKuhrts]

@@Kellydoesherthing had this kind of competition in ground school back in the days, only we had to compute, addition, substraction, multiplying and dividing, gave me an edge until now. ;-)

[@GenialHarryGrout]

Your German, you speak German, so you must be German No, I'm Austrian But you speak German, why don't you speak Austrian?

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Hahahahaha

[@Seelenschmiede]

Are you from this forest cities too? :P

[@blarfroer8066]

How many kangaroos live in your city?

[@josefkagermeier4848]

Please take care of the exploding trees !!! 🤪

[@NicolaiCzempin]

same reason Canadians don't speak Canadian

[@andrewozenilek5596]

Nearly identical conversations in Florida, Alabama and California: "Where are you from"" "Germany." "Oh, I love Germany, my cousin was stationed there!" "What's your favourite city? Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, Cologne...." "No, I don't know those. But there is a city named Ramstein, Grafenwöhr...."

[@DavontheViper]

Bonus points for Baumholder.

[@peter_meyer]

#FreeBritney! She's done it again. Kelly, you're wonderful.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Hahaha I’m happy you enjoyed it :)

[@karstenvoigt7280]

My reply once: "Ah, now I understand the confusion. What you´re referring to is battlefield German. And yes, that can be quite agressive. But what I´m speaking is interrogation room German. Hard to recognize when spoken without cigarette and gloves.". "Philly? You monsters destroyed poor little HitchBot!".

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Hahahaha

[@hartmutholzgraefe]

A local club in my area that was a big thing in the 80s ("Forum Enger") did a "Best of conversations we had when picking US bands up at the airport" list in one of their program flyers back then. Unfortunately I don't have the actual flyer anymore, but as far as I remember the list more or less was: "You really had a war here?" "Why did Hitler build that wall?" "Will there be a TV in the hotel room? You DO have TV already over here, do you?" "'Ausfahrt' seems to be a very large city?" "You REALLY had a war here???"

[@acanimatics906]

"Ausfahrt seems to be a very large city" Alter ich kann nicht mehr vor lachen, ich verecke hier.

[@qualderwal4243]

Ah, das Forum. Da habe ich aus Dortmund kommend Ende der 80er Nirvana live gesehen. Als Vorband! Von Tad! Gute Zeiten.

[@ichselbst880]

You should explain to those dudes that Notausgang means "this is not exit".

[@Tippel3]

"'Ausfahrt' seems to be a very large city?" Mir laufen schon die Tränen vom Lachen, ich kann nicht mehr. Oh mein Gott, ahahaha, ich mach mir noch inne Buxe

[@CarinaCoffee]

"'Ausfahrt' seems to be a very large city?" I'm gasping for air I'm laughing so hard!

[@eastfrisian_88]

During my studies I went to the library during the semester break to drop off books. During the summer semester break there is always a two-week summer course in engineering with the partner university in Austin. I studied economics. On campus I was approached in English by a student dressed in a short spaghetti top and hot pants. She was dead pale, trembling with cold. We had 16 degrees Celsius at 10 a.m. on that day in mid-July and quite a lot of wind, since the university is close to the North Sea. The poor girl was looking for the cafeteria and I showed it to her. But it was closed, she was totally upset that she needed cash at the coffee machine. I bought her a coffee, she sat down (didn't say thanks or so) and complained that it was so cold and when I said Austin is just on the same latitude as Cairo and Wilhelmshaven is on the same latitude as Edmonton, Canada she was totally amazed and didn't want to believe it 😂 She wanted to go swimming in the evening before on the beach in the North Sea but the water was so far away and the ground was "dirty"....I explained to her that the tide was low, she had never seen that before 😂 She was surprised that there was hardly any German food in our town....I was totally confused, she meant Leberkäse, knuckle of pork, sauerkraut, pretzel,, Knödel.....when I said that such things only exist sporadically in Northern Germany, she said she had to go to Bavaria to eat "real German Food", if you could do that in one day, she asked? She was surprised that it could be done by plane, but barely by car or train. "I thought Germany is so small and the autobahn fast!" she said..... Before I was supposed to say something, other students came from her and she suddenly jumped up and shouted "Hey, there you are!" and left me sitting alone at the table totally perplexed. That was really strange 😂🤣

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Oh wow hahah the last part is especially funny

[@tomgroenbeck7620]

TX is particularly "hinterwaeldlerisch" (behind the woods), I spent 3 1/2 years in Austin.

[@Mayagick]

She falls into the category "dumm fickt gut", not?

[@christianc6331]

@@Mayagick and she have to look very good, because otherwise she wouldn't find a job

[@Mayagick]

@@christianc6331 yeah I thought that. She never needed change for coffee, because she's used to be invited & no need to say thank you. Normal operation.

[@zoehelkin]

Painfully accurate and I'm not even German, just European.

[@lagomorphafan534]

😂 i fell sorry ( luky to never had to put up with that )

[@Kellydoesherthing]

“What part of Europe are you from?” “.....You mean what country in Europe am I from.....” 😂 happy you’re could relate

[@zoehelkin]

@@Kellydoesherthing "do you ride horses there?"

[@lonespokesperson7254]

Europe outside GERMANY is like another world...regardless of which country you are in

[@zoehelkin]

@@lonespokesperson7254 yeah, the rest of Europe has proper cell phone coverage, cheap broadband internet and accept credit cards 😅

[@bumtisch]

An american couple once showed me their fridge and an ATM, assuming that I haven't seen something like this before and not even heard that things like this exist. Hilarious, because they had a german brand fridge. I will never forget their excitement when they showed me how to insert a bank card an cash comes out of the ATM like they were showing me a magic trick. They were a bit disappointed when it didn't blew my mind.

[@nehemiahwashingtoniii748]

I'm German (in my mind), US soldiers (I was one) would look at me like I commited a crime for always ordering a radler when it's warm, Germans always smile. How I miss my home away from this place I live in.

[@Matahalii]

"Do you have hotwater tabs in germany?" - "No" - silence - "We have mixer tabs...."

[@alexandrajoppe7718]

I'm not German, I'm Dutch and my wife is American. I've had so many conversations like that. I've been asked what it's like to live in Denmark because it seems that we're the Capitol of Denmark.🤔 then people will want to hear Dutch and then go "bless you" as though you just sneezed. Or go "GGGG, that's what you sound like" oh and then there is the "so does everyone just smoke weed over there?" just to name a few

[@tillposer]

Reminds me of the time when I got into an argument with an American inthe UK around the time of the Iraq War. He accused Germany of ingratitude, culminating in the angry expostulation : "If it weren't for us Americans, you'd all be speaking German!" Queue facepalm from the surrounding Brits.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Ah yes....one of my favorite talking points hahahaha

[@RealConstructor]

American football should not be called football at all. They run and throw the rugby ball more than they kick that ball. It should be called American rugby or something, but not football.

[@peterkoller3761]

handegg would be far more appropriate. and if you compare the protective gear football players wear to the gear rugby players wear: American football is a game for pussies!

[@RevengeOfKuchen]

it's called that because the ball is an foot long, so I've been told

[@peter_meyer]

@@RevengeOfKuchen So Baseball should be called 3-inchball?

[@peterkoller3761]

@@peter_meyer and golf onepointseveninchball... but nevertheless, it still leaves the "ball" part to be excused: a ball is supposed to be a spherical object - football: well, not quite...

[@RevengeOfKuchen]

@@peter_meyer maybe...

[@teacherella1338]

I often got the Hitler question in conversations with Americans. It's tedious, they barely even know their own history, let alone that of other countries. What annoys me most though, is that there is only EUROPE!!! Like it doesn't consist of individual nations.. oh and those European languages are pretty much the same. Someone one actually thought that alle Europeans could understand each other.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Haha I’ve actually heard this quite a bit but I personally have never met an American that didn’t understand Europe is comprised of multiple countries so I will have to take your word for it. I imagine the Hitler question gets very old very fast

[@missis_jo]

@@Kellydoesherthing I have a question about the Hitler question: Recently I saw some german high school students here on YT saying that they also got asked whether they were friends with Hitler. Putting aside the historical facts I really don't understand the question. Like, we are a country of 83 mio people, Hitler (if still alive and not having lost the war) would be our leader. How likely is it, that a random high school student is 'friends with him'? Is there any another meaning behind 'being friends with someone'? May be as in: Do you sympathise with his ideas? or Do you know him/have you heard about him? Would you ask anyone wheather he is friends with Obama/Trump/Sanders? I never heard this question in that particular context before and suddenly several different people reported that they were asked exactly that.

[@denonegaming657]

@@missis_jo Mein lieber Schwan ;)

[@missis_jo]

@@denonegaming657 Ich frage mich halt, ob die Frage noch ne Bedeutung hat oder einfach nur doppelt dämlich ist. Dämlich aus historischer Sicht und dann zusätzlich auch noch dämlich, weil, klar ist der alte Oppa, der mein Land führt, mein Kumpel. Wir essen regelmäßig zu Abend... Ich mein... spätestens da muss denen doch klar sein, dass das ne blöde Frage ist!

[@denonegaming657]

@@missis_jo einfach nur Fremdschämen! Das traurige ist nur das sie diese Frage wohl ernst meinen.

[@henner645]

you forgot one line: „Frankfurt? I‘ve been there!!! ... well at the airport only on my way to ...“ I get that all the time :)))

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Omg you’re right! Hahaha

[@Cat-uw8lz]

You forgot ‘you’re German? -I’M German too!’ And then it turns out that a great-grand-aunts second husband had been in Germany once or something like that...

[@SDSBBQs]

*But you're... Yeah German...* - Best bit ever! I am from Philadelphia and can relate to the running of the Rocky Steps and being asked if I know "insert name" because they are from Philadelphia as well... Sigh.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

I can imagine haha I went to Penn State and often get asked if I know a certain person that also went to Penn State. Like brooooo it’s a huge school!! Haha

[@peterkoller3761]

Funny thing is: a fellow student emigrated to Canada almost 30 years ago, and I haven´t heard of him ever since. Met a Canadian in the Caribean two years ago, we got to talk and found out that this fellow student of mine is actually his next door neighbor and good friend!

[@SDSBBQs]

@@peterkoller3761 It's a small world, sometimes LOL.

[@peterkoller3761]

@@SDSBBQs Canada must be particularly tiny. Evidence: I know one Canadian, and one other guy who lives there, and they are neighbors.

[@Zanji1234]

fun fact: i had conversation with an amercian customer on a trade show when i worked for my former company (we sold bagpacks, luggage and leather goods like wallets and high priced watch cases)... and yeah... we were in FRANKFURT and the guy was like "well after the show i will drive to Munich to drink a beer" and i was "well.. you know that it actually will take you... 3 hours by car?" "oh reeeally" *facepalm* and the whole Soccer/Football stuff .... and of course he was also convinced that the wall STILL exists. I ignored the fact that he tried to speak SLOWLY so i would understand him... while i spoke quite fast and with a mix of american and britsh accent (studied foreign language correspondant under native speakers so yeah i'm quite fluent) and could totally understand him with ease. He even used VERY easy words to describe things where i was like yeah.. i know what you mean.

[@tomt6963]

The son of a friend live in Canada. He drives 2 1/2 hours to get the best Pizza in the area.

[@johnalden5821]

So for every one of your stories I could tell two about Europeans thinking they will drive to Vegas for the weekend. . .from the East Coast.

[@wind-upwraith1305]

Best one I had: "Oh, you're from Germany? Did you get here by train?"

[@holger_p]

the fun depends on where "here" is. In London the question would be quiet normal.

[@dorotakarolinarybak5958]

I'm from Poland - and quite often when I tell someone I'm Polish they start speaking to me in Russian. I find it really funny when they say 'hello' and 'thank you' in broken Russian, and then add sth like 'That's pretty much everything I can say in Russian'. And I'm like ' Yeah, that's pretty much everything I can say in Russian, too'. Some people seem very confused by the fact that we speak Polish in Poland ;)

[@barbsmart7373]

Kiaora Dorata Karolina Rybak. I am from New Zealand. In my whole life I did not learn anything much about Poland until recently when I learned about Polish air pilots in the Battle of Britain. I have been increasingly interested in your country. I was named after a peaceworker named Wanda. That is all I know about this Polish lady, unfortunately. Recently I read a book by a New Zealander, Bill Flower, who was a pilot in Britain in WW2. He wrote that he used to meet up with his Polish friend Wadek in a pub, until Wadek stopped turning up. Months later, Bill Flower received a note from Wadek, saying simply, "Germany very bad place. England much better". I have never forgotten this man Wadek and I am still searching to find out what happened to him. I have received fantastic help from Poland in my search. My original point is that here in New Zealand we don't hear anything much about Poland. The main thing we have heard is about the refugee children who came to New Zealand in 1944. (732 settled here). We don't seem to know much here about some places. But the more you look and learn, the more interesting the world appears.

[@johannesuhlenbroch8573]

I an an german exchange student in the US (Arizona) and a few weeks ago I was asked if Hitler is still the leader of germany is and how I was able to go te the USA 🤨 ... But of course not everyone is like that! I have a great time here☺

[@jennyh4025]

Hitler would be pretty old, if he were still alive (over 120!). I thought this question would no longer be asked, last time I heard it was from a friend, who was an exchange student in the USA in the 1990s. I was just asked, - if I was English (pretty good RP at the time), - if we had electricity - if we had cars - if we had telephones When my answers were - no, German, I learned English in school - yes, and electricity and phone Lines are usually in the ground and - the Automobile was invented in Germany You could pretty much see the jaws hit the ground.

[@TrampGordo]

Happened to me 2009/2010 in North Carolina.

[@l.c.8475]

Ask them how Kennedy is doing, is he back in office yet, has he recovered from his gunshot wound?

[@johannesuhlenbroch8573]

@@l.c.8475 😅 tgey gonna kill me like him

[@IngoJot]

I've been to the US visiting a high school class for 3 weeks in the early 90s. The Americans were totally suprised that we in Germany also have McD, Burger King, Pizza Hut, MTV and so on. They didn't expected so many commons...

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Yeah I think a lot of Americans have no idea how prevalent our culture is (and yes....I would include these fast food chains as part of our culture. It makes me sad to do so but it is) and they assume non-Americans know just as little about our culture as we do about theirs which is sooo far from reality. This is all speaking very generally of course. I’m hoping that if one good thing comes out of social media, it’s changing these perceptions so fingers crossed for millennials and Gen Z

[@ElGreco291]

@@Kellydoesherthing When I was in the German Air Force I had to go to El Paso, Texas for training in the year 1998. A friend of mine visited me there and we had BBQ with my neighbours. Once my friend told them, that he is from "East Germany" they were stunned. Best question: "Do you have cinemas in East Germany?" And he was very quick with the answer. "Yes, but only black and white movies." And they all nodded and didn't understand that it was a joke. Hard times.. :D

[@TheFreaker86]

A German here: Oktoberfest is the most overrated and overpriced event you can find in Germany. I can’t understand the hype about it. And for „football“ I don’t care about it either if it’s not the world- or European cup. And what I don’t get about American football (or as a British guy hilariously called it: armored rugby 🤣) it is called football but mostly played with hands

[@scribblescrabble3185]

"or as a British guy hilariously called it: armored rugby" I once heard the term _padded rugby_ in a very condenscending voice.

[@TheFreaker86]

@@scribblescrabble3185 and that's exactly how "armored rugby" was meant ;-)

[@toshomni9478]

I always find that interesting. Europeans never seem to understand that American football is played by huge guys running into each other headfirst repeatedly. There'd be deaths every game without the helmets and padding. As it is it leads to long term brain damage for many who play it professionally or other crippling injuries.

[@TeddyBaarson]

@@toshomni9478 also it's all about big beefy guys cuddle eachother :3

[@johnalden5821]

@@toshomni9478 Exactly. And what the equipment does is that is allows full-force body contact with no holding back. So when a player runs for 30 metres at full speed (and the player may have Olympic speed) and hits with full force on your blind side, it is something like a traffic accident. I have literally seen a grown man have his leg snapped through with the bone completely dangling. Many of the players are never meant to even touch the ball -- their entire role is to physically dominate and defeat the opposing player by whatever means they can get away with.

[@robertzander9723]

Just wonderful 💓 😂😂 incredible. I love it, what a perfect parody.👏👏 Good luck, the most guests that I met in the hotels i worked as a waiter were really nice and well educated no matter where they came from and of course from the US as well. I was glad to meet them, the stories they told me were often really interesting and honest. I had some lovely conversations with them. And after such a long time in hotel and restaurant service my knowledge of human nature is a really good one and I don't waist my time with ignorat people anymore, i try to ignore them and have the minimum of a conversation i really need to have and i smile.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thank you!! And it sounds like you had a really entertaining job to be able to meet and talk with people from so many different places. Thanks for sharing :)

[@robertzander9723]

@@Kellydoesherthing Normally I still have. But the Corona pandemic stopped everything, we can only wait in the moment, it's really sad and bad.

[@JamesJohnson-vw1it]

Thank you Kelly it's always good when you drop by

[@gospelfilms7942]

Good job! This was really well done! ~Afrikaner in America learning German

[@tomt6963]

I once heard from a motel host somewhere in Vermont: "I was in Germany before, in Stockholm."

[@SonjaMGFX]

Your acting is getting better with every video! I love these stereotype face-offs 😂 they are so funny and fair for both sides I would think 😜 To your question if someone has been ignorant towards my culture: I’m Slovak and when I tell people, I often get the response “Oh Czechoslovakia!”...no, it’s been Slovakia and the Czech Republic for 30 years now...

[@Sampler19]

I guess they want to keep you in czech.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thanks! That’s very nice of you to say 😊 Oh mannnn yes there are so many people who think it’s Czechoslovakia still!

[@c.norbertneumann4986]

Doesn't Trump's second wife come from Slovakia, too?

[@readingirl1984]

@@c.norbertneumann4986 No, she is from Slovenia.

[@rivenoak]

@@c.norbertneumann4986 a common mistake, but she is from _Slovenia_ she was born when it was part of Yugoslavia still :)

[@bramjoziasse]

'Oh so you're from The Netherlands?? So cool! That's in Europe right? I've been to Greece once, 20 years ago!'

[@Kellydoesherthing]

yikes hahaha

[@veronikazeller3026]

On vacation in Florida we not only once confused people. They usually asked: „where do you come from?“ Our answer: „austria“ After scrambling trough the different guides they had available they looked at us confused. We often had to clarify that we spoke German.

[@ghpcaubo]

I always have the same conversations about the Netherlands. Especially when people say Holland......nooooooooo Holland is just a part of the Netherlands (2 provinces). I live in the most southern part of the Netherlands, called Limburg. We don't even speak Dutch but a language which mostly related to German. Try to explain that to someone ;-)

[@ZikovanDijk]

You nailed it! Thanks for the video!

[@alcar32sharif]

"Oh you are german. Do you wear lederhosen an go to the oktoberfest" me: "No I am not bavarian."

[@irag.6772]

I'm from the Netherlands. The conversations either go like this: Than: oh yeah... 420 man!! Haha blaze it yeahhh I love amsterdam. So you're a smoker than? Me: no. Them: but you're dutch! Or: So... Do you speak German? Or: Is that the same country as denmark? Or: That's next to Holland, right?

[@picobello99]

"Is that close to Amsterdam?" "Do you have electricity/internet/cars there?" "In what state is that?" "Did you arrive from the east or the west?"

[@Kellydoesherthing]

That truly is what I think a lot of Americans associate with the Netherlands (Amsterdam -> weed) but this novelty I think has worn off a bit or will wear off since so many states are legalizing weed

[@taurus2016]

@Ira G. Times are changing. When I was a kid i believed that every Dutch woman called "Frau Antije" eats cheese, wears funny huts and wodden shoes.

[@mikereu1605]

„Do you speak German?“ - Germans would never put that into a question, they simply assume that. (trust me, I am german)

[@martinweihrauch2379]

I always envied you guys (I"m German) that movies werent dubbed in Dutch TV and all of you were so much better in English. Now my KZbin addicted kids are way better in English than I was at their age.

[@ichselbst880]

As usual: just great. Here in France they are always asking me how I could survice in such a cold country. Nearly all French seems to believe that Siberia is closed to Germany

[@kataetwas2825]

"Ich selbst" ist genial

[@siobhancrowley8777]

Brilliant! You nailed it w/ this one, Kelly.

[@johnnyabc2002]

Great video! I‘m even from Bavaria, but have never been to Octoberfest and am not into soccer at all. The only difference to my experience is that when I say „I‘m from Germany“, a lot of times I get the question „Oh, where in Germany“ - „from Bavaria“ - „Oh, where in Bavaria“. Sure, I had those encounters where I had the feeling that the person I was talking to thought Germany might be a city somewhere in New England. But a lot of Americans I met served for the army and there were a lot of barracks in southern Germany (there still are some, even if most of them were closed after the end of Cold War).

[@bjolie78]

München ist nicht in "Ost"erreich.

[@holger_p]

If you go East you are faster abroad, than by going West. So it's in the East.

[@TheOneG36]

before 1945 Bavaria was not in the east of the country :P Königsberg or Prag was the "eastern Part" :O

[@leDespicable]

@@holger_p But, then you have have to specifiy by saying it's the southeast.

[@olafwohltjen3087]

Yes ,, dass war mal wieder so lustig und auf den Punkt gebracht. Bist echt super 👍🏻☺️🙏🏼

[@ingovb6155]

Oh yeah. Excellent job in putting down these kind of awkwardnesses.

[@docDeutschmann]

I cannot possibly count the times I have had this exact conversation in the ten years I have been living here in the US. I also like to explain, that Germany does not equal Bavaria (Oktoberfest, Lederhosen, Dirndl, und Masskruege). The best analogy I could come up with so far is "Texas does not equal the USA" (Big Stetson hats, boots, belt buckles). ;-) (Nicht alles was hinkt, ist ein Vergleich - ask Mischa to translate/explain, if that doesn't make sense right away) But it's true both ways - cultural education mainly takes place through movies and TV series. Which of course mainly emphasize well known preconceptions, so they're easy to understand. Keep up the good work - it was entertaining, funny - and really nice to know, I am not the only one... ;-)

[@martinc.720]

I must say that those skits are growing on me : ) Must be because of how talented their creator is ahah Also, I recently started following your Insta and I really enjoy your posts! From the humorous stuff to more serious posts about various issues. Very interesting!

[@Kellydoesherthing]

I’m happy to hear you are starting to enjoy them :) and also that you’re following me on IG! Thanks for the feedback :)

[@andrestorres4715]

OK, but there's no way he has THIS much patience.

[@norbertx4966]

😂 Great Video - hilarious in so many ways. A stayed in the US for a few months some years ago and met so many friendly and helpful and pragmatic people. Sad to say though, quite a few never got to the „World outside the US“-section of their newspaper. A friend of mine from Vienna always explained „Austria, not Australia! Mountains, not Kangaroos“. A friend and I went to New Orleans and met a very friendly couple from Kansas. Both had masters degrees in economics. The conversation started like that: Kansas: „Oh, you‘re from Germany. Is that a democracy?“ We: „Still practicing“ Kansas: „Is Hitler still your chancellor?“ We: „No, he stepped down and was succeeded by Bismarck. But he‘s thinking about running for reelection. What do you know about Germany?“ Kansas: „The Germans are killing us.“ Don‘t get me wrong. After some more talk we Head a wonderful evening.

[@rogerblumenstein1238]

Again totally nailed. It really makes fun to watch.

[@tomzito2585]

So true. Back in the olden days when I used to go out in public, these people would find me on the regular. You see, I'm very, very tall, and there are people in the general public who feel obligated to make sure I know that, and then to ask a repitoire of questions. Some get quite personal! I make the best of it by changing my answers to the usual questions to keep it interesting and depending on how they ask me, I might throw subtle shade for the amusement of the friends or family who might be with me at the time.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Omg my dad would absolutely be one of those people who would ask you about your height and it kills me when he does this. I try to explain to him that it’s annoying as they probably get asked about it all the time but he just doesn’t get it or see it that way *face palm*

[@markusrausch8456]

HIlarious (in a good way) as always. I love the Weissbier in your German hand. Cracks me up :)

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thank you!! :)

[@byemyself3166]

You! Nailed! It!!! I had this conversation basically every time I visited the US or the Caribbean. And it was 'educated' people like lawyers etc. ....

[@aglaiacassata8675]

I had this conversation my WHOLE childhood, EACH time my American mother took me to the States, almot EVERY time I talked to somebody. Thank you so much for putting into words/videos! (Although I have to say: The "American" in your videos is really trying hard to have a conversation, i.e. asks questions, and has even been to Germany. Most people I met as a child never even tried to keep the conversation going.)

[@Luziemagick]

You nailed it again..well done Kelly!

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thanks so much!

[@Luziemagick]

@@Kellydoesherthing you are very welcome!

[@vbvideo1669]

This was really fun to watch! :)

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Happy to hear it!

[@mats7492]

That is so accurate, it almost hurts.. even though.. only happened to me in small cities and villages... not major ones

[@jhdix6731]

To be frank, my experiences were a bit different. Actually, I was expecting something like this the first time I came to the US to visit a friend (in 2001), who had moved there. To my surprise, many people I met actually knew where to locate my then-hometown Wallau. Turned out that quite a few of my friend's neighbours were Army Vets that had been stationed nearby (i.e in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim) at some point....

[@LEJapproach]

3:19 - _Real_ football is the one that's played mainly with the ball being carried around instead of _kicked_ around, right? Wait a minute ... I guess I'm too German to get my head around _this_ kind of logic. 😄😛

[@e.458]

Armpit egg would be more accurate

[@guntherrobbert4406]

Yes I did enjoy it. I always enjoy your conversations.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thank you!!

[@Flyctory]

One of your most hilarious ones :) Love it... Thank you so much :)

[@RocketQueen111]

I had this conversation a 1000 times. Worst experience: a guy at college told me Germany doesn't have any good food and doesn't have any "original german" food... 🤨 Love your channel!

[@madmansurfing]

That is so real. I cannot tell how many times I had such conversations

[@MHG790]

I am glad I never had such a conversation. I was only suprised once by an American assuming we are drinking warm beer. :D

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Haha! Yeah that really is a solid myth among Americans

[@Seelenschmiede]

Everyone know that this what the Brits are doing ;) btw. warm beer was a common thing once. And it still is against a rough throat.

[@tomgroenbeck7620]

The Brits do that. Their fridges were made by Lucas. That is the company which used to make the auto electrics as well. When I lived in Cambridge from '96 - '99 there were always plenty of broken down cars left on the hard shoulder of the freeway. This is where the joke came from.

[@SW-gj4ye]

🤣...maybe you know her. 😃greetings from lower saxony. Your biggest fan 🙃

[@karenannemaier927]

This is so good!

[@disobedientdolphin]

This was actually very entertaining to me as a German. Thanks!

[@nina_ukraine]

this is hilarious.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Happy you enjoyed it :)

[@robertkoons1154]

Kelly 2 doesn't look at all like M isha. He is a big guy (PA Dutch episode). He also has more expression than Kelly 2.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Hahaha he looks SO big in that video

[@funinvegas6862]

Here are the ones I hear a lot. So Washington, DC is in the state of Washington. I didn’t know the US was so big. I didn’t know there is a desert in the US and wow I didn’t know it gets this hot here. You are just as clueless about the US as we are about Europe .

[@PPfilmemacher]

What a Wonderful and on point skid!

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thanks! :)

[@alesandro5880]

Youre incredibly entertaining, I couldnt imagine a boring life with you in my hood. Greetz from Stuttgart

[@Kammreiter]

🤔 why I love the thing Kelly does 😄

[@metalheadmetalhead4976]

* *g* * ... first sentence in german and you say "Das ist verboten!" :-D ... I died laughing, better than "Hogan's Heroes"! But honestly said I've never had a conversation like this with americans. Maybe every american I've met (only a small number) was ... canadian in disguise? Interesting idea ... that might make sense ... and isn't Canada this funny little country somewhere at the northpole where Santa lives? ... Ahm ... I guess I should go the fridge and get another beer like german Kelly obviously did too O:-) ... I'm looking forward to your next video! :-) Stay healthy!

[@klaus-udokloppstedt6257]

so true!! :D my personal top chart was: 1) ohh, you are from Germany. I/my husband/my dad/my brother was stationed in Germany. (so many people told me this, that I suspect there must have existed a huge military subsurface network in addition to the regular US-bases, as at least 2 out of 3 soldiers served some time in Germany.) 2) was it difficult to adapt driving on the other side of the road? 3) why Germans like their beer warm? followed by 4) what, you don't drink beer!? that's why they threw you out of Germany! ;) 5) ahh, your are from East Germany - and you learned English in school there?

[@swie-ju9ij]

Yep! Totally agree to his experiences in really all points:) Me as a German had several obnoxious situations and yeah, not that smart questions in my visits in America... So great video:) quite on point!

[@tomgroenbeck7620]

I have been living in the US for 20 years now. I'm starting to realize what education in the US means. Most Americans have never left the country.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thank you!

[@tasminoben686]

Moin Kelly, on Point, brilliant! Ich schrei mich weg vor Lachen!

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thank you!!

[@tomgroenbeck7620]

Where do you come from? You do what? Did you use google translate?

[@tasminoben686]

Tom Groenbeck Kloster Hamburg. Es ist mein Deutsch und mein Bett Englisch

[@tomgroenbeck7620]

Komme as Nuernberg, war mir nicht gelaefig. Sorry for missing the "Umlaut" on my American keyboard.

[@tasminoben686]

@Tom Groenbeck No Problemo mit denUmlauten. Deinem Nachnamen hier, bei YT nach hätte ich gedacht, du bist Norddeutsch. LG nach irgendwo..

[@annikapetri3583]

Oh yes. This just hits it. This is hilarious! 😂 Had the same experience in the US. At some point I got so annoyed that I introduced myself as Austrian. Someone more... neutral... 😂

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Oh wow hahaha 😂 I don’t blame you and I’m sure it made things easier. When I lived in Turkey, I always told people I was from Canada....people like Canada a lot more than the US....

[@annikapetri3583]

@@Kellydoesherthing 😂 I see you get my point... 😂 Btw I did the same thing in China at some point because all the conversation that Chinese people started with me consisted of only two topics: 1) German cars = best cars of the world (I could live with that.. 😉) 2) Hitler = good man 😳🤔🙄😒😤

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

Did they asked you about the kangaroos?

[@CarinaCoffee]

@@annikapetri3583 Ah yeah, the Chinese had a really warped view on Hitler, I got that one as well.

[@annikapetri3583]

@@Ulrich.Bierwisch 😂 You mean Austria = Australia? No, but I see that you could mix that one up quite easily...

[@bjoertejehgemann3808]

Plastic Cup and a Bottle of Beer. You nailed it 🤣

[@johnjdumas]

I'm driving from Boston to NYC! Me, you know that that 1/2 inch on the US map will take at least 3 hours in the middle of the night with no stopping. And, only if you do not run into roadwork or get stopped for speeding.

[@Kellydoesherthing]

That plus the other half inch from NYC to DC is the worst inch of the entire US map

[@danielhofig8429]

Great Video again.

[@CarinaCoffee]

xD I ought to show this to my aunts who live in the US, I bet you they've heard it all before. I seem to recall one of them telling me once that there were Americans who wouldn't believe her she was German, because of her British accent (her American husband was stationed in England for a while and she worked at Tesco, so some of that inflection stuck, but it's not like she speaks in RP). But yeah, my aunts met their husbands towards the end of the 80s and one of them had their parents visit Germany for the first time (this was end of the 80s or beginning of the 90s) and beforehand they asked their son whether Germany had sandwiches, running water, stuff like that. I think the part that is most ridiculous to Germans is when they asked whether we have highways - you know since we supposedly invented them and all that xD

[@leDespicable]

Reminds me of a relative on my maternal grandpa's side of the family. One of his sisters emigrated to the US, and one guy from her family there was flabberghasted that we actually had civilisation when he visited my grandparents. My grandpa still tells the story of him coming into the house, completely in awe that something like this could actually exist here, touching the curtains, as if he didn't believe they were actually real. This was long ago though, probably in the late 70s or 80s, so some individuals might not have gotten the message by then that Germany didn't just stand still after the war ;P

[@der_bruehl]

Please do a coop with "American quarantined in Germany".

[@Kellydoesherthing]

I can look at doing something of this sort :)

[@Torfmoos]

I love that idea. Be careful when dealing with Josie.

[@der_bruehl]

@@Torfmoos I think she will just hit Everett

[@Torfmoos]

@@der_bruehl have u ever seen someone other near her? So i m not so shure...

[@peter_meyer]

@@Torfmoos She never hit Malu. Yet.

[@waterbugblue9040]

And completely off-topic - it's good to see George is doing fine :-D Hope you can travel again soon!

[@wtsalive8210]

I know, I know. I repeat again. That is perfect standup comedy!!! It is so awesome!!! And again you pointed on the typical obscure opinions of both side with all fine details! I LOVE IT PS: “Anyway”... I just remember at a nice saying: My opinion is clear and fixed! Don't confuse me with facts!

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thanks so much! :)

[@wtsalive8210]

@Kelly does her thing Not for that! I‘ve to say thanks for this pretty entertainment

[@wesprog9809]

I totally like this new format. Keep it coming

[@chuckstrasbaugh62]

A lot of fun, Kelly! I probably have more experiences with debunking German stereotypes about Americans-I always felt blamed for the Vietnam War back in the seventies and every imperialistic posture the American government took (my German father-I was an exchange student-in particular). But the thing that came to my mind is a quotation attributed to Charles V-Holy Roman Emperor-"I speak Spanish/Latin to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to my horse." LOL! I think Norbert Lammert, former Bundespraesident, has the best command of the German language of anyone to whom I've listened-for what it's worth. Spoken well, I find German to be such an expressive language visavis say, English-although such comparisons are inevitably like apples to oranges. Look forward to you every week!

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Thanks for sharing! I’m happy you enjoyed it :)

[@forestradio_]

I am on telephone calls with colleagues from the US and France several times a week. I think that my English with the German accent sounds the hardest in comparison with native english speakers or the french colleagues with their english accent. Therefore I am of the opinion that we Germans sound a bit unfriendly. Even if unintentionally.

[@emilyhorch]

I'm an American who lives in Germany (Regensburg) but works online with a lot of Americans. While I find their occasional questions about life in Germany to be fun change from talking about software, it's funny how they essentially come down to four things. Every. Single. Time. Beer, Oktoberfest, Autobahn and shouty "German". It goes like this... (1) "Wow, you must love the beer there!" ("Actually I don't like the taste of any beer so I don't drink it, but yeah, everyone says it's great."), (2) "But you still go to Oktoberfest, right?" ("No, actually I don't. I live in a town that has its own festival called Dult which is considered much more authentic. Most towns in Bavaria have their own festivals. Oktoberfest is only in Munich and it's more like 'DrunkenTouristFest'.), (3) "Wow, it must be so fun/scary/exciting to drive on the Autobahn. Do they have that near you?" ("'Autobahn' is just the word for highway in Germany so, yeah, I drive on the Autobahn or I'd never get anywhere. But it's not a speed free-for-all and most of the time you just sit in traffic because BAUSTELLE, BAUSTELLE, BAUSTELLE."). And less often... (4) Wow, German is such an ugly language. All that screaming!" ("I think you are thinking of old movies of Hitler, who, as any German will tell you, was not German but Austrian and even then had a very bizarre way of speaking. Germans don't sound like that."

[@norbertx4966]

Greetings to Regensburg - the most beautiful city in Germany

[@emilyhorch]

@@norbertx4966 I absolutely agree! But I may be biased. ;-)

[@cacklebarnacle15]

When I talked about my dad, a pastor, working during christmas time, my teacher asked me "Evangelisch oder katholisch?" (protestant or catholic).

[@Kellydoesherthing]

oh wow

[@ramblingmillennial1560]

I remember assuming a friend from the Netherlands spoke German cuz I thought Dutch and Deutsch were the same thing 5 years ago lmao. I was so confused!

[@zeninsyt]

Being from Canada, I get the Maple syrup, Beaver, Moose, Canoe, Plaid shirt and Snow and Cold jokes ... "I know someone in Vancouver, do you know him ?" ahhhhh, Vancouver is 3,300 kilometres (2,000 miles) from Toronto, so, I doubt it ;)

[@teckyify]

Even the red cup, I can't 😂😂😂😂

[@Kellydoesherthing]

lol! i had to make sure I added that detail :)

[@Crazynin1]

hahaha thank you for this video! i laughed 'my a** off'

[@Kellydoesherthing]

Happy to hear it!!