How To Be A German In 50 Easy Steps

[@Epie820]

"How to be a German in 50 easy steps" Me, a German: Interesting

[@itzjuicegacha]

Yes this just randomly showed up on my Fyp

[@xelanatora3566]

Lol ja

[@Meelix]

@@itzjuicegacha same

[@pik3herz]

yeah me too

[@milazeitlhofer8112]

Same

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

USA: How are you? ..... Thanks, great - and you? Germany: Wie geht's? ..... Muss.

[@grandmak.]

'Na?' - 'Na?', 'und ?' - 'jo'

[@julianstorms564]

Und? Ja, muss und selbst? ja, muss.

[@IQSim]

Unn? Jo.

[@evobrand1210]

@@grandmak. thats how my greatmother tries to start conversations with her, unfortunatly I never get it

[@Fritzgar]

Nicht zu vergessen: "Wie geht's?" "geht (so)."

[@kartoharaschi3429]

There are 3200 types of bread in Germany. The most popular is called: that there. Second place: no that next to it.

[@LeoTheDarkAngel]

That made me laugh louder than I'm willing to admit.

[@Morellas4]

@@LeoTheDarkAngel me too! :-))))

[@bastihst]

Underrated

[@sebastianbecker5064]

Love it x D

[@uwehansen2915]

Yes a german joke in english

[@oliveryt7168]

"Fenster auf Kipp" XD Ja, das sind so Dinge, über die man nicht mehr nachdenkt. Man kennts nicht anders.

[@Andreas-gh6is]

Auch eine deutsche Erfindung: Die "Kippfensterkatze".

[@evobrand1210]

Fenster auf Kipp. Fenster auf. Putt gegangen.

[@Andreas-gh6is]

@@evobrand1210 It's special kind of neurological syndrome of cats being squeezed while trying to escape through such windows... Doesn't occur in the US...

[@nearly_blind1017]

Ich war ehrlich gesagt schockiert, als ich mich mit Amiland auseinandergesetzt hab und erfahren hab, dass es auch andere Fensterarten gibt. Klar, man hat die Schiebefenster in Filmen und Spielen gesehen, aber man denkt irgendwie nicht, dass die echt so sind/noch so sein könnten.

[@paragraefin2792]

Wobei ich Fenster auf Kipp einfach nur schrecklich finde :D Meine Exschwiegereltern hatten mal die grandiose Idee, die Balkontür auf Kipp zu stellen, als sie nach uns aus der Wohnung sind (sie waren zu Besuch und ich hatte sie explizit gebeten, weder die Tür noch die Fenster anzukippen, da das für unsere Katzen echt gefährlich werden kann -.-')

[@liamcassidy5992]

“I just wear my outside shoes inside” Pretty sure that’s a cardinal sin

[@scarly2386]

Thats pretty rude in germany. Unless someone explicitly allows it. Kannst Schuhe anlassen.

[@midnight8341]

That's one of the German seven deadly sins. We don't have sloth, we have leaving your shoes on inside

[@pcmalgaming7223]

In germany it's rude if you do that in the house from someone else, but no one would mind if you wold do it in your on house except like Scarly said if the person says you can let them on then it's fine

[@Revia21]

It also depends on the age group. In recent years itnhas become polite tontake your shoes off, but with some older people it's often seen as weird. Some think it would be ride to ask a guest to take their shoes off.

[@sophielehmann37]

Don't forget we have our Garden Shoes too 😅

[@herbertbisdorf2717]

The beer purity law is just about the brewing, after that, you can do with your beer whatever you desire. That was "Klugscheißen"😏.

[@Maddisch]

As long as you are aware that it is no longer considered a "Beer" after mixing it. Radler is not beer and neither is Colabeer.

[@grandmak.]

brilliant example !

[@eily_b]

Wait until he discovers Bananenweizen. 😁

[@derWunschpunsch]

@@eily_b igitt! 😝

[@Baccatube79]

@@eily_b or as I call it "semen in a glass"

[@Your_Emodog]

German: Stands in the title The German people: der Chat ist nun unser

[@lilithlabelle1783]

You mean "Die Kommentarsektion wurde nun übernommen von dem Bundesstaat Deutschland."? xD

[@FuelFire]

Dieser Chat/Diese Kommentarsektion ist nun Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

[@vigilion.8622]

Jawoll

[@thej7755]

Exakt

[@mytozitkage4917]

Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Kommentarberreich btw. Germans like putting words together Kommentar+berreich Comment+space... or is it Comment+place idk

[@iwonttellmynametoamachine5422]

I love the Bavaria-Texas-comparison. That nails it somehow.

[@itellyouaboutstuff]

It's really spot on

[@mental_kintsugi]

As a Bavarian who refuses to speak the dialect or live the culture, I appreciate the comparison! Bavarian culture and even the dialect seem to completely revolve around small town culture, beer and speaking as if you already had too much of it😂

[@ownageDan]

texas but beer instead of oil and brezn instead of guns

[@katzenkralle7262]

Even Franconia (northern bavaria) hates bavaria

[@yoshyyeah5891]

@@katzenkralle7262 damn true im from Würzburg and all young people speak "Hochdeutsch". We don´t even have the franconian accent in anymore.(except a few "Dorfkinder" who still have it because of their parents/grandparents.

[@EsEhKa]

Birthday celebration is not about "living" another year, but "surviving" another year. This is a great and serious achievement.

[@susannabonke8552]

Yeah that's a holy cow.

[@novadhd]

is it that hard to survive there?

[@amelie-hb7ln]

@@novadhd no its just the negative mindset lol

[@TheLtVoss]

@@novadhd not any more but before modern Medizin was invented the first year is critical and too survive a year was a achievement I mean the mittelage isn't called the dark age without reason and the tradition has stayed

[@oeqac7871]

Birthday means, the world is great with YOU in it. Glad you were born.

[@evana8751]

Let’s see a Nudelsalat vs Kartoffelsalat showdown at a German Barbecue 😁

[@Bayseek]

I mean come on. That's easy. Nudelsalat is #1.

[@evana8751]

@@Bayseek yeah I totally agree. I just don’t know Nalfs preference, soooo… 😁

[@Vampirzaehnchen]

@@Bayseek Kartoffelsalat.

[@maggyisbusy759]

@@Vampirzaehnchen aber ohne Mayonaise

[@lenamaria99]

Nudelsalat MIT Mayonnaise

[@sapphirelesbian2414]

"German bread blows American bread out of the water" me, a German: *snorts* obviously

[@fomger]

Amerikanisches "Brot"

[@Julia-lk8jn]

Well, in defense of American cereal based rectangular foam-slices: It's not like the US is ever _trying_ to be good at bread. They're good at importing / copying bread, like bagels, baguettes, whatever. Delightful piece of cultural clash: Subway has to pay higher taxes in Ireland because Ireland has slightly lower taxes on healthy / staple food like bread than on unhealthy food like cake. Guess what the stuff Subway frames it's tuna-free 'tuna sandwiches' with is, according to Irish standards.

[@retireorbust]

I remember that distinctly. I enjoyed the broetchen also called labla in Bavaria and the pumpernickel. It would be baked daily in the small stores. Edeka, I think was the name of the little store I used to go to. Unlike most soldiers I lived in a small Bavarian village. It was good food, good beer, and beautiful country. I had many German friends. I liked how they dressed. Not sloppy like too many Americans.

[@TheLtVoss]

@@retireorbust ahhh jep outside you have too be prepared everyone cann see you and how well you care for yourself

[@stratman9449]

the only bread americans "invented" was "sliced" bread......because they don't know how to cut it.....:-)

[@Clayton-u6z]

"How to be a German in 50 easy steps" Me, a German: Well well well, let's find out

[@Mxllaxx]

Und ich fand heraus es stimmt einfach alles😂

[@Cologne.1948]

Ich bin auch überrascht 😂

[@jurgenstoll2394]

So let me do a little "klugscheißen": "Prost" is the short form for "Prosit" = Pro sit. Comes from the latin prod esse and means "It may help" or like "To your health" "Tschüß" comes from "ad jüs" (northern german) which means the same as adios (spanish), adieu(french), ade (swabian): "To god"

[@michim162]

Perfect explained

[@fixiple2722]

damn good to know

[@chuckm1962]

I always wondered exactly where this came from. (Not enough to look it up though - shame on me!)

[@annak.2505]

Exactly

[@no_kaye4916]

Nice!

[@Smash8ros]

Apfelsaftschorle is actually pretty good to hydrate (not as 100% substitute for water tho) especially during Sport because it provides electrolytes, assuming you use quality juice (natural and unfiltred) Mit freundlichen Grüßen :*

[@susannabonke8552]

Mfg ..😅😅

[@darthdead97]

Hat hier jemand kluggeschissen? MfG

[@unfiltered8060]

hm

[@ottosaxo]

Dress seriously: The socks must never be more funny than the guy who wears them.

[@awakenedcrowl]

I know many ppl in germany who take pride in breaking that sock rule, lol

[@jet-blackjo2455]

Damn, my teacher must be the funniest man alive then

[@susannabonke8552]

Well it was dark when I left Home and the machine swallows them all..so I took my son's ones.

[@CR-qc9sl]

White socks with black trousers and black shoes is very german.

[@kyihsin2917]

In my experience, Germans love rules - until the rules are an inconvenience to them, and then they will happily break them.

[@mariusa.5863]

Yeah, anyone who doesn't believe it: Just go to any gym in Germany and count the people who don't obey the corona rules.

[@jackytufftufftoaster7817]

German rule number one. If you put a towel down, the spot belongs to you now

[@keynafernwind7302]

Hahaha omg that's so true. Also the complaining about stupid rules never stops xD Germans can keep going all day long complaining about one little thing

[@Helena-me6mp]

@N D Bro we are not a group of idiots, which follow every rule...

[@francis7336]

We don't love rules. We learn to live with them

[@monsterfurby]

10:30 This was one of the weirdest things for me (German) to realize when I was learning Chinese. In German conversation, almost every single thing you say has some sort of ironic or tongue-in-cheek subtext. For example, I don't think I've ever heard anyone sincerely praise the weather without adding something along the lines of "let's see how long it stays that way" or "let's enjoy it while it lasts". Mostly it's just "Schönes Wetter heute..." spoken in a playfully exaggerated tone of annoyance. I use sarcasm far more often than I'm comfortable admitting, and most people around me do as well. Alas, the Chinese language (due to tone of voice also being used to convey lexical meaning) does _not_ allow for sarcasm at all unless you outright explain the joke. It's still excessively hard for me to wrap my German brain around that.

[@danielpetri3475]

beeing married to a chinese I can confirm this is true. around 6205 days of experience...

[@Yotanido]

I don't think it has anything to do with the tonal language. Sarcasm still works without making it obvious. I rather think it is cultural. Japanese, for example, also doesn't make a lot of use of sarcasm. That isn't to say sarcasm doesn't exist in Japanese (like some people claim) but it's rather different and more limited. And Japanese is not a tonal language. Similar to English, pitch is used for all sorts of things, like expressing emotion or marking a question. (Though Japanese *is* pitch accented, which has pitch also differentiate between words, the pitch is not technically part of the word and may be changed to serve other functions)

[@marloelefant7500]

Chinese are far more serious than Germans according to my experience. I'm not sure whether irony and sarcasm even exists here at all.

[@Mr_Yeah]

@@Yotanido "Japanese is flat" kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWG4fYOid8p-sMk

[@marloelefant7500]

Honestly, before I came abroad, I thought every window is like the German ones.

[@dersps5905]

I always wanted to study abroad but now I'm not sure I can

[@nekominorinya2569]

Wait they arent?

[@marloelefant7500]

@@nekominorinya2569 No, in China, for example, you just can push them aside, or open a small part of it, so you cannot open the window completely.

[@stratman9449]

what....made of glass...??

[@invalid8774]

@@nekominorinya2569 The american windows just slide up most places like you can see in several us sitcoms.

[@BlackAdder665]

"Prost" is pronounced "Proscht" only in some regions. Everywhere else the "s" is just a normal sharp "s". As in "last", "must", "quest" etc.

[@juliameyer10313]

Yes. If you went into a bar where I live and say "Proscht", your going to get weird looks. We'll assume you're from the south and immediately mistrust you

[@BlackAdder665]

@@juliameyer10313 "Mistrust" :-D

[@connybelting2781]

this leads to the point " klugscheissen" :)

[@brigittemiebs3228]

Klugscheißer?

[@BlackAdder665]

@@brigittemiebs3228 Nicht jedes Informationsangebot ist Klugscheißerei.

[@sarah-jl8cr]

I learned how to open a bottle with a lighter years ago. Finally learning to open a beer bottle with another bottle, with any type of table or the beer crate as well, is one of my greatest achievements through lockdown.

[@ichraumauf5532]

The beauty of this is that you will always one bottle in the pantry.

[@susannabonke8552]

OMG. What did the bottle reply?

[@dominikweber4305]

Yeah, i learned all of that when i was 14, don't really know if that's something to be proud of tho

[@blabladuweier8654]

@@dominikweber4305 am besten ist es, wenn du zwei Flaschen miteinander öffnest. Muss man zwar ein bisschen aufpassen, dass die zuerst geöffnete nicht überschwappt, aber man braucht nix anderes mehr.

[@stratman9449]

congafibulations.....!! so you don't drink wine....?

[@Ginnilini]

It's funny that you said the Saxony dialect sounds like a drunk Irish person. When I lived int the UK, I was asked whether I was Irish or someone Irish who's lived in the US several times. Nope, I'm just from Saxony. Sorry about that.

[@susannabonke8552]

I would be proud to be considered Irish.

[@dominikweber4305]

I'm from munich and my faked saxon accent is more convincing than my faked bavarian accent

[@ember1794]

😂❤❤

[@kerry4385]

Whoever gifted this books: thank you sooo much. Perfect gift for Nalf.

[@grandmak.]

I'd love to read it myself in order to check if I'm German enough.

[@kerry4385]

@@grandmak. I am not german enough 😅

[@sisuguillam5109]

@@grandmak. hey, Grandma! Schönen Sonntag!

[@grandmak.]

@@sisuguillam5109 Danke gleichfalls !

[@grandmak.]

@@kerry4385 I'm so sorry !

[@toecutter3100]

There's a shortcut to be a perfect german: you have to drive naked with 250 km/h on the Autobahn while eating a "Mettbrötchen" (raw minced meat) and yell at the other drivers when they drive only 240 km/h. Then let a german witness write a "Eidesstattliche Versicherung" with at least 4 copies, to give burocracy its share -> done

[@Vamirez]

For publicly sharing this state-secret you will be strangled during Wetten Das with tennis socks by Florian Silbereisen.

[@toecutter3100]

@@Vamirez 🤣 and on my funeral "atemlos" will be played in endless loop

[@itellyouaboutstuff]

@@Vamirez and of course the whole thing has to be hosted by Thomas Gottschalk. Fuck Markus Lanz

[@chrizawesome]

You went full German. Never go full German.

[@itellyouaboutstuff]

@@chrizawesome if he had went full German he'd be in Poland by now

[@semp7803]

"How To Be A German In 50 Easy Steps" Jeder Deutsche: *INTERESSANT*

[@kikikillian1208]

"German humor is like German bread: dark, dry, not to everyone's taste, but in plenty-full supply." I am offended, but I totally agree

[@darthdead97]

Ich bins nicht und stimme auch vollkommen zu. MfG

[@nieselpriem]

What Americans refer to as bread would at best be used in Germany as a cleaning sponge to wash dishes. We just don't understand the American tradition of eating assembly foam. 🤔🤷🏻‍♂️

[@reinhard8053]

@@nieselpriem But they are not alone. I had some bread in Italy (further south) which was very near to cardboard in taste and structure. It was just a carrier for other things (olive oil...). But at least it probably was healthier than american bread.

[@angelikafischer6508]

@@nieselpriem the worst of all this "bread"-choices I found in Northern Nigeria. There you can buy this foam dyed in colors like pink, light blue, light green probably to match the topping. For Germans plain horror.

[@valerietaylor9615]

I like French bread best. Real French bread, not the American knockoff.

[@michaelgrabner8977]

the expression Mahlzeit (literally "meal time") has 2 meanings 1) Greeting during lunch time = round about 11am till 13pm 2) a german equivalent for saying "Bon Appetit/Buon Appetito/Que Aproveche/Enjoy your meal" at every occasion you gonna start to eat a meal.. it is generally the shorted version of saying "Gesegnete Mahlzeit" meaning "Have a blessed meal time"

[@Vamirez]

Germans have the habit of using greetings randomly, i.e. not at the right time/situation. The most extreme form is perhaps the Northern "moin moin". So if someone says "Mahlzeit" when you meet for sport practice, everyone understands it means "fill in nice greeting here" basically :)

[@dominikmanthei4546]

@@Vamirez I hear Mahlzeit all day long, never really thought about it. It is right to use Moin whenever though.

[@martinjunghofer3391]

@@Vamirez Falsch (ich klugscheiße jetzt!): Moin hat NICHTS mit Morgen zu tun, sonder ist die niederdeutsche Form von GUT! - siehe holländisch moi = gut.

[@Vamirez]

@@martinjunghofer3391 *alarm noises* Shots have been fired! I repeat - shots have been fired! ;) Sehr gut! Aber als alter verbohrter Pälzer, der "guden moie" sagt, weigere ich mich einfach, das anzuerkennen ;) (Und bringe es selbst bei Gelegenheit sicher mal irgendwo an, hehehe...)

[@derekh4511]

"Mahlzeit" ... can also be used when stating that something went very, very wrong. Oftentimes, it comes with a 'Na' as in 'Na, Mahlzeit!' (Like in 'damn!' or ... 'we are f****d!)

[@libby9433]

How to be a German Step #51 - Appreciate the culinary masterpiece that is the German Döner ! 🥙

[@mojojim6458]

Of course you mean the Hamburg Fischbroetchen.

[@emjayay]

Which is of course basically Turkish. Also, yes.

[@mojojim6458]

@@emjayay But the Turks invented it while in Germany, so that makes it German. Right? Right? LOL

[@DanielRMueller]

@@mojojim6458 It may be a reminder that while nations might seem defined by lines on a map, they are something far more complex and they aren't anywhere as clearly distinguishable as some want them to be. We imported potatoes from the New Continent and turned them into a traditional German dish, we imported Tea from Asia and Coffee from-I-dunno where (I am East-Frisian, I drink tea, not coffee, that's it) and built our afternoon breaks around them, then we invited Greek and Italian guest workers and they brought us Gyros, Pizza, Tzatziki, and later the Kurds and Turks immigrated here and brought us Döner. One of our favorite beer types is Czech, and our dominant religions all come from the Middle East.

[@mojojim6458]

@@DanielRMueller All guilty of the sin of cultural appropriation. Sigh.

[@inawinchester]

First of all Bavarians don't *think* they're better, we *are* better (yes, that was sarcasm ... or was it?) and second yes, you can mix beer with other beverages, just don't call it "a beer" afterwards. If you say to someone "I'm drinking a beer" and show them your Radler you're gonna be punished. This is not a warning, it's a friendly reminder. Or is it?

[@hodelhophopp9386]

😂😂😂😂🤣

[@barfuss2007]

bavarian beer is not seldom only unsable for dish wahing. A "Radler" (beer mixed with lemonade) has more alcohol than most bavarian beers - so little kids drink this in bavaria...

[@inawinchester]

@@PrinzessKennY Very possible 😛

[@inawinchester]

@@PrinzessKennY If ya ain't got the looks, ya gotta have the attitude (Sorry, just watched John Oliver and the lady had a massive southern accent 😂)

[@itellyouaboutstuff]

Baviarians make fun of Radler but drink the most disgustingly sweet abomination called Goasmaß. It's absolutely horrendous

[@Nigolasy]

As a native german, I'm absolutely sure there is no ruleset behind "Mahlzeit" If there is, I haven't figured it out. I only use it while at work during lunchbreak to wish my coworkers a good meal and break. Never used it in the evening I think.

[@BlueSkyEntertaiment]

I hate this greeting. I have never heard of it and on my first day of work the coworkers were mad that i said hallo and not Mahlzeit

[@christianbrandt9877]

Also im Gasthaus kannst du das ja eigentlich rund um die Uhr sagen. Oder einfach "Nen guten!"

[@dominikweber4305]

@@christianbrandt9877you mean "an guaden"

[@christianbrandt9877]

@@dominikweber4305 Ja. Genau

[@blabladuweier8654]

@@BlueSkyEntertaiment tja solche Probleme gibts im Norden nicht, da sagt man einfach Moin

[@liamcassidy5992]

“50 easy steps”, despite being an English sentence, is the most German thing I’ve ever seen

[@saschaschneider9157]

"The Texas of Germany" made me laugh so hard, because we exactly say it vise versa about Texas. 😂 And about the sundays, btw. It was an american, called Ferris Bueller, who said once: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - A very wise man, this Ferris Bueller... very wise. 😉

[@christianfreedom-seeker2025]

Quite a few Barvarians have told me that they would rather see Barvaria annexed to Austria. 🇦🇹

[@liamcassidy5992]

Bavaria is our Texas, Saarland is our Alabama

[@susannabonke8552]

@@liamcassidy5992 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@lentintarantino392]

@@christianfreedom-seeker2025 annexed to austria? no lets just jojn together with switzerland and south tyrol and make a new country

[@lolphdundgren4328]

@@lentintarantino392 Some people are calling Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern) "Nordtirol" :-)

[@Arturion-Geier-Wald]

I have had almost over 20 years of english lessons and I still say: "I'm sorry my english is soooo bad!" So you got me...

[@mojojim6458]

Wishing everyone great success on this glorious day as they study how to be a German. A test will be given shortly. Certificates will be issued later.

[@sigismundsulzheimer5512]

I love this bureaucracy. Only two pencils, a pencil sharpener, an eraser (made of recycled rubber) and a ruler may be taken to the "How to be a German" test. By signing the form, you confirm that you have understood the content of the test and that you will not violate it. A copy of this signed declaration will be sent to the Board's archives, the Central Anti-Corruption Unit and the Central Statistics Office.

[@mojojim6458]

@@sigismundsulzheimer5512 This is hilarious. Thanks.

[@tydalm.9665]

Wishing you a great wday as well, teacher. However I think I will be sick on the day of the test. Being German is not really, what we Berliners strive for, we were already forced to host a lot of their politicians. However when I think about it, the European Football championship will be soon, and our attitude may change for around a month.

[@grandmak.]

yeah, go, Mojo Jim , go !

[@grandmak.]

@@sigismundsulzheimer5512 ok, do the answers have to be twice underlined using a ruler ?

[@timefliesaway999]

1:08 german food 1:38 window technology 2:08 house shoes 2:25 potato 3:04 recycling 3:31 hate Bavaria 4:05 planning/preparation 4:33 Kartoffelsalat 5:05 LG 5:35 Sachsen dialect 5:45 insurances 6:04 “Mahlzeit!” 6:31 car culture 7:00 dress seriously 7:33 German bread 7:54 Schwarzfahren 8:24 German/English 8:44 open bottles without bottle opener 9:05 “Prost!” 9:19 bureaucracy 9:30 red lights 9:44 Sundays 10:10 Apfelschorle 10:37 Humor 11:13 German smalltalk 11:30 klugscheisser 12:00 mixing 12:55 travel seriously 13:25 sex 13:43 rules 14:10 birthdays 14:38 GMA 15:01 dinner for one 15:18 say what you mean 15:26 Schlager 15:37 Bio 16:11 “tschüss!”

[@TheSailingsilver]

It hurts me to see how you handle the book, breaking the back like that

[@dreamxd1014]

Same

[@susannabonke8552]

Ja das TUT man nicht!

[@katharinaweber9708]

Schlimm! Ich hoffe, du hast wenigstens nichts rein geschrieben 🥺

[@schattenprinz]

It's against the rules

[@Cowboy-in-a-Pink-Stetson]

Bar'B'Qs and Kartoffelsalat? What about the Nudelsalat? No mention of the ever present Nudelsalat that everybody brings but don't eat! SMH.

[@derPetunientopf]

Often its the other way around. It just depends on how much the people making it knew what to do. Everyone thinks they can make Nudelsalat and Kartoffelsalat but its just as complicated as most other dishes when done right. Often people add to much mayonnaise and that just ruins it. Gewürzgurken are also a very important ingredient for Nudelsalad that is often forgotten.

[@cerostymc]

Not to mention the holy Gewürzketchup...

[@wolf_art4547]

The next time nobody want the Nudelsalat call me. I can help ^^

[@susannabonke8552]

@@derPetunientopf Parsley and other herbs make it!

[@derPetunientopf]

@@susannabonke8552 Sounds pretty good.

[@tramper42]

16:15 @NALF: I can hear my Teacher and many others: „Do NOT FOLD a paperback - respect books - take good care of books and their knowledge“

[@emjayay]

I was teaching a special ed class for the more severely disabled and an intellectually disabled kid showed me that you should use the little lever tabs at the top and bottom of a loose leaf notebook to open the rings, not pull on the rings. He was right. Fortunately I hadn't opened them by pulling on the rings yet that time.

[@CR-qc9sl]

It is only a book, not a living being.

[@supernova19805]

Bio is our organic food in the U.S. It's way more expensive here too. Also, "Na?", the best conversation starter ever. ;) You meant to say the Saxon dialect is THE funniest dialect of all. It's nasal and it sounds like someone is strangling a duck. My mother was from Saxony, and there were hours of laughter at her expense.

[@emjayay]

I was wondering if Nick realizes that Bio=Organic. Not necessarily that much more expensive, but sometimes way more. Yes, just like in the US. It was California hippie subculture in the late 60's-70's that really got the movement going with an organic farmer association and vetting for products before any government regulation, and organic food stores before Whole Foods or bio/organic foods showing up in normal supermarkets.

[@lapernice6978]

Bio food isn’t actually that more expensive in Germany - compared to the US. Except the nuts, cashews. - that is true, I guess everywhere :-)

[@elisabethstrazzanti2312]

Hahahahaha, strangling a duck 🦆……🤣🤣🤣

[@shiro-chan5476]

The "Bürokratie" a whole lot of paperwork, most Germans are absolutely dispised by it. But our politics love that shit so we have to put up with it.

[@susannabonke8552]

Related to federal system. The Dutch King lately pointed out His crown and country is in good contact with a Lot of German States. Maybe it's because the netherlands used to be one of them. 😅

[@shiro-chan5476]

@Vandole I really don't think it's that interesting when any German applied for Child care money or waht Taxes Peter from this Village paid in 2010. I think for some things it's really important to document them precisely so they can be retract Decade or Centuries later. But for a lot of things the paperwork is really just over complicating every thing for every one evold and this methods are only kept because none really cares about modernizing them..

[@Morellas4]

correct. I don't know one single German who "loves" bureaucracy... :-))

[@iwonttellmynametoamachine5422]

Step 1: Overanalyse everything! The rest follows naturally ^^

[@missverstandnis2963]

I have to buy this book. Laughed so much. So many true things about us. Btw, Bioprodukte are organic products (especially food). That's why they are so expensive

[@grandmak.]

I've already ordered it from Amazon, have to read it soon, too.

[@wolfgangsperber7894]

Miss Klugschiss

[@grandmak.]

@@wolfgangsperber7894 ???

[@tonyme7426]

My daughter-in-law gave it to me as a birthday present.

[@susannabonke8552]

Yeah but half of them is Fake.

[@nomirrors3552]

Am I the only one that is freaking out watching him bend that book? Love the content. Be nice to your books. :)

[@kackerlakensalat]

I had to laugh always about my sister. She is able to read "around a corner" that much she hates to bend a book too much.

[@verlorenerjunge5921]

Classic old dad joke: Mahlzeit! - "Mal dir deine Zeit doch selber"

[@mats7492]

Passt auf eure Füße auf.. der kommt flach

[@axelk4921]

ne ich bevorzuge die " Bastelstunde"

[@chrison2822]

"Ma(h)l Zeit ist besser als NIE Zeit!"

[@ZZMJo]

@@chrison2822 MARSzeit is better. But I prefer Snickers.

[@frankyg.6172]

Das ist wie "Moin" , geht immer !

[@TimJacken]

Great Video!

[@emjayay]

The tipping feature allows you to open the window when it's raining. On the other hand, the door/tipping thing gets in the way of having regular miniblinds or curtains. Also if it's inside and cool outside double hung windows when opened at the top and bottom create convection currents which exchange air efficiently.

[@tigeriussvarne177]

The best comparison to "Klugscheißen" is the "ackchually meme". xD

[@manzanasrojas6984]

lmao indeed

[@butschi7533]

that video was so bad lg hahahah really good job, always cool to see the own country from another perspective. You caught so many small details and sayings here, you are more german than many otheres here:D Tschüüüüs

[@DoctorNicolasGames]

14:50 the GEZ or Gebühreneinzugszentrale (Fee collection center) was the authority that collected the Rundfunkgebühr (broadcast fee) It has recently been renamed to Beitragsservice (contribution service) to sound nicer, but it's still the same thing. In Germany, every household pays a fee to finance public broadcasts like the ARD and ZDF. The fee is currently around 18€ a month.

[@derPetunientopf]

Hearing you mention that you like Bratkartoffeln (home fries / chipped potatoes) made me immidiatly feel warm and fuzzy in my heart. Its a simple dish but also an art in itself. I like to make them often like this: one third or more potatoes, one third carottes and one third onions. Onions cut finger thick, carottes smaller and the potatoes rather thin, all together in the pan, fried / baked until ready and done. Some salt and pepper and the dish is complete. A salad and fried sausages or bacon cubes are welcome additions but not needed at all.

[@wakeupcall2665]

My mum‘s Bratkartoffeln: Kartoffeln vom Vortag, in Scheiben geschnitten, in Butter in der Pfanne gebraten, dazu Spiegeleier und Spinat. Da wird mir auch ganz warm ums Herz. Allerdings auch bei ihren Rinderrouladen, und natürlich Tante Elli‘s Nusskuchen (war Schwester meines Opas) = Nusskuchen mit Schokobohnen und Schokoglasur…einfach nur WoW 🤩

[@chrisssssssi5598]

I made an exchange semester in Boston and there was a get together with beer, but there was no bottle opener. So I opened the bottle with an other bottle. The guys there were very impressed and I had to open a few bottles of beer.😀

[@astridchladek1927]

1. Happy Birthday!!!💐🥂🍾🎂 2. Yes, pleeeeasee more of this! Funny, because apart from some minor exceptions it’s also true for Austria! ☺️ 3. After a weeks work in the hospital, a Sunday redecorating the children’s room, doing homework with the big son, preparing food for everybody, this video was my reward, consumed alone with ice cream 😉. Always looking forward to new videos, always curious, and you always deliver! Thanks😊 4. LG from Vienna😉

[@sigismundsulzheimer5512]

As an Austrian, I publicly and emphatically distance myself from the claim that Vienna is exemplary for Austria. For those who don't know, Austria is not Vienna and Austria is not Germany. End of the announcement 😊

[@astridchladek1927]

@@sigismundsulzheimer5512 As a proud Austrian I totally agree with the statement that neither Vienna is Austria, nor Austria is Germany. Both things I have neither said or meant. Still I think that some seemingly typical German characteristics are true for Austria as well. Still, Austria is very distinctive and different from Germany in many other ways. Both statements are true to me. But this of course reflects only my personal opinion. No worries😉

[@_J.C.]

Guten Morgen 🌞 I love the reference to Speedy and she is absolutely right about planning thoroughly 😎😋

[@DarkHarlequin]

This extra focus of Germans on planning in my experience actually splits Germans (particularly couples) into two distinct groups going on a trip. The 'planner' who plans EVERYTHING and micro manages every detail and the partner or kids who have learned over time that if they try to help with the planning they just agrevate the planner more and thus now plan NOTHING completely relying on the other person to get anything done. Their contribution to the trip is essentially showing up and that's it 😁

[@susanneharvey4034]

@@DarkHarlequin 😂🤣🤣😂🤣 Jaaaaaaaaaaaa 😂🤣😂😂

[@Sp4mMe]

Planning too much just takes the fun out of vacations. But planning too little can make things stressful and you might feel like you missed out on things. Obviously everyone has their own preferences, but personally I prefer some sort of flexible plans to be adjusted as necessary ... What I'm saying is ... it's important to plan how you're going to plan your plans.

[@justatiefling9528]

3:08 A few years ago when I stayed home while my parents went on vacation for the first time I accidentally threw something in the wrong trash ONE time and a day later I got a call from some neighbor telling me to please recycle correctly :I You can't make this up. That being said, recycle!! It's important!

[@Sam-cc8tb]

"Hate Bavaria" me, as a bavarian: AhH ShIT HeRe wE gO AgaIN

[@ganzneubei]

The way he said "Bratkartoffeln' 😂😍 Love it !!!

[@Kivas_Fajo]

Welcome back! :D As far as I can tell about your videos you turned into a German mostly. I mean, you wanted to come back, you missed it, you're here again. Is this probably a sign of you wanting to stay here...forever?

[@elkeyvonnelindemann8284]

You nail your video contents! I love your very good balance of praising and criticizing! We live in the US since 18 years and I can confirm (almost;)) every praise and also critique you have about Germany and as well the US! So, now you are trapped (as we are) between 2 countries! ;) You are slowly, but surely, not at home in the US as a US citizen anymore and also not at home in Germany! We miss the US while we are in Germany and miss Germany while we are in the US! We can for sure agree that we all miss our families being left in the other country! Keep up your fantastic work in displaying the truth without sugar coating!

[@itzjuicegacha]

5:43 Well I have been in many parts of Germany and the different dialects are fun to her and somehow I mostly understand the most

[@matthewlutes2966]

Nice work! Retired here and you've nailed most stuff. Still working on removing shoes at the door.

[@k.s.8064]

I had so much fun to listen to that video and I really do see myself how German I am and that all of that I am just doin or saying that/these things because they are so normal to me. It is really fun for me to see how foreigners are seeing or notesing that... And I can agree to so many things... 😂😂😂

[@peggydavis6418]

You are right on with all of this Nalf. Married a German. Great video. 😊

[@tonyme7426]

He is not right, he is just quoting a book, so the author is right.

[@joewright9400]

This is hilarious , made my day ...I am German living in South Korea and this book is so accurate! Love your videos btw...keep going! LIEBE GREUSSE, Jonna :)

[@apuapu3235]

Also there are three major types of potato salad. My favorite is cucumber, onions, pickles 1 apple, the sud of the pickles salt paper and a tee spoon mustard. All is cut in small squares only the potato is clocked pealed and in slices. Mixed all together. Additional you can add majo if you want to.

[@byroncasey8968]

I love your take on Texas and Bavaria. It is very true and accurate.

[@MrPixel-ge6wx]

" I would say my personal favorite of german edible potato art would be, the lovly Bratkartoffeln." Ein Mann nach meinen geschmack.

[@doloresmey]

Alles Gute nachträglich 🎂 und bitte auch noch das zweite Buch 👍 Liebe Grüße 😉

[@lionljb]

Me a german watching this: "write that down, write that down!"

[@jonah666]

I like that these Videos give me a new perspective on my country I also like that they teach some new information I mean I didn’t know about Bavaria before

[@daydreamcaged7450]

11:40 this is literally so true, like I´m (kind of) a writer and sometimes I´m just making scenarios up in my head for fun, but if there is ONE unrealistic thing I cant continue until I made it make sense

[@MrHeLeHa]

Oh God I love your videos, I just can't help myself. I see a new video, I click it!

[@jonathanfriz8648]

I want NALF to read my lecture script in College...his reading style is pure entertainment :)

[@davidmuller3827]

As a German... Hell yes, all true! Please book 2

[@schrodinger5776]

Just randomly came upon this video in my recommended since I've been looking into German things for the past few days. Very straightforward guy, and I like the content! :) ❤️

[@damiandornfelder8502]

You don’t need drones insurances separately, many limited liabilities include them. They often cheaper in a pack. Really good video. That book was the perfect gift for you.

[@kilsestoffel3690]

A German has always a pullover and a raincoat along till mid of June. The weather is still changing a few times a day, so it might ve sunny and warm, when you leave the house, but within an hour it could be cold and/or rainy.

[@sunnydaysworth]

Jaaaa, stimmt, das Wetter is unstet bis zu "den Eisheiligen" zumindest (Mitte Mai), deshalb stellt man z.B. die Pflanzen noch nicht raus auf den Balkon.

[@sisuguillam5109]

Long live the Übergangsjacke!

[@daggicat8763]

Im from mid Germany and Michigan is the same

[@emjayay]

Northeast USA is similar that way.

[@dirkschwartz1689]

Vol. #2 needs to be examinated thoroughly as well! :)

[@grandmak.]

absolutely and ASAP !

[@mojojim6458]

@@grandmak. We keep meeting. And agreeing. This has to stop!

[@emjayay]

English tip: "examined".

[@grandmak.]

@@mojojim6458 yes.

[@mojojim6458]

@@emjayay I think the word he used is the proper term for volume 2. Just teasing.

[@SusanSTAY]

Hallo Kameraden! Ich danke Ihnen, für euer zahlreiches antreten. Ich bin sehr erfreut, darüber das wir das einnehmen immer noch drauf haben. Dieser Kommentar Bereich ist nun deutsches Staats Eigentum!

[@Daswars777]

You do such a great job telling people how we are. Thanks for that. :)

[@leonbenreuther8611]

Definitely best video i‘ve seen in a while 😂😂🙌🏼 Good Job

[@manzanasrojas6984]

6:30 Mahlzeit is a workers greeting. Mostly used among people who do physical work.

[@fischris]

We are doing IT only and ist's also Mahlzeit!

[@manzanasrojas6984]

@@fischris "Mostly"

[@TheFeldhamster]

@@manzanasrojas6984 no, even the "mostly" is wrong. Go to any office and you'll hear it. Maybe not in a few smaller hipster startups but definitely all bigger companies, like Siemens or any bureaucratic institutions.

[@manzanasrojas6984]

@@TheFeldhamster Als SupplyChainManager, der Schnittstelle zwischen Lager und Buero spielt, mit 20 Jahren Berufserfahrung in Ost-, West- und Sueddeutschland, kann ich dir sagen, dass es "mostly used among people who do physical work" ist.

[@felmerobert0916]

Mahlzeit is short for "blessed meal" (gesegnete Mahlzeit), so it actually has a religious background. It is believed that it comes from the monks. Today it is almost always used without religious reference (without blessed)and almost exclusively in a professional context. You can also say "bon appétit" instead of Mahlzeit.

[@kyihsin2917]

I think there's regional variation too, though. Here in Berlin people say Mahlzeit as a greeting between around 11 AM and 2 PM even if there is no food anywhere near.

[@felmerobert0916]

@@kyihsin2917 That is fundamentally correct. There doesn't have to be food directly nearby (I didn't write it that way either). You say it, for example, when a colleague goes on his lunch break or you meet colleagues who are on their way to the canteen or on their way to their lunch break.It is a common greeting at the beginning of the "lunch break". It is implied that one eats something during the break. It doesn't matter if you eat a full meal or just a snack. One does not say it, however, when one comes back from his lunch break.

[@elw00dblues57]

But if you break the word into two halfs, and take both words literal, it is Mahl = Meal Zeit = Time "Time for a meal" So, without any further research, I could also imagine it was used by craftsmen back in time when it was not common to wear a watch just to let anyone know that it is time for the meal. Like one loud shout on the building lot and everyone knew what time it is - time for food :-) But from now I know "Mahlzeit" either for greeting purposes between 11am and 2pm (roughly) or as replacement for "Guten Appetit" or "an guadn" which is bavarian but since we all need to hate Bavarians, just forget the last one :-D

[@kyihsin2917]

@@felmerobert0916 I mean, I've heard people say it just because it's early afternoon and they have no idea whether the other person has already eaten or is about to eat or is going to skip lunch or anything. "Das kleine Arschloch" says it all times of day!

[@norbertderiro9458]

@@kyihsin2917 ...same hier in northrhine westphalia

[@blackskull_hd6383]

You actually say ,,Mahlzeit" when you see that someone that you know, like a good friend or something, is eating for lunch, dinner, whatsoever. For example you spontaneously visit a good friend of yours and he or she is eating, then you say ,,Mahlzeit" because saying that is polite and friendly. You're welcome :)

[@ZZMJo]

You may say it even if they are not eating but you know that they're going to eat or go to a restaurant or picking up something to eat or ordering pizza.

[@BlueSkyEntertaiment]

As a german i find that so weird. I have never heard the greeting and when I worked the first days after school i wonderd what this is

[@ZZMJo]

Actually I never heard it outside. Only in the office/company.

[@sugonmad2402]

As far as I know, people also use it, when somebody is doing something disgusting. Like burping e.g..

[@blackskull_hd6383]

@@sugonmad2402 yeah that's also true

[@smudolinithegreatdragobear2433]

GEZ is the fee each household is forced to pay for publicly owned TV and radio (ARD, ZdF, Deutschlandradio). They in turn are not allowed to run adds after the evening news (20:15)

[@nik-roshansirak3398]

15:10 Dinner for one is thought to be an english or british production, as it is in that language, but it actually was produced by north germanys public broadcast "NDR" (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) in 1961. I don't know why it became so popular and I don't know if it gets broadcasted all over germany on new years eve, or just in the northern states (of cause you can watch NDR in south germany, if you wish), but it's definetly a thing for people, who consider themselves as being from the north...

[@bibsesonnet8890]

Juhu, a new video. I found another way to avoid my chores 🥳 I hope Mojo Jim is proud of me 😆 Thanks Nick for the great timing! Priorities are important! Tschüüüüüüüüüüß

[@mojojim6458]

Sigh.

[@grandmak.]

same here. Tschühüß !

[@lpcaiser]

Not one of your most original videos, but I guess it'll do for this week. Liebe Grüße

[@grandmak.]

nice.

[@heysemberthkingdom-brunel5041]

Well, let's just say Robert Falcon Scott would not have died at the Pole if he had had a German do the planning for him...

[@emjayay]

New Berlin airport: Hold mein bier.

[@sunnydaysworth]

@@emjayay Yeay, we definitely cannot airport!😅 It's not our "beer". :))

[@heysemberthkingdom-brunel5041]

@@sunnydaysworth Fun fact: The same guy, Meinhard von Gerkan was somehow involved in TXL, BER and Berlin Hbf...

[@rflrkn]

The GEZ (it's now called Rundfunkbeitrag) is an obligatory fee of ~18 Euros/Month (per household) that finances our public broadcasting stations (TV, radio stations and online news sites). Our public broadcasting stations are quite good and many people really like them - the GEZ itself is quite controversial tho. The GEMA is a so called "Rechteverwertungsgesellschaft" that makes sure that Musicians/Artists get paid their royalties when their music is played somewhere. If you wanna play music at an event or if you want to use music in a video or so, you have to pay a fee to the GEMA. They then redirect a share of that fee to the artist. KZbin didn't wanna pay GEMA fees for quite some time, since they found the fees way to high - which has caused that many videos with music in them could not be viewed in Germany for a long time. A few years ago GEMA and KZbin agreed tho.

[@doctoralzheimersacademiama]

Quite accurate description of my countrymen! Well done!

[@BloodangelsNightcore]

the fact there are 50 steps to being german is the most german thing ever :D

[@Westpark16]

American here.that is hilarious.

[@mgeyer1370]

if everyone decides for themselves whether a rule is right or wrong and behaves like this, rules no longer make sense at all.

[@raistormrs]

it's Anarchy i say ... Anarchy ....

[@mojojim6458]

@@raistormrs Or the US

[@dutchman7623]

@@mojojim6458 Uncoordinated Subversion?

[@raistormrs]

@@mojojim6458 close enough ... i mean look at them ... another mass shooting today, they are having those like every day now or something ... Checked the numbers ... as of today, 242 mass shootings fit the Mass Shooting Tracker project criterion, leaving 276 people dead and 979 injured, for a total of 1264 victims ...

[@禎子佐々木]

There are many ways to use the Word "Mahlzeit" does say, its time for the main meal of the day .. but also when there are many situations , it is used very rare, maybe often but with the right people and ritual only 1. Its an old fashion expression , so younger people do not much use it 2. Regional it is more often used or not, sometimes not at all and they might reacted disturbed by the expression, mostly not in modern cities more countryside, small towns 3. It can be used from about 12:00 to 15:00 h 4. Mostly to people you have connection to and there is connection to the Mahlzeit with them, + like you ones shared food with them + you know they living the way of having the main meal about the time around 12:00 to 15:00 h + you sometimes smell their cooking + you know they on their way for the main meal of the day or just returned from having it, or having it right at the moment + very often used to give someone the understand or reminder - you did work very hard, you did deserve yourself a good meal, or its time to go home our wifes did cook and are waiting do not let the meal get cold, so also often used on work specially hard physdical work, or where you eat together , it can have there many meanings like lets eat together , or I do not wanna desturb you while eating, or we did deserve to eat now we did worked hard, or you are working so hard its time for a break and eat something befor meal time, but also to say like I am on my way for the main meal do not stop me or it might get cold and does not taste good anymore There is always a connection to the person or the meal time, sometimes not to see and the other person might not get it too + you can say it also to strangers but with a connection to the main meal time, like you did hike or trekking or tourists something and you looking are some kind of exhaust, you might get a Mahlzeit, says its to time for you to eat something, or a group people eating right at the moment about the meal time you say Mahlzeit like you deserve the food I will not disturb. + Sometimes its also an Invitation to eat togehter , but followed by gestures you should sit here or something like this, or get reached an empty plate to take food + There are moments where you do not used it of course it can be weird in some points like someone is looking try to loose weight and runing down the streets you do not say Mahlzeit, or someone is looking like nauseous you do not say it, or you know someone in Duty like a policeman, Doctor , .... can not have the meal at the right time you do not say it, ..... every situation that might cause a weird meaning of it , BUT it might be also used ironical ... like Ironical Use 1. Someone is try to eat something very disgusting to you , you say Mahlzeit but it is different in tone, mostly with adds like: Na, dann Mahlzeit or Prost - Mahlzeit 2. You did caught someone doing something criminal, off , or wrong you say the same ironical Na dann, Prost Mahlzeit , it does say something like you will have to swollow what you get back for your wrong doing, its a kind of head shaking in words, like I can believe what you have done and krama will teach you , or think about it twice bevor you do such bad things, now its too late and done so you or others have to eat / take whats coming in consequences The expression comes from times where housewifes did cook for hard working men, fresh and hot and they did wait for their husband to come by for eating in the time where the meal is still hot, fresh and tasty, sometimes that is or was a very stricked rule to get the main meal very fresh and hot and some people it did turn out in a real drama, when the meal was not hot and fresh anymore and they had to heat it up again, there are some german old fashion dishes, where it does really taste bad when heating it up again, because the veggies might create too much bitter substances, or the souce will get over cooked by heating it up again. So everyone working did hear the expression Mahlzeit was reminded its time to hurry up and get the main meal of the day fresh and hot or you might have a hard , hungry and bad day and do not let your wife or the cook down , she cooked hours for your main meal of the day and is waiting for you so you can eat together, sometimes even the whole family was eating together when one was missing the exact time was usual for the main meal , no one did start to eat and was waiting, to be late here was not acceptable at all and ending in drama, very often when someone did not shown off there was called the police because it was off and expected something bad must happen to this person not showing off the right moment. Mostly the family was already early in time and helping to prepare the table and the last moves to get the food as fresh and hot as possible. There was then the time of christian days where you do not say Mahlzeit at all, because it was like some kind of keep fasting, but this is very very old fashion and long gone, it did turn completely the other way where these are the days you get the most expensive and a lot food like Christian eve and so on ... You know this in the USA , you got something like the meal bell, where the wife did ring the bell on the house to say the meal is fresh and ready hungry coming in now take cover. When you use the word Mahlzeit in Germany like that bell you doing it the right way also some might not understand living too modern. So this might explain also when to use it, even when you see a stranger and hurry up home at main meal time you say Mahlzeit and he will understand this, but in a modern world some might not and thinking like I whish for, I still have to work 6 hours or something like, we do not live this tradition of family meal at 12:00 anymore, or we are living 2023 you can heat up food and it will still taste great so get along with it or my wife does work too, there is noone cooking here for us right now.

[@R3cktiBoi]

finally after 18 years living in germany, i know how to be german

[@user-fs2bk1ru3e]

I love your videos Nick!! Thank you for all your hard work 😓👏🏼🥰🤩

[@philippblank]

drone insurance is pretty cheap btw, the online test is free too, takes day, might be worth getting done!

[@BatchelderPatrick]

There's nothing like trying to walk over uneven cobblestones in a very thick Northern Bavarian fog and seeing this apparition in black - a large woman of indeterminate age with hair braids (Likely with a name like Frau Kaltenbrunner) coming out of the fog almost a foot away. She says in a guttural voice "grüß gott" and moves on like the Lost Dutchman disappearing into the fog - pure Bavarian.

[@grandmak.]

you gave me the creeps with that. Liebe Grüße

[@grandmak.]

@netwitch56 really ? Very poetic in a dark way, lol.

[@seldakaya0414]

My first reaction to those lists and books is always „Ugh, again some stereotype BS that is just dumb and doesn‘t reflect the reality“, then I always have to admit how appropriate that shit is. And this, dear Nalf, is also a typical German thing to do. Although I‘m a migrants‘ child they made a pretty decent job in assimilating me. I‘m a real German. I call us „defizitorientiert“.

[@sunnydaysworth]

🤣 Hehehe, defizitorientiert...perfekter Neologismus!! 😋

[@3.k]

@@sunnydaysworth „Deutsch Stunde” mit Leerzeichen ist aber auch schon eine Art Paradoxon. ^^

[@sunnydaysworth]

@@3.k 😅 Kunscht!! "Konkrete Poesie". Früher war's der Gedankenstrich, heute ist es die Denkpause alias Lücke. Aber selber erstmal Alliterationspower im eigenen Namen!! KKK? Will man das? Hmmmm...

[@3.k]

@@sunnydaysworth Ein Schelm, wer Böses dabei denkt. ;)

[@sealgrey.911]

Saying "Mahlzeit" started as "Gesegnete Mahlzeit" which literally would be a "blessed meal" to wish you a good appetite. It was used then around the lunch break wishing you a blessed meal when you leave work for the lunch break. Then it slightly drifted into a joke that every time is a lunch time, so we jokingly use it all day long. In addition to that "Na Mahlzeit!" is an expression of astonishment meaning "Gosh! That sucks!". We mix up all these meanings with a twnkle. This mixture of original meanings perhaps lightens up the excessive use of "Mahlzeit". We are not so serious about it. So Germans got no humour, eh?

[@franklang.5202]

Natürlich muss man Mahlzeit ernst nehmen!

[@sealgrey.911]

@@franklang.5202 🤣 Na, Mahlzeit!

[@someonesping8293]

6:25 mahlzeit is a mixure of the words mahl= ein mahl= a meal and zeit= time U use it normally if u go eating in the evening like in a canteen and its just like = "guten appetit" its like: have a nice meal Also u use Klugschei*en when someone is correcting you in the middle or at the end of your story. Than he is a klugschei*er I hope it helped and just because u said it LG Ping

[@lemsip207]

On the Brussels Metro I was surprised to find no ticket barriers so you could easily get on without a ticket but there are random checks. I think you can even get on trams without a ticket if it's crowded on the tram.