Canadian Reacts to 5 Things Germans Do That Americans Find WEIRD

Here is my reaction and commentary to 5 Things Germans Do That Americans Find WEIRD! | Feli from Germany

[ChiVa_Yas]

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

[Roberternst]

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

[Nikioko]

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

[Perseus]

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

[ChristianBeckerKapraun]

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

[DMSG]

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

[mauertal]

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

[manub.]

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

[tcp]

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

[SiqueScarface]

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

[Roberternst]

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

[Winona]

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

[Primz]

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

[stefanstock]

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

[arnodobler]

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

[danielklein]

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

[montanus]

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

[nicklenz]

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

[KrisThroughGlass]

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

[ulvsbane]

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