25 Things You Didn't Know About Germany (BRITISH REACTION)

25 Things You Didn't Know About Germany (BRITISH REACTION)

This is my reaction to 25 Things You Didn't Know About Germany

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[rwsrwsrwt]

While prisoners can't get punished for an (attempted) jailbreak on its own, they still can (and will) be sentenced for other crimes associated with it such as violence or damage to property. Unless the doors are open and they can just walk out a jailbreak will usually involve some kind of indictable offense. And if someone has help from the outside, the "outside" party can be sentenced for "freeing of prisoners" which is a criminal offense, so you're on your own if you want to find a way to escape without breaking the law. Even if there is no "official" punishment, an attempted escape will probably still affect the privileges being granted to the prisoner, including the chances of being transferred to an open prison or an early release.

[pami]

Regarding TV:

Paul Julius Gottlieb Nipkow invented the Nipkow disk in 1883 and patented it in 1884, later used for the early TVs, therefor is seen as the father of television. He was German.
Ferdinand Braun and Jonathan Zenneck developed the cathode ray tube in 1897, a concept used up until this century in TVs. Both Germans.
Max Dieckmann did show 20 images using such a crt in 1906. German.
Boris Rosing was the first to send pictures using this technologie in 1907. He was a Russian.
Wladimir Kosmitsch Sworykins developed the first television camera tube in 1923, which was first built by Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1926. Russian and US-American respectively.

John Logie Baird came late to the party, he developed further the Nipkow disk to make it more efficient and was the first to send an actual program in 1926. But that doesn't mean he invented the TV. Many people from different countries worked on this, especially Russians and Germans, with Germany being the place where all started (over 40 years before Baird's breakthrough). He played a big role in what later became a mass medium, though.

[hape]

Now we have a scarcity of teachers and big classes. Our population is at 84 Million, the highest ever.

[LeyCarnifex]

I laughed when you said "That's normal" regarding the average age at which ppl give birth to their first child, bc the last youtuber I watched react to this video was completely baffled by that number and went "but that's so old?!?!"
"Normal" is so very relative and I think that's kinda amazing

[alexanderpracher]

For jailbreak you don´t get punished, but when You destroy something or hurt somebody, that can be punished.

[MegaJJ]

I so much admire your Scottish accent and your general curiosity. Keep up running your channel. I'm learning every day about Scotsmen and my own country. Keep on keeping in. Best greets from Cologne to Malaysia. 👊

[alexanderpracher]

The whole English Royal Family had German Ancestors.

[DSP]

Paris is the city in the middle of the Paris metropolitan area (A lot of administrative independent Cities that are geographically one hugh city) therefore Paris itself is small.
Berlin included in the past a lot of smaller cities as Districts so the metropolitan area is more or less the same as the City and therefore Berlin is "Bigger".

[MrGlamour]

Because of that "they were all cousins" thing;-)
King Edward VII's sister, Princess Royal Victoria, married the Prussian Crown Prince and later Emperor Frederick III, whose son, Wilhelm, later became Emperor Wilhelm II/German Emperor and King of Prussia.
King Edward's wife, Alexandra, born Princess of Denmark, was a sister-in-law of the Russian Tsar Alexander III, whose wife was Alexandra's sister Dagmar (or Maria Feodorovna in Russia). Their son Nicholas was the later Tsar Nicholas II, so all three, George, William and Nicholas were cousins :-) But it did NOT stop George and Nicholas from later waging war against Wilhelm ;-)

[benbobomb]

The blocks on YouTube are not a thing anymore. There were restrictions because of a dispute between YT and GEMA, the performance rights organisation in Germany but it has been resolved for a few years now. You had to use a VPN back then because of geoblocking, it sucked.

[incrediblyStupid]

Number 9 is a bit iffy as a fact. The thing is that from...2007 or so to 2014, we did in fact have tuition fees. But this whole experiment was such a disaster and met so much resistance that many universities dropped them again more or less quickly, the last ones in 2014. Among many other scandals it came to light that, while introduced because people were worried about the financial stability of universities, those additional funds were often either wasted or invested to make more money. Many students also really struggled with tuition fees because this was a very sudden thing and our whole way of life is not really set up for something like that.

[zaydalaoui]

Technically, Paris refers to just the historic 20 neighbourhoods so it’s very small. But the whole metropole centered around Paris is actually huge and probably the biggest un Europe. So the comparison is not very good.

[Doom]

Tuition was introduced about 10 years earlier and was just 500€ per semester

[noway]

To point 9: This point actually goes hand in hand with the declining birth rate and population. They found that out of all the international students that come to germany to study a certain percentage will actually decide to stay (either because they found a job or because they... started a family) and it only takes a few of them to make up the tuition costs via future taxes. In short attracting young highly educated, potentially high earning people to your country pays off so make it as easy as possible for them.

[mengo]

I really like you! Greatings from Bremen!

[AGermanFencer]

The Hugo Boss thing is an urban legend. Uniforms were made in licence in their factories. But not designed by Hugo Boss.

[dontshanonau]

Paris itself has set borders which it can never grow beyond. Although the metropolitan area continues uninterrupted and although you may not even notice crossing the border, what you would consider Paris seen from above is past a certain point considered a different département, with different laws (for instance, the construction of tall buildings is severely restricted in Paris, but almost unrestricted in its adjacent communities, which is why Parisbis surrounded by a few skyscraper clusters. It's similar to the German Ruhrgebiet, where the only thing that divides some cities is just a line on a map due to the massive population.

[bearenkindercool]

no.2: the total area of berlin is 891 square km, paris 105 square km - so roundabout 9 times. bigger doesn't mean more population since GPA has about 12, 5 mio, the city 2, 1 mio, berlin has "only" 3, 7 mio people living in the city.

[reinerjung]

Usually the amount of foreign students is limited. It is also beneficial for the country to have international students. Sometimes they stay after they have been educated or they move to their respective country and keep links with the other students and universities. This is good for trade.

[Matahalii]

Complicated inventions like TV are always matter to discussion. Often it was a row of inventions, like someone making a cathode-ray tube, the other making the camera and someone find out to send and recieve the signal... and then the whole system must be put together.