AMERICANS REACT TO 16 Things NOT to Do in GERMANY!

AMERICANS REACT TO 16 Things NOT to Do in GERMANY!

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[OttyHotty]

Advanced birthday wishes are considered bad luck. The thinking behind it is that you are taking it for granted that you'll make it until then and challenging the universe to prove you otherwise.

[robertzander]

If you like to plan a house party, inform you neighbors early enough and leave a note at the entrance a few days before and if it's not happening every week, it would be fine.
The national anthem is only the third verse anymore, usually the German anthem was longer with three verses, but the first and second are not really allowed. Nobody plays them.
If you go to the nude beaches, you can enter and leave them with your clothes, but if you find your place you have to be naked at the beach and in the water. These beaches are very clean, be careful with your garbage.

[jorgbecker]

The reason behind the 'no free water' thing is that meals are very cheap in German restaurants. They make their money mostly by selling drinks. So if you buy a cheap meal and ask for free water in addition it is understandable that they won't be too happy about that...

[niconico]

Quiet hours are the same in Switzerland, and trust me it's the best law for your "sleepingness"
Though, there is tolerance for special days, like national day, Christmas etc..

[Tyskerbarn]

First of all, you're the cutest reaction vidoe couple I've ever seen! <3

In Busses in Germany, you cal buy the ticket right from the driver if you'll drive one destination by bus. There are such things as Job Tickets, monthly or students tickets.

[spring_in_paris]

On the quiet time. If we have a Party, we usually leave a note on the house door (condominiums houses as most us life) 2-3 days ahead that will get a little loud. It does not automatically mean, you inviting your neighbours to the party. Welll, itdepends on the occasion. With love from Germany 🤘 😎

[MARCO_BMR]

About the quiet hours: You can party and Listen loud music, but after 10pm you have to turn down the music so that it is only been heard in your own room. Its about to take care of your neighbours which have to sleep because they stand up early for work. Its just a respect Thing. If you want to Party a little bit longer then 10pm you can ask your neighbours if its ok for them

[GeoLuchse]

Fun fact, Aldi is German, that's why Aldi has the euro for the cart.

[JimbalayaJones]

Of course you can have parties. In houses with several apartments you put up a notice or tell the neighbors that a birthday etc. is being celebrated.
You can do the same with your neighbors in settlements too. Then everyone knows and usually nobody complains.
Greetings from 🇩🇪

[mondexponent]

In Germany we say : if the police didn’t show up at least once at your party it wasn’t a good one 😂

[LaLaura]

I remember calling all of my neighbors when I turned 18 years and planned a big house party so they knew it could be noisy. They were fine with it =) And YES, take your dirty shoes off!

[StaceyPetersdbspouse]

All of these are absolutely true, Quiet hours don't apply on the weekends, but if you inform your neighbors in advance of a party you don't have any problems. Although our neighbors frowned upon Sunday yard work or washing the car. And yes I was scolded when I wore my bathing suit under my towel in the sauna the first time I went.

[narchia]

4:00 you just buy your ticket on a ticket machine and they might check it on the train however they usually don't check you when you're on a subway or a local coach

[ralfeicher]

jaywalk: waiting does not necessarily result from willing compliance with rules; as soon as younger children are at crossings, adults should set an example of proper behavior; young children in Germany often walk alone and are therefore at higher risk in traffic; then all adults must show responsibility

[Redmag]

They missed the quit day Sunday ... and the National Holiday Days ... while it is also quit in germany.

[rika_sophie]

A friend of mine always brings his nighbours some Candy before he has a housparty and tells them if they have any music wishes they should text him. So he playes their music between the party music and they don't call the police😂

[dennishaker]

Actually jaywalking can have some serious consequences in Germany for certain kind of people. If you jaywalk at red light for example (even in the middle of the night when noone is there), and you get caught by the police you can receive a "point" in the Traffic Register of Flensburg (thats the central traffic register of germany). Having multiple points can result in a dismiss of your driver licens. And what is even more serious, if you are someone who just got his driver license you are on a 2 year - driveprobation, meaning if you get ANY of those points in that time, you will have to make a crashcurse in savety which can costs you >500€. So in total, if your a young person, who just got his licence and you get caught jaywalking by the police it can get expensive for you xD

[anastasiauhlhorn]

If you want to learn more about differences between the US and Germany I recommend “German girl in America”, that’s Felicias YouTube channel and she is from Germany living in the States.

Like your enthusiastic reactions to my home country, greetings from Germany

[Mike]

You Are totally allowed to sing „Deutschland Deutschland über alles“! There’s even a recorded version by Heino of it . It’s just that it isn’t used any more and the current anthem is only the 3rd verse of the „Deutschlandlied“!

The Nazi anthem actually consisted of 2 songs : the first verse of the Deutschlandlied followed by the Horst Wessel song ( „Die Fahne hoch ….“). This is the one which you are NOT allowed to sing in public .

[glennjanot]

1) Recycling. I actually work in a hypermarket and my position is behind those machines you put the bottles into. I'm the one who has to take the reusable bottles (Mehrweg) and put them into the various cases and change the bags where the shredded unreusable bottles (Einweg) go into.
2) That rule is called "Rechtsfahrgebot" (keeping to the right side of the road). The reason is that on a lot of Germany's Autobahn, there's no speed limit. And even if you drive as fast as physics allow, there's always someone faster than you.
3) Yeah, as a cyclist, I hate it when people walk in the bicycle lane. Especially when the entire sidewalk is 12 feet wide and three people walk so spaced apart that they take up all of it.
5) When you get on a bus, you can buy your ticket from the busdriver and since you have to get in through the forward door, you can't really sneak past the driver. On a train, you need to buy it before boarding itm from what I know, you can't buy a ticket from the attendant anymore (so he or she doesn't have to carry a lot of money). Sometimes you get lucky and nobody checks on you when you ride a train for one stop but it's rarely worth the risk.
6) Tourists have been arrested (and there were quite a few Americans among them) for doing the Nazi salute. Also, the current anthem of Germany is actually the third verse of the "Lied der Deutschen" (song of Germans). The Nazis used the first verse.
8) The quiet hours are from 10 pm to 6 am in most places. Apartment buildings have rules set by the landlord (company) and they can include a noon to 2 or 3 pm quiet hours for "Mittagsruhe" (siesta). Which means, as they said, no construction work and so on. However, that doesn't prevent the noise of traffic or construction outside the building. As other commenters have said, if you want to have a party, for a birthday for example, you can notify your neighbors before so they don't call the cops on you but if you have a party every night, they won't accept that.
13) That depends on the person. I have wished people happy birthdays before it was if I wouldn't see them.
14) That depends on the sauna operator. Some allow clothing (like a bikini suit), but most I know don't allow it. However, nobody forces you to take off your towel, so you can sit in a sauna wrapped in your towel and nobody says anything. And the FKK beaches really do expect people who go there to be naked. However, at the lake in my town, of the dozen or so beaches it has, only one of those beaches has a partitioned area as a nudist beach. That beach is surrounded by hedges with only two openings serving as gates. That's done to avoid people leering at the naked people.
15) As I mentioned in number 1, I work in such a place. And I had to bring abandoned carts back because people simply left them where their cars were and that blocked other cars from leaving.
16) I have crossed the street away from crosswalks or traffic lights multiple times and never gotten into trouble even if police was close by. It really depends on the city/town you're in and how much traffic is on the street you're crossing. If your jaywaking disturbs traffic, then you get into trouble but if you cross the street in a way that doesn't force any driver to slow down or swerve, the police generally turns a blind eye.