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Comment Eher banal, aber ist mir heute eingefallen: That the ovens are too small to cook even a tiny turkey and pan of stuffing at the same time But I am sure they are more energy efficient, so no need to get up on those soapboxes Comment Just a few unexpected discoveries upon coming to Germany 17 years ago: That it takes 1 married couple to parallel park, the wife usually gets out of the car and directs the husband with hand signals into a space I could have parked a bus in.

Unabashed open drinking on the street, buses, etc. No paper bags here. That even students thought about life and accident insurance. That a 2-Zimmer Wohnung didn't count the kiitchen and bath. Bicycles as valid transportation alternative!! Train travel as a valid means of transportation!! Which brings me to the "green" way of life!!

That high school friends stayed friends forever which led to weekend trips on train every other weekend to other parts of the country. That men were trained to sit to pee and that I'm finding in ever increasing numbers women are standing to pee phenomenon discovered in many of the cafes and restaurants in Berlin to my complete dismay and anger after getting up and having a wet bum!! Can somebody explain this to me?

No, it is definitely not toilet brush drips. The phenomenon of the green Hinterhof. Grade school starting at 8 am!

Grade school stopping at 1 pm! If you come from a family with silver cutlery, you wouldn't behead your egg as the silver knife would turn black on contact with the egg-white. Instead, you would use a mother-of-pearl egg-spoon. This habit remains even if the silver cutlery has long been sold off to pay for inheritance tax and gambling debts and the like What do you find odd about that if I may ask?

We just have a lot less of nature around to clutter up with malls and parking lots though some of us are trying real hard anyway. Actually, there are a lot of fights about the costs of public transport. You can get around Berlin one-way for 2,60 or something like that, the anual ticket is coming up to Euro, and prices are going up.

More people using the public transport system makes for less pollution, less wear and tear on the streat, less traffic jams - one of the main reasons why so many people use the subway, its FASTER. A local newspaper ran a story on public transport in the Bay area and they really couldn't belive what was happening to them: The view offered much more information than using a car would, though ;-.

Comment I am a beheader so must be a bit of a chav: My husband's family all take the egg out of the cup, bang it on the table until it is thoroughly cracked, then peel off the shell and put it in the egg cup! Comment Electric Barbarella I don't know where syl is from, but in the suburban purgatory where I grew up, almost all houses had a central cooling and heating unit which took air from outside and cooled or heated it accordingly before venting it into the house.

In one particular neighborhood, I cannot remember ever seeing an open window. Comment tanja, I dare to amend your posting in one point: The blade was from steel even with silver cutlery. The point not to behead the egg or cut potatoes, for that matter with the knife is that the steel got stained, since it wasn't stainless nomen est omen ;- at that times. We still have our silver cutlery, now equipped with stainless steel blades, and still don't do potatoe-cutting nor egg-beheading: Or proceed to eat the shell-less egg with a spoon?

How do you do that with a soft-boiled egg without making a huge mess? It must have been a very very long time in the past that his family had access to silver cutlery, I'm sure. I remember that now from a flat I used to live in this was in Wilts. Makes more sense now. Comment tanja No, they do use a spoon: It works fins, even with a soft-boiled egg, but I'm not so keen on picking up a hot egg and then painstakingly putting the shell into the little egg-cup, only to have to get it out again just as painstakingly to put it in the bin.

This reminds me of the fun I have with my MIL peeling freshly-boiled potatoes. Comment CJ With "green" way of life I was referring to the refreshing everyday environmental awareness that the average American is hardput to practice. I've never had to air a room in my life until I came here. And I've got to like sleeping in a cooled room now. When I visit relatives and have to sleep in their overheated rooms But airing the kitchen because of the smell of cooking?

That's never bothered me. In fact my neighbor downstairs brought my attention to the fact that our Russian neighbors fry fish every Friday with an expression of disgust on his face. Never dawned on me that the odor of cooking offends Even if it's getting more expensive, it's way cheaper than the upkeep of an automobile. What public transport in the Bay Area? All I remember is waiting for late buses, non existant intercity trains and regular BART breakdowns, and in an earthquake zone no less.

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Gimme a Berlin bus with a cantankerous driver anyday. Comment Ich als Deutsche finde diesen Faden unheimlich spannend! Mir ist es dann in den USA anfangs immer schwergefallen, mich zu erinnern, erstmal meinen Namen zu sagen. Comment Weil weiter oben von Eiern die Rede war. Dadurch wird die Gefahr von Schimmelbildung verkleinert. Besonders im Schlafzimmer, wo man ja doch einige Stunden verbringt und wo man dazu hin weniger heizt, ist dies angezeigt. No other connection to chavs whatsoever, honest, guv. Comment Ich finde diesen Faden auch sehr erhellend und erheiternd.

Ein wichtiger Aspekt ist, glaube ich, noch nicht zur Sprache gekommen: Comment I too come from a long line of enthusiastic egg-beheaders. Will check the family tree for any rogue Irish But I have never seen a German eat an egg by peeling the whole thing, sorry. No mercy to eggs and off with their heads is also the reigning theory around here. Comment If we're still on the egg-eating topic here: My German father used to be an egg-beheader, but my English mother taught us to whack the top of the eggg with the spoon so that the shell cracks, then peel just enough of the eggshell off so that you can get at it easily with a spoon or dip your Marmite soldiers in, and that is what I still do today.

I tried a beheadal once or twice, but it always felt wrong. Incidentally, German guides on table manners not as oxymoronic as you might think have only decided in recent years that beheading eggs is ok, together with using a knife for potatoes. If the eggcup is of the kind that surrounds the part in which the egg rests with a sort of non-removable saucer, then that is where the eggshell I peel off to get at the egg goes. Otherwise I pick up the egg and pop the bits of shell in the eggcup so that the egg sits on it with the unpeeled part.

In hotels and restaurants you will often get a "Tischabfalleimer" that might just be another German oddity, I can't recall seeing them anywhere else , so that is another place you can put your eggshell. And if you don't have one of those and don't want to pick up the hot egg you just put the eggshell on the plate. Talking of which, I know a lot of Germans eat their breakfast bread or roll and butter from wooden boards instead of plates.

Is that done anywhere else? Oder habt ihr das eh so gemeint? Wie macht ihr Bananen auf? Am Stiel oder auf der anderen Seite? Comment Tapping the shell with a spoon was another method accepted in my house, just not banging on the table - which is quite loud, and drew the attention of my whole family when my husband did it in England!

CM2DD, this is sooo funny. I can just picture the scene "another cup of tea, Muriel? Comment tanja1 Thanks for making my day, hehehehe. Comment On the egg-eating topic, just for the sake of completeness: I eat the white remaining in the beheaded bit first before starting in with my spoon to eat the rest. My wife spoons both parts of the beheaded egg into a cup,beats it up with the spoon adding salt,pepper and butter to taste. If the egg has been too softly boiled little pieces of diced toast may be added.

Warum sollte der denn sonst da sein? Hartgekochte Eier werden bei uns legitim auf dem Tisch aufgeschlagen. Irgendwann hat mein Bruder nicht aufgepasst und es mit einem weichgekochten Ei versucht Wir sind ja nicht kronloyal: Und lasst euch dieses Wort mal auf der Zunge zergehen: Comment So, jetzt habe ich den ganzen Faden gelesen Die gegesneitige Vorstelleriei, wenn man jemanden trifft und das obligatorische 'Nice to meet you' am Ende eines Gespraechs, warum gibt es keine 'Garbage disposal' in Deutschland?

Ja warum wohl hat die Natur an der Banane einen Griff angebracht? Comment "Most doors in German offices are closed. Hast du traumatische Erfahrungen mit Bananen? Comment Lol, hab mich grade durch den Faden gelesen, sehr amuesant. Zum Thema Muelltrennung muss ich auch was loswerden. Gehoert zwar eher in die Kategorie "Was Deutsche im nicht US Ausland wundert", aber finde es soooo erwaehnenswert das ich es Trotzdem hier platziere.

Am Anfang kommt man sich ein bischen Daemlich vor, wenn mann das Label und den Deckel von Pet-Flaschen entfernt um die Bestandteile getrennt zu entsorgen. Comment Here is another thing that sounds odd to my American ears: Eine Familie mit 2 Kindern ist kinderreich!

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Comment Sue, sounds odd to my German ears too! Comment To my Austrian ears as well Comment New apartments rented without sinks or light fixtures Rules of games not being explained fully analogously to teaching bridge without explaining trumps and then simply saying, 'Tough luck' when using the unmentioned rule to the new-comer's disadvantage. The rationale is that 'Mir ist auch so gegangen, als ich X zuerst gelernt habe.

Comment AM mit den spitzen Klammern - Good point about the lower crime rate here and the increased feeling of safety, even late at night. I would also feel safe at night in a small US town and I wasn't sure how it would be in large cities here in DE. Thank goodness I don't eat eggs and therefore don't have to worry about how to properly open them, but some of the comments about that were quite humorous. What immediately came to mind is nose-blowing. Here's an excerpt of something I previously wrote on the subject: There are little things I notice like that here, like the way Germans blow their nose.

There definitely seems to be a different etiquette regarding that, although nose-blowing etiquette is not something you were ever really conscious of until you notice a difference. The generally accepted and expected technique here seems to be to try to make as much noise as possible while doing it. If you're not honking then you're not doing it right!

Women, men, kids, everyone! It's a little shocking. I guess nobody read that article! I think in the US people are much more discreet about it. If someone were in the middle of saying something it would definitely be impolite to drown them out with some loud noise-blowing! And while eating, I think I recall most people, if they really needed to do some serious blowing, would excuse themselves from the table to do that, and if it was just a quick "clean-up" then to turn away from the table and really try to do it as quietly as possible.

Here the rule seems to be no-holds-barred nose-blowing, anytime, anywhere. Comment hermarphromoose Wir sind aber schon auf einem guten Weg. Comment ah ne ich spar mir mein "hier ist das so kommentar" vielleicht mach ich ja demnaechst einfach mal en faden "lusitge sachen ueber japan auf".

Comment The nose blowing phenomenon brings another shocker to mind: At the side of the road, into the bushes along the street or in the park, behind buildings, what is going on here? Is the average size of the German male bladder smaller than that of US males? Or is there a beer connection here I have not sussed out yet? It has improved in recent years, but yuck, yuck and lots more of it. I'll take a loud, honking nose-blower and throat-clearer over that any day. Zu Karneval ein echte Gelddruckmaschine.

Comment Here is one thing that sounds odd to me. My German clients are always on travel or any activities. Even they send me the post card to share the same feeling with them. They enjoy well,also work well. Why do they have so much efficiency in job? So it doesn't seem it's only Germans who do that. Comment One thing that takes getting used to in Germany is: At my parents-in-law's house the bedrooms are so cold that they put baked goods on top of the "Shrank" in the bedroom so these will keep until needed!

On the topic of peeing in public: I have to say that Americans are a little uptight about that. Last year I did some driving with my nieces age 6 and 9 and in the middle of the country - and I am talking about cornfield here - and suddenly they desperately had to go. So I said, okay, go over there in the bushes or in the cornfield. The next gas station was about 30 miles away.

I took them into the bushes and explained how even girls can relieve themselves outdoors, if necessary. But they just couldn't bring it upon themselves to do it! The older one held it back, the younger one then wet her pants. And I got into huge trouble with their mother, my sister, for not racing to the next farmhouse and asking if we could use the bathroom.

There wasn't one anyway, but that is beside the point. The other thing is that when my boys were young, my family was petrified that I sent them pictures of my kids in which they had no pants on. Playing in the little pool, for example. My mother actually threw those photographs away! Comment Yes, tanja, I imagine not.

Have equippment, will use it. But this is distinctly NOT a US phenomenon, where it is also not common to see mothers holding their unrinating children in the air along the side of the road. Perhaps the only positive byproduct of our reknown prudery. Comment By "side of the road," Sue, I do not mean a country road, but rather one in the city. Like right in front of my door. Comment Im "nordic peeing" sind die Japaner wohl absoluter champion.

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Comment What will the English do when the European Building passport comes? It will show they are losing energy by the megawatts with their not-windproof windows ;- I might be deluded bys not having been there for some years, but aren't a lot of English and Irish homes still without central heating but are using ovens and fireplaces instead?

Sure, they can be finded, but obviously they never are. And all the German guys I know have never heard of it either. Comment Ach ja, die Bananen hatteich vergessen. Wenns um Kompost geht: Comment Das Strassenpieseln ist meiner Erfahrung nach selten. Ob das aber eine teutonische Besonderheit ist? Comment JMcGI - I am, of course, a hard-core samurai knife beheader - all this banging around is inhumane - a quick no-nonsense blow, short suffering time, humane treatment, eh?

CJ, wenn sie sich zur Wand drehen ist es doch in Ordnung, wer nichts sehen will,s ieht auch nichts. Ich mache das genauso, wie von CM2DD beschrieben. Comment Sue now those two innocent American girls probably think that over in Germany everyone pees in the bushes. Comment Kinder wohinpieseln zu lassen, finde ich nicht schlimm. Comment Here's one I don't think has been mentioned: I was shocked the first time I saw someone smoking in a shopping mall.

Who wants to buy new clothes and have them smell like someone else's stale smoke? Thankfully, this one is on the way out I was and am surprised that smoking and non-smoking sections are so rare in Germany. I actually can't recall ever having seen this here, but I don't eat out much. It's so annoying when you pick out a table away from smokers and then as soon as your food arrives, someone comes and sits down at the next table and lights up.

Hello, goodbye, congratulations, etc. I'm sure someone cleverer than me has a funny way to tie this into the nose-blowing topic I love that every hour on the hour the radio even pop stations gives you the latest updates. And tv news reports are usually deeper and more internationally oriented than what I'm used to from the US networks. Boy did it take me a long time to get used to crazy opening hours. Even today, when I can at least use the internet to find out exactly when the Meldestelle or whatever is open.

I would have been really frustrated 20 years ago. Perhaps it was due to a shortage of mother-of-pearl in the GDR? Someone should do their thesis on this Comment Wow, grandios, dieser Faden, ich habe ihn sehr genossen. Ich hoffe, ihr findet noch viele weitere spannende Details. Comment Zu den Bananenschalen: Hier ist, was eine Gartenzeitschrift dazu sagt: Zitrusschalen neigen zur Schimmelbildung.

Aber vielleicht ist meine Familie ja auch die Ausnahme, mal sehen, ob wir weitere Meinungen bekommen. Comment "My" Germans don't completely peel their either, just the top, not sure where the "total peeling" idea came from: Shouldn't it be "shelling" or something?? Comment "Egg peeling" klingt wie eine Behandlung in einem zwielichtigen "Wellness-Salon" Comment "I'll have the egg-and-cucumber sandw-, uh, peeling, please.

Na gut, will ich dir mal glauben: Wenn ich so in meiner Erinnerung krame Jetzt hast du mich verwirrt - ich hatte das nicht so verstanden, dass CM2DDs Mann das Ei komplett "auszieht" das ganze Ei nackig machen - also du kommst vielleicht auf Ideen! Also auch nicht ostdeutsch, sondern offenbar personenspezifisch. Nun muss ich mich wohl doch einloggen. Als dann aber die Zusatzinfo kam, dass er das auch mit weichgekochten Eiern macht, habe ich mich von dieser Vorstellung verabschiedet. Anstatt das Ei auf den Tisch zu klopfen, nutze ich dazu aber meinen Kopf oder den des Tischnachbarn.

Comment Jalapeno, wie bitte!!!??? Auf den Kopf hat zwei Vorteile: Auch wenn in diesem Sprichwort eigentlich der Hinterkopf gemeint ist. Ich bevorzuge die Stirn oder die obere Kopfmitte. Aber bevor wir hier zu sehr abdriften, verschwind ich lieber freiwillig: Comment tanja1 und Peter: Comment tanja, mehr als eins auf einmal soll recht ungesund sein War wohl nicht so ganz ihr Tag.

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Comment Here's another one: That supermarkets in Germany chastise you for shopping in their stores! At the check-out they chase you through like a bandit, and you are forced to stuff everything into tiny bags by the time the cashier has even finished swiping the last item. If you don't automatically move around to the end of the conveyor belt and continue packing from behind, everyone else in line starts complaining that you're in the way. While you are hurridly stuffing your bags, you're supposed to also get your card or money out of your purse or wallet, sign a stub, and or type in your secret code all the while people behind are pushing their carts into the small of your back.

I go through this torture once a week for a family of four. Once an elderly man complained so loud and unfriendly that I gave him a Nazi-salute in return. Und nochmal zum Eipellen. Also ich bin auch Deutsch und pelle mein Ei sehr oft von oben bis unten und ess es dann. Aber meist wird je nach Situation unterschieden.

Comment Lizzy, this wonderful ethnic experience can be heightened by having two small children in tow who would rather be somewhere else as indeed would be their mother Just put your groceries etc. And btw the Nazi salute is a really serious offence and a completely inappropriate reaction no matter how loudly the man was complaining. I don't know how I would react if someone did that. Comment Lizzy Ich wollte schon immer mal wissen, aus welchem Anlass heraus man auf die Idee gebracht wird, den Nazigruss zu benutzen.

Es gibt sicherlich andere Arten zu reagieren. Auch wenn ich bei deinem posting anfangs sehr schmunzeln musste, find ich dieses Info sehr unsympathisch. Comment I am an American in Germany and I let my boy 3 years old pee whenever and wherever he wants to. My German Kindergarten teacher got upset when he tried to pee on the playground and made me drag him inside to the toilet where he refused to pee. I come from Michigan and have been peeing all my life behind bushes and think nothing of it.

If it's good enough for the dogs Never ever give anybody a Nazi-salute. It's not only a serious offence but a criminal one. Anybody seeing you doing that can report you to the police. And be assured, I surely would. Comment Mir geht es genauso wie Dragon und loulou. Lizzy, was soll so etwas bezwecken? Ich finde es vollkommen unangebracht, was Du getan hast und es ist durch nichts zu entschuldigen. Comment Kleiner Nachsatz zu dem Thema lizzy, ich hoffe Du liest mit: So kann es einem also auch gehen. Comment lizzy -- Yes, I remember having deep shopping cart impressions on my butt most of the time I lived in Germany Saturdays except for the "long" ones seemed to be the worst.

On recent trips back, though, it has seemed better. Does anyone else find the shopping experience better and less competitive now that the stores are open until reasonable hours? Comment Tom, it has got a little better - but it obviously still depends on where you do your shopping, anad when. And of course, you will ALWAYS and inevitably have the little old granny in front of you who will look endlessly in her purse and try and scrape her last cents together to pay for a shopping load of EUR 37,92 in very small coins Comment Shopping is one of the most stressful things I have to do in Germany, second only to getting my two boys ready for Kindergarten.: I don't miss much about the US, but I do miss having someone bag my groceries and bring them to my car.

Baggers wouldn't be such a bad thing. It would create jobs, and the stores that have it would probably attract more customers. Aber komme jetzt ja keiner auf die Idee, dass als den "German way of egg opening" zu deklarieren! Comment Kate, sorry but I have experienced it differently Most customers were a bit irritated 'Why are these people touching my groceries? How can I be sure they won't leave anything behind? And do they expect a tip now as well?? It is also a matter of how much space there is by the tills often, not a lot.

Das ist aber keine deutsche Eigenart. Comment So bagging wouldn't work in Germany. I guess it is a cultural difference. But it works wonderfully in the US. I never had a problem with it. The baggers know how to bag, which they may not have known in Germany. Is this going to be similar to the ironing vs. I do sincerely and seriously hope that it isn't Die Damen und Herren haben leider ca.

Allerdings war das auch in Florida Sorry to contradict you, but They often end up with putting delicate veggies below potatoes and similar things. But I agree that it can be quite nice to have someone to help you bag your things. I'm off now until Thursday. Please behave yourselves everybody, and have a good weekend!

Comment I read this thread and some of the postings really made me laugh - which is not really a good thing because I'm new in this job and I shouldn't fall to my LEOnitis right away. However, when it comes to peeing in the public I have until now lived nothing worse than Paris these last three years. Basically, wherever you are: And I have seen men doing it in the open street.

Just to add some background: A grocery store I used to shop at tried using baggers once. They crammed so much into each bag that I was afraid they would rupture. While my experience with American baggers and I did live there for 30 years is that they use a large number of small bags, keeping all of them light. Ah, dann geht es also auch um unterschiedliche Stile beim Packen. Viele, teilweise halbleere Tueten Deutsch: Wenige, teilweise ueberfuellte Tueten Ideal waere m. Comment Kate I would always want to bag my own groceries in Europe: I remember them trying to stuff as much as possible in just one bag!!!

Once I asked the old lady at the till if I could have another bag With the most incredulous look in her face she replied quite loudly: I must tell you though, that American baggers are famous for putting eggs right underneath three liter pop bottles Comment agb When my German husband bags our groceries, I always think he is trying to set a record of how much he can fit into one bag. It's not a matter of conserving bags, we reuse them anyway. Actually when the bags rip under overload, we end up throwing them away so it is more wasteful to overfill the bags. Comment I have the cure for the German-behind-you-pushing-the-cart-into-your-behind syndrome.

I simply turn around and say very politely: No need to get uptight, a little humor soon puts things right. And yes, I flight everything back into my cart, then trot off to pack it at the little counter provided by most stores for this express purpose, while the kids hand me all the soft things to put on the bottom of my Hacken-Porsche. Ah, the joys of shopping, aren't you all glad it is almost Christmas? I'm getting jalapeno one of those Eierbruchsollstelleanbringer thingies. That's what I tried to portray in my ideal way of bagging.

But now I have to leave for the airport. I might log on from there again: Comment Just because I am interested: How are Americans dealing with all these plastic bags???? Everytime me or my roommate come home from shoppig, we find our kitchen knee-deep filled with plastic bags in which a friendly bagger bagged our groceries. I think this is another problem with baggers in Germany: YOu would have to hand them your own bag before they start packing.

And it is stressfully enough to juggle all the other stuff: I can understand that the Kindergartendame got upset with your boy peeing on the playground. There are other children digging in the sand and walking through the bushes; I would not like that either Beside the fact that I think it is really OK to let children "disappear" into the free nature when it has to be.

Comment The shopping story reminded me of something else that is really different in Germany than America. It may be that this is a European thing, I don't know. Namely, the habit of paying in cents used to be Pfennige so that the salesperson can return a whole Euro or a whole ten Euros, or something. So if something costs, say 4. Or if it costs 4. I got so used to this that I do it automatically.

But when I'm in the States I always realize that the salespeople think I must be nuts. Comment Nordic Peeing - I got to keep that in mind, hehe. Actually I often think that male Germans are merely without any sense of decency or sense of physical needs when they are drunk. I have already seen so many men just leaving a bar, walking a few steps to do their nordic peeing.

They just don't think of visiting the WC until they've walked three steps and then they just don't bother going back into the bar. I really would've liked to throw stones on unwanted sights, yuck! Comment What I find surprising is that Germans are willing to pay such high taxes for churches they never go to. I do the same thing in the States, and always have. The ones who are able to deal with it look at me as though I must be "Rain Man".

This speaks volumes on the American school system. Comment This takes a load off my mind: Anyways, I cause a stir everytime I go shopping because of my backpack biiiiiiiiiig - I do not own a car and therefor no trunk, just my legs and the public busses. But now I can officially go on with the cent-method.

But even with this method the cashier lady is often ready for payment before I have finished getting all my items back into the cart, and often I have had the next customers already pushing their way out to take my place. I've never experienced anything as bad as Lizzy describes, though, and though I find the pushiness a little irritating it's certainly something I can live with. I've only experienced the cart-in-the-butt once and I think I responded by casually pushing back.

Selkie, I really liked the trick you used, I'll have to use something like that if it happens again. Boy, do I ever! Didn't anyone here pay attention in their basic physics class? I realized or at least this is my theory it is due to having the 1- and 2-euro denominations as coins rather than bills. Here, you have to fish into your change purse all the time anyway to look for a 1- or 2-euro coin, and while you have it open you might as well see if you can get rid of some copper too while you're there. In the US you can always easily pay with all bills so it definitely takes some extra effort and precious time to seek out coins in addition.

Well, it's just my theory, but I'm stickin' to it. Comment Abra - Good ones! Plus ist einfacher, da sind die Kassen kleiner, und da gehts halt nicht so zackig. Bin ich eigentlich noch normal? Zu den Kassiererinnen muss ich was los werden. Comment Getting pushed from behind: Suddnely nobody bumps into me from behind.

I give the extra cents in the States and never have had those strange reactions. On the other hand, in other countries not Germany , I've ALL sorts of strnae and uncomfortable reactions. Man kann dem Barmann darauf hinweisen, dass viele Deutsche darunter keinen Witz verstehen. Comment Also jetzt muss ich dazu aber auch was los werden: EB hat eine Beschwerde an den Chef des Kochs geschrieben.

Die Entscheidung, den Mann zu entlassen, hat der Chef getroffen. Und der wird wohl gewusst haben, warum er das tut. Wenn sie es trotzdem tun - bitte. Aber Mitleid habe ich da keines. I was comparing them to German baggers. In the US, I always have to compact my 20 half empty bags into 2 or 3 that I can manage while walking. But everybody else of course just tosses the bags in the trunk. Comment What Germans find surprising about Americans: I'd always heard that Americans have so many cars while the Europeans rely on public transportation.

The traffic in Germany, even in the small town I live in, is unbelievable. And don't even try to find a parking spot. Comment hermarphromoose, am Sack kratzen hilft dabei auch noch ;-. You use a hand-held scanner and scan the items you purchase yourself, take them to the check-out where you swipe your card and pay. No check-out staff are involved and it is brilliant because I NEVER have plastic bags from the supermarket cluttering up my kitchen, and it is much quicker to get through the shopping.

You don't have to take everything out of the trolley and put it back in again. If not, perhaps it would be worth trying.



Requests for butter or salt on popcorn at movie theaters met with blank stare or incredulous look. Do not take too seriously and I know there are exceptions. Die meisten Briten, die ich getroffen habe, lieben es. Comment If anybody wants to find the tv-show, you've got to look for "Fawlty Towers" with John Cleese - hilarious in fact! Trotzdem erlaube ich mir noch die Anmerkung: Zum Einen kann ich mich jedoch nicht erinnern, dass diese Show ihren Humor in erster Linie?

Was denkst Du, was ich damals getan habe? Comment Hier sind noch ein paar mehr Fragen, die ich in der High School gefragt wurde. Dich in eine Diskussion verwickeln lassen. Comment Urgh, Captain, Du bist mal wieder ein kompletter Idiot! Aber manche Leute haben schon eine sehr eigenartige Auffassung von Humor.

You simply take the used plastic bags back to the store and stuff them into the recycling bin they have there. Alternatively, you can use them to line a leaky pair of boots, transport live fish, keep your hair dry in an unexpected rainshower, fill them with air and pop them in a crowded bus, cover the seat of a bicycle left in the rain But taking them back to the store is probably the easiest solution.

Comment Used plastic bags: I use them when I scoop out the litter box. Comment Another idea on food and drinks: Has anybody talked about "Spezi" before? Women of a certain age walk around with little plastic bonnets, like shower caps, to cover their hair when it rains. And sweet popcorn, ahem, yes, very strange. Comment Honestly, the first time I came to Germany in the s as an exchange student, what surprised me most was the number of elderly men with amputated legs and arms. I was a naive kid from the suburbs and had little idea of WWII at all.

I felt that wherever I went, I saw men lacking their extremities. I could not explain to myself why in between otherwise perfectly normal buildings, there would be this parking lot at basement level. You had to drive down into the parking lot. Meanwhile I have learned a lot. But it shows you that if you don't know your history, you cannot interpret what you see.

Nicht nur Electric Barbarella, sondern auch ihr 'eingeborener' englischer Freund war schockiert. Gibt Dir das nicht mal einen Moment lang zu denken? I thought I would add my 2 cents worth. I can only echo the surprise at the windows which open inwards, the poo-to-view toilets I heard this was because the Germans eat a lot of raw pork and it was necessary for them to inspect their waste to check for worms?

Other things which have surprised me are: Germans tend not to dress up to go out in the evening. It is normal to go to a nightclub wearing shorts and flip flops in the summer and a big woolly jumper in the winter. Taps are always mixer taps, you never have a hot tap and a cold tap mixer taps are much better in my opinion 3. You never see carpets in bathrooms also much better 4. The importance of wearing slippers.

I usually walk around the house in socks or bare foot, but was told off on many occasions when I lived in a WG!! Many Germans comment on the fact that I drink tap water. This is not the done thing I found out. You have to pedal backwards to brake a bike, not sqeeze the handlebars. There is an absence of special offers in supermarkets.

Sometimes things are reduced but you don't see the B. F buy one get one free like you do in the U. There are so many male nurses in hospitals. When you apply for a job, the wages are not printed in the advert generally and also they are 'negotiable'. They ask you what you 'would like to earn'! Wages are based on monthly salaries rather than annual income I think this is changing though Easter and Christmas are much less commercialised in Germany.

I was looking for chocolate Easter eggs one year by Milka or Kinderregal in Germany and realised that they didn't exist. So I settled for a little bunny: This is not a criticism or complaint, I actually like it being less commercialised. Seasonal decoration of the houses. The man in the flat below me is a prime example although all my neighbours are like it to some extent.

In the spring, he puts some spring lamb ornaments out on the sideboard in front of his flat door and has a spring flower wreath on his door. In the autumn, the sheep are replaced by squirrel ornaments and an 'autumnal' wreath and in the winter, the reindeer come out. Other neighbours have felt autumn leaves displayed in their windows and painted Easter eggs are the centre piece on their coffee tables depending on the time of year.

This really was a big surprise as people in the UK only really decorate their homes at Christmas. Whole fresh chickens are not widely available in supermarkets. You may find one or two or a scrawny Suppenhuhn which is not suitable for roasting! Also I went into a butchers and asked for chicken thighs to be told they were out of season! I have never to this day been able to fathom that one out!! When Germans have a cold, they tie a scarf round their neck and neckerchiefs are worn as part of an outfit or also on dogs.

This does seem to be dying out though. Do not get ill on a Wednesday afternoon as the docs are closed! The ice-cream lady still comes out just before the film starts in a cinema. The absence of a window in a bathroom is seen as an issue, sometimes bad enough to make you choose another appartment altogether. Clowns are still a form of 'funny' entertainment. I was at a business meeting once, which was a large gathering, with the presidents of the company present too, when, from out of nowhere, this clown appeared and started prancing abou on the stage!

I was horrified, but everyone else found it hilarious! One thing I really like though is that no-one seems to care what anyone is wearing if it is not the latest fashion. If you want to wear that old lime green jumper, go for it. There also doesn't seem to be this 'chav' culture which there is in Britain.

Comment fram Hi fram! I think we have different kinds of toilets, but I don't know if there is really a reason for it. But I don't know people who eat raw pork meat At least for me not everything you wrote is true: I often don't wear slippers and my grandfather kept on telling me I'd get ill because of that. But in fact, I never did: We have never had a breakfast bin and I have only seen this kind of things in hotels so far. I always drink tap water, but most Germans prefer 'Sprudel'. We also have different kinds of bikes - what a variety! You can go to the hospital when the doctors are closed - if it's serious.

That kitchen thing is in deed really annoying in Germany I don't think clowns are more common here than elsewhere. To me the situation you describe sounds quite strange. There's a cultural difference in hand-shaking, my brother told me. We seem to do that more often, even though we've met a person before.

About wearing strange things: I'm living in Edinburgh at the moment and the young people here dress really strangely.

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It might be modern, but it still looks stupid - that's my opinion. But if they like it, I don't really care. Comment Fran, great observations! I would say it IS the done thing in Germany! Maybe depends where you're from. When I'm home in Munich, I always drink the water from the tap, tastes delicious! I think, half of Germans do it, the other half doesn't. Comment The kitchen thing really also depends on the area. In the north a kitchen is usually fully eqipped with an "Einbaukueche" and all the appliances. Well in the city of Hamburg, that is not the case. The fact that they mention the kitchen equippment that comes with the kitchen here is proof: I am currently looking for a new apartment and really enjoying looking at them all with a flashlight previous tenants have taken all the lamps with them and trying to figure out if our kitchen will fit the new one hey, we had to buy it, we are taking it with us by golly!

I hate that too. I guess it also depends on the size of the apartment. When I lived in Germany, I had smallish places where you don't really care what the kitchen looks like since you won't stay forever. Lizzy's Nazi salute Hilarious reaction! I don't even know a German word. I'd have loved to see her face had we saluted. My gf, however, would have stared at me, horrified, I'm sure.

What better way is there to tell people they're stupid than by ridiculing or exaggerating their behaviour? I'm searching for a new flat, too in Hamburg. I certainly want to have one. Das ist sogar ein sehr gravierender Unterschied. Das Spiel umfasst derzeit etwa Die Fragekategorien werden vor jeder Runde abwechselnd von einem der beiden Spieler festgelegt. Beiden Spielern werden dieselben Fragen gestellt. Der Spieler mit den meisten richtig beantworteten Fragen gewinnt das Spiel und bekommt zwischen einem und 24 Punkten gutgeschrieben; dem Verlierer werden entweder keine oder zwischen einem und neun Punkte abgezogen.

Die Anzahl der gewonnenen oder verlorenen Punkte richtet sich nach der relativen Position des jeweiligen Spielpartners in der Rangliste. Bei einem Unentschieden erhalten entweder beide Spieler oder nur der schlechter platzierte Punkte. Bei Spielaufgabe werden dem Aufgebenden 24 Punkte abgezogen. Zuvor waren die Fragen rein textbasiert. Es gibt eine Rangliste der Nutzer mit den meisten eingereichten Fragen.

Wie viele dieser Fragen im Spiel verwendet werden, wird auch hier nicht angezeigt.

Am Anfang war das Reich

In der schwedischen Datenbank waren zu diesem Zeitpunkt etwa Mittlerweile umfasst die deutsche Datenbank mehr als Zudem werden die Wartezeiten zwischen den Spielen und die Werbung entfernt. Der Name der App wurde dabei jeweils an die Landessprache angepasst. Diese Gegner eignen sich zum risikolosen Training. So kommt es oft vor, dass nach dem Beenden eines Spieles der Spieler nicht in der Lage ist, seinen Gegner erneut herauszufordern oder dessen Forderung anzunehmen.