American reacts to THINGS THAT ARE NORMAL IN GERMAN BUT NOT ANYWHERE ELSE

Thank you for watching me, a humble American, react to NORMAL EVERYDAY GERMAN THINGS BUT NOT ANYWHERE ELSE

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Hello and hello thank you so much for joining me yet again today um how are you doing good unless you said bad then that’s not good but I hope you’re doing better by the end of today anyway normal everyday German things that really surprised me I

Like how this first frame is like it’s like it could be the thumbnail you know I’m I’m I’m really surprised by the German things by Antoinette Emily go check her out link down below oh she’s a New Zealander living in Germany interesting I’m excited for this stuff I

Love normal that’s the most entertaining kind of thing like things that Germans would just think are normal everyday things or like as an American some I just think of as normal everyday things but it’s not in Germany okay hi guys welcome back to my channel and if you’re

New here it is so great to have you I’m Anette a New Zealander living in Germany I love that accent recently a few people have asked me antoinet do you ever run out of ideas when it comes to talking about Germany and I can honestly say

That I never run out of ideas and I don’t think I ever will I have got almost 10 years worth of Germany related content right here and I love to talk about it and I love that you guys enjoy listening to it so with that being said how cool is

That what a cool Channel I mean she’s got a nice Channel 60,000 subscribers and she just talks go check out her Channel go check it out all sorts of German topics very fun in this video today I am going to be talking about everyday regular German things that really surprised me when I

First moved to Germany so in no particular order one of the things that I was very surprised about almost shocked about is the fact that the majority of Germans drive manual cars ah yeah okay and according to the research that I have done it is about n so

Actually the only thing surprising to me about that is I guess new zealanders don’t so obviously Americans don’t and I guess the new zealanders are on board with the automatic cars % of Germans that drive manual cars 90% I have done it is about 90% of Germans that drive manual cars not 19%

It’s cuz you guys love cars that’s why you guys actually love cars like how they work and the different engines and you like to feel in control and feel that perfect shift I know it I know it 90% this is something I found so surprising because around 90% of new zealanders Drive

Automatic cars and so for somebody in newal to drive a manual car that is something really rare you do not see that every day the subject something wrong with that guy of driving in Germany is something that is heavily on my mind at the moment because why is he

Inconveniencing himself for no seeming benefit as I’ve mentioned before I’m cuz he likes cars the process of doing my German driver’s license and I could save this for a whole video of its own I will definitely be making a dedicated video on the subject but for now I love the

The topic of the German driver’s license I’m just going to be talking about the fact that I am learning to drive a manual car and this is like nothing for Germans like everyone in Germany learns to drive in a manual but in New Zealand hardly anybody does why that would be so

Embarrassing for me to make a video learning to drive a manual car so I might have to do it Germans choose to drive manual cars over automatic cars this was the question I asked myself I was so conf confused by this cuz to me logically I think it’s so much easier to

Drive a automatic car where everything’s done for you and but you know what it’s not worth doing if it’s easy you know why add extra stress to your life and extra work when you don’t really need to I asked my husband this question because he has always driven a manual car he’s

Just used to it and he prefers to drive a manual he said to me that for him driving an automatic is boring and it takes the fun out of driving and he feels like when he’s driving a manual his so have I bet there’s a lot of

Germans that have never even driven an an automatic car right I mean you’ve probably driven a golf cart though pretty much the same thing much more control of the car and unless you have manual golf carts it’s just like a better feel for the car and so that was his answer I

Would love to hear some of your answers in the comment section so guys the next regular every I think that’s the real answer like yeah maybe it’s a little cheaper of a car and maybe it’s more efficient in some ways but I think you just like it thing that really

Surprised me when I first came to Germany was the concept of winter tires I had never heard of this in my life before winter tires so in Germany for safety reasons it is absolutely mandatory to have winter tires on your car oh it’s mandatory okay here in America it’s Absol absolutely not

Mandatory it’s up to you you can be a menace out there on the road or into yourself in the winter as I am I’m G be honest I’ve never bought winter cars tires but Indiana’s pretty flat so it’s not that big a deal during the winter months so by lower these tires in

Germany have to have a minimum of 1.6 mm tread depth so these tires they’re just thicker they’re better quality or less do the cops carry around like a little ruler likely to slip an extreme weather condition this does make sense because in Germany it snows and there is a lot

More extreme weather in wintertime compared to New Zealand um it just surprised me because I’d never really heard of the concept of winter tires in New Zealand they drive with just regular tires all year round so these tires would be sort of the equivalent to the German um everyday tires not the winter

Tires so I asked myself the question why a German there actually I think there might be some states here in America that do have tight ation on the tires maybe not drive all year round with winter tires that would definitely save them having to change their tires

Over halfway through the year and my husband Rob yeah it’s too expensive tires are ridiculously expensive I can’t be buying winter tires said to me that winter tires in Germany are very expensive and so you want to save on those tires and only use them

When you really have to use them and the rest of the time you drive with your less expensive you know regular tires so if you were caught driving without your winter tires in Germany during the winter months you will be fined between 40 and 80 and also if you in an accident with

That’s not bad without your winter tires during the winter months then your insurance company will most likely not cover you that’s rough that’s rough that does honestly kind of make sense it’s kind of like here in America and obviously if you’re driving under under the influence or something your

Insurance company might not cover you actually I don’t know I assume they don’t so it’s very important that you drive with your winter tires in Germany during the winter months okay so moving on to a completely different subject this is something that really surpris I mean insurance companies will come up with

Anything any reason to not cover you so that’s that’s I I absolutely believe it they probably wouldn’t cover it me when I first came to Germany which is something that most Germans would think nothing of it’s just a regular everyday thing and that is German showerheads so the majority of showerheads in Germany

Are removable showerheads so in Germany the showerheads they slip into like a little thing and you oh shoot how long have I been disappeared hold on I’m back guys I mean you guys don’t know but it’s been like like 45 minutes but I’m back let’s get to it we’re talking about

Showerheads I just watched the last three seconds to remind myself showerheads they’re detachable whoa whoa of showerheads and Germany how did I do that are removable showerheads so in Germany the showerheads they slip into like a little thing and you can stand up and have your shower and the

Water is pouring over you or you can grab the shower head and you can sort of wash yourself with the shower head so you can actually take the shower head off the holder or what now the funny thing kind of about this is that most American showers are like are not like Germany’s

Mine cuz my wife bought it is like Germany’s where you can take it off and move it around um so that’s sort of interesting like I had never seen that until my wife um got it or whatever that’s interesting that all German showerheads are like that it’s

It’s prob it’s got to be it’s it’s objectively better right I mean the only downfall is you have this big hose going down and up which kind of gets you know I don’t know takes up a little bit of room but apart from that it’s it’s great

I’m not explaining this very well in New Zealand the shower then again I don’t really ever use it it’s actually fixed so you can’t grab them they’re not removable I’m not saying that all showerheads are like this in New Zealand but I personally have never seen a

Removable shower head in New Zealand so that was something I was like well I wasn’t sure how I felt about it at the beginning now I don’t know how I could live without a removable shower head I love it makes sense it it’s just so much easier to wash when it’s removable you

Just grab it and you can like wash under your arms you can wash down here when you’re washing your oh yeah the nether regions you can spray right up it’s like a bedet in the shower you can just like really get in there and the water’s like right up you

Know in your hair and it’s like really good pressure and I just love that and whenever I go back home to New Zealand and I have a shower I feel like the pressure is not very good and I just want to grab the shower head but I can’t

You your so that is something that was really like an unusual concept to me when I first came to Germany I’ve grown to love it if you’re watching this and you’re from a country other than New Zealand or Germany does your country have removable or fixed showerheads I’m

Really interested to know okay guys so moving on to another subject completely different subject again now this is something that totally surprised me when I first came to Germany and right now I see this on a daily basis in Germany this is a regular everyday thing you

Would see in Germany you don’t even blink an eyelid this is the older generation in Germany probably over the age of about 70 riding bicycles and wow I just I thought this was amazing when I first saw this in Germany it is kind of funny like what

They say about a bicycle or at least here in America you know once you learn you never forget and that’s well maybe they only say that in America I don’t know you tell me do they say that for ra now it’s like learning a bike once you learn you never

Forget but that’s because Americans will ride bikes as a kid but then almost never ride a bike I mean of course some some people do it as a hobby but no one’s riding a bike not many people are riding a bike around for like utility to get

Around except for when they’re like 10 years old um but with that said like for instance I haven’t been on a bike in like 10 years if I got on a bike I could pick it right back up I know exactly how to ride it so once you you know it’s

Like learning a bike you I don’t know do you guys know that phrase but anyway you guys probably don’t have that phrase in Germany because you guys actually ride bikes but it is a good exercise for old people because it’s low impact on the knees and

Feet just don’t fall off like this was something you barely ever see in New Zealand older people riding bicycles and in Germany they not only ride bicycles they ride without helmets and I mean my dad is like older and he rides a bike all the time he he rides like crazy so

To me it’s normal because my dad does it go on Long sort of bike tricks this is just something that is so normal in Germany to see the older generation riding bicycles and I think this is amazing you know how the old say goes if

You don’t use it you lose it and that is so so true I love to see no that’s the opposite of what I just said about bicycles that’s that’s the opposite that does not apply to bicycles what it’s like learning how to ride a bike once you learn you never

Forget you don’t have to use it although I think I think she’s referring to like um your body in general which is absolutely true as you get older you know if you don’t use your body and get out and move around and do something physical you will lose that

Agility and I think that’s what she meant you know how the old saying goes if you don’t use it you lose it and that is so so true I love to see the older generation just getting out there and being active and just enjoying life and

You just see this so often in Germany at least the area of Germany where I live we have a lot of really nice bike tracks in our area of Germany that take you from town to town Village to Village City to City and I think it is just like

The German Alps by the way to the 300 people that saw it I uploaded that video today or yesterday I had issues so I had to with the music so I had to delete it it was like restricted I’m fixing it and that’ll go up in like a couple days I don’t

Know yeah just a really great practical way to get around riding your bike this is something I just love about Germany the older generation they just get out there on their bikes they make a whole weekend of it they’ll go for big bike tours and groups and they’ll stop for

Like little picnics along the river and it’s just something how do you carry all the stuff for the picnic on your bike oh my gosh that sounds like an adventure that is really normal to see in Germany and I remember when my mom was staying with us she commented about

The fact that so many Germans like older Germans ride bikes and I think that is so so cool and and I hope that when I am like over 70 I will be active and riding my bike I have even seen people over 80 riding bikes in Germany how cool is that

So anyway guys that’s all I’ve got for today that is really cool and you know what even though it might be dangerous that’s a cool way to die falling off a bike is that bad to yeah I feel like I shouldn’t say something like that today if you enjoyed this video then

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