What do the British think of the Germans!?

I am in love with the British people. I love their way to talk, I love their Pub culture very much, I love their humor and I believe even they are not as straight as we are it is always a great time beeing over to the little cute island. Furthermore I believe the British music culture is absolutely fantastic. Definitely something Germans are not as good as the British are. Much respect to the older guy. I was expecting a different opinion on us.

We Germans take our humour very serious, it's no laughing matter. ☝🏻

"If they are incompetent, they are very incomepetent" ...so, we are competent even at being incompetent. Maybe the best description of Germany I ever heard :D

I think the problem with german humor is, that it loses all the fun when translating it because it is so well based on the language itself, that often times just make sense if you clearly understand the german language and know the connections and metaphors of the different words :D

Keep in mind that Mr. Bean and Monty Python e.g. are very popular in Germany so I guess there is common ground when it comes to humour. The elderly man at the end speaks German with a very good pronunciation by the way.

We love the British humour so much, a British sketch that was recorded for German television in 1963 belongs to our New Year's Eve tradition till this day.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇩🇪 English and German people are brothers. We are a very similar people. We should have fought together WW1.

Germans are very competent. And if occasionally incompetent they are very incompetent....I like that. Seems about right.

"They have humour, it‘s just very well hidden." That is the most british thing to say.😂 I love you Brits

Yah the Germans are a great bunch but so are you Brits :) All the the best from Denmark.

I’m English and feel a kinship with the Germans due to our Anglo-Saxon heritage. It is a travesty what happened in the previous century.

We are brothers! As a Briton, I think the Germans are intelligent, stubborn, and we both have a lot in common. Cheers 🍻

When this old gentlemen said "they are generally very competent" I thought to myself: Der gute Mann hat noch nie einen Antrag auf einer deutschen Behörde gestellt.

I don’t think many foreigners watch German satire/irony in transmissions like ‘Die Anstalt’ as you would need a high level of language skills and knowledge of the political landscape.

The thing about sarcasm is that it is used on a different level of intimacy here, at least in my opinion. We suck at comedy, no question, however we love satire and sarcasm. From my personal experience I would say our humour is quite a lot drier and darker than the English, however we don't joke around with strangers unless we want to start a fight, so the British "disrespect" of our personal space can rub people the wrong way here. However once you are on first name basis there is no holding back in mockery and Schadenfreude. Oh and we tend to do it the opposite way of the English and over exaggerate rather than understate stuff. So e.g. a common reaction for someone dropping a tool at work would be "Lass liegen, ist kaputt." - "Leave it on the ground, its broken." Or an encouragement to throw it harder next time so that the obvious intent of breaking the floor tile may at last be accomplished.

Yes, our engineering is great i am proud to be a German. British and Germans are always top tier with inventions in history 🇩🇪❤️🇬🇧

As a German I really LOVE BRITISH ENGLISH (not American English!) because of its sound and pronounciation (I think that is one reason why I really love William Shakespeare and his plays!). England is one of my favourite countries and I would also like to visit Scotland. And I have some English relatives living in Nottingham...a cousin of my mother married a British gentleman and moved to England, I think this was BEFORE WW II started. Since several years her son and his wife nearly regularly visits us in Germany, in Northrhine-Westfalia. They (and also the other British relatives) are very nice and intelligent. But I am very disappointed that UK left EC. The British people are also our European brothers and sisters. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland...loving greetings from Germany 💗💗💗💗💗💗💗💗

As a German I have lived in the UK for over 10 years and have grown really fond of British people. They are open, funny, educated, pragmatic, have the best sense of humour in the world, are very good at self-reflection/self-criticism and don't take themselves (or the rest of the world) too seriously. Genuinely nice people, I have made lots of friends in the UK and my stay there has definitely enriched my life and changed me for the better (I hope). I moved back to Germany because of Brexit - after the referendum I feel the mood in the general public had changed for the worse and I did not feel welcome any longer. Of course that was largely due to the media and NOT because of the people I knew personally. Every single Briton I have met (with the exception of my first landlord) has been absolutely fantastic and I still love GB to bits (just not their government).

8:43 OK that dude nailed it. Not only was the pronunciation nearly spot on. He also used surprisingly complicated words.

Peace British brothers and sisters!:D Love from Germany. Let's build a bright future together and not against each other.