Canadian Reacts to 5 Things Germans Do That Americans Find WEIRD

Because... We dont pay for "cola with water"... we only pay for cola... 😂

With regard to the "staring": It's not that the eyes are actually following a person around the room or something or attempting to attract attention or start a conversation. It's simply staring into the space ahead of you, lost in other thoughts, and there simply happens to be another person in the direction you are staring at. You are only vaguely aware that there is in fact a person right in your line of sight, and you only process something along the lines of "object ahead, do not overtake, adjust movements to object in order to avod collision." It is a strange habit of focusing on the immediate next steps and disregarding everything else, similar to "hyperfocusing" if you will.

Bottles and cans get seperated and crushed. Multiuse bottles were put back in the delivery boxes and returned to the beverages plant. Automatic process.

You'll also find machines accepting crates of bottles, usually where you can buy "by the crate" ;) In the shops i frequent it works as follows: - Oneway bottles and cans get crushed, then deposited in a large container underneath the machine. - single glass bottles or other multi-use bottles land on tables behind the machine for the staff to sort in crates. - crates go on a transport band directly to the storage area to be stacked for the next delivery date ;)

5:02: It depends. If the vessels are single use for recycling, they go in the machine one by one. If you have a full crate with refillable bottle, you can put the whole crate at once into the machine.

YES...........there is always a little guy in each "bottle machine"!!!!!!!! Its like GOOGLE, where the "little guys" sit and search in a library as fast as they can!

The "staring": after watching a few videos on the subject, I thought about why these people think I'm "staring" at them. In fact, one might believe this, but in reality my thoughts and "staring" are mostly directed "inward". On the other hand, it is also an unconscious, but conscious perception of my surroundings.

I don't use VPNs, except on my corporate laptop to connect to the corporate network.

the ice thing is just for me atlast it reduces the flavour of the beverage heavily and even ice cold reduces the flavour

Well, America is a continent (name comes from German mapmakers).

the 'german stare' has two different dimensions: a) staring at strangers in public is just a matter of general awareness of your surroundings. since germans in general are less likely to talk to strangers, the stare is kind of a non-verbal communication - basically showing the other person, we recognize them but aren't interested in nonsensical smalltalk. b) staring at a person you're talking to is a different thing. we just keep eye contact longer and view that as a nice way of assuring the other person, we're still listening. people, who can't keep eye contact and immidiately shy away (and with immidiately i mean in less than 10-15 seconds) are considered socially awkward or mentally weak.

Peeing standing and peeing sitting is just a matter of education. You only grow up with your mother and as a child you are told that if you miss you have to clean it up, you start to pee sitting down

Regarding the inner workings of a Pfandautomat: There are different processes with regard to different types of the bottlrs or cans. Cans get crushed by the machibe. So do single use plastic bottles. Both can by law be returned to amy place who sells these. Multi-use plastic bottles or glass bottles or packs/boxes of bottles (both multi-use plastic and glass) are transported to a backroom where indeed actual human beings do the sorting and returning logistics for the respective brewery or soda or juice or mineral water producer. This makes things a little complicated, because if, say, you bought a twelve-bottle box of a particular brand of beer in glass bottles from supermarket A, the supermarket B (who doesn't sell that particular brand) doesn't have to accept the empty bottle and container.

more like the old grannys watching people stepping on them yard, get off ma yard!!! XD

Please don't ask for ice for your drinks. It took us decades to teach restaurants to not water down our drinks!

The machines collecting bottles mostly have a conveyor belt slot where you can put whole beverages, too. It's smart enough to weight it and even register how many bottles are in or if some are missing. As Germans normally don't buy single bottles for at home, this is quite practical. But there is stuff that you just can't get in beverages. There are also smaller or older shops, that can't afford an expensive machine, especially in the countryside, so there they would only have some beverages, where an employee sorts in your empty bottles. You just put them there in a shopping cart and take another empty one and when you're done with shopping the employee has already sorted and counted your bottles. If ice is so cold it hurts... order warm ice! Try it! The face you'll get is worth it! 🤣 No really, Germans assume scam, when there is ice or too much ice in a drink and to be honest, if it melts, the whole thing just tastes watery and diluted. Germany isn't a car country??? Better think twice xD There is a saying: Autos sind des Deutschen liebstes Kind. Cars are a German's favorite child. Germany does a lot to support walking and cycling, but you simply cannot beat car nerds in a country that has the Autobahn and where some people always need an expensive car to show to their neighbors. She cannot know what bathroom behaviour is normal for most german men. That's just the way she was raised and told. Even if there is a sign, after closing the door everyone can do what he likes and noone will notice. And if there are splashes afterwards and there were 5 guys in, the maths of reconstructing how many of them stood would be insane xD What she said about the prostate is wrong! If the prostate is healthy the position makes no difference. Google it and you'll find it everywhere. That's the only thing everybody agrees. For people with issues there are many different opinions out there, which are completely opposite, so it may be that in this case she's right or again wrong. But noone can say. That's the problem if you just use one source for information.

You have to look somewhere when you're on the bus, don't you? You can't have your eyes closed all the time. I've had someone at school ask me why I'm staring at them like that. And my answer was just I was staring at you? I didn't notice, I was just thinking and didn't pay any attention to who was standing there.

I often heard about the stare, but stll don't know what is meant by that. Feli said "don't stop looking at you". That is sth I don't notice because I usually only glance shortly at others. Thus I don't know if they are staring or not.

I liked it when you said: " It is weird AND SOMETIMES ENDEARING"!❤ So true! 😊

Greetings and Love from Köln/Cologne, Germany again. 😅😅 your acting at the last topic was phänomenal. I went with my body to the left and to the right, perfectly in sync with you, while staring. 😅 and funny, you really thought you were staring at me (or us). You wasn't...cause you cannot see me/us. But i, i was staring, thou, at you. Cause i can see you, haste mich, Mr. Amateur😊😊 stay safe, buddy