American reacts to European things that foreigners find WEIRD
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From your reactions I understand that you still haven't understood that, especially in southern Europe, we don't drink to get drunk. Drinking one - even two - glasses of wine during meals doesn't make you drunk, it just makes you enjoy more what you eat. Going to a bar with friends and having an aperitif or a cocktail is a pleasant thing, but it's very unlikely that it will get you drunk. Here in Italy it is really rare to see someone drunk.
In fact we consider wine a food more than a drink and it's rare that people drink without eating.
Binge drinking does happen though amongst youngsters especially in certain parts of the Country.
Same in France, drinking is part of the meal or the aperitif, it goes with the food
Same thing here, over the Adriatic, in Croatia.
It's the same here in Northern Europe really, well not so much Sweden, but in Denmark it is so. We Danes we like to have a drink with our meal, even at work, one or two beers is nothing really.
On the other hand, I as a Czech can assure you, that if we say, that we are going out for one beer we mean 2-5 and if someone says that we are going out drinking tonight, coming home will be just a distant memory. We may got a problem.......
mayonaise on fries is actually so normal in the Netherlands and Belgium, that you can order a "patatje met", which literally translates to just "fries with", without mentioning a sauce at all. Vendors will understand that as ordering fries with mayonaise.
As for Ukrainian I find fries with mayo to be an absolutely standard combination.
Yeah, in Germany it's quite normal, too.
Normal in France ,here if you would have to associate Mayonnaise with one food in particular ,it would be fries
When I ordered fries with mayonnaise in Canada in 2000, I was looked at as if I were an alien. Totally incredulous.
@@uebelgunne Well, last time I checked Canada is not part of The Netherlands and not part of Europe either. So you pretty much were an alien to them. 😘
The cheek kissing (which in my personal experience has always been air-kissing with your cheeks touching) has some similarities with a hug. You’d need a certain familiarity for that to happen.
True. From my experience across Europe it's usually not done when you meet person for the first time, but if you spend a good time chatting with the person through the evening, the goodbye will include air-kissing between women and also woman & man, if initiated by the woman. and further north you go, the less likely it is for the air-kissing to be included even after significant time spent around.
Cheek kissing is a formal greeting. You mostly do it when you're on Christmas dinner or something or go to some fancy restaurant with other people who you aren't very close friends. I haven't seen anybody do this when hanging out to greet someone.
@@MementoMoriGrizzly Yes, it has a greeting character like shaking hands. In that sense it is more formal than a head nod and a “What’s up?”. At family events it can be part of the ritual. But it can also happen just when going out for a drink in a small group.
Me and my friends are always cheek kissing(2 air kiss with cheeks touching and hand shake) when we haven't see each other for long time. We are all males.
In Spain we do the cheek kissing all the time hahaha, for introducing someone, for greeting people and when you say goodbye. And we always give 2 kisses.
I'm actually watching this in my two hour lunch break in Italy.😂 Not everyone has this privilege, I must say. And I did experience traveling through Europe with no mobile phone or GPS. It was a lot of fun!
@Konrad Mastalerz Siesta?! In Italy nobody takes a siesta during work breaks. At most we do it sometimes in the summer, during the holidays, if we intend to spend the night having fun.
@@clelia7820 I do. I get about 30 minutes' sleep after lunch. I'm sure I'm not the only one. And I do have an 8 hour working day, I just finish later
@@ssanti66 Surely you will not be the only one, but it is certainly very rare. In any case, it is not a national custom
@Konrad Mastalerz Most offices work from 9 to 13 and from 14 to 18. Most factories work 8 to 12 and 13 to 17. No long lunch breaks in those cases.
i rather take 30 min lunch and then be home earlier
In Romania (Eastern Europe), I could go buy alcohol for my father at 7 and no one asked anything 😅 We also used a map and hand gestures to road-trip Europe before cell phones, worked pretty well.
I'm Czech and when I was little (we're talking 30+ years ago), my brother would get sent to the pub with a jug to get my dad beer. But you can't do that anymore; the rules are being enforced much more now than they used to be.
And for those who feel like "wow, I wish I could have experienced travelling before cellphones and GPS" there is a very simple solution. Just leave your phone at home or bring it in your suitcase turned off in case of emergencies.
In the 90's in Poland it was very common for kids under 10 years old going to a local shop to buy a pack of cigarettes or a beer for their father. It slowly changed around 2004-2008. Now the dad has to go on his own if he wants beer or cigarettes. Which is a downgrade if you ask me, even though I don't have kids.
Most places in USA don't even have local shops in residential areas. Strict one-purpose zoning is the stupidest planning idea ever. And they still do it.
@@myskanamrazu9412 Same for Germany, untill the 60s...
From my experience in France you have about 50% chance that a tobacco store will sell to a minor, it's a bit crazy. When I was 14/15yo I was buying cigarettes in relatively small towns with 2 or 3 tobacco shops, it's funny how I would get rejected in one but walk for 2mins to go to the next shop and they would sell to me without question. I guess it's more money for them if they don't care. Alcohol is a lot more difficult though.
For the dutch reach to open a car door. It just means that you open the drivers door with your right hand, forcing you to turn your body around and look behind you, to see if there arent ant cyclist before you slam the door open. Bicycle lanes are on every road so there is always a chance a cyclist is behind you, especially if youre parked on the side of the road.
Yes, The Dutch reach is being promoted online and radio in the UK. 😊
@@markwolstenholme3354 oh damn, that's super cool. It was drilled into my brain while getting my drivers license and took some time to get used to. But here in the Netherlands cycling is suuuuper common and I've seen quite a few door incidents so if you live somewhere, where you can expect cyclists, use the Dutch reach.
Lol I sound like a PSA
When he asked how do you get out 🤣
@@101steel4 🤣🤣
@@franzferdinand5810 Here in Austria I also learned it in my driving school 20 years ago. Altough it never was called the "Dutch reach". But it was explained to automatically look in the side mirror/behind before opening the door.
1:30 Considering how many people still think Europe is a singular country or that UK represents the rest of Europe, yeah, that disclaimer is more than warranted
7:30 You had maps, compass and dictionaries. It really wasn't that hard
Also, quite a few of these seems like misunderstandings since they aren't common at all
Your first sentence should've been "Considering how many *US americans* still think Europe is a singular country or that UK represents the rest of Europe, yeah, that disclaimer is more than warranted". 😉
@@module79l28 Sadly, I have encountered the same sort of ignorance about Europe in other countries like Japan as well
For your second point, that is not entirely true. My family moved to Japan before the modern phones with translators and GPS, it was a BEAST of a job NOT to get lost, and often we did, for hours. Which we loved the experience, but actually yes, it is VERY hard. Even with trains and buses. maybe not in Europe, but elsewhere as a foreigner.
@@braedynhoward3644 I lived 3 years in Japan before smartphones, never once got lost
@@Songfugel First, I doubt that. Second, even the best marines (my dad was a marine) got lost in Japan, not often but yes, they got lost on several occasions. It is NOT easy. And yes, the rest of the time we did fine and we still made it to where we were going. But it was near impossible to NEVER get lost, especially in the complexity that is a Japanese town.
I'm Italian, we do NOT take a 2 hour lunch on a workday, most of us have a 1 hour lunch break and that's it. Also about the dinner thing, it lasts all night if you're with a group of friends and/or family. It's not an every night thing and we don't eat a many course dinner, that's more a family meeting thing.
If you see 2 men holding hands while walking down the street you can safely assume they're in a relationship. I've never seen men cheek kiss other men, not even family members, women sure both with men and other women, men do not do that.
In Europe most of us don't know what a "block" is. Our streets are built of the space that's left between buildings. Even in the times when we didn't have GPS, there were still paper maps so you can always find your way.
Drunk driving is not legal anywhere in Europe, just to be clear. If somewhere people are driving drunk, they're committing a crime.
You can legally drink in most of the countries at 18 and no one will sell you alcohol if you're under that age. If you don't look that old, they might check your ID.
This video is full on inaccurate info.
Right above your comment i see an Italian saying he is in his 2h lunch break right now😂
I'm from Spain, it's the same here. And I'm going to guess that it's the same for Portugal too.
in some EU countries you can have like 0.5 per mill and yeah in Slovakia there is not week without few people drinking and driving with more than 1 per mill...
@@irgendeinname9256 yep, it's me. I don't know where in Italy this girl is from, I assume Milan or some northern town. In Southern Italy most of us go back home from work for lunch, and we do kiss on the cheek, both males and females 🤷🏻♀️
Totally agree. From Portugal here. Never seen 2 men holding hands on the street... except if they're in a relationship, or if they're like father and son, and one of them is too little or too old to walk by himself. With your arm over the shoulders of a friend, yes... happens, but holding hands never.
Also, men kissing each other on cheek, dosen't happen. Unless in a relationship or they are close relatives, like your father, grand father, sometimes uncles or in some very few cases, brothers.
7:07 That's right, no blocks, most of our cities are too old for that. This year, my city (and lots of other cities and villages) is celebrating the 910th anniversary since its first mention in a historical document. It means that it existed even before the year 1113. At first it was only a small settlement with a few houses built randomly, then growing bigger with years adding more and more buildings around it, until it became what it is now. It was never planned, it has grown organically and because it wasn't completely destroyed in any war or a natural disaster, it stays like that until now.
what city are you from?
Exactly , mine was created by romans and there is still the ordinate center that come from the "castra" but outside the center you find the medieval town that is horrible to navigate
Most cities in Europe do not have blocks, most of them are over a thousand years old, and some are much, much older. My city originates from the time of the Roman Empire 😉
In Portugal, I live in a 2000 year old city 😅😂
The small town I am in has been a registered market town since the 1200s.
Of course we don't have blocks. We have livable, human-scale beautiful old cities
I have travelled all of Europe since the 70s, so far before cellphones or navi. We had weard paper maps at that time, worked just fine. And about the language: hands and feet work too.. it's good being pushed out of your comfort zone once and a while, makes you grow up.
Yeah, and you might even have had to use your hands and feet to ask for directions back then.
in france , i would check if a cyclist is coming my way but if he crashes on my door i would think that's his fault. he is supposed to give enought way or do an emergency stop. just like a motorbike would do.
I remember those odd little books called 'phrase books'' in languages such as English, French, German, Portuguese, Arabic, Spanish, Japanese etc which had the sentence written in your language and the language of the country you were visiting above /below it. Great things and they were small enough to fit in your pocket. Better than mobiles actually I find, because some of the google translations are comedic to say the least.
Re finding your way before GPS and mobile phones, there was this analog tool, called "a map" 😉
Pommes or Pommes frites means French fries in German. Pomme de terre is French and means potato. lit. apple of the soil. Yes, we eat fries with mayo a lot. The Dutch have fries sauce, a variant of mayo especially for that.
In french it's possible to say "pommes frites" but it sounds somewhat old-fashioned, so we usually just say "frites". Literally, "fried" lol.
@@xenotypos In Finland we drop the "fries" and call them simply "French" :D (in Finnish, though)
In Belgium we call them 'frieten' and we hate any tourists that says french fries hahahahahaha
@@rok8031 In Germany you can also say "Fritten"
In Sweden we've dropped the "Frites" and just order "Pommes"
7:16 You just buy a map on paper. Or you look at the maps that are posted at the bus stops, you memorize them in a few seconds and voila: you have a temporary map in your head for the trip. You then simply guide yourself by comparing this map with the environment, like a tomahawk missile.
Not everybody is able to do that. But I know exactly what you mean. I can do it, too...
Ryan: Europe is different. Our children were getting sips of wine / water when we ate at the table. That was part of learning to eat properly.
Our children also had their sips of beer at the OKTOBERFEST from our glasses (1 liter beer glasses 1/2 full) in their early teens.
Their American cousins, on a visit to Germany took pictures of themselves having ordered and been served a beer on a paddle-wheel Rhine steamer at age 15 / 16 and nobody asked how old they were.
French restaurants have fixed price menus, that includes carafes of red or white wine. If you reach the cheese course, and your wine glass is empty, the carafe will automatically be filled again.
My dad (he lived near Amsterdam) and a friend traveled through Denmark Sweden and Norway on foot in 1950. He was 23 years old.. They started the trip with only 10 guilders in their pocket. He kept a logbook for the whole trip. They worked for food and sleeping arrangements, met a lot of friendly people, and learned the languages as they went. My dad stayed adventurous like that his whole life. Was never scared and had success and so many interesting stories. He also traveled alone through France and Italy on foot. At 89, he could still speak all those languages!
By the way, in Holland, the law for selling liquor to someone too young is very strict. The cops are strict but always friendly. You should not mess with them, but they will almost always stay calm.
In Italy we usually have lunch seated somewhere and it might take half an hour or more but for a lunch to take more than 2 hours it must be some sort of ceremony or special occasion 😂 On the contrary, when you go out for dinner with family or friends it's normal to sit for a couple of hours. No hurry, enjoy your food and chat with people, relax... Drinking wine during lunch means a glass or max two, if you're also eating it's not enough to get drunk! Also, no one checks on your age when you buy alcohol, that by the way is sold at normal supermarkets. Besides, it's common for parents to let children taste wine during family lunches (a verrrry small sip). We are much less puritans! I still remember an American friend shocked to see underwear shop windows with mannequins wearing bras. What's wrong with that? 😮
"underwear shop windows with mannequins wearing bras. What's wrong with that?" so they don't have those in USA? how interesting )
Before GPS and smartphones There were paper things called "Maps" and "tourist guides".
Those were awesome for heated arguments with couple, family and friends. Ahh...we Lost those magic moments of trips
pomme = apple (french)
pomme de terre = earth apple = potato
pommes frites = fries (literally "fried apples")
also in Austrian German: Erdapfel (de_at) = earth apple = potato
@@anashiedler6926 Not only Austrian German, but also old German and it is still sometimes used in some parts of Germany. My grandmother for example sometimes uses the word and she is from Thuringia.
Netherlands here. My partner has 1 hour at lunchtime and comes home (on his bike) to eat. He can choose to eat at his work, in the kantine, and he would get half an hour then, but does not enjoy that. So he chooses to have 1 hour and work half an hour longer to do that. He has an office-job, nearby, so he can do that.
The red light district is very normal to me. Most big cities have those. It is just not criminalised.
People choose to go there and choose to serve the clients. If you are not a client or a worker, you have no need to go there.
They do not like windowshopping very much.
Canabis is really available in coffeshops. Coffeeshops are not for coffee here. You go to other places for actual coffee or thee.
A lot of people have tried some and found it pleasant or not that much. It is a bit boring eventually. It slows you down. You can have more fun being sober.
Cops are usually not on a powertrip here. If you are not acting out much, they do not care. Checking ID they can do, but you have to have one on you at all times anyway, so no problem.
They are not allowed to point weapons on you without getting a hassle themselves. If they point, they will have lots and lots of paperwork.
And get an evaluation about why they thought they needed to and might get re-trained in how to de-escalate. They get years of training before becoming a cop.
So they do not do this much, unless really needed.
Most cities are not in blocks. In most places it was more in rings, with a church and a marketplace in the middle of it, usually with a pub near it.
A bit like a spiderweb, in which the treads are the roads. It is because the cities were there centuries before cars were there.
A lot of cities in Europe are more than 1000 years old. Cars were just here about 1900.
In Belgium, the Netherlands and most other countries in Europe, it is not possible to have lunch for hours, because restaurants would close by 2 pm (and at some places, even earlier), and you won't have that much time to spare. Also, I have been to many old towns in many different countries, and as long as you have basic navigation skills, such as looking for certain landmarks to evaluate your current location, it is very hard to get lost. Tourist offices often provide free maps and guides should you ask them, which you can find at train stations, airports etc. quite easily.
Nah yes, up to the GPS system you used city maps :)
The first city maps as a guide were already widespread in the 1900s.
Anyone in Germany (or anywhere else) who could use a Falk city map* without making any mistakes won :)
* the city map had a very special, patented fold, so it looked like a small book and you could also open individual areas without spreading out the entire city map.
What? Restaurants OPEN at 2pm lol
You overlook the fact that in the southern countries there is often no work during the hot time at noon. Usually between 12.30 and 14.30 almost everyone takes their lunch break.
Oh yeah, here in Spain dinner with friends/family reunion can take several hours or all night long as the video says, which usually includes having a drink for dessert/after the dessert
Edit:also cheek kisses to close friends is totally normal, yes
Yeh...........boring........bloody boring..........
Does this bloke never stop........
I'm from spain and we never ever kiss male friends if we are males too, just to girls...kiss other men as a salute is something you just do to your grandfathers.
Jesus wept...........cos you rabbit like no one.....................
@@joanmarcferreaparici2282 well, people from different places here in Spain have way different behaviors, I'm pretty sure here in Andalucía is mostly normal, and I may be wrong, but I could see people in the north of the country seeing that as a not that common thing
You don’t need to travel back in time. You can leave your phone at home. 🤭
well the cheek kiss is mostly used as a greeting or goodbye it's not out of the blue. Most commonly what happens is:
You see someone you know well, you hug and do a cheek to cheek contact with a kiss sound. Your lips don't even have to make contact with the other person. Just kissing the air around their ear. At least here in Greece.
It's also not done all over Europe nor is it a "European thing" as many other places in the world, like in the Middle East or South America, that do the same.
In Croatia we do that too :) Its mostly with relatives and some friends. Especially if you didnt see them for a while and if you are celebrating something than it can be used for congratulating someone as well :)
Same in Italy.
Basically you never really kiss the other person, is more like cheek-to-cheek and only with very close people.
Plus, in Italy it's more of a use in the south. In the north friends are likely shaking hands and hugging.
Drinking in other countries is not such a taboo as in USA. So when we drink in the middle of the day is not to get drunk, is to enjoy the drink or chill a bit before going back to work.
In France from my experience, young guys rarely(/never) greet other guys by cheek-kissing (only ever saw it with older people), it's more just for family, with friends it's just a handshake. It's different with girls, guys and girls often greet each other with a kiss on the cheek, but it's more annoying than you might think because it's not always the case and if you don't know the girl well you have to "guess" if you have to kiss her on the cheek or not. You could offend a girl by not kissing her on the cheek, but also offend her by doing it without her "apparent" consent. Hu.
yes, it's even worse here in Luxembourg, as we have a lot of French but also German culture, and you can clearly notice that often times people from the French boarder prefer the cheek kissing while people form the gemran Border don't. it's so confusing. I stricktly do not initiate it now and just see what she does and react accordingly. or if I can, I let others greet her first to see how they greet each other.
Yeah i don't know who on earth did the research for the video, half of it is bad
Idk, recently the whole bises on the cheek definitely went into guy guy friendship, but that's only close friendships (and male family)
You're never doing "the bise" to a stranger dude as a guy
At least in South-East France, cheek-kissing is very often used, by young boys more than by old ones, olders also use to do it. It's only used with friends. You'll never do it to someone you don't know.
I am french and I am 15 , we don’t do it with close friends, but I see some girls do it even with their best friends sometimes in my school, I think its more in highschool tho
Personally I do it with family and other adults, rarely with people my age but it happens
I could tell you the many times my whole team at work went on lunch break, only to return 1h45 later ...
Our boss was with us of course. 😂
As long as the work is done, no one will be breathing down your neck, so why not enjoy your time ?
As you have heard MANY time during your react videos, we work to be able to enjoy life. Not the opposite. 😉
(French national here BTW, and my greetings from Bordeaux 😀)
You should have been working for Government Nationalised Industries in London, in The 1970s/1980s. 2-hour lunches(more for the Bosses who, sometimes, would return with Police Cones. Then they would be off to a private Drinking Club as,in those days, Pubs shut at 3pm until re-opening at 5pm again. Boat Trips down The Thames at lunch or we would play at the local Sports Halls for 80 minutes plus travel and changing. Halcyon days until Maggie Thatcher wanted us to perform and make a profit and the work dream ended.
Disclaimer: we apologize for having this 50-second disclaimer at the start of the video. Not only for those that comment on our other videos but also for those that hate disclaimers...
And yes, the original video has it right. Lumping all European countries into one for making an easy point, is very very difficult, as there are always cultures and even sub-cultures in most countries. That they managed a sort of distilled and quickly detailed version is admirable. I understand your confusion, as I grew up in a household with both a mid-European culture and a Northern European one (where I grew up), and there were a lot of culture shocks. For one, the drinking culture, but also kissing cheeks of any relative, male or female. For a young kid, finally visiting the mid-European family, and thus not used to it, it was both embarrassing and cringy.
As for cops: I understand that there are things that have lead the US cops to be how they are, but in most European countries I have visited, they are not as aggressive as in the US (I have been there too), though I have not seen aggressive cops in the US with my own eyes. I know that some countries educate their police for two years before letting them enforce. Perhaps that is a lesson learned for the US?
The underage drinking is from a US perspective. The age limit in each country differs.
A 2 hour lunch in some countries is normal, its about when your day started and when it will end.
Beer or wine with lunch, yes why not?
Belgium : beer and wines, 16 years. Heavier stuff, 18 years.
@@flitsertheoYepp, same here in Germany. Under the direct supervision of a parent or legal guardian teens of age 14 may partake in alcohol in reasonable amounts, even in public spaces like restaurants and pubs.
Drinking is normally done not with the explicit intent of getting drunk, but getting together with friends and having a good time. Getting drunk, especially a rowdy drunk, is actually pretty frowned upon.
@@RustyDust101 Saaauufeeen!
Countries such as Spain take a 2 hour lunch break, and their stores and work places don't work 9 to 5 because of the heat. They will be open a few hours in the morning, then stop a few hours for lunch, then re-open about 4pm and work till 8pm. It's called common sense. 😊
Also called "got shitfaced on wine, and could not not be bothered to go back to work." :)
@@RobG001 Shitfaced yeah, but they go back to work after. In the UK we would not bother!
In Germany, young people over the age of 14 are not allowed to buy alcohol themselves - but can drink it if accompanied by a legal guardian (father or mother).
From the age of 16 you can buy and drink light alcohol such as beer, champagne or wine (in public) - as long as you are not drunk
from the age of 18 there are no more restrictions and you can also buy schnapps or mixed drinks / spirits
"lunch with wine in a work day?" let me tell you that , in France,i remember back in the 80's, at the school canteen/cafeteria, at the teachers table, there was a bottle of wine. It was really common at any professional restaurant adults having a glass of wine during the lunch.
This habit stopped, i think, about 20 years ago.
The same in Italy, 40 years ago the wine production was pretty bad and cheap, the wine consumption pretty high. Then 3 things arrived: the methanol scandal and its consequences, the workplace safety laws and traffic laws. The blood alcohol level limit for driving has been lowered and the penalties enormously increased, today driving while drunk is a crime, you risk arrest for up to one year, a fine of 6000 euros, the withdrawal of your license and the confiscation of your vehicle. An Italian comedian in one of his show said "I drive drunk much less than I would because I'm fucking scared of sanctions" (it's funny cause it's true).
Anyway wine production started to produce less but better (way better), with a very bigger export (+500% or so), and the people started to drink a lot less but a lot better. My grandfather probably never bought a 5 euro bottle of wine, even taking inflation into account. He bought a 54 liter demijohn of wine made with sugar spending less than 30 euros and he went to the construction site (he was a bricklayer) with the big bottle of red wine.
People stopped to drink wine while working or during the pauses (in workplace the blood alcohol level limit is lower than the limit while driving) etc...
Age limit for drinking is 18 in most countries, but lot of pubs never check it. We went to bars with my friends every Friday since we were 15. During those years we got kicked out only once when the pub owner realized that all 8 of us were under 18 so they couldn't explain that away if they got a random inspection. Clubs and fancy bars are more strict, they would ask for IDs when entering if you looked young. Also our parents tolerated somehow that we went to parties and drinking. 🤷♀️
I am Serbian, we can drink from what ever age we want. We usually stop at 21. We get smert then😂😂😂😂
05:40 what he means if that if your door is on your left.
you use your right hand to grab the door handle on the inside.
this basicly forces you to look behind you in your "dead view angle" and see any potential cyclists before you actually open the door.
once the door is open. it's the cyclist's job to go around.
Huh odd, i just do it automatically cus using the closest hand is super uncomfortable
Two comments on alcohol
1. Yes, we can drink a bit of it during the lunch. It is pretty common I think in all European countries. Specially if the meeting is connected to business there is always a bottle of wine to the lunch. We also can have a glass of wine if we order food to the office. In some countries the limit of alcohol is pretty high (even 0,07) so you can also drive a minute after.
2. Regrading the age limit and the police chasing you for drinking below the limit I never had a such experience. If you drink a civilized way a glass of wine or a small beer with you daughter or a son in a public, Police will not approach you. If they will be served when they are alone I don’t know. In few places surely but they may also hear no. In general I have a impression that we have in Europe (may vary country to country) a hard law (Police will react always) and a soft law (still in the civil or criminal code but Police will not react if you don’t do anything stupid). For example the alcohol limit or some minor things like holding a dog in public on the leash (if you don’t but the dog is not approaching people you will not be stoped). Another soft laws are border limitations. Traveling from Italy to Germany you bring so much wine you want and even if there will be a border control (very law chances) you have a great chance to go away with that.
In Denmark, police is very chill, but also very hardcore. If something is just barely illegal they might leave you with a warning, but they don't mess around, especially when it comes to traffic laws
1. in Italy almost nobody drink wine during the lunch except for rare occasions and the blood alcohol level in the workplace must be zero. Drinking wine at lunch in Italy was probably pretty common (but still a minority) in the 70s or so, but not today, in the last 30 years the per capita consumption of wine in Italy has halved, today we drink better wines but much more rarely.
No one drinks for lunch during work hours in Denmark anymore. It was common maybe 20 years ago and actually a big problem because people actually got drunk.
In the Netherlands we are not cyclists. We just use a bike to get around. And yes, the ladies in the redlight district are standing behind a window like that,
I`m European and I´ve been to places all over the globe either on business or on holidays (also a lot in the US when I was working for an American air carrier-11 years). I´ve almost always rented a car. I absolutely detest using GPS as they only give you standard routes and not the shortcuts which I really like to take. Personally nothing beats studying a map and jotting down the route I want to take and posting in on my dashboard. At least don`t have to contend with an electronic voice telling me to turn right 800 meters ahead when I can turn right in about 120 meters in relation to where I`m at. And yes I also do it too in the US, whether I´m driving across Florida, at the Detroit outskirts, between Charlotte and Greensboro in NC, between Boise and Lewiston in Idaho, in the Seattle area or over the Sierra Nevada to Reno from the East Bay Area of San Francisco, LA to San Diego and all the usual tourist sites in between,
Well done. Personally I have never cared to use GPS while driving.
Agree with your statement, You have to learn the map before you travel, I'm personally using google maps because they can tell me traffic information, but Google is terrible route builder if road is closed or you forgot to take a turn. It starts giving you absolute nonsense route options some of them are illegal. The danger is young drivers are soo used to google maps that will drive off the cliff is google will tell them to 😁
@@vadym8713 Indeed. Your statement is absolutely true.
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Before cell phones and GPS, we had this intriguing thing called Maps, big cities like London even had books called A-Z's. When I was very young and a delivery driver, I used maps, stopping at garages and asking, or asking a Policeman, all the time
They are getting stricter with alcohol consumption here in Europe but I'm 27 now and I used to go out and casually drink a beer sometimes with only 15 years of age. You basically never get asked about your ID.
I find it strange that when I visited the US (I clearly look older than 21) they still always ask for your ID.. like you could have white hair and look 60, they'll still want to see your ID haha
That being said, people here don't drink as much as in the US. We drink to have a good time and socialize, not to get as drunk as possible. I feel like in the US and Mexico people drink to get wasted.
City layout: many cities are more than a thousand years old and were structured by their city walls and their gates. Often the old structures are still partially standing. If I have the correct word: many cities still have the moat that belonged to the walls.
This all together results in almost all smaller cities with circular and curved streets that are crossed by straight streets that used to lead through the gates.
Now if you ever visit such a city, and you follow one of the gate-streets, you can do a time travel, since the cities grew from center to outskirts.
Eg. The first houses you see near the center are 1500 and then houses were build side by side until roughly 1900. That doesn't apply to cities destroyed by the two world wars.
I have never travelled abroad using a mobile phone/sat nav for mapping. Always either had a road atlas for the particular country, with local maps bought locally, or just a general idea of where to go - such as when hitch-hiking. If you have to remember your approximate route, you become so much better at locating where you are in the world. My wife became a dab hand at map-reading once I taught her and I've driven from the UK via Dover/Calais down to southern Spain or Portugal a good few times with her navigating - and all without any mistakes. Paper maps give you a much better overview of the country whereas GPS is far too small a picture.
You are soooo right, bro!
Although having a GPS as a backup, in case you get lost, is an invaluable thing now.
@@0raj0 Well... And what you are doin', if the net is not present, or didn't work? Analog, is still the safer option...
@@melchiorvonsternberg844 Since when GPS does need any network connection? It's based on satellites that are always up there. Unless USA government decides to turn them off, but it has never happened yet.
And note that I said "as a backup".
@@0raj0 This with the backup... Fair enough. But you didn't get the GPS- info not direct from space, but it is provided by mobcom companies, right?
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In France, lunch break is usually 1.5 hour. Lunch time is a socialising time, and a glass of wine can help. Also, a glass of wine in France is about 12cl, because glasses are not meant to be filled to the top else the wine cannot be savoured properly. This is why a glass won't get you drunk, at all.
Dublin is not in UK. It the capital of Republic of Ireland. It same as saying you don't understand the American ascent when visiting Quebec in Canada.
So we traveled from Drenthe (Netherlands, born there) to France back in the early '90's. No GPS, no Google Translate. Based on tourism & history books about France we knew we wanted to visit the Loire Valley, as it was said to be beautiful but not very touristy. So we planned the route using a map. We always had various maps in our car (Netherlands, Germany, Belgium) and bought a map of France and took it with us, just in case. We dotted down the names of towns we would need to follow on street signs to reach the general area between Orléans and Sully-sur-Loire (chosen at random). We had several place names within that area written down and just looked for camping signs along the road. Found one in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire. We brought tourism-friendly Dutch-French dictonaries with us that had the translation of various phrases within. And if that failed; hand gestures. So it was very doable. But you are right that it was an adventure, in that we didn't know how the towns would look like and what would be there.
Reading a map was a skill most people had so travelling you had maps to find your way. In the UK/Europe, turning left, let, left, left - doesnt necesaarily get you back to the same spot because of not everything square
I was a private chauffeur back in the days before gps and online maps. In the Netherlands we had the 200000+ streets book, which basically had most of the cities, towns and villages in the Netherlands in it. The evening before a fare you would study how to get were you needed to go and even memorized a couple of alternative routes just in case. Since having to stop and look at a map would be considered unprofessional.
To this day I rarely need gps, but I use it to avoid congestion.
Speaking for Italy, no, you cannot take a 2 hours break from work to have lunch unless you work a job that closes midday to reopen in the afternoon, like say a shop or a restaurant.
Back in the day shops used to close from 13:30 to 16:30 but most of them now stay open all day.
Anyway even if you have a long lunch-break you are not going to have the time to go home for a 2 hours lunch and then head back to work: people use that time to run errands because a long lunch break also means you are finishing work really late, it's not like they work less hours.
Long lunches\dinners happen on Sundays, holidays or when you have friends over but yes, a meal is a social occurrence for us.
A fake kiss on the cheek (we don't really touch) to greet yes but men holding hands is completely made up.
Women might get away it but two men will get, unfortunately, ridiculed in the best case scenario if not called homophobic slurs or outright attacked.
I am gay and I would never hold hand with my man to avoid problems imagine two friends.
I find it funny though how southern Europeans are called overtly-tactile when Americans friends give each other those "slanted" hugs that I never know how to react to.
I do have a 2 hour lunch break, and I do go back home to eat. It depends on your job and where you live. Italy is not all like Rome or Milan, you know.
@@ssanti66 In fact I did say that it might happen with some jobs so I really don't get your pointless comment.
Anyway a 2 hours work-break doesn't necessarily translates into a 2 hours lunch: do you actually eat for 2 full hours?!
No "Italy is not all like Rome or Milan" although big cities account for most of the population, but it's not even all Silvia Santi especially since in your comment you call your long break a "privilege"!
2 hour lunches were coming in Government Departments in London 40+ years ago and then the fun stopped...
I'm a guy from pre-GPS and pre-smartphone times, so I see absolutely nothing strange in travelling without them. Back then everybody was used to using paper maps, and you knew that before you travel, you have to get a map of the area (or even a few of them, with different scale). If you got lost, you asked locals for directions, and if you didn't know the language, there were pocket tourist dictionaries available, containing the most common and useful words and phrases for a tourist in a given country. It was also a useful thing to get one of these before you travel.
yes, I am from the pre-GPS time too. That is historiy and my kids now only knew digital maps not paper maps
Lonely planet was the book to go to
Speaking of sports fans, Latvia is sort of famous for very civilised ice-hockey fans who instead of causing havoc, bring flowers to an embassy of a country of opposing team and sing. Right now the 2023 World Championship is going on.
ah yes, back in the day, using a paper map and suddenly noticing that you went the wrong way for the past 300 km in a foreign country while driving to a music festival, now arriving about 5 hours late, in the middle of the night having to mount up your tent at the festival camping with nothing but darkness, climbing out of the tent the other day to see for the first time if you are even in the correct place. aaahh those were the days.
Good times 😂😂😂
love seeing you react to some stuff we do here in Europe ! You should try to look things up while watching sometimes ! like "you guys don't have blocks ??" --> go look at some cities like Siena or Ghent, even Paris. You'll be blown away. Sometimes those vidéos dont explain a lot, they just give some random facts.
As for the "Dutch shake" (the way you open the door of your car) is because of your reach to the door you have to turn slightly around and you can easily look over your shoulder and check if somebody passes your car.
I do not do that any more, I look in my left mirror and carefully and slowly open the door, that gives enough time for a bike to pass my car if they where in the dead corner of the mirror.
Being an Asian I had the experience being a student in both Europe and in the US. I find it easy to be integrated into the European culture, probably due to past lives but it took me a year to assimilate American culture even though being too familiar with many American TV series and pop culture At first, it was easier to understand the British accent than the American as the American tend to speak in monotone. But one thing for sure I find that the American is uncomplicated as they speak their minds. Where education is concerned, the American focus is so narrow.
I am a 48 years old french and have never taken a 2 hours lunch break except for special occasions or with a company customer at restaurant. In addition we usually don't drink wine to get drunk. And I went to a lot of countries before cellphones became popular. We had maps, books, etc, to guide us.
I'm from scandinavia and our company got acquired by an italian company and we were quite surprised by their lunch habits as well. We usually have lunch for half an hour around 12PM, our italian colleagues are more likely to have lunch from 1-2PM to 3-4PM. They also work a bit later into the evening and dine late - around 8-9PM.
Ofcourse Pommes-Frites with Mayonnaise... LOL... How else? 😅
before GPS we had two dimentional things like .... **drumroll** .... maps 😆
Yup. People forget these. No need for electricity to use :)
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As a Dane (Scandinavian)... we have a personal space larger than the corono-restriction space - like always 😄 I need my personal space!
Without GPS: I absolutely LOVE going to a new town without using GPS: it's a challenge to find your way around, and fun too. Decades ago, I used to do this all the time, out of necessity. Now I do it because I like it.
7:24 before gps we had a very nice paper tool we used to find our way that we called .... a map
on a more serious note basically every one that was driving long distances had a atlas by Michelin in their car
i imagine those are still being printed, but as you can guess iy's far less common nowadays
If you kiss, or get kissed daily, you don't have a notation of "the first time" . When did you give the first handshake ? Do you remember ? See, that's the meaning of it. You kiss your kids, you kiss your dogs, so why not other people without any sexual intention.
Im from Slovenia and was in Amsterdam in november. I ordered a coffe and the coffee arrived with a joint😂
hei cool im from Slovenia too and its so rare to see people so i just wanted to say hi, we enjoy the same content online - cool :D
About the Dutch car door opening: As Netherlands drive on the right side as in USA, the driver does not use his left hand to reach for the opening handle of the car door (as it would be most conveniant) but uses his right hand. To reach the handle you have to rotate your upper body and you are nudged to look out of the window - this way it is far easier to see, if a bicycle comes from behind and wait until it has passed you. So you can open the car door savely. The co-driver uses his left hand instead of his right hand.
It is not very difficult to find your way in Europe, without navigation because we have (or had) excellent road maps and there are signs everywhere to tell you where you are and also to give directions, where you can travel to. In Spain, there are some places that have siestas and then one can have a very long lunch break, but you do not work fewer hours than in places, where there are 30-minute lunch breaks. Every country has streets and there are no blocks, but it is not difficult to find your way. Most people try to help foreigners, and most people can speak a few words in another language. You do not have to speak the language fluently to understand what someone wants. The red-light districts are in Europe for centuries and safe for visitors, but it is not a cool place for the people, who are exploited. Marijuana is on a menu in every coffee shop everywhere in the Netherlands, but it is not very healthy, I would not recommend it. Bikes usually drive on a special lane for bikes or in a city on roads where cars are not allowed to drive fast, and one has to be careful. People sit on a terrace to have drinks and tapas on every hour of the day and sometimes in the evening, but not at night. One has to be 18 to buy alcoholic drinks and if someone buys a bottle in a supermarket, their ID will be checked if they look younger than 18. Drunk driving is not permitted anywhere. In some European countries people are allowed to have two alcoholic drinks and in some European countries there are no drinks are allowed if one has to drive car. Holding hands is not common between men, but hugging and kissing on the cheek is common among friends. In the Netherlands it 3 kisses on the cheek, in France two and in Spain one. In Germany, it is shaking hands, if you do not know a person so well. We are not that weird as these comments want you to believe.
In Spain are two kisses as in France but the first cheek is the opposite. And also in Spain the siesta are not as common as foreigners think, that 2hour time is for go home to have lunch, and only in split time job (4 hours morning, 4 hours afternoon) the rest of jobs are 8 hours with 30 min break, and most people have lunch after working or before working it depends if you work at the morning or at the afternoon.
Of course there used to be maps of cities, but often you didn't have one of the city you were in. It was a skill to navigate unknown cites, and quite fun. Most cities have landmarks like church towers, but there are other clues too like the age of buildings and you build up a map in your head assuming cities were build from the inside outwards around a river or harbour often. Sometimes you got lost and discovered the most remarkable things or people, sometimes you got into areas that didn't feel really safe, but turned out to be remarkable too.
In our first time in Maastricht, Holland, we got lost and confused driving with all the one way streets, bus only streets and the bycicles (soooo many, everywhere). It was no surprise when a motorcycle policeman stopped me. I don't speak dutch so I was getting very nervous. The policeman signaled me to open the window and in perfect english asked me if I was searching for parking, and then kindly offering to escort us there. Faith in mankind renewed. Go visit. Cheers
Thing in the Netherlands is that every driver is, has been or could be a cyclist so they are far more conscious on how to interact with bikes on the road. Also infrastructure is amazing so interactions are smooth af.
SAUCE: lived there for a while
Other way around isn't true, that's why cyclists in inner cities are at times an absolute menace, not caring if it's a bike lane or not, just cycling through pedestrian areas, cycling between a parking car and the pavement, and other shenanigans. My street has a two-way bike lane on one side of the street, but this is not convenient for some cyclists apparently so they often cycle on the other side of the street next to the cars. It happens a couple times a year that one of them hits a car door or just someone crossing the street lol.
About drinking : In big cities they do check ID sometimes, but when it comes to rural Europe, underage drinking is done mostly at parties or outdoors in the forest or local abandonned building. I knew people who got drunk their first time at 13yo, and continued to drink throughout their teenage years.
Aside from people with religious or health obligations, most people drink here and for a lot of them, it's almost every day. A glass of wine at dinner or a nice cold beer after work, a lot of people like to drink a glass for pleasure or for taste, rather than to get drunk.
Well, in some countries "underage drinking" can happen entirely legal anyway. Over here the legal age for beer&wine is 16 and when accompanied by a legal guardian 14.
I am from Southern Europe. I dont kiss my friends in the cheek nor do they or anybody i know. Period 😂😂
before gps, in Europe, you can found maps at every gas station for every cities, so if you can read a map you can't get lost ^^
5:35 the dutch reach, basically forces you to watch over your shoulder before opening your door.
Yes, when the car door is at your left (and you parked your car with the left door towards the road/bicycle lane), you open the door with your right hand, forcing yourself to look over your shoulder to the back, so you see a bicyclist coming.
The only difference between GPS and a good ol' map is that GPS tells you where you are. Looking around and finding out for yourself isnt that hard.
It is if you are an idiot ,like me.
Being in an unknown area, without distinct orientation points (eg. in a middle of a forest) it's not that easy. GPS is invaluable in such cases.
@@0raj0 We're talking about cities here, with landmarks at every corner. So a map is enough to not get lost in an European city. US cities' blocks can look the same.
Pommes are apples since potatoes are also called pommes de terre in french .and fries are made of pommes de terre :p
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Pom or Pommie could also be what Australians call British people comes from when prisoners were sent over there . They had Pohm on their clothing meaning prisoner of her majesty.
@@mrsprivate1678 ha so they were eating french fries :p this is the link ...
7:19 We had giant paper maps on trips and made sure to get local maps if we entered big cities. The biggest problems is that in some Mediterranean cities like Cannes there are a lot of one-way streets due to them being narrow and figuring out a route through to your destination could be tough, even with the arrows on the map. Around 2000 I think we got a pad with the TomTom navigation app. That made things so much easier, but at that point I rather liked riding shotgun with the map. My mom was terrible at it.
Haha. I was just thinking: "I hate that we live in such society where we have to apologise before we say our opinion!" then you said it :D
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Yeah but this video isn't presenting someone's opinion, its purpose is presenting facts, some of which are so wildly inaccurate like the hand holding that you wonder where they even got the idea that it was a thing (though it is a thing in other parts of the world). Maybe they wouldn't get so many "ackshully" comments and wouldn't need a disclaimer if they did their homework properly.
@@badaboum2 Like Ryan said...Every idiot know its just statistics or prejudices and we are suposed to take it with big grain of salt. But then there are Karens or Netflix audience who would be offended and complains.
@@erurainon6842 It's not so much about taking offense as it is "this explicitely informative video gets its information wrong". The disclaimer is just them trying to get away with a half-ass job.
@@badaboum2 Also, one minute disclaimer means longer watchtime😂
The long lunch break you mentioned is only in most southern countrys. And the main reason for it is because especially in the summer it is way too hot over there. Thats why they take the 2 hours break around 12 when the day is at it hottest. Why work at the hottest time when there are better times to work? This mostly apply for people who work with the hands btw, its less common for people whos work is sitting all day
I immediately zoned out of the video when the guy referred to Central European countries as Eastern Europe. Well it shows how inaccurate the video is and that it mostly talks about some odd stereotypes. Not to mention it is just impossible to homogenize Europe into a video like this. That is like talking about the "Asian" things that other people find weird, but failing to perceive Asia as a huge and vibrant continent of hundreds of cultures.
Just to clarify I have nothing against Ryan's reaction but the video he reacts to is less than informed.
Dutch handle to open the car door.
Just try it:
Open the door with your right hand, you will notice that you automatically look back over your shoulder, so you can see the cyclist who is just overtaking you, which reduces the risk of so-called dooring by 100%.
watching this i remembered the 2 vacations i had with my parents, one in bulgaria and one in spain. no internet, no phones, no english, just russian, i just trusted my dad. thinking back im impressed now that he made it with ez.
Kisses on the cheek happen between women as a greeting/goodbye or between a man and a woman for the same reasons, difference being they have to be good friends, at the very least.
Between guys, it's either your typical bro hug, a fist bump, the common handshake or the upward nod as an acknowledgement if we're in a rush and can't take a detour to go meet them.
The only kissing on the cheek between men I've ever witnessed/done is between father and son, between older people to their own older family members or between guys who're good friends and both swing the other way. For it to happen between straight guys, they have to be messing around with friends as a joke. It's not even uncommon or a rare occurrence - it simply doesn't happen. And when it does, 99.9% of the cases belong to one of the 4 reasons above.
10:13 Why is "Dublin" illustrated by Scotsmen dressed for a wedding speaking in Liverpool slang? With Stonehenge in the background!
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Because it's fun to confuse the Americans? 😂
I am the navigator on trips and always use a paper map. I make notes, calculations, notes, etc. GPS has some use but generally a nuisance. Have a background in geography and sailing so learned how to use a compass, vectors, etc. Put together, I usually have a sense of where I am physically relative to where I was/am going. Also helps when the technology fails. Am not ashamed to stop and ask people for directions or information.
GPS is an invaluable thing. However, navigation, not necessarily. These are two different things. GPS is just to locate your position on the map, to see where you currently are. If you are in an unknown place you never were before, it really helps a lot.
#2;06 It's simple: in Spain, Italy, France (it's mandatory), Italy or Greece, many companies and officials stop for almost 3 hours during meals to gather families at home to eat and share/enjoy their family lives together. This is called "quality of life (it's good for the mental health of your loved ones)" #3:17 If a close relative or friend touches/hugs you or kisses you on the cheeks, they will never be rejected. It would be an act of impiety. It is a custom that comes from medieval times in which the Christian clergy (Catholic or Orthodox) kissed to greet each other in front of all their parishioners and "give each other peace" that the Christian gospels preach. #8:11 For example, in Spain the legal age to start drinking alcohol (smoking) is 16 years. However, intelligently, the legal age to obtain a license to drive a car only begins at 18 years of age. It is basically the same or similar good social and educational policy that the Amish of the USA apply to their adolescent members and that they call Rumspringa. In most European countries, the alcoholic beverages sold by bars have a very low alcohol content and customers receive a good education from their parents, friends, relatives and society in general (drinking is always a social act) on how to consume safely a legal drug such as alcohol. If we add to this education to drink alcohol that European urban planning allows bars, pharmacies, supermarkets and other small businesses to exist less than 100 meters from residential areas, the danger of suffering traffic accidents due to alcohol is greatly reduced because you do not need cars #10;27 If you want to have an experience typical of a visit to Japan and feel totally "lost in translation", I recommend you a visit to Newcastle upon Tyne where they speak Geordie (bewlieve me this is more than a north English dialect... iit s a language and civilitation itself!)
In what fictional world is a 3 hour lunchbreak mandatory in France? Back in the 90s (and probably before too) shops closed for lunch but it just isn't the case anymore, we've very much imported the Anglo-Saxon style of "shove a sandwich down your throat and get back to work" culture. Most people work way too far from home for family lunch to be anything other than a fantasy, adults eat with their coworkers and kids eat at school.
Who tf in France holds hands with friends!? Especially men, no one does that. Putting your arm over your friend's shoulder, yes. Around the waist, yes. But hands? Nah
Girls do it. But guys, I've never seen it too, apart maybe from some people that appeared to be gay.
In Spain girls can hold hands but men never. If the two men are good friends probably one is going to put his hand on the shoulder of the other guy or do a kind of shoulder hug while talking if they are walking. But never hold hands if they are friends. If they are a couple, of course they are going to hold hands or have the hands at each other hips.
In Spain we greet with two kisses between women and men and women. Kisses between men are reserved to family membres and not all. They have to be a very close relative (brothers, dad and grandad)
Never saw that too, the video seems to talk bs about some matter, but I'm not especially surprised.
No. 1 is absolutely not true in the UK. I've had jobs where even getting a lunch break was a rare thing. I think in the UK the only people having 2 hour lunches with wine are senior execs and company owners (after a morning golfing!). Dinner can be an all-evening thing in the UK though, but to me at least it's becoming less common, especially if you're at a restaurant as it's just too expensive. The tactile thing's not a UK thing either. The most you'll probably get is a hug, and very rarely a kiss on the cheek. anything else probably isn't platonic!! Parts of some cities are in blocks (Glasgow and Edinburgh both have large bits of their city centre laid out like this, in fact Glasgow was apparently one of the inspirations for this in America. Barcelona is probably the best example of a block layout in Europe)
Yeah, I think it's s about twenty years since I had a job with an hour long lunch break . Yet it's so good for you
@@evelynwilson1566 Yep, all my 48 years of working life, lunch was 30 mins.
Now retired I live in France where the 2 hour lunch is absolutely standard and sacrosanct. It's an occasional annoyance that everywhere except the big supermarkets are closed at 12:00 until 14:00, together with open Saturday, even just the morning, then closed all day Monday!!
I've normally had 1 hour for lunch in England, can't speak for the rest of the UK.
Obviously differs from job to job.
Hello from Switzerland, 2 hours of eating, especially when you go to a restaurant, is quite normal, you eat, enjoy, talk and laugh sometimes; if I have to rush to eat, I prefer not to do it (I hate to eat when I'm stressed or upset). In France, Spain, Italy (as well as in our French and Italian speaking regions), a glass of wine is a must at the end of an evening, be it with a meal or simply in good company.
"Topless" is even allowed here, here in Basel on the banks of the Rhine, people sometimes unabashedly change their clothes to go swimming, generally no one bothers about that (and otherwise they can look away).
i'm italian, can confirm most of them, except the 2 hour break at lunch at most i've seen an hour, but 2 is possible if they have prolonged jobs or end up as truckers or something similar. seems like in the south they do the 2 hour break.
I worked in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for 4 years and the Red Light area is in well defined areas. They are easy to find. If the area is not to your taste then the area is easy to avoid. The areas are patrolled because there are police and security everywhere. The women behind the glass windows are all medically tested. In another city, there were labels quoting prices and their VAT (Value Added Tax)! The area does attract plenty of tourists and Stag Parties of drinking men.
Dont you think, show females in shop window, is BRUTAL disgrace?
@@erurainon6842 the women working in the netherlands need to be registered and are therefor for the most part independent. they decide for themselves they want to do sex work. besides all that, its only a disgrace if you look down on people who do sex work, which is not as much the case in the netherlands as in a lot of other places around the world (its not completely without stigma of course). but you thinking its a brutal disgrace says more about your intolerance of sex workers than about the sex workers themselves
@@gaolen Lol. That didnt sounds like excusion at allXD
@@erurainon6842 The disgrace is exposing them to stag parties and other drunk British men and tourists. With the traditional clients it was an exchange of business offers between consenting adults, not my kind of business either but it was fair and equal. The tourists treat the ladies like the are animals in a zoo, that is the disgrace.
@@erurainon6842 Yes I agree, but it exists and just passing on info.
You know, before they invented GPS and did also put it inside the smart / cell phones, humans already invented some crazy stuff called "a map" printed or drawn onto some piece of paper (or even a pig's skin). We know about and use these maps since many hundreds of years. I know it sounds strange but that's how one can find the way and not get lost in places (like a city) one doesn't already know. Funny, eh?
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The all night food thing is not just restricted to Europeans. I was honoured to be invited for dinner to a Japanese directors house here in the UK. He was doing his 2-3 year stint in a foreign country, quite a common thing in Japan to be sent abroad when working for a big company. I arrived at 6pm and was treated with great respect (all to do with honour with the older generations of Japanese) His wife served us with many traditional Japanese dishes. Around 8pm we stopped for a cigarette break in the garden. Then back to the feast. I think it finished around 9:30 pm. I didn't even really work for the company (famous electronics company) I was just a Contractor, but I had helped him when he first arrived and despite being the second in command in the whole of the UK he was a really nice bloke. So I think the whole Meals being much more than just an eating thing is common in Asia as well.
Actually if you get lost, just ask people at stops, or on the streets. I found that they often lead you correct and europe is relatively small so you will find every couple kilometres a house or something to ask for directions.
This video has so much inaccurate information, that it might as well be considered satire.
I traveled abroad before the cell phones. You had maps and guide books, giving you most of the information you needed. You could to go to the tourist information office or ask at the hotel to learn about certain things. You asked at the ticket offices about the available connections when you were traveling by trains or buses. Also it was good to know some basic words and expressions in the language of the country or know a language that was popular in the certain part of the world (for instance in the Central and Eastern Europe it used to be Russian, not English, since everybody learned it at school).
If you are working 8 hours a day, it is easy to fit in a 2 hour break. Work from 8-12, have dinner, work from 14-18.
Taking the car through Europe was fun as a kid. You navigated by maps and road signs. Of course you had researched main roads before you went too. But getting lost happened and asking for direction were not always so easy. 😂
I'm Dutch, and what always really bothers me is that for some F****D UP reason, these channels always treat Amsterdam as if it's a different entity compared to rest of the country.
Not to mention that lots of so called 'Dutch' things are pretty common in other places as well.
E.G.: red light district with ladies behind the windows in none shady areas of cities
@@PDVism Yep, although most of these red-light places have been closed nationwide.
it in general bothers me that most non-dutch people think that the whole of the netherlands is just amsterdam. when talking about very specificly amsterdam things, they will say "in the netherlands..." and other times they will say "in amsterdam..." eventhough its a general dutch thing -.-
@@gaolen I know what you mean, there are areas in the Netherlands that would fit right in with some of the most backwards conservative christian areas in the USA.
@@PDVism Yes and no. They are at least as christion but it's a different brand of protestantism, they are used to different churches around them, often only marginally different but not always, and they tend to be more hung about the sunday rest than nudity.
I don't have a 2 hour break, I work in Germany as a landscape gardener.
But it happens that we drink a beer or two with the co-workers after work.
When the weather is bad, we don't actually do anything during the day, we sit in cafe or go home when it's to bad to work.
Whenever we have guests, dinner can take up to 3 hours (starting at 20, finishing at 23). Children and people tired often go to sleep before we stopped being around the table. For this meal, there is often a small plate, then the principal meal, a plate of cheese if the guest do like it a lot, then dessert and to continue discussing and talking, we offer a hot beverage, sometimes with biscuit or chocolate.
But it doesn’t happen often, only when receiving people for dinner on weekends or when there is no rush.
At home, we usually eat in front of the tv, watching news and series.
For lunch, I often had a 2 hours break and, because I’m broke, I ate in 20 minutes and then took naps to be rested for the last 3-4 hours left (I don’t drink coffee so it was my way to cope with tiredness and kill the boredom. Now I can fully appreciate a 2 hours lunch break)
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Here in Germany most pub and clubs check your ID by the entrance.
Some also check at the bar if your under 18. Cause 16-18 you are only allowed beer wine and sekt and every thing else when 18.