I like that line because I have always been sad that theres no direct and clear translation for care in german. It has such a deep meaning that cant be translated with one word. maybe germans arent made to care.
A good friend made a short video for me of all my friends and family saying "weiß nicht" one after one, which was my answer then to all the questions, what I want for my birthday. Still funny.
I mean, yeah, what else? 😂 I hate when people are not saying what they mean (excluding irony/sarcasm). It makes communication so much more complicated. Yes, I'm German, obviously 😅.
@@alitxuNo, it is just honest. Words mean something. I played that Game once. I had a present prepared, but just said "happy birthday" and looked into the disappointed face of the girl. She later found the present, but learned this lesson.
@@alitxuI don't find it sad when people believe my words. I find it sadder that there're people out there who act like all they want is being thought of but expect something materialistic. If you want the money I prefer you're not fake and just say it like it is. Nobody here thinks badly of you when you tell them you just want money, or something to add for a collection, or whatever the fµ(k you want, except of course if you come up with some entitled 8174 shit out of a reasonable budget. We do think badly of you though if you pretend to be oh so humble but hold your hands open behind your back.
No but see, Brits are actually way ahead of us there. When you buy something you can ask for an additional “gift receipt” - a receipt that doesn’t show the price but does make it possible to return something and the you can put it with the gift. So of the person likes the gift, they can just throw out the gift receipt and never need to know what it cost. Or if they don’t like it, they can quietly go return it without the gifter ever having to find out. I think it’s a fantastic concept and I wish we had it here.
@@WrDsliestIstDf yes, IF they return it. If they don’t, they won’t. And you can just put the gift receipt with the gift so if they do want to return it, there is no awkward “yeah, I actually hate it, please do give me the receipt” conversation. But I said that already and your reading comprehension failed you the first time so I’m not holding out hope.
When we say „I don’t want any presents“, we indeed mean it literally. And you really make the presentee happy if you don’t bring gift - except for helping to clean up after the party or you gift a little contribution to the party (noodle salad e.g.)
Yeah, oftentimes no gift is better than the wrong gift (having to pretend you like it, more clutter at home, thinking about how to get rid of it in a nice way ...)
Really? Also my experience ist da anders. When a women says she wants nix, then trau dich ja nicht ohne present aufzutauchen. (I am Austrian btw. Maybe it is different in the Alpen Republik)
As a German I can officially confirm that German birthday cards always look black and we write uplifting, funny things like "Happy Birthday, Liam, for getting one year closer to your death! You may be 30 now, but you look like 40 already!"
My Sister once bought me an empty case with the word "Nichts" on it, because she knows my affection for easy and dumb dad jokes.... I love it and that was the best gift I ever got from her 😁
I once gave my Spanish husband a gift card showing an old couple. She says "Dieses Jahr schenke ich dir nichts / This year I'm not giving you anything as a present." And he responds "Das wäre doch nicht nötig gewesen / That wouldn't have been necessary." It still cracks him up 😂
My German Ancestry (3rd generation) grandparents saved every envelope to use as notepaper. That and a love of Summer Sausage and sauerkraut has persisted even though the Greats immigrated in the 1850s
@@teresacronin5801 I see, so I may add correct spelling "Kräuter" just to make you perfect. Camomile or Fennel tea would be first choice for kids over any medicine. Or Peppermint tea in summer. Kräuter is the generic term; nothing specific.
@@holger_p Once. Again Danke, and yes they often ask for tea so fennel and mimt make sense. Other. Words I know but would not even attempt to spell. I'm told the word. For one of the kids is "3 cheese high" which I love
Whe I was in England 10 years ago, I went into a Shop that had tons of greeting cards. I loved that they had so many funny and sweet cards, for like any occasion and family constellations. I miss this in Germany.
I got questioned by my German colleague about my use of 3 x X in his card…I was genuinely confused. I told him it was one for everyone in his household (2) and one for luck. He told me it looked like I was making a triple X rated reference. 😳
I was really confused when I was in Amsterdam because the "XXX" is their coat of arms. At first I thought "Ok, I knew there are a lot of establishments of this sort in Amsterdam, but I don't think it's necessary for your townhall to have the XXX-sign..."
@@teresacronin5801Whenever we opened the present we always had to be careful to not damage the paper. It's so funny when you accidently get a small tear in the paper and the whole family holds their breath xD
got lots of greeting cards (and other letters) with xxx and xoxoxo after the signature from my British friends back in the day long before the advent of YT or the internet. figured it out in no time and started doing the same. there is no excuse to be confused about it nowadays, even without Liam's funny videos.
From experience my UK family put the least effort into cards and basically just added name and signed them (with xxx). German part definitely wrote a lot more. Recap, wishes and so on. Not sure if that's to be generalised
I wish it were that straightforward with my German family 😅 Each year before Christmas: “This time really no one will give presents to anyone. Let’s just have a good time together.” And each year plenty of my relatives don’t comply with the agreement 😳
My best friend once asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I said “Nichts” because I really didn’t know what I even want. So he gave me a box full of nothing in it ❤ No seriously, I meant it when I said I didn’t want anything haha There is also a book called “Wie gewünscht, Nichts”, that birthday card reminded me of it 😂
My husband and I give each other nothing! Neither for a birthday nor for Christmas, there is nothing! And you know what, it's very relaxing! You don't have to worry about what you can buy. You don't have to pretend to like the gift either. Instead of buying things for Christmas that just take up space and collect dust, we donate the money.
In German you have to act as if you didn't just recognized there was money with it until you finished reading the card and depending on who the other person is (grandparents etc) ´try to convince them´ that they really really really don't have to give you money since your happy to just be with them. They gonna say ´solange ich es noch kann, mache ich es gerne´ and than you can keep it. < 3
"Care?" 😂😂 I am dying!
KEHR?!
"Is that something you can eat?" 😂
The confued look gave me Terminator 2 vibes 😂
I like that line because I have always been sad that theres no direct and clear translation for care in german. It has such a deep meaning that cant be translated with one word. maybe germans arent made to care.
@@WrDsliestIstDf there literally is a word its "Kümmern"
Meanwhile my French relatives: Why only three kisses, what have we done!?!?
And my Polish friend!
@@teresacronin5801 where are the polish?🇩🇪
Three kisses per person are a fairly average greeting in France, innit?
😂😂😂
@@DerAlex86I hate when I have to receive more than two per person 😣
I love how he dropped the card, but not the money.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And how he looks if the money is counterfeit...
Priorities, priorities xd
What is the joke about that?
"wie gewünscht NICHTS" is an awesome greeting card! xD can I buy that?
Oh yeah, great birthday merch!! And you actually could bluff and sneak in a 10€ note 😂
A good friend made a short video for me of all my friends and family saying "weiß nicht" one after one, which was my answer then to all the questions, what I want for my birthday. Still funny.
Google: Geburtstagskarte nichts gewünscht.
Brauche die auch 😅😅😅 ! 😹😹😹😹😹
@@swantjeheinrich6730 bei Google eingeben: geburtstagskarte nichts gewünscht
"Wie gewünscht, nichts" is actually an absolute banger of a card
It's not as good as "best tea".
@@Paul2377
Yeah, that's pretty good, too.
The german guy gets colder and colder every Video 😅
Which is funny as Austrians find Germans too soft, too sentimental, too polite.
Flanderization strikes again
Our guy is in denial 😂
While the british guy seems to warm up more and more :)
Because of the politics right now
The "three" is deliberatly shown in a German way - nice detail 😊
Inglorious Bastards vibes
where have you seen a three in the video ?
Actually, writing 30 without writing 3 is done.
@@holger_p He showed it with fingers
He did better than Michael Fassbender
@@TheTrooper1878 Oh, a german would never notice and doesn't realize, there is a german way.
I like how the German made sure the money wasn't fake 😂
I always pretend I don't see the money when I receive birthday cards😅
@markschuster als ich deinen Kommentar gelesen habe, dachte ich dein Profilbild wäre ein Haar auf meinem Display... 🙃
Ich leider auch 🤦🏼♀️
@@sometimes_online8939klassischer Fall von Haar in der Kommentar-Suppe gefunden ☝🏻
I love this profile picture 😁
Hello@@sometimes_online8939
Just kissing someone in a card like that
... In Germany we consider this sexual harassment!
Naja, solange es ja unter 10 Sekunden dauert nicht
Gay
@@mor7223Legendäre Gesetze die wir haben
Well, it's the same as writing out "lots of kisses", it's independent from the notation.
😂
That is so true, if you say you don’t want anything, sometimes you won’t get anything! 😂
Sad
I mean, yeah, what else? 😂
I hate when people are not saying what they mean (excluding irony/sarcasm). It makes communication so much more complicated.
Yes, I'm German, obviously 😅.
@@alitxuNo, it is just honest. Words mean something.
I played that Game once. I had a present prepared, but just said "happy birthday" and looked into the disappointed face of the girl.
She later found the present, but learned this lesson.
Amazing😂 @@jochenrudiger
@@alitxuI don't find it sad when people believe my words. I find it sadder that there're people out there who act like all they want is being thought of but expect something materialistic. If you want the money I prefer you're not fake and just say it like it is. Nobody here thinks badly of you when you tell them you just want money, or something to add for a collection, or whatever the fµ(k you want, except of course if you come up with some entitled 8174 shit out of a reasonable budget.
We do think badly of you though if you pretend to be oh so humble but hold your hands open behind your back.
and always remember to keep the receipt: „Wenn es dir nicht gefällt kannst du es ja umtauschen!“
No but see, Brits are actually way ahead of us there. When you buy something you can ask for an additional “gift receipt” - a receipt that doesn’t show the price but does make it possible to return something and the you can put it with the gift. So of the person likes the gift, they can just throw out the gift receipt and never need to know what it cost. Or if they don’t like it, they can quietly go return it without the gifter ever having to find out. I think it’s a fantastic concept and I wish we had it here.
The German three gets me every time 😂
@@glockenreinsaw that in Italy too last christmas, it’s getting around
@@glockenrein but they will eventually know the price if they return it, so thats not ahead of us thats just nonsense.
@@WrDsliestIstDf yes, IF they return it. If they don’t, they won’t. And you can just put the gift receipt with the gift so if they do want to return it, there is no awkward “yeah, I actually hate it, please do give me the receipt” conversation. But I said that already and your reading comprehension failed you the first time so I’m not holding out hope.
My husband is German, and these videos are so accurate! It's actually my therapy.
Happy therapy bud
In Germany we say “wer nicht will der hat schon”
When we say „I don’t want any presents“, we indeed mean it literally. And you really make the presentee happy if you don’t bring gift - except for helping to clean up after the party or you gift a little contribution to the party (noodle salad e.g.)
yeah, but at some point, chocolates or wine are considered presents again.
Well, we also say "Das hättest du doch nicht machen müssen" when we get gifts.
Yeah, oftentimes no gift is better than the wrong gift (having to pretend you like it, more clutter at home, thinking about how to get rid of it in a nice way ...)
Really?
Also my experience ist da anders. When a women says she wants nix, then trau dich ja nicht ohne present aufzutauchen.
(I am Austrian btw. Maybe it is different in the Alpen Republik)
That is disturbing
Getting flashbacks from every christmas/birthday when my oma always lectured me on saving the wrapping for reuse….
"kann man ja nochmal benutzen"😂 cant imagine anything more german than this
Is this a Kräutertee 🍵 😂
😂😂😂
As a German I can officially confirm that German birthday cards always look black and we write uplifting, funny things like "Happy Birthday, Liam, for getting one year closer to your death! You may be 30 now, but you look like 40 already!"
XDD
I love how German Liam didn't disagree about being besties.
"Care?" 😂😂😂 and still laughing
My Sister once bought me an empty case with the word "Nichts" on it, because she knows my affection for easy and dumb dad jokes....
I love it and that was the best gift I ever got from her 😁
Ein Silbernicksel und ein Warteweilchen.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BOTH OF U, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR LIAM, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤
"You said you didn't want anything"
-- ,"yeah but I didn't mean it"
*confused German noises*
The best-tea card is super cute
I once gave my Spanish husband a gift card showing an old couple. She says "Dieses Jahr schenke ich dir nichts / This year I'm not giving you anything as a present." And he responds "Das wäre doch nicht nötig gewesen / That wouldn't have been necessary." It still cracks him up 😂
He is so sweet and innocent when he doesn't understand jokes 😁
My German Ancestry (3rd generation) grandparents saved every envelope to use as notepaper. That and a love of Summer Sausage and sauerkraut has persisted even though the Greats immigrated in the 1850s
Oh and what is Kloiter tea?
@@teresacronin5801 Herbal tea, just to distinguish from black tea. Some say infusion, in german it's all tea (unless it's coffee).
@@holger_pDanke. I babysit high German speaking Children and food words are very useful to know.
@@teresacronin5801 I see, so I may add correct spelling "Kräuter" just to make you perfect.
Camomile or Fennel tea would be first choice for kids over any medicine. Or Peppermint tea in summer. Kräuter is the generic term; nothing specific.
@@holger_p Once. Again Danke, and yes they often ask for tea so fennel and mimt make sense. Other. Words I know but would not even attempt to spell. I'm told the word. For one of the kids is "3 cheese high" which I love
The "discreet" hint... Happy Birthday Liam..
Yeah Happy Birthday 💐💐
A true german wouldve written a self composed poem
Leopold maybe?
whether or not he represents German people, I really love this character of yours
Happy Birthday Liam
Which one?
@@budapestkeleti6404 Liam Carpenter
@@trainspottingoberschwaben4028 they are two. One of them is English the other is German.
@@budapestkeleti6404 i mean the british and the german Liam
@@trainspottingoberschwaben4028 the British Liam is too British for my taste 🤮
My parents saved & reused wrapping paper, and I do, too.
Each of them had a German grandparent, so the trait must be autosomal dominant.
😂❤❤
And you may also have inherited their wonderful dry humor. 😃
"care!" LMAO ha ha ha ha I'm rollin' and you got the German three fingers too! such details!
Birthday by Liam Carpenter, more like birthday boy Liam Carpenter 😂
Happy birthday mate 🎉
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!🎉🍀
The german man needs a name I refuse to believe that he is the same guy.
Be careful, we can reuse this paper 🤣🤣
Happy Bday Liam! 🎉
Liaaammm u just made my day I laughed out loud so hard 😂😂😂 u really light up our lives with ur sketches. Keep them coming!!! We love u!!
Happy Birthday Liam! And don't forget to bring a cake for the older man and the mother - and maybe a Dinkelstange for the baby 😄
Dinkelstange ?? maybe the Liquid one .. in a tincan??
Oh dear! 😂 Happy Birsday sen! 💐😘 (in a not romantic way!)
As a german, I just feel so caught when you present german clichees😅😅😅😅. Keep doing what you do❤❤❤❤❤❤.
Microaggression
Wie gewünscht: NICHTS.
😂😂😂
nach dem kommi gesucht 😂 wusste bin nicht der einzige die Karte feiert.
@@DasDaniel007 🤭
Whe I was in England 10 years ago, I went into a Shop that had tons of greeting cards. I loved that they had so many funny and sweet cards, for like any occasion and family constellations. I miss this in Germany.
I got questioned by my German colleague about my use of 3 x X in his card…I was genuinely confused.
I told him it was one for everyone in his household (2) and one for luck.
He told me it looked like I was making a triple X rated reference. 😳
I was really confused when I was in Amsterdam because the "XXX" is their coat of arms. At first I thought "Ok, I knew there are a lot of establishments of this sort in Amsterdam, but I don't think it's necessary for your townhall to have the XXX-sign..."
@@Madeleine_des_Esseintes 😅
Mein Bes-Tee-r Freund
What a koinkidink, it's my wife's birthday today. She is German and I have her a boardgame, of course.
Koinkidink :'D
Hopefully one with 300 pages of rules.😂
Only true Germans would reuse wrapping paper over and over again😭🤚
Liam is getting more German than most Germans
[yes I liked my own comment]
Any of us whose parents lived through the depression...we all save paper
@@teresacronin5801Whenever we opened the present we always had to be careful to not damage the paper.
It's so funny when you accidently get a small tear in the paper and the whole family holds their breath xD
@@Feurigel1806 echte deutsche die hier sprechen🗣
That's darn-right cute!
He did became SO german he had now 2 identities!
I particularly enjoyed the german 3 with the fingers
Oh my LORD! You NAILED it, bro!! Awesome...😅😅
Bro checking if it was „Falschgeld“ in the end 🤣🤣🤣
Die zweite Geburtstagskarte 😂😂😂
"It is, now!" 😂😂
I love and so much get that psycho way of German Liam😂 A German friend must be that fun😅
Zumindest hat er dem britischen Freund eine Glückwunschskarte geschenkt.
Now you have two souls in your body😂❤
Xxx is a very british thing.they even have a thing for putting " x" end of the sentence in messages
I thought in American XXX and OOOs the Xs were hugs, I got it all wrong 😳 So the Os must be the hugs 🙈
@@ember1794 xxx means kisses,xoxo means kisses and hugs
@@golding3264 Ah, thank you!!
got lots of greeting cards (and other letters) with xxx and xoxoxo after the signature from my British friends back in the day long before the advent of YT or the internet.
figured it out in no time and started doing the same. there is no excuse to be confused about it nowadays, even without Liam's funny videos.
@@embreis2257 No excuse?! Wow
That British card is way too small! All of the ones I get from the family-in-law are absolutely massive.
From experience my UK family put the least effort into cards and basically just added name and signed them (with xxx). German part definitely wrote a lot more. Recap, wishes and so on.
Not sure if that's to be generalised
Happy birthday Liam!
"It is now" XD Happy birthday, best-teas! May you always wish for the right thing and never get disappointed =)
Happy Birthday 🎂 to you liamy🎉
Liam’s eternal optimism that this man is going to change breaks my heart😂
"Why would you want to kiss me?"
That got me laughing my head off.😂😂😂
Warte Liam… Du bist Wassermann und hast fast wie ich Geburtstag? Coool 🎂 🎉
Happy Birthday!
Oh god, that 3 reminds me of that scene in Inglorious Basterds 😂
I am ... absolutely...dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I wish it were that straightforward with my German family 😅
Each year before Christmas: “This time really no one will give presents to anyone. Let’s just have a good time together.”
And each year plenty of my relatives don’t comply with the agreement 😳
The checking of the bill is so accurate
Happy Birthday Liam! 🎉🎉🎉
"We can reuse that paper" 😂
Why is this so relatable 😂😂😂 I can’t stop laughing
Happpyyyy birthday🎉❤
Happy birthday, Liam!
You trip me out German man.❤
I need this card.
It's soooo true!!🥲🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The pronunciation of "care..." like it's a foreign concept to him 😂
Nah this time the german went too cold 🥶
Happy birthday 🎂
🎉 happy birthday 🎂 🎉 ...Liam!
Hey Liam, is it your birthday? If yes, happy belated birthday!!!! 🥳
Happy Birthday Liam. Your great🎉
Morgen hab ich Geburtstag.😊
It's so funny, that you two have on the same day birthday! I break together😂
Dropped the card, not the money. True German reaction here.
is it a Kräuter Tea? No, a Rheuma Tea 😂
The funniest thing about it is, that today is actually my birthday. Even Liam has send me a sign :)
Ich habe heute Geburtstag
Dank euch allen
😂
Alles gute zum Geburtstag!
@@ikarusm178 Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
Happy Birthday
Alles Gute! ^^
Theor love grows stronger in each clip.
Be careful with the paper .. it can be reused
"Watch out, we can reuse that paper."
Was that a clip about me? 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaaaaass...i can't shop laughing. Original German 😅😂😂😂 I am German and I love your videos 😂
My best friend once asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I said “Nichts” because I really didn’t know what I even want.
So he gave me a box full of nothing in it ❤ No seriously, I meant it when I said I didn’t want anything haha
There is also a book called “Wie gewünscht, Nichts”, that birthday card reminded me of it 😂
My husband and I give each other nothing!
Neither for a birthday nor for Christmas, there is nothing! And you know what, it's very relaxing!
You don't have to worry about what you can buy. You don't have to pretend to like the gift either.
Instead of buying things for Christmas that just take up space and collect dust, we donate the money.
HAHAHA "wie gewünscht NICHTS" :'D
Yep. There's no "subtext", no ... "catching the vibe", LOL
In German you have to act as if you didn't just recognized there was money with it until you finished reading the card and depending on who the other person is (grandparents etc) ´try to convince them´ that they really really really don't have to give you money since your happy to just be with them. They gonna say ´solange ich es noch kann, mache ich es gerne´ and than you can keep it. < 3