• PurpleSkull@lemm.eeEnglish
    325·
    7 days ago

    Eh, feels like he’s playing up the stereotype of the eternal German.

    "…WE DON’T DO ZIS IN GERMANY! YOU BUILD HOUSES WITH WOOD? WE DON’T DO ZIS IN GERMANY. YOU DON’T SEPARATE GLASS FROM RECYCLING? BUT WE DO ZIS IN GERMANY!!!

    I’m allowed to say that, I’m German myself. We are obnoxious and tone-deaf fuckers.

      • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        81·
        7 days ago

        This. I absolutely prefer to be a tone-deaf fucker among tone-deaf fuckers if that means my ambulance arrives timely after someone tried car buttsex at 260 kmh. (162 mph)

        What, speed limits? Don’t you dare touch my freedom.

        • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
          21·
          6 days ago

          It’s Manhattan you’re not getting above 26 let alone 260. 2.6 is a good day.

  • NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world
    263·
    7 days ago

    I’m not an American but I’ve lived in Washington for years. Every time an Ambulance is moving with its siren on, people move to the side of the road to let it pass. This guy is just inaccurate.

    • ZMoney@lemmy.world
      292·
      7 days ago

      Manhattan has gridlock that prevents this. There’s no space to move into.

      • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
        4·
        6 days ago

        yup, I was on a street so narrow just a couple months ago that I couldn’t pull over far enough to let a firetruck go by. I had pulled over as far as I could. The truck got behind me and I couldn’t move over. SO I just said “fuck it” - and zoomed into the road as fast as was safe and turned off the road the first place I could find.

  • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
    113·
    7 days ago

    To be fair, with the congestion that severe, the ambulance should use helicopters. Like they do here in London.

    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      14·
      7 days ago

      Good luck finding a spot to land somewhere close within Manhattan. Unless you happen to have the heart attack next to a car park (or the central park) that also happens to not be heavily used right now there’s hardly any spot to safely land.

      in London and other cities it’s less of a problem given we don’t build that many high rise buildings and got more big old market places and small parks.

      • Aux@feddit.ukEnglish
        31·
        6 days ago

        A chopper can land safely on any road cross. And NY has shit loads of them. Then it’s a 1 minute walk.

        • dogs0n@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          6 days ago

          We need them to rappel from the helicopter and swing right into your appartment through the window. This is how we save lives.

      • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
        21·
        6 days ago

        Germany is better than most places, but it happens here too. It could be one of those things you only notice when you’re looking for it.

        I’ve never seen someone open carry a gun in the US but when you listen to people it sounds like everyone does.

        I was a my friends WG (group apartment) and her roommate just got back from the US. She was shocked that the Americans even put sugar in their bread. Something something it’s why they are all fat and unhealthy. I was curious, so got all of the german bread there… And you know what? It all had a higher sugar content than the American bread example.

        • taxiiiii@lemmy.world
          32·
          6 days ago

          Regular, unpackaged, German bread doesn’t contain added sugar though? I just looked it up for the supermarkets in my area, so I’m sure I’m not spouting bullshit.

          Genuine question, what bread did you look at?

          There are varieties with sugar, but it’s not the norm. This is definitely much more typical for other countries (not just the US).

          • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
            1·
            6 days ago

            But serious question @taxiiiii. Do I need to go on? “Regular, unpackaged, German bread doesn’t contain added sugar though” - so you say - or does it? Which is exactly the point I was making about the ambulance. Ambulances never get blocked in Germany, just as german bread does not have added sugar. Both are of course wrong.

            Really. I can give you 1,000 other examples of where it has added sugar. I can also give you examples of german bread that have double or tripple higher added sugar then other countries typical bread.

            You are correct that many counties like Japan, or Sweden, or the US add sugar to their bread, but you would also be wrong to assume that it doesn’t happen in your country. Cause it happens in every country. Want to know how I know? I’ve professionally baked bread in Germany and the US.

            • taxiiiii@lemmy.world
              1·
              5 days ago

              Dude, I never said no bread in Germany contains sugar. Regular supermarket bread in my area mostly doesn’t, so I was wondering. I’m not sure what got you annoyed enough about an innocent question to downvote me and turn this into a three comment answer? I really wasn’t trying to be snarky.

              That’s the thing with stereotypes, it’s not about saying all people or all things are like this, it’s about tendencies. Some people play those up for humor. Anyone who then seriously claims that “everyone/everything from country x is like that” is an idiot of course. I didn’t do that though.

              Thanks for giving me examples, it’s good to know that the sugar content of storebought bread is that different depending on the region. That’s all I wanted to know.

              • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
                1·
                5 days ago

                Buuuttt… You more or less did say that. This is what you said - “Regular, unpackaged, German bread doesn’t contain added sugar though”

                And Haha no worries my man, I simply had the time. The thing is… regular supermarket bread in your area does have added sugar. That is the point. It is not region dependant. It does in northern Germany, it does in southern Germany, east and west. It does in your bio-markt, it does in Aldi, it does at netto, it does at rewe. The common default is added sugar in one variety or another. It is rare, so rare it is much harder to find an exception to that rule. Grocery stores almost all have mass produced bread - mass produced bread has added sugar for a lot of good reasons.

                • taxiiiii@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  5 days ago

                  The “regular” ist key here. I checked my local breads, saw no added sugar, saw some sweet breads with sugar, concluded that regular bread usually doesn’t contain sugar. Asked you to disprove the claim with examples, because I got curious. That’s not claiming all breads contain no sugar. That’s your interpretation, not my intended meaning.

                  I can also tell you why I concluded that: because I didnt count Gerstenmalz-extrakt as sugar (and didn’t know what “malted barley” translates to). I didn’t even know it was sweet. I searched for sugar in the ingredients and couldn’t find any. So now I learned something new, which is that this stuff is sweet, even if it isn’t pure sugar. Also that our breads, even if they usually taste less sweet than in other countries I’ve been to, have added sweet stuff. Good to know.

          • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
            11·
            6 days ago

            Which one did I look at? No idea. That was 4 years ago at someone’s house. But here are some examples. Merzenich are the most common bakeries around me.

            Their bauernhandbrötchen have 2,6g sugar per 100g. Their main sugar that they are adding is malted barely. But they also add beet sugar and grape sugar. Malted barley is sugar syurp. https://baeckerei-merzenich.de/ WEIZENMEHL 43 %, Wasser, ROGGEN MEHL 7 %, ROGGENMALZFLOCKEN 4 %, GERSTENMALZEXTRAKT, Zucker, Traubenzucker, Malzmehl (GERSTE, WEIZEN), WEIZENGRIESS, Rapsöl, Salz, BUTTERMILCHPULVER, Hefe

            Here is another kamps village bread 1.6g sugar https://kamps.de/produkte/brot-kamps-dorfbrot

            Or another at 2.6g sugar https://kamps.de/produkte/brot-kamps-eck

            Here is a sliced bread variety at 1.5 G that I see at rewe https://www.harry-brot.de/produkte/detail/show/sammy-s-super-sandwich-das-original

        • JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world
          14·
          6 days ago

          What bread are you eating? Another example I can’t relate to at all. I usually bake my own bread, sometimes I buy. Never had sugar in it. Maybe you were looking at Brioche or something? I consider that more of a sweet like cake or muffins.

  • ihatefascist@lemm.eeEnglish
    42·
    6 days ago

    Seen this happen in European countries too, eventhough I despise american fascist pigs

  • But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world
    926·
    6 days ago

    Nobody more annoying than a German tourist bitching about everything

    Edit:

    ITT Americans hate being called out for their bullshit, unless it’s by Germans 🤔

    • dellish@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 days ago

      I’d say waiting for an ambulance while a loved one dies in front of you just because assholes wouldn’t get out of the way is more annoying. No doubt followed by some health insurance bullshit that makes zero sense in any other country. But no, it’s the tourist who’s wrong.

  • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
    1012·
    6 days ago

    In the video right after he says nobody moves out of the way there is someone moving out of the way but he edited the video to remove it.

    Disingenuous bullshit.

    • AAA@feddit.org
      21·
      6 days ago

      Someone moving out of the way still doesn’t equal everyone moving out of the way. He’s way ahead of them at the end of the video. The point still stands.

    • A7thStone@lemmy.world
      121·
      6 days ago

      I’m amazed you could see that since he edited it out of the video so you couldn’t see it.

  • 3DMVR@lemm.eeEnglish
    29·
    7 days ago

    its a whole movie trope that this is an issue in europe because their infrastrucutre doesnt support cars

  • Landless2029@lemmy.world
    92·
    7 days ago

    This is a funny clip and an accurate depiction of NYC congestion.

    But, I live in a major city and we make way for ambulances. If it’s this bad we’ll end up with civilians running red lights or cops on motorbikes to unfuck gridlock.

    I myself ran a red light last week in rush hour to GTFO when I hear sirens. Just turn on my hazards, slow roll into the red light. Cars were already stopping for me so I was safe, then pulled over.

    This is really just making fun of NYC traffic and how fucked it is. The delivery makes it extra funny since we rarely get such an animated German on the front page.

  • guy@piefed.socialEnglish
    73·
    8 days ago

    I get imense stress from having an ambulance behind me even if there’s plenty of room to pass on the side. Immediately plotting where to go if it needs to go exactly where I am.
    I can’t imagine having an ambulance behind you and going ‘Meh, I’m driving here.’

    • edric@lemm.ee
      15·
      7 days ago

      This happened to me once. It was a main road with heavy traffic. I pulled over to the right to let the ambulance pass, but because of traffic, I was effectively sitting on the right lane. Apparently the ambulance wanted to move to the right lane because they were gonna turn right at the corner up ahead. I felt like an asshole because to everyone else on the road, it looked like I intentionally blocked the ambulance. And the siren blaring right behind you while the driver is blasting the horn is very stressful.

    • Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
      7·
      7 days ago

      If the ambulance is immediately behind you, you’ve already failed.

      In “we’ll-behaving” countries ambulance does not lose speed. If you hear a siren, you pull over, doesn’t matter if you see it or not.

      I’m not directing this at you, just explaning the course of action for people like in the video.