• PurpleSkull@lemm.eeEnglish
    325·
    14 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·
        14 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·
          13 days ago

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

  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
    64·
    15 days ago

    In case you wanna see a “RETTUNGSGASSE!!!” (= rescuing lane) in action this clip is what it looks like ideally. If traffic slows down for whatever reason or if there are sirens in the distance drivers are supposed to assume this formation pre-emptively and misusing it is a crime.

    • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
      13·
      15 days ago

      So I actually experienced one of these on 64W between VA Beach and Richmond. It was amazing how everyone including myself just instinctively moved to the sides of the road. It’s not a hard concept it just takes cooperation.

      • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        14 days ago

        Also space to pull over is important. Here in the midwest we have room to move over and everyone does, honestly way more than is necessary. Like people start to pull over a few blocks in front of the ambulance if they just hear the siren.

        New York’s problem in the video is the congestion makes it hard to move out of the way when there is nowhere to go.

    • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      13 days ago

      What I find strange in Germany is that there is literally an emergency lane on the right side of the highway but they block it to make a corridor in the center

      • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        That’s the “Standstreifen” and it’s used for towing, parking after an accident or other emergency and as an extra lane during traffic jams and road work. That’s too many use cases to make them also suitable for emergency vehicles.

        • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          13 days ago

          Ah ok I didn’t know, where I live you can’t use it for towing or as an extra lane (wpu get fined if you do that)

          • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            13 days ago

            Not everyone can use it for towing and it only doubles as an extra lane when the road signs say so but my point is emergency services can’t rely on it being available.

            • TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              13 days ago

              Yeah it’s understandable, here is just the occasional accident or some roadworks but those will be signalised in advance

    • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      48·
      15 days ago

      That’s how it’s supposed to work in the US too. Maybe it depends on the state but in MN at least it’s illegal to fail to pull over for emergency vehicles. If you see any emergency vehicle on the road running with lights on then you are supposed to stop and pull off to the side so that they can have the whole road.

      The video in the OP looks nuts to me too. I’ve never seen people fail to pull over for an emergency vehicle in my area.

      • Hi_May@lemmy.world
        19·
        15 days ago

        This is a very NYC phenomenon, everywhere else I’ve ever been and lived in the US moves out of the way for emergency vehicles with their lights and sirens on, I’ve seen both issues where there is nowhere to go and times where people just don’t care, every time I’m in NYC I hope to not need medical attention

      • gt5@lemm.ee
        22·
        15 days ago

        This is how it is in Manhattan when it’s busy. It’s not so much failing to pull over so much as there is nowhere to go.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      At about 10 seconds on the video you can actually see a guy getting out of the way of the ambulance to let it through, though he was not doing it preemptively and the guy ahead of him couldn’t care less.

  • SirMaple__@lemmy.caEnglish
    16·
    14 days ago

    Where I live in Canada traffic moves for anything EMS related with lights(other than a tow truck unless of course they have an EMS escort). We pull up on to sidewalks, curbs, and anything really to clear a path. Heck I’ve seen people put their vehicle into a snow bank or a ditch to get out of the way. I guess we’re of the mindset that others will do the same for us should we be the ones awaiting EMS to arrive or deliver us to an ER.

  • CalipherJones@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    14 days ago

    I’ve seen roads so congested in NYC that they literally cannot get through. Saw a firetruck honk for a solid 5 minutes before getting to move anywhere.

  • CheezyWeezle@lemmy.world
    6·
    14 days ago

    Anyone got a mirror? It would be nice if catbox didn’t block vpn traffic, I’m not disabling my vpn for a meme

    • yata@sh.itjust.works
      25·
      14 days ago

      Definitely affectation. I suspect the strong German accent is as well. His vocabulary is too good for it.

    • YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca
      24·
      14 days ago

      That dude is just exaggerating the accent and pandering to get views. He’s trying to be the ‘in Germany we don’t say’-guy but for mericans. Unfortunately he isn’t funny, which caters to the ‘Germans have no humor’ stereotype

    • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
      6·
      14 days ago

      I work for a German company. They definitely ja that much. My wife couldn’t believe how many times they said it when I was on a company call with the higher ups the other day.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        21·
        14 days ago

        As a non-native English speaker, ages ago I moved to The Netherlands (were they also use “ja” for “yes”) and once I learned Dutch and got used to speak it as much or more than English, I noticed a definite tendency on my English for my “yes” to come out quite “ja”-like (sorta like an “yeah” with a pretty much silent “e”), though granted not as strong as that guy.

        Maybe this is some kind of broader linguistic tendency (non-native English speakers used to a “yes” in a different language that’s pretty close to one of the English words for “yes” - in this case “yeah” - just doing the lazy thing of using the other language word or a softened version of it because English-speakers get it) rather than a German-specific thing.

        I would be curious to hear from Dutch people and people from Scandinavia (if I’m not mistaken most if not all of whose national languages use a “ja” for “yes”) if they tend to do that or not.

    • lenuup@reddthat.com
      2·
      14 days ago

      That’s mostly an affectation. And as a German myself I have to say that his accent is atrociously german.

    • fakir@lemm.ee
      201·
      15 days ago

      It’s not just corporations. It’s the individual over the collective. And that is just the nature of certain societies, specifically more competitive societies. In India for example, the mindset of everyone in traffic is ‘me over others’ - fuck everyone else, i grab what space I can get. If I don’t, the next fucker will. Like if it starts raining, your 1 hour trip is now 3 hours, not 1.5 hours because there will be a jam at every intersection in the city. There are just so many people on the road and infrastructure (and society / government at large) that hasn’t lent itself to cooperation but rather competition. It becomes their mindset, it becomes everyone’s mindset. That is why many from that region turn right politically. I bet it’s the same for many Latin countries.

      • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        14 days ago

        I’m in Portugal, and it’s definitely not.

        I mean, people are clearly more selfish behind a wheel than they are in person (a lot of Portuguese “good manners” is really just social shame, which isn’t there when people feel anonymous, so many become a lot less polite when inside a car), but everybody just moves over when an ambulance comes and for example you’re more likely to be given way to turn off the road across the other lane, than not.

        You do see some asshole shit (for example, cars trying to scare pedestrians into waiting for the car to pass before entering a zebra crossing), but generally it’s a minority (which the notable exception of people not using direction indicators to help others, only themselves, which is a majority) rather than the majority.

        In my experience Spain is pretty similar.

        From own experience in Latin America it wasn’t much worse, though I was only ever in Peru and I wasn’t long in Lima to get a good feeling for their big-city driving.

  • NightCrawlerProMax@lemmy.world
    263·
    14 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·
      14 days ago

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

      • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
        4·
        13 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.

      • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
        21·
        13 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.

        • JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world
          14·
          13 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.

        • taxiiiii@lemmy.world
          32·
          13 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
            11·
            13 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

          • Herding Llamas@lemmy.world
            1·
            13 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·
              12 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·
                12 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·
                  12 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.

  • John@discuss.tchncs.de
    120·
    14 days ago

    But they at least still have ambulance. Wouldnt want to be in the UK while having a heartattack

    • 0ops@lemm.ee
      2·
      14 days ago

      I might as well not have one here in the states, I’m not wealthy enough. My health plan is to walk it off until I die young

    • khannie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      14 days ago

      I’m only across the water in Ireland and I can tell you from experience that ambulances arrive quickly, are free and so is the treatment. The UK health system is measurably better than ours so I feel like this is plucked from somewhere that the sun doesn’t shine.

    • Senal@programming.devEnglish
      15·
      14 days ago

      Are you saying the UK doesn’t have ambulances?

      That’s a ridiculous and easily disprovable claim.

      Also aren’t the nonexistent uk ambulances free?

      As in not charged at a rate of thousands of dollars, they’d still be tax funded I assume.

    • John@discuss.tchncs.de
      21·
      13 days ago

      I have family over there and they told me that health system went from one of the best pre brexit to quite bad today with huge waiting times for ambulance.

      We may are a bit spoiled by the german health system.

      And yes, i know that US have one of the most expensive and worst health systems for a so called first world country.

    • Monstrosity@lemm.eeEnglish
      193·
      15 days ago

      Yes this is a NY City thing. Everywhere else we all move out of the way.

      But fuck it, US deserves some negative propaganda, so have at it!

  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
    223·
    14 days ago

    So why not put paramedics on a e-bike, so they can actually arrive at the scene first. It’s not like the patient gets put into the ambulance immediately on arrival. Might as well have someone take care of the patient before the ambulance arrives. Just put a e-bike in the back of the ambulance or rack it on the front.

    • Letsdothisok@lemmy.worldBanned
      11·
      14 days ago

      That sounds like a legit idea. Most important 1st aid gear can fit in a backpack. Inhaler. Defibrillator. Tracheostomy Tube. Etc including stuff to stop bleeding, including the knowledge of how to do it correctly.

    • Susurrus@lemm.ee
      161·
      14 days ago

      Shitty solution to a shitty problem in my opinion. Quite often patients are indeed put into the ambulance immediately. Ambulances also have tons of medical equipment, none of which you can fit on a bike, obviously. Then there’s the question of paramedic safety, especially given how many road accidents there are in the US. Plus, that would be a major cost for healthcare providers. Instead of 2 paramedics, you’d need 3 or 4, since they can’t go solo, again due to safety concerns. Overall this isn’t something we should be looking for alternative solutions to. You can’t keep making workarounds for systemic issues, like horrible road/traffic design or society being severely uneducated.

      • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
        4·
        14 days ago

        Our service uses bikes in highly urban areas, but I can’t speak to the pros or cons of it as I don’t have the brain power right now. It’s a large service, but not anywhere near a significant part of the service. Urban stuff, large gatherings stuff, terrain stuff with quads and even a boat.

        They carry 100lbs of gear.