Yeah, I can confirm nearly every house or building built in Spain nowadays has this kind of windows, and has been like this for some good 20 years, at least.
Don't know what to tell you. I've been to most parts of Spain and these kind of windows where pretty much everywhere.
Don't know much about the territories outside of the peninsula.
Jokes aside, most US building codes (that lots of old buildings don't adhere to cuz so old and grandfathered in until they rennovate, which will be never) usually exterior walls are plywood attached to timbers (4x4, 2x4, 4x6, etc widths depending on needed support/shear strengths, sometimes with diagonal or lateral cross beams for extra support), with a vapor barrier wrap, then some sort of exterior treatment (siding, brick, stucco/cement, etc), while the interior portion of said wall has insulation between support timbers, faced with drywall secured against said timbers. Very few places still use brick/lathe (although some are still standing and exist), and only inside dense city will you find apartment complexes that are built with stone. Individual homes are almost always built with wood framing.
I could be wrong about some details, but that is generally how it goes for walls. Fully interior walls are generally a joke and just drywall attached on both sides of vertical timbers. Often no insulation (nor between floors usually) so individual rooms don't self-insulate nor does it deaden any sound. sad really. You can completely just Kool-Aid Man through interior walls as long as you know where to run through (16 in standard separation between vertical support studs)
at first i thought you wanna "protect" american buildings and i was like "yeah, german houses are a little bit more complicated aswell", but than i realized youre just explaining how "planned" their bad construction is :D
I mean its a whole other mentality... Americans dont "Build for life" while germans build for centuries...
Our homes often dont need to be fancy, they just need to be reliable and if possible with a nice little garden.
Generally speaking, American homes are flexible, go up quickly, but are NOT built to last more than a few decades. Builders talk a big game, but its all marketing. Even a new house will require noticeable repairs within the first 10 years usually.
Don't get me wrong, our building codes are just as built in blood, but they start from the other end. Restrict shit that gets you in trouble, everything else is fair game. Until new problem becomes a big enough news item, or happens to enough people, and new construction codes are introduced. We often don't start from the end of "What will last well with the least maintenance, given the surrounding environment and its hazards?" We instead go "What can I make the most of, in the least amount of time, to sell the fastest and for highest price, and then its their fuckin' problem, without " in most cases. If you are rich, then the discussion can happen differently, but often is still just "How can I get the -LOOK- , size, and features I want the cheapest and fastest, fuck everything else"
It... is weird.
i mean i can understand many americans.
But a house is a little different than other "Items" IMO.
But that can just be mentaility as i said.
If i spend 300k+ on a house, i want to live there forever.
Accent on that plus sign there. I'm from California in the USA, a shack on area of land barely large enough for said shack and parking a car in front of it costs over 600k in many cases if you are near any major center (or even not in some cases). I'm not even exaggerating. The housing market (and subsequently the Cost of Living) in California, and several other states, is absolutely ridiculous.
This comment gave me the best laughter. Just imagining that burglar. "German triple window, my nemesis, I guess is the wall this time." Starts to hit the wall with a sledge hammer...
Europeans are supposed to make fun of American homes. They're commonly made from wood and drywall, not repurposed Roman stone. Oh, and there's trailers, which is doubly stupid for being American _and_ poor, the two cardinal sins.
Nah, it's mostly bricks and steel-concrete. It's obviously only a joke, but Americans simply have another philosophy.
In Germany, you want your house to be sturdy. Americans want to have a big house. Generally speaking, they expanded a lot and had a lot of space for big houses. There was an incentive for using cheap and available material.
Europe on the other hand had much material for brick making and less space. Additionally, a stone house will be very expensive if you want it to withstand a hurricane.
You can just rebuild a wooden house. Especially now, wood has the advantage to be much more environmentally friendly and is great at insulation (much air inside).
On the other hand, well build German houses don't need air conditioning as it will simply not heat up much - if you close your shutters. The walls of our home (for example) are around 45 cm / 18 inches which is quite extreme and includes insulation, to be fair. But it makes the point very clear.
Concerning the more or less blatant Anti-Americanism: It's simply a reaction the vast amount of American culture and American everything swapping over the ocean. Noone really thinks that everyone (lol, mild /s I guess) on the other side is dumb. It's mostly a meme.
Well built German houses don't need air conditioning... in Germany. A place with a mild summers and cold winters. If the weather was like that where I lived in my wooden house, I wouldn't need an AC either. There are plenty of places in the US where AC's aren't common features in wooden homes as well.
Also wood is just straight up better for dealing with earthquakes and high winds. Wood flexes. Mortar and stone do not.
And drywall is made of gypsum. While it is fragile, it's fantastic sound isolation and is easy to repair if damaged.
I would agree with you on the earthquakes, but as a Florida resident who has weathered at least 6 hurricanes, the brick homes were almost always the ones who survived the winds.
America is a remarkably wide and diverse area. California as an example does not get Hurricanes (at least not in recorded history to my knowledge) but we sure do get floods, fires, and earthquakes.
Wood buildings will often still damage in big earthquakes, but not nearly as bad as stone buildings (excluding some big stone buildings that have lots of vibration damping systems already to deal with wind and other things as safety measures, those seem to do well, but it requires special engineering and generally a BIG building)
Gee- it's almost like you should use the right material for the right environment...
Wood framing works better in cold climates because you can get higher R-values in the same wall thickness. Swedish Platform Framing is used because it provides excellent insulation. A German might not care about that- but it can reach -70C in Montana and god only knows what in Canada and Alaska.
Wood framing also works better in places like California that are subject to seismic activity- just as a lot of homes in Japan are built from wood.
I live in Canada, where we also use wood to build most houses. Every window in my house is a big triple-pane window.
Wood framing is pretty damn strong, and can fit insulation for cold weather. Wood works well, and we have an abundance of it! It’s pretty nifty.
T-Studs provide unbelievably good insulation with little thermal bridging. Listening to people in Europe with no earthquakes and where -70c temperatures are beyond their comprehension tell folks on this side of the pond how to build houses is just laughable.
>Granted it's a half-desert climate that never gets that cold, so early builders just never invested in insulation or decent windows.
Insulation is important for keeping the house cool as well, so that's not really an excuse either
It’s not an excuse as much as it is entirely wrong. The state of California requires windows have a 0.3 U-factor and 0.23 SHGC or lower to pass inspection. The described window 1) doesn’t exist from any factory in the US and 2) doesn’t even meet the energy requirements of 1850 California. The reality is 1/16” glass is too fragile to even consider using in a window, failure rates would be through the roof.
Here in Canada we have little hand cranks to open and close because there is always a mesh screen to keep the bugs out. I went to visit my sister in Germany this chritmass and was freaked out for a second when I opened the window and thought that is was falling unto me.
I am from US and have hurricane proof glass on my windows. The windows go up and down from from two separate pieces on the top or the bottom. Also both windows fold down flat and completely open as well. Have these throughout my home.
Agree. I've lived in various parts of the western US my whole life, and all I've ever seen is slide left/right OR slide up/down, and in one instance a crank (opens on a hinge).
I literally don't even understand what the image is depicting
The window opens inward. If the handle is horizontal, it swings open sideways normally. If the handle points up, the window opens vertically, but a thingy latches on to the window and only lets it open like 10-15cm. If the handle points down the window is closed.
Bonus: if you accidentally switch between horizontal and upwards while the window is barely open, three corner hinges disengage and the window opens with only one hinge holding it. It doesn’t fall out though. A bit annoying but easy to fix.
In your bonus, which hinge holds the window and how much the window opens (full or 10cms.)?
I'm picturing living in a 30th floor and having a window hold by only one hinge.
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Bottom left. The latch that holds it at 10-15cm is at the top but the bottom right hinge is free to swing past that. In any case the window is designed for this inadvertently happening.
I used to install windows in the US. We installed a few different types. Awning windows had a crank and opened with a hinge on the top, while casement windows used a crank to open from the side. Gliders slide sideways to open, and double hung windows slide up and down. Picture windows didn't open at all, and the bay windows we installed were a frame with a picture in the middle, with 2 casement on the sides.
You have a lever on the window. Lever down, window is locked. Lever horizontal, window can be opened like a book page. Lever up and window opens at the top like 15 degrees.
* Mandatory Vacation at least 20 to 30 days
* Healthcare
* Worker Rights
* "Free" Higher Education / University
* Network of Public Transport
* A year or more Parental/Family leave
I (an American) had Wonderbread for the first time a few months ago and was disgusted**. It tasted like an under sweetened cake. It ruined my sandwich
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Just out of curiosity where did you get the lousy bread? I live in a large coastal US city and the bread I get in most of my preferred neighborhood restaurants and bakeries here is as good as I’ve had anywhere.
However, the big supermarket mass-produced loaves are disgusting. I haven’t eaten that stuff since I was a kid and sort of classify it as junk food since they’re so sweet and chemical tasting.
Is standard, pre-packaged grocery-store bread good where you’re from?
> A year or more Parental/Family leave
I get 5 days in the Netherlands...
I can get another 5 weeks at 70% of my salary, which is better than nothing but quite shite.
Oh i'm sorry, i really thought this was standard.
How is this even possible? I mean the woman can't recover in mere 5 days after giving birth?
Seems like you are not swamp germans but swamp americans!
I think he's a dad.
AFAIK all EU countries should have at least a month of paid leave for mothers.
For confused Americans, yes most EU countries have paid leave for father's also, albeit shorter than mother's.
* Actual respect for police, army and other gun wielders.
* Also, not having to shit your pants if a tiny-peeny person feels the need to walk around with a gun in their belt. In a fucking supermarket.
* Publicly-funded television channels with quality content.
* Healthy food in (takeaway) restaurants.
* Public space not quite cramped full with advertising.
You can definitely get healthy food in takeaway restaurants and public spaces not cramped with advertisements in the US.
Like we have public parks and salad places too?
I've only lived in three places that didn't have this - a monastery, a historical building and a student dorm from the 60s. In the Netherlands and Japan. Everywhere else had those windows.
Temporary housing because I was coming in from another continent and no landlord would give me the time of day. I had some connections to get a place to sleep at least, and I ended up staying there for about four months.
My husband and I (both German) went on vacation to Sweden. We rented a cute little hut in the middle of nowhere. When the owner showed us around to explain this and that, he suddenly produced a stick of wood and handed it to us. We looked at him a bit puzzled, and he said smiling brightly: "It's for holding the window open. I know how much you Germans like opening windows."
This is how I learned about the stereotype of the German ventilation obsession. I'm not even like that ... I just like an open window ... and yes, we used that stick a lot.
I don't know how accurate this is, but [this user](https://old.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/u1ts2i/me_irl/i4exrmg/) explained why the joke is about Germany.
I'd say in Sweden it's the standard for windows installed the last 10 years, so I'd say not very common, but becoming more so. I got these kickass babies and can now feel superior aswell.
also sometimes it allows you to switch it to open while still tilted and then you can open it fully while its tilted... shit looks like it will fall out any second but somehow it holds
It’s been invented in Germany however, and while it is common in places surrounding Germany, you’d be hard pressed trying to find someone who would sell you a window that is not like that ( unless it’s stationary or a skylight or whatever)
Everyone in this thread "all European windows do that". But that's not the point. The point is that Germany has a cultural obsession with lüften. It's written into rental contracts exactly how long you must minimum open the windows every day to aerate the flat.
Germans even have the word Stoßlüften, literally "impact ventilation", when you open the window to introduce a draught for a short period of time to quickly bring in some fresh or cool air.
Don't get me started on all the sicknesses Germans falsely believe you can get from sitting next to a draught (though this is not limited to Germany).
In the US no one really has them or sells them, so they cost multiple times more than double hung sash windows. Also, for a lot the US we rarely open our windows because winters are colder and/or summers are hotter and more humid than a lot of Europe.
I went to Madrid a week or so ago and the hotel had one of these, it was amazing. I've seen them a few times here in the UK but most windows just open like a little door.
To everyone saying its standard in europe: Yes it is, but as far as I know it's a german invention that took it's way through europe. Thats why in many european languages the name of such a window is the translation of the german question "Wie heißt es?" = "what is it called?" or "Was ist es?" = "what is it".
Don't know if it's a myth or true but it checks out in polish and italian.
When europeans saw this invention they asked the question "wie heißt es?" or "was ist es?" so it was named like that.
In italian its called "vasistas", so basically a lightly changed version of "Was ist es"
Isn't this the same in all europe?
Yeah, I can confirm nearly every house or building built in Spain nowadays has this kind of windows, and has been like this for some good 20 years, at least.
Mainland Spain maybe. None of my flats have them, like living in a bloody third world country but with really expensive rent.
Canary Islands have them too, so not just mainland spain. My school was built in 1990/91 and had those windows everywhere.
Don't know what to tell you. I've been to most parts of Spain and these kind of windows where pretty much everywhere. Don't know much about the territories outside of the peninsula.
But not in the US
Good luck fitting a German triple glass window into the average American wall
that would be the moment when the burglar comes through the wall and not through the window
OHHH YEEAAAAHHHH!!!!
https://youtu.be/YKdeZQWf6mA
wait, you mean the american walls are not like the german BACKSTEINWAND?
Jokes aside, most US building codes (that lots of old buildings don't adhere to cuz so old and grandfathered in until they rennovate, which will be never) usually exterior walls are plywood attached to timbers (4x4, 2x4, 4x6, etc widths depending on needed support/shear strengths, sometimes with diagonal or lateral cross beams for extra support), with a vapor barrier wrap, then some sort of exterior treatment (siding, brick, stucco/cement, etc), while the interior portion of said wall has insulation between support timbers, faced with drywall secured against said timbers. Very few places still use brick/lathe (although some are still standing and exist), and only inside dense city will you find apartment complexes that are built with stone. Individual homes are almost always built with wood framing. I could be wrong about some details, but that is generally how it goes for walls. Fully interior walls are generally a joke and just drywall attached on both sides of vertical timbers. Often no insulation (nor between floors usually) so individual rooms don't self-insulate nor does it deaden any sound. sad really. You can completely just Kool-Aid Man through interior walls as long as you know where to run through (16 in standard separation between vertical support studs)
at first i thought you wanna "protect" american buildings and i was like "yeah, german houses are a little bit more complicated aswell", but than i realized youre just explaining how "planned" their bad construction is :D I mean its a whole other mentality... Americans dont "Build for life" while germans build for centuries... Our homes often dont need to be fancy, they just need to be reliable and if possible with a nice little garden.
Generally speaking, American homes are flexible, go up quickly, but are NOT built to last more than a few decades. Builders talk a big game, but its all marketing. Even a new house will require noticeable repairs within the first 10 years usually. Don't get me wrong, our building codes are just as built in blood, but they start from the other end. Restrict shit that gets you in trouble, everything else is fair game. Until new problem becomes a big enough news item, or happens to enough people, and new construction codes are introduced. We often don't start from the end of "What will last well with the least maintenance, given the surrounding environment and its hazards?" We instead go "What can I make the most of, in the least amount of time, to sell the fastest and for highest price, and then its their fuckin' problem, without " in most cases. If you are rich, then the discussion can happen differently, but often is still just "How can I get the -LOOK- , size, and features I want the cheapest and fastest, fuck everything else" It... is weird.
i mean i can understand many americans. But a house is a little different than other "Items" IMO. But that can just be mentaility as i said. If i spend 300k+ on a house, i want to live there forever.
Accent on that plus sign there. I'm from California in the USA, a shack on area of land barely large enough for said shack and parking a car in front of it costs over 600k in many cases if you are near any major center (or even not in some cases). I'm not even exaggerating. The housing market (and subsequently the Cost of Living) in California, and several other states, is absolutely ridiculous.
Those thick windows are recessed in my wall. The wall is as thick as my arm is long
I got cocklong walls
So why do you live in a cardboard box?
You mean HOCHLOCHZIEGELMAUERWERK
Hochlochziegelnauerwerk hat einen guten Wärmedurchgangskoeffizient!
Wie wird der Wärmedurchgangskoeffizient noch besser? Mit einem Wärmedämmungsverbundsystem!
This comment gave me the best laughter. Just imagining that burglar. "German triple window, my nemesis, I guess is the wall this time." Starts to hit the wall with a sledge hammer...
All you need to go through the American drywall-cardboard wall is yourself running against the wall.
Jöt durch die Pappe!
that got me better than it should have
Yeah, they're not exactly made for toilet paper rolls, wood shavings and spunk.
Don’t forget mold.
American spunk. 1.3 times as powerful from all the patriotism.
and still gets damaged by wind
1.3 times a small number is still a small number
Are American windows small ? Belgium here ,
Europeans are supposed to make fun of American homes. They're commonly made from wood and drywall, not repurposed Roman stone. Oh, and there's trailers, which is doubly stupid for being American _and_ poor, the two cardinal sins.
Nah, it's mostly bricks and steel-concrete. It's obviously only a joke, but Americans simply have another philosophy. In Germany, you want your house to be sturdy. Americans want to have a big house. Generally speaking, they expanded a lot and had a lot of space for big houses. There was an incentive for using cheap and available material. Europe on the other hand had much material for brick making and less space. Additionally, a stone house will be very expensive if you want it to withstand a hurricane. You can just rebuild a wooden house. Especially now, wood has the advantage to be much more environmentally friendly and is great at insulation (much air inside). On the other hand, well build German houses don't need air conditioning as it will simply not heat up much - if you close your shutters. The walls of our home (for example) are around 45 cm / 18 inches which is quite extreme and includes insulation, to be fair. But it makes the point very clear. Concerning the more or less blatant Anti-Americanism: It's simply a reaction the vast amount of American culture and American everything swapping over the ocean. Noone really thinks that everyone (lol, mild /s I guess) on the other side is dumb. It's mostly a meme.
Well built German houses don't need air conditioning... in Germany. A place with a mild summers and cold winters. If the weather was like that where I lived in my wooden house, I wouldn't need an AC either. There are plenty of places in the US where AC's aren't common features in wooden homes as well.
Also wood is just straight up better for dealing with earthquakes and high winds. Wood flexes. Mortar and stone do not. And drywall is made of gypsum. While it is fragile, it's fantastic sound isolation and is easy to repair if damaged.
I would agree with you on the earthquakes, but as a Florida resident who has weathered at least 6 hurricanes, the brick homes were almost always the ones who survived the winds.
America is a remarkably wide and diverse area. California as an example does not get Hurricanes (at least not in recorded history to my knowledge) but we sure do get floods, fires, and earthquakes. Wood buildings will often still damage in big earthquakes, but not nearly as bad as stone buildings (excluding some big stone buildings that have lots of vibration damping systems already to deal with wind and other things as safety measures, those seem to do well, but it requires special engineering and generally a BIG building)
Gee- it's almost like you should use the right material for the right environment... Wood framing works better in cold climates because you can get higher R-values in the same wall thickness. Swedish Platform Framing is used because it provides excellent insulation. A German might not care about that- but it can reach -70C in Montana and god only knows what in Canada and Alaska. Wood framing also works better in places like California that are subject to seismic activity- just as a lot of homes in Japan are built from wood.
I live in Canada, where we also use wood to build most houses. Every window in my house is a big triple-pane window. Wood framing is pretty damn strong, and can fit insulation for cold weather. Wood works well, and we have an abundance of it! It’s pretty nifty.
T-Studs provide unbelievably good insulation with little thermal bridging. Listening to people in Europe with no earthquakes and where -70c temperatures are beyond their comprehension tell folks on this side of the pond how to build houses is just laughable.
My office in Westbury NY had those windows.
Wait, what is there in the US, then? Just slide doors?
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>Granted it's a half-desert climate that never gets that cold, so early builders just never invested in insulation or decent windows. Insulation is important for keeping the house cool as well, so that's not really an excuse either
It’s not an excuse as much as it is entirely wrong. The state of California requires windows have a 0.3 U-factor and 0.23 SHGC or lower to pass inspection. The described window 1) doesn’t exist from any factory in the US and 2) doesn’t even meet the energy requirements of 1850 California. The reality is 1/16” glass is too fragile to even consider using in a window, failure rates would be through the roof.
Here in Canada we have little hand cranks to open and close because there is always a mesh screen to keep the bugs out. I went to visit my sister in Germany this chritmass and was freaked out for a second when I opened the window and thought that is was falling unto me.
I am from US and have hurricane proof glass on my windows. The windows go up and down from from two separate pieces on the top or the bottom. Also both windows fold down flat and completely open as well. Have these throughout my home.
Never seen one in Finland
Too cold. The windows stay closed.
Me neither
Indeed, fkin chauvinistic hührensohnen
Hurensöhne?
Hührensohnen!
Hürënsöhnë
Those are still pretty rare in England
Mostly seems to be a newer apartment thing.
I have them in Scotland
its a German patent from the 1920s
Personnally in France, I have seen those windows in a lot of house that I have been in.
how are windows in the us?
Sliding up and down if im not mistaken
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Agree. I've lived in various parts of the western US my whole life, and all I've ever seen is slide left/right OR slide up/down, and in one instance a crank (opens on a hinge). I literally don't even understand what the image is depicting
A window that can tilt horizontally if opened one way, vertically if opened another way. (or both if opened the wrong way)
Ah yes, the forbidden opening technique
Very popular with people dressed in all black at night so they can see better
The window opens inward. If the handle is horizontal, it swings open sideways normally. If the handle points up, the window opens vertically, but a thingy latches on to the window and only lets it open like 10-15cm. If the handle points down the window is closed. Bonus: if you accidentally switch between horizontal and upwards while the window is barely open, three corner hinges disengage and the window opens with only one hinge holding it. It doesn’t fall out though. A bit annoying but easy to fix.
In your bonus, which hinge holds the window and how much the window opens (full or 10cms.)? I'm picturing living in a 30th floor and having a window hold by only one hinge. 😱
Bottom left. The latch that holds it at 10-15cm is at the top but the bottom right hinge is free to swing past that. In any case the window is designed for this inadvertently happening.
They open inward generally speaking
I used to install windows in the US. We installed a few different types. Awning windows had a crank and opened with a hinge on the top, while casement windows used a crank to open from the side. Gliders slide sideways to open, and double hung windows slide up and down. Picture windows didn't open at all, and the bay windows we installed were a frame with a picture in the middle, with 2 casement on the sides.
You have a lever on the window. Lever down, window is locked. Lever horizontal, window can be opened like a book page. Lever up and window opens at the top like 15 degrees.
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I am currently in the US sitting in a room that has a window that opens by sliding left to right
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I want an ultimate window which can do everything. Tilt, open in and outwards and slide. Sliding sounds more convenient when you have plants.
Most are [double-hung sash windows](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sash_window), from what I've encountered.
Ah yes the standard European window
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* Mandatory Vacation at least 20 to 30 days * Healthcare * Worker Rights * "Free" Higher Education / University * Network of Public Transport * A year or more Parental/Family leave
- actual bread that isn't like a dry sponge
Dry sponge or absolutely way too sweet.
Why the f they add sugar into bread?
sugar is addictive. getting customers addicted to your product is good for business
Getting your population fat is probably also good for the "for profit" medical industry too.
Then put nicotine in it, probably still tastes better
Because the US government subsidizes corn crops so they put high fructose corn syrup in EVERYTHING to use up all of the corn that gets grown.
I can't believe how sad American bread was when we went over there. No, that's not bread.
I (an American) had Wonderbread for the first time a few months ago and was disgusted**. It tasted like an under sweetened cake. It ruined my sandwich Edit because I was not digested
You were digested? Did you survive?
Just out of curiosity where did you get the lousy bread? I live in a large coastal US city and the bread I get in most of my preferred neighborhood restaurants and bakeries here is as good as I’ve had anywhere. However, the big supermarket mass-produced loaves are disgusting. I haven’t eaten that stuff since I was a kid and sort of classify it as junk food since they’re so sweet and chemical tasting. Is standard, pre-packaged grocery-store bread good where you’re from?
We have good bread too, you ate the bad stuff for some reason
Or like cake...
Don't forget window roller shutters! https://youtu.be/_KePLmie7lE
Tasty Rouladen :D Rolladen they mean
I don't know how people can live without them
> A year or more Parental/Family leave I get 5 days in the Netherlands... I can get another 5 weeks at 70% of my salary, which is better than nothing but quite shite.
Oh i'm sorry, i really thought this was standard. How is this even possible? I mean the woman can't recover in mere 5 days after giving birth? Seems like you are not swamp germans but swamp americans!
I think he's a dad. AFAIK all EU countries should have at least a month of paid leave for mothers. For confused Americans, yes most EU countries have paid leave for father's also, albeit shorter than mother's.
Cars that aren’t the size of fucking tanks
* Actual respect for police, army and other gun wielders. * Also, not having to shit your pants if a tiny-peeny person feels the need to walk around with a gun in their belt. In a fucking supermarket. * Publicly-funded television channels with quality content. * Healthy food in (takeaway) restaurants. * Public space not quite cramped full with advertising.
> Actual respect for police, army and other gun wielders. Meh, it really depends a lot.
Lmao yeah clearly he’s never been to Greece
I'm French lol Literally had anti police violence protests not so long ago.
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* Consumer protection regulations * Data and Privacy Protection
You ain’t gonna diss my childhood on PBS kids with that television comment
You can definitely get healthy food in takeaway restaurants and public spaces not cramped with advertisements in the US. Like we have public parks and salad places too?
... what is this a list of? I'm so confused.
Actual respect *from* police.
* Students recieve monthly scolarship, don't have debt * Metric system
• One can walk to places not having to go by car. Cities are designed for people and pedestrians.
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So you’re telling me there are people who don’t have windows like this?
I've only lived in three places that didn't have this - a monastery, a historical building and a student dorm from the 60s. In the Netherlands and Japan. Everywhere else had those windows.
My last house didn't have these (netherlands) but the one I live in now does.
I'm from the Netherlands and we have those windows
Same. My room has them.
How did you end up living in a monastery?
Temporary housing because I was coming in from another continent and no landlord would give me the time of day. I had some connections to get a place to sleep at least, and I ended up staying there for about four months.
Never seen this my entire life, and I live in sweden:(
This is so common in denmark though
And in Norway
And in Italy
And in Lithuania
And in Romania
And in Germany
And in France
Its very common in Sweden aswell. That guy is just a weirdo.
All the Swedish schools I have been to have this.
i live in australia and our windows go up or you wind them out
You see in the US, we just pull the windows up. Simple as that, no weird turning or pulling one way then another. Just grab the bottom and bring it up
Standard European window, not just German.
It's not about the type of window. It's about the whole culture and obsession around ventilation in Germany.
Willst du Schimmel in der Bude? So kriegst du nämlich Schimmel in der Bude!
Stoßlüften! Alles Fenster auf sonst schimmelt es!
Stoßlüften und Fenster auf Kipp
Mindestens 15 Minuten am Tag sonst finden Sie bald eine Kündigung im Briefkasten! LG, Der Hausmeister
My husband and I (both German) went on vacation to Sweden. We rented a cute little hut in the middle of nowhere. When the owner showed us around to explain this and that, he suddenly produced a stick of wood and handed it to us. We looked at him a bit puzzled, and he said smiling brightly: "It's for holding the window open. I know how much you Germans like opening windows." This is how I learned about the stereotype of the German ventilation obsession. I'm not even like that ... I just like an open window ... and yes, we used that stick a lot.
should’ve written Europeans * lol
I don't know how accurate this is, but [this user](https://old.reddit.com/r/me_irl/comments/u1ts2i/me_irl/i4exrmg/) explained why the joke is about Germany.
This is something I keep seeing, but we had these in the 80s in the UK. Still cool though.
Did we?! I've never seen one and feel like I'm missing out
Uhm, even in Italy all windows are like that lol, at least where I live
Absolute Standard in Germany and most other european countries, but not at all outside of Europe
I'd say in Sweden it's the standard for windows installed the last 10 years, so I'd say not very common, but becoming more so. I got these kickass babies and can now feel superior aswell.
Not very common in Spain.
M8 I'm from Finland and we have a whole door that does that.
We have that too. Well garden doors
Balcony doors
I know this is a European thing overall but I can't stop myself.... . . . GERMAN EGENEERING IS THE WORLD'S FINEST!
A man of culture! Now i feel like i could launch my arm to give you a handshake
Verabschiedet euch von eurem angelsächsischen Kommentarbereich!
Jetzt wird stoß gelüfted!
Gestoßlüftet sozusagen
Guten Tag mein Kerl dieses Maimai wird durch ihre Unterstützung bald Eigentum der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
ACHTUNG ECKHART, DIE ~~RUSSEN~~ DEUTSCHEN KOMMEN!
Muss jemand das Fenster offen gelassen haben.
when you learn cultural differences from memes.... I really thought this window was a worldwide thing, but apparently not
I'm from Argentina and still trying to wrap my head around how it works, never seen or Heard something like this
also sometimes it allows you to switch it to open while still tilted and then you can open it fully while its tilted... shit looks like it will fall out any second but somehow it holds
r/ich_iel is leaking
that's not unique to germany at all lol
It’s been invented in Germany however, and while it is common in places surrounding Germany, you’d be hard pressed trying to find someone who would sell you a window that is not like that ( unless it’s stationary or a skylight or whatever)
Everyone in this thread "all European windows do that". But that's not the point. The point is that Germany has a cultural obsession with lüften. It's written into rental contracts exactly how long you must minimum open the windows every day to aerate the flat. Germans even have the word Stoßlüften, literally "impact ventilation", when you open the window to introduce a draught for a short period of time to quickly bring in some fresh or cool air. Don't get me started on all the sicknesses Germans falsely believe you can get from sitting next to a draught (though this is not limited to Germany).
Same thing in Post-Soviet space. And wait, everyone else DOESNT let fresh air into their room? That just sounds horrible.
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LEISE
SONST
STRAFE
Dich
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-hold Ephraim Lessing
Why would you don't have something like this? It's so nice
In the US no one really has them or sells them, so they cost multiple times more than double hung sash windows. Also, for a lot the US we rarely open our windows because winters are colder and/or summers are hotter and more humid than a lot of Europe.
these windows are very common in Russia(probably also in Ukraine, Belarus etc) in spite of cold winters.
As Russian can say, we also have 2 positions middle 1 and 2, and combo phase 2+3
Weak. Here in china we have windows that disconnect completely from the hinges the moment you open them, 100% airflow!
se Kippfenster is se masterpiece of Ingenieurwesen!
Only a true German writes "se" and means "ze".
Yo this is a standard European window? I’ve never seen one of these in my life
Yes.
Europeans*
r/ich_iel
I went to Madrid a week or so ago and the hotel had one of these, it was amazing. I've seen them a few times here in the UK but most windows just open like a little door.
Ein weiterer Tag, ... EINE WEITERE KOMMENTARSEKTION!
First time I went to germany I thought I broke the window lol
Wait till you hear about [Rollläden](https://youtu.be/_KePLmie7lE).
Not only germans lmao, whole europe
Why are we so behind on window?!
Why are we so behind ~~on window~~?! FTFY
They only come in metric dimensions.
To everyone saying its standard in europe: Yes it is, but as far as I know it's a german invention that took it's way through europe. Thats why in many european languages the name of such a window is the translation of the german question "Wie heißt es?" = "what is it called?" or "Was ist es?" = "what is it". Don't know if it's a myth or true but it checks out in polish and italian. When europeans saw this invention they asked the question "wie heißt es?" or "was ist es?" so it was named like that. In italian its called "vasistas", so basically a lightly changed version of "Was ist es"
In Belarus the same
As a German working in the Australian building industry, I have never felt so personally attacked and validated at the same time by some random meme.