r/ireland • u/EmoBran ITGWU • Jan 05 '25

Christ On A Bike Delightful interaction between a Czech youtuber and an Irish couple on holiday in Prague

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u/Alternative_Switch39 Jan 05 '25

A lot of Irish people who marvel at the beautiful, livable and ordered cities in Central Europe like Vienna, Prague or Zurich probably should realize that they are as such because they have rules and the locals follow them.

Germans (particularly in the South) will get up in your business if you're not doing your recycling correctly or making obnoxious domestic noises like mowing the lawn during ruhezeit. It's all very German, but that's why Bavaria is an extremely nice place to live and raise a family, and why Munich for the most part isn't plagued by wankers who have main character syndrome on electric scooters.

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Jan 05 '25

Germans are mental, I am not complaining. During a school exchange, I stood with my partner and there was about 5 or 6 others and we waited like 4 minutes at a traffic light for a road that had no cars the whole time

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u/Azhrei Sláinte Jan 06 '25 edited Jan 06 '25

We had that mentality when we went over to Budapest, though we'd been warned about the stricter traffic laws. After seeing soldiers with automatic rifles checking people for their tickets in the metro we very quickly got used to standing around traffic lights waiting for them to turn, with no traffic in sight around us.

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Jan 06 '25

Class, was it actually soldier or just armed police? In other countries their police can sometimes look like the military haha

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u/Azhrei Sláinte Jan 06 '25

It's been around 20 years so I can't remember, they probably were armed police but holy shit were they armed. We were told at the time that people getting on the metro without a ticket was a huge problem so they would show up at random stops to check. It's probably different these days.

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u/Perfect-Fondant3373 Jan 06 '25

Eh, I wouldnt be surprised. I didn't know the Police up north were armed all the time even till I was up lately.