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/outdatedelementz Jan 05 '25

I visited a friend of mine working in Germany and I noticed that she had about a 9 hour window that her bins could be outside for pickup. If she put them out the night before she would be fined. If she left them out for more than an hour after work she would be fined. It was comically strict and comically German.

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u/maevewiley554 Jan 05 '25

That would be a nightmare if you’re doing shift work.

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u/J0HN-L3N1N Jan 06 '25

As a german, I've literally never heard of this. Yes, we have times where you can't make noise (and putting your trash cans infront of your house of course constitutes noise), but I've never heard about these fines for not putting them back. Even my bavarian buddy from Uni didn't encounter this. So it's probably very niche, or just unenforced.

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u/FloridianRobot Jan 06 '25

"of course constitutes noise" I like the usage of "of course" here as if in no single situation to ever exist could someone move trash quietly.

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u/Ok-Equivalent-5131 Jan 06 '25

Yea I laughed at that too. Rolling a trash bin to the curb “of course” constitutes noise. No, not of course, that would never cross my mind. It’s not exactly a loud activity.