I used to go often hiking in the Bernese. When you meet somebody on the paths, they won’t say hello, but a peculiar word which sounds exaclty as “grütze”.
I thought it is somehow derived from “gruss”, but maybe in Switzerland it is an auspicious greeting to wish you lots of… groats! 
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For all other forum users: It’s the Swiss “Grüezi” (grüezi - Wiktionary, the free dictionary)
Interesting thought… 
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Grüezi?
Grüezi, but only if you’re one person.
If said to more than one person, it’s “Grüezi mitenand” 
“hello together”
Oh how I miss Swiss German
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Funny thing is that this is not even casual talk, despite sounding like it. Even newscasters greet their audience that way!
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Look at this:
NO MATTER HOW KIND YOU ARE.
GERMAN CHILDREN ARE KINDER.
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How do you greet a German shark?
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@tasse-tee I already posted that a couple of weeks ago! D:
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Yeah well, great minds think alike, right?
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Yeah, well…don´t get facts in the way of a good pun I say. 
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Unless our North Sea sharks valiantly avoid the German coasts due to WW2 trauma I’m 99% confident there are also German sharks.
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Look, there’s even a shark fan site!
http://www.dutchsharksociety.org/shark-species/
The North Sea is the habitat of several shark species, of which the descriptions can be found following the links mentioned below.
Shark species:
- Angel shark (Squatina squatina)
- Basking shark (Cetorhinus maximus)
- Blue shark (Prionace glauca)
- Common smooth-hound (Mustelus mustelus)
- Nursehound (Scyliorhinus stellaris)
- Porbeagle (Lamna nasus)
- Small-spotted catshark (Scyliorhinus canicula)
- Spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthus)
- Starry smooth-hound (Mustelus asterias)
- Tope shark (Galeorhinus galeus)
- Tresher shark (Alopias vulpinus)
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Basking sharks on Google Images: 
And I brought up the joke! So yeah, definitely!
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I like how that site displays the area on a world map where you can find these sharks!
Like almost everywhere! 
They have a big mouth, but seem pretty harmless otherwise.
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I often see people online who say something like “I game 4 hours a day”. Is this correct? Shouldn’t it be “I play (games) 4 hours a day”? It seems like a recent thing to me.
Especially in gaming you can bet on language getting progressivly depraved. That´s true for german gamers as well.
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You can use “game” as a verb, but I don’t like it.
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Game the game
everybody game the gaaaaaaame
of looove. 
Doesn´t quite have the same ring to it.
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If by “recent” you mean something like “two to three decades,” it could potentially be recent, at least with reference to computer games.
Here’s a random book from 1803 that dissuades people from gaming.