News / Polish architects [9]

There'll be some maps and charts on the way.

The really clever stuff is all done by the engineers anyway. Then when it comes to soft landscaping, nobody ever seems to have a clue.

Life / PAYING TO TAKE A PISS IN POLAND, it's BIZARRE [77]


I've tried the pub technique. You need the toilet, so you go to a pub. You feel as though you ought to have a drink. So you get a drink, use the toilet, then enjoy your drink. By the time the glass is empty, you suddenly need the toilet again. If it doesn't happen then, then it happens when you get outside, so either way, you need to do the same thing again and find another pub, or you just stay in the first one and order another drink.

Drink shorts rather than beer. There's less to recycle.

Language / Tak i taki [8]

What about taki and so on?

Love / Understanding Polish Man [41]


Friendship should be above strictness.

Language / Blackboard Language Project [28]


"Podlej kwiatki" and "Daj motykę" are quite useful phrases in my line of work. Other than that, it is quite random. Randomness isn't actually such a bad thing. If you're trying not just to speak a few phrases in a language, but actually learn it, something memorably odd can help show how things fit together.

I actually want to see the outtakes from that video. I'm sure she was about to crack up with laughter on more than one occasion.

Love / POLISH GIRLS AND LOOSE JEANS [36]

There are those jeans that are so baggy and worn so low and loosely that they almost resemble gulag trousers that have to be permenantly held up with at least one hand.

Language / Tak i taki [8]

Okay, so my entire question has been answered about as fully as it is possible to do.
The thread may now be closed.

Love / Polish Girl ruining my sleep [30]

Isn't Francoise a girls' name?

UK, Ireland / Poles in Scotland - help required on research project. [20]


Experience the desert of noimmigration's mind.

History / Poland war propaganda poster - can anyone explain this picture? [292]

Never Britain, is it? Always England. Tut tut.

Love / POLISH GIRLS AND LOOSE JEANS [36]

Baggy clothes give out the message "Underneath this tent-like covering of loose garments, I'm actually quite unshapely".

UK, Ireland / Are the Poles in England hated? [450]


The answer is: cheer up - eat another pie.

Life / Polish fireplaces have glass doors. How to clean them? [16]

I stayed in a house last winter with one of these fireplaces. It was lovely and warm. I can't remember how they cleaned it, but I vaguely remember that they cleaned me with vodka.

Language / My Learning Polish Woes... [64]


I might be wrong. That is always a possibility.

Language / DIALECTS IN POLAND? [28]

Another definition of the distinction between language and dialect is that a language has its own army.

Language / My Learning Polish Woes... [64]

Plg, I know you've been learning Polish for some time now, and you have been contributing to PF for quite a while too, but it would do you well to pay a little more attention to a few things.

For one thing, we hear Poles swearing quite a lot, but don't people of most nationalities swear quite a lot, but not necessarily in such a context.

Another thing, LondonChick has been around here for a while, and she has only recently decided to start learning Polish. She decided to start learning, at least in part (you could ask her) beause she does have a Polish boyfriend.

Language / My Learning Polish Woes... [64]

Flipping heck!

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


Those blue eyes in your avatar momentarily seemed to turn red just then.

Correction: THAT blue eye! At least it wasn't a .... eye.

Language / DIALECTS IN POLAND? [28]



My tongue was in my cheek when I made that comment. But was that just my accent?

Language / DIALECTS IN POLAND? [28]


So cities don't have distinct dialects? In Britain, the strongest dialects (in terms of numbers and people's pride in their accents) are urban ones.. Quite often, you can tell which city someone in Britain comes from. Is this possible in Poland or are you all boring and heterogeneous?

Love / Plastic boobs in Poland [44]

Wouldn't all that weight make them just a tad saggy?
Source: an elementary knowledge of the periodic table.

Life / Polish Protestants [22]

I just found a 49 page pdf document all about the introduction of Protestantism to Poland and Bohemia. I skimmed through a few bits of it. That particular story starts in the year 1411 and ends in the early 17th century with persecution and stuff. It doesn't seem to be easy to find anything about this subject.

Life / Polish Protestants [22]

Yes. Why is there no Wikipedia article on them like there is for the following:

Eastern Orthodoxy in Poland
Islam in Poland
Buddhism in Poland
Hinduism in Poland

Okay, so how did Protestantism get there and stay there, and are they mostly Lutheran (as I'd imagine)?

Love / Plastic boobs in Poland [44]


In Brazil most people are too poor, but it is popular there, even amongst... especially amongst those who can't afford it.
Source: some program I heard on the radio about 3 years ago.

Food / MIÓD PITNY = MEAD / dwojniak - trojniak [13]

I've tried English mead, but not Polish. It is very sweet. Maybe with the right accompaniment it would be very nice.

Life / Do some folks have no shame? Krakow experience. [43]


They might just reserve their shame for different aspets of life.

Travel / My 3 weeks in Poland.... I didn't want to leave. [33]


I love autumnal weather. Not everyone likes hot sunshine, and some people like their nights long.

Life / "I love you" in Polish culture... [36]

Say it more sparingly than you think it because it can bite you back. In any language. The words are different, but there's always a phrase or sentence that means just that, and it should be taken with care and caution. I'd love another cup of coffee. But then I could also murder another cup of coffee. There is more than one kind of love. There werer allegedly about three different words used in the Bible in the Greek from which much of it was translated, all translated into the word "love", but meaning slightly different things. The love I have for coffee is not the same as the love I could have for... sigh!

Language / What is the most annoying thing about NATIVE Polish speakers? [12]


Can you explain why? Do they talk funny in the same way as I imagine all news broadcasters the world over do in any language? Odd intonation and the pitch rising and falling in an unnatural way? Or do they all just shout like pirates at a rum-drinking convention?