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


Wyspi, were you wondering why water flows down the edges of some roads in Cambridge?

Language / Road Madam = dictionary Polish [23]


I was frequently given commands such as siadaj, chodź and drink. Surely Polish people don't command their dogs in English to take alcoholic beverages.

Food / What are you having for your Polish dinner? [33]


I'm too lazy to find a recipe, but not too lazy to actually try cooking it. I have just painted about half of the walls in my kitchen and the floor is strewn with various tools and boxes of stuff, and I still have no work surface on which to prepare anything.

My local greengrocer does have raw beetroot though. So perhaps soon I will be able to give it a go. But, as I said, I am lazy. Could someone send me a recipe within the next couple of weeks?

I'll be having something un-Polish this evening.

Related:

Birthday Dinner Ideas?


bapka (i thik that how its spelt)
a lovely cake with chocolate, cream, jam and banana, its lovely!

Language / Road Madam = dictionary Polish [23]

If I put a suit on, I'm smart. If I do a poo in a neighbour's garden, I'm not smart.
I've never seen a dog in a suit, but you can clearly see from what I have typed here, that dogs are usually at least one up on cats.

Language / Road Madam = dictionary Polish [23]


You had to say that, didn't you!

Do cats say miał?

UK, Ireland / Nominations wanted for the Young Scottish Minority Ethnic Awards 2008 [40]

Were Neds represented or are they no longer a minority?

Language / Road Madam = dictionary Polish [23]


How does one molo? I'm not sure I've ever moloed in my entire life.

Love / Poking tongue out at a Polish girl - is it considered rude/offensive? [37]

* Donkey enters, pokes his tongue out at everyone present, then leaves *

Life / Is it safe for me and my Asian friends to come to Poland? [44]

Does it depend on which bit of Asia?
Thai, Korean, Chukchi, Tuvan, Tibetan, Sri Lankan - there you go: six Asians.


Do Gold Members on PF count as yellow people?

News / British... do they have clubs or organisations in Poland? [13]

Can anyone think of a name for such an organisation? It's got to have a good name for starters.

UK, Ireland / The Daily snot rag (Mail) removes anti-Polish content [30]


I already have a few countries of my own. I'm in some of them right now, namely England, Great Britain, the UK and Osiolia.


Always bringing Pink Floyd into proceedings somehow!

News / Apology to Russians for Osetia and American missile base [78]


Now you point out to me on a map where are:

Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Yucatan and Lake Titicaca.

Life / First Racial Attack for me in Poland [158]


Why did so many women in Poland take a liking to me then?
Okay, so maybe not just Poland!

Language / 'Could/would' in Polish [12]

Can I?

You can, but you may not.

Language / I know "się" is the only reflexive personal pronoun..but "jak się masz?" [34]


I'm not sure how to use a dictionary either. How are you supposed to colour it in?

I might just have to uczę się.

UK, Ireland / Benefits for separated Polish wife and 2 kids in the UK [90]


Couch grass, I suppose. Elytrigia repens

UK, Ireland / Benefits for separated Polish wife and 2 kids in the UK [90]

Some of my comments may have looked negative. They were. But I was responding to something else that was, as I read it at the time, also negative.

I could repeat what I had already said about growing up in a family with two working parents who managed to claim a small amount of child benefit.

I could mention that amongst the people I count as friends, some are immigrants or children of immigrants from both Europe and beyond.
I describe myself as an open-minded liberal. Liberalism in its true form does not mean blindness to the greed of others (there are many worse cases than the one we are discussing here though). It is also not an act of charity.


Perhaps I could have taken comments like this into account. It was more the attitude of "what can I get" that annoyed me. Get yourself a job, make yourself useful.

UK, Ireland / Benefits for separated Polish wife and 2 kids in the UK [90]


That's asking a bit much isn't it? A tall order for the kind of responses you will get.

Just because British citizens can claim welfare benefits, the idea that these people are all a drain on the system is an idea that tends to get blown up out of all proportion. When I was a youngster, my parents claimed child benefit (although this wasn't much), but at the same time I had two working parents for most of my childhood. Having said that, since then I have received NO BENEFITS WHATSOEVER, and I work to pay (rightly in the majority of cases) for others to receive benefits, and hopefully when I retire, they'll give me enough to buy a potato every couple of weeks.

So the children can see their father? How much interest does he have in them if he disappears to another country. I know that ideally every child has two parents, but (and I quote the hysterical mother who occasionally appears on the Simpsons) what about the children? Moving to another country for the benefit of being closer to a father who fled in the first place? It doesn't appear that way to me.

I'm happy for European citizens to be free to come here and work. "How much can I earn?" but to ask "How much will I be given?"

Am I just in a bad mood this evening or what?

News / Abkhazia and South Ossetia are independent states now! Poland reaction? [236]


It never stopped.

Life / First Racial Attack for me in Poland [158]

On a night out in a Polish town with some Polish friends (who were all speaking English for my benefit), we passed some lads who started shouting something along the lines of "What language are you speaking". There were a couple of retorts from the people I was with, some in Polish, but one memorable one in English: "None of your f***ing business!"

Nothing else happened after that. But maybe if I was unfortunate enough not to be with some locals...

Sorry Griff. I think it could happen just about anywhere though, and unfortunately there's nothing you can really do about it.

News / Where did the respect for Polish president go? [28]

Politicians are not there to be revered.
Some countries don't seem to have got this.

Travel / Lots of vacation pictures from Poland! [29]

Every night with a hammock, a beer... and a rake?

I understand. I've found myself doing some late-night gardening after a few drinks. But not every night!

UK, Ireland / Survey on life in the UK, Sweden and Ireland [35]

Curling, karom and tiddlywinks.

UK, Ireland / Polish food in Cambridge [10]

I don't tend to look in the frozen sections of supermarkets. I've seen plenty of things in jars though. Only yesterday, I found some kabanosy in Waitrose, and for once they were like proper kabanosy (or so I am led to believe).

Have you tried looking in the Yellow Pages for a Polish delicatessen or other kind of food shop. There must be something in your neck of the woods.

Pub grub: zebracambridge.com

Travel / Szczecin - small and compact or a sprawl? [14]

Actually, it depends if you're Szczecin it.
Am I Szczecin it a bit?

Travel / Szczecin - small and compact or a sprawl? [14]


Surely the question is "How long is a thread?"

Life / How to get bbc in 3 City? [10]

I always say that the pictures are better on the radio.

News / What if Russia decide to liberate Scottland from England? Polish position [152]

Crow, what are you opinions regarding the following subjects:

The West Lothian question,
The heritage and culture of Scotland versus that of your beloved Scordiscs,
Russia's historical and current treatment of different nationalities and ethnic groups,
Bagpipes, haggis and kilts.

News / What if Russia decide to liberate Scottland from England? Polish position [152]

Freedom from Brussels - no sprouts at Christmas.

I am going to use this thread to declare my own independent soverign state, here in my living room.

UK, Ireland / Survey on life in the UK, Sweden and Ireland [35]

I'm Losing My Favourite Game