Life / 18th Birthday Celebrations in Poland Question... [34]


While in Poland it's: "hey mate....It's my birthday....come with me, let's have some fun... put your money back in your pocket...I invited you to this party… it's all on the house".

18th Birthday is treated here just like the wedding. I must say, that if I were to organize a party, I wouldn't dare to expect from my guests to come with their own alcohol. The guests bring only presents for the birthday boy, and that's it.

Situation looks different when it comes to some dinner parties. It's nice and very polite to bring some kind of food, like a salad, or some kind of alcohol, but nobody would expect people to do so. It's just from their free will.


The same here in Poland when you go in a pub.


It was suppose to sound extravagant and generous, and it came out rather desperate…:( But I think that you already know what I had in mind. :)

In conclusion, from the more economical point of view, it’s better to be a birthday boy in England and a guest in Poland. :)

Oh, and one more thing. I don't want to judge which custom is better and which one is worse. Their both fine by me. Hope I didn't came across as rude. :)

Pozdrawiam.

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]

KO!

:) I was trying to be serious this time, but it looks like I did a complete fool out of myself. :)

Well, not the first and certainly not the last time. :)

I think people should be shoot for selling warm (checked twice the spelling :) ) beer.
That's really is a crime.

Life / Are Polish People Racist? [1037]

History is being written by the winners, and the winners seldom admit doing something wrong. There are a lot of myths and stereotypes concerning the WWII that will continue to be believed in. It's sad but true.

A lot of people think that Poles were actually killing the Jews in Auschwitz and in other concentration camps, and it's because of the expression "Polish concentration camps", which was coined because of the place were they were build and not because the people that build it. The thing that really was scary in this guys post, was that he didn't necessary see the connection between Nazis and Germans. He assumed that a nazi could also be a Pole. That really fricked me out. :)

Food / Finally I get to eat Polish food again. [10]

I recommend eating with moderation. :)

PS: I have problems with it though. :)

Life / Are Polish People Racist? [1037]


WTF????????????? Just when I thought that I saw it all you arrived!!!!!!!!!


Please remind me who were those Nazis?? Of course thy were German!! Who thought you history, Joseph Goebbels?


And that's why they invaded Poland, because they were favored by some non-existing law? What a load of rubbish.


And who built them? That's right, the Germans!

Have you ever heard that during the German Occupation Poland was the only country where there was a death penalty for hiding a Jew. Not only death for him, but also for his whole family, and still it didn't keep thousand’s of Poles helping Jewish people to survive. If you want to talk about anti-semitism, why don't you say something about wagons full of Jews send from France and Belgium straight into the German consecration camps?

News / What are your 10 fave things about Poland? And 10 least favourite? [130]


90% you say? How come you didn't notice it when you were buying your house then? :)
Shame on you. :)


"Pecunia non olet", krysia. We take example from the best. :)

Travel / Why is Poland so Un-Sexy? [84]

A little bit more sloppy. It doesn't have to be the rule though. As for the numbers of Roma's here, it's hard to say, but it's definitely fewer than in Czech Rep. or Slovakia.

Life / 18th Birthday Celebrations in Poland Question... [34]


Since it's the birthday boy who invites people, he buy's the drinks. In Poland it's like "Hey boy's, tomorrow is my day, come to my party and don't worry about the alcohol! I will take care of that". I guess Poles like to be generous, and this tradition goes way, way back to the middle ages.

Don't be so shocked, though. It's the same way like with the weddings. I don't think that in England the guests are expected to bring their alcohol with them to the party, are are they? :)

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]


I forgive you this time, but don't let it happen again. :)

Never happened to me before. Start being more assertive, and you won't have such problem any more. :)

Travel / Why is Poland so Un-Sexy? [84]


I'm dying to hear something more about that theory.


That's because Czech's never did an uprising against The Germans, and Hungarians were their allies. But I'm sure you did know that already, right? :)

Warsaw didn't always looked the way it looks now.

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]

Didn't you know that it's not polite to answer a question with a question, lef?

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]

Nope. And how is that happening lef?

Food / Finally I get to eat Polish food again. [10]

Just this week I watched a report on the news saying that according to some kind of survey, Poles are the third thinnest nation in Europe, just after French and Italians. Belgians came on the fourth place, and Slovaks on the fifth. It seems that traditional heavy polish cuisine isn’t that bad for your health after all. :)

PS: I don’t know if the non-EU countries were also taken into the account though.

Life / How do Polish view others [116]


If I'm correct there's a difference between Hispanics and Spaniards, right?

Basically, besides that Poles, men as well as women, find Spanish and Hispanics people usually very attractive, they don't think anything more about them at all. It's because of the distance that separates Poland from Spain and both Americas. I think that its also the other way around. Spaniard’s and Hispanics don't think much about Polish people.

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]

Null in German means "zero". Is there some kind of relevance between German "null" and Russian "nuliowka"??

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]


Probably a slavic thing. I love pyry!! :)

Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]

Or you can take your car and put your 10 bags of groceries in its trunk. That way you are avoiding the danger of your goods being eaten by a hungry stranger.

There's also another way of dealing with this problem. Buy/rent a flat/house near groceries. :)


:) I even eat my cereals with worm milk. :)


Not true. Parents are obligated to send their children to kindergarten at the age of 6(it's called "zerówka"), but if you want to and you have the money, there's no problem with sending your little ones earlier. My brother did that. He was sending his daughter to the kindergarten from the age of three. If you let your kid at the kindergarten for 5 hours, you only pay 30zł a month, and the rest is financed by the local authorities. If you want your kid to stay longer, you'll have to pay the whole price form your pocket.


What was it?


In most primary schools. Such problem doesn't occur in high schools.


Exactly. If someone doesn't have a carpet, nor warm slippers for the guests, and still expects them to take off their shoes, than he is just being rude.


It's illegal to chop off the trees without any permission. There are really big fines for that.

UK, Ireland / I understand poles coming to uk [196]

Browse this site and you will find harmony, peace of mind and all the answers you seek, my little confused brother. :)

I have to go now. See you all folks on Monday. Don't argue too much when I'm gone.

Peace out. Let the force be with you chris. :)

News / What are your 10 fave things about Poland? And 10 least favourite? [130]


So in your opinion I should stop appreciating Polish countryside because people in other country have also beautiful ones? :)

News / What are your 10 fave things about Poland? And 10 least favourite? [130]



You claim to have completed higher education, traveled to over 50 countries all over the world but still you know so little about the history of the country you are currently living in. Let me enlighten you on this subject then.

First of all, how can you even compare UK to Poland? Both of this countries received huge damage during the WWII ( I don't want to go into details and comparing), but the difference between their situation was that Poland landed on the wrong side of the iron curtain, and while GB, France and even bloody West Germany were receiving money from US of A in order to rebuild their economy Poland didn’t received any of it. Russians were focusing on draining my country rather than helping it to stand on it’s feet. All those commie block’s and the “unpainted concrete-block houses” that you really seem to despise weren’t created to be pleasant for the eye, but their one and most important function was to be a living space. A shelter that protects from rain and cold for hundred thousand of people than were coming home from the war, from concentration camps, form Germanys labor factories, from the parts of Poland that after WWII weren’t Poland any more. So excuse the builders of those ugly commie blocks that they weren’t thinking about the looks of those buildings. Forgive them that Ursynów doesn’t look anything like Versailles, and that Poland’s villages don’t resemble those in the UK. :)

Life / Alcohol and women in Poland [5]

It’s a very individual thing, but I think there’s nothing to worry about. I certainly wouldn’t think of such behavior as unacceptable. :)

Life / Alcohol and women in Poland [5]

What would be your definition of being drunk? Feeling dizzy and saying silly things, or rather felling nauseous and walking on your knees? :)

Life / Retire in Poland - Good or Bad Idea? [74]

Well, from my observations your are very, very close.... And when I'm saying close, I really think you are nanometres rather than millimetres away from achieving your goal. :) :)


Maybe you should do all this things again? :) :) After that, come back to this forum, and we will judge whether you are still a true Dumbass, or a OK "dude". :)

News / What are your 10 fave things about Poland? And 10 least favourite? [130]

Now where to start, hmmm...


Sorry for this inconvenience, but I hope you understand that we had a war going on here some time ago, in result of which 80% of Warsaw disappeared from the face of the earth. If we knew that 62 years after the Warsaw Uprising you will be planning to accommodate here I'm sure we would have postponed are even changed our plans, so that Warsaw would seem more pleasant for your eye, but since we can not change the history I advise you to send your complaint’s to Hitler’s descendent. I've heard recently, that there's one still living in...you won't believe it...ISRAEL. :)


We could put these three points in one position, now could we Mr. Arghhhh? :) I'm sure that what you actually was trying to say was that you don't like drunkards, are am I wrong? :)


Actually, for most of inhabitants of Poland, it' being watchable only because of that idiotic "lektor". Not everybody had this advantage to grow up in the UK like you did Mr. Arghhhh, thus the basic lack of knowledge of the English language. But if it is such a big deal for you, you can always complain to the Russians, why didn't they let people from my country learn the language of the “rotten west”. Unfortunately, I doubt that you will achieve anything in that matter. Russia didn't change that much, but I suppose you can always try. :)


Finally, I can agree with you. You are being biased. :)


Instead of going to a Club and picking up half naked promiscuous dancing girls I advise you to go to a students pub. You should find intelligent women there. If that doesn't help, then maybe library would be the right place for your “hunt”? :)

Haven’t thought much about the urban planning of Warsaw’s peripheries lately, so I guess I can't rise my voice on this subject.

I do agree that polish bureaucracy and roads can make people furious. As for the drivers, they are mostly ok, but yeah, there are far more loonies here than in England.

As for the babcias, there is some truth in what you are saying. I especially love the ones called "seat predators" that occur on a large scale on the boards of buses and trams. :) But hey, you just have to admire their stamina and stubbornness in their fight for free seats. :)


Take a careful look what i_love_detroit wrote, maybe you will pick something interesting for yourself.(although I think that his last two points could be one, but maybe I'm just being picky :) )

Over to you... :)

Life / How do Polish view others [116]


I also heard about it, but it turned out that my friend had totally opposite experience with the Lithuanians. He said that from the beginning they were very friendly, and after they heard him speak something in polish to his friend, they became even more friendlier. :)

As for Germans, the whole "Powiernictwo Pruskie" issue really intoxicates the Polish-German relationships. Besides we can slowly see a shift of the look on the Poles/Germans/Jews relations during the WWII. In the 40's it was: Germans = oppressors, Poles and Jews = victims; later it was Germans and Poles= oppressors, Jews = victims; and now it's Poles = oppressors; Jews = victims and Germans = observers. :)

Young Germans, that don't remember those times are fed up with being blamed for everything bad that happened during the WWII and are starting to slowly rewrite the history of their country. It's really a bad news for it's neighbors. :)


Czech’s on the fifth place? All my friends that visited Czech rep. had really bad experiences with it’s inhabitants. As long as they spoke to them in German they were really polite, but the minute my friends started to talk among themselves in Polish the attitude of most Czech’s they had met changed drastically for worse. :)

I suppose they must have met the wrong people though.

UK, Ireland / BEWARE when coming over UK [363]

Me kid, me kid, me jok, me jok... :)

UK, Ireland / BEWARE when coming over UK [363]

uk, I promise you, even I will vote BNP, just STOP repeating yourself! :)

Life / What is your favourite comedy (also Polish)? [63]

I guess you are right. :)

UK, Ireland / Documentary Project on Polish community in UK [11]


Yep, as far as I know, there are only three regular posters participating in this forum that fulfill this criteria.

Life / Polish remedies for Flu [28]

Rosół rulez!! :)