Study / University in Poland is too easy [68]

I actually know people who left uni because they couldn't pass the exams. This usually happens after the first year, even on the faculties, in which students are carefully selected (now, they're are selected basing on Maturas). In my first year, there were about 120 people, now, we've got around 100.

But I wouldn't say studying is hard.

History / Poland's National Heros [17]

Zawisza Czarny

Life / GENERATION JP2? [6]

The JP2 generation are people who behave the same as other young people with one exception: form time to time they gather to pray and idolize JPII. Still, they cheat in the exams, drink, swear, have premarital sex and do not give a damn for Christian values. Their religiousness is very superficial. Truly religious people just live according to the religion and don't need to manifest it.

Life / GENERATION JP2? [6]

I'm of the age in which I'm supposed to belong to JP2 generation and I'd never call myself that way (I'm having my apostasy tomorrow :) ). The media noticed some movement of young people around my age who manifest their religiousness (and only manifest) and somebody came up with the idea that it's the matter of the whole generation. That's all.

I remember that a week after JP2's death there was a concert in the Lodz cathedral. Before the concert, there was a mass for the pope's soul. I thought it would be cool to go to a free concert (Mozart's Requiem), so I went to the cathedral an hour after the beginning of the mass in hope that the mass would be over and I could find some place in the church.

The mass was horribly long and a lot of people came - they were standing outside, in the street, many of them wearing white. Finally, the mass ended and people started leaving (apparently not interested in the requiem), so I tried to get near the entrance and get in. It took a a very long time for the huge crowd to leave. People were squeezing and pushing one another as if they had been in a hurry. I was standing there and heard their comments. Mohair berets talked about the people squeezed around them with such hatred and despise that I was shocked - the only reason why they were so hateful was that they were squeezed in the same crowd and couldn't wait to get out. I've been to a lot rock concerts, mass festivals etc., where also I've been in a big crowd of people going somewhere through a narrow entrance, and no matter how 'satanic' the band was and how much squeezed the people were, they were always nice to each other and they didn't blame one another for the discomfort of standing in the crowd. I never witnessed such chamstwo as after the mass for JP2's soul. I really think low of Polish religiousness.

History / Question related to Jews during Saturday night in II Rzeczypospolita [12]

afaik, Jews had the same rights as other citizens in this respect. And on Saturday night the Sabbath is over :)

Love / Teenage Relationship - girls from Poland walking next to you? [40]


In Poland constant staring at somebody for a long time is considered rude.


Uhmm, when there are a lot of people in a limited space (e.g. at school) you always sit next to somebody, don't you? Seats are usually next to one another...


No, it's not. Normally, a Polish girl, when she bumps into somebody, apologizes.

Have you ever talked to her?

Study / University in Poland is too easy [68]


Not exactly. Some of them were kicked out, some decided not re-take their exams because they thought it would be too hard to go on studying, anyway.

Work / please some advise on finding temporary work in Poland. [5]

Have you tried travel agencies?
Some of them organize trips to Russia and Ukraine so they might want to hire someone like you.

Love / Why english men like polish women ? [126]



So you want a woman to be financially dependent on you but you don't want to control her?


What does Sex and the City have to do with feminism?


Do you realize that working women are not something that feminism and emancipation came up with, but it was something that have always happened? Haven't you ever read of maidservants, seamstresses or governesses? Who were they, if not working women? Only the women of the highest social status didn't work. Neither did their husbands, but these were the husbands who owned the money they inherited and had the right to use it.

Man, go to a library and stop making a fool of yourself.

Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (Part II -- Much more detail than other topic) [109]

Your friend looks EMO :P

Life / Burlesque in Poland? [8]

I don't think so. I like such stuff but I've never heard of anything like that going on in Poland.

I've only seen one show that used burlesque convention in PL but it was actually a concert and the artist was American.

History / Poland's National Heros [17]


I think that little coup d'état in 1926 spoilt his reputation a bit...

Life / Unusual Sightings in Warsaw - millions of black crows... [22]

You should be happy these crows are black, not e.g. pink or blue. THAT would be weird.

BTW, they can't be ravens, ravens are very rare in Poland.

Love / Plastic boobs in Poland [44]

gdt, I agree with you.

'Fixing' one's appearance is understandable if it's painless, takes a little time and doesn't cost a lot. Like a hair dye, doing make-up etc. But sacrificing so much just to look sexy - that's sick.

Back to the topic: people in Poland are to poor for plastic surgery to be widespread.

Language / DIALECTS IN POLAND? [28]


I think the only linguists who have any doubts whether Kashubian is a separate language, are the Polish ones. It's got different vocabulary, different spelling and even different alphabet.

One of the criteria used to decide if something is a dialect or a language is mutual intelligibilty: if two native speakers use two different dialects of their language, they understand each other. If the level of understanding Kashubian by an average Pole is enough to say that Kashubian is intelligible to him/her, then Slovakian is a dialect of Polish, too...

Life / Feminism in Poland:Pro and against [14]

bluebird,
get your ass to a library and stop writing bull$hit.

Language / DIALECTS IN POLAND? [28]


I think that is the criteria that poloniści use. What a pity...

Love / POLISH GIRLS AND LOOSE JEANS [36]

Loose jeans in Poland are even hard to buy.

Love / POLISH GIRLS AND LOOSE JEANS [36]


Or "My shapely ass is not an exhibit and I don't care if you are interested in it."

Love / POLISH GIRLS AND LOOSE JEANS [36]

Whose art?

Anyway, when you display a work of art, you get profits from it. When you display a shapely body, you get neanderthals whistling after you in the street.

Study / Graduate school in Krakow - what to expect? [6]


You won't find many Kaczyński supporters at the uni ;-)

As polishgirltx said, go for it!

Language / HOW DID BAKTERIA BECOME FEMININE? [23]

A good question. I can't see anything stupid about it.

My hypothesis:
Bacteria usually occur in big colonies, so people rarely talk about one bacterium. Only the plural form was in frequent use and speakers unaware of its singular form started confusing the plural form with the singular one (Polish speakers often use Latin words and expressions incorrectly, so there's nothing surprizig about it). Such usage has become very widespread, so bacteria has become the singular form through the usage, and because it ends with "a", it is feminine.

Just a hypothesis but it seems very probable to me.

Life / Polish Childrens Songs [22]

Natalka Kukulska: chomikuj.pl/Chomik.aspx?id=wiolaa&sid=5

Majka Jeżowska: chomikuj.pl/Chomik.aspx?id=wiolaa&sid=8

At least that was in when I was in kindergarten.

Life / Polish Childrens Songs [22]


How could I forget about it?

Love / POLISH GIRLS AND LOOSE JEANS [36]


But it's better to watch them without jeans.

Love / POLISH GIRLS AND LOOSE JEANS [36]

frenchboy,


If all guys were like you, I'd certainly be a lesbian.

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

Places in Poland where you can just go in and use a free clean toilet:
-shopping centres
-McDonald's
-pubs and restaurants
-public libraries, culture centres, university buildings etc.
In a city you can always find a free toilet if you know where to look for it.

Language / HOW DID BAKTERIA BECOME FEMININE? [23]

Funny, I looked up this word in a dictionary, and the source-words given are: Fr. bacterie, from Gr. bakteria. So, it seems Polish form is just the same as Greek.

Life / What to do on All Saint's Day (Nov. 1) in Krakow? [20]

Go to some nice cemetery in the evening - that's the only interesting thing to do during All Saints Day.

Life / What to do on All Saint's Day (Nov. 1) in Krakow? [20]

My attempts to capture the mood of All Saints' Day: