Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]

yup, don't be fooled by the rocks that he's got kids :) He's still our Bubba.

I hate to agree with a generalisation but, I really do think I know where you're coming from with your comments BW.

My ex gf certainly opened my eyes to some things. the mind quite literally boggles Like BW, details are really not important, so don't ask. :)

Life / Black people in Poland [357]


How do you know this for certain? :) I am intrigued, genuinely.

Life / Black people in Poland [357]

Substitute the word God for BB and you could almost be Winston Smith. Hmm I swear this telescreen is on the blink again. :) Yep you're definitely more Julia, ah, well it ends with 'ia' anyway. :)

Food / Is there McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut etc in Poland? Food survey. [222]

You'd love Käsekrainer then :)

edit: added pic link:

Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]


Yep, that is pretty much the same experience here and i'll add, that the prudish english peson in question is always seen as the spoil sport because this outlandish stuff is way out of his comfort zone.

Either we got just unlucky BW (though others on here seem to think lucky!) or we are just those boring old monogamous types you read about in victorian books. :)

Hehe ps sorry Ranj, after the stuff i've had sugested to me, there is quite possibly nothing you could suggest to me that would induce me to tell you! I won't talk, you'll never break me and other various cheesy lines from The Bill and other rubbish cop dramas :)

Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]

hmm I've never heard of farva beans, but i bet they're delicious. :) If you throw in airfare, you've got a deal! :) (God i'm easily bought!) :)

Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]


Showing my ignornance of all things leguminous, I still have no idea. (note to self: Google is your friend) :)

But hey, it sounds like i'm on my way to the US for some beans and a chat about infidelity. (Suddenly have the horrible feeling that Jerry Springer is going to be greeting me off the plane) :)

UK, Ireland / Doncaster (UK) meet up :D [56]


i guess, as it's an expression, (am assuming it's idiomatic) you can't translate it literally but przemilczec is unsaid so things unsaid?

Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]

Got to say, I'm with Amethyst on the zero tolerance for cheaters front. Guess we're a dying breed A. :(


Timid and you decided to live in Glasgow Bart? Very brave man!

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]

Obviously I don't know how widely spoken German is in Poland and as only a beginner in Polish myself, i'd suggest concentrating on one or the other. German, whilst a lot more difficult than English, is a lot easier than Polish.

However, as you say you'll be living in Poland, I think you should go for learning Polish, doing both would probably be distracting.

If you do decide German is the road you want to take Ich stehe gern zur Verfügung. :)

Good luck whatever you decide to do.

Genealogy / how many know their own family histories? [139]

Well, i'll have a go.

My dad's side is hard to trace and he line stops cold with my great granddad, but my mum's side can be traced all the way back to Henry VIII's reign if not further, though it gets murkier...

My mum's side went to Canada in the 1800's, then found their way back to Britain when my Nan's dad fought in WW1, was wounded at Ypres and convalesced in the uk. Then after the war, they settled back in the motherland.

It's facinating stuff, that's for sure. If it wasn't for Kaiser Wilhelm i'd be a Canuck. :)

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]

phonetically regular.

That'll be all the fibre then. :)

Hope you're right Marek, I'm sure it'll click one day but as it is, i'm still struggling to pronounce the number 3 properly in Polish where as in contrast, I was forming conditionals in German after the same amount of study time.

Genealogy / Anyone Else 1/2 Polish??? [58]

hehe I think i've been reading to many text messages. I read the title of your post in my head as "Anyone else want to polish" (as in cleaning something shiny, not the nationality)

Hmm, think I should go to bed. Anyway, Hi there. :)

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]

Ich liebe die Piefkes. Sie stellen tolle Autos her. :)

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]

hehe ASk and you shall receive. :)
"I lurve the Germans" (Piefkes is Austrian slang for Germans, derogatory before you ask) :) and "they make great cars."

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]

Don't forget Daffy, this forum works to the Rumsfeld principle, unfortunately. You're piddling into the wind.

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]

I'm with you mate. Deutschland did keep their labour market closed to the 2004 accession countries, that does not however equate to poles are illegal aliens in Deutschland. Ola's trying to make it sound a lot worse than it actually was.

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]


Really? In what way.
I mean, I know that there are known knowns. Is this one of them? That is to say, that
do you actually mean, it's a known known or was this more a known unknown. :)

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]


Now there is a magazine that needs to be seen to be believed. Germans, I ask you!! :)

Life / The World of Polish Soap Operas [14]


pssst. What's your favourite tv show? Unless it's the news, or a documentary then that's fake and isn't real either. :)


pssst. All human endeavor is ultimately pointless, as we're all going to bite the big one. As you said yourself in another thread:


That even applies to people who make soap operas. :)


Probably: reference Eastenders. :)


Lucky it's all pretend then. :)


TV is meant to dull the senses, it's obviously not working. Do Poles have to pay a license fee? I'd ask for a refund. :)


See above.

Nah, seriously, soaps are like belly button fluff. Absolutely no purpose, but keeps you entertained and stops you navel gazing. :)

Australia / Famous Australians [97]

I assume Warney and Ponting are pretty famous, along with the Minogues and Bouncer. :)

Anyone who even thinks of mentioning the name Russell Crowe, will be banned from any further participation in this thread. :)

Love / Help me! I fell in love with a Polish man! [137]

Stairs can be lethal. :)

Australia / Famous Australians [97]

Excellent. :)

Clive James of course and where would we be without Steffan Dennis?


Too right blue, you can't forget the Thorpedo! :)

Others I guess would be Germaine Greer and Skippy, who did his kangerooing in the bush. :)

Love / Foreigners in relationships with Poles - do your in-laws accept you? [66]

My ex was a Pole, her mum absolutely hated the fact her daughter was with a Brit. She tried everything to split us up. Telling her that our culture was too different, that I probably had a wife and kids and wasn't telling her about it...the list goes on and on. She won in the end.

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]

What is it with this forum and it's anti German feeling all of a sudden?

Ok Babylon. You want to analyse the text Deutschland über alles then you HAVE to understand the time it was written in


You say that, but that is exactly the point.
THAT IS WHY IT WAS WRITTEN!
There was, at the time of the composition of that hymn, NO Germany.
No emperor, no central government that first verse attempted to instill a sense of unity and aspiration to become better and one nation.


Germany, Germany above everything
Above everything in the world
When, always, for protection and defence
Brothers stand together.
From the Maas to the Memel
From the Etsch to the Belt,
Germany, Germany above all
Above all in the world.

Now before you start saying being above all in the world is being rascist, it means in the sense of being esteemed above everything else (I love my country above all else; ya know Patriotism.) That is after all what they were trying to inspire.

Yes, the words got twisted and used by some to promote their own ends (rather like you just tried to do) and that's why in 1950 it was replaced with the current anthem. Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit... (which was the third verse of the original song)


Really, like the French anthem?

Sacred love of the fatherland, cherished liberty, strenghten our arm of vengence.... victory come to your male calls, let your dying enemies, see your triumph and your glory. To arms, citizens! Form your battalions! Let us march, let us march may impure blood soak our fields' furrows!

or perhaps the British one?

O Lord our God arise,
Scatter her enemies
And make them fall;
Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks,
On Thee our hopes we fix,
Oh, save us all!

Or perhaps the the American one?

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save
The hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

I could go on but i'm not going to labour the point.

Food / Is there McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut etc in Poland? Food survey. [222]

You want a girl that works in McDonalds? Fast Food, fast love eh? :) No George, don't apply, he said Women only. :)

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]

The Austrians have an odd sense of humour Bubba, that's for certain, but once you get your ear in, it's not that hard to laugh in the right places. :)

@a German.

ist gut, dass du dich hier registriert hast. Willkommen bei Polishforums :)

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]


I'd guessed. :)


Hmm, they're a serious bunch, to the point of leaving you thinking they must have had a collective humour bypass, so I guess they thought I was pretty outrageous, what with me cracking jokes left, right and centre and nothing being off limits for a bit of ribbing. (I try not to take too much seriously, as i'm sure you've guessed!)

It was just a question of getting used to each other really. Some got it straight away, while others took a while before they stopped taking me literally and stopped trying to work out what I might be talking about. (Always good hearing them say 'So, this must be the world famous British humour' with a bewildered look on their faces)

Now though, life is grand and we're cooking on gas. :)

But, I still don't find the "why is Canada called Canada" joke funny, no matter how much I try. :)

What about Poland? They cope with your dry wit ok?

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]

Ruddy Shel duck! It's from Stoke :)
You mean they don't have ducks on 30 minute standby during brush season? Man, they've been lucky so far...

No smoke without foul play etc

Polonia / Germans: Do Poles like them or dislike them? [217]

That was the one... :)