UK, Ireland / Poland vs. UK - how the manners differ [48]


Pubs are the places where you drink gassed beverages. And you drink plenty of them (: I guess it's all over the world. Then again, it's down to the person burping - you can do it 'in your face'-way or try to suppress it.

UK, Ireland / Poland vs. UK - how the manners differ [48]


It's always better to let it out discreetly outdoors than loud and smelly indoors, don't you think?


Bollox. Some people here act like they were taking part in 'The Loudest Belch Ever Competition'.

UK, Ireland / Where, in the UK, is the most Polish? [18]

You mean part of Glasgow? I have to disappoint you. Contrary to its name it's Asian turf.

UK, Ireland / Poles returning to the UK [33]

Damn, it's only POLES POLES POLES in these f!%&#g rags. As if the POLES were the only immigrants here.

Life / Why do Polish people celebrate the name day? [11]


And why not? It's a Polish tradition. Just like Thanksgiving is American one. But I don't think that anyone in Poland would think about questioning the right to celebrate it by Americans present in my country.

Life / Where do you live in Poland? [19]

When I don't live in Glasgowce, I live near Opole. Actually these villages surrounding bigger towns are becoming their 'bedrooms' as you can buy a piece of land, build a house there for a bit less money than in aforementioned towns. Commuting to work may be an issue, but people have even more cars nowadays.

UK, Ireland / I'm turning nationalistic. Want to change my views. [14]


They just try to adjust to the local fashion


This make is very popular here. Amongst Scots, Asians and why not Poles?


Well, as Wroclaw said...

News / Tanks stolen from military training ground in Poland [28]


Your eyes are in perfect order, then. They shot at them with blanks.

Life / Why Poles don't use Facebook? [43]

I use Facebook, but don't make big fuss about it. Have just 3 friends (including one sister ;). I was reluctant to do this, but one person I tried to help out in this forum managed to talk me into it.

Language / precarious polish homonyms [3]

Keep in mind that the aforementioned words/expressions in their sexual context belong to slang.
członek - 1. member (of an e.g. organisation, party); 2.penis
pochwa - 1. scabbard; 2.vagina

Life / Wonderful Poland.......but the attitude of Polish people [150]


Hah. They hardly ever say hello even to the locals. They often never say hello back when you greet them.


Happens here too, but quite rarely.

Genealogy / Polish and British men the ugliest -> according to... BeautifulPeople [27]

Hmmm... There is a different 'beauty' definition in Denmark, I suppose...

Food / How often do you have Polish Food? [49]

I'm Polish, so I make Polish food every day, then??? (:

Life / Polish Fairytales [25]

No prob, for me as a Pole it can only be Bolek i Lolek (:

Life / Polish Fairytales [25]

Bolek i Lolek's: facebook.com/pages/Lolek-Bolek/33998811514?v=app_3801015922 - facebook
Bolek i Lolek is more 'international' as there are no dialogues. Miś Uszatek had to be localised.

Life / Polish Fairytales [25]

Yeah, I remember those Czech series too. And Miś Uszatek (aka Oyasumi Kumachan), another Polish animation has devoted followers as far as in Japan.

Life / Polish Fairytales [25]

No problemo

There were also short stories about Sowizdrzał and his pal Wonichlebiczek is Silesia. Not actually fairy tales, but little funny pictures from lives of two nieroby (lazy bums).

I also remember a book of Yugoslavian fairy tales from my kidhood. These were hilarious antics :)

Life / Polish Fairytales [25]

Polish fairy tales I remember were about:
- Fern flower - fern was said amongst folk to blossom only on Summer Solstice and the flower's finder could wish whatever they wanted, as long as it was a selfish wish;

- The basilisk - it's gaze turned to stone, but one daredevil got the beast with a mirror (I guess it's some local derivative of Gorgon myth);

- The Soldier and the Devil - an old veteran duping the Devil (I remember some tale where he did it with not-so-little help of a brainy woman);

- A national myth of Wars and Sawa (whose names gave the name to Polish capital);
- Wanda (a princess) who chose to drown rather than marry a German;
- Smok Wawelski (Wawel Dragon) who was terrorizing Krakowiacy until a wee sly shoe-maker prepared a tasty sheep stuffed with sulphur & tar & tikka masala (ok, I went a step too far) which made the said beast drink whole water from Wisła and explode as a result;

- St St Peter and Paul wandering among folk and having various adventures (I guess they were popular amongst Highlanders);
- Zmoras which were evil kinda witches (always women!) popular in Silesia. One of their features was that they could change their form to a straw, sneak through a keyhole, and turn back to their bodily form. Their favourite activity was sitting with bare bum (they were basically naked) on men's throat during their sleep an cause nightmares.

Obviously, many of them have different versions, depending on region.

Life / Polish bureaucracy - it went to a new level, they ask to pay for search [21]


And that's one of main problems of Polish red tape - one biurwa has his/her own interpretation of the rules while other biurwa can tell you something quite different.

Language / Zajebiiiiiście! [30]

Simply it's because it derives from the word 'zajebać', which means 'to fu(king kill sb'.

History / Forgotten heroes - PZL angels [17]


There were only 9 built. And no September Campaign:
rwd-dwl.net/samoloty/rwd_9/index.htm

History / Forgotten heroes - PZL angels [17]


???
RWD-9 was a sport plane built in a small series for the Challenge in 1934 (which btw. was won by Poland). No military use at all.

RWD-8 (the one with the female pilot standing in front of it), was a training aircraft (incl. training of flying using instruments only).
The sea plane was the Lublin R-XIII ter, woefully outdated in '39. That was a recon plane. Other recon plane was the RWD-14 Czapla.

History / Forgotten heroes - PZL angels [17]


Not at all. It's the PZL-44
Besides the Dakota had single rudder, the plane on the picture has a twin one.

History / Forgotten heroes - PZL angels [17]

PZL-37 £oś - a medium bomber, faster than Polish fighter planes in '39
The first plane in the world with main wheels on a ball joint
Some of them took part in the invasion of the USSR in Romanian colours
An article on £oś

UK, Ireland / What is good about being in the UK? [140]


Motorways (free!) - agreed
Other roads - many of them never let me forget about Poland
I suppose more double lane roads though

News / Weird and quirky events and competitions in Poland. [8]


TV are banned, so I wouldn't risk turning it into Throw with a Hammer at a Telly and a Camera World Championship (:

News / Weird and quirky events and competitions in Poland. [8]

Mistrzostwa w Pływaniu na Byle Czym (Sailing on Any Old Thing Championship) - Augustów, July (check the rules) each year

Światowe Mistrzostwa w Rzucie Młotkiem do Telewizora - (Throw with a Hammer at a Telly World Championship) - Bałąg near Jonkowo at Olsztyn, beginning months of each year (Feb/Mar), organised by Jarosław Guła on his private meadow. However - no entry for the TV.

Sorry, info available only in Polish

UK, Ireland / Polish expats in UK, USA, Canada and Ireland, are you planning on going home? [10]

Hahaha... Anyway, I don't believe either thing will happen.

UK, Ireland / Polish expats in UK, USA, Canada and Ireland, are you planning on going home? [10]

Keep your fingers crossed for me... My company takes part in a tender for a big job in Poland and my boss threatened me with charging me with management role there (:

Life / The Polish equivalent of Walmart store? [14]

'Real' is a big supermarket chain present in Poland, too.