outintheyard 27 | 517 24 Mar 2008 / #1ARE all those in Poland celebrating this day as a national holiday?
Karima 3 | 50 24 Mar 2008 / #2Not at all. Specially young people.. sometimes this play start be dangerous.. evrytimes i was in Poland and go aut this day it was finish not good forme. I advice is better to stay athome.
OP outintheyard 27 | 517 24 Mar 2008 / #3be dangerous..In US it is just a day of fattening up and drinking Tell me more about Poland and why this is dangerous day?
Karima 3 | 50 24 Mar 2008 / #4Dangerous cos if someone spill on you little water nothing happened its yet tradition but if u r far from home is cold as hell and come to u some stupid mans and split on u all pail ( about 25 litters of cold like ice water) trust me u want kill them..beside they can put weather in ur car or others unexpected places
OP outintheyard 27 | 517 24 Mar 2008 / #5Water and very cold weather do not mix well. And in the car is just plain stupid and expensive. Easter is early this year so it is colder than usual
przemek79 - | 12 24 Mar 2008 / #6Why dangerous ? You might get wet only :D:D:DI'm too old to play this day, but when I was younger I spill hundred liters of water those days :DPrzemek
wildrover 98 | 4,451 24 Mar 2008 / #8Anybody know the words to the bucket of water song...as featured on tiswas many moons ago....????
Daisy 3 | 1,225 24 Mar 2008 / #10Anybody know the words to the bucket of water song...as featured on tiswas many moons ago....????
southern 75 | 7,096 25 Mar 2009 / #11Thread attached on merging:Tradition of throwing cold water to females in EasterA very antifeminist men swine tradition if you agree.
cjjc 29 | 408 25 Mar 2009 / #12I never heard about it being anything to do with only being thrown on women???
Bikernut5 12 Apr 2009 / #13I wish that we had this tradition in America. There are some young females that could use some ice water poured over them.
leszek38 - | 31 13 Apr 2009 / #14Today is somewhat warm day, so it will be just some harmless fun.The sprinkling party is already gathering :)
Polanglik 11 | 303 14 Apr 2009 / #15'Bucket of Water Song' from Tiswas ...... wow, that brought back some happy memories :o)A very young Chris Tarrant , Lenny Henry ....... and what about Sally James in her knee length leather boots :o))))I used to love Smingus Dingus ..... my friends and I would get together and walk around to houses of girls that we knew and get them absolutely soaked ..... and this was with the cooperation of the girls' parents.We used to run into other groups of Polish kids from another parish and that escalated in a 'friendly' water fight on the streets of West London ..... the English people stared in amazement not knowing what the hell was going on !We used to finish up at our local church where anyone was fair game ..... but we mostly targeted attractive young girls, although I do remember one older lady getting sprayed with water when she complained that her daughter had got her new dress soaked !All in all, it was and still is harmelss fun, young people trying to keep an old tradition - alive :o) my two young kids aged 7 and 5 yrs woke up early at around 6.30am on Easter Monday and soaked myself and my wife while we were sleeping soundly in our beds.I believe that the cut off point for soaking is midday on Easter Monday.this is something I found which explains the soaking associated with Easter Monday.
panienka 1 | 205 14 Apr 2009 / #16śmigus dyngus, that's silly but I can't imagine Easter without it :)
