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Things you might not know about Poland


plk123 8 | 4,138  
2 Nov 2007 /  #61
Wikipedia

i don't really trust it but i shall look in on this. thanks
PANI WOJTCZAK 2 | 12  
10 Nov 2007 /  #62
Here's one:

Menachem Begin was born in Poland.
nauczyciel  
10 Nov 2007 /  #63
i learned this from my students- all Poles are organ donors. If they don't want to be, they must sign forms in order for them not to be.
z_darius 14 | 3,964  
10 Nov 2007 /  #64
Kazimierz Funk first introduced the concept of vitamins in medical science.
slick77 - | 127  
10 Nov 2007 /  #65
Apart from the Volksdeutsche of course. And seeing as 2.7 million Poles signed the Deutsche Volksliste, it's a bit of a stretch to say that ALL Poles were to be exterminated.

If you had a choice to be exterminated or sign this Deutsche Volksliste, what would you do Harry?
askibinski - | 5  
10 Nov 2007 /  #66
Amazing... I just began reading this thread expecting to find some new facts I didn't know. Instead as soon as somebody began raising the question whether Copernicus was a Pole or not, a very delicate point was touched and people became enraged in fighting each other with arguments and getting the whole WWII into the thread...
cyg 5 | 119  
11 Nov 2007 /  #67
i learned this from my students- all Poles are organ donors. If they don't want to be, they must sign forms in order for them not to be.

Unfortunately this is only in theory - doctors are generally afraid to take organs from anyone without the family's express permission, and this means that most Poles are not organ donors, even if they would like to be.

Apart from the Volksdeutsche of course. And seeing as 2.7 million Poles signed the Deutsche Volksliste, it's a bit of a stretch to say that ALL Poles were to be exterminated.

Poles as in Polish citizens or as in ethnic Poles? The Volksliste was not exactly open for just anyone to sign.

BTW, my grandfather, who in World War II was a Polish officer but ethnically half-German, was offered release from prisoner-of-war camp for signing the Volksliste, but refused and remained a prisoner until the end of the war. Of course in retrospect he would have probably died at Stalingrad if he had signed, but that's another story.
patryk_sudol 6 | 23  
12 Nov 2007 /  #68
5. The most popular name for a dog in Poland is Burek (meaning a brownish-grey colour)!

I thought it was Szarik!!! From Czterej Pancerni i Pies!!!
Eurola 4 | 1,902  
12 Nov 2007 /  #69
awww, Czterej Pancerni i Pies...this was sooo good at that time!
krysia 23 | 3,058  
12 Nov 2007 /  #70
I thought it was Szarik!!!

Only if it's a german shepherd. Bureks are mostly mutts.
nauczyciel  
13 Nov 2007 /  #71
1- you will not find ATMs in every shop like you do in North America

2- in conversation "no" means "yes" sometimes.

3- you will not find marshmallows or chocolate chips
z_darius 14 | 3,964  
13 Nov 2007 /  #72
2- in conversation "no" means "yes" sometimes.

That is when you speak with a lady.
Here are the rules for ladies with class:

no means maybe
maybe means yes
yes means the lady has no class ;)
nauczyciel  
13 Nov 2007 /  #73
ummm just to be clear.... are we to laugh at that??

So what does it mean when I hear a guy answer the phone with "no"? or when I ask my gf if she wants a drink and she says "no" then i come from the kitchen without one for her and she gets angry?
BubbaWoo 33 | 3,506  
13 Nov 2007 /  #74
lol...

would that be the strangley nasal 'nah'...?
nauczyciel  
17 Nov 2007 /  #75
parmesan cheese is very hard to find. I have only found it in small little bags. Not the big shakers like the Kraft ones.
ho-hum  
17 Nov 2007 /  #76
Funny you should mention that. We've suffered the same indignancy however I located some in a local supermarket in original knobbly wedge form. But it was bloody expensive.

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