Travel / Any Halal Restaurants in Krakow? [34]

This forum seems to attract foreign dregs of society for some reason.

Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]


xDDDDD

Omg, Coca Cola brand is a "Middle Class marker"?? ;D Activia, KitKat, TOAST O_O, baguette... baby foods??? ;D
Dude, you're hilarious :D


Oh yes, because buying soda drinks, sweets, pastry and food for babies has nothing to do with buying actual food xD
You are so weird...


Creepy!

Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]

OK, I'm doing this for fun, because this guy is so clueless lol


Polish yogurts have no brands? lol


So it didn't cross your mind that:
a) some people may have different tastes than you and find other yogurts than you tasty;
b) they trust more famous brands more;
c) are influenced by TV commercials of a given product, just like everywhere in the world (for example, Serek Danio has that funny commercial with "little hunger")


Firstly, what on Earth is a "Western Middle Class"? lol
Do you think that only the West has middle class or what?

Secondly, I don't even know which brands are Polish and which are Western or whatever.
I used to buy Bakoma yogurts, for example, because they were cheaper (not necessarily tastier). I didn't know whether that brand was Polish or not - I didn't care to be honest.

I've just googled it and it turns out it's Polish:
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakoma
Yay.

Life / Polish pretense - what's the deal? [72]


And you won't, jogging is a city thing. If you see someone jogging in my grandma's village it means they're someone's relatives from the city :)

In the countryside running "for fitness or fun" would be a strange notion. People in the city usually don't move enough outside in the fresh air. People in the countryside don't have such a problem. They're out in the fresh air most of the time. And they work in the fresh air most of the time too. Also, people often walk some distances to get somewhere, to a shop, for example, to a field, to a forest, to visit relatives in a nearby village, etc. Bicycles are usually used to get from point A to point B (it's still fun though, especially for the kids :)).


Oh, I won't bother, Envyme is clearly a troll lol


+1

Travel / Any Halal Restaurants in Krakow? [34]

Ambassadors reside in Warsaw (Warszawa - the capital of Poland), not in Kraków. There's a mosque in Warsaw.

Food / "Poland - it's the new Provence of food" [56]

Well, tell this to the British journalist :)
But I believe you, don't worry lol

Food / "Poland - it's the new Provence of food" [56]


Old-fashioned home cooking is done at home ;) I guess one can try it with those "90 great recipes" from Anne Applebaum's book ;)


Magda Gessler is trying to make a change as far as Polish restaurants are concerned in a TV programme "Kuchenne rewolucje" ("Kitchen revolutions") on TVN (similar to "Kitchen Nightmares" I guess):

She usually advocates natural products, fresh stuff, no microwave ovens, flavour enhancers, etc.

I wonder if she succeeds :)


It seems the author of the article was influenced by Applebaum's book - that's why I'm curious what's in it ;)
Btw, bullfrog, have you been to Poland?


An interview with authors of the book:
publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/55150-in-a-polish-kitchen-pw-talks-with-anne-applebaum-and-danielle-crittenden.html

History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]

I don't, I've never had an opportunity to do so ;)

History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]


By drinking vodka together xD

Language / Slavic accent correction [110]


I basically speak without an accent.
Also, if I focus I can fake more or less the British and American accents.


Well, I don't know, but I guess listening to someone speaking English and trying to repeat the sounds. Something recorded that you could rewind and play forward. Put your headphones on, listen and then repeat to check if you're saing words in the same way.

Vlad, when did you start studying English?

Language / How do You Pronounce, "Polaczkow"? [10]


On the internet?


Grammatically "Polaczki" is a diminutive of "Polacy" (Poles). But as far as I know it's used solely in a derogatory way (or ironical, at best). I guess one can say that it's an equivalent of "Pollacken" in German and "Polacks" in English.

Language / How do You Pronounce, "Polaczkow"? [10]

I wonder, why do you want to know how to pronounce this rather derogatory term for "Poles"?

Polonia / What are qualites of Germans? [60]


Vlad, I think you may have overdosed Ursa's translations ;)


That's true, as far as I've noticed.


Vlad, wouldn't you prefer to discuss such matters with Poles on some Polish forum or blog? I've discussed these issues so many times and I've read so many discussions about this between Poles and Russians, Poles and Poles, Russians and Russians that I don't even have the strength to answer this...

Btw, jon357, do you have Russian roots or sth?

Genealogy / Can one become Polish? [21]


Hmm, I guess it's possible: /wiki/Archduke_Karl_Albrecht_of_Austria


His daughter died not long ago in Poland:

Duchess Maria Christina of Austria died Tuesday morning in Zywiec at the age of 88 years - said the local government . Duchess of 11 years ago returned to Polish and lived in a small apartment in parts of the former palace of the Habsburgs.

- According to the last will of the Duchess of rest in the crypt of the Habsburg family in Żywiec konkatedrze . The funeral will be held next week - said local government spokesman Thomas Terteka Zywiec .

She was very respected and liked.

Language / How to type Polish characters with the language bar [13]

AutumnFlower, and what happens when you type right Alt with a, e, o, etc? Also nothing?

You're in Poland or abroad? Where did you buy your keyboard? Was it always like that?

Language / How to type Polish characters with the language bar [13]

Hmm, I use right Alt (it's "AltGr" on my keyboard) to type ś - AltGr + s:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AltGr_key#Polish

It doesn't work?

Life / Washing machine in the bathroom of Poles [78]


What water? You make it sound like bathroom is a pool full of water ;) My bathroom is dry, I don't get it...


How can you trip over a cable to a hair dryer or hair straightener? lol


Hey, that's rather unfair and petty :)


I sometimes do that too.


It's not only about that - it's just weird to have your washing machine in the kitchen :)


Yup.


All you need is some basic common sense. Don't put your hairdryer in a bathtub full of water and I think you should be OK lol

I and all people I know have lived with washing machines in our bathrooms, drying our hair in our bathrooms all our lives and somehow we all live lol Really, we do, it can be done, apparently ;)

Life / Washing machine in the bathroom of Poles [78]


Exactly :)

Life / Washing machine in the bathroom of Poles [78]


LOL Indeed :))


There's water in the kitchen too - sink where you're washing your dishes.
I have electric sockets in my bathroom as high as my face and they're on the opposite wall from where the bathtub is so I don't see a problem, to be honest :) And I'm usually drying my hair in the bathroom.

Life / Washing machine in the bathroom of Poles [78]


Me neither.


The same with me.


And I can't imagine a stranger place to have a washing machine than a kitchen :)
It wouldn't even cross my mind to put it there o_O Bathroom seems so much more natural...

Life / Is sarcasm widespread in Poland? [27]


I don't get it... :( Is it supposed to be funny, self-deprecating or sarcasm? :)))


Are you from New York, smurf? :P
:))

Life / Is sarcasm widespread in Poland? [27]


I think he's only mean to people like you :)


Smurf, why do you consider it an oxymoron?


Good one ;D

Life / Is sarcasm widespread in Poland? [27]


No, we Slavic peasants are too stupid for sarcasm ^__^


No idea ;) It probably depends.


True :)
I still remember my favourite cabaret from the 90's :)

Australia / Poles invaded the wrong Anglo-Saxon country [29]


Unerwünschte? :)


lol Indeed, they have an "interesting tradition" in this respect:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Australia_policy

Anglo-Celtic White Power lol

History / WWII - Battle of Britain and Poles [104]


Really? Well, at least now you know it existed :)))


Of course, they weren't. They were fighting for Poland.


Are you Russian by any chance? :)))


Of course, your anti-Polish bias and prejudice is quite visible in your comments throughout the forum.


Poles and the British fought for a common goal - to defeat the Nazis. Britain was the last stand point in the West. Poles always respected and liked your country for not giving up and standing up to the Nazis for all this time. So - thank you Britain :)

Law / STARTING BUSINESS IN POLAND - Internet site of hand-made and not only, clothing [20]

Emilija, if nobody will be able to help you here then try this forum: rosjanie.pl/forum/

It's a forum for Russians living in Poland but Ukrainians and Belarusians write there too so maybe they'll be able to give you some information and help. There are sections like, for example: "РАБОТА В ПОЛЬШЕ / Бизнес / Экономика / Торговля" and "ЗАКОНЫ (ПМЖ, ВНЖ, репатриация, визы, таможня, документы)".

Удачи :)

Life / What is the reaction of Poles to Russian? [95]

Yes, Polish is my native language and I understand Russian alphabet.


Hmm... I don't know... Perhaps in Ukrainian alphabet, maybe I'll manage :)


If it's not a problem, it would be nice ^__^


I knew it! :D That's what I wrote earlier :]

Travel / Starbucks in Poland? [149]


Well, you'd have to ask my friend :)

A café in Poland is called "kawiarnia" and it's not the same as pub or restaurant or sweet-shop (or how you call it in English)... You can usually drink coffee there, tea, wine and eat some cakes, ice-cream.

Here's the place where we were with my friends and where my friend from London told us that there are no cafés in London (it used be our favourite, we were going there as students, it's very small but it was very popular, packed with young people):

It's called "Wesoła kawka" ("Merry Little Coffee"). "Kawka" in Polish means coffee, but it's also a name of a dark bird (Western Jackdaw):



But it's also a surname of a writer Franz Kafka and the toilet at that café was painted all in red with quotes from Kafka written all over the walls in golden paint, with some drawings and with funny and witty texts and other word puns connected with word "coffee" in Polish, written also by the clients :))) Probably my favourite toilet xD

Another typical little café in my city where students come:

More old fashioned ones:


Interesting, that's what she partly said, that there are places like Starbucks where you wait for your coffee in a line or sth, you get it in a plastic cup and you go out. She said that people in London are often in a hurry and there's no such thing like sitting and talking for hours in a café. People sit in pubs, I think she said :)

Of course something could change, it was quite some time ago when she told us about it.

That's what café is all about:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffeehouse




We could hang around for hours in cafés and we've never been thrown out :)

Travel / Starbucks in Poland? [149]


Huh, interesting... And what about tea-houses (tea shops)? After all, the British are famous for their tea :)


Good man ;D I can't imagine myself drinking tea with milk, grose...

Btw, do you know who opened the first coffee house in Vienna and popularised the custom of adding milk to coffee? And what does it have to do with a Polish king? :)


Oops, one of the first, apparently, sorry ;)