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Teffle   
5 Nov 2010
Language / déjà vu in Polish [23]

Poles tend to have trouble with the English vowels sounds e.g. differentiating between not, nut and note for example, so I would imagine French presents even more problems.
Teffle   
5 Nov 2010
Language / déjà vu in Polish [23]

we tend to render them all as the same adenoidal honk

LOL - well put!
Teffle   
4 Nov 2010
Love / Polish women world's second most flirtatious [75]

True, but then again there are also people who prefer less bullshit, and if they don't feel like smiling at everyone all day long, then they just don't. That's also very simple, and of course this also doesn't always mean that these people are manic-depressive or anti-social either. (Which is also a bit insulting.)

;)

Yeah - I agree too by the way.
Teffle   
4 Nov 2010
Love / Polish women world's second most flirtatious [75]

OK, well put it this way: Poles in my opinion are quite formal in terms of social conduct/etiquette etc and therefore there is plenty of pan/pani, prosze, handshaking/kissing etc thrown around.

Obviously they don't always mean it - convention just dictates that they should do this.

Similarly, a cliché, but "it's nice to be nice" - why not adress someone with a smile? It's just being pleasant. You don't have to do it but it's polite to be approachable, that's all.

It's no more false than going through the handshaking and pan/pani motions when you don't actually like the person.

So, there you go : )
Teffle   
4 Nov 2010
Love / Polish women world's second most flirtatious [75]

but i prefer less bullshit

This is always the defense of the non-smilers though:

"Smiling" nations go around grinning from ear to ear about nothing - like simpletons.

And/or

People who smile are somehow "false" or something.

Both of which are far too simplistic and actually, a bit insulting.

On topic though, I do think Polish women are a bit flirtatious - perfectly possible without smiling much I should add.
Teffle   
4 Nov 2010
Love / Polish women world's second most flirtatious [75]

Not sure how much I would trust a survey that can't do basic maths:

Spanish women, who on average made 1.33 contacts in a month, were followed by Poles, then by women from the Dominican Republic, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Portugal

But...

Canada, in eighth position

then

Venezuela closed off the top ten.

Teffle   
4 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

I am starting to discover that some Poles don't like any changes and they like to be where they are, because what is Polish is better, even if it is not better anyways

Well I don't mean to be triumphalist but I'm glad that you, a Pole, have said this to be honest.
Teffle   
3 Nov 2010
Language / The Future of Polish Language [179]

As mentioned, languages evolve.

I wouldn't worry too much about Polish becoming oversimplified.

To Poles who think this, a few words by way of an example in English : past/present perfect tenses
Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
News / Upping the speed limit in Poland [92]

No, and I was going to add that there may be a case for increased (or even no) limits on motorways. I should have : )

Mind you something tells me that the psychology of drivers in Germany v Poland is different.
Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
News / Upping the speed limit in Poland [92]

Speed most certainly is a factor. But to say that a person who drives faster than the legal limit is more likely to cause an accident than a person who does not is very simply wrong.

I understand - I'm not claiming that statistically, on an individual basis that there will be a direct correlation but looking at it coldly:

Bad driving exists - careless, aggressive, over cautious etc

Combine bad driving with increased speed and the consequences for road safety are bound to be worse.

That some of the drivers, consequently driving faster as a result of increased speed limits may be good drivers and may never have contributed significantly to road deaths, and may still not, doesn't compensate for the increased likelihood of accidents from the bad drivers.

All I'm saying is that increased speed limits is not the answer.
Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
Life / Poles don't know how to celebrate the Polish Independence Day? [57]

I don't deny the terrible reputation Britons have in terms of their Friday night behaviour

Ah I see.

So the Irish at least have the feeble excuse of a national holiday but Britons don't even need one - they just do it anyway?

Fair enough.

: )

make no reference to how Britons, Poles or the Irish behave on any normal day of the year.

To be clear - they do:

I don't deny the terrible reputation Britons have in terms of their Friday night behaviour

Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
News / Upping the speed limit in Poland [92]

But also on conditions and other random circumstances - hazards exist and can occur at any time. The faster you drive the less chance you have of avoiding them.
Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
Life / Poles don't know how to celebrate the Polish Independence Day? [57]

If we're talking of national celebrations

No we're not, your post simply mentioned "the notion of partying".

If pressed to nominate, the very concept of the 'lager lout', of vomiting and fighting and of women urinating in streets or performing oral sex on strangers is arguably of English origin.
Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
News / Upping the speed limit in Poland [92]

Quite the contrary. As long as everyone is driving the same speed, regardless of speed limit, there is low probability of an accident.

Maybe, but everyone driving at the same speed is not a realistic scenario.

But if there is just one law abiding moron, so called "zawalidroga", one that have to be overtaken by everyone else in the traffic, while they are watching out for oncomig cars and cursing under theirs breathses a sunday driver, the danger of head on collision raises exponentially

But these people will still exist regardless - increasing the speed limit will not mean that sunday drivers will drive faster. Anyway, annoying as they may be, it is their right to drive cautiously and it is more the case that it is the frustration of other drivers with them, frustration leading to impetuous actions, that causes accidents - not the sunday drivers themselves.

Other drivers just need to deal with this more rationally and sensibly.
Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
News / Upping the speed limit in Poland [92]

There seems to be a bit of recurring sentiment of "Oh speed isn't the problem - bad driving is".

Is anyone actually suggesting that people who speed excessively and regularly are not more likely to cause or be in an accident?
Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
Life / All Saints' Day in Poland - Commemoration or Carnival? [44]

I agree.

Don't forget that cremation is bloody expensive too though. I'm hoping that by the day I die there will be 'council burials' in cardboad coffins - or something along those lines.

I hate the idea that my death will cost either me or my family money - it's just wrong.
Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

BTW: what do you spice yours with. I add cream, a dash of cinnamon, fresh garlic and fresh dill.

No cream, just very good stock, garlic, plenty of onions and black pepper and a pinch of chilli and cumin.

In reality though, butternut squash makes much better soup than pumpkin.
Teffle   
2 Nov 2010
Life / All Saints' Day in Poland - Commemoration or Carnival? [44]

The RC church has always been quite hyprocritical about their idea of 'ceremony'.

Amongst the robes, smoke and chanting, aspects of blatant commercialism also flourish - e.g. during "solemn" novena there are stalls outside churches selling gaudy, overpriced religious trinkets.

Regularly priests are effectively paid extra for certain routine duties that fall under their normal job description.

I'm not surprised that this mentality may infect other aspects of religious commemoration then.
Teffle   
1 Nov 2010
Love / What do Polish guys think of Irish girls? [187]

He was and he did, yes - didn't think you were getting at that to be honest.

It's too complex and boring to explain what I thought you were alluding to!

- anyway, point made - no matter whose quote expresses the sentiment and how wittily: "The brits don't give a monkeys"

: )
Teffle   
1 Nov 2010
Love / What do Polish guys think of Irish girls? [187]

Even more ironic that the said Irish man spent a great deal of his life (freely and happily) in England

But now there is an example of something that has no trace of irony about it at all ; )
Teffle   
1 Nov 2010
Language / Paddy, Jock and Taffy; origin and translation to Polish [27]

Allegedly "Poms" from the convicts wearing POHM (prisoners of her majesty) and "Limeys" from drinking lime juice to prevent scurvy (not sure about that one though).

I heard that POMs was an abbreviated form of pomegranate - a (very) rough rhyming slang for immigrant (!)

Hadn't actually heard your version but to be honest it sounds much more likely.

The lime/limey reference is pretty widely accepted though I think.

In Ireland occasionally heard the term 'Tan' (from "Black and Tans", a paramilitary unit of the British security forces in 1920's).

Yeah, it's really not common though.

That would be in the South then, because most Brits in the North are pretty happy to be called Brits..No?

Hmmm. Not sure. Technically, yes, the majority shouldn't have an issue with it but context is all. It's probably fighting talk in NI - regarded as confrontational or challenging.