USA, Canada / Poles and American Poles. What do you think about those two groups and their interactions. [85]


Well I've read and I don't like it as well. But note that skysoulmate, plk123 and many users who seems to be open-minded kind of persons here feel offended by your posts.


Once I've made a mistake and I excluded from discussion people of Polish ancestry by asking about Poles living in Poland. And I felt ashamed when some user told me that he was attending Polish sunday schools and was trying to do everything to cultuvate his gradparents' traditions and maintain national identity. Who I am to exclude anybody from being a part of Polish society or telling anyone that he is not a full value Pole?

I don't like people like those all Pol-Am PF users who make extreme statements on racial/cultural issues and who think that Poland is a last preserve for such ideologies. But note that when you are trying to needle them, you offend or make upset many other people by the way...

USA, Canada / Poles and American Poles. What do you think about those two groups and their interactions. [85]


What about this man?



I'm the real Pole and I say you talk nonsense. What is more you don't have any rights to talk on behalf of Poles. Not every American Pole is a far-right bigot. You've hurt feelings of many people by writing such stuff, have you ever thought about it? What kind of man you are to deny anyone a right to identify with a nation of one's ancestors???

USA, Canada / Poles and American Poles. What do you think about those two groups and their interactions. [85]

edit.
deleted because I'm not sure is it worth to involved in this pointless and stupid discussion... My suggestion to skysoulmate and other peeople of American Polonia who feel hurt by comments of delphie is just to ignore him.

News / Should government monitor the net in Poland? [38]

The news says that they will delete hateful comments not put authors into jails. And it's about sensitive people who read it and feel to be victims of attack.

News / Should government monitor the net in Poland? [38]


what if they teach normal people about ignorant haters?

Life / Young Poles' manners? [10]

Yes, very true.

News / Should government monitor the net in Poland? [38]


You have written GW and posted link from wp?


If Polish news portals were really intrested in high discussion standards they could easly solved the problem much ealier without any high-tech artificial intelligence programmes.

In some portals whenever I push the buttom "report", a window with registration/login pops up. Why the hell I can't report any comment when not being a registered user? The great Polish news portals obviously don't moderate comments at all unless they are reported by some user. If they really watnted to make it better they would moderate every comment before publishing as I see it happens on many foreign sites.

They turn a blind eye on worthless sarcastic comments which only clutter the forums... actually that news means that Polish portals will need to get rid of 90% of their forums. It would be easier to erase it all and start everything again from the scratch...

Life / Young Poles' manners? [10]


Hard to say. Anyone would had to be a statistic clark to answer that question objectively. Maybe they are more respectful to elders... But how can one know that if didn't have much in common with teens in other countries?


Well there is a tv series in Polish tv broadcasted right now "World's Strictest Parents" and there is American and British version. Kids in American version behave much better IMHO, while British kids are more cheeky and like to raise voice.

Life / Young Poles' manners? [10]


I don't agree at all.


haha. Are you kidding?

This question is stupid because everyone is different. It's like asking does every Pole like cabbage. I know kids who are very unmannered and those who are really mannered. I know teens who like classical or jazz music and I know teens who like pop. I know those who are excited about celebs lives and those who are more excited about high culture events (the second group is much bigger though). Everyone has it's own interests and asking such questions as if we were talking about homogenius group is just ridiculous.


Most people watch MTV just to poke fun on people who takes part in MTV shows. It's like discovering unknown world were everyone is shallow... ;)


There are two Poland. First Poland is Poland of middle class were kids are sometimes a little bit spoilt but they try to behave. They have their own hobbies and the future.

Second Poland is the Poland of "chavs". Chavs are neglicted. No one brings them up because their parents are pretty often addicted to alcohol or works too many hours to give their kids proper upbringing. Those kids stay on streets whole day and involves in risky behaviour. They have problems in school, many of them them become football hooligans, they have no future or really hazy future.

The obligation of society is to take care of the second group and bring them up if their parents can't do that. Unfotunately in Poland no one (including schools) feels obliged to do that.

Life / $3,000-$4,000 a month - would we have enough money to live in Poland? [273]


I know ppl who were renting a flat and had cats. It depends on landlord.

Love / Nature of Poles - the relationship of Polish families [7]


No. It's individual trait of abused families. It means that something bad happened in your family and no one want to speak about it loudly.

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Can I watch it somewhere? ;D

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]


I remember when my friend was turning 18. She came to a pub with friends yo celebrate in the day of her birthsday and guess what! They (the pub staff) did not let her to drink untill midnight! That's true! ;DDD

News / Polish teenager gives birth live on British TV [15]


There are subtitles.
Oh she just used few k-words, no big deal... I felt really sorry to see how much she suffers.



Just look what things were shown 82 years ago:
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IvDEPq2rBaQ
move to 2:40


Don't be a facist. You don't know those people and their story.

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


IS is just teasing you and you all took it too serious. But now you see how an ordinary Polish born PF user feel when need to repell stupid statments about Poland. It's like discussing with Harry, he always wants stupis proofs for obvious things...

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


I remember that someone was saying that Poles don't have own culture because everything which Poles consider as their own unique culture is more or less simillar with culture/traditions of other Central and Eastern European countries.

I don't remember who said it. Maybe Delphi, maybe Harry, maybe Fuzzy...

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]


exactly.

Imagine that in the USA they would be shocked that 17 year old can drink and it's acceptable...

Law / Question about the drinking laws of Poland. [45]


In Poland she is not and I'm not sure if giving/proposing an alcohol to unadult is not a law offend.
There is a right in Poland that person under 18 is not allowed to drink alcohol and everyone should stick to it. It's not GB where the drinking age is 16... It's just about abiding the law.

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Haha, strange that you said that... Please don't congatulate me - your the last person I want to congartulate me...


no I'm too young to know communism and too old to believe in Church ;)))

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Poles are cunning. They value something which is called cwaniactwo (street smartness, slyness). They are brought up by the school with the romantic idea of patriotism but grow up to be oppostunists as this is what they are taught at homes. In Poland ethics and competence is not a merit. People just look on achievements, rarely on a way of achieving. They are completely mistrustful to each other. They see a trap and a trick everywhere. They are not willing to congregate for a greater aim. They are passive and look for other to fight for their rights. They rarely smile

It's quite sad but this is the way I see Poles and I guess many of mt fellow countrymen will agree with me.

History / Esperanto - an effort by a Pole ... [122]


There is also a Roosvelt street in the place where I live ;D

UK, Ireland / Estimated number of Poles in Ireland thought to exceed 200,000 OR over 5% of population. [200]


Actually I would really enjoy if some people said that Poles are like Germans. Germans bring positive associations while Poles not necessarly.


Btw. do Irish speaks Irish on daily basis?


Some call it whiskey, some call it whisky ;)

But being serious now Irish culture is pretty distinguish and I wouldn't mix up it with British.

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


That one I also never heard...
I'm from central Poland.

What about chłopaki and chłopacy? Is it true that both words are correct?

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


There are other examples. I just wanna show that such mistakes are quite frequent. I heard it many times that's why I memorized wrong grammar form.

When there was a tvp kultura short animated movies series about common Polish language mistakes there was an example with sweter that people allegedly say "swetr"... I never heard anyone to say "swetr". So maybe it works this way that in some regions somemistakes are more frequent than in other? How do you think?

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]

I feel imbecyle ;)

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


Ok I see I shouldn't pass matura, hehe

As a proof it's not just me who is an illiterate idiot ;D :


spec.pl/uroda/pielegnacja/sauna-jak-z-niej-korzystac-poradnik

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]

really? where's the logic and consistency?

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


maybe...


Shouldn't it be "nie napijesz się szklankę mleka?"


So in negative we drink the glass? ;)

Language / Napić się kieliszek koniaku [25]


ok. but napiję się kieliszek wódki sounds also weird.


That should be applied then to "kieliszka case" because I've checked in google and many people write kieliszka as well as kieliszek. Strzyga is right - her justification sounds really logical. Still I hear more times szklanki, kieliszka if used in such sentence than szklankę mleka:

- napiłam się szklanki ciepłego mleka z miodem
rather than:
- napiłam się szklankę ciepłego mleka z miodem

So as you see even Poles make gramatical mistakes ;)

Language / Declensions, prepositions and pronouns [16]

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