Language / Find error in a Polish article [45]

w stu tysiącach egzemplarzy

sorry didn't read the updated thread, it's already been suggested above

nevermind

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

As well as BEBIKO baby formula. You had to have special coupons to be able to buy it during the Martial Law.

But yeah - up until at least 1992, all Polish mother breastfed and later spent all their daylight hours mashing up food for their babies. They also produced wooden toys and wove cloth for nappies.

Life / Where, Oh Where Do Poles Get Their Dogs? [18]

From people who keep dogs and have puppies. Simples.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]


If it's with girls it's not a guy thing any more! Don't you see that? ;-)


Maybe they don't want to get their clothes dirty. BTW, this sort of squat is extremely comfy! I speak from experience, and I have never lived in the countryside.


It was never a question of only having one bowl - it was a question of eating out of one bowl (you cook a lot of potatoes or soup or whatever and serve it in one bowl, much easier than having every member of the household eat from separate plate, who gets to wash all those plates afterwards? - no running water, remember).

Meals eaten from a single bowl were typical of peasant life in most parts of CE Europe till quite recently (maybe 80-100 years ago). Ask your wife or google it.


Come on... you know I didn't mean that! Of course farmers keep horses! Don't be ridiculous now. But do they ride them all the time? Race them? Develop new breeds? Do they keep them for the pure love of the thing? I bet not.


Really? I'd think people would keep that sort of info under wraps, AFAIK it's illegal.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

Geez. Hanging out in the forest is NOT a Tatar tradition, end of. It's a guy thing. I can totally see why they don't want their women there. Do they enjoy horses and horsemanship in general? Do they hunt with bows or make bows? No? Then they're not Tatars. ;-p

Re: squatting. You squat (and not outright sit down) when the ground is cold and damp and you have no chairs / benches available. Like in the forest. There, solved that one for you.

Re: food from one bowl. Long, long ago, the poorest peasants used to eat from one bowl using their own spoons. Maybe the poorest of the poor didn't even own spoons, maybe the family or families you mentioned carry on this tradition on Christmas Eve because it's a meal during which it is traditional to eat what our ancestors used to eat. So you go through the motions even though you know it's ritual and you maybe don't even enjoy the traditional meal so much (good case in point: Swedish Lutefisk as a Christmas dish).

To sum up: there is no elephant in the room.

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


Are you perchance a Management and Marketing student?

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

Why don't you talk to the locals and find out?

Genealogy / Half Polish half Persian? I can't possibly be alone in the whole world with this mix? [34]

@APF
I love your statistics.

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


...and you're welcome to it.

UK, Ireland / Is there actually anything cheaper in Poland than in UK? [51]


Dunno about that one. I used to rent a really, really (really) tiny studio flat in a rather rough part of London for £600 a month.

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

I've been to Holland and Denmark apart from Germany, and maybe I'm wrong, but I seem to remember sockets in the bathrooms there too. At least I don't remember NOT seeing them and having to use my hair dryer in the bedroom.

AFAIK England is the only European (?) country with this strange bathroom-related obsession. ;-)

electriciansforums.co.uk/electrical-wiring-theories-electrical-regulations/17086-bathroom-sockets-uk.html

A similar discussion, but from a different point of view ;-)

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


Well... in my kitchen in the UK (rented as furnished) the washing machine is right next to the sink, and the sink is about half a meter away from the stove (electric BTW). The kitchen is big, but both appliances are crammed right there with the sink in one corner. Come to think of it, most English kitchens I have seen have this predilection for sink-fridge-washing machine-stove combos.

Get off your high horse, y'all. You do it one way, we do it another. We are all alive to tell the tale. This whole discussion is truly pointless!

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


I know, but I like to answer the questions I've been asked ;->


If they have an older washing machine, they can't do it any other way. It's not exactly a question of choice.

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


No, it goes in the bath or the toilet bowl, as mentioned above ;-)
A special hose was provided for that.

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


Yeah, some people can handle that... ;-P
The sockets are different though.

e-instalacje.pl/a/4032,gniazda-w-lazience

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


AFAIK the older type washing machines didn't have the pipe hookup thingy. I might be wrong.

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


There is no right or wrong in this, as well you know :-)

Life / Is sarcasm widespread in Poland? [27]


You do know what ;-p means, right? ;-P

Life / Is sarcasm widespread in Poland? [27]

Nice try, troll ;-p

Life / Question on the average Parish in Poland [6]


So not Roman Catholic then. The OP and myself were hopefully both talking of the Roman Catholic church.

Life / Question on the average Parish in Poland [6]


There is no difference. There is only one Roman Catholic Church, and its head is the Pope in Rome (the Vatican).


It's all in Polish.


This is gonna be guesswork (sorry) but AFAIK you would only need a sworn translation of your marriage certificate. The same goes for baptism, confirmation, and any other sacraments.

Genealogy / Are recorded birth dates sometimes different from the actual? [16]


I thought of that as well, but was too lazy to check whether it was in fact approx. two weeks. This is probably the solution then!

Genealogy / Are recorded birth dates sometimes different from the actual? [16]

He might have misremembered (or - for whatever reason - lied about) his own date of birth, or any of the official records might be wrong... I would probably put it down to a mistake made by a clerk or family member somewhere down the line. Is there no additional info on the draft registration card though? I would have thought at least the name of the father would have been recorded.

Genealogy / Are recorded birth dates sometimes different from the actual? [16]


How do you know which date is the correct one? The recorded date may be accurate, and what your family members remembered might be off. I think it's down to a laxer attitude to dates and time in general back in the day.

USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]


They have to be over 7 to walk anywhere alone. That's the Highway Code. And I was definitely never in trouble for letting my children run small errands, go shopping round the corner, or walk to school (they asked me repeatedly not to go with them, as it would make them look like sissies!).

And I'm not even talking about letting them out to play. I have no idea what they were doing during those long summer days... ;-)

USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]


I just checked. You're not supposed to leave an under-16 alone at home overnight. So yes, the 15 year old would need a babysitter if it was overnight.


The legal age to buy alcohol in the UK is 18 but many stores enforce 21, or even 25.
You can supposedly have a beer or cider with a meal if an adult orders for you when you are over 16, but I don't think many pubs / restaurants actually allow that.

You have to be 18 to buy cigarettes.
You have to be 18 to buy any kind of knife, including cutlery and kitchen knives. So you're 16, you can set up your own household and have children, but your parents will have to buy any knives you need for your kitchen. Wow. Very logical.


My thoughts exactly.


Maybe they're being extra naughty and keep getting punished? ;-)

USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]


Isn't it an offence to leave a "child" under 16 at home alone? In the UK, I mean? You can't buy a knife, cigarettes or alcohol until you're over 20, yet you can get contraceptives and abortions on demand as a young teenager, or join the army when you're 16. I don't really like the mixed messages this sends out.

USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]

Maybe they didn't want the kid to spend hours over their food. Who knows. Have you seen it happen in someone's home as well? Anyways, it's not something I would consider normal, everyday treatment. Most kids I knew in Poland - including my own - (teenagers and young adults by now) were independent enough. They could take care of themselves, prepare simple meals, and quite substantially help around the house by the time they were 7 - 8. I mentioned walking to school earlier. Unless the new generation of parents has gone completely crazy, things couldn't have changed so much in 8 years.

USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]


What if this particular boy was autistic or had some other type of learning difficulty that isn't obvious to an outsider? Ever thought of that? It is also generally agreed that to make generalisations you need more than one example.

USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]


My kids walked to school on their own from first grade onwards (not too far, but they had to cross one moderately busy road). That was in Poland. I would be crucified for this both in the UK and in the US.