Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Well maybe I can show here something interesting. I'm from Poznan, city-fortress and it can be seen on every corner in this city. So I have some intrestong photo comparisions how the architecture was changing. It used to say that buildings in Posen was destroyed to far less extent (hmm I have strang feeling that there's something wrong with this sentence...) than in other cities. It's because prussian way of building which was considered as very solid. And I can say that's true because when you compare today photos and those from 30's there are almost no differences.

Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

I forgot the pictures ... :)

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And some more

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and more ;)

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Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

On the last picture you can see how destroyed was some of buildings. But after the war they were rebuild exactly the same way.

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Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

One more missing picture to last post .

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Life / Typical Examples of Polish Parking Entitlement (post yours) [57]

When a parking car has that white parking line berween the weels we used to say that he's wearing strings. I've heard that in Poznan :))

Life / Typical Examples of Polish Parking Entitlement (post yours) [57]

Nauczyciel I'm sorry but you have to buy a smaller car.

Life / Typical Examples of Polish Parking Entitlement (post yours) [57]


Of course I was joking... :)
But I promise you when I become a president I will enforce death penalty for that kind of behaviors ;)
I recommend you to visit this site
parkujeszjakdupek.pl

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Germans: They're normal people but.... there is one moment in their life, it could be the night between Monday and Tuesday or time between bread and tampons during the shopping and in that one exact moment they become Nazis and start to invade us ! Of course I'm joking but my granparents really think that way. In 50's when the road in my grandparent's village was repairing, the workers found two corps of German soldiers under the neighbor's driveway. The neighbor, over 90 years old man came out and said "Don't dig them up! They deserve it!" So Germans are completely untrustworthy.

Frenchs: cowards, cowards, cowards. The're are some jokes about them:
- What "Maginot" means?
- "Welcome!"

-How many Frenchs needs to defend Paris ?
- Nobody knows. Frenchs have never tried.

Czechs: funny language, great writers and movies

Slovakia: we like them more than Czechs and regard them as very nice people so similar to us

Ukraina: though the historical animosities and centuries of killing each other, we find them as very likeable. They have strong personalities and know how to drink :) Poles like to visit ukrainian cities like Lwow, because many Poles have lived there before the war (and we want them back! mwhaahahhaha ! ;) just kidding)

Hungary: We like them A LOT. Perhaps because we are no neighbors... Polak, Wegier dwa bratanki i do bitki i do szklanki!

Italy: all Italian mankinds live with their mothers but they don't admit it and try to be very macho. They can't be treat seriously, their goverment is like a circus with monkeys.

England: we used to see them as gentlemans but... when they started to puke to our fountains, run naked and drink vodka (which is not a good idea for Englishmans) we changed our minds. They are conceived as very, very, very ugly and with their very, very, very ugly women have very,very,very ugly childrens.

Scotland: there's is hardly to tell apart Scottish man from Scottish woman. They both have beards and wearing skirts. The only difference is that Scottish man have some strange feelings to his sheeps...

Ireland: they're all red, like the leperkuns. But we have sympathy to them because of similar history, occupations, ban on using language etc. By the way we don't understand why Irishmans don't speak Irish.

Sweden: they drink a lot and they drink everything with the exeption of asphalt. They all have blond hairs and blue eyes and sing Abba all day long. And they have constant depression.

Gypsies: their women steal little Polish children and sell to Angelina Jolie....

I wanna say everything I wrote are stereotypes. Scottish men doesn't f*ck sheeps, Gypsies don't steal the children. But Frenchs are still cowards :x ;)

Language / Usage: Freedom in Polish and in English [30]


That's is not true. Wolnomysliciel have only one meaning. Do you use "wolnomysliciel" to tell abouth somebody that they think slow ???


wolny = free
powolny/powoli =slow

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


We can try, and see this disaster ;))

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

I didn't do it, because I think everything was said here. And all this reapiting about how you like to exterminate us and destroying our cities and all this talking about "mother Russia" and "slavic brotherhood" etc. etc, you know I would rubbed my keyboard typing this ********* ;)

My grandmother used to say that during the war there's was white Russians and yellow Russians (with oblique eyes). And those yellow ones were real animals. They destroyed everything with no reason. She ones said about one Russsian, who stoled alarm clock and had it in his bag. And when than clock started to ring, he took the gun and started to shot to the bag. He just didn't know what was the alarm clock....

I love to read Dostojewski and I know that's not true but for my grandma all Russians will always be incredible stupid.

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

No, the island is green, you are red ! I can bet You are red too ! ;)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


There's much more fun when you talking about somebody from your neighborhood. In Europe we're all in neighborhood. :)
There're two groups of Americans. Those who live in big cities are ok. Rest of you are Red Necks. They like to hunt bears, Negros and foreing turists. Some of them like to have sex with their own sisters and have a few deformed children together (especially in Iowa). Most of them are Baptist or Mormons with houndreds of wifes.

In generally Unated States as a great educational desert with some few well-read islands like New York or ...ee...or.. you know that would be all. You are completely not interested in another countries when there's no oil pools.

But we regard you as very breave people though during the second war you defended wrong side of Europe....
We don't understand your sense of heroism. Your country (because of neighborhood of harmless Canadian and always drunk by tequila Mexicans) have never been invade. You always had to fight because of

a) somebody blew up your ship
b) somebody blew up your aircraft carrier
c) you went on war because stupidity of your goverment (Vietnam)
d) oil
But after all we love you because of your self confidence which we don't have :)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


Yes, she said that every ones she looked on them, she knew that there was no brain behind their eyes.

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

I shown this photo to my grandma and she said she knows him from somewhere ;)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


1. Ireland
2. Scotland
3. Sweden
4. Russia

What it the award ?

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


Oh no... Its, Polish :D
Why we are blond ? The mustache will be more recognizeable :)

I'm thinking about new threat about stereotypes about Poles. The Third World War is closer than you think ;)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Scotch whisky :P

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

What could it be? Vodka of course. After all it's polish invention :x :P ;)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Why Scottish has "boruc" on his back ?? Since when Adam Boruc has his own brand of alkohol ?

Sean, this joke is so old that has gray beard :)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Yeees, but don't be worry. You've became very quiet last months. But I have strange feeling you will be back on summer... ;)

Genealogy / Szczyglinski Sluchaj, possibility of being Russian? [33]


When I woke up my humour was really bad but since I've read your thread I can tell I'm better now :)) I don't want to insult you, you seems very nice person, but don't you think it's a little bit silly to post your photos and ask "Do I look like Russian?". Because I can tell you I look like Irish though I'm not and I have no ancestors from there. If you want to know something about your Russian ascestors you have to FIND THEM :)

About "Szczyglinski" surname, it seems to be racial polish. But "Sluchaj" is very interesting. It means literally "Listen to that" in Polish. Are you sure this is a surname ? If it is, maybe you shoud find this word in Russian dictionary. Sometimes Russian and Polish words mean something completely different though they look similar.

Good luck :)

Genealogy / Szczyglinski Sluchaj, possibility of being Russian? [33]

Then I have no clue :)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


At least you invade somebody and it's not France ! ;))

About the stereotypes of other European countries:
Austrians: It's some sort of german colony but with better looking women. They invade us in 1772 and then in 1795 but that wasn't so bed in comparision with Germans and Russians. In the matter of fact some people especially from Malopolska had some warm feelings to the Austro-Hungarian emperor.

Belarussians: they're strange and they have problems with deciding about themselves. They want to have dealings with west Europe but they hang out with Russians. They want to have their own country but with borders common with Russia ? For most of Poles there're two categories of Belarussians: there're normal people with normal problems and their goverment saying some absurd bull**its about us.

Lithuanians: we have some problems with them. We like them but it's unrequited love ;) It has something to do with Polish-Lithuanians Commonwelth from XVI century. But in every book for history in polish schools, you can read that without this union Poland wouldn't be so great superior in XVI-XVII centuries. So, dear Lithuanians, where is the problem ? :)

Finns: finnish cuisine has only one dish: reindeer. And for every Pole, it's unacceptable to eat Rudolf's brothers! All Finnish are some sort of Eskimos, they probaby carve reindeer's eyeballs and livers when they are still twiching.

Croats: they have their little country, with little islands and on every little island live little Croat and ... scurry rakija! :) They do everything with rakija: they bath with rakija, they **** rakija and even their cars operate on rakija ! Croatia shoud change the name and become Rakijaland. On the other hand Croats don't like vodka witch is very suspicious.

Serbs: the black sheep in slavic family because of War on Balkans. We don't like them, they like to rape little Albanian girls. Actually they're some kind of barbarians.

Bulgarians: they have great beaches and nice cities but they're considered as sluggishly. They have slllooooooooowww mooooootiooooooonn all the time :)

Romanian: I'v never been in Romania but my friend said it's very nice there. I mean neture, woods, castles and those charming medieval towns. BUT there's always but. My boyfriend's father used to be a quide on USSR countries. He was told never go to Romania. His friend said: "No matter what happend, just go forward and never look back. And never stop there!". It sounds frightfuly, isn't it ?

To be continued... I have some things to do :)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


I speek for myself. Most of people I know don't like Serbs because they prefer Bosnians and Croats.


Your y
Your logic is interesting. Let's see who didn't colaborate with Germans. Ukrainians....did. Romanians...did. Russians...did. Czechs...did. If you prefer those who colaborated with Russians, that's ok but where I came from Russians considered to be worse than Germans.

I don't know where you come from, but I suppose it's ...eastern Poland ? :)

I know we are 40,000,000 nation but I'm not going to do some nationwide referendum every time I want to say something that could hurt somebody's feelings :)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


Buuahaha that's funny. You know, I've been there and I can tell you they are completely mixed. They are muslims but also orthodox, catholic and even evangelical. And I DONT CARE what religion or faith they are. They're just nice.


You know, Kaczynski ones said that we, people live in Wielkopolska or somewhere near german border, are "unfinished Poles" which was a little bit insulting. I didn't write we love Germans, you did. In the same way I can tell about you that you're a communist :) So if you want to be really funny or brilliant, find some less absurd arguments :)

PS. Half of my family have germans surnames and I have no problem with that :)

Life / Pictures of Poles [Everyday Life in Poland] [100]

Wow these are very nice photos. I'm wondering are you a pfotographer, your photos are so damn good.

Life / Horribly cold in Krakow at the moment , how do you cope with such temperatures ? [124]

Well it means I'll have to wear cap and gloves :/