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Teffle   
8 Dec 2011
Travel / Whats your favourite Polish city and why? [132]

industrial history

You're laughing then!

From the UK perspective, I suppose it's a Birmingham in many ways - second city, ugly with industrial past, boring/miserable reputation, cultural armpit etc.

I found it refreshingly "street" - if you know what I mean.
Teffle   
8 Dec 2011
News / Polands new class of immigrant. [60]

Jesus - is it that common?

but hey man whos to accuse. If they're happy so be it, you cant knock happiness.

Nice touch though. (and I'm not being sarcastic)
Teffle   
8 Dec 2011
Travel / Whats your favourite Polish city and why? [132]

Really?

Well I think so. I think virtually everyone can agree that it's far from an attractive city but one man's delapidated and dull can be another man's gritty and edgy sometimes? : )

Parts reminded me of a run down Paris.

I thought there was a youthfulness, a bit of a countercultural vibrancy, a friendliness - despite the negatives.

Maybe partly due to the movie scene influence & being a bit downtrodden generally?

Dunno.
Teffle   
8 Dec 2011
Life / You are Polish if... [433]

f you wear socks on sandals when you're going to beach...perhaps this is part of folklore? ;)

To me that is classic German!

I've heard Poles make fun of this so perhaps not so Polish.

Seanus:
It's not an urban myth.

I agree. Definitely not. I have seen this consumed many times.
Teffle   
7 Dec 2011
Language / 24 hour time telling in Poland vs. other countries [29]

The instructions to one exercise say that a student is supposed to write an invitation to a friend and one of the requirements is stating the date and time of the party.

In that case, use pm or o'clock.

Whilst not "wrong" 24 hr clock time on a written or even verbal invitation is definitely not the norm IME.
Teffle   
7 Dec 2011
Language / 24 hour time telling in Poland vs. other countries [29]

if my memory serves me correctly I have heard 23.00 spoken twenty three hundred

Yes, that's the way it is said. Not by the guy in the street though.

It's much more of a miltary thing.
Teffle   
26 Nov 2011
History / Gen X Poland '69 – '82, [22]

polish my Polish:)

Oh very clever ; )

But Havok, reading your initial post again, I see a longing sadness.

To be Polish is as good and as bad as it is to be anything else. We all have our BS. Every country. You write very well by the way.

I love my Polish friends, warts and all.
Teffle   
26 Nov 2011
History / Gen X Poland '69 – '82, [22]

not vulgar but perhaps slightly pronounced

Ha ! well, go on - what is your take?

Scandinavian eh? I though you were American. Excellent English, but hardly surprising.
Teffle   
26 Nov 2011
Work / Teaching English in Krakow for graduates? [7]

I share your fear based on the posts of Delphiandomine - he is currently banned but check out his comments.

Could be paranoia/bull$hit/self preservation or whatever but there is info there anyway.

Good luck.
Teffle   
26 Nov 2011
History / Gen X Poland '69 – '82, [22]

I've noticed this comes up a fair bit on the site, yeah. No real marked difference in my experience.

Maybe the 30ish people (this categorisation sounds awful and very patroninsing but, hey I'm trying to be coldly objective) reluctantly embrace the specifics that suit their lifestyle whilst the the 25ish people embrace just the general availability that comes with increased affluence but not in a manic or greedy way?

I don't see much evidence of vulgarity if that's what you mean.

Consumerism vs materialism?

Well maybe the younger group will get a Chinese/Indian/Thai takeaway the odd time if they feel like it whereas the older group mumble about chemicals and people who eat dogs.
Teffle   
26 Nov 2011
History / Gen X Poland '69 – '82, [22]

Well, without getting too much into it and risking the wrath of the omniprescent defender Ironside, broadly speaking, I would say the 25ish bracket are much more openly critical of Poland, are more questioning of authority generally, are more open minded, more objective, realistic.

I know Poles in their early 30s for whom it is simply automatic to defend Poland and all things Polish, rightly or wrongly, and most tellingly of all are incredibly unworldly in their attitudes - if it's not the Polish way it's wrong, not different, but wrong. Which in itself of course ends up in all kinds of dark corners, attitude wise.

I will add that I have good friends in both categories, regardless.
Teffle   
25 Nov 2011
History / Gen X Poland '69 – '82, [22]

Just curious about your dates. No matter, you don't have to say, no offense.

Personally, I would suggest a bit later than '82. '85 or '86 maybe.

Based on the Poles I know there is a BIG difference in outlook/perspective/attitude between current 25ish and 30/31 year olds.
Teffle   
25 Nov 2011
History / Gen X Poland '69 – '82, [22]

Do you mind me asking asking Havok, how old are you, specifically?
Teffle   
25 Nov 2011
USA, Canada / Thanksgiving Day in the USA - was there some Polish on the table? [13]

Probably anything they could get.

eh..yeah, wild turkeys and cranberries - that the native Amercians showed them how to hunt/forage.

Hence the "thanks" to them that the settlers didn't starve. That's the "classic" story anyway. Probably bull$hit like nearly everything else in this life.

Some thanks anyway eh?
Teffle   
24 Nov 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles and Irish, what do you think, are we friends or enemies? [62]

...you and your mixed race brood...

Wrong.

Another culchie with a polak for a wife?

Wrong and wrong...

Stop listening to the voices in your head.

Eh....hardly extricates you from your primitive torchwaving comments now does it ?

TROLL
Teffle   
23 Nov 2011
UK, Ireland / Tale of a Polish Family on Isle of Man [43]

a woman from Nigeria had her hair done and then told the hairdresser that the dole were going to pay for it
in order to enable her to integrate into the community. the hairdresser did not believe her so called
the dole office. they told her to send the bill to their office and order her a taxi

I have heard several variations of this story from all corners of the country. Urban myth. Total BS.
Teffle   
23 Nov 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles and Irish, what do you think, are we friends or enemies? [62]

And the 50,000 eastern euros on the dole here.

Typical working class hero response. Are you in a union perchance?

Shower of corrupt self serving hypocrites and they have ruined this country.

The deficit has nothing whatsoever to do with Bertie and his cosying up to unions? vastly inflating the public sector payroll and personnel while they all do as little work as possible? handing out his "socialist" money left right and centre? The man should be jailed.

It seems you're the idiot if can put all our woes down to "de eastern europeans"

Ironic, since I assume you hate the "Brit rag", the Daily Mail, that you sound just like one of their readers.
Teffle   
22 Nov 2011
Life / Pregnant - do Polish parents want to know the sex of the baby in advance? [17]

Here it is the practice to know,

Here being Serbia or do you mean Poland?

I knew only one guy who liked the appearance of gravid women

Only one?? ; )

a comment without reference to sex is impossible for me)

...and that's why we love you !

Seriously though, I have never encountered so much resistance to "the surprise birth" as I have with Poles.
Teffle   
22 Nov 2011
Life / Pregnant - do Polish parents want to know the sex of the baby in advance? [17]

we didn't find out but most of our polish friends did. i am not polish.

Hmmm

For me it's much more interesting not to know. After all, you cannot change it, there's nothing you can do and why should you do anything? Just relax and wait - and let the surprise bang you in the head like a sledgehammer ;)

Well yeah, I agree but do many Poles agree? It's not looking that way yet.