Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures

no when i was 18..

anyone care to challenge my claims of employment or whatever, pm me your facebook and i'll add you and you can have a nice nosey though all my photos. i don't care

Still great.

Poles love wild mushroom hunting, while Ams and Brits - don`t. Germans - do, but only a little.

The view that makes most Poles` heart pound with exhiliration - a basket full of noble mushrooms from Boletus family.

Contest!

Pickles!

Children are taught to pick up good mushrooms since preschool.



That is why fatal cases of mushroom poisoning amount to only about 10 annually.

Advice:

If some photos don`t load after opening the page, click the refresh button F5.


Sorry, bol, I didn`t mean your family, of course.

Just a wee reminder: not everyone lives in the Microsoft world. :-)
In OSX the corresponding default shortcut is Command + R, but you can reassign F5 to do this as well in your System Preferences >> Keyboard Shortcuts >> Keyboard & Text input. My F5 does something more useful, Pawian. :-)

Funny!:):):)

You talk about Apple systems. I saw a modern Apple computer at a student of mine`s a few years ago, you know, this model with a ROM-drive built in the monitor. Then I learned the drive got broken and its repair would cost a fortune,so they bought an ordinary PC. :):):):)

They are still more expensive than PC, but they do not cost a fortune anymore. However, I always pay a fortune for my computers, regardless what operating system it is. For me they are the tools, not just toys, so I always need and pay some extra. My first computer cost me CDN $ 13,000 - almost as much as my first car, Toyota Tercel ($7000 + 25% interest rate). It had 4 Mb extra memory (yes, megabytes, not gigabytes, not terabytes) and 1 Mb cost then 860 Canadian dollars. People criticized me then: why do you need so much memory, and what is this sh1t about email and FTP? :-)

I was a long time user of Linux and I only switched to Apple because I have become lazy. With Linux I was a user + an administrator 100% of the time, with Apple I am just a user. The command "uptime", displayed right now on my onscreen terminal, shows that I have been running this machine for 31 days, 19:29 hours without rebooting. I usually reboot with some system-related upgrades, not when I just add new browser or some other such application. That's lazy for you.

Train them young; train them well = low # of poisonings..........Great Job!


Right!
My dad used to take me mushroom picking all the time when I was a boy. (those are beautiful shrooms btw)

i made a kielbasa hotdog slice it in half with a half sour pickle sliced in half...together they make a whole and i eat two on a potato roll with hot sauce, true story.

sounds simple and delicious!

haha my childhood home in canada had double taps...but they are hard to find here nowadays

not true, I have a friend in TO, whose apartment downtown still has them, plus a really big sink. They look like they were built in the 70s, but don't appear to be run down. Good quality goes a long way:D

Back on topic. Nice harvest. I need to go into the woods this weekend.

oh yes you can still find them in homes but to buy them in order to install them in your own would be difficult is what i meant in britain apparently they can still purchase them and install them in newly built homes...

British guys aren`t as prudish and reserved as Poles. Some Brits who visit Poland love taking off their clothes and running all over the place naked, to the shock of natives. Pity it is a male performance only.

patrz.pl/filmy/nagi-brytyjczyk-na-rynku-w-krakowie

You certainly heard about Prince Harry and Kate M. having photos taken of and published in magazines. Shouldn`t Poles learn from Brits how to enjoy life in a relaxed, easy going manner? I think we are too stiff.

pardon !

Of course, I didn`t mean any of these:
n. Slang
1. A corpse.
[..]
3. A drunk.
4. A person: a lucky stiff; just an ordinary working stiff.
5. A hobo; a tramp.
6. A person who tips poorly.

I meant

4.
a. Rigidly formal.
b. Lacking ease or grace.

2. A person regarded as constrained, priggish, or overly formal.

thefreedictionary.com/stiff

stiff = penile erection

so, we end up with a humorous comment in your post above.

Yes, it is the same in the Polish language. :):):):)

Yes, you are right, the guy in the photo wasn`t stiff.

Adult class at uni. Doing exercises in an English textbook. Two groups. Both propose "must" as a right answer to fill in the blank:

Foreign languages are necessary. You ........... learn at least one.

while the key suggests: :"should."

Poles are stricter than the British?

I think it's probably more not feeling the difference between "should" and "must" ;)

I was actually explaining this to someone the other day, that "must" should only be used when it is absolutely required without dissent - for instance, you must not enter a military training ground.

No, they knew the meaning of both.


Yes! My adult learners used "must" being fully aware it suggest an absolute requirement! :):):) When I started laughing and explained why, they claimed that learning languages is a must and they tell it to their children every day. :):):):)

What are silver fish, please?

Look in your kitchen cupboard.

Very interesting UK-EU chart. Is the classic British understatemtn still alive and well in the UK? The traditonal Polish sterotype of the primaand proper Englihsman wearing a bowlker hat and hurrying off to 5 o'clock tea has been badly battered by Brit stag partyers coming toi Poland.

There's also the use of must when recommending something, e.g. "You must see that film, you'd love it."


Because there is no absolute requirement or obligation to do so. It's just a good idea.

Yes, the British feel so.

But Poles feel different.

Hence, a clash. :):):)

I personally think the choice of "must" was largely influenced by the preceding "necessary".

"Foreign languages are useful. You should learn at least one." A natural choice of "should".

So I think the person / people who wrote the test are to blame, actually ;-)

They MUST be punished!

Q. What do you call a person who speaks several languages?
A. Multi-lingual. A polyglot.

Q. What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
A. Bilingual.

Q. What do you call a person who speaks one language?
A. British.

It's getting better. Slowly.

Just as the traditional British stereotype of Poles as honourable, cultured and hardworking has been battered by the Poles who who came to the UK only to make a beeline for the dole office and hang around street corners.

Good point.

You must be joking, jon. I can hardly believe it. It is not Poles, it is certain minorities which lived in Poland but prefered to move to Britain and today they pretend Polish. Simple.

And gosh, they're good at pretending ;-)

It isn`t difficult to impersonate a Pole: