Polish vs British vs American - Clash of cultures

Exactly. Which also can progress very quickly and leave us, poor females, with lovely little cancer. Srsly.
I'm taking the patriarchal vagina control as a joke of course.


Of course - but while seeing a health professional privately is affordable in PL, it's ridiculously expensive in UK.

only half joking.....:) - show me a male gynaecologist and i will show you a weird pervert...

Sorry, I never thought of taking photos :(

In general I think that a male gyneacologist is somewhat out of place due to one simple fact - men don't have vaginas and the rest of the funparts. I'm not ashamed of a male doctor of any sort, but I've heard a lot about blokes ignoring some health complaints . I don't think a male doctor can fully...erm...relate. But that's OT.

Another difference that I think was already mentioned here - the drinking culture. Brits go to pubs after work and there's nothing strange about that here. In Poland, there's no pub culture and there's no need for a "local". Also, a man going out for a pint nearly every night would be considered a menel. I'm presuming majority is familiar with that word, let me know if not. Poles may be heavy drinkers, but they drink mostly on Friday/Saturday nights and at special occassions, social gatherings and the boozing is stretched over time, there's food, dancing, talking etc. Brits drink for the sole purpose of getting drunk.

Of course any students of any nation will drink like there's no tomorrow.

A decade of training suggests they are very far from 'out of place'. You may as well say there shouldn't be a male midwife, or a female urologist.


Would you really prefer a village or community to have no secular focal point and for people to drink alcohol at home, either alone or in little groups?

I remember taking my Polish partner to the UK for a visit, years before Poland's EU entry. He was amazed and impressed that people of all ages and both sexes were there, that people were chatting to people at other tables, even to people they didn't know and that very old ladies were a. in the pub at all and b. tapping their feet to the rock band who played.

I didn't mean that in a sexist way. I meant that certain symptoms can't be experienced by men, therefore they can't properly relate. I didn't say anything about male doctors being less educated.


Eh? What are you on about? I never expressed any opinion of this sort, I simply compared those two and said what the culture is. UK is a pub culture. PL is not. No judgment on either.

Has this book been ever mentioned in the PF?

[i]Carp in the Bathtub, Throttled Buglers, and other Tales of an Englishman in Poland

Are you travelling to Poland, and wish to know more about the Poles you'll encounter? Are you fascinated by this country of forty million, rich in natural beauty, cultured, and famous for its people's wanderlust? Have you ever wondered what makes your Polish plumber or waitress or doctor over here tick? What book do you pick for background and insight? A superficial travel guide? A dry history book? No! You need the genre-busting Polska Dotty. Follow the hilarious exploits of a newly-wed English lad and Polish girl as they settle in Poland and encounter corrupt Polish police, counterfeit software sellers, and scammy private doctors.



An example of clash according to the author: Polish winters are deadly!

Indeed.

Stock Photo - Beautiful British countryside landscape in winter, Costwolds, England, UK

Traditional Polish winter:



Polish winter

Have you read it Pawian?

I wish I had. I like humorous stories.

I'll let you know what it's like, i've just downloaded it.
I like humorous stories too:)
Bargain price of £1.99:):)

I can't wait.I must know if it's worth buying :)

you're kidding right?


huh?
why would you think that?

To be honest, male gynaecologists should be paid extra for working in hard conditions.

Breeding Immigrants
Welfare Tourism
Incompetent foreign Doctors and Nurses

A system primarily designed to serve the British nation is now being bled dry by people from all over the world.
You can't expect a perfect service anymore.

How does it conform to the subject matter of this thread, may I ask?

Regarding funny books, I just ordered Xenophobe's Guide to Poles for my husband - the whole series is hilarious and very accurate. Whole £0.01 + £2.80 shipping on Amazon.

I'm seconding pawian in an attempt to be explained what alexnye had on his mind posting his precious observations here.

I love this book:)I can fully recomend it.

Good stuff then! I'm looking forward to read it myself, too.

Due to its size, it is rather a booklet.

I just ordered it myself!

Have they downsized then? I read one years ago and it was A5 format.

Mine is B6, the same as CD box.

True,but nevertheless I truly enjoyed it.


I hope you're going to like it :)


It must have been really thin.


Mine's the same.

It was actually - 30 pages or so? Can't remember.

60 in B6 format.

86 pages in the same format

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In Poland, rodent poison is pink!

The pink one looks almost tasty

;-)

Yes, and I wonder what British rats think of that blue stuff they are offered. Aren`t they put off by its pretencious colour?? If I were them ,i would instantly smell a rat! Blue isn`t typical colour of food.

I expect they're colour-blind. That or they like blue things.

Rats are not highest on my list of experience but..........you are both about right.

Rats do not 'see' quite the same as us humans colourwise nor is their eyesight anywhere near as advanced, they search or hunt for food more by smell and the use of their 'whiskers'.

The reason the rat poison is dyed blue here in the UK is because as Pawian wrote 'Blue isn`t typical colour of food' therefore it is meant as a warning signal for us humans not to eat it,Poland believe their colour is more suitable as a warning.

Why choose these colours at all? because it is in the spectrum of colour that rats can see i.e. red, green and blue so poor old ratty hopefully gets his/her demise.