What I miss and don't miss about Poland

HC...I think you know.....

Thats funny because I was well aware when I was there a few weeks ago that smoking was not allowed hence the reason they have the smoking bins outside...you are in deed a hugh cock!

ROFLOL..every time I see that username "huge COCK"..I wonder if he is bragging or wishing??

Speaking of huge cocks. I'd like you all to know that when mine stands errect it must be at least 14 inches. His name is No Name and he likes to chase the hens around the garden. I eat his offspring. Yum Yum.

not a vegetarian, are you?

Ha, ha, ha - well put Wroclaw :) I'm sure you don't need to have an alarm clock in the morning!
I wish I could have one in my yard...The last time I went to Poland I taped a rooster crowing and every time I watch the tape it just makes me smile.

Actually, I meant the eggs. In truth I don't eat much meat, mainly because I don't like it.
I'm a veggie man because of flavour and taste.

There are several girls on the board Wroclaw, who've never seen a cock ...full stop.....aaaahhheeemmmm.....:)

Eurola,

In the summer they wake you up damn early. And they say the countryside is a peaceful place. Cows, chickens and tractors all before 6:00am. I love it and I hate it. I spend most of my time in the city though.

This started out a wonderful thread, thanks Globetrotter.

My Polish man will be taking me to Poland one day to visit and reading the responses makes me wish it were soon. He has mentioned missing snow because in London there is very little there and he misses family, friends and food. :)

You're welcome. There are some excellent posts throughout the forum.

You're gonna love Poland, especially since you'll have such a good guide.

Jun 8, 09, 23:16 - Thread attached on merging:
what do you miss about/in Poland

What would you bring back home from Poland?
I'm getting a loaf a bread and shoving it in my suitcase...what else?

loads of sausages, loads of zoladkowa and some cheap cigarettes.. gosh I'm classy :)

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My mum's pickles (British way of pickling is adding little vegetables to a bucket of vinegar)

I miss proper beef and cornish pasties whilst in Poland, when in the UK i miss cheap beer.

Jan 13, 10, 18:48 - Thread attached on merging:
WHY DO I MISS POLAND?

For many reasons I could go on and on for days,but let me know what u think.MARCIN Z SANOKA.

If you miss Poland why don't you go there?

krysia been there few times but live in Canada.

Polish Americans I have talked to following visits to Poland usually say they miss the things they do not have at home in the good ol' USA. Some examples:

HOSPITALITY: Many say Polish hospitality is legendary. If you tell an Anglo you've already had lunch or are on a diet or some such, he will probably drop it right then and there. But the Pole will say: well, try just a little, and surely you'll want to sample Ciocia Jadzia's sernik, and one nip won't hurt you. Conversely, the Poles have a saying about Anglo-American hospitality: ‘Nalał po kieliszku wódki, resztę schował do lodówki!’

POLITENESS: Coming as they do from Bratland USA, visitng Pol-Ams can't get over how polite and well-behaved the kids are. They know how to greet visitors, bow or curtsey and are mostly seen but not heard. (I wonder if 10 years from now they will say the same after Poland’s young people have been brain-washed with an additional decade of MTV-style selfish-slob culture indoctrination?!) Polish grown-ups too are more polite, Before and after a dance they kiss their female partner's hands, always say 'Smacznego' if they walk in on someone eating, and always greet females first. Some pushy American macho type may thrust out his hand when meeting a group of Polish relatives who ignore him until after they've greeted all the females in the party first.

PIETY: The sight of full churches is a pleasant change from the American norm, especially the sight of teenagers, young married with babies in prams and other younger folk attending Sunday Mass, queuing up outside confessionals, receiving Holy Communion and going on pilgrimages.

FOOD: Many say in Poland they have relived many of the aromas and flavours of their long-gone childhood in the old Polish neighbourhoods of Cleveland, Chicago, Pitssburgh, Buffalo, Detroit, New York, etc. The bite-down (zagrycha) style of Polish home entertainment also appeals to many. ‘In America we just go to a bar and drink and it’s cheaper to get snookered on an empty stomach,’ is a common remark.

ARCHITETURAL TREAURES: Coming as they do from a country, where the few old historic buildings (town halls, schools, even churches) are regularly torn down to make way for car parks, shopping malls and other such pedestrian purposes, the sight of painstakingly preserved castles, cathedrals and other architectural relics is something many miss.

SCENERY: The mountains of south Poland, together with the folk culture they embody, are a favourite of many Pol-Ams flatlanders who stock up on local folkcrafts and pictures of the craggy, snow-topped Tatras. Inlanders love the Baltic beaches and cliffs and most everybody enjoys such wilderness areas as the Puszcza Białowiejska and the Bieszczady.

UNIQUE CASES: There are always plenty of unique-case scenarios which fit in none of the above and reflect the interests and yearnings of individual Polonian visitors.

are you serious?


LOL :D

looks like you haven't been here for a while...

STRZYGA over 10 years.

Young Polish Small girls aged 4-14, maybe above, all instinctively umieją dygać. (I never could master it myself.)

Sure. They also play the piano, speak French, crochet and dance minuet from the age 1 on. All instinctively.


A black sheep?

Have you ever visited a large traditional Polish family, esp. in small-town Poland as an American guest (Wujek z Chicago, Ciocia z Pensylwanii, &c.)? Admittedly it may have to do with the still existing American mystique, but the families I have visited as a Polonian and what I have heard from other Pol-Ams bears out the impression of well-behaved kids. Maybe it's a just an act and deep down they are the same kind of swiney slimeballs as their Brit or Yank opposite numbers.

How about they are just normal kids with bad and good days? Do you really enjoy classifying and pigeon-holing everything and everyone?

To Magdusia: Are you really so horse-blinkered? Talk to any teacher who has taught for the past 20-25 years in the US, Canada and probably also the UK, and for sure in Poland, and they will tell you that kids are becoming nastier, more aggressive, foul-mouthed and harder to handle than ever. We can thrash out the presumed causes, but the reality is what it is.

And yes, there are good and bad days. They can be unruly and vicious or more unruly and vicious, depending on their mood.

I do not for one second believe that a greater percentage of kids today is "feral" or "vicious" than was several generations ago. I know a lot of contemporary teenagers, and they are - simply put - good people. Apart from that, I can still remember being a teenager myself, and most of the kids I used to know weren't werewolves either! I think you're just growing old and grumpy, Polonius! ;-p

Anecdotal examples can be found to support any theory, but again -- talk to the teachers. Check with educators, sociologists, law-enforcement experts, etc. Do you really beleive kids always brought knives, guns and drugs to school?

Magdusia et all who claim nothigns has changed, check out: telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/6685249/Children-becoming-aggressive-younger.html

The rise in disruption and aggression means it is becoming harder to teach primary pupils, according to the ATL president, Lesley Ward, who has appealed for parents to support teachers' efforts to improve children's behaviour.

The findings appear to confirm the fear that children have too much power in the classroom.
The Government sought to address this by recent legislation that means from September 2010 teachers will have a legal right to physically search pupils' bags for drugs, alcohol and stolen goods. Currently teachers can only search pupils for knives and other weapons by frisking them or by airport-style metal detectors.

They would have, if they could. The difference is that in the past, such kids would either drop out of school or be removed from mainstream education, whereas now, in the era of No Child Left Behind and All Must Win Prizes - these kids are kept in schools until they practically kill somebody.

Well when i was at achool.....many years ago in the UK i was searched and had a weapon confiscated....I wasn,t given any reciept for my catapault , and i never got the dam thing back....The teacher is long since dead , so i guess i won,t get it back now...?