Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!?

Scotch whisky :P

ass-freezing day in your own puke (:

:( That's not fair... I couldn't recognize what was written on the bottle of the Polish hero.

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

You puzzled me. :) It's 2nd who is with vodka. Sean said he was Scottish.

I'll told the wife to pack her bags, that I'd won! (she thought the lotto)
Forever practical she asked, "where should I pack for the beaches of the Bahamas? or the ice hotel in Sweden?".
I said "I don't care, just pack your bags and get out!"


You haven't drunk enough.

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 :)

I would say many polish think us Brits to be the leaders in... Binge drinking!! Not good!

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

Not only Polish... I hung out with English and Irish people in the US (they were there on business, same as me) and I can tell you I'd never ever seen before in Russia people drinking that much. Even Finns in Saint Petersburg drink less.

that much, that quickly. Thankfully it usually stops after 2-3 hours.

Yes,after English invasion in Moscow for the euro cup final in 2008 it was proved that English drink more than Russians since all beers were sold out despite huge reserves flowing for this particular event.

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 :)

Speak for yourself, Echo. I like Serbs and to be honest I don't know any
Pole who would express any kind of dislike towards Serbia.

I remember in mid 90's when Legia Warsaw went to Croatia to play Hajduk
Split, the Croatian fans formed a swastika on their stand and brought nazi
flags with them, so our boys started shouting "Serbia! Serbia!" and were
assaulted by the Croatian Police (!)

Even though Croatia is a Slavic and Catholic country, their nazi collaboration history
and traditional pro-German stance are the reasons that Polish sympathy is more on
the Serbian side (at least where I come from ;)).

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 :)

They prefer muslims to Christian Serbs? Interesting...


Really - Russians are considered to be worse than Germans? What did Russians do
to us that is WORSE than slaughtering 6 million Poles done by Germans, destroying
Polish intelligentsia, treating Poles as sub-human and manufacturing soap out of dead
Polish citizens, to name just a couple of examples? Where are you from?


Wrong. I was born and raised in Pomerania - Słupsk/Ustka (you probably would prefer
to say Stolp/Stolpemunde) where my family came from Jelenia Góra (your German loving
friends most likely call that city Hirschberg). Before the war my family lived in Kraków
and Nowy Targ.

Not to forget Hungary! ;)
German brothers in arms in both world wars!

(Still very popular with Poles I gathered)

Even their current "arrows" are quite right extremists for european standards...so no reason to
single out Croatia for their collaborations and sympathies...I think..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_Cross_Party

Torq - whether under the Tsar or the Commissar more Poles were tortured, exiled to the gulags and exterminated under the Russian oppressions than under the German/Prussian/Austrian occupations. Irrelevant though as both sides were extremely brutal.


True but it's awesome - nothing better than when girls ask you out and they aren't embarrassed or ashamed of it. :)

Not really a stereotype but a fact - Norwegians speak a "broken Swedish" dialect ;)

Germans = regulation fanatics

Swedes = regulation avoidance fanatics (especially in tax arena)

Norwegians = they think blue (conservative), vote red (socialist), eat green, and work black (without paying taxes)

French - the only soldiers who like to have rear view mirrors mounted on their armored tanks LOL

You know the story with Hungarians, BB. I told it to you on too many
occasions and you know that, despite being your allies, they were always
our dearest friends for over a 1000 years. I could go on for hours, as far
as Polish-Hungarian Eternal Friendship is concerned, but I'd hate to repeat
myself.

*however, I read some interesting memoirs recently and I feel that I have
another Polish-Hungarian thread coming soon :-)*

Well, so was Germany...forget about all the nasty stuff deep inside we always were chums....you know...;)

It is because they are close to Russia. Anyone close to Russia is bad, American say that, so must be true!

Aber natürlich! I've never said anything to the contrary... you know... ;)

Look what I found, survey about just that!

There are also, and quite often, stories about the "good Germans." Someone mentioned example: - Germans often distributed food residents of Przemysl. "Good German" is also in a family hstory of Paul Machcewicz, a historian and director of the emerging Museum of World War II. - During the review of my grandparents was German rifle. He shook his finger, but did not notify the commander - he says.

Sometimes the "good German" is against the "evil Russian" and "evil Ukrainian". - Grandmother said that Germans were the elegant gentlemen were who did not rape, did not smoke, did not rob, almost always were asking for something. When Russians entered, it was all said it was Sodom and Gomorrah, young girls hid in the cellar - says one of the respondents.

- Germans were a culture and not to take anything, and Ukrainians raped girls and had no abandonment.- Our preferred, as it were Germans who entered villages - says another.

Someone else compares: - Germans when saw the painting, they took it and the Russians destroyed it. - There are interesting stereotypes of Ukrainians and Russians - assesses Peter Kwiatkowski, a sociologist from the Pentor, co-author of the study.

...blame Google translation for the errors!

I don't think we need to be told bad things about Russia, least of all by the Americans.

Stockholm syndrome, I guess. Luckily, I'm completely free from that strange affliciton ;)

America is doing that? Sure it isn't Poles whose relatives survived or didn't survive the gulags/prisons, etc?

Why this Russia - Serbia comparison on this thread anyways? Seems sort of strange...

...any more Polish stereotypes of other nationalities? ...especially the funny ones?

Okay...Torqi...but I got you two times today...first a poll that most of Poles don't care about anything Kosovo and second alot of Pole don't see much difference at best between Russians and Poles (even if one of them came as liberator).

I think I earned my lunch now...a beer for you too? ;)

OK - credit where credit's due. You earned your shot of Polish vodka...



...say "Kosovo is Serbia" now and I might throw in a gherkin or two as a bonus ;)

*squints at bottle*

See you in Random! :)


Erm...I mean between Russians and Germans of course....damn beer...

Sure - I figured that out.


That's why you should drink vodka - your mind is clear after it and no hangover the next day ;)