You are Polish if...

you remind your Polish and non-Polish friends alike "You know Poland was a superpower once." lol

When you little, your parents called you a buttinsky, when you'd speak out of turn. (Maybe it's just a Polish-American slang term.)

You are a fan of formula one , but have not watched it since Kubica was injured....

the same goes for Małysz and ski jumping ...

I'm still watching it, but frankly, it's not the same - most of the thrill is gone.

It's a fine way to get some good talks going , nothing wrong with it.


Well, what would you want to be sneaking around there for anyway..

Pete, I said it as a good thing. My Polish family do that and its fantastic hospitality.

I use toilets, Pete, not loiter or snoop around them ;)

Just busting your chops there man. No worries.


Uhh.. and I might add for our native Polish breathren.. this only means to joke harshly.. or take the p.iss out of off.. as old lime-a-tron says.

I thought this was what you hear people doing in the flat above about midday on Sundays.

It would seem that the casual PF visitor who happens to be a British teacher in Poland hears all sorts of zany things.. Be careful in the cr.apper by the way.. it's unlocked. Lol.

It was an attempt (obviously failed) to refer to the tenderizing of schabowy, but never mind.

I'm an American troglodyte.. sorry. Schabowy is awesome.

you wear socks with sandals. That gets a few laughs from Israelis who see it as odd. Not only them either.

I don't wear socks with sandals but I've never understood some people's objection to it. Is it on aesthetic grounds or just a sartorial faux pas?

You have one set of real cousins, which are actual cousins. Then you have "distant cousins" which seems to incorporate every single person on the planet.

I have reasons to believe that polish parents simply tell children that they are all cousins in order to make them play with eachother.

Nojas

You have uncles and aunts which are not your real uncles and aunts but just your parent's friends ;)

That would explain A LOT. ;-)

My girlfriends best friend, which she had never heard of before of course, first met at University. And magically enough, it turns out they are cousins!

Her neighbours are also "far away cousins". They played a few times when they were kids. ^^

Some stones are better unturned I guess.

Actually I've never heard anyone refering a cousin to someone not related. Probably they're just her parent's cousins children... which for her are also cousins but distant ones. I also have many distant cousins - I know about their existence but I don't even know how do they look like ;)

You are Polish if...you give your guests master bedroom when they visit you

I do :) but white socks only.

If you have a beautiful parquet and you feel obligated to cover it with dark ugly carpet

I despise this. I don't understand why this is done. Neither does my husband and he is Polish.

Haha, so true. When my mother visits me, I let her stay in my bedroom, while I stay in my guest bedroom :)

In my home it's not actually a master bedroom but bedroom with the most comfortable bed but that's the point-you give the best to your guests.

This is not an exclusively Polish thing, I've known English people to do this as well.

you comb your hair before answering the phone

if you are tolerant beyond reasonable ;)

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

Google Translate has a decent translation you can read and hear if you click the little audio button. It's helped me a great deal in my family ancestry research and run into Polish documents.

I always thought I was mostly English/Irish, but according to Post #1 I'm about 90% Polish!

Soccer? Football? I thought it was piłka nożna.