You are Polish if...

Wrong, Poland was a strong nation from the 10th century to the latter half of the 18th century. That is over 700 years of strength. Claiming Poland was constantly being conquered by others when for three quarters of her existence she was conquering others shows that EM Wave doesn't know what he is talking about and Seanus' claim that other than EM Wave's remarks about soccer's merits and the popularity of techno music:


shows that he too is ignorant regarding Polish history.

Strong?

Des, you do need to take some Polish history classes.

Let's see...it was a bit of a mess for around 200 years between the 12th and 14th centuries, divided and weak. It was subject to plenty of invasions, too - it wasn't "strong".

Now, it gained strength with the Jagiellonians, and the establishment of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth consolidated that. But it didn't last for long - we started to see the Commonwealth fall apart by the mid 17th century, and the 18th century was well, not a happy time. The way that the Saxons could control the country was a great shame, too.

Really, Poland was only a strong country from the start of the Jagiellonian era through to around 1650. That's about 300 years at most.


Ironic, and thoroughly unsurprising.

Poland was invaded but she wasn't "conquered" during these years.


Poland had her problems during this period but remained an unconquered nation until the latter part of the 18th century.

I'd add

-You will not admit that Russia has countless artistic and cultural achievements
-You will not admit that Pepsi is just as good as coke and tastes pretty much the same
-You have a mobile phone that retails at more than your monthly income and you can not afford to use
-You keep your rubbish bin under the sink and only under the sink
-You believe raw grated cabbage slowly decomposing in water tastes nice
-You stampede at the airport departure gate because you're worried that if you get on last you'll have to stand
-You clap when the plane lands
-You think a Big Mac is the spiciest thing you would ever eat.

You call your grandmother 'babcia'.

And have actually been to Poland.

EM_Wave

What a load of rubbish.
It only shows how little you know about Poland. The statement which are untrue are:


Many people in Poland like to think that they are the smartests while the rest of Poland is full of dumbs (who vote for wrong party, can't make business, have wrong views, etc. you name it!). If you had said that Poles are self-righteous then you'd be quite right.


Of course they did, so what? Does it make you feel superior or what?


When the Ukrainians will admit that some Ukrainians done very bad things to Poles? You probably don't know what I'm taking about, do you? Of course you don't. It would be strange if you'd be objective...


How about XVI century?

Could you also explain the word constantly? Again you little know about other country's history yet you jump to huge conclusions. Are you by any chance American? That would explain a lot!


That's quite suprising. I've always thought that Polish men are more tend to say bad things about Polish women.


Certainly I prefer them more than (some) arogant Americans.


You are indeed an American! haha


Techno is a music invented by African Americans. Many people who are not very intrested in electronic music have a habit of pigeonhole it with some cr*ppy trance music or some stark German or Dutch techno which is barely a music. Also dance music is called techno by utter ignorants.

I wouldn't say that techno is popular in Poland, unless you mean electronic music in general, then maybe it's 50:50 between those who love it and those who hate it (the latter usually prefer some uncreative rock).

And I would say it's Polish thing. It' more European trait. I could never understand why techno and electronic music despite being invented in the States are so unpopular there.

Besides that EM_Wave that thread was to be amusing and friendly, yet you obviously wanted to put the cat among the pigeons and ruin a thread, don't you?

a.k.
You've just proved several of his points!

if your get drunk for fun

Then it means I'm not Polish.
If you ask a highschoole of his or her favorite lektury szkolne then certainly one if it will be Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and another will be Bulgacov's "The Master and Margarita". Seeing how many time is devoted in Polish schools to Russian literature your statement is utter nonsense.


I don't like neither ;)


But it doesn't taste the same. Pepsi is more sweet while Cola have more sour taste.


That one is right. I wonder where other nations keep their home bins?


Ceratainly it doesn't taste nice but it's healthy. You will used to it! :)


You would also agrue if there was a thread "You are English if..." ;)

Er, much less than is devoted to English literature, a lot less, a vast amount less.

That's true.


Try it blindfolded and see if you can guess which one is which!


In the UK, by the door.


I gave up eating it a decade ago!


Someone once did a very funny series of postcards called that ;-)

The country was weak, no matter how you put it. It was divided internally, and there was much internal strife. Generally not what one would call "strong" - strong was Poland-Lithuania in 1600.


I'd say that a foreign king waltzing in and saying "right, I'll have that" was as conquered as it gets.

Well yes, given all those Shakespeare's plays, Polish schools tend to thoroughly discuss on lessons... saying that I haven't read any but I've read whole Crime and Punishment! :)

I think you all live too much with this forum concerns. It's not true that Poles dislike Russians. Only the PiS electorate do.
Therefore my deep requesnt to you dear foreigners of this site, please don't spread those gibberish about Poles being hostile to Russians. Random people read it and can take it too serious.


By which door? Outside the house?


I suppose it was funny not spiteful.

I'd need to check this with my girlfriend (a high school teacher of English and Russian) but AFAIK, there is no time devoted to Russian literature in her high school.

Better ask a Polish teacher.
The programme might been changed several times. I've just checked that in liceum "Crime and Punishment" is obligatory for basic matura, while "Master and Margaret" is for extended level. Stangely there is only 2 English piece of literature for basic matura: "Makbeth" and "The Heart of Darkness", nothing at the extended level. Even though the list of readings for matura exam is limited, remember that a Polish pupil read many piece of literature in fragments, most is Polish of course, then some French and English. How many Russina authors appear in school programmes I'm not sure. You may ask for that, that would be intresting. Still I would not draw any cocnclusions from that, especially that Russian literature is not valued here. I've hear many words of admiration from other Poles about Russian literature being superb.

Quite surprising? Are you serious? Polish women and other Slavic women have a reputation for being very slutty.

All of my British, German, and Dutch friends agree that Polish women are easy sluts. I'm not trying to sound rude, but that's just what I hear all the time.

Thank you sir. Now we know what are your hidden intentions.

JohnnyM now do you see why I'm so upset with his comment? Ed_Wave why do you hate so much Polish people?


The same thing many can say about theirs women. Problem is that it's not true in either case (including Polish). It's just that some women prefer to be "sexually independent", while some other are more prude. And that's what a balanced, intelligent and mature person know about the world. But thank you for those information, I'm a women and from now on whenever I will see an American, British, German or Dutch I will give them a cold shoulder, knowing they probably think I'm a slut only because I'm Polish.

Yes indeed, hence the coined phrase - a lazy slut ! there is other phrase I think you would like to know - eating as a lazy slut!

It is all but a view of one frustrated Jew . Poland is a country constantly invaded by others because of our rich land which everyone envied. But we have never lost any war fighting one on one. Others had to connect to beat us, usually three countries had to combine their forces to defeat us. First, the knights and later the military were elites in Poland, which no other could be equal to our .

We praise our country because we have a reason, so don`t waste your time and effort to complain. Go to the Jewish forum and there praise your countrymen`s achievements.

....you keep Karp in your bathtub

you put waaaaaay too much ketchup on a pizza. Ketchup with pizza :)

Always bugged me that. Who wants to put ketchup on something that has a tomato base to it..... The Poles I guess :/

How bizarre! They obviously don't pick up on the tomato puree.

I have no idea where you have your pizza guys. Whenever I eat pizza I get two kinds of sauces: garlic and tomato. Neither of them is ketchup.

Ah, the old 'it doesn't happen' because I haven't experienced it ploy. Usually home pizzas or delivered ones where ketchup is in the fridge.

I don't get why you would need a sauce to go with a pizza. Why not make the pizza with the sauce already on it?

You're Polish if you constantly point out of spelling errors of others when doing it yourself!
You're Polish if after making a spelling error you claim to be a dyslectic.

this usually applies to the male of the species