History / Famous Russian Poles [243]


He did a good damn job killing a large number of communists. Possibly more than were killed during Polish-Soviet war.

Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]


Happens in Polish too.


I haven't heard about that one, but there is a belief that cabbage leaves can be used to alleviate some pain which on occasion is experienced by breastfeeding mothers.

Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]


I don't insist that you accept on anything.
You insisted that you knew better what my Polish language experience is.


Who cares. The expression functions as I wrote it does.

Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]


Of course we do. So do the English, Germans and Dutch.

Don't you? :)

Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]


Me saying I never heard it would be lying.
You saying you never heard it is true.
You saying I never heard it is lying.


So what?

see and look for this text:

A teraz przez Was moja kapusta nie rozumie, co do niej mówię, nooby!


Finally someone who knows Polish :)

Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]


Bravo!


You have never heard it. I did numerous times and first hand. I needed no information from anyone.

Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]

Think harder :)

Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]

No, I didn't.
While certainly not mainstream, the slang use of the word stems form one of regional answers to the question:

"mommy, where do children come from?"
'they are found in a cabbage field, dear".

I heard it from a few dozen people, mostly in Western Poland (lubuskie)

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


It's no more disgusting than the Welsh habit of eating faggots ;)
Just try it.

Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]


This is very ambiguous as in Polish there is a slang for a girl or girlfriend - "kapusta" (cabage). So you might say Polish males eat even more cabage than Polish females do.

Language / Dziadzia / Babcia - help me with spelling/pronunciation [81]


I'd say dziadzio.
Dziadzie would be vocative of dziad, and I'm pretty sure in 20th century Polish it would be used as a derogative terms towards and old bum, unpleasant man etc


Nominative would be babcia. Babci is one of the grammatical forms of the word.

Food / Healthy polish food? [143]


nothing wrong with lard, as long as you get it directly from bacon, instead of the pretty white stuff they sell in, incidentally, health stores.

Btw. so much healthy food in the US and yet so many hogs walking in the streets and driving (or being driven) around. How come?

On the other hand, no healthy food in Poland and yet it takes 5 Polish gals to tip the scales with one American healthy eater :)

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


as a vegetarian, do you then take B12 supplements?

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


Did it ever occur to you to try and stick those frozen fries in the oven for 15 minutes? Try it. Not eas crunchy as the frozen one but you make like them better.

btw. do you prefer American style beef and chicken with a "healthy" doze of antibiotics?

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]


Yes. The approach in Poland is that people should be paid sufficiently, without having to rely on handouts. In some cases giving a tip may be construed as an offense.


Did you meet wszystki polski ludzi?

Life / Famous / Iconic Polish Women [48]


The first woman to have received a Nobel Prize. The only person one with Nobel Prizes in two different sciences, and the first female prof. at the University of Paris.

Her daughter (Irène Joliot-Curie) was also a Nobel Prize winner.

How much more iconic can one be?

Life / Famous / Iconic Polish Women [48]

Krystyna Skarbek - WW2 SOE agent in British service. Decorated up to her teeth very her many services, and then pretty much dumped by the British once she was no longer needed.

Anna Borkowska (a Catholic nun, Sister Bertranda) helped Jews during WW2 (including smuggling of weapons to Warsaw Ghetto. She survived WW2 and a concentration camp. Spielberg mad no movies about her.

Zofia Kossak-Szczucka - a cofounder of Zegota, a Polish organization devoted solely to helping Jews escape the holocaust. No movies about her by Spielberg either.

Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz a founder of Provisional Committee for Aid to Jews, which was a predecessor to Zegota. Again, Spielberg has some catching up to do.

Krystyna Chojnowska-Liskiewicz - the first woman to sail solo around the world.

the first flight by a woman.

Food / Confusion over flour names in Poland [46]

In Warsaw anything goes ;)

Food / Confusion over flour names in Poland [46]



I always thought wroclawska was what they sold in Poznan, and poznanska was sold in Wroclaw.

History / History of Poland in 10 minutes. Really worth seeing! [169]


I don't think it was. But exterminating entire tribes wasn't something Jews would shy away from. Heck, they pride themselves in that.

History / History of Poland in 10 minutes. Really worth seeing! [169]


That's a tricky question.
Polish historians used to say some 6.5 million Poles were killed during WW2. Jewish historians made corrections ans sad 3 mil of those were not Poles but Jews, even though the sad Jews had lived in Poland for generations.

Also, the word holocaust is copyrighted by some Jewish business so it cannot be applied to Poles. Ergo, holocaust may not be a really a part of Poland's history, as per the wishes of our Jewish brethren.

But that's OK, holocaust is a Jewish business and "there is no business like shoah business"

Life / IS CHEATING ON EXAMS OK? (younger Poles don't think so) [30]

I've seen cheaters in schools in Poland and Canada.
It did seem in Poland it was socially more acceptable though. In Polish cheating during exams is "sciąganie" which is almost reserved for the educational context. The English "cheating" is more generic and it does seem to carry more socially unacceptable weight.

Life / IS CHEATING ON EXAMS OK? (younger Poles don't think so) [30]


yes, in the game of Poker. What is a bluff after all, if not a lie with a fancy name?

Language / -ski/-ska, -scy/ski, -wicz - Polish surnames help [185]

but you still haven't explained the origin of the ETC ending ;)

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


the name derives from "cat"


Crochet hooks come to mind.

Life / The Pole is happy when someone else cries... [75]


Why be careful. I met more decent Americans than America as.sholes. Although I may have seen more as.sholes than decent ones.


Hatred? Opinion <> hatred.
IMO hatred is never a cause. On some occasions it may be a result.

Life / The Pole is happy when someone else cries... [75]

Misfortunes of others are the very foundation of so called good business practices.
"Buy low, sell high" is just one example.

Bankruptcy sales allow for some of the best deals out there. Right here on this forum I read comments by Americans and Brits about how great the times are to buy property in the US now. Well, these properties were inhabited buy families who are now living in the streets.

What about reposessions? Banks make huge amounts of money on those. Sometimes more that if the loan is actually paid of according to a schedule.

What about doctors? Would all of them be really happy if all diseases somehow vanished? Do you really think there would be enough jobs if all cops did was helping the elderly cross the street. Plumbers make money when we found ourselves in... well... deep sh!t. Roofers love leaky roofs. We could go on and on an on, and then we would still have gobs of examples we missed.

A have been told by an American pal of mine: I am not happy with someone's tragedy but I am happy with their misfortunes and failures because they automatically make me look better without a slightest effort on my part.

And as Osiol mentioned, misofortunes of others is one of the best way to make Brits (and not only) laugh.

Genealogy / Polish Gypsy Roots & Roma ancestors in their families [205]


hmm... something doesn't add up here ;)

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


Kubik - sounds like a diminutive of Kuba (Jacob) or something to do with volume (cubic meter)
Bielski - of white color
Wegrzynowicz - of Hungarian origin (the ending is more easterly; ukrainian/russian/armenian)
Kaliszewski - of Kalisz (Kalisz is one of the the oldest Polish cities)


depending on how you pronounce the "ch" ("sz" or "cz"e) it, it's either:
- little curls (hair)
- little female piglets.
- diminutive of "locha", female pigs.

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]


I'll tell you myself because you're probably having lunch


I wonder why it got stuck in (literally entered) my head