Life / Walking on other people's property in Poland - cultural difference? [51]


I know there are some rude people in this world but I don't usually consider myself one of them ;D


Well, I'm not sure yet...


?
I don't think I've ever seen a private garden in Poland without a fence... If she/he has a garden and a yard it means she/he lives in a house so why wouldn't she/he be allowed to fence something on her/his property?


Yes, I've read about this "membrane" in white_lilly's post but to be honest I have no idea what it is :P

Life / Walking on other people's property in Poland - cultural difference? [51]


What's "laminate"?


In English? ;)

Life / Walking on other people's property in Poland - cultural difference? [51]


Wow, really? It's good you've enlightened me about this, I wouldn't have guessed... lol


It was just... a question, you know :) Maybe they don't realise that it's his property as people in Poland are used to the fact that gardens are fenced. Perhaps his "garden" is just a bunch of grass and weeds and they think it belongs to nobody, I don't know. Or maybe his neighbours are simply rude people :) If they don't listen to him maybe it would be a good idea to fence it after all ;)

Life / Walking on other people's property in Poland - cultural difference? [51]


What do you mean by "walk over"? Do they come to visit you or ask you about something? If you live in the countryside it's normal when your neighbours or people you know (or complete strangers) walk into your yard to say hello or have a chat without asking for permission (at least in my region). But not into your garden o_O


Well, that's weird... Where do they go that they have to pass through your garden? o_O
Your garden isn't fenced?

Off-Topic / Simple Things One Guy Wants.. (Parody.) [23]


:)

Love / Are all beautiful Polish girls as crazy as this? [262]


Taking into account the state of my throat right now I think I'd die of pain while drinking it ;D
Besides, I don't drink vodka ;)


Yes, that's a very good idea, the bed is calling me -_-

Good night :)

Love / Are all beautiful Polish girls as crazy as this? [262]


;O
I'm so sorry...
I thought you've forgotten about it long ago :P Then I'll answer as soon as I can (I will try tomorrow but I'm terribly sick right now so I won't promise anything in case I fail again ;/).

Love / Are all beautiful Polish girls as crazy as this? [262]


You mean my reply? :O


OK, OK, I won't :P

Genealogy / Popular Polish First Names? [152]


I don't know, I've never met anybody with this name, probably that's why :)


Yeah? Well then, maybe you're right :) I guess I don't pay much attention to which traditional names are used.
And what do you think about Sławomir? I know at least one Sławek (he's 31).

Genealogy / Popular Polish First Names? [152]

Mirosław sounds modern? I wouldn't say so... But I guess you're right about Radosław - there was one Radosław at my year at my univeristy. You can shorten it to Radek and this makes it sound more modern, I think. The same is with Przemysław - Przemek, that's why I mentioned it.


No, I don't think so. My uncle's name is Zbigniew, but he's older, of course.
You can find Slavic names more often among older people, of course, especially in the countryside.

view-card.com/Kartki-Kartka-Kartke-PL/Najpopularniejsze-Imiona-w-Polsce-Imiona-Kobiet-Imiona-Mezczyzn-Top-50.php

5. STANIS£AW 632.666
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News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]


The Vietnamese are immigrants, they don't have the status of minority in Poland. The status of minority in Poland have those nationalities which lived in what is now Poland over the centuries.


LOL
Maybe they will get road signs in English when there will be as many English people in Poland as there are Polish people in England? :D

No, I doubt that :)
I think it's silly. Polish immigrants who come to the UK should learn English. You should learn the language of your host country.
Btw, in which Western country besides the UK and Ireland do you have road signs in English? :D According to you in every country where there are some English people there should be road signs in English? :D

Food / Taste of food in Poland vs other countries [186]

My God, I see this thread turned into a food fight ;D


Teffle, I think that if someone isn't a good cook he/she can spoil even a simple dish :)
This one for example:


I wouldn't call it "cakes":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Wings

I don't know how would you judge the level of difficulty of faworki (it's a simple dish, after all), but I would say that it isn't so easy to make really tasty faworki. I know because I can compare those that I've eaten in restaurants and bought at shops or at confectionery and those made by my mum and my grandmother. Even my mum's and my grandma's faworki differ. My grandma's are better. I don't know why, my mum is always trying to make them as crispy, delicate and tasty, but she never succeeds. Grandma's faworki can even fall apart - they're that crispy, they just melt in your mouth... aaahhh... They're perfect... They're the synonym of heaven... ;O

*drools*

;D


I don't get it, does a dish have to be difficult to make to be tasty? :)


Well, it definitely isn't "revolting" for me :) Germans also seem to like bigos, as I've heard (probably they're more familiar with such types of dishes).

I, for example, find sushi revolting, I just hate the taste of raw fish. Algae isn't too appealing for me either. But apparently sushi is quite popular (I don't understand why, but hey... everything is for the people :)) :) And it's a such a simple dish!

Some people are crazy about all those types of French cheese, some people hate it.
I guess that during childhood we get used to certain flavours and ways of cooking.
The Japanese like to bring out the natural flavour of ingredients. They can do this with all types of fish as they live on islands and they can always get fresh fish (and hence the raw fish in sushi, I suppose).

Europeans, the French for example, like to alter the taste of ingredients with all kinds of different spices and treat them in all kinds of ways.

I think simple dishes can be very tasty. Look at the Chinese cuisine - it's simple, tasty and affordable. And probably that's why it's so popular around the world :)

Now, what I think nott meant (but was a bit too critical, I think ;)) is that there's not much real cooking done in the British households? I can't say from my experience as I've never been to the UK, but my mum spent some time in the North of England because she was sent there from her work place for a training. She said that "normal" cooking has been, apparently, replaced by heating up ready meals bought at shop in a microwave. One exception was a wife of my mum's colleage from work and her tasty food, but she was a professional cook (chef ?).

My mum said the fish & chips were omnipresent ;)
Of course, she had a limited experience but I can imagine what she said was true as I can see the same thing is slowly starting to happen also in Poland...

Genealogy / Popular Polish First Names? [152]


No idea, but Polish Slavic names usually end with "-sław". For example, Polish president - Bronisław Komorowski, the Minister of Foreign Affairs - Radosław Sikorski, and there's of course Jarosław Kaczyński.

Polish Slavic names end also with "-mir" and "-mił": Sławomir, Bogumił. There are also names like Zbigniew, Bogdan, etc.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_names

My guess would be that most popular are Stanisław, Przemysław, Zbigniew, Kazimierz, Władysław, etc.

Food / Taste of food in Poland vs other countries [186]


Maybe, but judging by her description I suspect that there's simply more chemical stuff added. She said it doesn't become stale for a long time which is kind of weird o_O

Food / Taste of food in Poland vs other countries [186]


I don't know... I've never paid too much attention to stuff like that. But my cousin is studying biotechnology and she went to Germany in September to get some scientific experience at a biotechnological institute in Potsdam. She says bread there is terrible. It's rather hard, very "artificial", has a very strong smell of chemicals and even when you put some cold cuts on a slice of bread it doesn't kill the taste and the smell o_O When it becomes stale it's more edible and then she and her friend make toasts out of it ;)

When she visited home for the first time the first thing she wanted was a simple bułka (bun) to eat it on its own ;)

That's all I know :)

Love / Polish men are complete doormats (especially after they get married) [125]

I agree.

Love / Polish men are complete doormats (especially after they get married) [125]

Awww, that's sweet, Grunwald ;) It looks like you're a nice person :) I guess it's better than being a jerk ;)


Yup ;)


Yes, yes! (or in turns, at least ;D)
:>

Love / English Men vs Polish Men [207]


LOL

:)))))




Oh dear...

:)


Sweetie, then go and find yourself an English woman :) Who's stopping you?

*yawns*

Love / Why do so many Polish girls dye their hair BLACK? [124]


Um... Definitely not "most" lol At least not in my city :) I see mostly all shades of brown, dark blond and blond and some black.


Yup, quite often, I guess.

History / Digital reconstruction of Warszawa - Miasto Ruin - rebuilding the destroyed Warsaw [31]


I don't think I've ever come across such a twisted logic as yours... O_O

Travel / My visit to Poland - Likes & Dislikes. [137]


Yes, I also think so when it's about tourists. It's silly to expect from someone who's coming to Poland for a couple of days to learn not the easiest language. Although when I'm visiting some foreign country I usually try to learn a couple of basic phrases useful while asking about directions, shopping, etc. (and I would do that if I were coming to Hungary too).

Well, I remember that when I was in Venice (swarming with tourists) and I went to a post office just behind St. Mark's Square (!) there was only one guy who spoke English and so I was able to buy stamps but when I came back after I finished writing postcards the guy was gone and the ladies weren't able to tell me (and other tourists) where I can send those postcards ;) It was quite a long time ago, but I was a bit surprised ;)

Btw, I've never thought of Poland as an obvious and attractive tourist destination, but I agree that in some places popular with tourists it's a good idea for the staff in shops, post offices or whatever to learn some English. At the same time there are in my opinion more important reasons to learn English (finding a job, for example) than being able to communicate with tourists.

And it will change with time - now kids learn English in schools (I had to learn Russian) and the same is with teenagers and students and in the future they will be able to communicate with tourists in English to some extent.

Travel / My visit to Poland - Likes & Dislikes. [137]


I just hope it was a typo... :)

Genealogy / Polish DNA? Poles have the most genes in a group includes Balts, Macedonians and Greeks. [264]


I don't know. Did they explain why it's incorrect? It would have to be explained to me in a relatively simple, non-scientific language ;)

And if it's incorrect then why Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Slovakia, etc. have such a high percentage of R1a? Doesn't this mean those nations are related to each other?


I don't understand...


True, but Pan-Slavism movement wasn't very popular in Poland and isn't popular to this day.


And what does mean "Slavic in historical sense"?


True, but in Poland it isn't a big degree, I would say quite small, it's much bigger in Russia, and apparently in Serbia.

As I wrote before, Pan-Slavism wasn't very popular in Poland. The reason for this was the fact that it was used as a political tool by both the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union to dominate and govern other Slavic nations:

"Pan-Slavism in Poland

Although early Pan-Slavism had found interest among some Poles, it soon lost its appeal as the movement became dominated by Russia, and while Russian Pan-Slavists spoke of liberation of other Slavs through Russian actions, parts of Poland had been ruled by the Russian Empire since the Partitions of Poland. Historically, Poland often saw itself in partnership with non-Slavic nations most of the time, such as Hungary, or Lithuania under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1569 to 1795. The influence of 19th century Pan-Slavism had little impact in Poland except for creating sympathy towards the other oppressed Slavic nations to regaining independence. At the same time while Pan-Slavism worked against Austro-Hungary with South Slavs, Poles enjoyed a wide autonomy within the state and assumed a loyalist position as they were able to develop their national culture and preserve Polish language, something under threat in both German and Russian Empires. A Pan-Slavic federation was proposed, but on the condition that the Russian Empire would be excluded from such an entity. After Poland regained its independence (from Germany, Austria and Russia) in 1918 no major or minor force considered Pan-Slavism as a serious alternative, viewing Pan-Slavism as little more than a code word for Russification. During Poland's communist era the USSR used Pan-Slavism as propaganda tool to justify its control over the country. The issue of the Pan-Slavism was not part of the mainstream political agenda, and is widely seen as an ideology of Russian imperialism."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Slavism#Pan-Slavism_in_Poland

Genealogy / Polish DNA? Poles have the most genes in a group includes Balts, Macedonians and Greeks. [264]

Natasa, I have no idea about phenotypes, genotypes, haplogroups and genetics in general :) I must say that your post didn't help me with understanding why the data in eupedia don't mean anything.

I don't care about genes either, but it was interesting to study this data.
For example, the second biggest haplogroup in Poland is R1b: Italic, Celtic, Germanic; Hittite, Armenian. So, given the proximity of Germany it's probably "Germanic".

Also, the biggest percentage of R1b is in Wales (82 %!). Does this mean that Wales are the most Celtic? Wales are followed by Ireland (79 %), Scotland (72.5 %) and England (67 %). Very high percentage. It seems quite logical as Welsh, Irish, Scottish and English people live on islands and therefore there was little mixing.


True. That's why family members shouldn't have children with each other - it would produce a greater risk of flawed DNA.
Mongrels, for example, are less prone to heridatary diseases than single breed dogs, as far as I know.


I have an impression that it's rather Serbs who like to stress how Slavic they are. Look at Crow LOL
Poles don't care that much about being Slavs or not - Pan-Slavism wasn't very popular in Poland.
And Poles consider Serbs as Slavs ;) I think the same is with the rest of Slavs.

Genealogy / Polish DNA? Poles have the most genes in a group includes Balts, Macedonians and Greeks. [264]


"R1a: Balto-Slavic, Mycenaean Greek, Macedonian" :)

Poland: 56.5 %
Ukraine: 50 %
Belarus: 49 %
Russia: 46 %
Slovakia: 40 %
Latvia: 40 %
Lithuania: 38 %
Czech Republic: 34 %
Hungary: 32.5 %
Estonia: 32 %
Croatia: 29 %
Norway: 28 %
Austria: 26 %
etc.

And Serbia... only 15 %. Interesting ;)

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Or Keira Knightley for example:

Life / Famous / Iconic Polish Women [48]


Yes, I have much respect and admiration for those women :)


You were looking for another Florence Nightingale? :)


Well, then Maria Skłodowska Curie lived at the same time as Florence Nightingale and contributed to science and she was already mentioned in this thread.

Irena Sendler "contributed" to saving lives: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irena_Sendler

The same was with Zofia Kossak-Szczucka (she was already mentioned in this thread): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zofia_Kossak-Szczucka

Emilia Plater - a national hero, was also mentioned in this thread: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Plater

If you're looking for a famous/iconic woman activist then read about Anna Walentynowicz: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Walentynowicz

But, you know, this thread is about famous/iconic Polish women, there's nothing about contributing to anything or what kind of contribution it should be ;) An actress also can be a famous icon. For example Marilyn Monroe - she didn't contributed to anything serious or important, I think, but she's a famous icon ;)

But Krystyna Janda is a different type of icon than Marilyn Monroe ;) She usually plays strong, independent, unhesitating women. And this is the way she was and is in real life, I think. When I think of her I think of a strong, independent, intelligent, successful woman. And about anti-communism because she played in such films like "Man of Marble" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Marble), "Man of Iron" (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Iron) and "Interrogation" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przes%C5%82uchanie. I think you have to have some courage to play in anti-communist films in a country where there's a communist regime :) She's one of only 6 women, I think, who have their "star" in a Walk of Fame in £ódź (the rest 41 are men). She was awarded one of Poland's highest Orders: The Order of Polonia Restituta, also Gold Cross of Merit, The Order of Gloria Artis and French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (third class). She was also awarded Médaille Charlemagne pour des Médias Européens (Karlsmedaille für europäische Medien:

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karlsmedaille_f%C3%BCr_europ%C3%A4ische_Medien
for her actor's style and for committal in European integration, brining the East and the West together and her fight for women's rights. She was the first to create a private dramatic theatre (Teatr Polonia) in Poland. She's also a founder and president of the Krystyna Janda Culture Foundation.

culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_janda_krystyna

"One of Poland's most popular theatre and film actresses. Also a director of theatre productions and films. Born on December 19, 1952, in Starachowice.

Janda is perhaps the only actress in Poland to enjoy star status. She has a vast number of fans whose admiration for her surrounds her with an aura resembling that which surrounded artists who enjoyed public favor during the "star era" of 19th century theatre. She owes her status to both powerful performances and a strong character that shines through in every role she undertakes."

Life / Famous / Iconic Polish Women [48]

This thread is about Polish famous/iconic women, not British ones...


I don't think there was any fight... They didn't have to fight for it, I think, they just got it when Poland became independent in 1918 ;)

I remember I wrote an essay about the Pankhursts and was interested in this topic :)

Life / Famous / Iconic Polish Women [48]

I would say that actress Krystyna Janda is both famous and iconic in a way (in Poland): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krystyna_Janda

imdb.com/name/nm0417370

Love / Are all beautiful Polish girls as crazy as this? [262]


Sure, there are plenty, but why Polish ladies? I can see in you profile that you live in Scotland, right? Is there something wrong with Scottish ladies?


Maybe pick better next time ;) And someone closer to your age...