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crochetbitch88   
9 Feb 2013
Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]

"fura, skóra i komóra" (car, girl, and a cell phone)

skóra is about leather - like leather jacket or leather seat upholstery in his fura
crochetbitch88   
5 Feb 2013
News / Czechs most liked by Poles! [35]

Thank you Des Essientes for the explanation. It does make sense. It could also indirectly explain why the fact that Britain is a monarchy gets so badly on my nerves and I just can't, just can't comprehend why the British simply put up with that and don't try to make some decent revolution or something...
crochetbitch88   
5 Feb 2013
News / Czechs most liked by Poles! [35]

The thing about Hungarians I said half-seriously, Vlad. Nobody seems to know where exactly this brotherhood has come from, but somehow we know it exists ;) And because of it we're supposed to like each other :) It might be that we are surrounded by people who dislike us: Lithuanian, Ukrainian, Russian, German, even those far away from us don't like us - the British, the Dutch etc. But Hungarian people like us. God knows why. So we like them too :) Although in fact I know a few Hungarians and have never noticed anything particular about them that I could find annoying or weird, what could put me off them. So maybe there is some mutual compatibility between Poles and Hungarians, like sometimes when you meet a person and within hours you feel as you've known them your whole life, maybe there is something like that on a national level as well.

Maybe we don't like the English because they are too different from us and we find them strange and we don't like the Russians because they are too similar to us and we see in them our own flaws. But Hungarians seem neither too different, nor too similar, but just right :)
crochetbitch88   
4 Feb 2013
News / Czechs most liked by Poles! [35]

I'm Polish and I don't know anybody who's Czech but my Slovak friends say they are still one nation and Czechoslovakia is still alive. The Slovaks are top on my list (might be because I once fell in love with one and still haven't entirely recovered ;) I also like the Hungarians because they are our brothers and every decent Pole is meant to like them; and the Ukrainians because of their language which is an amazing mixture of Polish and Russian and I can understand almost every word although have never studied it. I like the African people, especially the black ones because of their warmth and some sort of strength that I've never seen in anybody else. I don't really dislike anybody, but I must say although I have a few very good Indian friends, if I was to speak about the nation in general there is something in them that is so foreign to me, some trait that I can't quite grasp or name, that I do not like. And that trait they have in common with the English. As for Americans - the ones I've met were quite loud and maybe a bit overwhelming but generally ok.