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rozumiemnic   
16 Dec 2015
Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [332]

Yep, one per person it has to be. If there are leftovers, then you also have tasty sandwiches for the next day.
Even a good sized duck will only serve two really...
rozumiemnic   
16 Dec 2015
Life / All Things Christmassy in Poland [332]

IME all those tiny birds like guinea fowl, pheasant and so on, might weigh a kilo but alot of that is bones (assuming they have been cleaned, gutted, plucked etc) and there is v little meat on them in the end. V tasty though.
rozumiemnic   
11 Dec 2015
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

I was going to suggest some online translation but the results from those almost need translating themselves....

perhaps it means something like 'You are mistaken.(!) and you will find out tomorrow?
rozumiemnic   
8 Dec 2015
Law / UK driving license mess in Poland [72]

I am afraid I have to agree. If I am driving and see Polish plates, I will hang right back, and on one occasion of being stuck behind a swaying Polish truck on a country lane, actually changed my route.

There have even been incidents of Polish drivers here in the UK going the wrong way down a motorway for a short cut home!!!
rozumiemnic   
7 Dec 2015
News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

There are many downsides to latch-key kids and youngsters raised by infant schools, after-school clubs, nannies, CD-ROMS with little contact with parents.

yes well personally I think you are living in a dreamworld. It is certainly not possible in the UK, for example.
Besides I think childcare is probably better than being trapped in a house with a mother on the edge of insanity.
rozumiemnic   
7 Dec 2015
News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

And this despite the ubiquitous feminist propaganda which has tried to discredit and deride housewives, homemakers and stay-at-home mums.

Polly, there is a reason why so many women in the 1950s were on valium, you know. Not wishing to 'deride' any woman who chooses this. But then as you point out yourself, this kind of set up is no longer financially viable anyway.
rozumiemnic   
30 Nov 2015
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

While strong types like Americans, Australians or Russians make a lot of success, usually brits are target of jokes because they are very female.

oh dont be more stupid than you have to be Levi, and use the rest of my quote.
I bet you are a thin little guy who thinks he should be pumped up with a tache, to look like a real gay.
rozumiemnic   
27 Nov 2015
Life / Moving to Poland and not drinking vodka [27]

alcoholism is not seen as a disease by still too many Poles.

it is not a disease it is a condition brought on by drinking too much.
A disease is eg, leukaemia
OP just say NO!
The kind of vodka drinking that I have witnessed in Poland is just downright dangerous tbh.
rozumiemnic   
25 Nov 2015
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

I suppose it is just different cultural expectations. I will never forget when I was working in Greece , two Greek girls were telling me laughingly how British men 'looked like pushti' (gay) because their muscles were small and they wore baggy tshirts. While their idea of 'sexy male' was a pumped up guy with a tache and tight t-shirt. which to a British woman's eyes just looks.....well...gay.
rozumiemnic   
25 Nov 2015
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

well Harry might have a point, there might be good reasons why Polish girls like the British boys. esp about the shared housework.
What woman wants a relationship that means she is a household servant?
rozumiemnic   
25 Nov 2015
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

I must say I agree too, some of the British guys I met in Poland were seriously 'punching above their weight'.
rozumiemnic   
24 Nov 2015
Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]

had you brought up the idea that the word Pole offensive in Australia that would be interesting

the last Aussie I met called them 'jam rolls'..:)
rozumiemnic   
24 Nov 2015
Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]

if progressive thinkers want to apply some racist connotation to the term "Murzyn", it is their problem really.

well he can say what he likes in Polish.
But using the term 'negro' or 'negroid' in English is downright offensive and it is silly to suggest that it is not.
rozumiemnic   
24 Nov 2015
Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]

Yes, (I already explained twice above as to why that is) but calling them "Black people" is offensive

no it isn't, it is a self defining term.

and capitalisation is not 'grammar'. Just saying.
rozumiemnic   
24 Nov 2015
Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]

We value our country and we value Polish pride, term "Pole" is offensive and any Polish who thinks otherwise is breaking Polish code of Polish pride.

but it is OK to call Black people 'negroids'?
rozumiemnic   
24 Nov 2015
Feedback / Is it Polish forum or foreign forum? [159]

In English I tend to use term negroid

lol, and you are objecting to Polish people being called 'Poles'?
You do see the irony surely?
rozumiemnic   
17 Nov 2015
Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]

Actually Ktos, I am British and do find the term 'Brit' a bit grating, esp when used by Irish people, although the majority of people do use it without meaning to be offensive.
rozumiemnic   
11 Nov 2015
Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]

OK here is a joke -

There's a man walking down the road carrying a long stick OK? Another bloke passes him and says 'oh are you a pole vaulter?'

First man says, "no I am German, but how did you know my name?"
rozumiemnic   
11 Nov 2015
UK, Ireland / My bad experiences with Polish neighbours in UK (not meant to offend) [173]

not in English they dont, I can assure you.
Of course I know the word, like I said, in relation to the Lodz or Warsaw ghetto.
I mentioned London because
a. it is the centre of the world (that was 'tongue in cheek' before you start getting all serious)
b. talking about Polish in the UK and 'ghettoes'

Actually the only people I heard use the word were people with English as a second language not fully aware of the implications of the word.