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gumishu   
24 Oct 2011
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Guess my ethnicity. I have a large chest with a small waist and wider hips. I have a short waist to hip ratio. I'm also 5'6 with a secretive family that keeps genealogy from me. What's your opinion about my ethnicity? I'm curious. :)

I agree with southern - your prominent cheek bones would have me thinking you have a great deal of Russian ancestry - Eesti? Latvian?
gumishu   
20 Oct 2011
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

My wifes Maiden name is Danilevics. Her fater is from Latvia (Riga area). He claimed the the name had Polish roots.

there was a sizable Polish minority in Latvia in the interbellum period 1920-1939 around the town of Dyne(n)burg /Daugavspils - the people Polonized in the late 18th century and remained there after partitions - some of the Latvian Polonia remained in Latvia after 1945
gumishu   
18 Oct 2011
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Jan Vincent Rostowski, Minister of Finance

Rostowski born in London in a family of immigrants who stayed in the UK after 1945 - the language he speaks is the language of someone who has grown up and got educated in the environment of the language - his English is much better than Sikorki's if you ask me
gumishu   
18 Oct 2011
Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Here is Sikorski, current Foreign Minister (PO)

Sikorski is educated in Oxford, spent time as a war correspondent in Afghanistan for a British magaizne co you can't really compare him to Fotyga - sure it's better if a foreign minister is fluent and outspoken in English, but it's not that they still don't use interpreters in their talks - and in such a diplomatic environment as the EU Poland should use a couple of interpreters at a time (English, German, French or others depening on the countries involved - think of negotiating things with Mrs Merkel and not having not just an English intrepreter but also an interpreter of German at hand)

I think, Mrs Fotyga's English is decent enough
gumishu   
13 Oct 2011
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Gypsies haven't mixed with the nations they used to live among that much (they still don't mix very much) - so unless your grandmother was actually a Gypsy he couldn't bear a Gypsy surname

then East Prussia is not Belarus - what was East Prussia is now in half in Poland and in half the Kaliningrad enclave of Russia

only a handful of nations inhabited East Prussia - Germans, Poles (Mazurzy/Masuren), Lithuanians and Russian religious emigrates (raskolnitsy - starowiercy/ Old Believers) - the surname of your grandmom may sounds Polish or Russian (or Ruthenian) - if it is spelled as it is written

using the German spelling (were 'z' stands for 'ts') - then it's pretty obviously Masurian (dialectal Polish) surname - it means heron - and in standard Polish is written 'Czapla' and pronounced 'Chahplah'
gumishu   
10 Oct 2011
UK, Ireland / Can I buy Papierówki apples in the UK? [11]

if you really want to have them you need to organise a private import from Poland and as said earlier only in the season - they are completely seasonal in Poland too

there is also another way to have them - it's to buy a papierówka seedling and to plant it somewhere you can (like in your garden) - you have to remember however that this kind of the apple tree can grow pretty big (if you just let it) - it can hardly be compared to those typical commercial orchard apple trees
gumishu   
8 Oct 2011
UK, Ireland / Can I buy Papierówki apples in the UK? [11]

these are the very seasonal apples - they tend to rippen very early - like early middle July - and they do not preserve well (only a couple of weeks) - but man they are tasty (and the fragrance) - there is no way you can have these apples in British shops or on British markets - if you really want to have them you need to organise a private import from Poland and as said earlier only in the season - they are completely seasonal in Poland too - an apple pie with papierówki is simply delicious
gumishu   
7 Oct 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

Sean, i'll try to write you a joke about Ukrainian workers in Ireland - I only learned it yesterday and I an not a very good translator (my English is in fact fairly limited) but I'll try

Ok,

So a group of Ukrainian workers went to Ireland (must be illegally I don't know ;) )

a guy hired them to paint the exteriors of his countryside household - he bought the paint and stuff and left them to do the job

now the Ukrainian guys can't actually start a job while not having tasted some vodka before so they sell one bucket of the paint and bring in some booze

now after the first shots they got 'enthusiastic' about having more of the stuff - they went on to sell all the paint they had because they couldn't stop drinking and never really began to paint anything (say made a couple of strokes here and there) - they just have left some small bucket of the paint and when they notice that the owner is approaching in his car one of them makes a quick judgement, runs and paints the muzzle of a horse that the owner kept in his stable there with the paint that was left

the owner gets out of his car and asks the Ukrainian guys why they haven't actually started painting - they answer: it's because your horse has drunk all the paint - and they show him the horse - hearing this the Irish guy goes into the house, leaves with a shotgun, goes straight to shoot the horse - the Ukrainian guys are quite petrified with that and ask - Why did you kill the horse straight away? - The Irish guy says - The horse was no use, a couple of months ago I had a team of Polish builders - the horse had gobbled 10 packets of cement on the day they started the job
gumishu   
7 Oct 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

yes there is one joke that exploits the ambiguity - about two knights meeting with one having bad scars all over his face and body - are these from a sword - no, they are from a 'sheath'
gumishu   
6 Oct 2011
Life / What is Poland's fastest growing ethnic group? [57]

I would like to deport all the Muslims in the UK to Poland in exchange for another 1 million Poles moving here if necessary.

Poland would have even accepted it because Poles wouldn't be timid in showing their new compatriots their place

the thing is it would cost Britain everything - first of all its reputation - btw I don't find muslims to be causing much trouble in England in general save for some fringes
gumishu   
5 Oct 2011
Travel / Pentecostal Church in Wrocław [3]

there are two pentecostal churches in Wrocław that I know of - but I have no idea whether they have any special youth services (I would guess they do not)- this is the contact details of the bigger community in southern Wrocław: antiochia.pl/kontakt.html
gumishu   
5 Oct 2011
Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

They also have couple of such Spains on their doorsteps. Actually why they travel to Europe? Just to see a bit of aschitecture (which is common in Europe but not common in America?)

to taste the thousands years of living culture and civilization I guess America lacks
gumishu   
5 Oct 2011
Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

Maybe it's because saying I was in Norway doesn't sound as good as saying I spend my holydays in France?

mainly because the Americans have a couple of such Norways on their doorstep - like Alaska or British Columbia
gumishu   
4 Oct 2011
Food / Polish name for cut of beef [29]

what is it that you wanted to say? give some broader context not just the two words in Polish (just in case, ya know)
gumishu   
3 Oct 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

- What is a relationship between lunches in a cafeteria and the Fibonacci sequence?
- Each dinner is the sum of the previous two.

that's funny - but probably difficult to grasp for someone who did not experience some of the communist POland
gumishu   
3 Oct 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

We had a similar to the Russian one.One Greek goes to USA.There his gf persuades him to tatoo her name Wendy on his penis.One day the Greek goes to toilet and sees a black man carrying his penis with both hands peeing.The firet and last letter of the Black man tatoo is W and Y.The Greek becomes saddened.You,Wendy too?he asks him.And the Black answers:No Sir.It is "Welcome to Jamaica.Have a nice day."

this one's a good one :)

a Polish joke that makes the use of the Polish word for dick (but is not about dicks at all):

what is the name of the most famous Japanese architect? Nahuya Mitahata

ok

what is the managing director's office called in Japanese: Yama hama

and what is managing director's himself called: Sam ham

To me the most hillarious of the 'Japanese' jokes is this one:

what is the name of a felt tip pen thief in Japanese? Koshi mazaki :) (it's rather Kosi Mazaki in Polish)

- I'm pretty sure that comicality of these joke is beyond grasp for most of foreigners who speak Polish though
gumishu   
3 Oct 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

my favourite blonde girl joke

what is that a blonde girl thinks when she learns she's pregnant? 'Maybe it's not mine' :)

No, I had 'Pamiati moriakow iz Czornogo Moria' (it doesn't work with the English transcription of Russian sadly)

it means 'In the memory of the seamen of the Black Sea' btw

Cicciolina has just arrived at the airport after a holiday in Greece.She gets asked by the journalists:Miss Cicciolina,what have you enjoyed in Greece the most?Oh,answers Cicciolina I so much liked the greek duck.-And now where are you going to travel?-I am going to visit Bulgarua,Romanua,Yugoslavua.

looks like Greeks are quite obsessed with their.. ducks :P
gumishu   
3 Oct 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

clearly the Greeks find d1ck jokes funny and the Poles generally do not tell them
I suppose pen1s based humour is more of less universal

I know a couple of Polish jokes about penises but they are way more subtle than the southern's one

here's one:

American marines visit Russia - they arrive at Russian marines base - say Sevastopol - an American marine veteran goes for a **** - suddenly a Russian bloke joins in - while they stand and pee the Russiang guy looks over the American guys shoulder and asks? What does it mean 'ORIA' in English?? - oh, it was GLORIA - but a shrapnel cut the remaining part in Vietnam - then the American marine can't stop his curiousity and looks over to the Russian guy - then asks in a surprise 'You also had GLORIA'??? - No, I had 'Pamiati moriakow iz Czornogo Moria' (it doesn't work with the English transcription of Russian sadly)
gumishu   
2 Oct 2011
Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

I'm serious - I have instantly fallen in love with her ;) - kiss her for me, will you :)

btw all those millions of women you mention are already taken - there is growing demand for PiS-loving women here ;)
gumishu   
2 Oct 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

four guys meet somewhere for a social meeting an American, a Russian, a Norwegian guy and a Pole - there is plenty of drink - and finally in the middle of the night it starts getting philosiphical and some pauses begin to appear

then American guy says - You know, in Alaska we have such frigid winters that when you spit your spit freezes before it drops

after a smaller pause the Russian guy says - This is nothing, We in Siberia have such frigid conditions that when you go out in the night to take a ****, you have to watch cause it freezes solid into a an arc and it can actually catch you ;)

after another shorter pause the Norwegian guy says - this is nothing actually, when I worked on an off-shore platform the "Golfsztrom" froze (Gulfstream - definitely needs to be in Polish/German (or maybe Norwegian) because: ...)

good on the bloody Jew - the Pole says to that :P;)

what is that: it's big, it's black, it hangs on a Jew's neck???
gumishu   
2 Oct 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

you would be surprised but there is already a joke on PO voters :) I can't rember it quite well though and would have to spend some half an hour to translate it into English though
gumishu   
29 Sep 2011
Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [128]

the second WW - some hard knocking on a steel door of a Russian bunker - the Russians ask - kto tam? (who's there) - swoi? (pronounces sva-ee)(friends) - a skolko was (and how many of you are there) - ein-und-zwanzig :)
gumishu   
28 Sep 2011
History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

statistics say that the german shepard dog is the one with the most attacks on people.

I very much doubt it - at least in Poland - I have seen lots of very timid german shepherd dogs here and I believe german shepherd is much easier trained into strict obedience than for example rotweilers and dobermans