History / Not proud of my Polish heritage [110]

@marion kanawha, welcome! :)


This forum is not like other forums... It's "special" (meaning - not normal lol) with "special" rules which sometimes are applied and sometimes they aren't based on... often noone knows what exactly... lol


If you stick around more will shock you, I promise lol

I'm afraid PF is all about the survival of the rudest or the most thick-skinned. It's "Lord of the Flies" in the form of an internet forum.

I thought you should be warned :)

Polonia / Tak Tak - Polish Deli (in Berlin) [34]


Be careful what you wish for - this dish can be addictive :D ;D

Polonia / Tak Tak - Polish Deli (in Berlin) [34]


You'll probably have to visit some Poles at their home then :P ;) Or go to bar mleczny in Poland - it's like a diner with very cheap, everyday homemade-like Polish food.


I'm not sure, I don't remember... 🤔 To be honest, due to COVID-19 I still try to avoid crowded places and when I'm at a shopping mall I jump in, buy what I need and jump out, so I'm not looking around much...

These days you can buy some ready-made Polish food at supermarkets, but it's usually never as good as the homemade stuff (or often nowhere near as good, really). At least that's my experience.

Btw, as for sausages there's a traditional Polish dish that I think everyone in my family likes - biała kiełbasa z cebulą - white sausage with onion (biała kiełbasa is similar to German Weisswurst). It's fried-stewed with onion which creates a kind of onion sauce and it makes the sausage soft, juicy, aromatic and tasty. In a more traditional recipe you add beer to that sauce :):



Simple and yummy :)

Polonia / Tak Tak - Polish Deli (in Berlin) [34]

@Bratwurst Boy, yes, exactly, but schabowy, bigos or barszcz z uszkami isn't anything exotic for Poles :)


For Poles Polish home cooked food usually means - the best :))

Polonia / Tak Tak - Polish Deli (in Berlin) [34]

@Bratwurst Boy, I may be generalising - my family and friends don't order Polish food to home, because we can make it at home ourselves (so I don't see it as "sad" ;)). Of course in Poland you can also order Polish food take-aways, but I'm guessing it's usually done by people who don't have the time to cook their own meals at home.

Polonia / Tak Tak - Polish Deli (in Berlin) [34]

@Bratwurst Boy, I don't know about Germany, but in Poland Poles usually cook their dishes at home. When they order something to eat at home, it's usually pizza or sth exotic.

Polonia / Tak Tak - Polish Deli (in Berlin) [34]


Then you should like bigos, I guess... There's both sauerkraut and sausage in it ;D

Polonia / Tak Tak - Polish Deli (in Berlin) [34]


I thought that Germans like sauerkraut :P

Law / Bus ticket fine in Poland (Warsaw) - what if I don't pay the fine? [36]

@jon357, I disagree, my mother once wrote an explanation and she didn't have to pay the fine.

Life / Polish film and serial riddles [137]


"Chasing Adam"?

Life / Polish film and serial riddles [137]

"A Short Film About Killing" by Kieślowski?

Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [229]

@Alien, how so? What does it have to do with fate? There's a war over our border...

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

I haven't watched it either, but based on his looks the first thing that came to my mind was also:


🙂

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

@Alien, that's a rather superficial view, imho.

Life / Class system in Poland - does it exist? [90]

@Kashub1410, you're putting words into my mouth. That's not fair.


I didn't claim that. What is wrong with you today?

Life / Class system in Poland - does it exist? [90]

@Kashub1410, the fact that a person who has been trained and prepared his entire life for something doesn't mean that he can't be a human scum or a bad leader. To believe otherwise would be exactly that - fantasy and wishful thinking.


A simple worker can be well educated and have great leading skills, but life could force him to take up such a job. At the same time someone born into a noble or rich family may be either too lazy or too stupid to lead or to take over family business.

Of course, usually the better someone is prepared for some role the better he or she will be at what they're doing, but these days you don't have to have noble roots to do that.

Life / Class system in Poland - does it exist? [90]


Sorry, but what does it have to do with my statement that for me someone's character and deeds are more important than what social class they belong to?


You sound very elitist. All kinds of groups are needed for society. What does it mean "better" for society? Are nobles better for society than factory workers? Or than doctors? Than firefighters? Someone can view nobility as a group of parasites, who didn't work for what they own. I'm not talking that much about Polish nobles nowadays since a lot was taken from them by communists. On the other hand, they didn't work for what they owned in the past either though.

Life / Class system in Poland - does it exist? [90]

@Kashub1410, but we weren't discussing traditions in general. We were discussing szlachta/nobility. So why did you twist it into an unfair and untrue conclusion that I don't value traditions, customs or knowledge in general? Bad, boy, Kashub1410, bad boy! lol I thought you're better than this.


Oh... Now that's a plot twist! lol ;D

Life / Class system in Poland - does it exist? [90]


Wow, that's a very arrogant and self-centred thing to say. Sorry, but traditions, customs and knowledge are not restricted only to nobility.


What law and who is that king of Poland? lol

Life / Class system in Poland - does it exist? [90]

I agree with Lenka.


Being part of szlachta often wasn't any kind of achievement - because people were simply born into it. Also, being part of nobility didn't give anyone automatically noble character. So I'm not sure what's your point and what you fret about so much. I don't consider people with noble roots to be better than others. For me personally character and deeds are more important than titles.


No, it doesn't o_O

Love / Do majority of Polish women wear very skimpy outfits like super short buttcheek shorts out in public? [22]

@Cargo pants LOL
On the contrary - overweight people feel less cold, because they have a lot of fat that keeps them warm. That's why it's the slim people that feel the cold more.

Love / Do majority of Polish women wear very skimpy outfits like super short buttcheek shorts out in public? [22]

It depends on the situation or occasion. If you work at some office/corpo with a dress code then you have no choice and you have to put on the office wear, but if you go on shopping or you're a college student you put a pair of jeans and a sweater if it's cold. During winter I also often put on a pair of leggins under my trousers, because I'm a zmarzluch lol 🥶

Love / Do majority of Polish women wear very skimpy outfits like super short buttcheek shorts out in public? [22]

@Somchai200, it's getting colder and nobody will be wearing skimpy clothes now, so I'm afraid you'll have to wait till summer to see for yourself.

I've never been to the US, so I can't compare. What I've noticed based on what I saw on TV was that it seems that American women are more likely to wear blouses, T-shirts or dresses with pretty big cleavages. Even at work which would be usually a "no no" in Poland. But that's pretty much all I can say, I guess.


Well, that's defenitely not happening where I live in Poland (the Holy Cross region).

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


Poland joining NATO at that point in time was an absolute genius move as we can see now very clearly.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

@Crnogorac3, and what it is the source of this data/graph? Or was it taken out of some RuSSian zhopa? :)


This happens all over the world - people are often smuggled or trafficked by their own compatriots. You didn't exactly discover America, you know lol

Life / Custom plates in Poland [103]


Don't be so sure :D:

Language / Is There A Name For This Dialect? [12]

@pawian, according to Wikipedia it comes from the Ukrainian language:

en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B0%D0%BF

Language / Is There A Name For This Dialect? [12]


It's a derogatory name for a Russian:

en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/katsap

Love / Is Marriage Or Seriously Relationship With Polish Ladies Worth It? [16]


In your head maybe lol


Unlike you, I'm not a liar. And I wrote: "I don't demean people I care about."

Love / Is Marriage Or Seriously Relationship With Polish Ladies Worth It? [16]


But Videobroker's girlfriend doesn't sound like a feminist - he wrote that he's paying all the bills :)))

Btw, I don't yell at people in public and I don't demean people I care about.


Haha lol This could be the case, I guess :)))