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EchoTheCat   
23 Jan 2010
Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Why Scottish has "boruc" on his back ?? Since when Adam Boruc has his own brand of alkohol ?

Sean, this joke is so old that has gray beard :)
EchoTheCat   
23 Jan 2010
Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]

They think cabbage is healthy.

I have been here for 3 months

hotdog has cabbage
hambuger has cabbage
kebab has cabbage

if you order a meal it usually has cabbage on the plate somewhere.

I think if they could find a way to put cabbage on pizza they would.

Hahhahaa we have also cabbage tea, whipped cream desserts with cabbage and we even wipe with cabbage ! :D
EchoTheCat   
23 Jan 2010
Food / Do Polish people really love cabbage ?? [78]

what about pigs feet dishes?

Did you eat it ??
We also eat piggs tails, piggs brain and pigs ears :) I'm not joking
Did you eat "flaki" ?
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Life / Polish and Czechs [190]

For example a Czech woman told me that her daughter dislikes German and wants to learn Russian instead of German in school.

Hmm in Poland we have no choice, we have to learn German and English. But there's good idea to learn Czech at schools. Most of Poles will probably die at laugh on those lessons :))
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Life / Polish and Czechs [190]

Yes, you're right but when I was in high school I had to study English and German. Now polish children have to learn English in Primary School and Gymnasium (and it's obligatory) and English and some other language they can choose in high school. Usually it's German, Spanish or Russian. Unfortunatelly Russian is very unpopular, especially on west side of Poland.
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Szczyglinski Sluchaj, possibility of being Russian? [33]

I know I've posted on another thread regarding my Polish features, but do I have anything that could be considered a Russian feature?

When I woke up my humour was really bad but since I've read your thread I can tell I'm better now :)) I don't want to insult you, you seems very nice person, but don't you think it's a little bit silly to post your photos and ask "Do I look like Russian?". Because I can tell you I look like Irish though I'm not and I have no ancestors from there. If you want to know something about your Russian ascestors you have to FIND THEM :)

About "Szczyglinski" surname, it seems to be racial polish. But "Sluchaj" is very interesting. It means literally "Listen to that" in Polish. Are you sure this is a surname ? If it is, maybe you shoud find this word in Russian dictionary. Sometimes Russian and Polish words mean something completely different though they look similar.

Good luck :)
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Life / Polish and Czechs [190]

Let's get real. Why should it be popular?

I think Russian sounds very nice instead of German. No metter what you say in German, it could be Christmas Wishes, for Poles it always saunds like order to shoot ;)

Russian is really beautyfull, especially in songs. There's is a band called Origa. They made soundtrack for "Ghost in The Shell", the series not film, and it was amazing.

hence not many Poles come to Russia (I've personally seen only one Pole from Poland in my life who came on business to Moscow)

Besides bussines things, I think we have to have some break from you, Russian boys tinkering with our east borders ;)) That's why Poles love so much Ukrainians, Belarussians or Lithuanians. Because they separate us from you :))

As for Polish... Here in Russia people mostly study Polish because they love it, not because they can make any use of it.

Most of Poles think that you have no idea where Poland is. Not mention about learning Polish.

Once French is out of the way, going to switch back to sadistic slavic languages and try to pick up Russian. I'm seeing 6 months in a village somewhere to make that happen...

There is a cartoon called "Futurama". In one of episodes, main characters go to museum of XX century and Bender (the robot) take a handset to hear some extinct language. And guess what he've heard ? "Bonne journée!" ;))
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

es,after English invasion in Moscow

At least you invade somebody and it's not France ! ;))

About the stereotypes of other European countries:
Austrians: It's some sort of german colony but with better looking women. They invade us in 1772 and then in 1795 but that wasn't so bed in comparision with Germans and Russians. In the matter of fact some people especially from Malopolska had some warm feelings to the Austro-Hungarian emperor.

Belarussians: they're strange and they have problems with deciding about themselves. They want to have dealings with west Europe but they hang out with Russians. They want to have their own country but with borders common with Russia ? For most of Poles there're two categories of Belarussians: there're normal people with normal problems and their goverment saying some absurd bull**its about us.

Lithuanians: we have some problems with them. We like them but it's unrequited love ;) It has something to do with Polish-Lithuanians Commonwelth from XVI century. But in every book for history in polish schools, you can read that without this union Poland wouldn't be so great superior in XVI-XVII centuries. So, dear Lithuanians, where is the problem ? :)

Finns: finnish cuisine has only one dish: reindeer. And for every Pole, it's unacceptable to eat Rudolf's brothers! All Finnish are some sort of Eskimos, they probaby carve reindeer's eyeballs and livers when they are still twiching.

Croats: they have their little country, with little islands and on every little island live little Croat and ... scurry rakija! :) They do everything with rakija: they bath with rakija, they **** rakija and even their cars operate on rakija ! Croatia shoud change the name and become Rakijaland. On the other hand Croats don't like vodka witch is very suspicious.

Serbs: the black sheep in slavic family because of War on Balkans. We don't like them, they like to rape little Albanian girls. Actually they're some kind of barbarians.

Bulgarians: they have great beaches and nice cities but they're considered as sluggishly. They have slllooooooooowww mooooootiooooooonn all the time :)

Romanian: I'v never been in Romania but my friend said it's very nice there. I mean neture, woods, castles and those charming medieval towns. BUT there's always but. My boyfriend's father used to be a quide on USSR countries. He was told never go to Romania. His friend said: "No matter what happend, just go forward and never look back. And never stop there!". It sounds frightfuly, isn't it ?

To be continued... I have some things to do :)
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Speak for yourself, Echo. I like Serbs and to be honest I don't know any
Pole who would express any kind of dislike towards Serbia.

I speek for myself. Most of people I know don't like Serbs because they prefer Bosnians and Croats.

Even though Croatia is a Slavic and Catholic country, their nazi collaboration history
and traditional pro-German stance are the reasons that Polish sympathy is more on
the Serbian side (at least where I come from ;)).

Your y
Your logic is interesting. Let's see who didn't colaborate with Germans. Ukrainians....did. Romanians...did. Russians...did. Czechs...did. If you prefer those who colaborated with Russians, that's ok but where I came from Russians considered to be worse than Germans.

I don't know where you come from, but I suppose it's ...eastern Poland ? :)

I know we are 40,000,000 nation but I'm not going to do some nationwide referendum every time I want to say something that could hurt somebody's feelings :)
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

They prefer muslims to Christian Serbs? Interesting...

Buuahaha that's funny. You know, I've been there and I can tell you they are completely mixed. They are muslims but also orthodox, catholic and even evangelical. And I DONT CARE what religion or faith they are. They're just nice.

Wrong. I was born and raised in Pomerania - Słupsk/Ustka (you probably would prefer
to say Stolp/Stolpemunde) where my family came from Jelenia Góra (your German loving
friends most likely call that city Hirschberg). Before the war my family lived in Kraków
and Nowy Targ.

You know, Kaczynski ones said that we, people live in Wielkopolska or somewhere near german border, are "unfinished Poles" which was a little bit insulting. I didn't write we love Germans, you did. In the same way I can tell about you that you're a communist :) So if you want to be really funny or brilliant, find some less absurd arguments :)

PS. Half of my family have germans surnames and I have no problem with that :)
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Life / Polish and Czechs [190]

I have a friend who is Czech... we are rivals! He makes fun of Poland so I return the favor. I hope our national soccer team will one day beat them in a deep playoff game so I can rub it in his face! In total, we are neighbors though.

Wait for Tuesday. We will play with Czechs in handball at European Championships. I can't wait to see them crying after the match ;))
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Life / Polish and Czechs [190]

and tomorrow, we're going to beat them in handball. It's our turn now.

And I have no TV :((( I have to get one for tomorrow ;)
EchoTheCat   
25 Jan 2010
Travel / Holidays next month - suggestions for which part of Poland to visit [14]

I can tell it will be difficult if you don't like to ski. You can go and see the mountains but you have to be prepared. Without good shoes it could be dangerous. And it's freezing out there. You can go seaside, to breathe some iodine :) but guess what ? It's freezing out there :)
EchoTheCat   
26 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Szczyglinski Sluchaj, possibility of being Russian? [33]

Caaalmmm downn :)) Say: "Goooosssfraaabeeee" and take a deep breath. Ok now ? :)
I didn't say I hate you. That's true when you live with somebody for some time your stereotypes usually disappear. But believe me people in my age (which is under 30) have very rational approach for you although they have no experience with Russians besides reading books for history at schools...
EchoTheCat   
26 Jan 2010
Love / Are Polish mothers-in-law monsters? [91]

I think it's a part of polish tradition to complain for mothers-in-law
What is the worst penalty for bigamy ? Two mothers-in-law ;)

Husband says to his wife: I'm not saying your mother cooks bad but I'm starting to understand why all your family pray before dinner.

And one more, but only in polish. I didn't figure out how can I translate it in english :( If you can, be my guest ;)

Jasio pyta babcię:
- Babciu czy byłaś szczepiona na choroby zakaźne?
- Byłam, a dlaczego pytasz?
- Bo ile razy do nas przychodzisz tato mówi: "Znów tę cholerę do nas przyniosło!"
EchoTheCat   
27 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Szczyglinski Sluchaj, possibility of being Russian? [33]

Explain your comedy movie again?

Bad Boys II :)

Not sure what this movie (a link maybe?) has to do with her question?

You didn't read whole thread.

by the way are you polish or maybe from another part of the world:Middle east,America,EU maybe ???

Yes, I'm from Poland and also from EU... :)
EchoTheCat   
27 Jan 2010
Life / Horribly cold in Krakow at the moment , how do you cope with such temperatures ? [124]

I imagine WildRover is going to tell us: after eating beans you can fart into a jar and use the gas to heat yet more beans, for the nutrition and warmth values.

Finally I met the guy who was a director of Bruno and Borat! It's you! Can you sent me an autograph ?? ;)

First rule of survival, No.1 Waste nothing ;)

I'm afraid to ask what will we eat when the beans will end up.

Well, mother of nature probably will have a mercy around Friday, it will be around -1 to -5 :-)

Which Friday ?
EchoTheCat   
27 Jan 2010
Language / When do you use 'się'? And what does it mean? [37]

Write those sentences.

You use "się" when you're talking about something that somebody have to do with her(his)self. For example:
Czy może się Pan przesunąć? - literally "Can you move?" but in can be translated as "Can you get yourself and move?".

You can't use "się" when we have no choice in doing something. For example "spadać" (to fall). When you're falling there is nothing you can do about it. But if you sliped there was something you did to yourself and that's why there's "poślizgnąć się" - to slip.

This is the way in which I understand "się". But I'm not Polish teacher :)
EchoTheCat   
27 Jan 2010
Travel / Meluzyna - Anyone been to this steak house in Bydgoszcz? [11]

So my friend sent me a link to this place in Bydgoszcz - I was wondering if anyone has been there and what did you think?

You're thinking about going to Bydgoszczy to eat a steak ?? I admire your desperation ;)
Sorry, I've never been there.