UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]


You'll probably find it has been "reinvented" (wish there was a roll-eyes thingy for this site) and can be found in upmarket restaurants served with a so-called twist, in a retro or ironic way, or has suffered some other pretentious fate...

Other than that, you might still get it in some battered oul dusty pub off the beaten track in the midlands somewhere. The real thing that is.

Food / What a typical Polish family eats. How do they prepare food and who cooks at home? [37]


So why even ask the question?

Love / Your feedback on office sex (situation from Poland) [37]

Jesus.

As to the question, fairly simple I would have thought.

Discipline anyone who has broken company rules - actual rules, not unwritten ones.

Other than that, really, it's only of concern to those involved in the whole sorry debacle and nobody else - what's wrong with that approach?

Food / Polish name for cut of beef [29]

Jimmu:


Probably not in Poland though.


Anyway - are you sure? Try googling "rib eye for burgers" and have a look.

Law / Benefit entitlement in Poland for foreigners [37]


What it's supposed to be like and what it is actually like might be different of course.

Food / Polish name for cut of beef [29]


Should be good for burgers too though!

Life / Do Polish parents let/encourage their kids to **** outdoors? [40]


I've seen it a few times and I wasn't even in Poland for long.


Not at all. Occasionally you see it at the sides of busy roads, car parked, an act of desperation obviously. It's discreet too.


The peeing is a bit nasty I suppose but it doesn't bother me that much. Crapping is much worse. I just think of rural India or something.

Food / Polish name for cut of beef [29]

What about sirloin? In Polish, polędwica (I think)

Food / What a typical Polish family eats. How do they prepare food and who cooks at home? [37]


Yes, I realise that. Spicy just sounded odd. It tends to mean hot & piquant (pikantny?) in the mouth rather than "with (general)spices"

Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [124]


I know what you mean but it's not what I meant.

Think more "Hmmm" slightly smiling, eyes slowly closing, fingertips of both hands pressed together...

Life / The nature of Polish jokes? [124]


Of course, I should have mentioned that too and it can make a big difference.

Still, I do have the impression that I mentioned above. I'll pay close attaention the next few times I hear them. I can almost bet in advance that they will be semi-political, cynical etc though : )


I'm not sure what you mean exactly but if it's monty python-esque, there is probably no feasible explanation really. Funny because it's ridiculous, funny because it's so over the top, funny because it's so abstract...

The only "cleverness" in Python are the references sometimes. Jokes/sketches etc are rarely in themselves sophisticated.

Almost impossible to analyse comedy anyway usually. In fact, for me, the funnier it is, the less likely I'm able to explain it : )

UK, Ireland / Culture shock (my neighbours in the UK are Polish and Slovak) [88]


Sorry, but I am very sceptical. You have, in the very post I have quoted from, given me even more reason to believe that you are not English. Not that it actually matters either way of course, but it is IMO a little curious to say the least.

Do you mind me asking the nature of your keyboard problem?

a.k.


No, it might be. I wouldn't say how are you to a stranger either. I would have to know the person at least on some level.

History / Why do Polish people hate to be called Eastern European? [121]


Excuse me - what?

Sorry??

Look everyone look!!

Pole in eastern European admission shocker

; )

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Then it's a sun ripened wichetty grub ; )

History / Why do Polish people hate to be called Eastern European? [121]

Deja vu.

Wasn't there a thread about this only a week ago?

Food / What a typical Polish family eats. How do they prepare food and who cooks at home? [37]


Don't get this at all. Are you sure you mean spicy?

UK, Ireland / Culture shock (my neighbours in the UK are Polish and Slovak) [88]


Whatever about ignorance, I have to agree that she doesn't sound English.

Even making allowances for typos, I got the impression that English was not their first language. Apologies in advance if I'm wrong here.

UK, Ireland / Culture shock (my neighbours in the UK are Polish and Slovak) [88]

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UK, Ireland / Culture shock (my neighbours in the UK are Polish and Slovak) [88]


Ah OK - thanks. It's not really the same thing then I guess.

UK, Ireland / Culture shock (my neighbours in the UK are Polish and Slovak) [88]

Jars777 said:


I've noticed too that proszę which has a wide range of usage is used in almost exactly the same way as bitte - i.e. as please or you're welcome or after you, etc etc would you agree?

On topic, the funny thing is OP, that it's the Anglophones who are unusual - it's not a Polish or Slovak thing, as Jars777 has hinted.

The Spanish, French, Italians... all much more direct in their speech and don't, as they would see it, beat around the bush the way many English speakers do!

UK, Ireland / Culture shock (my neighbours in the UK are Polish and Slovak) [88]


I know what you're saying, but Poles do say miło mi (I'm only guessing the spelling)

It's not rare. Unless it maybe doesn't mean exactly the same as nice to meet you

UK, Ireland / Culture shock (my neighbours in the UK are Polish and Slovak) [88]


You might be making too much of this.

Could it be that he knew your Polish wasn't good, and neither was his English so he resorted to the internationally understood term of OK rather than, e.g. również or something (this term may not be even correct but you know what I mean) which might have caused confusion?

Food / Is chocolate popular in Poland? [52]


Just shows how wrong they can be LOL

It sounds like a piece of machinery or something to me

"Ooooooh sorry mate, your compressor is on the way out and looks like you'll need a new haagen daz soon as well"

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]


Yep, but not so different from Miller etc - is it?


OK, not sure I know these. Thanks.

Food / Is chocolate popular in Poland? [52]



Hmmm.

Call me crazy but there might, just might be a link between these two statements : )

Food / What's your favorite Polish beer? [870]

If you are looking for the taste that beer nerds tend to refer to as "Americana" * (Miller, Moosehead, Coors etc) I'd say you might be looking a long time.

Any Polish beer I've had is pretty robust, hoppy, earthy.

*whether it's Amercian or not.

Love / Foreigners: would you have moved to Poland if it was full of fat/ugly women? [42]

My main objection to the term Milf (and Gilf for that matter) is that they sound so asexual and wimpy.

I don't like cougar for the opposite reason - a bit too obvious and crass.

I want a new word.


Definitely NOT that one though!

; )

News / Poles are able to forgive their enemies - how noble. [68]

Possibly.

But no more than many Poles base their opinions of other countries on equally incomplete sources.

UK, Ireland / Why do so many Polish guys in the UK have a crew cut or buzz cut? [106]

What's all this crew cut anyway? This doesn't mean an all over number 1 or 2 does it? (I assume that's what we're talking about with the Polish hair)

To me, a crew cut anyway is like a 50s American GI or sailor - short but with a kind of flat quiff on top

I don't use the term buzz cut but it sounds more like what we're talking about.

To me, crew cut is something quite different.