Love / Do polish men like career women? [60]

Possibly the best description of Polish male-female relationships I've ever read on here; it's so true (unfortunately!)

Whenever I hear about "overbearing Jewish mothers", I always think "lol, that's just like a Polish mum". :D I wonder which came first?

Language / "Hilarious" Mistakes? (Esp. Across Polish and other Slavic Languages) [70]


lol :)

no :D

Love / Do polish men like career women? [60]


She still has to earn less than him, of course. Male pride, and all that ;)


I was thinking of the others, really ;)

You know how it works on here: Western men are all gay/effeminate/emasculated, because they have been indoctrinated by anti-Slavic, anti-Serbian, pro-Muja NATO-supporting EUSSR traitors ;)

or something like that ;)

lol

Life / You are Polish if... [433]

...if Christmas Eve is more important to you than Christmas Day (extra points if you open your presents after wigilia as well ; : ).

Love / Do polish men like career women? [60]


Your second sentence explains the problem in your first sentence. ;)

Of course everyone would like to have everything done for them by the time they come home - the problem is, there are still a lot of Polish men who still believe that this is a woman's job, irrespective of whether she works or not.

I couldn't care less if the Serbs on here will come out with their "effeminate/emasculated Western men" nonsense (sometimes they say we are effeminate/emasculated, then they call us violent, aggressive scum - so which is it?? lol) - it's not right for men to expect women to do their dirty work for them, especially if the woman works as well. That's not feminisation, it's fairness.

I remember once reading a book on sociology where a husband threw his dinner on the fire because it was served by his wife's sister, not by his wife. Thank heavens those days are almost over - should have been ****ing grateful he was getting fed at all! And if anyone disagrees with me, well you can **** off back to your Bernard Manning DVDs as well. It's not 1950 any more.

No-one, but NO-ONE touches my ironing. And if you try, I'll beat u up, blud ;) lol (jk ;) )

Right, back to marking coursework for me... lmao :)

Love / Do polish men like career women? [60]


They do like to "try a ting" as we say round here :)

But as I discussed some time ago on here, the key is to know how to play them at their own game ;)

Food / Origin of the pierogi [118]


We don't tend to bake our pierogi when first cooked (always boiled from raw) but they are nice to reheat in the oven. That's how I often do mine (pierogi don't reheat that well in a microwave, imo) - that's how my mum often reheats them, and so do I.

Language / "Hilarious" Mistakes? (Esp. Across Polish and other Slavic Languages) [70]


I don't see how that makes any difference, considering that I have spoken Polish for four decades, and there are a million Polish people over here - I encounter them daily. You know as well as I do that certain things had to be done before you could start calling each other "Ty" in the past; moer to do with drinking rather than human sacrifice (hence "just kidding" note at the bottom ;) ) - things are changing though, and I know that the rules aren't as strict as they used to be (especially amongst the young).


I understand what you're getting at.

However, educated speakers of English will understand (but rarely use) the English equivalents. There are clearly class differences over here (it's really only the upper class or some of the upper-middle class who would speak like this), but use of "Sir and "Madam" (e.g., "would Sir/Madam like a cup of tea?") can be used; as I've already mentioned, it is considered very formal (or even too formal) for the vast majority of speakers. People who speak like this do not refer to themselves in the first person ("I"), either but use "One" instead (i.e., "One really must learn Polish before travelling to Poland").

But as I also mentioned, well-educated English speakers will understand this usage, even if they do not use it, so there is no reason why they cannot understand why something similar is used in Polish. Every native speaker or teacher of Polish I have ever met has emphasised the need for formality unless mutually agreed otherwise.

Food / Origin of the pierogi [118]


Er... pierogi? :D

Mind you, English people don't use pizze when they order two ;)

Language / "Hilarious" Mistakes? (Esp. Across Polish and other Slavic Languages) [70]


True, but native/fluent speakers will forgive you if it is obvious that you are still learning. But the rule is: be too polite until told otherwise.

You no longer have to mutually agree to sacrifice your first-born children to the Slavic gods before you are allowed to call each other "Ty", but there still has to be agreement ;) **

I couldn't get away with it, for example (not that I would even try to, but it usually takes quite some time for people to work out that I wasn't born in Poland).


Don't!! It's not the easiest language, but if you can make yourself understood (even with mistakes), you're halfway there. ;)

At least you won't have to learn all the different Cantonese tones like I had to - that makes Polish sound like a dialect of your first language. Far more potential for embarrassing errors! :D


Which is why a literal translation isn't always the correct one.

"I'm on the train" in English suggests that you are a passenger inside a train. Literally translated into Polish, it implies that you really are on the train (i.e., on the roof, lol), not travelling inside. A worker fixing the roof of the train could be na pociągu, but a passenger will be w pociągu (inside the train).

To be honest, I can't understand why this isn't the case in English - it's only in Jackie Chan and cowboy films that people travel "on the train" haha.

** jk ;)

Love / Do polish men like career women? [60]


I'm probably twice the age of the average PF poster; having grown up surrounded by Poles (at home and beyond), I'm perfectly placed to comment.

And I never said "all".


See above.

Whereas you aren't even Polish, and you seem to like throwing around the occasional anti-Polish comment yourself.

Polish women deserve better, which is possibly why so many go with foreigners these days.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

Kołacz/kołacze: Polish

Koláè/koláèe: Czech


Had to look these up. Thought they may be like Jewish kichlach, but it appears that they are more like hamantaschen :)

Love / Do polish men like career women? [60]


Most "men of Poland" are still mummy's boys. They may "go gym" all day, and beat people up at the Legia match, but they always go running back to mamusia for some zupa afterwards :D Only Italian men are worse.

Trust me on this: almost all the women in my family married or live with these kind of losers. I'm nothing like this, though (thank heavens) - being brought up in the UK, Polish women love me for having the ideal combination of Polish background and Western ideas of gender equality. They know they will be an equal, and not a subordinate "mother-substitute" for some lazy lowlife. If you want sexist, Neanderthal men, then go to Serbia :)


As if a beautiful girl would be content with that! Or has the blachara/WAG lifestyle passed you by? lol :)

Life / New trend in Poland - dogging. [29]


Do keep up ;)

southern thinks that paying prostitutes counts as "being good at getting Polki into bed".

We've put up with this seller of Turkish kebabs for over four years. All his posts are the same, so we just smile and move on now ;)

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

And why certain men drive Lamborghinis.

I drive a Skoda :D :D

Back to the original topic, please.

Life / New trend in Poland - dogging. [29]


And about time too! It's always been hard work convincing Polish women to have sex outside (ime), so anything which encourages this, is good news to me :D


lol. Maybe everyone thinks his name is "Ironhoof" and not "Ironside" lol ;)

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


True, but he could have just browsed the site for a few days and decided not to register, if he finds this site so offensive. I've browsed sites such as St*rmfront and Urban75 in the past (both equally extreme, right and left respectively) but I wouldn't even think of registering, because I don't like the content/policies.


Football! lol

Language / IS "MURZYN" word RACIST? [686]

That must have been a useless "Pol-Am" dictionary, then.

All the Polish dictionaries I own translate it as "black person" (non-offensive), not nigger.

Czarnuch (offensive) = nigger - as I suspect you very well know.

Love / First Dates with a Polish guy who grew up in France [21]


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OMG lol, compared to the women I've dated from up North, that's almost "priestly" advice - they don't even bother with the bit about condoms haha :D

Language / Is this proper Polish grammar? If it is, can you explain how it is? [32]


Because the verb być refers to existence, i.e., the situation which exists now (present tense), which existed before the present (past tense) or situations which will exist (future tense).

The existence we are referring to in this example is whether a cucumber is being eaten, was eaten at sometime in the past, or will be eaten (or, indeed, whether or not it should have been eaten!).

Hence if you wanted to say (a silly example, I know ;) ) "It's good to be a cucumber" it would be "jest dobrze być ogórkiem", but this changes to "dobrze było być ogórkiem" (i.e., it was good to exist as a cucumber in the past), or if you are planning to become a cucumber one day, "dobrze będzie być ogórkiem" (i.e., it will be good to exist as a cucumber, in the future).

Beyond that, I think you need a teacher to explain it; I'm definitely not a teacher ;)

Polish grammar often makes things sound complicated, whereas English makes it a bit more logical; but at least Polish doesn't have words with silly pronunciations like "Leicester" or "Cholmondeley" - difficult grammar is the trade-off for easier pronunciation ;)


Because in the context of the verb być, the situation the cucumber is in (past, present, future) is more important than the cucumber itself ;)

Language / Is this proper Polish grammar? If it is, can you explain how it is? [32]


As others have explained, it's simply the past tense form of the verb być (to be): https://polishforums.com/language/instrumental-byc-grammar-issue-72001/

Off-Topic / What languages do you know? [51]


I've no idea where they get this idea from, but someone has called you Serbian again this evening, lol :)

Off-Topic / What languages do you know? [51]


What the f*** are you talking about?

It was a serious question - a lot of people on here think you're a Serb, and I can't understand why they do - but I was starting to think you are too.

It doesn't matter whether you are or not. As long as you don't start abusing Poles, I couldn't care less whether you were Serbian, German, Armenian, Azerbaijani or Korean - it's nothing to with whether it is "shameful" or not.

Off-Topic / What languages do you know? [51]

So why does everyone think you're Serbian lol

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]


Yeah but Poles say "Angol/Angole" if they don't like the English lol :)

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]


Oh well... I'll just have to make do with "British English", I suppose. What a shame :D


Nothing is dumber than this thread.

"Polak" is a non-offensive, non-colloquial Polish word which simply and ONLY means "Pole/a Pole/a (male) Polish person", etc. Polack is a Yank word which is pronounced differently, and I've heard it in several American films, etc - it's always used as an insult. Over here, no English speaker uses either version; like a native Pole mentioned earlier, in the UK, you would add an offensive word to get your point across, e.g. f***ing Pole/stupid Pole/dirty Pole, etc. Same in Polish: "pierdolony Polak" etc. Unless people here start talking about "you f***ing Polaks", it's unlikely to be used in offensive manner over here.

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


I drove past there a few weeks ago; I think it's "yuppie" (well, about as "yuppie" as you can get in West Yorkshire anyway... lol) flats now :(

Off-Topic / What languages do you know? [51]

Fluent (from birth): English, Polish.-

Intermediate to advanced (though rapidly worsening now due to lack of opportunity to speak): Czech.

Used to know to reasonable conversational level: French (almost completely forgotten now).

Used to know very basic conversation: Italian, Cantonese (all forgotten now).

Sadly, the only German I know is "Polen-Invasion stoppen", lol :D

I really need to start travelling again soon, because that makes me get the language courses out :)

If I won the Lottery, one of my goals would be to learn enough basic conversation to communicate with virtually everyone in the world - so I would brush up on the French, then learn some Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Hindi and Mandarin. I would also play the "Asians who want to learn Polish" game, and learn Afrikaans - simply because I love Afrikaner women (and especially their accents) haha :)

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


Why would you want to suject yourself to overrated French food when you can have Indian, Thai or Chinese?


On the images :) duh!


Well, we do like pickles... lol.


I have to admit I do like HP sauce. And it's not made in Birmingham (or indeed the UK) any more, iirc, so it's not even that "British" these days. I should be in Warsaw after Christmas, though; so if anyone wants some... lol.

Mind you, my time in the North also means that I learned to like gravy on my chips as well.. lmao :)

Language / Is the term 'Polak' derogatory?? [254]

Yet another "Pole" who can't speak Polish, and therefore doesn't know the difference between "Polak" and "Polack" - lol!

Come back Delph... all is forgiven :D