Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]


You clearly have an advantage, then ;)

I showed this to a relative (native Polish speaker, who also speaks Russian) who said "I've no idea, but I think it's something to do with a place in the last century" lol :)

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

I've got Jackie Chan's "Police Story" on DVD, complete with multi-actor Czech dubbing :)

When is Poland going to stop giving that one guy all the dubbing work?? lol

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

I ran my photo through a face-recognition site, and it only came up with one match: a Czechoslovak politician, from when he was still young!

I don't really look that much like him, but I can see why it decided that I do.

Still, at least it means I do have some kind of "Slavic" look :) haha

Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

I can understand gumishu's point, but I'm with mafketis on this one - for me, the voice-over completely spoils the film (I wouldn't need to listen to the English, and it's usually barely audible anyway). Whenever I'm in Poland, I reach for the remote when one of these films comes on.

Besides, how silly is it to always have a male actor read out the script for both male and female parts? It's just one of those crazy "money-saving" Polish ideas, which simply serves to demonstrate how much further ahead the Czechs really are ;)


You don't - it's always that same guy, isn't it? The one who also says "dziś o godzinie cztyrnastej w TVN" between programmes. lol

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

Spot the bitter, ugly girl who got turned down by a Pole, because he could get a much better-looking Polish woman... :)

Love / Are there Polish women who date black guys? [281]


Whites killing other whites, many of whom were also non-Jewish. Proof that the left-wing/liberal claim that "there will be no racism when we're all coffee-coloured" (and they are currently promoting the achievement of this aim within Europe) is incredibly naive.

In my experience, the worst racists are actually Asian - like the Punjabi Indian I used to work with who once said "we don't talk to those dirty darkies from down south, they aren't fit to be in the same room as us from the North", referring to the colleague from Tamil Nadu. Same religion, same country, both non-white, yet one had a different skin tone, and was hated for it. I can't imagine hearing any white colleague talk about blacks like that these days - 30 years ago maybe, but not now, and certainly not publically!


Read your history. Arabs were enslaving Africans hundreds (if not thousands) of years before "whitey" had ever set foot in Africa. This was particularly prevalent in early Islamic times. And why do you never blame the Africans who sold their own "brothers" into slavery? They are just as guilty as the slave traders. Slavery is currently at an all-time high, but the vast majority are Asian, and enslaved by them. As India, China and the Arab states continue to increse their economic power, you would be far better off worrying about them, not white Europeans.

But that's one thing we Poles do have in common with Africans - both suffer from way too much of that shoulder-shrugging, arm-waving, "blame everyone except ourselves" attitude. All we do is complain, and nothing gets done. The future is clearly Asian, and we (Africans as well as Poles) have only ourselves to blame. You need to stop blaming whitey, as we need to stop blaming Hitler and Stalin!

Also, "whites" are not one homogenous group - as a Pole, I have NO guilt whatsoever about African slavery - we were not involved. If you want to discuss white involvement in African slavery, you would be far better attacking American, English, Belgian, Dutch or Portuguese people on their forums. Why choose a Polish forum to blame whites for slavery, when we were not involved?


I expect it would definitely have made it into the media, if only because the Polish media would see it as a great opportuntity to show Poland "how those blacks behave". So post a link to the evidence, or it didn't happen. Stop trolling.

Work / British English teacher moving to Poznan - work opportunities? [25]


Which is a shame really, because despite the strong accents, most Scottish people I've met actually have grammatically-better English than a lot of English people do.

Language / Indian-Polish Accent. :P [26]

Not bad! I've heard plenty of east Asians and Africans speaking Polish before, but not an Indian :)


She obviously knows what we're like round here, hehe :)

Work / British English teacher moving to Poznan - work opportunities? [25]

It never ceases to amaze me just how many "English teachers" have ungrammatical English :)

Travel / Overstay in Poland (banned from entering Shengen for a few years?) [8]

You won't have to hate your job any more when your employer finds out, lol

Work / British English teacher moving to Poznan - work opportunities? [25]

True :)

Same with Indian speakers of English - despite the accents and their use of "Indian English" words like "paining", you would never hear them saying something "native English" like "I ain't having no gravy with them chips", which makes no grammatical sense at all! lol

Work / British English teacher moving to Poznan - work opportunities? [25]

And HP sauce lol

Love / Are there Polish women who date black guys? [281]


Good point, I probably ought to have phrased my reply slightly better ;)

UK, Ireland / Polish clubs / pubs in Dublin? [17]


Either they see you as competition (unsurprisingly) or maybe they think you're lesbian? lol


She's quite possibly up to 3/4 Irish, so what's your problem "Mr Unregistered", or should that be RevokeNice or whatever you're called now, lol :p

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]


Eh?

Placki ziemniaczane, various types of pierogi, Polish salads, many different soups, pyzy,/kopytka/kluski Śląskie, a wide range of cakes/doughnuts/pancakes... there's lots of non-meat/fish dishes/foods in Polish cooking.


I've never been totally convinced by this one. Fish & chips is actually quite bland until you put vinegar on, as is pie & chips (unless you have a Balti pie, but I've only seen those in the west Midlands lol).

I think part of the problem is that Poles tend not to go out to eat as much as some cultures do, and much of the food isn't appealing enough to people over here. Also, there was never really a culture of a "Polish canteen for Polish workers" for the early immigrants, unlike what the Pakistanis/Indians had, so there wasn't really a range of places which could develop into restaurants in the same way. I imagine it's the same in the USA.

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]


Well, my mum managed to! Some people just aren't "creative" enough, then. lol

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Yeah, the same people who say that are probably the same ones who complain that there aren't enough Chinese or Indian takeaways in Poland lol

UK, Ireland / Is moving to UK now a good idea? - antipolish prejudice of the Brits [231]


That makes it sound like it's OK.

It doesn't matter if it's "broadly proportional" or not; the land area of the UK has remained the same. So if you live in a city of 1/2 million, the population rises to 600 000 due to immigration, and crime rises "broadly proportionally" to the rise in immigration, it doesn't mean that your city is just as safe as before. What it actually means is that it has become significantly less safe, because city boundaries do not expand just because there are more residents.

That means that, as population density rises, the chances of you encountering a criminal (per square mile) are significantly higher. But left-wing "think-tanks" think we're all too thick to work this out. Fortunately, some of us were educated long before Labour's educational dumbing-down had taken hold ;)

The only reason that crime could possibly be "down" now is because people have given up reporting many crimes, and the police have effectively "decriminalised" many so-called minor crimes.


Unfair to Australians. Anthrax Island would be far better.

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]


:)

Even so, I fail to see how, for example, pierogi with sauerkraut and mushrooms would be considered bland; it's certainly a strong flavour compared to a bag of chips! lol. But I do think that Polish food has a bad image, conjuring up images of grey, cold Stalinist architecture, women in "babcia" headscarves, and terrible shoulder-shrugging service. Yet the same people who would say they wouldn't eat Polish food, would quite happily go for some chicken noodle soup and some dim sum at a Chinese restaurant! It's effectively the same thing as our chicken soup followed by pierogi! haha


Considering the anti-Semitism on this forum, I'm surprised that most Poles would even touch fish and chips - considering that half of it is effectively so-called "Jew food" - yet I know from experience, recent immigrants love our fish and chips ;)

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]


How is it not?

The noodle soup tastes broadly similar, and although the pierogi-like types of dim sum have clearly non-Polish flavours, they are still about as (allegedly) "bland" as Polish pierogi are. I once had chicken feet soup in a Birmingham restaurant which tasted almost exactly like our chicken soup does.

But I only make/eat Cantonese food; Szechuan (that almost sounds Polish itself, lol) versions may be different ;)

UK, Ireland / Is moving to UK now a good idea? - antipolish prejudice of the Brits [231]


Absolutely. The only "real crimes" in this country now are motoring offences, "hate crimes", owing money, and subversion.

Look at what happens when you throw a fire extinguisher at police (with no actual harm done), and compare it to what you get for murder and rape.

Or refuse to pay your council tax if you're a 70+ year-old pensioner, and compare that to what you get for mugging.

Or, if you're a white British middle-aged Christian, publically say that you "disagree" with homosexuality (not say that you "hate homosexuals", simply disagree) - while black rappers can quite happily go on stage or pirate radio and rap about how they want to "bun dem battybwoy" and get away with it.

I could go on, but you get my point. But this is left-wing liberalism in action.

Language / Indian-Polish Accent. :P [26]

Very good, and a big improvement on the first video. I've met a lot of British-born Poles with MUCH worse pronunciation than yours. Come to think of it... the drunks outside Warszawa Centralna are more difficult to understand, and you don't swear as much as they do, lol ;)

If you find that you struggle to pronounce "przepraszam", you could just use "sorry" instead - like everyone on Polish TV these days, haha ;)

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]


Hehe, not offended; I once made some for Polish food for English friends and they said "why do you lot like eating stock?" LMAO. They had a point! :)


Likewise, I agree - but bland isn't always bad. Sometimes I want something a little plainer. I cook a variety of food, with ingredients from Polish, Italian, Caribbean, Chinese, English and Indian cuisines. But sometimes just a few plain unspiced papads, or a few cheese and potato pierogi, are all that's needed ;)


Not aimed at me I know, but tbh the food in Hong Kong is similar-tasting to what we would find in "Cantonese" restaurants here - don't expect Szechuan spiciness unless you look for it - the difference is, you wouldn't be able to ask for "chicken and intestine combination rice" over here, like I once had in a backstreet restaurant in Wan Chai LOL.

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

I've been going to the Wong Kei for 21 years but I wouldn't take a date there, lol :)

My mum won't go anywhere else when she's in town; I've tried taking her to "better" places, but she always says "take me to that place where they shout at you" LOL :)

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

:)

It's smartened up a bit (note: only a bit ;) ) and the service isn't anywhere near as rude as it was in the 90s, but you will still see people (mostly fat Americans) walk out when the waiter walks up to the table 5 seconds after they've sat down and they shout "yes, order!" lol.

Food hasn't changed, it's still cheaper than a lot of takeaways, and having spent a fair bit of time in HK, it's pretty authentic as well. Love the place, but I don't go into the West End that much these days. But when I do, I would never go anywhere else.

Though it's nothing compared to a Lebanese place in Paddington I once took an ex to - OK so they did warn us that we would only have a limited time, or we may need to move. But right on the dot, when that time was reached, the waiters came out of nowhere and picked up ALL our food, drinks, candles, and tablecloths (everything! even our phones! lol) and moved us to another table, just to make room for a larger group who had booked a table by the wall! I do LMAO when I look back at that now :)

edit: just to stop some faceless you-know-who coming along with the patronising red font message :p most of the Polish restaurants in London aren't much better when it comes to service (except that place in Goldhawk Road, forget what it's called, but it was nice back in the day, i.e. late 90s (too hot inside though).

Law / Why is US $ getting so high or Polish zloty falling? [60]


It was 4,78 PLN only a few days ago! :0

It might actually be worth visiting Poland again soon, if this carries on. :)

Food / Classic Polish Cooking (book) [9]

If it's a Pol-Am cook book, it's probably full of recipes like "how to make a 'Polish Dog' ", lol

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

LOL, it's true - they even make conversation sometimes these days - they used to be like Chinese robots before haha.

It was mostly "DOWNSTAIRS!!" when I was still married, though; we mostly ended up in the basement with the waterfall lol, now I get stuck with all the sad single people ordering single-plate meals on the ground floor... haha.

USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]


hahahahaha!!!!!!!!! Oh, that would be great - I know just the person to run it as well! lol

Study / Swedish folks in Poland! (I want to apply for university and live in Poland) [21]

In many ways, things aren't that great in the UK these days, either. We simply have too many universities these days, churning out people with useless degrees, or degrees which will be laughed at by future employers. This is mostly happening for political reasons, beyond the scope of this reply, lol. I studied law at a fairly well-known university; we were told early into the course to "...count yourselves lucky that you didn't get in at ********* University, because you would have NO chance of getting into the law if you did your degree there - you would be laughed at". Sadly, the lecturer also added "...fortunately we have a better reputation here. But if you think that you will be able to compete with graduates from the top universities, especially those who 'know the right people', then forget it".

Re: the "cheating" described above. This is something which has been mentioned by many Polish-educated people I have spoken to over the years. Additionally, I used to date someone for quite some time, who allegedly "graduated" in Poland and worked in the same profession as I do. Due to the utterly ridiculous questions she once asked me, I was convinced that (a) she cheated in her exams or (b) she had paid someone for a false registration document. There's no way that someone with her supposed education/experience would have asked those questions.

Anyone considering cheating in UK universities these days needs their head seeing to, especially as electronic anti-plagiarism methods are being used. The consequences just aren't worth the risk of being caught (not that I could ever consider cheating even if they still checked assignments by hand lol, but you know what I mean ;) ).