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ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

There are a lot of vegetarians in the UK. Do they smell different to the meat eaters?

Where did you acquire this remarkable ability to work out someone's diet from their smell?

Do you sniff people at work to find out what they ate for breakfast?
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

The Polish diet is very different to the average English diet hence the different smells...

Poles eat meat, potatoes, bread ..... How is it 'different'?

You seem to imagine that it is the people who smell rather than the food. So please explain the difference between the breath of a Polish and English person after consuming bigos then, brains.
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

What word would you substitute?

'imagine'.
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

I and I bet many others, however, think they are spot-on

think being the key word here.
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

You're proving my point for me.

I get it. Logic isn't your strong point.
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

Poles do have typical facial features

Everyone has typical facial features. Unless they are in some way 'atypical'. You are kinda proving zetigrek's point for her.
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

I live in Szczecin. I'm quite interested in spotting foreigners, (usually by the way they dress). However, very often I happen to be wrong. I'd imagine you get it wrong too.

English people and Poles are both Northern European Caucasians. The actual physical differences are pretty small.

The differences between Poles and Germans are minute, mainly because many (most?) Germans have some Slavic ancestry.

Spotting racial differences between nations is pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo that went out of fashion with the Nazis.
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

Thank you Ifor, that's precisely what I'm trying to get across with some people here, but hey, for them I'm just a "stuborn Polak" so I must know nothing! Maybe they will judge the voice of reason from the British native as a more reliable :)

I get fed up with the stupid opinions I hear in Poland. I have to come here to remind myself that many Brits have opinions which are equally or more stupid.

Have you got a 'pointy head'? Do you smell of bigos? Do you walk 'funny'? *face palm*
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

Triple face palm.

So, taff, will you say that British Asians dont smell differently from White Brits? If so you are lying, their diet of far more curry than us gives them a different smell.

Of course, anyone who's been eating curry smells 'different'. It doesn't matter whether you are British, Asian or Polish.
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

This is a white pregnant woman smoking:

If you are Polish, and want to belittle Brits, then she has a 'British' look.

If you are British, and want to belittle Poles, then she looks 'Polish'.

All you are doing is proving that people see whatever it is they wish to see.


  • chavette
ifor bach   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

PS,OP, yes,you do often smell differently, the Polish diet is very different to the average british diet....your cigarettes smell differently too....

This is about the most ridiculous post I've come across on 'Polish forums'.

Polish people have 'pointy heads' and smell 'different'. Double face-palm.

Yeah, and they've also got webbed feet. And nursing mothers produce żurek rather than milk from their teats. I reckon Poles are so different because of all the polar bears wandering round the streets of Polish cities.
ifor bach   
7 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

wrong pal - in the Middle Ages most people believed the earth was flat even though many scientists already believed it to be round

In the Middle Ages scientists believed in alchemy, theologians in witchcraft, and doctors believed diseases could be cured by the touch of a king.

No doubt many of today's 'experts' are equally mistaken.
ifor bach   
7 Jan 2013
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [397]

This is the most interesting thread I've read on Polish forums. Thank you to everyone who is contributing constructively. I am learning a lot here.
ifor bach   
7 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

I don't believe there is any kind of reference books anywhere whose content is not disputed by anyone. Including, for example, an Oxford Dictionary.

Have you ever heard of 'the wisdom of the crowd'? If you were to ask a cattle farmer and a non-farmer to estimate the weight of a cow, almost certainly the farmer would be the closest to the actual weight. However, if you were to ask a hundred random people, their mean answer is more likely to be correct than the expert.

Wikipedia works in a similar fashion. The sum of knowledge of hundreds of non-specialists is likely to be greater than that of a single specialist.
ifor bach   
7 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

I don't know Szczecin.

My bad. I confused you with another poster.

It's sufficient source of information. I see no problem in making references to it when discussing on a forum.

I'm sure there is plenty of false information in wikipedia. Just as there is in just about any other source of information.
ifor bach   
7 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

Wikipedia is a good source. Why do you suggest otherwise?

Btw, I don't believe anyone is claiming 'the Sun' to be some kind of 'authority'.
ifor bach   
7 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

Another gem: £ÓD- WAS NEVER A CAPITAL CITY OF POLAND!

According to Wikipedia, it was the de facto capital from the end of WW2 until 1948 while Warsaw was being rebuilt.

What is your view of the article?

Is Szczecin any better?
ifor bach   
6 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / How much people in UK are manipulated by false anty- Polish propaganda [37]

I thought we were talking about the BBC documentary rather than the tabloids.

There is an anti-immigration and anti-muslim agenda by some groups in the UK, but not really any specifically anti-Polish one.

At least, not for anyone not searching for one.
ifor bach   
6 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / How much people in UK are manipulated by false anty- Polish propaganda [37]

The media is bashing the Poles because they think its what the UK public wants to hear and more importantly pay for.

Why do you imagine the UK public wants to hear this?

How about they are just calling it as it is? And you don't like it, so choose to bash the British media?
ifor bach   
6 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / How much people in UK are manipulated by false anty- Polish propaganda [37]

Poles even endowed with high IQ live in rather hostile conditions that our state provide us , such as : high unemployment rate , low wages , undeveloped infrastructure , wrongful takeovers of Polish enterprises ,so Polish people with high IQ so far struggle to survive rather than develop themselves

Why would a state with citizens of such superior intelligence create such conditions? Why didn't all these people with high I.Q's elect politicians blessed with a similarly high I.Q. as themselves? How have the supposedly inferior intelects of the United Kingdom created a state with comparatively lower unemployment, higher wages and a more developed infrastructure?

Might this be because they used whatever intelligence they possessed in a useful mannner, rather than merely bragging about how incredibly clever they are?
ifor bach   
5 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / How much people in UK are manipulated by false anty- Polish propaganda [37]

Not that I agree with monia, but may I reverse the question: does the fact that Poles are insecure and unsuccessful mean they have low IQs?

I doubt whether there is any significant difference in IQ between Poles and English people, (or whites and blacks).

The point I was making was against polgirl, and not Poles generally.

And that point is 'show' rather than 'say'.
ifor bach   
5 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / How much people in UK are manipulated by false anty- Polish propaganda [37]

Anyway who cares about anti-Polish propaganda in the UK? Your OP is just a pathetic plea for acceptance. Get a GRIP!

Exactly. If Polish people are blessed with such massive IQ's, why are they so insecure? And why can't they make more of a success of Poland? Why would thousands of them flock to a country inhabited by people far stupider than themselves?

Polgirl, isn't all this a ludicrous example of 'saying' rther than 'showing'. Instead of boasting about how wonderful you are, and what high I.Q.'s you've all got, why not do something that demonstrates this to be the case?
ifor bach   
2 Jan 2013
Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]

Come on, just look at the crap guy is writing here, some folk stories about his grandma, overall immature masturbation and all of the rest, more likely dude got pushed and humiliated by some drunk kids, run away and now he's healing his wounded "pride" with this pathetic "I'm a tough guy" stories.

I'm with you on this, Grzegorz.

It's all simplistic, wanna-be hardman, masturbatory fantasy stuff, the kind of thing that's kinda excusable in a none too bright teenager, but pretty pathetic for some presumably 40+ guy who claims to have been over 20 years in Poland.

My experience of 'tough' guys, is that they generally just do whatever it is necessary for them to do, and leave out all the bragging on the internet.

Please ignore any stupid generalisations he makes about Poles. He's speaking for himself, not Brits generally. I'm quite sure you've got your own fair share of internet warriors in Poland too.
ifor bach   
1 Jan 2013
Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]

So - I would have nothing better to do at 1 in the morning of a New Year than to invent some story then?

Hard to say. But I'm old enough and wise enough to know not to believe everything I read on the internet. And I'm also aware that many people are often 'harder' in the virtual than in the real world.

I can comment because my grandmother was a Buckley from near Dublin.

Your grandmother used to fight in bars, then?
ifor bach   
1 Jan 2013
Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]

What would be discuss then? How to cook pierogi and how to decline "ksiądz" as opposed to "książę"?

Something more interesting than the OPs prejudices and internet 'hardman' fantasies.

I don't hold a grudge against the OP for this thread. He's just still under the shock about witnessing that, hey it was just a few hours ago. Give him a break. I probably would be equally shocked to witness it.

We only have his version of events, and there is absolutely no way of knowing whether he is telling the truth or not.
ifor bach   
1 Jan 2013
Life / The unacceptable side of Polish culture [48]

Feck you, pink shytt.

Get the **** out of Poland and shut the hell up.

LOL ! I check the other thread, pink clown, go get some beer and on the bike, with a bit of luck some truck with smash you all over the road :)))

Which is more stupid, the OP or the responses it got?

I stopped the fight. Other, younger, men than me, were masturbating themselves watching. the fight.

Oh, we have a tough cycbernet warrior boys! I must invite you to Mariacka in Katowice - what colour sweater will you be wearing? :)

As a betting man, I'd put money on your being harder on the internet than IRL.

Why do the boards allow threads as imbecilic as this? On some other boards they have a special section called 'the zoo' for threads started by morons, and likely to appeal to idiots. I suggest a stricter moderation policy to attract a higher quality of poster.
ifor bach   
23 Dec 2012
Life / Why do people think that Poles are culturally isolated? [126]

Yeah, exactly.

So you agree with me, then :)

That is a very short summary of what should be done in Poland, however It is not "Your ideas how to improve Polish 3rd Republic" thread

I wrote those points because you asked me to.

"Why the hell 'westerners' have so negative opinion about Poles" thread and then ant guy shows up and claims that's becasue Poland is poor, many buildings are almost collapsing etc., well so I ask him what does he (or you) think about Indians or Pakistanis as their countries are far poor than Poland.

Why are you comparing Poland with these countries?

Should English people do the same and pat each other on the back for being richer?

If yours is a genuine question, I'd have to say I've never been to either. However, only from what I read in newspapers, I'd say that India is advancing very rapidly, whereas Pakistan appears to be regressing.

These debates are infantile. Much of it is 'whataboutery'. If people want to bait and taunt, then just ignore them. If something is bad in Poland, it doesn't really matter whether things are just as bad or worse in some other country. This won't make the problem any better.

I don't imagine most Westerners spend much of their time slagging off Poland and Poles. Most Westerners aren't really all that interested in Poland, tbh.

The people you get on here who slag off Poles aren't representative of anyone other than themselves. You won't learn anything from their trite opinions, they just want to wind you up. And the more angry you get, the happier they will be.

Most likely they got dumped by some Polish girl, and are still licking their wounds.

Personally, I'm here to discuss and learn. I hope I can ignore the WUMs. If not, then I'll just quit.