POLISH MYTHS - let's debunk or prove them!

That's very difficult to do. The mercury can break into nearly microscopic beads. What we need are thermometers which contain no mercury whatsoever.

Now you're talking. Yeah, no argument here. You get that blinking orange lamp, and off you go. Battery operated... now that's a vicious circle, isn't it? PP was right.

Poles are the saddest nation on Earth. MYTH! :)

Not the saddest nation on Earth, no. Perhaps one of them ;) Nah, some are happy and many aren't. That's my take.

Nor alcohol. Alcohol is bad for you.

Oh, I heard about a man who stepped on broken glass, got a splinter in his blood, it travelled to his heart, and killed him on the spot. Myth?


I am said. I know it. Now I do agree, that I do not constitute the nation. Sad, innit...

You can get a splinter of glass just under your skin, but not in your veins, unless the splinter is too fine to cause any damage. A splinter large enough to cause your heart damage would be too large to travel there via your veins. It would wreck havoc on a vein long before it reaches your heart.

So that would be

myth

So we can keep our glass thermometers. Empty.

hold on... there are quite big veins just under the skin...

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The glass splinter would cause a blood clot or rip a vein as it travels...that would cause bleeding or blockage. You might have an aneurism first, if the clot reaches your brain.

Is PlasticPole a medicine student? ;)

My speciality is plastic surgery ;)

Another myth busted.

So what am I supposed to be afraid of now?

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I got a myth for you to decipher...

Too much frowning causes creases on the sides of your mouth known as "frown lines". Is this truth or is it a myth?

But frowning is about forehead isn't it? MYTH! :)

happymeal wrote:

"Polish people are afraid of 2 things. Russians and DRAFTS ha ha ha.

Kills me.

You can’t get a cold from a draft… OR WIND… or a breeze. Yes the cold air lowers your immunity and can make you more vulnerable to getting a cold but it can’t give you a cold. A cold is a VIRAL!...."

But a draft CAN cause rhinitis ... oh, go look it up!

Sorry for the pedantry.

Old Polish people have this deeply engrained folk memory of TB, which killed millions and is making a comeback thanks to immigrants from the East and liberal healthcare policies (the authorities don't lock up TB-carrying drunks and the Church stupidly encourages drunks to gather in groups at a soup kitchen outside the Palace of Culture).

Well, many unhappy/negative people have naturally downturned mouths in my experience so I would say this is probably not a myth.

Polish women have frown lines going vertical on the forehead, just above the nose. Polish men have mimic lines going horizontal across the forehead.

This is because women scoldingly accuse and men feign ignorance and innocence.

Some see being Polish as a myth in and of itself. I often get this 'we are the most enigmatic people on Earth' vibe. You can see it on PF too. If you know Polish history, you can understand why some are as they are. Nothing too deep about it!

I come from Yorkshire and have spent a lifetime with people who have chips on their shoulder. Then I met Irish people, then Poles ... chips with everything!

Wouldn't it be Yorkshire pudding rather than chips on their shoulder?

lol. Stop it people! I'm laughing so hard I'm getting crows feet (kurze łapki in polish) around my eyes!

One of the myths popular in Poland is that hedgehogs pick up apples from the ground as food. They even use spikes for that!!!!

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Russian hedgehogs are capable of carrying not only apples, but mushrooms also.

I saw one photo of a hedgehog carrying a marinated mushroom.

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And I thought that russian hedgehogs of today have the letter Z painted and carry whatever they want on their backs.🦔🛒

Rockets, for example.

lol 🦔📺🚽🛵📱💰🧸💺🎧🎸


More like TV sets and stuff like that lol:

m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=539169250906650&id=100044407387048

or washing machines....

It used to be a popular myth about a CD which was believed to deflect the waves of police radars. Drivers hanged then under the rear view mirror. The last time I saw such installment was about 5 years ago.

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As far as I know, it is ineffective.

That depends on its content. Allegedly, disco polo music deflects the radar waves.

Oh, yes I know, disco polo scares off policemen effectively.