POLISH MYTHS - let's debunk or prove them!

The most horrible music on earth. It just doesn't compare to Tchaikovsky.

Is it meant to?

Does that tart Pugachova compare to Chopin?

@jon357
No. Of course not. What do you mean by 'tart' though?

@RussianAntiPutin
What do you mean by comparing pop music with (albeit sentimental and slushy) classical music?

They are very different things.

Not that russist music is relevant here, nor are there especially any Polish myths that need debunking or proving surrounding disco polo, a much loved (especially in the countryside) genre of pop.

No village wedding is complete without it.

It's English slang for a prostitute.

That doesn't mean that Jon thinks she is a prostitute, but that he thinks she looks like or acts like one.

it is a pie!

It is.

An open one with a sweet filling and often decorated. Think szarlotka or an even more elaborate one. Hence women using it to describe other women of a certain appearance.


She does! It's her trade mark.

Full marks to her though that at least one of her several husbands was a third of her age.

@jon357
Classical is good, discopolo is utter crap.

@RussianAntiPutin
Most pop music is, however at least you can dance easily to four to the floor disco polo.

Something less easy to do at your office Christmas party if someone made the mistake of putting Buxtehude or Vaughan Williams on.

And for a village wedding reception, at midnight after the second bottle what could be better?

@jon357
Anything would be better. All pop music is utter sh*it.

@RussianAntiPutin
You're obviously entitled to your views.p, even if few share them,

Do you like jazz?

You mean we need to debunk or prove it is such?

Most disco polo is silly and repetitive but there are still some pearls. For example, whenever I play this song in the car, my younger kids go enthusiastic.

Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo Sobieski rulez.

@jon357
A bit. Not my favourite or least favourite.
@pawian
It's really easily proven. Just by the existence of any other music other than crappy Western pop music, which I'll admit is worse than discopolo!

(Not to offend anyone).
(Non Western pop music is crap as well, just not so much as Western).

One of the Polish myths is that in communist times the Polish food was more natural and healthier.
It depends. It might have contained less preservatives but poor hygene was a huge problem - people often got food poisoning, with Salmonella or other bacteria.

Did the Commies steal most of the food from Poland and ship it back to RuSSia via freight trains?

Heavy on carbohydrates.

Yes, but then there was no obesity.

Because there was less food.

There was a lower life expectancy though, and its not great today

Less food and more walking, the car was a luksury.

As they should be now and probably will be again.