The nature of Polish jokes?

Polish humor is not considered funny by other nationalities.Opposite to this Scandinavians and Dutch find greek humor funny.For example:
A German a French and a Chinese fall on a cannibals" island by parachute after their plane has had mechanical failure.The cannibals arrest them and tell them:You have one possibility to survive.We will measure the length of your penises and if the sum of them combined is under 50 cm you will be free.They start by the German and measure a 25 cm penis.The three start to shiver.Then is the row of French.The cannibals find he has a 24 cm penis.Now both German and French start preying as the cannibals measure the Chinese penis.After half an hour they come out."Guys you are very lucky.The Chinese had 1 cm length so you are free to go."Both German and French hug the Chinese who starts laughing.Later he continues laughing as they walk away from the cannibals.They ask him:Why are you laughing?And the Chinese:"Mates I fooled them.When they measured me I had an erection.''

There is no Polish Andrew Dice Clay or Chubby Brown who has made a living telling blue jokes

Humour in Poland has tended to be aspirational and this is reflected in the fact that caberet is
still broadcast on the TV

clearly the Greeks find d1ck jokes funny and the Poles generally do not tell them
I suppose pen1s based humour is more of less universal

I have heard very few dirty Polish jokes come to think of it

only one about a policeman who had convinced a blonde female motorist that his wedding tackle was a breathalizer

Good observation.

Poles have mentioned to me also that the whole 'stand up' concept, which is standard in Britain & Ireland, is not that common in Poland.

I know a couple of Polish jokes about penises but they are way more subtle than the southern's one

here's one:

American marines visit Russia - they arrive at Russian marines base - say Sevastopol - an American marine veteran goes for a **** - suddenly a Russian bloke joins in - while they stand and pee the Russiang guy looks over the American guys shoulder and asks? What does it mean 'ORIA' in English?? - oh, it was GLORIA - but a shrapnel cut the remaining part in Vietnam - then the American marine can't stop his curiousity and looks over to the Russian guy - then asks in a surprise 'You also had GLORIA'??? - No, I had 'Pamiati moriakow iz Czornogo Moria' (it doesn't work with the English transcription of Russian sadly)

another observation

Americans tell Polish jokes

Poles tell jokes about policemen or blondes
and it is indeed policemen who are considered to be foolish

how many policemen does it take to change a lightbulb?

five. One of them holds the light bulb and the other four rotate the step ladder

taa daa!

.........pause..........tumbleweed slowly passes.............embarrassed silence............................

my favourite blonde girl joke

what is that a blonde girl thinks when she learns she's pregnant? 'Maybe it's not mine' :)


it means 'In the memory of the seamen of the Black Sea' btw


looks like Greeks are quite obsessed with their.. ducks :P

Polish joke about a Scotsman

he falls off the roof and as he is plummetting to his certain death, he shouts through the window to his wife

'one less kotlet for dinner tonight'

......................tumbleweed gently rolls by..............................

this one's a good one :)

a Polish joke that makes the use of the Polish word for dick (but is not about dicks at all):

what is the name of the most famous Japanese architect? Nahuya Mitahata

ok

what is the managing director's office called in Japanese: Yama hama

and what is managing director's himself called: Sam ham

To me the most hillarious of the 'Japanese' jokes is this one:

what is the name of a felt tip pen thief in Japanese? Koshi mazaki :) (it's rather Kosi Mazaki in Polish)

- I'm pretty sure that comicality of these joke is beyond grasp for most of foreigners who speak Polish though

Strangely enough I heard that most policemen in New York are of Polish heritage...

interesting, I had heard that they were of Irish descent

Both really.

Think about any clichéd US cop show - guaranteed there will be a Murphy/Quinn etc and a Kowalski/Nowak etc in there somewhere.

yeah, think Starski&Hutch ;)

Jokes about mathematics, mathematicians and teachers of mathematics
There is a big group of jokes and anecdotes related to mathematics and its creators. Some such jokes are sophisticated and refined; that is, of which only mathematicians can laugh (others simply do not understand them), but there are also jokes available to everyone without any academic preparation in this area. Their repertoire is much richer than many a layman might think - much richer than proverbial absent-mindedness of most mathematicians.

Mathematics, being a queen of sciences, is international by definition; therefore it is hard to trace which jokes belong to specific Polish sources. I selected some and translated just few of them from this site:

matematyka.wroc.pl/book/rozmaitosci/dowcipy-i-anegdoty

Anecdotes about some Polish mathematicians



Jokes from number theory
This one is a bit hermetic.


Jokes (with the beard) about engineers, physicists, philosophers and mathematicians
Warning: This is professionally biased set. A winner is not always a mathematician.




X comes to a doctor
These jokes have numerous variants, they are based on both word games, and situational humour sometimes, but there are usually two characters - a "baba" (a village woman) and a doctor. Sometimes, however, there are more doctors, another person rather than a woman, also animals, such as (żaba=frog), etc. A close relationship of verbal humour with the Polish language, and often some link to Polish realities makes most of the variants of this joke not translatable into other languages.

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przychodzi_baba_do_lekarza

However, the mathematical version of "X comes to a doctor" is readily understandable by anyone having some basic level of mathematics.

that's funny - but probably difficult to grasp for someone who did not experience some of the communist POland

Indians reading Polish jokes



cuttingthechai.com/2011/09/5189/wills-filter-made-for-each-other/

One of the most popular cigarette brands in India - Wills Navy Cut's advertising campaigns has the highest recall value. Their 'Made for each other' campaign spanned generations of cigarette smokers with the common theme of a couple having fun - in the beach, at a port, in the rain, inside the kitchen or reading a joke book in the living room.

In 1969 ITC, the manufacturers of Wills, introduced the Wills Made for Each Other contest to select the perfectly matched couple. Which half forms the paper rolled tobacco and who's the filter is a topic of an unending debate. In 1971 a pack of Wills cigarettes cost Rs 1.20 for 20; 60 paise for 10.

The girl in ad is reading Larry Wilde's The Official Polish Joke Book, that is "Guaranteed to make you laugh! (even if you're Polish)." The book is a two-in-one book, as is also evident from the image in the ad.

The 2010 documentary Polack searches for the source of the Polish joke in America. Polack is an ethnic slur for people of Polish origin in US.

Polish jokes often portray the Polack as dumb, which is common for ethnic jokes. But additionally, Polish jokes are unique in their portrayal of the Poles as dirty. (Additionally, there are some jokes about promiscuity, especially in reference to women).

how do you tell the difference between a pole and a russian? a russian will take the plates out of the sink before pissing in it.

This is an International informatics joke... not strictly Polish, but hard to understanding for a layman in informatics theory:

There is only 10 types of people, these who understand binary and these who don't :)

Bit of both really!! :D

Example of polish humor.One of the two kolezanki informed me that she became again virgin and that she forgot how to take BJs.Although I suspect lying I take it as part of polish humor.

southren you should check your heath, STD and all that ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wilde

No wonder, this man is a Jew . Jews are the only ethnic group who spreads libel around about Polish people .

oh come on

I have heard the most vile example of racism and libel directed against Poles from Swedes, German, Czechs, Slovakians, Russians, Americans and Brits

Besides which this is supposed to be a light hearted discussion on the Polish sense of humour

If you meant to say a joke this one was not so funny. But you can cite some of them coming from these ethnicities as an example . Jews tell slurs which are spread worldwide throughout their network formed by Jews settled in a specific country. So , if you hear some polish jokes in above mentioned countries they are spread by Jews at first place . This Jewish method is not new and dates prewar Poland where all those jokes were said by Polish with the only difference that instead of a Pole was a dumb Jew .

Pretty difficult to take you seriously Polmed.

That wasn't a joke either by the way.

This by the way is the same lady who

has someone tried and convicted as being a rapist already (it's "obvious" you know)

thinks Germans are dehumanised fascist robots

thinks anyone who disagrees that Poland is the best country in the universe must therefore hate Poland

etc etc

there is nothing funny about racism. You are clearly a racist. This was supposed to be a light hearted thread which you hi-jacked so you could spout your vile anti-semitic opinions

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_humour#Chelm


You are racist yourself hythorn and you don`t understand even a one word from my post . Don`t call me derogatory names as I don`t do it refering to you.

The intention of my comment was to give an explanation to your comment . Read about jewish jokes in Poland so you will learn more about the subject . If you spread some racial agenda first find out more about the subject .

Teffle you said about me


Your racist comment like " Poles simply actually are more disorganised as a group than others" simply stands for who you are . Someone, who gives a general derogatory opinion about the whole nation is racist . Who gave you the right to say such thing about me? You are racist and you know that . According to you, tittle hater, I belong to a group of 38 min Polish paople who are more disorganised as a whole group more than any other nation according to you . Thats a libel .

My comments are mine opinions so having in mind our history of II world war and a thread subject , in which Polish are considered as less organised and chaotic nation when compared to Germans, who not long ago killed more than 6 million of innocent Polish civilians , my description feets in a common perception of Germans by most of the civilised world. In this case it is not a libel, because the majority of adult Germans took part in this genocide . So I don`t repeat any slur comments .

In the third thread I was saying that a prosecutor started a criminal action against the rapist I was only giving an information about the legal action . My opinion was that, if a prosecutor filed charges against this man it just meant he had gotten hard evidences , othervise he wouldnt bother to waste his time and the taxpayers money .

Don`t spread false acusations here about me .
If you are someone who cant bear the truth of history and feel offended by the truth then I am sorry for you .

Polmed, Poles are from the Caucasian race so Teffle can't be racist in this way. Also, organisation has little to do with race. Besides, certain Poles really need to lighten up when it comes to jokes. One of the most uptight nations when it comes to jokes about them. Very similar to Israelis in this way.

Teffle

What a nice personality you present .

Just for you my dear.

You need help I think.

Polmed, why can't Teffle share his observations? If he has observed sth bad and is relevant to the thread, why can't he share it? Is Poland beyond reproach?