Why there is always around a horrible smell of sweat in Poland

Curry?

Thats probably it

funny thing I went to India spent some time there and I never met anybody stinking, regardless of the heat outside.

lol before I had a car here in Poland my wife son and I took the buses and trams all the time! My son puked when 2 rif rafs got on the bus and smelled like something had died inside them! Get used to it because unfortunately there is a huge problem with alcoholism and non working people here who can not afford the proper place to stay. Hence it's why they don't shower.

Polish people smell wonderful.

Wasn't it Queen Elizabeth I who said she took a bath once a month whether she neeed it or not?

Suprise suprise! She wasn't Polish! So what's your point?
I think most people in Europe in those days had slightly dodgy personal hygiene.

I bathe about once a week (in summer, in winter it's not necessary to bathe so often) then apply litle bit of deo and don't smell at all. Deodorants these days can make wonders! (And yes, they are all the same regardless of which country they are made in since there is only about 1.5 corporation producing them). The only people that smell BO are manual workers who don't use deos at all. ;-)

But since we are talking about smells and hygiene: I have been to most of european countries and visited all the big cities in Europe west of Kiev. Never seen so much s**t on the streets as I see in London everyday: people just throw rubbish straight on the streets like it's still dark ages or something. Mice and rats are common everywhere, and coacroaches, even bedbugs and lice - things I did not know still existed in real life before I went to London (thought it was somethiing of the past like cholera).

Bless you, UK.

Many would swear more strongly after such a rant. Cholera? K**** more like.


I do manual work. We manual workers all (for I am their spokesman) reckon that it's people in stuffy offices with no fresh air who smell bad.

When I said "cholera" I meant a disease not a swear word. As for office workers... No, they usually don't smell worse than manual ones... ;-)

Yes they do.
No they don't.
Yes they do.
No they don't.
Of course they flipping do! Stuck in an office, usually with recycled air, bad heating systyems, people wearing shirts with collars and ties - unnaturally uncomfortable attire. Maybe smelly manual labourers is a London thing. Out here in the country, everyone smells of freshly cut hay, honeysuckle and wood shavings.

There's no point arguing with a guest though.
Yes there is.
No there isn't.
Yes there is.
No there isn't.

I just paid you for an argument, Osioł ;) Nudge nudge wink wink

Sweat here? No different from back home. Some oldies stink to high heaven and the young ones are usually fresh.

Yes I did ;)

It's actually pretty funny... WHen I read this topic I thought about my sundaymornings on HALA :) Because I regognise the description of the smell so well from there...

When I wrote the whole note it turned out you've been there too ;)
Maybe smelly people gather there? :) !

This I don't get. I'm not saying that it doesn't exist and is noticeable on public transport but I have never encountered it.

Government health department should post the following information on bill-boards and tv commercials ....... wash your armpits and wear a clean shirt/blouse daily.
This will eradicate your problem.
And Seanus, get your nose cleared and stop wearing blinkers.
SIMPLE !

I'm not joking, ask a Pole what a roach is called?

Then if you ever come to London, I can show you things you've never seen before, and I ain't talkin' about historical monuments here ;-p


Karaluch?

Karaluch, yeah. They are more common in Japan and they maintain very healthy and hygienic standards. Gokiburi in Japanese.

Karaluch czy prusak?

OMG , really. You know, in some WEstern countries this would be a blessing, since some of these countries experiance droughts and thus water shortages.

I think the worst smell in poland one can experience is from bad alcohol breath.....
as for the BO , there is space, and its not like we are London, living on top of each other.
Plus you might take into consideration, that still in a lot of old city houses there is no showers/baths installed, theres still outhouses in the backyard(these days more often found to be a toilet installed in the corridoor next 2 the stairs)

It's because polish people stink as hell, they are dirty and don't take baths or showers. Polish shouldn't really have a country, Poland is an invention that only caused problems

hahahah

My cousin recently went to India on business the first time and was aghast at the filth. He lived in a palace of a hotel, but there was a garbage dump just outside his window. And he saw not only "sacred" cows but Indians defecating right in the streets. And that "Holy River" -- people "purifying" themselves by bathing in water polluted by cremated and partially cremated human remains!

A little girl whom I was teaching, who had only recently arrived in Ireland, proceeded to go to the toilet in the school yard, though in fairness she squatted over what we call a 'shore', the drain thing under the water pipe on the outside of the building. Obviously she was from a poor family who had been unaccustomed to indoor sanitary arrangements.

At the same time during the summer I saw an American tourist squat on the pavement outside Park Łazienkowski within not more than 20 metres of a public toilet facility and proceed to her business, with her rear end facing the traffic! Now I'm sure she wouldn't do that in New York or Washington. Why does she think it's ok in Poland? Unfortunately it was one of those occasions when there wasn't a policeman in sight.

How do you know she was an American? Most Americans are exaggeratedly hygiene minded and require extreme privacy for bodily fucntions and changing.


Maybe she didn't want anyone to recognise her (ha-ha!)

Well she had that very special sartorial style favoured by American tourists! Also I heard her husband speaking to her, he was standing by waiting for her to finish......of course you're right, that doesn't mean she was American but it might be fairly assumed that she was. Anyway her American husband allowed her to commit this act so guilty as charged!

Maybe she had the runs and was not within easy reach of a loo. What else could the poor lady do but "feed the bushes"?

As I said previously. I know you Americans don't understand the metric system but......... :D

I beat my breast. Will do!

Stick to the topic, please

We have the same problem with them when they first come to America.

Only if they would hand them a stick of deodorant and instructions on how to use it at the airport...... LoL

Ya, the stench from foreigners can be horrible!

After they assimilate into our society most of them learn some form of decent hygiene:)