Do you think that Polish people are rude?

I said noodles, not....oh, nevermind ;)

oh, I hate this new quoting system, but I guess it worked for YOU:)

Well, um, I guess so

Is this a common problem?


LMAO...

You'd be surprised. They look like the guy from Beavis and Butthead - the one who sits at the back of the fat woman's caravan smoking a cigarette

So you’re telling me that Poland has its share of hicks and rednecks, Polish trailer trash? How about ghettos? Any black ghetto garbage culture?

I don't care that much if they are rude. If I'm in my stride and things are ticking over nicely, I don't even notice.

I've worked in Wroclaw for 8 months now and in my firm, the majority of employees are Poles. They were incredibly defensive and aloof to start with but have now let their guard down as I have made the effort to try to speak a few words and take an interest in their culture, food, etc. It seems like it's always the foreigner who has to make the effort, though and they are not generally welcoming.

Out of work and onto public transport/shops, it's a different kettle of fish. It's like a warpath and I have never used my elbows so much. If you don't push your way onto buses or trams, you'll either end up face down on the pavement or wedged between doors.

In shops or supermarkets, 'Przepraszam' means 'Get out of my way as I've already pushed your trolley aside' rather than 'Excuse me'.
I don't think tourists will come away from Poland saying how 'polite' and 'helpful' the locals are like you see on travel programmes.

I have experienced the same as NewBrit, only it was when i lived in Nottingham. The problem with most people in cities is that they are in a rush and see someone else as getting in their way. Go to smaller cities and towns and the people in England and Poland are generally nicer and more polite.

Polish are the most hideously RUDE people i have had the mispleasure to encounter.
why do these dregs of soceity come over here to sit on park benches drinking beer at 10am (leaving a huge mess of cans, fag butts and phlegm).

They come here uninvited, want only polish products, to know only polish people, to speak only polish, they give nothing to this country send money home and sign on the dole, its a disgrace.

And my beautiful friends from brazil and america cant stay because of visa issues, and these east europeans, who no one got the chance to vote on being allowed in, come in and out as they please.

polish girls are ugly no-asses.

I'm not rude!! : ) I can give you a hug with all of my polish love!!

American girls are fat and stupid
Brazilian girls are sweaty, ugly AND stupid

how do you like generalisations now?

Bollocks you twat, eat **** dickwad,knobsack,arsewipe, tosser im not rude.

Of course you are, you didn't say "excuse me,".

Something with just the right size off ass for you

Oh yes thanks trev.

Excuse me for my rudeness mandem, you arsewipe,knobsack,dickwad,tosspot,fuckfaced, bellend.............

It depends. Some of the old biddies can be. On the trip to the Balkans, they showed their selfish sides, always wanting to be first and not afraid to use their elbows. I've noticed that old folks are like that everywhere. Even in Japan where distance is preferred, they have a word called 'o-battalion' to describe those pushy old codgers in supermarkets who bump you. They even added 'o' to make it honorific (keigo in Japanese).

I've seen it less and less in Poland lately. That's not to say that it doesn't happen.

Who invited you to the forum? No one, so you came here uninvited, posted something that wasn't interesting and then didn't back it up with any evidence.

There are rude Polish people, that's undeniable. But the situation is not how you describe it. So a Polish person was rude to you, deal with it. The woman who shoved me out the way in the street today was rude but she wasn't Polish, so now I should assume that everyone of her nationality is rude....

Some are, some aren't :)

i'm Polish and i'm rude and mean... so what? bite me!
;)

you be careful, southern might get too excited

ohm!

Was that a John Lennon 'ohm' or some funny abbreviation? ;)

I think I am now in the oppinion that the Poles are the most 'consistently' rude people I have ever come across. Just today, I was stopped on the street and was asked for a cigarette even though I don't smoke. When that was made clear, he simply gave me the usual dose of 'Kurwa'.

The one consolation is that they don't seem to like one another any more than they do the foreigners. In a nutshell, plain nastiness. I'm stuck here with my job for the time being but will be glad to leave when the time comes, never setting foot into this country again.

See you in a couple of weeks when you are asking the forum for advice on what flowers to buy for Magda the Polish girl you have just met and fallen in love with...the translation section here is wonderful..don't trust GayboyB-boyMcCoy though.

or the unit of electrical resistance ? Maybe he's against your idea with a resistance of 1 Ohm ; )

Yes, living in my 1 and half year view they are not rude but they are politicaly dominiated.

In comparison to Greeks Poles seem to me rather polite.They don't have expressions like masturbator,I write you to my balls,fek Jesus,fek the Holy Mother,etc.

I was always feeling uncomfortable when talking to one slovania/slovakia female as she always raised her voice to me, wanting to win over the conversation, so she never apologised for anything at all !

When she talked, it was like she was fighting in the battle--shout, loud, wanting to win only (such as whatever you say, she would just end the whole conversation by saying- but it (what she says) is still important-and make her face like I don't care but what is said is the only right thing in the world. Or when you asked for her further explanation of something she said, she could not tell because she actually did not know--she just wanted to say something but know nothing in details), and--I don't know how to describe--but she was horrible and non-humanised at all.

Further, it was like she felt a competition with everyone and I was once asked if I was competing with her when I never thought about competing with her, particularly when I was already far beyond every of her aspects even at the time ! She likes to stir things up too, she made me misundertood my boyfriend that he had an eye on her friend when there was nothing like that. She said to me that first time she saw me she could feel I was much more kind and gentle than her and she was feeling jealous that her husband (whom I have never seen in my life !!) would fall in love with me !! Well, that's probably why I felt uncomfortable talking to her because I felt like she was not like me (as she spoke that herself)

Now she is still struckling to pass her study and non of her friends has been seen to lunch with her, very aggressive type. Maybe don't have her nearby is the best and safest option honestly.

Maybe the Polish people as whole are better than this Slovania/Slovakia female example.

I think I saw her on Chelmnia yesterday! What a delight she was, she tried to give ME flowers in fact. I didn't really want one and she blessed me with a loving "kurwa" as I regretfully walked away.

NewBrit - this is called Culture Shock. You'll get over it, and start noticing the bins on fire, and the JCBs racing at 60 mph along the main arterial roads instead.

Oh yes ... WHY are you spending time on that conversation instead of saying "Dziękuje" and walking past, these people are beggars not the average Polish citizen and might not even BE Polish. Open your eyes.

As to people complaining about the "scum" going to Britain - well, there is fully the chance for English wasters to come here and be vile. Funny that the people who choose to come here generally speaking aren't hung up on what Polish people are doing back home. Such blinkered and selective views clearly don't see the polite people who are funding themselves through some mind expanding travel to perfect their English. How IS your Polish coming along?