rybnik 18 | 1,454 19 Jul 2011 #271you remind your Polish and non-Polish friends alike "You know Poland was a superpower once." lol
beckski 12 | 1,612 19 Jul 2011 #272You are Polish if...When you little, your parents called you a buttinsky, when you'd speak out of turn. (Maybe it's just a Polish-American slang term.)
wildrover 98 | 4,438 19 Jul 2011 #273You are Polish if...You are a fan of formula one , but have not watched it since Kubica was injured....
strzyga 2 | 993 19 Jul 2011 #275You are a fan of formula one , but have not watched it since Kubica was injured....I'm still watching it, but frankly, it's not the same - most of the thrill is gone.
Pinching Pete - | 554 19 Jul 2011 #276You pass drinks round the table in order to stimulate discussionIt's a fine way to get some good talks going , nothing wrong with it.You love toilets without locks on the doorsWell, what would you want to be sneaking around there for anyway..
Seanus 15 | 19,672 19 Jul 2011 #277Pete, I said it as a good thing. My Polish family do that and its fantastic hospitality.I use toilets, Pete, not loiter or snoop around them ;)
Pinching Pete - | 554 19 Jul 2011 #278I use toilets, Pete, not loiter or snoop around themJust busting your chops there man. No worries.busting your chopsUhh.. and I might add for our native Polish breathren.. this only means to joke harshly.. or take the p.iss out of off.. as old lime-a-tron says.
teflcat 5 | 1,029 19 Jul 2011 #279busting your chopsI thought this was what you hear people doing in the flat above about midday on Sundays.
Pinching Pete - | 554 19 Jul 2011 #280what you hear people doing in the flat above about midday on Sundays.It would seem that the casual PF visitor who happens to be a British teacher in Poland hears all sorts of zany things.. Be careful in the cr.apper by the way.. it's unlocked. Lol.
teflcat 5 | 1,029 19 Jul 2011 #281It was an attempt (obviously failed) to refer to the tenderizing of schabowy, but never mind.
Pinching Pete - | 554 19 Jul 2011 #282(obviously failed)I'm an American troglodyte.. sorry. Schabowy is awesome.
Seanus 15 | 19,672 19 Jul 2011 #283you wear socks with sandals. That gets a few laughs from Israelis who see it as odd. Not only them either.
teflcat 5 | 1,029 19 Jul 2011 #284you wear socks with sandalsI don't wear socks with sandals but I've never understood some people's objection to it. Is it on aesthetic grounds or just a sartorial faux pas?
Nojas 4 | 110 19 Jul 2011 #285You have one set of real cousins, which are actual cousins. Then you have "distant cousins" which seems to incorporate every single person on the planet.I have reasons to believe that polish parents simply tell children that they are all cousins in order to make them play with eachother.
jyjkhfa 19 Jul 2011 #286NojasYou have uncles and aunts which are not your real uncles and aunts but just your parent's friends ;)
Nojas 4 | 110 19 Jul 2011 #287That would explain A LOT. ;-)My girlfriends best friend, which she had never heard of before of course, first met at University. And magically enough, it turns out they are cousins!Her neighbours are also "far away cousins". They played a few times when they were kids. ^^Some stones are better unturned I guess.
jyjkhfa 19 Jul 2011 #288Actually I've never heard anyone refering a cousin to someone not related. Probably they're just her parent's cousins children... which for her are also cousins but distant ones. I also have many distant cousins - I know about their existence but I don't even know how do they look like ;)
Lenka 5 | 3,534 19 Jul 2011 #289You are Polish if...you give your guests master bedroom when they visit you
jyjkhfa 29 Jul 2011 #291If you have a beautiful parquet and you feel obligated to cover it with dark ugly carpet
pip 10 | 1,658 29 Jul 2011 #292You have uncles and aunts which are not your real uncles and aunts but just your parent's friends ;)I despise this. I don't understand why this is done. Neither does my husband and he is Polish.
beckski 12 | 1,612 29 Jul 2011 #293You are Polish if...you give your guests master bedroom when they visit youHaha, so true. When my mother visits me, I let her stay in my bedroom, while I stay in my guest bedroom :)
Lenka 5 | 3,534 2 Aug 2011 #294In my home it's not actually a master bedroom but bedroom with the most comfortable bed but that's the point-you give the best to your guests.
Sidliste_Chodov 1 | 441 2 Aug 2011 #295You are Polish if...you give your guests master bedroom when they visit youThis is not an exclusively Polish thing, I've known English people to do this as well.
blackadder 1 | 114 1 Dec 2011 #298if you wear socks on sandals when you're going to beach...perhaps this is part of folklore? ;)
andersm 4 | 32 6 Dec 2011 #299especially when to say dż & g (eg.gesture) or u,a,e(tunnel) i know it only after i check it in dictionary.Google Translate has a decent translation you can read and hear if you click the little audio button. It's helped me a great deal in my family ancestry research and run into Polish documents.
Jimmu 2 | 156 7 Dec 2011 #300I always thought I was mostly English/Irish, but according to Post #1 I'm about 90% Polish!Soccer? Football? I thought it was piłka nożna.