Any "wet" plans for Śmigus-dyngus?

I remember my cousins dragging a garden hose from their backdoor into the neighbours kitchen window and then turning the faucet on to max. It went wild in their kitchen and EVERYTHING (and everyone) got soaked. But there were no frowns afterwards. After all, it was Śmigus-dyngus.

I live in Sweden, but I'm trying to keep the tradition alive. I'm at my mothers house now, visiting for the holidays. Planning on setting the alarm clock to an ungodly hour tomorrow and giving her a watery wake-up!

Any of you planning any Śmigus Dyngus-schemes?

I have to resist the obvious temptation ;) ;)

This day has never held any significance for me personally in Poland. Maybe it's time to change that!? A free wet t-shirt competition without a competition ;)

Initially the drenching custom was limited to eligible young maidens. In a more citified version, young men would lightlly sprinkle their sweethearts with cologne. Now Polish TV regularly shows hordes of bucket-wielding teenagers prolwing the streets and drenching anyone in sight, pouring waters into buses and trams at stops or cars waiting at traffic lights. The custom has taken on a hooligan twist, Polish police insist.

They're just kids messing around ;)

I don,t think i would see the funny side if some muppet threw water all over the inside of my car and risked blowing all the electrics , but if i am walking the street and get soaked i won,t complain too much...

I am sure there are those that see this day as an excuse for thuggery and law breaking , but i think its a fun tradition that should continue...

I just hope its a nice warm day tomorow...!

No competition, everbody gets wet.. hehe :)

I know :)

Unfortunately we don't celebrate this tradition over here, I don't mind it when the girls get wet though!

;)

I bet you don't, my friend ;)

You're right, and they don't seem to mind it either..

;)

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in the past, like 100 years ago, pouring crude water onto people on Wet Monday was considered primitive, good for commoners in rural areas.
Polish elites like nobles and even urban residents used to splash the other sex with perfume or at least eau de cologne.

Not many of those. 1% of the population. You're maybe confusing them with the middle class (szlachta), around 15% of the population.

No reason they shouldn't pour water or any other non-toxic substance. After all, in Czech they got the young ladies with sticks on Easter Monday.

Now you are using some socialist terms. Stop it, it is senseless. Szlachta considered themselves and are considered nobles, too. You`d better read some history books. ):):)

The szlachta ,(Polish: [ˈʂlaxta] ⓘ; Lithuanian: šlėkta) were the noble estate of the realm in the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Middle class isn't a socialist term. Bourgeois is, so I'll use bourgeois.


And each Kaczynski considered himself a great leader.


Yes, the most distinguished Polish historian, Norman Davies, points out the inconsistency with numbers and terminology.

I prefer Cru Bourgeois.

I also added: are considered but you prefered to skip it nor comment on the entry I quoted.

Check another description which suggests that szlachta is the same as nobles:

Ranging from the poorest landless yeomen to the great magnates, the szlachta insisted on the equality of all its members.

Don`t thank me for educating you, it is my pleasure. :):):)

By some.

They were mostly just fairly ordinary people. Very few of them were nobility or anything like it.

Also British historians. And I don`t mean Davies. :):):)


But we are talking about formal denominations, not factual condition. Szlachta was nobles and you can`t turn the tide back. :):):)

He's Polish now.


I.e the right to vote. Our bourgeoisie had that too.

Now you are obfuscating. :):):)
All in all, you made a silly mistake with that szlachta not being nobles. Never mind. I am happy to be of help. Polish history is my hobby.

All in all, you made a silly assertion.

They weren't in any sense nobility.

At best, a traditionally privileged caste who degenerated quickly.

It is amassing you are still sticking to your erroneous views. Are Brits as stubborn as Poles/Polesses??? :):):)

The accurate description of them.


No such thing

There is coz we are using the word. Ha!!!

It sounds like less PO

And Warsaw sounds like war saw. And???? Shall we stop saying Warsaw??? :):):)

Because it did.

There's a poem about that.

More or less PO depends on the voters next time.

Yes!!! And there are thousands of poems about Polesses! Do you remember even one??? :):):)


Exactly!!!! Polesses as voters are a force you need to respect!!!

It seems my education bears fruit in you. hahahaha

Non-existent things.