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Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists


mafketis  38 | 11003
8 Jul 2021   #61
Nearly twenty years back or so

While I've actually been in Poland for that twenty years (or more)....

Random Polish people aren't going to fall over someone because they're a foreigner. Foreigners (including ones who speak Polish) just aren't that rare anymore. I was in a work meeting earlier today (conducted in Polish but most of the participants weren't Polish).

And most people don't care or think about tourists at all. Those in tourist dependent sectors will be a mixed bag.
Lyzko  41 | 9607
8 Jul 2021   #62
Makes sense.
Novichok  5 | 7908
8 Jul 2021   #63
Random Polish people aren't going to fall over someone because they're a foreigner.

I avoid them. They speak lousy English with bad accents. The worst of it is that they don't catch sarcasm or jokes. Totally useless as a company. For everything else I have google.
Lyzko  41 | 9607
8 Jul 2021   #64
Exactly the sort you should NOT avoid, Rich!! If you want your vacation to be just like home....STAY HOME-:))
The smart travellers's the guy or gal who goes exactly to the places the guidebooks either omit or advise against.
Heck, if you don't believe me, ask Rick Steves.
Novichok  5 | 7908
8 Jul 2021   #65
To me, the only foreign trips worth the effort and the aggravation are the nostalgia trip. Then it's not the people but the places that I want to see. People I used to know are either dead or don't care to see me just as much as I don't care to see them. Any such reunion would inevitably lead to "America" is this or that - bottom line, not good. I don't need that crap.
Miloslaw  21 | 5022
8 Jul 2021   #66
the only foreign trips worth the effort and the aggravation are the nostalgia trip

Sorry mate, I just don't get that.
Do you really believe that America is all there is?
That you could not learn anything by travelling to a country other than your nostalgia trip to Poland?
Geez......I find that hard to believe coming from someone who I know is an intelligent man with a heart.
Or are you just being beligerant?
Novichok  5 | 7908
8 Jul 2021   #67
No, I really am not. I have been to Tokyo, Paris, Monte Carlo, Dresden, Frankfurt, Brussels, Amsterdam, Maastricht, The Hague, Cancun, and Tijuana. There is nothing there I would want to see again and spend 9 hours on a bloody plane to get there. Poland, for obvious reasons, was an exception and needs no explanation.

I love cruising the US. This is my home. They speak my language and are just the way I like it. My favorite objects: state Capitols and old courthouses. As soon as that "pandemic" bs is really over, I will hit the road and cover the remaining states. If there is one place I would like to visit it would be Russia and go on that train from Moscow to St. Petersburg. With the a-holes in DC, I am not sure if it would be wise, though.
Miloslaw  21 | 5022
8 Jul 2021   #68
There is nothing there I would want to see again

That comment really shocks me.Really?Nothing?
I am flabbergasted.
Novichok  5 | 7908
8 Jul 2021   #69
Do you want me to repost 67? Now you are impersonating Lyzko. Amazement without counterarguments is just that - an amazement and nothing else.
pawian  221 | 25303
8 Jul 2021   #70
go on that train from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

No, the Trans Siberian Railway journey is from Moscow to Vladivostok .
Lyzko  41 | 9607
8 Jul 2021   #71
I'm not, mate! That's ethnocentric Rich all over.
Novichok  5 | 7908
8 Jul 2021   #72
No, the Trans Siberian Railway journey is from Moscow to Vladivostok .

Are you advising or lecturing? What the hell is that "no" for?
pawian  221 | 25303
8 Jul 2021   #73
In our exchanges I always lecture you even when I advise coz I feel you need it desperately.

This thread is drifting of topic, and needs to get back on track
pawian  221 | 25303
8 Jul 2021   #74
Yes, it is drifting, indeed, I am sorry, I will try to put it back on track.

Polish people have a weird attitude torwards tourists

Yes, I agree, Polish people are too tolerant towards weird tourists. They close an eye to various crazy acts by foreign tourists. No, it isn`t money-oriented lenience. Poles are just extremely hospitable and want everybody feel welcome and at home here.

Polish hospitallity is known in the world.
OP Theworldisyours
9 Jul 2021   #75
@pawian
I doubt that.
Oathbreaker  4 | 347
9 Jul 2021   #76
@pawian
Not really, in my experience Polish hospitality has come off as needy. To my great dissatisfaction, I love being gregarious and hospitable. When people don't appreciate it, or start behaving like an cat. I get rather agitated and sour
Alien  24 | 5743
16 Sep 2022   #77
And we have the answer.
Theworldisyours is a cat.
Anastasya_00
15 Dec 2022   #78
I don't know why this happened to you, on the contrary, when I was in Poland I met a great attitude. Maybe you just ran into some not very good people. Or two reasons, if you are from Russia.
Lyzko  41 | 9607
15 Dec 2022   #79
Caught a YouTube of a black guy meandering around the Polish countryside, trying the ask strangers directions, beginning with a well-intentioned, if foreign accented "G-I-N D-A-W-B-R-A-Y!" and watching the suspicious, almost hostile, reactions he got from locals.

The dude was well-dressed, as I recall, and looked like a regular tourist, only of another complexion.

Makes ya wonder though whether those local yokels had ever watched TV and seen parliamentarian John Godson up there on the tube LOL
Joker  2 | 2236
15 Dec 2022   #80
The worst of it is that they don't catch sarcasm or jokes.

Aint that the truth!
Its like they are peed off all the time. Except for the women, they are the exact opposite. I like Polish women but can stand the guys. They think they know everything and you cant tell them otherwise.

Have you noticed how they stare at you, like in a restaurant?
Lyzko  41 | 9607
15 Dec 2022   #81
POLISH guys, Joker?? Ever run into German guys? Israelis might win the world championship for being opinionated:-)

Then again, there's always the Polish Jew! LOL
Joker  2 | 2236
15 Dec 2022   #82
the Polish Jew! LOL

The cheapest out of all of them! LOL

Ever run into German guys?

I used to bartend at a German restaurant /banquet hall in Chicago. ( Zum Duetchn Eck) I have never been to Germany.


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