English/British rudeness - what do Polish people think about it?

Where I live, there are very few if any British people

Generally I find white English living around me rude. The so called politeness is just empty shelf with no meaning. Let's take an expression: 'you all right' it's actually got 3 meanings.

1. hello
2. is there something wrong? (you look sick for example)
3. you are an idiot
First 2 are pretty obvious 3 is noticeable when you live in England bit longer. There will be plenty of those voices saying that it's not true but let me tell the story how I used 3 version toward English 'mate'. I stopped behind 'mate' who was asking some Indian non English speaking gay repeatedly if he is 'all right' and I noticed that he was actually mocking him for not knowing how to do job properly, I usually ignore English and their 'games' but this time because he was (mate) blocking my I started repeating my 'you all right' behind 'mate' after 3 time he noticed me turn around and asked what I want. With the smirk I told him that he is blocking my way. OMG you wouldn't believe how ****** of he was when he realise what I was doing the obscenities he used toward me were precious.

Generally so called English manners are more mannerism that obviously can not be called rudeness but using polite expression to be mean is wicked and rude. At the end it's a shame that English did not take over French table manner.

I find that there are RUDE people everywhere. Nationality/location has absolutely nothing to do with it. People are either rude or polite. To me, it all depends on how they were brought up by their parents/street/experiences.

You are correct. It depends on how we were brought up plus on some kind of 'sensitivity' how my action affect other people affected by them.

Fortunately, the number of British men stuck in the 1950s is reducing :p

I would hold a door open for anyone, male of female.

If the English like you think I'm a w**ker, and my fellow Poles think I'm gay, just because I am willing to open a door for both genders, then so be it - I call it politeness and good upbringing. But I may go against my usual polite and well-brought up nature by telling you all to f*** off if you insult me for being polite :D

Polish men in my experience always hold doors open for me, carry my bags, etc much more polite

Oh what a shame, the tables were turned for a change. Get over it. The British have to deal with rude and arrogant ******* Polaks in their own Country.

@dreamergirl polish men are polite to you because you have a vagina and that is the same amongst most men the Polish men are still rude to other men.

If Polish men are rude to other men, as you say, it is natural - other men don`t have a vagina. I am surprised you seem to lack insight into such a simple thing .

Are you sure? But back to the topic, I find most British people very polite.

We are, however there's one who wonders why you keep reopening boring anti-British threads...

Since the thread has not been officially closed, there is still something left to say. ✍

@Alien

OK, why not...


More than vestiges. Plenty of people use it many times daily as a matter of course. I grew up using it and that certainly wasn't centuries ago.


I find southerners colder than northerners.


That's very very Polish. More so than English.


The rudest people I've come across are probably Berliners.

Let's ask BB what he thinks about it?


Old people are afraid that they will not be able to get out from window seat and it is also more difficult for them to take a seat next to the window.

I have completely opposite experience. The nicest and most polite group I've met.

When first in the UK on a teen tour of England during the late '70's,
I found the average Londoner more politely snide than out-and-out rude
or in your face nasty.

Then again, I was a teenager and everything seemed new and exciting.
Remember though being corrected when I called a Yeoman Warder
a "beefeater" (think of the Scotch brand) and being somewhat upbraided
when I referred to England as "being in Europe". I learned that to Brits,
England is England and Europe is "the Continent"!

Hey, professor, it's 70s, not 70's.

Nevertheless, a significant pre-Brexit experience, don't you think?

It's mostly not older people. That stampede on public transport that happens in Warsaw (the Moscow crush) is spectacular. And rude.


Berliners? They're famous within Germany for being brusque. Different if you know them personally of course however I'm thinking of people in shops etc. When I visit friends in Berlin they are friendly. In shops or in public places I've found real rudeness and when there generally prefer to deal with Germans of Turkish heritage.


Brexit changed nothing about that however, yes, the attitude towards mainland Europe has traditionally involved a certain disdain. In large part due to their habit of dragging us into wars. That and the garlic.

What does garlic have to do with it?

@Alien
Everything.

@jon357
Don't the British use garlic in their cooking?

Sometimes when cooking foreign food.

Plus Wild Garlic sometimes in the countryside however on the whole it's traditionally disliked and associated with banana republics lived in by greasy looking people who drive on the wrong side of the road, have revolutions, drink weak tea without milk, lose wars, and kiss statues in church.

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Oh, the French, okay.

We love them really despite their inferiority complex about us. Otherwise we wouldn't keep saving them from their neighbours.

We used to buy a lot of their wine however now we make better wine. Mostly white wine (sparkling wine from Sussex is better than a similarly priced bottle of champagne and it's noticeable that the French now dislike blind tasting competitions because we keep winning) however for red, the average quality coming out of our King's realm of Australia tends to be better than similarly priced stuff in U.K. supermarkets from France.

As a nation, they never quite seen like the adults in the room though.

Everyone knows that vampires despise garlic, and it is commonly believed that consuming garlic can keep them away. So, excuses like I can't eat garlic' won't be convincing enough

It is said that the triumphant Roman legions used to consume garlic in large quantities.

What the fu*ck does it matter in which urinal do you p!ss, are people gonna be scared of your dick? Lol.


Explains everything ;-)
Nobody has ever been rude to me on the train, even the busy ones where they're completely overflowing and you're sitting in a seat that has been pre-booked. 'course I get a few odd looks from drinking whisky from me hipflask - but we're all united in our hatred of the railroad system and eagerness to move onto a better form of transport.

They had so many other bad habits too. And post in the end.

Vampires are a Transylvanian thing. We don't have many in the U.K. nowadays except for in Whitby (which is by the way famous for its food, mostly garlic free).


They're obviously scared of mine due to sheer scale however in Poland it's more an inhibited lower middle class thing about being afraid people will see their pee pee. Same in saunas in PL where people go around wearing towels.


The railways do need renationalising (together with buses and public utilities) however what in your opinion is a "better" system.

Still, Poles and Polesses shouldn`t complain about British rudeness coz the Irish were in a much worse situation. Rude Brits viewed the Irish with extreme prejudice, on par with dogs.
British landlors/ladies often displayed the sigh: no Irish no blacks no dogs.

Often?

According to a lot of Irish natives who came to the UK looking for a better life, quite.

irishtimes.com/ireland/social-affairs/2024/05/06/no-irish-no-blacks-no-dogs-irish-times-readers-recall-encountering-notorious-signs-in-britain/

Signs reading "No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs" were "commonplace in London in the 1950s", according to Patrick W Hurley, who arrived in the English capital from Waterford in 1955. "The common form of advertising was a plain postcard held in place by a drawing pin in a glass-fronted box on the wall or stuck with Sellotape on the inside of the window. The signs were all handwritten," he says, recalling his search for accommodation on arrival.