The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland

Funny, there a stone hut foundations and buildings in Britain which well predate the Romans. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skara_Brae Britain was a wealthy and prosperous nation prior to the Roamns, that's why they wanted a piece of it.

Of coarse there was, the Celts were there long before the Romans and then later the Anglo-Saxons. And there were peoples on the islands well before the Celts, who also built stone buildings.

No bread in the UK. Grey squirrels everywhere. No stray dogs, but foxes strolling the streets in broad daylight.

which don't have rabies.

Mind you, in Olsztyn we sometimes have wild boar walking in the streets in broad daylight.

Another difference, yes. I remember the short-lasting scare here, when somebody mentioned that some rare bats may carry rabies sometimes.


Same happened in Katowice, in the city centre. This was a sensation, but in the southern outskirts wild boars are, if not common, then on unheard of.

Edit: frogs choruses. In Poland a common thing. And no gnats in the UK.

Maybe the boar was just looking for that fox?

You can be on the dole in Poland, live in the suburbs of Warsaw and go trekking in the woods hunting frogs, and picking snails which in the afternoon you can sell.

In the UK you can be on the dole, even in a small country town, and you still have to go doing 'chores' in the supermarket and then sell the products at half-price and in recent times even as low as 10 percent of the marked price due to the high amount of Imbeciles, who will suck dix to get some drugs.

Therefore, being a dole bludga is much more healthy in Poland plus all them frogeaters can still be called frogeaters since they ave themselves the frogs to eat , init , eh innit

Here's a pretty subtle difference - British & Irish when pausing to find a suitable word, or simply "thinking out loud" tend to say Ehhhh or Uhhhh - sometimes ending in an "M"

Every Pole I've met does a "tight-lipped" version, without vowel sounds - they only ever seem to say Mmmmm

yep, and I was even taught that at university - how to stumble and stutter in English - it was one of my practical English classes.

Takes some practice to master this art...

Ehhhh OK then.

they say yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

: ) really? in English or po Polsko ?

po polsku.

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Next differnece polish people like to judge people even if they don'y know facts.

C'mon, who has pi$$ed you off Zeti? : )

(I don't think it's really a difference by the way, plenty of judgemental small minded idiots around - of every nationality)

hmm.... most of the people i know who do that aren't Polish...

do you discus Obama ? if so its the wrong thread

And Polish "breakfasts" are a joke. The same boring and pretty tasteless stuff (tasteless rubbery cheese and the same cold ham and sausage) shoved under your nose every day - of course cold. Perhaps Polish breakfasts are more suited to the summer, but definately not the winter. Give me a traditional fried British breakfast anyday - it knocks the socks of what the Poles have to eat each morning. Generally I like Polish food - but Polish breakfasts simply don't cut any ice with me. No competition at all I am afraid - with or without baked beans.

That's the reason why British are the most fat people in Europe. Their 'kitchen' is a joke.

Because their food is really good?

don't waste your intelligence on Ksysia - she has a rare talent of missing all the main historical facts and she hates the UK.


that is a national sport. Actually a lot of Poles are not interested in fact, because they are simply too boring;)

for breakfast? you're kidding?? no bellyache afterwards???

The beans thing is actually a bit mad guys. Come on.

Good one convex! Nice joke.

That what looks like a cake is actually a pie. Zum Kotzen!

Fish & Chips, Hot dogs...nice, nice...cholesterol by bye...

Did somebody say beans....???

Ah Sascha, here we go. Again. No doubt posted from the culinary centre of the universe.

Critics where there is place for it, but then thank you for the compliment...but seriously, I do not consider German kitchen as something you praise. Just to get that straight.

Your opinion reflects the average, ignorant version the Poles put out. However, the simple truth is most Poles have never tasted any real traditional English food. It simply is nowadays in the UK quite a rarity which is rather sad. For example English deserts (i.e. various pies, trifles and crumbles) are wonderful. When Poles do have deserts (which is almost never) what they offer up is pathetic. I will hand it to them with the soups though. They make much better ones than the English soups I used to eat.

As for the English being fat - have you actually travelled around Poland recently? It's an eye opener. Polish men are fatter than most English men - by a long way. Too often they are a lot more drunk as well. I suppose that comes with the monotonous diet of fat filled sausage, oil fried meat and high cholesterol foods they seem to adore.

Yes. Absloute porkers many of them - but the women tend to be slim. On our last visit, we saw couples in restaurants and diners, the man eating, the woman not.

Roasts, so many great restaurants (lots of terrible ones as well), "ethnic foods" that people in greater Slavia seem to be so down on...

Indeed. When it comes to women it is the other way round with the English tending to be fat and the Poles being slim - at least until they are about 35 or so. So the ideal combination is an English youg man and a Polish young girl. Sounds like heaven eh?


It's a national pastime.