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Gender: Male 		   Feb 13, 09, 04:58   #241
Well, get this,
I'm not even Polish (my name is...I am an American) but my little sister who is a scientist tells me all the time about other scientists asking her "how was it growing up under the boot of the communists" or commenting as if she'd endured this....
We grew up in the US.
Likewise, during my first deployment to this wonderful country (I'm in Iraq) we worked quite a bit with Poland's GROM special operations types. One of our officers (to use the slang here) "threw me under the bus" and sent me to mingle, thinking I spoke the language. Awkward to say the least....he assumed, I guess, because of the name.

My grandfather grew up in Poland....but I didn't even know what a Pierogi was until I was 23...and my girlfriend who was part Polish had family making these things.
I was even afraid of what horrors might be inside them... so now I try to learn more and more. Grandfather took many secrets to his grave.


Well since that's not QUITE on topic, I'll step aside now.


John P.
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 13, 09, 05:49   #242
California, we're talking about the discoteques.
A girl, totally surprised asked 'do you have discos in Poland'
To my remark 'Yes, and the richest ones even have an electricity' she responded 'wow, cool!'

Many fell for the story that peeps in Poland live in caves and ride camels, for there are no cars, hence no roads. I was actually going for months making up ridiculously stupid visions of Poland and a few of the peeps who were listening to it, totally fell for it.
Wahldo    Feb 13, 09, 05:56   #243
Easy_Terran:
California

Uh huh.. there ya' go. It's a great state but opening a book is about as foreign as a snowy day to them.
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 13, 09, 14:32   #244
My mother asked me if Poland had television...
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 13, 09, 15:06   #245
My mother asked me if Poland is an island ...
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Gender: Male GOLD MEMBER 		   Feb 13, 09, 17:38   #246
Sokrates:
My mother asked me if Poland is an island ...

And she is from?.. :)

I once was asked how far was the city of Poland from Moscow (by american)?
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 13, 09, 21:35   #247
Sasha:
And she is from?.. :)

Oh i shot her after that one and bought myself a new one.
Sasha:
(by american)?

I will never be offended by whatever Americans come up with, they can be so unbelievably stupid its hilarius.
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 14, 09, 00:21   #248
BLS:
mother asked me if Poland had television

I live in Poland....i don,t have one , well not on that works....
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 14, 09, 00:47   #249
Sokrates:
I will never be offended by whatever Americans come up with, they can be so unbelievably stupid its hilarius.

I'm sure the favor could be returned to your own countrymen...although in fairness some areas of the US are so convinced they are superior to or more enlightened than everyone else on the planet (sorry LA and New York, love you guys...) that it shocks them that everyone else doesn't live in a hovel...even in their own country. Hollywood doesn't help. I grew up in NC...and spent years trying to convince people I did not live in a tar paper shack or want to marry my sister. and I'm an American. My mom was a schoolteacher and one of her friends' sons was a nuclear engineer on a submarine...and he ran into the same thing.
People who judge based on nationality or where you live are stupid period, not just the ones from America who do it.

John P.
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 17, 09, 21:53   #250
Are Polish men Alcoholics and women promiscuous !!!!!!!!!!!ir
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 23, 09, 09:46   #251
i was asked if Poland got stop signs, and also do cops in Poland have guns.
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Gender: Male 		Edited by: Randal   Feb 23, 09, 17:21   #252
PennBoy:
do cops in Poland have guns

Not such a silly question considering how the gun-fearing Libs have disarmed police in England.
That's it, have a problem with criminals having illegal guns? Disarm the law-abiding and law enforcers... Liberalism's "solutions" are always exactly backwards.
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 24, 09, 00:29   #253
in Tunisia u ask what u know from poland ?

Answear : polsat,polish vodka,henri kasperczak
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Gender: Male 		   Feb 24, 09, 01:19   #254
JohnP:
Grandfather took many secrets to his grave.

I have heard of this before, that some older generation ethnic immigrants intentionally did this so their children would assimilate rather than cling to their old culture.
Nowadays it seems it is trendy to sh!t all over the culture of where they arrive and demand special accommodation. I’m not saying the Polish are like this by many others are.
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Gender: Male 		Edited by: joepilsudski   Mar 4, 09, 09:19   #255
1...Does Poland have electricity?
2...Are there any restaurants?
3...Does Poland have telephones?
4...Is there 'Starbucks' in Warsaw?
5...Can you tell me how many prisons are in Poland, please write mi some...(from an actual PF poster)


DUH!
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Gender: Male 		Edited by: Trevek   Mar 4, 09, 09:49   #256
In Birmingham (England, not Alabama) I was once asked, "Poland, that's near Greenland, innit?"

Also, when preparing to come to my wedding in Poland my brother-in-law asked, "Do they have beer in Poland? Cos I've only heard of vodka and I don't drink it".
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Gender: Male 		   Mar 4, 09, 17:02   #257
Did Poles invent pole vaulting? And is it their national sport?
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Gender: Female 		   Mar 15, 09, 15:52   #258
Usually people ask where it is, or is it in Europe. One guy was trying to convince my sister that Poland is not in Europe cause we don't have euro and that Poland was once part of Yugoslavia O_O
Sometimes people ask if they can come to Poland by car because they think that we don't have roads.. When I was in Asia, one guy when he heard I'm from Poland said that we must have a lot of polar bears..I thought he was joking ;)
Many times when I say I'm from Poland, people say "Aaa, Holland", so now I know I shoul spell it very clearly like 'Poouland" ;)
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Gender: Male 		   Mar 16, 09, 10:12   #259
alicia:
One guy was trying to convince my sister that Poland is not in Europe cause we don't have euro and that Poland was once part of Yugoslavia

:O

No idea what to say...
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Gender: Female 		   Mar 16, 09, 17:59   #260
Iza87:
I'm still wondering why some countries don't pay enough attention to geography lessons..

Americans have very poor geography lessons. They don't know much about Europe. That's why such questions appear. Honestly for me, I'd be very embarrassed to ask somone about this: about electricity, phones, communications, home stuff, noses, etc and what appeared here in this thread.
Polish education is on very good level and we need to learn about whole world what is our advantage. And if someone asks about such silly and dumb questions about Poland is simply idiot for me who lives in backwardness and obscurantism. Before asking let's they learn some basic things about geography. Just horror!
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Gender: Male 		   Mar 16, 09, 18:06   #261
Pomorzanka:
And if someone asks about such silly and dumb questions about Poland is simply idiot for me who lives in backwardness and obscurantism. Before asking let's they learn some basic things about geography.

Or maybe you should just gently correct them. How would you feel as a visiting Pole if Americans treated you this way over minor ignorance?
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Gender: Female 		   Mar 16, 09, 18:11   #262
Pomorzanka:
And if someone asks about such silly and dumb questions about Poland is simply idiot for me who lives in backwardness and obscurantism. Before asking let's they learn some basic things about geography. Just horror!

You seem a bit hot under the collar about it....I suppose all of us are asked "silly and dumb" questions about our countries from tme to time. Certainly I have been about UK. Well at least people are asking questions. no need to judge so harshly.
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niejestemcapita:
I suppose all of us are asked "silly and dumb" questions about our countries from tme to time. Certainly I have been about UK. Well at least people are asking questions. no need to judge so harshly.

This is all I meant.
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Gender: Female 		   Mar 16, 09, 18:14   #264
Randal:
Huh? Nope.

not u randal, Pomoronczanka
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niejestemcapita:
not u randal

Yeah, I edited when I realized... :)
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Gender: Female 		Edited by: Pomorzanka   Mar 16, 09, 20:51   #266
It's my opinion and I have right to say smth like that. I'm sick of such question "Do you have tv?", "Can you read?", "Moscow is a capitol of Poland?", "Do you have hot water?", "Can you this, that and bla bla bla".. come on!! it's not middle ages. And I think that everyone asked with such questions will behive like me. A bit of knowledge will not harm anyone. A little bit! It's too much? Seems that yes. And I as Polish woman I am offended.

niejestemcapita:
Well at least people are asking questions. no need to judge so harshly.

I can't be kind if I see something like that. How you would feel if these all questions would be about your country?
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Gender: Female 		Edited by: niejestemcapita   Mar 16, 09, 20:54   #267
Pomorzanka:
I'm sick of such question "Do you have tv?", "Can you read?", "Moscow is a capitol of Poland?", "Do you have hot water?", "Can you this, that and bla bla bla".. come on!! it's not middle ages. And I think that everyone asked with such questions will behive like me

hmmm yes could be annoying I see.........well I suppose u just have to laugh at such stupidity, if u can.
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Gender: Male 		   Mar 16, 09, 21:58   #268
The same questions are asked by Turks about Kazakhstan. Do you have TV?
How did you come to Turkey? By bus or by train?
Also one Mongolian guy has received the same question and his answer was on horseback. :)))
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Gender: Female 		   Mar 18, 09, 03:30   #269
When I reveal that my last name (Merecki), is straight from Poland, people often ask why the Polish charged at tanks with cavalry, which is absolutely not accurate. Poland fought hard against two of the mightiest armies on the planet at once, and I wish I could link people to the Battle of Wizna when they ask that question.
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Gender: Female 		   Mar 18, 09, 04:02   #270
Jampat:
people often ask why the Polish charged at tanks with cavalry,

Really? They know that? Nobody asked me about it..and most of the people I work with have College/University degrees. I guess, they don't teach that in College, maybe is just a word on the street. Kick their a## next time. Lol.
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Gender: Male 		   Mar 18, 09, 10:17   #271
Pomorzanka:
It's my opinion and I have right to say smth like that. I'm sick of such question "Do you have tv?", "Can you read?", "Moscow is a capitol of Poland?", "Do you have hot water?", "Can you this, that and bla bla bla".. come on!! it's not middle ages. And I think that everyone asked with such questions will behive like me. A bit of knowledge will not harm anyone. A little bit! It's too much? Seems that yes. And I as Polish woman I am offended.

Whilst that is a far stretch, I reckon a large portion of people are still ignorant as to what life was like and communist rule and I think and even larger % forget that 20 years has passed.

There is of course another % of people who really just have no clue and a reasonable amount of these tend to be Americans. I am not anti-American, I think the reason for this is that they probably have the highest number of tourists in the world, with 300 million people, there are going to be some real dumb shits with enough money to travel. I am sure this is not the majority of the population by any means. I also get the impression that studying international cultures is not high on the agenda in the US and so some people are gullible to believe any wives tale. I know of Americans thinking we ride kangaroos to school in Australia as well.

I hope I did not offend all the US people on this site, was not my intention at all.
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Gender: Male 		   Mar 18, 09, 17:43   #272
To JohnP: So you're American with Polish background? Pleased to meet you, Mr Kowalski (pron: ko-walls-key).
Some chick asked me if people have to walk around in snowshoes.
In India, few people heard of Poland, only Holland. When I sent someone in India a letter from "Poh Land with a p, not Holland with an H", a reply (eventually) arrived with the correct address on, except the country name: Switzerland. And it's always the same in India. You are asked "what is your country name" 8 billion times a day, you say "Poh Land" to make the pronounciation clear, and they still hear "Holland".
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Gender: Female 		Edited by: niejestemcapita   Mar 18, 09, 17:54   #273
bimber94:
you say "Poh Land" to make the pronounciation clear, and they still hear "Holland".

they do sound similar if you say them quickly is if they rhyme...I was very confused in Poland when somebody asked me in English if I was from Holland...I was like...er...no, dont you hear my pidgin Polish?
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Gender: Male 		   Mar 18, 09, 23:11   #274
Poland and Holland don't rhyme.
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Gender: Female 		Edited by: niejestemcapita   Mar 18, 09, 23:12   #275
scottie1113:
Poland and Holland don't rhyme.

AS if they rhyme .....is what I meant..they shouldnt rhyme of course...:}
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Gender: Male 		Edited by: scottie1113   Mar 18, 09, 23:14   #276
I understand.
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Gender: Female 		   Apr 9, 09, 17:41   #277
Questions asked by the Irish:

* is Poland in Europe or in Asia?
* do you have cows in PL?
* do you have teabags in PL?
* do you have Christmas trees in Pl?
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Gender: Male 		   Apr 9, 09, 17:58   #278
tiru_riru:
* is Poland in Europe or in Asia?

We thought it was in the ass hole of nowhere lol....just joking !

we are always good for a slag !
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Gender: Male 		   Apr 9, 09, 17:59   #279
Pomorzanka:
"Moscow is a capitol of Poland

lol no way, everyone knows its Budapest.
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Gender: Male 		   Apr 9, 09, 18:37   #280
Budapest is in India, named after Buddha and all those flies and bugs that can be such a pest. The capitool of Poland is Walsall.
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