Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile?

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Mar 15, 09, 22:12 #421

MrBubbles:

I smile a lot. I'm smiling now. I smile when I'm eating soup and I'm usually wanking a grinning Chinaman in a lesson.
Go on - I defy you to put an avatar picture up with a smile on it.

HHhhmmm....

I couldn't help it,
I know
I know
it was bad of me but come on,
it made you smile,
just a little?.
I miss quoted,
my bad,
I made it up,
I couldn't help myself,
It is about the only thread I can bear right now.

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Mar 15, 09, 22:15 #422

MrBubbles:

I smile when I'm eating soup and I'm usually grinning like a wanking Chinaman in a lesson.

that's just creepy and a bit over the top if you ask me. i smile at shop assistants or people that let me walk through the doors first, but if some weirdo started smiling at me when i was eating or walking down the street i'd just give him a cold stare. i think this British smilyness is all a bit fake and unnecessary.

i'm smiling in my avatar. sorry i'm not grinning like a wanking chinaman

MrBubblesThreads: 13 Posts: 768 Joined: Nov 13, 07 ♂	Mar 15, 09, 22:16 #423
SeanBM: I couldn't help it, I know I know it was bad of me but come on, it made you smile,... Dude, don't take this the wrong way, but are you high?

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Mar 15, 09, 22:20 #424

MrBubbles:

Dude, don't take this the wrong way, but are you high?

Absolutely
not
officer ;)
Excuse my poor taste and stupid sence of humour but I couldn.t help myself and I meant no offence at your good self Mr. Bubbles.

But you got to admit "I smile a lot. I'm smiling now. I smile when I'm eating soup and I'm usually wanking a grinning Chinaman in a lesson." brings a whole new meaning to the song " I'm for ever blowing bubbles!" :)
Again excuse me, if i had a choice I would probably us it, 50/50, phone a friend or ask the audience.

MrBubblesThreads: 13 Posts: 768 Joined: Nov 13, 07 ♂	Mar 15, 09, 22:22 #425
SeanBM: I'm for ever blowing bubbles!" Heh! I'm going to hit the hay. Got to get up early to make some kids happy about 0800. Not to mention my soup's waiting in the bedroom and I don't want it to get cold. Nighty night

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,727 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Mar 15, 09, 22:25 #426
Take care, no offence.

JeshcoThreads: 1 Posts: 11 Joined: Mar 7, 09 ♂	Mar 16, 09, 09:23 #427
Oh Bubbles... "In many ways, Justysia, eating tomato soup is like making love to a beautiful woman." You don't know much about making love to a beautiful woman, do you? Or, are you just British?

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Mar 16, 09, 10:46 #428
I had a nice smiling woman in class today. I have seen many smiling women today. It makes me wonder what they have stored between their legs or up their aaaahhhaaaa....

SeanBMThreads: 41 Posts: 8,727 Joined: Mar 10, 08 ♂	Mar 16, 09, 10:48 #429
It was just the sun in their eyes Seanus:) The come down off injecting crack into your eyeball is terrible.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Mar 16, 09, 10:50 #430
Not a cracking experience, or is it? ;) That thought is enough to drive one to misery, Seanny. Even the butt crack allusion was nicer :)

Wroclaw Boy	Mar 16, 09, 11:00 #431
Seanus: I had a nice smiling woman in class today. Maybe she wants a piece of you

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Mar 16, 09, 11:03 #432
She can have my appendix, I don't have much use for it ;) She was 55, WB. I think the remnants of the spiritus party on the weekend played a bigger part.

TyskieThreads: 1 Posts: 30 Joined: Mar 2, 09 ♂	Mar 17, 09, 12:31 #433
I find the Poles generally very serious, reserved and some are even quite narky. A minority, though, are cool and outgoing.

RandalThreads: 1 Posts: 758 Joined: Feb 14, 09 ♂	Mar 17, 09, 16:24 #434
Tyskie: A minority, though, are cool and outgoing. Mine was like this. :(

lexiThreads: 1 Posts: 188 Joined: Feb 17, 09 ♀	Mar 17, 09, 16:52 #435
MrBubbles: I approach my soup with an upbeat manner and an open mind, not a feeling that eating soup is a duty one must perform to stay alive. Gosh that was so funny, I did not realise that you had a sense of humour.

MrBubblesThreads: 13 Posts: 768 Joined: Nov 13, 07 ♂	Mar 17, 09, 18:36 #436
lexi: Gosh that was so funny, I did not realise that you had a sense of humour. Yes it is in't it? And you probably don't appreciate it on half as many levels as I do. heh heh heh!

lexiThreads: 1 Posts: 188 Joined: Feb 17, 09 ♀	Mar 17, 09, 19:30 #437
MrBubbles: Yes it is in't it? And you probably don't appreciate it on half as many levels as I do. heh heh heh! Member Threads: 11 Posts: 651 Joined: Nov 13, 07 Oh I think I do!

Rafal_1981	Edited by: Rafal_1981 Mar 17, 09, 19:40 #438
Poles don't smile to much? Well, we should sue them ;-] Or proclaim a new law: you have to smile every 5 minutes...or when someone farted...or when you hear a word: squirl or badger...hmm...I'm running out of ideas here Help me, ppl!! :-D

Rafal_1981	Mar 17, 09, 21:53 #439
Why so serious? Let me put a smile on that face!

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Mar 17, 09, 23:12 #440
You haven't seen them sing 'Hej Sokoły' in karaoke. Sheesh!

BarryThreads: 1 Posts: 6 Joined: Mar 18, 09 ♂	Mar 18, 09, 23:11 #441
My girlfriend is always smiling and she is a very happy person.

SeanusThreads: 22 Posts: 30,158 Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂	Feb 20, 10, 14:13 #442
The OP was looking at too many old people methinks. Still, there are a lot of grumblers amongst the younger generation.

jochemczykThreads: 1 Posts: 41 Joined: Nov 27, 11 ♀	Dec 1, 11, 05:09 #443
I have always found them to be fun to be around when you get to know them. They do not consider it dignified to go around with a big smile on your face or to smile at strangers. Its a cultural thing.The ones that I knew growing up were always polite, but joviality was reseved for parties and get togethers.

ShAlEyNsTfOhThreads: 8 Posts: 232 Joined: Feb 5, 11 ♂ [Suspended]	Dec 1, 11, 05:17 #444
ooooooh quit your whining!

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Feb 27, 12, 22:06 #445

Merged: Polish mentality issue

Hey guys, I'm writing to share my sad reflexion considering Polish mentality. I really love my country and I'm proud of our heritage, history and I would never exchange it, but there is something that is bugging me. Every time I come back to Poland after travelling abroad I get this feeling that we, as a society, are so distrusful and suspicious in our relations with strangers. Sometimes I think that it's forbidden to smile on the street, because people will consider u crazy. What is wrong with us? Do you share my observation?

ilovewineThreads: - Posts: 3 Joined: Sep 1, 11 ♀	Feb 27, 12, 22:20 #446
Yes. I feel exactly the same. After living for a few years abroad, I moved back to Poland over 6 months ago and still can't get used to this mentality. I thought it would be easier because after all, this is my home country and I've spent most of my life here.. but people arguing about small things, on trams, in shops and low standard of customer service - it is kind of bothering me.

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Feb 27, 12, 22:45 #447

It is come from the Polish history, during partitions Jews ware favor by occupiers so native people had to hide their feelings during ww2 Poles ware just murder by Germans and Jews again ware the privilege in Russian sector after ww2 during the Soviet occupation again Jews ware the privilege and ruling class with NKVD so we talking about 200 years of mistrust of unknown people I think it is understandable by now it is in blood of all Poles not to trust people. . As to customer service the communism is guilty as everyone had to have job so they just could not fire you. In time it will be better.

JonnyMThreads: 16 Posts: 4,487 Joined: Mar 9, 11 ♂	Feb 27, 12, 22:49 #448
fringxx: Sometimes I think that it's forbidden to smile on the street, because people will consider u crazy. What is wrong with us? Do you share my observation? I've noticed this too.

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Edited by: pawian Feb 27, 12, 22:59 #449

fringxx:

ometimes I think that it's forbidden to smile on the street, because people will consider u crazy.

Yes, I know this feeling. Yesterday I was strolling in the street at a leisure pace, smiling to myself and my funny thoughts, recalling precious discussions in the Polish forum. Suddenly I noticed a middle-aged woman who was looking at me and smiling. I thought that she must be crazy. Or drunk. Or did she want to have sex with me?

Very weird.

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Feb 27, 12, 23:05 #450

pawian:

Yes, I know this feeling. Yesterday I was strolling in the street at a leisure pace, smiling to myself and my funny thoughts, recalling precious discussions in the Polish forum. Suddenly I noticed a middle-aged woman who was looking at me and smiling. I thought that she must be crazy. Or drunk. Or did she want to have sex with me?

It's just lovely to log on and read a true pearl

Man you just made my night

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