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SeanusThreads: 22
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Aug 16, 10, 11:52    #61
Oh yeah, you'll find them sneaking up on you and they are RIGHT there when you turn round. No concept of respect for the space of others. Then they start ordering when you are halfway through your order.
noreenbThreads: 4
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Joined: Apr 22, 09  Pictures: 3 ♀ 		 Aug 16, 10, 13:10    #62
An example of Polish good manners:
A family meal:
I was invited on a dinner to meet my friend's parents.
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There was a lot of food on a table + ... mushrooms.
I had already had potatoes and a meatball on my plate + some vegetables.
- You are so thin - I heard at first.
I wanted to take a few of those mushrooms from the table to taste them.
I heard from my friend's mother.
"Ohhh, these are mushrooms just for Piotr." She was berserk, almost furious.
- Oh..? - I asked. I felt like an idiot who didn't deserve for mushrooms.
I said I just wanted to taste them.
But I felt I had to give those three small pieces of mushrooms back.
My friend's mother was angry. Piotr even hasn't noticed that mushrooms went to the bowl again from my plate.
At second time at my friend's place I heard from his mother:
- Oh, if you lived here I would give you more food to make you fatter.
Piotr in the meantime has eaten a soup, a dinner, took a carrot salad that was put in a small bowl in front of my plate.
- You eat like a bird. You have to eat more - said his mother to me.
Piotr looked at me.
Then he burped.
It was my last visit there.
I do like Poles.
Some of them.
:)
SeanusThreads: 22
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Aug 16, 10, 13:15    #63
Sorry but that just looks like you have spun a yarn. You need a publisher ;)

I like the fact that Polish people can be straight up about things. The British government tried to impose sloganistic notions like 'the feelgood factor' when many Brits were living in depression and suffering other illnesses. The Poles don't have that kind of pretentious nonsense on ready display.
convexThreads: 46
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Joined: Nov 25, 09  Pictures: 2 ♂ 		 Aug 16, 10, 13:18    #64
noreenb:
At second time at my friend's place I heard from his mother:

Quite the trooper. Are you into whips and ballgags too?
noreenbThreads: 4
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Joined: Apr 22, 09  Pictures: 3 ♀ 		Edited by: noreenb  Aug 16, 10, 13:19    #65
Yeah, one day in the future.
:)
what are ballgags?
Oh, I forgot I am not good at slang.
convexThreads: 46
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Joined: Nov 25, 09  Pictures: 2 ♂ 		 Aug 16, 10, 13:26    #66
noreenb:
Yeah, one day in the future.

I may have just fallen in love.
king polkakamonThreads: 1
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Joined: Dec 30, 09 ♂ 		 Aug 16, 10, 13:57    #67
Natasa:
king polkakamon:
Although Russians are a bit more aggressive.


Level of their aggressiveness for me was just fine ;)


Yes,because you are a Serb.My brother for example who was used to northern italian level of politeness described the Russians as bears totally lacking manners and any civilization after his visit to Moscow.I tried to change his opinion but he is not a slavophile.
tow_stalinThreads: 2
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Joined: Jul 21, 10 ♂ 		Edited by: tow_stalin  Aug 16, 10, 14:08    #68
Richfilth:
As for the seats on trams; I've seen an old man stand up to give his seat for an older woman before any of the pretty young women in business suits even acknowledged the presence of that babcia. They develop a fixed-jaw glassy-eyed stare out the window that says "don't even think about it." I know it's charming to think of women as the fairer sex, but in Poland this isn't fairness, this is just rudeness.


you have to live in warszawa :) warszawa is quite strange city - please don't judge whole poland only on warszawa example.

you have right in some points - poles are cold in public area, and very warm in their family or friends area.

conclusion: poles aren't so easy to categorise - warm or cold :)
king polkakamonThreads: 1
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Joined: Dec 30, 09 ♂ 		 Aug 16, 10, 14:25    #69
Yes,in personal level Poles are very generous like us orthodox folks.They give you plenty to eat to drink etc.Once I made the mistake to introduce a Polka to my mother(the Polka insisted for that) and my mother to my surprise filled her with cosmetics some silver ones of high value.After that the nose of the Polka was turned up a few mm and she refused the former level of service leading me to the conclusion that mothers are a disaster in sentimental affairs.
SeanusThreads: 22
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Aug 16, 10, 14:49    #70
Northern Italian level of politeness, kp? They have a reputation for being loud-mouthed, finger-clicking gits in places like Milan. I prefer the Poles passivity to Italians outward bellicosity. My Sicilian friend really doesn't like their arrogance.
king polkakamonThreads: 1
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Joined: Dec 30, 09 ♂ 		Edited by: king polkakamon  Aug 16, 10, 15:14    #71
Seanus:
My Sicilian friend really doesn't like their arrogance.


Yes,sometimes you see in restaurants or hotels ''the entrance is forbidden to dogs and Sicelians.''However they stroke me as charming and very tactfull.

Seanus:
I prefer the Poles passivity


Yes,I also like that.Slavs are regarded here as passive,constantly sad and whining folks who believe in destiny and superstitions.But I think this passivity arises from tact they just don't want to annoy you opposite to Germans who want to make their presence felt and be in the foreground.
Seanus:
to Italians outward bellicosity.


For sure they make a lot of noise.They describe Balkan folks as quite.Probably they want to show that they enjoy life while Americans are loud to show that they live.
SeanusThreads: 22
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Joined: Dec 25, 07 ♂ 		 Aug 16, 10, 15:29    #72
They stroke you like a dog or they struck you as.....? ;)

Many Polish people just drift along without harming anyone. Off in their own worlds a lot of the time.
southernThreads: 116
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Joined: May 17, 07 ♂ 		 Aug 16, 10, 15:34    #73
Yes,they don't harm you even if drunk opposite to several other nations.

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