Women's Day in Poland and Gifts

smurfThreads: 46 Posts: 660 Joined: Sep 8, 09 ♂	Mar 6, 11, 17:03 #1
Int'l Women's Day is this week, is it yet another one of those day when I'll be made buy flowers, chocolates etc? If it's not a names day its a birthday, or it's mothers day or valentines or etc.... just for a change I wanna get something.... we should start a "buy the foreigner a present day" coz he's always getting stuck buying you presents for meaningless days :P

liliala	Mar 6, 11, 17:13 #2
There is Boy's Day but I don't remember the date

isthatu2Threads: 13 Posts: 5,228 Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂	Mar 6, 11, 17:15 #3
its got fek all to do with buying flowers.......

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Mar 6, 11, 17:16 #4

smurf:

"buy the foreigner a present day"

A bloody good idea. If you're teaching, don't forget to remind them about Teachers' Day...

Womens' Day has a strong political point about equality and human rights. It may have turned into just giving flowers to women who now get equal pay etc, but still they have more often than not to do a day's work and then go home to do the full housewife thing.

So flowers are nice, really, and forgetting to buy them would be noticed. It also reminds people of Womens' Day, and the reasons for having it as well as keeping it alive round the world, especially in countries where it is very much needed.

warszawskiThreads: 60 Posts: 2,389 Joined: May 21, 10 ♂	Mar 6, 11, 17:17 #5
smurf: Int'l Women's Day is this week, is it yet another one of those day when I'll be made buy flowers, chocolates etc? If it's not a names day its a birthday, or it's mothers day or valentines or etc.... U better use it, to prime her up for St Pats so you can go on a large one with the boys...

smurfThreads: 46 Posts: 660 Joined: Sep 8, 09 ♂	Mar 6, 11, 17:20 #6
liliala: There is Boy's Day boom! now we're talkin'......I dont want flowers though. isthatu2: its got fek all to do with buying flowers... enlighten me so jonni: Teachers' Day unfortunately I am yea, if I get presents for teachers day and boys day then I'm ok with buyin herself some dandelions on tuesday :P

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Edited by: skysoulmate Mar 6, 11, 17:21 #7

lilia:

There is Boy's Day but I don't remember the date

There's no "Boy's Day", there are however "Days of Men" and the celebrations begin every year on March 9th and go on until March 7th the following year.

PS. I like chocolate! :)

So here's to all the PF women, ladies, girls, madonnas, chicks, princesses, kobiety, dziewczęta, dziewczynki, księżniczki, koteczki, słoneczki, żabki, etc., etc. :-)))

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Mar 6, 11, 17:21 #8

smurf:

Int'l Women's Day is this week, is it yet another one of those day when I'll be made buy flowers, chocolates etc?
If it's not a names day its a birthday, or it's mothers day or valentines or etc....

just for a change I wanna get something....
we should start a "buy the foreigner a present day" coz he's always getting stuck buying you presents for meaningless days :P

You can't be serious! Is that going to become the next big holiday that requires buying ****? No no no! We don't need another one. We have enough already. Hope it doesn't come over here.

puellaThreads: 9 Posts: 319 Joined: Jan 10, 11 ♀	Edited by: puella Mar 6, 11, 17:23 #9
skysoulmate: There's no "Boy's Day" There is. Just look. 30th of September. In Poland we dn't have Men's Day. Proof here.

PennBoyThreads: 157 Posts: 3,443 Joined: Dec 7, 08 ♂	Mar 6, 11, 17:26 #10
smurf: Int'l Women's Day Read in Russia there's professional women walking around drunk in their business suits on this day.

smurfThreads: 46 Posts: 660 Joined: Sep 8, 09 ♂	Mar 6, 11, 17:27 #11
warszawski: to prime her up for St Pats you're dead right there man, yea I better get a dozen dandelions :)

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Edited by: isthatu2 Mar 6, 11, 17:32 #12

smurf:

enlighten me so

Ok,so maybe I spoke too soon :)...Its got fek all to do with buying flowers here.....maybe in Poland its been turned into a commercial venture...TBH the only publicity Ive seen for it here in Yorkshire is little flyers for Dzien Kobietta (sp) all flowery and st valentinesy.......so looks like a worthy cause has been turned into naff comercialism in Poland before the UK ....:)

WroclawThreads: 77 Posts: 7,404 Joined: Apr 1, 06 ♂ [Moderator]	Mar 6, 11, 17:43 #13
isthatu2: looks like a worthy cause has been turned into naff comercialism in Poland before the UK I think Poland had Women's Day before they had International Women's Day. Hence the commercialism has always been here.

isthatu2Threads: 13 Posts: 5,228 Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂	Mar 6, 11, 17:57 #14
Aha,that explains it then, one of the old communist days...right o,now that you mention it Im sure you are right. But its a shame then that something worthy has got lost in something naff all the same.

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Edited by: Marynka11 Mar 6, 11, 18:09 #15

jonni:

Womens' Day has a strong political point about equality and human rights.

I would say the opposite. If a group gets a holiday designated to them IMHO is a way of saying "You are not equal and historically you never were, but we love and cherish you nevertheless". Where is the white man's day, after all?

Especially in communism, the women were cornered into believing they have equal rights, but how many of them actually got to take key positions in the country? Also, it's not a secret, that womens' salaries were essentially lower than men's during that time.

isthatu2Threads: 13 Posts: 5,228 Joined: Apr 3, 08 ♂	Edited by: isthatu2 Mar 6, 11, 18:11 #16
right,marynka...your talking about Polands commie inspired "womens day"....those of us not dragged up under the reds think of,ironically, "International Womens day"....which as has been pointed out was never a "holiday" or a reason to give flowers but a day to highlight the plight of women in religious and culturally repressed sociaties......

wekkurriThreads: - Posts: 1 Joined: Apr 28, 11 ♂	Edited by: wekkurri Apr 28, 11, 10:30 #17
Flowers are always women's favorite! Just sending them flowers and some little gift at their birthday, wedding anniversary or other holidays will make them ecstatic! Here is an awesome online florist to recommend, FlowersofChina, which provides high-quality flower product and the one-day delivery service to every city in China.

ZIMMYThreads: 10 Posts: 2,353 Joined: Feb 21, 09 ♂	Apr 28, 11, 15:30 #18
"Mothers Day" is coming up and I'm certain that my current girlfriend will totally appreciate the mop and bucket I bought her. Women appreciate gifts they can use.

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