The strangest things in Poland

so confusing... i always get asked if im married...

Thanks Miranda. I appreciate the info. I will continue my Polish lessons for now and see where life takes me.

All the best to you.

OK. So when Polish married people come to the US, do they change the placement of their rings?
I gonna find out tomorrow, because I'm invited to some Polish people for thanksgiving dinner and I'm gonna check and glance at her hand and see where she wears it.

I would think not.

When and if I get married again, I'm keeping it on my left hand, because I'm right handed and it would always be in the way.
What's strange in Poland is that women in stores sit at the cash register.
I've heard poles call medium size clothes "emki", small - "eski", Large - "elki"
The door-knobs are round
The hot water is on the right marked with red.

I think in Poland wedding ring is on right hand but when woman's husband dies she moves it on left hand. I don't know if people still do it but older generations did.

Wearing my wedding ring on my right hand took me a bit of getting used to - then I ditched it because it just kept on getting in the way!

What I find strange is how younger people round where I live are so much more polite than the miserable oldies. I go for a lot of walks along a path on which cyclists go - when I get out of the way for an oldie they almost never say thank you. There seems to be a cut-off point aroung 45 where Poles become old grumps (and, coincidentally, seem unable to drive without aggression or in a straight line).

that probably cause they are pissed!

What I find strange is how younger people round where I live are so much more polite than the miserable oldies. I go for a lot of walks along a path on which cyclists go - when I get out of the way for an oldie they almost never say thank you. There seems to be a cut-off point aroung 45 where Poles become old grumps (and, coincidentally, seem unable to drive without aggression or in a straight line).

That is true and so diferent to UK . I find in UK older people nice, friendly and cheerful.
Lots of young people are rude, loud, mumbling no speaking and with very little manners. I could only suspect it is partly result of Blair politics.

No problem. How are those lessons going?

Couple strange things in Poland:
1. Drafts. Any air movement in the appartment/house is considered deadly.
2. Strange combination of foods are considered poisonous. For example: no water after eating apples or pears....things like this. Any milk products after meat - certain death.

I remember these things when I was kid living in Poland, but when I visit once in a while, they are still there.

Oh boze. I had farm made kielbasa and a glass of milk one morning... I felt sick all day. Definitely not recommended.

Milk is rightly seen as bad for you in Poland.
It's for small kids only.

For older people, well, where do I start?
Saturated fat - bad
Casein - that's used in glue (skin on top of heated milk)
Insulin-like growth factor 1 - implicated in breast and prostate cancer
Calcium - implicated in causing prostate cancer and OSTEOPOROSIS (yup - you heard me right: calcium is BAD for your bones)

But it's good for little kids though - milk is designed for infant mammals. What a surprise, that one. I mean, when was the last time you saw an adult woman attempting to breastfeed from another except in some rather late night movie?

I was sometimes amused when I was in Polish banks or Polish post offices and saw guys wearing guard/police suits and showing their pistols. It seems every bank in Poland has its own private guard/s. Like in the cowboy movies. Sometimes they are not real guards, though - they are relatives of the bank's manager etc. But that's life... :)

they were either:
1. water pistols
2. something else

Actually, I only managed to see the butt. But I imagine it's easy for a woman to picture something else too. .

Some of these firearms are real. Others fire gas or gas fired pellets. Either way they will make a mess of you.

Did you know that here in USA some older folks are taking a bus to go the electrical company headquaters to pay their electric bill as well as to gas company to pay their gas bill?

yeah - we have some older folk who take buses in the uk too... some of them also walk and drive cars...

i saw one ride a bicycle the other day but i dont know where they were going... it might have been to pay their gas bill... i didnt ask...

my parents... who i guess are old folks... to an airplane the the other week... but that was to go on holiday... not pay their bills...

jasiu... you are soooooooooo funny!!!!!!!!

a wood-tick was riding my dog to get to the woods, but not to pay the gas bill.

facetious at times... i do apologise...

Krysia - I thought I was hallucinating!!!!Bad girl

I woudlent say the "times are changeing" thing for multicultralism in poland is a good thing. Its a complete failure. Poland needs to learn from russia on this topic!

poland for poles!

Kapusta with everything,


Kapusta with mexican food (hahahah i live next to mexico)

Kapusta with chinese food

But hey, you can't complain for constipation.

oops

Some Polish car owners take their batteries home for the night in the hopes their cars won't be stolen. PP

Its sounds like Chicago