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15 (10.9%)

north

32 (23.2%)

east

4 (2.9%)

west

12 (8.7%)

twilight zone

50 (36.2%)

i dont give a damn

25 (18.1%)

Total Members Voted: 135

[Sonlirain]

Poland is so Conservative it's charming. Is it true that older Polish men still kiss women's hands when they meet them?

Yes but that's getting more and more rare.

I have stereotypes of Polish people in my head, I don't know what you'll think of them. First there's the working class Poles that we encounter most in this country with their liberal use of "kurwa", their ability to drink heavily, their wearing of tracksuits and their tendency to do the jobs we don't want to and do them better than we ever would.

"Kurwa" is used often because it has many meanings that depend on context.
"Kurwa" alone means "whore" but if i use it when witnessing or participating in a car crash the meaning changes to "Holy shit".
Basically it's the only swear you will ever need.
The ability to drink heavily is what slavs get from the get go.
Tracksuits are the equivelment of the typical british typical "chav" outfit. (we even have a song about it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sZpNybt6jQ )
Basically tracksuits = chavs (at least in poland proper since i have no idea about abroad tracksuit wearers)
Well doing jobs the locals don't want to do is often the starting (and sometimes only) point for imigrants sadly but yeah there are some experts ranging from plumbers and electricians to IT experts out there.

The second is the middle-upper class Polish army colonel with a large, white moustache who thinks gays are Satanic, everyone in the immediate vicinity of Poland is a filthy foreigner and potential invader and women should be seen and not heard. He will be very, very easily offended and remember it for years, especially if the man who offends him is a foreigner.

Well there are lies and truths.
I doubt we have a huge problem with misogyny but there are arseholes everywhere.
Mustaches are slowly getting phased out i think... i had a goatee for a time tho but ended up shaving it.
Gays have it rough in Poland no questions asked... hell even i am homophobic to a degree (dear god cut it out with those rainbow parades) and i consider myself pretty open minded.
As for foreigners... there is too much to say on this matter to post here (and it would be derailing to boot) so if you want some details then PM me.
And yes we are pretty easy to offend and almost never forget but that's someting i assume we somehow share with eastern slavs for some odd reason.

[Digital Hellhound]

Finland, Finland, Finland. Land of... good education? Too many lakes? Conscription? All these and more. It's a nice country all in all, I find.

I have a feeling I've posted here before, but oh well.

[Owlbread]

But the question is Hellhound; are you "Swedish Finnish" or Finnish Finnish?

[RedKing]

Finland, Finland, Finland. Land of... good education? Too many lakes? Conscription? All these and more. It's a nice country all in all, I find.

I have a feeling I've posted here before, but oh well.

I tend to think of it as the Land of Salmiakki. Which should be sufficient to deter any and all invaders.
Oh, and cell phones.

[Owlbread]

I actually really like salty liquorice. I don't know if the Finnish kind is different though.

[RedKing]

My experience with it was that it was like chewing on a tiny truck tire which had been dipped in vinegar and lye.

[Digital Hellhound]

Finnish Finnish. I'll spare you from anti-Swedish education screeds because it was just Finno-Swedish national heritage day.

Salmiakki is delicious and I cannot even comprehend how it is not appreciated abroad. We also have such delicacies as mustamakkara (lit. 'black sausage'), which may not look too good, but is. Reindeer meat is pretty good, and... okay, the rest of Finnish foods can go burn in hell, though.

The cell phones have been dastardly backstabbed by Microsoft, so now we appear to be focusing on games. You can thank us for Angry Birds, yes.

[Owlbread]

Googling your mustamakkara, we eat that in my homeland too, although to eat it with jam seems very surprising. We call it black pudding.

I asked a Finnish girl I met recently if she was Swedish Finnish or Finnish Finnish and she almost seemed slightly perturbed by the question. She was Finnish Finnish of course. Perhaps I should stop asking.

[Caz]

hail scotland, land of the drunks and the deep-fried kebab.

[Owlbread]

Land of the Jonah Complex.

[Caz]

Land of the Jonah Complex.

whassat?

[Owlbread]

whassat?

The fear of responsibility, or realising one's own full potential.

[Caz]

whassat?

The fear of responsibility, or realising one's own full potential.

I think scots just fear to drink responsibly.

[Owlbread]

A truer word has never been said. Whereabouts in Scotland are you from?

[Caz]

A truer word has never been said. Whereabouts in Scotland are you from?

You can't trick me that easily, serial murderer!