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Post by Jaga on Sept 18, 2007 9:51:34 GMT -7
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Post by suzanne on Sept 18, 2007 12:03:48 GMT -7
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Post by bescheid on Sept 18, 2007 12:23:47 GMT -7
Hmmmm, interesting sense of humour these fellows!!
Charles
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Post by Pawian on Sept 18, 2007 13:01:35 GMT -7
First, the problem was noticed by the police and pub owners. Later, by taxi drivers, hotel owners and average citizens. Eventually, the local authorities decided to act ..... They are meditating what should be done to get rid of this image of a drunken staggering city.... More pics of British stag tourists in Kraków. galant.blox.pl/2007/02/Pijani-Anglicy-w-Krakowie.htmlThe photo above is an illustration of an article which tells how British authorities published a guide leaflet about good manners aimed at immigrants, especially those from Poland. Some rules in it: Don`t spit on the pavement. Don`t litter. Don`t push into a queue. etc etc. The publication caused a lot of indignation among Poles because they can first-handedly learn British manners from British tourists who visit Poland, they don`t need any guidebooks!!! hahahahahaha www.pardon.pl/artykul/1892/polacy_uczcie_sie_manier_od_anglikowBut I believe most Brits are cultural, like in this picture... and only a few individuals, Johnny Rottens, behave like this..... I can see Poles and Brits have a lot in common!!!! Poles like partying, too!! Now I am at a loss, I took a photo some time ago, and today I don`t know, is he Polish or British? ?
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Post by Pawian on Sept 18, 2007 13:26:28 GMT -7
An opinion by a tourist:
JamesNick posted 6 months ago
Great site easy to use, great company, booked a party here in Krakow, for a weekend, loads of hot girls everywhere, 300 night clubs in a small square, plenty of places to have fun in and plenty of girls wanting to meet foreigners, lads this is better then any other city in Europe, best bars, best women, best beer, music and companies like this who look after the lads, vip entry and special stag parties every weekend.
JJ – London
And an advertisement:
Poland is fast becoming a popular destination for weekend breaks and is certainly ready and willing to take on the English stag party. So why not leave the single life in style and enjoy your last nights of freedom in the New Europe - let us introduce you to Krakow!Poland's ancient royal capital is an old town bursting with a great night life, cheap drinks and of course gorgeous women. There is no shortage of places to eat and drink into the early hours, with the hub being around the Grand Square in the historic Old Town, but with trendy new hangouts opening up all the time you'll be spoilt for choice.
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Post by Pawian on Sept 18, 2007 13:34:52 GMT -7
From a guide:
Polish is a variety of the Slavic languages. It is the official national language of Poland and is spoken by over 99% of the population. There are absolutely no chances for you to learn it over the weekend. It has complicated grammar, with word endings changing depending on case , number, gender and sometimes just the number of vodkas consumed!
Sometimes what you can hear is not exactly what you think it is. For example:
Fart – means ‘good luck’ . In Poland you are actually a lucky man if you have ‘fart’
Anyway - Here are basic survival expressions you may find useful: Hi Czesc [chesh-ch] Beautiful piekna [pee-enk-na] I Love you Kocham cie [co – ham – che] Good bye Zegnaj [zheg – n- eye]
Beer Piwo [peevo] 1 beer JEDNO piwo [yedno peevo] 2 beers DWA piwa [dvah peevah] 3 beers TRZY piwa [tshi peevah] 4 beers CZTERY piwa [ch-teri peevah] 5 beers PIEC piw [pee-inch peev]
Toilets Toalety [tow-ah-leti] MEN Panowie [pan-oh-vee-eh] WOMEN Panie [pan-yeah]
Vodka is wodka [vooodkaah !]
Words, absolulety impossible to say when you are drunk:
* No, do not order any more beer for me * Sorry, you are not my type * Good evening officer, what a beautiful sky we have today
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Post by george on Sept 18, 2007 15:06:09 GMT -7
Having spent some time in Britain in the early seventies, i'm not too surprised of British men dressed up as woman. Even at that time there seemed to be a lot of confusion from of a lot of men who coudn't decide if they were male or female. Is this something that only British men have a problem with?
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Post by bescheid on Sept 18, 2007 17:42:33 GMT -7
Pawian
My good heavens! For these young lads are Englanders on Holiday???
For what are the police doing, watching the bare butts or staring at the lovely ladies wearing the yellow hat?
Yes I know, comparing...But really now, in public???
Charles
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Post by rdywenur on Sept 18, 2007 18:36:57 GMT -7
These photos look like photos of many college students when they are on their spring breaks. Wild and crazy and anything goes...but it only lasts through spring break.
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Post by leslie on Sept 19, 2007 2:48:12 GMT -7
George wrote ""Having spent some time in Britain in the early seventies, i'm not too surprised of British men dressed up as woman.""
Hi George I assume when you lived in England, you lived in the south, so your comments do not surprise me. But to see the real England you should have come up north - Derby, Nottingham, Sheffield, Leeds, Bradford, Newcastle and so on - that's where men are men and always look it!!!!!!
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Post by Pawian on Sept 19, 2007 10:10:46 GMT -7
Having spent some time in Britain in the early seventies, i'm not too surprised of British men dressed up as woman. Even at that time there seemed to be a lot of confusion from of a lot of men who coudn't decide if they were male or female. Is this something that only British men have a problem with? I wouldn`t ascribe any perversive motives here. The English, and then the British have had a long tradition of pantomime where female roles are played by men and male roles by women. Besides, there are hundreds of film comedies, some of them very successful, with such roles. Tootsie? What about Benny Hill Show? www.limelightscripts.co.uk/scripts/history.htm THE 'DAME' The principal boy part was one well-established theatrical convention; an even older one was that of men playing female roles. After women moved onto the stage at the time of the Restoration, a tradition still remained of men playing some comic female roles. A million miles away from the drag act, the Dame is a study in female eccentricity. George Lacy is said to have started the tradition in 1923 of the Dame changing her costume constantly and indeed, prior to that time, costume changes were rare. The Dame's entrances are also more extravagant and exaggerated than any other character. Always played by a male member of the cast, dressed in drag; this character is usually portrayed as oldish, unattractive and fairly common, all qualities which she believes she is the exact opposite of! She befriends the two principals early in the story and is usually instrumental in all the good acts they perform in the course of the story; and quite often ends up "living happily ever after" either with the Principal Girl's kindly old widowed Father/Uncle/Guardian or with the ultimately-reformed Principal Baddie. The pantomime dame character emerged from out of the Victorian Music Halls. And was usually cast as the hero’s mother. Widow Twankey in "Aladdin" or "Dame Trott" in Jack and the Beanstalk. The public loved to see well-known comedians playing the role of Jack’s mother, or Sarah the cook in Dick Whittington. [back then, women comedians were practically unheard of] and the traditional has stuck ever since. The Dame is also known for wearing outrageous costumes, and these are often be used to good comic effect, by parodying the fashions of the day. The Panto Dame should exude warmth and comedy, even pathos, but is never required to do any "dirty Deeds". The only exception being the role in "Mother Goose".
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Post by Pawian on Sept 19, 2007 10:17:48 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Sept 19, 2007 10:41:59 GMT -7
About the guy with his pants down, and showing his ugly pale white ass. I saw some Dutch guys doing that on a Greek island. A local old Greek pall kicked the Dutch guy in his ass in front of the Tele camera's.
I liked it! ;D ;D
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Post by Pawian on Sept 19, 2007 11:19:07 GMT -7
Poland to ban the Scottish kilt?
Apparently, kilt-wearing, pants-less drunken Scots on stag nights have been puking on pavements in Krakow, Wroclaw, Warsaw, and then flashing their naughty bits at innocent passers-by.
Scary!
The Glasgow Daily record reports:
The good burghers of Krakow and Warsaw are sick of the sight of boozed-up "men in skirts" flashing their bits in the street.
And the authorities in another popular stag night destination, the city of Wroclaw, have become so fed-up with the badly behaved minority of Scots they are seriously considering outlawing the kilt.
With beer at £1 a pint and £50 flights from Prestwick, Poland is fast becoming a favourite destination for Scots stag parties.
It reminds me of the joke:
Englishman: What’s worn under your kilt?
Kilt wearing Scot:: Nothing, it’s all in perrrfect working order!
But banning kilts is authoritarian and so this blog can not support such a move.
Why don’t they just ban Scots not wearing any underpants under their kilts? It could be a job creation scheme. A new Polish ‘underpants’ police force, perhaps?
We could give them little mirrors on the end of sticks, like they use when checking for car bombs.
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Post by Pawian on Sept 19, 2007 11:20:21 GMT -7
What’s Polish for: Can I fondle your buttocks?
"Proszę, czy mogę pogładzić twój miękki tyłeczek"?
Just one of the lines in a small ‘tourist glossary’ thought up by an Irishman who is a frequent visitor to the weekend tourist hotspot of Krakow.
The phrases in the little dictionary are written out in English phonetics, so the above sentence I suppose would read:
‘Proshe, che moge pogwaghich tfoy mienki tewechek?
The phrase book also includes other chat up lines (all bound to fail, of course) such as: "Jestem twoim niewolnikiem". (I am your slave’).
There have been many stories in the press about Brits on stag party weekends in Krakow, Wroclaw, etc getting stinking drunk and upsetting the delicate sensibilities of the oh, so cultured inhabitants of the city. This is just the latest of them.
The Super Express tabloid even reported in the oh so supiorior tone of the most snobbish of Krakovian – “The locals are disgusted’….’They [drunken British - Irish] deserve a punch in the nose…’. Blah, blah…
They seem to miss the point that the phrasebook is obviously a silly joke.
They also seem to forget that there are well over half a million Poles in Britain and Ireland and many of them are going out nighttime and getting completely hammered.
And long may they do so.
Being a half Brit/Irish myself, I find some of the antics of the British and Irish in Poland slightly embarrassing. But let’s get this in perspective: a few hundred lads having a good time in Krakow should be met with as much tolerance as a few hundred thousand Poles should be welcomed in the UK and Ireland.
The Super Express tabloid – which when reporting the story adopts a high condescending tone (in amongst pictures of topless women and other tabloid trash) is merely reproducing some of the rubbish journalism that has appeared in the British press about Poles since they arrived in high numbers three years ago.
Super Express deserves a punch on the nose.
Update: I can reveal (as the hacks would say) that the origin of this ‘phrase book’ is actually TWO YEARS OLD - that's before the cheap airlines started flying over the British stag parties. This dumb Polish tabloid story is not even fresh news! Dumb, gets dumber. Cheap journalism gets cheaper still. See online phrase book here. beatroot.blogspot.com/2007/03/poland-to-ban-scottish-kilt.html
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