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The one with Yacht Its actually a wordplay. In Poland we say "Jak się masz" meaning "How are You doing?" and the word yacht just sounds about the same as the word "jak" :)
It's incorrect to capitalize "you" in English sentences. Besides it's incorrect in Polish as well if you're writing a sentence from a dialogue or an interview. It's not a letter, SMS, e-mail or a post.
I've never seen a pierogi pizza xD Jagiellonian dynasty was a dynasty ruled Poland and Lithuania in XV and XVI century - Poland and Lithuania formed an union, great duke of Lithuania became king of Poland, and basically was an one state and in 1569 we officially formed one country, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or in polish language "Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów" (translate word for word it would be something like "Republic of Both Nations"). This period was a golden age for Poland, under Jagiellonian rules and in XVII century Poland was a superpower (after Jagiellonian we don't have a dynasty like this, polish king was elected by aristocracy and candidates was for whole Europe. We'd got a kings from France, Sweden, Transylvania or Saxony). Jagiellonian also do lot of political marriages with other centraleuropean states and there was a period when kings of Czechia and Hungary was parts of Jagiellonian dynasty - not a union like between Poland and Lithuanian, only family members. Also a lot of european aristocracy was related to Jagiellonian in some way.
The Jagiellonian dynasty (read as Yagiellonian, because J in polish makes sound like Y in Yeti) ruled the country when it was the most powerfull and its basicly Poland when it was the strongest, richest etc. It's a joke about how polish people are often very proud of our past and they like to bring it up especially to foreigners
I feel like pierogi is more like an international meme of Poland, than an actual iconic of Poland, because it's a polish word that's well known across the world. It's difficult to get full perspective on how other see us, but I think if you asked Polish, they'd say that alcohol and sausage is more iconic for us than pierogi.
Greetings from Polish. FYI, about the diacritics you should know that we're consistent. I.e. , "SZ" always pronounces as [sh], "RZ" and "Ż" always pronounces as [zh] as in "Brezhnev". And the rest is also consistent. While, when you take "PACIFIC OCEAN", the letter "C" you pronounce in THREE different ways. Just one phrase. Keep that fact parked in your mind.
@@RobReacts1Człowieku, te memy nie są ani polskie, ani śmieszne, są ch..., do tego połowa o pierogach. Ogarnij się, a najlepiej dowal się do jakiegoś innego kraju, kretynie.
You wouldn't find poles using cyrylic alphabet any easier. Actually Poland choosing latin alphabet made a little favour to rest of Europe for them to understand a little bit easier. Cyrylic alphabet is the one used by Russia for example. We may have some weird diagraphs and diacritics, but at least most of letters are the same as yours.
About that Jagiellonian map Rob, if you look carefully today Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and part of russia were part of Polish commonwealth. I hope that is helpful for you Rob, and soon you start thinking like pole, if you carry on with those mims😉😂😂
pizza with pierogi doesn't need to be made AT ALL. There's a reason no one does this, it'd be a terrible composition of conflicting flavours that would immediately ruin the best tastes that pizza and pierogi each bring to the table. They are both using flour dough but of a different kind with different cooking restrictions. You can however get a pizza with toppings that are one-to-one matching the filling of various kinds of pierogi, and vice versa you can fill in the pierog with stuff you can typically find on a pizza. But the dishes as whole collide with one another when combined by force... There's also the calzone - which is basically a folded pizza - that is often called "pierog calzone" in Poland because it resembles pierog with all the toppings encased by the dough. I get you may be skeptical as to how I would know it's so bad if no one ever puts pierogi on a pizza... well, I did this in the past, actually, and I almost had to throw up. And I can stomach A LOT of crazy combinations with ease... but this one just didn't sit well with me, to the point of throwing away the food... it was all literally ruined. But I do still eat pierogi and pizza, no worries. I had pizza 2 days ago and some pierogi like an hour ago. It's just that the combination - while funny as a meme - is unbearably disgusting. So, you've been warned Rob, I advise you against trying it yourself...
First creators of Polish alphabet were priests educated in writing Latin first. Over all from sphere of Rome influence. Meanwhile creators of Cyrylic alphabet come from sphere of Byzantian influence. If I am not mistaken here.
@@killjanPL First authors writing in Polish language were using the Cyrylic script. Latin alphabet started to be used in Poland for writing Polish language only after 1037. In years 870 - 1037 the Cyrylic was being used for this language.
@@Northerner-NotADoctor You definitely come from other then Polish educational background. I have never heard of nothing you write above. First known attempts of writing Polish words come from XIII century. Before that, writing was done in Latin language by monks and priests. And beside clerics no one could write back than. Your statements will end up on first pages of papers if they are true.
@@killjanPL From my university schoolbooks I know that since christianization of Vistulans (c.a. 870AD) all the documents of the Cracow's bishopric were written in Cyrillic alphabet up untill XII/XIIIc Quick searching in google and you can easily find threads on it.
@@Northerner-NotADoctor A low effort bait, Polish languge was initially only linguistc and wasn't written until XIII century, acording to possesed by us knowlege.
16:07 it's because cultural, all Western Slavic nations (Poles, Czechs and Slovaks) were a part of Western Culture group. They neighboured Germans, they traded with them. Also the Amber Trail back from Roman Empire went through these lands... Poland was always looking West (also peeking East, as somebody who doesn't want ot be stabbed in the back). Biggest factor was definately religion -> Polish pagan tribes were baptised with help of Czechs(from political point of view - earliest Piast rulers didn't want to have Christianisty to be spread by Germans, they looked at Hole Roman Empire as a big country and didn't want to be dependent from them in any way), who were Catholic. With religion came the alphabet. Earliest Polish documents were written in latin... so latin alphabet was used as a base, when Polish typography was created. Pagan Slavic tradition were mostly spoken/sing one... (or at least, none of the writting survived to current date)
You are confusing memes made by Poles (Polish memes) with memes about Poland (or Polish stereotypes - made by foreigners). Over 90% of the memes you show are NOT memes made by Poles. You may be surprised, but Poles don't eat that many dumplings, nor do they make so many memes about them. It is rather a topic for foreigners who simply associate Poland with this food.
Rob you have to remember that up to 1989 you could only legally bay 2,5 kg( about 6 ibs) for one person for month. So we had to find something else to eat, so you had flour egs water, you had pierogi, you had lane ciasto, pancakes. That's why in most poles memory are pierogi and other things which were prepare by nan's or mums so you could have something to eat. I remember times back in 60ties when you had tiny peace of sosage and few sliced of bread, and you were sticking sosage under your nose, but was bitting bread. Back then every woman knew how to cook and bake, how to make food go for longer with limited supply. Most kids were loving pierogi, pancakes, pasta, so our mom's and grans were cooking them for us. I've done it for my kids and grandkids, nothing better than home made dumplings mate.I hope that will help you to understand why obsessions with dumplings between poles.
Sorry Rob, forgot to ad that you could legally buy only 2,5 kg of meat. We all had like cards with specify type of meat or sosage, chicken and amount you can buy. Butcher was cutting parts of your card off, so when you used it, you could get any meat unless you made a transaction under the canter, as we used was saying. Transaction could be made with money or other products which you were swapping, for example coffee, alcohol, sweets which were hard to get back then.
11:20 this map shows how powerfull poland was ( it had lithuania, hungry and bohemia under its rule), so imagine how good poles does feel because of this photo
Pierogi; when I was younger pierogi were the usual dish, not a celebrity. We always had them with sweet cheese ot fruit (strawberry, blackberry) and cream, that's twice or three times a month or even more rarely with lentils or mushrooms and meat. Than around 2010 we (my family) get to know pierogi with cheese and potatoes (Ruskie) as they become popular. Lately (5 or 10 years ago) when more and more tourists started coming to Poland they asked about food and wanted to eat sth. Pierogi were perfect to be the Polish mark. Quick to prepare, different varieties of flavours, etc. That is what I think of their popularity. Forigners started to look for them, Pierogi business started :-) memes appeared. You may think Poles eat only pierogi, not true.
On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria, the former president of Poland in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Polish Government officials, 18 members of the Polish Parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy, and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. The group was arriving from Warsaw to attend an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the massacre, which took place not far from Smolensk.
About plane crash in Smoleńsk - the Russians did not provide the wreckage for analysis to Poland to check what exactly happen, also there are some hypotheses 1.bomb attack to kill many VIP 2.pilot error and crash into a birch that 2 are most popular, but it may be also possible 3rd one - aircraft factory faults, theye were flying with Tu-144 which was produced by Russians, and in the past we had 2 horrible accidents with IŁ62 (also russians planes) in 1980 and 1987, where russian expertise claimed that wasn't factory faults meanwhike polish engeeners found that were already factory faults and after 1987 they made some changes into that planes to make them much safer
that's truely funny with Pierogi. My girlfriend brought me her mother's pierogi and it was my best week in my life, having it every day for the lunch :D:D:D
About the "maluch" car: It was licensed fiat 126 (Italian technology, whoever made that meme is young) and produced in Poland (as fiat 126p) for many years, it is as iconic as mini in UK or fiat 500 in Italy. BTW some people do call it "malacz", exactly how you pronounced it. (Most call it /mah-loo-x/, /x/ like in loch).
If at least once in your life you didn't hear your mother say "it's a house or a hotel" when you go out, then you've done something wrong with your life.
"Yacht Sie Masz" is actually a paraphrasis of "Jak się ma?" (lit. How are you?), and word yacht in Polish is pronounced /'jaxt/ not /'jɒt/ and the phrase is actually /jaxt siẽn maʃ/ Maluch /malʊx/ is a Polish car made in collaboration of FSO Car Industry and Italian FIAT company. This is actually FIAT 126p (p stands for Polish). And it is true, that it was fixable with a hammer and a duct tape, when you broke an engine starting wire, you could easily start the engine with a piece of rope, and when a timing belt broke up, you could replace it with the tights. And there was no possibility to straighten legs in Maluch without disassembling the headlights. Enjoy your pierogi, kiełbasa and vodka and see you in next part Polish Memes video
Kiełbasa translates to sausage, but I think the same way fasolka po bretońsku translates to cowboy beans - as in they both have beans in them, other than that, fairly different dishes. I think parówka would be closer to sausage.
Let's say a thing about the language... Polish is siple cause we have a sign for every sound, there are many sounds so we have a lot of signs. In English you have less signs but different pronounciations, sometimes the same letter i pronounced differently. In Polish usually we write exactly what we say, according to certain rules. It's not strange. There is a lot of sounds so we need a lot of charachters to write them
12:12 One of my friends was in China with his wife and she start to call him on the street using his name: "Michał". Every Chinese people start to answer: "Ni-hao", which sound similar and mean "Hi" in Chinese
This "pierogi" theme is so annoying. Idk who makes these memes 🙉. Yes, indeed, we really like eating pierogis, but it's just a dish like many other dishes... 😅😅
Okay so about this map meme there is some kind of hidden wordplay as well, becouse "partition of Poland" is "rozbiór Polski" in polish, but word "rozbiór" is some form of word "rozbierać" and "rozbierać" in polish means deconstruct/undress/strip. So on the map there is Poland before it was "rozebrana" which may be treated, on a wordplay level, as Poland before it was stripped. Like you know it is still not deconstructed/not stripped, undressed, naked but there is a promise in this picture for future nude pictures of Poland. So yeah it is a wordplay meme.
You are so lucky that you don't know the plane crash reference. I envy you. This was the founding myth of our far-right ruling party. And some of the crazy conspiracy theories they peddle are pretty hilarious.
The thing about the yacht meme is that the English word "yacht" is pronounced quite similarly to the Polish "jak", so there might as well be the question "jak się masz?" (in English "how are you?").
16:30 good one about the Cyryllic and weirdo-Latin alphabet. Why do this, and choose Latin with those strange dots and dashes? There's some logic behind that: The Roman Catholic Church's governance and Western European Medieval emissaries' influence were the main agents, which introduced writing to Polish courts and libraries those few centuries ago; Poland was always hard-core in Eastern Slavic language and customs as the folk, while politically and religiously we were oriented much more towards the West. And our strong quarries with Russians / Tatars / Cossacks in 16th-17th century---when the writing and print were gradually being introduced across Europe---was the time when this Polish "turn out" from the East towards the West became a matter of political and cultural issue. For me the development of this weird Latin-like alphabet introducing Eastern Slavic consonants and vowels is natural, but yeah---exceptionally, as this could happen only in Poland. :) This was always the bridge-country for the Europe, you can see it so clearly until now, in geography, customs and language.
You know, pierogi is the same as with the rain in England... U don't always have it, YET it is an ICONIC element of England, is it not? The same thing is with pierogi and other memes ;) 15:38 not entirely true, the alphabet designed for Old Slavic languages was "Głagolica" from which "Cyrilica" was formed ;)
@@RobReacts1 That's a long time. I think is's worth a try, especially with some help from other players. :) I'm in a process of learning 10th, with one game under my belt. :) Eat some good polish sausage or pierogi and get on with 10th! :)
From the beginning... We had a lot of wonderful cars . Fiat 126p, Fiat 125p, Syrena, Warszawa, FSO Polonez. The plane crash in Smolensk April 10 2010... President Lech Kaczynski went there to commemorate polish soldiers killed in Katyn by the NKVD in 1940. The crash was the main event that divided polish political stage and poles. Actually the answer to why we have latin alphabet is simple. We are catholic since 966. If we were eastern orthodox we would have cyrillic alphabet.
Polish latinized alphabet "you are making life difficult for English speaking people" ... right cause Cyrillic alphabet is so much easier for you to understand.
Hm... When I was watching the video in the morning I thought to myself that I don't really eat pierogi very often. And then I ate them for dinner so I simply had to come back to comment :P So I guess correction - I don't do them myself but I sometimes buy them. So yeah... Pierogi are our national treasure xD Also - pierogi is plurar. Singular is: pieróg (ó read similar to "oo" in e.g. "look" and g read as g in "great"). Pierożek is one small (tiny?) pieróg (ż is pronunced similarily to "as" (s?) in "measure". "ek" probably similar to "ec" in "ectoplasm"). And - if you're ever in Gdansk go to Mandu. It's a restaurant with only pierogi. They have different kinds, with fruits, meat, vegetables... Whatever they could think of is there. Just be ready to wait a bit for a table.
There's no such thing a "pierogi pizza" in Poland? Why? Because it doesn't get along. Let's keep the Italian food Italian. :) And we don't eat pierogi often, more occasionally. It's like another stereotype. Cheers!
11:10 Jagiellionian Dynasty rule Poland since 1386, until 1572, these almost 200 years are known in Poland as Golden Age... during the rule of Jagiellons, Poland achived its biggest borders, strongest army, etc. If you look closel at that map -> Jagiellons controled around 1/4 of continental Europe... at their peak, they could rival other royal families like Habsburgs. Golden Age was not only political and military significance. It was the time of prosperity and growth. Scientist were writting their biggest works (like Nicolaus Copernicus), artists were creating memorable works, trade and craft blossomed - if there existed any type of luxury good known to Western countries - it was present in Poland. Lots of immigrants or refuges came to Poland and started new life here. Poland was probably most liberal country, when it comes to religion from that time - not only it had the biggest population of Jews leaving peacefully in it's borders, but once reformation kicked in - it was the country of religious freedom, you never saw heretics buring on piles or any of such nonsence that was present in France or Germany (Holy Roman Empire to be precise) From the other side: nobles were getting rich and influential... (each of Jaggiellonian Dynasty ruler gave some privillages to the nobles, to the point, that once last on them died, Nobles decided it's time for Elective Monarchy, instead of Dynastic Monarchy... :)). Only people who's standard of living dropped, were peasants, who from year to year were getting ripped of their rights with every new privillege nobles gained...
7:40 well that's actualy still true... Russia, until this day, didn't allow Poland to take the wrekege or black boxes from plane, which had President on the board as well as other 95 people (not including crew) - some of them, even being NATO generals...
About Polish alphabet: there was a proposition to drop it all but save a phonetic transcription of the language. Polish word "szczęście" could look like this: "shtsheunsstsse" so even more consonants...
I like dumplings, I'm not obsessed. I eat maybe once a month or less. In my opinion, such a great advertisement of dumplings is for tourists. I don't think I've ever seen an ad for dumplings. Maybe there are some ads before Christmas? I don't know. As for the second photos, I would translate it: how are you. 😂. This map shows the Kingdom of Poland centuries ago. Poor parents. 😂 If they don't ask where the teen goes, they don't care about the kid, if they ask where the teen goes, they're too controlling 😂😂😂 I really enjoy watching your videos.
Well, in April 2010 the Tupolew plane crashed in Smoleńsk, taking 95 people including the then president along with it, as well as many other important figures. Since then, the Polish government have been trying to find out what the real reason of the accident was - Russians are being accused of having set it up actually and what would possibly unveil the mystery are the "black boxes" which are in their hands. They contain the recordings of that all. There are multiple theories about all that, a few of them being completely bizzare, for example that the plane just hit a tree branch... 😂
About alphabets, catolic states started to use latin letters in middleages when being baptized by catolic church. Orthodox slovians used cyrilic alphabet. Thats most simplified explanation.
I lobe your reactions. Super hilarious and helped me a lot going through depression. I did not reply to any of your questions so far but I will. Explaining a lot pf your doubts
7:58 Basically fault everything ;) Starting at flight preparation (both sides), through russian only controller at smoleńsk airport and single pilot who understand clearly russian language and incorrect PAR approach calls from russian controller. Russia still keep wreckage, Poles things it was intentionally caused crash. The truth is always the same: Swiss Cheese has holes* *Swiss Cheese model is the best description of the causes of every disaster.
1:06 yacht sounds very close to "jak" ("yak") and "jak się masz" means "how to do you/how are you?". So just a lame word game from owner of the boat ;) but that sign definately points out, what's the nationality of the owner
Smolensk catastrophy, the Polish equivelant to the 9/11. I'm not gonna get into conspiracy theories and the political drama. The then president of Poland and 96 or so other people were flying a plane, the plane crashed in Smolensk, killing the president. Russian authorities presented the situation as a catastrophy, due to heavy fog and weather conditions the plane lost its wing after swiping a Birch tree. Except there are multiple problems with that: - Why would a commercial plane be anywhere near the ground at the time of flight, especially with heavy fog - As the attack on WTC showed, passenger airplanes have enough force to fly through a building like butter, so the plane's wing would snap the tree like a twig - Russian government has over 200 years of history of shameless political assassinations covered up with lies upon lies. it wouldn't be the first time and not the last.
4:11 yeep, that's what's left from people after 50+ years under communist rule... all they think about is get drunk untill they pass away- at least in such state they don't have to look at anything surrounding them... :) times have changed... more than 30 years have passed, but you know -> can't teach old dog new tricks... what they learned in their youth, stays with them... it's both sad and funny (sad because of mental condition of these people, funny because they can sleep in some poses that doctors claim, human body can't do....)
Rob, the last meme cracked me up - so let's put it this way - we can make a pizza with dumplings especially for you - I don't think it will be edible, but we can always try ;)
In 2010 our president and many more representatives of our government flew to Smolensk in Russia for the anniversary of Katyn massacre. The weather was really foggy and the pilot was flying too low. He was receiving communicates from the plane to pull up and gain the altitude but He ignored all of them, clipped the trees with wings and crashed. Everybody onboard died. Leader of our current government is a twin brother of the president who died in Smolensk and He is actually nuts and convinced that it was all planned by the Russians which simply was not. It was a pilot error. Recordings from the last minutes are available on TH-cam so You can check it out for yourself
17:17 meh... nobody would bother with eating such thing... you either eat Pierogi, or pizza and if you want to have pizza with Pierogi flavour -> just take out the stuffing from Pierogi and put it on pizza... easier, simplier :) side note: if you haven't tried, you should eat some grilled Pierogi - standard ones, that are being eatien in every Polish house, are boiled in water and hot ones are put directly on the plates and served, but some restaurants served grilled version of those... yummy
2:19 I would bet something like costume contest or other event...(maybe college end-of-semester party) definately looks like someone making fun of himself so that everyone arround can laugh :)
I think some people say they don't like pierogi because their grandma died too early, and they just didn't have the opportunity to try the best ones. ;P
if you know someone in or from Poland who says they don't like dumplings (I mean in any form). walk away slowly, keeping eye contact. you are dealing with a criminal, scammer or compulsive liar. Ok, unlikely, but it can also be a person of impure blood, understanding it as having only partial Polish origin. I would like to point out that it is strange but not abnormal to dislike a particular type of dumplings, but not dumplings in general.
Why do we refuse to use the same alphabet that our sworn enemy for nearly a thousand years is using? Great question. Maybe, because if it's Russian, we would rather chop off a body part with a blunt axe, cover the wound in salt, and bring in a goat(very fond of salt, tongue rougher than sandpaper) than to touch anything related to it? Don't know. Just a guess.
4:06 if you wanna be politically correct, you can use term "Eastern bloc countries" (kraje bloku wschodniego), it is often used to reffer to post-soviet countries in europe and shouldn't offend anyone (and if it does, i can take the blame :) )
12:56 you definately don't... i've got family living in rural area and from time to time, they make their of meat (from their own animals)... every now and then i'm given a chest of different type of meat... once i did the mistake and left the chest for whole night in the car trunk... Let's just say, my trip back home, next day was... something i will remember for long...
I'm not sure if it still there, but it was a time, you could order pizza pieróg dish. It was pizza, but folded together with the filling inside so it looked like a big pieróg.
7:31 actually it's "sooka", it's written "cyka" because it looks like in Russian alphabet (their "s" looks like our "c" and their "oo" looks like our "y")... I think gamers have spread this way of writing that word 😅 i can imagine how confusing it is for you! ❤ (cyka/suka/sookah means, like in Polish, dog's female or bitch... blyad' it's something like kurwa or fuck in the context)
I can't agree. English alphabet wouldn't work with our language. We decline almost every word, so we need some little accents. You think it's confusing, but for us learning new language is much simpler. Some phrases are much faster to say too, because we don't need to add subject at beggining of phrase. Like I can say "idę" instead of "ja idę" (which means "i'm walking"). There are more things, but it would be too long comment, hah. P.S. I love my polish language ❤
did you just tell us to stop speaking and writing in our own language because it makes you have to learn it there have been several countries that have wanted to do that let's see russia, germany, prussia, 3rd reich, holy roman empire which with holiness, rom and empire had nothing to do with it because it was Germany, Austria. who would have expected such words to come out of the colonizer's mouth
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The Jagiellonian Dynasty is considered the greatest royal dynasty in Poland's history, leading Poland to its peak, economically and politically.
5:35 Not polified, polished! We love that way better... 😂
haha good one
1:48 "Yacht Się Masz" pronounce same as "Jak się masz" it means how are you. Fun with the words and pronunciation :) Greetings from PL
Manufacturer of pierogi is babcia
The one with Yacht Its actually a wordplay. In Poland we say "Jak się masz" meaning "How are You doing?" and the word yacht just sounds about the same as the word "jak" :)
That makes more sense haha
@@RobReacts1 The phrase would also be known to those who's seen "Borat" - Jagshemash
Try pronouncing "pierogi" as "pyeroggy" the way you'd pronounce it in regular English. (It'd be correctly pronounced for once.)
@@EnsheerStarFace with hard "r"
It's incorrect to capitalize "you" in English sentences. Besides it's incorrect in Polish as well if you're writing a sentence from a dialogue or an interview. It's not a letter, SMS, e-mail or a post.
I've never seen a pierogi pizza xD
Jagiellonian dynasty was a dynasty ruled Poland and Lithuania in XV and XVI century - Poland and Lithuania formed an union, great duke of Lithuania became king of Poland, and basically was an one state and in 1569 we officially formed one country, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or in polish language "Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodów" (translate word for word it would be something like "Republic of Both Nations"). This period was a golden age for Poland, under Jagiellonian rules and in XVII century Poland was a superpower (after Jagiellonian we don't have a dynasty like this, polish king was elected by aristocracy and candidates was for whole Europe. We'd got a kings from France, Sweden, Transylvania or Saxony). Jagiellonian also do lot of political marriages with other centraleuropean states and there was a period when kings of Czechia and Hungary was parts of Jagiellonian dynasty - not a union like between Poland and Lithuanian, only family members. Also a lot of european aristocracy was related to Jagiellonian in some way.
The Jagiellonian dynasty (read as Yagiellonian, because J in polish makes sound like Y in Yeti) ruled the country when it was the most powerfull and its basicly Poland when it was the strongest, richest etc. It's a joke about how polish people are often very proud of our past and they like to bring it up especially to foreigners
I feel like pierogi is more like an international meme of Poland, than an actual iconic of Poland, because it's a polish word that's well known across the world. It's difficult to get full perspective on how other see us, but I think if you asked Polish, they'd say that alcohol and sausage is more iconic for us than pierogi.
Greetings from Polish. FYI, about the diacritics you should know that we're consistent. I.e. , "SZ" always pronounces as [sh], "RZ" and "Ż" always pronounces as [zh] as in "Brezhnev". And the rest is also consistent.
While, when you take "PACIFIC OCEAN", the letter "C" you pronounce in THREE different ways. Just one phrase. Keep that fact parked in your mind.
I think it will be useful for Rob: "RZ" and "Ż" pronouncing is similar to pronouncing of french "J" in phrase "Je suis".
@@TroPtyN yea, but most of Englishmen cannot speak French...
this is not a pleasure room, it's a f'king paradise. 😍🥰❤
Haha
@@RobReacts1Człowieku, te memy nie są ani polskie, ani śmieszne, są ch..., do tego połowa o pierogach.
Ogarnij się, a najlepiej dowal się do jakiegoś innego kraju, kretynie.
You wouldn't find poles using cyrylic alphabet any easier. Actually Poland choosing latin alphabet made a little favour to rest of Europe for them to understand a little bit easier. Cyrylic alphabet is the one used by Russia for example. We may have some weird diagraphs and diacritics, but at least most of letters are the same as yours.
As a polish 90% of these memes are unknown to me...
If you say " jak sie masz" it sounds very similar to "jacht sie masz" Rob you were doing so good up till this point😂😂
Haha well I didn't get the word play 🤣
In Polish you pronounce yacht "ya:ht", the H sounds like in house or Ch in Scottish loch.
Jest też piosenka: jak się masz, kochanie jak się masz, powiedz mi kiedy znowu cie zobaczę? Może właściciel ma sentyment?
@@Miss_miss-u3b ach tak, zapomnialem o niej, cale Opole sie do niej bawilo. Dziekuje za przypomnienie😊
About that Jagiellonian map Rob, if you look carefully today Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and part of russia were part of Polish commonwealth. I hope that is helpful for you Rob, and soon you start thinking like pole, if you carry on with those mims😉😂😂
pizza with pierogi doesn't need to be made AT ALL. There's a reason no one does this, it'd be a terrible composition of conflicting flavours that would immediately ruin the best tastes that pizza and pierogi each bring to the table. They are both using flour dough but of a different kind with different cooking restrictions. You can however get a pizza with toppings that are one-to-one matching the filling of various kinds of pierogi, and vice versa you can fill in the pierog with stuff you can typically find on a pizza. But the dishes as whole collide with one another when combined by force... There's also the calzone - which is basically a folded pizza - that is often called "pierog calzone" in Poland because it resembles pierog with all the toppings encased by the dough.
I get you may be skeptical as to how I would know it's so bad if no one ever puts pierogi on a pizza... well, I did this in the past, actually, and I almost had to throw up. And I can stomach A LOT of crazy combinations with ease... but this one just didn't sit well with me, to the point of throwing away the food... it was all literally ruined.
But I do still eat pierogi and pizza, no worries. I had pizza 2 days ago and some pierogi like an hour ago. It's just that the combination - while funny as a meme - is unbearably disgusting.
So, you've been warned Rob, I advise you against trying it yourself...
"Maluch" (translates to "Small/Smallie/Smally") is just a popular nickname for this car - the Fiat 126p.
the Polish language is simply older than the Cyrillic alphabet
First creators of Polish alphabet were priests educated in writing Latin first. Over all from sphere of Rome influence. Meanwhile creators of Cyrylic alphabet come from sphere of Byzantian influence. If I am not mistaken here.
@@killjanPL First authors writing in Polish language were using the Cyrylic script. Latin alphabet started to be used in Poland for writing Polish language only after 1037.
In years 870 - 1037 the Cyrylic was being used for this language.
@@Northerner-NotADoctor You definitely come from other then Polish educational background. I have never heard of nothing you write above. First known attempts of writing Polish words come from XIII century. Before that, writing was done in Latin language by monks and priests. And beside clerics no one could write back than. Your statements will end up on first pages of papers if they are true.
@@killjanPL From my university schoolbooks I know that since christianization of Vistulans (c.a. 870AD) all the documents of the Cracow's bishopric were written in Cyrillic alphabet up untill XII/XIIIc
Quick searching in google and you can easily find threads on it.
@@Northerner-NotADoctor A low effort bait, Polish languge was initially only linguistc and wasn't written until XIII century, acording to possesed by us knowlege.
16:07 it's because cultural, all Western Slavic nations (Poles, Czechs and Slovaks) were a part of Western Culture group. They neighboured Germans, they traded with them. Also the Amber Trail back from Roman Empire went through these lands... Poland was always looking West (also peeking East, as somebody who doesn't want ot be stabbed in the back).
Biggest factor was definately religion -> Polish pagan tribes were baptised with help of Czechs(from political point of view - earliest Piast rulers didn't want to have Christianisty to be spread by Germans, they looked at Hole Roman Empire as a big country and didn't want to be dependent from them in any way), who were Catholic. With religion came the alphabet. Earliest Polish documents were written in latin... so latin alphabet was used as a base, when Polish typography was created. Pagan Slavic tradition were mostly spoken/sing one... (or at least, none of the writting survived to current date)
You are confusing memes made by Poles (Polish memes) with memes about Poland (or Polish stereotypes - made by foreigners). Over 90% of the memes you show are NOT memes made by Poles. You may be surprised, but Poles don't eat that many dumplings, nor do they make so many memes about them. It is rather a topic for foreigners who simply associate Poland with this food.
1:04 I think the point here is that in Poland "yacht" is pronounced “yeaht”’n’it sounds like a word „jak” English „how”.
Rob you have to remember that up to 1989 you could only legally bay 2,5 kg( about 6 ibs) for one person for month. So we had to find something else to eat, so you had flour egs water, you had pierogi, you had lane ciasto, pancakes. That's why in most poles memory are pierogi and other things which were prepare by nan's or mums so you could have something to eat. I remember times back in 60ties when you had tiny peace of sosage and few sliced of bread, and you were sticking sosage under your nose, but was bitting bread. Back then every woman knew how to cook and bake, how to make food go for longer with limited supply. Most kids were loving pierogi, pancakes, pasta, so our mom's and grans were cooking them for us. I've done it for my kids and grandkids, nothing better than home made dumplings mate.I hope that will help you to understand why obsessions with dumplings between poles.
Sorry Rob, forgot to ad that you could legally buy only 2,5 kg of meat. We all had like cards with specify type of meat or sosage, chicken and amount you can buy. Butcher was cutting parts of your card off, so when you used it, you could get any meat unless you made a transaction under the canter, as we used was saying. Transaction could be made with money or other products which you were swapping, for example coffee, alcohol, sweets which were hard to get back then.
Dont like Pierogi?? Move to UK for few years and you will change your mind🤣🤣 ❤
11:20 this map shows how powerfull poland was ( it had lithuania, hungry and bohemia under its rule), so imagine how good poles does feel because of this photo
Pierogi; when I was younger pierogi were the usual dish, not a celebrity. We always had them with sweet cheese ot fruit (strawberry, blackberry) and cream, that's twice or three times a month or even more rarely with lentils or mushrooms and meat. Than around 2010 we (my family) get to know pierogi with cheese and potatoes (Ruskie) as they become popular. Lately (5 or 10 years ago) when more and more tourists started coming to Poland they asked about food and wanted to eat sth. Pierogi were perfect to be the Polish mark. Quick to prepare, different varieties of flavours, etc. That is what I think of their popularity. Forigners started to look for them, Pierogi business started :-) memes appeared. You may think Poles eat only pierogi, not true.
I love pierogi 🥟 🇵🇱
On 10 April 2010, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft operating Polish Air Force Flight 101 crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were the president of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, and his wife, Maria, the former president of Poland in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski, the chief of the Polish General Staff and other senior Polish military officers, the president of the National Bank of Poland, Polish Government officials, 18 members of the Polish Parliament, senior members of the Polish clergy, and relatives of victims of the Katyn massacre. The group was arriving from Warsaw to attend an event commemorating the 70th anniversary of the massacre, which took place not far from Smolensk.
About plane crash in Smoleńsk - the Russians did not provide the wreckage for analysis to Poland to check what exactly happen, also there are some hypotheses
1.bomb attack to kill many VIP
2.pilot error and crash into a birch
that 2 are most popular, but it may be also possible 3rd one - aircraft factory faults, theye were flying with Tu-144 which was produced by Russians, and in the past we had 2 horrible accidents with IŁ62 (also russians planes) in 1980 and 1987, where russian expertise claimed that wasn't factory faults meanwhike polish engeeners found that were already factory faults and after 1987 they made some changes into that planes to make them much safer
You should try Leniwe pierogi! Although they don't look like other dumplings, they are called so. They are sweet and tasty!
Now do one about English houses.
Carpets in bathrooms, single windows, mold, separate taps.
You guys live in the Victorian era.
i like pierogi
but this is an obsesion in mems 🤣😂😂
or maybe we finally learn to laugh at our habits and don't treat them like a religion 😊😊😊
Yacht sie masz => JAK się masz => How are you :)
Pronounciation is a tiny bit similar
that's truely funny with Pierogi. My girlfriend brought me her mother's pierogi and it was my best week in my life, having it every day for the lunch :D:D:D
About the "maluch" car:
It was licensed fiat 126 (Italian technology, whoever made that meme is young) and produced in Poland (as fiat 126p) for many years, it is as iconic as mini in UK or fiat 500 in Italy.
BTW some people do call it "malacz", exactly how you pronounced it. (Most call it /mah-loo-x/, /x/ like in loch).
Pierogi pizza yea. have you ever heard about calzone? I think it's our fault.
TBH we don't watch this meme in Poland. The memes what you watching are more for the international audience
If at least once in your life you didn't hear your mother say "it's a house or a hotel" when you go out, then you've done something wrong with your life.
"Yacht Sie Masz" is actually a paraphrasis of "Jak się ma?" (lit. How are you?), and word yacht in Polish is pronounced /'jaxt/ not /'jɒt/ and the phrase is actually /jaxt siẽn maʃ/
Maluch /malʊx/ is a Polish car made in collaboration of FSO Car Industry and Italian FIAT company. This is actually FIAT 126p (p stands for Polish). And it is true, that it was fixable with a hammer and a duct tape, when you broke an engine starting wire, you could easily start the engine with a piece of rope, and when a timing belt broke up, you could replace it with the tights. And there was no possibility to straighten legs in Maluch without disassembling the headlights. Enjoy your pierogi, kiełbasa and vodka and see you in next part Polish Memes video
Literally watching and cooking pierogi right now 😂 (last time I was eating them few months ago)
Kiełbasa translates to sausage, but I think the same way fasolka po bretońsku translates to cowboy beans - as in they both have beans in them, other than that, fairly different dishes.
I think parówka would be closer to sausage.
Let's say a thing about the language... Polish is siple cause we have a sign for every sound, there are many sounds so we have a lot of signs. In English you have less signs but different pronounciations, sometimes the same letter i pronounced differently. In Polish usually we write exactly what we say, according to certain rules. It's not strange. There is a lot of sounds so we need a lot of charachters to write them
It is not that we are so much obsesed about pierogi. We know that people think we are obsesed so we are doing a loot of memes with pierogi
In Polish we have ą ż ź ć ń but you have 12 times in English haha so it's 1-1 😂
In one of the episodes of X-Files one of clue moments was when Fox Mulder writes "Polish sausage. Best in the city." :) So it translates.
12:12 One of my friends was in China with his wife and she start to call him on the street using his name: "Michał". Every Chinese people start to answer: "Ni-hao", which sound similar and mean "Hi" in Chinese
As for the word "maluch", the "ch" is the same as "h" in "home".
This "pierogi" theme is so annoying. Idk who makes these memes 🙉. Yes, indeed, we really like eating pierogis, but it's just a dish like many other dishes... 😅😅
Haha
Okay so about this map meme there is some kind of hidden wordplay as well, becouse "partition of Poland" is "rozbiór Polski" in polish, but word "rozbiór" is some form of word "rozbierać" and "rozbierać" in polish means deconstruct/undress/strip. So on the map there is Poland before it was "rozebrana" which may be treated, on a wordplay level, as Poland before it was stripped. Like you know it is still not deconstructed/not stripped, undressed, naked but there is a promise in this picture for future nude pictures of Poland. So yeah it is a wordplay meme.
You are so lucky that you don't know the plane crash reference. I envy you. This was the founding myth of our far-right ruling party. And some of the crazy conspiracy theories they peddle are pretty hilarious.
11:50 The whole name is "Aleksandra", but we short it to "Ola" for some reason.
There's also Olga, lol.
Olga is a totally different name, of eastern origin.
@@mago82 But it also shortens to Ola, hello? Is this your first day of speaking Polish?
@@makslesniewski never have I ever heard anyone shorten Olga to Ola. And I've been living in Poland all my life 😊
@@makslesniewski no it doesn't. At least not commonly
Hey it's a supperman, not a superman. Otherwise this joke about pierogiman has no sense. :P
It makes sense. Superman is Americas superhero but Pierogiman is Poland's superhero
In fact, the Polish superhero is Captain Poland - "half a man, half a liter" (half a bottle of vodka).
Thumbs up for making 'to POLIFY' an official English word in Cambridge and Merriam-Webster :D
It's great, thanks Rob!
The thing about the yacht meme is that the English word "yacht" is pronounced quite similarly to the Polish "jak", so there might as well be the question "jak się masz?" (in English "how are you?").
According to the glass accompanying the main dish and the bottle, what we can deduct is that in the bottle is the finest polish white wine. ^ ^
We're not obsessed with polish pierogi, foreigners are. 😅
Well I recon a pole made these memes 😉
16:30 good one about the Cyryllic and weirdo-Latin alphabet. Why do this, and choose Latin with those strange dots and dashes?
There's some logic behind that:
The Roman Catholic Church's governance and Western European Medieval emissaries' influence were the main agents, which introduced writing to Polish courts and libraries those few centuries ago; Poland was always hard-core in Eastern Slavic language and customs as the folk, while politically and religiously we were oriented much more towards the West. And our strong quarries with Russians / Tatars / Cossacks in 16th-17th century---when the writing and print were gradually being introduced across Europe---was the time when this Polish "turn out" from the East towards the West became a matter of political and cultural issue. For me the development of this weird Latin-like alphabet introducing Eastern Slavic consonants and vowels is natural, but yeah---exceptionally, as this could happen only in Poland. :)
This was always the bridge-country for the Europe, you can see it so clearly until now, in geography, customs and language.
You know, pierogi is the same as with the rain in England... U don't always have it, YET it is an ICONIC element of England, is it not? The same thing is with pierogi and other memes ;)
15:38 not entirely true, the alphabet designed for Old Slavic languages was "Głagolica" from which "Cyrilica" was formed ;)
Dat Ork kollection in da kabinet! As a Pole, I love all kinds of pierogi, exept for fruit ones.
Unfortunately, I hadn't played since just before COVID. The new editions confuse me
@@RobReacts1 That's a long time. I think is's worth a try, especially with some help from other players. :) I'm in a process of learning 10th, with one game under my belt. :)
Eat some good polish sausage or pierogi and get on with 10th! :)
BBC News from 10th April 2010:
th-cam.com/video/XcmRJcxVSLk/w-d-xo.html
HI ROB just watched the channel The Natasha & Debbie Show..... they showed your Australian Blue Mountain visit
Your videos are great!
From the beginning... We had a lot of wonderful cars . Fiat 126p, Fiat 125p, Syrena, Warszawa, FSO Polonez. The plane crash in Smolensk April 10 2010... President Lech Kaczynski went there to commemorate polish soldiers killed in Katyn by the NKVD in 1940. The crash was the main event that divided polish political stage and poles. Actually the answer to why we have latin alphabet is simple. We are catholic since 966. If we were eastern orthodox we would have cyrillic alphabet.
Polish latinized alphabet "you are making life difficult for English speaking people" ... right cause Cyrillic alphabet is so much easier for you to understand.
1:00 It's an untranslatable word game. "How are you" in polish is "Jak się masz" andy you read J as Y. So "Yacht" sounds very similar to "Jak".
Hm... When I was watching the video in the morning I thought to myself that I don't really eat pierogi very often. And then I ate them for dinner so I simply had to come back to comment :P So I guess correction - I don't do them myself but I sometimes buy them. So yeah... Pierogi are our national treasure xD
Also - pierogi is plurar. Singular is: pieróg (ó read similar to "oo" in e.g. "look" and g read as g in "great"). Pierożek is one small (tiny?)
pieróg (ż is pronunced similarily to "as" (s?) in "measure". "ek" probably similar to "ec" in "ectoplasm").
And - if you're ever in Gdansk go to Mandu. It's a restaurant with only pierogi. They have different kinds, with fruits, meat, vegetables... Whatever they could think of is there. Just be ready to wait a bit for a table.
16:30 well at least in Poland each letter represenst a sound... sound that is always pronouced the same way... and in English... let's see: eye
There's no such thing a "pierogi pizza" in Poland? Why? Because it doesn't get along. Let's keep the Italian food Italian. :) And we don't eat pierogi often, more occasionally. It's like another stereotype. Cheers!
11:10 Jagiellionian Dynasty rule Poland since 1386, until 1572, these almost 200 years are known in Poland as Golden Age... during the rule of Jagiellons, Poland achived its biggest borders, strongest army, etc. If you look closel at that map -> Jagiellons controled around 1/4 of continental Europe... at their peak, they could rival other royal families like Habsburgs.
Golden Age was not only political and military significance. It was the time of prosperity and growth. Scientist were writting their biggest works (like Nicolaus Copernicus), artists were creating memorable works, trade and craft blossomed - if there existed any type of luxury good known to Western countries - it was present in Poland. Lots of immigrants or refuges came to Poland and started new life here. Poland was probably most liberal country, when it comes to religion from that time - not only it had the biggest population of Jews leaving peacefully in it's borders, but once reformation kicked in - it was the country of religious freedom, you never saw heretics buring on piles or any of such nonsence that was present in France or Germany (Holy Roman Empire to be precise)
From the other side: nobles were getting rich and influential... (each of Jaggiellonian Dynasty ruler gave some privillages to the nobles, to the point, that once last on them died, Nobles decided it's time for Elective Monarchy, instead of Dynastic Monarchy... :)). Only people who's standard of living dropped, were peasants, who from year to year were getting ripped of their rights with every new privillege nobles gained...
7:40 well that's actualy still true... Russia, until this day, didn't allow Poland to take the wrekege or black boxes from plane, which had President on the board as well as other 95 people (not including crew) - some of them, even being NATO generals...
About Polish alphabet: there was a proposition to drop it all but save a phonetic transcription of the language.
Polish word "szczęście" could look like this: "shtsheunsstsse" so even more consonants...
I like dumplings, I'm not obsessed. I eat maybe once a month or less. In my opinion, such a great advertisement of dumplings is for tourists. I don't think I've ever seen an ad for dumplings. Maybe there are some ads before Christmas? I don't know. As for the second photos, I would translate it: how are you. 😂.
This map shows the Kingdom of Poland centuries ago.
Poor parents. 😂 If they don't ask where the teen goes, they don't care about the kid, if they ask where the teen goes, they're too controlling 😂😂😂
I really enjoy watching your videos.
Well, in April 2010 the Tupolew plane crashed in Smoleńsk, taking 95 people including the then president along with it, as well as many other important figures. Since then, the Polish government have been trying to find out what the real reason of the accident was - Russians are being accused of having set it up actually and what would possibly unveil the mystery are the "black boxes" which are in their hands. They contain the recordings of that all. There are multiple theories about all that, a few of them being completely bizzare, for example that the plane just hit a tree branch... 😂
About alphabets, catolic states started to use latin letters in middleages when being baptized by catolic church. Orthodox slovians used cyrilic alphabet. Thats most simplified explanation.
Yacht are you it's just Jak sie masz, because phonetycally Yacht is pronounced like Jak
I lobe your reactions. Super hilarious and helped me a lot going through depression. I did not reply to any of your questions so far but I will. Explaining a lot pf your doubts
Ah man, that sucks. Just remember life isn't as bad as what you may think it is and there are people to talk to 🙂
@@RobReacts1 sometimes it is hard to talk to anyone. Anxiety is a bitch. Thank you for reply. I appreciate it
7:58 Basically fault everything ;)
Starting at flight preparation (both sides), through russian only controller at smoleńsk airport and single pilot who understand clearly russian language and incorrect PAR approach calls from russian controller.
Russia still keep wreckage, Poles things it was intentionally caused crash. The truth is always the same: Swiss Cheese has holes*
*Swiss Cheese model is the best description of the causes of every disaster.
Yacht is (let's say) phonetic similarity to Polish word Jak. Yacht się masz = Jak się masz. It's just How you doing? But i really don't get this mem 😂
1:06 yacht sounds very close to "jak" ("yak") and "jak się masz" means "how to do you/how are you?". So just a lame word game from owner of the boat ;) but that sign definately points out, what's the nationality of the owner
Smolensk catastrophy, the Polish equivelant to the 9/11. I'm not gonna get into conspiracy theories and the political drama. The then president of Poland and 96 or so other people were flying a plane, the plane crashed in Smolensk, killing the president. Russian authorities presented the situation as a catastrophy, due to heavy fog and weather conditions the plane lost its wing after swiping a Birch tree. Except there are multiple problems with that:
- Why would a commercial plane be anywhere near the ground at the time of flight, especially with heavy fog
- As the attack on WTC showed, passenger airplanes have enough force to fly through a building like butter, so the plane's wing would snap the tree like a twig
- Russian government has over 200 years of history of shameless political assassinations covered up with lies upon lies. it wouldn't be the first time and not the last.
4:11 yeep, that's what's left from people after 50+ years under communist rule... all they think about is get drunk untill they pass away- at least in such state they don't have to look at anything surrounding them... :) times have changed... more than 30 years have passed, but you know -> can't teach old dog new tricks... what they learned in their youth, stays with them... it's both sad and funny (sad because of mental condition of these people, funny because they can sleep in some poses that doctors claim, human body can't do....)
Rob, the last meme cracked me up - so let's put it this way - we can make a pizza with dumplings especially for you - I don't think it will be edible, but we can always try ;)
In 2010 our president and many more representatives of our government flew to Smolensk in Russia for the anniversary of Katyn massacre. The weather was really foggy and the pilot was flying too low. He was receiving communicates from the plane to pull up and gain the altitude but He ignored all of them, clipped the trees with wings and crashed. Everybody onboard died. Leader of our current government is a twin brother of the president who died in Smolensk and He is actually nuts and convinced that it was all planned by the Russians which simply was not. It was a pilot error. Recordings from the last minutes are available on TH-cam so You can check it out for yourself
who doesn't like pierogi.... i need your boots, your clothes, your motorcycle and pesel
17:17 meh... nobody would bother with eating such thing... you either eat Pierogi, or pizza and if you want to have pizza with Pierogi flavour -> just take out the stuffing from Pierogi and put it on pizza... easier, simplier :)
side note: if you haven't tried, you should eat some grilled Pierogi - standard ones, that are being eatien in every Polish house, are boiled in water and hot ones are put directly on the plates and served, but some restaurants served grilled version of those... yummy
2:19 I would bet something like costume contest or other event...(maybe college end-of-semester party) definately looks like someone making fun of himself so that everyone arround can laugh :)
I think some people say they don't like pierogi because their grandma died too early, and they just didn't have the opportunity to try the best ones. ;P
if you know someone in or from Poland who says they don't like dumplings (I mean in any form). walk away slowly, keeping eye contact. you are dealing with a criminal, scammer or compulsive liar. Ok, unlikely, but it can also be a person of impure blood, understanding it as having only partial Polish origin.
I would like to point out that it is strange but not abnormal to dislike a particular type of dumplings, but not dumplings in general.
I love how noone in comments is responding about 2010 Smolensk Crash :D
It is not a topic any Pole likes talking about.
Why do we refuse to use the same alphabet that our sworn enemy for nearly a thousand years is using? Great question. Maybe, because if it's Russian, we would rather chop off a body part with a blunt axe, cover the wound in salt, and bring in a goat(very fond of salt, tongue rougher than sandpaper) than to touch anything related to it? Don't know. Just a guess.
4:06 if you wanna be politically correct, you can use term "Eastern bloc countries" (kraje bloku wschodniego), it is often used to reffer to post-soviet countries in europe and shouldn't offend anyone (and if it does, i can take the blame :) )
12:56 you definately don't... i've got family living in rural area and from time to time, they make their of meat (from their own animals)... every now and then i'm given a chest of different type of meat... once i did the mistake and left the chest for whole night in the car trunk... Let's just say, my trip back home, next day was... something i will remember for long...
I'm not sure if it still there, but it was a time, you could order pizza pieróg dish. It was pizza, but folded together with the filling inside so it looked like a big pieróg.
"Jak się masz" is basically "wow are you". and "jak" is pronounced more or lese like "yack"
7:31 actually it's "sooka", it's written "cyka" because it looks like in Russian alphabet (their "s" looks like our "c" and their "oo" looks like our "y")... I think gamers have spread this way of writing that word 😅 i can imagine how confusing it is for you! ❤
(cyka/suka/sookah means, like in Polish, dog's female or bitch... blyad' it's something like kurwa or fuck in the context)
I can't agree. English alphabet wouldn't work with our language. We decline almost every word, so we need some little accents. You think it's confusing, but for us learning new language is much simpler. Some phrases are much faster to say too, because we don't need to add subject at beggining of phrase. Like I can say "idę" instead of "ja idę" (which means "i'm walking"). There are more things, but it would be too long comment, hah.
P.S. I love my polish language ❤
did you just tell us to stop speaking and writing in our own language because it makes you have to learn it there have been several countries that have wanted to do that let's see russia, germany, prussia, 3rd reich, holy roman empire which with holiness, rom and empire had nothing to do with it because it was Germany, Austria. who would have expected such words to come out of the colonizer's mouth
Ali-G "JAK SIE MASZ, PEPSI MAX" only polish phrase widely used in UK tv since the 90s
If pizza with pineapple is called "Hawaiian" then pizza with bigos should be called "Polish".
cyrillic alphabet is the russian one so i don't think it would be easier for foreigners....