7 Things Americans Do Differently Than Poles | USA vs Poland

[@loczek3569]

in poland we have green arrow to turn right instead turning on red

[@MarkoDeLaVoota]

Loczek356 , there are green arrows here too

[@macx3000]

Daj ktoś napisy

[@michachaszczyn]

Back then in the 90s Poland had the green arrow without light. It was just a sign that you can turn right. Removing them in one point made people completely confused, so we have green arrow lights now. They are on most intersections

[@zenekborn5878]

@@macx3000 po co? Żeby się narodowcy spuszczali w komentarzach?

[@charonboat6394]

MarkoDeLaVoota Obviously, you have a lot of arrows, Chief ;)

[@szariq7338]

About dressing, expect Poles having "working" clothes (normally the oldest clothes), "for home" clothes (prettier and fitting better than working) and "going outside" (the prettiest and newest clothes, but if you go to the forest or to the nearest shop, for home clothes can do)

[@rogacz5966]

Yeah that's true , but not all people do that , especially in cities

[@autumnramble]

Even in the cities, my mother and grandmother were always asking us not to sit in street clothes and go to change into the home ones the moment we were back from school.

[@rogacz5966]

@@autumnramble yeah exactly

[@Noelciaaa]

Yeah, i think that's true. Most my friends change after coming from school /work.

[@jansmuga1121]

Yeah, wearing a cap inside can be considered to be disrespectful. And for me having a meal while wearing a cap is kind of strange. I never do it.

[@semantinipassat8504]

Why wear a cap at all?

[@_kodokami]

I even take off my cap when I eat outdoors if I'm at a table :D

[@11kimczi]

@@semantinipassat8504 to hide your dirty unwashed hairs

[@laurentprzybylski3401]

it is kind of rude even to me...

[@Juke5]

@@semantinipassat8504 becouse if sun is just in front of you your cap blocks the sun from your eyes

[@jansmuga1121]

When it comes to driving, in Poland almost everyone who passed a driving test is able to drive a manual transmission car and many of them have never driven an automatic transmission car at all while in the USA it seems to be totally different.

[@nadajniczek]

I can even drive automatic (nothing difficult) but I never do it... The first memory I have from the driving lessons is when the car I drove slipped over on the iced railway ... If I had an automatic gear - I would simply smash into the tram and the driving teacher could have no chance to help me to avoid a crash. I'm not even surprised when US army (which IS all in all proffesional) have a crash with a tree in Poland every winter ;) Automatic gear may seem fun when you drive in sunny California on an empty highway... or I'm just a person full of panic :D I even refused my boss to drive our automatic company car unless he will pay me for the safety driving lessons with an automatic car :D And well ... I am a very good driver :P But I don't know how to react with a car full of electronics (And I had no trust in that electronics - unless it helps a bit... for eg. ABS or ESR). I need to have full control :D

[@kubanani6523]

In poland u have driving test with manual transmission and then u can drive allso an automat, but also u have driving licens only for automatic transmission but i dont think someone is actually doing this licens.

[@Vorteksio3]

@@nadajniczek Co ty pierdolisz xd? Wiesz że autonaty TEŻ mają hamulce? Poprostu nie potrafisz jeździć.

[@absynthe.6855]

@@Vorteksio3 ale on nie napisał, że automaty nie mają hamulców, chodziło pewnie o dwa zjawiska, pierwsze to takie że u niektórych automatów zjawisko hamowania silnikiem nie istnieje, po drugie, jak wpadł w poślizg i mu automat wysprzęglił silnik to miał niedociążone koła (tak jakbyś w manualu wchodził w zakręt na sprzęgle). Zaczynanie dyskusji od "co Ty pierdolisz", zamiast dopytać o co dokładnie chodzi - na poziomie, widać że fajnie miałeś w domu. Jak on nie potrafi jeździć to Ty nie potrafisz dyskutować.

[@MaraMara89]

@@kubanani6523 I think it is mainly for people with disabilities - it's easier for them to have automatic and may be impossible to use manual

[@JPluta]

When I applied for a job outside Poland I was surprised that they asked about race. Tbh, I found it a bit disrespectful and rude

[@biglion4]

I agree. It's not only disrespectful and rude but also very racist and would be illegal in most countries to ask this on an application form.

[@anabellik]

Yeah, it's weird to ask about race. I don't know, America is supposed to be inclusive and whatnot, but I think that on the contrary, there are many things they do that are indeed very racist.

[@Pani.Kutas30]

I was asked about race, sexual preferences, religion and if I have still same gender as I was born with.

[@krzysztofcwiklinski6241]

I fullfilled the survey at the University and there was open query named 'origin' and I thought that was "national or ethnic origin". I think that could be unfortunable question and I critisized that in the end of survey.

[@AARTpl]

@@Nalesnik158 "Germans actually don't know what they did." Coz they didn;t do anything wrong, u are talking about someone who lived almost 100 years ago. "Who were Nazis? GERMANS! Germans voted to Nazi party.... " 1. They weren't only German. 2. Voted? XD Seriously dude, political opponents of hitlets party were just killed or threatened, how could win anyone else when there was literally only one party in these elections? Don't be silly, it was fucking regime. Don't be surprised by their reaction when u talking shit like that and accusing innocent people.

[@dramamysteryhorror4234]

This american onion scared me :O

[@michamarkowski2204]

Actually we have big onions in Poland too! It's not about GMO. There are many kinds of onions. If you buy onions only in popular stores, you will usually get only small to medium sized onions. When it comes to cooking recipes I have often trouble with onions or beetroos, because they come in many sizes and the recipe says "chop one onion" instead of "chop 100g onions".

[@007Boksik]

That's hilarious we tend to mix plural and singular forms of our words: You English-languagers use word 'pierogies' as the plural form of 'pierogi' wheres in fact in Polish 'pierogi' is the plural form of 'pieróg'. And we, Polish-languagers use word 'nuggetsy' as the plural form of 'nuggets' wheres in fact in English 'nuggets' is the plural form of 'nugget' :) So we both make the hyperplurals

[@SlawekM.]

Those Hobbitses are really annoying, aren't they? :-)

[@drhubblebubble7]

Don't forgot about chipsy too. One chip, two chips

[@lucynarucinska1118]

More than two chipsy ;-D

[@randomowykolegazinternetu]

No o to chodzi w zangielszczaniu przez nativspeakerów angielskiego i zpolszczaniu przez nativespeakerów polskiego

[@weziak]

@@drhubblebubble7 siema, chcesz może CZIPA powiedział pewien lekarz w usa

[@rogacz5966]

You are wearing a hat indoors, that's the most American thing ever

[@tomeklevy14]

No hats at home and church, or restaurant 😀

[@collinsiemaszko7007]

@@tomeklevy14 Wearing a hat in any building doesn't really make sense

[@mirrored_]

@@collinsiemaszko7007 of course it does, it's covering your hair

[@collinsiemaszko7007]

@@mirrored_ wearing a bag over your head makes sense too, because it covers your face.

[@rogacz5966]

@@collinsiemaszko7007 and you can always say "hello this isn't a robbery!" :D

[@mimikal7548]

Wow, I didn't know you have drive-ins that aren't fast food in America. That seems weird, living in Europe.

[@Trev_in_Poland]

I forgot to mention, there is drive-through movie theaters too!

[@SzymonSowik1996]

@@Trev_in_Poland I saw 1 drive-through shop in Poland, there are probably some more in the whole country, but to be honest for most poles or europeans in general this whole idea of not moving from the car seems just a little bit... unnecessary? It's obviously more comfortable and at the end of the day it's not a bad idea, but I would personally feel really stupid if I went to the shop and was too lazy to even leave my car for those few minutes to buy alcohol or whatever. You sit in traffic, You sit at work, You come back home and sit in front of the TV or a computer and then You go shopping and sit even more... Not the healthiest lifestyle tbh and it sounds really boring for me :P

[@janfelchner1543]

Quick correction to dates: in PL we don't use slash "/" as separator. We use usually dots: 05.08.2020 (day.month.year). Sometimes on reverse order: year.month.day as this is a new notation. And it's rather common in EU (except UK of course). The same is with time: 24h is rather common in EU. Metric system is common in the world, except UK and USA

[@murderyoutubeworkersandceos]

theres 4 countries which officially use imperial system. 4.

[@imfabulous1379]

Yeah, or we can use no separators at all, but only when we use Roman numeral like 5 VIII 2020

[@markryback3797]

Its more complicated. We also use dash 25-04-2020. Traditionally we used Roman numerals for month, so it was 25 IV 2020. Or with separating point. Year was often truncated to two digit. Computers changed our habit, and year 2000 also. In 1990 there were introduced oficial Norm, we should use YYYY-MM-DD format. The same is in ISO8601. That rule is not obeyed in common writings.

[@MrQbee87]

I use slash as separator on everything I sign with a date. Everything. Never had any problems with it.

[@tomasz6871]

@@murderyoutubeworkersandceos 3 countries* (USA, Myanmar/Birma, Liberia) it's not official in UK

[@bardzogroznyjezyk2655]

We cook in home because it's so much cheaper in comparison to fast food like for example McDonalds. Most people get ability of cooking in their college life.

[@xyzzy-dv6te]

I also find waiting for food in restaurants incredibly boring

[@zenekborn5878]

@@xyzzy-dv6te quick way is from microwave and that's shitty meal

[@xyzzy-dv6te]

@@zenekborn5878 I mean cooking makes you busy and is not boring

[@zenekborn5878]

@@xyzzy-dv6te i cook by myself, if I've time. Being vegan it's a little bit simple cus you don't need to much work with bananas. Fortunately, I'm vegetarian

[@Unyielding92]

@@zenekborn5878 Giving up meat seemed easy. In practice my diet is largely based on plants, because eating large amounts of products like dairy or eggs impedes the absorption of iron, which can lead to anemia. Preparing and eating vegetarian/vegan dishes brings me joy, allows me to experiment, try new ingredients... The economic aspect is also significant- just a few weeks ago, when meat prices increased, for a price of 1 kg of chicken breasts you could get (online) up to 5 kg of chickpeas- this amount will last me several months and I can create a lot of delicious and hearty dishes with it

[@xenon5]

In Poland we dress warm because we know how dangerous "przeciąg" (air current) is ;)

[@jakubp8273]

😂😂😂😂

[@JanKowalski-un6kf]

Boimy się przewiania. Aż się sam przestraszyłem czytając twój komentarz.

[@averagemossenjoyer3243]

Same in croatia 😂👊

[@ambulans52]

dla nich to co napisałeś jest idiotyczne xDDDD

[@autumnramble]

I think it's more the car culture thing - if you only walk from a house to a car you don't have to wear much. If you don't know if you will wait on a bus stop for 5 mins or for half an hour - you cover all you have to cover and more.

[@dragontamer3254]

Here's how we do measurements in Canada: Driving: kilometres Height: feet/inches Weather temperature: celcius Oven temperature: ferenheit Liquid measurement: cups Meat: lbs or kg, depending on what the manufacturer thinks makes it look better CFL football: yards Gasoline: litres Thanks America! ;)

[@Trev_in_Poland]

Yeah I have family in Canada and I would just rather it be one system

[@chrisgray3650]

And distance on the waters the same as in fucking Polish swamp ... - in miles. Do not put so many information for Polaks. Their ability of perception is very limited . Greetings from Toronto.

[@wiktoriamyosotis]

@@chrisgray3650 yeah it's better to offend people you know nothing about. Do you know different languages than English or French IF you are from Canada? Are you good at history biology or geography? Because most Poles are very good at this. I can say the same thing about your country that your perception is limited or about your people who are dumb but I'm not going to offend you like you did. Stop this discrimination because the only thing you show is stupidity and lack of knowledge. Go and read your leftist media so you can spread hate against Poles or other nationalities because they have less money than you or are less known in the world.

[@wiernyjudasz5458]

​@@wiktoriamyosotis Maybe I'm wrong, but I think that in Canada is a problem with education. Every canadian who I meet think, that Finland is part of Sweden or Russia, and Russia and Poland is a same country. I understand, that Europa is a distant part of world for Canadians, but the lack of basic knowledge about world is... very wierd for me. From school i know for example where is a Paraguay and why Quebec is mainly Francophone, it was a part of basic geography lessons. I worked many times with Poles and I must to say, that they are smart peoples, "ability of perception is very limited" is the last thing what I may to say about Poles.

[@wiktoriamyosotis]

@@wiernyjudasz5458 yes of course there are people who are narrow minded and open minded as well and that's obvious not everyone will be good at everything. I agree that unfortunately in many places the lack of knowledge about the world is just shocking especially in,, capitalistic,, and western countries and it is also caused by problem with education as well as just ignorance. I'm not talking that everyone in the US or Canada is dumb of course they aren't. In Europe there are a lot of people who also don't know basic things about the world and that's sad because the knowledge of history and the world is valid for meeting new cultures, learning languages etc. I think that people should just change the way of perception of the world and be interested in exploring it trough culture and history :)

[@the3spoonsOFsugar]

I believe that most of us (Poles that is) don't eat out that often or everyday in fact cause it's just expensive compared to average salaries. Or maybe I just earn too little haha. Thank god for sidewalks over here! When I lived in Canada, I was walking once on a sidewalk in the suburbs and I felt that I must have been doing something wrong because I was the only one there. We write number 7 with a dash just to distinguish it from number 1.

[@kojak8403]

Poles prefer family dinners and cooking at home. It's not about expensiveness - there are plenty cheap places to eat out

[@nortchee]

@@kojak8403 you can eat out with a family, but if you eat with family you usually prefer more quality food, and places like that are expensive

[@xyzzy-dv6te]

@@kojak8403 Yeah, I don't really enjoy eating out and I find cooking surprisingly enjoyable

[@boargarage9590]

Restaurants are more of a meeting than eating place here

[@juliajaworska]

Eating out is very expensive really... Omg don't even get me started about sidewalks - they literally don't exist in AU. It's nonsense that you have to walk for 10min while you could for 2 only because there's no sidewalk or that you have to drive to a store which is 800m away but you are forced to drive there because it would take you 20min due to lack of sidewalks and buses going only once per hour. Those moments I miss Poland, buses every 10min and sidewalks everywhere 😂😂

[@marek7641]

For you writing with cursive is for poles handwriting

[@joannawesoowska9887]

'She must be obsessed with military' 😂

[@emilia3607]

😄

[@ZielonyOony]

😄

[@martasielska]

Another military fan is here!

[@worldwideugly3753]

But my cursive handwriting is my regular one x,D.

[@januszlepionko]

Do Americans say "dollars one thousand" or rather "one thousand dollars"? Obviously, they say the latter, so why they write the former? It's illogical.

[@dragontamer3254]

That's incredible. I've never even considered thinking about it that way.

[@Adiounys]

No ale miesiąc przed dniem jest chyba jeszcze bardziej nielogiczny. Brakuje jeszcze po roku minuty a po minucie godziny... :P

[@nadajniczek]

@@Adiounys ale Amerykanie z tego co wiem mówią np. "March the 3rd", tylko my w szkole uczymy się raczej British English więc uczą nas "The 3rd of march" ;) w UK nie zapisują tak dat jak w USA.

[@murderyoutubeworkersandceos]

@Janusz Lepionko exactly

[@murderyoutubeworkersandceos]

@@Adiounys mogę ci przyznać rację, ale tylko jeśli zaczynamy całkiem od roku. Wtedy szukasz od ogółu do szczegółu - od największego, do najmniejszego. Jak piszą amerykanie, to w ogóle jest do dupy pojebane kolejnością, a jak my piszemy, to przynajmniej jest w tym sens

[@Pawcio2115]

70 fahrenheit (20 celsius) and scarves, coat, hat? I don’t see it in Poland

[@albmt]

może niekoniecznie chodzi o szale takie jak na zimę, a takie pasujące do reszty ubioru, dla wyglądu

[@1mortalsin]

dzsiaj (7.05.20) wrocław, 15 stopni- ludzie w kurtkach, czapkach, szalikach... nie wszyscy, jasne, ale kilku ekscentryków się znalazło :P

[@lolekpejo68]

jak 20 stopni jest wiosną, to wszyscy chodzą w shortach itd ale jak jest te same 20stopni w jesieni to ludzie już wkładają kurtki bo odwykli od niższej temperatury

[@krzysztofstrzegomski5662]

Polish people write 9 like g. To avoid confusing 9 with 'g', Americans write it like q :D American 'billion' is Polish 'miliard' 1000 000 000 Polish 'bilion' is American 'trillion' :D 1000 000 000 000

[@typowyuzyszkodnik7406]

In Poland big numbers works like this: 10^(first part x 6 + 3 if iard), so quintillion would be 10^(5x6) = 1^30, in America it's 10^(first time x 3 + 3), so quintillion would be 10^(5x3+3) = 10^18. Just explaining the system to people. I think you already knew that. ;)

[@krzysztofstrzegomski5662]

@@typowyuzyszkodnik7406 Dzieki, użyszkodniku :P ;)

[@MrQbee87]

@@typowyuzyszkodnik7406 it is called Long and Short Scale.

[@weedingadmiral9431]

a to nie nie jest czasem milion -> miliard -> trylion?

[@omchantal4000]

@@weedingadmiral9431 milion,miliard,bilion,biliard itd

[@henningbartels6245]

"regular handwritting" vs. "cursive" sounds funny, because cursive is made for handwritting incomparison to printed letters. American scales on maps and plans are a nightmare: Even Americans have not clue what 3/32" = 1" (three thirtytwos of an inch equals one foot) means?! while nearly everyone in Europe knows that 1:100 means that the things on a drawing are 100 times bigger in reality.

[@henningbartels6245]

@ the good thing about metric and scales like 1:100 is, you just have to add some zeros or move the decimal dot.

[@henasgd1566]

American date format for me is crazy. We have order DD-MM-YYYY. Simple

[@mgrmetal]

This is the most stupid way :D Only americans could invent smth like this. All other countries use dd-mm-yyyy or yyyy-mm-dd

[@paweld.2819]

I'm Polish and I strongly disagree. I only needed couple of months using US date system to find it better and I'll tell you why. In everyday use you dont really need years, because for the most part your referring to the current one and the months are more important than days so for example 25th of May is just 5/25 in common discussions, so it makes it more clear. And if you really need a year then you just add it in the end or beggining - doesnt really matter. The key here is MONTHS BEFORE DAYS. Cheers!

[@jell_pl]

@@paweld.2819 imperial/latin based form of writing dates comes from merchants tradition (bookkeeping, for that month/day is the best notation). metric - comes from science/simplicity, that's why the international standard - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 - have that based on a simple rule - from the biggest container of time - to the smallest, so you have in effect YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.ssss so you are speaking about months importance before days, but you are forgetting about year importance, which is just amusing people grown in countries which are using non imperial systems...

[@Adiounys]

@@paweld.2819 Ale niby dlaczego miesiące są ważniejsze od dni? Ja zazwyczaj nie muszę zaglądać do kalendarza, żeby powiedzieć jaki mamy aktualnie miesiąc, tylko interesuje mnie dzień. A jak prowadzisz jakiś katalog czy coś to miesiące możesz sobie podzielić po stronach/zakładkach/segregatorach...

[@Lyokoheros-KLPXTV]

@@paweld.2819 O to chodzi, że to ma znaczenie, gdzie dodasz lata. Przy układzie miesiąc-dzień dodanie na początku jest logiczne i sensowne. Dodanie na końcu - kompletnie nielogiczne.

[@ninel1995]

In polish you can use the twelve hour system but is not instinctive and we prefer use 24 hours system. But there are persons who prefer 12 hours system.

[@Wyhylili]

Alright Trev, Imagine that you are waiting for a bus, on the bus stop for an hour, cuz no other bus will take you home, and you live in suburbs. The temperature will be a problem for you, for another 10 minutes, a then, even the jacket may not be enough to get you warm. Nowadays the climate has changed. Winters are not that cold, as it used to be. I guess, we still remember them, though. Those harsh winters, that is...

[@xyzzy-dv6te]

I miss the harsh winters, I always wore gloves and ran around the bus stop

[@EnhancedNightmare]

Yeah its not a problem to Americans who just run from parking to their car xD

[@rogacz5966]

I cant believe that no-one made a "...winter is coming" joke

[@thestatusjoe9949]

Busses in America are actually somewhat rare. If you’re in a rural or suburban area, you’ll probably have a car to get around. If you’re in a big city, there’s probably a subway. I live in Colorado and it’s the only place I’ve seen with a commonplace bussing system

[@RunyaEithelNar]

@@xyzzy-dv6te And harsh winter surprised all Poles xD

[@mainpoint5641]

Here in Europe people tend to eat at home just more frequently than in US. But com on, bars and restaurant in Poland are almost always FULL of people so I don't think so the differnet bewteen EU and US is significant

[@Natisson]

we don't have that amount of money to eating everyday outside 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@mainpoint5641]

@@Natisson Speak for yourself. Most of people I do know - my friends, people I work with - can easliy afford eating outside everyday. In fact, a lot of them do this frequently. Including me. It's not a big deal, well... it's not a deal at all. Hence, restuarants, bars ect. are usually full of people like I said before.

[@ple8379]

@@mainpoint5641 Then good for you

[@autumnramble]

But in US there are 23 restaurants for 10 000 citizens and in Poland we have about 8. They could be full but still normal Pole eat there only when there's a wedding or funeral reception. And for a good reason - I can feed four for a price of one meal in low price food establishment and we don't even talk about drinks.

[@frankaczmarek3042]

The difference is VERY significant.

[@ysy662]

Trev, you are a great sport! Love what you do promoting my 'Old Country' the way it is, without sugarcoating, emphasizing that best but not covering up what's not that great about it. You should get a medal for it!😁 Poles don't eat out very much because until very recent it was quite expensive luxury. But in the last 5,6 years it started to change since their relative income went up and things that were considered a 'luxury' are not considered that anymore, eating out included. Especially your generation is doing that more and more. Older people like me still prefer a home cooking and a lot of polish women take a great deal of pride in their cooking and can be quite competitive in it 😁. So when you visit your relatives or friends and in polish tradition there is always a full table you can try some awesome things.

[@frankaczmarek3042]

BTW people who eat together stay together. This is probably one of the reasons that polish family is different than american. Family bonding. Strengthens family ties. Sometimes is better to be not to well off

[@SmelSerendipia]

Great video! 🌸 I am Spanish and I live in Gdańsk! Poland is such a great country! I also have a channel, so it’s great to have discovered yours! 😊

[@konradszmeil654]

Did you know that Fahrenheit was born in Gdańsk?

[@anyas2002]

And Celsius in USA

[@krzysztofnapiorkowski520]

@@anyas2002 in Uppsala, Sweden

[@nikola376]

in poland it used to be very cold. i guess out of habit and family telling them to dress warm it kinda of stayed, and people still dress very warm

[@guciolini123]

No it "was" not. It is that we are north, at the same latitude as NY or Calgary. So we dress as Canadians. In most of US dress code is as in Itally.

[@mateushevski408]

Americans also use more fertilizer and that's why the fruits and vegetables are bigger.

[@Minka_6]

I've lived in the US for a while now but my family lives in Poland. When I go visit them, my dad takes us out to pizza. And it's a whole big event for him haha

[@run2fire]

Alicja Mincewicz Is pizza 🍕 in Poland 🇵🇱 different than in the US? Do Polish use kielbasa as a topping?

[@kojak8403]

Alicja Mincewicz - and you've decided to have a laugh at your dad here?

[@gixrecords1147]

Nah, pizza in Poland is the same ;)

[@superuberjedimaster]

@@run2fire There are many american pizza chains here and the pizza there is the same as in the US I think. There are also some polish pizzerias with a polish variation of pizza (thick crust, mushrooms), some traditional italian pizzerias etc. And there usually is an option to add kiełbasa if you want.

[@run2fire]

Koko Roko Dziękuję bardzo. When I visit Poland 🇵🇱, I will have to try some authentic Polish pizza with kielbasa!

[@kojak8403]

The drive-in ATMs (bankomat) are the funniest thing in US. It's like even stepping out of the car would be a drag

[@maciej5866]

I've never understood why Americans are putting months before days. For me this was always more logical that it goes like in growing line. Which day of which month of which year.

[@grzegorzszewczak7089]

What about "May fifteenth" and "Fourth of July"??

[@joannabasinska8993]

@Mike Collins hmmm... In British English it is fifteenth of May. May fifteenth is the US version of the date format. So "you" may say it both ways depending where and from whom they learned this language. For me putting month before a day and putting the year at the end makes no sense. For naming files most sense makes doing year month and the day. For speach it makes sense to say the day first and in excel it just needs to be consistent all the time so the poor machine knows if this is meant to be 12th of January or December 1st.

[@romystumpy1197]

I agree

[@crusaderanimation6967]

3:30 Yes, in Poland digital clock use 24 h time, (analogue clock are also popular) , and if u wanna say time u can use 12 or 24 hour time.(of course we don't use PM/AM instead we use "przed południem" ~ before midday and "po południu" after midday)

[@greensky6664]

raczej w nocy/rano/po południu/wieczorem ;)

[@bhblueberry]

This is the first time when I hear about this :d I think we rather use term "it's six(o clock)" without using before or after midday, just basing on the fact that someone we are talking to - knows that :) Sometimes we are using only sth like "It was first(hour) at night when sth woke me up" :)

[@zenekborn5878]

a.m. and p.m. is from Latin ante meridiem/post meridiem what means before/after midday.

[@crusaderanimation6967]

@@bhblueberry , well I remember I heard when someone said "Przed południem" my bad this is quite. But well U quite right when this is obvious we don't say "second part" But sometimes we need to be precise and them we say "second part", w nocy (in/at night) rano (morning) po południu( after midday).

[@crusaderanimation6967]

@@greensky6664 yea I forget about that, But I remember I heard "przed południem" in telling Time context. Yea zapomniałem o tym ale pamiętam że spotkam się z określeniem przed południem w kontekście podawania czasu.

[@SzymonSowik1996]

I've heard one person say "Europeans work to live, Americans live to work" in relation to the importance of work in life etc. Do You also find it true? About the time, we sometimes use 12hr clock in unofficial situations when it's obvious whether we mean PM or AM, like "I'll pick You up at 5" mostly to make communication faster. 24hr clock is generally more popular (in 80% of unofficial situations too) and it's used in more formal situations like making an appointment with a doctor etc.

[@Trev_in_Poland]

There's some truth to it as well as many exceptions.

[@thestatusjoe9949]

Trev I think that although there are indeed a lot of exceptions, part of our culture is “you are your work.” Like oftentimes the first thing you ask someone is what they do, and it takes up so much of our lives (not just in terms of time but also how we think). We base our identity not off of our cultural group or our religion or whatnot but rather off of our occupation. Of course all of this is a generalization, but it is a part of American culture

[@frankaczmarek3042]

I spend lots of time in America and I tend to agree with your statement. Looks like in Poland people have more time for themselves, their families and friends. Kind of more like living their lives. In America is constant: go, go, go. Many people are working long hours, or more then one job.. The distances are bigger, traffic jams etc.

[@beholder2012]

2:42 No, we don't use in Poland slashes as "date separators", it's Anglo-Saxon invention ; if you want to be more formal, you can write date like this: "05.08.2020" (dots as date separator, note the leading zeros for day and month that are less than 10) - or less formal way, using Roman number for month: "5 VIII 2020" (note NO LEADING ZERO for day, and just spaces instead of any "date separators).

[@tymekmarciniak3093]

writting M/D/YYYY is like M/S/H on clock ;o

[@danielsikorski8167]

yea Americans are not logical , when they made USA they wanna make some difference between Europe , and now they all say " ha look European countries are write days before months " ,

[@Karol-dk7cz]

@@danielsikorski8167 like england with left side driving

[@charlieevilin7621]

Humidity man, for the temperature. Poland has NY weather. The North.

[@MarkoDeLaVoota]

Charlie Evilin , it wasn’t there 25 years ago or before when I was growing up there

[@mago5974]

I think it is very good point! And we have lot less sun than most of states.

[@minimim89]

NY. The North. It's so funny for Europeans when you realise NY is more or less at the latitude of Rome 😅

[@juzniekiers_7067]

Ja: (Idę na miasto coś zjeść) Moja babcia: Gdzie idziesz? Ja: eee Ja nigdzie ! Moja babcia: Wiem że idziesz coś zjeść na mieście. Nie pójdziesz przeciesz mamy tyle jedzenia w lodówce!!! Trzeba je zjeść. Ja: ach no dobrze babciu.

[@martinjiranek5915]

You're correct on numbers (commas and full stops). In Europe, you use full stops and commas the other way round than in the US and the UK.

[@atypical3800]

Jestem z ciebie dumny, pozdrawiam z Polski🇵🇱 I am proud of you, greetings from Poland

[@padidivemaster1963]

I like that Polish flag in a background.

[@ZielonyOony]

Flag with correct colors.

[@karabinsky6144]

Actually, In Poland... We have in common to say the time in ”12-Hour clock”! But we don't say the ”am” and ”pm”... For example: 13:00 (Trzynasta) :---: 1:00 (Pierwsza). But we use it only when we mention current moment! In this case, we wouldn't say a future hour in the ”12-Hour clock”!

[@SilverinaLola]

It happens to say "let's met at 3 o'clock" but it's always clear from the context which 3 o'clock speaker means.

[@missquprison]

It of course depends on the people, but also its much harder to with stand humid - 10C than dry - 30C

[@Ma88la88]

Sport clothes are for sports. I cannot understand how girls can go out in yoga pants not doing yoga?!

[@charonboat6394]

Especially fluffy ones. It is disgustin.

[@Ma88la88]

@@charonboat6394 exactly!

[@autumnramble]

They would be disgusting if they were dirty. What's wrong with wearing comfortable clothes?

[@littleeddie1684]

Who cares

[@BLACK3737]

I find your observations quite accurate. Actually being a Pole, mostly you don't think about those small details unless someone is not pointing them out, it's very interesting. Cooking at home is still more-less common practice, but I think it will vanish at some point (I hope I'm wrong here). I like to cook at home, I like to serve meal to my friends, who are visiting me, but I also see that we are moving towards "easy solutions" in most cases, including kitchen area. All the best!

[@YamahaRadolStyle]

Świetny kanał! Muszę nadrobić i oglądnąć wcześniejsze filmy.Pozdrawiam Was że Szczecina. POPROSZĘ O POLSKIE NAPISY DO TWOICH FILMÓW.Trochę rozumiem co mówisz i jest to też trochę lekcja języka, ale wygodniej się ogląda.

[@danielsikorski8167]

Czas się nauczyć jezyka angielskiego .

[@timsvea5980]

I enjoy your videos! I think that some of the differences which you indicate are generally distinctly European (such as the way numbers are written), regional (warm vs. cold climate) or generational (writing in cursive vs block letters). I have lived in both the USA and various European countries, lived in warm and cold regions and am now older and so I notice these differences without necessarily attributing them to being Polish vs American. Nonetheless, I think you do well in pointing these distinctions out to general audiences who travel between Poland and the USA. Good work.

[@jansmuga1121]

While watching American movies I noticed that when you introduce yourself and you did a PhD you always mention it, for example "My name is Dr. John Brown" or something like that. In Poland it would be very odd. I haven't heard anybody say anything like that. It is like you make other people feel you're better than them just because you've got an academic title.

[@Trev_in_Poland]

my guess? It's their identity. All they know is school. So they want respect for it.

[@nadajniczek]

Lol, my grandma had naighbour who had a door signed Mgr. (A bachelor) for eg. Kowalski 😂😂😂 There are narcistic people everywhere :P

[@olagrzeszczyk8371]

@@nadajniczek Magister (mgr)t is a master degree

[@grantmartin2002]

You guys are thinking too deep about this. It's just what we have always done (we just replace the Mr. with Dr.) Nobody is trying to flex their academic achievements bro lmao.

[@jansmuga1121]

@@grantmartin2002 Yeah, I guess you are correct. I'm not a native speaker of English so I will probably never be able to capture the nuances. Thanks for your explanation anyway.

[@nortchee]

2:00 i still remember this math lesson in fourth grade when my teacher was literally screaming to NEVER write 1000 with the comma or dot between numbers, but put space or this thing ' (i dunno how to call it)

[@shourikaen.]

,-this is gap

[@TheCursedCat1927]

5:50 My friend from Poland was explaining it to me once, and I think the best way he could cut it short was "basically, for the Traffic, the Lights rule more-or-less everything".

[@joannabasinska8993]

handwritten "4"s are also different. When I write it fast, most Americans would read a "6". Needed to re-learn the numbers to avoid missunderstandings and make sure my mail is getting where it should. It is much more convinient and common to use 24h format. Usually if you just say "at seven" and there is no specific context (like for example it isn't obvious that this is something that will happen after work) you would need to add "in the evening" otherwise it would be understood as the 7 in the morning, whereas when you say "at nineteen" you know it right away. I live now in the US and I am quite bothered that I cannot have 24h format in an alarm clock that I bought and if I set 24h format in my computer Excel wants to do everything in Polish... cannot have hour 24h and Polish keyboard but Excel and number US settings. (computer bought here, recently). With the date I guess this is Americans that do it all the way round vs most of the world. We also say 7th of August, rather than August 7th when we speak. And I found it to be "our" way in most of other places so far. Don't even get me start on imperial system... it makes absolutely no sense... and one onion is here more or less 1 pound. we get 4 onions in a kilo. You have here also different windows. In Poland windows, ususally, open inwards. And you can make them switch to open horizontally (and for example clean the outside of it standing in your room) or vertically just the upper part. I find unnerving the fact that here I cannot access the outside. and I cannot clean it, living on a 3rd floor. In Poland clean windows are part of clean home. At my home we were washing them every month. You would have nosy neighbors talking bad about you if you had your windows without cleaning for 3 or 4 months. Here I find it not to be too important. I even hired a window cleaning crew when I moved in to the appartment. They serviced 9 windows from the inside with one sponge and the same centimeter of half clean water.... and from the outside they had a pole with a brush and hose attached to it. They even didn't remove screens... so aaaall the dirt from the screens was offset to the windows. For a Polish person it is kind of unthinkable. soo.. I wasn't happy so the guy performing the service called the owner of the company. The owner came pretty upset that I have crazy demands (and I was paying close to 300 USD), but eventually he got on the ladder..... and it turned out that the glass is damaged and it will never appear clean as it is just already un-transparent from the years of service and the water that with each rain was getting in between of the layers of glass... so I tried to get the administration to change the panels for me (I wanted to pay for it) but they told me this is unreasonable so I am stuck with dirty windows. And hence each Polish guest I have I tell this longish rant as I feel deeply ashamed of the state of my windows.... but by expressions of the face of my work colleagues here I gather my problem with the windows is not entirely understandable here.

[@ukaszwenelski3198]

Could you please elaborate on the race and forms? I'm curious - if your mom is an afroamerican and your father is white - which race you choose? What if your mom is mixed and your father white? At what point of time can you choose "white" and who's judging if your white enough to be white? What if your parents are both white, but you consider yourself different, are you free to choose whatever you like? Can you change your mind from time to time? As you said it all seems to be dividing, cause for me there's no logic in it :)

[@jansmuga1121]

Writing cursive is believed to be beneficial for your neural connections and to increase mental effectiveness.

[@zuza3890]

Ooo I personally never heard of that, but maybe it just something that depends on the region of Poland you live in. I also don't know many people who writes in cursive on a daily basis (only on invitations etc.) so I was surprised when I heard about it in the video 😅

[@jansmuga1121]

@@zuza3890Well, I believe that in Poland children who come to school learn writing in cursive and it is kind of mandatory.

[@worldwideugly3753]

@@zuza3890 I only write in cursive

[@Bestgamer-ps3is]

About driving usually there is an additional signal light at the intersection, which looks like a green arrow and when it is on, you can turn right.

[@kamilchrostowski6842]

The dates, and 24-hour clock, is just normal thing, I think only America is different and UK with AM and PM

[@eveadam7462]

Thanks for all the info! It's helpful for my boyfriend to better understand those differences before going to vist Poland. Keep doing your work! We like it! Take care! 👍💟

[@oldbritishguy1742]

Every Pole: HEY

[@galgulator]

I like you don't judge the differences just simply describe them. I agree with most of them. Nice video!

[@weronikarechul2153]

Greetings from Poland! :D

[@MarkoDeLaVoota]

Weronika Rechul , pozdrowienia z USA :)

[@kopernik_elfka]

1. Handwritting - we are learning at first school to write in cursive and in higher classes we can slightly change our handwritting to more print or sometimes even technical writting (we are learning this at school sometimes too, but it's only required in technology classes). On university, we sometimes change our handwritting style 'cause of learning style (hear-write-look-learn at the same time). See: [handwritting in school] sierysuje.pl/pismo-szkolne/ [technical writting] mechatronikanausiu.opx.pl/pismo.htm www.italki.com/entry/51254?hl=en-us 2. Cash notation - we write unit at the and of cash expression, because we write it in other expressions at the and too. For example, we write: 100,10 zł (which is 100 zł and 10 gr) and 100,10 cm (which is 1 m and 1 mm, btw - last zero is unnecessary - I write it only for this example). We use for decimal comma or dot - it depends on personal style or willing (comma is more common, though). And not always we use space for separating numbers - especially in handwritting. It's correct to write 1000, but 1 000 is more clear and pretty. 3. Dates - we use different date notations, but almost always we use pattern from smaller to bigger time unit - day, month, year (and "r." or "rok" as "yr" or "year"). I think, using dot or "-" as a separator is much more common than / in everyday life. For example this Christmas was on 24.12.2019r. and next Halloween will be on 31-10-2020. Sometimes in less official cases we use month name or shortcut in notation (but then we don't use dots - f.e. 24-gru-2019 or 24 grudnia 2019 etc.). It's funny that correct we say "24 grudnia" (we use noun declension - "the 24th [day] of december") not "24 grudzień" ("the 24th december"). 4. Time notation - we often use 24-hr notation but in informal situations we use sometimes 12-hr clock (but instead of AM/PM we use f.e. "7. rano" / "7. morning" or "5. po południu" / "5th [hour] after midday"). Somet we cut off the time of day indication when it's not necessary for example on 15:20 (3:20 PM) we can say that it is 20 after 3rd because if it was AM, it would be dark. 6. Vegetables and recipes - oh dear, I don't like recipes that say you about using pieces instead of weight/volume units. But, in common these old fashioned recipes say about average normal size [vegetables or orher foods] and you must know cooker to know what is average. We have in shops super big potatoes, carrots or parsleys, sometimes cabbages. I've never seen so big onnion. There was a joke about grandma learning grandchild to cook pierogi. Grandchild Anna goes to grandma Stefcia: - Grandma, can you say me recipe to do pierogi? - No, I've never coocked from a recipe, no one teaches me, I must do it, you have seen me do this many times! - But grandma, I need it to repeat later at home. We could start with basics: how much flour should I use. - I don't know, each flour is different, dough should be proper consistency. - What consistency, grandma? - Uh-oh, consistency of... of pierogi dough, of course! You don't listen to me. 7. About wearing weather-related clother - we take off outerwear when we walk into buildings. I know people that change all wearing when they come for work building, or change shoes after coming out of a car. It is sometimes connected with that there is not always AC in buildings, older busses or flats don't have/use it.

[@hulahop5655]

Americans put their ice in every drink, but when I put 3 cubes in my beer, their eyes become bigger 🤣🤣🤣❤

[@MikFrey]

Regarding number in Poland you can write 1'500,50 (or 1 500,50 as you said) which will be in US format 1,000.50. Excel allows to select which version you want.

[@jimhuggard5398]

The way the numbers look seems to be very similar to here in Germany, also the use of the 24 hour clock.

[@MarkoDeLaVoota]

Jim Huggard also wedding ring on the right hand :)

[@nortchee]

propably just European thing

[@artinaam]

The dash in number seven is added exactly because of the way number one is written - it helps to clearly differentiate both numerals, as they can appear almost identical when writing quickly. Number 9 is exactly an inverted 6 (also in printed numerals, not just handwriting). Commas and dots are used exactly opposite in Polish and English numerals. You can tell the time both ways in Polish - using the "military" version is slightly more formal and people use the 12-hour variant when the time context is obvious (morning or afternoon/evening). Metric system is now officially in use in the UK (and taught at schools), but people use some imperial units in daily life in traditional situations - they buy potatoes by the pound, have a pint of beer at a pub, and so on. Red light is an absolute no-go in Poland - the only vehicles which can ignore it are ambulances, fire engines and police cars which are on duty. The race box on American forms is totally absurd and I can't imagine what purpose it serves apart from gathering statistical data (e.g. how many Black or Asian people are doctors or butchers in the US). Plus, Polish constitution states that race is an irrelevant factor for the Polish law and cannot be used to discriminate or privilege anyone. Eating out (in most cases) is still far more expensive in Poland than buying basic groceries and cooking at home.

[@Bartek-zz9rk]

About "7" there is a legend. When Moses was passing on Ten Commandments he came to the 7th "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and the people said "No! Cross that on out". In remembrance of this event, Poles write 7 with a line dash :P

[@renar11]

Learn your 10 Commendments once again, because you confused the sixth one with the seventh one 😀

[@piechaczyk]

I feel like its doesn’t happen often but you have 100 % right in everything. well done. does are those small differences which I do like visiting every new country.

[@Ussurin]

2:20 - we usually put a gap, but we will never use a coma to seperate long numbers, sometimes we will use dots. Comas are reserved to diferentiat between integer and decimal parts of numbers.

[@amjan]

A thousand is: 1 000,00 1.000,00 1'000,00

[@beholder2012]

@@amjan nie używamy w Polsce ŻADNYCH separatorów pomiędzy cyframi, jedynie pojedyńczy odstęp. Jesli gdzie widziałeś jakieś "farfocle" pomiędzy cyferkami, to jedynie zapewne dlatego, ze gdzieś używano jakiegoś "obcego" oprogramowania.

[@franek.kedziorek]

beholder2012 czasami się stosuje kropeczki

[@ple8379]

@@beholder2012 No znaczy, tylko przecinek, żeby oddzielić części dziesiętne, setne etc.

[@Noelciaaa]

I'd seen plenty ppl using ' as a separator for big numbers, like over a million, i use them too. It's not that uncommon.

[@scoroop]

I remember when I worked in a room service in a hotel in US - on the initial course they told us about 24h clock and I was thinking like what the heck? :D Later I got to know why. The funny thing was that for a first couple of days it was a problem for Americans to adjust their brain to military time. They would often come to me and ask like what is 17:30 in 12h clock? :D

[@Kabanosz058]

When I went onto this video you just hit 21k subs just a fun fact, and yes, I'm from Poland.

[@Ev0ltion]

10:05 you have driving cultute so probably you just drive to your destination get out of the car and get into building. Then imagine waiting 20 min for public transport or walking more ;]

[@Markmywordschannel]

Hadn’t really thought about these but you’re totally right 👍 As a Brit living in Poland I see this too

[@Evangeder]

FALSE on turning at red lights. When it's red light, and you want to turn, you: 1. Either wait for green light 2. Wait for green arrow at the side of red light, which indicates you can only turn into defined by that light direction with keeping your cautious. Source: i'm polish. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions about Poland tbh

[@quikboys3799]

everyone is polish in the comment section you ain't special

[@magdalenajasinska4668]

For this term I had American roommate in my dorm and we discussed every thing you've mentioned :) Many times I thought "why is she going out all the time? why is she wearing a hat inside?" and she was shocked about leggins and how small our typical dorm room was ;)

[@lathien851]

We use like in Polish it's 17 o'clock but when we speak English most ppl use like 5 o'clock not 17 o'clock

[@nortchee]

yes, i think 17 o'clock and write/say 5 PM, because i feel like no American would get what am i talking about

[@marcinb.5714]

I like driving car in US. Everyone keeps safe distance. There is some kind of chill out during car journeys. Missing pedestrians, wide streets help to relax. I liked intersections with 4x stop signs. This is very good solution we should copy in Europe. BTW. The guy who is producing of stop signs in US has to be very reach man.

[@bhblueberry]

I've never heard that wearing a hat inside is disrespectful other times when it's by the table (especially eating) or in the church (men only). But there is something else that I consider very disrespectful (and a lot of Americans are doing that) - It is wearing sunglasses talking to somebody (especially "in four eyes"). I don't know if you bother but there is also another irritating habit that a lot of people do (I don't know how it is in US) - It is reaching your hand for handshake, not bothering to take off your gloves (especially those for working). I really hate that and I think about these people as a really stupid ones. Not all the PL people are putting so much clothes when it's cold. I am personally - never wearing a scarf, hat or gloves and I am also very surprised when I see for example people in thick hats - not taking them off after entering the heated bus or train. I would die from discomfort :) I think it is from parents, grandparents etc talking about that you will get sick from cold..

[@Natisson]

a czy sciaganie nakrycia glowy nie jest czasem z savoir vivru? nie wyobrazam sobie chodzic po domu w niej lub nie sciagnac bedac gdzies w lokalu. co do okularow przeciwslonecznych... no jak jest slonce, no to wiadome, ze ich nie sciagne rozmawiajac z kims - z tym sie nigdy nie spotkalam nawet

[@electricbadgercollc8146]

I spent the first 15 years of my life growing up in Poland...granted it was more than 25 years ago, but from what I remember your observations are spot on.

[@the3spoonsOFsugar]

this will be off topic but since you like pierogi... do check out Eat pierogi by Mee And The Band XDD

[@wigi3503]

Yeah, in Poland people usually shorten hours in colloquial speech, btw it's very useful. For example, you want to say, that it's 5pm. In polish instead of saying 17:00 (siedemnasta - seventeenth), you can say just 5 (piąta), (no "hour"/"pm" word after it). It literally means fith (hour after midday). But saying full hours (18, 19, 23 etc...) is common as well ;D

[@MrSmokull]

I think that people in shorts on snow are rather from the north part of the USA . Southerns from Florida Or Texas would never ever do that , they are used to hot temperatures and hate snow.

[@jansmuga1121]

Maybe some Wim Hof Method practitioners.

[@Miko80]

Great observations, Trev. In regard to the numbers, we put dash in the figure seven to make it look different than the figure one.

[@vladprus4019]

I am Polish and I do not like going outside without a hat. I guess I am wierd.

[@jansmuga1121]

I am Polish too and I don't like hats 'cause I think I look like an idiot when I wear one.

[@malinka209]

Pewnie łysiejesz i ci wstyd lol

[@beholder2012]

@@malinka209 niech se czapkę z pomponem włoży, jak Murzyn hip-hopper.

[@Cukieralke]

2:07 Yes, you are wrong. We never put commas as thousand separator, usually we put space and rarely nothing at all. However we sometimes use dot instead of comma as decimal separator, I think because we use a lot of US software / coding languages. It really blows your head off when some software is adapting and accepts commas (e.g. MS Excel) and some is not and accepts dots (e.g. Matlab). Another difference regards big numbers. 1 with 9 zeroes you call "billion" while we call it "miliard", and your "trillion" is our "bilion". We basically use -on and -ard repeatedly and introduce new beginning every 6 zeroes, while in US it's only -on and new beginning every 3 zeroes. It's tricky in translations. 3:40 We consider 24h time the specific, precise one. So we use it always in formal, and most of the times in casual. I would say that all digital clocks in Poland are set to 24h format and because of that for their users is natural to read what is written. 12h format is sometimes present in speech, almost always with very informal time expressions like "fifteen to five" (za piętnaście piąta) when we are 100% sure that the other person knows if we talk am or pm. If we have any doubt that number will be not enough and am/pm information would be necessary we always go 24h. And I think the 12h format is slowly getting extinct together with analog clocks. It's clearly more popular among people aged 40+ raised in analog world than among teenagers raised by smartphones.

[@maciejm4738]

When I heard, watching some stuff about US police, mentioning “race” of the guy I was just stunned. Never ever have I seen such thing and imo it is quite like a racism to me

[@gibek2600]

You sometimes can turn right on red light but there's a additional traffic light that says you're allowed to do it.

[@iXmovie]

Drive through the bank. 🤣🤣🤣 Wtf happened to your culture and need to stay healthy....American friends

[@LMB222]

2:15 you were right. There's no jaywalking in Poland on small streets 50m from crossroads, or 100m from crossroads with zebra.

[@maxwachinski5087]

*Most poles dont go out to eat* You know that's because most of us are used to cooking and dont expect to just pay for convinience

[@miazga3]

Hi Trev. Since I haven't found any other way to contact you, I'll post it here. A thing that really pieces me off is the way polish roads are put on maps, especially googlemaps and michelin, since these are the most popular i believe. I've got no idea what your location is, but I'm quite sure you're aware that there are highways in Poland. To be exact we've got three of them.. A1, A2 and A4. And these are shown on gmaps as any other highways in any other European country. That's fair. What gets me is the way our expressways are shown. There are more than 6000 km of expressways in Poland and you can't really see them if you use gmaps. They look (almost) the same, as ordinary state roads. Whereas in fact these roads are of much higher quality, than many of higways in so called 'western' Europe. What I mean is that foreigners planning their route in or through Poland are not being given a proper image of how these roads are. If they rely on gmaps, they cannot be aware that our express S8 between Warsaw and Wroclaw is in many ways better than probably most of highways in Italy, France, former East Germany...Same with S3, S5, S6 and I could go and on and on.. I hope you know what I mean... dużo zdrowia, keep safe.

[@agataschweitzer9725]

I guess Americans don't need extra warm coats, scarfs, and hats because you drive everywhere. Home -> Car -> Restaurant -> Car -> Home. This combination doesn't require a lot of walking in the snowy, cold weather. In Poland when you have to wait for a bus (that is probably going to be late), you appreciate that nice, thick winter coat.

[@grantmartin2002]

I don't think either way of writing dates or money is objectively better than one another. They are just different. For dates, Americans write it how they say it (August 6th, 2019-8/06/(20)19), while the polish put the day first since it is the most important indicator of what day it is (you usually know what month and year you are in). For money, the Polish write it how they say it , while Americans put the currency sign before the number since it is a good indicator of what they are talking about before they read the number. Both have their pros and cons.

[@michasikora4023]

Poles are afraid of cold and wind xD I rembember when I used to fight with my family during the all saints day (we go to the cemetery that day). It's 1st november, almost winter so you are not suppossed to wear only a t-shirt even if it's 20 degress outside xD

[@nortchee]

dude, it's almost may righ now, 20°C outside and i'm here sitting in my sweater, insulated black pants and woolen socks.

[@thinkania1889]

It is always super cold on cemeteries, It is only 5 minutes warm and later windy and cold sometimes even rainy

[@riem2079]

I think the thing w/ the way we write is mainly because in elementary school children are taught to write in cursive, they're also only allowed to use fountain pens instead of regular ballpoint ones (or at least thats how it was abt 12 years ago?). There's exceptions for kids who are left-handed sometimes.

[@Pidalin]

Here in Czechia they wanted cancel classic cursive few years ago on many schools, I don't know if it really passed, but many people already writte almost same like they started teaching, you mostly writte in cursive only because they force you at school, it can be fast, but it's problem read it later. I am 10 years from high school and I can writte with cursive only very slowly, I almost forgot how to do it after only few years. New font for Czech schools looks like this institutgrafologie.cz/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/obrazky06_comeniascript.jpg I noticed that most of older kids and students on universities and high schools already used very similar font many years ago, it's probably natural evolution. On highs school, they don't force you use cursive anymore (if you are not on some grammar school) so studends write like they want mostly.

[@Pyrokan]

As far as I've noticed there is absolutely no love for organized discrimination in Poland. "Positive discrimination" is an oxymoron.

[@kojak8403]

Cadogantes - "positive" discrimination of someone is always at an expense of someone else

[@michabawoek6661]

About dates, we do not use / in Poland, instead we use either dot (usually) or dash (rarely). For example, 5.08.2020 or 05-08-2020 About turning - there is green arrow next to red light if you can turn left on red light

[@crusaderanimation6967]

6:25 -Pierogies- pierogi

[@Gracz87]

Or in Polish-English - Pierog's

[@GawronoItaliano]

My robimy to samo. Jeans- dżinsy Chips- czipsy

[@uchy_1x3]

Oni mówią Pierogies bo dla nich Pierogi to jeden pieróg a pierogies to pierogi. Tak się przyjęło

[@crusaderanimation6967]

@@GawronoItaliano Dobra poddaje się macie racje, już nie ma sensu zmieniać przyzwyczajeń które można uznać za angielszczenia i spolszczenia, (czyli tak jakby osobne słowo tylko pochodzący z obcego języka, )

[@GawronoItaliano]

Nie, bardzo dobrze, że zwracasz uwagę. Jakoś mogli zapamiętać, że są tortellini, czy gnocchi, to może zapamiętają też pierogi. Ja chciałem tylko pokazać, że my popełniamy takie same błędy.

[@CoCiJeTe]

Grettings from Poland :)

[@doomer3729]

About wearing caps in the building. I'm not old, I'm just 26 but when I see someone wearing a cap in the building it just annoys me so much, I don't even know why. I mean, I don't care, but in my mind, I am so annoyed, its the feeling similar to "perfectionist hell" - if you know what I mean... Like why the hell are you wearing it in the building, what is the reason, what is the point xD