...being told for so long that we can't tell Polish jokes, (for our UK friends, that's the US version of Irish jokes), suddenly it's about face, at least in the UK :-
"A Pole, a Dane and a Swede walk into a bar...
A Polish anthropologist wants the British to make jokes about Poles, to help them to blend into UK society. Michal Garapich, a social anthropologist at Roehampton University - I know! Who knew? - said: “How Polish people react to being the butt of English jokes would be the real test of whether or not Poles are really integrating into Britain.” While an admirable sentiment - laughter really is, apart from antiretrovirals, serotonin reuptake inhibitors and Calpol, the best medicine - there is a slight flaw, ie, we don't really know much about the Poles, or Poland. Indeed here is (and I probably speak for most of Britain) the sum, educated, total of what we know:
- It was infamously very poorly defended at the beginning of the Second World War.
- Poles are hard-working.
- Poles like pickled things.
- “Poland” sounds a bit like both “Polo mint” and “polio”.
- Poles seem to drive battered white cars (that's what I've noticed here, anyway; there might be regional variations - I would be interested to learn more about this.)
- Poland is not where you think it is on a map. That's Denmark! Which isn't by Sweden at all! I tell you, I've just had an incredible, revelatory hour with a map of Europe.
- Lech Walesa, the former President of Poland, had a name that sounds a bit like when you make small opening and closing movements with a squeaky door.
- There was a big pact in Warsaw.
- Erm, erm, there might be wolves there.
As you can see, it's not an enormous knowledge base to start working gags off."
This pearl of wisdom from a purported Anthropologist. Don't know about you, but he doesn't seem to be entirely knowledgable on the subject of Poles and Poland to be making ublic statements, don't you think?
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Hmm. The other stereotypical thing i can think of is that "poles are hard-working"
My Dad was a POW in Poland and thought they were solid dudes. They like a drink allegedly.
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I know a bit about pole dancers but that's not really the same thing I suppose...
trust me when i tell you that all the poles working at our place, and there are more than enough, constantly have the piss taken on a nightly basis!
So there was this Polish airplane flying from Warsaw to Heathrow full of Poles looking for work in the UK. On the final approach the pilot announced "And on the right you can see the famous 4D". All the passengers rushed over to look out of the starboard windows, causing the plane to become instable and crash.
The accident investigation say the airliner became instable and crashed because all the Poles were in the right half of the plane ;-)
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this joke is for control-system engineers only ;-)
how do you get a polish woman pregnant?
I don't know, how do you get a Polish woman pregnant?
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