Another Fan Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Always wondered this as I'm about half myself. I suppose Gronk doesn't really help matters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Most every immigrant group has faced the wrath of public scorn, denigration and jokes. I’m guessing this was the source of issue for Polish people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
row_33 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 What country that prides itself on cold intellect and logic is a neighbour of Polish territory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
\GoBillsInDallas/ Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFergy Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just now, \GoBillsInDallas/ said: Pass. Arms are wayyyy too long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo716 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Because the English , Italian , German and Irish were already all here The new Polish immigrants were Eastern European and different and thus stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plenzmd1 Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Were they cousins to the Newfies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misterbluesky Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Polska..let's talk food.my bride and mom in law are 5 star kitchenettes. I boil my kielbasa in beer..then grill.pierogies rock..galumpki....ahh yeah.hip hip hoooray.good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Jack Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Have you met @joesixpack? Then you would know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Just now, Just Jack said: Have you met @joesixpack? Then you would know. t(-.-)t Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bills4everNY Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 They came from Nazi propaganda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 2 hours ago, Another Fan said: Where Did Polish Stupid Stereotypes Come From? Poland. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cripple Creek Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 2 hours ago, Another Fan said: Always wondered this as I'm about half myself. I suppose Gronk doesn't really help matters They cook their hot dogs with cabbage. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jauronimo Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 2 hours ago, Another Fan said: Always wondered this as I'm about half myself. I suppose Gronk doesn't really help matters Most stereotypes of Polish stupidity can be traced back to the early 20th century, around the time Poland commissioned a submarine with screen doors while other such notions seem to be based on empirical studies that revealed it can take as many as 3 to 10 Pols to screw in a light bulb while this task is generally performed by one individual of another nationality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BringBackFergy Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Trying to find the news story about the Polish father/husband that locked his keys in the car. The paper reported that it took him 6 days to get his wife and kids out. If I find it I'll post the link. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 2 hours ago, Another Fan said: Always wondered this as I'm about half myself. I suppose Gronk doesn't really help matters My sister in law is Polish.... It's pretty easy to see why!!! 3 minutes ago, BringBackFergy said: Trying to find the news story about the Polish father/husband that locked his keys in the car. The paper reported that it took him 6 days to get his wife and kids out. If I find it I'll post the link. Mother writing to her son returning from a deployment. Dear Stan, You won't recognize the place when you get home. (we've moved) Love Mom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 1 hour ago, BringBackFergy said: Pass. Arms are wayyyy too long What arms? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 2 hours ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said: No, she's from Pole-land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 (edited) DP=Displaced Person, became "dumb Pollack." That is what I always thought. Wop=Without papers, stuck w/the Italians. Must have been a lot of Italians without papers? Edited December 5, 2017 by ExiledInIllinois Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 3 hours ago, ShadyBillsFan said: My sister in law is Polish.... It's pretty easy to see why!!! Of course - she married into your family. 5 hours ago, \GoBillsInDallas/ said: She looks like she could be a good pole dancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taro T Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Don't know the answer but always thought it had something to do w/ using cavalry (because they didn't have any armored tanks) to attempt to stand up to the Nazi tanks invading at the start of the war. Probably didn't start there/then, but no way that helped to diminish the stereotype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mead107 Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Brother Inlaw is polish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Punching Bag Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Here is a Polish joke which is often told in my family. Remember hearing it almost 50 years ago. I am German but I am in a blended family and my mother's first husband was Polish ("Pokojski") so I grew up with a lot of Polish traditions. A Polish man finds a genie bottle and rubs it and out pops a genie. "For freeing me you get three wishes." states the genie. Polish man states "I want the mongols to attack Poland". "As you wish" states the genie and the mongols get on their horses, cross Asia and attack Poland before returning home. Genie states "That was interesting ... give me your second wish." Polish man states "I want the mongols to attack Poland". A bit confused the genie states "As you wish." and the mongols get on their horses, cross Asia and attack Poland before returning home. Genie states "Your wish was granted. What do you want now? Gold? A palace? I promise no tricks." Polish man states "I want the mongols to attack Poland". Perplexed Genie states "As you wish." and the mongols get on their horses, cross Asia and attack Poland before returning home. Genie states "Your wish was granted. Grant me some clarity. Please explain to me why you had mongols attack Poland three times and I will give you another wish." Polish man states "I had only three wishes and this way I got the mongols to tramp thru Russia 6 times pillaging each way." Genie states "That sort of makes sense. As if I do not know what is your final extra wish?" Polish man states "I want the mongols to attack Poland". Lesson: Stupid people think Polish are stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous Guy Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 pieprzyć was wszystkich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 19 minutes ago, Nervous Guy said: pieprzyć was wszystkich Buncha cholerniks in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Must've been envy by the Germans and Russians. Poles have the man who said the sun was the center of the solar system (Copernicus) and the first non-Italian Pope in over 400 years (JP II). 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 http://www.polamjournal.com/Library/Fighting_Defamation/The_Origin_of_the_Polish_Joke/the_origin_of_the_polish_joke.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 2 minutes ago, Gugny said: http://www.polamjournal.com/Library/Fighting_Defamation/The_Origin_of_the_Polish_Joke/the_origin_of_the_polish_joke.html Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gugny Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 4 minutes ago, joesixpack said: Thanks. I just read the whole thing. Heavy. Sorry to bring a funny thread down! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 14 minutes ago, Gugny said: I just read the whole thing. Heavy. Sorry to bring a funny thread down! I never really took much offense to them, because only an uneducated idiot would use them. If it wasn’t for poles, the west would be speaking Turkish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 I thought it was because somehow a lot of Polish people who were born in America had Polish accents. That made no sense and made them sound stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 2 minutes ago, bbb said: I thought it was because somehow a lot of Polish people who were born in America had Polish accents. That made no sense and made them sound stupid. Like one, two, tree. ?? Both my parents are Polish, my father's mother right off the boat as a child in the 1920's. Parent's learned Polish in school. They were married in 1962 and wedding announcement was in the Polish newspaper (Cheektowaga). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 4 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Like one, two, tree. Exactly. My grandmother came from Mexico when she was 17. Her parents were from Spain. She spoke with a heavy accent and we laughed with her about it all her life. My grandfather was from Spain. He died when I was two months old, so I never knew him. There were funny stories about him screwing up English his barber customers, though. My mother spoke Spanish and no English until she went to kindergarten. She never spoke with an accent............But, this somehow was how Poles would still speak with Polish accents who were never in the country of Poland! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 30 minutes ago, bbb said: Exactly. My grandmother came from Mexico when she was 17. Her parents were from Spain. She spoke with a heavy accent and we laughed with her about it all her life. My grandfather was from Spain. He died when I was two months old, so I never knew him. There were funny stories about him screwing up English his barber customers, though. My mother spoke Spanish and no English until she went to kindergarten. She never spoke with an accent............But, this somehow was how Poles would still speak with Polish accents who were never in the country of Poland! Yep... My father still has the hard "th." He was born in Cheektowaga. Same here with the stereotype Chicago accent. Like: "Da Bears." It's that real short, then terse grouping, hard syllables... If I am explaining it well enough! There is a bridge operator here. When you here him on the marine radio, you just want to crack up... He could be in an SNL skit: Words typed simply can't do it justice! Where the hell did that Polish American accent come from and across such a large area! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbb Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 11 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said: Yep... My father still has the hard "th." He was born in Cheektowaga. Same here with the stereotype Chicago accent. Like: "Da Bears." It's that real short, then terse grouping, hard syllables... If I am explaining it well enough! There is a bridge operator here. When you here him on the marine radio, you just want to crack up... He could be in an SNL skit: Words typed simply can't do it justice! Where the hell did that Polish American accent come from and across such a large area! I don't get it. I'm half Irish, but I don't speak with a brogue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 (edited) 11 minutes ago, bbb said: I don't get it. I'm half Irish, but I don't speak with a brogue. Exactly! I wonder if anybody ever delved into this. Maybe some crazy federally funded study? Maybe it is the generations and years passing. Does it exist for other immigrants now? I guess other Eastern European are for some reason the most pronounced and extreme. That's not saying Scandinavian isn't either... Ever hear how they speak English up in the UP of Michigan, or through Minnesota, the Dakotas? Samev w with Wisconin. Not political, but Sarah Palin is another classic example of that accent/hybrid (Scandinavian sounding). Edited December 6, 2017 by ExiledInIllinois 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SinceThe70s Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Funniest Polish joke/moment for me was between two friends in high school: One kid starts telling a Polish joke and the other says "hey wait, I'm Polish". Without missing a beat the other kid says "OK, I'll tell it slow". We all laughed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 True story. My father's younger brother came over one time to show my dad his new car. My uncle showed where he put the mud flaps on. They were backwards! On the front of the wheel wells! My father is like: "JESUS CHRIST! This is why us Pollacks get a bad name!" Also. My father never believed in that oil additive stuff like STP. He called it: "Stop Teasing Pollacks" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExiledInIllinois Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 Andrew Golata /end of thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 6, 2017 Share Posted December 6, 2017 6 hours ago, bbb said: Exactly. My grandmother came from Mexico when she was 17. Her parents were from Spain. She spoke with a heavy accent and we laughed with her about it all her life. My grandfather was from Spain. He died when I was two months old, so I never knew him. There were funny stories about him screwing up English his barber customers, though. My mother spoke Spanish and no English until she went to kindergarten. She never spoke with an accent............But, this somehow was how Poles would still speak with Polish accents who were never in the country of Poland! False. My grandfather spent most of his early life in Poland and had a thiiiiick accent, but my father had none. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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