Poland... Polska. The Land of Fields. Home to 39 million people, one of the oldest restaurants in Europe, the biggest castle in the world, the first upside-down house, the invention of the paper clip. And some of the longest, most hard-to-pronounce names ever.
Fortunately, you don’t have to be able to pronounce Grzegorz Brzeczyszczykiewicz to enjoy classic Polish humor. You only need to head over to the _polandski_ Instagram page to find a wall of hilarious memes and "just some Polish laughter". The page has racked up more than 505,000 followers, all there for relatable and hilarious Polski content.
Bored Panda has put together our top picks from the account. Grab a plate of pierogi, and prepare to be suitably amused, as you scroll through this list of funny Polish memes. Don't forget to upvote your favorites, and feel free to comment "heheszki" on the ones that make you LOL.
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Also Italian and Portuguese moms. Heck, all of the European moms anyway.
Daniel Czapiewski turned architecture on its head when he designed a rather unique and strange building in 2007. Poland’s ‘upside down house’ became the first of its kind on the planet. And since then, several others have popped up (or down) around the world. Czapiewski’s work aimed to teach visitors about the country’s political history, and its relationship with communism. The architect’s message: life in Communist Poland turned the world upside down.
As Atlas Obscura reports, “The upside down house is essentially a fully furnished home like any other, but took much longer than normal to build as workers kept becoming disoriented, forcing them to stop work. It wasn’t even built simply upside down, but on a tilt as well, essentially eliminating the comfort of a reliable, flat surface.”
Visitors enter the house by climbing through the attic window, and are able to walk around on the ceiling once inside. The interior is furnished with 1970s decor and a television shows propaganda from that era. Many have reported feeling dizzy and a bit confused after visiting the tourist attraction.
My gf is Polish and there is only one difficult letter to pronounce in her name - most (non-Polish) people seem to get it wrong. Even worse, there is a short form of her name and some people fail to pronounce that correctly including a former school teacher - not once, but every time, despite us pronouncing it correctly every time we spoke to her!
My last name is Polish, my parents got so sick of non-Polish people pronouncing it wrong, they just changed the spelling.
Load More Replies...At least make a token effort and call him Greg Buzzersby
Load More Replies...According to the story, my great-grandfather showed up in America and went to the immigration office. They asked his name. Mazurkiewicz, of course. The immigration agent replies, "Welcome to America, Mr. Miller..."
Pretty rich coming from an offficial if a country with geographical names such as Mississippi, Punxsutawney or - and this is hilarious because of its proximity to "Mazurkiewicz" - Missouri.
Load More Replies...It's an Eastern European thing, I guess. Greek moms do that too! I'm 48 and my mom still does that 😅
I can’t imagine Europeans wearing that to be honest. We just don’t care that much about stuff like cursing. It’s still funny to me that the US even censors TV and radio. Must be annoying to listen to a song and hear “beep” all the time.
And that is actually a big problem here as Catholic Curch has a big sway over our politics and our lives in general, especially when it comes to older generations. As a result our people often are very unfriendly toward LGBT people, we have religion in schools (though it's no longer obligatory, yay!), our abortions are mostly illegal, day-after pills hard to obtain and only with prescription and many other Church-morals-related problems.
Does this not apply to every country? It's standard here in New Zealand too.
sry but "everywhere" is north America in this case... we have the flat ones in Germany
Actually, Poland's legal drinking age is 18 - higher than in many Western European countries. But it is true that many of us try alcohol earlier (quite often with our parents knowledge as they believe that it's better to try it in controlled environment than get unconscious drunk during a party) and we have rather liberal attitude toward drinking
Hahaha - I kid you not, we did this in Lanzarote on holiday. polish-xma...fabb1f.jpg
"Which aspect of Poland mentioned in the article surprised you the most?" - option missing: There was an article?
That's weird. My shopping list suddenly has "sausages" listed four separate times.
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Idk if this was mentioned in the meme list but I've got one. a Polish person goes to an ophthalmologist. the doctor shows him- C Z J W I N O S T A W C Z "Can you read this?" the doctor asks. the Pole replies "Read it? I know this guy."
"Which aspect of Poland mentioned in the article surprised you the most?" - option missing: There was an article?
That's weird. My shopping list suddenly has "sausages" listed four separate times.
Continue with BP premium??? Since when does BP have premium content that you need to pay for?!?!?
Idk if this was mentioned in the meme list but I've got one. a Polish person goes to an ophthalmologist. the doctor shows him- C Z J W I N O S T A W C Z "Can you read this?" the doctor asks. the Pole replies "Read it? I know this guy."