Soft Poles

[ianek70]

The heaviest drinkers in Europe are Luxembourgers, French and Irish.
Why did Polish newspapers pretend to be surprised that, once again, Poles are
in 18th place?
After all, the main hobbies of young Poles are reading poetry, carrying
umbrellas and training to be priests, and Poland is the only country in the
world where the TV weather report warns its delicate citizens that the
pressure is expected to drop by 2mb and that they should immediately go to
one of the country's 2 million chemist's for strawberry-flavoured medicine.

[nasza_maggie]

And I'm sure whoever did that survey was just as heh good at doing the
research...

[varsovian]

The little loves are always getting colds because their mummies always wrapped
them up warm ... in June.
My kids got toughened up in England, and don't suffer weather-related problems
like the usual cissy Polish mummy's boys and girls at school.

[nasza_maggie]

Erm my Ma never.
and since I have been back in Poland I get sick all the time.
The brit wather and damp has done much damage to by bones and vocal chords I'm
afraid.

[varsovian]

SOFT !!
You need to roll in some mud on a rugby field then go for a cross-country run
in the pouring rain!
When I was a lad ...

[nasza_maggie]

Yes, I enjoy watching rugby too ))))))

[ianek70]

varsovian napisał:

> You need to roll in some mud on a rugby field then go for a cross-country run
> in the pouring rain!

Mud?
Rugby field???
We had to run up hills in shorts, roll about shinty fields with those horrible
jaggy wee stones, and win the respect of our PE teacher by ambushing him with
snowballs and battering the shite out of him.
And on a bad day we actually had to play shinty.

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ianek70 napisał:

> varsovian napisał:
>
> > You need to roll in some mud on a rugby field then go for a cross-country
> run
> > in the pouring rain!
>
> Mud?
> Rugby field???
> We had to run up hills in shorts, roll about shinty fields with those
horrible
> jaggy wee stones, and win the respect of our PE teacher by ambushing him with
> snowballs and battering the shite out of him.
> And on a bad day we actually had to play shinty.

We had to go on 5 mile cross country runs in the snow, and take our shoes and
socks off, walk through an icey river, and then put them on again onb the other
side, and run back to school, all in a double period.

And you tell that to kids these days, and they don't believe you.

[ianek70]

And that was just French lessons.
In PE we had caber-catching, traffic-dodging and cross-bearing.

[varsovian]

As a trainee teacher I took a soccer lesson at primary school (the class
teacher was a woman who wasn't in to making the little darlings do anything
physical).
Anyway, the lesson was a success - a great sort-of match was had and the class
teacher was very happy, as were the kids. The next day saw me hauled before
the head following a parental letter of complaint.
One little thug - a sporting little chappy who always played footie at
lunchtime - had viciously fouled another, so I sent him for a run round the
pitch as punishment. Mumsy wrote in saying how vindictive I was and didn't I
know he had a heart complaint?
Parent power, UK style ...