I would like memes that are representative or cultural heritage of Poland's memes. The reason is simple, I have an original character (OC) named Katarzyna and I would like to learn more about Polish people and their culture through memes

Although I'm not talking about "Bóbr kurwa!" (That one, apart from the fact that I already know it, is my favorite along with the one that goes "Co jest kurwa?! Pingwin! Austriacki Pingwin! Hehehehe!")

Of course, I don't speak Polish, I only know a few words and phrases, so if they are in Polish I would like a translation, and if necessary, an explanation

I'm mostly asking for memes instead of facts that you can find in Wikipedia because I think memes can also be a fun way to learn, like the one I attached to this thing… So I hope you show me your best memes

That's it, cheers from Argentina, do zobaczenia! 🇦🇷🫶🏻🇵🇱

by MisakiKH

42 comments

  1. I don’t think 90 degrees outside is a Polish problem, and of it was we’d all be dead

  2. Well, if Polish people realised that the name Adidas comes from the name of the founding brothers – Adolf Das – probably this name wouldn’t be used so widely.

  3. Point 7 – in Poland we use Celcius degrees, 90**°**F = 32**°**C.

    Of modern memes: stereotypical 50~y.o. father is named Janusz and mother – Grażyna. Lately these names are often used in memes featuring the **proboscis monkey** (nosacz sundajski), but overall loads of different memes used them and they’re universal enough to stand on their own, especially with Janusz being a grumpy cheapskate, trusting his (poor) judgment and knack more than anything else. Would rather ~~repair~~ fuck up something himself than pay a specialist.

    There’s also Seba (or Sebix, full name Sebastian) which would be basically a standard fuck-da-police thug, except dumb as a brick. They gather in small groups in shady residential areas. Apparently the show Blok Ekipa explores this environment (and polish culture as a whole) further, but i didn’t watch it.

    Polish memes rely a lot on memorable quotes (“teksty”) a lot. Bóbr and Pingwin being examples of that. Most of the quotes either come from old polish comedies (e.g. Chłopaki nie płaczą) or viral videos from Youtube known collectively as Hity Polskiego Internetu.

    Excluding the quotes, there’s a series on YT covering both Polish and English memes – Historia Memów (channel name Bądźmy Poważni). Youtube’s subtitle translation should be able to handle it.

  6. https://preview.redd.it/rifvs8lqzftf1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=77cd845bed974920eec7e7bd51694f2a7764a64c

    “Wake up samurai, we have a lawn to mow” – so this is a reference to cyberpunk 2077 samurai meme.
    It is about parents giving a lot of chores to kids around the house on saturday. The is also “synek mam dla ciebie bojowe zadanie” – “son I have a combat mission for you”, which was smth common to say when fathers wanted us to do something as kids

  10. American problems:

    Using Fahrenheit for temperature not Celsius.

  11. You need an elderly parent, preferably a grandmother, to give “słoiki” (jars) full of homemade food to the character. Why? Because grandparents will make you take it before you leave their house and it tends to be enough food to feed an army.

    Also, my GF likes to make me hot tea on hot summer days which feels like I am drinking a goddamn sauna.

    Lastly, I’d recommend using the informal name(Kasia) for the character when possible 😉

  13. When you make boiled potatoes for dinner, make sure to boil twice the amount you need, so you throw away the half of it

  16. Hey, just wanted to apologize for using a meme that wasn’t even made by a Polish person as an example for the kinds of memes I wanted, I honestly didn’t even know, hope nobody takes it badly ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

  17. Just watch some polish movies from the ’90s and made by Bareja. Anything said in them is a popular phrase in Poland

  18. >The reason is simple, I have an original character (OC) named Katarzyna and I would like to learn more about Polish people and their culture through memes

    I have an original character named Jorge and though I know nothing about Argentina I think it’s neat idea. Give me your memes about your country so I can learn some stereotypes and inside jokes I will not understand because I know nothing about the culture.

  19. As a polish person – I see no lies here. This is how it is

  20. American spy detected. Thought we wouldn’t notice the 90 degrees.

  21. My father is a fishing fanatic. Half of the apartment filled with fucking fishing rods the worst. About once a month somebody steps into a hook or an anchor that’s lying on the floor and it needs to be removed at the hospital because that shit is spiky at the edges. I’ve already had 10 such surgical interventions in my 22-year-old life. Last week I went for some random check-up, and the receptionist told me right away to take my shoe off xD because she thought that I had a hook stuck in my foot once again. The other half of the apartment is fucking stuffed with The Polish Fisherman, Fishing World, Super Carp xD etc. Every week my father takes a spin around town to collect all the fishing magazines. I was stupid enough to introduce him into the Internet, because I had thought that we would save a bit of money on the newspapers. But now, not only does he still buy them, but he also sits on some online forums for fishers and starts shitstorms with other fishers about the best baits etc. He sometimes yells into the screen, and he’s even thrown the fucking keyboard out the window. Once he really pissed me off, so I created an account there and trolled him. I commented some random shit under his posts, such as “carps eat shiet”. My mother could barely catch up with cooking up hunter’s stew to soothe him. Oh yea, he already has a “CATFISH” rank on the forum, for having created 10K fucking posts. When it’s warm, he goes fishing every weekend. For the last 5 years, I’ve been eating fish for dinner every Sunday, and my father always repeats some bullshit theories about eating this water trash. When I got accepted to college, he would not shut up for a whole fucking week that it’s due to the fact that I eat a lot of fish, since they contain phosphorus and my brain functions better. Every Saturday, he and his buddy Mirek wake the whole family up at 4 o’clock in the morning. They make a lot of noise packing up their rods, making sandwiches etc. During meals he always talks about God-damn fish, and the conversations always trails off to the Polish Fishing Association. My father gets himself really angry and always gets butthurt “durr they don’t replenish the lakes enough those fucking thieves hurr,” he gets all red while saying that and walks away from the table cursing, and goes away to read the Great Encyclopedia of River Fish in order to calm down. This year he got himself an inflatable dinghy for Christmas. Of course he couldn’t wait until the 25th; he unpacked it last night and pumped it up in our living room. He put on his entire fishing outfit and sat in the dinghy for the rest of the night, right in the middle of our apartment. He had dinner (carp) in it too [cool][bye] If they gave me access to all the fish in Poland, I’d fucking kill them all. On one of my birthdays, back in elementary or middle school, my father took me fishing as an exception. Great fucking present, bitch. We drove off way out of the fucking town. We’re walking to the lake, and his eyes are already lighting up, and he’s licking his lips all excited. He set up all of his equipment, we’re sitting at the water and staring at the bobbers. After 5 minutes I got bored, so I turned on my discman. My father slapped me across the fucking head with his rod and said that the fish hear music coming out of my headphones, get scared and leave. Whenever I wanted to scratch my ass, he would “scream-whisper” at me not to fidget, because I’m causing a rustle, the fish see me move and swim away. I had to sit there motionless for 6 hours, as if I were at fucking Guantanamo, and stare at the water. My birthday is in November, so it was also cold as fuck. At one point, my father got up, walked away several feet into the woods, and ripped a fart. He explained to me that he had to do it in the woods because the fish can hear and smell it. I once mentioned that my father has a buddy, Mirek, and that they go fishing together. Back in the days, my father’s fishing mate was hehe Zbyszek. A ball-shaped individual with a moustache, dressed in a BOMBER jacket 365 days in the year. He and my father were almost like brothers, him and his wife Bozena would come over our house on Christmas etc. Once, on my father’s birthday, Zbyszek came over for some hehe vodka. They got wasted as fuck and, of course, they wouldn’t stop talking about fishing. I was sitting in my room. All of a sudden they started yelling at each other about what is generally better: pike or catfish. “DON’T YOU FUCKING PISS ME OFF ZBYSZEK, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A PIKE’S TEETH? OM NOM NOM AND YOUR FUCKING ARM IS GONE” “HOLY SHIT TADEK, POLISH CATFISH WEIGH 180 LBS, YOUR PIKES CAN FUCKING SUCK THEM OFF” “YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT FUCKING CATFISH MEANWHILE YOU CAN BARELY PULL A FUCKING BLEAK OUT OF THE WATER. A PIKE IS THE KING OF WATER, LIKE A LION LIKE THE KING OF THE JUNGLE.” And they started fucking wrestling on the living room carpet, and my mother and I had to separate them. They’ve completely stopped talking ever since. Last year Zbyszek’s wife called to tell us that Zbyszek has kicked the bucket and she’s inviting us to the funeral. My mother picked up, gave her our condolences, put the phone down and told my father. And he said: “Very fucking well” That’s how much he hated him for that catfish.

  22. You might enjoy nosacz memes. It’s those that use the Proboscis monkey as a representation of a typical Polish man (usually called Janusz, his wife is usually Grażyna or Halina). I know someone here posted one of them. Looking up “janusz nosacz memy” should give you plenty of results and they generally show how the generations before millennials usually act. And nosacz in itself could be loosely translated to big nose guy. So, that’s a good reference for parents and old relatives etc.

  23. Idk in my friend group if you play dico polo, you are publicly executed

  26. Yeah, you just pasted some dumbshit american vision of Poland, that lives only in Polonus collaborative imagination 

  27. I mean, “dad bod” is a phrase in English that we don’t have so….

  29. * Every neighbour is an asshole, and whenever they get anything for themselves, they must’ve stolen it.
    * Nothing is worse than non-trade Sunday.
    * When you’re driving, anyone else on the road is a fucking debil. It’s never yourself.
    * The biggest concern for Polish elders is “what would people think?”
    * Your father and uncles are the real experts on anything and everything you might need. Regardless of their educational background, heed their advice.

  32. Grzegorz Brzęczykiewicz living in Chrząszczyrzewoszyce, powiat Łękołody. It is from Polish comedy show called how i started world war 2 and shows absurdity of my native tongue

  34. I remember when I was at my grandparents in Poland for a family reunion like a decade ago and we ran out of pierogi. Well, they had an extra chest freezer and believe it or not, more pierogi.

  35. half of this list is kinda meh
    Should include more about grocery store prices (high for Poles but cheap for foreigners) sale hunting at Lidl/Biedronka, unacceptable smiling, depression and bad weather.

  37. I like it except for pierogi. We eat way more rosół than pierogies.

  38. Amol cures everything and Maggi can season everything with it

    And wtf 90 degrees outside is the world’s end, we use Celsius and have 30+*C outside and gorąca zupa na obiad

  40. Number 9 situation happens all the time in my family. Literally no one makes/likes pierogi in family on both sides. We all find them overrated as hell. Easter? No pierogi. Birthdays? Nope. Christmas? Hell no.

    My family is more gołąbki-oriented. God damn, my grandma’s gołąbki arw otherworldly good. Due to health issues she can’t make them anymore, but the recipe has been passed to my uncle.

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