Comments on: Soylent turystyczna is people!!

By: Polyshot

Polyshot — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 21:12:41 +0000

So……. is that what’s the “Tourist Traps” for?

By: Agata

Agata — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 11:38:01 +0000

Since when Poland is a poor country? Huh!? We were the only ones in Europe who actually survived this whole economy crisis you started! Have you ever heard about European Dream? Read a few books first and then make such comments. Polska biednym krajem, też mi cos!

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:03:26 +0000

it means “corned Tourist” in polish… WTF

By: byeee

byeee — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:59:45 +0000

Post FAIL.
It says “Tourist” canned meat. As in, that’s the name of the product.
Yeah, it for tourists to go camping or etc. (it’s still called tourism).

JUST LOOK AT THE FREAKING QUOTES!

By: KRAVAT

KRAVAT — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:05:50 +0000

Yes, we have! A lot of nuclear stuff

By: ouarzi

ouarzi — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:47:37 +0000

God,PANCIO is shame on our country >_>

By: a Pole

a Pole — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:15:54 +0000

1. Poland is not a poor country. Not any more. We had the “luck” to be on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, but couple days ago we celebrated 20th anniversary of our victory over the Communism. During these 20 years our country became much wealthier. We do have toilet paper, food in stores, HD TV sets, cars, planes etc.
We are also quite big country – 38 mln. people, 322 000 km2.

2. “konserwa turystyczna” is one of polish names for SPAM. It means ~”can for tourists”.

3. The translation on the can would be funny if there were no speech marks. But they are. For those, who don’t know what they are for – among others they are used to mark the name (or irony like in 1.).
I have been to Hungary last month and I didn’t expect to see blood in the glass of “Bull’s Blood of Eger” (“Egri Bikavér”)…

3. I would like to apologise for PANCIO’s comments in polish. They are below any acceptable level of discussion. Unfortunately Internet is for everybody. No matter what what gutter they crawled from…

And sorry for language mistakes in my comment

By: kastanewdowski

kastanewdowski — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:47:36 +0000

ha ha, the English version was created for Americans ha ha ha!

By: sprint

sprint — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 12:16:40 +0000

please, look at Americans, they ARE stupid!

By: dukethepcdr

dukethepcdr — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:53:07 +0000

That’s what I always say.

By: dukethepcdr

dukethepcdr — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:52:13 +0000

So, that’s what happens to all the tourists who go missing. It’s made from people!!!!!

By: Catalan

Catalan — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:44:54 +0000

Nice one!
Don’t know if anyone mentioned already, but a Pole told me that the problem with this translation is that ‘turystyczny’ actually means not only tourist, but also people going camping, hiking, etc. So it’s ‘canned meat’ to travel.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:10:28 +0000

As many have explained, the humor here is not confined to poor grammar or mistranslation of words. We also enjoy the randomness of the whole, the ways of expressing things that sound peculiar to native speakers, the way idioms can sound preposterous when translated word-for-word, the unintended double or multiple meanings, and so on. Those who are strictly concrete, overly technical, and/or lacking a sense of humor need not stick around!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:04:27 +0000

Yes, I have. But I don’t think it’s indeterminacy, because I KNOW the cat wants out, but somehow the cat doesn’t know it yet. Because if I don’t just push the cat out and close the door, the cat will be wanting out within five minutes, and this time will probably shoot out the door as if to say, what took you so long?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:00:05 +0000

Can’t believe everything you reed.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:18:24 +0000

And if you drive there, be sure to watch out for all the Poles.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:30:50 +0000

The only good thing I learned in gym was the ability to balance objects with my feet. I found I could put my foot between the cat’s rear legs lift, and establish determinacy. I could then set the moving rear legs down and the cat would head off in that direction. I lost more shoes doing that…

By: Much Glory Hopeful

Much Glory Hopeful — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:01:43 +0000

Really? Ever let one out and have it stand for 10 minutes in between ‘indoors’ and ‘outdoors’ while you hold the door open like an idiot?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:43:26 +0000

They tried a little pizzicotto pecker, but it failed to produce any condolezza.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:39:59 +0000

If you happen to think an indeterminate state is vicarious fun. I doubt that cats enjoy indeterminacy, myself.

By: PointsOutTheObvious

PointsOutTheObvious — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:13:40 +0000

Isn’t it more fun to leave it IN the box so it will be every possible state from dead to alive at the same time?

By: I'm the chief

I'm the chief — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:24:54 +0000

my cat does the dishes, kid’s homework, washes my car, AND gives me tips for tomorrow’s meeting agenda. oh yes, it balances my chequebook also…on its nose.

By: I'm the chief

I'm the chief — Sun, 31 May 2009 08:20:01 +0000

…we also have different varieties. would you be interested in this lame tourist jello?

By: Much Glory Hopeful

Much Glory Hopeful — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:29:30 +0000

If you do go to Poland, go in the summer, because the Poland Springs are very wet.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Sun, 31 May 2009 07:25:13 +0000

If the guy’s never been in Poland, as I haven’t, then by definition you can’t take him out of Poland!

By: Chrisfs

Chrisfs — Sat, 30 May 2009 23:43:05 +0000

Impossible, as they say, you can that the guy out of Poland, but you can;t take the Poland out of the guy!

By: PANCIO

PANCIO — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:01:26 +0000

O ja pierdolę, żartowniś się kolejny znalazł… Ziomek, ty to kurwa bystry dopiero jesteś, prawie jak woda w klopie…. Wetkałeś se palucha do odsłonietego kontaktu, że tak dowcipem błyskasz czy kurwa co?

By: icanhasjuicycheezes

icanhasjuicycheezes — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:01:45 +0000

My cousin went to a foreign country last month, he still hasn’t come back. what was his name??? oh yeah it was konserwa!

…oh dear.

By: dupa_sraka

dupa_sraka — Sat, 30 May 2009 10:06:30 +0000

@PANCIO
ale się uśmiałam po Twoim poście xD
_____________________
….no nieźle ;D
nie ma to jak tępe hamerykańskie myślenie ;p

Tu ‘tourist’ jest przymiotnikiem a nie rzeczownikiem :]
(it’s adjective , not a noun)

By: PANCIO

PANCIO — Sat, 30 May 2009 07:13:09 +0000

Bo głupi jesteś. Języków cywilizowanych się ucz, lachociągu bawoli, a nie pierdol głupoty, że kurwa “interneta używasz, to umiesz tłumaczenie zrobić”. Zrobić to możesz, laskę pod kościołem.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:24:59 +0000

And they told me it couldn’t be done.

By: PANCIO

PANCIO — Sat, 30 May 2009 06:24:00 +0000

Kurwa, a mu znowu wymiatamy! A wy pocieszne zagraniczne pojebki łamcie te swoje kwadratowe pały, co to znaczy! Polską pytą siekam Was serdecznie po durnych baranich ryjach!

By: JohnB

JohnB — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:16:11 +0000

So cello pulls a wind, now?

By: JohnB

JohnB — Sat, 30 May 2009 05:14:08 +0000

My cat is a very rare species, a Schrodinger cat. It doesn’t predict lottery numbers, but I’ve gotten pretty good at predicting whether it will be alive or dead when I get it out of the box.

By: buckinarut

buckinarut — Sat, 30 May 2009 04:14:15 +0000

What do you mean by fresh? Did they try to play with your brass? Got too horny? Try to blow your mouthpiece? Or lick your reed? Pucker on your piccolo?

Oboes! That would be too much too bassoon!

By: PointsOutTheObvious

PointsOutTheObvious — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:13:13 +0000

If that is the case then the meat is meant to travel to various destinations and sightsee? Or was that the life of the animals before they were murdered, ground up, stuffed with preservatives and carcinogens, reprocessed, stuffed with even more preservatives, put in a can, sealed up, shipped around the world and back, and put on shelves?

New thought! Maybe “tourist” means imported?

By: PointsOutTheObvious

PointsOutTheObvious — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:09:19 +0000

Your cat must SUCK then. I already hit the powerball AND megamillions with help from mine.

By: PoodleGroomer

PoodleGroomer — Fri, 29 May 2009 19:45:44 +0000

They’re smoking mellow cellos. (I’m just mad about saffron…)

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:55:28 +0000

Then there’s the Edgar Winter salami, which is made from all white meat.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:53:05 +0000

I tried the woodwinds once, but they got fresh with me, and I’m just not into group sax.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:50:24 +0000

You definitely shouldn’t make that a habit! Nothing worse than a hobbit habit.

By: JohnB

JohnB — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:43:31 +0000

You would have to use the Polish extraction process! (Boy, I can hear the jokes coming now!)

By: Ecka

Ecka — Fri, 29 May 2009 07:04:21 +0000

In Hungary we also have “turista szalámi,” it’s a type of salami made from tourists.

We also have “téli szalámi,” winter salami, which is made from off-season tourists.

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:33:06 +0000

The “100g” near the top of the can: contains 25 or 30% more tourist? Must have been a really good season!

By: Droll not Troll

Droll not Troll — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:29:42 +0000

What is it going to take to extract the rest of you? A can opener?

By: roar

roar — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:07:05 +0000

this is a proper translation, as “turystyczna” in polish means tourist style… lol

nice try though

By: Bob The Waffle

Bob The Waffle — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:55:05 +0000

What’s so bad about this? Canned tourist tastes really good.

By: Dina

Dina — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:59:13 +0000

Poland as a whole is not a poor country, but there are certainly quite a few poor people there. That or people think tourists in Warsaw are suckers.

By: nmp

nmp — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:03:11 +0000

yep, and that makes it not funny. as laciak wrote below, I don’t get the joke – there’s no bad grammar here

By: JohnB

JohnB — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:00:54 +0000

OK, I give. How about “Poland is not the world’s wealthiest country”? BTW, I have nothing against Poland, and am partly of Polish extraction myself.