Love / Polish Girlfriend obsessive and not trusting [59]

One thing comes to mind talking about Polish women; absolute lack of any trace of logic.
The best way to describe them is this: nice to look at and impossible to live with. And that's only true with the younger girls, older women are ugly as hell and really ******. I hope I wasn't to indirect in my description.

Work / Average Polish Income is 2700zl per month [65]

you can't rely on official statistics when it comes to things like the income. The true income is always higher. I just looked up the median income in Michigan - it says $48000/year per household.

Let me tell you something - i don't know anybody who makes this little here. nobody. I can't imagine anybody surviving on 48K per family. But these statistics include people on welfare with free housing and food stamps, soldiers, retirees, single people who live along, and - most importantly people who don't want to pay any taxes, who in fact hide their true income. Between me and my wife we make almost 3x that and trust me- we are not wealthy by any means!

So if they say 2700 count it as at least double; plus you have cheaper cost of living etc.

Life / Must See Movies in Polish? [65]

In my movie library I have only one film in Polish, but it's a good one: "The Saragossa Manuscript" (1965).

The Saragossa Manuscript was a favorite movie of Jerry Garcia, Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. They bought the rights to this movie and restored it in the 90's.

The movie is a multilevel collection of "stories within a story", similar to the Pulp Fiction, with many simultaneous time-lines and narrators.

UK, Ireland / Polish girls 'too pretty' for British schools [150]

I'm just glad I'm not a teacher, bro. I work in a casino, amongst some scantily dressed waitresses - but this is more of an adult environment, so it's different.

UK, Ireland / Polish girls 'too pretty' for British schools [150]

Young teacher the subject
Of schoolgirl fantasy
She wants him so badly
Knows what she wants to be
Inside her there's longing
This girl's an open page
Book marking - she's so close now
This girl is half his age

Don't stand, don't stand so
Don't stand so close to me

UK, Ireland / Many British have inferiority complex [131]


you're killing me Gregorz :) Look who is talking LOL

Life / Luxury cars in Poland [42]


If it's not a chick car then it's a very fruity car... in a good way, of course.

A man's truck: Ford f-150. anything bigger - you're trying to compensate for something... anything smaller; oh well, not everybody can be Mr. Cool like me... :)

Life / Luxury cars in Poland [42]

oops there it is...

Life / "I can spot a Pole a mile away" - Polish fashion? [146]

SANDALS WITH SOCKS! That used to be a tell-tell sign of someone fresh off the boat from an Eastern European country. It's all changed now, since sandals with socks became popular with the young college crowd... LOL

Life / Do Polish people tend to stick together? [49]


I think they do, especially the ones who do not learn the language or have some other difficulties assimilating to the new culture.

USA, Canada / 2008 U.S. Presidential Election according to Polish and foreign people [90]

Why? Because Obama has a vision for the future and he's not a part of the establishment.

Life / Polish man finds wife working at brothel [43]


LMAO that's hilarious! I hope that she gets all the money from the divorce, since she was there to make some cash and support the family while he was there to just spend her money! LOL

Life / Six degrees of Kevin Bacon w/ Polish actors [16]

Oh man, I almost had it, I was just researching it.
I was going to say:
1. Wojtciech Pszoniak in "Kill the Priest" w/ Christopher Lambert (haven't seen it yet, but I hear it's good)
2. Christopher Lambert in Highlander w/ Sean Connery (classic!)
3. Sean Connery in Never Say never Again w/ Kim Basinger (another classic)
and from this point on I would follow Mermaid from her previous post:


Oh, well I've lost. I had it in 5 steps, so I would have lost it anyway.

Life / Six degrees of Kevin Bacon w/ Polish actors [16]


considering the inherit difficulty of the polish six degrees, we'll take it:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek_the_Third#Main_characters

so who's next, Krystyna Janda?

Life / Six degrees of Kevin Bacon w/ Polish actors [16]

Joe Pesci in JFK w/ Kevin Bacon.


Agree.

History / Jewish love towards Poles [389]


Boy, you are a f****up moron. I pray to God that you don't represent an average person in Poland. But if you do, then my Old Country will remain a sh*t-hole for ever.

Love / I got married to a Polish wife; Polish family advice needed [45]


I agree 100%, sorry to say that.

First, here is a little 101 lesson on how relationships work: (or, to be precise, here is my theory on how relationships work.)

1. A woman will become a carbon copy of her own mother - if you want to see what your wife is going to look like in 20 years, just look at her mother. Is she unhappy? ******? Unstable? This is your wife in 20 years, my friend.

2. A woman will unconsciously look for a husband that reminds her of her own father. Look at her father - does he look and act like you? If he doesn't then she will not stick with you - an infidelity is coming. If you're different from her father, then she chose you for other reasons: i.e. to support her parents financially? In any way, if this is the case, consider your marriage to be practically over.

Food / what kind of sauce should I make for my gołąbki? [63]


just use some marinara sauce out of a jar! Maybe meat flavored? Stuffed cabbage is so much work to boil the cabbage leaves and then roll'em around the meat - make your job easier and use already made marinara sauce!

History / Jews...and their Polish experience [520]

So, Joe, how is that tin-foil hat working out for you, is it OK? Not to tight around your forehead, I hope?

Life / Legally changing my Polish name to English one? [55]


You don't have to change you’re name legally, simply start introducing yourself as "Marc" or "Martin", and tell people you know that you would prefer to be called Marc from now on. Keep the spelling in your driver license the way it is now, it's easier this way.

Food / Whats your favourate hot alcoholic drink? [26]

Hot Toddy - hot tea, honey, Irish whiskey (or brandy). Yum!

News / Will Poland become green? [122]

I tend to get very cautious when there is a lot of propaganda going on both sides of an issue like this. Without a doubt there is a media war surrounding global warming. For instance, the global warming deniers camp declared (or at list hinted) that there is a reversal of global temperature patterns since 1998 and 2006 was the coolest year since. Then the global warming believers said that the same period was the warmest in the history. Both are probably true statements, because 1998 was the warmest year on record, so you can see that it is easy for both statements to be true. (By the way 2007 was supposedly following the same patterns as previous years).

Examples of media bickering and semantic battles in the Global Warming media war are prodigious. In this climate of propaganda one has to study the issue him/herself, without relying on the talking heads.

I know that I've already talked about this book in this forum, nevertheless I think it's worth mentioning again - the title is Cool it, the author is Bjorn Lomborg. It's an attention-grabbing read.

Life / Bloody Priests in Poland... [58]

Slick, did you even read any of those articles you have posted here? The first one is from 1878. That was 129 years ago...
But you're right; there are scandals sometimes in the Church just like anywhere else. The difference is how you deal with them. The Episcopal Church fires its bad preachers. It is just that simple - they get fired, they are out. The Catholic Church on the other hand had a different policy towards its pedophile priests. They, as a matter of a standard policy, just moved the pedophile priests from one diace to another, where the pedophile was free to molest more kids. That's why the Catholic Church in the U.S. is bankrupted today. The point here Slick is not that we don’t have the same problems - but we deal with them better.

Life / Bloody Priests in Poland... [58]


This is precisely why the Catholic Church is on a brink of extinction. Some people leave the Church to join other denominations; many decide to live a secular life. Bad polices of the Catholic Church make it impossible for people to come back. Today I am a member of the Episcopalian Church - although when I was getting married we have also considered the Catholic Church, but it was almost impossible to do- they wanted us to attend classes for a year, jump through many other hoops. I have to say that I don't regret the choice I've made.

What happened was that my wife was from the Evangelical background, but did not want to go back. I am from the Catholic background, but the bad polices of the church made it impossible for me to go back. Today we are members of the Episcopalian Family and very happy about it.

Life / Polish couple from Legnica live in a Fiat [13]


youtu.be/6sbwJl8VFSQ

Life / Bloody Priests in Poland... [58]


Well, let's see. What would have happened if it wasn't a priest but a teacher instead?
1. A teacher would have immediately lost his/her job.
2. The police would’ve been notified by the school principle - regardless if any witnesses or the parents would have called the cops or not.

3. The authorities would have filed charges and the D.A. would've probably put a PPO on him, where he/she would've been forbidden within a certain distance from any school and/or children gatherings.

That means a move like this would’ve been a career ending move for a teacher.

Now, what do you think will happen to this priest? Depending on the country in which this accident has happened - most likely just a talk in some higher-in-rank priest's office: "Listen, Brother Adolf, we can't do that anymore, these are not the good old days, you know." That is it. No wonder the Catholic Church is on a brink of extinction all over the world!

Life / Top-selling Polish authors [5]

Thanks you guys. I've just ordered Lem's "Solaris" the book and the DVD. Unfortunately Sapkowski's "/Last-Wish-Andrzej-Sapkowski/" (The Witcher Book I) is not yet available. I had to pre-order it - not sure what the release date is going to be. I also looked at "The Hexer" movie, but it had some bad reviews - so I skipped it.

Food / Christmas Dinner in Poland [33]


Come to think about it, Polish Christmas is all f-ed up!
We celebrate Christmas one day before Christmas day and we make this huge elaborate dinner with an inedible fish (carp - yuk!) as the main course! Before that, we keep this fish in our bathtub for days! Ooops!

Oh, yeah - there is no Boxing Day - those cheap bastards! :) But if there was one, then I guess it would have to be on the Christmas Day... WTF???