Love / Polish girls in the eyes of a Turkish guy [24]

ahhh Turkish girls......ahhh.....wait, what's this about?

*still dazed from the last Turkish girl*

Life / do they have GAP shops in POland ? [15]

look into GAP's treatment of their labour- after reading up on it I decided to NEVER buy anything connected with GAP, Old Navy or Banana Republic. Those sneaky c*nts even found a way to not honour that Employees Rights bill they drew up.

If I am not abreast on the latest development then someone please correct me, but until I hear otherwise i can only encourage others to BOYCOTT GAP. They profit far too much and treat their employees as virtual slaves. It's just sad.

Love / Divorced Polish women [63]


what on god's green earth were you trying to get at there?

Love / Divorced Polish women [63]

mareks, well we'll agree to disagree but it's easy to get ticked at someone when they are so, uh, well you know.


naw he doesn't come across as bitter, he's blunt in how he feels, blunt like a hammer that can bash again'n'again'n'again until the first pieces of sk... well anyway, i'm just trying to liven up the place, argh it's saturday and i'm sick!!!

Love / IS MY BOYFRIEND CHEATING? I went to Poland with him. [158]

eh you may not like what i ahh never mind you'll read it:/

Love / Divorced Polish women [63]

sorry mate, i was following this one from the get go as when pt19 is involved insults are generally forth coming, but i checked way back to see where it came from and unless i suck at the internets then you dropped the first tirade of insults.

i agree with your lil assessment of her and have also been the target of her insults so this is very unbiased.

just sayin

Love / Divorced Polish women [63]


some things cannot be controlled or helped, you're right, and certainly those who are in those situations should never be encouraged to feel shame for that.

*sigh* i guess this is an obvious allusion to a difference of opinion we've had about a different topic, but it's looking at it from such a wide lense that the inticacies are difficult to identify.

Language / Common mistakes made by foreigners in Polish [90]

man i just slap an ending on and hope that it works out, if it doesn't then the crowd cranes their collective neck to "catch the excitement." One trick i will use when i want to be incognito is just fake being confused and give a "prozsa?" so i can hear the ending the sales lady puts on.

(and no i can't spell for dirt in this language)

who's ian, i'm f4.

Love / Divorced Polish women [63]


hmmm, you missed the point. It is just a poor arguement no matter how you switch the words.

why get so antsy about an internet forum anyhow? So he writes what he thinks, big deal, it's not like what he's saying is true just cause he says it's so.

The sad fact of the matter is that to many single men, the idea of an unmarried woman with children is that of one who will at least "put out." Maybe it's a lack of empathy or introspection or even just not attaching a "face" to the concept but that is how many single guys feel.

*edited* unfortunately

Love / IS MY BOYFRIEND CHEATING? I went to Poland with him. [158]


it was a joke lady *rolls eyes*

Now as for the word "mistake" - are you joking now? no, you're kidding yourself, a mistake is when i get an appointment mixed up on the calendar. A mistake is if i read my opponent wrong and lose position. What you have done is a choice. I'm not coming down on you but you made a thought out choice. It's your life but don't sugarcoat with mixed up terms.

Love / Divorced Polish women [63]

Jesus christ there is no definitive rule on how guys have to act in this situation, it's life so there are factors here that are difficult to anticipate. There is the unavoidable issue of biology and genes though, and whether some will admit it or not, we are animals. It is rare for one male species to take on another's. While i don't advocate one position or another i will say that there is probably the arguement of instincts to add to this whole messy subject.


not that i disagree with your sentiment but that's such a silly way to say it, we could just switch the words dad and father and come up with the same thing, it's hardly an arguement on its own.

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]


:)

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]

funny cause i'm not surprised in the least by that reply.

just because some people allow themselves to feel trapped by feelings of remorse for things that were beyond their control doesn't make it healthy thinking and i'd certainly never advocate it. Take pride of the things you've done man there's nothing wrong with that. but remember that pride comes before the fall.

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]


^show me where i wrote that, that doesn't even make any sense, if i wrote that then i gotta lay off the medication. *shrugs shoulders, pops 3x more pills than recommended*

anyway i've noticed it's more the way and when people typically state these things (i believe the word "brag" was used in one of your other posts) that is veiled psuedo strutting (e.g. look at me, my greatgrandfather was a war hero), or even why you'd feel the need to "announce" such a thing- it just defies humility.

anyway i *don't think you'll get it* (edited) and i can see from this post as compared to your others that your getting worked up about the whole thing.

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]

no.

Real Estate / Poland property boom over???? [54]

lodzinvest has speculated heavily on the "correct" and has flipped it for a profit on this thread!

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]


^BINGO!^
now although ozdan was saying he'd wouldn't do what pat19 has stated, she does show how the misuse of pride leads to the slippery slope of "bragging" about things that one hasn't accomplished, yet not "taking credit for it(?).

And that is why the word admire works soooo much better.

taking pride in something one hasn't done or contributed to is a form of delusional thinking imho. sorry to the walter mitties of the world and pat19.

Language / Common mistakes made by foreigners in Polish [90]


hmmm well i am reportedly asian so y'know i guess i must be loaded. but maybe it was in 2001 so as long as you were here before that inflation can explain the rest.

Man one time i got dinged for something like 600zl for electricity. Even this month my landlord is trying to tell me i used 350zl in electricity, she's a nice lady and i think she's a dime, but that is obviously a mistake on her part (i gave away my hifi a year ago and refuse to own a tv).

oh here's one, one time my girlfriend sees a couple laski she knows and says "czesc moj pipki." So what does foreigner4 do? Oh he houses that one in his database to try on the secretaries while having absolutely no clue what it meant. Imagine a dashing f4 waltzing into the staff reception and saying...well anyway imagine it and laugh.

Oh another one for expat guys, when you get in an altercation do NOT wait for the ambulance to come for him and do NOT let your gf see what you've done to her ex, she'll wake up the entire village with her shrieking.

In fact avoid fisticuffs in general cause even when you win, you lose.

For some reason all this reminiscing is starting to remind me of the time me and a trainload of poles got sent off to Prague, even though none of us bought tickets to go or even wanted to. Oh lord, for a crap time it was ok, but still what a debacle pkp could be.

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]

sorry son:)

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]

i wouldn't agree with "always" but i hear what you're sayin. you sir have shamed the "correct" on me.

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]

all depends on how you read it, if with hostility then it will come across like that, you're right though i should have chosen something like "my good man." I guess my friends and i use that one too often and it slipped in here.

I can't deny those are two good points.

Real Estate / Poland property boom over???? [54]

you make a strong case by pointing out what should have been obvious to me cyg

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]


you're right, it's a typo/editing mistake i don't think i can fix it though so it stands as a mistake. but you're both right in being confused, you just did it much more clearly. cheers

Language / Common mistakes made by foreigners in Polish [90]

gawd no, i'm sure they would have shot me if i'd pronounced it like those mongrels do. yeah i thought that was pretty excessive, but that's what i deserved for being so nondiscerning regarding prices circa 2001.

Speaking of which, another mistake i made was with the telephone, oy vie. first week in Poland back then i dished out 1750.00 zl for a phone bill; my dumba$$ "is that a lot?"

And always check your meters for gaz, elec, water, you're sure to get taken to the cleaners if you don't.

A long time ago i remember hitchhiking with my girlfriend back to our town cause i listened to her advice on trains and buses.

Another thing expats-get a car a make you life simpler.

Real Estate / Poland property boom over???? [54]

hey any advice or predictions for Katowice and surrounding area (other than never move there if i don't have to)?

Language / Common mistakes made by foreigners in Polish [90]

i remember asking for something cheaper (why i used english is beyond me) it was like some stupid bath sponge or something and i didn't really want to buy my lady friend a 100zl. bath sponge. So to them it seemed like i was trying to say it's for her, ah gawd how awful for them and all i could think is "gee they sure don't like it when i say anything in english.":(

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]

For someone who's supposed to be burnt i'm feeling incredibly cool.


neither.
it's specificity of words that i was on about. I'll be the first to admit it's unpopular and sure to garner more negative reactions, but nonetheless necessary. The misuse of "pride" starts with good natured stuff, but is a slippery slope that leads to:


it's that simple really.

The armchair hero stuff wasn't about you but it was. I suppose in the sense that you accusing me of armchair heroics was just as accurate? And the last paragraph wasn't about you either, it was explaining my disdain for the word "pride" when people talk about things they haven't done. If you do that for a living then might i suggest a career change? But, hey, they're your feelings so feel away. i just think that: admiration; amazement; and recognition lead to the same ends but never slip towards nationalism like "pride" so often does.

looks like we disagree (unsurprisingly) how important leaving pride out of the equation really is.

Love / IS MY BOYFRIEND CHEATING? I went to Poland with him. [158]


yeah because as a group us guys are known to be soooo descriminating right? i can't say i support infidelity (that's a recipe for disaster) but i don't know her life circumstances either so it'd be more than unfair to judge. I suppose you do have the moral highground here in a black and white scenario, and to be fair, maybe infidelity should be a black and white scenario, but as people we often smudge things into gray.

Life / Damn proud of being (half) Polish [77]


admiration son, that's the word you should be using. you had nothing to do with it like it or not, so "pride" is simply the wrong word. And effort? Uhh congratulations on making the emotional effort to realize you have parents who made sacrifices. Sorry, i know i'm being a jerk but this "pat me on the back because my parents did so and so" is silliness at its worst.


I'd say follow you're own advice, i'm not the armchair hero pretending to have been a soldier, no, no, that's reserved for those who are fortunate to be the fruit of such brave people (not just soldiers though)-and i say that with no tongue in cheek, truly remarkable people that deserve to be honoured by their descendents and others. Sadly these people wear the valour of ancestors like its theirs. Your grandfather sounds like a brave man and sounds like someone to admire, but how can you be proud of something you yourself haven't accomplished?

if i were out to impress people do you really think i'd take such a stance that appeals to clear thinking and not sentiment?

Love / IS MY BOYFRIEND CHEATING? I went to Poland with him. [158]

nice work lady! you must got one nice set of, meh, eh, uh what i mean to say is you must be one heck of a catch if you don't mind me saying so