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krysia   
27 Nov 2008
News / Adoption from Poland for a 50% Polish? [10]

My brother, sister and several friends adopted from Poland. An older child is less expensive to adopt and siblings are easier to adopt or a child with minor defects.

It is expensive like all adoptions, but you get a tax credit for it. When adopting in the US you can get up to $10.000 tax credit at the end of the year even if the adotion isn't finalized yet. With international adoptions, to get the tax credit it has to be finalized.

With domestic adoptions many are "open adoptions" where you have to contact the birth mother and tell her about her child. There are cases where she visits the child and sometimes even takes it back.

With international adoptions you don't have to worry about that.
krysia   
25 Nov 2008
Life / How to wire a plug in Poland? [16]

instead of the pin used now in the sockets, it will be like this:

Hahaha.
Even more confusing.
krysia   
25 Nov 2008
Life / How to wire a plug in Poland? [16]

Over a thousand fires break out annually in the UK by overloaded electrical outlets. Mainly caused by the Poles, who force plugs into outlets which were brought with them from their country .

The problem is that Poles have two round entries, and the British three flat ones. What does a canny Pole do in such cases? Grabs the screwdriver.

The British have many "capable" Poles, who go to the store and buy a special overlay that will burn their houses.
With posters and leaflets, they call on not to play homemade electricians and not to push in with force the Polish plugs in British contacts. And that this is very different from home. Instead of two round flat has three entrances. . But it makes no difference to Poles. What are screwdrivers for?

Many times during the inspection of Polish housings were found forced plugs into the outlets.This is very dangerous, because it just takes a short-circuit and a fire is ready - says Thomas, American firefighter working in one of the cities in the south of England.
krysia   
25 Nov 2008
Love / help dating polish lady [78]

Listen helghast. Leave the girl alone.
She is dealing with her bf at the moment and you are in her way. I'm sure he got mad when he saw your text on her phone. She cares about him, not you. You are just a friend from work, she doesn't want to share her life with you. She's nice to you because she's just nice. That's all. Find yourself another girl who's unnatached.

This will not work. Not at the moment anyway, until she decides she is over her bf.
krysia   
19 Nov 2008
Genealogy / Ryszkowska/Gryszkowska from old Polish Town from pre-1930 ("antowi zcizus") [14]

Maybe 'Danzig' German for "Gdańsk"

In 1863, Russia's wanted to try and destroy the Polish culture by declaring Russian the official language. Prussia would do the same in 1872, forcing Poles in the Prussian territory to use German as the basic language. The Poles struggle persisted and near the end of the century, they had successfully establish political parties in all three regions.

So that's why you have different spellings of the same name.
krysia   
11 Sep 2008
USA, Canada / VISA TRAVEL TO USA [32]

you don't need one to enter Canada, however.

You do need it when you travel by air.
krysia   
10 Sep 2008
Language / Help with pronunciation of Gorecki Symphony [41]

It gonna be smtg like this:

Mamo, Mamo, nie placz,

Niebios Przeczysta Królowo,

Ty zawsze wspieraj mnie.

Zdrowaś Mario Laskiś Pelna

Mah-moh, Mah-moh nye pwatch,
Nye-bee-os pshe-chys-tah Kroo-loh-voh,
tee zaw-sheh f-spee-eh-rai m-nye
Z-droe-vash Ma-ree-io was-keesh pew-nah("pe" like "pellets"
krysia   
9 Sep 2008
Life / Polish customs in greetings, working, anyting? [7]

is it only a Polish thing that when you shake somebody's hand, you should take a glove off, to be polite?

Depends. If you have to shake your hand outside after a hard, cold day of snomobiling, you not gonna take that glove off!
krysia   
8 Sep 2008
USA, Canada / Polish stuff vs. American stuff [107]

In America it's not socially acceptable to have a child drinking from a bottle anymore after the age 1.
In Poland kids still drink from a bottle at age 6. And what's s wrong with that? as long as they get their milk it doesn't matter what they drink it from.
krysia   
7 Sep 2008
USA, Canada / Polish stuff vs. American stuff [107]

In America they feed dogs dog food. In Poland they boil noodles, rice, meat and other scraps.
krysia   
7 Sep 2008
USA, Canada / Polish stuff vs. American stuff [107]

Teeth
People in Poland have yellow teeth from drinking too much herbata.
American dentists can whiten your teeth for a reasonable price, and you can buy teeth whiteners, and teeth strips and all that good stuff to make a brighter and whiter smile. :)
krysia   
7 Sep 2008
Life / "I love you" in Polish culture... [36]

"I love my dog" sounds normal in English, but if I said "kocham mojego psa" in Poland, they will think you're a pervert. Hehehe

Some words have different meanings in different cultures although they are the same words. Just have to live with it, I guess...?
krysia   
2 Sep 2008
USA, Canada / How to ship pierogi from Poland to USA (not frozen)? [15]

Does anybody know how to ship pierogi to USA without sending them frozen?

Is there a better way to preserve them?

You can try to dry them, "suszone pierogi" a new thing on the market. Mmmmm. O.o.
Where you sending them from? I wouldn't want to smell something that was in the mail 2 weeks....Unless of course you want to poison someone with old fart-smelling pierogi...

But I was told that there was another Polish Plum used..

Maybe the were called powidła, which is like plum marmolade?
or śliwki?
krysia   
30 Aug 2008
Life / I AM BLACK. SHOULD I MOVE TO POLAND? [107]

you said i made a stupid comment. You sound threatening to me, therefore i don't like you and i don't feel it's my moral obligation to be respectful of you.

Your comment is even stupider. LOl!!!!