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masks98   
14 Sep 2008
News / Abkhazia and South Ossetia are independent states now! Poland reaction? [236]

destroyed shcool near the town Gori

uh...and what about destruction from the georgian attacks. Obviously if you're gonna post pictures of the effects of the russian attack then you HAVE to post pictures of what the Georgians did as well when they started this whole mess on August 7th. that's obvious, you'll come off as biased otherwise.
masks98   
13 Sep 2008
News / Abkhazia and South Ossetia are independent states now! Poland reaction? [236]

good job Southern, in the end, it's just obvious that if Georgia preemptively assaults two autonomous, historically pro-russian provinces, that Russia will come to their rescue in case of Georgian attacks.

They did not plan the war.They had a plan of intervention if georgian forces attacked South Ossetia.In the same way you can tell that USA has planned war against Russia,Iran and China because there are for sure plans of intervention in case for example China attacks Taiwan etc.

exactly.
masks98   
13 Sep 2008
News / Abkhazia and South Ossetia are independent states now! Poland reaction? [236]

Good god, it's just the stupid behavior in Russia's history ever... Soon the international court will confirm what Russian Government did in Georgia...

wtf I just don't get it, Georgia launched a criminal attack on August 7, which was uncalled for and absolutely unnacceptable, the Russian response by contrast, was completely predictable not only because Russia is a big power with interests in the region, but also because the two independent provinces are strongly pro-russian and rely on Russian help.

Both provinces have been historically pro-russian and against integration with Georgia. While russia is no saint, in this episode it is Georgian actions that deserve condemnation....
masks98   
11 Sep 2008
Life / I AM BLACK. SHOULD I MOVE TO POLAND? [107]

Masks98, are you using your avatars as some sort of modelling portfolio or something? Maybe try an over the shoulder look for the next one.;)

I tried uploading an over the shoulder one just for you but i can't get it down to the right dimensions, why the **** do these things have to be 5kb!

But when I change my pictures I try to make sure to keep my face in it to tell the bigots from the non bigots...
masks98   
11 Sep 2008
Life / I AM BLACK. SHOULD I MOVE TO POLAND? [107]

Poland has one distinctive culture which shouldn't change.

Oh please, Poland's culture is being erased by rich white capitalists and American-style commercialism/consumerism, and all the other western isms you can imagine., I was dissapointed coming here, to see Warsaw, and to a lesser extent other cities look like any other european city. the only difference is that it's predominantly slavic.

Can you imagine if 200 years ago Indian people (from India the country) settled Canada? It'd be a disaster! India's dirty and poor. Canada would be India #2.

well if indians settled canada 200 years ago and weren't colonized and subsequently over populated, who knows what it would look like? I don't see how that would make it an india #2...

it's 1980

"imagine if Canada were settled by those Poles 200 years ago! it'd be a disaster, canada would be Poland#2!!"
masks98   
9 Sep 2008
Love / Tricky situation, should I refuse or accept? Forced to be an English teacher in Poland. [23]

Tell me, how is it possible to give someone English lessons,when you can barely speak their mother tongue?

Hey that's what I said when the idea of me teaching english in Poland came up. But Veni vidi vici and my students have been pretty responsive. Of course, it's because most of these people already speak english, they just want to put their book-knowledge to the test and acquire more fluency...

seems to me that you are really,just pissed off, having to give lessons free

haha I was a little bit, but then it really bothers me to imagine taking money fromm their hands. In the end I will have to, Ola's mother will pay 50 a lesson, end of discussion. I guess It's okay at such a discount rate...
masks98   
8 Sep 2008
Love / Tricky situation, should I refuse or accept? Forced to be an English teacher in Poland. [23]

it was my girl's dad's birthday, he made me get drunk, then this priest came over to give his birthday wishes, before launching a 49 minute tirade against my girlfriend for not going to church, at which point I interrupted and merely said "sh;es a very nice person, and she's very happy, so she's no anti-christ."

The father called me a 'heretic', the priest got up and said he had to go home, while the mother ran crying to the living room. They're complete religious fanatics. but I somehow patched things up with them before the priest left, even though they barely speak english. probably in my top 5 greatest exploits.
masks98   
8 Sep 2008
Love / Tricky situation, should I refuse or accept? Forced to be an English teacher in Poland. [23]

Swap her for Polish lessons?

Good Idea I'll suggest it! though that would require a longer lesson (2 hours) which is a lot of money id' be losing.

hey, isn't your month of learning Polish up?)

next person who brings that up I'm calling the police.

'm sure if you say its your way of paying back thier kindness they will understand if you dont take any cash.

no that's the thing they refuse to hire me for free. I really want to refuse this whole thing altogether, but I absolutely don't want to commit any faux-pas, I've been making a good impression on her entire family thus far. (well, I made her mother cry once but that's repaired.)
masks98   
8 Sep 2008
Love / Tricky situation, should I refuse or accept? Forced to be an English teacher in Poland. [23]

Since I moved to Poland my girlfriend's family has been super supportive and helpful, especially her aunt and uncle. they let us stay with them in warsaw for a week when we first came, they made us great food, they tried to get me work as an english teacher (and they did,) and most importantly they got us an apartment in the city center!

Then suddenly yesterday her aunt calls and says that her daughter Ola wants me to be her english teacher, and that it is out of the question that I give her free lessons...

1. How can I possibly take any money from them after all their help?
2. Ola is 13, up until now I've only taught business english to adults, so what if I don't meet her needs and **** up, and then it's like "we had to fire your boyfriend because Ola wasn't happy.."

3. all that considered, would it be rude to refuse? "sorry but I can't.."?

i need guidance...
masks98   
8 Sep 2008
News / Venezuela is voted happiest place to live ,Poland? [33]

1. Are polish people rude?

On the street yes. Very VERY rude. One-on-one not at all, the complete opposite actually.

2. Do Polish smile often?

not on the street.

3. Are Polish people less compasionate?

no

4. Are polish people forgiving?

as individuals it depends on the Pole, as a nation, well who should they be forgiving to?

5. Are Polish people too serious?

the women seem a tad too 'umbrella-up-the-ass' like.

6. Do you feel honesty and trust when meeting them?

honesty, trust? I don't trust anyone.
masks98   
6 Sep 2008
News / Abkhazia and South Ossetia are independent states now! Poland reaction? [236]

link please? I would argue this is false, especially wrt Iraq. Things have been going well enough that there are already talks with the Iraqi government on when we can pull out, and they are running a large part of the country themselves already. With ANY war, journalists can go find a bombed out rubble pile and film it, implying that is the entire country. It also isn't difficult to find someone who will say just about anything-and that isn't even just in Iraq.

Hey JohnP I'm sorry I missed that reply. You're right that things have been better in Iraq, they had to get better at some point. But after all, the war did set-off a quasi-civil war over there aren't I right? Can you be certain that the recent "gains" aren't just a break in the fighting? I hope it's more than that and that this turn for the better will progress and not stall, because even though things are better now, they are still far from the legacy our armed forces should aim to leave behind. And wouldn't you agree that now there are almost certainly terrorist groups in Iraq? That these terrorist will wage war within their borders, probably against the Iraq government (which must look like a foreign import to them, like a McDonalds).

One of the sad things from a cultural point of view is that the US took Saddam's destruction of Babylon even further:

many civilians died in this war, perhaps more than would have under Saddam Hussein in the same period? perhaps up to a million? Who knows what to believe?
masks98   
6 Sep 2008
Life / First Racial Attack for me in Poland [158]

nothing but racist attacks from Poles

I wouldn't go that far, but a racist poll is really something to see to believe, weren't they all victims of horrible racism?
masks98   
5 Sep 2008
Life / First Racial Attack for me in Poland [158]

Heh, you said it not me. What do you mean by wandering? Like they have nothing better to do? Or are you stereotyping someone, certainly someone of Your leftist criteria would not do such a thing.

Why don't you google "wandering jew" and learn something new..

masks98: you sound like a crying little b1tch

thats all I need to hear from you to feel victorious, especially from some little boy pretending he's some polish viking lol.
masks98   
5 Sep 2008
Life / First Racial Attack for me in Poland [158]

Oh so it wasn't timothy McVeigh who was behind the bombings? let me guess, it was the wandering jew..

oh and by the way, all I do is patrol the threads that involve minorites? here's the list of the threads I started:

My first Polish WEDDING!
Anybody know Flash??
What are nightclubs like in Warsaw...?
Paying duties for e-bay purchases.
Looking to buy XBOX360 in Poland...
We've only got 4 years to live
Iron curtain between Church & State for Poland?
I'm gonna learn Polish in a month!
Warsaw: A day in the life
short story
XBOX LIVE in Poland?
anyone put the new shengen rules to the test?
Polish leftist/radical culture...
English bilingual publications in Poland
Any english teachers in Poland here with tips to share?
Polish Youth - are they violent?
Why has Poland been attacked so often by its neighbors?
What is there to do in Warsaw??
How easy is it to get into trouble with the Police in Poland?
Lose passport to extend my stay, must return to the US


and go look at the list of threads I reply to, their a mixed bunch as well, so you're just completely wrong once again. Why am I still here? BECAUSE I MOVED TO POLAND! I'm IN Poland right now just trying to get by and be happy, and it torments me that there are guys like you who'd rather see me beaten to bloody death while on my way to a movie, or to meet my girlfriend..look at that mahmoud guy above, he was just hanging out being a free and happy man and he got jumped..., I was walking with my girlfriend holding her hand the other day and some dudes called her a slut out loud in the street for being with me...It's just unfair and heart-breaking.

But I am interested in participating in threads like this, since it gives me a chance to argue with guys like you, understand more about your point of view, and eventually realize how pointless and futile it is trying to break down that wall of ignorance separating you from the real world.

My arguments are facts straight out of the book of life, that's why I expound them with such conviction. Yours aren't, they're just nonsensical, arbitrary inventions of a brain molested by outlandish ideologies... you keep making basic IQ mistakes like "all poor black criminals are black (obviously) therefore all blacks are poor black criminals..." that disqualifies you right away as a nullity and leads you down immoral lines of thought like "therefore, all blacks should be treated like poor black criminals.."
masks98   
4 Sep 2008
Life / Is it safe for me and my Asian friends to come to Poland? [44]

well I guess that if I came on these boards and saw crap like what Warsaw8 and all them spew I'd ask questions too.

This Polish guy who came over my place once tried to scare me and told me I should seriously look into getting a gun. Knowing nothing about Poland at all I couldn't really dismiss what he was saying. But I came, no gun, am safe.
masks98   
4 Sep 2008
Life / Wedding in Poland - my experience [39]

ha ha! Apparently the extra-strength wedding wodka will help reduce the language barrier...

It always does haha, on my first night in Poland my girl's father came through with the Jack Daniels and had me speaking Polish within 20 minutes... I forgot everything next morning..
masks98   
4 Sep 2008
Life / Wedding in Poland - my experience [39]

hey cut me some slack ! I explained why I had to cancel that project.. now I'm even more busy cuz everyone's back from vacation looking to speak english, so I'll probably redo that challenge around new years or something...

Oh but I learned these fighting words for bacias trying to skip in line at the supermarket, I don't know how to spell it but you'll catch the drift:

"Prosze Pani, Pani to nie stowa!!!"

perhaps throw in a kurwa for emphasis?
masks98   
4 Sep 2008
Life / Wedding in Poland - my experience [39]

Merged: My first Polish WEDDING!

I'll be off to Zamosc tomorrow to attend a wedding. My girlfriend barred me from eating food all week saying that the wedding will make up for it, what can I expect to find on the tables?

and what can I expect on any other front? Corny dances, is that really a strong tradition here? Ultimate inebriation? Epochal hang-over the next day?

do you guys have any funny or interesting stories from traditional Polish weddings?

by the way, anyone seen this?


masks98   
4 Sep 2008
Life / First Racial Attack for me in Poland [158]

Your in denial if you think a white man can walk through the "true ghetto" streets of Brooklyn, Chicago, LA, Atlanta etc. Without any problems, not even during the middle of the day in traffic.

What do you mean i'm in denial? I LIVED in these neighborhoods, in Harlem, in the South Bronx, in Queens, in Brooklyn, i've had white friends visit me there to hang out with me, preppy white friends! I had two white friends from Switzerland move to Queens with me for 3 months they look all preppy and they definately look and sound like white tourists, but they had no problems. They eventually hooked up with some dude on the block who asked them where they were from, and would chill at the guy's place once in a while to smoke up.

I've always tried to stay out of trouble but it hasn't kept me from passing through neighborhoods, or interacting with people who are the cause of all the trouble. I've seen many white people (ghetto and non-ghetto) walk through grand concourse in the south bronx, many of them work there, nothing like what you describe happens. You seem to think there is some race war, that whites are all out to get blacks and blacks all out to get whites.

It's economic, minorities in poor neighborhoods are mostly killing themselves. You were saying that they would only kill white people walking through their neighborhoods, when, in New York at least, that's not the case, at least not anymore... The only racial tensions have to do with Police brutality, but that's another issue entirely...

My point (a few times) was that you stood up and called someone out on thier opinions about the realities of a their relative country, saying they were wrong and stupid and immoral, when the irony of it is, your a black man, with some sort of god for saken African decent, and your culture tops the chart for the very things you quoted someone else on.

I just said Krysia's comment was stupid, big deal, I've gotten a lot worse from you and others on this forum. I didn't say she was immoral. So you've lost on that point. And there's no irony in the fact that I'm saying that as a black man, since I lead a life that's probably as moral as Krysia's. And my culture isn't "black" it's western. so perhaps the irony is that we're arguing about morality while our Western culture is engaged in deeply immoral activities..

You're confused Warsaw, I used to say that you were a moral failure (which you are,) but the fact is just that you're deeply confused and you have your feelinigs and ideas all mixed up.

You keep making this basic mistake, some blacks are criminals, masks98 is black, therefore, masks98 is a criminal.

if I can't blame you for what timothy MCVeigh did in the oklahoma city bombing, then you can't blame me for whatever crime some random black person commits. You can't accuse ME of immorality, for someone else immoral actions.
masks98   
4 Sep 2008
Life / First Racial Attack for me in Poland [158]

So because I have ancestors who came to the western hemisphere from Africa perhaps in the 1600's or 1700's, then I'm responsible for what Africans do? Makes virtually no sense. We all come from Africa then, and therefore we're all responsible for what goes on there.

Yes they do happen all the time, but why do the people of your backround commit the majority % of the crimes world wide? When there the lower number of people in most places? Yet they top the charts in majority of crimes.

It's a known fact that crime is related to economic situation, there's a lot of crime going one in white trash america as well... But In the end I have no problems saying that blacks commit most of the crimes you hear about, but again, look at their economic situation. And then, look at the lifestyles being marketed to them.

DO you know how much hip-hop is out there that isn't violent, that is positive etc?? YOu'd never know because the major record labels don't want to sign them (because that's not a commercially viable image of hip-hop) or when they do sign them they put little money into marketing them. What they want are 50 cent type buffoons, they sign them, then they pour in tons of marketing money, and this image of the strong, super confident black man gets broadcast and circulated across all media, targeting young black men. And it affects them. You've got these rappers telling them thug life and **** like that, and making them feel guilty if they want to leave their ghettos and find a better life..

You don't seem to be able to see the economic problems facing society.

but you come around here casting stones at others for what they say and do, while the whole time you live in a glass house. Who do you think you are? A black person on a Polish Forum, your in no room to throw stones is what im getting at....

This forum is for ANYONE having anything to do with Poland, so having moved here, I have a complete right to come on here, ask for advice, opinions, etc, and then participate in whatever discussions that go on here, so if you didn't get that, you're not much of a good observer are you? You on the other hand...i'm not so sure why you're here...I don't see you posting much in the Polonia thread...you just came here spewing bile everywhere...

Exactly, not in that nieghbohood. But if you think it works the same way the other way around, your in denial!

I'm not in denial, why would anyone expect someone to get murdered in a mmiddle class suburb? It doesn't make sense. The point is economic not racial. There are black middle class neighborhoods, or ones that are predominantly non-whites, and it's the same story there...why would anyone expect to get murdered there? It can happen of course, and it does from time to time, but that's not where the action is, it's in the poor neighborhoods. So the causes are economic...
masks98   
3 Sep 2008
News / Abkhazia and South Ossetia are independent states now! Poland reaction? [236]

So you just assume that I'm some flag-waving American? I've posted on other topics at other times about how ****** up the US is. If I say that Russia is ****** up, it doesn't follow that I think the US is great. It's better than many places of course, but there's so much that needs to change... so I think you barkin up the wrong tree pal...