Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]


Ehm, nearly none of my remarks are being driving by the hunger for fornification.


Because you like to take your pants off on market squares and shock old ladies?

M-G (what did I win?)

Life / What should be done to make life in Poland better and more enjoyable? [94]


Halleluyah! There we have it. Life In Poland Is Good. Life In Spain Is Better. Life On Antartica Is The Best.

M-G (ghee, I always get followers of my style - good, bon, goed, gut)

Life / Buying a laptop in Poland with English O/S [11]

What the missus means is the complete OS needs to be in English. What you write in your posting about XP is just altering the keyboard settings and layout and the input language. In Vista it's only in Vista ultimate pssble to change the language completely.

Best option is the one I gave. It's also the cheapest and the quickest.

M-G (or buy a machine with Vista ultimate on it)

Life / Buying a laptop in Poland with English O/S [11]

Buy one there, format the HD and install your English copy of Windows on it. Shouldn't be so difficult to imagine now, isn't it?

M-G (that is, if you have an English copy - widely available on Inet, though)

Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]


With regards to PL-girlies, I'd rather see pants off, if it's all the same to you.

M-G (autumn in Ireland)

Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]

Boris, you in your corner and Vladimir, you in your corner. And I don't want to hear anything from the both of you again today!

M-G (that will teach them)

News / Microsoft Poland whitens a black face in its advert [130]

Oh yes, MS makes mistakes: Windows ME and Vista were cr*p; MS's answer to Flash wasn't successful and I am personally not so convinced of that HomeServer thingie they have launched last year. But that's just me.

M-G (Windows7, on the other hand, is great)

News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]


Are we entering a discussion about abortion again? Seanus, tell me that this isn't true.

M-G (always the same subjects)

Genealogy / How tall is the average Polish Girl [18]

Again, a nonsense thread. What is next? A question about the average length of the pubic hair in a Polish female's p*ssy?

M-G (grmbl)

News / Microsoft Poland whitens a black face in its advert [130]


The last bit comes close, but still: <rrrringggg> wrong answer. Like Bratwurst: try again for the prize.

M-G (would be a good quizmaster)

News / Microsoft Poland whitens a black face in its advert [130]


No. It wasn't. Wrong explanation. Try again for the
grand prize :)


Explain to me: does the functionality of the product change once the colour of the person that sells it, changes?

As you may or may not know, they use generic pictures for adverts like this. You can buy those pics on DVD's and they cost a fortune, but they are all cleared and free to use wherever you like and want. These pictures typically contain examples of all human variations, from chinese to white, from black to purple or green. They do this in order to adhere to the UN laws concerning equal rights for everybody. And wtf is wrong with Poland that they don't accept a coloured person on a generic photo for a product a company wants to sell?

I fully understand the concept of whites being more able to identify themselves with whites, however, a product is a product and it really shouldn't matter which generic picture is used to sell the cr*p. Only in Poland apparently it is. What is wrong with this country?

M-G (hates racism - it's so stupid)

Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]


Are you sure? It's gonna be a rant about how in the West they are more advanced in the fields of equality, liberal thinking, modernisation, how much better it is in the West, how you guys in the East are backward compared to us and so on. You are really sure you want to hear all that? I won't write it if you don't want to and are afreaid that your feelings might get hurt. Just say so.


Do you understand yourself what you are talking about here? Yes? Good. At least there is somebody then who does. Because I for one haven't got a clue what you are talking about here.

M-G (don't say I didn't warn you)

News / Microsoft Poland whitens a black face in its advert [130]


And thank God we have you to enlighten us on this one.

White ppl do identify themselves more with white ppl than with coloured ppl, true. But then why didn't they change it for the rest of the world? Why only for PL?

Actually, I work for this company and via a friend in Redmond who works for the marketing dept, I know the reason exactly why they did it, but it will be interesting to know what the good ppl here at PF think is the explanation.

M-G (back at work again)

News / Microsoft Poland whitens a black face in its advert [130]


The whole point was that the original photo contained a gentleman with a coloured skin and they changed it with Photoshop to a gentleman with a white skin. They did this because otherwise they wouldn't sell in Poland. What does this say? The Poles don't like black ppl and leave no opportunity to say so openly and publicly. On the other hand, if you say something about the Poles or Poland...:S

M-G (mentioned this ocurrance in an earlier post)

Love / Polish Girls Reputation [231]


You really want an answer to that?

M-G (coffee)

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

You mentioned Yugoslavia in your argumentation in a post earlier on. Yugoslavia did not exist until the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes decided they would carry that name, and the SHS did not come into existance until 1923.

M-G (hungry)

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


In 1918? You must be joking. Germany hardly had the resources, morale or will to launch a large scale offensive after the Michael offensive of March 1918. And as per August 1918 they had a little bigger fish to fry than some Polish insurgents. Maybe the Poznan uprising was part of the bigger context of chaos in the whole of Germany which started to enfold by then. I wanna see some links that prove the claim that the German army was preparing a full scale offensive against the insurgents at Poznan. Or are you just over-estimating the role of Poles in history? Wouldn't surprise me, though :)


?? Why would they want to do that? Russia didn't fight anymore and they could use all the best forces they had in the West as the Americans were about to enter on the Western Front. Why you'd think the Germans were so eager to create chaos and revolution in Russia to have them drawn out of the war? Surely not to leave their best men there once the peace was signed. And as for the occupied countries: basically there were only two sovereign states at the time that were occupied, of which only one as a whole: Belgium and Luxemburg. And they both lay conveniently close to the Western Front to act as a resting place for tired or wounded soldiers.

Ehm, I think southern confuses WW2 with WW1, as that is the one were are talking about now, are we?

M-G (coffee)

History / Silezia: Breslau, Wroclaw or something else? [16]

Thanks guys for your intelligent contributions. I have read the postings and the articles with great interest and I have to say things are more clear to me now as to where Silesia is concerned. Thanks again!

M-G (going to sleep in a few)

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]

So, there was an uprising in Poznan when the Germans were at the end of their tathers in 1918? Ghee, the unimaginable heroism. Of course, with the Michael offensive draining all their resources and with no success eventually and with the event of Amiens, they were not really paying attention to what was happening in the backwaters of Europe. And who could blame them.

The Armenians didn't come to an uprising, the very fear of them maybe wanting independence was enough to create a genocide on them.

M-G (tired)

Life / Car stereo thieves - is this a problem in Poland? [23]

Hm, Poles use additives where they don't have to and don't use them where they have to. Makes it easy to recognize them :)

Did I say additives? Of course I meant adjectives.

M-G (had a drink, but was bored, so went home pretty quickly)

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


But isn't the whole idea of the EU that a certain standard and equality should be in place in every member state? Doesn't this apply to immigrants as well?

What you are advocating here is a sort of protectionism. And that is what the EU does as a whole, not the seperate member-states.

M-G (goes for a drink after being frustrated that the design of his CD box didn't turn out the way he imagined it)

Life / Car stereo thieves - is this a problem in Poland? [23]


No no no, Gregor, that's Austria :)

M-G (tsk)

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


Totally agree on that. I'm only wondering how it was before they joined the EU. Was there some sort of installment in place as one can expect that after the revolution foreigners would also flock to Poland wether she is in the EU or not. I think it will take a few generations before Poland is fully adapted to her new role and new position (within the EU). I guess they somewhat overlooked this side of the membership of an organisation like the EU and are somewhat reluctant to adjust to that section. But sometimes it strikes me how Poland seems to expect to receive all the benefits, things the other memberstates have been fighting for for decades, all at once and starts to complain when it is explained that this simply is not pssbl without first adjusting to those other standards. In other words, they want to benefit as much as pssbl and as quick as pssbl, but whereas the other things are concerned, it suddenly doesn't have to be in such a rush.

The fact that Poland has been a homogeneous state for such a long time and is apparantly not used to (mass-) immigration poses a problem, or better a question: if they are not capable yet to adhere to those standards, haven't they joined the EU too early? I'm leaving the economic demands for membership deliberately out of this for now.

Other thing is: take the current situation between Slowakia and Hungary and this mess about language and stuff. This issue and the above mentioned issues should in my opinion not be present at all, since the EU is supposed to be a kind of monolith and internal struggles would only undermine the concept of the EU as a whole.

So, in short, I would say that Poland, as well as some other countries in the region, get their business straight and quickly so as one can foresee internal trouble within the EU if it doesn't manage to do so within a reasonable timeframe.

M-G (just came back from rip-off Dublin downtown)

Life / Car stereo thieves - is this a problem in Poland? [23]


1.4, I have to share my second child with 3 of my neighbours. It's rule. We have to keep the average alive.

M-G (kiddie kiddie kiddie)

History / Silezia: Breslau, Wroclaw or something else? [16]

Thanks guys for your contributions so far. I do understand that the area got "Polonized" after WW2 and that the German population got deported. But, as Lukas says: there is a number of true Silesians left in the Easternmost region of Silesia. Surely it cannot be that this were the only Silesians available throughout history? What happened to the original Silesians that must have populated the entire area at one point? Did they get deported as well (either from the German side or from the Polish side)?

Could one say that this so-called "Polonization" of Silesia led to the feeling in Silesia that they are Polish? Surely it would be arteficial then. Ok, I grant that it is a way: remove all the original inhabitants and replace them with your fellow-countrymen, but I am sure that this wouldn't have such an impact on Silesian sub-consciousness to start thinking that they are not Silesian anymore, but Polish (or German or Czech, for that matter)?

It probably won't happen, but if there were to be a poll amongst Silesians wether Silesia should be independent from either Poland and Germany, what would be the result?

M-G (curious)

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


Unfortunately this is a general European thing. It will lead (and has already led) to growing dissatisfaction amongst the locals and in the Dutch case it has led to political abcesses like Geert Wilders' popularity, which is very frightening.

M-G (one big happy family?)

News / The most spectacular errors in Polish politics. [264]


True, the other countries were forced after a while to open their borders to Polish ppl. Or at least not limit the number of them that were allowed in. I don't know the exact number in other countries, but I know for the Netherlands it was limited to 20.000 a year until, I think, 1 January 2007. But I am not sure about that date, though.

Indeed, well-educated ppl tend to think harder and deeper about things like this as they could provide an asset to any society where they land. Less or non-educated ppl just go where the money is to be made.

M-G (going to take a shower - busy day today as it looks now)

History / Silezia: Breslau, Wroclaw or something else? [16]


Ok, granted. Is the language they speak there derived from Czech then? I'm asking this, because if it is, should it be incorporated within Czechia then? As we all know, cultural entities and units are primarily defined by language. Cultural borders normally run along with language-areas. And: was Czechia before it became incorporated into Austria-Hungary at some point called not "The Kingdom of Bohemia and Moravia", but "The Kingdom of Bohemia, Moravia and Silezia"?

M-G (interested)

Life / Car stereo thieves - is this a problem in Poland? [23]


It's a pretty old one. Heard it for the first time about 20 years ago.

Seanus

In fact I heard it from a Dutchman who had a German girlfriend.

M-G (grmbl)