Love / What are the perceptions of polish towards homosexuality? [106]


We are getting there :)

M-G (slowly, but surely)

Real Estate / Foreigners: Please don't buy Polish Land! [823]


Isn't this exactly what happened in Ireland during the boom-years of the Celtic Tiger? Isn't this the reason why Ireland nowadays is one of the most expensive countries to live in? With the difference that the Irish government is even more greedier than its citizens?

Famous example: a boat full of bananas comes from Africa and docks in Dublin harbour, where it unloads half of it's cargo. Then it leaves for France where it unloads the other half of its cargo. Same bananas, same ship, same shippers etc, only a shorter trip to Ireland than to France. And in the end nobody is able to explain why the same bananas are more than twice as expensive in Ireland than in France. (Kg bananas in France: 1,50E, in Ireland 3,50E). True story.

M-G (rip-off Ireland)

Love / My Perfect Love Story so I thought [73]


Internet does NOT work if you'e looking for long-term relationships. Chatboxes, datingsites etc, are just a clever way of cashing in on the loneliness ppl feel. Internet contacts are only good for one-night stands, quick-lays and uncomplicated NSA sex. If you cannot make it in the real world, you cannot make it in the virtual world as well, providing you are yourself on Inet, which everybody claims to be, but no-one hardly ever is.

In short, if you're a failure in the real world by being yourself, you will be a failure in the virtual world as well, unless you take on a role of a person you would like to be, but that is faking and sooner or later you will fall through and be the same old miserable loser you always were. Unfortunately it's like that. Don't believe the crap of character is important. It is, later on, but if the looks are not OK, you won't even get the chance to show your character.

M-G (sad but true)

Love / What are the perceptions of polish towards homosexuality? [106]

As long as I get my sandwich on time, I am prepared to let everyone live and everything will be alright.

M-G (when I don't get my sandwich on the other hand...)

Love / Indian in relationship with a Polish girl [27]


Basically had the same. Now she claims she has another boyfriend, but I take it that it won't last long as (and she said it herself many times) people never really change. So she won't either. What I did was, I gave her a hard time (and I really mean a HARD time) that embarrassed her, made her friends seriously wonder about her and most of all, made her look ridiculous and lose quite a few friends. After that, I was done. I got my revenge and now she can go to hell and the horse she rode in on.

M-G (dumped her sorry *ss in the animal shelter as well)

Love / What are the perceptions of polish towards homosexuality? [106]

Glad that it's all positive from the Albanian front.

And: Gays not only have a pink flag, they also f*ck you in the *ss immediately if you have the guts to bend over to pick something up from the floor in their presence.

M-G (still hungry after a sandwich)

News / The Polish Economy and its future [101]


Yes - this is true, but only due to Poland's admittance to the EU. The Netherlands were already in there, as you may or may not know. In fact, the admittance of such a big number of new memberstates has only meant well for exactly those new memberstates; the existing states, except Spain, Portugal and Ireland, mainly suffered a slight drawback from the admittance. But in due time all will be drawn to a more equal level and that is exactly what the EU is all about, or should be about: equality with no major peaks or lows.

M-G (hungry)

Love / What are the perceptions of polish towards homosexuality? [106]


Indeed, what has Albania contributed to the world, except beggars and pick-pockets?

M-G (tsk)

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]


Besides the fact that I know Russians who in fact shower twice a day, I am sure you were joking when you wrote down this thread, did you? I mean, you cannot be serious with this.

M-G (is against a union between PL and RUS for other reasons)

Love / What are the perceptions of polish towards homosexuality? [106]


Does that make any difference then? It should actually be no topic of discussion at all in my opinion, but apparantly it's a big issue how ppl want to give shape and form to their sexual life. What really worries me is that even women are participating in this "hatred" towards homosexuals. After all, they should know better.

M-G (why always these silly discussions over and over again about non-topics?)

News / The Polish Economy and its future [101]



So you're basically saying that Poles should remain on the low level of wages where they are now? Because when Poland gets up at its feet and starts to be some sort of reliabla partner, prices will go up, ppl will want to earn more and Poland will de facto be Germany's equal. I think the future lies in Asia for the time being. Not anywhere in Europe or North America, for that matter.

M-G (will not move to Asia, btw)

News / The Polish Economy and its future [101]


According to several lists, the Netherlands had in 2008 a GDP between 860.000 and 910.000 and Poland a GDP between 500.000 and 550.000. Although these figures may not mean much, take into consideration that Poland is nearly 3 or 4 times as big as the Netherlands, yet the GDP is nearly twice as much. So I would not say that the Netherlands are in Poland's range.


Even without a crisis the location kinda sucks, but that is not because of the Ukraine or Belarus; more because of the fact that their harbours are very well hidden deep into the Baltic sea. Too far away and not on any major trading route, except to Saint Petersburg. This always has handicapped Poland's position.


Hm, indeed back stabbing and dishonesty are traits indeed typical, not only in the Motherland. And racism (as well as their attitude to homosexuals) is something that HAS TO BE addressed and it has to be addressed soon as it will hamper all efforts to become equal to other nations. Little example: the company I work for had a advertisement in magazines and the internet for one of their products. In the original ad there was a gentleman with a dark skin to be seen. ONLY FOR THE POLISH MARKET, they changed the coloured gentleman for a white one because the Poles would not accept a coloured person and therefore would not buy the product. Sad, isn't it? It's the 21st century, here is a country that wants to be part of the modern world and yet has such views. They still need a lot to learn. How long will it take before the West will stop tolerating retarded attitudes like this and will say: "Poland, you have joined our EU to profit money-wise from us, now you will have to change your attitude towards these things as well?" When will that happen?

M-G (likes German girls too)

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]

No, I don't think that an alliance would fix this. Why should Poland do this? They are part of what has been called the biggest alliance in the World: the EU. There is no need at all to form an alliance with Russia. What good would it do, except bringing destabilisation to a (currently) stable area?


No, but you name me the importance of Slavic countries (except Russia) in nowaday's politics or world theatre, without mentioning some ancient issue, not relevant for today's state of things?

M-G (no issues)

Love / What are the perceptions of polish towards homosexuality? [106]


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. An old saying goes: "don't trust anybody who says he or she is 'normal'".

M-G (detests being "normal")

Love / What are the perceptions of polish towards homosexuality? [106]


Oh no, not that discussion again. Better move to a civilised (read: West-European) country girl as the attitudes towards gay ppl in Poland are at best called "retarded". A mentality who should change as soon as possible. Poland wants to be part of the European family, it has to behave itself like a part of the family. Being part of the EU means not only grabbing its money, but also accepting its values, morals and standards. I think it will take a generation or two before Poland finally has grown up, mentality-wise.


And who gives a sh*t about Albania?

M-G (tolerant towards everybody - even to the intolerant, but for how long we can be tolerant against the intolerant?)

News / What needs to happen in the world so that Poland and Russia form alliance? [297]


Nothing, because it will not happen. Not only because of apparant historic reasons, but also because Poland is now part of the EU and simply cannot form an alliance with Russia, at least as far as I now.

Maybe the role and importance of Poland or the Slavic entity is a bit overrated. Poland, Serbia and the rest (excluding Russia here) are small, marginal countries who basically have no role of importance on the global theatre (anymore). We are not living in the first half of the 20th century anymore and I think nowadays the focus has a bit shifted to the Arabic ppl of the world. So IF it would happen, who in the Western world would lay awake of it?

M-G (likes Serbian girls though)


Ehm, maybe you should've taken your tablets this morning? I have no idea what exactly you meant with this phrase.

Edit: make that your entire entry - I really have no clue what you are talking about, besides that it may be your usual Slavia über alles babbel. But we have passed that now, crow, do we?

M-G (?)

History / PIŁSUDSKI'S DREAM OF CONFEDERATION? [14]


This is all "if-history" and we don't do "if-history". If the Great Powers of the 19th century hadn't begun an armament-race in the first decade of the 20th century, the First World War might not have happened, hence the 2nd one wouldn't have happened either. If Germany had conquered the UK and Ireland in WW2, then the war might have taken 10 to 15 years, if it hadn't ended with an armistice.

M-G (what if...)

Love / Most expensive slavic girls [15]


I have one on offer for you. You can have her for free. She's quite expensive though. I had to put her in the animal shelter of the ISPCA as I couldn't afford her anymore. She earns 22K a year, yet she cost me over 15K a year. So, if you're interested, I can always get her back from the animal shelter and you can come pick her op. A word of caution though: the sex is not that great. She growls a lot and is never there when you need her. And you have to be careful that she doesn't keep another (Polish) b/f on the side as well.

M-G (there for the taking - some Serbian relations are taking care of the boyfriend, so you don't have to worry about that)

News / The Polish Economy and its future [101]


Everywhere it's cheaper than in Ireland :)

Poland may have a high average IQ and a young, perhaps intelligent workforce, but there are two factors due to which Poland will never be a big player like the UK, Germany, France and to some extent the Netherlands, and that is: a) geographical location and b) the language.

Poland may be a Central European country, but it's not quite in the centre of where things are happening. It's hard to reach over sea and to some extent over land as well. So, that will be a factor of importance. Most important however, is the language. One of the keys of the success of Ireland for a decade lay in the fact that they spoke English, a relative easy language to learn and quite international. Polish, on the other hand, is a nightmare to learn and is outside of Poland hardly anywhere else spoken.

So, unless Poland makes serious work of their English education (and maybe can skip places on the map with Germany:) ) I don't think Poland will be a huge player in the foreseeable future.

M-G (busy, busy, busy)

News / French and Poles [146]


Yes do :) I used Wiki for time-reasons. I am still at work and even though I type pretty quickly, I don't have time to check other resources than this one.

Oh ghee, did I tread on some sensitive toes here? OF COURSE there are ppl who helped the Jews, no nation exists entirely of idiots and barbarians. It's just not that -as usually stated here- the Poles were oh-so good towards the Jews, which they were not only. There always is a balance. Some are good, some are bad. Everywhere. I just cannot stand this glorification of your own ppl as being so good to everybody and being so badly treated by everybody else. I cannot stand that from every country, not only Poland. Only Poland has it a little more than others.


You obviously don't have a clue. And your naming of different ppl says enough about how you think. It's hard when ppl don't say that the Poles are such a noble ppl and that the big bad world has done nothing but treat them bad, isn't it? Good, we both can make a new thread here. I will make one named like you mentioned and you will make one called "I am a retard soul who likes to be an idiot and publicly display myself like that."

M-G (creative)

Life / Openly gay in Poland [245]

You didn't see the unrated X version? Man, that Emma Thompson, or whatever her name is :)

M-G (hm, she is 19, right?)

Life / Openly gay in Poland [245]


Neither do you with your slightly backward views on a common, generally accepted and tolerated phaenomenon as homosexuality.

M-G (tsk)

News / French and Poles [146]


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Jewish_violence_in_Poland,_1944-1946
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krak%C3%B3w_pogrom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_pogrom_(1918)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsk_massacre
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bialystok_pogrom
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_pogrom_(1918)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear:_Anti-Semitism_in_Poland_after_Auschwitz

Just a handful of examples from before and after WW2. For the rest I am not going to discuss about this topic with you anymore. You are so convinced of yourself and so stupified in your own opinion that no normal discussion (read with any opinion other than your own) is pssbl. And that kinda annoys me.

M-G (any more examples? Happy to provide)

Life / Openly gay in Poland [245]


I think Pan Kasimir is gay, but still in the closet.

M-G (revelations, revelations)

News / French and Poles [146]


Largest perhaps, yet insignificant.


Oh and there is nothing between the Renaissance and post war Europe? Think again.


Where exactly do I claim that I have knowledge of Polish history? I have a global knowledge of Polish history, which is more than enough for any non-Pole to know. Face it, Poland is a state of lesser importance within the European context. This might be hard to swallow for any Pole as they think their state is just the about the most important state in Europe, but Poland is nothing but a poor Central European country. Nothing more, nothing less. All the so-called achievements of the Polish in history might be nice and significant, however, the amount of Polish contributions is nothing more or of more importance than any other mediocre state in Europe.


Don't make yourself ridiculous.


Ah, I thought you were so against taking parts of text and sentenses out of their context? You didn't get the point, indeed and I doubt you ever will as you are so convinced of your own correctness.

M-G (starts to be slightly annoyed)

News / French and Poles [146]


Goof?

M-G (hm, typo?)

News / French and Poles [146]


A fact that also led to their demise in the 16th and 17th century.

And indeed, Polish history is, besides a few points, not important within the European history, at least not more important than any other given mediocre state in any other period of time. I know the Polish history globally, as, like said, any more indepth research of it would be irrelevant for non-Poles within the global European context. The fact that Poland used to be the most tolerant countries in Europe at the time (from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance) is annilihated by their later hatred of Judaism and the Jews.

And as usually is the case with Poland and its history: wrong time, wrong place. Just tough luck. Get over it and enjoy the position you have now: a tolerated and in due time respected member of the European family. But it should stop (or at least your president should) blaming other countries for your mishap. It does the Polish case certainly no good when you keep doing that.

And true, I have a Master's in History (with honors), but that does not necessarily mean that I have to know everything about Polish history. To be honest, I wasn't interested in Polish history, culture and society until I got a Polish girlfriend. And even then it was more out of curiosity than out of real interest. Because for non-Polish ppl Polish history is generally not interesting at all except as example of how you do things wrongly at the wrong time and place.

What do you know, for example about Dutch history? Do you know anything about that? Get my point? Probably not as you are so full of yourself and self-righteous that you most likely will not see anything else than your own points. The Low Countries were at one point in history the strongest country in the world. We don't nag about that 300 years on. The richest in Europe we have always been, that's the only general thing in Dutch existance and lots of other countries have always been jealous of that, unfortunately.

The importance of the Kielce pogrom is the timing. Slightly a year after the biggest mass murder on a single ppl had ended a couple of idiots go and do it all over again. And the fact that they took away all hopes and wishes of the Jews of starting anew in their former home country. That is the importance of the incident. The Polish government in the 90's declared it a national shame and they didn't do that for nothing. And nowadays when you talk to Poles it's still there, this latent hatred. Oh, they like me, but you can hear that they are doing their utmost to hide the resent they feel for the Jews. And for most other minorities for that matter.

M-G (cheerio)

News / French and Poles [146]

One of the reasons for Polish Anti-Semitism I found was "the fear of Poles that Jews would take up positions in Polish society that should have been taken up by the Poles themselves, thus deterring Poles to fulfil those tasks in their own country".

My reaction to that would be: in my opinion it should be always the right man at the right place at any given time. If a Jew happens to be better at a certain position than an Pole, the Jew should be there, if he lives in Poland. If at the time there are no Poles suitable, they should not hate the Jew who is able to do so for doing it. All will benefit in the long run from it. By the time there is a Pole suitable to perform in the position, he can apply for it and if he gets it, he will be in the position.

M-G (seems logic, though)

News / French and Poles [146]


Hm, somehow I managed to get two Master's of which one with honors. But that doesn't matter right now. I pretty much summed up the circumstances: young boy claims to be kidnapped by Jews, drinking baby's blood, etc. Reasons: the deep rooted hatred of Poles agains Jews. There has been never found any proof by POLISH investigators during the 90's that the Sovjets were behind it.

Perhaps you just simply skip the fact that most of the Polish art, literature, intellect, music, science, etc. was Jewish? Jewes have contributed to all societies they were in. They have added value to any society they are part of. Too bad that the non-Jews nearly always are looking for scapegoats for their own failures.

M-G (bored)

Life / A famous psychic Ms. Nina Szymanska. [8]

Like a great Dutch comedian once said:

"When I knock on a psychic's door and get to hear 'who is there?', I just turn around and go home"

M-G (thought this was great)