News / POLES STILL NEED VISAS TO THE U.S.A!! [84]


I'm not sure I'd agree. If what you write were to be true then whence all these H1B (or H-something) visas for knowledge and skilled workers? How come the American computer science departments are practically decimated because there is really no point in studying for something that a guy in India or China will do, instead of you. How is it possible that the job protectionism (for the lack of a better word), doesn't prevent Americans from allowing Canadian nurses, teachers, doctors, and even IT professionals from coming to work in the US?

Life / GAY PARADE IN WARSAW, PL [87]


I swear... if someone was working on a new kind of outfit for clowns, these two would get my vote :)

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


How does that affect the contents of the actual research?
Could we then stipulate that since gays say homosexuality is OK then it must mean it is not OK just because homosexuals' inherent conflict of interest?

The articles has been quoted by many, CNN and CBC among others. Did you bother to check more than what met the eye? Great people were quoted by fools millions of times. Does it mean that the great became fools?

Strangely, you also did not check the Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences. The name of the periodical is mentioned in that quote. Why were you so selective in your google search? Of all the possibilities you failed to look for the actual article :)

I don't think you put yourself in a position to critique the integrity of others, without first improving yours.


thank you for the praise


I can't be really responsible for whatever others say and how they use what I say. I strike no allegiances, other than the one with myself, reason, fact and logic, as much as I am capable.

I think the gist of the conflict between what I wrote, and what others disagreed with is actually a non-existent conflict of views. Almost all responses, negative to my posts, tried to swing (pun not intended) the topic onto the social plane. That plane is an area of pure bull$hit and everybody is wrong and everybody is right. Still, I wasn't even touching upon it, so in effect, as per an old Polish saying, we have been arguing whether the bus is red or whether it took a left turn left instead.

Some discussions are not well accepted exactly because of social conditions. We do not criticize the research or people with 6 toes, and we do not see that research as socially wrong. The same with legally recognized disabilities. There are people with Down syndrome and they are obviously abnormal. Medical research on Down is huge but few have an issue with that. Other valid examples could be multiplied till cows come home. Those would also include research of heterosexuality. And yet, we do not have a problem with those.

Why is it?

Why is it that homosexuals, having reached social legal, and in many places social acceptance, now want to convince us that crooked is straight. It is not, and homosexuality is an abnormal state in humans. That state is clearly up for grabs by researches, i.e. open for discussion for all.

And that's what I have been doing here.

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


the researcher doesn't use the word "ilness". Check it again.


With all respect, this isn't much of an argument.


The article I quoted doesn't strike me as an expression of worry. You appear to be worried about it though.

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


Who says it's normal? Might be a slip of a "tongue" too :)


I haven't used opinions of other posters on PF. Neither did Dr. Shea.
So what's your point?

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


I mentioned nothing about social harm.
As for why people are interested? Why not. Some are interested in harmless bees, what's wrong with being interested in harmless gays?

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


You ceratinly have the right to an opinion, but opinions are not facts.


How does that make homosexuality biologically normal?
Doesn't matter what you think, or what I think. On a social level definitions are fluid and depend on the times. Gays were OK, then they were not, now they are OK again. On a biological level nothing changed - they do have a tendency to continuous misplacement of their sexual organs.

Again, as Shea said: "I was born abnormal, and therefore I'm normal is not good logic"

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


Religious groups speculate one way, gays speculate the other, but Shea and his team are not speculating. They are conducting research on a molecular biology level.

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


Some believe, some research:

Researchers at Brock University in St. Catharines Ontario published a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled "Biological versus nonbiological older brothers and men's sexual orientation."

The findings suggest male same-sex sexual orientation is linked to having older brothers, even if those brothers are not raised together. By way of explanation the researchers suggest that homosexuality results from an immune reaction of the mother to the male child in her womb.

"A theory of male homosexuality consistent with the present findings is a maternal immune response to succeeding male pregnancies," says the study. "If this immune theory were correct, then the link between the mother's immune reaction and the child's future sexual orientation would probably be some effect of maternal anti-male antibodies on the sexual differentiation of the brain."

Dr. John Shea, medical advisor to Campaign Life Coalition, explained to LifeSiteNews.com that the study explains the significance of its findings suggesting that "the immune response of the mother's body, damages the sexual differentiation of the brain of the male child in the womb, thus producing an abnormality in the fetus."

If correct the theories would thus show the opposite of the normalcy of homosexuality, which the mainstream media are attempting to posit with the coverage of the study. "I was born abnormal, and therefore I'm normal is not good logic," concluded Dr. Shea.

Travel / Polish roads as recorded by myself earlier today [74]


My bad.
I meant to write at >=50km/h OVER the posted speed limit

Travel / Polish roads as recorded by myself earlier today [74]


Very true and no matter where you drive, school zone, freeway or farmland.

The law was introduced less than a year ago as a response to an epidemic of street racing accidents. Driving at >=50km/h here is now considered speed racing and the impounded car is just on of the troubles for the driver.

In fact, last month two Ontario cops were caught and their police cruisers were impounded. They may have little car loans to pay off. :)


I'm a practical fella. No need for a sledge hammer, unless one is a crude ;)

Travel / Polish roads as recorded by myself earlier today [74]


What's the point?

You can make yourself look like an adolescent, and risk the lives of others driving a cheap ford.

Travel / Polish roads as recorded by myself earlier today [74]

WB, speeding is speeding. At nearly twice the posted speed limit your post is a kind of "look ma'! I have an expensive car and I am capable of pressing the speed pedal really hard".

C'mon WB, you must be worth more than that.

Btw. in Ontario, speeding by 50 km/h (or more) get your car impounded right on the spot, regardless of the price and technical specs of the vehicle.

Language / DIALECTS IN POLAND? [28]


I don't have a dictionary, 'cept for perhaps 50 or 60 words. A lot of differences are fairly constant changes in pronunciation and stress (mostly first syllable) . I used to speak it pretty well since I was a kid, but time took some of that away.

I posted a tiny sample a few days ago.

Life / Polish Protestants [22]


When Jews were first invited to Poland there was no such thing as protestants.

As for Protestants though, Poland was fairly unique in Europe at in the first decades of the protestant movement. The country was very tolernat of other cultures and religions. Those who found no freedom of thought or faith in other European countries came to Poland, a country with the first ever official charter forbidding religious persecution (introduced in 1573)

Mistake were made later, when Polish quasi-constitution suggested that Poland's kings should be Catholic (so that the king would still have someone above - the pope). That lead to the de facto rule of the RC and we know how the religion of love dealt with those who rejected the pope's rule.

Travel / Polish roads as recorded by myself earlier today [74]


so is this a sample of why "Polish" drivers have such a poor reputation? ;)

Food / Pozdravy - What kind of food is this? [11]

I'm not sure these look like pyzy. The surface is too smooth, as if these were those things (I forgot the name) which are steamed, not cooked. They are lighter than pyzy, unless there is a type of pyzy that is also steam cooked.

See the cracks on the left one. Definitely from the expansion within when something is steamed. Water around the dough would not allow the cracks to be as outward as the picture shows.

Love / How to impress a Polish girl [29]

But it is.
Undress.
Look in the mirror.
See if nothing is too small, or too big ;)

Love / How to impress a Polish girl [29]

size does matter

News / Polish economy, the US Dollar, the PLN and the Polish real estate bubble. [25]


What does it have to do with Poles?
Have you tried to buy a decent pair of Jeans in Paris?
My sister and her hubby will fly to NYC for a weekend to buy clothing at no more than 25% of what they have to pay in France.


I buy a lot of computer equipment on a regular basis. The prices of some laptops (same make and model), and other computer goodies will vary by as much as 100% WITHIN the US. In Canada, when buying a car (manufactured in Canada) we had to pay 30 to 50% more than Americans were charged for the exact same car manufactured in Canada. That on top of the fact that the Canadian Dollar was on parity with USD, and at times even higher.

Look at book prices. Canadian libraries rebelled in the last few months. Again, with Canadian Dollar being on parity with USD librarians saw no reason for books being priced at around 40% more in Canada than in the US.

All those strange pricing discrepancies are given various reasons by various American and Canadian economists. The common theme among them is this simple principle: you charge whatever the market will bear.

Welcome to free market economy!

We do like market economy, don't we?


You're not trying to suggest that any laptops to speak of are manufactured in the US, are you?

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


Since the existence of bacteria predates the existience of higher living forms you argument is void.


You are denying your own statement the moment you say "aside from". This is an exception that is critical to the issue. Just put it in a slightly different way and you'll see what I mean: because of their "mind" homosexuals are unable to participate in procreation.


If any of the elements needed for procreation falters then there is actually no limit to where we stop. In fact, many people facing fertility issues are treated on a level lower than that apparently biological. Chemistry indeed involved in the treatment, and as chemistry goes, there is no escaping from molecular levels when dealing with it.


Life is not just about humans. Why can't understand the need the bacteria and viruses have. The more humans, the merrier for the predators ;)

Food / Polish food secret recipes [11]


I can't post those. Otherwise I'd have to kill all who read them. That, I hear, may be illegal in some jurisdictions.

News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]


brain is a physical organ.


False assumption. Try - If it went for the species as a whole then the world population should be a lot larger than it is


The scenario is only an illustration to amplify the point. I said that before. It would be good if you paid attention.


the complexity of human civilization is not possible without the "simplicity" of biological laws.


You used existence/lack of suffering as an argument. That didn't seem to make much sense to me, if indeed you accept the biological level of the debate. On that level actually bacteria that eats up human flesh and makes people cringe from pain is more related to life than pure homosexuals, so the pain and suffering of the victim is irrelevant to the survivor - i.e the parasite..

Life / Why are Polish people cheap? [126]


It's shifting towards "will that be Visa or MasterCard"?

Life / Why are Polish people cheap? [126]


isn't it a cherished American adage that a penny saved is a penny earned?

History / Where did the stereotype of Polish people being stupid come from? [131]


Did I say Nazis?

History / Where did the stereotype of Polish people being stupid come from? [131]

pretty short response, so it must be true :)

History / Where did the stereotype of Polish people being stupid come from? [131]


None of the above.

Germans do hold a lot or responsibility though. In short, jokes are a political tool. Germans have been using it against Poles for a long time. Other Western countries actually deserve the honor of leading fools and intellectually lazy bunch. For centuries few bothered to actually check Poland out. Until about 1945 there was not a serious book on Poland's history, culture, politics outside Western Europe/USA that had not been largely a translation of German sources.

Language / What is the most annoying thing about NATIVE Polish speakers? [12]


I feel the same. After all those years I'm not sure if it's me or them though.

Language / What is the most annoying thing about NATIVE Polish speakers? [12]


Baisc Polish is a tricky thing. You can say a few comprehensible sentences, but what do you do when someone proficient in the language gives you an answer? ;)