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masks98   
8 Jul 2008
News / Why are foreigners coming to Poland and from which countries? [119]

I thought it would be cheap here, then I got to Warsaw and got a reality check real fast. Some Americans I recently met had been living here since the 90's. They were part of the Peace corps, met a girl here and stayed. Some come here purely to teach english, but many are here because of a girl. they also realise the opportunities here. People who bought land here ten years ago would make big profits if they resold their land today. Things used to be cheap and that made some people stay here, but thats changing i believe.
masks98   
8 Jul 2008
Travel / Warsaw: A day in the life [16]

I've been here six months and I've already gotten used to most of this crap except for the fences in the middle of the street. Instead of accepting the fact more and more each day I just get more and more pissed. They need to knock all those shits down
masks98   
8 Jul 2008
Work / Any english teachers in Poland here with tips to share? [55]

haha good point this one time some babcia simply stole my spot in line at the supermarket. There was nothing I could say to her, my only recourse would have been force but I couldnt do that without explaining myself at least, so I just stood there in such a rage I collapsed my own rib cage.
masks98   
8 Jul 2008
Travel / Warsaw: A day in the life [16]

hey, I explicitly said that im not hating on Poland, just Warsaw's infrastructure look:

I'm not hating on Poland, but i just need to complain a bit about Warsaw's ridiculous infrastructure...

see?

And New York MTA transit can be a b*tch too, though there's usually always some kind of notice somewhere unless the problem has to do with a Bus stuck in traffic. I'm from there.

Also, and most importantly, bus stops in NY aren't fenced off randomly. You see a bus stop or subway station you can just walk right across the street and onto the sidewalk.
masks98   
8 Jul 2008
Work / Any english teachers in Poland here with tips to share? [55]

I would say this is a very isolated case, as after eight years of living here most of the schools that I have worked for ban the use of Polish in the lesson. Although I would say that it is extremely important to learn even the basics in the country of residency. And if I am not mistaken Hussar is Polish isn't he?

This is tru about schools but there are other multilingual possibilities, many foreign companies have offices here and could use bi or trilingual help, they'll pay big for it too.

You can do translations or find work at an embassy. Explore all possibilities, don't just teach.
masks98   
8 Jul 2008
Travel / Warsaw: A day in the life [16]

I'm not hating on Poland, but i just need to complain a bit about Warsaw's ridiculous infrastructure...

This morning I ride the metro to Plac Wilsona, where I usually transfer to the L bus which takes me to Lomianki, I sit and wait for the Bus. 15 minutes go by and I begin wondering wtf happened to my bus. I'm about to be late for my appointment. Another 10 minutes go by when I begin investigating...I look on the panel to see what time the bus is supposed to come when to my surprise - no L schedule.

I'm looking for any sign that an L bus did in fact stop here once upon a time but nothing - was I f*cking dreaming this whole time?

I go looking for the L bus all over Plac Wilson but it's completely gone, no notice no nothing. I hop back on the train and head one stop to Metro Marymont, the L used to stop there too. Here everything got worse. I got out of the metro and peered into the jumble of structures (fences, poles, bus stop booths, pieces of road, parcels of sidewalk pavement), somewhere i there should be a bus stop. After spotting what seemed to be a Bus stop I proceeded to walk in its direction when I realized that it was completely fenced off. It was right there, but I couldn't get to it, too many fences. WHY IS THE FRIGGIN BUS STOPPED FENCED OFF?!!!

Finally I notice a hole in the ground beside the bus stop - 'aha'! "I must dive undeground and re-emerge in the middle of the f*ckin street!" me thinks...So I find the nearest hole in the ground and go under...

...

20 seconds later I reemerge soaring, lunging out of the ground. I take a breath and begin moving my legs when I notice that I completely missed the Bus stop and came up through the wrong hole. OMG... This time I make sure that I spot the right hole, and I go under again... underground I see multiple holes, I carefully consider which Hole to take and I go for it - yes, I did it this time, this is the stop. I go to the panel and to my tragic despair, there's no L schedule. suddenly I realize that a tram stop I spotted earlier was in fact a bus stop, once again FENCED OFF! I almost tore out my collar bones I was so mad! This time I notice an opening in the fence near me to cross the street, I go for it, only to find that it's a dead end leading to the middle of the street, apparently the opening just releases you onto traffic.

5 full minutes later I make it to the bus stop and again no L. the L line simply died a sudden death. I go back home, unsure whether to jerk off or kill myself.
masks98   
7 Jul 2008
Work / Any english teachers in Poland here with tips to share? [55]

one tip, make a point to learn polish as fast as you can, you'l be a hot commodity here, not many native speakers can claim bilingual status here. I missed out on a job for a french company that paid 8000 zlotys a month for french/english speakers who could also speak polish, all for a simple help desk job. So now i've decided to sit down and learn me some popolsku as I like to say :D
masks98   
7 Jul 2008
Life / XBOX LIVE in Poland? [13]

There's only one game that would prompt me to by a video game console and thats gears of war. But I heard there might be some issues with Xbox live here. Anyone got any any info?
masks98   
7 Jul 2008
Love / BLACK GUYS POLISH WOMEN [809]

yeah a lot of the liberal yuppies in New york try too hard to be politically correct, it pisses me off, they're so patronizing, blacks complain a lot but its actually easy to get ahead in new york if you;'re black, because they expect so much less. There are racists of course but there are also too many patronizing liberals. I used to hav`e people make a point of showin g their support for barak obama in front of me, i used to tell them I was voting for Giuliani, it's like their pubic hairs fell off when I said that haha.
masks98   
7 Jul 2008
Love / BLACK GUYS POLISH WOMEN [809]

yea I listen to hip-hop, but I hate that it gets called blac culture, cuz then people look at me dissapointed when they see that I dont have a gun, that i walk and talk in a regular manner
masks98   
7 Jul 2008
Love / BLACK GUYS POLISH WOMEN [809]

I also happened to be familiar with both Polish culture and a little bit of black culture as well,

lol, whats "black culture"?
masks98   
7 Jul 2008
Travel / anyone put the new shengen rules to the test? [30]

I posted something about this a while back. I've already overstayed the 3 month limit here in Poland. I was told repeatedly (even by the polish embassy in Washington) that I should cross the border into Ukraine before the ninety days are up, and come right back in to get a new stamp which would give me another 90 days. But this isn;'t true anymore since the Shengen rules became effective last January. Now you can only stay 90 days within a six month period. so I would've have to have stayed in Ukraine for 3 months before I got back in - hell no.

What if I went to germany or sweden, there aren't borders anymore since Shengen, so I can go there freely with no trouble. Could I leave from an airpot in Berlin or Stockholm for New York? Would they care that I got there through Poland?

Has anyone had similar issues? any info would be appreciated.
thanks.
masks98   
7 Jul 2008
News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]

1. they were born like that

That is very probable. At least for the majority of them. And if they were born this way then that is a disorder which should be treated.

Ok mr. man! Why is it a disorder again? You'll say because it is not normal and counter productive from a reproductive pov, and you'd be right but still completely irrelevant. Why? Because nobody wakes up in the morning looking out the window thinking: "godammiit there aren't enough people on earth! those damn homos are slowing down our proliferation!" there are too many people on earth already. Perhaps this is nature's way of decelerating human birth rates and upholding some kind of balance.

Calling it a disorder is also stupid because it suggests that homosexuals are debilitated by their preference when this is not true at all. True, they cause friction in communities with high numbers of bored morons such as yourself, but there are plenty other communities where they are accepted, and where they lead fulfilling lives. If you go to a place like new york, you might be surprised at the high percentage of gays who are successfull in some professional field or the other.

2. they are committing evil to nobody, because everything is done in agreement of both persons

Often are pedophile relations known to be carried out under the apparition of "agreement" when one person (grown up) without the use of physical force, with other forms of pressure and deceit entices a child to sexual relations. And sado-mazo relations which are known to leave heavy medical consequences, even leads in some cases to death are in the same way agreed relations.

Ok genius, congratulations for being completely ignorant to the fact that pedophilia and sado-masochism in particular 'afflicts' plenty of heterosexuals. So what you said has no bearing on gay tolerance issues.

And mutual agreement is also the relation of prostitutes (female and male) with clients. Does that mean that prostitution should be viewed as desirable and normal? And numerous homosexual rapes and pedophilia which is noticeably more widespread precisely among them in no case are agreed relations, but are a consequence of homosexual behavior.

well prostitution is about selling one's body to ANYONE who'll pay. Homosexuality is nothing of the sort, it is the same as heterosexuality, the difference laying in whom they choose as partners. A simple distinction, funny that you're unable to make it.

And again, rape and pedophilia are super SUPER common among heterosexuals, show me that it is NOTICEABLY more common among homosexuals. Even if it was, it would be wrong to declare it a consequence of homosexual behavior, since most homosexuals don't go around raping people. I lived in a gay neighborhood called chelsea for a number of years, and I had friends who were born and raised there, nobody got raped. Nobody got corrupted, we led regulsr heterosexual lives right in the middle of chelsea.

However, exclusive homosexuality as a manner of behavior does not exist in nature.

yes it does, among humans for example.

this might interest you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_displaying_homosexual_behavior

4. sexuality is an individual's private matter

well even i'll agree that that's disgusting, again, living in chelsea I used to come across similar scenes when gay pride day came around, that happened only once a year, there just needs to be stricter regulations of such marches. NYPD got tougher and now the gay pride parade is no longer onscene3, just ridiculous.

but you don't seem to understand the purpose of these parades, which is to confront communities about homosexuals, and so there is a purpose to these as long as gays are persecuted. I hate these things because of the number of ******** making a complete spectacle of themselves, but there are many gays who feel the same way about these parades, they've been hiijacked by freaks.
masks98   
6 Jul 2008
News / Why are foreigners coming to Poland and from which countries? [119]

f oles have high iqs, then why do they all clean toilets and work in mindless jobs ?

all? Well then you gotta admire a people that can run the strongest economy in the east (russia excepted) by scrubbing toilets.

Are you an f-ing moron or just a moron?
masks98   
6 Jul 2008
News / March of Tolerance in Krakow [478]

But pedophilia is different since they're taking advantage of children. Homsexuality is between two consenting lovers. The distinction is plain and simple, one you were clearly unable to make, it's amazing it had to be spelled out for you - is it even worth debating someone this dumb?

The decision to declare homosexuality immoral is arbitrary, without sense or foundation. Imagine that homosexuals were so good a concealing their sexual preferences and homosexual activities that no one ever found out about their existence. Well the world would go on just fine because homosexuality has no moral consequences.
masks98   
5 Jul 2008
News / Why are foreigners coming to Poland and from which countries? [119]

well for one thing the mind is plastic as they used to say, it expands its powers with practice, and withers through negligence, so that a person with a 90 IQ can become very intelligent or stupid depending on the life he/she has lived.
masks98   
5 Jul 2008
Work / Non Polish speaking Englishman working in Warsaw - is it a pipe dream? [9]

Back in New York my girlfriend told me that I could teach english in Poland. I thought the idea of teaching english without knowing Polish would make me look like a fraud. But I was proved wrong pretty fast. In fact it helped me narrow the pool of potential students down to business professionals who already spoke english and who pay more:)
masks98   
5 Jul 2008
News / Why are foreigners coming to Poland and from which countries? [119]

I think that the whole thing about blacks having lower IQ's is probably true. People often mention that blacks are more athletic then whites, I think that that's probably true too. Many frail blacks with weaker physiologies were wiped out during the slave trade, mostly strong ones survived and reproduced, their weak children were killed, and so on and so forth. I think thats why blacks seem to be on the athletic side today.

Same with intelligence. ******* with the African continent caused a sad history of poverty that must have fostered a culture of malnutrition,of nutritional deficiencies that might have affected the gene pool negatively. Today it is clear that African Americans in poor neighborhoods have horrible eating habits, but my point is that slavery, colonialism, segregation etc, all combined to create the culture of poverty for blacks where blacks were malnourished. So if blacks tend to be on the low IQ side, I think that this could bge the reason, I could be proved wrong though.

But in the end - So what? these IQ tests don't help much, they're mostly used by racists as a stick to beat blacks with. They don't help you predict the type of black person that might walk in the door. IQ itself is a bad judge of people.
masks98   
20 Jun 2008
News / Polish leftist/radical culture... [38]

Yeah so after reading up a bit on this Jaruzelski guy it seems that he was a complete arse, why mention him southern, do you admire him?
masks98   
19 Jun 2008
Work / Any english teachers in Poland here with tips to share? [55]

"Whining and moaning" & "freedom of speech" are interchangeable to me, so yeah you're right. It doesn't change my point that whining and moaning is perfectly fine. People do it in the US too, americans and foreigners, which is perfectly fine and necessary.

And no I'm not overthrowing a corrupt and oppressive regime, but by exercising your right to ***** and compain, you keep civic spirit alive and the chances of everyone rallying behind some corrupt and oppressive bastard low. As soon as people started complaining about Bush half the idiots in America were like "shut up, if you don't like it you can get out" and the result was a corrupt and aggressive regime. (south park had a hilarious episode about it.)
masks98   
19 Jun 2008
News / Polish leftist/radical culture... [38]

Now that was informative thanks!

Do you dislike Yaruselski?

I don't know who that is, I could look it up on google, but perhaps you could quickly school me on this figure?
masks98   
19 Jun 2008
USA, Canada / Who will be the best US President for Poland? [15]

Obama at least knows what he is talking about and has done some real stuff in the past.

Huh?? WHat 'real stuff' has Obama done in the past? The whole point about him is that he hasn't done anything - nothing he has done in government suggests the qualifications of a chief executive. Post Bush, I think US needs a lot more than these feeble-headed mediocrities. No originality, nothing but words. At least Obama doesn't need speech writers I guess...
masks98   
19 Jun 2008
History / Why has Poland been attacked so often by its neighbors? [180]

it was serious mistake by England (not only of England) to move against Serbians, to support and even inspire propaganda and open war against us

I'm not familiar with that history, what are you referring to exactly?