Love / Illegal Polish girl wants me to marry her for citizenship [124]

I would look at this as on business proposal. She did like you. Now she deosn't like you. Now all you have to face is if the payment is worth your time and engagement and if the risks are not too high. Don't listen to moralists. You can cash in on government pappers and later or at the same time give your heart to someone you love without pen and pappers and state aproval. And since it is the polishforums why not giving a helping hand to a sister Pole? I would hike up the price though.

Life / How to Survive on a Minimum Wage in Poland? [45]

What sucks most is this 100 USD fee for privilidge of talking to immigration clerk at US Embassy, payable regardless of weather you get visa or not.

Life / How to Survive on a Minimum Wage in Poland? [45]

And because they are white? - just a hint!

Life / How to Survive on a Minimum Wage in Poland? [45]


True. It's so visible in clothes they wear, too. Some don't go to corner store if not dressed up (man and women).

Love / Eastern European Girls Common Characteristics [40]


Yes. Money is a type of energy.
I've heard people comparing money to gas but that comarision sugests somehow "consuming", which is of course one of the ways to use this energy.

Life / How to Survive on a Minimum Wage in Poland? [45]

hi-tech devices in Poland ARE a fashion statement (not just a usefull more or less gadget) and strangly they can also determine here your social status. It's the same in Brasil and other south American countries. I think buying those things makes us crossing into the first world...:)

(...)Having no flat screen tv set may couse you suffer in Poland and almost as much as having a "bad address" in US or having ...no internet.

Life / How to Survive on a Minimum Wage in Poland? [45]

This is in Poland. There are people like her everywhere I think.

Love / Eastern European Girls Common Characteristics [40]


I understand you believe in progress. You might be right!


Let's go FORWARD to nature!
:)

Life / How to Survive on a Minimum Wage in Poland? [45]

I know myself a person who lives on a minimum wage. She doesn't pay her rent though for years now and is - for those who don't know - protected by law from being evicted (city has no places to evict people like her to). Her money goes for utilities, food and legal drugs. She gets occasionaly additionaol help in food and cash from some social services. She's a bad worker but not fired because she has a kid. She never pays her transportation tickets and just gets another fine issued, she has bad credit history, debt collectors at her door from time to time. Her knowledge about food nutrition is limited to zero and instead of some rice, beans, vegies etc she tends to buy junk food. She parties a lot and is often seen drunk. Her home is dirty, furniture old, walls were painted many, many years ago, ALL in her house remains in a very shaby condition and she needs a dentist job. I know her pale doughter breakfast often cosnists of eating some white slice of white bread with some fruity marlmalade and if not for school meals she'd go hungry. This woman had recently received some overdue money, a one time payment of some sort and she has bought herself ... a brand new, latest fashion home theatre entertainment set and ... a cell phone.

Language / Television to learn Polish/English. What should I be watching? [33]

This guy is so often on bbc recently that I start wondering if they are not paying for this PR promotions.
youtube.com/watch?v=tOKXBXD_RJU

Love / What are polish guy's views on bi- sexuals? [29]

Hear ME! I AM a true Polack!
We like lesbians providing they look feminine enough and We tolerate gays providing they are not our neigbours or family.

History / History of Poland which was "absorbed" by Russia [9]

There was no Poland on map of Europe 1795-1919. The parts of Poland were incorporated into neighboring countries in 1772, 1791 and the rest of it in 1795.

The concept of "national identity" we are all suffering from in nowadays Europe didn't exist until around 1850. People didn't know they were Poles until about that time! The same with other nations in Europe like Germany, Italy who managed in 19th century to unify their people into countries and call them Germans, Italians.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/43/Rzeczpospolita.png - map

Language / expressing the present tense - grammar question [20]

plq,
I'm not Krysia but here's my amatour take on grammar:
Polish language has FUTURE, PRESENT AND PAST.
Continous form may be indicated by additional words in sentence (now, at this moment etc)

Ja piszę
Ja piszę teraz (now)

verb in polish language may have different modes and some are similar to "tenses" in english grammar

indicative mode - (I) write = piszę
imperative mode - pisz! = do write it!
conditional mode - (I would) write = pisałbym FUTURE IN THE PAST

in polish you conjugate and decline...a lot!
:)
I'm afraid I have made you more confusing...hope not.

Genealogy / How common is the Matuszewski name [21]

Poznan and Szczecin:)

Feedback / How do I make pictures smaller [28]

Use photobucket. It's easy to use and you'd be able to place your pics here.

Genealogy / How common is the Matuszewski name [21]

It is a fairly common name....:)
We have some strange, overreacting legal rules protecting privicy. Shortly it is illigal to make personal data available to public without individual's consent. Many people seem to enjoy and enforce this rulling. Apartment's intercom (entry phone) would often list only apartment's numbers and no names. Phone company TPSA...and this is strange is charging a fee for your name and number to BE... listed.

Food / Pink Soup [19]

No kapusta (cabage) in it?

Life / The Poles in the New Europe: Looking for Bread Abroad [22]


16.5% is the most recent record

Love / Dating a Polish girl - need some advice [45]

My advice: Tell her to stop seeing polish dude and demand to be number one and only.
If she says she needs time or something similar dump her and wait to see... wheather she's back or not.
OR
Talk to her (ex) boyfriend and tell him to get lost.

Love / How honest are Polish men? [26]


hello Ranj,
I live in Poland! To name some of those residues: many of our people expect the state to run their lives and we are a gloomy lot


Only very corrupted individuals or their boss.

News / What do the Poles Think about the Polish Politicians? [13]


It is NOT. There are higher democracy standards in Poland and due to our media considered the best in this part of Europe so much is presented to the public.

Life / Poland: The Things That Make Foreigners Lift a Brow [123]

I didn't know! I think we should stick to it!:)

Life / Poland: The Things That Make Foreigners Lift a Brow [123]


Why do you find it confusing?

BTW, in US I have seen LADIES and MEN, as if men using toilets were not gentelmen OR toilets were not for women (just!) Sexism!!!


I wish this fad would reach Poland... many girls here MAKE themselves ugly and I've seen pretty girls nobody pays attention to because (probably!) they weren't dressed UP and made UP.....but I myself have been spoiled by "nature" and "natural" fad.

Love / What kind of girls do Polish men like, and why? [30]

Yea, it's an international mariage symbol btw.:)

Love / What kind of girls do Polish men like, and why? [30]

Love / What kind of girls do Polish men like, and why? [30]

Life / How do Polish view others [116]

Romanias are on the list due to Poles confusing them with Roma from Romania. I have no source to prove but I've heard that Romanians themselves put Poles very hight on their list of "likes", right after Italians and French whom they like most.

Ukrainians have gaine much after orange revolutins and following efforts to reconsile two nations so more recent statistics should place them higer.

Life / How do Polish view others [116]

I think many Poles "like" Lituenians and that is possibly based on the glorius history of Polish and Lithueanian state. I'm hearing that Lithuenians have different popular opinion about Poles remembering 1920 war when Poland anexed Vilnius. So history plays its role at present time.

Many Poles probably think Lithueanians are slavic people and not many had ever met a Lithuenian man or woman.
Almost everybody in Poland has seen a German, Poles tend to be friendly toward Germans but are short tempered, too. The fact that Germans are loud, talk loud when at restaurant or when walking the streets or something similary unimportant would make many Poles jugde that Germans are domineering in their nature, arogant etc.

In truth , Polish cultuer is VERY similar to German culture. What pisses of many Poles is Germans luck of interest in Poland, Poles and many are obviously jelous for Germany's prosperity.

An old joke:
Who would Poles fight first if attaced again by Germans and Russians at the same time?
Of course they would fight the Germans first because bussines first then pleasure.
Many Poles would love to see Poland kicking some German ass really strong. Last time in soccer we failed. :)

Poles dislikes most:
1. Roma
2. Romanians (probably confuse them with Roma)
3 Arabs
4Ukrainians
5 Jews
6 Russians

Poles feel symphaty toward:
1. USA
2. Italy
3. France
4. England
5. Chech
6. Hungarian
7. Sweden

cbos.pl/SPISKOM.POL/2003/K_001_03.PDF#search=%22Polacy%20AND%20inne%20narody%22

Life / Poland: The Things That Make Foreigners Lift a Brow [123]

Poland: The things that would make foreigner lift a brow.
1. Porn magazine covers would be right into your eyes when buying your bus ticket in a newspapper stand. Your TV channel where you had enjoyed nature programms would changed into porn advertisment after 11 PM, you'd hear girls moaning for your calls and showing more then you had ever seen in your TV.

2. Dog shit, smell of dog shit, dog owners pretending not to see their dogs making a poo right onto the sidewalk, every squere yard in town full of dog shit. Poo here, poo there, poo everywhere and nobody would even dare to complain to dog owners, who's main argument for not cleaning would be that they paid their dog tax. More: they would let their dogs poo right in front of places where they live themselves!

3. Speeding and reckless driving would go on unprosecuted. Parking permited everywhere. Lots of confusing road signs.
4. Customre service people busy talking would have no time to help you. Administration wouldn't solve problem but would avoid making any decision; just not to be responsible for mistake. There IS sombody above your clerk who would make desision . Administrative desision is seldom final.

5. Lots of girls would wear clothes and use make up only prostitutes would in USA

Love / What kind of girls do Polish men like, and why? [30]

My girl would have to wear a skirt from time to time.