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ZIMMY   
17 May 2011
Work / Salary, holidays - questions to employer during a job interview in Poland [47]

"Expectation of your salary" question during a job interview"

"As much as you can afford" has never failed me.

I will be seeking a new man-servant this summer. The last one died from too much work. I pay $20 a week for your beer money. In addition, it's all you can eat and there is room in the storage cage where you can sleep. Many MBA's have already sent me their resumes so get yours in right away.
ZIMMY   
15 May 2011
Work / Holocaust and gender studies in Poland? [33]

But Auschwitz 1 was not actually an extermination camp,

No it was not; everyone knows that it was a fun vacation camp.

As to gender studies in Poland, are the feminists there as militant, angry and dysfunctional as they are in the U.S. and Canada?

Some American courses include philosophies as this: "The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race." - Sally Miller Gearhart,

What feminism has wrought in North America:
youtu.be/2jBt9snxvoQ
ZIMMY   
14 May 2011
News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]

Being proud of German military operations is not the same as taking delight in Nazi war crimes.

Unless one is proud of German military operations that were involved in Nazi war crimes.

When I feel raped and terrorised I don't queue up to live in the country of the rapist and terrorizers

No, you just put your helmet on and dance the "I am not a Nazi Polka".

Isn't it rather that way that most of them had been better off under colonial rule?

Ironically, that is true. I'm not saying it was right because colonialism was wrong.
ZIMMY   
12 May 2011
Genealogy / Jolanta born in Wusz. Help me find my true love from 23 years ago - PLEASE! [13]

I'm looking for a lady whom I loved dearly many years ago;

I married her and we have 16 children together ( one boy and 15 girls).

worked in the club industry.

She quit Pole dancing when we married.

I last saw her 23 years ago!

She hasn't changed a bit. Still has that nice rack and booty. Guess that's why we have 16 kids.

As gumishu pointed out the city must be £odz.

Hope you don't mind my jest but 23 years is a long, long time. I truly wish you luck and may her heart still pound for you.
ZIMMY   
12 May 2011
News / Row over status of Poles in Germany sours relations [176]

Okay, I'm meeting with the other Illuminati at midnight at the usual bonfire place and I'm pretty sure I can get the proper German authorities to give Poland all the Bavarians. I was told they are too much trouble.
ZIMMY   
10 May 2011
USA, Canada / Going back to the Old Country of Poland after more than 25 years! (from USA) [249]

I am thinking of making Poland my part-time home; maybe live there 3-4 months a year. I plan on doing this in 4 or 5 years. While I'm not unfamiliar with Poland, I am still open to suggestions as to 'where to live'. I'll probably buy a house or condo but am open to renting the first couple of years. Ah, retirement beckons me as I work too hard (about 15 hours a week).
ZIMMY   
9 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

"Polish men......they 'd spend their entire life in front of tv eating kielbasa with beer every day and they would change their socks once a month."

So what's the problem? As to the socks, they can always turn them inside-out and wear them longer.......:)
ZIMMY   
9 May 2011
USA, Canada / Chicago's 1.1 million Polish Americans celebrated Constitution Day [47]

Ah Lemont; I never got a good golf score at Cog Hill. I'm referring to the infamous "Dubsdread" course number 4.
The downtown section of the town is nicely quaint. Turn of the century (20th) buildings and earlier. Haven't been there in years though.
ZIMMY   
9 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

Polish writer, Ryszard Kapuściński

Quite the controversial guy. He wrote, "The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat," which I read a long time ago. In his youth he was also a commie. He might be considered an "uptight Pole" in many ways; stubborn as hell.
ZIMMY   
8 May 2011
USA, Canada / Chicago's 1.1 million Polish Americans celebrated Constitution Day [47]

The Polish Consulate is located on the block of buildings at 3:21 of this video (so is my condo). Listen to the whole thing and dig that piano riff as well as the super fiddle rift at the end.

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=bjNSmAl7hF0]
ZIMMY   
8 May 2011
USA, Canada / Chicago's 1.1 million Polish Americans celebrated Constitution Day [47]

By the way, what do you find unusual about Chicago's Irish St.Patrick's Day queen?

chicagostpatsparade.com/2011-queen.html

how many of them are actually Polish by citizenship?

Who knows? However, I do hear lots of Polish spoken wherever I go in the city (not so much in the Black neighborhoods:))
ZIMMY   
8 May 2011
USA, Canada / Chicago's 1.1 million Polish Americans celebrated Constitution Day [47]

Is it true that the Polish areas have become multi-cultural there too?

Yes, mostly Hispanic particularly Mexican. The Poles are more spread out and more live in the 'burbs than in Chicago proper. There are scattered Polish stores in the west and south burbs but as to an actual Pole-town, perhaps the closest to that would be some pockets on North Milwaukee area and on Belmont Ave. Many franchises like "Wendy's" etc are run by Poles so the ethnic stores aren't as pronounced as in the past. Having said that, there are still quite a few restaurants, bars and deli's which are totally Polish.

Here in Philly they're becoming numerous in the predominately Italian, South Philly section.

One of my daughters lived in Philly for 8 years (yea, I'm a young older guy) so I'm somewhat familiar with that city. She moved out west one year ago.

I remember smoking my cigars at Rittenhouse Square (Center City West) and listening to Gypsys playing music. By the way, did they ever fix that crack in the Liberty Bell?
ZIMMY   
8 May 2011
USA, Canada / Chicago's 1.1 million Polish Americans celebrated Constitution Day [47]

"Chicago's 1.1 million Polish Americans celebrated Constitution Day"

Just a point-of-order for those who are unaware of the Polish population count in Chicago. The estimated figures for Poles in Chicagoland run from 900,000 to 1.4 million. These figures are not for Chicago only but include the many surrounding suburbs.

The higher figure includes 3rd-4th generation Americans of Polish descent who consider themselves primarily of Polish ancestry.

Also, there are more illegal Poles than is commonly known.

I happen to live on the same block where the Polish Consulate is located: chicago.msz.gov.pl/en/
ZIMMY   
8 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

t's nice that I'm not alone in thinking that the smell of cigar smoke is much nicer than from a cigarette.

Yes indeed; although some cheap cigars can be quite unpleasant in scent. That's why smoking a fine premium cigar is highly recommended (by me).

The cigar is the urban man's camp fire. A proverbial "call of the wild" (sorry Jack London).

Famous cigar smokers include;
Winston Churchill, President Andrew Jackson and his wife; President John Adams, Gen. Robert E. Lee; General Ulysses S. Grant; President Bill Clinton (although he had multiple uses for his cigars); Vladimir Lenin; Al Capone: Fidel Castro; Groucho Marx; Mark Twain; H.L. Mencken, Sigmund Freud; Tom Mix; Milton Berle, Darryl Zanuck, W.C. Fields, Lorenz Hart, Count Basie, Alfred Hitchcock, Pablo Picasso, Paul Newman, to name just a few.....

As English novelist William Makepeace Thackeray noted in 1896":

"I vow and believe that the cigar has been one the greatest creature comforts of my life, a kind companion, a gentle stimulant, an amiable anodyne, a cementer of friendship. May I die if I abuse that kindly weed which has given me so much pleasure."

...and for the lady folks; George Sand in 1867 said this; "A cigar numbs and fills the solitary hours with a million gracious images."
ZIMMY   
8 May 2011
Life / Uptight Poles [262]

Ah smoking? Ah, rudeness!

When smoking was legal in bars/restaurants, I would occasionally light up a cigar and puff away. In two instances, women who were seated next to me and smoking cigarettes had the impudence to ask me to put out my cigar. I found this ironic and stupid since they were also smoking albeit something else.

Both times I asked them, "what' in your hand?". Both times they gave me a 'dirty' look. Naturally, I kept puffing away.

As the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt noted in 1794.........

"The cigar is a great resource. It raises your spirits. Are you troubled by something? The cigar dissolves it. Are you subject to aches and pains or bad temper? the cigar will change your disposition. Are you harassed by unpleasant thoughts? Smoking a cigar puts one in a frame of mind to dispense with these......"
ZIMMY   
7 May 2011
Love / Hot Polish girls in clubs - why don't they dance/talk with the most attractive men only? [148]

I sometimes think that Polish women would be better off taking home another Polish woman. They could compete for the title of Crown Princess and could have an all-night debate as to who has the better body ;)

You reminded me of a bisexual woman I once dated. She preferred to get married (to a man) because as she noted, "women are too difficult to live with." She elaborated on how much more she could get away with when dating men. As an added aside, the highest percentage of domestic violence is with lesbian couples; followed by gay male couples; followed by heterosexual couples.
ZIMMY   
7 May 2011
Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]

about the "white" thing. it's a social construct

Only liberals who attempt to neuter language believe that skin color is a "social construct". It's in the DNA making it a natural fact.

Abuse of this terminology is exemplified in feminist literature which states that gender is a "social construct".
ZIMMY   
7 May 2011
Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]

I spoke with a Lithuanian nurse today and found her looks compelling. She had olive colored skin, brown hair and blue eyes. Probably some sort of Tatar/Baltic combination.

As to Poles, they can have any combination of blonde hair, blue, hazel, or brown eyes, and skin tone can run from very white to occasionally olive.

an elderly African American was asked by a reporter if any "white" people lived in his neighborhood. He answered "No. There's some Polacks but they ain't white, you know"

He understood that Poles were not WASPS and therefore not part of the ruling enslaving class. Color didn't have anything to do with it.
ZIMMY   
6 May 2011
News / Poland A and Ukraine B. Compare how far Poland has advanced. [282]

Ukraina is some mix beetwen Russia and Poland?

Yes, when a Pole marries a Russian and they have a child, the child becomes Ukrainian.

I didn't know that ukraina-polish relationship is so tense.

Sometimes; what should happen is this: West Ukraine should secede and become part of Poland; maybe call that part Polkrania.
East Ukraine should secede also and become part of Russia; maybe call it Russkrania.

Anyone who doesn't like that should move to Belarus(Belorussia).