Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

The difference between you and me might be cultural, bun not in a way you think.
You simply do not understand what a family is.
And we definitely have two different views of what desperation is.
You think it is sleeping on a pull-out couch in a family home.
I think it is looking for someone to leave your earthly possessions to in exchange for a little care.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]


but... if you hire a manager, we would not have this discussion!
My entire point of contention is that I understood you didn't want to hire a manager and pay them. You thought that the priviledge of living in your house, and a promise that they will inherit inherit the farm when you die should be a good deal for all.

I have provided numerous arguments why this is not a good idea.
If you at least take some of them under consideration for what they are, instead of cultural bias, this would not have been a waste of time.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

It looks to me that, even though you put down families, you think you can buy one for yourself.
The ones that think this is a good idea, think money can buy people.
The ones that try to give you arguments against it are the smart ones, and probably feigning concern out of politeness.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

your inability to see logic instead of "oh so polish" viewpoint is very telling.
And I would be weary of people, if and when you find them, who will tell you that living is someone else's house until they die is a worthy goal for their lives.

Again, if and when the arrangement will prove unsatisfactory, what will those people have to show for it? Or, they have to put up with any demands, for totally indeterminate amount of time, or lose the payout?


As I often say, the way you take care of your parents, is how your children will take care of you. My advice is to try compromising and consider what can be done to get closer to your own family.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

You keep generalizing. Not all Polish people think one way, and British, another.

Promising someone riches after you die only leads to trouble, and normal, reasonable people will not go for it. Polish or English, or Siamese.
It's like "can I have this today, and I promise you will be paid after I die". You just can't control people like that. What if, in a year or two, your saintly couple realize that you are an unbearable tyrant, for example, and have to sever the relationship?

And you really don't see that telling strangers that they will not get paid until you die is a very stupid idea?

There is nothing wrong with keeping your eyes open for people worthy of what you think is your generosity, but with that 1zl per hour, you are really not making any loyal friends. Be careful. That's exploitation, not generosity.

When you get too old take take care of yourself, and are unable patch things up with your daughters, or relay on generosity of the rest of your family, you'll have to pay somebody to take care of you. Hopefully, they will be paid well enough to wish you long and happy golden years.

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]


The idea that you would find honest, hardworking couple to take care of you and your farm in exchange of promise of inheritance is imperfect to say the least, but you would not be a first one to come up with it.

The problem is that honest and hardworking people want a decent wage and their own corner in the world, not indentured servitude waiting for you to die, and then a court battle with your family and rightful heirs after you're gone.

The right thing to do is to keep looking for good workers and to pay them very well so they don't think you're a cheep bastard trying to take advantage of their desperate situation. And do not use the inheritance as the carrot.

Otherwise you will only attract the types that will want to outsmart you.

Life / Polish Positivity and the Myth Of Middle-Class Pretense, or "Everything Will Be Fine." [27]

why is everyone complaining about negativity? ;)
There is nothing wrong with negativity.
Things would never get better if we were satisfied with the way things are.
Every good inventor, scientist, engineer must be a negative person. Anyone that succeeds at anything, most probably did because he considered and had a plan for all possibilities.

And, contrary to popular belief, negative people are actually happier, since not everything that can go wrong, does, so life is full of pleasant surprises!

What gives "negativity" a bad name are the lazy slackers that just whine and do nothing about it, but that has nothing to do with positivity or negativity. Lazy bum is a lazy bum.

The negative ones are funnier, though.

Travel / Any Halal Restaurants in Krakow? [34]

My theory is that some people are attracted to Poland because it is one of the more homogeneuos countries around, still with the very small ethnic diversity. By "some people" I mean those that routinely thank God that they've been born white caucasians. ;)

Life / Grass is always greener? Poland experience. [69]

Signal - have you visited Poland at all? Is your child of school age?

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]


That kind of pay is largely symbolic. Either they are doing you a favour or they're paying off a debt. Or they're secretly plotting to chop off your head. ;)

News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]

OK, this cracked me up. Onion's take on horsemeat:

theonion.com/articles/culinary-world-stunned-as-horse-meat-found-at-3sta,31451

Life / Men in Poland in the forest? Just men? [133]

I think those are just guys hanging out, talking and killing time. They squat when they're tired of standing. They would sit if they had something to sit on. They don't want to do it in public because somebody probably has a bottle of vodka.

I see similar phenomena in my neighborhood around an opened hood of a car.
As a matter of fact, when a guy lifts a hood of his car here, it's a secret sign for other guys in the neighborhood to gather around. ;)

Law / Poland's citizenship process - questions asked. Polish declaration Oaths? [18]


trick question. All of them! :)

Language / Does Polish have a plural of "You"? [51]

ja - I
ty - you (singular)
on, ona, ono - he, she, it

my - us
wy - you (plural)
oni, one - they (male, female)

Language / How to type Polish characters with the language bar [13]

quick and dirty "polishforums" solution, that works on any keyboard:

Type all the polish letters from this here polishforums reply screen, copy that line on top of the document you will be typing, like this:

Ą ą Ć ć Ę ę £ ł Ń ń Ó ó Ś ś - ź Ż ż
and then all you have to do is copy and paste appropriate letter in the body of your text. Don't forget to delete that top line when you're done.

;)

Australia / I am moving back to Poland - to live from Australia. Is it a good idea? [29]

Gosiaa
I'm very curious, is there anything in particular that don't you like about Australia?
I get it that you need some family tie, and the boyfriend thing, but is there anything in particular about Australia?
According to many ratings, it is one of the best places in the world to live.

Real Estate / The current property boom in Poland is a bubble [342]

pip
the graph on the link below, that's not a bubble?

globalpropertyguide.com/Europe/Poland/Price-History

Real Estate / The current property boom in Poland is a bubble [342]



As long as you don't call it a bubble!
May I suggest: air ball, balloon, barm, bead, blister, blob, drop, droplet, effervescence, foam, froth, lather, sac, spume or vesicle

USA, Canada / Better life in USA or Canada? - expats opinions and your comparison [143]


I have never heard such a thing. Unless a person decides that she will not work (and become full time home maker, for example, or is disabled) after 6 months he or she will still be counted as unemployed.

Here is how unemployed are counted in US:

bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

Love / Marriage with a polish woman - Heaven or Forever Hell ? [60]


you only heard from a woman, Pam. The rest were men.

USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]

10 year old is a little too old, but maybe the parent was worried about the kid messing up their sunday clothes.. maybe, she was letting the child try some food from their own plate? Maybe this was an alternative to "you will sit at this table until your plate is clean!" routine.

I've seen couples feeding each other too - generally a sign of playfulness. ;)
Seriously though, one day you might be taking all kinds of ridiculous measures to have your kid eat some spinach...
Anyway, I don't think this is a Polish thing.

Travel / BIGGEST MOSQUE IN POLAND! - Gdansk [42]


I only wanted to point out here that when a person assumes that anyone with the internet access has no life, friends or is not enjoying life, then that person most probably is speaking from a personal experience.

Travel / BIGGEST MOSQUE IN POLAND! - Gdansk [42]

A Christian asked what it was like to be an atheist. I asked if he believed in Islam. He said, "no." I said, "Like that"

USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]

I like that

Travel / BIGGEST MOSQUE IN POLAND! - Gdansk [42]


And on that note, I can see that any further conversation with you is a total waste of time.

Travel / BIGGEST MOSQUE IN POLAND! - Gdansk [42]

Kondzior -
1. Your basic premise that we need religion to know right from wrong is not true.
2. If not religion, one would worship something else, not true - I'm against any worshiping. One can definitely live without it.
3. I think the problem in Russia was the communism, another unreasonable ideology... but if you and A.S. want to call it lack of God, I have no intention of arguing with that type of logic.

4. People that fight so hard for religion are the ones that are unable to accept their own mortality. This "screaming in the night" you so dread is of your own making. For many, religions are more terrifying than the cycle of nature.

Travel / BIGGEST MOSQUE IN POLAND! - Gdansk [42]


On global scale, it looks to me like religions are most dangerous elements in modern life.
These exclusive, and directly competing ideologies, are simply incompatible with finding solutions for sustainable civilization.
If you look at the statistics, the nations with highest number of atheists are the ones with lowest violent crime, best education, gender equality, infant mortality, etc etc.

But it's not just religions in particular that we have to be weary of.
We have to be weary of any dogmatic ideologies, which are essentially strong convictions without evidence that are shared by a mob. In this context, other dogmas, such as communism or hatred of Jews, for example, share the space with religions.

Travel / BIGGEST MOSQUE IN POLAND! - Gdansk [42]


that's fvcked up. I wonder if those were political wars, rather than religious, since buddhism preaches non-violence, but I really don't want to fight about it..

Anyway, I'm more concerned with today, and where each religion seems to be heading. Buddhists are more apt to just burn themselves rather than blow themselves up where they can take maximum casualties with them.

Travel / BIGGEST MOSQUE IN POLAND! - Gdansk [42]

I think it's important to remember that all religions are not equal.
Some are worse for the rest of us than others.
For example, it's hard to imagine a buddhist, even extreme buddhist, strapping bombs on himself to blow up the non-buddhists.

News / Lustration in Poland: Should Polish ex- SB officers get big rents? [42]

What kind of crimes are we talking about?
If there are people that committed violent crimes against others, but were protected by a past government, by all means, they should be take them to court. But treat them just like other criminals. Their political leanings should have no bearing under the law. Right?

But, if you're talking about "he got this apartment because he was a good communist" kind of crimes, then forget about it. Too many people that were just trying to get by and provide for their families would get hurt.