History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]

Poland can't return the lands in the West without cooperation about the lands in the East ,from Ukraine and Belarus. Fat chance!

News / When money dies,blame the Poles. [32]

Slave labor or cheap labor is a zero sum game. It cannibalizes the market by driving down labor costs which eventually destroys consumer spending.

Tell the Poles to come to America they assimilate much better than the Mexicans and are more likely to demand higher wages.

Genealogy / Polish person's average height? [210]

Ogien


Nutrition? Probably due to Latin immigration. Also northeasters are short by American standards.

UK, Ireland / Poles - go home make your country better [40]


engineering

UK, Ireland / Poles - go home make your country better [40]

trener zolwia


You must be from Chicago. I haven't heard that phrase since I left Chi-Town.

I've worked for large and small companies, the Feds and now I own my own business and to motivate people you have to pay'em and give them an incentive to work no matter where they are.

I read on this Board how the English complain how lazy the English working man is but the ones that come to the States work like hell. Same with the Poles in Poland. Poles complain about the Polish workers, but they come to the States and are model citizens. And what's next? An American complaining about American workers, gee what else is new? If the worker has an incentive to work, they'll work. Treat 'em like crap and they won't produce.

News / New cross war in Warsaw [530]

Democracy is messy, isn't it?

News / WHY DOES POLAND BUY GAS FROM RUSSIA? [105]

plk123



Exactly, Poland shouldn't be buying Russian gas. Poland should use its resources. Start building gasification plants for her coal reserves. This is old tech and something that could be completed rather quickly. Start manufacturing methane from animal waste from Poland's agricultural sector. Pump the methane into your gas pipelines. Of course start mining the shale for Natural Gas.

Real Estate / TRESPASSING ON MY LAND IN POLAND....what can i do legally...? [119]

wildrover


I hunt. In order to shoot game you have to be a good shot. It just looks easy to you.

There are two types of hunters, meat hunters (me) and shooters. Meat hunters are self explanatory. Shooters like to shoot game because they look at game as a more challenging target than a standing target. No one likes to kill, but a guy has to eat. When you eat vegetables you have to kill the plants, it's no different. Farming isn't a benevolent activity. Plowing the ground or using chemicals with No-Till kills wildlife too, but a guys gotta eat.

UK, Ireland / Poles - go home make your country better [40]


BS, it's cheap labor that makes them welcome here.


No such thing as a lazy American. American's are smart enough not to work for what amounts to is a slave wage. Corporate America is addicted to slave labor. Unfortunately when an American says No, there is a Pole or a Mexican willing to work on the cheap with ridiculous working conditions.

BTW the English aren't lazy either, there is no incentive in England whatsoever. In those conditions they're not going to work. When the English are abroad they work.

Same in Poland. Iam sure a lot of Poles have figured it out, that's why you have an unemployment rate of what 10%?

You want people to work? You have to pay'em, and quit thinking that you can increase profitability by cutting wages.

Life / My own thoughts about life in Poland (have lived here for two years) [133]

I've never been to Poland but what you have posted I have surmised from the posts on this forum.

It appears because of the long occupation by foreign powers Poland has never taken a good look at themselves. They've always blamed the foreign powers and have never considered their own deficiencies. You're right, they need to take a long hard look at themselves and quit romanticizing the past. Poland needs to change and look inward. They need to look to themselves for solutions to their problems. Polish society needs to become more egalitarian, more inclusive.

Real Estate / TRESPASSING ON MY LAND IN POLAND....what can i do legally...? [119]

wildrover


See that girls...guys with small penises are good shots!

UK, Ireland / Why English do not like Polish? [417]

pgtx


Are you labeled in Texas? And what may that be?

Life / WOULD YOU MOVE BACK TO POLAND IF.... [73]

richasis


You can always find cheats in any walk of life. If you're going to talk about welfare cheats than you should also talk about the corporate cheats and there are many of them who cost the government a lot more money. 18 billion is chicken feed compared to the trillion dollars spent in Iraq on government contracts.

Life / WOULD YOU MOVE BACK TO POLAND IF.... [73]

This ain't the 1960's, there are no liberals left. What you have today are the right wing nutjobs and everyone else. Their posts are moderate at best. Certainly not liberal.

Real Estate / TRESPASSING ON MY LAND IN POLAND....what can i do legally...? [119]

f stop


US of A. I have a vacant building for the past 4 years and yes it's untouched by the local yokels. I don't know what it's like in poland but in the US the polaks are much more law abiding. In a Polish American neighborhood you can leave the doors unlocked.

UK, Ireland / The slow, whiny death of British Christianity [86]

The Word. Christianity is going to replace these Catholic pagan churches.

Life / WOULD YOU MOVE BACK TO POLAND IF.... [73]

Yeah but Canada has good Chinese food. Best Chinese food I ever had was on Victoria Island.

Real Estate / TRESPASSING ON MY LAND IN POLAND....what can i do legally...? [119]

wildrover


Let's see you have a World Wide audience on pf and often times people ask questions about housing in Poland. Hmmmm...maybe you can advertise on pf that the place is for rent?

UK, Ireland / Ive been in the UK for 6 days to relocate and im going back to Poland. [281]

wildrover


Nonsense. "...the only difference between a rich and poor person is that the rich person has more money." Donald Trump

hague1cmaeron


Nothing. Everyone should own their own home. Home ownership is in the Public Interest. People can afford to own homes if they have good paying jobs.

Speaking of England I was last there in 2005? 2006? and my favorite place is the Northeast Coast (Northeast Lincolnshire, Yorkshire). I've been all over England (except the Northwest) and I have to say that I like the People along the Northeast Coast the most. Give me York or Scarborough or Cleethrope (sp?). Lovely friendly good natured people. Maybe the reason I like it so much is that it's a heavily ag (agricultural) area. You see plenty of farm equipment on the roads. Just like home. The best meal I ever had in England was in a pub in Scarborough near the castle (whatever it's called). Roast beef and gravy, roast potatoes, yorkshire pudding. Great traditional English meal. There are two Englands, London and the English countryside. I'll take the Countryside (sometimes it's too serene).

Life / Poland and Shakespeare [23]

zetigrek


No, it's a matter of Shakespeare being written in Middle English.

History / United States of America Vs Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth [74]

David_18


Don't hold your breath.

Jurgis


True than. True in 1939 (France & England) and still true today. Poland continues to look to it's neighbors.

Sokrates


The USA needs to get its financial house in order but they have the international currency so there is still time.

Sokrates


And it still does to this day. All of Poland's problems are symptomatic of this fact. Poland needs to engage it's lower classes or they will repeat the mistakes of the past. This is the biggest difference between Poland and the US of A. The US does not have an institutionalized class system.

Work / From the USA, is it hard to study in Poland? [44]

plk123


I agree, it really depends on the student and if he is going to make the most of his education regardless of where it's at.

Work / From the USA, is it hard to study in Poland? [44]

zetigrek


There are Rich and Poor but there is no institutionalized class system in the United States.
American educational system is different than Europe. It's based on open enrollment, anyone can attend. Everyone is encouraged to attend, as long as you have the money. Money is available through grants, scholarships, student loans (most common), military service or pay as you go (me) with part time jobs. So you get everyone in the University system from the brilliant to the dumbest. Many people start college, many people finish and get a degree, many people drop out and never finish. Or drop out and go back and finish later in life. The American university is very fluid.


Murray State is reputable. It's in the Kentucky State system. Probably somewhere around 15,000 students. Kentuckians don't argue, especially with strangers. So they'll go along even if they think everything isn't exactly right.

Zetigrek and AJ, you wanna study overseas? Try this: murraystate.edu/Students/International/GettingStarted.aspx

Work / From the USA, is it hard to study in Poland? [44]


I paid my way through the University by working in between semesters. I came out with zero debt. It's still possible today to do this in the United States. Of course depending on which State you decide to study in.

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Polish jokes were unknown outside the Polish American community until Archie Bunker popularized them in "All in the Family".

Poland was not a fourth Allied power. They're a very young country who have only been in existence since the 1920's.

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

MediaWatch


Hollywood did not invent Polish jokes or Redneck jokes. Actually Hollywood were "johnnie come latelies" to the Polish Jokes. Polish jokes were inside jokes among Polish Americans in the 50's and 60's. Hollywood didn't pick up on Polish jokes until the TV show "All in the Family" with the character Archie Bunker. That was 1975 and by than Polish jokes were petering out.

The term Redneck refers to poor rural Southern whites (the peasant would be the Polish equivalent). The term Redneck comes from farmers on tractors looking down at the crops while they plow and getting a sunburn on their neck in the process (I got my college degree in the South and that's how they explained it to me). Rednecks are proud of being rednecks. I listen to Country Western Radio and every second song is something about rednecks. Jeff Foxworthy has popularized Redneck jokes. Foxworthy ain't Hollywood.

In fact Redneck jokes are nothing more than Polish jokes that I used to hear in the Old Neighborhood. Same thing, just change the subject.

After WWII there were a lot of Polish refugees that came to the States. The Polish Refugees (called DP's for Displaced Persons). Well my dad rented an apartment to one of these DP couples and one day I was walking by and noticed through the window that one of their kids was drinking their milk through a glass jar that previously held jams or jellies or something. The point being they were so cheap they wouldn't buy something like a glass cup to drink out of, they would use an old jar that came with jam/jellie purchase. Or when they would blow a fuse they would stuff a penny in the socket and than screw the bad fuse back in because they were too cheap to buy a new fuse. The penny would bypass the bad fuse but by so doing you defeat the purpose of the fuse and the house can catch on fire. So I remember one day my dad arguing with the DP's about not putting pennies in the fuse box. He in his best 1880's peasant Polish and her in her modern Polish (I presume, I don't speak either). I don't think they understood each other. So my dad just bought a box of fuses and left them on the top of the fuse box. But the point being you don't get mad, you laugh. "Ah,they're from the old country ... putting pennies in my fuse box!" You make a joke out of the situation. That's where Polish jokes come from. You don't get mad, you laugh. Polish jokes are a way to relieve the day to day stress of assimilation into a new country. This is where Polish jokes come from.

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Who started redneck jokes? Southerners poking fun at other Southerners. The roots and subject matter of Redneck jokes are the same as Polish jokes. No difference. No body in Hollywood or America hates Poles. Actually America in general is rather ambivalent towards Poles and Poland. If anything Poles are ignored, probably due to the fact that we assimilate so easily. If Poles were hated by America as much as you say they are, they wouldn't be third on your chart. BTW who is last on your list? Indians and Blacks. Now these two groups may have an issue with how America perceives them. Not the Poles. Poles are a success story.

Real Estate / Price of a flat for renovation in a tenement house for renovation in Krakow [7]

Residential construction costs in the States range from approximately $100-$200/square foot. 6000-6500/zl is approximately $250/square foot. Quite surprisingly expensive when one considers the median salaries of the two countries. Maybe I should be building in Poland?

Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Eurola


My folks were peasants from the Poznan area (1880's). So poor they were lucky to get a piece of rye bread (so the story goes). My grandfather quit school in the 2nd grade. Went to work and at some point opened up a grocery store and was so successful that he retired at 35. Of 18 grandchildren approx 14 have college degrees and the ones that don't are para legals, technicians, etc. All well educated productive individuals. this is a typical Polish American story. Nothing unusual.

It was like this. People immigrate to the states, settle in and than another wave comes in a generation later. The Poles that are already here poke fun at the newly arrivals because they recognize the nuances of Polish society which the newly arrived immigrants still hang onto. For instance my grandfather always referred to Poland as "the Old Country". And the newly arrived immigrants held on to their "old ways" and that's where Polish Jokes come from. Polish jokes don't come from Nazi's or Native Americans. they came from the Polish Americans because they recognized the "old ways". Now what's true for Poles was also true for the Irish, Italians, Norwegians, etc.

Polish jokes, far as I know where dead by the late 70's. I haven't heard many since. The latest type of Polish Jokes are the "Redneck Jokes". Same thing.

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