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Marynka11   
12 Mar 2011
News / Victory in 'anti-Polish camps' campaign in US [170]

What Britain did or didn't do is no source of shame for me.

So why are you exploiting "what Poland did or didn't do"? Something tells me it's not really about the Jewish people with you Harry.
Marynka11   
12 Mar 2011
News / Victory in 'anti-Polish camps' campaign in US [170]

The difference is that other nations don't feel the need to lie about it: who knows, perhaps they don't feel guilty about what happened to Europe's Jews.

If there is anyone who feels that Poland needs to feel guilty about what happened to Jews during WWII is you. Why don't you talk about "Blood for goods", and maybe explore the reasons why Britain didn't want to take in 1,000,000 Jews from Hungary? And if you look back into history, maybe you will learn, where the antisemitism actually originated, and maybe explore the reasons, why there were close to 4,000,000 Jews in pre WWII Poland, more that in whole Western Europe combined?

Maybe then you will just stop milking a few facts from the Polish history?
Marynka11   
10 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

He never collaborated, he took from them and gave to his family, a noble cause.

No, Penn, he took from my family end everyone else's family and gave it to yours.
Not everyone has the moral lining to be "Czlowiek z zelaza", but everyone can choose not to be a thief.

you think when the monseigneur at that parish says "we have a 2 thousand dollar heating bill this month" or "why don't you guys just give your money to the church you'll spend it anyways" is right?

the monseigneur doesn't come to my house and take my wallet at night. I don't see any point bringing church into this.

And I think you must secretly hate your father. Why else would you share more and more revelations that bring more and more ridicule and name calling on him?
Marynka11   
10 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

This church steals money from people as much as they can suck out of you they can

Penn, there is a huge difference between willingly taking money from you pocket and putting it in the church basket, and secretly schlepping stuff from a factory to secretly sell.

Please do not compare priests to your father. If I put little effort I can understand why he collaborated. But the fact that he is a thief killed any respect for that man.
Marynka11   
10 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

Any time you hurt a communist or a communist government it's something to be proud of, a government that denied you of your basic human rights and essentials. Communism was like a uncle who took you in when you needed help, but molested you.

Were you aware that in communism everything was the property of everyone? Your father was stealing from his own people. Nothing to be proud of.

I can work up excuses for collaborators, but not for criminals.
Marynka11   
10 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

Marynka11:
Well said Enkidu.

are you sure? can you elaborate?
Does it mean that in PRL there were uneployed engineers?

My edit to that post again:
However I wanted to add a true story from my past: it was the year eighty something. My older brother was about to take his entry exam to secondary school. It was a somewhat competitive school. It was also the year of elections. The normal course of events was to ignore the whole thing. However, my mother was very worried about my brother getting into the school. My parents were fighting the whole morning over going to the elections, and in the afternoon my mother went to vote. She said, she wouldn't forgive herself if my brother didn't get to the school because of her failing to vote. My father stayed home.

Only nowadays I see under what kind of pressure the generation of our parents was. Some people had to cave in, and it wasn't because they were evil. There was life that had to be lived, kids that had to raised and fed. We have only a vague idea how it was like to be in their shoes.
Marynka11   
10 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

I don't think that the PeennyBoy is lying.
I think that he just believes in the story that his father has told him.
There are a lot of older-generation Poles who insisted that they made their carrier on the basis of the professionalism and the education. Some of them even trying to convince themselves that they were freedom fighters actually.

Well said Enkidu.

Edit
However I wanted to add a true story from my past: it was the year eighty something. My older brother was about to take his entry exam to secondary school. It was a somewhat competitive school. It was also the year of elections. The normal course of events was to ignore the whole thing. However, my mother was very worried about my brother getting into the school. My parents were fighting the whole morning over going to the elections, and in the afternoon my mother went to vote. She said, she wouldn't forgive herself if my brother didn't get to the school because of her failing to vote. My father stayed home.

Only nowadays I see under what kind of pressure the generation of our parents was. Some people had to cave in, and it wasn't because they were evil. There was life that had to be lived, kids that had to raised and fed. We have only a vague idea how it was like to be in their shoes.
Marynka11   
10 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

that's why this is still the land of milk and honey

You can think that way if you want. I'm fine with that. Just don't offend people who have different opinions.

And apologize to Puella. What you said to her yesterday was seriously out of line.
Marynka11   
10 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

ok Marynka11, I had a stigma of being "Polish" too way back when, I've realized it was stupid.

What stigma are you taking about? There is no stigma. In the world there are resourceful people who can fend for themselves and people who need some more help. You will find both kinds everywhere in the world. No matter whether the people were born in the 30s, 70s, or 2004 in New York or Patagonia, you will find the two kids.

I agree, communism trained the helplessness in people, hence the people in the 90 who were in their 40 or older felt lost. But look at the same people 20 years later: most of them are adjusted well.

I would compare learning how to live in a free market society to being released from a prison. At first you have no clue what to do because as bad as it was inside, you never had to worry about where the bread and butter in coming from. But you take your baby steps and then you learn how to walk on your own. For some people it happens faster, for some slower. If you look at the Eastern Block you will see that all post communistic countries go through the same experience.

and there are no nice social protections offered her

Don't tell me about jungle laws in a country with the right to claim bankruptcy when you've collected too much in credit card debts. No social protections, but stupidity is well sheltered.
Marynka11   
10 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

m talking about the Polish MENTALITY

Polish mentality is not an excuse for being a blockhead. BLOCKHEAD.

Yes, I can write in caps too. I can call names too. So is this Polish mentality according to you?
Marynka11   
10 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

You know Havok, your and PennBoy's problem is that you keep the picture of Poland and Polish people in some 1989 year or whenever you left. Poland actually moved on, and America doesn't seem such a paradise to most Poles as it used to be in the eighties. I hate to wake you up from your dream about alternate reality you are in, but here it is again: Poland moved on.

Determined people like you can have great careers in Poland. They don't have to take off. They can even own businesses, imagine that. Sometimes they have to be cunning and vicious too. But most of them don't think that the duty of basic civility doesn't apply to them.

And PennBoy, people in Poland also have cars and go on vacation. Sometimes even better places than filthy Cancun.

And please stop lecturing people in Poland on what it's like to be in America. Being in every country involves specific struggles. Even being in America for each Pole is different.
Marynka11   
9 Mar 2011
Life / Differences in Polish, American and British mentality [237]

And example conversation between a A and B. Who is Polish and who is American?

A: Isn't the weather wonderful today?
B: Yes, but it's going to rain tomorrow.
A: Oh, we need rain. All the beautiful flowers need to grow.
B: Which reminds me, I need to go and clean my gutters.
A: Isn't it a blessing that you can do it by yourself?
B (slightly irritated): Trust me, I would prefer to pay someone to do that.
A: We have a great guy who comes and does the gutter cleaning for us. Such a wonderful guy. He is from Guatemala. It must be terrible there with all the wars going on now.

B: I really need to go now.
A: Bye, have a great day.
Marynka11   
9 Mar 2011
USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

They are also more reluctant to admit they have a problem since there is more stigma attached to be a woman with a drinking problem.

So true. Everyone expects from us to be the holly Matka Polka.

Another issue is a different physiology of women when drinking - alcohol stays longer in their blood due to the higher level of fat in their bodies.

Silly question: the fatter the woman, the longer she will stay drunk?
Marynka11   
9 Mar 2011
Life / How to instigate a row with your Polish missus. [15]

I can never stress enough the convenience of having a German husband in such cases.
Whenever he starts questioning the nationality of any famous Pole, I usually throw the Hitler example in his face.
Marynka11   
9 Mar 2011
Life / Strange laws in Poland [39]

# In Bakersfield, California, anyone having intercourse with Satan must use a condom. (An asbestos one we presume.)

I guess not to let the Satans breed? At least I know now, where Satan lives.