News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

The first problem with teachers is that you can't fire them for incompetence. At least in the US. Is it the same in Poland?

Language / Polish-American Grandma used to say this word! [18]

Don't! Today, the law enforcement agencies go there with the DNA samples collected from the crime scenes. If your DNA matches their sample even marginally, you may get the visitors at your door step you really don't want.

Language / Polish-American Grandma used to say this word! [18]

Because I have seen the results. Instead of getting and learning straight American English, kids growing up on the mixture of Polish and English suffer when interacting with their peers who quickly find them different and weird. No child ever wants to be different, ridiculed, harassed or bullied.

If that Polish were at least the reference-grade Polish - that would be tolerable. Typically, it's not. It's a mixture of cute local made up words and phrases from various regions, not what you hear on the Polish radio.

Before I left, I would seldom hear the word "kobieta" pronounced properly. It was "kobita". Just an example.

Language / Polish-American Grandma used to say this word! [18]

That is my old grandmas should be kept away from babies. Contaminating their trusting minds with made-up meaningless foreign words borders on child abuse. Polish language is full of those. This is why we never allowed foreign baby talk. It was always face, nie buziuchna, or some other linguistic tumor.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


So, there is no time limit on teachers' strikes in Poland. I didn't know that.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


Public employees should not be allowed to strike. Ever. Don't like your job? Quit and find a better one.
Strikers should be terminated after one warning. The organizers should be charged criminally for conspiracy.
If you allow public school teachers to strike, why not every other public employee?

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

My father was a scientist and a Ph.D. living in his own universe 24/7. I am sure he was able to write his next book while asleep. Good for him and a f***king nightmare for the rest of us.


Keep to the topic please

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


Iwonka, you are a 10.
Plumbers and electricians make life worth living. Philosophers gave us communism and fascism.
I never saw an ad "Philosophers Wanted". I see a lot of ads "Truckers Wanted".
Also, what woman would pick a philosopher before a carpenter? Like none and there is a reason for it.
I will be happy to explain if asked.

Work / JOB in Wroclaw for a Business Student fluent in ENGLISH/FRENCH/RUSSIAN/ROMANIAN [56]


I love that famous Polish reading comprehension...
What did I write in 181? Speaking fluent French - which is a skill (duh!) - or French Literature which is merely a familiarity with what others wrote and a form of entertainment. Like going to an art museum or listening to music. Those do not make you an artist or a musician.

If speaking fluent French is the objective, instead blowing money on tuition, go to France, get a girlfriend, and hang out with bad dudes. You will be so fluent you will be amazed. Plus, you will know all the French swear words and slang. Priceless.

Work / JOB in Wroclaw for a Business Student fluent in ENGLISH/FRENCH/RUSSIAN/ROMANIAN [56]


How much do they make?

Work / JOB in Wroclaw for a Business Student fluent in ENGLISH/FRENCH/RUSSIAN/ROMANIAN [56]

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Let's cut the crap. Can you support a family of four - without being on welfare of any kind - with a degree in French Lit while working in private sector?

If that French Lit is not to your liking as a point of reference, pick any liberal arts studies and tell me what they make in Poland or anywhere else.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


How much do Womens' Studies or Ethnic Studies graduates make in the private sector, which excludes working as a useful idiot for a politician?
How about French Literature grads? They must have nice careers going for them.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


These over-educated morons with degrees is why the whites and the US (I will no longer waste my time on Europe) are in a mad race to the bottom. They have no concept how wealth is created and why budgets should be balanced. They have no concept what borders are and for what. To them these are merely small speed bumps on the way to a perfect world only they can design and create.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


Liberal arts degree is a great way to start your career as a Planned Parenthood receptionist. Spending 100 gees on Womens' Studies is the best way to achieve this noble goal..

Work / What is deducted from a salary in Poland apart from Income tax? [155]

Why don't you try the UK or Germany? They need people just like you and your wife and they pay better.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


Do you know one that flunked his self-assessment and quit?

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

Teachers should evaluated themselves. After all, they are doing it every day with their students, so what's one more evaluation.

Law / International Divorce - my ex wife lives in Poland and I live in Asia (alimony) [39]

Women are victims of their own insistence on holding on to the kids - in large number of cases as a lever or a weapon.

Better yet, before you get all hot and sweaty, tell your Romeo that the kid will be his to keep and watch that erection go limp.

Law / International Divorce - my ex wife lives in Poland and I live in Asia (alimony) [39]

The single stupidest thing a man can do in his fifties is to marry a woman with kids, adopt them, make her his life insurance beneficiary, and let her run his business.

He just signed his death warrant.

Law / International Divorce - my ex wife lives in Poland and I live in Asia (alimony) [39]


...but the human behavior is the same - including women not lying about their "evil" husbands only when asleep or in a coma.

Law / International Divorce - my ex wife lives in Poland and I live in Asia (alimony) [39]


In the US, women fought for equality and won! Now, they are treated equally in such matters in the family courts. Good.
Woman-on-man domestic violence is the most under-reported crime here, and for the reasons so obvious that no explanation is necessary.
To make matter worse for men, women lie 24/7. So much so that "he raped me and abused me for years" is no longer selling at the husband murder trials. Nobody believes those bi**es any more.

Why didn't you move? "Because I loved him soooo much" comes another lie.
Sure, he raped you, beat you and you loved him enough to get another dose of the same. His paycheck and life insurance had nothing to do with it.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


That's the best summary of how the extortion racket aka as public unions operate in the US. No free market would ever pay a teacher 130 grand a year, which is what they get in Cook county. Al Capone would be proud.

These hoodlums even managed to lock their mind boggling pension benefits in the state constitution to make school districts powerless.

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]

Because there are too many of you?

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

All that talk about which school is better is pointless. In engineering, only MIT registers as something super exceptional. Polibuda does not.
The shelf life of a diploma is probably three years. After five, nobody cares where it came from but what you claim you have actually done. Lying can be detected almost immediately.

The best engineer I ever hired did not even have a degree - just two years of a vocational school. Nobody ever asked me to show mine except when applying for immigration.

If within three or so years you are not working in your profession, you can roll that diploma and .... you know the rest. That is why taking time off to see Africa for a couple of years is so stupid.

Language / What do foreigners find the hardest part of Polish? [63]


I freely admit that I don't give a s*** what's "beyond surface" of some foreigner. I already know everything worth knowing.

Language / What do foreigners find the hardest part of Polish? [63]


This perfunctory "Dzien dobry!" is exactly what you DO NOT want to do, as it would suggest some knowledge. In two seconds, it would be clear to the guy in front of you that it was just one phrase and total vacuum behind it.

Every single time I spoke simple English, I got the information I needed. Plus a friendly smile and the satisfaction from being able to speak English.

Another benefit: In English, those I approached spoke clearly using easy-to-understand words. When I need directions, I want directions, not a flowery essay or a history lesson.

The trick is always to avoid old people. I remember the young girl serving in a restaurant in Gdansk-Oliwa. I would swear she just came from the US. She was so good, accent included.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

Do you realize how many will now go to bed crying? Boo hoo, you mean that "democracy" is nothing but a lie like Santa and Tooth Fairy? Boo hoo....so very sad...

Language / What do foreigners find the hardest part of Polish? [63]


The way I did.
At some point, you just throw away your old language and replace it with the local - 24/7/365, everywhere.
I didn't spend one minute studying English. I spent even less digging into the English grammar. On the other hand, I took the mandatory Russian and an elective Latin for four long years in high school and never was never able to say a single sentence. Like, "where the f*** is toilet paper in this god forsaken dump?" Do you know how to say it in Latin?

FYI, out of being bored after I retired, I wrote my hate manifesto. The book is available on Amazon. Would you like the link?

Language / What do foreigners find the hardest part of Polish? [63]

I am not against her learning Polish. What I am saying is that studying Polish grammar and the rules is pure waste of time and effort.

Do people study human anatomy to make love? Did you? They just do it first time and get better with practice. Nobody ever got a medical textbook for it. In fact, many would probably be turned off if they did and found out what lives in our mouths and the private parts.

Language / What do foreigners find the hardest part of Polish? [63]


Rich is a genius. He told me this himself.

So, again, as the forum genius, my advice is: stop climbing that hill, Lri. You will get sweaty and muddy for nothing.
To really be fluent in any foreign language, you have to use it 24/7 - at home, at work, and in your social life.

And actually like it. There is nothing likable about Polish.

I am going to get a lot of crap for this, but I don't care since I am speaking from the experience of 24 years of dealing with it so I know. The patriots here are anything but objective.