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

I was born and raised in Poland. Lived there until I turned 24. Still, just reading this thread gave me a world-class headache. I also realized that I would have flunked Polish now. So, I instantly felt sorry for you.

During my last visit in 2017, after a couple of days, I just gave up, switched to English, avoided old (me speak no English) geezers like me, and everything was just fine. I was never hungry or homeless.

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


Why are you torturing yourself? Just speak English. Most do. If they don't, tough. Or show them twenty bucks. That works every time.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

...because to be a "civil servant" you only need a pulse.
In Chicago, some "civil servants" are able to vote even without a pulse. Just an example to make my brilliant point.
Back to teachers in Poland....

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


And that is about the strike in Poland how?


At least we are paid. Pathetic is what you are doing here for free.

To the mods: off subject but he made me do it.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

The best way to take care of things like this is to add a line item to the paycheck tax deductions: for teachers. Or: for assisting the US in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This idea is so awesome that even I am amazed. And I don't amaze easily.

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


...join the army or go to prison. Both give the participants the motivation that is second to none.

Life / Retiring in Poland [39]


Good to know. Just to clarify: no Polish income tax will be due on the Social Security benefits, dividends, interest from CD's, or anything earned in the US and taxed in the US.

Is this correct?

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

I have more scripts than any of you, but your comment will be on my mind.


So, the strike collapsed because some crossed the picket lines? And the chest-thumping genius above tells me that, if you just fire just one, the country will rise and the civilized life in Poland will come to an abrupt end. Sure. It's so easy to support your family for a month or two with zero in your savings account.

It's you, guys, who needs a new script. The Rich Derangement Syndrome is getting tired and old.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

It reminds me of the traffic cops. When we see one with them funny lights on top and the guy he pulled over in front of him, we slow down. No Nazis, no death camps, no morons to remind us about them. Just human nature.

From the reaction above, I would swear I wrote "fire at".

Sick minds are good to waste...

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

Controlling large crowds can be done easily by controlling some. Fire the first 100 publicly, with no chance of ever coming back, and the remaining 299,900 will fold like a beach chair on a windy day.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

Public employees should never be allowed to strike and should be summarily fired if they do. Just as we did with PATCO in 1981 when 11,000 were fired by Reagan and their union decertified.

politico.com/story/2017/08/05/reagan-fires-11-000-striking-air-traffic-controllers-aug-5-1981-241252

It worked so well that we never had a strike like this. I only wish we did the same with the striking teachers.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

So what? Who cares about your anecdotes? How is one man's experience relevant to the discussion? Guess what, genius, I never spent a day in prison. Does that mean that I can't speak about them and have an opinion?

The question I asked: Are you required to step out or not? You gave me that evasive crap answer because you are clueless about your rights. You just don't know, which is my point.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

If you want me to laugh, try harder.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

Is you middle name Naive? This is what you and I know. Those students gave me the answers that made my head spin.

For example. I asked: during a routine traffic pull over, when a cop tells you to step outside of your car, are you required under law to comply? They all flunked like babies.

Another one: when the cops show up at your door without an arrest warrant and say, we want to you to come with us, can you legally refuse? Same outcome.

Right now, in the US prisons, there are 40 to 100 thousand people only because they were intimidated into a false confession. It's so because the schools didn't teach them what matters.

Are the schools in Poland any better? I doubt it.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

You are right if the subject here and now is K-9. Later, teaching how to think is a moot point. We already know. Now we need the tools how to survive. The last thing anyone needs is how to dissect frogs and the first what to say and what not to say when pulled over, interrogated or arrested.

Did your teachers ever teach you that?
I actually prepared an eight-question survey on the subject of constitutional rights, took it to a community college and asked ten students to respond. Their answers were 90% wrong. But I am sure that all of them were taught how to put a condom on a banana.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

Agreed. But, if that's the primary objective, it takes too long because too much useless stuff is taught.
The most useful ability - the ability to see through government lies - is not. Another one - my favorite - is how to deal with police. I submit that many would find it more valuable than how to dissect frogs.

Life / Retiring in Poland [39]


Your post is spot on. If there is an "or" in it - the UK or Polish taxes - then it's not so bad.

A US retiree living in Poland would have to pay the US taxes AND the Polish taxes. At least this is what I understand. And, of course, bye-bye Medicare.

News / Polish Police Hunt for Bad Taste Boorish Brits [39]


Alcohol shops are as responsible for the drunks do as knife manufacturers are for the slashers.

News / Polish Police Hunt for Bad Taste Boorish Brits [39]

One of these days, I will find out why anyone who is not mentally ill would spend one minute at places like that.

Life / Retiring in Poland [39]

That's what I naively thought, too. Ain't gonna happen. You will miss the familiar places, friends, and your family. Poland, to somebody who didn't make a lifelong emotional investment there, is just ugly buildings, graffiti, Krakow, and Gdansk. That's it.

If you are planning to run away from something in the UK, that's another matter.

News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]

There is no population crisis anywhere.
It's a crisis only in the minds of the ruling class that needs ever more profits, future voters, and more oxygen for their collapsing Ponzi scams like the Social Security.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


Well, almost. The way things are going, one day I love you will be 011001001010000101.

Speech is learned first and automatically. Spelling and writing later and even that is changing to accommodate the low end of the distribution curve. Today, nobody corrects a kid because it would hurt his feelings. When I tried - lovingly - to correct a school paper written by my 8-year-old gd, I got that look from her mom that made me quickly abandon the idea.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

Hey, let's be honest, beside basics in math, what did we learn that is of any value to us now? How to dissect frogs? Or where is Peru?

What I got out of Polibuda was obsolete by the time that plane landed at Kennedy a year later - tubes and transistors right with it. While in Moscow, I learned how to forge and lie, but that is another story. At least that was useful and still is but has nothing to do with the K-12 teachers and their liberal propaganda.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]

XTIII, at least don't tell where they go to school or he may sign up there and set them back a couple of years in their mental development.

News / Schools in Poland to strike tomorrow [235]


I don't know who you are, but I know enough to call you a genius on the basis of this post alone.
Spot on. We have the same problem here, in the US. These useless Marxist indoctrinators are now in the supervisory mode watching kids watching videos on their PC's.

Proof? Home schooled kids outscore the public school products every time a survey is done.
I detest home schooling for other reasons, but the tests don't lie.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Add stopping playing Uber for the American "astronauts" to that list
The Webster definition of irony should have this: Russia, with its economy equal to Texas' and "rusty nukes", is now taking hitchhikers unable to get there by themselves. How much do we pay per person per ride? And, is there a weight limit to make sure that the fatsos will not bring that station down in flames?

News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]

So, how did the humans manage when there were only 1 billion of them?
It must have been awful with all those roads and planes near empty. And the PF forum having just two visitors a week.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]

Then, Poland does not need the US.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


No, didn't. He paraphrased his opponents posts, claims or implications. Hence, no quote marks.


Again, he cites the essence of another post.

History / Why is Poland weaker than Russia? [390]


Never argue with a Polak. They will make your head spin and you will start doubting your sanity.
If you are up to it, ask them what Poland gained by not inviting Russians to commemorate WW2.