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MareGaea   
23 Jun 2010
Love / Polish girls, how are they when they are in love? [86]

"A few weeks ago" is actually by now a few years ago? Can't even remember when I wrote that.

Edit: ah, I see, last December. Well, that was a few weeks later already history. She was nice and cute and all, but she didn't do a thing to me. I just thought the fairest thing to do was to cut it off before the damage would get too deep. Haven't had anybody since. And I don't want anybody since as a lot of things have happened to me personally in the meantime. I have my on-off's but that's just about it.

Edit: Irish girls??? For heaven's sake.

>^..^<

M-G (must be a year or two ago)
MareGaea   
23 Jun 2010
News / Lech Walesa gives warning over 'dangerous' Polish candidate [60]

Kapish

It's capiche, by the way.

How was detention? Enlightening? And perhaps you don't want to make me grumpier than I already am. You wouldn't like me when I am grumpier than I am now.

>^..^<

M-G (grumpy)
MareGaea   
23 Jun 2010
News / Lech Walesa gives warning over 'dangerous' Polish candidate [60]

As to fools, they lack knowledge, not that they are necessarily stupid, but intelectually lazy and gulible.

And let me guess, those lazy intellectuals, gullible and all, are claiming the opposite of what you are claiming?

>^..^<

M-G (grumpy)
MareGaea   
23 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

You make it sound as if women are monstrous sometimes.

True. In Zimmy's world the men (the summit of innocense and kindness) and kids sit trembling in their chairs when mom comes home, afraid that she might be frustrated about sth that happened at work, perhaps because some other woman wore a nicer dress than she did, or perhaps she is again drunk...And when they just so much as open their mouth, mom will beat the crap out of them. Because yeah, women are so agressive that they can vent their frustrations only by using violence, especially when they're drunk and all blockades have gone.

Of course, the truth is far from the above example. But then again, Zimmy thinks males are superior to females. So it's logical he thinks this way. And he's determined: nothing will bring him off this conviction.

Edit: but what he doesn't realise in his crusade against women is that in order to prove the male superiority he achieves just exactly the opposite from this.

>^..^<

M-G (grumpy)
MareGaea   
23 Jun 2010
USA, Canada / Better life in USA or Canada? - expats opinions and your comparison [143]

I don't like the liberal attitude Canada had achieved

I don't like the liberal attitude the Internet has achieved, there are more religious nutters and homo-haters that spill their nonsense than anywhere else, although nothing can be done about them once they have discovered how to type.

Another thing I dislike about Canada is their Free healthcare system, which is also taking over America and that is scary.

Another thing I dislike about the Internet is that those religious nutters, homo-haters and conservative-rubbishers get their freedom of speech, which is also taking over the real world and that is scary.

The healthcare in the US will be as bad as in Poland because the doctors won't care anymore, they get paid a certain amount by the gov.

You know, the fun thing about the free Healthcare system is that you will get REAL doctors now, who DO CARE about their patients instead of their money and who DO have an interest in healing the patient instead of the patient's wallet or the deal they have with certain pharmaceutical companies. Besides, it's not even true that they get paid a certain amount.

and in the US the insurance makes the call, not the doctor.. fun times..

True. My brother once needed to see a specialist and he found one, but the insurance refused to let him go to that one, because that specialist was not an employee of the insurance company. Instead he had to go to the other side of MN, to a specialist which was an employee of Blue Cross. Funny thing is that already EXACTLY is happening what tygrys claims will happen when introducing a public healthcare system. Only change will be that with this publich healthcare system it won't be the insurance companies who decide and who make the money, but nobody. Guess tygrys works for a health insurance company...

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

If you actually took the time to read how the hundreds of studies were done than you would not ask such a dumb question.

Just let me repeat:

Early studies that merely asked "have you been a victim of domestic violence" did find far lower levels of male victims; but when they asked about specific behaviors ("have you been slapped, punched,...), the numbers evened out.

From the Wiki Link I presented in my previous post.

Gee, Zimmy, why do you make it so easy for me to slap you around? It's getting boring. Either come up with decent reasoning and credible sources or I definitively dismiss you in this respect. A slap in the face is no domestic violence; domestic violence is when the partner gets beaten into the hospital or is black and blue all over. A slap in the face can be caused by discriminating remarks, sexist remarks or swearing of the "victim". If I say to a girl in a bar that she has a great body and I would love to sleep with her, chances are that I get slapped in the face. And I deserved in that case. Is this violence? Not in the sense of domestic violence. It's far too harmless to be counted in with the black and blue eyes, the bruises and sth death which is considered to be domestic violence, therefore these researches give a skewed image and that should be counted on Fiebert.

Another lie, you really are falling down on this one.

Heh,heh,heh, you really are unaware of how desperate you sound. Your misrepresentations, some of which I've corrected, are here for all to see.

Really Zimmy, stop making yourself ridiculous. You have proven nothing except that you are a male chauvinist pig. Everybody can see that.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

I'm surprised that you didn't try to explain to Zimmy the abused kids statistic

I have overlooked that. I will do so later on. For now I have to go.

2%?? 3%?? Maybe

It doesn't fit into Zimmy male superiority complex that of course more men than women abuse their kids, either physically or even sexually.

>^..^<

M-G (in a hurry)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

You have done no such thing.

Yes I did. I did it even multiple times. Tough to admit this, isn't it?

How are "271 scholarly investigations: 211 empirical studies and 60 reviews and/or analyses", almost all not connected to each other "not reliable" as you put it?

If Fiebert consideres a slap on the butt or on the shoulder or on the face as violence, then he has a very low treshold where violence is concerned. It's typical how you ignore the statement that with domestic violence is meant beating the partner into the hospital.

Ms Pizzey was a feminist who started the first womens shelter in England

You've said that many times. I still don't care.

She learned the hard way what feminism was about when they threatened her, fire bombed her, and slammed her every-which-way because she did not confirm to their male hatred

Confirming things to yourself again, are you?

Women like her are a threat to your agenda. Instead of understanding her experience and her truth, you slam her.

Well, it's pretty obvious which side she chooses when she says that all men are angels and all women are devils, repeatedly. But I will trash you again later, Zimmy. For now my time is limited and I cannot go into it too deep. But I will, later on.

>^..^<

M-G (and I will because it's so darn easy and entertaining)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Travel / Why do people say that Poland is so unsafe? [60]

However, I feel that it is safer than many countries due to the lack of racial tension and religious hostility

Can you expand on that pls, Seanus? It seems a rather a-typical thing for you to say.

>^..^<

M-G (hm)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
History / Poland in the eyes of London - before WWII. [60]

the discussion is about Poland in the eyes of London before WW2

Exactly. Teheran was in 1943, 4 years into WW2. There is no way that this conference could've influenced the British in 1939.

>^..^<

M-G (good night, off to bed)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
History / Poland in the eyes of London - before WWII. [60]

What other thread? Can't you give me a nutshell?

It was this thread, mea culpa.

I made a statement that no historian I am aware of carries on in your name and style.

My feline signature is just a means to stand out from the crowd. Nothing more. I got my cum laude for my style of writing. I don't know if you're familiar with the Clingendael Institute in the Netherlands, but there are some essays and dissertations of my hand there. Since I unfortunately didn't get to expand my Master's into a PhD after graduating, I haven't written as much as I would like to. But I plan to make that up after my retirement. If you want to, I can provide you some links to articles that I've written in the 90's and teens of this century, but it will have to be via PM and tomorrow morning as they reveal my name and you understand I don't want my name out in the open AND it's a quarter to two in the morning right now and I am turning in. Just send me a PM if you want me to provide you links.

>^..^<

M-G (good night)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
History / Poland in the eyes of London - before WWII. [60]

It's irrelevant because upon the Nazi invasion of CZ in early 1939, HMG's resolve stiffened to the point where it was realised that the Nazis had to be stopped per se, quite apart from any notions of contractual obligations or altruistic purposes viz Poland.

I've already addressed this point. But thanks. I am aware that the annexation of the rest of CZ made Britain aware of the true intentions of Hitler cs, and that they vowed not to give in as there would never be peace with Hitler, no matter how they would give in to him. Pls check my previous posts in this thread. Thank you.

No need to profess indignation here. As far as I'm aware, you're the only person on this forum who purports to be a 'historian' but whose statements tend to suggest otherwise.

Pls refrain from making suggestive remarks. Thank you.

I however must profess to being unfamiliar with any genuine historian who signs himself off with a childish and vaguely feline monogram or who refers to themselves in the third person.

Pls refrain from showing your antipathy against me. Thank you. Yet I have an honours in the field. Maybe it's not all that stiff as you would like it to be?

They did however, declare war on Nazi Germany in response to the German invasion of Poland, or didn't they? Germany knew at that point that Britain cared enough about Poland to wage a war it originally didn't want. The things you postulate about the Teheran conference are irrelevant in this respect.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

you guys complain that women want only money

You hear me complaining about that? :)

Edit: well, I do think (and in NL it's kinda normal, but not only in NL!) that if you have been dating for a month or two or three and the girl earns just as much as you yourself do, it's not too much to ask to split the bill on occasions when you go out for a dinner, especially if she is the one who wants to go for dinner. Or am I now being unreasonable?

>^..^<

M-G (does not complain at the moment)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

Well, you make money, aren't you proud that you are better at it than some?

I am proud of what I've achieved after many years of hard work, yes. But that doesn't mean that I am jealous of sb else...I believe that everybody should take their chances in life and if you cannot make it, then I wouldn't despise you or sth.

You compete even on this very forum - but being educated and more refine - you compete with wit.

You know that I'm always right, do you? :)
I don't compete with them. I just hate racism, anti semitism (which in my book is a form of racism), sexism, prejudices and ignorance. These are painful forms of human thinking. I don't mind if ppl don't know specific stuff as long as they don't put other ppl down over it. Compare my trashing of Zimmy in this thread. He's a male chauvinist pig and who am I to not correct him on that? :) If sb like Jarnowa starts to spill his racist vile, I will trash him. And I will keep on doing so until he stops. I believe in freedom of speech, as long as this freedom doesn't limit the freedom of others. And sometimes I use bad words, yes, but I always use them in perspective, if you catch my drift. If sb uses foul language against me, I won't hesitate to use same language in return. I'm a civilized person and you probably would like me if you'd know me in real life as I hear from ppl that I'm a very agreeable person, but I won't tolerate any intolerance anymore. I've tolerated that for many years and when I found out that it didn't work, I've stopped doing that.

our culture is warlike and always were like it!Primitivism has nothing to do with it!

You contradict yourself in this sentence, you do realise that, do you? War = primitive, so a culture which is warlike is per definition primitive. But I know you mean well, so that's ok.

read again posts I think you don't get what I'm saying, anybody does?)

Guess I lift you up to unknown heights :))

>^..^<

M-G (nearly off to bed)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
History / Poland in the eyes of London - before WWII. [60]

well, its what i said but I made it simple and you are showing off !

What you said was incomplete. I just completed it. Sudetenland is sth different than the rest of Czechoslovakia. And the annexation of the rest of CZ is just a consequence of the crisis of September 1938, not the crisis itself.

>^..^<

M-G (sorry dude, I really am a historian and I've tried to play balalaika, but it's boring)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Travel / Why do people say that Poland is so unsafe? [60]

London, Paris (in fact most Western European capitals) are less safe than Warsaw.

I think that every European capital or big city is safe, as long as you know the places where you shouldn't go on your own or when you're unfamiliar with those cities.

If you ask the average spanish person, he will think that Poland is a 3rd world country where you will get robbed instantly

Ever heard of prejudice? I'm for example from the Netherlands and if I have to believe all that ppl who don't live here have to say about my country, then everybody is on drugs and all girls are prostitutes. I think you shouldn't pay too much attention to gossip like that.

>^..^<

M-G (every city is as safe or as unsafe as you want it to be)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Travel / Why do people say that Poland is so unsafe? [60]

It's the Jew media of the west that likes to stereotype Poland like this. Because there is no other logical explanation for why you would think this, is there?

You're not even living in Poland. So who the heck do you think you are to speak for Poland? It's not the Jews that created the image of dangerous PL in the rest of the world. Maybe Poland doesn't have a dangerous image abroad? Just because flippedyflop says so, doesn't mean that it's actually true.

I just can't see why everyone in western Europe describes Poland as dangerous when their countries (our countries) for what i experienced are way more dangerous.

I'm Western European and I've never heard that Poland was dangerous. I've heard that the Poles were annoying and only after your money, yes, but never that it was dangerous to be there. Unlike Russia, for that matter. But I never go after what ppl say, anyway.

>^..^<

M-G (told you that I would kick your butt if you would say silly things)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
History / Poland in the eyes of London - before WWII. [60]

I don't play balalaika. But to respond, Britain was only willing to give Hitler the Sudetenland in Czechia and when about half a year later he annexed the rest of Czechia and Slovakia, Chamberlain knew that peace was not an option anymore and that Hitler would never be satisfied. Poland was the piece de resistance, he declared war on Germany because he didn't want to give in to Germany anymore. He was never planning to give Poland to Hitler. Not after the annexation of Czechoslovakia.
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

because its our culture, to be somebody to achieve, at last to be better than somebody else at fist fighting, its all there ....don't you see.
In the core of our culture and reality is war, who is more powerful ....who will rule?

And you wouldn't call that primitive? I would. I'm well educated and I don't feel the need to compete with sb else as it's no use. One has to go only by his own strength, competing with others in the means of fighting is just a form of insecurity. Like animals do when defending their territory. And we're not animals, as I have heard some say here on this thread.

For me it means the world culture or western culture if you get my drift ?

I see you basically agree with me. What's the fuss then?

Yeah! What stopping you?

You wouldn't want me to respond to that :)

>^..^<

M-G (love thy neighbour)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

The mentality is the same!

Then tell me, if we are all so civilized and all, why do ppl still fight?

Such culture and mentality in their more matured form went over the ocean to the New World and conquered those cultures, which seemed to be build more around different values, hence inability of Indians of the conception of individual land ownership.

Why are ppl still fighting then? If we are in a more matured civilization, why then are ppl still fighting on a Saturday night? Why are there still wars? Why do ppl genocide other ppl? If we are so matured and so intelligent? Or: if we are so intelligent and civilized, why do we allow a genocide like the one in Ruanda or Yugoslavia to happen? We have the technology, but we did nothing. Now tell me, are we really that civilized?

Edit: if we are all that super civilized, there would not be any killing anymore over shyte reasons, we would've banned crime, we would stop any massacre from happening, because we are so civilized. Fact is that we deep down inside are still primitive cavemen, no matter what decoration we lay upon ourselves.

I-S (stupid eh? )

You really want me to respond to that?

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
22 Jun 2010
History / Poland in the eyes of London - before WWII. [60]

Hitler had no intentions against Britain,or indead the British empire and veiwed "us" as possible trading partners for his hoped for new Europa,sort of in Europe but not quite(sounds familiar).

That's actually true. Early 1940, up until April 1940 Hitler was still hoping to make peace again with Britain or get a truce or sth. Because he saw the British as a fellow Germanic country. Yet Britain kept her foot right down and went to war because of Poland. That same Poland which is now being very ungrateful as Britain did not come and help her in 1939. But have any of you bright historians have any idea how she pssbly could've done that? In order to get to Poland over sea, they needed to cross waters which were dangerously close to Germany and you honestly didn't believe that Germany would say that it was cool because it was the British trying to help the Poles? Don't think so. Declaring war on Germany was to help Poland but, and that is what many of you bright lights always and ever fail to see, it was a symbolic gesture. Really help Poland was impssbl, whether they wanted it or not. So, a bit more gratuity would be in place instead of cursing and swearing at Britain.

britain went to war because they were concerned with the growth of german power disrupting the balance of power in europe.

You're mistaking WW1 for WW2 here. But it's ok, I don't mind :)

Correct. I'm amazed that people can even consider anything other than this. It was a power struggle, nothing more. Trying to ascribe good intentions to it is disrespectful to the whole war.

Not correct. It's WW1 in which this aspect played a part. Not in WW2. In WW2 there were other aspects, not the balance of power. The balance of power wasn't as much an issue in 1939 as it was in the teens of the 20th Century. In fact, WW2 was a continuation of WW1, therefore the whole period between 1914 and 1945 is among historians referred to as the 30 year's war of the 20th Century.
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

I don't freaking believe this! You want me to chew your food as well before you can eat it yourself? I think this example says enough.

Such thinking did not take over the world, clever thinking took over the world, primitive thinking only causes wars.
You can do better than this. This is plain stupid.

>^..^<

M-G (Jesus Christ!)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
Love / Polish men what is the worst thing a girl can do upon first impression? [360]

People like yourself prefer to believe them.

Of course Zimmy, of course. I have proven that your sources are conservative male sources and that the outcom of ANY "research" could only lead to one conclusion. Funnily enough this conclusion always seems to fit perfectly with what was assumed beforehand. In right wing conservative researches there are never surprises that prove their assumptions wrong to begin with. What does this say? 1. We never hear the outcome of researches that reveal the error in their upfront assumption. 2. Research material is only sought in one end of the spectrum, usually the side on which the researcher is on, in this case right wing conservative. So it's not surprising that feminism comes off very badly.

Are you not aware that most child abuse is committed by women?

Nope, I'm actually more embarrassed that you are a man too like I am. But I chewed you up, to use your words, by proving your sources are not reliable and the only thing you can put against this is that I'm buying this feminist crap. Why do right wing conservative nonsense ppl always think they're so smart and so clever and so up to date and so realistic? In fact I usually feel sorry for them as they are such scared ppl who don't even dare to go forward. You cannot rebuke me and that pysses you off. It's ok, Zimmy, I've done that quite a few times now and I am getting used to it :) But it's also boring, because it's so easy to rebuke you, prove your sources are not credible at all. Must be very painfull for you to be humiliated time after time by somebody with only half of the IQ you have.

I'm not a feminist at all. I just hate nonsense like the conservative males usually spout. I don't care about Erin Pizzey; I have proven that she is not a reliable source and so be it. If the conservatives want to keep using her (funnily she is the ONLY one they can use, which they do to great extend), be my guest. I will rebuke you just the same next time you come up with her.

Can you actually point out where I state that women never abuse men? Thanks. But I'd still rather trust govt figures than figures presented to me by a conservative organisation for the rights of men - or more precise: a conservative anti-women organisation.

Anyhow, I had a quick look at Feibert and look what I found:

In the most serious cases of violence men are usually responsible.[25] In the US, in 2005, 1181 females and 329 males were killed by their intimate partners.[26] [27]

Now, that was cool eh, Zimmy? In 2005 the number of women murdered by their husband was more than three times the number of husbands killed by their wife. Wow, quite a difference :)

Enter Martin Fiebert:

Dr. Martin Fiebert, from the Department of Psychology of California State University, has compiled an annotated bibliography of research relating to spousal abuse by women on men.

So far, so good. But now it gets interesting:

The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 116,000. It has also been found that many kinds of behavior, such as pushing and slapping, are experienced by both genders, but are mainly called "violence" by female victims. Early studies that merely asked "have you been a victim of domestic violence" did find far lower levels of male victims; but when they asked about specific behaviors ("have you been slapped, punched,...), the numbers evened out. Justice Department studies show that men are 32% less likely than women to report any form of violent victimization.[28]

/wiki/Domestic_violence

Aha again!
So, what does this say? Fiebert uses basically a slap on the butt or back or wherever as examples of domestic violence. Gee, I must've been abused about a million times then. So this is not really relevant. The violence we're talking about is beating a woman into the hospital or worse. Beating her black and blue and you very seldom see a woman who is strong enough to truly and deeply beat up a guy of average statue. It's simply physically not pssbl.

And besides, I think you didn't even look at the links I provided. Next time you should do so.

>^..^<

M-G (haec hactenus)
MareGaea   
21 Jun 2010
History / Israeli wants to wipe Poland off the map! [198]

EU sinkhole

You know, if the EU goes down, I predict there's gonna be a war. A war between the countries that have always been paying and the countries that always have been profiteering from the EU, the poor countries the EU easily could've done without. Do you really think that countries that have been paying ever since the start and have paid a terrible lot for it, will accept that poor profeteering countries bring the EU down? Don't think so.

They should've stayed the original Six and the rest can perhaps trade with us if they're nice. If it were to be the original Six again we would have been the strongest market in the world. But no, all those poor boggers have join too. And those are bringing the EU down.

>^..^<

M-G (out with Greece!)