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FUZZYWICKETS   
16 Dec 2011
News / What part of Poland's image do you think is the most exportable? [90]

Des Essientes wrote:

Being created by Polish people and usually containing Polish text.

Which simply isn't marketable in NYC. this is why I'm asking in the first place. T-shirts with writing on it and subject matter that only Poles understand? I don't think that's a good marketing scheme.
FUZZYWICKETS   
16 Dec 2011
USA, Canada / Funky Polak - Polish-American rapper from Kielce inspired by Polish immigrants [15]

Liroy was Kielce's number one rapper back in the day and was called an OG by no less than Ice T

Let's not bend the truth here. He called him the "OG of Poland". Big difference there, dude. And let's face it....he's "the OG" amongst who else in Poland? The competition, especially in 1995, wasn't exactly stiff.

Let's not forget this part: How much props can you give someone that raps in a language you don't even understand. He has no idea what he's rapping about in any of his songs.
FUZZYWICKETS   
13 Dec 2011
Food / Coffee in Poland: cheap and undrinkable / expensive and good [89]

delph wrote:

You do realise that in a place like Wroclaw, there's plenty of people aged between 16-25 with wealthy parents who support them?

besides the point. read what i wrote. the kids partying it up in the bars and clubs all don't have rich parents. they just like to get drunk. they also like to drink Starbucks coffee which costs just a couple more zl's than a beer at the bars.....only, they don't drink 5 at a time. beer however.....

delph wrote:

Incidentally, I don't know any students who live off soup packets and paczek. Where'd you meet such people?

You can't live in Poland and post that.
FUZZYWICKETS   
13 Dec 2011
Food / Coffee in Poland: cheap and undrinkable / expensive and good [89]

JonnyM wrote:

they use their financial clout to put independent competitors out of business.

hahahahaha, so in other words, they do what every single other big company does or is currently trying to do.
FUZZYWICKETS   
13 Dec 2011
USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

calliegal235 wrote:

If you know of a nation, who as a people in general, through thousands of charitable organizations, gives more money to foreigners than Americans do, please let me know.

I'm surprised you haven't heard that classic rebuttal from the peanut gallery yet of, "well they do it for their own gain".....

If America stopped handing out money to other countries in need, the world would be in shock. That also goes for Americans that volunteer themselves and their own time to help foreign countries in need.

pip wrote:

Case and point--Jersey Shore, the Bachelor, Rock of Love, Girls gone Wild.....I could go on and on. It is sad to me that a society values something as pathetic as a Snookie over somebody who has success through education and hard work.

"case and point" of what? do we "value" watching people make idiots out of themselves? no more than anybody else in the world that finds it entertaining to watch a bunch of clowns in action, so yeah, i guess you could say we "value" comedy. you make it out to be like this crap is our prized possession. and don't worry, I'm sure Poland will eventually have equivalent shows at some point. It's only a matter of time before Poland rips off yet another stupid American TV show.

pip wrote:

America is an egocentrical country. They think the world revolves around them. In some ways it does but.....

Oh that just says it all now doesn't it. You have no idea what you're even arguing about.
FUZZYWICKETS   
13 Dec 2011
Food / Coffee in Poland: cheap and undrinkable / expensive and good [89]

Foreigner4 wrote:

Ah yes, Timmy's, the blue collar answer to charbucks

i don't really see why Starbucks would be labeled "white collar". when i would go into the Starbucks in Wroclaw, the place was filled with young people, maybe 16-25. these are not people with money, simply people willing to spend all that money on coffee.....for whatever reason. hell, if that same 19 year old goes out on saturday and drops 30-40zl at the bar on beers, spending 10zl on coffee a couple times a week should't be much worse. that's the day they eat Knorr soup packets and a paczek.

sure, the image of Starbucks is coffee with sophistication....or something like that.....but to buy a cup a' joe there once or twice a week....people do it, regardless of the reason why they go there.
FUZZYWICKETS   
13 Dec 2011
Food / Coffee in Poland: cheap and undrinkable / expensive and good [89]

delphiandomine wrote:

Style over substance, indeed.

nonetheless, the place is jammed.

delphiandomine wrote:

despite the fact that the coffee sucks and the place sucks.

Like I said, I've never had their coffee, or any coffee for that matter really, but hell....it's probably the single most successful coffee chain in the world. Can the coffee possibly "suck"? Are people paying $3-$4 a cup for shite coffee.....over and over and over?

And what's wrong with the "place"?
FUZZYWICKETS   
12 Dec 2011
Food / Coffee in Poland: cheap and undrinkable / expensive and good [89]

bullfrog wrote:

The liquid that is called coffee (free refills, anyone??) in the USA is whatever you want but not coffee.

yet Starbucks in Poland, or Europe for that matter, is absolutely packed, all day every day.

I still refer back to when my in-laws where here. they loved the coffee here and actually bought a few lbs. to take back with them. i wouldn't know one from the other, i don't drink coffee at all, but my in-laws sure liked it.
FUZZYWICKETS   
12 Dec 2011
USA, Canada / I now have a USA and Polish passport - How to behave at the border? [18]

bla bla bla bla bla, you have nothing to worry about.

dude, you have an american passport. they'll run it and see you've spent most of your life there. what in the world could they stop you at the border for?

sure they may ask you a few questions, that's their job. other than that, happy trails.
FUZZYWICKETS   
6 Dec 2011
Language / Speaking with wrong Polish case endings? [94]

a.k. wrote:

So why are you supprised by the positive response?

I didn't say i was surprised by the positive response......rather......HOW surprised they are.
FUZZYWICKETS   
6 Dec 2011
Language / Speaking with wrong Polish case endings? [94]

OP wrote:

If native Pole hears a converstion littered with ending errors, does it sound strange/funny/uneducated?

generally, poles are pretty blown away if a foreigner so much as utters 3 words in polish in the same sentence. don't know why that is, but it is. they also tend to reeeeally exaggerate a foreigner's polish speaking abilities, again, don't know why that is.

often times though, if you start hacking up the endings, they're gonna revert right to english because it probably gets pretty annoying listening to someone speaking completely mutilated polish.

i for one get totally lost when people don't use proper grammar in polish. i learned from the very beginning to speak grammatically correct, so much so that in the first 2 years I studied, i had near perfect grammar yet a miniscule word bank to choose from because i spent more time drilling cases than learning new words. in the end though, it enabled me to learn new words each week and easily decline them making the whole learning process that much more smooth.

grammar is king in polish. gotta learn it. not only will you be more understood but you'll understand 100 times more when people speak.
FUZZYWICKETS   
9 Nov 2011
Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

NKEmerald wrote:

I never said difficult anywhere in that sentence. I said strange.

but you also said "How in God's name....." which would suggest a level of difficulty.

you know NKEmerald, I just extrapolated in the same way you came up with "better".

Polish is more difficult than Italian.

nana nana boo boo.
FUZZYWICKETS   
8 Nov 2011
Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

NKEmerald wrote:

Haha! :D The strangeness of the Irish spelling system is partly to blame for these things! How in God's name could "Siobhán" be pronounced "Shuh-vawn", or "Padraig" be pronounced "Pour-ick".

you're not suggesting that Irish spelling is more difficult than spelling in other languages, are you? that would be impossible.

do me a favor class.....keep discussing the Irish language with NKEmerald here......by tomorrow, he will have proved my point.
FUZZYWICKETS   
7 Nov 2011
Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

NKEmerald wrote:

Arrogant because you admit to considering yourself 'better' than someone because you think you've learned a more difficult language than someone else.

First of all, you know as well as I do that I never said I was "better". You're grabbing for straws now, mate.

Second, I'm not being arrogant, I'm merely saying that I learned a harder language than someone that learned say....Italian.

You're starting to sound ridiculous, man.

I firmly believe that some languages are far more difficult to learn than others......an opinion MANY people on this forum have already voiced......and I'm the arrogant one. Brilliant.

Oh, and for the record NKEmerald, i've heard "Polish is easy" 1,000 times before, you're not ruffling any feathers there. Only, it always seems to end with that person coming forth with the most convoluted, grammatically disastrous pile of rubbish barely resembling the Polish language. Not being arrogant, just sayin'.
FUZZYWICKETS   
5 Nov 2011
USA, Canada / PolAm style Thanksgiving? [35]

Polonius3 wrote:

What does your PolAm family serve on Thanksgiving? Anything beyond the standard mainstream fare of turkey with sage dressing, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie?

I'm just wondering.......if you don't eat standard fare on Thanksgiving......aren't you just eating food that happens to be on Thanksgiving?

anyway, i always missed Thanksgiving when I was in Poland. Not for the food, I don't really care for typical Thanksgiving food, it was more because of the way the holiday is set up. It always lands on a Thursday which means Wednesday evening, you can go out and party somewhere with your friends (it's considered the busiest pub night in the USA) and Thursday you do nothing but sit around, watch NFL and stuff yourself. Friday is also a day off and then you still got the weekend. It's a perfect 4 day weekend every year, way better than Christmas or New Year's or Easter which never result in 4 straight days off.
FUZZYWICKETS   
5 Nov 2011
Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

NKEmerald wrote:

Oh my, the arrogance... good god, the arrogance... and ignorance, we can't forget that now, either.

arrogant for what.....disagreeing with you? you say red, I say green, and somehow I'm the arrogant one? i stand by my opinion, deal with it.

NKEmerald wrote:

How many other languages have you actually got experience with?

three directly and have discussed the intricacies of Polish with native speakers of many other languages as additional sources of comparison. i've got all the "experience" i need to form an opinion.

any other questions?
FUZZYWICKETS   
4 Nov 2011
Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

NKEmerald wrote:

It is as if you think your efforts to learn Polish are somehow more praise-worthy than somebody with equal skill in French or Italian, simply because you got a more 'difficult' language to learn.

That would be correct, because Polish is more difficult. Simples.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Nov 2011
Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

Stu wrote:

Fuzzywickets ... if you claim that most of the Polish expats in France speak French (if I understand you correctly)

no, you do not understand me correctly.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Nov 2011
Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

delphiandomine wrote:

native English speakers simply don't learn languages very well.

due to lack of effort. many english native speakers see no need to learn it, but among those that do in France and Poland, the ones in France are having a much easier go at it.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Nov 2011
Language / How hard is it to learn Polish? [178]

NKEmerald wrote:

Japanese is NO more difficult than any other language

what can i say, i flat out disagree.

NKEmerald wrote:

Firstly, how many expats in either country have jumped in with both feet to learning the language? How often are these people speaking English and not French or Polish in their free time?

you are not helping your argument here. you have essentially supported the fact that the pool is made up of completely random, different types of people.....which is why the pole/survey is 1,000 people, not 10, for both languages. some are doing one thing, some are doing another, some are doing another......in both countries.

NKEmerald wrote:

It stands to reason that if people no more talented at learning languages than anyone else here can learn Japanese, Russian, Hungarian, my own native Irish, Chinese, Hindi, Farsi, Kurdish or even one of supposedly the most 'difficult' languages of all; English, in under 2 years......

YOUR reason. how can you ask me a question based on YOUR reasoning when I already disagree with it?

as for the other things you wrote, i can see you totally missed points i was making and/or misinterpreted what i wrote and I don't have the time to entertain any of it so I'll just say this: do the 1,000 in france/1,000 in poland pole every month, with random groups chosen every time.....and you will constantly see, by a HUGE margin, that the expats in France are above and beyond in reading, writing and speaking French than the expats in Poland are with their polish skills. the reason for this is that french is simply easier to learn, an easier language to make progress with through simple osmosis and faaaaar more user friendly in general.
FUZZYWICKETS   
31 Oct 2011
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

Number1 wrote:

However the attitude of the yanks, for one lecturing on speaking English when they can't even speak it themselves, has put me off completely so thanks for saving me the time contemplating this any further. Poles come to England it is much better. Dont even waste your breath and money on the yanks.

you read what a couple of bozos wrote on an internet forum and that was enough for you to write off the USA entirely, as well as telling everyone else on here that visiting the USA is a waste? haha, and to boot, you recommend your own place of origin.

well done, mate.
FUZZYWICKETS   
25 Oct 2011
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

Magdalena wrote:

Please make the effort to realise that 1) English is not the only foreign language used by Poles in informal speech, and 2) it does no harm to Polish - 90% of these borrowings will disappear on their own, as new generations come up with something even MORE outrageous ;-p

glad to see you're starting to admit it too.
FUZZYWICKETS   
25 Oct 2011
Life / WHY DO POLES USE ENGLISH WORDS IN CONVERSATION? [396]

gumishu wrote:

za free is the way young poeple talk whether you like it or not

which is why i can't understand the resistance on this thread when i say that poles use WAY too much english nowadays. it's nonstop, whether you like it or not.