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krysia   
4 Feb 2010
Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]

krysia:
So when are you gonna learn proper english?
You may be setting a bad example.

Look who's talking

It ain't easy to think about it but watcha gonna do.

krysia   
1 Feb 2010
Life / Can foreigners really understand Poles? [136]

.however one of the parties must speak a lenguage of the other one,at a level allowinng him or her fully express itself.that simple it is.

So when are you gonna learn proper english?
krysia   
1 Feb 2010
USA, Canada / What do the Poles hate and love about the U.S.? [170]

You have no idea what you are talking about.Numbers for visa waiver program are based on a NONIMMIGRANT VISA REFUSAL RATE.and it is only up to US consular services how many aplications they approve and how many they reject.you got it?Next time check the facts before you post BS.

You have no idea what you're talking about. If polaks like you would return to your country when your visa expires there would be no visa requirements but if polaks like you continue to overstay your visas and stay here illegally then I hope there will never be a visa waiver for polaks like you. got it?

Next time check the facts before you post bs
krysia   
1 Feb 2010
Life / Russian Language - is it offensive if I speak it to Polish people? [69]

no its not,but may be hard 2 find someone who acctualy speaks russian

Easier than fiding someone speak german. Ever been to a polish market place? All the russians who cross the border and sell their goods in Poland? Ever travel the eastern route where the signs are both in Polish and Russian? Maybe if you get your head out of your you know what you might see things better around you.
krysia   
31 Jan 2010
Life / Ghost Bikes in Poland [11]

There are numerous ghost bikes around the US and Poland has one also last year, in £ódź.
They are painted white after someone dies on the road in a bike accident, some are adorned with flowers and decorated with a plack with the name of the deceased.
krysia   
27 Jan 2010
USA, Canada / My wife wants to return to Poland...but I want to stay in the US [155]

but todays women don't bother with the "worse" part very much

Today's men don't bother with that either. After my car accident a few years ago which left me paralyzed my "nice" little husband served me divorce papers as soon as I got out of ICU and after 2 months in the hospital he got a court order to not allow me back into my house.

So it's not only women who do this.
krysia   
27 Jan 2010
USA, Canada / Gift idea for a Pole living in US [8]

You can buy pretty much anything Polish in Chicago or on-line. Maybe get her something pertaining to music, like a wind-up piano box. Go to a music store and look at their gift section.
krysia   
27 Jan 2010
USA, Canada / My wife wants to return to Poland...but I want to stay in the US [155]

Your wife is homesick. You can't force her to stay here when her heatr is calling her home.
I know of some Polish people who went back to Poland because they were homesick, but once they got there, they realized that it's harder to get a job, and if you do get one it doesn't pay as much as here. Now they wish they could come back but can't because they overstayed their visa illegally.

Does your wife have a permanent green card? Let her go and she will come back. Sometimes people can't get used to a new country and it takes a while to adjust, sometimes they never do but you can't stop her, she has to go because she misses her country, her family, her friends. Being away from each other is sometimes a good thing, puts your marriage in a new perspective. If you don't let her go she will always hate you and be unhappy.
krysia   
26 Jan 2010
Life / Horribly cold in Krakow at the moment , how do you cope with such temperatures ? [124]

I wonder if the Russian have a freeze weapon pointed at the USA...?

Don't need to. Temperatures of -4F (-20C) are everyday during the winters here, and that's considered warm, wind chills of -30F to -40F(-34C, - 40C) happen at least once a month. It's winter. No one complains, just keep warm, it'll be over soon
krysia   
26 Jan 2010
USA, Canada / What do the Poles hate and love about the U.S.? [170]

yeah!? Why don't you answer my question about visas?

What question? The US gov does not give out statistics. Half of the Polish people never return when they're visas expire that's why there are visa restrictions. You can't google this information but the US border patrol, the ICIS, INS all know who doesn't return back.
krysia   
25 Jan 2010
USA, Canada / What do the Poles hate and love about the U.S.? [170]

after twenty minutes of my friend rolling the bike back and forth along the sensor, he runs the light. Cop, with a big smile on his face, followed him gave him a ticket.

Aww that's not fair. What was he suppose to do after 20 minutes? What if he had to go to the bathroom? He should have gone down the sidewalk then cross.
krysia   
23 Jan 2010
USA, Canada / What do the Poles hate and love about the U.S.? [170]

I've heard Poles say that what they like in America is the service in restaurants, hospitals, stores, they are more polite than in Poland. In America the customer always comes first and Poles see that difference when they come here. They smile and wish you a nice day which in Poland is rarely heard. They like America because people have more freedom, they can own wooded property where in Poland only very few people can own property with woods. They like America because when they come here they can earn "dollars" and send them home.

What they don't like and can't get used to America is that they have to obey the law. When there is a stop sign, you have to obey and stop even though there is nothing coming. In Poland many people disregard the sign because there is nothing coming so why should they stop? Poles don't like that everything in America is taxed. They want to buy something and when they go to the checkout there is added tax.

Some like the churches in the US, some don't because here we have carpets and bathrooms in churches, where in Poland there is no such thing.

They hate it when they can't get a credit card in the US when they have no credit history and don't understand how to get a credit history when they can't get a credit card.

They don't like the inches, yard, Fareinhart, miles, pounds etc and try to convert everything into metric system.
krysia   
23 Jan 2010
Love / I met a Polish guy but wonder what his intention is.. [35]

Dear Sleeping Beauty - time to wake up and realize that a Polish man is no different than an American man, or a British, German, etc man.

Sometimes they are.
Sometimes a polish guy who is in the US illegally will try to find an American citizen to marry to get a green card. Things like that happen all the time.

Sometimes a newly arrived Pole will develope culture shock finding difficult to adjust. But maybe he's not. Sometimes they only look for how to make money using others. Sometimes they change , sometimes they don't.

Nobody can answer your question because we don't know you or him or where you are or what are the circumstances.
Sometimes they are different, sometimes they are not.
krysia   
20 Jan 2010
Life / Do you think a smoking ban would be a good thing in Polish restaurants and Bars? [217]

Went to a Polish restaurant once. Omg, couldn't breath, the smoke was so thick you could slice the air, not mentioning the headache and all my clothes and hair stinking. I had to leave right away. Many Poles smoke in Poland and they are gonna be mad when this passes. lol.

The law has passed in the US, state by state, and it is so nice to go somewhere with no smoke. For a while they had smoking and non-smoking sections but now they are all non-smoking. I'm glad of this because you can eat in non-smelling surroundings without a headache. Non-smokers come out and eat and there is more customers than before.

There was a time when you could smoke on a planes and you had to buy smoking or non-smoking tickets. That didn't lower the passenger numbers. I remember when flying to Poland once on LOT some men were complaining that they can't smoke and couldn't wait till the plane lands. 9 hours without a ciggie. They thought they were gonna die.

Restaurants good idea, bars I don't care, never go there, let smokers and drinkers breathe the air they want. That stuff kills brain cells btw.

So unhealthy. Poles say they eat healthier and better food than Americans, yet they slowly kill themselves with smoke and alcohol.
krysia   
14 Jan 2010
Genealogy / What is a scultetus/soltys in Poland? [15]

The village sołtys where I lived for a while was also the mailman. Then they elected another sołtys who was fat and drank a lot.

But they were liked by the villagers and they were helpful and nice people.
krysia   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

When i was at my aunts i never heard Poles calling each other "Pollocks" on the contrary its a very offensive term.

Pollock is a fish.
"Polak" is as offensive a term as as "Amerykanin". So if you call us "Amerykanin" then you are a "Polak".

Since you're obviously not Polish and prejudiced towards Poles what the hell are you doing posting on boards about all things Polish? Love hate relationship?:)

Since your obviously not American and prejudiced towards Americans what the hell are you posting things about Polaks in America?
My brother hired some Poles for his construction company. What a disater that was. They could not understand inches and feet and wasted time exchanging inches into cm and meters. They could not figure out a pound, they thought their way was better but "their" way doesn't work in American constructions. They were the worse workers yet they thought they knew everything. Maybe in Poland they did, but not in this country.

Poles are good, hard workers, but in Poland. Things are done differently in America and they either can't or won't adjust to different situations. They still think the Polish way. Some Poles in America are very good workers but they accepted America as it is and are happy to be here, not the ones that come here and degrade everything.
krysia   
7 Jan 2010
USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]

Krysia, shocked by your 2 contributions. You're obviously enormously bitter towards your ex husband and men in general. Clearly your divorce was nothing to do with you!

Think what you want, but when I married him I married him for life. As so I thought. I worked hard and have bought him a snowmobile, a boat, a bike, and many other expensive gifts because marriage to me was very important and he was very important in my life. He bought me a dresser once.

I was kind to him, he could go out with his friends drinking, or whatever he did, I never complained and I wanted him to be happy. I wasn't a drinker and I don't go to bars. But when the children were born and it was my turn to be happy, things changed. He wasn't the number "one" anymore. It was hard for me to handle a child, me healing from an emergency c-section and to attend to his needs when I was in pain. I guess it was my fault for spoiling him and when he had to share me with a child he became jealous. I do not like to argue and would just let him yell at me and abuse me as long as the child was safe. When I got involved in a car accident which paralyzed me and left me in the hospital for 2 months, that's when he used this opportunity to serve me divorce papers because he knew I was totally helpless. I have lost my job, my car, my house and he wanted to take my children away, in which he did not succeed.

So go ahead and think what you want. I know what happened.