Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

teflcat wrote:


regardless, Christians as a whole are not terribly fond of homosexuality/same sex marriage.

Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

teflcat wrote:


what is there to explain.

it's common knowledge that the catholic faith is no fan of homosexuality, along with many of its followers. which is quite ironic because.......bec......well.......yeah, no time for jokes.

Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

ItsAllAboutMe wrote:


Jesus, Jesus and Jesus.

simple.

USA, Canada / Do you speak English? Have you lived in America? New LOVE/HATE list......... [144]

scottie1113 wrote:


I've had Zlote Lwy and Zywe. They're "ok". Not something I would grab a 6 pack of at the liquor store. I actually think Ciechan is better than both those beers.

I still have faith that Poland has plenty of little breweries that make great beer that I'd like, I just never made a real effort to find them when I was there.

USA, Canada / Do you speak English? Have you lived in America? New LOVE/HATE list......... [144]

just figured it was about time to bump this thread up again. after all, so many of you lately appear to be such experts on the USA, there surely must be plenty more that meet my "criteria" to post on here and share their thoughts.....

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

Piast Poland wrote:


agreed. when discussing murder rates in the USA though, it's always necessary to look at who is killing who. the vast majority of murders in the USA are black on black violence or simply black on 'somebody else' violence. i'd be curious as to what the numbers would be if we eliminated the poor black community from the math.

here you go: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Homicide_victimization_by_race.jpg

after looking at those numbers, it's also worth noting that the USA is about 79% caucasian and only 13% black. the majority of the crime numbers are generated within that small 13% of the country's population. the rest? mostly from the hispanic population.

the USA has a violence problem for sure but that problem comes from the minorities, plain and simple.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

ItsAllAboutMe wrote:


in addition, the USA has states larger than Poland (even when excluding Alaska, California and Texas) so it's very difficult to compare and categorize two completely different countries in such a way. what may be in one part of the country can, and often times is, very different 2,000 miles away in another part of the country.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]


East Saint Louis (one city in the USA which happens to have the highest murder rate in the country) has a murder rate 100 times higher than the national avg of Poland. you are comparing 2 different things which is silly.

an accurate comparison would be to choose the city in Poland with the highest murder rate with East Saint Louis. most dangerous vs most dangerous.

would it mean anything to you if i brought up a city in America that has a lower murder rate than Poland's avg murder rate?

also, as someone was stating earlier, the high murder rates occur in large city slums. America has a huge number of cities with populations greater than Poland's largest, most populated city, not to mention an insane amount of immigrants, legal and illegal living there in the USA. these are things that make the two countries very very different and must be considered when just looking at raw numbers.

PolskiMoc wrote:


can't argue with that one. i'm just glad the murder rate is comprised mostly of criminals killing criminals.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

Piast Poland wrote:


haha, just another America hater. preach on.

ItsAllAboutMe wrote:


ain't that the truth.

a career as a police officer strictly from a financial standpoint along with vacation time/comp time/overtime/pay increases/promotions is superior to most private sector jobs unless you're some big shot making 200K a year.

you work 40 hrs a week, are compensated for every minute over 8 hrs that you work, you can retire in 20 years with full benefits and a salary for the rest of your life (yes, that means you could officially retire in your early 40's), any sick days you don't use throughout your entire career are paid out to you in full when you retire including unused vacation time (it's not uncommon for police officers to retire and receive a check for $20,000-$30,000 for unused sickdays and vacation days) not to mention the perks of simply being an officer (free food and drinks nearly everywhere you go when you're on duty, lower car insurance, never having to worry about getting a traffic citation, etc).

so why doesn't everyone apply for this job? in most states, all you need to become a police officer is a high school diploma yet most people wouldn't even consider a career as a police officer due to the risk involved. keep that in mind the next time you watch a YT video of a police officer pulling someone over at 3:00 a.m. for swerving and driving erraticly as you wonder, "why is the police officer acting so paranoid"?

it's the job most people don't want to do because of the risk involved but they'd never dream of moving to a city that didn't have a law enforcement agency to protect them in a time of need.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]


yes, because the majority of homicides in the USA are thug on thug related deaths. drug dealer A steals from drug dealer B, drug dealer A shoots drug dealer B, the shots are heard, 911 is called. cops show up to find a corpse.

Piast Poland wrote:


off topic. just sayin'. please don't make this another stupid history lesson thread.

USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

i'd love to know what "Guest" thinks of the police in his/her own country and if he/she would rely on the police to help when in a time of need.

say what you want about the cops in the USA.....when the fit hits the shan, people call the cops here and in a matter of minutes they show up and get $hit done. people respect the police here because the majority of them deserve it (always a couple bad eggs in the bunch).

you might get harrassed at an airport for something you didn't think was wrong, deal with an arrogant officer or two but when someone is beating a family member of yours out on the street, you'll be kissing that same guy's feet when he shows up and puts a beating on the person harming your family member and throws the guy's a$$ in the back of the patrol car.

when i fly to poland, i follow instructions. when i get to the airport and they tell me to open my bags so they can search it, i do it without rolling my eyes or questioning why they need to do it (i've been searched twice so far).

when you come to my country, i expect the same.

Work / Moving to Wroclaw: entry level salary at Google / how much money to survive? [18]

an entry level job in a poor country and you're referencing an "SAP Consultant worth his salt and working as an independent".....?

i fail to recognize the correlation.

Work / Moving to Wroclaw: entry level salary at Google / how much money to survive? [18]

Prayera,

I knew an american working there a couple years back, granted she was management i think, but she didn't pay for her flat, they hooked her up with a pretty big place in the rynek for free. probably paid for her phone as well.

how long are you going to live there? how long is the contract for? how often do you plan on flying to the states while you're out there? do they offer any paid airfare to fly home a couple times a year?

if you're making 3,000/month net, that entire month's salary barely buys you a round trip ticket to the USA.....and that's only if you're going to the east coast. it's a cost worth considering.

anyway, i agree, i think you're looking at 3,000 something per month. you won't have to deal with paying for ZUS/health insurance so it should be doable.

News / For all Americans worried about Schengen in Poland, dont worry about it. [142]

One could argue that the USA has the most interesting history. Surely, it's unique from the rest.

News / For all Americans worried about Schengen in Poland, dont worry about it. [142]

michaelmansun wrote:


I think I'm starting to like this crazy guy.

News / For all Americans worried about Schengen in Poland, dont worry about it. [142]

sobieski wrote:


this is a side argument, but I fail to see how the relationship between age of country and overall quality of life have any correlation. if that were the case, I'd go live in Egypt.

over the past 100+ years, millions upon millions of people have come to the USA from Europe to live, even though the churches in their hometowns were considerably older.

News / For all Americans worried about Schengen in Poland, dont worry about it. [142]

z_darius wrote:


$9.1B would be the traceable amount, I guess.

News / For all Americans worried about Schengen in Poland, dont worry about it. [142]

michaelmansun wrote:


that's fine man, but you still can't blame them for doing what is being offered to them. if you go to Poland to visit and buy something there because it's cheaper there than in the USA, that's just how it is. name your price and if it's too high, i'll go buy it somewhere else. education is no different. it's business.

Here's a scenario: Polish people import cars from the USA because it's cheaper. Even after paying for shipping fees, it's still much cheaper. Should Poland not allow them to do it because they're not spending their money in Poland? Should the USA remind them of how disloyal they're being to their country because they're spending their Polish money in the USA?

What about when people come from Korea, India, China, Japan and go to $40,000/year colleges to get educated in the USA? Should we tell them to spend their money back home?

look, if Poland wants to educate a 1st or 2nd generation Pole that was born and raised in the USA, someone who will not stay and work there, that's their problem. the USA loses the business by them not paying for college in the USA but....well.....you want people to attend your college, make it more affordable....offer government subsidies....do what you gotta do to keep people on your soil. FREE MARKET, deal with it.

like it or not, people have all the right to move freely to get what they want, as long as it's legal. can't say no to them based on loyalty measures.

countries compete in business, education is no acception, man.

News / For all Americans worried about Schengen in Poland, dont worry about it. [142]

delphiandomine wrote:


sure, as long as you're not asian or black or muslim or.....

you've been there long enough delph to know that you're only getting under the radar screen there if you're white and like some Jesus.

Michaelmansun wrote:


you misquoted me, I didn't write that.

mafketis wrote:


isn't that the truth.

michaelmansun wrote:


but why should the USA care if one of their citizens runs out to Poland to get educated? while they were growing up, their parents were paying taxes to pay for the schools the kid was going to in the USA. now, they're going elsewhere for their college education. business is business and college is business. for a kid growing up in Michigan with low income parents who can't afford to pay $20,000/year for college tuition in America, as long as Poland keeps the doors open, all the power to them. Use what resources are made available to you. If someone from Poland can visit America and buy an iPhone for half the price while they're there, why can't a Pole living in Michigan with dual citizenship go to Poland to get educated to save money? Free market, baby.

News / Poles in work-life balance crisis [22]

Milky wrote:


doesn't everybody?

what constitutes "extra hours"? 9 hours instead of 8.5 hours?

milky wrote:


just a dumb statement.

News / For all Americans worried about Schengen in Poland, dont worry about it. [142]

lowfunk99 wrote:


it's a crazy process but it's similar to the rest of RP.

if you ask me, why would you expect an expeditious, smooth method of gaining residency in a country that.....well.....doesn't deal much with the process in general? they don't exactly have a lot of practice dealing with foreigners pouring in so the process simply is unrefined.

secondly, bureaucracy exists in Poland and everything involves never ending paper pushing because if it didn't, a huge chunk of the work force would be eliminated, putting many many people in Poland out of a job. imagine what would happen to all those people sitting in those offices that have but one, maybe 2 job responsibilities, miniscule ones at that, if all of a sudden Poland got smart and said OK, let's cut the fat here and here to get things moving smoother. whenever you look at Poland's unemployment rate, it's only what it is because the country still employs lots of people to do senseless jobs that should have been obsolete with the birth of computer advancement and the internet. hence, when you want something done in Poland, you get tons of paperwork and it is seen by 15 different hands in 15 different offices before it's complete.

Language / Use of A/An/The ...... Articles [186]

Maaarysia wrote:


yep.

Food / Expats' Polish food favourites [140]

yes, yes and yes.

galaretka asolutely amazes me. when i see it on the table, i keep thinking it's going to start sliding off the plate all on it's own and run out the door.

polish salad simply isn't salad. it's the equivalent of taco salad. combining a few random things into a vat of mayo does not constitute salad.

karp is a poor man's fish. in Poland, i can eat it once a year if it's fried the right way (want something to taste better, bread it and fry it!) along with good bread and vodka (because when you're drunk, everything tastes better). otherwise, i wouldn't dream of eating that fish.

News / U.S., Poland sign military aviation accord [24]

Piast Poland wrote:


I see you trying to save face.

next time, be careful when calling people "stupid".

Food / Expats' Polish food favourites [140]

Antek_Stalich wrote:


my point exactly.

moving on.....

Food / Expats' Polish food favourites [140]

If half of this year's winter counts.....five.

Oh, and aside from having to walk on avg. 2 hours a day to my classes, I run 4-5 days per week, regardless of weather/temperature/season.

Food / Expats' Polish food favourites [140]

teflcat wrote:


they "survive" by not spending the entire night outside in the cold, rather, they go to their warm, insulated, heated homes.

there is no correlation between salty, fatty and fried Polish food and "survival".

eat enough food, wear a jacket and boots with a hat, you won't "die" when you walk outside in Poland.

News / U.S., Poland sign military aviation accord [24]

Piast Poland wrote:


You didn't read it and I exposed it. Go away now or make an intelligent comment.

News / U.S., Poland sign military aviation accord [24]

Piast Poland wrote:


read the rest of my post, stupid.

here:

News / U.S., Poland sign military aviation accord [24]

PennBoy wrote:


Sure.

Now, like you, there is no sarcasm here either and I need to bring this up because it constantly rings through this forum.....

If people are going to pi$$ and moan about how the USA is this imperialistic psycho industrial military complex, how we screwed up the world economically, as well as whatever people constantly say they hate about the USA (mind you, I'm not denying any of this, just sayin' for the sake of argument).....WHAT royalties, or at the very least respect, if ANY, does the United States of America earn by being the guy who does the military dirty work and is very often responsible for protecting other countries?

Do you all find it perfectly fine that most of Poland dislikes the USA for reasons X, Y and Z......yet we should somehow protect you at the same time?

Is it OK to hate on the USA and then say, "we want American boots on our soil"?

Why should the USA help.......well.....anyone? Nobody seems to want us there....but they do.....and they don't......but they do.

The USA is in a world of hurt economically right now and you can be damn sure a lot of the debt we have today is because we've been the world's silent manager with our military for many many years......and we never ask for the money back. When does the USA start getting paid, even if it's simple respect, for what they do?

Have you EVER read a post by a non-American on this forum that goes something like, "I really appreciate the sacrifices the USA makes with their military and the amount of money they spend on keeping other countries safe (along with the unbelievable amount of foreign aid like food, various resources and cold hard cash the USA spends every year)"??? Look hard, I doubt you'll find it.

I wasn't an Iraq war supporter, I believe the USA gets involved in too many wars in general....but I lived in Poland for several years and I know how Poland feels about the USA's military agendas......yet their leaders still want our protection. I know Poland's politicians don't represent all of Poland, or everyone on this forum for that matter....but you have to be able to understand how these things can frustrate a tax paying american.