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FUZZYWICKETS   
11 May 2011
Food / Polish food at home or out? [57]

SeanBM wrote:

Generally the Chinese places here are what I call "Polish Chinese",

absolutely. no different than any other ethnic food in Poland, though. the beauty of cuisine in the USA is when you walk into a Chinese restaurant and then an Indian restaurant and then a Korean restaurant.....you are eating ingredients that the other foods simply don't have. always an experience, always an adventure with every meal. Chinese/Italian/Mexican in Poland....it's all a joke. Polish food disguised as something else.

Des Essientes wrote:

American fast food is disgusting and nutritionally lacking

I'm not about to defend American fast food and say it's healthy, most of it is $hite, but isn't it funny to hear Poles standing around saying how gross food is from the USA, how it's so unhealthy and fatty while at the same time, they're chowing down on a big kielbasa in a bun, the guy next to him is eating a Zapiekanka and the girl next to them is eating fried pierogi dripping with butter stuffed with some ground up mystery meat? Poles have this thing in their head that if it comes from the motherland and their moms made it for them when they were little, it must be healthy. Fact of the matter is, that big kielbasa you're eating has 3 times as many calories as a hamburger patty from McDonald's, the pierogi is a total calorie bomba, and zapiekanka? Ghetto pizza heated up at some kiosk in a microwave. Bravo and bon appetit.
FUZZYWICKETS   
9 May 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

Koala wrote:

Not so ridiculous anymore, is it?..............Well you musn't decline Meryl Streep as we don't decline foreign female names!

Two things.

I've seen foreign womens' names declined both on polish internet pages and in print. In Poland.

Secondly, if it were true that foreign female names followed no Polish grammar rules yet the names of foreign men did, it would make it even more inconsistent, confusing and if possible....more ridiculous.

Imagine a conversation in Poland with Johnny Depp, Meryl Streep and a Pole:

"How come he messed with your name but not mine?"

"Oh, that's because you're a woman. We'll just call you by your actual name. Johnny though? Yeah, he can expect to hear it spoken at least 7 different ways."
FUZZYWICKETS   
9 May 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

Maaarysia wrote:

Why? It's the Polish language grammar system. There is nothing to laugh.

Maybe not for you. I find it funny. Just like I find some things in English funny.

Maaarysia wrote:

it wuld be grammatically incorrect to not do those "silly" declensions.

Thank you, Captain Obvious. My Polish grammar is actually quite good for a non native. I studied declensions more than anything else during my first 2 years of learning Polish but when I get to names like Harrison Ford and Meryl Streep, I just can't get myself to decline them. Way too ridiculous.

Maaarysia wrote:

When I heard "Kozijuszko" for first time I haven't had an idea who is it ;)

There's a fundamental difference between that and someone butchering Johnny Depp. When someone says Kosciuszko from say America, you struggle to understand it due to poor pronounciation. But, when you start adding 'ego's and owi's and random a's onto people's names, they don't understand it because you literally did not say their name. The first time my mother in law said "John'ego Deppa", I didn't understand what she was saying, even the 2nd time she said it. As a matter of fact, I didn't even know she was saying a name. If she had said it but with just bad pronounciation, I would have gotten it right away.
FUZZYWICKETS   
9 May 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

gumishu wrote:

should be Johnny'ego Deppa - you only use apostrophes when the original foreigh name ends in a mute 'e' or 'y'

my mother in law says John'ego Deppa. I guess the younger generations are better at making these silly declensions with foreign names.
FUZZYWICKETS   
9 May 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

gumishu wrote:

Pata Richardsona (gen of Pat Richardson) - both the first name and the surname get declined - if you are somewhat familiar in Polish you should not have hard time guessing the original form of the name

my favorite one to date is John'ego Depp'a.
FUZZYWICKETS   
8 May 2011
News / POLISH COPS TO BREATHALISE CANOE USERS.... [30]

convex wrote:

Airline pilots have a limit of .04...are canoes really that complicated to operate?

Cars are pretty simplistic to operate as well. I've driven over the limit countless times and never got into an accident so are the DUI laws "punishing everyone"?

The fact still remains that many people drown in lakes and rivers every year in Poland due to intoxication. There was a pretty thorough article on this last year in onet.pl.
FUZZYWICKETS   
1 May 2011
News / Polish people humiliated in the latest episode of Family Guy [51]

George8600 wrote:

But the producer of that show is a douchebag....

he's an equal opportunity offender. the whole premise of the show is a no holds barred, completely self centered insensitive man that says and does whatever he wants. if that doesn't interest you, watch something else. if you sat through episode after episode of him making fun of everyone else and then decided to start this thread because he made fun of some Poles, you're as self centered and stupid as The Family Guy.
FUZZYWICKETS   
23 Apr 2011
History / United States of America Vs Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth [74]

One thing we can never forget when talking about China......the world doesn't trust them. People look at China and think: they eat dogs, work like robots, are insensitive......the world would rather have the USA running things and that will always stand in the way of China's progress.
FUZZYWICKETS   
22 Apr 2011
History / United States of America Vs Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth [74]

AdamKadmon wrote:

The US is in the best position in the world to default on Chinese or any other loan.

Have you heard Donald Trump's theory about what we owe China? Tax everything they sell to us 25%. They rely so much on the USA to buy their cheap stuff that they'd have no choice but to comply.

Oh Donald......
FUZZYWICKETS   
21 Apr 2011
History / United States of America Vs Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth [74]

David_18 wrote:

If we look from a historical point of view, both nations were big and prosperous. After several decades of power and greatness, the Plc entered a period of protracted political, military and economic decline.

you just summarized the collapse of every single world power that ever existed. naturally, any nation, old or new, is going to share similar characteristics because empires are empires due to strong "politics, military and economics."

and as far as partitioning and being taken over by neighbors, who's gonna do that? Mexico? Canada? please.
FUZZYWICKETS   
18 Apr 2011
USA, Canada / Opening a small shop, and selling many Polish items in USA. Do you think this would work? [32]

valpomike wrote:

Those of you living here in the USA, what items would you buy if you were able, at a fair price?

Where I am, there's a major lack of Polish stores, my wife and I were just having this conversation.

If you're going to open up a place in the USA, start with the staples. Polish ham, pierogi made properly, kielbasa, kabanos, golabki you can take home, that sort of thing. You need to have the stuff Polish people crave from back home along with things the avg. american can go home and eat/cook. Keep it simple or you will be relying only on the Polish crowd in your town (which is fine if you're in one of the Polish hubs in the north of the USA.....if not, you gotta tone it down).

Also, gotta have instant barszcz, Vegeta, smietana, polish white cheese....the little things you can't find in a typical supermarket in the USA. My wife always complains that she can't find vegeta and smietana here.

We actually found Vegeta last weekend in a polish deli, $5.00 for 500 grams.
FUZZYWICKETS   
16 Apr 2011
Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]

Magdalena wrote:

Too late to laugh now. Ofsajd has been renamed "spalony" a heck of a long time ago.

too late?

then apparently ofsajd.onet.pl hasn't got the memo yet about the change.
FUZZYWICKETS   
15 Apr 2011
Feedback / A Personal Request to all PF members [119]

Ironside wrote:

I rather not, let say nothing significant...

hmmm....

well, if you refuse to give any details about the matter whatsoever, that could only mean 1 of 3 things. either:

-you were doing something illegal.

-doing something embarrassing that you would catch a never ending ration of $hit for from several members of PF if you owned up to it.

-you're completely full of $hit and were never there.

your responses don't surprise me. after all, if you had nothing to hide, you would have answered me the first time.......even the 10th time I asked you but you always dodged it. speaking of dodging.....how dodgy is this? A guy who tears the USA a new one on a daily basis on PF.....and then tells us all that the 3 months he spent in NC.....he can't even discuss. What he was doing, why he was there........top secret.

Now THAT is dodgy.
FUZZYWICKETS   
15 Apr 2011
Feedback / A Personal Request to all PF members [119]

ironside wrote:

lets say that I had been exercising extensively.

honestly man, i have no idea what that means. please elaborate.
FUZZYWICKETS   
14 Apr 2011
Feedback / A Personal Request to all PF members [119]

You spent 3 months there and you can't even spell it correctly?

My next questions:

What did you do there for 3 months?

How old were you when you were there?
FUZZYWICKETS   
13 Apr 2011
Feedback / A Personal Request to all PF members [119]

assuming you're not lying (it sure looks guilty when someone refuses to answer a question after being asked repeatedly) my next question is this:

Where in the USA have you been to and for how long?
FUZZYWICKETS   
10 Apr 2011
Life / Which cities in Poland have the most expats, and why? [34]

Getting back on topic,

I lived in Wroclaw for 4 years and there are very few expats there. A few work for Google and HP, a few random ones work in language schools but they're few and far between.
FUZZYWICKETS   
10 Apr 2011
Feedback / A Personal Request to all PF members [119]

IRONSIDE:

I have asked you 900 times yet you still refuse to answer a simple question. What the hell is the point of a forum if people refuse to answer questions.

Have you ever been to the United States of America?

nothing further.