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SeanBM   
2 Dec 2010
Life / Foreigners commenting on Poland - a minefield? [30]

teaching English

No, not those bunch of drunken layabouts, shagging all the students and raking in the cash to blow on the casinos.
We don't all live the James Bond teacher in Poland lifestyle, you know ;p

But it does bring us back to the OP's friend's point

who said it sounded as if I were stereotyping Poles and she became quite angry.

because it is a very general thing to say and can be misinterpreted, like we have just done.
SeanBM   
2 Dec 2010
Life / Foreigners commenting on Poland - a minefield? [30]

I refuse point blank to work for anyone like this.

Why?
How are you expected to know things in a job you have just started?

Take students employed in a bar/restaurant, who seem to think the radio is there to be blared so they can hear it or the T.V. should face the staff behind the bar so they can watch it.

They have to be told exactly what is happening, otherwise how would they know, people will do the minimum especially for minimum wage.
I see it as a strictly managerial problem and new staff should be walked through absolutely everything.
They should taste the food they are going to present, they should be told how to act, talk and walk. This is what I would consider to be the job.
SeanBM   
2 Dec 2010
Life / Foreigners commenting on Poland - a minefield? [30]

Rogalski, I am just thinking about this.

You kinda said that Poles are brain dead, now how did you expect that conversion to go?

Rogalski: "Hey you know what, Poles don't think for themselves".

Polish friend: "Yeah really? Well I suppose you are a foreigner and can see things from a different light and since I can't think for myself, I will agree with you. Thank you for sharing, I feel I have learned a valuable lesson from this".
SeanBM   
2 Dec 2010
Life / Foreigners commenting on Poland - a minefield? [30]

"Poles need to start thinking for themselves"

So Rogalski, when you say this it implies that Poles do not think for themselves.
Hard to put a good spin on that, no?

they doing what was told

I have to agree with this.

Staff in a bar, restaurant or anywhere else here who do not do their job have not been trained properly. Usually students because of the ZUS issue, first job and the manager expects them to know everything.

It is the manager's fault if the staff are not doing their job, noone else's in my opinion.

Sure there is always the exception, you are always going to get a lazy worker sometimes but that's in ever country and you get rid of those soon enough.
SeanBM   
2 Dec 2010
Life / Expats in Poland - would you fight for your new country? [105]

But if I were living somewhere else I would not fight for any other country. But I would help to defend the place where I live if there was such need wherever it would be.

My point is that people on here speak very tough, I would kill... I would die... for my country but they don't live it.

Why would they die and kill for Poland but not live for it, too difficult?
SeanBM   
1 Dec 2010
Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

Yes, in a democratic pluralistic soceity even secularist-agnostic smut is tolerated, but a RM/Trwam...

Post-Communist contamination of mentality

Consequences of the polarisation at stake are relatively strong because, in the Communist period, Catholics in Poland practically had no experience of pluralism and their reactions to basic problems were uniform in nature. In this new social situation they must adjust to cultural pluralism without accepting doctrinal relativism. This, certainly, is a long process which of its nature brings many negative by-products. The polarisation of attitudes among Catholics in Poland became even more complicated when Radio Maryja, a nation-wide radio system organised by the Redemptorist Fathers, became much more involved in spreading risky politics than in spreading the Gospel.

gsearch.vatican.va - Vatican (about half way down the page).

If Rydzyk drives a Maybach, that's a crying shame.

In January 2006, a journalist from the Polish tabloid Fakt phoned the minister for agriculture Krzysztof Jurgiel, pretending to be Rydzyk's assistant, and told Jurgiel that Father Director's car had broken down[10]. The minister immediately sent a government limousine for Rydzyk. The reporter later said he wanted to ascertain the degree of Rydzyk's influence in the government.

/wiki/Tadeusz_Rydzyk#Active_politics
SeanBM   
1 Dec 2010
Love / Good looking Polish women with ugly men [416]

"Hair Loss Due To Over Masturbation

If that were the case the majority of teenagers wouldn't have a hair on their head.

Trener zolwia, have you ever actually been to Poland?
SeanBM   
30 Nov 2010
Life / Polish TV Online on CMS website [27]

The problem with all this is that you're your stealing content...I know you aren't, but that's the perception.

The U.S. are very strict on this lately, there was a huge clamp down: like here and now I see Russian and Chinese sites taking their place.
SeanBM   
30 Nov 2010
Life / Polish TV Online on CMS website [27]

Ah, I didn't know, I hate it when that happens.

any suggestions?

I know very little about computers but I am lead to believe you could change your IP address to a Polish one? That'd give you a bit of TVN at least.

Or you could google here is something.

or choose google.pl/search?q=free+online+polish+tv+in+poland
SeanBM   
30 Nov 2010
Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

they didn't get out of the middle ages just yet

I haven't been around PF much lately and I could have this all arse ways but that thread about "Poland, Lacking External Enemies, Turns on Itself" is what I think Radio Maryja is part of.

The Mohair berets have been fighting all their lives (at least in post office queues;) and the Church was the 'enemy' of communism.
These babcias are hard core and Radio Maryja was created out of this vacuum.
But it does seem "Father Director" is taking the ****
What I mean in my reply to your comment is I think 'they haven't left communist suppression of the Church' and are still fighting but against who...? hence the part about "Poland, Lacking External Enemies, Turns on Itself".
SeanBM   
30 Nov 2010
Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

They should invent a radio that automatically bypasses certain stations

I took a look at the wiki link about radio maryja and there seems to be a lot of negative things written about them:

# 5 Criticisms and controversies

* 5.1 Allegations of intolerance
* 5.2 Allegations of antisemitism
* 5.3 Conflict with Vatican
* 5.4 Euroscepticism
* 5.5 Support for death penalty
* 5.6 Involvement in politics
* 5.7 Scandals with President's wife
* 5.8 Gdańsk Shipyard
* 5.9 Misuse of radio frequencies

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Maryja

And about your point of skipping them, well it turns out they did the opposite and tricked your radio into thinking the traffic news was on and would switch to Radio Maryja.

If I had a radio station, I'd probably try the same.

I don't listen to Radio Maryja, although sometimes I get tricked because I like RMF classic and RM is just a half a wrist turn up and sometimes they play classical.
SeanBM   
27 Nov 2010
Life / Winter 2010/2011 in Poland, is it going to be bad? [114]

Judging by the traffic yesterday, I'd guess people were going to go skiing in Zakopane and there abouts.
I was in Zakopane a month ago and kids were playing in snow... brrrr.

It started snowing here just a couple of days ago but I don't think it'll last long, as it is forecasted to get a bit warmer end of next week.

I am looking forward to going skiing/snowboarding, I hope to actually get to Slovakian slopes this winter... we'll see.
SeanBM   
25 Nov 2010
UK, Ireland / EXCHANGE RATES BETWEEN POLISH ZLOTY AND BRITISH POUND [73]

Is this not just a side effect of the Euro collapsing against the Dollar/Pound? The EUR/PLN rate hasn't moved at all.

I was told by someone whose job it is to know that it is because of:

1) North Korea attacking South.

2) Ireland's bailout. (Which Britain said they would lend money to. I believe 7% of exports from Old Blighty goes to Ireland and the added bonus of looking strong having the knock on effect of well... looking strong)

3) The interest rate not being changed by Poland.

I am just repeating what I was told. Except for the part in brackets.
SeanBM   
23 Nov 2010
Genealogy / DNA Testing in Poland. Is it popular? [81]

An interesting documentary I saw at the beginning of this year was BBC's:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Human_Journey

It's in 5 parts

Out of Africa

Asia

Europe

Australia

The Americas

Europe

SeanBM   
23 Nov 2010
Genealogy / DNA Testing in Poland. Is it popular? [81]

free tests for men

it's not cheap

Combo Package (Y-DNA 20 Marker + mtDNA HVR-1 Test), $238.00 US

But it's an interesting project, despite all our perceived differences we are all from the same family and place.
SeanBM   
23 Nov 2010
Genealogy / DNA Testing in Poland. Is it popular? [81]

Ger off, your beard itches and I'm not lost I'm here, in fact I am always here, wherever here is, that's where I am :)

dnaancestryproject.com - National Geographic ancestry project looks interesting.

my eyes color changes, it depends on a mood...

Horror movie, yeeeeeaaaaahhhh?

blood

Random useless fact I recently learned since yesterday while reading about DNA because of this thread:
Red cells or blood plasma doesn't have any dna.

I remember when they cracked the DNA code, it wasn't long ago.
They thought it was going to be even more ground breaking than landing on the moon.
Only to find out that most of it (98%) is "junk DNA".
I bet someone will put this piece of the puzzle to something else and come up with another world changing theory that noone understands :)
SeanBM   
23 Nov 2010
Genealogy / DNA Testing in Poland. Is it popular? [81]

i thought that blue eyed are only newborns...

I have blue eyes and although you might think I was born yesterday, I am still not a newborn :)

Apparently not all kids are born with blue eyes.
SeanBM   
23 Nov 2010
Genealogy / DNA Testing in Poland. Is it popular? [81]

Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra's family?

I prefer the idea that for over 200,000 years we have spread like seeds in the wind.

You can of course go back further and talk about our commonality to the other animals we share this planet with if you wanted :)
SeanBM   
23 Nov 2010
Genealogy / DNA Testing in Poland. Is it popular? [81]

my exact markers so far match only that one lady.

Your doppelgänger? :)
You could be walking down the street in Europe and see your self on the other side of the street walking the other direction.
Do you think you'd get on well with yourself? :)

Fair play to you, I think we all wonder about the people in family photos.

They always wondered what happened after my grandmother died. The first letter I received from my father's cousin said, "We are in awe, it has been so long since we heard from America."

That's a lovely story, long lost relatives from across time and space, wondering about each other, how romantic, how poetic :)

Was the National Geographic DNA project big in the U.S?
SeanBM   
22 Nov 2010
Genealogy / DNA Testing in Poland. Is it popular? [81]

Here is the part I don't understand, not many people have had their DNA tested, so how do they know who has what?
Do they test a hundred people in a particular country and then come up with statistics for the whole country?
Or is it, of the people tested, they found that they share an ancestor who lived in and around (for example) Poznan and so far that's the only place it's been found?
SeanBM   
22 Nov 2010
Genealogy / DNA Testing in Poland. Is it popular? [81]

mtDNA seems more recent

Y-DNA and mtDNA are just male and female, one can't be more recent than the other.(chicken or egg?:) Although Y-DNA is only from father to son, while mtDNA is from mother to children of both sexes.

The most recent appears to be H3 10,000 years old, while the oldest is Mitochondrial Eve 200,000 years ago (refers to the most recent common matrilineal ancestor from whom all living humans are descended).

Although oddly Y-chromosomal Adam probably lived later than Mitochondrial Eve did, possibly 50,000 to 80,000 years later. I know that these Adam and Eves are only theoretically all of our Great........grand parents but you'd think they were around at the same time :) Although what's 50,000 years between family? :)

I am not sure I understand this, you are saying that your father's haplogroup matches that of people living only in (for example) Poznan and only those that have been tested there or have relations from there?

I don't know much about DNA testing, I am just reading about it now that we are talking about it.

I am part of Haplogroup U5

Haplogroup U5 Wiki

Among the oldest mtDNA haplogroups found in European remains of Homo sapiens is U5. The age of U5 is estimated at 50,000 but could be as old as 60,500 years. Approximately 11% of total Europeans and 10% of European-Americans are in haplogroup U5.[/quote]