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15 May 2011
News / EU tribunal overrules Polish name contest in Lithuania [150]

too much to read, but I'll offer this view, in case it hasn't been brought up yet: they wanted to use letters that do not exist in Lithuanian alphabet. If you allow this, next the Chinese'll want their name registered in their native alphabet.. and then where would we be?
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8 May 2011
Love / Poland wow wife [52]

Is wow supposed to be an acronym for something in particular?

Weight On Wheels
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1 May 2011
USA, Canada / Where can i find Spirytus Rektyfikowany in the USA? [77]

distilled ethanol... and a conversation perks up. ;)
What's amazing to me is that nobody is questioning grinding up amber, which is what... tree resin fossilizing since stone age? And that's a cure for what? Have you tried grinding up elephant tusks?
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21 Apr 2011
News / Poland's Lost Generation [172]

To those that think a Pole living abroad is less of a Pole:
Poles living abroad and pining for their home country is a honorable, well established tradition. Get used to it. Read Pan Tadeusz, listen to some Chopin, and stop getting angry at those who left in search of a better life. Because it increasingly looks like you're just envious, and you think putting up with whatever your lot in Poland might be makes you a better Pole. It does not. And those abroad, they are still your brothers and sisters. They worked their asses off to send money back home, most of the time hiding the fact that the conditions they lived in were even worse then back in Poland. Pole is a Pole no matter where in the world he/she lives.
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20 Apr 2011
History / Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]

“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests”

Nathaniel Hawthorne
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19 Apr 2011
History / Why did communism in Poland fail? [180]

Let's not forget the cold war and all the efforts undertaken by the 'west' to discredit the communism.
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17 Apr 2011
Life / Polish Hoarders? [42]

I collect Surfer and Surfing magazines. I wrap each complete year set in plastic and put them away in the attic. Some people already tried to buy them off me. Recently, I started keeping memorable books, but I store them in airtight contaners. I don't throw away straight nails or screws, re-use good jars, but have no problem using old clothes as rags, then getting rid of them. My mother collects old tools. Anyone else collects stuff that others routinely throw away?
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17 Apr 2011
Life / Polish Hoarders? [42]

I think the hoarders that are shown on the TV show are lazy slobs with total lack of organizational skills and most of the time, serious mental problems. I mean, if you can't throw out a wrapper, then you do need help. Gathering stuff that you think will be appreciated in your impoverished home country does not even come close. It can make one feel like they're doing something to help.
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15 Apr 2011
Life / Polish Hoarders? [42]

Hoarders might be a bit extreme, but most of Americans are just the opposite - disposable society, generating way too much garbage. I believe Polish people are more like my mother (at least the older generation) - she saves plasic bags, reuses old clothes for rags, rarely uses paper napkins, makes her own compost from kitchen scraps, and takes great pride in fixing something instead of throwing it away. She thinks it's more due to common sense, or social responsibility, for a lack of better expression, than the result of living through the war's lean times.
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10 Apr 2011
Love / Polish girls and the national sport: COMPLAINING HARD all the time [25]

whatever she's complaing about, follow her lead, but don't try to top her. If she complains about how hard she works, tell her that you work so much, you wish you had more free time. Or if she complains about her family, you tell her that at least she is surrounded by people who love her, while you feel so lonely sometimes. That kind of thing. Soon, she'll be going:"my poor baby, I can make it better..."

:)
For Polish women bragging is much worse of a crime than complaing.
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10 Apr 2011
Love / Polish girls and the national sport: COMPLAINING HARD all the time [25]

You need to reposition the bar between the praise and complaining.
When's she's complaining, she's simply making conversation, or commenting on state of current affairs. You're not supposed to give her advice, your part of the conversation is to find something to complain about as well, like your job, or your state of affairs.

And remember, when she's not complaining, that's her high praise.
;)
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9 Apr 2011
News / What Poland can't do right [113]

Summer holidays at babcia's in the countryside and the mandatory warm milk, fresh from the cow. I don't think I could drink it now, though.

I have the same memory but it still grosses me out. My grandma would wake me up at dawn and would not let me go back to sleep until I drank a glass of body-temp milk. It smelled like cow **** (gnój)