Love / Met a Polish girl on the Internet, and I'm soon off to meet her... [82]

liquidlove

Of course, there will always be golddiggers, especially in poorer countries like PL. Just be beware of girls that start asking you for drinks. But I guess it's just a gut feeling you must have about certain girls. My advice would be: don't go for the extremely good looking girls. They usually tend to be golddigging the most. But of course exceptions do the rule. Just go on your intuition, usually that's the right thing to follow. Hope it works all out just fine for you, dude! Good luck :)

>^..^<

M-G (was in Krakau only shortly, on his way through to Auschwitz)

Love / Met a Polish girl on the Internet, and I'm soon off to meet her... [82]


It's not a typical PL girlie thing as it can happen with all bimbos from everywhere, but that wasn't the point. And I do believe you get my point. But if you feel secure enough then you should go for it :) Remember, even though I'm usually not, even I sometimes can be wrong :D

But if you enjoy it, then go for it. I just wanted to point out the pssbl risks and indeed if it goes wrong, while you're there, make the best of it and head for pubs and clubs, there will always be some chickadee interested, even if only for one night ;) And, if I can believe the stories, if you're not too bad looking, then the girlies will be all over you once they know you're from abroad :) But I take it that this won't be the case in Krakow as they are kinda used to visitors...Good luck :)

>^..^<

M-G (report)

Love / Met a Polish girl on the Internet, and I'm soon off to meet her... [82]

liquidlove

She sounds like just any 22-year old girl. Nothing special. But Inet dating is in my book a bad idea as you never know with whom you're dealing. Photos don't mean a thing. Do you want to take that risk and go to PL and then find out she already has a b/f (wouldn't be the first time, you know) or that she doesn't show up and the number/address she gave is wrong et cetera. Better to meet a girlie in a pub or a nightclub or something where you at least have the chance to see for yourself. After you convinced yourself that she is real, you can always go on Inet and say horny things to each other. However, meeting in real life is no guarantee there is some b/f behind the scenes anyway. But it's up to you anyway. You asked for my opinion, here it is :)

ShelleyS

Happy endings? Nah, boring :) We want sad outcomes, nasty endings as they are much more interesting to look at ;)

>^..^<

M-G (think twice)

USA, Canada / Windows xp in USA in Polish? [13]

RubasznyRumcajs

It's explainable when you consider that the majority of the computer users are bored housewives and likewise human beings who definitively need a sidebar, need a vista clock on their desktop and so on. And these things swallow up memory.

For me myself all these things are not really necessary - in fact I have Win7 in classic Windows look :) I had installed the 32bits first, but now I installed the 64bits as it would suit my needs better. Problem with Linux is that when it runs fine it's all ok, but when there is an issue, you immediately have a BIG issue; therefore Linux is not yet suitable for the major public. And Mac looks nice, is nice, but you simply cannot compare Mac with Win as Win serves a much bigger market and MS has specifically stated they want to focus on s/w alone where as, like I said, Apple makes the hardware as well, so it's just 1 config and of course that's gonna be much smaller. However, I've seen that Leopard is not THAT much smaller than Win7 and also starts to use quite a bit of mem.

Bottomline is: Win7 is stable and a great improvement compared to WinVis and for the majority of users it's simply the best option. And I am not saying that because I work for MS.

>^..^<

M-G (gets free s/w all the time)

USA, Canada / Windows xp in USA in Polish? [13]

cheehaw

There are multi user interfaces (MUI) available in any language you want. Just install the English version and apply the Polish MUI on top of that. That's basically what you get as well if you buy another languaged version of WinXP. You should be able to get a PL MUI as well.

With Win7 you just need to purchase the Ultimate version, this is the only version in which you can change the display language - you will need the original DVD to do this though, it's not just changing the input language with that blue square in the taskbar. If you have any questions, just shoot them.

RubasznyRumcajs

Lemme guess, you are a Linux or Mac man? Win7 can easily measure itself with any other OS around. Difference, for example between SnowLeopard and Win7 is that Apple just has to write for one specific configuration, while MS has to write Windows for 1000's of configurations - tends to be a bit more work and tends to make the OS a bit bigger, eh? But of course, it's an MS product, so it's bad from the start, isn't it? If you are a Mac man and lyrical about Snowleopard - you haven't heard of that superbug found in Snowleopard? That when you log in as a guest, after you created your own profile, everything will be deleted because SL treats every account like a guest account? That means that you will lose everything if you don't have a backup. This bug alone is heavier than all the bugs in WinXP combined.

>^..^<

M-G (helpdesk for lost forum-members)

Life / Charity In Poland (tradition and attitude towards door-to-door collecting) [19]

This topic was opened out of keen interest. I remember that when I was a young kid, truckloads went from my Dutch town and the surrounding towns to Poland at the start of each winter as the ppl were very poor there and needed our help. And we did help: Those trucks contained clothing, food, medicine and toys. Maybe the Western politics didn't care about PL, the Dutch ppl (and I am sure ppls from other countries as well) did care about their brothers in need in PL. I was just wondering if PL returns the favour.

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M-G (remembers his mom packing coffee, tins of vegetables and meat, chocolate, colouring books and clothing in a big box. "For the poor kids in Poland, they have it so much worse than you do", she always said to me when I asked why. She is Jewish, Sokrates - just FYI as maybe you were raised with my teddy bear or those colouring books)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

mvefa

Of course you have. Ppl tend to forget sometimes that we SHARE the world with our four-legged and feathered friends and that they are entitled to the Earth as much as we do. We only THINK we own the planet, but in fact, like Keanu Reeves says in "The Day The Earth Stood Still": "If you die, Earth will live on; if Earth dies, YOU die." It's important to remember that, my oink-impersonating son :)

>^..^<

M-G (rights for all animals on Earth!!)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

szarlotka

Are you a grizzly bear? No, you are a PolarBear. It's a different race :) Anyhow, if you want to, you can, but just eat the sob, ok?

:)

>^..^<

M-G (all bears will be grateful to you)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

So, we've concluded that there are not really established animal rights movements in PL. Just scattered groups across the country. Are there any more initiatives? I don't know for sure, but there is EU regulation concerning this, will PL adhere to this and form a Polish variant of the RSPCA? What is the attitude in PL towards organisations like this?

>^..^<

M-G (the donkey is sleeping, currently - well I guess you have to wake him up now, won't you?)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

southern

I have a hungry grizzly bear here that would like to talk to you about bear's rights.

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M-G (animal rights)

Life / If I say POLAND, you say...? [100]

<southern mode>
Super sexy dripping wet horny females, all of them without exception super beautiful, in fact the most beautiful in the whole world, super friendly ppl without any prejudice who approach every ppl from the world with openess and kindness, especially black ppl and Jews, never misbehave and are well loved everywhere in the world, who never do anything wrong yet everybody else does bad things to them and don't understand why as they are all, without exception, saints and good Catholics.

</southern mode>

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M-G (would this be correct?)

History / WWII - who really was the first to help Poland? [900]

Harry

Two horses, a donkey, 5 pigs and two kegs of beer.

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M-G (always glad to help out)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

Wroclaw

And this has improved due to public opinion? Good! I read the story and I did remember something about it, but it still gives me a chill how ppl think they can treat animals. I hope the responsible got punished?

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M-G (animals should be able to take revenge)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

ZIMMY

Don't think so if the cookies were made of animal meat - but I'm not a vegetarian, ask one! But as far as I know only vegans reject everything that has an animal source, like leather shoes, belts, etc.

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M-G (not a vegetarian)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

Wroclaw

Actually that situation was pretty well known in NL too. It caused quite an outrage as the Dutch, just like the British are vivid animal lovers. I think the Dutch RSPCA has also filed a complaint back then, but I am not quite sure about this. I seem to remember they did, though.

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M-G (if you don't respect your four-legged friends, how in the world can you respect yourself?)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

vkmag.com/videos/videos_poolse_jongen_schiet_kat_af/

From a Dutch website.
This is a gross translation of the text below it.

Polish kid uses some sort of air gun to launch a cat and then shoot it in the air, while firing a gun at it. Another kid filmed it and informed the police. Also, he delivered the tape to a Polish news-station. I hope they put him in jail. If you look well, the cat is still alive.

If you want a literary translation, let me know.

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M-G (jail for torturers of our feline friends!)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

I just had a quick view on their website strazdlazwierzat.com.pl but it's in Polish of course (the English version is under construction) but am I correct when I say that they mainly protect dogs? Or do they do other animals like cats or whatever, too?

>^..^<

M-G (safety for animals is important)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

wildrover

It maybe not illegal according to law, but morally it's highly disgusting.

>^..^<

M-G (tiens)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

mvefa

It certainly seems that way - by the way: I'm going to NL in December, there might be a slight chance that I will meet with Arien, and we kinda agreed that you should be there too, son. I will PM you on that some time soon.

wildrover

I'm just wondering: isn't there any EU-regulation concerning this topic? I mean, you can tell what a person is the way he treats his animal friends. Maybe there could be a way to kinda "enforce" them in every memberstate? Although I'm not a fan of enforcing laws and stuff, it's like a former Dutch minister of Traffic once said as to why he proposed to confiscate the cars of speed offenders: "you ask them many times to stop speeding, they don't listen. You put laws into place, they don't listen. You put speedbumps on the roads, they don't listen. And in the end it seems that ppl just don't want to have it otherwise."

I agree with you, wildrover: there is a lot of work to be done in PL before we get to where the UK and NL are at the moment concerning animal rights. I do sincerely hope they will use their common sense and install those laws rather sooner than later.

Nice story, wildrover!

Ironic fact is in this respect: Nazi Germany was the first country in the world that actually implemented laws to protect animals. It was in fact one of the first things Hitler did. Hitler liked animals better than ppl. How ironic indeed.

>^..^<

M-G (don't ever use this as an excuse to abuse animals!)

Life / Animal Rights Movements in Poland [56]

Thanks, wildrover.

Anybody can enlighten further on this?

>^..^<

M-G (animal rights)

Come on guys - I can't believe nobody knows anything about this topic. Are there raids on mink-farms, animal-testing laboratries? Et cetera? Anything done to protect our four legged fellow-earthlings?

>^..^<

M-G (if we own the Earth, they do too)

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Maybe it's more important to look at what Copernicus accomplished than to look where he was from? I always looked at Copernicus as a great scholar and yes, I've always admired him and yes, I always have been taught he was Polish and no, it doesn't matter to me where he is from. To me he's a great product of the European renaissance, Polish renaissance if you like. Or the European/Polish enlightment, if you so want it. It's somehow the same discussion with Vincent van Gogh: everybody knows he is Dutch, yet the French (used to) claim he was actually French. This is not meant as an attempt to bring this thread to van Gogh, for the ppl who don't understand, but as a comparison.

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M-G (tiens)

Love / Insultive opinions about Polish girls... [139]


Your Polish pride, gimme a break. So you got a big nose...Look at it this way: thanks to your big nose, you can sniff better - how about that, eh? Isn't that great?

>^..^<

M-G (sniffs)

Love / Are all Polish men Psychos? [111]


That is a matter of opinion, my friend :)


Yeah, they all say they want nice and understanding men, but in fact they want Neanderthalers, so they can complain a little more. Brings out that alpha-male nonsense. I am an alpha-male without having to be rude and agressive - usually one mean look and they all shut up ;)

>^..^<

M-G (but also has claws and teeth, just in case)

News / Poland's Organized Crime [58]

For a while there was a wave of criminal activities from Polish gangs in NL. They simply would rob some store, warehouse or residential house, load the stuff in their cars and move off back to PL. We know they were Polish as most of these incidents happened right over the NL-DE border and Dutch police caught gangs every now and then. But I don't hear much from that lately.

>^..^<

M-G (some of them are still in Dutch jails)

Love / Are there Polish women who date black guys? [281]

ezs

I was only joking. Lemme explain the way I post as it's a bit different than the rest. If I put a smiley one or two lines below a remark, this means that I make a joke. That it's not seriously meant. I also have some other trademarks, but they are not relevant to this explanation. Hope you understand now?

>^..^<

M-G (kids! you have to explain them everything!)

Love / Are there Polish women who date black guys? [281]


Hm, isn't that called "Afro-British" nowadays?

:)


You're such a materialistic creature.

:))

>^..^<

M-G (tiens)

Love / Scottish & Polish relationships [229]

Seanus

You got married today? Gee, you sneak for not telling! :)

Congratulations, my friend, sincerely and truly!

>^..^<

M-G (plays the wedding march on his eerie church-organ)

Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]


But the Greek are not Slavs?


lol, I only have 1 orange T-shirt and I wear it of course all the time (not!). Are the Greek still angry at the Germans because they preferred the Dutch team above the Greek team at the European Championships of 1988? I mean after the "Nicosia-incident"?

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M-G (liked that decision, though, as a Dutch)

Love / Are all Polish men Psychos? [111]

southern

Are you turning gay now? Hm, you're Greek and Greek have a rep to hold high. So it does not surprise me :)

>^..^<

M-G (Greek Gay-Force - G-Force?)