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Sokrates   
16 Jan 2010
Love / Well.. I got a Polish girl pregnant.. [88]

Unless you're an engineer, don't come to America

Why would an engineer come to America? You're being outbred by Mexicans, your economy is in shambles etc.
Sokrates   
16 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

I strongly suspect Ukraine, which isn't all that backward, but still not quite the developed world.

Have you ever been to Ukraine? Their most advanced cities are almost on the same level as the least developed Polish eastern cities, i'm saying almost since Polish cities are still more developed.

i'm Flemish and so is my family.

so now tell me why you were so eager to know this.

i bet it's because you were hoping i am from a "backward

All Flemish are backwards.
Sokrates   
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

But the Polish person in Ireland does not have to become Irish, he can keep his Polishness.

The difference Sean is that my Polishness is not difference from Germaness, Britishness or Loch Ness :)
Sokrates   
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

This could be said about any scapegoat throughout history.

Except this particular scapegoat is actively trying to f*ck up our civilisation, you may disagree but just see what happened about Muhhamad cartoons.

You dont see Catholics going on crusades over Jesus jokes.

I am saying that the two can coexist without one having to become the other.

Well then what do you propose we do with the milions of Muslims who want to use our liberties and luxuries of our civilisation all the while forcing us to conform to their beliefs and way of life?

Are the majority of native Europeans that naive and influential?

Yes.

Yhe media make it in to an invasion and you subscribe to it.

Screw the media Sean, i went to London from my own little world where everyone is white and everyone is Polish, i've seen how colored minorities and Muslims specifically live and i just dont want slums like that here.

Poland might not be half as rich as UK, our roads suck but its safe and nice here, even in poor neighbourhoods, the society is peaceful, if diversity and tolerance means we get to experience the darker side of London i say f*ck it.
Sokrates   
15 Jan 2010
Love / English boyfriend coming to visit me in Poland [55]

But thats not how it works over here.

McCoy has a point, thats how it works here but in long term relationship, two months long and dumping a guy to your parents is just weird.
Sokrates   
15 Jan 2010
Love / What do Polish guys think of Irish girls? [187]

Women cant be transvestites :D Or do you mean that half of British men are transvestites?

I do not have to make sense to make sense!

You are so full of it and full of yourself,.. your opinion is not even worth noting.. what happened to this forum?

Either i'm so bloody smart or the IQ suddenly dropped by 10 points, did you really think i was serious? These kind of topics are typically rubbish, i met a few Irish girls, a bazilion of British and they're not that different as far as looks go.

Being a Polish guy i think i speak for majority, we dont think about women using their passport as a basis of opinion, tits are an international standard here and British girls lack nothing in boob department.

TBH the only country where i could say the stereotype of majority of women being butt fugly holds true is Germany.
Sokrates   
15 Jan 2010
Love / What do Polish guys think of Irish girls? [187]

people like you who have no clue..

Actually i'm always issuing sound opinions based on the fact that its me who issues them.

you met all these tubs of Lard?

Everywhere! I still remember two fat Irish girls beating up a young boy stealing his lollypop and then having a brawl which one gets it!

Are there no Fat women in Poland?

Nope, all Polish women are beatifull, if you see a fat girl she's visiting from Ireland.

well I can tell you that there are plenty and a hell of a lot of ugly ones too.

Lies and slander.

I will admit that there are a lot of slim and beautiful women in Poland however there are just as many in the UK and Ireland.

Half of British women are transvestites, the other half are fat and the third half smell funny, there are no pretty women in UK and thats a fact proven scientifically.
Sokrates   
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

You are not a Pole.

Ssij klawiaturę £ódż, yes i am :)

And no you are not accurite.

And You are not accurate.

By the way, everyone in the world is not Muslim.

And i'm quite open to white non-Muslim European immigration.

Also every Muslim is not out to "get you".

True but instead of trying to find the ones that are in the crowd its easier and safer to deny access to all of them.

Yes, the simplicity of many people on this forum has them believing that there are Muslims and "us".

So you're saying that Muslim society at large has assimilated well into the greater European community? I'm not saying "us" and "them" i'm simply sceptical of Islams ability to cope with European civilisation without attempting to exploit, abuse and subdue native Europeans.
Sokrates   
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

and many Polish voters would definately vote for the first option ...

How do you know? I dont.

while others may have different opinion with all the respect.

I was born here 27 years ago and i live here for that long, i have a better idea of our society at large, with all the respect, relatively open as we are most younger Poles are scared sh*tless of the possibility of having Muslims here.
Sokrates   
15 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

Its interesting that after 33 votes... "Yes for all nations" leads :') ...

Given that 24 votes are against it it doesnt but its still not representative of what Poles think, this forum has maybe 30 active Polish users, the rest are foreigners.
Sokrates   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

What lack of money? Those projects are running at the same costs as equivalent construction in Germany

New roads? Yes and they're built to the same standard as German ones, if you meant that new projects are shoddy then thats outright bull.

Enough money to rebuild the roads every couple of years, but not enough to do it right the first time?

Nope. enough money to repair (somewhat) already bad roads from communist time but not enough money to strip them off and build new ones which might be your impression of shoddy, during communism everything was but then again there was no free development, right now we're slowly replacing them.

How's that skyscraper working out by the way?

Quite fast.

Right, you mean like Dominikanska which was built by Hochtief, managed by ECE? 100% Polish financing

Now google who's managing it now:))))

Or Pasaz Grunwaldzki....nevermind

Also use google once more for current management and co-investor:)

e worked with three large banks and a construction company here and not once have I come across a Polish program manager. But that's just my experience.

You were also a commando, a master hacker and a Jedi knight, got any more tall stories?

I just think that it is difficult to find good quality work in Poland.

Based on your non-existant experience?:)

Cheap is abundant, quality isn't.

Could you please point out that poor quality produce? You know specific brands? Or would you like to see pictures of Wrocław directly after the war and after we rebuilt its centre for an example on Polish Quality?:)

Lot even takes their planes to Germany for their C checks.

The more you write the more new stuff i learn about my country, could it be possibly that you're making stuff up to reinforce your stereotypical view of Poland? Naaah :)))

I've praised NBP on this before. By keeping the zloty low

Uhuh you realise its not the NBP that kept the zloty low? In fact BNP has nothing to do with? Here and stop writing about stuff you're clueless about mr "manager" :) Making stuff up doesnt help you either.

I must have misread. The corporate tax rate has also dropped down to 19% for 2009.

Have another read, just because they changed the taxation form doesnt mean the tax got lower and as far as i'm aware no it did not drop down.
Sokrates   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

Then what happened to thier work ethic? I see Poles preying on the other Poles that cant speak English and they rip them off all the time!

Thats sadly true there's a large exploitatitive industry around that but it has nothing to do with how we work and everything to do with morality, loyalty (or lack of thereof) abroad.

I dont think so, everybody says it to each other over here.

So you live in some kind of a slum then like the blacks calling each other "nigga"? When i was at my aunts i never heard Poles calling each other "Pollocks" on the contrary its a very offensive term.

You obviously dont know me at all:)

Nope i dont i just read what you write, the fact that Poles do exploit each other abroad is about the first true negative thing you describe, everything else is pulled from your arse so you're either a non-Polish troll or you're actually a Pole but you're that much of a prick and have some sort of an issue.

Just like Paki is an insult in the UK and it isnt a derogatory word in the US.

Though i dont live in US and am as Polish as it gets i have an American citizenship and lots of family there and Pollock is bloody derogatory all across America, its an insult and used as an insult.

Im sure the Polish government doesnt want the visa restrictions removed, then they would have to put a fence around the whole county to keep the people from leaving, it would be like a ghost town....lol

Why? Everyone who wanted left already, in fact more then half of them returned home by now.
Sokrates   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

In the Chicago area they have a bad reputation, its well know..sorry

You realise quite a large patch of Chicago was developed by Poles and descendants of Poles? Also that Greenpoint before the colored minorites moved in was perceived as ideal middle class neighbourhood?

Here in Chicago Polocks call each other Polocks all day long,its not offensive here.

As far as i know its offensive everywhere, it amounts to calling a black guy a n*gger also i doubt you're a Polock, Polish or even a Polak:)

Do you live here you ******* idiot?????

No but i have family there and in NY and i have a pretty good idea of how we're doing in Chicago and to put it short, we're doing well.

and they work harder than the typical wodka filled Pole

Since you're obviously not Polish and prejudiced towards Poles what the hell are you doing posting on boards about all things Polish? Love hate relationship?:)
Sokrates   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

I look at the terrible locally built roads,

Thats not quality mate, thats the lack of money and proper legislature. Good roads are expensive and we're still a poor country.

the substandard craftsmanship of the new developments

Any examples? As far as i know Polish industry produces top quality computer hardware, chemical appliances, electronics etc, to be honest i havent seen a case of a company having substandard craftsmanship, i'm sure it happens but its exceptionally rare.

the fact that most every large construction project is handled by a foreign company

You mean in your little world inside your head?:) Lets take Wrocław for example, both of the Galerie were built by Poles, they were owned partially by Germans but we're buying them out as we speak.

Or maybe you mean the "Krakowianka" highway also built by Poles? Or the facilities for the Euro built by Polish companies? Or maybe the first true skyscraper built here in Wrocław by a Polish businessman.

Sorry buddy but you're talking out of your ass.

almost all program and project managers that I know in Poland are foreigners

Sure and pigs fly:) It so happens i'm a project manager as well as leading our company promotion campaigns and i never met a foreigner contemporary here in Poland, in fact there's very few foreigners at all here, now stop making stuff up eh?

I think there is a huge difference between "It's a good job for the price" and "It's a good job".

Given the mass exodus of Western companies into Poland the foreign investors do not share your view, neither do Western employers, both seem to think we do the best job that can be done for any price while requiring the smallest price that can be paid:)

You can hop up and down and make up a hundred stories on how Poles suck at everything and everything thats done in Poland is done by good white men from the West but the fact is the investors love us, the employers love us, our work, our industry and our skills are desired to a point where we virtually conquered the market:)

Poland is competitive because the government is throwing in everything but the kitchen sink in order to keep the zloty

Care to elaborate? Just last month FT was praising Poles for their wise currency handling but you seem to "know" something quite opposite:)

and huge tax breaks for creating cheap labor jobs.

Huge tax breaks? We must be talking about an alternate dimention Poland then, last i heard taxes are going up and we're not gonna experience at tax breaks even in the low income sector, but your theories are fun even if completely detached from reality.

special economic zones

Which special economic zones would that be? :)

Why are the Chinese building all the roads in Poland???????

Not yet but they will, mainly because they're cheap and they will use Polish subcontractors which means most of the money stays home and generates even more income.

Also they will force our construction companies to be more competitive.

Sledż i heard something quite the opposite about Polish construction companies in America, in fact wasnt Chrysler renovated by one of the Polish companies? I cant fail but notice that you use a derogatory term "polock" would that and associated bull stem from the fact that you're a prejudiced idiot?

I think the main difference between your world view and mine is you can live in mine.

Just read Heinleins Starship Troopers, its a political satire but you'll find it interesting.
Sokrates   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

Thats because of a certain stereotype that existed and still does exist in the West, but the Market is not governed by stereotypes but by the raw gain, on every possible field the best workers out there are the Poles, if we werent quality workers we wouldnt occupy so many high ranking positions in various companies right now, notice how suddenly the Polish plumber is gone? Thats because the locals suddenly realised plumbing is not the only thing we do better then the rest of Europe.

Thats why i'm optimistic about EU, politicians might fuss but 20 years from now we'll be holding the old economies by the balls, first UK now this crisis prove that we're just that awesome as far as work and trade, stereotypes or not we are the financial future of Europe.
Sokrates   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

That Poles work harder than any other nationality?

In Europe? Yes, harder, cheaper and more efficient, your own job market proves my point. No one including famed Germans comes even remotely close.

Well it is really if youre a UK citizen with a family to support being undercut by cheap Polish migrants.

Well first you needed us to scrub toilets, then your employers discovered we do managing better too, you could of course try to match us in efficiency, invisible hand of the market and all that.

there it is again this belief that Poles work harder than anybody else,

I dont know about anybody, i imagine many Asian cultures have superior work ethics but as far as Europe, yeah we can and did outdo anyone and everyone here.

in the UK they worked hard as they knew they could earn 8 times more than their Polish salary.

You live in Poland you should know better, they worked hard because Poland is a tough enviroment, hard work for small money and high expectations regarding the outcome, amusingly years of communism and wolf-like capitalism that came afterwards shaped us into the most badass workforce in Europe.

Though given what we did with our country in the interwar period i'm leaning to Poles being some of the worlds most resourceful people communism or not.

With regard to Poles working hard in Poland sorry i just cant see it

Its ok, your employers can. For some reason they prefer us over other Eastern Europeans, Brits and everyone else, must be our good looks:)

Besides its mostly the Poles with real dedication and an abbility to succeed that have the balls to up off to another country.

Then we must have quite a few people with balls and an ability to succeed since i'm watching it happen all around here in Poland.

Also for a country of losers whho's succesfull youth left for better shores we do pretty good in crisis, you know being the only country on the continent to experience economic growth and all.
Sokrates   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

Nah not at all

No we conquered your market because we're so damn sexy your employees prefer to give us job over anyone else.

can you believe that in my home town of Southampton its claimed 1 in 11 is Polish

Yes i can, i'd be fed up with Brits if a couple hundred thousand invaded my country too but its not like we're turning your comfy world upside down we assimilate pretty well.

Ah petrol cheating is common but otherwise we're doing better job even at home, the main problem in Poland is the laws and the goverment, the laws are f*cked up and the goverment is as corrupt as it gets which messes with quality of what a common citizen does.

Now in a country with normal (compared to Poland) laws and administration we just conquered the sh*t out of anyone and everyone using nothing else but our work.
Sokrates   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

Poles in the UK affects many Brits nice comfortable lives.

Yeah by making your job 2x better and 4x cheaper then you're able to do it, we affect your lives by having superior work ethic not by beating the sh*t out of you for not covering your faces etc.

At best, there is also Auschwitz.

There's two sides to every coin, Germans chose the wrong one.

Co-operation, in my honest opinion, is the only thing that will save the human race.
It has saved us so far.

Absolutely, so lets co-operate with Muslims when they're ready, right now they're not and i'm not willing to give it a shot when my country and my heritage are at stake.

I never fully understood what you would like? I can assume you would like to be the dictator but if that were not possible, what way do you think things should be run? and why?
I think democracy is the best we have on offer.

Watch Verhoovens (pretty sure i focked the spelling) Starship Troopers, or read the book its based on, enlightened authoritarism with freedom of everything as long as it doesnt f*ck with the system and a system that promotes personal responsibility, democracy does not.

Its like Germans in WW2, 90% of Germans loved Hitler but because of the 10% decent ones suddenly all Germans of the war period become potentially decent, i f*cking hate collective irresponsibility, anyway watch the movie or read Heinleins book.

In our current democracy you do not have this fear.

Rubbish Sean, in UK you cant even fire a n*gger without having a racial charge, in Sweden there's double stardards where Muslims are priveliged, your old democracies are weak and Muslims take advantage of them and the host countries, i dont want Poland to follow your example and be exploited by barbarians.

If you make a cartoon about Jesus a Polish community in UK will send you an angry letter, if you make a cartoon about Muhhamad you're gonna get stabbed by an angry paki, now tell me muslim society is just like us.
Sokrates   
12 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

It seems to be a tenancy, for the masses, to believe the current 'enemy'

Sorry Sean i'm not the "masses" and i have comparison between UK and Poland, we dont even have slums the way you define them.

I do not believe mixing cultures is always a good thing, mixing German and Polish cultures have among other things produced Kopernik, mixing Muslim and British culture produced slums.

Just because tolerance and co-operation works for some races/nations/cultures doesnt mean it works always and for everyone.

This is an interesting post, German Nazis were fond of using gas chambers, I am sure you are aware. And you are basically slandering people and saying "people who have a different point of view to me ought to be killed", again tried in many regimes.

Sorry i dont like democracy that much, its a neccesary evil but being an egoist that i am i dont like that other people get to express their opinions as well, especially if their opinions lead to threatening my nice comfortable life by letting Muslims into Poland.

I dont want to watch my back in fear of offending some caveman, i dont want stuff that co-existence with these bastards brings, i dont want Poland to become rife with ethnic issues is that so wrong?

I think Sokrates, that you would make a very good North Korean, you have the right attitude.

Only if they were wealthy, not gonna sacrifice my weekly beer for my ideals:)

This could have easily been said about 'The evil godless commies'.

Absolutely, communists were even worse in that Muslims want to dominate us and destroy our way of life while Communists wanted to dominate us and corrupt our way, this blurred the borders of good/bad and left a lasting impression.
Sokrates   
11 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

what about European muslims(albanian,bosnia,herzegovia,a little of macedonia)...are they allowed or youre gonna throw them out as well?

Of course not, they're of the same cultural circle, their society is plagued by the same problems as ME Muslims and they generate the same issues.

will turn into a racism competition from beginning

Nothing racist about facts buddy, too much cultural and racial diversity is not a good thing and Sweden/Denmark/France/UK are living proof of it.
Sokrates   
11 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

Thats a bit harsh, wouldnt you say (PMSL)..

No i would not, use google and read a bit about whats happening in Sweden where idiots like LTB run the country, Muslim people get suspended sentences for rape and murder on Swedes in the name of political correctness.

I dont know whether LTB is trying to provoke or is he genuine but he repeatedly outright ignored the fact that Muslims and Blacks behave and live like apes causing severe degradation anywhere they live, i dont know and dont care whether its because of their race, culture or civilisation the fact is Muslims make a dump out of every place they move in and i dont want them here, Poland is very safe compared to Western countries, mainly because its Muslim-free.
Sokrates   
11 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

I dont give a sh*t whether Europeans killed, raped or sodomized a bazilion of blacks and arabs in the past, this is the present and we modern Europeans do not owe sh*t to those barbarians.

I'm not going to tolerate backwards barbarians destroying our heritage just because of some vague argument about colonialism. Its here and now and i'm opposed to letting my safe and civil country be polluted by Muslims, Turks and other stoneage people, i've seen enough sh*t in London.

White non-muslim Europeans sure, in any numbers, Muslims and Blacks never.
Sokrates   
11 Jan 2010
News / Should Poland Remove Visa Restrictions? [285]

You mean hippy idiots that ignore social problems and allow native Europeans to be hurt by agressive non-European immigrants in the name of political correctness? I say LTB and other retards like him need to be round up and gassed for the sake of Europe.
Sokrates   
4 Jan 2010
Travel / Polish Architecture [147]

Glimpses of Poland.

Some examples of Polish architecture you can find all across Poland and in Ukraine and Belarus (the areas encompassed by the Old Republic).

From our golden period when Polish influence could be felt from Kiev to Budapest to the interwar period of 1920-39.

First the great fortress city of Zamość, this reneissance fortress and its city was the most powerfull stronghold in Poland and among the greatest fortresses of Renessaince Europe, while the fortifications deteriorates the city itself largely survived the turbulent years and was restored to its former glory.

Fort
Remnants of the mighty walls of Zamość.
Staszica
To the town square
View on the tower
Streets

The Renaissance streets of old Zamość.
Academy
Zamoyska Academy where Polish military elite once trained.
Town square
Renessaince houses on the town square.
Town square wall

A wall of town square buildings, in the foreground richer merchant houses, in the back regular citizens buildings.

Town square
Another wall of Zamość town square.
Southern wall
South wall of the town square (at least i think its the south one).
Town hall

The magnificent town hall of Zamość, the seat of the civilian administration back when it was a fortress.

Courtyard

Zamoyska academy courtyard.
Arsenal

The arsenal of the old fortress.

Arsenal in full view.

Sean you should've told me earlier i'd hijack yours instead of making a new one, well whats done is done.

I asked WB to merge my thread with yours, i'll post more pics in yours if its OK with you.