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convex   
8 Sep 2010
Genealogy / Polish nationality? Which of the following (if any) determine being Polish. [231]

So whatever you would done ppl will always try to make some groups and compete with others

And I figure if we grow past that, and just start competing against one another, one on one, things will be better for everyone. But hey, I'm an unapologetic libertarian.
convex   
8 Sep 2010
Genealogy / Polish nationality? Which of the following (if any) determine being Polish. [231]

A small digression only to serve a point. Convex, what of people with native American Indian heritage? I know a guy with those roots. He doesn't conform to the traditional American model but is he still an American?

does he eat mcdonalds? speaks english at home? watches american tv? they're(we're) americans.
convex   
8 Sep 2010
Genealogy / Polish nationality? Which of the following (if any) determine being Polish. [231]

Saying you must have been born there and speak the language is offensive, especially to me since one of my great grandfathers came here from German owned Poland, and the other had to flee Russian owned Poland after he was drafted into the Russian army, and had to change his name and hide in America.

You have Polish heritage, but, you're about as Polish as Jackie Chan.
convex   
8 Sep 2010
Food / Is Polish food still more natural than in the West? [142]

McD has good double cheeseburgers for a dollar over here. They have an entire Dollar menu. One can feed their entire family for a few bucks.

The EU doesn't provide enough subsidies to corn farmers to make meat that cheap over here. Also no large meat factories, at least not to the same scale as in the US. Most of the beef is grass fed, McDonalds has pretty decent meat over here.
convex   
8 Sep 2010
Genealogy / Polish nationality? Which of the following (if any) determine being Polish. [231]

A confusing life. What nationality? What culture do they abide... what traditions and what holidays do they celebrate?... Too much. It's all I can do to keep up with one... Lol...

Some people like to pick and choose. Do what you enjoy, no need to stick to your group.
convex   
8 Sep 2010
Food / Electric Grilling - I highly recommend it :) [30]

Seriously, go on. Rub it in.

I have to grill meat with gas because it's the only thing I can get away with on my balcony. I can often be found at home staring at the propane bottle dreaming of brisket.
convex   
8 Sep 2010
Genealogy / Polish nationality? Which of the following (if any) determine being Polish. [231]

1) Blood

That would seem to make you a descendant of a Pole.

2) Birth/Habitation

If you're not in the environment, you will lose perspective. With each passing month or year that you're in a different culture, your views will change look at issues based adapted to your surroundings.

3) Culture

The religion bit is hilarious. I wonder if most people practice the same kind of Catholicism abroad as they do here. Regarding the language, how f*cking arrogant do you have to be to claim to be of a group of people, and not speak the language. That's just disgusting. Shows a massive disconnect to the culture, and unwillingness to want to be part of it. If you claim to be Polish, and you don't speak the language to any degree, you're as Polish as I am Chinese.

4) Personal preference/declaration

How about us mixed babies? Some of us feel comfortable in quite a few different cultures, and are accepted as "native".

5) Sth else?

Great comment.

We are products of our environment. Environment changes, so do we.
convex   
8 Sep 2010
Food / Electric Grilling - I highly recommend it :) [30]

charcoal sucks donkey balls. wood or gas man :)

I have mine strategically wedged into a corner of the balcony.

I would kill for a smoker here...
convex   
7 Sep 2010
History / When will you Poles give back German land and the cities which you robbed? [557]

Except that, Germans don't care about the war. The younger generation has nothing to do with it, and don't really care much about Polish animosity towards them for it. The only people that even remember that Breslau and Posen were once German are the over 60 crowd. Younger Germans look around and see Turks, Slavs, Africans, Asians, Balkan folks... all with German passports, all hanging out together wondering what the Poles are going on about.

Sorry man, no war coming from the West.
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Is it Halloween or not? ;>

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=hMnk7lh9M3o

My grandma who was still useing kuchnia kaflowa until she died few years ago, she used to make some podpłomyki whenever she was making pierogi or pasta

My friends mother out in the country has one. Some of the most amazing meals I've ever had came from that kitchen.
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

bułka paryska (in £ódź called angielka)

will give it a shot tomorrow :)
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

slow down... they didn't guess the Marzanna question yet...

what the hell is it doing in a river?

And that looks like unleavened bread...
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

What is this pupper doing in the stream? What's her name?

Sacrifice to the god Ramuu. Her name is Suzy.

a. chleb z rodzynki ? I have no clue.
b. chalka
c. bagieta
d. no clue again
convex   
7 Sep 2010
USA, Canada / PolAms -- do you regard yourselves only as 'white Americans'? [187]

So are the millions of 4th and 5th generation Irish Americans weak for identifying closely with their tribe by celebrating their Irish heritage? To the point where they feel the need to make the river of a major American city green?

apparently.
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

a - raisin bread
b - challah
c - baguette or flute
d - zwykli...or however that sadistic (but delicious) bread is spelled

whats the name of it in english:

dill? koperek?
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Come to think of it, I may have seen it on deviled eggs.
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

d - rzezucha - cress

What is cress used with in Polish cooking?
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Next:

Another strange item from the future. Something mutated form of leek?
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

a - Pola Negri
b - looks like Paris Hilton...hehe ;)
c - Josepf Conrad
d - Tamara de Lempicka (£empicka) - Maria Górska
e - Michel Adam Lisowski

hmmm, interestingly enough, you named all the ones with the names in the pictures...
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Real Estate / Cost of rent for a four room apartment outskirt of Wroclaw [17]

otodom.pl has a couple as well.

yes but a person on the dole in ireland gets 3 times as much as a person in Poland working for minumum wage. You could rent a large 1 bedroom apartment in Naas now, and be on the dole Monthly rent 550 euro + monthly dole 1000 euro.(rent allowance included)

What's your point? Poles can afford it. It's a larger percentage of their income compared to Ireland. On the other hand, Poles don't like having €115,000 of household debt

herald.ie/national-news/household-debt-is-now-euro115000-for-every-family-1514983.html
so I guess all is ok in the end. Gotta pay that money back sometime you know. They also don't like trading long term stability for short term growth, quite enjoy a steadily growing GDP. Another thing that is kind of strange to them is the fact that Ireland is so rich, but there are so few jobs. How can that be? It's a very strange phenomenon. Things like, how will a vastly inflated wage market attract jobs? Maybe the wise Irish on this forum can answer these questions, Poles sure can't. Poles will continue to go on in the same idiotic fashion by which they gradually build up the economy, not buying into consumerist get rich quick credit schemes. The government are a bunch of idiots as well, clinging on to a currency they can control, and not slashing interest rates to nil. Yes, yes, yes. Poland should be much more like Ireland. European role model.
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Life / INVISIBLE MAN in shops and offices in Poland? [70]

Ive experienced that, i just start saying quite loudly in English - words like "what the fcuk do you think im standing here for". It makes my blood boil.

yup
convex   
7 Sep 2010
Food / Is Polish food still more natural than in the West? [142]

One farm makes a range of real (i.e. not factory-made) cheeses. They have won prizes and their products are good, but mostly they export - there is little demand for good cheese in PL.

Stop being selfish, give us a name :)