Life / Fashion and Style in Poland [174]

I used to be shocked when I first came to US and would see women going out shopping with their hair curlers on. Now that's trashy.

Life / You are Polish if... [433]

Oh, I get it, thanks. It's like making sure nobody's getting a better deal? LOL I guess that's Polish, but not exclusively.

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]

To most it means that if you see somebody in danger, you have to do something. The actual law, IMO, is that if you screw up while trying to help, you cannot be sued. But it eliminates one of the reasons why a passerby would be reluctant to help. And it helps if you kicked attacker's ass!


Is there a law that if you see a crime being committed, you have to report it?

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]

It is your duty to report it. It is the duty of anyone that saw it to report it as well. It may even be a law.

BTW are there good samaritan laws in England and Poland?

Life / You are Polish if... [433]


I don't know what that means.

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]

It just pi$$es me of when somebody is victimized and they don't do anything about it. Granted, it's easiest to do nothing at all, but, what's doe is done - you are the victim, the first in line that should fight back!

Life / You are Polish if... [433]

Last couple of weeks I've been able to clean on Friday night after having couple of drinks. I don't drink all week, and if I manage to "drink responsibly" on Friday, then...I get very energetic. So after the beasts are asleep, I put the wireless headset on, and go crazy wiping the hole house down, sometimes re-arranging the furniture, cliping hedges in the moonlight... great fun! I sweat out the alcohol, and wake up next .. afternoon feeling pretty good, and to the clean house! Highly recommended.

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]


What on earth is a pawel??

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]


I'm not saying anything. I just want the complete picture. Pakistani, Chineese, black? Really tall and good looking, or old and fat?
And another thing that bothers me about this: why would they think that they can get away with this crap??

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]

It may be that you were with a polish girl, or it could have been that you were with a white girl.. not that either one is worse than the other, but

are you a caucasian male, napster?

Life / You are Polish if... [433]

I think this strict rule was loosened to from 'Saturday' to 'Spring'.

Love / My husband going to Poland after gotten his green card. Dreading his visit home to mom. [20]

chelle, ignore Zimmy. He tries not to pass any opportunities to bash women. Hateful little troll.

Love / My husband going to Poland after gotten his green card. Dreading his visit home to mom. [20]

So, is it "normal' for a married couple to spend 2 months vacations apart?
And two months?? Once you've grown up, the time spent with your mother pretty much consists of Christmas and Easter dinners (unless her roof colapsed or something), and that does not add up to even 2 weeks in 6 years. And that's assuming you bring your own wife and family, not just by yourself.

Even when married people are separated for work, it usually does not strengthen the marriage, let alone extended 'vacations'.
I would try to arrange vacations together, even if they are limited to one or two weeks. I'm not a great fan of institution of marriage, but at the minimum, to me it means spending the nights together.

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]

that is seriously messed up. I hope you are able to track them down and have them pay. And I hope there's not more to it than that, and your girl is an innocent (you have to excuse me, I watch waay too much TV)

Life / You are Polish if... [433]

Those are lazy contributions. How about making an effort and coming up with a Polish trait to amuse the rest of us?

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]

I am very sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better soon. And I hope the attackers are caught and prosecuted.
But I need to ask - do you think they beat you up because you were with a Polish girl?

Love / How to please Polish women? [216]


When I was bartending in New York, I had a simple system of assistance worked out with one particular group of "weekend warriors". When they were about to buy a drink for a woman they just met, I would hold up one finger if I had any information that they had a good chance of getting lucky if they got her drunk enough. Two fingers if I knew she was single and looking, far from a sure bet, but she only accepts drinks from the guys she is interested in, and three fingers for the least desirable type, the one that thinks men should be buying her drinks for a simple reason that she is a girl, and there were no strings attached.

Love / How to please Polish women? [216]

lol
I like to think that everyone pays their own way, one way or another.
Sometimes it is easier to put the plastic down instead of everyone assuming that you're giving it up in trade.

Love / How to please Polish women? [216]


LOL Self assured?? Can you hear the alarms ringing in your head?? .. and... should she pay her own way or not?

Real Estate / Buying a house in POland from "gmina"? [6]

thanks!

Life / How Polish are you? [74]

from that first test, you'd think that Poland is a church-state.

Real Estate / Buying a house in POland from "gmina"? [6]

It's in south central Poland. Kazimierza County.
Any idea what the taxes on something like that might be, let's say 1 acre? House is not livable, it's a hazard - back half of it is caved in.

Love / How to please Polish women? [216]


and what happens to that interest when you start talking about the evil feminist cults?

Love / My husband going to Poland after gotten his green card. Dreading his visit home to mom. [20]

Have you considered going with him?

Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]

Oh no! You cannot compare the delicate, with a touch of lemon, taste of ptasie mleczko to the marshmallow sugar bomb! I protest!

Food / Polish culinary dislikes [83]

Then there is one Polish dish that I cannot get my American friends to buy into - sledziki - herring with onion in oil. You sweat the onions with bit a of vinegar first. Mmmm. Polish sushi, I tell them!

And I'm crazy about the stuff. Around here, the only herring I can get is the one in wine sauce or sour cream. Both disgustingly sweet.

Food / Where can you buy a crockpot aka slow cooker, in Krakow? [38]

I went through a crockpot phase myself. The best thing about it you can throw some meat and veggies in it in the morning, turn it on and when you come back from work you have a pretty good stew ready. The worst thing about it is that the liquids do not reduce properly. That's why the recipes always call for adding "quick-cooking tapioca" (??) or some such thing as a thickener.

Now I use my crockpot to keep the food warm during parties. It makes a pretty good ice bucket, too.

Life / You are Polish if... [433]

oh, whenever you come to Polish home, they insist on putting out food - at least some appetizers - to welcome you. That's why I always joke that in Poland it is more polite to visit during meals. It saves hostess some work.

I don't know what Seanus means. Everyone I know always says thank you when getting up from the table.

USA, Canada / What do the Poles hate and love about the U.S.? [170]

Zakopane.
Tougher for me is: Rockies or Alps?

Life / You are Polish if... [433]

and
... start putting the entire contents of your refrigerator on the table the moment you hear a knock on the door.