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FUZZYWICKETS   
4 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

+stores were empty: True. But then there was a second circuit. A peasant woman would bring a good choice of mutton or veal, from illegal home butchery. So once every two weeks there was some meat on the table...

yeah, that's all I needed to read. surely you lived in the land of freedom, after all, you had meat on the table once every two weeks when the "peasant woman" stopped by from the "illegal home butchery." haha.....oh man.
FUZZYWICKETS   
4 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

As I'm sick of saying - just because your lifestyle in Poland was small flats, kotlet schabowy and no job security doesn't mean that everyone is like that.

And I'm sick of asking the mods to do something about your constant personal attacks. It's getting pretty ridiculous.

Make your point. No, seriously....why did you just say that. Make your point.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

who is suggesting that those things should be the basis of the nation's life? nobody is making that claim.

and yes, it is all about us, but it is not because of atheism. you have absolutely no proof of that....because there is none.

holy crap you are over the top. holy roller extraordinaire.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

technically that's correct, because they can refuse a visa to a pole for whatever reason they like, because they are polish. if they weren't polish but a member of a country within the VWP, they couldn't do that.

it's the law and it's their decision (their country), but i guess it can be seen as a form of discrimination, why not.

some people though have reasons to discriminate against others.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

I was there during the '80's and beleive me finding a decent English teacher was hard. Plenty of Russian and German teachers for everyone though.

Precisely what I routinely heard from all my older students.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

How can you explain this, when three very conformist nations - America, the UK and Germany are all very well travelled as a nation?

why are you only talking about how "well traveled" they are? plus, who thinks americans are well traveled? don't like 85% of them not even own a passport?

You haven't got a clue how widely English was taught, so why are you persisting?

What makes you think I don't have a clue? Where do you come up with this stuff? Where do you get YOUR source on this topic?

I'll tell you how I know this, because I've spoken to a gadzillion Poles who all told me exactly what I'm telling you. Say what you want dude, but my boots were on the ground long enough to know these things.

Oh, that, and the fact that once you step outside a big city rynek, you're hard pressed to find anyone over 30 that can speak any english at all.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

there you go fuzz !

I didn't ask you to show me my post again. I wrote it, I know what it says.

I'm asking you to do the intelligent thing and put your money where your mouth is. Where am I scorning someone's faith in that post?

And I repeat, at a time when church-going was the norm or a society-wide phenomenon, people misbehaved less, marriages split up less often, hence custody battles and parental abductions were a rarity.

what a load of crap that is. speaking of ad nauseam....
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

Seriously - you need to stop basing Poland on your own experience of small flats and uneducated inlaws.

More BS mods. Do something.

Again - what has that got to do with being individualistic?

if you don't see how greater opportunity and exposure to "more" leads to individualism, then I can't help you.

I found Poles to be quite cookie cutter, especially the men.

It was taught in some schools, it was taught in universities - that's pretty wide if you ask me.

seriously, just give up on that one.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

you spent 5 years of hell in a low-paid profession with no job security, and the thought that Poles might have something positive is ghastly to you.

Honestly mods, I'd like to express my opinion without personal attacks and lies from Delphiandomine. I did nothing to provoke this crap. I simply answered the OP's question.

What has that got to do with being individualistic?

having more money provides more opportunity and greater exposure. this is common sense.

English was quite widely taught even before the 1990's.

we obviously have different defnitions of "widely".

If you'd actually met educated people in Poland, you'd know that English wasn't as inaccessible as one might have thought.

I just figured I'd point that one out to you too, mods.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

Polish people are very individualistic? Man, I just don't see how.

The entire country is white.

The entire country is Catholic.

Communism not long ago, people weren't even able to travel, or couldn't afford to do so.

Limited funds for years and years which simply exposes you to "less".

Limited international media exposure, especially those that don't speak English, which was nearly everyone until the 1990's.

On paper, Poland is a recipe for "Vanilla". If Poland seems invidualistic to you, you probably need to travel more.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

as far as the planning to stay and work part goes its laughable since the unemployment is somewhwere in the teens.

FALSE.

altho I did apply for a canadian citizenship which will allow me to enter free.

hahaha. you tell us all how much america sucks, and then you apply for citizenship in "America Light".

You clearly are scorning the USA just because you couldn't get in.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

the topic says nothing about agnostics

I'm not agnostic.

What the hell are you doing here ?

People who live in glass houses......

You honestly cannot be serious. This is clearly not a "Catholic or faith follower only" thread. What a stupid thing to write.
FUZZYWICKETS   
3 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

BTW, lots and lots of agnostics and atheists also attend Mass (I used to) for the sake of family members etc. So in fact you have absolutely no idea what's really going on the church-going universe ;-p

Right. My students used to routinely laugh at church. Very few of them took it seriously and I think most of the younger crowd do it just to appease their mother.

Anyway it is not difficult to convince a person to turn away from religion, after all living a morally lawless life and doing whatever feels good sounds like a fantastic life, but it does not mean it is necessarily the right way to live.

I have officially had enough of you. I also officially am going to tell you to go fukc yourself. You self righteous, holy rolling, condescending, arrogant $hit bag. Yes, enjoy that one.

I'm a damn good person without belief in any God and for all you other non-believers on this forum, don't put up with bull$hit like that even for a second.

P3 just can't accept that it's possible to accept all (or most) of the Ten Commandments, yet not be religious.

With all due respect, no it's not possible. The first 4 commandments are entirely religion based. If you don't believe in Jesus, they simply don't apply to you:

1) Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

2) Worship only God, do not have any other idols

3) Do not use the Lord's name in vain

4) Keep the Sabbath holy

That already brings your 10 down to 6 if God is not part of your life. Almost half are now useless to you. Even #7 doesn't apply to most people because just about everyone wants to have sex before marriage which as was previously mentioned, is not cool with JC. As for the rest.....not killing, lying, stealing? Geeeeeeenius.......
FUZZYWICKETS   
1 Jul 2012
Real Estate / What do you pay in rent/mortgage in Poland? [144]

those interest rates seem almost impossible. 31%? I'd be better off buying a house with my credit card, it has a lower rate.

average interest rates for a mortgage in the USA right now is 4%.
FUZZYWICKETS   
28 Jun 2012
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

If they choose to enter low-paid, working class professions, why should they get more in life?

The choice Polish people make has nothing to do with the point I was making.

And again - you fail to realise that this sort of thing is normal in Europe as a whole.

This has nothing to do with Europe as a whole. YOU fail to recognize that we're talking about Polish reality and that's it.

Like I said dude, make your point.

It doesn't apply at all in Poland, a country where mortgages were pretty uncommon until what, the start of the century?

EXACTLY. The mortgage thing is new and the Polish economy is not ready for it to become "the norm".
FUZZYWICKETS   
28 Jun 2012
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Yeah, those millions of Poles living in little apartments in communist blocks, they all should have a good sit down with Delphiandomine. Let them all know they just need to work harder and go buy that big house in the hills.

"I mean guys.....it's not rocket science!"
FUZZYWICKETS   
28 Jun 2012
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

50 sq metres is only small to westerners that have different spacial needs.

2 parents, 2 children. Somebody's sleeping on the couch. Everyone should have "larger" spacial needs.

I think you're still clouded by the fact that you were misled into believing that nurses and policemen are middle class in Poland.

When you learn who actually is middle class and who isn't, then we can talk.

make your point.
FUZZYWICKETS   
27 Jun 2012
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

my opinion is that there will not be a bubble. There is a leveling off of the inflated existing prices of 2008. Buyers are in a good position because the market is saturated.

buyers that can afford to mortgage hundreds of thousands of PLN, along with coming up with the down payment. I think this forum continues to forget how much better you all earn compared to probably 90% of the country.

for people with cash, yes, it's great for them to see the prices dropping, but for the millions of poles that live in a tiny apartment or old run down house they never had to pay for and never would have been able to afford, eventually them or their children will have to buy something....and that's when the prices will need serious adjusting. the bare minimum for a family of 4 in Poland is 50 sq. meters (which is still absolutely awful) and there will have to be affordable housing for those that make crap Polish wages, which will bring the price of 50 sq. meter apartments down for everyone.

the property "bubble" in Poland will be when commie buildings are no longer inhabitable. people gotta live somewhere.
FUZZYWICKETS   
27 Jun 2012
USA, Canada / Golota facing deportation back to Poland [30]

everyone and their brother has a PBA card. anyone can get one and cops don't give a rat's a$$ whether you have one or not, but people try getting out of tickets with them all the time. it is NOTHING like a badge, not even an "honorary" one. it's a piece of cardboard.
FUZZYWICKETS   
26 Jun 2012
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Probably a person who realises that the shiny new apartment was built on the quick with every possible corner cut and therefore is worth nowhere near the amount the developer wants for it. When the market was booming, developers could get away with that kind of thing (just about). Now the market is stagnant, they simply cannot.

I just don't know how long I could live in a tiny apartment with my parents, sister, my wife and an infant child for example, with money to put down on a home, and simply continue to live like that all because "I'm just not happy with the material they used to build those walls in that bloc of flats." How many young adults know a damn thing about construction anyhow.

it comes down to dollars and cents, not construction quality. the market is not stagnant because 20 somethings starting families are far too saavy to buy poorly constructed apartments.
FUZZYWICKETS   
26 Jun 2012
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

Really? keep telling yourself that nobody is buying them cos they are crap... FGS polish people are used to living in Blocks, delapidated properties and concrete boxes. A shiny new apartment (even badly designed) has to be an improvement for millions of them?

ha, sometimes Delph is just hysterical. that dude will come up with the most outlandish ways of explaining things, it's uncanny. you hit the nail right on the head, gdyniaguy. who wouldn't take a shiny new apartment over the crap hole they most likely grew up in.......that is probably falling apart.

affordable to who? the people working in the local government offices?, the girls in beidronka?, the hotel and restaurant workers, shop workers, people working in factories making cheap plastic goods or polish doors and windows?... who are these people with the money? you sound like Peterweg!

gydyniaguy, it's because you don't know any wealthy people and live in a cardboard box, that's why you don't know about things like this ;) do you drive a car in poland? if not, that would make you even less knowledgable on the matter......
FUZZYWICKETS   
26 Jun 2012
Work / 4-5,000 gross enough to live off for 1 person in Poznan? [13]

40-50 - gas (every 2 months)

so you basically never drive.

To the OP, if you don't plan on vacationing out of Poland to visit countries with Euros/pounds, walk everywhere/public transport, don't have children or student loans, you'll be fine on that amount.