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modafinil   
1 Aug 2013
Real Estate / Stronger zloty - potential driver for Poland's property market [42]

There's an expected weakening of the Euro aginst the dollar today when Draghi speaks at 12:30 ET
ecb.int/press/tvservices/webcast/html/webcast_130801.en.html
In whichever direction it does go it will be a good trend trade lasting for a couple of weeks when combined with US employment stats on Friday.

Plenty of countries want the French and German investment touting the steady Eurozone. The Zloty get stronger the jobs/exports will go to the desperate countries - Spain and Bulgaria & Romainia very soon. A strong Zloty certainly doesn't stretch EU funding either. Anyone trading EUR/PLN for long term gains is a bit nutty as would anyone buying the zloty while the rate is still bouncing at 4.2 for long term and even then there are easier pairs to make money off without having to gamble.

If I was to take an 'risk' I'd be going for 4.33 by the end of this month even though rumour is of Euro weakening today. But I don't gamble or guess with exotics. The pair is used by hedge funds with a very few purist currency speculators due to a very small stats base/ lack of info.
modafinil   
30 Jul 2013
Real Estate / Stronger zloty - potential driver for Poland's property market [42]

If my guessing is good,

Any source/evidence? Right now there are plenty willing to go in at 4.2 EurPln expecting 4.8 long term. If you want to go that way wait 'til it breaks below 4.2 for at least a couple of weeks. It's only been on a downtrend for the past 2 weeks because of Bernanke. USD is expected to get stronger against near everything once tapering starts.
modafinil   
31 May 2013
History / Poland is a Catholic country [177]

In Poland people go to church, but many don't follow the churchs' teachings.

Then there has never ever been a Catholic. Not even Jesus who enjoyed a drink and worked on the day Sabbath.
And seeing how the Pope goes to confession(admits to sin) you have answered the question "Is the Pope Catholic?" According to you he isn't.

Now tell me, does a bear sh1t in the woods?
modafinil   
27 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Why are Brits so left-wing? [60]

Morality is based on Christianity here. So people believe it is just to heal the sick, shelter the homeless, give to the poor, love thy neighbour...

Also most school and college teachers are usually left wing as is the most well known media outlet, the BBC.
modafinil   
19 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Not leaving for the long term. Foreign investors are taking out the money now hoping to buy back the same amount of 'product' at a cheaper price due to the euro's spiralling weakness.
modafinil   
17 May 2012
Life / Poles always ask how much money you earn. Why do they do this? [30]

It seems very forthright and not so subtle. Though I tend to ask people on first meeting them "So what is it you do [for a living]". If they say something like "I'm a waiter" Not only do I know they are low paid but probably quite thick, to boot.

But, I'd guess it is just a way to gauge differences in Salaries across countries. Job titles like manager or engineer are distorted in the UK at least. I have known directors well into six figures who call themselves managers as well as office supervisors on five times less that use the same title. There's no bullspit job titles when it comes down to how much you earn which is your worth to an employer.
modafinil   
13 May 2012
Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]

Tens of thousands of students in universities across Britain have been caught cheating in exams and coursework

Don't make this about Britain!
I was in the first year where the English language exam was 100% coursework. One of my classmates had a private tutor who my classmate requested of him to get him a grade B. So the tutor wrote all his essays for him and got him his B grade.

More recently, an examining board was secretly filmed giving the questions that were going to be in a forthcoming final year exam to the school teachers on a plate. When the examining board cheat...
modafinil   
12 May 2012
Love / Mixed Race Relationships (Polish guy married a Filipino/Spanish) [13]

Studies on adopted twins, away from there alcoholic parents, have shown much higher chance (It might have been 5-6 times more likely) of the child becoming an alcoholic than enviromental factors where the chance was only slightly higher than the averge child of tea-total parenting, comparatively. Found to be true with apes also. Sorry if it reads as gobbledegook, but alcoholism is nature not nurture.

People from the far east need far less than Europeans to reach a state of inebriation (if that's your goal as an alky) and so have less chance of cirrhosis the big cause of alcohol related deaths.
modafinil   
9 May 2012
News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]

A lot of east asians, a handful of arabs and africans. Sounds cool.

I suspect that was the EU plan. The west can get its dish washers from poorer European countries while cherry picking high skilled workers globally.

As long as Poland is poorer than the west they can only breed employees for the west. Make the poorer countries richer and the people won't need to leave.
modafinil   
9 May 2012
News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]

Some might say they got half of that right.

Anyway, the world's birth rate is far too high - we are heading for a crisis.

Really that the world's resources are being wasted and used inefficiently by some countries. Some fatties already eating three times the food (and so needing three times more farmland) they really need and arn't willing to walk or cycle to their local McDonalds.
modafinil   
8 May 2012
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

Guys, anything intelligent from you?

Shouldn't they set an example and provide reparations for the land they steal to this day from Palestinians?

And this juxtaposition:

As an aside, I wonder how successful we Prussians would be in claiming for the properties we lost as a result of the Treaty of Versailles, one of my Grandparents had to abandon his horse farm as refugees from Polish persecution.

Seem to be intelligent and valid.
modafinil   
28 Apr 2012
News / UstroĊ„: Another giant religious statue in Poland [26]

Shame He looks more like Richard The LionHeart in a bathrobe with that silly crown.

It does make Christ appear 'old-hat' by adding a crown, however well designed. King of kings made sense once upon a time when we were ruled by monarchs. I much prefer the statues with open arms, welcoming and ever ready to embrace, than an autocrat with a big stick.
modafinil   
27 Mar 2012
Genealogy / Being ashamed of Polish ancestry? [156]

That inebriated Pole could be a great artist, and even if he isn't, why not be proud of his prowess as a tippler?

How can you be proud of Polish p'ss artists. You need your warped mind cones checked.
modafinil   
25 Mar 2012
News / Drunken Brit beats up young Polish policewoman [62]

The real fool is the one who is unable to look at the figures, do the maths and come up with his or her own conclusion.

Your quoted non-authority and his estimates. Yes a real fool.

Brits abroad 5.5 million. Brits in prison abroad 2600
Poles abroad 3 million(max). Poles in Prison abroad 7000

Do the maths.
modafinil   
25 Mar 2012
UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]

Species are divided down to sub-species, not races.
If you read Darwin you will see he mentions various races of cabbage for example and a plurality of races of domestic(British) dogs. Races divided the way there are now sprung from justifying slavery by claiming they are an alien race. Generally race is accepted as a mental construct, that is, has no objective scientific meaning, species does There is no such thing as a permanent race according to Darwin.

Humans can be considered a race of humanoids as an example when speaking of the human race. Race is not a synonym for pedigrees as racists like to think of it. You know how pedigrees are made, of course.
modafinil   
24 Mar 2012
News / Drunken Brit beats up young Polish policewoman [62]

Not just any stats, these stats are compiled by the Police and Home Office, and what they demonstrate is that Poles are 4 times more law abiding than the locals.

The stats are accurate the conclusion is erroneous and too foolish to have been made by anyone in authority. Come on why no link to the quoted 'statistician'?

You are right about not being able to dport them. It was more the stats and the blues soundtrack I looked at.

worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/9543053.Polish_criminal_sent_back_home/

A POLISH man who caused two years of crime and disorder in Worcester has been deported.
Using new laws, West Mercia Police worked with the UK Border Agency to send Piotr Ziobro back to Poland.
The 23-year-old, a rough sleeper with no fixed address, had been arrested 21 times and convicted of more than 30 offences relating to violence and disorder incidents, thefts and using threatening words and behaviour since arriving in Worcester in late 2009.

It is the first time West Mercia Police has used the new legislation