News / Raising Poland's legal drinking age to 21 [95]

kerul wrote:


No, they don't.

Many kids don't even have a DL when they're 18, let alone a car. How in the hell would a typical 18 year old kid afford a car in Poland without well to do parents? Somehow I doubt working 20 hours a week at Zabka is enough to pay for insurance, gas, repairs, car payments......

Kids 18-21 use trams, trains, buses or left foot, right foot.

News / Raising Poland's legal drinking age to 21 [95]

Pennboy wrote:


In general, I'd have to say that the longer you make them wait to drink (legally) the better, it at least gives law enforcement albiet a slim chance of stopping some of them but in Poland, because most kids ages 18-21 do not own cars anyhow, it may not have much of an effect on drunk driving. the "success" in the USA is due to the fact that most kids are getting their driver's licenses even before they're 18 and when they do, they all immediately get their own cars which means they all have the opportunity to drive to bars, restaurants, friends' houses, get wasted and drive home drunk.......but they all know how stiff the penalties are for getting caught, which saves lives.

It's just a theory of mine, I'd be curious as to what the statistics look like in Poland, meaning what age the drivers are that are killed in drunk driving accidents.

USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

Monia wrote:


which kinda means nothing......but....as you were.

USA, Canada / How long will a package take to mail from Poland to USA by sea? [21]

i don't think it makes a difference but I can't say for sure, I've never sent a package from Poland to the USA. mail sure, but not packages.

When I used to fly home to visit the USA, I used to send myself packages before I left by ship, they would take 7-8 weeks to get to me.

USA, Canada / To move back to Poland from the USA or not to move back....that is the question [119]

wielki pan wrote:


his point is that 4,400zl/month is not the avg. wage in Poland.

USA, Canada / To move back to Poland from the USA or not to move back....that is the question [119]

jacobadam wrote:


HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. nothing further.

jacobadam wrote:


I forgive you though, you wrote "The Poland". I love it when poles say "The Poland".

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

pennboy wrote:


pretty amazing numbers considering Ireland only consists of 6.2 million people. yeah, i'd say that's evidence that the Irish pound a lot of beer.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Ireland4ever wrote:


then you're being entirely oversensitive.

it's no different than anything else in this world. when people don't know much about a culture, they cling to the stereotypes and once a year holidays. can't blame them. people celebrate Mardis Gras and have no idea what it even means. Same goes for Cinco De Mayo. Hell, most people don't know the first thing about Thanksgiving, yet they all are eating pumpkin pie and turkey every year when it comes around. (I'll leave out Christmas......that's a whole' different can of worms.....)

i can't speak for Brits, Scandanavians, Poles....but in the USA, there is simply no disrespect towards the Irish and people simply do not think that Ireland is just a bunch of drunks.

Life / Exam for Drivers License in Poland; English? [99]

delphiandomine wrote:


If you're judging by crash statistics, you must take into consideration that in the USA, nearly everywhere you drive to has a big parking lot and the roads you're driving on are going to be wider with more lanes to drive on so it may not be better drivers but a better infrastructure. I absolutely loathed driving in Poland, it's simply not a pleasure to operate a vehicle there because of the attrocious road systems, I always felt like someone was just about to drive into me.

My wife got her DL this week, total cost = $20. Nothing more than a 20 minute touch screen exam and a 25 minute road test. 30 minutes after doing her road test, she walked out of the DMV holding a DL.

Also worth mentioning, in the USA the avg. age to get a DL is 16, some states are 15 and places like South Dakota and Kansas are 14 so by the time Americans are in their 20's they've already been driving for several years so even if a pole comes to the USA on a student visa and they're still in high school, depending on the state they are in, they could get a DL long before they'd be of legal age in Poland.

Life / Exam for Drivers License in Poland; English? [99]

Posted something yesterday and it disappeared, don't know why, so i'll make this short.

maniek2 wrote:


It's incredibly easy to get a DL in the USA. My mother in law was telling me last weekend that many poles are going to america and doing their DL there because it's easy and cheap. With a work visa or student visa, you can get a DL in the USA so I assume they get the American DL and then get an international driving permit so they can legally drive in the EU?

Has anyone heard of poles doing this?

USA, Canada / How long will a package take to mail from Poland to USA by sea? [21]

packages from the east coast to Poland typically took 8 weeks to get to me by boat.

Life / Why Polish people should be proud of being Polish? [370]

uuuuchhh..........yet another thread of poles trying to think up what poland is....or was good at. are you guys that self conscious? does the general opinions of others affect you THAT badly?

yes....yes of course....Poland is a REAL country, CENTRAL Europe, in the EU.....yes yes......we get it.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

to at the very least decrease the level of gun violence in the USA, education needs to be improved.

young kids growing up in crap neighborhoods with no futures turn to crime to make ends meet at a very young age. poverty needs to be decreased and education needs to be better. that breeds less criminals, less gun violence.

News / A devestating verdict on the Polish church [279]

ironside wrote:


you know what's funny? EVERYONE on PF thinks the same thing about you.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

wroclaw boy wrote:


i think this is overthinking it though.

as I see it, if the feds have the right to own something, so should the citizens of that country. if you start with taking their guns, it only progresses to other things.

also, if America was ever invaded, an army of 100,000,000 armed Americans with guns is better than a bunch of scared citizens hiding in their homes hoping the military and police force will take care of it.

of course there are consequences to this, that being there are a lot of crazy people that use guns for violence. hard to find a solution.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Wroclaw Boy wrote:


I would.

It's also worth mentioning that criminals know other criminals. They already have networks of drug dealers, thieves and such. If I could get one in 24 hours, they could in 24 minutes.

Non-criminals such as us, if we needed a gun, we'd do it the legal way. Guns cost more on the black market anyway.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

wroclaw boy wrote:


i've never done it but i'd assume it's just as easy as in any other country. i'm sure either of us could have a pistol in our hands by the end of today if we really wanted to.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

wroclaw boy wrote:


Aaaahhhh.....yet another guy buying into yet another USA stereotype.

This is the current process to purchase firearms in New Jersey where I'm from. Some of this is copy and paste:

-see the local Police Department

-get full set of fingerprints sent to the FBI, file all necessary paperwork whereas the PD will then run a heavy background check on you. if you have ANY convictions or complaints after the age of 18 years old, you are immediately rejected.

-provide three references who will be contacted by the police and asked for character references

-agree to release your medical records for the police to access.

After waiting probably months you will be issued a firearms id card that must reflect your current address. Move and you are out of compliance unless you get a new updated card. Now you can purchase a BBgun, which is considered a firearm in NJ, a shotgun or rifle. If you transport your firearm to a range or to hunt you must have your firearm id on you.

Want a pistol? Start the process over again and the purchasing permit is good for 30 days. In other words you have 30 days to purchase a pistol after receiving the purchasing permit. You also need to have a valid permit to buy ammunition of any kind.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

wroclaw boy wrote:


guns are theoretically used for these purposes in the USA, and look at how much gun violence exists.

you can buy a gun and tell the seller anything you want but how it gets used in the end, different story.

i would never support a law that prohibits a country's citizens from owning firearms, if the government can have them, so can the people, but guns are a problem where I'm from and something needs to be done for sure.

Language / Niech będzie pochwalony Jezus Chrystus - a religious greeting? [39]

i hear this spoken to priests all the time. still very common.

and creepy.

News / A devestating verdict on the Polish church [279]

Seanus wrote:


wouldn't you be if for 2000 years you got away with absolutely everything imaginable?

Ironside wrote:


that wouldn't be unique to the RCC, that would summarize "religion" in general, for every religion along with their believers think their religion is "the best".

delphiandomine wrote:


good for humanity? Yes.

lodz the boat wrote:


anyone that can turn water into wine and part seas, walk on water......it's hard to classify such a man as "poor". i'd assume that if he got hungry, he could turn a rock into a loaf of bread as well.

lodz the boat wrote:


there you go! now you're on the right track!

Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]

someguy wrote:


now i will ask you to tell me, since you did the same for portuguese, how long it took you to be fluent in polish along with how you learned it.

then we'll see how full of sh!t you are.

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

to the OP, i always wondered the same thing.

i've only flown LOT once, it was a short trip from Greece and it seemed no different really than one of those little Lufthansa prop planes. idk.

Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

aphrodisiac wrote:


no more than for my own.

aphrodisiac wrote:


haha. brilliant.

aphrodisiac wrote:


call it what you want.

zetigrek wrote:


that is simply an incorrect statement. do me a favor, show me where in this thread I started the discussion about the USA. go ahead, search through page 1 and 2 and you will find exactly what I put in my last post, in that exact order.

quit posting garbage.

Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

zetigrek wrote:


you're wrong.

i specifically requested several times for this thread to stay on topic, to stick with poland and not to rate other countries, yet failed in doing so. i even asked peterweg in particular why he was constantly referencing the USA in his posts

post #37, he wrote, completely out of nowhere, "USA. **** hole from coast to coast, Ive refused to move there (was offered it for work) and now refuse to even visit."

post #38, i asked him why he is bringing up the USA?

in post #42, he goes on and on trashing the USA for no particular reason and even finished the post with, "You know thats exactly the impression most visitors get of America?"

post #43, i yet again asked him, "why are you bringing up America?"

post #44, YOU wrote, "To rate something you have to have a point of reference. So comparing to America, Poland doesn't look so bad in the eyes of a Brit :)"

and then you attacked me right after saying, "Now you proove that you also have "zero understanding"."

only after this, i wrote post #54, and even started the post with, "I didn't want to make any Poland/USA comparisons but i will."

post #81, peterweg wrote to me that "The point is that you are judging a country by your own reference points." Remember YOUR comment about reference points? good.

and my last post about customer service stemmed from this comment from him, something you should agree with 100%. after all, "to rate something you have to have a point of reference", no?

both you and peterweg are so blindly anti-american it's ridiculous. your opinions are so completely biased that there's simply no discussing anything. I did my best to keep this thread on topic and to leave the USA out yet others decided, like in most threads on PF, that the USA needs to be included.

Marynka11 wrote:


no charts, but i'm still waiting for some others to give their ratings.

Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

peterweg wrote:


isn't that the basis of just about every opinion from anybody on anything? isn't a good opinion an experienced, educated one?

if you say a football team is excellent, they can only be excellent if they win most of the time.

if you say an employee is excellent, he can only be excellent if he's better than most other employees.

if you say that a restaurant makes amazing pizza, it's gotta taste better than almost every other pizza you've ever had.

when i judge something like customer service, i say it is bad in Poland because it's worse than anywhere i've ever been and certainly eons behind the USA.

what's wrong with that?

Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

aphrodisiac wrote:


sure, I'm guilty of that at times, but no more than anyone else in this forum. there are probably more threads and posts about America on PF than any other country, Poland included. the america reference is constant on PF.

aphrodisiac wrote:


My animosity displayed on this forum, I would argue, is a product of my strong understanding of this very thing. I don't hang out with Americans here, I learned Polish from scratch and have a Polish wife. I have had more than enough exposure to Poland and its people to have a very good understanding of this culture and my "beef" with people out here is how they just refuse to accept what their country really is. they are SO desperate to find something that their country does well or better than the rest that they're willing to puff it up to something it isn't and never was. Sorry, but I'm not going to keep my mouth shut when someone tells me customer service is good here, that Polish food is sooooo healthy and in America we only eat radioactive waste or that ethnic food is even worth considering in Poland.....and that's just food topics!

for those that haven't been reading my posts for very long, sure, i'm sure they see me as just a blatant poland hater who regrets ever coming here....but it's simply not true. the reason i even opened up a PF account is to comment on some of the completely absurd remarks on here about Poland and of course, because it's absolutely rampant here....comments about America.

as an english teacher in poland for 4 years, you can imagine how many poles i have met and the vast exposure i've had from it. i know quite well how polish people think and what people write on this forum just confirms it all. some good, some bad like any country....just don't tell me aphrodisiac that I "don't get it" because i slam poland and its people for talking utter crap. contrary to popular belief, i'd be more than happy to do the same towards america and its citizens, only those topics get even more frustrating hearing people tell me "how it is" in the USA when they've never even so much as set foot there.

aphrodisiac wrote:


of course. my time spent in poland has changed my life forever. an amazing learning experience that i will never forget. i've experienced plenty of good out here.....i just know that now, it's time to go home to the USA.

youtube.com/watch?v=oHqUipinDyw

Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

convex wrote:


Great! As for the 22 year old recent grad who just landed his first full time job in a city 45 minutes away, chances are he won't have such a luxury.

Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

convex wrote:


oh come on. you go on and on about not borrowing money/taking any credit but you know damn well as an american that if you don't own a car in the USA, you can't get to work in most instances. whether you have the money saved up or not, you have to get to work. how many people pay cash, in full, for their vehicles?

trener zolwia wrote:


oooooor you made an ass out of u and me.

peterweg wrote:


Then I guess you learned something today.

peterweg wrote:


oh pull your head out of your a$$. where did I judge you based on your name? you're a classic example of the guy looking to make mountains out of molehills. I never did such a thing, go back and read what I wrote earlier for crying out loud.

peterweg wrote:


unfortunately i have to agree with you on something. anything other than polish food in poland is just shite.

Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

zetigrek wrote:


I just thought of a new slogan for Poland:

"It's OK to be a douche....we understand."

trener zolwia wrote:


i've been to Walmart 1,000 times.

and I'm not visiting, I'm moving back.

PlasticPole wrote:


or even cars for that matter?