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

zetigrek wrote:


i can't agree with this. I didn't want to make any Poland/USA comparisons but i will.

Go to a blue collar town somewhere in the USA, sit down at a diner and ask for Edna. Edna will be 245lbs, frizzy hair with a bad dye job, clothes will be sloppy and her kids will be wearing t-shirts with spaghetti stains on them from last night.....but more often than not, Edna will give you service with a smile, ask about your day and tell you about hers, be pleasant when she takes your order and actually take pride in her "crappy job". oh, and while you're at it, ask to speak with her husband Carl, he's a truck driver who enjoys Nascar, cheap domestic beer, NFL and is in the woods hunting every weekend during deer season......and again, chances are, he'll be a pleasant guy to deal with on the job, even though him and his wife live lower-middle class lives and are lucky to afford 1 vacation a year.

are there rotten waitresses and truck drivers in america? absolutely, which is why i would never rate 'People' in the USA with a 10 but the point is, you cannot blame someone's attitude solely on their income level or the quality of their jobs. if it's possible for Edna, the fat waitress working at the diner down the road that serves you waffles on sunday to be nice and pleasant, it's possible for Joanna at the deli that sells you your pasztet and rolls in the morning to do the same.

find another excuse.

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

zetigrek wrote:


wow, there we go again.....i honestly have no idea what you are talking about.

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

zetigrek wrote:

[quote]because they're earn too little money to "enjoy life"[quote]

bogus.

if you're 40 years old working at a deli selling meat and you hate your job and your life, don't talk to me like it's my fault.

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

zetigrek wrote:


'Weg' is Jewish and all I knew, he could have been Piotr Weg. It's not an unreasonable deduction.


all too often i find myself totally confused with your posts. anyway, why do they "have nothing to be happy with"?

peterweg wrote:



places owned and run by people yet somehow the interactions that take place while inside of them has nothing to do with the people that run them or work in them.

sure.

peterweg wrote:


yeah, you're right. pushing paper for 8 hours a day or selling wedliny completely justifies their rotten attitudes. i mean, with all that responsibility.....talk about your pressure cookers.

peterweg wrote:





why oh why are you bringing up america? what does america have to do with "Rate Poland"?

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

peter weg wrote:


why are you brining up the USA? oh.....i almost forgot.....

peterweg wrote:


you simply have to be a blind patriot to give Poland a 10/10 in the 'People' category.

customer service is absolutely abismal in poland. who is it that ignores me, doesn't want to help me, looks at me with disgust if i ask them a question, doesn't so much as ask if "everything is alright" after i get my meal at a restaurant.....are those robots i'm dealing with? no, they're poles.

what about the women at the delis that couldn't care less what you want because what they came for is obviously more important and certainly more urgent.

how about the absolutely insane amount of racism here and just utter lack of culture in so many poles? it never ceases to amaze me how many poles have just zero understanding of the outside world.

a 10? come on, dude.

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

wroclaw boy wrote:


i also noticed that. there were some good posts in there. oh well.

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

hmmmm....not too many posters gave their ratings here, wonder why. still waiting for many others.

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

VERY GOOD and I agree with almost all of it, honestly, but let's keep it on topic, otherwise it's going to turn into a rating of every country anyone has ever been to.

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

smurf wrote:


no sense in rating wages. we all know they're shite.


i'd say too specific.


again, completely obvious. everyone can agree it's a disaster. no sense in rating it.

Life / The Polish Wedding - What is it Like in Poland? [338]

Polish weddings, like anything else, depend on who's throwing the party.

I've been to some lamo polish weddings and i've been to some awesome ones. My wedding in Poland was completely amazing, if I may say so ;)

My oczepiny lasted for quite a while, but it's good in a way because at midnight people start getting sleepy from all the vodka so it acts as a little pick me up, assuming the games you play aren't lame.

Definitely go with a live band. My wedding went till 5:00 a.m. and having a live band really made a difference. I can't imagine if I got stuck with a DJ spinning disco polo all night.

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

landora wrote:


man, you poles sure do have some harsh criteria when it comes to who is polish, who is not.

she was born in poland, spent the first 5 years of her life there, both her parents are polish and she was raised with both of them, she speaks the language very well.....yet she's "not really Polish."

what is it polish people.....do you have to live in poland your whole life and "feel the pain" with the rest of the poor shlubs out here in order to be truly polish?

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

delphiandomine wrote:


that ended up being an all white, culturally homogenous society? i'm not a historian but Poland surely ended up being very "vanilla".

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Eurola wrote:


I found something stronger:

youtube.com/watch?v=hjUa3oU_wtY

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Patrycja19 wrote:


you're probably right.

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Delphiandomine wrote:


Why just Poles in America? What about Plastic Mexicans? Plastic Irish? Plastic Italians? Plastic.....well....Plastic anything in America?

What makes Plastic Poles any different than the other people living in America that left their homelands to move to America for a better life? Can all of them "get lost" as well? What about my wife that spent her whole life in Poland but is now moving to America with me in January? Will she then become "Plastic"?

Delphiandomine wrote:


I haven't lived in America in 4 years, thus, haven't paid any income tax. Does that exclude me from commenting about my country on this forum?

Delphiandomine wrote:


Indeed.

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

time and time again Delph, the same comment is going to surface. that being:

Bolle wrote:


you can rant and rave about plastic poles all you want but in the end, it's just how it is in america and with many many other ethnicities. this phenomenon is hardly limited to poles or plastic poles or whatever you want to call them.

you're making judgements about things you don't understand. you're a scot, born in scotland (i guess) but for most americans, their families are from all over the world, they may be white, asian, black, latino....yet they speak with perfect american accents and think like an american because that's what they are.....american. it's like no other country in the world.

honestly dude, expedia.com, travelocity.com, cheapoair.com....whatever you like to use, spend a few weeks there, see for yourself.

Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

i thought I had already posted on this thread, but i guess not.

I'm American with Polish roots, my mother is 100% Polish. i guess that's all the thread is asking.

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

delphiandomine wrote:


but dude....i mean.....both my grandparents on my mother's side were polish....grew up with babcia in my house......and I never bothered to get a Polish passport because....well....because I grew up in the USA man.....it's just how it is.

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

1jola wrote:


ding ding ding!

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

what a loser. i bet Johnny's parents were a bunch of nancies too scared to stay in Poland and throw rocks at the Germans as they approached their farm house :D

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

pinching pete wrote:


yep.

I don't consider myself to be a patriotic guy, but there are few things more annoying than listening to people go on and on about the USA when they've either never stepped foot in the country or better yet, have been there once on some BS two week tour and now think they got the whole place figured out.

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

delphiandomine wrote:


nope. just one way to say it, but i guess you could play the "scotish card" for just about anything.

delphiandomine wrote:


glad to see you watch the show!

Can we get away from the recurring theme of Fuzzy, delphi and English. Thank you.

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

delphiandomine wrote:


wait....what do you do for money in Poland? remind me.

oh, and for the record, it's "those who can't do, teach". it's ok, it's just one of those native things.

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

if you knew ANYTHING about the job market in america and the incredibly high demand for people with science/math degrees, especially teachers of science and math (schools even pay them more than teachers of other subjects) you'd realize how silly your statement was. at least do some reasearch next time you try and save face.

teaching is just one of many professions i can persue and i somehow think my 4 years of teaching ESL to students of all ages from all parts of the world along with learning one of the most difficult languages in the world (from scratch as an adult) won't work against me when persuing a job in education.

biedne.....biedne, biedne delphiandomine :(

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

convex wrote:


i beg to differ.

if you ask me, he's here because his options are VERY limited, meaning he's basically stuck here.

he graudated college, had nothing to do, and came to poland....AND his girlfriend is here, making him more stuck. if he goes back to Scotland, with a weak resume, he'd have to accept a job that he would hate along with paying like crap. his work experience after graduating is limited to whatever he's been doing to make ends meet out here (which I guess is a tad bit easier considering he doesn't pay rent) but i'd assume he's starting to realize the fact that the longer he continues to pine away in poland, the tougher it's going to be to find a job if he leaves the country and goes somewhere else. if he decides to leave poland in a couple years and try another country, nobody wants to hire a 27-28 year old foreigner who speaks nothing but English and no work experience aside from ESL in Poland and a failed services company.

if that was what YOU were up against.....you'd be pretty cranky, resentful and just plain old bitter too, but this is nothing unique to just Delphiandomine. there are a lot of expats out here who are in the same shoes getting more and more miserable in Poland but don't go home because they get the "well, what am I going to do back home?" syndrome. also, let's face it folks, it's much easier to be in his situation in a nice warm country (that speaks English) than Poland. the never ending winters in Poland will drive you completely out of your mind.

I wonder what the tone is with expats living in places like Italy or Portugal or the south of France?

Life / The Polish Dream - move out from Poland as fast as possible [73]

David_18 wrote:


and in 20-30 years "the west" will be that much further ahead, pushing the bar even higher, putting poland.....right where it is now.

that's a bold statement man....what gives you such confidence? if you said, "because by then all the commies will be dead, giving us all a chance," I might buy into this a little.

USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Delphiaindomine wrote:

Do you think this is unique to just Polish Americans? The entire country is made up of people with an identity crisis. The thing you gotta understand though is that people either don't care or have simply accepted it. At the end of the day, people tend to not give a damn if their parents came from pre-1945 Germany or not.

Italian Americans are even worse, pappy. They put flag stickers on their cars, wear Italian colored t-shirts and sweatshirts, they all dress the same, do their hair the same, say things like mootsarel, brazhoot, parmajohnie, goomba, and are convinced people speak this way in Italy......have you seen 'Jersey Shore'? Do you think any of those kids speak Italian or know the first thing about Italian history?

Then there's the whole latino population. Sure, some of them are 1st generation but you will see many kids who are clearly of latino decent and they either don't speak the language or are pathetic at it, yet proclaim to be pure latino to the bone and talk about the mother country.

Don't even get me started on black people in America being "African American".

It's non-stop dude and the poles in america, as far as being "plastic" is concerned, aren't even in the same ball park as the many other wannabe's. A country made entirely of immigrants built by immigrants and run by immigrants. It's just something you'll never understand. You came from a homogenous country and moved to yet another one, like most people on this forum.

delphiandomine wrote:


not quite. the issue in the end is just his constant loathing of America, for whatever reason. these "plastic poles" reside in America, therefore, he's got a problem with them. It never ceases to amaze me how someone can hate a country so much, yet understand so little about it.

You've never been to the USA delph, which explains your ignorance towards it.....the same reason why your "plastic poles" have no concept of Poland.

Love / Why do so many Polish girls dye their hair BLACK? [124]

I don't think this is a Polish thing. Women always want a hair color they can't have or a hair type they don't have.

Remember 80's USA? Everyone wanted blond hair. Not only blond, but [i]crimped[i] blond hair. Oh, and HUGE bangs.

Girls that have straight hair want curly hair. Girls that have curly hair complain about it all the time when it rains and gets frizzy and say they wish they had straight hair.

Look at black women and all the things they do to their hair. They straighten it, wear weaves, dye their hair all sorts of colors when it's obvious it's not their natural hair color.

I hear what you're saying about Polish girls dying their hair black recently, but it's simply nothing unique to Poland. I'd say it's more like you are simply observing people more often and more closely because you're new to a foreign country.

USA, Canada / Can a Canadian Female Drive in Poland?? [30]

not every country requires you to have one and as far as i can see, England seems to be one of them.

gouk.about.com/od/tripplanning/f/drivingpermit.htm