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delphiandomine   
24 Feb 2012
Language / Spelling "aunt" in Polish [142]

but to me, it's a sign of respect.

A sign of respect is not abusing the Polish language by using random words in the English language.

Anyone 10 years or older is automatically to be addressed with title.

When speaking in a certain language, yes. Using "Ciocia Alice" is just ridiculous and completely wrong.
delphiandomine   
24 Feb 2012
Study / Top Language Schools to Work for in Warsaw? [32]

unscrupulous schools like Polanglo

Any connection to the bookshop of the same name?

Some blame it on a flood of younger, unqualified 'teachers' turning up to be with girlfriends, wives etc or just to study. These people just need to earn pin money and are easy meat for the worst schools.

That's what I'm seeing here in Poznan - a flood of unqualified people turning up and working for peanuts.

Others say that the core of the work in Warsaw, in-company lessons, are far fewer as companies tighten their training budgets and also recruit people who already have a high (or adequate) standard of lessons.

It's definitely the case here that being "known" is an asset, even if they don't know you personally.
delphiandomine   
19 Feb 2012
News / Topless sunbathers acquitted in Szczecin, Poland [128]

I hope you realize that the Janet Jackson incident occurred nearly a decade ago. It's old news now. Alot has changed since then. For one, we have a new liberal president (Barack Obama) who supports legalizing gay marriage and marijuana.

nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/NJ-Appeals-Court-Upholds-Topless-Womans-Arrest-129819158.html

Yawn. Do try harder.
delphiandomine   
19 Feb 2012
News / Topless sunbathers acquitted in Szczecin, Poland [128]

I know you Poles are jealous that you dont have this movement in Poland (where topless sunbathing is still illegal) but relax already. Watch all the videos above that i posted (especially the Jim Jone's one). The topless girls in his music video have some fine ass nipples :-))

I know, I understand...the only hope you've got of seeing breasts is on the beach.

If most normal guys want to see women's breasts, they just ask their wives or girlfriends nicely.

Indeed, we don't need to spend our time scouring the internet for topless women.

And let's be honest here - while seeing some nice girl topless is a good thing, you also have to accept that plenty of monsters will choose to go topless too. Ewww. I'd rather have them covered up, thanks!

And uh, "Mike" - if the USA is so liberal, why this?

CBS television is fined $550,000 for showing 18 frames of Janet Jackson's breast (there are 30 frames to a video second).

Hmm. Trollfail.
delphiandomine   
19 Feb 2012
News / Topless sunbathers acquitted in Szczecin, Poland [128]

Yes i take it very seriously

What, looking at naked girls on youtube?

Poland is a breeding ground for religious extremists in Europe.

Actually, some recent research shows it to be quite the opposite. Then again, I guess you wouldn't know this, as you seem to be in America right now during term time. How strange.

It's okay Mike - we know you sit in your parents basement, watching pûrn and trolling forums - we understand
delphiandomine   
17 Feb 2012
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

My grandmother was not well educated and did not speak much english so I didn't get to speak with her much either.

Mark - thank you for being honest about this. Most of the US Polonia that visit this site seem to be in complete denial about their family - but you've told the truth and for that, I applaud you. There's no shame in this - but people seem to regard it as something shameful.

I own a window cleaning buisness in NJ and NYC.

It's a bit off topic, but did you know that such a thing barely exists, if at all in Poland?
delphiandomine   
17 Feb 2012
Life / Popular and Practical Cars in Poland [49]

Then why don't you inform us as to the correct prices?

Seems strange to post "I know better than you and I'm not going to tell you".
delphiandomine   
13 Feb 2012
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

He said America hands down. Cities like Washington DC, LA, Dallas and many others, with the freeway systems, route interchanges and overpasses.

Without a doubt. The only complaint I've ever heard about America is the speed limits are sometimes absurdly low.

Having said that, some European cities are doing well - Spain, and Madrid in particular has a pretty awesome network. Hungary is quite decent too (apart from the idiocy of the motorway towards Slovakia not being complete).
delphiandomine   
13 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

Ahhh, yes! I noticed that I even started slipping into this habit a few weeks ago, it's a nasty, nasty thing.

What confuses me is that the driving test is equal to the UK test in terms of demands, and is even fairer due to the microphones/cameras in cars - so why the hell do they drive so badly? I can only assume it's down to one thing - the almost total lack of enforcement. In Poznan, there are about 4-5 places where they always sit - as long as you know not to speed there, you're almost certain never to get stopped.

By the way, I was thinking more about why the driver gets the punishment - and it could be because it's easier to give the driver an effective punishment (points) than to merely fine everyone. If it was, for instance, 50zl fine for each passenger - many people would simply not be bothered to wear the belts. But with the driver getting points, the driver has the motive to make sure that everyone wears them. When you think about the rebellious Polish attitude, the carrot-and-stick approach probably works best.
delphiandomine   
13 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

I think it's also 21kmh above the limit before a ticket can be issued. Delph mentioned he was caught going 71kmh, so must have been spot bang on the borderline??

naukajazdy.pl/kodeks_ruchu_drogowego/punkty_karne.html

Here's a list of everything that you can get points for - as I understand it, they can stop you for doing 6km/h over. In practice, it seems to be more like 10km/h over - and they aren't interested on motorways unless you're doing over 160km/h.

One thing I do like here is that when the speed limit is lower, it usually tells you that there's a bloody good reason for it. It definitely means that you have more respect for the limits, because they aren't lowering limits for the hell of it.

Just wish they would do something about the dreadful amount of tailgating that goes on here... I remember one guy boiling with rage behind me because I dared to obey every single speed limit - I'd just been caught and didn't want any more points. But nooo. Mr Important in his company car couldn't stand it!
delphiandomine   
13 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

More than 85%!

Having said that, generally speaking in Poland, speed limits are sensibly set. You don't see UK-style nonsense of lower limits without justification - I especially like the way that you have 90km/h sections of road, then 60km/h for a junction, then straight back to 90km/h. Fair, safe and reasonable.
delphiandomine   
12 Feb 2012
News / Police and priests save homeless in Poland [29]

but PM Tusk himself has appealed to the shelters to accept everyone in the severe weather.

As they should. The situation is a disgrace - it's one thing banning people in summer when they can be blissfully wasted outside, but when it's below -10c - they should be taking anyone if they receive any public funding.
delphiandomine   
12 Feb 2012
Life / Babcia or Busha - any social class difference? [359]

In the 1950's in Hyde Park Chicago, my father called his mother what sounded like BUSHA. I don't speak Polish but he did with his siblings and mother. If so many people say that they used the word BUSHA, what is the problem? This word is not genocide.

The word is genocide against the Polish language.
delphiandomine   
12 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

The seatbelts are just constrainig and uncomfortable. And the law demanding to wear it, it is downright stupid.

I don't even notice mine when driving, and I'm not the tallest of people. If it's constraining and uncomfortable, then it's probably not adjusted properly.
delphiandomine   
12 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

Technically the driver is at fault for allowing his/her passengers to travel without a seatbelt.

Aha, I get you.

It's not so much daft, as just a different way of doing things - the driver is in charge of the vehicle, and has the responsibility to make sure that it's operated in a safe manner. Polish law is pretty consistent on this.
delphiandomine   
12 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

Now you're assuming that I broke the law, when in actual fact I didn't break the law.

I don't understand - you were driving without seatbelts on, but you're saying that you didn't break the law?

How does that work?
delphiandomine   
12 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

One very positive development is the fact that fines in Poland cannot be paid directly to the cop by the side of the road (with exceptions for tourists).

Cannot? That's interesting indeed - though as I understood it, you always had the right to pay later anyway if you had permanent residency/citizenship.

(one particularly annoying thing in Poland is that EU citizens with the right of residence certificate still have to pay on the spot despite the residence certificate being indefinite. I can understand those with foreign licences, but I have a Polish licence!)
delphiandomine   
11 Feb 2012
News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [142]

^Come on delph, that's not fair to say. Those Stormfront users tend to be Christian. White supremacists in general are usually Christian.

No no, paganism is very big among Stormfront guys. All down to Hitler, you see..
delphiandomine   
11 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

Very reasonable indeed. You put other motorists' lives in danger. Anybody who speeds because they can't be 'arsed' with limits, should not be driving in the first place.

71km/h on an open road, on a bright morning with beautiful driving conditions, in a village with barely any houses is hardly "dangerous".

If you have airbags, why do you need seatbelts?

Are they even tested in the Polish version of the MOT? I wouldn't want to rely on mine...

I know plenty of people who got decent NFZ treatment. Me included. Heck, I paid 3zl for some antibiotics the other day - can't complain.
delphiandomine   
11 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

did they nail you with the speed gun?

Yep, somewhere between Klodzko and Kudowa. It was more than fair - right in the middle of the village. Okay - the road was empty - but still.
delphiandomine   
11 Feb 2012
Life / 200zl mandat and 3 points for not wearing seatbelts? [75]

This latest situation has taken that respect away.

You mean you lose respect for people when they're doing their job?

The situation was that my wife and I were pulled for no reason other than not wearing belts. This, having entered the car no more than 100 meters away from the pull site, and our destination was only 50 meters from that location!!

And? The law is pretty clear - you can't start the car without the seatbelt on. It was rammed into my head when I was learning to drive - do not start the car without the belt fastened. As for the punishment - the driver is responsible in Poland.

The young 'point to prove, I'm wearing a uniform' policeman, immediately stated his intention of fining and taking points.

Well yes, that's what he's supposed to do.

Was this unlucky? Yes we were in the wrong, but common sense should prevail from any reasonable person.

What common sense? It's illegal to start the car without the seatbelt fastened.

For me, it's fair enough - I remember thinking that the police were very reasonable after getting stopped for doing 71 in a 50 - it was Sunday morning, I couldn't be arsed with the speed limit and got caught. Lesson learnt.
delphiandomine   
11 Feb 2012
News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [142]

slavic paganism, especially traditional folk music, plays a huge role in uniting us slavs.

Where? Certainly not in Slavic countries. In fact, "slavic paganism" seems to be only used by people who visit websites like Stormfront.

being a polish pagan myself, I hold a strong bond with my fellow russian and ukrainian pagans here in Toronto, unfortunately no Poles...yet.

You mean "being a Polish racist myself who got into Paganism after reading about it on Stormfront".

alexmac, I fully support your belief, as do MANY slavs in Europe and abroad.

Hardly. Stormfront doesn't count.

Yeah, too many Canadian wannabes.

Filled with true Polish patriots who stay thousands of miles away and who won't actually help Poland at all.

And just in case anyone wants to doubt my connection between "Slavic Paganism" and racism - have a look here -

stormfront/forum/t98543/

Point. Proven.
delphiandomine   
9 Feb 2012
News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [142]

I know many Yugoslavs who support the idea of a Slavic Union especially Serbs.

Will you please stop trolling?

Anyone with any idea about Serbs know that they were never particularly interested in "Slavic Union", especially after what the Ustase did to them in WW2. Even Milosevic's theory was of a "Greater Serbia" encompassing all Serbian people - he had no interest in places such as Macedonia and Slovenia.

Most east Slavs are interested in the idea even Slavs in baltic counties around 40% of the baltic population are Slavic and nearly all the people speak russian either as a first or second language.

Pretty obvious that you've never been there if you think that "nearly all the people speak Russian as a second language" in the Baltic countries.

Out of the western Slavs czech and Slovaks are in the middle ( the idea of one united Slavic country is their idea)

And again - pretty obvious you don't know any Czechs/Slovaks.

Why not get out of your parents basement and come to Europe to talk to people?
delphiandomine   
8 Feb 2012
News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [142]

There're roughly 300 mln Slavs in the World. Roughly 300 mln people in the Wolrd speak Russian. So you're certainly not correct.

The figures I have are different - around 400 million Slavs, with around 250 million being able to speak Russian to some degree.
delphiandomine   
8 Feb 2012
News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [142]

This whole thread is pathetic and ironic if you think about it, two Russians here pissing in the wind, one for, one against with a corus of Jews butting in stating how absurd this idea really is but in reality all working for a common goal.

You just couldn't resist with the accusations of Zionism, could you?

Tell you what - if you can prove to me that any poster on this thread is Jewish, I'll donate 5000zl to an orphanage of your choice. How about it?
delphiandomine   
8 Feb 2012
News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [142]

Of course I will be in Poland again ( I have been a couple of times before)

You just claimed on another thread to have lived in Poland. Oh dear...

I don't expect Slavic unity to be supported by the majority of Polish people but I am sure it has a strong following and will continue to grow in the near future once the euro collapses.

Polish people have long memories - they want nothing to do with "Slavija". They either want close cooperation with the West, or they want to be isolated.

I'm lucky most other Slavic countries are strong supporters of a single Slavic country.

Really? Let's see...

Slovakia = fiercely independent and proud of their country, very nationalist.
Czech Republic = sees their future in line with Germany
Ukraine = not going to give up their independence after 600 years of having lost it, are they?
Belarus/Russia = already in union
Croatia = like Slovakia, fiercely independent and proud of their country. They want nothing to do with any sort of Slavic union after the last one.

Bosnia = Not a chance. The country is fragile as it is, and they died to keep it one country.
Slovenia = more interested in Austria/Italy than in Slavija. It's really only Slavic in name.
Serbia = No chance. They have Tito's spirit in them - and that same spirit preaches independence.
Macedonia = not interested in the slightest.
Bulgaria = Too balkanised.
Poland = fiercely independent.

So - two countries would be interested. Not exactly "strong", is it?
delphiandomine   
8 Feb 2012
History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

Whats wrong with taking an oath to Poland, when you are a citizen.

One problem - Galicia was supposed to have considerable autonomy, free from such nonsense. As for taking an oath - well - when it's a deliberate provocative measure, there's everything wrong with that.

At that difficult time minorities also didn't help very much. Every agressive move from Poland's neighbours was welkomed and supported.

Ukrainians were hardly celebrating Russian moves in light of what happened!

Polish politicians tried to show the unity of society in face of danger, sometimes they forced it. But one always have to remeber that Poland at that time was very young state, with agressive neighbours, who didn't helped particularly to make Polish society more open and tolerant.

The whole problem was that instead of working with the minorities, Poland often worked against them - to the point of alienating them completely.