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Midas   
17 May 2011
Life / New Polish generation prefers black culture? [145]

They are not pretending to be them, even if they are pretending they are taking actions into that direction; selling drugs, pimping, dumbing-down society as whole for themselves... funny thing is this is the majority of blacks, so it is there culture... the minority of blacks do not act in this manner

that is the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help you God!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

And You came to all these conclusions in Katowice, Poland, which is, as we both know, simply overrun with black people?

Honestly, what You posted is simply biased and offensive.
Midas   
17 May 2011
Life / New Polish generation prefers black culture? [145]

for someone who doesnt know any black people and lives in a white city you do make a lot of sweeping negative statements, based on nothing.

you just take as gospel any negative story in the paper then?
This is like me saying that I know for a fact that most white people are football hooligans, must be true I read it in the paper..

I find your fake liberalism Lodz the boat quite offensive.
I suppose white people take on black culture becasue it is so prevalent in the music industry.

Madam, don't worry about him, I stopped reading his posts quite some time ago. Guy's got a penchant for writing about stuff he's not really well informed about.

Other than that, I don't get why every time "black culture" is mentioned there's a bunch people coming over and basically dumbing the discussion down to:

-- baggy pants,
-- hip hop music,
-- smoking weed,
-- bling bling and dubs,

then throwing the obligatory "gangsta/thug" stuff and reaching some odd conclusions ( see cheesymac above, black people bringing societies down? Really? ).

It is kind of as if someone decided to talk about "Jewish culture" and then went on rambling about the exploits of Dutch Schultz, Lepke Buchalter or Bugsy Siegel. Based on them, "Jewish culture" can indeed be broken down to illegal alcohol production, drug trafficking, racketeering and shooting anyone who bothers You in the face.

So maybe if we're to talk about "culture" we shouldn't be looking at streetwise toughs or "musicians" pretending to be them, but at writers, scholars, artists and such? Seems more reasonable.

Regarding the topic itself, there are some odd assumptions.

"attitudes" - and what exactly is a "black attitude"? Because I'm honestly lost here. And plz tell me what's a "white attitude" while You're at it.
Midas   
16 May 2011
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Guys, this is turning into a pissing contest.

U.S. is a country that was built with a gun in hand. People who created U.S. firmly believed that the right to bear arms is sacred, many of them escaped their oppressive governments back in Europe with a clear idea that a citizen could/should fight back if the Government ever tried to take away his rights. And guns figure into all this really well - difficult to boss people around too much if each and every family has a shotgun in their home.

This is clearly visible in the way certain groups of Americans approach the "gun" issue and quite frankly isn't really much of a reason to claim our "superiority". Different thinking, that's all.

"Baseball bat" - Darius, I think Havok was talking about Poland ( baseball bats are not legal there, technically ).

Your government rules You like a bunch of peasants - uncalled for.

Funny thing is that even if you could buy guns in Poland, you wouldn't be able to afford to buy bullets on your crappy salaries. - see above. The guys I talked about in this thread don't seem to have any problems buying bullets. Or big houses. Or new BMW 6 series every 5 years or so.
Midas   
16 May 2011
Love / The Pole -- a mummy's boy? [10]

Poles? Mommy's boys?

Not even remotely close to Italians and some Jewish.
Midas   
15 May 2011
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Ok, this here is going in the wrong direction.

TS is American, the right to bear arms is universally recognized in all U.S. states and is a significant part of American identity. Please don't treat him like a koala bear on an eucalyptus-fuelled rampage, he's just being American.

1) You will not be able to carry Your U.S. firearm in Poland.

2) The chances of You legally obtaining a CCW for a firearm for self-defence purposes in Poland are 0%.

3) There is no such thing as a "gun at home" in Poland. Each and every gun requires a proper permit ( rifles, shotguns ) or a CCW ( pistols ), regardless of where You store it and where You take it.

4) People that I personally know in Poland who obtained CCW's and aren't "hunters" usually fit the same mold: former Polish police/military, formerly employed by one of the local 3 letter agencies or businessmen who happen to be extremely well connected locally. Oh, yes, and politicians.

You do the math.

5) Right of self-defence in Poland is extremely different from what You've got in U.S. and the "castle doctrine" doesn't exist. If a man attacks You and You shoot him dead You will be in trouble even if he had 5 inches and 150 pounds on You. Running for the embassy does seem Your best bid in such a case.

6) Having a "weapon" ( notice, I stopped using the term firearm, pistol, etc. ) in Poland without a proper permit is a criminal offence. Same applies to firearm ammunitions. Jail sentences are not unusual.

7) A "weapon" is ********** defined by appropriate Polish law. Not going to get into the details, but let's just say this:

A baseball bat is a weapon ( named as such in the appropriate legal act which I believe was quoted here ), requires a permit and You can go to jail for having one without it. Apparently it became some sort of a boogeyman in the 90's, hence this stupidity.

A knife is not considered a weapon for the purposes of needing a permit for it ( see appropriate legal act ). Neither is a machete. Or a sword, battleaxe, ranseur or bec de corbin. Why? They're not in the said legal act. You can carry them, even openly. But if You use them they'll be considered as weapons for the purposes of deciding what crime You actually committed.

Yeah, I know, welcome to Eastern Europe.
Midas   
26 Apr 2011
Genealogy / Looking for any and all information on Dabrowski/Dombrowski from Poland [88]

Dabrowski - in Polish it was prolly spelled "Dąbrowski" with that odd "ą" many people find so annoying.

Anyhow, good luck with that mate, I think it is quite a popular name in Poland. Not a "Kowalski" by any stretch, still You'll be doing a ton of digging if You're serious about it.
Midas   
16 Apr 2011
Love / Do Polish Women age well? [153]

Do Polish Women age well?

No they don't, at least that's my personal experience.

Americans have coined the phrase "babushka syndrome" - it supposedly applies to women from Russia and Eastern Europe.
Midas   
15 Apr 2011
Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]

Why do you visit Poland? -

1) Was born here and still like to visit what I consider one of my "home" countries,

2) Business nowadays mostly, there's still plenty of good deals to be had if You know where to look for them and can navigate the traps and pitfalls the Polish public officials routinely set for foreign investors :-)

Whats Warsaw like ?

Warsaw is a modern European city with loads of foreign investment going on. The difference between Warsaw and the rest of the country can be only described as staggering sometimes. Warsaw is also a city that is REALLY trying to be "worldly" and "hyper-trendy" to an extent which is sometimes comical ( especially visible in some of the swankier night clubs in the city ), which might bother some people.

Architecturally downtown Warsaw is a unique amalgamate of various styles, which reflects the city's convoluted history. You'll find relatively old ( not as old as in Cracow ) townhouses right next to, well, housing projects built by Gomulka after the war, right next to housing projects built by Gierek a few decades later, then on the plot across the street You'll find a modern skyscraper designed by a world-class architect, plus there'll be a hotel built by the Swedish in the 1970's or so a few blocks away. Extremely interesting if You're into that stuff and pretty much something a few city planners in Western Europe would allow for.
Midas   
15 Apr 2011
Love / Simon Mol - would he have been so "successful" in other countries than Poland? [121]

Lodz the Boat - I will continue to express my opinions regardless whether you like them or not, boy :-) So what You're going to do about it? More sandbox insults? Lol...

PennBoy - Ja bym tego śmiecia na pal wbił - I agree. The state should have pressed murder charges against this ******.
Midas   
14 Apr 2011
Love / Simon Mol - would he have been so "successful" in other countries than Poland? [121]

It started on Simon Mol and perhaps it might be better to stick to him in the topic.

Despite my pleas, none of You were able to provide a recent case of same scope from Western Europe/U.S. in which an African immigrant managed to get 40 (??? - the jury is still out on the specific number ) women infected with HIV because he told them they're racist when they asked him to use a condom. Cases You provided concerned at best a few instances of getting someone infected.

In my humble opinion Poland and a few other states from Eastern Europe are the only places in the world where such a case of such scope was possible right now. In other places it would have been downright difficult for any African charmer/scammer to find such amounts of gullible women on whom accusations of racism worked like a court issued "shut up and spread 'em" order.

Ogien -

Women don't exactly head off to college to become nuns, You know?

But apart from that I agree, that the reason the number of materialistic/slutty women amongst women from Eastern Europe is visibly higher than amongst women from other parts of the globe is because many parents from Eastern Europe do a ******** job while raising their daughters.
Midas   
12 Apr 2011
Love / Simon Mol - would he have been so "successful" in other countries than Poland? [121]

I've been struggling to remain to my "polite" limits with you ... but I find myself successful.

Since just the other day you called me scum and told me to go and die I don't think I'd like to see You operating outside Your "polite limits", sir, since we'd probably have to get the Police involved :-)
Midas   
12 Apr 2011
Love / Simon Mol - would he have been so "successful" in other countries than Poland? [121]

Sorry guys, I'm really awful busy nowadays and I'll reply to Your comments once I get a bit of free time...

But since some of You want to know - This topic was started partially because I find the question presented here interesting and partially because our resident knight-crusader for the good name and virtue of all Polish women - Lodz_the_Boat - made some personal comments that weren't to my liking. I think that Mr. Mol's example clearly shows some of the issues a certain percentage of Polish women have, hence I started the topic.
Midas   
11 Apr 2011
Love / Simon Mol - would he have been so "successful" in other countries than Poland? [121]

So You're basically saying that most Dutch, English, German, American women wouldn't laugh the guy out of their bed, had he told them he won't use a condom because he's black/martian/Polish/Chilean?

Sorry, I have to disagree.

But ok, assuming You're right, since You said that without a doubt he'd be so successful in all of the countries I mentioned = why hasn't there been even 1 case like Mol's ( both modus operandi and scope ) in any of these countries recently?

It's not like he's the only African casanova with HIV...
Midas   
11 Apr 2011
Love / Simon Mol - would he have been so "successful" in other countries than Poland? [121]

Ok, he recently surfaced up again and there's at least 1 member here who constantly talks about Polish women and "third worlders" so I chose to start this topic.

For those of You that don't know here's a ( really funny, I think ) link to a monologue from a Polish author Rafal Ziemkiewicz:

youtube.com/watch?v=CTmk_xxdL5A

To summarize, Mol was a guy from Cameroon who came over to Poland as a supposed political refugee ( this backstory was later found to be completely false by one of the Polish newspapers ). He was involved with the far left and liberals, but his main area of specialization was jogging around Warsaw and hitting up on young, Polish women. His pick up lines were clearly based on him being a negro and a fighter against political oppression. Agewise he was somewhere around 40, hard to tell.

Apparently said women were on him like flies on a big steamy pile of dog ****, because when he was finally arrested the Police and newspapers pinned around 40 cases of infecting a woman with HIV on him.

In the investigation dude pretty much owned up that he knew he was HIV positive, but hated using a condom so in case a Polish girl asked him to use one he just wailed on her for being supposedly racist. And after that all of these Polish women gave up, spread and took the HIV-infected cock, forgetting the condom ( they didn't want to be "racist"...lol... ).

Now, I'm thinking whether Mol would have been so successful in U.K., France, Germany, Spain, U.S. or Italy. Breaking it down to two components:

1) Whether he would have found so many willing women through the use of pick up lines based on "hey, look, I'm black!" and "I fight against the injustices in Africa!!" ( funny thing that last one actually, since Poland had no colonies and "white guilt" cannot be taken into account ) ?

2) Whether women of a nationality other than Polish or Eastern European would have fallen for this "You're racist because You want me to use a condom" bollocks?

My answers are 1 = no and 2 = no.

Now, before anyone uses this argument - Mol usually targetted Polish women with a leftist background, not the Catholic schoolgirl from the deep forests of Suwalki type, so they knew a thing or two about contraception, HIV risk, etc. and were supposedly progressive.

I especially would like to read Lodz_the_Boats contribution because he got so miffed in another topic.

Cheers.
Midas   
20 Mar 2011
USA, Canada / To move back to Poland from the USA or not to move back....that is the question [119]

Hi,

You're lucky You've made it here, most PF users won't BS You around and will tell it like it is.

My 2 cents:

1) For the whole taxation issue You'll have to consult the appropriate binding agreement between Poland and U.S. regarding what's called dual taxation. I also believe what's mentioned in this article will directly apply in Your case:

Personally I never encountered a situation in which someone living strictly of US SSD moved to Poland, so I have no idea how it will be taxed. On one hand, the Polish IRS and ZUS ( Social Security ) are greedy *************, on the other hand U.S. has always had the knack of negotiating with the state of Poland and gaining favourable results for U.S. citizens... You'll have to check for Yourself.

2) ASSUMING Your 1500 USD is left intact and equals the sum You will have monthly at Your disposal You'll be good to go, even in Cracow or Warsaw ( though in both these cities You'll be on a bit of a tight budget ).

3) As was mentioned, a number of Polish people will tell You You're not Polish because You were born in the States and nothing will sway them. Same people tell me I can't be a Polish citizen because I am a Jew. Ignore them.

4) Don't take it for granted that You'll just be able to come over to Poland and live there. While I believe there are no visas required for Americans to visit I don't know if that's the case with a prolonged stay ( You are not an EU citizen ). Explore the matter further.

5) If You have Polish ancestors You might be legible for a Polish passport ( if You don't have one already ). This might save You loads of hassle, look into it.

6) While monetarily You will be fine I STRONGLY ADVISE NOT TO MAKE THE TRIP if You want to take an elderly person ( Your mother ) with You and take care of her over in Poland.

While the U.S. healthcare system has it's flaws, the Polish national healhcare system is a dump, period. Of course, You might "go private". But should Your mother have some serious health problems Your money might not be enough to pay for the costs of private healthcare, I'm being dead serious now.

And the public healthcare system in Poland quite simply has a knack for killing off elderly citizens.

That's all from me, thank You.
Midas   
12 Dec 2010
Love / Polish men are complete doormats (especially after they get married) [125]

1) According to most "hardcore Poles" I'm not Polish.

2) Like it or not,Peter Pan is a much more popular role-model for males in U.K., there must be more of them running around London town than there are ( or most likely ever will be ) in Poland. Hence I believe I summed up that part of the quote correctly.

3) Polish women... Sure some are "strong, independent, responsible, reliable, and whatnot, but at least as often ( if not more often ) they tend to be greedy, spoiled, convinced that they're a genuine princess and of low morality. Many of them pretend to be ladies of much class and high maintenance while at the same time they're ready to shag at a drop of a hat if You offer them a free place on Your sofa in London.

4) So, as I said, utter nonsense, or to be more precise - unfounded theories based on yuaelt's personal assumptions.
Midas   
11 Dec 2010
Love / Polish men are complete doormats (especially after they get married) [125]

honestly?..

A lot of Polish men hate and fear responsibility, in any shape. Nowadays, some admit openly in front of people they would give up a lot if only they could go back to kindergarten, and spend the rest of their lives playing.

In turn, Polish women feel the pressure to prove that they are strong, independent, responsible, reliable, and whatnot, because it's really hard to find a job in Poland if you're a young woman (sometimes you will even get told things like 'I won't hire you, you will be pregnant in two years' flat out during the interview).

I'm not saying it's 100% like that, there are childish girls and responsible guys in Poland too, but the tendency is as above. And guys with Peter Pan complex tend to turn out the doormats after marriage, because they start to treat their wives as second mums, shoving all 'adult' responsibilities they can onto them.

Honestly?

I think You're spouting utter nonsense.
Midas   
1 Nov 2010
Love / Indian citizen wants to marry Polish Girl and get settled there. [107]

How would it be better? Lets remember that he's a foreigner and English wouldn't be his first language. - it would be better since we could actually understand 100% of what he's writing as opposed to, shall we say, 70% :-).

English isn't my first language either. Yet You don't see Me spouting jibber-jabber and butchering it like there's no tomorrow.
Midas   
1 Nov 2010
Love / Indian citizen wants to marry Polish Girl and get settled there. [107]

Love it, absolutely love it :-) Although it would be a better experience if vivek here actually wrote in proper English...

Still, step by step... Dear vivek:

1) "Again racism . the only F*** racism." - I stated a fact. There seems to be a lot of gentlemen from India and Pakistan on the prowl for a Polish visa nowadays. This wasn't visible at all back when Poland wasn't in the EU.

Funny, isn't it?

And it got even worse a few years back, when the UK decided it won't let you ride their coattails anymore and cut down visa opportunities.

Like it or not sunshine, you are not the only special indian boy nowadays looking for a Polish, sorry, an EU, visa :-).

So, I stated a fact. You pulled the race card, as you boys usually do in almost all instances. Since I have now proven it was unwarranted, please take the said card back.

2) On a rather humorous sidenote, why is it that your women ( Paki and Indian ) aren't so keen to apply for EU visas? Oh, wait, they're still stuck in this whole hijab and arranged marriage hell, sorry that I asked :-)

3) Indians are amidst the most prejudiced people in the world. First of all, their social system actually makes it "ok" to completely **** over certain members of their society - the untouchables, as it was mentioned.

Then comes that whole race thing... Their attitude towards black people, for example, is usually nothing short of despicable.

4) I heard that Polish are polite and helpful but now I am seeing here how you guys are - I happen to be Jewish. So don't take it out on the poor Poles if I'm dissing you.

5) Hey. better you shut your mouth, it will be good for you - I see you are looking for a reason to get banned.

6) We Indians are that much capable to get employment. - you Indians are often a bunch of stuck up pricks that consider yourself superior to everyone else, as your sentence has proven.

7) All in all, this seems to be a typical visa scam. Dude met some dumbo "girlfriend" in a chatroom with the sole purpose of moving to EU.

Poland is in a unique position to avoid certain immigration mistakes that older EU states have made ( UK is closing down doors on Indians and Pakis for a reason ) and IMO it should start handling this matter.
Midas   
31 Oct 2010
Love / Indian citizen wants to marry Polish Girl and get settled there. [107]

Damn, another one of those "plz get me a visa" types. And an Indian Schwarzenegger to boot. Full package, really.

One can actually see, at this very forum, that the UK has slashed Indian/Paki opportunities for immigration. I assume a few blokes at Wesminster must have thought things over.

And now, lo and behold, there they are, all these nice Pakis and Indians so desperate for Polish visas. Damn, what a coincidence.
Midas   
1 Sep 2010
Work / Black English Teacher going to Wroclaw [247]

Trener zolwia makes a solid point.

I wouldn't go as far as to call the threadstarter a racist, but he is hypersensitive - no doubt about that. Hence the sarcasm in my previous post.

That may very well be, but how long has white racism towards blacks been around? And how long are black ppl emancipated in the US? If the black ppl have to catch up with the whiteys in getting even on racism, we can expect some 250 years of black racism.

Lovely thinking. I assume that, being Jewish, I can go around killing Germans for as long as live then, since I also have "a lot of catching up to do"?
Midas   
1 Sep 2010
Work / Black English Teacher going to Wroclaw [247]

CzarDaniel

I'm a black guy.

I recently accepted a job as an English Teacher in Poland.

OMG!

You'd better sharpen up your karate game brother, because the locals are damn sure sharpening their spears right about now, anxious to hunt down and cannibalize an African-American bold enough to enter their part of the concrete jungle!

Sheesh... Chill out man. This isn't 1985 anymore. Wroclaw is pretty much a European city, I'll doubt anything be wrong as long as you take the same precautions as in NYC.

zetigrek "We have lot's of louts in Poland and they like to provoke males to fight and you being balck can be another good reason to provoke specifically you."

Sure, **** on your own kind.

Jews on the other hand, remind too many people of their shameful past, and so are looked on as more of a pain the ass.

I'm Jewish and make this no secret. Never had that problem. Care to elaborate?
Midas   
10 Aug 2010
Love / Are all beautiful Polish girls as crazy as this? [262]

Like a horse, a horse will try to see what they can get away with. So will a woman.

-Train her.[quote]

[quote]Women are like horses.

But you as a man must be in control and limit her.

The home is a womans domain, you just live there.

Rotfl...

You sir must be a hit with the feminists... Or with most women for that matter.
Midas   
9 Aug 2010
Love / Are all beautiful Polish girls as crazy as this? [262]

He's using plain ol' English damn it.

And talking about something a number of my acquaintances from other parts of the world ( Germany, U.K., Belgium, France ) easily noticed when they spent a bit of time in Poland.