Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]


That's one factor for sure. But I think it's also a kind of need for "insta-gratification". People want everything "now".


Yeah, it looks like it.


One doesn't have to be from Warsaw. That city does things to you ;P


You don't have to be the corpo type or middle class. My impression is that it affects all "classes". "Poorer" people in Warsaw seem to be even more self-conscious about not being able to afford things - at least that was my experience in Warsaw.

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]


Both you and Atch live in Warsaw though, as far as I understand - I think that may be a factor :) I get an impression that people living in Warsaw often have a bit of a different mentality regarding money and material things, than where I live, for example... Sometimes shockingly so... 🤔


Yup, I think that may be an important factor.

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]

@jon357, I've checked other stats too and in one table it was Switzerland at the top (don't know what year though) - but, again, Poland was at the bottom.


The thing is - I live in Poland and that's also my real life observation on the ground. That's why I decided to verify Atch's comment, because something didn't add up for me... 🤔

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]


According to this table it doesn't seem to be so bad in Poland, btw, at least in comparison to other countries in Europe:

statista.com/statistics/1073593/household-debt-ratio-europe-by-country/

Poland is at the bottom of the table with over 40%, while Ireland has 91.81% and the Netherlands is at the top with 187.63% of household indebtedness in the first quarter of 2023 o_O

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]


I've got an impression that's an increasing problem everywhere, unfortunately: 🤔

centralbank.ie/news/article/irish-households-become-the-fourth-most-indebted-in-europe

breakingnews.ie/ireland/irish-public-debt-of-42000-euro-per-person-very-significant-for-small-country-1591722.html


Yup, although not every country will be as family-oriented, so to speak, as Poland. And as safe, but probably safer than the US, I imagine...

Life / Poland Is A Gem In Europe [71]


Oh boy... Family in Poland... Yeah... lol


;D


Yup...

Btw, could you go into details about the differences in family dynamics in the US and Poland? I've never lived abroad, so I'm curious what it's like in other countries :)

Life / What gifts to take? Presents customs in Poland. [173]


Potwarz! :O


Why... :O


Besides coffee flavoured I also like the hazelnut ones (I think they're the ones with the green stripe) :) Probably the only Merci flavour I could really do without is marzipan (I just don't like marzipan in general).

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


I'm guessing that was the point.


*feathers

History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]


As far as I remember my grandma would use denaturat to wash a rooster after killing it for chicken soup and she would singe it to get rid of the remnants of fathers or sth. 🤔 Ugh, the smell...


Probably a joke lol

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]


People wouldn't be getting enough vitamin D then though. 🤔

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]


According to you - the biggest moron on this forum :)


You could say the same thing about Ivanka Trump, since Donald Trump isn't progressive enough :)))


I don't know and I don't care, just like I don't know where her mother is and if she has any siblings. That's her private business.

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]


Well, "genius", I think it's more probable for a Polish woman to get into a relationship with some guy from Africa who came to study in Poland and stayed here, for example, than a Polish woman going to the "black part" of Africa as a sex tourist and coming back with a baby lol

PolAm's comment was retarded.


She's not transgender, idiot, and I bet she's prettier than your wife lol


:)

Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]


Don't be retarded. You do realise that there are black people living outside of Africa, right? lol 🤦


What... Do you mean Egypt by any chance? ;D


I thought that men go to Thailand, not to Africa :D

Food / Poles prefer pizza & kebab? [73]


Meaning?

News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]


Around 4000 and if those migrants claimed asylum in Poland then Germans have the right to do that.


Talked about what exactly?

Off-Topic / Russian Views On Poland and Vice Versa [414]

So what is going on in Dagestan? o_O:

wiadomosci.wp.pl/walki-na-ulicach-rosji-sluzby-szukaja-sprawcow-atakow-w-dagestanie-7041707373796096a

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


It is curious, isn't it... Polish right-wing men are always so vocal about abortion, for example, but I've never heard them advocating for forbidding prostitution in Poland :D

Even a conservative right-wing politician Patryk Jaki considers a forest being littered with condoms thrown away by clients of prostitutes a "funny issue" and says he "has to" take care of it only because his voters want this to be dealt with :) I wonder how many prostitutes he frequented himself :))):

tvn24.pl/polska/kuse-spodniczki-prezerwatywy-w-lesie-mieszkancy-skarza-sie-na-przydrozna-prostytucje-ra364277-ls3447512

In the meantime - the same guy about abortion :D:

gazetaprawna.pl/wiadomosci/artykuly/978163,patryk-jaki-zakazac-aborcji-eugenicznej.html

Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [339]

@Alien, yes, they do help - I take Letrox, but I still have a fairly low blood pressure even when my TSH level is normal.

Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [339]

@Alien, no, I don't smoke, I have Hashimoto's thyroiditis.

Off-Topic / Let's talk about shoes [339]


Those look OK (although when at home I prefer softer slippers, rather than leather ones).

My city grandpa was wearing brown leather slippers with those little "air" holes and that's probably why when I think about "leather home slippers" I don't associate them with anything feminine :)


I have the same problem - I have low blood pressure :/

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


I'm not "shaming" you to win an argument, it's simply a fact that your obsession with what women wear is most defenitely not normal for a heterosexual man.


But you don't know what every workplace in the West looks like, let alone in Poland. You only know American workplace. And most probably even in case of American workplace - I'm guessing that you're full of sh1t.


I live in Polish reality here and now and that's what I can talk about. You can only talk about American reality (which is probably skewed by your hatred towards women anyway).

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


No, it looks like you're wrong, as usual:

fastercapital.com/topics/women-are-often-more-detail-oriented-than-their-male-counterparts.html


No, they are simply not interested in jewelry and don't know much about it. Normally men don't pay attention to such stuff. That's why your fixation is so strange.


Nonsense lol It is about remembering every outfit and accessory, and not about some kind of "patterns" lol Either they wear a new piece of clothing and accessory every time or not. And you can only know that if you remember every outfit and accessory. But thanks for confirming that you're full of sh1t, liar.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


According to you. Those foreign men I mentioned apparently have a different opinion.


Your post was about American workplace though. What American women wear is an American problem. So don't project American problems on Polish society.


No, actually it's men who are known for that - or, to be more precise - husbands :)))

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


From what I remember I've read it's the other way around.
Also, men often don't know what jewelry their own wife likes and you're trying to tell me that you remember every outfit and accessory that every woman you meet wears every time? lol Sorry, but unless you're completely obsessed with what women are wearing (which would be very weird) - I'm just not buying that o_O


No. As I wrote already - there are no clothes moths at my place. My clothes fall apart from me wearing them. Which happens rarely and usually only with clothes made from thin materials that I wear often.


That's really touching that you suddenly care so much about the environment :D, but don't those women work? You only ever meet non-working housewives? :)


You'd have to ask those men :)


No, but I'm guessing where they may be shopping. They may be shopping Polish fashion brands, for example, which are cheaper than Western ones.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Probably less unsanitary then trying on clothes in a store that were tried on by hundreds of people before. And you can wash clothes, you know lol

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


I honestly don't know whether to believe you, because you exaggerate and lie often. Also, as I wrote - I'm guessing that you don't meet those women on daily basis.

Another thing - how on Earth do you keep track of what they wear? Do you take notes? lol


I already explained it to you, you little liar, that I only throw away clothes "if they literally fall apart". If they become too dated then I take them to my grandma's place, so they could be worn when working in the field or as rags for cleaning. Sometimes my mother uses them to sew new clothes for my little niece. And I don't have clothes moths at my place, so my clothes don't get moth-worn. I still have some clothes from my teenage and college years and I still wear winter jacket from my college years, imagine that. 🤷


Not in my family.


But you don't know what those women are doing with their clothes. You're lying.


I've seen foreign men commenting on PF that Polish women know how to shop at affordable stores in such a way as to look good. What's wrong with that? You'd rather they looked bad? Are you jealous or something? :D

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


There's also another option - you can rent clothes these days :) So, for example, if you have a wedding or some fancy party to attend and you don't want to buy a dress that you're going to wear once or twice you can simply rent it and give it back after the event.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


But you don't live with one, so how would you know what they do with their clothes? :)))


I don't care what some random stranger on the internet who doesn't know me in real life "believes" when I pi$$ him or her off lol I am a woman :)


Poloniusz - the female fashion detective :D It may seem like that, but it may simply mean that they cleverly mix different pieces of clothing. I really doubt that you can tell (unless you're gay? lol).


If that's really the case then either those women are rich, or they are master sale hunters or you simply don't meet them on daily basis.

Either way - it doesn't mean that they wear those clothes once and then throw them away. I don't know any woman who would do that.


I don't know what you mean. If you mean my looks/clothes then I have long hair and wearing jeans is normal for women in my city. I also wear the right shoes for the right occasions lol

So, Poloniusz, is Beata Szydło a "butch lesbian", according to you? :D And where do you live??

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Sorry, but I just have to comment on this:


I only throw away clothes if they literally fall apart. If I know I won't wear some clothes anymore I either give them to my female cousins if they're in a good shape, leave them at my grandma's so they could be used when working in the field or in the garden or as rags for cleaning or I donate them to charity. It's also always been a kind of "tradition" in my family that women would leave their kids' clothes for younger kids in the family. The same with toys - they'd be passed on to younger generation. Even nowadays if I know that I won't wear some shoes and they're in a good condition I give them to my aunt who has the same shoe size as me.

My mother doesn't throw anything at all, because she's very tight-fisted.

You could say that in my family nothing goes to waste and it's the women who take care of that.

I do have some clothes that I haven't worn yet, but I don't throw them away - they're waiting patiently for their turn :)))

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Btw, my boss looked like a younger, prettier and slimmer version of Beata Szydło, but with blonde hair and without the usual Szydło's brooch:



I didn't know that Szydło is a "butch lesbian" :D