USA, Canada / "You have tornadoes in this country, we have graveyards" - What is meant by this statement? [14]

@Alien, I didn't come up with the phrase, I was merely answering Missiontiger as best I could.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Rich, either you refuse to understand basic English or your brain's scrambled eggs!

Cheap labor means the import of low-wage Third World labor from certain Asian, Latin American, even formerly Communist nations such as Poland, Ukraine, and Romania, imported essential by figurative boatlift, in order underbid and therefore gradually phase out native born, North American, English-speaking college-educated Caucasians in order to reduce the overhead of having to provide healthcare, decent salaries or comfortable retirement benefits.

It's a pernicious plot and continues to occur in other highly industrialized nations, such as Sweden along with Germany. Incidentally, I DON'T concur with Trump that migrants are somehow "poisoning" the American culture. I do think though that it's odd how some still praise Trump as a business brain nonpareil when this same person spoke openly as president some years back of bringing in immigrants from Scotland or the Nordic countries instead of migrants from "@#$$-hole countries" in Africa or Latin America.

Were the US to follow his advice, the wages for those Northern Europeans would make America unaffordable for the average middle class citizens.

Therefore the US needs those migrants, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle which reinforced the inherent inconsistencies of capitalism as currently practiced in a post-New Deal United States.

USA, Canada / "You have tornadoes in this country, we have graveyards" - What is meant by this statement? [14]

I'd tend to agree.
What countries such as Poland or Germany, in fact, most of the European continent have suffered in terms of war, malnutrition or the like, the States have suffered more in terms of natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, not to mention mass shootings on the manmade level.

In terms of the first part, Mr. Grunwald's absolutely correct.

Food / The name of a Polish pastry? Chrust? [60]

"carcass" = trup (corpse)

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Rich, "cheap labor" certainly does exist, so for the bazillionth time, quit playing the Devil's Advocate!
Or is your name Gregory and you're simply gaslighting again?

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

I reiterate, how should any advanced capitalist society survive, if not through the hire, if reluctantly, of cheap labor?
Most of that needed labor force will be foreign, usually from Third World nations, grateful for the chance to live and work in the US:-)

Why is the world so very different from that of the homogeneous '50's? The answer is because once upon a long time ago, Caucasian Americans were not afraid to learn a trade and work with their hands.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

@Rich, you only dub amiga a "genius" because you happen to agree with him.
@amiga, you seem to be allowing your own pre-set values to cloud your objective judgement.
While we all do this, at least I'm honest about it.

Amiga, Rich and most others here on PF seem to conveniently ignore the simple fact that migrants are the government's answer to cheap labor in order to further a purely post-Reagan capitalist agenda a la Donald Trump! The more non-native born, non-target language speaking, typically darker-skinned low level workers to conveniently misunderstand what native nationals are saying, the more the government profits.

Middle-age to older native Caucasians have slowly proven a serious threat to the ignorant business community at the top who desire nothing more than a "flexible", quick-turnover labor force whom the bosses can merrily, easily hire and fire. usually without having to pay them much of anything, forget about unemployment benefits.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

I probably know more about the Swedes than some kangaroo-hugging moron!!
You obviously know nothing about Sweden's post-War history. Have you ever visited Sweden?

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

What precisely do you mean by "conformist Asians"? Conformist in the sense of complying with societal rules and norms to a far greater degree than, say, the US, is certainly correct.

However, I don't feel they are overly liberal for its own sake. In this way, they are indeed conforming to general changes which have occurred and are presently occurring throughout Europe.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Possibly.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Who pressured Sweden into making that decision anyway?

Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

You see, Alien? Your Polish culture is showing.

Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]

I agree with Lenka!
Although I've been to Poland only once, I do have years of experience hanging out in Greenpoint, Bkyn., and Poles seem much more conservative regarding age and dating.

It might not be looked at twice for a young-20 something woman to be flirting with or even dating a 60-something fella here in the States, but among Polish people, this is still seen as pervy and to put it mildly, disgusting.

USA, Canada / Cigarettes reach nine dollars a pack in New York [109]

He-he!

News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]

Now, paw! Don't you start getting PiSsed off too.

History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [16]

How right you are, Alien.

Pole 1: Excuse me, mister! Are bathrooms for mixed people of both sex or only one at a time, please?
Pole 2: What you are talking, lady? Both sexes not allowed because we are only one!
American bystander: HUH?????

Translation: The first person wishes to know whether the restroom is a unisex stall and the second person replies that it's actually for men and women. The two Polish speakers understand one another's gobbledygook fluently.

Don't just get me started on LGBTQ or transgender:-)

LOL

USA, Canada / Cigarettes reach nine dollars a pack in New York [109]

Also remember a nickel for a shine??
Just joking there, Cargo pants.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

It wasn't of their own creation though, Rich, that's precisely the point. Sweden, like The Netherlands, Germany and the UK, merely was trying to keep up with their liberal neighbors and lost touch with the constituent base. Swedish voters were talking, but the state wasn't listening. Put another way, the majority wasn't silent, the government was deaf, tone deaf.

Sound familiar? It ought to; Biden's been accused of the same thing and heaven knows, it might cost him '24!!

USA, Canada / Cigarettes reach nine dollars a pack in New York [109]

Way back when I was a senior in college, around 1982, a pack purchased in New York cost $1.10.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Rich, Sweden has simply been bending over backwards for far too long, trying in vain to accomodate Third Worlders in their society.

A backlash is only natural. This is a direct result of the demeaning of Western culture by lefties going back to the Woodstock Era. Everything Asian or African is "cool", everything white European is "suspect".

History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [16]

I mean that certain of those Polish actors who spoke their lines in German had such faulty German accents that it was difficult to understand them if one were a native German speaker.

Frequently, people speaking a second language will be better understood by other foreigners, in this case Poles, than by those whose first language is being spoken by the foreigner in question.

I remember Polish acquaintances in Berlin speaking German with native Berliners and being told that their pronunciation was sometimes difficult to make out. However, the others at the table from different European countries seemed to understand the Poles perfectly:-)

Life / Life in Poland for Indians !!! [40]

I know, Cargo pants! It's called "Hollylodz" LOL

Life / Life in Poland for Indians !!! [40]

Upon thinking it over, I suspect being from just about anywhere, but having the right amount of money, will sweeten the pot just a little.

Suddenly, the most reviled foreigner in Poland, such as new arrivals from India, will be treated quite differently if it turns out they're a Bollywood star!

Surely it's no different here in the US.

History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [16]

Absolutely correct, Alien!
In certain older Polish movies, especially from the forties, Polish actors were cast as Germans and spoke German properly but with horrible Polish pronunciation, on occasion, barely comprehensible to German speakers.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

However, Swedes DO indeed care how safe Sweden is, one of many reasons why their country has slowly become so reactionary!

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [678]

With what then is your mythical figure "armed", Rich?
With firearms alone.....or with common sense as well?

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

As the poet said, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Mankind never changes, the world changes around it!

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Try it, Rich! I dare ya.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

How come? Afraid you might learn something?

USA, Canada / Moving To Michigan - Help Required [27]

Quit playing dumb. Or perhaps you are not playing after all