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Dirk diggler   
4 Jun 2018
Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Why do jewish women like circumcised d1cks?

They cant resist something that's 20% off....

Oh snap!

No but for real circumcision isn't practiced nearly as much in Europe. And earlier jaskier asked why they don't let the kid choose when he's older is because that procedure is far more painful with age. When you're a baby the skin is different. Honestly with the advent of.modern plumbing and basic hygiene there really isn't much use for it.

This is genital mutilation pure and simple... I'm so glad I wasn't subject to that with an ancient book cited as the reason for it
Dirk diggler   
4 Jun 2018
News / Poland's economics and education against the background of the world [27]

You said yourself that it's corrupted by dullard jocks.

Yes, but nonetheless us has more top schools than any other nation or even continent. Just the 8 ivies alone outnumber the top eu schools - which for now only has a half dozen or so good schools thanks to the UK belonging in it.

The UK system is similar - high fees (but not so high as USA)

I'm aware. My dumbass cousin keeps asking me for money to study some bullshit in newcastle. I love the guy but he has two left hands.

the benefit of Poland is that you can get a poor degree from a poor uni and it hasn't cost you anything

You still have to pay for grad degrees and the bs private schools growing like mushrooms on sh1t. Sgh when i visited quoted me 30k zloty (and an additional 9k usd if I chose English mba) which to a westerner is super cheap but to an average pole making 4k a month is still a pretty big sum.
Dirk diggler   
3 Jun 2018
News / Poland's economics and education against the background of the world [27]

Foreign students are NOT responsible for increasing tuition costs.

They're not the only responsible party, but due to the laws of sheer and demand they certainly contribute to increased costs. And most average/upper unis play a balancing act between taking in minorities esp athletes who have poor test scores esp of they went to a ****** high school but are good in football basketball or whatever, local kids who have high test scores but maybe dont have a ton of money to go so are offered grants and scholarships like in my case, and asian kids who barely know English but won't bat an eye at the 50k a year tuition. I had the misfortune of having such an Asian kid in my group an mba class last semester. I literally had to write out his presentation for him and read it verbatim because I wasn't going to allow some dude who speaks English at a 1st grade level to lower my grade and **** up my grant

Colleges are first and foremost a business. Always remember that. You could be a genius and go to some top school and boost their averages but if you can't pay theyll take some average kid who can over you or a black dude who is 7 feet tall and will play bball and make the school millioms while the teachers pass him in his parks and recreation or sports management major
Dirk diggler   
3 Jun 2018
News / Poland's economics and education against the background of the world [27]

Oh it absolutely is..go to any half decent college and a huge chunk of the students are wealthy Asians esp from China

, that said, things have definitely got worse under the current regime

All indicators show otherwise - lower unemployment, huge gdp growth - nearing 5% which is absolutely phenomenal, tons of new jobs, higher wages, more tax revenue than ever, higher birth rates, poles moving back due to new opportunities esp from uk.. yeah... polands doing much worse lol

.... And I bet pis will win the next election seeing as how distant 2nd po, who poles do not trust, would have to double their support just to come close and more than triple it to beat pis
Dirk diggler   
2 Jun 2018
News / Poland's economics and education against the background of the world [27]

It can only do that by immigration - by contuinually importing people who will work for low wages

Yes, importing people who will WORK... not migrants who say 'I do no like job, I student - no job' or 'this is a full time job, can you stand for 8 hours and be here at 7 am? - no, no 6 hours is okay.. oh 7 am?! but bus come late, daughter needs food, no, no 7 am.'

And that's why Poland chose to import 2 mln ukranians instead of even a few thousands economic migrants that other countries wanted to get rid of because they weren't getting a benefit from them either...

R&D

Again, Poland's R&D increases proportionate to its economy, as with most democratic capitalist countries. Poland cannot afford to triple salaries for all teachers and build particle colliders or send research ships to map the Baltic sea floor, or go to the jungle and collect samples to turn into future medicines as it does not have the money to spend on that right now. When it does pursue such projects, generally in very limited amounts that type of academic research is done in conjunction with other universities, companies, governments even, - especially western ones. Even the best business school in Poland, SGH, does an English program with University of Quebec - not its own, as it does not yet have the money or necessity to develop such a program. Its no different with anthropology, medicine, IT, etc.

You must know this, with your business head on.

And like every business decision, whether it's to purchase/sell a plant, hire more staff, increase/decrease the marketing budget, etc R&D too is primarily a business decision in a capitalist society when made by corporations, not an altruistic one as with say research universities - especially in poorer capitalist societies such as Poland's. The only reason why Ford is investing tens of billions in R&D isn't because they care about the environment and want to reduce the planets' dependency on oil - no it's because it will bring them more money. They fell behind in the electric/hybrid car game and now must spend a bunch of money to develop new lines in order to recapture that market share. It's no different with R&D in Poland - if a company doesn't think they'll get return on a particular project they're not going to invest in it. Why do you think that pharma doesn't create 'cures' for diseases? It wouldn't pay nearly as much as treatments.

You forget one key thing - Poland has gone through everything from being one of the largest countries in Europe to being totally off the map, from very wealthy to very poor and everything in between. Poles got a taste of the open borders, the cutting red tape, globalization and all that jazz with PO. And guess what? They rejected it. While their economy was growing and all these reports saying that Poland is now doing so well, the average person didn't feel it. That is why they chose protectionism this time around.
Dirk diggler   
2 Jun 2018
News / Poland's economics and education against the background of the world [27]

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so there is a brake on growth

Rofl what are you talking about brake on growth? Oecd just revised its 2018 figure of gdp growth from 4.2 to 4.6% - a phenomenal rate for a developed country.

Who turned/allowed Libya and Syria

USA, not Poland. It is not polands concern. Besides, the migrants can go to wealthy neighbors like saudi Arabia, Qatar, uae but guess what even their fellow arabs dont want them and cite security concerns as their main concern. Poland has nothing to do with it.

North Korean slave labour.

I know its too bad poland stopped giving them visas.. freaken beta journos from germany had to ruin a good thing even though nk runs hostels and restaurants in Germany - but that's okay in their eyes I guess. I could've used a few in our metal fabrication shop. They're great welders and they don't complain.

And actually r and d spending is gradually increasing according to paih. Yes it's below the eu western nations but it is nonetheless increasing as the economy grows. Much of that comes from the it sector. Poland is not wealthy enough yet to gamble with enormous r and d budgets that provide little to no immediate value. It's not going to spend money on projects like particle colliders when the country literally just became classified as developed a year or two ago. Unless you want poland to be like north Korea who has a huge R and d budget (mostly on nukes and missles) while it's citizens eat grass. Same with USSR, it spent a ton of money on r and d because it was a different system. It wasn't concerned about shareholder value. Now it's a balancing act, r and d is essentially gambling and If you can't afford to lose the money, you dont gamble. That's why R and d is the first thing to be cut when revenue and profits decrease. R and d doesnt pay the bills today and it doesn't create any immediate shareholder value which is all markets care about. Poland could make the cure for cancer today and it wouldn't mean anything for the economy if a polish company can't make money off of it tomorrow. That's the capitalist system. Like with every business decision, r and d is subject to pros and cons, roi, etc.

Besides, poles take a far more practical view towards r and d thats more similar to russia and China. Instead if creating new things, they copy ideas, manipulate them, and reverse engineer. They've done this with cars, medicine, computers, television sets, tanks, helicopters etc since the prl days. You will see r and d grow from foreign companies using cheap labor esp in it, but not from polish companies anytime soon. It's not ready for that.

And yes I agree that academia isnt competitive in poland, atleast not at the university level. And again that comes back to money. Professors in poland make in a month what german professors do in a week. Academia has always been like that. Teaching simply isn't regarded as a high paying noble career like in the West. Yes there are wonderful professors who care about their work more than money as in ebery country, but the majority nonetheless have mouths to feed so money is important to them.
Dirk diggler   
2 Jun 2018
Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Greek has I believe 7 different words for 'love' i.e. brotherly love, sexual love, love for an animal, etc.
Dirk diggler   
30 May 2018
Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Poland has had Mongols occupiers for a few decades and in some poles albiet its rare have an epicanthic fold. Some poles do not have the white almosy cream colored skin but darker more central asian but their facial structure is still.pretty typical polish - super round heads, blue eyes, etc. More so though poles have had genes mixed with other European nations - swedes during the middle ages then later lithuanians ukranians and then to a lesser extent german/Austrian and Russian - oftentimes esp with the russians it was t the woman's choice
Dirk diggler   
30 May 2018
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

found any Jewish.

Probably because they look as jewish as an ethnicity rather than religion so unless you had like israeli/middle eastern jewish blood it wouldnt show up. Nonetheless a ton of jews, perhaps the majority, lived in eastern europe and many still do
Dirk diggler   
30 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

not a single resident has complied with the new law.

Good I wouldn't give mine up either. Besides, theyll just come up with other mods to increase fire rate. A tiny modification and itll make their bill useless anyway. Plus hair triggers, slide fire, etc remains legal anyway.

A suburb near my house recently passed a municipal bill that ar15 and other semi auto owners are subje t to a 1k a day fine. It's a largely jewish liberal suburb so it won't affect most people. The ones who do have semi auto rifles simply refuse entry by police. No warrant, no entry or unlawful search and seizure.
Dirk diggler   
29 May 2018
History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]

In history Turks helped Polish people for too many things. In

Oh like trying to invade poland only to get your asses kicked by Jan iii sobieskis armies?

Poles drove the invading muzzles out of Europe once and its high time for us to do it again. And europe will be better off - no more islamic terror, skyrocketing rapes, budgets for housing and feeding migrants that exceed education budgets as in Germany, etc.

Poles travel to Turkey for vacation mainly because it's cheap, pretty and has nice Mediterranean weather ... not because of erdogans politics or their like/dislike of the Turkish people
Dirk diggler   
29 May 2018
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

Taitlowicz cam be either son of that or from some wioska or neighborbood... it does sound like Yiddish mixed w polish
Dirk diggler   
29 May 2018
Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]

@Bullocks

It's polish.

And kap it doesn't always mean 'son of' but more generally of or from. In the case of my last name (owicz) its after our patriarch but there's poles with names like tarnowicz meaning from tarnow, or lasowicz which cojld mean from the forest.

Ski is similar but often denotes occupation i.e. Kowalski i.e. a blacksmith, same with czyk.but ski can also denote geographic region or patriarch
Dirk diggler   
28 May 2018
Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

It wasn't that people necessarily ate all that better back then as polish food is hearty but they got more exercise. People walked waaay more. For one there weren't nearly as many cars per person. A person could lose weight just sitting in a car during the summer as hardly any cars had air conditioning. We had one of the most expensive cars in town - Mercedes 300td (diesel station wagon) and even that didn't have a.c.. Now people go shopping, go out to restaurants, bars clubs for fun, many guys are into motorsports. Before the social things were more playing soccer, walking around town, going to the pool, etc. Even rhe village where my grandparents live has an Olympic sized pool and every day in the summer for years and years it was packed. Yet a few years ago they closed it due to lack of interest.

I remember when the whole steroid body building craze was sweeping poland lol. It's pretty much died down though now it's more mma.

Nonetheless atleast in Poland the obesity rates diabetes cancers etc are still not as bad as us and many other countries. But theyre catching up and thats what scares me.
Dirk diggler   
28 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

@Chemikiem

You're data is waaay off... everyone knows chicago holds the number 1 spot for murders... even cities with 3x the population like nyc and la dont come close

I will give it to you though. I do wish I didn't have to walk around strapped all the time. It's uncomfortable and keeping track of keys phone wallet is easier than keys phone wallet 380. Plus all the right pockets on my pants are stretched and faded out. But i don't have another choice. You bring down the murder rate and bring all the carjacking, home invasions and all the other bs ill be the first to throw all my weapons in the river. Till then I'll stay strapped because id much rather be judged by 12 than carried by 6. And if for some reason I lost my permits and guns id make my girlfriend always keep one in her purse.

The gun laws for legal owners are not all that different than polands. Concealed carry is easier in the U.S. while getting an automatic is a lot easier in poland. The people who are committing the majority of those 38k shootings a year arent legal gun owners, theyre criminals who purchase guns illegally - same as in Europe. Did gun laws or gun control stop london from having more murders than nyc this year? Did they step the Paris massacre? Hbout Charlie Hebdo and all the other shootings nor to mention overall murders?

When are you going to learn to argue? lol

You don't have to worry about my 'arguing skills.' I've talked my way out of situations plenty of times. And theyve made me a lot of money.
Dirk diggler   
28 May 2018
Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

@10iwonka10

Yeah but that's in your mind too. A person on food stamps can use on vegetables and fruits the same as chips and chocolate.

Plus you can eat well but if you don't get exercise it does you no good. I probably eat 3k calories a day but im not fat because I work out regularly plus the stuff I do eat is low sat fat and low or no sugar. I dont even put sugar in my coffee or tea anymore. It was nasty at first but agter 3 days it didn't bother me.at all. In fact, about week or two after that i could taste the coffee and tea and tell if its quality or some cheap processed b.s

My next step is to get off dairy and just take in the minimum but im finding it even harder than getting off sugar and red meats.

It's all just changes tho. Change things slowly but surely and dont give up

@kaprys
Yes polish people on average are still slimmer than many Americans (except for people.in Florida especially Miami like every non citizen is fit there) but there's is more and more chubby and overweight poles every year. In the 2000s, 90s, and prl it wasn't like that everyone was skinny. Not anymore you see a lot of guys with beer bellies and even more girls that are chubby. Granted I think I've only ever seen 1 or 2 morbidly obese like 400 lb person before in pl while in the US its quite common
Dirk diggler   
28 May 2018
News / Do we finally see that Russia doing something positive for Poland, by successfully resisting to EU ? [57]

Russia called in a huge chunk of the venezuelan oil company recently.

So my fellow Putin loving Americans, make sure you tank up at your local citgo this week. Putin thanks you in advance.

Maybe, just maybe, one day our citgo gas stations (which tend to be the most ghetto gas stations in chicago.... They're so ghetto chief keef raps about them) will be renamed in honor of Putin or Russia and have the double headed eagle as their new logo. Although I think the marketing team knows that definetelt wont help them gain market share =/
Dirk diggler   
28 May 2018
News / Do we finally see that Russia doing something positive for Poland, by successfully resisting to EU ? [57]

EU is divided like never before and the eurocrats are constantly trying to put out fires yet new ones keep popping up before they can extinguish an old one. Eu was a great thing till social Marxists starting trying to influence the politics of countries and trying to push a monoculture on 28 different nations. Naturally it didn't work in eastern europe as we fought too hard to win our independence from Moscow just to hand it to brussels

express.co.uk/news/world/965412/european-union-eurobarometer-survey-brussels-election-2019
Dirk diggler   
27 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Chicago has a huge Latino population yet its not them driving up the murder rate its blacks. Over 80% of homicides are committed by blacks - and most victims are black too...

Detailed stats on shootings and murders in chicago
heyjackass.com/home

Sun's out, guns out
Dirk diggler   
26 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

I also know a few poles who are pro Russia but none who would take a morning to vigourously defend it and all its 20th and 21st century crimes

True - both in Poland and the Polonia abroad... There's quite a few that want better relations with Russia like nowoczesna and quite a few poles (like myself) who can respect what Putin has done for his country and how he at least has enough balls to defend the country and people he represents, but none of those Poles make apologies for Katyn or try to downplay or rationalize the murders and suffering inflicted by the Soviets. Actually, even post USSR, Russia (namely under Yeltsin and somewhat at the beginning of Putin's reign) even went as far as releasing the documents related to Soviet atrocities as they pertained to Poles and offered an apology hoping to reconcile and move forward... Not Mazur though - he's still stuck in the 50's USSR where Katyn never occurred and the Red Army liberated Poland and every man woman and child was handing flowers to the soldiers...

most of them know plenty of Latinos either from work, from the neighbourhood, or from church.

That's true. Due to the sheer amount of Polish immigrants in Chicago and NYC working in the construction trade, almost every Pole has regular contact with Latinos - especially Mexicans and Guatemalans. Most of the neighborhoods that Poles live in when they first come to the US are mixed Mexican/polish neighborhoods like Belmont, irving park, portage park, etc. Also the parishes that Poles and Mexicans attend are often the same - with interchanging Spanish/Polish language masses on Sundays.

And FYI Mazur - there's a lot of Poles who came in as illegals/undocumented and became naturalized (basically the reward for not getting caught), worked their way up, paid their taxes, raised their kids and sent them off to college.... but to you those people are scum because of the way they came in...

Considering the fact that you're complaining about a $150 concealed carry fee in another thread, it appears to me these 'scum' contribute a lot more to the economy than you do...

All the Latinos I know are among the most hospitable, generous and hard working people I've ever met. In all honesty, I'd sooner trust a fellow Mexican to bail me out of a bad situation than a Pole. Even the ones that are gang affiliated almost never mess with non affiliated people unless there's a good reason. If anything, I wish we had more Mexicans, Guatemalans and Hondurans like the ones I work with. Those guys have never been greedy, never refused to go the extra mile even if it means they'll have to stay later at work and won't get paid for it. They're legitimately happy to be in the US and have a construction job. If only more people had an attitude like that where they don't play the victim card and that they should be judged based on merit, not skin color or nationality.

Which means that whatever you are then I don't think that you are really a retired PolAm engineer from Chicago.@ cms neuf

I'm pretty sure he is. A quick google search of his username shows so, and I really don't think it's harry... harry has spun some yarns before but his views tend to be the opposite of mazur's
Dirk diggler   
26 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

You know rich, I defended you against other posters because we do need new members so I asked them to kindly lay off. But goddamn....

No those 20k killed in katyn werent a drop in the bucket. Those were peoples brothers husbands fathers, just as the 50 mil killed during ww2. You are rationalizing again. I'm sure if one of your kids was killed you wouldn't be cheering that atleast you and your wife were spared. No youd be crying and your world would be just as shattered. Just because more people died in another incident doesnt make a lesser casualty count any less significant and heartbreaking. And im sure if your wife was gang raped by a bunch of drunken red army soldiers in sure you wouldn't be say meh social.justice for what we poles did during the troubles

You know with all this talk of defending soviet atrocities and saying katyn was a drop in the bucket youre starting to sound a lot like stalin. The things you write as not much different than those coming out of Stalin's mouth, namely the death of one is a tragedy, the death of a million is just a statistic

The fact that they were all officers is important because it was a deliberate attempt by the Soviets to wipe out the officer corps, leadership and intelligentsia. Even hitler didn't do that to the countries he br just as bad if they rounded up all the plumbers and shot anyone who they deemed unreliable to the communist cause - which depending on your career was enough to get you killed. So bye bye to priests, artists, writers and most college educated people. Had you been born some 20 years earlier you could've easily ended up as one of the poles killed by the russians. And I doubt your family would be saying oh well its just a drop in the bucket compared to all.the others that died
Dirk diggler   
25 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

You can have concealed carry if you habe the appropriate license namely self defense and technically the target shooting one. Those are far more difficult to obtain and take much more time, especially the target shooting one than the regular hunting license which doesn't allow concealed carry. The vast majority are the hunting ones, I dont kmow the exact number but its pretty safe to assume that 5x to 10x (if not more) as many gun owners in poland have the hunting license than the self defense and target shooting one. Like the target shooting one actually appears to give you the most freedoms but you have to participate in a certain amount of Olympic style competitions for each class of gun every year. And with the self defense one you also have to go in to have your like mental status checked and all that every year or two.

And autos aren't discriminated, once you have the permit you can buy whatever you want
Dirk diggler   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

@Rich Mazur
Both. If they defied the russians and demanded a 'liberal version of communism/socialism, basically one with an open press, elections that aren't rigged, etc (pretty reasonable imo) then theyd be immediately invaded with soviet tanks just like czechoslovakia and hungary were when the people and their leadwrs made those demands. Faced with this scenario, poles decided the best of a bad situation. Some did it by opening small businesses and selling or bartering rationed goods, some brought dollars, jeans, vcrs from the west, others informed on their own family and friends and beat up or even murdered pesky agitators and everything in between. The soviet system changed every pole, and not for the better. Although yes there were certain pros of the prl. There was more equality since basically everyone was poor, families were more united, there was less crime, less greed, and less career stress since no one took their job too seriously. Nonetheless, I feel the modern system has more pros than communism did.
Dirk diggler   
25 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Are you talking about us or poland? In us it depends on the state. In some states only concealed carry is allowed while in others you can walk down the sidewalk with an ar15 slung around your back. You'll likely get hassled by the cops, gave guns pointed at you, told to lay in the dirty street as they chrck your credentials.

In Poland, if you have the gun license for target shooting (there's 3 different types of licenses/permits) technically you can walk around with a concealed automatic - but obviously you could only use it at a range. It's further divided out by category of rifle, shotgun, handgun so technically if you have the rifle one you can for example carry an ak47 in a case or the trunk of your car (depending on the legal definition of what would be considered concealed) in public but taking it out of its case in public is a no no