Meathead
25 Oct 2011
USA, Canada / Polish-American criminals [70]
Actually very few Pol-Ams are on this site, most are expat Poles living in America.
Actually very few Pol-Ams are on this site, most are expat Poles living in America.
Meathead
8 Nov 2011
Love / English Men vs Polish Men [207]
Baloney. That behavior has nothing to do with Australians, Irish or Americans. The English don't travel well, they become quite demanding outside of their own country.
It is in all the countries Britain has exported its boorish idiotic binge-drinking culture to. Therefore, Ireland, America and Australia.
Baloney. That behavior has nothing to do with Australians, Irish or Americans. The English don't travel well, they become quite demanding outside of their own country.
Meathead
21 Nov 2011
Love / Polish Women Versus Your Local Women ? [289]
Polish women do not have a reputation in the US, good or bad.
Biggest difference between English and Polish women? For better or worse with the English, What you see is what you get. With the Polish what you see is NOT what you get.
Polish women do not have a reputation in the US, good or bad.
Biggest difference between English and Polish women? For better or worse with the English, What you see is what you get. With the Polish what you see is NOT what you get.
Meathead
6 Jan 2012
News / Polish People STILL denied US Entry [96]
Since the Poles aren't wanted in the UK we should take them off their hands. Heck they could repopulate Detroit.
Since the Poles aren't wanted in the UK we should take them off their hands. Heck they could repopulate Detroit.
Meathead
7 Jan 2012
Life / K+M+B-2012 - formula on flats in Poland [63]
I was raised in a devout Polish Catholic household and neighborhood in Chicago and I can't say I ever seen that inscription above the door. As for the secularist, materialistic scum, these are your fellow human beings. The foundation of Christianity is charity, something the Roman Church conveniently forgets.
I was raised in a devout Polish Catholic household and neighborhood in Chicago and I can't say I ever seen that inscription above the door. As for the secularist, materialistic scum, these are your fellow human beings. The foundation of Christianity is charity, something the Roman Church conveniently forgets.
Meathead
8 Jan 2012
News / Polish People STILL denied US Entry [96]
This is probably the reason why. It doesn't make sense for the USofA to treat Poland differently.
no. it would mean that the Polish government tells the USA to keep their refusal rate high enough to keep them out of the VWP
This is probably the reason why. It doesn't make sense for the USofA to treat Poland differently.
Meathead
11 Jan 2012
News / Polish People STILL denied US Entry [96]
Because the Polish Government cannot control Poles immigrating to the EU but they have a good relationship with the US Government.
From their point of view it makes no difference whereas Poles migrate to the EU country or the USA? What gives ?
Because the Polish Government cannot control Poles immigrating to the EU but they have a good relationship with the US Government.
Meathead
14 Jan 2012
News / Polish People STILL denied US Entry [96]
Very True. Most Americans' roots are English, Scot, Irish, German/Polish. Many immigrants in the 19th century thought to be German were actually Polish.
In the UK though, Poles are still looked at as "different".
Very True. Most Americans' roots are English, Scot, Irish, German/Polish. Many immigrants in the 19th century thought to be German were actually Polish.
Meathead
17 Jan 2012
Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]
Cyrillic was Poland's first alphabet but Poland made a move to use the latin alphabet as Poland has always looked West. In fact Poland is the furthest eastern country of "Western Europe", it's not "Eastern Europe".
Cyrillic was Poland's first alphabet but Poland made a move to use the latin alphabet as Poland has always looked West. In fact Poland is the furthest eastern country of "Western Europe", it's not "Eastern Europe".
Meathead
18 Jan 2012
News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]
Before the development of water purification systems wine, beer and spirits were originally used to purify water. Plastic Pole is correct.
water made people sick.
Before the development of water purification systems wine, beer and spirits were originally used to purify water. Plastic Pole is correct.
Meathead
18 Jan 2012
News / Poland fines singer for bashing Bible [159]
Do you know how Americans define Freedom? Read the first ten amendments of the Bill of Rights.
Uh, kindly leave the good ol U.S. of A outta this, man. We don't need your brand of representation.
Do you know how Americans define Freedom? Read the first ten amendments of the Bill of Rights.
Meathead
19 Jan 2012
Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]
Poles have lots of attributes but charm isn't one of them.
Poles have lots of attributes but charm isn't one of them.
Meathead
19 Jan 2012
UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [438]
when there is 5 zlotys to the pound, the Poles are not working for the same money. If you want the English to work you have to pay 'em.
No Sympathy for anyone who thinks its better to get money for free rather than working
when there is 5 zlotys to the pound, the Poles are not working for the same money. If you want the English to work you have to pay 'em.
Meathead
20 Jan 2012
News / Polish People STILL denied US Entry [96]
This whole VISA thing is weird. Does Obama really need Congressional approval for this visa thingy for Poland? I would think it's a foreign policy issue and reserved for the Secretary of State.
This whole VISA thing is weird. Does Obama really need Congressional approval for this visa thingy for Poland? I would think it's a foreign policy issue and reserved for the Secretary of State.
Meathead
20 Jan 2012
Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]
I was in school at the time of the "Polish Millennium" and I was taught that the King of Poland at the time (Mieszko?) made a conscious effort for Poland to use the Latin alphabet and follow the Roman Catholic Church. He did this for political and social reasons. He wanted Poland to become Westernized. I thought that the previous alphabet was Cyrillic as that what accounts for the apostrophe's over the Polish letters and I thought I read something as much over the internet but I can't find it, so I might be wrong (can it be?).
Nonsense. Cyrillic was never used in Poland.
I was in school at the time of the "Polish Millennium" and I was taught that the King of Poland at the time (Mieszko?) made a conscious effort for Poland to use the Latin alphabet and follow the Roman Catholic Church. He did this for political and social reasons. He wanted Poland to become Westernized. I thought that the previous alphabet was Cyrillic as that what accounts for the apostrophe's over the Polish letters and I thought I read something as much over the internet but I can't find it, so I might be wrong (can it be?).
Meathead
20 Jan 2012
Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]
Good question.
What is this thread about??
Good question.
Meathead
28 Jan 2012
Life / Are Poles mentally more Eastern European or Western European? [170]
True. Poland is Western Europe's eastern border. Poland has looked West since the 10th Century (ex., latin alphabet, Roman Catholicism, Golden Democracy).
Culturally there is no Central Europe.
Western.
True. Poland is Western Europe's eastern border. Poland has looked West since the 10th Century (ex., latin alphabet, Roman Catholicism, Golden Democracy).
Culturally there is no Central Europe.
Meathead
29 Jan 2012
Life / Are Poles mentally more Eastern European or Western European? [170]
Poland made the blunder of rejecting the offer of the Marshall Plan in the late 40's, thus they fell under the Soviet orbit for 50 years. That's why they're considered Eastern.
Poland made the blunder of rejecting the offer of the Marshall Plan in the late 40's, thus they fell under the Soviet orbit for 50 years. That's why they're considered Eastern.
Meathead
29 Jan 2012
Life / Are Poles mentally more Eastern European or Western European? [170]
After WWII communism was considered a legitimate alternative to capitalism by the intelligentsia. There were lots of Polish communists although they deny it now. If Poland would have insisted on participating in the Marshall Plan what would Stalin have done?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
After WWII communism was considered a legitimate alternative to capitalism by the intelligentsia. There were lots of Polish communists although they deny it now. If Poland would have insisted on participating in the Marshall Plan what would Stalin have done?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan
Meathead
2 Feb 2012
Life / Polish and Czechs [191]
This is the result when one tries to live Roman Catholic ideal.
Poor, religious and miserable - his words, not mine.
This is the result when one tries to live Roman Catholic ideal.
Meathead
1 Mar 2012
Life / My experience in Poland 15 years ago as an American trying to live and work there. [167]
Take the plunge and move there. The worst that can happen you'll have to move back.
What is wrong in what was said. Please advise. I need help with this. Where do I get more information on this?
Take the plunge and move there. The worst that can happen you'll have to move back.
Meathead
13 Mar 2012
UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]
Good girl
oxon, to see where your country is, you have to know where it's been. Here, start with this article and check some of the hot links below and it will describe the problem (Polish immigration is the symptom not the problem). BTW, your statement that Poles have a pleasant disposition...naaa they work too hard to have that.
libcom.org/news/article.php/land-ownership-right-roam-uk-10032006
Keep it civil, please.
Good girl
oxon, to see where your country is, you have to know where it's been. Here, start with this article and check some of the hot links below and it will describe the problem (Polish immigration is the symptom not the problem). BTW, your statement that Poles have a pleasant disposition...naaa they work too hard to have that.
libcom.org/news/article.php/land-ownership-right-roam-uk-10032006
Meathead
16 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]
What Poland should be doing is using their coal and converting it into natural gas. This would make her power plants burn pollution free (or near so) and they would get co products out of the conversion process. Poland should also use her coal reserves for methanol conversion and use methanol for their transportation fuel instead of importing expensive oil, this also would cut down their emissions and repair her balance of payments in regard to trade. But instead they talk about nuclear power. Poland has a habit of not seeing the forest due to the trees.
Here's an article on coal gasification: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gasification
What Poland should be doing is using their coal and converting it into natural gas. This would make her power plants burn pollution free (or near so) and they would get co products out of the conversion process. Poland should also use her coal reserves for methanol conversion and use methanol for their transportation fuel instead of importing expensive oil, this also would cut down their emissions and repair her balance of payments in regard to trade. But instead they talk about nuclear power. Poland has a habit of not seeing the forest due to the trees.
Here's an article on coal gasification: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gasification
Meathead
22 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]
Most biofuel is made from corn. They use the starch from the corn for ethanol and the leftover stuff is distillers grains which has all the food nutrients (which incidentally is easier for the cattle to digest. Raw corn is difficult for cattle to digest). In the USofA they currently produce 15 billion gallons annually from 40% of the corn crop. The distillers grains go to livestock feed. East Africa has a famine because they don't have monoculture. They have subsistence farms which are vulnerable to droughts or floods. The farmers in East Africa don't need our grain they need our agricultural technology like tractors, seed and irrigation equipment. Your wife needs to quit believing the oil industry's disinformation campaign on biofuels (as a scientist she needs to be impartial). They (the oil industry) don't want the competition. Poland can produce ethanol or methanol from their coal reserves, all it takes is some creative thinking from it's politicians.
Wrong, as this is my wife's scientific research and she is using Willow and Miscanthus sinensis (Elephant grass) as a source of biofuel for power stations.
Privately, my wife and her colleagues say it is a waste of time, but they have to do the research for the EU as part of their EU commitments
Privately, my wife and her colleagues say it is a waste of time, but they have to do the research for the EU as part of their EU commitments
Most biofuel is made from corn. They use the starch from the corn for ethanol and the leftover stuff is distillers grains which has all the food nutrients (which incidentally is easier for the cattle to digest. Raw corn is difficult for cattle to digest). In the USofA they currently produce 15 billion gallons annually from 40% of the corn crop. The distillers grains go to livestock feed. East Africa has a famine because they don't have monoculture. They have subsistence farms which are vulnerable to droughts or floods. The farmers in East Africa don't need our grain they need our agricultural technology like tractors, seed and irrigation equipment. Your wife needs to quit believing the oil industry's disinformation campaign on biofuels (as a scientist she needs to be impartial). They (the oil industry) don't want the competition. Poland can produce ethanol or methanol from their coal reserves, all it takes is some creative thinking from it's politicians.
Meathead
5 Apr 2012
News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]
What a stupid idea. What was his reasoning?
In Poland Tusk's government implemented change in schools in Poland. Reducing number of history lessons to almost non existence.
What do you think ?
What do you think ?
What a stupid idea. What was his reasoning?
Meathead
5 May 2012
Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]
400 posts on the circumcision thread and still growing!
400 posts on the circumcision thread and still growing!
Meathead
18 May 2012
Life / Old Polish (Russian) Films [9]
In case you don't know but there is a lot of Polish and Russian films on Netflix.
movies.netflix.com
In case you don't know but there is a lot of Polish and Russian films on Netflix.
movies.netflix.com
Meathead
8 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / What's Kowalski (Hamtramck, MI) kielbasa like? [18]
I don't know if it was Kowalski's but I purchased some fresh polish sausage from a Polish Deli in Hamtramck (on Jos campo) and it was gooood. The stuff was freshly made and not packaged like they show on the website. This was a couple of Christmas's ago.
I don't know if it was Kowalski's but I purchased some fresh polish sausage from a Polish Deli in Hamtramck (on Jos campo) and it was gooood. The stuff was freshly made and not packaged like they show on the website. This was a couple of Christmas's ago.
Meathead
17 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]
Wrong! English ancestry is Anglo-Saxon, Celtic (Scots, Irish, Welsh) and Norman. Saxony is Germany now but used to be considered Denmark not that long ago. Most of Anglo Saxon English are historically Danish. In fact before 1066 England was considered a Scandinavian country. English ethnic heritage is Scandinavian (Danelaw) even the language is more closely related to Norwegian than German. No the English don't look German, a certain percentage of the population look Danish.
So did Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindlers List, can you seriously tell the difference between ethnic English and Germans? Because i cant, perhaps thats because were from the same stock.
Even with the stereotypical dress, put the same dudes in opposite clobber and we have mirror images.......could pass as English or Germans....
Even with the stereotypical dress, put the same dudes in opposite clobber and we have mirror images.......could pass as English or Germans....
Wrong! English ancestry is Anglo-Saxon, Celtic (Scots, Irish, Welsh) and Norman. Saxony is Germany now but used to be considered Denmark not that long ago. Most of Anglo Saxon English are historically Danish. In fact before 1066 England was considered a Scandinavian country. English ethnic heritage is Scandinavian (Danelaw) even the language is more closely related to Norwegian than German. No the English don't look German, a certain percentage of the population look Danish.
Meathead
14 Sep 2012