Life / Cannabis / Weed in Poland... How much does marijuana cost per gram and how easy is to get it? [355]


Me neither. Just don't see the thrill of it.

M-G

Love / Polish girls, how are they when they are in love? [86]

I'm planning to do that, but at this moment in time, I have not. Basically it's just exploring for now.

M-G

Love / Polish girls, how are they when they are in love? [86]


Ah yeah, I just ask a question and you come barging in being all defensive and stuff - see if I care, just cut the attitude. Didn't get a good night sleep last night? Well if you didn't, pls don't take it out on me, will ya?

Lowfunk: thanks -

M-G

Love / Polish girls, how are they when they are in love? [86]


Hey, cut the attitude, lady! If she didn't like me, she would not contact me at all and let me do all the work. But she does. I'm man enough to see when a girl does not like me. I just move on, I was just wondering if it was a cultural thing, well apparently it is not. I did or said nothing to diminish you being a female, right?

M-G

Love / Polish girls, how are they when they are in love? [86]


Hm not all women are the same - I've made up my mind anyway, just wanted to see if my assumptions (which I am not going to state here) were shared with, as you call it, randoms. I know she likes me, you don't date somebody a few times if you don't like him/her.

And by the way: it's just a question.

M-G

Love / Polish girls, how are they when they are in love? [86]


No, but that's what I said. I was just wondering if it was a cultural thing, not specifically Polish. I added this because she is from Poland and I am not really familiar with Polish culture as such - could be that this behaviour is normal accepted within Polish society. That's why I added it.

M-G

Love / Polish girls, how are they when they are in love? [86]


Could be true, I'm 4 years here and she is 3 years here and although she claims to be a tough chick (and I've seen her give out to an unpolite deskclerk, so I guess there's some truth in that), but I made her blush a few times :), so my best bet would be that she's a bit of both: big mouth (big city grl) and shy at the same time...My gut feeling basically is inspired by all the golddiggers I encounter, and I have encountered quite a few...Comes with the job, I know, but how about when you want somebody who likes you for who you are, not what you are?

M-G

Love / Polish girls, how are they when they are in love? [86]

Yeah, I know, that's why I said it's not specifically a Polish issue, wise guy :) But to be more specific: I've been dating this lady for a few times now, but to every date we have there are multiple cancellations for various reasons. She seems to be genuine, but I've got a gut feeling that she's bs'ing me.

M-G

Life / Disco Polo - No No No No No! [95]


I liked it! I liked the complexity of the melodyline, the sophisticated chord-scheme and the depth of the lyrics! And most of all, I liked the high quality video they made! These guys must have a huge budget at their disposal to make videos! Disco Polo Rules!

M-G (is feeling a bit awkward ever since he got out of bed this morning - and is now really, really off now: stop feeding me Disco Polo, before you know it, I will buy one of those flashy shirts these guys are wearing)

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

How about the Swiss - despite the fact that there were German plans to invade the country they still kept on delivering weapons to Germany until the very end. Maybe it was just because of the threat of invasion...

M-G

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

So, now from the Polish hatred for either the Germans and the Russians, we traveled in this discussion over nearly the entire globe...Ok, how about China being the next hegemonial power in the world? Any opinions on that?

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

I once encountered a very nasty Belgian. He was so nasty, it was a crying shame. Still I like the Belgians.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

WB = little man whos wife refuses to sleep with because of erectile problems with not enough money to buy viagra. Instead his wife sleeps with other, more attractive guys without these problems. He knows this and this knowledge makes him screamingly frustrated and angry, so angry that he uses fora to vent his anger.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


While they were cut off British finances, the US received plenty of help from France, always eager to pull Britain's leg and -as usual- from Holland. Actually the Americans regarded the French and especially the Dutch as their main ally, not only for the money, but also because they regarded the Dutch very highly as the founders of their capital at the time, New York. Even today, having a Dutch "van"-name (like Van Houten etc) grants you nearly an elite-status in the US.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


Isn't that typically British?

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

z_darius was a little quicker than I was :)

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


Actually the biggest group to come into America from Europe are not the Irish, but the Germans. There's also an issue there: in 1914 it was due to this huge group of German immigrants not by all means sure that the US, should it participate in WW1, would choose the British side. After all, Britain had bugged the US for over a century.


That issue was not new at that time. When the British took over New Amsterdam and changed it to New York, two groups were living there: British and Dutch. On the vote what would be the general language in the city, and the colony, Dutch lost with two votes to English.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


We invented the Slave-Trade, don't forget that!
But Apartheid (the only Dutch word used worldwide in its original Dutch form) was solely an invention of the South African government. South Africa was stolen from the Dutch by the British some 300 years before that, so following your line of thinking, one could also say that Apartheid is British in origin.

Indeed we are a small country that lies for nearly half it's size below sea-level. With the exception of the time that it was joined together with Belgium (which is the original size of the Netherlands - Belgium is a Low Country as well) it has never been bigger; all the more reason to admire the vast line of achievements we made worldwide :)

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


Didn't know WW2 took place in the 18th century...

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


But they used their profits to help Western Europe. Britain did not loose it's vast, stolen, empire until after the war when the respective ppls started to realise that they did not need the British and that they could rule themselves. Besides that, the biggest part of what Britain owed to the US was never paid. Britain was virtually bankrupt, even before the war already.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


No. America saved the world and after the war they saved Western Europe through the Marshall Plan. The only countries that did not receive Marshall help were the neutral countries in Western Europe and with the exception of Switzerland and Sweden, they all did so much worse than the countries that did receive the help. Look at Ireland.

Without America's help, Britain and the rest of Western Europe would have sunk into the abyss again and there would be a 3rd World War somewhere in the 60's. It was the Marshall Plan and the fact that America decided to come out of the splendid isolation that has saved the old continent, the old continent that had codemned them so many times before that.

Let's face it, Western Europe owes it's entire existence nowadays to the Americans.
Eastern Europe before the Iron Curtain fell was actually the product of a discussion of Churchill and Stalin and a drawing on the back of a coaster: "yo, Joe, you want Hungary? Well, we want Greece, so if we divide it like this...Wait, I will draw it for you. Do you have any paper on you? No? Well, wait, I'll just take this coaster here...Waiter! Can you bring us another beer?"

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


Exactly, what did Britain do in September 1939, except declaring war? Did they send massive amounts of troops? Did they attack Germany? No. Until April 1940, they sat and watched and did nothing.

Kitlers are fun, aren't they? :)

WB: your house must be crammed with those awards...

Have a look at the map and see who were Germany and her allies and see who was fighting them, colour them respectively red and green: you will see that nearly the entire map is green. There was no possible way that Germany could have won the war with America alone involved. It is actually a miracle that they kept up the fight for nearly 6 years.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


Let me guess: that's why the British did nothing to help Poland in it's struggle agains Nazi-Germany in 1939? Hm, my best bet is that the British couldn't care less what happened to Poland and the Poles: the declaration of war was more to prevent the loss of face they would have in the world (and more important in America), would they allow Hitler to do what he wanted for the fourth time in a row.

But then again; nobody of the Western Political leaders (except Wilson maybe) cared what happened to the Eastern European countries. Those, in their view, were the backwaters of Europe, nothing important there, no need to worry about them...This attitude has always made me kind of angry.

Second addition: also, to the British the idea that Germany would be the predominant power in Europe and not Britain, counted more than anything else. Even if they had to sacrifice little countries like Czechoslowakia or Austria.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


Basically Britain was just lucky. Thanks to some crucial tactical mistakes Hitler made in the spring of 1940, Britain escaped occupation by Germany. Had the pushed right through to Duinkerken, they had captured the vast majority of the British army waiting to be shipped back to Britain. If they then would sail across the Channel, they would have seized Britain in a few weeks, that's how weak the British army was in those days. The battle for Britain was another crucial mistake Hitler made.

Osiol: That's just what I'm trying to say: nobody's perfect and we should take it person per person, not an entire ppl.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


If they are, why then did the Germans right after the war admitted they never encountered so much general hatred towards them in any occupied country as they did in Holland? Why were there relatively so many Dutch deaths during the occupation?

The first question I can answer myself: it's because WW2 was the first war that struck Holland in over 100 years. Nobody knew what war was like and just like Poland, we have this vast neighbour that is so much bigger and stronger than us and when this big bad neighbour decided to do this little peaceful country harm, this felt like a rape of the well maintained (and somewhat hypocritical) Dutch innocense. Furthermore, we had the bad luck that the Nazi's considered the Dutch as brothers, while in fact we may descent from the same tribe, we are a complete different ppl. To be viewed upon as a likewise ppl or even identified with Nazi-Germany disgusted the majority of the Dutch ppl and fueled the hatred even further. Granted, there was a Nazist movement in Holland, but they were actually very much on the decline when Germany invaded Holland in 1940. And besides this: before WW2 nearly every country had a Nazist movement.

The second question I could also answer, but I leave that up to you, WB.

NB: the Dutch capitulated after 4 days and after the Germans had bombarded Rotterdam out of irritation that resistance was tougher than expected.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


As far as I can see it, Poland has the bad luck that it is crammed in between two bigger countries that both have a view on Poland that is generally not friendly. And what's worse, these two countries didn't like each other. So when the neighbour to your left is much bigger and stronger than you are, hates the neighbour to your right, which is also much bigger and stronger than you are, chances are pretty big that every fight between them will be fought in your garden. Therefore I always have felt sorry for the Poles as they always seem to get caught up in the middle of something which has basically nothing to do with them. Just being there at wrong place at the wrong time. The Germans went even further and put the Polish nation to a burden with which they have to live forever, and build the most disgusting invention of mankind on Polish soil.

NB: amongst historians in Holland there was this joke, pointing at Poland's move to the West as a result of all the wars: one more war over there and Poland will be the Netherlands new Eastern neighbour. But this just as a side-remark.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

My mother does so too and I am proud of her...It was just a sarcastic remark, because there are ppl out there that actually think like that, how discusting this may be.

Granted, the labour market is stretched and getting overstretched more and more...That's a general problem everywhere in Western Europe. The influx of new workers from Eastern Europe willing to work for less does not help the situation...Ah but anyway, the World is going to end in 2012, so we only have to endure it for 4 more years and then it's all over :)

Btw: if your mother looks typically Jewish, then you must look like me :))

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


Nothing - I was only kidding and making fun of the way some ppl think.

Actually, that is not quite true: in Britain there have been some pogroms against Jews, the most notorious one being in York, somewhere in the 11th or 12th century. The usual: lots of ppl owed a lot of money to the Jews and they did not want to pay them back or could not. So, what is easier in a case like that than just to kill them? You get rid of your debts in an instance...

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]


Thank God, I don't look like a Jew :) I don't have a big nose, I am as pale as any other person in Ireland and I don't like koosjer food :)

WB:

Who's to blame for that? The Polish workers who work hard and get underpaid? Or the employers who creepily take advantage of this?