News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


I'm not surprised, because I know I'm not unique.


Hey, me neither!


I'm not asking for understanding, nor am I justifying any crimes for that matter. I'm simply pointing out that our societies could see a dramatical decline in crime rates, if only some people could be convinced of the mutual benefits of sharing in all fairness, instead of forcing the poorest of the poor to pay even more, just so that they can throw another party..

You just know it doesn't make sense that minimum incomes have been dropping or at best are being frozen, while middle class incomes are increasing every year. (Keep in mind everything else keeps getting more expensive aswell!) There's simply no sense in denying that this makes certain people who work for, or even less than the minimum sometimes, feel cheated, used and angry. So right or wrong, if you want a happier and less criminal society as a whole, you'll have to atleast make sure that every person feels like he or she can participate in society.

Poverty is relative. I mean, you can tell a poor person in Europe he or she has a much better life than for example someone from Sierra Leone, and then ofcourse that statement would ring true! But then again in Sierra Leone almost everyone is poor, so people who live there aren't exactly excluded from the community.

Ofcourse the people we'd call poor have a better life here if you look at material worth, but socially? Some people really feel like they're being excluded from the community, simply because they don't have any money left to participate in certain social activities after paying for their most basic needs. I don't think anyone should understimate that feeling, or even call it a luxury problem.

People who call it a luxury problem, can tell me that again after they've experienced atleast ten years of the work to eat-work-sleep lifestyle. Which basically means no success, no progress, no opportunity, no pride, no satisfaction, no motivation, not much hope, no silly dreams, not too much fun, no holidays whatsoever, no new furniture every once in a while, and in some cases no car, no partner, no children, not much to laugh about, and not much of a future either..

It might sound like I'm overexaggarating to you, but for some young people, this is what their life already looks like. Poverty has become inheritable these days. (Which means, if you're parents are poor, there's a fat chance you'll miss a lot of opportunities, and that you'll probably end up poor aswell!) Discomforting, and pretty sad if you ask me.


I don't think you really lived there from the sound of it, I think it's more likely you've been here for a while to work, and perhaps had a few things arranged for you by the agency that you've been working for? Trust me, it's not that easy when you're Dutch and haven't enjoyed much of an education for yourself, because then you'll discover that you'll be too expensive for the very same employers you've been working for as a foreigner..


Plenty? I beg to differ.


There's never an excuse, but it's human nature to want an acceptable standard of living, and in most cases, most people will measure their standard of living to the standard of living they experience all around them, for better or worse..

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


She?


I didn't mean to, because despite of our disagreements, atleast he's honest about how he vieuws things, just speaking my mind that's all! (I allow myself to get carried away sometimes?)

News / Poland: In Top First 15 Countries in the WORLD by the number of CRIMES [286]


Always Seanus, always.

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]


Well, the poor ones often have more muscles to work with, a stronger character, have a deeper sense of what morality really means, are far more loyal to their partner in most cases, are probably also more grateful for everything they recieve in life and appreciate the little things, and they probably pass on the stronger genes aswell.. (Because they're usually coming from a long line of work horses!)

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]


..it's warm here all of a sudden?

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]

Kinky. No nurses though?

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]


Is it wash-your-mouth time again? Yup, I think it is!

UK, Ireland / Recently beaten up in England by 3 Polish guys [93]


I'm sorry to hear this, but I hope you know it doesn't have anything to do with you being English, or them being Polish. (They could've been of any nationality, and they could've been your own fellows just as easily!) It's just that whenever such cowards see you as an easy victim, or feel confident enough whenever they're outnumbering you, they think it's cool to take out their frustration on you..

I hope that rather sooner than later, these cowards will come across someone they can't handle, which will probably happen. Hey, I wish you a speedy recovery, and whatever you do, don't let it drag you down!

:)

Love / Polish girlfriend going back to Poland if I dont buy engagment ring [85]


If the ring was expensive for you, and if the ring is all she really cares about, then I'm sure you'll be better off without her.


..and ofcourse that's also true.

:)

UK, Ireland / WHAT IS SO SPECIAL LIVING IN U.K [90]


The girls man, the girls!

:)

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]


She'll do.

:)

Love / What do foreign women think of Polish men? [120]


Dutch weather isn't.

:)

Love / About Polish sex - are Polish women made for love? [48]


No?

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]


I can't express how grateful I am that you've actually decided to allow a hopeless case like myself to benefit from your insights.

;)

Dziękuję z gory!

Love / Polish Girls vs Russian Girls [813]


No way! Are you for real?

;)


..and are you sure you're not saying that just because you're a bit jealous?

;P

Real Estate / Apartments too expensive for Poles living in Poland [54]


I'm afraid it's the same everywhere throughout Europe, for all the younger people atleast.

:S

Love / Tonight, I'm asking my Polish girlfriend if she'll marry me [36]


;)

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [451]


No, they aren't. (By the way, did you know that Jurk means dress in Dutch?)

:)


No, your mom probably cheated on your dad with the milkman.

:)

News / International Political Parties (Poland and EU) [14]


Yes, I'm aware of that. (But here comes the big BUT..) Do they co-operate locally? Are they even active locally? No they aren't. Are they going to? Do they have plans to operate locally?


I still don't see anything happening locally.


Not really, but atleast I want to see something happen. (Which I simply don't!)


They only needed about ten years to privatize the whole public system? They've changed the marketing system in less than ten years? (And they're making new changes as we speak!) I'm absolutely positive they could make these changes happen within a shorter period of time, if they really wanted to. I don't think they're very enthusiastic? Or maybe they don't see the benefits of working locally?


I agree, to a certain extent.


What I'm basically talking about is a need for local politics, interacting with other local politicians, through an international organisation or structure. People usually know what they need locally. Infact, they often are quite adept at making assessments, and know the local situation better than the government usually does, simply because they're more involved.


What we need is the left wings and the right wings to stop bickering about who's the Nazi and who's the Hippy. Who's the evil heathen or who's the bad Catholic. We need people who will simply look at the facts, listen to what the people want, or convince them of the alternatives, and then come up with a logical solution. (How hard can it be I wonder?)

I believe all forms of religion should be completely seperated from politics. Having a belief should be something personal, and something you should be allowed to practice with other people if you feel the need to. Essentially, there's nothing wrong with politics and debating or discussing, but it's usually the people themselves who just can't seem to look past all the differences without stigmatizing one another. They tend to create camps, and seem to need their absolute truths.

I believe the truth is usually somewhere in the middle.

;)

News / International Political Parties (Poland and EU) [14]

Convex: This is basically your Socialist Alliance in a nutshell;

- The strengthening of the socialist and social democratic movement in the Union and throughout Europe.

- The development of close working relationships between the national parties, the national parliamentary groups, the Parliamentary Group of the PES, PES Women, ECOSY, and other socialist and social democratic organisations.

- The definition of common policies for the European Union.

- The adoption of a common manifesto for elections to the European Parliament.

I'm talking about one party. Different countries. Co-operating. I think it'll prove far more effective than having all kinds of different political parties and movements, each with its own different agenda, which just happen to flock together in Brussels, but in reality, fail to do anything locally. How do they communicate I wonder? I think it's too complicated, and I think a simplification might help everyone. (Or maybe this'll actually happen in about thirty years, and I'm being too negative now?)

:S


It's funny sometimes, but also tragic really. I guess 'Centrist' is just another one of those labelling words I don't use. I'd rather call people who listen to both sides of the story realistic, practical and down to earth. It's normal to compromise when you're debating, and you should be open to all kinds of suggestions, possibilities and solutions, regardless of who or which party provides you a good solution. (Atleast that's how I see it!)

:)

News / International Political Parties (Poland and EU) [14]


I'll explain.


Let me give you an example; A German party in Berlin wants Polish workers to fill the vacancies. A Polish party in Kraków wants German workers. Today, these two parties do not know what the other party is doing locally, simply because they don't communicate on that level. (Do you know about the twin town concept?) Each town should have a twin town they can deal with. The government doesn't have to intervene with these dealings, but they can still oversee the whole picture.

If the Polish and German parties would team up, if they would become one party, and perhaps even exhange some personnel, they may know that Berlin needs 3000 Polish workers, and that Kraków needs 3000 German workers. (There are jobless people in Germany aswell, no?) That way, they can inform themselves properly, and even exchange personnel without flooding eachother's markets, and request the kind of personnel they really need, instead of what's happening now, with all these free-lancing agencies, because nobody honestly knows who's working where anymore! Just look at all these articles about immigration, and you'll see that even the newspapers have to guess and estimate how many immigrant workers they have in their countries, because no one really knows the exact figures.

So that's what I mean with regulated immigration and communication/co-operation on a local scale. Healthier for everyone. Local political parties have access to files, know who's jobless and who isn't. The governments only check up annually..

Local parties should get involved with people frequently. It might seem like a lot of work, but it only takes a few persons extra in the office, and if they do what they're supposed to do, then we will see a dramatic change in the unemployment rates everywhere. Better for everyone, right or left.


Yes, and what exactly are they doing to become effective on a local scale? Nothing. Nada. Just because you're bickering in Brussels doesn't mean you're actually helping anyone. Alright, you might change a few rules, and change a few rights, but I'm afraid that's all they're doing in Brussels. We need local job offices with registered people instead of all these free-lancing agencies working behind eachother's backs, and proper communication between local parties.


I'm not talking about a wheel. I'm talking about a racing car. We need to do something to make our system run faster, and the only way how we could achieve this, is to co-operate locally.

:)


I harbour all kinds of ideals. I'm all for practical solutions. Some of my vieuws would be left, and some of my vieuws would be right, and a few ideas I have may seem a bit radical at first, but I can assure you that no one will come to harm. What we need to do is make people co-operate, instead of working individually. This means the agencies I was talking about earlier don't necessarily have to be shut down, but that they should melt into one big job office, and simply change their activities. So we don't have to re-invent the wheel at all, we only have to sing a different tune. I could probably explain it better, but I'm sure you get the idea?

I'll attempt to explain it in my 'ideal' scenario.

I would like to see job offices with registered people (Qualification, marital status, age, gender, along with the motivation to work abroad yes or no.) I would like these job offices to communicate with other job offices. (Phone, internet, etc!) I would like to see complexes with affordable appartments for temporary foreign workers everywhere, so that they won't flood the housing market all at once. (We already have a few 'Polish villages' in Holland so I'm sure this whole concept isn't too new, or too strange for certain people.) These people could later decide if they want to stay in the new country yes or no, and move into a house of their choice once they obtained a contract. (Perhaps a small school in these complexes will help to teach them the language of the country they're in, only for those people who consider staying.) This way, you can regulate everything from A to Z, and exchange people and work in a fair and honest way, without exploiting anyone, without flooding eachother's markets through rogue agencies and anomymous immigrants.

If we would interact locally, we could make such changes happen, and probably fix the whole unemployment issue, probably halt crime rates, and ofcourse this will generate quite a lot office jobs aswell! (Good for teachers aswell!) Bad plan? Good plan? Any suggestions? Ideas? I myself wouldn't mind working abroad for a while and experience something new, if only the chances of actually getting somewhere were fair enough. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the whole plan in Brussels to create one Europe for Europeans? So why not communicate and interact more intensively I wonder?

:)

Interesting side note: To build these kind of complexes, you'll need construction workers and architects. (Which also means more jobs for the local population.)

News / International Political Parties (Poland and EU) [14]


They have job centres everywhere, right? So why should that cost anyone any money I wonder? They already have access to certain files. They already have access to a database of employers, and they already have a network. How hard can it be to tell people to sign up if they're looking for a job? How hard can it be to exchange information with other job centres, wether they are Spanish, Swiss, Austrian, English, French, German, Dutch or Polish job centres?


Which is funny, because I remember well organised job centres in Holland, only about 15 years ago? They deliberately ruined these, all for the sake of privatizing business, and the new marketing system. I'm sure they're able to make these effective at home, if only they wanted to. (There's no excuse really, and everyone knows that most of the people in our countries aren't completely retarded yet!)


I don't think so. I think this will help a lot of jobless people to make a start for themselves somewhere, or even help them to a contract. Ghetto? How? It's far better to build a decent appartment complex for foreign workers, because these appartments will have no impact whatsoever on housing prices, or the internal market, because they're exclusive destinations, designed for a special purpose. (Think!) You want to see ghetto's? Take a look in Rotterdam, where immigrants live in a house or an appartment together with twenty other people. (Which is illegal.)


I'm for solutions. I wouldn't mind a federalistic superstate, as long as it keeps its democratic values. I wouldn't mind a union either. I happen to think that it's not about what type of system we have, but more about the values we keep. We need to be more co-operative, and more effective.


Investments and infrastructure always help, but you'll need to give your workers some perspectives aswell. You can't expect skilled workers to sleep in a tent, can you? Or even expect them to be happy about living in a bungalow or a house, together with twenty other people.

So that's why I think these appartments complexes are necessary. (They're going to build 300 appartments for foreign workers in my area, so I know it's possible!) I think we should make it attractive for workers to work abroad aswell, instead of expecting them to arrange everything on their own in a country where they can't even speak the language, which probably is the biggest obstacle for a lot of people who would consider working abroad. I know some of us are smarter than others, but you can't possibly expect people to study every European language first?

:)

Love / About Polish sex - are Polish women made for love? [48]

Well..

*building up the suspension*

I've had Polish sex for the first time and it was wonderful! The second time was awesome, the third time was amazing, and the fourth time blew my mind.

I'm hooked, I'd say it's better than the English sex I've had so far. (Sorry!) But if there's an English lady who honestly thinks that English sex is better then ofcourse she's welcome to prove her point..

:)

I know, I'm hopeless.

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [417]

I hate nosey people too. I once slept with this English lady and I vaguely remember the rest of the neighboorhood standing outside after a few minutes, the girls giggling ofcourse! The guys shouting.. Ha-ha. ..Ha. Never seen two people naked before? Jesus H Christ what a childish society we seem to live in sometimes!

Worst of all, she left the window open and she had really thin curtains, so I think the whole neighbourhood saw us. It's amazing really, how some people manage to discover what you're doing in no time! It certainly makes you wonder if they're eavesdropping on you all the time, doesn't it? Or if you're somehow important? Should I feel flattered or something? I think Holland is even worse. If you sleep with a girl here, half the town will know about it within ten minutes.

The good news is ofcourse, that I simply don't care anymore. I've learned such gossip can be helpful sometimes, - if you're single and you've done something right that is - but most of the times talk like that can be utterly destructive..

I think it's sad really, but I'm not going to move even an inch because of liars, hypocrits and cowards anymore.

:)

Love / About Polish sex - are Polish women made for love? [48]


I'm disappointed, I was hoping for 120% really.. I've got a question though, did you actually take my post seriously? (You're not the only one who lies sometimes you know.)

:)

Food / Polish Milk Soup [72]

We have something similar in Holland. Suffice it to say that I'm not going to try your recipe..

:)

Bah! Meh! Bleh!



Well, atleast there are two sane persons here..

:)

Love / English girl moving to Poland with my Polish boyfriend for the first time [69]

Hey, don't shoot the messenger, but I'm convinced he's not telling you something..

:S

Sorry!

USA, Canada / Beautiful women in Polonia, WI [18]

Probably a smart thing to say too! (For a Polish guy I mean!)

;)

Life / Do you think a smoking ban would be a good thing in Polish restaurants and Bars? [217]

Restaurants? I'm fine with that, no problems there! But a smoking ban in pubs? Open a few smoking pubs, and open a few non-smoking pubs.

Everybody happy.

:)