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8 Jan 2010
News / German legal discrimination against Polish speakers [209]

the article is about supervised visits between parent and child, in Germany. Obviously, if court granted him supervised visits only, it means they need to monitor what's going on, i.e. what is he telling them as well. Makes sense they want him to speak the language the supervisor can understand. Don't make more out of it than it is.

and instead of fighting in the media about what language to speak and traumatizing his children, he should be proving to courts that he is not a low life, high risk a$$hole and that he should be granted UNsupervised visits.
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5 Jan 2010
USA, Canada / Differences in How Polish People Raise a Child and How Americans Raise a Child [149]

Polish mothers are bonkers about drafts. I live in Florida and they would rather sweat than have fan blow cool air on them. Especially at night - they think they'll catch pneumonia. Same thing about sitting on stone, or something cold. Or drinking something cold!

I won't even get into ice cubes...
BTW, bottles and pacifiers till 4-5yo are bad for the teeth.

I noticed a lot of latin mothers will carry their kid around until the kid himself gets tired of it. I think many mothers separate themselves from their kids mostly because of going back to work or other personal or social obligations.
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4 Jan 2010
Love / All Polish women can't be nutters can they? [257]

nomaderol, seriously, the only one you make sense to is yourself. I try not to read your posts after I made a mistake of getting involved in a conversation with you about the etiquette of gift-giving. At least that's what I thought it was, until you turned it into some kind of socialist manifesto, or.. who the hell knows what it was. I suspect most of us here, after falling into the same trap once, quickly realize what's going on and treat you like a harmless lunatic. I seriously hope you are young.

Few rules to help you out: don't lie, don't pretend to be somebody you're not, don't assume that anyone believes what you write and most of all, read your posts couple of times before you send them.
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3 Jan 2010
News / Czech drug legalisation threatens Poland [111]

Wooohooo Chechs! Good for you! About time some common sense prevailed!

It's time to separate the people with mental problems that abuse anything they can get their hands on, from criminal elements making money off them.

And it's time to admit that there are recreational drug users, same way there are occasional drinkers. Making drugs (or alcohol) illegal does not work.
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3 Jan 2010
Love / All Polish women can't be nutters can they? [257]

At the risk of sounding stupid: everyone wants to fall in love with someone that will love them back. For women, that sometimes involves figuring out if the guy wants anything more than a steady sex partner. Guys worry if she's just after the money. Language barrier makes that part more difficult and long lasting.

As for the original question? Yes, all polish women are nutters. They simply cannot have any respect for guys that put up with all their sh!t.
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2 Jan 2010
Life / WHY ARE POLISH CALENDARS SKEWED? [42]

the discrepancy is, again, which day is the seventh, day of prayer. Some religions believe it's saturday, some sunday.

Religion aside, in my opinion Monday should be the first day, since it's the first day of work-week, and saturday and sunday should be at the week-end.
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1 Jan 2010
Law / Irish welcome on Polish building sites ? [47]

Some Polish people didn't like the way they were treated in Ireland (if I heard it then everybody else must have known already) and they want others to know. That's all.
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1 Jan 2010
Life / WHY ARE POLISH CALENDARS SKEWED? [42]

I think only jewish people consider Saturday as the seventh day. For catholics, it's always been Sunday. The fact that american calendars start on Sunday, even tho everyone considers sunday the end of the week, is a little 'tell' of Jewish influence.
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31 Dec 2009
History / Polish-German alliance. [489]

hitler took the same vermanistic view of hungary, romania. they were to him just vermin, and his idiolgy focused on that

What's with the 'vermin' dude, you really like repeating that word? How about this quote from Hitler: “How fortunate for leaders that men do not think.”
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31 Dec 2009
Work / Salary for Teaching EFL in Krakow [120]

ok, help me with the rest. So 3K/mo salary... what is the rent, from small apartment for one to renting just a room? What is an average electric, water, gas monthly bill? How much for internet access, cell phone, cable? How much can one person get away with for food - no thrills polish style? Is public transportation still dirt cheap?
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28 Dec 2009
Language / It is not possible to translate names into English or Polish! [52]

one more thing about Jaszczak, the "szcz" is the polish letter "Ш" or "Щ". just in case that changes anything. I hope my name doesnt involve pi$$ing

I was joking... sorry.
Jaszcz might have been some kind of waggon.
Or the beginning of lizard - jaszczurka
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28 Dec 2009
Language / It is not possible to translate names into English or Polish! [52]

Jaszczak sounds bad. I hope I'm wrong, but it might have something to do with pi$$ing.
I also think that just about every Polish last name has originated from some recognizable word.
Go ahead, hit me up. Give me a POLISH last name and I will translate it for you!
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25 Dec 2009
Love / Polish boyfriend coming to visit [52]

I gather it's been an internet/phone relationship up to now.
Do what you are comfortable doing.
And remember, you might be convinced that you are in love, but the
final test is the physical attraction when you meet in person - it's important to be yourself.
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24 Dec 2009
Travel / Is it safe to travel to Poland? [194]

So, are there parts of Warsaw/Krakow you would not stroll around in the evening? If so, where and why?
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24 Dec 2009
Food / What's on YOUR Wigilia table? [20]

śledzie, sałatka, ryba w galarecie, ryba po grecku, barszcz z uszkami, pierogi.
No desert yet. Szarlotka, probably.
Oh, no carp though. Flounder and snook.
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23 Dec 2009
Travel / Is it safe to travel to Poland? [194]

In every country there are impoverished, 'unsafe' areas. For the tourist it's important that there are places he/she knows about that are safe to walk around, even in the evenings. I don't know where they are any more, but pointing them out would be much more useful HERE than arguing about statistics.
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23 Dec 2009
News / Freezing weather in Poland, 42 people dead in winter freeze... and no-one cares? [140]

oh, they're around. Each time I swear to myself I'll never do it again, somebody else comes around that I'm convinced I can help... Turns out that the great majority of my "social cases" do not know how to think beyond today.

As far as the business, that would be the worst run business in history!
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23 Dec 2009
News / Freezing weather in Poland, 42 people dead in winter freeze... and no-one cares? [140]

Yeah Ariel, now your talking! That's much better than making people think that the next homeless person they run into is going to be a famous writer down on her luck.

Just don't make it a competition about who's doing more for the 'downtrotten". No one can match my own gullibility, and I do put my money where my mouth is.

First law is good too, but it sort of implies that you can't change a person. Not a best argument for helping homeless.

here are couple of personal stories that may offer some useful hints for those that actually take homeless people into their homes. Easy to get them in, much harder to get them out. Four cases, all true:

(1) A woman that within weeks needed to share her good fortune with homeless animals. She started bringing stinky old dogs and cats. When given the ultimatum, she moved out with her animals rather then give them up. It was all very civilized, I gave glowing recomendation to her next temporary 'landloard'.

(2) Recovering addict, clean for 2 1/2 years, hard worker. Fell off the wagon couple of months into his stay with me because some girl he met was getting high. Getting him out was a stroke of genius: I offered him a $100 and a ride anywhere within reason (I think he chose his dealer's house) as long as he took all his stuff with him and did not came back.

(3) Puerto Rican girl, with two kids I mentioned earlier. She always paid her bills on time, but looking at her budget, it was clear she'll never going to be able to save enough to get on her own two feet. So I gave her back all the money she paid me. A success story. I still help her once in a while, when her cable TV gets turned off and such, but that's still a great success.

(4) latest - a neighbor that lost his job, house, kids turned bad. Little did I know that his plan was to commit suicide via alcohol. I got him out a month ago, moved him out with his sons on Sunday afternoon. He was too drunk to realize what was going on. He's in jail now, after almost killing somebody while driving drunk. I'm looking around for homeless shelter for when they let him out. I can see that it would be much easier to do that if he accepted Jesus as his personal saviour.
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23 Dec 2009
News / The "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign theft from Oswiecim, Poland [240]

Call me a cynic, but with the amount of attention this generated, maybe they didn't mind so much getting caught? If I were them, I'd be looking for worthy platform right now - against traumatizing children by taking them to concentration camps school trips? high heating prices? immigration reform?