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Joined: 1 Feb 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 7 Dec 2013
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grubas   
7 Dec 2013
Food / Are eggs in Poland refrigerated/not refrigerated? [33]

It made no sense to them that I refrigerated my eggs.

Very strange.I always thought eggs have to be kept in a fridge and I am surprised it is not exactly true.

Also, it blew their minds if I boiled a dozen eggs and then put the hard-boiled eggs in the fridge and ate them over the course of a few days.

Why?People in Poland do that too but mainly during and shortly after Easter.

Then I left for Toruń and eventually got so sick that I spent three days in a hospital.

I got sick (food poisoned) after eating fast food in the US at least 4 times (Wendy's and McDonalds).
grubas   
7 Dec 2013
Life / An Englishman wanting to watch TV in Poland [51]

People without tvs freak me

Why?I don't have TV and I don't watch TV.Why would I pay for watching commercials when in fact I should be paid for watching them?

how do you watch sport?

On my laptop.
grubas   
7 Dec 2013
Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]

Polish is extremely difficult to learn, I've been learning for about 3 years andI still sound like a retarded turnip.

You (westerners) all do.But no worries you won't be taken for a retard unless in addition to sounding like a retard you also look like one.
grubas   
23 Oct 2013
Real Estate / Can foreigner buy apartment in Warsaw, Poland? [39]

Ah yea, it's pure dodge and I think the 2 pairs of them are clowns for doing it.

Why?It's called "Rent till you own" in the US and it can be better deal than the mortgage.It is simply a different way of paying for something.Instead of borrowing money from the bank you basically borrow from the owner.Treat rent as interest on loan and there you go.Of course there also tax issues,value of money in time and so on involved but everything can be calculated.
grubas   
20 Oct 2013
USA, Canada / Why do Americans (and Canadians) hate Polish people? [226]

I thought you were against the furniture to be moved when you were in someone else's house.

I don't,when told Polish joke (it happened),I just politely ask them "So you basically saying that I am stupid because I am from Poland?"That's all I am doing.So far every single one apologized to me. Some time ago at work the manager an American born in the US to Polish parents,made a comment about other guy who is from Poland in which he called him "Polack" so I asked him "Do you know that "Polack" is considered ethnic slur"?He said "Oh,I am a Polack too" me "I don't care what you are, "Polack" is ethnic slur and you should not be using it ,specially in a work place".I never heard him saying "Polack" again.I am not affraid to speak up. I had problems renting place from Long&Foster, they were telling me AC doesn't work and this and that but I said "I don't care you can fix it later" because I really needed this place right away.It was still a problem until I said "Look lady it seems to me that you don't want rent it to me because I am a foreigner!" an hour later I was moving in.Speak up,at work talk to manager,if that won't help,talk manager of the manager.Just don't be a coward FFS.
grubas   
18 Oct 2013
Life / Poland: The land of -isms [63]

it seems that Americans don't criticize you for 'moving their furniture', do they?

Because I don't (anymore).At first I was pointing out to them things I didn't like but their answer usually was "Why don't go home if you don't like it here?".And you know what,they were right!Now when asked I like everything.
grubas   
18 Oct 2013
Life / Poland: The land of -isms [63]

He is exactly the kind of person unpleasant stereotypes of Poles are derived from.

I am a very pleasant person but if you came to my home and kept telling me that I need to move my furniture around because you don't like the current setup i would lose my patience after maximum 2 hours and knocked you the **** down then throw out the door.Poland is the home for Poles so don't you tell us how do we need to set up our furniture because you are only a guest.
grubas   
18 Oct 2013
Life / Poland: The land of -isms [63]

European homogenous country that needs to progress in order to function better as a future multicultural nation.

As a past multicultural country we have learned that multiculturalism doesn't work. Assimilation yes,multiculturalism no.
grubas   
17 Oct 2013
Life / Poland: The land of -isms [63]

Because we live in Poland and can comment on what we see.

You can comment,true,but you are not entitled (and never will be) to be telling us what we need or should do.

you've criticised Poland constantly on here.

I criticize (and will continue doing so) oppressive antiPolish regime which is currently governing Poland but never Poland herself.

Because you and your ilk clearly aren't.

Another one.Morda krótko przybłędo! or out!
grubas   
17 Oct 2013
Life / Poland: The land of -isms [63]

if I mention the fact that Poland still needs to progress

What makes you think that you are the right person to tell "Poland" what she needs?Leave it to the Poles and mind your own business.
grubas   
17 Oct 2013
Life / Poland: The land of -isms [63]

They were pretending to be some Polish,

They pretend to be Polish all the time but neither of them is.

It was supposed to be a criticism of the attitude of some Poles to Ukrainians coming here to work and doing jobs like cleaning ladies, etc., in their mind.
After the sh1tstorm ensued they were saying "don't shoot the messenger", I guess.

I bet you are "young,educated and from a large city" since you are buying this explanation.It was one of their Polonophobic rants as very few Poles can afford Ukrainian maid.

I do hope this isn't going to be another case of 'That foreigner is criticising my fellow Pole! I must defend my fellow Pole!'.

He is as much Polish as you are Harry.It is not any secret that Kupa Wojewódzki is a Jew.
grubas   
15 Oct 2013
UK, Ireland / Why can't unemployed Polish people on benefits just leave UK and go home please? [240]

I wouldn't be happy if I was Polish and I knew someone that was english for 20 years and could not speak to them, I'd demand they go home.

Why?I don't care if they don't speak Polish as it's only for their benefit to speak the language of the country they live in.If they don't want to learn,let it be so but they shouldn't complain that they can't get done simpliest things because,surprise very few Poles speak English. One can live in Chicago whole life and get every single thing done without speaking a word of English but I can't imagine myself being miserable outside Polish community.

so they live in the uk and boo our national anthem

Do they?How do you know the ones booing live in the UK?
grubas   
15 Oct 2013
News / Lech Walesa vs Immigration: Brits humiliated him at London Heathrow Airport [105]

From comments on Gazeta Wyborcza:
author: qurczak111

"A więc wojna!

Nie będzie angol pluł nam w twarz
ni w majtach nam buszował
orężny stanie hufiec nasz
Lech będzie nam wodzował."

I want to share this comment as I find it very funny.It's in Polish but I am sure that PF members who are residents of Poland know Polish.

Translate it please or it will be moved.
grubas   
15 Oct 2013
News / Lech Walesa vs Immigration: Brits humiliated him at London Heathrow Airport [105]

So what? He isn't a diplomat so can't refuse the normal procedures.

What do you mean "so what"?Whether you like him or not, (I don't), he is the most recognizable Polish face in the whole world . Can you imagine Nelson Mandela or George Bush having to undergo this "normal procedure"?I can't.My God,if they disrespected even L.W I can only imagine what ordinary Poles have to go thru in this forsaken country full of Polish haters.I will never ever set a foot there.Poland has to protest and those who humiliated Lechu have to be fired from their jobs.
grubas   
14 Oct 2013
Real Estate / How the Poland property market became a HUGE bubble [35]

2. Do you remember what it was like before the E.U.? The unemployment rate and most importantly for me, there was no real freedom of movement.
The next generation are going to grow up and take the Schengen area for granted, as if it has always been there and personally I think that is brilliant.

I think it was a mistake on the side of Eastern European countries to join EU.We should have kept RWPG even at the cost of some political concessions towards Russia.Fueled by cheap Russian oil and natural resources from Syberia Eastern economies would be booming.It would be interesting to see competition of two economic blocks.
grubas   
12 Oct 2013
Real Estate / How the Poland property market became a HUGE bubble [35]

so you are definitely arguing with the wrong person.

I am not arguing Sean.

perhaps you can remember which book you listened to and what valid points it made on the topic?

"Szachinszach" about Reza Pahlavi's Iran and causes of Islamic Revolution.

As I said, it was not altruism, so you are definitely arguing with the wrong person.

Ok,I was kind of arguing as I thought you were saying that we in the East needed West to colonize us.
grubas   
12 Oct 2013
Real Estate / How the Poland property market became a HUGE bubble [35]

People often talk about the benefit to the accession countries but we must remember that it was them who needed us to join.

I am reading it for the 10th time and still don't understand.Who needed who again?

it was not altruistism which people seem to be lead to believe.

Altruism?Right.We (the Poles) have been colonized .Accidentally I just finished listening to R.Kapuscinski "Szachinszach" audio book (it's on YT) and it felt as if it was written about Poland.
grubas   
8 Oct 2013
Love / English Men vs Polish Men [207]

Then how come so many

How many exactly?

Polish women say English men are twice as handsome as Polish men?

Link?
grubas   
7 Oct 2013
News / Poland and Germany should unite, says Lech Walesa [72]

I severely doubt they'd want to prop up another bottomless cash hole.

They do or they don't it doesn't matter,they HAVE TO pay for what they have stolen and destroyed during last world war.I am still waiting for payment for the livestock and produce they have stolen from my great grandparents.And to completely equel the score I guess I will have to kill one of them like they killed my great grandfather in Dachau.
grubas   
6 Oct 2013
Love / How to show a Polish guy that you're interested? [31]

but how do polish guys see scottish woman?

Post a pic of yours and I will tell you.

without being to forward how can you show a polish guy your interested in him?

Ask him out or something.One of my exs asked me to help her with shopping for a birthday gift for her father.
grubas   
30 Sep 2013
Life / Does teetotalism even exist in Poland? [10]

[born white Polish]

You were born WHITE Polish?This is so unusual!
This person is not Polish.
and this

Oczywiście, każdy z osobow w mojej rodziny w Polsce pije alkohol i ja często znajduje siebie odmawiac napoje alkoholowe oferowana. Jestem mężczyzna [urodzone bialy Polak] i po prostu ciekawi z ogólny sentyment do antyalkoholizm [lub abstynencji od alkoholu] w Polsce: czy to nawet istnieje?

is a computer translation.
grubas   
18 Sep 2013
UK, Ireland / Daniel Pelka murder: Polish mother and stepfather face life sentences [96]

Oh,come on,stop it.Nobody blames Britain or every single British person but some employees of few different government agencies which in this case happened to British,excuse me my language, screwed UP.And they screwed up BIG TIME,ok?Why can't agree to to this?What's the problem?