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Joined: 1 Feb 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 7 Dec 2013
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grubas   
17 Feb 2013
Love / Do Polish couples live together without being married? [18]

Even those do live together, they are just like friend, sleeping in separate room

In fact, very few Poles do and they can be met only among the educated "nouveaux riches" or artists.

Why do you "westerners" always have to display how ignorant you are?
grubas   
17 Feb 2013
Life / Are Polish ppl capable of revolting? [41]

To adopt a new regime? PiSlamist one?

You PO's paid applauders are so primitive!According to you if someone is sick of P(artia) O(szustów) he/she must be PiS supporter?Really?It didn't cross your mind that people are sick and tired not only of PO but also of PiS,SLD,PSL and rest of these cvnts?So,a for your information,my opinion about PiS is that they are also crooks only to lesser than PO degree and if I was ever to support PiS the only reason would be that Kaczynski after regaining power would deal with Pierdoleni Oszuści without gloves on because for him it has become personal matter.Kapish?
grubas   
16 Feb 2013
Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

Could you explain what in her personality or political program could attract people?

She's HOT.
grubas   
15 Feb 2013
Love / Why a polish girl would prefer a relationship with a foreign man? [30]

Some of the women I worked with did say that life as a Polish woman is very hard

I only know what the ladies told me, no money, long hours, few material commodities, problems with alcohol?

So,are you talking about life of Polish women or life of some women in Poland?These are 2 different things.Is living in UK making them suddenly not Polish?

I stayed in Poland several times, the housing that I stayed in was very cramped and there were certainly very few consumer durables etc.. money was tight, this was true of most of the block

I don't know I must have lived on some other block.What you are talking about is some minority.I am not coming from any well off family.My mother is a teacher in a state school.She ,lives in a townhouse built in 81 with garage and a little garden, doesn't makes much money (5k PLN) but if you told her to go work in some factory for 3 times the money she makes now she would tell you,you must be mad.All her neighbours live like her or better. Also, my father had problems with alcohol so my mother divorced him and kicked him out.I am aware there are cases like the ones you are talking about but again that's minority.

Some snobby British people may see it like that, but for most of us we instantly understood that its a normality for the majority of Polish people.

Oh come on brah,I am from town way poorer than Wroclaw yet I didn't see what you saw.
grubas   
15 Feb 2013
Love / Why a polish girl would prefer a relationship with a foreign man? [30]

Some of the women I worked with did say that life as a Polish woman is very hard

I do not understand,very hard like what?Do you think that Polish man plows his field with his women or what?I had lived in American resort town something like 7 or 8 years.Every summer there were students from EE coming there.Many of these women were dating Americans or Eastern Euros like me who already lived there for some time rather than their fellow students.Why?It's simple, we had cars,we knew what,where and how and we were making more money.We were simply more useful as dates.The only advantage an American had over me was that he was a novelty and I understand that because the same advantage my first 2 American gfs had over average Polish women.They were novelty to me.Now you see where I am coming from?
grubas   
15 Feb 2013
Love / Why a polish girl would prefer a relationship with a foreign man? [30]

Quite agree with you, there are British ones too! Polish women were mentioned because the title of the thread is about Polish women.

Fine.I just had a problem with this sentence

There were some women who had less alturisic reasons for being with Non Polish men but I've never experienced life as a Polish woman so who am I to criticise.

Maybe I am wrong but you seem to associate "life as a Polish women" with some kind of hardship or misery.Being with a native in a foreign country has its advantages but who do you think those Polish (or non Polish) "non altruistic" women would (given the opportunity) choose, Polish millioner/lawyer/executive officer or a British factory worker?
grubas   
15 Feb 2013
Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

so why English people keep thinking I'm Austrian or German when I speak with my Polish accent?

I don't know,I can only talk about Americans.

BTW, how can one fully define persons, nations who call themselves “Slavs/Slavic nations”, only by the language they speak?

I would say YES as there is huge difference in physical appearance between e.g Poles and Bulgarians.Also we Poles mixed with other nationalities (mainly Jews and Germans but also Scotts,Dutch and God only knows who else) over the centuries so much that under different criteria we wouldn't qualify as Slavic.
grubas   
15 Feb 2013
Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

How come I, Polish, can recognize what is a Russian accent while speaking English, when the natives can't?

For the same reasons for which you cannot differentiate between Southern and Northern accent or New York and Chicago accents.I cannot either but they can.
grubas   
15 Feb 2013
Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

I don't know about "Western world" but in the US (except for Chicagoland) you are assumed to be Russian when speaking with Polish,Czech or other EE accent.
grubas   
15 Feb 2013
Love / Why a polish girl would prefer a relationship with a foreign man? [30]

There were some women who had less alturisic reasons for being with Non Polish men but I've never experienced life as a Polish woman so who am I to criticise.

Here we go again.Do you think that it has anything to do with them being Polish?If so you need to go out some more and stop branding INDIVIDUALS according to their nationality/citizenship.Part of the reason for which one of my American (born and bred) wifes dated me was that she could move out from her father's house and be on my support for some time until she stood on her feet.I learned that later but at the begining she was telling me that she wants me because all American men are dorks.And guess what, there is plenty of American women who date men for "less than alturisic reasons" but it has nothing to do with their nationality or their lives "as American women".
grubas   
15 Feb 2013
Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

You mean of course that there's going to be considerable variation within specific circumscriebd boundries of both grammar as well as pronunciation, noticable when any group of Slavic speakers independent of each other speak in a foreign language, such as English

Of course this is what I mean.

A Bulgarian, a Slovene, a Russian, a Croat, a Serb along with a Czech or a Slovak will each sound vaguely "Slavic" to the average ear.

This is what meant saying "They can't" because to average US person all East/Central Euros sound Russian.BTW, the nicest thing I ever heard about my accent came from a Lehigh Uni girl who told me that I sound like Roger Federer and she likes it.
grubas   
14 Feb 2013
Language / Slavic accent correction [110]

Also,could you easily make difference between accents
from different Slavic countries such as Poland,Ukraine,Russia etc?

They can't.Also,there is no such thing as Slavic accent.
grubas   
14 Feb 2013
UK, Ireland / Benefit cuts for Poles in The UK? [143]

If they are going to curb access to healthcare and other benefits, I also assume immigrant workers will benefit from lower rates of taxation on their income. It's only fair. Why should they pay for benefits they are not entitled to?I am pretty sure that would work well for Polish migrants who in vast majority already fly to PL for medical treatment.More money left in their pockets.Also,36 MILLION?Is this what the fuss is all about?It is like me trying to save 2 pennies.I find this whole thing to be political issue.
grubas   
21 Oct 2012
UK, Ireland / Dying Polish woman in the uK whose last wish is to spend last few weeks back in Poland [50]

Actually, we have no governmental jet. The last one crashed near Smoleńsk

Not true!There were 2 TU 154 and one of them is still operational it is just that these "government" (bunch of crooks IMO) c u n t s are now affraid to fly on it.

I assume that Poland is such a dire and terrible place to live.

One should never just assume anything.Poland is not dire nor terrible place to live it's just that wages are lower than in the UK and corruption,nepotism and croynism are rampant.
grubas   
4 Oct 2012
Food / Are frozen chips a cancer risk? The UK's NHS responds. [21]

Ive seen poles even put bottled water in the kettle to make tea.

And?What's so strange about it?In the US I buy drinking water from a water vending machine,35 cents for a gallon (you have to have your own container).It seems that more people here do it because I doubt this vending machine was installed exclusively for me.Tap water here stinks.
grubas   
3 Oct 2012
Real Estate / The electricty company want to install another pylon on my farmland to support a 15Kw line [15]

The electricity company sent a document asking for our consent to build another pylon in our field (there is one there already).

You are lucky they have not built it yet like they have on my mom's land.They basically built it first and then mailed her a contract according to which she agrees to and is responsible for everything (like for instance there was a point where she agrees to pay compensation to them (PGE) in case she sell the land and the new owners request money from PGE).They didn't offer a single penny for using my mom's land and my mom will never ever sign this "contract".At this point the case is in Nadzór budowlany.Welcome to Poland!
grubas   
2 Oct 2012
Life / Fake goods in Poland [42]

. My father in law has been to greenpoint- he knows the bridge isn't for sale.

I see,no problem.How about some oceanfront property in Arizona?CHEAP!!!
grubas   
2 Oct 2012
Life / Fake goods in Poland [42]

The whole situation is unbelievably embarrassing ---but it can happen to the best of us.

No it cannot.Not to "the best of us"anyway.BTW,I have the Brooklyn bridge for sale,perhaps your father in law would be interested?
grubas   
3 Sep 2012
USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

I admit we are compared to many in the world but a lot of us do not have money for a luxurious lifestyle

This is not exactly what I was saying.For some reason vast majority of Americans does not have any cash and to me if you can not come up with some cash at any moment (I mean like within 4 days) you are not rich.Americans do make more than more than Poles but life here is not cheap.As for travelling I can understand them as i just spent 30 hours of my life travelling (door to door) from PL to US and it wasn't much fun frankly.It is not Poland where I can drive to Amsterdam within 11 hours or fly there within 2.