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Posts by Stu  

Joined: 31 Mar 2010 / Male ♂
Last Post: 29 Mar 2012
Threads: 12
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From: Wroclaw
Speaks Polish?: no

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Stu   
14 Apr 2011
News / What are Poland's optimal both real and virtual neighbors? [81]

It only means that Poland is place where you can make money, not that people and economy is in a good shape

Sorry, I dunno how else you can interprete the figures I gave you *but* to show the economy has grown, year after year after year. You are just acting as a spoiled little kid who wants his way. Well, sorry to disappoint you ... the stats speak for themselves. Accept it.
Stu   
12 Apr 2011
Travel / Help! Want to take the train from Warsaw to Amsterdam! [7]

it's a total traveling time of 4 hours and 15 minutes

I'm sorry, make it 4 hours 35 minutes.

Nope, but I *did* take the train from Amsterdam to Warszawa once.

Very stiff legs.

I can imagine after 15,5 hours ... :(
Stu   
12 Apr 2011
Travel / Help! Want to take the train from Warsaw to Amsterdam! [7]

I think if you look at the price, it would be better and safer to use of the low-cost carriers.

probably cheaper too...

And quicker ...

Train takes 15 hours 50 minutes (treinreiziger.nl/internationaal/nachttreinen/dienstregelin g_nachttreinen/dienstregeling_nachttrein_amsterdam_-_warschau_-_moskou ). If I go by car, it takes me 10 hours 45 minutes.

The cheap carrier I use (Wizzair) takes you in 1 hours 55 minutes from Warsaw to Eindhoven (between €33 and €45 if you book about 6 weeks in advance). Then 20 minutes in the bus to Eindhoven Central Station (€3) and then 1 hour 20 minutes in the train to Amsterdam Central Station (direct connection - €17,20). So, incl. being present at the airport one hour in advance, it's a total traveling time of 4 hours and 15 minutes.

Total saving in time of 11 hours 25 minutes for a single trip. Total cost between €53,20 and €65,20 for a single fare. I don't know exactly how much a train ticket between Warsaw and Amsterdam costs, but I would think at least 4 times that amount.
Stu   
11 Apr 2011
Love / Simon Mol - would he have been so "successful" in other countries than Poland? [121]

why hasn't there been even 1 case like Mol's ( both modus operandi and scope ) in any of these countries recently?

How do you know? Maybe the countries you mention don't consider it newsworthy enough. And why should one? Women can make up their own minds. If they fall for a cheap story, then it's their problem ... not something that would come in the news.

Unfortunately you'd have to walk into a shopping mall wielding a machine gun, kill 7 and wound 17 to make the news in the Netherlands nowadays. Not by believing some cheap story by any man (or any woman), whether (s)he'd be black, white, yellow or purple. Colour has nothing to do with it. Being unscrupulous does ... and unfortunately there are examples of those in all human beings.

idasa.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/punitive-law-no-magic-bullet-in- stopping-hiv/

In August this year (2010) the eyes of the world were upon an HIV-positive German pop star found guilty of having unprotected sex with her ex-partner and infecting him with HIV.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._v._Cuerrier

R. v. Cuerrier was a 1998 decision by the Supreme Court of Canada, which ruled that knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV constitutes a prosecutable crime (aggravated assault) under Canadian law.

buzzle.

Sean Sykes, 33, was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for knowingly exposing a woman to the HIV virus, after he had been previously convicted of the same crime.

Sykes, who is HIV-positive, spent five years in jail after being convicted in 1997 of infecting two women with the virus. A Missouri law passed in 1988 determined that exposing a partner to the virus without disclosing one's HIV-positive status is a felony.

In the current case, Sykes was found guilty of exposing a woman to HIV in 2003. The woman has now tested positive.

Stu   
9 Apr 2011
Life / Which cities in Poland have the most expats, and why? [34]

So you want to call them idiots because they are trying to make life easier for themselves?

Maybe off-topic, but I'd rather have a fully qualified doctor who didn't make life easy for himself but who had a proper education.
Stu   
4 Apr 2011
Love / Is rape so common in Poland? [95]

i assure you that Serbians don`t like to jump on Gypsy looking Albo woman, with all due respect on Gypsies of course

1. Gagovic, Kunarac (Osmana Đikić street no 16), Kovac, Vukovic, ..., ... . (bosniagenocide.wordpress.com/2011/04/02/judge-serbs-used-rape- as-instrument-of-terror-against-bosniak-women-and-girls/)

2. "The cruelties committed by the Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina, said Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad, defy the imagination. Expressing his disgust over the matter, the Prime Minister told the 48th UN General Assembly in New York on Oct 1, a six-year-old [Bosnian Muslim] child was repeatedly raped in front of her mother who not only had to watch but was prevented from giving any help until the little child died after two days of exposure." (from bosniagenocide.wordpress.com).

3. And this article (bosniagenocide.wordpress.com/2011/03/31/testimonies-of-rape-bo sniak-girls-gang-raped-by-serbian-soldiers/) taken from the Los Angeles Times.

Trustworthy as usual, Crow.

Jee, how come I already know what Crow is going to answer? Could it be something that includes EU/US/NATO/Muslim propaganda, maybe ... ?
Stu   
4 Apr 2011
Genealogy / Poland Genealogy Resources [130]

My father, who is a keen genealogist pointed me to images of church books containing baptisms and births, marriages, burials and deaths for the parishes in the Częstochowa, Gliwice, and Lublin Roman Catholic Dioceses of Poland.

familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=hr-search-api:8080/searchapi/search/collection/1867931
Births end in 1910 and marriages in 1935.

* Katowice
* Kielce
* Lublin
* Opole
* £ódź

And also to images of church books containing baptisms and births, marriages, burials and deaths for the parishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Radom.

I have no idea whether it is of any help, but there you go.
Stu   
3 Apr 2011
News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]

just like China is for Chinese people, Japan is for Japanese people

So China is for Chinese? Japan for Japanese? Then it logically follows that Poland is for Poles, right?

So what the fvck are you doing here then?! Follow your own logic, walk the walk and not just talk the talk and go back to Belgium for God's sakes! Maybe Filip De Winter still has a vacancy for you.

You're trying to pick up a Polish girl which you will never get, cause you're a frustrated little git who keeps on nagging about how black people in Wroclaw steal them right from under your nose. And now you are accusing some hard-working politician who has been here longer than you are out of your nappies of being out of place.

You are worse than the sh1t in Swiebodzki I stepped in today.
Stu   
3 Apr 2011
Life / Polish patriotism, what does it mean to you? [46]

Judging from the way you butcher English language often - you are not going to get an outstanding citizen of the year prize anytime soon.

And neither will you, looking at your sentence ... .

Living in America, you said? For how long?

People in glass houses should ............ (fill in the blanks) :D.
Stu   
29 Mar 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

Yeah....but I think also Dutchies would feel insulted if portrayed as drunk, dumb thieves only...

So we are portrayed as everlasting pot smokers, or dumb, cheese eating farmers walking around in clogs ... I can't really say I feel overly insulted by that.
Stu   
29 Mar 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

We have a stereotype of the Dutch all being sex crazed monsters who ride bikes and stick their thumbs in dikes while wearing clogs.

:D:D ... you forgot to mention we all smoke pot, Delph ... :D
Stu   
29 Mar 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

Come on guys. Take this all a little lighter.

No gay person felt offended by Mr. Humphries in Are You Being Served

youtube.com/watch?v=uOmS3sb9oxE

No-one from the original Home Guard ever felt offended by the silly lot of Captain Mainwaring in Dad's Army

youtube.com/watch?v=Qr_v_SqJNjA

The Brits always had a good laugh about themselves in Allo Allo. I can't imagine the French, Germans or the Italians felt offended either

...

And the Germans didn't feel angry about Basil Fawlty either
...

Speaking of which, I don't think any Spanish from Barcelona feels offended by Fawlty.

youtube.com/watch?v=H-oH-TELcLE&feature=related

And somehow I don't think the Swedes were all up in arms when they watched the Muppet Show

youtube.com/watch?v=sY_Yf4zz-yo

Don't feel yourself so damn important and think the whole world is out to get the Polish. What must all the above listed think.

Funny someone in this thread should mention political correctness; I thought you were all against it?!. There is nothing wrong with poking fun at other nations ... nothing at all.
Stu   
29 Mar 2011
News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

And of course there are never any jokes made about Germans in polish/american TV....sure...never!

Hear hear, BB! People shouldn't take themselves so seriously. Hell, nobody complains when Allo' Allo' is shown on TV, which takes the p1ss out of the Brits, the French, the Italians and especially the Germans. It was even a hit on German TV.
Stu   
24 Mar 2011
UK, Ireland / Oxford Polish bride 'heartbroken' over arrest - accusations of sham marriage [126]

Just a couple of questions ...

The BBC-article is from March 24th.

The article from People is from April 2007, so that's four years ago.

Can anyone please eplain the relation between the two articles to me?

If you ask me, Southern is trying to fabricate some kind of story again.
Stu   
23 Mar 2011
UK, Ireland / Polish women in the UK are having babies at a faster rate than those in Poland [13]

The damn English do not reveal this important fact in their statistics

Because there is no link between the two to reveal, ninkenpoop.

Why is there no link

There is no link because there is no connection between Pakistani men and the faster rate of Polish women having babies. THAT is why! There is NO important fact to reveal, cause it only exists in your mind, not in reality.

From the article:

One such mother is Anna Oszewska. She moved to Edinburgh seven years ago when the labour market was opened up to the Poles and worked in a law firm, dealing with its finances.

She had a baby, Nicodemus, with her partner, Martin,

Okay ... we can have a long discussion about calling your baby "Nicodemus", but her partner is called Martin ... . Not really a Pakistani name, now is it?!
Stu   
18 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

Ahaaaaaaaa ... yes, skysoulmate. Now it makes sense! I see ... Thank you very much for your explanation, cause I really truly didn't get it the first time.

But I thought that Ukraine and Belarus are west of Russia and Germany west of Poland, therefore ..... ehh ... nevermind ...
Stu   
18 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

Russians didn't know what the socialism is. If they knew, they could close their nuclear reactors those days.

Can ANYONE, please explain to me what the first sentence has to do with the second?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! If the Russians had known what socialism was, they could have closed down their nuclear reactors ... ?!?!

I mean, really! Even after a complete bottle of port I make more sense.
Stu   
16 Mar 2011
Language / Polish word "Dom" and its similarities in different languages [46]

Well ... I have heard some scientists found out that people in the Stone Age knew that Ataturk would be a very influencial figure in Turkish politics. Unfortunately there are no sources, cause they didn't write anything down back then ... :-S.

But it is true, you know ... .

Give me a break.

Silly old bat.
Stu   
16 Mar 2011
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

So, if you don't like it where you live, why don't you go back to Poland (well, technically you can't go back, cause you've never lived in Poland, but you know what I mean)? If I would be living in a country where I can't stand the people, then it would be rather stupid of me to stay there. I'd do anything I could do move. But hey, I guess you have just a big mouth and no guts.

On the other hand ... do all the good Poles a favour and stay where you are. It really would be a shame for that great country to have someone like you amongst its population.
Stu   
16 Mar 2011
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Yeah yeah ... keep on vomitting, little trol. You've lost all credibility with your cussing and cursing and then telling us you've been to Poland ONCE - you don't know ANYTHING at all about the country. My God, you are pathetic.
Stu   
16 Mar 2011
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

once

That is the joke of the century ... all this cussing and cursing and feeling superior Polish and all that and he's been in Poland ONCE ... I repeat: ONCE. Jee ... I have been there more often!

What a joker! What was it again about living in a glass house and throwing stones?

If all Polish people were to say we are not Polish we are Austrian,German or Russian we would have gone extinct.

Fortunately there are still quite some Polish people who DO live in Poland ... well, at least the last time I checked.
Stu   
14 Mar 2011
Language / Polish nationality insults in Polish? [67]

Daisy

Okay ... you didn't say gin was a bad thing.

But it becomes "painfully" obvious there are about as many English "insults" towards the Dutch as there are German "insults" towards the Polish. ;)

So therefore we can conclude: insults travel east ... .

I will start thinking about Dutch insults towards the Germans now ...

:P