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Posts by Chicago Pollock  

Joined: 10 Apr 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 11 Oct 2011
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Posts: 503 		From: USofA, Chicago
Speaks Polish?: Noski
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Chicago Pollock   
11 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / A Polish-American Paper's Final Edition [10]

I prefer reading paper newspapers but the problem is they are poorly written and very biased. You have to get on the internet to get objective journalism.
Chicago Pollock   
10 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Canada Increasingly a Gateway for Undocumented Polish Immigrants Entering the U.S. [150]

Convex, we (the USA) has a easy money policy because that's all we have. It was a political decision to outsource our manufacturing to China, our service jobs to India and to allow illegal immigration to lower wages because that's where the profits are.

Without easy money we would be a third world country. People shouldn't take minimum wage jobs, business can afford to pay more, a lot more. Remember Henry Ford raised labor rates three fold so that his workers could buy his cars.
Chicago Pollock   
9 Dec 2010
News / Poles don't have a heart for math... says The New York Times [84]

To learn higher maths you need special predispositions. You born with it, just like some people born with art or music talents.

Theoretical research math, maybe. Algebra through Calculus, Statistics, anyone can learn. All it takes is to think logically.
Chicago Pollock   
9 Dec 2010
News / Sikorski doctrine - Eastern Europe under threat. Poland's foreign policy. [164]

Marek and Torq miss the point. All Poland needs is a Switzerland type reserve army and air force armed with ground support aircraft and helicopters. Don't make the mistake of the 1930's trying to have the latest and greatest military equipment and in the meantime leaving Polish borders undefended.
Chicago Pollock   
9 Dec 2010
Law / Zloty lifts Poland's Economy [32]

Don't give up the zloty:

With its drab, Soviet-era boulevards and standard-issue glass-and-steel office buildings, Warsaw does not look much like green, elegant Dublin. But there are some striking similarities between Poland today and Ireland in the 1990s.

nytimes.com/2010/12/07/business/global/07zloty.html
Chicago Pollock   
8 Dec 2010
UK, Ireland / Why British men move to Poland [63]

Shocking. Strange but I was in England about three, four, five (?) years ago and I didn't notice a lot of fat women. It couldn't have changed so quickly, could it? Tell me it ain't so, Joe.
Chicago Pollock   
6 Dec 2010
Life / Polish-American Polka Music in Poland [60]

Sorry to burst your bubble

You ruined his whole day. Next thing he'll find out is that chop suey aint Chinese, tacos and chile ain't mexican and pizza isn't italian.
Chicago Pollock   
6 Dec 2010
Work / If you were to compere Polish Unis and Unis/Colleges in your country... [75]

There are many threads where people ask is it good idea to study in Poland, so I think such thread may help to make the right choice. I'm also curiouse how does higher education abroad look like, is it really flawless as we in Poland see it? Are all American, British and German unis so good or it also happens that some college or faculties don't come up to the (student's, market's, standard's) expectations?

American universities have open enrollment, so anyone can attend. But you need money: cash, grants or loans. Due to open enrollment no class distinction associated with college education. Socratic method of education (class discussion, questions, etc.) no rote memory. Lots of money available for Universities from research grants, endowments (graduates donate money to school), tuition and state funding.

Regardless of where you attend, education is what you make of it.
Chicago Pollock   
5 Dec 2010
Love / 20% of adult Poles are single and live with Mummy! [238]

As I said it's easy to be independend in the USA. In Poland parents call you a sucker when you want to move out from home and lose your all savings on rental bills.

Housing may be more available in USA than Europe, but still not easy. You need to cut the umbilical cord, with ma and pa. Polish parents are tough all over, not just in Poland. They don't like giving up their babies.

i realize that the situation for young people in PL sucks, but the question is: how to change it?

Do what you did, move out. University housing? Move into apartment house in Poland? Or move out of Poland?

Let's face it, we all had to do it and it was never easy.
Chicago Pollock   
3 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / CULTURE SHOCK! (of my Polish finance who visited the US) [210]

my tv tells me it's a myth.

tv = fantasyland

They mainly build the country and made it successfull...that is about to change sadly as the non-WASPS start to build majorities and hence taking over...expect the US to lose their edge.

Non-sense. Catholic, Protestant, doesn't matter. American society is still culturally Protestant.

I don't understand people like Ted Turner who's fanatically anti-Catholic he's living in the 19th century, there are bigger problems that America has these days than that

Pope and the Vatican are highly political. Read the book, "Hitler's Pope". Anything by Avro (sp?) Manhattan.

But if you didn’t lock your door in any place I’ve ever visited or lived in the States, you would get robbed. And if your horses sleep outside, in many places they would disappear or someone would really hurt them.

Where I live, house unlocked. What in the world do they do with horses after they steal 'em? Kind of a big thing to hide, no?
Chicago Pollock   
2 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / CULTURE SHOCK! (of my Polish finance who visited the US) [210]

It seems to me that the "culture shock" concept was created by some very little minded people who are shocked about everything a little bit different than what they are used to.

You're using the word "shock" literally, the op was using the word figuratively.

But I admit I met very little foreigners in my life and I know other countries mostly by television.

Not the same. Television is bad reflection of society. Poland is centrally located, lots of opportunity for foreign travel.
Chicago Pollock   
1 Dec 2010
UK, Ireland / EXCHANGE RATES BETWEEN POLISH ZLOTY AND BRITISH POUND [73]

How so? Poland resembles the Nazi Germany economy more more than China does. Nazi Germany built itself on debt to become one of the largest debtor nations in the world, China has done the opposite.

It was US government policy to outsource manufacturing to low wage China. Lower wages, higher profits, have some political control over China. It's a Trifecta Man!

US Banking class enabled Germany war machine through loans. In the 1930's "It was the German Miracle". Today it's the Chinese miracle. Same crap.
Chicago Pollock   
1 Dec 2010
News / Victory in 'anti-Polish camps' campaign in US [170]

Victory in 'anti-Polish camps’ campaign in US

There are no "Anti-Polish camps" in America. If you think there are, why do you live there?
Chicago Pollock   
1 Dec 2010
Life / Car's confrontation with a Wild Boar in Poland [37]

Doesn't it have to be checked for rabies first?

Deer? No. Wild Boar I wouldn't think either. Wild animals carry disease but generally speaking It's probably safer to eat wild game than domestic. At least you know where it came from. Deer in the USA, some have CWD disease but it's questionable if it's transferable. Rabbit is the one in the states that you have to worry about. Something about liver disease which can affect consumption of the meat. If you're worried about wild game soak it in a salt brine for a day, that should take care of any cooties.

Yeah that animal should have been taken home, though de-boning a large animal is quite a task.
Chicago Pollock   
30 Nov 2010
UK, Ireland / EXCHANGE RATES BETWEEN POLISH ZLOTY AND BRITISH POUND [73]

What are the main ingredients? Dictatorship seems to be working well, when managed by competent people, which China is. They're waging an economic war and look to be winning.

For your information they said the same thing about Germany in the 1930's. The result will be the same. 1930's Germany was a creature of the American Banking Class, the same can be said of present day China.
Chicago Pollock   
30 Nov 2010
History / Poland, Lacking External Enemies, Turns on Itself [106]

Your Wikipedia post is more of an historical document of the Iceland financial debacle. Here's an article about the aftermath: krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/lands-of-ice-and -ire/

To reiterate my post Iceland has it's own currency, no minor thingy. Even the Irish are already coming to the conclusion that by giving up the punt they've given up their hard fought sovereignty. Poland has just come out of a 300 year occupation, no need to yield to Brussels on the zloty.
Chicago Pollock   
29 Nov 2010
History / Poland, Lacking External Enemies, Turns on Itself [106]

Remember Poland is a young country and for the past 300-500 years has been ruled by foreign interests. It's been easy for Poland to overlook it's internal problems by focusing on the foreign ruling class. Only recently (the past 20 years?) has Poland been in complete control of its governance. There's going to be a learning curve.

Bigger threat to Poland is joining the EU and losing the zloty to the Euro. Poland could easily become another Ireland or Greece who can't get out of their mess due to the fact they don't control their own currency. By losing control of their currency in a sense they lose their sovereignty. Compare Ireland's situation to Iceland. Iceland still has the Krona (sp?) and they are much better off.
Chicago Pollock   
29 Nov 2010
Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]

The word Poland, Pole or Polish either does not ring a bell world-wide

Poland is a young country. What 20 years old?

Yup, and I agree with you on the US. There used to be quite a few hidden champions in the US. They were knocked out by regulation which favored huge companies (cost of compliance).

They were knocked out by the politics of feeding our manufacturing to East Asia and in return we get slave labor rates, more profits for owners and shareholders and international political leverage. We finance the whole mess with cheap money. Of course they justify all this with blab about "Free Market".

I did recently see Consumer Reports auto special recently.. they all gave BMW , Mercedes and Audi even Porsche pretty low grades for quality, defects etc. And they're are typically pretty objective .. and usually praise the hell out of those companies.

Consumer Reports is anything but objective. Do you think Toyota's problems just started a year or two ago?

Over the last 30 years, the US has shifted from innovation to surviving on handouts that the gracious government

In the US try getting operating capital from anyone else. Lots of Luck. More of that Free Market baloney.
Chicago Pollock   
29 Nov 2010
Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]

PS: Norway is a country of devil-worshippers. they burn down churches there and sing lullaby songs to comemorate Hitlers b'day ! !

The Norge are the ones in Scandinavia who resisted the German occupation, more so than the Danes or Swedes.
Chicago Pollock   
25 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

Polish obsession with: ja mam zawsze racje: I am always right
For those who live here, they know what I am talking about. I am always right relates to the fact that even if the Pole is wrong, he/she will never admit to it and will defend his/her position to death.

A good illustration of where "Polish Jokes" come from. The term in the "Old Chicago Neighborhood" was "Stubborn Polak". But Poles aren't as stubborn as they are intransigent. To the Pragmatic American this is construed as stupidity, but in reality Poles are quite intelligent. In fact Pragmatism makes Americans look more intelligent than they really are and Poles are much more intelligent than their intransigence makes them appear.
Chicago Pollock   
24 Nov 2010
Polonia / Ever been to Sweden? [185]

I've spent time in Goteborg and Boraas. The last time I was in Sweden was years ago, but I still speak, read and write the language fluently, almost as well as German and English-:)

For a native English speaker what's the easiest Scandinavian language to learn?

Is English word order the same in the Scandinavian languages? I mean Polish is all convoluted.
Chicago Pollock   
23 Nov 2010
Love / Sexual diseases! Please tell me how I go about getting tested in Poland? [103]

Bolle:
I think it's time for you to get "some brains." If i had to point out all the stupidity in your posts, i think i would develop a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome.

thanks for your "usual wise lesson", Bolle... i don't know what i would do without you...

Yeah bolle, now ya tell her. Now what is she going to do with all those boxes of condoms she has around the house?
Chicago Pollock   
23 Nov 2010
Life / Polish history questions on the streets; Poles are not doing great. [37]

Nowa Matura to bzdura

What does this mean...baccalaureate is crap? No. Knowledge is never wasted. People are always better off with a degree than without one. And just because people can't answer questions on the street when being interviewed in front of a camera. So What does that prove?

Women could vote in Sweden, Britain, South Australia for example with only some restrictions (relative to the era) e.g. had to be married, restricted to local elections etc.

Women could vote in New Jersey in 1776 and Wyoming Territory in 1869.