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Posts by Meathead  

Joined: 3 Jun 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 10 Apr 2022
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Meathead   
28 Jul 2012
Real Estate / Car Living in Krakow (instead of renting a flat?) [12]

Just do it like you would in the states. When they ask you to move, move. I'm sure you can dodge the authorities for a year. Don't ask for permission, you'll never get it.
Meathead   
24 Jul 2012
News / E.U. Funds 2013-2020 for Poland [33]

They won't, because Germany, France (especially France!) and the UK also benefit massively from these funds

That's the whole problem. These Euro funds are not in Poland's interest. Germany yes, but not Poland.

Face it most of the UK's positive balance comes from trade comes from the US and trade with Commonwealth countries. We don't have to rely on the EU as much as other countries do. If we left we could sort out the deficit and industries that are suffering because of EU legislation could recover. (Fishing, Manufacturing etc)

Exactly. England should stick with the Commonwealth. Canada, Australia, South Africa and India have a much brighter economic future for England than the Continent. Everytime England get's involved in the Continent it get's it's fingers burnt. The Empire is buried at the Somme.
Meathead   
24 Jul 2012
Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]

Most men are not "mature, responsible, ready to settle down adults" until they meet a right woman and fall in love.
You're not going to find a perfect man, often we have to polish one ourselves. No pun intended.

Complete nonsense, women do not change men. Big myth. Also reason for conflict in marriage. If you think you gotta change 'em, don't get married.
Meathead   
22 Jul 2012
Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]

Some guys practically won't even have a good conversation with you until they know something is in it for them

You're not going to have a good conversation with someone if you don't know them or don't attempt to get to know them.

If a guy is attracted to you and he thinks that you are attracted to him he won't go elsewhere.

Premarital sex, what the hell is that? Marriage and sex are two different things. Using myself as an example, in college I used to meet a girl for lunch virtually everyday and we used to talk about all kinds of stuff and than one day we just ended up in bed together. i still don't know how that happened, but it did.

Fstop's statement about increasing your circle of friends is good advice.
Meathead   
22 Jul 2012
Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]

Honestly I think a good Polish-American would be right up my ally. We would mostly likely have similar ways of doing things and stuff we expect from the other person. We would both sensitive and affectionate and serious about love. That is out of the question though because of my location.

Sensitive and affectionate guy? That's an oxymoron. Generally speaking men aren't sensitive.

Guys in med school do that

Guys in med school are BUSY, it's 8 AM to 12 AM 10 months out of the year. And for the most part they're nerds, so you're not going to get the attention which you want because their mind is somewhere else.

This is why you have to go to the churches, Polkatagalong.

Guys who hang out in churches are closet queens, Ted Haggerty comes to mind. Church going is a women's thingy.

Sex ain't about I give I get. It's something you and your significant other want to do together. Hold off on the sex for awhile and get to know some guys as friends, don't be so scrupulous about their looks or what ever. Learn to develop some casual platonic relationships with guys and when you get married, marry your best friend. It's that simple, have fun.

Oh, one last thing, men don't have the advantage over women. Those so called good looking guys aren't anymore successful than you are, so feel free to date 'em. Just don't jump into bed so quickly. Get to know 'em and let him get to know you.
Meathead   
19 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / Moving to Poland from USA with my retired husband [10]

What about employment for americans?

Unless you speak Polish fluently or want to teach English theres virtually nothing.

If you're not going to learn the language you're wasting your time.
Meathead   
18 Jul 2012
Language / Learn Polish or Russian [86]

So it is not surprising that knowledge of and resources to learn Polish withered away in America.

It withered away because the Poles who came to America wanted to become American. Why PERMANENTLY move to another country and don't assimilate? Hello? If people wanted to stay Polish they never would have left Poland.
Meathead   
17 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Do I look Polish? (my picture) [375]

So did Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in Schindlers List, can you seriously tell the difference between ethnic English and Germans? Because i cant, perhaps thats because were from the same stock.

Even with the stereotypical dress, put the same dudes in opposite clobber and we have mirror images.......could pass as English or Germans....

Wrong! English ancestry is Anglo-Saxon, Celtic (Scots, Irish, Welsh) and Norman. Saxony is Germany now but used to be considered Denmark not that long ago. Most of Anglo Saxon English are historically Danish. In fact before 1066 England was considered a Scandinavian country. English ethnic heritage is Scandinavian (Danelaw) even the language is more closely related to Norwegian than German. No the English don't look German, a certain percentage of the population look Danish.
Meathead   
17 Jul 2012
News / E.U. Funds 2013-2020 for Poland [33]

It's astounding to me how little some people have learned in this financial crisis. Poland has to maintain the integrity of it's currency or it's bye bye sovereignty, hello Greece. Instead of looking for more EU funny money the Poles should seriously think about paying back the EU grants and loans and learn to fend for itself and "grow up" as a nation.
Meathead   
12 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

It is enough to look on the traffic in Poland, to know we are among the most individualistic people in the world.

A good post on the reasons why Poland was foreign dominated for approximately 300 years and why foreign armies had their way in Poland, tough to raise an army with thinking like this. At some point you have to go along to get along. Heresy to a Pole, of course. As Ben Franklin said, "Stick together or hang separately", the Poles chose to hang separately.
Meathead   
11 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

Very funny.

My government never invaded my home

Busted for drugs?

It is hard to say how much we, Poles, are individualistic in the absolute terms

Americans are pragmatic and are governable, Poles are not and that's why they've been subjected to foreign political dominance.

The tight knit nature of the Polish family is one of the best things about their culture.

Polish parents are extremely controlling. It's the worst thing about Polish culture. Truly suffocating.

This is true, it is a global phenomenon which affects pretty much everyone in the world relative to their cultures and customs.

People who believe this don't know much about history. It wasn't uncommon for women to die in childbirth or for a father to get fatally injured on the job or traveling and for those who survived it was pretty common for men to have mistresses with out of wedlock babies. None of these instances are family friendly. Blended families have always been more the rule and less the exception.
Meathead   
11 Jul 2012
News / 23 Shale Wells Drilled This Year Alone in Poland - 41 More to Go... [50]

It depends how deep the wells are drilled and the geology.

Anything that weans the Poles off the teat of Mother Russia, and makes German pipeline prices more competitive sounds good to me in theory

Exactly!

But once these lands are annexed, and milked for all their worth, they're gone forever.

By that time they'll find other resources for energy. Just recently they have a method for converting coal into ethanol, something Poland should pursue.
Meathead   
8 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / What's Kowalski (Hamtramck, MI) kielbasa like? [18]

I don't know if it was Kowalski's but I purchased some fresh polish sausage from a Polish Deli in Hamtramck (on Jos campo) and it was gooood. The stuff was freshly made and not packaged like they show on the website. This was a couple of Christmas's ago.
Meathead   
6 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]

This has been posted before but I don't know of any reason why the US should discriminate against the Poles. The Government of Poland doesn't want their citizens to have free access to America, probably because too many would leave and not come back. It's in the hands of the Polish Government.
Meathead   
6 Jul 2012
Food / Which type of sausage in Poland is closest to an American kielbasa? [23]

No you don't buy polish sausage in a supermarket, always purchased at a Polish Deli. And PGTX don't let those Chicago Polish Deli's get wind of your opinion of their suasage, they wouldn't sell you any! I was raised on the stuff, every Saturday evening, with leftovers during the week, served cold on Augusta rye bread. Sheesh! Man you guys have never lived.
Meathead   
27 Jun 2012
USA, Canada / How do I find my 2nd cousin in IL possibly Chicago? [15]

My gradfather and my cousins grandfathere were brothers. I used to correspond with her a long time ago. They lived in Chicago I have an address where they lived but I am pretty sure they no longer live there. I live in Chicago now and would like to make contact with her. What would be the best way? Where do I go to check who lives in their house now?

Most households in the States have no problem with someone knocking on the door and asking for a former tenant.
Meathead   
3 Jun 2012
Life / A new Poland's war - the poor vs the rich [81]

I should have said knowledge is never wasted. When one goes to school people acquire knowledge which they carry with themselves the rest of their lives. They always use it. I majored in Speech as I was thinking of going on to law school and becoming a trial lawyer. But I ended up working in a math based science (land surveying). But in the Speech and English classes I learned how to write, read and interpreted all kinds of literature. I learned how to make a presentation in front of a group. So it isn't wasted. As for engineering, I have worked for plenty of engineers as they use my maps for their designs. Their education isn't any better than mine, just different. Actually I think an engineering education is a bit too narrow. Mine was much more broader.

But in Catholic schools we are taught about moral ethics through religion, through the teachings of the bible.

I spent 12 years in Roman Catholic parochial schools. The RCC isn't Biblical based. They made it up as they went along. A good book to read is "how the irish saved civilization" he explains in there the difference between Christian traditions in ancient Ireland and what evolved out of Rome.

The problem with America these days is the old men in Washington have raised an outdated social philosophy from the late 1940's "Ann Rand's Objectivenism" (sp?). It basically is a "might makes right" philosophy and people are wealthy because they are morally superior. If you are poor it means that you are somehow lacking in something. It parallels pagan beliefs in pre Christian Europe where if you were poor or encountered misfortune god was punishing you. If you were wealthy god smiled on you and you were morally superior. Aristotle said it best in "Politics" When he said 2500 years ago, "Rich people are oftentimes religious because they credit to God what they got by luck". Sound familiar?

Communism would have succeeded if money was the root of all evil as you infer. It failed. You are a victim of the game that the Norman elite play in England. They brainwash the anglo saxon celtic underclass that money is evil as they don't want any competition from the likes of you lot.