Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]


EXACTLY! Marriage is a civil contract and applies whether you are married in a Church, married in court or live together for a period of time prescribed by law. That's why divorce is conducted in a court of law, the parties are dissolving a contract.

F-Stop just because you live with someone without a formal marriage contract doesn't mean that you can't be sued for alimony after dissolving your relationship. Oral contracts are binding.


The Roman Catholic Church wasn't involved in marriage until the 16 or 17 hundreds. It's not a holy sacrament. The only sacrament from Scripture is Baptism.

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

Poles have lots of attributes but charm isn't one of them.

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [437]


when there is 5 zlotys to the pound, the Poles are not working for the same money. If you want the English to work you have to pay 'em.

News / Polish People STILL denied US Entry [96]

This whole VISA thing is weird. Does Obama really need Congressional approval for this visa thingy for Poland? I would think it's a foreign policy issue and reserved for the Secretary of State.

Language / Polish language would look better written in Cyrillic Script? [212]


I was in school at the time of the "Polish Millennium" and I was taught that the King of Poland at the time (Mieszko?) made a conscious effort for Poland to use the Latin alphabet and follow the Roman Catholic Church. He did this for political and social reasons. He wanted Poland to become Westernized. I thought that the previous alphabet was Cyrillic as that what accounts for the apostrophe's over the Polish letters and I thought I read something as much over the internet but I can't find it, so I might be wrong (can it be?).

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]


Good question.

Love / Unmarried couples in Poland = pathology [310]


Christianity has two rules and two rules only, Love God and Love your neighbor as you would love yourself. That's it, that's all there is. You should spend more time reading Scripture and less time attending the Roman Catholic Church.


No, they pray to a meteorite.

USA, Canada / How to get Drivers license in IL without social security? [96]

From the mouths of babes. Illegal immigration exists for one reason only...low wages. Pay people enough and they'll do the job. Why do you think Poland has lost about 2 million people the last few years? LOW WAGES. You can't build a society on low wages, it doesn't work. People need income to buy stuff, if they don't the market disappears and nobody is working. Americans aren't lazy, Poles aren't lazy, English aren't lazy, they're just not going to work for nothing.

"taking a job to pick apples"? Why don't they invest in machinery to do the job? Why bother when some idiot illegal is willing to work for nothing.

News / Poland now soft-pedalling ACTA signing [107]


I'm kind of curious, where does this intolerance come from? Does this represent political sentiment in Poland? Is this why Poland has been unable to govern itself through much of its history? There's no compromise with this guy.

UK, Ireland / Cultural misunderstandings - Polish and English [26]

Poles are habitually impatient and surly. I think it's just habit, probably from their history of being invaded too many times.

Life / Are Poles mentally more Eastern European or Western European? [171]


True. Poland is Western Europe's eastern border. Poland has looked West since the 10th Century (ex., latin alphabet, Roman Catholicism, Golden Democracy).

Culturally there is no Central Europe.

Life / Are Poles mentally more Eastern European or Western European? [171]

Poland made the blunder of rejecting the offer of the Marshall Plan in the late 40's, thus they fell under the Soviet orbit for 50 years. That's why they're considered Eastern.

Life / Are Poles mentally more Eastern European or Western European? [171]


After WWII communism was considered a legitimate alternative to capitalism by the intelligentsia. There were lots of Polish communists although they deny it now. If Poland would have insisted on participating in the Marshall Plan what would Stalin have done?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Plan

News / Poland and the European Union Fund Allocations [59]


German and Polish interests are not one and the same. Poland should avoid selling their assets to foreign nationals, it should probably get out of the EU.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]


Poland couldn't overthrow the Soviet occupation because the Polish people weren't united. Poland could have accepted the Marshall Plan but too many Poles were dedicated communists. Poles need to take responsibility for their condition and quit blaming the Russians.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]


So true and often overlooked when discussing recent Polish history. Many Poles embraced communism (they don't now but they did then).

Life / Polish and Czechs [190]


This is the result when one tries to live Roman Catholic ideal.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


You're just jealous that you can't fly to Morocco with her.

It's not the people on the dole that's killing your country, it's the German bankers that bankrupted it.

UK, Ireland / Unemployed Poles in Ireland : a crash course in milking the system [323]


What percentage of the budget to these so called moochers represent? I am sure just a fraction of what the bankers stole. You're probably counting pennies while the bankers walk off with the pounds.

Life / Can most people in Poland speak Russian? [43]

A related question to the thread, why is Russian so popular in the Ukraine but not in Poland? How come the Ukrainians don't like speaking Ukrainian?

Law / Poland's Economy "Outpacing Germany". Gratulacje. [20]

The problem with Poland is that it is too beholding to EU (i.e., German) loans. From the article:


Combined with the above, Tusk is still hell bent on joining the Euro. When Tusk drops the zloty, Germany calls home loans and Polish financial fiasco starts ala Greece, Ireland, Portugal, etal. Tusk is an idiot.

Law / Poland's Economy "Outpacing Germany". Gratulacje. [20]

How, if Germany is the benefactor of the Euro? By your reasoning every other country that has adopted the Euro should have benefited also, but they haven't.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]


Very Roman Catholic, always fuming about sex. It's like that guy Skibnewski on another thread who recommended loveless marriage, as of course love is fleeting. Women are to be bred like cattle, that's their role as of course intimate relations between a man and woman is inherently evil. And as science advances we won't need sex at all just breed 'em out of test tubes. How clinical, how moral, how Roman Catholic. Heil Hitler! (oops, I meant the Pope).

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News / Polish immigrants are losing Polish heritage -- a goal? [10]

One thing about Poles, is that when they come to America they assimilate.

Love / My Polish wife got married to me but she's still not in love? [34]

Something tells me that's not he wants to hear.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]

Ho hum, how are we defining love here?


The Roman Catholic Church is Right Wing. It's not by coincidence that Hitler, Mussolini and Franco were Roman Catholic or that the Catholic monasteries assisted Nazi's in escaping from post WWII Germany. The Republican party has drifted far right due to the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, just this past week at the CPAC convention Huckabee said "we're all Catholic now". Left wing Catholics? No such thing. The fact is the Roman Catholic Church quit being Christian when Constantine took it over in 300 AD, Rome changed the Church the Church didn't change Rome. It's not a Christina religion, it's a political organization.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]


A difference of opinion is not a lie. We don't burn people at the stake anymore we smear them.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


You want your youth back.

News / Becoming non-EUnuch -> giving up your share of handouts. [36]

Yes Poland, give it back. Iceland was in the same situation as Greece but had the currency to tell the bankers to go squat, last week they were rated investment grade. Don't give up the zloty, or Germany will make you into another Greece.

News / Becoming non-EUnuch -> giving up your share of handouts. [36]


Poland should break out the checkbook. Polish welfare is the responsibility of the Polish Government (actually the Polish people). This is bad precedent for Poland as they think they're not responsible for the social conditions in Poland. You can't solve social problems in Poland or Greece from Belgium.


Currency isn't meaningless, it should reflect the goods and services of your country. Iceland was able to devalue the currency. I traveled to Greece within the past year, it was just as expensive as Germany. Ridiculous, it should have been a lot cheaper but the Euro keeps prices artificially high thus the Greeks can't get out of their financial predicament and Germany continues to export to Greece and the rest of the peripherally. The Euro's been a boom for the Germans.


It's not about morals it's all about money.


Poland needs to invest in Poland