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Joined: 3 Jun 2010 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 10 Apr 2022
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Meathead   
22 Feb 2012
News / Becoming non-EUnuch -> giving up your share of handouts. [36]

In contrast, Greek GDP has been decreasing for 6-7% a year for the last two years. The forecast for this year, according to the statistics in the new deal, is a decrease of 4.3% – most likely too optimistic – followed by a 0% growth in 2013 and – probably overly optimistic – a growth of 2.3% in 2014.

The point being Greece's GDP has been decreasing due to the fact they have no control over their currency. It's ridiculous that it is as expensive for me to travel to Greece as it was for me to take a couple of days in Frankfurt between connecting flights. Greece should be a lot cheaper and if it was they would be able to grow their economy. The Euro is a cheap Mark and an expensive Drachma.
Meathead   
24 Feb 2012
News / Becoming non-EUnuch -> giving up your share of handouts. [36]

Countries like Greece and Spain are, geographically, in a better position to export than countries like Germany. They should actually be ahead of the Germans and charging Germany to use their ports. Don't they realize this?

It's the Euro. It's too strong for their economies. Why buy something from Greece when it's so expensive. For instance produce, if I can buy lettuce from Poland when the zloty is 0.30 to the dollar why buy from Greece when the Euro is 1.30 to the dollar. I can buy a lot more Polish lettuce with that exchange rate.

Nonsense! For most (if not all) members of the EU, Germany is either the largest or second largest trading partner for both exports and imports. There is no EU or Euro without Germany, whether you like it or not, and I'm pretty sure they have a different idea of who the parasites really are.

Europe misses a strong England to counter weight Germany.
Meathead   
25 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]

Poles in U.K. or Mexicans in U.S. or Algerians in France is not the problem.

True Marek, but on top of all this England has a crushing class system that sucks out all the vitality of the citizenry. It's no accident that 10% of the English population are expatriated in foreign countries.
Meathead   
28 Feb 2012
UK, Ireland / WHAT IS IT ABOUT POLISH PEOPLE THAT MAKES THEM THINK THAT UK WANTS THEM? [309]

The whole thread is an example of the class system in England and how the upper and middle classes treat the working class with absolute contempt. The Polish immigrant is caught in the middle. They were brought in solely to give the finger to the working class. One of the few political outlets that the working class has is going on strike and acting difficult on the job but they even took that away by bringing in the Poles. Your safely ensconced in Florida and far away from this nonsense, count your blessings.
Meathead   
5 Mar 2012
Love / Bicultural marriage between Mexican and Polish HELP [6]

@kesja

Try here: bfm.admin.ch/content/bfm/en/home.html and here: sweden.se/eng/Home/Work/ here too: norway.no/temaside/tema.asp?id=101

And another: expatindenmark.com/Documents/Living%20and%20Working%20in%20Denmark.pdf

Above countries listed have the bucks.
Meathead   
9 Mar 2012
USA, Canada / Would like to move back to Poland from New York after living in USA for 20 years. [155]

The only way to answer that is for you to move back to Poland. If you don't like it you can always move back to the states. The only thing I would add is that from my experience moving, is that traveling as a tourist is not like moving somewhere, they are entirely different experiences.
Meathead   
11 Mar 2012
USA, Canada / Would like to move back to Poland from New York after living in USA for 20 years. [155]

Plan, plan, plan, think, think, think...just do it. Quit your job and move back to Poland. You have nothing to lose as I and other people have mentioned, you could always move back. The more you think and plan the less likely that you'll move back and than you'll get the shoulda coulda woulda's.
Meathead   
12 Mar 2012
News / FEMI-FASCISTS MARCH AGAIN IN POLAND [126]

It's a shortcut to indicate the total intolerance, gender megalomania and rejection of compromise of the pro-feminsit agenda which often ignores the other 50% of the planet's inhabitants

Total intolerance? gender magalomania? rejection of compromise? Ignores 50% of the planet's inhabitants? Sounds like the Roman Catholic Church.
Meathead   
13 Mar 2012
UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]

Keep it civil, please.

Good girl

oxon, to see where your country is, you have to know where it's been. Here, start with this article and check some of the hot links below and it will describe the problem (Polish immigration is the symptom not the problem). BTW, your statement that Poles have a pleasant disposition...naaa they work too hard to have that.

libcom.org/news/article.php/land-ownership-right-roam-uk-10032006
Meathead   
13 Mar 2012
USA, Canada / Would like to move back to Poland from New York after living in USA for 20 years. [155]

Only if you consider *pizza*as food.
In my home pizza is NOT permitted any food status. Period. Shop ordered pizza is not very hygienically prepared, either. Pizza is a *food* served by LAZY mothers.

Mama Mia!!

I love how everyone is benevolently planning my future life Poland. It's very sweet. It's like listening to a large group of friends and family at the dinner table.

Polish dinner table

Actually, while we're at it, why not find me a husband as well. Any takers? :)))

Is that what you want? Post some pictures, we'll give ya our opinion.
Meathead   
15 Mar 2012
Food / Corned Beef in Krakow [7]

I've got few small cans of it if you want to pick it up. Nobody likes the stuff. PM me.

Fresh off the brisket, ohlala!
Meathead   
16 Mar 2012
News / Are Poles good enough for USA (to go there without a visa)? [288]

It's the duty of the Polish government to solve this issue, and not that of some lobbyist group in the US. This reminds me too much of the AIPAC and how they interfere in local politics over here.

It doesn't make sense that Poland is treated differently by the US. It must originate in Poland by the Polish Government. Poles should be petitioning their government.
Meathead   
16 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

What Poland should be doing is using their coal and converting it into natural gas. This would make her power plants burn pollution free (or near so) and they would get co products out of the conversion process. Poland should also use her coal reserves for methanol conversion and use methanol for their transportation fuel instead of importing expensive oil, this also would cut down their emissions and repair her balance of payments in regard to trade. But instead they talk about nuclear power. Poland has a habit of not seeing the forest due to the trees.

Here's an article on coal gasification: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gasification
Meathead   
17 Mar 2012
News / Are Poles good enough for USA (to go there without a visa)? [288]

That's what I meant. The Polish government has to change things via the official channels, not some group/ newspaper somewhere in the US.

Poland or the EU probably requested the US not to grant visas to Poles. They probably wanted the Poles to supply Europe with qualified low cost labor. There is a huge population of Poles in the US so assimilation is relatively easy. If Visas were available, Poles would have gone to America. There's no reason for the US not to grant visas to Poles.
Meathead   
21 Mar 2012
Life / Struggling young Polish couple - try to solve their problem [176]

I agree with f stop, property ownership is the ideal of yesteryear.

I see you have drank the kool-aid. Renting is for short term living only! Rent is not a long term solution. With home ownership you get equity that you don't get with rent. With ownership you are responsible for the repairs. Rent and try to get your landlord to fix something, lots of luck. Over time housing should appreciate, all you're going to get with rent is ... rising rents. The Middle Class in America gets its wealth from land ownership, make no mistake about that.

What is said for Ireland can be said for Poland. Both countries are not generating their own wealth. All their income is from out of country corporations in search of cheap labor. Internal businesses and innovation is not occuring, both countries are losing their best and brightest to emigration because of lack of opportunity and low wages. Poland and Ireland's futures are still in flux.
Meathead   
22 Mar 2012
News / Coal-Powered Poland Refuses to "Go Green". EU Ain't Happy. [304]

Wrong, as this is my wife's scientific research and she is using Willow and Miscanthus sinensis (Elephant grass) as a source of biofuel for power stations.
Privately, my wife and her colleagues say it is a waste of time, but they have to do the research for the EU as part of their EU commitments

Most biofuel is made from corn. They use the starch from the corn for ethanol and the leftover stuff is distillers grains which has all the food nutrients (which incidentally is easier for the cattle to digest. Raw corn is difficult for cattle to digest). In the USofA they currently produce 15 billion gallons annually from 40% of the corn crop. The distillers grains go to livestock feed. East Africa has a famine because they don't have monoculture. They have subsistence farms which are vulnerable to droughts or floods. The farmers in East Africa don't need our grain they need our agricultural technology like tractors, seed and irrigation equipment. Your wife needs to quit believing the oil industry's disinformation campaign on biofuels (as a scientist she needs to be impartial). They (the oil industry) don't want the competition. Poland can produce ethanol or methanol from their coal reserves, all it takes is some creative thinking from it's politicians.
Meathead   
22 Mar 2012
Work / Salary expectations in Poland [373]

If Poles are making as much money as you say than there is no justification for the low salaries that cause people to move.
Meathead   
23 Mar 2012
Food / How toxic is industrial salt? (some food factories in Poland used it for sausages) [49]

throw it away if you are cautious - if you are less cautious just gobble it :) - up for a bet? I bet you will be fine (unless the sauerkraut's gone bad)

you could do what my dad does with his jar of sauerkraut, he leaves it in the cupboard all year and brings it out for Christmas dinner. Nobody eats it, so he puts it back in the cupboard for another year. (Sadly after about seven years his wife noticed the sell by date and chucked it)

I think I'll chuck it. Back to American for me as the only other alternative is Bavarian in my neck of the woods. But I do like sauerkraut.
Meathead   
24 Mar 2012
Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]

grubas: It not that Poles don't want to breed they simply can't afford it in this sad,anti citizen,opressive country..

Moral of the story Poland needs more of a social safety net and higher wages, the babies will follow. But the Polish government doesn't represent the best interests of the Poles, it gets it's marching orders from the European elite. Immigration won't solve their diaspora.
Meathead   
5 Apr 2012
News / History lessons no more in Poland (Tusk's change) [61]

In Poland Tusk's government implemented change in schools in Poland. Reducing number of history lessons to almost non existence.
What do you think ?

What a stupid idea. What was his reasoning?
Meathead   
6 Apr 2012
News / US-POLAND special relationship [20]

Watching that same address from Sikorski & Clinton, she and Sikorski made it clear that Poland will not yet be included and that there are more hoops to jump through. I'm interested in where you got that part from, perhaps it's a different source than the ones I follow?

As has been mentioned in previous posts the Polish government is the one who doesn't want Polish emigration to the USofA. It has nothing to do with the US government.
Meathead   
10 Apr 2012
Genealogy / Being ashamed of Polish ancestry? [156]

^ This is untrue. The Irish were already coming to America in large numbers in the mid-19th Century, before either the Poles or the Italians, nor do ethnic jokes in America switch from one ethnicity to another in the manner claimed. Polish, Italian, Irish, and Mexican jokes exist, and have existed, concurrently here.

Ethnic jokes started with the ethnics who immigrated to America. Polish jokes came from Poles, Italian jokes came from Italians and so on and so forth. Native born Americans don't know enough about Europeans or Asians to create jokes. Americans are ignorant of anything outside of America.

Who are your countrymen? I know several American friends who drink before going out to a bar. It saves them money that way. I don't think it's as much specific to a particular country as it is just something some people do to save money if they plan on getting drunk when going out versus going out to just have fun.

BS, Europeans are much harder drinkers than any American. Beer on the British Isles, Vodka in Northern Europe, wine everywhere else. Growing up in ethnic Chicago it wasn't unusual to see Polish (recent arrivals from post war Europe) drunks literally sleeping in the gutter on a Saturday.

If Poles feel ashamed of their heritage it's because of the baggage they carry from the old country. Most likely due to the European class system than anything here in America. The biggest story is Americans think Poles are stupid because of Nazi propaganda from WWII. Hello! America was fighting the Nazi's in WWII, they wouldn't have believed anything Hitler had to say!

If anyone asks me my ethnic heritage I tell them I'm a polak from Chicago, end of story. But you know what? I have a hard time remembering the last time when someone asked me.
Meathead   
11 Apr 2012
Genealogy / Being ashamed of Polish ancestry? [156]

What ethnic group does that?!

Americans aren't aware of the ethnic tensions that exist in Europe. My European wife has commented to me on how well different ethnic groups in the US get along.

In WWI, America was sympathetic to the Germans

Totally untrue. Read Lou Gehrig's biography. He had a very difficult time in the States during that time because he was ethnically German.

WWII came only a few short years after. America was in the beginning torn with which side to choose

Complete BS. After Pearl Harbor everybody volunteered

, as you put it, and then another minute say that Americans would or wouldn't listen to Nazi propaganda?

Because we were at war with Germany.

I didn't say one vs another drinks harder? I said that the argument that a few people one person on this thread knew and was discussing drinking before going out is not exclusively a Polish behaviour, or European behaviour. I said that I know Americans who do the same thing.

No comparison. I've seen Europeans (Swedes) drink a fifth of vodka like we drink a bottle of beer, and they got totally smashed. I've never seen someone so totally drunk. I've never seen that Stateside.

After all, there were American Nazis. In fact, there still are

and there are Polish Nazi's, so?

Your theories of some kind of American conspiracy about Poles is a fairy tale. Americans just aren't that interested in the world and Poles/Polish Americans are as nondescript as you're going to get.
Meathead   
15 Apr 2012
UK, Ireland / My dream about UK. Please help. [86]

Wish me luck, nice people from PF.

As some others have mentioned you may be over qualified for a nanny or au pair. Poles have a problem of selling themselves short and taking any kind of job. It's tough job hunting a thousand miles (?) away. Been there done that. If you want to relocate to UK, relocate. Move and find an apartment. Job hunt from there. It's not as difficult as you imagine. Actually the Euro's in quite a funk right now and the best places for employment on the continent for emigre's are Switzerland and the Scandinavians. The other place to be would be Canada or the USofA (specifically for a Pole, Chicago or the oil patch states of Texas or North Dakota).