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NorthMancPolak   
9 Jul 2012
Real Estate / Poland's apartment prices continue to fall [1844]

I am sure that there will be plenty of skilled workers who would rather stay in Poland.

Exactly. Yet some people on this forum will never understand that life is not just about where you can make the most money. I could easily earn over $100 000 p.a. in the USA, but would I move there? Not a chance; I've got everything I'll ever need within a few miles of here.
NorthMancPolak   
9 Jul 2012
Life / Are Polish roads really this bad? [237]

Problem with the Polish system is that it is so hard to lose your licence compared to the UK. 4 speeding fines and it's a ban in the UK in Poland you can go on forever (it seems).

Have you ever actually been to Poland?

I'm not sure if it's effective yet, but it's not long ( a few weeks) since I saw a news report which stated that points are going to be given out for even the most minor of offences, like not indicating when changing lanes. Accumulate a few of those, and you lose your licence. But then, you answered the question "znasz język polski" with "no", so you wouldn't have understood the report anyway.

Nah!! Just drove down through Romania, they have the Poles beat "hands down".

He's obviously never been to Italy, either.

If he's British, he's clearly never been to Bradford - Britain's insurance-avoiding capital. I always breathe a sigh of relief once I'm back on the M62, the road back to civilisation.

Is sanddancer a gdyniaguy alter-ego? Certainly sounds like one.
NorthMancPolak   
8 Jul 2012
Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

The Polish Language is only spoken by Polish people

Wrong.

which is roughly 32 Mil people

Wrong again. Not even close.

But mainly, I dislike the lack of English language among many people, specially in important jobs like in government officials, taxi drivers, shop assistants... etc.

English isn't an official language in Poland, believe it or not.
NorthMancPolak   
7 Jul 2012
Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

- too little tolerance for people who are even a bit different (piercing, wierd clothing, strange haircut etc.)

Indeed. Poland needs more Goth and metal types. And proper ravers. Too many clones with shaved heads and identikit sportswear.

- music culture - too little stations playing metal/rock/alternative music. Pop/techno/electro/disco music everywhere !

Techno's not exactly mainstream. You should go to a proper rave instead of listening to Radio ZET.

- people who think it makes them cool to play some crap techno loud in trams and buses.

True, but at least Paweł and Kasia won't "cap" you or "stab you up" for telling them to turn it down - unlike all the LaTeeshas and Du'Waynes on UK buses lol. The worst thing on Polish buses and trams is the smell of alcohol and incontinence, ugh.
NorthMancPolak   
7 Jul 2012
Travel / My holiday, Gdansk or Kaunus, Lithuania? Help me decide! [23]

I've only been to Gdansk, so my opinions may not be appreciated. I only spent about 9 hours there, but even that seemed too long, and I had a lot of time to fill before my flight back to Warszawa. I liked it a lot, and it's definitely worth a visit, but it's not a huge city. It's not, in my opinion, a beautiful city, although the main pedestrianised areas are very attractive. Most of the rest of the city centre looks like Manchester's Northern Quarter: run-down but characterful. It doesn't look very Polish, but that is part of the attraction. If you are planning on spending 5 days there, then you will probably want/need to get out of town to Sopot/Gdynia, and possibly further afield (Malbork/Szczecin) as well.
NorthMancPolak   
6 Jul 2012
Life / A rant on customer service in Poland [42]

Beckski, I can't speak for the USA, but over here, "chicken flavour" and "chicken flavoured" isn't the same thing - which is why chicken flavour soup can be kosher-pareve lol. Back to Polish customer service: you have to be tough - if they take the pi**, I just dump the stuff on the belt & tell them I'm going elsewhere, just like over here. It's not the PRL era any more.
NorthMancPolak   
5 Jul 2012
Food / Which type of sausage in Poland is closest to an American kielbasa? [23]

Yet more proof that many Pol-Ams are considered a joke on here. pgtx is right - it's laughable that you would want to find an American-style fake "Polish-style" kielbasa, when the real thing is everywhere you turn. But I imagine that a lot of people would go to Italy and complain that they can't get a "decent" Starbucks-style "coffee"... lol.
NorthMancPolak   
5 Jul 2012
Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]

You have to be a bit naive to ask how to score drugs online, but peterweg thinks internet trolls (or, more accurately, people he disagrees with) should be jailed, so he can't be taken seriously. He wouldn't grass (no pun intended) round here, not unless he wanted to see his name on walls from the Irwell to the M60.
NorthMancPolak   
5 Jul 2012
Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]

Hi! My name's Officer Dibble, and I thought your weed thread was great! Had a great laugh. Eating doughnuts on a stakeout was getting boring anyway, it cheered us up ;)
NorthMancPolak   
4 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Americans of Polish descent. How many of us are on Polish forums? [216]

Hard work, belief in a higher power, discussion of politics, traditional family, loyalty etc

Not disagreeing, but I'd say that's part of Chinese or Japanese culture as well, so it's not exclusively Polish.

Eastern European

Poland's in Central Europe, btw ;)
NorthMancPolak   
3 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

It wouldn't be taboo if you described all other businesses in the same way

The irony is, if a UK newspaper dared to write anything similar about Polish-American culture, Polonius3 would be the first to complain about "racism".

I can see the "Daily Mail gloats as 'Polish-controlled' pierogies warehouse burns" tagline already... :)
NorthMancPolak   
3 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

If it's derogatory and hate speech then I'd agree with you but if it's a fact that corporations, newspapers, film studios are owned by people of Jewish heritage who may also be practicing Jews then how can stating facts be classed as anti Semitic? If I say Israel is controlled by the Jews is that anti Semitic or am I stating a fact?

It's all about the way the term is used.

"Israel is a Jewish-controlled state" - this is stating a fact, and should be considered neutral; although it could become anti-Semitic if used in a certain way, e.g., "Israel is a Jewish-controlled state, so why are you surprised that the Jew media always supports Zionist tyranny?".

The way these things are stated here on PF are generally stated in an offensive and anti-Semitic way. Rather than just stating that that certain media corporations are run by Jews, the fact that these organisations are "Jew-controlled" is used to ensure that Jews are used as scapegoats for any problem/issue you can think of. If someone disagrees with a news report, it's "the corrupt Jew media". If prices rise, it's because "the greedy Jew is filling his pockets again". If there's a stock market crash, it's because financial institutions are "Jew-controlled". And so on.
NorthMancPolak   
3 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

Anti Semitism is far from Christian

Try telling P3 that ;)

Besides, not all Jews are Leftist or willing to group Catholicism in with Christianity.

ditto.

Hang around for a bit longer and you'll learn even more rubbish about the "Jew media" from so-called "Polish" Americans.
NorthMancPolak   
3 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

As evidenced on the PolishForums website. I already see (and have chosen to ignore a few) of the Anti Christians (including the Anti Semites) here.

If becoming a devout Christian leads one to create dreadful thread titles such as this one, then I'm glad I'm a so-called "heathen".
NorthMancPolak   
2 Jul 2012
Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

Couple years ago there was a joke in the radio. When you win the contest the prize will be a holiday in Bytom ;)

Runner-up prize is two weeks, lol.

There is nothing in Poland comparable to the rundown hellhole that is New Brighton, for instance.

or Salford. What the council is doing round here is criminal. "Unsuitable for modern needs" my ***.

Just a few minutes down the road from me. There are dozens of streets like this round here. Ruined by council incompetence and benefit-claiming ASBO scum.

.

:(
NorthMancPolak   
2 Jul 2012
Real Estate / Why so many incomplete kitchens in Polish rental flats? [24]

Dont know about europe but in states its the law to have a refrigerator and electric cooking grill or gas stove or one will not get CO for a tenant.

Well, here in the UK (still in Europe), rented flats may contain no kitchen appliances and have no furniture whatsoever, or can come fully-furnished and include all appliances (and the landlord may refuse to remove even the most useless item of furniture).

There's no law regarding furnishings (except fire regulations), but we have strict laws on things like gas/electric installations (some landlords have been jailed for the deaths of tenants, due to faulty appliances).
NorthMancPolak   
2 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

As Christiacity declines, general human misconduct grows.

Burned any witches recently, have you? I'd say that was one of the best examples of human misconduct ever. And it took place when, according to you, the world was more Christian than it is now. What truly great times those must have been - I must get in my time machine and go back. I can't wait to be wrongly accused.

Was there really as may broken families and as much shoplifting and white-collar crime in your youth as there is now?

No, but the reasons are far more to do with economics and politics, and not with Christian belief (or lack of it).

Your country is one of the most Christian in the world, yet it has one of the highest crime rates in the world. According to your logic, there should be very few social problems in the USA.

Crime is now far less of a problem than it was a couple of hundred years ago but far fewer people now waste their time with fairytales about virgins giving birth.

Exactly. If everyone was such a good Christian a few hundred years ago, then why was it eventually thought necessary to create the police force?

P3 just can't accept that it's possible to accept all (or most) of the Ten Commandments, yet not be religious. I keep all of them, with the exception of the one about adultery - which, naturally, Christians claim also applies to sex before marriage, which is ridiculous. It's no-one's business what anyone does in bed (gay or straight). Besides, we're all descended from out-of-wedlock relationships, as marriage is a comparatively recent institution. I'd prefer to keep that Commandment as well, but it's impossible these days. If you want me to stop partaking in such "immoral" behaviour, then either find me a woman who doesn't cheat or needs "different things" every few months, or stfu and keep out of my business.

If P3 wishes to be forced to live by religious rules, then let him. How the rest of us live is nothing to do with him.
NorthMancPolak   
2 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

Shame really.

What you seem to have forgotten is that that most adherents and/or lapsed believers had no say in whether they wanted to join their religion or not - as circumcision/baptism etc. took place when they were only a few days old.

It's not easy to break away at all, not by any means. I lived with the "you'll go to Hell if you stop going to church" threats all through my early life - but even that is mild compared to the "renounce Islam and you will be put to death" threats which some people have the misfortune to suffer.

What people like Polonius3 fail (or refuse to) understand is that the religious have no monopoly on good deeds or morality. I am not an atheist, but I will not accept man-made organised religion until they leave the Dark Ages. It's not the fact that I came from a religious family that I believe that it is wrong to kill - but because we only have one guaranteed life - and that right to life should be protected for all (exceptions can be made for murderers/terrorists/child rapists, but that's a minority, and another thread altogether). It's possible to live a good, lawful, useful life without any religious belief whatsoever - but people like Polonius3 automatically denounce people such as these as "heathen" and "immoral". They are not, they just have different beliefs to him.

There are few things more ridiculous than forcing people to believe in something which can't be proven, and especially if there is punishment for their non-belief. This is why, although I accept that there may be a God, I consider religions to be little more than yet another pointless man-made social control system. Or, more accurately, a male-made control system (and that's half the problem).
NorthMancPolak   
1 Jul 2012
News / SUNDAY WITHOUT MASS IN POLAND - Judaeo-leftist Wyborcza gloats [165]

Good. Poles are increasingly thinking for themselves, which is always a good thing, unless you're "in power", of course. If Poles become more like the Czechs, that's great. Unlike this thread, which is yet another Pol-Am attempt to discredit Jews. Start your own backward fundamentalist Christian paper if you don't like it. Or, simply do as I do - don't buy toilet paper like Gazeta Wyborcza! I bet Polonius3 is one of those idiots who walks around with a "GOD HATES FAGS" sign on his day off.
NorthMancPolak   
30 Jun 2012
History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

I've never understood why this forum attracts so many people who are obsessed with (mostly anti-) Jewish issues. I live within a proposed eruv; there are probably more practising Jews within a 2-mile radius of my flat than there are in the whole of Poland, yet you never hear me going on about it. Mind you, I'm too busy stuffing myself with chopped liver and matzo crackers to get involved, lol.
NorthMancPolak   
30 Jun 2012
Love / My Polish bf cheated on me with a black girl [45]

He hasn't met her yet, so how can he have cheated on you? He had planned on cheating, though. So you should dump him for being an idiot lol.
NorthMancPolak   
29 Jun 2012
Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

I was on a bus from Wrocław to Bielawa once (we have family friends there), and it reminded me of the time I once caught an overnight National Express coach from Leeds to London (this was a long time ago, when I was a poor student - I'd fly now. Or, I would if bmi hadn't cancelled the service, lol. Then again, I have no reason to go to Leeds, but I'm sure you see my rather waffly point. haha).

The coach stopped at some Midlands dump (Chesterfield, I think) - one of those places where one person gets on, and no-one gets off. Just like when the bus pulled up in Wałbrzych, lol :D

However, despite all this, there is still money to be made, even in these depressing places - the aforementioned family friends have made a fortune from running pharmacies and dry cleaners around Bielawa/Wałbrzych. I've never seen a house like theirs in my life, amazing.
NorthMancPolak   
28 Jun 2012
Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

Later on, in the 60s and 60s they started copying styles from capitalist countries but without the wherewithal to do it well

Le Corbusier would turn in his grave if he saw some of these cost-cutting hell-holes.

However, I've still never seen anything in Poland which looks as bad as many similar estates in the UK. I lived on such an estate as a child, but it didn't turn me into a mugger or drug dealer, honest :)

Radom

My mum has the misfortune to come from this city. I've been a few times myself. Żeromskiego makes The Rock in Bury look like Krakowskie Przedmieście :D lol

Kielce and Wałbrzych are pretty depressing too. I've managed to avoid Górny Śląsk so far, but I imagine there are plenty of ugly places there.
NorthMancPolak   
28 Jun 2012
Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

And many of those "extreme poor" Poles pay next to nothing for their housing.

I can guarantee that I would not regard myself as extremely poor if I had £400 a month to live on in the UK, with no housing costs.

It wouldn't be easy, but "extreme poor"? lol, no. Plenty of food on the table, bills all paid, and enough left over to go to Costa a few times a week. That's not poverty. But cigarettes, Tyskie multipacks, silver chains and camo pants all cost money, so it's not surprising that Adam29 thinks he's poor :D
NorthMancPolak   
26 Jun 2012
USA, Canada / How do I find my 2nd cousin in IL possibly Chicago? [15]

They did it in the Blues Brothers (kind of) so why not :D

The worst thing that is likely to happen is they will say "I've no idea".

Unless of course it's turned into a meth lab, like something out of "Miami SWAT"... then people might get upset. lol.
NorthMancPolak   
26 Jun 2012
Food / Your favourite Polish foods! [180]

Kedgeree?

Indian!

mizeria

Cucumber raita... Indian!!

Everything's Indian. Like "pundit". ;)

Or you think that you're English simply because you're called Dave? Dev = Indian!!! haha :)

I love pierogi too. But dim sum are Chinese, not Indian. Which makes a change! lmao :D

And while we're on subcontinent topics (even if off-topic), I must have eaten 10 lakh pierogi in my lifetime hahaha