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Joined: 16 Jan 2011 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 2 Aug 2017
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rybnik   
21 Nov 2012
News / Poland's Guy Fawkes [88]

It is only a matter of time until the extreme-right nutters here in Poland follow his example.

I never realized how deep the divide is between the right wing and others.
It's frightening actually.
Who would've thought such a thing could be possible in Poland.
welcome to the modern world I guess :(
rybnik   
18 Nov 2012
Life / Czas honoru (Time of honoru) TV serial [38]

early Stalinist Poland is still rather vrigin territory. Wjada's 'man' films, Bugajski's 'Interrogation' and a few others, but still much left to explore. That's what the current Czas honoru series is about.

I'm watching it now.
It's very interesting........I like to where all the characters arrived
good stufff.
rybnik   
18 Nov 2012
Law / Ease of doing business in Poland [32]

I see Poland again performed very badly in terms of ease of doing business in the survey. Still stuck at about number 70.

things have improved in a year.
now Poland's in 55th place up from 74.
rybnik   
15 Nov 2012
Life / The "I am never wrong" phenom - is it the Polish thing? [63]

The wurst kind...

clever :))
kudos

i realise that i am not alone in this wilderness of mad Poles telling me black is white and then hitting me over the head with a horrid sausage ...

this type of behavior is in no way endemic to Poles and Polish culture.
I know, it can be intense when you're inundated; submerged in and around Poles. I've been there and they can behave in an incredulous manner but I'm here to tell you all that there are other cultures, in my experience, which find it hard to acknowledge mistakes and to simply verbalize an apology.

In my case, the Indians and Greeks come to mind............................Poles, for sure, can be extremely annoying in this regard but they are not the sole purveyors of obstinance :)
rybnik   
5 Nov 2012
Life / Abrupt Poles explained ! [51]

It sounds rude and harsh from a Western perspective

quite possibly true.
my wife, who is Asian, sits next to me while I'm watching Polish TV on occasion.
she is constantly telling me how soft the language is.
This softness I myself do not hear.
rybnik   
5 Nov 2012
Life / Abrupt Poles explained ! [51]

The Polish "abrupt" manner is made polite by other factors, such as appropriate intonation, vocabulary, or grammatical structures.

Agreed!
Polish's insistence on proper decorum when addressing strangers used to drive me nuts :)
Pan magister, Pani Profesor, Pan Kierownik,......Proszę Pana, Niech Pan pozwoli,.........
rybnik   
3 Nov 2012
Love / Should I forgive my cheating Polish girlfriend? [73]

I've read your story and ruminated over it.
It's a hard decision but I have to agree with the majority.
You will be miserably in love if you take her back now.
Przykro mi - I'm sorry.
rybnik   
3 Nov 2012
Language / Jeden hamburger / jednego hamburgera [7]

No, you wouldn't, the process has not gone that far yet. But I bet the next nine customers would say "jednego hamburgera".

I get it :)
Ok then, it's jednego hamburgera from now on!
rybnik   
3 Nov 2012
Language / Jeden hamburger / jednego hamburgera [7]

So it depends on the word, really - with some nouns you can use the -a ending and with other, you can't.

Ugh!!!

The "-a" Accusative ending of non-animate male nouns is becoming increasingly popular in spoken everyday Polish and it's no longer considered bad grammar

not in my day :).......it's confusing :(

So, Strzyga, if I went to a kiosk in Wrocław tomorrow and asked "jeden hamburger poproszę" would I get a look?
rybnik   
30 Oct 2012
USA, Canada / Moved back from Canada to Poland:). Here are the reasons why. [868]

Now I can laugh...at myself.

Congratulations!
That's an acheivement in and of itself.
It took me many years of marriage to my Filipina to lunlearn my old ways and to learn how to laugh at myself and generally to lighten up!

Up until then I would take everything, including myself, so seriously.
It's such a relief.
rybnik   
24 Oct 2012
Travel / Driving from UK to Poland in Christmas Time - winter tyres? [46]

if you're planning to go somewhere like Poznan, Lodz, Wroclaw or Katowice where it's main roads the entire way, you'll get by fine on all-weather tyres.

Agreed! During my time we had only one light winter and I did just fine with regular tires.

.I have done this trip many many times and the worst was sheet ice in Poland stranded for eight hours.

they don't salt/sand the roads?????
rybnik   
24 Oct 2012
History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [73]

None of my friends ever though about them as anti-American propaganda movies

Maybe not your friends but my fellow-Polish students and our instructors were the ones, who brought it to our attention in the first place! I honestly didn't make the connection on my own. I'm not that smart.

those movies were actually good

I agree! I never said they were bad.

Come one Rybnik, you are just too sensitive, we were not the idiots

I never said Poles were idiots (but I am sensitive :)

I do not remember anyone looking at this your way when watching them

Boletus, I never said the audience, the average Pole, felt that way. I know they didn't.
rybnik   
24 Oct 2012
History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [73]

sure
any film that was able to support the prevailing propaganda was shown in theaters (and on TV).
Violent gansters/crime films were common fare in Wrocław theaters: Serpico, The Godfather, Serpico
"drugs in America" - French Connection
"sexual promiscuity" -Looking for Mr Goodbar
"divorce and the breakup of families" - Kramer przeciw Kramerowi...................