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modafinil   
1 Aug 2013
Real Estate / Stronger zloty - potential driver for Poland's property market [42]

There's an expected weakening of the Euro aginst the dollar today when Draghi speaks at 12:30 ET
ecb.int/press/tvservices/webcast/html/webcast_130801.en.html
In whichever direction it does go it will be a good trend trade lasting for a couple of weeks when combined with US employment stats on Friday.

Plenty of countries want the French and German investment touting the steady Eurozone. The Zloty get stronger the jobs/exports will go to the desperate countries - Spain and Bulgaria & Romainia very soon. A strong Zloty certainly doesn't stretch EU funding either. Anyone trading EUR/PLN for long term gains is a bit nutty as would anyone buying the zloty while the rate is still bouncing at 4.2 for long term and even then there are easier pairs to make money off without having to gamble.

If I was to take an 'risk' I'd be going for 4.33 by the end of this month even though rumour is of Euro weakening today. But I don't gamble or guess with exotics. The pair is used by hedge funds with a very few purist currency speculators due to a very small stats base/ lack of info.
modafinil   
30 Jul 2013
Real Estate / Stronger zloty - potential driver for Poland's property market [42]

If my guessing is good,

Any source/evidence? Right now there are plenty willing to go in at 4.2 EurPln expecting 4.8 long term. If you want to go that way wait 'til it breaks below 4.2 for at least a couple of weeks. It's only been on a downtrend for the past 2 weeks because of Bernanke. USD is expected to get stronger against near everything once tapering starts.
modafinil   
31 May 2013
History / Poland is a Catholic country [177]

In Poland people go to church, but many don't follow the churchs' teachings.

Then there has never ever been a Catholic. Not even Jesus who enjoyed a drink and worked on the day Sabbath.
And seeing how the Pope goes to confession(admits to sin) you have answered the question "Is the Pope Catholic?" According to you he isn't.

Now tell me, does a bear sh1t in the woods?
modafinil   
27 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Why are Brits so left-wing? [60]

Morality is based on Christianity here. So people believe it is just to heal the sick, shelter the homeless, give to the poor, love thy neighbour...

Also most school and college teachers are usually left wing as is the most well known media outlet, the BBC.
modafinil   
27 Jan 2013
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

If Obwarzanek Krakowski does or has already received European protected status it will still end up being called a Krakow Bagel as obwarzanek would be too much of a mouthful for English toungues. (pun intended).

I've always seen the humbler, non-twisted, smaller holed variety as being a Polish-Jewish import here in the UK and it seems that way in the US also. So you may not be appreciative of them within Poland but you should pay your dues(another pun!) for being one of Poland's notable exports, possibly second only to wodka in popularity and prominence.
modafinil   
27 Jan 2013
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [586]

I know one Polish person who eats bagels. So I am sorry you are wrong.

I found this a article a little interesting on Krakow pride in obwarzanki
online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703794104575545843564259642.html

'Maria Balinska, author of "The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread," disputes the idea that the obwarzanek has a distinct origin. She says the two breads started off as pretty much the same thing, but with different names in Yiddish and Polish. She interviewed older Krakow residents as part of her research, who said the two breads were indistinguishable as recently as the 1930s.'

'"They look pretty much the same, and both are based on a pretty simple premise," says Patrick Vaughan, a 45-year-old American who has been living in Krakow for about 10 years.'

'Like other obwarzanek lovers, Ms. Biedo is steeped in the bread's lore. She recounts the tale of a group of Polish soldiers who are said to have beaten back a German onslaught in 1410 after scarfing obwarzanek.'

'Krakow's campaign for the obwarzanek started several years ago, after Kazimierz Czekaj, a baker here, noticed that foreigners and even the local press were increasingly referring to the bread as a bagel.'

'Both breads, she says, most likely derived from a white, braided German specialty-the pretzel.'

For me if it's round with a hole and boiled before baking, it's in the bagel class.
modafinil   
29 Nov 2012
News / Repopulating Poland with Ukrainians? [67]

It seems they are trying to suite those estimates under some classical Nazi theory...

Not quite. It was originally postulated and later proved that there is a direct relation between IQ and an ample, balanced diet free of toxins. A case in point is that the Scottish IQ is 3-4 points lower than an English one, the Scottish being notorious for eating junk.

As for the one about brain size, a correlation(which never proves causation, btw) of 0.4 is laughable in scientific terms. That site isn't actually a medical journal it's a forum where any plonker can contribute and it seems any fool believe(not directed to anyone in particular). One can google about Einstein's brain, which was smaller than average, to see what really matters relating to the intelligent mind.

There is a correlation of 0.99 (near as certain as can be other than 1.0) between School grades and IQ. The attachments show the results by ethnicity over the past years in the UK.
modafinil   
19 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Not leaving for the long term. Foreign investors are taking out the money now hoping to buy back the same amount of 'product' at a cheaper price due to the euro's spiralling weakness.
modafinil   
17 May 2012
Life / Old Polish (Russian) Films [9]

I always cried when I watched it as a boy. My mother also cried when she watched how the boy plays the violin. Her greatest dream was to turn me into such a violinist. I tried hard in the music school, but had to give up due to unexpected circumstances.

Your life of crying, family crying together, thwarted dreams... ultimately triumphing with a passion for photography replacing your quashed ambitions to be a violin virtuoso and teaching children well and showing them all the beauty they possess inside, sounds like it would make a good Russian movie.
modafinil   
17 May 2012
Life / Poles always ask how much money you earn. Why do they do this? [30]

It seems very forthright and not so subtle. Though I tend to ask people on first meeting them "So what is it you do [for a living]". If they say something like "I'm a waiter" Not only do I know they are low paid but probably quite thick, to boot.

But, I'd guess it is just a way to gauge differences in Salaries across countries. Job titles like manager or engineer are distorted in the UK at least. I have known directors well into six figures who call themselves managers as well as office supervisors on five times less that use the same title. There's no bullspit job titles when it comes down to how much you earn which is your worth to an employer.
modafinil   
16 May 2012
News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [532]

Last week Solidarity led a picket for days in front of Parliament to protest a law raising the retirement age. After lawmakers passed the bill Friday, enraged Solidarity activists prevented some lawmakers from leaving the building and a scuffle ensued.

[Lech] Walesa said elected lawmakers must be respected and that the protesters deserved a beating.

actionnewsjax.com/news/world/story/Walesa-says-todays-Solidarity-deserves-a-beating/B1VdDxTqm02jWg76kEyYdQ.cspx?rss=4
modafinil   
14 May 2012
Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]

I reckon it's got more to do with Polish people having little exposure to people of other nations. Britain comes last because we have just about everyone here so more dispersion due to choice. In the Polish sticks, if they don't find other Poles to be attractive they ain't going to be getting laid or never going to get hold of their ideal beauty unless they leave, in which case they won't have there opinion counted. Something in the chart suggests Poles have beer goggles on, I can't quite put my finger on it. ;)

There is a dating website that refuses ugly people that has refused Polish more than any other for overrating their own beauty . The Danish came out tops for the least rejections.
modafinil   
13 May 2012
Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]

Tens of thousands of students in universities across Britain have been caught cheating in exams and coursework

Don't make this about Britain!
I was in the first year where the English language exam was 100% coursework. One of my classmates had a private tutor who my classmate requested of him to get him a grade B. So the tutor wrote all his essays for him and got him his B grade.

More recently, an examining board was secretly filmed giving the questions that were going to be in a forthcoming final year exam to the school teachers on a plate. When the examining board cheat...
modafinil   
12 May 2012
Love / Mixed Race Relationships (Polish guy married a Filipino/Spanish) [13]

Studies on adopted twins, away from there alcoholic parents, have shown much higher chance (It might have been 5-6 times more likely) of the child becoming an alcoholic than enviromental factors where the chance was only slightly higher than the averge child of tea-total parenting, comparatively. Found to be true with apes also. Sorry if it reads as gobbledegook, but alcoholism is nature not nurture.

People from the far east need far less than Europeans to reach a state of inebriation (if that's your goal as an alky) and so have less chance of cirrhosis the big cause of alcohol related deaths.
modafinil   
11 May 2012
Genealogy / I love Asiatic influences in Polish peoples' faces [59]

I myself doubt it is significant in the amount there is or what it means to be a modern Pole(Not sure which way you meant it). I remember reading somewhere Nazi Germany would bang on about how Czechs were not Europeans but actually mongols. But as I said earlier I had heard mongols moved away before Slavs moved in, possibly through the same corridor.
modafinil   
11 May 2012
Genealogy / I love Asiatic influences in Polish peoples' faces [59]

You are right, the mongols were in Poland, however they didn't leave, they mixed and created today's Poles

So I guess you are saying that those with any Mongolian blood in them are the most indigenous to that region.
modafinil   
11 May 2012
Genealogy / I love Asiatic influences in Polish peoples' faces [59]

Poles who don't recognize it, deny its past and roots. I get the impression that Poles want to feel like they were scandinavians, while in Scandinavia, Poles are only seen as cheap immigrants from eastern europe

When you consider Finland was once part of Sweden (by some classifications) a part of Scandinavia and also the blondest people in the world it is surprising that they also have more Asian DNA than any other European country.

I was always under the impression the Mongols were there (in what is now Poland) then left and was only then filled with what are now Poles - Indo-Europeans.
modafinil   
10 May 2012
Genealogy / I love Asiatic influences in Polish peoples' faces [59]

Most blokes I know, if the had warrior mongol blood in them, even a vague chance of being 1/1024th Mongolian, it would be a boast to tell to others. Maybe it's different for girls.
modafinil   
9 May 2012
News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]

A lot of east asians, a handful of arabs and africans. Sounds cool.

I suspect that was the EU plan. The west can get its dish washers from poorer European countries while cherry picking high skilled workers globally.

As long as Poland is poorer than the west they can only breed employees for the west. Make the poorer countries richer and the people won't need to leave.
modafinil   
9 May 2012
News / What should Poland do to solve the population crisis? [101]

Some might say they got half of that right.

Anyway, the world's birth rate is far too high - we are heading for a crisis.

Really that the world's resources are being wasted and used inefficiently by some countries. Some fatties already eating three times the food (and so needing three times more farmland) they really need and arn't willing to walk or cycle to their local McDonalds.