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4 eigner   
26 Jun 2012
Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]

Other than that, don't hold your breath, the chances are not high.

Unless you look like a freaking Frankenstein and/or are totally broke, your chances are better than average.
4 eigner   
26 Jun 2012
Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]

I lived in Poland for a while and I'm speaking from experience, my friend. Unless they don't know any English, the chances to meet them are really good.
4 eigner   
27 Jun 2012
USA, Canada / Golota facing deportation back to Poland [30]

What a strange thing to say about somebody who wants to become your countryman.

He's a freaking criminal and doesn't deserve to be our countryman.
4 eigner   
27 Jun 2012
USA, Canada / Golota facing deportation back to Poland [30]

lol! explain that in simple English to a English teaching brit in Poland:)

Is it really that complicated to understand for someone who teaches English? (LOL)
4 eigner   
30 Jun 2012
Travel / What is the ugliest city or town in Poland? [89]

Gdańsk:

you must be kidding, man. Why don't you show some other pics? To me, it's the nicest town in Poland, followed by Wroclaw and Krakow.
4 eigner   
3 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / Chris Gets Dumped on the Bachelorette for Being Polish! [52]

Polish people always get rejected

you know I like you but I have to disagree with you here. People get rejected for all kinds of reasons but not for being Polish (not generally).
4 eigner   
3 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / Chris Gets Dumped on the Bachelorette for Being Polish! [52]

White Americans think people are not American just because Polish is their culture!

Not because of their Polish culture but because Poles in the US, usually live together in their little communities and avoid contact with Americans. Those of you who want to mingle with us, don't have any problems. I've met a lady from Chicago who lived here for over 30 years and she barely spoke English and she's not alone, I'm sure you know it too.
4 eigner   
3 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / Chris Gets Dumped on the Bachelorette for Being Polish! [52]

Emily could barely understand them at point. They spoke Dutch IN FRONT OF HER when she had no idea what they were saying (which is rude in any language),

OK, that explains everything (don't watch the show myself).
4 eigner   
3 Jul 2012
USA, Canada / Chris Gets Dumped on the Bachelorette for Being Polish! [52]

Dutch people are ok, because they're "Western" European and not foreign to Americans in the same way Poles are.

Again PTA, those of you who speak English fluently, don't have any problems here (not that kind of problems anyway).
4 eigner   
3 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

Common myth. Poles (along with Czechoslovaks, Hungarians and East Germans) had plenty of opportunity to travel to other Socialist countries.

Oh c'mon man, that doesn't count and you know it. It's like if I go from one state to another. In reality, all these countries were Soviet republics, we all know it.
4 eigner   
3 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

Did people in the UK (for instance) really go much further than Spain and Italy during the Cold War? Not really.

DD, I thought you were smarter than that :-) The answer is, they could go anywhere they wanted, Poles couldn't.
4 eigner   
3 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

4 eigner, this is not about "could" but about "would".

wrong, exactly the other way around. When I was in Poland, many Poles were telling me that one of the biggest problems back then was lack of freedom and a part of that freedom was the ability to travel around the world. They would travel much more if they were allowed to. Just look at it now, you see them anywhere you go.
4 eigner   
4 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

I doubt you have ever been in any of KDL countries then why do you post like you know anything?It wasn't like going from "state to state" and Soviet republics were a different cup of tea.Seriously, don't talk about something you have very little idea about.

Grubas, I talked to many Poles when I was there and I've been repeatedly told that there was no freedom in Poland "za komuny" whatsoever and that the decisions were made in Moscow. If you deny that, then you have a very little idea about it, my friend. It wasn't just one or two people who told me that but just about anyone I've met there (whoever lived there as an adult before 1989).
4 eigner   
4 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

Spain was (at the start of the package holiday boom) still very much under the control of the Falangists, and not a particularly pleasant place for people from Communist countries ;)

Spain was just an example. What I basically meant was that Poles would rather travel to any country outside the iron curtain.

I travelled (za komuny) to Czechoslovakia,Romania,Hungary and East Germany and I can tell you there were differences because I have seen them with my own eyes.

Well, of course you had to have a passport but other than that, the whole system was run from Moscow and we both know it's true.
4 eigner   
4 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

They just aren't telling the truth - time is clouding historical truth

Well, if I have to choose who to believe, a whole bunch of older people I've met there, who didn't have absolutely any reasons to lie to me or opinions of some biased PF members (not necessarily you though), you know my pick.
4 eigner   
4 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

There was no "war on drugs", with 70,000 police raids on private homes a year, like in the present-day United States. There was no "war on terror" scare and no associated deprivation of individual rights

You're funny, man.LOL You guys lived behind the iron curtain. There was no war on drugs because Poland was far behind the west back then and drug abuse wasn't as widely spread as it is now (which is actually a positive thing in my opinion), there was no war on terror because there was no terror (unless you count robbing your human rights by your own government).
4 eigner   
4 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

The difference was that we had much knowledge about what was going on on your side of iron curtain than you had about what's was going on on our side.

Well, let's put it that way, it's not that we didn't know it, it's more that no one really cared to know it (talking general population).
4 eigner   
5 Jul 2012
Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]

You guys have been downgraded to such a state of obedient sheeple that our old Communist "masters" could only dream of.

Well, at least before Obama (health care), no one was trying to force us to anything here.
4 eigner   
8 Jul 2012
Genealogy / Are Silesians people German/Germanic? [178]

are silesians people German/Germanic?

before 1945, most of them were certainly Germans, after 1945, definately, mostly Polish.
4 eigner   
8 Jul 2012
Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

I hate that people can hate Poland

or any country at all. One can hate Frank or Mary but the entire country?