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szczecinianin   
4 Jan 2014
Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

True. It's hard to say whether Poles are racist to Chinese or not because most (unless they have lived in the west) have yet to meet any.

Think about Europeans in China twenty years ago. The Polish reaction to Chinese would be similar to the way Chinese reacted to Westerners when they met them for the first time.

no we not racist but British and Germans are

Please don't contribute if you have nothing useful or intelligent to say.
szczecinianin   
3 Jan 2014
Love / Polish cities with most single young women [11]

Gazeta Prawna has researched the sex ratio of males to females in major Polish cities. Warsaw comes out tops for the greatest number of single females aged between 20-35.

"It is believed that Warsaw has a surplus population of young women due to its high student population, as women outnumber men in Polish higher education."

sz-n.com/2014/01/the-city-by-city-guide-to-polish-young-singles/
szczecinianin   
3 Jan 2014
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

any comments would be highly appreciated

Almost certainly you know nothing about this case other than what you have read ina few newspaper reports so why speculate?

Have you nothing better to do?

How about pulling the wings off butterflies, for example?
szczecinianin   
3 Jan 2014
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

It is possible that they all may be found guilty

Of course, it is possible.

Just as it's 'possible' that we will find out that the six killed in Kamień Pomorski were all escaped homicidal maniacs, intent on causing murder and mayhem.
szczecinianin   
3 Jan 2014
History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]

Because civilized and intelligent people have nothing against mixed-nationality relationships, and regard those who see things differently as 'primitive'.
szczecinianin   
3 Jan 2014
History / What do Poles think about Turks? [761]

What exactly is your problem with this? It's guys like you that give the impression to the rest of the world that Poles are primitive.
szczecinianin   
2 Jan 2014
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

I've yet to meet an English guy who doesn't say "fcuk"

Oddly enough, I have met some Polish people who don't say 'kurwa' all the time, as well as English people who aren't constantly using the word ******'.
szczecinianin   
2 Jan 2014
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Some drunk driver killed six in Kamień Pomorski yesterday.

Perhaps INSPE would like to have a go at defending that.

After all, we don't know whether the victims themselves were not drunk, and had they not been killed, they may have got in cars themselves and killed others.
szczecinianin   
2 Jan 2014
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

I thought of replying to INSPE's idiotic points, but realised it would be a waste of time.

Please ignore him.
szczecinianin   
31 Dec 2013
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Sure from your point of view. Some people may find very strange your neck of the woods.

For once I'd agree with Ironside.

Politeness conventions vary between societies.

It's difficult to say the conventions that exist in society 'X' are in some way better or worse than those in society 'Y'.

Ant, unfortunately, is just exhibiting prejudice and lack of cultural awareness, something Poles are often accused of.
szczecinianin   
31 Dec 2013
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

I've never been yelled at by people in public places in Poland.

Have you ever been outside Poland?

(This is an accidental misquote, I intended to quote something else).
szczecinianin   
31 Dec 2013
Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

She used the word 'fart'. It wasn't something I invented out of my imagination. What more is there to say on the subject?

Write a book on the subject if it makes you happy in some way. But however many words you use, or however many posts you make, it will still be her metaphor and not mine. Have the last word, if you like.
szczecinianin   
30 Dec 2013
Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

I wrote that you don't understand what I wrote.

She used the word 'fart'. It wasn't something I invented out of my imagination. What more is there to say on the subject?

And if you understood what she said then why this coarse, stupid, scandalizing title?

Because what she said was 'coarse'. If you don't like what Agnieszka Holland says, then have a go at her, not me.

It was her metaphor, not mine.
szczecinianin   
30 Dec 2013
Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

No, I'm not wrong, szczecinianin. You just don't understand what I'm writing or you pretend not to understand.

I understand perfectly what she said. You could too, if you really wanted to.

As I wrote, what interests you is not what either she or I wrote, but rather the respective identities of the writers, and you have chosen to misinterpret the words in a crass attempt at point scoring.
szczecinianin   
30 Dec 2013
Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

I see you haven't understood a word of what I was writing :)

Writing a great deal will not make what you have written true.

You are plain wrong, and writing personal abuse will not change this fact.

You said something about trying to improve Poland. Perhaps this will happen when people start listening to the message without shooting the messenger. I'm sure you are not excluded from Agnieszka Holland's perceptions of her homeland.
szczecinianin   
30 Dec 2013
Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

What you conveyed in your title was "Life in Poland smells" lol That's not what she meant.

It means the same. You are not interested in what was said, only who said it. You are merely proving yourself yet again incapable of objectivity, even with regards to some quite simple and easily understood words about the expulsion of air from the anus.
szczecinianin   
30 Dec 2013
Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

No, szczecinianin, she said pretty precisely what she meant, while "sniffing farts" is smelling some unpleasant odor and that's it.

And what she said involves smelling some unpleasant odor as well. The two statements mean the same.

You are merely attempting to find a way to criticise me (a foreigner) without criticising a famous film director (Polish), even though all I did was to summarise what she said.
szczecinianin   
30 Dec 2013
Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

Holland didn't compare life in Poland to sniffing farts. She said that when she comes to Poland a kind suffocating atmosphere hits her, a wave of bad air as when someone keeps farting in a closed room. There's something that makes the air stuffy.
That's what she said.

There is no difference in meaning between: 'sniffing farts' and 'a suffocating atmosphere hitting you, a wave of bad air as when someone keeps farting in a closed room'?

The former statement is the same as the latter, just written more concisely.
szczecinianin   
30 Dec 2013
Life / Agnieszka holland compares life in Poland to 'sniffing farts': [97]

World-famous film director Agnieszka Holland sharply critical of Polish political and cultural life:

"I live and work outside Poland. Whenever I come here, I feel as if I've been hit by a wave of polluted air, as if I was in a closed room in which someone just couldn't stop farting."

sz-n.com/2013/12/agnieszka-holland-compares-life-in-poland-to-sniffing-farts/

Is this insulting or just plain talking?
szczecinianin   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

It is quite a shame that some people have no sympathy for the dead and the wounded.

Kevin writes few posts with great economy of words.

But he's spot on.

There isn't a great deal to discuss here.

Anything beyond what has been written in the newspaper reports is just speculation.

It's a shame one person has been killed and another seriously injured.
szczecinianin   
27 Dec 2013
Real Estate / Prices of agricultural land in Poland [39]

Thats like an Italian person saying if you don't like Pizza then you must eat Pasta, totally ignoring the fact that there are lots of other foods available - a completely black and white attitude. What do you think of the scientific method applied to best serve humanity?

And you know what that 'scientific' method is, how you are going persuade humanity to adopt it without a fight and how it will work in practice (despite it never actually having been tried).

In that case, you must be the wisest person on the planet.
szczecinianin   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

It is quite a shame that some people have no sympathy for the dead and the wounded.

It is indeed.
szczecinianin   
27 Dec 2013
Real Estate / Prices of agricultural land in Poland [39]

szczecinianin:
I think Juche under Kim Jong Un is the way to go.

why don't you take an extreme polar opposite in an attempt to make a ridiculous point a bit more.

It's the only true communist country left. If 'capitalism' is the problem, then surely things must be far better in the only country in the world that rejects capitalism. Have you never considered leaving for a better life there?
szczecinianin   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

then seem to be obvious that that paper lies about what has happened.

Most likely they didn't 'lie', but rather misunderstood the situation (if it's the same incident).

European influence maybe, people are coming back from places and bringing back unhealthy custom form those places

It is interesting that you define Poland as being 'non-European'. I thought it would be disparaging to Poland to define it in such a way.
szczecinianin   
27 Dec 2013
Real Estate / Prices of agricultural land in Poland [39]

Its merely the capitalist profit machine doing what it does best.....exploiting the people.

I think Juche under Kim Jong Un is the way to go.
szczecinianin   
26 Dec 2013
USA, Canada / Why do Americans (and Canadians) hate Polish people? [226]

As has been said before, every ethnic group/nationality/race has its share of idiots and geniuses and the full range of normal distribution in intelligence.

Exactly.
szczecinianin   
26 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Sadly people get stabbed at house parties all the time all over the world.

Funnily enough, I've never been to a house party where anyone got stabbed.