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My (short) Poland experiences - bad luck?


Seanus  15 | 19666  
30 Aug 2010 /  #61
Hmm....I've never seen any man limit the drinking of a woman here. Men are generally more bellicose and tend to help themselves when drunk and this is the same anywhere. Women can discreetly pour themselves sth and nothing is said. I'm not saying you are wrong, I'm just saying that I haven't seen that. Don't you know that getting a woman drunk has benefits? ;) ;)
zetigrek  
30 Aug 2010 /  #62
old fashioned manners/chivalry

it calls good manners man. Get lost with your understand in wrong way feminism! I'M A WOMAN AND WANT MEN TO BE CHIVALRY TO ME! Do you undrstand that??? Take your sick believes about what sexism is back to Ireland.

that spilled over into patronisation and machismo some of the time.

bollox. there is no machismo in polish culture.

E.g. my wife being repeatedly ignored when the glasses were being filled around the table - general deference to the male (i.e. me) for decision making and expecting me to answer for my wife.

thats weir and certainly not polish thing. Are you sure taht you understand everything well what happened there?
dtaylor5632  18 | 1998  
30 Aug 2010 /  #63
Hmm....I've never seen any man limit the drinking of a woman here.

It is a strange one, I've never noticed that before. I would too scared to defy any woman in Poland of their drink!

machismo in polish culture.

No.....none????? ..... :/
zetigrek  
30 Aug 2010 /  #64
No.....none????? ..... :/

no. only lout acts like idiots playing with macho style. We don't have too many southerns with theirs balkan... thing.
dtaylor5632  18 | 1998  
30 Aug 2010 /  #65
We don't have too many southerns with theirs balkan... thing.

Strange, in the south of Poland there are many like that. I used to call them K*rwa boys.
zetigrek  
30 Aug 2010 /  #66
they are louts. Dresiarze, halo!
plk123  8 | 4119  
30 Aug 2010 /  #67
(£ódź Fabryczna railway station was to demolish and go undergound).

no kidding? i was just looking at that on googlemapsPL and it wasn't up to date then...

There was a plan to built a modern conference hall but the idea was given up because of its costs (that's why Camerimage has moved to another city)

still may happen, no?

It was few years ago when the govern of the city claimed that whithin 2 or 3 years the journey time from Lodz to Warsaw would last less than 30 min.
Corruption, political wars, street pathology

do you have any idea what kind of undertaking that is? if everything was in place, it would take at least that long to construct the line.. just buying up the land can take that many years... hell, it took 30 years or more to build the metro in W-WA.. my mom designed it when i was teeny-tiny.

Welcome to £ódź!

it's not that bad.

bollox. there is no machismo in polish culture.

lol. are you sure?
dtaylor5632  18 | 1998  
30 Aug 2010 /  #68
they are louts. Dresiarze, halo!

Same thing in my opinion, treat women like sh1t, need a good Glasgow kiss ;)
zetigrek  
30 Aug 2010 /  #69
do you have any idea what kind of undertaking that is? if everything was in place, it would take at least that long to construct the line.. just buying up the land can take that many years... hell, it took 30 years or more to build the metro in W-WA.. my mom designed it when i was teeny-tiny.

but they already bought the trains...
plk123  8 | 4119  
30 Aug 2010 /  #70
cart before the horse obviously.. you need rails before those trains can run.. they weren't going to put them on the old tracks, were they? hmm
Seanus  15 | 19666  
30 Aug 2010 /  #71
Like it or not, they are part of the culture, Zeti. Just like neds and chavs are part of British culture. There are more than enough of them for them to constitute a part of the culture. Sad but true!
zetigrek  
30 Aug 2010 /  #72
you need rails before those trains can run.. they weren't going to put them on the old tracks, were they? hmm

actually they do. the train looks this way: pociag
plk123  8 | 4119  
30 Aug 2010 /  #73
those trains on the old rickety tracks? that's a bit crazy.. maybe those aren't true bullet trains?
zetigrek  
30 Aug 2010 /  #74
Like it or not, they are part of the culture, Zeti. Just like neds and chavs are part of British culture. There are more than enough of them for them to constitute a part of the culture. Sad but true!

kill'em all ;///

those trains on the old rickety tracks? that's a bit crazy.. maybe those aren't true bullet trains?

ok, maybe I little exagarated. Within an hour:

wiadomosci24.pl/artykul/ruszyla_modernizacja_linii_kolejowej_lodz_warszawa_2305.html

But there are plans with TGV also:

lodz.gazeta.pl/lodz/1,35134,7603447,Szybka_kolej_pojedzie_z_Lodzi_do_Warszawy_w_35_minut.html
plk123  8 | 4119  
30 Aug 2010 /  #75
But there are plans with TGV also:

well, that will take a long time and a boat [ ;) ] load of Z£. but it would be nice, for sure and that would help Lodz grow.
zetigrek  
30 Aug 2010 /  #76
first train would go in 2020. From Lodz to Wrocław within... an hour. Dream :)
plk123  8 | 4119  
30 Aug 2010 /  #77
Dream :)

that's more probable.. hope it happens.. but why wroclaw first? hmm
FUZZYWICKETS  8 | 1878  
30 Aug 2010 /  #78
plk123 wrote:

oh, and now we can't comment on stuff unless it is directed specifically at one? hmm x2

eeeeeasy boy.

look at post #26.

Avalon wrote to me:

"What is wrong with that? I happen to believe its better here than the UK. I have a good life and I can earn money here if I want to. my kids can grow up safely and I have everything I want. 7 years now and I am not tired of Poland at all. As WB will tell you, you're in for a shock when you go back.

whereas I then followed up by asking, "go back to where?". the statement was directed at me so i responded accordingly. Avalon knows WB is from the UK and was probably assuming I was just the same, which I'm not.

kumasz?

and yes, FIM.
plk123  8 | 4119  
30 Aug 2010 /  #79
yes, i understand.. but it seems you are having trouble... well, i'm going to let someone else explain it to you.. i don't have the time right now.
zetigrek  
30 Aug 2010 /  #80
Avalon knows WB is from the UK and was probably assuming I was just the same, which I'm not.

and you are an american or canadian?
Seanus  15 | 19666  
31 Aug 2010 /  #81
Chavs spawn chavs, it's one aspect of the culture. I can just imagine Zeti out with her ned/chav detectors and guns :)
noreenb  7 | 548  
31 Aug 2010 /  #82
You people sucks.
What (the hell) do you expect seeing Poland after two horror events like aircrash (when the most important poeple from the government died) and flood?

You become as deppressive as Polish reality or do you maybe want to challenge more optimistic people to change your attitude?!
If so, here you are: I love my country and I think it's great although people are sometimes or often too melancholic.
Gossiping is flourishing on PF, congrats, foreigners. So far, so good.

Have you heard the latest joke?
What do foreigners like to do in Poland?
- To gossip, to complain and to criticise.
:)
FUZZYWICKETS  8 | 1878  
31 Aug 2010 /  #83
plk123 wrote:

yes, i understand.. but it seems you are having trouble... well, i'm going to let someone else explain it to you.. i don't have the time right now.

you will never have time for something that isn't there. you misread, you swung, you missed. nothing more to say. moving on.

zetigrek wrote:

and you are an american or canadian?

american.
Seanus  15 | 19666  
31 Aug 2010 /  #84
The frowns didn't happen overnight, noreen ;)

Gossiping?? Where?
zetigrek  
31 Aug 2010 /  #85
zetigrek wrote:

I learn you how to use quote buttom, how about that? ;)
FUZZYWICKETS  8 | 1878  
31 Aug 2010 /  #86
zetigrek wrote:

I learn you how to use quote buttom, how about that? ;)

sure. right after I learn you english grammar and spelling.

i NEVER critique people for their english if they're a non-native, but you simply asked for it.

masz.
Amathyst  19 | 2700  
31 Aug 2010 /  #87
right after I learn you english grammar and spelling.

Sounding rather "deep South" :D

E.g. my wife being repeatedly ignored when the glasses were being filled around the table.

Fek that, Id have just taken the bottle! ;0)

I think it's a good thing that people can come here and attempt to improve and converse in another language that aint their's.

Maybe that bi*tch Z should improve her attitude!
Seanus  15 | 19666  
31 Aug 2010 /  #88
For their English :) It was a small typo, m is right beside n. You did criticise/critique ;) (teach, not learn)

Anyway, back on track. They were observations, noreen, not gossip. Poles can come across as gloomy but that's just the way of many here. It makes finding the exceptions all the better :)
dtaylor5632  18 | 1998  
31 Aug 2010 /  #89
TEACH ppl TEACH!!!!!

Sorry, couldn't help it.

And nobody should have a go at someone's attempt at learning another language ;)

I think it's a good thing that people can come here and attempt to improve and converse in another language that aint their's.

(I seem to be far too chilled these days on the forum, I don't like that :/ ;) )

Edit; even I make typo's :P
FUZZYWICKETS  8 | 1878  
31 Aug 2010 /  #90
seanus wrote:

For their English :) It was a small typo, m is right beside n. You did criticise/critique ;) (teach, not learn)

you've lost me dude.

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