Poland Has Become the Success Story of Eastern Europe: Poland Emerges as a Central European Powerhouse

davidreiss666 · 2012-05-27T01:26:28.170306+00:00

I'm aware of that. That's not the point, though. It's the condescending tone of "we thought you were just backwards eastern europeans, but it turns out you're not so bad at captialism-- good for you"

davidreiss666 · 1 day

The whole tone of this is kind of offensive. "Germans used to think of Poland as a country full of car thieves and post-communist drabness..." Not to mention that it's poorly written, sounds like a shitty PR piece, and really betrays a very marginal understanding of Polish politics.

I'd love to read more positive press about Poland, and especially Warsaw. It is a really interesting city-- but not this patronizing, glossed-over bullshit.

ngroot · 4 days

I grew up in brooklyn. Sometimes when talking to other new yorkers I'll call manhattan "the city", but I get extremely defensive when non-new yorkers feel entitled to tell me that i'm "not from new york city" because sex and the city tell them so.

ngroot · 4 days

woohoo new yorkers living in montreal!

jowampwamp · 5 days

haha yes I know about this bear-- he was awesome!

bfelix · 7 days

same thing in Polish. "Niemcy"-- those who are mute

CharlesGlass · 7 days

just out of curiosity, do you know if the "sunday morning truce" in west baltimore, mentioned on the wire is real?

qiba · 7 days

Is this guy she's dating over 18? In that case it's no one's business. Magazines like this perpetuate internalized sexism which probably has a worse and more long-lasting impact on women's perceptions of themselves than any stupid comments a man might make.

JesusVonChrist · 8 days

regardless of a good excuse or not, that's no way to handle an emergency call from someone who's having trouble with english.

scarrgo714 · 9 days

Arvo Part is amazing, and I love this song.

KidLogic · 11 days

No surprises with Qatar, Kuwait or the UAE at the top...

EastHastings · 11 days

I double majored in history and political science at mcgill in montreal. In history, I specialized in cold war diplomatic history and wrote my thesis on the relations between warsaw pact states leading up to martial law in 1981. I'd say that in terms of polish history, my topic is probably as divisive as yours is.

fbgp · 12 days

i'm so jealous! i've always wanted goats <3

byramike · 12 days

also, i recommend getting yourself acquainted with the many delicious vietnamese pho restaurants :)

aside from that, what else? the warsaw university library has a beautiful rooftop garden that's worth seeing, the warsaw uprising museum is really awesome, the rosehip jam donuts at blickle are the best in the world...

EastHastings · 13 days

Just out of curiosity, where/what did you study? I wrote my undergraduate thesis on cold war diplomatic history and found this to be a particularly divisive and sensitive topic as well.

byramike · 13 days

If you ride bikes the warsaw bike polo team is active pretty regularly.

abortion_timecop · 16 days

Dress Sexy at my Funeral by Smog

falling_stone · 16 days

Lauren Bacall is awesome. Have you seen "To Have and to have not"?! Epitome of cool.

BeBenNova · 16 days

I'm not sure this REALLY belongs, but "While You Were Sleeping" by Elvis Perkins is beautiful. It's a sort of imagined narration of what happened when his mother died.

http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858650981

Iamnimms · 1 month

First thing i'd say is when you get out of the train station, don't turn in the direction of the bulldog and all the other cheesy coffee shops-- ask someone which direction the harlemmerdijk is and walk down that-- it'll give you a nicer, less weed and hookers impression of amsterdam from the beginning.

agency_panic · 1 month

lucky!

agency_panic · 1 month

MAN do I wish I could be at that show.

jowampwamp

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