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MrBubbles   
17 Sep 2008
News / Poland's Future Includes Fewer Poles, More Foreigners [324]

Really? I think most Jews will dissagree with you on that one.

So?

If living in Russia as a Jew to Jewish parents, to Jewish grandparents makes you a Russian, then possibly.

Well, if you are born in Russia then you can choose to be a Russian citizen I suppose

Jewish history has involved a lot of people moving around, so how many Israelis are Roman, Spanish, English, Dutch, German, Polish and Russian all at the same time?

Don't know. How many?
MrBubbles   
17 Sep 2008
News / Poland's Future Includes Fewer Poles, More Foreigners [324]

Jewish was his nationality - not his religion - did I not make that clear?

Judaism is a religion, not a nationality - there is no such thing as a historical Jewish nation.

However, Israelis are not 100% Asian .... But there are Israeli Jews from Arab, even Indian and Iranian background... who are as Asian as an Asian can get!

Most modern day Israelis are of Russian descent, no?
MrBubbles   
17 Sep 2008
Love / help dating polish lady [78]

True true... So what do the working classes do for entertainment now?
MrBubbles   
17 Sep 2008
News / Poland's Future Includes Fewer Poles, More Foreigners [324]

I thought it was Joseph of Arimathea who was actually from Jerusalem, he was Jewish

Surely he was a Christian

(what we would now call an Israeli but at that time it was classed soley as a nationality) so neither European or Asian

Israel is now a continent?
MrBubbles   
17 Sep 2008
Love / help dating polish lady [78]

we work for asda and i only recently started talking to her. (about a month) i joke with her and talk alot and get in trouble :P today at work i was in a freinds asle talking ... .

What a quaint picture of working class life in the UK. Why not share a KFC bargain bucket with her? Actually - no! Push the boat out and take her to Nando's.
MrBubbles   
17 Sep 2008
History / Question of Race Hygiene in Third RP [72]

Being trapped between hugely mongolized half-blooded nations of the East and ill-minded partially arabic Western Europe, Poland was able to save her pure Slavic blood ... ?

So why should I care what some Mongolised Russian thinks?
MrBubbles   
3 Aug 2008
History / Norman Davies on the Warsaw uprising [50]

And don't hope on mercy.

Good to see you're doing so much to try and break these stereotypes about Russians, Constantine.
MrBubbles   
2 Aug 2008
Travel / The decline of Krakow due to British drunks and What to see in Krakow? [52]

the way they live

in England

Their food

Placek po wegiersku mmmmmmmm

"I also respect other peoples cultures in fact I relish learning about other cultures. My main reason for visiting Krakow is to visit Aushcwitz"

I am still trying to get my head around what part of "Polish culture" you will learn there?

Hatred / suspicion of foreigners? Seroiusly though, Auschwitz shouldn't be at the top of your list in my opinion. Hang out in the town square, drink the (not so cheap) beer, look at the chicks, feed the pigeons and relax
MrBubbles   
2 Aug 2008
History / Norman Davies on the Warsaw uprising [50]

Thanks!

I feel so sick of that historian! He is just a partial and poor compilator, I hardly can name him as historian!

Your point of view is duly noted. Please specify what you disagree with in the article. Was it to do with his portrayal of Saint Josef of Georgia?

I think the real message Norman tries to convey in this book is that of the fighting spirit of the Poles at the time of the Rising. Their sacrifices rise above the petty socio-political wranglings of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin.

Amen
MrBubbles   
1 Aug 2008
Life / Polish Shelf Toilets [32]

What's the problem? Good if you swallow your keys
MrBubbles   
1 Aug 2008
History / Norman Davies on the Warsaw uprising [50]

It is the aniversary of the Warsaw uprising and Norman Davies has written an interesting article about a period of History that has hitherto received little attention in British History books. Norman has a good reputation and most of his pieces are well researched and even handed.

But of course, if you'd read the article before you started sounding off about it you'd know this already.
MrBubbles   
1 Aug 2008
History / Norman Davies on the Warsaw uprising [50]

to post something just to be controversial is rather weak I find

What do you find controversial about this post? Please say.
MrBubbles   
1 Aug 2008
History / Norman Davies on the Warsaw uprising [50]

"Churchill took Mikołajczyk with him to Moscow in early October to resume the Polish-Soviet talks postponed for two months. In the course of a dramatic meeting with Molotov, it was revealed that a year earlier at Teheran Churchill had secretly proposed the Curzon Line as a basis of the future Polish-Soviet frontier. In other words, all the territorial plans and negotiations throughout 1944, which had poisoned relations with Stalin, and had minimised the chances of his co-operation during the Rising, had been conducted on false assumptions. Churchill, shame-facedly admitted his fault, but later turned his rage on the Polish premier whom he had so inexcusably misled. This must be one of the most discreditable episodes of Churchill's career. Mikołajczyk soon resigned; and the close alliance between the British and Polish Governments ceased to function."

warsawuprising.com/paper/davies1.htm
MrBubbles   
31 Jul 2008
Language / Help with Sentence Structure! [16]

I'm not sure whether your being sarcastic but mineral water is just bottled water.

I was just thinking about adjective order. As you correctly point out, it's mineral water not water of minerals. Perhaps it would be better to just remember examples from real life rather than learning abstract rules that are bound to have a dozen exceptions.

I'm trying to learn Polish, dude.

You ought to tell your teacher that. I had a year of 'lessons' like this and didn't learn sh1t. I wasted a lot of time and money. Friendly advice that's all.
MrBubbles   
31 Jul 2008
Language / Help with Sentence Structure! [16]

dude, are you learning to speak the language or is this a course of descriptive grammar?

Sounds like the difference between fact and opinion or something.

English course - Course of English
Mineral Water - Water of minerals

Hmm tricky
MrBubbles   
31 Jul 2008
Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]

yehudi simply chose to ignore the fact that Wroclaw was Polish

No it wasn't. Check your history books.

, Whatever land the Arabs lost was the result of a war that they started.

Well, that's not strictly true either. They lost their land (and it's good to see that you agree that the land was theirs) originally because of the 1947 UN plan. The land lost after the 1967 war (the first blow was struck by Israel by the way) has yet to be returned, despite a number of UN resolutions condemning Israel.

What happened at the King David hotel by the way? Wasn't this an act of Jewish terrorism? Could it be said that Israel was founded on terror? Shock!
MrBubbles   
30 Jul 2008
Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]

killing some soldiers and kidnapping and then murdering two others. Hizbollah was the only military force in south lebanon and we attacked them in retaliation and did our best to destroy their military power.

Well, the kidnapping of two soldiers, which was first reported to have happened on Lebanon's side of the border, did provoke the invasion, yes. However do you really believe that the resulting invasion that killed 1000 Lebanese and did millions of damage to property and infrastruction was at all within any proportion? No.

I mentioned Wroclaw/Breslau specifically as an example of a city that Germany lost because of a war they started. The arabs had Gaza and "west bank" till 1967, and the only reason they lost those areas was because they started a war in 1967 to wipe us out.

Indeed it is interesting that you chose Wroclaw as an example. At the end of WW2 Poland lost a large expanse of unprofitable farmland in the East and gained the industrial, coal-rich Silesia - quite a result for an ambitious country in the 20th century! Didn't Israel gain land and water supplies as a result of the 1967 war? Are you going to give that back like the UN keeps asking you to?

Tough luck. Next time be happy with what you got

Quite...
MrBubbles   
30 Jul 2008
News / End of voice-over on foreign films in Poland? [19]

Translations in Polish TV are usually crappy

On one episode of Two fat ladies, "Help we've been attacked by Gurkhas" Was traslated something like "attacked by ogorki". He he. Even I spotted that
MrBubbles   
30 Jul 2008
Language / Verb forms and conjugation [28]

Later, easy reading on the level of a Polish child, i.e. simple stories etc. Later still, writing, much as in the learner's first language.

Well, I'd dispute the need for reading simple stories, that would really be the kind of thing that children do in the classroom. The PSL (?) learner can / will read all sorts of written text as he develops - bus tickets, ingredients lists, advertising slogans and many more. Similarly, writing simple texts such as dialogues has been found to be an important way to build accuracy right from day 1.
MrBubbles   
30 Jul 2008
Language / Verb forms and conjugation [28]

Still a beginner.

Well, if I may be so bold, learning verb conjugations might be interesting but it probably isn't the best way to improve your ability to communicate in Polish. Firstly, you won't use all the verb forms to the same degree - you'll probably use the first person singular far more often than the third person plural and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of verbs exist more frequently in the passive (like in English). Secondly, Poles themselves often don't pronounce them properly (e instead of ę for example).

Work more on natural communicaive situations and get someone to correct your grammar as you go. You'll see much faster results. Save the heavy grammar work for later.

Then again, if you like studying grammar then go ahead - sorry for spouting off ;)
MrBubbles   
30 Jul 2008
Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]

We gave them Gaza, Ramallah, Hebron, Jenin and other cities and towns to have their own state. They use them as a base for attacking our towns with missles.

So tell me again how many Lebanese died in Israel's 2006 failed invasion?

Why don't you give Wroclaw back to Germany.

Interesting that you mention Wroclaw. Like Israel it has belonged to a number of 'owners' over the past couple of thousand years - off the top of my head the Poles, the Germans, the Czechs, the Bohemians, the Silesians and God knows who else. Why should it go to the Germans? Do they have the same historical claim to Breslau that the Israelis have to Israel? Of course not. Basing ownership on historical claims, Wroclaw should belong to the Ancient Celts, and Israel should belong to whatever tribes inhabited the area thousands of years ago.
MrBubbles   
28 Jul 2008
Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]

the country existed as a separate entity and as a homeland for only one nation, the Jews

But what if an Israeli city were handed back to the Palestinians? By your logic this would legitimately be a seperate state as opposed to 'Greater Israel'. Face it - Israel is a state taken from the natives by predominately European and Russian settlers.
MrBubbles   
28 Jul 2008
Life / Antisemitism in Poland; is it safe for a Jew to live in Poland? [193]

Before it was ever called Palestine, it was called Israel.

Actually it probably wasn't. 4000 years ago the area was occupied by Canaanites and other tries. The Jewish forces invaded an occupied the area towards the end of the millennium. The Romans invaded later and exiled the Jewish population. Since then there have been a number of invasions by Christians, Persians, Mongols, Ottomans and many more. For the past 2000 years, the area has been occupied by all sorts.

Why do you say this is Jewish land?