Love / Polish men and sex [89]


I'm sure they don't. I also love all people... as long as I don't have to have anything to do with them dirty lot!!!!!!! :))

News / Polish/German/Russian relations [304]


X th century - conflict over Pomerania between Mieszko I, the ruler of Poland and Margrave Hodo of the Nordmark Northern March and Saxon March, who was also ruler of the neighbouring marchy of Lusatia. Germans were beaten and forced to withdrawn.

XI th century - 1003 - 1018 war between polish king Bolesław the Brave and German Henry II the Holy Roman Emperor - Germans lost Lusatia and Misnia.

XII th century - in 1109 Henry V, German Holy Roman Emperor, invades Poland but in short time is beaten and forced to withdrawn.

XV th century - The Great War (1409-1411) between Kingdom of Poland / Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Teutonic Knights. The result - Poles won and the power of Teutonic Knight’s was broken.

The Thirteen Years' War 1454-1466 - between Kingdom of Poland and Teutonic knights - Poles won. As a result Prussia as a whole was incorporated into the Polish kingdom; the Teutons were allowed to rule only its eastern part as Polish vassals.

XVIth century - 1519-1521 - war between Teutonic knights and Kingdom of Poland - Poles won. Result - the end of existence of Teutonic Knights.

Not bad, innit? :)

Actually, Bratwurst Boy, Germans were never strong enough to destroy Poland completely. The only reason Poland disappeared from the map in 18 th century was because Prussians had help from Russia and Austria and Poland at that time was still very weak after surviving the wars with Russia, Sweden, Ottoman Empire and Cossacks. Still, you didn’t manage to get rid of us for good. Don't think that you ever will. :)

History / Soviet war monuments in Poland - what to do about them? [133]


Amen!!


I can't see a Slavic Union emerging sometime near Crow, sorry. It would definitely be great though.

Travel / Poznań or Wrocław? [12]

Poznań! Call it regional patriotism, I don't care. :)

UK, Ireland / English people attitude towards Poles? [761]

Get him Puzzler! Attack him with your milions of questions!

Buahahahahhaha:))

Love / What does a Polish guy expect from a relationship? [54]


Hahahahhahaha :))))


How rude. I know we are savage, but certainly not cannibals damnit!!! :P

News / What do Poles think about the newly elected French president? [30]


WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!???????????


Exactly and Poland fulfills this requirement. It looks though as if some people would like to keep religious people out of politics, leaving only atheists in charge, which in my view is an open discrimination, as every citizen has the right to be represented in the parliament.


It certainly will, and I think that it's definitely going to be a good one.

First of all, in contrary to Chirac, who openly expressed his views that new members of EU should only be silent and obey, Sarkozy named Poland among 6 most influential countries in Europe. It certainly shows that the relationship is going to be more of a friendly and maybe we are going to be treated as partners? Who knows :)

Secondly, Sarkozy drops with Chiracs pro russian politics, which means that he will support Poland in the struggle to make Europe more independent from the Russian gas, etc...

Basically what we can see now is a very significant shift in the political balance of EU, from the more pro Russian Chirac-Shroder tandem to the more pro American Sarkozy-Merkel one. I'm very optimistic about this pleasant change.

Love / What does a Polish guy expect from a relationship? [54]


Because there's no such thing as friendship between a woman and a man. :))

Love / I cheated on my girlfriend (I'm British, my gf is Polish) [167]


That's not true. I always show emotions on my face while having sex. Sometimes I even cry like a beaver. :))

Love / Question: Do Polish girls prefer married men? [59]


Of course the first one. Bubba claims that religion is responsible for more harm than good. That it is the source of many conflicts that have been harassing mankind for centuries. However he doesn't see that it never was actually about religion. That religion was used only to draw the line between "we" and "them", "friends" and "foes". At the bottom of all those alleged "religious" conflicts there was little from religion itself. It was always about the money and power. The crusades didn't took place because Europeans wanted to converse Muslims to their one and only rightful faith, but because Europe was overcrowded and the Holy ground looked as a very interesting (read wealthy) alternative. If religion wouldn't exist the wealthy people would have come up with a different pretext how to divide people. The history of the XXth century shows us perfectly that one doesn't need religion to start a conflict. Hitler divided people between Aryans and untermenschen. Communists divide them between the capitalist wealthy pigs, and poor working class/proletariat. Gorge W. Bush divided them between rightful citizens and terrorist.

Bubbawoo thinks that because he is a non-believer he would escape the trap of manipulation. Unfortunately he isn't aware how easily he could be manipulated. He has all the characteristics needed for it: assurance that he is undoubtly right, that his way is the only right way and that he is better than those weak believers “that don’t have what it takes within themselves”. The irony about this whole situation is that the line would be drawn between religious people and atheists, thus still making it in his eyes a “religious” conflict. :)

PS: No hard feelings Bubba. :)

News / Are there any other countries that Polish immigrants are going to? [70]


Yep.

Love / Question: Do Polish girls prefer married men? [59]


Bubba, show me one, just one, conflict started purely because of religion.

Life / To all of you who are Polish - where did you learn English? [64]


Before my TV set while watching a BBC program about a green furry monster that loved to eat clocks. :))

UK, Ireland / English people attitude towards Poles? [761]


Ohhh, yeah??? Remember 1939...blablabla.... ;))))

History / Jews...and their Polish experience [520]

Jews... and their Polish experience... This is an awful broad topic. But Ok, lets try to analyze it.

Everyone that says that Polish-Jewish relationship in the past was an ideal one is, to put it very mildly, being naive. However, every person that tries to compare Polish and German attitude towards Jews during and before WWII is just being plain biased and nasty.

Yes, there were polish Anti-Semites before WWII, just as they were present in every country in Europe at that time. And yes, I know about few "pogroms" during the times of German occupation in which polish people took part, Jedwabne being probably the most known one, although historians still don't know if it wasn't a nazi provocation, but is this enough to call entire nation anti-semitic?

November 1942 - the whole population of village Obórki was killed for helping Jews. ( 22 families killed - only two survivors). The village was then burned down.

6 XII 1942 - village Rakówko - 10 people burned alive for helping Jews.

13 III 1943 - Przewrotne village - 30 people killed for hiding Jews.

10 VI 1943 - Hucisko village - 21 people killed.

28 VI 1943 - Cegłowo 21 people.

18 IX 1943 - 4 related with each other families, together with children 22 people.

February 1944 - Huta Pieniecka - 1000 people killed for hiding Jews.

6 XII 1942 - 21 people were burned alive for hiding Jews in Ciepielowo Stare: Władysław Kosior(age 42), his wife karolina (40), their 6 children: Aleksander (18), Tadeusz(16), Władysława (14). Mieczysław (12), Irena (10), Adam (6); Adam Kowalski (42), his wife bBrinisława (40), and their 5 children: Janina (16), Zofia (12), Stefan(6), Henryk (4), Tadeusz(1); Piotr Obuchiewicz (58) and his wife Helena (35), and their 4 kids Władysław (6), Zofia (3), Janina (2) and one infant.

The list goes on.... At least 50 000 Poles lost their lives trying to help Jews during the WWII. Further more Poles are the biggest group in the list of people who were helping Jews during the WWII, The righteous among the nations" created by the "Yad Vashem Instytute" and only polish resistance had created a group in their organization responsible for helping the Jewish people. Not bad for an anti-semitic nation, innit.

The question is, would you frank be able to sacrifice not only your life, but also the life of your loved ones, for helping out some strangers. Is 50 000 dead people enough to say that a nation was not anti-semitic?

After the Germans conquered France, there were thousands of Jews send to concentration camps from Paris ad other French cities, something that never took place in occupied Poland, although the condition here was incomparably harder, and yet it is Poland that is being accused here on being anti-semitic. Strange isn’t it?

PS: Frank, don't take it personal. I understand that you are just being curious, and I would never accuse you of being polonophobic. Actually, you impress me, as it looks that you really are interested in Polish history and Poland in general. For that I salute you. Its juts that it really saddens me to hear that those allegations are still well and alive in Western Europe.

Life / Why to live in Poland? [21]


What political censorship? Do you have any evide....brrrgggggggghhhhh *must...control....myself....* ;P

Love / Question: Do Polish girls prefer married men? [59]


Why do people presume that just by being a member of catholic church one has to be a bloody saint????


I guess it's what you will make of it Bubba. Few months ago there was a quite large number of posts written by English women that were having affairs with polish men, yet I don't recall anyone trying to make a "theme" out of it.

Love / Is She Doomed to be miserable and have her marriage fail? [41]

Well, the club going people are not very representative of any nation. They tend to be very hedonistic. But since you say that it's not the case... Well I will just like to state that it's the first time I heard that polish women and infidelity are synonymous. :)

Love / Is She Doomed to be miserable and have her marriage fail? [41]


Are those friends the hard-core Sopot clubbers you mentioned somewhere before?

News / Poland's overall view on the US? [38]

I hate to repeat myself but here goes:
Although the cold war ended some time ago, Russia and USA still compete with each other in many various places in the world, the Middle East being probably the most important area of their struggle. Both countries can't afford an open conflict with each other as it would be to devastating, and the only winner in it would be probably other wanna-be superpower like china for example. That's why both countries support their enemies instead of carrying an open conflict with each other.

USA invaded Afghanistan and Iraq not because of Al-qaida, but because of the oil. Osama Bin-laden isn't a serious threat for USA. He’s just being used by American government to keep American society in constant fear. It allows them to better control it's people and convince them to support their conflicts. As I already mentioned somewhere on this forum, American government knew about the al-qaida plans to destroy the WTC. They sacrificed their own people to convince the rest of society that there really is a serious threat form the side of Arabs so that the society would support their future invasions. It worked. That of course doesn't mean that Osama was set up and that he is innocent. Osama Bin laden is a mad man that tries to keep middle eastern oil for himself. He also tries to manipulate Middle Eastern people by depicting Americans as modern crusaders. To sum this up, Bush and Osama use a very similar rhetoric in order to persuade people to listen to them.

The truth is that an ordinary Iraqi wants to live in peace. Although he sees the American army as invaders he has enough of bombings and extremists. If Americans would succeed in restoring peace in Iraq they would probably accept them. Well at least for some time. Withdrawing Americans troops now, during this hard times, would definitely push the Iraqi population in the hands of Americans enemies, like Iran and its supporter, Russia. Not a very smart thing to do.


During the communist times the USA was seen here as the land of the free and many opportunities. Everybody was dreaming about the American dream in the gray Poland of the 60's, 70's etc... Besides Americans were the enemies of the Ruskies, thus making them our friends. Now this enthusiastic approach to USA is slowly calming down here, although I wouldn’t call it hate. It's just that just like the Western Europe noticed us after the 1 may 2004, we noticed them back. Suddenly it appeared that you don't have to fly over the pond to live a life like from the Hollywood movies. London is definitely closer than Washington, and just as interesting. Besides, while we can move freely throughout the whole EU, we have to get a visa in order to go to USA. It seems that Europeans care more about us, which, because of the geographical position of our countries is obvious. I don’t think that many Americans even know that Poland takes part in “the war on terrorism”. I don’t think that an ordinary Americans cares actually. :)

Genealogy / Franczeska Harenda - grandaughter looking for help [10]


Actually I thought that maybe there is some kind of a village with this name in Kujawsko-Pomorskie.... but Bytoń sounds definitely more probable.

Genealogy / Franczeska Harenda - grandaughter looking for help [10]

Your welcome Chantel. :)

Genealogy / Franczeska Harenda - grandaughter looking for help [10]

franczeska sounds to Italian for me. I think that the real first name of your grandmother wpuld be Franciszka.


Gmina isn't a city name, but it's more like an administration district. Maybe someone could help you more here.


I think that you are talking here about Bytom.

News / I need Kaczynski's Email Address! [84]

It's old news Patty, don't think that it still carrying on. To few workers available on the market to force them to go through this sort of humiliation.

News / is the Czech Republic economy stronger then the Polish one [25]


My God, every time I watch a Czech film I have problems to stop laughing! Their accent is just hilarious! Actually, I heard that it goes both ways. :)

News / but where do they all come from...? [17]

If you both lived there 2-3 years ago, maybe we even passed by each other, hehehe... The world is so small. :)

Life / Question regarding Polish women vs Jobs abroad [110]

Nah, it's just because it's plain stupid. :)

News / Political purges in Polish politics [14]


Racist? I never heard about Giertych being racist. I heard about him being homophobe and anti-Semite, but racist, no. Besides even if he was all this he is accused of, he still can't make anything against those groups as the press, polish society and Brussels would make his life really tough. I even remember reading an interview with him, where he was stressing his admiration for the Jewish nation and the country of Israel. :)

As for the Twins, and their alleged homophobia, I guess it really is a cultural difference. I like it that here in Poland we can still really discuss this topic without the fear of being cut out from the conversation by labeling me as homophobe.

PS: Just one more thing about the churches influence on polish people. For many years, the leading political party in polish parliament was the SLD, which always were and never hid their anti-religious sentiments. Even Kaczynski's predecessor, Aleksander Kwaśniewski, was a hard-line atheist and he was elected president of Poland TWICE! But nobody seems to remember it these days.

Life / Polish denial of reality - is it a national trade? [117]


I think that it's sad that a lot of people don't teach their children their mother tongue. I think that later on those kids and their kids really miss out because of that. But than again it's great that those people later do some research about their roots.

Poland, just like almost the whole world, is now under the influence of globalization, so a lot of youngsters value higher 50 cent and American rap/hip hop culture over Warsaw Village Band and polish culture. It's a pity. Still, people don't like to be just like the rest of the world, so sooner or later there’s going to be a major come back to polish culture.

News / Abortion - how is the Polish government going to deal with this issue? [273]


Well, there are no priests in Polish parliament, however there is a group of people that are definitely influenced by religion, just as there is a group of hard-line atheists. Both groups represent parts of polish society so I guess that they both have the right to be present in the parliament.