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Polonius3   
13 Dec 2008
Love / POLISH FEMALES PREFERABLE TO MALES? [12]

Naturally one could run a survey of 1,000 people (the minimum sociologically acceptable sampling with a 3% or so margin of error), but even that is not conclusive according to many. All I can say is that I have never heard any non-Polish female who has had contact with Poles say "Polish males are great". You hear of Latin lovers, hard-working Scandinavian spouses, and compliant Jewish husbands (yes, all generalities!!!), but never WONDERFUL POLISH BOYFRIENDS or HUSBANDS. One does however frequently hear the virtues of Polish womanhood being extolled.
Polonius3   
13 Dec 2008
Life / ANYONE OWN A POLISH DOG? [22]

Does anyone one this forum own a Polish dog breed or ifsat least faimilar with them. I understand 5 breeds have been offcially recognised:
PON (lowland sheepdog), Tatra Sheepdog, Polish Hunting Hound, Polish Bloodhound and Polish Greyhound.
Polonius3   
13 Dec 2008
Love / POLISH FEMALES PREFERABLE TO MALES? [12]

More than once I have heard it said, from both Poles and foreigners, that a Polish girl makes a much better companion, fiancee, spouse than does a Polish male. It seems there is more demand by male foreigners for Polish lasses than by foreign females for Polish lads. Any comments?
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
Food / Looking for a Simple Polish Rabbit recipe. [11]

In saucpan combine 1 c water, 1/4 c 6% cidcer vinegar, several peppercorns and allspice, 1 bay leaf, 2 cloves and 2 t salt, bring to boil and simmer covered on low flame 10 min. Set aside to cool. Place dressed, washed, cut-up rabbit in crockery bowl, pour cool marinade over and refrigertae covered 2 days, turning meat over every few hours. Pat meat dry. In skillet sauté large sliced onion in a coupla T butter, add cut-up rabbit and brown on all sides, add a little water or some marinade, cover and stew until tender. Fork-blend 1 c sour cream wtih 2 T flour until smooth and pour over rabbit. Simmer covered a while longer or until very tender. Salt & pepper to tatse. Serve with boiled or mashed potaotes, noodles or rice with braised beetroot (buraczki) on the side.
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
News / EU PRO-HOMO INTERFERENCE PROTESTED [19]

Read a little more closely, please, before jumping to conclusions. The previous post simply suggested that through antics with semantics, manipulating facts and taking things out of context one can prove most anything...on paper. Even so preposterous a contention that practising homosexuals live longer, healthier lives and create more stable, long-lasting relationships and more loving families than do their hetero counterparts.

Of course, the above contention is utterly false, but when was the last time you saw the PC crowd bringing these obvious facts before the public? Its all hush-hush, sweep the dirt under the rug and muzzle or discredit anyone (with the stale old chant of "homophobia"!) who tires to bring all the facts out into the open.
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
News / EU PRO-HOMO INTERFERENCE PROTESTED [19]

narth.com/docs/whitehead.html
But don't stop there; find your own stuff on the net. There is a huge amount of information, medical studies, satistical data. If someone is really determined, they can probably piece together odds,. ends and titbits showing that practising homosexuals live longer, healthier lives and create more stable, long-lasting relationships and mroe loving families than do their hetero counterparts.

Good luck. You'll need it!
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
News / EU PRO-HOMO INTERFERENCE PROTESTED [19]

Odd examples can be found the support any notion, thesis or theory. Hitler was a humanitarian because he loved dogs and was often pictured hugging babies and handing out sweets to schoolchildren. But this is not about Waldorf or some other isolated example, it is about the fact that a family is a procreative union of a man and woman, and two blokes somodising each other does not meet that description.

Besides, these guys want adoption rights. Would you give an orphan, who already has suffered enough trauams by being abandoned, raised in an institution or foster care, to a homosexual couple who statistically:

-- Have a low stability level (average "stable" homo partnership lasts 2 years, hetero -- 12 years),
-- Have a higher substance-abuse rate;
-- Have a higher domestic violence rate;
-- Suffer more health problems;
-- Have a higher premature mortality rate (20-25 years shorter than heteros).
One can shout slogans about equality, gay rights, democracy, freedom of choice, etc., etc., but what kind of freedom does an orphan placed into such custody have?
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
Life / HAND-KISSING WANING IN POPULARITY? [29]

Gallant, hand-kissing Polish enlisted men and officers swept more than one Scottish lass off her feet when they were stationed in Scotland during WW2, and many mixed marriages resulted. Local lasses found Polish boys far more charming and chivalrous than their cold-fish Scots coutnerparts.
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
Life / NO ANTI-CHRISTMAS RAMPAGE IN POLAND! [9]

Let them celebrate whatever they want, but why be spoil sports and wet blankets out to dampen other people's celebrations. Nobody is forcing them to do anything except leave other people alone. Seems they are out for their 5 mintues of notoriety. Nowadays every ne'er-do-well can do do something irreverent or outrageous to briefly get into the limelight. The scandal-mongering media are more than willing to oblige.
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
Life / NO ANTI-CHRISTMAS RAMPAGE IN POLAND! [9]

Don't these PC types have any real worries? Why go fuss-budgeting about and trying to impose grandiose leftist visions and ways of celebration or non-celerbation on the rest of society? Let everyone celebrate or not whatever they want. Why force shopkeepers or even private home owners to take down Christmas displays? Nobody is forcing the nutters to set them up in front fo their homes. In fact they can spend Christmas vacuuming, washing the car or playing intellectually stimulating (?!) computer games and send out for a pizza, as long as they don't bother anyone else.
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
Life / NO ANTI-CHRISTMAS RAMPAGE IN POLAND! [9]

I understand the anti-Chrsitmas rampage has yet to hit Poland's fair shores. In America the PC fanatics are agitating for "holiday trees" and forcing shop-owners to display some nondescript "seasonal greetigns" or some such nonsense. The lefties will settle for Happy Holdiays, and a few years ago an Afro-American holiday (Quanza of soetmhing?) was artifically created so no-one could feel left out!!! Soon maybe America's Muslims will be wishing each other Merry Crescent!?

Wesołych Świąt in Polłish is indeed happy holidays but it is simply the short form of Wesołych Świąt Bożego Narodzenia, not a PC ploy to de-Christmasise the event.

What are things like in the Isles in this regard? I somehow can't see the Irish going in for such foolishness. What about the Brits?
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
News / EU PRO-HOMO INTERFERENCE PROTESTED [19]

Most Poles believe that only families are entitled to families rights. Two homos shacking up together are not a family. I suppose one could grant equal rights to perform brain surgery to everyone who fancies that sort of thing, and there are people who say 'animals are also human' (??!!), but.............
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
History / WW2 Arm bands. [11]

I can discern the Field Gendarmerie, the Todt Organiation (which built Nazi military installations) and the German red Cross. Not all are legible.
Polonius3   
11 Dec 2008
News / EU PRO-HOMO INTERFERENCE PROTESTED [19]

Mariusz Błaszczak, an MP representing Poland's largest opposuiton grouping, Law & Justice, told a news cofnerence his party was preparing a protest by the Sejm against EU interference in Polish family legislation.

He was responding to a European Parliament EP draft resolution stating that
'EU members should mutually recognize homosexual couples regardless of whether they are married or remain in official partnerships.'

The protest drafted by PiS states: 'The Sejm of the Republic of Poland strongly rejects attempts by some EU institutions to interfere in the competencies of member states to a degree that oversteps the competencies of this supra-

national organization. (...) The Parliament of the Republic of Poland hereby appeals for a halt to steps currently undertaken on the EU forum towards the EU-wide recognition of homosexual marriages and granting them equal family rights, the resolution.'

The resolution warns that, if implemented, the EP measure would legalise homosexual marriages in all EU countries, including Poland.

This the Polish Parliament does not agree to. It is the opinion of
the Sejm of the Republic of Poland that the institution of
marriage as a bond solely between woman and man requires the
special protection of the Republic of Poland, they wrote.

In its resolution PiS also stressed that membership treaties did
not empower the EU to impose legislation in public or family
matters on its members.
Polonius3   
9 Dec 2008
Language / SARKOZY -- SARKOZY'EGO or SARKOZEGO? [14]

Even funnier for a Polish speaker is the Russian spelling/pronunciation of the 1920s US president Gerbert Goover!
Polonius3   
9 Dec 2008
Language / POLISH NOMINAL SUFFIXES? [4]

Prefixes, their form and meaning are fairly well-known, but what about noun suffixes? Is there anywhere on the web that lists such Polish suffixes as:

-ol, -ula, -uda, -ga, -uta, etc., their general meaning and gives some examples of each.
Some are well-known such as -acz, -arz and -ak designating occuaptions (siłacz, aptekarz, strażak), and -isko (augmenttive), but the others are less well known. Any comments?
Polonius3   
8 Dec 2008
Life / WHAT HAPPENED TO ŚWIĘTY MIKOŁAJ? [17]

The pierniczki (little honey-spice or gingerbread cakes) Święty Mikołaj passes out are sometimes baked. At an odpust (parish indulgence-fair -- this event has not been disucssed here) one can somties run across St Nicholas gingerbread cakes with his paper image stuck on for hanging on the Chrsitmas tree. This is probably an import from the German-speaking world.
Polonius3   
7 Dec 2008
Language / KASHUBIAN SCHNITZELBANK? [2]

Anyone know the words to the Kashubian Schnitzelbank-type game song where you follow a chart and identify different objectives -- I recall chojny and widły gnojne?
Polonius3   
7 Dec 2008
Genealogy / Anyone know a shorter version of the name "Napierkowski?" [5]

14 people in Poland are named Napierko. Napirrkowski could have originated as a patronymic nickname to indicate Napierko's son. It might've also emerged for toponymic reasons. For more info please check out: research60@gmail

Polish surnames incorporating the napor~napier root shorter than Napierkowski include Napieraj, Napierski and Napiórski and Napora.
Quadrisyllabic variants include Napierała, Napieralski and Naporowski.
The root was probably the verb "napierać" - to press upon, push, advance, urge...
BTW, the noble Napierkowskis were entitled to use the Prus I and Prus II coats of arms.
Polonius3   
7 Dec 2008
Life / HAND-KISSING WANING IN POPULARITY? [29]

Polish men used to charm females the world over through their gallant custom of kissing their hands, in fact that was long viewed as a Polish hallmark.

Its popularity is now visibly decreasing. I wonder what younger women feel when they are greeted in this way nowadays. The two-fisted feminists probably yank their hands away in disgust, (patriachalism, feudalism, sexism, gender discrimination, bla-bla-bla!!!), but what about normal lasses?
Polonius3   
7 Dec 2008
Genealogy / spelling Kotylak right [3]

Both Kotylak and Kadylak exist in Poland but have different distribution patterns and are probably derived from different roots. However, it cannot be ruled out that somewhere along the line one or the other got misspelt in that pre-literacy era and confused. Would you have these names written down in any Old World documents in your possession?
Polonius3   
7 Dec 2008
Life / WHAT HAPPENED TO ŚWIĘTY MIKOŁAJ? [17]

There is no special greeting for St Nick's day in Polish. This is mainly an occasion for the kids to get quizzed and rewarded with treats.
Polonius3   
7 Dec 2008
Life / WHAT HAPPENED TO ŚWIĘTY MIKOŁAJ? [17]

Before a Coca-Cola CO. commerciakl artists in the 1930s penned the image of the overgrown beer-bellied elf in a silly red suit trimmed with white fur, Santa in America came in various colors--blue, green, gold, purple and yes, even red. He wore a long robe or longish coat, a brown fur cap, etc. In other words that highly promoted Coca-Cola version caught on (they didn't patent or copyright it) and after WW2 began eroding the European St Nicholas. But nowhere is the erosion as compelte as in Poland. In other countreis at least kdis differentiate btween der Weihnachstamnn (Santa) and Sankt Niklaus, Père Noël and Saint Nicolas. In Germany there is a media-promtoed camapign to cretae a Santa.free zone, and soem Dutch towns actually have an ordinance against Santa appearing before St Nicholas festivities take place. Sint Niklaas is the real thign, while Krisman (sp?) is the garden-dwarf character. The agnostic Czechs are esepcially adamant about preserving the St Nicholas with angel and devil tradition. But the ostensibly staunchly Catholics Poles, well: Co Jankes wymyśli Polak polubi! (Poles lap up whatever Yanks think up!)
Polonius3   
6 Dec 2008
News / POLISH PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES in the 2010 election? [10]

AT this stage, likely presidential candidates in the 2010 election appear to be incumbent Lech Kaczyński, PM Donald Tusk and Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski.
If you could vote, whom would you choose and why?
Polonius3   
6 Dec 2008
Language / SARKOZY -- SARKOZY'EGO or SARKOZEGO? [14]

What is the proper inflection of Sarkozy, Kennedy, Nagy et al?
Is the instr. and loc. Nagym or Sarkozy'm?
Polonius3   
6 Dec 2008
Life / WHAT HAPPENED TO ŚWIĘTY MIKOŁAJ? [17]

Xmas 2007. Even in that bastion of tradition, Kraków, the loudly media-proclaimed arrival of Święty Mikołaj at Rynek Główny turned into the arrival of Santa-Creep.

Try to find a Święty Mikołaj chocolate figure in any Polish supermarket. After much effort you may do, but the market is mainly flooded with chocolate Sandy Clutzes. Try to hire Święty Mikołaj to visit your kids at home and again it will be only the Garden Dwarf. You tell me why!