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Joined: 20 Jul 2006 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 24 Jul 2013
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Speaks Polish?: yes, though Polska język trudna język. ;)

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Matyjasz   
29 Jun 2008
History / Jews-Officers in the Polish Armed Forces 1939-1945 [52]

How about the number of Jews in the Stalinist 'security' apparatus responsible for the torture and murder of countless Poles?

Ski mentions Polish Jews fighting for Poland in WWII and you spring out with Jews responsible for torture of countless Poles? Whats that all about?
Matyjasz   
28 Jun 2008
Life / The strangest things in Poland [468]

I had a hard time with that too, how close people stand when they are speaking with you, especially men!

I never met any american in real life but I know for certain that Poles have much smaller personal space than the Brits. Of course the factor whether one was brought up in country side or in the city plays major importance here too. People from less populated areas tend to have much bigger personal space, but I guess that your observation is a valid one. It's the first time I hear that polish men have smaller personal space though. Interesting.
Matyjasz   
23 Jun 2008
News / Poland and Sweden try to direct EU attention eastward [19]

Policy, sciences, all this things are not Polish destiny, stop your pitiful attempts. Quick march in your churches, prey for God, this is your fate.

Are you loosing your nerves ConstantineK? Ohh we must have stiken a cord here .... :)
Matyjasz   
22 Jun 2008
Life / How do you Poles feel about the fact that so many Poles work abroad? [145]

Tends to rankle some people when the health service is at the point of collapse and old folks who have paid since 1947 are finding no beds in the local hospital.

Unfortunately, the money they paid in 1947 were spent a long, long time ago and now their health care is financed inter alia by those bloody immigrants.

Besides, isn't the british health service at the point of collapese since erm... always? :)
Matyjasz   
22 Jun 2008
News / Thoughts on present day Lech Walesa [27]

He is a simple, very down to earth and stuborn, or maybe I should say, mulish man. Not the best diplomat but a perfect revolutionist. Tough character. And thank God fro that.
Matyjasz   
10 Jun 2008
History / Are Germans going to pay for WW2? [180]

Pretty much the only thing Slavs agree on is that Serbs are generally a bunch of ars*holes.

I beg your pardon?
Matyjasz   
8 Jun 2008
News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]

I am not against CC preaching about what they believe is right, still, it gets on my tits to see that what their preach becomes law in countries like Poland or Ireland and thus affects not only Catholics but all others as well.

What CC preaches doesnt become the law here in Poland. If that was true you wouldn't be able to buy condoms or pornographic magazines in almost every shop or even party during fasting.... Even the discussed current abortion law is in conflict with the CC's preachings.

Here the case is not about ‘voicing an opinion’, but a priest following and pestering the family with bunch of older religious women, disrupting the hospital and even sticking to them in the police station.

I think that I already wrote that in this case the church, or to be more precise this priest, shot himself in his own foot.

It always found it amazingly hypocritical how someone can scream and shout for the rights of an unborn fetus yet quite happily let animals be slaughtered so they can stuff their face.

But wouldn't eating them alive be more cruel?
Matyjasz   
7 Jun 2008
News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]

Look at it closely, how often do u c priests getting involved in the name of Catholicism? Often. How often do u c Protestants doing likewise? They tend to look at the moral foundation of things.

True, unfortunately, or fortunately, priests are citizens of Rzeczpospolita Polska and also have the right to voice their opionions howe silly they may get. Just like die hard atheists, homosexuals, communists and what not can join the debate and present their arguments. Actually this what democracy is all about.
Matyjasz   
7 Jun 2008
News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]

The world has gone to pot.

And maybe it was always like this and there always will be people that will continue to manipulate the masses just using different ideologies and constructing new dogmas?

Personally I don't believe that the church has that much to say in Pl. Actually it never had as we are a nation of distrustful skeptics, especially regarding trusting people from higher hierarchy, whether laic or catholic. But I do know that people like to think otherwise and I don't think that they would be willing to listen to my arguments.

Either way, I send my wishes of fast recovery for that little girl and her family.

edit

Surely allowing the abortion would be in her best interests. She is still a kid after all, in the eyes of the law.

She definately has the right to terminate this pregnancy.
Matyjasz   
7 Jun 2008
News / 14 year old rape victim from Warsaw denied abortion! [348]

Maybe in the west we are not so blinded by faith.
Or irrational belief based on a book used to control the masses, and which has factual basis.

Well it seems in the West you use different dogmas to control the masses.

I hope the girl will be alright.
Matyjasz   
6 Jun 2008
History / WAS WAŁĘSA A SECRET POLICE COLLABORATOR? [26]

I was thinking that in English, 'pole' is another word for a man's plonker and i must have just written it. I wasn't thinking about men's plonkers in particular. It was just a slip of the keyboard. I really don't think all Poles are plonkers.

Yeah right... What would Freud say about that keyboard slip? Just confess that you have a strange atraction with Polish mans genitalia and stop being in denial!
Matyjasz   
6 Jun 2008
History / Are Germans going to pay for WW2? [180]

This whole thing only makes things worse. Im against any polish claims just as I am against any German claims.

As for the title of the thread, are Germans going to pay?

They are going to pay alright. In two dys time on the football field! :)
Matyjasz   
4 Jun 2008
UK, Ireland / Poles singled out as responsible for increase in knife culture [39]

Hehehhee. :))

Unfortunately I think that they already closed the stadium market so the offer is out of date I'm afraid. As for the Polish knife culture in GB, it's news to me.

Not saying that it can't be true.
Matyjasz   
1 Jun 2008
News / Poles learning from the British? [42]

er,Britain doesnt have a writen constitution....what we did have though is Magna Carta in 1215,only a few hundred years before Poland had anything close....

Ahh yes the magnificent Magna Carta. Was it actually respected through the mifddle ages?

The first document that vividly limited the power of Polish king in favor of polish gentry was certainly the Privilege of Koszyce from 1374, although of course there were few privileges set before. Still it's not even 200 years after your Magna Carta.

ogorek:
Wodka(wehey),

Scandinavian....

They make nice vodka, but you must be the first one who said that they invented it. Lol

After all, the Polish stereotype is one of a vodka swilling expert, just as the British stereotype is of tea sipping expertise. So it would be a little presumptions of me, a Brit, trying to tell a Pole how to drink vodka.

The Chinese are also known for their love towards tea and yet I don't see them being obsessed with adding milk to it. What experts should I listen to then?

I'll stick to my guns.
Matyjasz   
30 May 2008
News / Poles learning from the British? [42]

Yes, it is too gross generalization for moi. The wonderful world of food is very subjective. I can't imagine some experts telling me what should taste me and what not. I would leave those problems to food purists. Isn't there a saying that "Food purism is worse than fascism!"? ;)

But than again that could just be my polish anarchistic nature. ;)
Matyjasz   
30 May 2008
News / Poles learning from the British? [42]

Now, as anyone who knows anything about tea drinking will tell you, there are some teas that should be drunk with milk and some that shouldn't. Making sweeping generalisations one way or the other is just plain wrong.

The mere statement that there are some teas that should be drunk with milk for me is just an vivid example of those plain wrong generalizations.

Personally I don't find tea with milk disgusting, but I also don't find is so tasteful that I would actually do it. As with everything it gets down to personal preferences and them bloody taste buds. :)

I'm not advocating the drinking of cheap tea. Many Brits drink cheap tea with milk and it seems to go down well. I guess it is for the tannins, the nice effect they give. I prefer the taste of good tea

Here in Poland we drink cheap tea with lemon or with home made raspberry juice...mmmmm :) (but I'm sure you actually know it)
Matyjasz   
29 May 2008
News / Poles learning from the British? [42]

Oh God forbid! I don't even add milk to a regular tea. We used to confuse the ladies at the canteen ordering fast one tea with sugar without milk and one coffee with milk without sugar. :)

As for the fruit tea, when I bought one at Sainsbury's there was a sign on it saying "Do not add milk". I found it pretty funny that you need to be remembered that fruit tea and milk just don't "add up". :)
Matyjasz   
29 May 2008
News / Poles learning from the British? [42]

O temporas! O mores!

What's next? A sign on those fruit tea's saying "do not add milk"? Damn you Britain! ;)
Matyjasz   
25 May 2008
Work / Polish Labor Is Scarce as Workers Go West [60]

I would be embarressed if millions of british people flocked to eastern europe to work in unskilled employment like cleaning toilets, gutting fish.

I would be embarrassed if my countrymen wanted to get rid of foreign toilet cleaners so that they could replace them.

If you really want to be a toilet cleaner in your own country noimmi than it is fine by me, but a little ambition certainly wouldn't go amiss. :)
Matyjasz   
23 May 2008
Food / Żubrówka + apple juice anyone? [41]

I still don't know how Polmos Białystok managed to convince not only foreigners but also Poles that Żubrówka is the best polish vodka. Which clearly isn’t the case. :/
Matyjasz   
17 May 2008
Food / POLISH-STYLE FRUIT & VEGETABLE GARDENING [4]

Introduced to Poland in about 1708. Jusrt thought I'd mention that.

And became popular about 100 years later, if not more of course. I should know, I come from potatoeland aka Pyrlandia. ;)
Matyjasz   
11 May 2008
History / More Revision of Historical Fact in Ynet News Israel (Poles engaged in slaughter of Jews?) [72]

if you havent learnt that generalisations can be made and stereotypes do exist then you are spectacularly niave.

But isn't this the gist of racism, anti-semitism and homophobia? Putting people into negative categories?
Why racist generalizations can not be made while others, like generalizing about Poles being racist, can?
Matyjasz   
11 May 2008
History / More Revision of Historical Fact in Ynet News Israel (Poles engaged in slaughter of Jews?) [72]

the point about the polish is the lengths they go to to deny it. if poles on the forum held their hand up and said 'yes, poland has a problem with racism, antisemitism and homophobia' then this might go some way to reduce the animosity towards them. but of course that never occured to you. did it. then we have to conclude that some polish posters dont see any problem with being racist, antisemetic homophobes.

There is a subtle difference between arguing with a statement that Poland is a racist, homophobic and anti-semitic country and saying that Poland is absolutely free from those awful attitudes.

I hope that those most people you are talking about see this difference.
Matyjasz   
9 May 2008
Love / Don't Polish men fall for British women? [57]

Ive only got a 1 bed flat.

That never seemed to be a problem for us. Haven't you heard the stories about 10 Poles living in one bedroom flat in the UK? ;)