News / Nazism in Poland - A recipe for mass suicide? [176]

I'm the board-Nazi here and I get talked about all the time...just listen to the girls! :)

History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

What???

I didn't say anything....

History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Bad day today Puzzy?

History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

Oh...he likes me anyway! :)

Hejustdoesn'tadmititofficially

History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]

You think so? *looks doubting into mirror*

History / Poland-Russia: never-ending story? [1341]


Hey....look what she made me wear!!!

TWO WEEKS!!!

News / Polish myths. Poland is one of the countries that count in the world. [49]

Read the comments to this article Maty:

atlantic-community.org/index.php/articles/view/Merkel%27s_Momentum%3A_ Grading_the_German_EU_Presidency

It's the Poles who have to do something for our relationship...
Or as one commentator put it:

"...The problem I see is that without a reciprocal effort by the polish side, the german side will have lost interest by the time the polish public has “caught up”..."

News / Grumpy diplomacy hurts Poland [43]


I did mention it because your twins run around for the cause throwing around those words...


You should follow it more closely BEFORE making comments.
Poland got nothing but a bad image and delayed the start of the new voting system a bit...


You don't really want that!

Life / Is there anything worse than Polish rap? [148]

He had one hit "Looking for freedom" at the time the wall fell...WOW! What a career!

Nothing against an hugely endless soap about safe guards with washboard abs and silicon breasts running around in California...:)

....not that I ever did watch it of course....*ahem*....somebody told me....*cough*

Life / Is there anything worse than Polish rap? [148]

David Hasselhof cannot be counted as a german in the first place....

News / Grumpy diplomacy hurts Poland [43]

Germany = 83 Mill people = 7,3 Mill Foreigners (5,9 Mill from Europe, 2 Mill from Turkey, 0.8 Mill from Asia and rest) = ethnic German 91.5%

auslaender-statistik.de/bund/ausl_3.htm

You were saying? :)

PS: We have 2.4% ethnic turks and around 3,7 % muslims overall in Germany...

cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/gm.html#People

News / Grumpy diplomacy hurts Poland [43]

Hi girl :) *waves*

Germany: 83 Mill = 29 Votes
Poland: 38 Mill = 27 Votes

I don't think this fair or democratic.
It is the same as if after a vote for a government in a country a much smaller party with much fewer votes get's as much to say as the biggest party which got voted for by the majority...nobody would call that democratic!


*looks adoringly at Shopskis new avatar* :)

Erm...where was I....ah yes....here is stuff for reading:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_the_European_Union#Votes

"The Council is composed of national ministers for the relevant topic of discussion, with the ministers representing their states. Under qualified majority, different states have different voting weights, as follows (of a total of 345 votes);"

"Of particular note is a change in voting system for most cases to double majority Qualified Majority Voting, replacing the voting weights system. Decisions made by the council have to be taken by 55% of member states and 65% of the Union's population."

News / Grumpy diplomacy hurts Poland [43]


First: Poland IS the new guy and right now a taker

Second: Poland with half of the population like Germany has nearly the same votes....do you call it fair??? Is that democratic?

Third: Like in the article stated the Twins brought the summit nearly to a standstill againt the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the other members! Do you call it democratic if one member tries to force his will to all others???

If someone talks so much about demanding rights and democracy they should act that way first....

News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]


Hmmm....growing up I never thought about that...they were quite normal, you know?
No...surnames with 'ski are definitely seen as german, not even as foreign anymore.
I only learned much later that 'ski names have often roots in the east....

Puzzki??? :)

I know though that surnames with 'ski were viewed mostly as proletarians whereas a "von" stood for aristocracy....
(But a "von 'ski" is possible too)

Here is a nice article in the german wiki about the origin of german surnames and the germanization of slavic ones.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familienname#Herkunft_der_Familiennamen

"Beispiele: "ek" (slawisch/polnisch) zu "heck", "cz" (slawisch/polnisch) zu "tz", "kow" (slawisch) zu "hof", "ros" (baltisch) zu "roß", "šic" (slawisch) zu "schütz", "val" (französisch) zu "wall".

Fact is a "Jankowski" or a "Kowalski" or a "Koslowski" is seen as german as a "Müller" or a "Schmidt"....

PS: Interesting info....it seems that slavic surnames ending with 'cki (what would become a germanized 'ski) have their aristocratic history too...

(only in german too, sorry)

familie-woelky.de/ahnen/suffix.htm

Life / Is there anything worse than Polish rap? [148]


Says all...really!

:)
Oookaaaay.....*backs out cautiously*

Life / Is there anything worse than Polish rap? [148]


Because of that:


I thought a little lesson in music was needed....


Hmmm....hard to not use more than 2 syllablles...just one thought for the night:

CLASSICS!

How much german music and composers account for worldwide known classics, admired and played even after centuries and how much of this contemporary idolized crap will survive the times still be known next year or in ten years from now on, not to mention centuries?

A guess??? :)

PS: Just because anglophone music with english text are the fashion right now it doesn't mean it's better or will last...
How much contemporary german music do you know?

Life / Is there anything worse than Polish rap? [148]

Over it?

It was Beethovens "Ode to Joy" which was chosen to be Europe's anthem and it was his music put into a time capsule as a symbol of our civilization the US send in a probe into the deep space...not some Gangsta rap! :)

Life / Is there anything worse than Polish rap? [148]


Huh?

German music and composers are a brand name!
What are you talking about?


Maybe they have it....but I just didn't found it? :)

Music is a matter of taste....often these tastes are aquired through upbringing.
But me I can't get a feet in the door with all that hiphop, rap, blues, jazz, R'n B...it's leaving me cold and bored...can't help it!

....doesn'tmeanit'ssomehowbadbutit'sjustnotmycupoftea....

Life / Is there anything worse than Polish rap? [148]

Rap is crap!
No really....I heartily destet it...
(But then I also don't like R'nB, Jazz, Blues and such....)

Music needs rythm, drums, feelings, a melody....must make my legs jittery or my blood hot! (or both)

Aren't these little boys grown up with mommy and daddy in suburbia using ghetto slang, wearing pants below the ass, acting like dealers and murderers....everything just to look "cool"....just ridiculous???

Rap became a fashion...now rapper are super rich idols!

Rap is here to stay? Maybe...
But don't forget Rap is promoted and supported heavily by the music industry - the death of every honest movement.
Rap is now just another music style..

Law / Poland one of the top spots for Investment [21]

Hmmm...the UK is not even in Europe at all....just some island at the shores...:)

*ducks*

Law / Poland one of the top spots for Investment [21]


Nothing....just some small talk :)

Law / Poland one of the top spots for Investment [21]

Ha! I've got you now....here a pic called Mitteleuropa (central europe)

And there...right from the Rhine is Germany! :)

...jagutPolandmaybelongtocentraleuropetoo....somehow...

Law / Poland one of the top spots for Investment [21]


Nein, nein, nein, nein! *searches for map*

Look...Germany is that central they even had a wall through it, splitting it in western and eastern half...so you see....German is the most central of all!

*packs map away*

:)

Law / Poland one of the top spots for Investment [21]


Erm...Germany is Central Europe!
Poland is Eastern Europe...

News / A thought on Poland! [140]


YOU??? Why are YOU sorry???
I was not disappointed with you girl! :)


I was just disappointed with you Puzzler...whereas I try to refrain from broadest generalizations about Poland and Poles you do use them about Germany whenever it suits you...I thought we were over that....:(


'm sorry Puzzler...there are things which are just not open to discussion in Germany...:(

News / A thought on Poland! [140]

I'm just very disappointed! Bye

News / A thought on Poland! [140]

Nooooo....that was not a shot against Poles...honestly!
But fact is Jews got killed since they wandered into Europe...and the methods were surely not as "modern" as gas chambers but were they less cruel because of that???


Hmmmm......

News / A thought on Poland! [140]


First, the soap story is a hoax...ask the Jews themselves.

(Did you know that this Soap-hoax was already used during WWI by british propagandists? In 1925, the British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain admitted that the "corpse factory" story had been a lie!)

"...The claim resurfaced very early during World War II, so early that it almost certainly was not true. However, contemporary jokes, threats, rumors and insults show beyond a doubt that many people thought that it was at least believable. The main support for this belief was found in the abbreviation "RIF" which was imprinted on most pieces of soap available in Germany during WWII. It was interpreted as "Reines Jüdisches Fett" (pure Jewish fat) while, in fact, the abbreviation stood for "Reichsstelle für industrielle Fettversorgung" (National Center for Industrial Fat Provisioning)...."

Second...would it have been more okay if Germans had killed Jews the "old" way like in those many pogroms...with shovels or bullets???

Yes...Germany was a highly industrialized country and it used all it could to kill as many of her percieved enemies as possible and as efficient as possible.

Like the US did with their Atom-Bomb...new technology to reach the goals.
Do you think it made a big difference to the victims if they were gassed or clubbed to death???

I always found this argument especially awkward (and bigot).

News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]


Prost!

Hafta go now friends...was nice talking with you...till tomorrow! *waves*

*takes coat*

News / Polish-German Relations in the Present [697]


Another round of beer for all! :)