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From: Texas, Dallas
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MarcinK   
13 Oct 2009
Life / WHAT DO YOUNG POLES SEE IN RAP CRAP? [63]

What do young Poles see in rap crap?

I don't know but I hope there will be a cure for this in our time.

"For once I would like to hear you scream in pain."
- "Play some rap music." - Bruce Willis in the Last Boy Scout.
MarcinK   
13 Oct 2009
News / The Lisbon Treaty and land reperations [74]

Maybe I'm too much of an Norwegian who thinks everything is possible and that the system works for everybody.

In Poland it seems to be that the system is: nothing is possible and it works for only a few people.

I remember my first encounter with the Polish bureaucracy at the town hall in my hometown. There was a waiting room. We were in next. After 5 minutes the door goes up and an older man comes out yelling, "Ku**a", and slams the door. Then we hear the secretary from the office, "Next!".

Ha ha. I'll never forget what the bureaucrat told me when I wanted to get a copy of my parents birth certificate in order to renew my passport. He asked me why do I need their birth certificate, I said to get my passport in order, then he repeated, why do I need their birth certificate, then I said you got to be fu*king kidding me. We went back and forth until he finally got tired of asking the same question and realized I wouldn't leave till I got it, and finally got off his throne and did his job.

the system will wear you out

There are methods where you can wear out the system by being a giant pain in the ass. However you need peasant resolve and a whole lot of patience.

I just need my chair and a Tyskie under a tree.

Our coping method.
MarcinK   
13 Oct 2009
History / Responsibility for Murder of Catholic Poles during WWII ? [172]

not sure about these various others though.. who?

The OUN-UPA, chauvinist Ukrainians.

As per Czeslaw Milosz's memoirs most Jews in Poland didn't even speak Polish.

I know a Jewish Holocaust survivor who was 17 when the war broke out, he told me that he was part of the first generation of Jews living in Poland that actually had to learn Polish, his parents didn't speak it, they either spoke Yiddish, German and a little bit of Hebrew, the dominate languages in Jewish areas. The same went for his ancestors.

Both mostly they spoke Yiddish.
MarcinK   
13 Oct 2009
News / The Lisbon Treaty and land reperations [74]

I have to try it.

No crime here.

Like you would have if your grandmother told you that she owned a castle in Poland before the war, and then lost it to the government, but that you might get it back now....TELL ME YOU WOULDN'T TURN UP AND CLAIM IT......unless you are mother Theresa...

No I'm not mother Theresa, and no I would not want to claim a castle if I had the chance, being in construction I know what it takes to maintain a mansion and large estate, try and imagine maintaining a castle, no thanks.

My family had property, but they were peasants and their holding were modest to say the least, a typical farm plot in a village. They were a lot more free than people living in urban areas, communism didn't really effect the villagers, probably because they were villagers and had nothing worth taking to begin with, expect a pain in the ass livelihood. Who wants that? The property my family has was honestly earned, so we don't have the problems that the descendants of the 'better half' have.
MarcinK   
13 Oct 2009
News / The Lisbon Treaty and land reperations [74]

Germans who would claim reperations for lost land after the second world war.

Lose wars, expect to lose land.

Russians took a farm from my great great grandfather (They shot him on his farm and took it).

They were following the advise of their boss, "No man no problem" -Josef Dzugashvilli.

I know millions of ethnic germans had to leave the Czech republic and their belongings, having to walk to Germany with just what they could carry.

You'd have to ask the question as to why those Germans left the Czech Republic only with what they could carry? Exactly what and who were they running from? To answer that question quickly puts things into clearer perspective.

This then also has to apply to Poland and what the ethnic germans/poles lost when the borders were moved.

Who moved those borders? re: Yalta Conference.

We are talking about billions of Euro's here.

Bingo.

I know that my great great grandfather had over a 100 hectars of land in Bydgoszcz that the russians took.

Which you more than likely will never get back.

So I have hired a lawyer to look at these matters, and he was not dismissive when he heard what we had to tell him.

Of course he didn't, just wait till you start talking about how you're going to pay for his services, you'll notice he'll start to become more dismissive.

Anyone here want to put their 5 cents in....I need more information! :-)

Walka z wiatrakami. I once remodeled a bathroom for a Holocaust survivor whose father owned a great deal of land, buildings, homes and factories in Belchatow. He asked for me and my father's help to get him restitution for what his family lost and to no avail. All of his fathers property exchanged hands from the Soviets to the Polish Communist government and to an alphabets worth of workers cooperatives before it was sold off to private hands after the 'fall of communism'. Just where exactly do you think that restitution money is going to come from? Why should people who legitimately and honestly purchased these properties have to pay for crimes not committed by them? Why should the Polish people, pay who were basically occupied and oppressed by the Communists and Soviets and had little to no influence over their activities and actions? Most of the people responsible for this situation are either dead or about to die, and the organizations that allowed them to do what they did gone. That's what came up in his court cases, and that's why he lost.

"War is a **** sandwich and all of us have to take a bite."
MarcinK   
1 May 2009
History / Territories of eastern Germany should rightfully belong to Poland? [161]

In a blink of an eye Polish state could expand from Baltic to Balkan.

Let me rephrase the question since you didn't answer it. How will the Polish state expand from the Baltic to the Balkans? Just keep in mind that I believe Poles don't even have a state, not one that serves their greater good or interests for that matter.

I mean, look how THEY rebuilt Germany after WWII.

Who are 'they'?

it is obvious that so called west have great interest to invest in power of Germany, to preserve might of that country.

What might? Most of that might is backed by the overwhelming power of 'American Sunshine' and the 'Po Boys and Gals' of America's countryside, small towns and urban slums.

Why should newer generations of Slavs accept same treatment, i asking you?

A Slav should no better than to ask that question since he knows the Slav makes for a poor slave. When the master commands 'go and work', the Slav replies 'right away sir' and goes right back to his card game.

Slavic world is in decline and you know why?

I know exactly why; discarding our obligations for the shallowness of having none (material cosmopolitanism?), embracing the culture of death and nihilism or near nihilism (neo-hedonism?) and having no reservations with it at all.

Who gives a sh** who is Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant among Slavs...

Slavs who are Catholic, Orthodox or Protestant.

It is time that Slavic world invest in Poland same way as so called west invested and investing in Germany.

Hasn't happened, isn't happening, won't happen.

Today we are still able to do something for our children, tomorrow would Arabs deciding for them if this very generation fails.

If you mean my generation, 18-25 year old's, then this generation has already failed, which places the children of this generation in an even more dire situation, but I believe that to be a very good thing, hard times breed hard asses.

Let us Slavs forget stupid differences (which are BDW imported and imposed on us) and let`s work togather if we were to survive as Slavs.

Pan-Slavism?

Let us save what we can save

You can only save that which is in your hands not that which is out of them, that means dealing with the cards you've been dealt. Case in point, Kosovo.

Somehow i sensing that Russian stance on Poland dramaticaly changing in positive dirrection.

Don't worry, us Poles will find a way to ruin even this, they always do.
MarcinK   
1 May 2009
History / Territories of eastern Germany should rightfully belong to Poland? [161]

Should the territories of Eastern Germany belong to Poland? No.

What territories exactly?

what about Western Pomerania, Upper and Lower Lusatias, Bavaria, Prusia?

I guess you mean the German states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Brandenburg, Sachsen and Berlin, where would one even begin to justify such a wild and radical claim? Especially for Bavaria? These were once Slavic lands (not Bavaria), emphasis on the word were, they are not anymore. The only native Slavs remaining there today are the Sorbs but so what? They've been given some degree of autonomy, no matter how token it happens to be. They are still a very small minority in Germany.

Germany is realy Greater Germany, monstruous state, machine for assimilation of Slavs.

I've always considered Germany a creation of Bismark, and Bismark a creation of Prussia. If it is for the assimilation of Slavs, then the Deutschlanders are doing a pretty bad job. Whilst they look at us Slavs, which I doubt they are doing or care to even do, they should be looking at the Mohammedians, a much more serious threat to Germany than us Slavs ever where or would care to be. Three years ago the Germany's federal statistics office itself claimed that by 2050 Germany would be more Arab than German, more Mohammedian than whatever the hell it is now. They also claimed it was irreversible.

Eastern Germany is minimum that Germany needs to give back to Poland, if seeks to be considered as democratic country.

Germans don't owe us anything other than the liberty we deserve to take care of ours and our own on our own, which is respecting our sovereignty, or whatever sovereignty us Poles have left. I am curious as to what you believe would be the maximum Germany would owe Poland?

it is up to the people living there to descide I say.

And I'd seriously doubt that they'd want to break away from the German Federation and join Poland. In my experience East Germans, and oddly enough Bavarians (Catholics for Christ's sake), have a very low opinion of us Poles, I'd seriously doubt they'd want in.

we live in time when geo-strategic envioroment repidly changes.

If you're talking Europe, it changes rapidly in favor of the Mohammedian.

In a blink of an eye Polish state could expand from Baltic to Balkan.

How?

In its essence it would be simple restoration of Sarmatia Europea, something natural

Sarmatyzm, one day it will stop, at least I'm hoping. So you're for the other 'R', restoration, and for 'Sarmatia Europea', which seems to me the same as Piłsudski's 'Międzymorze', which would in my opinion bring out the exact same results.
MarcinK   
25 Apr 2009
News / Are there any active Mafias in Poland? [27]

brother I met some too, but thats here in the "land of opportunity".

My experience with the 'Polish mafia' in the United States: some 'former Polish communist government losers' in New York sent a bunch of 'Polish gangsters' to the south to muscle Polish owned and operated construction companies into a racket. Said owners and employees scared said 'Polish gangsters' with the FBI; every other city inspector either has a brother or cousin in the FBI, Police or Marines more than willing to 'help'. Said 'losers' in New York got scared, abandoned said 'gangsters' in the very city they sent them to, said 'gangsters' received money from the very owners and employees they were supposed to swindle, so that they could buy food and a bus ticket back to New York.

But are there any families in the motherland, thats my question.

No. Just a bunch of disorganized and self-interested criminal groups and gangs who have tricked out cars but barely enough gas in them to get them down the street.
MarcinK   
25 Apr 2009
News / Kaliningrad. Problem, Threat or Opportunity for Poland? [185]

What do you think about it?

I think it's a territory definitely in political-economic limbo, but nothing near Transdnestr.

What do you feel hearing this name?

That they should change it. Definitely the Russian version of whatever Królewiec and Konigsberg translate into, 'king city'. Wouldn't that be Czarograd?

Is it a threat for Poland or an opportunity?

I don't see it anywhere near a threat, but I do see it as an opportunity squandered. I read that some Kaliningradians wanted to turn it into the 'Baltic Hong Kong', I have serious doubts about that, but to improve the situation means adopting a liberal policy in travel, commerce and borders; I haven't seen Moscow or Warsaw supporting such a thing in the past, present and that should say something about the future.

What do the people of Kaliningrad think about the situation with Kaliningrad?

I'd have to ask the same.

Does Moscow really care about the place?

That too.
MarcinK   
24 Apr 2009
News / Are there any active Mafias in Poland? [27]

I'd have to say that there is no such thing as a 'Polish mafia', if you mean a mafia in the mold of Casa Nostra, Cammora, Vory z Zakone or the Jewish mafia, then no, the closest thing in Poland to those criminal organizations would have to be the government in Poland.

what's their names?

Tomek , Piotre , and a really dodgy guy named Jan....

I hate to admit it, but he answered your question.

My gf has pointed out some Mafia types in Krakow. Seemingly they control all the begging rackets in the city

Związek Żuli.
MarcinK   
22 Apr 2009
Love / I'm pregnant by my Polish boyfriend but he wants me to abort it! [132]

me being from another country

What country are you from?

he has no plans to stay here and wants me to go to the uk to abort it

Obviously, perhaps he wants to cop out of his responsibilities, and the possibility of paying child support. Just remember you have more than one alternative.

i really don't like the idea of raising a child on my own

I don't give single mothers flack, for the mere fact that they decided to raise their child instead of killing it for convenience sake. If you do not like any of those ideas, then consider adoption as many here have advised.

i would prefer the child to have a father

Wouldn't we all, but seeing that your child's father is no where near one...

there's the financial worries and the thoughts of telling my own family

Child support? I don't know what the status would be of out of wedlock children, so if I were you I'd start finding out. Plus, tell your family, silence won't help, and while your at it, tell his family if at all possible. You don't want to make this decision on your own, at least lighten some of the load of your shoulders by telling them. Like pgtx said, they might be more supportive than you think.

im dreading my fathers reaction, he's a big believer in marriage before kids etc.

Lets take a wild guess as to why.

i have no clue what to do as both keeping or aborting the baby will be hard...

Don't worry, time will force you to make a decision. Raising a child will be hard, the fact that your life ends when your child's begins, since you will spend the rest of your life watching your child's, isn't exactly an exciting thought. I always assumed killing an unborn child merely for being an unborn child was harder, not to mention cruel and barbaric. But, different strokes.

it hurts even more that he's still constantly talking to that girl and seems even more determined to meet her now...

It took two to tango, you share half of the responsibility for this situation since you were there when it happened, your half just so happens to be heavier than his, he chickened out, hopefully you won't do the same your kid, then you'd be no better than him.

i'm looking for advice from people who have maybe been in similar situation?

I know two girls that got pregnant when they were 18, both abandoned by their "men", both went to their parents and where told the same thing, 'abort and you're disowned'. Adoption was an option they didn't want to take. Both still live with their folks, one works, one goes to school, both have a son.

do you have any advice?

Either fess up to your responsibilities (grow up) and raise the child on your own, hopefully with the support of your family and child support, or enter the adoption process, as early as possible. As for killing the kid, that is no alternative.

So it's better to run a miserable life (both her and her child)...

Automatically it will be a miserable life for her and her child; obviously God wrote this.

abort it while it's not a human being yet

"Abort (kill) it (the unborn child) while it's not a human being (then what is it?) yet". If your answer is that the child is a fetus, you'd be correct, if you said it wasn't human you'd be wrong.

right?

"Wrong." -John Matrix-

Well it's a matter of opinion whether it's considered "life" or not.

It is life, that is a matter of fact not opinion.
MarcinK   
18 Apr 2009
History / Was there a polish Stasi? [13]

Well, just remember, if you aren't woken up the next morning by the sounds of your liver crying next to you, the przepalanka was no good.
MarcinK   
18 Apr 2009
History / Was there a polish Stasi? [13]

Ahem....wasn,t me that said that either

I know. For some reason osiol's name comes out in the quote which I took from your post. Obviously a glitch.

you are not cross eyed are you....?

Nope.

Thats two beers now.....and counting..!

See what I mean, now I gotta erase all the names from these quotes and put the proper names in by myself.

Thats two beers now.....and counting..!

Seeing it's a glitch how about I drink a whole bottle of przepalanka to your health instead?
MarcinK   
18 Apr 2009
History / Was there a polish Stasi? [13]

Przepraszam wildrover. I honestly don't know why your name popped up, I quoted 1 jola, or so I thought. If anything, I owe you a beer.

So you don't think the East German Stasi had anything to do with the KGB or the Soviets?

Wow!

since those organizations where in one way or another dependent or subservient to the Soviets

I guess I should of said, 'affiliates' instead of 'one long arm of the KGB'.

Murdering priests and students is soft for you?

No, murdering priests and students isn't soft, but low and cowardly for me. The degree and extent to where actions such as those where carried out decreased tremendously compared to the period prior to the mid 70's and on into the 80's, so yeah they became rather soft, which is why I said they relied more on black mail, bargaining and bribes than torture and murder, less effective. After Popiełuszko's murder, no esbek would dare even mention where he worked, one of the reasons they became 'unimportant', because people where disgusted with them more than they were afraid of them. Compared to their 'glory days', yeah, they went very 'soft' and 'unimportant' when the threat of death and even the carrying of it out didn't bring the desired results.
MarcinK   
18 Apr 2009
History / Was there a polish Stasi? [13]

Shocking ignorance.

That means there's room to learn.

Was there a polish equivalent?

I honestly think there is no equivalent to speak of since those organizations where in one way or another dependent or subservient to the Soviets, it was really just one long arm of the KGB. But since your asking of the Polish 'arm', like Ewcinka pointed out, it's the Służba Bezpieczęństwa, or SB for short, it's predecessor was the UB or Urząd Bezpieczęństwa, much worse than the SB since it was filled to the brim with hardcore Stalinists.

was it rather soft and of no importance?

That depends on the time period, toward the mid 70's early 80's I would have to say that they turned soft and of no importance once they knew that the vast majority of Poles stopped fearing them and they started fearing the vast majority of Poles. They black mailed, bargained and bribed more than they tortured during that period, more effective and less laborious.
MarcinK   
13 Apr 2009
History / Roman Dmowski- Polish Adolf Hitler? [219]

Most of the whining I do hear comes from Germans

You do it all the time "massmurder..bwaaaa"..."you startet it..bwaaaaa"..."we will never forget...bwaaaa"

Thank you for proving my point.

and never forgive

I never said never forgive.

you owe us

I never said you owe us, 'no man can resurrect the dead' after all.

Sore losers? What would we know of it? It wasn't Germany who was being walked over in 4 weeks....

The war lasted longer than 4 weeks, and you forgot to mention the Slovaks and Soviets helped in the walking over, but all in all, it still ended in a German defeat, nothing changes that.

Sorry, I just wondered that for such an "accomplished" people the best known things are the jokes about you...I just wanted to see if there is more....bad me!

More German humility, Well, sorry to disappoint :( , I mean after all this coming from a people who started two World Wars and couldn't finish either one of them. Patalogia chlopie.

It was just enough to grab some bites out of the Czechoslovakia as the possibility arose!

You must mean Cieszyn.

...because Poland would have been to weak. The will was there but not the means.

Would of, should of, could of but still no mass murders.

You had a choice, but took the wrong one...letting left hanging out to dry by your "friends"...again...

'You had a choice, but took the wrong one', as a Texan would say about those choice of words, 'gay'. If you mean the people on this forum, 'ain't no friends of mine' and didn't expect them to do anything...again...

Poles are as agressive as Germans, but they can't take it up with the Germans/or the Russians/or anybody else alone so they got ****** over so often.

More whining again.

The war is over, the iron curtain gone, things are moving again!

Obviously.

Aren't you to getting bored with always warming up the old stories all the time?

Are you?

Happy Easter Monday!
MarcinK   
12 Apr 2009
History / Roman Dmowski- Polish Adolf Hitler? [219]

Well...that's more than Marcin-the idiot-K has...I rest my case!

Don't be to concerned with what I have, after all, you have Wikipedia.

Now that is a smart thing to say!

Yeah, I know what happened afterward, the Germans started a war, and at the cost of millions of innocent lives Dzughasvilli gave us Sląsk back, Gdansk, Kolobrzeg, Szczecin etc.

Oh and please please try to stop your brethren from continually whining about WWII

I don't know any Pole who whines about World War II, the conclusion was pretty straight forward, ya'll lost. Most of the whining I do hear comes from Germans, very sore losers.

Yeah...the same with Hitler...

Yeah, but his love didn't lead to mass murder.

Not much material out there about this guy...

Because most if not all of that 'not much material' is written in Polish, and outside of a Polish audience, honestly who cares, besides well, you of course.

Happy Easter!
MarcinK   
12 Apr 2009
History / Roman Dmowski- Polish Adolf Hitler? [219]

To be very honest with all of you, without Dmowski and his delegation at Versaille, things would've turned out very differently for Poland, and I don't mean for the better, and I have to agree, one of the few great Poles of the 20th century. He only appears antisemitic because he loved his country.

No more Hitlers!

Add to the list, Mao, Pol-Pot, Joesph Dzhugashvilli, Yagoda, etc.

There's nothing wrong with being an untermenschen, Chrystus Zmartwychwstal!
MarcinK   
12 Apr 2009
History / Roman Dmowski- Polish Adolf Hitler? [219]

my knowledge comes from wiki

In the university professors always stressed never to cite wikipedia, those that did usually got a D or an F on their papers. The professors problem with wikipedia, 'un-reliable' they said, only good for summations, summaries, and general information.

and polish-youth mainly

Youth=Dumb, people who listen to youth=dumber.

Well...that's the impression I got from reading about him on the net.

Another wise piece of advice from those idea stealing professors, 'consider the source'.

Happy Easter!
MarcinK   
11 Apr 2009
News / Poland. Sold for nothing. [341]

Try to forgive

Forgive, yes; forget, no.

and carry on.

No other choice but to.
MarcinK   
10 Apr 2009
Love / Boyfriend wants to move us to Poland but I don't speak Polish. [32]

is it hard to live in Poland if i can't speak Polish?

Yup, but that's if you didn't have a boyfriend to translate for you, since you do, no, it's not hard.

Can this be a problem for a foreigner?

Depends what region and what city your going to go to. Some regions, like where my family lives, have never seen a black person, in their whole lives.
MarcinK   
9 Apr 2009
Language / is the correct term pol or pollok [14]

Jestem polakiem, is almost neuter, it's like saying 'I'm Polish', but to be grammatically correct, a male says 'jestem Polak' a female says 'jestem Polką'
MarcinK   
9 Apr 2009
Language / is the correct term pol or pollok [14]

Polish people call themselves Polacy, Polaków in the plural. If its in the singular, and your a guy you say 'Polak', if your a woman you say, 'Polka'. But since there's more English people on this forum than Poles, I guess you mean the English version. In that case, plural 'Poles' or the 'Polish', singular a 'Pole'. Hope that helps.
MarcinK   
9 Apr 2009
Genealogy / Narodowiec last name [3]

Narodowiec means 'nationalist' or 'native', but I've never come across anybody with that name. To be honest, a lot of Jewish families changed their Jewish and Yiddish sounding surnames and adopted 'Polish sounding' surnames. This sounds like an example of that, and if that is the case, chances are you won't find much on that side. You might, but probably under another surname.