Posts by RyanJF

RyanJF

11 Jun 2009

Life / How not to offend your Polish host who makes too much food? [18]

Is this an insult to Polish people, or is my host a little sensitive?

I can sympathize. The parents of both my grandparents were Polish (Well, they were Russian, but originally from Poland), so I suppose they picked some things up, because every time we go out East to see them, we end up having more food shoved down our throats than we manage.

RyanJF

1 May 2009

News / Poland to ban Che Guevara image [55]

Trevek Yesterday, 15:27#30

isthatu2:
Brings in the western tourists though.
A lot of the places I've seen it in in Poland were actually catering for the locals. There are calendars of old commy posters and videos of PRL propaganda films available in EMPIK, hardly a predominantly tourist outlet.

Funny thing about the West is it's OK to say you were a commie in your youth and have a picture/bust of Stalin but not to say you were a member of the Facist Party and have one of Hitler.

Mm, I think there's a difference. Communism is an ideology that seeks to make everybody equal, whereas Nazism is... Well, I think we all know. Some people have given communism a very bad name (Pol Pot, Kim Jong-Il, Stalin, etc), but it's not a terrible concept on paper.

RyanJF

1 May 2009

Genealogy / strange Polish mixes [116]

Polish and Russian, mostly. Guess that's probably not too strange. =\