Genealogy / how many know their own family histories? [139]

Well, i'll have a go.

My dad's side is hard to trace and he line stops cold with my great granddad, but my mum's side can be traced all the way back to Henry VIII's reign if not further, though it gets murkier...

My mum's side went to Canada in the 1800's, then found their way back to Britain when my Nan's dad fought in WW1, was wounded at Ypres and convalesced in the uk. Then after the war, they settled back in the motherland.

It's facinating stuff, that's for sure. If it wasn't for Kaiser Wilhelm i'd be a Canuck. :)

Language / Should I learn both Polish and German [147]

Obviously I don't know how widely spoken German is in Poland and as only a beginner in Polish myself, i'd suggest concentrating on one or the other. German, whilst a lot more difficult than English, is a lot easier than Polish.

However, as you say you'll be living in Poland, I think you should go for learning Polish, doing both would probably be distracting.

If you do decide German is the road you want to take Ich stehe gern zur Verfügung. :)

Good luck whatever you decide to do.

Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]

Got to say, I'm with Amethyst on the zero tolerance for cheaters front. Guess we're a dying breed A. :(


Timid and you decided to live in Glasgow Bart? Very brave man!

UK, Ireland / Doncaster (UK) meet up :D [56]


i guess, as it's an expression, (am assuming it's idiomatic) you can't translate it literally but przemilczec is unsaid so things unsaid?

Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]


Showing my ignornance of all things leguminous, I still have no idea. (note to self: Google is your friend) :)

But hey, it sounds like i'm on my way to the US for some beans and a chat about infidelity. (Suddenly have the horrible feeling that Jerry Springer is going to be greeting me off the plane) :)

Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]

hmm I've never heard of farva beans, but i bet they're delicious. :) If you throw in airfare, you've got a deal! :) (God i'm easily bought!) :)

Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]


Yep, that is pretty much the same experience here and i'll add, that the prudish english peson in question is always seen as the spoil sport because this outlandish stuff is way out of his comfort zone.

Either we got just unlucky BW (though others on here seem to think lucky!) or we are just those boring old monogamous types you read about in victorian books. :)

Hehe ps sorry Ranj, after the stuff i've had sugested to me, there is quite possibly nothing you could suggest to me that would induce me to tell you! I won't talk, you'll never break me and other various cheesy lines from The Bill and other rubbish cop dramas :)

Food / Is there McDonalds, KFC, Pizza Hut etc in Poland? Food survey. [222]

You'd love Käsekrainer then :)

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Life / Black people in Poland [357]

Substitute the word God for BB and you could almost be Winston Smith. Hmm I swear this telescreen is on the blink again. :) Yep you're definitely more Julia, ah, well it ends with 'ia' anyway. :)

Life / Black people in Poland [357]


How do you know this for certain? :) I am intrigued, genuinely.

Love / Do you think that Poles are faithful [74]

yup, don't be fooled by the rocks that he's got kids :) He's still our Bubba.

I hate to agree with a generalisation but, I really do think I know where you're coming from with your comments BW.

My ex gf certainly opened my eyes to some things. the mind quite literally boggles Like BW, details are really not important, so don't ask. :)

Love / relationship with polish man [40]


I'll see that and raise it €100.
Sorry laura but he's full of BS in my humble opinion.


Congratulations, you've just conditioned yourself to fail. Try implies that you'll have a go, but you already know that you won't be successful. If you really mean it, don't try, do.

"I will tell him we have to stop and that he has to get a god damn divorce before he gets into my bed again. It is only fair to his wife and also to me!"

Otherwise, he's going to carry on using you, just like he is carrying on betraying his wife's trust everytime he is with you.

Life / Black people in Poland [357]


Good lad! :)


Is that why we don't get a resit but buddhists do? I want to complain to OFGOD :)


I guess that is the problem though. This lack of evidence and reliance upon faith. I suppose it all comes down to how much we're prepared to believe without proof. I'm human, I make mistakes. I might have always fancied myself as an Airline pilot but I won't just jump into the cockpit of a 747 tomorrow and really and truly believe I can pilot it to Australia.

Why?
Because, I know that there is a fair chance I might not be as good as I think I am.
I'd rather question my beliefs and be open to the possibility that I might not be right.

Perhaps, I am wrong and what you say is 100% absolutely the truth. Part of me hopes that to be true, I mean wouldn't it be great??

But I won't blindly therefore dismiss the possibility it might not be.

I admit it, i'm an empiricist. (Allbeit a rather relaxed one)

If a tree falls in the forest but no one is around to see it, does it make a noise? Well, how can we know for sure?

We can't.
I'm prepared to say that I don't know on that one. I hope it does, but I won't tell you all absolutely, 100% that tree made a noise, because that one time it might not have.

Life / Black people in Poland [357]


So too does Dr Stephen Hawking and that guy is so smart, he can manage to lose me with the mere title of one of his books. "A brief history of Time" (if time is infinite, how can it be brief?) Lost already. Thanks Bill. :) So what hope does that give me :)

I have my own personal beliefs which I don't wish to share, I merely can't abide people who love to claim they are right, when they have nothing but belief to back them up and they lure the gullible and the vunerable. :)

Life / Black people in Poland [357]

You're sounding a bit annoyed M. Which is most unlike you. :) No offence intended and if you've taken any then you should definitely give it back immediately. :)

I take an evangelical dislike to those evangelical people who insist that god exists, praise the lord and if you're not as convinced as they are, you'd better get your factor 50 on as it's going to be a hot old timein the after life. :)

As you have so rightly said, you didn't start this discussion and discussion is what I hope it will remain, though as always, when you (meaning people in general not you personally) :) touch on religion, it usually ends up being a bit of a flame fest. :)

Life / Black people in Poland [357]

Mate. Thanks to going to all that trouble, but really it wasn't necessary, no really it wasn't. :)


My reply would be that I once had to go see the school priest. He asked me what I would like to confess. I'd not actually done anything wrong (I was only 8 years old) but i'd been put under strict instructions from my teacher to think of at least three things that I needed to be absolved of. Well, tricky. But bless my little cotton socks, I tried.

I was, looking back, mightily impressed by the poker face the priest kept as I told him solemnly that i'd sinned and I hadn't actually changed my socks when I told my mum I had.

I got three hail marys and one our father (Got off lightly there!) and that was that. I was free from my evil doing. (phew)

But what is my point?

I think that by that point, even the priest knew how daft it all was. But we all went through the motions because we all believed that we had to, even though no one can prove to us that we do.

But isn't that the point? :)
Bertrand Russell said that there is a teapot orbiting the earth. Does that mean I should be out in my garden night upon night, telescope trained to the heavens trying to catch a glimpse of Haley's Wedgewood?

Of course not!
It's not up to me to prove that there isn't a large tea cup who's spout we only see once every 365 days. No, it's up to him to prove to the rest of us that there is. Same with this. The one that is so convinced about there being a creator and a divine trinity and all that should have the onus firmly placed on his shoulders, to back it up and show you they're right.


I don't need to. To quote Christopher Hitchens. "What can be asserted without evidence, can also be dismissed without evidence."

Life / Black people in Poland [357]


You don't know your trinity then do you bud? God the father, God, the son and God, the holy spirit (he got put on light clerical duties for having his fingers in the till or something) :)

UK, Ireland / Doncaster (UK) meet up :D [56]

Thanks muchly telefonitika. love it! :)

Tell your bro/bro in law to have a wicked night, i'll look out on the website for pictures. :)

UK, Ireland / Doncaster (UK) meet up :D [56]


Absolutely. :)

Post them on up, that'd be great! It's really got into my head.

Oh and if you see Aled whilst the Radio 1 team are around, give him a slap and tell him he's not to say helicopter anymore!! :) I will be forever in your debt. :)

UK, Ireland / Doncaster (UK) meet up :D [56]

I'm in Austria...that's me out too. :) Donny donny donny donny, as Chris Moyles has got me singing.

Life / Black people in Poland [357]

Giles, don't waste your time or your energy mate. You can't cure "true believers." They are suffering from circular logic coupled with a healthy dose of confirmation bias.

If you ask someone why they believe in the bible, they'll probably answer, because it is the word of god. Then if you say why do you believe in god, they'll say, because of what it says in the bible and round and round we go. :)

Life / Black people in Poland [357]


:)

you know I hate it when you don't just spit out what it is that you're trying to say!

Take a bow mate. :)

History / Did Ukraine really "steal" Polish land? [302]

Well said Anielka. :)


You see, compromise is not a dirty word! :)

Travel / Nightclubs- VIP Room access (Warsaw) [18]

Ack, it sounds like such a chore Giles mate. Don't envy you in the slightest. :) As for your earlier tips, you're right confidence can work wonders! Kudos. :)

Love / How do I approach or meet Polish women [34]

Thank Mr. K. I'm taking notes. I hope our Ami chum is too. :)

re Goethe. If he'd used babe more, he'd have had a profound effect on society. :) Less Sturm und Drang, more Bling. :)

Love / How do I approach or meet Polish women [34]

So that's what I've been doing wrong. Gosh darn it to hell. :) Do you think it'd be better to say my name?

Love / How do I approach or meet Polish women [34]

Verdammt nochmal. Wenn du fortgehst, und du bemerkst a schönes deutsches Mädel. Was machst du? Normalerweise man sagt ,,Hallo, ich bin blah blah" und das schöne Mädel antwortet, gö?

Wenn Ja. Glückwunsch, hast du ne Konversation erfolgreich geführt.

Jetzt geht's richtig los. Hor mal zu, hier kommt die Zauberei. :)

Fliege nach Krakow und sprich mit ihnen... hast du das verstanden? SPRICH MIT IHNEN

Life / Poland has killed my inner child [105]


Someone else is a big Banachek fan eh? :)

Life / Poland has killed my inner child [105]

a misanthrope with a grudge then? :)

Life / Poland has killed my inner child [105]

Perhaps he's just a misanthrope. :)