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Ironside   
7 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Perhaps a Polish reader of this thread could examine it and tell us if the dishes offered are Polish or not.

Its late so I'm not going into details but yes, the menu is Polish enough .....

Just showed it to a Polish business owner from a upper-middle class family. It was laughed at.

some bloody upstart with family rood deep in KGB soil .....phew!
Ironside   
6 Aug 2011
News / Andrzej Lepper committed suicide [98]

Like that homeless guy that got tossed in jail for saying that Poland under Lech and Jaroslaw was turning into a dictatorship?

go and kiss his ass if you really believe that .....
Ironside   
4 Aug 2011
Love / American marrying Polish woman in Poland - Church problems [79]

a divorcee was always going to be problem.But being christend within the Church of England the Catholic church do no accept it as a religion

you misunderstood all situation, precisely because the Church of England is accepted, you had problems. The problem was you being a divorcee, because in the eyes of the Church you had been married. All this mucking about was about a very serious issue for the RCC, your divorce, because there is no divorce in the RCC.

You should be grateful they made decision in your favour instead of complaining.
Funny but, you took all this a wrong way around :D
Ironside   
4 Aug 2011
Love / American marrying Polish woman in Poland - Church problems [79]

If I had been married to a Muslim,Jew or other releigion it would have been easier as the Catholic church recognize them as a religion.

How long ago? 50 years ?
Possibly the problem was you being divorcee
Ironside   
3 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

Have you visited any restaurants in Poland?

you talking about something else and DeEss is talking about something else, and dephian as usual edit.
De Ess is talking about a traditional polish cuisine which you can find in Polish recipes, sometimes collected in a cook book.
Those traditional dishes are rooted in a kitchen of manors and palaces essentially.
You could find many of those dishes in polish restaurants before the war.
You are talking about polish restaurants today, and there you are right, there is no continuity....nor in cuisine nor in politics nor in culture ..... That doesn't means that dishes De Ess mentioned are not polish, today's Poland is not very Polish herself :(

Never the less you always can find something good :

kuzniasmaku.pl
Ironside   
2 Aug 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK not a problem as far as i can tell [79]

Brits have to score points to gain entry to Aus - they cant just go and get a job, there is strict criteria, therefore those that go are highly skilled or have a large amount of cash in order to set up a business - so its not that amazing really,

Nevertheless they are still immigrants skills or not, and do not make it sound that extraordinary,some have skills, some have monies, and some just get a visa.....according to standards and rules set by Australian government, in the same way Poles immigrate to UK...rules are set by UK government.

also its an ex colonly which we built :)

I love that bit:) So, you think that English have the right to immigrate to countries they colonized and spread over to, just because of the history? funny :)

I believe that the open door policy would not have come about had we been given a vote, that I can say for sure.

Thats the EU for you, you could have only postponed that policy for few years.
That influx of immigrants postponed your recesion for about two to three years
Anyway, you are very naive in a ways politics works, it is irrelevant what majority would have voted for because such question wouldn't had been put to vote in the first place.

I havent enjoyed the way wages have been driven down and public services have become burdened - I personally havent gained, but Im sure a lot of business have due to cheap labour.

1989 long before any Eastern European country become member of EU, but opened their markets to the EU countries.
Anyway, you keep taking about wages, I do not think it is possible, if the wages would keep going up, also the prices would follow.

Maybe it was true for certain jobs, but not like you make sound it, some wide and common phenomena.

Have a LOT of Poles enjoyed purchasing properties back home with the ££'s they earned?

Do I ask you what you are spending monies you earn for ?Would you consider being grateful to people paying your salary?
By the way, not that long ago prices of properties in Poland were driven up by the British companies, many Brits enjoyed hearty returns of their investment's in this enterprise.

Should they be grateful to Poland or to Poles working in UK and paying for their enrichment?

and public services have become burdened

such as? because health services are burdened by old people and a little children the most, and there hardly any old people from Poland, and few kids.
Ironside   
1 Aug 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK not a problem as far as i can tell [79]

Yes, I did. And most Poles did, so nobody wants your communism back. :):):)

You do not have a clue do you ?

Oh, my God. How such an intelligent guy can say such unintelligent things, I wonder?

good, maybe you can learn something I wonder
Ironside   
1 Aug 2011
UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK not a problem as far as i can tell [79]

Actually people leave for all different reasons, main reason being problems with immigration - ironic isnt it :)

Very, they see no problem in becoming immigrants themselves but they have an issue with immigrants - pretty amazing!:D

When was that Jonny? Did we get a vote on the enlargement? Did we really have any kind of a choice? The EU was a very different matter when we joined, it was about trade not mass immigration

Face the truth, most voters cannot find the way to their own ass without a guide, do you believe they would vote differently eh?
They would be bought in by a propaganda and politicians, some warning voices on the fringes of public life would be laughed at and forgotten.

In the same way Poland was sucked in.....propaganda and BS! And before quite a few years of exploitations of Polish economy by western countries. Did you enjoy an economical boom and so called growth since 1989? Eh?

It was partly on Poland's expense as well - now let that sink in Missy!
Ironside   
30 Jul 2011
Life / Racism and for what? (story of Egyptian guy's living in Poland) [149]

I just have a huge issue with Poles not wanting foreigners in their country but they are completely exempt when it comes to moving outside of Poland.
Poland for Poles is a bunch of crap.

show me a country excluded from such phenomena .....
Ironside   
29 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

stay on topic. Poles eat fatty, bland food. Nothin' wrong with it. I like to eat it. Just admit to what it is.

Whatever you call it is lovely and I like it, better then some freaky stuff made up by people who were forced to eat anything like Italian, French or who had no much else to choose from like Chinese or Mexicans.

Do you eat Mexican food everyday ?Rather not I gather.
Nothing wrong with that.
The only thing Americans have on us is steak.
Ironside   
29 Jul 2011
USA, Canada / Why are Polish restaurants not successful in the USA? [698]

honestly, it is.

It is not fuzz......not if you talking restaurants and such, true, Polish food is more suitable for northern European climate, but fatty food is only imagination of an American, fatty food in Poland is healthy natural fat, your acreage American consume much more fat in unhealthy McDonald's and other spicy stuff than there is in polish food!

tell me that your staple food is Mexican food eh?
ever seen polish salads and such like zurek and other like ?
Ironside   
22 Jul 2011
News / EU tribunal overrules Polish name contest in Lithuania [150]

You don't remember the facts, you remember boring stories fed by your surroundings

talking about yourself Nat? Why don't you face the truth at last? These people knew each other by name and face, do you think that Poles did not checked who done what? Hell, moral and just Ukrainians at the time were trying to help or stop that madness. They also knew who were the perpetrators.

There is Nazi, genocidal philosophy, spawned by the fathers of your UPA.
On the other hand you are making some pathetic excuses blaming Russians without a shred of evidence.
Ironside   
22 Jul 2011
History / Defying Germaniztion in 1901 Polish boy writes 'German girls are ugly' [128]

Do you deny that interbellum Poland followed a policy of forced Polonization with regard to the ethnic minorities unlucky enough to find themselves in interbellum Poland?

Would you rephrase your question?

Hell no. Shudder... :)

Good!
If you cannot see errors of your way, then there is no hope for you:) Are you still denying to people a right to use and preserve their language?
Ironside   
22 Jul 2011
History / Defying Germaniztion in 1901 Polish boy writes 'German girls are ugly' [128]

Would that be like the way that Polonization was forced upon Jews, Ukrainians and others in the interbellum?

dido ?
do not write nonsense please

When running out of arguments, accuse your opponent of being racist, prejudiced or a Nazi - happens far too often here

Would you care to quote with my alleged accusations? I'm just looking for an explanation of your blind and one sided approach to the subject. Maybe an answer is simple that you are not a very bright person?

I for one have come to the conclusion that quite a few nationalistic Poles and people of Polish descent on PF seem to have a distorted view of history. I understand that facts might be hard to accept sometimes (given what Poland had to go through over the centuries), but at some point of time you all have to face the truth about your past.

Yes, you are the Light Bringer, the truth incarnated, one and only, the other.
Do you have premonition that you can fly ?Why not give a try?

Now, what truth you have it mind ? That people have no right to the language of their ancestors, on their ancestral land?
Why? Because a state had a different ideas ?
How dumb, thoughtless and clueless one has to be, to seriously claim such nonsense. Either that or your way of thinking is totalitarian - so your talk about nationalism sound pathetic and empty.

Your philosophy Mr is a philosophy of a slave.
Do you deem yourself my equal, slave ?
Ironside   
22 Jul 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Very good illustration for the Beret Squad and their commander, Iron. :):):)

you are silly sod pawian

The only choice left for me is PO which has multiple drawbacks, but in comparison with the above they are OK.

yes, definitely :)
Ironside   
22 Jul 2011
History / Defying Germaniztion in 1901 Polish boy writes 'German girls are ugly' [128]

Too bad that they were resisting to speak the official language of the country they were part of.

They did not, their language was only used for religion purposes in semi-official capacity.

This nationalistic nonsense is tiring.

The real nonsense is your striving to bend your prejudices to fit reality. Evidently it doesn't work and make you writing more and more absurd statements.

Nationalistic is trying to preserve language of your ancestors but a good and normal is forcing uniformity and sameness for a purpose of building one nation state - one language, one religion and one fuhrer.

Good to know your true colors mr totalitarian.
Ironside   
22 Jul 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

What are those ladies (in berets) supposed to signify again?

it is some random picture, they suggest that RM Rydzyk and some unknown but older ladies is one bunch of primitive (religious and patriotic )loonies and are in liege (for left-overs and fools everybody who is not with them is against them and all are united - conspiracy theory ).

Divide and Win ... no understanding of civic and demarcating rules.
Ironside   
22 Jul 2011
History / Defying Germaniztion in 1901 Polish boy writes 'German girls are ugly' [128]

if the parents provoked the children, so be it. Doesn't change anything, but it's a bit less romantic than the child rebelling on their own initiative.

Unfortunate selection of the word provoked , the German decree was a real provocation, children only responded and if they found support of their parents in this, it doesn't lessen they courage and steadiness,they were defying the power of Prussian state.

Romantic is for women and children.

so - when were you last in Poland?)

What is has to do with anything ? Poland created ethic of freedom, not by declaring it, or writing an theoretical study, but simply by living it. A fact that nowadays Poland stray away from her heritage, and many Poles are uncouth peasant who know nothing about that, doesn't mean that historical heritage is lost or irrelevant or that somebody who never been in Poland cannot recognize and cherish that quality.
Ironside   
22 Jul 2011
History / Defying Germaniztion in 1901 Polish boy writes 'German girls are ugly' [128]

I've found several (Polish) sources online which make it clear that the parents were actively involved in this.

What of it?

Interestingly, it seems that despite the common belief that this was "Germanization" - it was actually the school director that went too far, rather than being any sort of deliberate act by the Prussian/German authorities.

Maybe he was just a scapegoat because Prussian authorities had a policy of forcing German language to all spheres.
Ironside   
22 Jul 2011
History / Defying Germaniztion in 1901 Polish boy writes 'German girls are ugly' [128]

Yup, and Germans gave a rat's ass and treated you accordingly.

What are you talking about ?

You know exactly what I'm talking about, and now let's all be happy and move to the bin. Mods... :)

I don't, I think that you trying to be other even if it doesn't make sense

Polish children in 1900 simply didn't "rebel".

Just resisted unjust decree forced upon them.
Ironside   
21 Jul 2011
History / Poland and Orientalism [115]

My ex-boss, a Polish/Russian Jew, claimed his ethnicity is White British, entirely acceptable to me, but why do you need to claim he is an Israelite when he himself denies this?

Jewishness is not a religion determined thingy, but by the ethnicity of ones mother. Its about blood, our PC brigade on PF would tear anybody to claimed that regarding any other ethnicity to bits. Somehow Jews are holding privileged status with the PC types.

just saying:)
Ironside   
21 Jul 2011
Life / Poland has to pick a nation and accept 3 million people of that nation - who do you choose [59]

So I had this crazy idea: what if some higher power said: "Listen you Poles, I order you to invite in 3 million aliens - all of the same nationality - or your country will be nuked!". Let's say the threat is real and you can freely choose whoever you want - all are dying to live among the Poles - who would you pick?

Somebody picked your brain ? I would have nuked your anonymous power.
Ironside   
17 Jul 2011
Feedback / Language used here - how come this forum is all in English? [78]

Any comments on this?

definitely PF could do without few posters here, they contribution is almost nonexistent, on the other hand they bring to PF a vile atmosphere.
the other issue is moderating (also mods) and adm philosophy or rather lack of such but his prejudice about freedom of speech.
However it all had been discussed in endless and pointless threads and posts. I come to the point that I don't care anymore, I visit the forum now and then, less and less.

I don't need PF, I only feel sorry for dudes who do not know Polish language and come to the PF to learn about Poland.

My suggestion: rename PF to *enter owner name* forum about Poland or Poland according to Brits and two mongrels and be done with that.
Let me ask you Polonious3 you know the lingo, why don't you post on some polish forums ?
You often ask about opinion of Poles - on PF there are few and between of them.
Ironside   
17 Jul 2011
News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]

Well, you all should establish first what are talking about;ethnic and racial diversity or cultural diversity.
If former then I must say it is folly of the worst kind.
If we are talking about ethnic diversity there are pro and cons, but definitely is not something which should be sought after or actively promoted for some murky ends.

JonnyM
I had in mind that there is no an African country where people from Europe are immigrating;whats more white people are being actively eliminating from one African country after another. On the other hand there is plenty of people from Africa immigrating to Europe.

I think that one way street is a very bad arrangement.