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z_darius   
17 Jun 2010
Law / Family immigrated 1880's from Galacia: Polish Citizenship - A few Questions [13]

I f you can prove that a least one of your ancestors was Polish, you should have no trouble getting Polish citizenship

Not so easy.
This principle applies, in most cases, only to Poles who left Poland AFTER 1918. Also, there cannot be any break in the Polish citizenship through the generations. So (applied to ancestry) if grandparents were a Polish citizens but neither parent was, then the child won't be either.
z_darius   
14 Jun 2010
History / Leon Feldhendler: A hero murdered? [37]

I don't think Feldhendler was a random Jew, he was pretty high profile imo.

How high was his profile in April of 1945? Who raised that profile? German newspapers during WW2?

He is high profile now and to you, perhaps to a few others today.
The war wasn't even over when he got killed, and he was one of tens of thousands who were killed for one reason or another, Poles, Jews, Ukrainians, Germans. It would be even hard to say definitely who was in Poland's government at the time.
z_darius   
13 Jun 2010
News / Majority of Poland's kids physically unfit, claims PPA. [41]

And the gain/loss balance of calories is severely disturbed. E.g. when people drive car to their friend 300 meters from their home.

don't be ridiculous.
For such a long distance they first stop at a gas station to make sure they have enough in the tank to make it back home. And that will make it more than 300 meters. If they stop by MacDonalds that adds to the distance And when they pump gas it's exercise. After all they have to push a button, and sometimes even lift a lever.
z_darius   
13 Jun 2010
History / Leon Feldhendler: A hero murdered? [37]

Was this part of the context of erupting anti Jewish violence that occured in those months immediately succeding World War 2? Was Feldhendler accidentally shot, like one source says or was it willfull murder?

You have already answered your own questions by doubting, predictably, the versions explaining that it may have been an accident.

So just to make the long story short, emphatically yes, he was willfuly killed by Poles who had previously sucked anti-semitism with their mothers' milk. After the murder they drunk 3 pints Feldhendler's blood which goes well with the aforementioned mothers' milk. The event took place exactly at midnight (it is not yet clear if there was a full Moon at the time), and in a bloody frenzy they performed a dance of disco polo (3 times) and then polka (2 times). After that they dispersed in search of more Jewish blood. Some witnesses say they left the murder scene on flying brooms.

Hope this helps.
z_darius   
9 Jun 2010
Language / Why x.xx$ in Poland? [20]

$ stands for Dollar(s).
Hence we have a choice to say 25 Dollars (25$) or Dollars 25 ($25)

kinda like 100 km/h instead of km/h 100
z_darius   
6 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Fish and chips - do Polish people in the UK like this? [108]

Well, yes, i purposedly said cooking and not deep frying to point out there is lots and lots of oil :P while frying uses a little oil only so the fish wont stick to the frying pan.

That will depend on what "little" means and how "little oil" you pour on the frying pan.
Again, there are surely differences, further advanced by the use of different condiments etc. Deep frying, including that of fish and chips, was not unknown in Poland in pre-EU heavenly period either. Anybody who went to Poland's North was guaranteed to have fish and chips if they wanted the taste.
z_darius   
6 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Fish and chips - do Polish people in the UK like this? [108]

Every Pole I've met under the age of 40, who was actually born in Poland, seems obsessed with ketchup.

Must be the changed taste of food after Poland became exposed to the many benefits of opening to EU. After all, ketchup hides real taste of food very well.
z_darius   
6 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Fish and chips - do Polish people in the UK like this? [108]

English fish and chips is different than polish one. I mean the fish is prepared differently. They cook it in oil so it is oily as hell, while Poles fry it.

I did say there are difference but I still think they are details. Polish frytki and fish were fried in oil too. You say Brits cook it in oil, but that's splitting hairs. I say they deep fry it in oil.

If you think deep frying is really cooking, so be it. By extension, frying is shallow cooking :)
z_darius   
6 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / Fish and chips - do Polish people in the UK like this? [108]

Fish and chips (under different names, of course) have been served in Poland before many poster on PF were born. The recipes may have differed in detail but in essence fried fish and chips (frytki) are not the latest that EU blessed Poland with.

The food of that kind was mostly found in coastal areas and the establishments specializing in the food were called "smazalnia ryb".
z_darius   
5 Jun 2010
Life / Kissing on the cheek in Poland. Lips for lovers only? [39]

Most Americans do that funny hug-thing. And if they kiss, it's maybe once or twice on the cheek. I think most Americans are a bit prudish sometimes, except when they're in Las Vegas!

Not really. Some Americans are very open about their romantic feelings:

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z_darius   
5 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / The number of Anti-English Poles... [228]

For instance English nurses or secretaries are very highly regarded. I've never heard someone say the English are lazy.

If someone actually has a job and is working then certainly they are not lazy, and many are highly regarded in their professions, Brits or not.

The fact that you never heard someone say something only means that you haven't heard someone say it.

A couple examples for you:

femalefirst.co.uk/business/Workforce-313.html

smh.com.au/lifestyle/lifematters/british-too-lazy-to-have-sex-or-change-tv-channel-study-20090810-efoa.html

thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23385319-bosses-choosing-committed-foreign-workers-over-lazy-british.do

hope this helps
z_darius   
4 Jun 2010
UK, Ireland / The number of Anti-English Poles... [228]

As far as I'm concerned, Polish and indians are the 2 biggest destroyers of the british economy, their sheer numbers and underground criminal freeloading of the UK is what is killing this society.

That society you're so worried about is killing itself. Poles (an others) are just picking up whatever pieces are still left to be picked.

Recently, a neighbor's grandson came from UK for a visit. He's Canadian and runs a construction business. One word lead to another so I said: I hear there are some problems with Poles in the UK. His response was:

Poles are not a problem. The fat as.ed Brits who never say a day of work are. Poles come and work.

Well, that was some opinion. Maybe he was right, maybe he was wrong. But then I heard increasingly more of similar comments, some by very public, widely respected people, such as Mark Steyn who writes:

When William Beveridge laid out his blueprint for the modern British welfare state in 1942, his goal was the "abolition of want." Sir William and his colleagues on both sides of the Atlantic succeeded beyond their wildest dreams: to be "poor" in the 21st-century West is not to be hungry and emaciated but to be obese, with your kids suffering from childhood diabetes. When Michelle Obama turned up to serve food at a soup kitchen, its poverty-stricken clientele snapped pictures of her with their cellphones. In one-sixth of British households, not a single family member works.

z_darius   
3 Jun 2010
Life / Polish men mostly have short hair, why? [43]

I notice that Polish boys mostly have very short hair, I just wonder why?

You must have looked at them. That's the usual mechanism of noticing "stuff".

espana:
they will make sure that they dont leave dna traces behind

holy crap! you are a genius! DNA only exists in hair!

He's fixed on DNA, due to its severe shortage in Spain. If that weren't for Arabs and tourists there would be no kids born in Spain.
z_darius   
2 Jun 2010
News / Decoded talks inside Poland's president's plane are released in Internet [337]

In an interview I read in one of Polish paper a pilot said that TWAS warnings were inconsequential and resulted from the incompatibility of TWAS with the Russian installation.

I assume for example 2P was the co pilot but some of them I wasn't sure of.

KWS - captain
2P - 2nd pilot
B/I - onboard engineer
D - air traffic control
B/P - stewardess
Sz.T - navigator
A - unknown
SP (niezr.) - unintelligible
(nw) - non-printable/vulgar expression
TAWS - voice information from TAWS
z_darius   
1 Jun 2010
Life / HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE POLAND IN 2010? [84]

Poland never had analogous power. The Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth was a regional superpower in Europe. Its influence was nary felt beyond that. That cannot be said of American influence.

I think you are confusing influence with power. Poland did not look Westward whenever it mused expansion, and the world was a different place them. Militarily, Poland during the P-L Commonwealth was pretty much unbeatable. Even in financial terms, Poland's economy, during her golden age, was superior to that of countries such as France.

Or maybe you're talking per capita. Poland stands at roughly 17,000USD per capita. the US stands at roughly 47,000USD per capita. You're going to close that gap in twenty years?

I hope not.

An average working American's share of the national debt is around $80,000 (170% of income)
An average working Pole's share of the national debt is $12,000 (70% of income)
z_darius   
31 May 2010
Love / Can 'engaged' soon to marry Polish men say I love you to their female friend? [62]

couldn't it also be used as "my dear Katie?" I've seen it being written in multiple letters non of them in an affecionate way... Although of course "I love you" leaves no place to guessing..

Yes, it could be as you suggest, but in Polish the "my" in "my dear" gives it a bit stronger meaning.

"Kochana Kasiu" is quite different than "kochana moja Kasiu", and as you noticed the "I love you part" is pretty clear.
z_darius   
31 May 2010
Language / A little Polish grammar. Masculine, animate objects. [64]

But 'pies' (and other animals, plants etc.) is an 'inanimate' object in grammatical sense (i.e. it gets all the relevant endings as 'real' inanimate objects for example 'stół'). 'Chłopiec' is the only animate noun here.

That is not correct. pies is definitely an animate object (used to be taught in grade 4 of Polish primary school, and repeated ad nauseam year after year).

In Polish there are three types of masculine nouns (rzeczowniki zywotne).This is the full list of genders, along with the subtypes in Polish:

Masculine
- Masculine personal, example: chlopiec (meski osobowy)
- Masculine animate, example: pies (meski zywotny)
- Masculine inanimate, example: dom (meski niezywotny)
Feminine, example: studentka
Neutral, example: krzeslo

All masculine personals are also animate, but not all masculine animate are personal.
z_darius   
30 May 2010
History / Miracle of the Vistula 80th anniversary? [56]

What people remember is on thing. What history proves quite another.

Three questions:

1. What does that text on the first domino say in German?
2. Who's that guy on he right?
3. Could you remind us again what was the name of that East German organization that so bravely abolished communism?

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z_darius   
30 May 2010
History / Miracle of the Vistula 80th anniversary? [56]

Protecting???

Yes, from the rotten West, of course.

Are you really trying to prove

No, you brought the subject of the invasion to support your claims that East Germans fought so bravely against communism, in the context of Poland's alleged insignificance in that process. Fact are quite different. East Germans were pus.sies.
z_darius   
30 May 2010
History / Miracle of the Vistula 80th anniversary? [56]

Erm...you are joking, right?

No, I;m not. It was a powerful symbol and a powerful barrier, protecting a tiny fraction of German Inner border.

Are you drunk?

At approximately 11 pm on August 20, 1968,[6] Eastern Bloc armies from five Warsaw Pact countries, Soviet Union, Bulgaria,[7] Poland, Hungary, and East Germany, invaded the ČSSR. That night, 200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 2,000 tanks entered the country.[8]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia
z_darius   
30 May 2010
History / Miracle of the Vistula 80th anniversary? [56]

Yes, that's why the commies needed to build a wall in the first place...to stop the commie Wessis from storming in to the East..;)

BBoy, you haven't read my entire post, so I repeat: the Wall cut off 500 sq/km within a country of 108,333 sq/km, that's 0.46% of GDR. The wall was insignificant in keeping East Germans inside the paradise.

The wall was about 170 km long. GDR borders with FRD alone, were 1,381 km long.

And you are right of course, the famous Prague Spring uprising (which the brave Poles helped resistingly to destroy)

Yes, and they did so alongside their East German comrades. That's German history 101 for you.
z_darius   
30 May 2010
History / Miracle of the Vistula 80th anniversary? [56]

Yeah, that's why they needed to build a wall...

BBoy, that legendary wall is quite a bit overblown. It surrounded West Berlin from the rest of GDR. The area of W.Berlin was around 500 square kilometers. The area of GDR was 108,333 square kilometers.

Soviets knew Poland needed no concrete walls because far more difficult walls had already been erected in 1945 - CSRR and GDR. In the east there was the USSR. Jumping those walls would mean going straight into the embrace of the friendly STASI, StB or KGB. It might be an approach peculiar to those in GDR that jumping a wall would lead to freedom. Perhaps in East Berlin, but not in Poland, even if there was a wall.

There were definitely no walls around all of GDR. The commies needed no walls to keep the obedient nation under control and the degree of cooperation with STASI was shockingly high. So don't tell us how the "brave" GDRians fought for freedom. They tried once in 1950's and that was it. The never tried again. They were allowed to cross the Wall so they did. Now Germans live a myth of an alleged heroic struggle to demolish the wall. Demolish it they did. But that was no different than a demolition company that is contracted to demolish a house. Somehow those companies are not declared to be freedom fighters, and rightly so.

I know it may be hard for you to get over these facts, but they are facts. East Germans, in their cooperation with the Soviet commies were unrivaled, although Czekoslovakians came as close second.
z_darius   
29 May 2010
History / Miracle of the Vistula 80th anniversary? [56]

Actually, the Battle of Britain was won by Tom Cruise. But hey, don't be too harsh on Americans with complexes. American also cracked the Enigma machine and were instrumental in the organizing of the escape from the Stalag Luft III near what is now Zagan.