Law / Am I obliged to have a business before I apply for a temporary residency on the basis of starting a business? [7]

G-d save us, the aliens have landed!
LOL

Of which European country are you a citizen, not that it matters:-)

History / Poland's society at communism and socialism time [55]

Johnny, sure it only SEEMS that the US is as you say it still is owing no doubt to some pretty hefty, indeed skillful, PR, with folks like The Trumpster leading the cheering section! Many Europeans find America a laughing stock and it's not out of jealousy or some such nonsense, believe me.

Always easy to say that everything's "A-okay" 24 seven, if one's not listening to the complaints out there, blithely ignoring endemic, to be sure, systemic, problems, and/or drowning most difficulties, personal or otherwise, in a steady stream of booze or drugs:-)

Any president literally unable to accept criticism either has a mental unbalance or is plain stupid, or.....is on something!

I always say, take the best of both worlds, the fantastic freedom of sheer space offered by the US, combine it with some of the infrastructural standards of the major Scandinavian countries, and you have paradise on earth.

@Spike31,

Yes, technically you're correct.

History / Poland's society at communism and socialism time [55]

Socialism is NOT Communism and I don't see many Danes or Swedes rebelling against their way of life with protest votes and political upsets as have plagued the US!

Allright, Sweden has trimmed down somewhat her quite generous welfare state over the past decades, at least there isn't the same sort of social turmoil as we have, albeit as a considerably smaller, traditionally homogeneous society, the average working-class Swede hasn't been handling the immigration problem as one would have expected.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Takes a hell of a lot more than a mere challenge on someone's part to hurt my feelings, old sport!
That's true, you're not a history teacher, nevertheless, often the input from outsiders can actually be valuable on rare occasions:-)
Appreciate the post.

Couldn't you tell I was being sarky anyway?
lol

History / Poland's society at communism and socialism time [55]

Depends once again, Milo, on one's definition of "failure"!

History / Poland's society at communism and socialism time [55]

Yet, the former implies that people enjoy cheating others legally, yet those same folks would be riled up as anything if THEY themselves got cheated:-)

It's really a double-edged sword.

History / Poland's society at communism and socialism time [55]

On the other hand, Milo, as you know, I have long considered myself a proud "New Deal Democrat", moreover a Republican aka "Progressive" of
the Lincolnesque variety! Pure anything can be dangerous, pure Socialism as well as pure Capitalism. Everything in moderation, friends.
:-)

Work / A job at a real estate agent vacancy in Wroclaw [22]

He might well succeed nowadays on what is known as "the novelty angle"!

If Poland can have a John Godson serving in her parliament, then I think she's long since ready for a black realtor.
'Course Godson spoke Polish, but I'm certain the above poster will learn Polish too if he's serious about that which he claims:-)

History / Poland's society at communism and socialism time [55]

What the collapse of political Communism proved to anyone with eyes and ears is that Communism doesn't work!
Competition is natural, re-distribution of wealth in order that in some ideal craziness factory workers earn as much as factory owners upon whom
the former depend, completely unnatural and out of synch with basic human desires:-)

Having said that, I will reiterate that untrammeled, run-away greed is nearly as bad as purposely trying to earn less money rather than more.
Balance has always been the key to economic and social success.

New Deal America under Roosevelt, although scarcely perfect by any stretch, pushed humans to strive to be the best while at the same time, not losing

sight of those less fortunate. The question should never be, "Why aren't you a billionaire?", instead, "Are you living up to your full potential?"

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Never even thought you were, Classic34.
Oh by the way, thank you for your "permission" to be on PF. Need I sign any special dispensation for such?LOL
:-))))

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

"There'll always be an England, and England shall be free..."

"Allons enfantes de la patrie...."

Uhh, I don't think so, dude! What was true in the Marseillaise scene in "Casablanca" as well "In Which We Serve" with John Mills, is still true today, old

Sport!

Don't sell either the Brits or the French short.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

You forgot, Classic34, "unwashed" proletariatsLOL

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Responsibilty means realizing we are ALL in a sense "responsible" for the misdeeds of our fellow humans with whom we share this planet!
What side were poor shtettl Jews on during the War in which they were senselessly and unspeakable massacred?? That's easy, the right side.
Let's not play Devil's Advocate now.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Dirk, I have serious doubts as to on which side you or your family were on during the War. We seem to be revising history shamelessly, don't we!

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Thanks Tacitus, once again for being the sole voice of reason throughout this and other related threads!

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Denmark, B.B. if only because there were so bloody few of them.

@Tacitus,

BINGO!!!

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Dr. Ludwig Mueller was the Nazi-appointed head of the Catholic Church, true enough.

Though Niemoeller and Bonhoeffer etc. both Protestants however, were among the most valiant anti-Nazis. The White Rose too had ties with figures such as Father Alfred Delp, a Catholic cleric and fervent anti-Nazi!

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

@B.B.

Ahemm, think you missed my point some!
I wasn't implying that Christian anti-Semitism proved to be anything other than what it was, all I'm saying is that the reason things turned out the way they did in Nazi Germany compared with other countries within "Christian", specifically Catholic, Europe, was because Germany may have indeed superficially "welcomed", yet never EMBRACED the Judeo-Christian ethic aka the concept of 'Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself' or 'All of us are created equal before G-d' and the like.

The pagans were warriors, whose warrior gods reflected an undeveloped, essential primitive belief in the survival of the strongest, much as in the animal kingdom!

Vikings, Vandals, Goths along with those who sacked Rome, merely took what they could, as much as they could, as savagely as they pleased, taking their cues from

a society which had not graduated to the later Christian concept of respect for men, not as mere creations, but as human vs. "animal" beings.

The Nazis tapped easily into this gaping chasm of pagan Teutonic history, forces which sadly showed themselves to be far more enticing than either Christianity or certainly the Enlightenment. Here, a large degree of infantile projection is at work too. Children after all instinctively bully, tease, and torment, grabbing, taking, and pushing others out of the way until they are stopped, presumably by a parent.

It was in the end, the Allies, veterans of a society in which grassroots, functional, Christianity came to the fore, who finally slew the vicious pagan beast known as Hitlerism and saved our world.

History / Should Poland be given ANY credit for ALLOWING Jews into Poland for 1000 years? [195]

Thus far, Poland hasn't payed nearly as much in compensation (restytucja) as has Germany!
Compared though with Germany, Cracow remains the one spot in Poland where Israeli Jews as well as those from other countries often come
to celebrate their Jewish identity side by side with gentile Poles.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

A nation already starting out with large territory and numerous people will necessarily produce more offspring.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

....and there was the Lutheran "schism" with Rome, the 30-Years War and the general discontent with Christianity.....

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Klasse nicht Masse, Vlad!

It's not the mere quantity, but the quality of the offspring that makes all the difference:-) A race of mental defectives owing to poor early nutritions etc ad nauseum helps nobody, particularly an already overtaxed medical and school system.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Folks have been arguing, roughly ever since the early fifties, that the Germans never truly Christianized, because they always remained proud pagans at heart.
Hence the relatively easy, untrammeled rise of Hitler; once all Judeo-Christian morality is removed from the game, rules of traditional convention are deemed
fit to be broken at the Strong Man's whim, fair play, conscience along with human soul are then considered laughable commodities, easily dispensable in the Fuehrer's brave new Thousand Year Reich, no surprise that what happened was ALLOWED to happen. Hell, being pagan's a lot more "fun" than being a Christian. Being a subject is far more expedient than being a democrat where a citizen must take commitment and responsibility for himself and those around him.

Yepski, ol' Professor Plessner was right all along!

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

How then is pride in one's accomplishment strange, Vlad?

Language / Why is Polish such an ugly language? [22]

Such is part of what makes Polish Polish!! How unbearably boring this planet if all languages sounded alike,
were replaced by a sort of erstwhile failed Esperanto and had all the husk and kernel removed from it!!

Watch "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) and observe the horrors or homogeneity:-)

Language / Why is Polish such an ugly language? [22]

English didn't, at least within anyone's recent memory. German did recently, but only its orthography, not its grammar:-)

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

We're talking then about re-education, pawian.

Study / Multilingual School in Warsaw (English / Polish) [26]

It might be hard to pick up Polish just on site. Perhaps she should take some private instruction beforehand so that she is prepared for his first school term.

So many teachers complain that a large number of pupils enter their first year of school and barely even know the target language of class instruction.

Can't speak for Poland, but in neighboring Germany, a majority of future primary school teachers have quit the profession out of sheer frustration of not being

able to communicate with their charges in German! So far as I can tell, US-style "bilingual instruction", such as being taught German or other subjects in, say, Turkish,

is rare.

We wish you the very best of luck and certainly don't wish to dampen your prospects!

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

The Letts, Livonians, and the Lithuanians though, were not.

Actually, the Livonians were originally of Germanic origin, I believe.

Life / What do decent Poles think about true rightists ? [148]

@Dirk,

You don't "get rid of" people for no reason! That's not Christian, it's not human! G-d is the measure of all things, and never forget it!!

The downfall of many a man has been their unbridled, unrepentant hybns:-)