UK, Ireland / Benefit cuts for Poles in The UK? [143]


Why don't you answer Zeti's question rather than demanding that she ask herself one?

Life / Foreigners in Poland - the identities of our native or the host country [66]


Warszawski why do you write "sic" after mentioning this so-called "Polonia elite"? Do you understand that "sic" means "as stated" and it is usually used when qouting something someone else has written, most commonly when one is qouting something that contains a spelling error. In your case your use of "sic" is claiming that there are Polonians on this forum that proclaim themselves to be members of an elite. Where was this done on the forum? Can you provide any examples of Polonians claiming that they are elites? I suspect that you cannot and that you wrote "sic" because you are angry at some Polonians on this forum for daring to criticize the British and thus you pretend that Polonians here have put on airs by claiming to be members of an elite. Do you really believe that lying about the Polonian members of this forum in the OP of this thread is a good idea? Isn't this known as flaming?

Moderators is it OK for me to ask these questions of the threadstarter? If not then why? I desire clarification of a phrase used in this thread's OP. Is it somehow off-topic to ask for it? If so then why? The threadstarter freely claims that he is a member of the capitalist elite in Poland in the following statement:


The thread starter thinks that Poland should do more to make him feel welcome. He claims that he is part of a "new wave" that is operating under some duress in Poland:


What are these difficult circumstances? Does he want a tax break? Why doesn't he provide us with some answers to his question? Is it wrong for us to ask why a self-proclaimed member of this elite new wave in Poland claims that Polonians on the forum claim to be members of an elite too, without providing any evidence for this claim? I think the threadstarter may have an unrealistic sense of his own importance for Poland. I think that Grzegorz may have "hit the nail on the head" regarding the sentiments expressed by the threadstarter with the following post:

History / How Poland was losing her intelligentsia [19]


Pawain, you mentioned Steve Jobs as an example of genius but you should realize that he and Wozniak were a team:


/wiki/Steve_Wozniak
Wozniak is also, alas, yet another example of this thread's subject as his Silesian ancestors, that carried the seed of genius in their loins, emigrated to the USA.

History / How Poland was losing her intelligentsia [19]


I do now. You are speaking of emigration.


Perhaps Steve Wozniak is a better example for this forum. He is not a Pole but he is Polish.

History / How Poland was losing her intelligentsia [19]

Pawain, your OP doesn't explain this thread's title other than mentioning the death of the inventor Stefan Kudelski. Is it soley death that accounts for how Poland is/was losing her intelligentsia, or do you have other phenomena in mind too, and if so what are they?

Australia / Poles invaded the wrong Anglo-Saxon country [29]


You said that Asian immigration is bad and that it is making NZ worse. You have shown the forum that you are reflexive racist and that is very disgusting. Polonia pities you and your bigoted ilk.


Laugh it up but it only makes you look creepier.

Australia / Poles invaded the wrong Anglo-Saxon country [29]


Bad for bigots.


The locals might want to check a globe and realize that Asia is much nearer to New Zealand than Europe is.


Worse for bigots.

Life / Is sarcasm widespread in Poland? [27]


The Anglophonic penchant for disingenous self-deprecation is hilariously summed up in the following anecdote about Thomas Mann when he was living here in Southern California.

Mann was at a cocktail party and an American writer approached him, presumably to discuss literature, but before the American began he launched into a lengthy paroxysm of self-deprecation. After the American writer left Mann turned to the others present and said "Why does he make himself so small? He's not that big!"

News / Poland is the source of horsemeat in burgers? [169]


Pawain, most Hindus are vegetarians that avoid eating any meat regardless of the animal source, but they are far more adverse to eating cows than they are to eating pigs and horses.

Language / How similar are Polish and Romanian languages? [75]


No, the languages are from the same family-- the Indo-European language family. They are from different branches of this family: the Slavic and the Romance.

History / What do Poles owe to Russians? [193]

Gunter Grass, who is half Kashubian, claims in The Tin Drum that "Pan Kichote" the character from Cervantes, is greatly beloved by the Poles and that his knightly affectation is seen by them as being so very Polish that they consider him one of their own. The street is surely named for the character and not the operetta.

This page is certainly filled with alot of interesting media besides text, but does anyone else have their computer stall when trying to load it? Pawain, you are an interesting addition to this forum, but you post so many youtube videos and photos in some of your threads that the prospective reader may well get angry at the fact that you keep freezing his computer. How and why do you add dozens of photos and videos to a single post here? It looks to me like the limit is four per post, but you have obviously found a way around it.

Off-Topic / What Slavic language is closer to Lithuanian? [16]


You are wrong. The Lithuanians are strange birds. You should know that they didn't convert to Christianity until 1386. So too their language has come through the centuries in archaic form. The supernumerous verbal conjugations required by Lithuanian are only matched by one other living Indo-European language and that is Sanskrit. Sankrit is kept "alive" in spite of its ancientness because it is the sacredotal language of two major world religions. Lithuanian remains magnificently archaic because the Lithuanians were isolated for so long, and then when they did burst out onto the scene of history, becoming the pagan overlords of Slavic Ruthenia, they made their decrees in Ruthenian, not Lithuanian. They kept their language for themselves. When they allied with Poland much of the Lithuanian aristocracy was Polonized. When Lithuanian aristocrats decided to become nationalists a century ago many of them had to learn to speak Lithuanian and undergo the study of well neigh endless conjugations, but the Lithuanian language is not "closer" or "further" to any one Slavic language more than it is to any other Slavic language. The Slavic and Baltic branches of the Indo-European language family diverged long ago, and given the traditionalist bent of the Lithuanians, it'd take a helluva lot more time than a couple centuries of Russian domination to make Lithuanian take on a Slavic form.

Travel / BIGGEST MOSQUE IN POLAND! - Gdansk [42]


There have been mosques in Poland for centuries in all of Poland's major cities. Perhaps the Poles you know are aping the stupidity of certain Western Europeans but Poland herself has a proud history of religious tolerance.

It may be hard to imagine for you but some of us have heard of a dust up called World War 2 in which large numbers Buddhist Japanese became kamikazees and did just what you have trouble imagining.

If you want to claim that the Buddhist Japanese didn't do this out of religious fevor than we can also tell you that Muslims who resort to suicide missions are also doing so for political and not religious reasons.

It makes me sick when supposedly circumspect people buy into Islamophobic propaganda.

Travel / BIGGEST MOSQUE IN POLAND! - Gdansk [42]


Long ago a Lithuanian Grand-Duke allowed some Muslim Tartars to settle in his territory after they'd lost a war against Tamerlane the Great. Muslims arrived in Polish-Lithuanian territory centuries ago and they have been valued members of Polish-Lithuanian society ever since. Islamophobia is not a Polish problem, but it is a problem for people like gavin, so much the worse for him and his sad ilk.

UK, Ireland / Polonization of Britain - Tipping Point Confirmed in 2011 Census [97]


It was said about Poles and other immigrant European nationalities, including the Germans, here in the USA, especially during the late19th and the first half of the 20th Century. It is an empty worry and even if some immigrants act like the Germans that we call Amish, or Pennsylvania Dutch, and never integrate, then so what? Who cares? Poland was shining example of multi-culturalism in the past and her history may provide a template for the multicultural future of Europe. Broadening the liberty granted in old Poland only to members of the szlachta give every citizen the freedom to live as he so chooses. Be a Tartar Muslim or a Lithuanian Lutheran if you so choose you'll still be "one of us", and so too in Britain today be a Polish speaking Catholic or whatever you want to be.


Integration shouldn't be a matter of pressure, nor should it be mandatory, (and with the case of Latinos here in the South-West one cannot say that their culture is any less the host culture than the Anglophonic one. This used to be Spanish and then Mexican territory and Latinos have lived here continually since long before any Anglophones settled here.) Integration depends upon the attractiveness of the host culture. Maybe the German way isn't so charming to the immigrant Turk, but here in the USA if the first generation of immigrants doesn't learn English then their progeny surely will and they won't have to be "pressured" to do so.


Some people have a hang-up about hearing foreign tongues spoken around them, but there is no reason that they should be upset by this. If there are British people under the sway of this irrationality then so much the worse for them.

UK, Ireland / Polonization of Britain - Tipping Point Confirmed in 2011 Census [97]

Very adroit analysis, Bieganski, maybe the influx of Poles, from a proud republic with no history of domination by the British Empire, will change Britain for the better. They may teach the British what it means to be free.


You haven't answered my question. Why do you believe this metaphor fits?


Why do elderly waitresses always call me that?

UK, Ireland / Polonization of Britain - Tipping Point Confirmed in 2011 Census [97]


Hahahahahahaha! What drives a person to make such a claim about his country, and why does he choose a pugalistic metaphor? Bragging about how "tough" Britain is is hilarious! Thanks for the comic relief.


Thanks for the truth.

UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]


No, for the most part, they moved to Pakistan because the were Muslims and others moved from Pakistan to the newly truncated India because they were Hindus. Are you claiming that Muslim South-Asians are physically different than Hindu ones?


No one is going to suspend you for explaining why you consider Filipinos and Vietnamese to be as physically similar as Indians and Pakistanis. You know this. You made a stupid ill-considered claim and now you are offering a stupid excuse for why you cannot defend it.

UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]


You can't honestly be suggesting that you can see physical differences between these two nationalities. You must be aware of the fact that Pakistan was part of India before 1948 and that much of her populace moved there from India at the time of partition and that many people moved from Pakistan to India at the same time.


If you think that Filipinos and Vietnamese look as similar to one another as Indians and Pakistanis then you are delusional.

News / Highlights of passing year, in Poland (or elsewhere) which made hot discussions in PF [57]

The Israeli army's shameful destruction of an ancient well in occupied Palestine, an ancient well that a Polish charity had nobly restored, certainly made for a heated discussion on the forum, but unfortunately a gang of hasbarist scumbags spammed the thread with off-topic posts and personal attacks leading to its permanent closure.

History / Traditional /historical punishments in Poland [6]

Sienkiewicz claims that the Poles learned impalement from the Wallachians. The third book of the Trilogy contains a passage which narrates the inner-thoughts of a Tartar prince being exectuted in this manner.

News / Polish families are urged to establish themselves in Norway : Taking children away? [36]


The state of Israel is an ethnocracy not a democracy. Gentiles are treated like second-class citizens in the state of Israel, if they have Israeli citizenship, and Israel has ruled millions of other Gentiles for over 45 years without granting them citizenship or even the most basic human rights. Israel is a racist state. Putting this foreign colony in the region was crazy. Fighting it is not.

History / 'Prehistory' Celts in Southern Poland [20]


That is not what the Arians believed. They believed that Jesus was a divine being created by God. They did not believe that he was merely a man.

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]


Some posters are so "regular" that they defecate 2400+ times upon this forum in only a few months.


Yeah we Polonians laugh at the British expatriate trolls who do this. Living in Poland for a few years does not make them experts.


Yes. F stop, they may be experts on such mundane matters, but as for understanding the Polish spirit they seem to be incapable of doing this.

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]




There you have the reason for this thread, F-Stop. Delphiandomine believes that people living abroad have lost their connection to Poland and thus we Polonians have no authority on this forum. It is really quite a childish and silly thread. It is an unfortunate side-effect of some sort of twisted territorialism that delphiandomine feels for this forum and that the moderators unfortunately indulge. The dog has urinated on the fire hydrant.

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]


Why is this a shock to you? You should realize that most people in the word don't live in Poland. Isn't being easily shocked a sign of imbecility?


Uh oh! Did you wet em' over this second and even bigger shock? That's okay.


Do my opinions seem strong to you? Maybe it's just that you are so paltry and weak.

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]

I'll pick a fight with any fool that crosses me, moderator or not.


What personal attacks have I made? I have had a creepy Scotsman make claims about my personal life and then immediately delete them and then had another creepy Brit qoute them and keep them posted, and the latter is supossed to be a moderator here! This place is ridiculous.

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]


What about the moderator Vincent? Should he be keeping delphiandomine's claims about my personal life posted after even delphiandomine himself deleted them? Oh wait is it that Vincent is Britsh and you wouldn't complain about a fellow Brit's asinine behavior? If so then you are sickening hypocrite.


And some moderators are too.

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]


Are you actually qualified to teach English in the UK? Isn't half of zero still zero?


I think your instincts are right in this case.

Off-Topic / Are you living in Poland? [77]


I find it strange that amongst some British posters, living in Poland, with no Polish blood, is that they cleave together like a pack of mangey curs, when posting on this forum, despite Britian's reputation for producing individualists. I guess the experience of living in Poland eliminates that admirable national characteristic in some British expatriates, or maybe they were conformist sheeple to begin with. It is unfortunate.

To answer the thread's query. No, I do not live in Poland. I am residing in the golden state of California where the weather is usually grand and lately the surf is almost always up!