History / Pieces of Real Polish History [60]


The Constitution of the USA was not ratified until 1789 with the final state, Rhode Island, approving it in May of 1790 and so Poland was really only a year behind the USA with her May 3rd Constitution.

History / Pieces of Real Polish History [60]


Totalitarian rule was imposed upon Poland by foreign powers. You cannot actually believe that total freedom of speech in Poland would ever lead Poles to impose it upon themselves.

History / Pieces of Real Polish History [60]


No, the United Kingdom does not have a written constitution. It is a monarchy. The republic of Poland would do well to enshine freedom of speech in theirs as it is in the constitution of their fellow republic the USA.

History / Pieces of Real Polish History [60]


I believe in freedom and I assumed that in Poland, the land of the shining Golden Freedom, the freedom of speech would be sacrosanct but apparently not everyone in Poland is so devoted to liberty because you Antek seem to be some sort of sad Polish abortion guided by the restrictive Soviet mores you mistakenly believe you oppose. That being said I have not engaged in any speech that the laws of Poland restrict. You've got no case against me Kommissar.

History / Pieces of Real Polish History [60]


Like your mind.

History / Pieces of Real Polish History [60]


Outlaws! Everywhere you look! So much of this forum wears black hats! Marshal Antek is gathering a posse....

History / Symbols & Signs in Polish History, Culture & Life [89]


In his memoirs the 17th Century Polish raconteur Jan Pasek wrote that despite his best efforts he was unable to get the widow he had married pregnant and one day he discovered the horrible reason for her inability to conceive. Some sneaks, most probably the widow's children from her previous marriage that didn't want any of their inheritance going to new step-siblings, had hidden a cadaver's severed finger under the mattress of their marriage bed. The nearness of a corpse's digit was superstitiously believed to be an effective method of contraception back in those days.

History / Symbols & Signs in Polish History, Culture & Life [89]


That is how my grandfather told me to place it. The other way is so that the _U_ is like a cup that catches luck, which, I guess, falls from the sky in that superstition.

History / Symbols & Signs in Polish History, Culture & Life [89]

In Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovitch it is written that prisoners in the gulag were provided with no utensils at all, when allowed to eat their gruel, and so some would form spoons out of scrap wire, and crudely forge them to be usable, and always lick them clean after every meal, and always have them upon their persons. Is it possible that Lech's belt spoon is a symbol of solidarity with those imprisoned in Siberia by the Soviet authorities?

History / Symbols & Signs in Polish History, Culture & Life [89]

It is a spoon with the top of the handle bent and attached with a sort of hinge to his belt. The photo is a famous one that was taken as Lech was leaving the Gdansk Shipyards to meet with Pope John Paul II. I know it is a spoon because a large clear version of the photo was printed in a story, about Poland, in the LA Times a few months ago, and I was puzzled as to why would he be wearing a spoon upon his belt, because In the USA the only people wearing spoons on their persons were cocaine users back in the 1980's and these spoons were very tiny and attached to bracelets or necklaces, and although I know Poles have the reputation for being able to consume large amounts of intoxicants, if that was actually Lech's idea of an appropriately sized "coke spoon" then he was some kind of superman.

History / Symbols & Signs in Polish History, Culture & Life [89]

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History / Symbols & Signs in Polish History, Culture & Life [89]

No it is not a camping utensil but an ornamental spoon attached to his belt I will search the internet for the photo and then provide a link, if I can find it.

History / Symbols & Signs in Polish History, Culture & Life [89]


What about "belt spoons". There is a famous photo of a cigarette smoking Lech Wałesa taken during the Solidarity struggle striding forward and waving and there is a bent spoon attached to his belt that looks like it has something engraved upon it as well? Is this also a traditional Polish ornament and if so what does it symbolize? Also on the subject of bent and engraved metal objects, when I was a boy my father's father gave me an iron horseshoe, with my name engraved upon it, and told me to affix it above the door to my room for good luck. Is this also a Polish tradition, or if not a tradition in all of Poland is it at least a regional one? His parents came from the mountains South of Cracow.

History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]


Read the history books there were no dragons, nor were there evil villians at the Battle of Vienna, but there was Sobieski and his winged hussars which the Tartars and Turks knew, and feared, and fled from.

History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]


This is the truth despite the fact that Poles were a minority among the troop count of the anti-Turkish forces. The Polish Hussars were the warriors that the Turks and Tartars feared and fled from, not the masses of Germans which were killed by the Sultan's forces in great numbers and not at all respected nor feared.

History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]


The Austrians could've kept their thalers and not participated in the partitions of Poland and that would have been much better. Poland's saving Austria only to have Austria rend Poland apart a few decades later will forever be an example of the most despicable ingratitude.

History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]


He saved the Austrians from them and look how they repaid Poland in spades. Polski your Islamophobia is un-Polish. Don't ape western Europeans and Zionists who are Islamopobic because they know the colonial crimes they have commited against Muslims have made Muslims dislike them. Poland is above this.

History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]

Before the partitions Poland was great because it was an aristocratic republic. In other words, Poland was great because her kings were prevented from being so.

Life / How many Jewish people live in Poland? [145]

The post above numbered 92 purports to quote me, but it was not I who posted that which is quoted.

History / German Traitor And Polish Pig [96]


The man shearing the youths in the video looks exactly like alot of stupid conformist German-American idiots I have known, and if facism comes ruin this great nation they will be the ones cheering it on. If you live in America you know these types. You can easily find yourself bored and almost incredulous that the people in the house you are visiting are so stupid and intolerant and then you look up to see the cuckoo clock on the wall and the tacky beer steins on the mantel.

UK, Ireland / 4 teenage boys held in UK - murder of chef stabbed to death as he celebrated his 30th bday [24]


Have a look at this British police incident report form: somethingawful.com/d/news/wobbingpool-police-report.php

News / How long will it take for the first 9/11 to occur in Poland? [55]


That Poland treated its Muslim Tartar citizens with respect, and got it in return, has nothing to do with cowardice, but rather everything to do with nobility and tolerance. You Llama are not a dromedary but a jackass.


How does one even reply to such "steam of drunkeness" rambling? Is this idiot trying to suggest that Poland was like the appeaser of Hitler, Neville Chamberlin, for having Muslim citizens for centuries, despite the fact that they comprised some of Poland's best light cavalry and fought to defend her?

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


This is not entirely true because as this link shows poles.org/DB/Pol_Astros/Pol_Astros.html

The USA has sent some Polish guys into space too. They may have been American, and not Polish, citizens but their surnames (except for the 2nd from the left's) sure look Polish.

Food / Mayonnaise and ketchup in Poland [47]


Yes

Food / Mayonnaise and ketchup in Poland [47]


We do know that there was no tomato sauce in Africa, Asia, and Europe in the stone age because the tomato is native to the Americas and it was not found in the Old World until after it was imported following the voyage of Columbus.

USA, Canada / Polish-Americans as seen in the false mirror. Type A and Type B. [141]


I have always held up Poland's shining multi-ethnic and multi-cultural republic as an example for other states to follow and I see her in this respect as a European instance of what makes the USA great. I have never advocated ethnically cleansing Germans from anywhere. If I warn people to beware of an unfortunate conformist streak in German culture that does not mean I think Germans are less than human nor that they should be mistreated. Are you confusing me with another poster?


I have never claimed my blood is 100% Polish, nor have I ever made any assertions about the purity or impurity of anyone's blood including my own. You ranted about impure blood and were suspended for it. Do not confuse me with yourself.

USA, Canada / Polish-Americans as seen in the false mirror. Type A and Type B. [141]


I speak for myself on this forum not for Poland, nor have I ever claimed otherwise.


I side with Piłsudski and not with Dmowski when evaluating the 2nd Republic and I have never made a racist comment on this forum. You on the otherhand have made racist remarks about the impurity of Polish-American blood and were suspended yesterday for so doing, and yet you have the gall to accuse me of racism because you have no class, nor do you comprehend what you read, because this thread's OP posits no "Poland B" but rather Polish-Americans of a type labelled B.

History / German Traitor And Polish Pig [96]


I ask those perusing this discussion forum to watch the OP's video and pay special attention to the German shearing the heads of the unfortunate lovers. Look at that face. Look at its expression and ask yourself if you have seen it before. I daresay if you live in the USA that you have seen it all too often. No one should deny that Germany has had many great artists and sensitive souls, but it has also had many creatures like him, and it has exported all too many of them to my land. His type must be opposed, ridiculed, and never treated deferentially.

History / Lancers' fantasies (fantaisies) - Polish revellers [5]



And he was extremely precocious militarily- rising to the rank of second lieutenant at the age of eleven years.


So when this thread started we believed this humorous quip was improvised upon the spot at the restaurant Adria, and I thought it very witty, but you, Boletus, then uncovered the fact that this line was first said by Antoine Charles Louis Lassalle before leading cavalrymen up the stairs of Cezarini Palazzo in Peruggia during the Napoleonic Wars. So now the question is posed does the fact that the inebriated Generał Bolesław Wieniawa-Długoszowski did not think of this statement all by himself in that restaurant make it a less witty remark than if he'd originated it? Or does the fact that he has taken a serious remark, uttered in time of war over 100 years earlier, and transposed it onto a humorous situation actually make it more witty? I believe the latter. What do you think?

News / U.S., Poland sign military aviation accord [24]


If you are asserting Serbia started WW1 then you are wrong. The Austrian Archduke's assassin was not a citizen of the Kingdom of Serbia nor an agent of it. He was a citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Said empire used his ethnicity as a pretext to attack the Kingdom of Serbia. The Habsburgs started the first world war not the Serbs.