News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]


If you look at the other paragraphs, you would see that I say that there should be no bashing of ppl at all. This wasn't regarding the incident as such, but more a reaction to sb who said why racism has crept into this discussion. So I responded explaining that some ppl felt it necessary to involve the entire black population into the incident. I won't tolerate any bashing of any ppl, and you know that. But I cannot stand the fact that nothing is said when blacks get bashed, but yet start crying when whites are being bashed. That was what I was trying to say. I don't go with Harry's terminonlogy at all and you should know that. Btw, those comments I was referring to were removed in an earlier stage, so you couldn't have read them.

@Sokrates:

As I understand it, loads of ppl started throwing stuff at the police. I would call that making wrong decisions, wouldn't you?

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M-G (tiens)

News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]


Does that happen a lot? :) I'm white too, but I only got confronted once when I was 15. Never since.


It became a race thing pretty quickly after a few participants decided it was a good idea to involve the entire black race into the incident. Most of it has been removed though.


I actually have to go with Harry on this one; there is such an incredible amount of "black bashing" on this and other threads that it only seems fair that the whites get a share of their own cake. And that is suddenly a bad thing? Compare the number of bashings of coloured ppl with the number of times that white ppl get bashed. I do not go with his terminology, mind you! But his point is pretty clear and I think I have described it correctly in this paragraph.

Only when there is "whitey bashing" then the "intermediators", who try to reason with the "whitey bashers", but remarkably enough never with the "black bashers", pop up. On a first impression this would seem that those "intermediators" actually agree with the "black bashers".

In fact, there should be no bashing of any ppl whatsoever, but if it's gonna be that it's mainly black ppl who get bashed here, expect some white bashing in return. And don't start crying if it happens. It's simple: no white bashing means no black bashing. Let's all agree on that and we will have a merry conversation without any foul atmosphere.

And, pls, do NOT use political correctness as an excuse. This has nothing to do with it. I'm not political correct when I bash racists. I don't care about political correctness, I just find racism disgusting. Besides, with the right-wing wind that is flying currently through Europe, it might just soon be "political correct" to be racist, which in turn would make all the ppl who are currently using the term as an excuse anti racists, as racism would be PC.

Let's just regard this as a tragic incident in which a couple of ppl made the wrong decisions and one person is left dead. That is sad enough, and it really doesn't matter if the deceased is black, white, purple, yellow or green. His blood is just as red as yours.

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M-G (no time for racism)

News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]

That's his problem, jonni, he presumes and assumes too much. He assumes all black or coloured ppl have only bad intent. And you know why that is? Because he is a scared little man. A scared little man afraid of change. :)

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M-G (A change is gonna come, to speak with good old Sam Cooke, who was as black as black could be, btw)

News / Polish Policeman shoots down a foreigner in Warsaw [300]


Of course a black person can commit a crime. The point however is, unfortunately that one black person committing a crime, on this forum leads inevitably to statements that ALL black ppl are criminals, and after a few sideways in the form of Indians, Jews and the like, the discussion will most likely end up in one big racist slur. That's how it usually goes on this forum, unfortunately.

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M-G (why can't some ppl take other ppl person per person?)

News / Poland standing tall in troubled times [11]


I do agree that this is a major advantage. In NL they privatized these things and look what a mess it is now: in my area I hear that the mail is delivered by four different companies, one for the leaflets, one for the mail up to 20 grammes, one for all the other mail and one for packages :(

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M-G (the state should keep those things like Mail, Utilities and so on)

Off-Topic / CEE - Central European Empire [49]


Trust me, once you see the girls you can have for free, you will be corrupt :)


Hm, is that how they call it nowadays?

:)

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M-G (tiens)

Off-Topic / CEE - Central European Empire [49]

We will be glad to welcome the CEE into the United States of the Netherlands! You will enjoy all the liberties that goes with incorporation :)

PS: as a token of our goodwill we want to offer all of those in charge of the CEE a voucher, good for one free ride in a Red Light district venue of their choice. How about that, huh? Much better than making war :))

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M-G (soon the whole world will be or will want to be part of it)

History / DID THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF POLAND CENSOR MAIL IN AND OUT OF POLAND [29]

I know, we all were. I went to Berlin in 1986 and me and my friends of course wanted to see East Berlin with all the hassle this meant at Checkpoint Charley. To us it was just cool, a part of Europe that has been closed to us our entire life. Just to see it meant a thrill, not the thrill of "look how bad they have it", but more a thrill of sth completely unknown at the time. You were in the East. Where soldiers ruled.

A friend of mine, whose gf and later wife was the daughter of Hungarians who had fled during the 1956 Imre Nagy revolt, told us that he on a trip to his gf's relatives in Hungary also had been to the far East of that country and that he could see the Soviet Union. At the time we thought that was awesome and incredibly cool. Not that we supported the SU, but because it was a strange, closed country. A country that you couldn't enter just like that.

However, if you were willing enough to spend some time waiting, you could indeed visit Czechoslowakia, Romania, Poland and the SU. Hungary and Bulgaria and of course Yugoslavia were always relatively easy to access.

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M-G (tiens)

History / DID THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF POLAND CENSOR MAIL IN AND OUT OF POLAND [29]


I knew there was a connection :) We got taught that such a conflict would mainly take place in Germany. There was, as far as I know, not a specific plan in case of conflict. At least not for the Dutch army. They scared us though by telling us that a Eastbloc missile was pointed at each of our cities and the main thread were to come from the former DDR.

That directive is from 1970: forum.fok.nl/topic/900075

It's in Dutch, don't need to read it, it's about the revelations the opening of the Warsaw Pakt archives brought forth, just want you to look at the map that's included. They had plans to atombomb cities like Amsterdam, Apeldoorn, Zwolle and the like. The main battlefield would have been in the area where I grew up :S

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M-G (scary idea that the 3rd World War would have been fought in my backyard)

History / DID THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF POLAND CENSOR MAIL IN AND OUT OF POLAND [29]


Well, it was during the Cold War. You guys were the enemy. You can't expect that sth correct or positive is being taught to kids about the enemy. I am sure you guys got quite distorted lessons where the West was concerned.

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M-G (but thanks for the clarification)

History / DID THE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT OF POLAND CENSOR MAIL IN AND OUT OF POLAND [29]


Only ppl on the commie watch list? We were taught back then that everybody got censured. In fact we censured the East Bloc away: I can remember that in my school a map of Europe hung where everything East from Western Germany, Austria, Yugoslavia and Greece was literally made grey with a few red dots and squares to mark the cities. Exceptions were Turkey to the East of Greece, which was coloured like the West and Albania, which like the East was greyed out as well.

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M-G (we were also taught that ppl in those "grey areas" were only out to start a war with us and kill us all)

History / How Polish history is viewed by other countries textbooks [124]

In the standard history books in NL, Poland is mentioned in the context of the German/Russian invasion of September 1939, how brutal the Nazi occupation was, Solidarnosc and the "revolution" of 1989/1991. Copernicus and Chopin are also subjects.

At university I learned about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the partitions of PL, the independence of 1918 (though briefly and in the wider context of the creation of states like Czechoslowakia and so on), of course WW2, the Cold War (albeit only sideways) and the "revolution" of 1989/1991. During 1991 and the years after that, I focused more on Yugoslavia.

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M-G (tiens)

News / Who will be the next President of Poland? [51]

Santa Claus.

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M-G (and if you don't behave, you won't get candy)

Love / I'm getting married to a Polish guy and need advice before visit his family; gifts, topics, customs [82]

Well, that's no wonder, Latinas are pretty hot if you ask me.

:)

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M-G (grin)

History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]

He means the Jews. Or more precise, the Zionist Jews. Joe always means Zionist Jews. Just look up his posts, you will know.

Off-Topic / PF - The Omnibus Edition [1502]

It's them being evil and pulling pranks all the time, wildrover.

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M-G (sb should go tell 'em!)

History / Casimir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) started anti-Semitism? [101]


No, he didn't. Stupidity did. Stupidity of stupid ppl who don't think any further than their nose is long, as we say in NL.

Besides, could there be a ban imposed on Jew - Pole threads and threads about racism or anti semitism? At least temporary? The atmosphere would become better instantly without all those pseudo "intellectual" explanations by some why the Jew is bad for Poland. Would that be pssbl, pls?

Edit: and for morons like Sokidonkey: I have never posted under a different nick. I'm not like you. And since when is some intelligent rebukal of your hysterically demented nonsense causing a fuss?

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M-G (tiens)


Don't get nightmares, sweetie :) It's not worth it. The ppl who keep starting it over and over again are little men and above all keyboard warriors who are brave behind the screen, safely at home. I have to admit that all this dabble about Jews and Poles and anti semitism and racism are annoying the heck out of me, but I will try and fight racist BS wherever I can as I think it's just wrong, plain wrong. Take care, you hear? Don't get nightmares again, it's not worth it :)

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M-G (will tell a bedtime story:) )

Off-Topic / Some Kurdish and Polish Similarities [53]


Dutch uses the word too. It was just to compare. But it's from the Roman Revenge Goddess Furie. English uses the word Fury, Dutch Furie and French also Furie. And about the Dutch etymologic dictionary: well, I am Dutch, so I certainly would not use a Russian etymologic dictionary :)

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M-G (tiens)

Off-Topic / Some Kurdish and Polish Similarities [53]


Furious, compare "Furieus" in Dutch. It's of French-Latin descent. Not Nordic. It's derived from "Furie", a Roman revenge goddess.

Therefore it's usually used in a female context in French and Dutch. In English it's used in both contexts.


?? See above description. Got that from a Dutch etymologic dictionary.

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M-G (furore)

History / Slovakian misrepresentation of Polish history [33]


You must be joking. About a few square miles? Who gives a shyte? And about a ppl of whom nobody outside PL and Slovakia has ever heard of?

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M-G (you got 'em)

Language / Does anybody know of a list of Polish-English False Friends and True Friends? [60]


Well, it doesn't really matter; I'm never gonna make a kwadrillion anyway during my lifetime :)

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M-G (tiens)

Food / Powidła - Poland's versatile plum butter [19]

In NL we call that "Jam" (pronounced: Sjem) and we make it not only from plums, but from all kinds of fruit like strawberries, cherries, and so on.

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M-G (but the Dutch and German kitchen is virtually the same as the Polish, that's what you get with neighbours)

Language / Does anybody know of a list of Polish-English False Friends and True Friends? [60]


That's a continental thing. Nearly everywhere on the continent an English billion is a milliard; a billion is usually the next step after a milliard, like this: million, milliard, billion, billiard. A continental billion is therefore 1000 English billion +.

I've seen more examples of things that are actually widespread in continental Europe, but are actually different in English. Poland is just being a continental state with all its influences linguistically.

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M-G (what's after a billiard, I don't know, I guess Trillion and Trilliard and after that...)

Travel / Gaelic football Krakow [15]

Online would be indeed the best option. I've actually never seen a station that broadcasted it that wasn't Irish or in Ireland.

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M-G (Setanta)

Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]


No. But there is ice and gas. Perhaps a feasible alternative?

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M-G (wants the new tune to be finished)

Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]


Men come from Mars and women from Venus. Polish women however, come from Uranus.


That is true, my friend. Sometimes I think of a beautiful Spring morning in June and then, just a few seconds later, I think of a ham sandwich and then a few seconds later again, I am thinking about how I forgot to buy coffee as there isn't anything left and then I think about how much more beautiful this morning could have been if there only was some coffee and then again a few seconds later I think about the fact that it's not that bad at all as there still is tea and then I think about how tea is much better for your health anyway and the next second I think that this only goes when you drink Green Tea and then the next second I think that actually Green Tea is pretty gross and then a moment later I come to the conclusion that his morning isn't so beautiful after all.

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M-G (bored)

Life / I was cursing Poland daily, then returned home, but now thinking of going back.. [39]

Wiktusz, do you regularily get an erection just thinking about Poland? Perhaps you are Polosexual?

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M-G (puzzled)

Love / Polish girls attitudes towards sex. [568]

I think all Polish girls are virgins with a tendency to holiness and have only heard of sex as some dirty perverted invention of the decadent West.

:)

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M-G (new tune nearly done)

News / The EU's 1 Trillion Dollar Rescue Package [144]


Oh I am, and it's all this mythical shyte that keeps causing trouble over and over again. What is your stance on the Srebrenica massacre, Seanus? Was it simply revenge for sth that happened 5 million years ago or was it a mass murder of 8000 unarmed Bosnian men, seeking refuge in a "safe zone"?

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M-G (tiens)

News / The EU's 1 Trillion Dollar Rescue Package [144]


Or they will be the bandit representatives of the rogue state it was until 2000.


Care to expand on that?

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M-G (no glorifying pls)