Language / How similar is the Italian accent to the Polish accent (when speaking English)? [34]

Italians tend to add vowels to the end of consonant-ending words...
As in: My frienda here, he's a gooda man.
Poles would tend to devoice final voiced consonants and drop out articles:
My frent, he gut man.

Life / Is parity the answer for Polish women? [262]

A femi-fascist is a 'hurray for our side' man-hater whose whole mentality has been contaminated by genderism. Her only other bugbear is Catholicism. Read some of her blogs. If she isn't feminising she's Church-bashing in one way or the other.

Believe it or not, Środa recently said (regarding the Radziszewska row), that as a paracticing Catholic Radziszewska has no business being an equality minister.
It's a case of sour grapes, because Środa herself was the gender-equality minister in the post-commie cabinet.

Life / Jehova's witnesses in Poland - how to deal with them? [110]

JWs are not to be bashed but admried and emulated. Unlike many Catholics and other Christians, they actually practice what they preach.Because of their faith they are honest, truthful, hard-working, conscientious, faithful to their spouses and moderate in food and drink. From what I have heard, a member who goes astray is promptly expelled and re-admitted only after doing extensive penance.

To some people their refusal to bear arms (conscientious objection to military service), swear allegiance to states (such as our 'Our pledge allegaince to the flag' recited daily in US schools) and receive blood transfusions makes them controversial.

Life / Jehova's witnesses in Poland - how to deal with them? [110]

But an entryphone can be put to various use. The resident can say 'get lost', 'drop dead' or
%&#$?!#&&?. He/she can slam down the receiver or may politely say 'I'm a practicing Catholic and am not interested in changing my faith.'

Personally, on occasion I have entered into discussion with JWs. People of such conviction and dedication deserve their five minutes. A basic knowledge fo Christianity (going beyond the tabloidised paedophile scandals, Spanish Inquisiton or Italy's Renaissance poisoner popes) is helpful in such discourse.

News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

Why should only the woman be allowed to decide? It takes two to tango. Abortions should be persmsisible in extreme cases only with the written consent of both the woman and the man who impregnated her. Don't men have any rights?

News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

'Aborcja na życzenie' means a woman can have her unborn baby murdered just because she feels like it without giving any reason. Poland's current law allows abortion in case of:

-- a threat to the woman's health
-- a threat to the woman's life
-- a badly deformed foetus
-- pregancy resulting from rape
-- pregnancy resulting from incest.
At a time when many childless couples are looking to adopt, those who do not want or cannot afford to care for a baby should consider that option rather than choosing the selfish and criminal way out. Murder is murder whether or not you give it some fancy name like euthanasia, capital punishment or termination of pregnancy.

News / Tusk cracks down on designer drugs ("dopalacze") in Poland [171]

Well, the good ol' USA sells alcohol from age 21 and you must have proof -- usually a driving licence. (In decadent Germany 14-year-olds are served beer at McDonalds.) The are also various state restrictions in the USA such as legal closing times. In Michigan, no alcohol of any kind may be sold on Sudnay before 1 p.m. and only wine and beer are sold on over the rest of Sunday. Sunday is the Lord's day meant for worship and family togetherness, not pub-crawling. Does you heart really bleed for the souses and boozers who think otherwise?!

There are also 'dry' towns. If the local popualce vote in a referendum that they want no off-licence shops or pubs within their town's limits, then so be it. That is true democracy.

News / Tusk cracks down on designer drugs ("dopalacze") in Poland [171]

All these products (smart drugs, designer drugs, memory enhancers, herbal whichmecallits, etc.) should be classified as illicit drugs, outlawed and be done with it. All this testing of ingredients which can be modified by one or two atoms overnigth is nonsense.

All potnetially harmful products are banned. Full stop!
As far as connvenional illegal drugs (grass, ampha, coke, extasy, etc.) are concerned, the onus should be on pub and club owners. If plainclothesmen find a single customer puffing a joint, the puffer is questioend until he freveals his source, and the owner gets a warning. The second time he loses his licence. It is up to him and his security gaurds, chuckers-out, etc. to not allow any harmful products onto the premises. Again a health regulation can be used: it is unlawful to store harmful substances in a public establishment. Properly publicised by the media, the publicans would be shaking in their boots and bending over backwards to keep their place drug-free.

Life / Disco Polo - No No No No No! [95]

One Polish anthropologist told me that Poland's disco-polo bashers are wannabe snobs trying to conceal the fact (even from themselves) that they themselves are only one or two generations removed from the countryside. Jumping on the conformist anti-disco bandwagon heightens their sense of self-worth and makes them feel more citified, sophisticated and cutting edge. Any comments?

News / Tusk cracks down on designer drugs ("dopalacze") in Poland [171]

On what legal grounds were the Irish smart shops banned?

Genealogy / NAGONOWSKY: Please help to find my host family in Poland [5]

Ring the Urząd Gminny in Środa, ask for the Dział Ewidencji Ludności and check if any Nagonowskis live in the area. They may give out an address. This must all be handled in Polish, of course.

News / Tusk cracks down on designer drugs ("dopalacze") in Poland [171]

Designer drugs can hardly be comapred to energy drinks when they lead to cases of poisoning and even death!

News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

Powsińska? Please explain.

News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

The roughly $10 billion dollars worth of real estate is what the commie regime stole from the Church. Since the restoration of private ownership, those confiscated lands and buildings have been returned and, where that was impossible (war. damage, demoliton, building over the original sites), financial compensation has been provided. Now Palikot is using that sum to suggest the state is bankrolling the Church.

News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

Palikot's got an MA in philosophy from Warsaw Univ. but was earning pennies as a teaching assistant at the Philosophy Faculty. He apparently had an inborn knack for business, sensed a market for wooden goods palettes in great demand in Germany), then moved to the wine and vodka business and soon became a millionaire. He even briefly bankroleld the Catholic weekly Ozon. One thing that can be said for him (all his clowning aside), he has helped Poland's demographics by fathering 4 children. It took him two wives to do so but....

With his madcap antics he has also provided some comic relief to Poland's somewhat dour and pompous Polish politiclal scene.

News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

The Church-bashing and librertine persmissivism (comdomisign youngsters, abortion at whim, etc.) are a blueprint for moral decay, but even Hitler built the VW and modern motorways and had one of Europe's best health insurance systems. So too Palikot has some good ideas including:

-- downsizing the Sejm from 460 to 300 deputies
-- one-mandate voting (voting for candidates rather than parties)
-- a maximum of two 4-year terms in offcie for MPs
-- no subsidising of political parties.
Abolition of the Senate does not seem wise as this body corrects or fine-tunes legislation. Maybe downsizing it to 50 (from the current 100) seats would be OK.

Genealogy / Stąpor: Questions about my family [9]

No coat of arms accompanies the Stąpor surname or any of its many other spellings.

Food / Any czernina fans on PF? [23]

A shot-down wild duck will have usually usually lost much of its blood after your trusty golden retriever fetches it.

Food / Any czernina fans on PF? [23]

If made well, this is one of the grandest soups ever -- rich, tangy, fruity, sweet & sour -- it doesn't get any better than this. May be served with egg noodles, potato-ball dumplings or potatoes. ) PolAm kids used to call it 'chocolate soup & bullets' (referring to the stick-to-the-ribs potato dumplings).

USA, Canada / Do any other Polish Americans feel that our culture needs to be more well preserved? [38]

It depends how one defines Americaism. Is someone who dislikes apple pie and baseball unAmerican or even a traitor? Not until a law is enacted making not liking thsose illegal.

America is a huge salad bowl comprising diverse ingredients. Will it contain everythign but Polish ingredients is up to us PolAms.
PolAms need to be culturally more assertive and expose fellow-Americfans to our unique cultrual contributions. The Jews, Balcks, Hispanics, Irish, Arabs and others are doing so. Czy my gorsi?

History / No Nazi puppet regime in Poland? [45]

For those interested, here is a list of the Nazis' 'Polish' collaborators:
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategoria:Polscy_kolaboranci_III_Rzeszy

In english: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Polish_collaborators_with_Nazi_Germany

History / No Nazi puppet regime in Poland? [45]

The 'Chrystus narodów' concept was part of the messianism inherent in Poland's 19th-century romantic ideology.
Re the original question, I did hear once upon a time that a couple of Polish noblemen had made advances to the Nazis, but do not recall the details. Anyone know anything about this?

Genealogy / Location of Berkynek in Poland (where my Kicki ancestors came from) [14]

Under German occupation Barlinek was called Berlinchen (Little Berlin). The interesting interesting thing is that German place-names ending in -in and -au are mostly of early Slavonic origin anyway. Eg Zittau from Żytawa.

Life / Disco Polo - No No No No No! [95]

But there is no more loud, tasteles, repetitively obnoxious noise than rap crap... Why would anyone want to hear about narcodealers or slumdwellers wanting to kill cops and rape females set to that droningly monotonous unga-bunga beat?

News / ORBIS: Another Commie business of Poland bites the dust [5]

Orbis was set up in Lwów in 1920 or thereabouts. Your line should have read: Another Polish brand bites the dust. LOT is not far behind because the Luftwaffe or Lufthansa or some other Heil Hitler outfit is already getting read to pounce on Poland's national airline.