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PennBoy   
20 Jun 2011
News / Lithuanian ambassador 'Poles not loyal citizens' [63]

OK I understand that completely but what if your parents taught and raised you as a Ukrainian??? I know people who's children were born here and got them Polish citizenships. I know some girls who were born here (America) and refuse to marry anyone other than a Polish guy because they want their kids to be Polish and speak it just like their parents taught it to them.
PennBoy   
20 Jun 2011
News / Lithuanian ambassador 'Poles not loyal citizens' [63]

Would you, please, expand on this one, PennBoy?

Maybe they wanna live in Lithuania but like they have been doing for centuries, as Poles not assimilating, mixing with the general population. For fear of losing their identity and forgetting that they're Poles. That's what the Lithuanians are afraid of too.
PennBoy   
20 Jun 2011
News / Lithuanian ambassador 'Poles not loyal citizens' [63]

“[In Lithuania] there are Russians, Belarusians, Jews, and they are all ‘more Lithuanian’ than the [ethnic] Poles [residing there],” Ambassador Zakareviciene told the agency.

What did I say on the other thread about Poles in Lithuania? They're mad that Poles have been living there in large numbers for 2 centuries and have assimilated less than Russians who came after WWII. Maybe they don't wanna be Lithuanians.
PennBoy   
20 Jun 2011
News / Lithuanian ambassador 'Poles not loyal citizens' [63]

The Lithuanian ambassador in Warsaw has criticised Poles resident in the Baltic state for not being loyal to authorities in Vilnius.
"[In Lithuania] there are Russians, Belarusians, Jews, and they are all 'more Lithuanian' than the [ethnic] Poles [residing there]," Ambassador Zakareviciene told the agency.

Poles-not-loyal-citizens-says-Lithuanian-ambassador

kresy24.pl/showNews/news_id/16728/
PennBoy   
18 Jun 2011
News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Belarussians tend to be very nice people in my experience.

They are met a few of them and all the Poles who knew them liked them, easy going.

Belarussian village and its traditions

I seriously doubt Belarus is cleaner than Poland, maybe Minsk is clean but it's full of old communist style buildings.
PennBoy   
17 Jun 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

Polacy to jóźki takie

OK i see what you mean, kind of like in Poland someone calls an another person a Bolek, even though it's a name it also has a negative meaning, Bolek's someone you mock. P.S. Magdalena I've never used Pepiki always Czesi.
PennBoy   
17 Jun 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

Vy Češi jste takový pepíci. My Poláci vám tak říkáme protože nám to připadá vtipný."

You Czechs are those Pepiks. Us Poles say that because we thinks it's amusing. Did I get it close enough?? ;) But you're wrong Magdalena, Poles don't have any resentment towards Czechs I've never heard anyone say that angrily or laughing, it's a neutral saying. Like if they called us Janki or something like that.
PennBoy   
17 Jun 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

Than what's the deal with saying that pepiki is OK

My Czech friend Marketa told me in her language that's simply a boys name, Pepik. I don't think Poles say it derogatorily more neutrally. Like Poles call Silesians, Hanysy.
PennBoy   
17 Jun 2011
Life / Homosexuality in Polish Culture [231]

Anal and oral sex between males is not acceptable in mainstream culture anywhere...This has nothing to do with 'Polish culture'

Agreed. Hasn't it been proven that homosexuality is a mental disorder?. People who do that know that there's something wrong but can't do anything about it. They should be treated.
PennBoy   
17 Jun 2011
News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

I only partially agree. Language is important and it was mostly via language and Polish literary output, the church and other cultural traditions that Poland as a nation has survived. Russification program of Poles in both Crown (Warsaw, etc.) and today's Belarus was fierce, deadly and persistent.

Very true. People that allowed themselves to be Russified through not speaking their own language and adapting Russian culture see only a slight or no difference between themselves and Russians.

However Belarus is cleaner than Poland and has impressive avenues and buildings.Belarussian men are well trained with muscles and belarussian women are of another planet.Such concentrated beauty is difficult to find.I had to pay my contribution there.

What have you been smoking?
PennBoy   
17 Jun 2011
News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

exploit their oil & gas reserves and poison the Mexican Gulf

America is doing just that. America has an "ocean" of shale gas underneath it's soil, by far largest in the world. This is just to make more money abroad. If Poland didn't want the American companies there they wouldn't be there.
PennBoy   
17 Jun 2011
News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

isolate the country and force it into Russian hands

Of course not. The youth wants to be with the west, young Belarussians speak Belarussian in the streets.
Those old folks still living in the past need to be thrown out.
PennBoy   
17 Jun 2011
News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Lukaszenko

He fears Poland more than Russia. As a large EU state, with a sizable Polish minority in his country Poles can end his rule.
PennBoy   
16 Jun 2011
News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Andrzej Poczobut, a correspondent for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, was arrested for articles he wrote that allegedly insulted President Aleksandr Lukashenko.
The trial is being held behind closed doors, prompting rebuke from Poland and independent journalism organizations.

ibtimes.com/articles/164141/20110616/belarus-poland-journalism-arrest-show-trial.htm
PennBoy   
15 Jun 2011
News / For all Americans worried about Schengen in Poland, dont worry about it. [142]

To be honest, I've always thought from the American point of view - it was better to have the world divided in two.

You can see the problems America has now with being the sole Superpower

Not only that but It's fairer to other smaller states to be able to choose with whom they want to side, not be threatened to do so. No one likes a bully.
PennBoy   
15 Jun 2011
News / For all Americans worried about Schengen in Poland, dont worry about it. [142]

What Patton said was correct. "While we are here, lets take what is left of the German Army and beat the crap out of the Russians." Too bad the idea wasn't well received. We collectively could have prevented decades of Soviet occupation of Poland.

The Cold War didn't occur because of different ideologies. The Soviet Union existed since just after WWI and there was no conflict for decades. The Cold War started because the U.S. gave the Soviets a bill for the whole lend-lease program and they refused to pay.
PennBoy   
15 Jun 2011
News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]

You know what,thats word for word what people said about our post war Poles around here. came with nothing,ended up valuable members of sociaty and proud citizens of the UK.......

True. Those Poles integrated well into British society. Some of these new arrivals make them ashamed.

But dont you just love Nigerian names sometimes? I liked their last presidents name, Goodluck Johnathan........:)

Beats pronouncing Akinnuoye-Agbaje :), although he is a good actor.
PennBoy   
14 Jun 2011
News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]

Actually, Polish sand used to be sold to some countries in the Sahara region since local sand was impure and could not be used for water filtering purposes ;-)

Tusk is ready to listen to Arab bidders

Arabs buying sand. What has the world come to?
PennBoy   
14 Jun 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

Way back in 2005, I used to listen to a Czech radio station from Olomouc as it had great music. I could really hear the similarities to Polish. It is weaker for sure but, then again, so are most Slavic languages.

My Mexican friend tells me Polish sounds hard, maybe from the Slavic languages but German sounds much more hard overall.
PennBoy   
14 Jun 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]

With "high" Czech, totally. German words remain in street Czech.

Aren't Czechs themselves because of those centuries of outside influence a big genetic melting pot. They're more or less 1/3 Slavic, 1/3 Germanic, 1/3 Latin (Mediterranean). This must be where the beauty of Czech women comes from :)
PennBoy   
14 Jun 2011
Food / Expats' Polish food favourites [140]

Stuffed cabbage rolls are eaten by 97% of Croatian women around the age of 25.

Most Polish food has a foreign origin. I tried arguing with a Bosnian a while back that Golabki are Polish, i was wrong.
PennBoy   
14 Jun 2011
Food / Mayonnaise and ketchup in Poland [47]

Exactly! Ketchup is Asian, I have to correct you.

not what we call ketchup today, the name yes. It was originally and i quote " a concoction of pickled fish and spices" modern day tomato ketchup was discovery centuries later in America.
PennBoy   
14 Jun 2011
Food / Mayonnaise and ketchup in Poland [47]

So Heinz is Polish and not American? Either you are provoking me or are revelling in the absurd? Ketchup is NOT a Polish food, end of.

Heinz is from right here in lovely Pennsylvania and tomato ketchup is American as well. Even that Pudliszki ketchup I love so much is owned by Heinz now. This is from where the confusion may have come from, since it's a household name in Poland as well.