News / Lech Walesa vs Immigration: Brits humiliated him at London Heathrow Airport [105]

Airports in a lot of places are like that now. I wonder if Wałęsa tried to pull a "Do you know who I am?" Which most likely got him a reply he didn't like.

News / Lech Walesa vs Immigration: Brits humiliated him at London Heathrow Airport [105]


Did they 'disrespect' him, or were they doing their job?


Nothing. Since 2004 they just show their passport. If security check someone's baggage it is only with good reason. Nothing to do with nationality and VIPs, whether A list or C list are not exempt from that - only diplomats and diplomatic couriers are exempt. Remind me how easy it is for Poles to get into your adopted country?


WTF?


Lotsa luck with that.

Life / Are dogs allowed on buses in Poland? [6]

In Warsaw, they're supposed to be muzzled but some drivers don't look too hard.

News / Lech Walesa vs Immigration: Brits humiliated him at London Heathrow Airport [105]

So what? He isn't a diplomat so can't refuse the normal procedures. Strange that they checked him - to suggest 'antipolonism' is laughable. Presumably he was picked out for another reason.

Life / Are dogs allowed on buses in Poland? [6]

Yes with a muzzle. A little dog can usually get away without, but medium size or above can't if the driver is ok. Larger dogs are sometimes ok, but carry a muzzle in case.

UK, Ireland / Recommendations for Polish shops in Manchester [3]

Try a better drink, called cider.

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

Evidently you must have.

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]


The post you were replying to largely covers it, however to expand, we can say that Nationalism is a political idea. What soccer hooligans, Jarosław Kaczynski, the wrong sort of flag wavers practise isn't anything really - not so much a political philosophy as just liking the costume.

UK, Ireland / 1.2% of scottish population born in Poland [37]

Plenty have moved to Sputh America over the years and a fair number to the two other places you mentioned.

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

Yes. Patriotism is about what you feel inside rather than an outward expression of that in itself. That can be a sign of false patriotism - an attachment to the flag waving - as much as anything else. And it's very much about ones country rather than ones roots.

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

What does patriotism really mean though. That's something that people discuss without ever reaching a precise meaning.

UK, Ireland / 1.2% of scottish population born in Poland [37]


Not that that money pays for anything else on the tv or radio, does it....

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]

Apparently quite a lot ok UK pound coins are forged. I don't know about Polish - though I'm told some are.

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]

Now you mention forgeries, have you ever has a forged banknote here? I haven't, but saw a forged 100 once. It looked perfect but the paper was slightly wrong.

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]

Those were amazing times, with prices getting higher day by day. Sometimes quicker than that. And really, I never saw a coin used.

Work / Young dutch graduate (social sciences at university level) - job prospects in Poland? [15]

What sort of thing do you want to do, what City are you in/going to, and how quick are you at learning languages?


Pretty well true. That or language teaching, depending on the city. Anything else needs excellent Polish.

History / Khazars and their crimes in the Slavic lands of Poland [63]

I'm glad you agree with me, Barney. We can't talk with any authority about the Khazars - they left no traces whatsoever. No place names, no surnames, no literature or art. Only a possible genetic marker in the local population.


As I said, these are studies of Ashkenazi DNA. That is what all this is about, as amply demonstrated aboveVery thorough and proving beyond all doubt that the Ashkenazi Jews have their root in the Middle East.

You see Barney, when people posts threads on here about the Khazars, they don't give a monkeys about the ancient community whose society crumbled about a thousand years ago. They are obsessing about the Joos.

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]


I don't remember ever seeing any in those days, except for people showing me them. It's not unusual in inflationary currencies and/or places with low denomination notes.

Study / My experience in Poland (Poznan) as a student who recently moved from Syria [117]

The question is, what to do with those small coins. I put coins of 50g and under in charity boxes. Otherwise they wreck your trouser pockets (and those male coin purses are naff). You can also save 10, 20 and 50g coins of you need to use vending machines for anything.

History / Khazars and their crimes in the Slavic lands of Poland [63]

Some did (their royal court) for diplomatic reasons, however as far as we know it didn't last.

We don't even know the Khazar genetic markets, however there's an assumption it involves the eu19 chromasome. Present in only 12% of Ashkhenazis and 60% of the modern day residents of the lands the Khazars inhabited.

So, what evidence we have points to them just staying after the fall of their culture.

UK, Ireland / 1.2% of scottish population born in Poland [37]

https://polishforums.com/history/jozef-pilsudski-king-modern-poles-41571/5/#msg1402007

There you go.

UK, Ireland / 1.2% of scottish population born in Poland [37]

If you think that, I doubt you've spent much time there at all.

Then again, immigrants should be something you'd actually know about (though I'm sceptical you know much about anything, since you said that Japan is a 'Slavic nation') being one yourself.

UK, Ireland / 1.2% of scottish population born in Poland [37]


Have you spent much time in any of those places?

UK, Ireland / 1.2% of scottish population born in Poland [37]


Only some. Common sense prevails in the end, and only the inadequate get worked up by who marries whom.

History / Khazars and their crimes in the Slavic lands of Poland [63]

Barney: You can debunk a "theory" and the Khazar thing is nonsense there is no scientific basis for it at all
Agreed!

It's sad however that some people have a bee in their bonnet about one particular group and use that Khazar tosh as a way to try and delegitimise their claim to a particular piece of territory and demonise them in general. Some of the dodgier posters here are happy enough to do that, without caring that it's a load of tosh.

Sad that they should have to dwell so much on their origins, however if others use that as a stick to beat them with we can hardly blame them.

UK, Ireland / 1.2% of scottish population born in Poland [37]


In the UK, Scotland included for now at least, nobody thinks about stuff like that nowadays, do they? Plenty of couples have different skin colours and the world didn't end.

UK, Ireland / 1.2% of scottish population born in Poland [37]

I can't say I notice or think anything if I do.

History / Khazars and their crimes in the Slavic lands of Poland [63]

Actually, Barney, if you'd bothered to read the whole thing, you'd find that it doesn't support the 'khazar' myth at all.

If you want to see the links on here, use the search function as I suggested earlier. If however it's a little late for you do do that, take a chill pill and try the bedtime reading below:

adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2000PNAS...97.6769H
familytreedna.com/pdf/43026_doron.pdf
adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2002Sci...298.2381R
plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.0020143
bhusers.upf.edu/dcomas/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Behar2010.pdf
gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/1/61

History / Khazars and their crimes in the Slavic lands of Poland [63]

My point entirely. However if you actually read the text with a clean, cold, sober eye, you'll see they've addressed that. The 'Khazar' myth is so marginal that it's covered in the body of the text rather than meriting a place in the abstract. Do you need to be told which page to look at?

News / How do Poles feel about the outcome of Germany's elections? [90]

Some people like flags. I don't own one myself, however we use them often enough in Poland.