News / Poland's "historical path" is that of "fascism" (Jew attack alert) [43]

What about a picture of the German whose death at migrant hands started everything? He was a half-Cuban involved in the antifascist movement.

And according to the Attonry general of Saxony (as of yesterday) there is no evidence that "hunts" have taken place against migrants and no photos or videos that suggest such actions either.

the latest protests have been peaceful and memorialize the Germans killed by the Merkeljugend (aka egg shells, the by product of her grand experiement)

Why has the international media spread so many lies about Chemnitz?

Law / Inheritance Law in Poland (protecting myself from in laws) [25]

Probably more informed people will chime in, but your best protection is probably having everything in your name alone.


That is very much a danger, don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

In general Polish inheritance laws are terrible and only exist in their current form as a way of insuring steady income for lawyers....

Life / Small change in shops in Poland!? [95]

I hardly notice it anymore since I almost always pay by card...

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


Actually it's Śmigus-dyngus, often abbreviated to śmigus (or rephrased as 'lany poniedziałek')

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


It's m in every other Slavic language that I've checked except Ukrainian, where they reverse the elements to get vedmid'

I try not to think about Mikołaj because it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that it was in fact the Polish equivalent of Nicholas... even after seeing the fricking Święty Mikołaj guys in early December - I thought that maybe Mikołaj was just a local end of year winter guy like Ded Moroz for Russians... and somehow just blanked out the first name of Kopernik...


You're assuming he hasn't? I thought it was a botched job that left him babbling and typing incoherently while he drools all over himself... maybe that's why he doesn't know anything about his own mother.....

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


More like
miód -> miedź (through softening of the kind widely used in Slavic languages)

the second part is trickier, but probably

wiad -> wiedź (as in wiedzieć)

some think the root was jad (eat) but I'm not sure where the w cam from in that case

Germanic peoples also developed a taboo about the original word for bear and replaced with with words related to the meaning 'the brown one'.

Romance speakers never did develop such a taboo so in Romanian it's just urs... (Hungarian borrowed the name from Slavic - medve)

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


Compared with other Slavic languages it's a little weird... it should be miedźwiedź (the etymology is honey knower or honey eater, opinions vary) not sure how the m turned into an n (I assume kind of consonant harmony)

Language / Polish words that sound funny? [224]


cause she married you? a punishable offence (I'm sure she's paid for her mistake many times over)

Stick to the subject of the thread please

Life / How's the life of an LGBT person in Poland? [90]


You think he does or could love anyone? Silly.....

He doesn't even know when his own mother died, the old fraud.

Life / How's the life of an LGBT person in Poland? [90]


Somebody should explain the Tri-City to the OP (I'm too tired).

Isn't it a mixed bag culturally? Some years ago a gay acquaintance had been offered a job in a small town in the area (easy driving distance to the Tri-City). The problem for him wasn't the small town but Gdańsk which he found to be a lot more culturally conservative than other cities of similar size. But this was in the heyday of Jankowski so things might have changed a lot since then.

One think I liked in visits was how the trains were (still are?) integrated into the mass transit system.

Life / How's the life of an LGBT person in Poland? [90]


In the movie it's pronounced wyngiel (like the old lady's tyż meant to evoke a village accent).

Life / How's the life of an LGBT person in Poland? [90]


Miś!
Przywieźli wyngiel! Wyngiel je w wiosce!
Wojna będzie.... przed wojną tyż był.

(They've brought coal! There's coal in the village.
There's gonna be a war.... before the war there was coal too)

Before the last few years people from the Sub-continent were very, very, very rare in Poland and so when Poles went in large numbers to the UK that would have been their first contact.

IINM it was in those early EU years that the slur 'ciapaty' arose so there's probably something to what M is saying.

Genealogy / Ethnic Poles or Ethnic Germans? My family mystery [37]

Largely because the hobby horses of mainstream politicians no longer resonate with voters and the politicians aren't going to change just because the dumb elctorate is too stupid to understand their greatness.

This creates a vacuum into which populists of various stripes can flourish.
Too often established politicians try to lead when they should be following and we're seeing the result.

Life / How's the life of an LGBT person in Poland? [90]


Please note that the hate here is coming from people who do not live in Poland (I think some of them have never been in Poland) and those who do live in Poland are saying the same thing: It's not Germany but it's a lot better than Russia (for example) and headed in the direction of Germany rather than Iran.

I've known a fair amount of gay people in Poland who have no problems whatsoever.

There are lots of reasons for a person to study or not study in Poland but concern about assault for being gay is not really one of them.

Life / How's the life of an LGBT person in Poland? [90]


cite? from where specifically and what ethnicity specifically?

Life / How's the life of an LGBT person in Poland? [90]


If it involves children, animals or dead bodies... (or some other stuff that exists)....


then yes, they should be afraid to show their sexuality...

no.... it doesn't

Language / "-ska" Polish last name different from "-ski"? [15]

I googled a little and it looks like Wieteska is declined like a feminine noun (like Wajda) so your name probably would be too...

Life / How's the life of an LGBT person in Poland? [90]


Somewhere in between. Atch's post sums it up pretty well I'll just add one thing:

Poland is a "hate the forest, but like some of the tree's" kind of place. That is even people who have very negative attitudes towards certain groups (including gay people) can and do make lots of exceptions for individuals so what people say and how they behave are two different things.

Language / "-ska" Polish last name different from "-ski"? [15]


That's found very occasionally in Poland, here's an example

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mateusz_Wieteska

There's also an actor with the same last name (I have no idea if they're related).

I have no idea why (I can think of a few possibilities but I'll let those who know more about the history of names answer that)

Language / How do Poles feel about foreigners learning their language? [105]


Both the English and Spanish of the new world were based on low prestige dialects from poor areas because it was mostly people who were from poor areas with no prospects who emigrated, IIRC North England and Ireland for English and Andalusia and Extremadura (the name means 'extremely difficult' which should be a clue) for Spanish.

I'm not so sure about French or Portuguese....

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


No. Both the democratic and republican elite want never-ending large scaled low skilled immigration (for different reasons - the republicans like cheap workers who don't have many rights and the democrats like low information voters they can bribe with welfare goodies).

In this case the will of the majority of citizens (as in most of Europe) is completely irrelevant to the government. A highly dysfunctional situation which will probably lead to large scale trouble within a few years...

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


Well the flood of culturally alien Southern and Eastern Europeans helped bring the era of mass immigration to an end around 1920... and Southern and Eastern immigrants had mixed feelings about their cultures and often felt they were backward and were eager to assimilate to more advanced American norms.

How many middle eastern or african migrants in Europe think of their own cultures as backward and want to assimilate to European norms? Some do think that and try to assimilate but many more....

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


This is starting to sound like a German project to interfere in other EU states internal budgets. No thanks.

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


To be paid by who?

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


Laws can be changed and those laws need to be changed with all possible speed, they are hopelessly outdated and fail all tests of utility at present because they lead to things like this:

bild.de/regional/ruhrgebiet/unna/fluechtling-randaliert-ganzen-ort-56654538.bild.html

(failed asylum seeker who's become a menace to a small German town can't be deported for stupid bureaucratic reasons)

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


No, the bigger the jackass the less people want to pay attention to it and _no one_ is a bigger jackass here than phony baloney lyin' Rich.

Normal people will instinctively recoil away from anything your loathesomeness approves of.

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


If I didn't know better I'd assume that Dirk and Rich are on the payroll of pro-open borders NGOs as their cackhanded and infantile nastiness makes people reflexively side with migrants, even when they know better.

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]


Well slowness by some predominantly muslim groups to assimilate tends to create that impression.... what percentage of pakistanis where some kind of pakistani (rather than general western) clothes? what percentage marries a cousin from pakistan vs a random other person in the UK?

With Germany there's the problem that it often can't deport people because they do clever things like tear up their passports, not show up for court dates or move to a new city and spell their name differently or fail to show up at the airport for their flight home. I just read an article in German about a failed refugee (from the Ivory Coast) who's terrorizing a small German town and the police can't do anything and the German government can't deport him because Ivory Coast very sensibly doesn't want him back. They might be able to get him documents

Law / Polish citizenship by petition to the president of Poland? [66]


Well from a purely legal point of view it was legitimate since every other country recognized it as such (as did international bodies such as the UN) and the current government is seen as a continuation of the country formed in 1944 rather than some completely new entity (or a continuation of the interwar republic).

Notice I'm not talking about morals or ethics (since the governments from 1944 to 1989 were generally terrible in all sorts of ways) but purely legal.

If your argument for citizenship is based on legal grounds you need to understand and follow the legal system in place (and not the one you wish was in place)

UK, Ireland / No Poles Allowed! - Latest Polonophobic Outrage Out of Britain [660]

To be fair to widdle dirky wirky, he's hardly the only the person to do that... the end result has been that no one believes any statistics and so we're right back to talking about and making policy in a state of acute ignorance hoping it will all work out.... somehow....