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8 May 2011
USA, Canada / Chicago's 1.1 million Polish Americans celebrated Constitution Day [47]
Why would that statistic be more interesting?
Why would that statistic be more interesting?
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8 May 2011
Food / Polish food at home or out? [57]
That Polish person's opinion was correct. American fast food is disgusting and nutritionally lacking. If this Pole did make a hamburger at hme it certainly wasn't the same as that which he would've gotten at a fast food restaurant, because the components of the hamburger chain's sandwich are full of preservatives and chemical flavor enhancers.
This isn't true. Even the 99 cent items at a fast food restaurant can be made more cheaply at home.
As for Polish food where I live. There are only two Polish restaurants in the whole of Southern California and neither are near my home.
A Polish person came to the US and had a bad opinion of American fast foods without even trying. He would not eat a burger from a restaurant because it was wrapped in paper, but at home he would make the same burger served on a plate and eat it.
That Polish person's opinion was correct. American fast food is disgusting and nutritionally lacking. If this Pole did make a hamburger at hme it certainly wasn't the same as that which he would've gotten at a fast food restaurant, because the components of the hamburger chain's sandwich are full of preservatives and chemical flavor enhancers.
it is cheaper to eat out than at home in the States.
This isn't true. Even the 99 cent items at a fast food restaurant can be made more cheaply at home.
As for Polish food where I live. There are only two Polish restaurants in the whole of Southern California and neither are near my home.
Des Essientes
7 May 2011
Love / Hot Polish girls in clubs - why don't they dance/talk with the most attractive men only? [148]
Arthur Schopenhauer answers this thread's question by recourse to what he calls "the genius of the species". This genius is interested in trying out new genetic combinations and thus often makes hot girls attracted to men who may not fit current societal standards of attractiveness. In additon to novelty the genius also values balance, hence the most graceful and feminine women are often attracted to the coarse and brutish, because were they to reproduce with a graceful "pretty" males their progeny would be too frail.
Arthur Schopenhauer answers this thread's question by recourse to what he calls "the genius of the species". This genius is interested in trying out new genetic combinations and thus often makes hot girls attracted to men who may not fit current societal standards of attractiveness. In additon to novelty the genius also values balance, hence the most graceful and feminine women are often attracted to the coarse and brutish, because were they to reproduce with a graceful "pretty" males their progeny would be too frail.
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7 May 2011
Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]
The Chronicle Of Rurik says that the Russ were invited in because "the Slavs were quarreling". These Slavic tribes were the foundation of the Russian nation but it is true that those Varangians gave that nation its name.
they pretty much founded Russia.
The Chronicle Of Rurik says that the Russ were invited in because "the Slavs were quarreling". These Slavic tribes were the foundation of the Russian nation but it is true that those Varangians gave that nation its name.
Des Essientes
6 May 2011
Life / Calendar of Polish Name Days [36]
This is the name of the first Earthling in space (a stray Muscovite *****).
flickr.com/photos/guymauve/5565099151/
Laika
This is the name of the first Earthling in space (a stray Muscovite *****).
flickr.com/photos/guymauve/5565099151/
Des Essientes
5 May 2011
News / How Polish diaspora see future of Poland? as ethnic Polish state or just Polish in origin? [120]
I live in the USA multiculturalism isn't strange to me.
Strange, isn't it?
I live in the USA multiculturalism isn't strange to me.
Des Essientes
5 May 2011
News / How Polish diaspora see future of Poland? as ethnic Polish state or just Polish in origin? [120]
Poland has had Muslim citizens for hundreds of years. If Polish Tartars were the ones complaining where would you deport them to?
quick deportation.
Poland has had Muslim citizens for hundreds of years. If Polish Tartars were the ones complaining where would you deport them to?
Des Essientes
5 May 2011
Law / PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF SWASTIKA AND NAZI SYMBOLS in Krakow, Poland - Where I should report them? [56]
Acording to Tacitus' Germania Germans lived in Germania and Sarmats lived in Sarmatia and both peoples feared each other. All Indo-European peoples have common ancestors but by the time of the late Roman Republic, and Empire, Germans and Sarmatians were different peoples.
Sarmats lived in Germania.
Acording to Tacitus' Germania Germans lived in Germania and Sarmats lived in Sarmatia and both peoples feared each other. All Indo-European peoples have common ancestors but by the time of the late Roman Republic, and Empire, Germans and Sarmatians were different peoples.
Des Essientes
5 May 2011
Law / PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF SWASTIKA AND NAZI SYMBOLS in Krakow, Poland - Where I should report them? [56]
It is sad such an ancient symbol, which is known worldwide and was used by proto-proto people since at least the time basket weaving, is appropriated by scoundrels. Swastika is a Sanskrit word and the symbol is associated with several dieties in Hinduism most especially the graceful goddess Saraswati, hence the name Swastika. The Nazis didn't even call it a "Swastika" but rather a "Hakenkreuzen" or some such ugly word which translates into "crooked cross" in english. Calling its Nazi usage a Swastika is unfortunate and it should be called a "Nazi-Footed-X" in English from now on, or perhaps "Hitler's Anus".
It is sad such an ancient symbol, which is known worldwide and was used by proto-proto people since at least the time basket weaving, is appropriated by scoundrels. Swastika is a Sanskrit word and the symbol is associated with several dieties in Hinduism most especially the graceful goddess Saraswati, hence the name Swastika. The Nazis didn't even call it a "Swastika" but rather a "Hakenkreuzen" or some such ugly word which translates into "crooked cross" in english. Calling its Nazi usage a Swastika is unfortunate and it should be called a "Nazi-Footed-X" in English from now on, or perhaps "Hitler's Anus".
Des Essientes
5 May 2011
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]
It was such a promising time. Napoleon was spreading the modern values of the Revolution even all the way to hoary Moscow! But the damned forces of reaction had to ruin it.
The Era is one of most wrote about eras
It was such a promising time. Napoleon was spreading the modern values of the Revolution even all the way to hoary Moscow! But the damned forces of reaction had to ruin it.
Des Essientes
4 May 2011
Classifieds / D&D Group for Expats in Warsaw needs one more player... [69]
Although I am sure it doesn't approach the popularity of Dungeons & Dragons, it appears that there is another role playing game out there called "Rifts" that was created by a Polish-American named Kevin Siembieda.
somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-dnd-rifts.php Can anyone one the forum confirm that Siembieda is a Polish surname? It looks like it to me.
Although I am sure it doesn't approach the popularity of Dungeons & Dragons, it appears that there is another role playing game out there called "Rifts" that was created by a Polish-American named Kevin Siembieda.
somethingawful.com/d/dungeons-and-dragons/wtf-dnd-rifts.php Can anyone one the forum confirm that Siembieda is a Polish surname? It looks like it to me.
Des Essientes
3 May 2011
History / Poles in the Napoleonic era [224]
Poles were also in the German Army during the First World War. There is a passage in Ernst Junger's Storm Of Steel in which a German officer asks for volunteers to storm a British machine gun emplacement, but no Germans volunteer. However one soldier, whom Junger describes as "a large lumbering Pole", does volunteer, and faced with his brave example some German soldiers are inspired, or perhaps shamed, and they volunteer to accompany the Pole. Ernst Junger being a reactionary German nationalist, who was no friend of Poland, would not have invented this story.
Poles were also in the German Army during the First World War. There is a passage in Ernst Junger's Storm Of Steel in which a German officer asks for volunteers to storm a British machine gun emplacement, but no Germans volunteer. However one soldier, whom Junger describes as "a large lumbering Pole", does volunteer, and faced with his brave example some German soldiers are inspired, or perhaps shamed, and they volunteer to accompany the Pole. Ernst Junger being a reactionary German nationalist, who was no friend of Poland, would not have invented this story.
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3 May 2011
News / "Poland is flourishing" [62]
If that crazy, blinking, freaky-looking thing is a beautiful butterfly then I don't understand Poland.
this is how Poland should be understand, as beautiful butterfly
If that crazy, blinking, freaky-looking thing is a beautiful butterfly then I don't understand Poland.
Des Essientes
2 May 2011
News / Polish people humiliated in the latest episode of Family Guy [51]
I haven't seen this episode of Family Guy but given the description of the "humiliation" I think the writer's intent was not Polonophobic, but rather he was mocking both Peter Griffith, who stupidly thinks being half Polish is objectionable, as well as Quagmire, who stupidly thinks so too. It ridicules New Englander yokles and their prejudices not Polish people.
I haven't seen this episode of Family Guy but given the description of the "humiliation" I think the writer's intent was not Polonophobic, but rather he was mocking both Peter Griffith, who stupidly thinks being half Polish is objectionable, as well as Quagmire, who stupidly thinks so too. It ridicules New Englander yokles and their prejudices not Polish people.
Des Essientes
1 May 2011
Genealogy / Do you think all Slavs are white? [178]
This is due to the curvature of the Earth which makes sunlight less dense the further north, and South, one goes from the Equator, and since whiteness is caused by the loss of melanine amongst peoples living in areas with diffuse UV B rays in order to synthesize vitamin D, it has had been noted that people in these areas whose diet is mostly fish, which is rich in vitamin D, do not lose their melanine, hence the dark complexion of Eskimos. Darker Slavs may be descended from fisherman.
In north of Poland people tend to be "whiter" and in the south darker. Same goes for Germany and France.
This is due to the curvature of the Earth which makes sunlight less dense the further north, and South, one goes from the Equator, and since whiteness is caused by the loss of melanine amongst peoples living in areas with diffuse UV B rays in order to synthesize vitamin D, it has had been noted that people in these areas whose diet is mostly fish, which is rich in vitamin D, do not lose their melanine, hence the dark complexion of Eskimos. Darker Slavs may be descended from fisherman.
Des Essientes
26 Apr 2011
Polonia / What similarities would you say there are between Poles and Mexicans? [132]
Notice I added the qualifier "for the most part" and you link doesn't disprove my qualified assertion as the Mexicans wearing shorts in it are minors and not men.
You say Mexican men don't wear shorts ever? Are you sure about that?
Notice I added the qualifier "for the most part" and you link doesn't disprove my qualified assertion as the Mexicans wearing shorts in it are minors and not men.
Des Essientes
26 Apr 2011
Polonia / What similarities would you say there are between Poles and Mexicans? [132]
Neither Mexicans nor Poles wear shorts to mass thats for sure. Mexican men, for the most part, don't wear shorts ever. And I think there are also other similarities: a proud equestrian tradition amongst both peoples, tumultous national histories, quixotic temperments, and Virgin centered churches. The last similarity, in my opinion, gives both peoples their own style in the arts, and in the art of living, which, although quite distinct, share a certain grace which is the boon of devotion to the eternal feminine.
Neither Mexicans nor Poles wear shorts to mass thats for sure. Mexican men, for the most part, don't wear shorts ever. And I think there are also other similarities: a proud equestrian tradition amongst both peoples, tumultous national histories, quixotic temperments, and Virgin centered churches. The last similarity, in my opinion, gives both peoples their own style in the arts, and in the art of living, which, although quite distinct, share a certain grace which is the boon of devotion to the eternal feminine.
Des Essientes
25 Apr 2011
Life / How could things have gone so wrong (Poland church dress code) [195]
You should have seen the "wrongs" taking Communion in my CCD class here in Southern California. I Remember the pants were so tight on this one Italian-American girl's bubble butt that my eyes nearly lept out of their sockets. The pious expression on her face was straight out of a Correggio. She saw no contradiction between her beauty and her devotion and neither should we.
i see more wrongs when young women attend church than i do with men.
You should have seen the "wrongs" taking Communion in my CCD class here in Southern California. I Remember the pants were so tight on this one Italian-American girl's bubble butt that my eyes nearly lept out of their sockets. The pious expression on her face was straight out of a Correggio. She saw no contradiction between her beauty and her devotion and neither should we.
Des Essientes
22 Apr 2011
Life / Rules of Etiquette in Poland [22]
I once read in an advice handbook for travellers visiting Poland that one must be very careful when presenting bouqets of flowers because Poles are all still aware of the specific meanings attached to each type of flower, and thus, for example, giving red roses to the wife of one's business partner would be very bad because they express sexual intentions. Is this knowledge of floral signification still widespread in Poland?
I once read in an advice handbook for travellers visiting Poland that one must be very careful when presenting bouqets of flowers because Poles are all still aware of the specific meanings attached to each type of flower, and thus, for example, giving red roses to the wife of one's business partner would be very bad because they express sexual intentions. Is this knowledge of floral signification still widespread in Poland?
Des Essientes
21 Apr 2011
News / The best Poland ever? [125]
Today's Poland is certainly better than Poland under the Soviet yoke, and the years of German Nazi occupation were surely Poland's nadir. The Second Republic was promising but all too brief, and the long years of partition were sad. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was, mostly, a time of great glory for the szlachta and they represented Poland in style, but the best Poland that ever existed was Poland before the First Millenium. Before the Polanie tribe consolidated power, and introduced government to Poland, then was the Golden Age for the Slavs of Poland. They lived as hunters, gatherers, and gardeners without any authorities around to tell them what to do. In harmony with nature these people had all they needed: room to roam and fine women to bone. Say what you will about the "advantages" of civilization the freedom of primeval existence trumps them all, but alas, cleverness has defeated wisdom.
Today's Poland is certainly better than Poland under the Soviet yoke, and the years of German Nazi occupation were surely Poland's nadir. The Second Republic was promising but all too brief, and the long years of partition were sad. The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was, mostly, a time of great glory for the szlachta and they represented Poland in style, but the best Poland that ever existed was Poland before the First Millenium. Before the Polanie tribe consolidated power, and introduced government to Poland, then was the Golden Age for the Slavs of Poland. They lived as hunters, gatherers, and gardeners without any authorities around to tell them what to do. In harmony with nature these people had all they needed: room to roam and fine women to bone. Say what you will about the "advantages" of civilization the freedom of primeval existence trumps them all, but alas, cleverness has defeated wisdom.
Des Essientes
20 Apr 2011
News / British man accused of molesting teenagers in Poland [74]
No it most certainly happened because a British pervert decided to molest some girls. Your statement is ridiculous unless you can prove that Poland's not bothering to introduce a more stringent vetting process somehow sexually aroused this man towards these girls.
If this bloke does turn out to have past form in the UK, yes: it most certainly will have happened
No it most certainly happened because a British pervert decided to molest some girls. Your statement is ridiculous unless you can prove that Poland's not bothering to introduce a more stringent vetting process somehow sexually aroused this man towards these girls.
Des Essientes
20 Apr 2011
UK, Ireland / Do Poles and EU Citizens exploit the British welfare state [129]
Wrong, almost all illegal immigrant workers in America have tax taken out of their paychecks, just like citizens, and they are ineligible for welfare, so they pay into a system whose safety net they do not use.
Not really,"your" ilegals have not been paying tax have they?
Wrong, almost all illegal immigrant workers in America have tax taken out of their paychecks, just like citizens, and they are ineligible for welfare, so they pay into a system whose safety net they do not use.
Des Essientes
19 Apr 2011
Language / Polish word "Dom" and its similarities in different languages [46]
Wow the "Sun Language Theory" sure is some wacky version of science. I did not know that the Sumerians were Turks. It all makes sense now. They did the whole sedentary urban lifestyle first before everyone else and then they decided to move back to the steppes for a few thousand years nomadic vacation from the "rat-race" of city life.
there is science behind the reasons for the OP's hilarious statements.
Wow the "Sun Language Theory" sure is some wacky version of science. I did not know that the Sumerians were Turks. It all makes sense now. They did the whole sedentary urban lifestyle first before everyone else and then they decided to move back to the steppes for a few thousand years nomadic vacation from the "rat-race" of city life.
Des Essientes
19 Apr 2011
News / Polish people mocked and humiliated in Season 7 of House MD [60]
Gee Midas you've named yourself after a greedy King and you don't see the moral difference? The difference is that, in a culture that worships money, the Madame is clearly superior because she makes more than her employees.
Heidi Fleiss is famous because she had celebrities as clients. Her religion is completely unrelated to her notariety. No Polish Gentile madames are as famous as her, hence the lack of any movies, but once again this thread is about a fictional prostitute not a real one.
what's the difference in the moral sense?
Gee Midas you've named yourself after a greedy King and you don't see the moral difference? The difference is that, in a culture that worships money, the Madame is clearly superior because she makes more than her employees.
Please name a Polish prostitute that had two movies made about her.
Heidi Fleiss is famous because she had celebrities as clients. Her religion is completely unrelated to her notariety. No Polish Gentile madames are as famous as her, hence the lack of any movies, but once again this thread is about a fictional prostitute not a real one.
Des Essientes
19 Apr 2011
News / Polish people mocked and humiliated in Season 7 of House MD [60]
Heidi Fleiss was a madame and a madame is not a hooker. A madame is in charge of hookers. Moreover, Heidi Fleiss is a real person, and so your complaints would be different than those of people complaining about fictional characters and, far from numerous, there have been only one or two movies about Heidi Fleiss anyhow.
Heidi Fleiss was a madame and a madame is not a hooker. A madame is in charge of hookers. Moreover, Heidi Fleiss is a real person, and so your complaints would be different than those of people complaining about fictional characters and, far from numerous, there have been only one or two movies about Heidi Fleiss anyhow.
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19 Apr 2011
UK, Ireland / Poland and Britain? What has caused the downtur in the UK? [28]
Haha I hope alot of Poles on holiday in the coming months offend your bitter Scottish sense of duty to the production paradigm, and more than this I hope they pour beer on you, kick sand in your face, and give you painful titty twisters resulting in severe purple nurpels.
Haha I hope alot of Poles on holiday in the coming months offend your bitter Scottish sense of duty to the production paradigm, and more than this I hope they pour beer on you, kick sand in your face, and give you painful titty twisters resulting in severe purple nurpels.
Des Essientes
15 Apr 2011
Language / Polish Poetry: Should one only translate into one's own native tongue? [39]
This is verging on nonsense. Jorge Luis Borges said rightly that "all reading is an act of translation" and this includes reading in one's own native tongue.
'Traduttore, traditore.' = Translator, traitor
This is verging on nonsense. Jorge Luis Borges said rightly that "all reading is an act of translation" and this includes reading in one's own native tongue.
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14 Apr 2011
Language / Polish Poetry: Should one only translate into one's own native tongue? [39]
Czesław Miłosz said that he had intended to translate his uncle Oscar's poems into Polish but he abandoned the project because a good translation could not be made owing to too many abstract French terms in the verses. So there is a case of even the translator's native tongue being deemed inadequate.
Miłosz
Czesław Miłosz said that he had intended to translate his uncle Oscar's poems into Polish but he abandoned the project because a good translation could not be made owing to too many abstract French terms in the verses. So there is a case of even the translator's native tongue being deemed inadequate.
Des Essientes
14 Apr 2011
UK, Ireland / Are you Poles proud of your country? Then why do you keep coming to Britain? [100]
Haha thats a good one. The Eskimos have 100 words for snow but it is only climatically induced apathy that stops the British from naming 100 shades of grey.
"........why do you keep coming to Britain?"
Um, for the sunshine?
Um, for the sunshine?
Haha thats a good one. The Eskimos have 100 words for snow but it is only climatically induced apathy that stops the British from naming 100 shades of grey.
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14 Apr 2011
UK, Ireland / Are you Poles proud of your country? Then why do you keep coming to Britain? [100]
That's rich coming from a British citizen whose country benefited financially from invading countries across the world and subjecting them to colonial rule.
come on, invading other countries will not help your own.
That's rich coming from a British citizen whose country benefited financially from invading countries across the world and subjecting them to colonial rule.