History / A question regarding Christian/Pagan military alliance in First Millenium Central Europe [17]

Indeed it does, but I distinctly remember reading about this. War can bring about strange alliances, just look at the Allies in WW2. I really wish there was someone on this forum who could tell me if they have heard of this incident. The Administration's taking this out of the History category, when it obviously belongs there, and placing it in the Off-Topic Lounge hopefully will not prevent a learned person from seeing it.

UK, Ireland / The mystery of Ireland's worst driver "Prawo Jazdy" [37]

I'm not sure I understand how the Irish police are making this mistake. Is it because the Polish immigrants they stop are showing them a Polish drivers license?

Life / An idea about Polish Literature [32]


Witold Gombrowicz

Food / Typical lunch in Poland? [50]

I don't understand. Do you mean they cannot afford a hot lunch because they don't earn enough money?

Food / Typical lunch in Poland? [50]

What kind of wines do Poles drink with their meals? Is wine drunk at both dinner and supper?

Life / Polish nonfiction literature: Moczarski, Borowski, Grudziński etc. [5]

Out of the works you've listed I've only read Borowski's short story, but I have read the memoirs of Jan Pasek and I found them fantastic. I heard that they were written on cow hides and when they were discovered they were presumed to be a fake perpetrated by a professional writer, but then they discovered mention of the amazing otter that he had to give the king in the royal records. Truly some of the most entertaining memoirs I've ever read and and a fascinating account of the Deluge and its aftermath. I assume the are very famous in Poland, is that so?

USA, Canada / Poles and American Poles. What do you think about those two groups and their interactions. [85]


Assuming "many" from a "few" is an example of fallacious inductive reasoning. That being said the racism of some Polish-American posters on this forum is very disappointing.

History / Insoluble Judaeo-Polish imbroglio? [44]


I am not proposing either Jewish rule or Arab rule but democracy where everyone has equal rights regardless of ethnicity. If you think a Jewish supremacist state is so moral and that it somehow rights the horrible wongs perpatrated by German racists against Jews then put a Jewish dominated state in Gemany. Palestine is a multi-ethnic place. Jewish domination is not the answer but equality is.


you need to examine your racist assumptions about Arabs. How well did Germany guarantee religious tolerance and democracy in the 1930's and 1940's? How well is the Zionist entity in Palestine guaranteeing it today, when Arab refugees with the "wrong" religion are not permitted to return to their homes? Why don't you say that Jews are unable to guarantee religious tolerance and democracy too? I believe all humans regardless of ethnicity or religion are capable of tolerance and democracy.

History / Insoluble Judaeo-Polish imbroglio? [44]

There needs to be equal rights for everyone living between the River Jordan and the sea. The world can see what the fate of Arabs under Zionist rule is. Arabs in the "Jewish State" are second class citizens and Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank have no rights at all. Ethno-supremacist states are a racist anachronism. If the Zionists wanted an exclusively Jewish state they shouldn't have settled in Palestine where most of the indigenous population is not Jewish.

History / Insoluble Judaeo-Polish imbroglio? [44]


Ah because the colonized aren't allowed to make history. That remains the purview of the colonials..... What a load of garbage! Hey Yehudi you Zionists better start accommodating the Arabs you rule, as well as the Arabs you refuse to let return to their homes in Palestine, because there is a wave of democratic revolution sweeping the Middle East and you are not going to have corrupt Arab dictators around anymore that will take money to suppress their people's desire for justice for their Palestinian brethren. You have relied upon stories of Polish Anti-Semitism for too long to justify your disgusting racist colonial project in Palestine. From the river to the sea all of Palestine will be free!

Life / Young Poles' manners? [10]


They may have hit you too hard Tomek but at least they left you shiney.

Life / How is Sienkiewicz's Trilogy perceived in today's Poland? [12]

Ironside if that engraving is suppossed to be of the giant Lithuanian's death from the first book I'd say that the artist didn't make him look tall enough.

Anyone having seen the ending of the movie Grand Torino with Clint Eastwood has seen a homage to the scene pictured above.

Life / How is Sienkiewicz's Trilogy perceived in today's Poland? [12]


Alex, you don't think the third book, in which a great portion is devoted to the odyssey of Pan Wołodyjowski's wife after she escapes her abductors, absolves Sienkiewicz of the charge of only having weak female characters in the Trilogy?

Life / How is Sienkiewicz's Trilogy perceived in today's Poland? [12]


The Ruthenian witches' teeth flashing took place in the first book around the person of Chiemelnicki in his tent, and there was also a giant Ruthenian witch guarding Pan Michael's fiancée in Bohun's remote hideout.


Yes it was between them.


I agree that most of the humor in the Trilogy derives from the rascal Zagloba, but the part with Pan Michael's servant relating his family's dispute with their neighbors over a pear tree while the heroes are waiting for him to impart other urgently awaited information gave me the most laughs. Also the whole moustache theme throughout the Trilogy was funny culminating in the weakly mustachioed Pan Wołodyjowski's attraction to the brunette with a light moustache in the third book. I suspect Sienkiewicz had read Schopenhauer's writing about the laws of sexual attraction wherein the genius of the species would make a unimpressively mustachioed man attracted to a woman with a moustache because their offspring would have healthy moustaches.

Thank you for answering my questions Gregog.

Life / How is Sienkiewicz's Trilogy perceived in today's Poland? [12]


It is in the part of the first book where the heroes have gone to rescue Pan Michael's fiancée from the hideout Bohun had placed her in and they talk about these bizarre infantile vampires as well as monsters that are human heads with spider's legs.

Life / Tribute to Stanisław Lem - recommended books to read? [13]

I wish could answer you but I've only read his novels in English translation. I never saw a collection of his short stories in English even at my university library. Perhaps the Cyberiad could be considered a collection of short stories.

News / Lech Kaczyński statue in Warsaw? [66]

If they do create such a statue they should sculpt him as a child. His adult form lacked classical proportions.

History / If Poland didn't exist, how did citizens become Polish? [57]


Wow that's really shocking considering the fact that Igor's father was a renown Polish singer. His surname was spelled Strawincy according to a biography of Igor I perused once. Phoenix-like Poland had arisen from the ashes and yet some Polish bureaucrat denied the composer of the Firebird citizenship!

Travel / Gdansk - photographs [6]

That lighthouse is too "busy" looking with all those accoutrements atop it. I hope they all serve some valuable purpose because they are an architectural affront.

USA, Canada / Not everyone that lives or comes from America is RICH! [300]


How can one presume to know that food prices are the real reason for Mubarak's overthrow? All the masses in the streets claimed they were there because Mubarak was a tyrant that ran a brutal police state for 30 years, but never mind that our "moderator" knows better.....What a totally ridiculous and condescending attempt to belittle today's momentous events.

Polonia / Polish-Chechen relations [19]

I was ironically pointing out that Poland has had Muslim citizens for centuries and satirizing the call for eugenics by the "moderator" above with a call for another out-moded form of population control.

Polonia / Polish-Chechen relations [19]

One would think Chechens struggling to free themselves from Russian domination would find a sympathetic ear at a Polish discussion forum. Those here who insist on seeing the world through Islamophobic lenses deserve to be hacked to death by the scimitars of Polish Tartars.

Polonia / Polish-Chechen relations [19]


These are the words of a moderator at this discussion forum.....

News / Poland leads nations in raising 90 million euros for Belarus opposition [73]

Ah i see Black Ruthenia was in the Western part of todays Belorussia this must be the reason for the black half of their flag.

News / Poland leads nations in raising 90 million euros for Belarus opposition [73]


Wasn't the Ukraine known as Black Russia or Black Ruthenia so named for its rich dark hued soil?

Life / Are Poles Dis-Loyal [58]


Thats why the Poles tend to be more vigorous than the Irish. They've only had 1000 years of an unnatural religion.

History / Esperanto - an effort by a Pole ... [122]


The Rockefellers are not Jewish.

History / Esperanto - an effort by a Pole ... [122]


I challenge the posters on this forum to make some sense of this bizarre broken English. Is he saying a cabal deliberately manipulates nationalist sentiments in Europe in order to somehow extract oil?