Language / Good book with audio in Polish? [11]

Chi, here is a link to the audiobook Librivox library in Polish: librivox.org/list-translated-pages-polish/

One audiobook they have may be of particular interest to you because it is presented in both Polish and English. It is Adam Mickiewicz's "Sonnets from the Crimea"

Life / Why Radosław, not Czesław? [34]

Magdalena, are any of the names you've listed younger than 150 years old?

History / Polish relation about Russians, Ukrainians? [281]

Indeed, the fact that some people take offense at hearing Poland placed in Eastern-Europe is really sad. They have bought into a stupid Orientalist stigma.

USA, Canada / Poles in Buffalo, NY [16]

Buffalo has a a huge Polonian population. A resident of Buffalo once told me that the city is practically run by Polish-Americans

Life / Is the 1st of November a work-free holiday in Poland? [12]


Indeed, I suspect that the aversion to holidays that some express above is the unfortunate result of Protestant brain washing. After all it was anger at the number of holy days, that they had to give their laborers off, that prompted the burghers to revolt against the Church 500 years ago.

USA, Canada / Polish-American Hollywood Celebrities Press Release [36]


Well done Shawn. Your summary captures the very essence of this thread's trashing.


Indeed it is, but we shouldn't stay silent while this forum is turned into a hostile place for the very people it is meant to serve: Anglophonic Polonians.


Don't be giving such orders to any of the moderators, delphiandomine, they are all here to make sure people don't troll the forum.


Good.


I have made no such agreement with Vincent or any other moderator. I will continue to reply to your posts when I see fit to do so.


There is a glaring need for pgtx to get involved in this, and other threads, that are being trashed by th likes of delphiandomine and harry. This is an English language Polish discussion forum and threads like this one should be unsullied by an irrational hatred of Polish-Americans.


I would like to suggest hiring the Polish-American musician Dick Dale to work on the film's soundtrack. He has composed for other films in the past and surf music makes everything better!

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Classifieds / D&D Group for Expats in Warsaw needs one more player... [69]


Truly your posts here tend to be woefully simplistic, but if you were really old-fashioned you would see the value that D&D has for its players. The game harkens back to a time of adventure before life became mechanized and dreary. Although I haven't played it since I was in junior high, I will always have fond memories of the escape it offered, and I also credit the game for teaching me methods of scholarship which would serve me well in my academic career.


It is the artificiality of modern life that D&D seeks an escape from. Looked at from the Heideggarian perspective of Being-Towards-Death most modern lives, and most modern deaths, are so very paltry. Whilst in D&D, life, and death, even the deaths of the most lowly characters, are very interesting. Even being "slain by an owl" is preferable to wasting away in a sterile hospital bed.


^Case in point regarding the paltriness of modern recreation.


You are not. Your blandness is utterly modern.

History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]


If you really find it hard to imagine why the murder of 160,000 Poles-- Poles with families that love them-- would be much of a loss for Poland, then your hatred has made you irrational and inhuman.


Mass-murder doesn't improve a country. People the Soviets have planted in Poland may believe otherwise, but they are wrong

USA, Canada / Polish-American Hollywood Celebrities Press Release [36]


Harry's use of creative spelling to bypass the forum's profanity filter is an example of the trolling that plagues this forum


delphiandomine, following harry's lead, and bringing vague allegations of anti-Semitism into the thread is yet another example of the trolling that plagues this forum.

How much longer will this forum accept this trolling?

USA, Canada / Polish-American Hollywood Celebrities Press Release [36]

Ah, the problems this forum has with certain posters flooding threads with off-topic posts and idiotic claims:

Harry just has to mention "beating up Jews" and delphiandomine has to stupidly claim that inspiring stories from Polish/American history aren't "real issues".

USA, Canada / Polish-American Hollywood Celebrities Press Release [36]

Attention goofballs, the OP calls on Polish-American celebrities to spread the word about the Kosciuszko Squadron, not because it was staffed with Polonians, but because Poles helped Americans throw off the yoke of British tyranny and the squadron is a beautiful example of Americans repaying the favor by helping the Poles fight off Soviet tyranny.

USA, Canada / Polish-American Hollywood Celebrities Press Release [36]

From the OP's link:


The Kosciuszko squadron by helping Poland fight off the abomination that was Soviet totalitarianism was repaying a debt that the USA had incurred to Poland when two of Poland's great warriors joined, and greatly helped, the valiant fighters of the American Revolution to throw off the abomination of English monarchical rule.

USA, Canada / Polish-American Hollywood Celebrities Press Release [36]


Wow I thought Harry's non-sequtor was idiotic but delphiandomine has trumped his mentor yet again! Am I wrong? What does the word for "grandmother" have to do with "Polish-American Celebrities Press release"?

USA, Canada / Polish-American Hollywood Celebrities Press Release [36]


This is a Polish discussion forum. Why the hell is Harry pushing English-American celebrities on here? Perhaps jealousy and an irrational hatred of Polonians prompts him to make this off-topic suggestion.


"After all" Hahahahahaha, what an idiotic non-sequitor! Attention Harry, mention of Polish-American celebrities need not be "countered" by mention of an English-American one.

History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]


Entertaining the though of commiting mass murder in Poland is very Hitlerian.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


There are 11 million Polonians in the USA. Only a few thousand Polonians, in the USA, vote in Polish elections. Those that vote in Polish elections for PiS probably don't vote Democratic in American elections, but they are a tiny minority of American Polonians. Do you now understand now why there is no contradiction in the data showing that the most highly supported political party amongst American Polonians is the Democratic Party?

It is great to read all the Poles and Polonians on this thread defending Polonia against the bigoted bitterness of the non-Polish expatriates that are trying to bully Polonians here. The trolls have definately lost on this thread and Polonia is laughing at them! Hahahahahahahahahaha! Go suck an egg trolls!

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


We will, Pawain.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


"Busia" is a Polish term for "grandmother". Using this term is not all all indicative of moronism. Claiming otherwise is indicative of Grade A moronism.

Life / "Protestant" or Non Catholic communities in Poland [18]

Does anyone know the percentage of Lutherans in Polish Pomerania today?

Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]


What a stupid hyperbolic comparison. Do you not see that it is perfectly understandable that when that Polonians travel thousands of miles to meet their relatives in Poland it is a great event for the family involved and yes they may take off work and drink before noon to celebrate it?


Buildng a strawman and then condemning Polonians is stupid practice that is all too common for the bitter Western-European expatriates who post here.

History / The beginning of the Polish state [11]

There is an old book on this subject written by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski that was made into a 2003 Polish film called "An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God". Although it is a fictional account of events occurring in Poland right before the founding of the Piast dynasty the tale tries to accurately depict life in pre-Christian Poland and thus depicts a society that already had highly developed religious institutions including both a priesthood and a priestesshood, and it shows that people in Pagan Poland, like people in other Pagan Indo-European societies, were already quite pious before the coming of Christianity.

USA, Canada / Who is better informed, the expat or the Polonia crowd? [144]


Who are the "Polonialandists"? You've asked about Polonia, sobieski. You should be aware that Polonia comprises tens of millions of people around the world, most of whom do not live in ghettos, much less a "PIS-Ghetto". Sobieski, you are demonstrating the stupid tendancy to generalize that seems to plague several of the expatriates upon this forum. You should be better informed about the fallaciousness of stereotyping millions of people. Maybe you should read your own thread and realize that it is full of posts by very well informed Polonians most of whom are not even PIS Party supporters.

USA, Canada / Who is better informed, the expat or the Polonia crowd? [144]


Hahahahaha! Harry wants to claim that a race riot in Chicago instigated by Irish-Americans was actually a "pogrom" started by Polish-Americans who targeted blacks because they couldn't find any Jews! That has to be the stupidest lie I have ever read on this forum.


Drawing Polonophobic conclusions from lies, as Harry does, is absolutely ridiculous and it also points out the fact that Harry is a racist of the "philosemitic" variety who doen't care about the truth as long as his Polish "enemies" are denigrated and blamed for the suffering of Jews.

When it was pointed out to Harry thet Polish-Americans didn't start the race riot he replies:


No, Harry, it was never the "standard excuse" to blame this race riot on any of the enthnic groups that you've listed. The fact that you would try to claim that Polonians are guilty of a "pogrom" in this ridiculous manner just shows how irrational and desperate you are to spread Polonophobic lies upon this forum.

As for the thread's titular question. The Polonian boletus has shown in this thread that it is he who is the best informed and the most rational poster on the thread.

Not only are the Polonians better informed than the expat crowd, but Harry's ridiculous attempt to smear us has also provided us with such an irrational example of idiocy, that it has made Polonians the most jovial posters on the forum too! Hahahahaha! Polonia is laughing at you!

Off-Topic / I am a Pariah: My Horror Story [44]


I am Polish-American and I've never felt like a Chandala because of my name, but then again I have never lived in the South surrounded by Southern Baptists. Anglo-Saxon conformity is nowhere more virulent than amongst such people and Polonians don't do conformity very well. You have my sympathies PolkaTag.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


A wasps' nest.

History / Polish perspective of WW1: Germany, their Defeat & the Legend of the Stab in the Back [17]

America obviously wasn't scared of a German/Mexican alliance because she decided to enter the war despite the telegraph's proposal. The telegraph's significance lies in the fact that the USA had a vigorous anti-war movement much of which had claimed that the Zimmermann Telegraph was a hoax devised by the British to draw the USA into the war against Germany. The inauthenticity of the telegram seemed quite plausible given the fact that it would be all but impossible for Mexico, who was in the midst of her own revolution, to retake Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico militarily given the advantages in population and mechanization that the USA possessed over her at the time. Thus the telegram's proposal looked crazy and it could easily be dismissed as a British attempt to tar the Germans as ridiculous warmongers ready to consign thousands of Mexicans to their deaths in an unwinnable war in order to divert some of the impending onslaught of doughboys away from Europe. When Arthur Zimmermann in March of 1917 admitted that the telegraph was indeed genuine then the antiwar movement in America was dealt a stiff blow because they then had to admit that the Germans were indeed crazy and/or cynical enough to propose such an action on the part of Mexico.


School children in the USA are also taught that the sinking of the Lusitania was a major cause for bringing the USA into the war and it certainly was, but the Zimmermann telegram was too. It should be seen as one of he greatest German diplomatic blunders in history as well as one of the greatest intelligence coups ever for the British Empire. If the Zimmermann telegram had never been sent, or never intercepted, then public opinion in the USA may never have turned against Germany enough for our elected politicians to feel secure to direct American troops to take the plunge into the bloody morass of the First World War, and Germany would have been able to end the war on much more favorable terms for herself than she did. If the Zimmermann Telegram was not a deliberate "stab in the back" by the German diplomatic corps against their own country then it was surely an inadvertent "shot in the foot".

One wonders why Zimmermann confirmed the telegram's authenticity when other German officials had been denying it. Did he do it out of an aversion to lying? That hardly seems likely in a diplomat. Did he really believe that the Mexicans would be foolish enough to attack the USA? If so then his attitude towards our Southern neighbors' intelligence was ridiculously misguided. Was he a deliberate backstabber?

History / Polish perspective of WW1: Germany, their Defeat & the Legend of the Stab in the Back [17]


Here in the USA every public school student is taught about the Zimmermann Telegram as a major cause of the USA's entrance into the First World War. Here is its text:


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram


The Zimmermann Telegram was sent in January of 1917.

Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]


It means that the exploitation of man by man doesn't end under socialism although the exploiters and the exploited switch positions.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


That is a very plausible explanation. Continental semi-truck drivers perched in their seats high above a small British road, with their steering wheels on the left side of their trucks, are indeed in a precarious situation.


The speed limit has been raised on many US highways to 65 mph, but road systems in Britain are often scarier than those in the USA Take Britain's roundabouts as an example. These types of circular roadway are almost non-existant in the USA. There is a sort of roundabout in the city of Long Beach California known as The Traffic Circle which is quite dangerous. Legend has it that the man who designed The Traffic Circle was killed in one of its numerous traffic accidents.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


Harry I posted nothing racist in this thread and you know it. Stop lying.


O.K. but you must be aware that your posts are bizarrely punctuated and spaced. Is this because you are typing on a phone?


I am sorry.