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z_darius   
18 Apr 2008
Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

whether Poles consider it a problem or not, it exists, thats like saying there was a holocaust, but because the Germans didn't find it a problem it didn't exist

Aren't you using a little too far fetched comparisons?
z_darius   
18 Apr 2008
Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

I'm sorry but Lithuanians are fellow Slavs

When did that happen? ;)
z_darius   
18 Apr 2008
Life / Polish people and racism. [943]

yes Poland has racial problems

I didn't know Poles considered it a problem ;)
z_darius   
4 Apr 2008
History / "SOLIDARNOŚĆ" is just a word for Polish people? [47]

there is no official transliteration so you must either learn the official alphabet or not try at all.

There is.

Find it in the Dictionaries of the English language. Oxford Dictionary ought to be enough. If you prefer American English, look at webster.com.

None of the above dictionaries includes the spelling you proposed.
z_darius   
3 Apr 2008
History / "SOLIDARNOŚĆ" is just a word for Polish people? [47]

I had written in Latin script the exact same thing. It is pjerjestroika-that is how it is written.

No, it's not. Check any dictionary of the English language, American or British. The spelling has no "j". That would be confusing to English speaking readers as "j" is not pronounced as you would hope (i or y)

You are using home grown transcription suitable for some non-English speakers. The official language of this forum is English. Again, JustysiaS used the correct spelling.
z_darius   
3 Apr 2008
History / "SOLIDARNOŚĆ" is just a word for Polish people? [47]

The Russian word is pjerjestroika

No. The Russian word is перестройка.
JustysiaS used the commonly accepted English spelling of the word, which is in fact "perestroika".
z_darius   
2 Apr 2008
History / "SOLIDARNOŚĆ" is just a word for Polish people? [47]

It is the same sort of thing as the old Russian word 'pjeristrojka' from a couple of years ago.

I see.
So in Russia they wanted to get rid of Russians too?
How did that go?
z_darius   
1 Apr 2008
UK, Ireland / A collection of noimmigration's threads or "STAY AWAY from BRITAIN" [978]

I was watching the house of lords comittee investigation into immigration on itv just there and they have recommended that the government cap all immigration into britian, including eastern european immigration from eu states. HIP HIP HOORAY

Don't clap before the end of the show.

I'll tell you what's gonna happen.
They will introduce measures to limit the influx of foreign workers. New kind of business will appear - a herd of lecturers teaching how to circumvent the new regulations (if any), and they will make that all even sound, look and taste legit.

The businesses will find a way to prove they can't find British workers to suit their requirements. The foreigners will keep on coming. What business wants business gets.
z_darius   
19 Mar 2008
Food / Cooked Fruit in Poland - Fruity Fillings, Flan, Pies, Tarts and JAM [85]

anyone else heard of strawberry or blueberry soup in the summertime?

Yup. Yummy. Cooked but best served cool.
Oh, and I am originally from Swietokrzyskie province.

Another one is pierogi will all kinds of fruit, such as blueberry pierogi.
z_darius   
17 Mar 2008
Life / An idea about Polish Literature [32]

you suppose that M. Rej shoud be grateful now? lol

I dunno what he would do or not, but I know he wrote about himself "I, Mikolay Rey Z nagłowicz". If the "father of Polish literature" calls himself Rey than who am I to tell him otherwise?

The form Rej was introduced about 350 years after Rey's death.
z_darius   
17 Mar 2008
Life / An idea about Polish Literature [32]

- Middle Ages:
Bulla gnieznienska
Ksiega henrykowska – contains the first sentence written in Polish Day, ut ia pobrusa, a ti poziwai
Kazania swiętokrzyskie
Wincenty Kadlubek
Jan Dlugosz

- Renaissance:
Mikolaj Rey

- World War II
K.K. Baczynski
z_darius   
14 Mar 2008
News / Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe [210]

I have an IQ of 162 Im techincally almost ingenius so shush about the intelligence thing!

You confuse your height in centimeters with an IQ. It's not the same buddy.

Also, there is nothing in IQ tests about the mythical king, so I don't even know why you mention him. So technically, reading the above, your IQ appears to be in upper double digits.
z_darius   
14 Mar 2008
Life / What would it be like to live in Lomza? [60]

There's almost no Spring or Fall in Poland

Is that why Poles have use the term "zlota Polska jesien" (Golden Polish Autumn)? It lasts 2 to 4 months depending on the area and given year's weather conditions. You will see plenty of people in the forests, picking blueberries, and especially mushrooms - hugely popular Fall activity. Some areas are simply infested with people traveling to various forests in late August, September and sometimes early to mid October. Many tourist agencies offer organized mushroom picking tours, as some areas are better for that than others.

that's how it looks:

just make sure you know what you're doing, as some of those may be lethal.
z_darius   
14 Mar 2008
News / Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe [210]

I never proclaimed wat the real % was i just said it was less tha .05%.

Not really. This is what you said:

I meant that any percent less than .05% would be correct.

Therefore, the 0.04999999999999999999999% I proposed is correct as per your own conditions.

Again u are making fallacious statements!!

You wouldn't be able to tell a fallacious statement from a logical one if you tripped over it. You don't even have the intelligence to verify what you really wrote before throwing in yet another bull, let alone to remember your own post.

Now go to your daddy and apologize for wasting his money on his intelligence resistant offspring. You are such a waste of gene pool.
z_darius   
14 Mar 2008
News / Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe [210]

I meant that any percent less than .05% would be correct. =) Invalidate it with a deduction then!

ok, then do the math for 0.04999999999999999999999%.

There, you gained a hair of one person. Feel free to consider it a US born person, ir an immigrant.
z_darius   
14 Mar 2008
News / Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe [210]

It is difficult to narrow the inventor of the internet down to one person or invention

Agreed. My remark showed that.

Berners Lee is widely accepted as the inventor of the internet as he was the creator of embedded hyperlinking between web pages.

You are mixing two concepts here. HTTP (used for HTML) is just an application layer. Internet was operational by 1981, HTML spec were first proposed in early 1990's, and they followed many other application layers already in existence, SMTP (used for email) being one of them.

AD HOMINEM!

You started. I bounced it back, so stop behaving like a spoiled kid.

SO ARE U GOING TO ADMIT UR STATEMENT ABOUT MY STATEMENT WAS FALLACIOUS OR NOT?

It wasn't. Yours was simply stupid. You claimed that foreign PhDs in the US consitute 0.05% of the population. The population of the US is 300 mil. There are just over 16 million graduates in the US, which makes it 0.05333... % of that population. It's all simple arithmetic. Go back to school. Oh, and I don't mean a graduate school. Waaaaay to early for you.
z_darius   
14 Mar 2008
News / Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe [210]

RockyMason

We need to start with you understanding what you write first.
Posing as a smart guy, more and more you are showing how dad's money is being wasted on a hopeless case. How about taking some remedial math and English?
z_darius   
14 Mar 2008
News / Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe [210]

The same stupid bastards and clowns that invented the airplane, lightbulb, motion picture industry, insulin, the computer, THIS THING YOU'RE TYPING ON .. THE INTERNET??? And shared it with the world , free of charge.

airplane - first successful flights in Europe in mid 19th century

lightbulb - many models existed before Edison, who btw. purchased a patent of a modified bulb from a Canadian inventor.

motion picture industry - how is selling of something an invention?

insulin - was first discovered by a German, Paul Langerhans

the computer - In 1623, Wilhelm Schickard built the first digital mechanical calculator and thus became the father of the computing era. Ada Byron (British) is consideredc the first computer programmer.

the internet - started with the creation of ARPA where Lawrence Roberts started working on the implementation of the network. He based his work on publications by Paul Baran on packet switching. Paul Baran was born in Grodno, Poland.
z_darius   
14 Mar 2008
News / Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe [210]

If u mean experts yes we import a few PHDs im sure to work on very special projects. By a few i mean like less than .05% of the population.

Wow! Then the majority of people with advanced degrees in the US are foreigners.
The total number of graduate degree holder in the US is over 16 million (2000). That is roughly 0.05333.. % of the population. So, according to your statement, foreigners account of over 93% of graduate degree holders in the US.
z_darius   
12 Mar 2008
Life / What would it be like to live in Lomza? [60]

it sounds like Lomza is fairly cosmopolitan for its size

It is, but there is a slight danger with the meaning of the word "cosmopolitan" . I'd rather use the term nouveau riche for this particular populace.
z_darius   
12 Mar 2008
Life / What would it be like to live in Lomza? [60]

Canada is a big country. You don't need to go to Lomza to experience severe lack of amenities you are used too. Just drive North for a day or two ;)

At one time I knew lotsa people from Lomza. Many went to the US, made a good buck and returned to Poland to live better than some of the people they worked for in the US. Actually, I don't think there is a single family in Lomza whose member did not work in the US :)

Your mileage may vary, but in general the so called "amenities" are more than well know to the good people of Lomza. As for the clubs and such, dunno, gotta google it I guess.
z_darius   
19 Feb 2008
News / Are Poles good enough for USA (to go there without a visa)? [288]

from the start that vote was rigged.. Florida especially.. guess you have to know
someone in that state.. lol

Actually, I worked in Buffalo at that time. Out of about 50 people I can't recall a single one of my American friends who voted for Dems.

war on terror, yes.. Iraq invasion.. no.. I think the bells went off in everyone when
he said we know they have WMD..

Patty, what war on terror? C'mon, you seem like a reasonable lady.

Out of 19 alleged terrorists on 9/11, 17 were Saudis. All trained by alQaeda with their headquarters in Afghanistan and supported by the Afghan government. That is the same alQaeda lead by the same Bin Laden whom Saddam so disliked.

So given all those circumstances the braniancs in the US government decided to attack Iraq. Tha same Iraq where UN insectors said they found no WMD, which the forementioned US government braniacs understood to mean that Saddam in fact had WMDs.

Patrycja19, the invasion on Iraq never had anything to do with the so called war on terror. My cat was as much a thread to the US national security as Iraq was in the months leading to the irresponsible attack by the US forces.

we still cant prove other wise.

Really? I thought it was clarified by the US government numerous times that there were not any WMDs in Iraq.
z_darius   
19 Feb 2008
News / Are Poles good enough for USA (to go there without a visa)? [288]

it came to a huge surprise that Canadians dont like
Americans.. and I would think that if they are so welcoming to the immigrants then
why would you not accept Americans as they are the same as those immigrants
that have come to another country to work, live..

Immigration laws on both sides of the border are similar, and it's not like a Canadian can just come to work and live in the US. Yes, they can under some conditions, but it's not so straighforward unless you qualify under one of the NAFTA regulations. Most don't.

Still, there is a relatively sizeable American population in Canada. From Vietnam war deserters to those who simply like it here better. Where I live, I have more American neighbors than Polish ones.

As for jokes, they are on both sides of the border. Canadians joke about Americans, and vice versa. At times the American position on Canada is actually quite aggravating. With some 20 million illegals in the US, most of whom entered the US through a gaping whole called US-Mexican border, quite a few voices sound the alarm about US-Canadian border.

it gets really old seeing people over and over
dog on your country when its the politicians who make all the stupid mistakes and
the people who have to put up with it

With the support of majority of Americans for the Iraq invasion it is only natural that many outside the US generalized and considered Americans somewhere between aggressive and insane. On top of that, American elected a retard for their president not once, but twice. Now even most Americans know that was a mistake that most outside the US saw before it happened.