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delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Interesting interpretation. Seems like history repeats itself? Couple of million stupid Poles fled Poland after 1990, having lost the Soviet protection, and the intelligent ones stayed there to build the 3rd RP?

Yep, seems so. It's actually showing itself again - the intelligent ones are staying here, building Poland (and rising in prominence) - while the uneducated ones are staying abroad and doing menial jobs. The same uneducated ones had a fairly ok standard of living in Communist times (a flat, a job, holidays, etc) - and now they don't.

I don't think it's a coincidence that those who stayed post-1989 are now leaders of industry and so on.

Interestingly, Wikipedia also says this -

The term "anti-Polonism" is said to have been used for campaign purposes by political parties such as the League of Polish Families (Polish: Liga Polskich Rodzin) or Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polskiej)[114] as well as by Polish far-right organizations such as Association against Anti-Polonism led by former presidential candidate and leader of extremist Polish National Party Leszek Bubel

So, MediaWatch - by whining and complaining so much about "anti-Polonism" - are you admitting to being a support of LPR or Samoobrona? Even the leader of the opposition doesn't cry about Polonophobia.
delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
Work / If you were to compere Polish Unis and Unis/Colleges in your country... [75]

I searched for Poland in all the categories, including by subject and by region, and I couldn't find one Polish university.

As far as I recall, there's not one public university in the top 500 in the world.

On the other hand, the Financial Times listed Kozminski (?) University as #39 in European business schools. Haven't heard of that school.

Yep, it's not a bad place. Well known as the place to go if you want to meet the movers and shakers in Poland.
delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Are the polonians gonna cry about racism?

They will, but the American Polonia are pretty damn racist themselves. Of course, it's acceptable to be racist towards others, so long as no-one says anything about you.

For Gods sakes you barely speak any Polish so what would know about what Polish people say.

You know, Polish people speak other languages too. Unless you're saying that Poles are too dumb to speak other languages - which would be in tune with your warped view. Anyway, I speak enough Polish to hear that Poles are hardly politically correct.

Your knowledge of what's going on in Poland is so weak.

This, from you, that thought that Kaczynski was a pro-business candidate.

The Nashis in Russia are all over Russia pushing white Russian Neo-Nazism. No wonder they call themselves Nashis.

You seem to know a hell of a lot about Russia. I certainly didn't know that there was something called "Nashis" in Russia. Most people living in Poland wouldn't know that either - but you did. Weird.

Anyway, for the last time, being anti-Polack doesn't make you anti-Polish. Polacks are NOT POLISH.
delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

Distance and lack of knowledge. But why would a Pole even take into consideration what some red neck yank thinks about them?

They don't. It's the dumb American Polacks that care so much - and I suspect that it's all because the stereotypes do contain an element of truth - that their forefathers were badly educated peasants. Look at who fled after WW1 - the intelligent ones stayed and built the 2nd RP - while the ones with no hope or future (and who had lost Russian/German/Austrian 'protection') fled.

So Poles have yet to be politically corrected. This is good. They should do what they can to fend off the creeping, stifling PC dishonesty.

But the Polacks are getting very upset with it. Therefore, Polacks advocate Political Correctness.

And anyway, is anyone surprised that the phrase "dumb Polack" is used when most of them can't even pronounce their last name correctly? I've heard "marchewka" pronounced as "mar-chew-ka"..I mean, dumb!
delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

There's no such word in Polish.

They seem to use it quite liberally in English. Certainly, dropping the "n-bomb" isn't seen as unacceptable here.
delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
Work / Education in Poland - system and structure [118]

It struck me as being like a viva voce for PhD students. Avoiding plagiarism is key there.

It's not a bad idea at all - though I question the point of defending the BA dissertation.
delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
Life / Polish-American Polka Music in Poland [60]

If played with simialar repetiveness, the Polonian polka would also win followers in today's Poland.

Sure. But no-one wants to play it.

Todays Poland is contiminated with Brits.

What, 800 or so according to the statistics?
delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Polish President Says Cleveland is Like Home [30]

Or, maybe they didnt pay for him enough to show up???

I don't think the President of Poland has to worry about how much it costs to go visit certain towns.

Its pretty funny how you Brits think you know so much about Chicago from your BBC Media.

Uh...I use the PKW site to know about who voted for who and where. I suppose it's a liberal conspiracy website, yeah?

Whats in it for a limey like you?

There's nothing funnier than making fun of "Polish" Americans who don't speak Polish and who only use it for political purposes.

I wonder why He didnt come to Polands capitol, its only a couple hundred miles away, He must not be that popular with Poles if he went to Cleveland instead of Chi?

As you've been told - why should he visit somewhere if they didn't vote for him? The Chicago Polonia are somewhat hostile towards Komorowski and have published plenty of nonsense about him, so why visit? Best to leave them alone.
delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

I would even admit that if I heard an Anti-Polish Media Bigot got his arse kicked for bashing Polish people, it would be funny. LOL

The sad thing is that you seem to be totally unaware of what kind of jokes Polish people make. It's very common to hear jokes about black people, Asians, Germans, Russians, etc here. And these jokes are often quite malicious in nature - many people have no issue with telling a joke with the word "nigger" in it.
delphiandomine   
12 Dec 2010
History / BBC - Center for Military Studies - Gerald Kochan [28]

We had a very similar experience with this man.

What kind of experience?

Were the things sold, legally, to a private collector?

If so, I'm not sure what the issue is.
delphiandomine   
11 Dec 2010
News / John Godson, born in Nigeria, might become Poland Sejm's first black deputy! [313]

I don't support him as a politician, I support the right of someone who wants to serve their (new) country to be given a chance to.

I don't support him as a politician either, and I wouldn't vote for him - but he was democratically elected.

Then again, what can you expect from someone from a country which elected a President who didn't win the popular vote?
delphiandomine   
11 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Polish President Says Cleveland is Like Home [30]

I bet he ignored Chicago because of how Kaczynski was always greeted in chi-town. Its a big FU to the chicago-polonia.

Well, why should he go somewhere that voted against him?
delphiandomine   
11 Dec 2010
Life / What is the reason for POLISH jokes ? [486]

I don't understand why people get so riled up over Polish jokes.

Insecurity and most probably false outrage.
delphiandomine   
11 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / American...Polish Resident...Returning to the land of milk and honey [103]

Which machine? I thought he nuked his RFID.

The RFID chip being operable or not has nothing to do with the validity of the passport. I'm not aware of any restriction where the chip must be in working order - even America only insists that people (after a certain date of issue) have biometric passports, but doesn't demand that the chip actually works.

It's not even an obligation to have a machine-readable passport in many cases. By machine readable, it means that it has the two (I think?) lines of code at the bottom of the passport information page.
delphiandomine   
11 Dec 2010
History / Lwów, Wilno ... kresy - Poland have lost enormoust part of our heritage... [389]

I don`t know what improvement and of what conditions you are talking about in case of Ukraine.

About the only thing I can think of is introducing the Karta Polaka, but that's about it. Unless of course, you count the investments made in Shegyni by Poles buying cigarettes ;)
delphiandomine   
10 Dec 2010
Work / Education in Poland - system and structure [118]

We argue that the way to achieve better PISA scores is through more hours of instruction, greater exposure to testing, and increased student and teacher motivation."

Greater exposure to testing? The UK has pretty much proved that constant testing is a bad thing - so that hyopthesis is out.
delphiandomine   
10 Dec 2010
Work / Education in Poland - system and structure [118]

mindless memorization of things that you will either forget the day after you take the exam, or you remember it but have no practical use for it. obviously this is nothing more than an observation, i've never attended a polish school/uni but i'm always so surprised at what my students tell me they're studying.

Memorisation? They cheat if they don't want to learn it anyway.

It's incredible for me that someone can be proud of a diploma that they cheated to obtain.

Poles do come across VERY strongly as being book based. If it isn't in the book, it's of lesser status or doesn't exist at all. That's retrograde thinking! I've tussled with many over the dubious content of some books. Poles need to get out of their 'book being the Bible' approach to learning and shake it up.

Oh yes. I had a rather splendid argument with a school director over this - he only shut up when I asked him why all the C1-C2 level books had totally different content and interpretations of what English was.

You could compare Polish education to Wikipedia - thorough, but flawed.
delphiandomine   
10 Dec 2010
News / WikiLeaks Reveals Tense Foreign Relations Amongst Poland. [22]

Would it involve carpet bombing Chechnya?

Nothing wrong with that. Anyone with an ounce of sense knows fine well that Chechnya was home to quite a few Islamic terrorists - perhaps you might want to explain why they started the invasion of Dagestan if they're so "nice". We could also talk about their murder of civilians in the same war - fair enough, it's one thing to fight for your independence, but another thing to attack someone else just for the sake of your political aims.

Never thought Poles would support Islamic terrorists over Christians, but hey.
delphiandomine   
10 Dec 2010
News / WikiLeaks Reveals Tense Foreign Relations Amongst Poland. [22]

Don't you think it hurts the bluff for enemies to learn the missile shield is an empty threat, an unloaded gun?

I think the Russians suspected it all along. They knew fine well that America wants peaceful relations with Russia - and the easiest way to do that is to lie to the Poles.

For what it's worth, they're just a small part of the defence of Poland anyway - nothing major. Still, better to know that the missiles were dummies, rather than not knwing at all.
delphiandomine   
10 Dec 2010
USA, Canada / Polish Americans and religion [28]

they seem to not be able to take a joke towards religion, and are immediately offended.

That's because they're not Polish, probably.