UK, Ireland / Memorial garden in London and Douglas Scotland [11]


Whatever you do don't let the Poles restore it - the army will raze it to the ground for being an illegal erection.

News / Should countries be boycotted for offending Poles? [60]

Some of those companies aren't dutch or at least floated, so I'm guessing its the country of manufacture that has highlighted these brands.

Given the working class migrants from Poland to Holland will be employed by the companies in warehouses and transportation, it may cost Polish people their jobs in foreign lands making the situation worse.The correlation between racism and economic prosperity is clear cut in "the west".

Life / Polish Werewolves [30]


Well? Where?


I once heard a story, recounted as true, about an Italian immigrant in America who claimed to be bewitched. He was put into an insane asylum and later it was found out that everyone from his region used that idiom to state they had fallen in love/ become infatuated with a young maiden. Poor guy.

Life / Polish Werewolves [30]

Lycanthropy has an allegoric harmony with puberty. The movie Ginger Snaps played with that idea very well - monthly cycles, cliques, ravenous (sexual) appetites, etc. So after the struggle with the pubescent stage, one becomes human.

Love / More loveless sex of Poles living in the regained lands [73]


Makes me wanna be a mod.

Political affiliations sounds like a tenuous conclusion, and anyone taking advice about sex from the pulpit deserves all that they don't get.
I found this a little interesting :
The study - by sexual science therapist Professor Zbigniew Izdebski, in Poland - says one in three men is now too frightened for sex.
"Men feel they are judged by their women, who have been educated by magazines and know exactly how long foreplay should last, when to check the moistness of their vagina, the hardness of their nipples and body colour," he explained

from austriantimes.at/index.php?id=14071

So it is possible that these right wing religious woman are eating the menu instead of the fruit.

Life / Your favourite Polish Music Album [25]

If you like ska you might like Akurat.







Also Marika

News / Anti-Szymborska hate content on Polish websites [38]


Here's an informative/opinionated piece guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/jul/24/internet-anonymity-trolling-tim-adams

We rightly hear a great deal about the potential of social media and websites to spread individual freedom, as evidenced during the Arab spring and elsewhere. Less is written about their capacity to reinforce pack identities and mob rule, though clearly that is also part of that potential.

The big problem he finds running the blog is that his anonymous commenters get a kind of pack mentality. And the comments quickly become a one-note invective

Cab you imagine how different the site would be if the self proclaimed Lords of the Flies had to use their real names so employers, families, friends and neighbours could spot them.

Off-Topic / Book: Gogol's Taras Bulba [37]


It was short for 'the Ukraine peninsula', nowadays it is 'Ukraine's peninsula'. A country not simply a region.

Law / Poland's Economy "Outpacing Germany". Gratulacje. [20]

Doesn't make any sense at all. Germany have half the unemployment as Poland.

Travel / Is Poland's Wroclaw zoo worth visiting? [17]

It claims 600 species, def. not to be sniffed at.

Life / The major religion of Poland? [33]

Are you suggesting that there is a direct link between language used and religion in Poland? That by speaking Polish one erases their given religion.

Genealogy / What ethnicity would you say a person would be if someone came from kresy Poland [41]


Or if you are is posh woman or jumped up as one of my female cousins who made her surname and her childrens double-barreled.

The question makes no sense by UK standards as ethnicity is self declared. Where one is born and where your parents are from are two factors, attributes such as first language and religion are also to be taken into account. If someone wanted to dial in their political persuasion, nothing can prevent an individual from doing so.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]


I can't find a stat. I know by '89 there was 40,000 Red soldiers left.


It's not the number it was the efficiency of control I was pointing to and that they had a presence as part of a feedback system.

However my entire point on occupation is that the nation that controls the military is the occupier. Just rhetorically, as a percentage, how big was the Raj in India.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]

There was a rolling army of at least 100,000 Soviets in Poland already, how could they invade when they invaded decades before and never left.

Intervention not invasion - The sheepdog barking at the wayward sheep, for the very reason that Poland was becoming out of step and were to be re-aligned due to the weakness of the current Polish leader, approved by the Kremlin, who was found wanting in dealing with the stirrings of the Solidarity movement - the rebellion to gain back civil liberties lost to the Block. It was marshall law that stopped the Kremlin supplanting the People Army. The Soviets got their way.

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]


Well give us some examples where the People's army were autonomous, as the only time I have heard of them doing anything was in '68 under Soviet orders.


Irrelevant. If a military is controlled by a foreign nation it is occupied territory. Does any nation bother to claim Wales is occupied because the Welsh guard are controlled by Whitehall?

History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]

Poland's military might was controlled by the Soviets. Plain and simple: it was a Soviet occupation. There's nothing to argue about.

News / Wisława Szymborska died. [30]




First in Polish.
From 1.17 in English

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

You don't think creating Israel was the compensation?

News / Wisława Szymborska died. [30]


Poetry doesn't have to be profound. In this case just denial in an old coffin dodgers outlook(I don't necessarily mean WS). Rhyme or rhythm will not make it any more profound. Not sure if I have read anything really profound...perhaps Desiderata.

News / Wisława Szymborska died. [30]


Does it not suggest the loneliness of the old Doris? Living in an empty apartment justifying her continuance for the sake of an animal as independent as a cat?

She may have been a closet Zen Buddhist by the sounds of it

Polonia / What similarities would you say there are between Poles and Mexicans? [132]

So you are not just a redressed Somerset then? You used the same esoteric pictures, and have a Jewish Nephew. Odd. Appear to hate every immigrant population yet stick up for Jews...not at all like any English person I have ever met.

Polonia / What similarities would you say there are between Poles and Mexicans? [132]

/\
I see the racist Jew English-wannabe is back

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]

Maybe he said 'lots of P'lacks here' and you misheard him.

Love / Why do Polish girls and women look at me in a flirty way? [44]

Unfortunately, you may find your celebrity is more akin to that of an elephant-man freak show than your Bieberesque sexuality.

History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]


Or look more recently to leaving Africa and India. If Africa asked the queen for the diamonds back or India asked for their gold back, I'd have to laugh at their gall, as guilty as the old Empire is of flagrant theft. I guess American Jews aren't funding Israel as much as they used to. They're not able to fund the nuclear and chemical arms programs without external donations.

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]

What I find odd is the new form of racism Poles have caused. UKIP have a following they would never have and even the BNP have said they want Poles gone as a vote gainer.

Language / Too many English words in the Polish language! [709]


They use two ideograms together brain+machine

News / Poland and the European Union Fund Allocations [59]


Everyone who has enough money to invest will diversify. Any one who lays their eggs in one basket is a basket case.

News / Poland and the European Union Fund Allocations [59]


Why not? Just about every company that floats is to bring in more money. Absolutely nothing wrong with accepting foreign investment. The EU wouldn't be giving money for Poland's infrastructure without the need to keep the country ticking over to keep their investments viable.

News / Poland and the European Union Fund Allocations [59]


20 million. If you want to look at them as a mass Poles in the UK contribute more than they take. Not by much, last year's figure was £5 billion since 2004. I wouldn't go by HudsonthewelshHick. The Welsh are far more costly to Britain, as a mass.