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PennBoy   
19 Sep 2012
History / Warsaw Uprising - The Forgotten Soldiers [117]

Read this a few years back thought I'd share it, thought it was the best eye witness account of what happened during the Warsaw Uprising:

warsawuprising.com/witness/schenk.htm
PennBoy   
17 Sep 2012
Food / Expats' Polish food favourites [140]

I've had herrings before but never Śledzie po kaszubsku (Herrings Kasubian style) Herrings, onions, tomato paste also can add sour cream and sliced hard boiled eggs. Found them very tasty.


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PennBoy   
14 Sep 2012
UK, Ireland / Polish is the 5th best languages to study for Brits [11]

It's Polish. According to The Telegraph, best languages for graduate jobs are:
1. German
2. French
3. Spanish
4. Mandarin
5. Polish

Wow that's nice. Probably due to the large number of Poles living in the UK now, and also the expanding British market in Poland.
PennBoy   
14 Sep 2012
Love / Chastity rings in Poland - bad news for 'dziwkarze' [42]

This is just where people differ.

You want me to be with one woman for 40 or 50 years??? It gets boring after a few months max. When you meet a new, attractive, different girl don't you feel excitement and anticipation? Men, way more so then women, are genetically programed to sleep around. Our sole purpose on this earth is reproduction (having sex) to make as many babies ensuring that our genes will get passed on. This is so important that that is why sex gives us such euphoria....to keep doing.
PennBoy   
14 Sep 2012
Love / Chastity rings in Poland - bad news for 'dziwkarze' [42]

Chastity rings - bad news for 'dziwkarze'

Get out of here with that garbage!! Have you heard the old saying 'You only live once' ?? People who live like that realize when they're 70, rocking on a chair with their cat, that they did nothing and had a boring life. There's nothing wrong with sleeping around. Having something new and different is exiting.
PennBoy   
14 Sep 2012
UK, Ireland / British - Stupidest nation in Europe [127]

most stupidest.

Hudson is it? First stop hiding like a little c**t and register, then learn how to speak English if you wanna troll the internet.
PennBoy   
12 Sep 2012
News / Reports on gangs in Poland [21]

In my most honest opinion it's a good thing. No matter how much time, money and effort is spent organized crime will always exist, better to allow Polish gangs to exist than create open doors for the Russian Mafia or some other crime syndicate to make money off Poles and be more brutal to the locals.
PennBoy   
12 Sep 2012
News / Reports on gangs in Poland [21]

Former bosses of the Pruszków gang Andrew Z. "Słowik" and Zygmunt R. "Bolo" were today acquitted by the district court of Warsaw in the so-called second trial of the Pruszkow gang. Marcin B. "Bryndziak", the leader of the new 'young Pruszkow' will spend eight years behind bars.

After six years, the court has acquitted a third of the nearly 40 accused, and the others were sentenced to sentences ranging from one to eight years in prison. Janusz P. "Parasol'' (Umbrella) one of the most important people in Pruszkow, will spend just 1.5 years in prison.

It's not that the defense won, it's that the prosecution lost

- The analysis of the evidence provided dealt a decisive defeat for the prosecution - said the Warsaw district court in support of Wednesday's judgment of the Pruszkow gang.

- Among the more than 170 complaints over half ended in acquittal, acquittal, moreover, even the most serious allegations related to such things as attacks with weapons - said judge Beata Najjar. She added that such a decision of the court - often beneficial to the accused - is not based on the evidence presented by the defense, but rather from the materials or lack of, submitted by the prosecution.

It lost the prosecution , not the defense win - said the court issuing the judgment . Andrzej Z. " The Nightingale " and Zygmunt R. " Bolo " were today acquitted by the Warsaw district court in the so-called . the second trial of the gang Pruszkow . Eight years in prison spend Marcin B. " Bryndziak " , the leader of the young Pruszkowa.

After six years, the court acquitted a third of the nearly 40 defendants , and the other condemned to sentences ranging from one to eight years in prison. Janusz P. " Umbrella " , one of the most important people Pruszkowa has to spend behind bars for 1.5 years .

PennBoy   
12 Sep 2012
Travel / So where are Warsaw's slums? [30]

No such place. Poland doesn't really have slums in any conventional sense.

I'm guessing he meant slum in a broader sense, a ghetto. Parts of Praga are labeled as that but that's mostly due to higher crime rates and poverty. I have never seen a neighborhood in Poland with ghettos as the ones here in the US.


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PennBoy   
12 Sep 2012
Genealogy / Coats of arms of Polish cities [51]

I see a cog. But what is this taller object? It isn`t only a stylized W.

Just two chimneys with smoke coming out. Stalowa Wola was/is a boob town where most people worked in the steel mill.
PennBoy   
11 Sep 2012
Life / Do Poles drink before noon? [95]

his seems to be a purely Anglo-Saxon concept. In Poland there are times when a nalewka or other strong drink is served at a festive company breakfast

Don't Czechs drink beer with breakfast? I dunno if its a Anglo-Saxon concept but drinking in the morning makes one feel a bit ill.
PennBoy   
11 Sep 2012
Life / Poland needs more immigrants and their children - which nationalities are the best? [518]

Human beings evolved into separate species (races) over hundreds of thousands of years. Different outlook, different behaviors, diet all the factors made them incompatible with each other, when u mix who different races there are bound to be problems, as this video that Bieganski has provided states. People are people and if one for whatever reason is attracted to people of a different race let them be together. Here in the states, at least in the cities, doctors tell the parents of newborns that black children are strongest genetically , then brown, then mixed race then lastly white children and less likely to die. They are encouraging racial mixing, making people feel as though they should even though they might not want to. .
PennBoy   
10 Sep 2012
UK, Ireland / Poles becoming British subjects [39]

Same here. Its easier to get visas to Australia/Canada and the US with an Irish/British passport. Hence reason.

I thought The Brits and Irish don't need a visa for a short term stay (90 days) in the US? I know the Germans don't. BTW It's really sad that Poles still need one, being a faithful US ally.
PennBoy   
4 Sep 2012
News / 1.3% birth rate = Poland's slow death [221]

They managed just fine during the diabolical early 1980's, didn't they?

Well not then, by then the economy was in ruins and communism was coming to an end.
PennBoy   
3 Sep 2012
USA, Canada / Do many Polish people in America hate Americans? [592]

For some reason vast majority of Americans does not have any cash and to me if you can not come up with some cash at any moment (I mean like within 4 days) you are not rich.Americans do make more than more than Poles but life here is not cheap.

That's American mentality for a large part of the population, to buy (credit card) then think of how to pay for it, or even if you can afford it. I mostly pay with cash if not the a debit card, if I don't have the money for it I don't buy it, who knows if I wont get laid of next week or what not.
PennBoy   
2 Sep 2012
News / 1.3% birth rate = Poland's slow death [221]

Why don't Poles want to have kids? Hollywood's and mainstresm media anti-marriage propaganda, greed, selfishness, career obsession, narcissism

Neither. Many people especially young are struggling financially how can they bring someone else into this world? Especially when the government gives a lousy 1000zl for a newborn. During communist times it was rough but at least everyone had a job, free health care.
PennBoy   
30 Aug 2012
Love / Interracial Polish girls [19]

Well sir 95% of serial killers are white!90% of pedophiles & child molesters are white,and 87% of human traffickers are white!
What do you say about that?

First off you sound like a stupid teenager, second we all know this. Up until they 1970s, 70% of America's prison inmates were white. It's after this whole war on drugs began that it flipped to being 70% black.

Blacks in Poland don't need to chase the girls in that nation;it is rather the girls who chase them for sex!

Yes but these are usually (not always) girls who think of having just a fling, not seriously committing to being with them or having a family.

67% of marriages in Poland end up in divorce and yet they are Polsh to Polish marriages!

Wrong Bozo ''divorce rate in Poland is low compared to other countries of EU and it is equal 1.2 divorces per 1000 residents. Only Slovenia had a lower rate of divorces''

culture.polishsite.us/articles/art138fr.htm
PennBoy   
25 Aug 2012
Life / Why are Poles in other countries called "Plastic Poles"? [168]

The term Plastic Pole sounds funny to me. I never knew such a term existed until I visited Polishforums

Neither have I. I get it and all but just have never heard it used. I guess the term is used back in Europe, not in Poland.

It's like, if you saw a manly looking guy who was really domesticated by feminism, he would be a "Plastic Male."

LOL women can do that to a guy these days. Especially is you let them dress u.
PennBoy   
14 Aug 2012
Language / Polish regional accents? [141]

Yea, being surrounded by Eastern Slavs for generations had an effect on the way they talked. I remember hearing a Polish highlander speak to me for the first time in a thick accent, I barely understood what he was saying.
PennBoy   
9 Aug 2012
News / Why are Czechs more effective than Poles and Poland? [116]

But Poland is catching up. The distance was much bigger when communism fell.

Why ahead?

The answer is simple - in the past, all Czechs were under Austrian control, while half Poland was under Russian control. Austria was better developed than Russia.

Not just that. Russia's policy was always to suck dry the resources of the nations it conquers or dominates, not to put anything in. Remember the wide track rail line (which I believe still exists) from the Soviet Union to southern Poland? For years they were buying coal from Poland for a fraction of the cost. Not to mention things which were stolen from Poland by the Red Army in 1944-45, art work, trains, heavy machinery etc. Same thing in former East Germany, the GDR was building ships (cargo) for the Soviet Union for 45 million dollars a piece, while the cost of building was 140 million!!! The difference was paid by East Germany, constantly losing money on that deal. The only thing Poland got from Russians was the Palace of Culture, and I'm not sure if it wasn't paid for by Poland. Btw, the Czechs got a 3 or 4 time smaller work force than Poland, much easier to find them employment.
PennBoy   
6 Aug 2012
Language / Interesting inconsistency between Polish and Russian [71]

The genetic similarity between humans and chimps is 96%... ;)

Ha ha no, I meant it real human DNA halpogroups. Closest to Poles are Russians, then Belorussians and Czechs.
PennBoy   
5 Aug 2012
Language / Interesting inconsistency between Polish and Russian [71]

genetics confirmed that Russians as a population originates from Polish population, from Polish territory what means that Russia was/is populted from Poland

About this you are correct Crow. The genetic (DNA) similarity of Poles to Russians is at 79.07%!
forum.gazeta.pl/forum/w,29088,120459809,133320024,Podobienstwo_Polakow_do_innych_Narodow.html
PennBoy   
3 Aug 2012
UK, Ireland / First proper "Polish" School in the UK - The Next Stage of Ghettoisation [283]

Polisk Sklep

Hudson the same thing has been going on in the US for the past century nobody cares, you're been paranoid. The are Polish speaking areas in and around New York or Chicago where one doesn't have to leave the community or communicate with the natives to shop, find employment, doctor, anything. In places like Miami where some 80 percent of people are Latino and half were born abroad, it's the same thing but on a much larger scale. Assimilation happens much easier on it's own not by force.