Language / Kurwa? at end of every sentence [51]

Kurva denotes also a certain undesirable personal trait. We say Kurva od èoveka. It means something like a really malevolent person.

Yes and if Crow says we have word for some females, that means usually that apart from one's mother and sister, later wife and daughter all other women walking the Earth are kurvas. First group represents naturally the group of true saints.To be beatified.

News / Will you be proud of tranny (transsexual) representing Poland ? [124]

That Polish politician filled domestic press. It was used as a didactic tool. I think. Although our political scene is full of crypto faggets, not gays, gays are less hermetic.

It is a sad situation that their private,most intimate lives, matter the most in politics. Girls do like boys do like girls....

Who cares? Relevant for Carmen Electra, not for serious member of semi serious parliament. And that woman ex man got votes, article claims, also for performed Thai sex change operation. One wonders if it was a manipulative move.

This world is anyway upside down, topsy turvy, arse over tit. Literally. (just practicing english idioms)

The men and women differ. Men have XY sex chromosome , women XX. on the cellular level. That can't be changed on Thailand. Or anywhere else.

I interviewed few people who started the process of sex change. I was surprised how doctors and other experts involved don't even dare to question the procedure in risky cases of even younger adolescents, and how political their behavior, not medical at the end is. Conformists. Institutions and control. Power.

History / Pole, Hungarian, two good friends [58]

Their chardas is known dance in Vojvodina. Serbs love it. We have more songs inspired by that dance and their music. Mmmmm, what about that delicious food that is making even anorexic salivate :)

Did you know that their wedding dresses are red? Brides change from white to red during the wedding. . One has to admire that passion expressed through red.

red shoes as well, for dancing.

Here, a Serbian author, singer, girl with charas legs, classic here for girls with shapes that make men hallucinate :)
Music is with Hungarian motives.
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Listen please :)

History / Pole, Hungarian, two good friends [58]

Subotica area inhabited by Hungarians had the highest suicide rate in old Yugoslavia. My mother was raised in Vojvodina, and although there is some sort of silent animosity but mutual respect between Hungarians and Serbs (WWII), she as a young psychologists in the 70s tested abilities of different minorities, children in Vojvodina area.

She is repeating to this day, that although tests were performed in Serbo-Croatian language, not mother tongue of Hungarian children they outscored all other groups, like Slovaks, Croats, Serbs, Romanians etc. and she drew a conclusion that they are in average very bright, I read somewhere that they have the highest rate of Nobel prize winners proportionally to their size, 20 million.

Sampling for drawing that conclusion was probably inadequate, but why not to share her impressions.

Matches. The phonograph. Non-Euclidian geometry. Television. The computer. The atomic bomb. Vitamin C. The helicopter. All are hallmarks of our modern existence and seemingly unrelated - except that all were invented, or brought to light, by Hungarians.

Time and again, the world has seen Hungarian achievements in medicine, technology, mathematics, sports and other fields far in excess of what would be "normal" for a country of its small size. In 1963, an article in the prestigious monthly, Science, which dealt with the enriching contribution of immigrants to the natural sciences, commented: "The role of the Hungarians is proverbial."

Between 1905 and 1971, eight Hungarians won more than their share of Nobel prizes, and there would have been at least two more were there a Nobel Prize for mathematics.

There is something in this. But it also seems they are successful in Major depressive disorder with equally outstanding results :(

History / Pole, Hungarian, two good friends [58]


I was many times in different areas of Vojvodina, and particularly in areas in the North where hungarian is besides Serbian an official language. My overall impression is that Hungarians are mostly blond or red haired with blue eyes. I think I never saw a dark haired Hungarian, probably thought they were Serbs colonized from Dalmation areas.

Interesting to here this Crow, I learned something new today, that darker ones are considered to be true blooded Huns :)

And they all like to mix ;)

All Belgrade Hungarians I personally know are blond, blond and one red haired, all with blue eyes.:)


I think I read something like that, I will look now.
Here, IGENEA says:

Hungary

Slav 35 %
Finno-Ugrer 30 %
Germanic 20 %
Special case * 8 %
Jews 5 %
Phoenician 2 %

What is the special case I don't have a clue. Hungarians imo are handsome people, and known as quite bright in the area, but prone to self destructive behaviors.

Language / Correct format for dates in letters in Polish? [8]

after roman numerals there shouldn't be any dot, at least I was taught so :)

so, 8. XI 2011.

News / Poland in EU - before or now, which was better? [5]

Blackadder answer to that question, at the end depends on what people think is important :)
Quality of life index is a problematic measure conceptualized as a combination of subjective and objective factors, so having in mind they are done by the west they include mostly those values (objective criteria appear irrelevant if subjective are also in the game)

If you are relying solely on economical criteria, answer would probably be that Poland is better off with EU.

Life / A Question About Pharmacy (Dramamine or Benadryl in Poland?) [5]


It has significant sedating effect and psychiatrists suggest that one in some situations when other medications are contraindicated.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]


Correct. My accident from the past. After closer scrutiny of my family background and tests of my liquidity during longer period, I finally got incentives to settle there. There was no will on my side.

News / GERMANS WANT TO GERMANIZE KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS)! OUTRAGE! [1016]

Good morning. Copernicus was Polish. That is what I got through my education. And I was raised in one country not belonging anywhere, with tendency not to distort facts if they didn't interfere with its core ideas.

About Germanization:

I heard honest German thoughts about Germanized Poles. Dinner, 3 couples, all older people, above 60, one couple had oddly sounding ski ending of their family name. I asked about their possible Polish roots. It was a rude question it turned out, silence followed it, after they left I was told that ex Poles if they prove loyalty to Germany and forget about that Polish flaw in their surnames can become good Germans. Total germanization of behavior is naturally required.

So, Germans want to germanize all, but Slavs will slavicize, and that is one universal discipline that ends with screaming ;)

Delphiandomine, I have a background that doesn't/didn't disqualify anybody because of his/hers ethnical background. I was taught exactly the opposite, to observe with interest different cultures. My wider family is full of foreigners. Mixed marriages everywhere. It is my Western experience that taught me what am I, that I as a Slav, Serb am something different from them.

My parents were/are (one of them is alive) it seems uninformed people and I hate them for not preparing me for my journeys.

Genealogy / I would like to find out about my grandmother, Stanislawa Mikanowicz [7]

That could easily be a name of older Serbian woman Svetislava Mikanović :)

Life / Lightbulbs in Poland: what was once 1zl now costs... [10]


I used them tasting the Europe and I think it is diversion. To read less (yes I have heard that it gives the same light as regular old ones, I am not that suggestible) ;) Anyway it is mostly Union dominated by Germans and Germans like sparen.

Love / Is it wrong for Polish girls to kiss boys before marriage ? [31]

It was mine too :))))(just joking, just joking, big mistake, big mistake, hahaha)

Love / Is it wrong for Polish girls to kiss boys before marriage ? [31]


Typical, those damn prostitutes set high standards one ordinary women can't reach. Now they don't kiss on the first date, what is next, no videotaping on second?

Love / Is it wrong for Polish girls to kiss boys before marriage ? [31]

Of course it is The Reason for divorce. SHe was touched. She is filthy now. Unclean better. Filthy she would be if she touched him for his big, pulsing manhood while she was kissing him.

Genealogy / Do Polish people often have the Mongolian spot? [24]

I've seen this for the first time. And having one according to the link you provided doesn't prove Mongolian ancestry, because it's prevalence among those with full Caucasian ancestry is 1 to 10 %.

News / Radical right organizations in Poland [23]

nato attacked Serbia, at that time FRY in march 1999, supporting previously, according to their sources- terrorist organization UCK, Kosovo liberation army, and promoting them to their allies on the Balkans, so hairs are standing up on Greek, FYR of Macedonia and Montengro heads. Greater Albania in the neighborhood sounds dangerous to all. There have to be some reasons for that.

I have never visited Kosovo, it was always too dangerous for a Serb to travel to that part of undeniably proto Serbian land, that was Albanized after the WWII under Tito, the Croat, look for the maps of first Serbian state in 9th century and its location, parts inhabited by Serbs. Crow said enough about it.

That Kosovo's independence and the way they gained it is problematic from all aspects, from legal to moral, that is more or less clear.

I payed independence with 78 days of darkness filled with sounds of wheezing missiles hitting different parts of Belgrade. I wasn't afraid of the bombs, but my mother and sister were. My friends too. Watching the 'collateral damage' like 40 people age 20- 30 who got killed, but not just killed, decomposed in pieces, when building of TV Serbia was bombed where they worked was also not appealing to my senses. Watching my friends in constant state of stress, all decent people, shiver, to have no water to shower, no electricity to warm that water when it is there (electricity supplied pumps for water were not working in 2 million inhabitants city), looking them fall into 15th century for what, no power, no internet, phone lines are problem too, mobile connections as well, communication impossible, and after 2 days without electricity there comes a 'big barbecue day' which means that all meat is already defrosted and has to be eaten, but the day after for the first time in my life my mother came back from 'shopping' crying because there is nothing to buy and saying that for the first time in my life three of us have nothing to eat, we lived in urban conditions all our lives, middle class, why all that.

I didn't want to complain, my story is one happy war story, 4000 families lost their members, a couple in Belgrade lost its 3 year old daughter in that bombing. I wanted to problematize the way, the means, wasn't there another way ?

West would have, in my opinion stronger support in SRB population if it hadn't made that move.

Serbs who still lived in Kosovo after capitulation of Serbia to Nato forces, were forced to leave their homes, again. During 10 years of international protectorate, since 1999. more than 200 000 Serbs left Kosovo while many Albanians settled there. Now those few who want to live in their homes are under threat because they don't want to have the border with their homeland, and that is Serbia. Who asked them where they want to live?

So, hythorn, that is what I think.

As for Slavic sentiment, well we all prefer our even distant kin over a stranger, I am not different than the rest of the world. Evolutionists say so too. Genome driven phenomenon.

News / Radical right organizations in Poland [23]

Hythorn, similis simili gaudet so, radical right likes radical right, radical left likes radical left, so polish radical right likes Serbian, German, French radical right. They speak the same language.

Same with the extreme left, where nationality is even lesser problem in understanding each other.
Ideologies and wealth are the best recipes to connect different ethnicities into one unite whole. And Nokia.

Southern mentioned in his post# 6 anarchists, the radical left too, as well as radical right organizations. I would say he is just curious and he (Greek!) mentioned Serbs after I jumped into the thread wanted to have fun in post #2, because he sees me only as a Serb, not as a serious woman. I doubt his original intention was to ask for a support from Polish stormfront for Serbian causes ;)

News / Radical right organizations in Poland [23]

Nobody seeks here for anything. Southern is merely curious if anybody besides BEEP here supports them ;)

News / Radical right organizations in Poland [23]

Huuuuuge (non Balkan) power, if we are thinking about the same thing ;)

News / Amnesty to Illegal immigrants in Poland [102]


Some were, most not. Well flavors differ from region to region. What would you think about let's say 1 million of illegal Arab immigrants in Scotland that want independence and claim the greenest meadows of Scotland to be their land ?

Study / The worst of Polish education. No wonder Polish universities are bottom of the list. [142]


Highly regarded yes, lucrative in short periods of human history in ancient times if they were related to politics. Southern will know that part better.

Law was both highly regarded and well payed since Romans, but the profession itself faced horrible loss of good name since then. Lawyers are everywhere rich, they can be brilliant but some have serious tendency to be morally problematic. I heard forensic psychiatrists call them 'Psychopaths with the membership in Law chamber', aiming at their total lack of empathy, aggressiveness,non existing or loose moral code, greed and so on. Of course that I don't think that way and it surely wasn't said in a way that it applies to all. Decent people, like everywhere else can be found. But they mostly struggle to survive.

I truly liked studying law, but I have to admit, I had tags attached immediately after legitimizing as a law student (memorizer, materialistic, conformist). It was stigmatized profession among wider circle of my friends (students of above mentioned faculties and artistic academies).

Study / The worst of Polish education. No wonder Polish universities are bottom of the list. [142]

Our state faculties behaved in that manner ONLY to foreign students and only on some faculties, they were out of the system totally. Mostly we saw their names on the exams lists, but not them. For domestic students none of this applied. Criteria were high and those with incompetent offsprings :) who got rich during 90s sent their lazy kids to less known schools outside. They came back with the degrees from god knows where, knowing exactly nothing. I knew some and their capacities to study and their abilities that were average with total absence of studying discipline. So, some lousy private Western schools also engaged in hyper production of experts. For those who couldn't pay the UK or US party time of their kids, they opened private Universities here where they produced various diplomas(one of them 120 PhD's in last year) which was scandalous, having in mind the number of those titles state universities give per year. Now, those less rich do that buy the degree here if they can afford to pay 5000 to 6000 euro per year get a diploma with few hours of studying.

Study / The worst of Polish education. No wonder Polish universities are bottom of the list. [142]


It depicts more situation in the mid and end of 90s, now it has changed. During 50 years of liberal socialism they established that practice. Market demand shifted the student population to those promising more lucrative career. It makes sense that strictly academic studies - like philosophy, art history, literature are chosen by those who can afford themselves unemployed situation later. Those practical, professional like managements and law are now getting the attention, so there is crowd, there is harder selection. Although Law faculty doesn't select at the beginning, but during studies, having a high rate of those who give up studying.

Medicine has a problem with mass production everywhere, hence selection is not so strict as it should be, like on those Faculties that have a quote of max 60 students per year. So, some are not so bright. I visited many doctors in my life, not just in Serbia, and I can SEE them start to really think sometimes :)

I forgot, our brightest go to Faculty of dramatic arts, departments of dramaturgy and directing.

Study / The worst of Polish education. No wonder Polish universities are bottom of the list. [142]


Nobody here claims anything similar. University graduation demands general abilities at least above average. And everybody agrees on that. Here the cream is collected by Faculties of Philosophy, History, Literary theory, Psychology, Political sciences, sociology, Electro - engineering, Molecular biology, Mathematics,...If you were less gifted you'd apply for Medicine, Stomtology, Machine engineering ,economy, management in business, Law, other sciences or if you are close to population average in IQ then Technology, Agriculture and so on...

That is Belgrade Uni ranking. Novi Sad perhaps differs, we did research on abilities in convergent and divergent thinking and those were app. results.

Off-Topic / The fees, cost per session of psychotherapy worldwide, especially Poland [6]


you guessed it right, but average is this lower figure 70 000 euro if they work 38 hours per week, all costs for the practice (tax, administration, helping staff) are 40 000 euro which leaves one German ordinary psychotherapists with netto 30 000 euro per year.

Germany, no.

Off-Topic / The fees, cost per session of psychotherapy worldwide, especially Poland [6]

Thank you Barney:), could you please try to guess the annual salary of psychotherapist in Germany?


It's not a con if that person feels like Barney afterwards ;)

Study / The worst of Polish education. No wonder Polish universities are bottom of the list. [142]

Greece is known to have very harsh selection of students, so even we had few Greek students studying mostly medicine, stomatology and sports here. They, as foreign students didn't go through any selection, there was a quote, for example 20 international students and those students were usually the lousiest with attempts and success in bribery which was some sort of non written regulation for additional incomes. It was not tolerated with domestic students, because it would spread fast around and heads would have fallen. Foreigners were discrete ;)

Study / The worst of Polish education. No wonder Polish universities are bottom of the list. [142]


Similar method is used at Medical faculty here. In general those faculties who still force the practice of oral exams obey the rule of not asking the same question twice. So the next student knows that he will surely not be asked anything that previous examinee was asked. They have piles with cards with questions, so it really is completely random unless professor takes out of the pile the easy questions. The effect of contrast, when the first student shines indeed is there, and grades tend to be calibrated according to first few examinees.