History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]


Any proof to that Sokrates?

Life / Polish gimnazjums - memoirs of a teacher [32]


what r u talking about? age 6 or 7 is for zerowka in Poland do you even live in Poland?? and i said basic meaning, eg. 2 x 2 or 3 x 4 not 34556 x 299

Life / Polish gimnazjums - memoirs of a teacher [32]


yes i did have it in Poland in kindergarten in 89/90. I said Masters degree not Mgs, Magister is Bachelors, Magister Inzynier-Masters, and PHD is same, American to Polish terminology for that.

History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]

I must see Pilsudski as a great man cause he was a Polish patriot and what he did was for the good of Poland and it's people, just not all of it's inhabitants. Him being a descendant of Lithuanian nobility and as you say betraying them wasn't right, he should have went ahead with that idea, Rzeczpospolita Trojga Narodow, just like the Zaporozhyan Cossacks wanted and King Wladyslaw IV before the rebellion.

Life / Polish gimnazjums - memoirs of a teacher [32]


Yes i am Polish, i havn't gone through the new system, i finished 2nd grade before moving to America, remember learning basic multiplication in kindergarten, not nap time like they have here. Have cousins still in Poland all have their masters and are well educated. Maybe you are right, maybe there have been major changes in Poland, if so it must be for the worse. Having a masters or a PHD in communist times or early 90's in Poland was truly something to be proud of.

Life / Polish gimnazjums - memoirs of a teacher [32]



Compare the knowledge of an 8th grade graduate from Poland and the U.S, the Polish student knows much more Math, History and Science, American public schools are a joke, teaching is on a low level, kids do what they like, administration thinks more money will solve all problems. Polish grade and high schools teach on a much higher level, one problem is many unnecessarily homework assignments, they're crammed with hours and hours of homework some of which they simply don't need. This video compares American and European high schools.

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Bx4pN-aiofw

Food / Polish Duck Soup [117]


Sounds very high end and healthy, soup for the poorest of the poor.

History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]

Poniatowski tried to 'play' Catherine the Great with hopes of marriage and becoming a Russian Tsar one day, but she just kept him as a lover.

Food / Polish Duck Soup [117]

isn't it a regional dish, Kasubian?

History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]


It was that whole Curzon line idea which came about after WWI in which the Western powers i guess by their extensive knowledge of of regions history, said that that's the ethnic divide. For the most part they were right, but many people east of that line, Poles settled those lands 1.5 to 2 million of them, plus many Polonized en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonization#Second_Polish_Republic_.281918-1939.29

Catholicised Ukrainians, Lithuanians and Belorussians lived there, therefore Pilsudski saw things differently.

History / Does anybody else think that Poland's army should change the colour of its uniform? [16]


I was thinking about the summer battle uniform, maybe a new digital look like the American Army has, but with shades of green like the Canadians have...

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History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]

Sobieski would have expanded Poland's boundaries, but even before he was king just a commander, the Cossack Rebellion was going on, Cossack and Tatars invading Poland, Swedes invaded, Swedes were driven our, Poland began to beat Cossack/Tatar/Russian armies Battle of Berestechko, Battle of Chudniv, internal conflict between nobles Lubomirski Rokosz, putting Polish forces against each other, ended with the Treaty of Treaty of Bila Tserkva, which was more favorable for the Cossacks, splitting the Ukraine in half. Too many internal and external conflicts at once, he therefore could only prevent territorial loss.

History / The Greatest King of Poland? [117]



Not just Vienna, the battle of Parkany in Hungary a few days later when Polish forces collided with the retreating ottoman forces, and the victory that followed was a much more complete victory than Vienna.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_P%C3%A1rk%C3%A1ny
He defeated them earlier at Chocim in the Ukraine, also countless victories against the Tatars. Sobieski and Batory were great military leaders, Casimir the Great built Poland.

Genealogy / Is tallness common among Polish people? [201]

southern i don't think Natasa was talking about a mustache

Language / Easiest Language To Learn from English to Polish... [13]

from English-German, from Polish-Spanish

Genealogy / Is tallness common among Polish people? [201]


You both like tall broad shouldered men ;)

Life / Foreigners in Poland and what they think of us [54]

Well if they wont admit it they're simply lying to themselves.

Life / Foreigners in Poland and what they think of us [54]


That's how real Jews look like, they're Semitic people, they are related to Arabs just different religions, get your facts straight. European Jews mixed with indigenous Europeans that's why they look more white.

Genealogy / Is tallness common among Polish people? [201]


Yea Adolf was obsessed with the idea of tall, broad shouldered men as being purely Germanic traits.

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Life / Foreigners in Poland and what they think of us [54]


Yea he seamed ok, not one of them Israelis who's parents or grandparents came from Poland and have some hatred for us because of what happened to his people in our country, he actually identifies himself as Polish u hear him talk about his Polish mother.

Life / Foreigners in Poland and what they think of us [54]

Food / Borscht - Zurek / Bialy barszcz recipe [153]

White Barszcz, but made traditionally, country style, can't do it from some packets bought at a store, dump a whole loaf of bread into a jar a let is stand for a week or so, dump that into a pot add water kielbasa, onion, eggs, that's real Barszcz.

Polonia / Life in Poland vs Norway - good for children, benefits, etc? [43]

I thought Scandinavians were supposed to be liberal open people

Love / How should I approach this young Polish man that I like? [48]


tell him you wanna have his babies

Love / Polish women world's second most flirtatious [75]


They must mean the ones in Poland or in the U.K, the ones here in the States act like nuns. It's sickening ;)

Life / Queues in Poland - everyone in line is sandwiched [44]


Big girls need love too

Life / Queues in Poland - everyone in line is sandwiched [44]


what are you complaining about you can rub against the girl in front of you

Genealogy / Polish Surnames Anglicized? [48]

Steve Wilkos from the Steve Wilkos show, former security on the Jerry Springer show, dropped the z from his original Wilkosz Polish surname.

USA, Canada / Greenpoint is still Polish? Nightclubs and bars for Poles. [18]

I wouldn't say that, compared to some other neighborhoods in Brooklyn it doesn't look too bad, if they wanna build affordable housing go ahead, but do it for the current residents.