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nott   
20 Oct 2010
Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

A national pet, practically. Poland is full of pine forests, ideal environment for red squirrels.

To catch a squirrel??? Some really bad boys do it, but they are really really bad. TO EAT a squirrel??? You out of your nuts??? Or something.

nott: Poles were catching fish for food, as is legal and natural in Poland.

A lot of wild fish in Poland streams? Fishing is a big sport like here? Or more just for food?

Not a lot, in streams... In places, yes. More in lakes. Can't say if it is a big sport, it's not unpopular, so to speak.

Sport, but you don't release them, unless too small, or currently protected. Hm, some poaching, with electricity and explosives. Possibly equally popular :)

I am not a fan, it's all just popular knowledge. You hear stories. Like some time ago I heard stories about hunting boars with dogs and a knife. Near Sanok. I mean I spoke to a man who did it, and his friends confirmed that, under oath. Women too.
nott   
19 Oct 2010
Love / Polish girls fall for Indian guys ? [217]

that will u know when the time will come.. one Indian would be enough for u all guys.. ! beware .. U never met this Indian.. .. wait n watch.. MR Amathyst .. will meet u in ur area. show me ur power i will show u my power in ur country..!

What a prat. And how this relates to About Us is beyond my comprehension.
nott   
19 Oct 2010
Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

Same for other small game like squirrels, possum...

Who'd bother hunting squirrels. A well fed rabbit of a good meaty breed can grow up to 10 kg.

There are no wild rabbits in Poland. What I saw of the kind in the UK is not worth the bother.
nott   
19 Oct 2010
Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

Bunny... seems like there's not much eating on them. Good-sized rabbit, though, now that's worth the effort :)

Rabbits are kosher in Poland. Once food of the poor, as anybody could breed rabbits in any small backyard, now it's more like a delicacy.

Anyone got a good rabbit recipe?

Search for 'potrawka z królika'. Easy, and good.
nott   
19 Oct 2010
Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

Sorry to rain on your parade but was you not aware of this:

No problem with rain :) Look at the date, it's an old story, urban legend, already many times explained and fully investigated. There was a Gypsy camp, Daily Mail reporter sees all weird new-Europeans as Poles, so go figure. There was investigation by reporters from a Polish newspaper, and even an official protest, followed by official apologies.

Swans are not food in Poland, to eat a swan is like eating a dog, or a cat.

As for fish, it's an old story too. Fact is, Poles were catching fish for food, as is legal and natural in Poland. Now hardly anybody is unaware of the weird British custom of tormenting poor creatures just for the sake of it :)
nott   
19 Oct 2010
Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

Hamsters? There's no eating on them. Swans, however, are 'royal birds' simply because only the Royal Family had the right to eat them. The British Royal Family. There's still a big swan farm somewhere on the Thames. Hardly a Polish tradition, just to spoil the joke...
nott   
18 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]

which don't have rabies.

Another difference, yes. I remember the short-lasting scare here, when somebody mentioned that some rare bats may carry rabies sometimes.

Mind you, in Olsztyn we sometimes have wild boar walking in the streets in broad daylight.

Same happened in Katowice, in the city centre. This was a sensation, but in the southern outskirts wild boars are, if not common, then on unheard of.

Edit: frogs choruses. In Poland a common thing. And no gnats in the UK.
nott   
16 Oct 2010
History / Star shaped symbol on Polish Eagle? [22]

So what the heck are they?

A rosette of feathers. Doesn't mean anything, although they say that during the PRL they were stylised to look more like stars.
nott   
9 Oct 2010
History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

Yeah....Poles in the parliament...Poles getting wealthy and influential...Poles having the same voting rights...

I read those excerpts from Bismarck's speeches. Now make a mental experiment, BB, and compare them to Hitler's speeches about the Jewish danger. They would have to be scaled up in intensity, of course, or Hitler's speeches muchly mellowed, but the actual sense is like similar, isn't it?

Did they tell them of the betterment of the life circumstances?

As compared to the neighbouring free Poland? Or as compared to the previous century?

by Prussian work highly industrialized regions into the new Poland - thiefs anybody?

You are forgetting it was the old Poland (edit: the richest part of the old Poland). You took it, you invested, you lost the investment after it has been retaken. Happens all the time. And do not forget what those 'happily getting rich under Preussen' Poles did there themselves.
nott   
9 Oct 2010
Love / Polish girls fall for Indian guys ? [217]

Gentleman let me tell some statistics about Indians:
1. 50% of the top ramking engineers in the world are Indians

funny thing they mostly run corner shops. I've worked with some Indian 'engineers'. One of them needed a calculator to calculate 13*10, and was stunned when I drew him a pentagon with a compass and a rule only. Another one calculated a staircase beam with a dedicated engineer's calculator, where you just input height and length, and missed the floor by 2 feet. He recalculated and ordered another beam to be cut, but in the meantime the labourers (two Poles and a Rumanian) turned the first one over and neatly welded it in place.

2.The highest rakning auction visual artist - S.H. Raza is Indian

In India. His highest price was about USD3.5mln. Couple of weeks ago a modern piece was sold at Sotheby's for GBP7mln. Didn't make headlines.

6. The film that got the 8 oscar nomination was made by Indian.

10, not 8. This is the first time that an Indian has won more than one nomination in Oscar history. The film was made in the UK, and half the nominations were for non-Indian Brits.

4. The country who is growing with highest liquidity is India while Greece is bankrupt.
5. The worlds 90% steel is in the hand of a single Indian- Mittal who rented Versai palace for his daughter'd marriage.
7. The top 5 richest people inthe worls are Indians.

42.5% of the children in India suffer from malnutrition.[58] The World Bank, citing estimates made by the World Health Organization, states "that about 49 per cent of the world's underweight children, 34 per cent of the world's stunted children and 46 per cent of the world's wasted children, live in India." More people below poverty line live in India than in the poorest African countries (410 mln).

3. The mathematician who found flaws in the Einstin's theory of relativity is S, Bose from India(...)
Have you heard abiut Bose- themusic guru, or Makanzie the best consultant who is now advicing Greece to come outof bankrupcy is hold by Rajat Bose- an Indian.

Do you stillguts to talk about IQ?

Adult literacy in India is 66%. World average is 84%.
nott   
6 Oct 2010
Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Nott, creative fiction aside......

what you calling fiction? It's my life!

:)

I never met... Ok, I met one Scot. Two big houses, small construction firm, he was working himself senseless. And he started with bare hands, as I heard. Can't say about his generosity though - or lack of it.

with me! outside!!!

afraid to damage the furniture...?

:)
nott   
6 Oct 2010
Life / Polish stereotypes of other nationalities!? [472]

Seanus:
esp those from Poznań and Kraków
hey!! beside that myth!!!! do you have any other proof??!!

experience :)

I went to Kraków, wanted to get to some place, bought myself a city map just outside the train station. A guy was standing there, saw my purchase, approached me, asked if he could have a peek, took a small piece of paper out of his pocket, found the address on the map, thanked me. And told me which bus to take to my place :)

What Stereotype do Poles have about Scandivaians?

Pink boring blondes getting drunk first thing abroad. And staying boring.
nott   
5 Oct 2010
History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

the polish presiden Mazowiecky was the first one after the war to acknowledge the presence of some Germans left in Poland at all, in 1989!

Before 1989 the presence of some Poles was not fully acknowledged either. Nor the absence of quite a lot of them.

Edit:

I strongly protest! That was in the spirit of mutual understanding and filling up the trenches between the nations! I will complain to Strasbourg! MODS ARE FASCISTS!!!

See you in three days, guys...
nott   
5 Oct 2010
History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

nott:My point is, Germans were not fighting any more. Not as a country. As mobs, they were fighting for the Bright Future.

"The" Germans surely not...There were the red chaots, there was the Freikorps and then there still was the Reichswehr.

With all due respect... it took Poles to stop Tuchaczewski :) Germany didn't have that thing, face it.

PS: Do you know about this guy? (...) Wojciech Korfanty

I am from Silesia, man...

A polish nationalist activist member of the german parliament instead of in a gulag!

Right. I said, Germany had an ego, Russia was Asiatic barbarism. Still, he had to fight, didn't he? To fight against 'something', and this something was quite tangible, if it needed fighting, with weapons, wasn't it? And people died fighting, wonder why, if they were so happy.
nott   
4 Oct 2010
History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

nott:Poles would not defend Germany for the sweet memories of the Prussian hospitality during the partitions, would they...

Who knows what they would do had they found themselves under russian occupation with only the Germans left fighting....;)

My point is, Germans were not fighting any more. Not as a country. As mobs, they were fighting for the Bright Future. Germany had some problem with quelling those rebellions. So much so that the Western material help for the fighting Poland was successfully held up in German ports.

nott:Like in £ódź, innit. Somehow Prussians were not involved.

I have no idea about Lodz but somehow I doubt it had been at the same standards as Prussian towns.

Possibly not, I don't know. But it was done with a handicap, by Poles, and almost against the then present 'tradition of development'.

nott: And Poles are organically incapable of spontaneously modernising, nor even of voluntarily adopting modernisation, is what you're saying?

Well...I was only saying instead of treating Poles and the partition like a colonial subject to exploit and opress Berlin pumped much money, energy and material into it. (Abit like today come to think of it)

Now you are not suggesting that Germans pumped money in developing the Polish middle class... or are you? :) The oppression thing is about, you, know, the soul, and heart, and being who your grandpas were...

nott: There was no Warsaw then to orchestrate the uprisings, all went East.

The Silesian uprisings were definitely orchestrated by Warsaw, that is no news anymore!

nott:the reason for the 3rd uprising was the unjust result of the plebiscite.

"Unjust result", says it all, doesn't it....Warsaw just didn't want to accept the fact of the german majority at all.

Here I'd appreciate some sources, honest.

nott:Poland was not a result of the Treaty.

It needed WWI and the Treaty of Versailles, nothing else.

A bit more, though. I don't think Trocki cared much for the Treaty. And I don't think anybody in the West would care to force the Treaty on him.
nott   
4 Oct 2010
History / What happened from 1650-1795? [68]

The national claims of Poles were not only understood by Karl Marx but he himself also supported the Polish cause in 1848 and 1863.

Now that's a Pole bashing! MOOOODS!!!

:)
nott   
4 Oct 2010
History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

But there are still some left. They missed a few. I have seen they singing on U Tube. And in the News.

And there are some in Germany, longing. Could be done, provided it is like recreating (part of) the past traditions of the land, and not stomping on people who didn't really choose for their grandparents to move from the other side of the country.
nott   
4 Oct 2010
History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

Russia was amidst a bloody civil war...I reallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreallyreal lly doubt they would had been able to take Germany over....

Russia was advancing West, with amazing speed, thanks to Tuchaczewski. Germany suffered small local commie revolutions, just waiting to join forces with the Fatherland of the Working Class. Germany, as such, was a rather destroyed country, wasn't it. Like, look how easily the Poles took over in Poznań (Posen), the first successful Polish insurrection.

Poles would not defend Germany for the sweet memories of the Prussian hospitality during the partitions, would they...

For a middle class it surely needs urbanization. And urbanization needs industrialisation..

Like in £ódź, innit. Somehow Prussians were not involved.

A middle class developed with modernization, something Berlin supported and developed in polish Prussia!

And Poles are organically incapable of spontaneously modernising, nor even of voluntarily adopting modernisation, is what you're saying?

That was one of the reason for the silesian uprisings as orchestrated by Warsaw. They wanted the highly (prussian) industrialized silesian region all for themselves, forcing the League of Nations to give it to them, regardless of the ethnic make up of the region.

There was no Warsaw then to orchestrate the uprisings, all went East. Polish Silesians were completely on their own, and felt bitter about it. And the ethnic make up - you know that, BB, the reason for the 3rd uprising was the unjust result of the plebiscite. Masurians didn't make it, Silesians did.

Poland was not a result of the Treaty. Were it not for the Legions, and the 1920, and the will just to have it, there would be no Poland. We took it, we kept it. And we took only the lands that were Polish before the partitions, and not even quite all of them, to be precise.
nott   
4 Oct 2010
History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

It needs industrialization and urbanization for a middle class to develop and to grow, to become wealthy and gain influence...so, it needed prussian influence for that.

No, it didn't need it. Somebody already mentioned £ódź. The Russian part of the partitions was the most economically developed part of the whole Russia.. Poles did it by themselves. With a lil' bit of help from their Jewish friends.
nott   
4 Oct 2010
History / Life in Partitioned Poland (Specifically in the Prussian Partition) [118]

Poles had it good in Prussia...what did they gain with their independence? War, complete destruction and more occupation for more than 50 years! Wow!

Right. Were it not for Poland, you'd be speaking Russian fluently now, and you'd be much better versed in Marxism than you might consider it healthy these days. The 1920 war prevented the Red Army from taking over Germany, with German working classes eagerly awaiting the liberation from the blood-sucking bourgeoisie.

Imagine it happened.
nott   
4 Oct 2010
History / What happened from 1650-1795? [68]

and dude everybody doesnt do what germany did. that in itself is vulgar.

Russians did, and worse...

And I'd say Hitler could happen to anybody, in the circumstances. Fascism was quite popular all over Europe, antisemitism ripe. Just recently, in France, documents were released about the keen French administration wilfully helping to herd Jews for the Nazi. Most Germans were unaware of the scale and methods as well, to the very end...