UK, Ireland / Is the UK referred to as the Islands in Polish media back home? [62]


Why would Poles be jealous of an Island filled with people that look like ugly ghosts?

Life / Your Polish friends - why do you regard them as such? [41]


Seanus, my stories are all absolutely true. Just because you've never known any Pole that touched cocaine doesn't mean that none have. Stop this idiotic inductive reasoning. It makes you look really stupid. Moreover my stories are positive and your stories, if positive, are also boring and pathetic. I am going surfing now so if you, or the cadre of angry British expatriates on this forum, see fit to attack me yet again don't think I am cowed because I do not respond immediately.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

Not only were the Antes Sarmatians but so too both "Serb" and "Croat" were originally the names of Sarmatian war bands. A branch of the latter, the White Croatians, lived in the Podhale region of Poland for some time before moving to Dalmatia.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


Do you really hate to say it, or are you really happy to say it because you are a British/South African who comes to this forum to hassle Slavs and indulge in your stupid fantasy about how superior Western Europeans are to them?

Ancient Slavs were actually far ahead of other civilizations politically, because they refused to be governed by kings or other despots and instead lived on mirs in which wealth was distributed equitably and everyone had their soveriegnty, unlike the craven ***** civilizations of Western Europe and Asia that bowed down to tyrants. When the proper human form of political existence, that of anarcho-syndicalism, is attained in the future it will be new for most of the world's cultures, but for Slavs it will just be a return to the superior lifestyle their ancestors enjoyed.

As for a lack of writing making the Slavs inferior, that is just ridiculous. Cultures whose stories are transmitted orally are in no way inferior to those with writing. In fact the memory of peoples without the crutch of script are far better, and that is why you see that the Slavs posting on this forum tend to be smarter than the others who come here.

Love / What did I do wrong? A Polish girlfriend doesn't want me to send her anything? [84]


No, I don't but I do know that being Polish gives one direct access to the Polish mental state that mere observation does not. I claimed that all humans, Polish or not, understand in their hearts that accepting gifts makes one indebted to the giver, hence those who've attained mental clarity do not accept gifts from people they do not wish to be indebted to. I can't say wether all, or few, Poles are aware of this fact, but I suggested that perhaps this Polish woman is and she doesnt want to be beholden to Snowy- hence her refusal.

Love / What did I do wrong? A Polish girlfriend doesn't want me to send her anything? [84]


Not from the Tatras mountains though. I have never met you in person, Isthatu, perhaps you have the vigor of a highlander too, albeit a Scottish one. I know my father, and I knew my late grandfather, and experience has proven to me that we are more hardy than normal men.

Love / What did I do wrong? A Polish girlfriend doesn't want me to send her anything? [84]

Isthatu, I am part of the Polish genome and nature trumps nurture. My body and soul are Polish. Laugh if you want, but I am laughing at you and the rest of the world who are not endowed with the vigor of a Gorale.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]


King Arthur was not a Serb but his legend is probably a variation of the Sarmatian/Ossetian legend of the Narts, brought into Britain by Sarmatian mercenaries employed by the Romans.

Love / What did I do wrong? A Polish girlfriend doesn't want me to send her anything? [84]


Seanus get over yourself. Auto-hagiography is really silly.

History / Was the holocaust by Germans in Poland the worse genocide in history? [210]


No, he conquered India west of the Indus river. That may not be part of India today, but that is only owing to the stupid British partition of Durga's land.

Love / What did I do wrong? A Polish girlfriend doesn't want me to send her anything? [84]


That is not a properly worded question, and that is not what I am telling you. I merely stated the fact that you are not Polish so you cannot infalliably know how Polish people "see things" you are not inside of their minds, nor do you see with their eyes.


I am of Polish descent. My body and thus my mind are part of Polish reality. Stop with your silly claims that standing on a piece of land makes you more Polish that those in the Polish diaspora who carry the reality of what it is to be Polish in their very being.

Genealogy / Slavs are descendants of Sarmatians? [600]

The Sarmats were indeed an Iranian tribe and their most direct descendants, the Ossets, still speak a Persian language, but there is ample DNA evidence proving that Poles and Iranians are indeed closely related and thus the Sarmatian story of Polish origins may very well be true: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1a_(Y-DNA)

History / Was the holocaust by Germans in Poland the worse genocide in history? [210]

Indeed it is the most sickening story about Alexander that I know and there is no dearth of other stories relating his obnoxiousness and brutality. I suppose one could, as with his treatment of the corpse of Batis the defender of Gaza, attribute this horrific action to his penchant to imitate Achilles, but Achilles only sacrificed twelve live Trojans on the pyre of Patroclus. Who knows how many Cossaeans paid with their lives for Alexander's grief?

Love / What did I do wrong? A Polish girlfriend doesn't want me to send her anything? [84]


Snowy, all human beings, that are honest with themselves about how social relations work, believe this, because it is true.

History / Was the holocaust by Germans in Poland the worse genocide in history? [210]


Truly he does. The mania for ranking things like this needs to be gotten over. That being said I would like to mention a somewhat obscure ancient genocide. Plutarch claims that Alexander the Great was so distraught over the death of his friend Hephaestion that "....he went into the country of the Cossaeans and for no reason massacred the entire nation."

Love / What did I do wrong? A Polish girlfriend doesn't want me to send her anything? [84]


Seanus you aren't Polish and so I doubt your claims regarding how Poles do, or do not, see themselves. Every gift, regardless of where it is given, brings indebtedness. Your claim that this is only a Japanese way of seeing things is myopic.

Love / What did I do wrong? A Polish girlfriend doesn't want me to send her anything? [84]

Perhaps it is the close genetic identity between Poles and upper caste Indians that accounts for this woman's refusal. Yogins and yoginis do not accept gifts from anyone because doing so makes them beholden to the giver and thus further chains them to the wheel of samsara from which their yogic practice is attempting to extricate them.

Language / 24 hour time telling in Poland vs. other countries [29]


Yes it is possible.

Life / You are Polish if... [433]


Indeed I've met only two people in America that pronounced my surname correctly upon first seeing it: a Russian History professor and a German apartment manager. I was reminded of the latter when watching the movie The Big Lebowski in which the German nihilists are the only characters that correctly pronounce the titular surname.

Language / 24 hour time telling in Poland vs. other countries [29]


In addition to those who've had experience with the Internet, the military, and British rail, any American who has attended, or even considered attending, one semester of college would be able to decipher the correct time in your scenario because class schedules are printed in the 24 hour time mode as well.

Life / Gran Torino - Walt Kowalski, the movie [39]


No it didn't. Walt Kowalski's use of ethic slurs was attributed to the fact that he was an old man whose vocabulary came from a byegone era. There was a scene that humorously portrayed his anachronism in which he drove up to some Afro-American youths and called them "spooks". Rather that react violently they were taken aback and one of them even asked him incredulously "Did you just call us spooks?" Walt's ethnic slurs are shown to be wholly outdated and no one with half a brain would walk away from that movie thinking it justifies Polonopobia in the 21st Century. That movie was a chronicle of an old man gettig rid of his prejudice and not a justification of prejudice.

Life / Gran Torino - Walt Kowalski, the movie [39]


No, you are wrong Kowalski's surname was Polish and his noble heart was Polish too. He was racist but when he got to know his Hmong neighbors he grew to like them and he realized that their noble spirit made him have more in common with them than he had with his own family, who were Westernized and superficial, and he said as much in the scene in which he looked in the mirror. So too the ending was a direct reference to the the Polish national epic, Sienkiewicz's Trilogy, and you don't get more Polish than that.

Life / Gran Torino - Walt Kowalski, the movie [39]


The ending was almost certainly inspired by the death of Longinus Podbipięta in Henryk Sienkiewicz's With Fire And Sword

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Language / 24 hour time telling in Poland vs. other countries [29]

Many Americans would know to subtract 12 from any time over 12 to get the post meridian time, but what kind of party starts at 5? Sure it's acceptable in a written English exam but it is a math rather than a language problem.

History / 1920 Battle of Warsaw - English trailer and film [55]

There is already a thread about this film.

USA, Canada / PolAm style Thanksgiving? [35]


Its an end of the harvest celebration, any food will do.

Life / Need the name of a Polish comedy series and Poland movie recommendations [22]

The Saragossa Manuscript. This ultra-complex film has myriad comedic moments as well as scary moments, beautiful moments, and an overall mood that perfectly captures the spirit of Jan Potocki's masterpiece.

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


So you claim that there is an Ukrainian ethnicity, but there is no Polish ethnicity..... That is really strange.


Sorry Dope, but that is not my fantasy and you are being a moron for claiming it is.

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

I think you should think more about what you are writing before you click on the "post your message", Derpyandomine. Can you explain why you assert that there is no definition of Polish ethnicity because the Polish ethnicity has only existed 1,000 years?

News / Poland Parliament elections in October 2011 [944]


Pawain, I read about a Polish nobleman who'd found that one of his serfs was using his surname and he punished him by ordering him do do just what you have suggested. Were you making a conscious allusion to this unique incident, or was this practice more widespread in historical Poland, and is this practice still current in Poland today?