Rihanna complains about lack of privacy on Polish beach

As I mentioned earlier she was wasted at the KOL gig on Saturday night.




You have to question when the last time or if ever some posters on PF have visited Poland.

Delph, H, Jon the The European Solidarity center is coming on in Gdansk, opening date June 2014.

ecs.gda.pl/About_us

Building is really taking shape now.

I'll definitely take a trip up there to see that!


I think the answer to that is pretty obvious.

Those of us living here see non-white people daily. Nothing out of the ordinary or special.

You wouldn't belong to that group :P
Plus everybody already knows her race.
Duh!


Lol, Polish isn't an ethnicity.
Double Duh!

Such as the Great Marshal ? But then he is was not very fond of your idol Dmowski.


Even here in Bielany :). And I am still alive :))

I bet that makes you all tingly inside huh?

I don't even give it a moment's thought.

I know it well and it's certainly classier than most, not that that's saying much. Doesn't say much at all for the others. The in-crowd tend to sit outside cafes mid way up the main drag. For a nice beach, I tend to walk south a little from the pier, in the direction of Jelitkowo where there are some excellent cafes. The beach at Gdynia is also surprisingly nice and a few very good bars and restaurants.


Nobody really notices, do they?

Nope, but some of the curries served up by members of Warsaw's Indian, Pakistani and Nepalese communities most certainly make me more than tingle inside.

I saw a black guy on the train (a crappy local train, at that) full of old people coming back from the seaside the other week. No-one even batted an eyelid.

What century are you posting from, warszawski?


She is from Barbados not Hollywood.

Spot on - that's what her Polish PR did it for in the first place. Doesn't harm seaside resorts when the crowds think one of their idols might be on the beach too. We can expect Edyta Górniak, Doda, Mandarynka, the large breasted one from M jak Miłość, him that used to be in Ranczo, Norbert Afera and whoever else follows suit to show up at a beach any day now, entourage and all.


Have you tried that new Arab place on Jana Pawła - at the end of the more northerly of those 2 pavillions on the West side just above Solidarności? Only a tiny place and not posh, but the real deal. Quite a few Turkish businesses there too, including a grocery - things are looking up.

Mind telling them to open up in Poznan?

I've been trying to convince my favourite Kurdish kebab shop owner to open a shop, but he won't :(

youtube.com/watch?v=VyRwrrggxok

(yawn)...another celebrity who seeks fame and attention but supposedly not when he/she claims not to want it. At least she didn't complain that the Polish patriarchy was keeping her down. lol

Pfft every time I go someplace with people I feel the same. There are people all over this planet and most of them are annoying.

hahahaha harry! What a silly claim to make! You can be honest about your opinions! Indeed you can, but you cannot, as I said, be honest about how Rhianna really feels because you do not know her, and creating a class of "famous musicians" that are somehow all alike such that your contact with "more than a few of them" makes you an authority on their feelings is just a silly fantasist joke!

Funny how for the vast majority of them (unlike most DJs), being ignored was probably the worst thing that could happen to them, especially vocalists (and frontmen).

To be honest, it is a disaster - if anyone from the record company saw the total lack of reaction from the public, they could be tempted to drop them for the "Next Big Thing".

More importantly, what was she doing anywhere near that polluted mess that is the Baltic?

Maybe in your part of the world mullato/mixed race is offensive, not in my mine part of the world. Just like walking the streets with a beer in Poland is acceptable, in the UK is not, the article was written on a blog in the UK, by a Polish journalist about a situation in Poland.

So then the use of zyd in a football context shouldn't be offensive? Just a bunch of fun loving guys pro-jew and anti-jew having a lark over a game of footie?

That is pathetic. First, she did everything to become famous, then she puts on sunglasses to prevent being recognised. What inconsequence!

I don't know what the above has to do with this thread, I will answer out of courtesy. The term Yids is used by north London fans of Tottenham hotspur F,C.

The term "mixed race" is not offensive in my part of the world. Don't pretend that "mulatto" and "mixed race" have the same connotations in English now. They do not. The term "mulatto" is one of a series of racialist terms, of Portugese and Spanish origin, used in the times of slavery and segregation. "Mulatto" specified someone at least half black. "Quadroon" was reserved for people who were one quarter black and "Octoroon"for those who were one eighth black. Just as the term "negro" has been supplanted by the term "black" the term "mulatto" has been supplanted by the term "mixed-race" or "half-black". So too realize that if "black" only applies to people of purely African ancestry then few of the black people in the Americas would be "black" anymore. Caucasian and Amer-Indian ancestry is very widespread amongst black people in the Americas. Warszawski, if "your part of the world" doesn't understand that using the term "mulatto" is considered as boorish as using the term "negro" then so much the worse for your part of the world, but I somehow doubt that you're being accurate when characterizing your abode.


Wow let's talk about an inept analogy! Using racialist terminology from the 19th Century is not at all akin to strolling the boulevard with an open container of suds, regardless of the country in which one saunters.

I take it you haven't been to Saudi Arabia. Or the part of Palestine where Hamas is in charge.

On the plus side for them, at least Saudis don't need to worry about Rihanna performing there.

The word also has its roots in the Arabic word muwallad.

There is no direct proof of the origins of the word and you know this, Des.

It has nothing to do with the thread itself, but it now has a lot to do with the way the thread has developed. Smurf suggested the usage of the word "black" to describe Rhianna was racist on the part of the author.

You have said


I am suggesting that "racist terms" are not necessarily interpreted the same way by all people in all cultures. Your acceptance of the term mulatto is akin to the use of the term zyd by these football fans. Both usages can be offensive to many people.

Mullato is not a racist term in Europe, Asia or South America, only in certain groups in the USA, the same ones who believe it originates from the Spanish word mulas

Harry don't be so stupid. Alcohol is outlawed in some places in the world, but it never reminds people of the racial classification system that existed when people of African descent were treated as chattel. Thus warszawski's analogy is inept. Your bringing up the Saudis, and the Islamic Resistance to the Israeli occupation of Palestine, is yet another example of your creepy Arabophobic obsession. Get a life and stop making so many stupid posts on this forum, Harry.

Another girl with the ever so common princess complex.

Please quote any other country in the world where the mainstream consider the word mullato racist other than some groups in the USA/ Canada. The word mulas in Spanish is in common usage even today and is not considered offensive.