Lyzko
27 Jul 2021
USA, Canada / Poles living in the United States, what do you do? [16]
Moreover, they're industrious and above all cheap, cheap, cheap!-:)
Moreover, they're industrious and above all cheap, cheap, cheap!-:)
Lyzko
27 Jul 2021
History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]
You mean you WANT to believe.
You mean you WANT to believe.
Lyzko
26 Jul 2021
History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]
Ethel was only implicated by association! Judge Saypol as a Jew wanted to prove to a hysterical, Red-baiting public he wasn't soft on fellow Jews.
Ethel was only implicated by association! Judge Saypol as a Jew wanted to prove to a hysterical, Red-baiting public he wasn't soft on fellow Jews.
Lyzko
26 Jul 2021
History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]
My reading suggests that the Baldwin, later the Churchill, government acutely realized the geopolitical significance of Stalin as a bulwark against the Nazis. HE wasn't history's supreme dolt; Neville Chamberlain won that booby prize hands down.
My reading suggests that the Baldwin, later the Churchill, government acutely realized the geopolitical significance of Stalin as a bulwark against the Nazis. HE wasn't history's supreme dolt; Neville Chamberlain won that booby prize hands down.
Lyzko
26 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]
If a Polish-speaking Dane, German, American or Brit chooses to study in Poland,
where's the big problem? You people kill me, honest to G_d! Like Germany, France,
and other European countries, you have a lovely space, begging for visitors and then
you tell them they aren't welcome. Then you get mad when those visitors raise protest.
It's analogous to a beautiful women, showing off here wares, so to speak, then getting
furious when men make a pass at her. What do you expect?? Self control goes only
so far:-)
If a Polish-speaking Dane, German, American or Brit chooses to study in Poland,
where's the big problem? You people kill me, honest to G_d! Like Germany, France,
and other European countries, you have a lovely space, begging for visitors and then
you tell them they aren't welcome. Then you get mad when those visitors raise protest.
It's analogous to a beautiful women, showing off here wares, so to speak, then getting
furious when men make a pass at her. What do you expect?? Self control goes only
so far:-)
Lyzko
26 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]
It's called the United States of Europe and her capital is the EU, deal with it!
It's called the United States of Europe and her capital is the EU, deal with it!
Lyzko
26 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]
And that is exactly why Bruxelles should step in here. There must be accountability.
And that is exactly why Bruxelles should step in here. There must be accountability.
Lyzko
26 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]
Amen, Atch! Geezloueez, Nigerian medical students had almost carte blanche to study at leading East German universities during the '6O's-:)
Amen, Atch! Geezloueez, Nigerian medical students had almost carte blanche to study at leading East German universities during the '6O's-:)
Lyzko
24 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]
But if Polish-speaking foreigners who are legally, scholastically, linguistically, and financially entitled to study are not permitted to do so purely on ideologícal grounds, that's discrimination!
But if Polish-speaking foreigners who are legally, scholastically, linguistically, and financially entitled to study are not permitted to do so purely on ideologícal grounds, that's discrimination!
Lyzko
24 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]
Quotas are one thing, capricious exclusion quite another.
Quotas are one thing, capricious exclusion quite another.
Lyzko
24 Jul 2021
Lyzko
24 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]
If a Polish-speaking foreigner is academically or financially qualified to study at a Polish university, there's zero issue, except in the mind of a bigot, PERIOD!
If a Polish-speaking foreigner is academically or financially qualified to study at a Polish university, there's zero issue, except in the mind of a bigot, PERIOD!
Lyzko
21 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]
That statement by the rector was not what I was referring to. I'm not exactly Rosanna Rosanna Damma here, Rich!
That statement by the rector was not what I was referring to. I'm not exactly Rosanna Rosanna Damma here, Rich!
Lyzko
21 Jul 2021
Lyzko
21 Jul 2021
News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]
Yep, Poland (as well as Hungary) looks as though she does indeed require some EU supervision-:)
Bruxelles needn't be the bad guy, but when xenophobia and anti-democratic tendencies are still allowed to run amok,
something needs to be done....FAST!! Had there been such safeguards way back when, maybe Hitler could have been nipped
in the bud.
Yep, Poland (as well as Hungary) looks as though she does indeed require some EU supervision-:)
Bruxelles needn't be the bad guy, but when xenophobia and anti-democratic tendencies are still allowed to run amok,
something needs to be done....FAST!! Had there been such safeguards way back when, maybe Hitler could have been nipped
in the bud.
Lyzko
20 Jul 2021
Lyzko
20 Jul 2021
Lyzko
20 Jul 2021
Life / Poles opinion on Sweden, Bavaria, Greece, Czechia? [28]
True. Often, the prettiest regions are the most stultifying-:)
True. Often, the prettiest regions are the most stultifying-:)
Lyzko
20 Jul 2021
Life / Poles opinion on Sweden, Bavaria, Greece, Czechia? [28]
Bavaria is the most traditionally pictaresque region of the country, yet also, the most rock-ribbed conservative!
Bavaria is the most traditionally pictaresque region of the country, yet also, the most rock-ribbed conservative!
Lyzko
16 Jul 2021
Lyzko
15 Jul 2021
Language / The shame! I can't pronounce my Polish wife's name (Ola) [69]
Modern Polish has NO long vowels, so we're even!
Modern Polish has NO long vowels, so we're even!
Lyzko
15 Jul 2021
Lyzko
15 Jul 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]
Yes, that's true as well. Vasa Sweden was a great deal more powerful that many realize today:-)
Yes, that's true as well. Vasa Sweden was a great deal more powerful that many realize today:-)
Lyzko
15 Jul 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]
Germans established the concept of "race" or "racial hygene" as a method of excluding, later eliminating, all others
whom they deemed either not "German", or, not German "enough"! This practice was unique to German-speaking lands,
as it differed sharply from other nations such as the Poles, the French, the Spaniards, later the Communist Russians, for whom
mere unquestioning obedience to the State, in some cases, converting to the state religion, was all that was necessary for
Jews to exist or cohabitate side-by-side with their gentile neighbors.
Germans established the concept of "race" or "racial hygene" as a method of excluding, later eliminating, all others
whom they deemed either not "German", or, not German "enough"! This practice was unique to German-speaking lands,
as it differed sharply from other nations such as the Poles, the French, the Spaniards, later the Communist Russians, for whom
mere unquestioning obedience to the State, in some cases, converting to the state religion, was all that was necessary for
Jews to exist or cohabitate side-by-side with their gentile neighbors.
Lyzko
15 Jul 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]
Good point. In Poland, it was about faith, in Germany, it was about race.
Good point. In Poland, it was about faith, in Germany, it was about race.
Lyzko
15 Jul 2021
History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]
Assimilated Jews desired nothing more than to blend into Polish society. Sadly, their shtettl brethren often didn't share this enthusiasm, hence spoiling things for everybody else, namely, for the savvy, well-meaning urbanite Polish Jews and, as in Germany, THIS was in the end the dirty shame of it all.
Assimilated Jews desired nothing more than to blend into Polish society. Sadly, their shtettl brethren often didn't share this enthusiasm, hence spoiling things for everybody else, namely, for the savvy, well-meaning urbanite Polish Jews and, as in Germany, THIS was in the end the dirty shame of it all.
Lyzko
14 Jul 2021
Language / First Year Polish Second Edition Revised and Expanded - Oscar E. Swan (White Cover) [13]
I've had the Swan for years and swear by it! Still looking for the Polish Strunk & White. Figure it's "Polski jezyk, straszny jezyk" by Jan Miótek-:)
I've had the Swan for years and swear by it! Still looking for the Polish Strunk & White. Figure it's "Polski jezyk, straszny jezyk" by Jan Miótek-:)
Lyzko
13 Jul 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]
Right. In many countries, Russia hardly the exception, the law remains THE LAW! This interpretive law stuff having Constitutional scholars coming out of the woodwork
to debate, wrangle, and endlessly discuss to death government decision and policy is a US thing, essentially unknown, indeed laughed at, throughout most of the world. Why, England doesn't even have a Constitution.
Right. In many countries, Russia hardly the exception, the law remains THE LAW! This interpretive law stuff having Constitutional scholars coming out of the woodwork
to debate, wrangle, and endlessly discuss to death government decision and policy is a US thing, essentially unknown, indeed laughed at, throughout most of the world. Why, England doesn't even have a Constitution.
Lyzko
13 Jul 2021
News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]
The PC-mindless among us will deconstruct almost ANYTHING merely in order to prove a point! Is nothing sacred including one's own personal
taste within the privacy of their own viewing screens?? I dare you to show me a single icon, symbol or story which won't be "offensive" to at least one other person.
Ya can't please everybody:-)
The PC-mindless among us will deconstruct almost ANYTHING merely in order to prove a point! Is nothing sacred including one's own personal
taste within the privacy of their own viewing screens?? I dare you to show me a single icon, symbol or story which won't be "offensive" to at least one other person.
Ya can't please everybody:-)
Lyzko
11 Jul 2021