News / Mister President Andrzej Duda - Best Poland could get. [96]

Duda represents an extremist right-wing agenda.
We all know where that got us in the last War!
'Course no sane individual's comparing Duda with Hitler!
However, Duda has made certain representations as reported on this Forum re: Poland leaving the EU, or having Poland make her own decisions alone etc. Europeans must learn to depend on one another, and this includes Poland.

Namely the idea of living as an island is dangerous, considering Poland's abysmal record on both sexual abuse along with abortion rights.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

It was actually rather amusing when I read it! Foreign signage in English often is:-)
When once in Sweden, a country where nearly everyone and his grandma knowsEnglish, I caught glimpse of a notice at my favorite restaurant in Goteborg: "PLEASE DON'T HAVE CHILDREN AT THE BAR!" During the course of my before-dinner aperitive, I commented to the barkeep that in the States we usually have children at a hospitalLOL

He was clearly not amused, more clueless than insulted, in fact.

"PLEASE KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM THE BAR!" would have made more sense.
Frequently though, foreigners somehow respond better to slightly off or accented English than to correct usage, I've found. Says something, doesn't it.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Of course.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

It's all a question of public relations really. Yet why not simply come clean and admit the Polish sign was awfully written and ought to have been proofread by a native English speaker before being stenciled onto the bathROOM sign!

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

It all started with w/Bishop Melitta spreading lies about the Jews.

Mistyped: Melito of Sardis.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Couldn't agree with you more. Bottom line and point of story; the English-language sign I accurately described and saw with my own eyes was miswritten and that obviously "bathROOM" aka "restroom" was logically the word which was meant in that context! Skirmish over and now we may return to the open field of personal exchange-:)

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

The reasons the Jews were expelled was because the locals were inculcated with "The Jews killed Jesus" garbage deliberately fomented by the Catholic Church and this fostered fear that the Jews were "taking over"! Are you capable of seeing your own ignorance?

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

@Et tu, Pawian?! No need to justify their incorrect usage. What was clearly meant (in correct translation) was: "SAME SEX BATHROOMS", period. What's so hard to figure out about that?

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

It's the identical sort of thinking, Rich. YOU learn English!!
Unless, as I've suspected for the longest time, you understand me perfectly, you're merely playing the Devil's Advocate:-)

Throughout Medaeval Europe, Jews were blamed for nearly every misfortune known to man, from the Plague, to poisoning wells etc. None of said prattle was ever proven to have had the slightest inkling of truth.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Well, don't be!
Remember, oh round about ten or so years ago, a report on yahoo news about a random police office in Connecticut filed a report
with his captain that there was a knife fight at some local bar and (of courseLOL) two Hispanics were probably involved? Turned out, the
two men implicated were both of Scandinavian extraction, Sorenson was the name if I recall, and appropriately, that officer was placed on
probabtion. BRAVO!

Prejudice always obscures the plain truth.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Sure that Koreans don't also commit rape or even similar crimes, of course.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Don't you be too sure. You want to believe certain prejudices, that's just how your mind works!

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

...which nonetheless are true so quit rationalizing.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Disraeli: There are lies, there are damned lies, and there are statistics!

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

I didn't get you, Rich. Awaiting translation-:) Remember, prejudices are convenient pegs on which to hang our ignorance!

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Not all Jews are usurous either.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Others whine also. Chrístians though are consoled on Earth by the promíse of a rich Afterlife!

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Hmm, food for thought.... if you're starving.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

The Hollywood moguls, many, yea, most of whom were Jewish, were first and foremost MONEY MEN!
Except for Arthur Burns and Alan Greenspan, most of the heads of the Fed Reserve weren't Jewish.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Look who's talking!

Nobody denies that for a small peoples, Jews have often made outsized cultural and scientific contributions to Western society.
There is however, a huge disparity between self-aggrandizement and sheer public relations:-)

Now, I'm a classic movie buff like none other. I've heard people say, though mostly other Jews, that Kirk Douglas (Jewish) was a greater actor than Burt Lancaster (gentile).Fact is that Jews as Jews often didn't receive the credit they were due, or might have honestly THOUGHT they were due, merely because they were Jewish. Therefore, they changed their name from Yankelovitch to Douglas, Persky to Bacall, Jacob Weidenbaum to Jack Warner etc..... In my opinion, Lancaster was a greater actor than Douglas ever was, but that's not because Douglas was Jewish and Lancaster wasn't, simply because the latter was blessed with a far more riveting talent!!

Much like America, no other group, not the Italian-Americans, the Native Americans, African-Americans, Chinese-Americans and so forth, have desired to love and be loved by the United States as the Jews. Perhaps the latter's straining for acceptance might indeed appear to some as "whining".

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

"What some claim is that Jews......"
Same difference, Rich..

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

That "annoying whine" comes from centuries of marginalization! Try being on the receiving end of prejudice, not for decades, but for millenia.

Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Good one, paw!
Or conversely, how about the sign I saw when I was the first time in Poland outside a rest area: "BATHROBE FOR MENS, WOMENS, AND FOR PEOPLE FROM BOTH SEX!" "BathROBE" vs. "BathROOM" seemed to have eluded the poor fella:-) Many signs in Szczecin were in two languages, yet not one person I spoke to actually confessed to knowing any English LOL

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Yo folksies, the age-old myths re: Jewish minority controlling the majority of wealth and influence etc. are exactly that, MYTHS!!
The Jews simply stand out more by virtue of the simple fact that most are understandably enough unwilling nowadays to continuously change their names, even their appearance or speech as was once common practice.

For every Milken or Madoff, there were in years gone by more than any number of thoroughly gentile "Robber Barons" who cheated, cajoled, and impoverished millions of Americans during the latter as well as into the first half of the 20th century, yet we pick on the Jews because, as in Hitler's Europe, the Jews were often the most conspicuous targets. Had Madoff become Mayfield, gotten plastic surgery on his nose etc. or affected a caricatured W.A.S.P. speech pattern, he wouldn't have caused nearly the anti-Semitic outcry that he did.

Slumlords?? Throughout the days of the Wild West, rich ranchers (none of them Jewish!!) typically tried to oust, harass, not to mention kill off those poor, defenseless tenant farmers living on their property.

And so let's stop vilifying Jews as the perennial bad guys, as there's plenty of Christian guilt to go around too.

News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Rich, you're a certified nut job.

Life / What do Poles think about Austrians? [12]

The latter was the rational used by German revisionist historians such as Andreas Hillgruber to justify the Nazi extermination of the Jews!

Classifieds / I am from Yaounde, Cameroon searching for a job in Poland [11]

Most anyone thinking straight could well imagine somebody ambitious from Cameroon willing to find work to enhance their career in Poland than the reverse!
Apropos of nothing, Cameroon used to be a German colony, by the way:-)

Life / What do Poles think about Austrians? [12]

Perhaps that's slightly over the top. Nonetheless, Vienna continued to be the transit/visa center until well after the the beginning of the Cold War, let's not forget.

Furthermore, the movie "The Third Man" was made in '49 and is considered by many to be an accurate depiction of post -War Austria at the time.

Life / What do Poles think about Austrians? [12]

I base the above solely on the fact that the Austrians saw themselves as indeed a "buffer state"!
First of all, they were and remains SOLELY Western, once again, thoroughly pro-democracy, anti-Communist on the whole (one of several reasons the current generation renounces Kreisky, both because he was a Jew as well as staunch leftist even if popular at the time with Catholic trade unions:-)).

The partition was seen by them as a bullwark against the potential fate which befell Poland, Romania, Hungary and that-time Yugoslavia.

Life / What do Poles think about Austrians? [12]

That was only because of the Warsaw Pact, pawian:-) Politically, Austria had little choice.
Sure, it might have refused and wound up under Soviet domination like the rest of the Eastern region!