History / Old communist leaders still buried in Merit Cemetery in Powązki [17]

youd do a fit at Highgate then.......

Saturday, 23 April 2011 07:13 German and Polish war survivors in memorial spat
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Ex-Wehrmacht soldiers want a cross raised on the citadel in the Polish city of Poznan, the scene of a desperate stand by German forces trying to check the advance of the Red Army in February 1945.

The citadel now, along with Polish and Soviet war cemeteries, hosts the graves of the 50 RAF servicemen shot for their involvement in the breakout from Stalag Luft III in March 1944 that inspired the film starring Steve McQueen and James Garner.In revenge for the audacious escape Hitler ordered the murder of over half the 76 men who tunnelled to freedom. The request for a German memorial has angered Poles given the levels of destruction and suffering suffered in their country.

"If you are going to put up a cross, it must indicate that the Nazis unleashed the war and were involved in the premeditated murder of Poles," said Ryszard Danecki, who fought in the Poznan battles as a boy.

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Zenon Wechman, chairman of the local war veterans association, complained that as there was already a German cemetery outside Poznan to "have a memorial dedicated to the aggressors didn't make sense." Supporters of the memorial hope the simple inscription "Here lie dead Germans. Victims of all wars call for peace" will win over the opposition, along with the good relations Germany and Poland now enjoy.

Local officials said they await the result of an archaeological survey to confirm the site proposed for the cross contains German dead.

TBH, Id be more bothered by this development!!!! the twats will want a lufftwaffe memorial in Coventry and London next!!

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of course they did................oy vay......play to your strengths dessie....silence.

Life / How is red hair viewed in Poland [37]

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  no reason,just,aww,bless :)
  

Travel / Why most taxis in Warsaw cheat foreigners to get more money? [38]

Only ever had someone try to do me once in Warsaw and that was a market trader at Kola antique/flea market.
I asked him in Polish "how much" he said (I can remember the exact,lets say) 40,the mate I was with(a local) said something to me in English, I double check the price and now its 400 :)

And no,I didnt miss hear,my mate gave him a gobfull and a lecture about giving her city a bad name :)
Best thing was the other traders on there were amazing,they found out I was a Brit interested in Polish history and I walked away with free gifts galore,lovely bunch of people.

Life / How is red hair viewed in Poland [37]


TSK!!! Anti Scottish bigotry if ever i read it !!!!!!! ;)

Dont worry copper knob,they wont burn you at the stake unless you wander off into one of the smaller villages ;)
You could always say you are damien Lewis from Band of Brothers etc,he seems to do all right :)

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]


Did they actually find an englishman in london though?
London is not the UK,its full of rude aggressive arse holes and wanna be compton gangstas...a sh!te hole in the bottom corner of a country.

Off-Topic / Being a Slav: a blessing or a curse? [199]


not for want of trying though.....love that Polish government attempt at building an African empire between the wars lol

Love / Is rape so common in Poland? [95]

Serbs know a thing or two about rape dont they.
Why dont you educate us crow? Albos shagging sheep or Serb police raping 12 year old girls? Which is worse? You decide.

Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [31]


omg,Im agreeing with southern ! :) The impression I get is definatly that much like many places men like to say they are in charge but women tend to run the show .

USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]


I loved this guy ,right untill he belted that prisoner across the face.....mind,still better than the ginger one :)


Glad you liked it,its from an old 90s programe called The Fast Show....a bit of a cult, Jonny Depp asked to be in it once :)


Ok,maybe this is a different guy,buy, "sock" in Reaper,he's cool,part from the chasing his step sister bit ;)

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

all I got was a cup of tea and a hot flannel.....................mind,Im British,thats more than enough for a sexy time......

USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

As a kid in Britain shewolf,I think I like most first heard of Poland and Polish people through American TV, I dont remember them ever being the " dumb polacks" people seem obsessed with round here. They were always Cops,or cool,or both.....

Oh, I do remember these from my teens, a classic American cop show...........honest ;)

youtube.com/watch?v=_s-NOZXIOPk

and its follow up dealing with Heroic PolAm NYPD officers taking on Italian American gangsters
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USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]


OMG,theres more of them to come? Chrikey,thats Channel 5s weekly sched filled now :)
Bring back George Dzunda !!!! :)

How about Prezbo in The Wire?
Ok,lets just forget about the corrupt PolAm senior cop and all the dodgy geezers in the cargo yard.....but, Prezbo was a very cool charector.

If you leave out the bit about being a complete numbnuts as a Cop....a great teacher :)

Travel / Why does everyone seem to hate LOT Polish Airlines? [380]

The Pilots are spot on,and the baggage alowence peeps in Warsaw atleast are absolute darlings :)

had a near miss with a plane on the wrong headings coming into Manc a few years back,our Pilot jinked the plane round like it was a Spitfire, I think only a couple of us passengers knew how close we'd been to being on that nights news.......I confirmed things later with a relative in ATC...

Love / Is rape so common in Poland? [95]


er, there is help available for people with your condition,no,wait,there isnt....................castration may be the answer.

USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]

Put me out of my misery mate...that line rings a bell :)
is it Snatch?

USA, Canada / Why are Polish Americans mocked in the American media? [226]


we are? Im writing a strongly worded letter to the Times as soon as I post this!!!!!
Indignant,Tunbridge Wells.

Life / Why should the Polish all over the world wear red on St. Joseph's day? [32]


Cool :)
(hang on,thats not the creepy death one is it? ;) )

Life / Why should the Polish all over the world wear red on St. Joseph's day? [32]


I dont know if you say this is right or wrong,from the posts of yours I can recall I doubt you cast those judgements. So,I only quoted your post to make a point;

Does it matter if this is a "real " Polish or "American " Polish tradition or not? I mean, why not have this as a newish tradition,an offshoot if you like? Like people say,if us watered down Paddy's can sport Green on "our" day,why shouldnt Poles wear red on theirs?

In fact,why not red and white? I cant remember the context but I remember a photo of a Polish woman in red skirt and white blouse on some "day" or another :)

Id maybe avoid certain areas of LA from what I glean from cultural documentry's such as Boys in the Hood and Dont drink your juice in the hood while.........

BTW, Ive never actually felt any need to wear green,not sure what its like over the little water in ireland but I susspect its much as it is here in england,its only non or 50th gen "irish" that sport leperchauns hats and shamrock face paint :)

History / Vikings in Pomerania (near Gdansk area)? [19]

A better question might be, where didnt the "vikings" get to......
Ive a question about the vikings though,just what the heck was a " sacred kettle"? My maternal family name translates as something like keeper of the sacred kettle from old Norse.....All sorts of cool images spring to mind,but I havent looked too far into it incase it turns out to be some posh name for Tea Lady ;)

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


Cross dressing can be an early way for transgender people to explore who they feel they are inside,in 90 odd % of cases of blokes who occasionally sneak into their wifes skimpies this will be as far as they go on the masculine -feminine chart,will often be the Alfa male type. The 10 % who realise that they are not concerned about what they wear but how they feel inside 24/7 are Transgender,every one else is just creative or a bit kinky in a harmless way,despite what hollywood used to tell us :)

fashion? For the truelly transgendered this is simply not an issue. There was a famous Ish case of a Transgender woman arrested in Afganistan a year or so ago. She could hardly be called someone who made a choice based on a whim or a desire to wear "pretty things" ,she was stuck in a Burkkha and at the lowest end of a patriarchal sociaty. Incidently,the brave Afgan democratic western trained Police beat her to death as she was tied to a chair.

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

Ok, right,hope you realise I meant the 80s bit not in a "haha,back then you all wore potato sacks and chairman mao hats while we all wore our aunties ******** blouses and masscara..." but just,the 80s came back here too.


A few years back it was bands like Placebo I figure, Marilyn manson,that sort of "Goth /Indie" stuff,now its definatly all that navel gazing emu stuff.....and Im 15 years to old to help you there :)

edit.OMG,how on earth does p u ss y bow blouse get edited out FFS! :)

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

lols,Emo,see my previous post :) a couple of years ago I thought Donny had been invaded by the cast of Hedwig ! ;)

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]


From that post,no,sounds more like you are about to enter the early 1980s :)
But do you actually mean that there are more people publicaly identifying as Transgendered and seeking a solution to their birth defect?
Transgender is not new,is not an "invention" of some decedant west either. The Hijarii of India are as old as Hinduism. The Native Americans had a 3rd gender..or rather,let their children choose their gender roles,a young girl,if she wished could live as a warrior and a young boy as a squaw,obviously without the benifit of modern medical procedures but they lived full time in a opposite gender role to the one assigned at birth.

Although this thread is bound to attract the usuall braindeads if someone is genuinly trans its not a clothes thing,its not a fetish and its certainly not a life choice. Even in more open sociaties transgender people face serious problems sometimes,why would anyone "choose" that?

On the "lighter" side, maybe you are just talking about a more relaxed attitude to fashion. I know there are plenty of girlie looking emo boys around here,all skinny jeans and eyeliner,that would never even dream of considering they were anything but full on hetro boys and would die if they thought they might lose their,ahem,dangly bits.

History / How much Poles trust to France? [93]


Bollox, talking out your arse for a cheap joke. One of the biggest and most well known charities (note,to Polish people, Charities,see wikipedea for explanation of what these are.) Is the Marie Currie trust......kids know about her from about 6 or 7 in school.....but hey ho,crack on with the "all brits are thick and all poles are superior" attitude while ,er, over a million poles had to come here to make a life....

Life / Sexual culture in Poland [66]


LMAO...thank god Im not the only one meeting these 70s look chicks ;)

Life / Sexual culture in Poland [66]


Inapropriate loudness.............im saying little else.lets just say,"ssshhhh,my granny is next door" obviously doesnt translate into polish..............

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


yeah,but the soundtrack was pretty cool ;)


Look,face it,if the sun shone out of every Poles arse as you seem to think well why the heck do so many end up in ireland doing the proverbial bog cleaning?


Well I did live 6 in a room for a few weeks as an 18 year old hippy in the 90s...1 hour in the Police cells...stabbed a horrible girl with a pencil when I was 7 and had quails eggs for breakfast occasionally :)

fakebogtrotter4ever ,what can be added here? Sad sad wee man. Is your real name Billy?

History / Polish pirates [58]


lols,because as everyone knows the english would never want to tarnish the good name of an irishman ;)

History / Polish pirates [58]


In that case,hats off to stortebeker :)


Aye, sails were never a single sheat of canvas,he'd get tangled every 6 feet or so in the rope and stiching ....but sshhhh,its a movie :)


hence "...to the shores of Tripoli.." in the USMC Hymn.


They regularly raided the south west coast of england and southern Ireland,did it hundreds of times over the centuries,an entire village also disapeared in ireland.


technicaly,yes,but the fledgling US navy did raid a town in North West england during the revoloutionary wars.