Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]

I have the hearing of a bat.

Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]


Firstly, send your friend my sympathies for having to suffer the indignity and hell that is know as Newark International Airport.

Now, Poles are quiet...my story. First time I ever visited Poland I flew into Warsaw took the bus to the Central Warsaw train station and took train to Poznan. When I got on the bus I was struck by three things 1) how courteous most people were, 2) how pretty the girls were, and 3) how quiet they all were.

I chalked up the being quiet to it being 7 am and people were still perking up as they sloughed off the night's sleep.

I got to train station, it was nearly a ghost town. I had a two hour wait for my train, so I got a tea (or a Coke) from the small cafe in the train lobby that had just opened for the day. Once I got my drink, I sat down at a table--I had free rein over which table to choose from as barely a soul was rummaging through the train lobby--took a sip oif my drink and pulled a book from my bag and began to read. I read for 15-20 minutes unabated, then lifted my head from my book to take another sip of my drink and was absolutely astonished by the fact that the lobby was crawling with people. I had absolutely no audible sense that Poles were venturing about the train station, because they were so quiet.

I thought, this is a country that breeds assassins. I didn't sleep the entire three months I was there as I was always looking for some cat-like assassin to come from behind me and take me out.

News / Chances that Visegrad countries move out of NATO and EU if security situation in Europe further aggravate ? [26]

So, if we weren't in NATO we'd spend less on defense? I don't think that'd be the case.

News / Chances that Visegrad countries move out of NATO and EU if security situation in Europe further aggravate ? [26]

The second risk is a duplication of organisation

That's the major problem as I see it. Bureaucracy on top of bureaucracy equals inefficient and ineffective gridlock.

I din't see why the US should abandon NATO right now, though.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

@Torq

🤣🤣🤣. Now that's funny!

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

@Paulina

If you do 't understand what I mean, I can't do or don't care to help you understand it. I'm not much into forum pedantry.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Of course it's a general statement, as we are talking about a general topic. Examples: women who dress and leave nothing to the imagination, men who dress like they are in a locker room. Fat people who let it all hang out. And so on and so forth.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

@Paulina

Meaning a lack of modesty, courtesy, self-awareness, and taste. It's like some folks are basically saying, "eff you" with the way they present themselves.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


I do too, I'm a jeans and t-shirt guy. But, what's happening nowadays is unseemly slobdom that is uncivilized.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


🤣🤣. Man, I agree. It was that long ago that a fat woman would do her best to hide the fat. Now, they flaunt the cellulite like it's bling. And, don't get me started on tattoos.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Yeah, we've gone way too far with casual slobdom. But, I'm happy that neckties and jackets are no longer requirements.

Off-Topic / Things We Love [332]

@Atch

Roethke is excellent. He deserves to be included in the pantheon of the great English language poets, IMO. His poems are profoundly rich. The illusions and meaning seem to bloom exponentially. First time I read The Waking, I must've spent a week with it, re-reading and thinking about it.

Off-Topic / Things We Love [332]

The opening stanza of the American poet Theodore Roethke's The Waking

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

The complete poem: poetryfoundation.org/poems/43333/the-waking-56d2220f25315

Off-Topic / Things We Love [332]


🤣🤣. I guess he didn't win any Dad of the Year Awards.


That's kind of you...it must be my Irish genes.


Haha. No doubt.

A priest at a nearby parish was born and raised in Dublin. A good guy, a better priest, and an exceptional homilist. His homilies are like taking a ride on a winding road that overlooks gorgeous prairies, a majestic sea, lush forests...while running into a comic on the way.

The music you linked reminds me if American bluegrass. You familiar with it-it was influenced by Irish music?

Off-Topic / Things We Love [332]


Just read it. I wonder if he wrote that for his wife or children. Desiring to give one the inherent good, yet recognizing the limits of his humanity to give such. But, still determined to provide the one(s) he loves with the good, however imperfect...and the expectation of his beloved to be a good steward of the imperfect good he gives.

Beautiful!

Off-Topic / Things We Love [332]

@Atch

That is lovely.

I remember his Second Coming. That is not so lovely. 🙂

What other poets you like?

Off-Topic / Things We Love [332]


I'll be darned.

I went through a period where I read a bunch of poetry, but never much Yeats. I might have to get better acquainted with him.

Off-Topic / Things We Love [332]

@Atch

Nice poem. Who wrote it?

The "veils of the morning" phrase is a little off, but it doesn't ruin the poem.


Looks wonderful.

Off-Topic / Things We Love [332]


You live near this place? You're lucky, it looks wonderful.

Life / Polish church music versus African-American gospel [29]


I'd say what is banal is the misuse of the Novus Ordo. The liturgical changes that occurred post-Vatican II were not the intention of Vatican II. The document on liturgy even states that the organ is to be the prime instrument, latin should be preserved, and Gregorian chant is best suited for liturgy.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Praying for that.


Holy smokes! He was a human drill.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Oh, yeah, the stuff is an absolute mess. My mom would have to hose me off.


🙂. If the pedagogy only paid as well, we'd constantly be pestering one another for tips and best practices.


Let's hope he hears her whispers about the need to find a way to bring this war to an end.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Here in USia we call it cotton candy. I loved the stuff as a kid. It was good for the soul. Once i'd catch whiff of the smell of that hot sugar in the air my heart would flutter and a sense of bliss would consume my being.

When my youngest eats it, she's transported to a different dimension-one of near ecstasy. I explain to her heaven is cotton candy only infinitely netter. The proposition of something being netter than cotton candy to her is unfathomable.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

@Paulina

Again, you approach this whole topic from a jaundiced radical feminist point-of-view. We would first have to deconstruct that POV to have a real and honest conversation. And, as you can see by my paltry number if posts in PF, I don't spend that kind if time on PF.

But, to put it briefly, men like me din't view women as chattel, but as complementary partners. We see that by nature, men and women have differences. But, these differences complement each other-they din't compete against each ither. We each have our distinct roles-these roles have some overlap, to be sure. I don't view my wife as property but a unified partner.

The problem with feminism is that it springs not from a complementarian approach to the sexes, but a competitive and divisive approach. It boxes masculinity into a non-masculine brutishness.

Anyhow, I am off to do manly things that my wife sucks at.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

@Torq

🤣🤣🤣


All I can say is your impression is misinformed.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


Well, we don't have that need. Your conditioned feminism is misinforming you.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

Looks like a pretty good idea. I could see something like that having a sizeable positive economic impact.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

What is CPL?

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]

@Paulina

I don't buy feminist theory, and frankly I'm bored with it.

News / Lech Walesa urged to "reduce Russia" to 50 million people [366]


That is unassailable.

The idea of getting rid of co-education is interesting. Here in the states, all Catholic high schools used to be segregated by sex, it worked very well.