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SeanBM   
23 Oct 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

Pure facts against Lithuanian bullcrap.

I think, if Poland and Lithuania sat down around a table and talked about what happened.
That Pilsudski might not have acted in the best interests of Lithunanians and that Lithuanians are not acting in the best interest of their Polish minority.

I think that you would both realize you still don't like each other.

Poland sees itself as stuck between Germany and Russia, Lithuania see itself stuck between Poland and Russia.

Both are fiercely proud people, who need their independence after all that has happened.

Do I sound like I am defending Lithuania? I don't mean to, i awlays said that Lithuania should go to war with Latvia or Estonia, just to give them something to do because they keep living in the past and mourning/moaning...
SeanBM   
23 Oct 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

But maybe this is a very sensitive subject indeed.

What I think is, Poles and Lithuanians don't talk, they remember their own (self promoting) histories and they don't match up to each others.

Poles go on about the great Lithuanian Polish commonwealth, that was a long long time ago. A lot has happened since then.
SeanBM   
23 Oct 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

But the subjugation took place much later than 16 century.

So what is your point?
Did Poland help Lithuania to become independent from Russia?
I have not heard that story.

What you guys call Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, they called occupation.

I have never heard this but I have noticed that Lithuanians are not so boastful about that period with Poland as Polish museums are.
SeanBM   
23 Oct 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

I travelled around Lithuania 22 years ago and I lived there for a few years.

It is true that Polish people are disliked but Lithuanians seem to think they are justified in doing so.

Józef Piłsudski took Vilnius by force, that is what they remember.

Polish people go to Vilnius to look for the "Polishness" of the country.
Lithuanians don't like that but seem to enjoy the masses of Polish tourist's money
SeanBM   
23 Oct 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

Lithuania would have been subjugated by Russians at the beginning of 16 century and today they would be a solid, faithful, loyal part of the Russian Federation.

But Lithuania were subjugated by Russians and , until recently, they were a solid, faithful, loyal (on paper anyway) part of the Russian Federation.
SeanBM   
23 Oct 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

So if Poles are the majority in a part of London (for example) should London change it's street names to Polish?
and should the same apply to the Russians who live in Lithuania and London?

Can I have my street named after me? :)

buying Możejki refinery
to help Lithuania get less dependent from Russia,

"you" did not buy it for that reason... that's very funny that you twist it like that.

our planes
patroling their airspace, tanks, afv's and artillery guns given to their army for free

You mean for fear of Mother Russia.
SeanBM   
22 Oct 2010
History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

in essence said Spiritual works can be seen as equivalent to modern day health insurance given the lack of effective care at the time.

That is a very interesting way to look at it.
SeanBM   
21 Oct 2010
History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

In March 1095

This was before Poland was Christened,

In March 1095 at the Council of Piacenza, ambassadors sent by Byzantine Emperor Alexius I called for help with defending his empire against the Seljuk Turks. Later that year, at the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II called upon all Christians to join a war against the Turks, promising those who died in the endeavor would receive immediate remission of their sins.[17]

"would receive immediate remission of their sins"
You can just imagine the lads must have went absolutely balloobas before they got immediate and complete remission of their sins.
SeanBM   
21 Oct 2010
History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

On the same note as the thread,
has anyone seen Valhalla Rising?
IMBd doesn't mention that the "Viking" ship is on a crusade to the "holy land'.
It's a brutal movie about the crusades from the north, among other things. (maybe a bit boring or "manly" for some of yee but I thought it is worth mentioning).

But you have to admit that some posters find it very interesting :)

The mod probably has a point and your input is interesting.
SeanBM   
20 Oct 2010
History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

This topic just gets more interesting.

Damn you PF, damn you to hell, I don't have time for... I will just check one last thing and then I am definitely ... :p
SeanBM   
20 Oct 2010
History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

Turks captured even some cities in England, Ireland

Turks captured cities in Ireland???
I have never in all my years heard of anything like that... Are you sure?
SeanBM   
20 Oct 2010
History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

Were there? From what I am reading now it seems that

Drohiczyn... At the peak of the Order of the development consisted of 35 knights. It was the only order of knights, which was created and formed in the Polish lands.

opoka.org.pl/biblioteka/D/DZ/marecki/bracia_dobrzynscy.html - (Book) Orders in Poland[/url]

Maybe they were not created and formed in Polish lands?
SeanBM   
20 Oct 2010
History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

That's a good one:

Polish Knight who served in the fight against the Infidel for at least six months was exempt from the requirement of pilgrimage to the Holy Land.

Edit*

Here's a book:

Orders in Poland (in Polish).
opoka.org.pl/biblioteka/D/DZ/marecki/bracia_dobrzynscy.html
SeanBM   
20 Oct 2010
History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

if they did serve, would have served under the order of a foreign order.

I am not sure they did serve anyone.

According to Bernard of Clairvaux, the goal of the crusade was to battle the pagan Slavs "until such a time as, by God's help, they shall either be converted or deleted". However, the crusade failed to achieve the conversion of most of the Wends. The Saxons achieved largely token conversions at Dobin, as the Slavs returned to their pagan beliefs once the Christian armies dispersed; Albert of Pomerania explained, "If they had come to strengthen the Christian faith ... they should have done so by preaching, not by arms".

Sounds more like pillaging than converting, it didn't work not then anyway by the looks of it.

The campaigns started with the 1147 Wendish Crusade against the Polabian Slavs (or "Wends") of what is now northern and eastern Germany. The crusade occurred parallel to the Second Crusade to the Holy Land, and continued irregularly until the 16th century.

/wiki/Northern_Crusades#Wendish_Crusade

I believe this also includes Poland.
SeanBM   
20 Oct 2010
History / Poles in the Crusades to the Holy Land [75]

I'm having trouble finding some kind of secondary source to learn about Polish knights (from Polish knights Hospitallers, or Order of Malta) who took part in the Crusades to the Holy Land.

Interesting.

I took a quick look, there were many crusades

The specific crusades to restore Christian control of the Holy Land were fought over a period of nearly 200 years, between 1095 and 1291.

Crusades(Wiki)

The Wendish Crusade (German: Wendenkreuzzug) was an 1147 campaign, one of the Northern Crusades and also a part of the Second Crusade, led primarily by the Kingdom of Germany inside the Holy Roman Empire and directed against the Polabian Slavs (or "Wends").

So maybe Poland was not part of the crusades to Jerusalem?

I would have to read more about it but this is a very interesting topic, nice one.

Edit*

Polish order (founded in Poland) was the Order of Dobrzyn

The Order of Dobrzyń... was a military order created in the borderland of Masovia and Prussia (today's Dobrzyń Land, Poland) during the 13th century Prussian Crusade to 'defend against Baltic Prussian raids'.

Wiki
SeanBM   
14 Oct 2010
News / Poles are getting rich... [63]

Median income however has most definitely not risen threefold over the past 10 years.

Do you know how much it has risen?
SeanBM   
11 Oct 2010
Law / Are banks from Poland safe? [42]

so why now?

You just answered your own question quite well:

now have to bail the banks out with their tax money.

I don't know where youz are all getting these ideas, a guy is just asking about banks in Poland. Apart from that we don't know if he wants to keep it in a bank for the interest rate or if he rode the property market wave.

All I know is he asked a question and just glancing at his threads he intends to move here, so it's probably a precautionary question.

Are the banks in Poland safe? In my opinion I think they are.

I was looking for an artical I read about the way dividends and deposits can't be taken out of Poland. I can't remember the ins and outs of it but basically if as an example, Millennium bank in other countries go bust, they can't send money from a Polish branch to "save it". Again I am unsure of the details and I don't want to misinform btu perhaps someone else knows?
SeanBM   
11 Oct 2010
Law / Are banks from Poland safe? [42]

why would you keep your hard earned money in a bank? For the interest rate that just floats above the infaltion rate and does not guarantee that your money will be there when you need it? Come on, you work too hard for that.

I agree, absolutely but I don't know the OP situation, he just asked a question.

Invest it. Where? That is the golden question. I would say property. That's what I do, but I might be wrong. Just to play along, think where would be a good invesment in property?

I can understand why an Irish person living in Ireland would avoid buying property like the plague. It's nothing short of a catastrophe.

Think of the places that the Germans did not want to bomb during the last war.

Germany! :)
SeanBM   
11 Oct 2010
Law / Are banks from Poland safe? [42]

Are you aware of what is happening in Ireland regarding banks?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%E2%80%932010_Irish_banking_crisis

If I were in Ireland I would also wonder if my money was really that safe.

bank-
SeanBM   
11 Oct 2010
Law / Are banks from Poland safe? [42]

WBK ?

Spanish banking giant Banco Santander to buy Allied Irish Banks' 70% stake in Bank Zachodni WBK - - Poland's 5th biggest bank[/url].
finfacts.ie/irishfinancenews/article_1020546.shtml

if i open a saving account is my money safe?

I would say yes, your money is safe in a bank in Poland.
SeanBM   
7 Oct 2010
Travel / Jazz in Poland [27]

praise polish jazz or fcuk off

Just for those that don't speak Polish, you're thread is good for a sample of Poliż dżez
polishforums.com/archives/2009/society-culture-38/poliz-dzez-39727

Edit*
Oh yeah and it's great! :)
SeanBM   
30 Sep 2010
UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]

Boiling is more of an Irish/British thing right enough.

I think Polish food is majorly influenced by the weather, those freezing cold winters... heavey fatty foods (these days mainly for tourists e.g. a tub of lard) and sour pickle their foods to preserve them, I am at a loss why sour but hey, each to their own.

Actually, I remember reading a theory that you may appreciate Seanus, having spent time in Japan.
The reason why Asians are not known as hardy drinkers is because they did not ferment their food for preservation like Europeans did. I do not know how valid this theory is but it sounds interesting.
SeanBM   
30 Sep 2010
UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]

have you ever made colcannon here?

Nope.

Probably the only real difference to my cooking and a typical babcia's is, I boil more veg rather than grate it raw.
So long as you don't over boil, the goodness is locked in but raw's just as good.
Oh and I don't do sour the way Poles do, sour cherries make me wince.

And to all the Americans, I have never in my life had meatloaf, shock, horror, terror, despair!
SeanBM   
28 Sep 2010
Life / Stubborn Polaks, anyone knows? [77]

like today when I get home after work... hmm...

Oh?...
Well whatever you do don't tell us about it!

:)