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

It is,Im sorry, I didnt know you were so sensitive,bless.............;)

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


Ive met my fair share of euro women,and,sorry to say,the only birds Ive known with hairy pits have been Polish :)

History / Polish pirates [58]

lols,I was going to reference captain blood ,but thought ,nah,to obscure :)
Ok,heres one,you turn the jolly boat upside down and walk ashore in the airbubble......

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nF5RH0yAkxc
Polish related....er,30 odd Poles were extras on board the Surprise ;)

History / Polish pirates [58]


Ive located a training aid for you;
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jFFlwHk6TzM

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


mmmm,sounds about right,by the time i got to high school the curriculem also gave the impression that britain went to war to rescue the jews....but only after us having been nasty imperialist murderers for the previous 200 years.....

But ,no,we did have a good primary education back then and some brilliant teachers. One even kept us abreast of the latest changes in the Kremlin(early 80s so quite a regular update :))

Im not claiming every kid knows she was Polish or French or japanese ,but they know who she was and what she did,petty nationalistic jingoisim can be drilled into them at a later stage.....

History / Polish pirates [58]


killer.....


Oh,thats priceless,I thought my mum was at bonkers hippy level mark 9 ( I wasnt allowed toy soldiers or army guns,but,could have toy knights and cowboys and indians and cowboy guns.....) but,wow....reminds me of a lecture me and a couple of mates got about the horrors of napalm after being caught playing a rowdy game of Zulus and Red Coats aged 9 by one of our more lfty teachers.......pointing out that they didnt have napalm in 1878 didnt do me any favours,but pointed out to the know it all git I try not to be to this day :)

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


Bless, I'll take it something got lost in the translation,who ever you are.....


francais j'adore...sorry,what "French" did I use in my post? Pardone moi,did you want me to make up a name that was never used like czopin or somesuch? Or was it calling Marie Curie, Marie Curie that you think is "French"?


No one outside of Poland calls her this name,as far as I know she never called herself it either. Keep your knickers on love, she was Polish,no one is denying it,but as Johnny pointed out no one in the west uses the name sklod...skred..slodo...skra...wotsits anyway,so,relax.


Good for her, and FYI,every school child over about 6 or 7 knows this in the UK......


and maybe if I had it might have been abusive,but, being as you are pulling that old Polish stereotype of making up sh!t to get upset about.....


"Wotsits",like ,"thingamyjig" or "Who's er face" or" whojacallher"....nonsense words to denote the writters lack of knowladge,and usually the readers too,regarding the actual ,correct name.....or used when a name is "unpronouncable".....


2nd thing is I dont think your English is good enough to detect irony or sarcasam,as,if you actually read what I wrote,instead of reading what you "THINK" I wrote you would see I was pointing out how close historically France and Poland have been.............

bless...........................

History / Polish pirates [58]


I dont need to,what I was refering to was his "source" for "baltic pirates" as being some book writtten by some german fellow,and he himself admitted there was no historical basis for it,but,he choose to believe it anyway..........


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This took me back to primary school,and the assemblies when for some bizzare reason teachers thought it was appropriate for 6 year olds to sing "15 men on a dead mans chest" and "What do you do with a Drunken sailor?".........

History / Polish pirates [58]


Aha,I see you've been reading "how to win friends and influence people".......


Please,dont feel put upon,by all means dont bother your royal highness.....



well ,er,I guess we can exclude them.....


Thank you for that answer,now,why didnt you just say that to begin with oh font of all saltyseadog knowladge ;)

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


Well,he is French...


You mean the iluminati lizard man?


Pretty stirring stuff,even if they did start singing itthe same time they planned to invade us :)


Carefull, your going to make me go Bear hunting now...i'll be a while though as there aint been any round here in about a thousand years :)

History / Polish pirates [58]

oops Barney,He's Hungarian :)
And here we have the forefathers of Blackwater,haliburton et al;
Letters of Marque
The practice of privateering was established, and had definite rules, during the 18th century. British, French, and American privateers had to follow procedure. Captains and ship owners would take a prize and sell the vessel and cargo captured, following an established protocol in Liverpool (England), Dunkirk (France) or Boston (America). Whenever war was declared, a General Prize Act was made to allow privateering,

Applications for these "letters of marque" were made by the captain of the privatering ship or by the captain and his joint ship owners. In Great Britain these letters were delivered to the Admiralty, while in the Americas these were given to the state governors. The Continental Congress of the Americas issued privateering commissions from April 1776 until July 1780. Without a government's sanctions, privateers could be hung as pirates. These letters would name the ship's owner, their town of origin, the name of the captain and senior officers, the ship's name, the weight of the ship, the size of the crew, and its armaments. These letters also stated the country that they were allowed to attack and plunder. Infractions of these orders made them pirates.

Ship owners were required to post a bond with the government to guarantee their good behavior. In 1812, this cost $5.000 - $10,000 (U.S.) or $1,500-$3,000 (in British pounds). If a captain, or any member of his crew, was not in accordance with these rules, he lost his deposit. Therefore, the captain could set uncooperative men in any location and leave them there, upon his own best judgment, to avoid losing this money. (Privateers and Pirates).

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


How can someone disagree with an open question?
Yes Crow,the Poles hate the french...those damned french gave them a partial independence in 1812,basterds! gave shelter to Polish exiles,what froggy twats eh! nurtured the only 2 Polish people most of the rest of the world has ever heard of(apart from JPII) Chopin and marie wotsits currie, damnded perfideous snail eating gauls!! Poles must really hate em with a passion.....

History / Polish pirates [58]

.... fair well and adue to you spannish ladies fair well and adeu to you ladies of spain,the captains recieved orders to sail for old Poland..........

History / Polish pirates [58]


There were entire Polish regiments on Boneys side Southern, Duchy of Warsw troops for a start. But yes,no doubt some polish seamen on board the LOSING sides fleet ;)...There were frenchmen on "our"side,britons on "there" side.....nationalism really wasnt the big deal it is these days ....:)


lols...Serfs are slave with a different name mate....and as for colonies,do a search on this site for Polish/Liberia :)
Part of the reason Poland didnt join in with europes empire grabbing activities was simply put,she didnt exist as a free nation at the time,nothing to do with any "better nature" Im afraid.

History / Polish pirates [58]

Southern don't you mean Privateers? The "legalised" Pirates...


There were Poles in Nelsons fleet at trafalgar....they always have found themselves everywhere,sort of eastern europes Irish :)

Re the baltic, the hanseatic league had that place pretty sowed up for a fair chunk of history.

Did Polish rulers ever authorise Privateers in the way Spain ,Britain France the US etc did?

UK, Ireland / Does everyone know about countess Markiewicz? Polish connection. [16]


Aye,doesnt help when one of the local pubs is named after this tw*t...:)

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UK, Ireland / Does everyone know about countess Markiewicz? Polish connection. [16]

yep,the whole Catholic Protestant divide is a fairly new phase of nationalism, I keep meaning to read up on the 1790s United Irishmen(?) group and attempted uprising,but,TBH Irish,like Scots history tends to depress me as I cant fully shake off the blood tied emotions....and get to wound up for someone happily living in England :)

Life / Weird names Polish parents give to their kids [43]


for shame,thats half English .....if your on about gwinnie and chris' sprog :)

Life / Weird names Polish parents give to their kids [43]


For that money i'll name my first son Hipolite in honour of your great grandfather...:)


have they got their kids back yet?
its sinister that people name their kids after famous nazis but its also sinister that without investigation beyond shock at the names those kids can be removed by the local authorities and put in care....maybe its the best place for them,maybe their parents just need a bit of "guidence" ....oh,and a quick look in the mirror,if they are the master race Im a 6.7 kenyan.......

News / Donald Tusk's Government of Poland Continues to Oppress Poles [161]


Honestly,no,I had already succumed to Godwins law by then....switching off once the irational connection to the nazis had been made....:)

yes,it does stick in ones throat no matter your politics when the poorest are taxed most and the richest as usual sail 3 feet above the rest of us with nice little tax breaks and blind eyes turned all round to "creative accounting"....a website in the uk gives us a bit of light relief,create your own campaign poster,heres mine...

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News / Donald Tusk's Government of Poland Continues to Oppress Poles [161]

I dont think you actually mentioned the N or H word,so an inteligent hail mary play there round Godwin with bringing up a more minor functionary in a certain mid 20th Cs oppressive regime :)

edit,ok,you mentioned the N word....but still,fair play,not the H word ;)

News / Donald Tusk's Government of Poland Continues to Oppress Poles [161]

I know Torq,your hearts in the right place,but come on,comparing tax rises with systematic mass murder of hostages....really?
Its the same story here re taxes T' . The multi millionare's of the Tory party get in power and suddenly the burdon of tax is on the poorest sectors of sociaty......because,"we are all in this together." HHHmmmm, easy to say when your sitting on a 30 million plus personal nest egg,not counting the inheritence when daddy pops orf.....

News / Donald Tusk's Government of Poland Continues to Oppress Poles [161]


How you can make the link between a rise in the cost of baby clothes(learn to fekkin knit...) to Hans Frank,and neither i imagine could any other sane person.....thats just either dumb as fek or sick as fek.

Life / What gifts to take? Presents customs in Poland. [167]

right,marynka...your talking about Polands commie inspired "womens day"....those of us not dragged up under the reds think of,ironically, "International Womens day"....which as has been pointed out was never a "holiday" or a reason to give flowers but a day to highlight the plight of women in religious and culturally repressed sociaties......

Life / What gifts to take? Presents customs in Poland. [167]

Aha,that explains it then, one of the old communist days...right o,now that you mention it Im sure you are right. But its a shame then that something worthy has got lost in something naff all the same.

Life / What gifts to take? Presents customs in Poland. [167]


Ok,so maybe I spoke too soon :)...Its got fek all to do with buying flowers here.....maybe in Poland its been turned into a commercial venture...TBH the only publicity Ive seen for it here in Yorkshire is little flyers for Dzien Kobietta (sp) all flowery and st valentinesy.......so looks like a worthy cause has been turned into naff comercialism in Poland before the UK ....:)

Life / What gifts to take? Presents customs in Poland. [167]

its got fek all to do with buying flowers.......

Life / Vasectomy in Poland is illegal? Why? [123]


Only thing it reeks of to me is lawyers circling like sharks round a whaling ship.....
Its not illegal,thats been clarified,the law is there to prevent unwanted operations being carried out on vulnerable people,correct? So,the only reason those restrections will be in place is to cover Doctors backs from law suits a few years down the line when the kid grows up a bit and realises that the woman of his dreams wants his children or she is walking......

Bit pathetic comparing a modern man or woman making an informed choice regarding the course they want their life to take and Nazi enforced sterelisation programs. In fact its damned insulting all round,to those women in striped dresses being forced in front of X ray machines and to the womam or man today who decides for whatever reason that they dont want any/more children,damned insulting. Sorry,but this really is a case of just who on gods earth do you think you are?

And damned hypocritical too,on the one hand you are happy to trot out the same vile stereotypes of one set of the nazis victims and on the other you seek moral highground condeming informed voluntry sterelisation as a "nazi" idea.....yuck.

Life / What is Poland's view on obesity? How healthy, fit are Poles? [166]

From my visits to Poland Id say there is the usual "middle aged spread" in some people but other than that I dont recall noticing any obesity issues amongst the under 40s. Certainly the immpresion I got was that Poles ,as a wide sweeping generalisation,are less likely to be obese than us Britons,and we are generally less obese than people in the US so...I dont know about any specific nastyness about it,other than that I suppose you can hear anywhere in the world from some judgmental people.

Oh yeah,lots of walking,Poles still dont live all day in their cars or their lounge chairs,though tbh formal gym membership is probably low,and probably lower than the stats. I know my mates who join a gym in January go for a couple of weeks every 2 days,then after a month or so dont go again,still officially members of the gym though....

Life / Best over the counter flu medicine in Poland? [24]

Yep,get checked out,dont tough it out, I did just after christmas,ended up semi consious for 3 days and was later told by a medic friend Id had all the simptoms of swine flu,should have been hospitalised ,I was lucky but it realy knocked 7 shades out of me,Im only just getting back to fitness.....:(