UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

The first Polish primer I ever used to learn Polish before formal instruction was called "Pracowita Matka", an early Communist Era text from around the mid-'60's. Quaint, perhaps even silly-looking now, it stressed in the beginning chapters the emphasis on diligence and nose to the grindstone.

Typo.

"....classroom culture clasH..."

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

Many Poles, it is true, along with other Europeans, find this typically Anglo-American "warming up in the bullpen" before simply coming out and saying something, most irritating, you're quite right about that!

As I've posted so many times prior, what comes across as "rudeness" is often merely cultural difference and usually nothing more:-)
A colleague of mine came to me in our faculty lounge during lunch time, complaining bitterly about a student of his who apparently does nothing but challenge the teacher, every single lesson. He turned to me and asked what he should do about it, to which I inquired as to the student's nationality. He replied "Israeli", but not Palestinian, to which I blithely retorted that Jews argue with everybody, their teachers, their cabinet leaders, their parents, even with G-d!LOL

He then too chalked the whole thing up to a classroom culture class, and so I presume everything will be just fine.

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

Seems a bit over the top to me as well. At worst, somewhat dodgy, wouldn't you say?

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

I agree with you to a large extent.

First of all, Mafketis is right when he posted that it isn't the Poles per se who are doing stuff who ought to be blamed, rather, the Government, allowing many groups into the UK, usually for the purposes of encouraging cheap labor and in the end, a "throw-away society" of low ballers underbidding native-born workers.

As an American living in the US, Trump is merely a reaction to years and years of failed liberal policies, allowed to go unchecked for way too long for comfort!

Germany, Sweden, Denmark only mirror the misplaced liberal tendencies in which this planet has become awash over the past thirty- five years or
so and counting.

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

While Poles have rightly long prided themselves on their diligence, industry, and hard work, when it comes to actually GETTING the job at which one is able to excel, don't rule out a "friendly little lapowka" under the table, just to make certain:-)

@Polesgohome,

Is the basic problem in your opinion that the Poles of whom you speak never bothered much to integrate linguistically?
That can indeed be a thorny issue, even here in the so-called "Melting Pot" America, where folks are getting bleedin' sick and tired of foreigners setting up shop, yet not knowing enough of the lingo to communicate effectively with native locals:-)

Germany continues to grow fed up with certain people from Syria as migrants to the Federal Republic, who in some instances have even insisted that Germans learn THEIR language rather than that the Syrians learn German.

Makes you think sometimes that the tail is wagging the dog, what?

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

Yes, that's right. Without local collaboration, even the most ardent SS-Personnel could probably not have
effected what they did in as short a period of time as they did!

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

And Rightists never lie, Rich??!

What are ya smokin' today, dude?

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

We do too, Dirk! Maybe you'd have passed already and your toxic spirit along with you.

@Rich, those recruited, such as the Belgian Brigades of Nazi sympathizers did in fact have to swear a loyalty oath as well....upon pain of death.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

They became, so to speak, "honorary" Nazis then:-)
To be sure, all were forced to swear the oath of allegiance to Hitler (Eidgeloebnis), making them, yes in effect, "Nazis"!

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

Factually incorrect, Ironside!

Hitler recruited from numerous neighboring countries whose racial lineage he deemed suitable for his Master Race, among others, Holland, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Estonia, even Finland, not to mention little Croatia.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

Agreed. Not all Germans were Nazis.

News / Poland's LBGT Seen as Dangerous Foreign Idea. [39]

Considered "perverted" by those at ideological odds with established religion, not human biology:-)

No, Johnny, live and let live is essential to permitting this planet not to become any more unglued and
out of control than she already is!

News / Poland's LBGT Seen as Dangerous Foreign Idea. [39]

LBGT rights everywhere have always been at risk.

My feeling is that we should simply live and let live. After all, deviance from the norm is
a human right, not a sin, unless of course one takes the written word of any holy scripture literally,
which is a dangerous idea anyway.

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

Took the words right out of my mouth, sir:-)

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

Wisconsin cheddar's not bad, Johnny, I gotta admit. Don't forget though, without the Swedes, US farming might have looked
very different, and I mean, cultivating those dairy products we both like so much:-)

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

Couldn't begin to imagine how in the world one could "outsource" cheese anyway! However, that's encouraging to know, thanks jon:-)
Does the same apply to Stilton and local varieties of port as well? Bass Ale still made in the UK?

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]

Someone forget to mention Wensleydale?
Tasty stuff:-)

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]

Correct, as usual:-)

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

Liberals are always and have always been easy targets for haters of all species, in essence, because the Left has refused to submit to established convention which targets those by less "able", shall we say, by labeling, bad-mouthing, and bullying!

Once it was conventional to label slower pupils as "retarded" and to call them nasty names because they couldn't defend themselves. It was convention, until the "liberalization" of US textbooks to claim that white men alone discovered America, they and they alone, who made it the great country which it later became. Well, the Native Americans predated even St. Brendan and later the Vikings to our shores. The whites won the Revolution, and yet who but the Left had the courage to bring up the likes of Crispus Attucks who helped score a needed victory in the Boston Massacre? Who but the hated Libitards and "Snow-flakes" brought to the fore that it was the Chinese who helped build our railroads, unsung heroes that they were? Sure, there were problems with many minority groups, and yet if you were part of the disen-franchised masses, of course you'd want somebody to speak up on your behalf, and don't lie, saying you wouldn't, since nobody would believe you anyway.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

Don't forget though that the Soviets hated the Nazis about as much as the Poles, not to mention the Jews!
It was therefore to the Russians' best self interest that Hitler should be defeated, sooner instead of later:-)

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

"....since the liberation of Poland from the Germans was already almost a fait accompli....."

Really, Rich? Seems you're privy to certain primary source documents over which the rest of us mere mortals can merely salivate:-) Do tell, old boy!

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

I think your point is academic, Rich. If not the liberation of Poland, what else then?

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

The "primary", if not the sole, objective of the Warsaw Uprising, was naturally to kick Hitler's buttuski to Kingdom come!
They nearly succeeded. Oh, there were some malingerers in the ranks, I'm sure, but on the whole, the Poles (both Jew
and gentile) stuck to their guns, literally, and fought with their last ounce of blood.

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

So curious for me to read in certain posts here that in some circles, the Germans come off smelling better than the Russians who are are cast as the perennial "enemy", even while liberating your countries from Nazism.

News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

While turning the other cheek isn't usually an option either in my opinion, Jesus' teachings represent all the best towards which
we all should strive, even if we never make it.
Most of us though aren't even close:-)

News / "A merciful heart can share its bread with the hungry and welcome refugees and migrants" Pope Francis [89]

Being a generous person doesn't also mean being a doormat:-)

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

The latter I would think, a no brainer!

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

Furthermore, as education is seen in Germany as a BASIC HUMAN RIGHT, and not merely an entitlement of a privileged class,
it is taken way more seriously than it is, say, here in the US!

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Interesting. The Germans know him as the great Nueremberg sculptor Veit Stoss.
Guess it's like that Kopernikus vs. Copernick debate all over again:-) You guys claim him for Poland because technically he was born in Torun, the Germans claim him for Germany, since the German name for his home town is/was Thorn.

Genealogy / What are common Polish character traits? [425]

Dirk, add to those German attributes, more darkly cynical as well:-)