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delphiandomine   
6 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

When, oh, when... will all the idiots on this forum and elsewhere finally shut the f*ck up?

Yes, we all know that the Kaczynskis did good work with the Jewish community. But their supporters...well, who needs to say anything? Lech's greatest moment was in bridging the gap between Poland and Jews - but unfortunately, it's being thrown down the drain because of Jarek's entertaining of the usual anti-semtic lunatics.

You know, if Lech had done much more of the bridge-building and much less of the moaning and complaining, he would've been a great president. By all accounts, he had a lot of personal charm, and Maria was apparently great too - why did he waste it on petty party politics?

Republicans are the most vocal backers of Israel. There are a number of Jewish Congressmen with an R behind their name as well.

Isn't this exactly what I mean - that American politics aren't clear cut because the country is so huge, with so many different interests and agendas?

I cannot understand for the life of me why America only has two parties - I can't see much in common between the Palin-supporters and the pro-Israel lobby for instance?
delphiandomine   
6 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Of course, Jews are there to take over the world, etc etc.

(at least, that's my British stereotypical view of Republicans - full of irrational fears, though I appreciate that America is far more complex in this respect!)

As for PiS - yes, certainly so. The amount of nonsense spouted by PiS supporters about Jews is ridiculous - Nasza Klasa is full of them! Sadly, the Kaczynski's twins good work with the Jewish community has all but been destroyed by their supporters :(

polkasunited.com < more dumb Polacks. The amount of stupidity on there is mind-boggling.
delphiandomine   
6 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

If you dont live in the country then you dont have the right to vote period.

Oh no, but they want to interfere in the workings of Poland!

The funny thing is that the Polacks that vote tend to vote Republican too. I'm really not sure how Republicans and PiS align, apart from in the usual irrational fear of gays and Jews.
delphiandomine   
6 Nov 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

I see that to you Poland is not a civilised democratic state.

Yup, just try and register a female baby born to Poles with a name not ending in "a". We'll see how far you get ;)
delphiandomine   
6 Nov 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

Only in a dictatorship is that possible.

Last time I checked, the Lithuanian democracy was working quite well. Certainly, the "tyranny of the majority" comes into play here, but it's still democratic.
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

(some of them claimed in 2000 that all of US Polonia should have the right to vote).

Oh jeez...no! no no no!

They complained enough this year about needing to have a Polish passport in order to vote!
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

As you said-they don't know the consequences and they don't have to live with them.

That's what got me - quite a few of them online were claiming that Kaczynski would be great for business (err...) and that Komorowski was a filthy socialist liberal (Errrrrrr......). That kind of stupidity is just...ugh :(
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]

but we sure need organ donors in PL...

I didn't say which speed limits I've been breaking... ;)

(there's a divided 4 lane road here, where at night, you can do 100km/h comfortably without endangering anyone, because it's empty - it's a 70km/h limit, because it's dangerous during the day)
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Happened this year as well. The whole condescending "oh, you don't know what's good for you" is just so absolutely insulting towards Poland - as is the way that they claim to be Polish, they interfere in the Polish state, yet they have no sense of the consequences of their actions.

Kwasniewski was a great success as President, drunken incidents aside.
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

To either party, if this off topic nonsense continues a timeout will be given

okay :)

But this does show something very interesting - here we have a "Polack" using the term "East Europe" towards Poland. Yet - anyone who lives in Poland will be acutely aware of how Poland has been pushing away from the Eastern European tag as early as the mid 1990's - and how Poles consider themselves to be Central, not Eastern European.

This is why, in my ever so humble opinion, these "Polacks" are not Polish, but rather some sort of sub-division-of-American ethnicity. They know very, very little about the cultural issues affecting Poland - apart from what they read in the heavily right-wing "Polack" press. Certainly, I haven't met a Pole yet who called themselves "Eastern European" - in their eyes, "East" is Russia/Belarus/Ukraine.
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]

I guess you could walk into a drivers course and offer them a massive amount of money and hope for the best.

Wouldn't help a bit - you still need to prove that you're resident for more than 185 days in Poland legally. Some driving centres are also interpreting this to mean "actually resident for 185 days before sitting the test".

You can sit the course anytime you like, though.

For what it's worth, you can apparently buy a Ukrainian driving licence very easily - and you can exchange it to an EU licence without a test.
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

Well at least they are not Rancid Russkys.

Still wittering on about Russians, are we? Anyone would think that you've got quite the obsession with Russia.

I wanted to say that a word "Polack" is negative and shouldn't be in a title as something what can cause direspectful attitude toward readers and writers who take part in the discussion at start.

So is Polack Johnnys "negative"?
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
Law / Polish EU Drivers Licence - can I get one the easy way (by paying for it)? [185]

hi what is the easiest to way to get a genuine polish driving license? i dont want a fake license. is it possible to get one easily without spending too much time in poland? is it possible to get one without going to poland at all?

Why do you want a Polish driving licence?
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

You don't have to be a genius to work out that a dumb Polack who can't speak Polish isn't actually Polish at all.

I quite admire the Polonia who got off their ass, learnt Polish and would love to move to Poland permanently if they could make it work - but dumb Polacks? They're about as Polish as I am - ie, not at all.
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

I'm a little confused by your post. First, you're saying that polish people in the US are plastic and shortly after that you post something that Poland is a melting pot where no one cares what they are.

Because Plastic Polacks are not Polish. Is it that hard to understand?

No one wanted to comment about PolackJohhnies that I posted earlier?

Well, if "Polack" is so offensive, they should be getting rather upset, shouldn't they?

Or is it the case of choosing when to be offended?
delphiandomine   
5 Nov 2010
History / Are Poles happy with the current Polish borders? [134]

Konigsberg given to Lithuania

As I recall - Lithuania strongly protested about being "given" Kaliningrad - possibly because it was devastated and poor. That's the reason for the existence of the Kaliningrad exclave.

with roughly the western and eastern borders as before the war

Would that really be possible, given that for defensive reasons, the Allies wanted the Polish-German border to be along natural features? You'd also have had the same old problem in Galicia - a Ukrainian minority that hates the Polish majority's guts.
delphiandomine   
4 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

I heard a bunch of Germans, Austrians, Ukrainians, Hungarians, Russkys, Swedes and others came into Eastern Europe, mixed up with each other and became the nice milkshake we today call Poland. ;)

Pretty much. Add in Jews, Ruthenians, even some Scots (Napieralski? Hmm....) and more. Modern day Poland is really a melting pot - and this is fantastic. It does mean that Polish ethnicity is pretty much unclear, but who cares? The nationality is still Polish, and with it, the shared history and so on.
delphiandomine   
4 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

But how do they know that they are actually 100% Polish? They don't. Just because you can trace back to some great-grandparents doesn't mean a damn thing. I know quite a few people here in Western Poland with Germanic last names - yet they can only trace Poles in their family. Yet the last name clearly indicates that there's German history in there.

Most of the Plastic Polacks cannot understand that Poland wasn't ever 100% ethnically pure.
delphiandomine   
3 Nov 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

It means with Lithuanian characters. BTW, private bus lines are fined for puting up Polish signs under the Lithuanian ones.

Doesn't seem to suggest one way or another that Lithuanian characters are allowed, only that the spelling can be Lithuanian. Still, instead of arguing about it, I'll call the relevant office and ask them directly.

Is it allowed to put up foreign names on Polish buses?
delphiandomine   
3 Nov 2010
USA, Canada / Polack/American Polonia/Plastic Pole "culture" [568]

I think you might be shocked to ifnd out that most Poles probably don't fit your idea of "typically Polish". Europe has been an ethnic blender for thousands of years.

Yup. It would be sheer lunacy on my part to claim that I was "100% ethnically Scots".
delphiandomine   
3 Nov 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

If that is the case then so be it. I have no issue with this.

It's the most sensible solution on both sides. But - as far as I gather - Poles are demanding that they get to use the Polish characters in Lithuania. It's fine for things such as bus signs/street names, but it's unrealistic to expect the Lithuanians to be able to produce them in official documents.

However, I have noticed at every official event (in Poland or elsewhere) her name was always spelt using the German "u"

Yep, it's no issue to use it - just bureaucracy prevents people from using them. For what it's worth, I see no reason why EU countries can't use the letters - it's not difficult to type alt+code!

This says that Lithuanian minority in Poland can write their names in Lithuanian on official Polish documents:

Can they use Lithuanian letters, or are they simply allowed to spell their names the "Lithuanian" way (without Lithuanian characters)?
delphiandomine   
3 Nov 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

I fail to understand your problem with the use of unique Polish letters.

Poland will not use them when registering anyone officially - they'll just use the nearest comparable Latin letter. So - if Poles want to register their names using Polish letters, then they have to allow everyone else to use their letters, too. Can't see that happening, somehow.

I can't write the correct spelling here but she used the German "u" or "umlout" in here name.

What was in her documents? Probably not the umlaut. I've never seen any Polish documents which had the correct usage of foreign letters.

Obviously this never caused the Poles any difficult so why would using Polish letters for Polish names create such a "difficult" problem in Lithuania.

Well, in the UK, you won't catch people using ł, ś, ć, ó, ą, etc in official documents. Even things such as the EEA residency permit and driving licences will be in "plain" Latin letters. Likewise in most of Europe - the unique letters simply aren't recognised.
delphiandomine   
3 Nov 2010
News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [533]

I like your idea of providing the citizens of every EU country information in their native tongue

Well, there's already the obligation to provide information in other EU languages. There's also the obligation to provide a translator in certain circumstances - and no, I do not understand how the hell they find Estonian-Maltese translators ;)

I was not suggesting that Vilnius is Polish.

Would this be like how Poland refuses to allow the registration of RHD cars?

In fact, I think the best solution would be for Lithuanians to attempt to register RHD cars in Poland. When Poland refuses, then both sides are just as bad as each other. Lithuania obviously has gone too far - but equally so, Poland is demanding the registration of names using Polish diatricial marks - which is nonsense. I have my doubts as if Poland could handle Lithuanian letters, either ;)

What is your native tongue?

Scots. Recognised as a minority language by the EU.
delphiandomine   
3 Nov 2010
Food / Taste of food in Poland vs other countries [186]

OK, OK - so then, why is it do you think that Poland has NO Michelin starred restaurants?

Hmm -

Lack of restaurant culture.
Too much emphasis on "atmosphere".
No great tradition of cooking.