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Posts by Lyzko  

Joined: 12 Jul 2013 / Male ♂
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Threads: Total: 45 / Live: 31 / Archived: 14
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From: New York, USA
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Lyzko   
1 Nov 2018
Off-Topic / American Jew Voice in Poland [93]

Yo, Hindus are technically "Indo-Aryan", therefore, although darker-skinned than Swedes or Norwegians, nonetheless belong to the Caucasian race, case closed, acceptable or not.
Lyzko   
1 Nov 2018
Off-Topic / American Jew Voice in Poland [93]

Jews again are technically "Caucasians", as are Hindus, Georgians, Turks and any number of other related groups. Whether they are as light-haired, light-eyed and fair skinned as Poles, for instance, it depends on how assimilated the Jews in question are:-)

For that matter there are plenty of shortish, stocky dark-haired, brown-eyed Poles, clearly "white", yet not fitting the stereotype of the blond, blue-eyed Pole of Communist propaganda.
Lyzko   
1 Nov 2018
Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

Add taut facial features, generally straight as opposed to prominent aquiline noses, lips tending to the thin side, above all, a rather coarse flaxen hair, often fair eye color and a squarish chin.

Height again tends to vary, but on the whole, most Poles (both men and women) tend to be tallish.
Lyzko   
31 Oct 2018
Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [61]

I'm traif, sue me:-) He-he!

My tevilin-wearing grandfather was a pork-eating German Jew who LOVED bacon and pigs knuckles.
Lyzko   
29 Oct 2018
Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [61]

Sounds to me regrettably like low-fat "healthy" cooking has invaded the Polish kitchen as well:-)

Give me a good ol' Polish greasy spoon with lots of fatty dishes, kiszka prepared the traditional way, heaping portions of bigos, pirogi, red cabbage, potatoes, home-baked country bread ANY DAY OF THE WEEK!!! Can't get enough of it, even if someday I'll need a cardiac surgeon.

lol
Lyzko   
29 Oct 2018
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

Correct, little other than the proverbial "glorified messenger boy" for HIS boss, the Kremlin...and of course, the KGB. He was a toady and a lickspittle then, and he hasn't changed his spots since. Add to that, a bully through and through!
Lyzko   
29 Oct 2018
History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

It is also from these two societies that most Jews throughout the world today originate!
Both Poland and Russia especially have ACTIVE, VIBRANT Jewish communities, often composed of both local as well as even "foreign"-born Jews who returned to the land of their direct ancestors.

By contrast, the former Soviet satelites, presently the Baltic States, are but a virtual graveyard for Jews.
The comparison speaks for itself, I think:-)
Lyzko   
26 Oct 2018
Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]

Choc ja byla zmienila, jak tlumaczysz IPN-Ustawe Prezes'a Dudy przed rokiem? Czy to bylo wlasnie "wolnosc slowa"??
Lyzko   
24 Oct 2018
Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

The Nazis used to say, "Was er glaubt ist einerlei, in der Rasse liegt die Schweinerei!" - Never mind to whom he prays, the rotten mess lies in the race

Only the uninformed and undereducated believe in a race of humans, undefiled by mixing. It's historically impossible, now proven through DNA testing.
For $99 bucks, a person can pay to find out their ethnic breakdown.
Lyzko   
24 Oct 2018
Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

'Course it is.

Now I'll grant ya, Budenz in the late 19th century DID go a bit over the top by suggesting/ theorizing that there was a clear link between the Magyars and the Turks.

This was and is pure conjecture:-)
Lyzko   
24 Oct 2018
Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

The transmigration of peoples across the Steppes of Asia and past the Ural Mts. well into (along with further into) the so-called "Hungarian Basin" near the Carpathian region of Eastern Europe is a proven fact, Vlad, no longer some theory.
Lyzko   
21 Oct 2018
UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]

True, Miloslaw!

Poles though often have their preconceived notion about who someone "has to be" blurted out right to their face so fast, a body can barely answer back.

It's fine to be honest, so long as it's constructive commentary. If it's only a question of saying the first thing that comes to one's lips, that seems to me just

so much raw, undigested bile, reeking of social halitosis.

I prefer, if a person has nothing polite, at least constructively pleasant to say, simply keep quiet or one risks a wasted expense of negative energy.
Lyzko   
20 Oct 2018
UK, Ireland / Are the Polish in the UK actually rude or bitter? [38]

Many Poles ARE for sure blunt to a fault, direct, opinionated, and frequently in one's face if they have something to say. They surely are not "rude" in the sense of being

intentionally unpleasant. Like the Israelis, they waste little time with chit-chat or warming up in the bullpen.

This is has been my experience.
Lyzko   
28 Sep 2018
Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]

@Johnny,
Kavanaugh is a true American hero...

@Lyzko,
"Boys will be boys", is that about it? Well, I don't buy it and neither should most of America. Looks as though the Committee is going to vote in his favor, unfortunately,

so you people have gotten your wish.

But what about the country itself? Trump, to paraphrase what was once said about Hitler, has made the president great, and the presidency small.
I hope you're satisfied.
LOL