Life / Understanding Poland's Birthday Tradition [66]

I enjoy the too few times I've celebrated Polish birthday gatherings. As I recollect, once the birthday boy (or girl) is toasted, the whole assembled body cries in unison

"STO LAT! STO LAT!", upon which normally (at least in my experience) alchohol is promptly consumed, usually either some variety of bimber or zubrowka!

Great fun.

USA, Canada / Would a Polish woman marry to get into the USA? [41]

The number of foreign women in general who'd marry in order to come to America (legally) could fill several libraries, I've no doubt. Poles are scarcely the worst offenders in this respect:-)

History / Future of Kaliningrad Oblast - is it possible to annex by Poland or will it become an independent country? [137]

Taking your own advice, I see. Dobri brateLOL

History / Future of Kaliningrad Oblast - is it possible to annex by Poland or will it become an independent country? [137]

Exactly there Crow, old man. And so let it begin with YOU.

@Bratwurst Boy, The Carthage analogy (shades of Cato the Elder: Carthage must be destroyed!) suggests, perhaps inadvertently, almost a scorched earth type of policy on the part of the Soviets to unutterably eradicate any and all traces of anything German remaining.

Clearly, based on the bilingual place names extant, this wasn't the case.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

@My name is Rich.....
@Bratwurst Boy, "...oops, excuse me, "Wurst"
@Lyzko, mine is rabbit (Hase) and I don't know from nothin'!LOL

Seriously though fellas, my comments now directed more to RichMazur, I think we're conflating issues here!
Germany is no longer "under the US boot", pal, hasn't been either for years now, and counting:-)

Those monuments to hatred, namely Treblinka, Majdanek etc. on then "German-occupied" territory, are no reflection on either present-day Poland and/or Germany.
Surely, nobody here (I hope) is espousing dangerous nonsense such as "FORGET KATYN!", or "MOVE ON FROM AUSCHWITZ!" and the like. However, to hold contemporary Europe eternally responsible for the crimes on the past (albeit on their native soil), is to make any sort of future redemption as well as bridge-building next to impossible for the next generations.

Sorry if this sounds idealistic.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

Forum rules include not being ethnically offensive to various nationalities as well:-)

History / Future of Kaliningrad Oblast - is it possible to annex by Poland or will it become an independent country? [137]

@Crow, Prussians were BALTS...end of story! Balts, like the Ughurs who settled the present-day Hungarian "Basin", weren't Slavs either, got it?

@Hr. Grunvald, I simply meant that the regions has doubtless retained much of her formerly Germanic flavor, that's all.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

As I've been saying all along; Germany is as much a present threat to Poland as Hawaii is to British Columbia!!LOL

Putin's Russia is the one we should watch out for.

So much anti-German bias on this Forum. Mods have anything to say about it?

History / Future of Kaliningrad Oblast - is it possible to annex by Poland or will it become an independent country? [137]

The entire region of East Prussia once was German territory prior to the Red takeover. Despite the changes, it must retain a German character.

Love / 17 year old English girl with a 25 year old Polish man? [9]

Poles can come on a little strong at first, both males and females:-) Don't be scared off though. Many compensate for poor English with extra testosterone.

Just stick to your guns and don't let 'em force ya into the sack until YOU feel in your gut/heart that it's time!

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

That's too many questions for me, Rich, let's take each one at a time, shall we?
:-)

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

@Rich, two neighboring countries can indeed be simply that, neighbors (if scarcely "friends") and not necessarily enemies. Usually though, it doesn't work out that way:-)

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

I agree, Maf. The dude's obviously bluffing just to get our goat!

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

Name us any set of European neighbors aka France/Germany, Denmark/Sweden, Poland/Russia, Spain/Portugal etc. who were not enemies at some point in their history:-)

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

Rich, Russia and Poland are neighbors. Are you being purposely thick-headed? By contrast, what "threat" does Poland pose to Russia?? If you come up zeros, you're probably on the right track.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

Take a few waker-uppers there, Rich.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

@Rich,
As I'm certain you're aware, Poland continues to demand the "return" of formerly "purloined Polish" territories, eventually taken over by the Germans during WWII and still squarely in German hands aka all of current/former "Eastern" Germany, long since under the Basic Law of (at that time) West Germany which guaranteed the return of formerly-Prussian land to the present FRG!

Koenigsberg fell to the Soviets, appropriately re-named "Kaliningrad" after the once famous Russian Communist agitator Mikhail Kalinin.
Whereas the Russians were once one of America's strongest allies in their common fight against the Nazis, this all changed drastically with the advent of the Cold War.

Should you need any convincing as to how the Russian threat went on to terrorize much of East Europe long after Germany ceased to be a menace to the West, just look at Budapest 1956, Prague 1968, and Crimea 2016.

Wake up and smell the coffee, dude:-)

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

If you've been reading the papers (and I don't just mean the Funny PapersLOL) over the past decade or so, then you wouldn't have posted the response you just did...unless of course you're pulling my leg, which is more than possible.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

Start to finally agree that the Russians remain a far greater threat today than the Germans, of course:-)

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

Well there, Rich, it's a pretty good place to start.

Life / Polish and Czechs [191]

Most personal opinions generally are:-)

Life / Polish and Czechs [191]

That's your opinion. I've never been one to test the hotness of Polish as opposed to Czech faces, so I really can't say.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

Come off it, dude, read the friggin' papers! Ever heard of Crimea or US election meddling, ad infinitum??! Putin's a menace, get real!!
Merkel's only a threat to AfD or PEGIDA followers, frustrated with globalism.

History / Whom do the people in Poland hate more: Germans or Russians? [869]

Whom do the Polish people hate "more", be it a toss up between the Germans or the Russians? Although not Polish, I'd have to say the Russians were more rapacious in terms of their desire to gobble up neighboring territory for the glory of "Greater Slavania", the Germans surely were far more deadly.

Both however were past practitioners of "divide and conquer", not to mention, quite good at it as well:-)
Appears Party Chief Putin's just following in their footsteps! Today, of course, it's Russia and not Germany, that remains the major European threat.

Genealogy / Typical Polish Eye Color [77]

"Earthy" eye color, Emilia? Not sure I can quite picture it from your description. "Muddy colored", perhaps? The last part I think I got.

Life / Americanization of Poland - good or bad? [49]

Poland's by far the least Americanized nation in Europe! Germany's far more like almost a mini-US, certainly in terms of how American English has infected their mother tongue. French additions were clearly a badge of pride; take from one's betters and imitate them. "Denglisch" or "Germlish" or whatever you wish to call it, is a sign of linguistic laziness, scarcely pride, and probably far more widespread in Germany than, say, "Poglish" is in Poland.

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

I'd go even one step further; Loving Poland means never having to say you're sorry. Compare with Germany: Loving Germany means ALWAYS having to say you're sorryLOL

Life / Why Do You Love Poland? [907]

Think dolno is quite familiar with the American Revolution, Rich!

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

No, lack of reading comprehension is usually, at least often, the result of a poor educational grounding.

Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

We certainly are not!

What do you mean exactly? That it's a mental disorder to try to be exceptional??
I'd think that's simply part of being human, to strive to be better, no?