Polonia / Polish workers in Denmark [41]

At least a passing (and not merely a "passive") knowledge of Danish should also come in handy as well, I would think.

Life / Live-in maids in Poland? [12]

The joke here in the States is that the Poles are even too expensive for the Russians....who are out (and under-)bid by the Hindus for the same job(s)!

LOL

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

None right off the top of my head, but Mickiewicz is chocked full of arcane forms:-)

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

Wasn't aware of that, thanks:-)

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

Much as "vremya" no longer has an extant equivalent in Polish. "Vremie" is Old Polish, I seem to recall.

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

How about

English Polish Russian

time czas/godzina vremya

Cf. What time is it? - Ktora jest godzina? - Katory tjas
:-)

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [630]

Think you must be right. I've also encountered the word "vzyatka".

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

The Czechs were far kinder to their Jews en masse than either the Poles, the Hungarians, certainly the Rumanians, even the Russians.
Only the Albanians and the Bulgarians appeared to do what was necessary NOT to curry favor with Germany.

Aside from false friends I've mentioned, Czech seems closest to Polish:-)

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [630]

I prefer nevertheless the Polish "lapowka".

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

If you try to "pukat" at a Russian's front door, thinking you're going to "pukac" as in Poland, you might find your host gently holding their nose:-)

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

An elderly Polish acquaintance once told me, "All Poles understand some Russian, but nobody speaks it!"

News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

Some have argued a strong mother and a weak or absent father can easily tilt a young boy towards homosexuality. Kraft-Ebbing might have something to say about that:-)

News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

There's some debate about that, gumishu.

Work / Work as English proofreader in Poland [19]

Yup, makes sense too, delph! However niche markets are typically hard to fill as it is, no?

Text editing was my stock in trade, along with translation, for nearly fifteen years and many firms prefer in-house to freelance nowadays. In the '90's it was a

different world aka economy:-)

Work / Work as English proofreader in Poland [19]

Sound advice! Seems right on the money to me.

The earnings can indeed be very high, but the trick is finding a publishing outfit WILLING to pay for quality!

Work / Work as English proofreader in Poland [19]

I figure the logical follow-up question would be, why would one even need to look for work as an English proofreader in Poland? Translator/interpreter I can well

understand, but foreign-language publications I'd imagine would be so highly specialized that a native English speaker couldn't dream of being hired as they'd be deemed too expensive.

Most likely, the major publishing firms in, say, Warsaw, Poznan, Krakow, would use a run-of-the-mill Pole off the streets who went beyond lyceum English and took some courses at university, possibly spending their holidays in the UK:-)

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

Frankly, often what passes in my experience for "rudeness" is merely a form of continental European directness, quite common everywhere, not solely in Poland.
While I'll grant you, it's often shortsighted and negative, as dolno said, no false smiles here, typical also for neighboring non-Slavic countries such as France and Germany! If somebody's having a grumpy day, people typically won't mask it behind meaningless small talk as we do here in the States or in England.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Why not join the staff of >Der Stuermer<. Dirk. Sure ol' Streicher would've been glad to have ya!

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

It's all relative anyhow, folks, so lighten up! What the Jews and Arabs consider proper practice, European gentiles do not. Neither is more "right" than the other, they're merely different.

It's rather like asking as to which language is "better", French or Russian. It makes no sense, because language, as with religious practice, has no moral imperative.

It is what it is, whatever it is:-)

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

"Mutilation" implies willful damage done, either to the infant or to the mother. In the present instance, no such damage has been done:-)

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Circumcision, both among Jews and Arabs, is a logical a practice as any, including allowing the male foreskin to remain.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Johnny, hate to burst your bubble of imperturbability once again, but you never had much to say about the subject anyway. Now. you'll have even lessLOL

Furthermore, how is it the Jews' fault for trying to do what is sane and imminently rational?

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Certainly I don't deny that the reasons for circumcision were religious. Eventually though that all changed.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

These days, many male infants are circumcised, not only Jewish:-)

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Spilling seed is traditionally frowned upon by all organized (as well I'm sure by some disorganized) religion, yet the Allmighty is willing to wink his eye on that one.

On murder, I'm not so sure:-) Ever heard of the good ol' Hail Mary Pass?
LOL

History / Did NATO help in retrival of heads of Poland's King Władysław III and Zawisza Czarny [16]

Pack it in, man, give it a rest already!

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Pilsudski is nonetheless admired by many Jews, for some reason.

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Similar explanation for kashruth!

In those times, eating pork or shellfish could indeed bring certain death. It was then explained as such for religious reasons.
Today however, such danger has largely passed, yet orthodox or observant Jews resolutely continue to keep kosher:-)

History / Would Poland be better off if it had lost in the Polish-Soviet War? [44]

Dmowski though, including Paderewski while acting premier, was known to be both an ultra-nationalist as well as an anti-Semite. Lest we forget!

Life / Why is circumcision not practiced in Poland? [701]

Of course it was rationalized as a religious reason, but again, the ancient Israelites weren't dumb and realized that there were also clearly hygienic benefits to circumcision.