History / POLISH AND RUSSIAN FRIENDSHIP WILL LAST FOREVER [513]

Merkel grew up in the former East though, and so knows Russian, though not as well as English, I'm sure:-) Putin speaks fluent German too.

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

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!

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:-)

Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]

Netanjahu nie mial racji, tak jest.

Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]

Exakt, Jaskier!

@Spike31,
IPN-Ustawa jest, ale Duda tekst wreszscie zmienil.

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"??

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Thought so. Didn't seem like much of a stretch either. Thanks!

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Wonder whether "Khan" of "Genghis Khan" might have a connection with the identical Arab surname "Khan", such as "Ali Khan".
Any ideas?

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Amen, TheOther!

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

I'm not certain.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Nor am I completely.

What's the alternative though? Surely a person's ethnic origin can be traced somehow.

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.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

"Pure " anybody's a lotta manure, period.

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:-)

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

See post #163.

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.

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]

Bavarians certainly have.

Check out an older photograph of the director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A born Munchner, his face looks almost Circassian!

Love / Foreign Older vs Younger Relationships In Poland [20]

Forty-five and twenty-nine's hardly a Lolita complex:-) Such relationships are much more common than most of us imagine.

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.

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.

Genealogy / Polish surnames of Hungarian / Ruthenian / Rusyn origin [14]

Makes as much sense as any explanation. Thanks, DominicB!

Genealogy / Polish surnames of Hungarian / Ruthenian / Rusyn origin [14]

I suppose that my family name 'Pajdo' must therefore be possibly Goral, perhaps Slovak, in origin.

Life / Differences between Irish, British, Polish, American and other nations culture, tradition, music - loose talk [241]

??? Sure you're playin' with a full deck, pal??
lol

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

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

Russians, even the European Russians, as compared with the Uzbeki, Bukharem or those from Azerbejian, still retain much of the influence from the Old Silk Road, evidenced clearly in their helpless addiction to palm greasing and bribery.

While a negative to my mind, it's clearly not surprising as to its origins. If during the period of the Soviet Union, a "decent" person wanted to survive, one doubtless had to be tricky or they wouldn't, plain and simple:-)

History / Do Polish people in general dislike Russia or Germany more? [369]

Hmm, would have to ck. it out, thanks:-)

German history though has always been particularly complex, nothing straightforward.
Then again, as a language, so its people.

Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1050]

Czy spedziles (-as) dobry weekend?/ Czy.....................przyjemny weekend?
Jak spedziles (-as) weekend?
Czy miales (-as) mily dzien?

You're asking here no doubt for "literal" rather than "sense" translations which reflect the Polish mindset.
As in many European languages, such Anglo-Saxon type questions can rarely be rendered as such , except perhaps figuratively,
as small talk is usually far less common in those countries than it is here in the US, maybe in the UK as well:-)

Tried my best!

History / Not proud of my Polish heritage [110]

Ahemm, German cities, even the capital as late as the early 2000's, were often littered with dog poop, particularly in the public parks.
Poland surely has no monopoly on that score.

History / Not proud of my Polish heritage [110]

I never found Polish cities dirty! Although only in two of them, grime was the last thing I associated with Poland.