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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   
19 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

@Milo, if you can hire a Somali as opposed to a Polish welder, the average
capitalist/industrialist will clearly go for the former.

This trend developed once again when the male offspring of white welders
decided they would rather study instead of work with their hands their whole
lives.

During the immediate post-Industrial Revolution, round about the late 19th century,
relatively few ethnic Europeans actually attended university compared to those who
didn't!

This meant that only the elite in society either attended or graduated successfully from
a prestigious university/college, both in the US, the UK or the European Continent. The
rest who were less academically oriented were channeled, so to speak, into manual labor,
factory work or craftsmanship. The result was a high standard of workmanship which fueled
European society for generations to come...that is, until roughly around the years following
the end of WWII.

As capitalist bosses were permitted to give unbridled vent to their inherent greed, quality, much less
"fairness" in hiring eventually took a back seat to the expedience of cheap labor from non-white countries
in order tor the top 1% to save a few bucks by eating filet mignon off of gold plates while would-be native-
born precision laborers from Britain, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherland were pushed aside.
Lyzko   
19 Sep 2024
Life / Polish Music. [297]

Takes one to know one! Who died and made you perfect??
Lyzko   
18 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]

Obviously, this trend began long after the end of WWII, in all
likelihood during the end of the so-called economic miracle,
post 1965 and the demise of the Adenauer Era, when Southern
Europeans, especially from Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece, were later
followed by Turks, Nigerians, Vietnamese, and Somalis.

As native Germans, Dutch, Swedes, Danes and even white Brits, felt themselves
too educated to work with their hands, perform dangerous factory labor etc. as their ancestors
had done for generations since the Industrial Revolution, the need arose to "import" cheaper
wage, non-white foreigners from any number of developing nations, eager as anybody to earn
more than merely a living wage in the West.

It's all simple capitalist economics, gang!
Lyzko   
18 Sep 2024
Life / Polish Music. [297]

All I meant was that I was temporarily unable to recall their names:-)
Lyzko   
17 Sep 2024
Life / Polish Music. [297]

Not sure right off the top of my head, but apparently,
there are more of them the I thought:-)

Always knew certain "modern" Polish classical composers
such as the late Krzysztof Penderecki and others were a
frequent staple at concerts.
Lyzko   
17 Sep 2024
Life / Polish Music. [297]

Polish jazz remains fairly popular in the States!
Lyzko   
17 Sep 2024
Language / Older Polish Exclamations/Swears [14]

Recently re-watched the movie "Wesele" from the mid-'00's and it
sounded as though every other word were some crass curse word.

Same as when watching a movie in English from around the early sixties
compared with a similar movie nowadays. The language is nearly unrecognizable.
Lyzko   
16 Sep 2024
News / Chairman KaczyƄski said........ part two [28]

Pawian's right here, Alien, hate as I do to admit the ugly reality. The AfD is once more on the move
and Scholz is far less of a counterforce than many think.
Lyzko   
12 Sep 2024
Love / The Pole -- a mummy's boy? [10]

"Mummy's boy"??

Perhaps an ancient Egyptian Pole? LOL

See what happens when one writes the same way one hears or speaks!
Lyzko   
12 Sep 2024
Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]

I once sampled some sernik at a Polish eatery in Clifton, NJ,
though not in Poland.

It was certainly acceptable, but not having grown up either in Poland
or even a Polish-speaking household recently over from the Old Country,
I really can't judge, Feniks. You may well be right:-)
Lyzko   
11 Sep 2024
Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]

You're right. Polish women can get angry if they're hungry too! LOL

However, Polish cheese cake can't even hold a candle to New York cheese cake from Junior's!
Just demonstrating a little local pride, Feniks:-)
Lyzko   
11 Sep 2024
Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]

Merely quoting from an ancient Polish saying, political correctness notwithstanding:-)
Lyzko   
11 Sep 2024
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Immigrants simply were brought in to do jobs white, educated Northern Europeans
deemed difficult, dangerous, and dirty.

No mystery there, folks.
Lyzko   
11 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Letterpress and Polish graphic design history [2]

Are there any calligraphy studios nearby? Here in New York City, we have a small enterprise, appropriately called "The Cabinet of Doctor Calligraphy" which specializes in every conceivable type face known to man:-) Check out their website.
Lyzko   
11 Sep 2024
Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]

Good, we're making headway here!

What's your favorite Polish dish?
Mine's bigos.
Lyzko   
10 Sep 2024
Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]

Thanks there, Milo, spot on!
Almost forgot just how usual indeed dill is
in Swedish cuisine, Jansson's Frestelse, for example,
practically a seafood Shepherd's Pie with herring, onions, and potatoes:-)

Polish cuisine though is far more red meat oriented by comparison, I think.
Would you agree?
Lyzko   
9 Sep 2024
Food / Traditional Polish Foods [141]

To me, koperek (dill) tastes and above all smells, as traditionally Polish
as any cooking aroma wafting from a Polish kitchen!

Whenever my wife and I go to a Polish restaurant, we insist on having
our chlodnik with extra dill:-)
Lyzko   
4 Sep 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

I maintain that this frightening, yet predictable, sharp turn to the right is
a result of what many have expressed over the years as a certain "empathy fatigue"
with regard to the mandatory Holocaust education since not long after the end of
WWII!

This combined with Merkel's allowance of seemingly non-stop waves of refugees,
continued under Scholz, has made the average German in areas of the country
pretty hot under the collar.

As in the US, many Germans are simply blinded by issues of race and culture, unable
to think clearly about the ramifications of an extreme right wing leader.

In Germany's case though, the implications are particularly scary.
Lyzko   
29 Aug 2024
Work / Is teaching English the only way for a foreigner to work in Poland? [30]

Ron2,

In a work setting within Europe or Asia among other non-native, English second
language speakers I'd agree! It's sort of like the blind leading the blind really. A
Norwegian manager in Poland for a conference spearheaded by a German,
organized by a French team, won't actually need to know "English", as in reality,
the international language will be some quasi-dialect of "Globish", bearing little resemblance
to the language which authentic North American, even British English speakers recognize as
their native tongue.

As ESL-instructors, we struggle constantly to strike a professional balance, although often the
following is what comes out during classroom interchanges with speakers from any of the above
countries, all assembled in the same room:

Odd: Yeah, back in the day, yeah, I didn't never had many experience with so much foreigners
like in Oslo.

Daniel: Totally! In Germany, yeah, it is like so heavy for manager to maintained a control above
the workers in my department. They speak not often German at the work, even not in English...

Witold: Not really, but in Warsaw, Polish is like language for genius people, so stupid to fxxxking learn Polish
language, because we all talk, like, in English all day...

Having to run interference, so to speak, it next to impossible, much less correct, the myriad mistakes and
vulgarities which pepper their English in the belief that it somehow makes them sound "cool" LOL
Lyzko   
28 Aug 2024
Life / Trying to buy a used car in Poland. Good idea? [6]

Ron, are you referring to the Smartphone App. "Speak & Translate"
which started gaining popularity after the start of the Ukraine war
with thousands of refugees streaming into Poland, Germany, and France?