Lyzko
1 Nov 2018
Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]
What makes you say that? Is reality uncomfortable to you?
What makes you say that? Is reality uncomfortable to you?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I'm traif, sue me:-) He-he!
My tevilin-wearing grandfather was a pork-eating German Jew who LOVED bacon and pigs knuckles.
Lyzko
30 Oct 2018
Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [61]
I'm there, maf, just serve it up and I'll come a-runnin'.
I'm there, maf, just serve it up and I'll come a-runnin'.
Lyzko
30 Oct 2018
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.
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.
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
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!
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:-)
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
27 Oct 2018
Lyzko
27 Oct 2018
Po polsku / Wolności słowa w Polsce nie ma?? [93]
Exakt, Jaskier!
@Spike31,
IPN-Ustawa jest, ale Duda tekst wreszscie zmienil.
Exakt, Jaskier!
@Spike31,
IPN-Ustawa jest, ale Duda tekst wreszscie zmienil.
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"??
Choc ja byla zmienila, jak tlumaczysz IPN-Ustawe Prezes'a Dudy przed rokiem? Czy to bylo wlasnie "wolnosc slowa"??
Lyzko
25 Oct 2018
Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]
Thought so. Didn't seem like much of a stretch either. Thanks!
Thought so. Didn't seem like much of a stretch either. Thanks!
Lyzko
24 Oct 2018
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?
Wonder whether "Khan" of "Genghis Khan" might have a connection with the identical Arab surname "Khan", such as "Ali Khan".
Any ideas?
Lyzko
24 Oct 2018
Lyzko
24 Oct 2018
Lyzko
24 Oct 2018
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.
Nor am I completely.
What's the alternative though? Surely a person's ethnic origin can be traced somehow.
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.
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]
"Pure " anybody's a lotta manure, period.
"Pure " anybody's a lotta manure, period.
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:-)
'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
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.
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
24 Oct 2018
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!
Bavarians certainly have.
Check out an older photograph of the director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. A born Munchner, his face looks almost Circassian!
Lyzko
21 Oct 2018
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.
Forty-five and twenty-nine's hardly a Lolita complex:-) Such relationships are much more common than most of us imagine.
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.
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.
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
18 Oct 2018
Genealogy / Polish surnames of Hungarian / Ruthenian / Rusyn origin [14]
Makes as much sense as any explanation. Thanks, DominicB!
Makes as much sense as any explanation. Thanks, DominicB!
Lyzko
17 Oct 2018
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.
I suppose that my family name 'Pajdo' must therefore be possibly Goral, perhaps Slovak, in origin.
Lyzko
29 Sep 2018
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
??? Sure you're playin' with a full deck, pal??
lol