News / POKO and LGBT lobby is trying to sexualize children in Poland. Now they aim for adoption [120]

Money quote from the link in #55

"In Jargeau [a Nazi internment camp], there were gypsies and homosexuals. We cannot accept that decisions like these are taken, in defiance of human rights."

Not a good look for Poland....

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Especially quiet dignified people being arrested.... or older people, old people vote....

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Personally I have mixed feelings.... on the one hand I'm very glad he's not infecting the public with his.... presence on the other the more votes they can suck away from Duda the better....

I'll also say that at this stage I'm in favor of double K....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

I'm American I never use the q word naturally... it sounds like a weird affectation....

maybe then be behind (a schedule)?

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]


So you would agree that to be a certain nationality one has to follow a certain religion?

Only muslims can be 100% Turks or 100% Egyptian?

Only protestants can be 100% American?

What about English? Only Church of England are "real" English?

It's a very weird idea that falls all apart the second you start poking at it....

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


To stand in line?

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]


I remember those! Students used to refer to a very religioius person as oaza (plural oazy)


when abortion was made illegal it was against the will of the majority...


I certainly don't feel like an outsider and people have spoken about intensely personal topics with me (really soul-baring kinds of things) but I can count the number of times people have brought up about religion on one hand and have some fingers left....

I think there is a minority of intensely religious Poles (apparently you're one of them) and a larger groupt that are catholic to the extent that they're anything (want to get married in church and have their kids baptised etc) and a group that will say they're catholic if you ask but don't necessarily follow any aspect of the faith...

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]


Sounds like nonsense to me.... IME most Poles are just not that religious.... (I'm used to american evangelicals so I have a high bar).

For at least the last 70 years or so (and I suspect much longer) the strongest expressions of catholicism happen in a political not spiritual context...

Poles, unlike Americans ime, almost never talk about or think much about religion... and many/most certainly don't follow church doctrine in their everyday lives very closely.

How would you propose to make the distinction in Polish? Ihor jest polski ale nie Polakiem? Sounds awkward... Minh jest polska ale nie Polką? Even worse...

Could someone (in your taxonomy) be a Pole but not Polish?

History / Saint Virgin Mary Queen of Poland crushes the Red Army [66]


It sounds like you're trying to introduce the Rosjanin/Russki distinction of Russian (citizen of Russia vs ethnic Russian) into Polish... Why? Has such a distinction ever existed?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


the US version is:

You can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy.

For 'country' you can substitute lots of things.....

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


It's an urban legend..

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner#%22I_am_a_doughnut%22_urban_legend

News / Is the Polish-Polish war ending? Is the PiS-PiS war beginning? [14]


Only if one faction decisively wins (as in gets Banaś to resign)... otherwise it just makes them all look crooked....

News / Why is Poland so hostile against Germany? Do they realize how their reparations rubbish damages relations? [510]


Germany doesn't really do synthesis.... it chooses a direction and goes full steam ahead until it hits a brick wall.


As one friend put it, it was less 'reunification' of two parts similar if not alike in dignity and more 'complete absorption' of a weaker organism by a stronger one.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


someone somewhere = ironside

no one else uses that word anymore

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Too traumatized... if you believe certain rumors....


Nothing, it's just what some under-educated people say when they can't think of anything else....

Law / Parental Child Abduction (Indian man married to Polish wife) [32]


I've seen him referred to as Moroccan (many, many, many Moroccans live in Belgium) no word on if he has Belgian citizenship....

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Yank =/= Yankee
The first is used by Brits to refer to Americans (mostly if they look down on them)

Yankee, a person (usually white) from the Northern United States.... (esp great lakes area and over to the northeast)

Yankees don't necessarily share values of white southern culture (hospitality, proper manners, aristocratic pretensions, various kinds of social hierarchies etc) and have their own values (self-sufficiency, ingenuity, egalitarian civic duty etc).

Westerners have their own things going on (more rootless, with a tendency toward alienation and other stuff).

How do you define Poles vs Czechs apart from language and latitude?

News / Dodgy PRL-holdover judiciary finally reformed [420]


Probably because many are worried about suspected (or known) Jewish ancestry themselves...

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Please define that term in clear words or stop using it, it's tiresome beyond belief.....

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


give it a rest...... the USSR ended in 1991 and the only people longing for the PRL reliably vote for PiS.... no one who votes for any other party (except maybe Konfederacja) has any nostalgia for the PRL...


Said the person who doesn't support them...

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


When did that happen?


Pożegnanie po lichocku!

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


It's important to not play that game with them... they will waste all your time...

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


Maybe you and he both missed this....


presumably you're both literate and can read or do you want him to chew it up and spit it into your mouth like a baby bird?

Genealogy / What does my Polish name mean? [402]


More Czech, actually (and Czech Silesia is a thing and there's no Slovak Silesia) some quick googling find Babiks in the USSR, Czech Republic and Poland...

History / Poland - problem for Germany? (historically continual hostility of German state on Poland) [154]


you should just stop there and it's funny enough... the rest was overkill...

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

from a diehard supporter of the "vote for us if you want free money!" party?

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


he knows the inner workings of a country he chooses not to live in... it's a short step from that to reading minds...


narcissistic rage (a relatively mild version) in the min of a narcissist anyone who doesn't worship them is the enemy...

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]


...are not easily comprehended by someone who chooses to not live in Poland.

News / Presidential elections 2020 - your opinions about campaign, candidates [2222]

Yeah, you're right.... F*KK cancer patients!!!! Who cares about those losers when there's a propaganda arm of the government that needs (more) funding?