Language / Harmless old-fashioned Polish swear words/phrases [159]

zalosny piernik = miserable old bastard

News / Should Poland traitors face the death penalty? [105]

Well, as no EU nation to my knowledge has capital punishment (even for a capital offense), why should Poland?

Travel / Are Polish people as unfriendly as Slovaks? [84]

Almost every forum to which I belong has more than its share of rude people! One simply has to deal with such as very best one can, spit out the bile and ROCK ON!!

:-)

Travel / Are Polish people as unfriendly as Slovaks? [84]

You said it.

Travel / Are Polish people as unfriendly as Slovaks? [84]

Brits can be blunt, this is true. The old American adage, "If you've nothing pleasant to say, say nothing!" appears not to resonate abroad for the most part:-)

Off-Topic / American Jew Voice in Poland [93]

I'm not feeding, I'm debunking. There's a difference, you know!

Classifieds / Need an English Teacher in Poland? [3]

Welcome!

I'm curious as to what method you employ. Although I realize it all depends on the level for the most part, I tend to focus on visually rather than textually-driven conversation at the advanced beginner up through intermediate stage, later tapering off to more spontaneous topic discussion.

A textbook is certainly useful as a road map, but never as a "crutch" for poor preparation on the teacher's part.

Be interested in your thoughts!
tarsape@gmail

Off-Topic / American Jew Voice in Poland [93]

For every anti-Semitic Pole, there was a Wojtyla and a Karski to counterbalance. Let's dispense with the Pole bashing already, huh?

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Most Americans outside our major urban areas believe in all good conscience that guns are good, that G-d, guns, and guts are what made America what and where she is today!

Well, I'm sure glad somebody out there's finally taken some blame aka responsibility for our current state of affairs:-)

Travel / Are Polish people as unfriendly as Slovaks? [84]

Although I can't personally speak for Slovaks, as I don't know any, at least not intimately, Polish hospitality is proverbial: "Gosc w domu, Pan Bog w domu!"

:-)

Love / Are Polish men handsome to you? [182]

Wrong film, sorry! I was confusing Lapicki with another actor.
:-)

Love / Are Polish men handsome to you? [182]

True, but those I mentioned had both class as well as (good) looks! Don't know of any Polish film star today with a voice like Lapicki's. Remember his performance in "Kanal"? It still gives me shivers.

And listen to him once read from Iwaszkiewicz' "Vox humana"!!

Love / Are Polish men handsome to you? [182]

I would have, kaprys, but unfortunately Andrzej Lapicki's dead and so's Zbigniew Cybulski:-).

Love / Are Polish men handsome to you? [182]

Many Polish girls once thought Maciej Stuhr was drop-dead gorgeous.

Travel / Why do you visit Poland? [223]

Better German, yet more willingly EnglishLOL
:-)

Study / Studying in Poland without speaking Polish? [15]

Not impossible, of course, only umpteen times more rewarding if you know at least the bread-and-butter basics of the target language in the country where you're studying or working.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

"Corzine was an absolute DISASTER......"

Was "Flim-flam" Florio any the better?
:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

You have a point there, bud. Then again, no one ever said it was gonna be easy!

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

At least Phil Murphy (bless his little ol' heart) unlike Greg Abbott, believes that health care for EVERY American citizen, not merely the Goldman, Sachs crowd, is a bloody RIGHT rather than merely a privilege granted to the self-annointed few:-)

Furthermore, in comparison with the fella he replaced in the running, namely, Steve Sweeney, Murphy learned German when opening up relations with Goldman, Sachs Berlin almost twenty-odd years ago. He also insisted that his team learn German, albeit for convenience. English was the language they ended up using in negotiations.

He seems far-sighted and compassionate, qualities so sorely lacking in the bummy, proletarian bigot Christie!

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

So far as I can tell, Austria has nearly zero issues with gun-related deaths, as it's illegal to own, operate, or purloin such a weapon without a certified license.

Unlike in Texas, Austrians tend to follow rules, not assume they are meant to be broken:-)

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]

And of course, your "preference" would sound ridiculous in English, save for referring to a group of "Polish men" as opposed to women:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

TheOther, on the ground, off the ground, the fact remains that Germans are recalcitrant in believing they can ever find common ground with Syrian migrants, it's just that simple:-)

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Again, there are Kaszubian and Asiatic influences on Poland, in addition to Baltic, Germanic, and of course, Slavic:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Ha, ha! Sarcasm aside, Germany has tried to pawn off THEIR problem on Bruxelles' indifference as though Jean-Claude Juncker were entirely to blame for Europe's present ills.

Come off it!

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

That though I can well understand, the Balts and North Slavs having intermarried throughout the centuries.

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Many foreigners do tend to lump all Northern Europeans together, confusing Poles with Russians, Ukrainians etc.
:-)

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

True, but nonetheless I usually can detect the Poles from the Russians walking down the street of our neighborhood here in New Jersey!

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

...and the Germans see the migrant problem as mainly a foreign affair, not theirs, thank you very much:-)

Rather much like the English calling syphilis the French disease and the French calling it the English disease etc..
There's always enough blame to go around, it's all simply a matter of those lazy bones in Bruxelles finally saying, "Yo, the Euro stops here!"

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Often, what constitutes a so-called "Polish look", is more the bone structure of the face than anything else! Someone can have dark eyes and dark-brown hair and yet still look Polish rather than, say, French, Italian, German, or Spanish, for instance. Poles tend to have distinctively oval faces, and even the women usually have a more squarely-shaped head than certainly in Southern Europe.

Generalizations though are often just that:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Austria, much as Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden, Germany and the US, clearly knows something's rotten in the state of Denmark, but have convinced themselves outright that Sebastian Kurz is the answer to their prayers and the panacea for the problems.

If only real life were all that simple:-)