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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   
30 May 2017
Love / Do Polish date Spanish people [50]

"Matrimonia italiana", a concept made into a movie with Mastroiani and Loren in the early sixties. Illustrates this point completely.
GREAT film too!
:-)
Lyzko   
28 May 2017
News / Polish diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski has died [53]

More bilge from the far "wrong"LOL Brzezinski was raised a good Catholic and has zero Jewish or non-ethnic Slavic roots whatsoever. Because you dislike someone, is calling them a "Jew" equivalent to an insult??! Who's a racist now?

:-)
Lyzko   
28 May 2017
History / Polish hero discovers Jewish roots [25]

Christianity's roots ARE Jewish, Ironside, remember Jesus?? Therefore, you don't know what you're talking about:-)
Lyzko   
27 May 2017
History / Polish hero discovers Jewish roots [25]

Perhaps why until today, Russians will ask someone for their "nationality" as separate and distinct from their "ethnicity":-) And not only in Russia. In Germany up until the past ten years maybe, someone born in Germany of foreign-born parents was not considered of German "nationality"! In the US, the opposite is true.
Lyzko   
27 May 2017
News / Polish diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski has died [53]

Clearly, this thread shows that one is never a prophet in their own times...they must often wait for posterity to judge them by their rightful merits.
Lyzko   
27 May 2017
News / Polish diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski has died [53]

The Good Samaritan remains one of the more disquieting parables in Christianity, sadly, often used in order to justify anti-Semitism, as Jesus is said to have excoriated the Hebrews for not reaching out to help the man, whereas the Samaritans did:-)

More fuel for the fodder.
Lyzko   
27 May 2017
News / Polish diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski has died [53]

That's it, revile Brzezinski for being a good person. His father too, like with the late Jan Karski, was a bona fide humanitarian, when it gave the least in remunerary return, yet counted most in terms of spirit. Here's to the spirit of the real Christian ethic, May she live on in those who dare walk in their footsteps. Tough act to follow, folks!
Lyzko   
27 May 2017
History / Polish hero discovers Jewish roots [25]

Right! Even today in Russia, or at least during the Soviet period, Jews had different passport markings than Russian non-Jews:-) Almost similar to Britain, where once certain British subjects had a different status from other citizens, e.g. Pakistani-Brits vs. ethnic, home-born English etc.
Lyzko   
27 May 2017
History / Polish hero discovers Jewish roots [25]

Who's threatening anyone?? Oh, you mean "threaD"! There you go, devoicing againLOL

Why is defending Jews "racist", while defending Christians isn't. To be frank as well, your logic really escapes me sometimes.
Lyzko   
27 May 2017
History / Polish hero discovers Jewish roots [25]

Hmmm, let's see now. The Jews have been in Poland since roughly the 11th century or thereabouts and barely since 2017 is there this gradual widespread "Jewish revival" of traditions and cultural symbiosis all over the place, breaking out like nobody's business???! Well, the thousandth year's always a charm:-)
Lyzko   
27 May 2017
News / Polish diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski has died [53]

Much appreciate the update, jon! No, I didn't know that. I couldn't agree more. He was good people and, from a personal perspective, a true friend of the Jews,
Lyzko   
27 May 2017
Work / South African wants to move to Poland, please provide some input? [59]

While the average South African can hold their own in English, much the same cannot be said across the board for the Poles:-) Although the Dutch are of course another matter entirely, Warsaw ain't Amsterdam (and believe me, they don't even try), therefore learning at least basic Polish would be more or less a must:-) That'll also help out lots with jobs, digs and stuff like this.

Powodzenia, mate!
Lyzko   
12 May 2017
Love / Just started dating Polish guy - what is typical of a man from Poland? Cultural differences. [78]

As already posted, Poles of either sex tend to be frank to a fault, blunt as a spoon, even for a first encounter, and usually make no bones about expressing themselves along with the necessary obscenities (particularly in EnglishLOL), LIKE IT OR NOT!!!

Older Poles, over fifty-sixty onward especially, will typically be far less "in your face", as the saying goes, albeit nearly as opinionated as regards politics and national culture:-)

I once dated briefly a Polish woman shortly after grad school, and was struck by how straightforward she was in comparison with American women especially.

There was no warming up in the bull pen, so to speak, and I noticed that even in Polish, she seemed to dispense with the small talk right from the start.

Unlike Swedes, Dutch, and Germans though, she was never hurtful, rude or errantly nasty, merely impatient like a child, almost demanding simple answers to complicated, above all, often highly personal questions.

Wish to emphasize here, I'm only speaking from my own limited experience first hand.
Lyzko   
8 May 2017
Food / What Polish foods do foreigners generally not take to? [139]

In general, Polish food I've had, both here and in Poland, is quite a salty affair:-) Northern Europeans do love their fat and lard to a far greater degree than the Italians, preferring (the healthier) olive oil.

Probably, most of the authentic Polish specialties would have to be "Americanized" to suit US health requirementsLOL
Lyzko   
29 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

"Free" speech need not automatically mean hate or purposely offensive speech! What folks quickly forget is that people such as Ms.Coulter, the Bell curve author, Murray etc. is that the latter are merely freeing up the airwaves in order to polute OUR space with their pestilent garbage!!

Speech can be free, but only so long as THEY are calling the shots. I'm perfectly happy to listen calmly to their point of view and then proceed to tell them just as calmly where they're mixed up:-) What's wrong with that? Seems fair.

lol
Lyzko   
26 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

Thanks, Delph!

POLSAT'S good and on YouTube I will occasionally try to watch and listen to parliamentary debates. My enemy is simply time:-)

@NoToForeigners,

One of our greatest English authors, Joseph Conrad, became a master stylist in the English language, yet by all accounts spoke English with such a thick Polish accent, he sometimes dumbfounded listeners! Moral here is that whereas I make grammatical errors in my writing, you'll probably never know how good my speaking is!
Lyzko   
26 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

It so happens that I understand as much in Polish news broadcasts as you do of CNN or BBC! I can't speak for Delph or others:-)

Perhaps not up to the quality of "Do Rzeczy" or "Rzeczpospolita", but I read the "Nowy Dziennik" on a weekly basis and have little difficulty grasping the main idea.
Lyzko   
26 Apr 2017
News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]

You seem to have an opinion about everything else, why shouldn't Delph have a chance as well? He's usually interesting and literate, present company excludedLOL
Lyzko   
17 Apr 2017
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

Does the 'n+ soft sign' belong in "Twoich urodzin.."?? I remember recently writing to a Polish acquaintance and she corrected it with a normal 'n':-)

Just curious. Guess every language has it's own hard and fast rules regarding spelling.
Lyzko   
13 Apr 2017
UK, Ireland / What can I say/do about my Polish neighbours in the UK? [65]

Xenophobic prattle harms all of us, Joker! Had you, say, moved to Turkey for instance, and continued practicing your "heathen" British ways, such as walking about in casual wear into a mosque, allowing your wife/girlfriend to walk onto a holy site uncovered, joking about the scowling omnipresent visage of Ataturk all of the place (which remains forbidden under penalty of fine or incarceration), don't you honestly think your overwhelmingly Turkish neighbors might strenuously object and be quite vocal about it??!
Lyzko   
13 Apr 2017
UK, Ireland / What can I say/do about my Polish neighbours in the UK? [65]

Once more, Joker, the Poles don't have a monopoly on playing loud music etc.
A tough call, but if ringing them doesn't work, knocking on the door of their flat doesn't either, then the note inside the lift idea might do the trick:-)