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SeanBM   
20 Jan 2010
Life / Poles are not racist [873]

some white guys will not like him because he has a popular job whilst not even being Polish!

You really are an idiot of the highest order, I am actually impressed how stupid you are.
Just thought i would let you know.

Dariusz

It's the people they let into Norway these days from Poland that worries me the most.
SeanBM   
20 Jan 2010
News / Green electricity in Poland [41]

Or the Russian's pushing up prices or circumventing Poland with its pipeline, showing the lack of solidarity in the E.U.
SeanBM   
20 Jan 2010
News / Green electricity in Poland [41]

I thought it might have highlighted the issue.

Like Russia's power supply, these threats put it in the public's eye.
SeanBM   
20 Jan 2010
News / Green electricity in Poland [41]

By whom?

Natural disaster.

Over 27,500 people in the southern regions of Silesia, Malapolska and Lubelszczyzna are deprived of electricity as a result of extreme winter conditions.

thenews.pl/national/artykul123971.html

People going without electricity, it has been going on for a while.
They sent in the army but snow and rain, freezing etc... there is not much they can do.

And remember electricity means heating, so people have been in, what is it now? minus 11 with out central heating for about a week!!!
SeanBM   
20 Jan 2010
News / Green electricity in Poland [41]

Poland is expected to increase its total wind power capacity 26-fold by 2020,

Is this not so Poland won't be so dependant on Russia's supply?

Or is it because so many people now do not have electricity because it has been cut off?

They are meant to build a nuclear power plant in Lithuania, good luck with that, it'll happen but I won't be around to see it and it'll be a disaster.

They have already closed the current one in Lithuania in preparation.
SeanBM   
20 Jan 2010
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

There is no common courtesy except that you don't kick someone in the nuts or steal their stuff or bone they're girl friend the rest is just whimsical.

WHAT???
It seems I have some apologising to do...This could take a while.
SeanBM   
20 Jan 2010
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Travelling is not enough.

Apparently not.

The only country that I have been to that lacked even their own form of polite behaviour was Cambodia. That was interesting though as I had a local man's knowledge of how the Khmer rouge had turned the society upside-down and they lost many aspects of their traditional behaviour. But even with that I met many friendly and welcoming Cambodians.

A huge one here in Poland is the "hand shake", when there are ten people in the place, You shake all of their hands, everyone must take off their gloves and it can not happen through a doorway.

In Lithuania there was the opposite behaviour, if you were conversing with a friend and some of that person's friends came over to say hello, they would completely blank you every time. They don't know you, so that's that.

I don't think most Poles are rude, except Harry is very rude.

Harry is not Polish.

He was born in Australia but claims no nation as his own.
SeanBM   
20 Jan 2010
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

As regards saying "thank you" after food, I have noticed, what I consider unusual (for me) behaviour here in Poland.
If I am eating in a public open space fast food restaurant, at the same table as someone else who is completely unknown to me and have never even exchanged words with.

As they finish and get up to leave they thank me (in Polish, of course).
I asked some people here why they do it, as it is not done in Ireland like that and I was informed that they were just thanking me for having eaten with them.

Apart from gross generalisations, I also think that cultural differences are at play here.
Some of you have been saying how well travelled you are and are implying that you know what is common courtesy and what is not. I would suggest reconsidering what you think you know and open up to different possibilities.
SeanBM   
19 Jan 2010
Life / Poles are not racist [873]

at least most are.

So you have met all Poles.
That's strange because no Polish people I know have mentioned you.
SeanBM   
18 Jan 2010
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

So why the "I hope you are rich" comment?

A joke, I feel silly having to say that to you but there you have it.

I had seen the commercial, which I found mildly amusing and certainly nothing to complain about.

So what?

which I am free to state - this being a country that believes in free speach

Included in that freedom of speech is the right for your Polish girlfriend and her kids not to say ''thank you''.

Surely a more constructive stance from Poles would feel they are not rude would be stating something along the lines of "you're right, that was rude" or "we aren't all like that" or to explain your culture in some way?

You assume too much, I am not a Pole.

Instead of jumping up and down feeling vitimized or abusing me and questioning my level of eduation.

Again that post about statistics was meant as a joke.

Listen you have been reading these comments and taking offence, I think practically all of them were in jest. You are new to this forum and probably have not noticed that this is page 12 of this thread (it's long) so when someone again comes on here complaining, I just joke with them.
SeanBM   
18 Jan 2010
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Explaining what you have already written. I understood it the first time, I even posted the commercial because it seemed you were unaware of it and then you explained what you had already said.

By the way in what part of England (you are English aren't you?) is it considered polite to go onto a public forum complaining that your Polish girlfriend and her kids have no manners and then jump to the conclusion that all Polish people have no manners?
SeanBM   
18 Jan 2010
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

Apparently you can buy a sense of humour!

I hope you are rich.

I live down the road from Pcim and it was a bank advertisement for WBK.
SeanBM   
18 Jan 2010
Life / Do you think that Polish people are rude? [951]

a family being invited for a meal and none of them offering a word of thanks

Maybe the meal was dreadful and they were being polite by not saying anything.
SeanBM   
10 Jan 2010
Work / Teaching English in Zakopane, is it safe? [45]

Warning against sects one characteristics of which is a display of certain signs.

I also photographed some of those signs.

Their leaders dress in robes, and the encourage other men and women to join them, work for them, wearing robes with hoods, and give all their money to them. Obsessed with sex too.

I can't help but notice that your avatar is on the 'Symbole Zła' warning poster.


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SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Contrary to common legend, the bagel was not created in the shape of a stirrup to commemorate the victory of Poland's King Jan Sobieski over the Ottoman Turks in 1683.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagel#History
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Me too.
And according to Wiki Jews brought them to America and now you can even get them in space :)

In modern times Canadian-born astronaut Gregory Chamitoff is the first person known to have taken a batch of bagels into space on his 2008 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.[9] His shipment consisted of 18 sesame seed bagels.

/wiki/Bagel#History
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Bagels are not a Jewish food. Only in the US they think it's Jewish. In Israel it's looked at as an American food.

Ha, I never knew.
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

This next video shows some of the above footage but then shows the Jews with armbands and bringing their furniture across the Pilsudski Bridge, Kraków, obviously after the German invasion.

There is sculptings of chairs at Plac Bohaterów to commemorate the Jews bringing their furniture and leaving all of it there, as they were brought to Auschwitz, at the other side of that bridge now, where the Jewish Ghetto was and Schindler's factory, now a genocide museum.

So I guess they had no warning by the looks of it.
Saluting Krakow Jweish הצדעה ליהודי קרקוב



And here is Nazi German occupied Krakow.


SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

a couple like that would usually become more Polish and less Jewish. But it was still rare.

And visa-versa, Isn't karp a Jewish dish?
I had my first bagle when I came to Poland first, 8 years ago.
In fact isn't much of Polish/Jewish cuisine similar?

Any time people sell paintings on the street here in Krakow, there are always Jews in some of them, making it seem that the two were not as separate as it has been previous stated on this thread. I know we were talking about having kids together but with mixing comes mixing, if you know what I mean ;)

1938-9 Jewish Life in Cracow (Kazimierz)
...

The Jews in the above film look very happy and relaxed in 1938-9. How much of a warning did they have that they were going to be slaughtered by an invading force?

(sorry I know that is a bit off topic but I can't help ask when I see the year).
SeanBM   
5 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

however were organized one great nation

I agree, the Roman Empire was the second biggest the world had ever seen at that stage in history.

under many gods

Weren't the Roman Gods also an almost exact copy of the Greek Gods?

who were a broken people for the most part often waging war on eachother.

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle philosphers that changed Europe forever.
And don't forget ancient Greek drama and the theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece between c. 550 and c. 220 BC. for which we would not have such classics as "M jak Miłość" today ;)

The Romans were the ancient version of the borg. They took what they could use and threw away the rest.

I agree of course that the Romans expanded upon what the Greeks were doing. their thirst for conquest was much more than the Greeks and with every new land they conquered, they also got technologies and more "Romans".

Until the late 19th century there was no social mixing between Jews and Poles.

What about during and after the 19th century?
SeanBM   
4 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

For once i have to agree with Sokrates.

You two do agree on this.

Thats only because you dont know what a caste society Poland was

I think that is the truth.

astrological dating.

Thanks, I will have a look.
I have been trying to find something for a while that was legitimate on this subject.

Romans were the ones who popularised crossbows, boarding ships the way it was done to 19 century, they were the first to invent the concept of law in its modern style, public schools, they were the first to get serious about masonry and ironworks.

This is a bit off topic and would be a very interesting topic on it's own.
but I am still not buying in to it 100% :)
SeanBM   
4 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

They invented or popularised concepts that became basis for our civilisation

That is a bit sketchy, I mean as you we already agree, the Romans copied the Greeks. And it can be argued that all peoples improved upon this.

It is a bit subjective, that's all.

Tiahuanco

The area around Tiwanaku may have been inhabited as early as 1500 BC as a small agriculturally-based village

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiwanaku

Baalbec

The history settlement in the area of Ballbek dates back approximately 9000 years,

I do have an interest, so perhaps you could point me in the right direction.

Genpol for one but there's more out there, Poles are the most homogenous people in Europe, this is of course not a natural state but rather an effect of German genocide and Russian ethnic policies.

This is also heard in the language, Poland being the only country I know with so few dialects.
But homogenisation, I believe came from moving Polish people around Poland. it is impossible, given Poland's geographic location and having been invaded and having had an empire that their genes would not represent all of the different peoples involved, don't you think?

Yep the huge issue is however that they lived alongside Poles not with the Poles.

Ah come on, things have changed but not that much, kids especially have always been falling in love :)

Jews today are quite angry over the fact that Poles did not mourn the passing of Jewish minority but the fact is Jews secluded themselves to a point that a Jewish family living next door could as well live on the other planet.

It feels like that sometimes in every city living in an apartment complex.

I know what you are saying and I personally have mixed feelings about how Jews lived in other countries. On one hand it is astounding that Jews kept their culture and beliefs alive without having a country for so long but on the other hand it appears they were not diplomatic enough and segragated themselves causing hostility with the Aboriginals of the places they lived.

If you have these kinds of cultural bariers then interbreeding is going to be very rare,

I am still sticking with the kids will be kids theory :)

Sure there were cases when Rabbi Moshe fell in love with Kasia next door or Piotrek fell in love with Sara the Jewish waitress but these were rare and the relationship coming to fruition even rarer.

And what about some Jewish lad, just intergrating, it would have happened too, no?
I can't imagine that every single Jewish person in Poland kept to themselves in regards to sex. Just look at the women here :):):)
SeanBM   
4 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Celts came here around 3300 years ago, Ceide Fields predate them by over 2000 years, like i said agriculture in Europe existed long before Celts ever arrived.

Yes, you are right.
I was also talking about preCeltic civilizations.
I just disagree that the Romans were the first civilisation in Europe.

I never said they were the first i just said they were our (European) mother civilisation,

Ah, well as far as Philosophy, was it not the Greeks?
Mother Civilisation, you are going to have to expand upon that.

the oldest city in the world is over 12.000 years old and f*cks up our history so they're by far not the first.

I always wonder about inter-ice-age civilizations but i can't find anything on them.

Genetic science disagrees with you sorry, more then 98% of Poles dont have any Jewish ancestor,

Where'd you get that from?

I would imagine that many Poles have Jewish blood but I have no data to back that up.
Just the fact that so many Jews were here for such a long time.
I know you are saying they didn't mix but that can't be true unless it was a renforced law with severe penalties. Young ones on a Friday night and all, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, say no more :)
SeanBM   
4 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9ide_Fields

whatever the Romans did not invent but simply adapt they spread it around the world

It was a huge civilisation at the time but that does not mean they were the first by a long shot.
SeanBM   
4 Jan 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Celts were however underdeveloped when compared the Romans, Romans came with all the advancements of a modern civilisation while Celts while being conquered only started to be an urban civilisation with all the trimmings.

Say what? The Celts were living on the islands, just because the Romans called us barbarians and Hadrian built that wall doesn't mean you have to believe the propaganda.

The problem with these civilisations is that they came and went without living a lasting imprint,

I would argue that too.
The Celts in Poland., they brought agriculture to Europe, one of the biggest steps out of the dark.

Rome managed to become the first truly modern civilisation and introduced concepts and ideas that were the foundation of all European nations and states.

The Romans copied the Greeks.