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Ironside   
19 Jul 2010
Genealogy / Polish-Ukranian roots and genes [72]

Tatar Haploids which are found in about 64% of the Polish population. Haplotypes are elementary genetics.

could you elaborate, please ?
Ironside   
15 Jul 2010
Food / What is your favorite Polish Vodka? [653]

And who can explain to my neighbour-drunkard what is the difference between illegal cheap russian vodka and degradation of russian nation?

tell him that alcohol is evil ........i know :(
Ironside   
11 Jul 2010
Law / Poland's going forward while Britain is still trying to wake up [86]

No more than the Jews

Jews had at last fresh start.......anyway it easy to be wise I wonder how would any-so-proud-and wise- nation-from-the western part- of European peninsula would have looked like after 40 years of soviet reconstruction???/

Its all speculations thought !

I-S ( well)
Ironside   
9 Jul 2010
Po polsku / Stereotyp Polaka brutala, gbura, antysemity? [67]

cokolwiek, widać, że od dawna nie masz kontaktu z polszczyzną!
Nie wiem zresztą, czy masz dostęp do polskich książek, jeśli tak, to na początek polecam klasykę - Polska Piastów i Polska Jagiellonów Paweł Jasienica!
Ironside   
2 Jul 2010
History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

The guys

Well, it all a very nice but I fail to see political elite or any other having impact on the way Poland is govern.
Ironside   
1 Jul 2010
History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

How does anything get started?

By the work of chosen few. So, called elite is what Poland is lacking!
Ironside   
30 Jun 2010
History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

And merrily emulating me :)))

only form not content :)

I-S ( well, I respect you although I often disagree with you)
Ironside   
30 Jun 2010
History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Poles should promote more what they have and what they have done rather than seeking to emulate anyone. Play to its strengths if you will :) :)

I concur, idea of emulating somebody else is a very strange concept, reeking of complexes and self-doubt.
The reasons of Polish weaknesses is complex and cannot be remedy by some copying, anyway who would execute it?
Polonius I'll be blunt - its nonsense!

I-S (simple)
Ironside   
30 Jun 2010
Life / SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT POLAND AND POLISH SOCIETY [297]

DEAR FRIENDS

Dear friends Su and Moo
I have read your troublesome observation or confabulation and I would like to inform you that after careful consideration I come to the conclusion that I don't care about it at all.

regards
I-S
Ironside   
30 Jun 2010
History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Jews may argue amongst themselves but usually present a solid front to the outside world.

Its valour of religious minority believing itself superior.
Ironside   
17 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]

Thats a bit of a low punch PLK,

he is joking and you are taking it thick.
Should be :

Nobility as English or French would understand was called in Poland

Ironside   
17 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Is your line of the Polish family noble? [74]

Quite frankly, I find it fascinating that so many people hope to find "nobility" in their ancestry.

You thinking in terms of English nobility - money wise.
In Poland nobility was term extended to about 10% of the population not necessary landed or rich.
For a sake of better understanding instead of nobility or feudal, one should think in term of citizenship, Polish noble it first of all citizen of his country with rights and privileges unlike the others residents of Polish Kingdom!

Citizen not unlike Roman Citizen in the Roman Empire.
Nobility in English or French was called in Poland - magnate, lord or aristocracy!
They were indeed money wise - pity it was lost.
Ironside   
16 Jun 2010
Study / Rumor about racism - will I be fine in Poland as a black International student from Africa? [245]

Hmm Poland,a good place bro.

why?

But you have to be careful of those polish racists calling you ***key cuzz you are black or spitting at you.

not nice

Yesterday monday 14,June 2010,I was walking with my polish girlfriend and a woman just walked past us and said my girfriend is stupid bcos she's going out with a blackman.

What wrong with it?
Ironside   
16 Jun 2010
History / Poles as Iroquois of Europe [42]

I don't quite understand what Bismarck meant when comparing the Polish to the Iroquois.

destined to extinct ?
How about that one ?
Ironside   
15 Jun 2010
History / Poles as Iroquois of Europe [42]

Not necessary Bismark, it could be one of those freakish Prussian leaders.

No it was Frederick

I'm last to argue about it!

Prussia and its army were inseparable, but Prussia was also renowned for its efficient, incorruptible civil service; its innovative system of social services; its religious tolerance; and its unrivaled education system, a model for the rest of Germany and the world. ...

Yeah modern crap - totalitarian state - in XIX century but a first step, could be seen as advanced.

lark, a Cambridge historian, suggests that the world is poorer for Prussia's absence.

Sure, nothing new there Britain supported Prussian state from the very being of an upstart. Anyway one lark make no difference!

"Freakish" huh? Your education seems to have been freakish...

What it has to do with education? Its my a very own conclusion.......
tell me that state school is good and progressive and I will call you freakish mass production of an misconception as was Prussian state !