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TheOther   
23 Jan 2013
Travel / Sites with interesting photos of Poland [24]

Thanks for the links; very interesting. Pity that most of my (genealogical) research is within the Poznań -> Tuchola -> Plock triangle.
TheOther   
23 Jan 2013
Travel / Sites with interesting photos of Poland [24]

I found a few here and there, but not a large collection of photos pre-dating WW2 (I was hoping for a digital collection of a Polish state archive or something similar). I usually frequent the web sites of historic postcard dealers, but the image quality there is rather low for obvious reasons.

Thanks anyway!
TheOther   
23 Jan 2013
Travel / Sites with interesting photos of Poland [24]

The best photos can be found on Skyscrapercity.

Pawian, do you know of a good site that offers historic photos of rural towns and villages pre WW2 by any chance?
TheOther   
12 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

They are on another continent and the claims aren't regarded as valid in the world anyway.

Okay, let's try again (since the mods decided to send my last answer to the bin):

Heard Island:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands

Quote: "Another surpassing Mount Koscuiszko is Mawson's Peak on Heard Island, which is 2745 metres high and forms the summit of an active volcano called Big Ben."

The Australian Antarctic Territory might be debatable from a legal perspective (the government of Australia doesn't care, though), but Heard Island is not. That island is unquestionable part of Australia. So, coming back to the original argument... Mt. Koscuiszko is the highest mountain on MAINLAND Australia (as I said already), but it is NOT - I repeat, NOT - the highest mountain of my country.
TheOther   
12 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

I only told you that Mt. Kosciuszko is not Australia's highest mountain, so what's your problem? Aaah, I forgot: Friday night - all Poles and PolAms are drunk... :)

Besides all that it is even the official position of government departments in Australia that Mount Kosciuszko is the tallest peak in the country of Australia:

Oh really?
ga.gov.au/education/geoscience-basics/landforms/highest-mountains.html
(scroll down the page)

I was always wondering about that, how did it come that the largest mountain in continental Australia is named after a Pole?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawe%C5%82_Edmund_Strzelecki#Australia
TheOther   
12 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

Fine, if you insist
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Antarctic_Territory#Recognition_of_Australian_sovereignty
take Mawson Peak on Heard Island instead. Still higher than Mt. Kosciuszko. ;)

FWIW: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains_in_Australia

I guess thats the only language that makes sense for you guys anyway, travel wise at least.

Not only travel-wise. The Latino population is constantly increasing and Spanish is often regarded as the second language already. Offical forms, automated phone systems ... there's always a Spanish version/ option
TheOther   
12 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

Fek, I am so forbearing and always give my morons another chance.

The way you behave is definitely not what one would expect from an adult; and especially not from someone who is claiming to work in the public school system. But I'm sure you know that already...

Unfortunately "experts" in Germany have the opinion that another language before the 3rd grade would overstrain the kids.

In the US, foreign language courses usually start in middle or high school. At the moment they are cutting back everywhere; except for Spanish that is.

Australia's highest peak is named Mount Kosciuszko!

Only mainland Australia. The highest peak is actually Mt. McClintock in the Australian Antarctic Territory.
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

You shunned it and played the ball back to me.

You've asked an Australian what is going on in the heads of the Poles and Germans, you realize that?

as a teacher, I must say your educational progress in this forum amounts to zero

Educational progress through childish insults, moronic nationalism and fascist ideas? Yep, that was always my dream.
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

Any specific examples?

Let's hear something valuable from you first... :)

Seriously, what's your opinion as a Pole? Can you give me some positive examples? Are you guys able to see the similarities and accept your shared history, or is the memory of WW2 still too fresh? What about the young generation? Any real changes in this respect over the past 20 years?
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

You share large parts of your history, both cultures are closely related. That's a good basis, isn't it?
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

When will it be?

When the mods are finally ready to clean up?

Call it national solidarity

LOL! Okay, you are excused. ;)
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

would you please stop making constant references to Germans ... which may be annoying to certain posters.

Sorry, but some of the nutters here need to be annoyed on a constant basis. Ask me again when the ultra-nationalistic BS on PF has stopped and certain people have learned to accept that the Polish version of history is not the only one out there.
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

since you're a big Obama supporter

Nah, not really. It's just that the alternatives were simply unacceptable...
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

Now thats got me scratching my head

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_Act_1986

how are things in the colonies anyway

The colonies downunder are burning, the colonies across the pond still have to endure their stupid politicians. Other than that, things couldn't be better at the moment. :)

...rather than seeing occupiers, partitioners and destroyers as just another part of history to be observed in a neutral way.

Why do you think Poland is something special in this respect? It's not the only country in the world that got raided, annexed or destroyed over the centuries. And the "occupiers, partitioners and destroyers", as you call them, didn't only destroy. They were also settlers who built and enriched Poland. Polish history is much more than WW2.
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

my country was last occupied in 1066.

It took us until 1986 to get rid of the British meddling in our internal affairs... :)

Ive got no judgements on why some Poles may or may not be happy to speak of the *glories* of old Russia or Prussia TBH .

I don't judge either, but sometimes it helps to ask questions.
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

I can see why many Poles shy away from speaking of a Russian or Saxon period etc.

Of course, but isn't that also a sign that Poland still isn't able to deal with its past in a normal manner? Nobody can deny the great influence (positive and negative) that its neighbors had on Poland and her culture, so why try to pretend that there never was a Russian, Prussian or German era in Polish history?
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

Aborigines?

That's why Poles have such a dark skin... ;)

Still, old Blighty always talks about "Roman Britain", "Viking Britian", etc. and sees constructions and developments from those disparate eras as a series of strands woven in the tapestry of their nation today.

Poland should do the same, but before they acknowledge something like "Prussian Poland", "German Poland", "Russian Poland" (just following your wording from above here), hell will probably freeze over.
TheOther   
11 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

but each have established networks of canals used for both inland commerce

Who built most of those canals in Poland?
TheOther   
10 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Is it the time frame or the degree to which it occurred that is more of an influence?

Both, because the number of descendants from one "intermingling" increases almost exponentially over the centuries.
TheOther   
10 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

your assumption that still merely suggests that at some point there was some ethnic intermingling here and there.

Yeah, that intermingling "here and there" lasted for at least 700 years and happened all over Poland.

Do you think Poles and Germans look the same or do you think there are distinguishing features?

Shorter hair maybe? ;)
TheOther   
7 Jan 2013
History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

saying Poland is a Central European country stems from thinking of Poland as "the epicenter of the world"

Why do some people on PF have such a problem to be called East Europeans then? Back to page 1 ... :)
TheOther   
29 Nov 2012
News / Repopulating Poland with Ukrainians? [67]

If Poland will stay away from it then will develope some real economy which is self sufficient and prone to world economy crisises.

Poland is not an island completely untouched by the world economy. To develop a strong economy, the country will need to develop competitive, high-tech products. Exactly the market where western countries (including Japan, Taiwan and South Korea) dominate and are at least 50 years ahead. If Poland isolates herself, she is doomed.