Lyzko
29 Oct 2024
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 12 [728]
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Lyzko
29 Oct 2024
News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]
Perhaps to understand Russia, the chorus from Borodin's "Prince Igor", for example speaks equivalently to the
Russian melos. Then there's always "Vyechernii dwoni" or "Evening Bells".
Perhaps to understand Russia, the chorus from Borodin's "Prince Igor", for example speaks equivalently to the
Russian melos. Then there's always "Vyechernii dwoni" or "Evening Bells".
Lyzko
29 Oct 2024
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 12 [728]
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Lyzko
29 Oct 2024
Travel / Looking for a new long-term stay in Poland [18]
@Evada, do yourself and the rest of your neighbors a big favor by learning the basics of the language
PRIOR to arriving in Poland!
Poles on average, much as we here in the US, are growing just a wee bit tired of foreigners coming
to our country with zero knowledge of the target language.
In this case, your knowledge of Polish need scarcely be perfect, even fluent, but it shouldn't be non-existent.
You can't always rely on English to get by:-)
@Evada, do yourself and the rest of your neighbors a big favor by learning the basics of the language
PRIOR to arriving in Poland!
Poles on average, much as we here in the US, are growing just a wee bit tired of foreigners coming
to our country with zero knowledge of the target language.
In this case, your knowledge of Polish need scarcely be perfect, even fluent, but it shouldn't be non-existent.
You can't always rely on English to get by:-)
Lyzko
28 Oct 2024
Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 12 [728]
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Lyzko
23 Oct 2024
History / BEATS OF FREEDOM - A HISTORY OF POLISH ROCK MUSIC [108]
In an interview with Roman Polanski, he mentioned that when he
was making "Noz w wodzie" in 1962, jazz was in fact forbidden in Poland
and the director had to negotiate with aka bribe the Polish authorities in order
to allow him to include the jazz soundtrack in the film which gave it its special
bite and cool flavor.
Freedom to follow yet a different beat, so it seems!
In an interview with Roman Polanski, he mentioned that when he
was making "Noz w wodzie" in 1962, jazz was in fact forbidden in Poland
and the director had to negotiate with aka bribe the Polish authorities in order
to allow him to include the jazz soundtrack in the film which gave it its special
bite and cool flavor.
Freedom to follow yet a different beat, so it seems!
Lyzko
19 Oct 2024
Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [222]
The Jews, the Israelis, are no worse than anyone else,
but certainly no better!
So much for the Chosen People, Holier than Thou BS.
The Jews, the Israelis, are no worse than anyone else,
but certainly no better!
So much for the Chosen People, Holier than Thou BS.
Lyzko
18 Oct 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
If a Gaza deal somehow is brokered upon the death of the Oct.7th mastermind,
it might put Kamala over the top!
A Deus ex machina she surely needs.
If a Gaza deal somehow is brokered upon the death of the Oct.7th mastermind,
it might put Kamala over the top!
A Deus ex machina she surely needs.
Lyzko
15 Oct 2024
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [171]
Linguistically correct assumption, jon.
Linguistically correct assumption, jon.
Lyzko
14 Oct 2024
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [171]
Right, Maf!
Polish, German, and other languages have such a distinction, English hasn't.
Right, Maf!
Polish, German, and other languages have such a distinction, English hasn't.
Lyzko
14 Oct 2024
Lyzko
12 Oct 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
How about the American thought police??
What d'you people call Ultra radical Right wing radio??
How about the American thought police??
What d'you people call Ultra radical Right wing radio??
Lyzko
10 Oct 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
@Pawku, Kamala's winning and it looks as though Pennsylvania will really tilt the odds:-)
@Pawku, Kamala's winning and it looks as though Pennsylvania will really tilt the odds:-)
Lyzko
5 Oct 2024
Study / Studying in Poland without speaking Polish? [15]
If the instructors are native, educated English speakers, somebody
from the States, the UK or Australia could study a subject in Poland
taught by a native speaker of their mother tongue, no brainer.
However, for a Hausa native speaker from Nigeria with English only
as a second, perhaps third, language to expect to profit from going to,
say, Poland or Germany or wherever on the continent of Europe to study
in a language NOT their own, and taught by a professor whose native tongue
isn't English either, seems to me the stuff of high comedy...and the joke is on
the foreign student!
If the instructors are native, educated English speakers, somebody
from the States, the UK or Australia could study a subject in Poland
taught by a native speaker of their mother tongue, no brainer.
However, for a Hausa native speaker from Nigeria with English only
as a second, perhaps third, language to expect to profit from going to,
say, Poland or Germany or wherever on the continent of Europe to study
in a language NOT their own, and taught by a professor whose native tongue
isn't English either, seems to me the stuff of high comedy...and the joke is on
the foreign student!
Lyzko
28 Sep 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [412]
@Johnny, I've been arguing the same point for years now and it's
already moot!
Your ilk has all but forgotten that in life, you don't do twenty-four seven
just what you want to do, but what you HAVE to do...or else.
Every movement has its downside. Yet pre-Civil Right, non-white Americans,
tax paying citizens, many of whom fought and fought proudly in the Big One,
didn't even have library privileges in certain states, much less the basic freedoms
they enjoy today.
You're mired in the same prejudices as the rest of America. You're deafened, dumbed down,
and sheer blinded by the race issue.
By the by, Bloomberg has Harris ahead as well and the last time I fact checked, Bloomberg
News is an independent, indeed Centrist to Right leaning, news agency.
@Johnny, I've been arguing the same point for years now and it's
already moot!
Your ilk has all but forgotten that in life, you don't do twenty-four seven
just what you want to do, but what you HAVE to do...or else.
Every movement has its downside. Yet pre-Civil Right, non-white Americans,
tax paying citizens, many of whom fought and fought proudly in the Big One,
didn't even have library privileges in certain states, much less the basic freedoms
they enjoy today.
You're mired in the same prejudices as the rest of America. You're deafened, dumbed down,
and sheer blinded by the race issue.
By the by, Bloomberg has Harris ahead as well and the last time I fact checked, Bloomberg
News is an independent, indeed Centrist to Right leaning, news agency.
Lyzko
28 Sep 2024
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [412]
According to this week's NYT, Scholz just won a victory against the encroaching AfD
in Saxony and Thuringia! As Europe is slowly turning Left once again, this seems to
dovetail with Harris' steady lead over Trump!
I hope people are getting tired of the same ol' reactionary song and dance about
stray foreigners taking over white collar jobs etc.
While there may be some degree of statistical truth to such a claim, it's no reason
to turn the clock back pre-Civil Rights and a return to the bad old days.
Moderation, not extremism either Right or Left, should remain the watchword.
According to this week's NYT, Scholz just won a victory against the encroaching AfD
in Saxony and Thuringia! As Europe is slowly turning Left once again, this seems to
dovetail with Harris' steady lead over Trump!
I hope people are getting tired of the same ol' reactionary song and dance about
stray foreigners taking over white collar jobs etc.
While there may be some degree of statistical truth to such a claim, it's no reason
to turn the clock back pre-Civil Rights and a return to the bad old days.
Moderation, not extremism either Right or Left, should remain the watchword.
Lyzko
24 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Polish Music. [249]
I still prefer Old timer jazz, boogey-woogey, "The Duke" Ellington, some early Beatles,
Paul Mauriac "Love is blue" (L'amour est bleu) and a whole bunch of antedelluvian hits:-)
I still prefer Old timer jazz, boogey-woogey, "The Duke" Ellington, some early Beatles,
Paul Mauriac "Love is blue" (L'amour est bleu) and a whole bunch of antedelluvian hits:-)
Lyzko
23 Sep 2024
Lyzko
22 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]
@Milo, an insult by its very nature consists of besmirching someone's
intelligence, intellect etc. without one scintilla of proof.
Thus far, you've provided none whatsoever!
As far as my comments are concerned, they're the result of both careful research
along with observation over many years of travel and study, both here and abroad.
@Milo, an insult by its very nature consists of besmirching someone's
intelligence, intellect etc. without one scintilla of proof.
Thus far, you've provided none whatsoever!
As far as my comments are concerned, they're the result of both careful research
along with observation over many years of travel and study, both here and abroad.
Lyzko
21 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Polish Music. [249]
I'd have to concur!
Is Metallica popular in Poland, by the way?
Just curious.
I'd have to concur!
Is Metallica popular in Poland, by the way?
Just curious.
Lyzko
21 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]
Well, Milo, "idiot" for starters surely doesn't bode well for constructive communication, does it.
Who do you think you are anyhow, Novichok aka Rich aka Ryszard??
Well, Milo, "idiot" for starters surely doesn't bode well for constructive communication, does it.
Who do you think you are anyhow, Novichok aka Rich aka Ryszard??
Lyzko
20 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]
@Milo, I happen to agree with jon on this point.
Nevertheless, the fact that you disagree is no reason to start calling me names!!
@Milo, I happen to agree with jon on this point.
Nevertheless, the fact that you disagree is no reason to start calling me names!!
Lyzko
19 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]
Famous last words there, jon! How idealistic!
Famous last words there, jon! How idealistic!
Lyzko
19 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]
@Milo, if you can hire a Somali as opposed to a Polish welder, the average
capitalist/industrialist will clearly go for the former.
This trend developed once again when the male offspring of white welders
decided they would rather study instead of work with their hands their whole
lives.
During the immediate post-Industrial Revolution, round about the late 19th century,
relatively few ethnic Europeans actually attended university compared to those who
didn't!
This meant that only the elite in society either attended or graduated successfully from
a prestigious university/college, both in the US, the UK or the European Continent. The
rest who were less academically oriented were channeled, so to speak, into manual labor,
factory work or craftsmanship. The result was a high standard of workmanship which fueled
European society for generations to come...that is, until roughly around the years following
the end of WWII.
As capitalist bosses were permitted to give unbridled vent to their inherent greed, quality, much less
"fairness" in hiring eventually took a back seat to the expedience of cheap labor from non-white countries
in order tor the top 1% to save a few bucks by eating filet mignon off of gold plates while would-be native-
born precision laborers from Britain, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherland were pushed aside.
@Milo, if you can hire a Somali as opposed to a Polish welder, the average
capitalist/industrialist will clearly go for the former.
This trend developed once again when the male offspring of white welders
decided they would rather study instead of work with their hands their whole
lives.
During the immediate post-Industrial Revolution, round about the late 19th century,
relatively few ethnic Europeans actually attended university compared to those who
didn't!
This meant that only the elite in society either attended or graduated successfully from
a prestigious university/college, both in the US, the UK or the European Continent. The
rest who were less academically oriented were channeled, so to speak, into manual labor,
factory work or craftsmanship. The result was a high standard of workmanship which fueled
European society for generations to come...that is, until roughly around the years following
the end of WWII.
As capitalist bosses were permitted to give unbridled vent to their inherent greed, quality, much less
"fairness" in hiring eventually took a back seat to the expedience of cheap labor from non-white countries
in order tor the top 1% to save a few bucks by eating filet mignon off of gold plates while would-be native-
born precision laborers from Britain, Germany, Sweden, and the Netherland were pushed aside.
Lyzko
19 Sep 2024
Lyzko
18 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / What was the point when Europe stopped being all-White? [66]
Obviously, this trend began long after the end of WWII, in all
likelihood during the end of the so-called economic miracle,
post 1965 and the demise of the Adenauer Era, when Southern
Europeans, especially from Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece, were later
followed by Turks, Nigerians, Vietnamese, and Somalis.
As native Germans, Dutch, Swedes, Danes and even white Brits, felt themselves
too educated to work with their hands, perform dangerous factory labor etc. as their ancestors
had done for generations since the Industrial Revolution, the need arose to "import" cheaper
wage, non-white foreigners from any number of developing nations, eager as anybody to earn
more than merely a living wage in the West.
It's all simple capitalist economics, gang!
Obviously, this trend began long after the end of WWII, in all
likelihood during the end of the so-called economic miracle,
post 1965 and the demise of the Adenauer Era, when Southern
Europeans, especially from Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece, were later
followed by Turks, Nigerians, Vietnamese, and Somalis.
As native Germans, Dutch, Swedes, Danes and even white Brits, felt themselves
too educated to work with their hands, perform dangerous factory labor etc. as their ancestors
had done for generations since the Industrial Revolution, the need arose to "import" cheaper
wage, non-white foreigners from any number of developing nations, eager as anybody to earn
more than merely a living wage in the West.
It's all simple capitalist economics, gang!
Lyzko
18 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Polish Music. [249]
All I meant was that I was temporarily unable to recall their names:-)
All I meant was that I was temporarily unable to recall their names:-)
Lyzko
17 Sep 2024
Off-Topic / Polish Music. [249]
Not sure right off the top of my head, but apparently,
there are more of them the I thought:-)
Always knew certain "modern" Polish classical composers
such as the late Krzysztof Penderecki and others were a
frequent staple at concerts.
Not sure right off the top of my head, but apparently,
there are more of them the I thought:-)
Always knew certain "modern" Polish classical composers
such as the late Krzysztof Penderecki and others were a
frequent staple at concerts.
Lyzko
17 Sep 2024
Lyzko
17 Sep 2024
Language / Older Polish Exclamations/Swears [14]
Recently re-watched the movie "Wesele" from the mid-'00's and it
sounded as though every other word were some crass curse word.
Same as when watching a movie in English from around the early sixties
compared with a similar movie nowadays. The language is nearly unrecognizable.
Recently re-watched the movie "Wesele" from the mid-'00's and it
sounded as though every other word were some crass curse word.
Same as when watching a movie in English from around the early sixties
compared with a similar movie nowadays. The language is nearly unrecognizable.