Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

@Rich, while I can't substantiate your experience in Poland
and would scarcely wish to claim you're not being truthful,
unless you were either completely soused on bimber or
were looking at pretty women's skirts (which I could well understand),
I somehow can't believe that you had zero comprehension issues
not speaking Polish in Poland, furthermore, that somehow American
English will become the "second language" there in the future.

Simply put, I think you were on something, dude!

Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [83]

Ideally, you both should learn each other's language,
at least, practice speaking the other's mother tongue.

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

"Glasses", "classes". You rhymed, he-he!

Study / Jagiellonian vs University of Wrocław for a master's degree in English? [15]

Actually, you're right about that!
Although only briefly in Poland, I did notice greater confidence when I
returned home.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [226]

Or how about "niedzwiedz" LOL
(Missing several diacritical accent marks however, sorry!)

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

@Rich, you're either a plain ol' troll or just plain nuts.....or both!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

I couldn't concur more roundly, Miloslaw.

Study / Jagiellonian vs University of Wrocław for a master's degree in English? [15]

The only waste is obtaining a degree of English in a country in which English is not only not
the mother tongue, but more to the point, taught by professors whose first language isn't even
the language in which they are teaching. If the courses are in fact being taught in Polish, this
would seem to defeat the entire purpose of pursuing a degree in English instead of Polish.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

"Sucking up" to whom, pray, Johnny Reb??
Perhaps to the forces of democracy and humanity?
The only brownie points we gain here would be the
satisfaction of having done the right thing against the
enemy of infantile gratification and cynicism!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Scarcely, but rather a return to something resembling FDR's New Deal, although far from perfect.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

And if the majority just happens to be dead wrong??
Germany once thought Hitler was the answer. They turned out to be in error and
as a result paid the ultimate price for their error!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

On the other hand, if what the majority wants is simply flat wrong, bad for the country, objectively speaking,
the government of either nation should intervene and set things right!

Israel's another case in point. Netanyahu's clearly becoming a deficit for his party through his obstinance
and hide bound hawkishness.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Seems to me Germany's pro-migrant policies are placing her in similar danger
to Biden's failed border policies. Scholz wants a place for migrants in the FRG
and the AfD doesn't. Biden wants to integrate Mexicans along with certain other
Third Worlders into the US and Trump doesn't.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

....but not in the NS-past, B.B., therein lies the difference!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Frankly, I don't think the AfD has much of a chance of winning.
I believe most German voters want to live in the present and for
the future, not revisit the past.

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

Right on, Maf!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

@Alien et al, the Church in Germany plays precious little role in
state politics, its local importance in Bavaria notwithstanding.

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

While we're splitting hairs about it.

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [250]

I can't see why of all countries Poland should get involved in the Iran-Israeli conflict.

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

Again Rich, if such is mandated by the local standard, that's where I draw the line. Clear now?
You can't disagree with the facts.

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

Tatoo though is a separate issue! This falls under civil rights discrimination law
which allows for someone to dress as they wish so long as said attire is not
offensive to anyone on the basis of religious, ethnic or social background.

Here in the US, an employer can find themselves in hot water if they fire an
employee based upon arbitrary considerations of either "inappropriate" dress,
even physical appearance.

Right in my state, the state of New Jersey, as of 1990, a person's body odor
was not deemed legal grounds for removal from a public place.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [158]

That's correct, Torq, but only on his mother's side.

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

Indeed, Alien. This was during the 1930's, therefore no longer applicable.

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

@Maf, I think the whole problem, certainly were my own children that age, is that it's being mandated
by the state and this is where the injustice arises.

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

All this is nothing new, people! It's been going on since female impersonators
started making the rounds in theater successfully during the late 19th century,
notable Mme. Sterndale Bennett on the London revue stage around the early 20th century.

Why all the fuss and feathers?

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

Such a sign is clearly racist and ought to be removed post haste!!!

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [158]

@Rich, it's the only reason which makes any sort of logical or rational sense!
No human being, that is, normal sentient being, desires the hatred and emnity
of other human beings. If that particular group suffers such hatred, then common
intelligence therefore dictates that the answer to this lies elsewhere, that is, in the
circumstances rather with the Jews in this case.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [158]

@Rich, the Jews were hated because they refused en masse to convert to any of the local
religions, above all, to Christianity! This is the flat truth and has dogged even the most assimilated
until the present.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [158]

Clearly there are deviants in every facet of life.
There are tragically Jewish non-Holocaust survivors who've lied about
their past for either monetary gain or simply attention.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [158]

Off topic perhaps, but comparing Jewish camp victims and such with Kapos
and lumping them together with self-hating Jews as many have done, is bad
history, bad theory, and empirical nonsense!

Jewish Ghetto police were FORCED into turning against their own at the risk of their
lives, scarcely a thought out, conscious decision.

People too quite appropriately, have excoriated the "Judenrat" which attempted to
make a deal with Hitler in exchange for a letting up on anti-Jewish policies.
Those naively idiotic buzzards, much like Neville Chamberlain, hadn't learned, you
can't negotiate with Nazis.

But what has your post to do in the slightest with what I posted prior?