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Posts by Lyzko  

Joined: 12 Jul 2013 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 23 hrs ago
Threads: Total: 45 / Live: 31 / Archived: 14
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Lyzko   
8 Aug 2023
Life / Poetry and Poets of Poland [58]

Can't recall of course the entire verse, but one of them begins "Przez caly, bialy dzionek czekam, az stanie wieczor wiencu gwiazd..."
Have an old CD of Andzej Lapicki reading it in his wonderful rumbling baritone:-)
Lyzko   
8 Aug 2023
Life / Poetry and Poets of Poland [58]

@Rich, you're typically confusing the output of oevre with the man who
created it!
Many of history's most creative beings were indeed either homo- and or bisexual,
but who cares in the long run?

Quite a number of the modern world's most significant contributors, to the arts at least,
were Nazi-leaning, to be sure openly bigoted, such Richard Wagner, D.W. Griffith, Leni Riefenstahl and the
French poet Ferdinand Celine among others, yet few go into paroxisms of rage as they would if they discovered
that someone's gay or lesbian.

Now THAT'S a double standard.
Lyzko   
7 Aug 2023
Off-Topic / A Public Apology [18]

Thank you as well, Paulina-:)
Lyzko   
6 Aug 2023
Off-Topic / A Public Apology [18]

What I posted was crystal clear to all who can read, Rich!
Apparently, it was confirmed by an unbiased, reliable, native-speaking Polish source from someone whom I respect, that women on average in fact did NOT engage in promiscuous sex during Communism in Poland in order to exact favors from the officials.

Then again, there were some exceptions. It seems my former remarks were misconstrued ( as usual!) to be a blanket statement.
Lyzko   
5 Aug 2023
Off-Topic / A Public Apology [18]

After having corresponded with an elderly Polish acquaintance of mine at some length since my last post, I must confess that much of the information which I posited was deemed in large part false!

However, the individual in question admitted that there were sporadic instances of that which I described, but that they were quite few and far between.

This gentleman was a bldg. contractor in Warsaw and someone who was active during the years 1960-1985, during which, he'd have had ample opportunity to experience the Communist system first hand.
Lyzko   
4 Aug 2023
Life / Polish Music. [297]

Far, yes. And yet in the world of opera, messrs. Jan Beczala and, "The Polish Thrush", "The Caruso of the Vistula", tenor Jan Kiepura, were none too shabby:-) Marcella Sembrich was also a Pole, I believe. There were many others as well.

They too sang in multiple languages, by the way.
Lyzko   
4 Aug 2023
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]

"....or something...."??

Or what precisely, Alien? For heaven's sake, man, be specific!

homeland = ziemia macierzynska, ojczyzna
country/place of residence = (za-)mieszkanie
Lyzko   
4 Aug 2023
Off-Topic / What's your connection with Poland? Penpals. [574]

@Alien, if you are living (or studying) and working in Germany, you are residing, at least as we use the term in English:-)

"Wohnhaft" vs. "ansaessig" sein.= [za]mieszkac vs.zyc
Lyzko   
4 Aug 2023
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

Law and justice though, are scarcely the same animal, B.B.! As in 1933, Hitler was viewed by a majority of your fellow countrymen as the absolute necessary expedient for "the survival of the German nation", correct? But "survival" as what?? A society is not a rock, but a collection of thinking beings. What is expedient, even seemingly logical, is not necessarily right. Leave us then never lose our moral compass or we're on our way straight back to the Middle Ages, when the authorities burned a man who dared to be different in a fit of unbridled bigotry. We oughtn't make the same mistakes.

Again, the thinking back in '33 was that anyone anti-Hitler had jolly well better get with the program.....or else. Today, hopefully we have learned from the painful lessons of the past and will adapt in a just (not only legal) manner to the demographic changes of our planet and not revert to the horrors of the last ninety years.
Lyzko   
4 Aug 2023
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

No, that doesn't mean that at all!
All it means, is, that as with those rabid Trump supporters in the US, the anti-democratic AfD along with Neo-Nazi supporters in Germany as well as various other countries in Europe like Hungary, ordinary citizens have long lost faith with the the ideals upon which post-War Europe was based, simply because politicians have abandoned the principles of common sense in favor of an American-style melting pot culture which is plainly out of step with local needs throughout the Continent.
Lyzko   
4 Aug 2023
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

Exactly, Alien! Hoecke and his colleagues are dangerous ideologues who are attempting to slowly dismantle the very foundations of postwar democracy in Germany.

Always more expedient in the short run to take the easy way out of difficult problems. In the long run. history teaches that such is never the right move!
Lyzko   
3 Aug 2023
Life / Polish Music. [297]

Since rock songs especially are usually sung at louder decibels than normal, it really makes little difference in which language someone sings them, they're difficult to understand as it is.

Was at a Nina Hagen concert in New York in the late '80's and she decided to sing s favorite of hers in English called "Dirty Deutschland". She might as well have been singing in Kiswahili for all I could make out LOL
Lyzko   
1 Aug 2023
Study / "MAGISTER" OR "MASTERS DEGREE" - ARE THEY THE SAME? [75]

"Magister" is simply the European equivalent of a US-Master's Degree.
In certain countries, the word is used as the corresponding term of art when referring to a like diploma.

Be apprised that an American Master's is NOT parallel with a European Magister any more than a European PhD is the same as one from an Ivy League university, not by a long shot!
Lyzko   
30 Jul 2023
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

Aehh, the issue at hand is Germany though, not the US. As I thus far have been able to keep abreast of Germany's poltical situation, while the AfD is in fact making its usual inroads in Hoecke's home "state" of Thuringia, Scholz continues to hold a squeezable margin within the broader spectrum of Germany's Parliament, thankfully.

Moreover, Scholz still commands the respect of other European leaders, naturally with the exception of Putin or Orban:-) Furthermore, Biden's way more popular across the board than Trump, in addition, De Santis is about to lose his shirt over that slavery bit.

Stick to the topic please
Lyzko   
30 Jul 2023
News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1301]

I somehow can't imagine that Hoecke could possibly defeat Scholz in the next elections. However, who could have predicted back in '16 that Trump would even be close to his eventual victory?
Lyzko   
28 Jul 2023
Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

Why so defensive here, people?

I freely admit unflattering aspects of the US, among others, what American GI's did to German women after the War aka RAPE, albeit not in huge numbers, I'd imagine.

Highly embarrassing, indeed, shameful....but nonetheless true.
Lyzko   
27 Jul 2023
Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

Paulina,
I can understand your denying the truth. Under extreme circumstances, all of us might be forced to do things which under ordinary circumstances
would scarcely occur to the average person.

Often times, the truth can be embarrassing, indeed painful.