Lyzko
15 Oct 2023
History / Cars made in Poland - during communist and post-communist times [23]
Thanks for the spelling correction, Alien.
Hmm, that's interesting.
Thanks for the spelling correction, Alien.
Hmm, that's interesting.
Lyzko
15 Oct 2023
History / Cars made in Poland - during communist and post-communist times [23]
To anyone who might know, was the Polonis ever a car label taken seriously outside Poland?
East Germany's oft kidded about Trabant aka "Trabi", never made the transition to a Western Market.
To anyone who might know, was the Polonis ever a car label taken seriously outside Poland?
East Germany's oft kidded about Trabant aka "Trabi", never made the transition to a Western Market.
Lyzko
15 Oct 2023
News / "To understand Poland you must understand Frederic Chopin" (Stratfor Friedman) [74]
Stratfor Friedman's quote is no more apparent than in the hauntingly, almost tear-jerkingly, beautiful strains of the renowned Etude in E-flat, otherwise known as "La Tristesse".
If that isn't the spirit and soul of Poland, Polska z krwi i kosci, I don't know what is!
Stratfor Friedman's quote is no more apparent than in the hauntingly, almost tear-jerkingly, beautiful strains of the renowned Etude in E-flat, otherwise known as "La Tristesse".
If that isn't the spirit and soul of Poland, Polska z krwi i kosci, I don't know what is!
Lyzko
15 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Rich, the '67 War, the so-called Yom Kippur War, ceded the Gaza Strip over to Israel, something which enraged the Palestinian Arabs no end.
Since that time, various leaders have made various allowances, so that now, more of Israel contains non-Jewish, Palestinian settlers than sabarim or Jewish-born Israelis.
@Rich, the '67 War, the so-called Yom Kippur War, ceded the Gaza Strip over to Israel, something which enraged the Palestinian Arabs no end.
Since that time, various leaders have made various allowances, so that now, more of Israel contains non-Jewish, Palestinian settlers than sabarim or Jewish-born Israelis.
Lyzko
14 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
Either side has been unwilling to make the concessions necessary for ensuring peace in the region. Israel demands a "peace with honor", that is, ZERO concessions to Israeli territory, harking back to the days of ancient Judaea as the "promised land" of the Jews. The Palestinians on the other hand maintain that the current state of Israel has no right to exist, a historical, geopolitical as well as intellectual absurdity.
The only solution to the present conflict is for both Israel and the Palestinians to split Gaza or simply concede to the fact that there will always be strife between the two groups.
Either side has been unwilling to make the concessions necessary for ensuring peace in the region. Israel demands a "peace with honor", that is, ZERO concessions to Israeli territory, harking back to the days of ancient Judaea as the "promised land" of the Jews. The Palestinians on the other hand maintain that the current state of Israel has no right to exist, a historical, geopolitical as well as intellectual absurdity.
The only solution to the present conflict is for both Israel and the Palestinians to split Gaza or simply concede to the fact that there will always be strife between the two groups.
Lyzko
13 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Cargo pants,
The crucial difference between the US and Germany is that here in the States, even if one's parents are/were from elsewhere in the world, one is nonetheless considered "American" so long as they were born on US soil!
In Germany, I've known many German-born persons, who spoke only German as well or as native as any "ethnic" German, felt themselves in spirit and nationality as German, yet who were not considered "German " because their parents were born in another country and perhaps never naturalized or became naturalized German citizens.
@Cargo pants,
The crucial difference between the US and Germany is that here in the States, even if one's parents are/were from elsewhere in the world, one is nonetheless considered "American" so long as they were born on US soil!
In Germany, I've known many German-born persons, who spoke only German as well or as native as any "ethnic" German, felt themselves in spirit and nationality as German, yet who were not considered "German " because their parents were born in another country and perhaps never naturalized or became naturalized German citizens.
Lyzko
12 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
In fact, migrants too are human beings and entitled to certain protection as well as daily standards of living.
The problem remains as to why this necessarily must all be done on the backs of the native born US citizen.
In fact, migrants too are human beings and entitled to certain protection as well as daily standards of living.
The problem remains as to why this necessarily must all be done on the backs of the native born US citizen.
Lyzko
12 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
I read the post and there is a degree of truth in it.
The US is by her nature ever so greedy and will indeed stop at nearly nothing in the pursuit of the Almighty Dollar!
If it means outsourcing good-paying US jobs to cheaper, Third World states, so be it, as long as the boss can syphon off more and more funds by depriving his or her employees of the benefits they rightfully deserve if only to support an inflated lifestyle.
In the States, one must almost prove hardship in order to derive even the meagerest pleasures from a hard-won salary. In other countries, especially those in Northern Europe, such pleasures are considered a given for the privilege of working for the respective company.
The latter though can foster laziness and smugness, I will admit. As with most things in life, it's a double-edged sword.
I read the post and there is a degree of truth in it.
The US is by her nature ever so greedy and will indeed stop at nearly nothing in the pursuit of the Almighty Dollar!
If it means outsourcing good-paying US jobs to cheaper, Third World states, so be it, as long as the boss can syphon off more and more funds by depriving his or her employees of the benefits they rightfully deserve if only to support an inflated lifestyle.
In the States, one must almost prove hardship in order to derive even the meagerest pleasures from a hard-won salary. In other countries, especially those in Northern Europe, such pleasures are considered a given for the privilege of working for the respective company.
The latter though can foster laziness and smugness, I will admit. As with most things in life, it's a double-edged sword.
Lyzko
11 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
Apparently, Rich, neither you nor your partner in dis-and misinformation give a f@#$% about facts either, much less truth!
Apparently, Rich, neither you nor your partner in dis-and misinformation give a f@#$% about facts either, much less truth!
Lyzko
10 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
You're confusing apples and oranges, you two! If one looks up the term in a dictionary, one will immediately see both in print (not to mention in common parlance), the use of of a low-wage workforce abroad in less expensive societies in order to perform work normally performed by a native-born employee or employees, as well as the import of said low-wage work force in order to replace native-born workers who would be performing the same task, if solely to save the company money.
This is the up to date meaning of cheap labor.
Quit gaslighting, hair splitting, and continually playing the Devil's Advocate.
You're confusing apples and oranges, you two! If one looks up the term in a dictionary, one will immediately see both in print (not to mention in common parlance), the use of of a low-wage workforce abroad in less expensive societies in order to perform work normally performed by a native-born employee or employees, as well as the import of said low-wage work force in order to replace native-born workers who would be performing the same task, if solely to save the company money.
This is the up to date meaning of cheap labor.
Quit gaslighting, hair splitting, and continually playing the Devil's Advocate.
Lyzko
9 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Cargo pants,
Either you're just splitting hairs or you, like Rich aka Novichok, don't understand English one hundred percent.
I've already explained that the expression "cheap labor" refers to the direct economic effects of runaway outsourcing, not confined to the US, by the way.
What's so bleedin' hard to grasp here, guys?
@Cargo pants,
Either you're just splitting hairs or you, like Rich aka Novichok, don't understand English one hundred percent.
I've already explained that the expression "cheap labor" refers to the direct economic effects of runaway outsourcing, not confined to the US, by the way.
What's so bleedin' hard to grasp here, guys?
Lyzko
9 Oct 2023
USA, Canada / "You have tornadoes in this country, we have graveyards" - What is meant by this statement? [14]
@Alien, I didn't come up with the phrase, I was merely answering Missiontiger as best I could.
@Alien, I didn't come up with the phrase, I was merely answering Missiontiger as best I could.
Lyzko
8 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Rich, either you refuse to understand basic English or your brain's scrambled eggs!
Cheap labor means the import of low-wage Third World labor from certain Asian, Latin American, even formerly Communist nations such as Poland, Ukraine, and Romania, imported essential by figurative boatlift, in order underbid and therefore gradually phase out native born, North American, English-speaking college-educated Caucasians in order to reduce the overhead of having to provide healthcare, decent salaries or comfortable retirement benefits.
It's a pernicious plot and continues to occur in other highly industrialized nations, such as Sweden along with Germany. Incidentally, I DON'T concur with Trump that migrants are somehow "poisoning" the American culture. I do think though that it's odd how some still praise Trump as a business brain nonpareil when this same person spoke openly as president some years back of bringing in immigrants from Scotland or the Nordic countries instead of migrants from "@#$$-hole countries" in Africa or Latin America.
Were the US to follow his advice, the wages for those Northern Europeans would make America unaffordable for the average middle class citizens.
Therefore the US needs those migrants, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle which reinforced the inherent inconsistencies of capitalism as currently practiced in a post-New Deal United States.
@Rich, either you refuse to understand basic English or your brain's scrambled eggs!
Cheap labor means the import of low-wage Third World labor from certain Asian, Latin American, even formerly Communist nations such as Poland, Ukraine, and Romania, imported essential by figurative boatlift, in order underbid and therefore gradually phase out native born, North American, English-speaking college-educated Caucasians in order to reduce the overhead of having to provide healthcare, decent salaries or comfortable retirement benefits.
It's a pernicious plot and continues to occur in other highly industrialized nations, such as Sweden along with Germany. Incidentally, I DON'T concur with Trump that migrants are somehow "poisoning" the American culture. I do think though that it's odd how some still praise Trump as a business brain nonpareil when this same person spoke openly as president some years back of bringing in immigrants from Scotland or the Nordic countries instead of migrants from "@#$$-hole countries" in Africa or Latin America.
Were the US to follow his advice, the wages for those Northern Europeans would make America unaffordable for the average middle class citizens.
Therefore the US needs those migrants, thus perpetuating a vicious cycle which reinforced the inherent inconsistencies of capitalism as currently practiced in a post-New Deal United States.
Lyzko
8 Oct 2023
USA, Canada / "You have tornadoes in this country, we have graveyards" - What is meant by this statement? [14]
I'd tend to agree.
What countries such as Poland or Germany, in fact, most of the European continent have suffered in terms of war, malnutrition or the like, the States have suffered more in terms of natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, not to mention mass shootings on the manmade level.
In terms of the first part, Mr. Grunwald's absolutely correct.
I'd tend to agree.
What countries such as Poland or Germany, in fact, most of the European continent have suffered in terms of war, malnutrition or the like, the States have suffered more in terms of natural disasters, floods, earthquakes, not to mention mass shootings on the manmade level.
In terms of the first part, Mr. Grunwald's absolutely correct.
Lyzko
7 Oct 2023
Lyzko
7 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Rich, "cheap labor" certainly does exist, so for the bazillionth time, quit playing the Devil's Advocate!
Or is your name Gregory and you're simply gaslighting again?
@Rich, "cheap labor" certainly does exist, so for the bazillionth time, quit playing the Devil's Advocate!
Or is your name Gregory and you're simply gaslighting again?
Lyzko
6 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
I reiterate, how should any advanced capitalist society survive, if not through the hire, if reluctantly, of cheap labor?
Most of that needed labor force will be foreign, usually from Third World nations, grateful for the chance to live and work in the US:-)
Why is the world so very different from that of the homogeneous '50's? The answer is because once upon a long time ago, Caucasian Americans were not afraid to learn a trade and work with their hands.
I reiterate, how should any advanced capitalist society survive, if not through the hire, if reluctantly, of cheap labor?
Most of that needed labor force will be foreign, usually from Third World nations, grateful for the chance to live and work in the US:-)
Why is the world so very different from that of the homogeneous '50's? The answer is because once upon a long time ago, Caucasian Americans were not afraid to learn a trade and work with their hands.
Lyzko
6 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Rich, you only dub amiga a "genius" because you happen to agree with him.
@amiga, you seem to be allowing your own pre-set values to cloud your objective judgement.
While we all do this, at least I'm honest about it.
Amiga, Rich and most others here on PF seem to conveniently ignore the simple fact that migrants are the government's answer to cheap labor in order to further a purely post-Reagan capitalist agenda a la Donald Trump! The more non-native born, non-target language speaking, typically darker-skinned low level workers to conveniently misunderstand what native nationals are saying, the more the government profits.
Middle-age to older native Caucasians have slowly proven a serious threat to the ignorant business community at the top who desire nothing more than a "flexible", quick-turnover labor force whom the bosses can merrily, easily hire and fire. usually without having to pay them much of anything, forget about unemployment benefits.
@Rich, you only dub amiga a "genius" because you happen to agree with him.
@amiga, you seem to be allowing your own pre-set values to cloud your objective judgement.
While we all do this, at least I'm honest about it.
Amiga, Rich and most others here on PF seem to conveniently ignore the simple fact that migrants are the government's answer to cheap labor in order to further a purely post-Reagan capitalist agenda a la Donald Trump! The more non-native born, non-target language speaking, typically darker-skinned low level workers to conveniently misunderstand what native nationals are saying, the more the government profits.
Middle-age to older native Caucasians have slowly proven a serious threat to the ignorant business community at the top who desire nothing more than a "flexible", quick-turnover labor force whom the bosses can merrily, easily hire and fire. usually without having to pay them much of anything, forget about unemployment benefits.
Lyzko
5 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
I probably know more about the Swedes than some kangaroo-hugging moron!!
You obviously know nothing about Sweden's post-War history. Have you ever visited Sweden?
I probably know more about the Swedes than some kangaroo-hugging moron!!
You obviously know nothing about Sweden's post-War history. Have you ever visited Sweden?
Lyzko
5 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
What precisely do you mean by "conformist Asians"? Conformist in the sense of complying with societal rules and norms to a far greater degree than, say, the US, is certainly correct.
However, I don't feel they are overly liberal for its own sake. In this way, they are indeed conforming to general changes which have occurred and are presently occurring throughout Europe.
What precisely do you mean by "conformist Asians"? Conformist in the sense of complying with societal rules and norms to a far greater degree than, say, the US, is certainly correct.
However, I don't feel they are overly liberal for its own sake. In this way, they are indeed conforming to general changes which have occurred and are presently occurring throughout Europe.
Lyzko
5 Oct 2023
Lyzko
4 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
Who pressured Sweden into making that decision anyway?
Who pressured Sweden into making that decision anyway?
Lyzko
4 Oct 2023
Lyzko
3 Oct 2023
Love / Question about Polish dating/women [42]
I agree with Lenka!
Although I've been to Poland only once, I do have years of experience hanging out in Greenpoint, Bkyn., and Poles seem much more conservative regarding age and dating.
It might not be looked at twice for a young-20 something woman to be flirting with or even dating a 60-something fella here in the States, but among Polish people, this is still seen as pervy and to put it mildly, disgusting.
I agree with Lenka!
Although I've been to Poland only once, I do have years of experience hanging out in Greenpoint, Bkyn., and Poles seem much more conservative regarding age and dating.
It might not be looked at twice for a young-20 something woman to be flirting with or even dating a 60-something fella here in the States, but among Polish people, this is still seen as pervy and to put it mildly, disgusting.
Lyzko
3 Oct 2023
Lyzko
3 Oct 2023
Lyzko
3 Oct 2023
History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [19]
How right you are, Alien.
Pole 1: Excuse me, mister! Are bathrooms for mixed people of both sex or only one at a time, please?
Pole 2: What you are talking, lady? Both sexes not allowed because we are only one!
American bystander: HUH?????
Translation: The first person wishes to know whether the restroom is a unisex stall and the second person replies that it's actually for men and women. The two Polish speakers understand one another's gobbledygook fluently.
Don't just get me started on LGBTQ or transgender:-)
LOL
How right you are, Alien.
Pole 1: Excuse me, mister! Are bathrooms for mixed people of both sex or only one at a time, please?
Pole 2: What you are talking, lady? Both sexes not allowed because we are only one!
American bystander: HUH?????
Translation: The first person wishes to know whether the restroom is a unisex stall and the second person replies that it's actually for men and women. The two Polish speakers understand one another's gobbledygook fluently.
Don't just get me started on LGBTQ or transgender:-)
LOL
Lyzko
3 Oct 2023
USA, Canada / Cigarettes reach nine dollars a pack in New York [109]
Also remember a nickel for a shine??
Just joking there, Cargo pants.
Also remember a nickel for a shine??
Just joking there, Cargo pants.
Lyzko
3 Oct 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
It wasn't of their own creation though, Rich, that's precisely the point. Sweden, like The Netherlands, Germany and the UK, merely was trying to keep up with their liberal neighbors and lost touch with the constituent base. Swedish voters were talking, but the state wasn't listening. Put another way, the majority wasn't silent, the government was deaf, tone deaf.
Sound familiar? It ought to; Biden's been accused of the same thing and heaven knows, it might cost him '24!!
It wasn't of their own creation though, Rich, that's precisely the point. Sweden, like The Netherlands, Germany and the UK, merely was trying to keep up with their liberal neighbors and lost touch with the constituent base. Swedish voters were talking, but the state wasn't listening. Put another way, the majority wasn't silent, the government was deaf, tone deaf.
Sound familiar? It ought to; Biden's been accused of the same thing and heaven knows, it might cost him '24!!
Lyzko
3 Oct 2023
USA, Canada / Cigarettes reach nine dollars a pack in New York [109]
Way back when I was a senior in college, around 1982, a pack purchased in New York cost $1.10.
Way back when I was a senior in college, around 1982, a pack purchased in New York cost $1.10.