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.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Rich, Sweden has simply been bending over backwards for far too long, trying in vain to accomodate Third Worlders in their society.

A backlash is only natural. This is a direct result of the demeaning of Western culture by lefties going back to the Woodstock Era. Everything Asian or African is "cool", everything white European is "suspect".

History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [19]

I mean that certain of those Polish actors who spoke their lines in German had such faulty German accents that it was difficult to understand them if one were a native German speaker.

Frequently, people speaking a second language will be better understood by other foreigners, in this case Poles, than by those whose first language is being spoken by the foreigner in question.

I remember Polish acquaintances in Berlin speaking German with native Berliners and being told that their pronunciation was sometimes difficult to make out. However, the others at the table from different European countries seemed to understand the Poles perfectly:-)

Life / Life in Poland for Indians !!! [55]

I know, Cargo pants! It's called "Hollylodz" LOL

Life / Life in Poland for Indians !!! [55]

Upon thinking it over, I suspect being from just about anywhere, but having the right amount of money, will sweeten the pot just a little.

Suddenly, the most reviled foreigner in Poland, such as new arrivals from India, will be treated quite differently if it turns out they're a Bollywood star!

Surely it's no different here in the US.

History / German Sprache aka speech in Polish films [19]

Absolutely correct, Alien!
In certain older Polish movies, especially from the forties, Polish actors were cast as Germans and spoke German properly but with horrible Polish pronunciation, on occasion, barely comprehensible to German speakers.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

However, Swedes DO indeed care how safe Sweden is, one of many reasons why their country has slowly become so reactionary!

Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]

With what then is your mythical figure "armed", Rich?
With firearms alone.....or with common sense as well?

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

As the poet said, "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
Mankind never changes, the world changes around it!

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Try it, Rich! I dare ya.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

How come? Afraid you might learn something?

USA, Canada / Moving To Michigan - Help Required [27]

Quit playing dumb. Or perhaps you are not playing after all

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Our size for one thing. Our heterogeneity for another.

News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]

Poland is a relatively homogeneous society, albeit a large country by European standards.
Certain countries such as the US or Canada can easily absorb large numbers of immigrants;
Poland is not one of them!

USA, Canada / Moving To Michigan - Help Required [27]

Flint has been having her problems over the past thirty odd years.

USA, Canada / Moving To Michigan - Help Required [27]

Marlenka,
Get ready though for some culture shock!
G.B. Shaw once quipped that the US and the UK are two countries separated by the same languageLOL
I actually know of someone who moved from the Midwest to Poland some years back and found the cultural differences far less than she thought, perhaps because more random Poles are somewhat more familiar with US popular culture through the Internet, social media and so forth, than the average American would be with Polish pop culture. This individual is not of Polish descent, by the way.

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]

@gumishu,
Just because the fella's a Communist, doesn't mean he's Jewish! Were Stalin, Georgi Dimitrov, Tito, Ceaucescu or Kadar Jewish?
You're jumping to a false conclusion.

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]

Ethnocentric bilge! All language is relative and cannot be quantified subjectively in terms of "ugly" vs. "pretty", "dumb" etc..Your opinions are simply a mirror of your own true feelings, all colored by (negative) personal experience.

You're merely reading into a language how you personally wish to read into it.

To each his own, I suppose.

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]

Why, Rich?

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

Since the current royal family is essentially of German descent, small wonder that the Poles continue to be seen as interlopers and cheap-labor workforce.

Ever since Albert married Victoria, the Windsor line has become hopelessly intermingled with Saxe-Coburg and later Battenberg aka Mountbatten:-)

The British House still feels it must live down the shame of Edward abdicating the Throne to marry Wally and showing himself a Nazi sympathizer, in the same category as the Mitfords, Lord Haw-Haw, Mosely and the whole bleedin' bunch!

Travel / Poles as tourists in foreign countries [93]

Bravo, Maf. Spot on, sir!

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Rich, you're being idiotic. You're using extreme examples which are so far fetched, they truly beggar comment.
The threat of harm to any would be intruders is usually more than enough to frighten them away.

You merely believe that somehow guns make you a manLOL

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Things rarely are as they seem, Cargo pants!
One if the many problems in the US is that traditionally, folks throughout most of the country tend to take things solely at face value.

Americans as a whole are still uncomfortable with reflection, rumination, contemplation, mistakenly confusing any sort of thoughtful, heaven forbid intellectual, consideration as pure mental masturbation, period.

If we all thought more and felt less, acted more and reacted with reduced knee-jerk action, we'd be a lot better off.

One of the reasons so many people are petrified, and justifiably so, about being judged by a "jury of their peers", is that most of the peers are morons who rush to judgement, only to find out the accused died in vain.

UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]

Resentment of your motherland, shouldn't be used against your children who seek to understand their ancestral culture.
Your problems with Poland in the end are YOUR problems, not your kids':-)

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2237]

Trouble is, Rich, that far too many folks reach first for their gun, shoot first, and ask questions later.

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]

Kazimir ("Casimir") Funk pioneered uses of the vitamin supplement.

UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]

You're playing he Devil's Advocate again, RIch!
Let's try a little equal opportunity bullying, huh?
Why discriminate and not include the rest of our posters?
:-)

UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]

@Rich, did you ever receive my private mail I sent you the other day?
Or did you ignore that one too, claiming you couldn't understand my English.

"....where my English COMES up short." (simply rather than progressive present).

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]

The first of the "English" royal families, the Plantagenets, was of Norman or French origin.
Geoffrey Chaucer was English-born with French as his mother tongue.
Great Britain was of course entirely Celtic (with some Picts thrown in for good measureLOL)
prior to the arrival of the Angles and the Saxons, thereafter the Normans.

UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]

Language interference is natural!
Anybody who's been away from their first or native language for a certain amount of time is going to begin thinking and reacting in the second language.