News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

For the same reason Poland openly rejects the separation between Church and state!
The US makes a big deal about the separation between the two, while repeatedly appointing
Supreme Court justices such as Comey Barrett who imposes her antiquated views on abortion.

You tell me why, Poloniusz.

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Sorry, pal, but even I know the difference between the genitive masc. singular for
names as opposed to the feminine "KopernikOWA"!!!
Geez, give me a little credit here.

News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

Incorrect, Johnny Reb! I was never unemployed, nor was I ever a flower power hippy,
but rather a New Deal Conservative Dem, and proud of it!

I rejected the Woodstock Era, still do, and was always the model of button-down Babbit-like
respectability on our college campus.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

At least the Chanukkah candles were eventually lit, and properly, by the Chief Rabbi of Poland!

News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

Ahemm, Meathead was a twenty-something, unemployed ex-hippy who
belonged to the flower power generation!

I am a late fifty-something product of older parents with Depression-Era, New Deal
values shaped by collective suffering as well as the Greatest Generation of WWII,
NOT by a bunch of Haight-Ashbury teens who got knocked up behind some cabbage
patch, buster.

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

?? I didn't get the joke, sorry.

History / Poles should apologise to Ukrainians first [487]

The Poles though were often seen more as accomplices to brutality rather than
methodical instigators of such crimes!

Had there been no German-sponsored Holocaust, Jedwabne and Kielce would never have
happened, as there would have been no leader to follow. Those Polish participants were
mimicking the Nazis, yet without that role model, I don't believe the Polish government would have
planned such an atrocity out of the badness of their hearts.

This is why it angers me so to read about "Polish Concentration Camps".

News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

I'm no Meathead, but of the two, the show's
producer and head star, Carrol O'Connor, were
no fans of Archie, believe me. Face it, the
man was pitiful, much like the Curtwood Smith
character on "That 70's Show".

News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

That's true, Novi, and therefore worthless.

News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

Convoluted, twisted illogic usually does to druggies, dead heads, and other mental lightweights, Joker.
Take a hint?

News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

'Course he has, Torq.
He's PF's latest answer to Archie Bunker...and dang proud of it too!

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

B.B. relax, don't have kittens, will ya? Mach dich doch nicht nass, Kinder!
Pawian as well. Kopernikus is a Pole to the Poles, but a German to the Germans,
same with his home town, Torun or Thorn? You pick.

Hey, the French claim Chopin, whilst he WAS born in Zelezowa Podolia,
and therefore Polish by birth:-) His whimsically passionate, ever capricious
themes though, e.g. his Etude in E flat, is pure, unadulterated Polish and can
bring tears to one's eyes.

History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

I forgot Kopernikus.

News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

Foreign names are usually Polonized, e.g. Jerzy Waszyngton etc..

News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

General Friedrich von Steuben, a German, too fought FOR the
Americans in the Revolution, against the Redcoats!

Work / Favourite English textbook (to learn/teach from)? [13]

As a teacher, I find this a most interesting thread.
Thanks, all!

Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [128]

In what era were you raised, Rich?
Go back to your cave and wait for post-Cro Magnon Man to finally emerge LOL

Love / I want to marry a polish girl . I am in middle east now i am single [21]

Reminds me of that old TV joke about the man who advises that
his little girl date a young man who is forthright, yet demure, cultured,
yet with a practical side, straight on, yet with a kindly twinkle in his eye,
to which the man's best best friend reminds him, "Felix, it's against the law
to date your own daughter!"

Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [128]

Indeed you can, pawian. I say, go for it!

Life / Polish women who made amazing careers against patriarchal society [128]

Going back even much, much further, if
you include those outside the realm of politics, for example
Mme. Curie (nee Sklodowska).

Life / History likes to repeat itself in Poland - Where does this famous saying come from? [19]

Maybe a spin on Santayana's oft quoted sentence?

Off-Topic / The Pope has officially approved the blessing of same-sex couples [60]

Agreed, much like Wojtyla, though the latter was far more conservative.

Off-Topic / The Pope has officially approved the blessing of same-sex couples [60]

@MrGrunwald, are you speaking here perhaps of Mosaic vs. Talmudic Law?
@Rich, as always, I cannot grasp the meaning of what you're trying to say,
although knowing you, it must be something vile about me and hence embarrassing
about you.

Off-Topic / The Pope has officially approved the blessing of same-sex couples [60]

The Pope is technically correct!
Who decides who lives whom or who should pray to G-d
other than the person themselves?

G-d hears ALL of our prayers. Pat Robertson ought to have been ex-communicated
when he once said to the crowd that "G-d doesn't hear the prayer of a Jew!"

To whom else would the late hate preacher have closed G-d's ears?? Jews, gays, Communists...,all non-Christian believers??
Absolutely shameful!!

Off-Topic / You guys are wrong [11]

So I guess that makes you a Pole rather than an American.

Off-Topic / You guys are wrong [11]

That's often the way it was, Alien.
Polish Jews were never as assimilated as, say, German or French Jews.
Anyway, there can never be a truly "universal" language, above all English,
as there still is no truly universal thinking system, thank the Lord!

There'll always be some sort of cross-cultural interference whenever two
interlocutors seek to communicate with one another in a language not their
own.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Sounds like something a reactionary US Republican would say too.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Most commit suicide strictly for personal reasons.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Irresponsible?? How so?

Off-Topic / You guys are wrong [11]

Interesting that a Polish-born Jew, Prof. Zamenhof, should have been the one
to envision a universal language.