Lyzko
15 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
Sounds like something a reactionary US Republican would say too.
Sounds like something a reactionary US Republican would say too.
Lyzko
15 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
Most commit suicide strictly for personal reasons.
Most commit suicide strictly for personal reasons.
Lyzko
15 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
Irresponsible?? How so?
Irresponsible?? How so?
Lyzko
15 Dec 2023
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.
Interesting that a Polish-born Jew, Prof. Zamenhof, should have been the one
to envision a universal language.
Lyzko
15 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
@Przelotnyptak1, no, a person who denies reality and has faschist tendencies!
The Donald too denied reality behind the convenient "fake news", when the news
hit home too hard for his easily bruised, petty ego.
@Przelotnyptak1, no, a person who denies reality and has faschist tendencies!
The Donald too denied reality behind the convenient "fake news", when the news
hit home too hard for his easily bruised, petty ego.
Lyzko
14 Dec 2023
Lyzko
14 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
You must be a Trump supporter.
You must be a Trump supporter.
Lyzko
14 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
Couldn't agree more. Sounds a lot like an op-ed I read in this morning's NYT about
how US-college campuses free speech codes are essentially meaningless.
Couldn't agree more. Sounds a lot like an op-ed I read in this morning's NYT about
how US-college campuses free speech codes are essentially meaningless.
Lyzko
14 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
@Maf, reviled or not, it's nearly the same as with the Jenninger speech before
the German Parliament; his colleagues uniformly shook their heads in shock, yet
the questionable impression remained for years!
@Maf, reviled or not, it's nearly the same as with the Jenninger speech before
the German Parliament; his colleagues uniformly shook their heads in shock, yet
the questionable impression remained for years!
Lyzko
13 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
Never once suggested that Braun represents a majority of Poles, thank G-d!
However, it's not too dissimilar to that Philipp Jenninger chap in the German Bundestag,
oh way back in the late '80's, whose flip comments on Hitler's rise being quite understandable,
caused shock waves throughout the country like you wouldn't believe.
We heard the same thing back then, e.g."Jenninger doesn't represent present German values.." etc.
Let's hope this fella Braun just a crackpot anomaly.
@That's right, Rich. Make the perp a victim and the defender a criminal. Nice one.
Never once suggested that Braun represents a majority of Poles, thank G-d!
However, it's not too dissimilar to that Philipp Jenninger chap in the German Bundestag,
oh way back in the late '80's, whose flip comments on Hitler's rise being quite understandable,
caused shock waves throughout the country like you wouldn't believe.
We heard the same thing back then, e.g."Jenninger doesn't represent present German values.." etc.
Let's hope this fella Braun just a crackpot anomaly.
@That's right, Rich. Make the perp a victim and the defender a criminal. Nice one.
Lyzko
13 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
@Paulina, I do indeed know the difference
between the government and the Sejm, as I'm aware of
the difference between your president vs. your premiere!
That doesn't change the simple fact that Braun believes he's
acting in the interests of his country which is a pretty pathetic
commentary on Poland.
@Paulina, I do indeed know the difference
between the government and the Sejm, as I'm aware of
the difference between your president vs. your premiere!
That doesn't change the simple fact that Braun believes he's
acting in the interests of his country which is a pretty pathetic
commentary on Poland.
Lyzko
12 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
Braun is a member of the Sejm, yes?
Well then, according to my logic, he is a representative
of the Polish gov't.
I trust though, that his values do not in any way represent Polish
national values.
Braun is a member of the Sejm, yes?
Well then, according to my logic, he is a representative
of the Polish gov't.
I trust though, that his values do not in any way represent Polish
national values.
Lyzko
12 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
@Crnogorac3,
Jews have been living in Poland since approximately the 13th century, albeit
not amicably, until nearly 600 years after the fact, nonetheless, side by side
with their Christian brethren. Polish Christians and their Jewish fellow citizens
influenced one another in both cuisine as well as culture. Practically in no
other European society was the symbiosis as complete as in pre-War Poland.
For someone who represents the Polish government to engage in such a
despicable stunt, such a hateful message, not to mention in the end anti-
Christian, indicates a mental disorder.
It doesn't take a shrink to figure that one out!!
@Crnogorac3,
Jews have been living in Poland since approximately the 13th century, albeit
not amicably, until nearly 600 years after the fact, nonetheless, side by side
with their Christian brethren. Polish Christians and their Jewish fellow citizens
influenced one another in both cuisine as well as culture. Practically in no
other European society was the symbiosis as complete as in pre-War Poland.
For someone who represents the Polish government to engage in such a
despicable stunt, such a hateful message, not to mention in the end anti-
Christian, indicates a mental disorder.
It doesn't take a shrink to figure that one out!!
Lyzko
12 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]
So let me understand something. This fellow Braun extinguished the Hanukkah candles with a
fire extinguisher because he felt such a ceremony had no place in the Sejm??
If so, he really is a cretin and should be hauled up on charges of anti-semitism!
So let me understand something. This fellow Braun extinguished the Hanukkah candles with a
fire extinguisher because he felt such a ceremony had no place in the Sejm??
If so, he really is a cretin and should be hauled up on charges of anti-semitism!
Lyzko
9 Dec 2023
Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]
Nearly every education system with which I'm familiar
will naturally reflect those cultural, not to mention religious,
values with which their pupils will be imbued.
Nearly every education system with which I'm familiar
will naturally reflect those cultural, not to mention religious,
values with which their pupils will be imbued.
Lyzko
9 Dec 2023
Lyzko
8 Dec 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Przelotnyptak,
Seemed to have missed something here. Not all Arabs are jihadists any more than all Israelis
are haters of all Palestinians. Meier Kahane is long dead, thank heaven.
@Przelotnyptak,
Seemed to have missed something here. Not all Arabs are jihadists any more than all Israelis
are haters of all Palestinians. Meier Kahane is long dead, thank heaven.
Lyzko
7 Dec 2023
Lyzko
7 Dec 2023
History / Good enough for British - Joseph Conrad? Poland-born novelist. [30]
Noteworthy indeed that Conrad's mother tongue was Polish when one reads what he was able to compose so beautifully in English.
While there are many such examples of multilingual writers who often wrote in a language not their first language, such as Beckett, Nabokov,
Czeslaw Milosc, Josef Brodsky and others, it's nonetheless astounding.
Noteworthy indeed that Conrad's mother tongue was Polish when one reads what he was able to compose so beautifully in English.
While there are many such examples of multilingual writers who often wrote in a language not their first language, such as Beckett, Nabokov,
Czeslaw Milosc, Josef Brodsky and others, it's nonetheless astounding.
Lyzko
6 Dec 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Przelotnyptak, would you have wanted the Nazis to have taken out their axes to destroy
YOUR people??
@Przelotnyptak, would you have wanted the Nazis to have taken out their axes to destroy
YOUR people??
Lyzko
4 Dec 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Maf, it depends on whom you talk to.
The Swedish press is obviously not thrilled about having them there.
Yet, I've heard other reports from Swedes with no particular axe to grind!
@Maf, it depends on whom you talk to.
The Swedish press is obviously not thrilled about having them there.
Yet, I've heard other reports from Swedes with no particular axe to grind!
Lyzko
3 Dec 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
As I've explained countless times, Rich, Sweden is a highly industrialized country,
with a low birthrate, which is desperately in need of foreign labor as there is so little
homegrown work force left as there was in former times.
Somalis seem to fit the bill; they're cheap, they often know English from their home country,
and they're willing.
Actually, I met someone from Somalia here in Fort Lee who was visiting
with his friends from Stockholm. After I addressed him in Swedish, he replied
rather embarrassed in halting English, telling me that while he was expected to
at enroll in an informal, FREE Swedish language course sponsored by the Swedish
gov't., people flat refused to speak to him in Swedish and so was forced to speak English lol
As I've explained countless times, Rich, Sweden is a highly industrialized country,
with a low birthrate, which is desperately in need of foreign labor as there is so little
homegrown work force left as there was in former times.
Somalis seem to fit the bill; they're cheap, they often know English from their home country,
and they're willing.
Actually, I met someone from Somalia here in Fort Lee who was visiting
with his friends from Stockholm. After I addressed him in Swedish, he replied
rather embarrassed in halting English, telling me that while he was expected to
at enroll in an informal, FREE Swedish language course sponsored by the Swedish
gov't., people flat refused to speak to him in Swedish and so was forced to speak English lol
Lyzko
27 Nov 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Rich, China and Japan are a essentially monoracial, culturally homogeneous societies,
quite in contrast to those multi-ethnic. highly industrialized countries such as Germany or the US.
However Japan has a limited immigration culture, all but exclusively from Korea and Southeast Asia,
who by all accounts are treated as were the traditional "wetback" Mexican here at home.
China is a tremendous country, larger even than North America and second only in land mass to Russia.
It's need for outside labor therefore is for all intents and purposes non-existent.
@Rich, China and Japan are a essentially monoracial, culturally homogeneous societies,
quite in contrast to those multi-ethnic. highly industrialized countries such as Germany or the US.
However Japan has a limited immigration culture, all but exclusively from Korea and Southeast Asia,
who by all accounts are treated as were the traditional "wetback" Mexican here at home.
China is a tremendous country, larger even than North America and second only in land mass to Russia.
It's need for outside labor therefore is for all intents and purposes non-existent.
Lyzko
26 Nov 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
@Rich, immigrants, like taxes, are a necessary, if at the same time unavoidable, evil!
Don't you know anything about capitalist economics 101?
Unfortunately, there'll always remain certain sectors of the industrialized world economy
in which jobs can only be filled by Third-world, no longer even First-world, foreigners.
@Rich, immigrants, like taxes, are a necessary, if at the same time unavoidable, evil!
Don't you know anything about capitalist economics 101?
Unfortunately, there'll always remain certain sectors of the industrialized world economy
in which jobs can only be filled by Third-world, no longer even First-world, foreigners.
Lyzko
26 Nov 2023
Work / Working in Poland without speaking Polish [75]
Polska mowa, trudna mowa, Alien! Surely even you as a native speaker can appreciate that:-)
Polska mowa, trudna mowa, Alien! Surely even you as a native speaker can appreciate that:-)
Lyzko
21 Nov 2023
Lyzko
21 Nov 2023
News / Poland says no to flood of Immigrants [670]
Spot on, Maf, as usual!
Continental Europe, I include Britain here, is not the equivalent melting pot culture
of the United States. It's downright naive to the point of childish to expect traditionally
homogeneous societies such as Germany, Poland or Sweden, for example, to suddenly
fling their doors wide open to non-European, Third World immigrants whose social, not to mention
religious, values are so markedly different from their own.
Sure, we're all human beings whose core values revolve around some form of family unit, language,
community etc. Nevertheless, it's completely unfair as well as unrealistic to place a bunch of Iranian
Muslims into a small to medium sized Polish city, and wonder why there's resentment among the native
locals.
Such a scenario's as unfair to the migrants as it is to the local Poles.
Spot on, Maf, as usual!
Continental Europe, I include Britain here, is not the equivalent melting pot culture
of the United States. It's downright naive to the point of childish to expect traditionally
homogeneous societies such as Germany, Poland or Sweden, for example, to suddenly
fling their doors wide open to non-European, Third World immigrants whose social, not to mention
religious, values are so markedly different from their own.
Sure, we're all human beings whose core values revolve around some form of family unit, language,
community etc. Nevertheless, it's completely unfair as well as unrealistic to place a bunch of Iranian
Muslims into a small to medium sized Polish city, and wonder why there's resentment among the native
locals.
Such a scenario's as unfair to the migrants as it is to the local Poles.
Lyzko
21 Nov 2023
Polonia / What do Poles think of how they are treated in Germany, in comparison to the Muslim migrants [181]
@Cojestdocholery, it certainly is what I said!
As a non-native English speaker, you might not have caught my entire
drift.
@Cojestdocholery, it certainly is what I said!
As a non-native English speaker, you might not have caught my entire
drift.
Lyzko
21 Nov 2023
Classifieds / Searching for running businesses on sale [2]
Have you received my private mail in this regard?
Have you received my private mail in this regard?
Lyzko
19 Nov 2023
News / HoĊownia - a rising star in Polish politics? [94]
Many singers typically sing convincingly in several languages.
Look at Abba, Nina Hagen, Adele etc......
Many singers typically sing convincingly in several languages.
Look at Abba, Nina Hagen, Adele etc......