Travel / Pot in Poland for tourists [285]

It's quite a hot topic here at the moment. Very illegal, but prominent politicians support legalisation. Also, Poland has a lot of countryside and the right summer temperature to grow it.

Genealogy / Typical Polish Eye Color [77]

Visit Scotland or NI and you'll really see it. In Poland you don't often. I must say I've never noticed much in Central Asia or Turkey.

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]

It is certainly beautiful. Were you born in Europe?

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]


It would be unfair to knock such clubs too much I suppose, especially if they have a genuine interest in it, some sort of credentials and especially if they're involved in some kind of community or charity work too. God knows, there are enough spurious counts round Europe.

I suppose that coming from a country where aristocratic titles are regulated by law and bring obligations as well as just something nice on your visiting card makes me very sceptical of some of those things going round in republics. Google Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband for an example of such crap. He's by no means alone.

There is however a very respectable Order of Chivalry in Poland (I won't name it here) which takes the mickey out of all of that with comic ceremonies whilst raising money for disadvantaged kids. JPII was a member. Paradoxically most of its members are among the great and the good but are somehow too classy to use abolished titles if they have them.

Genealogy / Typical Polish Eye Color [77]

Mostly it doesn't. I have very green eyes by the way. Another unusual thing in East Europe is red hair. It unusually suggests Northern European origins.

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]


No. It is a club only. Millions of people lost property during the upheavals of the Twentieth Century. Most don't feel the need for vanity projects. Have you actually been here in Poland?

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]


It isn't a 'birth right'. In countries where titles have been abolished, it is just a historical curiosity. In countries like the UK where titles still exist it isn't a 'birth right' either. It is a privilege and a responsibility. So called 'heritage organisations' are an irrelevance.

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]


Earl. However this is only British and Irish. Elsewhere they use Count. The state of Poland however does not recognise any titles whatsoever.


Yes but only in the UK. Other countries have equivalents (Spain, Belgium, for example) however Poland hasn't for centuries. The Duke of Krakow was an honorific title of the Austrian Emperor. The Russians did something similar during the partition. Old German, Austrian, Russian titles etc are not recognised by their respective governments or any other competent official body except occasionally as a courtesy with no official status.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


It proves your earlier statements were false. Either deliberate lies of just ignorance.


Personally I wouldn't divide them - however you may like to look at the title of the thread you have so prolifically posted in and study carefully some of your comments here and elsewhere.

Spectacular backtracking really. Why not just wring your hands and say "yes, well....".

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


That isn't an answer. Just a weak attempt at obfuscation.
[quote=IronsideI doubt very much that they killed anybody who was a harmless refugee[/quote]
Read Piotrowski, read about Worczyn, read eyewitness accounts from people who have no reason to say anything other than what they saw.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


Interesting. History doesn't fit your 'political' idea, so you try to rubbish it. You wouldn't be the first to try that sort of thing which makes it all the more unfortunate that you still think a 'tactic' like that might work...

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


No. Read Tadeusz Piotrowski on the matter.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]


More than a hundred documented incidents relating to Polish partisans, some from the NSZ (the paramilitary wing of the Endecja regime).

Check out the Worczyn massacre, among others.

History / What do Poles owe to Jews? [593]

The Gulag system had many types of camp and changed several times over the decades due to economic need and the vagaries of the regime The ones they sent the political prisoners to (especially Trotskyists) were sometimes set up especially so the prisoners didn't last long. Incidentally there were a much higher proportion of Jewish prisoners than in the Soviet Union as a whole.

I strongly recommend Anne Applebaum's book on the Gulag.

Travel / Are there any osho related places in Poland? [19]

A guy I used to work with (from Punjab, very spiritual guy) joined it - partly for the sex. He said the meditation was OK, but you had to have the brainwashing before you actually get the sex and they behaved like a cult. That was back in the early 90s in the UK.

Travel / Are there any osho related places in Poland? [19]

No. It's actually English, from the word 'oceanic'. His real name was Chandra Mohan Jain and he posed as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. That was the name he was using when he poisoned all those people in America with Salmonella. He changed it to Osho hoping people wouldn't notice he was the same frauds tear.

Travel / Are there any osho related places in Poland? [19]

Oslo certainly had plenty of followers (and ninety Rolls Royces). Interesting though unoriginal philosophy and the free love thing went down well with the pre-AIDS generation. A friend belonged to them back in the days when they still called themselves the Rajneeshees.

The Osho cult has its pluses and minuses. I would say the following is a pretty big minus:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dalles,_Oregon#Terrorism

Anyway, for those who aren't put off by bioterrorism and wealthy cult leaders, here's the website of the Rajneeshees/Osho in Poland.

foof.most.org.pl

Travel / Can I make payments by credit card in Poland's Biedronka stores etc,? [25]

Make sure your card issuer doesn't add a handling charge for using it abroad. If they do, take relatively large amounts from the ATM to avoid getting stung each time you use it.

Poland by the way is a fairly safe country.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


Unfortunately they do. Racists sometimes say that, including on here.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

As I remember, Koestler retracted that early theory in the end.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

As we've established already (and this is echoed in other threads here) the Ashkenazi Jews are not the lost descendants of the Khazars. DNA research has confirmed this beyond reasonable doubt. And although the OP's story is interesting, family legends are at best unreliable and at worst misleading - especially when they concern a civilisation that collapsed over a thousand years ago.

Love / Are there any swingers club in Poland? [52]


If it's a nude place in Warsaw, you sometimes wear a bracelet with a number on and settle your bar bill at the end. You keep your cigs and poppers and, ahem, anything else you may feel you need in your sock.

So people tell me ;-)

History / Terrible past for the Jews in Poland? [930]

Genceps, how much time have you spent in Poland?

Love / Are there any swingers club in Poland? [52]

Try either of these.

ustaswingersclub.com
swingswing.pl
odloty.pl

Whether they're any good, I don't know. There are also several all male events each week.

Love / Are there any swingers club in Poland? [52]

Yes, there are. There are swingers' nights in Warsaw.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]


Indeed. Though it isn't a Polish specific thing.

@MarcinD, most Polish girls aren't naturally light haired - there's a lot of diversity here.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]


Those three things are all good, however it's a bit of an exaggeration to say 'its all' that. And in Poland, the cultural influences are by no means restricted - every kind of debauchery exists here and girls can and will find it if they want.

Those girls who have a foreign boyfriend however, tend to be the classier ones.

Love / Are Polish girls open to foreigners? [78]


If anything, it's the classier and better educated young women who are likely to come into contact with marriageable men with a different skin colour here in Poland. The trashy ones either just don't meet them or are barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen with a local boy while still young.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


Quite the opposite. However if scientific fact doesn't convince you that the Ashkenazi Jews aren't the lost descendants of the Khazars, It's hard to say what would.


That would be the case were it not a simple statement of fact. See below.


Really?

DesEsseintes = Profile of: Des Esseintes
DesEssientes = Profile of: Des Essientes

To lie so flagrantly (whilst accusing others of lying!) says everything about the misinformation you post here and try to pretend is true and casts permanent doubt on anything you say here. But I don't think anyone takes it seriously anyway.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]

Unfortunately they are obscure indeed, vanishing with barely a trace. And as you see, the DNA studies I posted (and there are many, many more if you're interested) entirely refute your theory. Though I notice you're still as rude as ever, especially when you pick an argument and lose it due to a low level of critical thought, education and general intelligence. In any case, the next ban can't be far away.


Which proves my point. Their descendants are found in far higher concentration among the local population. There are studies for that too. ;-)

By the way, which spelling of your username do you prefer? I notice you have two. Why is that?