Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

Heed the mod's comment, Bobko.

Returning to the topic at hand, have you any proof that what I've posted is
in any way false? The answer's a resounding no, so quit playing contrarian!

Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

I might well ask the same of you, Bobko, but I know I wouldn't get the same answer:-)

Often the ones we claim to detest most, are those who command our highest, if grudging, respect.

Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

Evidence, please?? You haven't one scintilla, indeed one shred, of proof to back up your ludicrous claims. Kindly desist in your pitiful trolling. You merely embarrass yourself!

Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

Oh, really Maf? In comparison historically with the Chinese for instance, those Eastern European women to whom I alluded, were living in a monastery!! LOL

Obviously, no single group or groups have a monopoly on any collective monopoly on certain behavior.

Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

@Paulina, you are construing what you want to from my posts, that's how your mind works, apparently. Any native English speaker would clearly know that I'm NOT and NEVER have implied or stated that "all Polish women were/are prostitutes" any more than were I to say that all Germans were murderers during WWII.

I heartily suggest you familiarize yourself with the subjunctive in English, as it shows for all who understand English that I was not saying what you all seem to think I was saying!

Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

"Prostitutes"??! You mean "kurwy"?
When did I ever mention that I believed Polish or other Eastern European women were ******??

I must protest the poster's twisting of words! Or more likely, you, as with certain others from your country who shall remain nameless, misunderstood (unintentionally or on purpose) my posts.

There's one heck of a bloody difference in English between calling a woman a prostitute and admitting that under certain circumstances largely different from the West, women in Communist Europe (including the former Eastern Germany) were forced to exchange sexual favors in order save their own skins.

You really ought to re-read next time and be more careful in your responses, Lenka!

Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

@Lenka, (including Novichok).
As with Paulina and certain other Polish-born posters on PF, you're playing the Devil's Advocate without acknowledging the (albeit remote!) possibility that there might be just some credence to what I'm saying.

We in the States are supposed to take the criticism or unflattering observations about our culture which Europeans dish out, however when we have the temerity to observe certain less than complementary aspects of life in, say, Poland, it's BS.

I for one have a problem with this line of hypocrisy.

Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

From the West or possibly even vice-versa.
@Lenka, my "evidence" comes from conversationsabroad with numerous Slavs who can confirm my assertions!

Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

In many Eastern Block countries, promiscuous sex, at the very least, forward flirtation, sold very well indeed, and was usually a survival technique during Communist times.

Today, Communism is but a distant memory, Yet old habits die hard:-)

Life / Are Polish Women very promiscuous towards foreigners and refugees? [197]

Many Eastern European women in general often appear more sexually forward than most Westerners are used to from their own societies!

However in this respect, Polish women are no different from Czech, Ukrainian or Russian females whom I've encountered abroad.

Because of their constant need to survive via the Black Market during Communism, these women quickly developed ways of "dealing with" recalcitrant authorities, usually in the form of bribery and the exchange of sexual favors to get what they wanted. All too frequently, women started out as mere teenagers, later grooming themselves to appear more socially grown up than was actually the case, all this, as a shield in order to act tough, worldly-wise, sophisticated aka precocious or strong.

All this lead to a far more in-your-face attitude towards foreign men than is customary in Western Europe on the whole, save of course for the Red Light District of world class cities such as Amsterdam or Copenhagen.

Love / Polish marriage to a Moroccan [3]

Did you receive the private mail I sent you several days ago?

Life / The "I am never wrong" phenom - is it the Polish thing? [63]

Sweden's history is markedly different from that of either the US or Poland.
America remains a relatively young country, still an adolescent buck rather than a more seasoned, wiser man as opposed to merely a man child aka a boy in man's clothing:-)

Off-Topic / Poland - The U.S.A. of Europe [20]

One can celebrate July 4th while still being critical of US history!
That's but another freedom which we honor in this country:-)

Life / The "I am never wrong" phenom - is it the Polish thing? [63]

Yet did you realize the import of my statement. Rich?
I was neither defending the right of Sweden to allow Third-World migrants into into their country nor was I criticizing the present government in their pursuit of a basically flawed policy.

The topic of the thread was whether or not the Poles have some monopoly on arrogance, to which I simply responded that this was more negative stereotyping, best dispensed with and nothing more.

Life / The "I am never wrong" phenom - is it the Polish thing? [63]

@Rich, as usual you're intentionally missing my point merely to instigate controversy!
I was only comparing the interactive behavior of many Poles whom I've encountered, with the number of Swedes with whom I've come into frequent contact.

Off-Topic / Human colonization of space - Where are Poles and Slavs in it ? [10]

How odd, Bobko, that it was a Pole who first established that the Earth revolves around the Sun:-)
I hope you're not suggesting that somehow the Poles are completely Earth-bound creatures. If such were the case, how then would they have founded one of the best and safest airlines in the world?

Trust you were being sarcastic.

Life / The "I am never wrong" phenom - is it the Polish thing? [63]

Folks, these are plain stereotypes.
Surely one cannot generalize in even most instances.

However culturally speaking, certain societies DO encourage debate, no matter how relatively small, whereas others (both in their politics as well as their social interactions) tend to opt for concensus, for instance, the Swedes.

Study / Jagiellonian vs University of Wrocław for a master's degree in English? [15]

Thanks, travel999!

Study / Jagiellonian vs University of Wrocław for a master's degree in English? [15]

Uniwersytet Jagiellonski in Krakow has a well-known reputation for Polish instruction given to foreigners. It may still have a partnership with the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York which sponsors an exchange program for qualified American-born applicants who wished to learn Polish in Poland as part of their college degree or the like.

As far as English instruction given by native Polish speakers for foreigners, I'd be more than a little wary:-)

If English isn't your first language, well, you might not know the difference anywayLOL

Life / Opening bank account online in Poland as a non Residence. [12]

For what reason do you wish to open an acc't. in Poland and of which country are you currently a citizen?

Off-Topic / Toilet seat manners of British and Polish males [42]

Oh, but I can:-)

Off-Topic / Toilet seat manners of British and Polish males [42]

Usually German males urinate sitting down and so the toilet seat is never left up!

Language / Jestem za [11]

Curious Leonis, is it correct Hungarian as a translation of "Jestem za toba",
perchance "Mogottod allok"??
Apologies for not having the Hungarian letters on my keyboard:-)

History / "Westerner's" most ridiculous beliefs about the time of communism in Poland [73]

Many a Westerner has long held a sort of euphoric, almost Utopian, view of Communism, usually confusing it with Nordic socialism!

Lots of US-born as well as immigrant Jews from Russia at around the turn of the last century, swore by Communism as a sort of universal "equalizer", following centuries of oppression.

Sadly, way too few saw in Communism a sort of muted Faschism, substituting biological extermination with brutally enforced limitations on social as well as economic' freedoms.

Polonia / Polish community in Switzerland [10]

Thanks for the tip, Cargo pants!

Polonia / Polish community in Switzerland [10]

Garfield? There's a large Polish community there. My, my. How far abouts from Lodi? The largest Polish-American Bookstore (branch of the Nowy Dziennik!) is located in a shopping mall in Clifton:-) I knew the owner when the store used to be in Manhattan.

Po polsku / Przeprosiny za Wołyń: kaprys czy etyka? [3]

Tak jest, Panie Marku! Zupelnie zgodze sie z wszystkim, co pan napisal.
Ale niestety w Europie Zachodnym jestesmy czesto bombardowani od fake news.

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

A "logical" compromise though would never be possible! We must simply accept the Tower of Babel which is our present world. Esperanto, Volapuek, computer languages have all royally failed as THE single lingua franca, and of course English is often a disaster as in the analogy I provided in my earlier post.

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Mark Twain quipped that a German sentence is frequently sooooo long, it practically has a perspective, requiring a telescope to get from end to the otherLOL

He may well be right. Ck. out the opening paragraphs of Kleist's "The Marquise of O" to glimpse the longest sentence in the German language; makes complete sense, yet for nearly an entire paragraph, is separated solely by commas!!!

Language / Will Germans be able to understand Polish enough? [77]

Or, as already posted, not being willing to even try to understand the language, thereby labeling it as "dumb" aka "mute".