News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


More Delphinesque cry-babying (boo-hoo, sob-sob...) Schoolboys used to say: my heart pumps purple pony **** for you!

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Dunno, I'm not his biographer. But if that is true, those were different times requiring different approaches.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


So if the trough defenders criticised the PiS govt for whatever, now is the time they should praise them for upholding Kopacz's 7,000 pledge: Everyone thought all the pro-PO backstabbers in the public media would immediately get the sack and they would have richly deserved it. But we are still are forced to look at the same old cynical, hypocritical faces of Lis, Kraśko and others. Why then aren't the trough defenders praising PiS for that? I'll tell you why: becuase they are all biased, horse-blinkered, rabble-rousing a*seholes, that's why!

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Unless you've got a vested interest and stand to gain financially from a return to power of the pro-corporate/banking camp (and that would be fully understandable), you are a proverbial Jan Kowalski deluded into thinking he is defending democracy.

You should be intelligent enough to know that behind all the high-sounding rhetoric are the shakers and movers who know the real reason for what they're doing. The deluded masses only provide them with poltical cannon fodder and some semblance of legitimacy.

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Domestic protests are one thing. Pointless and costly but admissible in a democratic country. Snitching to and/or conspiring with outside forces for the sole purpose of returning to the trough (regardless of the high-souinding rhetoric that bid may be couched in) and sullying Poland's international reputaion is hardly commendable.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


One always turns to friends in times of need. The friends cannot always come through but that doesn't mean they stop being friends.

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


Bon voyage & szczęśliwej podróży!

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


In terms of economic potential that may be true, but does Norway have less mutli-culti disintegration and hate crimes against the native majority, fewer hotbeds of Muslim terrorism, sexual perversion, drug trafficking, human trafficking and broken homes? Would you want to move to Norway?

News / New European Council's report: "Poland oasis of racism, xenophobia and homophobia" ... [343]


Most countries are oases or hotbeds of one kind or another. Some countries are oases of mutli-culti disintegration and hate crimes against the native majority, hotbeds of Muslim terrorism, sexual perversion, drug trafficking, human trafficking, broken families, etc.

Has anyone come up with an ideal country? If so, which is it?

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Schetyna has effectviely admitted he was behind the planned debate. Initially (back in December) he had opposed internationalising the issue but now admits that was because he hoped to better prepare his case agaisnt Poland. To that end he has travelled to Brussels to conspire with EU bigwigs against his own country's democratically elected government . At the same he is threatening to back his complaints by bringing up to a milion Poles into the streets in anti-government demonstrations. A classic example of extreme power greed!

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Every ruling camp become the system. As time goes on they becomes less revolutioanry and more entrenched and routien-minded. It's good therefore that PiS want to fulfil all their campaign promises within the first six months before their revolutionary zeal evaporates!

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


GÓRA: pronounced GOO-rah; Polish word for hill or mountain. It could have emerged as a toponymic nickname from someone from any of some two dozen localities in Poland called Góra, not to mention others with a qualifier, eg Biała Góra (White Hill), Góra Pomorska (Pomeranian Hill), Góra Świętej Anny (Mount St Ann).

It could have also been the nickname for someone reminiscent of the burly giant Waligóra (from Polish folklore) which literally means hill smasher.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


The trough defenders and their well-meaning but clueless "useful idiots"
(BTW R U 1 2?) were complaining that PiS had been power for a few weeks without doing anything. Now they are complaining that the governmetn has got down to business.

They have worked overtime to create legilsation reforming the TK, civil srvice, special services, public media, military service, banking, energy, education and
reitrement age as well as adopting a state budget. "The lazy fatcats are not used to work," PiS MP Marek Suski said of the perpetually grumbling and whining PO losers.

In 8 years the PO failed to carry out any meaningful reforms, and the laws they did pass turned out to be legislative duds which need to be rescinded ASAP to mention only the off-the-wall gender-on-a-whim act and lowering retirement/ school-starting age.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


No, it's about your hypocrisy, bias and one-sidedness. Truly Kali's morality. Ask an ethnic Pole what that means.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


PO have loaded their parliamentary club wirth ex-commies and secret police stooges -- 30 (count them!). You're strangely silent about MPs who'll be representing your beloved party for the next 4 years.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


When the PO bankster government placed Poland's justice system in the hands of ex-commie Ćwiąkalski, did Delph protest, rant and fume? When the Science and Higher Education Ministry was entrusted to ex-PZPR member Kudrycka, no-one heard even a peep from Delphie Boy. When dyed-in-the-wool ex-commie Nałęcz became Komorowski's chief adviser, defender and spox-- ditto. Was he asleep, perpetually drunk or afflicted with amnesia for the past 8 years? Whatever the case, Delphie has suddenly awakened, recovered from his hangover and/or amnesia and launched an all-out witch-hunt for ex-commies in PiS. Or maybe he's merely suffering from chronic blinkeritis -- the malady that has afflicted him for years?!

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


MORE THAN THE 30 IN THE PO PARLIAMENTARY CLUB?


When PO came to power they started by purging public broadcasting of non-PO people and putting their party cronies in their place.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


Bars are one thing, but online fora are or can be scrutinised. Special services selectively pick out things of potential interest and may well decide to keep tabs on an alien repeatedly abusing a head of state. That may just land on a list of suspicious foreigners worth watching. Over 90% of the leads and tips turn out unproductive but maintaining vigilanace is what those services are paid to do.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


You realise of course that even in the most democratic of countries special services take an interest in those who level accusations or threats at the head of state or are especially obsessive or abusive. Alien nationals (regardless of visa, residence permit or pasport) especially call attention to themselves. So don't say you weren't warned!

Life / Comparing Poland and Romania [108]


I meant Turkic not contemporary Turkish. Anyway, I seem to have encountered somewhere that Bulgarians do not have typical Slavic DNA. but I'm definitely not an expert in that area.

News / Poland's post-election political scene [4080]


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Shout it from the hills and rooftops and let it spread far and wide. Anything to demean and discredit Poland and its democratically elected government in the international arena is fair game to that pathetic lot of frustrated losers!

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

KORSZ: possibly traceable to the ukrainianised word korszun (goshawk); standard Polish is jastrząb.

HOMMA: possibly derived from the Ukrainian xoмa (Polish choma) - a small hamster/gopher-like field rodent.

SLASZYC/ŚLASZYC: probably derived from ślaz/ślasz (dialectal for hollyhock); the -is ending forms look Lithuanian.

STASZYC: patronymic = son of Staś/Stasz (pet form of Stanisław).

PIETRYGA: one of many variants dervied from Piotr (Peter); others include: Pietras, Pietrus, Pietruś, Pietrowiak, Pietrzyk, Pietrzak, Piotrak, Pioterek, Pitera and many more.

LATTA/LATA: from lato meaning summer or (in olden times) also year.

NAJ: traceable to German adjective neu (new), pronounced noj in German; in Yiddish it came out sounding like naj.

NOTE: For more information on these and other Polish surnames please contact research60@gmail

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


PĘCAK/PENCAK: pęcak means whole-grain barley, a typcial peasant name; Pencak in Poland would be an illiterate misspelling, abroad -- a deliberate respelling for the sake of pronunciation. A knew a Pęcak family who came to the US after WW2. Since Americans are oblivious to diacritics Pecak got repeatedly called Mr Peacock. In an attempt to rectify the problem he legally changed his name to Pencak and then Americans started calling him Mr Pancake. He realised his only recourse was the persionally correct the mispronouncers: It's Pentsock, he explained.

Life / Comparing Poland and Romania [108]


Czechs regard Poels as hopelessly quixotic romantics fightuign agaisnt all odds. They more or less or less played ball with teh Nazis and Prague remained unscathed by the war. Poles look upon Pepiczki as horribly collaborative cowards.

But if Poles were unable to rally in the face of adversity, Western Europe might have been reduced to a score of additional Soviet republics after 1920. If not for Solidarity's challenge to PZPR totalitarianism, the Soviet bloc would probably still exist.

Topic of the thread - Comparing Poland and Romania

Life / Comparing Poland and Romania [108]


I was not comapring the two countries in terms of overall "betterness". I know too little about Romania, but the roundtable conspiracy ("We Soldiarity/oppositon types take over the political scene but allow the regime side to function on the public stage and hold onto their perks and possessions) cannot be called de-ciommunisaiton. Neither can Poland's very lame lustration. Attempts to sanitise things in 1992 and later via Wildstein's list were effectviely thwarted by the układ. So most red criminals evaded prosecution and ex-commies like Balcerowicz were entrusted with the economy. The TK to this day is headed by ex-commie Rzepliński. And even at this late stage in the game there is no re-privatisation law in effect.

Food / Bologna & onions in Poland? [44]


Good one! (LOL) I once got chided on PF for saying never enter a lift with a Heinz-baked-bean-loving Brit!


Mostly at Polish Market on Maple Rd & Dequindre, but I have shopped at Bożek's and Środek's as well.

Life / Comparing Poland and Romania [108]


I don't much follow Romanian affairs but if they have indeed de-communised their country and returned property to its rightful owners -- than they are to be whole-heartedly commended. Poland has indeed been a dismal failure on both counts!!!!!

News / Throwing away the constitution in Poland? [626]

Merged: Duda travels over 700 km to sign TK bill into law

Tabloid Fakt has reported President Duda interrupting his Christmas holiday in Wisła to drive to Warsaw and back again (over 700 km) to sign the TK bill into law. PO are planning to contest the law with the TK.

Life / Comparing Poland and Romania [108]


£azienki (no dot over the "z")!

Food / Bologna & onions in Poland? [44]


Dunno about the hominy-grit South or corn-fed Plains but the real blue-collar America -- Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, etc. -- is bologna & onions and wieners & baked beans country.