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Speaks Polish?: Not with my mouth full

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jon357   
8 Feb 2025
Polonia / polish tv in belgium [3]

There's freeintertv which often has a few Polish stations though not always the main ones.
jon357   
8 Feb 2025
Life / Which animals are native to Poland? [103]

Hard to know what either Lord Nelson or Lady Hamilton's pussy have to do with migrating birds.

If you like birds, you'd like Sandy, Beds.

I've only been through it, however it's apparently very worth a visit.
jon357   
6 Feb 2025
Life / Noisy neighbour - Law in Poland [10]

Wrzeciono

Ńot the best housing estate to live on.

It's a place that so e people would avoid late at ńoght.
jon357   
6 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

what is the truth behind the saying that some Poles are Jews and some Jews are Poles.

It is t a ¡saying', however it's certainly true. You can be both, and if you live in a city, I'm sure you know people who are both.

who is he? Rush is infatuated with some obscure musician

He's not a politician, he's not a philosopher, not a scientist, ot a statesman. He's a pop singer. His views are ńo more roles relevant than those of the woman next door.
jon357   
6 Feb 2025
Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

freeze-dried Polish dumplings

I wonder how that would work.

The frozen ones in supermarkets aren't great but you can freeze proper ones.

For freeze drying, perhaps the egg in the dough would help it reconstitute in the right shape. You might have to syringe some water in to reconstitute the filling.
jon357   
6 Feb 2025
History / Recommended Poland's history books [257]

create their own "versions" of history.

They know themselves that nothing good ever comes from r*SSia.
jon357   
5 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

Rush are hardly "an obscure musical group"!

They're not exactly the LSO either. Just pop culture, and very dated too. Lots of noise and bad hair.
jon357   
5 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

why do you assume even I'm antisemitic

Who has suggested that you're antisemitic?

Don't twist reality.

The reality is that different religious denominations within a religion have differing relationships to their religious texts and do address the fact that the attitudes expressed in a 2500 year old oral history reflect the attitudes and values of systems of their time.

Jews. .....Poles

Remember that some Poles are Jews and some Jews are Poles.

And Jedwabne is hardly 'obscure'...
jon357   
5 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

Poles as heroes who saved Jews

All of them?

That doesn't in any way affect antisemitism today. It's probably worth pointing out that among those who bravely saved lives in WE2, some were certainly antisemitic to a degree. What they weren't however was killers and even antisemites can show decency to their fellow humans. Very little in this world is black and white.

What if I told you, that even my indifference against abrahamic religions (like Christianity, Judaism and Islam), because of their misogyny (women-hatred) is equated to antisemitism?

That doesn't make sense.

And there's no need to explain the meaning of the word. Isogny. I'd guess that most people here are familiar with the word, though some are certainly misogynistic.
Worth mentioning that not all branches of those religions are misogynistic. Anglican, URC, Methodisv Christianity as well as Reform Judaism and Moderate Islam all gender neutral.

it made matters worse and hence the Polish-Jewish conflict.

It may have reinforced prejudice, however antisemitism in Central and Eastern Europe long predates 1948.

the media vilified rock and metal musicians as Satanists

Perhaps the odd article in the trashiest tabloids, however many people can thing for themselves and in any case, the media is more likely to carry reviews of rock concerts than articles claiming such and such a person follows LHP occult currents.
jon357   
5 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

rock fans

Most people aren't rock fans. I'd vaguely heard of the name, however there are so many near identical rock bands usually with very dated long hair, all sounding much of a muchness.

Since my birth

So probably not as long as most of the people, in this thread, including me.

I don't see how his opinion of Poland is a problem. Just because you don't lie what he said, doesn't equate to polonophobia.

And antisemitism in PL is very real.
jon357   
5 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

You all act like Poland

How long have you lived in Poland?

And antisemitism isn't exclusive to Germany; if anything they're more careful and reflective about racism nowadays due to their hostory.

Rush
>Obscu

Just popular music. I doubt most people in Europe have heard of them.
jon357   
5 Feb 2025
Off-Topic / Why does Geddy Lee hate Poland? [105]

I don't want my country to be stigmatized

Everybody is entitled to express their opinion of somewhere, and I doubt the opinion of some guy from an obscure popular musical group would stigmatise a whole country.

And it's hard to deny that even now, there are high levels of antisemitism in Poland, though fortunately the kiosks have recently stopped selling those awful 'Meet the Jews' booklets.