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Posts by pawian  

Joined: 30 May 2008 / Male ♂
Last Post: 19 Mar 2025
Threads: Total: 226 / Live: 154 / Archived: 72
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Speaks Polish?: Yes, but I prefer English
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pawian   
18 Mar 2020
Life / Why do so many Polish strive to be accepted by the West? [78]

Why do so many Polish strive to be accepted by the West?

Because they are West Slavs? Such origin certainly obliges people to do certain things in life, doesn`t it?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Slavs
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

St. Patrick was actually British.

What? Incredible. It is as if John Paul II had been Russian.
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
Life / Superstitions in Poland [60]

That`s differences between continental and insular Europe. :)
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

When I asked if pawian would hire a man for more, all else being equal, he turned stupid on me - a known debating technique.

No, really, I just wanted to know why you asked me about hiring a man. Coz it sounded so strange and illogical. Do you mean I would prefer to hire a woman at a lower cost than a man with higher salary?

Then learn one thing! Exploitation of humans is a long tradition in the USA - native Ams, black slavery etc. But I have always been against such oppression. That is why I would offer my female workers the same pay as males get. Simple.

Still single and living with parents in his 30s. But hey, he's a great expert about women

You mean Dirk? Do you think it is all false pretence that he writes here?
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

Are the bars closed in Ireland? Poland??

In Ireland too. Their Health Minister closed them down after seeing how people partied in one of them despite warnings. He got immensely pissed off and ordered the closure of all of them.
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [343]

where you could be surrounded by your own kind and not need to know English.

Does it mean Am Poles/ Polish Ams have eventually acquired English?
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

First problem is that the source is not objective and, predictably,

I thought you would like it. :)

does not mention the reasons why the Poles and the Polish government did what the article claims.

Ok, Ok, I wasn`t sure you were really interested.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Polish_political_crisis
The anti-Jewish campaign had already begun in 1967 after the Soviet withdrawal of all diplomatic relations with Israel after the Six-Day War, but also involved a power struggle within the Polish communist party itself. The subsequent purges within the ruling party, led by Mieczysław Moczar and his faction, failed to topple Gomułka's government, but resulted in an exile from Poland of thousands of Jews

with the Jews who came to Poland right behind the Soviet tanks

Many were Polish-born Jews who felt Polish.
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
Love / Polish guy offered me money for sex [18]

BTW, who are you trying to impress with your feminist posts? Women?

No. Males like you. hahaha

I don`t think it is so bad. :):)
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
Language / Can you recognise the famous quotes from Polish films? [12]

Yes. It is incredible but I had chosen this quote before I learnt about Karewicz`s death.
He was more famous for: Brunner, you swine and Hands, hands.
Hands, hands, Hans is fake news.
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
News / Poland's geopolitical problems [13]

Poland has had to bear the brunt of some pretty harsh and bellicose neighbors, Germany to the West, Russia to the East.

Poland could be like them if the Polish elites had decided to have a strong state. They chose otherwise, a weak state, and it resulted in partitions. Simple.
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

Like I said, Polaks are mental. Now, the meaning of "employed" is a mystery.

hahaha No, I only don`t why we should start from being employed if the subject matter is expulsion. Are you like some of my students who prefer to waffle about nothing and I have to tell them to skip the Big Bang theory and dinosaur extinction part and move to the topic?

Ok, find the words expell and expulsion here.
jpost.com/Opinion/48-years-since-expulsion-of-Polands-Jews-449256
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

Poles' loose relationship with words and their meaning drives me nuts

hahaha I am so sorry..

Hey! I just realised we are not using Polish but English! It means your arguments are useless and your accusations miss the point!

Still, Jews were not "expelled" because to expel means to deport - a procedure that follows a court order

Well, you try to keep to dictionary meanings, forgetting that communist states didn`t, so you can`t expect them to act like democracies. In 1968 Jews were expelled without a court order coz it was enough that the Party Secretary gave his order. You were lucky to have left earlier than that - you could prepare yourself.
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

most women like to be domesticated please their man. majority of women want to be controlled, told what to do, serve, even dominated by man.

Oops, wet dreams again. :) Of course, there are also such women but their number is decreasing. I already mentioned the statistics: single countryside males with such sick attitudes like you will remain single all their life coz they are considered useless morons by their female peers who massively rush to cities to find a decent partner.
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

Nobody expelled them. They left - mostly for Israel - on their own.

I meant 1968 when Polish Jews were expelled by crazy Gomułka and his rabid patriots.

My race or religion is not open for discussion unless I make it so.

Yes, but I can`t contain my curiosity. A lot of hints suggest you are a Polish Jew. I don`t mind, remember.

you, Poles, have this lose relationship with words and their primary meaning.

Yes, that`s the nature of the Polish language - it isn`t too precise. That is why you rejected it after leaving Poland - as a scientist, you prefer more logical structures. :):)
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

Working in UB was patriotism, a service to the nation, and the reason to be proud. I got it.

But I told you not all expelled Jews were evil communists. They were also scientists, academic teachers or people of culture. Why don`t you listen to me?

Are you a Polish Jew or not?
pawian   
18 Mar 2020
UK, Ireland / Racist ex-priest Międlar tries to fly from Poland to U.K. again. [293]

Are you nuts? They were the communists!

Not all were communists - a lot were decent people not connected with politics - e.g., scientists.

Even if they were, remember one principle : they were purged by other communists and the enemy of your enemy is your friend.

So, are you Polish Jew or not?