News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [534]

No, just Lithuanian complex of inferiority. :):):)

Russians started questioning the territorial integrity of Lithuania.

Signum temporis?

In short: Russian paper suggests that contemporary Lithuania is 1/3 larger than before the war. It was granted lands from the Soviet Union and has kept them till today. It is unfair. Besides, Lithuania is described as the third partitioner of Poland 1939.

Question to Lithuanians: where are you going to establish your government in exile? Warsaw? Krakow? Or Wrocław?

Again, road signs with double names of settlements, Polish and Lithuanian, have been painted over in the area inhabitted by Lithuanian majority in northern Poland.

It is a pity that Polish Lithuanians are paying for the stupid policy of the Lithuanian government which forbids Polish names on street and road signs, against European law.

Lithuanians in Lithuania proper, remember, when Russians invade you , I won `t move a fekking finger in your defence, like my ancestors did so many times in the past. :):):):)

]Punsk, Poland[

News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [534]

Dialogue of the deaf between Vilnius and Warsaw

OUTSIDERS find the Polish-Lithuanian spat the most incomprehensible in Europe. How come two countries with so much common history and so many common interests get on so badly? Is it just the appalling personal chemistry between some senior officials? Or is it, absurdly, about spelling? Poles in Lithuania want to spell their names using letters like ł and ę in official documents. (We can't use them, or most other diacritics, in the print edition of the Economist because our typeface doesn't have those characters).

I have not met any Lithuanian, even on the nationalist fringe, who believes that the authorities in Vilnius have handled this issue absolutely perfectly from the very beginning. Lithuanian politicians have habitually promised more than their parliamentarians are willing to vote for, or their officials are able to implement. It is easy to see why Poles feel cross about that.

More: economist/blogs/easternapproaches/2012/02/poland-and-lithuania

News / Polish Lithuanian Diplomatic War? At last. [534]

Members of ethnic minorities in Lithuania, including Poles, descended on the capital, Vilnius, Saturday, to rally against plans to cut back on schooling for minorities.

"The mother tongue is a guarantor of decent knowledge," the protestors argued as they marched from the Lithuanian parliamentary buildings to demonstrate outside government headquarters.

Children and teachers from ethnic minorities in Lithuania went on the march, and were joined by trade unionists from the Lithuanian education sector.
The protest comes one year after Vilnius passed a bill on education for ethnic minorities in Lithuania, which has been criticised by Poles living there, with other sizable ethnic minorities from Belarus and Russia facing the same problems.

Meanwhile, Lithuanian authorities are condemning the protest. Education minister Gintaras Steponavicius told the BNS agency that politicians are "amassing political gain at the cost of teachers and children."[/i]

narodowcy.net/tysiace-polakow-na-ulicach-wilna/2012/03/17/

Poland Lithuania

In 1940/50s, when Eastern Soviet Republics were created on the former Polish lands, Lithuanian authorities blocked the transfer of Polish inhabitants to Poland proper. Most of them were forced to stay against their will.

It seems Lithuanians today don`t want to pay for their past mistakes.

The mistreatment of Polish minority and violation of their rights by Lithuanians continues.

News / "Lack of Common Sense in Politics and Society" - political correctness in Poland [33]

if you can provide any cases of political correctness in contemporary Poland, can you post them here?:

Political correctness in Poland

Travel / Krakow during Easter - good or bad idea? [19]

Bullseye! :):):):):)

UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]


No, not at all.:):):)


Strange, but I didn`t notice it yesterday. Where exactly? :):):)

Life / Izabela? - Advice with Polish name for a girl [36]

Isabel.

Marcinkiewicz i Isabel. To koniec?

pitbul.pl/parcie-na-szklo/marcinkiewicz-i-isabel-to-koniec

Life / Television in Poland - embarrassingly bad? [44]


Amusing scenes compiled from a few episodes:

ooops, it is funny to watch but experiencing those adventures with "professionals" in real might be a problem to one`s psyche.

But this plumber`s adventure is even funnier:

UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]


A nice piece of writing with plausible observations. I am really impressed.

And you are French?

Wow! The first French person in the forum?

Let`s celebrate!:

Life / Television in Poland - embarrassingly bad? [44]


That is the core of Polish culture. Being on the crossroad of two civilisations, we adopt both from the East and the West and turn it into original Polish.

Didn`t you know about it?

It joins the traditions of East and West - the mysticism of Orthodoxy with classical Latin, the living cult of the icon with the Jewish Hasidic tradition, the baroque mythology of the Sarmatians with picturesque folk culture. In Poland, at the crossroads of Europe, there arose a specific weave of cultural traditions which artists and writers continually refer to.

en.poland.gov.pl/Culture,483.html

Life / Television in Poland - embarrassingly bad? [44]


I stopped watching TV in 1990s. There was a period of 10 years when we didn`t have a TV set at all. I bought a new one 3 years ago for my wife who stayed at home with kids a lot.

TV is a brain killer everywhere, not only Poland.

UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]


Rat would sound better. :):):) I like these animals..:):):)


No attack but supposition. Come on..... you are too sensitive :):):)


Ooops, sorry, I was wrong. I didn`t realise what sex machine you are. :):):):)

Or were? :):):):)


What exactly were their foreign habits? Drinking beer, chatting noisily and playing loud music/TV at night?

Do you suggest Brits don`t do such things?

UK, Ireland / There's not a lot wrong with Poles in the UK. There's just too many of them. [72]


So you felt ignored and rejected.

Also, you hoped for a nice relationship with that pretty Polish girl who used to drop in on Friday evenings to your housemates` parties.

You even tried to approach her on the stairs but she turned you down.

I can imagine how you felt.

I am really sorry.

But you certainly need to do sth with those ugly scars on your psyche. If you leave it like that, it may only go worse. Deporting all Polish immigrants won`t cure your hurt ego.

Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]



Now you know what to do with your notes....

Are there any strippers in India?

Throw it at your Indian stripper.

News / Polish final report on Smoleńsk aircrash [870]

New facts surface all the time:

Wikileaks - 'Russia tried to prevent Kaczynski landing in Smolensk'
09.03.2012 13:41
The email- released by the Wikileaks whistle blowing web site as part of its Global Intelligence Files series - shows a former KGB officer recruited by the Americans thought the Russians deliberately tried to stop President Kaczynski landing in Smolensk.

Smolensk air traffic control told the plane it was unsafe to land due to heavy fog, but the plane eventually tried to land at the airport in western Russian, however, killing all 96 on board.

But the secret email released by Wikileaks, sent by iphone to Reva Bhalla, director of analysis at the global intelligence company Stratfor Forecasting Inc, from Fred Burton, the company's vice-director of counter intelligence on 24 April 2010, quotes a former KGB agent, 'Comrade J'.

Comrade J told Stratfor, a company once described as a 'shadow CIA': "The Russians purposefully denied the aircraft the ability to land knowing that the Polish President would either force the pilot to land [...] or the plane would return and not land at the location."

Another Stratfor officer, Marko Papic, is also quoted as saying: "This was actually one of the theories that one of my contacts also gave me. But the intention was not to kill Kacynzki [sic] just make his life difficult by forcing him to land in Minsk and therefore miss the Katyn Massacre ceremonies set to begin in an hour from landing. But instead, the pilots tried to land anyways and crashed the flight."

More: thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/92767,Wikileaks-%E2%80%93-Russia-tried-to-prevent-Kaczynski-landing-in-Smolensk

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


Why are you lying?

Very very rarely means about 1 - 5%.

The 2010 poll suggest that favourable opinions about Jews are almost equal to negative ones - about 30%.



In recent years, our feelings towards the Jews gradually warm up . Sympathy for them starts to dominate the reluctance
Poles who admit to Jewish , is with us a tiny fraction of society , no more than a thousand of . In the minds of his fellow citizens , however, take up much space. The Jews , of whom the Poles think , to a large extent those who lived in Poland once - after the war , before the war , and even before. The whole Jewish nation , the Jews " symbolically " collective existence and construction of the collective imagination . For a prejudiced mind, these distinctions do not matter - for him the people of a nation are always and everywhere the same.

Do you want to imply that you haven`t run into those 30% yet?

I don`t believe it that is why I feel the right to call you a liar.


Coming here out of the blue and starting a controversial thread isn`t a crime here. Yet, it is a crime of trolling to lie about such a serious matter. Hence, my comment: a typical troll. Wolf, I am not afraid to discuss any topic possible, no matter how controversial and painful. However, I hate liars. Can you take it into consideration?

Genealogy / Popular Polish First Names? [152]

Danuta.

Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]


Have sex with a crazy drunk middle aged smiling woman?

I never tried such a stunt. ]

Have you? What is it like?

Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]


No wonder, with such statistics.....:

GDP - real growth rate:

-6% (2011 est.)
-4.4% (2010 est.)
-2.3% (2009 est.)

GDP - per capita (PPP):

$27,600 (2011 est.)
$29,100 (2010 est.)
$30,400 (2009 est.)

Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]


The stranger who smiles to me will probably want to borrow 5 zlotys or ask me to scare the crows off his field. I don`t need such "friendly" smiles. It is friendly fire.


Did you travel to Greece? It isn`t so strange, after all.

Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]


Yes, it does. I noticed that my delicate wrinkles deepen after each outburst of laughter. I am thinking of limiting my activities in forums. Also, I need to cut down on working with Polish students for such long hours.

Do you know how much Botox therapy or whatever it is called costs today?

Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]


Tomorrow you will walk in the street and smile to yourself etc etc.


You`re welcome but you have to make your bed by yourself. :):):):)

Life / Why are Poles always so miserable? Why do they never smile? [512]


Yes, I know this feeling. Yesterday I was strolling in the street at a leisure pace, smiling to myself and my funny thoughts, recalling precious discussions in the Polish forum. Suddenly I noticed a middle-aged woman who was looking at me and smiling. I thought that she must be crazy. Or drunk. Or did she want to have sex with me?

Very weird.

Life / My experience in Poland 15 years ago as an American trying to live and work there. [167]


Nope, he isn`t.


No, he can`t because:



No, it isn`t. It is all corelated.

Sorry, for being such a negative black sheep.

Life / My experience in Poland 15 years ago as an American trying to live and work there. [167]

Another saying goes: there is an exception to every rule! :):):):):)

Life / My experience in Poland 15 years ago as an American trying to live and work there. [167]


That would be a bad move.

A Polish saying goes: Old trees shouldn`t be replanted.

News / Bad news for beer-lovers in Poland (beer prices going up) [22]


Sorry, I don`t see it in shops. Beer prices are the same, and when there is a promotion, you can buy very cheap beer. Not the best but good enough to have fun.

Genealogy / Russian Poland-what general area would this be? [30]


Krasnosielsk is a county in today`s Belarussia.

Food / Pierogi recipe and filling from my grandmother [179]

Yes, they are hand made. That is why they are still eatable. :):):)


On second thoughts.... Is it possible to produce pierogis on an assembly line?

Food / Pierogi recipe and filling from my grandmother [179]

We don`t make pierogis at home today. You can buy tasty stuff in local corner shops, fresh delivery every day. The average cost - 15 zlotys per kilo.