History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]

Rich is angry with himself and so he hates Polish because it reminds him of his roots, plain and simple!

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

Zupelnie zgodze sie, Torq!

Great poets, musicians, and artists (including of course film makers) are the life blood
of any civilzation, cultural guardians of the national consciousness. To my mind, one of
modern Poland's greatest poets is Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz.

"Przez caly bialy dzionek czekam,
Az stanie wieczor wiencu gwiazd..."

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

HA!, Look who's talking lol

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

@Torq,

I meant that Germany "won" the economic war after being both physically and psychically defeated.
Had Poland, for that matter former East Zone, been pumped with US dollars a la The Marshall Plan, perhaps she too might have rebounded
with the drive or zeal of post-War Germany!

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

This antipathy I can understand.
Also compounded by a degree of jealousy, whether admitted or not!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Get yer head outta the Good Book, friend and look around ya for once!!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

In the state of Michigan as late as 1959, a blood test, a simple swab on
a slide worked up by any intern at a hospital, was deemed by State Court
sufficient in proving rape!!

So the state of Michigan was WRONG???!
Come on, dude.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Calling all mental deadbeats, calling all mental deadbeats....DANGER, DANGER!!! YOU'RE IN DANGER OF LEARNING SOMETHING!!

@Rich & others,

The issue of abortion is in essence a female, not an exclusively male-dominated one. After all, who impregnates the female?:-)

Off-Topic / What is a woman? [783]

Sex change operations occur in the US with dramatic regularity, Rich!
It's just that nobody talks about 'em.

USA, Canada / polish nurse in usa [4]

Jeremy,
Your profile says you are located in Krakow, but just curious whether you
are from Poland or simply work in Poland.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

According to >DIE ZEIT< along with certain other lefty/liberal journals,
immigration is no longer exclusively a rightist topic.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

You don't know the meaning of the word, people.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Proving rape is merely a matter of a simple blood test!
Penetration is sufficient in such cases, even if there is no completion.

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]

@Rich,
Mr. Grunwald is Norwegian, not Polish:-)

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

How do I know it was rape? How do you know it wasn't??

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]

Germany might well have ended up winning the peace, even if having lost the war!
Face facts, why don't you. Western Germany worked like the Dickens to dig herself
out from a bombed out country, whose population were nearly decimated, a majority
of whom were forced to eat from garbage cans in order just to find scraps of food.
Many losers were offered Marshall Plan like packages from the victors, yet how many
wound up like post-War dynamos as did The Federal Republic of Germany?

She built an economy exceeding even that of the US from around the late '60's up until relatively
recently, has the highest GDP in Europe and is a leading software producer as well as a leader
in any number of areas, surprisingly enough in gastronomy!!

Only American won?? Uh, I don't think so.

Life / Moving back to Poland after 19 years [20]

Aha, I understand.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

Iron or you?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Abortion "rules" as it were apply naturally ONLY in cases of rape or incest.
Here, we must show leniency!!

Life / Moving back to Poland after 19 years [20]

You just proved my point! Most Poles over seventy years of age
don't know English, German among the educated, surely some
schoolbook Russian, but primarily Polish.

Same in most countries, except perhaps for the Netherlands or
Scandinavia. There, the average person can string together a
fairly decent (though obviously not native-) sounding English sentence.
However, correction they will not sufferLOL

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Thanks for the correction, maf!
Tracy deserved the Oscar for "Inherit the Wind", HANDS DOWN!!
Admittedly, Schell gave the best performance in "Judgement",
(in my opinion, way superior to Lancaster's uncharactaristically
stilted and over the top exaggerated take on the Janning part),
....but Spence had all the best lines:-)

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

"It is I who wear the pants..."

Well, I hope so. If ya don't quit, ya must commit!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Ck. out Stanley Kramer's "Inherit The Wind" (1961),
the year Tracy won an Oscar for his role of Henry Drummond (Clarence Darrow),
having been beaten out one year earlier by Maximillian Schell in "Judgement at Nueremberg".

The former's all about the right to teach evolution in the state of Tennessee.
Those boneheads applied the same (il)logic about Darwin as you guys do
concerning a woman's right to choose.

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

@Rich, I'm ALWAYS right... except when I'm wrongLOL

@Torq, as a Catholic you cannot be faulted for your blind faith. The fact remains,
you don't see things as they actually are. You might still learn wisdom yet.

@Przelotnyptak, the Prussians were Balts, not Slavs, sorry.

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

...you forgot about Frederic Chopin aka Frederyk Szopen, French to the French,
but Polish to the Poles.

I tend to side with Poland on this one:-) He draws all his richly stirring musical themes
from the mazurki and polonaises of his Polish homeland. As far as how his music speaks
to ME, he's Polakiem z krwi i kosci!!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [789]

Israel wants to be as self-sufficient as the US, for the most part,
yet continually struggles with this issue and can't seem to do it!

Life / Moving back to Poland after 19 years [20]

Sure, 'cuz most of the older Poles (those approx. over seventy) speak German, also perhaps Russian, rather than English:-)

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

No, I merely argue that Torq, you, and so many others, think robotically,
not logically or scientifically. You follow blindly, like lemmings. It's the same for any unthinking ideology,
be it Orthodox Judaism (including the various extreme sects, Satmar,
for example) or Roman Catholicism!!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Killing a child in school takes the life of an innocent, living
being who is aware someone is trying to take their life!

A fetus essentially is not a formed being, rather like pondering
whether or not an algae plant can scream if picked up in a bucket
and washed away.

You weren't present at the beginning of Creation and neither was
anyone here.

Life / Moving back to Poland after 19 years [20]

I found speaking German in Poland, at least near the border area,
far more effective than English. Naturally I tried speaking Polish
where and whenever I could.

I'm sure things have changed though over the past number of years.