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Posts by Lyzko  

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Lyzko   
23 Sep 2021
News / Mister President Andrzej Duda - Best Poland could get. [96]

Duda represents an extremist right-wing agenda.
We all know where that got us in the last War!
'Course no sane individual's comparing Duda with Hitler!
However, Duda has made certain representations as reported on this Forum re: Poland leaving the EU, or having Poland make her own decisions alone etc. Europeans must learn to depend on one another, and this includes Poland.

Namely the idea of living as an island is dangerous, considering Poland's abysmal record on both sexual abuse along with abortion rights.
Lyzko   
23 Sep 2021
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

It was actually rather amusing when I read it! Foreign signage in English often is:-)
When once in Sweden, a country where nearly everyone and his grandma knowsEnglish, I caught glimpse of a notice at my favorite restaurant in Goteborg: "PLEASE DON'T HAVE CHILDREN AT THE BAR!" During the course of my before-dinner aperitive, I commented to the barkeep that in the States we usually have children at a hospitalLOL

He was clearly not amused, more clueless than insulted, in fact.

"PLEASE KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM THE BAR!" would have made more sense.
Frequently though, foreigners somehow respond better to slightly off or accented English than to correct usage, I've found. Says something, doesn't it.
Lyzko   
22 Sep 2021
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

It's all a question of public relations really. Yet why not simply come clean and admit the Polish sign was awfully written and ought to have been proofread by a native English speaker before being stenciled onto the bathROOM sign!
Lyzko   
22 Sep 2021
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Couldn't agree with you more. Bottom line and point of story; the English-language sign I accurately described and saw with my own eyes was miswritten and that obviously "bathROOM" aka "restroom" was logically the word which was meant in that context! Skirmish over and now we may return to the open field of personal exchange-:)
Lyzko   
22 Sep 2021
News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

The reasons the Jews were expelled was because the locals were inculcated with "The Jews killed Jesus" garbage deliberately fomented by the Catholic Church and this fostered fear that the Jews were "taking over"! Are you capable of seeing your own ignorance?
Lyzko   
22 Sep 2021
News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

It's the identical sort of thinking, Rich. YOU learn English!!
Unless, as I've suspected for the longest time, you understand me perfectly, you're merely playing the Devil's Advocate:-)

Throughout Medaeval Europe, Jews were blamed for nearly every misfortune known to man, from the Plague, to poisoning wells etc. None of said prattle was ever proven to have had the slightest inkling of truth.
Lyzko   
22 Sep 2021
News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Well, don't be!
Remember, oh round about ten or so years ago, a report on yahoo news about a random police office in Connecticut filed a report
with his captain that there was a knife fight at some local bar and (of courseLOL) two Hispanics were probably involved? Turned out, the
two men implicated were both of Scandinavian extraction, Sorenson was the name if I recall, and appropriately, that officer was placed on
probabtion. BRAVO!

Prejudice always obscures the plain truth.
Lyzko   
21 Sep 2021
News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Look who's talking!

Nobody denies that for a small peoples, Jews have often made outsized cultural and scientific contributions to Western society.
There is however, a huge disparity between self-aggrandizement and sheer public relations:-)

Now, I'm a classic movie buff like none other. I've heard people say, though mostly other Jews, that Kirk Douglas (Jewish) was a greater actor than Burt Lancaster (gentile).Fact is that Jews as Jews often didn't receive the credit they were due, or might have honestly THOUGHT they were due, merely because they were Jewish. Therefore, they changed their name from Yankelovitch to Douglas, Persky to Bacall, Jacob Weidenbaum to Jack Warner etc..... In my opinion, Lancaster was a greater actor than Douglas ever was, but that's not because Douglas was Jewish and Lancaster wasn't, simply because the latter was blessed with a far more riveting talent!!

Much like America, no other group, not the Italian-Americans, the Native Americans, African-Americans, Chinese-Americans and so forth, have desired to love and be loved by the United States as the Jews. Perhaps the latter's straining for acceptance might indeed appear to some as "whining".
Lyzko   
21 Sep 2021
Language / Cultural disparities shown through Polish and English languages [195]

Good one, paw!
Or conversely, how about the sign I saw when I was the first time in Poland outside a rest area: "BATHROBE FOR MENS, WOMENS, AND FOR PEOPLE FROM BOTH SEX!" "BathROBE" vs. "BathROOM" seemed to have eluded the poor fella:-) Many signs in Szczecin were in two languages, yet not one person I spoke to actually confessed to knowing any English LOL
Lyzko   
21 Sep 2021
News / Israel furious as Poland signs law to limit property claims [200]

Yo folksies, the age-old myths re: Jewish minority controlling the majority of wealth and influence etc. are exactly that, MYTHS!!
The Jews simply stand out more by virtue of the simple fact that most are understandably enough unwilling nowadays to continuously change their names, even their appearance or speech as was once common practice.

For every Milken or Madoff, there were in years gone by more than any number of thoroughly gentile "Robber Barons" who cheated, cajoled, and impoverished millions of Americans during the latter as well as into the first half of the 20th century, yet we pick on the Jews because, as in Hitler's Europe, the Jews were often the most conspicuous targets. Had Madoff become Mayfield, gotten plastic surgery on his nose etc. or affected a caricatured W.A.S.P. speech pattern, he wouldn't have caused nearly the anti-Semitic outcry that he did.

Slumlords?? Throughout the days of the Wild West, rich ranchers (none of them Jewish!!) typically tried to oust, harass, not to mention kill off those poor, defenseless tenant farmers living on their property.

And so let's stop vilifying Jews as the perennial bad guys, as there's plenty of Christian guilt to go around too.