Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


The patrist/matrist distinction is quite interesting. Other terminology of an ethical nature could be used -- altruism and egoism, virtue and debauchery, decency and 'anything goes' -- but it is difficult to argue that the matrist approach has been steadily growing. To the detriment of society and leading to societal collapse! Unfortunately its horse-blinkered advocates fail to see the long-term consequences.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


And an unwed teenaged mother bringing kids into the world with passing-through boyfriends I suppose is one of those best possible conditions.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

It depends. If it is ŻABKIEWICZ it would a patronymic tag for someone whose dad was nikcnamed Żabka (the frog).
ZĄBKIEWiCZ: in turn would be the son of someone nicknamed Ząbek (little tooth).
In both cases the dad may have had a topo-patronymic nick: the first guy was called Żabka because he came from Żabków (Frogton), and the second was nicknamed Ząbek because he hailed from Ząbków (Toothville).

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


The exisitence of Poland's Foundation of Court-wronged Dads tells it all. And that's only one such organisation in Poland. If such groups exist in puny, little Poland, imagine how many there msut be in the West. But I'll leave that to you to Google and track down.

In Poland, it is difficult to communicate with their own children when you do not live with them, I decided regardless of the unfavorable reviews, look at this problem more closely. Fathers in Poland after the breakup and the married, have almost no potency to influence on the development of their children. Everyone knows that the most important person in the life is proper targeting at a young age. "What shell soaked in his youth that smacks of old-age." A man is most sensitive at a young age when his head first appear interests and passions.

fundacjaojcow.org.pl

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]


I thought skóra referred to a leather jacket???

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Is the fact that woman family court judges nearly always rule in favour of women an example of your 'fairer society'? By your definition, is that direct or indirect discrimination?

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]


So that description fit you only up till your 10th birthday? Ciekawe!

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]

That's obvious. Poles were trying to defend themselves against the rampaging Ukrainian terrorists who used the most barbaric of massacre techniques -- forks, axes, iron bars, impaling stakes, drownign people in wells and torching of homesteads. When Poles tried to escape the conflagration, they were bludgeoned to death by bloodthirsty Ukrainian thugs.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

The marriage penalty of Obama's America is really an arse-backward arrangement. The state should promtoe and foster marirage because it provides social stability, kids growing up with both mum and dad as role models and in general is a better solution tuion for society as a whole. Discouraging it by punitively taxing married people as opposed to singles is weird, stupid and counter-productive indeed.

It's difficult to priase anyhting the Soviet-backed PRL regime did, but maybe the bykowe (bull tax) could be an exception. People over a certain age (21 and later 25) who were unmarried paid higher taxes.

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bykowe

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]


To each her own!

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]

Anyone on PF use siema, siemanko, nara, pozdro, heja, spoko and the like on a regular basis (not as a joke)?
How about pochwa?
Seems a young priest teaching catechism in school heard kids saying siema, nara and spoko and wanted to sound cool and trendy himself. So when he entered the classroom he would greet the kids with a rousing POCHWA! (short for Niech będzie Pochwalony Jezus Chrystus).

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


You could always introduce a chidless tax for thsoe not helping to solve the demographic crisis.
That's why governing is such a damn tough task. Trying to reconcile conflicting interests when resoruces are nearly always in short supply can be daunting if not downright impossible at times. But because of the goodies involved, there is never a shoratge of politcians trying to gain a place at the trough and stay there as long as possible.

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]


Sorry. I beat my breast. Siema and siemanko are slang for 'haya doin'?' It's not something you'd say to your uni professor, priest (over 50) or elderly aunt.

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Paulina
Who said anything asbout sacking a pregnant woman or someone who takes ill? But some type of financial adjustment should be available to the employer as well. Same with any worker regardless of sex who is chronically ill and constantly on sick leave. No institution or company can operate that way. A husband should be able to care for the child if the mother has a better job and he is willing. Poles have already coined a term for it -- urlop tacierzyński.

If we are for free enterpise, then the entrepreneur should not be penalised. Maybe he could pay the returning mother 80% of her previous salary (for the inconvenience and disruption her absence may have caused) for a fixed period of time with the government covering the remaining 20%.

Language / Polish slang phrases - most popular. [606]

It's pronoucned roughly like sheh-MAHN-ko. The first syllable is like the 'she' in shepherd or Shetland.
What is the age of your pupils?

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


And what is the body count on both sides of the Wołyń massacre?

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]


Including the right to work in a colliery or sewer, as a deep-sea fisherperson, bin collector and street sweeper? Total parity would have to apply to all fiields of endeavour. Somehow feminists want the cushy, well-paid, managerial or otherwise prestigious posts and are happy to leave the hard, dirty and dangerous jobs to men. Is that equality?

And if there is to be equal pay for equal job performance in any field, what is to be done about maternity? Must the employer bear the entire brunt of that situation, be caught short-handed and/or have to dismiss a freshly trained replacement after the mother returns to her job?

It's easy to bandy slogans such a 'equality' and 'parity' about, but what about their practical implementation?

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

SERNAKER: A variant form of Sarnaker -- Yiddish toponymic nick for someone from the village of Sarnaki; the Polish toponymic would be Sarnacki.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

JERZEWSKI: root-word Jerzy (first name George); this is a typical toponmyic nickname-turned-surname derived from the locality of Jerzewo (Georgtown).

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


How far back do you want to go? To the migraiton of peoples period? The Avars, Huns, Mongols, Goths and myriad other tribal nations wandered across Europe to and fro, conquering, interbreeding, annexing and in turn receding, disappearing or melting into the then-indigenous population.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


Unlike non-colonial countries which over the ages have conquered and annexed adjacent territory, the Brits (together with the Dutch, French, Spanish and Portuguese) conquered and took possession of (or stole, if you prefer) land at every corner of the globe. They claimed it, exploited it to the hilt and reduced its rightful owners to serf or slave status.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


Look who's talking! Any Brit is the least qualified to accuse another nation of land stealing. Britain's colonial terrorist expeditionary forces conquered countries at every corner of the globe, stole, carried away or despoiled natural resources and killed, maimed, tortured and jailed natives trying to defend their land. Under their blood-stained Union Jack, British colonisers forcibly shoved their English language, culture and folkways down the throats of unwilling people world-wide. The settling of eastern reaches of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth by several thousand Polish freedom-fighters in tiny, puny, little Poland pales by comparison. It's a question of a huge soot-stained cauldron calling a speck of coal black!

USA, Canada / Pierogi Festivals across the States [17]

Merged: Georgia's 5th Annual Pierogi Festival

Georgia is not the kind of place one usually thinks of when Polonia is mentioned, but in recent years that state's PolAm community has been steadily growing. Part of hte reason is climate -- Snowbirds (PolAms from northenr cold-belt states) are moving in droves to warmer climes including Georgia, North Carolina, Florida and Arizona. Here is yet another example of the unique cultural role played in Poland and Polonia by the RCC.

5th Annual Pierogi Festival
Saturday, August 24th, 2013 from 1pm-8pm

Polish Catholic Apostolate in the Archdiocese of Atlanta
St. Margueritte d'Youville Church Parish Hall
85 Gloster Rd Lawrenceville GA 30044

Merged: Oct. 7th was National Pierogi Day in America

National Pierogi Day was celebrated in the USA on 7th October. Pierogi are all-time favourites not only amongst PolAms. They are sometimes referred to as filled dumplings, Polish ravioli or dough pockets, but the term pierogi is becoming increasingly well-known. Polish clubs, restaurants, parishes and community center serve up countless pierogi on that day. To the chagrin of PF's veteran Polonia-bashers the beer and vodka flow, polka music is heard and everybody has a great time.

Food / Polish head cheese [46]

Aspic dishes -- be it jellied pig trotters or fish in aspic -- are a delicious gourmet delight. Salceson (brawn, head-cheese) is more earthy peasant fare, but also very nice. Smazcnego!

Life / Professional feminists' of Poland meet-up [631]

Clementine Ford, an Australian feminist, is fired up about women getting more "recognition". But how is that different from racism? She sees herself not as an individual, but as a member of a valued group. In her Fascist mind, people are divided into two groups: Men (evil) and women (virtuous): Not all that different from Hitler. Men by contrast don't think of themselves as primarily "men". They think of themselves in much less broad categories. My most common self-description, for instance, is "a born academic". It never occurs to me to mention that I am a male.

And this refusal to treat people as just people, but instead obsessing over what lies between their legs, is irritating. Feminist assertion tends to produce a backlash. Mostly men just shake their heads at it but, given anonymity, they may say what they really think of it and of the shrews who utter it. Many people object to racism. It is equally reasonable to object to feminism

pcwatch.blogspot.com

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

GÓRNIAK: (pronounced: GOOR-nyahk); root-word góra (mountain, hill) and adjectival derivative górny (higher, upper). Many localities Poland comprise two parts (neighboring villages or townships), one of which is called górny (upper) the other -- dolny (lower), eg Brzezina Górna and Brzezina Dolna (Upper Birchville and Lower Birchville). Area residents would refer to the person from the former as Górniak for short meaning the guy from the upper one.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]


Karol (like the late John Paul II) and Eleanora. In Polish there would be no initial f. You're probably right that the name got Anglo-mangled by some British clerk at the UK border or elsewhere. The English are not generally known for their foreign language skills.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

georgiegirl13
Ruszkowski is more like it. That would have originated as a toponymic tag (named after a place-name) to indicate an inhabitant of some locality such as Ruszków or Ruszkowice. The Rufskufska veriion you gave led me to track down surnames starting with Ruf, Ruw and Rów.

You may be interested to know there were nobles amongst the Ruszkowskis belonging to a number of different gentry clans including £abędź, Bożcza, Gryf and Lubicz. (Google these if you want to see what they look like.)

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

The closest I could find were names such as Rufiński (Rufińska = feminine version), Ruwiński and Rówieński.
Tabitha doesn't ring a bell. It is surely not a Polish name -- maybe Jewish?

USA, Canada / Looking for Polish people in Pensacola? [15]

American Polish Lowland Sheepdog Club - Pensacola, Florida
5090 Leesway Ter
32504-4324