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


But your lack of na answer as to whether you believe in full parity and equality exemplifies one of your typical ruses
-- sidetrack the discussion, latch onto some peripheral aspect so as to avoid giving a direct answer. So I will reiterate very slowly: Do you believe in full male-female partiy and equality?

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


This is really a waste of time becuase I can see you are in one of your argumentative moods...
But can you find a quote where I said only the woman should maintain high moral standards. Every man who wishes a chaste wife should be prepared to offer her the same or keep his mouth shut. The ability to achieve that ideal is an entriely different matter. That is one argument in favour of early marriage. It is more likely for committed individuals in their 20s to save themselves for marriage than among the 30+ year olds.

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


This is a Wikipedia quote not of my authorship. Quoting things does not necessarily mean identification with what someone else formulated.

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


There is a difference between a dicussion of loose morals and the question of feminist job equality.

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


Bollocks!!!!! I have repeatedly said there should beTOTAL equality between men and women. It is the feminists who pick the ripe, sweet fruit for themselves ('cushy jobs, same pay for poorer performance, etc.) and leave the leftovers for the menfolk.

There should be equal pay for equal performance and 50-50 parity at all job posts including:
-- The military; as many women as men on the front lines in Afghanistan and at army desk jobs;
-- One Wimbledon, Olympics, etc. for both sexes; no men's or women's high jump or hammer throw!
-- Full parity in parliament and cabinet postsas well as in the management of private and public companies:
-- Full parity in nursery school teaching, IT repair and maintenance, janitorial field, fire brigades, supermarket cashiers, airline pilots, etc.
-- Fullparity in mining, road-building, trash removal, etc.
-- Same amount of funding for breast and prostate cancer... etc., etc.
Do you as a true pro-feminist, liberal and democrat oppose true equality?

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

First of all, do you know your line of the Kański family were 'blue-bloods'? Members of the szlachta (gentry) accounted for only about 10% of Polish society. The farmhand or cook at the Kański estate was also called Kański by the locals for easy identification.The only way to find out whether your Kańskis were of noble birth and, if so, which noble clan they belonged to, would be to contact a good professional. Possibly Count Andrzej Zygmunt Rola-Stężycki can help: instytut-genealogii.com.pl

BTW, he traces his ancestry to the Noble Clan of Rola, one of the gentry to which the Kańskis belonged.

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

BARANIAK: root-word baran (ram, male sheep). The -ak is a typcial patronymic ending, so someone nicknamed Baran (in Polish that creature is regarded as stubborn), fathered a son, the offspring would get called Baraniak. Or maybe Barański, Baraniec, Baraniewicz or Baranowicz (Polish is rich in variant forms). The English equivalent would be Ramson.

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


Again a failure to define terms and confusing issues. There is a huge difference between women-hating and having reservations about some of the radical feminist notions and agendas.

News / Poland to reject Snowden asylum bid [59]

Russian security agency to buy typewriters to avoid surveillance
by Anna Arutunyan at 11/07/2013 12:26
Russia's Federal Protection Service (FSO), the Kremlin agency that protects state officials like the president and the prime minister, has ordered 20 typewriters in an apparent bid to avoid leaks and surveillance like those revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

An order for 20 typewriters and 600 ink cartridges costing up to 486,500 rubles was placed by the agency earlier this month, according to documents published on the official site for government tenders.

According to sources in the agency, security agents want to use typewriters instead of computers to avoid leaks and electronic surveillance.

themoscownews.com/russia/20130711/191758523/Russian-security-agency-to-buy-typewriters-to-avoid-surveillance.html

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


Is it Stuglik or Struglik?


Actually this is quite striaghtforward. The -wicz can only be a patronymic tag so this name (if it existed) would have originated to identify the son of someone nicknamed Brzęczyszczyk.

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

WESO£OWSKI-PAS£AWSKI

WESO£OWSKI: root-word wesoły (happy, jolly, cheery); more likely than not it originated as a toponmyic tag for an inhabitant of some such village as Wesoła, Wesołów, Wesołowo, Wesółka and similar (Jollyton, Happyville, Cheerbury).

A dozen people use the Wesłowski spelling which was an obvious misspelling of Wesołowski. No-one uses the Wesowski spelling.

PAS£AWSKI: toponymic tag for an inhabitant of the village of Pasławki in northern Poland's Masuria region.

KAŃSKI: root-word kania (kite - bird of the hawk family); could have arisen as a patronymic nick for the son of someone called or nicknamed Kania or as a toponymic tag for someone from one of several villages named Kania or Kanie.

There were four noble lines amongst the bearers of the Kański surname entitled to identify with the following coats of arms: Gryf, Janina, Rola or Sas.

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BARTOSZEWSKI: possibly a patronymic nick for the son of Bartosz, but far more likely (nearly all -ewski ending surnames are dervied from place-names) a tag for someone from the villages of Bartosze, Bartoszewo, Bartoszów and similar.

GÓRKIEIWCZ: a patronymic nick for the son of someone known as Górka (meaning little hill, hillock), possibly because he haield from the village of Górka..

KOWALSKI: a patronymic nick for the son or heloper of the kowal (blacksmith); or a toponymic nick for soemone from the village of Kowale (Smithville); Kowalski is Poland's second most popular nickname shared by some 140,000 people; Nowak is No. 1 with around 200,000 users.

WIELICKI: either a toponymic tag for someone from the town of Wieliczka or possibly a patornymic nick for the son of some Wielisław or Wielimir.

STRUGLIK: root-word strugać (to carve in wood, whittle), hence most likely an occupational tag from a woodcarver or woodworker; possibly also a toponymic tag from someone from Strug or Strugi.

KOSAK: root-word kos (blackbird); probably a patronymic nick for the son of someone nicknamed Kos

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

PAW£OWSKI: You are correct to assume that this surname is traceable to both patronymic (Paulson) and toponymic (from Paulville) sources.
Although this is not to suggest that your line of the Pawłowski family was of noble birth, there were numerous gentry lines amongst yoru namesakes who belonged to such clans as Gozdawa, Godziemba, Bawola głowa, Jastrzębiec, Leliwa, Lubicz, Ślepowron and Prus. There was even an own-name clan whose coat of arms depicted the head of a white billy goat on a red shield.

News / Poland will have a queen again [75]

Anyone heard of the Polish monarchist movement? If a monarchy is a way to end or at least limit mindless feuding and bickering, then that might be something worth considering in Poland. Unfortunately, even the monrachist movement is deeply divided. Here is the link to one of them:

legitymizm.org/english

News / Poland will have a queen again [75]


You mean there are countires that squabble more than Poland?! Not necessarily along ethnic lines but in terms of an overall 'squabble index'.

News / Poland will have a queen again [75]


So would it be exactly like the Queen of England or are there some differences? Apart form the obvious one of her being the head of the Church of England?

News / Poland will have a queen again [75]


Why is that formulation always used? No-one says King of the Norwegians or Danes, do they?

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

PYSZKO: likely root-word pyszny (proud, haughty); perhaps a nick for such an indivudal; or a toponymic tag for someone from Pyszków or Pyszkowo (Proudville).

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


Clever repartees instead of addressing the speicifc issues being raised. Typical of many PF-ers.

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

This is not about me but about feminism. There are too many PF-ers who launch into ad hominem attacks when they run out of arguments. Justify, explain or overturn the points in the preceding post. They have all come up in the course of this thread, so I have only compiled them.

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

This is another example of feminist hypocrisy. They are clamouring for equality, except ('Animal farm' style) they wish to be more equal than men. Either you're equal or you get preferential treatment. They want it both ways. Examples include:

--lighter sentences for wiomen committing the same crime;
--family courts favouring women in divorce and custody cases;
--parity but only with regards to high-paying, decision-making posts (the men can keep their dirty, danegrous jobs).
--same prizes for poorer sport performance (equality of higher-performance men's and poorer women's divisions).
--more state funding of research on breast cancer than prostate cancer, both of whcih claim roughly the same number of lives each year.
Know fo any other examples?

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]


Isn't the literal meaning 'may God save you'? (spasi Bog). That's similar to our Polish 'Bóg zapłać (may God repay you).

News / Poland to reject Snowden asylum bid [59]

If caught, he will be tried in the USA for treason and sentenced to life in prison. Putin said Snowden can stay in Russia as long as he ceases his activites detrimental to 'our American partners'.

Language / Slavic languages words similarities with Polish [240]

Why don't you also add Russian? That'd show in which cases Ukrainian is closer to Russian or Polish.

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

KAWSKI: likely root-word kawa/kawka (jackdaw, the least skittish and most domesticable bird of the crow family); since most -ski ending surnames are of toponymic orign, this one is probably traceable to some such locality as Kawki or Kawce.

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

He may have been a native Pole who made his living selling light woollen fabrics from Orléan and got the Orlen-derived tag attached to him.

Pawacki: No-one at present uses this name in Poland. If it existed. it might have been derived from Paweł (Paul) or paw (peacock).
You needn't apologise for asking about surnames. If you've got more, bring them on. That's what we're here for!

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

There is a small dads' rights movement in Poland which accuses family courts of nearly always favouring women in their rulings. Usually the judges are also women and that ensures judicial 'impartiality' (LOL!)

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


Please explain?

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


You're damn right. Catholic teaching opposes killing the unborn, infanticide and euthanasia. Exteme anarchic licence can be pursued with impunity only an a desert island, but in society such notions only create chaos.

Man-made law has included the right to kill Jews (Hitler), businessmen and smallholders (Stalin) and unborn babies (feminists). Human life is the most precious of values and can expect protection only under natural law (called God's law by some).

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

I have repeatedly said I support equal pay for equal perfperformance. No-one should be discriminated or ostracised JUST for being a woman, or a man for that matter. And I have been officially delcared a cultrual feminist. While I was intially shocked, I humbly accept that title. I do not particulary like the terms feminist and feminism, and brought up masculinism with tognue in cheek only to show how ludicrous those -isms are. Humanism is a far better label and approach.

We all share the same planet and should complement one another, not pursue a 'hurray for our side' mentality. As a traditionalist, I do not particularly fancy attacks on religion, the language and the traditional family

I did notice that some female posters got hot under the collar at what they perceived as an attack on women where none existed. Mentioning the potential disruption of the workplace caused by maternity and to a lesser extent by monthly health issues and PMS is not an attack on woman but a question how to resolve the problem. Should the employer alone bear the entire brunt of the consequences? Can he be condemned if he prefers to hire a male rather than a female with the same qualificaitons, since in the first case he will avoid those problems. And the question of more funding for breast cancer than prostate cancer research, unequal sporting competitions and leaving the hard, dirty and danagerous jobs to men are not attacks. They are issues that should be calmly discussed. But often even trying to discuss them earns one the label of a mysoginist.