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Joined: 30 Mar 2010 / Male ♂
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hague1cmaeron   
19 Apr 2010
Life / Polish patriotic music! [40]

youtube.com/watch?v=qgAhMQRSr7g
youtube.com/watch?v=XqdpZSu6vEE
youtube.com/watch?v=hLLCaMoBB64
youtube.com/watch?v=B29t6xDsL9k

something more modern

youtube.com/watch?v=-YGS9vhmFS0

Polish patriotic songs

here is one more.
youtube.com/watch?v=Wv8LriCtwxE
hague1cmaeron   
20 Apr 2010
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [243]

partly because of so many Polish criminals who had come here

I wouldn't believe him, fact is after reading several newspaper articles and listening to some MP's speeches, there is a far greater native criminal element than among Polish migrants. what you are probably witnessing is an inferiority complex from the former 'working class', who now no longer work and express their inferiority through racism.
hague1cmaeron   
24 Apr 2010
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [243]

Per capita, whom is more inclined to commit crime? Poles or Brits? Please provide stats.

The million or so Poles who have come here in the past five years definitely came to work. They are three times more likely to be law-abiding than the average British resident, and the 134 Polish Catholic churches are packed. The most dreaded words for a Polish priest are not "mortal sin", but "fire regulations".

True, many Poles now go to school here, are treated by the NHS and some receive child benefit, but only three per cent are eligible for other subsidies. There is an extra burden on local health and education authorities and police associations: many of these social costs however are covered by their £1.9 billion a year contribution to the Exchequer in income tax and national insurance, and that figure does not include their contribution to council tax.

telegraph.co.uk/comment/3556852/Why-Britain-needs-Polish-migrants.html

Hopefully this will satisfy you, so in summary they are more law abiding than the natives, harder working than the natives, do not claim as much benefit as the natives and according to this more intelligent than the natives, those with the thick accents anyhow. SO ALL YOU TEACHERS OUT THERE TAKE NOTE!
hague1cmaeron   
2 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Never from Scotland. The only country in Europe to never at any point in history have any anti-semitic law or decree.

Probably because there weren't to many Jews in Scotland to begin with, they were more concerned with clan prejudice than antisemitism. Though come to think of it, you are wrong, considering that Scotland was part of the UK when the Jews were forbidden from standing for the British parliament. This changed sometime in the 19th century, whith the help of dome passionate oratory by a certain Benjamin Disraeli.

take a white polish to asia, he will look like an asian after a century or two even if he marries to a polish female.

That is got to be one of the most idiotic things i have ever heard, why Don't Australians look like aboriginals or white South Africans turn black.

it is just so tragically stupid, ha ha ha.

I don't mean to be offensive by the way.
hague1cmaeron   
2 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

antisemitic laws in Poland started by ethnic Poles?

Yes, Mainly concerned with employment and education.
hague1cmaeron   
2 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

If you mean the pre-war Poland then read this, a good discription of that time:

Thanks for the info, but i already know all of that, I am referring to the university quota system for instance.

I am wondering though, this is from a row concerning my dad in the Australian Medical Journal with a distinguished Jewish gentleman relating to his life story as a doctor. In his life story he mentions that his Dad was denied employed in a Polish hospital in Tarnopol, I am assuming a government one because he was Jewish, and according to his article Jews were denied employed in Polish government run hospitals. What is your view on this?

Anyway my dad did a little research and he noticed a lot of doctors in Tarnopol hospital with what he thinks are Jewish sounding names. More interestingly though he looked at the registry records of doctors who were registered in Poland to practice medicine and he did not find the surname of the gentleman concerned, so he did not appear to be registered.

I believe he studied in Vienna, not in Poland. I wonder what would other perspectives be on this.
hague1cmaeron   
3 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

On the other hand his father could have meant the time before Poland regained its independence

No, this was during Polish independence.
hague1cmaeron   
3 May 2010
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

Thank you for all the information. Yes I think he got caught out for one of the reasons you have mentioned.
hague1cmaeron   
4 May 2010
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [106]

Honestly? Indeed, I don't like Poland, Poles, Polish gov, I cannot understand Polish history, culture, philosophy; simply, there is no ground for proud in it, from my point of view. But, but, I can let you live, I cannot admit you perish in ovens of crematoriums. Is it a Nazi style?

It is only understandable, coming from a country with no concepts of liberty, freedom of the individual and the rule of law, that you should dislike or misunderstand a country that espouses these values. It must be a real drag, because when you look at world history Poland has been by and Large on the side of civilization, Russia on the on the other hand on the opposite side of Poland.

As G.K Chesterton said: I judged the Poles by their enemies. And I found it was an almost unfailing truth that their enemies were the enemies of magnanimity and manhood. If a man loved slavery, if he loved usury, if he loved terrorism and all the trampled mire of materialistic politics, I have always found that he added to these affections the passion of a hatred of Poland. She could be judged in the light of that hatred; and the judgment has proved to be right."

Russia is a prime example of what Mr. Chesterton was on about
hague1cmaeron   
4 May 2010
History / Happy Constitution day! 3 May 1791 (Poland Constitution) [18]

The confederation of Bar happened today in 1791. Short lived and bittersweet, it was none the less a huge leap for European democracy.

My contribution.

youtube.com/watch?v=rqirek3ppQo&feature=related
hague1cmaeron   
4 May 2010
Love / How to show a polish Guy I like him [56]

but I just want to tell him that i have feelings for him, but i don't want to sound wired and desperate.

Show some initiative, most girls assume that guys should take the Lead. Times have changed, so just be straight with him, and tell him how you feel and see what his reaction is, perhaps he feels that you are in a position of strength and feel inhibited.

natasia

disregard the advice from the person mentioned.

Remember don't apologize for your feelings because you are only apologizing for the truth-as Benjamin Disraeli said.
hague1cmaeron   
4 May 2010
Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

hen the Tatars raped and pilaged their way through Poland, children were conceived. These children were raised as Polish. Many Poles have a bit of Asian blood in them.

Again the invasion force was only 10.000 strong and only concentrated in the south of Poland, so it is highly unlikely that they could have left any significant imprint on the population.
hague1cmaeron   
5 May 2010
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [106]

Who is mister Chesterton? Is he the living or dead Prophet or Karl Marx or may be he is infalliable pope? Why we should take all this crap about suffering but undefeated poland in all good faith?

Neither of these: Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 - 14 June 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.

Above all these he was a man with a strong Christian conscience, that is why he abhorred Bolshevik barbarity and atheism and liked Poland.
hague1cmaeron   
6 May 2010
History / Heil Poland!.....? Poland is a pro-Nazi state? [106]

You are the same, the same outfashioned hicks.

So much written to so little effect. You per chance did not realize that he is not Polish did you?
hague1cmaeron   
15 May 2010
Life / Polish patriotic music! [40]

Another few.

youtube.com/watch?v=2x30M1mP40U
youtube.com/watch?v=Bii4ppdiumc
youtube.com/watch?v=7tXs7DOopVY
hague1cmaeron   
23 May 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

It's true though Poland did everything to expell their Germans

BS there were Polish Germans or Germano-Poles fighting for Poland against the Nazis and nobody did anything to expel them.

The Germans expelled from the western regions were expelled for political reasons as well as desperation, as there were millions of eastern Poles who were expelled from what is now the Ukraine and Belorussia and they needed a place to stay.
hague1cmaeron   
23 May 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

It's... typically slavic, eyes close to the nose, and very "deeply implanted" in the skull (which gives the dark circles easily).

It would be good if the racists with their inferiority complex be excluded form this thread.
hague1cmaeron   
26 May 2010
Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]

I film i recently watched based on a novel.

Przedwiośnie 2001. (The spring to come) i found it reasonably OK, although the ending could have been better i guess.
hague1cmaeron   
5 Jun 2010
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

Here is a sample population of Poles, i think it is reasonably indicative, there is a lot of them as they are on parade, mostly army types, but there are quite a few civilians as well.

youtube.com/watch?v=_eGNLf3KUUQ
hague1cmaeron   
6 Jun 2010
News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [422]

. I think in Poland they deliver the majority of the normal balanced politicians

Good Man!
The PO also has a very able cabinet with luminaries such as Rostowski, Sikorski and a few others.
hague1cmaeron   
10 Jun 2010
History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]

Can you name a European nobility that did not exploit its own people? at least the Polish nobility was far more democratic than any other.
hague1cmaeron   
14 Jun 2010
History / Polish and other Slavic nobility in our time [71]

Franciszek Ksawery Branicki:

Opponent of the reforms of the Great Sejm (1788-1792), supporter of the Targowica Confederation. Sentenced to death in absentia by the Supreme Criminal Court during the Kościuszko Uprising (1794). He also fought a duel with the infamous Casanova, in which both were wounded but survived.

duel as depicted by youtube:

youtube.com/watch?v=G1vv44OckR4&feature=related

as described by Casanova himself:
books.google.com.au/books?id=-0F8CRLDPv4C&pg=PA423&lpg= PA423&dq=branicki+Casanowa&source=bl&ots=G4GsdkdIyc&sig=MsqHnRIEJdtFjN qwZD

Sounds like an interesting scoundrel this Branicki.