Law / POLISH BEER IMPORT TO UK [37]

Buddy, Polish beer is way better than Belgian. The later, e.g. Stella Artois, tastes to me like pi$$. And it can't compare with the English bitter, particularly ESB, or even Japanese beer. Belgian pi$$, pardon me, "beer,", has been so omnipresent, I think, only thanks to clever advertising and deep-rooted stereotyping. Who would buy Zywiec in Belgium, you ask? Aren't there any Poles in Belgium? The fact that they're ready to pay much more for Polish beer than Belgian is proof of the Polish beer superiority. By the way, you're using our great King's last name as a nick, but, I noticed, you are a vicious Polonophobe. Are all Belgians as Polonophobic as you? Are you really Belgian, or, say, Jewish "Belgian"?

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Law / POLISH BEER IMPORT TO UK [37]


Sorry, bud, but you avent persuaded me. I developed my preferences over long years, after having tried hundreds of brands. My most favourite is the ESB, which means extra special bitter (if it's cooled properly), then Japanese, German, Polish Zywiec and Czech pilsner.

I'll try some of those you mentioned. No hard feelings, but I hate Stella Artois.

Regards.

Love / My Polish bf cheated on me with a black girl [45]


Hon, don't get mad, get even. Go for another Polish guy, maybe one whom your boyfriend knows.

You sound like a great woman - honest and sensitive, and you deserve a good guy who'll make you happy, not miserable.

All the best to ya; hope you hit upon Mr Right very soon.

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]

A great thread - thanks. In reality, our nobility had probably as many titles as its equivalents elsewhere. We can look into the subject in a greater depth. For the time being, I recommend the following Polish heraldry sites:

gajl.wielcy.pl

ebuw.uw.edu.pl/dlibra/publication?id=49

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herb_szlachecki_(lista_herb%C3%B3w)


Why wouldn't you know? If you try to dig into the subject, do some serious research, you should succeed in finding out. So the Polish nobility was allegedly "very different to the rest of Europe"? Why? - "Very different" - wow. Concerning Norman Davies, I would advise some caution with his opinions. Not because he is allegedly a "Polonophile." Actually, from my viewpoiont, he is at times Polonophobic. ( I noticed that, sometimes, when somebody likes another nation, he at the same time has a dislike towards it. Strange how the human mind works.) For example, in "Rising 44" he skips mentioning the Polish last names, uses only the first letters of them, on the grounds they're too difficult for the British public to read, or something of this sort. And he quotes a stupid, racist opinion of Dickens on the Polish language as a justification for it. Norman Davies is Welsh and, if I remember it right, in "Isles" he complains about the discrimination by the English against the Welsh language. So when he says the Polish nobility was "very different" from the nobles elsewhere, I advise not to take his word for it.

Life / Polish sentimental ballads [38]


Do YOU really like Myslovitz, a Polish band? YOU?

I'm knocked out.

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Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]


I guess you are right about the titles. And yes, we were different in the way we related to our royals; they were elected, not inheriting the throne. The political system we had during the First Commonwealth is called "demokracja szlachecka" meaning: "noble democracy." It was a democracy, but exclusively for the szlachta (the nobility). The peasant masses did not participate in it.

So you are Eastern Ukrainian? Maybe of Cossack origin?

Nice to meet you, brother.

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]


Very interesting - a religious Jew coming from - as I understand - the Polish szlachta, amongst others?

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]

There were some Jews knighted by the Polish kings after having converted to Christianity. In fact, my own family on my dad's side comes from such converts (in the 1700s Ukraine, which was part of Poland then). They, those Jewish converts on my family's spear side, were called the Frankists, and, as I understand, were strongly disliked by the Talmudic Jews.


Do you mean what were the relations between the szlachta nad the peasantry? If so, they weren't great, I'm afraid.

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]


Gene, I gladly will, but a little later. I haven't forgotten your thread and your question; I'm just a bit busy now. Just a quickie: in Poland we have a monumental work, by medievalist Kazimierz Tymieniecki (d. 1968), entitled "Historia chlopow polskich" (History of Polish Peasantry; 3 volumes ).

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

Or "Boże błogosław."

Genealogy / Poland Heraldry and Nobility in names/families [59]


Gene, sorry, brother, for not writing yet on the subject of nobility- peasants relations. It's not that I'm disregarding you, only when I discuss a subject I try to have my facts right. It's common knloledge the noble tratment of peasantry in Poland wasn't nice, but I'd like to give you some good examples. I had a book with some graphic descriptions and I've been looking for it unsuccessfully.


I don't think it's a good idea; to me it's a fishy, political move. If Anglo-language audience can tolerate, for instance, full, unshortened Russian or indeed East Indian names, it can tolerate Polish ones as well.

Work / Are there any Americans teachers left in Poland? [38]


Facts seem to show Poles like both British and American teachers.


AT LONG LAST a normal guy here who says straightforward the essential truth about Poland and Polish people.

Hello, brother.

:)