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isthatu2   
10 Jan 2013
History / Should we glorify Polish secondary female characters from history? [36]

The book was dramatised by the BBC and will show this friday on TVP HD

Gaze in wonder at dog sh!t free streets and walls free of Graffitti ,great job location scouts/set hands :)

The first part was on last night on the BBC :)

Back to topic, no need to invent female historically important people,just do a bit of research,trouble is,they tend not to have been involved in nice,TV documentry friendly activities like war and destruction so no chance for archive footage of tanks and guns n stuff.....

you call us Eastern Europe we call the battle Bitwa o AngliÄ™ - tit for tat ;)

Actually,it seems most of the muppets call you *easter europeans*.... ;)
isthatu2   
10 Jan 2013
History / Should we glorify Polish secondary female characters from history? [36]

You had moving pictures in your school books? Wow, you did go to a Posh school didnt you? We shared books between 3 or 4 lol

BTW,that picture comes from film footage.
I still say ,for bored 14/15 year olds it does sum up Polands chances against the (at the time,obviously) modern German forces and the Blitzkrieg.

Why should British kids spend more time on the subject when the Blitz and Battle of Britain (not fekking Bitwa England as you guys call it...grrrrr) gets covered in maybe one 1 hour lesson?

What you younger Poles need to realise is that before 2004 the perception of Poles,especially the war time generations was very very high in Britain,everyone had a good story about some Poles they knew or had served with,half our war films had brave Poles in them etc.

Things have only changed once todays moaning ,whining, self sorrying (is that a word lol) generation has turned up claiming all sorts of rubbish.
( Yes,our British youth are just as pathetic compared to our own war time generation too though...)

ps, Did you watch Spies of Warsaw last night? Cant wait for the moaning and ******** to start on here once it gets shown in Poland......:)
isthatu2   
10 Jan 2013
History / Should we glorify Polish secondary female characters from history? [36]

let us deconstruct the word 'history' - HIS- STORY - not herstory is it?

Lols, you tell the OP off for using *wimmin* as its outdated 1970s rhetoric then you come out with that nonsense ...... I suppose next you will be saying that Woman comes from Woo a Man......:)

The simple fact is,99% of the world gets written out of History,its only ever the movers and shakers who get remembered and frankly for hundreds of years thats been men.

What did you think back then when you heard about it?

Dont get that topic going,again, FFS, EVERYONE who cares knows that its partly propaganda...........But, I know the photo Roz means,and its not a cut and paste job at all, its that famous one of the regiment of lancers on white horse wearing French helmets in a pre war army exercise.......its in all the school books. And does Im afraid sum up the fact that the Polish Army of 1939 was well behind the german Army (they are illustrated by lots of Panzers or Stukas).



isthatu2   
10 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

You missed out how we "are all lazy and nobody works hard in England"...always wonder how we managed to have an econamy able to absorb almost 2 million foriegners with no ties to the country within two or three years if our nation was so fekless, how come our lazy arses were able to create so many jobs for you Polish people when good old polska couldnt ?

Dont worry,its a rhetorical question, Id never expect an honest answer :)
isthatu2   
10 Jan 2013
Life / Poland's concord of cultures [86]

Dont worry, we Brits will not be offended.
After all,where he lives the Police need Shotguns and Glocks for riot control while our *brutal Police* use a plastic stick and some rather coarse language :)
isthatu2   
10 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

There are a lot of vegetarians in the UK. Do they smell different to the meat eaters?

Yes, of course they do,anyone who has lived with a veggie can tell you that..............my god, you are hard work..... do you really have the brains of a cuttlefish or are you just a boring troll?
isthatu2   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

How many English people do you think eat Bigos?
Its frankly vile to our tastebuds .
I can see though that you have caught the *I am never wrong* bug while in oland,either that or you really are thick as two short planks.

Lets spell it out in easy clear terms....
Person A from Gdansk eats Weetabix for breakfast
Person B from Grimsby eats SugerPuffs for breakfast
Person Bs **** is going to smell of Sugerpuffs for 24 hours while Person As wont......
if you are only being argumentative its really rather tiresome,if however you are just thick..... its the food that people consume that defines a part of their body odour so a Pole eating bangers and mash only will smell Atypical just as a Brit eating Cabbage based stuff all the time will be Atypical....
isthatu2   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

There is a whole thread based on Polish head shape. Some non-Poles notice the difference, All Poles deny it.

Of course I meant Foreceps not *calopers* or whatever the heck I wrote,but,thank you.....yes.
What makes me chuckle though is everything is taken as an insult no matter how neutral the statement, thats more proof of that huge chip on the shoulder so many Poles still carry :) (of course,that trait is always denied too... :) ) No one but the people complaining read into a statement about head shapes any supperiority or inferiority in shapes.....

Of course, anyone who's been eating curry smells 'different'. It doesn't matter whether you are British, Asian or Polish.

You aint the brightest penny in the pile are you? Mind you.....stuck in Poland, no sexy ewes,you must be going bonkers.....
The Polish diet is very different to the average English diet hence the different smells...its really very simple,even for a hobbit from the valleys with some weird arse 1970s pc blindness to any differences in human beings...you know what, I can spot the difference between black and white people too...I bet you are one of those types who describes the only Black man in the room as *the one in the green shirt,red trousers,dark hair,largish lips,quite wide nose....* but never once dare say Black....
isthatu2   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

Is that in the film? I never did get round to watching that.......
In the TV shows he did over here he only spoke English with a *comic* accent with a couple of Polish phrases thrown in :)

Polish people have 'pointy heads' and smell 'different'. Double face-palm.

Did I say ALL Polish people have pointy heads? Nope.
Calopers for birth are far more or were far more commonly used in the former communist countries,hence some Poles having the distinct pointy head look that this can leave after a soft babies skull has been gripped by metel clamps during birth......

So, taff, will you say that British Asians dont smell differently from White Brits? If so you are lying, their diet of far more curry than us gives them a different smell.

Eat more cabbage and pierogi than bangers and mash and you are going to smell differently.
Sorry my Welsh friend but you just show your own daftness/PC correctness with that claim.
isthatu2   
9 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

No,true, they are Scousers,natives of Liverpool,also another distinct *race* (actually ,species...)in England....... :)
isthatu2   
9 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

Have you seen "Big fat gypsy wedding" already? I presume the people there are not British but in fact Polish. How did it go, once again:

Nope, those critters are irish , nowt to do with us :)
isthatu2   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

Then you'll be all aware that no one says "meerkat" instead of "market" ;)))

Oh,dont lol....I love the meerkat but I do get boring on the topic :)
Did you know he is named after (accidently I hope) the NKVD boss sent by Stalin to republican Spain to destabilise their fight against the fascists ?

Seeemples.
PS,some of us even know that Borat doesnt speak Khazak but actually Polish ;)
isthatu2   
9 Jan 2013
Genealogy / Polish looks? [1462]

Maybe,dare I say it,we in Britain are just far more used to foreigners than you guys in Poland?
Honestly,no one is saying ALL Poles in the UK are the Chavy shell suit wearing,Lech swilling types they are just the most obvious ones as its a different style of chavness to our native one :)

But,apart from that,yes,in general there is a Slavic look and a more Germanic look. *Slavic* women tend to have weaker features (more *feminine* if you like ;) ) and *Slavic* men often have slightly pointy heads......no idea what that is about but line up 10 shaven headed blokes and I bet WB and me could pick out the English from the Polish lol

Of course its not a universal rule as people in Poland always think Im a native or at least of Polish heritage,but I get that everywhere in Europe,I guess Ive just one of those faces lol.....

But,will you take it from those of us who have commented,we speak (some) Polish,can certainly tell the difference between the Polish language and the Russian or Hungarian or Baltic languages . There are a hell of a lot more of you here than the official statistics would claim.

BTW,no, I dont live in a Big City either, I live in a small town,almost a village and even we have a Polski Sklep and Polski product shelves in most of our shops :)

PS,OP, yes,you do often smell differently, the Polish diet is very different to the average british diet....your cigarettes smell differently too....
isthatu2   
9 Jan 2013
UK, Ireland / Polish city that's moved to Britain [120]

She looks Polish though.

+1 lol....I wondered what his point was then...
Do Poles not in the Uk think its only well dressed amature Ambassadors for Polska who are here?
Seriously, the orange faces and high pitched screaching between every single word said to their six foot shaved headed half track suit half unknown warsaw pact cammo outfit wearing boyfriends is a bit of a give away to anyone here in the UK ,not to mention all the PL plated cars on the roads,or rather half on roads half on pavements or wherever they damn well decidfe to stop their BMW to pop into one of two dozen Skleps on that street..... :)
isthatu2   
31 Dec 2012
History / Poznan Castle did Hitler stay there? [12]

looking to pick a fight might get you just that, so be careful what you’re looking for. Is that blunt enough for you

Grow up you silly little boy. Its funny you still dont see how dumb you were do you? Nevermind,if you had brains you'd be a danger .....
isthatu2   
30 Dec 2012
History / Poznan Castle did Hitler stay there? [12]

Laughable because it is your interpretation.

He doesnt seem the sharpest pencil in the case,Id walk away whistling old boy,leave him to bark to his self :)
Is it another of ironsides IDs? The irational jumping on a mis interpretation on his part which leads to him accussing you of all sorts of things you clearly never said?
isthatu2   
30 Dec 2012
History / Poznan Castle did Hitler stay there? [12]

lol, trying a web search with Hitler in it,good luck....
Ok,he certainly didnt make a famous visit there,so.....following the link for the local Gaulieter on the wiki page you used (?) it looks like the *only* senior nazis he hosted were Bormann,Goebbels and Himmler in 43.
isthatu2   
30 Dec 2012
News / Today's release of UK govt papers under the 30 year rule - JPII and the US look bad [18]

Yes. Everything is fair game including ones self. Doesn't seem so popular in Poland though :)

Its the one thing that bugs me about Jonny Foreigner in general,they all seem so bl**dy up their own bums and take themselves far too seriously :)

Its the fact that Americans feel the need to have those " Roasts" as though taking the p!ss out of someone is some special event and not just standard behavior that points this up :)

Britain selling arms to the openly fascist Pinochet regime is completely moral?

You pose a question to a statement I never made,is that moral?
Of course not,why do so many people have such a problem switching off the Nationalist button in their brains. Its quite easy to disagree with things carried out by a government that was in power when you were an 8 year old....

One can hold two seemingly oppossing positions if one is open minded enough and wasnt brainwashed from childhood by one particular cult ,dogma,race,tribe or other.

There is nothing more dangerous than silly humanities students applying bollox to the real world.

Exactly,Ive always said its a good job I have no power or influence :)
isthatu2   
29 Dec 2012
History / 'Prehistory' Celts in Southern Poland [20]

The tribe was called the Cotini and was related to the Celts

Cool,now this stuff fascinates me and I can believe it. Its when peole just come out with stuff like " Ive got Celtic DNA" I just think,yeah,whatever you say.........er,pass the beer :)

Its fascinating if you can get that deep,I keep promising myself I'll do the test some day but my Y chromosones will probably be a bit boring as they are irish, its the X one Im looking for to have some continental connections ,lets hope a great great great great etc Granny shacked up with an exotic Roman Legionaire from somewhere on the fringes of Empire :)

( The local *legions* here were the Crispus son of Constantines Panonian Cavalry.....)
isthatu2   
29 Dec 2012
News / Today's release of UK govt papers under the 30 year rule - JPII and the US look bad [18]

you are missing the point as usual.

Far from it, you called a polymath, multi lingual near genius an "Idiot", Im thinking you haven't got to *I* in the Polish/English dictionary yet ? :)

FYI, it was not Henry who saw off the Armada it was one of his Daughters,Good Queen Bess, Liz the First, the protestant one who did that,well, with some help from the wind and the finest Navy in the world who actually knew how to use the cannons on their ships unlike the papal crusades lot of incompitant mumpties. :)

It was and is very popular in England. Where I live its mostly RC Churches

Yeah,I never get this whole absence of RC/ presumed *hate* for RC in England, we crack jokes but no more than about the French or the Germans or each other, half my mates went to RC Highschools and one of my Uncles was a Dominican Brother then Priest. Maybe in Liverpool there is a bit of tension still,but thats always been like Glasgow for having imported Northern Ireland to the mainland.
isthatu2   
29 Dec 2012
News / Today's release of UK govt papers under the 30 year rule - JPII and the US look bad [18]

it never happen though so why worry about it.

Exactly. Uncle Sam came through for us in its own quiet way. As a few have pointed out this was at the height of the whole *Red menace* rubbish in Latin America so while what the US ( condoned by JP )was shockingly wrong,immoral and plain criminal it worked out OK for us in the end.

The real villains of that debacle were the French,still trying to sell more Exxocets to the Argies even after the invasion.....and we now share aircraft carriers with those duplicitous bast*rds!

( Mind you,Oran....)

Not to mention that that idiot

yes...lol...*idiot*...telll me, since Britan gained its freedom from Rome did it do poorly or rise to rule most of the world?
Lets compare that to the servile states tied to Rome, Oh yeah,still clawing their way out of the dark ages and the poorest in Europe.

Bless you though,showing such concern for our souls,its really rather christian of you..... :)
isthatu2   
27 Dec 2012
History / 'Prehistory' Celts in Southern Poland [20]

But, there is no such thing as *Scottish Celtic* people.
There were people who lived in Scotland who had similar lifestyles to other so called *Celts* but the Scots were actually Irish,and the Irish were only *Celtic* by culture. Modern Scots are a mix of Pre *celt* Picts, *Irish*,* Vikings* and *Anglo Saxons*.

But, DNA wise,its not really a surprise that people from different sides of Europe can share certain similarities considering our Ancestors didnt just spring out of the ground where we live now. A trace of DNA does not mean a mass population movement,it could just be a coule of trading ships with very horny crewmen on board :)
isthatu2   
25 Dec 2012
Travel / Castles and Palaces in Poland (with pictures) [154]

BTW: Some of the Welsh castles really do look badass.

Too right, the Welsh were a Badass enemy for the English invaders :)

You mean like Caerphilly Castle which dwarfs Malborks 144000m² with its impressive 21000m²?

Nah, Caernarfon mate :) Thing is though, it included an entire town within its outer walls, do we include that or only the actuall castle,bearing in mind this is not like the european idea of a seperate citadel at the time but a fully enclosed town within the defences. ? If we dont Ill probably give you Malbork having the edge :)

Seeing as we are using Wiki
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caernarfon_Castle
Anyway,enough thread hijacking from me,back to castles in Poland :)





isthatu2   
25 Dec 2012
Travel / Castles and Palaces in Poland (with pictures) [154]

You are of course free to continue to believe that the cute Windsor Castle is the largest, doesnt make it right though

If you think the Welsh built Windsor castle there is not much hope in a rational debate....was talking about the Welsh castles,they are huge and taking in the outer walls would dwarf Malbork, but like I say,why so chippy,its not even a Polish castle,its a German castle that happens to be in Poland at the minute. :)

Well, you think wrong and i even linked to the explanation.

No, you linked to wiki.....
isthatu2   
23 Dec 2012
Travel / Castles and Palaces in Poland (with pictures) [154]

It is not only the largest castle in the world

I think its largest brick Castle.....dont get all patriotic though it was ze Germans who built it wasnt it ? :)

Think you need to get ur facts right

If your thinking of the one Im thinking of,carefull now, you guys might have built it but only coz the english made you and then they didnt even invite you to the house warming lol
isthatu2   
23 Dec 2012
News / Black Haitians considering themselves as Poles [31]

Oh shut up gregorys girl,you and your type *blame* the English for pretty much everything, Britain had naffp all to do with Haiti thats why the Hatians speak FRENCH you numptie.....We owned Jamaica,and guess what,they speak ENGLISH....its really very simple even for a retard such as yourself to figure out gregory old lamb.

Thats the problem though, no one else but Poles speak Polish so,yeah,maybe its a concept that flies above your head,shame ww2 started or you guys might have had some Africans of your own.......
isthatu2   
23 Dec 2012
News / Black Haitians considering themselves as Poles [31]

Haiti is the first free Negro state for fought and earned their freedom from The French and The British

WTF are you talking about? The British? We had nothing to do with Haiti except for a couple of years ,as,oddly enough we were kinda fighting a war against the French,had been on and off for about a hundred years and had another 10 years of full on war left.....You lot speak French for a reason after all.....

Loving the idea that the Polish merceneries fighting for old Boney gave a sh!t about the Blacks on Haiti....they had helped France enslave most of Europe just to get a bit of quisling *freedom* in The Duchy of Warsaw, the only reason things went wrong on Haiti was disease,without that you guys would have stayed slaves for another 60 odd years atleast.

But,got to agree with you about your thoughts on certain posters ,dumbassery has no borders.
isthatu2   
22 Dec 2012
History / 'Prehistory' Celts in Southern Poland [20]

That is not what the Arians believed. They believed that Jesus was a divine being created by God. They did not believe that he was merely a man

You are right of course,Im getting my Arians and eastern Gnostics mixed up again :)