USA, Canada / American father's son is in Poland, [he's] told to pay child support.... [30]

That is strange, there is more to this case than is being publically stated.

Love / Love without chemistry? (Asian in love with a Polish woman) [195]


The point that everyone is trying to make is that you're not accepting the results.

Love / Love without chemistry? (Asian in love with a Polish woman) [195]

I thought "Asian" in the U.S only meant East Asian? Even though he does sound like a South Asian...

Life / SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT POLAND AND POLISH SOCIETY [297]

Whenever I hear the word "Multicultural" I crave Indian food.

Life / SOME OBSERVATIONS ABOUT POLAND AND POLISH SOCIETY [297]

Wow, what an embarrassing thread, even by PF standards. Some of you really have no decency or humility.

Genealogy / Are all Poles blue eyed and blonde? [451]

Gene inheritance doesn't work like that... if your family is 99% (for example) brown haired and brown eyed, but 1% is blue eyed and red haired, then depending on chance (I don't remember the exact percentages) you could end up with red hair and blue eyes in a very slim likelihood. In other words, just because only some of your genes have the necessary prequisites, it doesn't mean that these genes will be completely diluted by the stronger genes. If you're even a little Irish, then that could explain it. Either that or your mother had an affair at some point (I don't mean to be impolite, but it's a likely scenario, and very common). Are you sure there's no Medittiranean in your family?

Language / Can you recognise the nationality of foreign Polish speakers by their accent? [43]


Which problems are those?

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]


Nice bit of trivia there, relevance?

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]


Too much clarity, it burns!

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Polonius, what you propose doesn't make sense. Jews are characterized by their strong attachment to their culture (not religion), and their "stick together at all costs, **** everyone else" mentality. Poles do not have these characteristics. It's not a good or bad thing, they just don't have them. You can't emulate a culture, and you can't artificially weave one, they progress as they will.

Not only that, but the Jewish mindset is a bunch of crap. Looking after just those people who are of the same ethnicity and culture is a disgraceful way to live, no matter how many rednecks think otherwise. Polish people, for all their apparent racism, just don't have it in them to be this way. That's a good thing.

Lastly, Jews have the intellectual, financial and economic strength to rely on eachother. Poles do not. Becoming an insular society would be just as disastrous to Poland as it would be to any nation.

Language / Ile by nie było to i tak jest za mało [26]


You have to use them practically. Have you tried having conversations with Poles, and just asking them to speak a bit slowly?

EDIT: How old are you?

History / The Untold Battle of Britain [205]

You can watch it ... here (if you're in the UK). The part I like most is the description: "This dramatised documentary..."

Love / I'm a black African man and can't cope with my Polish mother in law [34]


I'm definitely making an assumption, which is why I tailored my reply to function whether it was a troll or someone genuine. Either way I'm satisfied with my initial reply, no problems about condescending someone over a simple matter like this. I'm almost certain it's a troll however.

Language / Can you recognise the nationality of foreign Polish speakers by their accent? [43]

^ Technically they're not incorrect, since English is one of the loosest phonetic languages around. However, most Poles have serious problems with simple English vowel sounds. For some reason they never learn the difference from Polish vowels.

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]

Very nice, we are all collectively offended and outraged at your comments. A deeply sincere strongly-worded post is soon to follow, stand by.

Language / Ile by nie było to i tak jest za mało [26]

I'm inclined to agree, I don't know why they insist on speaking so fast. Do they really have so much information to convey is a short space of time?

History / Warsaw Uprising - The Forgotten Soldiers [117]


Actually his views are pretty much identical to the Nazi racial hierarchy. All that's missing is the mystical element.

EDIT: And like Harry was saying, it's not a matter of "Poles doing X good things" or "Poles doing X bad things". No group of people is completely single-minded. In a morally ambiguous and vicious setting like World War 2, things become blurred, people will react as they will, and it usually doesn't depend upon national identity or sentimentalities. All that national pride crap goes out of the window when it comes down to it, and then you see which individuals are capable of misdeeds and which ones will take up the arduous task of re-asserting morality in the world.

USA, Canada / Poles in America: How do you pronounce your Polish surname? [128]

Perkovvskee

Per - Like pear, but faster
Kov - Like cough, but faster and with a V sound at the end. This is the syllable where you place the emphasis of the word

Ski - Like the sport

Your profile does say you know Polish, eh...

History / Warsaw Uprising - The Forgotten Soldiers [117]

Why? All he's done so far is run down a few historical facts

News / 10,000 ISRAELIS READY TO CLAIM FOR POLISH CITIZENSHIP AND POLISH LAND! [628]

Communism was oppressive for every religion, since it was an ideaology of Atheism. Stalin studied to be a priest when young, but obviously that didn't happen. He was also not a Christian, any proclamation of that would have been political suicide. Trotsky, however, was a Jew.

News / 10,000 ISRAELIS READY TO CLAIM FOR POLISH CITIZENSHIP AND POLISH LAND! [628]

Don't blame me for what is clearly a linguistic limitation. There are no words in English to distinguish an ethnic Jew from a religious Jew from a cultural Jew. Trotsky was ethnically Jewish. And didn't you say yourself that Jews are a race?

Language / Quick Tips for Choosing a Polish Translator [8]

Choose a young University student from Warszawa. Not only will they speak perfect English and Polish, but they'll scold you if you make a mistake in English and constantly assert how much better they are than you at every given opportunity.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]


Because those worthless things are popular precisely because they are worthless. And you assume that this idea of Polish solidarity is a meaningful one...

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

A quick google search shows this as the first result, maybe it will help.
polishforums.com/genealogy-ancestry-6/surname-laszczkowska-44917

UK, Ireland / Are Polish people importing a new wave of ancient racism into the UK? [402]


Except that, as you've hinted at yourself, racism is a natural impulse for humans due to our tribal history. It's much easier to be racist than it is to be non-racist, because the former is driven by primal impulses and the latter on logic. Manipulating large masses of people is easier with a motive like racism (I don't need examples here, it's too obvious). Why? Because racists rely on shock tactics, and shock tactics are effective on the weak-minded and emotionally-driven, which most are. Case in point, the rape stuff you're all bringing up now - blatant shock tactic. Racists can show you biased articles, inaccurate shock statistics, shock images and whatever else, but when it comes to actual real-world applications they fail to bring any evidence whatsoever.


Like all the articles I showed that didn't link immigration with crime whatsoever, and if anything only specified Eastern Europeans? For the record I place about 0.5% faith in online articles, but since everyone else here seems to think they're valid evidence, I have no qualms using them to point out the tirade of fallacies.

MareGaea, I think that analogy is OK, but far too complicated for these people to follow. I think the No True Scotsman fallacy (check wiki) has always been the most perfect description for racists. You see, people, you can take practically any conclusion, opinion, prejudice or perception and you can take it to such extremes that it becomes reality for you and others, even though those from the outside looking in only see broken logic and an even more broken mind. If you're trying to convince people that immigrants (ESPECIALLY the ones with dark skin, coincidentally) are all bad, that they are uncivilized, offer no economic value, cause violence and destruction, and that they'll some day impose their wicked ways upon the whole of Europe, then you should probably do so by pointing to real evidence of this, and not just the "evidence" that you purposefully seek out in your "No True Scotsman"-induced stupor.

Obama is a communist
Jews rule the world
Illuminati rule the world
The British royal family are shape-shifting alien reptiles
America "defends freedom" in every military action it takes
Global warming is a serious threat
The world will end in 2012
The Anti-Christ is among us
Barack Obama IS the anti-christ (I didn't even use his name)
Jews are inherently evil
Blacks inherently intellectually inferior (even I could disprove this in my sleep, conclusions such as these are made by people who have no understanding whatsoever of genetics, the human brain, or how humanity works)

Homosexuality is genetic
Homosexuality is evil
Homosexuality causes natural disruption
Fluoride... need I say more?

So there you go, irrefutable evidence that there are threats out there greater than the evil darkies. I suggest we increase awareness to fix these problems first, then we can get right around to your master plan of training football hooligans to save Europe.

History / Poles should emulate Jews? [153]

Don't overestimate the power of democracy. The freedom to vote is simply a freedom to choose the lesser evil.

UK, Ireland / Wanting Polish lessons in or around Huddersfield UK [12]

Polish lessons in the UK are few and far between, I don't think it's realistic to be able to find one (I managed to find one in my area, but only when the term had ended :( ). If you're determined enough, though, you can definitely learn well enough on your own and with your fiancée. When I started learning it I didn't know any Polish people or have any basis whatsoever to start with, but I did enough self-studying and eventually got the expertise of various Poles to rely on.

Don't underestimate the internet, it's your best friend for all kinds of information.

polish-dictionary.com - this is the place to get language help on Polish.
polish.slavic.pitt.edu/~swan/beta/ - One of the best Polish online dictionaries
www2.ling.pl - Another good dictionary
translate.google.com/ - it's pretty accurate for basic stuff, but don't rely on it. If you input one word only it also offers alternative meanings and synonyms, which is very handy

I would advise learning basic vocabulary, learning the pronunciation (this is easy, you'll learn it in a day with your fiancée), wrapping your head around the basic grammar rules (conjugations, absence of articles). Beyond that you can venture in whatever direction suits you.

History / The Untold Battle of Britain [205]

Why does everyone keep saying that Harry is trolling? His posts are much less provocative than most others.

News / 10,000 ISRAELIS READY TO CLAIM FOR POLISH CITIZENSHIP AND POLISH LAND! [628]


But nobody cares about that history at all, the camps of death are the thing that draws people, especially Jews, to visit Poland. There was even a video posted here of an Israeli documentary showing bratty Israeli teenagers visiting Lublin and being force-fed about how oppressed and hated the Jews were. Not to mention they weren't allowed to talk to anyone who looked young enough to speak English, and when they actually talked to some Poles they thought they were shouting abuse at them for being Israeli. They had nothing to fear though, because they were accompanied by an Israeli commando to protect them from the hordes of Jew-hating Poles. I'll say once again that it was an Israeli documentary, before anyone decides to nit-pick about it. It really shows the self-defeating victim complex of the Jews in action.

Life / How do Polish people see homosexuality? [152]


Any kind of penetrative sex other than penis -> vagina.


So he was more of a ***** than the actual fags themselves?

I only have one friend from Poland who is extremely open about being a gay, but he never talks to me about what it's like being openly gay in Poland. He's extremely confident about his homosexuality, though, so it can't be that bad. I imagine attitudes in Poland are much the same as they are here; people just don't care. This is a general view, though, and there's no telling how an individual family would react if someone in their family turned out to be gay. Probably disappointment, in general.