History / The beginning of the Polish state [11]

There is an old book on this subject written by Józef Ignacy Kraszewski that was made into a 2003 Polish film called "An Ancient Tale: When the Sun Was a God". Although it is a fictional account of events occurring in Poland right before the founding of the Piast dynasty the tale tries to accurately depict life in pre-Christian Poland and thus depicts a society that already had highly developed religious institutions including both a priesthood and a priestesshood, and it shows that people in Pagan Poland, like people in other Pagan Indo-European societies, were already quite pious before the coming of Christianity.

Travel / Monuments, statues, memorials of Poland [25]

Here are two images of a statue, in Katowice, of the great Polish painter, illustrator, photographer, poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher, and explorer of inner-space Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz:

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USA, Canada / Who is better informed, the expat or the Polonia crowd? [144]


Who are the "Polonialandists"? You've asked about Polonia, sobieski. You should be aware that Polonia comprises tens of millions of people around the world, most of whom do not live in ghettos, much less a "PIS-Ghetto". Sobieski, you are demonstrating the stupid tendancy to generalize that seems to plague several of the expatriates upon this forum. You should be better informed about the fallaciousness of stereotyping millions of people. Maybe you should read your own thread and realize that it is full of posts by very well informed Polonians most of whom are not even PIS Party supporters.

News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [65]


I am not surprised that you are familiar with depravity, delphiandomine. Your posts show it.


My real name is quite Polish. You should stop trying to be an ethnologist. It requires an education that you obviously lack.

Delphiandomine's gossipy ********* posts upon this forum are yet more examples of a foreign guy behaving in a low down dirty manner while in Poland.

News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [65]


What an utterly repulsive act! I am glad these inhumane scumbags were arrested. British degenerates should stop using Krakow as a place to engage in depravity.

USA, Canada / Who is better informed, the expat or the Polonia crowd? [144]


Hahahahaha! Harry wants to claim that a race riot in Chicago instigated by Irish-Americans was actually a "pogrom" started by Polish-Americans who targeted blacks because they couldn't find any Jews! That has to be the stupidest lie I have ever read on this forum.


Drawing Polonophobic conclusions from lies, as Harry does, is absolutely ridiculous and it also points out the fact that Harry is a racist of the "philosemitic" variety who doen't care about the truth as long as his Polish "enemies" are denigrated and blamed for the suffering of Jews.

When it was pointed out to Harry thet Polish-Americans didn't start the race riot he replies:


No, Harry, it was never the "standard excuse" to blame this race riot on any of the enthnic groups that you've listed. The fact that you would try to claim that Polonians are guilty of a "pogrom" in this ridiculous manner just shows how irrational and desperate you are to spread Polonophobic lies upon this forum.

As for the thread's titular question. The Polonian boletus has shown in this thread that it is he who is the best informed and the most rational poster on the thread.

Not only are the Polonians better informed than the expat crowd, but Harry's ridiculous attempt to smear us has also provided us with such an irrational example of idiocy, that it has made Polonians the most jovial posters on the forum too! Hahahahaha! Polonia is laughing at you!

Genealogy / Mongolian the Golden Horde - do Poles have Mongolian ancestry? [256]


The Mongols sacked Krakow, but most Polish Mongol ancestry comes from members of the Golden Horde who were granted refuge in Lithuania after they were defeated by Tamerlane at the end of the 14th century.

Off-Topic / I am a Pariah: My Horror Story [44]


I am Polish-American and I've never felt like a Chandala because of my name, but then again I have never lived in the South surrounded by Southern Baptists. Anglo-Saxon conformity is nowhere more virulent than amongst such people and Polonians don't do conformity very well. You have my sympathies PolkaTag.

News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]


This situation has continued in this cyclical way for so many decades. When one reads Tolstoy's tale Hadji Murad, and compares it to the situation today, one is amazed at how little has changed in the last two centuries.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1303]


is of Mexican, not Polish, origin.

Food / Are there any Polish wines worth purchasing? [65]


Thank you for your answer Pawain. I suspected as much and you are right about wine drinkers cultural superiority.


Hahahahaha! Go drink some beer.

Food / Are there any Polish wines worth purchasing? [65]


You are Cracovian Pawain? Is wine more popular in your region of Poland than elsewhere? I have heard that the Slovaks, who share a border with Southern Poland, are very fond of wine, whilst their fomer co-nationals, the Czechs, are the most ardent bibbers of beer on the Earth.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


A wasps' nest.

History / Polish perspective of WW1: Germany, their Defeat & the Legend of the Stab in the Back [17]

America obviously wasn't scared of a German/Mexican alliance because she decided to enter the war despite the telegraph's proposal. The telegraph's significance lies in the fact that the USA had a vigorous anti-war movement much of which had claimed that the Zimmermann Telegraph was a hoax devised by the British to draw the USA into the war against Germany. The inauthenticity of the telegram seemed quite plausible given the fact that it would be all but impossible for Mexico, who was in the midst of her own revolution, to retake Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico militarily given the advantages in population and mechanization that the USA possessed over her at the time. Thus the telegram's proposal looked crazy and it could easily be dismissed as a British attempt to tar the Germans as ridiculous warmongers ready to consign thousands of Mexicans to their deaths in an unwinnable war in order to divert some of the impending onslaught of doughboys away from Europe. When Arthur Zimmermann in March of 1917 admitted that the telegraph was indeed genuine then the antiwar movement in America was dealt a stiff blow because they then had to admit that the Germans were indeed crazy and/or cynical enough to propose such an action on the part of Mexico.


School children in the USA are also taught that the sinking of the Lusitania was a major cause for bringing the USA into the war and it certainly was, but the Zimmermann telegram was too. It should be seen as one of he greatest German diplomatic blunders in history as well as one of the greatest intelligence coups ever for the British Empire. If the Zimmermann telegram had never been sent, or never intercepted, then public opinion in the USA may never have turned against Germany enough for our elected politicians to feel secure to direct American troops to take the plunge into the bloody morass of the First World War, and Germany would have been able to end the war on much more favorable terms for herself than she did. If the Zimmermann Telegram was not a deliberate "stab in the back" by the German diplomatic corps against their own country then it was surely an inadvertent "shot in the foot".

One wonders why Zimmermann confirmed the telegram's authenticity when other German officials had been denying it. Did he do it out of an aversion to lying? That hardly seems likely in a diplomat. Did he really believe that the Mexicans would be foolish enough to attack the USA? If so then his attitude towards our Southern neighbors' intelligence was ridiculously misguided. Was he a deliberate backstabber?

History / Polish perspective of WW1: Germany, their Defeat & the Legend of the Stab in the Back [17]


Here in the USA every public school student is taught about the Zimmermann Telegram as a major cause of the USA's entrance into the First World War. Here is its text:


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram


The Zimmermann Telegram was sent in January of 1917.

Life / Individualism in Polish culture...Is it almost Nonexistant? [170]


It means that the exploitation of man by man doesn't end under socialism although the exploiters and the exploited switch positions.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]


Your observations regarding American volunteer workers are very insightful, f stop, but the fact that you felt the need to make them in a thread titled "what's wrong with Poland?" is an unfortunate result of the shoddy moderation upon this forum which allows threads to be hijacked by an insane little gang of British expatriates.

P3undone, you are a moderator here and a Polish-American. Why don't you explain to the gang why they shouldn't engage in this behavior, and threaten them with some consequences if they persist in disrupting the forum?

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


Indeed the Khazars are not forgotten in Russia. Pushkin, who is to Russia what Mickiewicz is to Poland, included a young Khazar khan named Ratmir amongst the suitors for the hand of Ludmilla in his poem Ruslan and Ludmilla and he had Ratmir act very gallantly, without exception, unlike some of her other suitors. (I highly reccomend viewing the 1972 cinematic adaptation of this poem, not just for an example of the high esteem modern Russians have for the Khazars, but also for its mindblowingly surreal sets and special effects.) So too Russian historians have very favorable views regarding the boons that the Pax Khazaria provided to the nascent Kievan Russian state in the form of trade and a buffer zone against the far less civilized Turkic peoples who would later cause so much misery for the Kievan Russ once the Khazar state declined.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]



I am not a "crackpot jew hater". The Khazar story is a true one, nor do I believe that people who convert to Judaism are illegitimate.


Indeed, and the Khazars are Jews too.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]


Fuzzy is quite right and it is the moderators' fault for allowing this freak, delphiandomine, to continually engage in off-topic personal abuse of other forum members.


The fact that Harry has "no doubt" that every Polish-American who disagrees with him would have joined the Nazis in World War 2 Poland shows what a delusional, hate-filled, fanatic he is. The forum does not need this insanity.

History / Khazar migrations to Eastern Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine [106]


Wrong. Turkic peoples have inhabited some of the northernmost latitudes in Asia for thousands of years and thus they may be exceptionally pale. Finno-Ugrian peoples are also from Asia and they may be extremely pale as well. Finns are the blondest people on Earth. Yehudi is merely stereotyping all Turkic peoples as swarthy and Asiatic featured out of ignorance and nervousness about the ramifications of the Khazar conversion to Judaism for the legitimacy of the Zionist project in Palestine.

Life / What's wrong with Poland? I don't see anything. [121]


The OP never mentions the UK in his post. He mentions America:

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


That is a very plausible explanation. Continental semi-truck drivers perched in their seats high above a small British road, with their steering wheels on the left side of their trucks, are indeed in a precarious situation.


The speed limit has been raised on many US highways to 65 mph, but road systems in Britain are often scarier than those in the USA Take Britain's roundabouts as an example. These types of circular roadway are almost non-existant in the USA. There is a sort of roundabout in the city of Long Beach California known as The Traffic Circle which is quite dangerous. Legend has it that the man who designed The Traffic Circle was killed in one of its numerous traffic accidents.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


Harry I posted nothing racist in this thread and you know it. Stop lying.


O.K. but you must be aware that your posts are bizarrely punctuated and spaced. Is this because you are typing on a phone?


I am sorry.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


No, p3undone, I seriously doubt that many other people would jump to the same conclusions about my brief statements upon this thread as you have done, and my name is spelled Des Essientes, not Des Essenties. I know you are a moderator and thus probably immune from the suspensions meted out for misspelling posters' names, but you should try to set a good example nonetheless.


I said:


I meant this statement to apply not to just you, p3undone, but to the all the readers and participants upon this thread. I understand that "messed up" is often used merely as the equivalent of having made a mistake, but if you honestly believe that the phrase "messed up" doesn't also connote the sense of having made a mess then I really don't know what to tell you, because it is obvious. I am sorry if you thought I was singling you out for exaggerating the driver's offense. Those above claiming that he was "a jerk" and that he "got off easy" were being far more hyperbolic than you, but since the term "messed up" does imply a mess, and the driver hadn't really made a mess (unless you count this thread) I used your post as an example of exaggerating the driver's offense.


I was referring to everyone reading and posting upon the forum. I wrote:


I fail to see how this exhortation above is in anyway unclear regarding the fact that I am addressing the whole forum.
P3undone, I know that a lot of the posters on this forum try to make it about "one on one" fighting, but that is not what I am about, because that is what makes this forum a petty soap-opera about personalities rather than the issues and ideas that the threads are supposed to be about. If you think that you and I are in some sort of duel then you are mistaken.


I meant that this driver's agitated defiance towards the police, when he felt they were going to ruin his day, was in my opinion more manly, even with the tears, than the attitude of someone who'd fawningly thank the police for ruining his day. I only made this comparison because you'd written:


I felt you were being unfair towards the driver, but you have since graciously conceded that your statement, implying the driver's emasculation, was unneeded:


Well done. You've literally moderated.
(Perhaps you might adopt a more standard method of typing out your posts as well. Your current mode of presentation is rather difficult to read.)

Edit: I wrote the above before seeing your most recent post p3undone. Thank you for re-reading my posts and thank you for apologizing for jumping to conclusions about them.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


No I wouldn't have. I agree that stopping on the shoulder is a mistake.


No, I don't "act" like that, nor did I say that. P3undone, why do you read these strange conclusions into my posts?


That is a biarre claim to make on a text-based discussion forum You should probably be more circumspect before you jump to ridiculous conclusions about the implications of what I've written, and you really needn't concern yourself with what I "don't actually have to say".


I think that metaphor is less than apt. Being parked on the side of the highway is hardly as sweet as a stolen confection. It seemed to me that he was worried about what the policemen, whose language he didn't understand, were going to do to him.


Fair enough, I suppose I have heard the term "lazy" used in this sense before.


Being parked isn't literally taking a shortcut. Perhaps you mean that he took a metaphorical shortcut to his dinner by deciding to have it on the highway shoulder. As for his getting caught, I wish he'd been able to drive away before the cops got to him, but at least the fine he had to pay wasn't very costly.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


Rybnik chalking his actions up to "laziness" makes you sound like one of these uptight withered Protestant British types, besides which you don't really know if that is the truth, do you?


He didn't really squeal like a spoiled brat, but I do agree that watching anyone weep is rather bothersome. As for his suppossed lack of professionalism,are truck drivers' supposed to have no emotions? Is stoicism really comme il faut for that profession? I say cut the guy some slack.


P3undone, I suspect that you didn't really understand what I wrote. I was saying that people self-righteously condemning this driver's actions, and saying that "he got off easy", are acting like uptight authoritarian squares.


Again I think you should read what I wrote more clearly. I never claimed that he was treated brutally, savagely, or appallingly.


I would have said what same thing?

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


I agree.


Stopping on the side of the highway isn't really a mess. Don't exaggerate the magnitude of his offense. Let's not make the Polish discussion forum into a contest over who can be he most uptight authoritarian square. It would be un-Polish.


I don't know if you've ever been hungry and had your dinner interupted but I suspect that if some people, who weren't bacon, had interupted that hungry driver's repast he'd have told them where to go and maybe even showed them physyically, but the fact that they were coppers meant that he couldn't and so he wept out of frustration. Far from not "manning up" the truck driver expressed the angst we all feel in modern society when rude authority figures hassle us with impunity, because they have the apparatus of the state behind them. That driver is more of a man than meek conformists who bow down before authority and lick its boots like craven dogs.

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]


That is a rather callous view. He stopped on the side of the road with several other trucks in a traffic jam. He was preparing his dinner because he was probably hungry when some British pigs came up to hassle him. He was as exasperated as any hungry person is whose meal is interupted by unwelcome intruders.


O.K.


^ If his Polishness has nothing to do with it then why do you feel the need to add this? You seem to be implying that defending an exasperated Polish truck driver is somehow unfavorable to Poland.

Food / What's more popular in Poland beer or vodka? [41]


Does it taste alot like beer, or do the lack of carbonation and the higher alcohol content overwhelm the beery taste?