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Des Essientes   
17 Feb 2012
Life / Polish Werewolves [30]

Herodotus in his fourth book, the one on Scythia, in chapter 105 discusses the Neuroi who once a year become wolves "for a few days".
Des Essientes   
10 Feb 2012
Off-Topic / Book: Gogol's Taras Bulba [37]

I wonder if he still talks about the Congo too.

I wonder if you, or your cronies, have even read Taras Bulba. Write about the topic, Harry, or get the hell off of the thread.
Des Essientes   
9 Feb 2012
Off-Topic / Book: Gogol's Taras Bulba [37]

I am unable to see why the inclusion of the article "the" before "Ukraine" is offensive in any way, but regarding the subject of shedding "the's" from countries' names-- I remember having seen a photo of the actress Vanessa Redgrave sitting behind a table whose front was festooned with a banner having the exact wordage of the following journal article's title:

tedgrant.org/archive/grant/1958/07/lebanon.htm

and so perhaps this is presages the success of those advocating removing the definite article from the Ukraine.
Des Essientes   
9 Feb 2012
Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]

I was told in primary school that while imprisoned he would send out messages of hope that started the tradition of Valentine cards.

I have heard this too. they were signed "Your Valentine" hence the term used today.
Des Essientes   
9 Feb 2012
Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]

The day was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD by the RCC.

St. Valentine was martyred for disobeying the emperor and clandestinely marrying Roman soldiers to their sweethearts when it was forbidden for soldiers to marry. So one can see how this saint's day became associated with romance.
Des Essientes   
8 Feb 2012
News / Does Poland support the idea of Slavic unity? [129]

Btw, panslavism is not a Russian invention, it's Czech as far as I remember

I remembered it being a Slovak invention, but Wiki claims a Croatian priest from the 17th century was the first to advocate it.
Des Essientes   
4 Feb 2012
History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]

Oh dear, oh dear.

Hahahaha are you ever so upset? Will you call up Nigel and commiserate about what the beastly Polish-American called you?
If you don't like being called a troll then you shouldn't call other people trolls. It is called the golden rule. Perhaps you need to go back to kindergarten and learn it.

I invite you to Poland to meet some of the people who live there, to discuss with them if they think they laboured under the brutal yoke of occupation.

I decline your invitation now and forever. I have read this thread and many of the posts are from people who were in Poland during the time of Soviet hegemony and thay say that it was an occupation. I agree with them, and not with you. Is that not allowed on this forum? Will you call me more names, tough guy?

The souls of those butchered in occupied territories throughout history would laugh to hear you describe the PRL as an occupation.

What the hell would an Englishman know about what the "souls" of those butchered during occupations would laugh at? They would more likely be laughing at the presumption of an defender of colonialism claiming to speak for them- especially since so many of the butchered were dismembered at the behest of his majesty's government.
Des Essientes   
4 Feb 2012
History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]

The what??

If you don't know what a Polonian is then you are even more uninformed than you seem.

One thing you might like to do is to come here and actually speak with people who served in the administration during the PRL, who were party members, who got on with their lives and did what they could for Poland - they would be very offended indeed if you suggested they were collaborating with a foreign occupier.

So what if they would be offended? They were collaborating with a foreign occuppying power.

but then again, your experience of Poland could be written on the back of a postage stamp.

It seems that you have alot of experience being petty and sarcastic. You must be so pleased with yourself.....
Des Essientes   
4 Feb 2012
History / Would you classify the Poland's Communist years as a "Soviet occupation" ? [221]

No, you and a couple other British expatriates have claimed this but the Polish, Polonian, and Irish members of this forum have shown that your claims are all wet. Why should it surprise anyone that forum members from a country with a bloody history of imperialism would be wrong about this?
Des Essientes   
3 Feb 2012
Life / Polish Film Industry-Popular Polish Movies [7]

The story of Jan Pasek's otter would make a great movie, although the sad ending would probably preclude Hollywood's developing it without revision.
Des Essientes   
3 Feb 2012
Off-Topic / Book: Gogol's Taras Bulba [37]

Have you even seen a film version of this story????/

No, I've read the novella.

Poland had invaded Ukraine,had turned Ukraine into a little poland and had subjegated the ukrainians.....whats that then?

That is dramatic license taken by the filmakers and not the true history. The Ukraine was conquered by the Lithuanians and given over to Polish administration after the Poland and Lithuania became allies.
Des Essientes   
2 Feb 2012
Off-Topic / Book: Gogol's Taras Bulba [37]

That tune maybe familiar to many posters here from other Empires attempting to educate Poles in a way of civilised human being ie marching in order and/or hop about like monkey with naked butt/
Thank you - no!

Hear hear! Poles and Polonians want nothing to do with imperialists' craven bootlicking notions of "civilization".
Des Essientes   
2 Feb 2012
Off-Topic / Book: Gogol's Taras Bulba [37]

I would argue that the idea of "Polonophobia" actually hurts Poland more than it helps Poland.

Given that you yourself are a Polonophobe, delphiandomine, it's not surprizing that you do not like people labelling your mental illness specifically.

It's one of the greatest Russian writers who ranges with Pushkin, Dostoevskiy, Tolstoy and some others. To label his work "Polonophobic" would be too shallow.

I do not dispute Gogol's greatness. He was the funniest of all of the great Russian writers until the advent of Bulgakov, but Taras Bulba is a Polonophibic novella nonetheless and admitting this doesn't make anyone shallow.

FFS damn right its going to be a touch anti Polish.

Yes, of course, but the sad thing about Gogol is that while he denigrates Polish hegemony over his native Ukraine he embraces Russian dominance.
Des Essientes   
31 Jan 2012
News / Icy blast cleans the streets of the homeless in Poland.. [63]

the solution would be to bring them to sleep (injection)

Another solution that is being tried here in California is serving wine in homeless shelters. Each patron is allowed one glass of wine per hour. It seems it is the Canadians who pioneered this "wet" approach to the problem:

alcoholrehabcenter.com/content/8177/wine-served-to-ottawa-alcoholics-in-harm.php

From the Wiki article on "Harm Reduction.":

The program has been duplicated in other Canadian cities and a study of Ottawa's "wet shelter" found that emergency room visit and police encounters by clients were cut by half.[46] The study, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal in 2006 found that serving chronic street alcoholics controlled doses of alcohol also reduced their overall alcohol consumption.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harm_reduction
Des Essientes   
30 Jan 2012
History / Was the Polish/ Lithuanian commonwealth a European power? [111]

Poland-Lithuania was a feudal state based on agriculture

The PLC was more republican than feudal and it did indeed have alot of agriculture which made it very rich because it sold much of this agricultural output to Western Europe. PolishNobility's statement stands regarding the PLC:

It was one of the most wealthy and culturally developed states in Europe when it existed.

Des Essientes   
30 Jan 2012
History / Was the Polish/ Lithuanian commonwealth a European power? [111]

Now DE ... don't tell me you can't see the difference.

Stu, read what PolishNobility wrote:

It was one of the most wealthy and culturally developed states in Europe when it existed.

Notice it says "one of". Nothing you have posted makes what he has written untrue.

What disproves it is the fact that you support it.

Incredibly illogical, even from you Delphiandomine.
Des Essientes   
30 Jan 2012
History / Was the Polish/ Lithuanian commonwealth a European power? [111]

The fact that you wrote your "invaluable contribution" 5 minutes after I wrote mine only leads me to believe that you didn't even try to look it up.

It doesn't matter if Britain and Holland were rich because of the companies you mentioned that still doesn't disprove what PolishNobility stated regarding the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth:

It was one of the most wealthy and culturally developed states in Europe when it existed.

Des Essientes   
30 Jan 2012
History / Was the Polish/ Lithuanian commonwealth a European power? [111]

And of course it is not true as anyone with the faintest knowledge about the Dutch East India Company and Dutch West India Company knows.

Why would knowledge of these companies have any bearing on the truth of PolishNobility's statement?

But it seems that our friend doesn't mind adapting the truth a bit so he can further his misguided attempts to glorify his country, which unfortunately only has the opposite effect.

PolishNobility's truths are indeed glorious and not misguided. It is your non-sequitor that is misguided, Stup.
Des Essientes   
30 Jan 2012
Off-Topic / Book: Gogol's Taras Bulba [37]

Taras Bulba is a Polonophobic novella, but interestingly enough despite being written by a "Little Russian" its Polonophobia, although having traditionally Russian aspects, such as portraying the Poles as gaudily bedecked aesthetes, it also has a theme more often associated with Prussian Polonophobia, and that is the fear that the beauty of Polish women can make the enemies of Poland betray their comrades as is done by one of Taras' sons in the novella.
Des Essientes   
30 Jan 2012
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

And less recently than the Jews who left Poland in 1956 to 1959 and those who were thrown out of Poland in 1968

Here is a link to a story about Palestinians being dispossessed far more recently:

mondoweiss.net/2012/01/another-day-in-the-annexation-two-palestinian-villages-in-east-jerusalem-lose-their-connection.html
Des Essientes   
30 Jan 2012
Life / Are Poles mentally more Eastern European or Western European? [171]

''I am the Count. My land ranges from the trees 150 m over there to the river 50 m yonder, this is my wife the Countess and our dog.... Duke"

The Szlachta never had hierarchical terms of rank amongst themselves. Some magnates did call themselves karmazyni but there was never any official distinction in rank between one nobleman and another. There were no "counts" in Poland. Hythorn you are projecting your own British concepts on to Poland.
Des Essientes   
30 Jan 2012
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

Claiming that the "Palestinian" issue has roots lost in the sands of time, and is thus not the same as the dispossession of Polish Jews in WW2, is a disingenuous ploy. The Palestinians were dispossessed in 1948. That is more recently than the Polish-Jews of WW2, and the Palestinians are still being evicted from their homes by Zionists today.
Des Essientes   
29 Jan 2012
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

If Israel's very survival was on the table, assassinating the American President in order to get help isn't such a bad idea.

No, assassinating the elected leader of a republic, that grants equal rights to all its citizens, in order to enable the survival of a racist ethnocracy, that doesn't grant equal rights to all the people that it rules, is an extremely bad idea.
Des Essientes   
27 Jan 2012
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

You don't have to care - the fact that you refuse to criticise terrorist acts by Palestinians says it all.

How do you know what I refuse to criticize? Stop making inane assumptions and realize that Palestinian acts are not the topic of this thread.

Perhaps people will take you more seriously when you look at such a conflict through netural eyes, rather than through Jew-obsessed eyes.

My eye are not "Jew-obsessed" and I can say, without a doubt, that people would take you more seriously, delphiandomine, if you respected the rules of this forum and stopped making off-topic posts in an attempt to provoke other members of this forum.

On past form, when you have said one thing, the opposite turns out to have been the truth

JohnnyM stop trying to make this thread about me. You need to obey the rules here too.
Des Essientes   
27 Jan 2012
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

Your lack of criticism of terrorist acts by Palestinians suggests an agenda.

I don't care what you think my "lack" of statements about anything suggests. Delphiandomine, stop trying to make this thread about me and things I have not said. You are trying to take this thread off-topic and you should stop it.

Holocaust denial is illegal in Poland - did you know?

Yes, I do know this. How does that have anything to do with the topic of this thread?