UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [105]


Charles Bukowski's father was a German-American and his mother was a German whom his father met during World War One. There are millions of Germans that bear Slavic surnames. Charles Bukowski drove a Volkswagon Beetle with an Iron Cross hanging from the rear-view mirror.

UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [105]


His father was not Polish-American. Charles Bukowski's father's parents migrated to the USA from Germany. Charles Bukowski's father was named Heinrich Karl Bukowski. Do you honestly believe a Polish family would haven given their son such names?

UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [105]


Listen man, I have a biography of Charles Bukowski in my library and he and his father considered themselves German-Americans. His father spoke German not Polish. There is no German conspiracy to deny his Polishness. If you had any idea regarding the lecherous nature of much of the stuff he wrote you would understand that many Germans would be glad to deny his Germaness.

UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [105]


Charles Bukowski's father was born in Los Angeles and his parents named him Heinrich Karl Bukowski.

UK, Ireland / Poles in the UK, you know were the door is [105]

Nietzsche claimed to be Polish in his book Ecce Homo and so you are very wrong in claiming that he denied being Polish.

History / Poland: Her heroes and her traitors [239]


You honestly believe that those magnates could never guess that that was what would happen despite the precedent of the First Partition?

History / Historic Polish-Japanese intelligence cooperation [21]


Piłsudski went to Japan during the Russo-Japanese War and urged the Japanese to allow their Polish POWs to arm themselves and fight against the Russians but the Japanese declined.

History / Poland: Her heroes and her traitors [239]

What about Bogusław Radziwiłł? Was he anything like Sienkiewicz's portrayal of him in The Deluge? With a super effeminate powdered head attached to a herculean body his incongrousness made him the quintessential Baroque villian in my opinion.

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [638]

I think the poster meant a man with a family crest, in other words a member of the szlachta. My second guess would be a man with a high hairdoo.

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]


You look more Polish than Russian, alot like one of my aunts in fact

Genealogy / Polish looks? [1410]

I think if you told people you were entirely Russian no one would doubt you, but the only time I ever know I am seeing Russians is at the horsetrack where they hangout in a group speaking Russian and these guys are all middle-aged and wearing ridiculously cut and colored suits and gaudy jewelry. You definitely wouldn't blend into that crowd

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


Yeah, why are such people on the forum like this piece of dung Delphiandope who claims the British own Poland?

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


Read post #39 where he says it. Dope has an Orientalist attitude towards Poland.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


The Angles were from Denmark.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

English is a Germanic language that came from Denmark.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


Sure the language has had additions over the years but the fact remains that English is named after the Angles who came from Denmark and so the English should be more circumspect when they claim that Anglophonic Americans don't have their own native language because neither do they. The Romans didn't alter English because the Angles arrived in England after the Romans left. The Normans did make the language prettier by introducing French words.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


The Danes were a different Germanic tribe than the Angles but both lived in the place known as Denmark. I never said English was Danish.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]

Read my posts to see what I said and you will see that I made no claim about all the Angles moving to Britain, nor did I mispell "English" as you have done above.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


My message was directed at Daisy who claimed, in post #75, that English is not "owned" by Anglophonic Americans. I wanted to remind her that English is not native to Britain and so if Americans don't own English, because it didn't originate in America, then neither do the British because it came to their islands from elsewhere too.

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


I noticed in DeQuincey's Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater that the Welsh call the English language Sassenach. Why did the Angles get their name in English rather than the Saxons?

UK, Ireland / Brits say being drunk senseless while visiting Poland is national trait [98]


You will look in vain for such a website because all my "ghubins", if I understand what this bizzarre word is refering to, come from my memory of the books I have read and when I open the volume to find the passage, that I've been reminded of, I always know whether it will be on the righthand or the lefthand page because I can sort of see it in my mindseye.


Mine was published in 1995 and it cost me 25 cents. You should trade yours for an immense amount of laudenum, light the fire, order your servant to be ready with the tea, and live the dream!

UK, Ireland / Polish and East European prostitutes in the UK [240]


This is not a fact but an unfounded assertion by a moron trying to provoke people.

Language / Is Polish amongst the best-sounding languages in the world? [123]



So two Polonophobic trolls have a meeting of their gnarled sick minds in which the former pretends Polish sounds ugly, and the latter affirms this asinine assertion, and pretends that it is the Latin alphabet that is to blame. What a laughable scene. You two should be in a carnival freak show and have rotten vegetables thrown at you.

Travel / Why so many Indian Restaurants in Poland? Which one is the best? [42]


Looks like you don't realize that Tamils are Indians.

Travel / Why so many Indian Restaurants in Poland? Which one is the best? [42]


Yes Tamils have their own language, and it is spoken outside of India, but mostly inside of India, in Tamilnadu, which is in the South of India. Tamil is an Indian laguage. It seems that you, and this forum's unfortunate Harry, are mistakenly assuming that the Northern Indian lingua franca called Hindi is "Indian" while Tamil is not. Both Hindi and Tamil are Indian languages. The latter is not an Indo-European language, but it is Indian nonetheless.

Travel / Why so many Indian Restaurants in Poland? Which one is the best? [42]

No, you have revealed yourself, Harry, to be an ignorant fool but it surprises no one.

Travel / Why so many Indian Restaurants in Poland? Which one is the best? [42]

Yes I confused "The Hives" with "The Strokes" in one post, but I didn't try to convince anyone I was right, and I readily admitted my mistake after I realized it, unlike this forum's obnxious Harry in this instance. Will he admit that Tamilnadu is in India, and that Tamil is an Indian language? Here is a map with the Tamil homeland in red:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:India_Tamil_Nadu_locator_map.svg


You have been cheated, but not by these restauranteurs. You have been cheated by the British educational system, or more likely yourself by not paying attention when attending its courses, because if you had listened then you would understand that Pakistan and Bangladesh were both part of India until 1948 when the exiting British colonials partitioned them off of either side of India. Do you really believe that their cuisine was somehow partitioned too and made non-Indian? If you do then you are foolish.

UK, Ireland / Polish and Irish people are related? [137]

Poland and Ireland are two of the few countries in Europe that, despite never being under the dominion of imperial Rome, stayed almost completely Roman Catholic when the Reformation came. Other places that were never under imperial Roman sway such as Scandinavia, Scotland, and non-Rhenish Germany, were quick to throw off the yoke of ecclesiastical Rome.

History / My wonderful boyfriend returned to Poland. Any famous Pole that visits Africa? [26]

Henryk Sienkiewicz travelled to Africa in 1890 and wrote the non-fiction book Letters From Africa as well as the children's novel In Desert And Wilderness which was set in Egypt and the Sudan. I read the latter and it was rather silly as it had a Polish boy taming an African elephant and making it his steed as well as fearlessly confronting the Mahdi.

Life / Babcia or Busha - any social class difference? [359]

Let me tell you about my Busha, She was the last of my great-grandparents to be alive when I was born and she was from the Eastern part of Poland. I visited her in the old-folks home and I found her somewhat frightening and foreign but I also knew that she loved me. I gather from this thread that "Busha" is not proper Polish for Great-Granny, but I really believe that my Busha was not only Polish, but her longevity and general tenacity was as Polish as it gets.

My Busha was a large framed woman and her husband, my father's mother's father, was also grand, he was over six feet tall like me and my father and I am greatful to this Eastern-Polish branch of my family for endowing me with height. If any of you has a problem with the word "Busha" when used to describe an elderly Polish lady you should remember that there are large merciless individuals who hold their Bushas dear and hold your tongue.