Study / Rumor about racism - will I be fine in Poland as a black International student from Africa? [241]


Might I suggest you refrain from commenting on the immigration situation in the Netherlands, cause obviously you know preciously little about it (but probably you know preciously little about anything anyway - the only thing I generally read from you are simple platitudes) I guess you haven't reached this IQ of 107 yet, but got stuck at 10 (best case scenario).

Off-Topic / Some Kurdish and Polish Similarities [53]


It seems to be cookie and egg between you and MG ... :P.

Just to give an example how dangerous it is to give a literal translation for a figurative term ... ;).

But ... now the monkey comes out of the sleeve, I think that some Dutch are really making a pot out of it ;)

Travel / How can I get to Zlote tarasy - Warsaw? [14]


I did PLN50 in a traffic jam from Lucka to airport about 6 months ago. I guess that was OK.

Travel / How can I get to Zlote tarasy - Warsaw? [14]


I agree ... but the same is true for public transport in every major city. I think of fede as a girl of the world ... ;).

History / Anita J. Prazmowska's "The Polish Century" [24]


On what do you base that claim?


And this one?

Language / Ski Or Ska? - Polish surname endings [44]


Anywhere outside PL you stay -ski, inside PL you become -ska.

Travel / How can I get to Zlote tarasy - Warsaw? [14]


Try MPT taxis. Don't be "tempted" by the guys inside the terminal. Just walk outside the terminal and have a look there. Costs about PLN 40-50.

Or take the 175-bus, PLN2,80 when you buy the ticket at the news stand inside the airport. Get off at Pl.Zawiszy (= Campanille hotel), then walk in NW-direction along Towarowa (they say it'll be partly sunny tomorrow in Wwa, so determining NW shouldn't be too difficult). After 600m main crossing with road named Prosta. Keep walking in NW-direction. Take 2nd right (= Grzybowska) and walk another 200m. Hotel is on your right hand side.

Distance airport to Hilton is about 11km, so a little too far to walk.

History / A General's Honour documentary, directed by Joanna Pieciukiewicz [5]


Yes ... right there.

If Polish people are in the Netherlands, be sure to visit the museum and the PL-war cemetery. Don't forget to take some form of ID with you, because the museum is located in an army barracks and you need one to be able to access it. Museum is open every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month from 1400 to 1700.

History / Anita J. Prazmowska's "The Polish Century" [24]


And how, if I might ask, are these contradictions? I am just asking ... .

History / A General's Honour documentary, directed by Joanna Pieciukiewicz [5]


Thank you!

A pity he was treated the way he was. At least he is fondly remembered over here.

Same goes for Gen. Maczek, who is buried in Breda and has his own museum in one of the Dutch barracks over there.

News / 1945-2010 Poles will march on Red square [66]


Well ... I saw a lot of men in the Guards' summer outfit with bearskins on their heads "turning eyes right". So unless the Russians put some of their own in these uniforms, I am guessing the Brits were there. Well ... probably those who like complot theories have something else to talk about.

And you know what? I guess I saw AngelaM as well, which gives me reason to believe that at least there are people in this world, who don't only look at what happened in the past, but also try to look forward. Maybe a good idea for some on this forum as well.

Now don't come and whine that he or she lost family members because of what the Nazi's did and so they have the God-given right to still be outraged 65 years after VE-Day. So did my family, but generations change, you know. We have to be vigilant that history doesn't repeat itself, and some don't see that by excluding a whole nation, we are walking down the exact same path.

Have a look at this news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8452937.stm);why would even a radical muslim (whom quite a lot of the people here wouldn't even want as their next door neighbour), be able to forgive his Guantanamo guard when some of the people here (who haven't even lived through WWII) aren't able to look at current day Germans and Russians without wanting to hold them responsible for what their forefathers did?

Just a thought on this Sunday ... .

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [620]

Sok ... what are you rambling on about Denmark? You are really stupid, aren't you? My God, I wonder why they didn't put you in a straight jacket yet? Please do humanity a favour and don't have children. I don't want humanity to return to the times of Homo Australiensis.

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [620]

Yes ... and you seem to remember only one thing from the articles, since this one brain cell of yours isn't able to make connections or actually READ what's in the articles. You are so pathetic, I would almost start collecting money for you.

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [620]

Sok, please go back in your hole unless you intend to contribute something meaningful here. You're such a drag ... :(

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [682]

thenews.pl/national/artykul130917_whose-was-the-extra-voice-recorded-o n-smolensk-disaster-black-box.html

"In a new development in the investigation into the Smolensk air disaster, it has been revealed that the black box recorder on the doomed TU-154 recorded five voices in the cockpit minutes before it crashed.

The fifth voice did not belong to any of the four members of the crew who were in the cockpit: the pilot, the second pilot, the navigator and the engineer. It might have belonged to a stewardess or a passenger but the Prosecutor’s Office does not want to reveal whose voice it was."

Can I make a guess here? If it would be the voice of a stewardess, I'm sure the Prosecuter's Office would have no problems at all revealing who it was. But, if the voice belongs to someone "more important", well ...

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [620]


No ... he broke his ribs or something and needs to have an operation. Sorry BB ... ;). 1974 will be reversed ... :P.

Sok: it is a long time since I have read posts of someone who is so simple-minded as you. If I would continue your analogy, then it goes something like this:

1. Birds are animals that fly
2. A bat flies
3. A bat is a bird

or

1. Priests have sexually assaulted children
2. Poles are catholics
3. Thus Poles sexually assault children

It sounds stupid? Yes, it does ... but this is the level of your logic.

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [620]

What a BS-article! It's laughable!

First of all ... it's 6 years old.

Second ... an Israeli organisation complaining about Maroccan's (i.e. Arabs). We all know how much they are liked, don't we?

When the Dutch (more to the point pro-palestinian organisations) stage a demonstration against the killing of a Sheikh, this "institute" is outraged. Thankfully there is freedom of demonstration in the Netherlands.

And when over 70% of the Dutch, who are historically pro-Israel but yet critical about what Israel does in the region, then this institute is outraged as well.

Come on, Sokrates! How stupid do you think I am, huh? And, since YOU came up with the article, let me quote something for you: "According to the survey, 7% of the Dutch population harbors strong anti-Semitic views". You didn't get that, did you?

Coming up with this has really disqualified you in my eyes. I guessed already that you weren't top in the intellectual department, this has just confirmed it. I'm sorry, you're a joke.

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [620]


Not to want to play the wise-ass here, but according to my info Anne Frank for example lived with her family until Juli 1942 on the Merwedeplein, which is part of the Rivierenbuurt and not the Jodenbuurt, proving M-G's point that Jews in the Netherlands were allowed to live everywhere, even after the Nazi-occupation.

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [620]


So where were these half a dozen other ghettos then?

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [620]


So you say that Polish people in the Netherlands live in ghettos as well?

Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [620]


They didn't live in ghettos. They tended to flock together (i.e. in case of the Sefardic Jews who came to Amsterdam from 1593 and settled in the outskirts of the city, creating the "Jodenbuurt"). Like the Turks, Maroccans, Surinams, Arubans and indeed Polish people in the Netherlands do nowadays as well.


No country has anything to brag about ... neither does Poland. It was a dark period in our history and not one country falling victim to the Nazi regime was better or worse than another.

News / Current airports situation after the volcano events in Poland [21]


Wouldn't have helped ... I am on 51.8832, 5.2884 ... faaar, faaaar away ... ;).

But I am due to fly to WRO on 231405Z APR 10, so I am rather keen to keep myself informed.

News / Current airports situation after the volcano events in Poland [21]


Convex ... are you absolutely sure? I see nothing landing over there. And their website still states "Following the volcanic eruption in Iceland all flights from and to Wroclaw Airport have been cancelled untill further notice."

And on LOT's website: "LOT cancels all flights until Tuesday 20 April, at midnight."

Study / Is there a lot of racism in Warsaw (Brazilian student's question) [83]


There is a God after all! Halelujah!

Study / Is there a lot of racism in Warsaw (Brazilian student's question) [83]


Please be my guest and help humanity by not procreating. Thank you!

Study / Is there a lot of racism in Warsaw (Brazilian student's question) [83]

No, I gathered as much. Particularly because you are not really well-mannered and civilized.

Study / Is there a lot of racism in Warsaw (Brazilian student's question) [83]



Hmm ... so you are not at all like the Polish people then.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


Oh, come on ... now I truly believe you see a conspiracy behind everything, probably even behind the ash cloud over Western Europe. It must be the Russians as well ... :S. I'm afraid you have lost all credibility now.

News / Is it possible that Polish president was assasinated? If so then, by whom? [921]


Neither did you answer my question whether you wouldn't agree that the Polish investigators, who work alongside the Russian investigators, wouldn't protest heavily (probably would even go to the press with it if relations between PL and RU are that tense) if they felt they were kept out of the loop.

I'm sorry ... I find your theories highly improbable.