nott
18 Jul 2011
History / Norman Davies - the Brit who loves Poland and becomes one of Us [250]
You're wrong, Seanus. He poses some interesting problems to delve in, but most of their entertaining value is in the way he distorts some less known events. After the riddle is solved, he hides it away and comes up with it again after time, not even trying to rephrase it much. A typical example is 'Kristallnacht was triggered by Poles not allowing Polish Jews in after they were expelled from Germany'. I just spotted it somewhere in quite a recent post. Few people remember that this was proved false, and actually few people even followed the arduous path of disproving Harry, I'd say.
He is a troll. I'd love to discuss some obscure fragments of history, regardless if they are glorious or shameful, but with Harry more than half of effort is about fighting his bizarre accusations of lying and avoiding other obnoxious provocations. The very moment he loses ground under his feet, he starts shouting about Polish lies and Polish liars, then you start documenting your documenting of your own and Harry's utterances, and if you persist and actually grind him to dust in the end, the next day he comes back with 'I won, you liar', and next month he repeats his 'interesting question' as if nothing ever happened.
But you know that, don't you? Or maybe you never had enough patience to follow those banters. Wouldn't blame you.
However, for the resident Poles, please continue to show and corroborate as Harry also tries to do likewise. He may come across as a troll to you but he asks some decent questions
You're wrong, Seanus. He poses some interesting problems to delve in, but most of their entertaining value is in the way he distorts some less known events. After the riddle is solved, he hides it away and comes up with it again after time, not even trying to rephrase it much. A typical example is 'Kristallnacht was triggered by Poles not allowing Polish Jews in after they were expelled from Germany'. I just spotted it somewhere in quite a recent post. Few people remember that this was proved false, and actually few people even followed the arduous path of disproving Harry, I'd say.
He is a troll. I'd love to discuss some obscure fragments of history, regardless if they are glorious or shameful, but with Harry more than half of effort is about fighting his bizarre accusations of lying and avoiding other obnoxious provocations. The very moment he loses ground under his feet, he starts shouting about Polish lies and Polish liars, then you start documenting your documenting of your own and Harry's utterances, and if you persist and actually grind him to dust in the end, the next day he comes back with 'I won, you liar', and next month he repeats his 'interesting question' as if nothing ever happened.
But you know that, don't you? Or maybe you never had enough patience to follow those banters. Wouldn't blame you.
