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tow_stalin   
14 Feb 2011
Study / A female Asian student considers studying in Poland [21]

ho gentan

yes, poles are racist, rude and wild. they used to eat foreigners - eg. i'm prefering asians, especially due to better diet compared to eg. - americans. its just like choosing between hamburger to sushi :)

would you prefer hamburger? don't think so...

have nice day :)
tow_stalin   
9 Feb 2011
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [612]

hey alex - i'll explain you :) statistics is tool tor finding major rules - correlation, probability etc. so i can say that from stat point of view there was no mixing - or - to be more strict - there was small probability of intermarriage :). i'm sure that everything is clear now - "small probability" means "yes some poles mixed with jews" - but still - it wasn't a rule...

reg.
tow_stalin   
9 Feb 2011
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [612]

Out of the big agglomerations, the poorer sections of Ashkenazi Jewish society did, yes. But in Lublin, Warsaw, Kraków? The professional classes? Hardly.

most of jews which lived in poland lived in "sztetl" cities. most of jews which lived in bigger polish cities (kraków, warszawa, etc) lived also separetly - they have their own religious schools, they cherished their heritage, their own theaters, art, literature - all in hebrew or yiddish. did you know that about 75% of polish jews didn't speak polish - even when talking about pre-II war period? it's completely different compared to western europe of the same time.

yes, some poles mixed with jews - but they were rare exceptions, due to Jewish aversion to intermarriage.

i don't judge that situation - for me its just statistical fact - there was no mixing. end of the story.
tow_stalin   
8 Feb 2011
Genealogy / Jewish Roots of Poland [612]

. My question is, how likely is it that the average Pole has had at least one Jewish ancestor?

it rather not possible. most of polish jews lived separately in their towns - "sztetl". they didn't know polish history, and they didn't speak polish, except very few necessary words. they lived inside their world - there was very few mixed marriages. that's it.
tow_stalin   
2 Feb 2011
Genealogy / Just found out I'm Polish! [45]

Where did you get 60m from?

its number of all poles and polish-descent peoples.
tow_stalin   
31 Jan 2011
Travel / From Katowice to Lodz and Czestochowa by train [5]

You can take bus (there is no train from pyrzowice airport to katowice)

try this one: rozklady.kzkgop.pl/index.php?co=rozklady&submenu=tabliczka&nr_l inii=Lotnisko&id_trasy=4604&nr_przyst=1

have a nice trip around Poland.
tow_stalin   
5 Jan 2011
News / Roma flee home after threats in Silesia [28]

talking about gypsies... i saw how do the live in prague - eg. young (5 years old) gypsy boy spitting in the face of tiny chinese woman only because she prevented him from stealing in her's shop. sorry to say, but i don't like them - it's the matter of culture, not race.
tow_stalin   
10 Nov 2010
Life / What is Poland B as opposed to Poland A and the otherway-round. [45]

poland A and B :) as a inhabitant of "A" i would love to hear how we are ahead, compared to those form "B" part. and yes - we have more industry, more motorways (at least southern poland), better salaries, etc. but i have family living in city of przemyśl and in the bieszczady region, and i can assure you, that they have better life. they aren't so poor as it seems from pure statistics - i think that there is a large-scale economical "grey zone" - which is invisible to official statistics - e.g. they are going to ukraine for cheap petrol, etc. in mine opinion much more poor than e.g. podkarpackie (south-eastern corner) is warmińsko-mazurskie (middle-north) which is poland "A"

i will give you an example how poland "B" from przemyśl, krosno and surroundings is poor:
eastern-scorpions.pl/index.php?e-s,24

so, division between "A" and "B" part has a strong historical background, but today it's not so simple to say witch part of poland belongs to A or B...

edit -> i almost forgot about possibility to exclude warszawa from mazowieckie, because mazowieckie compared to city of warszawa is just poor. warszawa raises the income statistics of whole region, which makes more difficult to obtain financial support from the union for the mazowickie region. ha. mazowiecke was always counted as "A" :)
tow_stalin   
13 Oct 2010
UK, Ireland / The more subtle differences: Ireland/Britain v Poland [310]

I find it interesting, the way poles sit there and tell you how **** Poland is and when you agree with them on a point.

not me. i'm not complaining how **** poland is, and i'm not asking stupid question like "what do you think about poland". both things are wasting of time.
tow_stalin   
12 Oct 2010
Genealogy / KUKULA ancestry [32]

check your mailbox.
tow_stalin   
11 Oct 2010
History / How Poland views Europe [44]

Countries East-wards the Bug river: lost part of Poland or just "Ruskies". Never heard "former colonies".

but you have heard about kresy...

p.s. very good maps :)
tow_stalin   
8 Oct 2010
Life / Is parity the answer for Polish women? [262]

parity isn't good solution for no one. that's mine opinion - parity ,when talking about politics is just forcing people to do things which they don't want to do. and why come down only to gender? why shouldn't we create parity based on height, hair color, education, etc?
tow_stalin   
6 Oct 2010
News / Palikot - too liberal/modern for Poland? [197]

He brought forward some very radical ideas.

too liberal? hahahaha... before he became so liberal he was owner of catholic paper - OZON. all what he is doing should be called performance and has nothing common with words like programme, opinion, idea. its just show for idiots.
tow_stalin   
5 Oct 2010
Life / Disco Polo - No No No No No! [95]

someone wrote here that disco polo is a satan's creation. 100% agree, and that makes it similar to death metal :) i cannot wait for nergal wearing his brand new gym suit with 3 stripes :) and white sport shoes, of course :)
tow_stalin   
1 Oct 2010
Life / Poles - what other nationality would you say you are most like? [125]

Czechs are free market atheists and agnostics, Poles are socialist Catholics.

did you know that biggest ratio of population being member of communist party was in czechoslovakia? czech are free market compared to poles socialist? definitely not true.
tow_stalin   
1 Oct 2010
Life / Poles - what other nationality would you say you are most like? [125]

kill'em all - that's my motto :)

p.s. i met a british last time - and he is winning 1st place, second is my previous boss - and he was a german. i will not speak about nationalities i don't like, but their name is starting from f :)
tow_stalin   
1 Oct 2010
Love / Are Polish and Slavic men perhaps a little bit insecure sometimes? [113]

Its honestly hilarious when they ask me if I want to move in with them with their childish habits. What baffles me is that men in their early twenties who are starting up businesses and moving up in their careers STILL PLAY Xbox

o. i'm still playing my ps3 :)
tow_stalin   
24 Sep 2010
Life / Do Polish People steal a lot? [330]

hi sledz,
what can i say? when poland got into eu and schengen pact many of polish thieves went abroad, and belive me - here in poland we are very pleased with this fact. as a replecament we got more gypsies. luckily our climate is too cold for most of them, and they prefer other countries...
tow_stalin   
22 Sep 2010
History / What was better in Poland under communism? [67]

Among the "small" things:

exactly, and nothing more. i remember lines for basic products such as toilet paper or sugar, reglamentation of meat and gasoline, etc. communism was ******.
tow_stalin   
14 Sep 2010
Travel / My visit to Poland - Likes & Dislikes. [137]

in mine opinion it is quite rude to criticize foreigners for not knowing my native language.

ups, i did not make myself clear. its rude, to come to other country, and expect, that almost everyone there will be able to speak with me with my native language - eg. going to us and expecting that almost everyone will be able to speak with me with polish - the same with being american, and expecting that almost every pole speaks english. it's rude, and... silly :)
tow_stalin   
14 Sep 2010
Study / American Muslim girl thinking to go to Medical school in Poland... [87]

hi,
i saw a lot of students from abroad (mean from asia and so called blacks) studying on silesian medical university, and they seems to be quite pleased - no bruising, without bandages on their heads, no broken noses, with no security guards...

to be honest - there might be a problem with your muslim clothes, but not with color of your skin.

reg,
stalin.
tow_stalin   
14 Sep 2010
Travel / My visit to Poland - Likes & Dislikes. [137]

hi teffle,
english, first of all, is language of international business, and it isn't so popular when talking about tourism. have you ever seen germans, russians, french, etc speaking english on their holidays?

knowledge of english isn't so common in continental europe - eg. in germany. try to talk english there with staff on gas stations or in shops. the same with hungary, even in budapest.

in mine opinion it is quite rude to criticize foreigners for not knowing my native language.