News / Should Poland leave the EU institution? [147]


So the Dutch, Belgians, Finnish, Swedish, Danish etc. owe Poland war reparations? For what exactly?

Off-Topic / Countries and your associations in 5 words/descriptions. [56]

Netherlands: Caravans blocking the German Autobahn
Slovenia: Laibach, Austrian street sign controversy
Austria: Germans who suck at Football
Great Britain: Island with an island mentality
Luxemburg: German names neutralized by French names (typical Letzebuerger name: Jean-Claude Juncker ;))
Finland: Born with axes in hands

UK, Ireland / Poles top the UK's EU crime figures [78]

So, if Poland, Hungary etc all had smarter people than the GDR, why was East Germany the most developed economy of the eastern block?
Too much time spend on philosophizing about the meaning of life in all those high IQ countries and not enough time spend doing unintelligent work to get the economy going? ;)

News / Germany provoke Poland using Silesian question. Poland's attitude ? [124]

So after 2 pages I still have no idea what "rumors" this thread is about.
Can anyone actually point me out something german politicians/officials said in regards to Silesia recently?
Because here on the western side of the eternal front you really don't here much about Silesia or Poland in recent times.

Or am I right to conclude that Crow is just talking out of his arse?


Ah, yes. That super important name conflict down there. Thankfully it doesn't exist in the german language, we just call the country "Mazedonien" and the region in Greece "Makedonien". Case solved ;)

News / Warsaw is the natural capital of Europe, not Brussels [67]


Złota 44 - which is the street adress as far as I know.
Among other things its going to contain 251 apartments.

I wish here in Frankfurt they would take some inspiration from that, all our skyscrapers are exclusivly office building with no flats :-/

BTW. am I the only one who thinks that the fact that Crow picked a render CGI instead of a real photograph to present Wasaw, probably without even realizing it, incredibly ironic and fitting?

Shows just perfectly how much he really knows what he's talking about ;)

News / Warsaw is the natural capital of Europe, not Brussels [67]


Its currently under construction: skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=257171&page=32

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [59]


2010 was actually one of the hottest years recorded ever since temperature recording began in 1880.
Thats of course not any kind of proof for global warming and might just be an anomaly, but shows how much research you put into your post.


And if you move a few steps to the west you will find a Germany where in 2011 every month except January was ~4°C hotter than usual and a Switzerland thats currently experiencing quite a drought and has its lakes and rivers dry up.

So f*cking what?

There is a difference between "Local" and "Global" as well as between "Weather" and "Climate".

And btw.: Writing in caps lock doesn't do anything other than make you appear unstable, so you can stop doing that now.

You could actually try to answer ukpolskas post.
You know, try to explain why the well known properties of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses (storing heat) are irrelevant to our global climate and what the data of the Vostok station really means.

Or you could continue shouting stuff about evil new world orders and conspiracies, you choice.

News / Don't let Poland become like my country, France. [630]


The Americans treated their Japanese and Germans immigrants like rubbish not to long ago as a reaction to WW1 and WW2. Strangely enough those 2 groups are probably one of the best integrated in the USA of todays time, completely taking on "US" culture and barely keeping their own culture and language.

Isn't this whole "welcoming immigrants friendly" thing a relativly new trend anyway? Pretty much any immigrant group that arrived in a foreign country had to go through some **** until they were accepted.

Perhaps some pressure on immigrants isn't as counter-productive as you think. ;)

Love / Polish women are the most beautiful in the world! [1718]


The Polish Playboy seems to prefer Computer Generated Imagery over real polish women ;)
At least this month edition.

News / What are Poland's optimal both real and virtual neighbors? [81]

The city center is 4.8m over sea level. So its not a "Berg" at all and there are no actual Kings living there. Calling it Königsberg is just false advertisement ;)

News / What are Poland's optimal both real and virtual neighbors? [81]


Yes, and a few trillion Dollars investment to integrate the new won land into any country.
Lets not forget that Germany so far has put more than a trillion € (Thats a number with 12 zeros) into East Germany and it will still take a few more decades until no more transfer payments are needed and the East is on the same level as the West.

A Korean Unification is estimated to will cost 5 trillion Dollars, and in the case of "reuniting" Kaliningrad with any other country you would have additional problems and costs because you don't even have a common language and culture of the people you are trying to "unite".

Maybe I am missing something and Kaliningrad became an economic powerhouse in the past couple of years or they found tons of Diamonds and Oil in its soil that would actually make it a worthwhile target. Because otherwise I really don't see why anyone would want to risk a war for this little strip of land.

News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]


Don't worry. I actually quite enjoy the British humour and watch enough of your TV shows and comedians to know that its not only Germans who are targets for those "cheap shots", but that you talk just as unflattering about your own country and people and almost everything else in this world.

And its not like we Germans only make harmless jokes about you guys.

Here is what Dietmar Wischmeyer has to say about the British:
youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jc79zByuC2E

Subtitles aren't perfect, but should be enough to get the gist.

Those able to speak German can also check out what Wischmeyer has to say about Germans, Dutch, French, Poles, Austrians, Greeks and Americans on Youtube. ;)


Actually, when you read the comments under Marek Fis videos on youtube pretty much all the Poles who speak German and/or live in Germany quite like his jokes and have no problem with it. And here on this forum it seems like mostly people who are situated west of the big pond are offended by it.


Hmm, Didn't know of him until now.
I really have to watch more TV. ;)
But there you have it MediaWatch, A Jew in Germany making fun about Jewish stereotypes.

(Sry for double post, but for some reason it won't let me edit my previous post)

News / MORE ANTI-POLISH SENTIMENT IN GERMANY [280]

The Irony in your post is strong, young Padawan ;)
If that is your understanding of "not provoking", I really would like to know how it looks when you try to provoke.

But to get to the original topic:
I never heard of Marek Fis before reading this thread. From what I saw in the posted videos, its not rally my humour and I don't think i missed a lot by not hearing of this before.

And yes, the humour is quite "intellectually undemanding" at times.
But so is a lot of humour (Toilet humour anyone?).

1. The "German Media" did not invent the figure of Marek Fis. Marek Fis "made" his stage persona all by himself and started doing stand-up all on his own. The idea to his polish alter ego was his idea, not the idea of "The German Media".

2. There are in fact many black Comedians who make fun of the "uncivilized African" stereotype.
Yes, even in Germany.
Just look up Dave Davis and his stage persona called "Motombo Umbokko" => dave-davis.de

3. If you want to, then I can easily find you some russian, czech, french, american or asian comedians working in Germany that have no problem making fun of their own country and portraying themself in a rather unfavorable light for the sake of comedy.

4. I never saw a Jewish Comedian working in Germany making fun about Jewish stereotypes. You are right about that at least.
I could name you several Jewish Americans who do so however.

Most jokes about Germans make use of the good old Nazi stereotypes.
Hell, in the UK a German Comedian called Henning Wehn has quite some success milking those stereotypes and playing a dull German who wishes back the "glorious days of the Fatherland" and thinks partying has to involve goose stepping.

But in your mind beeing portrayed as unintelligent is worse than beeing portayed as a murdering racist Lunatic?
Really? You must have some really strange priorities in that case.

I am personally less offended when getting called stupid, as I am when someone calls me a Nazi.

You don't have to like those jokes, but the manner in which some people here are responding makes it look like you are just waiting for an opportunity to feel offended and fly into uncontrolled rage.

News / Polish Jesuits created a Facebook site for non-believers. Atheists not a total waste? [70]


Sry, but that is just bullsh*t.

Beeing an Atheist means just what the word implies, aka "Not beeing a Theist".

You either believe there is a God, or you don't. There is simply no middle ground there. One is either a Theist or an Atheist.

The question of whether you are sure of your belief or not is a completly different one.

I am personally an agnostic Atheist.
Meaning: I don't believe that there is a theistic deity but I don't claim to know for certain.


Essentially, Everyone is agnostic about everything.
Well, except for the good old self-evidently "Cogito ergo sum". ;)

History / Slavic vs Germanic thinking.... and the philosophical differences [251]


Nope.
Hate, anger, rage and fury are emotions as well. :p

News / Polish PM Tusk- dictator or not? What Poles think? [374]

I can't believe some people are taking this thread seriously, or anything that Crow posts for that matter.

History / In a German encyclopedia Poland is represented as: [30]


I read some articles on that wiki. This is Germany according to it:
encyclopaedia-germanica.org/de/images/Deutschelaender.jpg

They actually included the Netherlands! And half of Belgium + Brussels.
Thats a level of crazy I haven't seen until now.

I really don't know if this is some joke wiki, or a side project of some wierd "Pan-Germanic" Nazi.