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JonnyM   
14 Mar 2011
News / POLES FEEL LIKE JEWS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL IN POLAND - TRUE? [209]

Well, he must have found it somewhere - even he is not able to come up with
such enormous cr*p himself :)

Some racist websites have those lists - entirely ficticious, listing every public figure they don't like and some they do.

I'd call it pure paranoia, however there's a real streak of evil in there.
JonnyM   
14 Mar 2011
History / Polish pirates [58]

especially in South-East Asian waters, and they are brutal murderers.

It's certainly getting worse month by month off the coast of Somalia. A real problem. And the Somali pirates are getting bolder. Certainly none of them are Polish, but some of the crew members taken by them are.

I have to do a course soon about what to do if attacked by pirates. Should be interesting, but I hope I'll never need it.
JonnyM   
14 Mar 2011
History / Polish pirates [58]

they were Slavs as are Poles. They are recognizably Polish on both counts

So are Serbians - but they aren't recognisably Polish. Except maybe to Crow.

the great Slavic Peopl

There is no more a 'Slavic people' than there is a 'Germanic people' or a 'Latin people'.

Slavic pirates of the Adriatic.

Who are obscure by the mists of time.
JonnyM   
14 Mar 2011
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1033]

Or "Mam ogomna ochota na Ciebie bo jestem zboczeniec i ty wyglądasz jak papież z peruką".

Works every time...
JonnyM   
14 Mar 2011
History / Polish pirates [58]

A pirate walks into a bar and the bartender says, "Hey, I haven't seen you in a while. What happened, you look terrible!"

"What do you mean?" the pirate replies, "I'm fine."
The bartender says, "But what about that wooden leg? You didn't have that before."
"Well," says the pirate, "We were in a battle at sea and a cannon ball hit my leg but the surgeon fixed me up, and I'm fine, really."

"Yeah," says the bartender, "But what about that hook? Last time I saw you, you had both hands."
"Well," says the pirate, "We were in another battle and we boarded the enemy ship. I was in a sword fight and my hand was cut off but the surgeon fixed me up with this hook, and I feel great, really."

"Oh," says the bartender, "What about that eye patch? Last time you were in here you had both eyes."
"Well," says the pirate, "One day when we were at sea, some birds were flying over the ship. I looked up, and one of them shat in my eye."

"So?" replied the bartender, "what happened? You couldn't have lost an eye just from some bird *****"
"Well," says the pirate, "I really wasn't used to the hook yet."
JonnyM   
14 Mar 2011
History / Polish pirates [58]

Except there isn't really very much to say about them - and neither the ethnicity nor the geography correspond to anything recognisably Polish.
JonnyM   
14 Mar 2011
History / How much Poles trust to France? [93]

'wotshit' this is really abusive.

Marie Curie is Marie Curie. The Skłodowska bit is not in general use outside PL.

And they created Grand Orient.

Pretty popular in PL back in the day, and has a couple of hundred members now.
JonnyM   
14 Mar 2011
History / Polish pirates [58]

Their lack of rum, parrots, and shoes with big buckles does not exclude them.

It does however make them uninteresting and relatively undocumented compared to the swashbuckling water pikeys of fifteen hundred years later.
JonnyM   
14 Mar 2011
Language / Polish Language classes - what do your lessons look like? [21]

There are quite a few language schools that do Polish courses in Krakow - 'Glossa' isn't necessarily one of the better ones (though it advertises rather aggressively), and homestay is not at all a good idea. Why not have a look on the internet for a list of schools? Or try one of these, which all have a decent reputation.

Instytut Studiow Polonijnych

Poliglota

International School of Polish Language and Culture in Cracow

Accent School of Polish

Prolog
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

in your head you know you shouldnt stand her but find yourself liking her none the less.

Emotionally rejected by her mother and pretty well brought up by the parents of schoolfriends.
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

crying in self pity.

She was a follower of Ayn Rand and Objectivism - believing it was actually wrong to care about anyone else unless you personally like them.
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

Apparently she used to do it when she was a young woman, according to 'unnamed neighbours'.
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

Thatcher destroyed communities declaring that there is no such thing as society.

Whe it looked like she might die last year, the press were already hinting about all the stuff they can't print when she was alive. Like spitting on people from upstairs windows when they were on their way to doing voluntary work. She hated the idea of people helping others without material reward.
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

I personally plan on pissing on her grave as soon as she is in the ground.

There'll be a bloody long queue for that. Personally I think she should be given to Gunther Von Hagen for plastination.
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

Educate yourself, invent, try different approaches, different jobs.

A 55 year old mother of six with an unemployed husband doesn't have too many options in that respect.

workers' pay and benefits.

Which Thatcher and her ilk wanted to reduce to Nineteenth Century levels.
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

When Maggie Thatcher decided to go to war against the miners

In effect, a country declaring wars on its own people. With dreadful destructive results.

I was doing a consultancy recently in a foreign country. The other person I was with was a (very right-wing) old Etonian. I mentioned before we left the hotel (after a month's stay) about the tip for the chambermaid, and how much one ought to leave after a month, His answer was: "if people want more money they should get a better job"!
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
History / Polish pirates [58]

Sclavonian

I wonder how many of those were buccaneers on the Spanish Main...
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

personally Ive been dirt poor and Ive been in the 40% tax bracket

Likewise, and it shows that one should never take material wealth for granted or judge others by their condition in life, which is essentially a lottery. It's just that some people are good at buying the right tickets.
JonnyM   
13 Mar 2011
News / Poland needs a left wing govt. [111]

its the " I'm alright Jacek" show vs basic morality and the essential tenent of Christianity...

It's the whole 'Randroid' thing - people believing that altruism is somehow bad, and that just because they aren't hungry they don't have to give a **** about those who are. Against the wisdom of all science, philosophy and plain common sense.

I agree that willy-waggling is pointless and I still contend I'd have you beat, two-fold. :)

I'm not so sure, but let's agree that we're both doing nicely :-)

The name calling came from you using the term "redistribution" which is both communism and name-calling in my book.

Yet even right-wing governments practise it to a certain extent.

I remember some idiot, in PL as it happened, who said that taxation could be compared to there only being two men in the world. One hard-working and one bone-idle. His point was that the hard-working guy shouldn't have to subsidise the bone-idle one. My (rather obvious) response was that this hard-working guy presumably has kids, so who's his privately educated well brought up daughter going to marry?