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."

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...

History / Polish pirates [58]


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


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


Who are obscure by the mists of time.

History / Polish pirates [58]


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.

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


Crawl back under your stone - it's damp and dark there.

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


Life's inadequates, looking for a non-existent 'them' to blame.

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

Wow! Ida Kaminska, director of the Warsaw Yiddlish Theatre was secretly Jewish? Wonders will never cease!

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

It isn't. Just fantasies by racists.

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


Perhaps that means they are Polish.

What does someone's ancestry matter to anything?


Wanna bet?

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


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.

History / Shafting The Poles - article by Ralph Peters NYP [17]


Not nearly as sad as someone who believes:

Life / I am speculating of moving back to Warsaw, but very carefully.... [8]

Remember that you'll need a lot of customers to cover the cost of premises - and there are a lot of hairdressers in Warsaw. Maybe a market for one who advertises as English speaking?

Language / Polish Language classes - what do your lessons look like? [21]


I have. Plus a lot of mysterious comments on internet fora. The ones in the list above however have a proven reputation.

History / Thinking of changing Wikipedia's Holocaust article to include genocide of Poles. [78]


There is already an article on that, about the occupation of Poland.

Interesting that people talk about amending the article on the holocaust, and not the one on the Poraimos...

Language / Polish Language classes - what do your lessons look like? [21]

I would too. A combination of all those posts plugging this glossa setup, the strange English that a native from Bristol would never, ever use but which a Pole stylistically would, and the fact that Dalloway isn't a usual surname outside the novels of Mrs Woolf.

All a bit suspect, really.

Stuff like this on other fora - it seems like glossa are spammers - one good reason to avoid them. The following is only one of many


e-polish.eu/main/fid/10/tid/245/forum/thread.html?lang=DE

Language / Polish Language classes - what do your lessons look like? [21]

So basically she (and the language used suggests a she) is trolling for glossa. Which tells us a lot about them. One to avoid.

Language / Polish Language classes - what do your lessons look like? [21]

Bloomsbury. But she's going to the lighthouse.

;-)

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]


Very very distant!


Scary.

But Bradleys is pretty good.

Language / Polish Language classes - what do your lessons look like? [21]

Ooooh.

History / Poland 1939. American photojournalist, Harrison Forman [9]

Most of them were probably young conscripts who'd rather be anywhere else.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

There is that. A bit like Bahrain where there are European-style pubs on the 10th floor of a building.

I wonde where else there is to go in Warsaw now Morgans and that place by Metro Wilanowska are gone. I think the Irish Embassy staff go to Bradleys sometimes, which is a bit of a seal of approval. Do you know what Legends is like?

Love / ARE POLISH GIRLS GOLD-DIGGERS? [359]


Not perhaps a typical Polish woman.

Language / Special Polish Prayers / (Funeral too) that stand out [12]

[Moved from]: Condolences in Polish

Can anyone suggest something to write in Polish as a condolence. It should be a one-liner. The deceased was an 88 year old retired lawyer. I never met him, but know his son and nephew. The son has just invited me to the funeral via facebook, but I can't attend.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

I liked Cork Bar. Maybe Someplace Else will be doing something.

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]

I just had a look at their website legendsbar.pl cold day before they start having wet tee-shirt contests, bingo and darts 'n doms nights

Life / St Patrick's day in Poland [272]



A couple of million others like you, and people wouldn't bother with St Patrick's Day anyway.

Love / ARE POLISH GIRLS GOLD-DIGGERS? [359]


They aren't legal in the country he lives in.

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

Might but doesn't - the East European obsession with Jews is far older than that.


Well, he created the concept of a master race - he considered Jews and Chinese people to be part of it.


Comedy. Everyone knows it was a Russian guy shining mirrors/lazers/blowing smoke into the pilot's eyes.

Life / $3,000-$4,000 a month - would we have enough money to live in Poland? [273]


Playing silly mind games, with a clear financial goal. Not unusual in Poland, sadly.


No no no no. Ignore her and be terse about it. If she has anything for you, she will change her tune quick enough, if not, move on.


It isn't. Try onet or gumtree. it is a renters' market.

Language / Polish Language classes - what do your lessons look like? [21]


You are frdalloway?