MyMom
26 Aug 2011
USA, Canada / Gift idea for something uniquely American that is difficult to find in Poland? [67]
California wine.
California wine.
MyMom
26 Aug 2011
History / Bad luck of Poland or something else? - constant occupatiuon by different vermin [11]
ishatu2: what kind of a marron are you to sneak a reference to Zaolzie conflict into a thread about EU and NATO?
BTW your beloved Czechs some time earlier closed their borders during Polish-Soviet war so that the Soviets could finish Poles off (which luckily did not happen). That was followed with them violating earlier agreement and invading the Zaolzie land, where a plebiscite was scheduled to take place.
As to 1938 - good move by Poles, the Czechs didn't deserve anything better (although Polish takeover of Zaolzie was the consequence of the decisions which have already been made by Brits and French). Even with the threat of Hitler, they never even did anything to reconcile with Poland.
ishatu2: what kind of a marron are you to sneak a reference to Zaolzie conflict into a thread about EU and NATO?
BTW your beloved Czechs some time earlier closed their borders during Polish-Soviet war so that the Soviets could finish Poles off (which luckily did not happen). That was followed with them violating earlier agreement and invading the Zaolzie land, where a plebiscite was scheduled to take place.
As to 1938 - good move by Poles, the Czechs didn't deserve anything better (although Polish takeover of Zaolzie was the consequence of the decisions which have already been made by Brits and French). Even with the threat of Hitler, they never even did anything to reconcile with Poland.
MyMom
29 Aug 2011
History / Has Poland ever participated in any big wars (except WW2)? [73]
Only a person with strong antipolish bias would accept that as a valid reason for Czech invasion of Zaolzie and hostile stance during Polish-Soviet war. Many Poles talk today about the events of 1938 as a mistake but really I can't imagine how Polish interbellum politicians could act differently back then. For them Czechoslovakia was a greedy, hostile state that couldn't be trusted, a state that would use every opportunity to harm Poland and wouldn't even try to reconcile with Poland, not even apologize for what they did in 1920.
How could Poles invade Czechoslovakia AFTER Czechoslovakian government agreed to give Zaolzie to Poland?
And you know why did Czechs agree to that? Because their fate was already sealed, thanks to their British and French allies. Brits and French made Munich happen, not Poles.
So we agree that Poland's elections should not have been organised in the disputed areas and that because of those elections Czech forces entered the areas.
Only a person with strong antipolish bias would accept that as a valid reason for Czech invasion of Zaolzie and hostile stance during Polish-Soviet war. Many Poles talk today about the events of 1938 as a mistake but really I can't imagine how Polish interbellum politicians could act differently back then. For them Czechoslovakia was a greedy, hostile state that couldn't be trusted, a state that would use every opportunity to harm Poland and wouldn't even try to reconcile with Poland, not even apologize for what they did in 1920.
and invaded czechoslovakia
How could Poles invade Czechoslovakia AFTER Czechoslovakian government agreed to give Zaolzie to Poland?
And you know why did Czechs agree to that? Because their fate was already sealed, thanks to their British and French allies. Brits and French made Munich happen, not Poles.
MyMom
29 Aug 2011
History / Has Poland ever participated in any big wars (except WW2)? [73]
Wrong. Do you think Czechs made ANY step towards reconciliation with Poland? The leadership of Czechoslovakia put all their trust in France, UK and Stalin's Russia and wasn't interested in alliance with Poland.
That Poland had very good relations with Hungary - a country that had justifiable territorial claims towards Czechoslovakia - didn't help either, but the fact remains that Czechoslovakian politcians are more to blame for the lack of Polish - Czechoslovakian alliance than Polish politicians.
What a pity Polish leaders at the time were so intent on retaliation and so blind!
Wrong. Do you think Czechs made ANY step towards reconciliation with Poland? The leadership of Czechoslovakia put all their trust in France, UK and Stalin's Russia and wasn't interested in alliance with Poland.
That Poland had very good relations with Hungary - a country that had justifiable territorial claims towards Czechoslovakia - didn't help either, but the fact remains that Czechoslovakian politcians are more to blame for the lack of Polish - Czechoslovakian alliance than Polish politicians.
MyMom
2 Sep 2011
Law / How Much Does It Cost To Form a Political Party In Poland? [15]
I suppose there should be a BIG RED text under each nick stating whether the poster is Polish or has Polish roots. I noticed that it is mostly foreigners who keep writing crap like this, especially towards Polonia, but visitors of this site may get the impression that Polish people are stupid jerks.
I suppose there should be a BIG RED text under each nick stating whether the poster is Polish or has Polish roots. I noticed that it is mostly foreigners who keep writing crap like this, especially towards Polonia, but visitors of this site may get the impression that Polish people are stupid jerks.
MyMom
2 Sep 2011
Love / Polish men like Latin girls? What do u find attractive in a girl physically & emotionally? [29]
Don't know what the question is but go for it. Poland needs to be allied with Mexico. And Serbia of course, let's not forget about Serbia.
As a side note, I have the impression of Mexican women being more feminine than Polish women, that would be your advantage.
Don't know what the question is but go for it. Poland needs to be allied with Mexico. And Serbia of course, let's not forget about Serbia.
As a side note, I have the impression of Mexican women being more feminine than Polish women, that would be your advantage.
MyMom
2 Sep 2011
Food / Your all time favourite Polish Dishes! [108]
I'm a man of simple taste:
chłodnik litewski - lithuanian cold borscht
placki ziemniaczane - potato pancakes
pierogi z grzybami i kapustą - dumplings stuffed with mushrooms and sauerkraut, served with fried onion
mizeria - sliced cucumber + chives + cream + salt - as an addition to mashed potatos
kompot - drink made from fresh fruits
I'm a man of simple taste:
chłodnik litewski - lithuanian cold borscht
placki ziemniaczane - potato pancakes
pierogi z grzybami i kapustą - dumplings stuffed with mushrooms and sauerkraut, served with fried onion
mizeria - sliced cucumber + chives + cream + salt - as an addition to mashed potatos
kompot - drink made from fresh fruits
MyMom
3 Sep 2011
Life / People living in Warsaw are rootless peasants! [41]
What is strange is that apart from Greater Poland and part of Upper Silesia, most of the orange areas are people who have been repatriated from the Kresy, so eastwards from the so called "Polska B", which BTW is a term used by losers.
Still, they coloured the areas uniformly orange or uniformly blue giving the impression that the votes were all in favour of one candidate, while in fact the difference was likely at most a few percent.
Enough with the "Polska B" bullcrap.
What is strange is that apart from Greater Poland and part of Upper Silesia, most of the orange areas are people who have been repatriated from the Kresy, so eastwards from the so called "Polska B", which BTW is a term used by losers.
Still, they coloured the areas uniformly orange or uniformly blue giving the impression that the votes were all in favour of one candidate, while in fact the difference was likely at most a few percent.
Enough with the "Polska B" bullcrap.
MyMom
3 Sep 2011
News / Polish Students Striking in Lithuania [80]
"Right wing" cause they feel they are Polish and don't want to be Lithuanians? For some people anyone who has some kind of national identity and is not gay is "right wing".
Polish minority in Lithuania are somewhat right wing
"Right wing" cause they feel they are Polish and don't want to be Lithuanians? For some people anyone who has some kind of national identity and is not gay is "right wing".
MyMom
3 Sep 2011
Life / People living in Warsaw are rootless peasants! [41]
pawian: What are you trying to say? That "Poland A" somehow lives off pre war German accomplishments? You do realize how those areas were devasted in 1945? Do you know how Wrocław, Gdańsk, Głogów, Kołobrzeg etc. looked like after "liberation"?
And how exactly the fact that Wielkopolska is host to some industrial pork "factories" is a success? And do you know how many of those old German railway lines are actually used today?
pawian: What are you trying to say? That "Poland A" somehow lives off pre war German accomplishments? You do realize how those areas were devasted in 1945? Do you know how Wrocław, Gdańsk, Głogów, Kołobrzeg etc. looked like after "liberation"?
And how exactly the fact that Wielkopolska is host to some industrial pork "factories" is a success? And do you know how many of those old German railway lines are actually used today?
MyMom
3 Sep 2011
Life / People living in Warsaw are rootless peasants! [41]
You can't even spell it right idiot. Looks like you are a fascist in your own country but being an immigrant you'd like everybody to be a welcoming commie, so typical.
You can't even spell it right idiot. Looks like you are a fascist in your own country but being an immigrant you'd like everybody to be a welcoming commie, so typical.
MyMom
3 Sep 2011
Life / People living in Warsaw are rootless peasants! [41]
Egkhm, more woods in those areas?
BTW your admirable Germans obviously didn't plunder their own forests, but did so when they occupied Poland.
Do you know why it is so?
Egkhm, more woods in those areas?
BTW your admirable Germans obviously didn't plunder their own forests, but did so when they occupied Poland.
MyMom
3 Sep 2011
Life / People living in Warsaw are rootless peasants! [41]
I see that the wildboar population density is roughly consistent with the woods concentration.
But since you keep marking the old German border - are those wildboars German and reproduce accordingly?
No.
See the woods map:
See the woods map:
I see that the wildboar population density is roughly consistent with the woods concentration.
But since you keep marking the old German border - are those wildboars German and reproduce accordingly?
MyMom
4 Sep 2011
Life / The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?) [205]
Poland has been ruled mostly by either post communists or ex trade union activists. Small business owners by definition don't make it into Sejm.
Untill Tusk, and whatever stupid government in Poland, realises, what a hell it is to, actually do business here, it will always be a backward country.
Poland has been ruled mostly by either post communists or ex trade union activists. Small business owners by definition don't make it into Sejm.
MyMom
4 Sep 2011
Life / The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?) [205]
That made me grin :D
There are kids like him among Poles too, but he is a guest here, he should know better, it always looks bad when a foreigner uses phrases like "subhuman Polish scum".
You are some kido, who would have problems to make a zloty here If not that you were born in an English speaking family
That made me grin :D
There are kids like him among Poles too, but he is a guest here, he should know better, it always looks bad when a foreigner uses phrases like "subhuman Polish scum".
MyMom
5 Sep 2011
Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]
You are who you want to be - not who your great grandmother was.
Still, it is interesting how people upon learning they have some Jewish blood in them, all of a sudden embrace it and act like it determines their identity.
and therefore technically I'm also Jewish. How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actauly Jewish?
You are who you want to be - not who your great grandmother was.
Still, it is interesting how people upon learning they have some Jewish blood in them, all of a sudden embrace it and act like it determines their identity.
MyMom
5 Sep 2011
Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]
What does that mean exactly?
They are.
Still, that almost sounds racist. "Poles are too stupid to run their own country and need Jews to rule them".
I have always been a Philo-semite
What does that mean exactly?
I think Poland would be a better place today if they were still all there.
They are.
Still, that almost sounds racist. "Poles are too stupid to run their own country and need Jews to rule them".
MyMom
5 Sep 2011
Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]
That would imply that Philo-Semitism = racism.
No it is you who is racist implying that Jewish race in general is better than Poles.
I don't think you are a Pole with Jewish roots. I think you are a troll who came here for an opportunity to write about some "pogroms", which apart from being a ridiculous term, was always a Russian and Ukrainian specialty.
BTW the commie Jews are responsible for much more gentile deaths than all "pogroms" combined, not that I aprove of holding all Jews responsible for that.
It's the opposite of an anti-semite. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philo-Semitism
That would imply that Philo-Semitism = racism.
It seems that you are the racist, implying that Jews run every country they have a large population in.
No it is you who is racist implying that Jewish race in general is better than Poles.
I am ashamed of my grandparents generation's views on Jews, they never caused us any trouble and lived amongst us in peace for almost 1000 years. Many Poles really were really quite anti-semetic before the war with incidents such the Pinsk Pogrom of 1918 a stain on our history. Not to mention the Kielce Pogrom of 1946 which I believe Poland should officially apologise for.
I don't think you are a Pole with Jewish roots. I think you are a troll who came here for an opportunity to write about some "pogroms", which apart from being a ridiculous term, was always a Russian and Ukrainian specialty.
BTW the commie Jews are responsible for much more gentile deaths than all "pogroms" combined, not that I aprove of holding all Jews responsible for that.
MyMom
5 Sep 2011
History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [395]
Warsaw Uprising was the continuation of Operation Tempest. Now, do you think AK leadership in Warsaw didn't know what happened to those Home Army units who tried to help Russians advance in Kresy? (which was also already illogical because since June 1943 Soviet partisants were as much focused on fighting the Poles as they were on fighting the Germans).
Warsaw Uprising was the continuation of Operation Tempest. Now, do you think AK leadership in Warsaw didn't know what happened to those Home Army units who tried to help Russians advance in Kresy? (which was also already illogical because since June 1943 Soviet partisants were as much focused on fighting the Poles as they were on fighting the Germans).
MyMom
5 Sep 2011
History / Poles and Russians -- love-hate relationship? [209]
Poles love freedom while Russian are used to being servants of their rulers rather than citizens.
Poles love freedom while Russian are used to being servants of their rulers rather than citizens.
MyMom
5 Sep 2011
Language / Czech language sounds like baby talk to most Poles. Similarities? [222]
I got the idea what it is all about, with no prior Czech exposure. I did better than Czech->Polish google translation but worse than Czech->English google translator. The important thing to do is to try to get the sound right in your head and it starts falling into places (mostly).
just tell me how easy it is "because you know Polish"
I got the idea what it is all about, with no prior Czech exposure. I did better than Czech->Polish google translation but worse than Czech->English google translator. The important thing to do is to try to get the sound right in your head and it starts falling into places (mostly).
MyMom
6 Sep 2011
Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]
What is funny is when some actual events surface which seem to confirm those stereotypes ;)
For example:
haaretz.com/news/israel-police-uncovers-organ-trafficking-ring-in-north-1.905
haaretz.com/news/international/report-israeli-suspected-of-running-ukraine-organ-trafficking-ring-1.306470
haaretz.com/news/national/interpol-hunts-two-israelis-for-kosovo-organ-trafficking-1.324383
:D :D
Now, would someone be allowed to say: statistically Israelis are more involved in organ trafficking than other nationalities? :D
Also, I was really amazed when I learned how many famous Hollywood actors are Jewish.
What is funny is when some actual events surface which seem to confirm those stereotypes ;)
For example:
haaretz.com/news/israel-police-uncovers-organ-trafficking-ring-in-north-1.905
haaretz.com/news/international/report-israeli-suspected-of-running-ukraine-organ-trafficking-ring-1.306470
haaretz.com/news/national/interpol-hunts-two-israelis-for-kosovo-organ-trafficking-1.324383
:D :D
Now, would someone be allowed to say: statistically Israelis are more involved in organ trafficking than other nationalities? :D
Also, I was really amazed when I learned how many famous Hollywood actors are Jewish.
MyMom
6 Sep 2011
Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]
How does Israel solve this issue? You surely won't be granted citizenship if you just converted to judaism...
Only an x amount of Jews follow this idea that its descent of he mother.
A good number still claim they are Jewish if it was from father side or even grandparents, etc.
A good number still claim they are Jewish if it was from father side or even grandparents, etc.
How does Israel solve this issue? You surely won't be granted citizenship if you just converted to judaism...
MyMom
10 Sep 2011
Genealogy / How common is it for other people of Polish origin to discover they are actually Jewish? [127]
What a bunch of lies. You people really need to be consitent when it comes to those "bad Poles" stories. I thought poor Jews were not allowed to get such high profile jobs in the Polish army... Also heard that bad Poles refused to give them weapons in 1939...
Those Jews that came back from Russia, yes, surely they were treated with contempt, for running the whole oppression apparatus for uncle Stalin.
Turns out you Poles didn't really want the Jews back.
What a bunch of lies. You people really need to be consitent when it comes to those "bad Poles" stories. I thought poor Jews were not allowed to get such high profile jobs in the Polish army... Also heard that bad Poles refused to give them weapons in 1939...
Those Jews that came back from Russia, yes, surely they were treated with contempt, for running the whole oppression apparatus for uncle Stalin.
MyMom
13 Sep 2011
Life / Articles of Jamie Stokes concerning an ex-pats life in Poland [10]
His style of writing - exaggeration - quickly becomes more boring than funny, but this is funny:
His style of writing - exaggeration - quickly becomes more boring than funny, but this is funny:
One of the first Polish humans was a guy named Lech, who invented beer. He had a brother called Russ, who invented alcoholism, and another brother called Czech, who invented talking like a five year old and putting jam on everything—they were an influential family.
MyMom
14 Sep 2011
News / Poles not promoting their own country? [9]
Merged:
Found on Polish MSZ youtube channel: youtu.be/nM-p8PGn3CI
Merged:
Western celebrities talk about Poland - promotional film from Polish foreign ministry
Found on Polish MSZ youtube channel: youtu.be/nM-p8PGn3CI
MyMom
14 Sep 2011
History / The strange destiny of Antoni Aleksander Iliński [32]
Interesting story, it reminded me of another crazy story - about "Polish king of Madagascar" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Benyovszky
Are you sure about the turbans? That would obscure their Kozak haircuts ( which BTW have become popular recently in USA :D )
Interesting story, it reminded me of another crazy story - about "Polish king of Madagascar" - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Benyovszky
they began affecting an Oriental style of dress complete with turbans
Are you sure about the turbans? That would obscure their Kozak haircuts ( which BTW have become popular recently in USA :D )
MyMom
15 Sep 2011
News / 4th Polish Republic may re-emerge [244]
Here is a nice article how Adam Michnik, the chief of Gazeta Wyborcza secretly buys flats through his friend, government official:
wsieci.rp.pl/opinie/kataryna/Borowski-i-mieszkania-Michnika
The article says that may be one of the reasons why Wyborcza keeps attacking CBA - the central anticorruption bereau, and mentions another case where a Wyborcza journalist, while involved in an corruption scandal, used Wyborcza to attack the CBA.
Here is a nice article how Adam Michnik, the chief of Gazeta Wyborcza secretly buys flats through his friend, government official:
wsieci.rp.pl/opinie/kataryna/Borowski-i-mieszkania-Michnika
The article says that may be one of the reasons why Wyborcza keeps attacking CBA - the central anticorruption bereau, and mentions another case where a Wyborcza journalist, while involved in an corruption scandal, used Wyborcza to attack the CBA.
MyMom
15 Sep 2011
History / The strange destiny of Antoni Aleksander Iliński [32]
Not really. At that time it was the Russians who occupied most of Poland. Ottomans were natural allies of Poles against both Russia and Austro-Hungary.
As a russian Orthodox general he would serve the purposes of Sarmatia much more properly.
Not really. At that time it was the Russians who occupied most of Poland. Ottomans were natural allies of Poles against both Russia and Austro-Hungary.
MyMom
15 Sep 2011
History / Poland Lithuania - current relations [124]
So you wanted to have huge territory which wasn't ethnically Lithuanian and you denied Poland the right to have Wilno, which was ethnically Polish?
If we wouldn't have Commonwealth, Lithuania would have all of that territory, or atleast half of it.
So you wanted to have huge territory which wasn't ethnically Lithuanian and you denied Poland the right to have Wilno, which was ethnically Polish?