polonius
30 Sep 2012
polonius
30 Sep 2012
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]
SZMYD: Polish respelling of German Schmied (Smith).
SZMYD: Polish respelling of German Schmied (Smith).
polonius
29 Sep 2012
Life / Did you already bless your Święconka? [31]
Now that's a really good question. I've only heard about this being the case without ever delving into the subject. But I'll try to check.
Now that's a really good question. I've only heard about this being the case without ever delving into the subject. But I'll try to check.
polonius
29 Sep 2012
News / The consequences of a PiS electoral victory [22]
Yes indeed, corrupt politicans, shady businessmen and wheeler-dealer type careers should quake in their boots at the thought of the CBA auditing their financial scams. At present, they enjoy the PO protective umbrella which incldues collaborating courts and indulgent judges that drop charges or pass suspended sentences on wrongdoing biggies.
NorthMancPolak
Sliced bread is horrible becuase it is mega-chameicalised! Becuase the greater number of exposed surfaces maeks it mroe succeptible do mould, bread meant to be commercially sliced contains more preservatives to prevent that. Just shows to go that urban legends are not always true.
Yes indeed, corrupt politicans, shady businessmen and wheeler-dealer type careers should quake in their boots at the thought of the CBA auditing their financial scams. At present, they enjoy the PO protective umbrella which incldues collaborating courts and indulgent judges that drop charges or pass suspended sentences on wrongdoing biggies.
NorthMancPolak
Sliced bread is horrible becuase it is mega-chameicalised! Becuase the greater number of exposed surfaces maeks it mroe succeptible do mould, bread meant to be commercially sliced contains more preservatives to prevent that. Just shows to go that urban legends are not always true.
polonius
29 Sep 2012
News / The consequences of a PiS electoral victory [22]
An even worse nightmare is a PO re-election...It is quite likely because when a government enjoyinh the support of banksters, gangsters and otehr big-money forces, they will hold on for dear life.... And many ordinary Poles gulled by clever PO propaganda will help make that a reality.
If PiS were to win, then the 4th Republic project could be resumed and the scam artists, conmen, PRL hangovers and other Tusk backers would finally get be swept away. One should build a country or a house not on muck or rubbish but on a clean, strong, transparent foundation.
An even worse nightmare is a PO re-election...It is quite likely because when a government enjoyinh the support of banksters, gangsters and otehr big-money forces, they will hold on for dear life.... And many ordinary Poles gulled by clever PO propaganda will help make that a reality.
If PiS were to win, then the 4th Republic project could be resumed and the scam artists, conmen, PRL hangovers and other Tusk backers would finally get be swept away. One should build a country or a house not on muck or rubbish but on a clean, strong, transparent foundation.
polonius
29 Sep 2012
Life / Did you already bless your Święconka? [31]
Why we are discussing Easter in September is hard to imagine, but if that be the case... The Easter food blessing in the US has spread beyond the Polish community. As the once tight-knit Polish neighborhoods dispersed over the past half-century and people moved into ethncially mixed suburbs, many requested their new parish priest to introduce the custom, and many did. The custom is a natural with parishioners of all ethnic backgrounds so soon Catholics of German, Irish, Italian, Spanish and other backgrounds began folloiwng suit. Goes to show that a colourful tradition can spread if it is not kept within closed communities. Same goes for the Mexican piñata -- now standard at kids' brithday parties of whatever background.
Why we are discussing Easter in September is hard to imagine, but if that be the case... The Easter food blessing in the US has spread beyond the Polish community. As the once tight-knit Polish neighborhoods dispersed over the past half-century and people moved into ethncially mixed suburbs, many requested their new parish priest to introduce the custom, and many did. The custom is a natural with parishioners of all ethnic backgrounds so soon Catholics of German, Irish, Italian, Spanish and other backgrounds began folloiwng suit. Goes to show that a colourful tradition can spread if it is not kept within closed communities. Same goes for the Mexican piñata -- now standard at kids' brithday parties of whatever background.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
It was an American documenttary. It showed thousands upon thousands of gung-ho wild-eyed homo activists marching through US cities, hugging and slobbering over each other in public, etc., etc. -- that stuff. If you haven't seen it, don't knock it! Sorry, I forgot for a moment you were prejudiced.
It was an American documenttary. It showed thousands upon thousands of gung-ho wild-eyed homo activists marching through US cities, hugging and slobbering over each other in public, etc., etc. -- that stuff. If you haven't seen it, don't knock it! Sorry, I forgot for a moment you were prejudiced.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
Language / Burak or redneck? [36]
The term underlcass is loosely used by many Ameircans to mean, for instance, people like slumdwellers -- those who live in 'dangerous' neighbourhoods where drugs (crackhouses), prostituion and crime are rampant, tenants are way behind in theri rent, many have had utilities disconnected for nonpayment of bills, most kids are school drop-outs, very few know who there father, and drug dealers and rappers are looked up to as role models. There are neighboruhoods like this in every American major city (in other countries as well), but we are discussing the American underclass here.
The term underlcass is loosely used by many Ameircans to mean, for instance, people like slumdwellers -- those who live in 'dangerous' neighbourhoods where drugs (crackhouses), prostituion and crime are rampant, tenants are way behind in theri rent, many have had utilities disconnected for nonpayment of bills, most kids are school drop-outs, very few know who there father, and drug dealers and rappers are looked up to as role models. There are neighboruhoods like this in every American major city (in other countries as well), but we are discussing the American underclass here.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
Trwam can be received but if it were on the digital paltform like other stations it would have greater range. It's funny thopse who bash TV Trwam and Radio Maryja try to speakj wtih authrotis but have never watchee or listened to it. BTW, today Trwam aired an interesting several-part American programme about the AIDS crisis and homo terrorism in the USA. One homo activist was quoted as saying: If we dont' get more federal funds, we should bomb and burn until we are noticed.
Trwam can be received but if it were on the digital paltform like other stations it would have greater range. It's funny thopse who bash TV Trwam and Radio Maryja try to speakj wtih authrotis but have never watchee or listened to it. BTW, today Trwam aired an interesting several-part American programme about the AIDS crisis and homo terrorism in the USA. One homo activist was quoted as saying: If we dont' get more federal funds, we should bomb and burn until we are noticed.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
Language / Burak or redneck? [36]
Actually,. come to think of it, there are many similar dergotory terms besides hick -- not all of them too current -- including hayseed, yokel and rube -- usually referring to backward farmers. Hence hick town.
Actually,. come to think of it, there are many similar dergotory terms besides hick -- not all of them too current -- including hayseed, yokel and rube -- usually referring to backward farmers. Hence hick town.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
Language / Burak or redneck? [36]
So basically your are saying a redneck is an underclass regardless of accent or geography, more of a state of mind and personal values, habits and standards than anything else. Do you believe it to be synonmous with trailer trash, white trash and hilbilly?
So what about some of the speicific traits of Poalnd's legendary 'burak'?
So basically your are saying a redneck is an underclass regardless of accent or geography, more of a state of mind and personal values, habits and standards than anything else. Do you believe it to be synonmous with trailer trash, white trash and hilbilly?
So what about some of the speicific traits of Poalnd's legendary 'burak'?
polonius
28 Sep 2012
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Rest in Peace Anna Walentynowicz or is it...?! [63]
Kopacz fits perfectly into the Tusk team, since 'liar' is her middle name. TV showed what she said shortly after theh 2010 crash claiming that Polish forensic experts had taken part in the autopsies in Moscow. When that turned out to be a bold-faced lie, she hummed and hawed and came up with: 'Er, um, what I meant was that Polish physicians helped to prepare the bodies...but it was the Russians who carried out the actual autopsies.'
Do you think she would have admitted her lie, if she hadn't been confrointed over it? I think not!
Kopacz fits perfectly into the Tusk team, since 'liar' is her middle name. TV showed what she said shortly after theh 2010 crash claiming that Polish forensic experts had taken part in the autopsies in Moscow. When that turned out to be a bold-faced lie, she hummed and hawed and came up with: 'Er, um, what I meant was that Polish physicians helped to prepare the bodies...but it was the Russians who carried out the actual autopsies.'
Do you think she would have admitted her lie, if she hadn't been confrointed over it? I think not!
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
Yep, I know he reneged on hsi promise to have it all ready in tiem for the Euro. Sure, in typical Tuskite fashion he sought to shift the blame to the Chinese contractors and what not, but that's his problem and he bears full repsonsibility. You mean you still beleive the shifty-eyed PM after all his halftruths, untruths and manipulation?!?! Don't recall which, but yesterday one MP used those words to describe the government's mishandling of the molensk victims remains. Marshal of the Sejm Kopacz has a tognue as forked as the PM's. If something happens to Tusk, as second in command she will worthily carry on his tradition.
Yep, I know he reneged on hsi promise to have it all ready in tiem for the Euro. Sure, in typical Tuskite fashion he sought to shift the blame to the Chinese contractors and what not, but that's his problem and he bears full repsonsibility. You mean you still beleive the shifty-eyed PM after all his halftruths, untruths and manipulation?!?! Don't recall which, but yesterday one MP used those words to describe the government's mishandling of the molensk victims remains. Marshal of the Sejm Kopacz has a tognue as forked as the PM's. If something happens to Tusk, as second in command she will worthily carry on his tradition.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
Language / Burak or redneck? [36]
Are the Kiepskis regarded as buraki, or are they urban lumpenproles?. In the US we also have the term trailer trash (people living in caravans parks) and hillbillies (to northerners all southerners are sometimes called that). Interestingly, a southern accent means just the opposite in the US and UK.
Are the Kiepskis regarded as buraki, or are they urban lumpenproles?. In the US we also have the term trailer trash (people living in caravans parks) and hillbillies (to northerners all southerners are sometimes called that). Interestingly, a southern accent means just the opposite in the US and UK.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
I'm no rydzykologist and don't follow everything he does. If he committed a crime, she should be indicted. But re shipyards, I recall tricky Don promising the Polish people that he'd found a strategic investor for the failing yards...suppoaedly Arab capital. As with many of his promises (motorways, etc.) it turned out to be yet another a crock of BS:
I'm no rydzykologist and don't follow everything he does. If he committed a crime, she should be indicted. But re shipyards, I recall tricky Don promising the Polish people that he'd found a strategic investor for the failing yards...suppoaedly Arab capital. As with many of his promises (motorways, etc.) it turned out to be yet another a crock of BS:
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
He is not a pulbic official. If he got a tax exemption he got it legally. SO you can a'onbly blame the officials that granted it to him. He didn't rob a bank.
He is not a pulbic official. If he got a tax exemption he got it legally. SO you can a'onbly blame the officials that granted it to him. He didn't rob a bank.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
What a leader of a private business, reglious order or other organisation drives may be regrettable (becuase the excess could have been spent on worthwhile charitable or social causes), but when public officials do so, they are using the taxpayer's hard-earned money. That is the difference.
Medium-sized Opels, VWs, Peugeots, Chervolets,Hyundais, Kias, etc. are also elegant looking and every bit as roomy as the pricey BMWs and Volvos at a fraction of the price, hence save the taxpayer's money. Never forget, the taxpayer is king. Wihtout them the VIPs would not be able to engage in high living and wallow in luxury. Unlike the elties who have all kinds of ways of getting out of paying their rightful share of taxes (tax shelters, trust funds, phoney exemptions and shrewd, pricey lawyers), ordinary peoplel do not.
What a leader of a private business, reglious order or other organisation drives may be regrettable (becuase the excess could have been spent on worthwhile charitable or social causes), but when public officials do so, they are using the taxpayer's hard-earned money. That is the difference.
Medium-sized Opels, VWs, Peugeots, Chervolets,Hyundais, Kias, etc. are also elegant looking and every bit as roomy as the pricey BMWs and Volvos at a fraction of the price, hence save the taxpayer's money. Never forget, the taxpayer is king. Wihtout them the VIPs would not be able to engage in high living and wallow in luxury. Unlike the elties who have all kinds of ways of getting out of paying their rightful share of taxes (tax shelters, trust funds, phoney exemptions and shrewd, pricey lawyers), ordinary peoplel do not.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
Language / Burak or redneck? [36]
Here are some of the traits American stand-up comic Jeff Foxworthy has listed. You are a redneck if:
**You have lost at least one tooth opening a beer bottle,
**Your boat has not left your driveway in 15 years,
**Jack Daniels makes your list of 'most admired people',
**You have a special baseball cap just for formal occasions,
**There is more dishes in your sink than in your copboards.
**Your wife has a beer belly and you find it attractive.
**You think the stock market has a fence round it,
**You think mud rasslin' should be an Olympic sport,
**You list your parole officer as areference,
**There are more fish on your walls than pictures...
Here are some of the traits American stand-up comic Jeff Foxworthy has listed. You are a redneck if:
**You have lost at least one tooth opening a beer bottle,
**Your boat has not left your driveway in 15 years,
**Jack Daniels makes your list of 'most admired people',
**You have a special baseball cap just for formal occasions,
**There is more dishes in your sink than in your copboards.
**Your wife has a beer belly and you find it attractive.
**You think the stock market has a fence round it,
**You think mud rasslin' should be an Olympic sport,
**You list your parole officer as areference,
**There are more fish on your walls than pictures...
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
Only if one believes high-living, luxophilic Rostowski who is not very credible in my books. His whole calculation appears to have had a single purpose: to demonstrate the 'correctness' of Tuskite policy and muzzle any criticism. Anything can be proved or disproved by juggling figures which the avergae person has no way of veryfying. And it is human history that elites in general, except those that have not lost the common touch, try to bamboozle their constituencies by every means possible.
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Only if one believes high-living, luxophilic Rostowski who is not very credible in my books. His whole calculation appears to have had a single purpose: to demonstrate the 'correctness' of Tuskite policy and muzzle any criticism. Anything can be proved or disproved by juggling figures which the avergae person has no way of veryfying. And it is human history that elites in general, except those that have not lost the common touch, try to bamboozle their constituencies by every means possible.
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polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]
A chat site means knocking about, ideas, opinions and impressions, not evidence. bibliiographic note and suchlike.. Sign up for a scholarly seminar, symposium or officiual discussion panel if you need solid evidence for every time someone breaks wind. Most people just their noses!
A chat site means knocking about, ideas, opinions and impressions, not evidence. bibliiographic note and suchlike.. Sign up for a scholarly seminar, symposium or officiual discussion panel if you need solid evidence for every time someone breaks wind. Most people just their noses!
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
Not spend for spending's sake. In general, frugality in spedning and lower taxes help the eocnomy, but the money transfers of foreign banks and retail chains should be taxed quite heavily. Perhaps a law should be enacted creating a minimum re-investment level, ie foeign
firms would be obliged to re-invest in Poland a set percnetage of their profits rather than channelling them all abroad. At presetn, they tend to invest only enough to keep their Poland-based operation going, but the bulk of the goodies gets sent to theri home bases.
Savings could be obtained by having state officials drive not pricey BMWs and Volvos buit less expensive vehicles half the price. In fact, all state services should use only vehicles buitl in Poland and giving jobs to Poles. The EU tries to itnerfere saying that's not competitive, so they woulkd have to offer a lower price which cars oprioduced otuside POland could not udnercut (those built in Slovakia and Hunagry might be the exception). Another important move is the confiscation of ill-gotten gains (hosues, cars, yachts, etc.) -- a perennial PiS demand. The judicial system needs cleaning up so the Judge Milewskis of this world do not bow to the telephone receiver if they think they've got a Tuskian emissary at the other end. Letting Plichta off the hook with suspended sentences or dfropping charges is downright outrageous.
Not spend for spending's sake. In general, frugality in spedning and lower taxes help the eocnomy, but the money transfers of foreign banks and retail chains should be taxed quite heavily. Perhaps a law should be enacted creating a minimum re-investment level, ie foeign
firms would be obliged to re-invest in Poland a set percnetage of their profits rather than channelling them all abroad. At presetn, they tend to invest only enough to keep their Poland-based operation going, but the bulk of the goodies gets sent to theri home bases.
Savings could be obtained by having state officials drive not pricey BMWs and Volvos buit less expensive vehicles half the price. In fact, all state services should use only vehicles buitl in Poland and giving jobs to Poles. The EU tries to itnerfere saying that's not competitive, so they woulkd have to offer a lower price which cars oprioduced otuside POland could not udnercut (those built in Slovakia and Hunagry might be the exception). Another important move is the confiscation of ill-gotten gains (hosues, cars, yachts, etc.) -- a perennial PiS demand. The judicial system needs cleaning up so the Judge Milewskis of this world do not bow to the telephone receiver if they think they've got a Tuskian emissary at the other end. Letting Plichta off the hook with suspended sentences or dfropping charges is downright outrageous.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
Language / Burak or redneck? [36]
Polish TV film-dialogue translators regularly translate redneck as burak. The two terms are close, but are they identical? . How do you (native speakers of Polish) define burak? What traits must such a one display?
Polish TV film-dialogue translators regularly translate redneck as burak. The two terms are close, but are they identical? . How do you (native speakers of Polish) define burak? What traits must such a one display?
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
Every decent economic policy must be people-orientated. It must first and foremost take into account the wellbring of the vast majority, not just the narrow interests of the upper echelons of tricky banksters and corrupt politicans.
Every decent economic policy must be people-orientated. It must first and foremost take into account the wellbring of the vast majority, not just the narrow interests of the upper echelons of tricky banksters and corrupt politicans.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]
I'm clinging to the złoty heritage going back to the 1660s. The Soviet-installed communist episode was but a passing nightmare.
Following, observing, expessing opinions or covering events in a given country is not interfering. If you lay down Rejtan style in the road to block Saturday's Freedom Marrch that would be interfering. But just praising that crook Tusk is simply stupid, but not interfering.
I'm clinging to the złoty heritage going back to the 1660s. The Soviet-installed communist episode was but a passing nightmare.
Following, observing, expessing opinions or covering events in a given country is not interfering. If you lay down Rejtan style in the road to block Saturday's Freedom Marrch that would be interfering. But just praising that crook Tusk is simply stupid, but not interfering.
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
Or the political scene can be viewed as the crooked oldboy PO clique telling the people between the lines: if you play ball with us, give us free rein, let us force through increased retirement age and don't make too much fuss about Amber Gold, then maybe you'll get cut into the loot. Some Poles are saying of Kaczyński: Wracaj Jarku do koryta, lepszy bliźniak niż bandyta!
Or the political scene can be viewed as the crooked oldboy PO clique telling the people between the lines: if you play ball with us, give us free rein, let us force through increased retirement age and don't make too much fuss about Amber Gold, then maybe you'll get cut into the loot. Some Poles are saying of Kaczyński: Wracaj Jarku do koryta, lepszy bliźniak niż bandyta!
polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
Invovling oneself in politics could mean joining a poltical party, speaking at or attending a political rally, standing for public office and the like. It does not mean simply observing the poltical scene and expressing one's views of it. There's a difference between participating in a march or rally from covering one.
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Invovling oneself in politics could mean joining a poltical party, speaking at or attending a political rally, standing for public office and the like. It does not mean simply observing the poltical scene and expressing one's views of it. There's a difference between participating in a march or rally from covering one.
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polonius
28 Sep 2012
News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]
delphiandomine
I heard you and rejected your sophistic (as always) justification. It'd be like saying the British monarchy began with Elizabeth II. Some hair-splitting nitpicker could surely find some minor points and peripheral reasons to allege that the preceding monarchies were different and therefore it really all began in 1950s.
delphiandomine
I heard you and rejected your sophistic (as always) justification. It'd be like saying the British monarchy began with Elizabeth II. Some hair-splitting nitpicker could surely find some minor points and peripheral reasons to allege that the preceding monarchies were different and therefore it really all began in 1950s.
polonius
27 Sep 2012
News / Poland marching for faith and freedom [43]
Poland's media on Thursday reported that up to 200,000 demonstrators will converge on Warsaw on Saturday to march against the rurling Tusk clique. Backers of Soldiarity, which rid the world of communism, PiS, which is trying to clean up the country's
post-communist mess, and TV Trwam, teh voice of truth and common sense, will be joined by others who believe in media equality, oppose working till you die, Tuskite nepotism and oldboy rule as well as other ills afflicitng the Polish nation. Will you be there too?
Poland's media on Thursday reported that up to 200,000 demonstrators will converge on Warsaw on Saturday to march against the rurling Tusk clique. Backers of Soldiarity, which rid the world of communism, PiS, which is trying to clean up the country's
post-communist mess, and TV Trwam, teh voice of truth and common sense, will be joined by others who believe in media equality, oppose working till you die, Tuskite nepotism and oldboy rule as well as other ills afflicitng the Polish nation. Will you be there too?
polonius
27 Sep 2012
News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]
Poles call them 'szkiełko i oko'* types -- all calculators, columns of figures and e-gadgets but no heart or soul.
There was once a bloke called Mickiewicz, but you wouldn't know about that.
Poles call them 'szkiełko i oko'* types -- all calculators, columns of figures and e-gadgets but no heart or soul.
There was once a bloke called Mickiewicz, but you wouldn't know about that.