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Joined: 24 Sep 2012 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 10 Apr 2013
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polonius   
1 Oct 2012
News / The Political Circus of Poland [306]

He thought he would improve his grip on power by winning more votes than in the 2005 election.
polonius   
1 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

Poles have often found ways of distressing their oppressors. During the occupation there was 'Hycler kaput' graffiti, or they would change the 's' to an 'l' in Nazi sloganms to spell out 'Deutschland liegt an allen Fronten'.

Duirng martial law it was said that Poland was going to be renamed Ubekistan... the new currency would be the Jaruzel or 30 pieces of silver, adn the new PRL man would be called Homo-Zomo.

Now people are saying that Warsaw's name has been changed to Lemmingrad.
polonius   
1 Oct 2012
Food / How natural is food in Poland? [25]

Thanks for that input. Teh average stiff has little choice in the matter. Unless you raise your own pigs and chickens on your own farm or działka and feedc them only the grain, maize, potatoes, etc. you yourself have raised without the benefit of pesticides and chemical fertiliser. But even farmers are tempted by the high yield promise of chemcial fertilisers.
polonius   
1 Oct 2012
News / A new AWS (Poland Solidarity Movement)? [54]

I had big hopes for the "young SLD"...b

So your ideal party would be a cross bnetween the ex-commies and the Palikmiot crowd with Grodzka for President and Biedroń as PM? Good luck. You'll need it!
polonius   
1 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

So you equate with Lemmingrad?
Remember: only idiots say never! The time is drawing near when the Tuskist scammongers will be swept away by the broom of honesty, righteousness and transparency. The CBA will ride again!
polonius   
1 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

It has become common parlance: Andzej Sikora, Mietek Kwiatkowski, Roman Szulc, Ewa Mitra, Ala Wilk, Jan Kozłowski, Krystyna Mazur, Michalina Szewczyk, Andrzej Knot, Andrzej Szczygieł, Anna £abędzka, Kuba Bystrowski, Robert Mastalski, Adrian Knapik.... I can add more when I think oif them... Believe it or not, I did not coin the term.. If you're unfamilair with it that only means you do not fraternise with real Poles, only fringe-goup yuppies, careerists, toadies and others brown-nosing the powers that be.
polonius   
1 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

How many of them read Rzepa? If your circle of acquaintances are limtied to the GW ghettto, then no wonder!
polonius   
1 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

'Know thy enemy', so yes I read GW, but Rzepa is my paper of preference. Read it and maybe you'll finally learn some truth about Poland. rather than just the liberal-leftist propaganda.you get in the %#&#¤?=*ęß$£&¤#?! Gazette.
polonius   
1 Oct 2012
History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]

Believe me, I do not take it personally, Sine people are so steeped in their cock-eyed PC pror-libtertine biases that one cannot expect anythnig more from them. The PC types have got their pet fringe minorities, but you'll never hear them say a word in defence of the 160,000 Christians killed each year precisely because they are Christiasn. Religous genocide does not bother them a bit. If it were 160 Jews, that might be a different story. And that is their idea of balance, impartiality, fairness and justice! At most one can can feel sorry for these pathetic, horse-blinkered souls.
polonius   
1 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

Who said I wasn’t at the march. I had a good view of it from the kerb and saw a placard that aptly said: ‘PO złodzieje!’ Others passing by proclaimed ‘Nie chcemy pracować aż do śmierci’, ‘Demokracja bez krytycznych mediów przekształca się w tyranię’ and ‘TV Trwam to nasze Westerplatte i nie możemy zdezerterować’. It was an exilirating experience watching Polish democracy in action!!!
polonius   
2 Oct 2012
History / People the Soviets planted in Poland [75]

Jaruzelski and Kiszczak shipped tonnes of documents to the papermill in Konstancin Jeziorna in 1989-90 for mulcving and recycling. However the existence of IPN shows that only a fraction of the records were destroyed. Yesty Gauck said they (the post-GDR authorities) mananged to seize thousands of sacks of ton docuemtns before they could be destroyed. They are no being digitally recreated. The GDR henchmen did not have enough shredders who they manually tore up documents into bits and placed them in sacks.
polonius   
2 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

NEVER is an absolute no-no in political parlance. One can say within the foreseeable future, OK, but never 'NEVER'!
polonius   
2 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

Question: If Tusk and Kopacz were on a boat in the middle of the sea and it sunk, who would be saved?
Answer: 38 million Poles!
polonius   
2 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

As with the president, perhaps the ruling party should also be limtied to two consecutive terms in office. That way, Poland wouldn't be saddled with w third-term Tusk clique. It would also save money and frazzled citizens' nerves to have all elections -- presidential, parliamentary and local -- held simutaneously -- ever 4 or 5 years.
polonius   
2 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

To ensure democratic rotation, the party that had won two consecutive ballots would nnt be allowed to field candidates for the third time. That would ensure a different politicla contesllation -- therefore porgresss, rotation and dynamismas oppsoed to beign in a rut.
polonius   
3 Oct 2012
History / Lusatia allied with Poland? [19]

Have you ever wondered whether Lusastia, the tiny Slav nation within eatsern Germany's broders, would have survived better or worse if the Big Three Allies had assigned it to Poland or granted it independent status under Polish protection. By survive I mean preserving its unique language and culture. Probably splitting it up and assigning the southern Lusatian groiup to the Czechs and the northern one to Poland would have accelerated assimilation and possibly by now not left even a trace of the language. What is yoru take on this?
polonius   
3 Oct 2012
News / PiS-PSL-LPR? [23]

Possibly Kaczyński's biggest mistake in 2005 was inducting Lepper's destructive Samoobrona into the coaltion. Had he chosen PSL (and the power-hungry Pawlak would have surely accepted the invite), it might have been a different ballgame. The PSL would not have risked a collapse of the coaliton and surely would have toed the line better than Lepper did. One of Giertych's major achievements was to beef up the hsitory curriculum in schools. Now the Tuskites have emascualted it and are starting to down-dumb kids the way America has for decades. It's got to where many if not most American secondary-school pupils do not know whether the Civil War took place in the 18th or 19th century? Is Poland headed the same way? (Naturally the criterion would be things like the Warsaw Uprising, the rise of Solidarity, martial law, etc., not the US CIvil War!)
polonius   
3 Oct 2012
History / Welcome to Lemmingrad! [59]

b) Parties would just change their names and addresses and stand again.

Now that makes sense! Reckon I'm just too idealistic to have envisaged such a ruse. But knowing what power-hungry polticians are like, that would be the way they'd go if such a ban were in force. They would change the name and possibly the leader (if the law required it), but it would still be the same old mafia.
polonius   
3 Oct 2012
News / PiS-PSL-LPR? [23]

Quite the contrary is true, rural folk are amongg the coutnry's most traditonalist and staunchly Catholic. The fact that PSL teamed up with the ex-commies and now with the liberals shows they will join any coalition just to have a foothold in power. I presume Kaczyński didn't even bother to invite them because of their PRL roots, but they shed those soon enough and invoked their proud anti-Communist past (Witos, Mikołajczyk).
polonius   
3 Oct 2012
News / PiS-PSL-LPR? [23]

It's hard to argue with the arithmetic. But the average Polish farmer is deifnitely right of centre. Too bad the PO-PiS project never materialised due to PO pigheadedness. Although PO came second, Kaczyński generously offered them as many ministries as PiS. but they still hummed nad hawed. Then PO wanted coalition talks broadcast live on TV and they were and naturalłly fell through. Nobody in the world negotiates on camera.

At any rate, in a PO-PiS government Jarek's lads could have kept a close watch on the Tuskites to make sure they toed the line.
polonius   
3 Oct 2012
History / Lusatia allied with Poland? [19]

Do you think they would have fared better (in terms of language and heritage preservation) within Poland, even if initially the PRL puppet state?
polonius   
3 Oct 2012
News / PiS-PSL-LPR? [23]

Yes, the 4th Republic is currently on hold...but it will rise again! You just wait and see!
polonius   
3 Oct 2012
History / Lusatia allied with Poland? [19]

Would there have been more bilingual signs if Lusatia were within Poland? Or less? Poles are good about bilingual signs in Opole and around Puńsk.
polonius   
3 Oct 2012
News / PiS-PSL-LPR? [23]

Some people believe young people are fools, gullible, naive, out after only fun and whatever what seems trendy and cutting edge... But young people eventually mature and will see through the Tuskian façade.
polonius   
4 Oct 2012
History / Lusatia allied with Poland? [19]

Here is an inieresting chart comparing the vocabulary of the two Lusatian dialects with other Slavonic tongues:

polski dolnołużycki górnołużycki czeski słowacki rosyjski połabski drzewiański kaszubski
człowiek cłowjek èłowjek èlověk èlovek человек [czieławiék] clawak, clôwak człowiek
wieczór wjacor wjeèor veèer veèer вечер [wiéczier] vicer wieczór
brat bratš bratr bratr brat брат [brat] brot brat
dzień źeń dźeń den deň день [dień] dôn dzéń
ręka ruka ruka ruka ruka рука [ruká] ręka rãka
jesień nazymje nazyma podzim jeseň осень [ósień] prenja zaima, jisin jeséń
śnieg sněg sněh sníh sneh снег [snieg] sneg snieg
lato lěśe lěćo léto leto лето [liéta] lato lato
siostra sotša sotra sestra sestra сестра [siestrá] sestra sostra
ryba ryba ryba ryba ryba рыба [rýba] ryba rëba
ogień wogeń woheń oheň oheň огонь [agóń] widin òdżiń
woda woda woda voda voda вода [wadá] wôda wòda
wiatr wětš wětřik, wětr vítr vietor ветер [wiétier] wjôter wiater
zima zymje zyma zima zima зима [zimá] zaima zëma
polonius   
4 Oct 2012
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

CHYBICKI was the original spelling. Root-word chyba (archaic for error, blunder, fault, shortcoming).. Probably a topo nick from Chybice.
Hypothetical development: someone nicknamed Chyba (for whatever reason) fathered a son patronymically known as Chybic. When several sons built their own homesteads near the family home, the little nascent settlement became known as Chybice -- Chyba Corners, Chyba Acres or the Chyba Sons place.
polonius   
4 Oct 2012
News / More punch-UPS ON 11th NOV in Poland? [56]

Rzeczpospolita is predictitng that tthis year's Independence Day March on 11th November may again erupt in violence. Sponsored by patioric right-wing circles, disturbances may occur if the anarcho-commie fanatics of the Antifa group again start attacking the patritoic marchers. Footies fans and natioanlsit youth groups will most likely spring to their defence. President Komorowski's measure on public assembleis (even if he signs it) will not go into force in time for the 11th Nov. holiday. A PiS, Solidarity and Radio Maryja march in late September attracted an estimated up to 100,000 demonstrators but was peaceful because leftist goon squads did nto interfere.

Independence march in Poland again, you may end up zadymami . On the right and left takes great mobilization

Presidential initiative for change in the way to demonstrate and to secure its safe course ends in a fiasco . Threefold : the new rules do not come into force until November 11 , and the planned reduction of the freedom of assembly meant that this year's Independence March in Warsaw elect to tens of thousands of people. Also organize your own demonstration environments left -independence activists, referring to the tradition of the old PPS . A komunizujący extremists from the sign Antify preparing to patriotic demonstrations block.
polonius   
4 Oct 2012
News / More punch-UPS ON 11th NOV in Poland? [56]

All will be fine if the Antifa creeps and other troublemakers don't interfere. We expect Delph to be marching up frotn with a flag embazoned with St Andrew's cross.