Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [181]

Surprise, PolAmKrakow, Rich, Joker and others...I'm absolutely against chronic outsourcing of American manufacturing products and services, allowing foreign businesses
aka Arab oil sheiks, Russian oligarchs and their ilk, to buy up property in the US for their own often nefarious reasons, permitting Mexican drug cartels to have free access to North American businesses and the like.

But for the last time, you people are throwing the baby out with the bathwater and the kid's getting awful tired:-)

The professionals with whom you've spoken are in all likelihood scarcely as literate as their fathers or grandfathers since under Ronald
Reagan, education as we know it was cancelled!

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@PolAmKrakow,
Once more, you and certain others here on PF are throwing the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.
I'm no more a fan of millions of illegals from wherever flooding this country for free than you are. However,
I was raised pre-Reagan and brought up with a reassuring whiff of the immediate post-War era (although
born in 1960), again, before the gutter filth of the lower classes catapulted upwards through an over extension
of trade unionism gone berserk, reached the penthouse.....and eventually the White House! Up until the advent
of the Woodstock generation, around late 1969 or so, the average, middle class American, white or black, seemed
basically to understand their social position.

I was raised when all professionals, doctor, teacher, lawyer, above all president, were, by and large,
central casting representatives of their respective profession, furthermore, a profanity-laced tirade IN PUBLIC,
such as under Trump, would have been unthinkable. Unpleasantness was kept quiet, except among the less
well brought up classes, and the degree of social mixing as exists today, was undesirable and for good reason.
When some appeared some place, in most instances, it was because they belonged there, although there were
plenty of exceptions, of course.

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As I remarked to Rich, we've only your word for what you've posted. I too
can post rags-to-riches sob stories. Any relation to the truth remains to be seen:-)

Just bear in mind for the bazillionth time; the world pre-Reagan, for that matter,
pre Woodstock, well before you came into this nutsy world, is a far cry from what it is
today.

According to the front page of today's NYT, Trump wants to alienate even further the middle class from
the billionaire class.

O, brave new world.

Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

On which post were you commenting?

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [181]

Perhaps if more American citizens were less embarrassed by "tantrum logic", the more
Trump might have no choice but to hear what the Opposition is saying!

Sort of reminds me of during the Johnson Era and the so-called "silent majority"; the majority's not
silent, the government's deaf.

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

Yiddish contains approx. at last count, some 90% medaeval, Upper German base vocabulary,
followed by at least 70% Hebrew, finally, about 40-50% Polish loan word stock!

Upon their arrival in the New World towards the close of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century,
bastardized English words became incorporated into spoken Yiddish.

At least, this is my understanding based on Leo Rosten, Uriel Weinreich, along with other professional
Yiddishists or Yiddish mavens:-)

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [181]

However, the Supreme Court remains under the thumb of Trump's control
which is NOT as it should be!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [181]

@Joker & PolAmKrakow,

Merely to recount a once known story of former NY State Gov.
Al Smith, erstwhile fresh-faced Irish kid from the Lower East Side,
once given a cabinet tour of NYU Law Library while still Governor,
who abruptly remarked in his thick Lower East Side "brogue",

HEY, LOOKY THERE AT THAT YOUNG MAN WITH HIS LAW BOOKS,
STUDYIN' HOW TO COLLECT A BRIBE AND CALL IT A FEE!

Wake up and smell the coffee, guys! If getting ahead were only a matter of application
and hard work (of which most people out there possess but plenty!!), there'd be practically
no homelessness and nearly as little unemployment.

Everybody knows, especially you two, that EVERYONE needs just a little push in order to
ease the application process - pass a little envelope at collection time to Father McKinnon
who then passes it along to his Monsignor and we're in business.

Y'all know it, y'all simply won't admit it....as with most Americans.

The history of success in American labor can often be reduced to a little, one-syllable word, PULL!!

As for myself, rather than a jealous meltdown, I'm the ultimate recipient of everything I've just been
posting. Mom and Dad joined a shul right around when I was born, paid into the synagogue and
it facilitated any number of later opportunities, among them, securing a job so as I could marry:-)

Off-Topic / Random Chat Thread [550]

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Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

What do you mean exactly, Alien?

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [181]

Once again, I remind you that in order to "get ahead", perhaps not amongst assimilated US-born Jews, but
most assuredly amongst Italian Catholics, Irish, Russians of every stripe or religious background, obviously
US-born Blacks, Hispanics, Asian-American and the list goes on....connections aka bribery, pay offs done tacitly, are what catapult most to positions
of wealth, power, and authority, so you can take your naive Horatio Alger scenarios and go stick 'em where the sun don't shine!! Don't let's please
tell me that looking in the ol' proverbial want ads is how Americans "get ahead"LOL

@Rich, I/we here on PF have only your word as to that to which you credit your amazing success:-)

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]

To which "he" are you referring?

UK, Ireland / "Strange " English language.. [264]

A "Dick" as a title is also older US-slang for a detective!

News / Polish immigrants contribute to the world [42]

This makes them by your definition Polish-American.

UK, Ireland / BBC launches new Polish language news service [87]

Perhaps why Polish uses the English word for the same product.

Po polsku / Wojna między płciami - To nonsens! [9]

Ha-ha, swietne, Alien!! Usmieje sie:-)

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [181]

@PolAmKrakow,

I guess I didn't make myself plain. My remarks
from yesterday had zilch to do with the real estate markets in
Poland vs the US, rather, they were a response to Rich's
assertion that the US is dominant in the world because of our
capitalist infrastructure.

I maintain once again that the US is indeed absolute tops in
terms of advertising and marketing in order to make things
appear a certain way, but which of course have nothing
whatsoever to do with reality.

America prides herself on her top of the line technology and
unparalleled progress in the fields of medicine, aerospace
etc. compared with say India or much of the Third World.

However, how much of those advanced strides in medicine
ever reach the broad swath of American citizens, bother desirous
as well as deserving of it??

Just remember, the most important and envied job in the world,
that of President of the United States, requires ZERO training,
that is certification or educational background. As the late, lamented
Jackie Mason so often observed, one can protect someone from a
bad haircut, but not from an incompetent president. Moreover, Mason
had plenty of money, he didn't need either the fame or adulation.

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

My point precisely, Rich!
Glad we're [finally] on the same homepageLOL

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [181]

Dominant in terms of public relations for sure, Rich.
The reality though is that the US remains a remarkably old-fashioned
country regarding the issues that really count, e.g. affordable healthcare for all,
women's issues, decent housing at a decent price, and so forth.
Typically, we simply paper over the primitive nature of our society with
computer technology to disguise Trumpism as nothing more than racism
undisguised! The latter is what seems to hypnotize people into thinking
that everything Trump does is great, as he merrily tramples on the Constitution
and Americans' rights.

It's rather like spraying a nice-smelling aroma over a cesspool and trying to
convince people that everything smells like roses......instead of s#$^t!

Life / Poland is horrible and I have to live here - somebody call a whambulance! [95]

Over foreignization though will strain hospitality even among the most generous of nations,
just think of Ireland having to deal with that boatload of Romanians some years back!
Irish eyes ain't smilin' no more(:-

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [158]

I'd have to go along with that.

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

Wouldn't mind zooming with some of the PF members
I've been corresponding with over the years. I'm quite serious.
Am sure that folks such as Rich's, Jimmy's or Ironside's bark is
far worse than their bite!

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [158]

@B.B., got news for ya, fella,
it's happening in a number of German cities
and has for a while, e.g. Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hanau etc...

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [158]

By the way, New York just elected a mayor, supported largely by liberal Jews,
who has openly questioned Israel's right to exist!!
Go figure, you people.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [433]

So what's your point exactly, Torq? From a usage point of view, I see absolutely nothing
wrong. To be honest, I think you're just splitting hairs.

Po polsku / Tylko dla Polaków [16]

Tak!! "Bzdura!" = "Quatsch!" pr. "MATURA BZDURA!" = ABITUR SO EIN QUATSCH!

Po polsku / Tylko dla Polaków [16]

Tak, tak, naturalnie!! Dziekuje, gumi:-) To jak po niemiecku "Quatsch", w Austrii "Bloedsinn".

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [204]

....aka Globish.

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [204]

Oh, of the latter I'm well aware! :-)
As far as such tricky vowel distinctions like those you mentioned,
I honestly can't think of a single language learner group I've taught in
over thirty years of ESL instruction who can distinguish "bother"/"father",
"mother"/"moth" etc. Then again, I was teaching exclusively US English.

Certain consonantal combinations as well can drive English learners to distraction
and by no means exclusively the Poles.

Po polsku / Tylko dla Polaków [16]

Ha-Ha, Panie Rysku!!

Wiec Rozewicz, Tuwim, Kozinski, itd..... NIE sa Polakami??!
Grekami sa?

To jest glupstwo!