Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [167]

KKK members were white thugs, so there goes your definition....right down the drain!

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [149]

@Rich, while I can't substantiate your experience in Poland
and would scarcely wish to claim you're not being truthful,
unless you were either completely soused on bimber or
were looking at pretty women's skirts (which I could well understand),
I somehow can't believe that you had zero comprehension issues
not speaking Polish in Poland, furthermore, that somehow American
English will become the "second language" there in the future.

Simply put, I think you were on something, dude!

Language / Should I learn Polish or she learn English? [63]

Ideally, you both should learn each other's language,
at least, practice speaking the other's mother tongue.

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [52]

"Glasses", "classes". You rhymed, he-he!

Study / Jagiellonian vs University of Wrocław for a master's degree in English? [15]

Actually, you're right about that!
Although only briefly in Poland, I did notice greater confidence when I
returned home.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [167]

@jon, he's not off topic, he's just off his rocker!!!

Rich The Revisionist strikes again.

Language / Extremely Hard - Polish the hardest language to learn [149]

Or how about "niedzwiedz" LOL
(Missing several diacritical accent marks however, sorry!)

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

@Rich, you're either a plain ol' troll or just plain nuts.....or both!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

I couldn't concur more roundly, Miloslaw.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [167]

What then is your definition of "thugs", or maybe I shouldn't even ask?
I define thugs as bullies, often the police who've given in to the systemic
racism of the department.

Read up on New York's erstwhile Chief of Police Egan during the 60's,
all this before Miranda Rights! Might make your hair stand on end.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [167]

Interesting you should be looking for "sources" or evidence of lynchings
because they offend your sensibilities, yet you accept what the followers of
Trump the Perfect dish out on a daily basis. How about the sources of what
he purports to be "truth" such as that the Jan 6th riots never took place etc.?

Study / Jagiellonian vs University of Wrocław for a master's degree in English? [15]

The only waste is obtaining a degree of English in a country in which English is not only not
the mother tongue, but more to the point, taught by professors whose first language isn't even
the language in which they are teaching. If the courses are in fact being taught in Polish, this
would seem to defeat the entire purpose of pursuing a degree in English instead of Polish.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

"Sucking up" to whom, pray, Johnny Reb??
Perhaps to the forces of democracy and humanity?
The only brownie points we gain here would be the
satisfaction of having done the right thing against the
enemy of infantile gratification and cynicism!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

Scarcely, but rather a return to something resembling FDR's New Deal, although far from perfect.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

And if the majority just happens to be dead wrong??
Germany once thought Hitler was the answer. They turned out to be in error and
as a result paid the ultimate price for their error!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

On the other hand, if what the majority wants is simply flat wrong, bad for the country, objectively speaking,
the government of either nation should intervene and set things right!

Israel's another case in point. Netanyahu's clearly becoming a deficit for his party through his obstinance
and hide bound hawkishness.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

Seems to me Germany's pro-migrant policies are placing her in similar danger
to Biden's failed border policies. Scholz wants a place for migrants in the FRG
and the AfD doesn't. Biden wants to integrate Mexicans along with certain other
Third Worlders into the US and Trump doesn't.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

....but not in the NS-past, B.B., therein lies the difference!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

Frankly, I don't think the AfD has much of a chance of winning.
I believe most German voters want to live in the present and for
the future, not revisit the past.

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

Right on, Maf!

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [167]

There is no justification for (exclusively) white mobs ganging up on random
Blacks over many decades and beating them to a pulp, nor for mass lynchings in the Deep South.

BLM once again is simply the fall out from neglect of the Black Community by white America
and now those problems are coming home to roost.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [167]

@Rich, kindly re-read post #141 and the get back to me.
BLM is NOT the culprit here, but the result of generations of
societal neglect.....as was the O.J. verdict:-)

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [99]

@Alien et al, the Church in Germany plays precious little role in
state politics, its local importance in Bavaria notwithstanding.

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

While we're splitting hairs about it.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [167]

BLM is NOT pure evil, Rich, rather, a regrettable result of
long mishandled race relations in this country, one in but
a long, long line of racially motivated killings out there, from
Tulsa way back in '24 up through Emmet Till in '52 or so, culminating
in George Floyd. THAT's the pure evil, Rich and not BLM!!

News / Will Poland as a NATO member be drawn into the Israel/Iran war ? [93]

I can't see why of all countries Poland should get involved in the Iran-Israeli conflict.

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

Again Rich, if such is mandated by the local standard, that's where I draw the line. Clear now?
You can't disagree with the facts.

Life / Boys acting and dressing feminine, girls acting and dressing masculine - transgender teens in Poland [272]

Tatoo though is a separate issue! This falls under civil rights discrimination law
which allows for someone to dress as they wish so long as said attire is not
offensive to anyone on the basis of religious, ethnic or social background.

Here in the US, an employer can find themselves in hot water if they fire an
employee based upon arbitrary considerations of either "inappropriate" dress,
even physical appearance.

Right in my state, the state of New Jersey, as of 1990, a person's body odor
was not deemed legal grounds for removal from a public place.

Life / Jewish culture in today`s Poland [167]

That's correct, Torq, but only on his mother's side.

Work / tram driver foreigner [31]

Indeed, Alien. This was during the 1930's, therefore no longer applicable.