Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [167]

@Korvinus,

Please be warned that such ill-chosen aspersions directed at fellow Forum members
might indeed carry consequences from our Webmaster(s):-)

UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]

You can't "ban" a language anymore than you can mandate its use,
save in the private sector, for example the airline industry, where there
must be an international language for purposes of safety measures! It just happens
to be English, for the simple reason that it is the most widely recognized language in the world!

There's also an app with which I'm certain you're familiar, called "Speak & Translate", available
everywhere and used in any situation in which the interlocutor doesn't know the other person's
language.

The fact remains that more and more teens, the next along with the current generation, are often so
pig ignorant of all but how to use their i-phones etc. that they are an embarrassment to our society.

I can remember numerous engineering majors in college who were not only competent in math and
technology, but super literate and often were fluent in at least one foreign language, usually German.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [167]

You assume that because I didn't quote, that I'm unable??
How did you ever come to that conclusion?

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [167]

Any other poster would be an improvement.

UK, Ireland / The best way for a Polish person to learn English? [46]

AMEN!!!

As usual, Rich is out there trolling again, trying to translate his private, yet public, distaste for
things Polish, especially the language, into a reason why the Poles should speak English while
he never has to utter a word in Polish.

Idiotic as always.

News / As a Time Capsule From The Holocaust Was Found In Zlocieniec, Poland [34]

If you do (and there's either a German or Polish translation out there, I'm sure:-)), you'll see what I mean.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [167]

Never justified based on Jewishness alone, Rich! Even you should be able to fathom that. LOL

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [167]

According to certain commentators, many Egyptians remain boldly anti-Semitic, not merely anti-Israel.
Jewish tourists for a while were advised not even to visit Egypt on a day trip, as many had been attacked,
one killed. Turned out the latter was an Austrian visitor and not even Jewish.

News / As a Time Capsule From The Holocaust Was Found In Zlocieniec, Poland [34]

Survivors and their families certainly think it should be. However, it is available in bookstores.
I was initially too disgusted by the premise from a fellow Jew even to breeze through it, but in fact,
the book is said to present some interesting, if disturbing, arguments.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [167]

Furthermore, there is a difference between the Shiite Muslims as represented by the Iranian, the Saudis, the Iraqis or the Egyptians as opposed to the Sunni branch of Islam as represented traditionally by the Turks. Erdogan, so it seems, is an exception to the more liberal branch of Turkish Muslim beliefs from Bulent up through Tansu Cillar. The Shiites are much more extreme!

News / As a Time Capsule From The Holocaust Was Found In Zlocieniec, Poland [34]

Do ck.out Norman Finkelstein's "The Holocaust Industry".

Po polsku / Strefa Wolna od Małpiszonów [46]

Rzeczywiscie?? Bardzo interesujace! LOL

News / As a Time Capsule From The Holocaust Was Found In Zlocieniec, Poland [34]

As actual, that is, officially documented, survivors continue to die off, tragically, the greater the trend for imposters to fabricate
merely in order to gain both notoriety as well as compensation.

What some SOB's out there will do just to get attention!

Po polsku / Strefa Wolna od Małpiszonów [46]

Czy ogladaliscie film "Kret" o ruchu Solidarnosci?

News / Polish universities for Polish students (only?) [57]

US colleges and universities have quotas, just like everywhere else.
However, Harvard, Columbia etc. don't proclaim that NO foreign students may
(ever) study there, merely that only a certain percentage may be allowed to do so.

There's a big difference here.

News / Will Elon Musk apply for political asylum in Poland or Russia? [35]

He's clearly an anti-Semite, even more than his to be former boss!

Off-Topic / Things We Love [307]

Germans are proverbial nature lovers.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

Rich, a third grader might indeed not understand it. An adult such as yourself should!
Or perhaps I still don't see your point. Guess I'm not as smart as you LOL

Po polsku / Strefa Wolna od Małpiszonów [46]

Dzieki, Paulino! Wciaz robie bledy pomiedzy "dokonany" ws. "niedokonany" LOL

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

Rich, as anywhere, perhaps the students are willing to learn, but are they necessarily able??
I always wanted to learn higher mathematics, yet with all the willingness and tutoring imaginable,
the results were less than stellar. Same with the average Pole and English. Rather like mixing
apples with oranges, so the saying goes; it's a bad mix!

Po polsku / Strefa Wolna od Małpiszonów [46]

Juz nie wiem! Tak, moze byc, ale dokad szedl?

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

Rich, the whole point is that the more completely, above all willingly, assimilated the
erstwhile "outsider", the less foreign they become and will slowly but surely become accepted
into the national fold.

The tragedy of the Jewish Question was that no matter how completely Germanized Germany's assimilated
Jews were and felt themselves to be, they nonetheless weren't German enough for the Nazis, numerous Iron
Crosses, conduct medals, even facial plastic surgery to "improve" their appearance notwithstanding.

They were seen as invading the host body and nobody could shake Hitler of his beliefs.
Today, the AfD, though hardly comparable, is trying to minimize the Hitler years and this to me is unthinkable.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

You're ignoring a fundamental flaw in the German character, whereby the "German people" willfully and with malice of forethought
took it upon themselves to decide life or death over an entire group of individuals by ruthlessly, to be sure, with ultimate savagery expunging, rather than legislating intelligent and enlightened policies whereby Roma, Jews, and others might actually co-exist within the same society. Germany's failed 1848 Revolution (Vormaerz) in
essence surrendered complete authority to the government, among other bodies, the police, thereby squashing the last gasp of democracy in Germany, roughly until the ill-fated Weimar Republic during the 1920's which turned out to be almost as much a joke on the Germans as Chamberlain's "Herr Hitler assures me........of peace in our time." was on the rest of Europe!!

Remember too, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was as close to a Mulligan's Stew of varied ethnicities, languages, and cultures as ever existed
on G-d's green earth. " Pure Aryan Race"??? My foot.

Po polsku / Strefa Wolna od Małpiszonów [46]

Aha, dziekuje Pawku.

Po polsku / Strefa Wolna od Małpiszonów [46]

To jest zart, nie zadne lamie jezykowe!

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

A damned sight more willing than either Scholz or "Mutti" Merkel, no??

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

Oh, I agree! Integration remains Germany's greatest, indeed most difficult, challenge at the moment, bar none.
One solution might be to be more selective as to whom the government even allows into the country. As far as the
millions of migrants currently residing in the Federal Republic, legally or illegally? Probably economic integration becomes
more important than either linguistic or social integration, in fact, one and the same thing. If, say, an Iranian newcomer is a
whiz in marketing, computer graphic, even the fashion as well as the field of gastronomy and other creative areas, language skills
will fall into place and therefore, the "foreignness" of the outsider will slowly but surely somehow become absorbed into the broader
society.

I realize too that Germany isn't America. A pity that people such as Merkel, Schroeder along with SPD predecessors didn't realize this a lot sooner.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

In a speech made during the late '30's, Hitler himself proclaimed "We are Barbarians, we are proud of being Barbarians!"
While every nation has indeed their Achilles Heel, the temptations of succumbing to the allure of pagan savagery remain
nonetheless deeply rooted in Germany's history.

So much for looking in to the mirror, B.B. It cuts both ways:-)

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

Once more, B.B., as I posted prior, failed overly liberal policies have pushed tolerance to its limits
and test Germany's Christian values, making the pagan "virtues" of Hitler's Barbarenvolk ever more tempting
to everyday Germans, frustrated and thwarted by their inability to get either jobs or housing against an onslaught
of foreigners, allowed into the Federal Republic because of the lure of cheap labor!

Around 1960, there was a now famous, to some infamous, photograph taken of a youngish, Portuguese guest worker
being presented with a bicycle as a welcome gift for being the one millionth guest worker in the then fledgling West Germany.
What was once seen naively as a symbol of hope for a happy future later became reviled as a symbol of all the AfD along with
other right wingers despise about the immigrant overload.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [120]

How curious that this same thinking helped shove millions of Jews and Roma into ovens!
Atonement is a life long spiritual cleansing process and doesn't switch off after a certain period of time
like a stop watch!!