News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

Che was a different kettle of fish ("eine voellig andere Kiste")!
Neruda's family name was actually borrowed from the name of the equally famous Czech
poet Jan Neruda. I honestly forget the Chilean poet's actual last name, but he was apparently
as political as he was poetic:-)

@Bobko, if you mean that Navalny was something untranslatable Russian in melos as well as significance,
you might well be right. Certain figure simply can't be adequately understood or appreciated out of their cultural
or historical context.

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

??? You've never head of the late, great Chilean poet, the man who inspired the film "Il Postino" (1995)?

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

The Kremlin has never been known for her transparency, folks!
We may assume that Navalny really is dead. However, the manner
of death might never truly be known.

Just heard today that after ever so many years, Pablo Neruda's death by natural
causes might actually have been due to poisoning.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [189]

You got that right, Maf! Same with nearly all the Ivys.

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

An appeal to much needed, certainly admirable, Slavic solidarity.
Thanks, Paw!

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [189]

Doesn't say much about Harvard.
Anyhow, "higher ed."s been a running joke for the last forty years since the advent of Reagan.
Listen for example to an old interview from 1960 with the great director John Huston,
having, if he was lucky, a solid grammar school education vs. the last interview with college educated Dennis Hopper
from the mid-'90's.

The latter's enough to make you puke!

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

To be sure a threat to no one and nobody other than to Czar Vladimir I!
Again I ask, is Navalny actually dead? Heck, it sure makes great publicity.

Ck. out that dude right here in the good ol' US of A, missing for umpteen years,
presumed, indeed eventually declared dead, turns up working as some short order
cook in Dallas or some such place.

Straight outta "1984", where truth are lies and freedom is captivity.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [189]

Undoubtedly your interlocutor was a victim of the US public school system in Middle America.
Then again, the American history knowledge of urban highschoolers in New York is frightening!

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [189]

By what Simpsonesque standard do you measure the adequacy of a language, Rich?

Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]

He-he!
Silly gifts may well be culturally imbued and don't translate cross-culturally.

Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]

Yes and no.

Traditionally, men would give their wives gifts, either to make up for something they
felt they ought to have done, or, simply to give them a present, chocolates, stuffed animals,
clothing articles etc.

When we were first married, I gave my wife a perfume set, flowers and a stuffed hippo.
She thanked me for the hippo LOL

We've been happily married now for twenty-five years!

Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]

The feminists ruined a great deal, Rich, no argument with you on that score.
And yet, there'll always be Valentine's Day, Walentynki, call it what you wish, thank heaven!!

Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]

Actually, I agree with you, Rich. However, I think for completely different reasons.
EVERY day should be Valentine's Day in a happy marriage!

Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]

Thanks, sorry about the typo!
That's interesting because I know in certain countries, the custom of
Saint Valentine's Day is connected with older Christian practices.

The man giving chocolates to his beloved is though relatively recent,
I've read.

Perhaps the practice is simply not as common in Poland.

Love / Valentines Day & Polish men [130]

A Polish male acquaintance recently told me that "Walentynka" in Poland
is celebrated quite a bit differently from in Polish-American communities here
in the States.

How is it different?

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [46]

"Stupid" because it makes sense??

It's your right as a US citizen (if not a national) to be and act like a moron. No skin off my nose.
We protect idiots. If we didn't, there'd be precious few people living in the United States LOL

Law / Rejecting Inheritance [44]

Yes, you're right about that, Rich.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [46]

Impossible to get through to you, Rich.
Ignorance though is indeed a personal right protected by our Constitution....unfortunately.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Law / Rejecting Inheritance [44]

Unless the law has changed, only the children of an indebted inheritance, that is of a property which was never paid off etc.
are legally required to pay off said debts, liens or similar incumbrances!

Requiring, say, grandchildren for example, cousins and so forth to relieve the debts from a more distant deadbeat, is both folly
as well as unrealistic. Today especially, our youth are often saddled with more debt, such as student loans, than they know what
to do with. Why burden their lives forever and make them pay for the exigencies, financial mistakes, of others who passed on
without possibly even realizing that their offspring might well have to pay for their irresponsibility?

Who among us is so above sin that they can afford to cast the first stone?

Real Estate / Renting out my Polish apartment, while residing outside EU - where do I pay tax on rental income? [5]

Elliot, Just curious what your native country is.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [46]

Again, Rich, you make no sense.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [46]

An opinion though CAN, indeed SHOULD, be predicated on fact as much as possible. Experience is necessarily limited to that which you and you alone have experienced

on your own person.
There is such a thing as an intelligent opinion as there is an educated guess:-)

Law / Rejecting Inheritance [44]

Untrue, Joker!
There are any number of instances in which the offspring, that is, the sons or daughters
of a debtor will have to pay off what their parents owed, either the gov't. as well as private
creditors.

It is true that such will stop with the children, not on down to grandchildren. Nonetheless,
in the US, the law is fairly strict in this regard.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [46]

Why am I an idiot, Rich? 'Cuz I make sense??
Come on, fella, quit trolling and be a man for a change!

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

Amen, Maf.

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

Amen, Maf. Spot on with that last comment.
Naturally, for short aka guided day trips, one might argue that language itself is not a necessity!
Anything more longer than several days, a week, a month?? At some local lingo's a necessity.

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [46]

Hitler represented the abject failure of an all too shaky democracy during the ill-fated Weimar Republic, Rich, you know that!
Trump represents the Reagan Era failure of a society which has long since lost her moorings and has cut her loose from the gravitational pull

of sanity, choosing a world of infantility, violence, and child like fantasy in which every school yard bullying tactic has now somehow been
given credence. "If I want it, I'll take it, so whatcha gonna do about it, weakling?"

It's you funeral, kiddo! Only don't come to me wide eyed and uncomprehending when white collar theft, violent backlashes and the like overtake

the country.

Whoever thinks that "kinder, gentler.." is only for losers, shows themselves to be the real loser.

News / What Polish diaspora need and expect from Poland, from Poles in Poland? [43]

I should hope not, Alien! For Rich's sake, I have to be as graphic as possible LOL

Language / Bilingual Polish-English books with audio for listening and reading learning method [75]

Rich, what you meant was that in your opinion, English was all that was needed in the Netherlands!
Aren't you the slightest bit curious about your global neighbors, dude?

Perhaps some teen trauma zapped your natural curiosity concerning our fellow beings
and turned you into some gung ho jingoist.