UK, Ireland / Polish and East European prostitutes in the UK [240]


So you agree that "not always". Hence, not every prostitute is a slut.


I see no common sense in what you wrote before. If common sense were to sufficient then we could easily extrapolate and say that not every person who planned, attempted or committed a homicide is a soldier, but every soldier in Iraq attempted, planned or committed homicide.

The definition given by the OP clearly does not apply to all prostitutes. As for my experience with prostitution, yes, I used to watch TV a lot and you just couldn't escape hearing about some Washington, DC politicians being clients of some high profile prostitutes. Some clearly not sluts. Just businesswomen working for VERY FEW select customers.

UK, Ireland / Polish and East European prostitutes in the UK [240]

Do you know every prostitute?

UK, Ireland / Polish and East European prostitutes in the UK [240]

I'm not sure why people talk about prostitutes in a thread about sluts.
Urban dictionaries or not, the distinction is simple:

slut is a state of mind
prostitute is a profession

Language / Your perception of the Polish accent [145]


Audacity is a great piece of software but its application in learning a language is as useful as picking on one's nose.

I did some experiments years ago with spectrograms of various sounds. A short study marring linguistics and computer science. I managed to find plenty of sounds made by inanimate objects with spectrograms nearly identical to some words pronounced by a person. I had persons speak the same words a number of times. There were always differences in the resulting spectrograms. I also asked the persons to imitate themselves in an attempt to create similar spectrograms by the same speakers. No dice. This technology is a waste of time when it comes to learning a language.

This (screen shot #1) is a quick sample of the numerals 1 to 4 spoken by the same person in 3 tests (two tracks per test). None is identical than any other within the sample.

The second screen shot shows two more tests. The first is human speech (letters A,B,C,D). The second is knocking of the knuckles on a table top. Who wudda thunk, huh?

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History / So called "inconvenient parts" of Polish history - what do you think? [158]



so where are the remaining 100,000+ minus one photographs of Polish SS voluntieers?

History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]


I'm not talking about "many" troubles the Romans had. They are irrelevant to your statements, unless you'll try to prove that Jesus was actually a Germanic fella.

In fact, Romans protected Jews and they went out of their way to allow them the practice of their religion.


Muhammad rebelled against Arabic stupidity that held them apart and he fought mostly against other Arabs. during Muhammad's times the Roman Empire that Jews rebelled against was just gone.


These aren't the sources of the word. You listed the source's many variations.
Oh, and Gawd actually comes from the Red Neck English :)

History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]


There was a lot of days between those dates.
The first rebellion took place over 30 years after Jesus was already dead and it resulted from a conflict between Greek and Jewish religious practices. Jesus, if he lived, doesn't strike historians a political, but rather a religious person and there are few description in Jewish writings of what a great freedom fighter Jesus was.

The only way Jesus could have lead a rebellion that took place over a generation after his death would be if he was a god indeed, but we all know there is no god but allah.

History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]


Really?
Could expand on that?

History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]

I think I'm gonna have a burger with fries.

History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]


depends which part of Brooklyn

History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]

Depends on how you look at it.
If they don't want corporate sponsorship (ads) they they are free to write whatever they wish. Otherwise, they will write what their masters tell them to write. Since media are corporations themselves, guess who they side with?

History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]


Saw it online.
My point is the reach. With the gazillions of channels and huge movie promotions, sadly, in the case of too many Western minds, if it wasn't on HBO or in Cineplex it didn't happen.


It definitely does.
It's not even a matter of opinion anymore.

History / 'Defamation': The Anti-Semism Industry & Poland [188]

I can't speak for others, but it seems history judges such people favorably, even if they benefited financially for saving Jews. They even made a feature movie about one such (German) guy and he's considered a hero. They didn't make any feature movies about Irena Sendler. She didn't make 1 pfennig or 1 grosz on Jews. And it's not like Poles were sleeping on cash, and feeding someone, especially during hard times such as WW2 costs money.

Another misconception is that to save a Jew during WW2 was just a question of taking one or two home. Few people pause to think how many Poles it took to save a Jew and even fewer realize that one successful save, involving a number of people is expressed with just one Yad Vashem tree. Unsuccessful save attempts are also not rewarded in Yad Vashem

Few people, even those living in apartments, in many of those "champions" of Jewish freedoms realize that most dwellings were not built to either accommodate an additional family (often for years), nor did the building codes before WW2 require people to have secret hiding places withing dwellings.

Some Jewish historians estimate the number of Poles involved in helping Jews to be at least 100,000. Other estimates bring the number to (an exaggerated, in my view) 1.3million.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

ddidn't know that
juicy

Language / Is Polish amongst the best-sounding languages in the world? [123]


Very old?
which ones?

I'd say these are old, and you can actually hear the words:



and the one so old that you can't even call it Polish (with lyrics for those who'd like to singalong):

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]


I guess it will depend on what "many" means:

32 Botswana
43 Tunisia
46 South Africa
47 Namibia
70 Egypt
70 Poland
70 Burkina Faso
70 Syria
70 Lesotho

Language / Is Polish amongst the best-sounding languages in the world? [123]

There aren't millions of them hissing phonemes in Polish by I'd say the number is very large relative to the pool of sounds a foreigner may be used to:

sz
cz
ś
ć
ź
ż
dź
dż
dz

Compare it to English where, to a foreigner, all it takes to get them confused is /æ/ and /ɑ/ (IPA). And when you're look really close (using RP as reference) then it turns out that Polish and English share very few sounds that are considered identical. Don't quote me on that because it's been decades since I looked at comparative spectograms, but I think only 3 of them are identical between Polish and English: m, n and another one I forgot.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

That's profiling, and profiling is wrong :)

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]


That's a deceiving term too, as there is no such thing as "simply capitalism". There is definitely capitalism in communist China, socialist Germany, feudal Saudi Arabia. There was fascist Italian capitalism and fascist-like corporate capitalism in the US. Some argued that in the USSR they had a form of capitalism, called state capitalism.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


two things:

1. you have only approximate, idealistic idea of your own country's laws (many of us do in regard to ours)
2. the defense from the government is a hilarious argument fr the right to bear arms

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


No need.
Martial law can be imposed on State level, no need for Federal involvement, even though a governor may ask for Federal help. Happened before.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

The argument that a citizen would realistically oppose the US government by the use of fire arms is silly. How do you stack up a shotgun or a hand gun against the government that has at its disposal the largest military in the world and spends about as much on, let's call it defense, as all the other countries combined. Do you really consider the US armed forces + the local police forces to be so weak?

The South, about 150 years ago was a much more even match, and how did they do?
Contrast that with the March on Washington. They didn't win their right because of a few Black Panthers nuts.

Now let me tell you how things worked in Poland around the introduction of martial law in 1981, in case you weren't there at the time. A a few weeks before December 13th all registered gun owners received an order to bring over their weapons to a milicja (communist police) building indicated in the letter, and by a certain deadline. There was no grace period. Anybody who was late received one loud knock on the door of their home. If the door wasn't open soon enough then another knock came. That one was with a boot of one of the armed officers. Both the police and the army may were present, and yes, I witnessed such an event.

I would imagine the US government and their military would be even better organized in a possible execution of a similar action if they decided it was needed. Sure, perhaps a few guys would have hidden a few unregistered guns, killed a cop or two; but these would be as dangerous to the government forces as a mosquito is to an elephant.

That's my take.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]


never heard the term.
Do you mean free market economy? If so then there is no such thing in reality.
Free market economy is as real as communism. Both look good on paper, neither has never been tried.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Your doesn't?


That may come as a shock to you, but baseball bats are quite legal in Canada.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Hold your horses. How about Poles don's see the need to own guns, but Americans are so scared they need and want guns?

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Oh brother!
Best to get a shogun then. With the spread of the lead you could take down not one but a few of those Russian rockets.

News / Achievements of the Tusk's Polish government [538]

Market economy?
There is no free market economy anywhere in EU, including Poland.
I'm not sure there is market economy anywhere in the world, or even if there has ever been one.

Love / How do Polish men feel about gender equality? [780]


Exactly what zimmy has been trying to put across.
And I know a few of those who tinker with vehicles. In winter they spend their days maintaining snow plowing trucks, melting snow dripping on them while they fix a broken part underneath, so the tuck can go back on the road, clean the road and allow the white collar feminist to get to yet another meeting where she will bithc about how much more that truck driver makes. She won't ever even enter the repair shop because that experience alone would be beneath her. But she will gladly complain that the fella makes more than she does scheduling a politician's golfing appointments.

Numbers alone that are used to produce various income stats don't even begin to tell the story, let alone explain it. The same job may pay vastly different amounts depending on geographic location, the locality population, tax base, company's resources etc. I could make 50% to 100% more in Toronto but would I like to live there? A basement apartment rental costs per month in TO are about as much as a mortgage on a decent house in Niagara. I had job offers for exactly th same position ranging from $50K (in Nebraska) to $150K (in a nuclear plant in Michigan). A cop in Toronto will make good money, but a cop up North will make much more plus he or she will get additional Northern Resident incentives (lower taxes, lower housing costs, earlier retirement). Nobody's lining up as the life around the arctic circle ain't that cozy.

As for the slut walks, I have no problems with those as they may be pretty interesting, except when the age range of the participants pushed the envelope a little too much and brings the event somewhere towards turpism and obscenity.

Life / Do you find any humour in Polish Highlanders' stories? [24]

A tourist passes by and sees a highlander watching his sheep.
- That's a lot of sheep to watch. How do you keep the count?
- That's simple, answers the highlander. I count their legs and then just divide that by four.

Two young highlander women are having a little gossip when one points at an approaching highlander:
- Oh, Jasiek is coming to see me and he's bringing flowers. Looks like I'll have to give him some ass.
- Don't you have a vase?

News / Parliament in Poland clears way for nuclear plant [78]


With the prevailing W ad NW winds in Poland, it would be silly to build them close to the Polish border. In case of a accident any airborne pollution would cover most of Poland. Those plants should be built in Easter Poland.