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David vs. Goliath: Round Two of the Little Guy Triumphs
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Battle of Hodow
The Battle of Hodow is sometimes called the Polish Thermopylae. Fought in June, 1694, the Battle of Hodow involved the forces of the Kingdom of Poland and the Crimean Khanate. Earlier that month, the Crimean Khanate, a force of Muslim Tatars had invaded Polish territory with the intent of pillaging. The Kingdom of Poland responded.


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The Kingdom of Poland sent a small force of only 400 men, drawn from strongholds in Red Ruthenia, in the modern Ukraine. The Crimean Khanate had invaded Poland with a force numbering massively larger, perhaps as many as 40,000, but certainly at least 25,000. The Polish charged Tatar forces on fields near Hodow, leading to the withdrawal of the Tatar vanguard. The Poles continued to effectively resist the Khanate forces, eventually moving back and into the village of Hodow, creating a barrier using sturdy wooden fences left in past invasions, and using improvised arrows as ammunition when they ran out of their own.

The Polish force of 400 defeated the initial 700 troops in the Crimean vanguard, then continued to defend Hodow for the next six hours. In total, more than 1,000 cavalry and soldiers from the Tatar force were killed, and fewer than 100 of the Polish force.


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Unable to defeat the small Polish force, the Crimean Khanate sent Polish-speaking Tatars to try to negotiate a surrender. This failed and the Crimean Khanate withdrew from Poland entirely. While the Crimean Khanate almost certainly could have, with their larger numbers, forced a victory, they did not pursue this goal.

The victory at Hodow provided the army of the Kingdom of Poland with a significant morale boost. The king paid for replacement horses for the forces at Hodow, as well as medical care for the soldiers, and ordered a monument commemorating the victory.

David vs. Goliath: Round Two of the Little Guy Triumphs

 

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Polish petroleum industry inventor born 195 years ago 　
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March 23 marked the 195th birth anniversary of Polish petroleum industry pioneer Jan Jozef Ignacy Lukasiewicz, who in 1853 invented the kerosene lamp which lit up the streets of cities throughout the world and revolutionised medicine by enabling night surgeries. 　
Lukasiewicz was born on March 8 or March 23/24 1822 in Zaduszniki near Mielec, in the Austrian part of partitioned Poland. Soon after Ignacy's birth the family was forced to relocate to the nearby Polish city of Rzeszow (south Poland) due to financial difficulties. In Rzeszow Lukasiewicz attended the local secondary school but failed to pass the exams and left in 1836. In order to help his parents financially he moved to Lancut, where he began work as a pharmacist's assistant.




Lukasiewicz was the first person in Poland and the world to distill oil and was able to exploit it for lighting and create a brand new industry. In early 1854 he opened the world's first oilmine at Bobrka near Krosno (operational as of 2006), simultaneously continuing work on his 1853 invention, the kerosene lamp. Later that year, he set up the first kerosene street lamp in the town Gorlice. In later years he opened several other oil wells, each as a joint venture with local merchants and businessmen. In 1856 , he opened an "oil distillery" in Ulaszowice near Jaslo, the world's first industrial oil refinery. As demand for kerosene was still low, the plant initially produced mostly artificial asphalt, machine oil, and lubricants. The refinery was destroyed in an 1859 fire, but was rebuilt in the following year at Polanka near Krosno.



Lukasiewicz's kerosene lamp became popular with European settlers in the US, who used it to light their homes in America's then unelectrified rural areas. It also revolutionised medicine by enabling world-first night-time emergency surgeries. (PAP)

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Polish petroleum industry inventor born 195 years ago 　 | News | Polish Press Agency

 

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Considering the mockery, and slander / libel against Poles I think it's necessary.

Has any ethnic population been more scapegoated, and slandered?

There's so many negative stereotypes upon Poles, like dumb Polak, thieves, criminals, drunks, prostitutes, weak at war, using horses in WW2, starting WW2 in Bromberg Massacre, being the land of the Holocaust, being Nazi collaborators.

Most of these are downright slander / libel, or and many others are extreme exaggerations.

.1.) Are Poles dumb?
Poland in the Renaissance was the European leader in science, even the Scientific Revolution came from Poland thanks to Copernicus, and Albert Brudzewski.

Polish Americans scored a massive 109 IQ.
While Poland's IQ is considered to be 99, this is by no means low.
The PISA scores of Poland are high, the literacy rates of Poland are high, and Poland wins many intellectual competitions like the IBM Battle of the Brains Contest, the University Rover Challenge, the Google Online Marketing Challenge, Google Code Jam, among others.

So, no I wouldn't say Poles are particularly dumb.,

2.) Thieves, or criminals?

Poland was the first European country to successfully hold off slavery.

Poland had no involved in Colonialism, nor the Atlantic Slave Trade of thievery, or Criminality.

As for common criminals?

Poland's murder rate is now lower than the EU average.

There's an extreme exaggeration of Polish as being a particularly criminal population in UK media, and British circles.

But, Poles are estimated to have 6,700 or so criminals yearly, as opposed to 1.19 million criminals yearly in the UK.

This would support that 0.5% of criminals in the UK were Polish, while over 1.0% of the UK was Polish.

So, actually Poles are underrepresented in crime in the UK.

3.) Drunks?

This map shows that Poles were less likely to be diagnosed with alcoholism than most of Northern Europe.

4.) Prostitutes?

Poles have one of the latest ages for losing virginity in Europe.

While, there might be some Polish prostitutes.

Most Polish girls are if anything more prude than most of Europe.

5.) Weak at war?

I don't think anyone has won more battles when outnumbered than Poles.

Quite a few Polish battles come to mind, the Battle of Hodow, Battle of Klushino, Battle of Kircholm, Battle of Lubieszow, Battle of Trembowla, battle of fuengirola etc.

6.( While it's true that Poles had Horse units in WW2.

So did everyone else except Great Britain.

Actually the Nazis, and Soviets each had many times more Horses than Poland.

So, why do many anti-Polish Nazis, and anti-Polish Soviets ignore these facts?

7.) Bromberg Massacre starting before WW2 is not historically accepted.

But, many Nazis, or German sympathizers try, none the less.

I think the fact that Nazi Germany had claimed a Bromberg Massacre was going on since March of 1939, but invaded Czechoslovakia in March of 1939 instead of Poland says all that needs to be said.

8.) While it's true that Poland is where many Concentration Camps are located.

The Nazi Germans had annexed this land.

Furthermore Nazi Germany first put Poles into Auschwitz, rather than Jews.

Up to 100's of thousands of Poles passed through the Concentration Camps, and 100's of thousands of more Poles were killed in Nazi massacres, including Wola Massacre, the Ponary Massace, Operation Tannenberg etc.

9.) Poland was the first nation to fight the Nazis.

After the Nazis had invaded, Poland had the biggest anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Europe.

Poles had the highest number of Righteous Among the Nations risk their lives to save Holocaust victim Jews, some serious names come to mind like Eugene Lazowski, Henryk Slawik, or Irena Sendler.
(This is in spite of the fact that Poland was the only nation in occupied Europe that a death penalty was created for aiding Holocaust Jews.

Zegota was an entire Polish organization which had dedicate their time, lives, and resources to aiding Holocaust victim Jews.

With that said, Poles like all populations of Europe had some Nazi collaborators.

But, there's no recorded Polish Nazi SS units in Europe.

Furthermore even the Jews had some Nazi collaborators.
Actually the Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum who lived his last days in the Nazi controlled Warsaw Ghetto, had admitted that Jewish Nazi collaborators of the Jewish Ghetto Police, were more brutal than Polish Nazi collaborators of the Polish Blue Police.

Polacks are decent people. Sorry, I'm just not as offended by this thread as the "other" one.

Y'all ain't superior to shit. That being said, Polacks are alright by me.

Polish girls are cute, but trying to boast about Polish history is a losing proposition.

 

[irosie91]

another polish joke?

 

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Short Bio of St. Maximilian Kolbe

St. Maximilian Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894 and at about the age of 10 had a vision of the Virgin Mary. She offered him a white crown and a red crown, representing purity and martyrdom. He chose both, a foreshadowing of his life to come. In 1910, he joined the Conventual Franciscan Order. He was sent to study in Rome where founded the M.I. on October 16, 1917. Ordained a priest in 1918, Father Maximilian returned to Poland and began his untiring missionary activity, starting a monthly magazine and establishing two evangelization centers dedicated to the Immaculate Virgin: Niepokalanów, the “City of the Immaculata,” in Poland, and Mugenzai no Sono in Japan, and envisioned missionary centers worldwide. To better “win the world for Christ through the Immaculata,” the friars utilized the most modern techniques. St. Maximilian used short-wave radio and planned to build a motion picture studio. In 1939, during WWII, at Niepokalanów he welcomed thousands of refugees, especially Jews. In 1941, St. Maximilian was arrested by the Nazis and taken to the Auschwitz concentration camp. There he offered his life for another prisoner and was condemned to slow death in a starvation bunker. He died on August 14, 1941, with an injection of carbolic acid. Pope John Paul II canonized him as a Saint and Martyr of Charity on October 10, 1982. St. Maximilian Kolbe is considered a patron of journalists, families, prisoners, the pro-life movement, the chemically addicted and those with eating disorders.

St. Maximilian was a ground-breaking theologian. His insights on the Immaculate Conception anticipated the Marian theology of the Second Vatican Council and further developed the Church’s understanding of Mary’s role in God’s Plan of salvation. His Marian thought re-echoes in the Marian teaching of both St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI.

Short Bio of St. Maximilian Kolbe

 

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• Jozef Stos, who was in the first transport of Polish prisoners to the Nazi camp at Auschwitz, has died.

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Jozef Stos, a former prisoner of Auschwit, 2010. PAP/ANDRZEJ GRYGIEL

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Jozef Stos, who was in the first transport of Polish prisoners to the Nazi camp at Auschwitz, has died.
Jozef Stos, a former prisoner of Auschwitz and other German Nazi concentration camps, died on June 14 in Krakow, at the age of 95. He died on the 76th anniversary of the first transport of Poles – including himself – to Auschwitz.
Jozef Stos was born on March 15, 1921 in Okocim. Before the war he was a boy scout. When Germany attacked Poland in September 1939 he joined the volunteer Military Auxiliary Service. After Poland’s defeat he ended up, by way of Stryj and Lviv, in Poland’s eastern regions, where he was captured by the Soviets. He managed to escape and return home, but on May 3, 1940 he was arrested by the Germans and imprisoned in Tarnow.

Stos recalled: “It took me a long time to make it to Brzesko, to Okocim. They asked me: Why did it take you so long? I told them I was held prisoner by the Soviets and was released because I was a student. The Germans didn’t believe me. They decided that since I was released, I had to be a Soviet agent, and they put me in prison.”

On June 14, 1940 the Germans deported 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnow to Auschwitz; Jozef Stos was among them.

“On the morning of June 13 they started taking us out and taking us away in small groups, emptying the prison cells. (…) They were supposedly going to take us to Germany to be farm labourers. (…). The next day they loaded us onto passenger carriages in a special train. (…) We got to a station called Auschwitz, and continued on. The tracks were rusted and the train moved slowly. All of a sudden, we heard, “Raus!” There was shouting, the crash of doors being opened. Then it started! Shouting, screaming, beatings, dogs barking! On the other side of the square there were uniformed soldiers with heavy machine guns,” he recalled. At Auschwitz he received the prisoner number 752.

On October 29, 1944 he was transferred to the Sachsenhausen camp and then to the Hadmersleben subcamp of Buchenwald. After being evacuated, he walked in a convoy to Dessau-Roeslau, then loaded onto a barge and floated down the Elbe. After the Germans guarding them attempted but failed to sink the barges several times, on May 8, 1945 he led an escape by about 50 people.

After the war Jozef Stos returned home to Okocim. He became an architect and was very active part in volunteer work, especially the history of the Auschwitz camp. (PAP)

Jozef Stos, who was in the first transport of Polish prisoners to the Nazi camp at Auschwitz, has died. | History | Poland | Pope in Poland 2016 - press center

 

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Considering the mockery, and slander / libel against Poles I think it's necessary.

Has any ethnic population been more scapegoated, and slandered?

There's so many negative stereotypes upon Poles, like dumb Polak, thieves, criminals, drunks, prostitutes, weak at war, using horses in WW2, starting WW2 in Bromberg Massacre, being the land of the Holocaust, being Nazi collaborators.

Most of these are downright slander / libel, or and many others are extreme exaggerations.

.1.) Are Poles dumb?
Poland in the Renaissance was the European leader in science, even the Scientific Revolution came from Poland thanks to Copernicus, and Albert Brudzewski.

Polish Americans scored a massive 109 IQ.
While Poland's IQ is considered to be 99, this is by no means low.
The PISA scores of Poland are high, the literacy rates of Poland are high, and Poland wins many intellectual competitions like the IBM Battle of the Brains Contest, the University Rover Challenge, the Google Online Marketing Challenge, Google Code Jam, among others.

So, no I wouldn't say Poles are particularly dumb.,

2.) Thieves, or criminals?

Poland was the first European country to successfully hold off slavery.

Poland had no involved in Colonialism, nor the Atlantic Slave Trade of thievery, or Criminality.

As for common criminals?

Poland's murder rate is now lower than the EU average.

There's an extreme exaggeration of Polish as being a particularly criminal population in UK media, and British circles.

But, Poles are estimated to have 6,700 or so criminals yearly, as opposed to 1.19 million criminals yearly in the UK.

This would support that 0.5% of criminals in the UK were Polish, while over 1.0% of the UK was Polish.

So, actually Poles are underrepresented in crime in the UK.

3.) Drunks?

This map shows that Poles were less likely to be diagnosed with alcoholism than most of Northern Europe.

4.) Prostitutes?

Poles have one of the latest ages for losing virginity in Europe.

While, there might be some Polish prostitutes.

Most Polish girls are if anything more prude than most of Europe.

5.) Weak at war?

I don't think anyone has won more battles when outnumbered than Poles.

Quite a few Polish battles come to mind, the Battle of Hodow, Battle of Klushino, Battle of Kircholm, Battle of Lubieszow, Battle of Trembowla, battle of fuengirola etc.

6.( While it's true that Poles had Horse units in WW2.

So did everyone else except Great Britain.

Actually the Nazis, and Soviets each had many times more Horses than Poland.

So, why do many anti-Polish Nazis, and anti-Polish Soviets ignore these facts?

7.) Bromberg Massacre starting before WW2 is not historically accepted.

But, many Nazis, or German sympathizers try, none the less.

I think the fact that Nazi Germany had claimed a Bromberg Massacre was going on since March of 1939, but invaded Czechoslovakia in March of 1939 instead of Poland says all that needs to be said.

8.) While it's true that Poland is where many Concentration Camps are located.

The Nazi Germans had annexed this land.

Furthermore Nazi Germany first put Poles into Auschwitz, rather than Jews.

Up to 100's of thousands of Poles passed through the Concentration Camps, and 100's of thousands of more Poles were killed in Nazi massacres, including Wola Massacre, the Ponary Massace, Operation Tannenberg etc.

9.) Poland was the first nation to fight the Nazis.

After the Nazis had invaded, Poland had the biggest anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Europe.

Poles had the highest number of Righteous Among the Nations risk their lives to save Holocaust victim Jews, some serious names come to mind like Eugene Lazowski, Henryk Slawik, or Irena Sendler.
(This is in spite of the fact that Poland was the only nation in occupied Europe that a death penalty was created for aiding Holocaust Jews.

Zegota was an entire Polish organization which had dedicate their time, lives, and resources to aiding Holocaust victim Jews.

With that said, Poles like all populations of Europe had some Nazi collaborators.

But, there's no recorded Polish Nazi SS units in Europe.

Furthermore even the Jews had some Nazi collaborators.
Actually the Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum who lived his last days in the Nazi controlled Warsaw Ghetto, had admitted that Jewish Nazi collaborators of the Jewish Ghetto Police, were more brutal than Polish Nazi collaborators of the Polish Blue Police.

Polacks are decent people. Sorry, I'm just not as offended by this thread as the "other" one.

Y'all ain't superior to shit. That being said, Polacks are alright by me.

Polish girls are cute, but trying to boast about Polish history is a losing proposition.

Considering the mockery, and slander / libel against Poles I think it's necessary.

Has any ethnic population been more scapegoated, and slandered?

There's so many negative stereotypes upon Poles, like dumb Polak, thieves, criminals, drunks, prostitutes, weak at war, using horses in WW2, starting WW2 in Bromberg Massacre, being the land of the Holocaust, being Nazi collaborators.

Most of these are downright slander / libel, or and many others are extreme exaggerations.

.1.) Are Poles dumb?
Poland in the Renaissance was the European leader in science, even the Scientific Revolution came from Poland thanks to Copernicus, and Albert Brudzewski.

Polish Americans scored a massive 109 IQ.
While Poland's IQ is considered to be 99, this is by no means low.
The PISA scores of Poland are high, the literacy rates of Poland are high, and Poland wins many intellectual competitions like the IBM Battle of the Brains Contest, the University Rover Challenge, the Google Online Marketing Challenge, Google Code Jam, among others.

So, no I wouldn't say Poles are particularly dumb.,

2.) Thieves, or criminals?

Poland was the first European country to successfully hold off slavery.

Poland had no involved in Colonialism, nor the Atlantic Slave Trade of thievery, or Criminality.

As for common criminals?

Poland's murder rate is now lower than the EU average.

There's an extreme exaggeration of Polish as being a particularly criminal population in UK media, and British circles.

But, Poles are estimated to have 6,700 or so criminals yearly, as opposed to 1.19 million criminals yearly in the UK.

This would support that 0.5% of criminals in the UK were Polish, while over 1.0% of the UK was Polish.

So, actually Poles are underrepresented in crime in the UK.

3.) Drunks?

This map shows that Poles were less likely to be diagnosed with alcoholism than most of Northern Europe.

4.) Prostitutes?

Poles have one of the latest ages for losing virginity in Europe.

While, there might be some Polish prostitutes.

Most Polish girls are if anything more prude than most of Europe.

5.) Weak at war?

I don't think anyone has won more battles when outnumbered than Poles.

Quite a few Polish battles come to mind, the Battle of Hodow, Battle of Klushino, Battle of Kircholm, Battle of Lubieszow, Battle of Trembowla, battle of fuengirola etc.

6.( While it's true that Poles had Horse units in WW2.

So did everyone else except Great Britain.

Actually the Nazis, and Soviets each had many times more Horses than Poland.

So, why do many anti-Polish Nazis, and anti-Polish Soviets ignore these facts?

7.) Bromberg Massacre starting before WW2 is not historically accepted.

But, many Nazis, or German sympathizers try, none the less.

I think the fact that Nazi Germany had claimed a Bromberg Massacre was going on since March of 1939, but invaded Czechoslovakia in March of 1939 instead of Poland says all that needs to be said.

8.) While it's true that Poland is where many Concentration Camps are located.

The Nazi Germans had annexed this land.

Furthermore Nazi Germany first put Poles into Auschwitz, rather than Jews.

Up to 100's of thousands of Poles passed through the Concentration Camps, and 100's of thousands of more Poles were killed in Nazi massacres, including Wola Massacre, the Ponary Massace, Operation Tannenberg etc.

9.) Poland was the first nation to fight the Nazis.

After the Nazis had invaded, Poland had the biggest anti-Nazi resistance in occupied Europe.

Poles had the highest number of Righteous Among the Nations risk their lives to save Holocaust victim Jews, some serious names come to mind like Eugene Lazowski, Henryk Slawik, or Irena Sendler.
(This is in spite of the fact that Poland was the only nation in occupied Europe that a death penalty was created for aiding Holocaust Jews.

Zegota was an entire Polish organization which had dedicate their time, lives, and resources to aiding Holocaust victim Jews.

With that said, Poles like all populations of Europe had some Nazi collaborators.

But, there's no recorded Polish Nazi SS units in Europe.

Furthermore even the Jews had some Nazi collaborators.
Actually the Jewish historian Emanuel Ringelblum who lived his last days in the Nazi controlled Warsaw Ghetto, had admitted that Jewish Nazi collaborators of the Jewish Ghetto Police, were more brutal than Polish Nazi collaborators of the Polish Blue Police.

Polacks are decent people. Sorry, I'm just not as offended by this thread as the "other" one.

Y'all ain't superior to shit. That being said, Polacks are alright by me.

Polish girls are cute, but trying to boast about Polish history is a losing proposition.

That sounds pretty prejudiced, especially for someone claiming to be anti-prejudiced.

Polish history is much more interesting than Irish history. "Ahem"

 

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Polish history is much more interesting than Irish history. "Ahem"

You keep telling yourself that, shit-shoveler.

 

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Polish history is much more interesting than Irish history. "Ahem"

You keep telling yourself that, shit-shoveler.

How do you figure, otherwise?

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

another polish joke?

What's a Polish joke?

 

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Irish honor Polish explorer and scientist who helped Famine victims
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Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, to be honored with Dublin plaque, helped to raise funds for those in need.WIKIMEDIA

A plaque commemorating a Polish explorer, scientist and philanthropist who helped victims of the Famine has been erected in Dublin.

At a ceremony in Sackville Place last week, Lord Mayor of Dublin Christy Burkeand Mayor of Poznań Jacek Jaśkowiak unveiled the plaque honoring Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki.

Strzelecki was an explorer and geologist who spent a great deal of his earlier adult life in Australia. Having settled in Britain and gained British citizenship Strzelecki’s involvement in Ireland began.

At the end of 1846, the Great Irish Famine was under way and the British Relief Association formed with the sum of £500,000. Strzelecki was assigned the position as agent to superintend the distribution of supplies in County Sligo and County Mayo.

He devoted himself to his task although for a time he was incapacitated by faminefever. Through 1847 and 1848 he worked in Dublin as sole agent for the association. In recognition of his services he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in November 1848. Strzelecki also helped impoverished Irish families to seek new lives in Australia.

The mayor of Dublin said it was a “great pleasure” to unveil the plaque as Strzelecki “did so much for the Irish people during one of the darkest periods of our history.”

Tánaiste Joan Burton, who was present at the unveiling, said she is “greatly struck by the ideals of solidarity and human compassion Paweł Edmund Strzelecki’s life and work represent.”

“I can think of few better representatives of the positive influence of the Polish people in Ireland. So let’s honour him and cherish his memory.

“Just as we should cherish the hundreds of thousands of contributions our Polish community has made to the modern, inclusive Ireland we’re building today. I hope to see our two nations grow even closer in the years ahead.”

The unveiling ceremony was part of the PolskaÉire festival celebrating the Polish community in Ireland.

The plaque was funded by the people of Poznań and the Poznań Irish Culture Foundation, and erected with the support of the Irish Polish Society, Dublin City Council, the Polish Embassy and Clerys department store.

Here's a short biography of Paweł Edmund Strzelecki:

Irish honor Polish explorer and scientist who helped Famine victims

 

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....

Polish history is much more interesting than Irish history. "Ahem"

You keep telling yourself that, shit-shoveler.

How do you figure, otherwise?

The French are "fight to the last man" badasses compared to the Polish. The Polish state disappears more often than a rabbit at a magic show.

 

[irosie91]

another polish joke?

What's a Polish joke?

it's a dumpling containing grated cabbage and a chili pepper called SCOTCH BONNET. The target of
the joke is instructed to EAT THE WHOLE DUMPLING in one bite. Then, everyone laughs

 

[Unkotare]

another polish joke?

What's a Polish joke?

Look in the mirror.

 

[irosie91]

another polish joke?

What's a Polish joke?

Look in the mirror.

ok----I did----now what?

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

....

Polish history is much more interesting than Irish history. "Ahem"

You keep telling yourself that, shit-shoveler.

How do you figure, otherwise?

The French are "fight to the last man" badasses compared to the Polish. The Polish state disappears more often than a rabbit at a magic show.

I don't think anyone has won more battles when outnumbered than the Polish, actually.

 

[irosie91]

....

Polish history is much more interesting than Irish history. "Ahem"

You keep telling yourself that, shit-shoveler.

How do you figure, otherwise?

The French are "fight to the last man" badasses compared to the Polish. The Polish state disappears more often than a rabbit at a magic show.

I don't think anyone has won more battles when outnumbered than the Polish, actually.

I DON'T THINK........ <<<not a polish joke

 

[SobieskiSavedEurope]

....

Polish history is much more interesting than Irish history. "Ahem"

You keep telling yourself that, shit-shoveler.

How do you figure, otherwise?

The French are "fight to the last man" badasses compared to the Polish. The Polish state disappears more often than a rabbit at a magic show.

Poland fought the Mongols, the Ottoman Turks, the Holy Roman Empire, Kievan Rus, Sweden, German Prussia, Moscovite Russia, Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, the Crimean Khanate, Cossacks, Moldova, Austria, Britain, Spain, and Ukraine.

What about your Ireland?

Poland stood toe, to toe with some of the biggest empires.

Ireland not so much.

Ireland had actually vanished for much longer.
(Starting with the Tudor invasions of Ireland in the 16th century)
Poland didn't get wiped off the map until the late 18th century)

So much you know.

I hope you're not a History Teacher.