Polish "jokes" came from Nazi propaganda

Well, those Internet forums. Anyone can come from anywhere to any purely American forum and write whatever is in his/her mind. Some of those foreigners are intelligence agents, no doubt, it's proven (I'm not joking). What's the law - maybe Americans are not careful enough?
American forums as American soil?
I could go to Niamey, Niger, visit an Internet cafe there and spread my gossip from Africa. That's how small the world is. Every computer has the same Internet. Few things are available as limited to the US. Some YouTube clips, and what else?
I read American papers, visit American forums, watch American videos, watch clips from Fox or ABC - all on a computer.
I know that you believe that there's a deeper layer of Americanism which no one understands. Well, if someone doesn't have a childhood in the US, those things just don't seep in.
And they are: TV cartoons, comic books, baseball, American football.
Well, that sphere is getting smaller and smaller.
Marvel comics are published in Poland. Rules of football and baseball are easy to find on the Internet. Walt Disney cartoon movies have been known here for ages. The Muppet Show was shown in Communist TV in the 1980s, and Battle of the Planets, and Planet of the Apes. However, few people had color TVs back then.
An average Pole has seen hundreds of American movies, of all kinds, our TV shows American films in a "scientific" manner. I mean, if you have just the 7 or 10 free channels, you can make a list of well-known American movies and after 3 or 4 years you will be 80% done.

You need professional psychiatric help for your paranoia, Bubba.

You forget that I am a Slovak. Feel free to berate Slovakia, too, I really don't give half a hoot.

I've been to Slovakia twice - to get to know the country. Great robber beans, cheap books, and fast Westernization in the last decade. In 1995, you had pages in Russian inside newspapers (for whom?), then foreign investment came, the flat tax, now the Euro, introduced smoothly.
However, Polish trains still have notices in French, German and Russian, not in English (emergency brake and such).

indeed. polish and the poles are the greatest thing on this planet. far superior to anything and anyone else.

It shouldn't be long before Polish superiority leads to world dominance--they'll have an empire soon!

Oh . . . that's right . . . they already had one . . . and lost it . . .

Even a monkey can jump on a dead lion.

So your argument is reduced to referring to those who disagree with you as monkeys? Some lion . . . rather a toothless lion for the last 700 years or so . . .

I don't think Poland and the Polish are any LESS significant than anyone else on the planet Earth...just it is also not any MORE significant.

same soil, same humans, get over it. some are smart, some are dumb, some crack jokes, some are stuck up.... like anywhere else.

And the one about 1000 years of friendship between the Polish and the American nation...

well, that's not much of a joke, since neither existed then.

Poland 1009!!! Our great king Boleslaw Chrobry!!!

Poland's GDP in comparison with Western Europe (historical data):
http://www.nobe.pl/hist-wyk4.htm

Black - Poland's GDP as % of Germany/France/England/Italy (an average as I understand)
Grey - Poland's GDP as % of Spanish GDP

Poland, sure. Polish nation - hardly. not in 1009.... country does not equal nation.

what are you looking for from this thread? what reactions are you looking for? or are you just here to proselytize about poland's greatness?

It's GNP per capita

No, look closer at the chart. We had a good start, as a fully-fledged nation from the beginning, but after 500-600 years problems started. Wars, bad neighbors.

you may have had a fabulous start..... but you were not a NATION in 1009.

edit: and sorry, i don't give a crap about your chart and whatever it is that you're trying to spin here.

Just a sad tale.
Poland was a centralized state, everyone spoke Polish.
Centralization didn't happen without bloody inter-conquests, but by 966 it was a fact, and we adopted Catholicism.
My spin: decline is no fun, avoid it at all cost.

i know my central european history, thank you. nations are a much younger creation than this, you're looking backwards with current frame of mind... it dont' work that way. although nationalism does go along nicely with religion...both are based on blind belief.

I was laughing at him, Dashenka, because he was making extravagant claims, not the least of which were for the greatness of Poland and Poles. He set himself up for it.