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gumishuThreads: 17
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Joined: Apr 6, 09  Pictures: 1 ♂ 		 Apr 19, 09, 15:27    #91
Arlene:
Maybe it has somethings to do about Poland. I heard other countries killed all Polish people because Polish people were mental and not stables to rule Poland. So Sweden, Russian, French, Italy and German ruled Poland and more populations got better and I really don't know if Polish people went hiding, came back to claims Poland for good. Some of them married different nationalities.

Good News we still have Poland.

Now they are have Spanish Joke.

they are have bad hardly comprehensible English

and talk rubbish perhaps

maybe they inform better before spanking the Polish monkey
Arlene  Apr 19, 09, 19:53    #92
Well, just listen in one ear and other ear it get out.

You know what I mean.

Polish people are good no matter what kinds of jokes we heard. Just ignored them.
Guest  Apr 20, 09, 02:36    #93
why polish jokes?
sombody got bored & made fun of their nabor & it caught on
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Joined: Nov 14, 08 ♂ 		 Apr 20, 09, 04:54    #94
The reason for Polish Jokes is because Poles continue to validate them.

When someone tells me a Polish joke I assume they're trying to make fun of me so I point out the fact that they are much dumber than me.
For example couldn't pass high school , didn't get into college their mom is a drug addict their father cheats on his wife mom etc.

Nobody walks on my Culture

I usually don't acknowledge that anything was said which I advise you to do also.

They will eventually realize that it takes a dumb Polak to actually laugh at a Dumb Polak joke.

I for one don't fall into that category.
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:04    #95
The origin of Polish jokes came from Nazi German propaganda.

And yes the Germans did know how to make jokes and laugh. They loved mocking and laughing at people who they hated. The Nazi German public had a good laugh when they watched German movies like "The Eternal Jew" or the "Jew Zeus". Where Jews were parodied and mocked as having "rat like" qualities.

Go on youtube and search for "Hitler Comedy" where it shows Hitler laughing with his German audience when the British requested that Germany not invade other countries.

Hitler comedy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0G5aYiLfVM
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Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: Bratwurst Boy  Jul 9, 09, 01:08    #96
MediaWatch:
The origin of Polish jokes came from Nazi German propaganda.

Any link or evidence for that?

As far as I know there never was a movie called "The eternal Pole" or "Pole Zeus" etc.
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:08    #97
Oh stop it. Even though the Nazi Germans were sick human beings they were still human beings and still knew how to tell and laugh at jokes. Especially when they were mocking those they hated.

How do you explain how Germans loved laughing at German movies like the "Eternal Jew" or "The Jew Zeus" where Jews were portrayed as having "rat like" qualities?

Here Hilter and his German audience are having a good laugh when the allies were telling Nazi Germany not to invade countries

Hitler comedy
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Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: Bratwurst Boy  Jul 9, 09, 01:10    #98
MediaWatch:
How do you explain how Germans loved laughing at German movies like the "Eternal Jew" or "The Jew Zeus" where Jews were portrayed as having "rat like" qualities?

Because they were Jews?
Were there no polish Jew-jokes?

Again...bring some evidence for your ramblings!

And if it was the Nazi-Germans how come the polish joke is kind of international?
Were the horrible Nazis so popular even in GB or the US that the polish jokes thrived even as the hated Nazi regime got fighted?

How logical..

MediaWatch:
Hollywood pushed the stereotype that Poles have subhuman intelligence in their movies

Yeah...and Hollywood is so german Nazi! :)

MediaWatch:
The racist stereotype that Poles are intellectually inferior or have subhuman intelligence, originated from Nazi German propaganda and Soviet propaganda.

Any link for that????
Any links for your long ramblings at all at all??? :):):)
Germany was at war with the "subhuman" Russians too..where are the famous russian jokes?

Think MediaWatch...THINK!
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:25    #99
Hollywood pushed the stereotype that Poles have subhuman intelligence in their movies. Like recently in the movie "Land of the Lost" with Leftist Polish-hater Will Ferrell. Then there were other anti-Polish movies like "SWAT" and the first "Bruce Almighty". So here it is Poles are doing absolutely nothing yet their being attacked with repetitive big lie propaganda.

Origin of the Polish joke

http://www.polamjournal.com/Library/The_Origin_of_the_Polish_Joke/the_ origin_of_the_polish_joke.html
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Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: Bratwurst Boy  Jul 9, 09, 01:27    #100
MediaWatch:
Hollywood pushed the stereotype that Poles have subhuman intelligence in their movies.

Why should they do that?

How about that?
Since polish jokes are older than the Nazis...

...On September 5, 1901 son of Polish immigrants Leon Frank Czolgosz shot and killed U.S. President William McKinley. Movies were being made about this incident which brought about much anti-Polish sentiment and stereotypes. During this time also, Polish immigration from the dismantled Polish state was high due to racial discrimination and unemployment on traditionally Polish lands.[3] ...

or this

...Some of the most "provocative critique of previous scholarship on the subject"[6] has been made by British writer Christie Davies in The Mirth of Nations suggesting that "Polish jokes" did not originate in Nazi Germany, but a lot earlier, as an outgrowth of regional jokes rooted in "social class differences reaching back to the nineteenth century". According to Davies, American versions of Polish jokes are an unrelated "purely American phenomenon" and do not express the "historical Old World hatreds of the Germans for the Poles".[7]...

PS: I know about the horse-against-tanks-myth...and it is exactly that a myth or war time propaganda (as every side in this war was guilty of).
Nothing comparable to the enduring polish jokes from before the war and for long after the Nazis were history!
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:29    #101
Yes isn't that amazing? Hollywood is against Nazi propaganda EXCEPT for when its against Polish people.

Its just like Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were AGAINST each other YET they still had a LOVE affair on somethings like destroying Poland together with the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
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Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: Bratwurst Boy  Jul 9, 09, 01:32    #102
Were are the many anti-german jokes as Germany was the main enemy in two world wars?

You should think logically here....the Nazis didn't invent the jokes, nor does Hollywood care enough to pester the world with it.
Every ethnie has to bear their stereotypes and the jokes coming with it.
Not everything in this world is centering around Poland! :)
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:34    #103
But there are different kinds of Polish jokes.

The early Polish jokes in the US were along the lines of anti-immigrant jokes that all groups got. The subhuman intelligence jokes about Poles were always popular in Germany (at least the stereotype that Poles have inferior/subhuman intelligence) and was later pushed in Nazi propaganda.

But in the US it was Hollywood that pushed it not the Germans per se.
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Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: Bratwurst Boy  Jul 9, 09, 01:36    #104
MediaWatch:
But there are different kinds of Polish jokes.

You say that because you are a Pole!
(Don't tell me you never laughed when other people were mocked and the victim of some stupid stereotype joke)
Get a grip and laugh at them and don't throw a tantrum every time that makes people only conscious of it and next time they will pester you purposely knowing how much they can hurt you with that.
Stop giving them this weapon and grow up!
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:40    #105
Its not so much the "jokes" per se, its the stereotype that Poles have subhuman intelligence. It was propaganda pushed by certain nations and Hollywood which then turned into so called "Polish jokes".

It was obviously used to degrade Poles. And yes the world does not revolve around Poland but WE are on a Polishforum aren't we? The topic is Polish jokes isn't it?

Which begs the question why is a German like you on here all the time? I put up a message and within minutes you're responding to it and I haven't been in this forum in months.
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Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂ 		Edited by: Bratwurst Boy  Jul 9, 09, 01:46    #106
So...which denigrating stereotype you would rather have instead? ;)

MediaWatch:
Which begs the question why is a German like you on here all the time? I put up a message and within minutes you're responding to it and I haven't been in this forum in months

I can't sleep...:)
(And I have DSL)
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:47    #107
Well to be frank with you I might have liked hearing a joke about a terrorist nation or a nation that's against America. I usually just like laughing at people who are Osama Bin Laden like or Nazis since they obviously are bad people. I like laughing at bad people not good people.

But I can see the Nazi German is coming out of you.

You must love that "Schaudenfreude" which is the German word that means taking delight in negative things happening to other people.
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Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:49    #108
MediaWatch:
But I can see the Nazi German is coming out of you.

Well...fit's somehow with your other ramblings.
All wild accusations, no substance!

MediaWatch:
You must love that "Schaudenfreude" which is the German word that means taking delight in negative things happening to other people.

See? And do you see me throwing a tantrum over you spouting an anti-german stereotype?
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:51    #109
So I guess you feel you have to "keep an eye on those Poles"? LOL

Why would you be interested in a topic on Anti-Polish prejudice anyway?
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Joined: Apr 28, 09 ♀ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:51    #110
MediaWatch:
I like laughing at bad people not good people.

A joke is just that. I wouldn't take it literally, it's not a racial slur. I haven't seen 'Land of the Lost' with Ferrell, but when he's funny, he's hysterical.
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Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:52    #111
MediaWatch:
Why would you be interested in a topic on Anti-Polish prejudice anyway?

I'm not. You calling the Germans as the ultimate culprits is...
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:56    #112
Well I was only responding to your cocky answer on #170. Giving you a taste of your own medicine.

By the way NOBODY I know tells me any Polish jokes (or really any ethnic or racial jokes) because they know better. I have always found that when people simply know that they are saying something bigoted, they stop. Just like I wouldn't tolerate somebody demonizing Germans of today who are not affiliated with Neo-Nazis.
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Joined: Apr 2, 07 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:59    #113
MediaWatch:
Well I was only responding to your cocky answer on #170. Giving you a taste of your own medicine.

What was "cocky" in that post?

MediaWatch:
By the way NOBODY I know tells me any Polish jokes (or really any ethnic or racial jokes) because they know better.

Then what is your problem? Can't sleep either??? :)
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Joined: Aug 30, 08 ♂ 		 Jul 9, 09, 01:59    #114
Germans of 2009 are not any kind of culprits unless they are affiliated with Neo-Nazi groups.
hihiitsmee!  Aug 4, 09, 20:52    #115
hey im polish and no offence to the people who actually tell the jokes but im real sick of it and nobody wantes to be my friend just becuase im polish!!! Well, im not ashamed of my nationatlity. no friends becuase im polish.... sounds alittle racist. dont ya think?
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Joined: Aug 5, 09 ♂ 		 Aug 5, 09, 19:56    #116
What's funny is that every nationality has a dumb joke about them. So it's just other people stereotyping others for some reason. Maybe it's because they just don't understand them.

It's annoying as hell but what can you do?
bozron  Sep 1, 09, 15:44    #117
Antipolish sentiment, poor hisorical education of American people and manipulation by massmedia serve for the some groups for their own agendas.
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Joined: Jul 22, 09 ♂ 		Edited by: Ogien  Nov 26, 09, 10:48    #118
Some people are so ridiculous with all this anti-Polish sentiment. I once had dinner with three guys who are involved in the adult entertainment industry. They told me how they had a new girl in the business who literally had a tattoo on her butt that read "Pollacks are ugly, they'll never get a piece of this tooshie." All of the guys happened to be Polish so it was only natural for me to ask them how they felt about this. One guy said he didn't care, one of them was offended, and the third guy was just excited at the thought of nailing her in the ass with the tattoo on it.
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Joined: Jul 22, 09 ♂ 		 Nov 26, 09, 11:11    #119
Bratwurst Boy:
I'm not. You calling the Germans as the ultimate culprits is...

The Germans did push the jokes about Polish people having subhuman intelligence. I'm not saying it originated in Germany first but it was certainly big over there especially when the Germans killed millions of non-Jewish Poles and targeted the intelligence.
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Joined: Jul 29, 10 ♀ 		 Jul 29, 10, 21:23    #120
Could it have anything to do with WWI, when Poland decided to joust on horseback against German tanks?

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