Some of you may or may not have received a slightly cryptic email from Darthsida last night. The fact that it was cryptic may not have surprised you (what else would we expect from Darthie), the fact that it essentially announced his imminent retirement certainly should have. The truth is that Darthsida is on the verge of packing it in, of hanging up his sinister blogging cape and calling it a day. I, for one, would be extremely unhappy if this were to happen. How many other English-language blogs written from the perspective of a Polish person do you know? I don’t know any. It’s all very well for us native speakers to bang on amongst ourselves about the oddities and wonders of life in Poland, but it’s all a bit hollow if we don’t get some feedback from Poles, or have the opportunity to read the other side of the story.
Head on over to Darth’s blog right now and deluge him with positive comments. He’s feeling under-appreciated and confused.
Save the Darth! The force is strong with this one.
Right! Now I look like a love-me-or-i-slash-my-wrist emo-wuss, PMS-stricken, and looking stupid all over [save in the pic above]. It’s not readers that I lack. (They ARE most heartily welcome, yet from the point of view of meme-hunting-theories, not a must.) And positive is a negative word. And maths is not about appreciation. And cryptic was French. And I’m not Polish. And as I’m not sinister, neither can my cape be. And I’m sorry we didn’t forth a deluge more deserved when Polishpress vanished for a time. And so on. Goosh, Island, your post is all wrong, with the exception of several carefully picked indefinite articles.
Darth: Blimey, there’s no pleasing some people!
What do you mean you’re not Polish!? What are you then?
But seriously, I wasn’t trying to send readers your way for the sake of numbers, rather for the sake of asking them to persuade you not to close your blog. Take it like a man (humor intended).
“My base are all belong to past” not cryptic?
Would you want to please me like a man (humour detected) — write that post with your definition of coolness.
This by no means can be cryptic, my line’s a go at rephrasing it to fit in the context. — Ah, and the question about my Polishness? See my next post then.
Yes Darth, I recognized the reference, but the connection to you and the ‘epistles we should write’ was less than crystal clear.
Next post awaited with breath bated (not baited).
You two deserve to be married…
Darth you have PMS? I thought I was reading genuine male cynicisms in your posts…
Darth, they’ve rumbled us! We’ll have to elope.
By the way, yes we should have tried harder to track down Polishpress when he did his disappearing act. Life is full of regrets.
Island,
let’s discuss whether it’s ‘epistles’ or ‘reading’ on our way to Gretna Green, as I need to PMS (pack me suitcase) now 🙂 As to Polishpress, every time he gets into PMS (Polishpress’s Malicious Silence) for more than 48 hours, I grow nervous, hm.
Mochafuled,
PMS (pardon my surprise) — but isn’t PMS how you shorten man’s Pre-Marital Syndrome (*) in English?
(*) Or Post-Marital Syndrome. Or Pretty-Maritallike Syndrome. There’s no escape.
Well you have really spent too much time thinking about PMS… so I will thank you for all those wonderful definitions I can use on my lady friends… I assume you know so much because you have gone thru Pre-Marital, Post-Marital or something near there and I will Island, who is the English major, define what Petyy-Maritallike Syndrome is…. is that a women who you want to marry…
thanks for the laugh…
PMS: Please, My Sandwiches, Pack My Sausage, Pick More Strawberries, Pass More Straw, Pickle Moe’s Sardines, Pour Mary’s Sangria, Phew! Multi-Spectral, Portly Mortal Scandinavians.
Could be the most useful acronym ever discovered, Possibly More Soon…
I have similar feelings reading Darth’s blog to those I encountered when trying to work my way through James Joyce’s “Ulysses”.
Best explained as “There might be something good in here but I don’t really have the time to work it out”.
Post My Scriptum: Have I made a monster yet? [Pretty morbidly Sithsome, bwaha!] Please, More, Sir! You’re doing swell!
Darth re scatts: Are you swelling with pride!
Portly Morrocan Soldiers, Please Move Sideways, Patently Moronic Symbolism, Polish Mountain Streams, Privately Motivated Silliness, Please Me Slowly, Pour More Schnapps, Public Morals Scandalized! Please Make IT Stop…
Island re Darth re Scatts:
Yes, I do know I should be inflated with pride enough to sell transoceanic balloon flights aboard me…Still, I read Ulysses, which sucks, and I read Finnegans Wake, which sucks. The time I took to work out that the two things suck was years. So I lost a lot of time and Joyce was a thief. Now, with Scatts comparing me to a thief — I’m somewhat confused.
Re: PMS. Can you make more, more, more? I want to Propose My Shares (to Public Monsters Stockexchange) and Profits Must See.
Darth re Island re Darth re Scatts: Joyce holds a hypnotic fascination for young people with a literary bent, but it rarely survives into later life.
Pseudo Manichean Sentiment
Perfectly Manicured Shrubbery
Poland Must Surrender
Periodically Mentioned Shibboleths
Penises Might Shrink
Pickled Moravian Swedes
Poppies Marinate Splendidly
Platonic Male Seriousness
Powerful Memes Survive
Particularly Meaningless Sentences
Permanent Military Surveillance
Precious Metal Stroking
Precocious Mendacity Shocks
Praise Monotheistic Saints
Pamper Mawkish Sentimentality
Progress Moves Slowly
People Might Suspect
Properly Shaped Sandcastles
Pernicious Media Standards
Preposterous Medical Suppositions
Porn Mangles Sexuality
We want Darth! We want Darth!
Darthsida turns out someone completely different than expected… First I assumed he was a Polish girl. Could I get it more wrong?
Now I’d put my money he’s (identifying himself as) Silesian… maybe Roma (but then he’d still be Polish by citizenship). Although quite possible he’s cosmic. Or Hungarian.
P(M)S. there are lots of articles i’d love to translate into my inadequate English, however I don’t have enough time. I’m considering a team casting:>
PPS. I’ve printed the dictionary pledge;))
polishpress: 😀
Who knows what he will turn out to be. Perhaps we should open a book (of the betting kind). I’ll put 20 zeds on Silesian.
Priests Mustn’t Shag
Properly Masticated Sandwiches
Pope Meets Savior
Police Marksman Stumbles
Penury Motivates Spending
Permanent Mental Scarring
Proud Members Stand
Personality Matters Somewhat
Pork Murders Sleep
Practice Masturbation Secretly
Curse you Darth and your Pernicious Meme Starting!!
Shoot Me Please…
Aha, by reversing the polarity of the neutron flow I have broken the spell!
Prime Minister’s Silliness
Post Mortem Supper
Or maybe darth is Lemko like Andy Warhol?:)
Island,
Impressive, most impressive. But just when you think you’re done, you’ll have to do the permutations. Rearrangements. You know, Pampers Marinate Splendidly, Pork May Shrink and so on.
Then all the mind-the-cultural-gaps: Priests Mustn’t Shag translates into Parsons May Shag.
Of course, you didn’t mean ‘polarity of the neutron flow’, but Polarised Memetron Stream. And not just ‘the spell’ but “perdurably mighty spell”.
Go on, I’m really enjoying this. Firstly, because I learn new words. Secondly, because it turns into a sort of Rorschach inkblot testing: what acronyms come to Island’s mind when he sees PMS?
=> PP, Island
Island can read in one of my comments herein where I was born. Which defines me geopolitically. (For more info you might want to make your order, next time you see my latest post.)
=> PP
LOL. Are you looking for a non-Polish language to think of nationalities in Poland other than Polish? Excepting artificial Polish / PanSlavonic languages such as: Sevorian, Seversk, Hattic, Skuodian, Slavëni, Vozgian, Slevan, Slezan, Nashica, Venedic (Slavo–Romance)?
OK, so Lemko indeed.
Or:
Belarussian, Russian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian (in Livonia), Czech, Slovak, Tatar, Kalmyk, Armenian, Greek, Persian, Turkish, Hungarian, Latin, Dutch / Frisian, English, Scots / Lallans, French, Italian, Irish (Gaelic), Polonian (US Polish), Polenglish, Polirish, Lvov Balak / Ukrainian Polish, Ukrainian, German, Lower Sorbian, Gypsy / Roma, Cherkes, Cheremis / Mari, Highlanders, Yotvingian, Karaite, Hebrew, Yiddish, Kashubian, Krakowian (Lesser Polish), Curonian, Livonian, Pommeranian (Plattdeutsch), Old Church Slavonic, Old Prussian, Posnanese (Greater Polish), Wymysojer, Vlach, Silesian, Latgalian, Warmian, Hutsul, Samogitian
Or not at all.
What’s wrong with Polish anyway?
Polishpress: I believe our hooded friend is referring to this:
Perhaps you can make some sense of it.
DS —> I don’t quite get. Ethic minorities can be bi-lingual or just speak Polish. Lemkos and for instance Tatars do live in Poland, and that was a justified guess, wasn’t it?
From your tone I can’t really make whether I guessed or not – probably not.
You said you weren’t Polish without specifying whether you meant your ethnicity or citizenship or self- (or cultural-) identification. So many combinations are possible.
If you were born in Wroclaw (Breslau?), you could be German (pre 1945? unlikely though), although that would explain your kentszaft of the language.
Now Silesian. There are people who identify themselves as Silesian by nationality, although this is not officially recognised in Poland as a nationality. However this would be more likely had you been born in Lower Silesia. Therefore this possiblilty is now officially ruled out.
Next and most obvious guess would be Jewish. But still in many respects people (and you) could say you are Polish, as one doesn’t rule out the other. While you said explicite you weren’t Polish.
You could have been born to foreign parents residing in Wroclaw – and in that case you could be anything from half Zimbabwean- half Vietnamese to fully fledged Kiwi. Or to Polish parents and have your family’s citizenship taken away after seeking asylum abroad in the times of PRL.
But in the end it doesn’t really matter. It’s not supposed to sound like an issue. It isn’t one. It’s a feature like real hair colour or age:) No need for it being revealed if someone doesn’t feel like. I thought we were just playing.
Scottish.
Pawel, you’re thinking along the good route, but just heading somewhere I don’t. Bizarre-looking things may start looking plainly odd — and as to my nationality, question D) here goes.
PS I don’t make it a secret: Opole is the historical capital of Upper Silesia.
Scottish? Less likely than Zimbabwean.
Really? I never knew. Opole… who’d have thought. I always considered it less Silesian and more natively Slavic due to its name… To those who don’t know: opole was the traditional gathering in ancient slavic tribes, the gathering of residents that discussed and made decisions about matters important to the community.
mind you though, historically Chełmno is the capital of Ziemia Chełmińska (or Toruńska to call it in a more modern way) and has anyone ever heard of Chełmno? :>
PS. And you refer to question D which seems out-of-topic, and brings more confusion on second thought:]
Cheeky
=> PP, re: Chełm-no?
Tell you what. Everyone will remember Chełmno. Island will remember Chełm Mountain near Opole, if he will. You’ll remember Chełm Śląski [Silesian Chełm] that’s not far away from me now. And I’ll remember Chełm, a district of Kraków. And we can’t be told off for bad spelling! [Note to foreigners: Polish “hełm” (=helmet) is pronounced the way “Chełm” is.]
I’m lost.
Somebody found this blog by searching for “Pseudo Manichean Sentiment” 😀
Re: Pseudo…
Probably, I’d spawned the trickster that did the trick.
[Go to my post — find “That there is PMS” — and see where “PMS” snapshot leads you. 🙂 ]
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