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Hi Julia. There were chess players meetings, an attempt to organise a photographers club, and also a full bodied vintage market held regularly. Have you searched around your hobbies/interests? If you are a crafty person it may work very well. Have y…
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ChrisN4, just for the sake of discussing pointless things: there are some circumstances where "no excuses" approach (where bullshit is absolute, not relative, and persona of the speaker is not counted) gives more productive results. Making all users…
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Idory, I thought the pointless things are exactly the heart or any internet discussion.
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Brodiej, congratulations! New Latvia sounds great.
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@Mirandola: if the individuals-with-mysteriously-unindentifiable-cultural-identity (which is surprisingly easy identifiable when they are referred to as "friendly") had not been sticky, the place would not have been closed for women harassment, woul…
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"Try googling". A local tries to enlighten a migrant on sensitivity of issues related to belonging/not belonging to a title ethnicity. So generous. I thought that nothing will surprise me here after an accusation of being Polish combined with a lect…
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Andy, start treating Jews as any other people, and you will stop feeling discomfort when someone calls a Jew a Jew to define ethnicity. It is not a swear word, and I am very sorry if you think it is. I am also sorry that you missed my statement well…
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Well, I am really missing point about what is special with Jewishness, and feel as Mirandola tries to persuade me that Jews are different from Poles, Tatars, Ukrainians, Greeks or Kazakhs in their right to be Russians. Also I am not persisting but f…
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Annie, when the author was giving lecture at LSE a couple of years ago, the auditorium (of all colours) was crying from laughter, believe me.
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JoeV, I should check the settings of the spellchecker then.
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Mirandola, what about being Irish? Does it make you less English? Does it work in opposite direction - does being Palestinian makes you less Jewish? These are all separate entities - nationality, ethnicity, self-attribution, and we are just talking …
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Fabulous. Not only is statistical evidence dismissed one more time (can we expect understanding of percentages from a local school teacher, judging by the exam performance of local schools? hmm, thing to ponder), but even anecdotal ones are not bei…
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Mirandola, there is nothing wrong for Stravinsky to be of Polish origin, and equally for Trotsky to be a Jew. Both may have defined themselves as Russians, no problem. I am talking about surnames, and a surname does not change origin (Polish or Jewi…
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@Brodiej, excellent. ...and especially about sending a child to a local school, with such parents as me and with such teachers as checkski. )))
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Annie, you are just confusing the things further. Southern Slavic folks are cut out form the West (Pol) and East (Rus) Slavic border in question by non-Slavic Romania, Hungary and Austria: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Slavic_languages
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@Mirandola, agreed, change of the name from German-sounding Jewish to a Slavic-resembling Jewish could have been a good indicator of that.
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@Chekski: Nijinski, who you names twice, is actually Polish. The rest is cherry-picking on the natural interference of names for neighboring nations. To see the not cherry-picked lists, open the list of rulers I gave above. Are you sure that virtual…
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@Gardener - Jewish version sounds great, lots of s-called "Russians" are actually Jews, Trotksy (Bronshtein) is a perfect example. However, it still does not explain the "Russian -ski" phenomenon. Did German/Polish/Western Russian Jews tend to call …
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@Arkady, this is exactly the question - why people believe that -sky is East Slavic (R), while it is brightly western (P)?
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Harp, can you highlight the words all and must in my sentence please? No, you can not? Oh damn. Appears, you also misread "-ski surnames are Polish" as "all Poles have -ski surnames". There is difference between such statements, and you do not need …
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Stravinsky's father was from Poland, Chopins are French. However, odd examples of Russians with Polish surnames (not a big deal for neighboring countries) do not explain why everyone believes that -ski is Russian. Hypothesis, that all Poles were re…
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Always thought that surnames ending with -ski are Polish, while Russian ones should end with -ov or -in. Do people associate "ski" with Russia because of the snow? Are all Poles skiers?
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Chang is also a bit greyish, not that tall, and has lovely melancholy in his eyes.
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Btw, talking about free schools, are there any in the vicinity? I've just heard that one is about to be set up in Dalston. Anything else?
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I would love to see someone, becoming a governor of a local "average D" school, while sending kids to a better one.
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@Mirandola: r-c just said that they would never send kids to a school where children can not read properly. IAMS with its "normal, healthy, average" Ds fits that definition quite closely. Although, I am surprised that our moral crusaders do not atta…
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Why did they choose German then? The country school had limited options? When we were choosing FL between French and German we have chosen French just because we already had English from Germanic languages. Anyway, FLs are quite money-consuming subj…
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Well off people are more mobile in all countries. Majority of those 50% of non-English population of Islington, who "got on their bicycles" and selfishly (according to local class warriors) abandoned their struggling communities around the globe, a…
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And that will be tested, mua-ha-ha.
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Andy, no one prevents you from living in the world where serious unis prefer killer combination of Accountancy, Drama and General Studies to hard subjects like English, History and Maths. The thing which you may not know about is that students…