Posted on 12/12/2012 2:03:29 PM PST by TurboZamboni
Tomasz Paczkowski from the northern Polish town of Elblag now sports bandages around his head after a request from his wife to help with the housework while he enjoyed a few days off work backfired. My wife had gone to work and asked me to help with the housework, the 32-year old told the Polish newspaper Fakt. After breakfast I started to work. I turned on the boxing channel on the TV, opened a beer and started ironing. I was really getting involved in the boxing and was not really thinking about what I was doing, he continued. Suddenly the phone rang and I mucked things up: instead of grabbing the receiver I picked up the iron and put it to my ear.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Reminds me of an old Helen Keller joke...
“...tried to read the waffle iron.”
Oh GREAT! Thanks - I am mostly German myself, and amazingly have heard very few of those terms, though now that I thinka about it, I have heard them in some old war movies! Thanks for the response!
However, nearly all bear no grudges to modern day Germans (the ones that do tend to be folks who lived during the war and to whom even the sound of German is a red flag -- and I can't blame them)
I live in Warsaw and on every street corner you'll see a sign "here in xx-xx-1944, Germans killed yy number of Poles" or even worse is the ghetto and then there is the Warsaw uprising museum
But Germans since the war have apologized continuously and to a large extent have atoned for this -- see Willy Brandt's act in 1970, leading to a lot of people-to-people healing
But I don't expect the Polish people to forgive the idea of Germany, if you understand what I mean.
The EU, for all the despise it gets did mean that Germany started investing heavily in Poland and now, surprisingly they are very strong allies. It may take another century for the animosity to finally end
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