my step-dad's been here for the week, while it's snowing
and he's been telling us great stories of post-war life, where the kids took it in turns to use the family pair of shoes to walk to school each day. Didn't matter how much snow there was.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 8:17, archived)

Is your step-dad Uncle Albert?
"During the war..."
( .Yeti., Fri 9 Feb 2018, 8:20, archived)

no, but he is well-old
and he's the youngest of his siblings; the other brothers remember running away from tanks.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 8:22, archived)

+ and pointing to the Jewish house for them

( mongychops, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 8:24, archived)

his dad was the chauffeur for the local mayor, who openly supported the Nazis
it's the only reason the family survived
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 8:35, archived)

History is currently being rewritten anyway, I'm not sure Poland even took part now, think they were neutral like the Swiss

( mongychops, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 8:45, archived)

nah, every pole was a member of the resistance army
they killed at least one Nazi and one Soviet each, rescued a Jew and had their grandparents murdered at Auschwitz. Trufax.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 8:50, archived)

I've got to go drinking with a pole next Saturday, he wants to hang out with some Brits in a proper boozer, I give it half hour before he says something offensive

( mongychops, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 8:55, archived)

the poles I've encountered are almost certain to come out on top in a fight though

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 8:58, archived)

they're pretty racist in the "never seen a black person before" sense

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 9:04, archived)

I know, not as bad as russians , who I actually had to tell to not do nazi salutes when they were drunk

( mongychops, Fri 9 Feb 2018, 9:07, archived)