Travel / Poland - never again [593]



I think he has personality problems, but even if he hasn't, he can't be taken seriously. A person who got over 2 million in assets is very unlikely to be sitting on a forum such as this and ranting all day about all sorts of things.

Basically, Adrian is an attention-seeker and should be treated accordingly.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


In defence of RM, I must tell you that I once met a Polish soldier in a UK hospital who after spending about 40 years in Britain could not talk to me in Polish, but was able to comprehend all that I was talking to him (or so he said). The ability to talk in the language depends on if that person could speak that language throughout that time. That veteran of mine had an English wife and lived totally immersed in the English language since the end of the WW2 without any contact with the Polish language (his English was also not that perfect), so it was natural for him to loose the ability to speak it.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


This is what I would say after having got the idea from the English original version and then forgetting the original version and also without looking at you analysis of that translation (just as if I met someone and tried to tell them about my experience):

Przebiegłem dziś rano 10 kilometrów, choć zwykle biegnę 15.

I think a lot of people would prefer to use 'normalnie' in place of 'zwykle'. 'Zazwyczaj' would not be the adverb that people would typically use in speaking.

Language / Writing a novel set in XVII Century Poland; Input Requested [12]

Personally, I hate it. To me, Henryk Sienkiewicz was the 19th century version of Ilona Łepkowska ...

Travel / Poland - never again [593]

I think this Mazur from the US is slowly becoming a bit boring.

Just to conclude my temporary interest in this strange persona, let me explain what "Mazur" meant in old times. It was the historic name of an inhabitant of the Mazovia region (Mazowsze). Mazur was seen as a rather backward person by the rest of Poland thus many proverbs in ancient Poland showing him in a rather bad light, for example:

Dobry człowiek, ale Mazur - it meant that generally the Mazur was not considered a good person.

Mazur niewiele mierzy, śmiejąc się uderzy - indeed, they did enjoyed an awful reputation.

Mazurowie mili, gdzieście się popili;
W Warce na gorzałce, w Czersku na złym piwsku?
Mazurowie naszy od jaglanej kaszy
Słone wąsy mają, w piwie je maczają.
---------- Kiermasz wieśniacki, 1612-1615.

"Słownik mitów i tradycji kultury" by Władysław Kopaliński describes the opinion held on the Mazurians/Mazurs in ancient Poland as follows:

Mazur - amator jagły, nieuk, uparty, zawzięty, szczwany ścichapęk, porywczy, waleczny, przedmiot niezliczonych drwin i żartów (że rodzą się ślepi, pod ciemną gwiazdą i mają czarne podniebienie), tak gorliwy katolik, że gotów zabić tego, co by w jego obecności post złamał.

Not a particularly nice picture of Mazur, isn't it?

Language / Writing a novel set in XVII Century Poland; Input Requested [12]


Yes, of course: "Czy to Waćpana zamek?".

"Czy to zamek Waszmości?" - will do as well as another one: "Czy to zamek Waszeci?".

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


Every time this pathetic troll tries to give some patetic detail of his pathetic relations with Poland, he is proved liar.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


So it would have felt even better to live under Hitler than in the USA, moron.

Language / Writing a novel set in XVII Century Poland; Input Requested [12]


I doubt anyone in the 17th century would say that. I think they would have said: "Ten zamek jest mojego ojca". The phrase "należeć do" seems to be way too modern.

Also, you may ask: "Czy to Waści zamek?" with 'Waść' corresponding to the modern form "Pan".

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


There is no clinic on Szpitalna Street in Warsaw.

Life / Is time on Poland's side? Unsustainable future. [21]


It is obvious he won't tell you any in any language whatsoever. Have you noticed how quickly he turned this question down? Buying a railway ticket so as to go to the West was by any means impossible for a young man like him who had just finished studying at 'Polibuda'. Such a journey would have been viewed in ideological terms by the authorities back in 1966. They would not sell him any ticket to the West if he didn't produce a passport at the ticket office. Even then they would not sell him the ticket if he wasn't paying with hard currency and if he was, he would be obliged to show a receit that his hard currency comes from an official exchange which he wouldn't have been able to exercize if he did not have an official written permission for doing so.

And the question of getting a passport from the communist regime in Poland could not be any means a matter of bribe in 1966.

It is thus clear that the moron has not the slightest idea what the political reality looked like in Poland under the communist regime at that time. Receiving a passport from the regime in 1966 was absolutely out of question for a young man unless he was a son of a very high-rank communist official. And even in that case it was not at all obvious since the comrades of his father (the Party) would have asked why his son feels the need to leave the happy land of 'socialist' Poland in order to go to the "rotten" West as the so-called 'West' was commonly called by the communist propaganda back in the 1960s.

So it is also clear why the moron has turned the question of buying a ticket to the West so quickly down. The Berlin Wall was not built without reason.

Life / Is time on Poland's side? Unsustainable future. [21]


I will comment on that not earlier than when this ridiculous 'Mazur' explains how he managed to buy his train ticket to the so-called 'rotten West' in 1966.

Life / Is time on Poland's side? Unsustainable future. [21]

Apparently Sheldon is not a real Pole as a real one would have instantly recognised sarcasm in your sentence, Kaprys.

Life / Is time on Poland's side? Unsustainable future. [21]


I don't think he is Polish. But he pretends to being one. Notice that he correctly used the slang word 'Polibuda' in his first post,


but then he said


which was not at all feasible in communist Poland of 1966 under Gomulka's rule (to buy a train ticket and go to the West) unless you perhaps did not belong to a 'priviliged' world of the commie super-class.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]

So I have said. This guy stinks and so do his pettty little stories.

Travel / Poland - never again [593]


Well done, Kaprys! It is very wise of you not to feed this troll any more. I think everyone here should ignore him since his stories stink so much. Unfortunately, he is likely to come up again soon as yet another character, but the we should ignore that one, too.


God bless America and its trolls !!!

Travel / Poland - never again [593]

Rich Mazur is just another incarnation of the very same clown who has recently opened threads on the PolishForums. The first one was Marino Kat of Greece, the next one (only briefly here) was Tony71 and now we have a clown who calls himself Rich Mazur. The common traits of the stories given by those three people, but in fact one person, are that they try to portray different aspects of Poland and Polish life in bad light and at the same time they give no details which would make those stories verifiable. Of course, the stories may be based on some real situations where a person or their friends have gone through some unpleasant situations in Poland, but the plot based around them is clearly developed by the author.

The author no doubt amuses himself very much with the effort made by the people who react to his stories. Whom the author might be? The character preceding the three which are on stage at the moment was of course, the famous DREAMGIRL whom someone used to identify as Wroclaw Boy. No doubt the three most recent ones are not as primitive as the predecessor who basically talked about penises and most often about Wulkan's penis. Because of that it is debatable if the person behind Dreamgirl is the same as the person behind Marino Kat, Tony74 and Rich Mazur. The most depressing thing, however, is that a team of responders, typically led by Kaprys, tend to believe the stories and try to seriously address the issues presented by some pathetic clown whose agenda is to portray Poland in as bad light as possible and yet which seem to be credible to some extent.

UK, Ireland / Letter from Polish Prosecutor??!! [34]


No, Kaprys, dear, it is not like that. You need to develop a more healthy attitude because you so readily believed the words of someone who clearly stated that he did not see the letter, but his wife opened it, yet he at once started complaining on the PF about this letter from his work.


Wasn't it strange, Kaprys? [Yes, it was very, very strange, indeed, Kaprys dear]

I momentarily challenged the story of the OP, but rather than reading my words carefully, you immediately started browsing the internet and giving 'sophisticated' advice to that pathetic clown of the name Tony71.

This is what I did not like, Kaprys. And it is because of that I started to give you advice on being more careful by simply developing a more healthy approach towards your readiness for responding to clowns on the PolishForums.

And finally, notice that the clown in question has never produced - as he had promised - any lines from his letter, simply because such a letter existed only in his imagination and quoting excerpts from such a letter would far exceed his skills in writing letters in Polish legal language. If he did so, his pathetic attempts to play another drama on the PF would have at once been identified as intentionally fake.

UK, Ireland / Letter from Polish Prosecutor??!! [34]



But Dirk writes loads of nonsense on this forum, no surprise here at all.

UK, Ireland / Letter from Polish Prosecutor??!! [34]


Read it carefully and you shall certainly see it.

A phone call urging someone to appear in court as a witness would be a most ridiculous thing on this planet and not only in Poland.


The OP is simply a clown who did not even saw the letter about which he alerted the forum's attention. Clowns of this kind are nor a rarity on the PF, Kaprys, you should develop a more healthy distance between them and yourself.

UK, Ireland / Letter from Polish Prosecutor??!! [34]


Only to a police station when the case is urgent, but not to the court, as your article explains.

UK, Ireland / Letter from Polish Prosecutor??!! [34]


You've also had a case about this hit-and-run accident of yours in the US, haven't you? Has it been resolved yet?

UK, Ireland / Letter from Polish Prosecutor??!! [34]


This sounds even more unreal, extremely unreal in my view ...

The Polish prosecutor usually requires an address in Poland. If a person lives abroad they require the person's representative in Poland having a Polish address. The fact they send a letter abroad is very unusual, as foreign territory is under foreign jurisdiction, so the Polish prosecutor should act through the authorities of the country involved rather than send letters directly to a Polish national in that country.

I suspect it's some sort of scam, really.

UK, Ireland / Letter from Polish Prosecutor??!! [34]

So write down what is written on the seal and write down a few lines from the letter. The orange seal sounds strange!

UK, Ireland / Letter from Polish Prosecutor??!! [34]

I think you have invented this story or someone is trying to cheat on you. To make people believe in what you say, write down the letter from the prosecutor here first or make a scan of it and put it on the forum.

History / Questions re: Polish passports during interwar period [4]


No, I am not. A possible explanation of why they do it is they put into the passport the name that the person involved gives them in the passport application. If they tell them they were born in "Londyn" or "Ratyzbona", why should the institution that issues the passport change the name into "London" or "Regensburg"? Not to mention the fact that the officer may be convinced there exist two towns on this planet: one of the name Regensburg, the other of the name Ratyzbona. Indeed, both names look like being two different or unrelated names.

History / Questions re: Polish passports during interwar period [4]

The language of diplomacy and foreign relations in the inter-war period in Europe was definitely French. So I am sure that the foreign language used in Polish passports of that period was French.

The names of foreign towns where a person was born would have been written in their original forms rather than in the Polish version, so New York would have been much more likely than Nowy Jork.


I don't think so.

Off-Topic / WB's body building and general fitness thread [97]


No way. The pictures have become the property of the PF since the very moment you posted them. They can sell them to anyone they wish and I'm sure they will make a nice profit out of this.


Don't be so harsh on him. He did not give any name or address, so he is anonymous still. All we know is that he is from Sparta and his genom is similar to that of an ancient Greek, maybe to the genom of Sokrates himself, who knows? The only thing he risks is that you may recognize him at one of the gay parades, but then you will only exclaim: Oh look, this is Marino_Kat of Greece, isn't he sweety!?

Travel / Western Poland Destination Ideas? [6]

Łagów is a historic village/town (ein Dorf mit kleinstädtischem Charakter) between two lakes with the Castle of the Order of St. John from the 14th century. The place has not been destroyed during the WW II; is situated in the middle of the Łagów Landscape Park.

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%81ag%C3%B3w_(Powiat_%C5%9Awiebodzi%C5%84ski)

News / Poland's PiS government falls into its own trap on the issue of disabled children [12]

That is full-scale socialism! - exclaims Paweł Kukiz of "Kukiz'15" on the recent proposal of PM Morawiecki to tax the richest people in order to raise money to finance higher benefits for the disabled children whose parents have been occupying the Sejm since the 18th of April. The cost of increasing these benefits children is estimated at one billion zloties.

- Mothers of those children want money? Let's tax people at once. Miners' salaries are too low? Let's tax people on the falling rain. No money for the police force? No problem. Let's tax the shop-keepers then - continues the leader of "Kukiz'15".

- I am very much surprised that PM Morawiecki has not yet been cooperating on that with Adrian Zandberg of the "Razem" party*. Janosik together with Robin Hood - it is simply tremendous! - adds Paweł Kukiz, former singer and performer, leader of the "Piersi" group in 1984-2013.

* 'Razem' party, an extremely left-wing and socialist party in Poland founded by a Polish man born and raised in Danemark, has a programme of 75% taxation level for the top earning people.