Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


I know but only after heavy googling....


Nope, it was France. Can`t you recognize French peasants in silly hats? :):):)

3What Polish saying does this pic visualise?
The saying is "the village with the boarded up windows" meaning "out in the country side"?.

The Polish saying is: Wieś zabita dechami - the armpit.

pawian:
5What`s up?
They fell and the Bride is helping the groom up?.

Nope, they are having photos taken in the park near the castle in Pieskowa Skała. Many couples go there in autumn...

pawian:
8 What is it?
OR
It is an old construction, part of the underground passage/crypt of that castle looking thing in the background?.

Yes. The stairs lead from a restaurant to the roof terrace in one part of the castle:

Love / What to wear when trying to pick up girls in Poland? [58]


Only boots and cowboy hat. You will look enchanting.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


:):):) No

they had just got married and decided to roll amongst the leaves of summer or fall
Not quite.

judging how far he needs to scale down the building

Nope.

Picture 1 i would say is perhaps an eastern european country Romania or similar
just guesses :)

Nope.


Spain - yes. Portugal - no.

This is the old Polish proverb about "the window and door with the big peice of wood nailed to it, will be hard to open"?.

Nope. It is the one with wieś in it.

Spitting on the people below?
Shouting a wish out to the god of the north wind?
Attempting suicide but he is afraid of heights, ?
Avoiding the woman behind him?

:):):):):):) Nope.

Taking a photograph of the thing below, getting a bird's eye view, part of a castle?.

Yes!

Pawian, this is a bride and groom sharing a romantic time after they are married in a forest, you are a peeping Tom, that's what's up :)

:):):):):):):) Nope. I am just an accidental tourist.

This is when some guy pretends to be the groom to have a rumble in the forest before she gets married?.

:):):):):)

Nope.

He is collecting mushrooms?

Yes!

The answer should be no, which makes me think it is "yes" because "no" is too simple.
So I will say sometimes, or i will be more precise and say yes but only on national antique car day?

Yes!

A dwarf's attempt at humour? laughing at tall people trying to walk in?.

Nope. It has a very practical purpose.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

1Kids stage a performance in costumes from another country to celebrate Europe`s Day. What two countries are here?
3What Polish saying does this pic visualise?
4 What is the guy doing and why?
5What`s up?
6What`s he doing there?
7 Do Poles normally drive such cars?
8 What is it?

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


When will you suggest that Poles should receive some compensation for their tolerance to Jews? :):):):)

Now comes an exaggeration that even I have to say NO though you know my compassion for Jews. :):):)

haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1090024.html

Poland and Ukraine resist restitution of heirless Holocaust property

Just three weeks before an international conference on Holocaust assets, Jewish and Eastern European delegates are still debating whether countries like Poland and Ukraine should give back heirless property that belonged to murdered Jews.

While those countries have opposed restitution of property whose owners left behind no heirs, Jewish representatives of the Holocaust Era Assets Conference, scheduled to open in Prague on June 26, say such property should go to Jewish organizations in lieu of heirs.

Comment:
said David Peleg, "We don`t agree with this assertion."
Your brothers in the Israeli Knesset certainlly agree with this law, especially when it comes to Palestinian property. Why should Poland and the Ukraine be any different?

And why should Poland and/or Ukraine give Polish/Ukrainian property to a "world" organization when it could be used for Poles/Ukrainians? Maybe Israel should give away lots in Tel Aviv to Iran. Huh?

Yeah! Sure!

haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/ResponseDetails.jhtml?resNo=4889426&itemno=1090024&cont=2

or

justice can`t be selective.If restitution/ compensation is right for you, then it has to be right for me too.
Many Palestinians in refugee camps still hold the keys and deeds to their property in Mandate Palestine.
So we say to them tough luck but expect Poland and Ukraine to do the right thing?

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


It was a hard decision, especially that every neighbour of yours could be an informer, for financial gratification or out of malice.
Did you read Medaliony excerpt above? Why does nobody help the wounded Jewish woman? There wasn`t any SS, gestapo or blue police around the site for many hours.

People weren`t scared of Germans as much as they were scared of each other. And that is the greatest reason why so few Jews were rescued from Holocaust in Poland.

As for answering your question, nobody knows what they would do in such a situation. But knowing my compassionate nature, I suppose I wouldn`t be able to refuse help. With God`s guidance, everything would end happily.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


If you read more such articles as this one, about Polish peasants in southern Poland who, for gratification, actively helped Germans round up Jews for Holocaust, you may understand why today Jews have such opinion about Poles.

przeglad-tygodnik.pl/index.php?site=historia&name=121

The misinterpreted history is deeply imprinted in the Polish conscience. The poll results prove my point: wyborcza.pl/1,76842,4898613.html - The most popular belief is that many Poles rescued Jews while the few oppressed them.

Do you know Zofia Nałkowska`s Medaliony?

Przy torze kolejowym - By the railway track:

chomikuj.pl/krask/Polish+literature+in+English+translation

A Jewish woman escapes from a death train but gets wounded by guards. She stays near the track, nobody helps her. Finally a young man shoots her out of pity.

Excerpts:

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


The problem is that an average Pole tends to extend the 6.135 Righteous` heroic deeds over the whole Polish nation.
The truth is that most Poles remained indifferent and many were glad that Jewish problem was solved by Germans. Only a few helped.

Elsewhere, Bartoszewski has estimated that between 1 and 3 percent of the Polish population was actively involved in rescue efforts;


These are lies that Easy Teran was asking for. Poles didn`t rescue 450.000 Jews.


:):):):)

And you? Do you think that by taking part in this Polish discussion you will hide your true identity???? :):):):):)

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

One of the biggest falsities that Poles believe in and try to sell is that all Poles bravely rescued Jews during the war.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

Antoni Słonimski
(1895-1976)

Elegy for Jewish townships

They're all gone, gone from Poland, the little Jewish shtetls,
From Karczew, from Hrubiszew, or Belz, for example,
Vainly you'll search the windows for little lit candles,
And strain your ear for singing from old wooden temples.

The last remnants have vanished, Jewish rags and scraps, all,
Blood with sand covered, traces all smoothed, and at least
One coat of greyish whitewash made cleaner each wall,
As after epidemics, or for some great feast.

Shines now here one moon only, strange, cool, and pale-yellow;
Past the town, on the highway, when night's shadows fall,
My surviving Jewish kinfolk, poetic young fellows,
Will not find now the golden two moons of Chagall.

Those moons now encircle a different planet,
They have flown now, scared off by the silence grim-dour,
All these townships are gone, with their shoemaker- poet,
Clockmaker-sapient thinker, frisseur-troubadour.

All these townships are gone, where the biblical hymns
The wind joined with songs Polish and sad Slavic tunes,
When old Jews in the orchards sat under a quince
As they wept over holy Jerusalem stones.

All these towns are now gone, they have passed like a shadow,
And between word and word this dark spectre is lain,
Till they meet up as brothers, for new union ready,
The two nations now nurtured on centuries' pain.

tłumaczył/translated by:

Marcel Weyland (Sydney)

antoranz.net/CURIOSA/ZBIOR9/C0904/20090419-QZM03093_Slonimski.htm

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Yes.


Nope. The anniversary of pope`s death.


It is, but not from dryness. It was intentional.


Corn with maynaise
Cucumber
Leek with mayonaise ?
Chicken ?

Carrot
Radish in sour cream
Red cabbage
Beet

Pickled cucumber

Below salads there is a photo of ticket selling machine.

Life / Child Adoption in Poland? [138]

The only agencies which deal with foreign adoptions are in Warsaw:

W Polsce adopcją zagraniczną prowadzą trzy ośrodki w Warszawie:
1. Publiczny Ośrodek Adopcyjno - Opiekuńczy: 02-018 Warszawa, ul. Nowogrodzka 75, tel. +48 22 621 10 75, 622 03 70 - 72.

2. Towarzystwa Przyjaciół Dzieci: Krajowy Ośrodek Adopcyjno - Opiekuńczy, 00-068 Warszawa, ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 6, tel. +48 22 435 46 77, 435 46 88.

3. Katolicki Ośrodek Adopcyjno - Opiekuńczy, 04-357 Warszawa, ul. Grochowska 194/196, tel. +48 22 610 61 23.

adoptuj.pl/11121.xml?group=po_adopcji&seealso=inne&right=po_adopcji&left=przed_adopcja

But, if you want to adopt babies, forget it. There are too many Polish people who are waiting for adoption. Cases of baby foreign adoption don`t happen in Poland.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Nope. McCoy guessed - cow dung mixed with straw - the best and cheapest fertiliser.


Hey, there wasn`t such a game!


Very good. It was a deer which crossed the road just while the car was driving through the forest. You can see the antlers` marks on the roof.


Probably none of these.

And a Polish outhouse looks like this:


Quite right. It is an annual Recycling Festival. Every year they build something special with recyclable materials, the ship was made of alu cans.


Yes.


None of these. But funny anyway. :):):)


Sport will be there but not in a hall.


The first one is correct. He is backing into a cottage.


No average people. Somebody unique.


Yes.


:):):) I didn`t mean the concrete well. The main problem is the area around.


Yes.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


:):):):):):) This is a wonderful pun. One of the best I have read in the forum... Did you crack it intentionally or by accident??? :):):):)


More than half is correct but it doesn`t count because it is in Polish. :):):)


Only 11 is correct, but the rest are very funny. Thank you.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Yes!
Did you attend the festival?

PS. Not ass, really, rather balls or sth that was left... :):):) It is a stray cat we adopted recently....

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Yes.


Yes.


What? I thought it was real!


Yes.


Drove on the grass and cut up a few ants and a grasshopper.


Nope.

Are trains involved?, looks like infrastructure i.e. defensive and possible attack strategy.

No, it was PC game. Strategic and cult for many players. There are trains if you develop your .............. well enough.


Yes. That`s Krakow`s skyline with one skyscraper and one skeletor. :):):)

1 What`s going on?
2 What caused the damage?
3 What is it?
4 A ship in Krakow. What occasion?
5 What can you see?
6 What is the boy doing?
7 What, where and why?
8 What technique was used?
9 What structure will be built near our school?
10 What is taking place?
11 What is it?
12 What are those lights next to the road?
13 What does this structure host?
14 What and why?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]


Nope, they are crutches left by disabled people who didn`t need them anymore after miraculous recuperation in the Chapel of Black Madonna at Jasna Góra Monastery in Częstochowa. Do you know that deep faith works miracles?

People are kneeling
before the picture


Nope. It is a defensive wall, reconstructed and strengthened, at Jasna Góra monastery.


:):):) Nope. A cat in hesitation whether to climb down or not.


Yes, at a regular Polish school or kindergarten.


Yes. In communist times there was only one type of filling station - CPN - Centrala Produktów Naftowych. Till today some Poles call a filling station CPN.


:):):) Kochanowski, not Zagłoba. Mickiewicz in the middle, Chopin on the right.


:):):) Other guys were right - it is a snake. This species:


I enjoy your guesing very much. Keep up good work! It is just great.

And McCoy also did very well. He guessed most riddles. :):)

1 What is scattered all over the field?
2 My cult game. What?
3 What are the boys waiting for?
4 Why is the driver having problems?
5 What is it?
6 What`s that over the man?
7 Where were (or still are) such cabins usually located?

Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]


Cyprus?

Love / What do Polish girls think about Gypsies? [116]


Some do. I have seen a few mixed marriages. The last one - during Easter.

I think the factor of exotisism (:) ) plays a crucial role here.

Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]

What more can be done? Please, share the experience so that I can improve my cheating detection methods?? :):):)

Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]


Poland seems to have fewer students with arsonic interests. :):):) I googled and found 7 cases of schools with fire incidents.

Kalisz, 2004
Gliwice, 2005 and 2006
Wierzbowa, 2007
Słupsk, 2007
Bolesławiec, 2008
Tarnobrzeg, 2009

google.pl/search?q=podpali%C5%82+szko%C5%82%C4%99&hl=pl&lr=&start=0&sa=N

In case anyone wondered why I am mentioning it at all, I must say I prefer Polish cheating students to British/US arsonists. :):):):)

Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]

Free, in one of my class books there is a nice text about British teenagers setting fire to their schools.
The court never bothered to pose the question as to why so many young people take the drastic step of committing arson, let alone why they so frequently target schools. Instead, Robertson railed against the "calculated, pre-planned wickedness" of the boys. On average, three schools a day are set on fire in Britain, with only 15 percent of these believed to be accidental. Schools are at a higher risk of arson than any other occupied buildings; only sheds and barns fare worse.

wsws.org/articles/2000/aug2000/fire-a01.shtml

What do you know about it? :):):) How about US?

Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]


Thank you for this warm evaluation. I will submit this post of yours to my superiors. :):):)

Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]

As a teacher who has been working for 18 years in various types of schools in Poland, from primary to higher education, I can tell you sth based on my experience:


It isn`t accepted by most teachers when they work as teachers, but it is accepted by most students and their parents, even teachers themselves.

The percentage should be reversed: about 5-15% students don`t cheat.


That is different cheating, it refers to copying from the Internet mostly. But Polish students` cheating is more cheeky and complex, it also includes copying information from illegal sources during tests/exams and copying homework, at least in my work. Read this about Polish students` invention.


What for? Real life teachers are telling you sth.
Besides, do you think that Polish educational authorities will deal with such shameful statistics??? :):):):)

What do I do during tests in class?
Students sit at seperate desks. They must remove everything from the desk, even pencil cases. They mustn`t communicate, they mustn`t have mobiles, they mustn`t turn back. I never sit down, I always stand to have a better view. I never leave my eyes from my students. My failure to remain attentive throughout the test usually result in students trying to communicate.

Well, it may seem strict but we don`t treat it this way. It is like a game. :):):) They attempt to cheat and I try to catch them.

Look at the girl in the last row. She is peering at her neighbour`s paper. :):) because he was using an electronic device throughout the test. It didn`t help him, he failed.


Polish education system has many flaws but its main component is Polish students who are just great. Even with cheating which is prevalent in schools, Polish students are far better than Western ones - more intelligent, knowledgeable, with many interests. :):):) If not for Poles, Britain would have fallen long ago. :):):):)

And we are not arrogant. Who told you such *********? :):):)

Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]


And that`s the way it should go. School hours are not enough to master the whole material. If a student wants to get to an elite school/uni, he/she must swot a lot at home.

If such an attitude like yours is prevalent in US or UK, then I know why Polish students do so well there. :):):)


Come on, school lasts from 8 am to 2 pm, about 6/7 lessons a day, each 45 minute long, with breaks in between. It is nothing. :):):) Plus homeowrk, it certainly isn`t more than 8 hours.

Even if it is, competition in the market is hard, those who aim at jobs better than a taxi-driver or shop-assistant must learn.
The problem is that many students don`t care, prefer cheating, and they only wake up when they finish school and get the first lousy wage for their menial job. Then such students organize demonstrations or strikes and demand better life but it is too late. :):)

Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]


I think I tried to explain, not justify. I am sorry you got such impression.... :):):)


Even brilliant hard-working students cheat.


There are hundreds of stories on the Net or by word of mouth.
Polish students who migrate to America or Britain are considered stars or aces in schools there.
And the other way round too. One of my students who had spent a few years in US school, with many successes, with head teacher praising her extensively, was a mere E/F student in my class. There was even problem with her passing to a higher form.

So, if the US principal wished to have all his students like the Polish girl, while I was wondering how to tell her parents she might not pass to another form, it means sth. :):):)


No. Homework is beneficial for students. :):)

Life / Why is cheating at schools in Poland accepted?! [155]


Yes, it should be stopped but it is too deeply rooted in Polish culture. If you know Polish history, with multiple occupations and foreign domination in the last 300 years, you should understand why Poles still see cheating as sth normal. It was one of their methods of self-defence- cheat an occupant.

Besides, the material to learn in Polish schools is beyond the capacity of an average student. It is commonly known that Polish students do things which in Western schools are done in next type of school, e..g, Polish primary students learn things which are taught in American or British high schools, and so on.

It is no wonder that having so much material to master, Polish students resort to cheating.

Read more: elt.britcoun.org.pl/elt/forum/code.htm

There is a deeply grounded conviction among Polish people that our problems with honesty and cheating are of historical origin. One source of this behaviour might be seen, as presented by a Polish cultural sociologist Żygulski (1975: 221), in Catholic patterns of upbringing. By suggesting a disregard for all earthly property it has not promoted order in social life nor care for one’s rights, as opposed to the Protestant belief that individual development and care for earthly property is a way of promoting one’s future salvation.

Some Poles also think that it might be the famous right of liberum veto (allowing any member of the 17th century Polish Parliament to break a parliamentary discussion for no stated reason) which promoted bad, undemocratic habits among lawmakers. This unfortunate right was one of the reasons for the Polish partitions which lasted for 123 years. During this period people tried to avoid or break the various rules imposed by Russians, Austrians and Prussians who ruled Poland at that time. The same situation happened during communist times after World War II. The communists created laws for Polish people, who then broke them and in this way opposed the foreign power, the Soviet Union.

Life / Parking Fines in Poland [26]


Hmm, I was talking about native Poles` accounts. :):) They are easier to track down. Sth like that happened to me about 7 years ago when I forgot to pay, and they sucked it from my account, I couldn`t withdraw any money for a few days because the account was blocked prior, during and after the operation. Today I always remember to pay. :):)

Life / Parking Fines in Poland [26]


It could be so many years ago. Today they deduct the fine from your bank account.


Yes, it is a problem. The police have no motivation to learn.