Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

Nwahh, happy memories eh?
I remember my grandad used to spend hours sorting his slides for our occasional sunday night slideshows....but,hey, how posh, he even had one of the mini movie projectors (no sound), 3 home movies,one of a road journey in spain....and a 7 minute Western :)

Life / Need the name of a Polish comedy series and Poland movie recommendations [22]

The music is so haunting too.
It was funny that I saw it only a couple of weeks before flying into warsaw airport too ,though I left my old steamer trunk at home :)

News / Damien Perquis Football player granted Polish citizenship insulted by the PIS ? [30]

Oh god, its football,not a bloomin Knitting Circle :)

Life / Need the name of a Polish comedy series and Poland movie recommendations [22]


Absolutly adore this film pip :) Took a long time after seeing it to be able to watch a Julie Delpy film without thinking " b!tch!!" ;)


I think " hammer home with a blunt force the fact that these objects will turn up on bodies" yes, a good place to start.....

Was disapointed with Katyn, maybe over hyped? But imho Wajda's best work was many decades ago, his use of symbolism rather than being what it was in the old days,a subtle dig at the censors is now,with freedom as subtle as a brick.

Saying all that I do have a soft spot for his version of Pan Tadeusz

youtube.com/watch?v=I9V88k4zBv0

full film, no subtitles. They are available on the DVD though :)

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  Pan Tad' and zosia
  

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]

All these numbers being touted are a silly waste of time.
Simple break down of actual fighting forces paints an entirely different picture.
NW Europe =One Armoured Division( 16,000 men) and for 1 week of fighting part of an Airborne brigade.
Italy,=Two Infantry Divisions and One Armoured Brigade ( approx 50,000 men).

Thats it.
The rest were what was termed in the Napoleonic era, Camp Followers.

News / Does democratic Poland guarantee it's LGBT citizens respect for human and civil rights? [1169]

Under Polish law,yes,it does for the LGB part, the T part is only covered if the said T also identifies as L or G......no Gender clause in the particular Human right clause.

But seeing as a T seems to have polled well in the recent elections maybe that is moot.
What you are asking is two questions.
1,Is there legal protection,answer, yes.
2, Have times and people changed because of a few laws, answer, I have no idea, over to someone else.....

1 point though before any trolls make it, laws in the UK have not stopped violant attacks on people.

News / Radical right organizations in Poland [23]


You are pretty cool Nat' :)


The whole bombing of civilian targets was wrong( that should be a far stronger sounding word but "wrong" seems devalued these days.), the targets should have remained the direct threat military units, but of course,soldier boys being soldier boys,when those get hard to find they have to find other "targets" for their toys..... :(


Nat, you are the Serbia that keeps the likes of Crow on the fringes, the thinking Serbia not the blind hate filled Serbia.


Which proves you are as brainwashed as anyone. You obviously have no personnal experience of what went on in the 90s if you believe that pile of steaming BS.

Are you one of those fools convinced the nazis shot the officers at Katyn because "Slavic brothers" wouldnt do that?

Life / The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?) [205]


My ex MnL was a sweetie too,loved her to bits, but I think its different for us, its the clash of two females that produces the real sparks :)

And Im guessing re the Hair its also different for all the short haired folks out there, dont come near my barnet since I started growing it out a couple of years ago, not without my express permission and atleast 10 years prof' hair cutting experience :)

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


If I cannot find anything ,or where I posted the picture on here,I will take a few photos next month at the memorial and then find somewhere to post them :)

edit, found it....will still take some pics of my own next month.

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  Doncaster cenotaph
  

Life / The Blame Game (Have you ever noticed that a Polish person is never wrong!?) [205]


You dont have kids I guess :)
(not "smiling " at your lack of children as such...)

PIP. Mothers in Law have a nationality all of their own...:)

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


Ive posted it somewhere on here in picture evidence, but my town Doncaster has every November the 11th since the war( our "Memorial Day") had on the War Memorial Cenetaphs two Polish Flags and two British Flags, most certainly not forgotton.

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them".

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


The Japanese were at the point of surrender,negotiations were well under way when Hiroshima was flattened, it was a done deal by the time Nagasaki was destroyed. By then it had very little to do with the war against the Japanes and more to do with the fact that in less than a month of involvement the Soviets had made more impact against the japanese and advanced closer to the main islands than the Western Allies had done in 3 years of fighting.


So I often have to point out on PF........however, Japanese soldiers fighting to the death does not excuse the systmatic firebombing of civilian centres with zero war production capacities.

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


Erm, no, because the NKVD knew exactly how many bombs the USA had.....Japan was a tiny bunch of islands all of who's major cities had been firebombed by the USAAF. Russia was about 80% untouched by the war.....slight difference.

So, sorry boys and girls, it never was "plausable" . Completly impossible would be the only valid description.
Of course all this is forgeting the fact that the war in Europe had been over for a couple of months by the time the US commited its attrocities in Japan,well,the atomic ones.

UK, Ireland / UK citizen visiting Poland - any restrictions on entering the country? [22]


Oh, "we" had them during the war, only it was optional whether you decided to put your photo in it , and people wonder why the idea never took off again :)

UK, Ireland / UK citizen visiting Poland - any restrictions on entering the country? [22]


I suggest ignoring internet know it alls who dont even register and are pretty obviously not UK residents as we all know you cant get out the friggin country without a passport......Oh, and that there is no such thing as a national identity card in the UK,as for the Polish end of things,pass.

Some countries do give you an extra once over if you are on a short passport but I doubt one EU country would bother for another EU country.

News / Amnesty to Illegal immigrants in Poland [102]


No one would care, just as long as they were not English.

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


What with? And,erm,bollox anyway. If the US had been psychotic enough to drop the one or two (google the exact figures) atomic bombs they had after the 2 dropped on Japanese civilians on say Moscow and Leningrad then within about a month at most the Red Army would have been dipping its toes in the English channel.

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]

The vast majority of so called London Poles actually never made it to mainland UK, most were in Italy or NW Europe in May '45,so that leads to confusing figures.

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]

Ahh, I was pulling your chain a bit ,I have to admit. I actually hadnt realised the figure was as high as one third returned.

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]

Sorry, how does one third of a ship sail ?

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


Again, more hairy dangly male genitals...................
Ship loads of " London" Poles did go back to Poland on,erm,ships and planes specially chartered. Do you really think they all went back expecting a nagant bullet in the brain?

News / Polish Diaspora - many of these 20 million actually speak Polish? [79]


No, thats the ONLY example......

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


Bollox, our entire nation went to war...........


For what?


Have you even the tiniest concept of mobilising an army,transporting it across the ocean into another soverign country ( France was the senior partner, the only country with a land force in Europe during the 3 and a bit weeks Poland held out) and then readying it for conflict? Do you think that could be done in under a month even these days?


Oh, fcuk off loon, it was a plane crash,pure and simple, sh!t happens in war, especially when you load a bunch of pissed men and their baggage haphazardly in a Bomber and then take off over the sea....


again, utter bollox. ALL HM Forces were being De Mobbed, why should a bunch of foreginers be kept on when Britons were being cashiered from the Forces?

Yes, Poles,surprise surprise were encouraged to return to Poland after the war........FFS..........but no one was forced.

Love / Do young Polish ladies 17-23 speak any English? [59]

Yes, sorry, I forget that part....being 30 plus Ive a wider range of cute Polka's to look at round here :)

History / Do Poles really blame Britain for Poland becoming Communist after the war? [104]


Seconded.
BTW
hasnt this topic been done to death already?

History / Why have Poles contributed so little to Academics? (Particularly Science) [180]


Bollox, that would be the Scottish. You rascist anti Jockomite!!!!

Love / Do young Polish ladies 17-23 speak any English? [59]


Which frankly is bollox, to paraphrase Southern, I could cast a fishing line in any direction from any point in the UK and hook myself a nice Polka or some Polki :)

News / The cross in Polish parliament - Does it bother you? [100]


MMMm, yes,erm, I think you are getting those folks mixed up with Vampires....

History / Why have Poles contributed so little to Academics? (Particularly Science) [180]

Erm, It took Hitler and the Nazis to start forcing German Jews to leave Germany....Polish Jews have flooded out of Poland for at least 200 years.......

News / Polish Diaspora - many of these 20 million actually speak Polish? [79]

Really, the USA does not have an official language, thats why they are up the brown stream without a paddle with massive Hispanic immigration and the expansion of Spanish everywhere.....well ,thats what Ive been told jajajajajajajajajajaj