News / How much Poland's economy grew up since 1989? [32]


Well, it is referred to as Europe's China when it comes production. I don't have the data at hand as it is something I had picked up from a debate program on Danish radio. Poland produces something like 90% of domestic appliances, 75% percent of flat screens (regardless of brand) for the European market. Some really astounding number of cars, not mention all kinds car and machinery parts. (I really need to dig up that podcast but numbers were certainly impressive). But the challenge isn't really in being production powerhouse. What Poland needs to do is move on from being production based economy to service economy with research and innovation in focus, but that is long ways off. One can always find a cheaper place to produce, and here Poland's saving grace is the close proximity to Germany. Right now the challenge for Poland is the industry/education coordination.

News / How much Poland's economy grew up since 1989? [32]


oh yeah 1989, the heyday of Polish manufactory, when the whole world was clamoring for the exquisite stuff with Made In Poland stamped on it.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]


yes the whole world is conspiring against you, concocting a plethora of false statistics, just to **** you off.. who would have 'thunk'...?


As for 'the richest Slavic country trophy'... imaginary or not, how fvcked up or insecure does one have to be to derive any pride from it, considering that none of the Slavic countries come close to any 'swishness' whatsoever.

Life / Is Poland a poor country? [578]

so it is not the richest Slavic country seeing as Slovenia is ahead, pretty sure Czech Rep and Slovakia are ahead of Poland as well

Language / What has been the hardest language for you to learn? [81]


second to what exactly..?

History / Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime against Poland [97]


compared to the world's geographically largest country whose population largely approves of Stalin and his legacy... wtf?? If I were you Delphi I would get some priority list happening... Russia is in the state of denial, autocratic as ever... Poland, so far, is on the right path.. down the road I wouldn't worry so much about those 'elements' of Polish society as they will largely go extinct. Russia, however, not owning up to her past misdeeds is much more likely to repeat them in the future and who would want that?

"According to a recent survey, 48% of Russians today believe that Stalin had a positive influence on their country. Only 22% consider it was negative."

History / Memos show US hushed up Soviet crime against Poland [97]


Solely on excesses of revolution...and never-mind its entire fvcked-up existence? Here is a good article on USSR and its legacy:

Solzhenitsyn's widow, Natalya Dmitrievna, blames the leaders of modern Russia, including Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin, for failing to make the country face up to its past.

"They didn't carry out any de-Stalinisation," she tells me. "On a state level, no-one ever declared communism to be criminal, or Stalin a tyrant who waged war on his own people. Now it's too late for words," she says.

"All Eastern Europe after the end of the Soviet Union tried to finish with the communist way of life, in Poland, in Germany, everywhere," recalls Korotich.

"But not here. We needed our Nuremberg, like in Germany. But we never had it. And until we start discussing the problem of communism on the level Solzhenitsyn started 50 years ago, we'll still live in this half-Soviet country which wants to be part of mankind, but is afraid of information about its own history."

bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20393894

I couldn't agree more

Love / Polish couples living out of wedlock? [108]


is a much better headline than 'Out of wedlock?' imho

Love / What differences is there among Polish girls and British girls as girlfriends? [102]


laser hair removal

News / Kudos to RCC for turning Poland into a laughingstock... again. [38]


This is not All Saints vs Halloween thread, this is a thread about a certain kind of black-robed Polish individuals obsessed with a dead guy nailed to a cross. Apparently that guy was once alive and kicking. I'm guessing he must have really been good at kicking since he, at birth, was able to rip through his mum's virgin hymen on his way out. In fact he was such a good sport, his mum got crowned queen of Poland, roughly 2000 years after she'd been teleported away... Perhaps then it is not so surprising to hear these men refer to carved pumpkins and candy as portents of 'culture of death'.

News / Kudos to RCC for turning Poland into a laughingstock... again. [38]


In which case, I'd say it's a blessing in disguise rather than a problem. Encore, encore :)

News / Kudos to RCC for turning Poland into a laughingstock... again. [38]


Stunning eloquence on your part, do the square brackets somehow represent your frame of mind?

On another note, a quick question to those who live in Poland. Would it be a correct to assume that those bizarre manifestation of Polish Taliban are merely signs of their frustration, seeing as it becomes increasingly and inexorably harder to justify their own existence in the 21st century Europe?

News / Kudos to RCC for turning Poland into a laughingstock... again. [38]

Don't people in Poland get annoyed with the earth-is-flat mentality of the church?

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

Fair enough man, and by the way I'm not trying to piggy-back my own vanity on my dad's achievements, it merely occasionally irks me when people assume all kinds of stuff just because he holds an American passport.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]

My father is one and through him I know many more like him (perhaps not with diplomatic passports and all but still people on the level). Anyways now you probably understand how I feel seeing you year after year blatantly (albeit indirectly) offending my family on this forum.

Life / Typical for the Poloniandists [171]


Have you actually met any prominent Polonian, and by that I mean prominent and not just sticking out...? Say, someone awarded Polonia Restituta and diplomatic passport by the Polish government, fluent in Polish with close ties to his old country, say, halfway living in Poland, supporting a lot of charities and all kinds of positive projects in Poland, paying tax there due his business activities etc, I wonder....

Life / Poland and every aspect..... Please help me learn and understand the realities? [108]


Oh my god, please please p3 do listen to her. What you're doing right now in writing is an equivalent of the auditory finger nail scratching on a blackboard. Besides it makes you look stupid and your arguments weigh less if nothing, zero-punctuated as they are. And you are a mod at that!! At the end of the day you may not care how you are perceived by others but you should, at least, care how your writing feels as it, for better or worse, has to be endured here as long as you are a mod. Not to mention that in itself reflects badly on the forum when its moderators come across as somewhat illiterate. That is all --- end of my sermon. Good luck.

News / Czech drug legalisation threatens Poland [111]


well said, thanks

News / Czech drug legalisation threatens Poland [111]


People do not snowboard to build airports, in much the same way people do not smoke pot to hold serious conversations. Although, depending on pot, it may be a very introspective and thought-provoking experience with a profound impression lasting into the sober state, where it can translate into something truly creative... but then again you wouldn't know anything about it since you never tried, pontificating us with your shrill hysteria.

News / Czech drug legalisation threatens Poland [111]


Wow.. Polish drug experts... coz Poland is so far ahead of any country in just about any field, and it's been like that throughout her entire history...

To anyone else but Polonius here is something very interesting and potentially quite inspirational, sink your minds into this:

youtube.com/watch?v=N4T5LduZ9vg&feature=player_em bedded

P.S. what happened to the youtube links on PF, why don't they show directly as before... or am I doing something wrong?

History / Was PRL Poland? [37]


LOL joni, oh boy, are you trying to draw some sort of ideological equation mark in the minds of Poles by grouping these names together? Because if you are forget those who lived under PRL, that's just not gonna add up in heir heads no matter how hard you try. PRL was something to be endured, survived, a sad and a depressing nightmare the vast majority of Poles hoped one day to wake up from. Using your logic John Paul II must have been a filthy traitor, working against the PRL regime on behalf of foreign power - Vatican. Not to mention all the internal enemies like for example Walesa, wow that guy should hang, right?

History / Was PRL Poland? [37]


I can assure you those spying on PRL were not seen as traitors - whatever the definition

History / Was PRL Poland? [37]


How long did you? Polonius is right in his comparison to other puppet states, that's how it was and that's how it felt for the VAST majority of Poles. I wish AntekStalich or whatever his nickname was here now to talk some sense into you. He is a guy from that generation and he'd probably laugh his ass off if you told him that people spying on PRL were traitors. Btw I wonder what's pawian's take on it.

History / Czech and Polish character in World War two [81]

what a great post by Ozi Dan, where is the 'like' button when you need it :)

Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]


my bad, misread your post as 30+ older

Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]


however you did make your views on relationships quite clear and based on that you do come across as Miss Conventionality anno 1952

Love / Best way to find a Polish husband...ideas? [120]


ok.. can I cry?


wow... do you celebrate New Years at a funeral home?


WTF?!! What man wants a hand job? Your hand is never gonna be as good as his!


mind boggles... I guess those who 'hang out' at IKEA must be pedohile nazi whalers... and yeah it's their thingy


Simple - get the fuck outta there! Those 'weird hippies/gays' will be so much better off...


ok.. maybe all is not lost yet...


fook me, Herbert The Pervert joined PF

And lastly I would like to thank fstop for restoring my faith in humanity

Food / Babcia Lipińska's naleśniki [7]

Should we follow the sound to get there? And how often do these polka-beating-off-the-whole-orchestra events take place in your neighborhood?

UK, Ireland / Crying Polish truck driver on British roads is Internet hit [269]

there is something about PF that makes laughing at the 'special' people perfectly excusable... don't think of it as a malicious, schadenfreude-ridden chuckle rather an expression of your genuine relief and joyous gratitude that you are not that 'special' yourself -- in short: your heartfelt humility gone vocal