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OP Torq  8 | 955
12 Jan 2024   #301
Jaysus... 35 years... *sighs*

Are they treating you well there?
Alien  24 | 5881
12 Jan 2024   #302
Are they treating you well there

Well, a life sentence.
Bobko  28 | 2260
12 Jan 2024   #303
You left Poland the year I was born. Wow.

You really are an Alien.
OP Torq  8 | 955
13 Jan 2024   #304
Raz... dwa... trzy!: 2018

Volleyball is the only olympic team sport in which Poland is a two-times World Champion (and two times runner-up). Our male team is currently the best in international ranking (ladies sit in respectable 7th place), and in 2023 the final of CEV Champions League was played between two Polish teams. Volleyball fans in Poland can look with mild amusement at football fans (although preferably without them noticing :)).
OP Torq  8 | 955
13 Jan 2024   #305
two-times World Champion

My apologies to the 1974 team that I forgot. Of course it should be three-times World Champions.
pawian  221 | 25643
13 Jan 2024   #306
Early 1970s
Coca Cola, previously bashed by communists as an imperialist capitalist beverage, enters Poland:


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pawian  221 | 25643
13 Jan 2024   #307
1971.
After the massacre of protesting shipyard workers by communist army and police, the previous Party Secretary Gomułka was deposed by his own buddies who elected Edward Gierek for the post.


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OP Torq  8 | 955
14 Jan 2024   #308
In the heart of Cracow: 2024

Pałac Potockich is certainly an interesting place in an interesting city: book premieres, interesting lectures, literary festivals, concerts, meetings with writers and translators, workshops for children, and many other activities attract visitors all year round. There is also an art gallery and a well-stocked bookshop in there. If you're ever in Cracow, make sure to check what is going on in Potockis' Palace culture centre.
Alien  24 | 5881
14 Jan 2024   #309
If you're ever in Cracow, make sure to check what is going on in Potockis' Palace culture centre.

The people you are writing to would certainly be more willing to check what beer is served in a nearby pub. Remember that PF is not a Cultural Forum.
OP Torq  8 | 955
14 Jan 2024   #310
PF is not a Cultural Forum

To some extent it certainly is, and - anyways - it should be our aim to educate, shouldn't it? :)
Alien  24 | 5881
14 Jan 2024   #311
it should be our aim to educate, shouldn't it? :)

No kuźwa, chyba masz rację/ of course, you are right.
Ironside  50 | 12405
14 Jan 2024   #312
wasn't PRL Coca-Cola better quality than the original?
Alien  24 | 5881
14 Jan 2024   #313
PRL Coca-Cola better quality than the original?

That's just what we thought.
pawian  221 | 25643
14 Jan 2024   #314
wasn't PRL Coca-Cola better quality than the original?

Why should it be???
Alien  24 | 5881
14 Jan 2024   #315
Why

Was Polish water better?
pawian  221 | 25643
14 Jan 2024   #316
I don`t think so. :):):) Certainly it wasn`t Poland Spring water. :):):)
OP Torq  8 | 955
15 Jan 2024   #317
Why him?: 2018

That the students of Fine Arts Academy in Łódź wanted to make their city more beautiful - this is commendable and praiseworthy.

That they decided on a huge colourful mural as their medium of expression - with this I have no problem at all.

However, why on earth they chose Pawian as their model - this I shall never understand.
jon357  73 | 23221
15 Jan 2024   #318
Nice mural.

I can't abide bow ties though.
OP Torq  8 | 955
15 Jan 2024   #319
Zróbże minę uprzejmą, żubrze: 2023

The European Bison or, as it should properly be called, żubr is one of the symbols of Poland. About 2500 of those animals (a quarter of world's population) live in Poland in eight free herds and about 200 in zoos and breeding facilities. Until 1960s there was only one free herd of bisons is Europe, in Puszcza Białowieska, and the animal itself was on the verge of extinction. Thanks to the efforts of Polish foresters and international cooperation the species was not only saved from extinction but is now thriving in its natural environment.
Alien  24 | 5881
15 Jan 2024   #320
żubr

Of course, there is also Żubr beer.
Miloslaw  21 | 5099
15 Jan 2024   #321
@Torq

Nice post.

Of course, there is also Żubr beer.

In my opinion, one of the best Polish beers.
pawian  221 | 25643
15 Jan 2024   #322
one of the best Polish beers.

No, the taste is just tolerable. It is cheap beer for mongrels.
Miloslaw  21 | 5099
15 Jan 2024   #323
No, the taste is just tolerable.

Obviously not a true Pole! In his own words!!!!
Miloslaw  21 | 5099
15 Jan 2024   #324
The ape has finally and drunkenly fallen into his bed........
OP Torq  8 | 955
16 Jan 2024   #325
An Englishman who loved Poland: 1927

In the photo we see G.K. Chesterton and his wife being welcomed by Polish authorities at the main railway station in Warsaw. The great British writer visited Poland in April 1927 and everywhere he went (Poznań, Kraków, Lwów, Wilno, Zakopane, Troki) he was received cordially. The English convert to Catholicism and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century was a faithful friend of Poland and a partisan of the Polish ideal.
jon357  73 | 23221
16 Jan 2024   #326
An Englishman who loved Poland

He may have visited Poland once however he was a deeply unsavoury individual.

Personally unpleasant, openly fascist and generally a nasty piece of work.

Quite a good writer though if you like undemanding genre fiction.

Another famous person who visited Poland at around the same time and liked her stay there was Annie Besant. Not a good writer and difficult company too but a better person than Chesterton. She was quite close to the great Janusz Korczak.

A friend of mine (very elderly) has a photograph of Dr Besant getting off a plane in the 30s at Pole Mokotowskie when the Warsaw airstrip was there.
OP Torq  8 | 955
16 Jan 2024   #327
undemanding genre fiction

Writers of "undemanding genre fiction" are rarely nominated to Nobel Prize in Literature (as Chesterton was in 1935) or considered by critics to be successors of Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin or Thomas Carlyle.

He was held in high regard by, and was an influence on, many writers (including Jorge Louis Borges and T.S. Eliot) and philosophers (e.g. one of the "immortals" of Académie Française, Étienne Gilson). Also - let's not forget - Chesterton was invested as Knight Commander with Star of the Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius XI. Not bad for "quite a good writer of undemanding genre fiction". :)

For me personally, his Heretics, Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man are among the most important books that shaped my worldview.

However, I can understand perfectly well why you don't like him, Jon.

the great Janusz Korczak

Hmm... yes, the Good Doctor should certainly be included in this thread (and will be, soon).
jon357  73 | 23221
16 Jan 2024   #328
nominated to Nobel Prize in Literature

Anyone can be nominated for anything. He didn't get one though.

or considered by critics

He wasn't a successor to any of those. 'Critics' can consider whatever they like and frequently do.

Papal Order of St. Gregory the Great

As I recall, Jimmy Savile was a papal 'knight'. He used to go to Leeds Cathedral dressed up like a Christmas tree, raising a sword when the host was elevated during Mass...

the Good Doctor

One of the most striking figures of that century. People often forget that before the war he was one of Poland's most popular radio broadcasters.
OP Torq  8 | 955
16 Jan 2024   #329
Potato in its most perfect form: 2022

The gold of Polish soil, Denar potato, is planted in April and picked early - in July. Polish farmers - God bless them and their children - then, after careful selection, bring their precious cargo to Chopin distillery in Krzesk where master distillers do their magic and turn the gold of Polish soil into the poetry of Polish vodka. Single-distilled Młody Ziemniak Lipiec 2022 is a masterpiece of distilling art...

Some vital data...

Potato variety: Denar

Planted: 11th April 2022

Picked: 15th July 2022

Weather conditions:

April - winter undertones, delayed vegetation
May - exceptionally cold, very dry
June - varied weather, storms and heat waves
July - draught

Final effect: ineffable

Alcohol volume: 40%
OP Torq  8 | 955
16 Jan 2024   #330
July - draught

This, of course, should read drought not draught.

Pox on the English language and its nightmarish ortography!

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