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GefreiterKania  31 | 1429
21 Feb 2024   #511
...okay...even better after 1989...

... sure. But then... sometime in 2000s, the entire demonic, woke, neo-marxist angriff started. :-/ Or maybe not started but became more obvious and impudent.

Cars, for example, broke down more often.

Not if you knew how to take care of them. Then they never broke down. Ever heard of Mercedes W123?
Ironside  50 | 12405
21 Feb 2024   #512
everything

beer and coke tested better that for sure..
Alien  24 | 5881
21 Feb 2024   #513
beer and coke tested better

Beer was often unpasteurized and there was no Coke Zero.
GefreiterKania  31 | 1429
21 Feb 2024   #514
beer and coke

Talking about one-syllable things that were better in the 1980s: pope.

EDIT: church, girls, food. All one-syllable things were better.
Alien  24 | 5881
21 Feb 2024   #515
pope

From today's point of view, very conservativ, but he single-handedly overthrew communism.
Bratwurst Boy  8 | 11864
21 Feb 2024   #516
....nah, that honor belongs surely to Gorbatschow....he started it all in Russia.....and he denied East-Berlin the military to end the protestations in a bloody chinese way....who knows, the wall would maybe still stand without him.

For an East-German that all was Gorbatschow, not the pope!
Alien  24 | 5881
21 Feb 2024   #517
For an East-German

So is the difference in worldview between an East German and a West Pole.
Bratwurst Boy  8 | 11864
21 Feb 2024   #518
....na ja...it's understandable....the pope back than was a famous Pole....of course he had his own people cheering for him! :)
Miloslaw  21 | 5099
21 Feb 2024   #519
pope.

he single-handedly overthrew communism.

Totally agreed.

I was brought up as a Polish Catholic but lost my faith many years ago but could still see that the Polish Pope was the best Pope in my lifetime.
Alien  24 | 5881
22 Feb 2024   #520
food

Certainly not

girls

It's just your imagination, we were all younger then.
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churches were fuller, that's a fact, but only in Poland.
pawian  221 | 25643
22 Feb 2024   #521
They look the same as many of the derelict Victorian era factories in England.

Both very depressing.
jon357  73 | 23221
22 Feb 2024   #522
depressing

There's beauty in industrial architecture. I've never understood why some in PL turn their noses up at Łódź but consider bungalows pretty.
pawian  221 | 25643
22 Feb 2024   #523
industrial architecture

It is too vulgar and crude to me.
mafketis  38 | 11076
22 Feb 2024   #524
I've never understood why some in PL turn their noses up at Łódź

I think when many people think of Łódź they automatically think of Ziemia obiecana.... that remained my mental picture of the city until I visited a summer or two ago. Now I have a different mental picture that's much nicer (and leafier!)
jon357  73 | 23221
22 Feb 2024   #525
vulgar and crude

And stuccoed bungalows aren't? Industrial environments can be sophisticated and beautiful like a Lowry townscape.

much nicer (and leafier!)

It's got that feel that only planned towns of a certain period have. In a way it was more atmospheric when it was a bit shabbier; one reason filmmakers like it so much. I could happily live there.
pawian  221 | 25643
22 Feb 2024   #526
stuccoed bungalows

Sorry, I don`t know what you mean.
Ironside  50 | 12405
22 Feb 2024   #527
All one-syllable things were better.

Not so sure some were into inhaling glue or somesuch and do weeds. and kompot.
pawian  221 | 25643
22 Feb 2024   #528
Not so sure some were into inhaling glue

the mongrel, for example. That glue sucked out his brains completely.
OP Torq  8 | 955
24 Feb 2024   #529
Farmers' Rage: 2024

"Down with the EU's climate policy", "Let EU maniacs eat worms themselves" - says the banner on this farmer's tractor. Farmers' protests, caused by the EU attempts at cooking the frog a bit too fast, continue all over Poland. EU geniuses decided to destroy European farming and at the same time import food from huge, owned by international concerns, farms in South America and Ukraine (where EU farming laws don't apply and the European norms for pesticide use are very often exceeded twentyfold (!)). Polish farming can feed 120 million people and it's a strategic resource of primary importance for Poland.

It's a bit ironic that the group that benefited the most from Poland's EU membership is at the moment the most euroskeptical (to put it very mildly). If only the Marxists ruling the EU could possibly go a bit easier on their leftard agenda, all this could have been avoided. Alas, leftards will leftard.

Perhaps the Brits knew what they were doing when they left the Union?
jon357  73 | 23221
24 Feb 2024   #530
only the Marxists ruling the EU

The EU isn't ruled by Marxists.

Perhaps the Brits knew what they were doing

Of course.

And Poland could leave too, however geographically it is in a weaker position.
pawian  221 | 25643
24 Feb 2024   #531
geographically

And economically. Brits got a cough after brexit, Poland will acquire TB and pneumonia.

EU geniuses decided to destroy

Why are you so radical????? :):):)
OP Torq  8 | 955
24 Feb 2024   #532
The EU isn't ruled by Marxists.

Well, I should have written neo-Marxists.

Poland could leave too

... and surprisingly many people are talking openly about it these days.

Why are you so radical?

You're right. Calling them geniuses was going too far. :)
jon357  73 | 23221
24 Feb 2024   #533
Brits got a cough after brexit

Not much of one, however we have more deep water ports than the rest of Europe combined, have London which if it was a separate country would be richer than most in Europe and have the northern industrial base as well. That and a culture wehre panicking and over-analysis are rare.

Poland is of course stuck right next to Germany who see the EU as the next stage of their mercantile ambitions. That and the EU agricultural policy; existing to satisfy 'farmers' in southern France and Italy with just a few hectares and a mixed output combined with an intense lobbying from the factory farms that exist to provide what people actually eat.

In a transnational organisation like the EU there will always be winners and losers. The losers will not be in France, Germany, Northern Italy or the Netherlands.

I should have written neo-Marxists

You could've, however it would've been equally meaningless.
pawian  221 | 25643
24 Feb 2024   #534
Calling them geniuses was going too far. :)

When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Otherwise, you will be nominated the governor of Northern Poland Oblast by the Kremlin regime. hahahaha
jon357  73 | 23221
24 Feb 2024   #535
Or conversely don't do as the romans...
pawian  221 | 25643
24 Feb 2024   #536
don't do as the romans

When you are among crows, you need to caw with them.
jon357  73 | 23221
24 Feb 2024   #537
Or scatter some corn soaked in warfarin...
mafketis  38 | 11076
24 Feb 2024   #538
Well, I should have written neo-Marxists.

Neoliberals....
pawian  221 | 25643
24 Feb 2024   #539
Farmers' Rage: 2024 "Down with the EU's climate policy", "Let EU maniacs eat worms themselves" - says the banner on this farmer's tractor.

Farmers` Rage:

The Soviet Union flag is next to the banner reading: Putin - sort out Ukraine, Brussels and our own rulers!

If only the Marxists ruling the EU

Those EU marxists infect Polish farmers with their marxism, as we can see below. :):):)


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OP Torq  8 | 955
24 Feb 2024   #540
See how successful a country Poland is? Even idiots can afford John Deere tractors. ;)

Neoliberals...

Perhaps, but they are neomarxists culturally; besides, "marxist" is an excellent general insult and I use it as such.

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