History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

@GefreiterKania

Is that relief of the soldiers from Poznan?

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]


I did not know that.


Maybe over entering the monastery, but one is never over what one seeks in a monastery...even when one thinks he's rejected that which is sought in a monastery. ;)

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]


I agree. I just think that art has varying degrees of redeemability and value (to the human soul--not monetary).


I like all different types from all different periods.

I don't necessarily have a favorite artist, but if you put a gun to my head and forced me to choose, I guess I'd have to flip a coin between Cezanne or Ver Meer. Although, I very much like Bobko's references.


That's probably why I find it soulless, it's more commercial/advertising art.


:D So you wouldn't be shocked to know that I actually considered becoming a monk.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [149]


Agree that the skill is incredible, but I strongly dislike the finished product. I find it soulless. It doesn't really have anything to say.

History / Why American military aid to Europe and Poland is important to America itself? [227]

@Bratwurst Boy

Project 2025

You are wise to be cautious about what others have to say about it.

I guarantee you most, if not all, who comment on it haven't actually read it. It's a large document.

I suggest going to the horse's mouth to get the actual gist. Then, you can disagree or agree with what it actually proposes as policy recommendations.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


I didn't know that. I thought Norm told only his son and his one close friend.

Letterman was OK. Once he moved to CBS he lost something. The show he had on NBC after Carson was great. I was a devotee of it. Me and my buddies would talk about the show all the time.

A friend I met at chicken restaurant I worked as a teenager and I formed a band that we called Dave.

Norm is top 5 all time stand-ups. Did you know he was a huge fan of Russian literature?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


It was Norm's last time on the Letterman show as Letterman was retiring and Norm gets a little emotional after the Germany joke. Here's the entire episode:

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]


Which reminds me of this:

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]


Does this make you at least a tad nervous, Milo?


Yeah, he was a Jew. The dems are solidly anti-semitic. Hopefully, the majority of Jews in this country recognize and finally cross the aisle.


We? We need a counter force to beat back the cultural-Marxist socialists, such as Harris and Walz.

What policies of Harris do you support and why, Lyzko?

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [970]

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History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

New Deal capitalism, ie government driven economics, or Crony Capitalism, ie government driven economics for the favored. In other words, socialism or favoritism? Two crappy choices.

You think you need to be Warren Buffet to have children? I serve as a correction to such thinking: my bank account is not remotely anywhere near Warren Buffet's and I got three kids running around.

I do agree the birth rate is a culprit, but is the plummeting birth rate the result of sheer economics or moral norms having changed? My parents made a fraction of what most households make today and my mom squeezed six of us out.

Does government subsidies to the able bodied unemployed in the form of perpetual unemployment benefits, welfare, and ssi have any bearing on the jobs filled by migrant not going to western-born workers?

It's not simply a plummeting birth rate but also that government enables the unproductivity of unskilled westerners to stay away from the work force as well as the infusion of millions of migrants into the job market competing with productive western unskilled workers for jobs.

It's a manufactured crisis and its not because of traditional conservative policies, but government intervention and liberal morality.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

@Lyzko

So, what you are saying is the Swedes are p!ssed because they are suffering an identity crisis because their snow is melting?

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]


The Brits engaging in a little civil unrest-not entirely shocking. But, the Swedes? Now that catches one's attention.

I'm not big on conspiracy theories, but there is way too much of this all throughout the western world to not make one wonder what exactly is going on behind the scenes and who is behind these waves of foreign illegals crossing our borders.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

@pawian

How is your example German pressuring Turks to stay in Germany? Looks like a typical foreign worker visa law that governs how long a guest qorker can stay in a country.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

@Bratwurst Boy

Absolutely. They are not only stifling but also grotesquely expensive.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]

That's always been one of the two big reasons I'd hate to be in the EU: regulations on top of regulations on top of regulations on top of regulations.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]


Seems to be the problem in many western democracies/republics-too many laws.

History / Time for Slavic Commonwealth around Poland as center [223]


Is it because they can't find a plausible way of expressing they made a terrible miscalculation in thinking that they were letting in workers who would meet the desperately needed labor demands?

But then again, if that was the case, then why open up the welfare coffers and disincentivize the new immigrants from working?

Did they allow the benefits to immigrants in hopes of staving off immigrant social unrest?

What is Scholz's plans to address this problem? Is the left in Germany like the left in America when it comes to immigrants: bring 'em in so they can grow the left's electoral base, as well as getting some cheap labor here and there?

Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

@mafketis

Yeah, business travel like that stinks.


You and me both.

Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

When I was in my 20's I spent a month driving cross-country. It was glorious, I returned loving America more than ever before. Now, I'm in mid-50's and still adore hitting the road. It's better now than when I was younger in some ways-my wallet is not as anorexic.

The places and sights you stumble upon when hitting the road rather than flying is worth the labor, IMO.

Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

Thanks for the info.


I'm American: I was born for the road. 🙂

Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

Admin started this thread as a spinoff from another thread where I was asking if Torq had been to Portugal. So, it's more a general question instead of a specific town.

How was Lisbon and Sintra?

I was thinking I might start in Portugal and drive to Poland.

EDIT:

Thanks for the info, Maf.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Not to hijack the photo thread and turn it into a vacation destinations thread, BUT...have you ever been to Portugal? If so, thoughts, please.

Admin: delete this please. I meant to post this elsewhere.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Probably was, if I recall correctly the last session is at or before 4 pm.


😀. Yep, here and gone like vapor on hot dry summer noon.

UK, Ireland / Moving from Ireland to Poland [39]


Hmmm...I've been to Torino and Firenze...not Genoa...and I'd make the same choice of Gdańsk over T and F.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

We had tickets and everything to make the piernik, but my slow-a$$ willful mother-in-law (I love her and all) had to order a coffee after dinner and made us late and we couldn't enter.

But, I'm over it, I swear, it's ancient history...in the past. I mean, can't you just hold off on the coffee for one hour? Is it going to kill ya? Anyway, like I said, I'm over it. Buried in the past. It's not like all of Toruń was in danger of running out of coffee beans

UK, Ireland / Moving from Ireland to Poland [39]


What about the Italians? They're pretty alright.


Having spent an aggregate of 2-2.5 years over a 20-plus years span, I'd call the taste of your friend's into question. Polish cuisine is good stuff-although the ketchup on pizza is culinary anathema.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Not to mention the Cathedral.

As yo say, a charming town.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


I can emphatically attest! You can even make your own piernik at the Muzeum of Pierniki.