Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]


Haha :D This one cracked me up lol 👍

@James123, you have some sick and one-track mind. And as it is usually the case with the weirdos on this forum - you're probably projecting.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Yup ;D


Yup :) An Ukrainian guy painted this mural in Canada :)

Here's an article about it:

vancouverisawesome.com/local-news/first-time-muralist-paints-mind-bending-piece-in-mount-pleseant-photos-4254237


YUP! Awesome, well done! :))

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Yes, exactly! :) The element resembling menorah on that platform on which the smaller astronaut is standing.


Nope, that's a real bottle ;) - part of the artist's stuff that he used for painting - I simply cropped the photo to get rid of the unnecessary stuff.

OK, so the second reference is the patch on the shoulder of the big astronaut - the Polish flag. It symbolises where Lem lived and created his works - in Poland.


Yes! That's the third reference - the most difficult one. Look at the sky...

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Yes, the writer is Stanisław Lem! So you've guessed the first part of the riddle :) 2021 was declared Stanisław Lem Year by the Polish Parliament, because it's been 100 years since his birth.


Nope, but being interested in astronomy should help in spotting the third reference that is the most difficult one :)


The ocean is from "Solaris", yes, and the whole mural is inspired by this most famous Lem's novel :) But the references I wrote about aren't connected to his books, but to Lem himself. Each of them symbolise something about him (they aren't as big as the ocean though, so you have to look more closely :)).

Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]

@Novichok:

1. (stage one) View and treat women as human beings (that would be a good start).

No matter what they wear or how drunk they are, btw. A drunk woman in a miniskirt is still a human being and someone's daughter and a sister.

2. (stage two) Stop viewing and treating women as inferior beings and servants of men.

In some parts of the world there are laws that in theory should guarantee women and girls all of that, but often the laws are one thing and the reality - another... And there are also attitudes in the society that can't really be changed only by laws. Maybe the right upbringing of kids and education of the whole society could change them - with time...

Life / Has feminism and lesbianism progressed in Poland? [645]


He already answered your question correctly. It isn't pawian's fault if you're too prejudiced or too dumb (or both) to accept it or to understand it.

I'm not entirely sure what does gold-digging or enhancing one's looks have anything to do with it. There are gold-diggers among both sexes and both sexes want to be attractive to the opposite sex. Men can enhance their bodies in a natural way - it's enough for them to hit the gym and their muscles will grow. However, no amount of exercise can make women's breasts grow, so the only way to make them bigger is by plastic surgery. There are also men who choose a more artificial (and easier) way and take steroids. So, both sexes can go to great lengths to look attractive to the opposite sex (and sometimes to make a career in show-business for example). It doesn't mean, though, that women with inflated boobs and men on steroids with pumped up muscles aren't human beings and shouldn't be viewed and treated as such.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

@maf, I also recognised her only from when she was older, but I can't really say what productions I remember her from...


Two of them are pretty easy to spot, I think, but the third one is more difficult.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


lol

OK, another cultural riddle then :):

This mural was painted not in Poland, but abroad and not by a Polish artist, but by an Ukrainian. However, it was created this year to celebrate a famous Polish writer. Which one?

And another part of the riddle: there are some elements/references included by the artist in the mural. Three of them are connected to that Polish writer. Can you find them and say what those references are about?

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Judging by what I've read in a Wikipedia article about him I'm guessing it must be the role of Mr. Sułek in "Kocham pana, panie Sułku"(I love you, Mr. Sułek)... If that's the case then the actress in the photo is Marta Lipińska.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

The actor on the left looks like Krzysztof Kowalewski to me. I don't recognise the woman... I guess they might be singing or giving voices to some characters... It could be for the radio since Kowalewski was also a radio actor.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


The fact that you don't share their ideals (or you don't know them) doesn't mean they have none.


You must have a bad opinion about Polish nation, considering that PO ruled Poland for two terms - they were chosen in democratic elections :)


PiS has been in power for quite some time already, so I already found out.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


I wasn't trying to "sound smart" lol - I stated something pretty obvious (or, at least, something that should be obvious). Having some kind of a "vision" and a "focused conviction" isn't enough, because it doesn't mean that it's a good vision and that it's a conviction to do good things.

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]


I'd just like to point out that the Nazis and communists had that too...

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

Now I've remembered that it was "Nowa Fantastyka", to be precise - I'm pretty sure this is the issue in which I saw that painting - I remember this cover (which is also Siudmak's work):

a.allegroimg.com/original/03f994/ad01ff834c41b38ff1a4ee136112/Miesiecznik-Nowa-Fantastyka-9-93

I also remember this one, "Podwójne oblicze duszy", from that issue, I think:




Even those pencil drawings show that he's a perfectionist - they're so detailed and refined :)


In the beginning copying is a good way to learn drawing/painting :) That's great that you kept it, btw :)) I don't have any drawings left from my childhood or early teen years - I guess everything was thrown away. There's only one notebook left from when I was a younger teen - I used to draw in it during summer holidays at my grandma's in the countryside. But my cousins took it without telling me about it and now it resides in Wrocław ;P


You still have them? That's cool... I don't remember what happened to our issues (and I think we had only two in total).

Btw, pawian, you revived my Siudmak nostalgia ;D I feel like copying his works again after so many years lol

Po polsku / Z poselstwem do Watykanu [48]


Mam Ci podać słownikowe definicje? Myślę, że możesz to sobie sam w internecie znaleźć. A jeśli chodzi Ci o coś innego to wypowiadaj się jaśniej.


Chrześcijaństwu bliżej jest pokora oczywiście. Niestety naszemu polskiemu Kościołowi bliżej do pychy, arogancji, prywaty i moralnej zgnilizny. Jeszcze parę lat temu tego bym nie napisała, ale teraz już tak.


Tobie też go nie brakuje, chciałabym zauważyć, skoro już przy wytykaniu sobie takich rzeczy jesteśmy :)) Jeśli chcesz nas krytykować to rób to wprost, po co tak owijać w bawełnę? :)


Polski dziennikarz Terlikowski (mieszkający w Polsce, a nie na Zachodzie) to symbol katolickiego, prawicowego betonu - poczytaj sobie co pisze o problemie pedofilii w polskim Kościele:

wprost.pl/kraj/10330929/terlikowski-ostro-o-pedofilii-w-kosciele-pisze-to-z-ogromnym-bolem.html

I co do ego, arogancji i pychy:

wprost.pl/kraj/10326649/terlikowski-o-korporacyjnej-solidarnosci-w-kosciele-duchowni-maja-poczucie-ze-sa-lepsi.html

Mr Grunwald, mam wrażenie, że jeśli chodzi o polski Kościół to Ty żyjesz w jakiejś bańce mydlanej.

Po polsku / Z poselstwem do Watykanu [48]


A czemu nie? Księża to też ludzie, a nie jakieś anioły co spadły nam tu z Nieba :) Tych którzy błądzą nawet trzeba pouczać.


Buahaha... Może w teorii, ale w praktyce w Polsce to wygląda zupełnie inaczej :)

Btw, moim zdaniem żadna kara nie jest "zbyt surowa" za tuszowanie pedofilii/przestępstw seksualnych w Kościele:

oko.press/gadecki-pedofilia-w-kosciele-watykan-ad-limina/

Niech hierarchowie kościelni przestaną jęczeć i zaczną coś robić z tym problemem, bo rzygać się chce. Ludzie przez taką ich postawę oddalają się od Kościoła (m.in. ja).

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Meblościanka (wall unit)?


As Alien already wrote the actor is Daniel Olbrychski. I recognised the actress, but I didn't know what her name was. However, I googled "historia meblościanki" (the history of wall unit) and this article came up:

morizon.pl/blog/historia-mebloscianki/

So, the actress is Elżbieta Czyżewska and that scene is from a musical comedy "Małżeństwo z rozsądku" (Marriage of Convenience) from 1966/67 directed by Stanisław Bareja:



Nice song :) (Btw, my parents still have such "crystals" lol - they belonged to my grandparents :))

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Yes, he wasn't experienced with designing furniture for normal everyday use (he had more experience with designing scenography for theater plays), so he cared more about the aesthetic side rather than comfort.


I'm afraid all I can say is that the furniture is from PRL times... That radio looks like it could be from the 60's, I guess...


They're actors :)

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]


Well, that hand and torsos are monochromatic - painted in blues only and the ballpen was blue too, so it kind of made sense ;D

But, yeah, it wasn't the same. At that time I had no proper paints though, only some "plakatówki" for kids, and I had no idea how to paint such a painting anyway. And as I wrote in my previous post, that painting made me want to learn to paint with "real" paints :)


Yes, it looks like it :)


Not entirely mine either, some of his paintings I like more, some less, but generally I appreciate his skills, imagination and that humane touch :)


Why is that?

Btw, I'm interested in computer graphics and when I saw one of Kopera's paintings on the internet for the first time I thought at first that it's a digital artwork, not traditional :) (this shows how good his painting technique is) - it was this one - "One Dollar":

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

I saw Siudmak's painting for the first time in "Fantastyka" too :)) It was that last one that you posted - "Filaments of Destiny". I was a teen back then, still at the secondary school and didn't have much contact with art. I loved that painting :) I liked it so much that I copied that hand and those torsos on strings with ballpen into my notebook :) It made me want to paint with "real" paints and that painting was probably one of the things that inspired me to go to an art school (I wanted to paint like Siudmak! :)). So, it was pretty cool and nostalgic for me to see his paintings live during his exhibition in Kielce. I think until that time I didn't realise that a lot of his works were painted in acrylics, which makes them even more impressive.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Well, I've never thought about it as my "fav" street, it's simply the main promenade in the city that everyone here knows - you can't live in Kielce and not know it. I do like it though, so maybe you're right.

@jon357, I'm not entirely sure what it's all about with that "headword", so let's leave it at that, or the mods will probably get angry with us for this off-topic linguistic-artistic stuff :P ;)

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


So in English you "paint" with pastel?
I've found something like this:

artistsnetwork.com/art-mediums/pastel/drawing-or-painting-with-pastel-which-is-it/

Jon357, that street was already posted as a riddle in this thread... On the other hand, maybe someone will guess it thanks to this lol :)

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


More like drew, since it's a pastel drawing... You might as well post who he is, since you've guessed it. That's his wife and son in the drawing, btw. She was a peasant woman, he met her on a bridge when she wanted to commit suicide, he talked her out of it, took care of her and they got married a few years later.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Danzig style? Meble gdańskie... I remember seeing such wardrobe in Bratislava Castle...

Damn you, pawian, you made me come back :P


Sorry, I wanted to be done with PF for this weekend ;P

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

You know what, probably noone will guess it and I don't want to go back to this forum for a while, so I'll just answer it - it's white cheese (biały ser). Apparently in some regions of Poland it's called "twaróg", but for me twaróg is something different. White cheese is solid and twaróg is loose. So, this is how my countryside grandma would make homemade white cheese from her cows' milk - she would tie the cloth to a cupboard's door knob and let the cheese drain off :)

And it was the same shape as in the photo :)

Off-Topic / Still alive and well [359]


OMG ;D Thanks for the laugh, Bobko lol

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Thanks for the info, I didn't know that :)


I guess, theoretically, it could be bryndza, but I doubt it since I think it's mainly made in the montains (in Podhale) from sheeep's milk. There's nothing rare about that cheese in the photo, it's simply an ordinary type of cheese made in a traditional way, the way my grandma used to make it :)

So, what type of cheese is it?

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Yes, of course :)


Nope, it's cheese being made, but of different type. What kind?
(Btw, that photo wasn't taken in the mountains.)

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

@Alien, I've never been there either but I remember this song ;D:

youtube.com/watch?v=tHdizc3KvLU

Riddle 1: What is this style of furniture called?

Riddle 2: What are those white objects/what's going on?

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Language / Is There A Name For This Dialect? [12]

@marion kanawha, yes, there is - it's called "dialekt północnokresowy" (the Northern Eastern Borderlands dialect):

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialekt_p%C3%B3%C5%82nocnokresowy

A fragment from an article in Wikipedia (in English) about Polish language (from the section about dialects):

"Poles living in Lithuania (particularly in the Vilnius region), in Belarus (particularly the northwest), and in the northeast of Poland continue to speak the Eastern Borderlands dialect, which sounds "slushed" (in Polish described as zaciąganie z ruska, "speaking with a Ruthenian drawl") and is easily distinguishable."