News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


What do you mean?


Maybe it wasn't his first time, but this time someone took a photo and actually had the courage to report it to the police (he's PiS' prosecutor, after all):

wiadomosci.radiozet.pl/amp/full/797944/Polska/Nagi-prokurator-spacerowal-po-ulicach-Swidnicy.-Nowe-fakty-w-sprawie

This is what the witness at the shop said (who called the police):

"Chwyciłam za telefon, a wtedy sprzedawca powiedział, żebym nie robiła zdjęć, bo jest to znana osoba w Świdnicy. Nie obchodziło mnie to. Takie zachowania powinny być karane bez względu na to, kto kim jest."

My translation:

"I took out the phone, but then the shop assistant told me not to take photos, because this person is famous in Świdnica. I didn't care about that. Such behaviour should be punished no matter who the person is."

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


You know what, you're right - PiS is both mafia and oligarchy in one!:

wiadomosci.onet.pl/tylko-w-onecie/afera-hejterska-sledztwo-przeniesione-do-bliskiej-ziobrze-prokuratury/f368jpk

I guess this is the case the Świdnica prosecutor didn't want to deal with! You and Cargo are geniuses! lol Brawo Wy! 👏
😂


Are you serious or are you joking? lol


LOL!

This is too funny... 🤣

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

Something similar happened in the US with... Yeltsin... When he was in Washington he got drunk and ran down Pennsylvania Avenue screaming at taxis to take him to a pizza place while wearing his underwear only. The prosecutor was butt naked though... I doubt it's funny for his family - I'm guessing he's an alcoholic...

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [352]

@maf, those are plums, not kiwi... I have no idea why they're called "kiwi pączki" :)


Yes, you can :):

kwestiasmaku.com/kuchnia_polska/tlusty_czwartek/paczki_pieczone/przepis.html

Also, I've never seen icing sugar on drożdżówka...


I suspect that it's at least partly because the Polish diaspora in the US has longer history, while the mass Polish immigration to the UK is pretty recent in comparison...

News / Famous Poles die - your memories [112]

I didn't know that Wiesław Gołas had such dramatic and tragic experiences early in life - his father was murdered in Majdanek concentration camp and Gołas himself became a member of the Gray Ranks (Szare Szeregi), got arrested (he got locked up in the same cell as his father) and tortured by Gestapo.

USA, Canada / Where can I meet Polish women in Chicago [85]

@Novichok, my grandma has been always slim, including at the age of 40 and 50. And why wouldn't she exist?? Humans tend to have grandmas, you know... ;D

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

That drunk, naked prosecutor was nominated by Ziobro, btw...

USA, Canada / Where can I meet Polish women in Chicago [85]

@Novichok, my grandma is over 80 and she's slim despite being a good cook and not having cancer.

USA, Canada / Poles Living in the Chicago Area [352]

@Joker, thanks for more photos :) Wow, they even have Malinowa Chmurka (a lovely name, btw) :))


They don't look like drożdżówki to me, I've never seen plums on top of pączki (and I've never heard of "pączki kiwi"), but it does look like pączki dough.

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

Btw, I think that I can safely say that besides the mountains and the Baltic Sea, the Masurian Lake District is the third most popular tourist nature-related destination in Poland. It's a beatiful area and a sailor's paradise :)



youtu.be/3CAO8EiIPz4

Ok, next riddles :) Both riddles/photos are somehow connected to a certain today's anniversary.

Riddle 1. (first photo) This is a GROM soldier at the Kabul airport helping out during the evacuation. The riddle is: does he have any weapon at all and if he does then can you see it anywhere in the photo?

Riddle 2. (second photo) What is going on and where do you think it's taking place (the area in general)?

Riddle 3. What's the anniversary about?

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  zagadka1b.jpg
  

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

@maf, yes, Giżycko is known as the sailing capital of Poland and the area on the map is called Kraina Wielkich Jezior Mazurskich (Masurian Lake District):

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masurian_Lake_District

That lake at the bottom of the map posted by pawian is Śniardwy - the biggest lake in Poland. Masurian Lake District is a pretty unique area not only in Poland, but also in Europe. There are many rare bird species over there, for example.

My aunt and uncle are on holiday there right now and my aunt sent a photo of a river with a very clear water - you can see many fish near the riverbed :)


Sea holly? I guess in Polish it's called "mikołajek nadmorski"?

Language / Ethnic backround of suffixes of Polish surnames [54]

@Brygida, I don't know Belarusian, but I can read Cyrillic - the surname looks like "Pagarcow" (if you don't know Polish then it would be pronounced "pagartzov").

News / Poland hopes to attract hard-working, trouble-free immigarnts - Ukrainian, Belarusians and Vietnamese [139]


Because every normal person would have a problem with shooting at defenseless kids. And kids cross borders with their parents illegally too.


You would shoot kids too?


Because you post nonsense. Poland is a civilised country and border guards don't shoot at people who are fleeing war, persecution or even just looking for a better life (and Poles were doing the same in the past). Would you like to get shot for getting into the US illegally?

News / Poland hopes to attract hard-working, trouble-free immigarnts - Ukrainian, Belarusians and Vietnamese [139]


Maybe so, but the situation with Belarus is new...


How? And how do you know? Any of them tried to counter reality? With what results?


Well, then they should start doing something - this situation is unprecedented. Belarus is using those people in a cruel, despicable way.


My problem with you is that you're saying that the border guards should be shooting at kids, even though you wouldn't be able to do that yourself.

News / Poland hopes to attract hard-working, trouble-free immigarnts - Ukrainian, Belarusians and Vietnamese [139]

I'd like to see you, wiseguy, standing at the border and shooting at kids.

News / Poland hopes to attract hard-working, trouble-free immigarnts - Ukrainian, Belarusians and Vietnamese [139]

Cargo_pants already wrote why they can't stay in Belarus:


They even try to push them forcibly through the border into the EU (including kids).


Yup, but that human scum won't go... And so the problem won't go away. I think that apart from securing the border Polish government should make sure to somehow inform potential migrants/refugees from Iraq and Afghanistan what's the situation on the EU-Belarusian border so they wouldn't buy into what the human traffickers are promissing to them (and so they wouldn't be taking this route).

Also, in general - the EU should be helping Poland and Lithuania in this situation, imho, since this border is EU border and those migrants/refugees are likely to go further West.

Travel / Roads with magnificent views / scenery in Krakow area. [13]

Witaj, podrozny :)


There's one in the Bieszczady Mountains (1:43 in the video), for example:

youtu.be/JNBWojGlMaM

But there are also other steam engine train routers in Poland.

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]

This Black Hawk was produced in a factory in Poland (in Mielec):

army-technology.com/projects/s-70i-black-hawk-helicopter/

It was modified for the police needs - unlike other S-70i Black Hawks this one (and two others that the Polish police have) has, for example, a rotor brake - one could see it in action today in Kielce when police officers from Polish SWAT were practising rappelling onto a roof of shopping mall "Galeria Echo" - here's a video:

facebook.com/echoswi/videos/371109804465177/

It looks pretty cool when the blades basically stop rotating :)

Law / Polish Police and Their Tactics [237]

I saw this birdy in the sky today :):

kielce.naszemiasto.pl/policyjny-smiglowiec-black-hawk-juz-w-kielcach-ruszyly/ar/c1-8421653

And something for pawian :)):

News / Why is no one on here talking about the man killed by the Police in Lubin? [29]

@Milo, the funny thing though is that this forum is about Poland... lol Just saying...

Life / Proper way to format a Polish mailing address when sending to Poland? [24]

@JoeyV, yes, it's correct, although in case of such a small village I guess you could add the name of the voivodeship (just in case) too:

NAME
Nieszkowice 16
56-100 NIESZKOWICE
woj. dolnośląskie
POLAND

News / Why is no one on here talking about the man killed by the Police in Lubin? [29]

People here aren't talking about many things that are happening in Poland...

washingtonpost.com/world/protesters-attack-polish-police-after-mans-death-in-custody/2021/08/08/f95ad900-f887-11eb-911c-524bc8b68f17_story.html

The police claim that the man died on his way to the hospital. The medical rescue workers say that he was already dead when they arrived. The medical personel at ER at the hospital where he was taken say that he had a crushed larynx and so he suffocated (he was already dead when he arrived). According to the official autopsy the cause of death is "unknown". According to the witnesses the police had problems with handling that guy and they were very brutal. The new video that the family got lately is showing that one of the cops kneeled on their sons throat. So they decided to have a private autopsy... abroad. Results in two weeks time.

It looks like the police is lying and there's some subterfuge going on...

"The police claim that the man died on his way to the hospital."

Ah sorry, my mistake, it's even better - the police claims that he died two hours after he arrived at the hospital.

Btw, it isn't a daily occurence for Polish people to attack a police station...

Here's a video showing the riots and a fragment where the man in question is screaming: "They're going to kill me!":

youtu.be/Iba4D5g_CPM

Language / Can you transcribe this name? [6]

Yes, I think it's Zygmunt - that's a male name. What follows after that is scribbled terribly, I think it could be (...)aresicz. It's hard to say...

UK, Ireland / Polish drink-driving murderer sentenced to 5.5 years in prison [99]

Me neither, Lenka... Me neither...

echodnia.eu/swietokrzyskie/tragedia-w-daleszycach-mieszkancy-sa-zrozpaczeni-to-byl-okropny-widok-trudno-sie-pozbierac-wideo-zdjecia/ar/c1-15759528

" Ten mężczyzna, mąż potrąconej kobiety i dziecka, bardzo płakał. Klęczał nad córką, bił głową o asfalt i wołał: "córeczko"."

My translation (the witness described what happened):

"That man, the husband of the woman and child who were hit by a car, was crying really hard. He was kneeling over her daughter, hitting his head against the surface of the road and yelling: 'my little daughter'."

UK, Ireland / Polish drink-driving murderer sentenced to 5.5 years in prison [99]

There's been a tragedy in my region - a drunk driver in Daleszyce drove into a family taking a walk on the sidewalk. Only the husband and 7-year-old son survived, his wife and 4-year-old daughter were killed:

o2.pl/informacje/tragedia-w-daleszycach-marzena-z-coreczka-zginely-na-oczach-meza-i-ojca-jego-desperacki-krzyk-rozpaczy-rozdarl-serca-6673116977113632a

The husband is in such a bad mental state that the police officers from Kielce were unable to question him as a witness.
There were three men in that car - all of them drunk. The police couldn't question them either - not because they were in such a shock, but because they were too drunk...

And, surprise, surprise - the driver had his driving licence taken away before already for drunk driving...

It looks like some people simply shouldn't be allowed to drive.

History / Site about the Silent Unseen needs help [5]

And so you'd know - that's not just any internet site - here's the info about the project:

elitadywersji.org/informacja-o-realizacji-projektu/?fbclid=IwAR2pSRJikFhybO58LG4xampNVV3zmRz8_6CvpazLhoTKRkLAPCXoknL18rM

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]


Well, I don't know about that - check this out:

youtu.be/3aVPTBcixhE

News / The ruling party in Poland tries to take American owned TV news station off the air [528]

@gumishu, I have a bigger problem with other things that PiS has done and is still doing than how indiscriminate the 500plus is - it's you guys who are so hell-bent on taking this thread off topic and discussing 500plus (even though there are other threads for that) instead of "Lex TVN" bill (this is what this thread is all about - the "Lex TVN" bill, remember?).

Real Estate / Buying property in Poland [41]

@mochadot18, prices of flats in Poland have been going up recently like crazy, but I'm guessing they're probably still cheaper than in the US... Because of those rises in prices the trend is apparently to look for something outside of the big cities, in the suburbs:

money.pl/gospodarka/ceny-mieszkan-warszawiacy-wydaja-nawet-mniej-niz-4-tys-zl-za-metr-to-wyrazny-trend-6672800328956416a.html