News / Nukes and Poland's Neutrality [105]


I will repeat this again - not with such neighbour like RuSSia. Neutrality won't save us from RuSSia.


Those are small countries. Besides, if I'm to be honest, I don't think it's in Polish nature to be neutral lol ;)

News / Nukes and Poland's Neutrality [105]


That would all depend on the behaviour and credibility of the rest of NATO, imho. Also, we can't be 100% neutral while being a member of the EU - we have to look out at least to some extent for the well being and interests of other EU countries, because we're all in it together.

We share many values with the majority of the countries that are part of NATO and the EU. For me the most important one is democracy. I think that with the anti-democratic powers on the rise in the world it's better (or even crucial) for us to stick together. 🤔 W kupie siła - Poland is stronger in the EU and NATO and the EU and NATO is stronger with Poland.

Don't get me wrong - it would be nice to be completely neutral, I guess, but with such neighbour like RuSSia - I'm afraid that's impossible/dangerous.


If Americans will abandon us then they will have nothing to say on this matter. And RuSSia can stuff it - they didn't ask us for our consent when they were getting their nukes lol o_O

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [797]


Yes, it depends on the situation, I suppose.


Nope.


Nope.


No, I think if a car hit a concrete barrier there would be some damage visible on the front of the car. 🤔 But you're getting closer...

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [797]


The situation was actually more scary than that. So what happened? What could be the other reason for a wheel to fall off?


Yes, but they used the second one, because the wheel on the other side got a flat tire:

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [797]


Well, if the car is viewed as a danger (it's on the road and not in a ditch, for example) firefighters in Poland have to remove it, from what I understand. 🤔 It's not the case in the UK?


Wow, yes, exactly - you're so observant! :D


Yes, they're moving it off the road! :) It wasn't due to breakdown though, so what happened? Why the wheel would fall off?

Btw, for moving the car they used those thingies with wheels that I think are called car wheel dolly jack (?) in English. Can you guess why they would need two of those for one car?:

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [797]

@Alien, nope, it isn't exercise.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [797]

What do you think has happened and what are they doing? (since I can't see pawian's posts, his potential answers don't count):

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News / Sikorski doctrine - Eastern Europe under threat. Poland's foreign policy. [203]

@Torq, LOL

Thanks, I needed a laugh, but all of what is happening is more scary than funny.

News / Sikorski doctrine - Eastern Europe under threat. Poland's foreign policy. [203]


I doubt it. I wouldn't be surprised if they demanded an apology from Sikorski for daring to open his mouth and not thanking often enough and not being grateful enough lol Thank God he's wearing a suit in his profile photo at least ;O 🤦


Well, clearly that means sh1t to the current American administration.


I think we can see now what an "important" ally Poland is for the US lol


Apparently they do that to steal some votes from Konfederacja for presidential elections. I think they are also simply sucking up to Trump. Being in power is more important for them than Poland's security, moral values and basic human decency.

Life / Life in Poland - ECONOMY [43]

Eurostat map showing unemployment in the EU in January 2025 (the general EU unemployment rate was 5.8%):

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Feedback / Getting logged out of PF [26]


Hmm, I didn't do that though...

Feedback / Getting logged out of PF [26]

@pawian, most of the time I'm using my phone when reading and writing on PF.


Thanks for the explanation, I don't think I've logged out in a very long time though (as far as I can remember)... I guess we'll see in a few months. 🤔


Huh... o_O

Feedback / Getting logged out of PF [26]


Ah, OK... Thanks Lenka :) I was worried that maybe my account got hacked or something o_O


So it happened only to me today (or yesterday, I don't know)?

A login cookie automatically expires after a few months (meaning you would get "logged out") and then it requires to login again.

USA, Canada / What I don't get about Americans vs Polish [56]


Yeah, narcissists flip out when their bullsh1t is being challenged.


From what I've read there are probably no minerals, there is no mineral deal and all of this is apparently bullsh1t... So I don't know what's going on anymore...

USA, Canada / What I don't get about Americans vs Polish [56]


It's honestly hard for me to believe that they're really such oversensitive snowflakes... I think they're just giving it as a pretext to sh1t on Zelensky and d1tch him. Maybe they think that he will be replaced by someone who will just agree to whatever USA and RuSSia will demand... Or they're some kind of unstable narcissists o_O

History / Historic Photos about Poland with Context [31]

Fat Thursday themed photos - people selling pączki (Polish donuts) in the street in Warsaw, 1934 - photographs by Adam Jankowski :):

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Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]


*I don't know what

Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]


I don't what he was looking for, but he definitely was very interested in knowing whether I'm single or not lol I've been torturing him with this Great Unknown ever since ;D


Wow, that's some desperation lol Good effort though ;D


No, you're just being a nasty a-hole.


Nope.

Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]


You mean crying? Yes, one guy completely fell apart during a reality TV show "Siły Specjalne Polska" on Polsat.


I don't know, I don't think I ever witnessed anything like that. 🤔 Why, did you count? lol


That's also what happened with white American men in the videos I posted for you. With all that "What have I done?????" and "You can't do that!!!!" , etc. included lol


No, that's how stupid or unstable some people (both men and women) are.

Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]


You see, all you can do is insult/attack people and lie. There were no calls, you shared that private stuff with me in a private message on PF :)


Haha :D So, you'd like me to be a better person than you are and treat you better than you're treating me, huh?


Yeah, a-holes like him like to dish it out, but they can't take it lol

Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]

@Novichok, your post #49 is a load of prejudiced bollocks.


They clearly aren't too stupid, because if they were they wouldn't be able to get such education and do such jobs in various countries - women are working in those fields not only in "progressive" West, but also in Muslim Turkey, for example.

Btw, in my class at high school the best student at math was a girl (and my best friend :)).


How am I being a "busybody and trying to force people to do what I want" by sharing positive stats about Poland? Are you stupid? (that's a rhetorical question, btw lol) 🤦


You don't know anything about me, but it looks like I know one thing (among others) about you - you're too stupid to work in those fields, so you're jealous of those women who can :))) That's pathetic.

And why are you attacking me personally for having a normal discussion with people? It seems it's because you don't have anything intelligent or factual to say on the subject matter.

You claim all kinds of things about me despite not knowing anything about me, while I do know stuff about your private life that don't show you in good light and yet I'm not yapping about them publicly on the forum in order to discredit you.

Your behaviour is lame and immature, Ironside.
Grow up.

Off-Topic / Random movies (not Polish) proposed by forum users [95]


Have you seen it?


Thanks, I have heard about this movie before, but haven't seen the trailer yet.


They will probably show it at some point on Polish TV, so I'm going to be looking out for it. For now I can say that I don't like that scene where they make poses in front of the Warsaw Uprising Monument - it's disrespectful... Especially that the main protagonists are supposed to be Jews from what I understand... I suspect they wouldn't be behaving like that in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes or a Holocaust memorial...

Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]


Hmm, what if it looked differently if women had more interesting jobs? It's not that hard to value work/life balance when you're a cleaning lady or working as a cashier at Biedronka... and if you don't have the pressure on you of being the sole breadwinner for the family... 🤔

Women have other stereotypical societal pressures on them that may influence their choices:


Don't want to or have no other choice?

There's definitely the "mother's guilt" at play here, but why fathers don't have that feeling of guilt when they're away from their kids for large portions of the day or at least often not to the same extent as women?

I've read not long ago an interview with a Polish psychologist. She said she was asked by an owner of a company to help his female CEO, because she was suffering from "job burnout". But when the psychologist talked to that CEO it turned that her work isn't the cause of the burnout - she loved her job. The problem was that despite being a CEO of a serious company and earning a lot of money she had a second job - at home. She was taking care of the kids and doing all the housework, because she wanted to show that she can be a good mother and wife despite working professionally on such a high position. And, of course, that was too much. From what I remember her husband is a taxi driver.

Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]


And comments about Turkey:

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History / Crazy 1990s in Poland - transition from communism to capitalism - stories [108]


lol Our Russian teacher maybe wasn't that toxic, but was definitely irritating and generally not very pleasant - she had a very high-pitched, whiny voice, and when she was screaming it would get even worse ;O Sometimes I wondered if they made her the teacher of Russian to discourage us from learning that language ;D

Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]


It's in that link I posted:

"Across all economic activities present in the statistical classification of economic activities in the EU (NACE rev. 2), women represented 41.0% of the scientists and engineers workforce. This share was higher in services related activities at 45.6%. In manufacturing, women represented 22.4% of scientists and engineers, while in other activities that share was 23.9%. "


Me neither, but I don't like it when women are getting discouraged from going into those fields, when they are met with hostile environment once they get there, when they're treated worse than men there, when people claim they're too stupid or not good enough to go into those fields. Such stereotypical way of thinking (about "women's and men's interests and what they prefer") has consequences. I had a look at comments on Eurostat Facebook profile under the post about this data and these are comments of a woman from Finland (which is famous for having good education):

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Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]

@Novichok, oh, trust me, many if not most women wouldn't want to have to deal with little kids for 8 hours at their jobs lol So try better.

Life / Do you think women have the place they deserve in modern Polish society ? [66]


Many do. They outright claim this or insinuate, like you do.


And why do you think they end up claiming those jobs?