Off-Topic / The case of Srebrenica, stance of Poland and international consequences [31]


Excellent news.

And great that the resolution passed with a comfortable majority.


Eswatini, Nauru, Sao Tome & Principe and Antigua Barbuda did after all vote against it...

Off-Topic / Serbia etc. thread 3 [437]

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News / Northern Lights in Poland [49]


They're visible every few months in the northernmost parts of the U.K. mainland.

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Off-Topic / The case of Srebrenica, stance of Poland and international consequences [31]


What 'problem'?

And as mentioned, they made a thread for your drivel about Balkan microstates.

Off-Topic / The case of Srebrenica, stance of Poland and international consequences [31]

They made a special thread for you to post your irrelevant drivel about the Balkans.

Language / Should Polish bands and singers sing in Polish or English? [17]

@Lyzko
A quick look on google suggests a French singer did a cover of one of her songs. Perhaps you've heard that instead.

Language / Should Polish bands and singers sing in Polish or English? [17]


Has she?

She's from the Home Counties and has a Londony accent. Who is marketing her as French and why?????

Does she even speak French? I'm pretty sure she's not done songs in French.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adele

Language / Should Polish bands and singers sing in Polish or English? [17]


As far as I know she sings in her native languge.

Genealogy / Born to Arab parents in Poland [13]


Don't worry too much. Take the advice of family, doctors etc. It might not always seem like they're on your side however they are and sometimes it's normal that what you think is real and a problem, in fact isn't real or a problem.

We don't always see things clearly at times.

Off-Topic / thinking of writting a book about myself [219]


This does seem to exist. One day, science will know how and then why.


Sometimes it's possible to know right away when someone close to you is in danger or has just died.

It's nothing supernatural or magical; just something ordinary that we don't understand yet.

Genealogy / Born to Arab parents in Poland [13]


Arabs from where?


Why not do a DNA test. 23 and Me is good.


I doubt they hate you. Even the opposite.

Language / Should Polish bands and singers sing in Polish or English? [17]


Their call, unless they massacre the English language as some overseas pop groups do.

There was that German one, Sarah something, who sang in English with a British /Irish name. Her song was nevertheless too kitschy and German to do well in most markets. It lacked authenticity and was puzzling why she wouldn't use her own German name.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Connor_(singer)

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

When the posters whose names are removed invest so much of what little energy they have left in playing games, they can't complain when they get it back.

Life / Why Poles are so much different than other slavic nations? Poland must return to mother Poland. [38]

IQ is a test of acquired skills. It is impacted by given cultures and visual stimulus. It is neither inherent nor connected to DNA.

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]


This is neither an academic essay nor a debating forum.

Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]


They're a nuisance sometimes.


I'd guess that's a lot to do with Thomas Mann looking for an effeminate if not quite androgynous version. Plus, it's quite dated.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


If they have them...

History / Monte Cassino 80th Anniversary [18]


Maths.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


Time to thwart that. They have no right to either.


It's what the voters of the countries nearer to r*SSia think that counts. And if American business wants access to those markets to invest in and profit from, they have to respect that. If their voters want to go their own way geopolitically, they will find out very quickly that their corporations, financial markets and private equity companies will have to look elsewhere. Splendid isolation means just that. Withdraw from others and they withdraw access to their markets from you. The value of their investments will go down instead of up.


Sooner or later they'll have to accept that and it will be a bitter pill for them to swallow.


This is so obvious it hardly needs stating but nevertheless has to be stated.

Study / Best Polish Primary school in Wroclaw for Foreigners [17]


I'm doing it now in the MENA region, albeit adults. I've taught teens from North Africa and liked it. One problem though is that they tend to want everything at once rather than step by step. I've done school inspections there and what struck me was that there was opaque boardwork with the kids copying stuff down and half-expected to understand without any sort of scaffolding or the teachers working towards objectives and/or partial objectives..


And no use to man nor beast.


There definitely should be. I wonder what they're doing instead.

Language / Terms of endearment in Polish [222]


A poor translation.

They should just have kept it as it was. People who can't deal with foreign languages and aren't used to watching films in different languages are more likely to be sat in tarpaper shacks in backwoods Michigan and probably aren't watching books by Mann that are filmed by Visconti.

History / Monte Cassino 80th Anniversary [18]


The before and after pictures of the monastery are harrowing.

Interestingly, much of the fighting was due to a translation error when an intercepted German radio communication was misunderstood. That cost a lot of lives.

History / Honoring - Otto Schimek [47]


A remarkable man. Denmark had it very easy in WW2 compared to Poland however there are still some amazing stories from there.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


This is nothing new, sadly. r*SSia is pernicious and expends a lot of resources on things like this.


They can decide for themselves how vigilant they want to be and if you'd ever been to Poland, you'd know how suspicious people are. Unfortunately there is a lot of countryside in PL and it is easy to hide.


There are a lot of personnel (at least one reading this right now) and they know how to do their job well and have a lot of experience doing it.

History / Identify the artists for these paintings? Appears to be 19th or 20th century painting [14]


Not great quality, are they. The painting could do with restoration too from the look of it. There's still something about the colour and the shading on the snow that looks cruder than most of his work.

Nevertheless, I've seen real ones of his up close that are simpler than the ones in large collections.

I wonder why the poster was banned.

History / Identify the artists for these paintings? Appears to be 19th or 20th century painting [14]

As I say, the style's right.

There are certainly auction houses in Chicago that are used to Kossak paintings, both originals and "in the style of" and would be used to analysing what specifically needs to be looked at to verify one.

I'd worry about the smudge around the signature however professional cleaning would help that painting. It's nice, and I'd have it on the wall.

If you go to Google Images and type in - Wojciech kossak obrazy - you'll see a fair selection of his work.

His son Jerzy and a forebear Juliusz were artists too however their styles are different.

History / Identify the artists for these paintings? Appears to be 19th or 20th century painting [14]

It's certainly in that style, albeit rather cruder than most of his stuff.

I'm not sure if there's a Catalogue Raisonné; the Muzeum Narodowy in Warsaw may be able to advise.

History / Identify the artists for these paintings? Appears to be 19th or 20th century painting [14]

The artistic family was called Kossak.

Be careful though, there are a lot of fakes, perhaps more paintings done in that style with the name at the bottom than ones they actually did themselves.

There were a particularly large number of fakes being sold within Polish diaspora communities. Usually the owners knew they weren't real (and the prices reflected that) but people liked to have them.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Kossak