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Posts by Torq  

Joined: 2 Dec 2023 / Male ♂
Last Post: 13 Sep 2025
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From: Gdansk
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Torq   
1 Jul 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

Is it at all like the Discovery Channel's "Pawn Stars"?

The subject matter is somewhat similar but the style is very much different. Lombard is focused more on Polish cultural context and human stories, with dramatized storylines, romance, suspense, crime. OK, a bit of a mental candy perhaps but, as Maf said, fun and representative of modern Poland.
Torq   
1 Jul 2025
Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

Ls

Those Ls will remain as long as Poland remains and as long as faithful, decent and honourable Legia fans walk this land; Legia's spirit shall never kneel, nor her colours fade. So there.

I'll try to keep the comments respectful and to a minimum!

Brilliant.
Torq   
1 Jul 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

the staff of the Pawn Shop in question are professional actors

Buczkowski is a feckin' legend!

genuinely entertaining and pretty representative of modern Poland

Precisely. :)
Torq   
1 Jul 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

Wataha and Blinded by the Lights (...) Rojst. Wielka Woda. Odwilz

@Bobko

Don't listen to this anti-Legia twat. If you want genuine knowledge about modern day Poland, watch Lombard. Życie pod zastaw. 16 seasons, the first one is available on Polish Netflix (episodes 1-39), of pure gold--funny and addictive AF.

Yes, I am a man of simple pleasures.
Torq   
1 Jul 2025
Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

Your whambulance is on its way, sir.

Oh, I'm not crying, just vomiting.

Ah, I've got it. Legia supporter?

Ever since March 1991 and the epic battle against Sampdoria in Cup Winners Cup QF. Szczęsny (the father) in goal, young Kowalczyk with a double... Czachowski, Pisz, Kubicki - what a team it was! And then, still in the 90s, Champions League, the game in Warsaw against Blackburn with Shearer, Sherwood and Sutton - 1:0 Legia. Ahhh... those were the days.

So let's just make one thing clear: you can make derogatory comments about Polish emigrants in the UK (most of them are patologia and peasants anyway), you can insult the president, the prime minister and the Pope, but if you keep sh*tting on Legia, we're going to have a problem.
Torq   
1 Jul 2025
Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

What's your problem?

I suppose I've finally gotten too old for that kind of sh*thead trolling.
Torq   
1 Jul 2025
Life / The Best Things About Poland [65]

I live in their spawning ground, where they slither from their ichorous eggs

@Admin

This is nothing short of trolling. The c*nt promised that he would leave but didn't keep his word (as c*nts never do).

158 posts, most of them nothing else but boring and repetitive trolling, and not even a warning? How long will this lowlife be allowed to continue? If it's a new member - just ban him. If it's an old one trolling under a new username - ban both. You have the "ban" button for a reason--use it.
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

A capitalistic Russia will let loose all the demons of Polish capitalism.

Hmm... so maybe middle-class shopkeepers might be of some use too?
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

You cannot predict what would have happened.

Knowing nazis I think I have a pretty good idea of what would have happened.

I know you prefer pleasant-sounding stories.

Did my alternative history scenario sound pleasant to you?
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Together with us, we can be unstoppable. We will dominate this sorry planet, and then make every other world we encounter our b*tch.

Ah... your words are tempting, Lord Vader, but I think we'll take a rain check.
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

the correct decision would be to stick with Germany for the time being

Oh, for crying out loud, Iron...

Poles have lost their ability to comprehend geopolitics and the unspoken rules of politics

Oh yeah?

OK, just for the sake of argument - let's roll with your scenario of Poland allying herself to the nazi abomination (even if it makes me want to throw up).

Hitler was a couple of divisions (3... maybe 4) away from capturing Moscow in 1941. If he didn't have to fight Poland in 1939 and on top of that had around 70 Polish divisions at his disposal from the first days of Operation Barbarossa (which would have started much earlier in your scenario than June 1941), the Soviet Union would have fallen and Nazis would have been victorious.

What would such scenario mean? It would mean the doom of the Russian nation, our blood brothers (whether you like it or not). This would have been kurewstwo of the first order if we had helped with that. Besides, what on earth would we have earned? Germans would have taken away all of Silesia from us anyway, and the pathetic shards of Pomerania that we had, probably Toruń and Poznań as well. Lebensraum and all that. We might have been offered some compensation in the East, but what would we have done with those lands full of Ukrainian, Russian and Belarussian minorities? Back then they weren't ours anymore and would never have been again.

We would end up as galactic-scale kurwas. And for what? For nothing.
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

we respect this

As long as you exclude those who shot him, and called him a b*tch right after, from this collective "we".
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

He maintained his dignity, and did not give these homosexuals one moment of satisfaction.

Reminds me of the captured Ukrainian soldier who said "Slava Ukraini!" a moment before Russian soldiers shot him. I won't post the video but you can find it if you want.
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Polish bravery

Bravery

I don't even know if it's even bravery in the proper sense of the word.

At some point we stop caring and just want to spit our enemies in the face one last time (see Warsaw Uprising). It's something between bravery and the urge to make history choke on us. I don't know how to explain it...

Vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano!

Well, there's a reason why Poland has Italy in our national anthem, and they have Poland in theirs. :)

maybe other people will find this thread useful in their search in the future

Then they will also learn something about Poland (e.g. that there are more important things for us than a thread being derailed).
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

those officers in Katyn met their death with honor

They were Polish. They sucked meeting death with honour with the milk of their mothers.
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

But they never allowed themselves to скурвиноваться.

Precisely.

My paternal grandpa always said: "W życiu nie trzeba być świętym, wystarczy nie być kurwą".
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

@Bobko

All in all, I think Poland made good choices in WW2 (maybe apart from starting the Warsaw Uprising). We avoided allying ourselves to either of criminal totalitarianisms, we fought the undeniable baddies from the first day of the war to the last, and at the end we were betrayed and sold to the commies - no fault of our own, nobody can blame us.

We achieved the only victory worth achieving - moral victory. Total moral victory.

Hard to be a Pole.

No kidding.
Torq   
30 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Poland tried to pursue its age old policy of "Equal Distance", trying to balance between Germany and Russia, and deterring them through diplomatic rigidity.

Proper order. Balancing and going the middle way is the most commonsensical thing to do. What were we supposed to do? Ally ourselves to brown madmen or to red maniacs?

In reality it left Poland friendless and exposed.

We don't need friends. You are all lunatics.

a two-front war that no mid-sized power could survive

Sometimes it's better to lose when other alternatives are below our dignity.

The correct choice was not to ally with Germany, but to come to the Kremlin on your knees, and beg forgiveness from Stalin.

By then we knew exactly who Germans were. Poland would never be allies with such abomination.

As to coming to anybody on our knees and begging... I thought you knew us better than that. :)

Guys, that's not what this thread is about.

Hey! Let gjene learn something about the country he wants to be the citizen of!
Torq   
29 Jun 2025
Po polsku / Wojna między płciami - To nonsens! [9]

Sprawy damsko-męskie wcale nie są tak bardzo skomplikowane. Jedna strona ma swoje potrzeby i oczekiwania, podobnie druga strona. My chcemy czegoś od nich, one chcą czegoś od nas. Jeżeli obydwie strony dostają to czego chcą, a do tego jest obustronny szacunek, to już jest super.

No, ale dodatkowo są jeszcze uczucia i piękna damsko-męska chemia. Więc, jeżeli do tego co napisałem powyżej dojdzie jeszcze miłość, obok tego przyjaźń i zaufanie, to jest to przepis na szczęście na całe życie. Mówi Wam to koleś, który jest żonaty od 21 lat (z tą samą kobietą :)) i ojciec dwójki dzieci.

Nie idźcie w żadne wojny płci, red-pille, MGTOWy, itp. itd. To są rzeczy wymyślone przez debili dla debili.

Szczęścia Wam życzę, Panowie.
Torq   
28 Jun 2025
Food / Do you call it kiszka or kaszanka? [61]

I personally like kaszanka the best when fried - like this :)

:)

*user Paulina gets +5 Polishness, +3 manliness*
Torq   
28 Jun 2025
Genealogy / Russian POW Camp records [71]

Torq - I have included a scanned copy of the documents for both medals.

Aleksander Michał Froelich...

...how about a mixed family?

... bingo.

But why does it say "London"?

Very interesting! It looks like your grandpa's medal was awarded in London by the legal structures of Polish Armed Forces in exile. Polish government in exile resided in London until 1990.

It was awarded by the Polish government-in-exile in London

Yes, my bad. *blushes*
Torq   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

I've told it to you straight and sincerely.

Yeah, like a million times. Dude, you really take 'boring' to a whole new level.

People on the internet write sh*t about your country and they will keep doing it. Live with it.

you've been hanging around an obscure little forum FAR too long

I can say exactly the same thing about you. You've been hanging around here WAY too long even if it's only one week.

I am getting really tired of you in general.

I can say exactly the same thing about you.
Torq   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

we've had enough of Brits and other Westerners sh1t-talking about Poland, Poles and anything Polish on this forum for years.

Oh, don't even get me started... we had some of that sh*t on ATP too but over there BB and I had the 'Ban' button he he
Torq   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

thousands of them

How do you know it's 'thousands of them'?

Maybe it's the same, bored or frustrated 100 people out of hundreds of thousands that emigrated to the UK? A negligible fraction of a percent.

Look at yourself - you managed to make well over 100 posts on the same topic in a couple of days - now imagine what a 100 of you would be able to do in over 20 years (Poland entered the EU in 2004, and that's when Poles started emigrating en masse to Britain). How do you know it's not a hundred or so of your Polish equivalents? :)
Torq   
28 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [200]

Poles gleefully sh*t-talking

gathering en masse on social media channels to insult

Poles are flapping their big, rude mouths all over the internet

Poles are the bigmouths of the internet

Dude... it's like a cuntillionth time that you mention this here. :-/

I don't know British customs all that well (Poles are, in general, rather indifferent to cultures they regard as inferior) but even in your country saying the same thing for the umpteenth time must be frowned upon. I mean, when you talk to an intelligent person and you say the same thing twice... OK, maybe three times, then they will be annoyed, and they will think that you are either some kind of a retard or you consider them retards.

But when you keep saying the same thing a million times... in the real life people would run away at the very sight of you; online... that's just low quality trolling.