News / Some say modern Poland is split into A and B; The "Old", and the "New". [14]

Poland C is missing on this map. Poland A, B and C are described in this link:

encyklopedia.pwn.pl/haslo/Polska-A-B-C;3959718.html

Life / A Polish comedy programme (swiat wedlug kiepskich?) [16]


Not at all or not always. I am always able to follow a movie without identifying myself with a character. And that is why I like all the characters in "Świat według Kiepskich" without actually identifying myself with any.of them.

As I said: De gustibus non disputandum est, so I won't convince you it is a good series and you won't convince me it is a bad one.

Language / Use of swoj [23]

But it would still mean "his own husband" and "that other guy's husband".

Gosh, the Polish nationalists and the Americanos here would be disgusted !

Life / A Polish comedy programme (swiat wedlug kiepskich?) [16]


But it's amplified and thus it should lead to reflections on who we really are. In an everyday life you think all this is normal, not that good perhaps, so you just move on with things. Watching a witty film is like looking in the mirror that distorts the picture and you see things you would otherwise not see. But most of all, it is made for fun, so those who don't like it should not watch it De gustibus non est disputandum - as the Romans used to say.

In a way I may say I felt exactly like you about the films of Stanisław Bareja in the PRL times. I thought they were extremely stupid as they showed the stupid reality I had around me, so "I didn't need to watch it on TV". And it was only many years later - at a time when the PRL was long gone - that I started to appreciate his brilliant films made not only for fun, but for a bitter reflection perhaps as well..

Language / Use of swoj [23]

But in English the phrase "He loves his wife" may mean 'He loves his own wife" as well as 'He loves that other guy's wife'.


So 'his' is not always 'his' and Rich Mazur would have to admit that Polish is less ambiguous than English.

Life / A Polish comedy programme (swiat wedlug kiepskich?) [16]

No, it is not. It's a series that combines some very primitive humour with some very refined one. Research has found out that its viewers are either people with higher education or those with the most basic one. The latter amuse themselves with its silly and primitive humour, the former is also able to see its deeper level where there are lots of political and other sorts of allusions. The clash of those two types of humour produces a strong comic effect.

In true fact it is my favorite series. Some episodes are not that good, but others are simply brilliant. I remember two or three episodes which I was not able to watch because I was laughing so crazily that I had my face covered with tears. What is strange, however, was that fhe first episode I had ecer watched left me with an impression that the series was awful and not worth giving it a second go. So I had abstained for several years and one day I accidentalyy started to watch yet another episode and since then ... I have fallen in love with this series!

All in all, I think the series is a kind of a "Poles Own True Portrait". I am very much surprised that you didn't like it, Pawian. I would have thought that Spike or Ironside would dislike it, but you...?

Real Estate / Geography / Climate Question(s) - I am looking to buy a property in Poland [14]


They may apply for a permission to the MSWiA. I think they give it to everyone as long as the areas in question are not particularly large.

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


Gosh, these schools look the same all over the country! I have one across the street and it has even been painted over in almost exactly the same colours as yours.

I wonder why PiS hasn't had them demolished as communist relics? There are some who advocate a demolition of the Palace of Culture in Warsaw. Why only the Palace and not commie-built schools?

TYSIĄC SZKÓŁ NA TYSIĄCLECIE - was the slogan, wasn't it?

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [492]

He was released following an appeal to the Court of Appeal in Warsaw.


So you are against the LGBT and at the same time you are against PiS? Very interesting.

Poland has never been boring. Poland was the most cheerful barrack in the (communist) block and now it continuous to be the most cheerful barrack in Central-Eastern Europe.

(And between you and me, this is why people like Ironside left Poland many years ago. He had and still has no sense of humour although, strangely, he is a clown!)

Love / What Do Polish Women Think Of French Men? [26]

WOW! If all your cars are like the one in picture, you are a lucky guy.

Please back to the topic, everyone

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

C'mon, you're right! This is really intriguing and I haven't even wondered about that as this subject has begun to live its own life!

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [492]

Good news! His case should be a real shame for the government.

I don't understand why moderators have merged your thread with this one here. This thread is just a random blablabla thread whereas the LGBT has become a hot political issue in Poland..Do the mods of this forum secretly support our shabby government in the persecution of the LGBT people in Poland and try to conceal your explicitly formulated title because it displays the 'LGBT' word in it?

Mods, stand up to political oppression in Poland, too, and restore Pawdog's thread to its proper place!

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

I really don't remember the whole context and reason for inviting JKM to the TV studio. I may think he said something along these line in the EU parliament and they wanted him to explain it in detail to a broader TV audience. Not everyday would you hear someone in EU parliament crossing the line of political correctness so boldly as JKM did. Janusz Korwin-Mikke is an extremely colorful figure and he usually wins every political skirmish in Poland, so much verbose and intelligent person he is. Unfortunately, he doesn't master spoken English to the extent of being able to quickly and accurately get to the point in this language in the same way he does it in Polish.

Alternatively, the people at CNN may have felt an easy prey in him and this is why they were eager to interview him and make a butt of him in front of TV cameras. But believe me, he is definitely not so stupid to simply say that women are dumper than men. No, he definitely isn't the type of a Texan redneck as the CNN sold him to the international audience.

(I'm sorry in case I wrongly accuse the CNN as I really don't remember what channel was interviewing him; maybe Spike finds the proper source.)

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

Much as I consider JKM a clown, I nevertheless think he had been shouted down by those other CNN or whatever clowns that conducted the interwiev with him. I watched that interview and remember that JKM's message was much more niuanced than just


He had desperately tried to explain it to the interviewer, but:
1. his English was far less perfect than needed to make of it a proper tool to stand up to the highly verbose CNN interwiever(s)

2. it was obvious that the interwiever wasn't particularly interested in getting JKM's message right as she (or even she and he as maybe there were two of them) just jumped on his first words to make a good punchline of him. JKM was effectively shouted down and ridiculed in public. The whole interwiev has left me with a great deal of dismay as to the accuracy and objectivity of their reporting.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


I remember he claimed that if a man commits adultery, it is like spitting onto the street - not proper. But if a woman commits adultery, it is as if someone spat into your house - much worse than just not proper. Anyway, he and his hilarious parties never got more than one, maybe one-and-half per cent in the ballot.


This enclave is already packed with all sorts of weaponry. It's like the biggest US aircraft carrier, but much much much bigger.


The problem is they have nukes, too.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


This is probably true, but I still think a political party of the Konfederacja type is only able to target a relatively small percentage of the electorate. On the internet platforms they target people who has been already dedicated to their cause, and in that sense they communicate between themselves. Your great illusion is that Konfederacja is capable to appeal with their message to a big national audience. In other words, there is this glass ceiling which Konfederacja cannot break. Remember Janusz Korwin-Mikke? He had been very noisy for years and his brilliant opinions were known to almost everyone in Poland, yet his his consecutive couch political parties could never win more than 1% of national vote.

The only chance for Konfederacja is to enter into a coalition with some more universal political force, but not with PiS who in that case will undoubtedly devour Konfederacja for lunch, or if it resists, for supper. A nice option for Konfederacja may be looming in the distance now in the form of Zbigniew Ziobro's party Solidarna Polska. He has obviously started to play to his own goal in the perspective of the 2023 parliamentary election rather than try to keep up the more and more dubious unity within the so-called United Right (Zjednoczona Prawica) formed under the auspices of PiS.

But if one day Mr. Ziobro and Konfederacja create a coalition, win an election and form a government, you know what I'm going to do. I take my toys and I'm off to Berlin. (And you will probably be back in Warsaw from London by then.)

History / MAP OF POLAND IN 1880'S [95]

I'd say it is Miechów in Lesser Poland (małopolskie).

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


Connected with their own audience rather than with a general one.These are niche media which only engage a tiny minority of the population and who tend to think of themselves as some sort of an influential group.

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

There is absolutely no discussion here in Poland on leaving the EU. Such a topic is null, a perfect zero. It simply doesn't exist here. There are no slightest hints for leaving the Union. The government may be chasing the LGBT, but it gives no signs whatsoever of contemplating a Polexit. Neither does the opposition.

Also, I think that when we become net payers, the majority of people would still be choosing to remain in the Union. All parallels with the UK are inaccurate and wrong. Maybe some Polish nationalistic circles are in favour of leaving, but their voice is not even heard among the general public. End of story.

History / Poland rightwingers` bonds with PRL communist regime [191]


You've recently come from the so-called rotten West to Poland and the result is you understand nothing of the rather complicated realities of the PRL. But you are absolved - precisely because you've recently returned to Poland from the rotten West.

Law / Gift tax in Poland [9]

First, if she plans to repay it, it isn't a gift, but a loan. So the taxation would be different, but I don't know what it will be in either case.

News / Religious extremists advocate murdering gay Polish politician [42]


Wow! Isn't it some kind of a rightist's projection of how life looks like in a gay partnership?

PS. Why this funny nick of yours? I understand 'Taczer' (my heroine as well), but 'Korki'? Don't you think a more solemn one (like Ironside 2, for example) would suit your character better?

News / Religious extremists advocate murdering gay Polish politician [42]


Tbh, I've never heard of holding orgies (gay or non-gay) in the streets in Poland. But I hear of assaults on gay people, particularly at the time when PiS starts to call them non-humans.

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [492]


One of the least 'amused' at Gajos comments was Beata Mazurek and that other PiS chap with whom she used to appear together before the TV cameras until they both became European MPs. (This led to a funny scene in the "Ucho Prezesa" series where one of the couple said: 'one of us thinks and the other speaks up' to which the Chairman asked: 'which is which then?').

One of the couple (likewise, I cannot tell now which one) has in this context reproached Janusz Gajos for his excellent role as Prosecutor in the film UKŁAD. Have you perhaps read Wojciech Mann's excellent comments to all this?

Po polsku / Wandalizacja Chrystusa - co robić? [35]

Tak mi to wyglądało już od dawna. Fascynacja czystą męską siłą z jednej strony, zaś okazywanie wrogości osobom LGBT z drugiej.

Tak, to musi być 'denial' Irona, innego wytłumaczenia nie widzę.

Po polsku / Wandalizacja Chrystusa - co robić? [35]

Dobrze, że nie w kolorach tęczy, bo to bardzo wstrząsnęłoby naszym faszystą.

Po polsku / Wandalizacja Chrystusa - co robić? [35]

Nie czytam dziecinnych postów tego całego Ironka (mam go na 'ignore list'), ale widzę, że ten faszysta musiał znowu wystąpić z jakimś mocnym tekstem obrażającym ludzi dobrej woli na całym świecie.

History / "Poland Syndrome" should be renamed [45]


I think the polka is a Czech dance, is it not?

Travel / Architecture style in Poland [24]


Thanks for the links. Bielsko was first Polish, however.

Language / Family members in Polish [8]


I know people (of north-eastern Mazovia) who still know who świekra is. I don't and have never heard or used it in my family. My grandma (south-eastern Mazovia) used: wujna (wujenka), stryj (stryjek), stryjna (stryjenka). I have never used such forms.

Synowiec was used in Pan Tadeusz:
Szabel nam nie zabraknie, szlachta na koń wsiędzie,
Ja z synowcem na czele, i? - jakoś to będzie!

Some of those names just make me smile.