Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


The fantasy style and colours appeals to me.


Hilarious and true!


He's a very good artist, I would go to see his work.


I find some of the his more intimate paintings make me feel slightly uncomfortable. They're so realistic that looking at them almost makes me feel like I'm intruding.

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I am the opposite. When it gets dark so early makes me feel like the walls are closing in. I really don't like the lack of light, it's depressing. Give me long summer evenings every time.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [699]


I've not heard this phrase before but to me it suggests inequality. A mental midget if you like.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [699]


To not be worthy?

Life / Polish Nursery Rhymes [253]


The same. Over here they're called broad beans.

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News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [595]


It's a vaccine not a therapeutic as Alex Berenson tried to claim:

forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2021/09/03/some-claim-covid-19-vaccine-is-not-a-vaccine-twitter-suspends-alex-berensons-account/

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


There's no hope for the so-called PF Christian then.

News / Coronavirus in Poland - part 2 [595]


That's garbage from an anti-vax website but some people will believe any old tripe.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [699]


To the truth? Really not sure about this one.

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


So that's your excuse to say the vile things you do to forum members? The real life stalking of them that you do? Being a sinner makes everything you say and do acceptable?

You're nothing more than a hypocrite.

You don't have to be religious to be a good and decent person but then you wouldn't know anything about that.

Life / Poles turn their backs on organised religion. [148]


It's not someone that posts filth like this:

Thats it, you done already, Lucy. 😋
(Wipe your chin)

polanda.com/off-topic/random-chat-88490/19/#msg1982808

You're completely delusional if you think that your words and actions are in any way those of a Christian.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


I agree with you. The only reason I mentioned stomach is because of Pawian's response to Alien thinking it was stomach. Not dark enough for oxtail and I don't know if that's even popular in Poland.

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]


So it is a stomach? Sheep?

I was reading this article yesterday which some might find interesting. The first on the list made me want to vomit as it invoked unpleasant childhood memories....

Unbelievably, beaver tails are also on the menu!

culture.pl/en/article/10-polish-dishes-that-will-probably-weird-you-out

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I have only tried this once as I haven't seen it since. Absolutely delicious. Although I think it tastes more like a cake than bread.


I presume you mean Polish bread in the US. GMO crops are banned in Poland.

History / Information required on location of WW2 prisoner of war working parties ( arbeits kommandos ) in Poland [15]


Thanks for taking the time to look for me BB. I have got all the paperwork I could find from British sources.

I have military records, papers from ICRC and all records from The National Archives.

Sadly, my relative didn't complete a Liberation Questionnaire which would have been useful.


Yes, I've read that too. Stalag VIIIB was one of the largest and most notorious POW camps.


Done, but no joy.


Thank you BB, and for taking the time to reply.

* waves back*

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]

Looks like a dog to me...

Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

Looks like pork but that would be way too easy!

History / Information required on location of WW2 prisoner of war working parties ( arbeits kommandos ) in Poland [15]


Most of it I already knew BB because of information contained in the Lamsdorf /Stalag VIIIB/344 website, now the prisoners of war museum website. The same goes for your wikibrief link but it did specifically mention E88 Kommando, the working party attached to the Prezydent mine:

E88 Hohenlohe Hut - Wełnowiec - (District in Katowice-1951) Coal Mine "Król" (King) East Shaft - "Agneschaft" - Agnes Hut Colony
prisoner of war (177); Shaft "Agnieszka" - eastern shaft of the mine "Król" ("Król-Święty Jacek") in the Agnieszka colony; ("Königsgrube" - Königshütte / mine "Prezydent" - Chorzów)


I see a lot of photos of Stalag VIIIB POW from various websites, so far I've not been lucky and spotted one of my family member but it's a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack.

I was incredibly lucky to find mention of him in a fellow POW war diary which had been uploaded to a website along with hundreds of others. I picked one diary at random to read and found that not only was this POW in the same regiment as my family member but that both had been captured on the same day in the same place in France. Their POW numbers were consecutive too meaning it was likely they were both processed at the same time. What are the chances of that!

I have been told by a member of staff at the Centralne Muzeum Jencow Wojennych that the majority of records of Stalag VIIIB prisoners are in the Russian State Archives. They were seized by the Soviet Army after the camp had been evacuated. I did contact them using Google Translate and I did get a reply that confirmed that they did hold British POW records but didn't have the resources to search for them.

Thanks very much for your help :)

History / Information required on location of WW2 prisoner of war working parties ( arbeits kommandos ) in Poland [15]


It isn't BB as I've already run the article through GT, but it does contain some different information to the Polish link I provided.

I was wondering only if wartime records about this mine were kept but thanks for replying anyway :)

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [699]


Something occurring sooner rather than later, anytime now?

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [699]


Is it the same as in English? To do everything it takes and work as hard as you can to achieve something?

To leave no stone unturned and to pull out all the stops are similar idioms.

History / Information required on location of WW2 prisoner of war working parties ( arbeits kommandos ) in Poland [15]


I think I've got as far as I'm going to to be honest as I doubt anyone here will have an interest in old Polish mines or know anyone that does. Always worth an ask though :)

History / Information required on location of WW2 prisoner of war working parties ( arbeits kommandos ) in Poland [15]

As an update I have since found out that my family member was put to work in the East Field of this mine in Chorzów, although during WW2 it was known as Königsgrube Ostfeld.

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopalnia_W%C4%99gla_Kamiennego_Prezydent

More information but in German:

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kopalnia_W%C4%99gla_Kamiennego_Kr%C3%B3l?fbclid=IwY2xjawF_loBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHV1Z5cdOJ0fwafKEgXZaHLIhWtDYq0CP9cWAFO19NIv5H6f0gru2MOBuVQ_aem_mWPZ0buFUuu1hJpDUKtaRw


The Eastern shaft of the mine was known as Agnieszka.

Maybe one day I'll go on the Industrial Monuments Route to see the hoisting tower of the Prezydent shaft.

Don't suppose anyone here would have any idea about how to find out if wartime records were kept about this mine? Long shot I know.

Probably about as likely as getting the rest of my family member's POW records out of the Russian State Archives.....

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Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


I guess that's what people did. My parents took the carpets with them when we moved to a different part of the country. By then we had an expensive Axminster carpet although still equally hideous. Unbelievably, in yet another part of the country, I had the same carpet on the floor of my current home. First thing I did was to have it ripped out along with all the other carpets.


I find this obscene. What does a billionaire need yet more money for. Greed, pure and simple :(
I will read the link it came from later.


Me too. There's way too much snobbery in the art world.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


I get that but for me it doesn't make any difference. The only thing the red scribbles suggest to me, other than being painted by a child, is that maybe the artist was angry and venting when he painted them.

Art is a very personal thing and I understand that you like abstract paintings but I can't see what you see in them. They go way over my head!


I agree and it seems to be all about what has become 'fashionable' at the time regardless of whether the art is actually any good. Damien Hirst and his sheep in formaldehyde springs to mind.......


That's almost a given although in his case he was hardly starving in a garret somewhere.


This is true but sad at the same time. If I wanted to make a profit on artwork I would definitely choose something I like that could be put on display. I feel anything otherwise amounts to little more than greed and is an insult to the artist. But then, I often have views contrary to other people.

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It doesn't and his last post was only 2 hours ago.

https://polishforums.com/index.php?action=userinfo&user=59689

Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [857]

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Life / Polish Music. [298]

Lenka originally posted the video and it is amazing. Can't find it online to download on my phone though :(

Here is a short but interesting article on the making of the video:

britishpoles.uk/732-instrumentalists-16-singers-1-song-what-a-concert-video/