News / Poland's LBGT Seen as Dangerous Foreign Idea. [39]


Not really the case in Poland.... as anyone who is actually Polish would know....

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


It's a lot better than it used to be.... and the problems can be traced back to the PRL and its horrifically dysfunctional and corrupt supply chains.

In the 1990s most stores worked on a variant of the old 'job lot' system - if they needed tea or coffee they got whatever they could find at the hurtownia and when that ran low they got more, not paying attention to anything like brands.

It's only since some time after 2000 and the rise of chains that keep track of what brands sell and what doesn't that any continuity has been able to be established.

And since the public is used to different and changing brands they mostly don't think of brands except for a few areas....

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


British food appeals to Poles about as much as a cheeseburger does to an orthodox Jew.... it's not even anything they recognize as food.... (same goes for American food, I tell people you can actually eat very well in America if you know how to avoid the processed junk.... but hardly any ever believe me)

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

tvn24 had some local politicians expressing support for him and it was the most PRL thing I'd ever seen... reading prepared texts with no engagement whatsoever...

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]

No one wants to talk about the newest budget ailine.... "Air Kuchciński"?

tvn24.pl/tvn24-news-in-english,157,m/poland-s-parliament-speaker-resigns-amid-private-flights-scandal,959510.html

UK, Ireland / Why are Polish people, especially women, so disrespectful toward the English? [442]


No. You were hounded out by a British government that wants as many people as possible working for as little money as possible. Your government doesn't see you as a citizen (or subject... whatever) it sees you as a resident who doesn't need anything like workers rights and who is not entitled to government services..

If Brexit happens that won't change - they'll just replace Eastern Europeans with whatever other foreign labor can out-compete you economically while not being entitled to government services.

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


Yes, for me gorgonzola is the all time king of cheeses... stanky and nasty and glorious.

Food / British food products in Poland? [334]


Włochy might have a thing or two to say about that...

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]

and he'd spit on the corpses of murdered Poles... like he does now....

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


he woulda svcked Russian &***, just like he does now

History / History of two Neighbors: Poland - Germany Interrelations [283]


It's societal.... when women have more autonomy (and get a taste of life beyond babies and the kitchen) the birth rate drops. This applies even to Iran, during the Iran-Iraq war women kept the country going while the men were getting slaughtered and the birth rate afterward fell like a stone in water.

Compare westernized urban Turkey with sub-replacement rates with the non-westernized and non-urban Kurds....

This doesn't apply to Africa where Africans behave as they've always behaved while non-Africans moved heaven and earth to improve health conditions...

Not to mention rapid population growth is an all but certain precursor to war - Syria more than tripled its population in something like 70 years making self-destructive conflict all but inevitable (also see Yemen the only part of the Arabian peninsula capable of rapid population growth - which Saudi Arabia responds to by starting a war to kill off some of the surplus...

History / History of two Neighbors: Poland - Germany Interrelations [283]

One problem is that infant mortality has been brought down almost entirely by outside actors and factors and the underlying behavior has remained the same. In most of the world the decline in infant mortality coincided with greater wealth (itself the result of changes in the culture and mindset of the population).

It's the population equivalent of Saudi Arabia which became rich without having to make any effort (and so it withdrew into tradition and stagnation).

Africa has had (and still has) outside help in becoming the worst governed region on the planet and there's no evidence whatsoever that African institutions have any hope of dealing with the coming much larger populations than they have had so far.... so many individual Africans will seek out better government in Europe... African and Middle Eastern migration to Europe is largely about wanting to be governed by Europeans rather than Africans or Middle Easterners..

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


that's his whole agenda... he writes crap to push people's buttons as an end in and of itself, resist the temptation to respond that bothers him far more than anything negative you could write

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]

There've been a couple but the format never really caught on...

The two hosts that come to mind are Wojciech Jagielski (and his 'evening with a vampire') and Kuba Wojewódzki who first became famous as the mean judge on the Polish version of Pop Idol (I forget what his show is/was called)

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


Given the love that MN (malignant narcisssist) has for love he should have been overjoyed at living in a soviet controlled puppet state....

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


Number one rule of the Soviet army: When you don't want them.... they're there. On the rare occasions when they might be of some use.... they are oddly absent...

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


Wasn't their biggest mistake trusting the Soviets? Never relax around, trust or turn your back on Russian soldiers.. hadn't Poland learned that by 1944?

History / Warsaw Rising 1944 - National Disaster or Triumph of Spirit ? [515]


don't engage with the malignant narcissist... it revels in the attention, starve its need for feedback instead

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


What else do they have? They can't defend PiS behavior so they just say that PO was worse (they weren't though PO was very far from perfect or even good...)

History / Unforgettable quotes about Poland and Poles from Polish and world`s history and culture [99]


So it's not originally from disco polo?

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


no, it's AM that 'mentors' them.... but JK is most likely not..... entirely heterosexual (surely you've heard the stories)


Lots of men who seek the.... company? of young men have wives....

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


PiS making a big deal about LGBT issues is actually kind of hilarious given the open-secret knowledge about JK and AM's penchant for.... mentoring(?) barely educated young men of dubious charm...

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [543]


Some people are paid to pretend this is not the case.... PiS stinks of old commie boss ways of doing things like not following binding court orders

wiadomosci.wp.pl/sejm-nie-ujawni-tajemnicy-pojawil-sie-czlowiek-pis-i-wydal-nieracjonalny-zakaz-6408097066645121a

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Or to hamster away since one of the translations in English would be 'to squirrel away'...

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Not quite a movie....



this actor has already been pictured on this thread but in a very different look....

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


your parenthesis suggested that you were treating them as synonyms... it should have been milk bar (bar mleczny) or stołowka

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


Two different things...


Myth, doubtless caused by an iconic scene (one of many) in Miś...

youtube.com/watch?v=UN3aWBqdcoc

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

No one wants to guess the film form #105?

Again, a hint: The title of the movie references an event an important anniversary of which was celebrated this year....

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


During my first visit to Poland (PRL for a couple of months) I decided to buy a new radio since none was supplied in my dorm room. The price was pretty hefty for PRL wages and I intended to give it to a friend when I left.

Anyhoo.... it worked fine for a week or so and then the tuning mechanism broke, after a few days the friend I was going to give it to managed to get it fixed.. partly. I could choose between four (Polish) stations... which was better than nothing I guess.

History / Modern myths and legends about communist past in Poland [250]


Even if they were.... why would this be good? That was my point, simply producing more without considering how it is needed is kind of dumb...

On the other hand, the communists at all costs avoided 'over production' of consumer items which is why nobody could find anything.... it's over production that makes it possible to always be able to buy things like towels or combs or pots and pans etc...