Life / Poles speaking English - examples [257]


I definitely need to read more about Polish history between 1960-1981.

How was Sikorsky able to leave? I understand that afterwards, he was granted political asylum after the crackdown against Solidarity - but how did he leave in the first place?

Also, I didn't know that he's married to Anne Applebaum - a Russian hater par excellence, on the level of Masha Gessen and Garry Kasparov.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [257]


I'm definitely impressed with his English.

To me it comes across as pretty posh, or as posh as Eastern European accents can be - while still being apparent. Very British.

Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]

Best Polish film in history - "Pigs 2: The Last Blood". In Polish, it's called "Psy 2. Ostatnia krew".

It features the Polish Jean-Claude Van Damme - Bogusław Linda.

In this film, Linda's character, Franz, fights against the odds to stop a train full of weapons from arriving in Sarajevo.

So successful was Pigs 2, that in 2020 they made a Pigs 3.

Highly recommend. 5 stars.

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [136]


There should only be 3 or 4 countries in the world - like in George Orwell's 1984.

We keep Africa neutral, and that's where we all meet to bash each other's brains in.

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]


Russia could collapse to a population of 20M people, be sanctioned from using the telephone or toilet, while Moscow itself was a smoldering ruin - and we would still have enough resources to occupy the Baltic states.

These microscopic assh*les, require perhaps a motorized division per country, to maintain stability.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91]


What the hell is that? Sounds like something you would use to make pelmeni, but I've never seen such a magical implement. It's why I never bother with making them, because it's such a pain in the ass.


I don't see why not, especially pre-refrigeration days.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91]


Which is why I think it came to us from the Steppe nomads.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91]


You can bake them. You can fry them. You can boil them.

Most people buy them frozen at the store, and just boil them like macaroni. Ten minutes, and you've got yourself a dinner. Add sour cream, or maybe even ketchup if you're autistic.

In a restaurant, they'll usually be swimming around in their own broth, in a little clay pot like in the photo above.

1) Fried Pelmeni
2) Baked Pelmeni
3) Orthodox Christian Pelmeni

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Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [91]


We call those vareniki. True Russian dumplings, are more circular in shape, and made only with ground meat. We call those - pelmeni.

Vareniki (crescent shaped pelmeni with potatoes instead of meat), are traditionally considered a Ukrainian recipe. They're also sometimes made with cherries, or something else sweet.

In the picture below, pelmeni are on the right, and vareniki on the left.

My theory, based on nothing, is that these come into Russian and Ukrainian cuisine from Asia. Maybe from the Tatars, or some of the other Steppe peoples. Looks too much like their dumplings to be a coincidence.

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News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Why else would I be on the PF detail?

I have a feeling my boss does not like me.

Every day, I come to work, and I do this... and I do that. But to tell you the truth, Pawian, I don't know what I'm doing here.

Even my boss - Ivan Demidovich - I suspect doesn't know what I do here. Simply, he feels a certain power over me, and this gives him satisfaction. But me? I don't know what will happen to me...

Some mornings I wake up, and I look at the mirror - and I see the same lack of initiative, same lack of imagination, same mediocrity - which I suspect Ivan Demidovich sees when I arrive at the office in the morning.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]

Very few.

They are mocked mercilessly.

Their life is living hell.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Yes, many people in Russia think he's not a Pole at all.

Looks like a German.

After Morawiecki, we don't try to understand Polish genetics, however)

If Morawiecki is Polish, then everybody is Polish.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Why would they lie about him, in the same way they lie about Putin?

Putin scares them. Putin represents what they hate.

Tusk is their Golden Boy. The "human" face of Poland. The European bureaucrat, and champion of liberalism.

So when they write not good things about him, it tells me Pan Tusk is making many unforced errors.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Ages of the Founding Fathers on July 4, 1776:

James Monroe, 18
Aaron Burr, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
James Madison, 25
Thomas Jefferson, 33
John Adams, 40
Paul Revere, 41
George Washington, 44

Somehow, a bunch of 20-30 year olds, created the most powerful country in history.

Now two 80 year old geezers are gonna sink it.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


The mark of an intelligent man, and not an old goat.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]

Poland needs young people in power.

People Grunnie's age, my age.


Ahaha, so you admit Western coverage of Russia is garbage?

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


:)))

Yes, I made a momentary mistake in nomenclature.

I don't read Polish press, except on occasion. Everything I know about your situation is through Politico, FT, Spiegel-type places.

For example, this week, the Financial Times "Big Read" was about Tusk. Even the English are worried, if he's being driven too much by vengeance.

Look at this headline, and tell me I'm imagining things:

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News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Because he is a liar?

Because he is a small man?

He's not serving in love for Poland, but through hate towards Kaczynski.

Where his heart is became clear after he came into power. Small man, small heart.

Instead of being President for all Poles, he's busy getting even.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


They are not idiots, instead they see that their government is displaying to the whole world that they are idiots.

No matter how much I hate Poroshenko, I could never imagine him debasing himself like a dog in the manner in which Zelensky is doing it.

What's more, Tusk is the last person in front of which you want to get on your knees.

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Can you imagine the President of Mexico, sending his entire cabinet of ministers to the US border, to urgently plea with Biden to reopen it? No.

Can you imagine the president of Mexico sending the highest ranking delegation possible, even after Biden told him he sees no point in meeting, and that he will not be sending anyone?

I think even Mexicans have enough self respect not to do that.

When Donald Trump announced that he will make Mexico pay for a wall - this was the response of Vicente Fox:

"I'm not going to pay for the f**king wall," Fox said. "And please don't take out the f**king full word."

Bottom line: if you believe you are right, stop acting like a b*tch.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


How can you send your ENTIRE CABINET to a f*cking border, when the other side doesn't even plan to show up? One has to have no self respect.

For whose benefit are these theatrics?

This is not a gang war between the N'drangheta and Cosa Nostra, or Sinaloa and Juarez Cartels. Who came up with this idea of "sit downs" at the border?

Zelensky is living some Hollywood reality.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Ukrainian government is made of clowns.

If I was Ukrainian, I would be deeply embarrassed.

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


I hope not.

That guy is obviously a low life piece of sh*t.

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


Before this war, there was sense in obfuscating the reasons behind those killings.

Now, when we are gonna nuke each other any day, what's the point?

Any intelligent person understood that it was Russia liquidating those persons anyway.

The message is for an internal audience. If you want to go and sell Russian secrets to the Brits and Americans, be prepared to die.

If you are willing to kill fellow servicemen, and deliver expensive Russian military kit into the hands of Ukrainians - be prepared to die.

This should make the calculus for any would-be traitors fairly straightforward.

When people say that this is how the mafia operates, but not a European state... I want to ask why then do those Americans and Israelis behave the same?

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]

Yeah, more or less.

I think, if I'm not mistaken, that America also doesn't mind removing certain traitors.

Israel kind of made it their specialty. Makes us Russians jealous.

There are other countries, that practice a similar zero tolerance attitude towards treason.

If you are willing to betray all your colleagues, friends, family, and motherland - just for 30 silver pieces - what do you deserve if not death?

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


The murders I put under "Putin" are the "traitor" murders. Perhaps, let's call them assassinations instead.

The defector helicopter pilot killed this week in Spain. Litvinenko, Skripal, Prigozhin, etc.

These seem to really have his trademark about them. As a former officer, who takes his oath seriously, these people are less than scum in his eyes. Especially the helicopter pilot, who managed to even kill two of his brothers in arms, because they didn't want any part of his plan.

Some other murders or assassinations, were clearly clumsy favors done for him by the Chechens. The murder of Anna Politkovskaya. The murder of Boris Nemtsov. The murder of Yuri Budanov.

To me, these were obvious instances of Ramzan running wild. He's young, impetuous, and pretty stupid - and also has the character of a Rottweiler. Fed essentially from birth by Putin, he sees in him some kind of father (it doesn't help that Putin's enemies killed Ramzan's father). Putin's enemies, are Ramzan's enemies. Unlike the old man, he feels he's more capable of solving problems in quick and efficient manner.

Genealogy / Polish looks? - part 2 [72]

Yes, too much hair on top to be you.

Genealogy / Polish looks? - part 2 [72]


Looks like you!

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


Who did it then?

For people my age in Russia - it was ok to put the guy in jail.

But to kill him? To cut short, everything that he could have been?

That's perhaps a little bit out of bounds.

He was no saint, and he had many flaws - but they did everything to make him into a martyr.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


Ok.


Alright.

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I think, there are some people here that are unstable. I would never count you two guys in that group.

I'm the youngest - so what can I say? What can I teach you, that would not make me look stupid?

All I can say is - you guys are ok :)

News / Reactions in Poland to Alexei Navalny's death [128]


If that truly is his message, then it is extremely misguided.

I would hope Putin is a better student of Russian history.