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Posts by Torq  

Joined: 2 Dec 2023 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 15 hrs ago
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Posts: 1497 		From: Gdansk
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Torq   
2 Aug 2024
News / A Polish Feminist Found in a Forest [133]

don't make it sound like some comment on the internet is confirmed information

I didn't. Nothing after "is said to" is confirmed information. In Polish it means "mówi się, że" and it obviously means gossip or rumors. If someone here says that I only eat strawberry jam, then you can write "Torq is said to eat only strawberry jam" and it's by no means confirmed information. :)

Anyways, you are again moaning and complaining. It bores me - go away. *yaaaaawn*
Torq   
2 Aug 2024
News / A Polish Feminist Found in a Forest [133]

Someone was clearly trolling.

How do you know? Maybe it was someone who knows her? Have you seen her social media accounts? Do you know for sure she never posted anything like that?

Are you going to repeat such crap after those idiots too?

No. I only repeat funny things, and the "man vs bear" stuff was funny. So there :)
Torq   
2 Aug 2024
News / A Polish Feminist Found in a Forest [133]

Someone said it somewhere in the comments section (probably on Kwejk, I don't remember), that's why I wrote "the woman is said to have deleted". 🙂
Torq   
2 Aug 2024
News / A Polish Feminist Found in a Forest [133]

Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski police have found a scared and exhausted 22-year-old woman in a local forest. She got lost whilst coming back from her friend's birthday party. The police, after marching for about an hour in a swampy terrain, had to carry her out of the forest because she lost her shoes in the damp ground.

The woman is said to have subsequently deleted all her posts in social media in which she claimed that she would rather meet a bear than a man in a forest.

wiadomosci.onet.pl/kielce/22-latka-zaginela-w-lesie-uratowala-ja-kamera-w-telefonie/wzgh136
Torq   
1 Aug 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

Only 2 days out of 360 planned for the fundraiser have passed and we already have $480 out of $2400 needed. :)

Well done, people. ❤️

Fair play to Bobi and Milo who contributed the most, but all the others deserve a heartfelt thank you as well - every little helps, so keep those donations coming!

We are keeping PF alive! 🇵🇱 🇵🇱 🇵🇱
Torq   
31 Jul 2024
Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

I've been to Portugal twice by car

With kids?

From Gdańsk to Lisboa it's 3300km. Such distance with children means at least three days on the road - one way! So altogether it would be about a week in a car, with two kids wanting to pee, wanting to vomit and constantly asking "are we there yet?".

Thank you very much indeed for your advice, Alien, but I think I'll pass.

Northern Italy is as far as I'm willing to go by car with kids, with one night stop in Ingolstadt.
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
Polonia / Should I visit Portugal? [35]

Nope. It's a very long drive and my wife is not a fan of flying, so no Portugal for us.

*off to catch some z's*

Good night, Anti!
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

It's not like all of Toruń was in danger of running out of coffee beans

:D

It's a good thing you're not the kind of guy to hold a grudge for long.
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
UK, Ireland / Moving from Ireland to Poland [39]

What about the Italians?

No complaints. Enjoyed Genoa and Firenze a lot, the wine is amazing, and I hope to visit Torino next year.

Still, I would choose Gdańsk over both G and F. Call me biased, I don't care. :)
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
UK, Ireland / Moving from Ireland to Poland [39]

Visited? I spent three years there and checked many places for food. But maybe it's a matter of taste... de gustibum non est disputandum and all that.

Poland's food is so heavy and bland.

Have you tried zander a la polonaise, pheasant roasted in bacon or żurek on real sourdough served in home-baked bread? If you call that bland, then I have no hope for you, Johnny.

EDIT: or wild boar baked in bread dough and then slowly warmed up over fire, served with hunter's bigos... mmmmm...
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
UK, Ireland / Moving from Ireland to Poland [39]

@johnny_reb

Ireland's a great country but the food's atrocious. My Irish pals, on the other hand, fell in love with Polish cuisine.

As for Switzerland... ekhm... make sure to let us know how you liked the Swiss when you come back xD

Maybe I'm just getting older, but the more countries I visit the more I appreciate Poland.
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
Po polsku / Dyrdymałki o Niczem 2 [312]

W takim razie nic dziwnego, że nie chciała tego zgłaszać na policję. Sama narozrabiała.
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

And what happens after two months ?

All it takes is for 20 members to contribute $10 each, every month, and the site stays online. It's a price of a couple of newspapers for the whole lot of fun that we have here.

Unless somebody decides to be exceptionally generous, like Bobko today, then even fewer people need to chip in that month.

I'm, frankly, surprised that some people don't like the arrangement.
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
Po polsku / Dyrdymałki o Niczem 2 [312]

chyba poszły do archiwum. Szkoda.

Trafiły gdzieś w przepastną otchłań polanda.com. :(

Przykra sprawa z tą Klepacką. Nie ma tam jakiegoś monitoringu, żeby sprawdzić co rzeczywiście miało miejsce?
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
News / Famous Poles die - your memories [110]

Bogumiła Wander (...) died at 80.

Beauty and class. An absolute legend of Polish TV.

Requiem aeternam...
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Prehistoric Poles: 2019

Yes, yes - I know they weren't really Poles in full meaning of this word, but they lived in the lands of today's Poland (Holy Cross Mountains) and they were very skillful miners of Neolithic and Bronze ages. The latest addition to Polish UNESCO heritage sites - Krzemionki Prehistoric Striped Flint Mining Region - is an ensemble of four mining sites, dating from about 3900 to 1600 BC, dedicated to the extraction and processing of striped flint, which was mainly used for axe-making.

You can see more pictures here: zabytek.pl/pl/obiekty/g-298387
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

Hey, we have almost two months covered thanks to two generous genlemen/ladies who contributed $150 to keep this lovely site running! :) Fair play, guys!

I personally wouldn't be OK with donating any money in any way to this forum.

:(

But it's our virtual home... a weird one but still.
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

I thought you were

My misadventure with the calvinist heresy was a brief one (errare humanum est and all that) and I am now fully reunited with the One-and-Only, Holy and Apostolic Church.

I'll donate later.

Cool :)
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

Wow! 20 bucks is in! Rich people have started donating! :)

Thank you, milord/milady, whoever you are. *bows*

$150 to go

EDIT: this is fun but I gotta go (morning Mass at 8:30); see ya later, people.
Torq   
30 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

I've just sent my measly tenner...

... for July. Then we'll send our donations again in August and so on, on a monthly basis, to keep PF alive. :)

*breathes a sigh of relief*

EDIT: another donation is in! Keep 'em coming, guys!

17 to go for July!
Torq   
29 Jul 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

:)

You can also visit the famous Planetarium, go for a cruise on Vistula or just enjoy a walk in the beautiful Old Town.
Torq   
29 Jul 2024
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Toruń by night: 2024

Toruń was one of the richest and one of the four largest cities of the Kingdom of Poland back in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. These days it's respectable 16th and still retains a lot of its old charm and lovely medieval architecture, so if you're ever in Poland try to visit the city where Nicolaus Copernicus was born - you won't regret it!
Torq   
29 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

and still people didn't want to come over

There were times though when we had more activity than this site, to the surprise of Wroclaw Boy and a couple of other guys from PF :) And we had more nice modern features than PF (not that the bar was ever set very high haha).

Oh, well... it didn't work out the way we intended it to. Life.

Pawian used to run his own board too, I think.
Torq   
29 Jul 2024
Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]

@Feniks

By the way - who are you? I don't recall your username and you know about ATP, so you have been around for quite a while.