History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


This is true.

It suited the PRL though to pretend that the western powers were against Poland.

That is also partly the origin of the myth about them not being invited to the victory parade.


Someone (who had spent a month in Preston) once said to me that the U.K. wasn't bombed at all. In fact Lancashire was heavily bombed and members of my family died in the blitz there. He probably didn't appreciate that the level of infrastructure and built environment was high and if, say, 25 or 50% were lost, there would still be a lot left.

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]

@WarSore
Yep. And one of them may well be mine. It's a nice borough. Stare Mlociny (theoretically in Bielany) is cat central.


My late downstairs neighbour had 6 collies in a flat that can't be more than about 100sqm. He was a surgeon and was out all day leaving them to bark. Nice doggies, but they deserved a bit more freedom.

Travel / Traveling! What to do in Warsaw and Krakow? [39]

In the sense that one fetishises and eventually colonises the other, maybe.

A bit of ironic graffiti, glassware that looks like jam jars and tatty old furniture does not an 'alternative' venue make.

History / Greatest Polish and Slavic scientists, their discoveries, inventions and achievements [63]


I've not, however my patience for foreign people who've lived there for years and can't order a taxi or have a simple discussion is very finite.

Travel / Traveling! What to do in Warsaw and Krakow? [39]


Hipster and touristy in some parts. Run down and suburban in others.

Not "taken over" by anyone though.

Warsaw suffers because of the number of students there. That and "sloiki" who just want shiny and modern.

Travel / Traveling! What to do in Warsaw and Krakow? [39]

There's still the old(ish) Warsaw if you know where to look. It's been an eclectic city since it was rebuilt though. So many were killed that relatively few Warsovians have their roots there.

I have my favourite places to eat and drink, most of them old fashioned however they're not to be mentioned here since I persona prefer them to stay as they are.

Kraków is a tourist hell, at least in the centre. Disneyland with schabowy.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


That was never going to happen. They would all die on day 1.


A lot.

Travel / Traveling! What to do in Warsaw and Krakow? [39]


Used to.

Tachele's an upmarket shopping and office, Kopi is a few old age pensioners. They were always a bit too organised and German, at least by 2000.


They probably do.


As many as there's zlotych to be laundered. Some of those places barely get a customer a day.

History / Greatest Polish and Slavic scientists, their discoveries, inventions and achievements [63]


i.e. perfect.


Exactly. We say many other things. I've only heard that term used by military.

Incidentall, I've heard Zzzs (pron: Zeds) used as slang for Zlotych.

History / Greatest Polish and Slavic scientists, their discoveries, inventions and achievements [63]


Always important to take care of sleep hygene.


I am.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


No surprises. The "next two weeks" thing was a sort of feint.

What's interesting is what will come next.

Off-Topic / Energy-free rail from North to South? [49]


Yes. A huge achievement.

Just as people circumnavigated the globe without any technology at all. Just the stars to navigate.

News / Poland's aid to Ukraine if Russia invades - part 23 [1012]


And now they've lost their weapons supply from Iran.

History / Greatest Polish and Slavic scientists, their discoveries, inventions and achievements [63]


Apart from suggesting that one of the world's greatest scientists somehow wasn't and that his fame was due to his ethnicity.

It wasn't.


Whoever would have guessed.

History / Greatest Polish and Slavic scientists, their discoveries, inventions and achievements [63]


Or even the opposite.

Fantasies, from people with narrow minds.


Don't you?

History / Greatest Polish and Slavic scientists, their discoveries, inventions and achievements [63]


Yes. Your post was racist.


Wrong on both counts.


They damage themselves.

History / Greatest Polish and Slavic scientists, their discoveries, inventions and achievements [63]

Deeply inadequate probably.

Racists always have to jump through mental hoops; Nothing they say makes sense. They do it from sheer badness like naughty kids.

History / Greatest Polish and Slavic scientists, their discoveries, inventions and achievements [63]


Did the patent office in Berne in 1902 have many "groundbreaking papers" on theoretical physics?

Life / What do Poles really think about cats? [470]


On the outskirts of town you do, however not as many as in a lot of places. Some people do feed strays though.


I knew a guy who kept a giant Podhalański ina tiny one room flat. That's no place to keep a dog like that.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]


Perhaps spend less time online and even less time worrying about what lowlife say to each other.


It's an inferiority complex on their part.

In real life, set your boundaries, stick to them and laugh at their weakness.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]


Don't read that trash talk. The internet is not real life.


Perhaps a virtual one.

It's trash talk from inconsequential individuals.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]


Phrases like " Again, can you even imagine Poles accepting this kind of thing from the Ukrainians? There'd be blood on the streets and you know that".

How well do you know Polish culture (or lack thereof)?

Are you 9n P9land as your profile claims?

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]

Are you in Poland?

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]


Spending time with those is certainly unhealthy.


That's why lowlife do it online. You've probably seen reform supporters writing things on Facebook that they'd never dare say in real life.


Are you in Poland?

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]


Where?


Normal enough. Poland is a speak first and think second place. There are Brits like that too if you look online at local news pages.

The internet is not real life. It is full of trash talk,

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]


Why do you?

I don't go looking at Polish language pages looking for things to be offended at. Why do you?

Are you in the UK and unhappy or in Poland and unhappy?

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]


More "lol" (are you 12?) at getting worked up (or pretending to) about internet trash talk..

r*SSia? Their annual spend on online propaganda, most of it low level but insidious, is double the annual budget of NHS England.


Why do you read it?

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]


Run by r*SSia to sow division.

Life / Why are so many Polish People rude on the internet? [147]

Just internet trash talk.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [167]


Who said that?


So that's still another.