Love / How to make a Polish guy happy? (we're moving to Mexico) [51]


I know, I'm just a stupid troll.


It certainly "aids" in being committed, when you realize that it's not just a stamp in your passport - but a potential claim to half your property and savings.

People will try harder to save something, when there are strings attached. Also, everybody wavers now and again - and for some people it's helpful that they gave a vow.

Kind of like a doctor or a solider in a moment of crisis, may be guided by their oath. When there's too much going on, and too many factors to consider - the remembrance of a vow may act as some rudimentary compass.

Life / Beavers and the Polish Question [7]


It certainly seems so, but this time he chose the wrong target!

That being said, it was a little annoying to read this from the Pablo Escobar of beavers:

"We Germans have a better way of protecting the country's levees..."

He just simply could not avoid putting things in such terms, could he? Why can't the focus of the conversation remain simply on beavers, without introducing subtle digs at Poland's backwardness?

If you have good advice on what to do with beavers - say it - but don't tell me how everything in Germany is done much better. Am I wrong?

Love / How to make a Polish guy happy? (we're moving to Mexico) [51]


Is it normal in Poland for cousins to enter relationships? In some countries it may be considered strange, or even taboo.

On the other hand, I see no problem in two male cousins dating for example. As long as it's just dating, and not marriage (marriage is a holy institution). Because you are gay, you cannot make kids anyway, and this means that inbreeding need not be a serious concern.

Nobody is hurt, except grandma who might have a heart attack.

Love / How to make a Polish guy happy? (we're moving to Mexico) [51]


Where did you two people come from, Mars?

Love / How to make a Polish guy happy? (we're moving to Mexico) [51]


Respect - I did not expect less.

Love / Polish couple married for 20 years [8]


He's an interesting guy.

Feedback / Who deserves to inherit Polish Forums? [344]


Funny how everybody quietly decided to do it this way, hehe.

Nobody wants to send money to the Admin too early :)

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]


Yes, by some strange coincidence, 80%+ of our musicians, actors, opposition politicians, and other activists are Jewish or have Jewish roots.

I suppose Russians are too stupid to put together a few notes to make a song, or to make the mental leap necessary to portray a fictional personage.

But also, many absolutely Russian people have managed to emigrate to Israel - either because they are a spouse, or they had some great-great-great-great grandmother from Poland.


Loyalty and honor. Forgotten concept among the people that shop for the warmest place to park their ass.


I am like my brate, Crow - a lover of Poland to the last. No amount of foreign policy retardation will make me stop loving Poland. Russia is my father, and Poland is my mother. I told you, yes, that I have Polish blood?

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]


You know what is very funny indeed?

Many Russian "liberals", fled Russia two and a half years ago... to go to Israel.

The EU and America were harder to get into, but Israel was always a working option. Many of our business people, creative persons, and other bright people left.

When they were leaving, as explanation they would offer "We cannot live in a country that invades its neighbors!"

Hahahahaha.

Now they live in a country that has invaded not one, but two neighbors! It's also planning to start a war with a third country, slightly further away.

Watching them practice true miracles of mental acrobatics to explain how they ended up in such deep sh*t - again - is a source of great pleasure.

Now they can enjoy air raid sirens, and hide in bunkers so that a missile won't fall on their head. I imagine this is not what they planned for, when they departed Mordor.

This is why I wrote my first joke, that after Lebanon the Baltics and Poland are the next target of Israel. Because that's what these idiots had been telling us at home, before they left.

Home is where it is best, BB. Don't go chasing the greener grass on the other side.

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]


Yes, apologies. Trying to copy CMS Neuf and wanted to see how it feels.

I feel I have to take a shower after that.

In reality, I don't give a sh*t what happens in Israel. They can all bomb each other to the point of annihilation. My life won't change - so long as they don't start WW3.

I only care about Ukraine and Russia.

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]


Do you mean iSSrael? Land of the Shekel Counting Goblins?

They are butchers, that relish in the taste of human flesh.

Their gnome leader is already judged by the ICC for war crimes. Hopefully his people will soon erupt in a revolution and he will meet the swinging fate of Mussolini.

Israel - veritable death cult. Instead of joining the rest of the civilized world, and finding a way to live in peace with its neighbors - it insists on constant warmongering and intimidation. I find nothing attractive in this culture of willing obeisance to the worst form of modern Apartheid.

The rest of the world is designing machine learning algorithms and surgically changing their genders, whereas these troglodytes still insist on firing artillery and dropping bombs as if it is the 19th century. Pathetic.

Also, I heard they steal consumer electronics from the houses of fleeing Palestinians.

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]


The stupid neighbors just want to be free of the Jewish Huns.

Ukrainians are free to worship Stepan Bandera, why are Gazans then forbidden from worshipping Muhammad Qutb?

Let me remind everyone - Lebanon was a gleaming center of Middle Eastern cultural life, when the Jews still lived in the swamps of the Białowieża. Lebanon claims the legacy of the ancient Phoenicians - the founders of Carthage! Where was Israel when Carthage reigned supreme in the Mediterranean? That's right, living in caves and eating squirrels.

Compared to the highly moral Arabs, the Jews are a bunch of incompetent drunks. Their F-35s can't fly, their missiles explode on the ground, and their economy is about to collapse.

We must provide the maximum possible amount of weaponry and other aid to Gaza and Lebanon, in order to empower these poor defenseless souls to defend themselves against the Jewish Leviathan.

F*cking Jews! How much land do they need?! Gaza has a territory of 5,000 square kilometers... while Israel has a whopping 20,000! They could not simply focus on improving the lives of their citizens, but instead they had to go and invade a much smaller and weaker neighbor - FOR SHAME! God sees all, and he will punish the wicked.

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]


My God... how many countries has it already attacked?

It's clear to me, that if we don't stop Netanyahu now in the Lebanon - it will be the Baltics and Poland next!

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]


Iraq and Iran are in different weight categories.

Iraq has a population of 45 million people, and this is up from a population of 27 million people in 2003 - when the Americans invaded.

Then, Iran already had a population of 68 million people. Today Iran has a population of 90 million people.

Iraq is 400K sq km, and Iran is 1.6M sq km. Iraq is flat and composed largely of desert. Iran is mountainous, like Afghanistan.

Iraq is roughly 60/40 Shia and Sunni. Iran is 90/10 Shia and Sunni - that is, much more homogenous and less divided.

Iraq produces nothing but oil and gas, while Iran manages to produce cars, pharmaceuticals, construction materials, and also - surprise - sophisticated missiles.

Iraq is a fake country invented by Britain in the 20th century. Iran is one of the foundational civilizations in the world, with more than 4,000 years of history. Only the Egyptians and the Chinese might claim to be as ancient.

Bottom line - Iran has a bigger population than Germany, a bigger military than anyone in Europe, and a very difficult terrain - similarly to Afghanistan. Unlike Afghanistan, they sit on some of the world's largest oil and gas reserves, and have a very educated population.

America alone mobilized half a million men for the invasion of Iraq. How many soldiers must be prepared for the invasion of Iran then?

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]


Surely you didn't think that Israel would hit all those targets, and that then nothing would come back in return?

To quote Sir Arthur Harris, the head of the RAF Bomber Command during WW2:

"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everybody else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put that rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."

If Israel is surprised at the strikes, then it should also realize it was suffering under a rather childish delusion that you can hit others, but that no one will hit you back.

Hizbollah has an arsenal of supposedly 150,000 missiles. Iran, has one even larger than that, and considered among the largest in the world. Iran even supplies Russia's needs for striking Ukraine.

A typical unguided missile used by Hizbollah has a cost of around $1,000. The cost of Israel's Tamir missiles used in the Iron Dome system is $80,000 a piece.

Israel should buckle up and get ready.

News / Mister President Andrzej Duda - Best Poland could get. [96]

@pawian

i read that duda says that tusk's threat that he will block ukraine's eu accession if it does not "work" with poland on exhumations, is "giving in to the kremlin".

suddenly, pis man is saying poland should act wisely and close its eyes to ukraine's inexplicable stubbornness.

what is happening? white is black, and down is up - we have a tusk government that is executing russian policy...

Off-Topic / 75 Years of Israel and the War - part 3 [462]


israel is in a better place than it would be as a member of nato.

to understand why i say this, first let's agree what is nato.

to me, and to many other people, nato is "the united states and its many friends". that is, the americans are 80-90% of what makes nato scary.

israel and south korea are not part of nato, but they benefit from certain bilateral agreements which make them feel even better than if they were actual nato partners.

ukraine - right at this very moment - is saying "it's ok if we are not invited to nato, but we want the french, british and americans to guarantee our security."

all article v is, is a promise by member countries to do what they can to help a country under attack. this could mean sending blankets and tents.

i think israel is more important to the usa than any country in nato, save the uk, germany, and france. not even italy and spain are included in that list of exceptions.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


explain?

what did you want to see/hear?

edit: ah now i see! very stupid of me, indeed.

new conclusion, most formerly powerful or currently powerful countries never apologize for anything, except germany and belgium - which make them the most civilized nations in the world.

History / 70th anniversary of 1943 Wołyń/Volhynia and Eastern Galicia Massacre - controvercies [454]


civilized people never apologize.

have you ever seen britain apologize to india or to kenya for the bengal famine or the suppression of the mau mau uprising??

what about france apologizing to the people of niger or senegal?

japan apologizing to korea or china?

america doesn't apologize to hawaiians or samoans or cubans. in fact, it sanctions cubans for wanting to be free. they exterminated their native americans - so problem solved - no one to apologize to.

i think the only country that has done any amount of apologizing for anything is germany.

germany is the most civilized country on earth.

also, i think belgium recently started apologizing to congo for what they did. but what they did was truly the stuff of horror films, and difficult to not apologize for.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


Yes, sorry for that.

Great idea for a thread, here.

I hope you keep coming with stuff like this. It's a breath of fresh air.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


Then that monk is doing overtime work.

I think in Russia there is one of the biggest populations of monks in the entire world, but still just several thousands.

In most of the West Christianity is dead, and I have never heard of anyone joining a monastery.

Maybe the crazy baptists and others would rapidly fill up all the monasteries, but unfortunately they are not allowed.

So a few thousand monks are pulling the weight of 8 billion people's sins.


What makes you such a gentle cupcake, that your brother has to get a second job, and your mom has to plan making a once weekly delivery of a "care package" to the monastery?

Your brother works a responsible job, for which he gets paid a salary - from which he shares with you. What exactly do you do?

"Ohhh, our Bob - you know how he is... We all need to focus our energies on him building a solid barrier from our world of sin - so that he can truly start flexing his Christian muscles!"

This pisses me off.

Why should everyone work to make your monastery experience a success? How is this different from the parasites that saddle everyone with their rehab bills?

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


Please... this is also true in the Eastern/Orthodox tradition.

I think Hindu priests and Buddhist monks have similar ambitions.

The main attraction, for most clueless "Joe Blows" out there - is precisely the idea of a "fortress".

Monasteries are maybe not "fortresses" (although many in Russia acted in that capacity, especially during the Polish invasion), but spiritual strongholds. A place of refuge, where one can shield himself from the sin and chaos of the secular world.

The dedication to prayer, contemplation, and the pursuit of holiness - it's all about forming a spiritual barrier against the forces of moral decay outside.

This is what irritated me then, and even now.

You cannot save the world by running away from it.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Damn, I'm impressed!

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


Back then I was religious, and I thought the point of going to a monastery is to pay lifelong penance for my own and the world's sins. Also a way of escaping temptation, and finding true brotherhood in a circle of men of the same mind as mine.

Now I think it is retarded for a young man to consider he has any sins to atone for, let alone that he should do it for the world. Also, I like the brotherhood I found within my firm. Quite a bit more comfortable of a brotherhood, than within a monastery or within an army regiment.

Escaping temptation... I think a monastery feeds it more than it protects from it.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


No, not at all.

I don't know if I told you, but I did too.

When I really didn't know what was up and what was down, I thought I had only two real directions before me - the army or a monastery. The third option, less considered, was likely prison.

I suspect most young men within a certain IQ range go through this period.

I'm over that now.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


Maybe you are right, but instead me and AntV are "somewhat" into art.

The type of art you shared, I think I would classify as "interior decorating" art. I'm sure no such category exists, but you know what I mean...

I would expect to see that type of art in my plumber's apartment, or in a 3-star hotel. Maybe somebody is moving into a new rental apartment, and they went and bought some prints from IKEA or Zara Home.


I like lots of things. I like the sculptures of antiquity, I like medieval stuff, I like baroque era stuff (more the Dutch things, because I had enough of religious themes and like to look at common scenes),
I like modern stuff, I like post-modern stuff of most varieties - I like everything.

It's easier for me to say what I don't like.

I don't like almost anything that the Cubists produced, or Suprematists, or Constructivists (all largely Russian in origin - yes I know).

Goya speaks to me, but maybe less so Dali or Miro - if we discuss Spaniards. At the same time, Picasso does as well - even though I was talking sh*t about Cubism/Surrealism. His Guernica is one of the paintings which produced the greatest impression on me. The way he addressed war, industry, and the dehumanization of modern life - was much more effective for me than Dali or Miro, and much more like Goya who preceded them by a century.

Basically, I like everything, but not the photorealistic stuff you shared.

Off-Topic / Arts and crafts [143]


I bet he likes Rubens, like "The Madonna and the Child, with infant Saint John and Elizabeth".

Maybe Botticelli's "Birth of Venus".

AntV and Ironside always struck me as the type of guys that would be quite happy within a medieval monastery - brewing beer, and eating fat legs of ham.

However, I must agree with him - these photorealistic things really do not speak to me. What's the point?

Life / Poland research for my world cultures class [3]

@noodle0101

Ask ChatGPT to do your homework for you, and spend the time outside kicking a ball, instead.

This will be better for your physical health, plus you will not have polluted your brain with useless knowledge.

News / European News and Poland Thread - part 4 [530]


How would I know - orcs are not allowed in Europe?

We all go to vacation in North Korea and Afghanistan now - no visas required for Russian citizens.