History / Let's talk about the POLISH ARMY [79]

Today is the 15th anniversary of the death of Ewa Baran, a GROM soldier. It was a mysterious death - she died a few months after coming back from Afghanistan where she was the only Polish female SF soldier. It's suspected that she got either infected by some unknown bacteria or virus or that she was poisoned by the locals back in Afghanistan. She left a husband, also a soldier, and a daughter:

warszawa.naszemiasto.pl/tajemnica-smierci-ewy-baran/ar/c1-33501

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News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]

@Lenka
Were you living in the area affected by that flood?


"No tak, a nie odpowiadamy tylko za trzęsienia Ziemi, gradobicie i koklusz!" :D 😂

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]

Czechowice-Dziedzice:

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News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


The Racibórz Dolny dry detention basin is the biggest hydrological object in Poland. The dams alone are 22 km long.
It's supposed to protect 2.5 mln people.

Its build was planned since 1883, but it was too expensive. Finally it was the Millennium Flood in 1997 due to which 56 people died in Poland that prompted the decision to build it. For this to be possible the course of the river Oder had to be changed and two villages liquidated and people resettled. The build was financed by the Polish state, the World Bank and the EU.

The first plans were made in 2001, the tendering for the project took place in 2010 and the building started in 2013 and got finished in 2020 (right in time, I guess ;O). The basin wasn't tested by such a big flood yet.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]

@Lenka, I hope so, but this is what I've read yesterday:

wiadomosci.wp.pl/kolejny-hydrolog-alarmuje-ws-wroclawia-mowi-zupelnie-co-innego-niz-prezydent-sutryk-7071783755590560a


There was a leak at night already:

polsatnews.pl/wiadomosc/2024-09-17/raciborz-dolny-przeciekal-w-akcji-bralo-udzial-wojsko/

Apparently it was taken care of with the help of the army, but if there was a leak even though the reservoir isn't full yet... I hope it will hold though and it will become the Hero of Poland :)

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

@jon357, again, why do you have to be such an a$$hole about such a simple thing?

I don't like it when people mislead others regardless if it's RuSSian propaganda or scammers on Facebook posting AI generated images as real watercolour paintings in order to get likes.

If you're too lazy to make a thread about photography then next time at least be honest enough to inform people what you're actually posting.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

@jon357, it is spamming (or trolling, depending on the intention, I guess) if you're confusing people by posting photographs in a thread about paintings and you're not even informing that they're not paintings.


I haven't noticed any so far.


Why do you have to be such an ass?

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

@jon357, so do you want to be like that Serbian spammer now?
When people come to this thread they're expecting to see paintings being posted here. I myself thought that you mistook those photographs for paintings.


There's nothing stopping you from making a general thread about Polish art or about Polish photography in particular.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


My family from Wrocław went through that flood and it looks like the flood that will hit Wrocław this time will be similar :( People are already buying out water from supermarkets there.

Two years ago (what a timing...) there were Polish TV series made about the 1997 flood titled "Wielka woda" ("High Water"). I haven't seen it yet, but it's apparently very good. You can watch it on Netflix:




What's the difference? lol The temperature is getting higher, not lower...


And you came to that conclusion based on what exactly?

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

@jon357, that's all great, but the title of the thread is "Paintings of artists from Poland" and not "Polish photography" or more general "Polish art". Photographs are not paintings.

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


You mean citing Polish scientists from PAN (The Polish Academy of Sciences) who warned already in 2020 about what we're experiencing right now?:

wiadomosci.wp.pl/s/ziemianarozdrozu-pl/susza-i-powodz-jednoczesnie-oto-polska-w-czasach-zmiany-klimatu-7071690951986080a

This summer there was barely any rain where I live (Kielce). And then suddenly this weekend - a downpour. It was raining all Saturday night and on Sunday in the morning.

Summers are getting hotter, drier and longer here (I already wrote about this on this forum some time ago). The climate is definitely changing in Poland :(

News / 2011 Stats: 80% of Poles happy [60]

@Ron2, "what's going on? It's getting better... That's an improvement from the 39th place (Ranking of Happiness based on a three-year-average 2020-2022).


Maybe it has something to do with the fact that women take care of those aging men (their husbands) while noone takes care of those women?

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]

People are being evacuated by the military with the use of helicopters:

instagram.com/reel/C_8znfwMHam/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

News / Flood in Lower Silesia in Poland - looks catastrophic [94]


It does :(((

The first country to offer help to Poland was Ukraine by proposing to send 100 rescue workers:

wiadomosci.wp.pl/polska-walczy-z-wielka-woda-pomoc-deklaruje-ukraina-i-litwa-wielki-szacunek-7071651138061953v

...and then followed by Lithuania.

Life / Paintings of artists from Poland? [192]

@jon357, those are not paintings. Andrzej Berłowski isn't a painter - he takes photos. The first one is either digital art or a heavily edited photo. The second one is a photo (some of his photos, like this one, would be great for painting though :)):

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Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]


Don't call her a "bi*tch", you disgusting, lying piece of sh1t. She wasn't resistsing the police orders or arrest and got beaten up when she was already in the police van as witnessed by her co-detainees.


She wasn't a f*cking thug and she wasn't going for anyone's gun, you moron.


Everything is wrong with you.

Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]

@Novichok, so what is a screaming man? You realise that men scream, yell and chant slogans during demonstrations too, right? They even break and burn things and throw stuff at the police.


There's no such "definition". It's all in your head, psycho.

Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]

@Novichok, those are not "broads", you stupid a$$hole. Unless your wife, daughters and granddaughters are "broads" too - then I'll make sure to call them like that from now on :)


In what way is it "pointless"? You bemoan the fact that people in the US don't have it in them to stand up to the government and make street protests or even riots about policies they don't like and then you... sh1t on women for protesting against killing a woman for not wearing her headscarf "properly"? Wtf is wrong with you?

Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]


Hey, moron, that photo depicted a protest in Iran and the discussion was about protests in Iran and your comment was posted directly after my comment (and without any mention of the US), so learn to make comments that make sense and are on topic and relevant to the discussion.

Also, I doubt that even in case of US "majority of demostrators are women". I'm guessing that it depends on the situation. For example, look at this photo here:

apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-race-and-ethnicity-elections-dc8f6803f90f844177f324d374242cb6


Indeed.

Food / Bigos Recipe [183]

@jon357, nope, I've never had a bigos with grape paste, I've never even heard of a grape paste before :) Maybe it's a local recipe in Podlasie or simply the lady's family is doing bigos that way.


She said that putting that grape paste in bigos is traditional?

Food / Bigos Recipe [183]

@jon357, I don't know how you personally serve food - I'm just saying that by Polish standards or my family standards bigos is served and eaten when still hot (and eaten fairly quickly from my observation and in my experience) :)

It's also easy to eat it fast - it's a light dish - it's mainly sauerkraut, after all... I usually wtrzącham bigos aż mi się uszy trzęsą ;D

Food / Bigos Recipe [183]

@Poloniusz, I wouldn't really call bigos a "stew". 🤔


It's not about emotions, but about temperature. The sensation of warmth isn't the same as emotion, you messed up misogynist.


I don't know how people serve their stews and soups, but bigos is definitely served hot in my family and often in bowls, not on plates. We usually start eating it when it's still hot. It grows cold fairly quickly so I'm trying to eat it at a pretty good pace - maybe that's the secret of it warming me up so well :)))

aniagotuje.pl/przepis/bigos

An advice from the author of this recipe:

"I recommend serving bigos very hot."

:)

Food / Bigos Recipe [183]

@Poloniusz, there are other hot dishes that don't warm me up as well as bigos during winter. At least that's my impression/experience.

Food / Bigos Recipe [183]

@jon357, I've never heard of this theory/story. To be honest I didn't even know that the French have something similar to our bigos :)


I do like it which shouldn't come as surprise :))) I don't like every bigos though, since it's not made the same by everyone. I like the way my family makes it. It's great for winter, btw - it warms you up well for some reason :) I'd say it's a kind of comfort food. 🤔 My father absolutely loves it.

Food / Bigos Recipe [183]

@jon357, I agree - bigos is simply "bigos" and not any "choucroute garnie" either :)

Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]


...a woman was killed for not wearing a f*cking headscarf "properly". If you think that killing a woman for not wearing a f*cking headscarf "properly" is not worthy of protests then I want you to DIE yourself.

And as for "majority of demonstrators are women":




Because it isn't a problem for him. He's a sociopath (or a retard) devoid of empathy.

I wish men like Novichok and Ironside died out already. It's depressing that they even exist. Disgusting really.

Life / A Muslim Arab in Poland who loves Polish KABANOS & VODKA [20]

@jon357, my guess why pork was cheaper is that it was probably because cows and sheep were killed for meat less often since cows give milk and you get wool from sheep, so you need them alive, while pigs couldn't be used for anything else than meat. In my grandma's village cows were slaughtered for food very rarely. People needed them to get milk and to make cheese.


So what would be the right translation? Pork schnitzel? 🤔


Yes, I guess you could say that ;) :))

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


Nope, they're still visible on my phone...

Life / A Muslim Arab in Poland who loves Polish KABANOS & VODKA [20]

@jon357, that's interesting, because in my family (and I guess not only) kotlet schabowy (pork chop) was the most favoured choice for a Sunday dinner :)) For my mother a pork chop was a must for Sunday and when I was a kid you could hear the pork chops getting whammed on Sunday all over my block of flats lol To be honest I love pork lol ;O For me it's the tastiest meat aside from fish. If I'm given a choice - to eat a kotlet schabowy or kotlet drobiowy I choose the pork chop ;d

Off-Topic / Nobel Prize and Oscars = Propaganda? [61]


Maybe to you, but for people who live under a regime it's usually very important to know that the world didn't forget about them. So, I'm guessing it wasn't "totally worthless" for those people: