Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


That's f*cking outrageous. In the US, the norm is two weeks paid vacation.

Some companies, including mine, have implemented unlimited paid vacation time. It's a great gimmick, because then people begin taking even less vacations - haha! They start grumbling about others who in their view "abuse it", and in the end it leads to a cutthroat environment where everyone tries to outdo the next guy by taking even less vacation days.

American work culture is brutal.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]

In NY state, this is the law:
"Sick Leave Requirements
Employers with 100 or more employees must provide up to 56 hours of paid sick leave per calendar year. Employers with 5-99 employees must provide up to 40 hours of paid sick leave per calendar year. If net income is $1 million or less, employer must provide up to 40 hours of unpaid sick leave."

So, the largest companies have to provide 7 days a year (56 hrs / 8 hr work week).

As regards Paid Family Leave, New York is sort of ahead of the rest of the rest of the country. Our governor adopted a new law in 2021. As an employer, here's what I am looking at:

1) I need to get Family Leave coverage for each of my employees.
2) I have to collect contributions from his/her salary to pay for the cost of coverage.
3) Process some BS form, and file it with the government.

Personally - I hate all of these things. Sick Leave, Family Leave, Worker's Comp, Disability Insurance, Unemployment Insurance, etc. It makes life miserable for small businesses, while being completely irrelevant in some other industries (like mine).

Though I'm sure it looks different from an employees perspective.... However, if I were an employee I would have preferred my employer just give me the cash equivalent of what he's paying various insurance agencies and the government.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


Nothing unusual about that.

You move to a country where Englishmen are living in homes they own, a country where they were educated, where they met their significant others, and so on. Meanwhile, you are a Pole with a naked ass. No home, no English education, and no girl will talk to you.

Solution?

Work like a slave on a galley.

In Poland, where you have parent's apartment, are considered quite well educated, and can actually manage a conversation with a girl - why would you work so hard you nearly kill yourself in the process?

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


To drink, or to fight. Two choices only.

Problem: after drinking or fighting, the depression comes back with twice the force.

The solution? Do not let those veins and capillaries contract.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]

I think the very premise of this thread is a joke.

Who ever thought that Poles can be workaholics? Are any Slavs workaholics?

Slavs are capable of titanic feats of labor, in a short spurt, after which much time is needed for rest and reflection.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [128]


Ukraine's Minister of Energy proudly announced last week, that starting THIS YEAR, they will begin construction of what will be Europe's largest nuclear power plant - in partnership with Westinghouse. This will be an expansion of the Khmelnitsky NPP, which currently has two working blocs.

Currently, the largest nuclear power plant in Europe is the Zaporozhye NPP, but unfortunately that is now outside of Ukrainian control.

I'm amazed at the audacity of this Ukrainian minister. God bless him, and good luck.

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


Пиздеть. Whereas пиздить still means to steal or to beat someone. If someone's said too much, and got his ass beat for that - допизделся. Yet, the people that did that to him - отпиздили. If someone took something that was not his - спиздил.


You misunderstand. We are discussing a пиздюлина (pizdyulina). A small, potentially insignificant, implement of a greater whole. Admittedly, much less popular than a хуевина (huyevina), or even a поебень (poyeben).

This all reminds me of a joke about how the CIA managed to plant a wiretap at a Soviet submarine shipyard, and after many years of listening in they learned that a Russian submarine consists of only three components - a poyeben', a huyovina', and a pizdyulina'.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


Hmmm, maybe that, but also organizing a party which includes some people that organized assasination attempts on Russian officials and have done time
For it.

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]

@Alien

Don't forget you are talking to a Russian.

In Russian, there is a crude alternative to the word describing female genitalia. Without further deliberation,I will say that this word is «пизда» (pizda). Unlike your pierdole, it alone has many multiverses more of meaning.

It can mean to steal. But it can also mean to f*ck somebody up physically. It can mean unnecessary running of the mouth. It can describe an important component of a large machine assembly. It can describe the eventual end of all humanity.

You joke with the wrong persons.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


As an officer of the FSB, sure.


He's a monarchist that supports the actual tsar (including the Whites during the Civil War). Also, an avid historical reenactor.

So your jokes are inappropriate Mister Maf.

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News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]

Bottom line: Girkin calls everybody idiots, but now he is in jail.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


We will somehow survive without his genius advice.

I can also be Girkin, look:

1) We need 2M men mobilized tomorrow!
2) We need 10,000 more tanks, planes, mlrs, afvs!
3) People are dying, do you idiots not see?!

How is my Girkin impression?

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Goddamn...

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


Why did you do it?

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]


It's why I had to watch it in Polish (there was no Russian dubbing).

I started watching it in English, and kept drawing blanks on the punchlines.

Edit: The Polish had a lot more vulgarity than the English. It seems Polish is similarly rich to Russian, in its vulgarity. English is limited by the very few permutations of just three words to express the full range of the human condition.

Life / Polish people and TV Series - so good and hilariously spot on :) [99]

I finished watching 1670 yesterday. I watched it in Polish audio, with English subtitles.

In the end, I enjoyed it very much. My favorite character was the xenophobic homeless nobleman, Bohdan.

Polish humor is very similar to Russian humor. I was watching the series with an American, and many moments where I would explode laughing - they did not understand.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]


You have to admit we're doing well enough, being 20X poorer and smaller.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]

Another thing he asked me, is what would an American equivalent of Russia look like, if the USA was the USSR - and it similarly collapsed.

I really liked this question.

I told him it was like Texas separating (Kazakhstan), California (Ukraine), Massachusetts (Belarus), and then IL, IN, WI, MI, MO, OK, TN, ND, SD, ID splitting off as well (the Stans and the Caucasus). Basically, the East Coast minus Massachusetts, is what Russia would be. I tried to match it up to the population loss, and economic potential remaining, in the aftermath of 1991 for Russia.

So then, of course, he said that from that perspective, our current war seems insane. You probably know what I told him then.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [638]

I had a young person (a teenager), ask me some interesting questions recently.

We were watching Ost Bloc military parades, as one does with his brother on a Thursday afternoon. At some point he asked me: what were these Polish/Romanian/GDR/etc soldiers feeling, marching in front of their "puppet" leaders? Did they feel pride, like we did? Did they always know it was an elaborate kabuki theater, and they were essentially attack dogs of the Kremlin?

It made me think, for a second. I told him, that in my opinion these were still "Leaders", with a capital "L". The only person higher in authority than Jaruzelsky, can only be some Brezhnev, but not any other citizen of the almost 300M USSR.

This prompted a second question - did normal citizens then, have a hierarchy of their own amongst themselves? For example, could a Soviet tourist come to Warsaw and act like a complete boor, and annoy all the Poles through his arrogance? Again, I told him that in my opinion, this was a ludicrous concept. If anything, we are seen as slaves, and a people that suffer from a myriad self inhibitions. It's hard to imagine, a Soviet citizen striding around anywhere as a colonial overlord.

So then, we returned to the question of the parades, and if they were authentically uplifting for the people involved. I told him, that it was a good question, and the answer is likely yes. Of course, I also explained that his idea of them as "attack dogs of the Kremlin" was much too simplistic, and that in actual practice they often did refuse to do things or outright rebelled.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Not just money.

If he was a Kniaz, that's a different level entirely.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


Now this is interesting.

Do you mean Jewish tools? For what can breed such skills better than infinite Talmudic analysis?

Do you say that the Muslims, with their many jurist schools, do not practice the same?

I ask in good faith, can you argue why Reason is Christian?


Padraig Lenihan "Consolidating Conquest: Ireland 1603-1727"

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


Only that Paganism is informed by the 200,000 years of Homo Sapiens lived experience, while "religion" is a synthetic creation by power hungry individuals.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


Alright, alright... ok.


This is not an indictment of Christianity, but an attempt to show traces of Pagan thought in popular Polish attitudes towards religion. As a good Christian man, you should only support this.

Let us stamp out the last bits of the old world, so men like Crow, with their Svetovids - can never hope to have a chance at breaking us. Fortify thine soul with the armor of Christ.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


I discovered this for myself, when I read a history of the Settlement of the Pale, from an Irish perspective. It was a hilarious read, not unlike what the Ukrainians publish today about their history.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]

@jon357

Hahaha, I knew you would know not to correct this - Northern man that you are.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]

I would like to request the moderator to shut down this filthy thread - it were a mistake to have ever created such a thing.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


If Mormons are a religion, than Islam deserves to be one too.

Just a reminder, Mormons believe that after his resurrection, Jesus flew through the troposphere from the Middle East, all the way to North America - where he had made a bunch more Apostles from the Indians. Then, millennia later, a man in Upstate New York discovered this entire history by reading Egyptian plates, which only he could read (whilst the plates were placed at the bottom of a top hat), using special "seer" stones.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


Sort of like Jews, but with wings.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


That's not a pun bro.

Life / Satanic and Heretical Manifestations in Poland [123]


You said you don't see any contradiction between believing in fairies, banshees, and leprechauns - and believing in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In doing so, you gave a heart attack to half of our respected readership.

Best not to advertise the strange customs of your godforsaken island.


These are not witticisms, but low-effort puns.

I can produce 5 off the top of my head.

1) Gnome of Thrones
2) Gnomeo and Juliet
3) The Gnome Ranger
4) Gnomeland Security
5) Gnome Alone