UK, Ireland / Moving from Ireland to Poland [39]


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. :)

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.


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...

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.

Po polsku / Dyrdymałki o Niczem 2 [312]

W takim razie nic dziwnego, że nie chciała tego zgłaszać na policję. Sama narozrabiała.

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

@Bobko

*thumbs up*

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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.

Po polsku / Dyrdymałki o Niczem 2 [312]


Trafiły gdzieś w przepastną otchłań polanda.com. :(

Przykra sprawa z tą Klepacką. Nie ma tam jakiegoś monitoringu, żeby sprawdzić co rzeczywiście miało miejsce?

News / Famous Poles die - your memories [110]


Beauty and class. An absolute legend of Polish TV.

Requiem aeternam...

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

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


@Bobko

Thank you indeed, Bobi! So, you're a Russian sheikh, eh? Subhanallah! :)

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!


:(

But it's our virtual home... a weird one but still.

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


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.


Cool :)

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

What? Still only 50 bucks after 3 hours? :(

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.

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... 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!

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

The admin has reacted to our voices! :)

https://polishforums.com/support-pf.html

I've just sent my measly tenner and one person did the same before me...

... so only 18 to go - come on PFers! *thumbs up*

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.

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!

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


I remember you :) Nice to see you stick around, Pam. *high five*

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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.

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.

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Lack of time, silly EU regulations (the site was hosted in Poland, and the new RODO regulations were a major annoyance), and a certain event with illegal activity of a member that unnerved me (I didn't like the letters I was getting from prokuratura and the explanations I had to sent). No more on this topic from me.


Not really. If you entered "Polish forums" into Google - PF appeared on top, but if you entered "Polish forum" it was ATP as the first result (and it was only after a year or so).


I think it was Przelotny Ptak who mentioned it in Random a couple of days ago?

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


No need for that. I bet there will be 20 members willing to send a measly tenner a month for the running of our favourite forum.


Hmm... will we get vouchers for cheap fuel and Komandirskie Chasy for Victory Day? :)

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


Cheers, PolAm! :)

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Sure, why not.

It's easier to keep the old place than to start a completely new one from scratch, I suppose.


They can get that with ads but it's also about $10/member, more or less. A price of a couple of newspapers.

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


Yes, it could easily bring a couple of thousand bucks a year, considering PF's page rank and traffic.

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [492]


Yip. Jet planes, yachts, and villas with lush gardens and swimming pools for the "enligthtened ones"; bikes, worms for dinner, and saving drinking water for unwashed masses.

"You will have nothing and you will be happy". Only they don't tell you that this "you will have nothing" applies only to the common people. The rich and the corporations will retain their right to private property.

This is all so evil that it cannot succeed. God will eventually stop this.

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [492]


Definitely.

And the "imagine no possessions" bit, sung by a multi-millionaire rock star, is so ridiculous.

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [492]

A good comment from YT...


Muslims are also outraged by this foul abomination, so it's probably closer to 1/2 of the world's population.

News / Scandals, conflicts, tensions, arguments - real life examples from Poland [492]

No religion, no possessions - sounds like communism to me.

If it wasn't for the fact that John Lennon is dead, they might try to suspend him too because he himself confirmed that the similarities between his ideals set out in the song and communism were indeed deliberate.

To suspend a commentator for mentioning the obvious fact (confirmed by the author of the song) is ridiculous.