convex
7 Feb 2010
Life / Why so many Poles use a second hands clothes? [110]
paying more money for the same thing is brain dead consumerism.
paying more money for the same thing is brain dead consumerism.
convex
7 Feb 2010
Life / Why so many Poles use a second hands clothes? [110]
the neat thing is, most of them didn't actually pay for it. if you see it on tv or in a magazine, chances are it's probably been gifted by the marketing department of said company.
look at all those celebrities who only buy designer stuff
the neat thing is, most of them didn't actually pay for it. if you see it on tv or in a magazine, chances are it's probably been gifted by the marketing department of said company.
convex
7 Feb 2010
Life / Who's the best looking (and acting/singing) celebrity in Poland? [32]
no no, the lisp, it's quite a turn on. i think her partner dragging her around to various meetings and formal events is really stopping her rise to greatness
no no, the lisp, it's quite a turn on. i think her partner dragging her around to various meetings and formal events is really stopping her rise to greatness
convex
7 Feb 2010
Life / Who's the best looking (and acting/singing) celebrity in Poland? [32]
While Maria is hot, she just doesn't do it for me in the vocals department. I don't know what it is, but I bet she is being held back by her partner.
While Maria is hot, she just doesn't do it for me in the vocals department. I don't know what it is, but I bet she is being held back by her partner.
convex
2 Feb 2010
Travel / Poland wildlife and similar wild life where you live. [243]
These guys have recently taken to hanging out in front of the apartment. Opening the window gives me a quick godlike moment.
pheasant is my favorite game bird :)
I will also put photos of crows on here, although found in abundance all over Europe, I like the way they look, walk and act.
These guys have recently taken to hanging out in front of the apartment. Opening the window gives me a quick godlike moment.
I have been seeing lots of pheasant recently.
pheasant is my favorite game bird :)
convex
2 Feb 2010
History / 'Battle of Britain' won thanks to Polish aces !! [158]
Now to go for the win, why were they the most effective pilots during the Battle of Britain? Was it superior training? Different tactics? Some sort of supernatural will to do better?
Did the Luftwaffe wait until the final 17 days to send their best over? What was the makeup of the planes downed by the 303?
Edit:I'm not trying to diminish the contribution, just asking why the stats look like that.
That leaves us with 22 kills in 17 days by Poles i.e. 1.29 kills per day. Ergo, Polish pilots of 303 Fighter Squadron were the most effective pilots during the Battle of Britain.
Now to go for the win, why were they the most effective pilots during the Battle of Britain? Was it superior training? Different tactics? Some sort of supernatural will to do better?
Did the Luftwaffe wait until the final 17 days to send their best over? What was the makeup of the planes downed by the 303?
Edit:I'm not trying to diminish the contribution, just asking why the stats look like that.
convex
1 Feb 2010
News / A Świnoujście girl wins the I love Europe competition [17]
Tonight I will attempt to finish off the case of amazing Gutmann Weizenbock that I smuggled out of Bavaria. Will make sure to drink one for Maria Milenko...artist, beer connoisseur, European. Touching.
Tonight I will attempt to finish off the case of amazing Gutmann Weizenbock that I smuggled out of Bavaria. Will make sure to drink one for Maria Milenko...artist, beer connoisseur, European. Touching.
convex
1 Feb 2010
News / A Świnoujście girl wins the I love Europe competition [17]
girl has good taste, it's a Weissbierglas
Is that a glass? For drinking??? A beer glass? Does that mean Europeans are drunks????
girl has good taste, it's a Weissbierglas
convex
1 Feb 2010
Life / Polish home remedies for cold, stomach ache, migraine? [49]
Anyone have Polish home remedies for things like a cold, stomach ache, etc?
Anyone have Polish home remedies for things like a cold, stomach ache, etc?
convex
31 Jan 2010
convex
31 Jan 2010
History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [339]
Please spare it, were there Poles in tanks? Yes or no? Did the Romanians tell the Russians to go screw themselves, yes or no? Just take some responsibility, Poland invaded in 1968. That's a far cry from leading the way since WW2...
I will answer you in the thread Polish Myths.
Please spare it, were there Poles in tanks? Yes or no? Did the Romanians tell the Russians to go screw themselves, yes or no? Just take some responsibility, Poland invaded in 1968. That's a far cry from leading the way since WW2...
convex
31 Jan 2010
History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [339]
Yeah, you know....Poles in tanks...leading the fight since WW2...
Yeah, you know....Poles in tanks...leading the fight since WW2...
convex
31 Jan 2010
History / Communism fell 20 years ago, Poland led the fight since WW2 [339]
I'm reminded of the fight that took place in '68 in northern Bohemia, can you tell me about that?
I'm reminded of the fight that took place in '68 in northern Bohemia, can you tell me about that?
convex
30 Jan 2010
News / Is NORD STREAM dangerous for Poland's natural enviroment? [516]
Just an update, construction has started
upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/01/18/Gazprom-starts-Nord-Stream-launch-point/UPI-49481263832571/
Just an update, construction has started
upi.com/Science_News/Resource-Wars/2010/01/18/Gazprom-starts-Nord-Stream-launch-point/UPI-49481263832571/
convex
29 Jan 2010
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28 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
There is nothing at all more shameful than people who did so much harm pretending to be victims. It only dilutes what the actual victims, regardless of which side of the fence, had to endure.
When Spiegel revealed its discoveries Steinbach said that they have nothing to blame themselves for
There is nothing at all more shameful than people who did so much harm pretending to be victims. It only dilutes what the actual victims, regardless of which side of the fence, had to endure.
convex
28 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
Obviously.
Anyway, I probably won't get any further with someone who just ends up resorting to personal attacks because of hurt feelings.
The obviously biased and pro Russian IPN was wrong when they said that Soviets didn't play any significant role in the murders. Hey, you're out of bad guys to blame this one on. No bad Germans, no bad Russians, you want to go with bad communists on this one?
Anyway, might not want to take too much of that pride, seems really easy to OD.
No, I don't.
Obviously.
Anyway, I probably won't get any further with someone who just ends up resorting to personal attacks because of hurt feelings.
Ruskie high commandier on-site, ruskies in the crowd, milicja in the crowd, civil war in a background. Yeah, it was all about a rumor of one kid kidnapped.
The obviously biased and pro Russian IPN was wrong when they said that Soviets didn't play any significant role in the murders. Hey, you're out of bad guys to blame this one on. No bad Germans, no bad Russians, you want to go with bad communists on this one?
Anyway, might not want to take too much of that pride, seems really easy to OD.
convex
28 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
Yea, you don't get it. If there were more people like Witold Pilecki, that might have been a reality. My point is that apathy is dead square in the middle of resistance and collaboration. You don't think it's a little bit immoral and cowardly to watch something go on in front of your eyes and not react? There were lots of heroes, there were many, many, many more cowards.
It's a comfy couch. I already stated that I didn't do anything, and probably wouldn't have done anything because I would have been too much of a coward, much like the majority of the populace. If you'd take a second to actually read the remarks, you'd already know that.
The soviets made us kill the baby stealing jews, yea i don't know about that. so you're saying that they were just retarded, and not evil?
LOL
Usual BULLSH!T of someone who has no goddamn clue of the realities of those times.
What, say people of Oswiecim, were supposed to do? Write angry letters to Hitler? Or maybe organized a SWAT team, bite through the electric fences, kill all the Germans, rescue all the prisoners and then ..wait for it.. disappear in a mist...?
Crap like yours being spread around the net pisses me off the most.
Usual BULLSH!T of someone who has no goddamn clue of the realities of those times.
What, say people of Oswiecim, were supposed to do? Write angry letters to Hitler? Or maybe organized a SWAT team, bite through the electric fences, kill all the Germans, rescue all the prisoners and then ..wait for it.. disappear in a mist...?
Crap like yours being spread around the net pisses me off the most.
Yea, you don't get it. If there were more people like Witold Pilecki, that might have been a reality. My point is that apathy is dead square in the middle of resistance and collaboration. You don't think it's a little bit immoral and cowardly to watch something go on in front of your eyes and not react? There were lots of heroes, there were many, many, many more cowards.
What did you do to help those suppressed? Oh, you were too busy seating in your comfy chair and blaming others, weren't you?
It's a comfy couch. I already stated that I didn't do anything, and probably wouldn't have done anything because I would have been too much of a coward, much like the majority of the populace. If you'd take a second to actually read the remarks, you'd already know that.
Oh, very much so. Fact that it was a Soviet provocation tells volumes here.
The soviets made us kill the baby stealing jews, yea i don't know about that. so you're saying that they were just retarded, and not evil?
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
thousands
hundreds of souls saved ...
thousands
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
lets go one further back no Versailles=no WWII=no holocaust=millions of people's lifes saved
no WWII=no holocaust=millions of people's lifes saved
lets go one further back no Versailles=no WWII=no holocaust=millions of people's lifes saved
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
My mistake, I thought you meant "us" in the sense of the human race, not individuals. Not to have to experience the atrocities ever again, regardless of to whom or where...
I didn't experience it.
My mistake, I thought you meant "us" in the sense of the human race, not individuals. Not to have to experience the atrocities ever again, regardless of to whom or where...
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
I was watching it on television and reading in the newspapers about the 5.4 million that were systematically killed in the Congo.
How did you experience it?
How did you experience the holocaust?
I was watching it on television and reading in the newspapers about the 5.4 million that were systematically killed in the Congo.
How did you experience it?
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
We did, just a few years back. The only difference is that this happened in our backyard. It is still happening, right now, in our lifetime. In our last decade. That is the sad part.
remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day
Rest in peace.
So much suffering, so much pain so much death.
I hope none of us ever experience anything even remotely like this.
Rest in peace.
So much suffering, so much pain so much death.
I hope none of us ever experience anything even remotely like this.
We did, just a few years back. The only difference is that this happened in our backyard. It is still happening, right now, in our lifetime. In our last decade. That is the sad part.
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
How about Kielce? Is that debatable?
No one is denying that Poles made huge sacrifices, and that there were countless heroes. There were also plenty of evil people, and a huge majority of apathetic people.
I'd sit on my ass and do nothing because I'm a weak willed coward. Unlike the small percentage of heroes all over Europe who made huge sacrifices, in every country, to stand up and help. I'd feel bad about it too.
A very debatable Jedwabne case
How about Kielce? Is that debatable?
No one is denying that Poles made huge sacrifices, and that there were countless heroes. There were also plenty of evil people, and a huge majority of apathetic people.
It's easy for you to say now. Would you take the risk of you and your family
being exectued by Germans for helping some Jewish person, or would you sit on your
ass and do nothing?
being exectued by Germans for helping some Jewish person, or would you sit on your
ass and do nothing?
I'd sit on my ass and do nothing because I'm a weak willed coward. Unlike the small percentage of heroes all over Europe who made huge sacrifices, in every country, to stand up and help. I'd feel bad about it too.
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
Everyone who sat on their ass and did nothing is culpable. The people who actively took part in it and deny their involvement are even worse.
when you think about the Holocaust , poland comes to my mind .
poland is responsable for this too.
poland is responsable for this too.
Everyone who sat on their ass and did nothing is culpable. The people who actively took part in it and deny their involvement are even worse.
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
Things like Jedwabne make me think that maybe not everyone had a problem with killing jews, nor were the Germans the only people that were guilty of atrocities...
They didn't enable it. They conceived it, planned it and then made it happen.
Things like Jedwabne make me think that maybe not everyone had a problem with killing jews, nor were the Germans the only people that were guilty of atrocities...
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
The point is, there were so many people involved, and we still haven't learned our lesson.
Granted Germany enabled it, but so many people took advantage of the situation for personal gain. Outing neighbors, business rivals, most governments weren't too concerned about jews being slaughtered (Denmark being a very notable exception).
A German newspaper trying to reduce the role of Germans in the biggest crime in the history of humanity.
The point is, there were so many people involved, and we still haven't learned our lesson.
Granted Germany enabled it, but so many people took advantage of the situation for personal gain. Outing neighbors, business rivals, most governments weren't too concerned about jews being slaughtered (Denmark being a very notable exception).
convex
27 Jan 2010
History / remember, forget, forgive, blame ... Holocaust Memorial Day in Poland [229]
It doesn't matter. People don't care. We forgot the 10 million that Belgium wiped out in the Congo, we didn't really care too much about the war in the same place that killed 5.5 million a couple years ago, we sat on our asses and watch Rwanda unfold on the TV.
Horrible stuff is happening all around us. Use something a bit more recent for "Never Forget!", we have short attention spans.
These things happen because ManKind has a problem...they forget.....NEVER FORGET !!!!!
Thanks for the thread, it is important.
Thanks for the thread, it is important.
It doesn't matter. People don't care. We forgot the 10 million that Belgium wiped out in the Congo, we didn't really care too much about the war in the same place that killed 5.5 million a couple years ago, we sat on our asses and watch Rwanda unfold on the TV.
Horrible stuff is happening all around us. Use something a bit more recent for "Never Forget!", we have short attention spans.
convex
26 Jan 2010
Language / Polish was chosen the HARDEST LANGUAGE in the world to learn... :D [1558]
haha,
this is first officer barnes
hello copilot barnes
Here's a disadvantage of English
haha,
this is first officer barnes
hello copilot barnes
convex
25 Jan 2010
Life / Polish and Czechs [191]
You mean the USA? There is a very good chance of that happening. If you mean Poland... well, football and Poland is always severely depressing and probably one of the major contributors to alcoholism in this country.
I hope our national soccer team will one day beat them in a deep playoff game so I can rub it in his face!
You mean the USA? There is a very good chance of that happening. If you mean Poland... well, football and Poland is always severely depressing and probably one of the major contributors to alcoholism in this country.