UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]


Those Brits, eh? It is not enough for them that they betrayed us in WW2, stole our gold, treated our officers who fought for them like sh*t and then - to top it all off - sold us down the river to uncle Stalin, but now they also begrudge us those couple of Polish food items that we can buy in their shops if we are ever so unlucky to work in their half-Islamic, rape-gangs-ridden sh*thole of a country. Scandalous behaviour if you ask me.

They really need to learn some reverence towards their betters.

I would probably be annoyed by the comments of WarSore but as a Pole I am so infinitely superior to him in terms of culture, morality and intelligence that it would be beneath my dignity to care about what he says. After all, can a skunk insult an eagle?


Hey, leave BB alone. This is purely British-Polish trolling, let's not get other nations involved. :D

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It might be enough to mitigate the things you mention but it won't mitigate the legendarily hostile and aggressive local population who eats foreigners alive.

That's why it is your responsibility to warn them not to come.

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]



Guys, please, you are like all foreigners - clueless. Let me explain...

Assimilation only makes sense and is to be expected when people from lower cultures assimilate to higher cultures. Hence, it's obvious that we expect all foreigners in Poland to assimilate whilst expecting Poles anywhere in the world to assimilate to those inferior cultures is unreasonable. Get real.


Chill out, Cms. They're trolling.

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I am of exactly the same opinion. :)


Not going to happen. We are too hostile and off-putting as a nation. Those people should just go to France, UK and Germany.

Your job, WarSore, is to write as many bad things as possible about Poland to discourage them from coming here. Keep up the good work!

UK, Ireland / Polish YouTuber weirdos trash-talking the UK [214]


They shouldn't see themselves as Polish. When their parents emigrated, and decided to stay abroad permanently, they became Plastic Poles. So what should their children be? Double Plastics?

They are better off being British, German or even (though I pity their fate) French.


It is a warm day but I shivered. I hope it never happens in Poland.

Just keep doing what you're currently doing and everything will be all right. :)

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Why are you angry, Iron? The guy is doing a great job for us. Discouraging foreigners from coming here. They might read his posts, decide against coming to Poland and settle in the UK instead.


Exactly. Poland is one such country. That's why foreigners would be well advised to avoid coming here.

Keep up the good work, WarSore.

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What I also find hilarious is when Poles emigrate en masse to a country (e.g. the UK), and then complain about other migrants living there and lamenting that the cities they live in are no longer English, German or French. :D

I like what you're doing here and in other threads, WarSore. If foreigners read your posts, it should discourage them from coming to Poland. Keep up the good work! *thumbs up*

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Suddenly the idea of switching to electric/hydrogen cars doesn't seem so ridiculous after all.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


It doesn't see to do much harm in places like the Netherlands, Switzerland or South Korea. Besides, to paraphrase a well-known song "we are living in a material world and we are material men". ;)

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Salaries in politics should be substantially raised but at the same time more draconian anti-corruption laws introduced and the crooks ruthlessly punished and removed from public life forever. Unfortunately, considering Platforma's history and PiS's conduct towards their shady members (see Mejza, for example), I wouldn't hold my breath.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Maybe not very useful but still I would rather trust a guy who knows his ancient Greek Datives and Genitives than an upstart who got a dostateczny on his sociology MA diploma and is the first in his family to get any university degree at all. Call me a snob but I've pretty much had it with inteligenci z awansu in Polish politics. :(

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

Talking about educated generalists and British civil service, I vaguely remember a scene from Yes, Minister, with two civil servants casually discussing noun cases in ancient Greek during their work hours. I thought it was pretty hilarious and impressive at the same time. :)

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


Hmm... might be the same problem in Poland. If we are to believe the official sources, I make more than our foreign minister. This must turn smart, honest people off of politics (because crooks will always find a way to turn political power into material profit). This might well be the reason for the negative selection.

So, what's the conclusion? Is the Russian system with disgustingly rich (and hence hard to corrupt) hermetical elites better? A rhetorical question really...

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Maybe you misunderstood them? Slips of the tongue and all that.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


Come to think of it, it only shows the extent of negative selection to Polish politics. We have so many smart people in the arts, technology and academia, so why is it almost invariably the greatest retards that make it to the top tier of our government? One of the mysteries of the Universe...

Why can't we be more like Britain in this regard? With proper elites, coming from the best public schools, old boys' networks and all that. Why do we have to treat the damn democracy seriously and allow the unwashed mob to vote how they like for whom they like? :( Sure, our elites were slaughtered in partitions, wars and uprisings but didn't we have enough time to rebuild them, at least partially? Down with this democracy-idiocracy thing!

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]


How about that press conference when Kamiński and Błaszczak showed a video allegedly found on migrants' phones, showing a man having sex with an animal, which they labeled as a cow, calling it "evidence of zoophilia" among Middle Eastern migrants? Investigative outlets quickly revealed the clip was not from any migrant's device, was old internet content, and even featured a horse - not a cow.

Or that PiS MP (Sobecka?) who claimed that people don't come from monkeys and demanded that schools return to Biblical teaching. Or when Braun proposed exorcisms for Parliament and holy water purification of public offices. Or the entire Tinky-Winky drama. Or when Ziemkiewicz waved a banana on stage while ranting against the EU and leftist degeneracy.

F*ckinhell... I admit that in the eyes of foreigners it must seem at least a little bit odd. :D

But hey - this is our country, we love it, and no Tinky Winky, zoophilic migrants or homosexual EU cows will ever undermine our love. Ha!

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A reasonable request indeed, but making it on PF is unlikely to be very effective--as far as I know we only have two members living in the UK, and I doubt if they are among those polluting the Internet with all things anti-British.

In any case, you seem like a smart guy. Stick around.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Look, Grunni, in case you haven't noticed, since February 24th 2022 nobody in the world cares too much about international rule-based order, and we have only one person to be grateful to for it. I'll give you a hint: he likes botox, ice hockey, and bare-chest horseback riding. The axis of evil regimes needs to be stopped and their people liberated.

At least now Iran has something else to concentrate on than supplying Russian army with drones, ballistic missiles and artillery shells.

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Appalling indeed. Democrats are a shady bunch, the lot of them. Luckily, we have His Excellency, Honourable Donald J. Trump running things now. A great guy, I always said so (well, almost always but let's not dwell too much on the past).

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


Hm... good thinking, Iron. We will need a lot of workforce when Ukrainians go back to their country or move further West. It would be nice to have our own back instead of importing workers from all over the world.

Tell ya what, @WarSore, if you can somehow arrange for all (or at least most) Poles to come back from the UK, we promise to never mention 'betrayal' or 'phoney war' again. As a bonus, we will also proclaim everywhere that British ladies are second only to Polish when it comes to beauty, warmth and personal charm. Do we have a deal? ;)

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


Hm... this is a very vague statement, a one that is seemingly true but would seem to entail a measure of oversimplification and, possibly, a bit unfair as well. I understand you are annoyed by the unfair comments towards your country but you seem to be doing exactly the same thing here. Or maybe I am wrong. Maybe you are not putting an equals sign between Poland and Germany when it comes to Holocaust and the responsibility for it. Surely you realise the difference between the actions of certain civilians or crimes perpetrated by an angry mob here and there, and the official state-level genocidal policy?


Jewish population in Poland thrived and multiplied throughout centuries and whilst Poland was also affected by the pre-WW2 wave of antisemitism in Europe, there was no official state-level genocidal policy of the Polish state towards Jews, so maybe - just maybe - using the collective 'you' when you apparently mean 'Poles and Germans' is just a tad unfair, don't you think?

But sure, I get it - you reply to our unfairness towards Britain with unfairness of your own. Understandable, I suppose.


Wow! I didn't expect that from you, Amiga. *high five*

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


True.

Compared to his usual demeanour Iron is behaving like a fluffy, cuddly teddy bear at the moment. :D

@Jon

Where is this screenshot? I can't find it.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


I do not condone violence and especially not directed against the PF Old Guard, of which Jon is a valuable member.


I doubt it. *goes looking*

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


I can only apologise for the things written on the Internet by my compatriots that you read and will inevitably read in the future, but believe me - most of them are not bad people. They would behave differently if you sat at the table with them in the real life. Internet, unfortunately, has this annoying quality of bringing out the worst in people. :(


Jon, I told you so many times - either show us this mythical invitation now or forever hold your peace.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


People with attention spans that weren't destroyed by social media.

History / Why didn't Britain declare war on USSR for invading Poland in 1939? [103]


But there was such a plan, wasn't there? Operation Inconceivable, or something like that. Fair play to Churchill for even making such plans. Without American willingness to help they couldn't have been realised, we understand that.


Look... every country has its peasant (and I don't mean farmers - the salt of the earth - but mental and moral peasants). Who do you think left Poland for the UK? Our elites who did well in Poland, had great education, great jobs and brilliant future ahead of them? Think again. Those were by and large peasants, and people who think otherwise can read the YT comments section, as you very rightly point out.

As for the resentment that some Poles might have felt towards Great Britain, there's more to it than just disappointment regarding the phoney war in the West in 1939 (and it applies more to the French--they had the largest land army in Europe back then, not the Brits). In my circles people from previous generations used to talk more about the way our generals were treated in the UK after the war, it's just a long story of grievances and bitterness (justified or not).

After the war, around 120-130 Polish generals found themselves in exile, mostly in Britain. These included commanders from the September Campaign, the Anders Army, and the Polish Armed Forces in the West. They could not return to Poland, which had fallen under Soviet control (also, because they had their citizenship revoked by the communist government in Warsaw). Their wartime efforts were not officially recognized by the British government - there was little support for Polish officers in general, financial or institutional. Generals were often forced to take low-paid or manual labour jobs to survive - General Stanisław Sosabowski (commander of the 1st Independent Parachute Brigade) worked as a warehouseman, Gen. Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski - former commander of the Home Army was an upholsterer in London. Others became janitors, factory workers, or caretakers etc. You could say "hey, each to their own - you've got to crack on" and you would be right, but those officers very often came from noble families, owned real estate confiscated by the communists, and never had to do a day of work in their lives. You can imagine the resentment caused by the forced poverty coupled with the sense of political betrayal (justified or not).

But that's all only really relevant to the 20th century. I think you may be getting a wrong impression that it matters to people in modern Poland. It doesn't.

As for your remarks about the imprudence of the Warsaw Uprising, attitude of a part of civilian population to the surviving Jews, and the eternal victim complex, there is some truth to it. All these things haven't been properly processed within Polish collective memory, and I would be the last person to deny that. The problem with national collective attitudes is that it takes bloody ages for them to change. Look at Hungarians - they are still sore about the Treaty of Trianon in 1920! Not to mention Poles and partitions (of which we ourselves are largely to blame).

But hey - if you want to be a Don Quixote battling the windmills of historical burdens, ancient grievances and sore arses, I'm not going to stop you. I shall, instead, observe your efforts with reasonable benevolence and mild amusement. Good luck! :)

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Judgement? What judgement? What I might or might not have said about President Trump was merely a slip of the tongue (or a couple of them maybe).

One of my friends, back in Ireland, was having a breakfast with his wife. He wanted to say "honey, you couldn't pass me the salt, could you?", but instead of that he made a slip of the tongue and he said "you f*cking wh*re, you wasted 20 years of my life". Slips of the tongue - these things happen.


E-x-a-c-t-l-y.

News / The Iran war and Poland [826]


Bombing a country into submission is definitely a possibility (a distant one but still).

Ask Crow.

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Apart from those rare moments when you're being a complete and utter son of a Brit. ;)

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Well, well, well. Have I ever called President Trump an orange man? Forgive me my bad command of the English language. Of course I meant delicately and elegantly tanned. Great job, Mr President!


Exactly, and it includes not supporting the aggression against Ukraine. President Trump, what a guy! Gotta hand it to him--he's a force of nature.