History / Polish Army Day [82]


The best ones are in Warsaw. This year`s will be special.

I read that PiS asked Americans to lend their F-35 only for the day and allow Poles to paint Polish insignia on them. Americanos refused and the planes will fly as American.

Life / Poetry and Poets of Poland [58]


Speak for yoursefl. It isn`t my summary. :)):)


I won`t.

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


Of course, that`s the best option.

But still being haunted with nostalgia for the motherland isn`t a pleasant experience.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


Yes! Throw a person off the sleigh is to sacrifice him/her in order to save the rest of travellers from hungry wolves which are chasing the sleigh. Such attacks used to happen in old Poland. A frequent motif in Polish art:

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Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


Lenka didn`t forget Poland after 15 years of emigration. So, offering her such advice is useless.


But forgetting just like that is impossible., You would need an operation on your brain to fully forget. The only psychological instrument that people can use in such cases is developing hatred.

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


Like Novi. :):):) Do you think Lenka is able to do it????
That would also mean quitting this forum. Do you really want it?

So why are you offering such stupid advice???


Every migrant is regardless they remember or forget Poland. Look at Novi how miserable he is. He can`t put up with cultural changes that are taking place in the US but already forgot Poland. And what??? He is in mid Atlantic right now, on t hat giant artificial island made of litter which is floating across the ocean. . :):):)

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]


Irrational? When Russians come and do to you and your family what they did in Bucza and Izium, you will quickly cease calling it irrational. But that will be too late coz you will be already lying in a mass grave, with a bullet in your shapely head. ):):)

Travel / Storks - the Symbol of Poland [59]


I have never seen a stork in my field or in the vicinity. The area is a bit hilly, hardly wet.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

to throw sb off the sleigh - usually means to dismiss a person who is a member of our group.
What is the exact origin of this idiom?

PS. I just read an article about PiS flushing their Health minister down the toilet although he begged for mercy..... twice...

Travel / Storks - the Symbol of Poland [59]

bociany.pl/zerowisko-i-pokarm-bociana-bialego/

Stork feeding grounds in Poland are mainly wetlands. These include wet meadows, pastures, shallow water reservoirs, edges of ponds and rivers. These are places rich in food throughout the season, even during a particularly dry year. Periodically, birds also use agricultural fields cultivated by humans. This takes place mainly during field work, such as plowing, harvesting.

The white stork is a non-specialized predator that hunts all creatures it can swallow. Its diet includes:

Invertebrates (earthworms, leeches, snails, mussels, crustaceans, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, insect larvae);
Fish;
Amphibians (frogs, newts);
Reptiles (snakes, lizards);
Chicks of birds nesting on the ground;
Small mammals (voles, mice, moles, shrews).

When looking for prey, storks use their eyesight, which is why they choose areas with not very high vegetation. Although a foraging stork is usually associated with a bird walking in a meadow, it can also stand still at the water's edge or a rodent's burrow, lying in wait for its prey. Because the most profitable foraging strategy is to get as much food as possible with minimal effort, birds prey on the most numerous and easily obtainable animals. Despite the common belief that frogs are the most important food for storks, today they are only a supplement to the stork diet.This is probably due to the clear reduction of breeding sites and the falling occurrence of amphibians in the last few decades. In the event of a particular abundance of some type of food, the birds quickly adapt to the situation and switch to a new, easy prey. This is what happens, for example, in the "mouse years", when rodents occur en masse. They then constitute the dominant component of the diet of storks, and a pair of birds raises, on average, at least one more young.

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Travel / Storks - the Symbol of Poland [59]


Frogs are highly stereotyped prey for storks. Field mice and grubs is more accurate here.

History / Where is Helena Wolińska-Brus buried? [52]


That`s what I thought in 2012 and was quite resolute about it. Today I am in two minds - spraying red paint on Soviet or communist murderers` tombstones still seems an attractive concept to me. I can`t help it. I call it the education of younger generations.

On the other hand, I see it is exploited too much - vandals desecrate other graves, too, for banal causes, sometimes.

So, let`s change the view and exclude the use of red paint on tombstones.

History / Old communist leaders still buried in Merit Cemetery in Powązki [20]

Kania, in the thread about Soviet memorials, you said: you are just displaying your usual pawianism again. Typical.

Exactly. Tradition is sth that binds people together and gives them the feeling of security and integrity. I have always had issues with communist memorials. Even in cemeteries.


They are still there. And new ones are still buried in that cemetery, together with AK heroes or Warsaw insurgents or soldiers who died for Poland in 1920 during the Polish Bolshevik war.

No, it is not amasing, it is sad. :(:(:(

Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]


Were you buying jewellery???

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]

BTW, if you find a rocket detonator that a Polish helicopter lost while flying over the jungle near the Bel-Rus border, call the nearest military outpost.

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Language / When do I use certain characters? [33]


This word also plays a role when you want to call a female names. Torba is a milder version of bytch.

Travel / Storks - the Symbol of Poland [59]

Departure dates vary between parts of Poland. Birds from the south-west, i.e. from Silesia, move the earliest, then storks from the north of the country, and birds from the east stay with us the longest. The professor points out that in eastern Poland there are denser populations of storks and there the probability of noticing "latecomers" is much higher.

Storks fly at an altitude of 1-1.5 km with an average speed of 50-70 km per hour. They move about 150-200 km a day. They have tens of thousands of miles to go. Large "assemblies" will probably gather around mid-August, but the last birds will be with us until mid-September - assured the expert.

Travel / Storks - the Symbol of Poland [59]

Storks are leaving for Africa early this year. No worry - it doesn`t foretell severe winter. :):):)

onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/w-tym-roku-bociany-zbieraja-sie-do-odlotu-wczesniej/mc7lhpb,79cfc278

Young storks leave Poland earlier than usual
In many stork nests, there are no more young ones - they flew away a week ago, but their parents will wait another 1-2 weeks, resting in the silence of an abandoned nest. There are a lot of young this year, although the birds arrived later - says prof. Piotr Tryjanowski from the Poznań University of Life Sciences.

In the past, it was believed that bird families leave together, and the young learn how to travel from adults. Yet, the younger ones, those with a gray-orange beak and legs, mobilize much earlier than the older ones, with intensely red beaks. Siblings don't necessarily wander together.

However, first of all, adult birds that have not had offspring or have lost them - usually due to predators, fights with other storks or due to weather and random causes (fall of a pole with a nest, thunderstorms, hail) depart first.

- This year everything is different. The storks arrived late, but they did their parental work very efficiently. The number of young in many places in Poland is therefore above average, our pessimistic visions from the beginning of the breeding season definitely did not come true - says Prof. Tryjanowski.

The assumption that the birds will leave later than usual is also not confirmed. For reasons that are difficult for researchers to explain, storks "curl up" about 10 days or two weeks earlier than the normal long-term average. It has nothing to do with a potentially cold winter - scientists once tried to check the relationship between the stork's departure time and the harsh winter, but they have not been proven; the data was a "chaotic cloud of points

The phenomenon of "stork assemblies" can be observed on plowed fields and mown meadows. "If there are 30-40 storks feeding in the field, it is a clear sign that they are gathering to depart. Flight is a very expensive way of moving and you need to prepare yourself energetically for it. That's why planes refuel at the airport, and storks find a place where there is more food to fill up before the journey to African wintering grounds" - explains Prof. Tryjanowski.

Stork assembly called Little Parliament in Polish

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Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


You are very sensitive, we know. Yes, the society is so discriminating. They are racist, sexist, homophobic and more. But you can`t give up just like that!!! You need to stand up and fight!!!

Travel / Being Transgender and visiting Wroclaw [467]


You became a voluntary outcast???

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]


Wow, it is the first time in months I agree with you. Amasing!

But we might guess from some hints he includes in his rants here. He has a fixation on banderists who were eventually crushed by Soviets. It looks like Soviets are heroes to Kania.

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]


Just look at this monstrosity. Veritable Frankenstein`s monster.

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News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]


Good you are enlightening us about those Freudian aspects. However, phallic or not, they must be gone. Another reason is that most of them are terribly ugly. They really pollute the environment, not only historically, but also visually and esthetically. .

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Guys, can you imagine? 6 years for critical comments?? This is pure North Korea standard. How low did the Russian nation fall if they allow the gangster putinist regime to do such things to brave decent people? Unbelievable.

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]


I meant brainwashing, not acts of violence. :):):)


Because after decades, nobody remembers if the atrocities were committed by minority or most or all. What people remember is that they were committed by Soviets AT ALL. Imagine a student learning at school about Soviet crimes in Poland and then seeing such a monument?? Don`t you think it might be a bit schizophrenic experience??

Pull down Soviet monuments in Poland and fekk all Soviet lovers! that`s my motto. Ha!


Relax, anti Soviet monuments are also pullled down. Like this crude sculpture of a Soviet soldier raping a woman. Being a private initiative, it was removed after a day or two. So, there is our beloved balance in nature, isn`t there?????

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News / Polish Parliamentary Elections 2023 [933]


Hmm.... I seriously doubt it. When PIS decides to fling mud at sb, they do it with enthusiastic perseverance.

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]


And raped all women who didn`t escape in time on their way to Berlin.

Why are you so fekking brainwashed???? What did those Soviets do to you or your ancestors that you appreciate them so much??? ily

Life / In Poland on holiday - need help with bad case of homesickness [108]


They aren`t wider, the same as before, but less busy coz residents have gone on holiday. :):) Today I visited the big city to do some business and bring fresh produce to my urban family. I was shocked coz the centre was nearly empty, completely devoid of traffic jams. It felt like Sunday morning, everybody out of town.

News / Russian criticism of Poland - Soviet war memorial removal [332]


Yeah. You want to keep their monuments although it was Soviets who invaded Poland in 1939 , having wokred out a perfect alliance with Nazi Germans. Both committed horrible crimes. It was Soviets, not Germans, who executed 22.000 Polish POWs, mostly officers. Germans kept POWs in camps till the end of the war. When Soviets chased Germans off from Poland, females aged 5 to 75 had to go into hiding to avoid being raped. And they committed more crimes. Did you forget the case of 600 anticommunist partisans who were rounded by Soviets near Augustów and disappeared without a trace.

My speech will be short: Fekk all Soviet lovers who want to keep their monuments in Poland. If they love Sovietism so much, then can go to Russia and kneel down in front of the Lenin mummy in the Red Square.


hahahaha, indeed. But I am still active and ready to defend Poland against Soviet lovers. Ha!

News / What should Poland do with the problem of Belarus? [1800]


yes, coz they are azholes and political gangsters.


Of course not. A few rockets flew into and across Poland, always causing unbelievable panick in the PiS gov. They are fekking cowards, in fact.


hahaha He won`t. Wanna bet??? If he is elected on 15th October this year, I will go under the table and bark off all my nasty remarks. If he isn`t elected, you will go down the table and bark, like a rabid dog. What say you????