Torq
27 Dec 2023
Torq
27 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
Nie mierz innych swoją miarą, Rysiu-pysiu.
Sure.
But you have no right to insult my country and my people. If you keep doing that, we will have a problem.
90% of Poles would gladly do what I did
Nie mierz innych swoją miarą, Rysiu-pysiu.
Life is short. I have a right to spend the best way I can.
Sure.
But you have no right to insult my country and my people. If you keep doing that, we will have a problem.
Torq
27 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
Mermaid on a beach: 1964
This enchanting Syrena (Mermaid) 103 was a 100% Polish construction (no licence bought in the "rotten West" aided the design and production of this car). Over 500,000 Syrenas in various versions (sedan, cabrio, truck, mini-van) were manufactured in years 1957-1983.
Mermaid on a beach: 1964
This enchanting Syrena (Mermaid) 103 was a 100% Polish construction (no licence bought in the "rotten West" aided the design and production of this car). Over 500,000 Syrenas in various versions (sedan, cabrio, truck, mini-van) were manufactured in years 1957-1983.
Torq
27 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
Guarding the border: 1985
Two border guards at work. Notice that the eagle on the border post and the eagles on the guards' caps are crownless. This is because those were peasant-worker eagles unlike today's bourgeois-monarchist eagles sporting golden crowns. ;)
Guarding the border: 1985
Two border guards at work. Notice that the eagle on the border post and the eagles on the guards' caps are crownless. This is because those were peasant-worker eagles unlike today's bourgeois-monarchist eagles sporting golden crowns. ;)
Torq
27 Dec 2023
Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1400]
Cool.
So, you don't reject your Polishness or despise your own heritage. You will have no problems with me. :)
Anglo Pole
Cool.
So, you don't reject your Polishness or despise your own heritage. You will have no problems with me. :)
Torq
27 Dec 2023
History / Famous Russian Poles [243]
No probs.
Also, the commander of the entire Russian fortress, General Brzozowski, was of Polish ancestry.
No probs.
Also, the commander of the entire Russian fortress, General Brzozowski, was of Polish ancestry.
Torq
27 Dec 2023
History / Famous Russian Poles [243]
Watch the video to the end Grunni, and check out the "When cockroaches hunted panzers" video I posted in the 1939 thread - there is a link between the two. :)
You got to be kidding me...
Watch the video to the end Grunni, and check out the "When cockroaches hunted panzers" video I posted in the 1939 thread - there is a link between the two. :)
Torq
27 Dec 2023
History / Famous Russian Poles [243]
Two Polish officers leading a charge of Russian forces and receiving the Order of St. George (posthumously) and the Sword of St. George for the attack...
Two Polish officers leading a charge of Russian forces and receiving the Order of St. George (posthumously) and the Sword of St. George for the attack...
Torq
27 Dec 2023
History / Polish military in 1939 in pictures. [107]
Approximately 500 tankettes took part in the September campaign (...) 20mm armed light tank destroyer variant
Torq
27 Dec 2023
History / Polish military in 1939 in pictures. [107]
Brilliant animation - very detailed and historically accurate. Respect for the makers and eternal glory for the fallen heroes. This will always be Urząd Pocztowy Gdańsk 1...
... *salutes*
Superb digitally made full story
Brilliant animation - very detailed and historically accurate. Respect for the makers and eternal glory for the fallen heroes. This will always be Urząd Pocztowy Gdańsk 1...
... *salutes*
Torq
27 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
Urbs celeberrima: 2023
Let's get back to the present day and to "mainland Poland" with this photo of our good, old Cracow. One cannot deny the importance of this city to Polish soul. Before WW2 there were four main cities that defined Polish identity: Warsaw, Lwów, Wilno and Cracow (of course, there were others like Toruń or Poznań but the four I mentioned were the mainstays of Polishness). After the war Lwów and Wilno were taken away by the Soviet Union and Warsaw lay in ruins. Only Cracow was left and until this very day this city remains dear to every Polish heart.
Urbs celeberrima: 2023
Let's get back to the present day and to "mainland Poland" with this photo of our good, old Cracow. One cannot deny the importance of this city to Polish soul. Before WW2 there were four main cities that defined Polish identity: Warsaw, Lwów, Wilno and Cracow (of course, there were others like Toruń or Poznań but the four I mentioned were the mainstays of Polishness). After the war Lwów and Wilno were taken away by the Soviet Union and Warsaw lay in ruins. Only Cracow was left and until this very day this city remains dear to every Polish heart.
Torq
27 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
Ancient Piast lands: 1971
We remain in the Regained Lands with this interesting view of Szczecin, as seen from the Odra River. In the background we can see gothic St. James's church.
Ancient Piast lands: 1971
We remain in the Regained Lands with this interesting view of Szczecin, as seen from the Odra River. In the background we can see gothic St. James's church.
Torq
27 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
A word of explanation, before someone gets a wrong idea:
Why do I consider transsexual people to be OK, as opposed to trans Americans (like Ryszard), trans Brits, trans French etc. who are an ungodly aberration? For a very simple reason: if one is a transsexual person, one rejects only his gender - a single factor in his identity, which might be caused by some medical condition or inborn fault or some sort of psychological changes, I'm not a speacialist but I am tolerant and have nothing against such people.
Being a transnational/transcultural person, like Ryszard, is much worse because you abandon everything that you are - your origins, history, culture, language, and it is not caused by any developmental defect but by your conscious choice. Disgusting*. Transnationals (like Ryszard) who hate their country of origin and pretend not to have anything to do with it are precisely what's wrong with the West today - SELF-HATE. It is even worse when such people openly express their hate and spout hateful nonsense on internet boards (like Ryszard does here).
Polish-Americans, who had to emigrate for many reasons but still keep their traditions, use their language and feel certain bond with their country of origin, are lovely people. The same goes for British or French people of Polish origin. But self-hating transnational arseholes like Ryszard Mazur (can you imagine a more Polish name?) really annoy me. They destroy the old values, everything that a conservative person holds dear - I cannot condone such neo-marxist, self-hating nonsense.
* - even more disgusting when it happens in the first generation. Children or grandchildren of transnational people will obviously develop a strong bond with the country they are born in - it's the country of their birth after all. For first generation self-hating transnationals there is no excuse.
A word of explanation, before someone gets a wrong idea:
Why do I consider transsexual people to be OK, as opposed to trans Americans (like Ryszard), trans Brits, trans French etc. who are an ungodly aberration? For a very simple reason: if one is a transsexual person, one rejects only his gender - a single factor in his identity, which might be caused by some medical condition or inborn fault or some sort of psychological changes, I'm not a speacialist but I am tolerant and have nothing against such people.
Being a transnational/transcultural person, like Ryszard, is much worse because you abandon everything that you are - your origins, history, culture, language, and it is not caused by any developmental defect but by your conscious choice. Disgusting*. Transnationals (like Ryszard) who hate their country of origin and pretend not to have anything to do with it are precisely what's wrong with the West today - SELF-HATE. It is even worse when such people openly express their hate and spout hateful nonsense on internet boards (like Ryszard does here).
Polish-Americans, who had to emigrate for many reasons but still keep their traditions, use their language and feel certain bond with their country of origin, are lovely people. The same goes for British or French people of Polish origin. But self-hating transnational arseholes like Ryszard Mazur (can you imagine a more Polish name?) really annoy me. They destroy the old values, everything that a conservative person holds dear - I cannot condone such neo-marxist, self-hating nonsense.
* - even more disgusting when it happens in the first generation. Children or grandchildren of transnational people will obviously develop a strong bond with the country they are born in - it's the country of their birth after all. For first generation self-hating transnationals there is no excuse.
Torq
27 Dec 2023
Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1400]
What do YOU regard yourself as?
You defended this ircorrigible Pole-hater, Ryszard, in another thread. I never considered you to be a Pole hater but now I'm not sure. So, who are you?
I know that you regard me as a non Pole
What do YOU regard yourself as?
You defended this ircorrigible Pole-hater, Ryszard, in another thread. I never considered you to be a Pole hater but now I'm not sure. So, who are you?
Torq
27 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
Aww... one trans defending another, how sweet!
What a lovely LGBT couple! Are you going on a parade together?
You obviously have a very short attention span.
Aww... one trans defending another, how sweet!
What a lovely LGBT couple! Are you going on a parade together?
Torq
26 Dec 2023
Torq
26 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
I was to Lwów once as a kid and was enchanted with the city - Ukrainians are taking very good care of it, just like Lithuanians are taking great care of Wilno, and I'm sure - although I've never been there - Belarussians love their Grodno and Brześć. But the amount of suffering, destroyed lives and broken hearts involved in the changes was immense. Let's hope no "genius" on either side of any border ever tries to repeat the history again.
I was to Lwów once as a kid and was enchanted with the city - Ukrainians are taking very good care of it, just like Lithuanians are taking great care of Wilno, and I'm sure - although I've never been there - Belarussians love their Grodno and Brześć. But the amount of suffering, destroyed lives and broken hearts involved in the changes was immense. Let's hope no "genius" on either side of any border ever tries to repeat the history again.
Torq
26 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
Not at all.
Here's a 1938 photo of the department store...
Funny thing, Wrocław was settled with people from Lwów and other eastern cities which the Soviet Union took from us. So, after the war, if you heard somebody with the melodic eastern accent, you could pretty much assume that he/she was from Wrocław - one of the westernmost cities in Poland. European history, eh? :)
Not at all.
Here's a 1938 photo of the department store...
Funny thing, Wrocław was settled with people from Lwów and other eastern cities which the Soviet Union took from us. So, after the war, if you heard somebody with the melodic eastern accent, you could pretty much assume that he/she was from Wrocław - one of the westernmost cities in Poland. European history, eh? :)
Torq
26 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
LOL
The coffin-dodging, trans arsehole is at it again. No point arguing or discussing with haters, like LGBT-Ryszard here, but one can torment them every now and again (as they deserve!).
That's a rather long post #74. Couldn't be arsed reading it - probably some nonsense as usual from the rainbow granpa.
LOL
The coffin-dodging, trans arsehole is at it again. No point arguing or discussing with haters, like LGBT-Ryszard here, but one can torment them every now and again (as they deserve!).
That's a rather long post #74. Couldn't be arsed reading it - probably some nonsense as usual from the rainbow granpa.
Torq
26 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
No longer a Festung: 1953
... a staggering 68% of Breslau's buildings were destroyed in WW2. This amazing city of three nations (the longest under the Czech rule, then - for about 400 years - under the Polish crown, and for the shortest, but very important for the development of the city, time a German possession) was rebuilt with an enormous effort and sacrifice of the decimated and impoverished Poland - even more difficult because the completely razed Warsaw had priority in all the reconstruction plans. In the photo we can see a digger clearing the rubble in Plac Kościuszki (former Tauentzienplatz) - still 8 years after the war (!).
No longer a Festung: 1953
... a staggering 68% of Breslau's buildings were destroyed in WW2. This amazing city of three nations (the longest under the Czech rule, then - for about 400 years - under the Polish crown, and for the shortest, but very important for the development of the city, time a German possession) was rebuilt with an enormous effort and sacrifice of the decimated and impoverished Poland - even more difficult because the completely razed Warsaw had priority in all the reconstruction plans. In the photo we can see a digger clearing the rubble in Plac Kościuszki (former Tauentzienplatz) - still 8 years after the war (!).
Torq
26 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
Very well, coffin-dodger, if that's how you want to play.
Just remember that I gave you a fair warning. I didn't want this war. I am not the aggressor.
Here is my choice: GFY.
Very well, coffin-dodger, if that's how you want to play.
Just remember that I gave you a fair warning. I didn't want this war. I am not the aggressor.
Torq
26 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
I hear this sentence over and over again from trans people.
Oh, I was paying attention. Not only in this but also in many other threads where you wrote directly that you hate Poles and how stupid "Polaks" are (despite the fact that you are one too, albeit a trans).
As for the rest of the post above: occasional vandalism or inadequate sanitary facilities are no reason to insult a country or its people.
I gave you a fair warning. You have a choice now. Choose wisely.
I hate people who tell me who and what I am and how I feel.
I hear this sentence over and over again from trans people.
Then you were not paying attention...
Oh, I was paying attention. Not only in this but also in many other threads where you wrote directly that you hate Poles and how stupid "Polaks" are (despite the fact that you are one too, albeit a trans).
As for the rest of the post above: occasional vandalism or inadequate sanitary facilities are no reason to insult a country or its people.
I gave you a fair warning. You have a choice now. Choose wisely.
Torq
26 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
0_0 ... no... not that... *shivers with fear*
Novi will out you on Ignore!
0_0 ... no... not that... *shivers with fear*
Torq
26 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
You just told me your weak spot, Ryszard. A schoolboy mistake.
You are drawing too far-reaching conclusions based on an insufficiently large sample. I would expect more from a man with an engineering degree and valuable patents to his name. If you have a beef with a certain poster, deal with that poster personally. Stop insulting Poland and Poles in general, or I shall be very annoying to you (believe me - I'm good at it if I want to).
I hate people who tell me who and what I am and how I feel. Now you are on that list with that "Ryszard".
You just told me your weak spot, Ryszard. A schoolboy mistake.
As far as Poles being stupid, look no further than the war thread. Start with cms and pawian.
You are drawing too far-reaching conclusions based on an insufficiently large sample. I would expect more from a man with an engineering degree and valuable patents to his name. If you have a beef with a certain poster, deal with that poster personally. Stop insulting Poland and Poles in general, or I shall be very annoying to you (believe me - I'm good at it if I want to).
Torq
26 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
Let's go abroad!: 1965
Polish-Czechoslovakian Friendship Trail ended right at the border, so you could take your kids for a trip abroad (at least a couple of steps abroad) on a low budget, just like the ladies in the photo decided to.
Let's go abroad!: 1965
Polish-Czechoslovakian Friendship Trail ended right at the border, so you could take your kids for a trip abroad (at least a couple of steps abroad) on a low budget, just like the ladies in the photo decided to.
Torq
26 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
Nope. Nice try but nope.
I use English whenever I want and however I want, like one would use a prostitute if one was inclined to do so. Meanwhile, I remain 100% Polish through and through. :)
Anyways, I don't usually engage in elder abuse but I am truly sick and tired of reading how much you hate Poles, how stupid Polaks are, and all the other anti-Polish sh*t from you. So tell ya what, Ryszard, every time you insult Poles or Poland I will remind you that you belong to LGBT community (where 'T' stands for trans).
You have transitioned by posting in English.
Nope. Nice try but nope.
I use English whenever I want and however I want, like one would use a prostitute if one was inclined to do so. Meanwhile, I remain 100% Polish through and through. :)
Anyways, I don't usually engage in elder abuse but I am truly sick and tired of reading how much you hate Poles, how stupid Polaks are, and all the other anti-Polish sh*t from you. So tell ya what, Ryszard, every time you insult Poles or Poland I will remind you that you belong to LGBT community (where 'T' stands for trans).
Torq
26 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
Of course not. But escaping a prison and then becoming a trans can be considered very disgusting. You are born what you are born. That's it. End of.
If someone has a transition like you had, Rysiek, don't be surprised if it disgusts some people (especially conservatives).
There is nothing disgusting in escaping from a prison
Of course not. But escaping a prison and then becoming a trans can be considered very disgusting. You are born what you are born. That's it. End of.
If someone has a transition like you had, Rysiek, don't be surprised if it disgusts some people (especially conservatives).
Torq
26 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]
Even more disgusting for some people is being trans. You are born one thing, then you decide to have a transition and you think you become something else than what you were born.
For example: someone is born a Pole but decides to have a transition and considers himself a fully transitioned American.
Disgusting.
it's immoral and disgusting.
Even more disgusting for some people is being trans. You are born one thing, then you decide to have a transition and you think you become something else than what you were born.
For example: someone is born a Pole but decides to have a transition and considers himself a fully transitioned American.
Disgusting.
Torq
26 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
Welcome, friends: 2014
Polish 6th Airborne Brigade paratroopers march together with their allies from 173rd US Airborne Brigade who arrived at Swidwin air base for joint exercise with one of their sister units.
Welcome, friends: 2014
Polish 6th Airborne Brigade paratroopers march together with their allies from 173rd US Airborne Brigade who arrived at Swidwin air base for joint exercise with one of their sister units.
Torq
26 Dec 2023
History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]
До свидания, друзья: 1993
Over 30 years ago the last echelon of Soviet troops left Poland. In this historic photo we can see the boys of 6th Vitebsk-Novgorod Guards Division waving us goodbye as their train rolls towards Tver, where their new headquarters were to be located. The withdrawal was peaceful and agreed upon already in 1989 when the first non-communist government took power in Poland.
До свидания, друзья: 1993
Over 30 years ago the last echelon of Soviet troops left Poland. In this historic photo we can see the boys of 6th Vitebsk-Novgorod Guards Division waving us goodbye as their train rolls towards Tver, where their new headquarters were to be located. The withdrawal was peaceful and agreed upon already in 1989 when the first non-communist government took power in Poland.