Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]


Yes, excellent! Communist hot dogs! hahaha


Exactly! But...... are you sure you know everything about communism??? :):):):)

See you in another thread of explanation.

USA, Canada / 15 hr. motion on a minimum wage. (USA) [24]


Holy words. Thank you for sharing your valuable opinions.

Love / Polish women care about traditional values [40]


Exactly! That is exemplary exploitation of women by men. No wonder she had enough and left.

Work / Language Teachers - do you feel respected in Poland? [86]


Wow, that makes you one of the oldest posters in the PF. Congrats and long live to you, Methuselah!

Food / Polish polskie pierogi recipe (prepared at home) [74]


Excellent! Did she share any other recipes for Polish dishes? E.g,, flaki or soups?? Where did your granny come from in Poland exactly??

Life / What should I get for a gift for somebody who's never visited Poland? [59]


Years have passed and your attitude evolved to I'm afraid I would get bored rather quickly in Poland. :):):)

Polonia / Protect Andrei Poczobut (a journalist) against prosecution by the Belarusian dictatorship [49]


But as it is out of our reach to free him, only prayers are left to help.


But he isn`t Polish, while Poczbut is.

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]


Exactly!!! If Jesus came down to live on earth now, he would fully support women against their Pharisee oppressors, like he did in his time.

I am really glad you agree with me.

Po polsku / Piszę po polsku - ludzie zmieniają się pod wpływem pieniędzy [34]


I ja jestem takim wyjątkiem. W mlodosci byłem prawakiem, a na starość robię się coraz bardziej liberalny. To wszystko przez to pieprzone chrześcijaństwo - dawniej ważyłem sobie je lekce i ogólnie miałem w nosie, a teraz podchodzę na poważnie. Tak jak Jezus Chrystus, nie cierpię prawackich faryzeuszy.

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]


Soon, when rightists lose elections - national and presidential. When it happens, women will be fully liberated at last. I can`t wait.

Polonia / Protect Andrei Poczobut (a journalist) against prosecution by the Belarusian dictatorship [49]


We need to pray for him.


Like those Solidarity activists - they hoped for better tomorrow and didn`t give up. And were successful in the end. That is Polishness.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Sorry, no. Sth more Western..... :):):)

Food / Today's Polish Sunday dinner? [30]


Yes, home made lemonade with pears and grapefruit... :):):) Excellent!


Unfortunately, no but I can`t blame you coz the photo is obscure. That was an apple pie with beza - meringue top - you can see a piece of it in the last photo.

Thanks for relentless guessing - you are so stubborn and never give up. I love it coz it is so Polish! :):):)

For tea, adults have coffee. I add honey to it instead of sugar. Our village neighbour keeps bees in the garden. They pollinate my stuff, too, so I feel obliged to buy their honey from him. I will scratch your back if you scratch mine'. hahahaha

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History / The great mistakes of Poland's history? [216]


The events like the Muscovite and Swedish invasion you mentioned did take place, indeed. However, they would have taken place anyway, no matter if Poland was in alliance with the Duchy of Lithuania or wasn`t. :):):)


Of course. With or without Ukraine under Polish control, Sweden or Russia would have attacked anyway. :):):) SUCH A PLACE, SUCH TIME.

Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


Wow, maf, I got really surprised anybody tried to do those exercises, I showed them as examples.

Of course, you are correct. :):)

As a reward, read the long composition:

Write a description of a literary character who considered freedom the most important value.

Jan Bytnar, nom de guerre " Rudy - Redhead", is one of the three main characters in the novel by Aleksander Kamiński entitled "Kamienie na Szaniec". It is worth noting that this is not a fictional character, but a historical one. He was a young boy when the WW2 broke out, just a few months after he had passed his final exams and graduated from the Warsaw junior high school Rudy - an ambitious young man, a scoutmaster and a patriot, decides together with his friends to face the occupiers, conducting sabotage actions in his hometown of Warsaw as part of the Little Sabotage.

Rudy earned his nickname for a reason - his hair may not have been fiery like fiery tongues, but simply - red. His face was slightly freckled. However, it is difficult to describe only the features visible to the naked eye, especially when dealing with such an interesting character from the point of view of character, which is undoubtedly Jan Bytnar. He was a man, as I mentioned before, extremely ambitious. He was calm, composed and stubborn. He always tried to improve himself in every field he was interested in - he could quickly learn to dance and become the best dancer in the whole school. He was not afraid to face his weaknesses - although cooking was never his strong point, he decided, thanks to his ambition and stubbornness, to acquire considerable skills in this field. Rudy is also a philosopher, who was often troubled by various dilemmas and reflections. He dreamed of supporting the efforts to rebuild a new Poland after the war. Bytnar was undoubtedly an intellectual - he studied brilliantly and was versatile. This figure reminds me a bit of the famous Renaissance man - Leonardo da Vinci. Like him, the young scout showed interest and skills in many disciplines. Rudy is also characterized by great respect for friendship, as well as a willingness to make sacrifices for his loved ones and for the homeland, which occupied a special place in his heart. When he was captured by the Gestapo, he was tortured and attempts were made to extract information from him, but Bytnar showed steadfastness and protected other members of the Polish Underground at the cost of his life. Throughout the war, until his tragic death from wounds inflicted while in German police headquarters, Rudy fought for freedom with hope for a better tomorrow, ready for sacrifices. Other heroes of the novel, such as Zośka or Alek, valued him for this attitude so much that they organized the famous operation near the Arsenal, in which Aleksy Dawidowski (Alek) lost his life. All this in the name of friendship and joint struggle for freedom.

In my opinion, Jan Bytnar fully deserves to be called a hero for whom freedom was the utmost value. He was a man of extraordinary intellect and versatile interests, an idealist who was able to pay the highest price in the name of fighting for freedom. Rudy should be a role model for many Poles, not only young ones, as an example of virtues and praiseworthy attitudes.

The film scene showing how Redhead is freed from German hands by his boy scout mates, underground fighters, during the operation Arsenal in 1943.

With Eng subtitles
youtube.com/watch?v=ZYYnWf9r-PQ

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Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 2 [1680]

Not tatar.

But those burgers are close......

Hint: my fave fast food from communist times.....

History / The great mistakes of Poland's history? [216]


Turks or Russians, the same. :):) Invasion is invasion, no matter who does it. And Muscovites, conquering the Duchy of Lithuania, would directly endanger Poland.


Poland had issues with Sweden after one Swedish royal became the king of Poland in 1587. It later led to first wars with Sweden from 1601 - 1629. When the Swedish -Polish king died, his Polish Swedish sons ruled Poland and they also had issues with Sweden.

So, Ukraine had nothing to do with those brawls.

Polonia / Protect Andrei Poczobut (a journalist) against prosecution by the Belarusian dictatorship [49]


Yes, he refused to plead for mercy to Lukashenka.


He refused to do it as a brave and patriotic man. Similarly, most Solidarity anticommunist activists prefered to stay in communist Poland and continue their fight against the regime, even though they are persecuted.

History / The great mistakes of Poland's history? [216]

A new post, do not merge with the previous one.


Yes, because we were conflicted. Poles also didn`t hesitate to kill Ukrainians.
Fortunately, now we don`t cherish any animosities towards each other.


Come, skip this miserable propaganda. You won`t change current positive Polish attitude to Ukrainians - it is simply impossible. :):):)


And without Ukrainian issues, the relations would have flourished?? You are daydreaming or spreading sick propaganda again. Of course they wouldn`t. Russia would have attacked Poland sooner or later coz the constant conquest has always been the primary drive of the Russian Empire - then and now.

History / The great mistakes of Poland's history? [216]


Of course not. Having Ukraine was strategicaly advantageous when repelling Tatar or Turkish invasions coz the armies met in Ukraine, not Poland proper.


You need to support such statements with professional statistical data established through meticulous research. Without it, you are expressing a private opinion which is probably wrong. :):)


Another blunder. :)) Poles did focus on Sweden all the time. You missed the fact that one Polish king was Swedish and his sons were also kings of Poland. Ukraine had nothing to do with Polish Swedish conflict.

Law / Single certificate from Poland [2]


Yes, you can apply for the document through the Consulate. It will cost you about 30 euros. Call them and enquire for details.

Travel / Do Poles like to hunt? Hunting in Poland. [211]


Let`s read now how the hunt ended - it took a surprising twist when the hunted bear became a hunter itself.

Hounds and hunters closed in; the bear turned back
and forth, till it spotted a path, unguarded,
and fled to the same field from where the track
had started-where the crowds had just departed,
where only the Seneschal and the Count,
and Tadeusz, remained-prepared to dismount.

The woods were thinner here, and branches crunched
as the bear flew out from the dark thicket,
like thunder from a cloud. The dogs soon bunched
around the bear which rose-as they clawed it
with their paws, the bear uprooted stumps,
tossing them like stones. Brandishing a tree,
it roared as the frightened hounds yelped and jumped;
then it charged the line of beaters viciously....

Translated from Polish by Leonard Kress / leonardkress.com/Pan Tadeusz.pdf

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Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]


Exercise 17
Finish the sentence. Choose answer A or B and justify it with 1, 2 or 3.

Walking home through the bustling market is
A. a single sentence
B a gerund clause

Because

1. there is no subject in it.
2. contains only one predicate
3. it has no personal form of the verb.

Exercise 18
In the utterance A weekday is filled with feverish work, the phrase filled with is
A. preposition.
B. adverb.
C. adverbial participle.
D. adjectival participle.

Polonia / Protect Andrei Poczobut (a journalist) against prosecution by the Belarusian dictatorship [49]

Poczobut, the Polish minority activist and journalist, was just sentenced to 8 years in prison by Lukashenka regime. .
tvpworld.com/66115996/poczobut-sentenced-to-eight-years-in-prison

The Belarusian court accused the Polish minority activist of illegally organizing Polish minority events, collecting information on behalf of international organizations, calling for sanctions against Belarus, and glorifying the Polish wartime Home Army.

The Polish gov has no means to effectively press on Belarus regime to free him.

Law / Buying from Allegro.pl with Money Protection? [10]


Yes, and there is Allegro Protect which will reimburse you if sth goes wrong but only up to 20.000.

Food / Today's Polish Sunday dinner? [30]


of course, typical dressing for mashed potatoes and not only.

Then there was dessert.

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Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]


What is your opinion about it exactly?

Life / Why women's rights are not respected here in Poland? [160]


Like what exactly??

Food / Today's Polish Sunday dinner? [30]

Sorry, no. Fried pork chop doesn`t go with mushrooms.
But thanks for your guess, anyway. Much appreciated.

Food / Today's Polish Sunday dinner? [30]

Saturday dinner continued:

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