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pawian   
23 Jan 2025
Language / Polish pet names [40]

As Maf says, translating from the Polish word magnate which is a false friend.

I don`t know what maf wrote.

But both you and maf are mental losers who know sth about the language but too little to be experts you deem yourselves.
What is worse, you are ready to claim any falsehood to have the last word. But fortunately I am here to prevent it. Ha!!!

Dalring, check magnates in English wiki:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnate
pawian   
23 Jan 2025
Language / Polish pet names [40]

really

Bs. You have no idea.
pawian   
23 Jan 2025
Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

Quite a bias to pre-20th century.

Exactly, coz Poles/Polesses are obsessed with history. Simple.

Alice Walker is good for teens.

Not really. She is too leftist even close to communism. She fully supports communist Cuba. Besides, she is obsessively antisemitic and supports people who are often dubbed as Holocaust deniers. This isn`t welcome in Poland.
pawian   
23 Jan 2025
USA, Canada / American wanting to move to Poland from USA - how hard is it? [40]

It isn`t hard to move but even beneficial and good for your health, both mental and physical.

E.g, our American rightist members brag about the US being the Heaven for free speech etc.

AmaSSing liars they are because it is in the US where people lose their jobs for speaking their mind.

Journalist Reacts to Elon Musk's Strange Gesture. Here's What Happened to Her
A meteorologist working for a local Milwaukee TV station was fired a day after she criticized Elon Musk on social media, saying the billionaire made a Nazi gesture at Donald Trump's inauguration. She worked at the station for five years.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported the story. On Wednesday, employees of local CBS affiliate WDJT-TV received an email saying that meteorologist Sam Kuffel had left the station. Her photo and bio were removed from the station's website by noon that same day. "Meteorologist Sam Kuffel is no longer employed at CBS5. A search is underway for a replacement," reads a memo from news director Jessie Garcia, obtained by the Journal Sentinel.

pawian   
23 Jan 2025
Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

A very male and white list too.

Yes, quite conservative. We need more female literature straight from Africa. What can you recommend?

information.

The list is incomplete coz I didn`t provide titles from previous curriculum which students may also use on the reformed exam.

Here it is:
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Aristophanes, The Clouds
Virgil, The Aeneid (fragments)
François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel (fragments)
Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Story


What strikes me is keeping Russian works on the curriculum. A few of them. It means that similarly to Chopin Competition with Russian pianists, Polish examiners consider literature should be free of political animosities.

I wonder if Russians have kept any Polish literature in their curricula.
pawian   
23 Jan 2025
Language / Polish pet names [40]

Nobility or Szlachta?

Nobility is a wider term which covers both magnates and szlachta. I am surprised you had no idea. Amasing!
pawian   
23 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [298]

bye...

buhahaha hahahaha

Hey, guys and guyesses, if Novi puts me on ignore again, can you take over and ask him the question he refuses to reply to:
Hey, if they raped you in your house, would you report it to the police right away???
pawian   
23 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [298]

I don't respond

uhahaha buhahaha hihihihi

Novi, it seems I got you like no time before. hahaha buhahaha

yes or no, cwaniaczku ??? :):):)

I won`t let you off with this one, you know it, so you`d better answer now or I will drag you all over the forum with it. hahahaha buhahaha

Yes or no??? hihihihi
pawian   
23 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [298]

A rape unreported to the police

Hey, if they raped you in your house, would you report it to the police right away???

No essays, please. Just yes or no.

Well????????????????????????????
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
History / Life in communist Poland - personal relations [503]

Bribery was widespread in communist Poland. I bribed a few dozen people in 1980s to get a better customer service. E.g, I bribed an experienced vet at a state vet clinic to operate on my dog instead of veterinary course students. Apart from his regular charge, I gave him a big jar of lemon tea flavour which a relative of mine sent me from West Germany. The dog survived the complicated operation and lived happily ever after. The doc was visibly satisfied.

Similar to this:


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pawian   
22 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [298]

Show me any legal document that says "rape" and "Trump

Go to court which dealt with Donald and Ivana`s divorce.
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

foreign titles of set readings for Polish class high school final exam: Basic aka Ordinary Level,

Now Advanced aka Extended Level

Homer, The Odyssey (fragments)
Aristotle, Poetics, Rhetoric (fragments)
Plato, The Republic (fragments)
St. Augustine, Confessions (fragments)
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (fragments)
Michel de Montaigne, Essays (fragments)
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
(Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot or Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers or Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls or Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary)
Franz Kafka, The Trial (fragments)
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

pawian   
22 Jan 2025
Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [298]

I have some brain

Stop bragging, it`s useless. Zero impression on us by that peanut brain of yours. Dinosaurs had bigger ones, walnut size.
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
History / Differences between Poland and Russia [78]

no wonder they finally overwhelmed us with the help of Germans.

E.g, in 1939 when Nazi Germans and Soviet Russians made a pact to invade and share Poland.


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pawian   
22 Jan 2025
History / Differences between Poland and Russia [78]

Russia's cultural and geopolitical hegemony

Geopolitical, yes.
Cultural, no. Muscovite Russians were barbarians still living in outback forests when Poland experienced her Golden Age.

subjugated by Moscow

By crude numbers only. There were always 4 times more Russians than Poles/Polesses so it is no wonder they finally overwhelmed us with the help of Germans.
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
Study / Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]

Oh my Goddess, this passage of time is devastating!

I looked for the post in which I provided foreign titles of set readings for Polish class primary school final exam and I found it on page 13, May 2021 while I thought I had written it a year ago. :(:(:(:(:(:(:( Kuźwa!

https://polishforums.com/study/poland-various-education-school-issues-84668/13/#msg1795502

Here is the list of foreign titles of set readings for Polish class high school final exam:

Basic aka Ordinary Level, obligatory to all high school students:

Bible, including fragments of Genesis, Job, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Psalms, Apocalypse of St. John

Homer, Iliad (fragments)

Sophocles, Antigone

The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi (fragments)

The Song of Roland (fragments)

Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (fragments)

William Shakespeare, Macbeth

Molière, The Miser

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

Albert Camus, The Plague

George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four

pawian   
22 Jan 2025
History / Differences between Poland and Russia [78]

Russians are stubborn, just like Poles/Polesses.
While Trump hates any opposition.
I predict Russians refuse to yield to Trump`s demands for negotiations and he will impose extremely radical sanctions on them in result. The mother of all sanctions. Including the transfer of high tech weapons which Biden refused to supply to Ukraine.
Russia will be cooked for decades.

Pooof!! Russia is gone!!! Go into space after your Sputnik and never come back!!!! hahaha buhahaha

Excellent!!!!!! Kurwa mać, ludzie, trzymajta mnie bo odlecę w kosmos za nimi!!!!!


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pawian   
22 Jan 2025
Language / Polish pet names [40]

An interesting article about names given to dogs by higher class owners in old Poland.

Nobility kept dogs mostly for hunting.

And so, for example, the author mentions the hunting dogs belonging to King Stefan Batory. Śmiga Obrócica, Karwat and Szukaj. It is also interesting that specific names were given to specific breeds.

Hounds were most often given names: Cymbał, Grzmilas, Zagraj, Buffon;
greyhounds: Dzidka, Lotka, Dolot, Doskocz, Sokół, Sarna, Strzałka, Igła, Śpilka, Pytel, Capaj, Chwytacz, Łapaj, Porwisz, Zoczna.
Legawy dogs, i.e. those that set up game during the hunt using the "upper wind", were usually given names from birds, e.g. Bekas, Słomka, or Sokolik.


styl.interia.pl/spoleczenstwo/news-lotka-dolot-czy-moze-zaleb-mezen-to-nie-zaklecia-a-zapomnian,nId,7896724
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
News / Does Poland support Taiwan`s independence? [54]

: I want to defend Taiwan. I am willing to go there and spend X in dollars of my own money directly or as taxes.

Amen!
As a Kamikaze, I will make short work with those Chinese azholes.
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
News / Should Polonia and expat Poles lose voting rights in Polish elections? [85]

I wonder if those illegals who might be deported still support Trump. And if their legal relatives or mates voted for Trump last year.

Most of them traditionally come from regions in Poland where rightist PIS enjoys great support, aka Highlands.

Here is a comment by one of them:

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- F****** Trump! The Poles gave him victory, and now he's coming for us like this? If they actually start catching Poles, then let this man be damned - Jasiek shouts into my phone. The 55-year-old man lives in the "sałta" [from the English south], i.e. the southern suburbs of Chicago. He is an illegal immigrant in the US. He came here in 1997 and since then has tried to legalize his stay many times. Each time without success, although he "spent an amount of money on lawyers who were supposed to help him with this, which would buy a brand new SUV."
- Don't give away my name, where exactly I'm staying or what I do - says Jasiek. - Then they'll have me served "on a plate". The immigration officers can read this text you're writing. They'll catch me, check my immigration status and yuck... to Poland. And I want to go back to the country, but not now. It would be good to work here for five more years. I've decided in my head that I'm going back to retire. I can still earn it.



  • Jasiek aka Johhny
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
News / The Political Circus of Poland [309]

Certain net media celebrity announced his access to the race. He claims he doesn`t intend to be a president, but instead desires to mock the whole process of becoming one. He is going to collect the required number of signatures to be registered as a runner coz his online TV is quite popular in some rightist circles.

Good coz experts predict his clownish participation will take away votes from rightist parties.

Circus on wheels. hahahaha
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
News / Does Poland support Taiwan`s independence? [54]

Numbers in zloty and body bags.

Ok, I was playing with you before.
Now for serious, darling: 1 billion PLN military expenses. As for lives, there won`t be any casualties coz the Chinese will beg for peace the moment they see the Polish Navy approaching their seas. Simple.

If you negate these estimates, it means you are goopi cootas. Ha!!! :):):)
Masz szczęście, cieciu, że jestem w dobrym nastroju.
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
Food / Polish cakes made in Poland [115]

dyed and flavoured.

Exactly, with a special dye which has been recently banned in the US while here in Poland is legal.
pawian   
22 Jan 2025
Life / Hey POLISH Do u like PARTYING a lot? [30]

Guys and guyesses, you didn`t guess that the LOVE booklet in post 12 and 19 is a wish diary to write some warm words about and for the birthday person. Normal.


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