Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

Before I forget:

to have/look for hooks on sb

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

Sorry, my wife is loyal to me. You have to turn to Joker or to your dog if you dream of being banged. I strongly advise you to depend on your dog, you will get it for free and save 40 pounds.

USA, Canada / American wanting to move to Poland from USA - how hard is it? [40]


So why do you keep guns under a pillow in each of your bedrooms??????

News / Years of Poland in the EU - assessment of pros and cons [1199]

Donald Tusk is positively infecting the EU with typical Polish optimism. Damy radę, kuźwa! This man is a genius. Saviour of us all.

Great mobilisation and hundreds of billions of euros. EU ready to replace the US

The European Union is to undergo a major change in its thinking about its security, global position and status as a world power. The official beginning of this change falls on the Polish presidency of the EU. And its first tangible evidence is the change in attitude of EU leaders regarding further aid for Ukraine.

USA, Canada / American wanting to move to Poland from USA - how hard is it? [40]


Are you thinking of yourself now??

Indeed, 8 years ago you visited Poland to do some reconaissance before settling down here. But when you learnt you can`t bring your 3 pillow guns, you gave up.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]


Actually, he didn`t. You see things which don`t exist! Amasing!!!


No, you aren`t. You believe you do sth but you don`t in fact. Amasing!!!

Off-Topic / PF members MEETUPS.....everyone welcome! [122]

You dream of being banged again??? Ask Joker, he will help you with that.

Off-Topic / Toilet seat manners of British and Polish males [42]


False! I bought a new shirt for you, pimp, cos your wife barfed all over yours last week when she got drunk seeing you didn`t bring home any bacon from your pros.

Language / Polish pet names [40]


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

Language / Polish pet names [40]


Bs. You have no idea.

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


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


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.

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.

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


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


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.

Language / Polish pet names [40]


Nobility is a wider term which covers both magnates and szlachta. I am surprised you had no idea. Amasing!

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

But you don`t know what it really means despite being such a polyglot. :))))

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


Probably you meant imbibing.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [796]

Before I forget before going to my mattress:
to be a pebble/stone/rock in the shoe/boot.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [277]


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???

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [277]


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

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [277]


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????????????????????????????

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.

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Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [277]


Go to court which dealt with Donald and Ivana`s divorce.

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


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

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [277]


Stop bragging, it`s useless. Zero impression on us by that peanut brain of yours. Dinosaurs had bigger ones, walnut size.

History / Differences between Poland and Russia [78]


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

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History / Differences between Poland and Russia [78]


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


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.

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

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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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

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]

What a nice discussion.

Joker, if you ever say sth stupid about reviving old threads again, we will ask your mother to spank you, you niedobry chłopczyku!!!