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Posts by Bobko  

Joined: 13 Mar 2017 / Male ♂
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Threads: Total: 28 / Live: 24 / Archived: 4
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Bobko   
29 Mar 2024
Life / Neoliberalism and family formation in Poland [100]

Yeah. Working getting in the way of starting a family for women began sometime in the late 90s

Which is why it really doesn't matter what Paulina's or Lenka's mom or grandma did.

Eastern Europe, in general, is very special. You don't see a gradual tapering off in fertility rates like in the developed West, but an abrupt collapse between 1989-1991. The social tumult, and plunge into poverty delayed or entirely cancelled many people's family plans. By the time the situation stabilized, a huge demographic chasm had formed.

Hard not to see that the childless people have more time and money. Having kids take sacrifice.

Only up to a certain level. If you start approaching the level of truly high net worth, or ultra high net worth, then people again have many kids. In fact, in a lot of top firms, like Goldman Sachs (to use a finance example) or Sullivan Cromwell (law), there's an invisible glass barrier against all guys that are not married or don't have kids. It's a symptom of other underlying undesirable traits.

You simply don't get invited to some functions if you don't have a wife. The only acceptable excuse is being gay.

So much of conversation revolves around kids, as well as so much of the vacation travel. If you don't have kids - again, you're not invited.

You can't really grow beyond a certain point in politics or business if you are not married or have kids (while being straight, which I am).

So the working and middle class maybe eating itself up over kids being a burden and a chore, but the upper class certainly is still very conservative.
Bobko   
28 Mar 2024
Life / Fresh water fishing in Poland [31]

salmon is seldom encountered in rivers further inland because main Polish rivers carry a lot of pollution)

Also maybe because they only go a little bit up river in order to spawn.

They spend their life in the seas.
Bobko   
28 Mar 2024
Life / Fresh water fishing in Poland [31]

For me fishing is an excuse to take in natural beauty

For me, fishing is a great excuse to get drunk. Alone, or with friends.

Also, it's addicting, on the level of a casino roulette or a computer game.

I'm tired, I've been rained on for hours, my joints and muscles hurt, and I can imagine nothing better than going back inside and resting on the couch... but then I think - "One more cast".

In this way, I can stand in a single spot from 4 am, until 2 am the next day. Just switching my tackle appropriately.

Fishing can be obsessive. You never know when the next bite will come, and what will be sitting on that hook.

The funny thing is - I don't like eating fish. I like cooking it for others however.
Bobko   
28 Mar 2024
Life / Fresh water fishing in Poland [31]

@dannytoro1

I love this guy. He is from an ethnicity I love, and he loves fishing.

If you like scuba diving and history - then we can be best friends.

I created fishing threads in the past, that got merged. I'm also very curious about freshwater fishing in Poland.
Bobko   
27 Mar 2024
News / THE ARMY OF POLAND - THE REALITY [493]

@Paulina

If you don't train, you won't be able to fight.

As Russian Generalissimo Suvorov used to say -

"What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle."
Bobko   
27 Mar 2024
Love / What to answer to the Most annoying phrase that EVERY and EACH polish girl always says? [58]

@Alien

Oh interesting, Alaska then.

They are cousins of our Chukchi and Koryak peoples.

The Chukchi and Koryak, are the closest relatives of all Native Americans/First Nations. Instead of crossing the Bering Strait and colonizing North and South America, they stayed in Siberia.

I'm curious to what extent the languages are still mutually intelligible.
Bobko   
22 Mar 2024
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

I do and I am ready to die for Poland

Stop running ahead of the train.

These are things which can only be determined through empirical observation.

God willing, we shall have an opportunity to stage a live experiment.

Afterwards, you can tell all of us if your feeling of Russian patriotism has increased.

Until then - we wait.
Bobko   
22 Mar 2024
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

You are lying.

Imagine tomorrow you are in Chita, beyond the Arctic Circle, in a general population penal colony.

Then I imagine your understanding of Russian will rapidly begin to exceed that of native born Russians.

Pawian, I will still teach you to love Russia.
Bobko   
22 Mar 2024
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

A big aggressive dog should definitely cover you twice or thrice to make you stop talking bs

I think something was lost in translation between Polish and Russian idiomatic language here...

What?!
Bobko   
22 Mar 2024
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

Johhny is the same forum azhole as Novi but you are at odds with him due to his anti RuSSian attitude. Simple.

To compare Johnny to Rich, as we say in Russia, is to compare the anal sphincter to the index finger.

I do not like Johnny, because:

1) He is a liar
2) A coward
3) An opportunist
4) A small, small human being.

Rich, on the other hand:

1) Has posted his passport photo
2) Volunteered to meet any as*hole that wants try kicking his ass
3) Got absolutely demolished for all his "open kimono" moments, by faggots that were too scared to reciprocate
4) He's still here.

One is somebody I would want to meet my future kids, the other is a guy I want to find in a quiet alley at night and provide a lesson in respect.
Bobko   
22 Mar 2024
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

While you are not a true American

I actually agree. He's too smart to be a vanilla American.

He has that bit of bitter Eastern European flavor to him, whether he likes it or not.

Plus, the intelligence.
Bobko   
21 Mar 2024
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

You betrayed your Slavicity

A true Slav respects only cold hard cash.

This can be hidden under a mattress, or inside a jar with other preserves.

None of these magical "credit" things.

Ask Poles that borrowed in Swiss Francs to buy their houses, how their acquaintance with "credit" went.

Our people are simply not prepared for this :)
Bobko   
21 Mar 2024
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

If, on the other hand, you try to be a very important American, looking superciliously at them, you shall be f*cked in every British-American hole.

Just as you constantly remind me that you don't give a f*ck if I will nuke you tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, but just wish I would get it over with...

Nobody cares about Americans. Nobody cares about what you have in America. Maybe this is not politically correct - but nobody cares about how much America invests/provides - because it is assumed it's done out of self interest.

If you behave like a white Christian missionary disembarking off of a ship in Tonga or Fiji, people will treat you like an idiot.

On the most practical level - many people in Poland/Russia are simply much more wealthy and well traveled than you. Despite you having a $2M home the mortgage on which is underwater, and driving a BMW X7 which you are financing for $900 a month.

Russia and Poland are cash countries :)
Bobko   
21 Mar 2024
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

among 'their own people' they have no inhibitions.

It's the same with all "Eastern Europeans".

Some American will tell me, "Such a gloomy people. No smiles. No hellos. I feel so utterly lonely."

Then I go home, and I can't get my taxi driver, bank teller, or doctor to shut up for just a few moments of peace.

I think people there are just inherently suspicious, or simply not confident around foreigners.

Between locals: b*tching and moaning about everything is totally the norm.
Bobko   
21 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

Can you match THAT, Bobko?

The point is physical activity can take your mind off of depressing things.

Doesn't have to be sport. Can be chopping wood, clearing your driveway of ice, or working the garden.

Sitting on the floor and pouring ashes over your head is of course nice and desirable - but not everyone can do that, Paulina.
Bobko   
21 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

Not everyone loves their parents

It's about giving a physical outlet for your grief.

Have you ever trained or participated in a sport for a long time? It can be amazing therapeutic.
Bobko   
21 Mar 2024
Life / Poles - the Nation of Liars? [478]

just look at the lies in that guy's response.

This is the most honest guy on the forum.

I'm much more inclined to believe what he says, rather than your diatribes.

Coming myself from a country that's always accused of thievery, I have no sympathy.
Bobko   
21 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Random Sports News [855]

The guy isn't even buried yet...

Some people go and play basketball the next day after their father was murdered, and play the best game of their life.

Some people go into the boxing ring, the same night their mother died, and exhibit superhuman feats of athleticism.

The afternoon after the morning that my grandmother died I went on an overnight alpinism trip with my friend. I couldn't stand to be in the house, and the funeral was three days away.
Bobko   
20 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / Do you believe government clone people to help the elite conquer death? [44]

@Alien

Sometimes I think I am too cold hearted :)

But you Alien, you make me feel not so bad.

Maybe Pawian is even more autistic than me, however. When Sralec had his skull bust open by some guys that did not appreciate his political views, Pawian said some things which were very funny indeed, but I would not allow myself.

We are all going to Hell for what we write here.

Robin, take care of yourself and be well.
Bobko   
20 Mar 2024
News / The Political Circus of Poland [309]

Good idea. They won't do it

Maybe more time has to pass.

After two years of making funny jokes about Russia's use of convicts, a few weeks ago Ukraine quietly started doing the same.

Can you imagine how Polish convicts will sh!t their pants when they are informed the next destination is Donbass? It will calm everybody else in Polish society that is considering to commit a crime.


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Bobko   
20 Mar 2024
News / The Political Circus of Poland [309]

Wonder what sort of convicts she'll be releasing?

1) Step 1: Create a private military company called "Chopin".

2) Railroad these 20,000 convicts into its ranks.

3) Train them to become stormtroopers.

4) Lease them to Ukraine, just as Renaissance-era Parma or Bologna would rent outs its condotierri to the Medici princes.

5) Ukraine throws them into the worst sectors of the front to soak up Russian attrition.

6) Result. No convicts. Tons of cash. A valuable ally has been supported. PROFIT.