Off-Topic / Funniest stuff said on PF! Please post the funniest convos, remakes, responses, name calling or whatever. [93]

get a life dog diggler

History / Polish mathematicians who solved the Enigma machine [86]


Well one can say Robert Harris is the spiritual descendent of John Le Carre and that is why I love him for it, plus it did describe the mathematics and concepts of the enigma rotors etc.

History / Polish mathematicians who solved the Enigma machine [86]

@jon et all
have you guys read Enigma by Robert Harris?, cracking historical novel by a world class author.

History / Polish mathematicians who solved the Enigma machine [86]


Yes the Polish were using mathematicians whilst the British were using Linguists to little success in the 30s, only after they got the info and theorems from the Poles did the lightbulb switch on to use mathematicians.

History / Polish mathematicians who solved the Enigma machine [86]


Another Polam on meth. hey get over your white trash problem and just admit both the poles and english helped defeat hitler.

Life / Trendsetter from Poland. [113]

Anyone who professes to be a fan of Disco Polo should be immediately taken out the back and shot.

History / Polish mathematicians who solved the Enigma machine [86]


My mom was involved in IEEE granting a Milestone Award to Rejewski, Różycki and Zygalski.

poland.pl/business-and-science/achievements-science/how-enigma-codebreakers-poland-changed-world/

ethw.org/Milestones:First_Breaking_of_Enigma_Code_by_the_Team_of_Polish_Cipher_Bureau,_1932-1939

"Today historians from around the world agree that through their work the mathematicians from Poland contributed to ending the Second World War. Years later John Irving Good, a British Professor who worked at Bletchley Park during WWII, described one of the theorems formulated by Rejewski during the pioneer attack on the Enigma code as "a theorem that won the Second World War.""

Off-Topic / Why do people here fight so much? [128]


Thats because Brittish humour is so much superior to yank humour. Just look at both versions of the Office. It ain't even a contest.

Food / Polish bacon doesn't fry up? [75]

well if we're going in that directions one should not eat Steak Tartar because of the dangers of Taenia saginata (beef worms). Very hard to get rid off.

Off-Topic / Why do people here fight so much? [128]



hahha, now you get it. welcome to PF !

News / Strip clubs raided in Poland [20]


Being a Pommy Chav is a Criminal Activity by itself, which on arrival in Poland, should under the proper Acts, be punished by a beating of Poland's jails finest hooligans.

News / Strip clubs raided in Poland [20]

@jon
read my post that got carted to off topic. funny how you would make a new topic about this, feeling more allegiance to the stag party male chav pro brexit breeders these days? **** these pommy kunts, wanna watch and slap tits and ass? do it it england. come to poland? well we kombinonujemy out of your pounds. slap em, drug em, get the skinheads to beat them to an inch of their lives. and when they complain let the police rob them too while pretend they care.

Lesson 1. Poland is not here for your cheap pommy stag parties. We are not your EU ******.

We have our own history and culture and that does not involve your cheap as* tourism.

News / Strip clubs raided in Poland [20]


Like Tusk talking but doing nothing about Dopalacze and it took Zobrio to finally clean up that quasi-criminal enterprise? Not to mention that 80 percent of people in jail are working not sitting around watching tv like under PO.

This strip club bust was a multi year operation btw.

News / Strip clubs raided in Poland [20]

These raids would never have happened under a post-communist PO government.

well well, i noticed that Notes From Poland is a fundacja now, and getting money from the National Endowment for Democracy. Well at least the anti-pis movement has been defanged by the war. Good article on Razem though, glad they have some principles, unlike Biedron and SLD charlatans.

Together (Razem), Poland's democratic socialist party, announced that it would cease cooperation with two large international left-wing organizations, DiEM25 and the Progressive International. While unexpected, Together's separation is just one of the latest events in a long-simmering rift between Western and Eastern European leftists that is now bubbling to the surface. Publicising that divide may have strengthened many Eastern European left-wing parties.

notesfrompoland.com/2022/05/28/polands-left-charts-it-own-path-over-russias-war-in-ukraine/

Travel / Weird and wonderful Polish train fares [79]


hey old man u sound like ure stuck with BAE and what they pioneered. pitty the yanks and boeing fuc*ed em over with the Trident. so waht u trying to say? that chopin should be shut down in the next 5 years? cause your PO mates have properties near there>?


No it does not Fing not. any tourist will be so Fing confused about the SKM and KM trains stopping at Chopin, and how u can get ZTM.pl ticket that excludes SKM and KM but includes from Chopin, stupid madness.

thats the \thing with pommy expats they been so long in poland and they think this pierdolona zezawictosc i waht it is. wtf? 2 train companies goin from chopin, and they have their terminating station on the train so who knows where they are goin in the CBD. it is a Fing mess.

Travel / Weird and wonderful Polish train fares [79]


Are you referring to the two IL-62 crashes? those Ilyushins had a very bad design fault, that if an engine had a catastrophic fault, the pieces of the engine would cut the hydraulic control cables making the plane unflyable. After the first crash the Poles wrote to the russians explaining it all, and typically it was swept under the carpet by the ruskis and ignored.

There are many places in built-up areas and that is no problem for chopin to operate, (sydney airport for one)

Travel / Weird and wonderful Polish train fares [79]

I am not suggesting it replaces Chopin, just both replace the need for CPK. Dublin is the same size as Chopin yet takes twice the aircraft movement, An upgrade to traffic control would enable this, combine that with expanding Modlin and we don't need CPK for 40 years. The rail investment to have everything go through/terminate at CPK is stupid, instead of linking cities directly with high speed rail.

Travel / Weird and wonderful Polish train fares [79]

Through it's holding by the Polish Airport Authority and the Military which owns the majority of Modlin, PiS is blocking the expansion of the terminal. Also it only takes building a 5km spur line to the airport by PKP, this is being held up as well.

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


Yes perhaps i was bit too extreme mentioning Ayn, I'll rephrase that to people should work to improve themselves Jordan Peterson style

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


I would say exactly the same about posting ukr flags on twitter/fb/instagram, and voting for ukr in eurovision because it's the 'cool thing' to do.

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


I disagree. It's better to focus on improving one's self, Ayn Rand style, so that one can make a meaningful difference instead of being a keyboard warrior/signaller


I'll put it in my sticky notes for further research :)

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]


Virtue Signalling
To take a conspicuous but essentially useless action ostensibly to support a good cause but actually to show off how much more moral you are than everybody else.

Fred: I see George has changed his profile picture to show his support for refugees.
Barbara: Has he donated money or time? Is he giving English lessons? Is he making a room available?
Fred: No, no, he's just virtue signalling.

A phenomena where someone campaigns for or otherwise shows their support for an often popular position without actually doing anything meaningful to further the cause that they claim to champion. This is one of the main signs of late democracy and otherwise shows the prevalence of cult figures in a society: political or otherwise.

Also takes form with "thoughts and prayers", and other meaningless statements.

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]

I have to partly take back my statement about eurovision as the Ukranian winners are going to be touring europe , with the money raised going to the Ukranian army. that's pretty hardcore, glad they chose that instead of the safe option of some humanitarian org.

tvpworld.com/60223901/ukraine-eurovision-winners-to-tour-europe-to-raise-money-for-army


You know exactly what it means, isn't that the exact definition of what novi does on his FB page?

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]

Ignoring Eurovision? never watched that kitsch garbage ! and australia always sends our worst! ;)

Life / Gym etiquette in Poland [9]

well no one cleans the machines in australia, we use towels. Do people use towels on the machines in Poland?

Off-Topic / Eurovision - Today I will be ashamed to be Polish [586]

I like what piers morgan said on the subject of eurovision.
"This predictable landslide was just a gigantic piece of unctuous Euro virtue-signalling - the TV equivalent of people sticking a Ukraine flag on their Instagram with a hug emoji and thinking they've done their bit.""

Travel / Weird and wonderful Polish train fares [79]


Yes it's so stupid, the tickets page on ZTM.waw is so confusing with all these conditions/exceptions for SKM/WKD and KM. It is so stupid that warsaw council and the sorounding municipalities cannot get along. On a national level it's dumb that Polregio is separate from PKP/TLK. The whole thing is just a mess. why can't poles just get along? I know they did because of 'amerkyanski rynek' and competion but sometimes with public transport, an goverment monopoly or a tightly integrated system with private players but heavily regulated by the Gov is the best.

One thing I am pissed at PiS, is that because the Modlin municipality is run by PO, they want to destroy Modlin airport. Instead of expanding Modlin as the Chopin replacement.

I have come to realise the CPK is just a waste of money, and is being used to pay PiS aparchiks to basically do nothing. Modlin would be a better option, or just bit the bullet and demolish that highway that PO built next to Chopin and expand that in tandem with Modlin.

The rail investment that is part of CPK is great though and should be kept.

Travel / Weird and wonderful Polish train fares [79]

this is cool. the krauts are introducing a 9 euro for 3 months public transport ticket for the WHOLE of germany. that is you can use buses and trains everywhere excluding the ICE and EC trainsd This is the advantage of an integrated government led/run public transport system. Something we can only dream about in Poland, I mean look at the mess that is Warsaw with these confusing tickets of SKM/KM additions.

bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en

btw what happened to delph? leave permanently because of some posting photo bustup with johnny reb?

News / R. Trzaskowski, current mayor of Warsaw, future President of Poland [354]


Yes that is the western and global definiton of living in a major city, no matter the voting districts. You live in Warsaw. Anyone who lives 30-40min drive from Paris CBD lives in Paris.


Bingo! Do a bit of virtue signalling and the NPCs quickly forget they are being stolen from and nothing has been achieved in warsaw. They didin't even bother to update the third metro line from the plans from the 1970s, and it is going the wrong alignment and to the wrong places, wasting billions.

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [275]


That is a reflection of the german peoples sheep like stupidity rather then any validation of the merkel. they did vote for the nazi party and hitler tho, so not suprising they would be led to disaster again by merkel.