History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


These photos are crazy. Wow!

Regarding staged photos... it's not even the fact that a guy is standing sheepishly with a pistol - it's the heroic camera man!

News / Poland's demographic, migration & fertility rate disaster [34]

@Alien

Connected with working too much, or not having any place to live, is urbanization.

The rate of urbanization is the best predictor of what will happen to birth rates.

When people move from the regions to the big cities, birth rates always plummet - without exception.

Cities are not optimized for starting a family.

Religion doesn't play a very meaningful role, despite what may seem.

News / Poland's demographic, migration & fertility rate disaster [34]

You never heard of the stereotype of the lazy Russian or lazy Pole?

You definitely heard of the lazy Greeks.

News / Poland's demographic, migration & fertility rate disaster [34]

@pawian

What's also surprising to me is that the supposed laziest people are the ones that work the most. The champions are Poles, Russians, and Greeks.

Portuguese also work a ton.

In America there is also the stereotype of the lazy/sleepy Mexican. Then you look at how much the average Mexican works, and it becomes clear they are one of the hardest workers in the world.


Because you robbed Ukraine of its demographic future? Haha

News / Poland's demographic, migration & fertility rate disaster [34]

I just read a piece about Poland's demographic woes.

During these first six months of the year, Poland's birth rate has dropped by more than 9% compared to the same period in 2023. Poland's effective TFR is now 1.1 births per woman. One of the lowest in the entire world....

Some reasons for this, in charts below.

In brief, the reasons are that Poles work more than almost anyone else (Russians too), and don't have anywhere to live.

An absolutely insane percentage of Poles live at home with their parents well into their mid 30s.

I bet millions of Ukrainians moving in, has not made it easier to find housing.

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News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]


Wuuuut, I didn't know that! Sup homeboy?

Were you born Upstate?

News / Dirty deeds of foreign guys in Poland [128]

@pawian

Why didn't they just interrogate him in Russian?

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]


Despite American and British pressure, France really insisted on punishing and "disgracing" Germany after WWI. The French wanted blood, and her friends acquiesced.

We all know the results.

Humiliating somebody, is a dangerous idea. Just like on the street, you need to know who you are dealing with.

Food / Panga Fish (available in Polish stores); I'll never eat it again. Alternative? [68]

Putin could never afford me.

I do propaganda for Russia, for free, on my own budget.

I am becoming a specialist on all of Poland's weaknesses, phobias, and familial traumas.

One day, this knowledge will serve me
- I just don't know how.

Food / Panga Fish (available in Polish stores); I'll never eat it again. Alternative? [68]


Do you just key into Google, "what is the most eaten fish in Poland?", and then come here?

I actually have no opinion on whether or not you have ever been to Poland, or if you have any relation to Poland whatsoever... but posts like these make me suspicious.

For what it's worth, I don't have anything to do with Poland either (other than grandpa being killed there, and a few drops of dna). My family and friends think I'm suffering from some form of mental illness, because of the time I spend here.

Life / Clothes and Fashion Polish style - then, now whenever! [25]


Thankfully, no.

In the literal sense - "urod" means an "ugly man". I suppose you could say it about a thing or animal too. Like, «этот Мерс пиздец урод» - "this Mercedes is f*cking ugly".

If you say it about a woman, it's "urodka".

In everyday life it doesn't really mean someone is ugly, but rather that someone is somehow morally deficient. Rude, selfish, deceitful, etc.

The word for beauty is "Krasota".


Absolutely. In another thread, some kind of Kania thread, I already posted about Orda jeans, Pollena cosmetics, and the hilariously named perfumes Być Może!

Life / Clothes and Fashion Polish style - then, now whenever! [25]

At my grandma's place, I used to see old Polish fashion magazines, with a very intriguing name - "Uroda".

In Russian, "Urod" (урод), means an ugly person, or a type of moral degenerate.

I don't know why my grandma had to have fashion magazines from a language she could not understand - but I gather there were not many fashion magazines in the USSR.

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History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


The game is in play, and the results are yet to be determined. Let's see who comes out on top.

Given that the West has a population at least seven times larger, and an economic potential at least 20X the size - you would think this would be a quick affair.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Yes because Russian culture in the 19th century was inferior to Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian and Finnish culture.

When nobody wanted to listen to you in Paris, London, Geneva, etc - you could be a professor in Russia.

What a terrible tragedy.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Russia's heart is as hot as the Sun, our soul - wider than the Universe.

What can be "more" than Russia?

We have everything in abundance, too much even for ourselves - we need nothing, except for your respect.

No... you are wrong. Russia has no borders, and there is nothing that can contain it.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Why?

Because being conversant in US history is not good for mental health of persons such as you?

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

1)
They have been there before - and we are very patient people.

2)
Good.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


1) Philippines (annexed from Empire of Spain)
2) Cuba (annexed from Empire of Spain)
3) Samoa (1899)
4) Guam (1899)
5) Mariana Islands (same as above)
6) Puerto Rico (ibid)

Late to the scene, and a country that had fought for its own independence - America didn't have as much time to colonize as the Europeans did - but it did a decent job.

Then through WWI and WW2 they stripped the Danish, Dutch, English, and others of further colonies.

Study US history - you may be surprised what you learn.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


How can you build a first rate empire, when instead of Indians and Malays, you have goddamn Poles and stupid f*ckin Balts and Finns?

Even a monkey could colonize India and the Philippines.

Try colonizing Poland or Moldavia - and then write me a report about how it went.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


No. You can learn that, and good luck.

We are still able to affect the real world, and materialize our dreams.

That's the difference, between everybody who's crying and moaning (Poland, France, UK, etc) - and those that are trying to still fix things (US, China, India, Brazil, etc).

Devoid of any ability to affect anything - even a modest policy change in a neighboring government - you people have only "morals" and "principles" to fall back on.

Where these "morals" and "principles" were when everything was going honky-dory... that's anyone's guess.

It seems people's "values" and "principles" only awaken when they are no longer able to be active agents.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Kiev, as many a Russian statesman has said over the centuries, is the "Mother of All Russian Cities".

It's second only to Moscow and St. Petersburg in the amount of top people it has produced (maybe second only to Moscow).

After the first capital in Novgorod, Kiev became the center of all Russian life.

What you said - is like telling Poles that Vilnius is a Lithuanian city.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Damn.

That's a little too "on the nose" even by Russian monument standards...

Considering that the current ruling clique considers the perpetrators of those crimes to be heroes, this won't do much to bring Poland and Ukraine closer together.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

In my time, and for our group, metal heads (or metallists as we called them) were total fairies and romantics.

We loved to sh*t on them, and their girly ways.

Compare bald head, military boots, and total aversion to alcohol and narcotics... to long hair, denim jackets, rings, piercings, and gay music.

Metal heads were meat for the grinder.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

@AntV

In this current war, Skinheads and Anarchists play a big role for both sides.

In Russia, we have the "Hispaniola" regiment (more like a brigade, or even bigger, based on what is at their disposal), and Ukraine has Azov (former Donetsk Ultras).

These are the two skinhead formations fighting against each other, with multiple launch rocket systems and thermobaric weapons, instead of bats and brass knuckles.

Then we have various formations of so called "National Bolshevists", but in reality they are Anarchists.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

One more thing about Anarchists specifically...

You don't have anarchists like we have.

You have a bunch of nerds that sit and jerk off over their books.

Meanwhile most of our anarchists have been dying at the front for the past three years as part of their crazy brigades (read about their units).

These guys want experience with weapons and command and control so they can strengthen their organizations.

Your anarchists want to go to a Rage Against The Machine Concert.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Most skinheads in the US are certainly not "Nazi-types". I go to a lot of "skinhead" type concerts, and I can tell you.

Skinheads and anarchists rubbing shoulders, is also not entirely accurate. Anarchists don't rub shoulders with anyone - haha - it's kind of part of the ethos.

Too long to explain, but you must be older because even re: US what you are saying is not quite how it was or is.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


Yeah, it was still the same when I was growing up.

Metallists vs anarchists vs skinheads.

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]

Another thing I'm curious about....

We had a youth counterculture movement in the USSR, in the period between late 1940s and early 1960s, called "Stilyagi" (stylish ones).

It was very American-inspired. Recently, a movie about them was made in Russia.

Attaching some photos below. Was there ever such a thing in Poland?

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History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


You are older than me. I still have time to enjoy the cultural exports of France.

Got any "Shorpy" style photos of Polish alpinists from the pre-war era?

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


I like to pretend that I'm listening to the "Radio-Londres", and am about to go and kill some Nazis to "Le Chant des Partisans" - but only after I finish my drink and sausage, and row to my insertion point.

The French know how to war in style) It's apt for a trip like this.