Life / 60th birthday in Poland [38]


If not for your living family, do it for your mother who birthed you. A celebration of her effort, so that you could sh!t here daily on the forum, and bend the minds of young innocent Poles through education.

History / Is There A Polish Foreign Legion? [35]


What?

There would be "no shortage of people" to join the Polish Foreign Legion?

What's to make it better than the French Foreign Legion? Better than the Ukrainian Foreign Legion?

One has the history and the related tradition, the other is engaged in actual hot war.

Why exactly are people going to join the Polish Foreign Legion?

Life / Grisly crimes in Poland [124]


Hahahaha!

This Ironside... maybe a better comedian than me.

In the end, however, Russian sense of humor always wins against Polish sense of humor. I see the evidence for this in your jokes, which are largely copied from us.

Russian occupation was good for Poland in at least one aspect - they became funny.

UK, Ireland / Corned beef & Cabbage are typically Irish? [98]


Is that the extent of your connection to Poland?

Love / Where to find Asian girls in Poland [13]

@xZerefPL

I have several good pieces of advice for you. You decide yourself, which may work best:

1) Hang out in the Asian section of supermarkets, and try to casually strike up conversations about the best brands of soy sauce.

2) Master the art of origami, and impress potential dates at the local public library with your intricate paper folding skills.

3) Attend every karaoke night in Bydgoszcz, belting out your favorite K-Pop tunes. Extra points if you can hit those high notes.

4) Volunteer at the local zoo as a Korean/Vietnamese/Chinese language guide.

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


The Third Silesian War and the Napoleonic Wars (during various coalitions). Maybe some other occasions that don't come to mind.

At the same time only Poles, Mongols, and the French ever took Moscow.

Somewhat embarrassing, nein?

News / How will Poland be affected by WW3 which has now started [559]


We did it many times (but only once from the Germans).

*YAAAAWN*

History / Pol-Shorpy Photo Thread [950]


If you think it is BS, then Silesia is also BS :)

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


First of all, want to say it's very interesting observing this conversation. I'm not a philologist/linguist, so encountering some terms that I'm not familiar with.

Regarding the "forgot"... to me it sounds actually correct, but sort of archaic and unnecessarily pompous given the occasion.

"Forgotten politicians" vs "Politicians forgot" is kinda like JFK vs King Henry VIII.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


Ehehehehe!

How can you argue with this man?

His arguments are like sledgehammers.

This is the kind of wisdom that only comes with age.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


He's married to Anne Applebaum for god's sake. A famous author. Who writes in English.

He went to Oxford.

He lived outside Poland between 1981 and 2006, and what's more - has been a diplomat since then.

He probably doesn't even speak Polish at home.

Why is this debate happening?

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


Sikorski definitely has a much more profound knowledge of the language than this guy. Much more sophisticated/nuanced.

This guy has a less affected accent, but it's pretty "generic/sterile", whereas Sikorski's has a lot of character to it.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


He should have changed his last name to McTit or Titson when he became a British citizen.

At the very least - Titsky.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


Russian Wikipedia says even Russian Sikorskys have Polish origins.

Again, according to Russian wiki, the Sikorsky surname has its origins in a place called Sikor, which is located near a town called Szreńsk, in the powiat mławski, Województwo mazowieckie.

An alternative origin is from the Polish word sikora, which is a type of bird (called tit or chickadee in English).

Learned something new today.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky, founder of the Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, was a Russian.

People at Oxford are especial idiots, if they believed such a lie.

From Wikipedia:

"His father, Ivan Alexeevich Sikorsky, was a professor of psychology in St. Vladimir University (now Taras Shevchenko National University), a psychiatrist with an international reputation, and an ardent Russian nationalist.

Igor Sikorsky was an Orthodox Christian. When questioned regarding his roots, he would answer: "My family is of Russian origin. My grandfather and other ancestors from the time of Peter the Great were Orthodox priests." "

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


Not really.


Fair enough.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


So what is the answer?


A typo.

Would you be fine if the next Foreign Secretary of the UK was a person born in Guangzhou?

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


How does Poland care nothing about this?

The guy only denounced his citizenship in 2006.

Even banana republics like America, have a native-born requirement for the top jobs.

This guy may be native born, but the rest of his biography makes it clear that he has dual loyalties.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more obvious that Sikorsky was cultivated by British intelligence from an early age.

How does a guy from Bydgoszcz, join a club whose members are almost all British aristocracy? How does he pay for that lifestyle?

Then he goes to work in the press, and the detail he chooses is... covering the Soviet war in Afghanistan?

After that, he works for the American Enterprise Institute?

This guy has a strange biography.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


I definitely need to read more about Polish history between 1960-1981.

How was Sikorsky able to leave? I understand that afterwards, he was granted political asylum after the crackdown against Solidarity - but how did he leave in the first place?

Also, I didn't know that he's married to Anne Applebaum - a Russian hater par excellence, on the level of Masha Gessen and Garry Kasparov.

Life / Poles speaking English - examples [263]


I'm definitely impressed with his English.

To me it comes across as pretty posh, or as posh as Eastern European accents can be - while still being apparent. Very British.

Life / Any good Polish films to watch? [112]

Best Polish film in history - "Pigs 2: The Last Blood". In Polish, it's called "Psy 2. Ostatnia krew".

It features the Polish Jean-Claude Van Damme - Bogusław Linda.

In this film, Linda's character, Franz, fights against the odds to stop a train full of weapons from arriving in Sarajevo.

So successful was Pigs 2, that in 2020 they made a Pigs 3.

Highly recommend. 5 stars.

News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [137]


There should only be 3 or 4 countries in the world - like in George Orwell's 1984.

We keep Africa neutral, and that's where we all meet to bash each other's brains in.

News / Poland to officially demand $1.32 trillion WW2 reparations from Germany [457]


Russia could collapse to a population of 20M people, be sanctioned from using the telephone or toilet, while Moscow itself was a smoldering ruin - and we would still have enough resources to occupy the Baltic states.

These microscopic assh*les, require perhaps a motorized division per country, to maintain stability.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]


What the hell is that? Sounds like something you would use to make pelmeni, but I've never seen such a magical implement. It's why I never bother with making them, because it's such a pain in the ass.


I don't see why not, especially pre-refrigeration days.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]


Which is why I think it came to us from the Steppe nomads.

Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]


You can bake them. You can fry them. You can boil them.

Most people buy them frozen at the store, and just boil them like macaroni. Ten minutes, and you've got yourself a dinner. Add sour cream, or maybe even ketchup if you're autistic.

In a restaurant, they'll usually be swimming around in their own broth, in a little clay pot like in the photo above.

1) Fried Pelmeni
2) Baked Pelmeni
3) Orthodox Christian Pelmeni

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Food / Polish dishes with foreign origin in the name [99]


We call those vareniki. True Russian dumplings, are more circular in shape, and made only with ground meat. We call those - pelmeni.

Vareniki (crescent shaped pelmeni with potatoes instead of meat), are traditionally considered a Ukrainian recipe. They're also sometimes made with cherries, or something else sweet.

In the picture below, pelmeni are on the right, and vareniki on the left.

My theory, based on nothing, is that these come into Russian and Ukrainian cuisine from Asia. Maybe from the Tatars, or some of the other Steppe peoples. Looks too much like their dumplings to be a coincidence.

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News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]


Why else would I be on the PF detail?

I have a feeling my boss does not like me.

Every day, I come to work, and I do this... and I do that. But to tell you the truth, Pawian, I don't know what I'm doing here.

Even my boss - Ivan Demidovich - I suspect doesn't know what I do here. Simply, he feels a certain power over me, and this gives him satisfaction. But me? I don't know what will happen to me...

Some mornings I wake up, and I look at the mirror - and I see the same lack of initiative, same lack of imagination, same mediocrity - which I suspect Ivan Demidovich sees when I arrive at the office in the morning.

News / Future of Polish-Ukrainian relations [669]

Very few.

They are mocked mercilessly.

Their life is living hell.