Life / Poles are not racist [873]


"Polish blackface" lol



Sorry, I couldn't help myself... ;P

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Sorry, but I have to intervene here - the term "madka" isn't about mothers in general, but about a "special" type of a mother:

pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madka

It's a bit like "Karen" - an archetype of a person who behaves in a certain, irritating way.


And, again, people usually have in mind pathological families when talking like this - parents who spent 500+ on alcohol, etc.


Something that isn't important for you may be important for another person (man or woman). And, anyway, since when having PhD in something important or not important prevents people from having a family of their own? My female cousin I wrote about earlier in another thread, the one with a PhD in biotechnology, is married and is expecting a baby (a son).

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


You may laugh all you want, but kids aren't our clones and they're not supposed to be. She may end up having different views than you when she becomes an adult - that's all I'm saying.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

@GefreiterKania, you are her father - you should be worrying about her, not me.

And I'm just warning you... :))

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

@GefreiterKania, speaking of which... Be careful, because your daughter may not turn out the way you want her to be... :))

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Oh, I'm sure you do, because you're not the one sitting in the kitchen and taking care of kids, as we now know. I'm going to be honest here - I find men like you vomit-inducing, because you're such hypocrites.


No, you have no idea what you're talking about.


Pfahahaha :D Another wet dream of rightist men *pukes*

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Better than RuSSian soldiers treat Ukrainians.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Of course I didn't mean everyone, but you can see such pro-RuSSian examples in Konfederacja.


"When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that."

("The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood)


Oh, I do that. I write to them with more respect than they deserve.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Well then enlighten me.


Yes, it is - it's been like that with you for quite some time now.


Then why do you even comment and start this all over again?? If you think that I got your views wrong then you should just say so instead of starting with insults.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


I didn't pick on you in particular - you're just an example of such way of thinking that is behind that banner.


It's actually the first time I "picked on you" after numerous times you did that to me and attacked me first out of the blue. So now you know what it's like, eh? 🙄

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

@Ironside, no, I mean neither. Ask pawian if you need English lessons lol

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

@Ironside, neither.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


Oh, I'm sure that rightists will after seeing that poster - the likes of Ironside, Novichok, Kania, Kashub1410, etc. It's the right-wing/nationalist wet dream, after all. Their ultimate fantasy. 🤢🤮

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]

That woman in the poster is even wearing a headscarf - how Muslim of them lol




lol

News / Brilliant Poles and Polesses - presentation [65]


Ah, sorry, he doesn't anymore - he worked on SpaceX's Dragon for 7 years and once it was done he worked a bit on Starlink, but I guess he left. They'd want him back, but he's more interested in working on spaceships. SpaceX is working now in Texas on a spaceship that is supposed go the Moon and he's been thinking about that, but he doesn't feel like working for other people for the time being and he has a son in Poland now and lives here. I wonder what he's going to be up to in the future :)

Btw, when he was working on SpaceX's Dragon he saved a Falcon launch, because he managed to find a mistake in the code made by the team working on Falcon - he was sitting for the whole night trying to find out what's wrong - the launch was supposed to happen literally the next day :))

(Oh, and he's a zodiacal Gemini, like me! :D)

News / Brilliant Poles and Polesses - presentation [65]


Good for them :)))


It's possible that they were not getting enough of vitamin D3 when they were kids. It could be that they weren't spending enough time outside and at the same time they weren't getting enough of vit D3 from food or supplements.


He still does, I think.
This is him today:

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UK, Ireland / Raising Bilingual Children - How are you teaching your children? Your experiences? [74]

What does make this little boy happy? Doing Polish lessons (he's so sweet lol) :):

fb.watch/n72pVnOCDm/

❤️

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

@Atch, ooohhh, send greetings to Mr Atch then! :D 🤜🤛

History / What do Poles owe to Germans? [451]


It's ironic you mention this, because one of the foundations for the creation of the EU was the desire for this history to not repeat itself again:

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

"In this light European integration was seen, already during the war, as an antidote to the extreme nationalism which had devastated parts of the continent."

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]


Aww... :(( Maybe you simply didn't have the right one?? lol I personally like it a lot :)) And Kielecki Mayonaise is a form of art, you could say ;D ❤️




I'm sure you won't be the only one lol

Travel / Kielce and the area - amazing Polish Pocket Knives live there [105]

I didn't know that our mayonaise has its own day :D It's my favourite mayo brand, obviously, and it contains no preservatives :))


Yes, it's the first mass/factory produced mayonaise in Poland :)


Aww... :(( But I'm sure Bobko would love it due to Russian connection ;D:

echodnia.eu/swietokrzyskie/15-wrzesnia-obchodzimy-dzien-majonezu-kieleckiego-przypominamy-niezwykla-historie-jego-powstania/ar/c17-17890573

News / Referendum to decide about exotic immigrants in Poland [559]

Are you talking about RuSSians?? :)))

Work / How can I found job for Hebrew speakers in Poland? [46]


At the University of Warsaw and at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, for example.


It is interesting, especially considering that the guy who's the co-creator of "Fauda" and portrays the main character basically plays himself in a way. He served in the Duvdevan Unit (and his father served in Shayetet 13 and Shin Bet). After his military service he moved to the United States and worked as Arnold Schwarzenegger's bodyguard. After he came back to Israel he enrolled into a drama school.

When he was 19 a Palestinian Arab stabbed his girlfriend to death with a 15-inch knife in Jerusalem.


That's weird, because there's a lot of dialogue in Arabic there... I've watched one season on Netflix and there definitely were subtitles for Arabic.

Work / How can I found job for Hebrew speakers in Poland? [46]


Yiddish is spoken by approximately 200,000 Israelis, mostly in Hasidic communities. Hebrew is the official language in Israel and is spoken by majority of the population there. It used to be a dead language, but was, clearly, successfully revived :)


Yes, "Fauda" is very popular, apparently, for example.

Work / How can I found job for Hebrew speakers in Poland? [46]


I'd say it's pretty alive in Israel lol

Life / Why is women-hatred and stereotyping so popular in Poland? [181]


Alien... ;D

There's this conviction that women are inherently worse at chess than men, but I'm not sure if that's true. I think many factors may be at play here. I mean, I know that there are differences in the brains of women and men that result in them excelling at different things. For example, women are better communicators, they are better at social interactions, at listening and at languages. Men are usually more introverted than women and dominate in IT jobs, for example.

However, it was me and my female cousins that were more into playing chess when we were kids than the boys in our family (in the end only girls ended up playing chess, because boys got bored, I guess). And it is those two female cousins of mine that have more "scientific" minds than men in our family - one works in IT and another one ended up with a PHD in biotechnology and doing scientific stuff.

First of all, there are more male chess players than female chess players and this may simply account for that phenomenon of male chess players being "at the top of the game":

slate.com/technology/2020/12/why-are-the-best-chess-players-men.html

Quote from the article:

"A 2008 study led by psychologist Merim Bilalić points out the logical flaw in citing differences in top rankings as evidence of inherent differences: If one group (female chess players) is much smaller than another (male chess players), then just by chance, one would expect that the best member of the larger group outperforms the best member of the smaller group."

The thing is, there are also many more male chefs working at restaurants than female chefs and I don't think that anyone would claim that women are inherently worse at cooking than men :)))

So why are there less female chefs? I've watched once a documentary about female chefs and one (Western) male chef working at a restaurant in some luxurious hotel in China was asked this question. They asked him whether women are worse at it than men. He said that no - they're great. They're actually better employees than men, because they're more hard-working, diligent and they don't get drunk at work. So they asked him why there are so few female chefs. His answer was: "They get pregnant."

And another quote from the article:

"But in math - a field much like chess in several ways - a fascinating "natural experiment" occurred when Germany split into East and West Germany. The gender gap in math ended up being much smaller in East than West Germany, arguably because the East's radically egalitarian system encouraged girls' self-confidence and competitiveness in math. This demonstrates that gender differences in intellectual performance can be caused by society-level beliefs."

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


Yes, exactly.

People in the comments from the link I posted touched upon this:

"WannabeTraveler87
Legit question. When did "blackface" evolve from the original caricature (which was obviously racist) to now mean any time someone paints their face black?

Parhel
I have the same question. Blackface, to me, is like shoe polish and red lipstick. Not like Darrell Hammond impersonating Jesse Jackson on SNL."

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


I thought you hate Konfa lol

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


I have nothing against valid criticism. I've criticised all kinds of stuff in Polish society/in Poland on this forum. But this time the criticism simply isn't valid in my opinion.

Life / Poles are not racist [873]


Where? In the British press?


Then you're delusional.