History / Cursed soldiers controvercy - not all Poles respect them [320]

Apart from drugs, hatred controls and blinds you, too.

History / Cursed soldiers controvercy - not all Poles respect them [320]

oops, you are clearly stoned. Discussing things with you now is useless. See you later after you sleep it off.

History / BEATS OF FREEDOM - A HISTORY OF POLISH ROCK MUSIC [108]

The hype about rock music exploded in Poland in 1980s. The film Beats of Freedom tells the story.

ipn.gov.pl/en/news/437,Rock-in-the-Polish-Peoples-Republic-in-a-documentary-film-Beats-of-Freedom.html

At the time when life in Poland was controlled by the regime, music became a phenomenon having enormous influence on people. The "Iron Curtain" was not able to stop rock and young people, who through this music, found their space of freedom. From the beginning Polish rock was against communist reality

I think I will show the most important rock bands from 1980s. That was my fav music at the time when I was a young man and I still like listening to it.

Oddział Zamknięty - Psych Ward
Your world 1982
See the background of the song - a housing estate - a symbol of uniformity propagated by communism.

see the lyrics here: lyricstranslate.com/en/ten-wasz-swiat-your-world.html

They look, veins pricked, nightmares
Victims to their decaying brains
There's more and more of those
I'm waiting entangled in sick hands.

Chorus
What your wonderful world looks like
I know, and they know too
Branded by dreams,
Branded by dreams.

youtu.be/QxQA6WMgMBg

KSU - that was a cult punk rock group from Bieszczady Mountains. Their name was inspired by car registration plates from the area.

Against the Flow 1988

lyricstranslate.com/en/pod-pr%C4%85d-against-flow.html

First stanza

Don't ever try to go against the flow
Don't ever try to find the reasons
Don't break ranks
Because you're nothing, nothing
Don't ever try to say "no"
Don't ever try to find the reasons
The individual is, however, nothing
So are you

youtu.be/V9ouWat5efU

History / "Poland Syndrome" should be renamed [45]

No, that was fake news, invented by sly Czechs after Polish invasions. I am really surprised you have fallen for it. hahaha

Of course, Polamp must stay in the language - it is a Polish company.

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History / Cursed soldiers controvercy - not all Poles respect them [320]


Yes, exactly. That`s what most Poles will do in times of trouble. Like always in the past., I will go first and my students behind me.

But don`t expect average people to butcher innocent civilians solely because they are of another nationality. That`s pure murder and you do require a mentality of a murderer. I don`t want to be like that.

My patrotic motto has always been: Spirit of 44. Warsaw insurgents didn`t kill civilians - they killed German military who invaded Warsaw and occupied it in the most brutal way. That`s the way to fight for Poland.

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

yes, but it doesn`t need to be punishment. Simply you maltreat sb physically or mentally.

to make sb an icecream.

Life / Paying Hospital Bills in Poland [23]


Yes, rent, monthly payments etc. Loss of job, btw.

Life / Paying Hospital Bills in Poland [23]


Why shouldn`t we revel when we see that karma has struck our wrongdoers? Coz it always goes with the trymph of fulfilled vengence. It doesn`t matter that we didn`t take revenge personally but were replaced my mythical karma. We relish our wrongdoer`s misfortune and that is really a negative feeling.

Life / Owning a house in true countryside of Poland - stories [692]


So, today it was an exciting day coz we dug up our first own potatoes. I had planted Arizona variety. My wife boiled them for kids while I fried them with sausage and eggs. Wow, delicious. No chemicals or artificial fertilizers were used.

The only problem is Colorado beetle. I go around the field a few times a day and collect dozens of them every day. They fly in from neighbouring fields.


I did an experiment and planted some spuds in the grassy and weedy area. Now I see it has failed - the bushes grew twice smaller than in other weedless patches and now they are practically dead coz it has been dry for about two weeks. I haven`t dug them up yet. Tomorrow I am going to see what hides under those weeds there.

Law / Working in EU countries and in UK with Poland's Residence Card (Karta Pobytu)? [51]

You should do some reading in this thread. The answer is provided in the first five posts here. Especially, check post no 4 by Mr Delph.

Life / Paying Hospital Bills in Poland [23]

Yes, but I don`t want karma to return to the person who rips me off. I prefer to stop the act when I can and avoid further consequences, for them and me.

History / "Poland Syndrome" should be renamed [45]


I would let them stay polar. They are already seriously endangered and the prospects are grim - they will have gotten extinct by 2100.


Ha! hahaha

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Life / Paying Hospital Bills in Poland [23]


But some people can`t bear the thought of being ripped off. E..g, me. When I feel they are exploiting me, I raise hell although I tend to be calm and complacent in everyday life situations.

History / "Poland Syndrome" should be renamed [45]

I agree to British points only if they were discovered by Brits. hahaha

Btw, sb will have to look through literature and eradicate all obsolete mentions of Poles. Milne and his imbecile sock puppet bear go first.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


In Polish it is thin and fatty years.


Now it is sth I need to make sure if it the same as Polish: to sit astride on a barricade. Yes, it is - keep neutrality.

History / "Poland Syndrome" should be renamed [45]

And that should be changed too. Especially that there is a better word: Enamel. So beautiful. It reminds me of Emanuel, an important first name in the Bible.

History / Cursed soldiers controvercy - not all Poles respect them [320]


Of course. After the news of the Slaughter spread in the area, Poles started organising self defence units in villages, often together with Jews, sometimes aided by the AK or communist underground, sometimes only villagers. I could gladly join such a unit and blow a few attackers` heads off and then God would have a problem deciding if it was my sin or not.

But going to another village to burn it down and kill its inhabitants whom you have never seen in your life and who haven`t done anything wrong to you requires a character of a murderous psychopath.

Admit you have such a character. As I said, I don`t mind. But I don`t want to be like you. Can I ?

History / "Poland Syndrome" should be renamed [45]

How about nail enamel? That`s the word I was talking about.

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Life / Paying Hospital Bills in Poland [23]


Coz sb told you that bills were piling up, suggesting you do sth about it?

History / "Poland Syndrome" should be renamed [45]

Somehow I forgot about it. But I think there is another name for that, I seldom see polish on those little bottles.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Perfect Storm is the title of the film I didn`t watch coz I consider such marine adventures a little boring if they last 2 hours. The only Perfect Storm which was short and exciting is in Forest Gump film . I always loved how Forest`s first mate, Dan, screams at the sky: You call this a storm??? It is time for a showdown - you and me! Come and get me! hahahaha Reminds me of Polish Romantic heroes who were also at odds with God.

Btw, Polish translation is better: The Wrath of the Ocean.

youtu.be/_03zn8Vq6iw

History / Cursed soldiers controvercy - not all Poles respect them [320]


And kill mostly innocent people.

Now you are talking like a member of an execution squad. Let it be. While I was talking as a Christian. Why don`t you let me be one???


No, it didn`t stop Ukrainians. Even worse, decent Ukrainians who didn`t want to participate in the slaughter at the beginning, sooner or later joined in after their village had been burnt down and families killed in Polish retaliation.


My smartness, based on Christian beliefs, tells me that vengence doesn`t solve anything, it only provokes other vengeful acts.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Ha! I remember using that idiom in an explanatory letter to my most important girlfriend decades ago. I wrote about our huge problems and chose to use English to sound less strict.

bark up the wrong tree. Right after it I wrote: to be in a relationship with you requires me to have a skin like a rhinocerous but I certainly don`t possess it. I was 20 years old but I still remember it. I am so sentimental. Weep, weep. Sorry..

History / Heritage of partitions still present in Poland [107]


Yes, exactly. I only started to show the maps, coz there are many depending on different approach. I was waiting for an intelligent poster to comment and add new ones. It is you so thank you very much.

Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]


Nope. Two guys, rather elderly, were talking about possible tragic ends, one of them was a stroke whichcan stiffen you. I hope you like this typically British black humour.

be on cloud nine - in Polish way say to be in 7th heaven.

What is the next one?

Genealogy / Popular non-Poles of Polish descent [17]


What?? Even Jon Bon Jovi was Polish? Unbelievable. If you tell me John Paul II and Columbus were Polish too, I will admit I am the last, miraculously saved King of Polish Apes.

History / "Poland Syndrome" should be renamed [45]


Fortunately, some producers decorate the boxes with animal images: kangaroo, kiwi bird, cat, bufallo, eagle, horse, rhino, dog, penguin, griffin. Then I am completely disarmed and withdraw my objections.

History / Heritage of partitions still present in Poland [107]

Hey, we can sum up the latest elections with a little historical insight .

So, I would like to notify you that the partitions heritage still works fine in Poland.

See the maps with previous election results in the first post:
https://polishforums.com/history/poland-heritage-partitions-present-84823/#msg1688726

The newest map for 2020 below. We can say that the former Russian partition zone gave the victory to President Duda. The Prussian zone fought hard but was overwhelmed. After all, Russians always outnumbered their enemies in all wars. hahaha

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Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation [1756]

Yes, of course.

I am watching an old series now and one 65 yo character says to another one who is 42: it can stiffen you. What does he mean?

History / Polish Museums and Selective Forgetting [10]

That is all regimes` character. If we weren`t in the EU, PiS would certainly resort to Putin or Lukashenka-style methods.