Feniks
15 Jun 2025
Feniks
14 Jun 2025
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]
Yeah, right.
Can you even remember how many guns you have?
We have 1 million house invasions.
That's why I have two guns
No fear in my life.
Yeah, right.
Can you even remember how many guns you have?
I do have three guns - all loade
Feniks
14 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
I've never heard of those!
Love garlic, I use tons of the stuff in cooking.
I didn't know what it was so I had to google. Good luck and hopefully everything will be fine :)
Thanks for the riddles, I love a challenge!
tamarind rolls.
I've never heard of those!
it's called cz*sn*k.
Love garlic, I use tons of the stuff in cooking.
sun spot
I didn't know what it was so I had to google. Good luck and hopefully everything will be fine :)
Thank you everyone for participating and great contributions :)
Thanks for the riddles, I love a challenge!
Feniks
13 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
Tamarind, rose water?
This ingredient is used in dishes in the Middle East and in one of the drinks popular during Ramadan.
Tamarind, rose water?
Feniks
13 Jun 2025
Polonia / Polish bus crash in Croatia. Is there a fate? [229]
His brother was interviewed outside the family home in Leicester yesterday.
news.sky.com/story/british-national-survives-plane-crash-indian-media-reports-13382718
he was a Londoner returning home who was on the flight manifest,
His brother was interviewed outside the family home in Leicester yesterday.
news.sky.com/story/british-national-survives-plane-crash-indian-media-reports-13382718
Feniks
12 Jun 2025
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]
But you keep banging on about home invasions and the number of guns you have in your home which makes me think you're talking out of your arse to be honest.
How many kids dead from gunshot wounds are too many Novi? How many more mass shootings are acceptable? Please give exact numbers.
No fear in my life. And I don't even carry a gun.
But you keep banging on about home invasions and the number of guns you have in your home which makes me think you're talking out of your arse to be honest.
How many kids dead from gunshot wounds are too many Novi? How many more mass shootings are acceptable? Please give exact numbers.
Feniks
12 Jun 2025
Feniks
12 Jun 2025
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]
To be honest I'm not sure what point your rambling post is about, but a change in the gun laws here stopped school shootings and saved lives, something that's never going to happen in the US. You keep telling yourself that all those mass shootings and dead kids are worth it for the right to bear arms.
You keep banging on about 'freedom' but to me you're all living in fear.
That makes your craphole not much better than any other -ism.
To be honest I'm not sure what point your rambling post is about, but a change in the gun laws here stopped school shootings and saved lives, something that's never going to happen in the US. You keep telling yourself that all those mass shootings and dead kids are worth it for the right to bear arms.
You keep banging on about 'freedom' but to me you're all living in fear.
Feniks
12 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / What's your hobby? [191]
Hej! I wouldn't laugh, you did a really good job and let's face it, Iron Man should look battle-scarred, he's fought in enough battles! I doubt I would have even attempted to do that and the person you gave it to was happy which is the most important bit! You probably had more of a laugh to think that I thought you'd made yourself an Iron Man costume lol.
Well, I thought it was made from metal in the riddle clips so you achieved the look you were after :)
Maybe buy some of those special paints and give it another go :)
That's really cool! I didn't know you could even get lamps like that.
I think the English equivalent would be 'tat'.
I did something like this for the first time in my life, so don't laugh
Hej! I wouldn't laugh, you did a really good job and let's face it, Iron Man should look battle-scarred, he's fought in enough battles! I doubt I would have even attempted to do that and the person you gave it to was happy which is the most important bit! You probably had more of a laugh to think that I thought you'd made yourself an Iron Man costume lol.
it gives the whole figure a more of a "real metal" look. So that was my way of making the suit look more "battle-worn".
Well, I thought it was made from metal in the riddle clips so you achieved the look you were after :)
I learned a thing or two about miniature painting from this experience lol
Maybe buy some of those special paints and give it another go :)
this one is
amazing - it's like a moment frozen in time
amazing - it's like a moment frozen in time
That's really cool! I didn't know you could even get lamps like that.
zabawka z odpustu"
I think the English equivalent would be 'tat'.
Feniks
12 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
Over here they're called prawn crackers.
I know you can get shiitake mushroom ones. Or maybe sweet chilli?
prawn chips like in a Chinese restauran
Over here they're called prawn crackers.
Can you guess the flavour?
I know you can get shiitake mushroom ones. Or maybe sweet chilli?
Feniks
12 Jun 2025
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]
Not going to pretend the UK doesn't have its problems with crime but changing the gun laws here made a difference.
Just lots of
Not going to pretend the UK doesn't have its problems with crime but changing the gun laws here made a difference.
Feniks
12 Jun 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]
Thanks for the information guys, I haven't heard any Polish fairy tales so I was a bit stuck with that one.
That one makes more sense to me.
Thanks for the information guys, I haven't heard any Polish fairy tales so I was a bit stuck with that one.
The only thing that fits is "dawno, dawno temu...".
That one makes more sense to me.
Feniks
11 Jun 2025
Law / Gun control in Poland: should Polish people be allowed to own guns? [1070]
The UK passed new gun laws after the Dunblane massacre in 1996. There hasn't been a single school shooting in the UK since.
Only emotional idiots and women pass new laws after tragedies.
The UK passed new gun laws after the Dunblane massacre in 1996. There hasn't been a single school shooting in the UK since.
Feniks
10 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
Here it is in all its glory:
smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/gaming-and-tech/gaming-merchandise/marvel-iron-man-led-lamp-iron-man-diorama/p/225108
It's an Iron Man diorama lamp :
Here it is in all its glory:
smythstoys.com/uk/en-gb/gaming-and-tech/gaming-merchandise/marvel-iron-man-led-lamp-iron-man-diorama/p/225108
Feniks
10 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
I meant boot. If it's not a cake topper then maybe part of a candle?
foot
I meant boot. If it's not a cake topper then maybe part of a candle?
Feniks
10 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
Sometimes it's worth a wild guess :)
This is another of my wild guesses but not sure if this one's right. It's not one of those birthday cake toppers is it? The other part that you're showing looks a bit like it might be a foot but not entirely sure.....
Yes, the photos show close ups of the Iron Man suit :)
Sometimes it's worth a wild guess :)
what could it be attached to? The whole thing is a decoration,
This is another of my wild guesses but not sure if this one's right. It's not one of those birthday cake toppers is it? The other part that you're showing looks a bit like it might be a foot but not entirely sure.....
Feniks
9 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
Grow up. No-one is cheating. You didn't answer correctly as Paulina said.
Just stop trashing threads.
You guys cheat.
Grow up. No-one is cheating. You didn't answer correctly as Paulina said.
Just stop trashing threads.
Feniks
9 Jun 2025
Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]
It certainly does! Especially the trolls.
Quite surprised to see that I was a main contributor when I had my old account.
I'm not really a fan. Can't help feeling Pandora's box has been opened up.......
It knows PF well enough
It certainly does! Especially the trolls.
Quite surprised to see that I was a main contributor when I had my old account.
Gotta love AI
I'm not really a fan. Can't help feeling Pandora's box has been opened up.......
Feniks
9 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
That got me thinking and with your other comments it's something you've obviously made.
I thought about your interests and I remembered a couple of times that you'd mentioned comics and that you'd done some Jim Lee drawings. You also mentioned superheroes before, specifically Captain America from Marvel films.
This is another of my off-the-wall guesses, but I decided to have a look at superheroes and I think you're making/have made the Iron Man suit/armour.
I don't think even this thread has escaped that.
I think it's exactly what he's doing. As soon as he came back he targeted this thread.
It is supposed to imitate metal though :)
That got me thinking and with your other comments it's something you've obviously made.
I thought about your interests and I remembered a couple of times that you'd mentioned comics and that you'd done some Jim Lee drawings. You also mentioned superheroes before, specifically Captain America from Marvel films.
This is another of my off-the-wall guesses, but I decided to have a look at superheroes and I think you're making/have made the Iron Man suit/armour.
I usually treat this thread as a "demilitarized zone" -
I don't think even this thread has escaped that.
don't trash this thread
I think it's exactly what he's doing. As soon as he came back he targeted this thread.
Feniks
8 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
Scrub the earlier suggestion, my eyesight's rubbish these days. I thought the mystery object was made of some thick cardboardy type stuff but on closer inspection I think it's made of metal that's been heavily scratched. No idea at all at the moment.
Scrub the earlier suggestion, my eyesight's rubbish these days. I thought the mystery object was made of some thick cardboardy type stuff but on closer inspection I think it's made of metal that's been heavily scratched. No idea at all at the moment.
Feniks
8 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
It has a sort of concertina shape from what I can see. This is completely off the wall but it's not part of one of those old folding/bellows cameras is it?
It has a sort of concertina shape from what I can see. This is completely off the wall but it's not part of one of those old folding/bellows cameras is it?
Feniks
6 Jun 2025
Travel / Poland in photo riddles - part 3 [818]
Training a service dog to wear a muzzle by the looks of it. Stopping unwanted behaviour such as biting and to encourage obedience. Looks like a home environment so could also be to stop the dog scavenging for food scraps.
What is going on?:
Training a service dog to wear a muzzle by the looks of it. Stopping unwanted behaviour such as biting and to encourage obedience. Looks like a home environment so could also be to stop the dog scavenging for food scraps.
Feniks
5 Jun 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]
Yes, I got that far with był sobie yesterday morning.
So when you said, "what's going on?" did you mean that it's the opening of a fairy tale e,g Był sobie król ?
the part 'there was to Xself' is just two words in Polish, both pretty common.
Yes, I got that far with był sobie yesterday morning.
it's very much like 'once upon a time'.
So when you said, "what's going on?" did you mean that it's the opening of a fairy tale e,g Był sobie król ?
Feniks
4 Jun 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]
This isn't going to be right but is it anything along the lines of making a good match or a good fit?
What about There was to himself a boy. or There was to herself a girl?
This isn't going to be right but is it anything along the lines of making a good match or a good fit?
Feniks
3 Jun 2025
Off-Topic / Music Thread - part 2 [970]
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Feniks
3 Jun 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]
I was just about to get to that one! Sadly, I have no idea at all :(
Wha'ts going on?
I was just about to get to that one! Sadly, I have no idea at all :(
Feniks
3 Jun 2025
UK, Ireland / Polish immigrants in the UK - victims or criminals?! [295]
I was reading today about a Polish woman named Izabela Zablocka. She came to the UK to work in 2009 and went missing in 2010.
Police have now found the remains of a body in the garden of a house. Although no formal identification has yet taken place, Derbyshire Police believe the body to be hers and what was a missing persons inquiry has now become a murder inquiry. Four people have been arrested.
Very sad. For her family, although it's terrible news, at least it's finally put an end to the years of wondering what had happened to her.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygxy948zpo
I was reading today about a Polish woman named Izabela Zablocka. She came to the UK to work in 2009 and went missing in 2010.
Police have now found the remains of a body in the garden of a house. Although no formal identification has yet taken place, Derbyshire Police believe the body to be hers and what was a missing persons inquiry has now become a murder inquiry. Four people have been arrested.
Very sad. For her family, although it's terrible news, at least it's finally put an end to the years of wondering what had happened to her.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clygxy948zpo
Feniks
3 Jun 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]
Pie in the sky basically. Unrealistic promises.
pears in the willow.
Pie in the sky basically. Unrealistic promises.
Feniks
3 Jun 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]
An expression for a situation that seems to be incomprehensible?
Something can't be believed by someone?
głowa mała
An expression for a situation that seems to be incomprehensible?
it doesn't fit (inside)
Something can't be believed by someone?
Feniks
1 Jun 2025
Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [816]
Yes! I figured that you would easily get it....
It means to go above and beyond, do everything possible to achieve a particular goal.
Yes! I figured that you would easily get it....