Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Little One, learning from an experienced master how to cheat in poker, in Great Con.


I tried to find that young Anna Dymna`s role from 1970s but couldn`t.

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

Yes!
To stand on eyelashes.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]


Oh, yes, thanks for it, precision must be, indeed!


hahaha you are malicious. No, she was the most beautiful woman of her epoch.

Look again:

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Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Yes! The mafioso from Boys Don`t Cry who is obsessed with healthy life style and worries about his son who doesn`t want to be a gangster. Do you remember his famous words uttered in that scene above?: hahaha Pazura commented later on that Łazuka invented them on the set.


You should this film to Rich. you can even watch together. :):):)


Sorry, I think we should explain sth at the very beginning - I think we won`t show pics from the same film one after another - that would be boring. We can show the same film, why not, but after a few pages have passed.

The character has a partner badass who carries the object from post 40.


Oh yes, but still that nearly provoked an image of cutting in two like a magician does to his assistant. :):)

As for two new photos, I know the names of actresses but films not yet. It will take some time on me cause we are going to the pool after breakfast.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


Do you still remember how Ironside hit the ceiling and abused me when I mentioned there are still old communists in PiS, including ex communist prosecutor Piotrowicz??? . I thought people have forgotten about it. Good for you. I haven`t, either. I asked Iron a few times about it but he shunned the explanation.


Only a fool can believe that Poland will enjoy good times under PiS. Yes, beneficiaries of 500+ and other handouts will rejoice. What about others? E.g., the ones who haven`t got children?

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

If you mean the actor`s surname Łazuka, yes. But in this thread we provide characters and films.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


haha we perfectly keep to gender parity - male, female, trans. hahaha

Marysia - a male museum curator dressed as a woman and working as a house keeper/carer in the comedy: Wanted: He or She. .


Aah, Deluge. But Kmicic isn`t cut in two there. He is burnt, shot, slashed but not cut in two.

In the meantime
Who is it?

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USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Yes, yes, yes. :)
Washington
Mate with Jefferson? I didn`t mean friendship. I meant they were mates in the common cause - defending American independence.
Yes, he gladly accepted the service of Kosciuszko and Pułaski - in the first photo.

Next - gender parity rulez so now a female in the second photo: (let`s see what reaction she will produce)

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Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Blast me, I can`t recall who was cut in two in Wołodyjowski book/film.


And he carried this:

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History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]


Does it mean we understand hopeless battle in different ways? In my view, it means a fight against overwhelming enemy which lasts for a definite period of time and ends with a total defeat. The later events, positive or negative, are not important.

What is yours?


hahaha OK. A very Polish point of view - Poles lost Warsaw Uprising but in fact scored a moral victory which proved useful later on.

No more questions and doubts about hopeless battle.

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]


By saying stupid analogy, you insult your genius.


Several reasons:
1. Poles believed their allies would attack Germans in the West. If they did with all their resources, the war would be finished within weeks.

2. Nobody knew what the real situation on the front was - German Blitzkrieg was so quick even top commanders had no idea what was happening until reconaissance spotted German troops at the gates of towns and cities. .

3. Despite tragic circumstances, people always cherish hope. Till the end. On 7th September nothing was decided yet. Although pressed with German tank and airforce superiority, Polish army groups were still fighting. They were forced to withdraw but they still put up resistance and gave Germans hard time. Hardly anybody was thinking of surrender, that was out of question.

You should have asked a different question: Why did Warsaw fight a hopeless battle during a murderous siege when Germans mercilessly bombed hospitals and civiilian quarters? On 17th September Soviet armies had attacked in the East, Why fight at all when it was obvious the allies would do nothing else apart from proclaiming war on Germany? Warsaw lasted till 27th or 28th as far as I know.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Not Jefferson but one of his mates. :)

Historical means pertaining to history - simply speaking, sb or sth that was in the past.
Historic means famous, important in history.

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]


Sorry, Mr Genius, you don`t understand. By which period Poles I mean:
- Poles before the hopeless fight
- Poles during the hopeless fight
- Poles who survived the hopeless fight and their descendants.

Be more precise next time, those 3 groups above are unique and should be dealt with seperately.

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]


Sorry, but such a self proclaimed genius like you is supposed to know all the answers to all questions. Is it my fault that I still believe you are a genius as you incessantly claim and I am trying to satisfy your expectations for genial discourse? I can`t offer you direct answers cause they would be too easy and wouldn`t satisfy your need for intellectual challange. That is why I offer you analogies to make your mind have nice exercise.

Isn`t that obvious???


Be careful, Jonnhy is ready to say everything what he remembers from school. E..g, tell you about dinosaurs.

haha

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]



Get a grip.. Ziemowit asked about the battle, not war. Are you able to distinguish these written words at all? :):)


It seems he lost his sight.


Yes, and your opinion about women is a resolute reason why the race of white supremacists is doomed to die out in the USA and be replaced by mixed people who will be more tolerant. No decent woman will ever agree to have kids with a white supremacist. :)


There is some logical flaw in your question. Which Poles do you mean exactly? I mean, from what period?

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


He laughs who laughs the last. :)


It is funny how you voice such assertive opinions although as an expat living out of Poland, you know next to nothing what is happening here. PO has already decided to go without SLD. And who is the moron now? :):)

Ha!

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]


Let`s change it a little: would anyone offer 100%-futile resistance against an overwhelmingly stronger enemy that is prepared to take the Alamo fort and kill all defenders while in it?


Or did the Texan volunteers actually think that they can make Mexican army under general Santa Maria turn tail and run back home?


Not physical connection, no. But the same moral issues are concerned. Alamo and Polish war 1939-45 are based on the same principle - a strong conviction that people have the right to be free.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]


Oh, yes, I am so sorry, somehow the exit poll results got imprinted in my memory, finally they had 4.55%. Thanks.

PSL and Kukiz united is the only hope for them because they are both on the verge. Especially that Kukiz isn`t a party but association so they don`t need to worry about 8% threshold as a coalition.

Wiosna`s leader, Robert Biedron, is very self-centred indeed. But I suppose he already realised he has to change his attitude, otherwise his party might lose.


No, they said there would be no more benefits. Now they should focus on improving the difficult situation in medical services and medication market, cause the opposition is going to make a big halo about it in their campaign.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Hmm, cut in two, cut in two.... Nothing rings the bell yet, I can`t recall that movie.

Sorry, no. The badass guy wasn`t cut in two but hanged in a very peculiar way, the one you probably never heard of cause it wasn`t used in England for capital punishment

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]


We must wait for Rich to get up and voice his opinion on the Alamo. Then we can try to compare it to our opinions on the Polish fight against Germans in 1939.

Edit: He got up but is trying to wriggle out of answering about the Alamo. That`s not too manly - first he provokes and then immediately withdraws to the forest like a partisan. :):)


A genius like you should understand that lame analogies are usually a result of lame questions. :):)

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Do you mean Dougpol always imputes that Polish heroes had lovers??? That`s outrageous! Polish heroes loved but they rarely went to bed cause they were too busy fighting for the motherland. When it wasn`t Napoleonic Wars, it was Warsaw Uprising. When not a Rising, it was the defence of Głogów. and so on, etc etc. It is a miracle that Poles exist as a nation at all - only fighting and no child making. `

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

Hmm, I am not sure she was chosen the beauty of the year.


Doug, please show some respect. Mr Wołodyjowski didn`t have lovers, he was a chaste knight, a noble soldier, a heroic defender of the motherland. He didn`t think of sex when he fought bravely for the Commonwealth. Now you are abusing hundreds years old Polish traditional beliefs. Shame on you.

His partner was his love. Just love, nothing else. Defensor Patriae can love a female, it is not forbidden. Platonically, of course.

But not the one in the picture. She was the lover of sb else. Yes, lover, cause her guy was a real badass, tall and strong, very muscular and handsome too .

History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

The Alamo was defended by about 200 Texan volunteers against the thousands Mexican army. All defenders died except for 3 people - a female, her child and a black slave/servant. A famous gesture of one of the commanders before the battle was drawing a line in the sand and saying: Who is with me, cross this line. They all crossed the line and they all died.

I suppose Texans are very proud of their heroic last stand.

Check out this joke by my fav American cartoonist:

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History / The reasons of Polish pride? [112]

Why? Probably for the same reason why Texans fought a hopeless battle at Alamo. When you-know-who asks you about Alamo`s sense, do you also tell her you don`t know why? :):)

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [358]

[Moved from]: 2019 autumn parliamentary elections in Poland - will the opposition oust PiS from power?

The latest update on the situation before the autumn parliamentary elections in Poland. A little explanation - it is not only PiS who rule Poland now. They are in fact called United Right and consists of PiS, United Poland and Agreement. But they are called PiS cause PiS is the biggets of them and those small satellites include politicians who once were PiS members.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Right

The United Right is going to the elections as one block. Current polls give them over 40% support. If the opposition were united, they would get a slightly better result. But they aren`t.

The opposition will go in two or three blocks. Conservative PSL refused to cooperate with centre PO if the latter keep close ties with socialists from SLD and liberals from Nowoczesna. PO refuses to drop liberal allies but are ready to give up leftists, especially old ex-communists from the past.

So, the first block - PSL as Polish Coalition, currently alone, probably with Kukiz 15.

Second block - PO as Citizen Coalition, with centre, mild right or mild left politicians from other parties.

Third block - left - currently nothing is decided but if they unite, it will be SLD, Wiosna and Razem

Wiosna (Spring) - liberal pro LGBT is still undecided who to go with. They realise they won`t pass the threshhold when alone so they need to join or create a coalition. e..g, cooperate with Razem (Together) extreme left or socialists from SLD. .

The far right Konfederacja which gained over 6% in recent Euro elections seems in disarray as leaders are quarreling about the division of seats and power before and after the autumn elections.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Yes! That Scot was the most heroic and faithful soldier of all, it was him who refused to surrender the fortress to the Turkish army and blew up the gunpowder, killing himself and Mr Wołodyjowski.

Let`s have it in turns, female now.

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

Yes, but not by someone, only by yourself. It is a critical remark about one`s reasoning and behaviour too.

to hit sb in one`s most sensitive point.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]


Yes, but also delayed Alzheimer! :)

Ok, guys, you guessed the name of the book and film but the name of the OP character is still a mystery.

Life / Do you know these characters from Polish movies? [223]

No, By Fire and Sword was the first book in the series, while this one is the last.

Yes, Polish szlachta.

Hint: these two guys above die a tragic death at the same time! Boooooo.......hooooo.... And in result they bereave two lovely women (matter of taste, of course, I always hated that Barbie character for her dollish behaviour). Booohoooo.....


Sorry, that was very serious literature created to lift up souls and hearts of desperate Poles.