Life / How are electric cars doing in Poland? [413]


Are you their dealer that you advertise their products so nicely? :):):)


Thanks, now we know which model we should buy.


Cars, not yet. But a few Polish cities use electric bus system. Gdynia, for example.



And there are 120 tourist electric cars in Krakow

Life / News on driving in Poland [57]

No, if that wasn`t premeditated murder.

When driving to the seaside, I saw one speed control road police patrol through 700 km. Coming back, two patrols.

Speed control cameras are much more frequent, though.

Earlier, driving from the mountains, we had been caught speeding 65 in 50 speed limit urban zone. I had got two points and had had to pay 50 zlotys fine.

On 18-05-2015 a new law has come into force. It states that if you are exceeding speed by over 50km/h in a built-up area, in addition to a ticket, your license is suspended for 3 months. Cammer has been caught doing 107km/h in a 50km/h city zone. His license has been taken by the policeman. Driver punished by this gets a 24-hour cerrtificate which he can use to travel to home.

Dialogue from 1:04: - pull your hand brake, turn the engine off. Hello, this is traffic department. Documents, ID, driving license please. (...) - Do you see this? - Yes - Then you will not see this again for 3 months. Your measured speed is 107km/h, 50km/h is allowed here. Today your license is retained.

reddit/r/Roadcam/comments/37gjis/poland_since_18052015_it_is_this_easy_to_lose/

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]


Sorry to hear that.


:):):) I knew a few Polish women like that, One of them, my mother. :):):) When stopped by the road police for an obvious offence, she argued so long that they let us go. :):):)


Lovely! :)

Life / News on driving in Poland [57]


Yes, like he had planned the cold blood murder before and used his car as a tool.

In Polish law it doesn`t matter if you kill 1 or two - the sentence is like for 1. When there are more victims, you are accused of transport catastrophe which may result in max 12 years.

The woman got 8 because she was young, without previous criminal record.

Love / What strange/unnerving/funny things do your Polish wives do? [153]

Oh my God. I truly pity you. You are too kind. If my woman did sth like that, my revenge would be really nasty. E.g., ban on sex for a week!


Good but will she listen? Women are so stubborn.

Life / News on driving in Poland [57]


Causing an accident in which a fatality occurs can`t give you more than 8 years. If under an influence, it rises to 12 years.

Life / News on driving in Poland [57]

Probably your wife gave you wrong info. Or she missed some important details. You get 25 years for premeditated murder.

Yes, I understood you well and them too.

Life / News on driving in Poland [57]

Parents of two boys don`t object though maximum penalty was 12 years.

Plus she has to pay 50.000 zlotys to each family.

History / Polish military uniforms [57]

Again from Krakow area: peasant scytheman uniform from 18./19 century, called Kosynier:

Prayer before the battle



Haller`s Blue Army:



It was formed in France during WW1, when it finished, they came back to Poland and fought against Ukrainians and Bolsheviks.

Language / Dupa - what a beautiful Polish word [103]


Shortly speaking, everything depends on dupa!



A love song about Marynia`s dupa:



Lousy shooting by a lady is called do dupy by an officer:

Nice comment on German Nazi Gold Train

When Everybody had had you in dupa
until you found Gold Train in your house

Life / Polish females who made it [29]

Two sportswomen from Poland from the other thread qualify here as well.

Life / Polish films in Hollywood arrangement [29]

Sorry, you got your dates a bit confused. Never mind.:):)

Watch another one:

The Deluge, another historical story from 17 century: love, fights, battles. Usual stuff from the period.




Well, this time a slight difference: love, fights, battles. Usual stuff from the period.
But from 15 century:

TEUTONIC KNIGHTS!

Love, fights, battles, escapes. How I started II 2 WW from late 1960s.


1920 - Battle of Warsaw

Famous political/crime thriller about ex-communist secret police in capitalist reality:
Dogs:



4 Tank crew and a dog, 1960s war film for younger audience

History / History of Poland in a pill - illustrated [41]


But slaves weren`t considered nation. The same with Poland - only royals and nobility were nation for a long time here.


Tell it to the Polish magnates and szlachta a few hundred years ago. :):) I assure you they wouldn't be so enthusiastic about it. You might end up fighting a duel with an annoyed noble.


Casimir the Great found a Poland made of wood and left it made of stone". in 14 century. Considered one of the greatest kings of Poland.



Till today we can see his production:



etc etc


1525, Polish king Sigismund Old receives homage from the Prussian prince:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussian_Homage

This plaque in Krakow`s Market Square reminds of the event



Sigismund Old`s son, Sigisimund August, fell in love and married a woman against his mother`s and ruling class members` wish, causing a great scandal.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Radziwi%C5%82%C5%82

The young wife was allegedly poisoned and the king never got over her death.



See their story in a nice 1980s Polish film trailer:

youtu.be/o_H3jU4Qwbk

History / Pre-war or today's Poland? [50]

There was one great achievement of interbellum Poland: development of deep patriotic attitude mostly in young people, but not only. Later on, during WW2 and after it, those youngsters went to barricades and gave their lives for Poland by hundred thousands.

News / The feud between Telewizja Republika and TV Trwam [19]

And you copy their fanatic style like a parrot. Shame!

News / The feud between Telewizja Republika and TV Trwam [19]


So, are they or aren`t they Catholic???


That is so cheap and pathetic, I must say. Another moron who judges people on the basis of their parents` ideology.


No, it wasn`t, this guy smells of mad fanaticism by 1 kilometer.

History / History of Poland in a pill - illustrated [41]


Very interesting. It only proves we are all the children of the same planet.

@Jon357
The last time I visited Wiślica was in 2007. But going to Busko Zdrój for vacation this year, I think we will drop by.

History / History of Poland in a pill - illustrated [41]

Be patient.


:):)


Some kings had funny names/nicks.

Władysław Elbow-High





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History / History of Poland in a pill - illustrated [41]


Of course not. It is natural there was development. But having had their 3 May Constitution reforms put in practice and not invaded by our neighbours, Poles would have developed on their own in a better way than they did under occupation. Don`t you understand it?


When you introduce your troops and administration to control the country, it is occupation first of all. When the act is accepted by other international bodies, it becomes a politically correct annexation.

Allow me to refrain from PC for a while. :):):)

History / History of Poland in a pill - illustrated [41]

More neutral view? :):):) Joke.

One day ,when I get to Partitions Chapter, we can talk about germanisation and russification policies adopted by the most aggressive and determined occupiers. Only Austrian partition zone was the bearable one, with Polish politicians even becoming Prime Ministers of Austria. Prussian/German and Russian partitions were real occupations and Polish historians don`t have to be more neutral . :):):)

History / History of Poland in a pill - illustrated [41]


Those acts you are talking about didn`t introduce freedom to peasants in Prussian occupied Poland - their subjection was abolished in 1807 (except Poznań region in 1823).


Well, what do you expect? That Polish historians are enthusiastic about it? :):)
Yes, it is admitted the Prussian occupiers were the first partition party to abolish serfdom in occupied Poland.

But still Polish acts had been earlier. First, 3 May Constitution, then the Połaniec Declaration by Tadeusz Kosciuszko:


en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_of_Połaniec


Are you satisfied?

Have we finished with baptism? Can we move to

News / Polish cleaner claims sexual assault is OK in rural Poland [31]

Ok, I see.

News / Polish cleaner claims sexual assault is OK in rural Poland [31]


I see.


Creepy?

I see. How about an uncreepy one??


I see. Creepy - no!

Uncreepy - yes!

News / Polish cleaner claims sexual assault is OK in rural Poland [31]


Come on. Most women enjoy such attention. Those who blow it up are sick attention seekers.

News / Polish cleaner claims sexual assault is OK in rural Poland [31]


Of course. I always pinch or touch my wife when I walk past her.

History / History of Poland in a pill - illustrated [41]

Who knows?

As for baptism, it is interesting to know what pagan Slavs worshipped in pre-christian era.

E.g.,
Swiatowid

and oak trees and celebrated Night of Kupala, whose atmosphere must have resembled that of today`s carnival in Brazil.

No wonder, things didn`t go so smoothly with conversion. There were pagan risings (first in Poland!) in 11 century. Rulers ordered to deprive restive pagans of their teeth if they didn`t want to fast.

Travel / Camping / Fishing / Mountains / Biking - Poland travel suggestions [11]


Check out Table Mountains.
https://polishforums.com/travel/poland-magnificent-beauty-nature-landscapes-63728/#msg1335260

We are going there this summer.

History / History of Poland in a pill - illustrated [41]

Why do you think so?

You missed Polish 3rd May Constitution which gave rights to peasants but was abolished by Russia and others through partitions.

Both from justice, humanity and Christian duty, as from our own self-interest properly understood, we accept under the protection of the law and of the national government the agricultural folk, from under whose hand flows the most copious source of the country's wealth, and who constitute the most numerous populace in the nation and hence the greatest strength of the country, and we determine that henceforth whatever liberties, assignments or agreements squires authentically agree to with peasants of their estates, whether those liberties, assignments and agreements be done with groups or with individual inhabitants of a village, shall constitute a mutual obligation, in accordance with the true sense of the conditions and provisions contained in such assignments and agreements, subject to the protection of the national government. [...]

en.wikisource.org/wiki/Constitution_of_May_3,_1791

Declaration of 3rd May Constitution: