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pawian   
25 Aug 2012
News / Fraudsters and common thieves top the crime league in Poland [12]

Worth pointing out that freepl.info is also the Opposition mouthpiece - what they're not saying is exactly what these crimes are.

I smelled a rat! I felt there was sth wrong but was too lazy to find out!

More interesting titles: freepl.info/2809-merkel-germanises-europe

Funny that nearly 30% are about Russia. :)
pawian   
24 Aug 2012
History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [89]

With all due respect, Pawian

Cholera jasna, it was my phone and its frigging net connection!

In the period of Old Poland (10th-15th) there were many church-religious word borrowings from Latin via Czech:

Thanks for a very informative post, again. :):):):)

Dobrawa (Dąbrówka) (Czech: Doubravka, Polish: Dobrawa) (ca. 940/45 - 977) was a Bohemian princess of the Přemyslid dynasty and by marriage Duchess of the Polans.

She was the daughter of Boleslav I the Cruel, Duke of Bohemia, whose wife may have been the mysterious Biagota.[1][2]
According to earlier sources, Dobrawa urged her husband Mieszko I of Poland to accept baptism in 966, the year after their marriage. Modern historians believe, however, that the change of religion by Mieszko was one of the points discussed in the Polish-Bohemian agreement concluded soon before his marriage with Dobrawa. Her role in his conversion is not considered now to be as important as it is often represented in medieval chronicles.


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pawian   
19 Aug 2012
Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

i am enjoying it and playing with my phone at the same time.

but i see you cant stop reading me.

is your polish family that boring for you? hahaha

see our suppers which are scanty as we eat them late:


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pawian   
18 Aug 2012
History / Communist memorials in Poland [50]

communist system lasted 1945-1989.
some memorials were pulled down immediately after the system collpased, others remained and hold strong.

the memorial in uście gorlickie, to polish communist partisans, red army soldiers and all polish soldiers from lemko area. Written in polish and cyrillic.

i suppose if pis activists tried to pull it down as they planned in 2007, they would be lynched by locals.


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pawian   
18 Aug 2012
History / What do Poles owe to Czechs? [89]

after a great success of similar threads, I decided to start a new one, but this time not to educate you but to teach myself.

to the best of my knowledge, didn`t chiristianity come to poland through chechia in 10 century AD? i haven`t got any pedias right now to corroborate it, but i vaguely remember the polish prince mieszko married some czech king`s daughter called dobrava and thus adopted christianity from czechs who had done it earlier.

it happened in 966.

or am I wrong?

what else?
pawian   
10 Aug 2012
News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]

It does explode occassionally.

Yes, there was a suicidal attack a few days ago.

pl.euronews.com/2012/08/06/zamach-w-czeczenii/

The Russians simply don't consider them Russian and that says it all.

But Chechens don`t want to be considered Russians.

he government cared to invest into military annexation but it didn't spend a copeck on bringing their cultural level up.

Well, the destroyed city of Grozny has been rebuilt. It cost Russia a few billions of dollars, half embezzled by Russian generals and local Chechen collaborators. :):):)

This situation has continued in this cyclical way for so many decades. When one reads Tolstoy's tale Hadji Murad, and compares it to the situation today, one is amazed at how little has changed in the last two centuries.

Exactly.
pawian   
9 Aug 2012
Law / Old Polish money banknotes - what's their value today? [415]

link please

Do you want a link to the Polish auction site?

Here you are: allegro.pl/ShowItem2.php/itemNotFound/?item=2328646234&title=banknot-50000-zl-1989-seria-ae

Are you going to take all the pains for 20$ ??? :):):):):)
pawian   
8 Aug 2012
Life / West-East life in Poland? [45]

On the other hand I had never been to Krakow, and it seemed lagging behind in terms of infrastructure

You mean this?

Come on, don`t be so nitpicking.

Have you seen this?
pawian   
8 Aug 2012
Food / Are there any Polish wines worth purchasing? [65]

As anybody who has been to Poland will know, more wine is sold in Warsaw than anywhere else in Poland.

Sold doesn`t mean consumed. Warsavians buy the wine but put it on the shelves.
pawian   
8 Aug 2012
Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

Pawian,are you serious you've actually tried to do this?

Yes. Why not?

Pawian;I wouldn't recommend doing this in Poland unless it's during the very early spring,other wise you could very well kill yourself.

Wow, I didn`t know about it.

I have always dreamt of eating like Alaskan natives. Do you remember our participation in the thread about Eskimo people? That`s where we met for the first time. :):):):):)

If you or I tried it,we would more than likely get sick the first time,but not deadly sick and then after that our system could handle it.My brother said he got sick the first time he ate it.Now he loves it.

Good. I am sure I would love it too.

There is a bit similar food in Krakow region.

Allow cottage/farmer cheese to rot for a few days, until mould is thick and smelly. Then fry it in the frying pan, adding salt, dill, chive and a lot of cumin. Finally, spread on a slice of toast and consume. Delicious!

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pawian   
7 Aug 2012
Food / Are there any Polish wines worth purchasing? [65]

But it simply doesn't have a good reputation, partially because of what Pawian posted :)))

What`s that about Pawian??????

I needed a local to make a call to a friend, and then we met in a parking lot in town.

Impressive! Almost like a crime act! :):):)
pawian   
7 Aug 2012
Food / Are there any Polish wines worth purchasing? [65]

You are Cracovian Pawain? Is wine more popular in your region of Poland than elsewhere?

Yes, I think it is, because natural-born Krakowians and even rustics who live around the city are more cultural people than those in the rest of Poland. And everybody knows that wine is the most cultural drink (champagne is also wine, btw).

Pawian,what do you consider the best brands of Polish wines;the ones in the pics?

Yes, we can say so.
pawian   
7 Aug 2012
Food / What do non-Poles think about eating the following Polish foods? [1450]

Of course I would. I even tried to prepare this dish. I buried the heads but when I tried to collect the fermented ones, I found an open hole in the ground and the heads missing. It happened a few times. I still don`t know what happened. Did the dogs dig them for dog food or some naughty kids to play with?
pawian   
4 Aug 2012
News / Does Polish hotel have right to turn down Americans and Israelis? [79]

As for Americans, the hotel owner reasons to turn them down might be this:

rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/02/vermont-farmer-crushes-7-police-cars-with-tractor-over-pot-arrest/

A Vermont farmer used his tractor to crush seven Orleans County Sheriff's Department squad cars on Thursday because he was angry ......
pawian   
4 Aug 2012
News / Chechen Congress in Poland, Russia frowns [90]

It seems Chechenya was pacified. Nothing in the news, except for sporadic reports about minor clashes in the mountains.
But the ferment is brewing and will again explode one day or another.