News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]

@Miloslaw

Yes because the English covered themselves so well with a few million Welsh, Irish, and Scots here and there. In roughly the same proportion that Russia is Russian, Britain is English.

Such a pedantic ass you are.

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [237]


Why do you even talk to me, if you said you would spit in my face if you met me?

Relationships - seems like a strange topic to discuss with a Nazi officer before he shoots you in the head. No?

In any case, your whole post is meaningless. I don't need photo/video evidence, but at least tell me an anecdote or expound on your own views.

You bore me.

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [237]

Another batch of Russian-aggregated Polish memes.

In this series: weird dreams of Poles about Stalin, problems in the labor market, and loaning money to friends.

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Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [237]


So you are agreeing with me, that women do not respect a man that "lives his life for his love"?


Uhhmmmm.... Yes? I know this is not possible with your race, but between us men this is the preferred mode of communication. It can even result in a physical confrontation, but within 24-48 hrs there would be a return to the status quo. Not, one month of passive aggressive stares, and a concentration camp-style atmosphere in the apartment.


Not really, I deal with my own sh!t, and try to do everything not to burden other people with it. Woman-folk, on the other hand, very much enjoy when somebody drops from a helicopter and solves all their outstanding problems. Do not even try to debate this with me.

News / EU, Germany, Euros and Poland. [54]

I don't know why people call Poland the Christ Among Nations. Really, it should be Germany. Russia punished Ukraine for much less, than the type of insults hurled at Germany by Poland on the regular.

Your ten million percent economic growth is a direct derivative of massive German and French infusions of capital, technical know-how, legal experience, and their opening up of their labor markets for your citizens.

How you can turn around and ask them for reparations, or call them Nazis is truly stupendous from my Russian point of view. On the other hand, so far your plan seems to work, and the pussified Germans just swallow everything. So maybe you Poles understand Germans better than we do.

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [237]


Too much love, and a woman will lose all respect for you. Women have a similar mentality to cops. Cops don't respect a perp that just pulls over and stops. Cops live for the chase.

My advice - be the best, coolest, most interesting Kashub you can be. The kind that men, and children enjoy being around. Then you may be surprised to discover women in your orbit as well.

Lenka is right about one aspect, in which women are like human beings. They want to feel/know that the person they are with is worth their affection.

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [237]


Kashub - be careful - this is most dangerous misinformation. Woman's brain is tilted at 26 degree angle from normal axis, compared to man brain. Woman is not your friend.

Treat a woman as you would a Russian.

Life / In need of good Polish jokes about Polish culture, people, etc [237]

More Polish memes, from Russian Twitter account «Польские Мемы»:

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Law / Lawyer - Inheritance [11]

@Lorena12

Lenka is known to be very kind, and we generally do not address her in this fashion. Please be kind to use different language in the future.

P.S. - She wanted a more "concrete" definition of your problem.

History / How Poland views Europe [44]

Poland is caring mother. Europe is child with Down's Syndrome.

Due to retardation, France and Germany cannot see where their best interests lie. In motherly fashion, from behind the scenes, Poland urges them to "engage" with Britain and America (rich, good influence).

Due to retardation, France and Germany try to trade with Russia, while watchful Poland already knows these are misguided attempts. It embarrasses France and Germany in front of their friends to teach them a lesson.

Alien, do you not know that Poles taught French to eat with forks, and they treated Jews as humans when you wanted nothing at all to do with them?

Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [150]


Where's the nihilism and decay in Communist China? A whole lot more of nihilism and decay to point out where I'm sitting now - in America - which happens to be the most religious OECD country.

False causality.

China shows that filial piety and general respect for elders is a lot more important than any religion.

History / Can anyone from Poland tell me about Auschwitz and The Ghetto? [625]


It's curious, isn't it - that Communism sprouted up not in the industrial West with its enormous working class, but in the agrarian and backwards East where almost nobody worked in factories.

Also curious, that such an ideology that smothers the individual appeared in a place where individuals have very high opinions of themselves.

History / How Poland views Europe [44]


Please stick to the topic!

Life / Do young Polish people believe in their religion and God? [150]


Most Christians I've met would not classify Mormons and JWs as Christians - so I don't think they qualify for "cult" or "sect". They are so different, that it's a different religion. Mormons especially - they have their own book even!

History / How Poland views Europe [44]

@Lyzko

Lyzko, are you trying to say that parents feel superior towards a child that is mentally retarded? Even from you, I did not expect such a radical proposition. Most unchristian.

History / How Poland views Europe [44]

Ever since Nikolai Copernicus proved that Europe rotated around Poland, Polish attitudes towards Europe can be described as that of a loving parent towards a retarded child.

History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1090]

@Alien

Yes, it is so Westward-leaning, that it thinks its best friend is a country across the ocean with which it doesn't trade, doesn't receive investment from, and where 95% of the population could not find Poland on the map.

Meanwhile, it treats the two countries that fed it and raised it from poverty with incredible contempt (I mean Germany and France).

Funny country Poland.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]

@AntV

The smell alone will be worth it. Look at those tattered covers. I'm sure the pages are also those that you have to cut open with a letter opener if no one browsed that section. The quality of the picture prints (lithography?), even on that page you pasted is amazing.

Reading books can be a great sensory experience, not just intellectual.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]

@AntV

Do it!

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]

@Novichok

Ok, I don't think I'll get outted for this, so I'll share what I do.

I started in my early twenties as an entrepreneur. I did well enough off of my first venture (after eating glass for the better part of a decade), and was planning to do nothing at all for quite some time. Unfortunately, I'm now back to work - and a type of work I never expected to do. If you told me 5 years ago, that this is what I would be doing, I would have spat in your face.

What I am, is basically an investment banker (it's slightly different, but for simplicity's sake this works). For those unfamiliar with the banking industry - we are useless parasites. Traders make money buying and selling stocks. Compliance people make sure it's all legal. Accountants ensure that everything is correctly recorded. IT people make sure our infrastructure works. But IBankers, have no specialty and we're not good at anything. We just connect money with opportunities, and collect a fat fee for this, and this still happens largely in restaurants and hotel lobbies.

When I meet with someone, I probably spend 20-30% of the time discussing the minutiae of whatever deal is being worked on. The rest of the time is spent talking about what people's kids do, what shows they've seen, what exhibits they want to visit, and what books they have read.

If they had a good enough time with Bobko, that they prefer to work with me instead of the ******* from across the street - GREAT SUCCESS! What books I have read, has a big impact on how much people will enjoy spending time with me. And so I have to constantly keep reading. That's not to say I don't enjoy it.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]


I mean... come on... there's a ton of books that can make one richer.

Did you just wake up one day and start minting patents for currency counting machines? Did you not have to read some books on mechanical engineering?

In my life, I can point to hundreds of books that have made me money, but maybe this is specific to what I do.

In my line of work (present), I'm basically a glorified *****/courtesan. There are serious guys, in back offices; that actually know how to do all the actual work. Myself, I just flutter around like a butterfly, meeting random people, and exchanging sweet nothings. My main goal is for them to like me, and to believe in whatever idea our team is behind. For this, books help enormously. Because it turns out, that the guys on the other side are just like me, while their partners are busy doing the actual work in the background. So what do us idiots who have no useful skills do when we meet? Well, often it's talking about cultural things. Books among them.

Sometimes I bring my partners along that are "doers", but that don't read too many books, and they feel rather out of place.

Life / What to do if the neighbors is too loud? [40]


Thankfully for the economy, and demographics at large, not too many people subscribed to your opinion throughout the last century.

Unfortunately, it looks like today's millennials broadly share your views.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]


Apologies for late reply:

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Law / Noisy children outside [40]

Not to most kids, there's not.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]

@AntV

Very nice!

Bought 3 random volumes of an old (and seemingly unsuccessful) encyclopedia series, at an antique shop in Cold Springs, NY.

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Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]


A proud non-reader.

Off-Topic / Curious Books of PF [50]


Books that were in low circulation; books most people are unfamiliar with, etc.

Not books that are popularly considered bad.

Sorry, poor choice of words.

Off-Topic / Best posters [886]

@Lenka
This is pretty damn good for a 6 year old.

Damn.

Maybe these Brits are not so stupid as we thought.